Wust El Balad

It was one of their best concerts...it was a great cultural event...yesterday I went with my friends to the party in Sakeyt Abd El Meneem Elsawy in Zamalek...their lyrics are original ...their vocals...the way they mix oriental music with modern Egyptian music...raggie...jazz...rock...and chill out
It was so crowded that not all of us had a seat...for me it is better to stand and involve myself in the atmosphere of music
Hany Adel dedicated the song " Soal Wahed " to his love " Hala Shiha "...people were screaming as usual for " Antika "..." Magnoun " was also fabulous...Ismail Fawzy is really talented...Adham El Saeid was a maestro...and Assad Nessim was brilliant in his solo guitar playing...the audience wanted more and more...
Many people want to know why they still do not have a CD after all these years of success...they simply have not gotten a good offer... I can not believe that a precious outstanding Egyptian band like Wust El Balad could not have the opportunity to have a worldwide fame
At the same time I think not having a CD makes Wust El Balad a unique band ... so you have to see and experience their beautiful down-to-earth parties

watching the football game " El Ahly vs El Zamalek " on the big screen before the show

our favourite Egyptian band has arrived

the show will start soon

the star of the night...Hany Adel

foreigners were enjoying their time

young audience

a group of girls I met were making a documentary film about Wust El Balad and talking about the problems Egyptian bands are facing today

people were amazed by the music

Ismail on the big screen

Assad Nessim concentrating and Hany Adel competing

the break

he is one of the biggest fans...he can not miss a concert of Wust El Balad

sitting on the grass and watching

ya salam aleek ya Adham

people do not want to go home

يا بيه...ده أنا فاهم كل حاجه

أنا البواب
بتاع النهارده
بتاع عصر التكنو- لوبيا
معايا موبايل
بكل الرنات
و البول- فول- نيك زنات
انا صعيدى أه
بس باكل عيش كزير
وبحب فيروز اناناس
و عندى دوش تمام
و بتفرج على المولدى
والجزيره كمان

Thumb up

I was crossing the street yesterday
and there was an old man with his family

they wanted also to cross the street
but cars were too fast

a young traffic policeman came

stopped the cars and crossed the street with us

then he did the same when we were crossing to the other side

Thank you policeman

There is nothing else to do man

Yesterday I wanted to go out with my friends...but as usual we had only these two boring choices...to go to the cinema or to sit in a cafe/restaurant...I have been doing that almost in all my weekends...this is a big problem for youth...they do not find anything exciting to do in the weekend...as a group of friends I mean...and this is more obvious in the middle class society...we can not spend a lot of money in a disco or in an expensive restaurant in a hotel...and at the same time we do not want to sit in a public cafe ( Ahwa Baladi ) or eat grilled corn in front of the shore of the river Nile...but what else can we do as a group of girls and boys in Cairo...mmm...eat hum hum hum and chat bla bla bla!!!! ...anyone has a new better idea...please inform us as soon as possible

878

878,that is enough,I can not stand that anymore,I can not write anything anymore,I am being strangulated,I tried to take control of this blog but everything has a limit,I am stuck in nowhere,I can feel my tongue but can't speak,I have an eye but have to consider myself blind,I have a mind that have to be shut off.

Please kill me

Cairo's traffic jam new world record: From my college I took 3 hours and 23 minutes to arrive home...it usually takes 8 minutes...what is today...today is Thursday...you do not know what happened today

Caviar

I am tired…really tired…I am on the edge…everything is useless…I do not know what I am doing…I do not understand what is going around me…this can not be the end of my dreams…my future plans…ahhh…all what I have planed…ahhh…am I eating a sandwich…I can not taste anything anymore…my wife…emmm…yeah…why is life so hard…ahhh…my children…I need help…my lovely children…but what can I do…Nancy Agram is so sweet…I need a cigarette…I am nothing…ahhh…I have to buy a mobile phone…aha…I am exhausted…aha...I want to go out of this country…no…I have to go out…but how…I want to go to America…huh…no…I want to go to…to…to Dubai…no …maybe Kuwait…but how…no no no...my neighbors…my family…my people…I can not leave them here…it is only for a short time…earn money…yeah…money and come back…start my independent business…Magdy is not better than me…I will…yes I am dumb… wait a minute…I am pathetic...but who is responsible for this

