So Waltz With Bashir , Israeli Movie about a massacare

Heard of it ? It wont a golden globe the other day ,Its an Israeli movie about an Israeli soldier who lost memories from the Sabra and Shatella massacre and Beirut invasion and tries to revive what happened along the movie , animation movie,really finely done ,the story was fine ,nothing to complain about ,the movie's title (Waltz with Bashir) came from a scene where an Israeli soldier during Beirut invasion after Bashir Jmayel was killed goes into hestiric shooting rampage and appears to be dancing the waltz with Bashir Jmayyel's big poster on a building behind him at that junction . Its a shame that Israelis had made a movie of this quality and credibility about Sabra n Shatella and Arabs didn't ! ... but that's not what this is about exactly .

So i have a new hobby ! making Arabic subtitles for TV series and movies, (The Big Bang Theory,The Office, Movies : Che Part One and Waltz With Bashir) and after the two movies, the biggest Arab translators on-line community (DVD4ARAB) invited me to their website n stuff and turned out the subs are fine and my Public school English teacher should be proud of me.

Here is what I'd like to pick your brains about, some of the comments i received there ,some of the opinions that says we shouldn't watch the movie ,because its an Israeli one ,Qathara (dirt,crap) and a waste of time !! and "Do you really believe the Israelis will make a movie that condemns them?" and such...

The problem is that those people didn't even watch the movie ! I don't understand the idea, I mean we've always seen and heard it,where some kind of boycott to some kind of art took place without even knowing what is it about,but i never understood it .Do you ??

And then here is another question , do you deal with art as art and thats it ? or where it came from matters ? don't think movies only, lets say music,poetry ,would you not listen to something made by an Israeli ? or whoever "the bad guys" to you are ? wouldn't you at least check it out to see what the hell are they talking about ?

A story about nothing and running cellphones

He woke up late in the afternoon thinking : do i have enough cigarettes to go with the coffee? , yawned and took another 10 minutes of sleep . got out of bed like a drunk, had a look at himself in the mirror ,messed up his hair a little bit more ,hit the shower to discover that his roommate used all the shampoo and of course did not even care to tell him so,he cursed and dried up ,the water is now ready for breakfast ,a big mug of coffee with 3 or 4 cigarettes ,when he realized there was no coffee cream anymore,he cursed again ,but made his coffee still .

He searches for his cell phone ,found it on the floor ,dead .he yelled "NO",he brushed away its' screen ,begging it to switch on , "oh my cell phone oh my cell phone" he thought, he just realized how important his cell phone to him .never appreciated it before ,it eventually started and tested their relationship in the most expected way, the cell phone asked him to enter the PIN code !! of course he never used the pin code but once,a little more than a year ago !he never cared to memorize it,he never thought of it ,and now its time to pay back !he tried the 1st combination ,didn't work,tried another combination ,and was left with the final attempt . he sat there thinking of it,trying to remember it,but luck wasn't exactly his ally that morning ! he realized, that his cell phone has been working non-stop for an entire year,not one restart,not one break,none ,and it finally wore out,just...collapsed !

Arabic 101 for leaders

So they rule until they die ,they're supposedly Muslims,also -supposedly- they have read the Quraan so many times, they're called Arab leaders .

How come they speak so goddamn broken Arabic ? If you watched TV enough you'll speak better Arabic !!! what is this :/ ? most of them reminds me of the low-self-esteemed guy who had to do a presentation in Arabic 101 back at the university and ended up stuttering and sweating and you could feel the heat coming out his red face ,but those are just pale ,must be the AC !

So i want to adopt a child from Gaza,what do i do ?

How is it possible to adopt a child form Palestine ? what can be done ?

If someone has information on what needs to be done if (i) was in the UK precisely that would be much appreciated too. But if you can help me with any sort of answer whether from religion's point of view (and please don't give me something like : i think,i heard,i guess) ,or a legal point of view that'll be great as well.

Please if you don't know the answer and know someone that might have send him this post link or just ask your friends see what happens,post this on facebook or ask someone you know who lives there ,you might end up helping a child in the process .

PS : The aim is to adopt a child from Palestine,from Gaza or the West Bank, I'm not sure if the regulation will be any different ,but i thought I'd mention it.

!قلم رصاص...إنفطع

مرّة أخرى عزيزي المشاهد العربي
ننصحك بمتابعة برامجنا الموجّهة القيمة التي تنبع من فهمنا لطبيعة احتباجاتك
و مسلسلاتنا ذات الأربع آلاف حلقة
التي تعود عليك و على أفراد أسرتك بالنفع و الفائدة العظيمة
حمدي قنديل و من على شاكلته و قلم رصاص و ما شابهه من برامج مضرة بالصحة و تسبب أمراض القلب و الضعف الجنسي
و لذى و جب استئصاله
مع خالص حبي و تقديري
رئيس لجنة الرقابة و الصحة العامة العربية
كاتم بن خارس المعارفة
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هل ممكن يكون الفيديو السبب ؟ كان من المقترض أن يعود البرنامج للعرض في التاسع عشر من كانون ثاني 12
و من ثم بقدرة قادر...نسمع حمدي قنيل يقول التالي على الفضائية اللبنانية


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WTF is going on in Amman ???

So there are people giving aid and handouts, there is a company willing to ship it for free ,and there isn't enough Jordanian people to stack the boxes ??? WHAT DA FUCK is happening in Amman ?????????????????

here is the ad below,and here is a MAP ,so far 3 messages (for 3 days) asking for volunteers came in .if you can't go just post this page on facebook or write a note or email it or mention it or go back to sleep .
Note before you read : if you don't have a car,Ali just posted this :

To make it easier for people, we are meeting in front of Cozmo / Smart Buy at 6PM Wednesday and Thursday and we will do car pooling for people who do not have cars.

The Ads :
Dear friends,

During our 48-hour campaign, over 400 volunteers showed up throughout four days to help sort and package the donations that we received. Since then, many of you have been waiting for another opportunity to pitch in and do your part to help the people in Gaza once more.

Starting tomorrow, Sunday January 11th, we will be organizing volunteer drives to the Aramex warehouse in Al-Qastal, everyday, between 3pm and 9pm, until the job is done. There are a lot of donations to sort and package and we need as many hardworking volunteers as possible. We will be packaging these donations in family packages that would last a family for one whole week.

So get your friends together, get in a car, and follow the map posted on 7iber.com! here is the link

[url]http://www.7iber.com/blog/2009/01/10/new-7iber-campaigns-how-to-help-gaza/[/url]

Action committee and 7iber crew will be there, and don't forget to spread the word as much as possible! for more information please call this number:

نحتاج الى متطوعين للمساعدة في تغليف الغذاء لبعثه الى غزةØ

أعزاؤنا،

خلال حملتنا السابقة، أكثر من 400 متطوع جاءوا لتقديم يد العون في الترتيب و تغليف المساعدات التي جمعناها. منذ ذلك الحين الكثير منكم كانوا ينتظرون فرصة أخرى للقيام بدوركم بمساعدة الأهل في غزة. ها قد حانت الفرصة.
بداية من الأحد 11\1\2009، سنبدأ بتنظيم حملات متطوعين الى مستودع ارامكس في القصطل. كل يوم ما بين الساعة 3 بعد الظهر و 9 مساء حتى يتم انجاز المهمة.

هناك الكثير من المساعدات التي وصلتنا، و نحتاج الى اكبر عدد من الأيادي لمساعدتنا. لذلك اجمعوا اصدقاؤكم، و اركبوا في سياراتكم و اتبعوا الخريطة الموجودة على

[url]http://www.7iber.com/blog/2009/01/10/new-7iber-campaigns-how-to-help-gaza/

سيكون فريق لجنة العمل و حبر هناك, و انشروا الخبر! للمزيد من المعلومات الرجاء الإتصال على الرقم التالي

0777315152
Or
0797052348

الشريط التسجيلي للطفلة الغزّية التي ابكت الملاييين

Your thoughts ?

Video of the year . Bush under shoes attack

It will never get old :D

The Great Women of My Life

There is something about women, that is so...unique?! if there is a word to describe it, when a woman love she gives, enormously and unconditionally , in an unimaginable way, I don't know and can't understand how they do it ,its just in them, and once one of those crossed your path, they leave a permanent print, which also puzzles me ,I can't understand how they do that-to me at least -,I find it very glamorous and enticing.

