I had an amazing knack for mathematics as a child. My mum loves to tell stories about how my favourite place in all the world was Bruning's Clock Shop right next to K-Mart, about a mile or so away from our home. Now out of business, sadly, I would long to go in there and for half an hour watch all of the cuckoo clocks display their fancy routines ( Read more... )

Life is such a bizarre thing, when you look at it. As children, we see magic everywhere and in everything. We don't even have to strain our eyes to find it; it's just there everywhere you look for it. As we grow older, that magic begins to become more difficult to discern. Gradually the sparkles of every little thing lose their shimmer as we ( Read more... )

The human psyche is truly an amazing piece of machinery... so infinitely complex and impossible to truly predict. Yet at the same time, it actually is amazingly simple... surprisingly simple. Yet it's that simplicity is the feeling that somehow the psyche is wrong or that it has violated some rule. People seem to thrive on complexity -- or, that is ( Read more... )

Before I talk about anything else, a Merry Christmas to all of you who care about the holiday. If you happen to be one who doesn't, a splendiferous whatever-you-celebrate to you as well ( Read more... )

It seems that, whenever some random thought that begs to be scribbled into my LJ comes to mind, timing is never convenient to reformulate it into words. This thought happened at least a week or more ago--now I cannot be entirely certain--but I told myself that I would put it into words. I think my resolution to write more has been a miserable ( Read more... )

Over the course of my years, I have realised that there is a gradual progression with how one experiences life. I've heard it said time and time again by people my age and older that they appreciate the innocence of children, how they wish they could jump back to some age way back then and remember life. As children, we see the world through very ( Read more... )

So, first an issue of news. It's time to clean up the old LJ friends list. The cobwebs and spiders have claimed far too much space there, and so I'm working through it slowly. If your name's no longer in my list o' peoples, that's likely because I don't read your LJ anymore. It's not a slam against you personally, that is, unless you feel mortally ( Read more... )

Let me take this momentary lull in my crying to write an entry that is a little atypical for me, but I need to write this one. Writing cleanses my soul and emotions, and boy, do I need it right now ( Read more... )

Alright, so I have obviously failed in my goal of writing in my LiveJournal twice a month. You can issue the catcalls now. However, I've been really busy of late what with Japanese needing to be studying, and there are other things on the fire that needed to get done, too (such as TONS of roleplaying, writing-which, sadly, isn't as done as I'd ( Read more... )

And so we continue our epic mini-series All the Days of our Zelda with the next instalment of our devious plot line with lroy. In case you've missed it...

Part I | Part II | And now, we bring you ( Part III )