A book review?
Have you every wondered why you are where you are with the people around you and the situations your in?
I bet everyone has, Its just that we don voice our reasons for doing so. Maybe for fear of something or other...or maybe we're just too lazy to open our mouths to say so...okok...i think i'm losing my head...on to more bor liao things... ;P
I am getting used to life at SIM. Its nice to know that i am not alone studying at such a far place. There are alot of SRJCians and PL lites studying there...i kinda get pissed at the fact that i travel half way across Singapore just to meet people i've already known for the past 2 to 10 years...well....bor bian lah~ Call it God's will i guess..but i've made it a point to make friends where ever i go... i have a vision that one day i will walk into a lecture and know everyone there... one day man! One day! Haha...
Getting back to studying after a break of more than 7 months is kinda hard coz my mind is still in the mood of 'whole day do nothing but slack'. It is a jolt to know that life is going to get harder by the units that i will be studying and sitting for at the exams in the new year ahead...
I see my J2 friends cramming for their up and coming Prelims lus teh dreaded A's. I see them with their heads in text books and fingers acheing from practising their maths, econs, geog, phy, etc. I find myself trying to rememebr what i was doing at the same time last year. I sometimes wish i had a second chance to o my A's better but then again i feel that i was given that one and only time, so now i must make the best of what i am given. Sound familiar?
I recently read and reread a particualr book entitled: Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marllier. I am not sure if i spelled her name correctly. Anyway the story is an in depth take on The Wild Swans. I remember loving that tale when i was young because i was memorised by the idea of swans being able to carry their sister across the ocean... had not learned of physics at that time...
The novel boosts elements of adventure, magic, politics, fantasy and most importantly (for me anyway...) love. I admit that i am a sucker for sweet love stories.
It does not seem for a long time that the main character will be able to have her 'happy ending', but somehow she does. Then again, the novel does reflect the fact that life is not fair and so there are deaths in the story. Both the bad and good die in various types of ways. I bawled my out eyes on more than one occasion.
The novel is part of a trilogy where Daughter of the Forest is the first book. I have had the opportunity to read the whole series. The subsiquent tales tell of the lifes of the main character's children and grand children.
Every story is told from a first person perspective. On every occasion, the main character is a girl and she has to go through many trials before she is able to have a level of victory over her problems which are complex and be united with her other half.
I personally prefer the first book to the rest of the stories. Why? Because i am me that why. :p
So much for writing a book review... time to get get bach to reality...
Cheers!
I bet everyone has, Its just that we don voice our reasons for doing so. Maybe for fear of something or other...or maybe we're just too lazy to open our mouths to say so...okok...i think i'm losing my head...on to more bor liao things... ;P
I am getting used to life at SIM. Its nice to know that i am not alone studying at such a far place. There are alot of SRJCians and PL lites studying there...i kinda get pissed at the fact that i travel half way across Singapore just to meet people i've already known for the past 2 to 10 years...well....bor bian lah~ Call it God's will i guess..but i've made it a point to make friends where ever i go... i have a vision that one day i will walk into a lecture and know everyone there... one day man! One day! Haha...
Getting back to studying after a break of more than 7 months is kinda hard coz my mind is still in the mood of 'whole day do nothing but slack'. It is a jolt to know that life is going to get harder by the units that i will be studying and sitting for at the exams in the new year ahead...
I see my J2 friends cramming for their up and coming Prelims lus teh dreaded A's. I see them with their heads in text books and fingers acheing from practising their maths, econs, geog, phy, etc. I find myself trying to rememebr what i was doing at the same time last year. I sometimes wish i had a second chance to o my A's better but then again i feel that i was given that one and only time, so now i must make the best of what i am given. Sound familiar?
I recently read and reread a particualr book entitled: Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marllier. I am not sure if i spelled her name correctly. Anyway the story is an in depth take on The Wild Swans. I remember loving that tale when i was young because i was memorised by the idea of swans being able to carry their sister across the ocean... had not learned of physics at that time...
The novel boosts elements of adventure, magic, politics, fantasy and most importantly (for me anyway...) love. I admit that i am a sucker for sweet love stories.
It does not seem for a long time that the main character will be able to have her 'happy ending', but somehow she does. Then again, the novel does reflect the fact that life is not fair and so there are deaths in the story. Both the bad and good die in various types of ways. I bawled my out eyes on more than one occasion.
The novel is part of a trilogy where Daughter of the Forest is the first book. I have had the opportunity to read the whole series. The subsiquent tales tell of the lifes of the main character's children and grand children.
Every story is told from a first person perspective. On every occasion, the main character is a girl and she has to go through many trials before she is able to have a level of victory over her problems which are complex and be united with her other half.
I personally prefer the first book to the rest of the stories. Why? Because i am me that why. :p
So much for writing a book review... time to get get bach to reality...
Cheers!
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