After the previous post that was very very heavy in terms of content (but I'm happy about the discussion that followed it and hoping it will be continued) let's write about something much lighter.
I'm going to Paris in June!! - I will be there between Jun 8 and 12 meaning I will spend 4 days and 3 nights of wandering within the city, drinking wine over Seine, talking to my fabulous friends and having loads of fun! J'adore Paris!
Why am I going there? It's my last time when I have to leave Morocco and come back because of immigration policies. On Sunday, I was just lazily browsing the internet, looking for some cheap flights and thinking where I could go.
Madrid? no, I've already been there
Barcelona? no, no friends there
Milan? no, too expensive to get there
Brussels? no, I will move there soon for good
Paris? yes!! relatively cheap to get there and bunches of friends living there. I've been there two times in my life already but it's never enough when it comes to Paris.
I will also spend one night in Madrid with my friends on the way back to Casablanca so it's another advantage!
I so can't wait to go there! It's gonna be fabulous!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
the world is not only black and white
I’ve just seen a photo in the album of my friend on Facebook. It’s a photo of her in Mc Donalds with a description: “we are in Mc Donalds, sorry Iraq and other countries that suffer by the interference of big multinationals”. Maybe she was just joking or just being sarcastic about Mc Donalds. I don’t know that. Nevertheless, I know that there are people who hate governments, big corporations etc I don’t agree. I think these people are narrow-minded and they don't see the broader perspective of certain issues. They see only negative sides and influences of in this case corporations.
I don’t want to list either negatives or positives here. I don’t think I have so much knowledge (and I believe neither do others but still they are very judgmental). The same with governments. Everyone that I know seems to hate George Bush and his decision about starting the war in Iraq. I know that the war in Iraq brought a lot of deaths and damages of innocent people. But I’m sure that there will be some positive effects of it as well and within a few years people in Iraq will have more peace.
People also like to demonstrate against what they don’t like. I will stick to the examples of corporations and governments. They like to show what they think about corporations or governments. E.g. Mc Donald produces junky, unhealthy food. In some countries, the corporation employs cheap work force and abuses the basic rights. I don’t say it’s a bullshit and I would stop such things from happening if I could. But why doesn’t anyone protest against small and middle-size entrepreneurs who also cheat their employees or evade paying taxes? Why doesn’t anyone protest against taxi drivers in Marrakesh who never turn on the meters and demand exorbitant prices for driving you a distance for which you would normally pay 3 times less? Why doesn’t anyone demonstrate against shop keepers who want to cheat me (and many others) seeing that I’m a tourist only because I don’t look like Moroccan. I guess that not only corporations want to make profits by stealing. People also like to demonstrate against governments. But why doesn’t anyone protest against the terrorist in Iraq who maybe killed more innocent people than the US Army? Why doesn’t anyone protest against Osama Bin Laden but only against George Bush?
To summarize: I don’t think that corporations are good or bad. They just exist. They bring us different products that we buy. They employ people but as well they abuse human dignity providing people with horrible working conditions and pay so little to them. I don’t think that war in Iraq was good or bad either. Many innocent people died but on the other hand a horrible dictator was overthrown. These are much more complicated issues and we can’t just put a label – good or bad. I prefer to see to both sides of an issue before I judge it.
The world is not only black or white. It has a lot of tones of gray.
I don’t want to list either negatives or positives here. I don’t think I have so much knowledge (and I believe neither do others but still they are very judgmental). The same with governments. Everyone that I know seems to hate George Bush and his decision about starting the war in Iraq. I know that the war in Iraq brought a lot of deaths and damages of innocent people. But I’m sure that there will be some positive effects of it as well and within a few years people in Iraq will have more peace.
