and yet another Ramadan had passed

رمضان اخر قد تم ومثل كل لحظات الحياة لن يتكرر. بين حال الدعاء في اول يوم ان يحينا الله ولو لليله لأنال فضل قيامه، للتقصير في الأيام التالية للحظات من التواصل الحقيقي مع النفس ومع الله وأخيرا على الندم على اللحظات الضائعة والدعاء المستمر ليتقبل الله القليل وليغفر الكثير وليبلغنا رمضان جديد بعزيمه أقوى وفرصه اخري للمغفرة

ولكن أدارك ان كل عام يمر يحمل مزيد من التغيرات على كافة المستويات يثقل القلب ويضعفه ليتقلب بين الياس والرجاء ولكن يبقي فيه رجاء العفو والتجاوز عن الياس والنقصان ولا املك الا الدعاء ان يصلح الله القلب وان يداويه من الحقد والغل ويطهره من النفاق ويجعله مراه لعمل خال من الرياء وخالص لوجه الكريم

ان الايمان ليزيد وينقص ولا املك الا الدعاء ان يكون المتبقي من العمر ان يكون للزيادة في الايمان واعوذ بالله من نقصان.

A quick thought for the evening, 

مره و انا عند الحلاق من زمان قولتلو أني عايز أغير تسريحه شعري. الراجل بصلي و قلي بس دي انسب تسريحه ليك دلؤتي. دلؤتي كانت بتشير الي ان خلاص بوادر الصلع بدئت تنتشر  و القماشه الموجودة مش كفايه عشان تعمل حاجه. 

أنا عمري ما غيرت تسريحه شعري من ساعه ما اتولدت لحد مصلعيت.

I always push my friends to try new things , to get out of the comfort zone before it is   a bit late and in the back of my head this little incident along with this scene from 

home alone II movie

The river of time

As time passes and I get older, days starts to share memories some good, some bad and some simply epic in their proportion, alongside when a day is remembered mixed feelings starts to shape and the state of mind it gives can’t be described.

In the happiest times a sadness will exist for the special moment is missing someone who can’t be here anymore, and in the darkest moments I will find a loving hand supporting me through it or may be a tiny hand opening a window of light.

10s of dates, months and years puts me in an emotional drift, the same day shares happy, sad and decisive moments which gives the feeling of an emotional rollercoaster.

1975,1997,1998,2007,2010,2011,2013,2014

4/12/6/7/8/1/2/10

21/2/8/27/12/23/6/7/5

strings of numbers, a lifetime of memories. Maybe the description “the river of time” isn’t just metaphoric, cause for me, it is a true river. It flows swiftly and quietly, but no force on earth can stop a flowing river, it will always flow, it will always reach its destination

Bob Azzam, is an Egyptian singer of Palestinian origins (given name Wadih George Azzam) who was born in Alexandria, Egypt on October 24, 1925 , and died in Monaco on July 24, 2004.^[1][2]. With his international hit song Mustapha, Azzam earned great success in France in the 1960s.^[3] Bob Azzam had a passion for art, a degree in electronic engineering, and has been regarded as the man behind the chamber of echoes "Hors-studio" or "off-studio".

Yes, it is true; finally I am engaged and have the ring to testify for it. For old followers of the blog who had to put up with random posts and whining of the mysterious “She” or “Her” she is the one.

Inshaa Allah this will spur few blog posts about the subject along with how to handle a looooooong term relation materializing to the next level.

For Good times

A friend was browsing through my mobile phone photo gallery and told me in an astound voice, Askandarani, why do you photo your food?

I laughed and told him, I love remembering good times.

Ice

Was making my normal shopping at metro when I cam across this.

Yes they are selling ice cubes. Never thought I will see the day when they sell ice cubes in Egypt in supermarkets, but the day came.

I first came across this idea in the states where they had ice machines, and it was something really amazing for me at this time. In terms of the idea and how crystal clear the cubes were. Thought the cubes were that transparent cause of the water is cleaner, but later on I came to realize the secret of making crystal clear ice cubes and lived to see them being sold at supermarkets,

For those having Super Mickey issue of last Thursday, do chk Donald’s story with the ice cube factory, sooooo realistic

Operation weight control, phase I

We had a major overhaul at Alex with a special focus on my room, which resulted in me initiating operation deep sweep phase two, with mom literary breathing over my shoulder I had to give up almost complete collections of magazines whih were

كتب الهلال للاولاد و البنات

العربي الصغير

مجلتي و المزمار

الشياطين ال 13

المغامرين الخمسه و الثلاثه

And came along this little encyclopaedia, it used to be something at that time and as I remember it coasted round 35 pounds and I couldn’t let it go, as it took me a while to gather money to buy it. Going through it was amazing, lots of mentioning of year 2000 and how this will be the norm and how this invention will rule our lives we keda ya3ni.

I am sure we cam a long way since 1998.

Kinder ........Surprise!!!

What happened to kinder surprise, it used to be more fun in terms of the little toys that came along. It used to be sophisticated with little pieces to put together and little stickers to jazz the final toy up, now just this, seems they are targeting infants now.

El Churro.

It is a chocolate café, yes, not a candy shop or a chocolate shop, just a café, a friend pointed it out to me and I had to go and check it immediately, one of the guys in the café was nice enough to give us the grand tour and explained to us how the café has its own miniature shop that makes chocolate that came all the way from Spain to be manufactured in Egypt. Didn’t want to chalange his knowledge about the origin of chocolate and coco beans fa just enjoyed the quick tour.

They have miniature factory, a seating area where u can enjoy salads, sandwiches and off course various chocolate based drinks. And they sell chocolates as well, at a rather steep price but worth it.

You know when you buy a chocolate bar, the feeling u get when u finish it, one bite of his small chocolate give you this feeling immediately I comforted my self by saying I may reach the same state with less calories ( I hope)

The café colours were warm and chocolate based but just felt the place needed to be more excluded and private

Suddenly I feel I am describing a 3’0rza