do not go gentle

WHAT IS UPZZZZZZZ my sistaa's younger brother has the sweetest most adorable voice ever! He recorded 'Mine' for me (yes, all for me!) And I've listened to it like for a hundred times alr! Ahhh~~~ anyway, Aderic borrowed my chem workbook from me sometime ago and today he asked me to lend it to him again and he was acting all suspicious hinting that he did smth to it. But of course I didn't think too much and so during chem today, I happened to flip the the last page of my chem workbook and I saw........ A CHINESE SUICIDE LOVE NOTE WRITTEN OVER THE WHOLE PAGE IT WAS SO HILARIOUS HAHA I'll post the note up here soon haha but basically the first part talked about how mysterious person fell for me and second part was a total rip off from the sappy Taiwanese love novel which is obviously contributed by Adrian. It was in his handwritting anyway. HAHA it was so funny I had a supreme shock! These guys are total jokers. Tsk tsk!

Speaking of love stories, I've finished reading 'Super Sad True Love Story' by Gary Shteyngart. Well I have to say its one of the toughest books to digest maybe because Gary's writing style is pretty abstract. Like he describes his characters with very inanimate adjectives. Making it hard to imagine, but perhaps this further accentuates the very nature of his characters, making them more alive than ever. Very alive in nature is Lenny, the main dude. He is almost 40 and so hopelessly in love with Eunice, a Korean who's 24. The story spans across how they meet, how he courts her (or rather forces her to fall for him) how Eunice falls for him, their trails and tribulations of their relationship, how Eunice cheats on Lenny with his boss, and how she leaves him and finally, how Lenny is never quite complete now that she's left. But this isn't your typical love novel. This is barely a love story. It's more like a story of how a relationship unfolds in the unstable/on the brink of collapsing America. Lenny may be the supposed victim in the story but really, he is the selfish one. Yes indeed, he is completely in love with Eunice but his parents mistake of being unworthy parents have somehow sent him away to hunt for love and approval in everyone. And also how he is so depressed and conflicted with his own beliefs. It made him a hard person to deal with on a very personal deep level. But like I said, the novel was really about how America was losing itself in a detached unemotive fire, how ppl have lost touch with actual human interactions...... Overall a deep book. I think I need to reread it. Yes its a super sad love story but to me, it felt more like the 'super sad mind of Lenny' pretty interesting read nonetheless. Especially how it also centres on the ppls' desire to live forever. Which I found disturbing but intriguing. Says a lot about the value of being a real human being. Haha gonna look for new books to ponder!

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