Bloody Blogs. It's a definite Maybe.

I just started this other blogithingy at multiply.com for my beloved students. Hence, from now on, i have 3 bloody blogs to maintain; each serving its own functions. I feel splitted.

No no, i'm not regretting about starting anyone of them, i'm just complaining because i'm lazy and also because each blog requires me to be a person slightly different from the other. The language is different, the topics that i talked about are different, and the way i present them are different too. When i had just 2 blogs, it was pretty much an easy peasy job to juggle, because the blogs entail a considerable amount of intersection of my personalities. Besides, those blogs are read by people of considerable age (haha) and maturity. Now that my 3rd blog is born, it brings forth the necessity on my part to cater whatever i write to students aged between 13-17, and yes...teachers too! Argh. so not only has my topics gotta be more restricted and sensitivity pre-warned, i have to be more vigilant on my grammar! eeeks! that means i have to edit everytime i write something!! *whine whine whine whine.....

Anyway, to shift away from my tripartite blogithingy, i have been reading on my Terry Goodkind's "Wizard's First Rule" (finally); and i found some pretty interesting notions brought forth by his writtings. The way his characters evolve and his story unfolds are just impeccably unique (at least in my shoes). I admire the way he involves personifications of nature and objects in his descriptions, and because of that i can imagine quite vividly what is happening right before my eyes.With that, i'd like to produce an excerpt from his book for my own reference in the future, and maybe for you to enjoy (if u ever enjoy it).
It's actually a speech by this wizard called Zedd.

" It is different when you kill with the Sword of Truth, because of the magic. The magic has done your bidding, and it extracts a price. There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but i would bet the mice have a different opinion. Every murderer thinks the victim needed killing.

I know you don't want to believe this, Richard, but you must listen. Darken Rahl does the things he does, because he thinks them right, just as you do the things you do because you think them right. The two of you are more the same in that than you think. You want revenge on him for killing your father, and he wants revenge on me for killing his. In your eyes he is evil, but to his eyes, you are the one who is evil. it is all just a perception. Whoever wins thinks he is in the right. The loser will always believe himself wronged. it is the same as with the magic of Orden: the power is simply there,one use wins over the other."



It reminded me of my time in India, and the issues regarding Ah Nie and Curly etc.