Stars commit suicide

 How does the mind comprehend the news headline reading “A famous star was found dead at their home”? 

Scrolling down to read the remainder of the tale, it is shocking that the deceased is always below 30 years old and has followers all around the world, not just in the star's own country. In further detail, it is usually reported that "police believed the star had committed suicide." More to the point, nothing is said about how they get rid of their souls or how they struggle mentally behind their amazing smiles that entertain the audience. Their close pals don't say anything about how their recently deceased friend was acting. They just remain silent and do not show any grief post. And whenever they are asked about their feeling for their friend who passed away, they never tend to mutter even good mention! It's as if there's a circle of locked secrets about what's going on in the entertainment industry's shadows. These sudden death cases are classified as "commit suicide" and most of them are tied to the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY when the dead is popular with many people. 

Life isn't easy for anyone!

The latest reported one is Moonbin of a K-pop boy band called Astro. A year before, a young Japanese actor Haruma Miura was found dead in his apartment. Years before, many K-pop idols and Japanese stars took their own lives. Outside the Asian pop world, American entertainers like Robin Williams committed suicide as well after he was reportedly taking anti-depression pills. 

Looking at those cases, crawling youths to the world of adults where they have to make their own money by working, would blame these stars for abandoning their luxurious lives. In their minds, those stars who managed to bring fame to their names and make a huge amount of money should be grateful for life as they managed to achieve others' same-like dreams at a very young age while others couldn’t. Still, many youths struggle to find decent jobs despite their ongoing revolutionary skills. 

Adjusting comprehension angles for both cases, then both are suffering from depression. The famous are suffering because they can’t let their mentality fully accept the world of fame and its consequences of life administration. The other side is getting depressed because they are exerting too much effort for not being able to work in their dream job and earn adequate for their living expenses. 

Then what is the ideal for both sides.!?? Neither sides are at the optimum. 

Is life so hard to contract it to the way we want to!? 

Who is setting the rules for life-living payments? 

Show folks who are always on screen are getting too high in comparison with those who work behind the scenes. 

“Broadcast journalism” film starred the notion of the on-Camera incentives versus their shadow puppeteers who manage their appearances. 

When it comes to image representation, people tend to follow them intervening in every small thing they do. It is later developed into a “paparazzi” name. Their privacy has become public. Their images are on the top of the scrolling pages. Some are adapting and some are not. 

The capitalist ideology of living is still branching into more evolution concepts reforming according to life's ongoing trends. 

 In the end, one has to be mentally strong by all means to encounter what will strike them because nothing will go smoothly and fairly.

Book fair in amusement park

 Day by day the Ministry of culture announces the number of visitors to the Book Fair which is held in the Fifth Settlement after it was in the Nasr City area near The Book Fair metro station. 

On its ninth day, the ministry announced that half a million are hitting at the place there. The entry ticket is five pounds and the transport ticket is ten pounds. 

 Though the number is huge and almost half a million visit the fair and the halls are packed like sardines, still the books purchases operation is down as the paper price has doubled in the last year. Now a packet of white paper is worth 200 hundred pounds on Amazon and not in the fifties any longer within a year.

 In comparison; Arabic book prices shouldn’t cost an arm and leg as much as the foreign ones either English, French, Dutch, or manga/comic novels, etc. In the past before Mr. Dollar jumped over 15 pounds, a single English book would play around one hundred pounds. The classics would retain at 35 pounds and Arabic has its way in the twenties. At the book fair at that time, a bunch of at least six English books would cost only 200 pounds. The big book store’s names really offered a 50 percent reduction. School libraries would garb it as a chance to fill their shelves with the latest top-notch novels that “hit the best New York Times sellers’ list” encouraging students to borrow books/novels to read them and hand a review about them.  

 At the moment, the table is turned around and such luxurious old days are no longer existing in nowadays reality! 

 As the fair’s land is so huge, food stores and kiosks are getting endless queues. The food is still affordable. A couple of food types are worth half the book price. People would capture the book fair as a chance to meet up with their friends, have a quick look at the books as if they are picturesque portraits displayed in museums and then run to fill their stomachs with the tastiest food. 

 I guess the social media videos in the coming days will compete about food tastes rather than book recommendations and prices at the fair! 

 Many newspapers take this fair seriously and interview authors who published books about heated topics in cultural and political fields. The story/article would be long showing how rich and insightful it is. However, not a single youth would care about who published what at this fair! 

As regular, many cultural meetings and conferences are never meant to stop. They are always conducted by authors, culture leaders, and other influencers to engage readers and young information seekers to tune in with their ideas and hear their opinions regarding some topics. 

