There was something about her that caught his attention.
She wasn’t particularly pretty, smart or stylish.
But to him, she was seasoned to his liking: a smooth blend of wit, confidence, with just a pinch of raw sugar.
She found him talented, intelligible, and his sense of humor was as dry as gin.
He exuded a refreshing innocence that she eagerly embraced.
Whether he was talking back or just talking smack, it kept the corners of her mouth from turning down and she was happy.
Their union, however awkward, never felt more perfectly fitted than as when they were together.
All rules of time and logic did not apply as these two love birds scurried through the night.
As winter turned to spring, spring turned into summer, summer turned to fall, and fall inevitably turned back into winter, the days fell shorter and so was their time spent together.
Soon their moments turned into memories, and the memories that kept them going, faded away.
They were never meant for forever, but they were meant.
And that’s more than we can all hope for.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
To my boyfriend
At classes, walking home, washing the dishes, while reading or listening to music, brushing my teeth, but mostly when my eyes open and right before I go to sleep.
In the most unlikeliest of places do I wonder where you are, what you’re doing, how you’re feeling, if you’ve eaten and wishing you a smile from miles away.
You are the first and last thought I have each day.
In the most unlikeliest of places do I wonder where you are, what you’re doing, how you’re feeling, if you’ve eaten and wishing you a smile from miles away.
You are the first and last thought I have each day.
You win...
...missing you
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
101 Things I Must Do Before My Light Burns Out!!!
I was advised to start a series, in order to try to establish a "regular blogging schedule".
All this because I only post sporadically...
oh well, it's not like anyone actually reads my blog...
Yes, its sad, I know... since I'm Portuguese and most of my friends don't have a blog, most can't even read English that well...
Still I will continue to write!
In the eternal belief that someday someone will read this, and review...
I hope that someone, is you!
or if it isn't, well I can just keep writing for myself, maybe just to reared someday!
So moving on to my series:
101 THINGS I MUST DO !!!
(They won't be in any particular order, just how it comes up to me!)
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Light A Candle For ANIME
This 'Light A Candle for ANIME' is my new project, the objective of this project is to enlighten people's minds to Anime and to definitively erase the preconceived ideas that some many people have about anime. The way some people consider it only appropriated for children, like cartoons, and don't look at Anime as a form of Art. So here it is! A list... that you should burn into your psyche!
THE LIST OF BEST ANIME EVER!
2. Chrono’s Crusade (WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO DIE?!)
3. Ouran High School Host Club (FUNIEST SERIE EVER!!! and I want a new season! THIS is my absolute favourite shoujo series of all time! Seriously, see it. You WON'T regret it!)
4. Yakitate! Japan (Come on it’s a serie about bread! And it’s so freaking funny! Lots of references to Japanese culture!) Cooking Master Boy (It’s the best Chinese cooking show EVER! With great references to Chinese history, culture and everyday life, it’s so yummy!!!)
5. The Prince of Tennis (This serie rocks! I cannot get enough of the boys and their moves. And he’s like... really cute! Greatest anime eyes ever! and believe me, in anime eyes, there’s a lot of competition, so this is a though spot to get! A must watch, even if you don’t like tennis you have to LOVE this anime!)
I LOVE SPORTS ANIME! Other very good one is One Outs (about baseball and gambling from the same guy, who made Akagi and Kaiji), and Eyeshield 21 (is about American football, and it’s really, like really great, beautiful character development, from a bullied, small cowardly kid, to a hero in making, with an extraordinary ability, and still extremely awkward, but cute. Then the struggle, the competition, the comedy, not to mention, the fascinating secondary characters and the deep, very deep love for the sport, get this anime in the top list of best sports anime, and really in the list of best animes ever) Initial D (haven’t finished yet, but so far so good- car racing), and obviously Hajime no Hippo (everybody always told me to see this one, but I always delayed it, and even thou I don’t like boxe I actually like this anime quite a lot), also Ginban Kaleidoscope (is about skating but at the same time it’s such a beautiful love story).
6. Hikaru No Go (That serie was great! Love the rivalry! Love Go! It’s so emotional! And it has the second plance on the best anime eyes ever, for Hikaru, Sai and Akira!)
7. Yami No Matsuei (I LOVE IT AND IT WILL MAKE OBSESSED IN YAOI! A MUST WATCH! Pity it’s so small.) Gravitation (must I say it? Its yaoi! And there ain’t anything better than yaoi!) Antique Bakery (oh, well... it's yaoi...AND IT's BEAUTIFUL, can’t get enough of yaio, adore the characters, love the cakes!)
8. Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (incredible!!! It reminds me of Dragonball, especially because it’s such a long anime, but in general, it’s an excellent history, quite the “go on” fun anime! Great quotes! The best characters ever! Love Kurama and his other self Youko, he just goes around constantly doing all kinds of stuff that would look totally gay if it was any other character doing it, but with him it really seems so sexy ! Hiei is just plain cute, Koenma and Botan are fun, Yusuke is a sexy bad boy when he wants, and all others are just adorable!)
9. The Law of Ueki (He’s the anti-hero, and I LOVE IT! Good story line. Really amusing moments in every episode.)
10. Full Metal Alchemist (BEST. ANIME. EVER! But it has way too much drama! Either way it’s amazing! The idea, the story, the drawings and most of all the extraordinary characters! Honestly beautiful, just beautiful!)
11. Detective Academy Q (This was the first online anime for me! I searched and watched it on veoh! It’s the best detective story ever! Personally I’m not a fan of Conan, so this anime does the TOP of detective stories in anime, for me!)
12. Akagi and Kaiji (I put this two different series together, ‘cause I watched them at about the same time and because their style of drawning it’s praticaly the same. Also they are both basically about gambling, which I love! Akagi its better, because the main character is so cool, but kaiji has more games, so they tie in awsomeness!)
13. Kyou Kara maou (It’s great, and I have no idea why! It’s just a watch and see the cuteness yourself, kind of serie. And in order to understand, you have to acknowledge the deeply intricate Japanese culture, or else you won’t get it. It has a hot tempered bishonen and lots of mild yaoi references. The main character the Maou, it’s the sweetest king ever!)
14. Hellsing (just because), Vampire Knight (One word: vampires. You can't go wrong... and I love the art! Vampires rule and sexy-badass-possibly-evil-vampires are even better! “Oh mighty Creature of the Night Kaname Senpai… suck my blood! Onegai!”) Black Blood Brothers and Trinity Blood (Both have such awesome stories, it puts together all tales of vampires but at the same time it has some logic. Great characters! Love all the biting scenes! Love the end in BBB! They should make a second season, this one is too short! TB is soo complex! But I love it! Also love the costumes in TB!) Also Karin, Chibi Vampire (Vampires again. Damn, they sure pop up everywhere in anime/manga, eh? Karin's just cute, and an actually believable heroine. VERY comic storyline.)
15. Saint Seiya or Knights of the Zodiac (Now, I used to watch this serie with my older brother in the mornings before school and it was one of the only things we enjoyed doing together, so I’m partial to this anime… but the drawing is pretty good, and the story is solid and interesting, very mythological and there are a lot of tournaments and fights, like in dragon ball, but in the end the characters are very beautiful even if with a little too much angst. It’s a pretty good anime!)
