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A new year is unfolding

Nermeena - Wed, 31/12/2008 - 10:02am
I am grateful for the hideously ending 2008; - That it taught me to grow up instead of growing old.  - That it brought me peace of mind  rather than agitation during the hardest time.  During 2008, - I’ve committed to my resolutions and was happy seeing myself exercise much of  needed discipline.  - I was blessed enough to see a [...]

For Gaza: If you want to donate

Nermeena - Tue, 30/12/2008 - 11:44am
As per friends confirmation, the enlisted organizations are quite reliable and have access to Gaza: يتلقى الهلال الأحمر المصري و الهلال الأحمر الفلسطيني في القاهرة التبرعات النقدية وذلك لمساعدة المتضررين الفلسطينيين ورفع المعاناة عنهم على أرقام الحسابات التالية: -          الهلال الأحمر المصري، بنك القاهرة، فرع عدلي، رقم الحساب 30/501/8384 -          الهلال الأحمر الفلسطيني، [...]

From the heart

Nermeena - Tue, 16/12/2008 - 10:41am
I’ve been recently condemned cold, anti-social, and pretty much apathetic a person.  Well, I will go the very short way in this and wrap up instead of listing numerous reasons and statements. It is no secret that am not the most affectionate person on earth,  I am rather practical, I fall short of words and [...]

Change the channel

Nermeena - Thu, 11/12/2008 - 12:55pm
During the past few months, Egyptians have been haunted with catastrophic headlines and top stories on a daily basis - from murders, to corruption, to a series of fires, to sexual harassment… not to mention the effect of the global economical crises that the Egyptian officials allegedly confirmed hasn’t significantly affected the (already) deteriorating economy. [...]

A heck of an aggressive chick

Nermeena - Tue, 02/12/2008 - 9:35am
Tab3an we are all quite familiar with the morning traffic and all, and yes it is becoming more of a nerve wrecking daily experience..bas hane3mel eih?? Thank God we can afford buying cars to begin with, otherwise we would have been whining about public transportation experiences which is utter hell.  Anyways, on my way to work [...]

Relating to: Pride & Prejudice

Nermeena - Tue, 02/12/2008 - 8:10am
“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done”       

Last Night- a night to remember

Nermeena - Tue, 25/11/2008 - 11:14am
It was terrific, indescribably awesome. I came home euphoric and couldn’t get myself to sleep till morning, fa now am trying to keep my head up as much as I can.   I can’t thank all those who came yesterday to celebrate with us enough, your presence meant a lot to me, especially those friends whose  warmth [...]

The kick off / book signing event

Nermeena - Wed, 19/11/2008 - 8:41pm
Dear Friends, The book singing event will be held next Monday 24 November. Location: El Kotob Khan Bookstore Time: 7:30 pm Would really love to see you there isa :D       

And we are finally published…yuppppppppie :D

Nermeena - Mon, 17/11/2008 - 6:52pm
Guys and Gals, Oh yeah…The book is now available at the Kotob Khan and soon in all the bookstores.  It is the outcome of the creative writing workshop held at the Kotob Khan back in 2006, those who used to read me back then would probably remember as I used to blab a lot about it. A [...]

And they wonder

Nermeena - Thu, 13/11/2008 - 10:57pm
If one day I will come to realize that I don’t belong “over the rainbow” and touch the ground!! And I wonder if they will ever understand that I know where do I belong and I’ve landed safely long time ago but I just like to take off every now and then!        [...]

On Hope

Nermeena - Thu, 13/11/2008 - 10:36pm
“Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It’s such a surprise”       

Press Delete!!

Nermeena - Mon, 10/11/2008 - 1:44pm
It is always around this time of the year,  that I evaluate and question different things: my existence, thoughts, beliefs, and relations.  For this year is an extension of  last year’s success, and yes I can call it success, as I got to step out of my comfort zone-at first  shaking and stumbling- and survive [...]

