I was taking my time last night thinking about the similarities and differences between living your life on the internet and real life. Well, to be precise, living my life on the internet or for real.
On the internet I met people with double standards, hypocrites; met them on real too. I met people online, that have nothing better to do than trying to impress girls; and on my real version of my life they existed too. I met people, online, that will stay by your side all the time; again, just like real. I met people that will say bullsh*t all the time, literally – both online and on real. I met people that I don’t mind stop talking to at any point. I met people that are shallow, people that are crazy, people that are incredibly sane, people that you feel cosy speaking to, people that you hate yet still talk to, people that you like the company of, people you look up to, people you know on both worlds.
And then it came to me – my real life is no different than the life I used to live online. A life is just a combination of the people you end up interacting with.
Although I have to admit, the major difference between both worlds is the thing that only happens once – family, best friend, and that one person you fall for.
Who hasn’t yet noticed that Egypt has become like a wide LCD screen. If you take a cruise around Cairo during the night, 10 pm or something, you won’t really mind that almost none of the street lamps are working.. thanks to all the ads up there.
Companies are trying to bombard each other. Not that I’m complaining (for all I know this means lower prices to us – the _poor_ consumers), but they’re overdoing it. The people are actually noticing that they are trying to eliminate one another. It’s not marketing anymore, it’s become more like a.. showoff – who has the smarter marketing department.
Anyway, I wanted to index what the “major” colours stand for here in Egypt right now, so here goes:
Last time I was deciding which major I should choose I made the wrong turn and it costed me 4 years of my life (which I don’t regret, except that..) – I can’t really waste 4 more years.
Networks. I most likely will end up being a network administrator. The title totally rocks, the pay will probably be in chunks, and the courses although sound as if they’re quite hard are going to be pretty much fun to learn. Although networks is a very convincing major to lay on, if there wasn’t any alternatives, despite the fact that I’ll be the kind of person that does loads of theory work before actually implementing anything on real-life, which then will contain plenty of hardware work and less software work – I am just guessing. The job sounds.. decent, and stable.
Computer Science. I’ve come to believe programming is my passion. Developing is just my thing. After I finish this major I end up being a system engineer, or just a computer programmer. There are plenty of hardware interaction too but at the end of the day, I’ll be a software guy. I end up knowing pretty much everything about the interns of a computer; how it works, how to fix things, etc. If I choose this major (and I think I will if nothing new comes up), I could choose an academic career and do further studies, even could teach computer science. If I do choose CS, I’ll end up being supervised by my favourite professor – which is something that will definitely push me forward.
The midterms are over. Last exam was yesterday evening, it was CS.
I don’t really want to talk about any of them. I’m not really proud of the results – they won’t be as good as first semester’s results, I know. Let’s hope for the good.
I feel bad.
Sidenote: Lost is starting to really drift off, it’s not as good anymore. I’m really getting into Grey’s Anatomy.
أعلن الدكتور أحمد نظيف رئيس مجلس الوزراء أن الزيادات فى أسعار بعض السلع البترولية سيبدأ تنفيذها اعتبارا من الساعة العاشرة من مساء الاثنين والتى اقرها مجلس الشعب بأغلبية 297 نائب بينما اعترض 76 فقط.
واكد نظيف ان الاسعار الجديدة ستكون كالتالي: (البنزين 95) الذى ارتفع بقيمة جنيه واحد ليصبح 275 قرشا بدلا من 175 قرشا ، و(البنزين 92) ارتفع إلى 185 قرشا بدلا من 145 قرشا ، و(البنزين 90 – اوكتين) أصبح 175 قرشا بدلا من 130 قرشا ، فى حين لم يرتفع سعر (البنزين 80 – أوكتين) والسولار ارتفع من 70 قرشا إلى 105 قروش .
وقال رئيس الوزراء “لم ترتفع أسعار البوتاجاز على سبيل المثال بالإضافة إلى أن أسعار السولار زادت بنسبة 12 % فقط”.
I have two questions (well, two topics) going through my head right now. One, 297 candidates agreed to a price raise? Those are candidates we Egyptians voted for to represent us in this kind of situations. Every one of those 297 people. What on this entire planet was convincing enough to convince 297 person to agree on that prices should go up. Two, where is the upper hand? Our dear president raises salaries by 30% and next day oil products prices rise by 30%?