Sunday 18 September 2011
Monday 12 September 2011
To Blog or not to Blog
Just ended up reading my blog again tonight. Been wondering what to do with it for a while. Whether to burn it to ashes so the phoenix of a new blog can rise... That's still an option, but I do like this blog's name - which is a big factor in its chances of survival.
Speaking of the importance of names, I've been an on-and-off member for 5 years of the WoW guild with the coolest name ever. I do really love the people there. I just don't love WoW. It feels a bit like trying to stay with a girl I'm fed up with because I really like her family. Hope I can find some compromise in the future so as to stay in touch properly while avoiding the grind and timesink of WoW.
Anyway, as I say, been reading my blog, and it reminded me of why I used to blog. It's so that there'd be a record of my thoughts and feelings for the future. In hindsight my simplification of my game reviews was a mistake. No one's gonna read this except for me. And maybe my family after I die. And it's good to go back and read what I've written. Especially as I write so well, ma sha Allah!
It reminds me of when I come across a funny piece of writing from my teens, and realise just how good it was. Can i maintain a habit of blogging? I honestly and truly don't know. What I do know is that I hope I can. Not to prove my strength of will. Not to please other people. Not to develop my writing skills. But because I'll enjoy reading these back at various points in my future. Do I care enough for my future self? Only time will tell...
Speaking of the importance of names, I've been an on-and-off member for 5 years of the WoW guild with the coolest name ever. I do really love the people there. I just don't love WoW. It feels a bit like trying to stay with a girl I'm fed up with because I really like her family. Hope I can find some compromise in the future so as to stay in touch properly while avoiding the grind and timesink of WoW.
Anyway, as I say, been reading my blog, and it reminded me of why I used to blog. It's so that there'd be a record of my thoughts and feelings for the future. In hindsight my simplification of my game reviews was a mistake. No one's gonna read this except for me. And maybe my family after I die. And it's good to go back and read what I've written. Especially as I write so well, ma sha Allah!
It reminds me of when I come across a funny piece of writing from my teens, and realise just how good it was. Can i maintain a habit of blogging? I honestly and truly don't know. What I do know is that I hope I can. Not to prove my strength of will. Not to please other people. Not to develop my writing skills. But because I'll enjoy reading these back at various points in my future. Do I care enough for my future self? Only time will tell...
Thursday 7 April 2011
Valentine's Day
Who told me that Valentine's Day was a good film that I should watch? I know someone did. Will anyone own up?
OK. It's not actually dreadful. It's just tediously formulaic in a "Modern" kinda way. On the plus side, the relentless twists and overly calculated lack of sentimentality mean that the film just about avoids getting too... sentimental. Even then it's a close-run thing though.
To say the film is an Americanised version of Love Actually is so obvious I can't imagine anyone not saying it. Nevertheless, it's also a statement of fact. One that says everything you need to know about what's wrong with it. As well as everything that's not quite wrong.
In fact, it's the not-quite-wrongness that makes the film so frustrating to watch. The film vacillates between moments when I smile wryly, to moments when i want to pull my hair out. With plenty of dull "meh" periods in between.
It's confused. It tries to be both a romance and a smartass comedy. Equally and at the same time. It's a combination that just doesn't work. It is, however, very Modern.
OK. It's not actually dreadful. It's just tediously formulaic in a "Modern" kinda way. On the plus side, the relentless twists and overly calculated lack of sentimentality mean that the film just about avoids getting too... sentimental. Even then it's a close-run thing though.
To say the film is an Americanised version of Love Actually is so obvious I can't imagine anyone not saying it. Nevertheless, it's also a statement of fact. One that says everything you need to know about what's wrong with it. As well as everything that's not quite wrong.
In fact, it's the not-quite-wrongness that makes the film so frustrating to watch. The film vacillates between moments when I smile wryly, to moments when i want to pull my hair out. With plenty of dull "meh" periods in between.
It's confused. It tries to be both a romance and a smartass comedy. Equally and at the same time. It's a combination that just doesn't work. It is, however, very Modern.
Wednesday 30 March 2011
Birthday Poo!
A silly little poem inspired by my recent birthday. The meter's a bit weird, but then so is the content. Tetrameter-tetrameter-trimeter with an A-B-A rhyme scheme. It's probably lyrical. Ha!
Birthday Poo
A birthday poo. A birthday poo.
That's what I'm gonna do today
When I go to the loo.
Behold, on this auspicious day,
My faecal matter's magical.
Three cheers! Hip hip hooray!
It's not a plain or normal turd.
It's gonna make the greatest plop
Your ears have ever heard.
You'll want this special excrement
But after midnight tolls, alas...
It brings your detriment.
So hurry up and grab my cack
Of annivers'ry potency.
But please don't give it back!
Birthday Poo
A birthday poo. A birthday poo.
That's what I'm gonna do today
When I go to the loo.
Behold, on this auspicious day,
My faecal matter's magical.
Three cheers! Hip hip hooray!
It's not a plain or normal turd.
It's gonna make the greatest plop
Your ears have ever heard.
You'll want this special excrement
But after midnight tolls, alas...
It brings your detriment.
So hurry up and grab my cack
Of annivers'ry potency.
But please don't give it back!
Hiatus is over!
Disappeared for quite a while. Guess I should do a quick recap of what was happening over autumn and winter. I think the latter part of Ramadan was typically busy for me, with very little respite. Truthfully though,I'm pretty hazy on what was going on at the end of last year. Although the fiasco with my bike was a big pain. (Problems with a burst tyre where one thing lead to another.) Oh, yeah. I went on holiday to Cyprus last autumn which was amazing. And also bought myself an e-reader (the Amazon Kindle), which got me back into reading. Indeed I discovered the formulaic fun of P.G. Wodehouse.
Nowadays I've taught myself to crochet and have made a whole load of hats. I'll have to take pics of them all and blog them sometime. Had a bit of oddness at work earlier this year. Someone was heavily flirting with me. Too much so. And since I backed off they've been very cold with me. Also, thanks to my birthday my bike has finally been fixed. Plus I used my birthday money to get a new netbook to facilitate writing. Using it now. Let's hope I don't tread on this one like the last!
Nowadays I've taught myself to crochet and have made a whole load of hats. I'll have to take pics of them all and blog them sometime. Had a bit of oddness at work earlier this year. Someone was heavily flirting with me. Too much so. And since I backed off they've been very cold with me. Also, thanks to my birthday my bike has finally been fixed. Plus I used my birthday money to get a new netbook to facilitate writing. Using it now. Let's hope I don't tread on this one like the last!
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