 Now why has this been crossing my mind lately I have no idea ! probably has to do with my fascination with this amazing French girl I recently met, and as usual , my too conscious and grossly subjective mind took me from thinking of the girl on the surface to think of the ones who mattered for real, and as usual ,because I can't easily give people credit for what they do ,compliment them, or tell them how I really feel about them -because I've got serious issues :/ - I find myself wanting to write it down and put it out there, hoping that someone would think "ohh how nice", and therefore the feeling of guilt of not telling these people what I want to say in their faces would hopefully go away, kinda tricking myself, but you see I'm grossly subjective goddamn me I can't really trick myself, but I’ll give it a shot .

 1st is my mother , and my mother haven't had the easiest ride of life , its not the usual mom sacrifices which are tremendous ,but being ill since the age of 20, a divorcee who could not witness 10 years of her children's life except for holidays ,and despite all that keep working ,teaching, for a whole 25 years ,staying as strong yet as emotional and vulnerable as you'd expect a mom to be, devoting -Hello Lady_D :) - her whole life , literally ,for her kids whom at times were ungrateful ,and eventually seeing how forgiving and giving she still is after they united ,gives her a higher status than all the moms I could think of . I live now to make her happy, thats my 1st priority in life, if I do that then I have no problem dying the next day, you know that part of Marcel's song ? "و أعشق عمري لأني إذا مت أخجل من دمع أمي؟" that’s my bible, I live by that .The other day I had a nightmare in which I was to be executed ,and when they asked me what’s my last wish was, I told them to bring me a tape recorder, so i could record myself pretending to answer her phone call "hello...ahlannn...I'm good...how are you?...me too...i miss you too...yes I'll come back I just need to finish some work here...I have to go,I love you too,I love you I love you " and told them to call her once a month and play the recorder hoping that she'd buy it!

 My sister of course comes next ,she was the mom when there was no mom, always my best friend ,the kindest person to me ever, no matter what I did, and no matter how harshly she scolded me for keeping my room in constant chaos ,always took care of me, the almighty strong Naser as if I was a baby ! at times, I wished I could be her ,so she won't have to go through what she had to go through !I still do sometimes, now she is all grown up, successful, and about to be married , and she is still taking care of me! Not by waking up when I got back late from work to make me a cup of tea and a sandwich and get back to sleep. but overseas ! I can't overcome the idea that she'll no longer be my sister end of story. can’t grasp the idea of this new man comin into her life, I hate it, I know I know ... I had been talked about it enough but I still can't grasp it ,7or ana.I only wish I can pay her back somehow .

 A friend I had at the university, excluding my mom and sister, the most giving and generous girl I've ever met, so extremely unconditionally loved me and been there for me, knowing that I can't commit to loving her back as much, not because I didn't love her back, but the conditions could be tricky sometimes ,this one I know I haven't paid back enough, and when I tried it  was a lil bit too late ,but I'll never ever forget what she'd done for me that’s for sure .

 And last but not least, my ex boss, a single mom, and i don't think there is a tougher thing in the world than a single mom, such a role model ,independent, successful, strong, and so amazingly generous ,and when I say generous, I don't mean financially generous, that’s the easy part, its to give without being asked or obligated to, to give of your time and mind to someone else ,to help when you can, she had done me the greatest favor in my life ,if it wasn't for what she'd done to help me I wouldn't be able to be here, somehow, actually i wouldn't be able to do anything else before i have dealt with that ...and for that I’m forever grateful  .

 It is so beautiful to have connected with those 4 great women on this deep level ,I am so appreciative of that, I don't really believe in luck, but I can't find a better  justification to have been related to these people except for being lucky ! and that’s as "lucky" can get from me . People, tell the people you love I LOVE YOU, before its too late ,I’ll probably star with myself .

صباحات ذي الأصفر

طلع الصبح .. غاب الصبح ، جاء الليل .. طلع الصبح ،،، الليل هو هو ،وليلي هو هو ، وهم في الخارج هم هم ، في الموعد اليومي ، أوّلهم أسود ذي منقار أصفر وصوت مزعج لكنّ له صوتا على عكس رفيقي الأسود، لولا منقاره لما عرفته يوما من حلكة الليل ! يوقظ باقي الرفاق فيبدأون بالغناء كلهم..السّر الذي اكتشفته من معاشرتي لهم أنّهم ليسوا دائما يغنّون كما علّمونا في المدارس . أوّل التغريد توبيخ لرفيقي ذي المنقار الأصفر ،و من ثم قتال على الماء المتسرّب من أجهزة التبريد ..ماذا لو أصلحت أجهزة التبريد ؟

