Happy New Year (1430 - 2009)

Frank Sinatra - Let's start the new year right!

One minute to midnight, one minute to go
One minute to say good-bye before we say hello

Let's start the new year right, twelve o'clock tonight
When they dim the light, let's begin

Kissing the old year out
Kissing the new year in

Let's watch the old year die with a fond good-bye
And our hopes as high as a kite

How can our love go wrong if
We start the new year right?
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"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right" - Oprah Winfrey

Tango Passion!

Bridget Jone's Diary

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"I don't think you're an idiot at all. I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous about you. Your mother's pretty interesting. And you really are an appallingly bad public speaker. And, um, you tend to let whatever is in your head come out of your mouth without much consideration of the consequences... But the thing is, um, what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you, very much. Just as you are."

The Holiday :)

"I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends...you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade. "

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

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"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs.
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."

Quote of the day -05-

"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters"
- Nathaniel Emmons -

The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now

Hey now now, they'll find you when you're sleeping now now
they'll reach in and grab what you're dreamin' now now
cut it up and slip it back in, and I know, and I know, and I know it

Hey now now, the smallest things are crushing me now
the crush crush crush is so comforting now
did the earth just slam in the sun, and I know, and I know, and I know it

won't undo their past by walking and talking backwards

Hey now now, we're goin' down down
and we ride the bus there and pay the bus fare
or we find a new reason, a new way of living
and we breathe it in and try to dream again

Put a shark in your tank!

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went further than ever. The further the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring the fish. If the return trip took more time, the fish were not fresh. To solve this problem, fish companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go further and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen fish. And they did not like the taste of frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So, fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, they were tired, dull, and lost their fresh-fish taste. The fishing industry faced an impending crisis! But today, they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan .

How did they manage? To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks but with a small shark. The fish are challenged and hence are constantly on the move. The challenge they face keeps them alive and fresh!

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired and dull ? Basically in our lives, sharks are new challenges to keep us active. If you are steadily conquering challenges, you are happy. Your challenges keep you energized. Don't create success and revel in it in a state of inertia. You have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference. Put a shark in your tank and see how far you can really go!

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Mamma Mia!

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That's a really cheerful musical to watch...with all of the songs...colors...and GREECE! I loved this movie!

A Thousand Splendid Suns

"Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up to the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us."

-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini-

و الناس فى عز البرد يجروا و يستخبوا
و انا كنت بجرى و اخبى نفسى قوام فى قلبه
و لحد لما الليل يليل ببقى جنبه
و افضل فى عز البرد وياه بالساعات

Quote of the day -04-

you'll never regret doing extra work

The Little Things - Colbie Caillat

The little things, you do to me are,
Taking me over, I wanna show you
That everything inside of me oh,
Like a nervous heart beat, is crazy beating
I'm feeling stuck here, against the pavement
I wanna break free, I wanna make it
Closer to your eyes, get your attention
Before you pass me by

Back up back up take another chance
Don't you mess up mess up I don't wanna lose you
Wake up wake up this ain't just a thing that you
Give up give up don't you say that I'd be
Better off better off, sitting by myself and wondering
Better off better off, with out you boy

Don't just leave
Me, hanging on
Don't just leave
Me, hanging on

Listen!

Girl, interrupted!

Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.

Valerie: What would you have said to her?
Susanna: I don't know. That I was sorry. That I will never know what it was like to be her. But I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

Giant Steps

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our consistent actions.
And what is the father of all actions?
What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life?
The answer is our decisions.
It's in these moments that our destiny is shaped. More than anything else, i believe our decisions - Not the conditions of our lives - determine our destiny.

Giant Steps - Anthony Robbins

Anger Management

Dr. Buddy Rydell: Dave, there are two kinds of angry people - explosive and implosive. Explosive is the type of individual you see screaming at the cashier for not taking his coupon. Implosive is the cashier who remains quiet day after day and then finally shoots everyone in the store. You're the cashier.

