Eyes of the Cosmic Whale
“…leaving the heavens naked, glistening blue-black, like the belly of some cosmic whale…”Archive for August, 2007
ORISINAL: There are cuter ways to procrastinate
Everybody has played online games at some point or another. The Internet is just full of them, from MMORPG’s with lots of users to smaller ones in interactive E-Cards. Orisinal is a gem unknown to many, so I want to share with the world Ferry Halim’s adorable creations.
Orisinal is certainly different. Ferry himself says, in an interview by b3ta.com that “Everyone has their own style, and mine is the “clean & nice” style.” and that he avoids first person shooters “there’s already a lot of those games on the net”.
Truth is, except for a minimal number of them, Ferry Halim’s games are anything but violent. Most games involve cute little situations with very lovable animal characters. The artwork is lovely and the music fits the games well while being relaxing. The overall effect is a heartwarming addiction to his games, which are certainly dripping originality.
Not surprisingly, the site has millions of hits. Just checking out the Guestbook confirms it. The Guestbook too happens to be a work of art. It allows you to choose and create your own little blob character that reacts differently when the mouse is rolled over.
Anyway, Orisinal is worth being discovered. I, for one, certainly recommend it.
It’ll get your mind off things and into fluffy worlds of squishable cuteness.
<3
Entrenched in quotes
-’expectation keeps us standing
but it’s the unexpected
that changes our lives’-
I found the quote while studying learning for the History Mock Exam. Suddenly, in the lower right corner, a quote caught my eye. There it was, written in cursive and with a pen that wrote in a blue different from the one used in the timeline itself.
My first reaction was a smile of approval at the quote itself, followed by intrigue. Where did this come from? Who said it? Faithful old Google could not find an exact match, only something roughly similar- a quote from Grey’s Anatomy (*bricked*).
But then I thought, halt there! Last year I didn’t even know of the show’s existance! How could it be…? And then the scene flickered through my eyes. Me watching Grey’s Anatomy on the laptop, finding that quote excellent, muttering it to myself as to not forget it, grabbing the closest copybook, my beloved Orange debate one, opening it in a random page, scribbling what my memory could recall.
Turning the quote into something that wasn’t Grey’s Anatomy and that wasn’t my own, but something in between. This is the explanation I give as to why I didn’t annotate the author of the quote. (There remains the chance that it’s from somewhere else) Oh well.
Plugged into another world
Long time no write. I’m back now from the three week holiday. It’s paradoxical how, looking back, it seems to stretch out and out, but now I’m here in Lima, it’s as if barely any time had passed.
It was probably one of the few times we returned at daytime. It’s so much different from returning at night! I felt like I had been plugged into another world. (Notice the use of the word ‘plugged’. A plug can’t plug itself. ‘Plugging’ suggests that the change wasn’t voluntary- someone else forced it).
I guess the change between Europe and Peru had never been so evident. We can start with the weather. Coming from sunny, blue skied, warm Barcelona, grey grey grey Lima hit me hard. Not so much the cold, because I was clothed enugh but still. It was all so gloomy! Then the poverty. European streets are all filled with fully built houses, and in places like Amsterdam and Barcelona, it’s all about the architecture. In Lima, (hello!) there is no architecture. Thinking more about it, I realized we live with the poverty so much, it doesn’t seem out of place anymore. We get used to it. And then we really really notice it when we have a clear picture in our heads to what we can compare.
Anyway, it all seemed so different. And the greyness of it all was choking. Honestly, if Lima was sunny all year long, it would be so much different. Even with the poverty. Well, at least there are things to look forward. (Though not the mocks. AT ALL.)
Today we put on the fireplace and now it’s all more cosy, and at least the atmosphere isn’t as frozen as when we came into the house.
I felt like writing a bit 
. I was (yet again) avoiding homework. These physics past papers are killing me slowly and painfully.
Ah well, I will write about the trip when I have the time.
