Once Upon a Time In Beirut

HI, KIFAK , ça Va ?

Actually,i'm not here to dispute

et j'apprecie que tu m'écoutes

هيّ فشّت خلق للمظبوط

Once Upon a Time In Beirut

Following ,like rats , a magical flute

Les sources,les plus sûres que toutes

"الحايك , الفغالي و الأخ "طبوط

Once Upon a Time In Beirut

how the hell do we commute

j'ai completemnet perdu ma route

جيت لتلفن , ما في خطوط

Once Upon a Time In Beirut

went out with a girl, very cute

on ne voulait pas se quitter sans doute

بس جينا نتجوّز , ما في بيوت

Once Upon a Time In Beirut

If u felt like wanting to shoot

tout ce qui est celeste dans cette voûte

نطرلك خطاب , قوّص و فوت

Once Upon a Time In Beirut

You want me to quit mode "mute"

De nommer les architectes de la banqueroute

لأ خيّي , هيدا مش فيلم والبطل هون بيموت

Once Upon a Time In Beirut

that said , i know , chaos is absolute

mais on y a tellement vecu q'on s'en foute

و ما منبدل شبر بالملكوت

Once Upon a Time In Beirut

Hi, ça va , w enta ??

Biographie d'un des nôtres

Il n’entendit que ses propres cris lors des premières réflexions sur sa rétine, tout était flou, il ne savait ni où il était ni ce qu’il était.

L’image proclamait sa netteté, les couleurs et les allures le rendaient plus éveillé. Il savait déjà qu’il fallait cheminer autour de ces silhouettes et éviter ces marionnettes géantes allogènes … il serpentait.

Il n’était pas seul, il le savait, ayant déjà vu d’autres, même taille et mêmes soucies… ils serpentaient.

Les couleurs se réveillaient pour redormir, pourtant il le faisait aussi.

Les images se répétaient, ces sosies ressemblaient de plus en plus aux marionnettes qu’il avait connues…les miroirs lui chuchotaient que sa mutation était presque accomplie.

Pour confirmer les rumeurs miroitées, il sculptait de petits cris et contemplait leurs tentatives de cheminer autour des silhouettes et de l’éviter … ils serpentaient

Il voulait admirer le déploiement de leurs caractères, il y était un jour mais presque rien retenu, d’ailleurs ils les aimaient.

Il parcourut les années, escaladât des jours difficiles, franchit des moments de joie et de souffrance…il serpentait.

Les petits cris se reflétaient marionnettes et se dispersaient dans toute direction comme le faisaient les gouttelettes d’une des ses larmes en heurtant la fermeté des lois de vie…ils serpentaient.

Tout seul, Il talonnait les minutes mais réalisa qu’il était pourchassé par des chevaliers malades et contagieux, fidèles de sa majesté « l’âge » roi du temps, il poussait des cris, mêmes plus forts que ses premiers, personne n’y était … il essayait de les fuir …il serpentait.

Ils étaient plus rapides, plus forts, plus nombreux … il fut prisonnier

L’image dépossédait sa netteté, les couleurs et les allures se rendaient plus confuses, pourtant de sa cellule pourrie, à travers des barreaux de poussières, il reconnut ses sosies, ils étaient tous claustrés, solitaires … torturés par des promesses de lois chimériques inexistantes, hologrammes de gardes…qui serpentaient

Les couleurs se réveillent toujours pour redormir, lui…non.

(cet article est dedié a tous ceux qui ne trouvent ni loi ni personne pour recolorer la fadeur d'un 3eme âge ...surtout au liban )

أي ريفيوز

بيليف مي اي تراي نات تو بي ساركاستك آت تايمز, بات ات از جاست ابوف مي :) سو هير غوز

تو بي فير , ارابيك از باي فار زي ريتشست لانغويج اند زي موست اكويبت فور ال كايند اوف سلف اكسبريشين اند ديسكريبشين

اند هاز زي باور تو مانيبوليت يور ايموشينز باي زي سلايتست ادجاستمنت اوف بروناونسيايشن، اي سيمبل "ضمّة" تايكينغ بلايس اوف ان اكس-"فتحة" كان مايك ال زي ديفرنس، هنس زي فاليو، زي دايفرسيتي اند زي انفينيت بوسيبيليتيز.

