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First time not to adjust clocks

twice a year i get all confused fixing my watches and clocks this year i haven't changed anything i am using two computerized clocks one on my e61 Nokia smart phone and the other one is on my windows vista new hp lapppy

this means that more software developers around the world care more about personalization and user experience

windows used to change the date in a specific day not in the last friday in the month

i remember going to school an hour earlier in middle school

حلوة يا بلدى

كلمة حلوة وكلمتين
حلوة يابلدي
غنوة حلوة غنوتين
حلوة يابلدي
أملي دايماً كان يابلدي .. إني أرجعلك يابلدي
وافضل دايماً جنبك .. على طول


ذكريات كل اللي فات ... فاكرة يابلدي
قلبي مليان في حكايات ... فاكرة يابلدي
أول حب كان في بلدي ... مش ممكن أنساه يابلدي
فين أيام زمان .... قبل الوداع
كـنـّـا بنقول إن الفراق ده مستحيل
وكلّ دمعة على الخدّين كانت بتسيل
مليانة بأمل إن احنا نبقى موجودين ... في بحر الحبّ .. على الشطين


كلمة حلوة وكلمتين ...حلوة يابلدي
غنوة حلوة غنوتين ... حلوة يابلدي
فين حبيب القلب يابلدي .. كان بعيد عني .. يابلدي
وكل مابغني .. بفكّر فيه
قول يا حبيبي انت سايبني ورايح فين
أجمل لحن ده حنغنيه أحنا التنين
يا محلا كلمة بلدي في غنوة بين سطرين
ياليل يا عين ... يا عين ياليل
ياليل ياليلي ليلي

كلمة حلوة وكلمتين
حلوة يابلدي
غنوة حلوة غنوتين
حلوة يابلدي
أملي دايماً كان يابلدي .. إني أرجعلك يابلدي
وافضل دايماً جنبك .. على طول
قمر يابلدي ... حلوة يا بلدي

i know that this is my first arabic post but i can't explain why i like this song(the original version) not that the new one is bad or anything, it's just that the origianl makes me in a different mood no matter how down i feel

Not fully awake

"when ur not fully awake ur mind doesn't select things to process it just processes everything"
bo2bo2

This morning standing @ Alexandria train station the sun was nice, a little beautiful child with a pony tail was asking her mother to sit on a big leather hand bag, the kid looked like she was standing for a long time her grandfather was wearing one of those glasses that was popular ten years ago a clip on sun lenses over his normal medical glasses, & her mother was a veiled nice woman which is “Egyptian fat”.

A guy in his late thirties –not married- you can tell by the way he dresses and the calm way he did his hair a hand free of engagement rings confirmed it, he moved on the concrete train station seats to have a space for the little girl, she kept asking her mother in this child “can I” tone, her mother still didn’t answer

An older lady was sitting probably didn’t bear the mother ignoring her little kid and asked the girl to sit in her place as she left her place and moved to another place in the train station, the kid became this nagging thing that you want to kill yourself.

The kid turns to her grandfather and says “Daddy, can I please sit on the bag”; Oops well I never saw that coming, the guy is not her grandfather he’s her father; I can see now why he’s so annoyed there’s a big age difference between him and his wife – but who am I to judge him for all I know I might even end up an old guy like him – the guy keeps ignoring her, well anyway the kid gives up on trying to get any attention and sits quietly on the bag, I certainly do hope that doesn’t affect her life.

I turn to the other side as I get bored a guy with a long messy hair with a full body moves I can only see him from the back he struck me as Libyan with his red biret hat (I don’t know how to write that u probably know what I mean ), I hate myself when I do this generalization thing I feel like a racist I hate myself when that happens I control myself and I say who knows.

It turns out he’s Egyptian he’s “Mohamed Negm” the Famous Egyptian Actor it just turned out to be an older version of him wearing this expensive slippers that Arabs usually wear –I know I know like Egyptian are not Arabs anyway won’t discuss this now – well I was surprised to see him get on a second class train I know him cuz I used to work in dokki next to his theater that plays only plays for his son and actors that you wouldn’t hear of. He has turned into a version of himself that no one on the train station would recognize him

The train arrives I walk to my carriage 2 carriages away from where I was standing I see all sorts of people moving in all directions tall white guy (really tall with blond gouté with really short Egyptian looking (not fat this time) wife , a veiled woman with her 12 years old son wearing white shorts and tshirts with a back pack containing two squash rackets

A “Omda” going to Cairo asking every single person he passes by if this was the train, a priest with his over conservative family of women his wife and a set of four girls with calm faces talking and smiling, I found my seat no one is sitting next to me on this trip and there’s no number on the wall for me but I can guess

A nice woman sits on the seats across the aisle she’s like me in her late twenties looking all dressed up probably for an interview in Cairo, I can see a tattoo on her writs of the crucifix, like most Christians in Egypt, she opens a big bible and starts marking passages as I start writing this post.

