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Ok, here we go… Life is our oyster, Up the roller coast-
er, & down the drain,Walking the savage garden…
Trotting the halls of fame… & shame!
The children of the millennia, Alienated and alienating,
Up to date and data based, Multitasking, USB enabled
& hot-wired… Fearless, tireless & wireless!
And we are having the time of our lives, Drinking as it
comes, & the best is yet to come…
Ahhh! Yeah! So we are riding the roller coaster of a
lifetime, literally, but as we are riding it, a lot of us lose
track. We lose track of where we are coming from,
what is going on in the ride, and sometimes even of
where we are going!
And zat is why zis Zed exzists. To remind us of who we
are, where we are going,
and where we come from…
“3alashan e7na masriyeen awi bel salah 3anabi,
(moussa nabi, we 3eissa nabi, we m7amd nabi, we
kol eli leeh nabi, yesali 3aleh…)
Ahh! benetkalem englizi we benfham fe el 3.5 G
Ahh! benedrab gel, we nakol hamBorgar, we benelbes
geenz…
Ahh! beno3od 3al facebook bel sa3at, we bendown-
load bel gegat
Ahh! Ben chat we nehat, we benedi ba3d rannat,
Bas bardoh masriyeeen awi, we ged3an awi… we
ne3gebak awi…
MASHI?!”
“Because we are egibtionz very much, with the paryer
on the prophet, (Moses is a prophet, Jesus is a proph-
et & Mohamed is a prophet,And everyone who has a
prophet, pray on him)
Yes we talk English and understand 3.75 G technol-
ogy
Yes we use gel, eat hamburger, and wear jeans,
Yes we spend hours on facebook and download sev-
eral GBs a day,
Yes we chat and hat (mafeesh translation le deeh!)
and give each other missed calls,
But we are also very Egyptian, & very noble & you
can’t help but love us!
Okay?!”
Ummmmm! (What was I writing this for?!)
Translation lel e7’wah el ala frankah:
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Monks gone crazy. In what is globally described as a fight for freedom and jus-
tice, Tibetan Peaceful monks have been rioting and protesting in the Himalayan
city of Lhasa against the Chinese rule of Tibet. The Chinese crackdown on the
pro