 Unfortunately, that’s the reality of literature. In the end, not the numbers that will show a real value. It is the true practical side of what’s literally happening!

Past: 100 EGP fills up trolley’s supermarket

 

Prices so terrifying at Supermarket

“What is this with 120 pounds,” a yelling woman breathed when she was at the cashier to buy some deodorant sprays. 

 “Maam, Nivea one is 48 L.E. while the Dove is 120 Pounds,” the cashier girl responded.

 “No, remove this 120 EGP spray. It isn’t worth it. In the past I would buy two sprays for 50 pounds only!” the woman unbelievingly staring out her eyes said it. 

 “We in return pay more than half the amount you pay, Madam,” a rough deep voice of a man burst into the neigh. He is the market manager who checks out the products on the shelves with their latest prices after they are unveiled from the porting truck. “Unfortunately, this price dilemma isn’t departing anyone in the entire loop.” “We all pay not only the customer,” he continued. 

 Though the screen price detector is attached to each corner of the market, it seems the woman’s conscious mind won’t conclude the high jump of the spray price to exceed 100 pounds after the third-pound floatation that occurred in the first couple of days of the new year. It can’t be denied that there is a long queue to these screens rather than cashiers now. 

 Most purchasers are carrying baskets while the trolley is for heavy items or those who can’t carry a basket and move for a time. Trolleys aren’t packed like sardines before. Needers are tending to pitch one to two packets only. Instead of obtaining a 30-egg cartoon pike, now it is calculated within five to six ones to buy. In addition, many markets started to sort down the quantity bought of some supply necessities such as rice, oil bottle, and sugar. In a command, no more than two sacks, and for the oil, no more than one! 

 It might be for a good purpose to curb down people’s over-purchasing as if they are about to open a market.! 

 The fifty-pound paper can’t wrap more than one item purchase like before. Biscuits have reached five instead of only two one-paper pounds. Bonbon and chewing gums aren’t half as before. They started to go over the one pound. 

 It seems we would say goodbye to the 50 Pt like its bloodline 25 Pt which has evaded since its masters’ first flotation in 2016.! 

100 L.E fills up a trolley

 Going through the memories of visiting the open vendor, “Supermarket”, if exceeding 100 pounds for buying basic cheese and egg for a home, then it is extravagant. A whole 24-packet of MORO chocolate was worth 30 pounds. Mothers would insert a sweet one easily beside day-to-day school sandwiches. A jumbo Chipsy was five pounds. Its ad to shout out for its price was really an effort.! 

 Paper 100 would buy at least two big sacks of all the drooling needs. A more 50 paper would contain any sweety extras. 

 Now the golden Nescafe is worth the amount of three big sacks in the past! Past hasn’t witnessed a queue of price detectors at the supermarket as much as today. 

 For a future guess hit, would a credit card/Visa be needed for over 500 market purchases? Would the market purchase rise to over 1,000 pounds like some “Asian countries” labiating the 100 as a coined banknote instead of ONE?

My ancient allowance to buy the entire Canteen!

 As a Gen-Z grown-up, still having the memories of my precious snack prices I used to reward myself weekly when I was a student still at school. 

Two pounds= A current five-pound crisps

Believe it or not, it was just two pounds. Either two coins numbered with one or two one-paper numbered banknotes. My parents would pile up for about five coined pounds a week which my brother and I would take two pounds each and the extra coin would live another week topping up with the following weekly dose. 

 It might look ridiculously viewed from the point that our parents are a bit mean though they weren’t. Think logically about it and you’ll find out that it was a time when the current five-pound Chips/crisped potato was only two pounds. Half a pound would grab you two cheese-sprinkled popcorn flamingly that one pound would bring you FOUR sacks of this snack. 

 Humming to reach for a big sliced pizza was only two pounds and a half in any ingredients enriched with even the meat or chicken chops. Drinking a half-liter soda would cost you two pounds. Then, half is returned if the bottle is renowned. 

 It was a time it was easy to save behind your parents to open up your own piggy bank account. Exchanging a piled coin for a higher numbered pound paper to reach an amount where you can buy something more EXPENSIVE. A bouquet of flowers for your mum with only FIVE pounds on Mother’s Day! 

 Hey Gen-Z, that was a time when Blazing Teens and Dinosaur King would blare our boring studying-system minds when we rush home at 3-4pm. 

 OH OH OH, it was a time. It was in the past! It shall be called our golden childhood!! 

 NOW, 

 EVERYthing HAs CHANged! 

 At school, a cheese sandwich might cost over 20 pounds. A drink is now an arrow pointing to 10 pounds. Any snack sac is pumping at the five pounds and some are aiming tip-toe to the 10 so soon. The remaining changes are “bonbons or chewing gums”. The time to save up is deludingly weaker. 

