Finally, I updated the blog (duh). I don't have copyrights over the background; I took it from the website wallbase.cc
I liked this:
Yo estoy en contra de mí
cuando estoy contra cualquiera.
Porque cualquiera soy yo
como si yo no lo fuera
Translation:
I am against me
when I'm against anyone
For whoever I am
As if I were not
Getting anything?
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Just thought I'd share.
Happy 2010 everyone!
Just wishing everyone a blessed Eid =)
Hope you all spend it stupendously. It's a chance to smile from the deep, seize it!
I was tagged by Noor, thank you :-)
All I'm going to do is get the nearest book to me, and open page 161 and copy the fifth sentence. Here it goes:
"Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd to find it on my own way. The thought of it terrified me.
From the novel "The Kite Runner"
I'm tagging anyone who will come across this post, in addition to:
Stillness
Cassidy
Huda
I realized my poetry club did me so many great things that I can't seem to write any poem unless it was for a challenge ..
Sucks doesn't it?
I guess from now on I should be challenging my own self (=
Okay..I haven't been in a good mood since yesterday..but I thought I'd share this with you :)
A very dead friend of mine posted them in our club.
Crazy Questions! ;-)
- Why people are so scared of mice,which are much smaller than us, when no one seems to be scared of Micky Mouse, who is bigger than us?
- Why doesn't McDonald's sell hotdogs?
- If, in a baseball game, the batter hits a ball splitting it right down the center with half the ball flying out of the park and the other half being caught, what is the final ruling?
- Why do people think that swaying their arm back and forth would change the direction of a bowling ball?
- When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?
- If ghosts can walk through walls and glide down stairs, why don't they fall through the floor?
- How can something be "new" and "improved"? if it's new, what was it improving on?
- If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
- Do you yawn in your sleep?
- Do you wake up or open your eyes first?
- Why do people say "heads up" when you should duck?
- Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
- when a pregnant lady has twins, is there 1 or 2 umbilical cords?
- Why do they call it "getting your dog fixed" if afterwards it doesn't work anymore?
- On Gilligan's Island, how did Ginger have so many different outfits when they were only going on a 3 hour tour?
- Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
Enjoy ;)
A year and half passed without me crying over these songs:
I was traveling alone, and I was facing one of the most horrible situations, the situation of losing someone-friend or lover-whom you totally loved.
I had my mobile on the music player..and here we go:
1-First I heard the song "Feels Like Tonight" for Daughtry, I broke down in tears, especially when he sang "I can't believe I'm broken inside"..it felt so horrible.
2- I had the song "One Heart" for Celine Dion..can you believe such a beautiful, cheerful song would make someone cry? lol.
Now I really believe in the quote that says " I never knew looking back at the tears would make me laugh".
3- There came Westlife with their two songs-probably the only two songs I like for Westlife-which were "Us Against The World" and "Something right"..Both are very good and cheery..You gotta check "Something Right"s lyrics: Here .
4- I don't really remember the rest of the songs..I remember most of the songs weren't that bad, not the songs that would make you cry at least..Now I listen to "Feels Like Tonight" and smile :] for back there I was broken and today I'm totally healed ! *Alhamdulellah*
Here are some songs I love listening to any time of the day :
* Enya-Only Time.
* Poets Of The Fall-Locking up the sun, Carnival Of Rust, Dawn, Late Goodbye, Where Do We Draw The Line, Sleep, Illusion And Dream And Maybe Tomorrow(Is a better day)..Actually all Poets Of The Fall albums are so awesome, especially that their lyrics are so damn poetic <3
*Red-Pieces (My fave song ever!!)
* Frou Frou-Le Go.
*Seether-Waste, Rise Above This.
*Amaral & Chetes - Si tu no vuelves.
Now some music:
*Edward Shearmur-Epiphany (This is my fave music, I wrote a poem about it)
*Apocalyptica-Path
*Apocalyptica-Hope
*Secret Garden-Serenade To Spring.
*Apocalyptica-Farewell
*Buddha Bar iii-Faithless.
I know they are a lot..but seriously, poets of the fall songs are a must listen!