Six Feet Under

I only have watched the first two seasons…but I have to say that "Six Feet Under" is one of the most well written TV dramas I ever watched …I could not miss an episode…created by the Oscar winning writer of "American Beauty" Alan Ball digs in the soul of the human being and gives the meaning of life a new shape…it is so real…weird…dark…and funny...all the characters are 3 dimensional…and for me every episode was a lesson for life...and death

Egyptian Gandhuevara

The citizen is a fly crashing endlessly in the back window of a moving car

Don't be FRESH

My bathroom is not made of porcelain…and it is not the best place to take a shower when you wake up every morning…but I felt humiliated when the worker who came to fix the heater threw the cigarette on the floor …my bathroom is like the streets of Egypt…it is dirty yes …but that does not mean to throw things on the street just because we are sure this will not make the condition better if we throw it in a basket…do you smoke…no thank you I do not smoke and I know my bathroom is shit

Sandstorm in Cairo

Welcome back my dear

I missed you so much...uhu

I love you very much

Oho...I can not live without you...uhu ohu uho


I can not breathe without you..oho oho...alo

uhu... you have the same color like my skin...alo

Alo...alo...where are you...can you see me...uhu...can you hear me...alo

Never use condoms

She is happy…and Egypt is happy too…people need to be fed, need to have health care, need to find a place to live, need to be educated, need to find jobs, need to be transported … and babies need to be delivered...and as average life expectancy is rising every year and more people immigrate from other Egyptian cities to Cairo...I am sure we are going to face a much bigger disaster than we have today…the census result is surprisingly not the problem…the problem is in the way we live…we do not want and will not leave the Nile Delta unless we are forced to do that…I can not live in Basata alone...I believe that more than 70 million Egyptians live in 5% of Egypt’s total area…wow…great thing isn’t it…we do not want to think for our future until we forget our past…and present

شويه رمم قولالات الأدب متربوش

لأ دى الناس بجحت بجد... بقه ليها لسان تتكلم و تشتم... ايه اللى حصل فى مزرعتى ... مالناس كانت ساكته و وديعه و راضيين باللى همه فيه... ايه بقه اللى حصل... يعنى فجأه فائوا و نزلوا يلبخوا فى الشارع...خلاص بقت موضه حكايه الصويت و النوم فى الشارع... والا جلهم ذكاء مفاجىء و احنا مش حاسين... اكيد اعدوا يتفرجوا على الدش كتير... ايوه الدش ده هوه اللى وراهم اللى بيحصل فى البلاد التانيه... و قال ايه عاوزين يعملوه هنا... و لما وعدتهم بشويه حاجات بقوا طماعين... جشعين... يا جشعيييين... و وصلت انهم يشتمونى كمان... انا اتشتم... ديه اخرتها...لأ... بس هنا خلاص و كفايه... قال بقوا يعرفوا كلمه حقوق و عمالين طول النهار يولولوا بيها فى الشارع... اول ما بسمعها نفسى بتغم عليه و انا ما بقاش فيه صحه للحاجات الفرغه دي... يظهر ان ضرب الفليب فلوبس جاب نتيجه عكسيه و قضى على البلاهه و ضمور المخ اللى كان عندهم... يخرب بيت اللى اقترح عليه نظام الفليب فلوبس... لكن على مين... استنوا بس لما تشوفوا النظام الجديد بتاعى...نظام خلص و استريح

