Unlocking the "BRO CODE"

“Whether we know it or not, each of us lives a life governed by an internalized code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. I call it “the Bro Code.”
~The Bro Code, Barney Stinson

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I just finished reading Barney Stinson’s The Bro Code about ten minutes ago. I have been meaning to read it last summer but for some reason, the guys won’t just let me borrow it. Back then, I kept thinking… What’s the big deal? I mean, it’s just another book on understanding the opposite sex, right? Wrong. The book was entitled The Bro Code for a reason, meaning it was intended for a Bro audience and not for Chics like me. (Yes, I called myself a Chic, got a problem with that?)

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Summer Fever meets Pride and Prejudice

My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.
~Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

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Today was supposed to be a good day. I woke up feeling all hyped up like a perky Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde. I don’t know what happened but I suddenly found myself ironically lonely in the middle of a crowd. Maybe it’s because the weather changed from sunny to gloomy. Or perhaps, it’s the financial worries that’s haunting me again. Winter took its leave during the last week of March and hailed the forthcoming of the spring season. (more…)

Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition Coming to Toronto

  “It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.“
~John Milton, Areopagitica

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The Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition is coming to Toronto soon and I’m quite excited to see it! It will be hosted by the Royal Ontario Museum, only a few blocks from the office. The exhibition is to take place  mid-June of this year and extends to January of next year. The museum is also offering paid lectures on the context and impact on society made by the discovery of the scrolls since the early 1950s; the lectures should be interesting, I wouldn’t mind the extra fee.

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Movie Review: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 2

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Nowadays, I find myself amused by literary adaptation movies especially by those of British background. As of this moment, I have been cramming for my exam on Victorian Literature to be held this coming Wednesday at seven until ten in the evening. Yes, such a disgusting time frame for an exam, moreso I have another seven-to-ten exam this coming Saturday. Of course, in comparison to the twelve labours of Hercules, this shouldn’t be at all bad right? Truth be told though, (more…)

From The Nocturnal Manuscript of Love Poetry…

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer’s Night Dream 

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POST EDITED: I edited this post to provide some explanation on the idea behind this poem. Hopefully, it will provide better lighting in understanding the language and technique I used to write this sonnet. 

Libertà nel Versetto  (Liberty in Verse)

I do not want to write sonnets,
Nor do I want asps in rhyme,
This heart’s fuller without such vine
To strangle mine own vision’s eyne, (more…)