16. Higurashi No Naku goooooood! I love psychological, supernatural thrillers.
17. Puchi Puri Yuushi (magical girls and a princess story, but at the same time such a beautiful love story, and very funny and original story idea) Shugo Shara (magical people yes! But it gets second spot ’cause of it’s amazing main character!) Fairy Musketeers (a Fairy Tale world, magic, cute and interestingly problematic characters, the great colours all around, and the beautiful story line, make this a serie worth watching!) Card Captor Sakura, Doremi and Fancy Lala (GO GO MAGICAL GIRLS!!!) And Tokyo Mew Mew Power (Cutesy. VERY cutesy. Sometimes not in a good way... Only thing that kept me watching was the occasional funny line. And it's so colourful! Green, yellow, Pink and blue and shiny! Yes, I know shiny it's not a colour...lol)
18. D N Angel (Too small. But, Dark is awesome. What more must I say? It's a... interesting story; to say the least... I love thieves and with angel wings it’s even better!)
19. Yu gi oh (no offense to all the Yu-Gi-Oh fanatics out there, but... this looks like just another Saturday morning cartoon! in terms of art, of course! I've seen the entire serie, the several seasons, and it’s a good story, but it’s just sad to see how some people actually think this is a really good japanese anime… oh well, I suppose it is kindda entertaining. Besides when I watched it I was very, very young, and I got the card game, so it’s in a good position on my Anime Top.lol. What I think is the best about this anime is The Abriged Series by LittleKureboh!!! I love to mock this anime because I remember when I was completely addicted to it! LOL. I also like yu gi oh GX! I know everybody hates it, but I think it’s really funny and it has some awesome quotes! Yes, it has no plot whatsoever, but once again I didn’t saw it because of the story, I saw it because it was funny and I was bored!!! I never thought it was going to have a plot anyway, come on let’s be honest the original yu gi oh didn’t have a plot either, it had something that resembled a story, but in fact was just some crazy ideas and historic references glued together with a piece of gun!) A/N: Everytime I see this series I remenber the other serie I was whatching everySaturday morning, right after this one: Beyblade. Ah, good old days!
20. Princess Princess (sweet, sweet… come on! The entire serie is boys dressed as girls! What’s not to love! Just adorable.) And Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru I think the name of the serie just sums everything up... 'HELP! Maidens are falling for me!' It's about a simple guy, whose grandfather dies and says in his testament, that the boy has to go to the same private school his mother (who also died some time ago) went to. Problem? It’s an only girl’s school! So he has to masquerade as a girl. And he's pretty good at it, but girls start falling for his 'female' self! lool. It’s just so fun and cute, beautiful characters!
21. Princess Tutu (This one gains two awards! One for the extraordinary musical and dance scenes and one, for best pairing: Fakir/Ahiru -How can you not a love such an angsty, assertive boy (A knight and a writer. That's LOVE!), and who wouldn’t like, anger management paired with a clumsy and naive DUCK, even if she becomes a girl, she's still truly a duck. They rock my world.)
22. Gankutsuou: Count of Monte Cristo (Its cool! But it’s a completely different story from the books! Pity! Passed in a future scenario! With great characters and amazingly drawings in the cartoons, they could really have done much more… Really creepy ending!)
23. Trigun (Okay, let's get this straight. Vash is God. Really. Just watch the series, dammit! He's the ideal hero and we love him for it!) and Cowboy Bepbop (don't know why one anime just remainds me of the other).
24. Shaman King (Thought I would hate this since I’m not a big fan of English dub series. Instead, I LOVED IT! Really original and funny!)
25. Angel Sanctuary (It’s pretty good. But very small, and it doesn’t end. Also, it’s very sad. But it has great characters and the drawings are pretty neat. Besides I LOVE the manga!)
26. Tactics ( In a way, it was a big disappointment… it had such a great idea for a story but they start to go mysterious and it gets confusing, then by the end It’s just sad, but it’s still worth it , ‘cause of the beautiful characters and sweet yaio scenes.)
27. Full Moon O Sagashite (I love the musical scenes... i love japonese music!!!lol... also the story is very good, deep and emotional, yet simple and really sweet!) and on the subject of music: Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch (Beautiful voices!!! This is about a girl who is a mermaid and her trying to tell the guy she is in love with that she is one. If she goes out and says she is one, then she will turn into bubbles. It is also about her and her friends fighting other evil creatures with music! There are 52 episodes.)
28.xxxHOLiC (charismatic to say the least…)
29. Inuyasha (Hey, everyone else is watching it, and I can see why! both English and Japanese!)
30. Bleach (It's just Bleach. What's not to love, except for maybe the English dub? Basically, every character on that serie is awesome) .
31. Strawberry Panic (Girls, girls, girls! And the cutest outfits!)And more girls! High School Girls (Damn! This is so hentai, but without the sex! But it’s cute and fun in a perverted sort of way. Either way it’s worth watching ‘cause it’s so damn funny, it can make pervert, look funny and that’s a talent!)
THE LIST OF BEST ANIME EVER!
ANIMES I FINISHED (In order of Enjoyment)
1. Death Note (I thought this would be boring. The HELL it ain't! If you want a real show, look no further! It's violent, psychotic, full of mind games and has the deepest, sadistic, hottest badboy since Sephiroth, named Light! He just rocks my world. And there's just something about L to love and admire!)
1. Death Note (I thought this would be boring. The HELL it ain't! If you want a real show, look no further! It's violent, psychotic, full of mind games and has the deepest, sadistic, hottest badboy since Sephiroth, named Light! He just rocks my world. And there's just something about L to love and admire!)
2. Chrono’s Crusade (WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO DIE?!)
A.N: This anime is in 2º place, because it was one of the first great anime series I saw on TV, 'sic radica'l. And Kaleido Star (I know this anime has absolutely nothing to do with “Chrono’s Crusade”, but it’s also an anime that I saw on TV, on 'canal panda' and helped getting me addicted in anime!) Urusei Yatsura! (It doesn’t have to do with anything! But it’s amazing! Really I can’t describe it, so I will just say it’s so damn FUNNY!)
3. Ouran High School Host Club (FUNIEST SERIE EVER!!! and I want a new season! THIS is my absolute favourite shoujo series of all time! Seriously, see it. You WON'T regret it!)
Second place on romantic animes goes to… Saiunkoku Monogatari (Tale of Saiunkoku is a Beautiful History Novel; Saiunkoku is an astonishing Main Character and so is the Emperor, and it’s just such a sweet, rewarding story!)…
Third place goes to: Skip Beat! (AMAZING! Fun, fun, fun! Striking love triangle and the secondary characters really make the story perfect, can’t wait for the second season. The manga is the best!)
Then at last, we have Fruits Basket (With cute characters, great references to Chinese mythology, and I never get the ending. It’s so emotional!!! Sad and at the same time, so sweet! It has one of the most adorable heroines ever! The manga sucks, though…) This anime happens to be an harem type anime, and some people don’t really like this genre, but I love harem types! Because harems always bring out the worst in people. Good stuff.lol.
Harem type is basically an anime where "the main character is a regular guy/girl, normally a rather awkward adolescent, and is surrounded by all kinds of beautiful, cute and funny people, who all, or most of have a crush on him/her" Other fun example is Vandread (This last one is a boy surrounded by women, but the others above are girls, surrounded by beautiful men. Except Skip Beat! That one is just a extraordinary love triangle!)
