January 2012
3 posts
Sharing Poetry: Lewis Carroll, "Dreamland" →
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When midnight mists are creeping, And all the land is sleeping, Around me tread the mighty dead, And slowly pass away. Lo, warriors, saints, and sages, From out the vanished ages, With solemn pace and reverend face Appear and pass away. The blaze of noonday splendour, The twilight soft…
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via bookmania)
December 2011
2 posts
Still...
I’m still alive.
But I don’t wanna say anything.
November 2011
4 posts
And then...
I suddenly don’t have any time to write! From a very slow and easy ten weeks to a whole reverse one. We have lots of stuff to read.
Good. However, this is the second week and i am already behind!…
Now back to the Canterbury Tales!
Internet
In late 90s everyone loved internet for who they could be in it. I loved it for letting me be myself.
I miss somethings… I miss people I could talk to.
It was my mistake to be so lost though. I was always so lost in my reality. Now I want to be found, I want to find. Where are you?
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus
October 2011
8 posts
“I couldn’t be both a lover and an artist, so I decided to be an artist only.”
– Robert Bly (via theparisreview)
Words in the class
You can’t write like in the movies:
*TAKA TAKA TAKA TAKA TAKA* - There! My masterpiece!
You will edit it 900 times before it is (almost) perfect!
I have been thinking about this myself for a while. When I was in 8th grade (or maybe 7, don’t know) I used to skip English lessons and stayed with my arts teacher instead. We would work on younger students water paintings. These kids,...
Things so far...
Well, first year - first term of English Studies in Malmö University is like this.
It’s officially two terms in a year but I can say that we have four. We are supposed to take three courses in first term but instead we take first ten weeks for one course and ten other weeks for two other courses.
First term, first ten weeks: Subjects of English.
This course divides to three: Personal...
"Spotify changed my life"
Yeah it isn’t some undercover commercial. This is what our Professional Writing lecturer said in the class!
And you know what, it made me smile.
I must say that I love Spotify but it didn’t change my life, no. Music did, and it still does little by little every day.
Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary darkness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from...
Trying!
I wrote a short story today. I’m inspired by a real thing that happened on the bus couple days ago, and since then I have been thinking of it all the time.
Finally, I sat down and wrote it!
For the first time in years, aside from school projects! Finally! I feel much better.
I’ll need to edit a lot though, thanks to the medical terms I need in my story. But for now, I’ll rest.
September 2011
13 posts
Writing
I too often write without thinking, i just do the assignments, without thinking, i write a blog, without thinking, i do all without thinking.
No time spent on them, no re-reading, no editing. Finishing assignments right before i go to bed and then hand them in the next day, writing this blog way too casually, not even considering something serious here.
But i like writing, i do.
I have written...
Youtube
I’ll keep it short. It’s not funny, or at least I’m not making fun of it, but someone asked “what is Youtube?” today.
I understand that you might not be “an internet person” but you are in an university, studying and such, aren’t you supposed to have a little clue?
Not so alone.
I’m kind of happy to find out that it’s not only me (and Daniel) that think the teenagers nowadays are a bunch of idiots. Seriously, we were better 10 years ago. I know there were some shocking, inappropriate, *insert what you will* things in the eye of our elders of course, but really, EVEN we were better. Music nowadays for example, things that these teens relate to sound really...
Speech & Drama
I was always interested in Theatre, both acting and watching it. When I was a kid, I made up short plays and I usually imitated some people I saw on TV. I remember my grandma (she isn’t really my grandma though, she is my father’s aunt, but I preferred calling her grandma because of her significance in my life) advised my parents to encourage me to act more! But it never happened. If...
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
When things go wrong...
I try not to feel down in the dumps but sometimes life compels me.
First, I managed to get sick in this warm weather and miss one of my Speech & Drama seminars, and we are expected to attend to each. I could go to another group’s seminar, but I missed that, too.
And then, my cat started to get weird. She screamed & cried ( I can’t call it meowing, it was literally screaming...
Schedule.
I don’t think our first term in English Studies is planned very good. I like subjects of English (that is divided to 3; professional writing, personal life writing and drama & speech) but I really think introduction to English grammar and phonetics should have been first.
We have a lecture/seminar per day and that feels like second year of a college really. You start with full time...
How to Comment on Other People’s Writing →
First Failure.
I know I could write better! My first assignment was crap :( I got some constructive criticizing by a fellow student but felt a little offended by being lectured by her. Everything she said was good and helpful though.
Nevermind this, but I am really sad about one thing she said… Our lecturer told us we are going to rewrite our assignments after the help we got from others, that’s the...
Laziness
Today was my first day off. I spent half of it sleeping, and then watching stuff, checking my Facebook for no reason, cooking and finally working on my first professional writing assignment.
Yesterday I wrote a short introduction about the person I’ve interviewed in the class and today i edited it. Many people seem to have problem about getting it to 250 words, but I kind of didn’t...
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a...”
– Oscar Wilde
August 2011
2 posts
First week of university.
This is the very beginning of my studies at Malmö University. First two days went pretty smooth but i can’t shake out that antisocial, paranoid, scared feelings off of me. Seriously, I’m 25 years old and still feeling scared of talking to new people. One side of me craves for socializing, just like old, age old, times and the other side just wants to hide…
Well i made a friend,...