Poets of the Fall - All the way 4 u <3

Quote of the day -03-

"Every minute of every day, the sun is always shinning some where :)"

8,789 words of wisdom

Lena Chamamyan :)

يا مسافرة في البحر جاية ودعك ... حمل سلامي للهوى ووديه معك
لكن بخاف من الهوى ومر النسيم ... قلبي بروحي يوصلك ويرجعك

ساعة نزولك فى البابور لاتفزعي
قلبي موتور والبحر من مدمعي
ضلي اذكريني في غيابك وارجعي
لزي لقلبي وهوي يبقى يتبعك

يا مسافرة في البحر جاية ودعك ... حمل سلامي للهوى ووديه معك
لكن بخاف من الهوى ومر النسيم ... قلبي بروحي يوصلك ويرجعك

روحي بسلام يا حياتي بخاطرك ..
ابقي اكتبيلي إن كان جيت بخاطرك ..
عالشط فوق الرمل قاعد ناطرك
لا ترجعي من البحر تا أرجع معك
لا ترجعي من البحر تا أرجع معك

يا مسافرة في البحر جايي ودعك
حمل سلامي للهوا و وديه معك
..

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Quote of the day -02-

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you".
- Winnie the Pooh

What's eating Gilbert Grape

(that's a really sweet and a simple movie)

Gilbert: You don't understand. She was in shock for years. He disappeared. He didn't say goodbye. He just... One day, all of a sudden...he was gone. He was just hangin' there. That's when it all started. She used to be so pretty. She was so pretty and so fun.

Becky: So you think it's his fault?

Gilbert: No. Nobody knew what he felt. He didn't give anything. He was just sort of there. You'd try to play with him, you know, get him to play around...or get him to laugh or get him to smile or get him to...I don't know... get mad. But nothin'. Just like, uh, he was already dead.

Becky: I used to know a guy like that.

Quote of the day -01-

"Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another ... The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness."

M. Scott Peck

Dory: Hey there, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you've gotta do?
Marlin: No I don't wanna know.
Dory: [singing] Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.

Marianne Faithfull - Down Town

When you're alone
And life is making you lonely
You can always go
Down town.

When you've got worries
All the noise and the hurry
Seems to hurt, I know.
Down town.

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city,
Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty.

How can you lose ?
The lights are much brighter there,
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
And go down town.
Things will be great when you're
Down town.
No finer place for sure,
Down town.
Everything's waiting for you.

Don't hang around
And let your problems surround you,
There are movie shows
Down town.

Maybe you know
Some little places to go
To where they never close,
Down town.

Just listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa-nova,
You'll be dancing with them, too, before the night is over,
Happy again.

The lights are much brighter there,
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
And go down town.
Where all the lights are bright
Down town.
Waiting for you tonight
Down town.
You're gonna be all right now.

And you may find
Somebody kind
To help and understand you,
Someone who is just like you
And needs a gentle hand
To guide him along.

So maybe I'll see you there,
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
And go down town.
Things will be great when you're
Down town.
Don't wait a minute more,
Down town.
Everything's waiting for you.

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Genent El-Asmak

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Loved Hend Sabry...also Sama7 Anwar's part...it's a nice movie...didn't love it awi bas enjoyed it...all the characters and their stories

السابعة و النصف مساء الاربعاء

رف مرتفع قليلا عن الذاكرة – ابراهيم السيد

واقفة خلف النافذة, حامل فى شهرها السابع. تنظر عبر الشارع بعيون وديعة, متعبة. تنظر طويلا نحو طفلها الذى لم يجىء. تنادى عليه ليتغذى, تلمح بطرف عينيها زوجها و هو يقترب نحوها, عائدا من عمله متعبا و مليئا بالرغبة. تصحو على صوت التليفون, تتذكر الزوج المسافر, و الطفل الذى لن يرى اباه. تبكى هى, فأصحو من نومى...لا اتحمل بكاء امرأة فى الحلم او فى الواقع.
اى حلم هذا الذى يشكله وعيك؟ من بداية لحلم ايروتيكى محملة بالرغبة يحولها وعيك المعقد لبكاء يقبض القلب.


حرير و شوك – أميرة أبو طالب

جلست على حافة النيل تسترجع ذلك اليوم العادى الذى مر من ايام يحمل لها اول لقطات سن الاربعين...
تمنت لو كان بامكانها استرجاع ذلك اليوم التعيس و حذفه من نتيجة الحائط: تنزع ببساطة تلك الورقة المربعة الصغيرة التى تخفى فى سمكها الرقيق و حيزا البسيط عبارات الالم و الشوق لساعات ضاعت للابد, ساعات تلاشت مع تلك الحركة البسيطة التى قامت اليد فيها بنزع ذلك المربع...الثامن عشر من يناير لعام الفين و سبعة. تنزعها لتجد من تحتها مربعا جديدا يأذن بحلول نفس اليوم, و تتخيل...


