Thursday, June 28, 2012
attempting positivity
it's gone and now i just wait and see if i have failed a unit or two because i dont feel good about this one and all. in other news, im going through some stuff that includes a lot of facewalling.
i am also sick. i miss my ma and i want someone to look after me. i dont want to grow up and be 20 and learn about income tax and figuring out passport things and learn about budgeting to flat or worry about what grown up relationships are supposed to be about.
these are supposed to be my prime years but my friends are all out of town and im honestly a lot more comfy at home. so why the whining?
we all have that little "snarky" voice. i know because lifehacker sent me an email about it. and all of last year ive forced and double forced the positive extrovert to exhaustion. in short, i tried but failed at being happyhappy sunshine and rainbow poop.
so whats up with the facewalling? ive been friendzoned a lot lately. ok, two in a handful of months (ie 6) isnt a lot but considering i spend a lot of my time not talking to people, its a lot for me. and im not going to worry about it. or at least im going to tell myself that until i believe it.
wheres the problem with being friendzoned? well, its not so much as a problem but irritating. because i like mindless gibberjabber. i like talking and passing time with people, just.. one at a time. i like the idea of having someone that makes me ok. (See: I believe that relationships validate who you are because youre ok enough to be liked that way).
but im not validated. i have friends, a few great friends, i just dont get to see them because they have often parallel lives. and thats fine. i have a lot on my plate, its just i do it all at once rather than space things out in a smart way.
thats why i probably failed this semester. ive been sad. ive been feeling really alone. but most importantly ive been too gorram lazy and playing too many videogames to do the right amount of work to do well in my units.
and thus, i am attempting to attempt positivity. again.
Monday, May 14, 2012
My friend, manic-ness!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
the thing about internet fame
i dont mind it, i mean, i guess its a lot less pressure. i dont have a fanbase to provide for, i dont have to get hate mail (cuz when people like you, there will always be more people who dont like you im guessing - i havent been in the position to test the theory).
I also have none of the internet appeals. i dont do music, my comics arent pretty pretty, my art in general is mediocre, i dont often look at youtube, and even though i can be funny and sociable from time to time, people are a mystery to me. y'all complicated weirdos whether you wanna admit it or not. I KNOW.
okies, imma go back to working on my bra comic. to celebrate it's creation im ditching the shirt and enjoying the company of my wonderfully affordable and comfy boobage handler.
stay tuned for more from my brainpad. :D
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Of bread-dudes and kinda-dead dudes.
he had his funny little quirks like that fact that he would say "one pant" and instead of motorbike would say "cycle"... he also used to be able to fit into my clothes better than i did (however it might be fair to mention most of the stuff he borrowed to bring this fact to light were my shirts and guy-cut teeshirts.)
it was weird that he couldnt roll dough out when i asked him to help me make puri and the day i found out that he didnt like pork and didnt eat beef, my perception of all meat was changed forever.
i guess all the little daily things - cooking, picking what to wear every morning, buying pants... all these things reminded me of him. his arctic monkeys CD is still sitting in the box i put it in to hide it from myself, not to mention all the other music im addicted to are all his fault.
and theres the card i found looking back at all my little girly and emo journals with him. on the inside, on the right "a very happy birthday to our darling daughter. we hope that you enjoy your next ten years as much as your last. Daddy and lorna". and then a four "x"s. daddy's blocky handwriting with all his E's in caps.
i have that in front of me at my desk so everyday i get closer to my 20th birthday, if i dont know what im doing, i try to think of something at would make daddy proud. so when i put together all the things that have happened from when i was 11 to june this year, despite his passing and all the changes and dark moods - i'll have a decade i can look back at and go "fuck yeah".
wholemeal is a big part of that decade. was? is? ah well. but im pretty sure id made up at least half of losing a dad. he was someone to hug. i'd lost that along with daddy.
