A Band...

Renting an apartment on the ground floor might not be as bad as living on the 8^th floor when you have a wooden frame windows like my apartment in Sweden, where wind is a religion, so I get to wake up every day annoyed by that noise coming from cracking windows, but as I always say “I wish if it’s the worst that can happen”,  and by saying this I realize that this thing is really not a problem, IN fact I started to enjoy it, I just need a couple of guitarists, a singer, and this noise and we can be a band!...

Today is “Midsommar” in Sweden, which means the Middle of Summer, it’s a festival where people celebrate for seeing the sun after a long time, so its summer officially! People gather themselves in parks and start to dance and sing in groups, and as my friend Mag said “It’s the only time you will see Swedes dancing and singing without being drunk!”, it’s true, and it looks fabioules, it reflects the ancient culture of Sweden, especially after the dance when friends and families gather for a dinner and eat Herring Fish and Potato, then they serve spirit drinks!

Unfortunately, I wasn’t a part of it this year, though I wanted to dance and jump, and let this Herring fish bones stuck in my throat and try to swallow it with a shot of Vodka! But you need to be a part of the family or a really close friend to join the house gathering, and I think it will take a lot of time to have such a relationship in Sweden, and here where I lit a cigarette, and thought for a while, in 9 months in Sweden, Couldn’t make such a close friend? How long will take if I want to? What is the time period of achieving friendship in Sweden Standards? Is it really that hard? Living alone is an option? Is it the lifestyle here, or I am being sensitive?

Apart from my working life, and being a single guy in a city full of blondes, having a good friend is the least what I can try to achieve, while failure means a depressing social life in a cold country, and to avoid failing by achieving the desired goal as  having friends who invite you to such an event you will need to work hard for it, first is to break the language barrier, you will have to speak Swedish same way they do, yes they can speak English fluently, but they would appreciate your good Swedish more, no matter how they tell you that they prefer to speak English, but that’s for a day or two, but won’t make you have a really good friendship.

The lifestyle is Sweden is really different from any other country in the world, I mean Swedes are really busy with their own life not concentrating on emotions, it might shock you seeing two old friends meet by coincidence in a shopping mall and just wave to each other’s humbling “Hi”, there is no hugging and kissing like Arabs, or no shoulder tapping like Italians, there is no “where the F#$% have you been” like in UK, if you are lucky and made him a favor earlier you would probably get “How is it going?”. I am aiming for more; I don’t consider that a friendship if there was no caring, or at least pretending it!

It will defiantly take a long time to have a really close friend that you can call “Buddy” or you can really believe that if you face a problem he will be there, even if he can’t help, but he will think it through with you, and suggest you what to do, a friend who will call you NOT only when he wants to party and has no company, a friend who his family will call you if they can’t reach him because they know that you can somehow, I mean a good friend, who invites you to celebrate with him the “Midsommar”!

I saw happy people singing and dancing today, and I realized how music can affect people, it can make them gothic, or it can make them believers, and it’s a way to change the people mentality, I always wanted to make a band, to sing for the life, for the friendship and love, for a major change, to point at the community faults, and sing it out loud, make people repeat it, and have it as a logo… maybe it’s the time to start a band! I play Guitar, and my cracking wooden windows are the Drummer, I just need a Singer…

Make Love NOT War...

One of my favorite activities in the morning is to drink coffee and watch the news, I really like to be updated on what’s going on in the world, and it really made me sad seeing how bad the situation in the middle east, but we all pray for a better democratic life, and then there was a political person who was saying that he created a group on Facebook about some revolution issue, and here it is, the Facebook witness! And as some of you know that all the arrangement in the Egyptian revolution was done on Facebook! Not even that, but also the updates and the elections!

Last weekend I was at a club with a couple of friends, I believe that I had a good time dancing with a beautiful blonde, and just when I was about to leave I asked her if I can meet her again, she smiled took my mobile phone and wrote something, I thought it’s her mobile phone number but it was her Facebook account, and she said “Add me”! Well, I did and I hope that this will go somewhere if I poke her two or three times!

While I was checking my friends status updates I got a popped up chat conversation from a girl who had a house party I was enjoying last weekend, and she was asking me about my friend if he is seeing someone or if he is in a relationship, it turned out that she is in love with him and she wanted to express her feelings to me on Facebook…Sweet… so I witnessed a very beautiful blonde crying on her lost love over a man who is my friend that doesn’t care for her, or probably just want to have fun at the moment…

It’s really becoming strange to me and not fitting inside my brain, I mean three different situations with one application that can solve them all without even going out of your door step! So it had me thinking, how can I fix that poor blonde with my friend through Facebook? will the next Egypt president have a Facebook and start to poke people? With the same tool, can you make peace, or war? If I have an unprotected Facebook sex with that dancing queen blonde, will my sun look like Mark Zuckerberg?

Let’s think positive, if such an application is available to everyone then I am sure that we can achieve a lot of useful things, like questioners for example, instead of standing in front of the malls and asking people about a certain topic, or polls about what people think, why don’t Facebook get registered with governments so it will be like an address? I think it will help in so many things and will take it from social website to a helpful website; at least it won’t be banned from offices!

Yes Technology meant to help people to live an easy life, and I don’t think it will get easier than dating online, you are just one click away to meet your dream princess, and it’s even easier to tell your children about it, so there is no more stories like “I was wounded in the civil war and your mother was the nurse”, it’s just “I poked her, and she poked back!”, Men won’t even be scared anymore of rejection or a water spilled on their face in a fancy restaurant, the maximum you will get is a block, which is nothing comparing to embarrassing moments I had before all these dating websites, at least now I don’t even have to worry about that blonde, because I can search for a lot of them, add them, and flirt with them, and definitely, first come first serve…

If Revaluations started with Facebook Pages, I think relationships is easier to start, and It’s cheaper because there is no dinner involved, and the only drink she gets is a digital Möet, but I am really hoping that this application will lead us somewhere we can achieve useful things, or to lead us to somewhere we can make love NOT war… and now you have to excuse me because someone has poked me and his finger is still stuck in my…..screen…