عزيزى المغفل...إرحم أهلى (نقلاً عن عبد الرحمن محمد أبو طالب- 3 فبراير 2011)

عزيزي المغفل

تحية طيبة و بعد،

اذا كانت احد أهدافك لوقف المظاهرات هيه

فرصة تانية .. البلد هتخرب .. الامان .. دول أجنبية

يبقى يا ريت تقرا لحد الاخر عزيزي المغفل .. أنا برضه مغفل .. كنت زمان بقول اني

انسان .. مسلم .. مصري .. عربي

اكتشفت اني لو حبيت أمارس شعائر الاسلام و أصلي الفجر و أربي دقني هيعتقلوني

و لو حبيت أعمل فيها مصري و خايف على الوطن و أحارب الفساد برضه هيعتقلوني

و لو العرق العربي نفر و قلت فلسطين أو تونس برضه لازم يعتقلوني

و لو طالبت بأبسط حقوقي الاّدمية : هواء نضيف .. ميه نضيفة .. أكل نضيف .. مسكن و جواز

مش بلاقيها .. و لو اعترضت عشانها برضه هيعتقلوني

عزيزي المغفل .. تسمح تقولي احنا ايه ؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟

ايه هيه هويتنا ؟ لازمتنا ايه ؟ عايشين ليه ؟

عزيزي المغفل .. ياللي فرحان بخطاب الرئيس و شايف انه كفاية

يعني - بفرض انه هينفذه - مش غرييييييييب شوية يعني اننا لازم نموّت مننا ييجي 500 واحد

عشان البيه يبدأ ينطق و يحس ان فيه - لا سمح الله - شوية فساد

و بتقول نديله فرصة تانية !!!!

اه صحيح .. عندك حق .. ما الراجل - - ماباقالوش غير 30 سنة بس في السلطة

يعني كان هيلحق يعمل ايه ؟؟ ده الواحد على ما يفطر و يشرب الشاي بياخدله 5 سنين

عزيزي المغفل .. ياللي بتقول كده البلد هتخرب .. و السرقة و النهب و عدم الامان

ده أنت مغفل جدا

حادثة واحدة من حوادث الفساد زي حادثة العبارة مات فيها اكتر من 3 أضعاف اللي ماتوا في الاسبوع ده

و السبب في موتهم سافر بره و همه سابوه عشان تبعهم

عزيزي المغفل .. هوه انت فعلا كنت عايش في امان ؟؟

انت كل اللي كنت بتعمله انك بتطبق قاعدة " يحدث للاخرين فقط

يعني انت بس مش متخيل

ان اخوك يموت في عبّارة

او اختك تولع في القطار

او امك و ابوك يتهانوا و يتبهدلوا من أي امين شرطة مايسواش 3 مليم

او جوازتك تتفركش عشان عز بيه محتكر الحديد

او حد قريبك ينتحر لانه لا لاقي شغل ولا عارف يتجوز

او يمكن مش مدرك ان موقفك من القضية الفلسطينية ممكن يتغير عن كوننا ولاد عم اليهود

و اللي ينكسف من بنت عمه مايخدش منها ريال

او يمكن باصص للحظة دي بس يعني مش مفترض انك هيجيلك

سرطان من المبيدات المسرطنة

او فشل كلوي من الميه الملوثة

او على المدى القريب ممكن تنضم لضحايا وباء اسفكاسيا الخنق - افتكاس يا - و ده لو حصل

