Charafantah's Cave

كان يا مكان في الغابة كان في دبة حزينة… كانت أكتر  دبة حزينة في الدنيا.

كل يوم آدم يروحلها ويحاول يضحكها ويفرحها.

في يوم مشي آدم في الغابة وقعد يدور على أحلى وأجمل وردة في الغابة كلها وراح اداها للدبة.

بس الدبة فضلت حزينة ومافرحتش وقالت له :” طب ماهي بكرة تدبل وتموت وريحتها حتروح”

تاني يوم, آدم خلى مامته تعمل كيكة وحاجات حلوة.

الدبة قالت له :” طب ما أنا حاكلها ومش حيفضل منها أي حاجة!”

في اليوم اللي بعده, آدم جاب معاه كتاب كله قصص حلوة بيحب يقراها وجه يقعد جنب الدبة يقراله القصة اللي بيحبها.

فـالدبة هزت راسها وقالت له :” طب ماهي القصة حتخلص بسرعة”

آدم قالها :” مش مهم, ما احنا ممكن نقراها تاني”

الدبة قالت له وهي لسة حزينة  :”آه, بس ساعتها حنكون عارفين القصة اخرها إيه”

آدم كان محتار قوي مش عارف يعمل إيه, تاني يوم راح جايب معاه أكتر لعبة بيحبها وراح للدبة وقالها يلا نلعب.

الدبة قالت له:” لأ, ماهو أنا عارفة, أنا أكيد حخسر” , وراحت مدورة وشها

اليوم اللي بعده آدم ماكانش عارف يعمل إيه, ما بقاش عنده أفكار يحاول يبسط بيها الدبة, فراح للدبة لوحده.

لما الدبة شفته جاي من غير حاجة سألته :” إنت جايبلي إيه معاك انهارده عشان تبسطني؟”

آدم ماكانش معاه حاجة فـقالها :”أنا بحبك”

الدبة حضنته و ابتسمت

•  على أمل أن: أروح المدرسة زى الكبار
• على أمل أن: الجرس يضرب
• على أمل أن: حصة الألعاب حتيجى
• على أمل أن: فى بطاطس محمرة
• على أمل أن: إجازة نص السنة قربت
• على أمل أن: الإجازة الكبيرة جاية
• على أمل أن: حنروح البحر
• على أمل أن: حلعب بالكمبيوتر لما أذاكر
• على أمل أن: هى كمان تكون معجبة بيا
• على أمل أن: الإمتحانات تخلص
• على أمل أن: النتيجة تطلع زى مانا عايز
• على أمل أن: السنة الجاية أعوض المجموع
• على أمل أن: التنسيق
• على أمل أن: حسافر مع أصحابى
• على أمل أن: حتعلم كل إللى بحلم بيه من زمان فى الكلية
• على أمل أن: يرضوا يشغلونى و أنا فى الكلية
• على أمل أن: أبقى أجمد واحد فى الشغل
• على أمل أن: أجيب عربية
• على أمل أن: أجيب عربية أحسن
• على أمل أن: مناقشة المشروع تعدى على خير
• على أمل أن: الويك إند جاية
• على أمل أن: حسافر
• على أمل أن: حياتى حتمشى زى ما خططت
• على أمل أن: الخطة الجديدة أكيد حتنجح
• على أمل أن: التعديلات بعد إكتشافى إن الحياة لونها الحقيقى بنى مش بمبى زى ما كنت فاكر, أكيد حتنجح الخطة
• على أمل أن: النجاح مش لازم يكون بالدرجة النهائية…إللى يجيبوا ربنا كويس
• على أمل أن: أول الشهر حييجى
• على أمل أن: الشغل حيبقى أحسن
• على أمل أن: مكنش بحلم
• 17-5-2009 على أمل أن: أبقى مبسوط

 

Where is a homeland? أين الوطن؟

Is it:

• The place you born at?
• The place where you have grown up?
• The place where you lived the most of your life?
• The place where your family is?
• The place where you parents descending from?
• The place where your love\wife\husband is?

What is a motherland? ماهو الوطن؟

• Is it the place?
• The people?
• The family?
• The friends?
• The streets and cities?
• The customs, culture and traditions?

Nowadays in Egypt

Life is becoming more unbearable everyday from every aspect:

• Prices and standards of living
• People, the majority becoming vulgars and savages
• Corruption, on every level
• Politics, let’s not talk about that
• Education, BIG failure
• Culture, the best description for it currently is مقلب زبالة  garbage
• Ethics & traditions, what are you talking about?

