Within man lies a deep wondrous spot, to which neither virtue nor vice can reach. Upon which the sun of reason and will never rise. In which the mouth of logic never speaks, the laws and rules are never obeyed, and not a language is used nor a word is ever spoken.
It is a distant Kingdom, beyond words and meanings. With everything is a sheer murmur offering wonders in a blink. From the depths of which, suffice a single tone or a flash of mind or a scent of a perfum, to allow rise of emotions, pictures and memories, a rising that will shake our being and open ourselves to things we can neither describe nor materialize even if we used the most refined of phrases or the most skillful of languages.
Tawfiq Al-Hakim.
(My humble transalation of the arabic text)
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Paris , 1)
Je marche dans tes rues ,Qui me marchent sur les pieds.
Je bois dans tes cafés, Je traîne dans tes métros, Tes trottoirs m'aiment un peu trop.
Je rêve dans tes bistrots, Je m'assoie sur tes bancs,
Je regarde tes monuments, Je trinque à la santé de tes amants.
Je laisse couler ta seine, Sous tes ponts ta rengaine.
Toujours après la peine,Je pleure dans tes taxis.
Quand tu brilles sous la pluie,C'que t'es belle en pleine nuit.
Je pisse dans tes caniveaux,C'est d'la faute à Hugo,Et j'picolle en argot.
Je dors dans tes hôtels, J'adore ta tour Eiffel,Au moins elle, elle est fidèle.
Quand j'te quitte un peu loin, Tu ressembles au chagrin, Ça m'fait un mal de chien.
Paris Paris combien,Paris tout c'que tu veux,Boul'vard des bouleversés,
Paris tu m'as renversé, Paris tu m'as laissé ,
Paris Paris combien, Paris tout c'que tu veux, Paris Paris tenu, Paris Paris perdu,
Paris tu m'as laissé, Sur ton pavé.
J'me réveille dans tes bras,Sur tes quais y a d'la joie, Et des loups dans tes bois,
J'me glisse dans tes cinés, J'me perds dans ton quartier, Je m'y retrouverai jamais,
Je nage au fil de tes gares, Et mon regard s'égare, J'vois passer des cafards sur tes bars, J'm'accroche aux réverbères, Tes pigeons manquent pas d'air,Et moi de quoi j'ai l'air.
Paris Paris combien,Paris tout c'que tu veux,Boul'vard des bouleversés,
Paris tu m'as renversé, Paris tu m'as laissé.
Paris Paris combien, Paris tout c'que tu veux,
Paris Paris tenu,Paris Paris perdu, Paris tu m'as laissé, Sur ton pavé.
Je marche dans tes rues, Qui me marchent sur les pieds, Je bois dans tes cafés, Je traîne dans tes métros, Tes trottoirs m'aiment un peu trop, Je rêve dans tes bistrots :)
Friday, August 25, 2006
Je n'aurai pas le temps , Michel Fugain
Même en courant, Plus vite que le vent, Plus vite que le temps ,
Même en volant, Je n'aurai pas le temps, Pas le temps.
De visiter, Toute l'immensité, D'un si grand univers,
Même, en cent ans, Je n'aurai pas le temps, De tout faire.
J'ouvre tout grand mon cœur, J'aime de tous mes yeux,
C'est trop peu, Pour tant de cœurs, Et tant de fleurs.
Des milliers de jours, C'est bien trop court, C'est bien trop court.
Et pour aimer, Comme l'on doit aimer, Quand on aime vraiment.
Même, en cent ans, Je n'aurai pas le temps, Pas le temps.
Je n'aurai pas le temps , Pas le temps...
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Good news and Signs
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way , and I know that I have to go away.
I know , I have to go.
when i've alwayes been like this :
................
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.
I guess we'll see after all what the days are keeping for me !!
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Murphy ;(
Laws :
If anything can go wrong, it Will .
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Everything takes longer than you think.
Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics : Things get worse under pressure.
Murphy's Constant : Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
Murphy's computers laws
Constants aren't & Variables won't.
Bugs will appear in one part of a working program when another 'unrelated' part is modified.
The subtlest bugs cause the greatest damage and problems.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.
Bugs mysteriously appear when you say, "Watch this!" , corollary: If you call another programmer over to see if he knows what's wrong the bug disappears.
The probability of bugs appearing is directly proportional to the number and importance of people watching.
The amount of damage that a string of code can do is inversely proportional to the length of the string
When designing a program to handle all possible dumb errors, nature creates a dumber user
Computer sadism: When the computer causes physical or mental damage to a person and can't receive such a return favor (due to management rules).
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Triple
مشمشة - دى ليكى . قررت أكتبها هنا بدل الميل . عشان بعد 5 سنين كمان نرجعلها و نشوف الأيام وصلتنا فين .
2/3 سجن العمر
توفيق الحكيم فى كتابه سجن العمر قال إن عاداتنا و أفكارنا هى اللى بتسجننا طول عمرنا.
3/3 الكاف
قصة قصيرة قرأتها من حوالي 15-20 سنة . قصة من أمريكا اللاتينية و غالبا من البرازيل.
Monday, August 07, 2006
The Lost Word
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Songs for Life
.........
I did what I had to do And saw it through without exemption.
