The Ramblings of a Free Man

Aren’t some words just so freaking cool? Just the way they roll off the tongue.

Demarcation. sounds awesome. Had to dictionary.com it but yay another word to the vocabulary! Other amazing sounding words:

C H A O S                    (just the way the word looks up paper and how the letters etch into the space is actually pretty crazy haha)

E N T R O P Y

E M A N C I P A T I O N   (should really use this word more often..its so useful)

V E R I T A B L E             (really really love this word. such a fancy word)

N U L L I F Y

M O R PH

C O A G U L A T E

A M E L I O R A T I O N

A M A L G A M A T E     (love this word)

C O R R O D E              (did you know this word combines corrupt and erode? Nope I just made that up but it’s probably true!)

And so much more. The english language (or for that matter ALL LANGUAGES) are actually amazing. If you think back to caveman times when all we had were grunts and snorts nowadays we have such a wide vocabulary and its changing all the time. Granted its not always changing for the best. Words like “Boss” and “Arms” have completely different meanings now…meanings that I don’t think people actually know but are just generic words for “cool”. 

Anyone else miss words like “groovy” and “wicked”? I remember in the 90s everyone used to say stuff was “wicked”. And now its “sick this” and “sick that”…I told myself for the first year in Canada I would never say “sick” because it was such a stupid word to express “cool”. But its like my every 25th word nowadays haha. (Hypocrite much?) 

Hypocrite is another cool word.

theartofanimation:

Kekai Kotaki

herochan:

That Man is Playing Galaga.

Thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did. - Tony

Created by Erdgeist

erdgeist: There was this random tiny reference to Galaga in the Avengers movie and it kind of stuck with me, aha.

 LOVE THIS

Source: thefuuuucomics

It is fucking amazing. It surpassed my expectations and it is REALLY that good. If you’ve watched the other comic book movies you’ll definitely love it. If not then the plot will be too confusing for you to understand and you should probably check if you are on PLANET EARTH if you’ve never watched or even fucking heard of Iron Man. 

I’m obviously bias since I absolutely adore any and everything superhero related. If you DO read comics you will especially love it b/c of all the little comic book references it makes like “Life Model Decoy” and the Avengers tower and of course the obligatory Stan Lee cameo. It simply is an amazing, amazing achievement and I was a bit worried about Joss Whedon’s ability to direct such an important movie but I have to admit he did really really well.

Very solid 8.5/10 maybe a 9/10. (I don’t give 10s apart from maybe Star Wars..)

I was browsing through wiki on the avengers movie trying to find out what the critical reception was (which is overwhelmingly good) but then I found this one guy who gave a bad review. Granted, I didn’t read his review but from his quoted comments he was basically saying how the movie lacked depth or whatever.

What a massive DICK. I always thought film critics could be assholes but this guy is just a huge fucking douche. Everyone I know who has seen it has liked it. Every NORMAL person who has watched it has probably liked it. And then this self-righteous film critic asshole decides to trash the movie. I fucking hate how film critics adhere to some sort of golden movie principle or some shit. It’s like they expect every fucking movie to be a “masterpiece”. But their version of masterpiece is like extremely deep, dramatic, thick plotted films which not that many people actually like. You go to a movie to have fun. Not to fucking analyse it. I guess it is important to analyse it for artistic reasons and whatever but this guy makes a LIVING writing responses about movies. Debate is ok I don’t mind theoretical analysis but this guy actually gets money for it. Seriously what a fucking nobhead. It’s like by writing a BAD review he gets more attention and “stands out from the crowd”. As if he is trying to pass himself as someone who has superior artistic knowledge or whatever than normal people. Bitch please. Just shut the fuck up and let people decide for themselves. If you hear so many good reviews by NORMAL people and read 1 bad review from some trumped up dickhead and believe the critic whose JOB is to essentially criticise movies then you are a colossal imbecile.

(and yes I’m probably raging b/c I just love the movie so much due to my obsession over comics but still when it’s 100000000000 opinions vs like a few critics, who are you going to believe? Ordinary people aren’t gonna go all analytical and ape shit over details.)

