hello everybody...

yes...

IT'S a FAT E... the final grade for my history paper...
luvly innit...?

and no IT'S not FATE... IT'S a FAT E...

and no it's not fate... the future is in my hands...
it'd better be...
i wish...
please...?

ah... the futility of it all...
i am tempted at this point to write voluminous amounts of what some friends have called my "hallmarky" wrting...
if i become famous one of these days...

extracts from
Critical Analyses of 21st Century Writing
Chapter 27: Tan Tuan Hao - 'Muses'

"The period known by many critics as Tan's 'Hallmark' writing is largely characterised by a cooler mood and tone, and generally bleaker, darker themes. Common threads that can be seen are that of despair, futility, but also, the sheer beauty of life, and perhaps as a unifying bond, that pain and the brevity of life are that which also enrich it."

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'Stars' and the 'sea' are common images used in these sections, accompanied the major technique of prose written in a largely poetic mode, a fusion of sorts, 'the essence of one in the vessel of the other'."

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"One may contrast this to Tan's more common modes of writing, which he has himself professed to have undertaken for the sake of and to pander to the tastes of 'his audience'. The main subjects and themes of the prose written in these sections are often plebian and parochial, reflective of the common tastes of his readers. For most part, education, and the delusion that it stands for and espouses, stands as a major theme of his 'common writing'."

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"The major characteristics of Tan's technique in his 'common writing' are that of the use of comic hyperbole, especially in the context of death, mental illness and suicide, and sardonicism and sarcasm, especially in his dealings with the theme of education."

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"While many see the lack of poetic imagery and dealing with surface issues as an indictment of the literary worth of the common prose pieces, or 'posts', of Tan, the underlying key feature that marks them as worthy are that they stand as an interesting and insightful commentary of education in his local context, and the utter failure that he believed it to be. One must without doubt take his words with the proverbial pinch of salt, as the bias and subjectivity are clearly evident in his writing. Furthermore, one remembers that he was after all writing for the specific purpose of, in the case of his 'common writing', entertaining his audience."

haha... talk about fuelling my ego...

well... 'nighty then...