Sunday, December 31, 2006

Highlights of 2006

Well, I got the idea from Gassia who was writing a post about the hightlights of her life in the year 2006. My highlights would be:

  • Toshiba laptop instead of my 180 degree Compaq one (the ones who know me know what I'm talking about =D)
  • Reunion with my best friend
  • Reconciliation with the rest of my friends
  • Collages (made about 8 this year =D)
  • Linux - ubuntu (not quite professional yet but working on it)
  • Quitting the Voice (student paper)
  • Latein-AG
  • Blacky
  • Billiards in the summer (getting professional)
  • Visit to South Africa
  • Visit to Munich and its museum
  • Making pictures of my family
  • Birthday as my friends appeared unannouned while my whole family was there (Thanks anyways)
  • Wrote about 50 lyrics
  • Blogging
  • Thanaweya graduation party
  • Abitur 2006 ball
  • Adventures in Golden Beach
  • Prophet Mohamed cartoons
  • Alexandria
  • Neglecting my poor keyboard
  • Pupa's deatch in March
  • Moni (cousin)
  • Amr (cousin) who came back from the US after living there for three years (Glad you're back!)
  • Got to know amazing people like Mori, The Sphinx, Chet...
Will add the rest when I come back! :) So, come again!

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Eid Mobarak everyone!

Hey everyone,
Wishing you all Eid Mobarak! May the blessings of Allah shine upon you and your family now and always!
Kol sana wento tayebin! =)

''Is there nothing inside this hollow, muscular organ?''

Let's talk about people who are about my age.
Before turning 20 you're supposed to already have had your first crush, your first love, etc. Somehow I have decided, no, it came naturally to postpone all that a bit.
So, when someone asks me ''Who do you love?'' or ''Who's your crush right now?'' one will find me answering either ''You!'' or ''Khaled Mesh3al''.
Unfortunately such answers don't satisfy the people who ask you such questions so you get different comments like ''No, seriously. Who's your crush?'' or '' You must have been in love at least once!''. Who says ''I must''? I don't think there's a certain rule that says that.
And then you have to face all the nice assumptions about your psychological abnormality, e.g.:
''Is there nothing inside this hollow, muscular organ?'' (I think he was talking about the heart.)
''Or don't you have any feelings at all?'' (I guess I don't have to explain that one.)
My favourite one was: ''Is your heart made up of ice?''
And here you go with my favourite answer: ''No, but my feelings are kept in some freezer for the next 3-5 years as I'm not in need for them right now...''

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Me and blogger's templates

May I announce my hatred, dislike and disapproval of the templates of blogger.
I HAVE HAD IT!!!
The last time I started changing it it turned out to be pretty nice BUT the new version ruined everything.
So, I guess I will stop changing anything about the original templates until I start a whole new thing which won't be before Spring 2007.

Time to change (again)

Hey everyone, as my 18th birthday is coming up soon, I decided to write a list with all the things I want to change about myself. The point of this list is that you can add the things that you criticize me for in the comment section. So, what I want, no, have to change is:

  • I musn't talk about anyone behind his back (even if I said it to him face to face)
  • I shouldn't speak out my mind so often any more, especially when it's not required
  • I have to stop wasting my time so much
  • I have to do some pc-fast from time to time
I bet there are still a whole bunch of other things but right these are the most important ones.
Feel free to add your criticism! :)

Saturday, December 23, 2006

My first... hug???

After watching the movie ''Never Been Kissed'' I noticed that it should be renamed to ''Never Been Hugged'' in my case. :D
Well, I have my own attitude towards hugs...

First of all, I think people shouldn't just go around and hug anyone and everyone but only the ones they really, really DO like.
Second, hugging people all the time makes the hugs themselves superficial and meaningless.
Third, there are some situations where you are forced to hug people you don't love for example when they hug you first or when they're crying. I even thought of what I would do if a lad started crying while I was sitting with him because for example a family member just died.. I guess, even then I would not hug him but just be there for him and help him to deal with the situation.
Forth, why do I have to hug a guy just to show him how much I like him? After all, not hugging my cousins who are older than 18 years doesn't mean that I don't love them. It just proves that the relationship itself is so pure and precious that it is not in need for anything else.
Fifth, as I have never (really) fallen in love before I want to save as many things as possible for my true love.. Like me first hug, my first dance, etc.

Right now, I am just enjoying my life with my family, friends, hobbies and dreams.
And not to forget: Anime!!!

