29 May, 2007

Don’t u like pets or what?

I love animals, when I was a child my favorite TV show was aalam el hayawan. But I never owned a pet. I love dogs, was my dream to have one, but my parents made it perfectly clear to me. “It is either we raise you or raise the dog” and think my choice was obvious.
Birds, well cant have an animal caged. Turtles are ok, but not cool. The little hamsters or gini pig, mom hate mice and mice related creatures.

This leave us with cats, and I don’t like them, I hate their attitude. When I was a little boy, I saw an elder girl holding her cat, but this cat jumped from her hand and scratched her. She told me cause my hands were cold!!!!!????? Another childhood scene was a dog a big german shepherd walking with a young man and the young man hits him heard with kooz dora, the dog does nothing and comes to him again and behaves more quietly.

Some says people who know how to handle cats are great with women, and vise versa; this will put me in the second category.

When I hold little animals in my hand, it takes my heart away, just the feeling the warmth of life coming from them, heart beating and breathing it is just sobhan allah. This is why I also don’t hold babies, not that I don’t know how to hold them but when I do I go all soft.

Thanks for
Miss Egyptiana for inspiring the post.



Ps. imagine if it was cat, was searching for clip of a great dane tickling a child but couldnt find it.

28 May, 2007

scenes

Just the other day I walked home after work, it was round 6:30 the weather was great and I was in the mode to chk the availability of some new titles in alex. Along the 15 minute walk I came across 3 scenes

First scene:
a middle aged woman sitting on the pavement beside a wheel chair holding a 12 years old boy who seems to be autistic and begging for money. The scene was really hard on my heart I really wished I could stop and help her, but I didn’t. just continued walking without giving her a second glance.

The thing is I don’t give money to beggars, though it sometimes hurts me awi emotionally but still never give money to them. In the street when someone asks for money I simply ask y? want to buy food, medicine, a ticket or pay a hospital bill will help out, but will never give money. Sometimes the conversation really turns out to be interesting but No matter how loud they shout or how hard they try to embarrass others in public.

Second scene:
Just minutes later came across a middle aged woman bardo, but this time opening the back door of a car and holding a little white dog while 2 other men pouring bottled water in a small bowl for the dog to drink. Just didn’t know how to feel.

Third scene:
A young man and a woman were walking along Safeya Zagloul street and holding hands and swinging their hands as they walked, their footsteps, waving of the hand even their shoulder rhymed. They were foreigners and seemed out of this world. I envied them for the way the held their hands.

Finally, my favorite newspaper stand in El Raml Station, do you have الحكي فوق مكعبات رخام ؟ no, never heard of it, but give me the publisher name and will get it for u. I ended up getting business today and pc mag. If I am lucky enough, inshaa ALLAH will be reading super mickey and mickey geib in the weekend.




""أنت ليه مبتمسكش أيدى وأحنا ماشيين فى الشارع"لأ بلاش...أفرضى حد من قرايبك شافنا؟ ولا حد من أصحاب أخوكى فى الكلية؟ إن شاء الله يا حبيبتى بكره نتخطب وأمسك أيديكى قدام الدنيا كلها"

أنت ليه مبتمسكش أيدى وأحنا ماشيين فى الشارع""علشان موش عايز حد يفتكر إننا علشان أتخطبنا هنسوق فيها بقه...وبعدين بصراحة كده أنا مستحرم...إن شاء الله بكره نتجوز وأمسك أيدك وإنتى مراتى حبيبتى فى الحلال

"أنت ليه مبتمسكش أيدى وأحنا ماشيين فى الشارع""يا حبيبتى إحنا موش مراهقين بقه هنمسك إيد بعض فى الشارع...إحنا أتنين متوجوزين ومحترمين وعندنا بيت نعمل فيه اللى عايزين نعمله

أنت ليه مبتمسكش أيدى وأحنا ماشيين فى الشارع""يعنى أمسك أيدك ولا أمسك أيد البنت ولا أشيل الأكياس دى كلها"

"أنت ليه مبتمسكش أيدى وأحنا ماشيين فى الشارع""أيدك أيه بس اللى همسكها دلوقتى...إنتى عايزه جوز بنتك يقول علينا كبرنا وخرفنا"

اللهم نقي أعمالنا من الرياء ونقي قلوبنا من النفاق ونق أعيننا من الخيانة اللهم اجعل كل أعمالنا خالصة لوجهك الكريم

22 May, 2007

bla bla bla

I miss having someone I can talk to and tell all the trifle things in my life.

Want to focus more and be more assertive at work

I miss the old me

Cant read or watch movies as I used to

Been ages since I last went to the cinema

An old and dear friend will be traveling soon, so I will be the only one left in alex

Want to be hugged badly

Holding my self back from expanding into online relations

Cant get enough of the new galaxy senzy

Want to get over the urge of buying a thousand splendid suns and having it DHL as I wont be reading it any time soon

i just want people to be nicer and more genuine


PS. i linked some thought to fellow blogers, i can never express it the way they did

17 May, 2007

YA ALLAH


Been really sad and angry for the past couple of days cause of a comment I read in one of the posts, which took some week Hadith and misinterpreted some others from el sona regarding the role of women in our society.

