Variations..

* A tribute to him...
I have been with him for many months now.. more than 2 years anyway but who's counting.. i used to wake up to his sweet voice.. he used to help me remember everything.. people always contacted him to deliver a message to me because they knew how special he was to my heart... i spent a lot of money on him, but i always thought he deserved it.. for he was my contact with the real world.. when he was tired and drained he used to tell me for he knew i was the only one who can bring back life into him... he was always there for me...
then i lost him.. i didnt even realize i was losing him.. its just that all of a sudden i looked around and he wasnt there anymore..
My dear one, i want you to realize that i will never forget you.. you will always be my first.. i want you to know that even tho i moved on, starting checking out others, and even settled for someone else, yet the memories i have with you are engraved in my mind... yes i was rewarded with someone better, but he will never take your place in my heart... I will miss hearing your voice and seeing through your eyes...
My dear T610, i will always love you... i hope you have moved on as well.. i hope that you affect the life of whoever took you away from me like you affected mine.. i hope you bring them tears and laughs and pains and joys like you brought to my life...
I am now with a K750i... he reminds me of you in so many ways... yet he is more advanced than you.. i promise you i will try to treat him better than i treated you.. i learned my lesson the hard way... i know i was hazardous to your health, but i hope you manage to recover wherever you are now..
i will miss you waking me up in the morning.. i will miss your lovely "esh7eneeni" sound when you're drained of energy... my new love knows about you.. and promised to make it up to me.. we'll see about that :D i know he has better eyesight than you, and i hope that helps me see what i used to overlook with a 2 mega pixel sight.....

I wont forget you, but its time to move on...

* Blink
i saw this movie yday... lovely...

* The Gun and the Olive Branch
We've had an older edition of this book by David Hirst at home.. and i have previously read sections of it a couple of years ago and weirdly enough liked it... History is relative, we know that.. but sometimes reading someone's side of history helps you to understand.. Anyway, so i was at Virgin last week and decided to get a non-fiction book when i found the 3rd edition on display... soooooooo, i decided i will get a fiction and will read the one we have at home after i finish the story i bought....

* What am reading...
so, when i was in Virgin looking for something to read, i got Jostein Gaarder's "The Ringmaster's Daughter".. its a pleasant book so far... i am almost halfway through altho i started on Wednesday and am being very lazy, so reading this quickly means that i like it :D

* Music
James Blunt :) check him out..

* One final note
May those who love us, love us
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts;
And if He doesn't turn their hearts
May He turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.
-- An Old Irish Blessing

thoughts...

* Politics
dont worry.. am not talking about politics.. am talking about my last post who no one seemed to read except Mayonaisa (Duchess Meyo :)) and Nerro.. this means eno i either lost my popularity as a blogger so you stopped checking my posts, or that you dont like me talking political :D so until further notice, am back to normal mode :D

* BCC (not BBC)
for some -weird and unknown- reason, i dont like the BCC feature.. it just bugs me.. esp when ppl send you the kind of fwd that makes you think eno "hmmm.. i wonder who else they sent it to"... i dont know why i wanted to blog this point, but am sure i had a pretty good reason.. ah.. its the gam3eya thing.. ppl send a reminder to pay a gam3eya and i feel like am the only one who didnt pay, just to find eno no one paid.. 7aga keda :D

* Words I say a lot
-eno (eno ya3ni i use it like the lebanese use it.. i am not bluffing, i seriously do!)
-cool
-eshta
-fa eih? (as in "so you did kaza kaza, fa eih? what now?")
-7asal kheir (ppl hate it sometimes coz it makes them feel eno am shutting them up but i say it when sthg happens to me, not only when it happens to others)
-yalla ma3lish (it started as a joke but it caught on :))
-alright (pronounced "orrite" :D)
-ah ok (i say it a LOT)
-fahem/fahma asdi?
- blablabla
- Something/Someone is such a cow
-keda
-bta3

(lol after reading my most said words, i felt eno they say about me eno am a very lala person.. am not.. i just take things lightly and i dont always communicate my tension)

