ماهر

distance

2010-12-01T17:40:00.000+02:00

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daily nonsense

2010-11-26T04:23:00.000+02:00

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I got angry today

I got angry and I bought a packet of cigarettes,

I got angry and bought a packet of cigarettes, and now I’m suffering because of it.

I’m suffering because I got angry.

I’m suffering because I got angry at you.

no, that’s foolish.

I’m suffering because I am weak.

I am suffering because I am weak and I have forgotten how to control myself.

I have forgotten how to control myself, because you have made me believe I am a bad person.

no, that’s not true either

you made me realise I was a bad person.

I was.

I am not any more.

I am not a bad person any more.

I am stronger now.

I got angry today, because I forgot myself

I got angry today, because I forgot who I am.

I got angry today, because I have stopped listening to myself.

today this stops.

I know who I am, what I am, what I am capable of, and what I want.

I am Mahir, the industrial, the apt.

Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)

2010-11-26T00:46:00.000+02:00

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i've been hitting the gym recently, and needing some dance music to pump away too, i found this;
it is actually a fantastic song, perfect for a work out.

[VERSE 1]I want you to love me, like I'm a hot guy
Keep thinkin' of me, doin' what you like
So boy forget about the world cuz it's gon' be me and you tonight
I wanna make your bed for ya, then imma make you swallow your pride

[CHORUS]

Want you to make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world

Like I'm the only one that you'll ever love

Like I'm the only one who knows your heart

Only girl in the world...

Like I'm the only one that's in command

Cuz I'm the only one who understands how to make you feel like a man

Want you to make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world

Like I'm the only one that you'll ever love

Like I'm the only one who knows your heart

Only one...

[VERSE 2]Want you to take me like a thief in the night
Hold me like a pillow, make me feel right
Baby I'll tell you all my secrets that I'm keepin', you can come inside
And when you enter, you ain't leavin', be my prisoner for the night

[CHORUS]

Want you to make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world

Like I'm the only one that you'll ever love

Like I'm the only one who knows your heart

Only girl in the world...

Like I'm the only one that's in command

Cuz I'm the only one who understands, like I'm the only one who knows your heart, only one...

[BRIDGE]Take me for a ride
Oh baby, take me high
Let me make you first
Oh make it last all night
Take me for a ride
Oh baby, take me high
Let me make you first
Make it last all night

[CHORUS]

Want you to make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world

Like I'm the only one that you'll ever love

Like I'm the only one who knows your heart

Only girl in the world...

Like I'm the only one that's in command

Cuz I'm the only one who understands how to make you feel like a man

Only girl in the world...

Girl in the world...

Only girl in the world...

Girl in the world...

Just wanted to share to make people smile :)

2010-11-25T11:45:00.000+02:00

Travel plans

2010-11-25T09:01:00.000+02:00

I'm excited about the christmas break : )

I check everyday Ryanair's offers and its just fantastic that tickets from just 6 euros are available!

I just love travelling...

and would like to travel with a skillful traveller
(:

another?

2010-11-24T12:07:00.001+02:00

another headache? what the ...!

choice

2010-11-24T11:52:00.001+02:00

what do I do know?

I have no choice but to be mad.

Emotions run deep

2010-11-24T05:06:00.000+02:00

What we all dream of.

Xaris Alexiou - Mia pista apo fosforo

2010-11-24T05:05:00.000+02:00

I have heard alot of this womans music. Some turkish people say her music is just rip-off's from Turkey, either way, every version of a turkish song by her, in my opinion, up to this point in my life anyway, has been better than its original.

I cant remember the turkish name for the song,
but its fantastic.

Bayar Sahin - Gelino (Gürcüce)

2010-11-24T05:03:00.000+02:00

heard this whilst having trouble sleeping.
my new favourite song.

can anyone tell me what it says?

