Hello to everyone again happy
This just got me thinking when I saw a note book lying around on our table. I recalled the morning shows that reminded parents about how soon the new school year will be, implying on newer expenses on school supplies, new uniforms for the new students and most important, financial needs when enrolling their children to school.
However, though expenses are common to us, day in and day out, the notebook that I saw lying around reminded me of another memory, during my high school.
My notebooks during high school had drawing and odd notes at the back. Besides the usual notes that student have to take down on particular classes, my notebooks had comic strips behind them, dull poems or even journals. I even got myself a notebook that I made into a comic book, later realizing that a comic book that hade more pages than the usual Comic Books are already considered as graphic novels.
How about you guys? Did you draw or write anything else in your note books when you were still in high school? Recalled anything special? Please do share
[question posted by ratyz5]
responses and comments:
hi ratyz, Thanks for reminding those beautiful memories, yes i used to write many thing at the last page of my notebook. Even i used to draw some cartoon characters and name them. Some time we used to write funny things beside the cartoon character and then pass the note book in the whole class. And then my friends used to write on the same page.. in short Disturbing the whole class. enjoy :) [yogeshdhusa]
I also drew plenty of characters at the back of my notebooks, most of them conceptual from other shows or comics that I have read. You really do have a unique way of disturbing the class as it seems Good thing your classmates are coopertaive with that diturbance you start with lol [ratyz5]
I doodled and wrote notes ALL over my books and binders in school. My mom used to get upset with me because she always thought she'd have to buy me new binders because the old ones had writing on them. Whatever. It gave them unique flair. I still doodle all over everything. Too creative for my own good. :P [pixelpixie]
So I would assume that you probably have a lot of binders with nice designs on them by now. That can be lucrative for you and being creative can be too good for you after all. [ratyz5]
No I don't. I'm the pad paper guy. I do all my doodle and drooling there. Before the opening of class I set 1 day just for covering my notebooks. I would cover it with plastic so perfectly tight and straighten that it looks like its been laminated. Even the scotch tape has to the right places and in equal size. On school days I kept my notebooks very clean, no wrinkles, I even see to it that the corners are perfectly cornered. During class and in writing notes, I would first do it in pad paper and later at home I would transfer it neatly in their respective notebooks. Most of the time it will all end up in pad paper. This is why at the end of the school year some of my notebooks are till good for the next one. Now is this a sign of a sick minddrool [ferdzNK]
I've only justified your uncertainty of having a sick mind with the habit that you have elaborated. Sick already implies a disorder of things and knowing that well organized habit of yours only proves that there isn't anything sick, for you had that habit with your notebooks on having them well ordered. A pschiatrist? Everyone has their own unique disorders. Perhaps yours was your uncertainty of the habit of being organized that you have related while mine would be my pretentious opinions that pretty much conceals my inferiority. Well, thank you for the compliment happy [ratyz5]
I usually had notes between friends and me, or doodles, or little comic strips. xD They were never anything interesting, just something to keep me a little focused during class. [Valenas]
That's kind'a odd.. for most of those would surely take your focus out of class for soe students, surely I'm one of those that would be distracted lol [ratyz5]
Yeah, I was looking through all my old school stuff yesterday and I have tons of poems and drawings all over my work/notes. I remember that drawing got me in trouble quite a few times during class because we were suppose to be taking notes but instead I was drawing one of the pictures that was on the wall next to the overhead. I kinda missed being in High School since I graduated at 16. All my friends are finally graduating this year so I get to catch up with them and everything. Oh and I even found about 6 journals that I have full of drawings and poems from when we had to go to Study Hall. [Mirenia]
I guess we have plenty of memories stored on such notebooks. Either it being good or bad, they are still memories conveniently kept within our notebooks through either visual works or written texts that really had nothing to do during the classes wherein they were made. happy I also kind'a miss my days when I was still attending school. You tend to have more friends there since you do meet there at a daily basis. [ratyz5]
If you would be seeing my notebooks in my highschool days, you would find out that there are more doodles in the back than the notes for the subject. Most of the time, I spend more time writing and drawing something at the back of the notebook than writing down notes. I do draw comic strips but I have never came up with a graphic novel though. I do it mostly when I am bored of the subject. Or sometimes, when listening to the subject, I thought of something related to the subject but in a more comic way. But mostly I'm just bored. [richiem]
I think I was fortunate enough to get free time during classes when I was able to draw much on my notebooks. We often wrote the same thing on notebooks among classmates so in case I do get to have some notes missing on my notebooks, I could always borrow a classmates and copy from them. If teachers were only so skilled on keeping our attention when they teach their subjects to us.. rolleyes [ratyz5]
i also draw in my notebook. aside from that, i also play SOS and guessing game with my seatmates if we got bored. we also eat some chips during our class lol i also sleep sometimes if i really feel sleepy and bored on our teacher [rhane7315]
Hehehe, thanks for reminding me of those games we use to play during those boring times at school. Our math notebooks really made SOS or XOX very convenient to play lol I also brought such snack at school and we ate them while classes were on going. My classmates would be hiding behind Chairs while munching away. Sleep was the only things I couldn't do.. I was simply to tall to get caught sleeping.. [ratyz5]
Nope, however these are my punk activities during high school. Ive tried to vandalize, cut class, smoke cigarette, hit a student while driving, insulted a teacher in front of his face and many more. However I did not get expelled and now finished college. Im not really a punk. I just tried these things as a youngster but now I am much more matured. [yoz_43]
That's quite a school that tolerated your activities.. not that strict.. we'd be Painting a whole wall if we get caught even writing something on a wall, get parents called if you can't explain your sudden absence at class, cigarettes would be taken from you even while your smoking them, get hit back with what you did and most likely get that car you used vandalized by other students who would be associated with the one you struck while driving. Only one among the things you enumerated, I was able to do, I was able to insult a teacher infront of other students, and the teacher happens to be a member of the disciplinary boards. I wasn't expelled from doing that even though it got some attention from the higher ups at school. I guess a notebook can't really alleviate everything that you wanted to do during those days.. [ratyz5]
