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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Fourteen

I'm feeling much much better and, I hope, much much wiser. Thanks you guys.

Here's a thinker for you:

If you fail to plan,
Then you plan to fail.
But if you planned to fail,
Then how could you have failed to plan?
And since you're plan was to fail and you do eventually fail in the end,
Then doesn't that mean that you didn't fail to plan?




Ok! Moving on.

Went to the library again today. I realised that I unconsciously have certain criteria when it comes to picking out the books that I have:

(1) Preferably no faces on the cover of the book. I'm not quite sure why, but it turns me off. I think books with faces on their covers tend to have this certain style about them in terms of their plot and writing (With the exception of Jude). But that's just from my own experience.

(2) Books should have titles with proper spelling (such as Girl Power instead of Gurl Powerz!!). Books like Physik and Flyte are acceptable because the misspelling is intentional - the books are fantasy books, and that's how they spell Physic and Flight in their world.

(3) The words and the spaces between them and between lines can't be too cramped. I don't care how good the story is, books with writings like that doesn't quite give me that delicious reading sensation that one would aim for. Worst-case scenario, I get a headache.

(4) High-school plots are a BIG no-no. You know what I'm talking about: clique books like Gossip Girl, Seven Deadly Sins and The It Girl; or romance books that tend to have one of either two endings: either the not-good-looking guy/girl gets the extremely-hot-and-popular guy/girl whom he/she had had a crush on since kindergarten, or the main character goes after the extremely-hot-and-popular guy/girl but in the end realises that her soul mate is actually her best friend whom she hadn't noticed all this while. Uhuh. Like I haven't heard THAT one before.

(5) All the above mentioned criteria can be ignored IF the book is written by a credible author, and by that I mean an author whose book I've read before and loved. In that case, abandon all hesitation and go for it.

And if I fail to find a satisfying book, I borrow one that I've read before in the not-too-recent past. Like I said, you can't go wrong with books that you've already read. Also, I tend to forget for the most part what happens in the book, so now I get to change that.

I have left the library very satisfied today. Smiles all around! =)




++++SPOILER+++++
** RAMBLINGS UP AHEAD **



Found out during recess today that David C won AI. Usually I don't give a damn, but this time it really bothers me because I can't get it out of my head that David A should have won. Even when people told me who the winner was, I couldn't believe them. Even NOW, now that i know that they were all saying the truth and that David C really did win, a part of me still can't believe it. It's like someone telling me that they discovered that the sun is actually a planet - I'm sure they're right and I'm sure it's the truth, but a part of me will still be insisting "But the sun is a star". I've always had this mental image that David A is the winner, and nothing anyone says can really change that. Which I find disturbing, because I'm not even a huge fan, so why should I care?

I still haven't watched the results show. I can't bring myself to, probably because seeing it with my own eyes would make the results final and real and irreversible.

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