P.P.S. Avatar is massively overrated and Avengers should surpass it :D

It’s so weird but at first I was doing volunteering only to get the Bristol Plus award but now after a whole week of doing it…I gotta admit I kinda enjoy it. You meet so many people and you learn so much from doing something so different. Everyone is always so nice when you volunteer and there isn’t any pressure from the coordinators to do something or to not do something. There’s so much freedom and I feel like all the experiences I have had have made me grow so much as a person. It’s quite awe-inspiring some of the stuff that I have experienced. The Discover Science event for example was so cool because not only did I meet a couple of guys doing law but also I just had a lot of fun learning about all these cool science projects. The best part was being allowed to have a stall to ourselves despite not knowing anything about the subject. The last day was also an eye-opening experience. I feel a LOT more confident now talking to strangers because of all the practise I’ve had at the event. The Dinner Ball dance on saturday 10th March 2012 was one of the most insane, crazy, amazing experiences I’ve ever had and definitely one I’ll never forget. TBH I’m not much of a smiley or nicey nice person so normally I wouldn’t volunteer for any kind of caring position because its simply not in my nature. But for this occasion I had to volunteer at an elderly/ disabled dinner ball and my god was it different. I was stepping completely out of my skin and I actually had to be nice to strangers. Usually I’m quite distant and I’ll refuse to talk or I’ll talk very little but for this occasion my job was to talk to these disabled elderly folks at the table I was responsible for. I thought to myself at the start “holy fuck I’m not gonna be very good at this” but I actually surprised myself. This sounds really stupid but I could actually act nice and care for these people I’ve never met. Normally I’m quite a cold person on the outside but I just felt so different that night. It’s like I became a lot more compassionate and empathic towards these people despite being waaaay outside my comfort zone. I can’t quite describe the feeling but its nearing awestruck and proud of myself and of what we were doing for these people. 

The strangest thing happened at the event. One of the elderly women who I cared for was named Helen and I would often pour her a glass of apple juice and LITERALLY when I turned my back she would finish it. I ended up walking back and forth to the kitchen to get her a new drink and it was just so weird. Like it just disappeared inside her. Another unique and quite embarassing experience during this event was when I kept calling one of the women on my table Bethany. I have no fucking clue why I called her that but her actual name was Annabelle and when another volunteer who knew her better asked her if she was ok I was like..FUCK I’VE BEEN SAYING BETHANY ALL THIS TIME. Annabelle seemed ok with it but I felt so fucking dumb. 

I have to admit after this experience I feel a lot more open about interacting with elderly people. Before I was somewhat reserved towards doing so but now I realise that it IS important to give back to the community and it IS important to help those and care for those who are vulnerable in our society. It sounds like an obvious fact but it is surprising how TRUE that really is. You don’t TRULY realise it until you’ve experienced something like this.

In conclusion: fucking amazing/ crazy/ insane experience. Stepped out of my comfort zone. fucking loved doing it. On a side note…a lot of hot girls do volunteering ;)

Forgotten most of the details but I remember a dream where I had the powers of magneto and it was a blend of the marvel comics universe and star wars I think…And basically with my powers I crushed a droid. It was awesome.

Another micro-dream I had was when I was in a fight with some guy I know from law. No names will be mentioned but needless to say it was fairly satisfying…

Hmm this one was really really weird. I don’t remember much of it now but halfway through the day it randomly came back to me so I’ll just jot down what I remember.

I remember in the dream I went to the hair dressers and he was giving me a haircut and I think an old fashioned shave, like the ones with the shaving cream and knives and then for some reason he put the cream on one of my eyebrows and shaved it all off. I remember looking in the mirror and seeing one eyebrow completely shaved off and I was like WTF and I felt so embarrassed. I think I walked around outside for awhile with 1 eyebrow and it felt so, SO real. Like I could feel the embarrassment and anger so strongly. And then it suddenly ended and I forgot about the dream until about halfway through the day.

Talk to 1 stranger everyday for the rest of this week. 

Let’s see how this goes…

When you dance and the lights are swirling and the colours are blurring

You just don’t care what people say

What people do, their glaring eyes

Because as long as the music is playing,

you can keep them at bay.

Just shut your eyes, open your mouth and breathe in the beat

Pump those arms, lift those feet and throw your doubts away

Because when you dance away the night on the floor

Nothing else matters and its a brand new day.

Keep your pills, your unnecessary thrills

I throw my chances into the wind

And I hope they don’t come crashing down when it stops.

^actually true ;)