Sunday, January 30, 2011

Sinatra Movie:A movie that take your fantasy away


Tonight I watched a moive called ''Sinatra'' that tells the life story of Frank Sinatra. I got so hooked that I could not leave it until I know what happens at the end.

Until then I have had never wondered what was his life like, I just loved his voice, his songs , his charm ,,,, I felt like he is Abdel Halim Hafiz of the west , you know: The Love Prince who takes part in every girls dream , but the movie showed what a womanizer he was , his numerous marriages , the way he lesft his wife and kids to chase his love and leave her after all jujst because an ambitious woman., the way he drank , the way he treated his family , the way he hit journalists and insulted the others.

This movie took away a bit of the charm that I think I might get back.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Pages from my notebook: Why did I chose to stay?

عزيزتي تقوى

أنا ، - بصفتي أنت- أعفيك من هذا كلّه، أعفيك من حرب الأعصاب هذه التي لا فائدة تجنى منها.

لقد قررت والله المستعان ، أن أعود إلى الأردن في الفصل الثاني. أنا أكره جامعة غرناطة... أكرهها و يملأ رأسي ضجيج صراخ .. أكره جامعة غرناطة و لا أثق بها ، و لا أستفيد من علمها ، و ما من داع ٍ لأن أستمر في الصراع مع كل شيء لأجل منحة للدراسة في مُنشأةٍ أكاديمية تثير قرفي.

لا أعرف ما هي الأجزاء التي أحتاج أن أذكرها و لكنني أعرف أن زمني مع النساء انتهى، و أن غباء هذه الفئة الإنسانية خنقني. و أعرف –أو عرفت- أنني أحب رشا مثر بكثير مما توقعت.. أكثر من كثيرٍ من "أفضل صديقاتي" و عرفت أن الشهامة و طِيب الأصل هي أفضل ما يمكن للمرء أن يحوزه ، و أسوأ ما يمكن أن يخسره.

و عرفت أن نقاء قلبي ،و صحتي أهم من أهم مكسب أحوز عليه. و عرفت أنني خُلِقتُ لأترجم و أن هذا هو مبرر وجودي. و عرفت أنني شبعت من هذا الهراء، و أن الخطط المرسومة في الهواء تجري كما يحلو لها أن تجري ، لا كما يحلو لي.

و هكذا فإن هذه القصة هنا قد : انتهت.

غرناطة 11-1-2011




ها قد طلع النهار ، الذي يمحو كلام الليل. أفكر بكلام الليلة الماضية ، و لكنني لا أتفجّع كثيراً ، فأنا أعرف أنني في حال اخترت أن أبقى في الأردنية في الفصل القادم ، أو اخترت أن أبقى في غرناطة فسأكون راضية و مرتاحة على الحالين.

لا أقصد أن أقول أن الإيجابيات و السلبيات متساوية لكن نوع الإيجابيات يختلف.

اليوم شيت في غرناطة و نظرت حولي، و عرفتُ أنها لا تتوهج بالجمال لن اليوم هو يومي الأخير قبل السفر، بل لأنها غرناطة .. التي إن بقيت فيها بضعة أشهر أو بضع سنوات ، فستشلع قلبي دائماً عندما أغادرها.

اليوم ذهبت إلى البنك و تنبهت إلى الكلمات التي تعلمتها و انا أجري معاملتي. و اشتريت حذاءً و انتبهت إلى الكلمة التي تعلمتها لأعبّر عن حجم احذاء و قياس قدمي. ثم جئت إلى Dolce Luna (مقهى إسباني باسم إيطالي) فوجدت النادل يحتفظ بدفتر نسيته عندهم ثم ابتسم بسمته الخاصة جداً التي تشعرتي بالترحاب و بالانتماء.

جلست و أمسكت قهوتي و الجريدة و قرأت مقابلة غوارديولا عن فوز ميسي بجائزة الكرة الذهبية ، فقلت لنفسي: لن أخرج من هنا حتى أفرغ من ترجمته. و جلست أترجم و ذهبت إلى البار مرة و سألت النادل عن معنى جملة، ثم سألته عن كلمة afín عندما جاء لي بالقهوة الثانية.

