I have failed countless times to update this blog, and I have a feeling no one really reads anymore. However, since this was where I started writing it always feels most comforting to return to write short bit about my life here
I was browsing today this article where a number of individuals had submitted pictures or scans of their teenage diaries. I have hardly graduated out of teenhood myself; once a very interesting character told me that you don't truly stop being a teen until you've passed 25 years of age. Sometimes not even then. Yet I can't help but look at (the now hidden) entries that used to chronicle my life in secondary school and then in junior college. I was a very different person then, and yet, not so.
As I write this now, I am waiting for myself to fall asleep, for the memories in my head to die down so I may just tumble into a nice dreamless sleep.
Yet sleep evades me, as it naturally does when you need to wake mere hours later for the most important task of school. It feels so new all over again, because people just come and go and come back again.
But enough of my rambling, I should really try to at least close my eyes and lay down, and hope that eventually sleep will take me.
To all those people who left my life, I miss you. You know who you are
<3 M
marlz. daughter. sister. friend. cousin. girl. 1988. born to die.
lauantaina, lokakuuta 15, 2005
post promos
i was rather depressed that i had to go to school after the promos instead of having marking days like other schools do. AND having band prac aft the full day which ends at 5 pm made me feel like tearing my hair out. i would have much rather had a marking day where we could have the whole day for band practice. pairing band practice with school however, isn't that much fun.
but, like most things, the whole problem just worked itself out. on the first day, me and the other class dudes and dudettes decided to play cards, and then go to the library where, i suspect, we were a tad bit too loud when we chatted. i learnt quite a bit abt card games that you could play with uno cards. and then i headed home to catch up on some sleep before coming back to school for band prac.
on the second day, we stayed to watch lisa play floorball for phobos, and then at 9 we (Van, NurC, Rad, Wanwen, Marlz) left to watch Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. the music was breathtaking. i wished it never had to end. but like all beautiful music, it had to end somewhere, and i left the movie theatre with the others.
the tickets cost us $6, it being a budget trip. and the seats were rough, and my legs cramped up every 5 minutes because of the lack of leg room. there was this sweet musty smell that is reminiscent of a hidden library that smells of old, decaying books and dust. but otherwise i do believe that the trip was worth it. at any rate, the movie and the company i had was good, and the people that worked there were smiley. and, the music still is ringing in my head. i seriously wish i could live in that movie, just for those few haunting tunes. nothing would be more delightful.
tim burton has to be a genius. i can't think of any other explanation to how he could produce both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as well as The Corpse Bride at the same time, without making them seem exactly the same. The Corpse Bride has truckloads of Tim Burton's humour in the mix and the way the figures in the movie move so realistically is definitely a plus too. and then there is the way that he depicts the living being so lifeless and the dead being full of life, and the puns that are used liberally all around. NurC couldn't help but point out the literary devices in the movie. so go watch! its real nice, and if you don't like the usual Hollywood storylines then its definitely your cup of tea.
watched brainiac as usual. wicked stuff. if you know me properly i love to rave abt this show. this week i learnt that it is impossible to hum while pinching your nose and without opening your mouth. another week i learnt that it was impossible to rotate your right hand clockwise and your right foot anticlockwise simultaneously. and whats the purpose of learning this you may ask? just for the fun of it. it gives you some convo starters and proves for the ones who disbelieve that science can be fun. a weekly dose of it ought to get you smiling in no time. hehe.
i love my blue ring! its so pretty.
and i've fallen in love with books! Charles Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop. lovely. and i re-read Jane Eyre for the umpteenth time. its so nice to prowl the fiction section of the library without feeling guilty. i read Salome that day in the library too, but i didn't get to finish it. i want to go buy some books. a book-and-CD shopping spree. thats what i need before starting on PW for good.
have relatives coming over for buka puasa. so fun. that means i have to clear all the papers that are strewn all over my room because of the promos and make it look decent enough for viewing. around now-ish. so then, toodles~
marlz
10/15/2005 04:43:00 ap.