Good Morning Lovely Planet


It's the finale of week one, and my system is still high on endorphins. I have to say this is one odd year-start. Of course there's the usual glimpse of hope that maybe it's gonna turn out better this time, my life that is. But since I started this week, it feels different. It's more of a maybe i'll work harder for it this time kind of optimism. This has nothing to do with the revolution, I swear. Maybe it's that I'm one step away from graduating so I'm giving it the final push. Maybe it's some senior first year syndrome that I haven't heard of, I don't know. It's just there. 
However the endorphins can never replace my ever so gloomy look on this country. I don't hate it. I don't like it less. I simply can't love it more and my share of love right now is not enough to keep me in it. I dream of planes all year long, on daily basis. I'm being selfish I know, but I can't control it. 
So maybe I feel better because I'm one step closer to leaving. I don't mind. It's a 'whatever makes you feel good' world today. So my advice is look for what that is and live it. Drop all excuses, think less of the people that, although may truly love you, stand in the way of living your dream and last but not least... own it.


This might not be the most cheerful song to put, this wasn't about me being cheerful at all, because I'm simply not a cheerful person. This song fits my current mood exactly. I hope you like it.

Tumblr: Miss Lucy, Never Let me Go

"The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way. But I’m not. If you’re going to have decent lives, then you’ve got to know and know properly. None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do. You’re not like the actors you watch on your videos, you’re not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided. So you’re not to talk that way any more. You’ll be leaving Hailsham before long, and it’s not so far off, the day you’ll be preparing for your first donations. You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you."

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Posted April 24, 2011 at 10:44 pm

From my Tumblr: Word of the day

When you finally grasp it, understand that something that’s been confusing you for long, I don’t think you’ll ever find such expressive word to all the joy you get as: Eureka!* It’s exactly what you would want to say. It’s exactly what I subconsciously shouted upon realizing a missing fact.

This tiny, yet powerful, word though has quite a story, I thought I’d share. Hope you enjoy it.

Date of Origin 16^th c.
The Greek mathematician Archimedes (c. 287–212 bc) was commissioned by King Hiero II of Syracuse to find out whether the goldsmith who had made a new crown for him had fraudulently mixed some silver in with the gold. In order to do so, Archimedes needed to ascertain the metal’s specific gravity. But how to do this? According to Plutarch (a Greek historian), he decided to take a bath to ponder the problem. He filled the bath too full, as he stepped in it some of the water overflowed – and it suddenly occurred to Archimedes that a pure-gold crown would displace more water if immersed than one made from an alloy. Elated at this piece of lateral thinking, Archimedes is said to have leapt out of the bath shouting heúrēka! * (The goldsmith, incidentally, had adulterated the gold.).
The earliest occurrence of the word in an English text as an exclamation of delight at discovery is in John Dee’s Preface, but there it appears in Greek characters; the first English author to fully naturalize it was probably Henry Fielding in Joseph Andrews 1742; ‘Adams returned overjoyed cring out “Eureka!”’

* Etymology: The word comes from Ancient Greek εὕρηκα heúrēka “I have found (it)”, which is the 1st person singular perfect indicative active of the verb heuriskō “I find”. The reconstructed Ancient Greek pronounciation is [heúrɛːka], while the Modern Greek pronounciation is [ˈevrika].

Posted June 17, 2011 at 1:46 pm