We say this at regular intervals in the year

It's time to pack up and go.

To school, that is. Not that I'm actually looking forward to it much. Unlike the last time I said this mentally.

April is coming...

... but KH2 is coming before that. ^-^

It's always good to find something more optimistic to counter the pessimism and cynism in life.

not necessarily good advice

When you don't know how you should get everything done by a limited time, then don't stress yourself too much over it. What I did was to not do some things altogether.

And pray that I can get through the whole ordeal unscathed.

of not much importance whatsoever

I seem to prefer posting the more serious stuff here for some reason. LJ just eats away at all my rantiness and inspiration. *watches LJ poke a hole to drain them all away*

Which reminds me... documentaries rock. Mythbusters never fail to amaze me with how much they wish to die (or for someone else to die, for that matter). And now armed with newfound knowledge, I advise everyone:

If you have people armed with guns (especially those really powerful ones) chasing after you -in the bad sense- then a wise approach to the situation would be to look for the nearest pool of considerably deep water and dive in. And the irony is, the better the gun (i.e. faster/powerful bullets) the safer you are in the water. And just a depth of 1 m or so is enough to save you. If they're armed with a pistol, then hopefully you won't drown in a water body of about 10 feet before they get you... or not, depending on the situation.

Of course, the abovementioned method does not work with cannons, since it hasn't been officially tested yet.

And one note of caution, especially to those of curious minds and have read the previous sentence, Do Not Try This At Home. It would probably kill something, be it your home electricty circuit, your pet money plant or your goldfish tank, if not human.

That said, yay for the Mythbusters.

lessons learnt, lessons lost

You know about those times when you read, see or experience something that makes you feel enlightened. Either that, or it justs sets you thinking a lot.

And I always seem to find myself in a good mood when this happens.

Things that I've never thought about but are so true. Things I have thought about but never reasoned logically like this, phrased in proper English.

It makes me guilty for not reading as much as I used to, but I believe so long as I'm reading the right things, it doesn't matter exactly how many books I complete within each term.

What is most important are the lessons you receive from these works, be it written, filmed, or anything else.

They allow you to truly think of your reason. Surely you're not just looking to "get over with today" or "survive the next test". Beyond all these short term expectations and hopes, there should be something else, something bigger.

Shouldn't there?

I've got a feeling that most people haven't considered the bigger picture much. I admit to being a petty little human being for too many times to count. At least being a petty little human being makes considering the bigger picture a more worthy and challenging task. Besides, I would hardly be able to keep those opinions about other petty little human beings to myself then. (which would very probably land me in trouble)

I loved the ideas concerning, for the first case, the complexity of the brain, and the second case, the idea of the world's intention, and of fate and coincidence. I've wondered plenty about the latter, and have only come up with a blank. But after tonight, I do feel a little less inclined to believe in coincidences. I quite like the Gaia theory, after all. Gaining power and independence is not exactly my thing.

I prefer to know that there's someone else behind this whole ploy. Or at least someone who knows what he/she/it is doing. Can't trust many humans nowadays. Remember, the complexity of the brain! We shouldn't be smart enough to decipher ourselves.

Let's just head back to looking at mice and earthworms. We can't guarantee what will happen if we do decipher exactly how we work. Will it just disintegrate our own importance into nothingness? I'm already beginning to see ourselves as machines that are able to harness thoughts, feelings and a source of energy and something that can formulate responses.

Growing of bones, division of cells, specialised labour... in what way are those caused by us? They are a part of us, but are we responsible for these things? What decides how these processes work? If we're the ones trying to find out how we work, we are surely not a work of our own.

And we try to rule so many things in the world, so many people, so many other living beings, and even the basic compounds of life sustenance.

You would have thought we'd know exactly which pieces should fit which places in the puzzle. But this seems more and more unlikely with every major world event, every war, every uprising.

You know, in the end we may just be lost people who don't even know who we are.

Not that is stops us from doing any of the things that we do, or will do, for that matter.