Dream Libya

بلادى

2011-07-28T20:08:00.000-07:00

توحشتك يا بلادي... يا بلاد احبابي
لعب بيك الدهر وخلاك جروح ودم
سلاح ورصاص صبحو هما حكامك
و ما عاد فيك حاجة زي ما كانت
متغرب عنك وبعيد عليك
زايدة الوحشة في قلبي وزايد همى
ما حد في يوم يحساب ترابك يشهد حرب
ويوقف الجار قدام الجار
يلعن هالسلطة وهالفلووس
اللي تخلي الناس تنشرى وتنباع
حالك يا بلادي ما هو حال
وربك يستر شين مازال

My Heart is crying Blood

2011-02-24T15:25:00.000-08:00

This and That

2011-01-02T06:03:00.000-08:00

So, we finally reached 2011. Wow, time is running. This is something that everyone says once in a while, but we only recognize the meaning it certain things. Kids starting school and they were just playing in diapers. A study finished and you still remember the day it started. There are lots of examples. On the other hand, there are some moments, when you are looking forward to something you feel that the time is not going fast enough, your exams don't want to end, your vacation is still far away.

I am writing without a real purpose, i am just putting some thoughts into words. Today is already the second day of the new year, and lots of people speak about their plans for the new year, i am planning to ........, but i don't like the idea of starting it at the beginning of the year, does this mean that in the middle of the year, if i am not the person i want to be, i should continue my way till i reach the end of the year and then plan to change? There should be a beginning in every day. However, plans are not something wrong, they are not accomplished in one day anyway. Change take time, it will not come on the first of January.

I think that it is for now.
I wish everyone of you a pleasant and nice and peaceful 2011.

Descisions for Life

2010-11-13T18:11:00.000-08:00

I have been away for awhile, and i think that everybody got used to this, but i am really always intending to blog and post, and i never find the time to do it. It seems to me that don't have time for breathing.
Anyway, i was thinking about decisions that people are making for their life, why are they so important? What type of decisions are so important in life??
Choosing the right partner? I think this is one of the most important decisions in life, choosing the person you are going to spend the rest of your life with, share dreams, share happiness and sadness, raise children together and depend on each other. So, if there is someone you are thinking to marry, you have to ask yourself a lot of serious questions, and try to answer them to know your decision. It is not a heart decision, it is a minds decision, feelings have to get out of the equation.
The other difficult decisions are regarding the study and job you are going to take. Are you interested in this field of study, what is the job you want to do, can you do it? do you have a chance to get it, can you start your own thing, is this all worth it?
Right now am i asking my self is this all worth it?? The energy and time spending on study or work if you don't have to do it? Is it all worth it, Men don't have a choice, they have to work, and in many cases they are not in the position to actually choose their favorite job, but a lot of women have the choice, leave out the women that work to help their husbands, speak about woman who work for their own sake, what does own sake mean? To have more money? to fulfill own dreams? How does this decision effect her own life? is she going to be under stress or is she going to feel happier? How does this decision effect her children? Her family and house?

The good thing, you can always quit, start again and try it? The answer for all of these questions vary from woman to woman. Everyone has his own priorities and based on that the answers will be different. Anyway, good luck for those who work, those who don't want to work, those who are thinking about work, and those who are looking for work.
And Koll 3am and everyone bekheir.

Addicted to electronics

2010-08-27T06:36:00.000-07:00

I don't know if it is good or bad to be intesrested in all these high tech stuff that comes out week after week and month after month in all fields, new phone (smart of course), new electronic book reader, new 3D TV, new laptop, etc......

People are saying they don't have any time any more to do things, and i think i know why, lets watch TV just a bit, oh i haven't checked my mail yet, i have some sms that i have to send, and by the way sms are free, you get so many deals and things to do and at the end you say why are the hours just passing by and why am i not spending enough time with my family and friends.

On the other hand, we are not used anymore to entertain ourselves, play a family game, doing some things without electricity, imagine you don't have electricity for one week, i think everyone will go crazy.

Even when i try to keep my self limited with the computer or the phone i find myself spent hours with0ut having any benefit, oh and don't forget the lack of physical activity, you can do everything right now from your cell or laptop, shopping, banking, paying bills and lots of things more, you don't have to go out anymore and waste your time in the croud outside, or waiting for your turn at the line.

I thought they clame that they are saving time not wasting it.

Libyan University Standards

2010-07-18T14:54:00.000-07:00

I know.... I know.. It has been a while since i last posted something.

However, in my mind, there are many posts coming and going, i am doing something, and i start preparing the next post, but it never reaches the keyboard. I feel the time just slipping like water through my fingers without anything effective being done.

But the topic of this post is not a new topic, i wanted to write about it for a long time now. It is not affecting me only, it is affecting all libyan students and graduates trying to get admitted to good universities abroad.

Especially those fields which does not require an exam to enter a University such as Science, Engineering or Law, you apply, do your language exam, send your transcripts, your graduation Certificate, and if you are very lucky your are amongst the ones who got over 80% at your graduation. Although i doubt that there are lots of libyans students who get this high scores. And this is the point. The way of grading the students in Libya is really more than unfair. I have taken graduate courses here in Canada, and i was very surprised at the grades they are giving, without being close to perfect your just get an A which is a very good. And it was not just any university or any course, but there in Libya, the professors are enjoying having the power to push the students down. to show them how powerful they are. this takes the chance from so many students abroad who are trying to get admitted at universities. Since the lowest grade acceptable here is 75%, and if you have this 75% and there are 5000 students applying, with only 300 positions available, who will look at your 75% if there are 3000 with more than 85%.

Here if they see that you are doing an effort, working, researching, thinking they will give you a good grade, but there, you can kill yourself learning, working, reading, it will not help.

Oh God, everyone of us will remember his professors, which are alone far from being perfect, and i doubt that one of them will be able to answer the exam questions in the short time they are giving us, oh, if they are kind, it is an open book exam, and then forget about trying to answer at all. Or the other professor who missed 95% of his lectures that semester, and only gave us 2, and then at the end he did only one exam, with all the subjects there the time was not even enough if it was the double and laughed and said "inshalla ennaja7kom""

Oh, good, i know so many students here trying to get access, and they are not able because of the low grades, and i am thinking 7asby Allah wa ne3m al wakeel on everyone who was putting his students down for fun, just to feel his power, on every professor who didn't care to do his job and at the end gave his students bad marks, in stead of encouraging your students your just kill every chance for them to enhance their selves.