فكرت و أنا أترجم بأشياء كثيرة. بأنني ربما لا أعيش التجربة الإسبانية كما ظننت و لكنها أخذت منعطفاً آخر. فبدلاً من رفيقات السكن الإسبانيات و العائلة الإسبانية ، رافقتُ الندلة الإسبان اللطفاء و المتحررين من كل العقد النفسية التي تربّط الآخرين.

فوصلتُ في النهاية إلى نتيجة أنني ربما تعبت من البحث عن الشقة المثالية و الرفيقات الطيبات كثيرات الكلام ، و تعبت من المناكدة مع النساء المتخلفات الضحايا ، و تعبت من تخلف جامعة غرناطة ، و تعبت من سلاسل السهر و النعاس و الأرق ، تعبت من الجوع و من جرجرة الوقت لأجل الغسيل و التنظيف، و لكنني لم أشبع بعد – بالأحرى لم أبدأ- بالكلمات و المباني و الأمثال و الصياغات الإسبانية.

لهذا النص بقية لا أهمية لها الآن.

12-1-2011

مرصد القديس نيكولاس (مرصد مقابل لقصر الحمراء)




(توضيح للقراء: الوادي هو جزء من مزرعتنا ... قريتي: التي أزورها في نهايات الأسبوع و أعيش باقي الأسبوع ذة عماني دريم)

أجلس الآن على صخرتي في الوادي ..

أشعر بشيء كبير جداً.. كبير بحجم الحرية ، مُسْكِرٌ كالقوّة..

الشمس تتوارى خلف الغيوم و لكنني أعرف أنها موجودة و هكذا –هكذا بالضبط- كان قراري بعدم العودة إلى إسبانيا في الفصل الثاني. حتى لو لم أكن في إسبانيا فأنا اعلم أنها موجودة. و سأرجع –سأرجع عندما يحين الوقت المناسب و سيكون كلّ شي مثالياً.

في طريقنا إلى هنا، توقف بنا أبي عند الجامع الفوقاني و نزل ليصلي العصر. أخذت أنظر إلى قريتي لأرى إن كان الغياب قد وهبها شيئاً جديداً لم تكن تملكه من قبل، فوجدتُ أن وجه الكون يتغيّر و "ازمال" لا تتغير.

الأولاد العرصات ذاتهم يملؤون الشارع و يراقبون العابرين بعيونهم التي تُدبُّ فيها رصاصة، و النظرة النجسة ذاتها للنساء، و نظرة الحسد إلى السيارات و الهواتف المحمولة و إلى الكلاب العفيّة.

حينها تذكّرت جابرييل جارثيا ماركيز و هو يتحدث عن أميركا اللاتينية، إذا قال: "انا فخورٌ لأنني أنتمي إلى كل هذا الخراء" .. أنا أيضاً .. كنت محتاجةً لأن أعرف إن كان من الممكن لفتاة من قعر ازمال أن تملك جواز سفر مزركش بالأختام ، و أن تحلم بمدنٍ كبيرة و عظيمة كبرشلونة ، و ان تصل إليها فعلاً.

كنت محتاجة لأن أتأكد من أنني إنسان و لست صدفةً جنسية كما هم نصف الناس.. كنت أريد أن اعرف أنني حرة.

و بما أنني عرفت و لم أعد محتاجة لأن أثبت لنفسي شيئاً، صار بإمكاني أن أقرر مرتاحة الفؤاد.

في الحقيقة لا أشعر بالحاجة لكتابة أي شيء ، و لكنني أجهز ذاكرتي إن أصابتها نوبة ندم.

لقد قررت أن أعود بناءً على الوعد الذي وعدته لنفسي في التوجيهي بأن أتنازل عن كل معركة تتركني خاوية...