Its in Georgian
its by Bayar Sahin - and its called "Gelino"

morning news

2010-11-23T15:48:00.000+02:00

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just woke up, at 3pm, to the bitch of all headaches
:(

a departing message

2010-11-15T19:09:00.000+02:00

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a sense of fear and awe thrust through me as i wait for my bus to the airport.

fear that hasnt touched me for such a long time, a type of fear different from what i'm accustom to.

i love you all. the people i have hurt, please forgive me. the people i owe money to, please forgive me. the people who are $

to the family i speak seldom to, please forgive my indifference and lack of communication. it has been a difficult time for $

to my sister, please be real. please know yourself, and let no one tell you what is expected of you, let know one speak for $

to my parents, words cannot explain what i want to say to you both, so i wont even attempt. I tried to be "mahir". i love yo$

to Esra.

i am nothing without you. forgive me. thats all i ask. forgive me. :(

to Allah.
i am yours, do with me as you please my lord. i have no power upon this earth but what you have bestowed me with.
i ask only the oppertunity to undo my wrongs, to correct my faults and to help people and our temporary existence as best i $
allow me, and guide me my lord, allow me and guide me.

farewell.

culturalising

2010-11-13T21:57:00.001+02:00

haftada kaç gün ağlıyorum biliyor musun?

13/11/10 21:34:13

böyle birden bire

13/11/10 21:34:19

ya da gece yatarken

13/11/10 21:34:22

ve bugün fark ettim ki

13/11/10 21:34:29

biz arkadaş değiliz seninle

13/11/10 21:34:35

insan nasıl annesi babasıyla

13/11/10 21:34:40

arkadaş olamazsa

13/11/10 21:34:42

kocasıyla da olamaz

13/11/10 21:34:48

sen beni yargılıyorsun

13/11/10 21:34:54

sana birşey anlatmaya korkuyorum

13/11/10 21:35:03

bana kızacaksın diye

13/11/10 21:35:08

sadece şunu bil

13/11/10 21:35:17

ben iyi değilim

13/11/10 21:35:19

tamam mı?

13/11/10 21:35:22

ona göre davran

13/11/10 21:35:25

eğer sabredebileceksen

13/11/10 21:35:28

edemeyeceksen

13/11/10 21:35:30

beni bırakabilirsin

13/11/10 21:35:44

çünkü bunu kabul etmen lazım

13/11/10 21:35:47

anlıyor musun

13/11/10 21:35:53

and i need to go wash my face

(and i just sat in the toilette and cried) 13/11/10 22:05:40

dua

2010-11-12T19:03:00.001+02:00

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"Rabana la tajalna fitnatan lilathina kafarou"
“O our Lord, do not make us a tribulation to those who disbelieved.”

pee ay fucking day

2010-11-12T16:45:00.002+02:00

FUCK

She made me feel love

2010-11-11T23:11:00.001+02:00

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She made me smile. She made me feel loved. She made me trust her even more. She made my day. She made people think of me in a good way. She made me remember the most important people. She made me believe. She made me smile. She made me smile. I love she. I love her. I love esra.

Do i care?

2010-11-11T00:11:00.001+02:00

I'm 28. Should i care? Do i care? Will anything be different? Will i get married? Will it happen this year? Will i be accepted? How do i organise my life? Will i get my degree? Will i become a real teacher? Will i become a real muslim? Do i have the power? Am i heman? Who has the answers?

4qin memories

2010-11-09T23:15:00.001+02:00

i think it was 8th or the 18th of october

"i met someone"

:(

2010-11-09T11:02:00.002+02:00

i never want to see that person again
that person who i used to be

i saw how happy you were in that video
cut my throat into pieces

Morning. My battery is low, i would call

2010-11-09T10:20:00.000+02:00

Morning. My battery is low, i would call you but i know you slept at 4 am. I am late for work. I forgot my charger. Have a nice day. You can relax. Thank you for calling me. Try to do it when i'm awake cos i slept through all your calls. :)

phones and bones

2010-11-08T14:18:00.000+02:00

want

say

much

not

able

speak

feel

lost

weak

need

show

fear

know

crying

dear

feel

lost

weak

far
dark
sharp
knife
dogs
bark
feel
lost
weak

tearsfallingdownmyface

2010-11-05T17:17:00.001+02:00

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i am still so scared

of losing u

'<3: i dont think so

me: i am still so afraid that u might leave me

i dont think so?

inanmiyorun seni

'<3: you are sick of me

bored of me

4:58 PM me: go away

5/11/2010thats how

mid-flight

2010-11-05T14:26:00.000+02:00

Image by the euskadi 11 via Flickr

how do i stop the ball falling in mid-flight?

how do i stop her from leaving me?