Libyan Food

2010-02-07T14:12:00.000-08:00

I wanted to write about Libyan food forever, but not because i want to see or put recepies, I wanted to learn as much as possible about Libyan food.
As I discovered a love for cooking, I am interested in knowing more details about what ever I can get about libyan food.
But let me start from the beginning, as the Libyans are dividing themselves into groups according to their origin, Tripoli, Benghazi, Zwara, etc. also the food is different sometimes, and sometimes if you don't know someone from the other city you don't know certain types of food, especially if you are not interested in looking outside the box.
In Tripoli the main dishes are (kosksi, reshtat borma, keskas, dolma, mbatten, and many other dishes), then of course you have Bazeen and there is a fight among the different cities, which one does the best one. Then the so called Borma in Tripoli is called Mgataa in other places. Another nice dish is Ftat, el Jbalia are known for it. In Benghazi there is Mathroda and believe it or not, i have just heard about this dish 2 weeks ago, and i have never tried it before, but i will do my best to get it from somewhere. These were the main dishes, there are some other kinds of foods, like 3aseeda, Zomeeta, bseesa, Gsab (sa7leb).
The interesting thing is that the ingredients are almost the same, but there are small differences in the way of cooking amongst families. As you know, common thing here to say is Family xx does the mbaten in oil only, but family yy put it in the oven after frying it. It is nice and interesting, therefore i always like to ask several people, especially the older ones about their way of doing a dish. You can find some interesting information.
As i am trying to make most of this dishes in Canada, there are somethings missing there, and somethings taste differently, but i never miss taking my spices with me from here, i remember a post about the smell of libyan food, and yes, the food smell strongly, but!!!!! without them it is not even half as good. It is true that i don't like to leave the house while cooking, because i know that all my clothes are smelling, but at the same time i would never leave the hrarat out if i cook bosla. (It is the main ingredient for me)
I learned about these spices, their mixture, how they are done, and the other interesting thing i learned about was fish. For the first time in my life i went to see the fish market, so many kinds of fish, and the seller explains what they are, for what best to use them, he was a nice old man and you can see that he knows what he is speaking about. It was nice for me to see people not giving up their proficiency, it is important to have these people, their knowledge because they are a big part of our culture, it is not the cars and the houses. The smell of fresh fish, but as well the smell of fresh vegetables here is great. I cannot remember having the same smell in Canada, it is the smell of my childhood.
I will continue to discover everything about our food, as long as I am here, and I will try to teach my kids how to love our food as well, and by the way, I have heard about a libyan restaurant over there in Canada.
I would love to post pictures as well of some dishes and the fish market, but my camera is not working so i was not able to make any.

new way of living

2010-02-03T04:03:00.000-08:00

For someone who is not permanently living in Libya, and who is coming for a visit once a year, it is easy to follow small changes that are happening here.
Out of interest i am trying to figure out what i have been missing since my last visit. And there it is again, another visit, observations, listening to people and trying to understand the new changes.
Interesting are two signs on the streets, one for abused women, which seems to be a program for women beaten by their families, and the other one is a hotline for abused children. I would like to try and call this hotline to see if there is actually someone picking up the phone and offering help. But let's be realistic, Libyan life is based on what other people think and say about you, so many things are done and not done because of what others may think and say, a girl coming home late (after moghreb) is not good, what will the neighbors think, the possibility that she is working in a hospital or taking a course is not important. People who barely can afford the daily expensses of kids and house and food, have to borrow money or enter Jam3ya to buy that good (Saloon) so that when guest are coming to their house they don't say that their house is missing something. There is so much pressure and stress put on people here from outside they cannot live and enjoy their life just normally.
Another thing that really is disturbing me right now is the everyday show of cars, gold, houses, mobiles and money. People are mainly not defined anymore by what they are, smart, kind, honest, nice. No, what defines them is what car they are driving, how much they are earning, what mobile they are using and where they are living. It is sad to see how people look at and follow "the rich" people. Girls dream about a husband with money, big car and a big house, (i am not saying this is completely wrong, but the regular guy who doesn't have everything ready, but who would do anything to support his family is much better that someone who has everything and more, but doesn't care about his house, wife, family or kids) the priorities are more and more wrong defined.
Not to mention the Libyan driving, no respect for each others, if people just have some respect for each other and think like muslims and be patient or sometimes give the priority to some one else, the streets would be much safer and faster. You drive along a wide street with three lanes and you wonder why it is sooo crowded, then at the end you see it, there is a groccery shop or a another kind of shop so people are parking infront of it, and when the first lane is fully parked people just easily block the traffic and park in the second lane. just toooo lazy to walk just some additional steps.
I am sad to see all of this, i want to see it much better, i want to see traffic getting more organized, people helping each other and people not judging about others. And i am not saying this because i am thinking i am better, i am as well one of them as all are, i just have a Libyan dream.

Marwa's murderer got a life sentence

2009-11-11T08:23:00.000-08:00

Finally, today in Germany the murderer for Mawra El Sharbini got a life sentence.
For those you haven't read or heard about her, it is a pregnant lady from Egypt who got killed in a German courthouse because of her being a Muslim and wearing the Hijab. The Judge said that this guy said that he feels that the immigrants are taking his job opportunities, and he denies the fact that he is an immigrant as well from Russia, and that he is not a German.

However, this will not bring the wife and the mother of a 3 year old back, but it will give a little bit of satisfaction to the family.

The reason why this happened in my view is all the bad news about Muslims all over the world, what you hear is killing, killing and killing. And no doubt that people get afraid and hate what they don't really know and only know from bad news.

I am fed up saying that I want to be a good example for the Muslims, because I don't want us to be in the position of setting an example at all, I just want to live normally the way I life without thinking that the others may take a good or a bad idea. I don't harm anyone, I don't hurt anyone, I just want to live, raise my kids, study or work or whatever and be in peace.

Picture source

http://merryabla64.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/marwas20family_preview.jpg

Long time....

2009-11-04T20:01:00.001-08:00

It has been a long time now, and it is time to end my vacation from blogging. But whenever i sit and think i should write now i start searching for something interesting to share that is worth reading.

Yalla, here the no. 1 news is the H1N1 shot that has started two weeks ago and with it the question should we or not?? everyone is asking the same question. But the clinics are more than full, hundreds of people every day. Side effects?? i think in the last month thousands of people have been vaccinated, so there should be enough time for the side effects to show up, and in regards to (on the long run) people smoke, eat junk food, don't do sports and live in too much stress. And all of this has a big effect on the long run, so what is the difference??

Do we need this shot?? the doctors say yes.

Do we have a choice?? Yes, for sure.

Can we live with bad consequences ( Allahum ohfodna)?? NOO

and at the end it is everyones own decision.

Advice, buy the alcohol sanitizer and use it as often as you can in public places especially when yo touch hard surfaces, (the virus can live several hours on hard surfaces) and wash your hands as soon as you get into the house. This is the least we can do to prevent the flu.

