HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
SAPPHO!!
translation (translation)
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
SAPPHO!!!!!!!!
ps. who knew that Webdings could look so weird.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Thursday, February 16, 2006
It's Slippery out today
hiho
it's slippery out today - there was a freezing rain warning and the ground is treacherous. On my way here I walked very carefully but when I took my mind of the ground for a split second I almost slipped. almost. the instant I started to slip my right arm immediately swung up into the air and I regained my balance. I thought - isn't it funny how your arms just swing up automatically? imagine how fast your brain must be working to analyze the angle of the fall and try to compensate by doing just the right thing - throwing up a left arm, a right arm, pushing the other leg backwards, throwing your weight forward - so many different options and yet you often (though not always granted) pick the right one - in split seconds - simultaneously it seems. in fact, it comes so naturally you don't even think about what it was you did. it blows my mind - my mind does... my mind blows my mind :)
the other amazing thing this week was this lady I met. I guess it wasn't so amazing so much as it made me think - what defines femininity? - what defines looking like a lady? I met this lady who was wearing old running shoes. that's the first thing that I noticed - before I looked up - I just saw the old running shoes with holes in them. and then I raised my eyes slowly (she was sitting opposite me in a group meeting -hopefully she didn't notice me staring)... she was wearing old track pants - the windproof kind, and it too had a hole which she held together with a huge safety pin - and her top was a sweatshirt. her face however, was immaculately done up - and her stature perfect. In fact, when I took in the whole of her - not just the parts - she looked amazing to me - feminine - beautiful, dignified, graceful.... even in my "dress" pants and collared shirt I felt like a slob beside her. It just highlights to me - the clothes certainly don't make the man - or the lady for that matter...:)
later kids.
it's slippery out today - there was a freezing rain warning and the ground is treacherous. On my way here I walked very carefully but when I took my mind of the ground for a split second I almost slipped. almost. the instant I started to slip my right arm immediately swung up into the air and I regained my balance. I thought - isn't it funny how your arms just swing up automatically? imagine how fast your brain must be working to analyze the angle of the fall and try to compensate by doing just the right thing - throwing up a left arm, a right arm, pushing the other leg backwards, throwing your weight forward - so many different options and yet you often (though not always granted) pick the right one - in split seconds - simultaneously it seems. in fact, it comes so naturally you don't even think about what it was you did. it blows my mind - my mind does... my mind blows my mind :)
the other amazing thing this week was this lady I met. I guess it wasn't so amazing so much as it made me think - what defines femininity? - what defines looking like a lady? I met this lady who was wearing old running shoes. that's the first thing that I noticed - before I looked up - I just saw the old running shoes with holes in them. and then I raised my eyes slowly (she was sitting opposite me in a group meeting -hopefully she didn't notice me staring)... she was wearing old track pants - the windproof kind, and it too had a hole which she held together with a huge safety pin - and her top was a sweatshirt. her face however, was immaculately done up - and her stature perfect. In fact, when I took in the whole of her - not just the parts - she looked amazing to me - feminine - beautiful, dignified, graceful.... even in my "dress" pants and collared shirt I felt like a slob beside her. It just highlights to me - the clothes certainly don't make the man - or the lady for that matter...:)
later kids.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Reason why we should always wash our hands
hiho
it's been a while. i really don't have anything to say - in fact, I was thinking of going on an official hiatus (sabbatical?) from my blog... but then where would I go to procrastinate... like I'm doing right now....
anyways. yesterday I was in the library and I saw a guy with a pocket mirror - he was cleaning his nose with his fingers..... in front of his computer - a public terminal at the school library..... ew!!!
Reason why it is important to wash hands when one arrives home, and before eating.
other than that I don't have anything to report. I've been going to class and gospel choir and hanging out with K. Oooh - she and I organised my room - K is an organizing fiend!!! she had to find a place for everything! Including my four mostly empty bottles of body lotion (what can i say.. I'm a procrastinator - I never got around to turning them upside down so I could get out the last dregs... and throw them out). So now my room is feng-shued (I have no idea how to spell that and i refuse to look it up - so there!) and Tom loves it. He really is quite a cat. hmm. that's all for now. I just thought it was time for something new on my blog and what better time to do it than when I'm supposed to be writing a lab .
hope that you're doing well.. and I hope that you guys are equally inspired to write something on your blogs (hint, hint) - even if nothing's going on - there's always a reason to share a laugh (or cringe at people doing acts of hygiene in public places). plus it gives me more ways to procrastinate.
tulip
it's been a while. i really don't have anything to say - in fact, I was thinking of going on an official hiatus (sabbatical?) from my blog... but then where would I go to procrastinate... like I'm doing right now....
anyways. yesterday I was in the library and I saw a guy with a pocket mirror - he was cleaning his nose with his fingers..... in front of his computer - a public terminal at the school library..... ew!!!
Reason why it is important to wash hands when one arrives home, and before eating.
other than that I don't have anything to report. I've been going to class and gospel choir and hanging out with K. Oooh - she and I organised my room - K is an organizing fiend!!! she had to find a place for everything! Including my four mostly empty bottles of body lotion (what can i say.. I'm a procrastinator - I never got around to turning them upside down so I could get out the last dregs... and throw them out). So now my room is feng-shued (I have no idea how to spell that and i refuse to look it up - so there!) and Tom loves it. He really is quite a cat. hmm. that's all for now. I just thought it was time for something new on my blog and what better time to do it than when I'm supposed to be writing a lab .
hope that you're doing well.. and I hope that you guys are equally inspired to write something on your blogs (hint, hint) - even if nothing's going on - there's always a reason to share a laugh (or cringe at people doing acts of hygiene in public places). plus it gives me more ways to procrastinate.
tulip
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