I took off tomorrow to see what it feels like. It’s great because I can finally spend some time on msn talking to people I haven’t spoken to in a looooong time.

I try my best now, not to bore you with things you have heard before.

Stealing this from Van, who stole it from Becca.

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want — good or bad. When you’re finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

Which of course got me started on looking up some other memes. (I haven’t visited my sources in ages. More on this, after the break! )

Hello world.  I’ve been gone for a while.  I like blogging about my life, and since I’m not really allowed to do that anymore…there’s not really a reason to come here.

So what have I been doing? This and that.

I’ve read a lot of books. Well, more than I have  since sec 4.  On the Road was great, and so was Dharma Bums. I guess I really dig Kerouac. He has a unique style of writing. It’s crazy and confusing at times, but it still electrifies the soul. After On the Road I wanted to hitchhiking into Indochina. After Dharma Bums I wanted to escape to the jungles and live like a hermit.

Milan Kundera’s  The Unbearable Lightness of Being was good too. It’s an exploration of the human condition - as cliché as  that sounds. Definitely an important book to read - provided you have a few days with nothing to do at all. It’s not nearly as good if you don’t have the time to think it through.

As is The God of Small Things. I regret not bothering about Arundhati Roy while I was in English A1. (I’ll stop now because I feel like I’m just dropping names.)0

I’ve been watching movies. Tons of movies. I guess I really like movies. Both the popular predictable stuff and some of the older stuff. Enter the Dragon was a really good movie. It makes CGI fight scenes look lame.  Woody Allen’ Sleeper was great too. The best part of it was how many of the gags reminded me of old silent movies. Very Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin. These guys are still hilarious ,by the way.

The rest of my free time has gone to Dragonball Z and Venture Bros Season 3.

Dragonball amazes me because it is a show that has WHOLE EPISODES dedicated to people drawing lots on who to fight. Apparently, these things are called filler - the original manga artist couldn’t keep up with the series, so producers had to drag out story arcs because the conclusions hadn’t even been written yet. It’s great for people with a lot of time.

And, we definitely have a lot of time. Don’t think I don’t do work though. It’s just that, my whole job involves me finishing my work as fast as possible and hoping that nothing goes wrong. That’s all I can say.

Ironman was a great superhero movie, one of the best so far. I have a good feeling about the movies this year - none of them seem to dissapoint. I mean, I watched No Country for Old Men, There will be Blood , Juno and  Bucket List so far and they all were great. (Well technically, these were last year’s movies, but I only got to see them this year.)

So what am I doing now? Still studying. Using machines. Waiting for my training to end and hoping that I end up in a ridiculously slack place. Don’t think that I’m living a great life though. I’m dangerously close to  ending up in a pretty tough job.

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Argh. I don’t feel as if there’s anything to write when I can write. I’m just flailing wildly now. Ironically, when I CAN’T write,  so many thoughts and idea just stalk sullenly around in my head - unable to express themselves.

This is cool.

Falling back into the routine of NS life is a fast, unnoticeable process. You realize your back into it when you automatically reach for your headdress once you step outside shelter.

It’s so annoying that I can’t tell you about my escapades in camp. I can tell you it involves a lot of studying. Admittedly, half the time is spent trying to keep awake, BUT STILL.  Still, I’m happy that I’m learning to do something I’m vaguely interested in.

This was foreseen and I don’t want to go into to this with a negative mindset.Still, being a pes C  stay-in feels so wasteful. Oh well, I suppose this could improve my communication skills.The internet provides me with a wealth of information about my life in the near future. I can’t really decide whether its going to be good or bad. Of course, I’m in a much better position that most.  The worst thing that’s going to happen to me is going to be the horrible memory work I’m going to have to do. Hopefully this will train my mind in some way. Now I will talk of other things, because I don’t want to accidentally reveal something that could get me charged.

Speaking about training the mind, I’m still worrying about university. I don’t know where I’m going and I don’t know whether I’ll be happy when I get there. Arts sounds like a lot of fun, but fun isn’t what you should be looking for in a university course. I know I should be following my passions, but I’m a bit young to know what they are yet. I just need to trust in God.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading this book by a man call Jeffrey Hatcher on the The Art and Craft of Playwriting . It’s very well written. Hatcher offers a very lucid explanation of the basics of playwriting. For example he speaks of how a play is like a series of dramatic actions - actions that inspire change. I watched Sideways and Kiki’s Delivery Service with this in mind and I really started to appreciate the brilliance of their respective scripts.

NS is eating my brain so forgive me if this doesn’t make much sense. I can’t seem to get myself to write as long as I want to, so forgive me for that as well.

I’ve told you of my desire to actively engage in escapades. My first step will be to steal a labelmaker and use to make subversive stickers. I’d take photos to show you, but currently, I need to power said labelmaker with my camera’s batteries.

This sticker thing I’m doing isnt exactly random. It was inspired by an article I read in Juxtapoz about this guy. Street art seems to be a powerful new medium that I need to get into. It’s not like graffiti, which in some senses is kinda destructive. Relatively, it’s so much easier to remove stickers. Hell, they’ll probably wash off in the rain.

Here’s another cool sticker page for you.

I haven’t really written about my amusing escapades in a while. I suppose this is because my life is less interesting that I would have people believe.

But after BMT, you begin to realize how valuable your time is. I just need to get out and do something.