4. Yakitate! Japan (Come on it’s a serie about bread! And it’s so freaking funny! Lots of references to Japanese culture!) Cooking Master Boy (It’s the best Chinese cooking show EVER! With great references to Chinese history, culture and everyday life, it’s so yummy!!!)
5. The Prince of Tennis (This serie rocks! I cannot get enough of the boys and their moves. And he’s like... really cute! Greatest anime eyes ever! and believe me, in anime eyes, there’s a lot of competition, so this is a though spot to get! A must watch, even if you don’t like tennis you have to LOVE this anime!)
I LOVE SPORTS ANIME! Other very good one is One Outs (about baseball and gambling from the same guy, who made Akagi and Kaiji), and Eyeshield 21 (is about American football, and it’s really, like really great, beautiful character development, from a bullied, small cowardly kid, to a hero in making, with an extraordinary ability, and still extremely awkward, but cute. Then the struggle, the competition, the comedy, not to mention, the fascinating secondary characters and the deep, very deep love for the sport, get this anime in the top list of best sports anime, and really in the list of best animes ever) Initial D (haven’t finished yet, but so far so good- car racing), and obviously Hajime no Hippo (everybody always told me to see this one, but I always delayed it, and even thou I don’t like boxe I actually like this anime quite a lot), also Ginban Kaleidoscope (is about skating but at the same time it’s such a beautiful love story).
6. Hikaru No Go (That serie was great! Love the rivalry! Love Go! It’s so emotional! And it has the second plance on the best anime eyes ever, for Hikaru, Sai and Akira!)
Site to play Go:
www.gokgs.com. Now, SAKI (It’s the same thing as Hikaru no go but with girls instead! And its about mahjong! Which I love!) And Shion no Oh (I REALLY enjoyed this series!!! Such a deep main character and an extremely dramatic story, reminds me of those political stories. Still Hikaru no Go is better because it has many more cute boys, and nothing, NOTHING surpasses cute boys! Either way, I’m getting addicted in Games series!! Excellent and dramatic till the end!!!)
7. Yami No Matsuei (I LOVE IT AND IT WILL MAKE OBSESSED IN YAOI! A MUST WATCH! Pity it’s so small.) Gravitation (must I say it? Its yaoi! And there ain’t anything better than yaoi!) Antique Bakery (oh, well... it's yaoi...AND IT's BEAUTIFUL, can’t get enough of yaio, adore the characters, love the cakes!)
Kirepapa ova 2ep and Okane Ga Nai! Ova 4ep (I LOVE YAIO, yes I do! I love yaoi what about you? I love yaoi not shonen-ai ‘cause that’s just girls chitchat about feelings and blablabla and no action! I mean I got nothing against shonen-ai, it’s very pretty and all but nothing replaces the good old yaoi! and I don’t care if that makes me weird! I don’t force people who don’t like yaoi to watch it! So no one can make me stop liking it and watching it! And this two are lovely!)
8. Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (incredible!!! It reminds me of Dragonball, especially because it’s such a long anime, but in general, it’s an excellent history, quite the “go on” fun anime! Great quotes! The best characters ever! Love Kurama and his other self Youko, he just goes around constantly doing all kinds of stuff that would look totally gay if it was any other character doing it, but with him it really seems so sexy ! Hiei is just plain cute, Koenma and Botan are fun, Yusuke is a sexy bad boy when he wants, and all others are just adorable!)
9. The Law of Ueki (He’s the anti-hero, and I LOVE IT! Good story line. Really amusing moments in every episode.)
10. Full Metal Alchemist (BEST. ANIME. EVER! But it has way too much drama! Either way it’s amazing! The idea, the story, the drawings and most of all the extraordinary characters! Honestly beautiful, just beautiful!)
11. Detective Academy Q (This was the first online anime for me! I searched and watched it on veoh! It’s the best detective story ever! Personally I’m not a fan of Conan, so this anime does the TOP of detective stories in anime, for me!)
12. Akagi and Kaiji (I put this two different series together, ‘cause I watched them at about the same time and because their style of drawning it’s praticaly the same. Also they are both basically about gambling, which I love! Akagi its better, because the main character is so cool, but kaiji has more games, so they tie in awsomeness!)
13. Kyou Kara maou (It’s great, and I have no idea why! It’s just a watch and see the cuteness yourself, kind of serie. And in order to understand, you have to acknowledge the deeply intricate Japanese culture, or else you won’t get it. It has a hot tempered bishonen and lots of mild yaoi references. The main character the Maou, it’s the sweetest king ever!)
14. Hellsing (just because), Vampire Knight (One word: vampires. You can't go wrong... and I love the art! Vampires rule and sexy-badass-possibly-evil-vampires are even better! “Oh mighty Creature of the Night Kaname Senpai… suck my blood! Onegai!”) Black Blood Brothers and Trinity Blood (Both have such awesome stories, it puts together all tales of vampires but at the same time it has some logic. Great characters! Love all the biting scenes! Love the end in BBB! They should make a second season, this one is too short! TB is soo complex! But I love it! Also love the costumes in TB!) Also Karin, Chibi Vampire (Vampires again. Damn, they sure pop up everywhere in anime/manga, eh? Karin's just cute, and an actually believable heroine. VERY comic storyline.)
15. Saint Seiya or Knights of the Zodiac (Now, I used to watch this serie with my older brother in the mornings before school and it was one of the only things we enjoyed doing together, so I’m partial to this anime… but the drawing is pretty good, and the story is solid and interesting, very mythological and there are a lot of tournaments and fights, like in dragon ball, but in the end the characters are very beautiful even if with a little too much angst. It’s a pretty good anime!)
16. Higurashi No Naku goooooood! I love psychological, supernatural thrillers.
In this section also:
Umineko no Naku Koro ni by the same author, also Monster. 17. Puchi Puri Yuushi (magical girls and a princess story, but at the same time such a beautiful love story, and very funny and original story idea) Shugo Shara (magical people yes! But it gets second spot ’cause of it’s amazing main character!) Fairy Musketeers (a Fairy Tale world, magic, cute and interestingly problematic characters, the great colours all around, and the beautiful story line, make this a serie worth watching!) Card Captor Sakura, Doremi and Fancy Lala (GO GO MAGICAL GIRLS!!!) And Tokyo Mew Mew Power (Cutesy. VERY cutesy. Sometimes not in a good way... Only thing that kept me watching was the occasional funny line. And it's so colourful! Green, yellow, Pink and blue and shiny! Yes, I know shiny it's not a colour...lol)
18. D N Angel (Too small. But, Dark is awesome. What more must I say? It's a... interesting story; to say the least... I love thieves and with angel wings it’s even better!)
19. Yu gi oh (no offense to all the Yu-Gi-Oh fanatics out there, but... this looks like just another Saturday morning cartoon! in terms of art, of course! I've seen the entire serie, the several seasons, and it’s a good story, but it’s just sad to see how some people actually think this is a really good japanese anime… oh well, I suppose it is kindda entertaining. Besides when I watched it I was very, very young, and I got the card game, so it’s in a good position on my Anime Top.lol. What I think is the best about this anime is The Abriged Series by LittleKureboh!!! I love to mock this anime because I remember when I was completely addicted to it! LOL. I also like yu gi oh GX! I know everybody hates it, but I think it’s really funny and it has some awesome quotes! Yes, it has no plot whatsoever, but once again I didn’t saw it because of the story, I saw it because it was funny and I was bored!!! I never thought it was going to have a plot anyway, come on let’s be honest the original yu gi oh didn’t have a plot either, it had something that resembled a story, but in fact was just some crazy ideas and historic references glued together with a piece of gun!) A/N: Everytime I see this series I remenber the other serie I was whatching everySaturday morning, right after this one: Beyblade. Ah, good old days!