* The Greedy Culture
They call Egyptians a consumer culture.. (you can judge if you're ever in a supermarket outside Egypt and you track the behavior of buyers).. What i discovered that its a thing common among our Arab fellows as well... did you check MBC 4 ads? did you notice that two of them revolves on the "mafi" attitude? "Mafi Philadelphia.. Mafi masroof".. "Mafi Danao.. mafi danao??? mafi danaaaaooo"
eno ya3ni we're not that much of mafagee3 fa cut it out already!

hmmmmm.... c'est tout for now... wait.... no lyrics or quotes or speeches? hmmmm... am listening to "Feelin the same way all over again" for Norah Jones... not bloggable awi.. now there is a bloggable song, Gavin DeGraw "I Dont Want to be"

i have other bloggable thoughts... some of them will have to do with the "young people with disposable income" theory discussed by Anonymous (a.k.a hussam) @ M &S last week.. its actually an interesting topic..

bbye now,
N.

Us and Them...

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks;
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand,
You can tolerate him if you try!

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Another-Hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear;
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

~ Tom Lehrer, National Brotherhood Week (a really nice song, check it out)


So, *what* is the deal? (a la Jerry Seinfeld).. why are we fighting the wrong battles? why are we "hating all but the right folks" as Lehrer says? are we turning into another Lebanon? getting mixed up in internal turmoil so much so that we forget to see the big picture?
What is happening in Alex? What is the truth behind what happened? And how about this guy he caught? did you see his picture in the papers? it's like someone told him "e3mel 3abeet" and they took his picture!
What is happening with Palestine? how come the Palestinian guy comes to Egypt and he doesnt meet the foreign affairs guy? did he forget to call before he comes so he found no one home?

We, as people in general and as egyptians in particular, like to be prejudiced on "us" and "them"... I just believe we choose the wrong us and them... we draw the lines at the wrong boundaries.

I know i have an anti-political inclination... but i cant keep it in...

Just blogging it out...

"Uncyclopedia" definitions..

* Depression is a recurring disease, observed when a person gets 'depressed' into a smaller size at a slow rate on the order of
This results in increased bone density, slimmer figure, and all the fluids in the body being squeezed out of every pore.

* Did you know that the origin of the name woman, is thought to come either from "Wow man (look at that babe)", or "Woe, man (she totally destroyed my life)"? Another theory is that it comes from "womb-man" - man with a womb

(lol i luv that "woman" one!)

* Delirium, formerly Delight, is the youngest of the Endless. Feeling overshadowed by her older siblings, she became a rebel and began to dye her hair crazy colors and act out, spontaneously creating butterflies and the like at inappropriate times. She is a sweet girl though, and all the other Endless love her and nurture her. She was perhaps most hurt when Destruction left, because the two of them shared a special bond.



thank you Tina for this lovely discovery!

Signing off,
N.

Boomerang-ing (Part II)

(read the whole post.. its cool)

* Music
i like abdelwahhab... i know thats a weird thing, but i really really think this guy is/was something.. he is a music genius... its true he has a lisp when he sings (u need to really listen in order to hear it) but his music is amazing... i used to listen to him when i was a baby so i grew to like him.. i like how he takes from different music genres and infuses it to make his own style..
Anyway, so i have this inner conviction that if i like a certain band/music that very few people tend to like, then mostly people who share this liking with me will have a lot in common with me deep down, even if it does not appear to the naked eye.. but it has to be "different" music.. just like Souad Massi.. Suzanne Vega.. and some others..

* Roger Waters & Bob Dylan
hmmmm... so in one of my Delirious moments i told Sherif (a.k.a Duke) "Bob Dylan doesnt know what he writes" (dont ask me why i said so.. no idea!).. so the other day i was listening to Desolation Row and i go like "so why are they painting the passports brown? whats the significance?".. he says mesh enti olti he doesnt know what he writes, then dont ask! so i am telling the story to Kareem, and he goes like "yanhar ethwed" (he doesnt have a lisp, he just says this phrase this way :D), so he says "yanhar ethwed.. enti olti keda 3ala Bob Dylan? enti mesh 3arfa meen Bob Dylan da ya benti? da Roger Waters bta3 amrika" so i wonder ya3ni eih keda? ommal Waters nafso men fein? he says eno men UK akeed.. so i go like "ehm.... Are Pink Floyd British?" and Kareem says yes tab3an... "you live, you learn.. at any rate, you live" ~TP

