شُفع الزمن ده

طبعاً كباقي السودانيين أنا حريصة جداً على إنو أفراد أسرتي الصغار يتعلموا العربي. كان ما تعليم مدرسي بكل تفاصيل النحو والقواعد والبلاغة ، إن شاء الله كلامنا العامي ده.
شخصياً ما بفوت فرصة إلاَ وأحاول إن أقلب الونسة عربي قح.

الليلة بقى النتيجة ظهرت! بعد ما في شافعة بعرفها متربية هنا وبتتكلم عربي مكسر سوت ليها مصيبة، أبوها جا جاري. قلت بالعربي السوداني حقنا ده لزول جنبي "الليلة البت دي دقست".


البت إتلفتت علي وقالت ليك بي لهجة عامية صرفة "أنا أصلي دقست لمن إتولدت" وضحكت وفكت الجرية


والله شفع الزمن ده

Conspiracy Theory in Unity High School?

If surveyed, the world's most popular name would be Muhammad, I'm certain.
The most recent "one" to be named was a teddy bear, in Khartoum, Sudan, of all the places. Don't fret, the decision has been arrived at in the most democratic fashion one could imagine; by voting.

23 students decided the teddy bear should be named Muhammad. Not Ali, not Bobby, but Muhammad. Their teacher, however, one Ms Gibbons, was taken into custody by the Sudanese authorities and jailed. According to State media she could be charged with blasphemy. Serious charge indeed! Interestingly enough, the complainers were the parents who brought their grievance to the Ministry of Education.

Now, I have two questions?
1- Was the Ministry of Education hibernating back in the day when we had "Taha Al-Qurashi" series? For those of you who do not know who Taha Al-Qurashi is, he is the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and the series, though not referring to the protagonist as the Prophet, but a regular student who kept getting diarrhea and getting admitted to hospital. *All I could remember*
2- What's the sudden interest in school activities by parents and State alike?


I guess they have exposed themselves to one of my favourite articles by Fareed Zakaria, "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy".

New York City explosion

So in New York City, we don't need terrorism to stall the whole city. At 5:56 pm, this afternoon an explosion of a 24-inch steam pipe, resulted in a big crater on the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 41st Street, a street I used to tread daily around that time. Just to think that I could have been among the injured, if not a casualty, sends the shivers down my spine.

For goodness' sake, how is it possible to have such a thing happening in a city where taxes eat up a big chunk of one's salary! The whole infrastructure in the city is a mess. When the sky is raining cats and dogs, as it did this morning, the subway system becomes flooded and trains don't run from one borough to another for the whole day as it did today with Queens.

It is a relief though to hear the mayor, Bloomberg, admitting the failure

There is no reason to believe whatsoever that this is anything other than a failure of our infrastructure

I did a hell of a walking to get from point A to B on that side of the City and clicked a couple of pictures with my cell.