first step to the road trip

Since I am going on a road trip with one of my friends , a road trip that I still don't know where it will end but I only know the direction, we are going east , I don't know how far though , so I took this opportunity to finally do something I always wanted to do , buy new wheels and tires for my car ,it felt like when a girl buys new shoes , so much excitement , showing it to everyone and asking how does it look .
I always wanted to buy new wheels because the old wheels looked so ugly because two weeks after I bought the car( two years ago) the covers of the wheels were stolen and I never bought new ones plus the old wheels were shaking the car cos they were wrecked and there was no way to use them for a long trip and I was right to change them because when I wanted to leave one of them as a spare I found all of them were not good and the guy in the shop asked me how you manged to use them until now!! , I even tried selling them but no one even wanted to throw them at the back of his shop until he sell them .

so now tell me what do you think of the new wheels ?










By the way I am not a shoes kind of guy , I have only one shes I use it all the time no matter what I wear and as you can see I think it's about time I buy new ones or may be I'll wait until my big toe stick out of it like it did in the last one .

lately

Things are getting crazy over here with me lately , I have a lot of things need to be done I don't know why I am still not organized , I stay bored for couple of weeks not doing anything that I find out that I have to do so many things in short time , things get all together at once , so is it me not being organized or isn't things coming to me once .

I met Khadija Teri last week and she was such a sweet lady not much different from the person you see in her blog , I went to visit her with Akram ( A.Adam) in the school she works at ,we had a nice short quick conversation and in the end she put on my shoulder the great idea she suggested , a blood drive for the Libyan bloggers , well I don't know from where to start but inshallah kheer , so for now I need your help to sign your names in and tell me if we can do it or not , I will be away after the next week so we will have enough time to plan everything inshallah , on the other hand Akram told me about this event on Child's day on the 21st march in Tripoli Medical Center , all the details you can get them from him I think .

صـــوت صـفـيـر الـبـلـبـل

كان الخليفة العباسي أبو جعفر المنصور لا يعطي الشاعر على قصيدة نقلها من غيره وكان يحفظ ما يسمع من أول مرة ، وله غلام يحفظ القصيدة من مرتين ، و جارية تحفظ القصيدة من ثلاث ..
فكان الشاعر يكتب قصيدة طويلة ، يدبجها طول ليلة وليلتين وثلاثفيقول له الخليفة : إن كانت من قولك أعطيناك وزن الذي كتبته عليها ذهبا ، وإن كانت من منقولك لم نعطك عليها شيئا فيوافق الشاعر .. ويلقيها على مسامع الخليفة فيحفظها الخليفة من أول مرة .. فيقول له أنني أحفظها منذ زمن بعيد فيقولها له ثم يؤكد ذلك بالغلام الذي حفظها أيضا فيذكرها كاملة ثم ينادي على الجارية التي قد فتقولها كاملة فيشك الشاعر في نفسه وهكذا مع كل الشعراء , فبينما هم كذلك إذا بالأصمعي يقدم عليهم فيشكون إليه حالهم, فقال : دعوا الأمر لي , فكتب قصيدة ملونة الأبيات والموضوعات وتنكر بزي أعرابي وأتى الأمير ليسمعه شعره ..

فقال الخليفة : أتعرف الشروط .. قال : نعم .. قال : هات القصيدة .. فقال :