20. Princess Princess (sweet, sweet… come on! The entire serie is boys dressed as girls! What’s not to love! Just adorable.) And Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru I think the name of the serie just sums everything up... 'HELP! Maidens are falling for me!' It's about a simple guy, whose grandfather dies and says in his testament, that the boy has to go to the same private school his mother (who also died some time ago) went to. Problem? It’s an only girl’s school! So he has to masquerade as a girl. And he's pretty good at it, but girls start falling for his 'female' self! lool. It’s just so fun and cute, beautiful characters!
21. Princess Tutu (This one gains two awards! One for the extraordinary musical and dance scenes and one, for best pairing: Fakir/Ahiru -How can you not a love such an angsty, assertive boy (A knight and a writer. That's LOVE!), and who wouldn’t like, anger management paired with a clumsy and naive DUCK, even if she becomes a girl, she's still truly a duck. They rock my world.)
22. Gankutsuou: Count of Monte Cristo (Its cool! But it’s a completely different story from the books! Pity! Passed in a future scenario! With great characters and amazingly drawings in the cartoons, they could really have done much more… Really creepy ending!)
23. Trigun (Okay, let's get this straight. Vash is God. Really. Just watch the series, dammit! He's the ideal hero and we love him for it!) and Cowboy Bepbop (don't know why one anime just remainds me of the other).
24. Shaman King (Thought I would hate this since I’m not a big fan of English dub series. Instead, I LOVED IT! Really original and funny!)
25. Angel Sanctuary (It’s pretty good. But very small, and it doesn’t end. Also, it’s very sad. But it has great characters and the drawings are pretty neat. Besides I LOVE the manga!)
26. Tactics ( In a way, it was a big disappointment… it had such a great idea for a story but they start to go mysterious and it gets confusing, then by the end It’s just sad, but it’s still worth it , ‘cause of the beautiful characters and sweet yaio scenes.)
27. Full Moon O Sagashite (I love the musical scenes... i love japonese music!!!lol... also the story is very good, deep and emotional, yet simple and really sweet!) and on the subject of music: Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch (Beautiful voices!!! This is about a girl who is a mermaid and her trying to tell the guy she is in love with that she is one. If she goes out and says she is one, then she will turn into bubbles. It is also about her and her friends fighting other evil creatures with music! There are 52 episodes.)
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29. Inuyasha (Hey, everyone else is watching it, and I can see why! both English and Japanese!)
30. Bleach (It's just Bleach. What's not to love, except for maybe the English dub? Basically, every character on that serie is awesome) .
31. Strawberry Panic (Girls, girls, girls! And the cutest outfits!)And more girls! High School Girls (Damn! This is so hentai, but without the sex! But it’s cute and fun in a perverted sort of way. Either way it’s worth watching ‘cause it’s so damn funny, it can make pervert, look funny and that’s a talent!)
32. Author's Note: this List is in constant growt, for obvious reasons...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Burns of Yet Another Year...
So... here it comes another year in university.
Well, honestly I thought it was going to be easier this time around, and guess what?
It isn't! It HARDER! so much harder, because its everything you messed up in the first year, yet again! worse! because its all of it over and over again, but with the knowledge that you should be better, that you should know better!
Well, honestly I thought it was going to be easier this time around, and guess what?
It isn't! It HARDER! so much harder, because its everything you messed up in the first year, yet again! worse! because its all of it over and over again, but with the knowledge that you should be better, that you should know better!
Its like you're a failure right from the start.
I'd kinda felt that way last year to because I was a second stage student so I entered in the middle of the semester.
I'd kinda felt that way last year to because I was a second stage student so I entered in the middle of the semester.
It was bad to try to choose the disciplines in a hurry and already have a couples of classes I couldn't take 'cause they were full, the worse part was the confusion, the feeling that I was doing it all on top of my knee, without really pondering my choices, and these were choices that really had a very important role in my academic life, come on!
These were the disciplines, the classes I was going to attend for an entire year, these were the professors which I had one year to learn all this stuff from!
And it was bad cause I felt like I wasn't caring enough about those choices, and since they would have great influence on my future, it was like I wasn't caring enough about my future...
And I care! I care, I am really concern, I'm in university to learn, not just to pass the year and get a degree.
So I felt really bad, but not as bad as the stigma that some of my teachers and even classmates passed, like for some reason just because a I entered in the middle of the semester I don't have as much right to be there as they do!
Well, screw them 'cause I so am! besides I only entered in the middle because I entered with my second stage exam results! even more, I only entered with those because I decided to try for an exam that wasn't even in my curriculum, and I just had such a great grade that I decided to enter University with that grade.
It just felt like the right thing to do at the time, and in the end it was. Still this is all in the past, I got over all this crap, all the pressure from my parents, my peers, my professors, well everyone really, but I prevailed and against the odds, succeed.
And arrived to the second year.
And its all the trouble I had the first time, yet again! God, its like a bad movie sequel!
And its all the trouble I had the first time, yet again! God, its like a bad movie sequel!
AT UNIVERSITY PART II -or- THE WAYS UNIVERSITY FINDS TO SCREW WITH YOU! PART II. yeah, that's a good one!
Oh well, let me try to explain how this 'screw-with-the-students-mind' thing works: personally I think its all the bureaucracy, where the big problem starts.
First, a committed student just came out of vacations in Spain, with its parents (not my case, but it could be... if i was rich, which I'm not so i just had to spend my vacations here at old 'home sweet home' we're in crisis you know?) but either way, the student comes back from his or hers vacation time with plenty of time before the star of the scholar year, which only starts almost in the end of September.
Oh well, let me try to explain how this 'screw-with-the-students-mind' thing works: personally I think its all the bureaucracy, where the big problem starts.
First, a committed student just came out of vacations in Spain, with its parents (not my case, but it could be... if i was rich, which I'm not so i just had to spend my vacations here at old 'home sweet home' we're in crisis you know?) but either way, the student comes back from his or hers vacation time with plenty of time before the star of the scholar year, which only starts almost in the end of September.
But since this student is so committed to his or her studies he/she goes immediately on-line to check what are the dates to mark his/her classes, and until when he/she has to pay the entry fees.
And what happens? the entry fees have to be payed until something like 10 of August? what the fuck? you just think its a mistake of some sort 'cause it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever... but its not, its just the way it is! its university bureaucracy, it doesn't have to make sense, actually I think that's how they choose their rules and schedules and time-lines for payments and even the dates from the beginning, vacation times and ending of classes, they chose the ones who make the least sense!
Oh i can just imagine it! All the politicians and the bureaucrats and all the other people involved in this processes, just bundled up together in a tiny, tiny room with lots and lots of paper work, (because these kinds of people just love paper work!) discussing it:
"-So when shall we start the scholar year, this year?" say the professors, or the syndicates leaders that represent them.