أحبّ غرناطتي (ولا شيء ليضاف على هذه الحقيقة) و لكن شوقي هذه المرة غلب حماسي و وضعني في احتمالية أن أحزن ، و انا لن احزن طالما كان لي الخيار.

إن كان تحمّل الغربة مصدراً غير متجدّدٍ للطاقة، فأنا أفضّل أن اوفّره للماستر و الدكتوراة.

غرناطة ستخزني دائماً، و لكنني – عند هذه النقطة من حياتي – أحتاج لأن أكون إلى جوار عائلتي و أن أعمل بجد على "إدارة الغضب" لكي لا تقف أعصابي في وجه نجاحي ذات يوم.

سيتقلّب الموضوع داخل وجداني كثيراً و لكنني قررت و اتصلت بالمنحة و توكلت على الله، و ليقدّر الله لي ما يعرف بواسع علمه أنه أفضل.

28-1-2011

ازمال

Mansafing with Dad at my grandparents house

Rami el E3tisami and Egypt TODAY

I dont know If it was a coincidence or scheduled but a few days ago I watched a movie called ''Rami el E3tisami'' >>> Rami the Protester.

It tells the story of a spoiled rich Egyptian young man who starts a group on facebook asking to change the national anthem of Egypt. A Tv show hosts him asking him for the reason and e says its just because he could not ply it well on his guitar , later on the show the Interior affairs minister calls angry and he asks Rami to go home and shut up because he is just a spoiled young stupid guy, in that exact moment Rami comes up with the idea of a strike infront of Interior Affairs Ministry until his demands are achieved.

The things goes out of hand and the ''buzz-of-moment'' strike gets politicized and it gets taken out of its context by many parties.

It talks about how noble causes can be used by cheap people , pointless people and people with agendas ,,,

They ended it with a usual cliche about change and Bla Bla Bla , and that the head of the system cant make everything happen - oh screw you!- ... Whatever ,,, the people in the streets of Egypt today are taking Change on their own hands and they are changing the face of history ,, May God be on their help ... YAaaaaa Rabbbb

Bulbol 7airan: mmmm movie

After watching and stopping throughout the last three days , I got to finish Ahmad Helmis latest movie: Bulbol 7airan.

I dont really know what I wanna say about the movie. Watching Ahad Helmis movie every year is such a delight ,, you know, seeing his kind face and listening to his simple jokes and the normal daily person he is , all of these things makes me wait year after year to see his movie.

This time, the movie was good. Not great , but only good ,,,, it rells a simple story about a guy who cant decide which girl he likes better , the one who is independent and strong or the girl who clings to him and makes him feel needed.

And in spite of the movie being a bit less that expected I liked the idea, and it got me thinking about love. Maybe love is not a dreamy gay measure, maybe its what really makes difference... is it?

Sometimes I think about it and I know that there are a list of things that if they existed in the guy whom I feeling for, I would just walk away from him. (things like: 1being short 2being foreigner 3having a weak or no relationship with God ... mmm I cant think about things , but when i see them I can totally see them) I think that love is not everything , and as Bulbol said in the movie: What if you love someone but you dont like his characteristics?

After my last ''flatmate experience'' I discovered that there are tiny little details in people that makes you like sharing your life with them although you dont like them, and also there are the tiny little things that takes your powers of standing someone no matter how much love you have for him/her.

Love is good ... but it is not everything ,,,

I just hope that I am gonna be lucky , that I will find love with adequate characteristics... Enshalla :)

Big Fat liar :s


I always say that I am am gonna post another post that has my opinion in Arabic -type what I wrote in my notebook- but I never do ... I just say things but I dont know why I always fail to post on time!!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

I think I have a plan


I think ,,, I think that I have finally reached the decision: I am staying in Jordan this time ...
Yes I am ... I have my good fat reasons that I will post in Arabic in a coming post.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Tomorrow: End of an era


Look at this picture ... Its her wedding dress on her closet door waiting for the big day...
My aunt is getting married tomorrow and life as we now know is going to change for ever.

