3. Of a person: that engages in an activity or occupation by night; preferring to be active at night.
In the Cocoon: the Path to Metamorphosis
Saturday, March 7, 2009“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done…
Nature is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.”
~Sir Philip Sidney, The Defense of Poesy
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Something undeniably weird just happened… I realized, I cannot seem to write poetry these past few days… But that’s not really the problem I’m pertaining to because ironic as it may sound, I actually like it. For years, I have been using poetry as an emotional shield, where I can just easily write and hide my feelings without having to feel so vulnerably open. My poems are not easily understood by many. Heck, I don’t even know if anyone understood them at all. Reading my past writings, however, has made me realize how much I have grown as a person these past few years, from that time when I completed my first ever poem back as a highschool freshmen in Manila. I remember using the simpliest sentence arrangements (more…)
A Short and Simple Thought Regarding Sexual Equality
Thursday, March 5, 2009 If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III.i
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For centuries, the idea of homosexuality created havoc within religious communities and became a sort of taboo in society. Yesterday, I wrote a short blog on equality between men and women. It did not occur to me how I have, for a moment, forgot those who are still fighting to be recognized in their own rightfully chosen genders. Homosexuals have now taken over the fight for equality which women have previously done. Although the legal system of today’s society is much more keen to listen to these types of protest, conservatism still plays a big role in its deliverance. We have been taught, after all, from infancy that there are only (more…)
Insomnia: On Exam and Oven Suicides
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Went to bed at 2:30am.
Still awake at 4am.
Exam in less than 8hrs.
Hating insomnia right now.
Will undeniably flunk Romanticism and Victorian Literature classes.
Might eventually lead to academic probation again.
Failing life is not an option.
Must resist failure at all cost.
Remembered failure is twice as expensive.
Need to stop thinking.
Brain going into overload and will shut down soon.
Having thoughts about Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
Plath’s head-inside-oven definitely wins over Woolf’s drowning suicide.
Oven = baking = cookies.
Sudden urge to start baking now.
Then remembered exam is in few hours.
Brain finally tired from too much contemplation.
Do not want to be like Plath.
Sir Sleep now comes.
Mistress Alarm arrives in T-3 hrs.
Now I go sleep.
That is all.
Adieu.
Vanity: A Vindication for the True Beauty in Women
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
~Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin
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For quite some time now, I have been avoiding reading Mary Wollstencraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (you may have heard her as the mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein) because I cannot the stand the run-on writing style of her period. The sentences overflow with tremendous commas that I find myself lost in the middle of a syntactical chaos. Then again, I have only read Wollstencraft’s work once in my entire lifetime and like any other piece of literature, a mere one-hour sitting is not sufficient to fully grasp its whole essence.
However, from that one-hour reading I can tell you she was quite the feminist writer who used the pen to rebel against degradation of women’s rights and status in a patriarchal society. From reading this text, I cannot help but ponder how we, women, have indeed gone a long way from being just mere “caretakers” of the household (more…)
Technology: A Modern Day Inferno
Friday, February 27, 2009 In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
~Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno
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‘Twas a lovely Thursday afternoon and sleepy as I was, I woke up with a definite smile on my face. Yesterday, was a complete disaster since I got called in to work unexpectedly. It was a killer night and it was only for some miraculous reason that I actually managed to escape the office around 11:30pm despite the workload being similar to a Senecan greek tragedy- in other words, very brutal and bloody. After doing my “morning rituals” at 2:00pm, I went to hover on my computer, hoping for some comic relief and ironically, this message greeted my smiling face instead:
Insufficient system resources to complete requested services.
Technology has been trying to spite me for the last couple of months and this frustration just keeps getting better and better. Imagine a figure in the form of Cerberus (more…)
