Headstart
Book: Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership - Andrew Roberts
Movie: 2012
Interest: Rachel Papo, photographer
"Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
- The Town and the City, Jack Kerouac
Happy List
epic rainbow cake
cold hands, cool cheeks
buttons
oversized sweaters
floppy-eared dogs
ballet
wishing on a star
chinese cotton-padded jackets
Christmas lights
a cup of hot banana milk
Journal
Nothing much has happened in the average life of mine. School has taken up most of my time at the moment. We had our Inter-house Athletics Heats on Thursday. I was freezing in my P.E. shorts and simply refused to take off my woollen vest (that is, until Jasmie yanked it off my head because I looked too much of a dork. But that woolly vest is lucky like my shimmery glittery plimsoles, I swear. They got me into the semi-finals for B Grade one-hundred-metres running and that's saying something. I came in last in the semi-finals.)
*Spoiler Alert* 2012 was amazing. I was anxiously sipping my Pepsi the whole time. I never realised that Thandie Newton was so pretty.
It was really authentic, what with the roads splitting into halves, rivers drying up, crumbling buildings, freak tsunamis. I am no scientist, but the Sun could very well be heating up the Core of the Earth right this moment for all we know. It was so real.
The main characters of the movie all survive and embrace the new age and live happily ever after, while everyone else, presidents who chose not to abandon their country, billionaires who were cheated, and the mere little commonpeople who didn't have airplanes and limousines and top-secret information - these people died. Yes, the presidents and the billionaires, mingled with the commonpeople. In the end we're all the same. We all die.
I gained two whole kilos over the past two weeks. Two kilos! I have to go on a diet quick or I won't be able to join any competitions next year.
Mid-term examinations start tomorrow. Felt tips, blank paper, textbooks, calculator, chocolates - I'm all set.
Inspiration
Letters
Dear Jem,
I shall pretend I never heard.
But you know I did.
And it is nice to know. x
Book: Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership - Andrew RobertsMovie: 2012
Interest: Rachel Papo, photographer
"Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
- The Town and the City, Jack Kerouac
Happy List
epic rainbow cakecold hands, cool cheeks
buttons
oversized sweaters
floppy-eared dogs
ballet
wishing on a star
chinese cotton-padded jackets
Christmas lights
a cup of hot banana milk
Journal
Nothing much has happened in the average life of mine. School has taken up most of my time at the moment. We had our Inter-house Athletics Heats on Thursday. I was freezing in my P.E. shorts and simply refused to take off my woollen vest (that is, until Jasmie yanked it off my head because I looked too much of a dork. But that woolly vest is lucky like my shimmery glittery plimsoles, I swear. They got me into the semi-finals for B Grade one-hundred-metres running and that's saying something. I came in last in the semi-finals.)*Spoiler Alert* 2012 was amazing. I was anxiously sipping my Pepsi the whole time. I never realised that Thandie Newton was so pretty.
It was really authentic, what with the roads splitting into halves, rivers drying up, crumbling buildings, freak tsunamis. I am no scientist, but the Sun could very well be heating up the Core of the Earth right this moment for all we know. It was so real.
The main characters of the movie all survive and embrace the new age and live happily ever after, while everyone else, presidents who chose not to abandon their country, billionaires who were cheated, and the mere little commonpeople who didn't have airplanes and limousines and top-secret information - these people died. Yes, the presidents and the billionaires, mingled with the commonpeople. In the end we're all the same. We all die.
I gained two whole kilos over the past two weeks. Two kilos! I have to go on a diet quick or I won't be able to join any competitions next year.
Mid-term examinations start tomorrow. Felt tips, blank paper, textbooks, calculator, chocolates - I'm all set.
Inspiration
Letters
Dear Jem,I shall pretend I never heard.
But you know I did.
And it is nice to know. x
