From the desk of the Amazing ‘Ainur…

assalamualaikum w.b.t and kia ora…

hello, people…it’s been a while since i last posted an entry…didn’t really feel like writing…there’s nothing to write about, really…i have no life to speak of…i seemed to be doing pretty much the same stuff day after day for almost three months…while other people were out doing whatever it was that people do outside the house(s), i was inside my room doing absolutely nothing…not that it’s anyone’s fault, but my own…i just couldn’t be bothered…it’s a classic case of "if it’s not broken don’t fix it"…since i was perfectly comfortable indoors, i saw no reason to go outside…except to attend my classes, sit my exams and complete my school placement thingy…not much of a life really, come to think about it…

my school placement ‘thing’ went great…met a few exceptionally hilarious students…i particularly loooooved the way the students in the class that i was observing responded to an activity in which they were asked to make up alternative storylines or characters or endings to ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’…one guy suggested that they change the wordings…since people today are so concerned about being ‘politically correct’, he suggested changing the word ‘dwarfs’ to ‘vertically-challenged chaps’…one girl suggested altering the ending…she said that instead of the "happily ever after" ending commonplace in all fairytales, Snow White should sue the Prince (who kissed her while she was sleeping in her glass coffin) for SEXUAL HARASSMENT!…the Prince has no business kissing Snow White when she doesn’t even know him and when she was sleeping and obviously defenseless!…this argument will surely hold up in court…one suggested that Snow White should sue her father for CHILD ABUSE…he failed to take good care of Snow White and left her to the mercy of her evil stepmother and didn’t even have the grace to look for her when she ran into the forest…clever, isn’t it?…absolutely spot on…one student even when so far as to suggest that Snow White could be a guy…who says that guys can’t be as fair as snow?..who says that guys can’t be called ‘Snow’?…true…today a lot of girls have names like ‘Sam’, ‘Alex’, ‘Robin’…and those are names previously exclusive to guys…there’s no reason why we can’t have a guy named or nicknamed ‘Snow White’…Wentworth Miller’s character in ‘Prison Break’ is nicknamed ‘Snowflake’…see the logic?…i was laughing soooo hard and loud that i could wake the dead…how i wish i was that smart and creative when i was at that age…

since my summer break started about a week ago, i’ve been reading ‘pride and prejudice’ and ‘to kill a mockingbird’, two literary masterpieces i daresay, everyday….that’s right…every single day…i just looooove these two novels…don’t you?…now that we (by we, i mean the b.ed tesl cohort 2 students) don’t have to study ‘Pride’ for ES anymore, i’d recommend that you guys reread it…if you only read it once, you are bound to miss some things…and those things that you missed the first time around could in all likelihood be the very thing that makes ‘Pride’ so endearing…don’t you just loove MR. DARCY?…by you, i mean girls…he’s so romantic…and smart….and witty…and stable (that’s important)…and kind…and he writes "long, charming" letters (i don’t know if this is a good thing or not)…MR DARCY, in short, is the epitome of the perfect gentleman…and so is MR KNIGHTLEY in ‘Emma’ (another one of Austen’s gems)…and EDWIN in ‘Mansfield Park’ (yet another one of Austen’s clever works)…and HENRY CRAWFORD in ‘Mansfield Park…too bad he doesn’t get the girl…i was rooting for him…i was on ‘Team Henry’ for the whole of the second half of ‘Mansfield Park’…’to kill a mockingbird’ is a ‘must-read’ for everybody…if i were to become a politician or government minister one day (God forbid!), the first thing i’d do is to force everyone to read ‘to kill a mockingbird’…people who refuse to do so will be jailed…kids in secondary school will have to study the book for their LitComp…i realise that this is slightly radical, which is why i’ve decided not to become a politician…not that i have what it takes to be one…seriously, if we are to live harmoniously together, we should first read the book…i really like what Atticus Finch says to his kids, Jem and Scout: "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird"…it’s probably one of the most quoted lines from the book…

i’ve also been listening to a lot of new songs…panic! at the disco has some really, really cool songs…’but it’s better if you do’ is my personal favourite…if you decide to check out this band’s music, check out their song titles…if ever there is a competition for the longest song title, this band would win hands down…here’s some example : ‘Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off’ and ‘There’s A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered, Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought Of It Yet’…see what i mean?…the fray is awesome…i like their melodic/pop/rock/ music…their songs are mind-blowingly good…i think so, at least…if you are checking out the fray’s music, take time to read their lyrics…gorgeous lyrics…john mayer’s new album is brilliant…then again, all of his albums are brilliant…you cannot expect anything less than brilliant from him…his new hairstyle is brilliant as well…read mr. mayer’s lyrics…he’s a master lyricist…christina aguilera’s new album is also excellent…she sounded more jazz-y and soul-y in this album…while Christina’s out celebrating her musical success, Britney is out there battling that lousy-reason-for-a-human-being-that-she-calls-her-husband for custody of her two kids…oooohhh…that’s cruel…but it’s true…and truth hurts…

see?…the things that i’ve been doing these past few months are things that you do within the four walls of your house/room…being indoors is fun…we should all try it sometimes…i’ve ran out of ideas…should probably stop now…to all britney spears’ fans, i’m sorry…didn’t mean to offend you…well…until next time (don’t know when that will be), au revoir…

‘ainur.rahmah.ellias

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