Pokemon's hidden agenda...

Arriving to the hall where my today's OBGYN round was , i saw on the door one of these posters about boycotting American and Israeli products and their equivalent in Egyptian products , i started going through the list , everything was normal until i got to the toys and action figures section , i found the word Pokemon knowing the fact that Pokemon were Japanese , i was surprised and that's wasn't the weird part , it was what's written next to the word Pokemon as u see in the pic "Pokemon : and it means I'm Jewish" ...seriously, WTF !!!!

Pokemon was a Japanese anime started many years ago about fictional monsters and players/trainers hunting down these monsters and capturing them into Poke balls so they can recall them later and use them in fights , The name Pokémon is the romanized contraction of the Japanese brand, "Pocket Monsters" (ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā) as such contractions are very common in Japan , so how in God's green earth the words Pocket Monsters mean the phrase "I'm Jewish" !!!

EL Mahla ; What really happened...

I don't own this photos.

Quote Of The Day

Sticking feathers up your ass won't make you a chicken.

Sashi Buri (Long time no see)

A little bit insomniac as usual i decided to write some stuff down here , i wasn't gonna write anything here till i get my dead PC fixed , but since it's taking ages to get all the parts i need i decided to yap a little.



A lot happened since my last post and i 'm not counting The Oscars post, i had my 5Th year final exams , i spent the summer studying and in tests and you can see the amount of books and notes ( that's only the internal medicine stuff, Pediatrics not included), luckily i made it to my 6Th year (who would have imagined !) , naturally there was no vacation between the two years but who am i to complain , after all it's the colg's policy , and we just do what we are told. this year is good so far but it's not gonna be all peachy , i have a test next Sunday and i haven't start studying yet. Anyhow i 'll manage.



Also Egypt won the African Cup Of Nations again this year, that was actually refreshing being disappointed in many aspects of life it was a nice change, the team was really good , beating many strong African teams with good scores , EL Hadary shined and really prevented many skillful players from scoring in his goal and helped a lot in bringing the cup home then suddenly he decided to escape , so naturally he became the public enemy no. 1 , i really think the whole subject was overrated, some people wrote wanted to strip him off his Egyptian nationality , seriously What the hell !



Hmmm...what else ?... yeah i had this dream a week ago or something , i was in the street chased by a bunch of wild cats that was going to kill me (stupid , huh ! ) and in the dream i actually didn't want to run away away , i was too lazy to do so , Usually when people hear the words (lazy,laziness,slack and couch potato ) automatically they think of me , i come to their minds , but to be this lazy even in a dream , this is new even for me. but a man gotta do what he needs to protect his reputation , he he...





Yeah another thing , there's supposed to be a strike on April 6Th , people simply have to stay home and don't go out to their jobs,schools and universities , i actually love the idea , i just hope they will be able to carry the whole thing out.








By the way , Is it just me or the movie " No Country For Old Men " is overrated ?!!!

The 80th Academy Awards

Again , spent the whole night watching the Oscars from 2:00 am till 7:00 am , anyways here's the nominees and the winners (the winners are in green) :

Best Picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman - Juno
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Actor
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away from Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose (La môme)
Laura Linney - The Savages
Ellen Page - Juno

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Best Original Screenplay
Juno - Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille - Brad Bird
The Savages - Tamara Jenkins

Best Adapted Screenplay
Atonement - Christopher Hampton, from Atonement, novel by Ian McEwan
Away from Her - Sarah Polley, from "The Bear Came over the Mountain", short story by Alice Munro
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood, from Le scaphandre et le papillon, memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby
No Country for Old Men - Joel and Ethan Coen, from No Country for Old Men, novel by Cormac McCarthy
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson, from Oil!, novel by Upton Sinclair


Best Animated Feature
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Best Animated Short
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
My Love
Peter and the Wolf

Best Art Direction
Arthur Max and Beth Rubino - American Gangster
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer - Atonement
Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock - The Golden Compass
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson - There Will Be Blood

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Seamus McGarvey - Atonement
Janusz Kaminski - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Roger Deakins - No Country for Old Men
Robert Elswit - There Will Be Blood

Best Costume Design
Albert Wolsky - Across the Universe
Jacqueline Durran - Atonement
Alexandra Byrne - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Marit Allen - La Vie en Rose
Colleen Atwood - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Documentary Feature
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

Best Documentary Short
Freeheld
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

Best Film Editing
Christopher Rouse - The Bourne Ultimatum
Juliette Welfling - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jay Cassidy - Into the Wild
Roderick Jaynes - No Country for Old Men
Dylan Tichenor - There Will Be Blood