People also like to demonstrate against what they don’t like. I will stick to the examples of corporations and governments. They like to show what they think about corporations or governments. E.g. Mc Donald produces junky, unhealthy food. In some countries, the corporation employs cheap work force and abuses the basic rights. I don’t say it’s a bullshit and I would stop such things from happening if I could. But why doesn’t anyone protest against small and middle-size entrepreneurs who also cheat their employees or evade paying taxes? Why doesn’t anyone protest against taxi drivers in Marrakesh who never turn on the meters and demand exorbitant prices for driving you a distance for which you would normally pay 3 times less? Why doesn’t anyone demonstrate against shop keepers who want to cheat me (and many others) seeing that I’m a tourist only because I don’t look like Moroccan. I guess that not only corporations want to make profits by stealing. People also like to demonstrate against governments. But why doesn’t anyone protest against the terrorist in Iraq who maybe killed more innocent people than the US Army? Why doesn’t anyone protest against Osama Bin Laden but only against George Bush?
To summarize: I don’t think that corporations are good or bad. They just exist. They bring us different products that we buy. They employ people but as well they abuse human dignity providing people with horrible working conditions and pay so little to them. I don’t think that war in Iraq was good or bad either. Many innocent people died but on the other hand a horrible dictator was overthrown. These are much more complicated issues and we can’t just put a label – good or bad. I prefer to see to both sides of an issue before I judge it.
The world is not only black or white. It has a lot of tones of gray.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Happy Birthday!
I missed it!! Three days ago, it celebrated its first anniversary. It is exactly one year old. What am I speaking about?
It is about my blog!
I started it on May 10, 2007!
Happy Birthday! :)
It is about my blog!
I started it on May 10, 2007!
Happy Birthday! :)
Monday, May 12, 2008
life goes on
I just have to say that I feel really proud of myself because of preventing a grouse guy in the bus from stealing my mobile from the pocket. Luckily and early enough to stop it, I felt his disgusting hand close to my body almost grabbing the phone. I was getting on the bus and he was getting off so afterwards I only pushed him out. He even didn't turn around. And I only wish I had used the deep knowledge of Arabic curse words that I posses.
Besides that everything (well, except my professional life) is going very fine. I hang out with great, funny, intelligent and interesting people, attend the fabulous and fancy parties in some posh places, drink wine or gin and tonic. Last Friday, I went for the pirates of the Oudayas party. It was more than awesome. And my French is getting closer and closer to the state of fluency (and surprisingly so is my English - it just shows who I hang out with).
Soon, I will receive bunch of friends from different parts of Europe. I make the most of my experience here!
Besides that everything (well, except my professional life) is going very fine. I hang out with great, funny, intelligent and interesting people, attend the fabulous and fancy parties in some posh places, drink wine or gin and tonic. Last Friday, I went for the pirates of the Oudayas party. It was more than awesome. And my French is getting closer and closer to the state of fluency (and surprisingly so is my English - it just shows who I hang out with).
Soon, I will receive bunch of friends from different parts of Europe. I make the most of my experience here!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Paris Latino
Voilà, il y a une chanson que j'adore tout simplement!
Je la connais depuis longtemps mais je viens de tomber amoureux d'elle. De plus, je l'aime parce qu'elle est chantée en trois langues: le français, l'anglais et l'espagnol. Par ailleurs, elle me donne beaucoup d'énergie. C'est ainsi que je l'écoute sans arrêt, ce qui rend mes colocataires folles !Amusez-vous bien!
Merci à Mourad de me corriger :)
Si youtube ne marche pas sur mon blog, suivez ce link-ci.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItxKVQz4_oQ
Je la connais depuis longtemps mais je viens de tomber amoureux d'elle. De plus, je l'aime parce qu'elle est chantée en trois langues: le français, l'anglais et l'espagnol. Par ailleurs, elle me donne beaucoup d'énergie. C'est ainsi que je l'écoute sans arrêt, ce qui rend mes colocataires folles !Amusez-vous bien!
