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mary
" 16. Relate in the Book (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place in the East.
17. She placed a screen (to screen herself) from them; then We sent her our angel, and he appeared before her as a man in all respects.
18. She said: "I seek refuge from thee to ((Allah)) Most Gracious: (come not near) if thou dost fear Allah."
19. He said: "Nay, I am only a messenger from thy Lord, (to announce) to thee the gift of a holy son.
20. She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"
21. He said: "So (it will be): Thy Lord saith, 'that is easy for Me: and (We wish) to appoint him as a Sign unto men and a Mercy from Us':It is a matter (so) decreed."
22. So she conceived him, and she retired with him to a remote place.
23. And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in her anguish): "Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!"
24. But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm-tree): "Grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee;
25. "And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree: It will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.
26. "So eat and drink and cool (thine) eye. And if thou dost see any man, say, 'I have vowed a fast to ((Allah)) Most Gracious, and this day will I enter into not talk with any human being'"
27. At length she brought the (babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms). They said: "O Mary! truly an amazing thing hast thou brought!
28. "O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"
29. But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"
30. He said: "I am indeed a servant of Allah. He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet;
31. "And He hath made me blessed wheresoever I be, and hath enjoined on me Prayer and Charity as long as I live;
32. "(He) hath made me kind to my mother, and not overbearing or miserable;
33. "So peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)"!
34. Such (was) Jesus the son of Mary: (it is) a statement of truth, about which they (vainly) dispute.
35. It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it, "Be", and it is.
36. Verily Allah is my Lord and your Lord: Him therefore serve ye: this is a Way that is straight."
le jardin d'essai
le jardin d'essai: where the first film of Tarzan with johnny wesmuler was turned, many people would think that the movie was made in some deep Africa forest, but actually it was in Algiers
my hero
Hassiba Ben Bouali ( 18/01/1938, 18/10/1957), just thanks, your sacrifice has created millions of lives. see you in paradise inchallah
3000 X each year
it's official now, each year, 3000 kids, are born in Algeria, under X, which means the mother is not married. as a result the government has introduce a new law to use ADN test to identify the father.
damn it, our society is doomed, words like single mum,sex before marriage, are no more a taboo.
fu.....
damn it, our society is doomed, words like single mum,sex before marriage, are no more a taboo.
fu.....
heheheh i am permanent now
we had a small party in the office this morning, to congratulate the new lucky workers who has now permanent job, i am one of them, in my short work experience (7 years) i had got 5 jobs, my first job was a French teacher in the local high school, it was rather an interesting position although it has nothing to do with my diploma, a Bsc in civil engineering, the most amazing thing was that i taught girls who were merely three years less then me. but as a good Algerian i did not take advantage of the situation, not really for moral reason, but the truth is that i live in a small country side we all know each other, so if you do something wrong, they'll catch you for sure.
anyway the teaching experience lasted just one year, then i worked for three others construction firms, to be short, it was a lost of time, except the meeting with river of paradise ( a female name in Arabic) but this is really another story.
then my last position which is a junior planner in a general contractor, here in the south of Algeria, i don't know why but whatever i told people( specially from north's earth) that i work in the desert, they'll get excited. i think people has a phantasm about desert, sand, sun the never ending places. ok for me it's not , i hate desert , it's boring,it's hot, i get up at 7 AM and it's already 35 °, and the obligation to work for 42 days before going home, which is 600 kms away.
still, i am happy, i have to be, it's a kind of a miracle to have a permanent job, in this country, now, i can take a credit from a bank for buying a car, a house.
anyway the teaching experience lasted just one year, then i worked for three others construction firms, to be short, it was a lost of time, except the meeting with river of paradise ( a female name in Arabic) but this is really another story.
then my last position which is a junior planner in a general contractor, here in the south of Algeria, i don't know why but whatever i told people( specially from north's earth) that i work in the desert, they'll get excited. i think people has a phantasm about desert, sand, sun the never ending places. ok for me it's not , i hate desert , it's boring,it's hot, i get up at 7 AM and it's already 35 °, and the obligation to work for 42 days before going home, which is 600 kms away.
