The Great Gatsby

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

—	Nick Caraway, The Great Gatsby

Remember when I posted that I had bought 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Well, I finished it last time (actually I finished it at 2 in the morning).

The 2012 The Great Gatsby is coming out in Summer 2013 and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby with Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan. I actually, whilst reading it, didn't picture Leonardo or Carey as Jay and Daisy. Especially with Nick Carraway - did not picture Tobey Maguire at all! But when I saw the AMAZING trailer, I thought that they suited the characters well. I'm sure they can pull it off and everything - I absolutely adore the setting, the props and the clothes they have. Just beautiful!

 

I honestly thought, before I finished the novella, that 'The Great Gatsby' would be about this guy named Gatsby who was this wonderful business man who did some sort of illegal business to get to this high position. Mind you, but I actually saw the trailer first, and I'm not American - so the Curriculum council didn't tell us to read this as it doesn't apply to our country, which is really a shame as I would have loved to read 'The Great Gatsby' instead of 'Of Mice and Men' as we did last year. They're both great books by the way, I just love The Great Gatsby more because it has romance in it!



Anyways, I thought the novel would just be about Nick Carraway meeting Jay Gatsby and it's set in the Roaring Twenties and it tells us all about how life was back then. I thought that it would be about this mysterious businessman named Gatsby and how the government and police uncover his illegal drug/alcohol business underground and he gets arrested and stuff for it and he's damn rich and holds parties while selling his drugs to people at the party. It would also be about a Jay Gatsby affair with Daisy Buchanan and how they would end up together (sort of like the Titanic). I thought Jay Gatsby would be this rich fellow who was wise, charismatic and just everything a rich person would be like.  That's what I thought it was all about.

Oh - how I was completely wrong and totally off the page (mind the pun)!! This novel made me cry at 2 in the morning! It made me so frustrated, sad, disgusted all at the same time. I couldn't even sleep after finishing it because I was so annoyed. I was so mad at all the characters and empathised for Jay Gatsby and everything was horrible. The novel was brilliant though - it just made you feel so many emotions after. I think I'll read it again tonight or tomorrow or whenever I have the time because I believe the first time you read a book - you receive some sort of magical special-ness and then the more you read it - the more you understand it.

I think I understand what the novel is trying to portray and I think I understand why it didn't get so famous internationally until after the Great Depression and after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death. During the 1920's - the American dream was the main thing. It was the thing to achieve; it was the dream of the Americans and everyone was trying to achieve it - even during the Great Depression. The dream took over their lives, it literally consumed the Americans and Fitzgerald understood the corruption of the dream but others didn't at the time until much later on. I honestly believe this is such a wonderful book and everyone should read it too! I find it fascinating after I read 'Of Mice and Men' and then 'The Great Gatsby' as it completely shows how quickly Americans went from having luxury to absolutely nothing. Completely two different centuries - the 1920's and the 1930's.



I found this link to a Great Gatsby game by the way haha:
The Great Gatsby Game

Bucket List

• Write a novel that will change someone's life
• Work at a bookstore
• Work as a barista at a coffee shop
• Read the Bible from start to finish
• Put on a different accent for a whole day
• Design and make a dress
• Watch a porno film with my significant other
• Meet my soul mate
• Swap clothes with my boyfriend while on a date
• Produce some good music
• Read books from my to-read list on goodreads
• Kiss in the rain
• Help build a charity foundation
• Get a tattoo
• Earn a degree
• Have my own home/house
• Fly first class
• Visit Tokyo
• Write an erotic fanfiction
• Go to a jazz club
• Learn a bizarre instrument
• Be fluent in a different language
• Have lots of pets
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Hale, TGG, TFiOS & Regina Spek

At 6 in the morning, I woke up, got dressed, ate and packed my bags to get ready for my Philosophy & Ethics excursion to the prestigious Hale School. We listened to two seminars by Juli Arliss who covered topics about religion, Plato, Aristotle and other stuff which I found pretty boring.  We roamed around Hale School during lunch time, mind you, but Hale School is AMAZING. Why in the world didn't I get enrolled here? The buildings, the uniforms, the whole system, the cafeteria, the lockers - even the GRASS is all so perfect and ugh, why?

Choco- CHOCO BOMB

Where's Chocolate?

On da bed

On the couch

In the air

In the backyard

Sleep Time

Sleeping

Moar sleeping

Lots more sleep

Eating

High fives

Chocolate & Cyndi

Sleepies

Pink pajamas

Studying hard; look at his paws >_<

This is a horrible photo of me but omsw! Look at chocolate XD

Controversial Conversation - Christianity

The past, one or two years, I have found myself to be in the middle of the whirlpool of the strength of my faith and the relationship I have with God. I am a Christian; I am confidently a Christian and a believer of the Holy Spirit. I will stay with this belief unless it can somehow be shaken. I have been flung into this world of atheism, skepticism, moral and critical thinking and I have been questioning my faith and whatnot. I don't have all the answers but here is my point of view and although it may not be a strong argument but through experience and more time, I'm sure I will be able to build it up like I would with my portfolio or resume in the realm of existence.

Sports Carnival 2012

So, this is it. My final athletics carnival at school...forever?! It was spent well and filled with lots of laughter, Bobs Burgers, emotional sleeping moods and butts...on the ground (literally!)

I don't know why the school always holds Athletics Carnivals during Winter time but they always seem to rain on the day we have carnivals. So there were a lot of slips during races including mine - which I completely face planted during the 100m where I was actually, surprisingly, coming first! WOO! But then I slipped and my shoe flew onto the other side of the race track which was a laugh and luckily Yun helped me and we finished last and second last respectively! YAAAAY FOR GREAT FRIENDS!

I'm not sure what happened to the camera/photo quality for like most of the photos but obviously my camera went all PMS on me and decided to take crappy photos. I hope you still enjoy though :) I took some photos from my friend's camera and he has a DSLR so...