let me tell you a story

"When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings"

i was in the bathroom when i remebered this sonnet by william shakespear. i don’t know what led me to remember it while i was taking a bath. i don’t even know if the words are correct. i just remembered it and began reciting. actually these were not the actual words that were coming out of my mouth. this one is the correct form. i mixed some of it from the work of john milton, "on his blindness

heres the poem i’ve been reciting:

when i consider how my life is spent

i all alone beweep my outcast state

and trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

and look upon myself and curse my fate

***curses for not remembering the middle part***

haply i think on thee and then my state

like to the lark at break of day arising

from sullen earth sings hymns at heaven’s gate

***curses again***

that then i scorn to chane my state with kings

what a difference right! i mean i memorized it when i was just third year high school and now i can’t even remember the difference of the two poems.

i realized my mistake when i asked my cousin about the sonnet. she’s working now and she still remembers it. me, i don’t have clue.. i should really start reading these things again..

i’m listening to french songs right now! thank god for emule…

i don’t understand some/most of the lyrics but i can cope. i think..

hearing these songs help me appreciate the language more.. well i really need to appreciate it because its my major. i hope that after hearing these for awhile might make my french a whole lot better.. given my current state in my french class, i really need to be good..

hearing celine dion sing french songs made me look at her at a different point of view. i just don’t see her as the woman who sang the titanic theme song anymore, elle est chanteuse.

it’s not only celine dion i’m listening to. there are are other singers that i listen but i don’t really know them cause i just downloaded their names from the net and searched their songs in emule.. then instantly, just like magic, i have french songs in my playlist..

here is a line from a french song i’m listening to. by edith piaf, la vie en rose "quand tu me prends dans tes bras je bois la vie en rose!" i means "when you take me in your arms i see the world in pink." that’s the direct translation. seeing the world in pink means being inlove right? so it can mean: "when you take me in your arms i fall in love."

see i understand some of the songs i’m listening to!

au revoir!!!

hier, c’etait terrible!!!

it was a terrible day yesterday.. badluck just came knocking on our doorstep and we let it right in!!!!

first, babette, our ipod, died… actually it was stolen. sad huh?! no more jogging time for babette. no more review sessions. no more boring class hours. (sighs) NO MORE BABETTE!!!! i’ll truly miss this slim chick!!!=’(

second, my cousin, meng, had the most painful dysmenorrhea ever! she was crying and stuff and i can’t do anything about it. she doesn’t want to eat because she was afraid that she might puke again (she puked three times yesterday).

third, the stupid cable company changed channels and we no longer have HBO, Hallmark and CNN. saturday night, HBO will air ocean’s twelve. we were suppose to watch it and now we can’t.

they say that badlucks are suppose to come in threes. so that’s three, i’ll have my report and midterms today. i hope what "they" say is true!!!

guys i just watched the backstreet concert last night…

ohh god they were sooooooooo hot!!!

howie was soo cute.. i watched him almost the whole time. then there was kevin who played the piano…

everything was perfect last night.. there was this part where they turned off the lights and evrybody’s cellphone was on.. its like the stars is just within your grasps..

i was awed!!! the money i used to pay for the ticket was worth every penny..

this is matt long… he’s also known as jack in the show jack and bobby.
he’s the cutest big brother ever…
he’s so sweet to bobby..
i love watching jack and bobby..
i hate their mother though.. i mean she’s too stubborn.. she thinks that she’s always right. she acts without thinking, she doesn’t care about what bobby is feeling. good thing jack is there to oppose her mom about what she’s doing to bobby.
bobby, he’s such an innocent boy. sometimes he’s such a klutz and sometimes he’s so brave. he was so heartbroken last week. that stupid and ugly girl was so mean. i hate her. making bobby suffer like that.
they are not a perfect family but who has one? everybody has a problem. and the way they handle some problems, though sometimes funny, are effective. it’s such a cool show.