And I'm back again

It's been over a year since my last post and a lot has happened since then; I've had all my ribs broken, I've taken my A levels, I've gotten tickets to my first proper festival and I've found a group of people with whom I belong-ish. And that's just the headlines. I will be posting something every week, because too much happens that I have an opinion for me to not blog about it. It's gone 11 here so I'll just sign off now and see you at the weekend with a few new posts. Goodnight

A riddle and a thought

Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man there's my father's son

Good and Bad are simply matters of perspective

Utopia

At the start of the summer, my family and I spent most of the day in Kew gardens and thinking back to it, I can honestly say I've felt more at peace in the japanese garden than I have anywhere else in a long time. It could've been any number of things, the neat, perfectly uniform lines in the gravel, the gently colling breeze that wafted through the trees to soften the glare of the sun or the infinitely beautiful carvings on the side of a tower that stretched up, like the wooden finger of a giant to mark the progress of the sun across the heavens.

I have no idea what it was, but I know Utopias exist out there, now it's just a case finding one and staying there.

bloody hell!

I can't think of anything to blog about! help!

How did nature come up with that!

I just had a bad night, and by that I mean I didn't sleep at all. This happens to me quite often ( for reasons I can't even begin to explain) and most of the time I just bury my face in a good book and sneak downstairs at a sensible time, but this night/morning, I lost track of time and only discovered it was 4:45am when I looked out my bedroom window and was met by one of the most beautiful sites I have seen in my 16 years on this earth. I saw the dark side of the moon half-outlined in silver and the shining north star, all set to the backdrop of faded pale blue and dusty yellow with infinitely fine layers of wispy clouds and the most peacful soundtrack of birdsong ever.

I have seen gorgeous sunsets in umpteen different countries on 2 continents, but this blew them all clear out of the water. If someone asked me who my favourite artist was, I sure as hell wouldn't choose the guy who painted himself in drag, or the other guy who cut his ear off, I would choose Mother Nature, every time. We Brits often complain about who crap the weahter is in this country, what with it raining all the time and so on, but I challenge any human being to see what I can right now , and not be impressed by it.

Bugger, the battery on my camera's gone flat.

The Coursework rant

I'm gonna get straight to it, coursework is so completely pointless and evil it could only have been designed by Satan himself. You're given a vague objective at best, to write to a mark scheme that no-one seems to actually have a concrete idea of, you're ordered to come out with a masterpiece that puts people 40 years older than you to shame. You also have no choice but to keep writing, even if someone close to you has died (guess which poems we were studying when that happened, see "Death never really heals")! The sheer quantity is also what really annoys me about coursework, for ICT we were supposed to hand in a stack of A4 paper at least 5cm thick, it doesn't sound like much, but think of how thick an A4 piece of paer is and you start to realise just how big an amount it is. The deadlines are also set 3 weeks before they should be, just so the teachers can have a cup of tea or a cigarette between pieces of coursework, for the ICT coursework, the night before the deadline, I only got an hour and a half of sleep, by accident! and had to spend the rest of the night and most of the morning slouched over my computer trying to cram 6 months of work into 6 hours. This brings me onto my next point, that coursework is handed out with little or no regard to other subjects, or even the following homeworks that that teacher will also hand out.

Hopefully, after reading this, you will agree that coursework should be abolished completely, in order to save the sanity and health of future generations.

Bring the Rain

Most people like sunshine, but me, I prefer being out in the rain. Most people will hurry up what they're doing or walk under some shelter, I'll actually slow down and savour the feeling of the rain on my skin, washing away my troubles ( and of course that name ) even if it's just for a moment. Don't get me wrong, I'll be off home like a gunshot if I get soaked down to the bone, but when it's a drizzle just cooling you down rather than drowning you, the feeling I get is part of what gets me through the year, that and my Playstation 3 ( where that has only been mentioned once ). Sorry it's taken me so long to make another post, but my computer spazzed up completely and I'm currently typing away on my new laptop (huzzah!) which my 16th birthday present from my parents ( they aren't as sweet as they are on TV, it turns out). Will come up with my Coursework ranting post soon.