How to end the universe part 2 - THE HARD WAY

August 29th, 2008 • 9 comments Books, College, Emoshitness, Fiction, High School, How to end the universe series, Humor, Narratives, Personal, Pointless
Tags: autistic, bananas, cat speak, College, courses, fucker, Mark Haddon, superhero, The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time

“Life is cruel. Good thing bananas were invented.”

1. Get a banana.
2. Remove the banana peel.
3. Erect the banana.
4. Scream.

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We took the NCAE last Wednesday and since I finished about three hours ahead of my roommates, I spent my spare time reading The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time by Mark Haddon. You’ll surely find the book weird at first but as you absorb its pages, you’ll know why the book begins with chapter 2.

The book is the best first-person narration I’ve read so far not to mention that the story’s protagonist and at the same time, its narrator, Christopher, is autistic and is gifted at and focused on mathematics — this is reflected by his inclusion of several math and logic puzzles and problems. Well for me, it has been different to read a book based from a point of view of an autistic kid who takes the world literally.

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I am tired of everything right now.
Going to college has been bothering me so badly. It’s as if I’m currently in front of the altar, about to get married as the crowd waits for my “I do”. It’s a very tough decision, as everybody says. There’s a long list of courses but where do I fit? Where am I actually going to find my safety zone or so they say? To tell you the truth, I also have a long list of things I wanna do. Frustration and perplexity caught me off guard.

Gawd! I have never been this fucking confused in my life. Ever. It’s like now or never. It’s like dying without reincarnation. Or learning the technique on the Rubik’s cube. Or having dyslexia and determining which is b and which is d between “b” and “d”. Or Einstein’s theory of relativity. But you see, the Rubik’s cube, the muddle between b and d, and relativity can be learned and mastered eventually. But choosing which path to take in college needs wisdom, because as I see it, life starts at college.

UPDATE:
I just thought of this one last night.
I have finally settled my self somehow. My dreams are to become:

• A superhero, and save millions of lives each day.
• A world class couch potato, or a mouse potato.
• Be a famous linguistic, majoring in cat speak. In that way, I can fulfill my dream of talking to cats. I know some words, ya knoes: MEOW! MEOW!. It’s cat speak for hello.
• Or at least, be a fucker.

Now tell me, what university offers those kinds of courses, huh?

*Grandma banana picture courtesy of this link. Thnks!

LolCATs And A Bunch of Bibliopegisticals

July 4th, 2008 • 3 comments Books, High School, Random
Tags: cat, Stranger Than Ficiton, The Kite Runner, To Kill A Mockingbird, training, Twilight

We had our first day of CAT this afternoon after classes. It was a requirement every Friday so we got no choice but to salute the officers and stand still until some bird takes a drop on our heads.

And so…of white t-shirts, jeans, rubber shoes, clean cuts, hair nets and pins, the training began. I had a quite experience on Boy Scout because it was a requirement in my school during my elementary years, so I’m kinda used to standing still for so long, following commands with the officer shouting on my face. But that’s not the essence of it all, and I think one is to build up discipline. Meh.

However, I have nothing against the CAT in school. I think most of the girls have. Well anyway, girls are girls. Lol.

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I just finished Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner yesterday. It’s a very good novel. I love the story-telling style of the book — how it’s written and all. It’s totally captivating, I can say.

Oh, I wish I could write a better book review than this. This is just an attempt though.

Anyway, I borrowed To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee in the library this afternoon. And perhaps, reading it would probably be the only thing that would fill me up this weekend. And I’m also planning to read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. My classmate has a copy of it which I’m exchanging with The Kite Runner for about a month.

That’s all for now. And oh, I’m planning to do what the protagonist in the movie Stranger Than Fiction did — he tallied the tragedies and comedies in his life. I think it was in the middle of the film in case you’re wondering. And I’m thinking of doing that on a whole normal schooling week. I just wanna see whether my life is written as tragic or comedic.