Enjoy :]
Thanks to STILLNESS SPEAKS :)
This is somehow like the one that me and my friends had on facebook (25 random things about me)..except for this is only 7 things about me..I promise I'll be accurate :)
1- I'm a linguist: Arabic, English and Spanish are what I speak. I'm a spelling and a grammar freak, if you have bad English, I guess you'll have troubles dealing with me (not that I'm perfect but I focus too much in the words that people say/type to make sure they're right) sometimes I google them, or google what I want to say to make sure it's right haha.
2- I'm very emotional when it comes to any relationship, especially friendships..my friends mean the world to me!
3- I sometimes feign contemplation at the streets, but truth is I look for someone to help, I really love helping people, though I take too many "golpes" (The Spanish word for "hit") from them.
4- I'm a workaholic, I can't live a day without revising anything in the languages I study (No not a nerd, because English is my passion) and I don't know what I'd do if I didn't work just after I graduate Insha'allah.
5- Most people who only know me from my poetry would say I'm such a gloomy and a pessimist , on the contrary, I'm mostly an optimist..I just see it this way: If I write a happy poem I'd be idolizing life, and this is total crap lol.
6- I have very low self-esteem..but I'm working on it :)
7- I'm an aquaphobic, most of my nightmares were about me drowning in the ocean in the middle of the night..two things I would never want to die of, fire and drowning.
I don't really have many blog readers to tag..but I'd love to read anyone's post :) so, you all are tagged =)
Once again thank you friend =]
I'm out of ideas and words to write..but I thought I'd write some of my favorite words and explain why I like them.
Most of them are with S :
-Salvation: Can't you the relief in your heart? this word makes me feel deeply free.
-Serenity: Oh how much I loooooove this word, reminds me of nature, which gives me the internal serenity and...it just makes me feel great
-Secluded: Helps me when I feel like I want people to just abandon me and leave all the seclusion to me..and I love it's pronunciation [Yeah I'm an English freak xD]
-Catharsis:Reminds me of poetry..it's somehow a poetic word..so yeah I love it !
-Seduction: Well yeah that's a kinda filthy one lol..I guess I'm just in love with the S words.
Silly one..but my mood swings won't allow me write something good.
And bear with me and the pic. :D
"The missing line between love and hate is freedom" -Me
-You find it vague don't you? Well, it's as simple as this: You're standing in the midst of a situation, you don't know whether to love this person because he did this, or hate him because he did that..you're standing at the missing line, which is freedom..no one's ever gonna tell you why do you hate/love him/her, it's your choice and you're free to love or hate them. No I don't believe in the silly quote that says you cannot choose whom you love..Yes I believe that love chooses you, but I don't believe that loving someone isn't in your hands..Life's all about making choices.
" "Genius" is overrated, it's all about what you experience" -Me
-Isn't it? you don't believe that the famous people in earth had a very normal life, just like you, the experiences they have had might be the same as the ones you have had? Well, it's all about how they took full advantage of these experiences and chose to do something useful with the things they have learned.
" If you're brave enough to die, one shot might not kill you" -Me
-We're all cowards, so don't you think one shot of the pistol will do it all, you chose your own fatal ending, do it twice and be a brave for once in your lifetime before you kill yourself.
" And in the emptiness, there's a solution,just look within yourself for absolution" -Poets of the fall-Locking up the sun (Song)
-Doesn't this phrase say it all? needn't any explanations.
"When your ego meets my pride, Sun will perish on the other side" -Me
-I had this quote in my mind while I was trying to sleep yesterday..
It was meant to describe those whose ego is killing them, and those whose pride will never be defeated.Hence, the fight could go for years, and the discussion could never end. This thinks he knows everything, That thinks he cannot be defeated.
And so nature will be the victim.
"An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind" -Ghandi
-What I understand from this quote, from my own point of view; I have a vision about war in this, to me it's like when two presidents fight to win, and each one of them is refusing to succumb or submit to the other one, this way their innocent people will be the victims, and of course the world would never really care about them ..
