I quote therefore I am..

You can tell so much by a person from their favorite quotes (duh).. so since words are not helping me very much these days, and i have a browsing addiction, i have browsed my friends' profiles to peek into their quotes, and here are the ones that i favored.. 

So if you find one of yours here.. thanks for inspiring a very blocked blogger..

i'm the nicest evil person you'll ever meet - my dad

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins

Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once

"an intellectual is someone who discovered sth more interesting than sex"...

"I am not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl looking for my own peace of mind. SO DONT ASSIGN ME YOURS!'" Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind.

If the devil is powerless, send him a woman.

"You don't get to call me a whore. When I met you, I thought I had found the person that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done. So all the boys, and all the bars, and all the obvious daddy issues, who cared? Because I was done. You left me. I'm all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke. You don't get to call me a whore" [Grey's Anatomy]


Difference between a friend and an Egyptian friend!

FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
EGYPTIAN FRIENDS: Always bring the food.

FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs.
EGYPTIAN FRIENDS: Call your parents: Uncle/Dad and Aunt (tante)/Mum.

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes of a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus?!?

I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party and you get ready for High School. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back, you spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap.
...
Then you finish off as an orgasm!! Amen!"


"All you see, I owe to spaghetti." Sophia Loren

"Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it. If we would, we should have heaven on earth the very next day." Dostoevsky

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"


‎ها أنا أشهد أن الحب مثل الموت
‎يأتي حين لا تنتظر الحب
‎(محمود درويش)

Persona

I finally saw Persona, you see i wanted to write about it but its very hard to write about this movie milestone when i am sitting in our living room next to my mother who is watching Zohra w azwaggha el Khamssah...
but since this blog is called Zabady so Persona is my visual digestive after mosalsal Zohra...
So..
" There are great movies, and then there is Persona", this line is borrowed from a critic reviewing Clockwork Orange, and I used to second him, till I saw Persona...
Persona is about an actress (Liv Ullman) who suddenly becomes mute during one of her performances, for absolutely no logical reason. They move her to a beach house with a nurse, and this is where the movie begins. Both of them are stuck in the middle of nowhere, and only one of them does the talking, things go from tense to weird and within an hour, I become:
1- disturbed beyond repair
2- inspired for the upcoming 6 months and..
3- totally and utterly jealous of Ingmar Bergman (the director).
why cant we have movies like this? furthermore, why cant i write something like this script? and even if i did it.. who would buy it? El Sobky?  and even if they bought it, what would become of it? They would probably call it "Maw3ed ma3 Bersona"
This is not just a local problem, it is a very international one, the only difference is that in the movie mogul lands like USA and Europe, they are very much aware of its existence. Thats why you have increasingly popular festivals like Tribeca. There are people there that are sick of Hilary Duff's films being number 1 for weeks while the dark horses such as Che get a limited release.
oh well, thats all i have to write about Persona for now, i might write some more after i get off the couch, sit in a quiet area (with no Zohra) and eat some Zabady.

So untitled

.. the mushroom is out of focus
It is discerning how the mushroom is out of focus
We need to fix the mushroom to regain its focus
One mushroom is sufficient for a focus… unlike the pizza
How would you like your pizza today?
I like mine extra rubbery.. hold the stigma please
The stigma is out of loop.. and the loop has no internet connexion
You know you should try our internet connexion today. It is extra crispy, with some exciting new pop ups

“umm what was that?” she said

‘oh…
you are having another of those damn dreams ma’m..
care to wake up?”

“no… “

“no?”

“yes no… those dreams are extra handy you know.. they make my writer feel extra special”

“what writer ma’m?’

“the one typing this right now..”

“uhuh..”

“see it makes her feel extra special.. in a peculiar sort”

‘how so ma’m?’

“she is writing a movie, and every time she realizes that she doesn’t like it, she resorts to my dreams”

“but why yours?”

“cause she cant remember hers…she sleeps too much”

‘and that is an oxymoron right there… I am sure she must find something handy in all those extra sleeping hours’

“nope… she is always asleep”

“always?”

“yes.. physically and non physically..”

“……”

“oh well… don’t give me these empty dots… just ask your question”

“ok… I don’t understand the difference between physically and non physically..”

“well.. physically happens when she is actually in bed and under the covers”

“and non physically is…”

“when she is not under the covers (imagine a smile at this point)”

“… and out of bed?”

“no… wrong”

“…”

“sometimes she is in bed, but not under the covers…”

“eyes open?”

“yesssss”

‘then lets go back to helping her…”

“wait… you see she is always asleep cause she is… she is..”

‘….?’

“….happy”

“ok… whats that?”

“that was a word that was in the dictionary”

‘and why did they take it out?’

‘because people stopped using it.. “

“..u…oh.. but what does it mean?”

“how would I know?”

“so this ‘happy’ makes her asleep all the time..?”

“yes..”

“I got a grasp of it I think”

‘she is always asleep cause she has this ‘happy’… right?”

“yes..”

“so in another words, if she didn’t have this happy she would sometimes be sleeping and sometimes non sleeping”

“yes… like everybody else”

‘ok… what about those who don’t sleep at all?”

“then they should go and get some ‘happy’ from her”

“but how would they get it if they don’t know what it is?”

“then they just go and ask her to explain what ‘happy’ is”

“but how would she do so if she is always asleep and they are always awake?”

“then they have to reach a meeting point..”

“a meeting point… uhuh… go on..”

“she either has to wake up to explain to them what that ‘happy’ is.. or they have to go to sleep to reach her and ask her”

“but they cant sleep.. they will have to find a way to wake her up”

“but when she wakes up…she will stop having this ‘happy’”

“maybe..”

“..she will be part of their world.. that’s for sure”

“indeed…”

“and she wont write about you..”

“…and you!”

“oh yes (imagine a proud childlike smile here)”

“then we have to keep the people who don’t have the ‘happy’ away from her..”

“yes.. “

“I think I am starting to understand what ‘happy’ means”

“.. we are wasting time… lets get back to her.. do you think she is still writing about us?”

“I may not know what ‘happy’ means. But I sure know what ‘dumb’ is or who ‘dumb’ is..”

“me?”

“well she just wrote that right now… then, yes it must be you”

“ok… lets get her back.. where was she?”

I was writing about the internet connexion, that is misspelled on purpose, and its extra crispy pop ups…

leih zabady?

zabady in Arabic means yoghurt, and when i hear the word zabady alot of feelings come rushing in: relief, coolness, fresh, constipation and digestion (together) and white fluffy happy stuff

so, on with the blog

i am sure every single blog has the first entry with this sentence: "so why did i choose to start blogging?"
and since i am very different, i am gonna drift away from this..
the reason i started blogging is..
we need to talk about someone very important.. Me
It will also discuss something very important: el zabady
and will address someone very important: erm.. you

                                                      so, let the blogging begin!