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life histories and books' mystery (: Monday, December 15, 2008 life histories and books' mystery (: Pluggin' into: Take care by Copeland So it's been crazy since the 5th of December. I've been going out non-stop. My body's aching. Yet.. I'm thankful for the accumulation of more sweet memories. One of which, was going to a jazz bar. I had had wanted to go into one for the longest time. That night, at the Jazz bar@Southridges with Selina and Dong, sipping martinis, enjoying music and heart-to-heart talk was real sweet. I loved it. and.. strangely.. I had a flash forward to the future, that somehow.. I see us doing this more often when we're older. Honeypear martinis babes! :P I've been reading novels these days, another thing I have always wanted to do [by the way girls, stop laughing - they're real novels okay!!! :P] Honestly.. it was Liv who started my interest up again. She was at my house when she caught a glimpse of T.S. Elliot's poems. When she asked why I wasn't reading, I replied that I had to study - exams what! and she said, "Hello!! If it was your last day on earth, what would you rather be the last thing you were doing? Reading a book, or studying for exams??" That was one powerful heck of a rhetorical question :P Thanks liv (: As of now, I've finished Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Cool book manz!! Thanks Daniel & Alex for following me to buy it! :D). Planning to borrow Son of a Witch from library and am eyeing his 3rd yellow book A Lion among Men. Currently reading Marshmallows for Breakfast by Dorothy Koomson. A little slow-paced for me, but just moving along :P I remembered what it was like to get so immersed in a book, that everything else becomes mere background and the words jump at you, creating a new world, forming a new space, where you're just led in and the language just exhilarates. It was Fascination. These days on the bus, I've been thinking of how to make this December more meaningful. I guess because I was really appalled by how I went through my Summer hols, and didn't want this to be a repeat of it. Basically.. I let it slip through. Just passed each day with the occasional going out and the rest pretty much watching anime. At the end of it, I felt rather unaccomplished. This dec hols.. it seems more like a break for me, with the exams and all. and from the looks of it.. definitely seems to be more fulfilling (: I've been accumulating cultural capital, with my visits to the museums (I'm quite happy to say that Singapore's Art Museum and National Museum have exceeded my expectations, for now :P). Reading books apart from trashy romance novels (shuddup! :P), with a whole pile of books at my bedside waiting their turn. So far.. it's been great (: All i need to do is get up to run and get out my guitar. I've still got time (: This really appealed to me. It's taken from the book i'm reading, about this woman Kendra telling this divorced father her hopes for her own children. WARNING: It's long. but worth your time ;) "One of the things I'd want is for my kids to have strong beliefs. Even if they're not the same as my own, I want them to be aware of something other than their immediate worlds. That they don't have to sit back and accept stuff because it's easy, that they have the ability and right to effect change. If I had a girl, I'd want her to know that she can be anything she wants and that she doesn't have to rely on her looks or clothes or hair or make-up to define who she is or to get respect from other people. I'd want her to know she has a right to be respected or noticed because she was born. I'm not talking about all that girl power nonsense, I'm talking about my girl growing up knowing she has the right to be treated decently simply because she was born. And if I had a boy, I'd bring him up to know that being a man is all about feeling good about who you are. Not all that macho bullshit, but feeling so comfortable you don't have to disrespect other people, or put them down to feel good. You don't have to follow the crowd to be a man. He can believe in whatever he wants, think whatever he wants, be whatever he wants without worrying about his masculinity. And I'd make sure that whether my child's a boy or a girl they'd know that they don't ever have to put up with being treated badly. Not ever. Nor have to do something because their friends are all doing it. If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others." - Dorothy Koomson, in Marshallows for Breakfast. For our future children, to what they can become (: | |