Happy Beat Ten Day

I think I will beat ten in the coming lesson
Are you crazy…are you not afraid that the teacher could know about it
No…because I will beat ten with my mind…so he will never know…can you do that
I will try it
And when are you going to beat ten today
I do not know…maybe before I go home…or before the lunch
But do not forget to beat ten today…you know…today everyone will beat ten…it is cool…so cool…isn’t it
Of course it is…I always wanted to have the beat ten day… imagine everyone beating ten…ha...and do you know why it’s unique …because it is only in our country
No…you are kidding
Yes…I am sure…we are the first country to have the beat ten day
But not all women will celebrate and beat ten today
Yeah…it will be hard for them…and for you of course…you will only beat seven…ha ha ha
Huh…And your father
My father has beaten ten before the breakfast…but I am sure most people will beat after work…to enjoy the beat ten day…I heard there will be great beat ten day parties at night…we should go out tonight
Yeah…
I do not understand why they did not make it a vacation … next year they have to make it an official national holiday
Especially for you…because next year you will be able to celebrate it for the first time in your life…ha ha ha
Yeah man…citizens need to have that day free… to celebrate and relax the beat ten day…
I do not need it…for me everyday is a beat ten day

Close your eyes

I was in the centre yesterday waiting for the private teacher to come...he is always late…students were going in and out …talking…laughing…shouting…but these two young men were so concentrated in their prayers-not affected by the noise and movements of the students -as if they were in another time and place...in another peaceful and calm world...when they came back from their soul journey they continued their work in the centre

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لو لم اكن عاهره ، لوددت ان اكون مغتصبه

52

لو لم اكن يهوديا ، لوددت ان اكون ملحدا

69

لو لم اكن سودانيا ، لوددت ان اكون صوماليا

لأ و الله

قولت للراجل بتاع التاكسى بعد ما وصلنى: معاك فكه خمسه جنيه
الراجل: لأ و الله
قولتله: طب معاك كام
قاللى: معيش حاجه
قولت: معقول معكش اى فلوس
قال: ايوه…مأصل انا قولت حيجيلى فلوس من الزبون
قولت: يعنى ينفع حد ينزل من البيت و هوه معهوش اى مليم…افرض ان البنزين خلص
قال: خلاص يبقى ربنا عايز كده
واحده بتشحت: حاجه لله
قولت: طب استنى لما ادى للراجل فلوسه الأول…استنى هنه بقه لما اشوف فكه
قولت لراجل واقف فى الشارع: الاقى مع حضرتك فكه خمسه
الراجل: لأ و الله
لست ماشيه فى الشارع: الاقى مع حضرتك فكه خمسه
الست : لأ و الله
لتلت بنات ماشيين فى الشارع: الاقى مع اى حد فيكم فكه خمسه
البنات: لأ و الله
لكاشير فى كافيه: معاك فكه خمسه
الكاشير: لأ و الله
لراجل بيشتغل فى محل ملابس للرجال: الاقى مع حضرتك فكه خمسه جنيه
الراجل : لأ و الله
اعت اسأل كذا واحد و اعت اعدهم و كله بيقول: لأ والله...اكنهم عايزين يقولولى:لأ مش معانا+هو انت مش مصدقنا...طب و الله العظيم مش معانا...باختصار علشان كل واحد مشغول = لأ والله...احتماليه 67 % انى احنا بنرد على هذا السؤال بهذا الجواب بدون وعى = احنا اتعودنا نرد كده
رحت للراجل بتاع التاكسى و اعت جنبه و قولتله
سألت خمسه و عشرين بنى ادم ماشى فى الشارع و ولا واحد فيهم معاه فكه خمسه جنيه…ولا واحد فيهم معاه فى جيبه شويه جنيهات أو انصاص جنيه…اصل احنا شعب غنى مابنشلش إلا بالعشرينات و الخمسينات و الميات
الراجل بتاع التاكسى: خلاص يا بيه…خليها عليه المرادى
قولت: انت عارف…طول محنه كده كسلانين و مش عاوزين نساعد بعض…حنفضل فى اللحنه فيه ده
الراجل بتاع التاكسى: هوه احنه فى ايه… بس ممكن فعلا محدش يكون معاه فكه
قولتله: بص…انا حسأل خمسه كمان و لو مافيش ممكن نروح بعدها لبنزينه ادام نفك
سألت راجل فى الشارع: لأ و الله
سألت الشحاته فى الشارع على فكه خمسه بصتلى بأستغراب و اندهاش و قالتلى: لأ و الله
وقفت ميكروبص ماشى فى الشارع قاللى : انت مش حتركب
بصيت على الفكات الكتير اللى فى ايديه و قولتله: معاك فكه خمسه
مردش عليه و مشى
وقفت تاكسى و قولتله: انت اخر واحد…معاك فكه خمسه
قاللى: لأ و الله
مشيت بعيد لغايه سوبر ماركت و قولت للبياع: الائى معاك فكه خمسه
قاللى: لأ و الله
قولت له: طب انا حشترى حاجه
قاللى : برضه معيش فكه خمسه
لقيت راجل عجوز شكله صاحب السوبر ماركت سألته عن فكه خمسه
قاللى: استنه كده لما اشوف
و طلع كل الفلوس اللى معاه و كان بينهم جنيهات فكه ادهالى
قولتله:الف الف شكر…انت الفائز معانا النهارده…لازم اخدلك صوره
الراجل العجوز اتبصت
رجعت للراجل بتاع التاكس و ادتله تلاته جنيه
الراجل بتاع التاكسى مشى و هوه بيبتسم
ياترى لو حد سألنى على فكه بعد كده حقوله ايه

