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This Is For You.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Because you seriously underestimate yourself. I believed in you, and I still do. There are many reasons as to why I chose you, you know. Everyone has to fail at some point in their lives. But I’d like you to remember the words of Adam Osborne: “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” 
I really, really love thingsweforget! Reading through their posts makes me feel hopeful, optimistic and tough inside. It makes me feel like jumping up and doing things without caring if I fail or not. It’s like drinking a cup of coffee. You get a huge energy boost from drinking coffee. Only coffee always gives me huge headaches, so thingsweforget it is. HELPMUNC is next week, and I’m the delegate of Chile. Did you know that Chile is the world’s 5th largest exporter of wine, the largest producer of copper and hosts the most important music festival in Latin America – The Vina del Mar International Song Festival? Chile also ranks 44/182 on the Human Development Index, 25/180 on the Corruption Perceptions Index and 47/143 on the Happy Planet Index. *grins* The national animals of Chile are the condor and the huemul (a type of deer), both of which are endangered animals. Pablo Neruda, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, was Chilean. SPM Lit students, you can find the translation of a Pablo Neruda poem in your Poems and Short Stories (6th cycle) under the theme of relationships – Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines. Tonight I Can Write by Pablo Neruda Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
Take time to read it, it’s so touching. Chile is awesome! And I bet that before Feb 27th 2010, you never even thought about Chile. HAH. :D And now to figure out how to swear in Spanish. Anybody want to teach me? *grins* 
Labels: ECA, Random-ia
INTRODUCING
Name: Louise
13 April 1992
You can only call me Lulu if you don’t think the name’s funny.
I am a member of the Smiley Conspiracy and a proud ex-CHS-ian, graduating class of 2009. Now doing A-Levels at HELP University College. Is proudly Malaysian, but doesn’t look like it and is proud of that too.
This is the 7th time I am editing this about section of the blog this year; I have sort of accepted that my personality is ever-evolving, ever-changing, therefore rendering my moods as volatile as the weather. But just as there are some things that have stood untouched across the centuries by harsh weather, so there are some things with me that remain ever the same: a belief that to live is to learn, and the ability to bounce back from setbacks.
What I love also remains constant. I love good food, dancing, fresh experiences, open minds and friendly people, all of which can be found in the wonderful wonderful city that is Istanbul. I love musicals, plays, good books, stickers, owls, colourful wrapping paper, hugs and kisses, chocolates, almost any music from the 17th to the 21st century, intense debates and post-it notes.
Fictional characters I have been compared to (in terms of personality) are Piglet from Winnie The Pooh and Kelsi from High School Musical.
I dream of finishing this list [29/8/2010: list is undergoing revamp!], and my secret ambition is to become a hairdresser or bartender. Unfortunately I’m also incredibly kiasu, so I’m going to go to university just to show everyone that I can. But want to go to uni also because I love learning lah!
Words that describe me are impulsive, impetuous, quixotic, sanguine, quirky, bewildered, kiasu and hodgepodge. The last one also refers to my sense of fashion.
*GRINS* :D
This Is For You.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Because you seriously underestimate yourself. I believed in you, and I still do. There are many reasons as to why I chose you, you know. Everyone has to fail at some point in their lives. But I’d like you to remember the words of Adam Osborne: “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” I really, really love thingsweforget! Reading through their posts makes me feel hopeful, optimistic and tough inside. It makes me feel like jumping up and doing things without caring if I fail or not. It’s like drinking a cup of coffee. You get a huge energy boost from drinking coffee. Only coffee always gives me huge headaches, so thingsweforget it is. HELPMUNC is next week, and I’m the delegate of Chile. Did you know that Chile is the world’s 5th largest exporter of wine, the largest producer of copper and hosts the most important music festival in Latin America – The Vina del Mar International Song Festival? Chile also ranks 44/182 on the Human Development Index, 25/180 on the Corruption Perceptions Index and 47/143 on the Happy Planet Index. *grins* The national animals of Chile are the condor and the huemul (a type of deer), both of which are endangered animals. Pablo Neruda, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, was Chilean. SPM Lit students, you can find the translation of a Pablo Neruda poem in your Poems and Short Stories (6th cycle) under the theme of relationships – Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines. Tonight I Can Write by Pablo Neruda Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
Take time to read it, it’s so touching. Chile is awesome! And I bet that before Feb 27th 2010, you never even thought about Chile. HAH. :D And now to figure out how to swear in Spanish. Anybody want to teach me? *grins*
Labels: ECA, Random-ia
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