spiderpig | my hands sometimes recognize each other (Reply)

I admit defeat! I succumbed to the lure of 15 userpics ~~(we all know what I'm asking my mum for my birthday - LJ paid account like woah)~~ and now my LJ is marred with advertisments. Oh well, we all knew what a sell-out I was anyway. ;D

So I updated the layout to its green gorgeousity - by

peoplemachines, go check them out - and furnished all 15 spaces with Ouran goodness (with my lone Eyeshield 21 icon being pimped here). Ouran has the best facial expressions for all occassions and

cowgirl_ed763 does a great job and capturing them. :D

Excerpt from The Second Elegy of The Duino Elegies

O Lovers, completed in
one another, I turn
to you to ask of us.
Is there certainty in your embraces?
Look at it this way...
my hands sometimes recognize each other
and offer sanctuary to my weary face.
This yields some slight sensation.
But what proof of existence is that?
You who fan the fires of one another's
passion till, overcome, you cry
"No more!"-who, beneath lover's hands,
swell like purple grapes at harvest;
who subside, that the other may
more completely come to be:
I ask you about us.
I know the blessed touch
abides with you-that what
love cherishes does not decay;
immortality oozes from those caresses-
a promise, almost, of eternity.
And yet, when you've weathered
the shy fear of first glances,
the sighs of longing at the window,
the first-never again that first-
garden promenade together:
O lovers, are you then as you were?
When you raise the glasses
of each other's lips to drink,
thirst to thirst,
where does the drinker vanish?

Good God, to write like that! Rilke so far has been the only person to convince me to learn German - which I shall, after I master Japanese - so that I can bask myself in all his sublime glory.

I haven't written anything in ages. I think I should continue that botched short-story I was working on, for the sake of completing it and seeing how it fares.

LOL'D. My brother's asking me for help with his science homework. Alright MOE, I'll show you what your education does for me! Let's see if I vaguely remember anything from 2 years ago. So okay, I'm still a whizz at Sec 3 Physics (hello Newton's Law!), but he then pointed me to his Acids, Bases and Salts notes for Chem and I just went "Oh fuck".

I'm horrible at Chemistry because I can't make head or tail out of mole equations and I understand the significance of most chemical reactions other than "oooh pretty!" so hahaha, I still do retain some basic knowledge which just needs to be triggered off but as for now, I need to do more research for my brother so as to help him. God, he needs a tutor. Though, it's strangely carthartic to do all these extinct subjects (relative to me, of course) and still be able to do the vast majority of them. Ah, if only I was with so much enthusiasm towards the sciences when I was in secondary school.

HAHAH. I asked him "What happened to the set of notes I gave you?" I'm extremely proud of my Chem notes. :D He told me that he couldn't understand them becauset they were too cheem (English cannot express the real meaning of the word sufficely; but it's roughly translated to 'profound'). So he lent them to his friends taking Pure Chemistry. BTW, my brother's doing Combined Physics and Chem (lucky bastard, he's acing his science now).

So anyway, anyone still remembers the basic stuff for the chapter on Acids + Bases + Salts? Tons of cyber cookies - real treats if I can meet you in real-time/life - if you can help me out!

Hey yo all the hikkomori out there! Give your first kiss to this hot young girl! Hahahaha, I wish they'd come up with one for girls. ;D

So anyway, I was supposed to bring my childhood photos to school and I thought, since I couldn't be at school these past few days, let's have a montage of my evolution. SOSHIMON GO!