Bonjour, g'day, hey, hi, hello!
It's been such a long time since I last posted - about two months! My most sincere apologies to all of you.
So anyway, I um, don't have that much to tell you. It seems my amazing immune system has finally let its walls down - I now have the red puffy eyes, annoying blocked nose and never-ending sneezes that everyone seems to have had at least once so far this winter. Except me, until now.
Aside from that, I'm getting pretty excited about all my travel plans. I was planning a trip to China with one of my good friends, but that's really not looking too positive anymore, since she has other uni related things to pay for. Looks like China has been delayed for now. I'm left trying to decide when I should go where. I'd like to go to New Zealand for about a month, just exploring - a completely relaxing holiday, just me, my camera and the beautiful natural scenery. And I also have to decide on the particulars of my holiday to the UK. It'll be a working holiday, for three months; one month in England, one in Scotland and one in Ireland. So many decisions to make in so little time!
I told you all that because it kind of introduces my next project. I'm going to cover my ceiling (yes, my ceiling!) in pictures of all the places I want to go. Since there are metal bars going both horizontally and vertically across my ceiling which splits it into four fairly even sections, I'm going to dedicate each quarter to a particular continent or country I'd like to see. The first will be Europe and the UK, the second America, the third Asia, and the fourth will be all the other little places here and there that I simply must see in my lifetime but don't fit into the other three categories.
I'm hoping to have all this done in around a month, so hopefully pics will be up around the end of August. (: Stay tuned to see my soon to be CRAZY ceiling. :D
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
I QUIT!
Quitter! Quitter! Quitter!
I can just hear the accusations now. BUT IT WAS HARD! Bad excuse, hey. I'm sorry, really I am. But it's getting boring, and I'm not committed, and that's about all I can say. Sorry for boring you, I know I was.
YAY! now I can write other things, like reviews and short pieces and lists! Oh, lists! And I'll post photos regularly and I promise I won't be boring ever again!
So I'll leave it here today. Tomorrow will bring a whole new blog. Woo!
Ciao!
I can just hear the accusations now. BUT IT WAS HARD! Bad excuse, hey. I'm sorry, really I am. But it's getting boring, and I'm not committed, and that's about all I can say. Sorry for boring you, I know I was.
YAY! now I can write other things, like reviews and short pieces and lists! Oh, lists! And I'll post photos regularly and I promise I won't be boring ever again!
So I'll leave it here today. Tomorrow will bring a whole new blog. Woo!
Ciao!
Laaaaaaaaazy.
SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY!
I've been so slack, I do apologize. My couple of days of trust went alright. But it was definitely a hard task.
This week I've been focusing on being 'caring'. So when my workmate went home early on Monday because she felt sick, I raged in my head for a few minutes, told her I hoped she would feel better and then stuck my head down and worked solidly on the never-ending pile of photocopying for the rest of the afternoon. It's so much harder with just one person at work, but it couldn't have been helped.
I think I was most caring, however, when I cancelled a few outings on the weekend to recover from fatigue. I'm always forgetting to take care of myself, so this week definitely reminded me.
This week is one I hate. My highschool motto included this word and I HATE HATE HATE it. Integrity. I don't even know what it means! But, I'm resolved to doing something about it. First I'm going to find out what it means. Like, right now. Back in half an hour or so, with a definition and a task! :D
I've been so slack, I do apologize. My couple of days of trust went alright. But it was definitely a hard task.
This week I've been focusing on being 'caring'. So when my workmate went home early on Monday because she felt sick, I raged in my head for a few minutes, told her I hoped she would feel better and then stuck my head down and worked solidly on the never-ending pile of photocopying for the rest of the afternoon. It's so much harder with just one person at work, but it couldn't have been helped.
I think I was most caring, however, when I cancelled a few outings on the weekend to recover from fatigue. I'm always forgetting to take care of myself, so this week definitely reminded me.
This week is one I hate. My highschool motto included this word and I HATE HATE HATE it. Integrity. I don't even know what it means! But, I'm resolved to doing something about it. First I'm going to find out what it means. Like, right now. Back in half an hour or so, with a definition and a task! :D
Friday, May 6, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
TRUST.
Yes, that's right, this week's word is 'Trust'. I know it's already Wednesday, but there are still a good 4 days left of the week to devote to my humble little self-mastery card.
The only thing is, I have a problem with this week's card. Of course, it's a great virtue to have, but I think it has very large limitations. The world we live in today is not a trustworthy one. There have always been bad people in the world, and there always will be. But what my mum used to call 'bad', like shop-lifting and street violence, has escalated into something much bigger. School kids shoplift. Teenagers beat each other up. A night out at a bar or a club is becoming more and more dangerous, with drink spiking, drunken fights and drug abuse. Fathers beat their wives, mothers abuse their children, and loved ones kill other loved ones. In a very real way, trust is going out the window.