I save the file as I put my laptop to sleep she zips her Bible and coughs puts it in her hand bag; I sleep too, Probably this is my longest post ever wrote; probably won’t make u suffer like this again , sorry u had to read this :)

what ur giving up

ALWAYS know exactly what ur giving up

[Scene: Central Perk, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, and Joey are there as Phoebe enters.]

Phoebe: (dejected) Hi, you guys.

Chandler: Hey!

Monica: Hi!

Rachel: What’s the matter?

Phoebe: Well it’s just—it’s one of those situations that I just hate. Y’know? A massage client gave me three tickets to the Helmet-Pelts exhibit at the Morgan Chase museum.

Joey: (nodding knowingly) Now you’re thinking you gotta sleep with him.

Phoebe: No! No! It’s just that he gave me three tickets and there are six of us!

Chandler: I’ll give up my ticket.

Joey: Me too.

Phoebe: Okay that’s so generous!

Chandler: And I think Ross is generous too.

Phoebe: Great! Okay then it’s just us girls!

Monica and Rachel: (less than enthused) Great.

Phoebe: Yeah.

Rachel: So what-what is the exhibit.

Phoebe: It’s mostly just photographs of lesbian love scenes interspersed with video games and free sandwiches.

Joey: Oh man! (Hits Chandler)

Ross: (entering) Hey!

Rachel: Hi!

Chandler: Hey!

Joey: Hey Ross listen Chandler got you out of going to the lesbian sandwich museum this weekend!

Friends season 6 episode 22 opening act

SALAMTAK YA MOH@LY

i don't know if i should call you yet i think i should wait a couple of more days till u feel better then call you

"Akeeed eedak betewga3ak delwa2ty" Alf salama 3aleek ya basha

Back to Cairo

by the previous post u've figured out that i have moved to Cairo to do work for my company spotlocal.net the next 2 months is the time planned to spend in Cairo to finish this project

when i left Cairo 6 months ago i missed it's outing and the junk food but in a couple of weeks i started to like Hurghada more

when i am here again in Cairo now i haaaaate the traffic things that should take 30 mins (Hurghada time counters) take at least 3 hours just because of the traffic


of course we had to take a nice drive from Hurghada to Cairo using Tamer's car and his generously helpful Friend (thank you Man) with all the needed equipment to work on this project we also recruited some nice people to help

this time we had to drive less than the speed limit for quite a few reasons

1. we had the fragile equipments in the cars trunks
2. tamer's driving license has been confiscated since the last time
3. there was a very nice traffic police truck driving @ the speed limit that we couldn't possible pass :)

"ma 3aleena" it was a safe drive


then i realized that this is the closest i have ever worked near my home i live & work in the same place which is nice this morning i wore my pajamas to work hehe (of course no one was there yet) but i always wanted to say that :)

3G in Egypt

today after i answered a phone call i noticed this weird thing next to my signal indicator

it was the sign "3G" i guess that Vodafone is testing 3g service in Egypt now i am in maadi distict in Cairo (i certainly hope that they're not charging me for it as i don't know how to use it ..... yet :)

update called them they said no they're not charging us it's for testing in some districts in cairo and it should support video and high speed internet

Temple of Debod!!!

today i have learned the weirdest thing i was watching google screensaver (look it up,niiice) anyway

it displayed an image which looked like an Egyptian temple AND the sentence has a comma and then Madrid!!!

i waited for the images to have a full cycle and the image was redisplayed and it said Temple of Debod so i went to google to search what is that

my best guess at this time was that it is a joke or some weird Amon priest has traveled to spain or exiled

but i found out that it was a GIFT to Spain and not during the Egyptian Kingdom when we're a republic in 1968 as a tribute to their help moving Temples during the high dam period

is it just me who didn't know (yeah i usually don't know things like that) or this is something that is being hid (not like the mesalla in US)

my refrence

another friday 13th coming up in a few hours

I usually am not superstitious all except for Friday 13ths i hate it i have bad history i thought it was just me

i looked the thing up and i was surprised to find this as the first result weird huh

First time to post using my mobile

Of course not through gprs
i am in Cairo airport enjoying free wireless for the first time on my mobile as my laptop is not charged and the only power outlet is shaky enough not to hold my power cable anyway this room is too crowded i'll post the picture of the crowded waiting room soon

update added the image

another annoying horoscope

You continue to want to take time off for play, but unfortunately the ambitious Capricorn Moon in your 6th House of Work reminds you how much you have on your plate. You may be frustrated because it feels like your life is out of control, but this won't stop you from making plans for fun. Even if you are being bent out of shape, remember to keep expressing the love that is in your heart. It can make everything else more pleasant. Monday, April 9, 2007


