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spent I think the last 4 days slacking after my job ran out.

lol.

don't exactly have any idea what I'm going to write here since really the only reason why I'm typing is cos 1 I don't feel like sleeping right now 2 I've run out of things to do already and 3 haven't posted in more than a week.

spent the past few days on stuff like 9gag / cracked.com / nytimes.com and other online stuff. reading.

need to get a few good books to read I guess. and actually get down to reading them. and use my 2-year-old kino voucher.

but thing is well when I read what I tend to do is skim. which can cause me to miss entire sentences / paragraphs (seriously). which is bad.

and I have no appreciation for lit or good writing or whatever you call it. so I mainly read stuff with interesting plots .-.

which frustrates some people to no end.


I'm shallow like that ok?


so anyway kevin sim has been trying to get me to read stuff like dickens and I'm like ew no way. although I might try sth like jane austen / one of the brontës if I'm really that bored. lol. but probably won't get much out of it.

anyway finished fellowship and two towers in 4 days. yay.

but couldn't start on return of the king before I had to return the books to the SFL. even though I think I had the time / could have finished it (except for the appendices though).

(yeah the last books I borrowed from the school library were tolkien)

maybe cos it really isn't a very good idea to cram the first 2 books in 4 days. especially since how they're very dense and stuff (well to me at least). what's the word for it. rich? dunno. a lot of details. overwhelming (maybe?). I have no idea.

and also maybe cos I've read it so many times that I kinda know what's going to happen anyway. and was so tempted to skip / skim the entire of book 4 (i.e. the second half of the two towers) since it's bloody boring. but I didn't!

*reminds self that middle-earth doesn't really exist in the real world so stop trying to escape there or sth. you're stuck in singapore damnit.

ok rant over.


and speaking of books and stuff I am damn irritated that the movie based on one of john le carré's books (which I actually have read and liked quite a lot) is only being released in singapore in FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR. when it was like released in the UK in september and in the US a few days back (which is why I've read all the reviews on the relevant news sites already). and it's 86% on rotten tomatoes so it can't be bad.

although I think the movie doesn't do the plot justice since they compressed everything into 2 hours but whatever.

and also want to watch the muppets (97% on rotten tomatoes o.o).

eh wait it just got released in singapore. how interesting. I was somehow under the impression that it was only coming out in january. but whatever.

ok I think I shall go watch it tomorrow with bessie.

yay found something to do.

ok I think this post is long enough.

and it's still vaguely school-related so I shall tag it as such. yay.

427 / the shadow of the past

re-reading tolkien again.
for I think the 4th or 5th time this year. lol.

4H gathering today.
which in my opinion didn't go very well.
maybe cos welras decided yesterday afternoon to meet up today. and then outsourced everything to me ._. so I didn't quite have the time to round everyone up and stuff.

so unsurprisingly only about a third of the class showed up. blah welras this is all your fault.


but then again I dunno at the same time it was rather disappointing not only because turnout was crappy but also maybe cos things weren't how I expected them to be anymore.

well fine more than that I think. more like there was something missing from today. spirit? I have no idea.

like I dunno everyone has changed way too much over the past 2 years and maybe they no longer are what they were like in sec4 when we left RI.

so perhaps I shouldn't have gone there expecting things to be as they were 2 years back.

and maybe with time I tend to forget all the bad stuff about people and only remember good / better things so like when everyone does actually meet up again and you realise that your impression of them / the way you remembered them no longer holds well things will definitely disappoint. blah.

so maybe I should stop complaining about my current class as well. and stop reminiscing about (romanticising?) stuff that has long gone and that will never ever happen again. no matter how hard we try.


people change too much with time.
and inevitably grow apart from each other.
we can't get things back the way they used to be anyway.
so really why dig stuff up and spoil things. hmm.

blah ok should stop emoing. and I realised I was very incoherent above.
and fine things aren't that bad lah some people are still the same as they used to be and still quite fun. but then I've (inevitably) grown distant with some others.
but I think class spirit is definitely gone. or at least things feel different now.

sigh.


and hm I think I'm gonna stop blogging once march 2012 comes around.
not like there's going to be anything very interesting happening after that lol.

wonder if I'll hit 500 posts by then.


and then may or may not continue in 2014 when I ORD.
hm.