Bipolar

She was one of the top ten students in the whole country in secondary education. She asked the minister for a night job to help support her family of two parents and 7 brothers and sisters.

One day, she stopped sleeping. She became more fun and daring. Other nights she sat alone in the dark and sobbed for no reason thinking life was not worth it. One day she went to her balcony and flashed …

الطوخي الفطاطري

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

الطوخي الفطاطري

أنا: باب الشاعرية ؟ فكرتني بالطوخي الفطاطري
ضحك و قال: أيوة ... أنت ذوقك في الأكل كدة يا دكتور
قالها و هو بيصارع لسانة الثقيل و قلقة من الي بيحطلو المخدرات في الشاي.

Submit story

in «Blogging & Personal» by moftasa

Dear Blog,

Sometimes I stare in front of your 'Submit story' page for hours. I write something very personal in it. A story that will expose my weaknesses and imperfections. A feeling that is naive or childish. Or just plain foolishness I have done. It is important to me to confess and to let it all out. But I never click submit. I delete it and do something else. I think we are not good …

SMSs of the sit in

in «Politics & Human Rights» by moftasa

Alaa sent a number of SMSs from the sit in. Since he couldn't set up his blog to do the same due to Vodaphone putting restrictions on international SMS. These SMS appeared as published posts on the front page of this blog.

I removed the posts from the front page, but they are still accessible.

Some messages got truncated.

Here are the messages with approximate date and time:

2006-03-16 19:30:48 by Alaa

Dispatch …