ARSEBUTTS.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
dont be sad, be busy
thats the thing about occasionally having amazing ups, you get the tremendous lows where your hands dont work quite right, you dont want to go outside, and all you want to do is lie there or sleep. heartbreak or nostalgia, worry and loneliness. various problems that cant be easily outweighed by looking around at all you have and how well off you are compared to those who have nothing or few.
it takes time to get out of it, a friend maybe but that often isnt the case when you dont want to go anywhere...
and apart from all that, we delve into other things. so i try. i made some homemade icecream, started to brew some ginger beer, taught myself horchata, fed some puppies, cleaned something, looked stuff up and teh list of things to do lengthens because inbetween all the plans because you have time to play some videogames or to lie down and feel all the bad things all over again.
videogames are addictive because, hell, youre often all powerful, you defeat things and you can be someone else, often teh hero. thats why i play rpgs i guess. and screw mmos, imma be the ONLY hero.
so to anyone who might feel down, alone, sad and everything inbetween, just take the time to feel it and fidn the way to fix yourself. occupy your time so its that you dont have the time to pine and wonder and toss and turn and ask whywhywhy.
maybe itll work. i dont wuite know what works for me, but i wont get over anything unless i try right?
i aim to be the exception, exceptionally.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
beware the venting and general downness
maybe too much. and this often is accompanied by "and who with?"
Now at the more or less end of something that had made me so damn happy i wonder where i go to from here. its not fairytale ending, and i guess ive never wanted one of those. im a pessimist masquerading as a realist and i used to be content with the idea that id eventually get married to someone bland, have a kid or two, end up divorced and career oriented and maybe only see my kids on weekends.
is that still what i expect? of course not. i resolve to be exceptional. i guess one day i want to wake up next to someone who i'd be in awe of but still manage to get through all the banal, everyday things and not letting it all get to me. who with? god knows. when? same answer here too. but ive decided to settle for nothing less than happiness, with someone who'd consider me an exception to all the bullshit in the world and vieversa. that then transcending all the obstacles and people just getting on in a content manner.
in short? i plan not to bother with this or that and not necessarily wait for something perfect but not completely ignoring the possibility, which was my initial plan i guess. why tell the world? because maybe people need to feel the same. why be in something that makes you unhappy? why drag something around like a dead thing because that smell doesnt go away all too soon.
i was talking to a friend and she asked me "why are guys so complicated?". she and i are similar in teh sense that we know what we want and we say it without hesitation in appropriate circumstances. we are happy with simple things and feel that articulation is important unless your aim is to be disappointed with all the output that you get.
so people are complicated i guess. its just a matter of understanding them and knowing how they are. the complication is often not in the aspects of the personality but the revelation and learning of such aspects.
that is to say sometimes people are only themselves on their own or among few people, so how are we to understand them if we arent there to educate our general understanding? and so on and so forth.
so basically i might be getting closer to getting rid of my general artists block. its very painful when you want your hands to do things but they fail everytime. it used to be an outlet, a refuse by now its just... inaccessible.
on a lighter note, it seems that a lot of pictures of me when i was young were topless. i dont understand that. maybe thats why so many people thought i was a boy. it mightve also been my short hair. and handmedown clothes from my brother. and me being generally dirty.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
So have this because of today.
or rather especially between.
and thus to everything else i say
you bother me
and thus to everything else i say
i neednt explain
our love is mine and his
and so it shall remain
its neednt make sense
for it is from the heart
it neednt make sense
it's a feeling.
neither on nor off
she is cared for, clothed and well fed
Monday, November 21, 2011
sometimes im an asshole.
im so angry at everything because it just seems to be in the way of what i want, what i really really want, my impractical hopes and dreams (which involve living with Wholemeal forever and ever and just creating books and art and drawing and living and breathing art). then i look again and i dont know what it is.
im studying at uni. i live with my family. im a volunteer at an ngo. i like all these things. but im trying to save money, trying to find a way to at least visit wholemeal and im stuck with a measly sum after a couple of months because i have to pay for materials for the commissions that i obviously wont get anymore because ive run out of friends who'd pay for them. and im too all over the place to try to do anything else. im too stupid to do one thing at a time, or at least a few things that pack up nicely.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
am i bluuuue...
Sunday, September 4, 2011
issues with the blog post construction process
what do you do when you have all these ideas in your head and so few people who would listen and fewer who care. by few i mean 1 because we share everything.
i was going to blog about having no dad on fathers day but... who would listen or care? just one.
i was going to get upset and write a whiny thing but who would listen or care? not one. not even he, not even me. whiny statements are meant to be put down, deleted. they dont deserve to take space up in your head.
i worry, i cry, i break down, i repair, i live. i live in cycles. i live in parts. i organise. it works :)
i wanted to use this blog for art. i force time for it.
i miss a proper structure.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Kicked out of a lecture?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
streaming live from my head again...
