Thursday, March 25, 2010

i want to put my heart in the fridge


i want to put my heart in the fridge
so i could be more like you people
i want to sleep and wake up in another place
so i could be away from you people
i want to solve the traffic problem so i could
love you again my people
i want to clean your heart from the black stains
i want to flush cold water on my bruised heart
because its been beaten by you people
i get things you would not guess
i know what you people are thinking
i hate routine and corporate lives
i hate the suites and the time lines
i hate the waste and the things you stole
i hate the fact that you people hate the earth
i hate the way you look at animals
the way you think you own the world
the way you think women are lower just because they are not robots
i hate the fact that i have rage
i hate this anger when it builds up like the fire
i hate the coolness of the ice cubes
i hate the stupid when they act smart
i hate the ugly by choice
i hate the people who take up too much space
i hate it when they stomp they do not have grace
i hate bad art and the fakers
i hate big brands without taste
i hate the practical
i hate the sad and the always miserable
i hate the news today
i hate the cynical
i hate the way you popped my bubble and brought me down from lala land.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

people and diets















people keep going on these weird diets and deprive themselves from everything.
the over weight look at the skinny like they have a secret.

it is true some people are blessed with metabolisms that make them eat whatever they want and not gain as much as someone who is always careful and has trouble loosing a pound per week.

but the solution to obesity or over weight is not a mystery, it is not a secret, we all know it.

if you want to lose weight eat less quantities of food.


decrease your food intake and you will lose the weight.

do not starve, but do not finish the plate or sandwich every single time.


if you want to gain weight it is also not a mystery: eat more.

no need to wonder, no need to pay your doctor.

you can be your own doctor and as obvious as it may seem no desserts or white sugar at all!

that is my cure fore the misery of overweight.
sometimes we want to eat everything and thats gluttony
sometimes we want to starve and that is sick

i realize it is hard to apply the advice but once it is clear its easy to do.
It depends on your priorities is it tasting heaven and enjoying a full stomach or looking
great and healthy and being the size that makes you comfortable.





Tuesday, March 23, 2010

filth glorified after a few drinks













with the new technologies cheating has become at the finger tips of the unfaithful
so many stories of unfaithful messages found on blackberries.
so many stories of unfaithful emails found on husband's or wife's accounts.

with bbm, hotmail, face-book, and gmail those with unfaithful tendencies are having a blast.
harmless flirting is what they call it, keeping doors of fantasies open is what they do.

a cyber kiss, a brave word on a p.c. comes out easier than on the tongue.
the cheater is obvious, look in their eyes it sparkles with devil's dust and shines.
they usually stare and smile too much, they also ask too many questions.

i saw the movie "up in the air".

if you have not seen it i do not want to spoil it, but it was a shocker for me.
what happened to fidelity?
why has hollywood portrayed couples like animals.
and all the movies i have been seeing lately always involve a partner who says : " i had a few drinks, it meant nothing, it won't happen again"

to my surprise the women have done so much too, just as bad as the men.
although in arab countries we have been socialized that men are more prone to fall for such mistakes because of some reason that makes them half men half dogs, but apparently the women have lately gained the same right too.

the pains of infidelity are the same, women and men both feel pain when they find out. yet our culture in the middle east expects men to sleep with anyone they are in close contact with or at least fantasize about it, since they say the mans brain is made that way. so many women have to forgive and ignore until the fling passes.

lately it seems to me that they wired the woman's brain too, to be made that way. a sexual obsession spread, i do not know if it is because of the availability of porn on the internet, the connotations by the media, or the excessive openness in the world due to the new arrivals of social engines like face-book, my space, and emails.

at the airport lounge in london as i pour the orange juice in my glass i look to the right and i see a man sitting with his laptop on his lap and the screen is visible to me, and guess what he is watching? PORN!

can you believe how comfortable he is? how brave and not ashamed he was? it was a shocker to me. i ran back to my seat and felt like we were in a room with the biggest creep. if he wanted porn than he should have gotten a room, we do not all have to know about it. it is like peeing in public.

being casual has become so cool, casual, cool, breezy, open and friendly. men have always fantasized about these kind of people: the stripper, the waitress, the air hostess anyone who serves them in a uniform and does not argue much.

women too they love the uniform, the care taker, the provider. the body guard, the life guard, the teacher, the politician, the doctor who can save them, anyone who leads.

some men like tiger woods are married to super models and still they cheat and that is beyond me to explain, others just fantasize about the woman they can not have.

i can sometimes read minds that is my problem i have seen so many men laugh in evil ways as they catch a glimpse of a beautiful woman.

and it happened to me many times that some men are too friendly and i have to remind them how it is not much fun and a bit disgusting too.

it makes me sick to my stomach the concept of the unfaithful.
the nervous laughs the arab men giggle with when beautiful women's names are mentioned.
their dreams of polygamy literally make me gag.

and the women who think they are so smooth, that they can get away with their filthiness.
in the movies i have seen lately married women cheat and sleep with strangers, and they do not apologize and they are forgiven. the western man seems more forgiving. but sleeping with strangers has presented it self in the media as the first thing to do after a few drinks.

what was a big surprise for me is the old men who remained perverts until they lost their teeth. i greet them with the respect of the elderly and i find that they are still the same inside, neurotic and disgusting. do not let them fool you, in their eyes they show it all. my first day in a class at university i thought yay! a cute old man as a teacher, like a father, like a grand father, until his perverted ways started showing and he started acting insane. i tried to write a petition but they told me he has got so many complaints and it seems like he is backed by a very important person so nothing ever happens to him.

it was a shock for me that everyone knows about him and his ways, and it is o.k.


people are not dogs is my message.
i think it is disgusting the thought of rules do not apply beyond national borders.
i think sex without love is disgusting. the media makes it seem amazing and makes every spectator dream of his chance.

i think people need a reminder of their true nature which is not filth.

people of Hollywood be careful, you are the role models of so much of the world, do not portray filth as dreamy, and stop making everything and anything o.k, because it is not.


