In three days time it will be 2012. Most people will be making new years resolutions around this time, but not me. Being honest with myself...no matter how hard I try I always fail to keep my new years resolutions.
All I am pledging for 2012, is that I make this year a more positive, successful, and healthy year than 2011. Shouldn't be too difficult considering the year I've had :-P
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!!!!
Thursday 29 December 2011
Monday 12 September 2011
Luck
Luck. It's a strange thing. I've always thought I was a lucky person, and life has treated me well. I had good health, good friends, supportive family and an all round good life. That was until April. Everything changed...well except from the supportive family, they will always be there. One by one things went wrong, each thing leading to another and progressively making my possibly the least lucky person around. That was until I came through the worst, and realised just how lucky I am to have caring friends, maybe not so good health, but in comparison to those who barely have any life left to live, I am extremely lucky.
It really has taught me, that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. I'm more positive, less grumpy, more tolerant, and all in all happier. I'm in no doubt that there is more bad to come in the next few months, but at least I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
All thats left to say, is thank you to those people who have been there for me through the good and bad, I couldn't be more grateful for how supportive you have all been :)
It really has taught me, that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. I'm more positive, less grumpy, more tolerant, and all in all happier. I'm in no doubt that there is more bad to come in the next few months, but at least I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
All thats left to say, is thank you to those people who have been there for me through the good and bad, I couldn't be more grateful for how supportive you have all been :)
Sunday 12 June 2011
I wish I was Benjamin Button
So as I approach a new number, I am becoming increasingly unhappy. Its not a nice number to become, 17, is it?
Firstly, it is odd, odd numbers are not even therefore they are unpleasant.
Secondly it is prime, it has no factors, this makes me sad.
Thirdly it follows quite possibly the nicest number ever...16, which is even, a square, its square root is a square, and its just a lovely number all round.
Fourthly, I will be in limbo. Neither a "child" or an "adult".
And Fifthly, finally, there are no benefits to me becoming 17.
So there we go, my reasons for wanted to stay 16. Can't I just turn 16 again, and stay there until I'm 18?! Sadly not! I just got to get on with it...hmm...I've been saying that a lot recently...
Signing off until something vaguely good happens to me....might be a few months :P
Firstly, it is odd, odd numbers are not even therefore they are unpleasant.
Secondly it is prime, it has no factors, this makes me sad.
Thirdly it follows quite possibly the nicest number ever...16, which is even, a square, its square root is a square, and its just a lovely number all round.
Fourthly, I will be in limbo. Neither a "child" or an "adult".
And Fifthly, finally, there are no benefits to me becoming 17.
So there we go, my reasons for wanted to stay 16. Can't I just turn 16 again, and stay there until I'm 18?! Sadly not! I just got to get on with it...hmm...I've been saying that a lot recently...
Signing off until something vaguely good happens to me....might be a few months :P
Monday 16 May 2011
Life treats you in surprises
Sorry about the lack of posts for the last few months- as many of you will know, the last month has not been what I expected! Its been one of those things where until it happens to you, you think your invincible. Clearly I am not!
Anyway...I have been thinking...far too much, hence the strange questions I have had to ask and research:
Do Banana's melt?
Well, to be honest, this was puzzling me greatly. All those memories of scout camps when you place a banana with mars bar inside in the embers, and let it cook, the banana always goes mushy right?! But it never quite becomes "liquid"... that wouldn't be nice! So what does it do then?
So, after asking my chemistry teacher, who thought it was a very strange question, I descovered the true answer. Bananas don't melt! The mushyness is the pectin (protein) in the banana denaturing due to temperature and breaking down :) <---this is not melting!!!
Do worms have mouths?
Right, so worms are quite small, and they don't have a visible mouth, but how do they eat?!
This was a question for google!! The truth is that worms do have an "opening" which could technically be counted as a mouth, but this is actually a tube through the whole length of the worm. The food doesn't actually get digested, the nutrients are just absorbed in the tube.
I think thats enough questions for now :o) I hope you found my descoveries as interesting as I did!!
Anyway...I have been thinking...far too much, hence the strange questions I have had to ask and research:
Do Banana's melt?
Well, to be honest, this was puzzling me greatly. All those memories of scout camps when you place a banana with mars bar inside in the embers, and let it cook, the banana always goes mushy right?! But it never quite becomes "liquid"... that wouldn't be nice! So what does it do then?
So, after asking my chemistry teacher, who thought it was a very strange question, I descovered the true answer. Bananas don't melt! The mushyness is the pectin (protein) in the banana denaturing due to temperature and breaking down :) <---this is not melting!!!
Do worms have mouths?
Right, so worms are quite small, and they don't have a visible mouth, but how do they eat?!
This was a question for google!! The truth is that worms do have an "opening" which could technically be counted as a mouth, but this is actually a tube through the whole length of the worm. The food doesn't actually get digested, the nutrients are just absorbed in the tube.
I think thats enough questions for now :o) I hope you found my descoveries as interesting as I did!!
Tuesday 22 February 2011
The Musical Me
So today I have spent most of my day practicing the flute and the saxophone. In just under two weeks I have my AS music performance exam, which to put it mildly I am shitting bricks about (if you excuse my expression!).
Half an hour, one to one, with a random stranger who is there to critisize the one thing that I enjoy doing, and feel passionately about. To make it worse, everyone is telling me "You'll be great". Thats easy for them to say, they have never felt that kind of nerves before, the specific nerves you get when performing, the shaking, and sweaty fingers causing clumsy playing!!