She is 23 months elder than me and we have always been the bestest friends in spite of all our severe differences .... how would things be now? when I go to my granpdarents' house and not find her there?

~sigh~

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

I am going Home Tomorrow!



This is really overwhelming .... Its late in the night of January 12 and I am gonna leave in the first bus to Madrid tomorrow and then to Jordan and yet I am not packed .... I dont know what to think , but I feel butterflies in my stomach ,,, I will have to run tomorrow from a bus to a metro to an airplane to another terminal in Italy to another plane to the arms of my family ,,, the thought , the mere thought gives me a feeling .. a weird feeling ,,, I just wanna go home ,,, I wanna go home

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Messi: Barcelona'a Golden Boy!!

For the second year on a row , my Hero Lionel Messi gets el Balon D'oro award. I am too happy , I feel that the good guys are finally winning.
The ceremony was weird , Guardiola held the card with the winners name backwards , and he did not look like he liked the result although Messi is a player in his team ... and the microphone through which Messi talked to the audience was so short that he had to lean on the table!!

He is so innocent , pure and simple,,, he stuck his tongue out two times because he was amazed and he did not know what to say ,,, he is the player that we all love , because he does not act like a celebrity , he just acts like a 22 year old gifted guy who just LOVES football and does it for himself and for all the people whose eyes twinkle as they see him play.

God bless you Messi ,,, God bless Barcelona




Monday, January 10, 2011

Running out of time

3 days are left until I leave to Jordan. I have to pack , to buy gifts , to put back library books and to walk around Granada calmly. I dont know , I freak out at night and I feel sudden hunger and I walk around the room. I am running out of time ,,, I wanna be in Jordan, I wanna see my family , hug my mom , and eat decent food but also I wanna sit on a table in a bar in Granada and write for hours about all the stuff that I will forget if I arrive in Amman without having them already written.

What are those writing paranoias that make me go nuts each time?!!!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

New Years Eve: About glasses and plastic wigs


Happy New Year Dear Blog

I never really thought about new years , its stresses me out ,,, you know: A fixed point where something ends -could never return- and another thing which is totally new comes along - one more NEW thing that you have to get used to- so this year was an exception , my friends were going out and I was like: Ok , lets see whats new years eves are all about.

So we went out , Lubna and Rasha wearing plastic wigs and all of us wearing 2011 glasses. We celebrated in the municipality plaza with everybody - Granada is so tiny , I feel like I know everybody- we stood in a line to get our ''uvas'' -twelve grapes that Spanish people eat in the last 12 seconds of the year to grant good luck in the new year- and we got masks , hats ans whistles.

The fireworks were BREATH TAKING. I smiled like a child , my smile reached the depth of my heart and lighted it ,,, I felt it till the morrow of my bones ,, I felt all my love to Granada pouring into all my cells ,, tha data show was about Granadas accomplishments as a city and as a loved place with the song "Granada tierra sonada por mi'' filling my eras ,,, the Knight on his horse on the top of the municipality building looked like he was running among the lights and the fumes of the fireworks ... Granada glowed , my heart glowed and I felt its gonna be a very happy new year.

Happy 2011

Friday, December 31, 2010

The Best thing I ever paid money on

Buying the E-book was a very great step. I saw it in the show window in Carrefour almost three times before i finally said: What the hell I am buying it.

I was afraid that it would be one addition to my ''Technological Trash'' Collection ... you know the bunch of electronic stuff you buy and then you stop using after a couple of weeks?
So I took it home and kept the receipt in case I wanted to return it , but each time I took a round in the book that was already downloaded on it I was so amazed and weirdly happy!!

I downloaded on it all the books that I downloaded throughout the years from 4shared but never really read anything from them , and when I found myself reading on the bus I was like: "Praise the Lord!!'' ..I am finally reading any book that comes to my mind , paying nothing more that what I paid on the e-book.

I just stand in front of book shops show window and copy the names of the books ang do home and actually read them. It is light but bares a load of books that weighs hundreds of kilos - this is how a person thinks after travelling a couple of times with a bag loaded with pales of books-.

