Happy Eid in London (read, it is different )

Today is Friday 10september 2010,I am writing this post in order to share me the happiness I have in this day .
Yestrday,my brother and I decided to travel to london to celebrate EID there . I have heard that there is a mosque called the islamic center and it is belong to king fahad therefor I went there to pray ,also,london has lots of arab so I can feel the joy of Eid

we took the train that was going to london ,king cross station ,in the train ,I spent my time chatting with my brother and writing my posts about INTO THE WILD .we arrived at 5:30 pm ,then took a taxi going to that hotel my brothere has booked in .we put our bags there and run to oxford street and hanging aroun there and then have our breakfast . we had a wonderful coffee with some sweets .we did some shopping and went home to sleep early and get ready to the prayer tomorrow .we slet at 1am and woke up at 7 am .I prepared my self and called a taxi .I hurried up to the mosque in my way ,I was happy and so0o enthusiastic .i was smiling and saying the islamic greeting (slamo alakom )for all people who were coming to pray .also, I gave sweets to children .at that moment I wished that if I was child cause I wanted to wear dress and plays, eat lots of sweets,and take mony from adult which is common between moslims . some of that dream became true Iate lots of chocolate and wore dress but I did not play unfortunatly

At the mosque , I prayed and met people and talked to them .after that I went out and met my brother who were praying in the men part .i took some pics to the people and streets there .

In my way from the baker street station to edgware road one, lots of horses were running ,some had riders and some had not .I wandered why ? but could not find someone to ask .

we took the tube and went to a lebanese restaurant ant ate there delicious food .once I finish I went to entrnet shop to write about my happy EID and my brother went to the hotel to rest there .

Here I am finishing my post ,finally ,..



Wait wait someone is ringing me .he is my brother


Hello



Yes fasial what do you want

Do you remember that horses



Yes

They are going to that mosque where we were



Why

And lots of police were going there


How did you know
I just watched the mosque in chanel mbc1,the reporter is talking about the huge amount of moslims who went there to pray.and the british governments is worried about this gatherd they thought it is reaction to that christian pastor who requested burning Quran .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7993845/911-Koran-burning-pastor-to-hold-Ground-Zero-mosque-talks.html

 Ok come now and lets talk face to face
Ok ,bye



At the end I ‘d like to say that we should respect each other’s religion and not to humiliate their reiligous books . blaming innocent people about what extremist did is the worst thing can ever happens . we ,moslims,hates and against WHO EVER WANT TO HURT PEOPLE AND TAKE THEIR LIVES WITHOUT RIGHT . my country is fighting them till this day and doing their best to prevent these actions .



Do you agree with me people or not ????

Chris McCandless Quotes

"Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."

— Chris expanded on the original quote by Henry David Thoreau


"Mr. Franz I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."



— Chris McCandless in Into the Wild movie, speaking to Ronald Franz.


"Greetings from Fairbanks!



This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got here. Please return all mail I receive to the sender.



It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again, I want you to know your a great man. I now walk into the wild. Might be a very long time before I return South...



I now walk into the wild."

— Chris McCandless, in postcard sent to Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota, from Alaska



"...henceforth will learn to accept my errors, however great they be..."

— Chris McCandless' journal from Alaska, written weeks before he died



"I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!" — Chris McCandless' journal from Alaska

Chris McCandless Quotes

The following quotes by Chris McCandless are attributed to him by Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild book, through letters and postcards to friends, and excerpted from Chris McCandless' journal entries.




"I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong."

— Read more about this reference by Chris McCandless from a short story called Bear Meat by Primo Levi


Two years he walks the earth.

No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

— Alexander Supertramp

May 1992



"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

— Chris McCandless



"Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind."

Chris McCandless writing on religious fanaticism in The Emory Wheel student newspaper, October 1987



"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."

— Chris McCandless



"The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences."

— Chris McCandless



"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed— Chris McCandless

Into the Wild (part3)

He seems in the whole breadth of his nature to have been possessed of an insatiable hunger to discover some redeeming truth about mankind through him. Nevertheless, his insistence on doing things his way caused him to neglect several basic precautions that would probably have kept an experienced woodsman alive: a good hunting gun with ample ammunition, reliable information about the area he would be venturing into, and a dependable U.S. Geological Survey topographic map. Krakauer has concluded that the actual cause of Chris's death by starvation was a form of poisoning to which he succumbed after eating some wild seeds that even the experts never knew were highly toxic. Ironically, this was a mistake anyone might have made, but McCandless would not have had to eat the seeds if he had not allowed himself to be trapped by runoff from the Teklanika river, if he had possessed a gun adequate for hunting game, or a map to show him that half a mile away from his camp was a way to cross the torrent. As one friend was to observe later, McCandless, given his passion and intensity, sometimes had a problem seeing the forest for the trees.


While he remains an elusive figure, others who are more distinctly represented in Into the Wild include the diverse, ordinary, and not−so−ordinary characters who briefly met and befriended him. These include "rubber tramps," Jan Burres and her boyfriend Bob, who ran into McCandless along the United States Highway 101. Jan felt a maternal impulse toward Chris, and he responded with an almost waiflike affection. At other times, he was given work and a place to stay by Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, a small, hardworking South Dakota town. Ronald Franz, another friend, had lost his own family to a tragic automobile accident long before Mc− Candless was born. Franz was touched by Chris's earnest good nature and actually asked the young man if he would let Franz adopt him as his grandson. McCandless responded with characteristic evasiveness; having renounced his family, it seems as if he is instinctively drawn to parental figures even while he was trying to push them away.

