Lucky Number eight !

I got tagged by Sou , and so i will have to talk about private stuff during answering 6 packs of questions ( 8 answers /each ) i will certainly try my best to bore you to death with my answers .

Here we go ..

8 Things I'm looking forward to:

1- Start my own business .

2- Survivng a long week of hosting an out of towner relative .

3- Start a long postgraduate study .

4- Quit smoking ( been stuck in the list for quite some time )

5- Resume my french and guitar courses .

6- Watch her while she's dancing again .

7- Get together with old friends ( music , BBQ , beer and a good movie ) .. just like those stress-free good old days .

8- buy an invisible guitar , you can see it with proper admiration in YAMAHA store ( esmailia square branch ) .

8 movies I like to watch:

1- The terminal

2- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

3- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

4- The Shawshank Redemption

5- Eyes Wide Shut

6- L.A. Confidential

7- 12 Angry Men

8- Cidade de Deus ( city of God )


8 Things I did yesterday:

1- went to ( el samkary ) to fix my car .

2- heard some bad infos at work.

3- missed a meeting at work .

4- discovered that ( enchanted egypt ) album rocks .

have a sip :

5- made some potential friends .

6- made a promise while knowing i can't keep , again !

7- found nothing on t.v. ( ya talk about old news )

8- Felt lonely at bedtime , maybe it's time to get a wife , or a pet .

8 Things I wish I could do

1- buy a home that's right in front of a beach , live there and work at home .

2- play drums like a monkey .

3- Start my own business tomorrow .

4- Fall in love .

5- catch some super doper powers ... like ..hmm .. get invisible whenever i like .

6- i wish i could make a difference .

7- travel aimlessly with a light bag and a welcoming heart .

8- live in a world without hate and violence .

8 Things I love:

1- Music

2-Arts in general

3-Peace of mind

4-a good debate ,one that ends with smiles and some hand shaking .

5- Party

6- friendship

7-traveling

8- nature

8 bloggers I tag:

anyone who's interested enough in this tag

Kill the pigs, break the people

All through last week the scene in Manshiyet Nasser was, to say the least, horrendous. On Sunday the police zoomed in on the garbage collector area from where the pigs would have been carried away for the culling, but the residents, having found out the previous day that the pigs were culled and no compensation was paid, blocked the roads leading to the pig pens.

The riots Feeling that their livelihood was callously being withdrawn from their hands, the pig breeders at Manshiyet Nasser hurled stones and bottles at the police, who responded by charging armoured trucks and firing tear gas. The neighbourhood was surrounded by a half dozen police trucks; a state of terror prevailed as the policemen fanned along the streets, entering homes and dragging people from inside, hitting and abusing them, and detaining some at random. A short, frail, 65-year-old man, was dragged from his shirt as he helplessly cried: “I have no business with this; I am a poor man.” Without any mercy, the policeman hit him on the head. The women and children were screaming while some young people ran away looking for shelter in higher grounds. I was an eyewitness to the brawl; I walked along the street and the police did not know I was a journalist. They went about their business of spreading terror, destroying the windshields of the few cars parked in the streets, bashing doors, and I saw them pull one young man out of his home and arrest him even though he had nothing to do with the rioters. When the security forces failed to enter the district of the pigpens, they asked the help of the local clergy and Coptic politicians to placate the garbage breeders. They promised to release the detainees, many of whom are students and may miss end-of-year exams. They also promised that compensations will be paid for the culled pigs. Brutal Come Monday, however, all these promises were thrown to the wind. The police surrounded the area in full force; anyone leaving Manshiyet Nasser or wishing to go in was beaten and held. The pigs were lifted with loaders and dumped onto trucks and carried away where they were executed in a brutal manner, being cast off in a pit, strewn with quicklime, and buried. By Tuesday, the chief of the pig breeders Israel Ayad told Watani, 2000 pigs from Cairo and Giza had been killed. In Giza some 40 Copts were arrested and detained in the camps of the central security forces, and in Cairo 15 Copts from Manshiyet Nasser were detained. The locals insist that most of those detained had nothing to do with the riots and raise no pigs; the two brothers Shahid and Adel Uweida were doing some work outside the area and were caught as they were returning home in the evening. When their uncle Zarif Fikry learnt they had been caught he headed to the police station to bail them out, but he was detained too. by : Nader Shukry