zouk and phuture yesterday was the dullest i ever been to. the music was pretty sucky, and the drinks tasted weird so we didn't drink much, and we just couldn't hit high at times. thankfully, we dont have pay a cent of the drinks (only paid for one drink). pardon for sounding so singaporean.

all in all, yesterday was fun, but not as fun as thought. by far, the worst experience.

and i changed my gems once more, to INTRODUCTION TO SEAMANSHIP BLAH BLAH BLAH. yes it sounds boring i know, it's at t1(damn far, i know), but at least my friday's 5 hours break is gone, my tuesday timetable back to normal, and i have peiwen to accompany me in class, yiling, boonyen's classes are at t1 as well.


oh! im gonna name my kid, AMARIS.
why. cause this

Conjugating

Emily Adlam, Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland

amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant
this morning, I wrote out 126 forms
of the verb to love
in Latin

how wonderfully strange
to spend half an hour
writing amabam amabas amabat
I was loving, you were loving, he was loving

I can talk about love in six tenses
and for many different people
and of course we all know
that love can be
passive
or active

I can say amabit, he will love
or amatus sunt, they were loved
and even amaverimus, we will have loved

and furthermore, I can say it all
in two different moods
funny to think if a word having moods
I should like to think of words
being in joyful moods or exalting moods
in fact the only choices
are subjunctive or indicative
rather dense and depressing ways to describe them

but oddly, these moods translate
the same
and there seems a beautiful pointlessness
in being able to say
amaveram or amavissem
both meaning I had loved

but perhaps the best is amaris
what a name it would be for a child!
what a gift to give!
whenever anyone called her name,
'Amaris, come here!'
'Amaris, you're late,'
they would really be saying
you are loved, you are loved, you are loved

-loves n kisses-
felina