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.
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