Egyptian M3assel (معسّل) In Ukraine!

WOW! They have me3assel El Brince is UKRAINE!!! (no I can’t say El Prince, cuz its not written like that lol)… Me3assel is the shisha tobacco, in case you didn’t know!

And its for about 9.5 EGP… compared to ~1.5 back in Egypt!! Hahahah! No wonder all Ukrainians love shisha (aka Hooka/Kalian)!!! And they even have the warning printed in Russian on the pack! (Its not a sticker, its in the original packaging!)

Wow, I’m reviewing smoke now! No I’m not. Its just a funny fact! And thats what we export to them lol. At least we DO export something aside from cotton and Pharaohs!! :S

Where is my blog going?

Where is my blog going? A question I had to ask myself at some point.

I’m not gonna talk about hits and stuff, because they’re maintained and not bad. But thats not the case here, its about me and what I’m getting from that blog. I don’t feel that I’m doing what I originally made this blog for. I wanted to write what I feel, and express myself without any judgment. A place where I can tell anyone to fuck off.

I also wanted to make it more interesting, because too personal is too boring and stupid. I mean, how many people will actually care to read stupid details that I wanted to put down… 5? 10? I wanted to mix things together, put some interesting shit, along with my personal posts.

What actually happened? I’m not getting personal on the blog, because whatever is happening with me now is way too private to be put online, and many people I know already read the blog, so its gonna be rattling myself out. And for the interesting stuff, well, I’m in Ukraine and absolutely nothing interesting is going on here. Unless its too private! You get what I mean!

So what am I gonna do about this blog? I got it. I guess I’m gonna go personal as much as I can in here, until I get back to Cairo in a few weeks and actually do or see something worth mentioning here. Another thing is that even if I get personal, theres not much going on here anyways. Its just a stupid Russian routine. Useless!

So I think you will notice some difference in here, IF I even post anything for the next few weeks.
I have no idea what’s gonna happen on these pages in the near future, but for now, I have to go work on a couple of things on Photoshop.

Hilarious Profiles!

I’m still laughing at this shit till now!
Some weirdo added me on facebook (but this time it was a guy), so I chucked him into my Super Ultra Limited profile (ie. he has nothing more to know about me than if we weren’t friends anyway) and I was checking out who the hell it is, cuz maybe I know him or something.

He had the “All About Me” application added, and I have it too. Its a series of questions about yourself, its an extended profile sort of thing. I either answer the questions normally or if its lame I put an obviously funny answer in there, that won’t be mistaken for a true one.

So I was reading and I found this weird stuff in there, and I wanted to share it…
I’m only putting down the funny stuff, and things that won’t eventually lead to his identity (but just for the record, he’s Saudi…) And my comments are in italics.

Political Views: no idea (no wonder!)

Profession: college (seriously!! OMG!)

Relationship Status: friendlly (hahahahahahaha)

Favorite Hobby: drowing (huh!! I love to drow…)

Favorite Song/Singer: bigg girl dosn’t cry (favorite song but you can’t even write its name down right)

Favorite School Subject: inglish (apparently it was, thats why you’re so good at it…)

Favorite Food: see food (naa… I like blind food, so much better!)

Favorite Animal: dog (bit ball) (does that breed even exist?)

Favorite Store: the old man with his son (I’m sure they got great stuff at competetitive prices!)

Favorite Childhood Memory: when i was in school (yeah when he once went there)

Getting down to the real problem. I hate typos (as much as I do them myself) and I had bad English. If you don’t know it, don’t freakin use it! I mean, come on!! Oh and by the way, he’s supposed to be a rapper/hip hopper… in ENGLISH! And I wish his problem was only English, its everything else in that list lol.

Anyways I was annoyed but entertained lol. Now I can remove him from my list and rest in peace.

(Theres a review on Facebook chat coming up soon. Behold.)

No More Old Cars In Cairo!

(all images are in high quality. click to enlarge for a better view)

All those Fiat 128 drivers are fearful of rumored new legislation banning cars over 20 years old from Egypt’s roadways.

