I don't understand why people don't take the time to read. It helps to improve your vocabulary and exposes you to different writing styles to say the least. Just finished reading The Joke by Milan Kundera and i started my very own little book of words, copying down words i don't know and finding out what they actually mean. The grand total was close to 160 new words. Phew. And i havent even finished lookin up their meanings.
Anyway, i thoroughly enjoyed the book, Kundera manages to succeed in transplanting the reader back to 1950s Czechoslovakia, throughout and after the Stalin Era. The plot centres around Ludvik Jahn, a bright and intellectual Student activist who was expelled from the Communist Party and the University, and who lived his whole life hating the very people who sentenced him. When he returns to his hometown many years later to exact his revenge, he finds that many things have changed, people, in particular, changed. He finally realises that what happens in a specific period stays in that period. The love that u once shared with someone will fade.. The anger and frustration u feel towards a comrade for backstabbing u will succumb to memory.. People move on and living in the past will only devour your present and destroy your future. Of course there are many sub plots but i don't wanna bore u guys.
That last part serves as a lesson for me.. If she ever did have any feelings for me, it was because of the circumstances surrounding us at that time. I am not the person I was to her before. We would not have very many things in common now than we did at that time.. Well things have changed.. and I am no more to her than an ex classmate, so i hope these dreams will stop and my subconscious takes a break. So that's that.
On a different note.. The s'pore govt has decided to whack smokers by extending the no-smoking ban to bus shelters and interchanges, public pools and toilets, community clubs and open-air stadiums. I think this is a move in the right direction (yah down) as Singapore seeks to alienate smokers and leave them isolated at home, lonely, depressed and broke. Eventually the cigarette will go the way of the chewing gum. And if u ask a S'porean if they smoke, don't be surprised to hear "no, i don't . Just in JB." Pfft. Time to quit i guess. And i thought i would quit when i have children. Ugh.
Anyway, i thoroughly enjoyed the book, Kundera manages to succeed in transplanting the reader back to 1950s Czechoslovakia, throughout and after the Stalin Era. The plot centres around Ludvik Jahn, a bright and intellectual Student activist who was expelled from the Communist Party and the University, and who lived his whole life hating the very people who sentenced him. When he returns to his hometown many years later to exact his revenge, he finds that many things have changed, people, in particular, changed. He finally realises that what happens in a specific period stays in that period. The love that u once shared with someone will fade.. The anger and frustration u feel towards a comrade for backstabbing u will succumb to memory.. People move on and living in the past will only devour your present and destroy your future. Of course there are many sub plots but i don't wanna bore u guys.
That last part serves as a lesson for me.. If she ever did have any feelings for me, it was because of the circumstances surrounding us at that time. I am not the person I was to her before. We would not have very many things in common now than we did at that time.. Well things have changed.. and I am no more to her than an ex classmate, so i hope these dreams will stop and my subconscious takes a break. So that's that.
On a different note.. The s'pore govt has decided to whack smokers by extending the no-smoking ban to bus shelters and interchanges, public pools and toilets, community clubs and open-air stadiums. I think this is a move in the right direction (yah down) as Singapore seeks to alienate smokers and leave them isolated at home, lonely, depressed and broke. Eventually the cigarette will go the way of the chewing gum. And if u ask a S'porean if they smoke, don't be surprised to hear "no, i don't . Just in JB." Pfft. Time to quit i guess. And i thought i would quit when i have children. Ugh.
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