Now you see me...

"La foi peut déplacer des montagnes"

So I finally went to the cinema, and I must say I was extremely pleased with the movie. The movie was so spectacular and mind blowing that I just had to blog about it. Jesse Eisenberg (J. Daniel), Mark Ruffalo (Dylan), Woody Harrelson (Merritt), Isla Fisher (Henley), Dave Franco (Jack) and Morgan Freeman (Thaddeus) were among the cast and as I concurred the main actors of the movie ‘Now you see me’ directed by Louis Leterrier.

For most of the people who have watched ‘now you see me’ the movie may seem to be merely about magicians robbing a bank playing Robin Hood, a fun and interesting movie. However what I believe is that the movie is all about faith hence the heading for my post “la foi peut deplacer des montagnes” French for “faith can move mountains”. The movie is much bigger than just robbing banks and stealing from the rich to give to the poor, it’s about blindly believing in something or someone. The ‘four horsemen’ as the magicians call themselves display great amounts of faith when they set their differences aside and work hand in hand to execute the tasks assigned to them by ‘The eye’, The eye being a secret society for magicians. Thus the four magicians acted out the tasks provided to them by a society that they themselves had no proof existed hence relying only on their faith in the existence of the society.
Secondly, I suppose the movie is also a way of saying that we need to look past the ‘now’ and consider the ‘later’, thinking ahead and planning ahead. To live, not just for now but for the future. Even though YOLO has been a hit, doesn’t mean you will die anytime soon so instead of living for today! Tonight! Now! We have to consider tomorrow! The next day! And well ahead into the future...

The movie can be interpreted in several ways, it can be ‘just another movie’ simply to entertain us or it could be a life lesson. If you haven’t watched it yet I recommend you do and I am confident you will not regret it...

Let me know what you think of it
bises Xx

This has been bugging me it has been eating me up inside it’s been an anchor weighing me down. Religious people piss me off so badly that I sometimes wonder why they have the audacity to claim and think that they are the ones who are walking on the right path the path to heaven. Don’t get me wrong I am happy for them and I admire their strength to avoid worldly temptations and everything that does not contribute to our savings account for getting into heaven, but who gives them the right to condemn people who are simply just trying to fight the devil and find the light.

I am not a saint and I remember pointing this out on my first blog post, but I most certainly do not deserve to be told (directly nor indirectly) that I am on the path to hell! Seriously you don’t know me you have no idea what I am doing, No clue about what goes on in my mind and most certainly you do not know my motives and intentions in doing what I do.

This young lady that had me so mad decided that she has the power to determine who goes where, I choose to believe that she had the best intentions in mind for doing what she did but it just didn’t sit with me right. I was offended and insulted, because she does not know me! Apart from the mask I let her see AND LETS KEEP THIS IN MIND WE ALL HAVE MASKS (FRONTS) THAT WE PUT UP IN PUBLIC AND WE HAVE A DIFFERENT FACE FOR DIFFERENT SETTINGS WE HAVE A DAUGHTER MASK SISTER MASK WIFE MASK EMPLOYEE/ EMPLOYER MASK WE HAVE MASKS FOR EVERY SITUATION AND THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT (trust me on this one I am majoring in psychology and I’ve been studying communication science so I am honestly not making any of this up, it is not just an idea it’s a text book fact)
Anyway so back to this religious young lady who managed to get into my head posted a picture on Facebook. The picture had two staircases, the one on the right leading to heaven and the one on the left to hell and so she tagged a whole lot of us some on the stairs leading to heaven, some still in-between and some on the stairs to hell. Take a wild guess where I was placed, yes I according to her am on the path to the burning scorching eternal fires of hell. My first reaction was (mais pour quoi?) I must admit I felt bad but then I decided it’s just a picture so I went on with my jolly life. However as the days passed the thought just kept coming back to me and the answer as to why she believes I am on the guest list to hell never arrived. Clearly I’m still bothered by the fact that I was tagged on that picture of hers.

So what gives mere humans the right to do such a thing? I admit I haven’t been the best Muslim young lady out there but I’m not that horrible I try my best to be an ideal person but I am certainly not perfect I have flaws and weaknesses but that doesn’t give anyone the right to judge my loyalty and my faith towards my creator. This is how he created me a flawed young lady who will find her way into the light and out of the darkness. ‘Rome wasn’t conquered in a day’ it will take time but I will be the ideal Muslim some day.