سوء تفاهم مع المخبرين اياهم

او لو حظك وحش شوية ممكن يضطروا يعزبوك لحد ماتموت

انت ليه مستبعد انك يحصلك اي حاجة من دول ؟

همه اللي حصلهم كده ماكانوش مصريين زيك ؟ ماكانوش بني ادمين زيك

اراهنك كمان انهم كانوا مستبعدين الافكار السوداوية دي زيك تمام

عرفت انت ليه مستبعد الحاجات دي ؟؟ معرفتش ؟ عشان مغفل

عزيزي المغفل .. ياللي شايف ان فيه ديموقراطية و حرية رأي

فيه فرق بين حرية الرأي و تسفيه الرأي

الموضوع ببساطة ان رأيك مالوش وزن طالما همه المتحكمين في كل حاجة

خلاص يا حبيبي اتكلم و ألطم و اشتم و عض في الارض

هل ده هيقلل من فلوسهم ؟ هل ده هيقلل من نفوذهم ؟

يبقى هيتعبوا نفسهم و يمنعوك ليه ؟

هيه المشرحة ناقصة قتله ؟

عزيزي المغفل

لما يكون نظام فاسد و متخلف

و تعمّد اثارة الفوضى عشان الناس تقول خلاص رضينا بيه

و يمسكوا امناء شرطة بيحاولوا يسرقوا

و ظباط بيحاولوا يقتلوا و يحرقوا في زي مدني

و بلطجية و هتيفة مأجورين من الحزب الوطني و مجلس الشعب بهدف قتل و ضرب المتظاهرين

حتى بعد الخطاب العظيم للرئيس و ده يدل على مصداقيته الشديدة

و بعد كل ده نقول نديله فرصة تانية 6 شهور

و نسيبه يعدل اللي هوه عايزه من الدستور حسب رؤيته العظيمة

يبقى تقدر تقول و بكل فخر : أنا مغفل جدا جدا جدا

و تكون دي هيه هويتك .. و من حقك تموت في سبيل افكارك

و ختاما

يقول الامام عليّ ابن ابي طالب

الناس من خوف الذل في الذل .. و الناس من خوف الفقر في الفقر

بهية نزلت عالشارع

تحية إلى مصر- سميح شقير

Egyptians did it...Nobody else

America, Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah etc. Why are they trying to take away our dignity? Why don’t they want us to enjoy the feeling of victory, the good feeling that we, Egyptians, have finally woke up and decided to take control of our destiny? It is a shame, it is really is. They have lost the people, they have lost the trust, they have lost the control and still they are lying. They are talking on TV and killing the youth on the ground. They are still afraid of accusing the police forces and the leaders of the National Democratic Part. Haven’t they have had enough of this countries good? What they are waiting for?!

Mubarak Speech on 1-2-2011

It may be enough to me, the one who stayed at home and sufficed with fasting and praying God to bring us victory, though it’s at least 4 days late. But is it enough for the crowds in the streets, those who have been there for a week, who have been beaten and even shot? Will this send them home with the belief that they’ve reached what they wanted and that their demands will finally be achieved? Wasn’t it better if he just stepped down and gave power to the vice president or the chief of the upper constitutional court? Wasn’t this going to spare the country the chaos and achieve a peaceful transition of the authority? How will things proceed now? Only God knows!

He didn’t even apologize to the dead; he didn’t promise to punish the interior affairs former minister; he didn’t say that those on the streets won’t be touched if they returned home; he didn’t promise to allow different forms of freedom; they didn’t even allow the internet service back as a sign of good intention!

An appology to the crowds (written on 30 1 2011)

I feel ashamed for not joining the Egyptian crowds on the Anger Friday. I admit that I sometimes feel afraid to join such demonstrations on the fear of being beaten or worse being sexually harassed. I used to say that if I was affiliated to a certain group such that we go on a demonstration together, I wouldn’t hesitate especially because in this case I’d know the exact demands of the group and can deduce the progress of the events. BUT this time things were different, everyone was in the streets and the little fear I was having would have easily disappeared with the crowds but my parents didn’t allow me. I don’t want to put it all on the shoulders of my parents but I sometimes don’t go for certain actions, like staying out late as long as my parents aren’t aware of it or being very cautious whenever I’m in a foreign country, and unlike how I used to be or how I’ve always imagined myself to be, I don’t stay out late or go explore places alone, because I’m afraid that anything that happens to me will have a bad effect on my parents. I don’t know whether it is really because of my parents or what but I feel that the revolutionary part of me has died. I always give speeches to my friends on the importance to change, to be aware of what is going around us, and to see the truth. I always try to expand my circle of influence but this can’t be enough, in such times this can’t be enough. I’ve always wondered why does the people in Egypt don’t revolt and what they are waiting for but it seems that I forgot that I’m one of those people who should have revolt and should have been on the streets. My anger has never stopped, by humble trials for changes have never stopped but again this isn’t enough. I’m not trying to justify myself but perhaps I’m trying to apologize for not being there. I don’t want my children to be like this, I don’t want them to be afraid to talk or walk in a demonstration. I want them to take the responsibilities of their beliefs and to bear the consequences of their actions.

