One Hundred Years of Solitude

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	Gabriel Garcia Marquez

With the six generations of the Buendia family, it’s like reading six books bound into one! It is not an ordinary fiction that an ordinary man can write. Hey, it’s Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, so what do you expect? It talks about strange relationships within the family and of the community, about politics, magic, and a little touch of science. It is an epic tale about generations, yet it describes the solitary journey of each character, which reveals a kind surrealistic world of fantasy which flares up one's imagination to a great extent. The point that everything runs around in a circle within the family is sooo true.

My Fabulous Summer!

Tell you what? I’m the busiest person on earth this summer. Everyday, I woke up past 7 am (sadly, I’m missing my dawn prayer), then I would go downstairs to watch my siblings prepare for their summer classes, I’ll just watch them. Hehe. Then, I would join Mama and Papa on the table for breakfast and see them off to office. Most of the time I am left alone. Ah, no big a deal. Then, I would tidy up the kitchen, the dining table, wash the dishes, sweep and mop the floor. After getting soaked with household chores, I would take a bath and go to my driving lessons at 9:00 am. My driving teacher is quite strict so I have to be there on the dot. Then, I’m home again at around 10:00 am. Between 10-11:00 am, I would either read a book or watch a movie or just turn the television to watch Hana Kimi (the Taiwanese version) or watch some episodes of FRIENDS which I am so much into right now. Oh, I will tell you in my next entry about the movies I’ve watched and the books I’ve read. I promise.

Then, 11:00 am signals for preparing lunch because everybody will come home. After lunch, I will retire in my room and continue where i left off of the movies i watch, my readings or just simply singing to the tunes of my favorite songs. Sometimes, friends text me for an afternoon get-together and off I would go and meet with them just for some catch ups. We would talk about how our lives are going on, the new people we meet, the people we knew who are not present at the moment, and what we mostly do. And then we’d reminisce and laugh and just keep laughing our brains out and tell incredible stories about so many things. And that lasts until very late afternoon. If I don’t go out, I would grab the walis ting-ting and sweep/rake off the leaves that fell from our trees in our yard and pile them in a corner where my brother will burn when dried. My grandmother loves that burnt-leaves scent, just so sad she’s not living with us. I miss Ina.

Then at night after dinner, I would go to my brothers’ room and check what’s new in the internet. Most of the time, I left their room when I’m too bothered with their snoring. Imagine four men snoring heavily and simultaneously. I bet that wouldn’t be like music to your ears. Then I would quietly sneak into my sister’s room where I am an official squatter. I don’t sleep in my own room because of the scattered mess that my things from the boarding house created. I will fix them again when I am to return to the boarding house.  

Yes, that is summer of 2008 for me. So darn busy!

On the serious note, I chose this sedentary lifestyle to spend my summer. It really feels great to be back home, and just plainly staying at home. I really miss doing the household chores and making tea for Mama and Papa when they come home from work. I better seize all these opportunities of being at home because I will never know when this is gonna happen again. You see, our lives has its unexpected turns and twists. Things happen the way we never expected them to be, stuffs that never lingered into our thoughts just come our way. And as we grow older, our attention is pulled to numerous stuffs that we forgot to stay at home and feel the essence of resting into our abode. That’s why this summer, I chose to stay home.