Archive for the ‘Little things in life’ Category

16
Jun

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

   Posted by: laurane

I was in the library on Saturday, looking for a book to bring to Pt. Lincoln. I was on my way out when I saw this book in the display shelf next to the exits. It was a book of poems. Poems that most of us would have studied or read during our school days.

So I picked it up and scanned through it and true enough, poem after poem that I’ve read, studied and written commentaries about came up.

Owen- Dolce et decorum est.
That may be the only poem I can still write a commentary on. We did so much with that.
Remember Daddy by Sylvia Plath? The Ballad of Reading Gaol? The rime of the ancient mariner (THE longest poem ever ever ever. I only remember the albatross part…). Digging by Seamus Heaney (I think seamus is his first name…) I believe I wrote my final exam commentary on this… or some sort of exam. Or maybe it was my oral commentary? Whatever. It was probably one of my proudest english lit moments :P To be able to complete my oral commentary. :)

And finally… going back all the way to Grade 7. My first English Literature experience. I was in Ms Carlson’s class and she made us memorise poems. I couldn’t figure out why. i memorised the double double toil and trouble part of Shakespere’s Macbeth. And some other poem which I don’t remember now but I think it was about the last moment’s of someone’s life or something. o.O
But the one I remember most and probably my favouritest poem of all is called Loveliest of trees, the cherry now by A.E Housman.
It goes like this:

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

An since to look at things in bloom.
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go,
To see the cherry hung with snow.

So Ms. Carlson made us memorize this. It was spring in Seoul and our campus had a couple of cherry blossom trees. So we took a walk to the cherry blossoms. They’re not as beautiful as the ones you see in Hokkaido maybe… but they were beautiful alright. We gathered around the tree and recited the poem. Ms. Carlson did it with passion. I guess some students did too. But I had only memorized half of it at that time, so I sucked. But it was something I never forgot. Strange as it may sound, it was one of those vivid memories of middle school I had.

:)

I wish it was spring already. It’s freakin cold.

5
Jan

Cleaning

   Posted by: laurane

Life seems to revolve around cleaning.

We wake up, take a shower, brush teeth.

after breakfast, washing dishes.

Mum cleans the floor everyday. (since i’m home, sometimes that’ll be me. Sometimes. I’m guilty for being a lazy unhelpful daughter) Sometimes she just sweeps it, sometimes its vacuum and mop.

During this time, the washing machine is busy working away.

Then we have lunch and more cleaning needs to be done. Washing veges etc that needs to be washed before cooking, dishes after cooking, table after eating…

Then in the evening we have Another shower.

and before bed we’re washing our face and brushing our teeth again.

On top of that, every so often we will be cleaning off dust in the house, cleaning the windows, cleaning the bathroom and toilet, cleaning our cleaning equipment.

And we wash our hands countless times in a day.

What is up with human beings and having to be so Clean…??

My mum’s a bit of a clean freak too so I’ve done almost more cleaning in one month here than I’ve done in the entire year in Adelaide.

Ok kidding. That’s ridiculous. But you can kind of get what I mean…

27
Dec

Rainbow tracker?

   Posted by: laurane

Full rainbow. (image stolen from a google search result...)

During one of the very long road trips I’ve been on recently I thought of something really random.

I was wondering if this was possible…

Rainbows can form anywhere around the world, right? Is it possible that, for every single day in the year, at least one person would encounter a rainbow…?

And if someone created an online forum or something to track where rainbows are seen, publicize it so everyone knows about it, would there be a new entry every single day from all over the world?

I’m probably pretty strange for coming up with the idea, let alone putting so much thought into this, but hey, rainbows are pretty. They’re worth acknowledging. I get excited everytime I see one and they never fail to make me smile. I don’t know about you. :)

14
Jun

What a change.

   Posted by: laurane

I had work again last night. Instead of being insulted, last night I was complimented. I’ve never met someone being so obviously interested before. He threw compliments, asked when I finished work, and his friend came and asked if I would give him my number and all that. Haha. =) Made my night.

It’s amazing how people can be so different.

3
Jun

So embarrassing.

   Posted by: laurane

… getting caught doing SS things

… realising someone’s reading something you don’t want them to read

… sending messages to the wrong person

… saying something wrong in front of someone and realising its too late to take it back

… tripping in the middle of the street

24
Apr

If only it could last forever.

   Posted by: laurane

It’s one of the best feelings.

Getting lost in a fantasy world…

When reality around you just dissolves into a grey mist and all you see is the creations of your imagination as your eyes scroll down page after page of that book you’re reading.

Too bad it can’t last forever. As soon as you hit “The End”, reality kicks in and hits you in the face. Crap. it’s 5am. And 3 days had passed by in a blur…

4
Apr

Darn…

   Posted by: laurane

There are times when someone asks you a question that catches you off guard. You don’t want to look like an idiot so you come up with some sort of asnwer. Then when you’ve parted and you finally have time to think about what you said, you realise how much more of an idiot you sounded like with that answer. And only after some thought you come up with a really good answer, but by then it’s too late…

29
Mar

Guilty.

   Posted by: laurane

Tomorrow…

I will do something I’ve never done before.

Call in ’sick’ when I’m not really…

But I need the time to study ><

It’s driving me crazy just thinking about how I’m going to make that call. And what kind of ’sick’ am I going to complain about? o.O

21
Mar

   Posted by: laurane

Some days I walk around feeling skinnier than usual and very pleased with myself.

Then I catch a glimpse of myself in a reflection and I realise how that was all just an image I put in my head… and I’m really not much different than I was on any other day.

19
Mar

It happens all the time!

   Posted by: laurane

Don’t you hate it when everything happens at the same time?

When all of a sudden you have heaps of people talking to you on msn, when you have people talking to you in person while you’re talking to people on msn or gchat or facebook, and sometimes when everything is happening, you even get a phone call! Or two phone calls at once! And you don’t know who to tend to and who to ignore because everyone is just as special, every conversation is just as important.

And then everything just ENDS.

And you find yourself sitting there with nothing to do, wishing somone would reply your last message, wishing someone would call, wishing you had something to do other than sit and stare at a blank screen (it just forces you to start on that tutorial you have been procrastinating…)