Online Writers Block (Nuclear Powered)

שלום guys,

As I sit at my laptop with my cup of tea by my side and a post in need of writing, I am faced with the sudden realisation: what in the name of Charles Dickens will I write about?
I could write another post about some random misadventure that happened to me this week (surprisingly nothing too exciting) and the lesson I learnt from it, but that's too passe.

I could discuss a newsworthy article, but the most popular headlines on Google News include stuff like "Hope and dismay amongst Catholics at pope's resignation" and "Kevin Rudd moves into poll position", and no one's really interested in some teenage nerd's opinion on a religious bloke in a hat and an Australian politician my opinion on politics and religion. Because those are stories for another day.

I could write about my life, but this blog needs to go beyond my life and look at the world outside it's homepage. I could write a rant on why life sucks, but emos are depressing. I could write about the novel I'm writing, but what's the point in writing about something that's incomplete?
So I've selected a random topic from Random Topic Generator (http://www.blogtap.net/blogtopicgenerator/) and this post will hopefully be about nuclear bombs.

Nuclear bombs are probably one of the most well known weapons in today's society, other than guns and swords. As a child, if you ever played war games, owning a nuke or two (it was either a football or a big rock) meant you won the 'war' by default. It was cheating, but no one dared complain lest you threw the 'nuke' at their head.

But child warfare aside, they are quite intense weapons, having only ever been used in military combat twice; in World War II by America on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After the war, the USSR and the US reached a peak state of miliatary tension known as The Cold War, in which there was an ever present threat of nuclear warfare from both nations.

So really, they are more than just the pile of footballs on the playground. They are heavy duty weapons that no one should really think of using. The consequences of using nuclear weapons are quite severe and can leave areas uninhabitable for years (look at Chernobyl and those nuclear test sites). Do we really want to promote the idea that wars can be won with a couple of 7 megaton bombs? No. That promotes global destruction and we're already doing that enough as it is, what with deforestation, the acknowledged slaughter of endangered and protected species, the sale of products made from those same animals, the incling numbers of pollution levels........

I'm ranting about environmental issues now. But can you see that the world isn't as clean and glorious as we'd like to think it is? Whilst few areas remain untouched by man, everything else has been impacted with an almighty footprint.
We can pursue further advances in technology and civilisation and we can aim to make humanity the greatest it has been. But doing so can only result in the desecration of what little natural environment we have.

So there you have it, a blog post that makes no sense at all, but will hopefully leave you thinking about how wonderfully complicated this world is; this beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable, natural world (from the wise man Tim Minchin). If you have any further comments on football nukes, environmental issues, Charles Dickens or anything else in the universe, they would be appreciated, just leave them below.

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 until the next post, Vivmarie1407

 

We conquer YouTube.....

Bonjour guys,

I'm sorry for the delay in the publishing of this post. I've been busy with studying, musical rehearsals, clarinet practice and fighting Vikings.

About two weeks ago, I suggested to my dear friend and fellow blogger, Conquistador, that we do something incredible this year. Something we wouldn't normally do at all.....
Make a documentary about our trip to Sydney for the 2013 Colour Conference!!!!
She instantly accepted and we began to plan what we'd do.

For those of you who don't know what Colour Conference is, it's a yearly women's conference that's been happening since 1997, which was at first limited to Sydney, but this year it's been hosted in London, Cape Town and Kiev by many guest speakers.
It's a gathering of women aiming to make a difference in the world and spread a message of peace, light and love. It's inspirational and it takes time out of school; I signed up instantly.

 Just to give you all the briefest possible rundown on what we're going to do, we're going to, in no particular order:

• Travel to Sydney with some other girls
• Attend the conference and hear inspirational women give speeches
• Get up to various misadventures in Australia's most famous city
• Film the whole thing, edit it and upload to YouTube for the world to see

I personally cannot wait until March now. For months I've been making an impact on the internet using only words. Now I have the chance to make an impact with video, and the aftermath will be fascinating.

You can watch the introduction/promotion video here at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S6Lun2n64A.

I hope you guys are excited about the eventual release of the Colour Conference videos. If you're actually going to the conference, have any comments on the video or would like to protest against the violence against Vikings, please let me know in the comments below.

Au revoir, Vivmarie1407

To Kill A Dramatic Expectation

Ciao guys,

Does anyone get the feeling that life is more interesting inside our heads? That situations could end in an infinite number of ways, that expectations could be lived up to 100%? Or is that just me?

When I allow my sudden creativity to be exposed to pen+paper or keyboard, I either think "this is just pure genius" or "what in the name of chai tea have I done?" Every innermost thought is the same; every urge to say something I want to, is fortunately controlled by the dictator known as The Inner Voice Of Reason. Sometimes it's right to listen to it and it saves you from turning into a social lemon, but sometimes it's wrong and you become a social tomato.

Before I proceed with my post, I would just like to mention the definitions of social lemon and social tomato:
Social Lemon: a person who is prone to moments of social awkwardness and stupidity at the wrong times. Usually accepted back into society after apologising. These people are classified as social lemons because they are 100% adored by insane yet wonderful people and seen as odd by everyone else.

Social Tomato: a person who surpasses the Social Lemon in stupidity and awkwardness, hence the reason why no social tomatoes have a social life. These people are classified as social tomatoes due to the reason that the common tomato may be seen as a fruit, many know it to be a closet vegetable but cannot find concrete evidence to support this. Therefore they don't fit in as a fruit or vegetable and social tomatoes don't fit in as a person or a lifeform.

So weird new words aside, I've had many high expectations of everyone else in my life for years now. And it has always been upsetting when my expectations of things are never lived up to. And for all I know, it's the same with everyone else.

So don't expect a unicorn when you might just be getting a horse. Don't expect the ocean when you're destined to get a river. Because you'll be let down and it will hurt. You might not even like the idea of being stuck with a horse and you might think you'll never love that river like you would an ocean.
But this is why you learn to be grateful for stuff. And if you still find it hard accepting a not-quite bitter reality, give it time. You'll learn to appreciate the full beauty of that river.

In other news, I have taken up playing the clarinet again and I'm reading the literary classic 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. Even though I had heard nothing but praise for it, I was expecting it to be a pebble of a book, but truth be told, it's solid gold!! a very good book and I'm only up to Chapter 9. As an avid supporter of good literature, I would recommend it to anybody in need of something to read a book to pass the time.

Now one more topic of interest before I succumb to sleep: the gay marriage legislation in the United Kingdom.

If the votes are successful, the UK will become one of few countries that legalise gay marriage. If not, it remains the same. This week, I'm bringing in a survey poll and it would be beyond remarkable if you responded! I would also love to know your honest opinions on the whole gay marriage debacle. Remember:

1. I won't condone arguing or offensive comments
2. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, try to see it and understand the point they're trying to make.

So goodnight my wonderful readers, and thank you all for believing in my weirdness!

Vivmarie1407