Who I am

I’m just your average lone figure, trying to figure out how to get through life on this rock. I’m an enemy of injustice, double standards and intolerance. Increasingly proud of my heritage, despite rabid efforts by some people to smear it.
As of 2006 I’m living in a huge metropolis of around 16′000 people near München in Germany and trying to find my way through a mixture of University and horrible weather.

Feel free to contact me under realmofthesphinx [at] yahoo [dot] com.

Some short and completely random facts about myself:

• I’m of Arab, not Egyptian, descent.
• I managed to live on a grand total of 13m² for a whole year. Including a bathroom.
• I’m a sucker for Death Metal and oldschool Jazz.
• People ask me: “Why the weird mix of musical preference?”, and up to this day, I don’t know.
• I’ve seen every single South Park episode between once and around thirty times.
• I’d never wear a baseball cap under any circumstance. However, I will go to an annual sporting event at school dressed up as a bloodstained corpse if I feel like it. Don’t ask why.
• If my dreams at night reflected what state of mind I’m in, I’d deport myself to a mental institution.
• I will take any device apart and put it back together just to figure out how it works.
• My favourite Greek letter is a capital Sigma ( Σ ) followed closely by a capital Omega ( Ω ).
• There is only one thing that will make me remove my Linux system, and that is a newer version coming out.
• I’m a fanatical anti-smoker. And I mean “fanatical” quite literally.
• In fact, I told my Dad to stop smoking because it’s “bad for you”. I was three at that time.
• I don’t own a TV set.
• The only reason I cut my shoulder-long hair was because I broke my arm and couldn’t take care of it any more.
• I can solve only two thirds of a Rubik’s Cube.
• I’ve mastered the British East Sussex accent, but don’t really use it.
• I don’t know if UFOs exist, but if they did, I’d probably be outside, shooting them down for fun.
• I need at least 3 alarm clocks placed on the other side of the bedroom in order to wake up early.
• God be with you if you’re riding through the streets of Cairo, and I’m on the wheel. (No accidents so far!)
• I eat much more than my figure tells you.
• I don’t need mp3 players, I already have music running perpetually in my head, ranging from metal to ethnic drumming. Don’t know how to stop it though.
• In my younger years I was a hardcore gamer, but nowadays I only play solitaire or pocket tanks.
• However, I still destroy anybody who plays Mario Kart 64 against me.
• I always have the urge to learn uncommon, obscure, or even extinct languages. I just never start.
• If I had the choice, I’d halve my sleeping time and do more useful things instead.

More to come when I feel like it..