All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken.
A light from the shadow shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

~J.R.R. Tolkien

Friday, September 26, 2014

6.19 AM

I wish there is a pill that can make me fall asleep in three seconds.
Nobita has that ability naturally, I am jealous of him.

Sleeping is always a problem for me, waking up is not.
99% of the time I can wake up when the alarm rings.
It takes me so long to fall asleep, which is a waste of time.
If I plan to sleep for an hour, basically I have to time it out like this:
An hour just to fall asleep, another hour for sleeping, that means my sleeping takes two hours.
Sometimes, even after two hours I cannot fall asleep. Even after three hours. Not sometimes, actually.

If I can sleep in three seconds, that means I can sleep whenever I want, wake up whenever I want.
Then I can start to do whatever I want to do. Life in this little room is so boring and depressed at times, I have to take a break frequently. My breaks are basically taking a shower, going to the kitchen for something or sleeping. But sleeping takes so much time, so I take showers frequently.

So it's 6.32 AM now. Sunrise was around 5 AM I guess? I don't want the sun to rise.
Birds always start chirping at 3.15 AM, which is annoying.

Sleeplessness can do so many things to your brain.

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After my morning grumble, 2 hours later I fell asleep, and missed half of my class.
What is wrong with me? Luckily it's spring break starting from today.

I have to do a timetable and catch up with my study.

Have been reading Deleuze and Guattari for a Theory subject, still not a clue where the direction of my essay is heading to. Deleuze and Guattari, arghargharghargh. I guess only after many, many reads of philosophers' writings only can I be accustomed to their ways of laying things out, sometimes  I don't know what are they talking about, although I perfectly understand each word and the whole sentence. But don't 'get' it. Are you talking about literal things, or are you talking about something that can be applied to every thing?

Sometimes translation matters, a lot. Was reading one English translation of 'The Republic' by Plato, oh man, I had to read so many times even though it was just a few sentences that I was reading. Then I gave up. Then I went and borrowed the Penguin Book version. Hooray! Suddenly 'The Republic' became so easy to read. Wth. I do wonder from time to time, whether literal translation is more important or intelligible translation is what matters most.

Anyway, I need to tackle D&G (or whatever they are talking about) as soon as possible.