As You Like It !!!

When ever I mention William Shakespeare, most of us will just think of the play 'Romeo and Juliet', or maybe some of us will flashback on the poem 'Life Brief Candle' (Yea... the one in form one literature text book). There are much much more great pieces written by Shakespeare (duh!), although I am not a english literature fan, I enjoy reading them as bedtime story ^-^

I go through some webpage just down, and I found a summary of a play by Shakespeare I read b4. It's 'As You Like It'. I took down the summay and post it up so everyone can share.

In this play, Duke Frederick (the younger duke) usurps his older brother, Duke Senior, and banishes him to the Forest of Arden. Frederick goes on to banish Duke Senior's daughter Rosalind. Frederick's daughter, Celia (Rosalind's cousin) flees her evil father with Rosalind and they head (along with Touchstone, the clown) to the Forest of Arden. Before leaving, though, Rosalind falls in love with Orlando and he with her after he beats Charles in a wrestling match. Orlando, the younger son of Sir Rowland, had rebelled at being kept a virtual prisoner by his older brother, Oliver. Duke Frederick and Oliver had hoped that Charles would kill or cripple Orlando in the match, but Orlando managed to throw and injure Charles. Soon after, Orlando flees his older brother, Oliver, after their servant Adam warns Orlando of Oliver's plans to kill him. Orlando and Adam also flee to the Forest of Arden. Duke Frederick, upon finding Celia, Rosalind, and Orlando missing, orders Oliver to find them, or face banishment himself.

In the Forest, the cousins, disguised as Ganymede (a male) and Aliena, and the clown Touchstone purchase a shepherd's hut, a flock, and a pasture from two shepherds, Corin and Silvius. In another part of the forest, the banished Duke Senior discusses the philosophizing of his melancholy courier Jaques, who is even more mad and morose than usual due to the singing of another courtier, Amiens. When Duke Senior meets him, however, Jaques is now merry, having met the clever fool, Touchstone, in the forest. Meanwhile, Orlando has been desperately searching for food, and, with a drawn sword, he enters Duke Senior's banqueting place and demands food. However, Duke Senior greets Orlando with unexpected kindness and welcomes him and Adam to his camp.

Orlando, knowing that Rosalind is somewhere in the forest, wanders through the forest hanging love verses to Rosalind upon the branches of trees. Rosalind finds the verses, and, pretending to be a male (Ganymede), she talks at length with Orlando about his true love, Rosalind. As Ganymede, she offers to pose as Rosalind and to allow Orlando to practice his wooing with her. Meanwhile, Touchstone is planning his own romance with Audrey (a sheepherder), though a commoner named William also seeks Audrey until Touchstone scares him off. "Ganymede" witnesses the love affair of Phebe and Silvius, two shepherds; Phebe treats Silvius coldly and "Ganymede" chides her for it, but Phebe instantly falls in love with "Ganymede", thinking Rosalind is a he. After "Ganymede" leaves, Phebe decides that she will write a love letter to "him" and have Silvius deliver it.

Silvius delivers the letter, and Rosalind decides that she will remedy the situation and help Silvius get Phebe by eventually revealing that "Ganymede" is a she. The exiled Oliver finds "Ganymede" and tells "him" that, while sleeping in the forest, he was saved from the attack of a lioness by his brother Orlando. Orlando was wounded and asked Oliver to bring a bloody napkin as proof of the fight and as explanation for missing his appointment with "Ganymede". "Ganymede" faints, then pretends that she was faking, though Oliver comes to realize that "Ganymede" is really Rosalind.

Orlando and Oliver are now reconciled, and Oliver tells his brother that he has fallen in love with "Aliena", the disguised Celia. They will be married the next day. Orlando returns to "Ganymede", still not knowing it is Rosalind because Oliver keeps her secret. He laments that he cannot marry his Rosalind tomorrow, but "Ganymede" promises to make it possible via magic. At the wedding, "Ganymede" reveals that "he" is actually Rosalind, causing Orlando to rejoice. Additionally, Phebe is forced to marry Silvius since she can no longer marry "Ganymede". Now, Hymen, the god of marriage, marries Orlando and Rosalind, Oliver and Celia, Silvius and Phebe, & Touchstone and Audrey. After the wedding, Jaques de Boys (a new Jaques), a long lost brother of Oliver and Orlando arrives with the news that Duke Frederick was converted to good by an old religious man, and has requested that all of the banished people return home and have their estates back. Lastly, Rosalind recites an epilogue, requesting the audience enjoy the play as much as they please, and not more.