ايفين ان زي كاليغرافي ديزاين ليفيل، ات از باي فار زي موست فيرساتيل اند فلويد، اني ورد اند واتيفير زي مينينغ بيقامز اي بيس اوف ارت

بيرسونالي، اي اكسبرس مايسلف بست ان ارابيك اند فايند ان ات زي ليتّيرز تو ماتش زي امادجز ان ماي هيد مور زان اي كان فايند ان اني اظر لنغويج اي بوسيس ، اند اي دو بوسيس اي بانش

اند تو بي ترو اند اونيست ، اي ثينك زات ايف بلوغّيرز سبينت مور تايم رايتينغ ان ارابيك زاي كان ديسكوفر اظر كريياتيف كاباسيتيز ويذين ذيمسلفز زات زاي ديدنت نوه زاي اكزيستيد

ناو فور زي بيرسونال ستايتمنت اند زي ريزون واي اي ام رايتينغ زو واي يو ار ريدينغ توداي

فيرست، رايتينغ ان ارابيك شولد نات بي كوميمورايتد ان اي وان داي ايفنت از اي باسد اواي لينغويج

سيكوند، اي ريفيوز ال كايند اوف كامباينز زات تراي تو هايد بيهايند زي كالتورال فاليو اوف زي ارابيك لينغويج ان اوردر تو بروموت بوليتيكال اور ايديولوجيكال بيليفس، ساتش آز "نحن لغتنا

،ارابيك از اي كالتورال تريزور، نات ان ايدنتيتي ، ات از اي كومون كولتورال كاراكتيريستك امونغ اظرز

اف نات؟ ، ذان سيتيزنز اوف استراليا اند يونايتد ستايتس هاف زي سايم ايدنتيتي، سايم غوز فور كاميرون اند فرانس، سباين اند بوليفيا...

سينس زي ديفينيشين اوف ارابيك از ايدانتيتي از فايغ اند يوزد ان كوستيم سيتويشنز تو سكور بوينتس ، اي كانت بات ريفيوز

ESSA proposed costume - STOP THIS LAW

well as always i try to look at the bright side of things :P or do i ?
anyhow after being introduced to the internet LAW , i was dazzled by ESSA's (electronic signatures and services AUTHORITIES ) super powers ... no more superman , no more green lantern ... i'm for ESSA .
by the powers invested in Essa by the new law , i pronounce this "new" ESSA costume design ... ;) (p.s it will include XXlarge pockets in the elaborate design ! )

حبل الغسيل

although keeping my distance ... i couldn't but write about this ... the first from " تعى لنفرض" series

"اذا جينا لنفرض مثلاً ، فرضاً يعني ، والفرضيّة ما بتجبرك بشي ، ما عم بفرض وفيك ترفض بس خدني عقد عقلي و تعى افترض" انّو كنت واقف حدّي بنهار أحد، شاءت "الصدف" أنو يكون نهار انتخابات مجالس بلديّة و اخت-ياريّة بموقع جغرافي معيّن ، شاء "القدر" انو يكون مذكور ع اخ-راج أي-دي أنو هيدي مس- قط رأسي، مع اني زايرها مرّتين بحياتي، عم تسمع و تشهد على وسع فكر و تحضّر مرشحين تنين شايبين عمنصب فخ- امة المختار ، كمان شاءت "الظروف" انو يكونوا بيّاتن أخوة مش بس من ذات "الجبّ" ...خدلك مللا شغله

بنص دين ساحة الضيعة واقفين كل واحد بقاطع و ما ضل حدا قاطع ما أغنى فهرس مفرداتو بتعابيرن المبتكرة، ايه المبتكرة ، و هون بدّي اخد لحظة لهنّي خيالن الواسع و سرعة بديهيّتن، يمكن وراثيّة بس عندن قدرة غريبة أنو يصُفو احرف يصَفو كلمات اذا صفيتن بذات الترتيب يللي ما في شي من الترتيب بتخلق يا خلوق الفاظ أستحوا يقولوها جمهور الحكمة و الرياضي لبعض بعزّ عطائن الفكري .

خليك عم تفرض معي للآخر انّك كنت موجود بهالمناظرة لانك كنت اكتشفت أنّو الاول نازل بوج التاني لأنّو أبو التاني، الله يرحمو و يرحم موتاك، ما كان يحكي مع أبو الاوّل ، كمان يرحمو و تاخد عمرو، علما انّو رضعانين من ذات ... القنينة ، لانّو بيوم مشمس من أيّار من اربعين أيّار لوَرا كمان شاء " الحظ" أنو يكون نهار أحد ...( تشّ شعر بدني ولو ) قام أبو التاني قص حبل غسيل أبو الاول لانّو عم بينقط لعندو، مجنون تهوّر و عملها، خرق معاهدة جنيف و قص حبل جنفياف فوقعت الكارثة و ركب التماس و صار في تحوّل جيني فوري حمل رواسب هالمجزرة ... و بليلتها و تيلهوون نسوانن تما تطّور المسائل ، لعبو بيت بيوت و شرّفوا المخاتير بالملفوفي يللي بعد اربعين أيّار عم ينشروا غسيلن الوسخ قدام شعوب المنطقة بس مش عالحبل لانّو مقطوش .

