Saturday, September 15, 2007

Soor Alazbakiya!

On the request of the currently disappearing Little Penguin, those are some pictures from my trip to Soor Alazbakiya, the used books street:

The market next to the book stores, very crowded.





As you can see, not very crowded, the popularity of reading in Egypt is highly receding, a very worrying sign.

Afterwards, I went to "Madbouli book store", a very famous one in Egypt and Arab countries as well, where I got some very good Arabic books, everything I was looking for actually.

A list of the books purchased along with my cousin:
*The undomestic goddess "Sophie Kinsella".
* Ignorance "Milan Kundera".
*Taxi "Khalid Alkhamisi".
*Sushi for Beginners "Marian Keyes".
*The other side of the story "Marian Keyes".
*The brothers Karamazov "Feodor Dostoevsky".
*Life of Pi "Yann Martel".
*Five quarters of the orange "Joanne Harris".
*Bridget Jones's diary "Helen Fielding".
*Are you inoculated against the Harem?! "Fatema Mernissi".
*The Pigeon "Patrick Suskind".
*Testaments betrayed "Milan Kundera".
*On turning Eighty "Henry Miller".
*Nightmares of Beirut "Ghada Alsamman" .

Sunday, July 29, 2007

VICTORYYYYYY!!!!!

WE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha khoti ha! E7na elassasna elmal3ab we7na elnel3ab bei!!!

The Landlord!

The Landlord


I want my moneeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyy!!!

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Random Gloryness!!

Again, I went to our summer house for a couple of nights last week, it was okay, nothing special, some how boring except for how we got there and how we came back...

Usually, I go with my family in our air conditioned comfortable car... This time, only I and my cousin were going, some members of the family were already there waiting for us...

So we took a bus to get there, air conditioned but the weather was okay at night, it was around 7 when we took off, we ended up stuck in a 4 and a half hour trip instead of just 2 because the driver decided to pick some more passengers from another city not on our way!! During the torturing looooong hours we had to watch some horrible movies for that retard named Mohamed Saad, I nearly threw myself out of the window when I saw his name appearing on the screen but Some people restrained me!!

And here I would like to take the chance to thank god for giving me an mp3 player that is fully working and contains some decent things to listen too!!!

So we finally got to the city near our place, still got about 7 km to get to the house... Normally, take a taxi or whatever, but thanks to our incredible luck and the late timing, we ended up in a truck!!!! That's a first for me! scary first since he was driving like a maniac and scared the feckin day light out of us!!

Finally, home, had the first meal in 11 hours and went to sleep.

Days there are calm, just doze around and read, that's all there is to do... Maybe a walk on the beach at sun set and enough!

The way back was not less horrible, standing in the sun waiting for a lift to get to the same city so we can catch the bus, and again a truck!! We got into the bus, incredibly hot and some lousy air conditioning system, humidity is up in the sky , simply awful!!

Thank God, this time it was a direct ride about 2 and a half hours, sitting behind some teenage guys who were just back from a concert "party" for Haifaa Wahbi, of course you can imagine the kind of conversation that was going on, a fresh reminder of why I am off any human being with five extensions right now!! "no offense" actually girls are not better, so I am off the entire species!!

It was over and I was back home to my lovely room and precious belongings in a short while, dead tired and not as refreshed as I thought I would be... Too bad!

Here are some pictures from the holy trip to the sacred beach house:



I was waiting for my cousin to arrive at the main bus station, this is the cafeteria.


The view from my window, we are on top of a hill.


The beach, that's my cousin standing in the picture... Those rocks are really slippery!!






Another thing, today, while drinking my tea and watching tv, I came across this new some kind of reality show, it's called "Laguna Beach".... My only comment.... Thank you Lord!!


One last thing:

And there was a time when all I wanted was my
Ice cream colder, and a little cream soda
Oh Well, Oh Well

And a wooden box, and an alley full of rocks
was all i had to care about
Oh Well, Oh Well, Oh Well


But now my mind is filled with rubber tires
and forest fires
an whether I'm a liar
and lots of other situations where I don't know
what to do at which time god screams to me
“there's nothing left for me to tell you”

Oh Well, Oh Well, Oh Well

Little Cream Soda- The White Stripes.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

No Title!

I bought a new mug, I watched it all fall in front of my eyes, I had a minor break down, I wanted to die, worthless is my word!

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Kyle!

familiar, huh?!

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Updates!

Another day at work.... I am awfully tired, didn't get much sleep last night, or today actually.... went to bed at 5:30 AM, stayed up reading till 6:30, slept for 3 hours and woke up at 9:30, got dressed then went to work........

So far, my job is quite interesting, I got to do a looooooot of things, including loads of paper work which reminds me why I simply love my pc........ I did some nice work, they are all pretty satisfied now, hope it lasts till I am done!!

It's a completely different summer this year, instead of staying in bed all day, watching tv or sitting to the laptop all night, I am on a very tight schedule, trying to do anything for fun but so far I haven't been very lucky!!!

I got to go to the computer malls, was looking for a new HDD, I was totally out of space, I found some portables but they are pretty expensive for my budget so I got a normal 120GB internal laptop HDD and a cover, now I have a nice free 120GB connected through USB for USD85!

It's an amazing feeling to look at the status bar and see all this white space waiting to be filled!

As a treat, I got a copy of Vista, installed it and I am now using it.... Of course I had some stupid time retrieving my bookmarks and offline contents etc. because I wanted to put a clean copy, no upgrading..... It's worth it after all!

I got the new Harry Potter too... Everyone who dares to say it's for kids is looking for a fight with me, this is no child's book or at least not only for children! Didn't read much of it yet, only about 115 pages, I am reading another book with it and again, it's the lack of time!

Emotionally, it's all shit right now, I am confused and I can't comprehend a lot of the stuff going around me.... It's like a death trap, whenever I think I am done, I survived, I am sucked back into troubles!!! I want to scream MERCYYYYYYYYYYYY some times..... But as everything else, it will calm down again in a while, and it will get even worse for the millionth time.... What can we say, it's life, and I am living it to the bone!

I don't know when I'll be able to write again, will try to go out soon and write about it but till then, I have to go do some work "I am on my coffee break" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!