As you can see from the title of this post, Six Feet Under The Stars by ATL is my current favourite song... Along with a few others that the awesome Dionne recommended me... She told me to go listen to a few bands like The Cab and The Pretty Reckless and so I did. They have amazing music! I heard The Cab is great live too, so if they ever come to SG, I'm definitely going. :)
Oh yeah, I'm not blogging about the rest of the Taiwan trip anymore, sorry if you wanted me to! I just read the other girls' blogs and thought it'd be better if you guys read their Taiwan posts instead cause they have pictures and all and the posts are much more accurate. My previous post on Day 1 and 2 were only produced based on my memory ahaha.
Lianne: catchingaeroplanes.blogspot.com
Tania: tania-ng.blogspot.com
Emily: emilychok.blogspot.com
As for Zijun, I don't think she blogged at all about Taiwan hahah.
(Random: I'm listening to Disenchanted now and it reminds me of Lifang, I miss that girl and she hasn't been replying my texts --> I sound like a clingy boyfriend)
Anyways, today I finished reading Saved by the Music and it's gorgeous. Best read in a long while. Plus it ended in a happy ending, and I love happy endings.
It's about the two main characters, Willow and Axel, as they discuss Shakespeare's famous quote, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
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"But Shakespeare was right," he said. "We are all just players. We have no control. Someone else wrote the script, and we're all at their mercy. It's like the witches in Macbeth predicting his fate, luring him to it. The die is cast."
"I'd say Macbeth's fate had more to do with his pushy wife."
"I'd just like some choice. I'd like to write the script for once."
"Then pick up a pen."
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And there it was, like when I read that line I was just- wow. Mindblown. It's just one short sentence that kinda closes the subject, almost like Willow's saying, really easily, that we can all write our own fates, nothing's really written in the stars.
It's an amazing book. There's so much more I would quote, almost the whole book in fact, but of course I'm not doing that, it's nuts.
Well basically this book's about Willow, neglected and quite alone, who goes to stay with her eccentric Aunt Agatha (This sounds like Charles Dickens' Great Expectations) for the summer. And there she meets Axel , a troubled boy three years older than her, with a disturbing past.
I know it sounds cliched and all, even I wasn't expecting much when I borrowed this book. Sounds like some typical boy-meets-girl (and vice versa) summer love story, right? But it ain't.
Axel is deep, from the way he talks in the book, you'd think he was fifty or something. He's full of philosophy and Shakesperean quotes, also depressed and sick with life.
Oh and the author describes him as a young Jim Morrison double, complete with the straggly hair and hippie look, though in the book he's only eighteen. But I see him as a Warren Peace. The guy from Sky High with the fire power.
I love this book, I just wish I didn't have to return it :(
Anyway, it's bedtime. 10.53pm now. I think I'm re-reading the book tomorrow ahaha.
BYE
(Edit: Ah, my paragraphing's screwed up. But I know you'll forgive that)
(Edit again: Solved my paragraphing, yay)
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