Best Foreign Language Film
Beaufort (Israel) in Hebrew
The Counterfeiters (Austria) in German
Katyń (Poland) in Polish
Mongol (Kazakhstan) in Mongolian
12 (Russia) in Russian

Best Live Action Short
At Night
The Substitute
The Mozart of Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Best Makeup
Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald - La Vie en Rose
Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji - Norbit
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli - Atonement
Alberto Iglesias - The Kite Runner
James Newton Howard - Michael Clayton
Michael Giacchino - Ratatouille
Marco Beltrami - 3:10 to Yuma

Best Original Song
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - "Falling Slowly" from Once
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "So Close" from Enchanted
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - "That's How You Know" from Enchanted
Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas - "Raise It Up" from August Rush

Best Sound Editing
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg - The Bourne Ultimatum
Skip Lievsay - No Country for Old Men
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers - Ratatouille
Matthew Wood - There Will Be Blood
Ethan van Der Ryn and Mike Hopkins - Transformers

Best Sound Mixing
Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis - The Bourne Ultimatum
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter Kurland - No Country for Old Men
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick, and Doc Kane - Ratatouille
Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Jim Steube - 3:10 to Yuma
Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin - Transformers

Best Visual Effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

Academy Honorary Award
Robert F. Boyle - "In recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction."

Poseidon R.I.P.

Ever since i was a little kid i wanted to get a pet , but my parents weren't actually the having pets kinda people , they kept talkin' about how it is a huge responsibility and it needs time and effort and so , and they are already spending theirs on me and my brother , so i just forgot about the whole thing.But 6 months ago , a friend of mine got a pet turtle , it was tiny ,green and cute , and it's easy to feed and take care of so i thought why not , and that was how i got Poseidon.

I kept him in small plastic tank containing water , and used to feed .My mom kinda freaked out when she saw it first , then eventually she started to love him , she was the one who feed him , changes the water for him and so , and surprisingly my dad and grandfather did too.

But as we all know good things must come to and end , i found him dead in his tank yesterday , he wasn't moving , it was really sad , i actually miss the green little fellow , he wasn't as annoying and demanding as most pets are . Anyway R.I.P. Poseidon , you shall be missed .

Happy Eid...

It's just two days till "Eid EL Fitr", People re buying new clothes , traveling or doing whatever they planned to , and all i can think of is that line Al-Mutanabbi said :

عيــدٌ بِأيَّـةِ حـالٍ عُـدتَ يـا عِيـدُ+++بِمــا مَضَـى أَم لأَمْـرٍ فِيـكَ تجـدِيدُ

Am stuck here under piles and piles of books, notes and paper , anyway Just wishing you all a happy Eid !

Back

Wow.... I haven't been here for a while , months maybe ... i really don't know why but i didn't have this urge to write anything or blog , may be it's due to the fact i had an exam coming or something , i really don't have a clue.Since i don't got anything in mind to write about i 'll just improvise , let's see what happened since the last time i posted here.

Many of my friends are getting engaged which is kinda unsettling , more people are graduated and moving on , some of them are actually working now , life keeps moving on .Am getting more and more addicted to facebook , i spend a lot of time checkin' my profile , managing my groups , inviting people, checking people's new photos, and that's unhealthy .Another thing the results of the secondary stage of education appeared , my brother got 99.9% and he's actually going to Med. school , good luck with that ! , and i finally got myself to go and search for a new hard disk and monitor for my PC , i got a new 19' inch LCD monitor YaaaaY ! , now i can actually enjoy shows, anime and games in their real colour , my old one used to have to supply me with a limited choices of colours either yellow, red or green !

I had my internal medicine round exam 2 days ago , I was literally freaking out before the exam , it's a clinical exam in which is consisted of 5 spots , each contain a patient and 2 questions , one about the patient and the other about anything else in medicine , i started studying a week before the test or may be more , i finished the stuff am supposed to study for the test and yet it seemed that the stuff i read is not enough , Also another problem was the cardiology case , i can't just hear the patent's heart and know what's wrong with him , it take doctors years of practice to be able to do it , and anyways they got X-ray and Echo now which really made it easy to know whats wrong with the patent's heart , anyways i tried to know the cases before the exam but it was a failure , and i actually went in without having a single idea what am about to see , but i was rescued at the last minute , there was this nice resident who helped us during the exam , and we actually did good. Now i have another test in about 2 or 3 weeks then after that i got to prepare for the finals , so am preparing for a whole new level o crap !

My Big Fat Medical Delusion Part I

It all happened more than 5 years ago, i was still in high school ( Thanwaya 3ama ) , it was this stage of your life where the rest of your life depends on your actions and the decisions you make in this two years , that's the stupidest system anyone can wish for , but never mind the system am not talking about it , in this phase of my life i was addicted to two TV series ; "ER" and "LA Doctors" which you can from the titles they are about doctors pursuing their medical careers, watching these shows i realized that it would be really nice to become a doctor , always on the run saving patients and having a great role in life , and in the end of the day you feel satisfied about yourself cause u mane a change in someone's life , may be a family's life !