But you know what…things are much bigger than that. They are much bigger than an individual feeling of guilt.

إلى الشعب التونسى الجدع

ثورة شعب بحاله-----هبت من أجياله
ايدتوه فى نضاله---وشاركتم أبطاله
ودافعتم عن شرف الامة---والعزة والكرامه

(يمكن تكون مناسبة الأغنية مختلفة عن الحدث الحالى، بس هى أول حاجة جأت على بالى و أنا بتابع الأخبار إنهارده)

(عقبالنا يا رب)

New Year Resolutions?!

When I was younger, 5 or 7 years ago, I was fond of the idea of new year resolutions. So I used to put a lot of plans and activities to start by the new year. However, with time I became convinced that if you want to change something or carry out a plan, do it at once and don't even wait for tomorrow. There is a quote that I really like that says "How wonderful it is that no body need to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world" and of course all world improvements start by you. For these reasons I stopped making new year's resolutions, I stopped listening to radio programs and new year's eve talk shows handling these issues. It is even sometimes that I forgot that the new year has come till I need to write the date or have a reminder for my sister's and brother in law birthdays. So stop waiting for new years and make your resolutions right after every situation or every significant event in your life that calls for a one.

Have a fruitful New Year!

And

Now take a look at these cartoons about new year resolutions:

I paid a fine in the underground today!

I never ride in the underground without buying a ticket and I usually get very good care of the ticket that during all the years of using the undergound I only lost my ticket once, about 2 or 3 years ago, and this because I was trying to catch a train and was really in a bad state as it was during the same week when my aunt, God bless her soul, passed away. However, today was my second appointment with such unfortunate event. I wasn't in a hurry but I was reading a novel (Persuation by Jane Austin)which I took out from my bag while waiting for the undergound to continue, as the undergound is always delayed in the afternoon. This was probably the moment when I dropped the ticket but I didn't realize this till I got down and searched for it but found nothing. I could have passed after any passenger like I see people do everyday but to preserve my dignity, I just went to the officer and told him that I've lost my ticket and to prove to him that I wasn't riding without a ticket I showed him the an extra ticket that I had in my wallet from the day before. However, he insisted on me paying the fine. I'm not upset because I had to pay a fine because from the time I realized that I've lost the ticket I was prepared to that (and I'm usually a person who likes to stick to the rules ) and I'm not upset form the man for doing his job but what I'm made about is that I see people sneaking out everyday under the officer's sight and he (may be not the same person)doesn't move a toe. So what is the rule here? and how is the law applied? and most of all when?!

بمناسبة إنتخابات مجلس الشعب

يا بلدنا لا تنامي
دوري وسط الأسامي
واجمعي الصف الأمامي
واصطفي وراه يا بلدنا

دوري على مخلصينك
اللي من زمن شرينك
وباعوا الراحه
لبسو هدمة شغلينك
أعدو ويا فلاحينك
في الغيط و الساحه يا بلدنا

يا بلدنا لا تنامي
دوري وسط الأسامي
واجمعي الصف الأمامي
واصطفي وراه يا بلدنا

أولادك أولاد كفاحك
أولاد ضحكتك و جراحك
أصوات الثورة
سكتنا لبكره يا بلدنا

يا بلدنا لا تنامي
دوري وسط الأسامي
واجمعي الصف الأمامي
واصطفي وراه يا بلدنا

هم شايفين القضية
بضمير الأيام الجيه
شايفين المحطة محطة الوصول
عارفين إيه معنى الحرية
والزاي الكلمة الثورية
تجي شايلة و حطة

كلمات الشاعر عبد الرحمن الأبنودى

Shame on you!

