dead tired after chalet.
shouldn't have stayed overnight. did nothing except for some cards games. slept in various uncomfortable position from 4plus till the morning.
but took plenty of photos. its really a photos spamming session. Like we haven seen each other for ages are are trying to catch back time. fun though. ^^
i love chalets. we should plan one too hor my favourite peeps. kekee
open house tomorrow. i want to go for IT fair in the morning before we meet. to get my itouch. so i can load it with games and music before my two overseas trip. Super anticipating it. my bank is seriously going to wither because of these two but it will be worth it. I'll have to start working long long shifts for almost everyday to cover for the expenses. Full weeks. no more dates to spend money. hah
And i just saw this on tumblr:
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
--Rosemary Urquico
I was pondering over this passage and realize that only one paragraph in this applies to me. the one bolded. the rest, does not make any sense, though i read. maybe because i only read books that appeals to me. and books that appeals are books which are easy to read, no brainer books, books that dose not require thinking.
i'm too lazy for words. i love classics. they are, interesting and entertaining. they make me want to read them again and again. but classics are always packaged in thick, huge volumes and i am too lazy to carry them back. so i read them online. i sort of enjoy literature, but usually need time to fathom the message hidden behind the text. and usually i cant get it. i have no patience for poems or related writing, and deciphering the hidden words is so tiring. maybe that's why i always fail my literature in secondary school.
but the passage is, rather true. i guess people who read are more, sensible and reasonable. i sound like i am praising myself. haha.
oh ya, library at NEX is open! i watched the news and its like crazy, hundreds of people trying to snatch new books. seriously crazy.
i think my recent post have too much words. unlike the brief period of picturey posts. oh but who cares.
itouch tomorrow oh so good