قرارات الانتماء – حسام خلف

لماذا فشلت؟ اعلم و افهم...فقط لا اريد ان اتذكر...فلا داعى للسؤال! لقد صادفت فى كل مرة من هى افضل منها و فى كل مرة تالية تأتى من هى افضل من سابقتها مع حماس اضعف من جانبى و انتماء اقل و اقل فى كل مرة. اعلم انى لن انتمى لواحدة منذ ذلك اليوم. لقد انتهيت من حوارات عقلى المشاكس هذه منذ سنوات و لا داعى لتداعى الافكار على سبيل التواجد فى مكان يذكر بها. انا الآن وحيد فى هذا المكان كشأنى فى اغلب الاماكن معظم الاوقات, حتى و انا فى خضم صخب اصدقائى و مرحهم, ينسحب عقلى منزويا ليحصل على بعض الوحدة. لا اريد ان افسد تطبيق نظريتى و قرارى الذى توصلت اليه بعد عناء سنوات. سنوات فى البحث ثم سنوات فى التجربة ثم سنوات فى الاكتئاب و الانطواء, و اخيرا الانطلاق مستمتعا بحياى مستغلا كل وقتى فى تطوير عقلى و ذاتى و منفعة اهلى و اصدقائى و دوائر من حولى بلا رفيقة قد لا تظهر فأضيع سنوات اخرى سعيا وراء مثاليات قد لا تتوافر.


صديقى الذى قال – خالد ربيع

الوقت ما بين آذان الفجر و ظهور اول ضوء من النهار هو الزمن الذى تتذكر فيه القاهرة براءتها, و هو الزمن الذى نكون فيه غالبا نتمشى فى شوارع نص البلد او قريبان من مسجد السلطان حسن و الاحياء المحيطة. زمن قصير هو, و لكنه مكثف و مشحون و رائق.
اجمل ما فى هذا الوقت ان ليس للمناقشة, بل يكون اقرب لقدسية الاعتراف الكنسى, و لكنه لا ينتهى بمنح المغفرة. فى هذا الوقت يتقوقع كل ما فى الشارع داخل نفسه, و هتم الاشياء بحيواتها الخاصة, كفرصة فريدة لن تتوفر بسهولة اثناء اليوم: سكارى انهكهم الحزن و الضحك...مصلو الفجر بتمتمات لم تنته بعد...العربات المحملة بالخضروات تتجه متمهلة للسوق القريب...كناسو الشوارع التى لا ينتمون لها...الكلاب التى اصابها الزحام بالجبن تبحث عن طعام...بائعوا الفول يجرون عرباتهم الخشبية الملونة و هى تقرقع على الطريق...صبيان المقاهى يرشون نشارة الخشب النظيفة و يعدون النصبة...سائقو عربات النقل العام مع شاى الصباح الثقيل...ماء يجرى فى الزاوية ما بين الرصيف و الشار و لا يعرف مصدره...بائعو الجرائد يتسلمون حصصهم و لم يعل صوتهم بعد بالنداء...القطط الخبيثات يتناوشن بعصبية...مزيج من اصوات خفيضة و مدمغة تأتى من خلف شبابيك تضاء فجأة... المخابز تسرب وشيش افرانها العتيقة للبيوت القريبة, و انا و صديقى يحلو لنا البوح و نحن سائرين.


