Exams

I haven’t written anything in like forever. And it just happens that I have an exam tomorrow. So, yeah let’s waste some time, right

So, this is one more pointless post. I have exams and stuff. I had one the day before yesterday and I did good so I’m kind of optimistic about the rest.

That’s pretty much it. Happy time wasting everyone-who-is-reading-this-person. umm yeah that sounds like a word.

About the protests

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I’m writing this as I wait for my class to begin. Yesterday, there was a huge protest in Tahrir square. Consequently we had a half day in the academy. Which meant that my exam was postponed for next week. Today, my exam was also postponed for next week due to “many emails and requests asking me to postpone the exam” quoted from the email that I received from my lecturer last night. And I bet there are protests today as well. I just haven’t turned on the TV this morning to confirm that.

If you watch the news. And I mean international news, not the news in the pub. You might know that there are protests and demonstrations going on right now in Egypt. You might also know that Egypt is currently ruled by a military council since the resignation of Mubarak in February.People are now protesting to demand the SCAF to hold the presidential elections in April at most. and form a new government that can do something without the council interfering, and a few other I can’t remember. The police as usual is clashing with protestors, injuring many and killing some. If the police haven’t interfered and started killing people, the protesters would have probably got bored and went home. But the problem is that the police are not smart. In fact they are as stupid as anyone could ever be. The more people they kill, the more protestors there are. A few days ago, the police clashed with those in Tahrir square and set fire in their tents and belongings. Seriously, Is that how you convince people to go home? The same way Mubarak thought that by shutting down the internet and all cell communications, he can force people to go home. So, If I have no internet, no cell phone and no text messaging, would that make me stop protesting? No, that would make more people go to streets and protests because now they have nothing to do at home or at work. I somewhat expect the internet to be shut down, unless they learned their lesson. I have not taken part in the protests so far. But that doesn’t mean I’m against them. For those in Tahrir, you are there for a good cause and God be with you.

And about my class, it was cancelled.

Can being-too-polite be seen as rudeness?

Today, I was walking in the street just around our campus with a friend. he saw a couple of girls who are his friends. So, as I usually do, I politely wait for him a few meters away till he finishes his talking. But today, I heard one of the girls say “Why is he standing so far away”. When they finished what they were saying he came a joined me back. I asked him if what I heard was correct, he didn’t seem to remember her saying so. But then he said ” Actually I think she did say that, but I wasn’t concentrating”. So, in case she didn’t say so, then I’m totally crazy and hearing things that are not there. But what if she actually did say so. It made me wonder what others actually think of me and the way I behave with them. I’m not saying that the girl liked me. I’m saying that what if she thinks that I don’t like her and her friends, and that’s why I was standing a little further. When in fact I was standing there for the sole reason of giving them some privacy. They don’t know me, and the last thing I wanna do is make them feel uncomfortable by forcing them to accept the presence of a stranger aka me.

So, can what I do for the sole reason of being polite be seen as an utterly rude move?

I hope not.

I ain’t a teen no more

So, yesterday was my birthday. I’m now officially 20. And that circulates some questions in my head. When I was a kid I imagined that at the age of 20 I’ll a grown up who accomplished many things great. But, here I am I barely feel like a 20 year old, I feel more like 15 or something and my family says that I look too young to be 20. But surprisingly that’s not what I’ve been told since I was in preparatory school (middle school for oversees people). I was told that I behave like old people, or rather that I’ve always been less fun than others in my age. And a friend told me lately that others see me as a “Mysterious” one, for the sole reason that I don’t talk much. And then there was Facebook and all the happy birthdays on my profile wall. Apparently Facebook has changed my privacy settings and decided that it’s better if everyone knew it’s my birthday that day. And to be honest, all those Facebook congratulations look too fake, Like I know that those people don’t mean it. People will tell you happy birthday if they thought that you know that they know it’s your birthday. When in fact I didn’t know they do.

Track-induced thoughts

So, today I was walking the track around the football court. There was a game playing, and I could notice other people really interested to what was going with the game, that it reminded me when I was in school way back when I was a little kid and how I tried to like football just to be like everyone else. And how I felt that I was missing something for many years. Except that everything changes, I hardly know anyone from school anymore and I never cared for football anymore later on. Now football is less important to me than say… painting the sidewalks, you get the point. But at the time I didn’t have something that I was really immersed in, not to mention I knew nothing about computers or that the internet even existed. Which is pretty much a big part of my life right now. But the question that went on in my head was Do all those football-interested people ever felt that they were missing something? The way I understand this is that when you are doing what everyone else is doing, just going with the flow. You never feel like you are missing other things when in fact you are missing everything. All the better or worse things in life that the only reason you never knew is that the molded society around you never let you to. This somewhat felt that it relates to me somehow with my photography hobby, which my family encourages me to continue doing, but in fact, I knew anyone – like in real life – that shared this hobby with me. It made realize that all those concrete minded society shaped-people are missing everything. They are missing everything they never tried for the sole reason of not knowing about it. But then It was back to me, What am I still missing? Probably way more that I could imagine.

Back to drawing

I was somewhat bored today, so I asked my sister if she had some sketch notebooks. She was like “I think I do have a couple, I’ll get you one later”, I was like “I want it now”, then she pointed at a white bag in her closet, me:”This one”. she was like “yeah”, I got it out and there were two of them. She said she wants the “Cars” one looking at the one that had Matter the towing truck on it. So I took the other one. I started to draw some random looking car then erase some and redraw it. I ended up with something interesting that’s not a car at all, but I think that’s how a car would look like if it was designed by a minimalism designer, and by the way I’m a big fan of minimalism, especially in the product design area. I then kept browsing photos on flickr looking for something nice to draw. I remembered a photo stream that I checked a long time ago, for an artist called Marta Orlowska. Check out her photos, she’s really good. I browsed her stream till I saw this beautiful photo, and that was it. I instantly started drawing. I hope she doesn’t mind or else she could sue me to death or something. hoping she doesn’t, I finished the sketch and showed it to my sister who actually liked it. It felt great to draw again considering that I didn’t draw for over 2 years. So it was quite refreshing.

My first blog post ever

So, apparently I have a blog now that I can fill with my very own nonsense.

It’s past 1 am while writing this, which reminds me that I have college the day after tomorrow. And that I’ll have to wake up relatively early.

And because this is pretty much my first post ever, all I’ll do is just ramble. For the past week or so, I’ve been working on a project that’s required for a course in college. the hardware was pretty much done and I’ve been writing code for some time now. Only to find out that more and more problems keep showing up. wires keep disconnecting and I keep fixing them, but more and more things keep going wrong.

I’ll probably be posting random pictures and such. So this blog will be some kind of documenting thing that I get to read at some point in the future.