"-Well i kind of have plans for August, i must be running my side business as a owner of a chain of hotels in Algarve, and August is such a great time for tourism, you know?-" says one of the politicians.
"-Okay then how about we start in September?"
"- Oh no September is a aw full time!-" say the bureaucrats"- That seems like a good time!people will be expecting it! It makes sense! and god forbid us from making decisions that actually make sense!"
But let's get back to business, as if all this wasn't enough, when the poor student goes to the university to see what he/she can do to fix this, he/she has to wait in a line for hours until he has wasted almost a day, only to be told that all the information on how to make the payments of the fees, can be found on-line, and thats actually the only way to do it, but to not be concerned because he/she is like the 40º person to come and ask about exactly the same thing!
And last year was the same thing!
Oh come on! this is ridicolous! last year it didn't work, this year aparently its not working either and this has been going on for ages!
Why am I not surprised about it?
Do these people even think?!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Life of a University Student Burns!
It most certainly does!
Have you ever noticed that the word DYING is in the end of the word STUDYING?
I wake up at 7 a.m everyday... but somehow I always seem to be running late...
Then comes class nº1, and class nº2 and 3 and so on... and it never stops...
I mean, it stops for lunch... and I kind of wish it didn't 'cause school food is God's way of punishing us poor students!!!
Then, there's all the people you know in there, and you can say what you want but its humanly impossible to remember all the names, dates, occasions, obscure references to other, equally unknown or unrelated people... by the end of the day I, sometimes wonder if I haven't somehow exchanged places with some other person, if maybe I’m living someone else’s life... talking to this other person's friends, doing their homework, assisting to their classes, studying for their exams, eating their food, carrying their bag and books...
I understand that that is how you are suppose to feel during your first year in University... that you aren't suppose to know where all the classes are, or even your schedule really... but its really stupid, and hard to accept is it not?
You spend all the time from 5ºgrade to 9ºgrade trying to learn as much as you can, because you think that that's the way to understand school, and what is to be a student, then you get to 9ºgrade and you think: "Finally I’ve got it..." you breath in relief, and picture the years ahead. Years of peace, quiet and security... you poor dreamer! You have no idea that as soon as you reach 10 º grade, (normally in a completely different school), it all starts again, everything shifts and changes, the priorities are all rearranged, and you must redefine your notions of studying and what means to be a student.
You think that now that you are older you can learn the "Ways of the Land" much sooner; well that's a common mistake, my friend! Because, you see, the "Ways of the Land" have too grown, and became much more complicated... then, it's 12ºgrade and you think you finally got the hang of it all again... You say to your buttons: "I'm now a student, and I can achieve whatever grades and assemble as much knowledge as I want (yeah, right!) So even though, I don't have to, I’m going to make my parents proud and continue with my everlasting search for knowledge, this time in University! The Land of Freedom! The Land of the Brave! Where all is Honey and Milk! I mean. How hard can it be, right?" Now, is that a rhetorical question?!!
As soon as you get to University... Playtime is over!
University is the standing proof, that God has a sense of humour!
And everyday I go there, I’m reminded, that teachers often don't...
Have you ever noticed that the word DYING is in the end of the word STUDYING?
I wake up at 7 a.m everyday... but somehow I always seem to be running late...
Then comes class nº1, and class nº2 and 3 and so on... and it never stops...
I mean, it stops for lunch... and I kind of wish it didn't 'cause school food is God's way of punishing us poor students!!!
Then, there's all the people you know in there, and you can say what you want but its humanly impossible to remember all the names, dates, occasions, obscure references to other, equally unknown or unrelated people... by the end of the day I, sometimes wonder if I haven't somehow exchanged places with some other person, if maybe I’m living someone else’s life... talking to this other person's friends, doing their homework, assisting to their classes, studying for their exams, eating their food, carrying their bag and books...
I understand that that is how you are suppose to feel during your first year in University... that you aren't suppose to know where all the classes are, or even your schedule really... but its really stupid, and hard to accept is it not?
You spend all the time from 5ºgrade to 9ºgrade trying to learn as much as you can, because you think that that's the way to understand school, and what is to be a student, then you get to 9ºgrade and you think: "Finally I’ve got it..." you breath in relief, and picture the years ahead. Years of peace, quiet and security... you poor dreamer! You have no idea that as soon as you reach 10 º grade, (normally in a completely different school), it all starts again, everything shifts and changes, the priorities are all rearranged, and you must redefine your notions of studying and what means to be a student.
You think that now that you are older you can learn the "Ways of the Land" much sooner; well that's a common mistake, my friend! Because, you see, the "Ways of the Land" have too grown, and became much more complicated... then, it's 12ºgrade and you think you finally got the hang of it all again... You say to your buttons: "I'm now a student, and I can achieve whatever grades and assemble as much knowledge as I want (yeah, right!) So even though, I don't have to, I’m going to make my parents proud and continue with my everlasting search for knowledge, this time in University! The Land of Freedom! The Land of the Brave! Where all is Honey and Milk! I mean. How hard can it be, right?" Now, is that a rhetorical question?!!
As soon as you get to University... Playtime is over!
University is the standing proof, that God has a sense of humour!
And everyday I go there, I’m reminded, that teachers often don't...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Memory Burn!
I got a sudden memory burn!
When I was in fifth grade, there was a cartoon on TV, that I whatched every single morning!
With the years, I forgot almost everything about it, even the name of the catoon.
There was one thing I never forgot about this cartoon: the Music.
The Opening song. Beautiful!
Me and my best friend used to sing this all the time! We were addicted to it! And we both still sing the portuguese version, all the time.
I can't find the portuguese version anywhere, except in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvgrVcanOMc
for the portuguese version.
Well, my best friend found the original japanese version today!
The cartoon is called MARMALADE BOY.
This is a romantic cartoon. About a girl, whose parents are going to divorse and remarry. She falls enlove with her new stepbrother.
The lyrics of the original opening song, "Egao ni aitai"
("I want to see your smile") reflect the philosophy of Marmalade Boy: in fact it isn't a proper love song, but they are more the thoughts of a happy-go-lucky teen-ager in love.
The original version lyrics are completly different from the portuguese version, but they're pretty cool too(the portuguese is far, far better).
Either way, here's the song, translated to english from the original japanese.
You can listen, over there, on the immen thingy.--------------->
"Egao ni Aitai" (I want to see his smile)
First opening song
Translation by Richard Uyeyama
Dakedo ki ni naru,kino: yori mo zutto...
Togireta yume...
futari no tsuzuki ga shiritai!
That's what I've been thinking of...
This morning, more so than before...
An interrupted dream...
I want to know how it ends for... for him and me!
Ah, kami-sama... jikan o... tomete yo.
Kyo:kasho... seifuku... mada kami, kawakana...i.
Ah, tasukete... [ribbon] ga kimaranai...
Aitsu no yume mita sei... yo.
Ah, God if you please... could you stop time?
Stop it for me...
Can't find my books... school uniform... why can't my hair, dry out more quick...ly.
Ah, someone help me... my ribbon won't seem to go on right...
All because of... that dream of him from last... night.
Koge-kake no [toast] kajittara...
Naze ka fui ni... mune ga tokimeita...
Amakute nigai... [marmalade].
Halfway rushing,
I bite into my half-burnt piece of toast...
And then suddenly... my heart gets to beating real fast...
Sweet... and yet bitter too... marmalade.
