An Essay in Time

1. Pending.

- deshdasha
- ghetra we3gaal
- marag la7am
- "fotocheeny" elbait
- "ga3t-eljedir"
- weekend
- shabab el de3iya
- zaad elkhair
- temetwir sa7777
- really hot weather
- a7la banat beldenya
- izwaraat
- dowaween
- bekhtesaar kol ma latha wa 6aab .. not just in the food sense

2. Past.

Came back from The Da Vinci Code. I reckon five to seven people asked me if I saw it, telling me that they have read that the movie does not deliver as much as the book. That would in fact be an entailment of a presupposed truth - that you thought the book delivered.
The movie is okay. It would have been a lot better actually if the Langdon character was not played by Tom Hanks. Worlds apart from past performances, he comes off as giving you the impression that this is a Disocovery channel's documentary where he just narrates. The heroes of the movie are Audrey Tautou's legs. If you think I'm kidding then okay, the best performance was from Alfred Molina - despite the fact that he does not have a lot of screen time. If you, as I, think of Audrey's legs are merely adequate, then you'll probably finish the movie and foresake it the minute you walk away.
Interestingly, you wouldn't. The narration is good, especially with the flashbacks (or scenery let us say) from the past. Not really a surprise there noting that Ron Howard is directing.

All that aside, if you know the history of what is known as Christianity in the present day: watch the movie. If you don't know that, then simply don't watch. Think of it as a prerequisite, actually, that you gather an understanding of what the holy trinity belief is; why it is found in the first place; as well as, and none the less importantly, some general knowledge about the role of the Church - or better yet the influence it had some centuries ago.

If you just read the book, then that's not enough. Fuck the book, fuck Dan Brown, and fuck you too. It's a story of fiction, and at the heart of it - I assume as well as I should - is the argument revolving around The Last Supper painting.
Point being, the story is way too ambitious and in itself does not hold.
Besides, if you're a Muslim/a then the story should not be of any significane to you as it does not insult neither your intelligence nor your faith.

PS: If you do watch the movie, regardless of whether you have read the novel, try to relate to the true characters who are in fact telling the story in a way: Jean Reno's "Fache", and Paul Bettany's "Silas".

3. Future.

Two thirds across the path, I have trotted. Unconfirmed results, I await. For it is only in mid-August may one rest, that is when one faces one's moment of truth. Demanding as it may have seemed or have been reported, analogized at times as being a mountain's top which one shall climb, is what proves to be incorrect.
A title in life, one should pursue; since it is a title that wealth, indeed brings. Patience is a virtue to have, I must; said easier than executed, to that I conform.