OH. MY. GOODNESS. Is this guy awesome or what?? Just look at those newspaper leggings! That is like, mad creative. It must be really hard to walk in those shoes with the wood planks on them, but way to make a fashion statement. I like the tree branchy things near his head as well... Did you know there's this clothing site that sells stuff entirely made out of tape? Like, prom dresses made out of colourful duct tape... and it actually looks pretty good. For tape, anyway! I really need to find that site.
People's creativity scares me. How do they come UP with this stuff?? I originally saw a post on this girl's blog [she's always posting awesome stuff on crazy and impossibly brilliant fashions]: click!
I am horrified. Today in psychology, we started the motivation chapter and talked about what motivates us to eat. Well, while talking about the biological/genetics behind it, my teacher said that every person is born with a certain number of fat cells. And when you can NEVERlose them. If you're born with 1,000,000 fat cells, when you die, you'll still have 1,000,000 fat cells. A normal person has about 30 billion fat cells to store energy in [wow, that's aLOT!]. When you lose weight, you're simply SHRINKING the size of the fat cells, you don't get rid of them. Huh. I always thought that when you lose weight, you eliminate fat cells... common misconception, I guess. And it's way easier to gain weight than lose weight, of course.
"When you eat alot, your fat cell may expand and split into TWO! Now you're stuck with one more fat cell for the rest of your life."
Oh MY. Isn't that disturbing? I found it so sad that I didn't even eat lunch. Thinking about those multiplying fat cells inside my body... [but don't worry, I went home and ate some apples and yoghurt]
So now you know the truth about fat cells. That was super-educational, wasn't it? :]
My first attempt to make donuts!
Which kinda turned out like bagels, since we didn't have a deep fryer [we baked them!].
Covered in strawberry frosting and rainbow nonpareils, they look perfectly delicious though :)
My mum made sushi. It looks quite good, doesn't it?
An Alice- in-Wonderland-inspired gift for my best friend's birthday.Inside is a scroll with her poem printed on it.
Wonderland
See the lines blur, the colors pale
And the towns fade away.
Let us go, escape the noise of the city.
Forget what you know,
What you are used to,
What you are comfortable with.
Yes, leave it all behind,
They are not part of you.
We would run into the woods,
Covering our bodies with morning dew
Filling our noses with fragrance
Flooding our eyes with misty green.
Down the rabbit hole we shall fall, fall, fall,
With no purpose but to fly,
Slowly but surely,
Into the unknown.
At the same time, we shall learn to let go:
Our memories, our pains, our fears.
And realize, once and for all,
Who we are without the backdrop,
And what we are when owning nothing but
A dream in our heads.
"Drink Me."
I should've put "Read Me," but then it wouldn't have made sense to put it in a bottle... aha.
I love message in a bottle type of things. Floating out to sea...
A cute comic from the Saturday morning newspaper.
I suppose this is more appropriate for Valentine's, so consider it belated!
"Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love."
"Don't you have the feeling," asked Madame Bovary, "that something happens to free your spirit in the presence of all that vastness? It raises up my soul to look at it, somehow. It makes me think of the infinite, and all kinds of wonderful things." ~p. 97
"Have you ever had the experience," Léon went on, "of running across in a book some vague idea you've had, some image that you realise has been lurking all the time in the back of your mind and now seems to express absolutely your most subtle feelings?" ~p. 99
Gustave Flaubert is a great, very descriptive writer... he goes into so much detail about the places that I can picture it extremely vividly. In that sense, he almost reminds me of Oscar Wilde [in "The Picture of Dorian Gray," at least!]. I think there's a movie version of Madame Bovary... Not sure if I want to see it, but I guess I should finish the book first. My friend already spoiled the ending and says Emma is a terrible heroine, but... we'll see!
It's so coincidental that both Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day are on the same day this year. I think Chinese New Year overshadowed Valentine's a bit, which I think some people will be very happy about.
There's alot of bitterness towards Valentine's Day. But... all you need is love, right?