Don't wake up

...for them…if they have to
Why are you so pessimistic?
I am not. This is the truth, but they do not want to see it.
Let me ask you…do you think they have a chance to wake up.
No…not in the coming 20 years…maybe after that.
I see…why do you think so?
Well…because if they really want to do something…they have to start with the kids…and start right now…because it is already late…they have to educate them in a way…that let them be an intelligent…enthusiastic and powerful generation…but it will take a long long time to see the effect…the funny thing …till now they did not start anything at all…why…because they do not know the importance of that …they are sleeping
And what about the young generation today?
Huh…they are like blind chicken…crashing into each other…they are weak…very weak…they are very good in dreaming…but they do nothing…and because they are free and believe too much …they involve themselves in political and religious issues…they think they can do something…but they can’t…I am afraid to say...they are waiting for someone to rescue them
Don’t you think you are too…
Let me finish…they do not understand who is fighting with them…Egyptians against Egyptians…they tell me: are you crazy…they hate each other…they kill each other…they torture each other…they beat each other…why…because they are not educated…not enlightened…
But don’t you think there are few enlightened Egyptians out there that…
I know what you are going to say…they have no effect…they are wasting their time in this country...they are not even 1% of the population…what are they going to do…
Ok…and what about hoping to ...

الله يقرفكم زى ما قرفتونى

ضاعت عليه المحاضرات...و ضاع عليه الدرس...و ضاع عليه اليوم و امبارح و المستقبل كله... و مشيت النهارده اكتر من خمسه كيلو على رجليه...و عرقت و غرقت فى شبر ميه...و كنت حاسس انى ملزق و الناس ملزقه فيه...و حاجه تقرف...هوه فيه ايه...هه...ممكن اعرف فيه ايه...كبرى 6 اكتوبر مقفول...كوبرى الجامعه مقفول...الشوارع كلها مهنجه...و الناس كلها متشنجه...دى حاجه تقرف...ولا ليه نفس اروح الكليه...و لا ليه نفس اذاكر...و لا ليه نفس خلاص اعمل اى حاجه...خلاص...كفايه بقه...انا زهقت...زهقت بجد...اه و الله زهقت...خلاص مبقاش فى فايده...قال بيفرقعوا بومب قال... بلا نيله

An orphan named Sinai

Am I happy ?

Am I free ?

Am I Egypt ?

الفشفاط فشطنى

لقيت الست حتموت فى البيسين لما شعرها لزق فى الشفاط تحت الميه و معرفتش تاخد نفس روحت مدلها قبله الحياه وحاولت اطلع شعرها المحشور معرفتش فجبت مقص و قصيت شعرها و أنقذتها و لما فاءت لطشتنى بالقلم و قالتلى ده انت مش بس قليل الأدب و بوستنى تحت الميه لأ وكمان ندل و حقير ابن وسخه قصيت كل شعرى

My life in this country in one sentence

Someone asked me once: “Can you describe your life in your country in one sentence?”
I told him: “Living in this country is like being captured in a room with tightly locked windows and being forced to eat your diarrheatic stool to survive the rest of your life.”