Sunday, June 25, 2006,1:42 PM
My idealistic fancy

Each teen must had a fancy or ideal wanted to be alike well my model was a little bit different, I don't know why did I remember this issue now but I missed that idealistic thoughts of being feminine image of Albert Schweitzer for me that was the image of the man, I don't mean a man to admire I meant human.

It's too sweet to give other people – less fortunate- some of your time or your money but to give all your life, your money and your effort to people not from your country or your race or even your religion it's a miracle. It's the only evidence that we are humans.

Albert was born into an Alsatian family, His father and maternal grandfather were ministers; both of his grandfathers were talented organists well he was fond of that too. When he went to school, he noticed that his family was better off than many of the other families in his village. Young Albert decided after his first day of school, at age six, that he would not wear the coat his dad gave to him but would dress just like his schoolmates. So began a lifelong interest in the feelings and welfare of others.


Well I don't know about dates but in age 18 he entered into his intensive theological studies at the University of Strasbourg where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy, after so he began preaching at St. Nicholas Church in Strasbourg in; he served in various high ranking administrative posts from 1901 to 1912 in the Theological College of St.Thomas, the college he had attended at the University of Strasbourg. 6 years before he published The Quest of the Historical Jesus, a book on which much of his fame as a theological scholar rests.Meanwhile he continued with a distinguished musical career initiated at an early age with piano and organ lessons. He was, from his young manhood to his middle eighties, recognized as a concert organist, internationally known. From his professional engagements he earned funds for his education, particularly his later medical schooling, and for his African hospital. Musicologist as well as performer.

During his first years as a pastor, Schweitzer wrote a biography of J. S. Bach in french. The books made Schweitzer world-famous, about a year later he published a book on organ building and playing, 3 years later he rewrote the Bach book in German.Here comes the magic he was 28, he read a report on the needs of Africans in the Congo, Shortly after reading this report he resigned his position with Strasbourg University and left for medical school, deciding that would be the best way for him to devote himself to the direct service of humanity.

He decided to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor, he obtained his M.D. degree and founded his hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, even married a suitable girl named Helen who was an assistant and a nurse to him,

World War broke out within a year and a half of the Schweitzers' arrival in Africa. Germany and France were at war and the Schweitzers were German citizens in French-controlled Africa. The French government first confined them to their own hut. They were not even allowed to go to the hospital to work.

Then he spent the next six years in Europe, preaching in his old church, giving lectures and concerts, taking medical courses.Then they were back at work treating the sick. But the government again changed its mind and the Schweitzers were sent back to France as prisoners of war. While back in France, Schweitzer wrote his third book, a history of ethics.

Albert now decided it was time to return to Africa. In order to finance the trip, and his hospital, Schweitzer set out across Europe on a musical tour.

After his return to Africa, visitors from around the world, including other doctors and the press, started coming to his hospital in the jungle to find out what was going on. They found patients sitting in the dust outside the hospital cooking their own meals, and goats and chickens everywhere.

The visitors created publicity which, in turn, brought volunteers. Doctors, nurses and other helpers began to arrive to assist the doctor in the jungle. The value of his work in his little hospital was finally becoming known.

He was doctor and surgeon in the hospital, pastor of a congregation, administrator of a village, superintendent of buildings and grounds, writer of scholarly books, commentator on contemporary history, musician. The honors he received were numerous; he got the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt and honorary doctorates from many universities

Then came the Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, Shortly before she died, Schweitzer's wife asked him how long he planned to stay in Africa. He could only reply in one way: "As long as I draw breath." 3 years later and was buried at Lambaréné.died at the age of ninety, still working at his hospital in Africa.

More than merely a doctor, Albert Schweitzer was a great humanitarian, who cared for thousands of people in a remote location, and did so despite war and disease, all with little or no pay. He certainly fulfilled his goal of working "to the direct service of humanity," and by example he has inspired countless other people to enter into that service
 
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Thursday, June 22, 2006,4:57 PM
Change yourself to change the whole world

To make a difference in our fallen world seems a daunting task. How does one small person create peace in a big world full of hate? Well he could a little change of perspective and inner will is what we need

Well it's not about resources and power. If we can accept that hate is not abstract but stems from circumstances, which in many cases can be avoided, and that demolishers and rapists are not born, but made, creating peace and bringing change takes on a new appearance.