still, i am happy, i have to be, it's a kind of a miracle to have a permanent job, in this country, now, i can take a credit from a bank for buying a car, a house.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
fouzia wants to live
her name is fouzia, she is a woman, she has 37 years, she is from Constantine, one of the oldest city of Algeria, she has cancer disease from seven years, she is poor, she has a poor mother, all her revenue is a small wage, the journalist did not write about the father, perhaps he is dead, they live in a small apartment in a crowded building, a crowed city, she has no money to buy drugs, the hospital did not accepted her, they rejected her, her mother tried to sue them, no one care, the justice don't care,the general attorney don't care , neighbors don't care, she is just another ill poor Algerian, they care about other people.
she has a cancer near her neck, he already get all her shoulders, she has worms who eat her body, the mum can't do anything to stop the worms, she has no medicine, she use pesticides to kill them, so they go back to fouzia shoulders, she is so pained that she kick her head against the wall, she cries, she has a lot of tears, she flowed something like a green liquid. when the journalist asked her to show her body, she did not accepted, she is shy, she don't want to be seen naked.
sometimes, the mother come to her room, and found it full of worms, she can't support the scene, she fell down.
i hope, they help her, after the newspapers has published her story. in this country it's hard to be a poor, it is hard to be a woman, it's hard to be sick, but if you are a poor sick woman, you have no luck
she has a cancer near her neck, he already get all her shoulders, she has worms who eat her body, the mum can't do anything to stop the worms, she has no medicine, she use pesticides to kill them, so they go back to fouzia shoulders, she is so pained that she kick her head against the wall, she cries, she has a lot of tears, she flowed something like a green liquid. when the journalist asked her to show her body, she did not accepted, she is shy, she don't want to be seen naked.
sometimes, the mother come to her room, and found it full of worms, she can't support the scene, she fell down.
i hope, they help her, after the newspapers has published her story. in this country it's hard to be a poor, it is hard to be a woman, it's hard to be sick, but if you are a poor sick woman, you have no luck
Friday, July 06, 2007
a very deceiving independence day
yes i am deceived and angry, not sad, her father told mine, no, i don't know the view of the girl, I don't know what she thinks about me, she is always in her home, as it is summer, i don't know if she knew another guy, or even if she need to know me more to decide. or if she wants to continue her post-graduation studies.
i just spoke to her one time, a three months ago for just five minutes, it was the first time i saw her, what's was a crazy scene, i told her that I'll ask for her hand( i am not sure if it's correct in English), and if she was interested, she told me, i should see her father and i don't try to speak to her again,she is a good girl, she cares about her reputation, she don't risk to be seen by her relatives speaking to a stranger, the university where she studies is near my town, so all students know each others , it was my first “dates” with her, perhaps the last, but it was enough for me ( apparently it was not the case for her)to feel that something good can be reached between us.
i suppose, people with others cultural background, just say, what the hell with those guys who want to engage without knowing their partners, but unfortunately it is just like that, i live in a country side, people are very conservative, girls don't walk in the street, it is not granted at all to “access” them, you can't simply go to her and say “ i need to talk to you”,
our theory is that, if the girl is from a good family, and if the people who study with her, the neighbors,your mum which know her mum, told you, she is a good one, then you don't need to know her personally, love come after the marriage, perhaps it sounds weird for you, but it works, Ok not all the time, but statically speaking, the divorce in the case of this traditional way is very low.
i think basically it was my fault, i was in a hurry, i have perhaps “the near 30 years syndrome”, in my country the average age of marriage for men is thirty, so when we approach that limits, we become like mad, searching for the sweetheart that will spend the rest of life together. and most of the time, in lieu, of searching for love, we end as seeking only the marriage.
