When I took
a nap this afternoon, it wasn’t because I was physically tired. I was, to put
it the worst, emotionally and mentally drained. These days have been so full of
thoughts and tasks, yet I often found myself with nothing else to do. So here's what I've been doing to keep myself from getting depression ><
Composing;
After
watching VK, the starting and ending themes just kept taunting my mind – I couldn’t
exactly remember how the tune went, yet I knew it was there, I knew I had heard
it… I just couldn’t remember yet. So my brain created another tune to
substitute all that, becoming the melody stuck in my head for the week. Now, that's what I call composing! (Not merely continuing a one and a half bar phrase, like in music exams.)
Kimonos;
What is
with the overload of Japanese?? (on top of this and VK, the library book I recently
borrowed involves a person going to Japan…) I have no idea what kimono dolls
have to do with pretty much anything, but I’m helping my mom make these little
paper beings for sale, for charity purposes. I don’t know how I agreed to this
(of course, I really do) and I wonder what my mom would have done if I hadn’t
agreed to help out. Mind you, I’m not even assisting
her, I’m practically running a one-man factory, handling everything from
cutting to colour choice to folding and gluing. The goal, 50 in a week. CIP
points, please??? (and hey,when you buy handmade things in future, really, think of the hands that painstakingly made those, one by one!)
Vampire
Knight;
I’ve
finished watching the anime! And the worst thing is that it ended with sort of
a cliffhanger so I had to appease myself with the manga after that. In actual
fact, I decided I don’t really enjoy reading manga online because 1. It lacks
the charm of Japanese voices, sound effects, dramatic timings… 2. The translator
kept adding foot/sidenotes that had me tilting my head 90 degrees just to read that
tiny print. Seriously, reading that way is probably harder than reading upside
down. 3. The graphics confuse me! With the numerous flashbacks (within
flashbacks, sometimes) and ‘offstage voices’ and changes of scenes so suddenly,
I get lost easily. I never knew I was so bad at reading comics!!
The appeal
of VK… of course the main reason was that it killed boredom. Thanks to perhaps
A lit and IH, I found myself trying to deep deeper into the issues, instead of
getting ‘polluted’ by the slightly warped morals the characters possess. In a
sense, it keeps my mind active while off school. Plus, Zero (the cool, emo
guy), Aidou (the funny and loyal, I think and hope, ‘sidekick’ of Zero’s rival
in love), Chairman Cross Kaien (very comical and lame yet cool when he gets
serious. Split personality much!) and even Rima (one of the random-er other vampires,
I just think her Pocky biscuits are always making me hungry), make VK much more
likable. xD
CO
Practice;
… I feel
like Zero without Yuuki! ALL my batchmates in my section are gone. ALL the sec
2s will be in Malacca tomorrow. So at least for tomorrow, it will be just the
Sec 1s and me to face Mr Lee’s wrath (exaggeration) together. It’s so pathetic that he even
let us off early yesterday, despite us starting late. Hmm, some other things
also happened pertaining to CO, but all I can say is… the first assignment always gets messed up.
A different
perspective on…
Love; to
give that someone a purpose to live when he/she is feeling helpless and
hopeless. Even if that purpose is for him/her to kill you eventually.
Loyalty;
(e.g. politics and principles and people) If circumstances were to change
drastically overnight, would your loyalties change? What are you loyal towards
anyway? Do you follow what your family believes in, or what your friends/the
majority believe in? What if they all conflicted?
(Yvonne,
Tarzan taught me about loyalty too, you know.)
Life; Really,
even a ‘tragic’ tale like VK has its comical, light hearted, silly moments. I’m
sure your life doesn’t have blood-sucking beasts who turn your life upside
down, so, don’t complain.
*Like my
alliterations?