What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music. His fate is like that of those unfortunates who were slowly tortured by a gentle fire in Phalaris's bull; their cries could not reach the tyrant's ears to cause him dismay, to ( Read more... )

at last. real summer has finally come; and by real i mean to say school-free days. it feels weird actually: the entire concept of not going to school and not having to busy myself with academic demands. i spent the entire third term of school wishing and willing for summer to happen; however, now that these unscholarly whims are realized, things ( Read more... )

it's been a month since i've last been in that nirvanaic state of being inspired to proceed with my writing. what's actually weird is that, that isn't altogether true ( Read more... )

the past week was a restless one and visiting a shrink (if my schedule ever permits) might just not be an impossibility ( Read more... )

my decision is final. i'm supposed to have six units of foreign language this coming summer but i'm not taking any. in fact, i have a totally different plan in mind ( Read more... )

having noticed that i'm reading a lot of senseless stuff lately, i decided to check out five books from the library on anything that concerns existentialism and i have to admit it's quite a bit of a challenge.

i am currently reading Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions and i find it impossible to keep on going after encountering ( Read more... )

where did all the days of intoxicating goodness, sometimes bordering on euphoria, go? i miss the times when i can actually talk to someone about life. about human significance, freedom, the unknown ( Read more... )

my life is falling apart. and i don't even know how to make that sound serious enough for anyone to actually take this deliberate declaration seriously ( Read more... )

dammit! it's 3 am and i can't sleep. i'm supposed to wake up two hours from now and i haven't done so much as close my eyes for an entire minute. now i'm scheming to skip school the entire day and just sleep it off. i know i'm a caffeine aficionado and a self-confessed nocturnal creature but this particular bout of insomnia doesn't have anything to ( Read more... )

it's a sad thing what this country has come to ( Read more... )