update daw... in fairness.. mataas ito... basta.. I LOVE LIT!!! hoohh!!!

Now that I’m almost finished with all of the “summer activities” that I imposed to myself (save for that Zoo advanced reading… and I don’t have plans of finishing.. heck.. even doing it.. i just realized that I’m not that of a Nerd..), I will give an update that this blog so deserves…

And yeah Tal.. here is the summer update you’ve been waiting for, although I know that a request for an update was what you requested for everyone of your blog friends while you were blog-hopping… still I give you credit for taking the time to personally (more like web-personally, right?.. whatever) request an update.

See the boredom seething and oozing all over those paragraphs?… Well, any person who I fortunately had the chance to terrorize knows that when I’m bored… either I’m in an academic, snotty mode reading a book OR in a foolish, court-clown mode babbling. Since reading just increases the boredom-level I’m usually plunged into (frankly, I don’t get the logic of me reading a book when I’m bored to death.. but that’s just me), I tend to just babble.. and babble and babble… stuff.. incoherent and illogical stuff that will just make anyone who I’m to talking to at the time the babbling is done, to roll their eyes and say that one word epitomizing this whole generation of mine.. WHATEVER.

Hai..

But, instead of just making this entry an update of what my summer was like (I guess you would have guessed it by this point… and in commemoration of the Holy Week that was.. let me describe it as … HOLY), I would also want to make this entry a How’s my First Year College Life Like entry…

And then another BUT. Since I’m afraid what I’m about to write about my freshie kolehiyalo vie would be very long (as long as the sun shines down from the heaven.. or is it one of those mis-lyricked songs I unabashedly demolish.. again?) and very insightful and dramatic and theatric and oh basta!, I will first make a comment about the movies and the books that I’ve watched and read during this whole period of self-imposed summer activities which I was talking about earlier (did anyone miss the lack of logic along those lines there?)

Let’s start with Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence).. uhm… boring! As boring as Classic English Literature can get! But whew man! That Paul Morel is one hell of a man-bitch! Well, in the first parts of the book, he was described as a weak, amiable, innocent, intelligent blah, that it wasn’t hard for me to imagine him as that friend of mine in Cervini (who coincidentally has the same initials as Paul Morel) who is also amiable, innocent, intelligent and weak.. sorry.. harsh… But then, when it was time for him to grow up and become the man of the house or whatever he suddenly transformed into a man-bitch! I swear if I met him, we would have one hell of a bitch fight! Hehe.. So there.. the only consolation for readers like me rooting for his destruction was that he lost his virginity when he was already 25 years old… imagine that!... 25 fucking years old before his first shag.. not that I had any to boast… but 25? God, that’s hooh.. 25! Better 25 than never, I guess.

Then… Babel (brad pitt, cate blanchett, adrianna barazza, rimko kikuchi… this last name was just made up, basta it sounds like rimko kikuchi haha…).. WOW… this movie from the first microsecond up to the last had DEPRESSION scribed all over the yellow brick road! No Happy Moment ever! Even the scenes where people were portrayed as smiling little Earthlings were still DEPRESSING. But it was MOVING. Emotionally, intellectually, physically, spiritually, churva-churvally MOVING. Yeah, I get it when detractors say that the moral statement that the movie shows is vague.. but what the hell! You don’t watch movies for the moral statement! You have the Bible or Koran or whatever religious dogma for that! You watch movies for a.) entertainment or b.) Emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual, churva-churval Movement inside of you.. and letter b my friends is what you will definitely get from this movie… though it’s the depressing kind of movement..

Then… One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)… well this was sort of already a re-read, since I read this during the previous sem.. but I was too busy gloating about my acads so I forgot to finish reading it. Anyway… another.. WOW… Randle Patrick McMurphy is my personal hero from this moment on! He was so funny, so anti-society, anti-convention, anti-world that if I were big enough or sassy enough to be him.. I would be him.. This book makes me want to be a psychiatrist and change whatever rotten systems are being implemented in mental institutions… but, right now I think I’m the one who needs to be in a mental institution.. so… so much for that.. haha..

And then.. Little Children (kate winslet, patrick wilson, jennifer connelly..)… Somebody send me Kate Winslet in our house right now! As in, right now! Haha.. wishful thinking.. This just proves my point that Kate Winslet is one of the best living actresses (technically.. ) in the world… This movie was all about her.. her nuances and bravura in this movie was dead on! Not to mention the intriguing tone that the director used in this movie.. depressing yet funny… crystal-clear yet ironic.. basta.. it was about how we judge others and ourselves.. how strong our desire to protect the future generation from evil is, when in fact we ourselves are the evil we are contending with… one of life’s biggest paradox… sigh…

Tapos.. Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)… Kick-ass!… Never read any novel written like this before.. stylish and street-smart at the same time. I’m not much of a fan of simple prose, I like Nabokov-ian prose more.. the flowery kind.. but this novel.. even if the prose was simple.. heck, I appreciated it a lot.. and if anyone of you are planning to read about anti-war literature… this is a must read!

Oh shocks, I forgot! I still am not able to watch CASINO! Gosh.. well, there are 4 days left.. so no worries…

And.. WOW… never typed anything this long before.. haha.. it’s a spectacle what boredom can do to you…

And… because I’m too tired to type.. I’ll just let that how’s-my-first-year-college-life like segment of this entry.. be.. postponed until that next entry comes up, I guess.

And ooh! I’ll go out with my high school friends tomorrow! YEAY!!!

Bored. Boredom.. ZZZzZZZzzzz….