* Dakara ki ni naru...
Konna kimochi wa naze?
Ima ichiban...aitsu no egao ni aitai! *
* That's why I've been thinking of...
Oh, why are my feelings this way?
All I know is, for now...what I want most, is to see his... his smiling face! *
(end of TV-size version)
Ah, sono mama... shingo:, tomete yo.
Ira ira... hito-gomi... [zigzag]... kakedasu... no.
Ah, konna ni, iki (kokyu:) ga hazundetara...aitsu ga... unuboreso:... yo.
Ah, signal, oh please... could you stop there?
Stop there on green...
Fretting, I try... too dense a crowd... zigzagging...
I run to catch... him.
Ah, what can I do?
Now I'm panting, breathless, cannot speak...
If he sees this, then he'll just make fun of... me.
[Window] de mae-gami naoshitara...mune ippai... hirogatteiku no...
Suki janai no ni... [marmalade].
Stopping in front of a window,
I try to fix my hair...
And then suddenly... my heart opens up to the world...
I don't think I even like... marmalade.
Dakedo ki ni naru,kino: yori mo zutto...
Ima dare yori...
aitsu to egao de aitai!
That's what I've been thinking of...
This morning, more so than before...
All I know is, for sure...he's the one I want to see now, smile on my face!
Sukoshi-zutsu otona ni naru no ka na?
Naze ka fui ni... mune ga atsuku naru...
Suki ni natteku... [marmalade].
Do we become grown-up only a little at a time?
And now suddenly... my heart starts to warm up inside...
Bit by bit, I begin to like... marmalade.
Repeat *
When I was in fifth grade, there was a cartoon on TV, that I whatched every single morning!
With the years, I forgot almost everything about it, even the name of the catoon.
There was one thing I never forgot about this cartoon: the Music.
The Opening song. Beautiful!
Me and my best friend used to sing this all the time! We were addicted to it! And we both still sing the portuguese version, all the time.
I can't find the portuguese version anywhere, except in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvgrVcanOMc
for the portuguese version.
Well, my best friend found the original japanese version today!
The cartoon is called MARMALADE BOY.
This is a romantic cartoon. About a girl, whose parents are going to divorse and remarry. She falls enlove with her new stepbrother.
The lyrics of the original opening song, "Egao ni aitai"
("I want to see your smile") reflect the philosophy of Marmalade Boy: in fact it isn't a proper love song, but they are more the thoughts of a happy-go-lucky teen-ager in love.
The original version lyrics are completly different from the portuguese version, but they're pretty cool too(the portuguese is far, far better).
Either way, here's the song, translated to english from the original japanese.
You can listen, over there, on the immen thingy.--------------->
"Egao ni Aitai" (I want to see his smile)
First opening song
Translation by Richard Uyeyama
Dakedo ki ni naru,kino: yori mo zutto...
Togireta yume...
futari no tsuzuki ga shiritai!
That's what I've been thinking of...
This morning, more so than before...
An interrupted dream...
I want to know how it ends for... for him and me!
Ah, kami-sama... jikan o... tomete yo.
Kyo:kasho... seifuku... mada kami, kawakana...i.
Ah, tasukete... [ribbon] ga kimaranai...
Aitsu no yume mita sei... yo.
Ah, God if you please... could you stop time?
Stop it for me...
Can't find my books... school uniform... why can't my hair, dry out more quick...ly.
Ah, someone help me... my ribbon won't seem to go on right...
All because of... that dream of him from last... night.
Koge-kake no [toast] kajittara...
Naze ka fui ni... mune ga tokimeita...
Amakute nigai... [marmalade].
Halfway rushing,
I bite into my half-burnt piece of toast...
And then suddenly... my heart gets to beating real fast...
Sweet... and yet bitter too... marmalade.
* Dakara ki ni naru...
Konna kimochi wa naze?
Ima ichiban...aitsu no egao ni aitai! *
* That's why I've been thinking of...
Oh, why are my feelings this way?
All I know is, for now...what I want most, is to see his... his smiling face! *
(end of TV-size version)
Ah, sono mama... shingo:, tomete yo.
Ira ira... hito-gomi... [zigzag]... kakedasu... no.
Ah, konna ni, iki (kokyu:) ga hazundetara...aitsu ga... unuboreso:... yo.
Ah, signal, oh please... could you stop there?
Stop there on green...
Fretting, I try... too dense a crowd... zigzagging...
I run to catch... him.
Ah, what can I do?
Now I'm panting, breathless, cannot speak...
If he sees this, then he'll just make fun of... me.
[Window] de mae-gami naoshitara...mune ippai... hirogatteiku no...
Suki janai no ni... [marmalade].
Stopping in front of a window,
I try to fix my hair...
And then suddenly... my heart opens up to the world...
I don't think I even like... marmalade.
Dakedo ki ni naru,kino: yori mo zutto...
Ima dare yori...
aitsu to egao de aitai!
That's what I've been thinking of...
This morning, more so than before...
All I know is, for sure...he's the one I want to see now, smile on my face!
Sukoshi-zutsu otona ni naru no ka na?
Naze ka fui ni... mune ga atsuku naru...
Suki ni natteku... [marmalade].
Do we become grown-up only a little at a time?
And now suddenly... my heart starts to warm up inside...
Bit by bit, I begin to like... marmalade.
Repeat *
Is My Life Just Burning Away?
Before reading: I do realize that this seems like I'm overly defending myself and that I am, therefore guilty. But really, I'm just getting my point across.
Agree or disagree, I don't mind.
Well, apparently I'm wasting my life away because I've don't go to school to see what I want to do for the rest of my short life. And I'm not working full time. And I'm living with my mother. And I don't drive. And I don't pay any bills. And I have no direction (not exactly true). And I have no clue what I want to do with myself (sort of true). And I have no dreams (Not true).
And, oh, did I mention that I'm only 18, 19 in September?
Yes, I'm far too old to be having any kind of fun before I turn what? 20? far too old to be living the fun life (like my life is that funny).
Did you know that there are people out there that are about 35 and do what I do every day? They sit on their ass, to go to work or school, on the bus, or they walk there. They sleep trought almost the all day, on the weekends, then they babysit their brothers, whenever they're asked?
But of course, I must be a loser because I'm 18 and I'm okay with it.
I'm not in this big hurry to chance anything in my life, I'm actually happy, right now.
And the only thing I really want , right now, is not to mess my new found happyness.
Is that wrong?
It makes it sound like I'm lazy, when in all reality, I'm not.
I didn't think being 18 would mean that I had to grow up and be 30.
Yes, there are people my age that do go to school because they are actually studying for their future carreer, that do drive or are at least interested in getting their driver's license, that do work full time, that do live on their own.
But I'm not them, and I'm not throwing anything away.
The way I see it, as long as I have plans and that I do plan to follow through, and keep living my life, it's not hurting anybody if I just enjoy life and not worry senseless about everything.
And what if I live a semi fun life for just a couple more years?
Yeah, I bet there are some people out there reading this and saying to themselves "Sara, get off your ass and do something."
But I don't see why being 18 has to be this really life changing age. That I have to get this thing, that I have to work or prepare for my future carrer.
I mean it could be far worse, right?
Like, I could be pregnant and addicted to drugs. Which, I am not.
At least, the only person I have to support is myself.
I say I'm doing alright for my age, even if it's not the best I could do.