I may not dress like an ideal Muslim most of the time but at least I respect myself and my religion. Just because you dress more religious and act more religious does not make you a better person.

I hate people who think they are better than others we are all equals we are mere humans we are all going to die and answer to our creator, so don’t judge me nor decide my fate because as far as I’m concerned you did not create me, you do not feed me nor shelter me.

I’m glad that’s of my chest.

KOMU-SENSE: KOMU WEIGHS IN: WHY NO ONE IS HERE FOR MILEY CYRUS' RATCHETIVITY

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Food for thought..

In My Fair Lady

      Filmed version of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

".... the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins because he treats me as a flower girl, and always will: but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will" 

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Eid Al'Fitr 2013

Raygana & I

My Capetonian Eid

Being a Tanzanian national living in SA I had already figured out how my Eid would have turned out; me in my bed, in my tiny room with my laptop and a box of tissues (for the tears) missing home painfully, it all seemed inevitable. Then my gorgeous friend Raygana willingly offered to share her family and her home with me. Words cannot express how humbled and thankful I am for their kind and loving gesture. My 2013 Eid was truly special and amazing, even though I wasn't with my family I felt like I was HOME...

I never expected to meet such amazing, loving and kind people in a country that wasn't my own. I literally walked into their home as a stranger and friend to their lovely daughter and walked out feeling like I was part of their family. I fell in love with everyone’s personality and character. Everyone oozed a vibrant and positive energy.

Raygana’s grandpa and little brother are the sweetest not to forget her mother, grandma and aunts. I couldn't have wished for a better Eid al’Fitr.

Shukran Jazilan...

cutest baby MashaAllah

Raygana's awesome aunts <3

Mujahid & I

              May Allah always shower               his blessing and love onto               them, and may he answer               and accept all their dua’s.

                                  Ameen

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Change... The Change..

Who would have though...

walk to GREATNESS...

The Slipway, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania

Being born in this beautiful land of greatness ( slowly, but surely) is a blessing yet a challenge in disguise. It is amazing when you think of it, our country's future depends on our hard work and endless thirst for a greater and better Tanzania.

Bongoyo Island, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania

For those who know me, YES I've cut my hair! I can't begin to explain how amazing it feels to have short natural hair. Flaunting my heritage PROUDLY.. It is time for statements.

Model tendencies.. Bongoyo Island, DSM, TZ

Ladies embrace your natural god given beauty, we are BEAUTIFUL just the way we were created... Black, Coloured, White, Orange, Yellow or Red we are all equals those who think otherwise are the UGLY ones..

I'm simply A THINKER

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You think you know me

YOU THINK YOU KNOW ME

As I was sitting on my single bed in my not so luxurious room listening to the rain pouring outside my window and the wind blowing harshly shaking my gypsum walls, it occurred to me “people don’t know me”. Well not in a literal sense but spiritually (weird YES sounded weird to me too) I have many friends and acquaintances and relatives and siblings, but I fear no one truly knows who I am. Not because they haven’t bothered to try but because I don’t share, I tend to keep to myself I am my own diary and my own confidant I don’t see it fit to burden anyone with what’s in my head nor what’s in my heart. I AM A (can’t think of an appropriate word for it and secretive just sounds. Well “WRONG”). I am a PERSON a human being a creation that is very unique because years of schooling have taught me that we might all have similar organs and they all function in the same way heck we even have similar looking hearts and brains (well not always) but our bodies and everything else scientific functions the same, but we are very different or maybe insanely alike.

Anyway as I was sitting on my bed this thought ran across my room out of thin air and it got me thinking what if I die and my book gets closed and nobody truly knew me, who would tell my story? My life story well at least everything that goes on in my mind is fascinating. Hours of “spacing out” “day dreaming” and simply just shutting the world out, those hours define me they define who NADIA is. Like any other human being on the face of earth I am no saint nor am I a damned soul that’s hell bent on being a sinner “I am just an imperfect being” capable of doing both good and bad.

                                                                                                  I AM A THINKER