Saturday, December 31, 2005

scenes that touched me the last 2 days:

1- seeing the snow in real for the !st time and stand under it for few seconds though it was really cold and the flight was delayed for 4 hours (we were in the plane on time but airport was shut down).
2- when leaving from libreville, there was 2 girls, maybe 6 & 8 years old, travelling alone. the youngest was crying when saying goodbye to her dad, so the oldest just took her hand and recomfort her it will be fine.
3- when landing in cairo at night, it was so fascinating seeing all the lights. the one sitting next to me was amazed and said it is so beautiful, and i felt at that moment that i'm proud to be egyptian no matter what.
4- meeting a friend by luck taking the same flight.
5- my bro came yesterday night to the airport though he had an exam today.
6- i lost my watch before leaving at the airport, i really loved it.

Thursday, December 29, 2005

it is funny that talking for 10 min with a person makes u discover more about the place than living for two months!!!

Friday, December 23, 2005

African proverb

Lorsque tu ne sais pas où tu vas, regarde d'où tu viens.
When u don't know where u r going, look where u r coming from.

Thursday, December 22, 2005

my lunch today

i went to a restaurant for lunch with some colleagues. in the menu, there was the normal food and also some strange. so as i am in a different country, i thought it is a nice opportunity to try something weird that can't be found everywhere.
i wanted to try crocodile but there wasn't so i choose the porcupine (look at the photo). i had to search for the word in english. in french porc-épic.
all i can say is that it has a different taste, probably cos of the sauce they put, speciality of the restaurant.
in the menu, there was aslo antelope, python and sanglier or in english wild boar (Obelix's favourite meal) and of course there was chicken, fish... etc
i don't think that i'll try it again but i don't regret trying it, one should have the courage to try new things (if i had the chance to jump in parachute, or bunji, i don't think i would do it though :) )

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

magic of xmas

i don't know but i'm just happy for no specific reason. maybe cos i'll be back soon, maybe cos 1st time xmas and new year with no exams.
it is like a contagious feeling, even if this year, i missed a lot of things, and i thought i wouldn't enjoy it that much. that's why i'm somehow surprised.
so i hope u can catch this from me, and feel as much happy as i am and enjoy life.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

10 things I miss

NOTE: the following are not in any order from most to least or vice versa.
1- eating eggs in all forms (i can't cook in the room at the hotel)
2- winter, feeling cold, my winter cloth (but not rain, got plenty here).
3- receiving sms from my friends when not expecting it all (since i can't receive sms from egypt).
4- my brother (fights or no fights, i just miss him, even if i know that these days he spends most of the day out studying).
5- the metro (crowded or not crowded)
6- the bathroom (just don't ask why)
7- talking (i become more quiet than i used to be for the persons who knows me from ong time)
8- piano (at least i listen to the pieces i like to play as if i play them)
9- my small little room and climbing on my bed (we have superposed beds and i still sleep up)
10- this is one for me ;)

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

a discovery

Have you ever been surprised when finding something u were looking for? what different emotions of happiness, satisfaction, maybe deception u may encounter.
I made a discovery today; i didn't discover the subatoms nor the kalakakili (i don't know what it is if it exits really).
Well, i found something that was lost, not a material thing, i found a little mp3 file of a piece i used to play years ago (exactly 7-8 years). u might say, and so what? first, it is a 1st movement of a sonata of mozart which i didn't remember its number and since it hasn't a specific celebrity name like the pathetique of beethoven (which by the way i play also) so it was a difficult thing to achieve.
but this is not all, not just a mp3 file downloaded, after listening to it, it made me rediscover my old feelings, just as soon as i heard the 1st notes, i knew i found it and by sudden, i remembered all of the piece (the melody i mean). i never thought that rediscovering old pieces i used to play would bring such joy, even if those pieces reminded me of exams and hard moments but i forgot all that difficult time and all that time spend to practice and the only thing left is the melody in my head. i'm even amazed that i used to play it.
so at the end of the day, i could sleep happy (of course this isn't the only reason but one of many).

Monday, December 05, 2005

Peuple qui marchez dans la longue nuit
Le jour va bientot se lever
Peuple qui cherchez le chemin de vie
Dieu lui-meme vient vous sauver

Il est temps de lever les yeux
vers le monde qui vient
il est temps de jeter la fleur
qui se fane en vos mains

when everything is so..

i hesitated to write or not, but decided at the end to let the words come out without restriction. for those who knows me personally, i think they might be shocked a little, cos they know or at least i think that they know that i'm an optimistic person.
but sometimes it is hard to be that all the time, when it comes doing it for people not for myself.
i think that things are not that clear into my head, but i recognize that i'm not that good, at least not as much as i believed.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Giving

I'm reading the 1st book of Lord of the Rings (still in the 1st 100 pages). I'm not going to talk about the story itself. if u had the chance to read the book, not just watch the movie, u could feel that u r living in Hobbitebourg, with all the tiny details.
the Hobbits have a nice habit, which i really liked. to celebrate their birthdays, they offer gifts instead of receiving gifts.
I think feeling the joy of giving is much more then receiving, but unfortunatly, we live in a world where people prefer to receive instead of to give. if really people give, especially for those who need they most, there wouldn't be all that suffering and misery.