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Today is one of these days, where you wish you are not yourself.

When you wake up, and think today doesn’t look so good, and then Murphey’s laws start their magic.

I just hate you all, my work myself and everything. DIE!

i’ll now go hide in the corner, switch the lights off and cry to death.

Happy Valentine to all you of who celebrates Valentine’s day…please if you DO celebrate valentine DO NOT READ THIS POST!

You have been warned.

If you still want to read, check the more link ;) continue reading…

Not in the mood

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I am not in the ***** (insert a curse word here +ing) mood

I dont know why…

maybe because:

  • I broke another tooth? (YES! ANOTHER F(*&!@# tooth, so its 2 now broken in this shitty country) i cant eat on both sides of the mouth now. :(
  • Work sucks….not that it always does..but this time it sucks so bad…SUPER BAD
  • I am SERIOUSLY bored
  • Emotionally unstable

I don’t know why, seriously, all i can say is that YOU ARE LUCKY, not to be around me now….i could stab you in the face if did\said ANY thing wrong

you know “العفاريت بتنطط قدام وشى؟ and مش طاق حد يدوسلى على طرف؟ and also روحى بقت فى مناخيرى”

أشرف إبن الكاشف…أتسرق يا منزز

First of all, i would like to HATE all the people who did not help us, who ignored us, who robbed us and to the most majority of the Saudi People (i cant say all the saudi people)

It was a wednesday, the end of the week in Saudi Arabia, we finished work, having our rented car in the parking of the place we work at, we put our laptops in the trunk of the car and we head to bring something to eat.

At the mall, (Al Faysaliah mall – الفيصلية ) which is a huge mall and very crowded…we parked and went to get some take-away food.

We spent less than 25 minutes…only to come back to the car in the parking space, to find the window broken and everything is gone

The following stuff  were stolen:

  • 6 Laptop computer (mine included)
  • 5 Passports (mine included)
  • A few hundred dollars were in the laptop bag
  • 1 Saudi Ekama
  • 1 Book i had borrowed (shame on me)

We were all surprised, we all thought that Saudi Arabia is crime free, specially that they cut the hands of any one who steals.


Wow, what a diet!

We called the police, after almost 20-30mins a very old man came to us, he said that we have to either go by ourselves to the police station, or he could drop us there.

We called our friends here, they came immediately and we all went to the police station, they refused to let us in (we were 7 persons) and they only allowed 2 of us to go in, the rest of us had to wait in the car (for F sake, we all lost our passports, how come you won’t let us in file a report?)

We were in contact by phone, the 2 guys in there told us they are being completely ignored by the police because they are Egyptians, they said it’s expected to take long.

After about 30 mins, they came out, as a Saudi friend came to help and he had some powerfull relations with the police.

Only to find out that they cant do anything as the weekend has started and we can’t do anything until saturday (DOH! the police cant make any reports during weekends…this must be criminals heaven)

So now, i have no passport, not laptop and all the work is gone.

I am pretty sure everything has been sold by now, including the passports.
I guess when i try to come back to Egypt, they will tell me that i can’t go in, as according to their records i am already in Egypt :)

Looks like i will be stuck here for quite some time..

Just a note for myself in the future…..” I FRIGGIN HATE SAUDI ARABIA NOW!!!! I HATE YOU!!! I HATE YOU!!! I HATE YOU!!!! PISS OFF!!”

Anyone remember 2 years ago, when i had a *VERY* shitty day and i started the 100 things i hate about Cairo on my MSN nick?

A few days ago i read on the SM about the: “14 reasons to love Egypt” and his own “10 things i love about Egypt
Which reminded me, where the hell did my list of 100 hate reason disappeared!

So, i thought of a remake, this time with a special twist….because I don’t really hate Egypt all that much :)   i actually can’t imagine living anywhere but in Cairo.

So am going to write the 50 Things i Hate & Love about Egypt (it’s 50 things i hate + 50 things i love)
i will not write them at once…

But instead, i will add 1 thing i hate and another 1 i love everyday :) for 40 more days (as i will start with 10 already published)

check it HERE

Parking Space

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Another thing we face daily, in our “evil streets of Cairo” is parking… there is no place to park your car ANYWHERE in Cairo, you have to suffer everyday for 15-30 mins everytime you try to park at work\home\friends\shopping or whatever you’re going to do.

You will also notice, the “menady” (this guy who is basically a begger,  but tries to give you help parking your car), are spread  in the whole capital. Ripping you off with 1LE each time you park and they happen to pop next to you from the sky.
If you try and give one of them 0.5LE you will win a “look of disgust” for yourself, like: “keep the change for yourself, if you cant afford 1LE then don’t use a car, cheap bastard”

You could be lucky(like me) and have a personal garage for your building at home, well, am not so lucky because i still have to pay 50LE\month + tips for cleaning the car, but at least i can guarantee a place for my car when i go home.

Going to my new work in Maadi, there is a car parking too, which costs 50LE\month (is that standard or what?) i said to myself, nope, am not paying it enough parking money, its going to end up paying half my salary on gas and parking!!! (not mentioning repairing the car from the random hits i receive on my car)

So, i ended up looping around the office building EVERYDAY for 15 mins to find a parking spot, i guess it would have been easier to park at home and come walking, since i end up walking LOOOOONG distances anyway.

A good thing is, there is ALOT of empty spaces, but they are blocked with جرادل or cones

If you try to move them, you will get attacked by the security guard or the door man and they won’t allow you to park, off course, not wanting to have a fight first thing in the morning (you will have plenty at work) you have to find another spot.

So, the public streets are now a private property? anyone who wants can reserve a certain space for himself? just block with a chain or put a cone around it and not let anyone park? is that’s how it works now?بالدراع – bel dera3?

So, today i was coming to work, later than usual, and i couldn’t find a single place in all the spots i used to park in, so i suddenly spot an empty space, it’s relatively big, it could fit my car and an smaller one too, and luckily it’s not blocked by anything, so i head and park there.

Just while am switching off the engine, an old “bawab – door man” came out, and started yelling and shouting in the rudest way possible, saying that am blocking the “entrance to the building, i explained to him that am parking “IN THE FU**** STREET!!!! AND there is space for other car to park and people pass and everything!!!” so when he found out that’s not really working, he started the other tactic, he said that this place is reserved for a high ranking officer who lives in that building. (DOHHH!!!!! wasn’t it blocking the entrance a few seconds ago?)

Anyway, if i wasn’t late for work, and if i was in a good mood (i had an accident this morning, i’ll blog about it later) and if he wasn’t a very old dude i would have had a different reaction, but sadly, i just left and tried to find another place to park.

It also happens that my previous work, was located in Abbas El Akkad one of the most crowded streets in the capital.
And i faced this problem daily, and i had to make friends with those parking assistance (menady) to help me park everyday.

I HAD ENOUGH!!!! NO ONE OWNS THE F**** STREETS!!! I HAVE THE RIGHT TO PARK ANYWHERE!!! YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHARGE ME FOR PARKING!!!! AND THE NEXT TIME YOU SPEAK TO ME RUDELY, AM GOING TO BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF YOU!!!!