I'm not afraid of death.
Should I be?
I think to die will be an awfully big adventure.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Wonder....
In light of recent blogs being posted by people, I have decided to follow suit and write a more serious blog today.
Life is a really complicated thing, not just the whole breathing, brain functioning all at the same time side, but also our behaviour, our personalities, ourselves as people. Can we truly say we know who we are when we are this young? We are all a combined effort of everyone we have ever known, we pick out the pieces of a person and mirror them, trying them on like clothes before developing yourself as a person. Thus, do we know who we are, or who we will be in the future? As if this whole self-discovery stuff isn't enough to think about there is also the matter of other people. Maybe we all view everyone else as characters in our own personal stories, as paper people, two dimensional. We need to stop thinking about our stories, and also stop trying to become someone else. Some people believe that to understand someone, we need to become them. I think this is wrong, we can never truly become someone else. We can only imagine, and no matter how close our imagination takes us to becoming that person, it will never happen. because we are all different. So giving a paper person, a doll in the story of your life a three dimensional self, to truly understand someone, takes time. It takes time spent hanging out with each other, telling each other things and trusting that the other person will never spill your secrets. And then this is where friendship takes hold. But even then friendship can be a variable in life, people backstab their friends, exclude certain people for their own reasons and when this sort of things occur they are not thinking about their friend, a three dimensional person with a story of their own. They become flimsy, like paper. Flexible even. We start to believe that we want our lives to go and bend to certain paths, and that we can bend our paper friends with us. But we can't, because they have stories too. They are running parallel with us, and yes they can bend but like most things if you bend it too much it will break. Life is about what you make it, but also about how we take the stuff that life throws at us. And whilst we are caught between deciding careers, uni's, countries and so on, remember your friends, people who are so much more than paper dolls in your story, people who can truly understand you, without becoming you (after all it is YOUR life only) and who have their own stories running with yours, and they'll bend with you and your decisions.
So, to all my friends thankyou!
And to everyone, read Paper Towns by John Green. $19.50 at Borders
Ciao
Life is a really complicated thing, not just the whole breathing, brain functioning all at the same time side, but also our behaviour, our personalities, ourselves as people. Can we truly say we know who we are when we are this young? We are all a combined effort of everyone we have ever known, we pick out the pieces of a person and mirror them, trying them on like clothes before developing yourself as a person. Thus, do we know who we are, or who we will be in the future? As if this whole self-discovery stuff isn't enough to think about there is also the matter of other people. Maybe we all view everyone else as characters in our own personal stories, as paper people, two dimensional. We need to stop thinking about our stories, and also stop trying to become someone else. Some people believe that to understand someone, we need to become them. I think this is wrong, we can never truly become someone else. We can only imagine, and no matter how close our imagination takes us to becoming that person, it will never happen. because we are all different. So giving a paper person, a doll in the story of your life a three dimensional self, to truly understand someone, takes time. It takes time spent hanging out with each other, telling each other things and trusting that the other person will never spill your secrets. And then this is where friendship takes hold. But even then friendship can be a variable in life, people backstab their friends, exclude certain people for their own reasons and when this sort of things occur they are not thinking about their friend, a three dimensional person with a story of their own. They become flimsy, like paper. Flexible even. We start to believe that we want our lives to go and bend to certain paths, and that we can bend our paper friends with us. But we can't, because they have stories too. They are running parallel with us, and yes they can bend but like most things if you bend it too much it will break. Life is about what you make it, but also about how we take the stuff that life throws at us. And whilst we are caught between deciding careers, uni's, countries and so on, remember your friends, people who are so much more than paper dolls in your story, people who can truly understand you, without becoming you (after all it is YOUR life only) and who have their own stories running with yours, and they'll bend with you and your decisions.
So, to all my friends thankyou!