Now I feel that I lost my only shopping addition: Shopping for books , but is not it easier anyway?

I feel a bit sorry for the paper books and I love them and I will always be loyal to them , but this one is cheaper and times DO change. :(

Check this out:

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Why it feels so great around the house :p

So I have not mentioned my apartment for a long time here. It was a great experience , with its ups and downs -naturally- but I never mentioned my Italian cleaning freak roommate.

I did not fight with anyone in this apartment except for her because with her I lost my nerves many times. She is a kind , warm hearted person , she means well but has a very irritating voice tune and intonation specially when she points out an unpolished spot on the ground or the furniture.

She is a cleaning freak -an idea supported by the other roommates and guests- and because of her nagging I skipped all my cleaning turns , relying on her re-doing all what we do. Re-doing the dishes , re-mopping the ground and re-cleaning the kitchen.

So this week she is away in Italia celebrating Christmas with her family , and although its mean to say so , but I am so happy , I come home clear minded relaxed and worrying about the bickering she puts me through and the guilt she makes me feel when I leave an unwashed plate for the morning.

About selfish decisions

There are decisions that dont only affect those who make them , but also the people in their lives.
Recently I was treated like trash by a very dear friend of mine, I dont really know why, I even started questioning my feelings towards her and if she has in my heart the place I think she has, but as long as I am writing a post about it in my blog , then I think its important.

Sometimes I think that if she does not wanna talk then I dont wanna talk too , but I hate it when others decide for me. You cant just come to my life , stick around for 3 wonderful years and then leave for no reason , its just not your right , not your call , and am not gonna allow it.

Friendship is not a ball we toss around , its a series of ups and downs and as we enjoyed its ups we should also hold longer in the face of its downs. Maybe I dont care or love as I thought I love and care about her, but who ever said that relationships - any type of human relationships- are based on love? there are other things included ,,, something like the ridiculous amount of time we spent together , and all the smiling pictures we took , and the times we laughed together.

So if you wanna cross me off your list then you should talk to me. You should explain it and then decide and act on what you decide , but this coward ''break up'' does not work for me. Not at all!

24 rosas





I first heard this song in Konya -My Turkish/Arabs/Immigrants restaurant- there was not any customers except for me and it was blurring in the empty place...Diana Navarros Voice has a presence that you can almost see!! The tune is almost arabic and the pain ,, the feeling and the depth ,,, I just love it.

Vivo.

Vivo sin vivir en mí

y tan viva yo te espero,

que muero porque no muero.

Toma, yo te doy mi corazón,

te lo entrego prisionero.

No quiero querer,



pero quiero y te quiero

Veinticuatro rosas heridas de ti

¡Es tan dulce el amor que te doy

Son veinticuatro latidos de más

cuando sé que te vas

cruzando el espacio, despacio.

¡Ay, ay amor cómo me picas!

Esos ojos me complican



y me muero sin saber que muero.

Toma, yo te doy mi corazón,

te lo entrego prisionero.

No quiero querer,

pero quiero y te quiero.

7 Vidas and God: Surprising episode :)


http://www.megavideo.com/?s=seriesyonkis&v=KD8MUGKU&confirmed=1


In the link above you can watch episode 7 of season 2 from my favorite Spanish Tv Show ''7 vidas'' ....
I am posting it here because it was so different and it talked about a topic that has never been displayed in this specific way in all the Spanish Tv that i have watched ( I watch a lot: Talk shows , news , Series , Soap Operas , cooking shows and even real Tv!).

The topic of God , or believing had always been one of the most funny topic in Spanish Tv. Its usually used in a mocking contest , that even me , being the believer that I am , it still makes me laugh!!!

They are always making fun of Church , of the Pope , of The Vatican , of praying , of prayers of believers , that it reached a point in which I no longer paid any more attention to it.

In "7 vidas" there is that character "Soledad" who is an old lady known for her strong character, her adventurous life, her rebel personality and of course her disbelief in God or any superior power.