Food in Ramadan

2009-08-23T20:21:00.000-07:00

One of the things that comes into mind with Ramadan is food. Everyone is dreaming of that soup (sherba) and all of the great libyan and not libyan dishes, (boreek, mbatten, osban, pizza, dolma, etc. ) Especially that in a way they taste even better in Ramadan.

Now i am feeling more than full, i have been eating so much today, but not because i wanted to, i have seen a program about people not able to buy even bones to cook with them, they are sharing a small peace of cheese with their kids, and many many other cases. This is the reason why i am trying not to through away any type of food. Normally i have a difficulty during the first days of Ramadan finding the right amount of food to cook, i need 3 or 4 days to be able to cook the exact amount that we need, and then i almost don't have any kind of left overs.

I hope all of you deal the same way with food, i have heard a comment of another liban lady the other day, (God will ask as for all the food that we are throeing away)

Very late, but my best wishes for Ramadan for all of you.

Islamic swim and sports wear

2009-06-29T20:54:00.000-07:00

I know that it has been a while since my last post, i have been very busy with the kids lately.

However, yesterday as i was (as usual) googling around i thought about looking for Islamic clothing, since it is sometimes difficult to get something good looking to wear for me here in Canada ( i mean for Hijab) Here you find everything but you need to search for things you can wear with Hijab. And i came across the Muslima swimwear, it claims to be the swimwear for the active muslima.

I found several websites for several companies offering the swimwear online all over the World. The question is who wears them? I am not sure if it would so easy to wear them and walk along the beach, the people will look more at you in this way. And i am speaking about outside of the Arabic countries. However, it is a nice idea to be able to wear something like this if you have the courage to face the peoples curious looks and questions.

The picture shown is from the website ahiida, from australia for sports and swimwear.

What is the best recipe??

2009-05-19T11:46:00.000-07:00

When the children come into the age where they are continuously trying to test their limits, the parents will have a hard time. The behavior of the child varies, from screaming to kicking to hitting. Suddenly the toothless baby who was used to send smiles all over the place and captured the hearts of those around is showing his teeth and hides his smile behind bad actions.

Then the question come up: now what?? How to respond?? how to control and show him what is wrong and right? What are the best tips??

Especially with the first child, the parents are learning as well how to be parents, knowing that every decision they make will effect their child's life forever (sounds serious!!!), actually it is.

I have been looking around in books and online, talking to people i know to find the best advice, and i have heard many things some where logical, some where scary and unbelievable.

Scaring with the (doggy who will come and eat you) or scaring with (hot pepper on the tongue) or scaring with ( something hot like a candle) are somethings that i was surprised that people are using. Hitting is common although some families completely refuse this methods while others say: we cannot control our kids without it.

Another new way, many learned it from "Super Nanny" is putting them on time out for some minutes. This sounds as the best method for me if the child is actually following and staying in the time out, but if not it is useless. Another method is taking his favourite toy away to show him that what he has done is wrong.

Now after all of these tips i am trying my luck with time outs and taking the toys away. Currently i am trying to ignore the actions that are intended to get my attention to let him know that he is not getting it in this way, i will see. In one of the online forums i found the following advice: Be positive, never negative. Be nice but strict. Try to give him attention and spend quality time with your child. It will take some time but you will reach there.

I am trying to see which is the best for my child and i hope he will be easier to deal with.

Talent show!!!!!!!

2009-04-23T17:12:00.000-07:00

Some days ago i came across the Name (Susan Boyle) in the news and i was wondering. A new talent in the famous show (Britain got talent). An older lady who amazed the jury and the people with her singing talent, she seams a little bit weird but she is a great singer. Her video on you tube has been watched million times so i took a look as well.

The video reminded me of another talent from the same show, (Paul Potts), exaclty the same story, he looks different that the normal and seems very shy, people and jury thought he is in the wrong place at the beginning but then he started singing and !!!!!!!!!!

First, i want to say that both are great singers but my whole point about this post is ( is it really true or is it show business? Are they really just regular people who suddenly decided to participate in such a show or are they well prepared and put in as shy or weird to get the people's attention?? They might be singers who didn't get very famous and they are using them to get more money from the show.

Why isn't it possible for me to just believe it??

The links for both auditions are below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1NNk1Ik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCqzmVHS2RQ

Living abroad

2009-03-31T18:01:00.000-07:00

I have been now abroad for a few years, and i figured out that there are some advantages and disadvantages, but it has to be mentioned that everyone has his own view about this.

Missing family and friends is one major issue with being abroad especially when you live very far away and it takes more than one plane to reach Libya. For example, when one of us needs some help, for example being sick, moving away there is always someone there to help you out.

Till now i was not able to make good friends whom i can ask for help in such cases, therefore if i need help i have to pay someone strange 10-15 dollars per hour to help me out. On the other hand if i live in Libya i will get overwhelmed with helpers and visitors in such cases as being sick or so. It is the opposite, sometimes you are looking for some rest but you have to be prepared for all kind of visitors. Again this depends on the person, some people like it to have lots of people around them.

Picture source: http://www.stepbystepimmigrationcanada.com/live-abroad.jpg

Spring time

2009-03-28T17:11:00.001-07:00

Finally it is spring again.

Due to some things to do i am not really able to enjoy the spring outside and i am really feeling sorry for that. But i am happy that it is finally blue, green and brown outside, instead of white, black, grey and grey and grey outside.

This year the first snow fell back in october, which is considered to be very early and till now there is some snow on the streets and even in our backyard which didn't melt yet. Overall, we lived in winter for almost 6 months.

Finally it is time for picnics, grilling in the backyard, playing ball in the backyard with the little one or going to the playground cross the street with him.

And it will not take long and you will find tulips everywhere, in the streets, shops and gardens.

Moreover, the wonderful smell of grass and sun that is filling the air, i can open the windows without feeling cold to let the fresh air inside the house.

I was not able to go out this weekend but i don't have any doubt that the parks are full of people enjoying the first days of spring here. I like it how the people here appreciate the nice weather and the free time to do activities instead of staying in the houses and watching TV. They are working the whole week and not able to do anything, and hence they are using every free minute they have on the weekend.

Picture source: http://www.cns-snc.ca/CNS_Conferences/waste_05/waste2005_main.html

The face book era!!!!

2009-03-15T16:32:00.000-07:00

When did you come a cross facebook?

I think i first heard about it one and half years ago when i started my grad studies at the university. Some fellow students made a presentation about the new Internet. So i signed up to check it out but to be honest i didn't like it, i cancelled my account and didn't activate again.

One of the things that scared me is that they will keep my email address forever, so that if i decide to sign up for a new account and i use the same email after 6 years they will just say welcome back.

