Saturday, May 21, 2016
The Talent of the Egyptian Drivers !!
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The Talent Most of the Drivers have, Is to Write on the Car, Bus or Anything that can be Driven. |
Only Egyptian!!
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You Don't Always Need a Transportation, If You are Egyptian, You are the Transportation |
keep it to yourself
Keep it to your self
Reading
this title, I know what you are all thinking, keep what in?, well I would say
that if you are living in Egypt , or let us say if you have been living in
Egypt for quite enough time, then for sure you will know that it is keep your
“opinion” to yourself. So being very honest about this , I am just not so sure
if its only me who suffers from this , or is it that everyone is suffering the
way I am , or if people have simply gotten used to it , but personally speaking
, I am truly suffering from the fact that some Egyptians just can not keep it
for themselves , so sometimes, I am driving , normally , and the all of sudden
, someone whom I have never seen my entire life , comes and be like , you
should do this or that , go right or go left, slow down , why are you driving
like this , really dude? Why do you care , do you think that I would be having
a car and wondering the streets if I do not already know how to drive the thing
? . However, you can actually hear a little bit more personal comments from
people that you do not even know , like for example , if you are a girl and you
are doing something a little different with your hair, you get out of the house
, start walking down the street , and then, here it comes , “ what is wrong
with your hair today”? , and then you go like , what is wrong with my hair, ohh
wait a second , who are you ? how do you know me ? and more importantly, why on
earth would you care??. However , there is another case , you know when you
know someone a little but then they start thinking that they know you a lot ,
for example , the man working in the supermarket of your neighborhood, you like
see him on a daily basis and so after some time , and only out of politeness ,
you start saying hi , how are things today, and then one day , he start
thinking you guys are friends now , and it is then when the wired questions
start , so , “where exactly is your building “?, “what floor?” , “ where were
you the past few days”? , “ why are you late today?” , and it just gets so
wired because you do know the guy, but you do not actually know him enough to
answer these. So wrapping it all up , I would say that Egyptians’ kindness can
actually be a double edged weapon , I can understand that it is just out of kindness and feeling that we are
together and united , but call me close minded, I do not really like being that
close to the street .
Friday, May 20, 2016
Different wired names for the Egyptian pound
So, do you think that you know the
one and only name for the Egyptian currency? ,, some people will read this and
just say what is it that you are talking about and what kind of a question is
that ? It is the one and only famous Egyptian pound. Well, am so sorry to tell
you guys that you are wrong , it is not just the famous Egyptian pound , it has
so many other names that you would only know if you are very familiar with the
Egyptian streets with the different social classes along with different ages
and different cultural backgrounds. So if you are one day wondering the streets
in Egypt , buying something from the supermarket or taking a ride in a cap and
then you hear someone saying it only costs you 15 “Bolbol” or if you asked the
taxi driver “How much is the ride?” and he simply answered you saying, it is
only 20 “Gondy” do not be surprised and do not you dare ask him what does this
mean , because it just means that you owe him 20 regular Egyptian pounds.
However, in places where people of lower social and educational classes along
with people with a little bit different cultural basics can be found, you might
actually hear much more weird names for the pound, so you could be passing by
some young people and you accidently hear one of them saying I only have one
“Lahlooh”, so again, do not freak out . it just means that he only has one
pound.
Moreover, and if you are not
extremely surprised by now , then a I can tell there is actually one more name
for money that you could hear around Egypt which is “Cammant” and this is when
you have to know that it is money that is being talked about. So wrapping the
whole thing up , we can say that is always the un expected that you can find
here in Egypt, you can never guess what wired names you will find for every
single thing as every sector in the society literally have it’s own culture ,
habits . beliefs , perspectives and of course, language. However, no one can
argue that we also have so much in common as Egyptians , despite all of our
differences , we all know how to connect at the end of the day in ways that no
other community can. So we are lucky , we are different, but we are the same .
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