Dear People Who Actually Likes Lord of The Flies and everyone else,

I want to express my utmost admiration and awe for the guys who not only finished the entire book, understood its contents, and LIKED IT. You are immortal. You have achieved a feat that is impossible for me to reach.

I, for one, zoned out right after the 3rd page into the first chapter. In order to make myself forget and recover from the nasty experience of trying to reading LOTF, i borrowed from the library this book called Bling, which is really 446 pages about a black girl who went through life becoming a hip-hop princess and continuing her life from there. As cliche as the plot may sound, the content turned out to be something entirely new for me, and the deadpan humor that layered the story was refreshing too. It was a book that i thoroughly enjoyed.

Bling served its purpose well -- in these few days in which i was supposed to be frantically reading and annotating LOTF, i have remorselessly finished Bling. Ladies and gentlemen, I do not regret to say that i will not, in fact, be finishing LOTF at all!

You see, people, in two days' time i will be leaving for London and Paris, the latter in which i will settle permanently, and never return to Singapore ever again.
I am sorry to have to do this, but i really do dread the prospect of returning to school in a few weeks' time to have to go through a whole gruelling semester of Literature lessons aaall about LOTF.

Sorry for the departure, my dears, but a girl has to do what a girl has to do.

This letter not only delivers my farewell but also aims to recommend to you Bling, the book which will become the last that i have finished reading in Singapore and enjoyed immensely. It includes some scenes that are sexually explicit, though.

Ok, i must go attend to my luggage now. Please do not miss me, and remember to send me your tearful farewells before its too late. Take care and good bye!

With lots of love,
Lena








I WISH.