Dear diary,

It's been so long since I wrote anything here, so many things have happened surely, but thanks God mainly on the good side of life :) I went back and forth betwen Cairo, elGouna, Alexandria and the north coast too, I worked and I worked, scrubbed in different hospitals and studied different things. I bought some banknotes and medals, I went and visited fascinating places like the "Mohamed Ali palace in Shubra" and the "Refaie and Sultan Hassan Mosques, Mosoleaum and Madrassa" I did have many good times with my fellow Flickrians and Flickrettes at those trips really.

Last night I went to see Disney's "world on Ice", I had seen the previous three shows that came to Egypt years ago, and I loved them back then, I've always been a fan of Disney's magic, and when I was a kid I was a member of the Mickey Mouse Club too :) Anyway, the show this time topped all my expectations, more attention to detail and dreamlike rendering of the display, it was an amusing spectacle to say the least, the children were so happy all around me, and inside me a little child was wakened and was so happy too. The theme this year was Disney's Princesses, Jasmin, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Snow White and .... Cinderella... Now the first half of the show was dedicated to all the princess stories while the second half was booked for Cinderella alone, quite logic you got to think, every girl wants to be Cinderella, Cinderella is the princess indeed. Nothing much to say here, the lovely music, the wonderful choreography, talented actors and actresses, skating effortlessly on thin Ice, very royal and magical indeed. Throught the air rose the beautiful words of all the songs by the most memorable charachters in the childhood of my generation, A whole new world, Once upon a dream, Part of that world, Beauty and the Beast, high hoe, and A dream is a wish your heart makes...

And as I sat back, literally with wettened eyes and hightened emotions, the words slipped into me filling me with this beautiful dream, there was magic in the air, I was there, and it was soooo beautiful.

 

  

Part of the little Mermaid's story, one of my favourites.

 

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling thru
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true

 

"Dreams" as a recurring theme in Disney, Quote from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Thematically, the lyrics recall the sentiments expressed in "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio (1940). In equating a dream with a wish, the song establishes that Cinderella is using the word "dream" in the metaphorical sense of desires that can, as the lyric promises, "come true." "When You Wish Upon a Star" makes this same promise, as does other Disney material, such as the fireworks show Remember... Dreams Come True and related promotions[1]. The literal meaning of the word, as something that happens "when you're fast asleep", reappears in another Disney song, "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty (1959).