صـــوت صـفـيـر الـبـلـبـل ** هــيــج قـلـبـي الـثـمـل

المـاء والـزهـر مــعــــا ** مــع زهـــر لـحظ المـقـل

وأنت يـا ســـيــد لـــي ** وســيــدي و مـــــولي لــي

فــكــم فــكــم تـيـمـني ** غــزيــــــــــــل عــقــيــقــــــــل

قــطــفــتـه مــن وجـنــة ** مـــن لــثــم ورد الخـجـل

فـــــقــــــــال لا لا لا لا ** و قــد غـــدا مــهــرول

والــخـــود مــالـت طــربا ** مــن فـــعـــل هذا الرجل

فــولــولــت وولـــولــت ** ولــي ولــي يـــا ويـــــــلـلـي

فـــقــلـت لا تــولــولـي ** وبــيــنــي الـلـــــــــؤلــــــــؤلــي

قــــالــت لـه حـيـن كــذا ** أنــهــض وجــــــد بـالنـقـل

وفــتــيــة ســقــــــــونــنـي ** قــهــــــــــــوة كــالـعــسـل لي

شــمــمـتــهــا بـأنــفـــــــي ** أزكـــــــى مــــــن الــقــرنــفــل

فـي وسـط بـسـتــان حـلـي ** بـالــزهــر والــســـرور لـي

والــعــود دنــدنــدن لي ** والــطــبــل طـبـطـب طـبـلي

طب طبطب طب طبطب ** طب طبطب طبطب طب لي

والــرقــص قــد طــاب لـي ** والـسـقـف ســقــسـق سـق لـي

شـــوا شــــوا وشــاهــش ** عـلـى ورق ســــفـــرجــــل

وغــرد الــقــمــري يـصيح ** مـــلـــل فـــي مــلــلـــــــــــي

ولــو تــرانــي راكــبــــــــــــا ** عـلـى حــمــــــــــار أهـــــزل

يــمــشــي عـلـى ثـلاثـــــــة ** كــمــشــيـــــــة الــعــرنــجــل

والـنـاس تـرجـم جـمــلي ** فــي الــســوق بالــقـلـقـلـلـي

والـكـل كــعـكــــــع كـعـكـع ** خـلـفـي ومـن حــــويـلـلـي

لـكـن مــشــيــت هــاربـــا ** مـن خــشــيــــة الــعــقـنـقـل

إلـــــى لــقــــــــــــــاء مـلـك ** مــعــظـــــــــم مـــبــجـــــــــــــــل

يـأمــــــــــــر لـي بِـخِـلـعَــةٍ ** حـــمــراء كــالـدم دم لــــي

أجـــــــــر فــيــهـا مـاشـيا ** مــبــغــــــــددا لـلــــذيــــــــــــل

أنـــا الأديــب الألـمــعـي ** مــــن حــــي أرض الـمــوصـل

نــظــمــت قــطــعـا زخـرفـت ** يــعــجــز عــنــهــا الأدب لي

أقــول فـي مـــطــلــعــهـا ** صــــوت صــفــيــر الــبـلبل

فلم يستطيع الخليفة أن يحفظها لصعوبة كلماتها وتداخل حروفها ، فنادى الغلام فلم يستطع شيئا غير أبيات متقطعة فنادى الجارية فعجزت عندئذ قال الخليفة أحضر ما كتبته عليها لنعطيك وزنه ذهبا ..
قال الأصمعي ورثت عمود رخام من أبي نقشت عليه القصيدة وهو على ظهر الناقة لا يحمله إلا أربعة من الجنود فانهار الخليفة وجئ بالعمود فوزن كل ما في الخزنة , وعندما أراد الخروج .. عرف الخليفة أنه الأصمعي ، وعرف منه سبب حيلته , فاتفق معه أن يعطي الشعراء ما تيسر من أجل تشجيعهم

حمل ( AMR)
القصيدة فقط
القصيدة مع الشرح

collection of pictures

I was cleaning my computer from all the junk I am collecting in it and I found a lot of pictures that I don't know what to do with them so I decided to post some of them now and may be will post some of what is left another time .

Tripoli The Capital Of Islamic Culture for 2007

the sun wasn't rounded and the sky looked amazing but picturing it with a mobile phone can't show how nice the view was .


some how I love palm trees , I used to climb them when I was young with my young relatives and it was the best thing eating dates right from the top .


Once I saw this sign while driving I wanted to park just to read it , I couldn't but I came the next day with my camera , somehow it's funny sign , may be being long or may be the list of things they wrote , I like the point number 8

الحصول لكم علي أية معلومات دقيقة تهمكم عن أي شئ من العالم الخارجي

This school looks amazing from the outside comparing to any other school in Libya , I play basketball sometimes there .


I don't know what is it called but this is one of the weired flowers my dad grows in our garden


Just as I came out of the house I saw this guy walking the dog , a weired thing to see here as the guy isn't the owner of course but an African working for Modeer as the guy said when I asked him whose dog is this , I can't understand the people who hire someone to walk their dog for them , why would you get a dog if you can't take care of it .

This is my favorite T shirt , I bought it in 1998 and I am still wearing it until now


My little Monkey , it's in a key chain , a girly thing I know but It's a gift so what can I do .


Every time I get addicted to something until I hate it , that time I was addicted to Shani .


