I love all things literary. Be it a classic play produced by a legendary artist or a thick book that offers a good read with decent grammatical usage or even names of places on sign boards. I love them. I love how an old play could affect my emotion so badly. I love it how Shakespeare projected his thoughts very beautifully and at the same time tragically. I love reading Harry Potter books so much. I love how Jo's mind works. For a 17-year-old to read every single Harry Potter novel at a given short time, I could see how Jo built the language style of the books according to the readers' ages. I felt like an eleven-year-old when I read the first book. I felt like I was fourteen again when I read how Hermione tried to impress the boy she liked. And the last book definitely suits every 17-year-old liking and level of intelligence. I loved how the locals created a name for their home. I can never be sure, in fact none of us can be sure of how our place got it's name. Was it spontaneously created? Was the name agreed by everyone back then when it was first suggested? Was there a meeting held among the locals to decide on a suitable name? I love how the names of places somehow describe the place itself. Take Shah Alam for example. Every nook and crook of the place sort of gives me this feeling of calmness and superiority. The place is very neat and organized, hence why the name Shah Alam is the most suitable for it. I mean, you can never feel the Shah Alam-ness when you're in Klang, can you? Klang is just Klang. Where the people have their own way of acting and the place has its own aura that is very contradict to Shah Alam's. And the reason why they named Puncak Alam Puncak Alam is because the town is located on the puncak of the world indeed. This applies to Putrajaya too. Where the buidlings are grand, the lawns are freshly cut all the time and the houses are arranged neatly. You can never feel the Putrajaya-ness when you're in KL, you know what I mean? So yes, whenever I'm in the car, I never miss catching to read most of the sign boards. I will smile at myself, thinking how the names themselves are describing the places perfectly.
I wonder if my name gives other persons the right image and perception of me.
My love towards all things literary also extent to things like my selection of songs or singers. I love songs that actually contain substance. Songs that tell stories. That have story lines. (Yes, I'm that picky). I can never understand why some people can actually grow a liking upon some songs that only contain 3-4 words in them. No offence, but what's the point? Then again, everyone has their own way of expressing thoughts. But I still stick to traditionally written and produced songs. Where a writer actually felt the sickening emotion, where he/she really discovered how a broken heart tasted like - and decided to write a song about it, with his/her good old guitar as companion. I like it that way. I like it raw and simple and pure. These are the reasons why I love listening to Taylor Swift's or Adele's or John Meyer's or Joe Brooks' or Ed Sheeran's songs so much. Because they actually contain substance, the lyrics are written sincerely with correct grammatical usage. I love how an art piece is kept decent and clean by the artist himself. It's like he's respecting himself. Not that I'm saying other modern artists aren't being respectful to themselves, like I said, you have different type of crowd who prefer different type of art. As for me, I won't mind to be called as a traditionalist at all. In fact I am a traditionalist.
I love to feed myself with all things literary. I love books, fan fictions and songs that can do me big time to improve my grammar. And the most vital reason why I like all things literary is because I can relate to the artist, to another human being. It gives me some kind of assurance that I'm not alone.
And currently this is the song I'm clinging myself to
p.s Yes, it's dedicated to you
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