Many of my friends and family immigrated, seeking a better life…the rest are still looking for a chance

Most of the people i speak to, don’t think that change is *NOT* possible, we have reached a state that would take generations to fix the damage that happened.

The majority also don’t feel their responsibility in contributing to change to the better, maybe because it’s something BIG, that take A LOT of time and effort and because the results are nearly virtual.

Or maybe because they are LIKE ME , i just want to focus on my work, hobbies, family and friends, i never had or felt that it’s my responsibility to change or contribute in that change.

Maybe am selfish, but I always felt like it’s someone else’s responsibility, because am doing other things, like انا المخ وأنت العضلات

With all this, i love living here, i am happy, though not most of the time, but there is that weird feeling inside me, that just make me love it here.
مع القرف دة كله, إلا أنى مبسوط…مش على طول و لا غالبا طبعا….بس مش قادر أتخيل نفسى فى حتة تانية

تفتكروا لو نقلت أنا و أهلى و أصحابى و الأماكن و الحاجات إللى بحبها و رحنا مكان تانى ممكن يبقى وطننا ونبقى مبسوطين فيه؟ولا نتكل على الله و نخلينا هنا نعافر و زى ما تيجى تيجى؟

======Update======

After reading this post again, after publishing it, i feel it’s so stupid and i feel like a moron, but i am still going to post it

These are a 150 nice (adventurous?) things you might have done…i’ll mark those i done in bold

This comes from Ellas Devil through TheViewFromHer

“OK so this is the deal, this is a really easy meme with minimal typing from you. Simply copy and paste the list below into your blog and bold the things you have done in your lifetime and that is it. There’s no need to explain any of your answers and it’ll not take you very long so go on…. give it a go.”

HAVE YOU EVER?

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink

02. Swam with wild dolphins

03. Climbed a mountain

04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive

05. Been inside the Great Pyramid

06. Held a tarantula

07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone

08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it

09. Hugged a tree

10. Bungee jumped.

11. Visited Paris

12. Watched a lightning storm at sea

13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise

Read more

continue reading…

This is the saudi version of my 2 cents.

I will just pinpoint a few things i noticed during my few days stay here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:

• Fun means: Drive in the car, go to “tahleya” st. and drink a coffee or coke
• Entertainment consists of ONLY the following two items: “eating” and “shopping”
• Being cool means: doing crazy acts with your car, driving a quad(a.k.a Beach buggy) or having a distinguished license plate
• Petrol is cheaper than water
• It is not gay to: have long silky hair under your “shema3′ “, holding hands (with other male) and chewing gums 
• Its very acceptable to sit bare feet at work, restaurants and public places
• It is also acceptable to touch your feets in public, and maybe even eat and shake hands
• Traffic is very organized, or so i thought until the traffic light was not working….let me tell you, it’s far worse than traffic in Cairo…HUGE mess
• Single men cannot go to the mall
• All restaurants have 2 sections, one for singles and one for families, you cant go to families section if you’re single, even if the single section is full.
• You cannot eat/shop or do anything during prayer times.
• If you’re already eating, you either go wait outside, or get locked inside.
• Internet is censored and monitored, many websites are blocked
• It is normal to get random messages on your mobile from bluetooth if you’re in a public place
• There are 2 types of photo shops…. “Women photoshop – مركز تصوير نسائى” and “Male photoshop – مركز تصوير رجالى”
• Even beggars have cars, its ok to find someone asking for money from his Hyundai Accent car
• There is actually a difference between “لبن” and “حليب”
• Its okay to be rude (am still not sure if thats the way they speak, or they actually mean it)

This has been happening to me for quite a long time now, and I am sure it happens to each and every single one of you.

• A lot of work
• Problems and stress in your family
• Very unstable social life, you barely go out or see\call your friends, the maximum you do is poke them on Facebook
• Bored to death
• Nothing new to do, except browsing, working and going to el 2ahwa if you have time
• Calls and problems from previous work
• Many people (mostly friends) asking favors and weird things that they need you to do for them
• Something must happen to ruin your day (e.g. fall in a hole in the ground, see a dead dog\cat in the middle of the street, your car gets hit, a government bus blowing dust right into your window etc etc)
• You never have enough time to finish what you intended to finish
• You always run out of money after a week – 10 days
• You can’t find any valuable meaning for your life

I tried many times to plan my day and my way of life, i thought of a lot of ways to improve it, i put plans for work, social life, spiritual life, family and entertainment.

But i never succeeded in achieving all what i’ve planned, maybe this is because am a bad manager?maybe i lack time management skills? or maybe am not capable of doing this!

Am not depressed, but am not happy either.