January 2012
Yusuf Islam coming to Doha
dohanews:
The singer/songwriter formerly known as Cat Stevens is due to give a concert in Doha’s MIA park on February 16, at 8pm, according to a QMA press release announcing the details below.
No word yet on when tickets (210QR or 750QR for VIP access) will go on sale.
What’s your favorite Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens song? And will you be attending?
Credit: Photo by Michael Coghlan
Yusuf Islam...
“‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.’ Easy enough to...”
– The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (via alyeskay0ung)
I think I will, sooner or later, get the Fault in Our Stars.
Why did they have to have both releases to the two movies that I’d certainly go see, all on this particular Thursday, when my finals begin! Now, the thing is, movies like these two, War Horse and the Descendants, last for two weeks maximum here in Qatar, because they almost get an average of 4 viewers per screening…
12AM
My right hand is technically frozen, and I swear, I haven’t opened any of my windows all day long, Fatma!
Hopefully, by the time that I am almost 18, I’ll have come in full shape with my writing, and the reflective expression it proclaims. Well, at least I’ll be somewhere in college, and it wouldn’t matter a bit, how far I’m in with my skills.
I feel like I need...
“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new...”
– Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
Default
I cannot know if one thing is better than the other; how can one make completion out of an image?
Doubt is good, and it’s necessary to proceed from it with a lesson, or a worthwhile realization.
I always have to end up realizing quite an awful fact, as I wake up from an undesired afternoon nap, that I am indefinitely different from what I know would’ve been best, for me and...
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka on Literature (via notthelatterortheformer)
“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of...”
– Carl Sagan (via noneofyourbismuth)
Attached to Technology and Paying a Price -... →
This is quite tragic.
Sound of Music
Haven’t had my hands on any keyboard over the weekend, due to the stream of frustrations that have accommodated themselves so very easily. I couldn’t really tell so much, about what is happening, and what is about to happen, or if only what I am to do with any of it.
The point is to fill yourself up with belief, and more belief. We neglect our promises, to fall back, and ask for a...
“The mystical healing properties of tears are invoked in fairy tales and...”
– How Tears Go ‘Pac-Man’ To Beat Bacteria (via npr)
“it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,...”
– Charles Dickens
“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at...”
– Jeremy Bentham (via philphys)
“If you were standing at arm’s length from someone and each of you had one...”
– Richard Feynman (via physicsphysics)
Too many worthwhile quotes to reblog tonight!
“A rouge does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does...”
– Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (Via: jumphisbones)
The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival of the Birds
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January
The fact is, we know exactly what we’re meant for at the very end of the day, yet our distortion of reality sways us into believing it to be false. The perspiration knows our heart’s content, and recoils at the after-thought of regret. But it is the truth, and only the truth that matters.
I just wonder, how is it that we can tell? The reservoir is at its peak, but we can only go...
“‘Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to...”
– Albert Einstein
Math is not linear →
There couldn’t have been a more truthful statement on the critical points that complement the picture of Math education, due to the great gaps that education all over the world has made. The matter of making a picture is strictly how a skill is developed along the learning process; there has to be ties and turns from subject to another, otherwise, you’re just making random throws at...
“O my dear son, seek knowledge whilst you are still young, seeking knowledge at...”
– Luqman Al-Hakeem (The Wise) [Jaami’ul Bayaan Al-‘ilm wa Fadhlihi Volume 1, page 174] (via pearlsofislam)
Doha News: In the works for Qatar: $3.3 billion... →
dohanews:
A multi-billion dollar Space City project located near Al Khor is ready to commence pending approval from authorities, Qatar’s Civil Aviation Authority chief has said.
Work was supposed to commence on the Qatar Foundation project last August, after four years of planning and under the…
I’m going to be in tears when this gets done; but I’ll have to wipe them off,...
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Made Up
I took a rather few moments to come up with something worthwhile to say, and the deception and delusion just sprang hard, as deadlines and promises kept rushing back. The thing is, I have generally kept a redundant pace of deductively writing about accomplished projects, or formed deadlines, with very little of what’s behind the cardboard. True, that fatma’s arrival, and TARDIS magnets...
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life...”
– Albert Einstein (via bonmojo)
Fatma’s coming home tonight! Who could ever top that?!
I miss our extremely lengthy discussions about life and work and what’s in-between those very distanced things. And I also miss our very unplanned movie nights, with either Quiznos, Asiana, or perhaps Pizza inn and some other chain of fast food restaurants.
But honestly the house has been to-every-spore empty; in fact right now...
“I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning...”
– Brian Tracy (via inspiri)
Likely Service
The cynical, the nostalgic, the failure, the introspectively saddened, and the depressed.
Growing up meant being in-front of the rest and whole spectrum of life, and a major part of it was to know the curve of emotion, from happiness and sadness as the two ultimate drifts, to a whole new gradient of emotions and psychological disorders. It meant that the dreads of life, must eventually have a...
Ephemeral Commitments
Tomorrow, I shall proceed with my studying schedule; it’s a drag, and a change to the alternating routine.
Evident deception.
I left a can of tuna open in my room for a few hours, and I am regretting it, so very greatly.
We are taking great steps with our Reading Club -which is basically, just an alternative name for a typical book club- since we’ve assembled a few more members,...