a time for the time after time...

schlaf nicht wieder ein du musst jetzt wach sein denn alles kann passiern und solltest du auch schwach sein es ist zeit für die zeit nach der zeit wär es soweit wärst du bereit wär ich bereit es ist so nah und doch so weit ist es so weit ist es soweit
(from Traurige Lieder by Söhne Mannheims)

the title is the literal translation for the lyrics in italics up above... Das Lied hört sich ganz schön an, finde ich. Irgendwie sowohl sanft als auch stark. Komisch, ne?
sorry, the occasional lapse is into German is necessary. Most people that know me would agree that it's a common occurence, but it usually passes quickly.

So unbelievably excited about next year! I can go lots of places I've been wanting to do to for years... Hopefully I can even visit Sarah in Skandinavien =D yes, that's Scandinavia. Denmark is where she'll be, to be precise. After all these years of being obsessed - and being called Dutch =P - she's finally going there, so I am going to visit her too.

Proof that Latin is weird... Read this! It's a man called Lucretius writing a lecture on Epicurean philosophy - in the form of an epic poem.
Firstly I want to tell you that the mind, which is often called the intellect, in which the guiding and controlling force of life is located, is a part of a human just as much as the hand, foot and eyes exist as parts of the whole living being. Some people have incorrectly said that the mind's consciousness is not fixed in a specific part, but is some sort of life-giving state of the body, which the Greeks call a "harmony"...
However, we must not think that the soul is made up of a single substance ... So the nature of the soul has been discovered to be threefold [made of air, heat and wind], but all these three are not sufficient for the creation of consciousness, since ... these things cannot create the movements required for sensation and whatever the mind thinks about. Therefore there must be a forth substance. It is completely without a name, and nothing exists that is more mobile or tenuous than it...

Well I'd better stop there because, as fascinating as I find my Latin translation, I doubt you feel the same about it as me =D

a time for evil...

mwahaha...
Ok, so it's the sixth of the sixth of the sixth... Yay. I always like dates with patterns in them - but I usually find more patterns than most people. I like the fact that it's still the beginning of the century because there are more patterns that way.
I mean, you get ones that are all the same, like today, you get ones that are almost palindromes (if you ignore the zeros) like 6.1.06 and then there are more obscure ones, like 30.5.06 (see, 5x6=30)... as you can see, anything'll do really.

I just think it's funny that anyone would make a big deal of it. I mean, it's quite predictable that someone would release a movie called "The Omen"... and Slayer releasing an album? Gee, never saw that coming!

I saw "V for Vendetta" on the weekend. Well, I saw about two thirds of it, having arrived late at my friend's house where everyone was watching it. I really enjoyed it though, so now I want to see the rest, that is, the beginning. I don't know why, but it really appealed to me.

Also, my sister got "The Princess Bride" on the weekend - such an amusing movie. Since she already has "Spaceballs" and she was talking about the good old "Robin Hood - Men in Tights" (Mum was then asking me if it's approriate...hmm...), it appears we've got a bit of a Mel Brooks collection going. Suits me!

bah I just noticed I pressed the wrong button yesterday and therefore didn't publish this...
oh well, it can be a day late.

a time for curiosity...

I was thinking about school and uni and learning in general today, and I realised (if I hadn't already) that my main reason for having trouble deciding what to do is quite simply that I want to do everything.
no joke - I want to learn everything there is to learn, and more. And then I was thinking about that. Is it wrong to want to just keep on learning and learning? If you do that, you never end up working. Does that make you a burden to society? I mean, I guess you can get a part-time job of some description, but once you get to a certain stage, no one is going to want to give you a "real" job because you'll be overqualified - or just too old.
I really really love to learn about things... I like to find patterns in things, I like to know about things...
I like to find out the answer to every question I think of...

Curiosity killed the cat.
What's that supposed to mean anyway? An interesting point really...

Well anyway, I'm off to learn Maths... and Physics...