As you probably know "Rafah crossing" is the only way for the Palestinians to enter Gaza, however it isn’t always open as the Egyptian government opens it occasionally according to the mood and the requirements of its political image. I’ve always hated this fact and thought that this way we help Israel to tighten the siege on the residents of Gaza. However when the government opens the borders I don’t see it as a heroic action but rather as the normal way things should be.

As a result of the occasional opening of the borders, the people of Gaza who work abroad are afraid of getting in to visit their relatives as they might not be able to get back to the countries where they work. However, because of the last wave of the Egyptian government generosity the crossing was open to an unlimited end. So, a friend of my brother in law who lives and work in Qatar with his family decided to take them to Gaza through the Egyptian borders to visit his parents there. He didn’t tell me about what he’s gone through to get in, however the shameful fact was in his way out. When Palestinians cross the borders out of Gaza, they’re not allowed to actually enter the Egyptian lands and so the procedure is that whenever you cross the borders you’ll be locked on the Egyptian side till the end of the day (8 PM) then you will be taken in a van (a police van or a similar one) to the airport. There you’ll be locked again in a small room till your flight time, and only God knows the kind of people you might be locked up with. This procedure is applied on everyone regardless of age and sex. So, this friend and his family had to go through this and all the way they heard comments referring to the fact that they’re treated this way because they belong to Hamas!

My brother in law believed that this was done to force Hamas, who is ruling Gaza, to sign the conciliation paper with Fat7 that Egypt has proposed so that Egypt can regain its image (and I’m not going to say role because a role is not that easy to regain) as the big sister of the Arab countries in the region.

So shame on you who gave the orders for this and shame on you carried out this and shame on you who are remaining silent about this.

بمناسبة مشاهدة فيلم عسل أسود

بلدى أحبها كما تحب الأم طفلها المشوه

The 23rd of July Revolution

For many people this day pass unnoticed, especially when it coincides with a normal off day (Friday and Saturday) and so the government doesn't make it an official day off. However, in our family we usually celebrate this day even by just listening to the old patriotic songs. However, this year we did something new which is trying to explain what a "Revolution" means to my almost 5 years old nephews. I won't claim that I was very successful in conveying the concept but at least at the end one of them decided to be a Warrior so that he can defend the country if the bad guys got to rule again. I resisted the desire to tell him that we actually need his efforts now because this would have taken me into a long conversation with them that you never knows how it can end :)

So, let's not forget and download these songs today and share it with your family and friends:

http://music.nghmat.com/song_2_1530.html

P.S. I strongly recommend (الجيل الصاعد، الوطن الكبير، و صوت الجماهير)as they fit the occasion.

The Egyptians

What I like most about us, Egyptians, is that we are survivors. We manage to live in the darkest and most difficult circumstances and find ways to survive. Some call this surrendering and being helpless but I call it survival. I always feel this, especially way when I see some girls selling different stuff in the underground. I won't talk about this phenomenon again but I've just seen a girl that felt like myself in another life or just in some other circumstances, and the examples are countless in our daily life. Maybe we just need to pay more attention to these details.

و ستعرف بعد رحيل العمر...بأنك كنت تطارد خيط دخان

Have you ever been there?

