2011 was a good year
it pains me to say goodbye to you

Happy Holidays everyone! Where I'm from, we celebrate Christmas. Unfortunately, I think I have finally reached that age where Christmas is suddenly just like every other day of the year. So I will blog about Extremely Loud... which I just finished a few minutes ago. From what I've read on the internet, the movie came out December 25, 2011. And I can't get the thought of how it's very possible that while I'm reading a certain part of the book, someone somewhere could be watching that exact same scene in the big screen. Just how fascinating is that? And it could be happening, in every single book that's been turned into a movie, or a play that's being held in the theatre. Or maybe even just the news, how someone could be reading about a dirty politician's statement and at the same time, someone else would be hearing and seeing that same politician actually say that statement, simultaneously as the other person is reading it. The world is such a big place, and at this moment, whoever you are that's reading this, we are both breathing, maybe we're both even sitting down in front of the computer with one tab on 9gag. Maybe we're listening to the same song a the same time. How cool would that be? We do not know each other personally, maybe you only know me for my words, but we could say the exact same word at the exact same time without being aware of it at all. Let's try this. At the count of three, we read that two letter word almost anyone from any part of the world would know how to say. Three... Two... One... "hi"

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Just a clarification: I had read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close last summer because I borrowed it from the library.
And the cartoon I was talking about is this.
Because rereading my last post made me realize how vague I was.

I asked her, “Could we kiss for a little bit?”
“Excuse me,” she said, although, on the other hand, she didn’t pull her head back.
I told her, “Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.”

 I have to admit that most of the time, just mere quotes from a certain thing could drag me to invest time in it. It doesn't necessarily have to be a passage, such as this one, but sometimes it could just be a sentence, with five or six words. (An example:) I watched Casablanca because I saw a cartoon of a man saying "Here's looking at you, kid" to a woman. I had no idea it was from Casablanca, but I fell in love with those five words that I searched for them online and even though I had not a single clue what Casablanca was about (all I knew is that it's a classic romance film from the 40's), I watched it. And I had no regrets because it is easily one of my favourite films of all time. Same goes with this quote. To be perfectly honest, I expected this book to be about romance. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love... you know the drill. But it wasn't that, at all. It's so much better than that.
Anyway, I got it as a Christmas present from a friend and I'm really really happy that I finally own it. It brings me back to the rainy bus rides while holding this book and watching the tiny beads of rain drops fall to the bottom of the bus window.

Now I'm rereading it on a sunny winter day, so even though the dramatic effect of being in a bus full of strangers and the light tap tap tap of raindrops on the window is no longer there, the same feeling of content and fascination is still there.
I love books. I really do.

**irrelevant side note: the title of this post is actually from the dedication of the book. It states

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Labels: music

so one of the girls i was following on tumblr made a post saying how her class had a mixed CD where every student chose one song to describe themselves and she chose "Friday I'm in Love" by The Cure (which is a song I really do love)
well this got me thinking
if i had to choose a song that would describe me it would have to be this

youre never good enough
all you can ever do is want
and watch it slowly drift away from you and settle with the idea that it will never be yours
go ahead be that way
and youll forever be nothing

Labels: i'm broken, nocturnal thoughts