Keep Looking Up

The year-end post begins with an awesome quote:

"When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."

-John Green, Looking for Alaska


Every year we create a list of things we've always been wanting to do, and every year we don't complete all of them. still, there's no harm doing one. but i think i'll ink it on paper and pin it up after typing it. striking things off a list gives me a strange sense of accomplishment and satisfaction so i guess i'll be more likely to follow the list through.

In 2011 i will:

1. learn something new i.e. join a course (frankly, this has been on the list for 2 years now)
2. build up my writing portfolio
3. which means participating in competitions and hopefully winning them
4. and also to read and write more
5. exercise more for the army/whatever division i'll be posted to
6. which is related to better time management
7. study a lot harder for the A' Levels (mainly GP and/or Lit cos' they're prerequisites for the Uni course I want)
8. you know, optimism and happiness isn't exactly a resolution since they depend on circumstances but... what the heck
9. get a tattoo... HAHAH, kidding, maybe, i don't know. i have issues with permanence so... yeah. that would make a really good 18th-birthday-thing though. i guess.
10. stay religiously fervent about my goals
11. and, follow Coco Chanel's words: "you live but once, you might as well be amusing"... time to start parading in face paint.

a page break will follow this sentence because it's gonna be lengthy and will probably the longest post i've ever written in 2010. this will actually be edited several times because it's so long and i'll probably forget to include certain stuff.
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Face Paint Wipes Pain:

Face painting is awesome:

but i hope God doesn't punish me tomorrow by giving me eczema cos' we were cheapskate and opted for the 'safe for skin fingerpaint' at 9.90 instead of the legit facepaint, paint for a ridiculous 49.90. 

i wish both my eyelids would constantly stay the same (not one being single and the other double). actually it would be nice if both my eyes had single eyelids or less pronounced doubles. and that probably makes me the only person who wishes that cos' everyone wants a pronounced double.

okay whatever, it's not like i can do anything about it.

i think he's gonna be really, really big. bigger than justin bieber. cos' his songs (which he, being talented, wrote himself) aren't about girls (ergo superficiality) but life (ergo deep, ergo appeals to every age including pubescent girls) and he's got a big voice.

Death and All His Friends.

"the human life is made up of choices. Yes or No. In or Out. Up or Down... and then there are the choices that matter. Love or Hate. to be a Hero or to be a Coward. to Fight or to Give In. to Live. or Die. Live or Die. that's the important choice. and it's not always in our hands."

NOT GONNA LIE. The season 6 finale for Grey's Anatomy made me cry my balls out (not bawl though, I don't do bawling). AND. that wasn't even the climax. actually it was one of the climaxes (if you can have more than one) but not the most cry-your-balls-out-scene. Can't find that but this is almost as good. i remember shouting at the TV and swinging my fists when Derek got shot and Meredith collapsed but that's a whole different story.

it must have been awesome to have been one of the screenwriters for that episode.