My Alternative Reality

When I am in the toilet, please please please refrain from spraying your cheap brand lemon-scented air freshner all around me. For one, it f...

don't you sometimes wish that you had remained in the dark when it comes to certain facts? That not knowing this could've spared you...

I feel royally flushed... whatever that means! Take me Gouna now!

"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"

We are constantly over-obsessed with the happy ending that we forget about happy beginnings and happy middles.. I'd pick a happy middle ...

So, the story goes that we (I, my friends, etc etc, not necessarily the reader who might not know me!), we have come of an age where we are ...

... and how can I not smile when I hear it?

So I've been diagnosed: Wanderlust.. Oh so thats whats wrong with me? What gives me the dreamy look whenever an old dream surfaces? this...

ويح ابن آدم يذنب الذنب فيستغفرني فاغفر له ثم يعود فيستغفرني فاغفر له، ويحه لا هو يترك ذنبه ولا ييأس من رحمتي، أشهدكم يا ملائكتي أني قد غفرت ...

I decided -based on my vast knowledge in the field (or lack of!)- to share with the cyber world a series of my relationship theories.. These...

*If I ever get a baby girl, I won't have a more beautiful prayer for her* Ladies of Light, Ladies of Darkness, and Ladies of Never-You-M...

Always phrase what you say so the answer will be "same here".

مــــكانك في قلبـــي هو القلــــب كلــه *** فليس لشيء فيه غيرك موضع و حطتك روحي بين جلدي و أعظمي *** فكيف تراني إن فقدتك أصـنع ؟ من شعر الحل...

"And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that...

no one knows the importance of being real more than someone who herself was going to turn unreal at some point.. transform from a little boy...

"Over commit, under deliver" I never thought I'd remember this and actually smile :)

Winter, Zamalek, Cilantro, green tea with mint, Souad Massi, and myself. Time changes nothing.