What also makes everything worse is the standard I am playing to. The specification says grade 4-5, which is clearly why my teachers have given me grade 7-8 music! :'(
So I guess all is left to do is, this is what I'm playing:
Bozza- Aria- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMVf5YRjNoY
Francaix- Cinq danses exotiques- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zZe6xMkBY
Poulenc- Cantilena- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7QTyUaH2OE
Sorry for the depressing post- it seems to be becoming a habit :/
Half an hour, one to one, with a random stranger who is there to critisize the one thing that I enjoy doing, and feel passionately about. To make it worse, everyone is telling me "You'll be great". Thats easy for them to say, they have never felt that kind of nerves before, the specific nerves you get when performing, the shaking, and sweaty fingers causing clumsy playing!!
What also makes everything worse is the standard I am playing to. The specification says grade 4-5, which is clearly why my teachers have given me grade 7-8 music! :'(
So I guess all is left to do is, this is what I'm playing:
Bozza- Aria- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMVf5YRjNoY
Francaix- Cinq danses exotiques- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zZe6xMkBY
Poulenc- Cantilena- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7QTyUaH2OE
Sorry for the depressing post- it seems to be becoming a habit :/
Friday 5 November 2010
Buses
I was rather impressed at my 'not having to run for the bus' this morning. I was 5 minutes earlier than normal, and this was impressive for me. All goes smoothly, and we arrive at college just short of 15 minutes before my first lecture :)
Generally a "meh" sort of day. I felt in a bad mood although I have no explanation for this: my lessons went well.
5.15pm and I cross to the bus stop across the road from college missing the bus by 3 minutes and having to wait another 7. This bus is usually a roulette to get on as the single decker buses are not big enough to fit 50 students and the other members of the public. From this experience I deduct: students don't queue! So today it was oddly quiet, a mere 6 of us got on the bus to town. I was stupid to think this was a good sign! Trapped in evening traffic I pondered whether it would have been quicker to walk this 10 minute bus journey. I arrive at the station where I was due to catch another bus. The queue stretched half the length of the bus station and I then discovered the bus was going to be 15 minutes: another wait in the misty not quite rainy sort of rain. Finally boarding the bus, I am sat with a child and a young dad fighting with umbrellas drumming it into me how soggy I was :(
I hate dark bus journeys, there is nothing to look at but black.
To top of my disasterous bus experience every one had to get off 4 stops before mine as the headlight had blown. Oh joy, another misty rainy walk with loads of college stuff.
As you may have gathered I am in a ranting mood and not at all in the mood to question happy numbers. Thank goodness its the weekend tomorrow!
Oh yes, and I forgot to renew my bus pass so I'm gonna have to pay monday morning :@
Generally a "meh" sort of day. I felt in a bad mood although I have no explanation for this: my lessons went well.
5.15pm and I cross to the bus stop across the road from college missing the bus by 3 minutes and having to wait another 7. This bus is usually a roulette to get on as the single decker buses are not big enough to fit 50 students and the other members of the public. From this experience I deduct: students don't queue! So today it was oddly quiet, a mere 6 of us got on the bus to town. I was stupid to think this was a good sign! Trapped in evening traffic I pondered whether it would have been quicker to walk this 10 minute bus journey. I arrive at the station where I was due to catch another bus. The queue stretched half the length of the bus station and I then discovered the bus was going to be 15 minutes: another wait in the misty not quite rainy sort of rain. Finally boarding the bus, I am sat with a child and a young dad fighting with umbrellas drumming it into me how soggy I was :(
I hate dark bus journeys, there is nothing to look at but black.
To top of my disasterous bus experience every one had to get off 4 stops before mine as the headlight had blown. Oh joy, another misty rainy walk with loads of college stuff.
As you may have gathered I am in a ranting mood and not at all in the mood to question happy numbers. Thank goodness its the weekend tomorrow!
Oh yes, and I forgot to renew my bus pass so I'm gonna have to pay monday morning :@
Thursday 4 November 2010
My First Blog- Happy Numbers
So today I discovered 'happy numbers'; well I thought I did. My maths teacher told me that happy numbers were those which when you added the digits, and kept doing so until you had one digit the final number would be one. eg. 109=1+0+9=10
=1+0= 1 :)
This got my excited, my reaction: 'aww thats soooo cute'. So in out 5 minute break in the lesson I tried to figure out the nth term for the sequence of happy numbers (1, 10, 19, 28, 37, 46, 55, 64, 73, 82, 91, 100):
difference is 9 therefore: 9n
so the second term 9*2=18 which doesn't work, so we have to take away 8.
So the nth term is 9n-8.
I decided I might have a look on google to see what others had discovered with these cute little happy numbers. I find this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_number.
This tells us that a happy number is the square of each digit added together thus:
72 = 49
42 + 92 = 97
92 + 72 = 130
12 + 32 + 02 = 10
12 + 02 = 1.
This somehow does not satisfy me as much :(
Life is like this situation: its great until someone tells you your wrong.
My bubble has burst, lets wait and see whether I find something enjoyable in Math tomorrow, I do hope so!
=1+0= 1 :)
This got my excited, my reaction: 'aww thats soooo cute'. So in out 5 minute break in the lesson I tried to figure out the nth term for the sequence of happy numbers (1, 10, 19, 28, 37, 46, 55, 64, 73, 82, 91, 100):
difference is 9 therefore: 9n
so the second term 9*2=18 which doesn't work, so we have to take away 8.
So the nth term is 9n-8.
I decided I might have a look on google to see what others had discovered with these cute little happy numbers. I find this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_number.
This tells us that a happy number is the square of each digit added together thus:
72 = 49
42 + 92 = 97
92 + 72 = 130
12 + 32 + 02 = 10
12 + 02 = 1.
This somehow does not satisfy me as much :(
Life is like this situation: its great until someone tells you your wrong.
My bubble has burst, lets wait and see whether I find something enjoyable in Math tomorrow, I do hope so!
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