Love is in the air.. No, it's not!

In compensation for the last 2 posts which were all about love I will write about my disapproval of some attiudes and behaviours at my school.
Our vacation started yesterday so Thursday was the last of school before the Christmas holidays. As we are ''Egyptians'', girls and boys usually just say goodbye by shaking hands. Well, our lovely German school achieved changing that very much. Now you find all the barriers between girls and boys broken and the kisses and hugs thingy becoming more the standard than an exception.
Honestly, I think it's sad because I don't get the point of it.
Germans, no, Europeans and Americans forgot about all the limits in the relationships between the two genders.
Why do the Egyptians, no, Arabs have to follow them?
Why do we have to accept their way of life instead of sticking to our one?
Why is one called narrow-minded just because he doesn't want to be part of this American/Eurpean way of living and prefers to stay true to his principles?
It's really embarrassing when you watch Egyptians acting as if they were Europeans/Americans just to be considered as open-minded and cool. And what troubles me even more is the fact that it is not only the German school but you also find this same attitude at American and British schools.
So, looks like the West is taking over, not only in political and economical matters but also in the social ones. Cheers!

Friday, December 22, 2006

Love always finds a reason

Ok, here you go with another Ranma & Akane Video and this time I'M THE ONE who told GASSIA about it :P
Anyway, watch and enjoy. Amazing song + video!!! ^u^

(First press play then pause and leave it until it has finished loading, so it doesn't buffer and you can really enjoy it.)

Love always finds a reason - Glenn Medeiros

Sometimes I think of me and you
And every now and then I think we'll never make it through
We go through some crazy times
And there are times I wonder if I'll keep loving you
But I always do

Seems that love always finds a reason to keep me here
Believin' when I feel our love is slipping away
Seems that love always finds a reason to make me stay
And even through the darkest night the feeling survives
Seems that I can just look at you and I find the reason in your eyes

I know sometimes you wish that you were free
I know sometimes you wonder what you're doing here with me
But something keeps you by my side through everything
Through all the times we disagree you keep loving me

Seems that love always a reason to keep me here
Believin' when we feel our love is slipping away
And it seems that love always finds a reason to make me stay
And even through the darkest night the feeling survives
And you know when you look at me you'll find the reason in my eyes

Love always finds a reason to keep us here
Believin' when we feel our love is slipping away
Aren't you glad that love always finds a reason to make us stay
And even through the darkest night the feeling survives

Oho, love always finds a reason to keep me here
Believin' when I feel our love is slipping away
Seems that love always finds a reason to make us stay
And even through the darkest night the feeling survives
And you know when you look at me you'll find the reason in my eyes

I find the reason
I find the reason, oho
I found the reason in your eyes

The ballad of Ranma and Akane

(First press play then pause and leave it until it has finished loading, so it doesn't buffer and you can really enjoy it.)

After watching it on YouTube and I just had to post it. This video is about Ranma and Akane (protagonists of Ranma 1/2) and I just loved the song and the way the whole thing was depicted!
That is what I call cute!!!

Concrete Angel - Martina McBride

(First press play then pause and leave it until it has finished loading, so it doesn't buffer and you can really enjoy it.)

She walks to school with a lunch she packed,
Nobody knows what she's holding back;
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday,
She hides the bruises with the linen and lace;
oh

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask,
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask;
Bearing the burdon of a secret storm,
Sometimes she wishes she was never born;

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.

Concrete Angel

Somebody cries in the middle of the night,
The neighbors hear but they turn out the lights;
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate,
When morning comes it will be too late.

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.

Concrete Angel

A statue stands in a shaded place,
An angel girl with an upturned face;
Her name is written on a polished rock,
A broken heart that the world forgot.

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.

Concrete Angel

Well, this song reminded me of the year 2000.. But that girl was luckier because she had a grandmother who has the ability to replace a whole family. :)

Monday, December 18, 2006

The price of being different

What is it like to be different? To be called an outsider just because you have different issues and ideals than the others?