Merci à Mourad de me corriger :)
Si youtube ne marche pas sur mon blog, suivez ce link-ci.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItxKVQz4_oQ
Friday, May 2, 2008
the desert trip
As some of you may already know I went on the desert trip. I won't write too much. It was awesome although I missed the city atmosphere a lot! I discovered that I don't necessarily feel great when I'm out of the city for too long (but this is a topic for another post).
I enjoyed the desert trip a lot and I even enjoy it more now once it's finished :) Having seen the pictures you will probably say that I'm really strange to be complaining after such a wonderful trip. Probably, you are right. But it's just me. I don't regret though. It was an interesting experience.
The trip started on Sunday at 7 AM in Marrakesh. That day, we drove until Zagora passing casbah Ain-Benhaddou and Ouarzazate (the Moroccan Hollywood where movies like Gladiator were filmed). We rode the camels and slept the first night in the desert tent. The next day we drove to Merzouga near Erfoud (just 20 km from the Algerian border) where we also rode camels and slept in an even more beautiful desert than the night before. The third day, we were heading back to Marrakesh and we spent the night in a hotel somewhere between Ouarzazate and Efroud. On the fourth day we were back in Marrakesh and I took the train back to Rabat.
I'm uploading here the map (with the route marked red line) and my four favorite pictures (there is me on each of them:) There is more of them at picasa of course. Amusez-vous bien!
I enjoyed the desert trip a lot and I even enjoy it more now once it's finished :) Having seen the pictures you will probably say that I'm really strange to be complaining after such a wonderful trip. Probably, you are right. But it's just me. I don't regret though. It was an interesting experience.
The trip started on Sunday at 7 AM in Marrakesh. That day, we drove until Zagora passing casbah Ain-Benhaddou and Ouarzazate (the Moroccan Hollywood where movies like Gladiator were filmed). We rode the camels and slept the first night in the desert tent. The next day we drove to Merzouga near Erfoud (just 20 km from the Algerian border) where we also rode camels and slept in an even more beautiful desert than the night before. The third day, we were heading back to Marrakesh and we spent the night in a hotel somewhere between Ouarzazate and Efroud. On the fourth day we were back in Marrakesh and I took the train back to Rabat.
I'm uploading here the map (with the route marked red line) and my four favorite pictures (there is me on each of them:) There is more of them at picasa of course. Amusez-vous bien!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Chicago - "I move on"
What are we supposed to do when we fail? When we don't achieve what we want? When life plays with us? When we lose the score? When it doesn't go as we would like it to go?
Well, I don't know whether you will agree with me or not but I believe that the bigger part of our happiness depends on us only. Of course, there are some external factors that might influence that but all in all it's mostly up to us whether we're happy or not.
You might think that I am an always happy person not influenced by anything? It's not right (unfortunately). I'm sometimes pissed off, sad and unhappy. But, I always know that it's just a period and that will go away soon. I think I can objectively assess my life and the result of the assessment is always more positive than negative. I feel I head for the right direction. So as the bears sleep in the winter to wait for the warmer season, we should wait for the better time as well :) And the better time is just around the corner. And we should just learn from our experiences and head for the future - just move on!
Below, you will find a piece of snapshot from another of my favorite movies - Chicago. The song is called "I move on". I am sure you will understand its message ;)
Well, I don't know whether you will agree with me or not but I believe that the bigger part of our happiness depends on us only. Of course, there are some external factors that might influence that but all in all it's mostly up to us whether we're happy or not.
You might think that I am an always happy person not influenced by anything? It's not right (unfortunately). I'm sometimes pissed off, sad and unhappy. But, I always know that it's just a period and that will go away soon. I think I can objectively assess my life and the result of the assessment is always more positive than negative. I feel I head for the right direction. So as the bears sleep in the winter to wait for the warmer season, we should wait for the better time as well :) And the better time is just around the corner. And we should just learn from our experiences and head for the future - just move on!
Below, you will find a piece of snapshot from another of my favorite movies - Chicago. The song is called "I move on". I am sure you will understand its message ;)
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