Now a child’s allowance every week will be 50 pounds! Will it be enough!? 

 Laughing and mocking my thoughts, right? You might blindly murmur it is unbelievable to have some allowance weekly, right!? 

It is so mean as it should be daily… Hey you halt-minded reader, is it OK to learn how to save and set some expense priorities.!? 

 Varieties are full of options, but saving is a must. 

To a point, everyone can rely on homemade sandwiches but having too much food buying will violent your spending into a more widened arena you will be debited by then. 

 Habitual essential spending should now be the children's guide motoring them to spend sensibly even in terms of entertainment as prices continue to rise in an unsteady manner. Though adults may have difficulty saving "some amount of money" as what is now earned is fluttered on home's basic expenses due to unautocratic increases. 

 If by any unpleasant coincidence reading this, what amount of money would you consider handing it to your children??

Are we buying cars now!?

 

One-door car everywhere 

A news bulletin has hit the car market for witnessing a huge decrease in sales after the inflation that took place amid the floatation of the Egyptian pound. 

 The instant deduction that people would curb down replacing their cars and buying new ones, but in the streets, there isn’t such discovery. 

 Dashing through districts and squares, what was spotted was that there were about five cars from eight parked ones wrapped in plastic covers from the inside which indicated that these cars are brand new. A special doored car is noticed everywhere but with a hidden unknown logo to my knowledge. 

 Then there is the decrease that the news is blabbering about!? 

 “I am thinking of changing my old Mercedes car that has been just five years old,” an investment holder once complained during a chit-chat talk among his friends. “All the existing ones aren’t strong enough to compile my usage.” 

 Scrolling down through social media reels, many V-loggers demonstrated the newly imported cars with the latest models. They all intersected the point that half a million priced cars aren’t valuable to the models’ motors. 

 “The 400K Mitsubishi 2022 motor’s model is weaker than a juice mixer, a V-logger indicated.” “There is no point to buy a new one when the motors are fragile. A good car is in its motors’ resistance.”

 Stressing what has been pointed out above, some mechanic engineers in one of the Mercedes companies criticized the new Mercedes models that have been imported into Egypt in the last two years. The main reason was also the motors’ quality is very weak and won’t live for long for almost a decade regardless the usage. Not only this for the prestigious Mercedes, but also its price for a side unnoticed accessory which is triple one’s salary in a private sector.

 For that many people tended to buy cars directly from abroad instead of relying on “cars’ collection parts specialty” that is fabricated locally producing hickey engines. Surprisingly the eyed hawks noticed this and facilitated the purchase to lubricate the flow of the foreign currency in the monetary system more than withdrawing it abroad for some sort of expenditure. 

 Is that why this one doored car everywhere? 

Is it cheaper? 

I even can’t get the logo right since I can’t recognize it anywhere!? 

 Before the inflation, many people registered for Toyota cars and were waiting to get them as they were all locked in the Marines. When every star was free, the happiness was overjoying as waiting has already ended, but it wasn’t for all this joy. The company demanded their customers pay more as the prices have soared and the new stock is valued with the new price. A huge disagreement arose from the buyers who demanded to have their cars handled though the company offered to return their money if they aren’t OK with the latest. 

 As the cars’ prices are marching up, so are their maintenance and accessories disregarding the car type. 

FIAT 127 is in demand

 “The Fiat 127 model car original tire is jumping to 1k though it is a 1980s model, a mechanic at a Warsha said.” “Before it was worth three hundred only and original.” “Now I am offering the unused which is about six hundred pounds to my shocked customers who still can’t comprehend the huge difference.” 

 Many drivers and mechanics explained how the old Egyptian-manufactured cars which are Fiat 124, 128, and special praise the 127 models are now considered “Economic Cars” because their maintenance is much cheaper than other abroad brands. 

Expensive tires

It is widely stated that tire prices have risen 200 percent from the previous prices for all car types as tires are imported from many Asian countries. However, still, the other accessories of the old Fiat cars are so much cheaper that some can be still in the range of early hundreds rather than thousands in comparison with all the other brands. 

 At the current moment, the existing car’s motor and strength are very strong despite its age so it is better to keep it as there might be a future influencing force to trash away the benzine moving car to an electric one which must be very friendly to Mr. Environment we always ignore.

Gen Z-Chipsy biter

 Only one snack to crunch when coming to eat a crispy potato is no way other than Chipsy. It never misses a bean bowl or a family gathering. All the kiosks’ stands are filled with it no matter where you go. All are described and agitated as what the ads narrate. 

