Monday, May 16, 2005

on revision week and jap writers

quite a hectic next two weeks ahead.. it's revision week after all. Next week i have my exams. and after that i can breathe a huge ass sigh of relief. I am so wanting to finish all this uni shit and all the deadlines are closing in on me. but oh well.. i don't think i have anything big to worry about.. i just have to revise heaps (yes chay.. u actually NEED to revise DAYS before the exam and not hours before).

but that's not what this post is about. My flatmate got me addicted to one other thing (aside from getting me hooked on: damien rice, jack johnson, the secret life of us and afternoon naps). He has got me reading HARUKI MURAKAMI. So far I've read Sputnik Sweetheart and Dance Dance Dance. I didn't like the books at first... but it's the type of material that gets u speculating and absorbing the text before u actually make any sense out of it. Here are some lines that gave me a bit of a jolt:

Some people say that's escapism. But that's fine by me. I live my life, you live yours. If you're clear about what you want, then you can live any way you please. i don't give a damn what people say.

Damn right. I'm a great fan of the saying "live and let live'

Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's
always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it.

Isn't that too true. Whoever can predict what the heart would do or want next?

I used to think the years would go bu in order, that you get older one year at a time.. but it's not like that. It happens overnight. (Gotonda)

Oh man... this is favourite. I know exactly what this guy is saying. there are just some things that make you wise way ahead of your years.

Humans achieve their peak in different ways. But whoever you are, once you're over the summit, it's downhill all the way. Nothing anyone can do it about it. And the worst of it is, you never know where the peak is. You think you're still going strong, when suddenly you've crossed the great divide.

This one actually scared me.. who's to say i'm not in my peak now?! geeez.. i hope not.. i have a looooong way to go before i cross over the summit. i reckon.

That's all for now. I can't really think properly at the mo. What with all the revision ahead of me.. argh. wish me heaps of luck. i sure do need it.

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