Maybe I'm taking it too far, but even so, I'm constantly being told I'm too trustworthy. People trust me and I trust people - that's just the way it is with me. Tell me something plausible, and I'll believe you. It's not because I'm an idiot. I won't deny I'm somewhat naive but I'm definitely not an idiot. I think it's more because I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. What's worse: being gullible and believing, or skeptical and cynical?
So is it a good idea to focus on trust this week? Don't I trust people enough?
I think this week I'd just like to think about it when I decide to trust someone. I don't want to change how I am in this regard, because it's just, well... how I am!
What's that? Orange backwards spells gullible? Nice bloody try.
The only thing is, I have a problem with this week's card. Of course, it's a great virtue to have, but I think it has very large limitations. The world we live in today is not a trustworthy one. There have always been bad people in the world, and there always will be. But what my mum used to call 'bad', like shop-lifting and street violence, has escalated into something much bigger. School kids shoplift. Teenagers beat each other up. A night out at a bar or a club is becoming more and more dangerous, with drink spiking, drunken fights and drug abuse. Fathers beat their wives, mothers abuse their children, and loved ones kill other loved ones. In a very real way, trust is going out the window.
Maybe I'm taking it too far, but even so, I'm constantly being told I'm too trustworthy. People trust me and I trust people - that's just the way it is with me. Tell me something plausible, and I'll believe you. It's not because I'm an idiot. I won't deny I'm somewhat naive but I'm definitely not an idiot. I think it's more because I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. What's worse: being gullible and believing, or skeptical and cynical?
So is it a good idea to focus on trust this week? Don't I trust people enough?
I think this week I'd just like to think about it when I decide to trust someone. I don't want to change how I am in this regard, because it's just, well... how I am!
What's that? Orange backwards spells gullible? Nice bloody try.
Far Behind.
Sorry folks for the delay.
So I had a slight flirt on Wednesday, then talked to someone I didn't know when I was at my friends' birthday dinner, but didn't do anything else that I was meant to last week. I was supposed to write several more lists, and as much as I like making lists, I don't really think they would have made me feel confident in any way.
'The thing is, and here's the thing' (Hannah Abell, 2011), that the information on the internet sucks asshole. I knew this before I started the challenge (which was very short lived and pointless), but I even further confirmed it last week. Anyone can write anything on the internet. I don't think it's possible to dictate to people how to simply be confident. Some people are born with it, others aren't. Sure, everyone knows that a new outfit and haircut make you feel great, but the fact is that deep, true confidence comes slowly over time, after we've learnt things and been places and had many an embarrassing moment, not after we've just splurged on a pair of expensive shoes.
Therefore, I surmise that I am a semi-confident person. It's developing; it's getting there. But it's got a way to go yet.
So I had a slight flirt on Wednesday, then talked to someone I didn't know when I was at my friends' birthday dinner, but didn't do anything else that I was meant to last week. I was supposed to write several more lists, and as much as I like making lists, I don't really think they would have made me feel confident in any way.
'The thing is, and here's the thing' (Hannah Abell, 2011), that the information on the internet sucks asshole. I knew this before I started the challenge (which was very short lived and pointless), but I even further confirmed it last week. Anyone can write anything on the internet. I don't think it's possible to dictate to people how to simply be confident. Some people are born with it, others aren't. Sure, everyone knows that a new outfit and haircut make you feel great, but the fact is that deep, true confidence comes slowly over time, after we've learnt things and been places and had many an embarrassing moment, not after we've just splurged on a pair of expensive shoes.
Therefore, I surmise that I am a semi-confident person. It's developing; it's getting there. But it's got a way to go yet.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
AMAZING THINGS I WANT TO DO IN MY LIFE.
- Travel overseas at least once every two years
- Be an amazing photographer
- Get married and have children
- Design my own house, witness its construction, then decorate it myself
- Become an excellent cook
- Write a book
- Embark on a road trip around Australia in a caravan, with tents, hammocks, musical instruments and cameras.
- Write an original song, play it and sing it.
- Learn to ride a motorbike
- Become good at one sport
- Learn to make my own clothes
- Live in another country for at least 1 year
- Win a large sum of prize money
- Become known for doing something really well
- Discover something amazing, like an underwater city or a new species of whales or a temple somewhere deep in a dense forest.
Let's see now.
- Yes, I could plan out the places I'd like to go in the next decade or so. That could work I suppose.
- I need to get an awesome camera first, and study photography.
- Um, yeah. I can't see this one working out anytime soon.
- Oooh! I could design my own house!!! That's a bit exciting.
- To be honest, I can't be bothered right now with this one.
- I've been waiting for a couple of years for a brilliant idea to come to me. I still am.
- Yeah, I need a caravan.
- I could do this, but I kind of don't want to. (:
- Sorta need a motorbike...
- I could research really obscure sports to try?
- Too much of a big project to start right now
- Uhhhh...
- Yeah....
- Ahuh...
- Hmmmm....
That's a big NO for activity number one giving me any kind of confidence.
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