Into the Wild (part2)

Krakauer is careful to avoid weighting Into the Wild with an excess of authorial judgment; although he concedes at the outset that his own feelings about McCandless will become obvious, he painstakingly tries not to impose his deeply held convictions on his readers. A notable subtext in this biography is the ways the young man's story and any number of other themes seem to inter illuminate each other for the author. In the introduction to Into the Wild, Krakauer says


on other, larger subjects as well: the grip Wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high risk activities hold for young men of a certain mind, the complicated, highly charged bond that exists between fathers and sons."

A significant theme is the deep and secret alienation that McCandless felt toward his parents. He was intensely angry with them, although his complaints never seem to have been very clear. Bitterness and frustration often build walls between the competing natures of strong willed sons and equally inflexible fathers, and Krakauer's portrait of the elder McCandless as a self-made man with a powerful personality makes this possibility a very reasonable one. However, a persevering positivism such as McCandless possessed might easily have overcome such an obstacle, and Walt McCandless remembers that, regardless of everything, he loved spending time with his son. Krakauer suggests one possible reason that kept reanimating his powerful antipathy may have been his discovery that the end of his father's first marriage and the beginning of the second were messy and fraught with tension and dissembling on all sides. These long ago marital troubles seem to have enraged the son's impeccable and unforgiving sense of morality, and eventually led him to judge and condemn his father forever, using moral standards so unrelentingly severe he would not even apply them to his friends.

Into the Wild( part1)

Chris McCandless remains a somewhat ghostly presence even in this biography of his life. Although Krakauer uses frequent excerpts from Chris's personal journals, the reader always feels somewhat distanced, partly owing to his habit of writing about himself in the third person under an assumed name. Only Chris's final journal entries are written in the first person and signed with his real name, perhaps underscoring the shocking realization of first the possibility and then the certainty of his own imminent death. The tone of these final words is frightened at first, then rueful and courageous, and finally serene and reconciled. Other than these journal extracts, all of the information about McCandless is fragmentary and pieced together from the testimony of people who had met him on his journeys. Their accounts seem to paint him as an intensely bright and defiantly independent young man who clung to the stern and archaic ideals gleaned from his readings.

According to the reminiscences of his family and university friends, McCandless was a seemingly well-adjusted twenty-two−year−old at the time of his disappearance. He was athletic, bright, and a natural born entrepreneur, excelling at so many things that he tended to be overconfident. A double major with above average grades, he led a life of comparable comfort and good fortune. He worked on the student newspaper at Emory University and, like many other people his age, thought about injustice in the world around him. He seemed to take life more seriously than many peers, however, refusing to join a fraternity and declaring that, according to his principles, he would no longer give or accept gifts. He appeared, on balance, to be an affable and intense friend according to all who met him, but there are puzzling glimpses of the unhappiness directed at his parents. While appearing to be content with his home life, McCandless revealed to a few trusted people a fierce disdain and bitterness toward his parents, whom he saw as unfairly tyrannical.

trip to lincoln

In Friday night I was so bored I was thinking about anything can amuse me until I ended up with decision

which is travelling to anywhere in The Uk in order to use that time I have here and to discover some interesting places I’ve heard about .

I told my friend X to search about the nearest beach to Nottingham .indeed, she did then she found a city called Lincoln and has its own beach there .
 
I called another friend Y to prepare herself and join us to that beach. We took with us three bags included swimming suites .we woke up that morning with full of excitement. “Finally we will see the beach “I said whispering to my self. We caught up the first train was going there. On that we ,chatted ,ate and did our homework .once we arrived there to Lincoln I hurried up trying to look where the beach is ,I did not see any water. I started asking people the place I have dreamed about since i came to the uk .I was shocked when I heard an answer “no darling there is no beach here , it is one hour far from Lincoln by bus “ a woman answered me .

”There is a small port you can go there and watch the old ships “she was trying to make me feel better. We lift her and went hanging around the city .we were blaming X because she was not sure that Lincoln does not have beach

 

 .while we were fighting and blaming each other, we arrived at a big green field .it is a huge place without gate we did not know where to go and how to get out of here .Y tried to calmed me and X cause we were so scared .

 

it might be a private property and we might be accused of stealing. Suddenly,

 when a fence appeared from a distance, we all run to it, and finally jumped on .after that we started a new kind of suffering which was the sunny weather especially in that day we were in and tiredness because of that distance we walked .there was no buses or taxies on the high way .

we tried to hitchhiked but nobody stopped .finally an old man stopped and gave us a lift to the city centre .we were so hungry so that we went to an Italian restaurant and had some pizza and pasta .after we had coffee as well we were so curious about discovering the city what it is famous for .

we walked until we faced a huge gate for old cathedral called Lincoln Cathedral .I was astonished it was the first time to me to enter a place similar to it.

I was impressed by the quietness it had .

I felt little bit scared because of died people’s bodies were buried there .I started to take pics for every simple details .inside ,I felt breathless I don’t know why ,I think because of how dark and quite the cathedral was.i have read that this cathedral is a place where the film ,The Da Vinci Code for the writer Dan  Brown ,were located in .

 Without doubt once we got out we went SHOPPING the most important thing to do per trip .

P.S

I had so much fun there I was very glad to experience such a beautiful trip with more beautiful friends .