the top ten essential guides on how to survive in egypt

CRAPPINK:

god, it is the most tiring post i have written. ever.
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disclaimer: this post is written based on my first year experience in egypt and mostly applied to medic student to help new students so they can survive and won't end up in pieces adapt themselves to the new environment. however only some points are reliable. this blog is not an educational blog.

thank you.

be a chicken with a headphone

if you think kl is one of the busiest road you have ever come across in your whole life, think again.

kl roads are always crammed with non moving cars that you won't be risking your six month old baby even if you let it crawling by itself to across the road.

that is just a metaphor. don't try it.

but roads in egypt are way different.

yeah, it is that bad

there are a lotsa of cars and taxis but all of them are moving fast as there is no traffic problem in egypt and they honk their car like five times a minute. unbelievable right?

the probability of you getting hit by a car in egypt is higher than the chance of you being bullied by me (which is unfortunately to say is a very dangerously high rate too). and the only way to cross it is by moving across them bit by bit whenever possible.

well, if you decided to wait by the roadside for a free of car period, all i can say is...good luck.

never to leave out the hot factor

not as in HOT hot but hot HOT

by the way HOT hot and hot HOT are two very different things

this is HOT hot

oooh baby! *drools* obviously this is HOT hot according to pinksterz's eyes

but hot HOT means this

my happiness comes in the form of tiny red cuties

in the form of these:

bring yourself your own a whole year of chilly sauce stock. and cili padi too if you like because i am so sure you don’t want to be caught drooling yourself out watching me those who brought chilly sauce eating fried chicken, dumplings and everything else that are possible to be eaten with chilly dip.

well, unless you love ketchup (which i am sure none of the malaysian does).

shades your eyes out

get yourself a pair of lalat shades so you won't feel left out among those egyptians! because everybody needs one.

if you wear glasses and never use contact lenses no worries, because egyptians still put the shades over their head and their glasses on their nose.

or;

you can wear it in front of your glasses like some egyptians too. haha.

start to be a girl and feed your skin

unless you want to end up with a flaky, scaly skin. bring a lot of moisturizer for your whole body so you can survive the extreme heat in the summer. sometimes the super high water chlorines content can cause the same thing if you have a very very sensitive skin.

throw in some blings onto your clothes!

blings blings are always the in thing in egypt. it will never run out of date. the more you look like a christmas tree the better it is for the people here.

no. i am not talking this kind of blings


..in which you can pass as a total freak. these are the 'blings' i have been talking about


even a scarf i bought for myself in egypt got the glittery 'blings' all over it...

the white dots on it are actually those stick on glitter thing

in fact i have got the vibe of the blings in egypt.

i had been personalizing some of my newly bought clothes with iron-on diamante i specially ordered. that is the reason why there was no update last few days.

in fact i think i want to talk about it now i am at the subject. after all, i can show off to you my one of the pieces of my artworks (that sounds so... wrong?)

let us zoom in

butterflies with p for pinksterz. d'oh.

start your own business and expand it in malaysia

...because the government refused to increase our monthly allowance so i am putting this one in. haha.

you can be a doctor and a entrepreneur (or entrepreneuse if you are a female)! how cool is that eh? *wiggles eyebrows*

so far the most popular (and most profitable) is agent for airway tickets.

wanna be rich?

be an agent!

wanna be famous?

be the agent!

wanna get non stop calls on your cellphone?

be THE AIRWAY TICKETS AGENT!!!

now i sound like some job finding agent *cough*

in fact i even start my own business (unofficially lah of course) for perfumes and galabiyyah!

err...anyone interested?

thou gossips need shalt not be ignored

this is the main mean of communication (it even beats MSN - which is way cooler - and skype than yahoo) among all malaysian students throughout egypt from cairo to alexandria aka the main source of entertainment because there is no bistro or club for you to groove. honestly it is egypt. what else have you been expecting but belly dancing (x will be delighted at this point i know).

the main source of entertainment among student in egypt - apart from limewire and bittorent

download it now or else you will miss the first few gossips!

say NO to umbrella..ella..ella..eh..eh..eh

the sissiest umbrella i managed to google

unless:

• you want to be the focal point in a place (outdoor of course), or;
• risk being flown by the strong wind like mary poppins
  

a good camera

for you to snap out the moment where your friends (or egyptians) make a fool of themselves!

dicker! (click for the story)

or maybe for you to snap the glorious moment when you meet me, by accident in cairo and you can put in your blog saying that 'OMG i know how pinksterz looks like! i met her today!'

forget it. the chances of you recognising me is like nil. hahahahhaah..hahah....haha

okay. not funny i know.

slimming belt
zap it away. NOT.

i am the living proof for not bringing one in my first year. ‘nuff said.