July 2009
34 posts
And I will wait to find if this will last forever.
The 100 easiest, fastest recipes ever →
To celebrate their 100th issue, The Observer asked top chefs, foodies and cookery writers for their all-time quickest and simplest summer dishes.
Top 10 Amazing Facts About Dreams →
6. We Only Dream of What We Know
Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts. Your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember. The evil killer in your latest dream may be the guy who pumped petrol in to your Dad’s car when you were just a little kid. We have all seen hundreds...
Jealous yet?
Directed mainly at Hidzir, but this is one of the recommended texts for my Contemporary Television Studies class -
Fighting the Forces : What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, c2002)
All I can think of is this exchange:
Willow: ‘Images of Pop Culture.’ This is good. They watch movies, TV shows, even commercials.
Buffy: For...
What is the best compliment you've received?
I stayed up in bed last night thinking about this.
Mine was probably when a friend told me that I was her favourite person to hug. I think it’s because it’s something that’s so personal and intimate, versus the triviality of something like “You’re pretty” or “You’re smart”. Being told you’re someone’s favourite hugger means that...
Notes about Winter
1. I keep getting scalded in the shower because my cold body can’t properly gauge the temperature. I don’t know how long it will take till I’m used to this.
2. How long can I wear one set of flannel pajamas till it gets too gross?
3. Cheesecake and hot chocolate taste especially good when you’ve had a long day of walking about. It tastes even better when it is taken in...
“Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
– Celine in Before Sunrise
John Mayer - Stop This Train (Acoustic)
This is...
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute...”
– Roald Dahl
Stranger in a strange land
I have spent the 20 years of my life in a place where you can drive from one end of the country to the other side in less than an hour.
I’ve just arrived in a country so expansive that it could contain a thousand copies of my country, and it is where I’ll be spending the next two years of my life. 8 million square kilometres of strangers to meet and magical places to find - I...
Lets Get Personal
A few Tumblr entires ago, I said that if I were a millionaire, the first things I would buy would be one of those Solvin Bretzel things. The truth is, if I really did have a few million dollars, I wouldn’t care about that one bit. What I would do is I would use all the money to track somebody down.
Growing up with two full-time working parents (one of them in the Army, no less. And no, it...
The brain is not an equal opportunities organ →
The brain’s response is muted when we see other races in pain. An imaging study of Chinese and Caucasian people has found that their brains respond less strongly to the pain of strangers whose ethnicity is different when compared with strangers of their own race.