Well, I just read the compress version of this play (the original version is very expensive!!!), but Ireally do enjoy this story. Hope every one will like it! ",

Boredom 2.8

This is what we call life, full of suffering. Just like I never ever want to cum back to my parents’ hometown. I m suffering in boredoms, although there is fifteen over homework waiting for me, I just can’t concentrate with 35ºC hot weather and those vampire (mosquitoes, I mean).

4 noble truth

Life is suffering.

The cause of suffering.

The end of suffering.

The way to end the suffering AKA practice Noble eightfold path

Noble eightfold path

Right Understanding (Samma Dithi)

Right Thought (Samma Samkappa)

Right Speech (Samma Vaca)

Right Action (Samma Kammanta)

Right Livelihood (Samma Vayama)

Right Effort (Samma Ajiva)

Right Mindfulness (Samma Sati)

Right Concentration (Samma Samadhi)

(panna) (sila) (samadhi)

If anyone ever remembers the structure of stupa (I bet no one actually cares, except some sacred fellow…), samadhi lead to sila, then sila lead to panna . Without right concerntration, mampuslah the practice of four noble truth.

Well, I dun know y I write these stuff. No wonder they say science class student always link things to a wide area, now I experiences th sillyness of it.

Hatred 2.7

This blog is started under a super emo mood. And yet, this posting was posted because i dun wanna c the blog being so empty.

It was the Ratty Chinese New Year, the celebration that i hate the most. This is mainly because my family celebrate this day, and this change my life.

We had to clean up the house b4 new year, which i think it's a waste of energy, because we are going back to our parents hometown.

We need to buy new cloths. Our delightful mother is wise enough to do all the shopping by herself (sometimes accompany by one of my sisters), and after that, she makes all her daughters her barbie dolls. Well, she save our time from shopping, but I still dun enjoy trying on all kinds of shirts.

After all, we need to pack for hometown (my parent's hometown, I'll call it my hometown for shortcut). I dislike to go there, there will be a long list of reason if you ask me why. This year, I only pack on the day we are getting up to the north-south highway (if I ever have time to pack, I rather finish my holiday work).

Just face it, just because of a chinese new year, I have to missed a chinese language lesson, a malay language tuition and my loveliest history tuition. My dad decided to went back earlier just in case we trapped into the unwanted traffic jam. But do they ever think of me? I mean, I use to sleep during history lesson in school...=^_^=

We spend 3 to 4 hours travelling there, long distances for me. I easily get dizzy in vehicles, 5 to 10 minutes in a moving car is enough for me. Imagine how sick will I turn in this journey...

I have no good memories in my hometown. Never once in my life I ever get a peaceful vacation from there. I was a naughty girl in th elders' eye since young, if anything get wrong among the kids (me, my sister, my cousins...), 99% is my fault. Well, maybe I was really a bad girl when I was young. Until last year, I still give them bad impression by roaring them (can't blame me, the weather there is hell-like toasty!). In conclusion, I dun like them and they dun like me.

This year was slightly different. Some of my relatives are not here, and I hardly care about the others by keeping myself emo. I help a bit in housechores, and they though I was slightly grown up. Amazingly, I have been here for whole two days without any scolding. I was kinda miss the feeling of being in my hometown, I hope they will continue that so I can continue hate this town like the past fifteen years.

I am at a small town in North Perak (Not Ipoh, If I am that lucky...). There isn't any Midvalley Megamall, ro KLCC, or One U, or Time Square etc. here. I hate shopping, but Ilike to see big shopping mall around me, at least there will be something I need inside. This small town here just have Fajah and The Store for the past 15 years. On my visit during the year of rat, there is Tesco and Giant here. I took an hour to Tesco today (for the air-cond, its insanely hot here.), it shows this proverb perfectly well: You can take a boy out of the village, but you can't take the village out of the boy. The people there really ...(I dun wanna say -_-"). The seafood area in Tesco was a great example, the way they clean the seafood was extraordinarily "hygienic", blood every where on where they exhibit. Pls, I doesn't mean to disgrace Tesco, they are nice place, but depends on where they where placed.

Well, I still don't like this place. I will still come back here for every chinese new year if I ever under the guardianship of my parents. Anyway, it will be around ten years or less than that...