And to everyone, read Paper Towns by John Green. $19.50 at Borders
Ciao
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Ethiopians and Gondwanese People
So I have come to the conclusion that Jesus was actually ETHIOPIAN. Don't ask me how I got to this conclusion, but he was meant to be black right? So therefore I deduced that he was from Ethiopia (or what used to be known as Abyssinia). Because it seems fitting that Jesus was from Ethiopia. I mean, he can run SUPER fast too. And he's black. And technically we're all African anyway. I mean we have traced DNA all the way back to one chick in Africa, therefore we are all African. Partly. Which makes the Maori also African. Because they just migrated all over the place whilst the world was still Gondwanaland. Which is a way cooler name than "Europe" and "America" and "Asia." Gondwanaland is just one of those FUN words to say, like numnah, or nunchucks (yes it is actually nuNchucks, we have had a long and lengthy discussion about this resulting in Googling and such whihc confirmed that it is not nuMchucks but nuNchucks). Anyway, this technically makes us ALL Gondwanese. Which is very cool. Well I think so. But then again I also think Zac Efron IS God and High School Musical Three was the pinnacle of awesome.
Anyway I figured that when people say "Ethiopia" or "Abyssinia" we can all stop immediatly thinking of hungry dying children and Joseph Kony and think Hey, that's where Jesus came from.
Although he technically came from Israel, but it was all one and the same in Gondwanaland anyway. Maybe we should just stick with calling him Gondwanese? yes, a much better idea.
And that concludes today's practical theory. You've all just earned a mediocre TWO credits.
NCEA is taking over.
Ciao
Anyway I figured that when people say "Ethiopia" or "Abyssinia" we can all stop immediatly thinking of hungry dying children and Joseph Kony and think Hey, that's where Jesus came from.
Although he technically came from Israel, but it was all one and the same in Gondwanaland anyway. Maybe we should just stick with calling him Gondwanese? yes, a much better idea.
And that concludes today's practical theory. You've all just earned a mediocre TWO credits.
NCEA is taking over.
Ciao
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Procrastination
Once again it is a Wednesday, a nice short day in which everyone departs the horrors of school to get home early. And once again I find myself procrastinating. Things I should be doing but am not are...
1. Maths Pythag homework.
2. English-picking apart Hone Tuwhare's poem "No Ordinary Sun."
3. Studying for Japanese writing test on Friday.
Yup. Not much but still worthy of leaving off until later me thinks. Besides, it has been raining. I want to bask in that awesome feeling that comes with being warm and dry whilst watching the rain trickle down my windows. PLUS I have recently got hold of an incredible recipe that I am going to share with you now. Want to know what it is for?
CAKE IN A CUP!
ZOMG! Excitement yeah?! I'm excited. I'm going to do maths and english then go make a cake in a cup, whine a bit about Jap homework, go on bebo, put some angsty comment on my page regarding homework and internals and then I will do my Jap homework.
ANYWAY, I shall leave you with this wonderful recipe, ciao!
Cake in a Cup:
Ingredients
* 4 tablespoons flour
* 4 tablespoons sugar
* 2 tablespoons cocoa
* 1 egg
* 3 tablespoons milk
* 3 tablespoons oil
* 1 dash vanilla
* 1 dash salt (optional)
* 1 dash baking powder (optional)
Directions
1.Put all ingredients in a large mug and mix well.
2.Microwave for 3 minutes.
3.You will see cake rise, but it will fall when you take it out of the microwave. Microwave times may vary. If it looks done 15 or so seconds earlier, take it out.
4.Eat, but be careful, it's HOT!
1. Maths Pythag homework.
2. English-picking apart Hone Tuwhare's poem "No Ordinary Sun."
3. Studying for Japanese writing test on Friday.
Yup. Not much but still worthy of leaving off until later me thinks. Besides, it has been raining. I want to bask in that awesome feeling that comes with being warm and dry whilst watching the rain trickle down my windows. PLUS I have recently got hold of an incredible recipe that I am going to share with you now. Want to know what it is for?
CAKE IN A CUP!
ZOMG! Excitement yeah?! I'm excited. I'm going to do maths and english then go make a cake in a cup, whine a bit about Jap homework, go on bebo, put some angsty comment on my page regarding homework and internals and then I will do my Jap homework.
ANYWAY, I shall leave you with this wonderful recipe, ciao!