I wasn't really what one could call an ''outsider'' because I had (and still have) friends and I don't face any problems with meeting new people but looks like my destiny wanted me to be different though.
In fifth grade a classmate asked me why I was talking in a different way. In seventh grade another classmate blamed me for talking about weird things (religion, politics, etc.) and I started watching ''Top of the Pops'' and other TV shows to be capable of talking about their topics.
And during the last years I was often crtiticized for my principles and ideals that are different (compared to the teenagers around me). For example I'm taking friendship as a mission.. That means if I see a friend of mine doing wrong things (judged by religion & logic) I will go and tell her in spite of the reaction on our friendship.. She may never talk to me again but at least I would have been honest and kept a clear conscience. But no, to be like the others I'd have to be a hypocrite, admire her all the time and never criticize anything which would endanger this relationship.. Well, I can't be like that. And if a friend asked me to do that I'd just forget about the whole relationship because it wouldn't be friendship but hypocrisy then.
Lately a few guys achieved to create a huge barrier between me and my friends. At the beginning I was furious at these guys but then I noticed that if these friends allow some guys to break what we have built during 13 years then I really don't know what to say.
And another funny thing is: Why do I always have to justify myself and my actions? Especially when they are not wrong but just ''too right'' (that was a quote by one of the critics)? Why do I have to be attacked when I do one mistake while the others are doing mistakes all the time? Why do I have to change instead of being just accepted they way I am? Especially when I'm also not the one who's wrong?

Adults call me too grown-up for my age, schoolmates call me a grandmother. So, to sum it up in one word: Different.
I was about to blame my grandmother for rasing me like that because it would have been so easier for me to get along with everyone if I was just one of them.. But then I noticed how stupid this was because I would be just like them. After all, being different in a good way is not a crime. I admit, it's hard to get along with all the people who can't accept this difference but I guess that is the price one has to pay...

Friday, December 15, 2006

New possibilities

Who ever thought that I would go to the US and study there?
Well, turned out that there is a 4-Week 3D Animation Workshop at the New York Film Academy.
As I am most probably skipping one year after graduating from school because of my two operations this will be a great chance to make use of this year.
So, we'll see.. =)

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Questions, questions, questions...

Abitur, grades, average, scholarship, university..
All this will come to an end in May 2007 isA.
A teacher was trying to convince me to study in Germany.. He said it would be a chance to develop my personality and become independent..
Well, I don't mind becoming independent BUT I definitely mind leaving my family here, especially my grandmother. I can't imagine myself going and studying somewhere on another continent for 4-5 years. I guess there are other ways to become independent.. After all, moving to another country also has its disadvantages.
And as the three Fs include family I could never imagine myself living in a place where I don't have them all around me. On the other hand, I would get a better education (3D animation) there because we know that Egypt is not the best country in this field.

Shall I stay here?
Shall I study in Germany and prove that I can take good care of my principles?
Shall I ask my grandmother to join me if I should go to Germany?
Shall I study here in and prove that the education (plus my own knowledge) can make it to a big thing?

Questions, questions, questions... And there's not a single answer yet..

Friday, December 08, 2006

My date

(You know, it's quite funny because that's the second time in the year 2006 that I am in such a situation.)

Guess what? I have a date! Who's the lucky one?
Well, let me describe IT:
It's dark brown, about 5/8 inch long and has a flattened, oval shape, spiny legs, and long, filamentous antennae.

So, today I had to meet my date three times although I think one time would have been totally enough. And each time I tried to catch (kill) it I missed it. Although it was very heavy on my heart to say farewell in the end I was forced to take an insecticide and spray it all over the place.

What is the funeral like?
Well, it couldn't start as I didn't find the corpse yet...

(Let's hope it was NOT a female.. Wouldn't like to have its offsprings all around here. And by the way, that's the only creature which I consider as really disgusting. I even hate killing them but I decided to work on that. After all, I have to learn to deal with such situations without any help! Sorry for this weird post!)

Sunday, December 03, 2006

The 3 ''F''s

Just to avoid any misunderstandings.. The three ''F''s are:
Faith, Family and Friends..

For me these are the most important things in life..

  1. Your Faith helps you to go through life with all its challenges and miseries. It shows you how to enjoy life and still being on the right path.
  2. Your Family supports you no matter what happens and fills your life with warmth and love.
  3. Your Friends show you that life can get worse and worse while the bonds between you stay unbreakable and get stronger.

So, all one can/should do is to take good care of these 3 ''F''s!!!

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Another childhood-picture

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Well, my Grandma wanted me to post this picture after she saw the other one I had posted last time..

