Just as i have mentioned in my previous update, i have finished reading the Count of
Monte Cristo Saturday night, and that was after spending the whole day, from 10 am to 12:00 am locked most of the time in my room reading.. i can still feel my eyes burning and blurring! reading almost 400 words a day is too much..
So how would i personally describe this piece of literature? to me most of it was simply un-expected.. the Count, on whom the whole novel revolves around is a model of un-expectedness! i wasn't able to foresee while reading this novel, unlike the rest of the books i have read so far....
Yes it has touched on many issues from love, greed, friendship, betrayal, faith, science, crime.... etc! but it all falls down to one word REVENGE, which was accomplished in the most intelligent, mysterious & AGAIN un-expected means, which do not come to the mind of every Tom, Dick and Harry! it was a relief to have the revenge done with, but in some moments, i have felt compassion even for the most guilty ones!
~ To be condemned to live such a dreadful life while one is nor more innocent that an infant, can turn a man into a beast, and a beast into a man! i believe that suffering shape ones personality, but a person cannot endure suffering, even the slightest bit of it! if he had no faith... whether it's faith in God, faith in yourself or faith in your loved ones...
~ To remember those who made u who u are... those who filled u with hope... those who took care of you just like a
Gardner would take care of a plant that is about to dry ... to be remembered is the least they deserve.....
i have watched the movie that is based on this novel and i'm truly disappointed ! why on earth do they make a movie out of a novel when they intend to make scrambled eggs out of it? they mixed up the characters and changed so many scenes if not all! they made the characters so lame and all of them seemed weak and powerless, even the Count himself! while on the contrary, everyone in the story used to admire him and fear him even without any reason... the problem is, it wasn't just simple details that have been changed, even the ENDING comes from a different planet! i did not get so excited about the ending in the novel itself but i thought it would have been only right to have in mind 1 ending which the author himself choose....
many people were telling me how great the movie is but am sorry to say, i do not agree at all... if i haven't read the novel, i would still have thought the movie to be some
Disney fairy tale that is not perfectly put together and with no relative
ness...
i actually want to talk more in detail about the novel BUT i do not want to ruin it on those who have
expressed to me that they're willing to read it.. so, am off to work on my IS project which i've been avoiding for more than a month, and now its due the 24th, bleh
here are a few of my fav
quotes.....
"i lay down that pride before God, who brought me out of nothingness to make me what i am"...
" Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit.... Happy the
vintage who picks it after watching it slowly mature..."
" even the most corrupt of us finds it hard to believe in evil unless it is based on some interest. We reject the idea of harm done for no cause and without gain as anomalous..." << this is so true... some of us just cannot grasp the fact that there DO exist people who harm for not a single reason...
" Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender and open in the heart..."
" Truly generous men are always ready to feel compassion when their enemy's misfortune exceeds the bounds of their hatred...."
" the friends whom we have lost do not rest in the earth, they are buried in our hearts..."
" only a weak spirit sees everything from behind a dark veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you..."
and finally I'd leave you just the way the story ended:
"my dearest, has the count not jus told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words- "wait" and "hope"...."
Saturday 19-5-2007 12:44 am
although i have so much in mind to say about the count of monte cristo which i have finished reading an hour ago, i have decided to hold it all until my next update which will be soon , but i will not conceal from you my fellows that this has officially ranked number 1 on the list of my favorite novels! i will leave you with this qoute....
" For hearts which have long suffered , happiness is like a dew on soil parched by the sun: both heart and earth absorb this benificial rain as it falls on them, and nothing appears on the surface....."
Friday 11-5-2007
its a mystery, how you just know when i need you... it's my little miracle, to have you out of everyone else around me to soothe my pain... it's a bless to wake up some mornings still thinking you are around some corner in my room... it's a gift that i thank Allah for giving me every once in a while...... in every single dream, u'd always hold my hands.... and i'd always feel it for many days onwards.... i know things will be just fine after ur dear visits.... and in between those cherished visits, i re-live those moments that never fail to provide me with patience that i need to go on.....
Dreams hold a big part in my life.... i rarely seek to explain them, and most of the time, there's no need to interprate them because, in a day or two, things explain themselves.... sometimes we become so curious about certain dreams that we
end up digging for interpretation, but when ur in my dream, i simply do not need to understand anything..... because even though u remain silent most of the time, your intention is always as bright as the sun... and your concern always reaches me without fail......
i always wonder whether you visit him or not? i do not dare ask, but i never stop praying that you would not deprive him of what he needs the most.. which is you......
When you loose someone close to you heart
see your whole world fall apart...
and you try to go on but it seems so hard
Allah knows... Allah knows....
"...إن الميت يعلم بعمل الحى من أقاربه وإخوانه... قال عبد الله بن المبارك، حدثنى ثور بن يزيد عن ابراهيم عن أبى أيوب قال: تعرض أعمال الأحياء على الموتى، فإذا رأوا حسنا فرحوا واستبشروا ، وإن رأوا سوءا قالوا اللهم راجع به ... وذكر ابن أبى الدنيا عن أحمد بن أبى الحوارى قال: حدثنى محمد أخى قال: دخل عباد بن عباد على ابراهيم بن صالح وهو على فلسطين فقال: عظنى ، قال: بم أعظك أصلحك الله، بلغنى أن أعمال الأحياء تعرض على أقاربهم الموتى، فانظر ما يعرض على رسول الله من عملك فبكى ابراهيم حتى اخضلت لحيته..." الروح - ابن القيم
I'm glad that you know.... feel... see and hear... even though ur not here.... in a way that only Allah knows.....
Saturday 5-5-2007
Last week was totally a mental & emotional disaster .. having to go through such situations alone not knowing whats right and whats wrong, fearing every word or action might only bring me more complicated drama.. but i decided onto one thing... i will avoid everyone at some certain place, because i cannot afford more of the same event .... and silence is much more better than a word that would lead me to trouble...
other than that, what have i been upto?
- bought some dvds to watch during my weekend
- spent Thursday night with my cousins , EATING and watching Princess Diaries 2, aint the young actress just beautiful? :P
- reached page 449 in the count of Monte cristo
- bought something i WANT but dont NEED.. a camera! the PowerShot G7.. am loving it (now i can take my fuji to repairing again for the 100th time)
- received my mid term grades in two subjects i got 17/25 in math, yeah whatever, i passed! aaaaaand i got a full mark in Information Systems :D boooy was i happy! i dunno how i managed to keep my mouth shutttt n resisted smiling wiiiidddellyy ... i did
receive a mean look from my friend though who studied for a week and still didn't get a good mark hehe i dont care, i deserve my mark :P
- both my teacher & hers talked about Telepathy hehe ;) again miracle? and forever i believe :)
i cant wait for next week for two reasons, 1st am dying out of
curiosity wanting to know the rest of my midterm marks.. (yeah the nerd side that rarely shows up :P) andddd ill be nearly
don't with this semester .
