Friday, 29 June 2012
Hello, lovelies! To those who wonder if I'm still alive, I am. Most definitely. I'm sorry for abandoning this blog for about two weeks, it's just that I had no interest to write anything even though heaps has happened.
You know how I like recounting things backwards? Yeah, I'm just going to do that.
Last night, I lost my voice. It was a pretty weird experience since I've never lost it before, and I didn't have it back by morning, which got me out of reading the bulletin and doing my biology presentation. Funnily enough, some of my voice came back during biology, but my teacher was nice enough to say, "Just do it next term, Natasha. I don't want you to strain your voice." Aww.
I ended up straining it anyway talking to people because not talking is like asking me not to breathe. Currently my voice keeps fading and my throat aches a little. If I lose my voice tomorrow I won't be too concerned as I won't be talking to anyone in particular anyway. Well, my mum, but you know, sign language.
We're also watching Mississippi Burning, a story based on the racism in Mississippi in the 1960's for English. It's extremely intense and my English teacher was right: I do want to throw things at the screen. It's disgusting how people think they can get away with treating other people like that, based on the colour of their skin. Saying that you are better because you're 'white' is... ugh. Nope. Ew.
In fact, I've been watching a lot of movies lately, particularly in science. That brings me to mention Gattaca and Contagion - even Brave.
Gattaca is the story of Vincent Freeman, who, because of his less-than-perfect genes, is unable to achieve his dream of reaching the stars. He assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, an athlete who has been in an accident (later found out to be attempted suicide) whose perfect genes can no longer help him. It's discrimination in a new way - if your DNA Code states that you are not physically perfect, what does that limit you to?
Contagion is bloody scary. Essentially it is of the world suffering from a pandemic which kills millions of people worldwide, almost close to 64 million people. I thought I saw all the scary stuff - the autopsy, the deaths. But nope. In fact, the end scared me the most and it was totally tame. The movie ended with the final scene with two people shaking hands and it saying Day 1. The movie begins with Day 2 and three people die that day, because Patient Zero had infected them the night before.
Moral of the story of Contagion: wash your hands. Always.
On Sunday, I did go to the cinemas and watched Brave. I loved it so much. I love Merida, her little brothers, her family... you can understand why she was fighting so hard to change her fate because she liked the life she lived. Of course, she did some growing up in the movie, but the fact it wasn't about romance made it so much more... refreshing. I loved it and I was teary.
Apart from that, I also watched a little bit of Hugo yesterday. I think Asa Butterfield is an awesome actor - I do remember him from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and wow, did that make me cry. I'll probably watch the rest of it, it seems cool.
Did I mention that Jude Law was in Contagion, Gattaca and Hugo? Weird, huh? Our school must be a Jude Law stan.
Apart from all the movies I have watched, I've also been to Melbourne University! Holy hell, it's massive. Oldest and one of the best schools in Australia, it's pretty damned interesting. I went there for the Victorian State Final of the Brain Bees Challenge - essentially a school quiz on neuroscience. There was a Team Challenge, which consisted of me and four of my classmates, and an Individual Challenge.
Needless to say, we didn't place. However, I learnt a lot from the experience (that neuroscience is hard and it doesn't interest me much as cool as it is), what a lab looks like and the anatomy museum was way cool. Basically, it was dead people's body parts. Make of that what you will. When my friend Tracy mentioned it at assembly, I grinned and everyone was all "... Ew."
Good times.
Well, that's it! I've posted this about two hours after I started writing it because I am easily distracted, ahahaha. I hope you haven't missed me too much! (I'm just joking, I know you don't.) Tune in next time to see more of the oddity that is my life!
Yours in weirdness,
Tash.
You know how I like recounting things backwards? Yeah, I'm just going to do that.
Last night, I lost my voice. It was a pretty weird experience since I've never lost it before, and I didn't have it back by morning, which got me out of reading the bulletin and doing my biology presentation. Funnily enough, some of my voice came back during biology, but my teacher was nice enough to say, "Just do it next term, Natasha. I don't want you to strain your voice." Aww.
I ended up straining it anyway talking to people because not talking is like asking me not to breathe. Currently my voice keeps fading and my throat aches a little. If I lose my voice tomorrow I won't be too concerned as I won't be talking to anyone in particular anyway. Well, my mum, but you know, sign language.
We're also watching Mississippi Burning, a story based on the racism in Mississippi in the 1960's for English. It's extremely intense and my English teacher was right: I do want to throw things at the screen. It's disgusting how people think they can get away with treating other people like that, based on the colour of their skin. Saying that you are better because you're 'white' is... ugh. Nope. Ew.
In fact, I've been watching a lot of movies lately, particularly in science. That brings me to mention Gattaca and Contagion - even Brave.
Gattaca is the story of Vincent Freeman, who, because of his less-than-perfect genes, is unable to achieve his dream of reaching the stars. He assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, an athlete who has been in an accident (later found out to be attempted suicide) whose perfect genes can no longer help him. It's discrimination in a new way - if your DNA Code states that you are not physically perfect, what does that limit you to?
Contagion is bloody scary. Essentially it is of the world suffering from a pandemic which kills millions of people worldwide, almost close to 64 million people. I thought I saw all the scary stuff - the autopsy, the deaths. But nope. In fact, the end scared me the most and it was totally tame. The movie ended with the final scene with two people shaking hands and it saying Day 1. The movie begins with Day 2 and three people die that day, because Patient Zero had infected them the night before.
Moral of the story of Contagion: wash your hands. Always.
On Sunday, I did go to the cinemas and watched Brave. I loved it so much. I love Merida, her little brothers, her family... you can understand why she was fighting so hard to change her fate because she liked the life she lived. Of course, she did some growing up in the movie, but the fact it wasn't about romance made it so much more... refreshing. I loved it and I was teary.
Apart from that, I also watched a little bit of Hugo yesterday. I think Asa Butterfield is an awesome actor - I do remember him from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and wow, did that make me cry. I'll probably watch the rest of it, it seems cool.
Did I mention that Jude Law was in Contagion, Gattaca and Hugo? Weird, huh? Our school must be a Jude Law stan.
Apart from all the movies I have watched, I've also been to Melbourne University! Holy hell, it's massive. Oldest and one of the best schools in Australia, it's pretty damned interesting. I went there for the Victorian State Final of the Brain Bees Challenge - essentially a school quiz on neuroscience. There was a Team Challenge, which consisted of me and four of my classmates, and an Individual Challenge.
Needless to say, we didn't place. However, I learnt a lot from the experience (that neuroscience is hard and it doesn't interest me much as cool as it is), what a lab looks like and the anatomy museum was way cool. Basically, it was dead people's body parts. Make of that what you will. When my friend Tracy mentioned it at assembly, I grinned and everyone was all "... Ew."
Good times.
Well, that's it! I've posted this about two hours after I started writing it because I am easily distracted, ahahaha. I hope you haven't missed me too much! (I'm just joking, I know you don't.) Tune in next time to see more of the oddity that is my life!
Yours in weirdness,
Tash.