IT DOESN'T SEEM TO GET that i am single

walking by the sea !!!

walking by the sea in alexandria is always a fun thing to do, today is sham el nessim woke up late and had a shower, then went out for a walk there's a spot that i always like to sit there for hours

but as today is sham el nessim there's a hell lot of people that have thought same as i did and i went there to find this, being there i decided to go check up on starbucks they're opening in San Stefano mall facing the sea


they didn't open yet that was weird for me cuz i expected that they'd be open by Easter anyway there was a lot of activity there so i went and asked the guy if they had wireless connection available there and he said yes sure we'll be open tomorrow morning @ 6am i really did like his spirit the guy was very excited about opening it looked like a bee hive everyone is doing something over there.



i am now in cilantro waiting for michael WALLA YA MICHAEL

Easter night outing

just got home from a nice outing with my friends earlier this night i met my college friends they're all married "ya 3eeny" they were dressed in suits and they looked @least 10 years older than their real ages (that reunion thing with suits turned into little ceaser as it's the only place with empty tables)
it was fun to have a reunion of course that didn't last for long they had to go home early that's ok

@ 10 pm i called my cool single friends in, who i discovered were staying in this cooool café in city center called "le mondo" the cafe is nice it's designed to be on the second floor of a cars agency and using the same décor we stayed their talked and enjoyed the drinks

it was 1 am already so we decided to leave the café and go home it was late; But just across the street Tamer Basha Hosny was having a concert and cars were barely moving

the traffic was stopped and the cars filled the whole parking of Carrefour City Center we still manages to go home, there was a micro bus that had an idea to get use of the need and drove people through a road that is not used

Wisdom

"it's nice to be single"
                      bo2bo2

Alexander the Great Lost Tomb

the new governor of alexandria is searching for the long lost Tomb of Alexander the great
this is a joke that is being passed around as the new governor has decided to rebuild all sidewalks in alexandria and this process has been undergoing for months since he became governor, really if this doesn't turn out to be a real good job people won't just miss "El Ma7gob" the previous governor of alex (who restored the lost beauty of the ancient city) but they also would curse the new guy when they see him in the streets

i hope this ends soon this picture i took is in front of building in alex (zizenya district)

just in case you don't know he's the great roman conquerer and founder of Alexandria - his tomb location is still a mystery and is believed to contain a lot of treasures

me room in alex

this is my room in alex this is what home warmth feels like, unorganized deskSpace clothes on the chair shoes laying all aover the floor unmade bed two computers on (far right of pic ) what u can't c is open case

this is the way i can find stuff, seriously when mum visits the room and arranges stuff i can find NOTHING
usually i am laying on my bed either playing games or writing code for fun (some of the best stuff i ever write i wrote in this room)

two big days coming up

every year at the same time i have a lot of fun this years my close friends have their new families starting up

i'll be posting photos if it goes well :)

meet the robinsons

don't read this if u haven't seen the movie

the movie as you know is about that kid an inventor trapped in his present he's excited about the potential of his future but is being set back by being an orphan

the scene with the adoption interview with the guy saying that's interesting was very frustrating; at that time of the movie i thought that all the ideas he explained were possible in the next five years (including the flying cars) but the guy said in a non believing tone "that's interesting" when the guy saud that i could here my friends saying "GEEK " already that's ok

anyway that's not what i wanted to post about for this movie

i was always amazed by this idea "will the future be less exciting to discover of i already know about it" that is every time i read or see a movie about time travel

sometimes when i get confused and i don't know if i am making the right decision i wish i could even have a hint about my future something that says everything is gonna be alright, but then i think NO that's not a good idea, that would just take away the fun of living and making decisions

i believe time travel is not possible in any way, and i have the proof -sorry Einstein- if time travel was possible and it "was invented" in the future we'd have time travelers in our time now isn't that so

blogging from bed

it's been 3 days in Alex i didn't go out of my room just sitting here in my bed doing nothing useful in any means, i watched movies surfed the internet listened to music played games

i think i'll start my activities today doing some errands. that's ok i still have a couple of more days in my short vacation

travelling to cairo

first time for me to travel to cairo in a car (from hurghada) doing some work for our company there

riding with titi (rabbena yostor)

update picture added 9-4-2007

Google's April Fool

i fell for this April Fool

this was gmail's home page


check the link at the bottom of the page


web 2.0

1 st of april

i didn't lie to anyone today !

sorry for the delay

i have a few posts in progress soon i'll publish quite a few

my horoscope today!!!

There is a price you must pay for intimacy and you don't want to cough up the entrance fee. But you may be in for a surprise, for the cost isn't what you think. You don't have to give up anything and you certainly don't have to let someone else control your feelings. All you need to do is to share what's in your heart. If you let others know your concerns, they may be willing to work with you in a constructive manner.

Sunday, April 1, 2007