What else is facebook??
Facebook is a way to spy on your friends, what they do, who their Friends are, the more you put on your facebook account the less privacy you will have.
I admit that i am taking a look from time to time to some friend's account, this is the reason why i know somethings about it but the more i see the less i like it, all the new applications that you can add, all the information you can put to others. I liked what our professor said, now you are happy with it putting all the pictures and the information available to everyone, and in some years when you want to apply for a job your boss will check facebook and find some stuff he doesn't like and you will not get the job. He told us to be very careful with the information we upload, we have to read the privacy policies especially for such things as private pictures.

One advice, do not follow every new trend, some of them are taking more than they are giving.

Obama's airplane!!!!!

2009-02-21T15:05:00.000-08:00

You might think now what does this mean? Obama's airplane!!!!

OK, i will start from the beginning. I am not that into politics, i don`t understand a lot of it and i am not interested in doing that. I don`t know a lot about what is going on in the news, but sometimes things come sooooo close that you are forced to face them.

Ok, Obama is the new president of the U.S., and i have to say that i don`t think that this will mean a big change to the world politics, but let`s be open and see what will come.

However, i was not infected by the so called ¨Obamamania¨ and therefore i didn't ake a big deal about Obama coming to visit Canada. In the news you were able to read that people were waiting for him in the streets in the snowy cold weather, you would read about several plans that he had here and that his trip was very short, only half a day.

We didn't plan to go out on that day, but we had to drop someone at the airport so we left about 4. We felt that the air was full of helicopters and i mentioned to my Husband that this might be because of Obama, although we thought that he had already left the country, and when we tried to reach the airport we found all streets closed. Obama was on his way to the airport. We went home and tried it again after 30 min.

When we finally reached the airport and we drove along the ramp to the departures there were some cars stopping just on the street and we almost run into them. Then we looked for the reason and we found it, sooo huge, sooo American, it was Obama's plane, we were soooo close to it, we could have stopped as well and kept on watching, but as i mentioned, we are not infected.

Why am i writing all this?? i don't know, it made me think. And it was weired at the same time.

picture source http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Photo+Gallery+Obama+Ottawa/1306028/story.html

Eating Outside

2009-01-19T08:40:00.000-08:00

I don't know what is soo good in eating outside, is it the different taste to the usual home made food?
For a woman i would understand that she is enjoying not standing in the kitchen from time to time, some woman don't like to eat their own food. But for men?? normally the food at home should be their favourite because it is made like they want.
The question is why am i brining up this topic?? i am in libya for a visit, and in fact i am missing libyan fast food, libyan pizza, libyan shawerma and hamburger. But!!!!!!!!! I don't have any trust any more in any of the food shops. Normally they say the man know the good places, but eventhough my brother is bringing food from the so called clean places, i don't like it anymore.
Here, it became a trend to try the different restaurants. There are even real restaurants opening, nice locations, nice atmosphere, they say even nice food. But!!!! the question is not only is the food clean? Are the dishes and glasses clean? You are drinking from a glass that might be not properly cleaned, and too many deseases are spread.
I feel sorry, because we are an islamic country and being clean should be one of the main characteristics of muslims, why is there no trust??

صغيري

2008-12-20T10:40:00.000-08:00

أحيانا أنظر إليك وأتساءل...

ماذا ستصبح؟؟ ماذا ستعمل؟؟ كيف ستعيش؟؟

عيونك المليئة بالفضول تشير الى مستقبل مجهول..

ياترى هل سأكون جزءا منه؟؟ هل يكتب لي أن أرى فرحة نجاحك؟؟

هل أحضنك يوم زواجك؟؟ وهل العب مع احفادي كما العب معك اليوم؟؟

كيف يتحول الحب الى الم يعصر القلب؟

اللهم اعني على حمايته ورعايته

الدنيا تلهث ونحن وراءها لتقف فجأة أمام قدميك الصغيرتين..

فلا يهمك الصباح والمساء.. ولا تعني عقارب الساعة لك شيئا

عش حبيبي وقتك اللامنتهي.. فستكبر يوما ويبدأ الزمان

كم من لحظة تمر اتمنى حفظها في ذاكرة التاريخ..

كي أرجع اليها يوما لابتسم واقول..

لقد كنت يوما اقاسمك الحياة..

وها انا ذا اجهز اجنحتك اللصغيرة لتطير يوما بعيدا عني..

This and That

2008-12-19T13:19:00.000-08:00

I wanted to update the blog for a long time. But i am not finding a nice topic to write about, so i decided to write about this and that.
First of all, i am finally done with my courses, i am on vacation, and it took me only two days and 20 cm of snow to feel bored again. It is really funny how people are feeling, during the semester i was missing the times sitting in front of TV, playing with my son or going out for shopping. Now, i am free to do all of that and i am not interested. I think people are never satisfied with what they are having, they always want a change.
However, Canada is suffering from cold weather the last couple of days, first there were places with grades up to -47. Can you imagine it? -47? even my fridge is not as cold. I am soo thankful that i am not living in such a cold region. However, even places that are not so used to the cold suffered from it, snowstorms, schools closed, traffic stopped and even air traffic stopped. I am glad that the place i am at had only a couple cm of snow till now but this can change.

What else????? mmmmmmmhhhh

My son started to watch TV shows for kids, i am trying to keep a close look on what he is watching, even though he is still tooo young to understand the main things, but i have to be careful. But to be hones, i like the shows they have on their children's channel. Sesame street, barney show and lots of cure cartoons. But the main point is that all of them are half educational half fun programs, so it is not considered a waste of time if my son watches them from time to time. He already started to ask for many (Barney).

For every one living abroad, the winter sale will start now after christmas. I hope that everyone who is enjoying shopping will be able to make good deals.

After a long break

2008-11-18T17:39:00.000-08:00

Actually it was not a break, i have been busy with my courses this semester. However, i am allmost done. I just wanted to share this video, it touched me sooo much.

What about our Seniors??

2008-09-12T18:18:00.000-07:00

What about our seniors???
This question came in to my mind in the last time. The weather was very nice last week, allowing us to go out for walks and to go to the playground. In fact, whenever you pass by a park you will see a lot of seniors either walking around or sitting on banks and reading. Actually sometimes i see them even doing sports like jogging or cycling. I am speaking about the ages starting from 60+.
It is true that the social system in a country like Canada is not so family oriented, often you find elderly people living alone and taking care of their own, without anyone even cheking on them from time to time. However, they stay active till the end, they keep themselves busy and healthy. They don't sit down and wait for their time to come.
While in Libya, the social system is more family oriented. You would almost never find an elderly one living alone. If someone gets older his sons/daughters will take full care of him. But they are not active, they are sitting, watching TV, you find some sitting in the streets playing cards. In some cases you will even find an old man cycling, but not because he wants to stay active, instead he is in need and doesn't have a car to move around.
Overall, i find it sad that there are no activities for seniors in Libya. The only thing that i can think of is that some families go all together to their farms or the beach for some change.

