A nice e-mail that I received!!

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.' One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend. He asked her,'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?' The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him. Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.'

The bucket list tag

My dear gjoez tagged me, She wants a bucket list for my goals in the next 8 - 10 years, Here are the things that I have in my mind currently: 1- Obtaining my MD as soon as possible. 2- Being still healthy by then!!! 3- Having a post-doctor position in the U.K for about two years. 4- Perform Pilgrimage with my mother. 5- Work in a CDC project in the USA. 6- Releasing my first book in my speciality 7- Setting new policies and regulations that allow the younger staff to have their own thinking & acting spaces without getting frustrated at any time. 8- Hope I still have this desire then and I won't turn into a character resembling one of those whom I keep criticising all the time!! (ya rab) 9- Opening my own lab with my best friend Rania. 10- Getting Nobel!! And now I am passing the tag to: insomniac geddo iskandar evaluna Epitaph 1987 مجداوية

But mot importantly, tag others to do the same when you are done :)

Still trying in Alexandria!!

Well, after my last post, unfortunately I couldn't make it!! I couldn't have my fresh start. In fact last week was one of the toughest weeks I had ever had. I had a lot of problems at work that had a bad effect on me. I actually crashed by the end of the week!! But, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I have a real desire here, I will try again and again till things get back to their right track isA. So, trying again, I had a lovely morning yesterday. I waked up in the early morning, I went out with two of my friends. We started the morning by having breakfast at Mohammed Ahmed's (for non-Alexandrians, this is a famous restaurant that serves fool & ta3meia since ever). After that nice breakfast, we sat in the Brazilian coffee store (a famous coffee shop that was opened in Sa3d Za3'lool street since 1929 or something), we had hazel flavored cappuccino & talked a lot. After that we had a long walk by the lovely sea from El-mansheia to the castle. We sat there for sometime then we returned back the same way while enjoying the incredible seen and the fascinating weather. Alexandria is very beautiful guys!! it is really beautiful. GOD, I do really love it:) So, today was the first day in the second - trial fresh start week. Things were not bad. I had a long tiring working day, with the regular daily problems, but over all, I can say that it was a good start. I am writing this post now & I will try to stay studying for few hours. If I manage to do this, then I can say that things will improve!! otherwise, I have no idea!! Da3awatkom:)

A fresh start:)

Dear friends, I decided to have a fresh start, I am trying to regain the old me, I am trying to change this "frustrated" into another display, I am trying to accomplish my old dreams. Here is my plan: 1) I slept at 12.00 a.m & waked up at 4.30 a.m (my optimum sleeping needs when i am in my ordinary status) 2) I prayed keiam (b neiet el new start) 3) I removed "zuma" from my computer (this is the game I used to play lately in a trial to waste my time & stop thinking about the current situation) 4) I re-arranged my laptop desktop!! 5) I started doing my work in the early morning 6) I am planing to have a nice breakfast & coffee with my best friend before we go to work (the educational health sector doesn't take Saturday off, they say that people don't stop getting sick on Saturdays, though they do on Fridays!) 7) I wrote this post! 8) About my name, frustrated, may be I'll think of changing it if things work on isA 9) I decided to finish this MD in no time isA & let me get out of their system to have my own one isA So please everyone, I need your prayers & your most optimistic attitude. Ya Rab, Ya Rab, Ya Rab, Ya Rab, Ya Rab P.S: I went to one of my very best friends yesterday, she got a twins (Iman & Islam) after a five years marriage. May GOD bless her & give her the strength. How adorable:)

Did they really do it?

I was talking to my cousin the other day about how busy I am since I had started my MD courses. After a short chat she said "ha, they did it!! that is exactly what they wanted". Who are "they"? I think "they" here referes to "7ezb a3da2 al naga7", those people I am talking about since the moment I opened this blog!! They are those people who stood infront of me telling me that I have to postpone my career for one whole year because they are tryng to apply a new educational system and they want me to join it. So, to those who were never involved in a post graduate program in our dear Egypt, it is pretty known that there are no lectures given to PhD or MD candidates. Lectures are only given to masters or diploma candidates but those applying for a higher degree are smart enough to study and understand things on their own. They do not have a syllabus, whenever one asks, he receives a fmous reply "ento doctorah, momken tetsa2alo f ai 7aga" without even defining what is this "ai 7aga", I think they do not know it themselves. Any way, the new system takes a lot of money from candidates so it forces the professors to give lectures to both degrees and present a soft copy from those lectures to the persons in charge. As expected, our senior generations had stopped reading long time ago, they can not deal with computers and they do not have something different other than their masters lectures to give to MD students. What a dilemma? What can they do? BINGO!! they sat together in what they call "department councel", a monthly gathering for each department staff members where they meet each other, talk for some time & end uo with amazing decisions. They decided that the MD candidates should prepare lectures for themselves and present them a soft copy!!! They divided courses given each semester on the number of candidates and each should do a kind of research and present the lecture infront of his collegues & his professor as well!!! very stunning!! and you can never object, why? because you silly person decided to obtain a scientific degree from this country, so accept the rules. Why? because you young researcher are a part of the lousy system and you have to behave like one. Why? because if you started objection, you should then multiply the usual time you are going to obtain your degree in by three or four. Why? because if you object you will stay still in your place. Now I am lost in this system. I stay up all night doing my professors' homework for them. I go to work very tired out of sleep lacking and I present lectures to my collegues. I also have to do some duties in my department like teaching the younger staff and the external candidates. I forgot, I have a thesis that I have to finish but I honestly do not have time to write a single word in it.What do you think? did they do it??

Bas kfaia!!

It is over! that's it! I have to stop thinking about that annoying subject! I have to look ahead and drop it. GOD, help me, help me to stop thinking.

Bring back Epitaph_87

We are a group of Egyptian bloggers really bothered by the blockage of the two-year-old blog "Epitaph_87" ( http://www.epitaph-87.blogspot.com ) along her gmail account (epitaph87@gmail.com), since October, 4th , 2008.She has sent you her problem and requests on Google Help Center and Blogger Support, but in vain.We wish that you'd help us retrieve that blog and account and answer the requests of our fellow blogress, sending you from (epitaph_1987@hotmail.com), and hopefully ASAP Just for notice, we have published this problem on our blogs!! Frustrated www.masrheiaomi.blogspot.com