Something I like can be many things. I've already written about reading, writing and playing the piano, but this is more specific... I'm going to write about a song I really like, Life for Rent by Dido.
I really like her songs, but more than the music itself, I like the lyrics; sepcially the lyrics of this one.
I haven't really ever found a place that I call home
I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize that once again I'm not in love
But it's not as if I mind that your heart ain't exactly breaking.
It's just a thought, only a thought
But if my life is for rent and I don't lean to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
I've always thought that I would love to live by the sea
To travel the world alone and live my life more simply
I have no idea what's happened to that dream
Cos there's really nothing left here to stop me
It's just a thought, only a thought
But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how can I say I'm alive
If my life is for rent...
I truly like the first line which talks about how she's never felt like she belongs with anyone, or anywhere, but also she accepts that it's her fault for she has never been enough time to make anywhere feel like home.
If my life is for rent by this she means that her life is not hers and that she must start to do something to own it again.
lunes, 20 de octubre de 2008
lunes, 8 de septiembre de 2008
The Notebook
The Notebook. (2004)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams.
Director: Nick Cassavetes.
Running time: 123 min.
Drama, Romace.
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As an adaptation of the best-selling novel, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, this film comes to be about a touching “true love” story, and about how two people’s love can endure and grow with the time, no matter the distance.
The story begins with an old man (James Garner) who’s reading a story to an old woman (Gena Rowland), a story that apparently has a meaning for him. In this story, Rachel McAdams plays Allie Hamilton, a rich girl who comes to pass the summer in a small town; there she meets Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) who is a hard working but poor country boy.
Despite their differences, he falls in love with her at first sight, and after Noah’s insistence on going out on a date, she starts falling for him too. When Allie’s parents begin to notice that hers is not only a summer love but something more serious, they decide to go back to the city and get Allie to start collage. It’s only after a long time, days before her wedding, that they get to see each other again. It’s then that they start to figure out what went wrong between them when she first left.
I really like the way this film is composed. Personally, I think that the movie is a little better than the novel, given that the events happen more dramatically and in a way that makes the audience understand Noah and Allie better. I think both Rachel and Ryan did an awesome job here, both connecting to their characters and showing how different they were and how deeply in love they fell. But in my opinion, Jan Sardi did the best job on the adaptation. Although the movie and the novel have many things in common, I think the movie is utterly fantastic. It made me cry, laugh, smile and the end is really touching, whilst in the book it is not. If you ask me, I think this is a movie everyone will like, men and women, teenagers and elders. I think everyone can relate to it in some way or another.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams.
Director: Nick Cassavetes.
Running time: 123 min.
Drama, Romace.
¶ ¶ ¶ ¶
As an adaptation of the best-selling novel, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, this film comes to be about a touching “true love” story, and about how two people’s love can endure and grow with the time, no matter the distance.
The story begins with an old man (James Garner) who’s reading a story to an old woman (Gena Rowland), a story that apparently has a meaning for him. In this story, Rachel McAdams plays Allie Hamilton, a rich girl who comes to pass the summer in a small town; there she meets Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) who is a hard working but poor country boy.
Despite their differences, he falls in love with her at first sight, and after Noah’s insistence on going out on a date, she starts falling for him too. When Allie’s parents begin to notice that hers is not only a summer love but something more serious, they decide to go back to the city and get Allie to start collage. It’s only after a long time, days before her wedding, that they get to see each other again. It’s then that they start to figure out what went wrong between them when she first left.
I really like the way this film is composed. Personally, I think that the movie is a little better than the novel, given that the events happen more dramatically and in a way that makes the audience understand Noah and Allie better. I think both Rachel and Ryan did an awesome job here, both connecting to their characters and showing how different they were and how deeply in love they fell. But in my opinion, Jan Sardi did the best job on the adaptation. Although the movie and the novel have many things in common, I think the movie is utterly fantastic. It made me cry, laugh, smile and the end is really touching, whilst in the book it is not. If you ask me, I think this is a movie everyone will like, men and women, teenagers and elders. I think everyone can relate to it in some way or another.
lunes, 1 de septiembre de 2008
Cape Farewell
This year, our school selected two students to go to the "Cape Farewell" expedition along with 26 other students from other parts of the world. Their aim is to go to the artic and do something for the environment. I think this is great, an amazing experience for all them and I hope they'll be able to do something given this chance.
lunes, 25 de agosto de 2008
What do I like?
I like many things! The main ones, however, are: Playing the piano, writing and reading, I think. I've been playing the piano for almost eight years now and I love it! To be honest, though, when I started my third year I really came to hate it. My mum wouldn't let me leave it, and after my fith year or so I stared to like it again. Now it's like an obsession because it is a really beautiful and somewhat useful way to express my feelings without shouting or crying or anything. When I play the piano, only I know why I'm doing it and how I'm feeling about it.
I love writing... It's like putting into words your feelings when you think no one understands, like making them clear even for yourself.
I also love reading, by reading I came to love writing. For all I've read, I know that each person has something to say. Everyone. We all have a story to tell; the way you do it, well that's up to you. By reading I realized how differently we all think and write, how different our stories are and how amazing are each of the different ways to warite them, because by writing I understood how tough it is to tell a story sometimes. It takes a lot of effort to create a script that will explain exactly what you were thinking when you wrote it.
I love writing... It's like putting into words your feelings when you think no one understands, like making them clear even for yourself.
I also love reading, by reading I came to love writing. For all I've read, I know that each person has something to say. Everyone. We all have a story to tell; the way you do it, well that's up to you. By reading I realized how differently we all think and write, how different our stories are and how amazing are each of the different ways to warite them, because by writing I understood how tough it is to tell a story sometimes. It takes a lot of effort to create a script that will explain exactly what you were thinking when you wrote it.
martes, 19 de agosto de 2008
Hi!
Hi! I'm Camila and I live in Mexico City.
I've always loved to read and throughout the years I started to wonder why not to wirte my own stories. The thing is, I think everyone has a sotry to tell, and so do I. So now I love writing too; I've been doing it for a while now, always trying to improve. I don't know how well I do it, but I like it.
I'll do my best, and I hope you like it.
I've always loved to read and throughout the years I started to wonder why not to wirte my own stories. The thing is, I think everyone has a sotry to tell, and so do I. So now I love writing too; I've been doing it for a while now, always trying to improve. I don't know how well I do it, but I like it.
I'll do my best, and I hope you like it.
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