In the this hol, I finally finished reading the book "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank.. This is the diary written by Anne Frank during the Second World War.. She was a Jew and had died with her family just before the War ended.. very sad.. they were in hiding during the war and had waited for the day that the war end.. they were so near to that.. just a few more months bah.. but they were caught by the German people.. anne was said to have killed by a epidemic in the concentration camp.. I not sure whether this diary is totally true but I just feel the details written in this book are so real.. since it is written during the war, of course there are details about the war news and raids.. and anne also wrote about her life as a teenager.. very real..
Why did anne started this diary? "I feel like writing and I have an even greater need to get all kinds of thing off my chest.. .. 'Paper has more patience than people'... .. I don't have a friend... .. I have loving parents and a sixteen-year-old sister and there are about thirty people I can call friends.. .. I have a family, loving aunts and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything, except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer and that's the problem. Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other..." I extracted these out of the book.. Anne treated her diary just like a friend.. she called it "Kitty".. telling her almost everything.. maybe she is her most rebellious period.. she can't really get along with her parents.. especially her mother.. and she don't really respect her mother.. luckily she met a best friend.. Peter who is also hiding and living under the same roof.. actually he is her boyfriend..
I really see some similarities with her in her reasons of writing a diary.. I am also in the same situation as her.. I really don't have a true friend.. one who I can talk a lot of things with.. but these few months.. I actually feel that I have found a few friends who can develop to be my true friends.. I actually can have true friends.. can't really believe it.. really! For so many years, I have friends but best friends or buddies? none.. therefore I have this blog.. who can be my true friend bah.. but there are still some secrets that are kept just in my mind and heart.. actually I quite envy anne.. who can find peter to be her very good friend.. when can I find my "peter"? haha..
you must be thinking "anne frank" quite familiar.. and I think many people have read this many years ago already.. when they are children but I waited until now then read this book.. I have wanted to read this very long ago.. but only last year that I bought and start reading.. I really like books that are about war.. especially the way germans or japanese had totured the people.. is not that I am sadistic.. I just like history.. I like to know the real experience that people had.. I always will feel sad and touched by the strength that the people had against their enemies and torturer.. they never gave up and that really touched me.. and give me the drive to treasure my life..
Another diary that also interest me is not a war diary but a diary that is also familiar to me.. what is described in this diary is also what had happened to be me in my teenage life.. something closer to my heart.. this diary was narrated by peifen on FM933.. Da tou fen de shi jie.. the stories can also be found at www.datoufen.blogspot.com. I heard it once on radio and really like the stories.. and I can never miss the episodes becos I can download them as podcasts.. can found at www.podcast.com.sg. the charater da tou fen also has too much things in her mind that she need to write them all down in her blog.. is everyone who writes blog feels this way?
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Feel the same way..
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