 

Chipsy new flavor releases are on the spot of “looking for it” after the KFC new flavors hit it on… Not everywhere; not at any supermarket or kiosk, just under warranted lore to spot it out. In terms of market analysis, though Chipsy has launched many different flavors and types like Plays, KFC has made it all go for nuts. 

It has been released by Lays in the Western market since April 2022 this year, yet it made for a release known for Chipsy in November in Egypt. The new release has two tastes; the original recipe resembling the fried chicken and the Zinger one. 

As an audience grabs for test, the new two flavors have been injected with low quantities at supermarkets and kiosks in districts to be least found. Because some social media news agencies with the most followers and interactions pitted the release with an extraordinary flavor the hassle of buying it has busted to accelerate the reach and interactions. A so-called “Black market” has been bounced particularly to sell these two flavors above the original price by one pound and a quarter. It is with three EGPs everywhere! 

 The trigger isn’t only for social media videos or posts. It is just a test and analysis to see crisps biters under the “push” and “pull” tactics. Either good or bad in taste hum goes to one’s desire. 

 KFC is long admired for its secret and drooling recipe that attracts thousands of customers across the world. This so-called secret ingredient vied customers to KFC with long-term loyalty. Even a healthy fried one at home won’t beat Mr. KFC. Hence the such collaboration with the most appreciated snack in many countries that’s always crisps, is a huge hit to grow tasters among both sides and tune in more customers. 

 Mentioning Co-branding, Co-branding has to be very effective and condemning with the other not just a hand in hand partnership image or campaign awareness or even ads. That’s to make the customer more ached to the brand and compelled with what is being presented by both initiating more attachment of loyalty. This can’t just be practiced in any country because each country has its own lifestyle and culture. Chapeau for the marketing research guidance if to intellect. 

 An example is Spotify and Starbucks, which provide a sensible comfort zone to one’s preferable. Grab your drink, spot your favorite sit and listen to the tone that would suit your mind. Same goes with Uber which also had a collaboration with Spotify.

Wheat Daw.... A way around history!

Years dating back to thousand years ago strong ancient civilizations were ranked to be the top-notch in wheat farming, but now new bordered lands are on the stock market's track for wheat exports.   

In the time-lapse of Egypt's farming, Egypt used to be known since its civilization establishment that it has a strong farming process no other country can prosper about. Wheat was part and parcel of the Egyptian diet and used in bread making and beer. Along the valley of the Nile up to the north of the Mediterranean Sea, wheat farming was widespread in the region.  

Therefore, Egypt's main trade and export was wheat. One of the famous trade routes was the Darb el-Arbain. It was used from the time of the Old Kingdom of Egypt to trade gold, ivory, spices, wheat, animals, and plants. This route passed through Kharga in the south and Asyut in the north, and was a major route between Nubia and Egypt.

Ancient Egyptian Woman
making beer 

In the Middle age kingdom around 1800-1700 BC,  famine stroke the world with seven years of no crops to feed thousands of people in Egypt and abroad. When a vague dream was encoded,  a beforehand action was outcasted to store huge amounts of wheat and other crops for future consumption and exports to neighboring lands.  Thanks to the "Zaphnath-Paaneah"  that the Pharaoh has appointed to be his vice-regent as he was able to identify the famine occurrence through a dream interpretation and withstand these difficult circumstances when it happened. All other surrounding nations had their desperate food refugee to Egypt to get some crops to survive this famine. 

Along the huge history of the Roman Empire, Egypt was feeding the entire emperor as it had the largest wheat farming process, thus the verdict upon the country was stern to sustain this continuous food supply.  

"Egypt is the food basket for the Roman Empire," Egypt's last Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra's said this famous quote to her husband Antoine in the film that narrated Cleopatra's reign. 

Later Egypt was on the list of invaders who lust to empower the entire state into their hands for its luscious farming crops. It went through many eras of wars and policies till today when everything has almost changed in policy and ruling. 

According to many sources and data-collecting sites, Egypt is the world's largest importer of wheat. It imports 50 percent of its wheat needs from Russia with between 10 million to 12 million tons of wheat. Meanwhile, Egypt imports 30 percent of its wheat needs from Ukraine.  Egypt and most of the North African countries rely on Ukraine and Russia for their food and crop imports though in stated history they were always on the demands of invasion for their wheat farming. 

A turn-upside history!!?  

In the current world where a new huge existing nation is outlining some economic, policy, and military frames, many countries are obliged to follow the world's trade and economic reform. Those followers are bugged to not plant or harvest any crop and are constricted to some minorities allowed by the BIG BOSS.

Criteria are now meant for organizations worldwide to identify "Developed" and "Developing" countries to ensure control and dignity. 

"A too much borrower country has no dignity to respect. Invasion shall be paved," A once US president said!