What They Don't Teach at School

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school.

They don't teach you how to love somebody.
They don't teach you how to be famous.
They don't teach you how to be rich, or how to be poor.
They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer.
They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind.
They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying.

They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

-From Rose Walker's Journal,
The Sandman Comics by Neil Gaiman





And after years and years,we pay our schools thousand of pesos just to give us a piece of paper.

The stupidity. Well, I see that in today's society that piece of paper counts for something. Anyway, let's talk something sensible, like how addicting is the internet. Well we can just hope that somehow life can be as addicting the net.

I don't have anything much going on personally, except, I hope to watch movies this next few days. An unofficial vacation has been granted to me due to my chicken pox. Well, how weird is that. It's annoying really. *sigh* You gotta stop thinking about the scars on your face after this fiasco ends! Mental note to myself, that is.

At first, I was prepared to use violence and any means necessary just so I can escape the doctor. When I was just by the doctor's door, I even imagined taking the money for the trip and running off in the opposite direction. It wasn't really horrible. Make yourself dumb and lower your iq( not that hard for me ) so that you can take the humiliation and embarrassment that a visit to the doctor entails.

Really now, I have to miss my classes for a week. Not really looking forward to the catching up afterwards. Think of all the handouts i'm gonna swim - I mean skim. Reading copious amount of information and retaining it is a skill I frankly need tuning.

A Madman's Way of the Words and the Worlds

"You know, ennui is insufficient reason to suicide."

I didn't know until I read Neil Gaiman's works.
Aside from the weekly manga updates online, Neil Gaiman's works are one of the few things that persuade me that every breath I take is still worth the ennui. But to you, it might be something like, music? study? or late night news? something stupid like that too, huh. But Neil Gaiman's work of arts are not only that but more, like adding raelity to the hope of the good life and decreasing the weight of life's utter despair. But maybe it's just me.

I'd like to enumerate NEIL GAIMAN'S Works of Art that I know of:

Sandman comic book series. This one is a comic book of 75 issue mostly about the personification/deification of DREAM and his family the Endless, namely; Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium and the late Destruction. I hear they're making this one a movie, I hope so.

American Gods. Well the first novel of Gaiman's that i've read, after the first time i read it, i borrowed it, and gave it back months late, and then borrowed it again for awhile, i thought about just taking it, you know not giving it back, cause the book was just so awesome! But i still valued my honor and i gave back the book to it's owner. And yeah, this one's about long forgotten Gods reincarnated and the upcoming war between them and the modern Gods. The old Gods were the Norse, Egyptian, Greecian and the like, guess the other Gods? Yep, they were Technology, Mass Media and etc.

Good Omens. This one Gaiman co-writed it with another author, but it still reads like him though. The maggots, particularly the maggots. The Anti-Christ is just a kid and the Armaggedon is coming while an Angel and Demon work together to stop it consulting a book of (very accurate) prophecy written by a witch centuries ago. Fun read, if you want to laugh at humanity at it's foibles on how, inevitable and unresistable a deed, an act, a sin is.

Anansi Boys. Now, this one I like. As a teen, I can relate to Fat Charlie Nancy's embarrassment about his father, but it doesn't stop me from laughing out loud at his clumsiness. I love his brother Spider though. A story that is about family and brotherhood and magic and self-confidence and songs.

Coraline & Beowulf. Coraline story and plot written by Gaiman, Beowulf script written by Gaiman. Awesomeness speak for it self in the big screen. Watch and be awed.

Fragile Things & Smokes and Mirrors. This two are collection of short stories and poems written by Neil Gaiman. Interesting read. Extremely interesting.

Neverwhere & Stardust. Neverwhere I have not a chance to read (im broke) and Stardust is a novel that has been adopted to a movie, I hear.

That ends my Neil Gaiman litany. And so's my post.

Good to see y'all.