Drinking Straw Day/Start Your New Year's Resolutions Day/Festival Of Sleep
2005-01-03 @ 11:44 p.m.

School today was an utter waste of time. Quite a joke actually. Mr Purvis cancelled GP, as expected. Mr Sowden cancelled his lecture and tutorial, also as expected. Mr Rollason had to cancel his tutorial because there was a miscommunication, which resulted in everyone thinking it was cancelled and thus disappearing. There was no PE, or rather it was just a briefing about how we can't use a lot of the stuff at the new campus yet. Not surprisingly, only Mr Tay managed to have a tutorial with us, which was somewhat productive, all things considered. I wonder if the same thing's going to happen tomorrow? That'd be quite funny! Sigh, I didn't get any more essays done today. I really have to finish Mr Kwok's book review tomorrow, if only for the psychological boost of completing another piece of work, however minor it is.

Therefore, I am completing a sonnet that I started a few weeks ago. Structurally and thematically speaking, it's a sonnet. I think it sounds very wooden though, and rhyming is hard work. I have a newfound respect for the geniuses that can rhyme and still sound natural, which includes people like Robert Frost and Thom Gunn. Much as I find Frost abstruse and downright boring at times, there's no denying that that man could rhyme and sound like he was speaking. The same goes for Gunn, who is recondite in his own way, but also succeeds in writing modern poetry using traditional forms. Virtually all his poems rhyme, and a good number of them are even in iambic pentameter, which is really impressive in this age of free verse and sloppy enjambments. Someone once tagged my poetry blog, directing me to a critique of Carol Ann Duffy that I found quite insightful, revealing as it did some of the less impressive specimens of Duffy's work, diction-wise and otherwise.

This week:

Thank A Cow Week

Thank Your Customers Week