Friday, December 01, 2006

''Bebenslauf''

There's this German thing we have to do for school.. Da mir der Lebenslauf zu langweilig war, entschied ich mich für einen Bebenslauf (= Bio-Lebenslauf)

Ich, Nadia Wernli, Trägerin der Geschlechtschromosomen XX, bin in Zürich am 06.01.1989 auf die Welt gekommen.
Das X-Chromosom verdanke ich meiner ägyptischen Mutter, Nihad Mansour, die nur Hausfrau ist (Biotop ständig wechselnd), während mein schweizerischer Vater, Urs Wernli, der als Architekt arbeitet, das Y-Chromosom für sich behalten und mir nur sein X gegeben hat. Sein momentaner Biotop ist Saudi Arabien.
Also am Ende hat X gesiegt! Hoch leben die Frauen!
Mein Biotop ist seit über 12 Jahren mein schönes Revier, von üblichen Menschen auch als Zimmer bezeichnet, das mit einem großen Schlafnest, auch Bett genannt, und weiteren elektrischen, technischen Geräten, die in der Natur nicht vorkommen wie zum Beispiel Laptop, Fernseher, usw. ausgestattet ist. Weitere Lebewesen wie Insekten werden in meinem Biotop ausgeschalten, so dass es zu keiner echten Wechselwirkung kommen kann.
Die Mikroorganismen sind da schon lästig genug, besonders Bakterien und Viren, die mein armes Immunsystem angreifen und zu Krankheiten wie Erkältung, Fieber, Luftentzündung usw. führen. Statt Insektizide sollten endlich auch Baktizide sowie Virusizide entwickelt werden, die auch diese Art des Zusammenlebens verhindern sollen. Das Gleichgewicht des Ökosystems wird dadurch nicht ins Schwanken gebracht.
Dafür gibt es andere Faktoren:
Jeden Tag werde ich, gegen meinen Instinkt, zur Schule geschickt, ein Ort voller Feinde, wo ich mit meinen Mitschülern die Beute spiele.
Wie bei den Volterra-Regeln ist die Rate der Schülerbeute größer als die der Lehrerfeinde. Mit dem Steigen der Schülerkurve steigt nur die Summe der Bankkontos der Fresserkurve. Es wurden bisher keine Mittel gegen die Existenz der Lehrer eingesetzt, dafür eine ganze Reihe gegen die Schüler: Bedrohung mit Tests, Klausuren, usw.
Am Ende sinkt die Kurve, die den intrazellulären Raum, in diesem Fall: Psyche, der Schüler beschreibt auf – 100 mV, wo ein so genanntes Depressionspotential für einige Zeit herrscht. Dies ändert sich sobald die Prüfungszeit zu Ende ist. Dann steigt die Kurve wieder bis zu – 60 mV, das Normalpotential. Ein AP, auch als Freudepotential angesehen, wird nur in Situationen wie Ausgehen, Partys, usw. erreicht. Hauptsächlich man verändert diesen künstlichen Lebensraum so schnell wie möglich.
Dies werde ich im Mai, 2007 hoffentlich machen, da ich bis dahin mein Abi, einzige Befreiungsmöglichkeit aus den Klauen der Feindpopulation, abgeschlossen haben werde. Sollte dies nicht der Fall sein, so begehe ich einen Attentat auf die Feindpopulation um sie ein für alle Mal auszuschalten. Damit tue ich meiner Spezies einen riesigen Gefallen. Gott möge mir dabei helfen!
Als Ökosystem gilt die Stadt Kairo, die sich in Ägypten befindet, das wiederum auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent liegt.

Depression means attention

Now, let's talk about depressed people: There are 2 kinds of them:
  1. People who pretend to be depressed so they get attention
  2. People who are indeed depressed because the have lots of problems

So, how are we supposed to know in which category we should put a depressed person?

  1. If he is always depressed then there's a big possibility he's acting because no matter in how much trouble you are, normal people always try to find some happinness and to enjoy life to a certain extent.
  2. If he is really depressed you'll find him withdrawing from time to time because as a normal person he won't want the whole world to share his depression and he won't use his misery to grab attention and so on.
What I can say to each categroy:
  1. We wrote a song for you: ''Depression means attention'' or to be more precisely ''Showing depression constantly means seeking attention''.. So, I hope you will notice how pathetic it is to grab people's attention by making them worry about you. Hope you'll change about that.
  2. Cheer up! My experience is that it's the miseries that develop your personality and make you grow to a mature person, not the happy moments. So, all the bad things which are happening to you right now will show their positive effects on your personality later isA. The most important thing is: Keep a strong belief, don't give up and don't lose hope that it will be better someday! ;)

PS: For the ones who don't know what depression really is: Click here (Special thanks to fusfus who found that website)!