I don't know why people usually get a very positive idea about me only after a short acquaintance. Though this should be a good thing, I'm sometimes not sure if it really is. This because it makes people expect from me more than what I'm actually capable of, and when I fall short of their expectations, they're disappointed and in turn I am depressed. Sometimes I get confused, am I really that good or I just seem this way. Am I really that smart or they're just expecting me to be so? Am I feeling this way because I don't have enough confidence in myself or they are the ones who are fooled? Have you ever experienced this?

فى أوروبا و الدول المتقدمة *1

In Europe and other developed countries (1)

When the Iceland volcano first erupted and I saw people on TV stuck at different airports worldwide, I felt pity for them and never imagined that I’ll be one of them. I was in a business trip to Germany (and to be honest the business part took only one day and the rest was shopping and sightseeing :)) and on my way back the volcano erupted again and caused the close of some European airports including Munich, from which I was supposed to fly back home. I was very depressed when I knew this because I was totally in the mood to return home, I had my passport stamped, and was right by the gate waiting for it to open. Soon we knew that all flights were canceled and that we have to wait in the queue to make another reservation to return home, hopefully the next day. It was a very long, spiral queue that the one can’t see its beginning or end but at least the people, from all different nationalities, were actually able to stand in a queue! My colleagues and I took turns in standing in the queue waiting for our turn. During our stand in the queue, the Lufthansa employees kept assuring the passengers and answering their questions, and then they began to give us water, soda, and sandwiches, of course in addition to the coffee (the machines can make not only coffee but cappuccino, mocha etc.) that is always there, for free. They also distributed pillows and covers for those who needed them. As for families with children, they were allowed to wait in the first class lounges! We were lucky enough to skip the long queue as we weren’t in urgent need to return to Egypt the next day and so joined another queue (but we were lucky enough to be the first to stand in it) so that Lufthansa can make us a hotel reservation. They did make a reservation including dinner and breakfast, in addition to giving us a voucher for a taxi to get us to the hotel, which the taxi driver simply took without complaining or saying that he can take only cash. However to be fair to our taxi drivers, the driver behaved in this way because he is sure that he’d be able to refund his money. On our way out of the airport, they just made a sign on our exit stamp to cancel it so that we can return back to the German lands (Imagine how the Egyptians employees would have acted in a similar situation). So in short, everything was perfect but for the fact that we wouldn’t be home in the time we expected. However we can’t complain, because we met a lady at the airport who was off to see her sick mother and was crying as she might not be able to see her for that last time and at the hotel an American couple were on the phone the whole night trying to book a flight back home as their children were alone there. After passing by all this, we all started to think about passengers who were trapped in Egypt and about our situation if we were trapped in one of the “developing” counties, like Egypt. To mention just one point of comparison, Egypt air doesn’t provide its passengers with hotel reservation and so those who can’t afford staying in a hotel just have to wait in the airport or the streets! Ironically, someone told me that Egypt air was considering allowing passengers to pay for their stay during the crisis time through an installment plan!

* In reference to this movie or series, I don’t really remember, where one of the characters came recently from a European country and was still impressed with all what he saw there, that he used to start almost every sentence by saying “In Europe and the developed countries” followed by comparisons of here and there.

أدى الربيع عاد من تانى

Here comes spring again

Buying Carnation has been one of my delayed plans for the last 2 springs, and then I saw them today in my way back from my first Tennis training :). Though the man wasn’t my favorite florist, I decided to buy a bunch. I didn’t want this spring to also pass without having these colorful flowers with their lovely scent.

One of the things that always make me feel that spring is here, beside the flowers, which we can actually notice only at the florist’s because Cairo streets are not that full of trees and flowers, is Soad Hosny’s lovely song about spring (الدنيا ربيع). The poet “Salah Jaheen” who wrote the lyrics is already one of my favorites and in this song he has been really creative and spontaneous.

This is my favorite line in the song:
الشجر الناشف بقى ورور و الطير بقى لعيبى و متهور،
و إحنا هانفرفش إمتى أومال دلوقتى و لا فى سبتمبر

And these are my carnations for this spring:



Have a colorful spring!