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.
maanantaina, tammikuuta 09, 2006
official first day of school
well well. i'm quite surprised that i managed to get through my first official day of schooling without dying of boredom. quite the contrary. instead, i've managed to pull through today and feel fairly optimistic about days to come.
the geog teachers were more forgiving that i thought! ogls are allowed to take the test next week, meaning i won't flunk out. rocks and landforms may be my favourite topic in geog, but without studying i would still end up writing trash. i find no point in doing a paper when you have not studied for it. unless its a surprise test. then theres a point in not studying for it =)
my sweet sweet alhena 6 freshies wished me happy advanced birthday today! hope they had a good first day. i hated mine. but i had vanessa and yingjie with me that time so i didn't feel it to be that dull.
mr low took us for the last tutorial period and asked us to mimic the style of writing from this passage in our promo paper. i wasn't feeling particularly emo, but i tried, and instead of writing one paragraph i ended up with half a page before i knew it.
i've seriously nothing blog worthy today. i'm just happy i got through my first day of school ok. i wonder how the rest of the week will go, the timetable looks awful. i cannot bear to look at it besides checking what comes next. thank goodness for saturdays, sundays and band. they'll help me keep my sanity in some way.
on another note, i managed to finish the books i received for christmas. kalle gave me pride and prejudice and mummy gave me the whole set of narnia books. i quite liked pride and prejudice, though i find the ending a bit of a cliche. for some reason i'm quite partial to books that have uncertain endings. the kind that leaves you hanging, lets your imagination wander a little. unendings, if you like. or at least if the book has to have a cliche ending, let it not have a cliche middle or beginning. pride and prejudice was nice, but i found jane, lizzy's sister, was an annoying righteous prick. i wondered why that rich fellow wanted to marry her at all. eugh. i liked lizzy and mr darcy well enough.
and i absolutely LOVED narnia. childrens book i know, but can't a girl indulge in some childishness once in awhile? although many people think that it is too fantasy like, i feel that it isn't so much a childish fantasy as some other books are. if i were to pick between harry potter and narnia, it would be narnia hands down. when i was reading it i felt there were alot of allusions to christianity and the bible, but i know for sure there are people going to disagree with me on that point. nevertheless, it was a good read. dark in some ways, yet in other ways so light. dark somewhat like the way the lord of the rings is. in many ways i feel it revolves around fate and what is out of your hands rather than in, yet in others, i also think that it concentrates on the actions of the characters when faced with such an idea that one may not have a choice after all. not surprisingly, i also found out that tolkien and lewis were friends. perhaps thats why their work mirror one another in some ways.
yes yes. i like my books. i do wish we could move on to jane eyre soon. thats like my all time favourite book. i wish i could write like that. wishful thinking. even those people who write trashy romantic (i detest using this word here, but i have a lack of a better word to use) anime spin-offs write better than i do.
oh ya i went to watch the movie for narnia too! it was nice. the woman who played jadis was so convincing. its a pity they didn't ake a show for the first book. would explain loads of things in the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. aslan wasn't as magnificent as i expected him to be, but there you go, when you imagine things tend to be more fantastical than it is possible to recreate. haha
i'm happy cos tomorrow's a holiday! yipee. enjoy everyone!
marlz
1/09/2006 10:27:00 ap.