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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
my mind is in a state of terrible disorder. i continued analysing backgrounds and friezes this afternoon- coincidentally Pilate was the subject then and tonight- but stopped past 5 because my brain was, essentially, scrambled. i popped a mountain dew (from the free goody bag we got at the NUS open house long ago) and found that in the other goody bag there was a hive of flies breeding. oh look, a fly just flew across my hands -_- threw the bag away. it must have been the free raisins. hmph why can't they just gave really really tightly packaged food that can keep for ages- like the highland storm mints i'm sucking right now, heh. they really give the throat a cold blast, and i find that it actually helps blocked noses- slightly.
well after chugging down the mountain dew i felt no better so i set the handphone alarm for an hour later, and collapsed on the bed. probably had 0 seconds of REM sleep- i was in a kind of limbo throughout that hour. i got up feeling terrible, thoughts scattered all over, and felt somewhat like an anachronism. totally displaced. a shower helped a lot, though, although there wasn't time to do any work after that, sigh.
i enjoyed the lesson on the history of english lit the other day. at last i got a sense of how all the novels (okay fine, Great Illustrated Classics...) fit into the whole timeline of writing. oh look another fly just flew across the screen. honestly, my house is infested with pests, people just don't realize when they come here. cockroaches, lizards, flies, mozzies, younger brothers...we have them all! okay disregard the latter, burdens just weigh down heavily sometimes.
i eventually finished backgrounds and friezes, and have now started on king lear. okay fine so i'm watching the production online on youtube, but it's still counted! i'm following it in the book and flipping pages as scenes go by. the michael elliot version is far better than the 2008 one by trevor nunn- the latter cuts out far too many lines. watching the play/production is a great idea anyway imo, you get to see how things play out before the audience's eyes (to some extent) and i'm happily pausing, making annotations and resuming now and then.
i sense king lear is going to be far easier than poems. it helped to read a collection of shakespeare's plays in simplified story form long ago (primary school?) you gain a broader scope of shakey's plays and see how his techniques are reproduced in his other works (parallel storyline in merchant of V, microcosm/macrocosm manifestation in Macbeth, puns/double entendres in Much ado about nothing...heh.) hey we did do macbeth in sec school! ioc then was rather comical and fun, with the envelopes containing the extracts being rather see-through and certain cheeky characters 'choosing' getting what they wanted (ahem yaseer! :P)
now, it is all very much different. there goes a fly across the screen again. one day i am going to smoke out this room of mine, hmph.
7:49 AM
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Signboard
astika
azmi
ben
cheryl
chiang fong
chun wee
cliff
danielle
duane
eddie
edwin
esther
ian
james
janice
jeremy
kaiyang
ken
meera
nick yin
nicole
kohar
vincent
xianpeng
zishing
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Credits
Designer: Oudouri SW
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Programes: PSP and PS
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