Rediscovering Egypt

The idea started by mixing two of my favourite things, visiting historical places and monuments, and photography. Both make me discover new horizons and dimensions, through photography i notice the greatness of those places, and at the same time, i'm trying to rediscover places that are hidden to the common people or to discover new aspects for the more common places.
It gives me joy to hold my camera, adjust the settings and click on the button. The result might not be as beautiful as the reality but i also keep in mind those few moments of amazement and excitment. To think what could be behind at door, or what's inside this room and to notice small details that contribute in the whole thing, to be transported to another world that used to be the real world.
I'm just happy and i hope that i could keep it up like that.... Wait for the coming adventures :)

Demonstration in Tahrir

msn beda2y

my friends and me were in a place with very loud music so that we couldn't hear our conversations very good... so this was the solution :)
it was really fun.

Graduation

faculty of engineering, cairo univ, 100 years ago...

made in china!!!!!

in the stadium, i bought the sticks for cheering egypt... and it was packed in that, with the instructions written in chinese (my guess)

colonnade at sakkara complex, reconstructed by Lauer

19 years ago

after few hours from now, my brother will be celebrating his birthday. Fadi was born on the 5th of august, 19 years ago. it will take me ages to say everything. i remember him when he was little, i remember our playing together, even our fights.
all i can say is that he is a source of joy even when i'm very angry with him, he manages to make me smile after all and that i'm glad he is my brother.
if you didn't meet him yet, you don't know what you are missing and if you have met him already, i guess i don't have something to add about him.
so HAPPY BIRTHDAY my little brother ;)

years ago, at sharm el sheikh. (u can see that once i was taller than him.. lol)

baya3 el foul

i took this photo this morning, going to abou za3bal at early morning.

Fete de la musique au Baron

it was really cooooooool. i enjoyed it. i met a lot of friends though i didn't meet all of them but as long as i know they enjoyed it too, i'm happy. i think this place is better than the previous years.
it's difficult to express what i felt there, the place was so beautiful, it was very crowded, everybody enjoyed it, even sitting in the garden was great with the music at the background.
hope to c u next year.

ornament at "diplomats club"

in "west el balad"

this is a photo taken by Karim. he has a problem to post it on his web so i'm publishing it for him. u can comment on it and he'll read the comments.

Fishermen on the Nile

Yessss... we made it

this pic was on the last day of exams

I never thought about that day, the day when i finish university. (i know still one month of project and the final results).
i can't descrive my feelings, probably still under the effect of the chock. i'm feeling great. well i got great news too so i'm just happy and excited, even if deep inside me i know i'll miss those days which is somehow sad.
it is always difficult to leave something behind after getting used to it and to begin a new phase in life.
life is a big word, with a lot of meanings. u can live but not having life, u can think u have all the time in the world to do whatever u want but still chained and attached and not free.
life is the thing that we own but yet sometimes we don't use it in the best way (efficiency is not 100%).. oups.. sorry engineering thinking.
life is the future but also the past.

i remember, 5 years ago, my 1st day at univ. first went to school to attend the "salut de drapeau" and then went to univ and met some friends (from school) and the dean was giving a lecture for us, the new students. i arrived late, it was really crowded and it was hot.
after that, i remember my 1st week, after the chock that no one of my friends is with me in the section, nor even the same group (group is about 400 students), i was always going inthe breaks to see them and stay with them. and how we had to go early to reserve a place in the front rows.

i remember, first and last time ever i was expelled from a lecture, my friends were really surprised. it was not my fault. i was sitting in the 2nd row with my cousin and his friends and they were all the lecture talking, i was just talking to my cousin when the doc was writing something and we were just after a vacation which we had spend together. it was the 1st time that this doc gives us a lecture.

also during my 1st year, my paper of a midterm exam was marked (nothing happened after that) but it was really not my fault. they were gathering the papers, the supervisor was behind me, a friend next to me was telling me i solved something wrong and i told him maybe but im not going to change it and my pens were in the "plumier/ma2lama" and this supervisor, he was just marking all papers when passing.. lol.. even when we went to the doc, we were a lot, he asked, if all of us r cos of this supervisor then no prob..

one of my memories (not really a happy one) is the day when there were big demonstrations in the street in front of the univ, and we were trapped inside and it was like if everything was upside down, they were throwing bombs (to cry).. etc.. i even smelled that and it was a hard experience. I don't recommand u that, when u see that no one is standing, don't go in front to see what's happening, curiosity sometimes leads to bad results.. lol

one of the best things is that i got very good friends, i never thought i'll meet people like them or that i'll have close friends. if u ever read this, I love YOU.

anyway it's hard to write everything here, but i learned a lot from good and bad times. i met different peoples, i saw different worlds.. and now, here i come, to the real world.

Environment Day 5 June

Today i saw this in the metro station.
you know what, it all begin with small things, like for example not dropping something in the street.

Those were the days my friends.. part 1

i took some photos in the last week of classes.
check on the link. i've added some comments. (to view the comments, click on the 1st photo then go to the next.. etc or select view slide show (but this better if a fast connection DSL).

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/marionnetta26/album?.dir=92ed&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/marionnetta26/my_photos

maybe i'll write something later on. it depends on the time, cos now in the final count down, just one week before exams.

Sunset from El-Azhar parc

Rememberance

The 1st annual of my grandmother (it's supposed to be 2/2 but usually it is done a month earlier there, in iraq)
This photo was taken today.
I think this is the least thing i can do, to ask that you pray for her.
I didn't know her as i should, i just remember some little things, long time ago. I remember when i was visiting family there, me, my bro and my cousins were playing together, i think playing pirates or sailors, and we put chairs and tables upside down on the floor, and she came and was angry about that.
I remember when she came to egypt, 15 years ago, and she was staying a little time with my other grandmother and it was the 1st time i have both together and i call them both teta, so it was strange.
I heard that she has strength when she was suffering (she had cancer) and not complaining about anything and that she had rest when she passed away cos the last period was so difficult, but sometimes the person is selfish, as i was praying that she lives till i can see her and at the same time i didn't want her to suffer.
There are many things i wish i could have done, i know some were impossible and not in my hands, but still it's sometimes like feeling guilt that i could have done this or that but i didn't.
I hoped that the war would end soon so i can go and see her before she dies but this wish was impossible, and still 2 years after the war, things are even worse there.
I'm still hoping that things will get better soon, all we can do is just pray.

Try to guess what it is.. it's blue and white.. moving fast..
P.S i took it with the camera, i didn't edit it, it's like that.