March 17, 2008
March 04, 2008
Father and Son
_ Where are you now?
_ I...
I see trees,
there's a path...
_ Are you still over there?
_ the sun...
_ Where is it?
_ It's beautiful.
_ Am I over there?
_ No,
I'm all alone.
a film by: Alexander Sokurov
January 25, 2008
on Writing
"Read, read,read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! you'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."(William Faulkner)
Imitation is one of the best ways of learning. Is it not by copying that most painters acquire their skill? In the field of writing too, a great deal can be learnt by following the style of certain writers. It forces you to study a model, and gives you the framework within which to write, whilst still allowing you to be fully imaginative and creative. It is therefore a first step on the way to free writing.
from Writing for Advanced Learners of English
by Francoise Grellet
December 29, 2007
...In a land of zero degree
which is neither east nor west
has neither day nor night
which is neither cold nor warm
I learned the feeling of exile
"Wong Kar-wai"
December 15, 2007
Harbinger
a person or thing showing that something is going to happen or is on its way:
Daffodils are a harbinger of spring.
Cock is the harbinger of the dawn.
November 03, 2007
Some write to remember,
some write to forget,
Welcome to the hotel california !
such a lovely place !
such a lovely place !!
October 07, 2007
" I waited on the corner for my blind date. When this girl walked by, I said, " Are you Linda?" She said " Are you Richard?" " I said,"yeah". She said," I'm not Linda."
Richard Prince- 1991
September 11, 2007
Pierrot le fou
--- I wonder what's keeping the cops. We should be in jail by now.
--- They're smart... They let people destroy themselves.
from the film : Pierrot Le Fou by Godard
August 13, 2007
“We were sometimes seized by an urge to kill our love affair before it had reached its natural end, a murder committed not out of hatred, but out of an excess of love-- or rather, out of the fear that an excess of love may bring. Lovers may kill their own love story only because they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty, the risk, that their experiment in happiness has delivered.”
from" On Love " by du Botton- page 163
July 16, 2007
Prenom Carmen
- When everything's been lost, but it's daybreak and yet we are still breathing....
- It's called sunrise, miss.
form the film "Prenom Carmen" by Godard
July 15, 2007
Une femme est une femme
- Is this a tragedy or a comedy?
- you never know with women.
from the film : Une femme est une femme
July 04, 2007
" She really was adorable [thought the lover, at th pinnacle of subjective judgment]. But how could I tell her so in a way that would suggest the distinctive nature of my attraction? Words like love or devotion or infatuation were exhausted by the weight of successive love stories, by the layers imposed on them through the uses of others. At the moment when I most wanted language to be original, personal, and completely private, I came up against the irrevocably public nature of the language of the heart."
Page 103- from On Love by Alain de Botton
June 29, 2007
On Love
" The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [ we soon feel ungreatful ] or those who never allow us to kiss them [ we soon forget them ] , but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes."
from : On Love by Alain de Botton
page 27.
April 15, 2007
I am so sorry, I didn't want to ping this blog. It was a mistake.
April 08, 2007
Sunday afternoon
Sunday afternoon is the best time to relax and read a book. I started reading this book a few weeks ago but I haven't had a chance to finish it. The book is not that interesting as I expected to be; however I'll continue reading it, who knows, may be I find a hidden miracle (if there is any ! ).
I moved out my plants and made this little place a comfortable, warm resort especially for sunny Sundays.
February 11, 2007
I am in the between-semester holidays and I have to read for an exam that I postponed it to its second deadline(?). I am going to start studying tomorrow. Two Shakespeare's plays(Romeo & Juliet, Coriolanus) and a Marlow's play(The Jew of Malta) will be the texts to be read and analyze; plus the reader. I have almost two weeks to prepare myself and also there are many things to do in-between like visiting my dentist( I don't dare to set an appointment because I know it would be at least one surgery on my wisdom tooth) and ....
I bought a new plant for myself. Next time I will buy some rope because I plan to hang it from the ceiling. Yes, plants must be in every possible places in our flat !
January 25, 2007
Tomorrow I have a difficult exam :(
My sister told me now that when you have exam, in two occasions you are completely relaxed and not nervous:first when you know everything, and second when you know nothing.
I am very relaxed now.
Of course, the first condition doesn't suit me tonight !
January 12, 2007
There are some moments in life like this present moment. I’m in the university; in the computer room. Other people are also here, checking their emails or whatever. And I just feel like I’m falling without knowing the reason. I don’t like this especial feeling. To do a rational fall, you always need to be somewhere higher than at least your height.
I miss climbing mountains more than anything, there you can find enough space which gives you a logical reason to fall. However, it’s funny that I don’t like to fall when I climb. I just want to go up and up, not to reach the peak but to keep aloof as much as I could from that bellow.
I miss mountains.
January 10, 2007
word of the day
rhinoceros or rhino:
a large, heavy, thick-skinned animal of Africa or Asia, with either one or two horns on its head.
January 09, 2007
Stewart Selman's diary
For one of my courses I needed an audio file,therefore I googled the keywords and I found this story which is really sad.It's the story of Stewart Selman , a 48-year-old man who was told he had a brain tumor. Selman began an audio diary to leave a record for his wife, Rebecca and their children.
This is full of sorrow and without sentimental unrealistic romance. But you feel Rebecca's love through her voice and it's so sad and it makes you cry.
I cried.