Some of the Hadith he mentioned were
((أعدى عدوك زوجتك التي تضاجعك، وما ملكت عينيك)) قال الألباني: إنه ضعيف
((للمرأة ستران القبر والزوج. قيل: وأيهما أفضل؟ قال: القبر)) رواه الطبراني في المعجم الكبير والصغير وهو موضوع

And lots more, and used such week Hadith to show how Islam and Sona are degrading women and used all the week hadith to support his argument.

What really hurt is people are believing such arguments and taking such wrong hadith as given.

Why was other more stronger hadith ignored like

أوصيكم بالنساء خيراً.. اوصيكم بالنساء خيراً.. اوصيكم بالنساء خيراً
And not just once, but 3 times.

ما أكثر ما تذكرها حمراء الشدق ! قد أبدلك الله عز وجل بها خيراً منها . قال : ما أبدلني الله عز وجل خيرا منها ؛ قد آمَنَتْ بي إذ كفر بي الناس ، وصدقتني إذ كذبني الناس ، وواستني بمالها إذا حرمني الناس ، ورزقني الله عز وجل ولدها إذ حرمني أولاد النساء . رواه الإمام أحمد .

And this was said when Sala ALLAH alieh wa salam was asked why he remember El Sayeda Khadiga so much and it shows how Salah ALLAH alieh we salam recognize her.

فقال الرسول عليه الصلاة و السلام (((إنما النساء شقائق الرجال، ما أكرمهن إلا كريم، وما أهانهن إلا لئيم )))، (رواه احمد)، وقال: (((خيركم خيركم لأهله، وأنا خيركم لأهـلي)))، (رواه بن ماجة)، وقال: (((أكمل المؤمنين أيماناً، وأقربهم مني مجلساً، ألطفهم بأهـله)))، (رواه الترمذي)، وقال: (((استوصوا بالنساء خيرا فإنما هن عوان عندكم، إن لكم عليهن حقا، ولهن عليكم حقا))) ، (رواه الترمذي).
فالعاقل من يوازن بين هذه النصوص، ولا يتعامل مع الدين بما تشتهيه نفسه، وقد حسم النبي عليه الصلاة والسلام، في الحديث الأخير القضية بقوله: (((إن لكم عليهن حقا، ولهن عليكم حقا)))، فالأفضلية ليس لها علاقة بالذكورة والأنوثة، وإنما هي بالتقوى والتقرب إلى الله ، والا فهي المساواة في الحقوق والواجبات، وأما من يجعل من زوجته كأنها "رقيق" فان حسابه عند الله عسير.

And I also had to suffer another shock today as I arrived to work I found my friends talking about a new fatwa regarding women in the work place.

Ya ALLAH, are those things the basics, are those things what people talking about.
Why aren’t people and our Sheyookh working more on subjects like Zaka, El Takafol and spreading the spirit of true brotherhood in Islam. Virtues like working hard, helping people out and not lying nor stealing or taking bribes. Why not showing the horma of muslim blood and tolerance for other religions.

اللهم إنَّا نعوذ بك من الفتن ما ظهر منها وما بطن. اللهم نسألك الثبات والهداية في أمورنا والعزيمة على البر والتقوى

16 May, 2007

New vocabulary

Talawos: used to describe the inner soul of a human being in terms of percentage of darkness
Saraseer: simply the ghost of the pasts
Zangaboliom: new hot drink which is taking our dept by storm, tried it once didn’t know if it was hot or not
Araneb: employees who want to lead a peaceful life and eat shit to do so
Zogzog: an imaginary creature that turned out to be real, a different name for hamster.
King kong, kalb el bahr: different aliases for our x boss

List will be updated as necessary

15 May, 2007

closed till further notice


Some blogs I used to follow are now closed, or been quite sometime since it was last updated. And others switched to invite only status or just disabled comments.

When finding such blogs it hurts, cause I thought of why such a decision was taken storms into my mind. Political suppression, harassment or even just a rude comment. All this leads to the same result, restrictions on the natural flow of thoughts and playing it safe as not to get hurt or uncomfertable.

Random thoughts.

A friend who just received his medical checkup result is putting the whole dept in the live healthy mode. I.e. eat healthy food, and is arranging with a near buy club that “we” could come early in the morning for an hour of workout, a swim in a pool and a shower all this before coming to work round 6 am!!!!!!!!!!

She is in the US

Gave the new car a bad scratch and want to figure out how I can use the CD without making the antenna come out.

Want to buy summer clothes, a complete wardrobe actually

Started writing my CV, if anyone has cool forms please to pass it along

My sis pc needs to be fixed and I better get to it before she starts nagging me about it

Prayers goes for a very dear friend who asked for it.

13 May, 2007

facebook


Face book, seems it is the new trendy thing online these days. A friend the other day told me, I am on facebook add me. I felt as if I was living in a cave for the last year or so.

