Bakbooki/Mbakebka Recipe

Bakbooki or Mbakebka is a Libyan traditional dish,it is simply macaroni/pasta with runny tomato sauce.It is loved by almost everyone,even foreigners who try it for the first time. The only thing I and any other Mbakebka eater hate about the dish is trying to eat it when hot,you always have to wait at least 10-15 minutes to start eating it,this is due to the sauce (margga). Bakbooki is a fast and easy dish to make,it is always the backup meal for any Libyan family when there is no time to cook something fancy.
To prepare Mbakebka,you must have pasta,any type will be just fine,tomato paste,tomatoes,hot water,spices,potatoes,carrots,chicken,and chic peas.Its up to different people weather or not they want to add mushrooms,peas,sea food. First of all,slice some onions and add some oil,then put the pieces of chicken,all this is done in a tanjra over the oven. Add the spices (bharat,filfil,salt). Slice some fresh tomatoes and add half a can of tomato paste,mix everything together,you could add some garlic to give the whole thing a kick.Add water to the half or more,depends on your family.You keep that for about 15-20 minutes over hot fire then later comes the potatoes and carrots as they don't take much time to get ready.Add the pasta,it should take about 7-9 minutes then its should be ready.Pour the whole thing in a huge bowl (gas3a). Instead of pasta you can use Reshta (reshtat burma/reshta mbakebka),or rice (roz mbakbak). Enjoy and get your tongue burned!!

17 OF FEBRUARY

seventeenth of february is the day when rebels in all regions of libya started the revolution. This day was the start where many young men sAcrified themselves so that we can live today.

Every year people will celebrate in this day , so that to make those who lost their chlidren in freeing libya become proud.

I myself enjoyed that day , as i woke up in the early morning of last friday which was seventeenth of february , i read quarter of the quran for those who sacrified themselves for us , then after a few time i went with my friends to pray in the mosque, the mosque was incedible people were dressed as if it was the eid and even the way the situation was as if it was one of our eids. As we finished praying , we decided to eat dinner in my house and then to go to alshuhada square .

As we reached there we started to wave with our flags ,we spent most of our time waving. for sure we did other things like singing the national anthem for more than one time until i almost memoried it.

at about 9 pm that friday the situation became realLy excited, where we where given balloons so as to write the rebEls names in our family and then alLoW them to move in the sky. I actually didnot have any rebels so i wrote tHe name of my friend who died in the revolution.

At about 11 pm my friends and i were really exhauStEd so we decided to go to our homes.

in conclusion, the seventeeth of february is a day that all libyanS will celebrate in every year SO as to make the parents of all who were killed in freeing libya become proud.

What I want to do after 10 years.

What I want to do after 10 years is to be a part of the ministry of youth and sports so I try and add new sports and hobbies to the country or care about unpopular sports because not  all people play  football,basketball and all those sports that include a ball or running , there other people who play other different sports such as skateboarding or mountain biking and allot of other sports that are missing in this country.
This way the youth will have things to do in their spare time this will let them avoid bad things such as smoking,drinking or wasting time in the streets and let them look forward to championships or tournaments  maybe this way they can make their country proud of them .

Gay Rights In Libya

It's not okay to be gay ; you can call me 'narrow minded' or what ever you like but I'd never believe in a man-man relationship .

All the respect they're having , the appreciation they're getting is a bit awkward when scientists develop in many fields like aviation , biology & electronics are never mentioned , while gays like hairstylists and fashion designers are known globally .

In a country like Libya , this would be the weirdest thing ever ,were a muslims give gays rights ! lets start with the marriage , how can it be legal to have a man-man marriage ? Who's going to play the wife's part ? If a problem goes on between the couple , who's going to 'divorce' the other guy ?
These kinds of marriages are prohibited by Islam , Allah & even in the Holy Quran it's forbidden for two men to get in an affair .

In Libya , we youth gets prostitutes with no legal actions ,when Jack Daniel's is sold cheaper than water , when Mariguana is given for free (5 leaves for each citizen) , when another Vegas is built in our enormous desert , that time can ask for their rights

In the end of this , Allah might have brought gays up to this world for a reason that we'd never know .

