HBBC - 5 Habits Bloggers Need To Stop
I don't know if being a blogger, there are certain things I should not be doing. I mean why the hell wouldn't it be just a place for random ranting and blabbering.
Oh, I wasn't supposed to say that, was I?
Write down. Mistake number one.
1- Pay attention
To people's thoughts. I know a blog is a place for everyone to say whatever the heck they want to say or what comes to mind and needs blabbering about whatsoever. But knowing that your blog has an audience holds you hellish responsible for what you say. So no, don't blabber, it's not always good for you and others.
2- Life's not all 'I'm sick of.."
Stop whining too much, you'll drive people away, and no I don't mean that you won't have readers. I mean seriously, you might not even have than many friends because the more you whine online the more you whine offline, or at least you'll look gloomy and sad, and believe me, people need no more of those drama queens. Everyone's pain is hard enough for them to handle. Get your shit together.
3- Don't be different
Difference here means going so out of the flow just to make yourself 'OMG I look way cooler than anyone'. Like, don't philosophize too much just to have a different opinion that doesn't make sense even to the most insane people.
4- Everyday? Come on!
Sometimes writing too much makes you write about things that are either too boring, too cliche or just too empty. You don't have to blog everyday, you might as well consume your brain and try to get new ideas that weren't there before, ideas published just to avoid feeling a writer's block. Be easy on yourself, you're not there to amuse people. Your blog, your rules, people who follow you follow your rules.
5- Don't underestimate..
the mind of your reader and don't give them posts that are too long talking about an issue that doesn't need a genius mind to think about. Simplicity is the best example. Writing things in complicated, long words will not make it any easier for you nor for the one reading your words. Be smooth. Simple.
I Am The Messenger Review
Zusak's humor made me literally laugh out loud I thought my family would think I went insane. From chapter I, I knew I'd like the novel only because of the laughter it brought to my heart. While reading, allow yourself to indulge with laughter, from the inside, because if books wouldn't do that to you, I don't know which would!
The Day I Fell For Zusak
Zusak got to me with words. He speaks almost everything I want to write, or not write. He speaks silence that I wanted to utter so long ago. He knows the exact words to tear at my heart, to touch my depth.
The Book Thief got to me more than any other book I ever read did. It actually made me read more and appreciate books and words more. It also made me always remember that silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meaning.
I still haven't finished I am The Messenger. I'm loving it so far. Zusak always knows how to relate the protagonist to books and reading. He must connect the two together, perhaps because he sees that a person in a novel must have something for novels. Maybe.
I love you, Zusak!
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― The Book Thief
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― The Book Thief
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― The Book Thief
“Even death has a heart.”
― The Book Thief
“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
― The Book Thief
“I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too. ”
― I am the Messenger
“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
― I am the Messenger
“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
― I am the Messenger
“My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.”
― I am the Messenger
“No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human.”
― I am the Messenger
“She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”
― I am the Messenger
“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”
― I am the Messenger
“I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”
― I am the Messenger
مات الجدل
أعلم أن المسألة قد ماتت في الأذهان و سقط الجدل و ماتت أساليب النقاش المقنعة ، و غرضي ليس الإقناع ولا التحايل ولكن مجرد استفسار بسيط جداً:
الكثير و الكثير من محبي الإستقرار و عبيد الديكتاتورية كانوا يطرحون نفس التساؤلات المبتذلة و التي نسمعها يومياً ، ولكن أكثر الأسئلة التي كنت أتمنى الرد عليها رداً يُخرسهم حتى تحمر وجوههم هو: هما أصلاً إيه اللي خلاهم يعتصموا و يوقفوا حال الدنيا؟
منذ قليل فقط ورد في مخيلتي هذا المشهد البسيط:
كلنا نواجه المتسولين و الشحاتين في نفس الأماكن كل يوم و كل أسبوع و يظلوا في نفس المكان لأعوام و أعوام دون أن يكلوا أو يملوا ، فيصبح وجودهم "ديفولت" في المنطقة و لا يعيرهم اهتمام المارة و ينشغل الجميع بالذهاب إلى أعمالهم كل يوم بدون أن تختلف نظرتهم لهذا الشخص أو الجماعة.
في نظري فهؤلاء حالهم شبيه إلى حدٍ كبير بالمعتصمين، فالكل يطلب شيئاً ما، والشحات مهماً كان كاذباً أو مخادعاً أو ما إلى ذلك ، فإنه إلى حدٍ ما فقير، و فقره هذا كان نتيجة لمجتمع سافر لا يبالي بالإهتمام بالفقراء، لذا فيصبح مطلب المعتصم هو نفس مطلب الفقير (على الرغم من أنه واردٌ جداً أن يكون المعتصم "ابن ناس قوي") ، و المطلب هو العدالة و العيش بكرامة.
عامةً ، ليس هذا ما أود قوله؛ إنما أود أن أشير إلى أن الفقير قد أصبح شيء مُسلم به في الشارع و لا أحد يعيره الإهتمام، بينما يُشكِّل المُعتصم أزمة مالية و إقتصادية و سياسية و خراب عجلة إنتاجية للبلاد. كيف؟ كيف و إذا كان المُعتصم هو طالب حق لا يعيره أحد الإهتمام حتى يكاد يكون كالمثل القائل "بنؤذن في مالطة"؟ كيف و قد ظل هذا المُعتصم يبيت في العراء و البرد القارس ليلاً يبحث عن سبيل للحرية من أجل الآخر النائم في العراء أيضاً ولكن دوناً عن إرادته؟
لقد أصبح المُعتصم يُشكّل خطراً للدولة بينما بات الجائع الفقير المتسول شيئاً مسلّم به في المجتمع حتى أصبح وجوده أو عدم وجوده أقل من عدد في إحصائية ليست لها أي فوائد إجتماعية.
الكثير من التساؤلات ، و الإجابة واحدة: مجتمع فاشي...
10 Things You Didn't Know About Sleep
- We can only dream about faces we have already seen, whether we actively remember them or not.
- Parasomnia is a type of sleep disorder that makes you do unnatural movements despite being asleep.
- 12% of people dream only in black and white. This number used to be higher but since the advent of colored television, more people dream in color than before.
- People who do not dream generally have personality disorder.
- British soldiers were the first to develop a method in staying up 36 hours without sleep; when fatigued, they put on special visors that emulated the brightness of a sunrise and it woke them up.
- It takes two weeks to starve to death, but 10 days without sleep will kill you.
- Within 5 minute of waking up, 50% of your dream is forgotten, within 10 minutes, 90% is gone.
- Men have dreams about other men 70% of the time. But women dream about men and women equally.
- People who are born blind experience dreams involving emotion, sound, smell and touch instead of sight.
- What goes on in your sleep is this: Your brain recharges, your cells repair themselves and your body releases important hormones.
Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions


