Tarot cards, anybody? Have you heard or seen these cards before? Not that I have. but I have heard that they can tell you your future, warn you about things with utmost accuracy. I don't know how many cards there are in a pack, but it's hard to believe that a minimal number of cards can tell your future so accurately, its almost impossible. Oh well, what am I thinking? This ain't anyway to start a post!!
Anyway, I've been so busy with schoolwork and exam preparation that I have almost no time to update this blog, is what I want to say, but it's not true, haha.
Busy? My ass! Sigh, I guess I have to call myself a lazy ass however much I hate it. I'll probably never succeed in writing fanfiction. I mean, who wants an author who writes because she suddenly feels like it and then abandon the whole project just cause she didn't feel like continuing it any more? I really don't know what to do with my life. Well shit, I actually do, but since I'm so bloody lazy, I've put it off for like, what, almost a week? I'm sad to say my one week holidays are coming to an end, and sadly I really should have been studying. I mean, that's what I told myself, but look, it's not my fault, okay? Procrastination's being a bitch.
Sometimes I feel like the reason why I'm not studying is because I have so many other things I want to do, like watch anime, play games etc. But then again, why do I find myself constantly lying down on my bed, too lazy to even turn on my computer? It's like I'm stuck in between wanting to do something and not wanting to do it if I have to make an effort. Somebody, please just bestow upon me the holy powers of telekinesis. It'll make everything so damn effortless. Well, maybe not effortless cause you have to train your brain to be stronger so that you can lift things heavier than a feather. But hey, we can work on that later, right? Oh yeah... of course they can't do that! We certainly don't want increasing obesity is children, cause telekinesis is obviously encourage hardworking people to be lazy, and lazy asses like me to become even lazier.
Okay, here's what I will do with the remaining time I have on my hands:
1) Revise Math using Ace-learning (no matter how annoying the tutorial voice is)
2) Revise Science, probably? (IDEK how...)
3) Hmmm.... I dunno, slack? It's not like you can revise on Languages, right? I don't know what to do next... Geography? Maybe.
I realised that my not knowing what to do has put me constantly in search of random things to do. For example, I was reading a book for longer than I usually do. It was a rather entertaining book, and something that teenagers would read. It's called "In the Cards - Love". It's the first book in the "In the Cards" series. I got the book in a secondhand bookstore and it only costed S$2. It's about 3 girls - Anna, Eve and Sydney obtaining a pack of old tarot cards from a nice old lady after she died. Yeah. WARNING: EFFIN' LONG PARAGRAPHS AHEAD
So basically, Anna (the main character in this book) had a neighbour, Mrs Rosemont, who is an old lady with 3 cats - Mouli, Beesley and Tatania.
Pfft, HAHA! Cat lady... The old lady is a very nice person who used to offer Anna butterscotch candy although Anna would hesitate to take it. And for that, she felt really guilty after Mrs Rosemont's death, as the nice old lady would feel really upset when she found out Anna didn't eat it. I mean, Anna had her reasons - the candy seemed a little old and sticky, but hey, Anna really felt bad. Cut the girl some slack! Anyway, Anna would also sit with the old lady sometimes and listen to her talk about her past, LOL. Until one day, Anna was faced with the news that Mrs Rosemont had died. Anna wasn't feeling miserable, but she just felt a little off, you know? Like when you know that someone you used to know was just gone like that, although she was still nearby yesterday. So, a few days later, someone knocked on her door and told her that old Mrs Rosemont had no family so she left her important things to close friends, and it turns out Anna is one of them.
Mrs Rosemont had left Anna one of her cats, Mouli, who is unfortunately the most psycho and bad-tempered cat of the three. Also, she left Anna a leather case with a pack of tarot cards in them, along with a guide as to how to read tarot cards. Anna was nervous so she called Eve and Sydney to her house so they can be nervous together. :3
Anna had a crush on a boy in school, and he was the hottest boy there, apparently. Their school is like the typical American middle-school with all the social hierarchy and stuff. So there are the uber-cools, the average people who just get by school life by trying not to get people to notice them, and the freaks. The freaks are probably the most miserable people on earth. I mean, they aren't even trying to get attention, people just notice them (not in a good way), and immediately, they are dubbed as the freaks by the uber-cools. I'd say Anna was one of the freaks or so it seemed in the book, or maybe she was just unpopular like the average people. I'm betting on the average people.
So she has a mega crush on this hot dude named Declan and apparently, Declan used to be a geek, one of the freaks, rather. How he managed to be one of the uber-cools and known as GreekGod in the school's gossip blog, is still a mystery. But Anna's really something. She thought the dude was pretty cute when he was still a geek, so imagine her delight when he came back after the summer holidays, transformed into the hottest guy on campus. Talk about liking things, or in this case, people before it was mainstream.
Good going there, Anna! You'd probably expect the uber-cools to be the snotty rich and perfect-body types. Well, you're not wrong, but Declan's not like that. :) Well, he is pretty and has a perfect body... You get what I mean! So back to the cards, Anna decided to ask the cards about her love life with Declan. Well, the cards weren't really clear, but they said they would end up together. So... they did, though the journey was littered with struggles. But the fact still remains that they weren't meant to be...
Here's the thing: Anna's this kind-hearted girl with a strong sense of justice, and that's why she was so caught up when the school's biggest freak, Nelson, is being suspended from school all because he expressed anger towards the taunting uber-cools. Why? Well, they passed around a piece of paper, asking people to sign a petition on "The extermination of retards". Note: Nelson = Perfect example of Retard (according to the uber-cools and therefore according to the whole school.) Talk about bullying... The uber-cools called Nelson brain damaged all because he talks with pauses when nervous. :( And this point is where I realised that Declan is an asshole and not much of an uber-cool. Scratch that! He's an uber-coward. He refused to go with Anna to the principal's office to plead for the calling off of Nelson's suspension. And you know what the reason was? It's because the uber-cools who were teasing Nelson, were the exact same people who teased him when he was a geek. So, moral of the story: He was afraid to stand up to them. He could not when he was a geek, and he never will. Hell, if my boyfriend was like that, I'd break up with him!
Anyway, the cards were not wrong, as in, Anna and mega-hot GreekGod DID end up together, but it wasn't for the long run. That's why they weren't meant to be. The reason why they became boyfriend and girlfriend, was because Declan accidentally threw a crumpled note, during singing class, to Anna when he meant to throw it to another girl. If you're curious, the note was asking if the reader (which turned out to be Anna) would be turning up at this party that everyone's going to. Basically, if you're not following, he had a crush on the shy girl beside Anna, but Anna caught the note and looked up. Heh, the girl he had a crush on constantly shies away from attention and wears super baggy clothing, because she has the biggest boobs in school and she didn't relish in that. But Declan decided to go along, deciding not to crush Anna's heart by saying the note wasn't meant for her. But then again, he wouldn't know he would crush Anna's heart. He just decided to be like,
Oh hey, I missed... and this other girl caught the note. But she's cool... I'll stay with her. Maybe I'll kiss her to see if she likes me. Duh, she does.
Oh turns out she does. Heh, I kinda like her. She was one of the few people who were nice to me in the past... I guess we can become boyfriend and girlfriend. Ta-Dah!! Sigh... I think the eventual pairing was: Anna x Nelson, and, Declan x Bridget (the shy girl in singing class) Hey, that's pretty cool! Nelson isn't the best looking boy in the world, but he genuinely has a crush on Anna, HAHA. But I think Anna doesn't know, though Nelson pasted a rose on her locker and she kinda got a hint it was from him since she found a matching petal in his book. :3 Maybe Anna'll come to like him. ;D
Anyway, that's as far as I'll go in telling you about the book. I've told you quite enough already, haha. Another thing I'll fail in life, is writing a trailer for a blockbuster movie. I'll probably show everything there is to know about the movie and nobody will want to watch it after that, haha. Anyway, now for the fun part: quotes from the book! Another reason why I like the book so much is because it is the epitome of all comedy books I've read. This is what I'd truly call "humour in literature". Hmm, seeing as I'm in a good mood now, maybe I'll add in the prologue of this book.
Prologue:
Sometimes I think it's all Eve's fault.
Then I think that's stupid. Just because Eve's crazy doesn't mean everything is her fault. But she was the one who said we should do it. The one who said it was lame to be scared and that we had to try it or we'd never know.
But I listened to her. So, really, it's my fault.
Other times I think Sydney's to blame. If she'd just been stronger, said, Guys, this is wrong,
maybe I wouldn't have listened to Eve.
Only Sydney did say it was wrong, and I listened to Eve anyway. So we're back to me. It's my fault.
I hate it when things are my fault.
I try really, really, hard not to let that happen. And when it does happen, I try to figure out what I did wrong, what I could have done differently. Where did I make my mistake?
Except it's not that simple. A mistake doesn't always feel like a mistake when you're making it.
For example, you can say that none of this would have happened if I hadn't taken care of Mrs. Rosemont's cats. But I couldn't say no to her. She was an old lady, she didn't have anyone else.
Eve would say I never should have even talked
to Mrs. Rosemont, that she was boring and a pain. Even Syd, who's an animal freak, didn't like visiting the cats because she thought Mrs. Rosemont was strange. But you can't say to someone, Get away, you're boring! You're strange!
Well, not if you're a wimp like me.
But it is true that if I had never talked to Mrs. Rosemont in the elevator, she wouldn't have asked me to feed her cats.
And if she had never asked me to feed her cats, we wouldn't have had that talk about the future.
And if we hadn't had that talk about the future, she might not have left me these cards when she died.
Because that's where the whole thing started. The cards.
I still have them. They're in the box they came in, the leather one with the strange carvings on the top. When all the craziness was over, I put them way in the back of my closet, along with the book that explains what each of the cards means, how to read them, understand them...
All I can say is, I wish we'd understood them a whole lot better.
Yeap, that's it! The prologue. it's actually more like Anna thinking back on the whole craziness with the cards. Now for my favourite lines from the book.
Interesting lines:
I spit, then wonder,
So, if I had died tomorrow, would anybody care?
My mom and dad would definitely freak. Russell would demand he get my room. Eve would be psyched, because it'd be all macabre and she could wear black and flip out. But then she'd get tired of it and move on to something else. Syd would be sad, though. Genuinely sad. And they'd probably do something at school, have an assembly, tell people that it was okay to cry, if they wanted to.
But I'm not sure how many people would cry. More likely, they'd be like,
Anna? Anna who? Oh, her. Yeah, she was... okay.
- Anna, thinking about herself dying, while brushing her teeth in the morning. Heh, what better time to think about weird things than when you're brushing your teeth?
Russell is seven years old, but he's been strange since the day he was born. This doesn't seem to bother most people, for example, my parents, who you'd think would be a little worried that their only son lives on a diet of tuna fish and boogers. Just the fact that he's usually pretending to be some kind of animal should raise a red flag, right? I once looked up the traits of a psychotic personality. Russell had almost every single one. I told my mother, but she said, "He's just trying to be funny, Anna. Let him have his thing." Which made me wonder,
Do I have a thing? And if so, what is it?
- Anna on her younger brother, Russell.
... I look at the girls sitting in Subzero. Elissa's there, of course, and Alexa with dim Marnie. P&P is right. They're like a cult of pretty people, with a mandate from the heavens: Thou shalt congregate only with those of perfect hair and perfect bodies and inane giggles. And thou shalt mate with only those of thine own kind. The hot, the cool, the seriously amazing. I wonder if Declan would need divine dispensation to date me.
- Anna's views on the P&Ps (Pretty & Perfect) sitting in Subzero (the area reserved for the uber-cools in school.)
Naturally, with Declan coming, all the girls are going crazy figuring out their costumes. The rumour is that Alexa is going as her Dalmatian, Pippa, in a white bodysuit with spots. Elissa is renting her costume from someplace, and Lara is going as a whacked-out action babe. Meanwhile, I haven't got the first clue what I'm going to wear. This afternoon Syd, Eve and I are getting together at Syd's house to figure it out. Eve told me to bring the cards; I don't know why. What are they going to say?
You must dress as a penguin- oh, and forget about Declan. We got that wrong, sorry.
- Anna's preparation to go for a Halloween party in Marnie a.k.a. dumbest bi*** in school's house.
For Her
You do not even look at me
With your blue eyes
You hide from everyone
Hope they never see you
But I can look at you
And hope you see me.
Okay shit. This poem. Sucked. Big time. Like, it doesn't even sound good when you read it out loud. Oh dear. This is Declan's poem to his mystery lover girl, but it's not a mystery after I told you it was Bridget. This was how Anna found out Declan liked another girl. Anna certainly didn't have blue eyes. But, being the good sport Anna is, she was the one who helped the hopeless lover GreekGod be united with the one he truly likes. And yes, it's titled freaking "For Her". Misleading much?
This one's gonna be a long one:
That afternoon I stay in the practice room after class to apologise to Mr. Courtney for missing chorus. He's sitting at the piano like always. As I approach him, he says without looking up, "Miss Anna Morris, Where were you yesterday?"
