Of My Moleskine Notebook

I took this meme off from this fantastic young lady’s blog. Thanks Lynn!

How am I feeling today?
Air – All I Need / Jose Feliciano – California Dreaming

Will I get far in life?
KT Tunstall – Suddenly I See / The Eames Era – Could Be Anything / Coldplay – High Speed / Aqualung – Left Behind

How do my friends see me?
The Kooks – Naive / The Boy Least Likely To – Be Gentle With Me

Where will I get married?
Death Cab For Cutie – Soul Meets Body / Athlete – El Salvador

What is my best friend’s theme song?
The Feeling – Sewn / Death Cab For Cutie – Marching Bands of Manhattan

What is the story of my life?
The Killers – All The Things I’ve Done / Manic Street Preachers – A Design for Life

What was high school like?
The Stars – Reunion / Snow Patrol – Spitting Games

How can I get ahead in life?
Editors – Open Your Arms / The Strokes – You Only Live Once

What is the best thing about me?
John Mayer – Clarity / Liz Phair – Extraordinary

What was today like?
PJ Harvey & Thom Yorke – This Mess We’re In / Athlete – If I Found Out

What is in store for this weekend?
The Strokes – 12:51

What song describes my parents?
Oasis – Wonderwall

How is my life going?
Coldplay – Everything’s Not Lost / The Strokes – Reptilia

What song will they play at my funeral?
Coldplay – The Scientist / Athlete – Tourist / Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over

How does the world see me?
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy / Jamie Cullum – 21st Century Kid

Will I have a happy life?
Moby – Lift Me Up / Editors – Bullets / Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

What do my friends really think of me?
Beck – Girl / Lenny Kravitz – Minister of Rock & Roll / Butch Walker – Mixtape

Do people secretly lust after me?
John Mayer – Love Song For No One

How can I make myself happy?
Orson – No Tomorrow / The Beatles – With A Little Help From My Friends / Hard-fi – Hard To Beat

What should I do with my life?
Jamie Cullum – Catch The Sun / Switchfoot – Learning To Breathe / Air – Universal Traveler

What will my children be like?
Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Death From Above 1979 – Little Girl

What will you name them?
Bjork – Isobel / Interpol – Evil

What will the person you marry be like?
Regina Spektor – Us / Aqualung – Strange and Beautiful / PJ Harvey – This Is Love

Do you have a significant other?
Weezer – Across The Sea

Will you have a fulfilling life?
Robbie Williams – No Regrets / Iron & Wine – Such Great Heights

How will you die?
Aqualung – Good Goodnight / The Killers – Glamourous Indie Rock & Roll / The Cure – Just Like Heaven

After spending about an hour just scanning through my CD collection and iTunes thinking about what really describes what I feel about things, I feel all funny and fuzzy inside.

Music plays a big part in most of our lives; finding the right tracks to describe your take on it kinda makes you realise how you’ve been living, and mind you, as corny as it sounds, you don’t know how alive you feel afterwards.

So, do this meme if you’re up for it.

I just finished the latest book in the Artemis Fowl series not five minutes ago.

And by God was it good.

It was like five supersonic trips down the G5 of the now defunct Concorde in not more that 7.2 nanoseconds; rendering and declaring all theory of the quantum kind useless, inexistent and insipid of the highest horrid manner. It was like every single sub-atomic particle of every cell in every gland functioning in my body spewing hormones; adrenaline and endorphins: numbing the entire frontal cortex Dead.

My limbic system is in control; and I felt that I needed not to fight or flee. I was in there.

It was just like the Scientific American article I read not five hours ago in the bench in KLCC while waiting for my father to buy dates; a bench in the middle of a floor in between levels of concrete and man, where everything else was to be ignored.

The article said it was possible. They noticed “When people are busily sensing or doing something the region involved in self monitoring and suppresses regions active in perception.”

And I thought : oh, ok.

My mind, after tiresome months of being unused and unstimulated of the intellectual manner had finally woken. I could feel all senses spark up and ignore all stimuli except those of which I was spewing out of imagination in my mind. I spent yesterday completely bewildered of how I can no longer think as I used to…

Functioning as a fact-regurgitating machine and having to sacrifice my ideas and thoughts and interests for a good three months (I optioned out for my French exams, I’ve not bought a book for 3 months, I didn’t read the Guardian for four) and there as I read the last word, the last anagrammed fragment in my brain which took it not as a letter after a letter but as a picture (the brain only looks at the last and first letter of a word to recognise it), and felt every nerve, every blood cell, every single drop of adrenalin in my consensus: Alive.

The book is absolutely fantastic. I have not the patience to tell you about it. Read this fantastic blog for the review.

But as the record goes, I am back.