Of the pinky life of moi & miraculous equations

Nermeena - Tue, 28/10/2008 - 9:49am
Well, the past period wasn’t all pinky, I had a few purple days..one cannot dislike purple days though, for A) life is a series of a pink and purple days and they correspondingly lead to each other  B) purple is tres a la mode ;)   I have to admit, that although I was super stressed at [...]

On patterns: Am no victim…are you!!

Nermeena - Tue, 14/10/2008 - 12:42pm
Some women tend to victimize themselves, curse the day they were born in an oriental masculine society…and pray for a miraculously “change the birth” arrangement.  While the rest don’t.  Personally, I don’t subscribe to this “emra2a mahidet el gena7″ pattern, neither -I may claim- the ladies am surrounded by at home, work, or social circle.    Maybe [...]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Let’s go pink

Nermeena - Wed, 08/10/2008 - 11:47am
My blog will Go Pink during the month of October (it would be great if you go pink as well)  in order to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, during the month I will try to post tips and info that might be helpful.       

and I was asked, “why are you SO unflappable”!!

Nermeena - Sun, 21/09/2008 - 10:20am
Am cursed!! I’ve been born with an infinite reserve of dynamite sticks inside me; with every action or a reaction I make..one of them explodes. It gets hysterical sometimes,  it is all inside, you might not notice it… I know!!!       

3 reasons: why do I (neutral/indifferent)* thee!!

Nermeena - Sun, 21/09/2008 - 10:19am
-         You make me feel that I have the IQ of a dinner plate -         We have as much chances together as a snowball in hell -         You are too much into cheap theatrics   * “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”                                                                           — Elie Wiesel       

If there is one thing that I hate the most

Nermeena - Sun, 21/09/2008 - 8:26am
then it is arrogance!! that being said I do-highly- respect confident and arrestive people.       

Worldwide reading in memory of Mahmoud Darwish

Nermeena - Sun, 21/09/2008 - 7:37am
”The Berlin International Literature Festival is appealing for a worldwide reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry on 5 October 2008. The activities accompanying this event are designed not only to honour the poet’s body of work but also his commitment to promoting peaceful and fair coexistence between Arabs and Israelis. This appeal is directed at cultural [...]

Will I get peritonitis of the soul!!

Nermeena - Tue, 09/09/2008 - 9:36am
I always want and aspire to do things, embrace certain people in my life and get closer.  Nevertheless, whenever I start I feel a stern urge to retreat, to forget, and let go.   I am particularly apprehensive about doors, and what lies behind.   I don’t trust “easily”….it takes me forever to just confide in someone.   I believe [...]

Beirut 2008

Nermeena - Mon, 08/09/2008 - 7:47am
Sett el Deny 3an jad ;) In Beirut, I loved sipping coffee early in the morning 3al corniche, in front of el raouche rock.  The walk from el 7amra to el raouche reminded me so much of strolling in Alex streets.  Unfortunately, didn’t manage to catch a sunset.  One of the things that I highly amdired in [...]

On People and Cities

Nermeena - Sun, 31/08/2008 - 11:12am
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe”  -Neil Gaiman “The Sandman” ” Cities are [...]

Snippets from the first Arab Bloggers Meeting in Beirut (from an extremely personal perspective)

Nermeena - Tue, 26/08/2008 - 1:05pm
- - Since it was a very short trip fa I had to leave Rateeba & Ensaf here, they would have made it hard for me. With all the debate, discussions and indecisiveness… you know!! I really wanted to work my trip out. - - I came across different and diverse experiences from different [...]

Professionalism and Efficiency

Nermeena - Wed, 20/08/2008 - 7:52am
It is when you kick off your workday by sending an email with the subject line: “Saba7o Manga ya Ostaz Ayman ” , insert a wink in the message body, and consequently get the required report on time.  

Egypt’s first Medal in Bejing

Nermeena - Thu, 14/08/2008 - 9:09am
is Bronze!!!  ya di el fedi7a. I guess this is a personal achievement for mesba7, but nothing to be proud of “nationally” speaking. My ordinary way of thinking goes liek (when you pack and go to the Olympics you  go with the mindset of obtaining a gold or at least a silver medal, no!! and in case [...]