UFO

There has been many phenomena all over the world that excited people to know more . one of these phenomena is ufo. UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. Any airbornevehicle or phenomenon that cannot be accounted for by qualified, experienced investigators using modern, accepted equipment and methods is classified as a UFO. Although UFO's are often attributed to extraterrestrial life or technology, no conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial origin has ever been made public. In fact, very little evidence even suggesting extraterrestrial involvement has ever been recovered, other than eye-witness accounts of unusual acceleration and maneuverability not possible by current human technology. Despite the lack of evidence, many people choose to attribute any unexplained celestial circumstance as the work of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Death Response

Death is an unfortunate event that happens without any warning. It may cause you losing a very close person to you. Feeling the loss is even harder than thinking of living with it.
The moment you get the news of losing a loved one you feel like getting your heart stepped on. Just after that feeling is gone you will start to think that it may be impossible to keep the your life’s same routine running because of the loss.
I have experienced what I wrote too many times. All the feelings may disappear after few days but you will still think of it going although you forget but you can remember, the moments , which gave you the thinking of having wonderful friends, and the moment and the feeling of the loss your life.
No better way of giving that person the true attention needed and showing him your true love than the Islamic way, where the person is carried on his/her friends shoulders and given his/her last ride to the grave , in a funeral procession. As God described in Quran you came from soil like particle and to soil shall you return. And also described in Holy Quran as we gave you the soul it shall return back .
Sp without any warning you may experience what I just described, that is death and we have to deal with it.

AbdulRahman Kahil G:11

FRIENDSHIP

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

This quote shows how friends or in other words best friends will react when you are in a difficult situation .

A Writer's Life

A long life with a deep constitution is bound to attract a contradictory emotion of lonely fulfillment. One may write to ease and comfort his fellow man in times of turbulence. For life rushes upon us like heavy currents in a river and often we need soft words to avail us through the dark waves of fortune. But here I write these letters to you, any who have been victims of despair, to remind you that radiant hope forever emanates from the dawn of the crimson mornings. Life continues and the sun always rises. With every tear we are cleansed, with every fall we may rise again, with every evil committed there shall always be love and hope to requite it. Every tear of humanity will one day be requited, suffering shall be reduced, and justice will be prevalent. Not only do I believe that man will persevere and surmount his obstacles but that he is immortal. Mankind is of the cosmos, the kingdom of God is within the heart of humanity, and when we compose we reveal more of ourselves. Often we confine our hearts to despair but through writing we can facilitate in suppressing the anguish that haunts our minds. So here I write to you in my utmost sincerity with the conviction of hope to remind you that love and justice always prevail in the face of evil. Every day we suffer and struggle against the oppressive forces of our absurd world but never yield, all great things are the denouement of endurance. And who am I? Writing to you, I am simply a man that has been gazing into the labyrinths of your hearts, desperately searching for a coruscating ray of ardency.

I am originally from Benghazi, but sadly I have never set foot there nor do I know much about it even though it's my hometown. 

I was born and raised in Tripoli. It is what I first peeked and where I first trod. Tripoli occupies a great place in my heart. It is, without any exaggeration, my most beloved place on earth.

Words can never give justice to how much i cherish Tripoli. There is something about its air, sky, terrain, roads, and buildings, and no, it's not pollution and destruction. There's something about Tripoli that I can't grasp and convey through words, there's something about it that makes it magnificent.

For a capital of one of the world's richest countries, Tripoli is a disgrace. Libya is a disgrace itself, due to Gaddafi's 4 decades of systematical destruction and demolition. Nevertheless, Tripoli is the most majestic to me. Whenever I travel abroad I feel a huge void inside of myself, a void that only disappears the minute I arrive in that wreckage of an airport in Tripoli.

I consider Tripoli to be my hometown for I was born and reside in it. My love for Tripoli did not shine on me as an epiphany due to the revolution last year, unlike many people my age, I had loved it consciously and subconsciously ever since I was little. 