I planned each charted course;Each careful step along the byway,But more, much more than this,I did it my way.
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;And did it my way.
.......
To think I did all that;And may I say - not in a shy way,No, oh no not me,I did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -And did it my way!
Friday, August 04, 2006
Fidel Castro
Monday, July 31, 2006
Yesterday
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, i believe in yesterday.
Suddenlyyyyyy,
I'm not half the man i used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
To A friend & me
Kathleen Kelly: Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, not small, but circumscribed. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void.
Blue Moon
Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own ..........
but then again , tomorrow is another day
Friday, July 28, 2006
عمارة يعقوبيان : الناس اللى فوق - الناس اللى تحت
زمااااااان - اكتر من 25 سنة - كان فيه مسلسل إنجليزى بيتعرض على التليفزيون المصري اسمه
Upstairs, Downstairs
كان عن حياة عائلة أرستوقراطية إنجليزية و حياة الخدم بتوعهم . الخدم فى البدروم و اللوردات و الليديز فى القصر فوق
تذكرت هذا المسلسل أو بمعنى أدق عنوانه بعد مشاهدتي عمارة يعقوبيان أمس . الفيلم كما رأيته فيلم إجتماعي غالبا مع بعض الخطوط السياسية و رمزية لم أدركها جيدا إلا بعد عدة قراءات نقدية للرواية. ما جعلني أتذكر عنوان المسلسل هو ان الفيلم لم يعرض إلا حياة " الناس اللى فوق و الناس اللى تحت ".حياة "اللى فوق" إجتماعيا و ماديا و ثقافيا و سلطويا فى مصر تسعينات القرن العشرين ، و أيضا حياة "اللى تحت " في كل ما سبق . الفيلم بالنسبة لى صفعة للمجتمع ليكتشف نفسه على حقيقتها و يتصرف بسرعة و إلا إنتهى كما إنتهى المثقف و الضابط وحتى الشاب المنتقم لنفسه . وأعتقد أن اكثر من أحسوا بقوة هذه الصفعة "الناس اللى فى النص" . ربما كان هذا سبب تعليق سمعته من عدة اشخاص ان الفيلم جعلهم يرون الدنيا من منظور أسود بعد هذا الفيلم. لكن سؤالى الذى لم أجد عليه إجابة من أمس لليوم كان ، هل لازالت هناك" ناس فى النص " أم اننى و مجموعة كبيرة ممن أعرف لسنا موجودين أو نتصور أننا من طبقة "غير موجودة " وخارج نطاق الزمان و المكان؟؟
هذه التعليقات استرعت انتباهي - مع تسجيل تحفظى على بعض ما جاء فيها
.http://www.kefaya.org/artsandmedia/050631thdori.htm
http://www.elaph.com/ElaphWeb/ElaphWriter/2006/7/161405.htm
http://hakazaana.blogspot.com/2006/07/blog-post.html
http://egycorner.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/06/25
.أعجبنى : تمثيل هند صبرى و خالد الصاوي و محمد إمام
.أعجبنى : خالد الصاوى وعيناه فى الظلام تترصدان الفريسة
.أعجبنى : عادل إمام فى طلب المغفرة - مع تحفظ إلى حد ما فى موضوع الخصم
.أسعدنى : وجود إسعاد يونس و دورها" السماوي" و الإخراج و المونتاج والتصوير والحوار
.وجعنى : مشهد حفل زفاف عادل إمام و هند صبري
كرهت : دور يسرا من الأول للأخر و خصوصا إصرارها على الغناء!!! و يكفينى تعليق د.خالد منتصر : علاقته مع كريستين هى العلاقة الوحيدة التى أثقلت كاهل الفيلم، بل أستطيع أن أقول أن دور يسرا كاملاً كان عبئاً على الفيلم ومجاملة لامكان لها فى الفن
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
A Royal Beauty
Speaking of Royalty ; i have the honor to present a Lovely royal face :
Her Sultanic Highness the Princess Fawzia of Egypt
Her Royal Highness the Princess Fawzia of Egypt
Her Imperial and Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Iran
Her Imperial Majesty the Queen of Iran
Her Imperial & Royal Highness Princess Fawzia of Iran and Egypt
Her Royal Highness the Princess Fawzia of Egypt
Mrs. Ismail Shirin
Here's looking at you princess :)
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
The Last Monarch

HRH King Farouk the first , Sovereign of Egypt and Sudan , left his country on the royal yacht Al Mahroussa heading to Europe as his exile . This happended after being forced to abdicate his throne to his baby son King Fouad II , the last Official king of Egypt.
Regarardless of whether he was as bad as people portrayed him or it's just that he was a victim of his times and court , I'd like to say "Good night, sweet prince; and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
Monday, July 24, 2006
Let's start ;
Glory , i doubt very much , i'm an average person in all aspcets and - unfortunatly ;) - no fortune teller ever told me that i'm gonna be a queen some day :( .
Moon , i still wonder which moon is that supposed to be , the ancient's Moon OR the 20th century's Moon . Between the two moons , all possibilities exist !!!
And speaking of moon , here's the origin of the word Lunatic :)
[Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Latin lnticus, from lna, moon. See leuk- in Indo-European Roots.]
I'll leave it to your judgment. Please feel free to post comments , Ciao...........