Taking a difficult Desicion

2008-08-18T09:26:00.000-07:00

For someone living abroad, one of the desicions to take is to leave your kids with a babysitter or put them at a daycare, mainly of both partners are working or studying. In Libya this would not be a big issue, mainly because either of the grandparents will take care of the kids when the parents are away.
While living abroad means that you have to decide, first will the woman go out or not and second where to put the kids.
If the woman chooses to go out and study or work the search for a caregiver for the kids begins, and this is the difficult desicsion. Is there anyone who can take care of your kids as you are doing?? mainly if they are still young and not in the school age.
What are the main points you have to look for at a caregiver??
Trust?? education status?? health check?? police check?? References??
You have to watch your kids very closley, their behaviour, their little bodies, their reactions.
Too many times i have heard of babysitter hitting the kids they are taking care of. Trust your kids more than anyone, trust your feelings. A false desicion made by you will have bad effects on them.
A nother choice is to put your kid at a public daycare, which is controlled and monitored by several persons and not only by one, but your kid will have a bigger chance of getting sick and learning bad habbits.
However, never forget, nothing is more important that them, always choose what is best for them and not what is cheaper and more convinient for yourself.

Blooooodaa

2008-07-12T16:34:00.000-07:00

It is always something nice to see a little kid doing something funny, from time to time i watch these kinds of movies because they put a smile on my face.

FW.........

2008-06-28T17:47:00.001-07:00

How many times you get forwarded e mails from your friends????
There were times where i used to get tens every day, while now i get them only every ones in a while. However, if you think about these e mails, you can mainly put them in three categories: funny mails, religious mails and the last category is the one that i don't like, warning e mails.
Warning against a shampoo type, a tooth paste, a power drink or even chocolate, my problem is the way in which such e mails are written: hidden hate speech and usually a lot of lies. I got used not to read such e mails, because they make me angry, they say to much without any proof or reference, so it is a way of making trouble, if we are able to think and question there are others who take everything as right and who might make wrong actions out of this information.
If i read something in the newspaper, for example about a product that might be harmful, i would want to share it with my friends, i would show a reference for it, i would look up a proof for that, so that it is believeable for others.
The other thing is the promises you find in these emails, publish it and you will get (Ager), i doubt that i will get something back by publishing lies.
Please make sure that what you are forwarding to your friends is true and trustworthy, so that you can get something out of forwarding it to others. Don't be just a name in the long long long list of forwarder, do not let some people trick you into something only they know what is the truth behind their actions.

I hate rasicm

2008-05-20T18:51:00.000-07:00

It is facing people everyday, no matter where they are, and no matter from where they are.
First I wanted to define it correctly to have a good picture about it. "Racism, by its simplest definition, is discrimination based on race. One with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their race (i.e., bigotry), or in the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits. Racism typically starts with, though is rarely confined to the assumption that there are taxonomic differences between different groups of people. Prejudices on other grounds would strictly categorize as discrimination to national or regional origin, religion, occupation, social status or some other distinction." [Wikipedia]

All of us got used to the idea that the West has a bad idea about Muslims and Arabs, we might even faced some actions that showed these bad feelings against us, mainly for those living abroad. Violence against some of us, hate speech, or sometimes insults just because you look like you are. We go to Libya, let’s talk about Libyans now, and say: they have a problem with us Muslims, they see only bad news on TV, and they don't see the actual picture. We love peace, we are normal just like them but with traditional and cultural and religious differences. Friends and family ask us if we had problems abroad, some may had while others not. But all of this is not my issue, my question is: " why do you want the others to accept YOU, if You don't accept the others?????" I was chatting with some Libyans, we were talking about the difficulties living abroad, the experiences we had, the relations to the citizens and how they treat US in their country, since WE ARE the FOREIGNERS in their country while at the same moments they were speaking about some other foreigners as people less than us.
We complain about racism, but we are racists too. How many times you've heard people speaking bad about other Arabs in front of you? I can't even count the times; the funny thing is that we are racists even between each other. Tripoli, Benghazi, Zwara, Jbalia. Isn't this true??
How come we expect people to accept us if we don't accept the others?
I thought no one is better than his brother? How come you are a Muslim and at the same moment you think you are better than another person. Only you work and good deeds will tell if you are better than the one you are looking down at. Maybe someday the people you are now ignoring will look to you from paradise while you might not be with them.