يعني بدي عذبك تضلّك عم تفرض معي انك معي و اذا ما فيا تقله تمشي معي عالحي الفوقاني، فشخه ولو ، هون حد الصنوبرة، في هالبيت السقفو احمر ، مش بيت يوسف ، يللي بوجّو دغري ...ايه هيدا، بيت أهل الديكين اللي بالساحة... في حبل غسيل قديم مدندل من فوق، بدّي منّك ترفعني و تهدّيني فوق لأربطو عرقبتي و ساعاتها أنا بتذكّر أنّك فرضّية و ما في حدا مهدّيني ...و تعيش انت

"Climate change" positive effects (lebanese version)

As a participant in the "Blog action day", i'm addressing my fellow Lebanese citizens...maybe through irony and sarcasm, they might get the message ...just maybe .

And i'm very sure that i'll be the only blogger today portraying the positive effects of climate change, thus the irony.

Climate change Effects :

1- in 2040 the death rate of "Rawche's" divers will drop to 0%



2- in 2060, No more spinning around to get to the statue...and a much wider parking space !



3- in 2050, Lebanese will be joining hands to vote for jeita's grotto as one of the underwater beauties (anything that unites us ...right ?!) !



4- in 2045, Lebanese Night Life will reach a new Peak...since day life will become unbearable !




5- in 2070, Lebanon will live in peace, well... mount Lebanon at least, since all the neighboring troublemakers will cease to exist



Et Voila !!!

asl plz

I had a conversation with an old friend who's now back in Lebanon after we lost contact when he immigrated to Canada.
We shared many years ago, during what i call "the post-school/pre-uni phase", the mIRC mania with everything on the side, since he owned a net cafe back then, and i used to hang out there till morning, beginning a new day with a freshly baked croissant au chocolat from the next door bakery ...:)

the nostalgia was triggered by a question "do you know what the hell happened to mr.lola ? " referring to that guy that was permanently high (on cough syrup), sitting 2 rows away, pretending he was "lola" luring horny "nicknames" to join his channel ...It was hilarious since he used to auto-dictate out loud whatever he's typing (solemnly with his right hand finger ), that uncoordinated , newly invented English, which btw helped him pass as a Russian "lola" :) :" heheheh, come i meet you, because channel very hot, waiting you..." (i dunno what shocks me more, his English or the fact that the spelling in blogger found nothing wrong about that quote :| )

Or this prank i pulled on that hyperactive guy, sitting right next to me ,who used to jump on his chair and do what seemed like a mating ritual dance each time someone answered his "hi"...i should have taken a photo of that moment when i told him that it was me joking around with him for a whole week , posing as a girl promising him a rendez-vous, so he had to shave and pour bottles of perfume everyday, hoping that this day he'll get an address :D ... priceless !!!

or that regular, that each time he skipped, we knew it will be for a whole week, since he used to "use" and get caught ....a lot!

or that huge guy, resembling "Newman" from "Seinfeld" who used to come daily, to his pre-reserved pc, no eye contact, no words, finishes pays and leaves ! for a while we thought he was a serial killer or something , but when , by mistake ;) someone checked the "keep log history",it showed that he was having cyber-sex from the net cafe ....with another guy :)

that girl that used to come over to check her mail with her fiancé, who was more of a bodyguard than a fiancé, and kept distributing threatening looks all around :)

i've seen it all, and i had my share of everything that comes with it ;)but that's for another post, another time (if the answer was "b" not "a" - refer to my previous post below). But i say i have seen it all , maybe cause i was an observer in a net cafe, maybe cause i saw both the real person and the nickname, sometimes it was funny, sometimes shocking.

funny as that unavoidable asl question and the false answers to each and every "a""s"and "l", or that someone who chats with BOTs :D , begging a channel Bot for a +, and it replies "I'm a Bot", and he answers "i'm not judging you, i just need a + " and it goes on and on ...:)then insults him and leaves the channel to try again the next day...discussions with an automated message...blind dates that went wrong :D, pranks , jokes, flooding channels ,or even stealing a channel's password ( Even though OPs of #liban didn't see the humor in it :P )

And yet not so funny, seeing all those people, trying to be someone else, in a parallel world,nerds trying to be playboys, underdogs trying to be powerful, even if just as a nickname, knowing people in higher places "ops", getting voiced + , or even founding their own channel so they can have their revenge by bullying people around, feeding their inferiority complex with that kick/ban weapon ...freaking out, if dallas' dalnet server crashes, like they were on life support machines and they were unplugged, realizing that they are back to the harsh reality of being themselves.

For me it was intense but very brief, knowing that i'm a narcissist, i discovered that i loved myself more than my nickname et voilà .

\quit #post

a or b

They say that in a near-death experience, you see your whole life events passing in a glimpse...i must be having that same experience but in slow motion, dying slowly, since most of my recent thoughts (as my recent posts show as my next post will) are flashbacks of my life, going through long forgotten layers of my memory, revisiting periods that i don't even recall living...it's either that, or it's just the fact that i'm bumping lately to many friends of that early stage and we are getting nostalgic :).