Fear not: Word on the street is that some workshops would be able to change the car’s engine and chassis plate number (which includes the production year); that and a little grease on the inspector’s palms would give a classic car the green light. But this won’t work for too long because they can’t make a drastic change to the production date, so most of them will die out in the next 5 years.

Some garage gossips are claiming that only taxis will be subject to the 20-year-old vehicle ban and even then only in the capital — an unhappy thought for the black-and-white brigade. There are 50,000 B&W taxis on the streets of the capital today. Many are over 30 years old and are visibly dented from multiple collisions. (Note: the B&W taxis in the photos right here are in the best condition you could possibly find. You would be lucky to find one of those!)


So, will the black & white taxis finally go into extinction? I was trying to imagine Cairo only with the new cool yellow cabs! Those, on the other hand, are getting upgrades. Being on the roads for around 3 years now, and never going old, I personally never saw one with a scratch so far. They already print out a receipt with the details of the fare at the end of the journey, and have sensors that spot the driver if he attempts to add more passengers, or travel without using the meter (you know… Egyptians!), but soon they will be getting brand new GPS tracking systems, to complete the package! How great is that, especially for tourists?!

I personally like the new legislation, even if it was only for taxis. Even better, if this was for all vehicles. Oh what a happy, less polluted place would Cairo be! I think its about time Cairo looked even MORE decent!

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Lost In Translation

I don’t know why, but I’ve had a weird obsession with Arabic for the past few days… I even had some Arabic posts and post titles.
Anyways, those are some Arabic and English words lost in translation.
This made me laugh so hard when I first read them I almost shit my pants…

مقبلات ‎= Kissers
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مقلوبة ‎= Upside down
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جوز هند ‎= Hinds Husband
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معمول بالجوز ‎= Made in husband
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قمار‎= Moons
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مكتب المراجعات ‎= Vomit office
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لم أهرب قط ‎= I never escaped a cat
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يتقبل ‎= To be kissed
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السلطة المطلقة ‎= Divorced salad
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خطر على بالي ‎= Danger on my mind
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لا يمت لي بصلة ‎= He does not die to me an onion
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كفيل ‎= Like an elephant
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جوزين جوارب ‎= Two husbands of socks
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إنه أمي ‎= He is my mother
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حقك علي ‎= Your price on me
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خليها على حسابي ‎= Keep it on my mathematics
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سعيد كتب كتابه على فيفي ‎= Happy wrote his book on In In
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حباب ‎= Loved a door
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دستور يا أهل الدار ‎= Constitution home parents
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قدر ظروفي ‎= Evaluate my envelopes
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ليش يابعد عمري ‎= Why after my age
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ظروف قاهرة ‎= Cairo envelopes
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راحت عليك ‎= She went on you
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من هون لهون ‎= From here to here
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يستر على عرضك ‎= Cover on your wide
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طبيب عصبية ‎= A doctor on a young girl
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أنا أدفع الحساب ‎= I push the mathematics
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إحسب حسابي= Calculate my calculations

بنحبك يا مصر…

They say: “You never miss your water till the well runs dry”
EXACTLY the case of every single Egyptian on Earth. We just don’t realize how great of a place to be it is, until we leave for some time. And since I am feeling extremely homesick now, thats a little something I wanna share…

مايعرفش قيمتها غير اللي يبعد عنها…
و سلام…

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What does my brithday mean?

Something I got from Maisa on Facebook…
Its supposed to be what my birthday means…

You often have problem in promoting yourself, just because you don’t know how to express your true self. On the other hand, you don’t really care what they think. This is why people misunderstand you until they really get a chance to learn about your pleasant personality. Opposite sex find you mysterious and worth searching. Your wit is remarkable but sometimes you are too fast to follow. Your Love, You won’t reveal your feeling even after dreaming about the same guy over and over. Your first love lasts forever. You are responsible to the feeling of your lover. The chance to betray your lover is none. You have luck with children.

Well, if they say so… lol
And this, people, would be me
Isn’t it so true..?

Thats What I Call Multi-Tasking .

