a Normal day, or so it looks

V for Valentine:
Valentine's day king of the commercial holidays,

when everything is just red, wasn't red supposed to symbolize blood, valentines day is always going to be in winter, so you will always have to go out with your girlfriend to that original place you just picked, which happens to be in the great outdoors, or even in a chic cafe that happens to not have a roof. And guess what it may just happen to rain that day, or she might as well try to look sexy and wear that sexy dress you picked for her and freeze to death while listening to the cheesy love songs that are being played by musicians suffering from fucking pneumonia.

Anyways lets assume you are amongst the lucky bunch who managed to get a reservation and therefore you get to sit indoors where you don't have to worry about those poor bastards sitting outside hoping they don't die from a frost bite.

Now its time for a nice meal, some drinks and maybe a long dance, all preprepared to look perfect, you been practicing your moves so you wont embarrass her with all those people watching you. When the time is right you pick up your gift and hand it over, now let me just slow down here for a moment,
Gifts, i had an understanding that people in general agreed to receive gifts in 2 occasions, Birthdays and Christmas and since we never celebrated Christmas this way in Egypt, we only received gifts on our Birthday, so why we have to exchange/give gifts on this day?, some might argue that it is for the sake of expressing your love to your significant other, so I ask then what the hell are anniversaries for?

I don't want to come off as the crazy person who just hates everything, the reason i am very unlikely to ever celebrate this day again is plain and simple, its an imposed ritual, you have to buy expensive gifts, flowers and candles, you have to choose a clever place to take her out, and you still have to impress her all the way. So to summarize that day it all comes to the profit of all those merchants of love, the price of the flower gets quadrupled over night, if you don't act like you are so very happy, you will end up being treated like either a lonely single fool or another buzzkill.

Go celebrate Valentine's your own way, don't go with the hive, be creative how you cherish your precise moments with the ones you love, you shouldn't waste it on pretending to be having fun, and instead of buying her loads of chocolate and candles, just go buy her a diamond ring, she will manage without the chocolate or the candles, or if she really needs them she can buy them herself later, even a toaster would be better than candles.

and one last advice .... stay indoors no one will want to be close to you when you keep sneezing and coughing all night.

cheers

ps.Who still uses candles?, even Nokia put flash lights in their mobiles.

technology wrap up ... 10 years and counting ( draft)

Let’s take a look back, way back to 1999, to a time when Car phones were still cool and people were still using their home phones, remember that time, when it was a catastrophe if you had went past the sacred 59-second call, remember that it did cost 1200 pounds to buy the damn line alone and they still charged you I think 1.75p/minute, so you would imagine that many people had had to spend all their money paying for their phone bills.
Back then phones were still called Mobiles, now they are cell phones, smart phones, BBs and iPhones, each having their particular characteristics and features, they all still manage to perform the simple operation they were made for which is making phone calls but they are no longer as simple as they used to be,
Internet:
Back in 1996 Nokia the Finnish multinational communicantion corporation released the first mobile phone with support for internet connectivity and wireless email access, the Nokia Communicator. Three years after mobile internet started to spread in Japan when a company called NTT DoCoMo launched the internet services for mobiles. i-Mode was what they called it, over here in Egypt we didn’t have that privilege until much later when WAP was offered to the public a couple of years after, a reshaping of the mobile internet experience was introduced with the incorporations of W@P 2.0.
Those were the days, you could access the internet from almost any where, download ringtones and ... well that was the extent of the utilization of the technology really, today mobile phones can connect to the internet through a vast variety of connectivity options; Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or GPRS to name a few. You can even access the Internet through your network through Vodafone Live, Mobinil Life or Etisalat's Thing. You can still use WAP to access any XML-based application, just pick the option that suites you best.
Coverage:
Remember when you used to scream just to explain that you're being cut off because you’re going into a tunnel or just passing under a bridge, when it was still impossible to make a phone call from 5 kilometers away from downtown because they didn’t have network coverage there, maybe it didn’t affect you that much but it did for the few who could actually afford to buy phones back then, people out in the desert, or the suburbs had only one option which was to use a satellite phone. Satellite phones are different than the regular mobile phones we use, they can be used anywhere as long as you have a clear sky above you and a satellite in orbit, also you had to have enough money to actually afford to make a single phone call, to state the obvious, satellite phones are so very expensive and very annoying, they drop calls all the time and lose connection if it gets cloudy, it doesn't work indoors and did i mention that it is very expensive?.
Today we are swimming in mobile coverage, surrounded with antennas, access points and signal towers to maintain the signal strength; you can count on them to cover your needs wherever you go, even when you travel, Roaming services are there to stop you from switching phones, same phone with the same number wherever you travel. Mobinil (Orange Egypt) has international roaming agreements with 348 operators in 135 countries serving over 30 million subscribers.
Entertainment
Snake. Snake 2? mobile screens were still green and black, Nokia’s ridiculously-famous Snake game was the most known game in the world, people were playing it everywhere and everyone just loved this simple game, no one asked any questions, eat the dots, get bigger and lose the game, I still remember one of my friends in school beating that game on the highest difficulties. now you get the same games on your iphone as your Playstation or Xbox

, MP3, Radio, texting and mms, voice recorders