In this episode a friend of Soledads dies ,and she starts thinking about death , how she is getting closer to it and that she will eventually reach the point in which she will if knowthere had been a God or not. She goes to church and goes on and on and on with the priest asking him questions that drives him crazy and then she decides to figure it out on her own. The surprising thing is that she at the end of the episode says that she started liking God!!

I never expected that from a Spanish media production!!! I watched a couple of episodes later and they did not talk any further about it ,, but who knows what happens next :)

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Planning for Madrid:OMG

My friends and I actually started planning for our longly awaited trip to Madrid.

This is so big .. so big to me!!! I have passed through Madrid when I came back from Barcelona, but I only saw a bus stop and a couple of buses hehehe ,,, I have been to Spain two times , all in all I spent in Spain 8 months and yet I have not been to the capital and I have a lot of thoughts running in my mind all the time.

I posted a picture of Las Cibeles de Madrid ... a very ''post me I am touristic'' kind of picture , and if traveling has taught me a thing then it taught me that the ''postcard worthy'' monuments are not always the thing that stick to a travelers memory. So for now , tis picture will do it , but when I come back you never know what the picture would be , nor what would be the ''Image''.

Two Days at Home


For the last two days I have not been out. I dont know how it is on the street. I got my roommate Rasha to get me a sandwich yesterday , and today she cooked with Lubna. I spent the entire two days on the couch knitting a scarf and watching T.v and of course blowing my nose , coughing and falling in some horrible naps from which I wake up because I am suffocating.

Maybe there is not much people like me , but I enjoy having a cold and sitting around doing things with my hand not at all with m mind.

But still , I look at my monthly Bus Bono and feel like I lost two days of being ''out there'' so enshall tomorrow I wil dedicate my time to wandering around bus stops and reading in the bus trip.

Wish me Luck :)

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Deep Breath


Do you remember this?

well the other day I was still going with my house hunt - that seems endless!- and I found this ad

and as I scroll down I found out that its the same house that I could not get because I arrived late. Now its back on the market and I contacted the advertiser and he got back to me - after 5 long days- and gave me a phone number , I called him and we set a date.

I went to the house 15 minutes earlier than the date, and the guy - his name is chemi- showed me around the house.

I was so overwhelmed that I forgot to take pictures. The house is a three floors big house that over looks Arco Elvira, the first two floors are occupied by the chemi -the owner of the house- his wife and little charming daughter Alegria -spanish for ''happiness''- and the third floor has three rooms , a kitchen - an american bar! I dont like that but anyways- a bathroom and a patio full of plants , a garden with a table and seats over looking Arco Elvira and the lower part of Albayzin neighborhood. My room - supposedly- has a bed and a built in closet and an underground heating!


Then we sat down to talk , and he said stuff about the roommates ,, he pointed out that they love to share and cook and that I will have to be helpful with them , and he said: This is not a students apartment , this is a house where people share their life!! I could not be more stunned!! I told him about my experience in the ''spanish student apartment'' and how impolite things were around there on terms of sharing a life. I told him that i am a language student and all what I want is talk and gain the language. I told him I wanna mix with his family and friends and he was welcoming.

The thing is - there is always a thing and a but- that the girls want to meet me before accepting me, which is so rational of course , but this only means that I have to wait for them to come back from their family houses after the holidays and then we could see if this is gonna work out or not.

I dont know ,,, I loved the place although I am a little cautious ,,, I dont want to get my hopes high and then get my heart broken again!

I just hope that the best will happen ,,, enshalla

Monday, December 27, 2010

In a day like today last year

In a day like today last year I fulfilled a lifetime dream and actually went and see the mosque of Cordoba.

Many things have changed inside me ever since. Mainly about ''Islam Marketing''.
Maybe then I did not see it as ''Marketing'' but now I do , and to make the best publicity I am doing a lot of reading and listening and almost nothing of talking.

My Islam needs me , but in the smartest and the wisest means.

Happy December 27th :)