February 2012
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”
– Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
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Staying up till 5 AM, always meant for life-changing decisions, even if they’ve never ended up as planned.
Steven King’s On Writing is utterly magical in a very realistic sense. It’s not so hard to believe it all to be true, as it all easily storms before your eyes. I’m devouring it, like crazy. And I do not use like crazy, for the hell of it. Also, I haven’t yet...
Minerva McGonagall's backstory from Pottermore →
Lies
I can sincerely express confidence of the recent overflow of events, for things seem well reserved and confined, than when they were shredded. I have more confidence in the grounds, even so that I cannot make that Ohio University Research, on people’s tendency towards comparison, any more authentic. I think it would in a given retrospect, seem as though I am convincing myself in fear of the...
Goodbye Dashboard I hope to only see you in occasions.
Note to self:
Do not eat rice, otherwise, it’ll contribute to your sluggishness.
Doha News: Qatar buys 'Card Players' for $250mn,... →
dohanews:
In a move that has upended the modern art market, Qatar has shelled out $250 million for Cezanne’s The Card Players - more than double the price that has ever been paid for a single work of art on auction.
The painting, one in a series of five, depicts Provençal peasants immersed…
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You know what I truly miss?
Witnessing the sunrise, and only staying awake to witness it. Without having anything as demeaning as some test or appointment to haunt you in the morning. This should be on my todo list for next week! I know Fatma won’t be free to accompany me like old times.
I hope by then, I’ll have bought enough plants for the garden.
I need to remember visiting the...
A dream about Sirius Black woke me up this morning; it was a very long conversation that I can’t seem to remember too well, but I do remember being very relieved. If it wasn’t for that dream I’d have been late for my test.
Thank god for everything.
January 2012
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The rising apprehension becomes constant, and greatly incomprehensible; there is no room for a different sun. It radiates and radiates, with a bestowed nature that eats its own dust. The handles become unified, with long descriptions by their gates. And the easy becomes rather hard, or so they say, the predicaments of the past are no longer sought, but inevitably lived. We do write to remember a...
Sufjan Stevens - Concerning The UFO Sighting Near...
Mind my drunkin’ self but a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, helps the medicine go down, helps the medicine go down.
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via philphys)
Medical Status
I need to renew my medical awareness pinpoint. With plenty of other reasons to pay the hospital a visit.
I already had my share of Vitamin D in-takes from quite some time, which means I need to follow up. Also, I haven’t reviewed the rest of my blood-test results, the ones that mattered were fine, but the rest even if they matter less, have to once and for all be presented to me. I’m...
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)
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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...