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.

Dream a little

I had a strange dream last night. Who wants to hear about it? lol.

I was sitting on a couch next to this guy around our age and his mum was opposite. We were in their house, and their house only had one room, and it was on the second storey, as in, you had to climb up stairs to reach it, but there were no rooms underneath. I knew somehow that this was the third time I'd been there, and also that this house was very close to where I lived. There wasn't much conversation going on - the guy was being really nice but his mum was pretty silent.

So then my parents turn up at the door, to pick me up, and I look outside and see it's pouring with rain, the kind of rain that was falling in the last scene of Step Up 2, and it's dark, almost pitch black, but neither of my parents are carrying an umbrella or wearing raincoats. I leave and we start walking in the rain. My mum says, "Why are you spending so much time with him? You're spending too much time with him. Do you like him or something?" and I'm just like, "No.."

The scene changes and we're walking through a mall, which is very white and well lit and all the shops are open, but the entire mall is empty, and none of the shops have names. Suddenly, the guy's mum appears about 20 m behind us, carrying something. She puts it on the ground and looks at us in an evil sort of way. My mum turns around then and notices the guy's mum, and gives her a contemptous look back. The guy's mum leaves the mall and my parents continue walking.

But I look at the bundle the guy's mum left on the ground, and I realise it's two items of clothing that I own: my maroon fleecy hoodie and a yellow shirt. So I go to pick it up, and I realise there's something else there: a green sandwich board which is much wider than it is tall. I pick that up too, and keep walking til I find my family, who are inside a clothes shop. I put the bundle of stuff on the ground and then my mum starts panicking, "What is that?! Did you knock it over?" She's talking about the sandwich board, which is now lying on the ground - one side says, "No, this is not just a piece of cardboard" the other side says, "If you let this board fall you will die."

Then this really suspenseful scary music starts playing and my parents are looking for something that will save us and I say to my brother, who is studying calmly, "I wish this music would stop!" He looks up and says, "You should concentrate on what you're doing instead of everything and everyone else for a change." He goes back to studying and I start looking for something that will save us too. My parents are looking through XXXL jeans at the back of the shop and my dad says, "Did you find anything?" and my mum says, "No, there's nothing here but jeans!"

I woke up at this point.

kkkkkkkkk

Mr Kangaroo, can you help me get my kite? It got stuck in the tree and I can't reach it.
Anything for the one who found my favourite purple hat.

Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real. . .nothing made up!

What is your name? Kimberley
A four letter word: Kind
A boy's name: Kenny
A girl's name: Kirsty
An occupation: K-Mart employee lol I can't think of a better one
A color: Khaki?
Something you wear: Kimono
A food: Kebab
Something found in the bathroom: K...ettle...iwifruit-scented shampoo
A place: Kuala Lumpur
A reason for being late: Kangaroo ran into our car, which has kangaroo guards (no joke this is true of drivers in the Aussie outback) so it got hurt, and we felt bad and took it to the vet.
Something you shout: KURSE YOUUUU (^_^) again, can't think of anything better
A movie title: Kill Bill
Something you drink: Kool-Aid... I googled, its an alcoholic mix of vodka, gin, cranberry juice etc.
A musical group: King Crimson... I googled this too lol it was an English progressive rock band
An animal: Koala
A weapon: A... killing machine... no wait, knife lol
A street name: Kimberley Road (has a Kimberley house at the end XD)
A song title: Kiss me throught the phone - Soulja Boy
A verb: Keep
Type of car: Never ask me this question... I know almost nothing about cars. Although I think Kia is one? Power to surprise and all that.