I hate the new big humongous billboards in maadi, it gave maadi a very commercial feel, maadi is supposed to be a unique quite neighborhood, but since el Nasr st was created things became very different...
I mean, I remember the days where, for u to actually find a place where u can drink a good cup of cappuccino there was only one place for that.. "Winchell’s" near midan el ma7tta, it was the best and only place in maadi that serves coffee, and I remember they had gr8 carrot cakes as well, I can still remember their taste!
and for u to get there it was never a big deal. for u to get anywhere in maadi was never a big deal...!
sometimes I just curse the pendulum, it never stops it just keeps on moving, on and on counting, creating past u will long for, and an unapprehended future...
when I come to look back at history from the old days till this very moment, I just feel that things r meant to get worst by time.
it’s like there is something that links time with bad circumstances, like there directly proportional or something... I don’t know... im just MAD, mad at the fact that things never stay the way they are, they have to get worst, it’s like an inevitable fact you cannot escape!
Right now at this very moment I feel that my home has been raped, my memories have been slashed into pieces and nothing is left for me to look at and remember, it all now lays in an unreliable memory of mine...
I once rode with a taxi driver who had a very good point to discuss, he asked me why do we artists always paint things the usual way, why do we use the old techniques, why is that our subjects are very limited, although life is in minute by minute change, and is now filled with many new routines and ideas...
The reason he thought was that we as people are always looking behind us, and that we are too much of chickens to face forward and see the truth, ugly it is or not, were too afraid even to find out if it’s really ugly or is it just an illusion... "Al boka2 3al atlal" this is how he called it, he said that he’s sick and tired of praising what we did in the past our great achievements, the pyramids, the pharos...
what bothers him most is that even those things we r holding on to so tight, we failed to really use it in the most proper way, secure it and make the best out of it!
He pity’s that we don’t allow our self the chance to experiment new things, and that we always choose the safest way!
And when i come to think of it, i might just be one of those chickens he's been talking about!
About Me
- Rana Eldars
- Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
- 23. Alone and comfortable. not yet graduated (faculty of fine freaken arts). will travel the world. very gratful. likes drinking green tea with mint at cilantro st.9. inlove with her cats napolian and his son dodo. admires humans and likes to interact with ppl somtimes just likes to sit back and watch, faces, attitudes and psychologies. loves her father very much and likes to go biking with him :) wants to be sitting under a tree the day she dies, just before the sun gets ready to set.
3 comments:
I don't think Winchell's is still there, is it? I never heard of it, but then again my experience with such places don't go much back..
and I totally agree with ur friend the taxi driver. They say we have third of the monuments of the world or something like it, but how many tourists actually visit? and how do we treat them when they do? We deal with them as if they're bags of money. Look at entry fees anywhere for example. 1 LE for egyptian and 5 or more for non-egyptians! plain racism!
5 lol ur so kind!
its much more than that, at the pyramids its 100 or so for foriegners:D
but come on its not racism its simply one of our main sources of income, it would be stupid of us not benefiting from it!
it's considered racism based on nationality, however you look at it. In countries that attract in a week as much as Egypt attracts in a year they don't do that. They know better than making tourists feel they are tourists and makin them long to go home as soon as possible! The whole touristic prices is stupid and shows how fucked up our dealings are. remember this stupid ad in TV about the guy annoying a tourist in some cafe? that's how it is! tourists = bags of money. no humanity involved. If I visited a country and felt like I'm being dealt with as a rich foreigner and pays for everything thrice as much as normal persons pay (taxis, hotels, even coffee!) what would that make me feel about the country?
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