Hello people, My name is Su-Yen.
Or I could also be Yennie or Yen.
I am seventeen going on a hundred.
I like long walks and country sides.
I like the smell of rain and trees.
This is my blog, Though I'm not sure what it's actually for.
Maybe I want attention. Like yay! x)
No seriously, maybe I do.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008!
LAMENTED AT; 12:10 pm
And this is why.
This is why as much as I would love to read more books, I just can't. Simply because I have emo issues whenever I read. And it doesn't even have to be the stupid love novel! Whatever I read will make me sad. it's the feeling of utter attachment to the books you read that you become the character or imagine every single detail so vividly in your mind that you are like a fuzzy shadow following the characters around. Not seen and not heard, sort of like the ghost of Christmas past present and future.
This problem has affected me so much that I've even decided to come up with a name for this disease. I'll call it, deep-reading-syndrome (DRS). Right next to my other made up disease, Over Achiever Kiasu Syndrome or better known in my earlier posts as (OAK) .
One day, I'll come up with a big book of theologies titled, 'Theologies of the mind and made up disorders'. Yes, I shall be a very famous person! I'll go around the world and autograph my theological books. Then, i'll have cures to them too! But this I can't promise cause I have to solve them myself first (not gonna happen). bummer eh?
Anyways, i love 'Love meg'. Though, it makes me sad. Like I said, I hardly really read normal novels about people but I was desperate to find reading material and the holidays just stir up an appetite for reading. (: Sort of a warm and fuzzy book of course, and definitely a must read!
So the only way I can think of the combat the whole DRS thing is to read emotionless factual books. Garh, hard stuff to digest but interesting enough to read. ;D Carl Sagan has an awesome insight to the universe thing in his book titled 'Cosmos'. Theories and facts about the universe that makes you feel ever so tiny and small.
And though the book might strike off religions, it's not like I'm believing totally in it, it's just a new POV towards the world. Everyone deserves their own believes and plus, I still believe that no matter what small tiny particle or atom created the universe, SOMEONE great and all knowing must have created such an atom to begin with. Things don't just pop up of no where you know?
And reading this book will make you feel less self centered all the time. Because at the end of the day, we are tiny little specs in the huge universe. "Look beyond the space between space" As Indiana Jones put it simply.
And guess what, It's even a dvd! man i love documentaries. :D I haven't exactly watched it yet, but credits go to youtube. and the intro's good enough for me.
Sagan believed that the Drake equation suggested that a large number of extraterrestrial civilizations would form, but that the lack of evidence of such civilizations suggests technological civilizations tend to destroy themselves rather quickly. This stimulated his interest in identifying and publicizing ways that humanity could destroy itself, with the hope of avoiding such a cataclysm and eventually becoming a spacefaring species. HAH, told ya global warming will be the death of us.
Vocab. Yeah, I didn't unerstand most of it either. =P
Drake equation
an equation that estimates the number of Extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy with which we might come in contact.
Cataclysm
The cataclysm is the Greek expression for the Biblical Great Flood of Noah, from the Greek kataklysmos, to 'wash down' ('kluzein' wash - 'kata' down'). The modern usage of cataclysm is mostly confined to geological phenomena of high significance such as the destruction of Pompeii, the Indian Ocean Earthquake, etc.
In a nutshell, big geological events or disasters.
Interesting ehy? LOL, I don't know about you, but i thought so. Whatever, I like it so you have to hear about it. heee. :D
Sort of a warm and fuzzy book of course, and definitely a must read!