Wonderland
This year is shaping up to be quite fabulous.
I’ve officially named 2010 the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ year.
Alice in Wonderland – a novel written by Lewis Caroll in 1865 – is a story about a girl who falls down a rabbit hole and meets many magical creatures. This story has been made into many films (including animated ones); some true to the novel, some with different perspectives (I must recommend Phoebe in Wonderland, a 2008 movie with an interesting take on the concept of Wonderland) and so on.
This year, Alice will reappear once again in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures). However, she is not the little girl from the original Disney animation – she is 19 years old and does not remember the world she encountered at 11.
Starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska (a fellow Australian), Helena Bonham Carter & Anne Hathaway, this film can only promise goodness. I cannot wait for March 5th.
Not to mention my favourite artist – Avril Lavigne – sings the title track, “Alice (Underground)” to the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Alice in Wonderland (2010) – out March 2nd. A music video I am waiting (impatiently) to see.
Which brings me to the fact that the end of last year and the year so far have been quite Wonderland-ish. For example, Paramore (my favourite band) just released their new music video called “Brick By Boring Brick”, where a young girl finds herself trapped in a world with many whimsical creatures and later falls down a hole (the story is backwards, but the song is about fairytales with tragic endings, so that makes sense).
Oddly enough, Robbie Williams dressed up as a rabbit and ended up in the same world for his music video for “You Know Me”. I honestly don’t see what that has to do with the song.
Lastly, because it is the least relevant, I passed Alice St and freaked out. I just love that name.
Ahh, good times. I remember taping Part 1 and 2 of a 90’s remake of Alice in Wonderland on Free-To-Air TV. I might go and dig up that version right now.
I’ll see you all in Wonderland.
Filed under: January | Leave a Comment
Summer
I’m back. Finally. It’s the second month of my summer holidays.
Guess where I am? Work. Pretty good where I am actually. Nice people, good air conditioning (Did I mention I survived the last two days of 43 degree weather?) Anyway, I’m on a break. The people here are way too nice.
Back to summer, well, I really hate it.
It’s the stickiest, grossest, most annoying season ever. Autumn, if you’re reading this, could you please hurry up and come back?
I guess two months is a pretty awesome length of time taken off. I’m starting Year 11 this year, so I need all the rest possible. BUT, I will not cram in 2010. I will not cram in 2010. I will not cram in 2010.
There, I got it off my chest. I hope I stick to it.
I probably will – it’s summer.
Filed under: January | Leave a Comment
Christmastime
Such a joyous time of year is it not? Christmas came around too quickly! I didn’t really want much this year (Okay, I’m lying, but I was still nice enough to not go around asking people to get me stuff) – I guess I’m just growing up huh? 
I think the best thing about Christmas is the fact that everyone says ‘Merry Christmas’ to each other even if they don’t necessarily practice a religion. And also when you know what present you got for someone and you smile all week because you don’t want to tell them what it is. I LOVE IT!
2010 is not far off – there is so much to come!
But, let’s take a moment to remember those we saw the last of this year:
To Brittany Murphy, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, Stephen Gately, Natasha Richardson, Bea Arthur and all the many celebrities who have died this year…
To those in our daily lives that are close to our hearts who have left us this year…
Rest in peace – we will always pray and remember you.
Filed under: December | Leave a Comment
Exams
I survived. The five exams I’d been dreading for such a long time are gone. What a week.
Not only did I study like crazy – I had New Moon on the mind. Did Summit Entertainment sit around a table and decide “Hey, we should release The Twilight Saga: New Moon the week before Ezra’s exams! That’s sounds about right – then she could do her exams after!”
No.
I would have preferred if it came out Term 3 holidays or after the exams. Anyway, I think I did okay – besides the fact that a math question was asking me to find the numbers that corresponded to the letters n and m – new moon, what else?!
But I really want to work harder next year. VCE will be tough. Eclipse (2010) and Breaking Dawn (2011) will NOT distract this hard-working student.
Hmmm…I haven’t blogged for ages, but when I do it makes me feel better. I’ll do this more often – even if no one reads it but me.