الرجل الغريب والنورس

2008-04-27T19:35:00.000-07:00

وأخيرا تغبر الطقس؛ جبال الثلوج المتراكمة ذابت بعد شتاء قاس. الشمس ترسل أشعتها الدافئة وتدعو الناس للخروج من بيوتها؛ كلنا مللنا من كآبة وبؤس الشتاء وبتنا نستعد لصفارة الانطلاق
الربيع ههنا، زقزقة العصافير، رائحة التراب الأسود والعشب من فوقه، والألوان تكاد تعمي العيون التي اعتادت على درجات الأبيض والأسود
الملابس الثقيلة اختفت في زاوية بعيدة لتترك مكانا للألوان الزاهية والأقمشة الخفيفة
بدأنا ننتظر الصباح لنقرر إلى أي حديقة ننطلق؛ نسرع إلى الخروج فقد أصبح البيت مظلما كئيبا مقارنة بتلك الحدائق
نأخذ الماء والخبز في طريقنا ونتسابق مع الدقائق لنلحق بالحافلة المارة أمام بيتنا؛ ونكتشف أننا لسنا لوحدنا؛ الكل خطرت له نفس الفكرة والكل يرحب بقدوم الربيع
وفي إحدى تلك الحدائق، وبينما نحن مستمتعين بالأكل والهواء المنعش نظرت حولي لأرى ذلك الرجل يشق خطواته على العشب الأخضر، فكه الأعوج وشعره الأبيض الخفيف يعبران عن عمر طويل تركه ورائه، التجاعيد العميقة في وجهه وظهره المنحني يجعلونك ترأف لحاله. كان يمشي لوحده مخاطبا نفسه مهمهما بأصوات بدت لا معنى لها
كنت أراقبه عن كثب غير واعية بنفسي، كان كل شئ من حولي متكاملا
وتغيرت الصورة، حدث فيها خلل وتبعثر الشعور بالانسجام
انطلق الغريب في اتجاه سلة المهملات، وبدأت يداه تبحث بين أكياس النفايات، يفتح الكيس تلو الآخر، يقلب صناديق الأكل المرمية. رحت أحلل المنظر الغريب، لم تبدو ملابسه قديمة ولا بالية، لم يشبه شكله المشردين الذين أراهم كل يوم يلفون الشوارع بحثا عن بضعة قروش
لم أعد أستطيع انتزاع نظري عنه، خفت أن يلحظني ولكنه كان منغمسا في عمله غير ملاحظا لشئ حوله. ظننت أنه قد يكون جائعا، ترددت في أن نناديه ليشاركنا لقمتنا ولكنني أخيرا تراجعت وظللت أراقبه
من حولنا عائلات أخرى ولكنهم لم يشاركوني اهتمامي، لم يأبه أحد بالرجل المسكين مرسلا يديه بين الأوساخ والبقايا
فكرت في حل اللغز ولم أجد حلا مقنعا وأكملت أكلي مراقبة إياه
ولم ألاحظ أن اللغز بدأ ينحل، كنت متعمقة في التفكير سارحة بأفكاري لأجد الصورة أمامي باتت تؤول إلى الإتقان
الرجل العجوز الرائع رمى بقايا الأكل إلى جانبه على الأرض، شرائح البطاطا التي رماها سرعان ما اختفت في أفواه طيور النورس الجميلة؛ وهو يناديها مخرجا من جيبه قطعة قماش ليمسح يديه المتلطخة، سمعته يقول لها تعالي هنا لتأكلي
شعرت بالحب لهذا الرجل الحنون، ملأني إحساس بوحدته، كم تمنيت أن أصافح هذه اليد الرحيمة لأشكرها
وبعد أن تأكد من اختفاء كل الشرائح اختفى من تلك الصورة المتقنة ليترك ورائه فراغا أسودا
نسيت الرجل وأكملت استمتاعي بهدوء الحديقة ولكنه ظهر مجددا ولكن في صورة مختلفة
قررنا العودة ققد اختفت الشمس لبرهة الآن، أخدنا حاجياتنا وانطلقنا، أرسلت نظري لصورة أخيرة من الحديقة، لأجد الرجل الحنون واقفا يمسح يديه مرة أخرى ولكن إلى جانب سلة جديدة، وطيور النورس تتشاجر على اللقيمات التي وجدها بين النفايات.ذكرني بالرأفة التي أمرنا بها رسولنا الكريم والتي باتت معدومة بيننا كبشر قكيف الحال بالحيوانات؟

مصدر الصورة

Knowledge.

2008-03-31T09:03:00.000-07:00

What about your knowledge?? This question is moving around in my head since days.

The main reason for me thinking about this was seing how my classmates have a basic idea about almost each topic that comes up in class. I do not mean the knowledge from out course books. I mean the knowledge that we gain from reading newspapers, different books, listening to documentations and other types of programs.

To be honest, i feel embarassed of my general knowledge. Although i am reading a lot and i am trying to know more but it seems not to work out with me.

I am willing to read and to know more but nothing wants to stay inside my mind, all the information that i am reading seem to vanish after some days.

What execuses do i have? Let's see:

Not enough time to read.

Not really concetrated.

Not interested.

Busy with house, family and studying.

Are these really sufficient reasons? No, they are not.

Mainly in Libya you see people forcing their kids to study their school books and learn them by heart, but do they encourage them to understand what is written in those books? Or do they encourage them to ask questions and try to find the answers else where? No, not everyone is doing that. I am looking here at the different kids and i am trying to follow how they are teaching them. They are actually teaching them to think on their own, and not to follow the adults. They don't keep them silent because it might seem (3eib) in front of the others. They do not teach them to be rude, instead they are well behaved but at the same time questioning everything. i want my kids to grow up with this attitude. And i want to teach it to my self too.

Be Carefull !!!!!

2008-03-08T15:58:00.000-08:00

Working on this project about security you can say that i am shocked. I knew that we have to be carefull while surfing in the internet but i never thought that we have to be sooooo carefull. One can not imagine what threats there are in the internet world and how costy this can be. Computer viruses, worms, trojans, hackers, internet thieves, it is amazing and scaring at the same time.

I wanted to remind you of these basic things that you should take care of as an internet user.

Never leave your PC connected to the internet when you are not using it to minimize the time that your computer is connected.

You have to install a Firewall, there are some free softwares available online such as zone alarm and make sure that it is always up to date.

You have to install an Anti virus and also be sure that it is up to date.

If it is possible install an anti spyware so that no one can take information from your PC.

Never leave one of the messengers always connected, when you are not using it sign off and close it, it is a big hole where intruders can come into your pc with.

Never open any ads on websites, you never know if there is a wrong software installing itself on your pc while klicking on it.

Only brouse websites that you trust and always be carefull of how much information you want to make available.

Never leave your webcam connected to the PC when you don't want to use it.

Change your e mail password every once in a while.

Be carefull when you use downloading programs such as napstar, e mule or limewire.

Run your scanning programs from to time to make sure that your computer is free from intruders.

Update:

I forgot to mention

Be carefull in opening any attachement you get, mainly if it is from poeple you don't know but also sometimes from people that you know, sometimes hackers can spoof e mail addresses.
I would suggest that you download and install firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer due to some vulnarabilites from the IE.

Also A.Adam has added some notes in the comments area.

Sad but True.

2008-02-22T19:06:00.000-08:00

Sad but True, I don't have a lot of trust to Libyan doctors any more. I don't want to sound unfair, I know that there are hardworking, their job loving, honest and kind doctors out there. But what I have seen and heard has shown me that there are no more a lot of them in the Libyan hospitals.
Let's speak openly, there are thousands of students in the medical faculty alone in Tripoli, and there are ten thousands of already graduated doctors working in the hospitals and in clinics in Tripoli. Out of this statistics, there should be some of them more than excellent, some of them very good, some good, some normal and only a few that are not good enough, but the actual case is that the majority is normal and not good enough. I am here not speaking only about the medical knowledge, in a doctor this is not enough, important is the fear of God in their work, and their behavior.
What is happening there? Why aren't there perfect clean hospitals, with kind and good nurses, and very good doctors? Every one there is complaining about the conditions there, but almost everyone has a doctor in his family, but no one is thinking of making a change, they follow the wave, why is it possible for the same doctors to work perfectly, following the rules, coming on time and without being rude in foreign countries?
We are Muslims, we have to fear God in everything we do, mainly in dealing with people and working for people, isn't it a shame that you hear a Libyan doctor saying about another doctor that he is " 7mar " because he had another opinion? Isn't it a shame when you see how many Libyans are going abroad to see other doctors starting with Tunis?

Back to blogging.

2008-02-14T06:25:00.000-08:00

After having a long break, visiting Libya, seing the changes, seing what happend to Jaraba street, and to some other places, i am back home, full of plans and hopes.
What will happen after this so called Izala? how will tripoli look like after let's say 2 years? how will tripoli look at my next visit?
What changed to my last visit was the croud in the streets, it was not so full last time i was there, you have to take into account the time you take to reach a place when you give an appointment. One friend told me masafat el sekka, normally ment with it is 10 min. but there it can be even one houre.