Not only does it bring hope, it is also tangible.Making a difference in the world does not necessarily require playing the roles of diplomats, politicians, policy analysts or even combatants, but of being willing individuals determined to build bridges of understanding with other people. With the inner will and courage to believe that a difference can be made, influential agents of change come from our own homes, our neighborhoods and our workplaces.

I believe that outward change stems from an inner will to change. So does our belief system influence our every thought, word, and deed. Change in the hearts and minds of individuals can bring great and far-reaching results.

Making a difference is not necessarily the re-enactment of previous measures, or walking in the footsteps of the great agents of change who already gone. It is also the courage to take measures that have not already been taken, I mean it’s not just making a difference, but also doing something different. If something has not been done before, it does not mean it can’t be done; it only means that you could be the first to do it.

Now I'll challenge you to carry an inner will and courage to make a difference and become an agent of change. Travel the road that is less traveled and far less sought. Our belief system does indeed influence our every thought. What is your belief system based on? Are you able to forgive or love others? Have you been forgiven or loved yourself?

Perhaps the first change that needs to happen is to change the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Take a look at your life. How would you describe it? Contented? Rushed? Exciting? Stressful? Moving forward? Holding back? For many of us it’s all of the above at times. There are things we dream of doing one day, there are things we wish we could forget. What would your life look like if you could start over with a clean slate?

Living with hopenow if you are looking for peace, there is a way to balance your life. No one can be perfect, or have a perfect life. But every one of us has the opportunity to experience perfect grace through a personal relationship with God at first then comes your relationship with people around starting with your own family your lover if you have got one, don't try to be perfect just try to be real not an ideal image just real person who cares about others about their feelings.

Try to be a better person before reclaiming others to be so, and then you'll experience life to the fullest.
 
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006,5:00 PM
Reclaim Your Birthday


Well it was my birthday like 10 days ago i didn't even plan for it,I had a serial party but my friends did all the effort, then it was my friend's birthday yester I found myself wondering do you have to plan for your next birthday.

Well my friend did, she planned her own celebration, inviting friends from her college group at our usual café. She even put a CD of her own favorite songs. Our friend whom his father owns a bakery provided the cake, and she sat there watching her own little victory.

When did birthdays stop being fun?

Are you looking forward to your next birthday, or does the thought of it make you shudder? Do you ever find yourself wishing you could skip a year, since the annual event only seems to remind you that you’re looking less like your image every year?

Do you like surprises party?

I'll tell you a nice story, when Nana, a youthful mother of two girls, turned 40, her husband and girls threw her a surprise party. They surprised her in her own corner she used to sit into all the afternoon with like 20 of her friends. Was she really surprised? Well, 20 people saw her without makeup, and I thought she was going to maim her husband. But after like 10 minutes she recovered and had a wonderful time.

Let’s face it, the day that’s supposed to be special may instead be tinged with a depressing ache of unfulfilled dreams…a dull reminder that your days got counted by every single person know you.

Who robbed the birthday?
Nobody it's you with your thoughts who can choose to enjoy it or just ruin it only two ways to live the day live it as it is or as it should be, plz don't try it it'll just ruin the day. It doesn't matter if the cake wasn't that perfect or your 20 guest only 11 shown by 8 o'clock go blow out your candles or wait make a wish first.

Wait a minute what if, instead, we choose to let every candle on every birthday cake remind us of the added light of wisdom that grace brings? Why not begin your next birthday celebration today by starting a log of the wonders your wise eyes see tucked away in the folds of everyday life?

I mean you can use that day to recalculate your concerns, evaluate your whole past year achievements and frustrations you gonna find a zillion thing you want to do a zillion thing you want to stop doing use the coming year to reach your ideal image, it may sounds kind of exaggeration but just try it, it may ameliorate your coming birthday too. At least you gonna count your new achievements those you achieved in the past year instead of counting your flops.

Now keep at it, put your eyes on a goal, by the time your birthday rolls around, it may turn out to be the best present you’ve ever received. Your own satisfaction is the pest present you can get.

Happy birthday safy-that's me- as you still have a million thing to be achieved by your coming birthday
 
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Saturday, June 17, 2006,11:26 AM
Love is like chocolate

Have you ever felt your stomach groan with hunger? In those situations, your body was crying out for some food. Yet, how often have you consumed chocolate candy out of desperation or convenience, just to get rid of those hunger pangs we all did several times. What happens?

