So we finally meet, 10 bloggers out of 15 showed up in the meeting and Mwaffaq came from
We got along just fine, I mean it's weird that it went fine, we weren’t shy or anything, we talked non-stop, we laughed (I mean duh, Ihsan was there) and we talked about occupied Golan, present-day society and masculine society among many others topics.
I have to say that I was a bit worried about meeting Ihsan, he and I always disagree and we exchanged some unkind messages and comments, he started it. So I was ready for him; I've put a fake warm smile on my face and went to this Couchsurfing meeting in which both of us were members of. I was amazed how much me and Ihsan think alike (now he'll disagree), I never thought me and him could actually agree on anything, I wish he could be more active.
Omar is adorable, I loved his character, and I am waiting to meet him again and have a long discussion with him, I love his analytical arguments. He was quiet at the meeting, I think he's shy, ladies sure like shy guys, (hello wife, I am just saying…) I wish he could join us back.
I met Ammar when Yazan was here, we were actually all very quiet and we did not talk much at that meeting, except Zena. But at this meeting I got to know him a bit more, he's got some cute sense of humor. I wish he could join us back.
Shady has nothing to do with the impression I took on him, first, he has to change that profile picture, and the one on Facebook too please, cause he looks way much better than that, and he has a sexy voice (I cant believe what this post is turning into), and he is opinionated, we need to talk more about his theory on a masculine society, from how I got it, I didn’t like it very much. I wish he could be more active.
Because of him, I did not have to be the ONLY bloggeress among 10 bloggers, he called the bloggeress Rima and she was kind enough to join us right away. Right now I am in a hating-period towards the three bloggeresses who said they're coming but they didn’t. Ladies, how could you?
I love Rima's blog, It's a rare thing to find a woman who's active and with a cause due to many reasons. She was the one who introduced me to Nesa' Sy (Syrian Women) site, I think she and I share the same interests in regards to women issues in Syria and we will be meeting the girls to discuss some ideas. I wish she could be more active.
Mwaffaq was kind enough to come all the way from
I have seen Zaid's blog link on other blogs, but I haven’t read it, so I cannot say that I have a met blogger, but that I have met Zaid. I wish he could join us back.
I have met the rest of the bloggers before; me and Free Man are working together on the activity against Syrian internet censorship, his blog is a must. Amre and I took lessons on GRE and he's a dear friend, and I have met Yaser before too.
We've discussed in the meeting an idea of an annual contest: "Best Syrian Blogger" that should encourage inactive bloggers to be active.
I have met most of the ones I wanted to meet, I still got a few ahead, and I can't wait.
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I wish I could go to one of these some day :)
eh, neyyalkon...
Razan,
on a side note, as far as I know, you've had a harsh disagreement with most of the bloggers out there, including myself [hell, at one point you deleted all your comments on my blog], yet you're always surprised everytime you get along with them afterwards. I don't understand why you're so surprised. We are not just bloggers, we are people. And even as bloggers, we are so many different things. :)
Having the meeting in Nofara, is a brilliant idea, and the Golan banner, is nothing less than genius.
Oh you will, Yaman, I know you will :)
I agree with you totally, Yazan, I am brilliant and genius ;-)
Most? tawwel balak, actually with you and Omar it was another case, I was going through "the" worst phase of my life, and your blogs were the first to find among the others. And I guess me and you weren’t ourselves at the time, not sure, like after that email you sent me, I did not think I will like you at all ever, like ever, but I did.
But with Ihsan and the rest "few" bloggers it came later on after we were good readers of each others' blogs. Our disagreement online emerged after discussing controversial posts and this disagreement has gone away when we talked about it in person, so that's surprising to me, it took us few minutes to clarify our points and it took us months online to make a few points, you see?
Having said that, I have a theory about this, I don’t think it's just that we are more than bloggers, I think that we tend to develop a character online, a whole character with its moods and habits, and most of the time this character tend to be dry and formal, this thing is not strictly to bloggers but I think bloggers have it more clearly for they grow along with their blogs; they largely deal with concepts, thoughts, arguments and comments more than other virtual people. So when you meet them in person, you don’t find that online character at all, it exists merely online, not sure if that makes sense.
To put it another way, I started as a child- blogger, and I am still growing, as a blogger only, for as a person I am already grown up in that regard for I have a longer experience with dealing with people in person.
Ok that was a long non sense talk :/
Sorry to have missed such a great opportunity. Hopefully, next time:-)
hopefully soon ya abu fares :)
Razan disagrees with most of people special when she hear someone saying "neswan" :-)
but when someone says: she's brilliant, she'll agree :-)
However, the Golan banner was a great idea.
Yazan, i wish you were there with us, hopefully next time.
Oh that one pretty bloggeress with her Golan banner and her careful profiling of all the other bloggers; must have been the focal point of the whole gathering.
A gatecrasher, nothing less!
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I think I somehow agree with your analysis, especially the "blogger growing" thing.
When I look at some early posts of me, i dont recognize the narrative sometimes. But, since it's me, I know exactly that i was true to "me" then, though it might've proved wrong or right it doesnt really matter, but eventually i did out grow that, and will probably out grow this too.
Whats Damascus like?
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Ted,
I don’t know what liberation are you talking about?! you mean when other country comes with its heavy weaponry to another country, bombs its villages, schools and homes, enforcing a siege from medicine and food which resulted the death of one million Iraqi child, causing civil war among the Shiaas and the Sunnis, breaking the country into federals, and all this is to you liberating? gee I wonder why you guys annually celebrate the independence day from British occupation, they were liberating you all the time! no bombs and sieges existed back then though, you were lucky.
Oh and about those injured guys, I am really sorry for your loss, but I don’t understand why Americans care so much about their armed people, i.e. soldiers, who chose the war on Iraq while they don’t give a damn about the unarmed people, i.e. people, who did not ask for this war but actually ask for your troops' withdrawal every single day.
One million child died because of America, and almost once hundred die DAILY in Iraq because of American INVASION, people who die are UNarmed, and harmLESS, and they are just like you and me, people who die every day just to survive.
Go and post you propaganda elsewhere, dear, we ain't buying it.
Oh, and that's what's Damascus like.
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