rowlandanthonyimperial
Saturday, January 26, 2008
03:07
Art.

One thing that fascinates me is the ability of the human mind to imagine, to animate, and the capability of the human hands to contour the pen's directions in many ways and apply varying degrees of pressure so as to produce lifelike images.
I am a frustrated artist, like many people out there. I won't consider myself as someone who can draw fabulously, but I believe that with my unfurnished skills I would have been able to qualify to take art as a subject, with the Creative Art Programme being the most probable opportunity to begin progressing and improving in a career which hardly guarantees a good future, and more importantly, a good pay.
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The guy stared at me with a kind of a beguiling stare that makes you feel your sphincter bladder is losing strength. Shit, I can't pee here, hold on please.
"Dude, I heard you wanted to take art.""Well, I'm considering... but I'm not good in art. I don't think I can do well.""Do you really want to take art? It's kinda tough, ya know."A wave of valuable information I heard earlier washed away my plans of saying yes.
"I don't know.""You should have decided about that a long time ago."
"And the school gave me a triple science combination. I'm in 336."
"Oh. I thought you are in 334?"
"I thought so too."
"Lex and your Filipino seniors are in 434."
"I know that."
"Hahaha, all classes are the same."
"Really. I see the room numbers and they already look so different to me."
"Yeah, yeah. Anyway, you should have decided about taking art a long time ago."
I remembered what heard earlier that morning.
"As far as I could remember I was in primary 2 when I first thought about taking art. But I think I'll be taking biology.""Hahaha. You're lame dude. Very well. Oh, I have to go see my teacher. See you in school."
"Bye."
I heard that my school's distinction rate for Art in O Levels is always 100%.
So I decided not to take the subject.
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And I realized today, what the hell does drawing shit have anything to do with my results.
Nothing will change the printed ink on my certificate.