Thursday, April 13, 2006

Translation

Fly me to the moon- and let me play among the stars
طيرنى للقمر - و سيب الحبل و شد

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

The transformation of the city

As I was walking the very typical daily path that I am used to walk, since I have learned how to walk,on my way to work, and my subconscious is "aware" of every single detail in the streets; the way people look, the color of buildings, and the bumps at both sides of the road, It has sent me an alert today that there is something missing, and it was not small to overlook. Another villa was destroyed.

Alexandria is presumed to be a beautiful city. Some people claim that it is beautiful for the sea, other say it is because of its citizens, and most of them believe that buildings are the real reason. Comparing to Cairo, Alexandria is still not a Forrest of cement, dust, and pollution as is the case in Cairo.

Nowadays, someone has decided that there has to be equality between Alexandria and Cairo, and both must have the same Forrest, so the law to ban destruction of villas is outdated and everyone with a heritage is selling it to a building tycoon to raise a 20 story building to gain more money, make poor people just poorer and make this city as ugly as he can.

Rabena 3al zalem wel moftary we ebn bent el .... :-)

Sunday, April 9, 2006

SWIFT

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication; an industry cooperative that provides a standard format for transmitting payments, stock transactions, letters of credit and other financial messages to more than 7,500 member banks, broker-dealers and investment organizations around the world. A SWIFT code is widely used to transfer funds between banks.
ANB SWIFT service allows customers to perform money transfer outside the kingdom with any currency or inside the kingdom with a foreign currency.

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Lebanese Colors

When you live in a small town like Alexnadria, there are very small chances to find a nice place, that is not crowded all the time. For me, a place that serves shisha is a prime place. I used to be enjoying the famous cheap shisha at Sa3a le2albak, made by Alaa, the one and only, and enjoying the company of my entimate friend abo 7ouda. But guess what? Abo 7ouda is gone to the gulf, and Alaa has left town too. So sa3a le2albak is not an attraction anymore.

Lately, I have discovered a very nice place, called Lebanese Colors. It is located at this new area beside acacia and county club. One of the virtues of Lebanese Colors, besides the cutie chicks of course, is Shisha. :). Shisha is really good, balanced, served in a nice way, and coal is changed regularly.

Although, the prices are a little bit high, and sometimes you just can't find a nice place on a soft, but their moonlight(cocktail) is a milestone. :)