When you first read it it might look normal but my dad wrote shakroo6a instead of shkoor6a so we made fun of him for a while that day .


The middle X ray shows what is called Terry Thomas Sign , just because the space between the bones looks the same as Terry Thomas's front teeth

What a Goal !!

Blood Donation

When was the last time you donated blood ?

Ask this question to anyone in the street here , I am sure more than 90% will answer never , and those who did donate, it would be directed donation i.e for someone they already know , like if his cousin is having operation he would donate for him , it's a big shame that it's very very rare here in Libya for someone to go by his will just to donate blood , I can't see any excuse for any healthy adult not to make one day every 6 months just to give blood , may be you don't know that one or even half liter would be saving someone else's life , someone will need it to make him live, may be you don't know that you can give part of your life to someone else , yes it's life you are giving here , because if you know how many people die here just because of bleeding you will be shocked , Last year in our Obestatrics course one patient was complaining how she suffered so much and she almost died because of bleeding and there was no blood to replace for her as fast as she needed , I asked her one question to stop her from blaming the hospital and the doctors and everyone else , Did you ever donate blood , she said no putting her head down , did your husband ever donate blood , she said we are married for 20 years now and he never did , I asked her again then from where the blood would come to you if almost all the Libyans like you , yes this woman could be anyone , it could be you , donate today because you have no excuse , and even if you didn't needed blood ever , someone else would need it for sure.

I donated before and I noticed something really different in the donation room from all the other areas in the hospital , you don't know how staff would be so pleased to see you and to serve you the minute they know you are here for donation , go to Alkhadra hospital on emergency entrance ask for the blood donation room and they will show you and help you out , and the same as in TMC ( Tripoli Medical Center ) go to the emergency entrance and ask in the reception where you can donate blood , they will take a blood sample from you first for viral screening HIV , hepatitis B and C , and to measure your hemoglobin level , the results will come the next day then when you come inshallah everything will be good and they measure your blood pressure and then you can give the liquid of life , you don't know how happy you will feel after that .

Happy Birthday Yaseen

Happy Birthday Yaseen

today was Yaseen's second birthday he is now 2 years old which means he reached the age of making a lot of troubles and finished the years of being a cute little baby , rabi yistir o khalas .

الطابور

امس فى الليل جانى كابوس نوضنى من النوم , حلمت انى واقف فى طابور و الطابور هذا مستقيم و مافيش حد يقص ولا ينقز لغاية ما وصل فيا الدور نوضت مخلوع , تعوذت من الشيطان لقيت روحى فى السرير ففرحت الحمد لله , معقول فى ليبيا وطابور مستقيم أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم .
انا ما فيش مرة ولو مرة واحدة وقفت فى اى طابورفيه أكثر من ثلاثة أشخاص فى ليبيا إلا وصارت فيه مشكلة ضرورى ما يجى واحد يقص و يلخبط الدنيا كلها , هذا لو فيه طابور اصلا لان الغالبية عبارة عن كدس من الناس , هذا النظام الجديد اللى حنى اخترعناه , تكدسو والصحيح فى الجسم او الوجه يتسقد فى الاول , خلي نعطيكم بعض الامثلة .

فى السوبر ماركت واقفين عادى فى الطابور جى واحد شاد باكو حليب قص قدامى ومد الفلوس , نفخت نفخة لين حسيت النار بتطلع من خشمى و فنصت فيه شبحلى ومش عاجبه اللى صاير , قلتله غير استأذن راهو بنادمية اللى قدامك , حتى صاحب المحل معجبتاش دوتي , قال : معليشى عنده باكو حليب واحد بس , قلتله كانا غير يستأذن نخلصهوله حتى انى الباكو , علاش معندناش احترام ,مش عارف علاش .

فى أى مقهى نطلب اى حاجة , زوز طابونة ,بيتسا,نص بالدحى اى حاجة المهم نقعد نستنى ويجى واحد بعدى وياخد نفس الحاجة اللي طلبتها قبلى, علاش عندنا الواسطة فى كل شئ, مش عارف علاش.
و مرة في مطعم الكباب متاع راس حسن واقفين فى الطابور زى الناس واحد لابيه لا عليه نادى ولده الصغير و قاله هاك الفلوس وبرا قص القدام فى الطابور وخود 6 كباب , توا مش الواحد يمزطله راسه على الحيط هذا ولا شنى, يعلم فى الولد القصان من توا بكري بكري باش ما يحصلش حصلته هوا توا .