Created my profile, added people I know and got in touch with friends who just disappeared and it seems people are really into it. And some even is using it as a sort of a blog.

Liked the groups they have and it doesn’t strike you as dating site, seems people learned their lesson and keeping things closed.

Came across this interesting flash demo
chk it out
the char shows no of subscribers in facebook and seems yahoo is interested in aquiring it

12 May, 2007

mobilat


Now almost all my friends don’t answer their phones when I call, and almost all don’t call back Kaman. And the newest trend, they don’t call asasan unless they want something.

I gave up on lots of them, now my mobile is always silent and started blogging. A friend called me today and started complaining how when ever he tries to get in touch with X he never answers and never calls back. He wondered, if I needed him for a real emergency what should I do. This friend is from alex and living in cairo.

Usually I try my best to stay in touch, but with the new trend picking up it is getting more difficult as if people stopped caring about each other and the “ME” attitude is prevailing.

Could anyone be really that busy???!!!!!

On the lighter side, a couple of friends been stalking me all day to try the new video call which I simple rejected

Mohamed ahamed makes shakshouka a thing I recently discovered and became my number one favorite order.

MacDonald’s broke my heart today, their soft ice cream machine was broken ( a thing I was dreaming to eat after shakshouka)

A prayer goes for stronger ties between people and sincere caring and brotherhood to prevail

V from Link.Net

I used to be really loyal to link.net, in the good old days when dial up internet access wasn’t free I chose link.net, and not only that but I used to give the password to my friends to experience before actually joining it.

Then cam the free internet, and still link.net was my bench mark upon which other companies had to stand. I am a bit of an IT geek, when someone buys a new pc s/he brings it to me to install software and configure it and I always chose 07770777 as the default.

Then cam the DSL and as a natural result I continued with link.net and always advised my friends to join it.

Then the DSL prices were cut down and here was when all my troubles started, the speed dropped by 1/3 in the best condition and almost 2/3 in peek hours, I said to my self, it is ok when is important is the reliability of the service not the speed.

Till one day they introduced electronic payment through their web site which off course I found to be most convenient and tried it at once, and the downfall started.

They didn’t account for the e-payment and despite several phone calls and one visit upon which I had provided all the required documents to prove my online transaction and assurance from them that it will be solved before my next payment. They cut the service off and when I exclaimed they said cause I didn’t pay………

This was it and I took it personal, REAL personal, I went to cancel the service and paid twice for the month they didn’t account for just to get out. Then after a while a genius in there accounting dept figured what went wrong and called so I can get the month I double paid.
we set an appointment and I was there on time, I asked one of the customer care officers to call him as he was in the accounting dept not customer area, but he was too busy to come and meet me for 2 minutes and above all didn’t have the decency to apologize in person over the phone.

A sad, but true story.

Usually people come and ask me about computer related stuff and always ask who is the best ISP and I always tell them stay away from link, even if they get an offer of a couple of months free, double the speed or even a free router. My answer was the same, stay away from link.
If the endeavored into the relation despite my warnings, any question they ask regarding the internet I usually answer with the phrase “link mesh keda mmmmm” and also I started targeting existing users, you are with link, then you are downloading at half speed and show him the path of redemption.

Now, no one I know uses link. Even laptops I come across to setup, I don’t use 07770777.

Marketing people will find this a classic example of how a relation goes bad.

03 May, 2007

"diet" drink



Ok, this isn’t a speedometer gauge, it is my weight scale. With me standing on it. Everyone is amazed of how much I gained weight and in such a short period (a secrete I wont be sharing but will give a clue the word starts with a “C”). Anyways, what triggered this post was when I went to the kitchen at work and asked for a cup of coffee. A thing I hardly ever drink but forced to do so to help me stay up for economics ( it worked wonders, I slept for a couple of hours when I got home and still awake till now). So they guy in the kitchen suggested I would drink “diet” I thought he meant a diet coke or something, but it turned out to be a new drink he is making (this guy introduced karkadeh, sahalb and zangabeel aka zangaboliom) the “diet” consisted of zangaboliom, yansoon and marya or something rhyming with it and a secret 4th ingredient. Have no idea about the proportions but what worried me it was served in coffee cups, i.e. small dosage. Took a sip and gave it to T which really liked and ordered another one!!!!!!!!!!!

T should have called last night to discuss economics, but he didn’t, anyways, only an hour and will know how things went with “diet”.

Seriously, I really need to start running, need to lose weight and get fit again need more endorphin in my blood.
Ps. hope didnt pass 120, as the scale max is 120

Miss it awi :-((



Every time I watch the Fajr prayers from Mecca my heart aches awi. Miss it so much and miss being their. I always say it is better not to go as it doesn’t matter how much you want to go, when u go and return your desire to go again is far much bigger.

Prayers for all who want to go to Hij and Omra, may Allah answer there prayers and for young women with no mehrem, may Allah give them patience and to go soon inshaa Allah. and for the ones who actually go, not to forget me in their prayers.