Monday, May 07, 2007
Dear Me,New Blog!
Its not that I don't like my other blog, seriously. But I can't like post a little phrase I cam across, or a poem I liked, cuz Amrit says the other blog is "already dying." The number of daily hits has increased though.
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Anyway, I was reading Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult its damn nice! My Sister's Keeper was better, but this one's a close second. :D
Some stuff from there:
"What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were every uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times." - Henry David Thomas
"I think it is a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." - Vladimir Nabokov
A nice quote but wasn't Nabokov the writer who wrote "Lolita"? Err.. keeping that it mind you wonder what context the quote has been written in.
Went to the library on Friday.. I know.. NERD right? Borrowed this FABULOUS book on Da Vinci's life and artwork. Borrowed another one on acrylic painting techniques.
I don't know. I'm trying surrealism cuz it seems fun, and I've already started painting part of it, but my mom's reaction was like Can you tell me something? What's this supposed to mean?" I don't know.
I would have known, perhaps, if I had taken Art instead of Full Lit. Amrit keeps on screeching "I TOLD YOU SO!!" over the phone.
Even Deanna regrets not taking art. I am totally SUCKING at Lit. B4 FOR CA2! Not only that, I missed B3 by 0.1 mark. -_____-
Sigh, its so ironic that since I wanna become an artist/ fashion designer, i should have paid attention to home econs and art in lower sec. But those were the ones i just didn't give a damn about, until it was too late.
Seriously, Lit was so interesting last year. This year we're doing some dumbassed book called Fahrenehit 451. Montag can go screw himself for all I care.
I mean, the book's not that bad, but Ms. ____ keeps on making biblical allusions, and I just. don't. understand. because I'm not christian and I haven't really read the bible.
Example: "Montag says that he wants to start from the beginning. This is a biblical allusion, because the bible is all about a new beginning and rebirth of faith and..."
Err, I'm sorry but aren't almost all religions about a new beginning? I don't get it.
Another example: This happened in during Values Ed, where some weird woman came to talk to us about leadership. "Good leaders stand up for what is right, no matter what others say. For example, Jesus never wavered in the face of his enemies. He did not have an army, but he conquered the world. Not only Christianity. I .err... i.. *think* that other religions like... um, Hinduism, Buddhism.. I think they also pray to God."
Yeah, thats why they're called religions, woman.
I'm not slandering people or their beliefs. I have great friends, classmates, teachers who are very sensitive when it comes to topics like these, simply because there are quite a few non-christian girls in MGS. But there are those who totally lack this sensitivity, who are totally convinced that what they believe is the truth and that the rest of the world is blinded/ on a one-way road to hell/ worshipping Satan, etc.
Wow, rambled alot huh?
I shall go now.
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