Chocolate Highsinitially, feeding your empty stomach with chocolate feels great. The ache goes away, your hunger disappears, and all of the sugar and caffeine gives you the sensation of feeling high. so much that you wonder why you don't eat chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

But thirty minutes later, however, everything changes. A sharper pain than the one before grips your stomach, and your head becomes dizzy. All of your pleasant feelings degenerate into discomfort may be worse than your original hunger.
What caused this pain to result?

Was there something wrong with the chocolate? No. Chocolate candy is safe to eat, but it doesn't contain the nutrients necessary for your body to survive. Therefore, when you are hungry, chocolate alone cannot help you. Instead, it makes you feel worse. As for your body it must receive a steady diet of nutritious food. Then you can enjoy chocolate as a fun dessert. However, you will get sick if you try to live solely on chocolate.

Unfortunately, many couples enter relationships by eating chocolate on an empty stomach. They approach one another with hungry hearts, hoping that the other person will feed them. Like girls when you have a ready-made emotions to be paste on the first suitable guy. Guys don't get high you do that too !

It shows especially acute when a man or woman feels lonely or starved for acceptance. Without love, people become desperate for something to fill the void inside their hearts. A romance, with its potentially sweet taste seems the likely solution to that hunger.

Human affection may taste good, but, like chocolate, it cannot give our hearts what they need for survival. The true hunger of our hearts is to be accepted unconditionally. We need more than just attention, friendship. We long for someone to love us despite our faults, mistakes, and imperfections. Our hearts remain hollow when no one completely accepts us.

Unconditional loveHumans, however, cannot give each other unconditional love. We get upset or impatient when someone fails to make us happy. Furthermore, we base our love for someone on how well they perform. The root of this problem is conflicts, and disappointments. No one is accepting, patient, and forgiving all of the time.

Therefore, human love is like chocolate because the pleasure doesn't last. None of us have the ability to accept people unconditionally. Well i'm talking about it while i'm the first one who keep doing that. I don't mean to sound fatalistic, but we must acknowledge the reality that human love is performance-based. It always has been and always will be. You can date anyone in this world, but that person cannot give your heart the unconditional acceptance that it craves.

This truth also applies in marriage. Someone once asked a pastor, "What is your wife's opinion of you?"
He replied, "It depends on what day you ask her !!

He is right some days she loves him. Other days, he just drives her crazy, and she wonders why she married him.
People don't get frustrated by my words the only truth I know is that god is the only Person who loves us regardless of how we act.

Is marriage the answer?

How many of your married friends warn you that marriage is tougher than you think? Yet, how many of your single friends complain of feeling incomplete without a spouse?
We just neglect what our hearts really need and attempt to satisfy ourselves with a romance. we try to live on an unhealthy diet of chocolate. But our hearts cannot survive under the demands of performance-based love. We inevitably burn out, wear out, or drop out, from trying to please others.

Look it didn't work for many guys as they required too much of a woman, or women expected too much of them. I mean they were sincere in their desire for lasting love, but they couldn't make it happen.

Real love is out thereYou don’t need a new set of dating techniques. A perfect love waits to delight you. This love, however, cannot soothe the ache within your heart until you stop chasing after romantic passion. The hunger in your heart is for real passion.

Wait for it and search wisely don't get rush it won't kill you to wait a little more for it, but it will if you chose the wrong person.
 
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Sunday, June 11, 2006,1:57 PM
Free the Children

One morning, in 1995, Craig whom is a twelve-year old Canadian, while getting ready for school, noticed the news headlines in the daily paper: "Boy, 12, murdered for speaking out against child labour". The article told the story of a young boy from Pakistan - i don't remember his full name unluckily but it was iqbal- who was sold into child labor at the age of four as a carpet weaver to pay back a loan that his parents had taken out !!
Iqbal worked 12 hours a day six days a week tying tiny knots to make carpets.

At the age of twelve, Iqbal escaped and spoke out against child labour. For this he was killed.

On reading this, he just felt disbelief and shock. Craig, probably like many children in his age in the developed world, had been unaware that such a thing as child labor even existed!! But it affected him deeply. He was a child anyway didn't learn the indifference yet.
Through his initial research, he discovered that there were 250 million child laborers in the world, half of them working full time, and many in risky conditions.

Craig with a group of children from his class felt they had to do something, even though they started off unsure of what they could do.
One reviewer who had also read about Iqbal and later met Craig said that he had read the same article and was chocked. but Craig was not only appalled, but addressed the problem directly

They formed an organization called Free the Children, not only to free children from abuse but to free them from the idea that they are not old enough or smart enough or capable enough to help change the world.