I grew up believing in divorce. My parents were divorced from when I was 3. I never dreamt about getting married and living happily ever after. I was never the tragically locked up princess; I was the crazy run-around-with-no-shoes-on-and-play-with-the-dogs day dreamer. I loved the mud between my toes, a stick in one hand, my other holding a tree I may’ve been “hiding” behind, stories to adventure in my head; adventures where I was all on my own, apart from a dog or two, traversing wild plains and lush forests. I would never want to be the spunky heroine who would shack up with the cute guy and then go into retirement to be a mum.
What’s one to do as a mum anyway? How does the heroine adjust? She can’t go off to save the world because she’s breastfeeding. She has to stay at home because there has to be someone to do the dishes, feed the cat, walk the dog, weed the garden, look after the baby and make delicious dinners. She’s going to wither away, go insane in the domestic, mundane-ness of it all. She’s he exotic flower transplanted into your backyard; a terrible idea.
More to come? Maybe, maybe not :)
i start uni tomorrow.
Friday, January 7, 2011
growing up pains
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Bit of a Drama Queen
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Thisll be all text.. apart from Ganesh.
Monday, November 1, 2010
HolySmokes Thursday
So.. i had a really dark moment yesterday.. I crashed, burned, sent the worlds most emo email ever to Wholemeal, cried and was ever so close to facewalling, but then i fell asleep. the cause? its all me really. I tend to put myself down when im.. idk.. let down isnt the word, but i gues swhen things dont sort out the way theyre supposed to. the wont bore you with the details, im just going to share what i learnt from that experience.
The greatest critic in our lives are ourselves. Unless we believe it when people put us down, it wont affect us. and to put ourselves down is the worst thing that can ever happen. I know im not exactly the worlds greatest person, but im an ok chick. there wasnt anyone else to tell me to calm down but him.. its odd in a way that hes the only one id believe. my family are biased.. but honestly to have someone, who cares when he doesnt have to, who points out the best things about you, and he worst things he'll tell you arent really bad or he tries to help you overcome those things. its nice, better than anything i could ever hope for or ask for.. and i know that thats why i dont care about the distance. :)
alrighty then. Serious panicking is over, the locking down and nailing self to desk to study has started. i have 3 weeks before im done with high school. Im so excited, but i have been warned that at the end of it all, its anti-climatic... english teachers really know how to make your day, dont they? :P Im being silly.. and to clear things up, it was my english teacher that told me that the end was going to be anitclimatic. she told her whole class (around 10 people). i guess its her way of caring :P alrighty, see ya round internets :)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Ever so long...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
I made a stencil of my daddy :)
I’m writing on the bus again. It’s not my fault the bus is the easiest place to write blog entries. Most of my idle time is spent on buses. Sure, from time to time I’ll end up doing homework or reading the heck damn out of some random class handout and more often then not while listening to the nerdy show and giggling in my head whenever I hear Hex’s voice. Well, I'm proud of the progress with that I'm doing in art. What’s that, you ask?
this is just to keep with the tone of the old epic musings. i kinda miss the emos... lol jks.
It’s basically a comic, a soliloquy with pictures, with the panels stuck onto this board thing with I’ve spray painted onto with the help of a little stencil thing. The stencil is of my father and I. I now smell like spray paint. I hyped up on progress, not to mention the whole getting up early thing. What early thing? Well, I have to get my CAS done, but I'm also sick of telling myself off for not doing anything physically active. As a result, I’ve made friends with my brother’s work person who’s quite nice. :D
yea. chill. like an iceblock.
I saw the sun rise this morning. I was sitting in an outrigger canoe and saw the light change the sky, touching the tops of the clouds and reflecting off the top of the ocean. It was beautiful. It woke me up and I went to school feeling alive and very much in need of a Just Juice. I picked up my favourite kind, Tropical, and went to class and got told by the year-teacher-person that I didn’t usually “glow” like I did this morning. I think I might’ve glowed a little more because of what she said. :D
omg crayon. CRAAAAYON.
So I'm very excited about the Scott Pilgrim movie. I want to see it at least 3 times. This is not like the Kickass “at least such and such times”. I aimed to see it more than once, but no one would go to the movie with me. I had a sad at the time. I guess I very much prefer the comics to the movie. Well, for Kickass anyway. I don’t know about Scott Pilgrim. I haven’t seen the movie yet… /sigh. I can’t wait to. Hmn… I’m getting close to the 400 words thing. I'm scared you’ll lose interest, dearest readers. So yes, fare thee well and hope you stick around. :D
teh end of the post <3
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Still no comics... but its okay!

Oh noes aimlessness!

Then the monkey was all "cheyeah I totally am going to own that thing you have thar"