P.S. New Moon was 7/10 – but I loved it anyway.
Filed under: November | Leave a Comment
Friday
I don’t understand why the holidays are so short.
I know the whole “Yes! Two weeks off!” sounds good, but to me it doesn’t. I’m trying to get my life back together and there are not enough hours in a day that allow me to do so.
Before I continue, I just want to clarify that yes, sometimes I’m a nerd.
I really wanted to get all my homework done in the first week so I could relax on the second week. Among that, I wanted to do a million other things. I wanted to clean my room, read at least 5 novels and exercise.
Instead, I blew most of my money at DFO, got a new TV and hung up Twilight posters.
What’s wrong with me?!
Now it’s the end of the first week and I’ve just touched my pile of statistics worksheets for maths.
Self-discipline is d-i-f-f-i-c-u-l-t. Ah well, I WILL get there someday.
For now, I will continue to sit back, chillax and watch Backstreet Boys music videos on my brilliant new tv.
Filed under: September | Leave a Comment
Consistence
Okay so you’re probably thinking, “This girl’s blog entries are a month apart. What’s with that?”.
I know my updates aren’t very regular, and this is the perfect opportunity to explain why.
There are millions of things I want to accomplish, but since a day is too short, I end up doing nothing.
But that is LAZINESS. I must start my life over. I must progress! I must DISCIPLINE myself!
I can do it! We can all do it! We can do anything we want with what we have whenever we want!
As long as we put our minds to it, we can.
Just wanted to share a bit of positivity to the day.
Filed under: August | Leave a Comment
Friendships
I don’t understand certain people. Sometimes you click with them and sometimes you just don’t. Why can’t we all understand and love each other for who and what we are?
It puzzles me more each day – why some friends last for minutes, some for days, some for months and only very few who last for years?
In general, friends and friendships are downright confusing.
Sometimes they ditch you and you have no idea what you did to them. Sometimes you confide in them but they block everything you say because they don’t care. Sometimes they boost you up, but bring you back down within the next few hours. Sometimes they make you want to befriend them, but in the end it turns out that they were using you for some reason or other. Sometimes they make you feel sorry for them, then they belittle you in the coming week.
Which is precisely why I’ve learned that getting super close to someone is not always a good thing. You get attached. You get annoyed. You ask yourself how it all began. Why now? Why me?
Well, I’ve accepted that that’s just LIFE. And I’m not going to fight to keep friendships alive anymore, if they’re meant to die, they will.
Filed under: August | Leave a Comment
Fifteen
Life never fails to confuse me. This morning for example, my mother asked me why I put a bowl of hot food on top of the sandwich maker. Why did I put a bowl of hot food on top of the sandwich maker? Why didn’t I make room on the kitchen bench for the bowl? Well, I don’t know why I didn’t! The sandwich maker was just there…it was…more…convenient, okay?
But this isn’t the only question. Why is it so hard to be a teenager? Why is it that we constantly make mistakes and do things wrong? This I will never know.
Fifteen is a difficult age. You’re too old for kid stuff but too young for adult stuff. For some reason, nobody understands you. They think you’re being difficult and annoying when you’re just being normal.
Like when you say you don’t want to do something your parents ask you to do and then you feel bad so you say you’ll do it and then they’re all like, “Don’t worry, forget it, don’t do it” and you want to pull your hair out. I mean, what do they want from you? Once you realize you’re being stubborn you try and change yourself and then they just want you to go back to being stubborn.
I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing. Ugh.
Filed under: July | Leave a Comment
Introduction
The title of this blog may cause you to jump to the conclusion that this is another screaming-fangirl-teeny-bopper blog. Even though the widely successful ‘Twilight’ book/movie saga is part of why I chose the title, there is also another meaning to what used to be a word that no one screamed out loud at in response to it being mentioned – twilight [twhy-lite; noun]: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth.
I happen to be inspired by that time of day and thus, included it as part of my blog title.
Moving on, I hope to share with you all my thoughts (yes, I have some like everyone else), feelings and basically anything that happens to me that is blog-worthy.
Filed under: July | Leave a Comment
Search
-
Blogroll