العمر كأنه مؤجل – دينا الهوارى

انا لا ارتبط بالاماكن, و لا اشعر بالانتماء اليها...هكذا عودتنى احوالى.
فما الجدوى من ان امد جزورى لتتشابك و تضرب فى الارض امتدادا و انا استشعر ان اقتلاعها قادم يوما لا محالة, و لماذا توطيد العلاقات ببشر سيبعدهم الارتحال فيما بعد, و لم اقيم الحوارات مع الاشياء و الجمادات المحيطة اذا كنت سأودعها بإهمال فى فترات لاحقة؟ لذلك فان علاقتى بأماكنى جاءت دائما سلبية, شبه مبتورة.
فهكذا عودتنى احوالى...
تسألنى عن علاقتى "بالاستاذ" زميلى كما اسمته, فاجيبها بالنفى. فتقول لى غير مكترثة بردى "ان اجمل ما فى العلاقات اولها و ان اعنف مل في الحب بشائره! التقاط التلميحات الممكنة يحيل الدنيا بساتين واسعة تتوسطها بيوت من الآمال غير المؤكدة."
اتعجب من حوارها الذى لم اجد له مبررا من ناحيتها...
حقا, اتذكر اياما شغل فيها اوقاتى اكثر مما يجب, اتذكر الاوقات التى جلست فيها اتامله كلما مر امامى, كلما دخل الى المكتب او خرج او حدثنى بكلمات لا معنى لها و لا هدف منها غير ان اسمعه. كنت التقط التفاصيل الدقيقة فاحفظ عدد ملاعق السكر التى يستهلكها, و اعود نفسى سماع الموسيقى الكلاسيكية التى يحبها, و ارتاد اماكنه التى يزورها, استشعر عطره قبل ان يصل, او اراقب دخان سجائره التى لا اطيقها...كانت مرحلة اولية انهيتها انا سريعا...
و اجيب السيدة اللبنانية مؤكدة " انه لا داعى للتعلق ببيوت من الامال غير المؤكدة."


بعد فوات الوقت – سمر احمد

ققرت ان افرغ رأسى من اى مقاييس او مبادىء او طلبات...آمنت من قلبى اننى سأنتظره, و ساعرفه عندما أراه...سوف اعلم انه هذا هو الرجل الذى ابحث عنه. و بالطبع و كما هو طبيعى عشرات المناسبين مروا مرور الكرام و احيانا مرور الأنذال. فى كل مرة اقول انتهى الامر لقد وجدته. و انغمس حتى قمة رأسى فى حالة من العشق الكامل. و بعد اشهر قليلة و ربما اسابيع او حتى ايام اصل لنفس النتيجة. انظر الى نفسى فى المرآة, و احاول اكتشاف اذا ما كانت علامات الغباء تظهر على وجهى بهذا الوضوح!!


شرفة - عبير مدحت امين

و رغما عنى بدأت الدموع فى الانهمار منى. و وجدته يهدأ من روعى و يمسح دموعى. شعرته مشفقا على من التفكير فى ماض لا يستطيع احد تغييره...و لم انتبه الى دخول امى الى الشرفة حتى قالت لى: "انتى لسة بتكلمى نفسك؟...و يا ترى مين كان معاكى المرة دى؟"
لم اعقب على سؤالها كعاداتى...فقد اعتدت هذا السؤال, كما اعتدت على اختفاء حبيبى بمجرد وجود شخص ثالث معنا..


و قرر الارنب ان يستريح – نيرمين ادريس

لا اعرف سر عصبيته الشديدة خلال تواجدنا فى الاماكن المزدحمة. اقترح ان نترك المكان..فيفر بى هاربا. فى الطريق احاول اقناعه انى لست طفلة, انما انثى راشدة "لم تكن لتحبنى ان كنت هذه الطفلة". يرد باقتضاب "احب الانثى و اخاف على الطفلة". اقنع نفسى انه على حق.
يشبهنى بحلوى الميل فوى...فأقاطعه بلهجة حادة رافضة: "الميل فوى بيتفتفت...انا كيكة اسفنجية ممكن تتفعص...بس بترجع تانى لوضعها الطبيعى بعد شوية". اتكلم بمنتهى الجدية, و يضحك هو!! "بتضحك على ايه دلوقتى...انا متضايقة قوى"..."حاسس انى بتفرج على فيلم كارتون".

Save the last dance

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A cute dance flick worth watching

10CC - Not in Love

I'm not in love
So don't forget it
Its just a silly phase I'm going through
And just because
I call you up
Don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made
I'm not in love, no no, its because....

I like to see you
But then again
That doesn't mean you mean that much to me
So if I call you don't make a fuss
Don't tell you friends about the two of us
I'm not in love, no no, its because....

I keep your picture
Upon the wall
It hides a nasty stain that's lying there
So don't you ask me
To give it back
I know you know it doesn't mean that much to me
I'm not in love, no no, its because....

Ooh you'll wait a long time for me
Ooh you'll wait a long time
Ooh you'll wait a long time for me
Ooh you'll wait a long time

I'm not in love
So don't forget it
Its just a silly phase I'm going through
And just because I call you up
Don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made
I'm not in love

The Hundred Secret Senses

In Love with Kwan...her China...and her stories...never been interested to visit China more than now!