So we went to Church for a potluck dinner. People should bring more fruits there, because I only got one clementine and by the time I went back, there were no more! But everyone was sitting in the room with the piano, and the drummer guy for praise team started playing all different piano songs. Everything ranging from classical to pop... Everyone started singing along to "Love Song" and "Do Re Mi" and it was so great. Too bad my best friend wasn't there, it's her birthday tomorrow.
The performances were really good too! There was this interview thing [in the spirit of Valentine's Day] where married couples had to see how well they knew each other. And the wife would write her answers and the husband was supposed to guess what she wrote. It was sooo funny, especially with some of the deacons and elders... "What's your strongest asset to the family?" "Hmm... weeeell, I have so many, it's hard to pick..." "Here's a hard one: when is your child's birthday?" "Uuuuh......" x]
There was also this skit performed by these two elderly grandmas, reminiscing about their childhood Chinese New Years'. And they put red paint [rouge] on their cheeks and forehead and ate lollipops and acted like little kids! It's really cool to see old people pretend to be children. It's like... they haven't lost that spirit, you know?
And then there were some unexpected perfomances by this guy who started breakdancing, and he was really good. Like... flips and cartwheels! And this girl wrote a song during dinner, which she performed [with her friend translating into Chinese after each line she sings! aha]. She has an amazing voice, so she'd be singing and right after, her friend would say the Chinese translation in a monotone voice... so amusing. And then this little boy started doing karate! We started joking that he'd be joining the 2020 Olympics and represent the U.S.
Finally was the skit we'd been all waiting for... by the youth group, of course! So it's based off the classic Chinese zodiac story, about how the zodiac order was determined on which animal met the god at the mountain. Except it was a race. And everyone dressed up like the animals! My friend [the tiger] had on face paint and wore a shredded orange shirt over a black one to simulate tiger stripes x] And his sister played the monkey, she was the only animal registered at the race and all the other animals kept dropping out! For example, the tiger shows up with a KFC box and is like, "Oh yeah, the chicken won't be showing up this year... or the year after that..." Aha. Poor chicken! And then the rabbit [drummer guy!] comes in and is like, "Gosh, I just finishing racing with the tortoise, I can't believe I overslept AGAIN!" But in the race, of course the rabbit oversleeps once more [does he ever learn?] and the monkey trips over the sleeping rabbit. So the tiger wins the race [but of course, since it's the year of the tiger!]!
All in all, super-fun night :) And no school tomorrow, again! It doesn't even come as a surprise now...
I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine's Day and/or Chinese New Year?
[photo credit to Jessica Lynn Chiang, my friend who does everything amazing. her photography simply astonishes me! she can't look bad or take a bad photo if she wanted to...]
"To be, or not to be. Is that truly the question of which we must really answer? Or to take from the aimless contemplations of an inquisitive mind: Is it to know, or not to know? Such a blind faith to such an accidental love-- yet to not know, is, not quite an issue of ignorance, but of innocence and the world to learn. Broken paper hearts of edgeless fissures and blurred porcelain pieces, but with innumerable possibilities and so we start anew. Shy smiles, second first kisses, muddy hand-prints and sunshine finger-paints-- an undying cycle of chubby fingers and a humble glue stick, putting the oh so endearing, Humpty Dumpty back together again.
When were our minds corrupted with such realities... such false truths?" A lovely poem I found here: click to read the original post! [by the talented Eugenie] Please check out her poetry, it is amazing and so inspiring... I love her choice of words to describe certain things, and the images she can conjure in your mind... I like how her blog name is a quote from "The Little Prince." "Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur." Et en français aussi!
R.I.P. Alexander McQueen! His fashions are so beautiful...
I heard that Christian Lacroix also died recently? [oh, actually May 2009. But still relatively recent] I remember seeing his neon-coloured confections on this Chinese fashion show once and being completely mesmerised...
It seems like so many famous people have passed away in the past year. Or just recently [J.D. Salinger?]...
Hello!
Alice in Wonderland fanatic here! I also love music and discovering obscure things... APPLES.
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