Chica

Does it say something about us, that so many of us chose to do the girl quiz? :P
Ahh all the hearts turned into question marks T_T

?GIRLS ONLY:?

?Do you sleep in your bra?
If im in an uncomfortable setting where i need to get up fast e.g. tramps
?Do you enjoy drama?
Yes haha
?Are you a girly girl?
Not really
?Last person you hugged?
Mi bro
?Small or big purses?
big
?Do you think you’re conceited?
lol yeah sometimes i can't hold the line between self-confidence and up myself
?Do you dress up on Halloween?
No
?Where is the weirdest place you have slept?
kahunui survival?
?Has anyone touched/smacked your butt?
Yes
?Last person who walked you somewhere?
Dad lol
?Do you call anybody by their last name?
Teachers, if that counts
?Do you wear makeup?
No
?Ever cried at a movie theater?
No.. agree with Woonz, other ppl being there kills it.
?Can you put mascara on without opening your mouth?
Never tried lol
?Have you ever been called a bad influence?
No haha a lot of ppl think im some sorta' model example. Like a grey area in a textbook.
?THIS OR THAT:?
?Eyeliner or Mascara?
Eyeliner?
?Louis Vuitton or Dooney & Burke?
Louis vuitton.. dunno what the other one is
?American Eagle or Hollister?
What's that?
?Heels or flats?
Heels but don't hav the skill to walk in them o.o
?Skirts or pants?
Depends...
?Hoodies or jackets?
Hoodies
?Heels or sneakers?
Depends
?Straight or curly hair?
Depends on what looks good on the person
?RANDOM:?
?What color is your bra that your wearing?
White
?Do you prefer light or dark haired guys?
either or
?Are you currently frustrated with a guy?
No
?Do you have a best friend?
No
?Have you ever thought of having plastic surgery?
No... stories of ppl who have had it are entertaining tho
?Do you like your life?
Pretty much.. at least, if you offered me another unknown life, I'd be like, "no thanks, mine's already good enough"
?Have you ever jumped in the pool with your clothes on?
Yeah, survival swimming lessons lol
?Would you ever tell someone you loved them even though you didn't?
Yes
?Have you ever slapped a boy in the face?
No
?Have you ever cried yourself to sleep?
No.. tried it a few years ago when i had insomnia... didn't work
?Have you ever not been able to get someone off of your mind?
Yeah
?Have you ever had a good feeling about something?
yup :)
?Are you currently missing someone?
I don't really know what missing is anymore.
?IN A BOY:?
?Preppy or Punk/Goth?
preppy?
?Well-educated or Dropout?
El primero, claro
?Anything Cute or Abercrombie?
???
?Contacts or Glasses?
Whatever suits, i suppose
?Funny or Serious?
Funny
?Long Hair or Short Hair?
Short
?Curly Hair or Straight Hair?
Probably straight
?Good Dancer or Good Singer?
ahh i dunno..
?Basketball Player or Football Player?
Doesn't matter
?Smoker or Non-smoker?
No smoking, drugs or stealing, kids.
?Drinker or Non-drinker?
Non-drinker

Don't this just warm your heart...

Everybody say aww :)
Never uploaded a photo before. Tell me if you can't read it.

Opposites

First off:
What is the opposite of fear?
What is the opposite of peace?






I remembered something I read a while back. It was a book of phobias (pleasant reading yeah) and the last short story was about a boy who went from being afraid of nothing to being panophobic.

This guy got offered a full scholarship and free boarding at a private school, and after spending a day there, he realised that everybody else in the school has a phobia which prevents them from mixing with normal kids. For example, one girl is terrified of metal cutlery and another has a phobia of bugs.

Also, every time one of the kids touch him, he gets their phobia and they are cured (but he doesn't find that out until the end).

Irritated and unsympathetic, the guy goes to the headmistress because he wants to leave the school. The headmistress agrees, but only if and when he answers the question, "What is the opposite of fear?"
Obviously, the boy says, it's courage.
But the headmistress says something along the lines of, "No, courage is merely something you can feel in the absence of fear" and then takes out a box. She opens the box and there is a beetle in it.

