Still recovering...

from the trauma of slaughtering 3 sheep (big family!), and its the first time ive ever been present in a muslim country in eid. oh well, living abroad has downsides too.

also recovering from the meat overload that comes afterwards.


caption: i think i smell barbecue.

haha, the entire earth smells of it right now

i hope everyone had a good eid.

oh dear...

heres a chain of emails ive recieved between yesterday and today. it started when someone called 'waleed' sent me a message to the address i use for this blog. i said

'hi'

my reply:

surely you could have written more in your email than just 'hi' ?

i cant believe someone wasted teir time writing an email with two letters in it. i was already thinking 'what an idiot'

what i got back confirmed the 'what an idiot' thought:


Hallow
coincidentally i found your email in one of dating website( i can not remember now).
So i just want to try.
I did just say hi , i hate typing.
So please if you are woman in Libya and interesting in this do not hesitate to write to me,
or if not please forget it.
Thanks
Waleed



oh my dear god

whoever put my email in a dating website is going to suffer retribution. and since they even put it under female so i'd recieve loads of this ****, im going to have rip their heart out and eat it while theyre still alive to pay them back.

i didnt think libyans had sank so low. theres even a libyan dating website now apparently. i have lost all faith in humanity.

and sorry for violating someones privacy by putting the contents of their email up here, but all i can say is he deserved it and more.

Birdcage

Havent been posting much recently, ive been busy and lacking internet :(

ive been up to plenty of fun stuff though, like helping a friend out with a new bird cage.







that white one's a troublemaker, it managed to get loose and we were lucky we closed the door before it got out.

and a cat's been prowling around the garden for weeks ¬_¬
once it managed to get right on top of one of the little cages and was rattling it like crazy before

im gonna have to watch out for it...

Egypt Airlines

hilarious skit, listen to it




i wonder what amusing things they have to say about us. im sure our airlines cant be much worse!


and i hope you enjoyed it, it took me 3 days to get a decent audiohost that would work on blogger!

كارثة جسر وادي الكوف

i just saw this, and i cant believe it. how come such horrible things happen in eid! this was on the second day of eid



use your heads. i cant believe they were all laughing and everything only seconds before, what the hell did they think was going to happen? dont tempt fate

الله يرحمه

originality

is seriously lacking

im sorry, but which would you rather see? hundreds of this:


or an occasional one of these among them:



come on, try to stand out from the crowd. being libyan has become so cliché! :P

3irs fever

its getting ridiculous now, there's 2 weddings in my street, and another 3 within hearing distance. sounds dont stop until 4:30 am, so i might aswell go nocturnal. is this the wedding season, or is it always like this? cos if it is, im going back to england!

and we all know how people get ready for them...

and she's conservative with makeup by libyan standards. but to me she's so pale it looks like either:

A)She's just seen a ghost
B)She is a ghost
C)Its a picture of a doll not a human
D) She's just lost several litres of blood and is in need of an emergency transfusion

I think it looks absolutely ridiculous, especially the eyes that become twice their usual size and the edges practically reach your ears after makeup application.

if you want any more proof of how it really looks, look to your kids. my aunt went to the 'muzayin' to get all dolled up like this, and when she came back here young children were terrified and wouldnt even look at her!!
God is the best creator, and you look better as he made you. well, maybe abit of makeup, but not so much we cant see your face! and as for the Razor-sharp eyebrows...

most women i know act like im insane if i mention this, but i know quite alot of guys agree. what do you think?

Windows LY

ahahah, check out the libyan version of Microsoft Windows XP











and kaspersky:



(sorry about all the pics, i know you've only got libyan broadband. im afraid to tell you you've just lost half your monthly download limit. or if your in an internet cafe, your gonna be waiting till your bankrupt)

stop whining...

we know your in libya, your oppressed and your favourite hobby after eating and sleeping is complaining.

you havent actually got it that bad. really.

if you own a car, nobody is going to take you seriously when you say your not well off. because petrol costs 18 cents (dirhams) per litre. honestly. and you can still complain? you'd rather be in america, even if it meant paying 4 dollars. your kidding me.

if petrol ever reached that price here, libyans would all have bikes. there wouldnt be a car on the road.

and your government gives you subsidies on bread. it pays most of the cost, so its practically free.

who needs more? so hell the roads have holes in and no lighting? its too hot? food is getting expensive? poor education? low pay?

shuddup and drive to your koosha (bakery) and eat some bread. maybe try to drink petrol too. your well enough off, or your not trying hard enough

Eid Mubarak

no blog would be complete without a post of that title.

so whats your eid like?

for some people its a chance to see the family.


for some, its the end of long hard nights at the mosque, and back to lazy nights and resting.
for others, its gonna be more spacious at the mosque on a night now.


for most, it just means a this


a chance to stuff yourself and wase a great deal of food!

whatever it is, have a good one. eid sa3eed people

Izala

whats with this? its all i see nowadays. plus broken builidings. but i dont see much new ones being built.

ive noticed theyve stopped writing ' إزالة لغرظ التطور '. no more advancement?

is this whats happening?

god help this country

Libyan Blogs!

Wow, theres plenty of them. i didnt even know there were this many libyans with computers! it seems they're all on blogger these days.

the bloggers must be in hiding though, because i havent met anyone who speaks good enough english to be one of them. shame, im getting pretty lonely. its not easy moving back to libya after so many years.


i ws so excited when i stumbled across the list of libyan bloggers; i thought people here were all technologically retarded!


anyway, the list of libyan bloggers has just got one longer. for how long, i dont know.


reading some of these blogs, i was wondering... how on earth can you say all this! im sure my internet is tapped, and you know what happens to people who say the wrong stuff...


so how are you still here?! hae alekum!


on second thoughts, i can see plenty of blogs that havent been updated in months or even years. maybe they got them...

well, im going to be trying to update this blog as often as i can, if only to amuse myself. feel free to tell me if you like it, it might encourage me. and...spread my link!


hmmm...i dont really class this as a first post as its just a hello, so check out my first post later!