Eric Lafforgue

2008-01-09T18:59:00.000-08:00

Yesterday i was playing again with my PC, in other words, searching around in the internet, when i decided to take a look at flickr, i have never heard of it before i saw a presentation about the new internet web2. Where it was shown how easy it is to share pictures of places and things all over the world, and then i started to look for pictures from Tripoli and Libya, and i found this beautifull album, i was so surprised and amazed about these pictures.

This is the link to the slideshow.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/sets/72157602957244129/

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While looking around in the news, i found this article, the first part is speaking about minorities living outside and how to deal with it, the second part is actually the one that i found very alarming. I mean whenever you enter you tube or google video in arabic, you will find more disgusting videos than looking up the same sites in english or in another foreign language. I think that this is really alarming and very sad.

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=ArticleA_C&cid=1199279437165&pagename=Zone-Arabic-News/NWALayout

If tomorrow never comes

2007-12-26T17:02:00.000-08:00

Some of you might have heard this song by Ronan Keating. A wonderfull song, very nice melody and very nice lyrics, i just remembered when i was thinking of how should i start my post. A very nice love song, but this is not the reason why i like it. It is because of the question:
If Tomorrow never comes. If i would die tonight, what will happen?
This question is making some rounds in my mind. I was wondering about it.
If this is my last day, and if i would know it what would i feel? What would i do?
I think i would go crazy, thinking of all the things that i want to do in this last houres. But really, ask yourself are you prepared to die tonight?

Did i thanked Allah today for what i have?
Did i pray so that i can meet Allah without fear?
Have i read Qoran everyday, understood it and followed what it says?
Have i done what was asked from me, so that i can close my eyes and say the Shahada?
Do i feel satisfied with my life so that i can meet Allah sub7anah and be among the ones who He will look at them with (3ein El ra7ma)?
Did i return everything i took from others so that i don't carry any Amana with me?
Does my family know how much they mean to me?
Will they know that i love them, my husbend, my wife, my kids, my parents, brothers and sisters?
Will my friends miss me because i was a good friend for them?
Will my children know that i would have given my life to see them happy?
Will my wife/husbend know that she/he are the best thing that happened in my life?
If you will be able to say yes to all of this question you will be able to die now, if not!!!!!!

Imagine this....

You were sitting at home this morning, you were angry because your partner forgot to do something for you that you asked him to. You started to fight with him, you said bad words and left him hurt. You left the house, you didn't pray nor have you thought about Allah this morning. You started your car and then....... you died in a car accident. And then what?

Will you be able to meet Allah like this?
How will your partner feel when he thinks about the last moments with you?
What will the people say? will your close ones feel sad and miss you? or will you just be another one who just died?
Did you leave a hole in the life of those you know or not?

Forgiveness.

2007-12-18T15:16:00.000-08:00

First i want to wish everyone of you a happy 3eid, thank your for your wishes, i was trying some houres ago to post about the 3eid, i had some troubels but now it is working.

Today was 3arafa, i wished to be standing there with the Hujaj. Praying for forgiveness and feeling that great feeling of being a guest of Al Rahman. Seing that holy places and visiting my Prophets grave.

Forgiveness, this is what we ask Allah for at these days, and this is what is asked from us, it is 3eid, forgive the ones who made you wrong.

To be honest, i had some troubels last days with someone, i will not speak high about myself, but i really was nice with her, i have treated her right, and i tried to help her, but at the end, she told me things that i will never forget, she is not rational, she is not even a friend of mine, we had to work together for something, and her work was not correct, and when i told her that she started to insult me, i had only one thing for her, 7asby Allah wa ne3m el wakiel. I was asking my self today, forgiveness is not only for 3eid and then i can go back to being angry, no. But i am still very angry, she was anfair to me, and i know if i would see her again, that i will not be fine again with her after what she said, i found out how difficult it is to forgive. i am not able to do that right now. May Allah forgive me and her for what she has done to me, and may Allah help me to learn to forgive.

This deserves some moments of your time

2007-12-15T07:21:00.000-08:00

Libyan Art.

2007-12-09T06:59:00.000-08:00

Today i want to point out a libyan artist, i don't want to write about a painter nor an actor, i want to talk about a different type of Art . Maybe i wasn't aware of it or i wasn't interested, i don't know. Maybe there is not enough advertisements made for Art exhibitions, maybe i don't know the right people to tell me about such events, i know (Dar el Fonon) of Tariq El Sekka, the other place that i know is (De villa) - i think this is what it was called - in Gergarish, but i think it has been closed years ago.
I cannot remember the first time i saw an Exhibition for this young Artist, what i can remember is her exhibtion in De Villa, i went there with my friends to have a look, while i was there, one of the famous libyan actors came in, he was walking around in the show rooms and after he finished his 5 min round he asked the responsible person there: “ Emmala el lau7at wen?"
To be honest, i couldn't hold my self, i started to laugh. As the flyers, the advertisements and name on the entrance were clearly statiting that it is a Ceramics exhibition, and this man was asking for the paintings!!!!!

I know that there is a department for Ceramics at the Art Faculty, but i know also that there were not so many intersted students and that only a few of them worked in their field after they have finished their study.
Hadia Gana, a young and talented Libyan Artist, specialized in Ceramics. She studied at the Faculty of Art and she continued with her passion after she had finished her study. She made many exhibitions inside and outside Libya, Tripoli, Naloot, Malta and France. She made herself a Name from her good and professional work.
I was only able to attend three of her exhibitions, but i try to follow up her work, because it is interesting to see her continuous developments and her style changes. She continued her study and got her Master's degree from the UK, and she is now working in two faculties and in an Art school if i am not mistaken.
I tried to google her in the internet, to see a history or some works from her but i was hardley able to find something, and i felt sorry that there is no main website where the Libyan Artists and their works are presented.
Below you will find two links for two articels about her in two different websites, where she is mentioning the effect of her surrounding on her work, i wanted to mention this to tell you that she is the daughter of Ali Gana, El Ustad Ali Gana, i don't think that anyone who studied in the Department of Architecure in El Fateh University or anyone who had the chance and the pleasure to know him personally could ever forget this Man, Allah yar7ma, i have never met a person who had such a peacefull and kind atmosphere around him, by the way Ghazi mentioned El Ustad Ali in one of his Podcasts after he passed away.

The two pictures here are the only ones that i have found on the web, if you take a look at the one above? Do you think that the stones are natural ones? take a close look, I think this exhibition was in in the Old city one year ago.

And the one below is her Master's Project.