The guy had already been touched by the bug-o-phobic and so he had become a bug-o-phobic. So he was terrified and almost fainting until the headmistress squished the beetle, at which point he felt an overwhelming sense of calm, relief and serenity.

"Now, what is the opposite of fear?"
"Peace. The opposite of fear is peace."

(The headmistress then tells him that he is the chosen one and his parents signed over their guardian rights to the school so he can't leave.)

What do you think? I always thought that if something is there in the absence of something else then they are opposites, e.g. darkness in absence of light.

Laaaaate

Ehh.. I'm sorry for ditching everyone.. it was because I forgot that Angels and Demons is 5 years longer than Wolverine, and I worked out yesterday that if we watched Wolverine, I would have plenty of time to walk to abacus, so it didn't occur to me that I would be late until about an hour and a half into the movie. Ahem. Running in street shoes = ankle massacre.

What happened at the end? I watched up until the white smoke came out of the chimney thing.

Oh yeah, and Bernie says to visit her when you go out into town. Lunch is at 1, she said.

Free entertainment

SALE: KITCHEN UTENSILS!!! EVERYTHING MUST GO!
**Note: excludes all glassware, ceramics, plastics, silicon, cutlery, cleaning utensils, knifes, knife sharpeners, blenders, whisks, scissors, cheese graters, peelers, chopping boards, drying racks and baking trays. That's right, we're having a spatula sale.

My parents got my brother and I heaters last weekend, and I just noticed the slogan on one of the boxes:
"What would YOU like the weather to be?"

Well, I don't know about you, but I feel like a storm. Lots of lightning and hail. Can I have a storm? Why not?

The heater is too ambitious. It was only $19.99 from the Warehouse. But it's also small in a cute sort of way, so it makes up for itself.

Anyway.
This is me attempting to entertain myself, since I have lots of things to do and no-one to talk to. I just finished vacuuming the floor for the third day in a row. Cleaning clean things. I remember in a book called the Faraway Tree stories, there was a Dame Washerwoman who cleaned everything she could. When the kids' mum got sick, they asked her to do all the washing. When a lion came down from the top of the tree, she washed it. When she had nothing left to clean, she started washing the leaves. Clearly she is one of the 14% of us who have OCD.

Time to pick up some leaves~

Ze worm and other things

Since I'm not in the best of moods today, I think it's best not to reflect that and rant all over the squash court.

You know, I typed in 'cut a worm in half and live' into google, and saw the answers.yahoo.com question about whether it dies or not. This is how it went:

Q: When you're turning the garden and cut a worm in half...?

does it die or become two worms?

Best answer: for some reason I can't even picture you turning a garden

Other answers:
- um when you cut it in half . both sides will continue wriggling. the head section can grow a new tail if the vital organs arent affected but the tail section will continue wriggling untill its cells die and wont grow a head

-It can either die or become 2 worms. As long as you have not severed any major organs the head will produce a new tail. And the tail will produce a new head.

-The piece with the procreation part(saddle) will live on, only if you cut him in half 'through the balls' both sides die...

-it becomes 2 pieces of bait

-Great question, I think it dies.

-two

-it dies

Here is an amusing story that happened in Latin last week. At least, Shu-hua and I found it funny.

Our teacher said, "Do you all know your perfect tense markers?'
Us: You mean, -i, -isti, -it, -imus, -istis, -erunt?
Teacher: No, I mean letters that perfect tense verbs are likely to have.

He writes on the board v, x, s and u.

Teacher: You can make a mnemonic out of that. Everyone know what a mnemonic is? It helps you remember things easily. Actually, maybe I shouldn't tell you this, it's a bit rude. Go on, try to make a mnemonic out of it.
Us: ...xSUV...uvsx... *five minutes later everyone gives up*
Teacher: Got it yet? It's a bit rude.
Us: No.

He writes "V-Sux".

