I’ve read the paperback version of “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk (the feeling of reading E-Books is different), have tried to read “Our Mutual Friend” by Charles Dickens but I literally surrendered after the second chapter since (hands down) the way it was written is so Old English. Even context clues can’t help; the second chapter involves this Twemlow – which might be a table or a person or some other thing I can’t fully understand – not that I blame its Dickensian type of writing.
So I resorted to my all-time favorite, J.D Salinger, with his “Franny and Zooey”. I finished it 3AM and flipped the pages of Madison Smartt Bell’s “Anything Goes”.
This is boredom, in every sense of the word. I counted the books I bagged from my summer vacation in the States (there are 30 of them, though I bought most of them for one or two dollars at the sidewalk vendors of Manhattan - and I left two books for my sister: David Sheff’s “Beautiful Boy” and Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking”). My Dad really told me how crazy I am to buy books instead of shirts.
I also played with two of my brother’s kids. I play wrestling with them. Or Uno cards. Though I don’t really like kids at all, I don’t have any option but to play with them since I’m really bored.
I also underline the unfamiliar words I encounter with a pencil. Then, with haste I go straight to the dictionary. And if inspired, I’d even put it in a sticky note and paste it within the pages of the book. Like, yeah.
I also play DoTA for three hours or so in the computer shop a block away from our house. I bought five sticks of Marlboro Menthol, dragged two sticks for warmth, and kept the remaining three at the farthest corner of my wooden cabinet. And to my surprise, I’m not craving for it nowadays. After buying it, I really asked myself why I did the buying since I’m not really into smoking.
I’ve cooked enough meals for all of us (even the maids were quite bewildered since I don’t usually cook for them LOL) and my recent fried rice tastes good. Only, whenever I fry rice the kitchen gets messy with all the bits of rice spewing and tossing around due to my exaggerated frying skills. To think that rice is expensive nowadays, and Burma and its dictatorial state of government, and the abnormal rains of May…
Of course I thought of blogging, but doing such a creative thing in a computer shop packed with DoTA addicts is relatively unusual. I can’t concentrate with my post-writing with all those eyes at my screen. And all those yells they make (or rather, WE make) while playing; all those PUUUUSH! PUUUSH! or BAAACK, BAAAACK.
So I’m in Netopia right now. I really went to SM Marilao for this. How dedicated, huh.
With my previous post, I’m afraid I can’t tell you what it is – but it’s NEVER porn or anything like that. Haha.
UPDATE: With Jeimar’s tag where I need to, uhh, give ten things that starts with an M – here it goes: Mountain View (the place I stayed in California), Myanmar, menstruation (that’s what Bloodseeker seeks in DoTA especially with Lina Inverse), melancholy, mitigated, morphodite (from To Kill a Mockingbird), marijuana, M&M’s, Motorola and mustard! And I’m not tagging anyone since I’m a good boy.
i envy you.
Good thing ye got some things to read. Well my cure (should I even have to call it “cure”?) to boredom is to stare at my computer for hours. I mean at the desktop wallpaper or at the Firefox homepage until my mind hatches some bright idea. But when mom’s in a bad mood, I just go to the safest place I can be on earth — my room. And…uh…do some, you know, teenage stuff. Err…I guess you probably know what I mean.
I envy you also. I got into a job that drains me like hell. Napasubo aku alangya! haha! bushet! But it’s gonna end this week. Few days of enduring headache for me.
“I also underline the unfamiliar words I encounter with a pencil. Then, with haste I go straight to the dictionary. And if inspired, I’d even put it in a sticky note and paste it within the pages of the book. Like, yeah.” — I do that too. Hahahah! So geeky.
Boredom has made me do quite the opposite — I can’t read a book. T_T Weird.
“Boredom has made me do quite the opposite — I can’t read a book. T_T Weird.”
That’s way more geekier, Cars. Lol
wow, boredom in its finest ito!