Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Wednesday
17.01.07
of cool birthdays and life, and love.

it's a cool date. one-seven, one, seven.

speaking of which, there are approximately one-seven minutes left to the day.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCINDA =) I LOVE YOU!

oh yeah.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUNHAN! =)

er. belated. but anyway i heard you got dunked that day so it's ok *beams*

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Love is merely a madness.
that's right. rosalind, As You Like It (by w*ll*am sh*kespe*re), Act 3 scene II.
Love sees with the heart and not with the mind.
Love from one side hurts, but love from both sides heals.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

They do not love that do not show their love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.

Did you ever fall for someone you know you shouldn't?
Try hard to fight your feelings, but you just couldn't?
You fall deeper with each passing day,
But try to hide it in every possible way.
He's barely a friend, and nothing else--
That's the truth, you keep telling yourself.
You keep on saying he's just another guy,
But deep inside, you're know that's not why
You get so giddy when you meet his eyes.
A simple glance turns into a stare,
But you pretend that you don't care.
You know you two could never be,
That's why you hide it so no one can see.
How long can you last, how long pretend?
Keep lying that he's just another friend?
These, your feelings you can never show.
'Cos it'd be worse for him to know.
Your heart can't be risked over this,
So being his girl is an impossible wish...



SO

have you ever been in love?
what IS love?
how do you define being in love, or falling in love?
or having fallen in love?

funny things we talk about, in tsd. but it raises some cool questions. one person said they've been in love before, but then Lofty asked "What do you feel?"
She (obviously a she, how many guys would say so and anyway how many guys does tsd have) replied, "I don't know, you just feel..."
Interesting. now i'm doing a websearch (as can be seen from the above) about falling in love. which is NOT my tsd homework. but Lofty recommended shakespeare's sonnets (no, the above is not a sonnet, but i still thought it was kinda interesting anyway) and they ARE nice. i don't understand a lot of them though. i mean, i do like in a MIND way of understand. but i don't, well, fully understand? as in i can't relate to them. a lot of it just seems so over dramatised and cheesy. but then it's true. when you're in love, nothing else matters. (HAHA i sound like i've been in love before.) i guess i haven't, but i've fallen for someone before (i.e. infatuation, or as we tsd students pointed out, what our parents call teenage puppy love) and it's somewhat similar.
which brings me to my point that i think romeo and juliet weren't in true love, they just fell for each other, but like infatuation rather than true love. i've read my mum's parenting books, and there's this quote that goes: You may recognise it as just puppy love, but it is very real to the puppies. (it's something about how to react to BGR and like how not to over- whatever about such stuff.) it sure feels damn real when you're in that kinda state.
she walks into the room and you know she's
uncommonly rare, very unique, peripatetic, poetic and chic.
haha. so much stuff written on love. how much of it real? how much of it fed to us by the movies? how much of it given by our parents, built into our nature or nurtured from young?
when did you learn what it is, this whole "like-like", "love" idea? even the little kids in kindergarden can tease each other. how in the world did they find out the whole BGR concept?
what's it like, being in love? wait, is the whole thing just the social construct, and we don't really experience all those hot fluffy emotions they write about? or it's really like that, that one person can be your whole world and nothing else really matters, fei4 qin3 wang4 shi2, because that person is enough for you?

i guess we'll never know until we've tumbled into it, huh? like bungy jumping. no one can describe it to you - they can try, but you won't understand til you've leaped off that tiny little platform way up there.

so, class dismissed. homework #1: What Is Theatre essay, to be handed up next monday.
homework #2: fall in love by next next monday.


Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.

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