The face book era!!!!

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!!!!!

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

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

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

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

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??

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.