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spiderpigI'm feeling increasingly disillusioned with school (disillusioned is probably the wright right word because I've always had this lovely, Ivy-laced image of varsity life *snorts*) and well, not with life, but I just feel...... empty, well not empty but just absent. Something like that.
Oh wow, my first sentence was so Ron DeLite.I should really stop playing PW3.
I really, honest to God, wish that I had more of my friends in this limbo that I'm stuck in. Something, someone to let me look forward to so that I don't dread getting on the bus and listening to will you turn your fucking handphone down I don't share your taste in music and then repeating the same thing in reverse on the way back.
It's exhausting. Today, just after a mere 2 hours of lessons with Prof Chew, I came back looking like someone who aged 20 years. My mum is all incredulous that I'm so tired, but the fact is that I am. Oh fuck it. Everything seems to be "cheemified" on the pretext of "intelligence". I'm so sick and tired of all the complicating people to do very simple concepts and things. I'm not saying that you have to accept everything as a truth, or be a cynic to everything you hear but fuck, just stop overstretching things.
Why do we read Shakespeare? Seriously why? It's not a complex matter of that his rhyme scheme or his lyrical writing, it's very simple actually. We read Shakespeare, we watch Shakespeare because we find it entertaining. It entertains whoever who finds it entertaining. In my Shakespeare class, I had to sit through line after line of preaches, of how great Shakespeare is, or because he has literary value. All those things hold true, I'm not denying that but arrrrrrrrrgh. I should have just shouted "BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING ENTERTAINING, THAT'S WHY."
Which is why Rach's post on how people just overgeneralize commercialism just hits home. I mean, dude. How is the effort put into producing Transformers or Star Wars any less than some artyfarty French/Iranian/insertNationalityhere film? Argh. I wish I had spoken up like her. I mean, what the fuck. I just sat there in my class and just kept quiet.
Another point. I don't know why I'm so silent this semester. I seem to have verbal constipation and it pisses me off.
Anyway, public service annoucement time: HI PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM ME, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. I DON'T APPRECIATE YOUR FORM OF "FRIENDSHIP". IT CREEPS ME OUT. REALLY.
This Chinese New Year sucks. I can't wait for Saturday. T04Time.
Oh wow, my first sentence was so Ron DeLite.
I really, honest to God, wish that I had more of my friends in this limbo that I'm stuck in. Something, someone to let me look forward to so that I don't dread getting on the bus and listening to will you turn your fucking handphone down I don't share your taste in music and then repeating the same thing in reverse on the way back.
It's exhausting. Today, just after a mere 2 hours of lessons with Prof Chew, I came back looking like someone who aged 20 years. My mum is all incredulous that I'm so tired, but the fact is that I am. Oh fuck it. Everything seems to be "cheemified" on the pretext of "intelligence". I'm so sick and tired of all the complicating people to do very simple concepts and things. I'm not saying that you have to accept everything as a truth, or be a cynic to everything you hear but fuck, just stop overstretching things.
Why do we read Shakespeare? Seriously why? It's not a complex matter of that his rhyme scheme or his lyrical writing, it's very simple actually. We read Shakespeare, we watch Shakespeare because we find it entertaining. It entertains whoever who finds it entertaining. In my Shakespeare class, I had to sit through line after line of preaches, of how great Shakespeare is, or because he has literary value. All those things hold true, I'm not denying that but arrrrrrrrrgh. I should have just shouted "BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING ENTERTAINING, THAT'S WHY."
Which is why Rach's post on how people just overgeneralize commercialism just hits home. I mean, dude. How is the effort put into producing Transformers or Star Wars any less than some artyfarty French/Iranian/insertNationalityhere film? Argh. I wish I had spoken up like her. I mean, what the fuck. I just sat there in my class and just kept quiet.
Another point. I don't know why I'm so silent this semester. I seem to have verbal constipation and it pisses me off.
Anyway, public service annoucement time: HI PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM ME, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. I DON'T APPRECIATE YOUR FORM OF "FRIENDSHIP". IT CREEPS ME OUT. REALLY.
This Chinese New Year sucks. I can't wait for Saturday. T04Time.
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Date: 2008-02-06 06:06 pm (UTC)Hear, hear. I totally feel you. Sometimes when I'm sitting in theory classes, I often ask myself why do we have to go through this load of bullshit. It's bloody obvious it's all creamed up with crap to make it highly academic and intellectual, but what's the fucking point?
It's like higher education is all about deceiving and confusing others further.
Oh and regarding people who make play their fucking phone music, just give them the STFU hammer like I did. =D
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Date: 2008-02-07 02:20 am (UTC)And I would say that Shakespeare is now 95% style to 5% plot twists. The plots have been recirculated about tons-to-the-power-of-n times already. Same stories. Unless you want to give Lear a happy ending. What's left, for me, is its ritual performance on stage/ screen. With Ian McKellen.
Also, must never forget: Shakespeare, in his time, was the 17th-century version of Andrew Lloyd Webber - *casts for other names* or Michael Bay. Populist, blood-and-thunder entertainments appreciated by most every strata of society. He'd write whatever was in fashion at the time. Masques popular? The Tempest. Everyone likes old stories right? Reappropriate Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream. And all the nice plays praising whatever noble family was in power at that time. Royal patronage what.
Commercialism does not necessarilily have bearing on artistic merit. Anyone who tells you otherwise has probably never made art before.
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