Us: *mixture of ... and cracking up*
Teacher: Actually, there are lots of exceptions to this rule. In fact, there are so many exceptions, you can just forget about it. Yes. Just forget I said that.
Us: *mixture of ... and cracking up*

-End-

The happiness debate

And once again, I wrote this about five million years ago but forgot to post it.

"I think...I think happiness is settling for whatever life gives you." <-- That's what I read.

Actually, I'd seen something like this before, on a toilet door either at mediation camp or the SPCA, but that one said, "Happiness isn't having everything you want, it's being happy with everything you have."

If this is happiness, that is, if happiness is being perfectly satisfied with your current situation, then it's possible for everyone to be happy. Right?

No.

Firstly, the more unfortunate you are, the harder it is to be happy with your situation. Of course, what people think is unfortunate is different, but generally you would agree for example that if a close friend of yours died you would find it much harder to be happy.

Anyway, the story then goes on to have one of the main character's best friends die and he says to her before he passes away (a few weeks before, not a deathbed thing) that he's not concerned about the big issues like world peace and global warming anymore. The thing that he's most concerned about is that everyone is throwing away their happiness. People have all these opportunities, and they refuse to take them, out of fear or whatever.

"Accept what people give. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."

He was telling her this because she was in love with this guy who wanted to marry her, but she had gotten divorced before (as well as a ton of other bad stuff) and was too afraid that it wouldn't work out.

But anyway. If we can become happier just by taking more opportunities that come our way, then while we may not be able to achieve the perfect happiness, we can be happier without even destroying other peoples' vision of happiness. ("For the love of giving, grab!" can sound almost profound from this point of view eh XD)

Of course, this isn't really enough for anyone. After all, it sounds remarkably like just watching fate do your work for you and being happy with the results. Otherwise known as being complacent. Unattainable is appealing~ And also, if everyone just settled for what they had, there would be very little ambition, so the economy would fail etc.

If we have a mixture of the two, people who settle for what they get and people trying to create their vision of happiness, the people settling for what they get will get trampled into the carpet.

So, is there another way of achieving happiness?

Indestructible

It's getting colder, eh.

I was going to say something about the happiness debate, because I just finished reading a book that touches on it, but I saw something today and changed my mind XD

So I was walking home from school today, and on the other side of the road there were three kids who were about 9 or 10 years old. One was skateboarding, one scooter-ing and the other.. didn't notice because as I watched, the scooter-ing kid fell flat on his face and sort of lay there for a while without moving.

Two things passed through my head at that moment:
1) The skate-boarding kid's laugh sounds freakishly like Juliet's (from Heavenly Creatures).
2) He's fine: *flashback*

It was during our year 8 camp, and it had been raining so much that our teachers let us off doing early morning runs. Consequently, the ground had turned into ankle deep mud.
Our group was going mountain biking that morning.

About 20 minutes into the course, we were cycling on the road. Then we had to take a downwards-sloping turn-off on the left, which was the start of a narrow dirt track. The track had a sharp right turn about five metres down the slope.

We let this guy go in front of us, and he took it too fast and smashed into a tree, because he couldn't turn in time. He fell off his bike and was just lying there, not moving, for a while.
So someone yelled for the teacher and everyone was just quietly thinking, is he okay, but we were worrying unnecessarily, because he soon stood up and got on his bike again.

As did the kid on the way home from school. 30 seconds after he'd fallen and the scene was exactly as it was before, complete with the Juliet-style laughter.

Anyway, the point is, maybe kids are a lot tougher than we give them credit for. And if that's the case, then the problem of parents coddling their children out of love (like Winnie said) is even worse than we think. We worry about them way too much. Conversely, don't we tend to not worry about parents and teachers etc.? Like Mrs L. said, people like to think that teachers shut themselves in a cupboard after hours and don't have lives outside school, but the fact is, they do, and they have problems like everybody else.

To oversimplify it, when you get older, people stop caring, because they expect you to look after yourself.
That's what growing up's all about, kids!
Ah, it's too cynical. And I'm not even in a cynical mood today.
Going to study.