The day came and the results was out , mine were good ; it gave me the possibility to join anything i want , so logically as any Egyptian secondary stage student with good results my choices were what they called the Top Colleges which were 3 in my case :Medicine , Dentistry and Pharmacy . i had my my sight onto Dentistry since i was in high school cause it's not as hard as Med school and many of my friends had the same goal so back then we all had decided Dentistry it is BUT after the results came out almost all of my friends bailed on the Dentistry idea, only one didn't . And for me at that time i saw no difference between Med school and Dentistry , at least with Med school i would have more options later on , but with dentistry there weren't any other alternatives , you can only become a dentist. Plus having both parents in the medical field they kept going on and on about how it's so good being a doctor and how people always tend to exaggerate and that Med school is not that hard , and it's a place where u need to work hard to get good scores like anywhere else , so after a lot of thinking i decided it's gonna be Med. School .

The big day finally came , my first day as a college freshman , and i had this Soap opera's version of university , a place with many vast green spaces , many shady areas , it's like hangin' out with your friends , people wearing their best outfits ( I had to wear a school uniform for 13 years) , and people socializing and having a good time , only they have to attend lectures and section But at wasn't anywhere near that , it was the farthest thing from that . There was no vast green spaces , neither shady areas and the weather wasn't fine all the time , it was too damn hot and sun every everywhere , no cafes or places to chill , People weren't socializing , actually people were divided in these groups which were like private clubs , you can't join it's only for members kinda act , and you find this strange peculiar kind of people , the second the lectures end , you don't find anyone there , they just vanish ! not to mention that people wore a depressing set of colours consisted of black,grey, navy , Paige and all the other unpleasant colours . Just by walking there you can sense the essence of the doomed place , people looking unhappy not a single smile on any one's face , everyone is worried and under stress , too much adrenaline in the air. And after some time people stop caring about their appearance , they lose the interest , they start wearing anything no matter how hideous or unmatching they look , it doesn't matter anymore !

And you actually find that people treat college doctors like gods , he may run you over with his car and yet you can't complain cause they have the keys to your entire future , by a single word a doctor can ruin your entire life , they control everything . Actually an ophthalmology doctor was this close from flunking me at the orals last year because of my hair gel and my goatee , he just didn't like so for him that was enough, let alone they only judge you by your appearance , i mean for crying out loud he shouldn't be able to do so, and what really pisses me off is that i don't really hate Med. school , i like the stuff they teach us there and really appreciate it , it's just that i know that this could ' ve gone much more better , it could ' ve been more organized , more educational and even more fun , but it's no use crying over spilt milk .

This is how we do it !!!!

Few days ago , i was going back home after colg. when i saw this , a man hanging on a rope or somethin' onto the Clinics' Building in the faculty of dentistry to clean the clinic's logo , and it was really windy , the trees were shaking . he might have just fallen any minute while doing so , that made me wonder that's a guy risking his own life to do this job and it's not even worth it , i bet they don't even pay him enough..... At least they could have made it safer for him..... But why that would kill the fun of it ! and won't be EGYPTIAN enough .....

Long Live Egypt !

Famous Leader Test

Well... , i was tagged by Spellz " Dudette :D "
to take the What famous leader are you test , and i turned out to be Bill Clinton , got no clue why but i didn't really hate the guy so it's fine by me !
Now it's my turn to tag :
Meko
Noweir

What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Things that make me feel good...

It's About stuff that make you feel good , the insignificant little things that have a big effect on your mood and your day , off course there's a personal variation. Anyways, that's what makes me feel good :

- The smell of nescafe in the morning.

- When you wake up in the morning tired in your bed an not ready to get out of the bed , then you find out you still have more hours to sleep so you continue sleeping.


-When u find your fav. movie showing on TV by chance.

-The Feeling you get when you finally remember the name of the song that you ' ve been whistling all day and can't remember it.


-When you know that people said good stuff about you when you weren't there.

-Big family reunions.


-Seeing someone you went to school with and you totally forgot about him/her. ( Brings back a lot of good memories).

-Spending time on your coach in front of a good movie on TV with a hot chocolate in your hand and a blanket wrapped around you in a cold rainy night (That's one of my personal fav.) .


-The feeling you get on doing something for the first time and you find out that you really liked it.

-Movies with twists at the end that leave you saying " man , i didn't see that coming".

Power...

In this world , at the end of the day what matters most is Power because an ant with the best intentions or the most diabolic schemes is still an ant !