Here are the main four goals of Free the Children:
-To develop the awareness of the issue of child labour and children’s rights
-To pressure world leaders to make the protection and the education of children a priority
-To create programs to help free children from abuse
-To work in cooperation with children in developing countries and around the world

Craig and his friends started doing small actions:
A petition asking world leaders to help end child labour and the exploitation of children
A letter writing campaign. They wrote letters to newspapers, to the Prime Minister of Canada and President of the USA and to other world leaders
Organisation of fundraising activities like garage sales, car washes, bake sales and walk-a-thons to raise money to build schools and to create alternative sources of income for working children.

Do you wanna see the results?
What started off as a children’s enterprise quickly gained the attention of adults. In November 1995, Craig was invited to speak for 3 minutes at a Labour Convention in Ontario. which ended up speaking for 15 minutes and received standing ovations. 2000 union members were so moved that they donated $150,000 that very day to Free the Children to build a school in India for child labourers who had left their work in the carpet industry.

Craig met with Canadian Prime Minister during a trip to India. Craig had organised a visit to the sub-continent to see first hand the experience of the young people Free the Children was helping.

Free the Children has now spread to more than 35 countries with more than 100,000 young people involved.

And it built more than 350 schools providing education to over 20,000 children, Created alternative sources of income for poor families

The organisation has also recently taken up leadership development of youth as a major focus of their activities, aiming to give children the voice and opportunity to participate in issues which affect them.

What is striking in this case, is the commitment to action and the innate belief in this group of children that they could make a difference people we can make a difference !
Children in this case committed themselves to trying to make a difference. Can we take some lessons from their development ?

Craig by age 12 he could manage to take a move to make the world in better condition he made a difference guys , he didn't fear that elders gonna deride his efforts or even doubt it he just did what he thought to be his duty. and he made a difference wish we all do even less effort and we'll change da whole face of world but if we bothered to move towards utility.
 
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006,1:07 PM
The Yacoubian Building
Yacoubian Building
For: Alaa Al Aswany
Yacoubian building was a history by itself has been lived in by the best members of society and witnessed lots of events, thoughts and social theories in such a rich period of Egyptian history.
Alaa Al Aswany's novel The Yacoubian Building follows the lives of several of the building's inhabitants. The main apartments are no longer lived in by the cream of society and the small rooms on the roof that were originally attached to them are now separately owned by poor families.

Taha el Shazli, the son of the doorman, has his heart set on becoming a policeman, but though he does brilliantly at school and meets all the requirements, he is rejected because of his background !!!
Utmost socialism....
Embittered, he becomes involved with an Islamist student movement, and then is picked up by the security forces. Meanwhile his ex lover has to sell herself to make ends meet.

Hatim Rasheed is an intellectual, the editor of a leading newspaper, and a - e7m e7m - homosexual. He installs his young conscript lover Abduh in one of the rooms on the roof for convenience, and for a short while this gives him stability in his love life.

Hagg Azzam has installed his secret second wife Souad in one of the apartments. He buys himself a seat in the People's Assembly – he could get in parliament like many others crooks - and takes advantage of the business openings that brings, but had to pay 25% of the proceeds from his import deals as protection.

Zaki Bey el Dessouki is an aging womaniser who looks back with nostalgia – a real yearning - at the good old days; he shares an apartment with his sister until she throws him out and attempts to have him declared incompetent. Meanwhile, the tailor Malak Khilla and his brother maneuver and conspire to take over first a rooftop room and then an apartment.

These strands are only loosely connected, but they are all dominated by violence. Through them Al Aswany explores the abuses of power and the corruption that permeate Egypt, from the highest levels of government and business down to the employment of the police as paid thugs in domestic disputes. He uncovers hypocrisies of power, religion, and love, but he refrains from judgment, leaving the reader to make their own evaluations.
The Yacoubian Building is not heavy going: the mood is never gloomy and there are occasional flashes of joy, with drama in every scene and shifts between the different strands used to provide tension. Though this is sometimes strained, it holds up well enough, and though the characters represent different classes and backgrounds, they are also individuals. The bestselling Arabic novel of 2002 and 2003 The Yacoubian Building offers outsiders a lop-sided but revealing view of Egyptian society.

Well I liked da novel most but when I watched even the ads of the movie I felt sorry for the lost opportunity it could be an awesome movie if any other actor made it as Adel will just kill the subject to make a few people laugh and many people feel embarrassed of his unveiled erotic hints .
 
