Sunday, November 13, 2005
I am mad but North-North-West.
I found a Hamlet guide book in the toilet alright!But,really,What would ol shakesphere say to the reading of his plays in the John...Turn in his he grave he would.But,well,his career didn't exactly strike gold the first time round.Amid cries of "Zounds man!" and "Get off the stage!" volleys of rotten veggies would come hurtling down like some kind of freak thunderstorm.But,well he didn't quit did he?Shook the sphere,ol ruffle neck did.What is it with him and circles anyways?ShakeSPHERE,his GLOBE theatre,that CIRUCULAR ruffle round his neck...An obsession?A hidden conspiracy?Was he part of the council to protect the Heir to Jesus?If i were to write a book on crap based like this,would it also sell like Dan Brown's Da Vinci code?Well,at least you know how i feel about HIS book...Rose Line my toosh.
So anyways,today was Lit paper 2.Piece of cake,though it did have some gritty stuff in it.Questions we've never seen the like of.But i think i pulled it off...i hope.My book was an Anthology called A Sense Of Belonging.Or as we lovingly call it,S.O.B. I can still remember my teacher going,
"Class,please bring your Son of,tsk,Son of,I mean Sense of belonging."
Heh.But the stories in it are quite easy really...But i was hoping we would do something like The Twelfth Night...Ah well,it's over.No use harping about it.After the paper,went to have breakfast.And i went to Popular.And i noticed a shelf.And what i saw on the shelf made me mad.And i thought about what i have seen.And i decided that it was pretty characteristic of Singaporeans anyway.What i saw was a Shelf entitled,'Classics'.On said shelf were the Greats,Dickens,Shakesphere,Eyre...And did you know how much they were going for?$4.93!!!!!
Outrageous!These were the people who revolutionized writing!Who conveyed their lives,ideas and thoughts into writing so beautiful it has touched the hearts of generations of readers!It's not even five dollars!What the hell?!I would have bought their whole stock,but being the broke student that i was,i did'nt.I could'nt.Moreover,hardly a page had been ruffled.They were stacked on that accursed shelf,gleaming under the neon lights,having withstood the tests of time,they stood tall.And clean.And unwanted.They cannot,perhaps,withstand the tests of Singapore.I move further to the teenage fiction section.I see kids sitting on the floor.First up,Buy your freaking book and sit your asses at home!The other thing was what they were reading.Buffy,Angel,CHARMED??!!!!You've watched enough TV,now you wanna read it too?What the?!Ridiculous!Not one weenie kid with hundred degree specs even took a GLANCE at Ursula Le Guinn.How very very sad...Movies are shaping the lives of our young.If you ask me,they're becoming ruder,dumber and less imaginative(This is not the View of an adult,I am but 15.The ken of adults cannot reach their darling,nerdy kids)Also,for my hate of Singlish,Blur.Sigh...All i can see is a bleak future of an increase in even more engineers and I.T specialists...Where is there santuary for one such as I?Only in your company...
"Words without thoughts,Never reach Heaven."-Oh yeah Claudius?Dog my cats if my words didn't contain a hint of anger.Or at the very least,irritation.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
To be or not to be.
Well,it's twelve midnight,friday the ummm,i'm not really one for dates..Refer above..if it don't appear,well,i ain't one for details too.Okay,40 minutes of battery life left in the laptop.Bottom of the ninth inning,and the bases are loaded.It's the do or die moment.I'm not really a baseball fan and i have no bloody idea what the hell i just said.But,hey,i can try eh?If i'm speaking slight Brooklynese(E.g:I can tell you things about Louis that won't make you wave to him no more.)Then it's probably the side effects of over concentration of quotes from Arthur Miller's(Married Marilyn Monroe,the sly dog) View From the Bridge.Yea,today was Literature in english paper one (revised) Went really well, i might add.Seriously, i always wanted to post in the middle of a life deciding international exam....so here it is.
So i came on today,to see what's up at this here old blog,and i see a certain anonymous post.Asking me of my view of capital punishment(will come back later,that is,unless i forget it untimely).And my first thought was,MADAM PREMA.I dunno,Suspect the english teacher first.Sorry that haven't handed in my EL file,by the way, no harm done.Gulp.But then it turns out to be this blogger(wendy) who wins like blogging awards and stuff.And i was like,OH DAMN!Believe me,it's an honour.So, hey.Finally,recognition?Heh,i won't be complacent,that just screws with your mind.Complacency and Confidence should not get mixed.One can toe the proverbial line however...But yeah.An honour,miss.Hats off to you.27 minutes left.I am typing at great speed.Sorry for any spellling or grammatical errors.It sucks typig on a laptop.heh.So yeah,Hmmm CAPITAL PUNISHMENT...Surely alot of stuff to think about.Surely we cannot come to a conclusion so quickly.Surely we must incorporate the unmeasurable human nature,to judge,to survive,to conquer and to control.Well, i'll give you a bloody quick version of mine.24 mins....
Who are we to judge.Many unjust men deserve death.Yet many just men deserve life.Can you give them that?I dunno who said it, but it makes a whole lotta sense.Who are we to judge.I mean,what is the difference in dishing out death and following Justice by what ever other means?By shunning the criminal or by imprisonment?Is that not judging?Who are we to judge?We are but men,created equal in likeness.How is another question.God or genetic evolution,we are still of the same mould.We are of men.And how can we decide on another's life?Perhaps this stems from nature's Pecking Order.The law that there is always someone at the top.But instead of the Strongest,what do we have?The richest?The highest social standing?The most intellectual?Some does come out on top.And someone DOES have the ability to play with lives here.Why?Because we let them?Because we are facing a stronger power?Well,this POWER, is not of cosmic means.It is not of kharmatic origin.It is human.It is the power of the cunning of the human mind.Bravo.Clap clap.Bravo.With the limitations of the meagre human mind,one can rise higher than his peers.The greatest kings and conquerers.Created equal.Yet,that little bit of thinking puts him in the greatest advantage.He holds the power.The power of control.PERHAPS the power to judge,to sentence death.Perhaps.Who deserved this death,assuming that He was right to judge,and so to sentence?That of LOWER intelligence?That does not meet his intellect?the criminal does not?Why not then,say,the intellegince of that ruler used for calculation of a crime.Does that not take us back to the beginning of the cycle?That all are created equal?That all have the potential to attain the height of a leader of men and women?Thus we see,whom do we sentence?Whom do we judge?The next Mahatma Ghandi,or the next Eva Pernon.Terrorist to petty thief,we share that potential,for we are but men.To end a life?People make mistakes.Find me a man that hasn't and i'll deep fry my shorts and eat them.The world is riddled with imperfections.Is it these imperfections,lost in popularity,not of social or moral standing that poison a man with the death sentence?Mistakes are made,why?Why imperfection?Pride,GREED.Roots of evil.It's all a vicious cycle.Greed-crime-judgement.Perhaps,the respect that one has risen above the,the common man,does in fact justify the right for sentencing death.For the benefit of others?To keep peace?Life is truly the most amazing thing on earth.Should we,no,CAN we deny that right?We fight for human rights.Is this,IS LIFE NOT THE MOST BASIC OF RIGHTS?Perhaps judgement is right,to improve soceity.Perhaps soceity is not worth it.But please,ponder this.Are those who judge,alas,also guilty?
There ya go.Well,Me and Her are doing pretty well i say.I'll give more details after the Os or sis'll kill me.See yiz soon guys.I'm halfway there.