فى الجوازات فى المطار انت واقف فى الطابور ستين واحد يقص قدامك ويحساب روحه دار حاجة كبيرة لما يختم الجواز قبل الناس , انا ديما نختم اخر .واحد وننزل نلقى شنطتي تستنى فيا واللى قصو كلهم قاعدين يستنو , علاش حنى فالحين فى التفشيك على بعض, مش عارف علاش .

فى أى جنازة انت واقف وتضرب فيك الشمس وتبى تعزي وتحصل الاجر تلقى ناس جاية باش بتورى وجهها وخلاص يتداعكو وينقزو فى نص الطابور, علاش تعب فى روحك يا بنادم مش عارف علاش.

فى الطريق لما تصيير زحمة تلقى السيارات قريب تركب فوق بعضها كل واحد يبي يوصل الاول والقصان على مفاصله من اليمين واليسار, الناس شايطة فيها النار , مش عارف علاش .

في الشيل ( محطة البنزين) انت واقف فى طابور السيارات يجى واحد بقمة الوقاحة والبرادة وصحة الوجه يجي بسيارته من قدام ويوخرها للماكينة , انا مرة حضرت عركة فى الشيل على خاطر القصان هذا , متاع الشيل قال للراجل حول سيارتك برا شد الطابور . الراجل سكر راسه يبى يعبى, متاع الشيل سخن و قاله تى والله ما تحولهاش الا لما نصب عليها بنزينة , ونتشلك فيها النار هنى, أحلى حاجة فى ليبيا تصكير الراس مش عارف علاش.

البنات والنساويين مرة مرة يفلفزولى فى رقبتي حتي هما ,تجي تقص قدام الطابور ببرودة وعادي وتاخد حاجتها قبل الكل من غير إحم ولا تستور تقول فايتة على صفة لوح مش ناس واقفة تستني , يأنسة يا أبلة يا أخت يا أمى يا هووه غير علاش القصان بس , مش عارف علاش .

خاطرى نعرف شني مشكلتنا مع الطابور ,علاش مفيش صبر , علاش الاستعجال , الكل يفكر غير نسقد روحى بس و طز فى الباقى.
ستالين ولا مش عارف منى زمان لما شد روسيا كان مداير قناصين فى اماكن الطوابير و اى واحد غير يمد زومته بس ( يطلع وجهه) من الطابور يصلفقوه برصاصة فى جبهته على طول , ياريت تطبق الفكره هذى هنى باش الليبيين كلهم تبدا جبهتهم منقوبة والواحد يوقف في طابور زي الناس .

يلا, شكلى توا بنمشي نشد طابور باش نمحي اثار الكابوس اللى شفته ونولي للواقع .

blogger meeting

I just came back from my first meeting with another blogger , I met Akram that all of you know as A.Adam , there was no surprise that he didn't look anything like his profile picture but I couldn't help myself imaging him looking like that while I was looking for him in mydan el Jaza2ir where we met , first I wanted to use my right of remaining silent because anything I say may be used against me in his blog but I found myself not caring , we had nice chat and it's surprising how the real person is much different from the name you see in the screen , I am glad that I got the chance to meet one of the Libyan bloggers and I wish one day we make a bigger meeting with other bloggers , A.Adam thank you for the tea and inshallah we will meet again and again .

No Plastic Bags

I was happy the other day when I was at the bakery near our house and I saw the new campaign against plastic bags took effect ,it is held by the Environment General Authority and The Secretariat Of Health & Eviroment aiming to stop using the plastic bags in the bakeries and replace them with paper bags or other alternatives , this will limit the carcinogenic effect of the plastic bags on the food especially the hot bread and will try to lower the number of plastic bags being used daily which are causing two enviromental problems , one is the large number of bags staying at the sides of the streets , roads and highways , surprisingly I read an article saying that a plastic bag can live up to 1,000 years on the side of the road and a paper bag wouldnt last more than a month , the other Enviromental issue is toxix gases that result from burning these bags as the method used here in destroying them .
It might be just a small one step but it means alot taking it and hopfully we will see more strict rules on keeping our cities clean and healthy .

Read this for the Enviromintal Plan in Libya (خطة التحول البيئي) for 2006- 2010