and about the title, yesterday the fifth of July was our independence day, 45 years ago we got our freedom, from the French occupation. but with the social situation we have, people here don't care about this day, it is just another boring day.
i just spoke to her one time, a three months ago for just five minutes, it was the first time i saw her, what's was a crazy scene, i told her that I'll ask for her hand( i am not sure if it's correct in English), and if she was interested, she told me, i should see her father and i don't try to speak to her again,she is a good girl, she cares about her reputation, she don't risk to be seen by her relatives speaking to a stranger, the university where she studies is near my town, so all students know each others , it was my first “dates” with her, perhaps the last, but it was enough for me ( apparently it was not the case for her)to feel that something good can be reached between us.
i suppose, people with others cultural background, just say, what the hell with those guys who want to engage without knowing their partners, but unfortunately it is just like that, i live in a country side, people are very conservative, girls don't walk in the street, it is not granted at all to “access” them, you can't simply go to her and say “ i need to talk to you”,
our theory is that, if the girl is from a good family, and if the people who study with her, the neighbors,your mum which know her mum, told you, she is a good one, then you don't need to know her personally, love come after the marriage, perhaps it sounds weird for you, but it works, Ok not all the time, but statically speaking, the divorce in the case of this traditional way is very low.
i think basically it was my fault, i was in a hurry, i have perhaps “the near 30 years syndrome”, in my country the average age of marriage for men is thirty, so when we approach that limits, we become like mad, searching for the sweetheart that will spend the rest of life together. and most of the time, in lieu, of searching for love, we end as seeking only the marriage.
and about the title, yesterday the fifth of July was our independence day, 45 years ago we got our freedom, from the French occupation. but with the social situation we have, people here don't care about this day, it is just another boring day.
Friday, May 11, 2007
why i love opensuse and eh hate free project management software !!!
ok it has been a lot of time since my last blog, but actually my Linux experience has evolved, in a forum i was moaning about how it is difficult to install software on Linux without an Internet connexion, then a guy give me an indication, perhaps it is the best information i got form an Internet forum, just use opensuse, it simply rocks, definitively those Germans are smart people !!!!! i am downloading all the time new packages without the pitfalls of all those stupid dependencies, they made a simple solution yet very user friendly, all software are organized by distribution and processor architecture, so just grab them, then download them, copy to flash disk and have fun, so if you have opensuse 10.2 and you want software foo, it is so easy just go to software.opensuse.org/foo/10.2/i586/ and there is even a search facilities, so you are sure to not miss anything.
as a result, i have now in my computer all the very last version of my preferred applications, although kde4 alpha don't want to start ( keeping telling me, something is wrong with kdeinit4)
actually i am not the guy who wants always the last software even in alpha phase, i wanted to check the progress made to Kplato, which is by the way the only libre software that can be sometimes in future( ok with a lot of manpower) a serious project management tool( ok i have also planner and taskjuggler, but honestly guy how to manage a project in CLI). but i am sad to see that right now, it lacks a lot of basic features, like the ability to assign the budget quantity( either per day or the total) of a resources to a task, but what to say this a free software done by developers for free, so i can't tell them what they have to do.
Even worst, still wine( an MS windows emulator) don't support P3 or P5, so i have to keep my windows partition.
as a result, i have now in my computer all the very last version of my preferred applications, although kde4 alpha don't want to start ( keeping telling me, something is wrong with kdeinit4)
actually i am not the guy who wants always the last software even in alpha phase, i wanted to check the progress made to Kplato, which is by the way the only libre software that can be sometimes in future( ok with a lot of manpower) a serious project management tool( ok i have also planner and taskjuggler, but honestly guy how to manage a project in CLI). but i am sad to see that right now, it lacks a lot of basic features, like the ability to assign the budget quantity( either per day or the total) of a resources to a task, but what to say this a free software done by developers for free, so i can't tell them what they have to do.
Even worst, still wine( an MS windows emulator) don't support P3 or P5, so i have to keep my windows partition.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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