And “I Google You” ;)

Nermeena - Wed, 13/08/2008 - 11:46am
I google you Whenever I’m alone and feeling blue And each scrap of information That I gather says you’ve got somebody new And it really shouldn’t matter ought to blow up my computer but instead…. I google you Yes, I do. I have admitted it back when I decided to come clean about dark secrets, however it is no longer a secret.  Read the [...]

Realization

Nermeena - Wed, 13/08/2008 - 11:28am
I am Coulrophobic.  Yep… I find  clowns scary, their painted faces don’t usually transmit anything to me other than an intense feeling of irritation and uneasiness.  I can pretty much relate that to my constant dislike of  hidden (feelings/emotions/agendas/ etc….).  

N-consistency

Nermeena - Sun, 03/08/2008 - 7:54am
Hello there, This is Little Miss N-consistent (I know you’ve already figured that part out).  I am quite positive that whatever comes out of me doesn’t make much sense to you and is totally incoherent.   But let me tell you something buddy, this is my favorite part of the story.  It helps in evasive maneuvering [...]

7elwa ya Baladi!!! I Beg to differ

Nermeena - Wed, 30/07/2008 - 8:28am
Oh, no… they are not gonna play the same game…again!! Prove me wrong. Please..please…pretty please.  

Resume the randomness

Nermeena - Sun, 27/07/2008 - 9:41am
I definitely should be doing something more important (as in WORK) rather than spilling my thoughts out.  However, I don’t feel like it.   Tab3an, I can’t remember what I really wanted to say about the Syd Field Seminar.  Something quite different from it was exceedingly informative and we had good time (for sure that’s not what I [...]

What happens in Agami ;)

Nermeena - Sun, 27/07/2008 - 8:56am
Remains in Agami….no juicy details - Sorry ;) It is a thought triggered by a pleasant incident that took place during the long weekend.  Only my sis and someone else (who doesn’t read this blog) would get it…but that thought brought back lots of “interesting” memories.   This post is for the record (and the good old [...]

Of a once was polar bear

Nermeena - Wed, 09/07/2008 - 4:41pm
“I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through dreams; and the dreamers will wake and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be”…3arosty!!  La2 mesh 3arosty, am just quoting “Dream in Sandman :D On Estrangement Oh, been out [...]

Random Thoughts

Nermeena - Sun, 15/06/2008 - 9:00am
1- In that very far deep end of my soul, I feel a faint miasma of dissatisfaction.  For a reason am totally disconnected. I tried hard to connect but all in vain.   2- Will I ever learn that neither Ms. Bennet nor Jo March  are pertinent “first date” material!!  Next time I will definitely go for [...]

Milestone

Nermeena - Wed, 28/05/2008 - 9:20am
And she happily turns THIRTY :D Nerro, (counts her blessings & chases the sun with ribbons undone)

Into the Wild: Depicting the Life of Christopher McCandless

Nermeena - Tue, 13/05/2008 - 1:05pm
From an adventurous to a sheer idiot, opinions varied about Christopher McCandless. In January 1993 Author Jon Krakauer published an article in Outside Magazine titled “Death of an Innocent”, in which he depicted the life of Christopher McCandless. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life [...]

Invitation: The Book Club around the Corner-Storytelling for Kids

Nermeena - Tue, 13/05/2008 - 6:47am
Dear Friends, The Book Club around the Corner invites you to a storytelling morning with Nag.  Nag will be waiting for all her friends to walk them through her fantasy world and tell them stories out of this place. When: Friday 23 May 2008 Time: 11:00 am – 01:00 pm Where: Shorouk Bookstore El Korba. Age Group: 6-9 For confirmations please [...]

Stripping Bare - Barely Stripping

Nermeena - Sun, 27/04/2008 - 9:34pm
Six months away from that day , we met again. In a once was an amazing place, an intimate district that has its idiosyncratic scent and significance, checked green tablecloth, hideous mismatched chairs, and an unbearable feeling of desolation. I said I missed him; I wasn’t lying, he said the same and I am sure [...]