Monday, March 22, 2010

life lost in a traffic jam


two hours and more on the ring road trying to reach my sick sister on the other side of my world.

my family's house is on the Cairo, Alex road I never understood how hard it is for people to visit us until i became the people who visit them.

with a truck on my left and a bigger truck on my right i felt like a helpless sandwich filling.

a road that does not move for two hours and more, deserves not to be taken again.

tears of anger and frustration start creeping down my face and i try to hide them so that the driver does not see how i am. worst of all you blame the driver who took the choice and did not ask you which road to take.

with a conscience that tortures me i sit back holding my words back swallowing them inside me.

i wanted to tell him why oh why? why did you not ask?

but who am i to say that, he meant well, he is not even mine, i pitied the man who took the wrong road and trapped me on the road.

shuffling in my seat in agony, in captivity, feeling like an angry lion in a cage, and a helpless kitten in someone's ride with no voice, with no choice, with no pride.

even a phone call does not help because to my luck he speaks english too, he knows all my secrets he reads me all the time. he means well, he prays for me, but he leads my ride and for my horrible driving i have been asked to always take the passenger's seat.

when you are stuck more than two hours on the road you start asking the clouds what meaning could be behind this?

if things happen for a reason, what is the wait meant to teach?
patience i guess.
endurance too?

the amazing thing is that the Egyptians do not honk anymore when the road stops for hours, they do not honk in anger anymore, they have acquired patience and no care for the world that only monks in Tibet can have, or is it the hash that keeps them going?

i wonder what is the point of losing life on the road?
a road that can be taken in 35 minutes takes two hours and a half.
you think of all the things you could have done, all the places you could have gone to.
i could have gone to Alexandria and ordered lunch.

all i wanted was to visit my sick sister but i lost layers of me on the way, in sadness, in anger, in captivity.

i lost so much of my life on the ring road

Thursday, March 18, 2010

the hidden treasure















the hidden treasure is like a secret doorway
inside you waiting to be recognized
many people come and go and they did not know about the treasure
they thought things are just things
they thought there is no more to life
they failed to see the magical possibilities

but you and me we still have the chance to dig deeper
and discover the hidden treasure
you do not need to travel
you do not need to even leave your home
you do not need to meet anyone

your hidden treasure lies in your heart
this is not corny talk
it is true and it is such a waste to ignore

another world awaits
gardens and waterfalls
so many colors and lights
wait for you every night

find the hidden treasure
close your eyes
and open your heart

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

the first mosque in africa












in cairo is a hiding gem forgotten by the faithful
we often neglect the closest people to us and the closest places too
we do not have to wait until it is time to reach mecca or medina to experience spirituality
egyptians have so many historical places worth visiting
and for the lovers thirsty for divine love and looking for a place with better energy there is old Fat-amid city of cairo.

in it are historical gems and places that witnesses so many important hearts prayed there
some places are just more blessed than others

where prayers reach faster
the heart is the best house of God but on this earth there are places holier than others
if you live in cairo make sure to visit this amazing place

this mosque i am talking about is the first mosque built in Egypt and all of Africa.
the nile used to flow in front of it, and the first man to kneel in Egypt was there.

Amr Ibn Al AAs mosque is the mosque i mean


Monday, March 15, 2010

if i was a lady bird




















if i was a lady bird i would sit on a leaf flowing in a river
i would relax and let the current take me
i would surrender

if i was a flower i would be beautiful
i would be a pink lotus blossoming with the sun shine
i would surrender

if i was a lion i would be the king
i would sit proud
i would lead my pride
i would have a family
i would be powerful
but i would surrender

if i was a bird i would travel miles
i would spread my wings and kiss the sky
i would make a v for victory
i would feed my baby bird and i will know
when it is time to migrate
i would surrender

if i was a star i would be so high
i would twinkle and shine
i would remind people of my lover
i would praise him day and night
i would watch over the helpless lovers
i would surrender

if i was a child i would eat right
play until i am tired
i would have an imagination that keeps me smiling and busy
i would be dreaming of being the best and biggest artist
i would have no worries about tomorrow
i would not sit and regret yesterday
i would be cheerful
i would surrender

if i was human i would do good
i would work
i would love until it hurt
i would dance
i would pray
i would be an artist
i would take people higher
i would be blissful
i would surrender

wait
i just remembered
i was the lady bird
i was the lotus flower
i am the lion
i am the bird
i am the star
i am the child
i am the human
i remember it all
i know how they all feel
i am them and they are me
i was them once and i will be
i am everything it is all in me
i have the world in my heart
i experienced it all
because i surrendered