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Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts

Monday, 31 August 2015

My Shakespearean Name

My Shakespearean name is Helena Silvia. Sounds impressive. :P I like the quote. It is from As You Like It. 
Your Shakespearean Name is Helena Silvia
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
What's Your Shakespearean Name?
I studied literature when I was in primary school, continued in secondary school and in junior college and with many of the literature texts by Shakespeare, e.g., Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew and a few others. My favourites are Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. :)

Tuesday, 16 September 2008

Peculiar Sleep Habits

Juliane sure has some peculiar habits when she sleeps. Not too long ago, she was singing in her sleep over a few nights. But she has one consistent habit that she has had for the longest time and she does it several times a night. No matter how I tried, she can't kick the habit.

Whenever she does it, it reminds me of this:

"Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then 'tis time to do't. —Hell is murky. —Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Here's the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!"

Sounds familiar?! Well, for those who have taken Literature, it is from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1. Yes, Juliane has this peculiar "Lady Macbeth like washing of hands" habit. She would suddenly raise both hands into the air and starts to "wash her hands" as in rubbing her palms together and the back of her hands. When I tried to stop her, she would instead start to "wash" my hands. Hahaha. :P I really don't understand how, when or why she pick up this habit.

Let's hope she will grow out of this habit when she gets older. :)