* Cigars and Red Wine
So it was K's bday last wednesday.. we went out blablabla, but before that we were meeting up on our own.. so i know this guy likes cigars. In fact i know this guy likes Maduro cigars (its a way of wrapping not a brand).. you would think knowing such information is enough for you to buy him a couple of good cigars for his birthday(only a COUPLE.. we dont want to kill him or my bank account!).. anyway so a thorough search in the Duty Free in City Stars yields nothing but disappointment since i didnt know which is which... yet, determined not to leave the shop empty handed, i get him a box of these, with Cappucino chocolate inside.. they really did look like the real thing with the stamp and all... I hope he didnt finish it because i want to try it :D
I had also gotten a bottle of Sparkling Grape Juice to sip by the nile... why i didnt know what the "Sparkling" part, because you cant fill up on sparkling juice, so we had to spill some of it because the lovely cork would not fit into the bottle again :D So, cigars and "red wine for non-drinkers" by the Nile... what more can you ask for? :D

* Last but not least (with special dedication to latantouna, a.k.a. Pinky not the Brain)
Ever since i first heard this song, I love it and cant believe its from Pink Floyd... and in fact i memorized the first part :) since Tina threatened me against posting lyrics, i thought "Why not?" ;)

I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

(Complete lyrics available here!)


* ONE LAST NOTE :D

Two is, as defined by other people, one more than Zero. It is also three more than Saturday. To be precise, it's three more than 3:31 PM on Saturday, but no one wants to get that in-depth.
Two is also used to calculate the Radius of a Square.
Until quite recently, most people believed that two could most nearly be approximated as "one plus one" (or 1+1 in shorthand notation), but recent advances in the science of numerology have now redefined two as being equivalent to certain large values of the number one (hence leading to the infamous "2=1 Theorem"). This discovery has prompted the creation of a number of mathematical hypotheses, including The Unified Number Postulate and "2+2=∞/n."

~ From http://uncyclopedia.org/ article on "Two" ;)

Boomerang-ing (Part I)

(know i should blog Budapest, but bear with me.. its coming up)

* Career Woman
not really.. but would like to be one _soon_ day isA :D right now it's more of a "career girl".. am still trying to find what am looking for... one would argue i dont know it yet.. but i do.. i am just not clear about it yet and so i dont want to share it... my ex-boss in my current company once told me sthg like "you have something very few people have.. you put passion in what you do and you do it with dedication" or something of the sort :) (of course that wasnt WA who said so.. God forbid he says something positive about me! it was SA akeed).. I know i put passion in what i do.. many times i take things personally in my hands and i get it done.. i know i let many people down, but that mostly happens when trying to please everyone..
i like the fact that some people (even if they are very few) consider me to be the person they go to when they have a question that goes like "whom do i go to if i want to....?" and i really hate it when i feel i've stopped contributing positively..

* Meshmesha 3awwww
Nerro, a fellow avid blogger, said in one of her recent posts that she doesnt like peaches and apricots.. and it reminded me when a girl at work was offering Chris and i some meshmesh (i still get mixed up which is which) and i said "no thank you" and she insisted so i said "asli bakhaf menno" and its not like am really scared of it.. i just dont feel comfortable around it because it is vulnerable (and not because of the skin like Nerro but because of insects)... bass people made a joke out of it and called it "meshmesha 3awwwww" :D

* Plasticine
I was at a big stationary (S&A) last saturday with nevine and i was amazed by the quantities and variety of colors they have :) i found also all sorts and sizes of play-dough or plasticine.. I bought a small piece of white plasticine (selsal) because i wasnt familiar with the type so i wanted to try it out.. and i now have it on my desk.. a friend at work made me a small white airplane (that i had to destroy for need of material :)) and another girl made me a chapeau with a ribbon thats on my monitor at work... i decided to take this dough and play around with it in meetings.. and also when i need to vent off at my desk.. its more fun than ur regular stress ball because it doesnt just spring back into place when u leave it, but it absorbs all ur stress to make even a silly looking clump sitting there on the desk..

hmmmm... i had two other points to talk about but the "lovely" blogger refreshed itself and so i lost them because i didnt save... so i will post this now and continue points tom :)

Over and out,

a bit of Delirium..