ثم بعد أن يشق الضوْء الأحمر الضوء الأسود، تأتي اليمامة تلك ،كاللتي تسكن حاراتنا ،الرماديّة المتثاقلة المشية ،صديقتي العربيّة !..حتّى حمامنا متثاقل ومموّه اللّون ،البارحة فقط ،خيّل إلي أن حمامنا دائم الحبَل ،لهذا هو دائما كبير البطن متثاقل المشية. إلاّ أن باقي خصائصه تميّزه عن غيره بلا شك ، يمامتنا يا سادة يا كرام ، آخر من يشرب دائما ! ولا تظنّ أنّي أسترسل في خيالي هنا ! فأنا أنتظر طقوسهم ليلة بليلة ،فهي أفضل ما تأتي به ليلة أرقة .. مخلوقات الصباح ،حتّى ذاك القط الأسود في سعيه اليومي خلف القطّة البيضاء على سطح قرميد البناية المقابلة ممتع المشاهدة ، أحلى ما في الأمر أنّ القط ينسى أمر الحمام واليمام والعصافير وكلّ شئ جاريا خلفه حبيبته البيضاء ! عجيب هذا العضو المُهرمَن في الذكور !

ومن ثم بعد الماء والغسيل والتوبيخ و تلاشي صوت ذي الأصفر تدريجيا ،لأنّه ينتقل لمكان أبعد قليلا ،ولكن بعد أن يتأكّد من سير الأمور على ما يرام أولا، بعد ذلك كلّه تبدأ التدريبات الصباحية ،يتجمّع الكلّ على سطح البيت التقليدي المقابل أولا ،ما سر البيوت القديمة والحمام على أيّة حال يختارها استراحة من دون البيوت؟ يبدأون بالطيران لمسافات قصيرة فرادى ،ثم زوجين زوجين ،ومن ثمّ رحلات أطول جماعية، ودائما يرجعون للبيت القديم ... إلاّ أحدهم، يبقى هناك في البعيد ولا يعود ،دائما أحدهم لا يرجع للبيت ، وأنا أقلق و أنتظر عودته ،ولا يعود !و أنشغل عنه برفاقه بعد أن أملّ انتظاره ، ومن ثمّ أنسى أمره .. حتى اللحظة !

والآن طلعت الشمس وصارت مزعجة ،كما طلعت معها مخلوقات النهار المزعجة ،أبناء آدم وحوّاء ،خير ما يتقنه هؤلاء هو إزعاج المكان و سكّانه ! فجأة يختفون ..يرحلون مرّة واحدة ،يذهبون لمكان آخر ! إن كانوا يغادرون بسبب الآدميّين فلا بد أنهم ذاهبون لمكان يخلوا من الآنف ذكرهم..آه كم أتمنّى لو أنّ لي أجنحة الآن ،،،أنا لم أكن يوما من الأطفال الذين يودّون جنحانا يطيرون بها ..لو أنّني تأمّلت طيرا قبلا لربّما اندهشت حينها كما أندهش الآن وتمنّيت الجناحان قبلا..لكن ماذا تراني كنت سأتمنّى الآن لو فكّرت في أمر الجناحان منذ زمن...من الجيّد أنّي لم أفكّر في الجناحان قبلا !

وثم تأتي فيروز.و أنا أسكت.و أسكن.ششششـ

The Downside of having a roommate & The Curse of Bab El Hara

Before i start ; I'm sorry everyone i haven't been reading nor i'll be abel to read your blogs any time soon,I'm still not settled n i don't have connection at home,but i promise once i do i'll spam your blogs like the good old days! :D.

So I've been living with a roommate to the 1st time ever,
exciting at 1st, you know the phase where each of you shows his best attitude ? yea that doesn't last long...humm..i wonder if this is the case with newly married ppl :D ? is it ?

