2009-03-29
2009-03-26
It's Official!!
I LOVE MUSE!!
I LOVE the TWILIGHT SOUNDTRACK to bits and microscopic pieces!!
That said, what have I been up to? Listening to heaps and heaps of Classical music - mostly Bach and Beethoven. Squeezing in Vanessa Mae and Joe Satriani too.
I've finished reading 17 books as of today, including Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga. (and the unfinished 5th book too that was posted on her official site). And after watching the Twilight film, I found myself unbelievably obsessed with the soundtrack. It all started with Muse's Supermassive Black Hole and I went downhill to oblivion from there. I just loved the baseball scene where the song just amazingly fit!
2009-03-16
an attempt to measure myself up... one day in the life of a -gasp- I'm 21 already????
I found myself complaining to a friend last night about how I wished I had more free time - where he rightly retorted that I would have more free time if I stopped reading so much!
I've already read a dozen books since the holiday started --hooey. I could've spent those hours being even more productive... but I'd do it all over again if I had the chance. I don't think I have kept up with so much of my reading since I left Brunei. So I'm kinda happy that I'm back into that habit. (Instead of engrossing myself into the internet or other various TV dramas).
Which kinda reminds me - I'm still reading The Catcher in the Rye (I'm sure taking my time reading it). I only ever read it when I'm on the train - which would easily explain why all the corners are bent and worn out from being in my bag, as if I'd already read it a gazillion times. And I only realized, after checking some of it's reviews online, that it's a story about a guy who gets a nervous breakdown. Surprise, surprise. I've still got another 20 or so pages left, but even so, it's not like I hadn't seen it coming.
I was watching Criminal Minds at one point and in one of the episode, they mentioned that some serial killer once mentioned that they identified with the main character of Catcher in the Rye. I googled it up some and lo' and behold! There are/were some controversies concerning the book. Apparently the guy who killed John Lennon even asked John Lennon to autograph the book for him the morning of the day he was shot by said murderer. But that's as far as my research got. I dropped it quickly enough I suppose - decided that I don't really need to know.
While I'm finishing up with The Catcher in the Rye I'm trying to decide which book to suffer this endless travelling inside my bag next - there was Shalimar the Clown which I never got around to finishing last year. I really should continue with it... But then there's also the Interpretation of Murder which I bought on whim but then I never really managed to get past the first 5 pages. There's also this book called the Spiral on my shelf, which I also bought on whim, plus it was on sale, and it's of some relation to the Ring (you know, that horror film?) - a sequel or summat. hum hum humm... I guess I'll probably just pick one up without looking after I finish my current book. I'm going to finish them all soon enough I suppose.
Then again I just discovered another treasure load of audio books online!! I just got Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga (all four books, unabridged). That didn't stop me from downloading some classical music too.
I would say that "I just don't know what's wrong with me these days" but then I know exactly what is. I've got this really low self esteem now when talking to my classmates - they're all accomplished one way or another and they've all really good grips on our majors. I'm probably one of the few left that still have no idea what people are discussing whilst attending the weekly seminars. I was wildly chasing them last semester but I still really can't put my heart into it. I am interested, but just not as driven as they can be. It would seem.
I had an epiphany. (haha...) If I can presume to call it one. I think I've finally realized that I don't really have to break myself chasing after them, I can always play to my strengths. Which probably has been and will always be, literature. That's not going to help me at all with my current major but I know now I don't have to judge my breadth of knowledge against them and come up devastatingly short and wanting - now I think I can comfortably judge myself relatively against them and be just as knowledgable, only on a wider scale and not just specifically. (Though I don't know how that'll ever help my future, I just know how that'll help me as myself.)
Hence the sudden driven need to read books, even audio ones, and learn (or in my case, re-learn) other languages... I can totally picture myself one day becoming a school counsellor one day haha... (don't ask me for the connection, I don't think I could explain well enough right now).... ... and now to scrounge up some lunch....
I've already read a dozen books since the holiday started --hooey. I could've spent those hours being even more productive... but I'd do it all over again if I had the chance. I don't think I have kept up with so much of my reading since I left Brunei. So I'm kinda happy that I'm back into that habit. (Instead of engrossing myself into the internet or other various TV dramas).
Which kinda reminds me - I'm still reading The Catcher in the Rye (I'm sure taking my time reading it). I only ever read it when I'm on the train - which would easily explain why all the corners are bent and worn out from being in my bag, as if I'd already read it a gazillion times. And I only realized, after checking some of it's reviews online, that it's a story about a guy who gets a nervous breakdown. Surprise, surprise. I've still got another 20 or so pages left, but even so, it's not like I hadn't seen it coming.
I was watching Criminal Minds at one point and in one of the episode, they mentioned that some serial killer once mentioned that they identified with the main character of Catcher in the Rye. I googled it up some and lo' and behold! There are/were some controversies concerning the book. Apparently the guy who killed John Lennon even asked John Lennon to autograph the book for him the morning of the day he was shot by said murderer. But that's as far as my research got. I dropped it quickly enough I suppose - decided that I don't really need to know.
While I'm finishing up with The Catcher in the Rye I'm trying to decide which book to suffer this endless travelling inside my bag next - there was Shalimar the Clown which I never got around to finishing last year. I really should continue with it... But then there's also the Interpretation of Murder which I bought on whim but then I never really managed to get past the first 5 pages. There's also this book called the Spiral on my shelf, which I also bought on whim, plus it was on sale, and it's of some relation to the Ring (you know, that horror film?) - a sequel or summat. hum hum humm... I guess I'll probably just pick one up without looking after I finish my current book. I'm going to finish them all soon enough I suppose.
Then again I just discovered another treasure load of audio books online!! I just got Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga (all four books, unabridged). That didn't stop me from downloading some classical music too.
I would say that "I just don't know what's wrong with me these days" but then I know exactly what is. I've got this really low self esteem now when talking to my classmates - they're all accomplished one way or another and they've all really good grips on our majors. I'm probably one of the few left that still have no idea what people are discussing whilst attending the weekly seminars. I was wildly chasing them last semester but I still really can't put my heart into it. I am interested, but just not as driven as they can be. It would seem.
I had an epiphany. (haha...) If I can presume to call it one. I think I've finally realized that I don't really have to break myself chasing after them, I can always play to my strengths. Which probably has been and will always be, literature. That's not going to help me at all with my current major but I know now I don't have to judge my breadth of knowledge against them and come up devastatingly short and wanting - now I think I can comfortably judge myself relatively against them and be just as knowledgable, only on a wider scale and not just specifically. (Though I don't know how that'll ever help my future, I just know how that'll help me as myself.)
Hence the sudden driven need to read books, even audio ones, and learn (or in my case, re-learn) other languages... I can totally picture myself one day becoming a school counsellor one day haha... (don't ask me for the connection, I don't think I could explain well enough right now).... ... and now to scrounge up some lunch....
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