another so called million gathering ....

Today, status quo for post revelution updates was relatively quiet , other than the fact that Tahrir Square was celebrating what we called The million gathering of Kandahar and Saudi supporters, and where the participants called it “The demonstration to apply religious law”, only black and Saudi flags where raised, where I am truly loathing that such people hold the Egyptian nationality.

 

 

Apart from that, my only brother proposed to his wife to be today, it’s a pre-step before engagement, the girl sounds like a sweetheart, haven’t met her yet but they both seem so in love, which is something blissful in the middle of all dullness I am living through lately.

Maybe I can share with all of you some details of what I am encountering, but today I prefer to conclude my blog with the good news, and with wishes that we all find our true love:)

25th Jan Revolution

Let me start 1^st blog by saying that I will always be anonymous to my readers; I posted the launch of this blog to my personal FB page, so only those who decided to drop in and check it out yesterday will know my true identity, which luckily don’t exceed a hands count. There will be no more posting to FB and this will very well suits my blogging purpose, as I need the space to be honest and outspoken, without the fear of being identified or criticized for my personae rather than ideas.

As blogging is not a very popular tool in this part of the world compared to the west, I believe that most readers tumbling across my blog will be non-Arabic speakers or at least have English as their second language. I am not an English native speaker but I promise to keep a sleek blog.

Since the break of the revolution in Egypt which I guess no one whether coming from the west or east haven’t heard something about, I got so hooked and engaged with it, and if there is one thing I will regret all my life is the fact that I was and still living abroad during this period and wasn't able to be there during the first 18 days, which ousted a 30 years old regime, and in most of the key battles that took place post this great event, to this day.

My role was mostly as a moral supporter and sometimes a financial provider for the cause, when I go on holiday, I try not to miss any demonstration, talk, or conference I could lay my hands on, but it will never obliterate my devastation for not being able join my friends and citizen’s pain, danger and bittersweet success.

Pre revolution I used to spend most of my spare time either socializing with friends or watching my favorite TV channels which happened to be E! and Style, but in almost 2 years since the break of the revolution I do nothing all day beside my work but following up on the daily updates on what’s going on back home, I have watched nothing on TV but news and political talk-shows, I have added over 600 friends on FB, to follow up on all updates, even when I want to break the cycle for all what it brings of pain and frustration I simply can’t.

It is tormenting me every second the fact that people sacrificed their lives, ended up with devastating injuries, deformities especially in the face, got blinded, insulated and been called all sort of names, and courageously accepted all that for a cause they so much believed in and thought is possible to achieve, and yet everyday since the ousting of Mubarak is a bad day, and it only goes from bad to worse.

To top matters up, we are currently facing the most ridiculous outburst of Islamists, who relate nothing even the slightest to what the true morals and ethics of the great religion bring.

They are working so hard on igniting sectarian sedition, brutalizing anyone who opposes their ideas or believes, terrorizing citizens, and there is not one official to bring them back to their senesces.

What truly depresses me is that they perform all their dirty and ugly actions under the umbrella of Islam, which is all to innocent and far from them. 

Here are some of today’s highlights :

A lady wearing niqab (fully covered) which is supposed to symbolize that this lady has the highest level of ethics and morals due to her high religious believes, who was taking the same metro(underground) car as this young girl in the picture, over a quarrel  with her, promised the girl that she will make her regret! The girl was in shock when she departed her station, finding her hair strands loose in the coat hoodie, which she didn't feel being cut off due the car being packed with people.

I couldn’t get over the anger that a grown-up lady, who is most probably a mom, takes such a cruel action against a young child, in such cold blood!!

In the 21^st century, we have these heart wrenching facts, innocent children in the millions fleeing to the streets, where hunger and cruelty is still better than  what they face in their homes. Where not only their fragile bodies don’t find a shelter but they need to dig into or wastes for something to keep them breathing… what a SHAME on all of us !

A car invented by an Egyptian, who was denied support by government and factories in Egypt and had to get it manufactured in China, it costs $4,000 and its specification suits the Egyptian environment. As much as I am glad for this invention, giving all the less fortunate the dream to own their own car, as much as I worry, how can our streets handle a drastic addition to its current car stream.. it is truly not feasible !



Our 1^st ever freely elected government, after a great revolution, who’s representative come from the hugely oppressed and tormented party in the history of Egypt, where they suffered the most from pre-revolution regime, decided to rename the highway heading to the 5^th settlement in Cairo, from its current name “The Martyrs” to the name “Marshall Tantawy”, a man who is responsible for tremendous blood shed over the 1 and a half years he and his gang (Supreme Council of Armed Forces) ruled the country.. YOU all and politics players are the dirtiest creatures on earth!

Who is the the Egyptian Mockingjay?

بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم , I think there is no better way to start my blog better than with these words. I feel bizarre taking this step, and I don’t know where it will take me, but today a virtual friend of mine who is the result of our great revolution, decided to start her ownblog, and I was intrigued into doing the same with no real purpose other than finding a more discrete place to vent out my thoughts and emotions.

 

 

Selecting the name was quite an exceptional experience, I have finished reading book 1 and 2 of Hunger Games trilogy, left only to read the last book named “Mockingjay” and the mockingjay was the authors invention which she explained as “they are the hybrid of mockingbirds and jabberjays, the birds were created by mistake. The jabberjays - all male - were initially created to eavesdrop on the rebels in the Dark Days, memorizing entire conversations and repeating them back at the Capitol. Once they were discovered, the rebels fed endless lies to the birds, and sent them back loaded with false information. After the lies were discovered, the Capitol closed the laboratories and the jabberjays were released into the wild, in the hope that they would die off. They did, eventually, but not before they passed on their genetic code to female mockingbirds. This was unforeseen, because no one expected them to have the brains to reproduce. The offspring were called mockingjays, and, while they had lost the ability to memorize words, they could mimic any sounds from a child's high-pitched warble to a man's deep tones, and even songs with multiple verses, if you had the patience to sing to them.”

 

 

The Mockingjays where a symbol of rebellion, they were described as being as tough as rocks, being able to thrive in almost any environment, and this is who I am striving to be, so there would be no better name that describes me or precisely who I desire to be better than the combination name of my beloved nationality and this symbol of rebellion and power, so The Egyptian Mockingjay it will be J