Now after you're more friends than before and got to know each other quite (shout out to mab3oos =link to quiet) well,each starts to show his annoying habits, which i have loads of ,like not waking up under any circumstances until its "the time" to wake up,like him being locked out very late at night for two hours, or him calling his cell phone which he forgot at home 30 times panicking thinking it was stolen before he decides to come back home to tell me about it and finding me sleeping with his cell phone 5 meters away from me ! or my hideous habit of smoking anywhere at given anytime,finding cigarette ashes in the bathroom next to the tub (he didn't know that taking a bath,smoking,reading and drinking a beverage at a time in the tub is doable! not my fault!) add to that my controlling-freakingy-syndrome;what i call "the command center" =ie : TV remote control ,AC remote control, & the computer keyboard, must be at my reach at all time.no one can change the channel (for his bad luck I'm fond of politics so the channel =< BBC world news..did i mention his English isn't that good too? he loves TV with me yea :/) . enough about me I'm notorious enough by now .

My friend,the Chef,didn't cook for us once until now,which makes still functioning due to unknown number of Chicken Burgers from 7-11,sticky rice from the street food thingi,and pine apple (its really cheap here :D ,talk about poverty crisis! aka ๅฬํไ ๆ ๆฺ ศำแษ สํไ ) LOL. he doesn't like talking politics :S ! we have a very different taste of music ,which makes me obliged to play him his Um-Kulthoom CD he brought with him from back home! (yea i said it,i don't like Um Kulthoom sue me :( ) and listen to him mumbling with the songs at times...which could be really ammusing given his natural ability to break out of any tune no matter how simple it was :D . he likes goin out to a particular place which i don't enjoy much !everytime,there is no way talking him out of it so . and ,he is freakin addicted to one episode of Bab El 7ara !!!!!!!!! the moment he enters the apptmt he simply CLOSES ALL the applications or documents I'm working on -very boldly :D- and goes to Bab el Hara folder and plays episode 19 ;the one that starts with Mo3taz talking to his mom abt how much he loves her,and then we fast 4wd to where Abo Sh-hab kicks those 3 guys' asses after they t7arkash-ing his wife,and then we repeat the part where Abo Ghaleb curses the Hara and the Hara's sister's bcuz no one gets in and manage to get out without his ass getting kicked anddddd then we'll focus really hard to figure out what proverb abo Ghleb says (something like : ศวัๆฯ วๅัศๆ..อใวั ศวแๅๆว ิสแๆ ฟ )is that correct ?please someone verify it you'll do me a great deal of favor i promise that when you have to laugh at something you don't find funny anymore over n over again i'll throw you a rope in retern :"""""( and then we'll 4wd to where Abo Hatem talks to his nephew about his dad and then he'll tell me that the boy isn't mrabba (well-mannered) and if he were Abo Hatem he'd slap the boy n then i'll explain my rasing-childiology vision and then we'll 4wd to Em Hatem crying in her bed while her daughter is being married and Abo Hatem's speech and then his fav part where Mo3taz and Riyad kicks her fiance's ass ,that would be repeated like 5-10 times.depending on when i lose my mind n start cursing and threat him to delete the bloody folder .phew...feels good to let it out.i freakin memorized the whole effin episode.
Finding out that the shaving machine's battery is dead when u thought there is enough too late,bcuz he never recharges it is obnoxious too !

But the most disastrous of all disastrous ... having a person who clutters stuff more than you do ! and i do a pretty good job in cluttering trust me !! BIG O-WOW! is that how my sister felt during all those years ?geeez...I'm such a horrible person !!! SORRY SIS !!!!!!! it is amazing.. now i understand where the anger came from after entering my room back home :/ poor sis... speaking of which ; my brother tells me what he misses the most about me is my Saga3a !!! and sister misses my 3afshakeh ! :D funny isn't it ? :D.

some people like my randomness some people hate it really ! see I'm helping you here,instead of commenting on the trillion things i mentioned you could pretend that u were taken by the last sentence and say yes i like it,no i don't you're too random for me.and thats it. :D

Adios :D.

Reshuffling

So rumor has it that one should notify when he knows he's gonna be away from his blog for a while is that true ?? if so ,here I'm notifying ,copy that ?
I feel like I'm being reshuffled ,a lot is going on and u know when suddently everything seems so silly and small next to your big dilemma ? thats how is it . yalla adios .see you in i don't know how long .

Note : Toyoor Al-Hathar ,is one hell of a book I've read recently ,this is my favorite quote from it and it can come in handy right now ,Hannoon swearing :

يلعن التنكه يلعن الباب يلعن الشباك يلعن إبرة البابور يلعن الصحن يلعن الكندرة يلعن الشوكه يلعن المفك يلعن الجاكيت يلعن العصفور !ويلعني !