I wish her further success in her future work, and i hope that i will be in Libya for her next exhibition.

http://www.kulalfonon.com/dalits3.asp?id_mgal=4960&id_page=7

http://albiytmag.com/details.php?&count=22&id_pages=6&i=1

Hijab.... cheating......bad speaking.

2007-11-23T06:49:00.000-08:00

Hijaab.... cheating.... bad speaking.
let me define it, Hijaab is hiding your beauty from strange Men, Cheating is copying other peoples work and calling it yours, bad speaking -gheiba- is to speak intentialy bad about others behind their back to put them in a bad position.
What is the view of Islam about these three?? Hijab, some say it is a must, some say not, Cheating, is clear not allowed, the Prophet- Salla Allah aleih wa Sallam- said: "man Ghashana faleisa minna". About Gheiba, there Koran verses are clear, it is as if your are eating your brothers meat.
My point about this is that i find it strange how people put the most weight about Hijab, oh, that girl is not a good girl, she doesn't wear Hijab, it doesn't matter that she is a kind and honest girl who doesn't hurt others.
Ok, actually this topic is in my mind for a couple of years, one of my friends had this situation, while in secondary school, the wasn't wearing Hijab, one time a teacher, Ikhsaia Igtima3ia came to the class to talk about Hijab, they were saying how bad these girls are who doesn't wear hijab, they instead of sitting houres in front of the mirror preparing theier hair they should sit and study, some of the other -Hijab and Jubba wearing girls- were agreeing, yes these girls are not good girls, just because of theier looking. What made me wonder, is that at one of the final Exams these Hijab wearing girls were asking the one without Hijab for answers, i know that my friend doesn't cheat because she believes in the Hadieth, so who is here the right and who is the wrong?
Just because you are wearing your Hijab you think that everything else is allowed? you can talk about others, cheat as long as you seem in front of the people Muthajba? i am not talking here about those who believe in it and are trying to be good people, i am talking about those ones who do it just to look good in front of others but the inside is not clean. I think that it is more important to be clean from Inside than wearing your Hijab or shorten your trousers, at the university some of the ones who had short traousers and long bears were cheating too, is that right????
Don't miss understand me, i believe in Hijab too, i just believe that if you want to be a good Muslim you should first understand what Islam is really about, and not only choose the things that are convenient to you.

Life stops you from time to time

2007-11-18T15:34:00.000-08:00

From time to time the life stops you, it tells you nothing is forever, we live our normal life, wish for good things, work, study, pray, believe, lough, cry but from time to time there is a bigger thing that stops you, when someone from the family dies, when someone close dies, you stop, you realize that nothing is forever, nobody lives forever, there will be an end, we will all go to another life, wheather this life is good or bad depends on us, have we done what Allah wanted us to do? where we good people? where we kind to other people? where we honest? did we treat people in a good way? where we responsible people? where we doing our best in our everyday work? nothing else matters, not the money that we are earning, not the cars we are driving, not the brand clothes we are wearing, not meaning that we have to leave the life, but we have to balance, our behavior and work is first, then the treasures of the life, be sure that we do our best, so that if our day comes we are prepared and we are not afraid of meeting Allah.

Learning from Mistakes.

2007-11-05T17:52:00.000-08:00

In the past week i have made a mistake, i said something really ugly about another person, in my anger i didn't knew what i was saying, in my case writing, and by mistake the words reached the person i was talking about.

I never felt so shame of my self, i really had a bad time after that, waiting for the reaction from the other person. Now i feel better, i apologized and i really ment it, i think it was a lesson from my God, to try not to ever ever again say ugly words about someone else. If i want to discribe my anger, first i have to calm down until i can control my self, and second i will try not to use any bad words, even if the other person was wrong, i don't have to be as wrong as him, i will try to be just honest and subjective about what made me angry.

Judging by Name.

2007-10-25T14:55:00.000-07:00

Last days i saw something that made me think.

I have read a comment on a person whose family is well known, the comment was very judgmental and have put a bad light on that person. I know this person, and the things wrote about him are completly wrong. I would say that they were written on purpose just to hurt, but why?

Why are we doing this? Why do we judge on others just because they have money, they have power, they have ideas, they have knowledge, they have luck, easily they have more than we have. Why it is easier for us to believe the bad things than to believe in the good things? How come we lost the trust in people??

Why do we feel jealous when we meet a person who has more money than we do? Why is it easier to say that the money that they have is stolen and not clean instead of saying that they might have worked for this money?? Why do we think the worst first??

During University the ones with rich daddies where treated differnetly. " his father will buy him the best car, his father will pay for his grades, his father send him to France for a vacation." And because we don't have a rich daddy, we have to take the micro we put our anger on them. Maybe they were just nice people, honest, straight and responsible.

Is this fair?? try to be honest?? from the relligion point of view is this right??

I will not give the answers, i think the answers are clear?? We are jealous. We can just easily say this is life, some people own more some own less, everyone has his part in life and everyone will take exaclty what God wants him to take. Isn't life easier this way??? trying to feel satisfied with what he have. Leaving the others alone?? What would be case if it is us who are rich?? if the others say about us that we are stealing??

Ask your self are you judging by Name??? are we fair by doing this??? do we know the truth or are we just jealous??? Are we really looking for the truth???

Have you heard of the BOBs???

2007-10-22T09:11:00.000-07:00

DW (deutsche welle) is looking for the best of blogs, in different categories, one of these categories is best podcast, and one of the nominees is the libyan writer Ghazi Geblawi who has been blogging for while, but he is not only nominated for the best arabic blog also for the best podcast worldwide.

If you want to support him and vote for him pls go the follwing link and vote for Ghazi.

http://www.thebobs.com/index.php?l=en&s=1155503109924847OMDFOOVR-NONE

We all wish him best of luck.

Update

Last time i checked the voting results, Ghazi had the most votings in both the best podcast and the best arabic blog.

I wish the best for all the bloggers who have put alot of effort to make a good blog, and i am happy that we have also a libyan blogger who is nominated.

Having a vision.

2007-10-13T15:59:00.000-07:00

I have a vision, i want to make a difference, i want to make things better.
I live outside, i see how things can be done here and i am wondering why i all of this can't be realized even in libya.
I am driving and following the rules here, in Libya " are you kidding, if i put the belt my friends will lough at me." I am writing my exams without trying to copy from anyone, in Libya " one of my friends got angry because i didn't want to help for the exams "
It seems that people have two personalities, one in Libya and one outside, i am looking for the straight, God fearing, responsible and honest libyan who is willing to try and work.
Is there anyone outside there who feels that i am talking to him and who wants to help too?
Let's us put the building blocks, let us find starting points.
Help us to point out the good and honest poeple to encourage them to stay like this so that they don't feel alone.