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.
torstaina, helmikuuta 09, 2006
being random and roundabout
warning: i have loads of things to gush about and am going to be extremely random.
i watched some show last night on the 40 best cities (for tourists), and barcelona came in first. rio de janerio came in somewhere pretty close to the top. BUT (its a really big butt) i think geog is getting to me AGAIN, and i was pretty upset that they painted such a pretty, sanitized picture of rio. seriously, i don't think many people are that interested in the slum areas there, or that the masses of tourists that go to rio make things worse by flashing their cash on the streets, and polluting the environment there. seriously, it was too pretty a picture for me. i rather see something authentic.
the one place i would first visit if i have a chance would be Istanbul. prolly because to me it such an exotic, mysterious and fascinating place to visit. i could just imagine going to the famed grand bazaar, with its bright colours and pungent clouds of spices. and looking at the most magnificent mosques ever. wandering down little lanes where there is hardly any space to walk, mingling with the crowd. then there's the history to learn. its a mixture of everything, high income, low income, old and new. and of course there's the buzz that always happens in such a populous city. oh ya, and a turkish bath! and of course the plus point is that most of the population of turkey are muslim, which makes things so much easier for me. haha.
the only other place on the charts that i considered visiting was this place in Dublin that has this really old library with many many many many old books. the images that flickered on the screen were breath taking, so i cannot imagine what it really looks like.
when i get time one day i will visit turkey! must.
compass programme today was SUPER FUN. when i signed up for sound hounds i thought it was that boring old computer music thingamajig that we used to have in ol prcs, so i sort of settled for it because 1. it still had places, and 2. it was something i thought i had dabbled in before.
boy was i wrong. what we ended up learning about in the end was about turntabling, and the different types of dance music. somethings i knew, like euro-trash and house and the very famous r&b. but i got to hear samples of trance, drum and bass (or was it bass and drum?) and REAL techno music. and it was SO COOL. so we got to watch a turntabling demo on video, and by the teacher itself. i never knew mj teachers were so happening haha. i really really enjoyed it. it was nothing like what i went for last week, which was pretty boring actually. i shan't say what it was though, cos the teacher was trying very hard, though actually most of us already had done something of the like before.
tomorrow is the release of o level results. and soiree, which i'm not going for cos i don't know anyone who is performing and cos i have band prac which i much rather go for. but enough of that. i leave a message for a very special group of people who have touched my heart in the past month or so:
to all my dearest alhena 6 freshmen, you've been a super bunch of people, who always never fail to wave to me and smile when you see me along the corridors. i only hope that you had a great time during your time in mj, and during orientation, because i've had a great time getting to know and playing around with all of you. all the best in all that you do. this may sound very cliched but,wherever you go, and whatever you are doing in the future, whether or not you are coming back to mj, remember to be the best, and carry the alhena spirit abt with you, and make sure whoever messes with you will be chaota! hope to see you again and all the best.
with all my love,
marlina
2/09/2006 08:57:00 ap.