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Testing posting via E-mail, I’m done with my finals and will be working on the blog asap

Stopping for awhile

Well, the whole thing is that I’ve my finals after 3 months or so, and if I don’t study harder I won’t get where I want to go, so I decided to stop blogging for awhile, it’s going to be really hard on me since I’m inlove with blogging, so I hope you guys have a wonderful time without the ranting of the teenage Egyptian “his articles weren’t that good anyways, were they? ” and if I were you I would be checking the blog roll, you can always find something interesting to read there, thank you for supporting me, and wish me luck .

Fact Check

I’ve been watching the rerun of the Oscars ceremony on a Middle Eastern channel called Fox Movies, and the idea of this blog post came to me when they were talking about Heath Ledger , so what happened was that they were talking about his daughter Matilda, but they didn’t mention the fact that she is his daughter, so the guys that write the Arabic subtitles thought that she was his wife and didn’t even think about checking what they were going to write, and that’s what I want to talk about today.

Whether it’s famous tech blogs or popular TV channels, most of them tend to forget the smallest details of the big picture, they all aim for the speed now, they say “hey, let’s be quick, instead of working hard to check every source and every detail, why don’t we just become the first people to spread the word without checking everything, people love speed”, and I say no, we don’t need speed, we need the whole clear image,  I don’t care if I get it in five or six days”.

What do you think? do you prefer speed or the real information? if you are a blogger, do you check your sources before posting an article?

What’s the best thing about Egypt?

If your answer for this question is “the pyramids and the sphinx”, I’ll be very happy to tell you that that’s so stereotypical of you, and that you need to stop being shallow, because the best thing about Egypt is not it’s monuments or the wonderful scenery, the best thing is simply, the people.

Yesterday, one of my friends that I’ve met through Twitter Rami had an extra ticket to get into the Akon’s concert, he was generous enough to give it away, but long story short, I didn’t get into the concert because I couldn’t find Rami, and I’m glad that I didn’t find him because the V.I.P area that we were going to sit in collapsed, and yes, he didn’t get hurt and I didn’t know that I was that lucky.

After searching for Rami for two hours, I decided to head home, I had to take the subway because it’s the only way I could get to the bus station where I can catch one of the buses going towards my town.

I was on my way to the bus station after getting off the subway when an old man walking beside me looked at me and said “Hey, there’s nothing that deserves your sadness”,I was kind of sad because I was looking forward to get into that concert, I looked at the old man, he was well dressed and he had a very friendly smile that made me comfortable, I decided to have a conversation with the guy, he asked about my name, then about my nickname “I don’t have any but most of the kids in Egypt that are called Ahmed can be called Mido or Hamada” so he called me Hamada, he started to share his opinion about different stuff, and what he learned from his years living in Egypt and other countries, he looked like he was sad about something but when I asked him he said “Don’t worry about me, the things that worry me are too heavy on a young man like you”.

I felt sorry for the guy, but I couldn’t do anything to cheer him up while he was giving me advices, he said “Do what you love, and love what you do” which is a famous saying anywhere except Egypt and most of the Arab world, because most of us don’t do what we love, we do what our parents want us to do “except my parents, they always gave me the support I needed at anytime, they don’t force me to do anything”, another saying he said was “A person is the mirror of the other” he saw that I was sad so – even though he had his own problems- walked towards me and worked on cheering me up and gave me the support I needed, a total stranger became my closest friend in a minute.

The best thing about Egypt is the people, the people are the warmest, most friendly people in the world, I won’t lie to you and say that all of them are, but I believe that the majority are friendly and warm, and I’m proud to be living in a country full of people that are willing to help and make others life better regardless of the problems of their own lives,if you are from Egypt, and you are reading this blog post right now, you have my respect, thank you.

What’s the best thing about your country? lets not be specific, how about this : what’s the best thing about anything? let me know.