christmas origin

Christmas is about Christ's birth
not Santa's gifts

people change?!

Something rare and strange happened to me: in one hour i met 2 persons i didn't see for almost 10 years.
the first is a girl i used to like very much and believe she's really a very good person with the open personality that makes her deal with everyone with a good spirit
the second is a guy i used to dislike a lot, and really i said after he left the country "Egypt now is a better place"
the difference between the 2 meetings was minutes
at first i met the guy, he was standing there and called my name, i looked to see who is calling and then i only said the following:
- OHHHH, u r here, u r back !!!!!!!!!!
- thank god u remember me
- i remember u, welcome back
-thank you
- well .... welcome back, excuse me, BYE
and i left
what happened exactly was that when i saw him a button was pressed in my mind "open the old box of dislike"
after half an hour, i saw this girl coming toward me, i smiled i laughed
i hugged her and said i'm very glad for this opportunity to see u again
we exchange our phone numbers, we talked about nothing important really
just chatting, this time the button in my head press the "like, love box"
honestly i was talking to her as if i see her everyday
it was a very good relief feeling to talk to her again
after a while a friend came to me asking me why i'm not talking to the guy
so i said: are u kidding!! i never liked this guy, anyway i said welcome back
- COME ON, it's been 10 years , people change
and he left me feeling bad about my self
he was absolutely right and i was definitely wrong
PEOPLE CHANGE
for the most the change is for worse but from time to time people may develop to be better humans
i was stupid, i didn't deal with the parameter of "time" correctly, my good friend may change to be a bad person and the bad guy may become a better person
but i used my old feelings to judge them both,
i use my previous experience to judge the future always and it's wrong
but again, how i neglect what is established inside me as facts (this person is good because ...., or this person is bad because .....)
if we set our personal experience aside when judging people, then what we should use? apparel?
should i start making new experience with every person i didn't see for longtime because "people change"?
the essence of anyone will never change by time but it only be more visible, and had more effect in his/her actions, i believe
but am i wrong?
are people really change and deserves a chance to rejudge? are our memories and experience the best judge?
what do u think?

post office forms

last week, my sister and i had to go to the post office to make (power of attorneys) for each other
the process was too simple, that i thought at first
i'll fill a form to name my sister as my agent (i don't know is't the right word in english), and my sister 'll fill a form to name me as her agent
SIMPLE
well .... NO
it's not like that at all, first you have to bring your own forms with you:
the officer said:" take these forms and go photocopy it and come back"
so the post office have ONE copy of the forms and who dares to use it has to photocopy it from outside
second you have to sit and be quiet
yes, the officer sit with the forms on his desk and our IDs, and kept looking at it to remember what he should do exactly
he filled about 4 forms, each has 3 data fields exactly (name, address, ID number)
THAT IS IT
he took more then half an hour writing 2 names, 2 address, 2 ID number twice
but this isn't everything
we were sitting next to the guy looking to his face, he had a face of a man in trouble, this was a hard task and difficult for him
he kept checking, double checking, triple checking from the data he wrote
and when other employers came and asked him for instructions he screamed
CAN'T U C I'M BUSY !!!!!!!!!
busy with what?????
the job with thinkless task if i can say that, he only fill the form with data in front of his eyes
P.S: he wasn't just any officer he was the branch manager
it's a complicated job that needs the boss to do it
LOL
the officers who deal directly with the public, take money and give money, they have one of the mentaly hard jobs ever
I admire their work (the cashiers, the bank or post people, .... ) but filling a form isn't that hard at all
remember when they announced that the post office is renewed totally and now anyone can put and withdraw money from any branch
this turned to be a joke
while sitting waiting for our forms to be filled, one employer came to the boss telling him that there's a person who wants to withdraw money from his account in another post office
do u know what they did????????
they called the other post office asking: is Mr. X has 000000 LE in his account as it shown in his account
do u believe this ???????????????????
the office is full of computers and they don't have a network system?
they didn't check the system they CALLED BY PHONE
what if the account is in another city? will they call Asswan to check the account??????????
it's a joke
i can't believe it
after the great mission is done, i remembered that last year i went to a job fair where the post office was represented by .................... " ENGLISH WOMAN"
yes English woman
an english woman was standing in the stand talking about the great development in the EPS, and how things will be different now
but no, this is like what a writer called (Ma'moun Fendy) wrote once: the government development is in the hardware not the software
it means they change the wall painting and the chairs, desks ... etc but not the rules they work by
new computers without a real system

