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2005-10-08 @ 10:22 p.m.

I like The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho's novel, not Ben Jonson's play. (Haven't read the latter though, so I might end up liking it anyway.) It offers me the hope that life can still turn out differently from what I'm expecting it to for me, and I mean that in a good way. I've always believed that I'm not interesting enough, in the sense that I wouldn't really want to know me if I were someone else, if you catch my drift. Perhaps I am wrong again. This is why I long to enter into university life. It holds out the promise of a life that I'd enjoy for its own sake, not a life spent shackled to the quotidian details of an ordinary life on an ordinary island. Yes, this is an ordinary island, despite what National Education would have you believe. The more I think about it, the more I find the case study of Venice in the 'O' Level Combined Humanities syllabus to be ironic. At least Venice's fall represented a cultural loss, which is really a lot more worth mourning than an economic loss. There will always be a rising economy somewhere, but no two cultures will ever be identical. Okay, I will now valiantly attempt to be more interesting in a geekish fashion. Just came across this site that discusses -nym words. Very interesting stuff. The main site is here. Learnt something else interesting. Did you know that "esssse" is an archaic word meaning "ashes"? Another interesting site is Luciferous Logolepsy, which means "an illuminating obsession with words. Some of their choices are a bit dubious, like "enjambement" and "juvenilia", but perhaps they only appear so to someone acquainted with poetry. An intriguing list of obscure words though, one which I might start reading out of curiosity when I get bored with studying. Oh well. To my friends, I wish you every success in finding your eudaemonia, your true happiness, during this stressful month.