Did I scare ya?

1 in 7 people in the world don’t have enough food. (That’s about 925 million people). 22,000 children die every single day due to poverty. Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. The poorest 40% of the world’s population accounts for 5% of global income. [...]

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Let’s encourage gender stereotypes

My friend sent me this link for an amusing list of everyday items and their genders - for example, KIDNEYS – female , because they always go to the bathroom in pairs HAMMER – male, because it hasn’t evolved much over the last 5000 years but it’s handy to have around. Obviously sweeping generalisations about gender [...]

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Sandy Art

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe                                               –David McCord The first time I ever came across sand art/animation was when I saw the clip below a few years ago. I believe the artist here is Ferenc Cakó, and I believe it is cool. As you can see in the video, this [...]

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I’ll Haikoo YOU

I just found out about the ‘Haikoo Zoo’ application on Facebook. Ta-da! Meet my cute ‘n’ cuddly panda friend. 她叫“小胖”！I can tell this is going to be more than a little addictive. Luckily it’s so simple I won’t be able to waste too much time there… famous last words? Weeee-eeee! 这么可爱啊！

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Let’s get political

So we all know the American election is a big deal. I mean, I live like 10 millions miles away from the U.S. but I’ve heard more about the American Presidential election than the New Zealand election which is like 4 days later. It’s a big deal. I’m going for Team Obama myself. I just [...]

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What essay?

Man, I hate writing essays. On the bright side, through trying to avoid them I often get a lot of stuff done. Like did you know that Kwon Sang Woo was getting married? Well he was, and he did! To Son Tae Young a couple of days ago. More pics here. I used to have [...]

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Almost time for bed…

Man, I’m feeling bummed. I like, totally missed Girls of the Playboy Mansion tonight! I know, it’s my not-so-secret guilty pleasure. I mean, it was time well spent, bf and I played Rummikub and won one each, which was the perfect way to finish. Also, I have another 3,000 word essay due on Friday, yay. [...]

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第一猜字谜 ~ Chinese character riddle!

I would like to record one of the first Chinese character riddles I’ve ever guessed correctly!   四四方方一座城， 没有春夏没有秋   If you don’t read Chinese then you’re probably not very interested, but if you are, I think the lines basically mean   A four-walled castle Has no spring, summer, has no autumn   Ok, so [...]

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Friday 26th of September

I had a pretty good day today. Got some stuff done… my friend and I decided on our Chinese thing (our final oral of the year for Chinese class is a performance, i.e, drama, song, dance, etc, meant to be funny. Problem: I’m not funny!!!). Emma came up with the idea of doing the Three [...]

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toejam and bleating

Aaah, I’m tired. The day always seems too short, doesn’t it? Slowly getting some stuff done, though. Something really bad that’s started happening recently is that when I’m tired and someone says something funny, I do this really gross Kendra laugh. You know the one. Like a loud, monotonal bleat without moving your facial muscles. [...]

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