I'll get there.
Just let me breathe.
Agree or disagree, I don't mind.
Well, apparently I'm wasting my life away because I've don't go to school to see what I want to do for the rest of my short life. And I'm not working full time. And I'm living with my mother. And I don't drive. And I don't pay any bills. And I have no direction (not exactly true). And I have no clue what I want to do with myself (sort of true). And I have no dreams (Not true).
And, oh, did I mention that I'm only 18, 19 in September?
Yes, I'm far too old to be having any kind of fun before I turn what? 20? far too old to be living the fun life (like my life is that funny).
Did you know that there are people out there that are about 35 and do what I do every day? They sit on their ass, to go to work or school, on the bus, or they walk there. They sleep trought almost the all day, on the weekends, then they babysit their brothers, whenever they're asked?
But of course, I must be a loser because I'm 18 and I'm okay with it.
I'm not in this big hurry to chance anything in my life, I'm actually happy, right now.
And the only thing I really want , right now, is not to mess my new found happyness.
Is that wrong?
It makes it sound like I'm lazy, when in all reality, I'm not.
I didn't think being 18 would mean that I had to grow up and be 30.
Yes, there are people my age that do go to school because they are actually studying for their future carreer, that do drive or are at least interested in getting their driver's license, that do work full time, that do live on their own.
But I'm not them, and I'm not throwing anything away.
The way I see it, as long as I have plans and that I do plan to follow through, and keep living my life, it's not hurting anybody if I just enjoy life and not worry senseless about everything.
And what if I live a semi fun life for just a couple more years?
Yeah, I bet there are some people out there reading this and saying to themselves "Sara, get off your ass and do something."
But I don't see why being 18 has to be this really life changing age. That I have to get this thing, that I have to work or prepare for my future carrer.
I mean it could be far worse, right?
Like, I could be pregnant and addicted to drugs. Which, I am not.
At least, the only person I have to support is myself.
I say I'm doing alright for my age, even if it's not the best I could do.
I'll get there.
Just let me breathe.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The Flames of the Desert
Today, about two hours ago, my mother finally arrived from her trip to Petra, in Jordan.
She has been showing us the pictures nonstop for the past two hours :')
It's pretty. She got lots of marriage proposals and complemented the market in Turkey.
She bought lots of presents and rocks.
Yes, rocks... don't ask me why, but the woman likes rocks.
She probably has a rock from everywhere she has ever been. We have a plantation of stones in the house.
she also bought sand from the Wadirun Desert, herbs from somewhere, lotion from the Dead Sea, water from the River Jordan, clothes from the market in Istanbul, jewelery from a place in Petra and a magic lamp from some weird place, 'cause "its not magical if you know from where it comes from"...
She began her trip, by going to Jordan, about six hours in the air, with the time difference eight.
She almost expired from boredom.
Once she arrived and passed trough all that airport security, she was confronted with the hard reality of traveling to foreign places: everybody speaks English.
Actually not every body speaks English, but everybody speaks their own different language and the closer you get to a common language is with English. And then you get the weir accents.
She was six days in Jordan, and visit several great places, like the temple of Petra, remember Indiana Jones?
Tons and tons of steps to get to the top, since that temple is built in the inside of the mountain.
She told me she climbed 800 steps and that it was pretty high. So no people with fear of highs or vertigo.
About the steps, my mother said: "in the world, there are trials by fire, trials by water and trials by steps. "
She stayed in some pretty nice hotels and ate weird food. She also rode a donkie.
Then to continue her journey she caught a airplane to Istanbul about four hours, with the time difference six.
In Istanbul the real shopping began.
She says they give you tea in the shops while trying to sell you stuff. Every house looks pretty much the same and there's a lot of poverty.
And dust. Lots and lots of dust.
Once again more weird, typical food. Like McDonald's in Istanbul, its cheaper there.
All sorts of bugs and different animals.
In the streets, she almost got run over by a truck.
She brought lots of earrings and bracelets, a notebook where you write from the back to the front, lots of clothes and scarves and airplane Turkey nuts.
When I'm big enough (and have enough money...) I too, will travel a lot, to all sorts of foreign places, although Turkey is not on my list. I'm more of a classical tourist. I intend to travel to England and Rome, and Florence, and Venice before it sinks. Then the USA, to get some of my favorite books sign, byKenyon. Then to Japan, probably to buy some decent manga. France for some shopping and German, 'cause I like the way they speak.
That's it folks!
Travel away!
She has been showing us the pictures nonstop for the past two hours :')
It's pretty. She got lots of marriage proposals and complemented the market in Turkey.
She bought lots of presents and rocks.
Yes, rocks... don't ask me why, but the woman likes rocks.
She probably has a rock from everywhere she has ever been. We have a plantation of stones in the house.
she also bought sand from the Wadirun Desert, herbs from somewhere, lotion from the Dead Sea, water from the River Jordan, clothes from the market in Istanbul, jewelery from a place in Petra and a magic lamp from some weird place, 'cause "its not magical if you know from where it comes from"...
She began her trip, by going to Jordan, about six hours in the air, with the time difference eight.
She almost expired from boredom.
Once she arrived and passed trough all that airport security, she was confronted with the hard reality of traveling to foreign places: everybody speaks English.
Actually not every body speaks English, but everybody speaks their own different language and the closer you get to a common language is with English. And then you get the weir accents.
She was six days in Jordan, and visit several great places, like the temple of Petra, remember Indiana Jones?
Tons and tons of steps to get to the top, since that temple is built in the inside of the mountain.
She told me she climbed 800 steps and that it was pretty high. So no people with fear of highs or vertigo.
About the steps, my mother said: "in the world, there are trials by fire, trials by water and trials by steps. "
She stayed in some pretty nice hotels and ate weird food. She also rode a donkie.
Then to continue her journey she caught a airplane to Istanbul about four hours, with the time difference six.
In Istanbul the real shopping began.
She says they give you tea in the shops while trying to sell you stuff. Every house looks pretty much the same and there's a lot of poverty.
And dust. Lots and lots of dust.
Once again more weird, typical food. Like McDonald's in Istanbul, its cheaper there.
All sorts of bugs and different animals.
In the streets, she almost got run over by a truck.
She brought lots of earrings and bracelets, a notebook where you write from the back to the front, lots of clothes and scarves and airplane Turkey nuts.
When I'm big enough (and have enough money...) I too, will travel a lot, to all sorts of foreign places, although Turkey is not on my list. I'm more of a classical tourist. I intend to travel to England and Rome, and Florence, and Venice before it sinks. Then the USA, to get some of my favorite books sign, byKenyon. Then to Japan, probably to buy some decent manga. France for some shopping and German, 'cause I like the way they speak.
That's it folks!
Travel away!
Monday, January 26, 2009
About what's literature, and what's not...
Today my classes for this semester have finally ended!
Vacations! Hurray! I get to sleep late, eat a lot and do nothing but write, read, and watch anime!
I love life!
Ok, after this little burst of joy over the beginning of my vacations, let's now capitulate about today.
Today I did my Oriented Literatures' exam.
Not that difficult actually, and although I don't understand squad of what the man says in class, and always find myself with a terrible need to doze off or just fall asleep, I really understood the exam's question. Yes, it was just one question, it had a text that told a small story, and then asked about the difference between the story being on the real or the literary plan.
