Monday, November 03, 2003
it's funny how smell can remind you of a place. everytime i stepped into my house in LA the smell of the place was one of the strongest indications that i was no longer home in singapore. at least when i was there, i always thought of myself as "away from home", i never thought i'd be homesick for LA, not that i am now, but in a strange way i was transported back there today. i was changing to leave for class, i put on a blouse that i had only ever worn in LA (seeing it's thick and long-sleeved) and it smelt so much of LA suddenly i was there. it was an uncanny moment half like deja-vu, but not quite, because i was there yet wasn't...hard to explain.
anyway, was reading william faulkner in the morning...the narrator is talking about his father giving him a watch, recording what his father said to him, get this:
"i give it (the watch) to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
i think those are beautiful words to live by.
got my psych midterm grade back, got 97.6%...weird percentage, but i'm happy with it! and i got an A on my english paper rewrite, things are looking up...but got one more shakespeare paper to write, got a B on the last one, so need to work really hard on this one.
i think it totally ironic how i can endorse not living as a captive of time in one paragraph and then half-agonize over grades in the next. such are humans, such is me.
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anyway, was reading william faulkner in the morning...the narrator is talking about his father giving him a watch, recording what his father said to him, get this:
"i give it (the watch) to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
i think those are beautiful words to live by.
got my psych midterm grade back, got 97.6%...weird percentage, but i'm happy with it! and i got an A on my english paper rewrite, things are looking up...but got one more shakespeare paper to write, got a B on the last one, so need to work really hard on this one.
i think it totally ironic how i can endorse not living as a captive of time in one paragraph and then half-agonize over grades in the next. such are humans, such is me.
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