On my way home today, I passed by the mall to buy some stuff, when I found there was a concert taking place. Some youth were singing songs for “Tholathy adwa2 el masra7“. I didn’t realize how long it passed since I last attended any concerts till I felt the percussions getting into me.. Unconsciously, [...]
Categories: English, Feelings, Ramblings
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- 03.07.2010 – 00:14
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
I am half way through reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and definitely enjoying every thing about it – for it is simply as good as my favorite Animal Farm. To me, Nineteen Eighty-Four is even a more pleasurable brain teaser to think about the Big Brother’s systematic planning to apply mind control -on either its [...]
Categories: Book, English, Ramblings
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- 10.06.2010 – 23:39
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
“Chup ko. Shut up.”
Mariam did.
It wasn’t easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. And Mariam [...]
Categories: Book, English, Quote
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- 31.05.2010 – 21:38
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
It’s always sad, so sad, to read something you really really wished to hear for yourself, then discover its directed to someone else at the end..
You re-read the whole thing again and don’t really know whether it was the very you who allowed your mind to trick you by hiding all these signs , to [...]
Categories: English, Ramblings
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- 30.05.2010 – 09:40
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
It’s 3:00 a.m. and I am scared enough to get myself up from bed in the middle of the night to search for a good book, any good book I think I may enjoy once I finish reading “Born there, born here” for Mourid El Barghouti.
“I saw Ramallah” and then the sequel “Born there, born [...]
Categories: Book, English, Ramblings
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- 26.05.2010 – 00:09
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
He told her “Lets call today’s coincidence as ’serendipity’.”
She walked the other way and murmured to herself “I am sorry my friend. Serendipities happen in movies, only in movies, and nowhere else.”
Categories: Convo, English
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- 23.05.2010 – 20:31
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
You know those days when you wake up in the morning and need to quickly get dressed. You absolutely have no intention to look pretty, you actually don’t want to. So you grab an average dress, something that you keep for a crappy-mood-morning like this one. You don’t comb your hair, or don’t try to [...]
Categories: English, Ramblings
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- 22.05.2010 – 17:27
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
Everything happened so fast since they told me few weeks ago about their wedding. I traveled and forgot, then returned to find out only a week left. I didn’t have enough time to prepare a dress or a lie to save me from going.
I have never felt comfortable with weddings..
But this time was [...]
Categories: English, Memories, Ramblings
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- 22.05.2010 – 01:00
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
Long ago I heard a quote on radio and wrote it down in the nearest random book beside me. Only today the quote crossed my mind and I couldn’t get it away from my thinking till I found the book after intensive searching. The quote was there, sleeping on the very same page I vaguely [...]
Categories: English, Quote
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- 19.05.2010 – 20:26
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
I will never forget when she actually cried at the end of Arab Bloggers conference, or the many times she saved no effort to help everybody -at least myself- with whatever we need on Global Voices Online internal community..
May be we never had a chance to talk much, but since the first time I saw [...]
Categories: English, Faces
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- 18.05.2010 – 19:45
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
Feeling guilty for something you have not done, is one of the hardest feelings one can go through. Every night you would feel a persisting urge to cry without knowing why or what for.
You are left with a permanent feeling of not doing something as well as you think people are expecting from you, [...]
Categories: English, Feelings, Ramblings
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- 17.05.2010 – 01:03
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
It’s, as always, a delightful experience to meet Bint Battuta. Something is so relaxing about her, and you never know whether its her cheerful smile or tranquil way of taking you to explore her passion for words..
Unfortunately, we didn’t spend much time together in Chile; but during the few minuets we walked through the Plaza [...]
Categories: English, Faces
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- 16.05.2010 – 15:50
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
I saw a man walking with his woman today, both looked young and happy to me despite the gray hair.
For a moment I thought, perhaps I would not mind gray hair if I am in their place..
Categories: English, في سطر
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- 15.05.2010 – 18:16
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
Sitting under my window as dawn is breaking, I hear the call for prayers wafting from the nearby mosque upon a summer breeze..
This may be one of the profound moments I miss, where ever I go.
Categories: English, Ramblings, Travel, دين
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- 15.05.2010 – 01:55
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
To me, homesickness is linked to “Can love really take us over?” (Arabic: هو صحيح الهوا غلاب) by Om Kalthom. It reminds me with human beings at their weakest nature – going after something – anything- not just love as in the context of the song-, but despite regretting and out of weakness, they still [...]
Categories: English, Quote, Song, أغنية وشعر
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- 11.05.2010 – 00:55
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
I am here – the other side of the planet. In a country which speaks a language I have no idea about. With people I have nothing really in common except belonging to the same human kind. I am breathing, eating, walking.. shortly living. Not sure if I am enjoying or not, not really sure [...]
Categories: English, Travel
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- 07.05.2010 – 15:47
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
“So we’re 25 right?” she said. “Five years left, and five more to come, then baam we’re 30.”
“Yeah right.” I said. “I wish I would know what will happen in the future. Should I pack and leave? or is it a bright future to come, and I should wait?”
“Both ways we’re staying hun!” She said [...]
Categories: Convo, English
- Published:
- 18.04.2010 – 00:56
- Author:
- By Lasto adri
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