Uh, well, Mr. Courtney, I was hiding in the bathroom because I couldn't deal with seeing my boyfriend, who probably isn't my boyfriend anymore. Before I can come up with some lame excuse, he waves his hand. "Yeah, yeah, I know. You didn't feel great or you had to work on your English paper or whatever. Well, don't skip out on me again. We're three days away from the greatest caroling this school's ever seen, and my chorus needs you."
I say, "Right. Because the altos would just die without me."
"Well, they wouldn't die, I wouldn't let them die."
Mr. Courtney says "die" like it has two syllables: "die-eh." "But the chorus wouldn't be as excellent and sublime as I can make it, and that I will not tolerate."
Somehow the words "excellent" and "sublime" don't go with the vision of myself as a singer. If the chorus didn't have Lara or Bridget, you'd know it. Me- there's just one less squeak. And I guess I'm in the mood for honesty, because I say, "That's nice, but let's face it, it's not like I'm some great singer."
Courtney's head snaps up. "Who says?"
"I do."
"Wrong." Mr. Courtney pounds on the piano keys. "Wrong, wrong, wrong. I say who's a great singer and who is not a great singer."
Intrigued, I ask, "So... which am I?"
"You are not that great of a singer," he says flatly.
Bwahaha. Okay, Mr. Courtney is a freaking awesome teacher! Though a bit eccentric...
I glance at Declan. He is staring straight out in front of him. But his face is red.
I look at Bridget. She is staring straight down at her music, even though we're supposed to be off book. Her face is pink.
Mr. Courtney calls, "Ms. Halsey, eyes up, please."
Blinking, Bridget looks up. Not completely.
But just enough for me to see her beautiful blue eyes.
Somehow, I really liked this. Not because it was funny whatsoever, but because it was sweet and a great way to scream at the reader that "Bridget is the one the GreekGod likes!" If they don't figure that out, they're probably not paying attention or just plain retarded. Well, hopefully not plain retarded after I've just told them.
I remember something. "That note you sent me, about Marnie's party. Was that for me or her?"
He goes red. "I meant it for her, but when you got it, that was okay too."
"But you meant it for Bridget! Why didn't you tell me to give it to her? Point or something?"
"I don't know! All of a sudden, you said yes, and I was like, 'God, I can't say, "Oh sorry, that was for someone else,"' That would have been totally jerky." He looks down at his shoes. "I didn't think someone like you would ever go out with me. So when you said yes, I thought, 'Why not?'"
"Like Alexa."
"No, totally not. That was a party thing. She started kissing me, and all of a sudden, we were supposed to be in love or something. I never liked her. I did..." He pushes at my hand with his finger. "I did really like you. I thought you were cool. I mean, you were one of the only people who was ever nice to me before all... this."
This was towards the end when Declan confesses that he liked Bridget and he thought Anna was cool and all. Oh and by the way, Alexa is one of the P&Ps (Pretty & Perfect) who declared that she was in a relationship with Declan when all they did, rather she did, was force kiss/catch the GreekGod off guard. Heh. That tramp.
I really liked this one. This is in Eve's point of view:
I keep dancing down the hall- until I run smack into my brother, Mark, coming out of the bathroom.
Hello, major embarrassment.
Some people might be cool about it, might even dance along with you, you know? Not Mark. He's only three years older than me, but he acts like he's fifty. You should see his room. Not one single thing out of place. Bed made, clothing put away, book alphabetised, for God's sake. He's one of those people who has major school smarts, but is borderline retarded when it comes to life. I call him M.A.N. "Hey, man." "How you doing, man?" What Mark doesn't know is M.A.N. is my private code for Major Anal Nerd.
Now he's staring at me like I'm an intruder and he's wondering if he should call the cops. Which gets me past the embarrassment and right into annoyance.
I say, "Hey, man. What are you doing out of your room? You could catch cooties or something." I hold out my arm. "Ooh, look there's one jumping off of me..."
He sighs. "No self-respecting cootie would be caught dead on you."
First Anna and Syd- now Mark. Obviously, the universe has declared this "Pee on Eve Day." Actually, in this house every day is Pee on Eve Day. One of the reasons I cannot wait to get out of here.
Poor Eve, getting dissed by her brother. That must burn. Haha, I can imagine a cleanliness freak saying that with a straight face. Then I think about my brother. He disses me but not enough to make it hurt.
Oh gosh, this post is way too long for its own good. Now I'll have to proof read this whole long string of words. =.= Genius, just genius. Now I'm wondering how to sign off glamourously.
Yours, or someone else's,
Mirai <3 ;)
