this is a review of 'The Catcher in the Rye'. thanking kiki for the recommendation :)

it's terrific.

trust me. lol.

Holden Caulfield. I am a fan. i'm in love with the protagonist. it's like reading about myself but in the extreme (and i have a freaking suspicion everyone will feel the same way, which is somewhat annoying to know). and if not everyone identifies with him, then i find it quite scary to be told that you're heading down a bottomless pit and ending up a depressive who hates everything and everybody, who doesn't contribute, who's in my opinion very stupid. but yes, as i said, he is extreme. and that's where i hate him. he is so extreme in his opinions that he calls everyone 'phony' and i think sometimes that makes him act 'phony' too.

overall, thank goodness it was an enlightening read in that sense (that it warns me from following that road).

i'd give it full five smileys :] :] :] :] :]

that wasn't a very helpful review, was it? shucks. i have three more coming. hahaha. don't say i didn't warn you. they won't be in a row, though.

right. i shall update. haha.
i'm posting some photos of adorable buildings in singapore.

this building is somewhere around newton. i like "split" effects :] it's actually three-sided.

spanish village on farrer road. very homely feel. and you should see the scales pattern on the wall. very nice (that's like the one in SAJC). also, the arcs remind me a little of STC. haha.

i fell in love with this building some time after i started going to tj. it's somewhere near amber rd. just kept looking at it from onboard bus 12. so cute. the combination of round balconies and square shape.

a poem i wrote today. i'm pretty bad at picking titles. haiz.

FOOL

If it were possible I’d take a dip
and soak my pores in the waters of Lethe,
that forgetfulness might seep
through these bones and line these arteries.

O that I had not been so weak!
That I had known you are not what I seek!
But again I let myself be deceived,
so many times; I’m dumb, I admit.

Friend, please.

I gambled all my wealth away,
with each fall I raised my stakes.
now I have nothing left to keep,
I have not even strength to weep.

Friend, please.

Please.

Buy me a pint of Lethean wine,
to down as I cry my eyes blind.


junior
17/02/08.

i am nuts over sweet things (except food).

posting some poems. came across these, damned cool...

YOU SMILED
by Walter Savage Landor

You smiled, you spoke and I believed,
By every word and smile- deceived.

Another man would hope no more;
Nor hope I- what I hoped before.

But let not this last wish be vain;
Deceive, deceive me once again!

Heart, We Will Forget Him
by Emily Dickinson

Heart, we will forget him,
You and I, tonight!
You must forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.

When you have done pray tell me,
Then I, my thoughts, will dim.
Haste! ?lest while you're lagging
I may remember him!

i'll save the others for next time. hahaha. mrs Lofthouse gave us several nice poems last year in what she called, sarcastically, the "total defence against love". but aargh i think i lost mine when i cleared up my room after As. now can't find them online.

the new lasalle campus. near Rochor Rd. it's where we used to live, my guardian and i. it's now the lawn. but the campus is really nice, don't you think?

by night.

(no, they're taken on separate days. i didn't freaking wait there till dark lol)

i deleted the old blog. (because they don't have a delete-all-posts button). and created one with the same name and exactly the same layout. i'll upload the picture again when i get back to using my own com.

when Shakespeare retired from the stage he said in The Tempest, through Prospero (or so the literary community thinks):

" Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint. Now 'tis true,
I must be here confin'd by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got,
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands.
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair
Unless I be reliev'd by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free."

of course i have no right to say these things. but anyways i'm not exactly deleting this blog. but i'm only going to post my poems and maybe "photos of adorable buildings" and such things. not going to write about my personal life anymore. so won't be updating all that frequently :)

sorry for the temporarily ugly page.