Cake in a Cup:
Ingredients
* 4 tablespoons flour
* 4 tablespoons sugar
* 2 tablespoons cocoa
* 1 egg
* 3 tablespoons milk
* 3 tablespoons oil
* 1 dash vanilla
* 1 dash salt (optional)
* 1 dash baking powder (optional)
Directions
1.Put all ingredients in a large mug and mix well.
2.Microwave for 3 minutes.
3.You will see cake rise, but it will fall when you take it out of the microwave. Microwave times may vary. If it looks done 15 or so seconds earlier, take it out.
4.Eat, but be careful, it's HOT!
Awkward Moments
Ahh yes. Awkward moments. Don't we just love them all? I know I do. They are mildy amusing wouldn't you agree? Lets go through our favourites...
1. The wonderful-ness of walking into someone, then stepping the same way like three times before clearing off. It's like dancing with strangers in the street!
2. When you see someone you know but aren't really friends with and you smile at them and do that thing most kiwi's do that makes me laugh in which you tilt your head upwards and if you're really daring you raise your eyebrows at the same time. It's like a native greeting. Anyway, you keep catching the person-you-know-but-not-really's eye and it is awkward.
3. AWKWARD SILENCES!!!!!!!!! Which is why some genius child invented the awkward silence turtle. Ahhh how I love these silences, such great random things get said. I do recall being on the phone to someone I shan't mention and during one of these silences they randomly blurted out Jane* has a urinary tract infection!
*Names changed for privacy lol
4. Seeing someone you were trying to avoid! Ahaha this is by far my favourite, because each person is like holy cow I'm obliged to start talking now um um um um and it is incredibly awkward.
5. Watching inappropriate movies with parents or with friens and THEIR parents. Hasn't everyone seen a movie that has multiple sex scenes and you sit there squirming uncomfortabally because you are watching SEX with your PARENTS? And you're pretty much thinking oh my god let it be over PLEASE! Yeah these always make for good stories...
So, I have to go and watch House in which Cutner shoots himself! GASP! So if you have more awkward moments please feel free to drop me a comment with an awkward moment! Preferably personal stories please as they could be entertaining for us all!
Ciao!
1. The wonderful-ness of walking into someone, then stepping the same way like three times before clearing off. It's like dancing with strangers in the street!
2. When you see someone you know but aren't really friends with and you smile at them and do that thing most kiwi's do that makes me laugh in which you tilt your head upwards and if you're really daring you raise your eyebrows at the same time. It's like a native greeting. Anyway, you keep catching the person-you-know-but-not-really's eye and it is awkward.
3. AWKWARD SILENCES!!!!!!!!! Which is why some genius child invented the awkward silence turtle. Ahhh how I love these silences, such great random things get said. I do recall being on the phone to someone I shan't mention and during one of these silences they randomly blurted out Jane* has a urinary tract infection!
*Names changed for privacy lol
4. Seeing someone you were trying to avoid! Ahaha this is by far my favourite, because each person is like holy cow I'm obliged to start talking now um um um um and it is incredibly awkward.
5. Watching inappropriate movies with parents or with friens and THEIR parents. Hasn't everyone seen a movie that has multiple sex scenes and you sit there squirming uncomfortabally because you are watching SEX with your PARENTS? And you're pretty much thinking oh my god let it be over PLEASE! Yeah these always make for good stories...
So, I have to go and watch House in which Cutner shoots himself! GASP! So if you have more awkward moments please feel free to drop me a comment with an awkward moment! Preferably personal stories please as they could be entertaining for us all!
Ciao!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Tights Are NOT Pants
How many times must I say this?? TIGHTS ARE NOT PANTS!!! I don't understand this new frenzy in which girls feel the need to wear NORMAL SIZED T-SHIRTS AND SHIRTS WITH TIGHTS. It makes no sense! It looks WEIRD! We can see your undie lines woman! And on top of all this, it makes you appear as if you forgot your pants on your way out to work in the morning because you need a coffee and want a Continental cup-a-soup but that's for later in the afternoon when three-thirty-itis occurs so you wander around dazed WITH NO PANTS. I truly do not understand this frenzy. Neither do the fug girls, who are amazing, check 'em out. www.gofugyourself.com
Ciao!
Ciao!
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