I can honestly say that all of my loyalty belongs to Tripoli. During the war, my greatest fear was the subversion that could had come to it, the thought of Gaddafi hopelessly destroying it in his, what many Arab political analysers call "The Dead Chicken Waltz", was my deepest trepidation for 7 months. The day Tripoli was liberated was the greatest, most memorable day of my life.

Nothing could be more heinous to me than a long absence from Tripoli. I would never want to or stand leaving it without a prompt return. Tripoli is where I want to live and where I want my grave to be dug.

May God save our beautiful capital from any harm.

Abdelrouf’s best quotes

“When I was a young man, I had liberty but I didn’t know it, I had life but I didn’t see it, I had love but I didn’t feel it, it took me decades to understand the meaning of all three.”

This quote was said by Ezio Auditore just before he died, explaining his experience in his life and how he was running for the demands of his soul making him forget his life and his beloved ones. He was an assassin, a silent force of justice and peace of his village.

I like this quote, because it represents all the experiences that Ezio gained throughout his lifetime, along with feelings kept deep inside him due to hard choices that he has to overcome as well as self-sacrifice for his people to live freely and happily, in which a proverb says “With great power comes great responsibility”.

FACEBOOK

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2012, Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.

Easy Way To Pass The Exams with an A+

    Exams are upon us once again. They don't seem that important until they are a few days away. We start to rush to get all the missing notes and what's included in the exams. We come home tired from school and hit the books. We study for hours upon hours to prepare for a piece of paper with words on it. In the old ages men prepare and train for hours to fight a war, not to answer a bunch of measly questions.
 
   How tasteless life is turned into by exams. Constantly studying page after page about things I shall soon forget. These two weeks shall pass, then back to the old routine. Barely studying, and doing nothing until the next time I encounter the horrid, foul exams. Your were probably expecting an easy way out weren't you. Well there isn't. So deal with it and go hit the books.

Guitar

     Instruments come in many different shapes and sizes. There are hundreds of different types but the greatest of them all is the guitar. It is the core of many genres of music. There are three types of guitar. The acoustic guitar, classic guitar and electric guitar. The acoustic guitar is what you hear in many western country songs. It has this somewhat metallic sound to it. The classic guitar is what you would hear in Spanish music and soothing instrumental music. It sounds quite light and has a more refined sense of elegance compared to its counterparts. 

    

  The electric guitar is probably the most popular. Anything played on the electric guitar will sound awesome. It is the easiest to play out of all three. Also the most fun to jam on.

     

       The amount of guitar players in Libya suddenly sky rocketed after the recent revolution. I never thought that there was this much talent around. Someday a Libyan band will become famous and recognized globally.

Video Games are Helpful

      Video games have been around since the early 80s and have evolved much since then. They bring us much joy and entertainment. They set us in these engaging worlds much different than our own. Many people may think video games are a waste of time. Nothing is achieved by playing these games, but I disagree.

     

       Studies on video games have shown that video games actually help in the development of a child. Children’s minds strengthen through strategy and problem solving games. Their reflexes become better through shooting games. Other games help expand and widen a child’s imagination.

       

       At a school in the U.S. a teacher uses video games to teach his class of 6^th graders. These educational games have actually shown a 70% in academic performance. The material being taught isn’t seen as work, but as play. The Children can’t wait to start their homework and study for the test. Of course too much of anything never results in something good. Everything in moderation brings out the best in a nation

Sci-Fi innovates Science

     The Sci-Fi universe is a dimension of endless possibilities, from ray guns to giant mechanical suits of armor to space ships. It shapes what we think might be the future. It triggers our vast imagination and allows us to think beyond the horizon. What people might think is impossible is someone else's goal.

      

     Much of today’s science was once known as science fiction. The underwater car, rocket ships, underwater trains, airplanes, remote controlled drones, etc…. And now what you see in movies is already being studied and in development. Artificially intelligent robots are not as far as you might think. Lightsabers have been predicted to be invented in about 50 years from now. Brainwaves are being read and interpreted by machines. The list just goes on and on. Some findings and proofs are so farfetched that you will never believe it unless you see them with your own eyes. Who knows? They might even figure out a way to transfer the conscience of human to another body someday too. Science Fiction sets the guidelines to the future.