ahh fine double post, but i'm too lazy to do anything about it :D i think i saved it as a draft before continuing some time later, with added interpolations. then i somehow published both of them simultaneously, i guess. oopsie!
a modern rendition of Hamlet. haha, yaseer shared it with me last time.
the original is of course a lot more tragic and depressing than...this one. not unlike Lear, the bodies pile up at the end...i think i like Hamlet just as much as Lear, or even more. either of those two are pretty much his magnum opus.
the haze is bad! i regret going out on thursday night- even walking to the nearby botak jones to meet the korean was quite bad. it seems the entire...atmosphere was blanketed with dust or that greyish brownish stuff we call haze. all this reminded me of the subsistence farming or something like that we learnt in sec 1 geog, haha. and the Kung! bushmen- that was quite memorable. i guess those farmers need to do what they need to do to survive- even if it means...this. but why the sudden spike!..it was never this bad. i need to read the newspapers more. i wonder how long this'll go on; indonesia's a pretty huge place with plenty of burnable stuff. as wikipedia would say:
'At 1,919,440 square kilometers (741,050 sq mi), Indonesia is the world's 16th-largest country in terms of land area.'
i'm curious to how things are over there- the indons i met in boarding are fine people, i wouldn't mind going over there for a day or two (at most!) to check out indoneeeesia.
just finished an english p1 essay- i did the 2005 may one- on prose! following pt's advice, as mentioned in previous post. to any of you (if there is anyone...) planning to analyse rhythm or meter in poem- forget it. after a good time of preparation and reading the word doc on prosody david sent me long ago (it's quite the excellent), i kinda learned how to demarcate stresses and recognize rhythms. it's quite a lot of what a certain teacher taught in sec 3- only she probably never recognized that we were too lowly at that time for that- stuff like anapestic pentameter, dactylic hexameter, pyrrhics and so on. and here comes along pt and tells me that most IB poems tested are written in- the horror- free verse. not even blank verse! so there will most likely be no meter/rhythm to distinguish and discuss.
it's quite true- IB poems are quite contemporary. the closest i've found that dates back to older times is kipling's Way through the Woods that was tested for last year's FYE; didn't do that, though. but, i'm betting, no way will we see any sonnets, either pertrachan or shakespearean (or elizabethean, as pt calls it), or Romantic poems for that matter. which is quite sad! though those are probably a tad more difficult to grasp.
productivity levels are low. i am sleeping more and more ._. which isn't bad! but the guilt that pervades afterwards...haha. and still watching at least 3 replays a day.
oh and a friend shared this with me; haha it's really quite cool. look at the picture and see if you can spot anything out of place. and don't read the comments below yet! or you'll be spoiling it for yourself.