Of being sun-kissed and other stories

Nermeena - Tue, 22/04/2008 - 8:56am
Blogging live from the sunny spot @ CC, where I work.  I finally settled in a nice small office rather than sharing a huge area- a.k.a (circus)- with zillions of other people who tend to speak “loudly” at the same time, and I wondered and wondered how on earth do they ever manage to understand [...]

Do you want a piece of me?

Nermeena - Sat, 29/03/2008 - 8:06pm
So at work am a total freak, a green alien with a big eye in the middle of the head (they go with green since they practically know nothing about my pink planet).  I speak life, they speak life as well yet in a totally different level.  I love my definition of life and hate [...]

From “Women who run with the wolves”– Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nermeena - Fri, 28/03/2008 - 6:35pm
“To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one’s primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild [...]

Bottled Up

Nermeena - Tue, 18/03/2008 - 9:36am
I’ve been alienating myself from all, even from my own-self.  The distance is getting wider.  The wider it grow the more comfortable I get, am I really comfortable!! I am keeping a content happy face, don’t want to be judged, don’t  want to spill negativity all around coz you know.. it is contagious. But I [...]

And we finally have a blog’s book club :D

Nermeena - Sun, 02/03/2008 - 10:11am
Nerro’s Book Club brings members together to read and discuss a selection of titles that vary in genre (fiction & non-fiction).   The club highly promotes and values Freedom of expression.  The purpose of this book club is to: - Cultivate reading as a lifetime healthful habit. - Expand the members’ personal literary experience by reading quality and diverse [...]

Thursday Night

Nermeena - Thu, 28/02/2008 - 5:00pm
It is almost 7 pm, and am still at the office :S and as they say the night is still young..3aaaa.  Mmmm…me thinks this might be an interpretation of last night’s dream.  Asl -kheir allahomag3alo khier- I dreamt that I became a trapped digit  inside cell D25 in  an Excel sheet (can’t recall which digit I was).  I [...]

The 7adary Debate

Nermeena - Sun, 24/02/2008 - 12:14pm
So it is like all Egypt’s Infrastructure, Political, and Economical tribulations are suddenly of the past and we have nothing to talk about except the 7adary’s dramatic exit, right? Ya3ni tayeb I have a question..mmm..a couple of them actually!   a)      When did Essam El 7adary became an  Egyptian Icon? with all due respect ya3ni, he is an [...]

Dormant State yet we celebrate

Nermeena - Sat, 16/02/2008 - 8:43pm
Ladies and gents, We (and by we I mean rateeba, ensaf, and my-humble-self)  are celebrating Nermeena’s blog third anniversary.  Let me tell you I spent days and days reading my archives from the very first post till the very last one and I can’t really express how I felt.  It is like documenting one’s life…I’ve watched [...]

Rateeba w Ensaf Roshdy

Nermeena - Fri, 01/02/2008 - 5:17pm
Is a Gemini associated syndrome that has recently been drumming me relentlessly, not that I wasn’t a Gemini before-coz I’ve always been one- yet little Ms. ridiculously irrelevant decided to start acting up and for a reason I chose not  to have power over it.  I used to know how to control my mood swings, [...]

Wanted

Nermeena - Thu, 17/01/2008 - 7:30pm
2 tickets/invitations for Marcel Khalifa’s concert. If you managed to provide the aforementioned tickets, you will be rewarded with a 3 days trip to the Pink Planet. Accommodation in the Royal Pink Suite, and transportation via HRH private space shuttle included.   Not to mention a surprise lunch/dinner/coffee with HRPH. \\Royal Pink Stamp\\ [...]

of getting old and other things

Nermeena - Thu, 10/01/2008 - 8:28pm
“Life is more than a series of moments, you know? We can make choices and we can choose to protect the people we love. And that’s what makes us who we are” - Oh my, growing up is quite a tough job, I mean, sometimes you just realize that time is passing you by, you [...]

Of New Years; Happy New Year

Nermeena - Sun, 30/12/2007 - 10:24am
A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I’ve played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.   Finally this year is coming to an end.  It was quite an eventful one ya3ni, can’t really [...]
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