Now, here is where the problem begins...
I answered exactly as the professor wanted, of course, this is an exam after all, but I don't really agree.
Let me try to explain, you see, according to some guy name Sartre and another guy named Saussure, (and some others, I believe) just describing events is not considered literature.
The every day life of someone is merely documentary and has no interest to us, is of no consequence to that which we call literature.
That it's only fiction works that have the depth necessary to be proclaimed literature, and although I'm sure they have their reasons to say so, I don't agree... you see, I'm an avid reader of fanfiction, mind you, I don't read everything and I definitely don't like everything I read.
But I always try to keep an open mind and I only have one rule: It has to be well written.
The emotions have to pass trough to the reader... me.
And don't think I don't really care about what are the emotions!
Oh, hell no! as an example I'm not a big fan of angst or big drama in fanfiction, (or in anything I read for that matter) but even the other day, I read a piece so well written that it brought tears to my eyes, there was a depth to it, that could not possibly be achieved if there was a 'Walt Disney fairytale' ending to the story.
I believe all writing, should be considered literature, after all, you cannot achieve perfection without practice, and everything you write, until you write your masterpiece, should also be considered literature.
I think there should be no restrictions on what is literature, because that ends up putting restrictions, on what you read! whether you want to read good literature or any literature at all.
Truly, I'm of the opinion that to understand what is good literature, you have to read some bad literature first!
I think professors in school should teach not just the Shakespeare (which I'm a fan) or the Saramago (which I'm not), but also just plain, every day writing too!
Maybe I will live to see the day in which a teacher will give his students some good fanfiction to read. And demand they review!
I think it was Neil Gaiman, who said:
"I think that all writing is useful for honing writing skills. I think you get better as a writer by writing, and whether that means that you're writing a singularly deep and moving novel about the pain or pleasure of modern existence or you're writing Smeagol-Gollum slash you're still putting one damn word after another and learning as a writer."
And to that, all I have to say is: Amen.
Vacations! Hurray! I get to sleep late, eat a lot and do nothing but write, read, and watch anime!
I love life!
Ok, after this little burst of joy over the beginning of my vacations, let's now capitulate about today.
Today I did my Oriented Literatures' exam.
Not that difficult actually, and although I don't understand squad of what the man says in class, and always find myself with a terrible need to doze off or just fall asleep, I really understood the exam's question. Yes, it was just one question, it had a text that told a small story, and then asked about the difference between the story being on the real or the literary plan.
Now, here is where the problem begins...
I answered exactly as the professor wanted, of course, this is an exam after all, but I don't really agree.
Let me try to explain, you see, according to some guy name Sartre and another guy named Saussure, (and some others, I believe) just describing events is not considered literature.
The every day life of someone is merely documentary and has no interest to us, is of no consequence to that which we call literature.
That it's only fiction works that have the depth necessary to be proclaimed literature, and although I'm sure they have their reasons to say so, I don't agree... you see, I'm an avid reader of fanfiction, mind you, I don't read everything and I definitely don't like everything I read.
But I always try to keep an open mind and I only have one rule: It has to be well written.
The emotions have to pass trough to the reader... me.
And don't think I don't really care about what are the emotions!
Oh, hell no! as an example I'm not a big fan of angst or big drama in fanfiction, (or in anything I read for that matter) but even the other day, I read a piece so well written that it brought tears to my eyes, there was a depth to it, that could not possibly be achieved if there was a 'Walt Disney fairytale' ending to the story.
I believe all writing, should be considered literature, after all, you cannot achieve perfection without practice, and everything you write, until you write your masterpiece, should also be considered literature.
I think there should be no restrictions on what is literature, because that ends up putting restrictions, on what you read! whether you want to read good literature or any literature at all.
Truly, I'm of the opinion that to understand what is good literature, you have to read some bad literature first!
I think professors in school should teach not just the Shakespeare (which I'm a fan) or the Saramago (which I'm not), but also just plain, every day writing too!
Maybe I will live to see the day in which a teacher will give his students some good fanfiction to read. And demand they review!
I think it was Neil Gaiman, who said:
"I think that all writing is useful for honing writing skills. I think you get better as a writer by writing, and whether that means that you're writing a singularly deep and moving novel about the pain or pleasure of modern existence or you're writing Smeagol-Gollum slash you're still putting one damn word after another and learning as a writer."
And to that, all I have to say is: Amen.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Let The Flames Begin...
I love writing
Yes, I do!
I love writing
What about you?
I decided to make this blog, because I felt a need to post my more personal pieces.
My writing is not always appropriate for a group/class blog, so i felt I should have my own blog.
And here he is!
FUEL4LIFE
My life's work.
A blog dedicated to my writings.
All my writings.
It will be a bit like a diary, I suppose...
And I want reviews, so say what you think, please!
I will give you cookies!
Oh, well...
Let The Flames Begin!
Through The Flames I Write...
Another blank page, staring me in the face.
It smirks, and mocking me, says:
"You have no words. Your thoughts have no place on this page. Why stain my skin with that cliché babble? Why bother in the first place?"
I stare down the empty sheet, doing my best to set fire to it with my gaze.
But the best weapons are not my eyes, but my words.
FIRE
I scrawl it across the page.
FLAMES
I draw across the page.
BURN
I recall a line from somewhere, in another voice, from someone else, in a distant memory.
"It was a pleasure to burn."
I could feel the heat on my face, drawing beads of salty sweat that fell, staining the paper.
Smoke stinging my still-glaring eyes.
"Burn," I murmured, willing it with all my being.
All the energy I possessed sped through my calloused fingertips, through a simple ballpoint pen, and tattooed the page with the words of my desire.
I wondered if my words held the power to burn that paper, as it addressed me distastefully. "Worthless," he hissed. "Shit. Trash. Just garbage. Why try? Why waste the ink?"
But I wouldn't accept that.
I would cast my spell, set this night ablaze with nothing but the force of my words.
There would be a warmth and a light, by my own spirit made.
There would be passion and heat.
I would make them see and feel as I see and feel.
Through these simple words, these unextraordinary letters, I would be God for tonight.
I would start a fire with my writing.
It smirks, and mocking me, says:
"You have no words. Your thoughts have no place on this page. Why stain my skin with that cliché babble? Why bother in the first place?"
I stare down the empty sheet, doing my best to set fire to it with my gaze.
But the best weapons are not my eyes, but my words.
FIRE
I scrawl it across the page.
FLAMES
I draw across the page.
BURN
I recall a line from somewhere, in another voice, from someone else, in a distant memory.
"It was a pleasure to burn."
I could feel the heat on my face, drawing beads of salty sweat that fell, staining the paper.
Smoke stinging my still-glaring eyes.
"Burn," I murmured, willing it with all my being.
All the energy I possessed sped through my calloused fingertips, through a simple ballpoint pen, and tattooed the page with the words of my desire.
I wondered if my words held the power to burn that paper, as it addressed me distastefully. "Worthless," he hissed. "Shit. Trash. Just garbage. Why try? Why waste the ink?"
But I wouldn't accept that.
I would cast my spell, set this night ablaze with nothing but the force of my words.
There would be a warmth and a light, by my own spirit made.
There would be passion and heat.
I would make them see and feel as I see and feel.
Through these simple words, these unextraordinary letters, I would be God for tonight.
I would start a fire with my writing.
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