I haven’t done anything useful wit my computer for a long time, its all junk. Movies, music, burning, copying, photos, editing, designing (just for fun, not even a job)… I haven’t done any serious work with it for a while now. And I’m not gonna =)

And thats what I call multi-tasking….
I use and abuse, and doing anything less than that at one time means that I’m not actually using the computer lol… I just love how Dell gets everything done smoothly

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* And Windows XP is THE SHIT, trust me! XP for life!!
(till Windows 7 comes out)
This just looks like vista, but don’t be fooled

Smash My Dell !!

Before you get excited (my Dell has many haters), thats not about me. I’m in absolute love with my Dell =D

For reasons that are not to be told, and I think as a tribute to SmashMyiPod.com – My friend here – SK – has decided to let his Dell Inspiron 6000 – that one legendary laptop (generally and for us too) cuz this is the laptop that made me buy a Dell myself, and love them so much… He decided to let his laptop get smashed in his room, to the maximum level.

[The aftermath - The guts of a Dell] Click to enlarge.

And because he can’t take it to the Dell dealership and bitch about it (they don’t deserve that, its to be done only at Apple stores) – he decided to attempt to re-assemble it himself, and he did, and the screen went kaboom, and pretty much nothing else is functioning either. In return, he “inherited” a newer version from his parents, an Inspiron 6400 (just like mine) and he’s as happy as [whatever - you name it]…

[After the re-assembly - Screen is wrecked] Click to enlarge.

The laptop now is a worthless piece of plastic, and I’m taking the functioning parts and using them as emergency replacements if anything goes wrong in mine (hopefully not, its a Dell ), like a keyboard key or a battery – I could use a spare battery hahaha – Its not a Sony but who cares, its for free!!!

We won’t be starting a SmashMyDell.com though, because I don’t think we would wanna smash anymore Dells, even that incident was un-intentional (for some people).

Don’t think we’re reckless weirdos, it was completely out of our hands. Its worth mentioning that the person who smashed (identity will remain unknown) it will be going to see a shrink soon (I’m not joking, this is happening).

Thats All Folks!

Mumbo Jumbo About Me.

As I previously said, I wasn’t in the mood for blogging. I didn’t feel like it. Shame on me as a blogger? Yes.
But what can I do… I’ve been having those mixed feelings about everything, its not even funny anymore.
I’m seriously mixed up. I don’t know whether I’m in love, whether I’m over a break up I just had, am I ok? Am I adapting to Ukraine and might have no problem continuing here, or am I homesick… I’ve been listening to songs from last year and the year before, just because I missed the songs, and BAM!! Every song is related to some memory…

Good memories sure ruin songs for me! Because as good as those memories are, as bad as I feel when I get them because I know those good days won’t come back, and what’s even more annoying is that I hated my life back then! And I know that in some months’ time, I’m gonna miss these days that I call crappy now. Life sometimes can be a bitch!

I just got lost in everything. Am I happy, am I bummed out… I don’t know. I’ve been really moody these days.

I’ve also had a big share of happiness last week, it was one happy week for me, but then, whats next? What should I do? Theres a step I’m trying to take, and trying to convince myself that its the right decision, but again comes the fear, the fear of loosing, the fear of rejection, the fear of the awkwardness. Sometimes you don’t wanna loose something really good that you have for a risk, that might or might not make your life better.

I don’t know, its a chance, take it or leave it, and I’m confused. Till now I’m set on going for it, but I’ve been having a lot of second thoughts. So I still don’t know.

Another thing, the state of laziness that I’m in. I’m in no mood to do anything (even if I’m in a good mood, I just don’t wanna do anything serious). I might go out, hang out with my friends, but when it comes to seriousness I just wanna die. Its so stupid.

So that’s me now, confused, lazy, happy and sad.
Got the reasons for the confusion, and the happiness, but I still can’t nail down why I’m lazy and sad. I guess it sometimes just happens. I don’t know. But I hope it all goes away soon. I wanna be left with just happiness, I haven’t been happy in a long time I think I deserve some happiness now. Aaaah I know I over-think a lot of things, but thats just me. I think a lot, sometimes its good and sometimes its just pain!

Ok enough with the old music now, let’s live in the moment. (I tend to treat myself most of the time!)