I couldn't believe my eyes

Today was a pretty good day. Actually it was all good except for one single scene, but boy dod my blood boil. I don't know the area's name, but somewhere on the Autostrad a few minutes before Nady Alsikah, I say a guy in the middle of the street. I don't know how he got there but the guy was standing their in his birthday suit to put it politely. Now the guy was obviousely sick and possibly crazy, yet no one seemed to care, no one had the sense or nerve to cover him up. And how he got there is the question I'd like answered. If you ask me, many have escaped from the mental hospital in 'Abassia but this time I think heads should roll. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I'm not giving up

These elections were a disgrace to the word democracy. Sure some people got to vote but it mostly was a play. Ivoted this time and I will not stop. I will vote anytime there are elections in the future. The simple solution is; if we want real or semi-real results, we have to produce a big voting turnout. Usually the turnout in Egypt hovers around 12%, so what we really need is like an 80% turnout. The figures say this election had a 30% turnout. Considering all what the NDP has done, I'd put the real turnout at 20-22% which is an improvement. But we still need to learn a lot. We need to learn how not follow the guy with fake promisses just because his party is going to end up winning and the guy was also nice enough to to hand out money to the people.


Of course now we're going to start worrying about Mubarak's promises. He's promissed massive increases in wages. Since logic dictates Ahmad Nazif will remain prime minister its obvious how its going to happen, Nazif has been in favour of decreasing and even getting rid of subsidising. I expect to see everything go up in price and that these wage ingreases won't result in any real increse in income. I do think that the wages will get a month or two headstart though.

All I have to say is I hope people won't get to dicouraged. Elections will always be a play till the day comes when we show up in enough force and actually put our own choice into office. The more we show up, the more real the results. So please don't boycott again and make your voice heard.

Thank you, Thank you

I must give my thanks to the NDP for letting me feal good for 24 hours of my life. To bad all the hope and everything else, has worn of before the ink on my thumb. Now we've heard of all kinds of unfairness and election fixing. Thank you so very much for letting me be happy a lot less time than it takes to get my thumb clean. I hope you, who are responsible, burn in Hell for this.

I voted, hehehe

Exactly, hehehe. I left my house at about 11:45 to go to vote. I got there with in 2 minutes, the school is just around the corner. Now being a person born in 85 and still believing the government I looked for my name on the list. I looked twice in a long list of "Meem"s that were only sometimes in alphabetical order. I then looked at a list with less "Meem"s but in almost perfect alphabetical order, still not there. I was going to give up, having talked with one of the guys sitting at a box and discussing the thing about me supposed to be on the list. All I got was that if I didn't find my name I couldn't vote. I then found another list and I found a name that matched mine. Well not completely, it was only three names and the third name was only half of my third name (ex. alaa is half of alaa eldin) but the guy at the box didn't mind. I voted and actually felt extremely happy afterwards. My thumb is pink and I hope my vote counts.

I must say the ink is quite horrible and takes qite a long time to dry, and washing, as I've found out turns it pink.

All that is left for me to do is wait for the results. My guess it'll be something like 73.5% Mubarak, 17.5% Gomaa, 8.9% and 0.1% for everone else. I do hope Mubarak gets a lot less, but I doubt it'll happen.

A distant Forth?

The talk has been going on for ever on how the outcome of the elections will be. Of course its mostly about who's going to win and will it be fare? Of course if Gomaa or Nur win then it would prove that the elections were fair afterall and egptians do care. I highly doubt that will happen though.

Obviously they eyes have always been on the top three; Mubarak, Gomaa and Nur. Of course that's half because they're the only ones worth running, the rest of the pack is more made up of wackos and idiots. I mean they mostly have stupid and quite naive ideas. One of them did happen to make a mark though. Mamdouh Kenawy that is.

I must say a lot of his ideas are quite naive and like the others sometimes just downright silly. He has one idea that hit the mark and hit it hard. Rebuilding the Egyptian Person; that's it and boy is he right. I have no doubt that if the unthinkable happened and Kenawy won that he would fail to carry out most of what he promised to do mostly because of the fact that his party is so small and resouceless that it would be a impossible job to rule the country.

Rebuilding the Egyptian Person; might sound funny, wierd and maybe even crazy but I still think its needed. Egyptians are always said to be nice welcoming and genorous people. They are modest, simple and basically well mannered. I don't think that discription quite fits anymore. Egyptians, and I mostly talking about people in cities and supposedly educated, are really schizophrenic. You see them in Europe or America or anywhere for that matter, and you see nice people, well mannered, clean and just everything that makes a person good. Look a Cairo, which is a pretty good example of Egyptians seeing 20-25% of the population live in it, and you just lose that image. Clean? What do you call people dumping garbage in the street? And to make it worse its not just on educated or poor people, you could even see a person in a mercedes roll down his window and dump out his garbage. Good manners? Well all I've basically seen lately is people that are always in mood to fight and swear. Egyptians consider them selves as religious. My cousin told me that a friend of his now serving in Luxor found out that a lot of people didn't fast in Ramadan, why? Well the answer he got seemed to denote that they didn't know they were supposed to. Egyptian really need to get educated and learn to read, not just how to but to actually want to, some of my friends told me that a book is just a too big of a chore to tackle, one even said that sitting down to read a magazine like Mickey would be too much even. I can't deny that there are some bookworms but the overall average is that we don't read and that's one big problem we need to tackle. Of course a big contributing factor is we don't do much about public libraries. Our most beloved first lady loves openning new libraries, but the libraries themselves aren't very reader friendly, espesially for the kids and that's the main age we need to target. I also think that we should move to 5 day week days, maybe that would let people loosen up a little more and maybe well mannered. I know I've really wandered off from the main point but my pont remains Kenawy has a great idea that somebody should work on.

The Naked Chef

I watched 'The Naked Chef on 'one TV a while ago. I must say it bound to be one of the best cooking shows I've ever watched. I also liked him like opening jars and bags of stuff you'd actually have in your house. He also makes cooking look like a real fast deal. The only thing that wasn't that nice is that he would go out on his bike and go get stuff. First, he went and looked for the butcher, the butcher was mobile(in a truck), so found him bought a leg of lamb and had the guy drop him off somewhere he recognised because he got lost. Then after he marinated the lamb he went out again to buy vegtables, he acctually didn't go to a shop but actually went and picked the vegies out of the ground. Why I didn't like it is because I'd defiaitely never have the luxury of doing things like that, where am I going to be able to pick fresh carrots in this concrete jungle called Cairo? I also didn't catch the name of the chef. I'll just have to make sure I watch the show next Sunday. Yipiee!