BELLE - one of the best french songs of all time

*Daniel Lavoie alias Quasimodo
Belle
C'est un mot qu'on dirait invente pour elle
quand elle danse et qu'elle met son corps à jour
tel un oiseau qui etend ses ailes pour s'envoler
alors je sens l'enfer sourir sous mes pieds
j'ai pose mes yeux sous sa robe de gitane
a quoi me sert encore de prier Notre-Dame
quel est celui qui lui jetera la premiere pierre
celui là ne merite pas d'etre sur Terre
Ã' Lucifer, ô laisse moi rien qu'une fois
glisser mes doigts dans les cheveux d'Esmeralda
*Patrick Fiori alis Frollo
Belle
est-ce le diable qui s'est incarne en elle
pour detouner mes yeux du Dieu eternel
qui a mit dans mon A etre ce desir charnel
pour m'empecher de regarder vers le ciel
elle porte en elle le pecher originel
la desirer fait-il de moi un criminel
celle, qu'on prenait pour une fille de joie, une fille de rien
semble porter soudain la croix du genre humain
Ã' Notre-Dame, laisse moi rien qu'une fois
pousser la porte du jardin d'Esmeralda
*Garou alias Phoebus
Belle
Malgre ses grands yeux noirs qui vous ensorcellent
la demoiselle serait-elle encore une pucelle
quand ses mouvements me font voir monts et merveilles sur son jupon aux
couleurs de l'arc en ciel,
ma dulcinee laissez moi vous etre infidele
avant de vous avoir mene jusqu'Ã l'autel
Quel est l'homme qui detournait son regard d'elle
sous peine d'etre change en statue de sel
Ã' Fleur-de-Lys je ne suis pas homme de foi
j'irais cueillir la fleur d'amour d'Esmeralda
*Ensemble
j'ai pose mes yeux sous sa robe de gitane
a quoi me sert encore de prier Notre-Dame
quel est celui qui lui jetera la premiere pierre
celui là ne merite pas d'etre sur Terre
Ã' Lucifer, ô laisse moi rien qu'une fois
glisser mes doigts dans les cheveux d'Esmeralda
Esmeralda ...

CNN Election details

Check the CNN election section
those people analysis every tiny mini thing
the key word here is SEGMENTATION
voters by age, sex, eduction, income, race, religion, ....etc
and some segments are very significant : church attendance, Have Any Investments in Stock Market, Union Member, .. etc
they asked the voters important questions: one of them is "what are the most issues?" and 63% of the voters said it's economic when 9% said it's terrorism
pay attention that, the results on CNN website were published before 9AM Wednesday (that's when i checked it) and the counting was still going on some stats even after declaring the win of Obama
so it means that they build these results in 0 time, people just finished voting and already the result is on
OMG
this is not government organization, it's a news channel. it has the capability and the resources to do this huge surveys and data analysis.

then check the BBC election result section to see the difference
less analysis, less segmentation work, general data

P.S: i'm not going to even think about comparing with the egyptian election voters details

media to lead people

I like it
how individual do a positive action to enhance the society
just an actor invited some actors friends to do a couple of minutes video to spread awareness about voting right
and again, it's a clear demo of how deep the media effects people action
after the election ends, when the voters number will be announced, we'll find out how this kind of propaganda did