"There was a time when we could understand each other's silence, now we cannot even understand the spoken words" -My dear amazing inspiration "STILLNESS SPEAKS"
-This statement really saddens me, though it is beautiful to imagine how we understood each other's silence, now even the ones we love, we could never understand their silence, and of course nor their very spoken words..It's one of the reasons why the world is falling apart.
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." -Charles F. Kettering
- This one explains how we always dwell in the past and forget our future, one of the reasons why we think life is unfair, while it's us who make it fair or unfair.
"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure." -William Shakespeare
- It reminded me of this one "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".
I believe Shakespeare here meant that failure is only a bliss, But to continue on knowing that your past is like this, is bravery. And life will fool you once, but you will get used to this and defeat it the next time =)
"All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up... that growing is an ever ongoing process." -M. Scott Peck
-This is part of my other blog when I said "you will never comprehend life perfectly", and a friend actually inspired me when I discussed it with him yesterday and he told me "There would be no point of living if you understood life in the perfect way".
This is a circle of learning and teaching..we'll never have enough until we die.
Thank you deviantart :)
Well..I said in the previous post that I should stop whining up to people..does that prevent me from whining up to myself in my own blog?? guess not..
Today, we're just in the middle of the day 3:24 pm here..but it's like the end for me..
I went to this stupid thing I don't want to remember it's name, to get my ID..they are literally bastards..I have been trying to do this for more than two or three weeks, wanna know the reasons why they kept postponing it?? No, you better not..
I was supposed to finish everything today and go for a photographer to have some pics to finally renew my passport..and I had it planned and everything.
Don't they usually screw things up?? yeah they do.
they postponed it till next Tuesday, I swear my dad is on the verge of killing me.
So anyway I'm really weak at these parts, my eyes started to water up, but I decided I'd just call a friend and laugh a little..making a joke out of it all.
I went to pay the internet bill before that..and meanwhile I went to some shops..since I need to buy one of my friends a gift.
Of course I didn't buy it because I payed money doing the damn ID thingies and paying the internet bill and my pocket was filled with emptiness.
But anywaaayyy..I was trying to do things that would make me feel good to get over the dark side in me..though I'm pretty sure I got over a big part of it.
I'm glad I have my friends..so very glad I have a family.
I'm just glad I'm alive
P.S Oh and don't get this the wrong way, Egypt is my passion..I just hate the way employees deal with normal people sometimes without bribes.Pffttt..
"I could bravely die to live
and never cowardly live to die"
Inspired from: Meditations In Rhyme by Nefisa El Seba'ai
I haven't got any poetic thoughts, since I've been kind of sick recently..I haven't been sleeping and I just wish to take some sleeping pills to get me back to life after I take the rest I need.
So instead of disappearing I will post the 8 things I wish I could do and another 8 things I did yesterday.
8 Things I wish I could Do~
1- Get my damned life back, though it is damned I still love it..ironic isn't it?
2- Publish my own poetry collection, and I would still call the book "Torn Pages Of a Poet"
3- Take care of my family more and show more affection.
4- Move on to the 4th course of studying, and Urghh it's going to be my last year in college!
5- Travel to see my old friends in the United Arab Emirates.
6- Read all poems by Shakespeare and learn to write Sonnets.
7- Be more optimistic, though I'm not that pessimistic, I still need to learn that life is good.
8- Stop whining up, for I sometimes whine just too much.
8 Things I did yesterday~
1- Talked to a good friend on the phone
2- Commented on some of my favorite authors' poems on Poems&Quotes.
3- Slept more than the previous day, which made me a little bit happy though I had a horrible headache all day long.
4- Published my double Balassi poem "Torn Pages Of a Poet" on P&Q (No I didn't post it here, but if you want to read it you'll find it on my P&Q account, link is on the upper right sites of my blog)
5- Had a good chat with my sisters :)
6- Studied a little bit of the Spanish novel I have, which made me laugh because it's a good satiric novel!
7- Prayed, the thing that gives me the internal relief.
8- Made a friend smile :)
Thank you Stillness Speaks for the tag =)
Please anyone feel free to do this on your blog, there are also the 8 things I'm looking forward to, and the 8 things I watch on t.v. But I'm not much of a talker lately so I didn't post them all.