I'm leaning towards the second option , cause i really have a lot to do, and i really need the time :)

How stupid was I ?

The above mentioned question or “statement” is one of the consequences of the “facebook” flu, More precisely the “school promo facebook flu” that can haunt you 11 years after your recovery from its last symptoms.

It’s amazing how many times this question pops into my head when I’m engaging in any of the group’s events or discussions!

-checking the tags of old photos , witnessing the hideous wardrobe of my childhood ,(thanks mom), btw mom, no boy , even a 7 year old, wears “collant” under his shorts for the “sports” class, even if it was cold , believe me I have checked all the classes’ photos , not only my class , no one, no one I tell u , wears that!! I browse and I browse asking myself ....How stupid was I??

- when leaving school I kept a specific image stored in my head of every single schoolmate, stamped by the attitude at the time of our last goodbye, and one decade later, in a reunion, I find myself impressed by the maturity and the amazing character of some that I didn’t even consider their friendship back then, and get astonished by the fact that some of the closest people to me during my childhood are still 12 year olds, still bullying the previously mentioned people, dying for attention, inviting you to join the parade! And I ask myself ….how stupid was I???

-and of course, many of the girls that I kind of dated at school wrote notes for, drew their portraits, made them compilation K7s (this alone deserves a “how stupid was I?”) played the whole teenage charade with, I watch them a decade later in disbelief (what was I thinking???) and in relief (thank god that’s over) and I ask myself …How stupid was I?

-On the other hand, that one girl , that I used to spot in the shades of the familiar trees in the playground, very different , very mysterious … I lacked of courage , didn’t let her know , days passed by , always spotting her among all the crowds , years passed by , still I spotted her , a decade later , in our reunion, among everyone, shining more than ever, I spotted her and I asked myself … How stupid was I ??????

-and above all, the flashbacks, the silliest details, the smallest jokes, the conversations with a friend, a friend that asked for my friendship at an age when we didn’t understand grown ups' words like “benefit’ and “interest”, a friend that now is gone, gone for good … a decade later I look back at these fragmented memories and notice that I took them for granted and ask myself … How stupid was I ?????????

At the end of this post , I think for a second and realize that I have just written a Post about a group on facebook and I ask myself : .........

posted by lilo:not so personal "Climate Change v/s Global Warming, What is Climate change?"

-P.S: as a way of spreading the word and contributing in a global cause that transcends over all divisions, I'll be posting about this subject and re-posting original posts by fellow bloggers, in this case from "Lilo:not so personal" blog LINK who has been dedicating quite a time for the issue that is global climate change . more posts updates and links from Lilo and others adressing this theme will be posted later .
the post by its original author is as follows :




In this post, I will be talking about what Climate Change (also referred to as Global Change) is, what Global Warming is, and the difference between them.

Global Warming

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the last century.

The greenhouse effect is the process by which absorption and emission of infrared radiation by gases in the atmosphere warm a planet's lower atmosphere and surface.

So in summary, with the greenhouse effect, the more the CO2, the more the absorption of the sun's radiation by the Earth, thus the increase of the global temperature. (See Photo)

Climate Change

Climate change is any long-term change in the statistics of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. Climate change may occur in a specific region, or across the whole Earth.

Lately, a change in the climate is occurring fast, and we can see those changes today. To name a few, increase in the sea water level (see previous post about the Maldives Islands to disappear, causing what we call Climate Refugees), increase in the spreading of diseases (e.g. the Dengue fever in Bangladesh), increase in the number of cyclones (e.g. in Oman), bleaching of coral reefs, glaciers melting, etc...

As now climate change will be affecting the whole Earth, it is also being referred to as Global Change.

Difference between Global Warming and Climate Change

Put in simple words, we can say that Climate change (the recent of course) is the consequence of Global warming. Global warming already happened, climate change is happening as we speak, and the target of these NGOs by December 2009 in Copenhagen is to introduce a treaty that will let the countries work on mitigating (decreasing) the effects of climate change on Earth as much as possible, by setting the goal of decreasing the gas emissions by 80% by 2050, to reach the 350 ppm (parts per million) CO2 in the atmosphere (it's around 378ppm now), to prevent from letting the temperature of the earth increase by 2 degrees Celsius (more details on this in future posts) which if they don't, it will have catastrophic and disastrous effects on Earth.

In future posts, I will be telling you about the effects of Climate Change on Lebanon directly, the difference between Mitigation (increase in gas emissions activities) and adaptation (in case the tipping point in climate change is reached, what will we do then), the science and the politics behind Climate Change and the most common words and expressions you will be hearing that are related to Climate change.