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Sunday, June 04, 2006,4:11 PM
We can feed the world

At first I wanna clarify that we can't feed the world, but we can do much more to help the world feed itself. Some of the most effective anti-hunger and anti-poverty programs in developing nations are small-scale projects run by local or regional social entrepreneurs who would never think of themselves in such terms, but who are innovating in ways governments can't, We saw this in Ethiopia with an organization called Action for Development that was introducing new crops, innovative farming methods and water projects into the community, and it is true in many other places. Targeted support, technical assistance, and investment in local entrepreneurs

But guys we'd be in a better position to advance such efforts if we'd managed that catastrophic gap exists in our own country, one that leaves like .25 of Egyptian citizens living below the poverty line, and too many families with children seeking emergency food assistance. Believe it it's not about medicine or flat rent it's about food for many people.

I know that there was a governmental effort to save those children from malnutrition's symptoms by serving school lunch or breakfast. They done an amazing job in poisoning those children with that decomposed biscuit and relieve them of all suffering they may face in the future !!

People I intended to talk about Africa but it turned on a elegizing on our conditions back to Africa it really hurts when you see those little kids looks like a skeletons on their mams labs that don't look any better.

On oprah winfrey's show I saw a large and I mean large amount of donations I don't know if I felt better or worse where are us Arabs, oil fields owners who donated to any other project even in the states .. Poor Americans!!! They needed help with Katrina hurricane last year but our neighbors in Africa are not poor like you know !!

Whatever will we do something I mean another thing other than crying
Stop aid them if you wanna but start educate them , give them methods to solve their problems. Anybody remembers Albert Schweitzer the oganda, anyway he was my model role for many years, but I couldn't follow his steps world has changed, for worse unlikely you can't decide to go there nowadays or aid people like then all what I can do is to donate or just type a message here I don't know if it will be noticed.

I'm dreaming of educated, healthy new generation of African children whom just don't fear the future, don't fear of dying young starving and don't fear depending on donations.

Wish I live to see that day.
 
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Saturday, June 03, 2006,1:18 PM
mother earth we're sorry
The question is simply as old as Socrates: if we know what the right thing to do is, why do we not do it? It's an especially acute question when applied to global warming. The science showing that carbon-dioxide emissions are already changing the earth's climate, and are likely to have severe effects ( melting ice sea-level rise, extinction of many kinds of birds & animals ), is now barely disputed like it's not our planet or we do have an alternative planet to go
And yet, as was widely discussed at a conference of environmentalists, geologists and writers held in Germany, public understanding has not translated into even the simplest of public actions. Less than 1% of Britons, for example, have switched their home electricity to renewable sources, even though it requires little more than a phone call to one's existing provider at least they have a way to save the earth. While here in Egypt still discussing the concepts and no body seems to care well I wanna talk about those who had informed by the concepts and the methods by they still too sluggish to move a finger.
Why the disconnection between information and action? Part of the problem is that environmental upholder release mixed messages. In mid-May, the Guardian published a front-page story showing that five companies in Britain produce more co2 pollution in a year than all the country's motorists combined!! That's a strong argument for targeting industry, but the average reader could hardly be blamed for thinking, "Why should I bother to cut down my driving?" as long as big institutions don't even bother.

Similarly, not enough thought has been dedicated to the best role for government. Climate change is too vast a problem for individuals to solve alone, while big businesses have an incentive not to solve it. But I have to admit that it is a little tricky, because over reliance on government can allow individuals to drop their own role.

What's worse, government power seems to tickle autocratic fantasies. I see that environmentalists spend far too much energy upholding hard-line governmental solutions that don't stand a chance of being enacted. Climate change may be a frightening, but its worst effects will not be felt next week or next year. The planet looks the same whether I buy a sky-choking gasoline-powered car or an electric hybrid - except that I've to waste a lot of money

And so there's something that governments and environmentalists ought to agree on, right now: give consumers a motivation to go green. Clean otherwise we some day – and I think it came so near- we gonna search for a whole new planet to live in. people all what I'm asking for is a little caution I know we all spending like 2 hours daily to make our own house looks better just spend 30 minutes on doing for earth's good

Mother earth we are sorry, deeply sorry but we are too lazy to move a toe towards your good it's easy to feel sorry than be possitive i've tried but i found out that i'm plowing da water,,, just plowing da water.
 
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