Lately I've been seeing people so down and in a very depressing state..they've been hallucinating with some stupid quotes that don't make any sense.
-"Why do all bad things happen to good people?"
*Mistake: People think that just because someone is great, all good things ought to happen to this person
*Correction: God often tests those whom he loves the most..to see how strong they are and whether they'll be holding up or giving up.
-"Why do all good things come to and end?"
*Mistake: People consider the beginning of something is the end, like being in a relationship and ending it with broken hearts.
*Correction: The best things in life are free..they are always there, they were born with no mother, we're just too blind to see the good things in every little tiny thing.
-"Why is this happening to me?"
*Mistake: I'm the only one who's been into this.
*Correction: NO..we all have been through these situations honey, everyone takes his share in this life.
-"Love's always not been on my side"
*Mistake: I'm always alone, no one ever loved me.
*Correction: Plenty of girls/guys had a crush on you but you didn't notice, it just was never the right time to love.
There's a quote I gotta say here "There are times when we shall seek love, but there are also times when we shall let love come to us".
Just let love come to you and it will be perfect.
-And all this nagging about how life sucks and how we're living victims of our society..well, we ARE a part of this society, it's impossible to say that we're not by any mean causing any corruptions..None is perfect you know.
And at the end..Life will never treat you the way you want, Be smart and seize the happy moments, take your share of cries and tears..but never stop smiling =))
Yesterday when I was heading to bed to sleep..as usual thoughts always cross my mind when I'm lying in bed..
Here are some words to watch out for when you type..cause Internet typos can be really awful!!!
1-Never say Kidding..just type the abbreviation j.k (just kidding), for you might just find yourself saying Kissing
2-Never say you like the movie "Forrest Gump", for you might just slip and write hump.
3-Look clearly before you type "add", it might just be an insult turning it into "ass"
4-Don't tell someone they're Cool, for you might end up telling them Fool , which is by the way the total opposite, hehe.
5- While typing But, type it real slow..chances are you might be typing butt
6- Just don't mention Duck in your talks, that may lead to a fight for using Fuck
7- Why use Jell and embarrass yourself with a stupid hell typo ??
8- Be careful of using Bitch instead of hitch.
9- Last but not least baby..for god's sake, Say "sweetie" instead of honey, believe me, you'll end up saying hiney
And that's my dear friends is all I had to say..remember how much I love you and how much I don't want you to face embarrassing moments with the ones you love !!
Love you ;P
Thanks to a special friend "Nada" for helping..and my twin suggested the cool & fool typo :D
When you enter the hall preparing for the exam, haven't you ever asked yourself "why do I even give a damn?"?
hold the paper and gather up your guts, read it slowly, never give up
they're just some damned trivial questions, nothing to worry about, let the pen go with the flow, never drown yourself in doubts.
Make sure you write all the answers with no single flaw, but always remember the doctor might be sick, bastard and low !
Walk out the door drawing a smile upon your face, just no matter how hard the exam was, rub it out with a quick erase.
Never answer anyone's questions, they'll make you feel like you've written some bullshit, smile, chat, laugh and make the best fun out of it.
Right after going home give yourself a relieving rest, sleep, watch some tv and then prepare yourself for the next test
Always remember to smile, exams are such ridiculous trap, however every year you'll be facing the same old crap !
This is for my lovely readers for telling me to post something cheerful =] I hope it will make you laugh :D
What are new years?? New year's eve..what's this??
we've come to this part when we're hopeless, not knowing what exhilarates us or what saddens us..it's such a shame..such a desperate action.
12:00 AM we hang out with our friends, french-kissing our boyfriends..and oh wow we expect a HAPPY year..how so?? of course it would be a year full of fractions.
Why do we only celebrate ONE new year..and we never celebrate the hijrian new year?? is this some sort of a new-fashioned disease??
If so, I admit it's so well-disguised and everyone it pleased.
I don't believe in new years..they're such ridiculous beginnings, you're fooling yourself, please wake up
I believe that we're free to start all over whenever we want, start from today and don't rely on new years..because simply they suck.
Yeah Please stop this ridiculousness .. !!