high school life is the craziest time in school for me all my fondest memory is during this time of my life. writing or drawing is one of on a notebook or book is a way of past time for me. i write names of my crush in my notebooks and books also i draw the faces of my professor like a demon or as satan because sometimes i don't want to listen to their discussions. or they are always scolding us for being so rude and inattentive in class. im not good in drawing i always draw stick people hehe. i sometimes write something to a classmates book or notebook to make fun of them. like drawing big lines or different shapes in the whole page of the book and i will not tell that i am the one responsible for doing it and my classmate will get so angry but can't tell who did it. [bullyvirgil]
Of course... lol [ratyz5]
In my note book you may find only drawings more.. Because itz a time pass for me during class... Especially i tries diffrent style to my name, different signature, new style cars.. etc etc.. [manu619]
I often saw notebooks like that from my other classmates too. Trying out different kinds of signatures that would look good. I wish I did that since my signature now is completely like a crumpled wire doh Concept design for cars? [ratyz5]
I wasn't much for doodling all over my stuff, however, I did sometimes reserve the very last page in my notebook to just randomly write, scribble, and doodle anything that came into my head. Sometimes it was quite random and other times it was serious brainstorming for a poem I wanted to write or some other artistic project. I would also print pictures off of the internet and put them in my plannners and assignment notebooks and use different colored pens and markers to write down my assignments. I have been practically cursed with an impeccable memory, so these Planners didn't last long - my teachers never really believed that anyone could remember their assignments + plans without writing them down, but apparently my brain is just wired in a weird way like that as I planned just by memory and never missed an assignment. Unfortunately, I don't have anything too profound or big to bring back memories as a lot of you have... [skydancer]
My alternative writings and drawings all begin at the back of the notebooks I had. They weren't planned though to begin with. When something just comes up or whims takes over, similar to being random and from sudden sparks of inspirations. Some may doodle all over their stuff and I wouldn't have anything against those who do, its their stuff to begin with anyway. I guess you had your own way on doing things with different colored pens and even printing out images from the net. When we have assignements that required illustrations, I mostly do them myself though not as impressive but, enough to find merit among my classmates. Can't afford to have pictures printed those times since we didn't had a computer yet with a printer. If its a curse for you, I guess its a curse for you. Some would look at the capability of impeccable memory differently. Your the one who had that weirdly wired brain so you have more complaints for it than what I could ever suggest as advantages, you know your brain better than anyone would do. Anyone in our class during high school can simply recall assignments anyway, you just have to recall the subjects you took and recall if any of them assigned a homework(s). That was easy for us during in high school since the subjects we all took were all in order like Science came after Math while History came before Arts and Literature, something like that. Profound or not, memories and the significance of them would always vary from each individual that experienced that moment in their lives. Thank you for participating happy [ratyz5]
LOL omg yea..I think most of us (my classmates) did..usually it was funny drawings and band logos/names etc etc...and we'd write on each others binders and notebooks too LOL [Ravenladyj]
Binders, I use to make some of those during my high schools but, didn't work out so I just got those notebook straps for my notebooks and later on, just left those notebooks of mine at some place in the class room so that it'd be just there when I needed it and would only take the ones that home that I have to work on. Thank you for sharing.. band logos and drawing.. classmates.. high school indeed.. :) [ratyz5]
Your story reminds me too of my friend named Jojie. He is also my classmate waybak in high school. He is the only person whom in my entire high school year that i've never seen to bring a bag or a notebook. I only seen him only with a ballpen. Although the school provides book for us students, I dont even see him bring even one book. Oh! High school days! I miss it! [renzgabriel72279]
You mean the story I posted on my reply to Ravenladyj's post? confused With what you have shared, I now recall my college classmate who only brought his phone and pen! Our first college years were really like high school to me happy Thanks for sharing! [ratyz5]
hi ratyz! ^__^ that's the reason why i enjoy browsing my old school notebooks! there are lots of things to see at the back and even at the top of each page. lol when i was in high school, it was popular to draw a "sequence drawing" on the top of each page of our notebook. for example, a stick figure that when you turn the pages quickly, it would seem that it is walking and might reach something at the end (top rightmost of the page).^__^;; and then, i used to scribble just about anything at the back of my notebooks. useless things, specimen signatures, or just some abstract crap. lol and then, back in college, when i got into drawing, i used to draw Anime characters at the back of my notebook, even in the middle part or even in between my notes!^__^;; i even drew at my reviewers/photocopies. LOL as long as there's space and i'm bored reviewing, i'd draw anything. and during lectures that i get bored, i would write comments regarding my professor, answering everything he/she is saying, not just at the back of my notebook but also on the top of each page again.^__^;; it seems my hand just can't rest for a second. wink [secretbear]
Some would pair up characters base on the innate character personality that they have.. makes them possible pairs in an alternate realm of sorts but, that's their preference as I have my own like others do. Whatever you may call it, copying, enlarging.. you can still draw.. (^_^ ) [ratyz5]
Yeah.. I do.. I even let my friends write their messages for me on my notes and even at the back page of my workbook.. I really miss them.. specially when I read those things and I started recalling all the memories that I have with them.. high school life is really the best..!! [vellalyn777]
That's very good to hear, having a nice a friendly high school life is really something to feel good about since there are others who couldn't even attend school, let alone have that high school life.. Hope that things are still nice for you up to now (^_^ ) [ratyz5]