save us

2010-11-05T00:27:00.001+02:00

its so difficult
so so difficult
4/11/2010

The Rally to Restore Sanity: No Need to Fear Muslims

2010-11-03T15:35:00.000+02:00

The Rally to Restore Sanity: No Need to Fear Muslims

via loonwatch.com by Garibaldi on 11/1/10

Candidates for anti-Loons of the Year, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their combined Rallies to Restore Sanity and March to Keep Fear Alive on the Washington Mall, Saturday October, 30th. The event was held to promote a dialogue of reasonableness and restore rationality to the divided discourse that exists in America. Over 250,000 people showed up, more than Glenn Beck's Rally to Restore Honor which garnered around 90,000.
Among the many messages, one was explicitly addressing the irrational fears Americans have of Muslims.
Jon Stewart on his intentions for the rally,

JON STEWART: I'm really happy you guys are here, even if none of us are really quite sure why. So, what exactly was this? I can't control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are, and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies.

But unfortunately, one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country's twenty-four-hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen. Or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the résumé. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers or real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate—just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more.

Stewart and Colbert also awarded Jacob Isom a medal for his contribution to restoring sanity,

JON STEWART: Our next honoree reacted quickly when he found himself face-to-face with a flammable situation.
JACOB ISOM: Snuck up behind him and took his Quran. He said something about burning the Quran. I was like, "Dude, you have no Quran," and ran off.
JON STEWART: I like that. Can we hear that again, maybe with a dance remix?
JACOB ISOM: [remixed] You have no Quran. Snuck up behind him and took his Quran. Said something about burning the Quran. I was like, "Dude, you have no Quran. Dude, you have no Quran."
JON STEWART: Thank you, YouTube. Now, obviously I don't normally condone ripping things out of people's hands, but I think in this situation it was the most reasonable thing to do. Ladies and gentleman, our final awardee, Jacob Isom. Sir? Come on up, brother. Oh, there you go.
STEPHEN COLBERT: Boo-ya! Dude, you have no medal! How's that feel?

Finally, the pair of comedians had an exchange with Karim Abdul Jabbar to highlight the fact that Americans shouldn't fear Islam and Muslims and those who are doing criminal actions are a very tiny minority:

STEPHEN COLBERT: What about Muslims?
JON STEWART: What? What about them?
STEPHEN COLBERT: They attacked us.
JON STEWART: Stephen, "they" did not. Some people who happen to be of Muslim faith attacked us. But there are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. Most of them—
STEPHEN COLBERT: Did not, is what you're saying?
JON STEWART: That is correct.
STEPHEN COLBERT: Oh, Jon, oh, so you're saying—you're saying that there is no reason at all to be afraid of Osama bin Laden?
JON STEWART: No, Osama bin Laden is a specific person. He's bad.
STEPHEN COLBERT: He is a specific bad Muslim person.
JON STEWART: Yeah, but that's not—there are plenty of Muslim people that are not bad and that you would like, and that's fine.
STEPHEN COLBERT: Oh, really? Who? Who would I like?
JON STEWART: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
STEPHEN COLBERT: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
JON STEWART: Yes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
STEPHEN COLBERT: Kareem!
JON STEWART: That is someone that you would—
STEPHEN COLBERT: Watch your head. Kareem, my man! Hey, Kareem!
JON STEWART: You know, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is Muslim.
STEPHEN COLBERT: Well, that's not fair, Jon. That's not a fair example. Kareem is cool. We're friends.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: Well, we're acquaintances. You know, a real friend understands that no matter what religious position someone plays, we're all on the same team.

It was an amazing rally, and despite all the attempts to undercut it and underplay its significance by both the media and certain politicians it was a tremendous success! The message at the end of the day was that we can have disagreements in a reasonable manner and that what binds us as humans is stronger than what divides us. As cliche as it sounds, at the end of the day it was a call for peace and love.
I leave you with this duet between Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) and Ozzy Osbourne doing their respective Peace Train and Crazy Train:

ماهر

distance

daily nonsense

Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)

Related articles

Just wanted to share to make people smile :)

Travel plans

another?

choice

Emotions run deep

Xaris Alexiou - Mia pista apo fosforo

Bayar Sahin - Gelino (Gürcüce)

morning news

a departing message

culturalising

dua

pee ay fucking day

She made me feel love

Do i care?

4qin memories

:(

Morning. My battery is low, i would call

phones and bones

tearsfallingdownmyface

mid-flight

save us

The Rally to Restore Sanity: No Need to Fear Muslims

The Rally to Restore Sanity: No Need to Fear Muslims