"Love"..... Well actually "Leaves"..... Specifically "Falling Leaves"..... But more to the point:..... "Love and Falling Leaves".

This would have to be the most inspiring photo.

I love Luis Gonzalez Palma





Also tell me what you think of this poem:

Once again they fall;

one by one by one

a curtain, a river of leaves

suited up in silence and in yellow.

Out in the garden

the swing trembles

no longer protected by a shade

or broken shadows.

But looking up now

through the bare limbs of recent loss

that once bestowed splendid dictation

I see the birds.

Weddings!!!

My Dad and Nicky's wedding was absolutely beautiful. [Kaitlyn: Hehe and so were we.]

Kaitlyn and I cannot really be bothered explaining the entire day with words because it would just take far too long and it would not even come close to conveying the pure exquisiteness of every single little thing, so here are some photos instead.

Wednesday the 24th ofJanuary

Beautiful Sunrise at 6.30am

Indie and Imogen (Nicky's nieces) getting ready in the morning

Walking along the beach

My Dad reading a poem about love

"With this ring I thee read"

My Dad being his usual oh so funny self.... Kaitlyn was not amused...

Cooling off

Walking back as it started to rain

Pretty Flowers on the cake

The End

Ciao

Love Alex

Pressure!

kelda is sitting next to me with her "marking schedule".... Apparently i have 0, oh wait now 3, points, because of the bad grammer and no CAPITAL letter [Edit Kelda: Note the use of the Asian Singular].

Alex: Apparently I've been spending too much time with Eric.... Moving on... Yeah well that's only because I only missed ONE capital letter, at the beginning of your name..... And I usually write my blogs in Word so i don't have to do the whole CAPITAL letter thing myself....

[Edit Kelda: Something random:]

Alex: O my God we look soooo bored.... By the way we're the Spice Girls: I'm Baby Spice, Char is Ginger Spice and Ju is Scary Spice.... We actually all look really slutty. Yes Kelda... Full Stop.... Ha and CAPITAL LETTERS.....

Hugs.... Apparently Kalda (yes she actually wants me to leave the typo in) loves me cos she makes me laugh.

This is going to a long post.


Have you been drinking? Asks Kelda

Haha! Laughs Alex

No seriously...? Exclaims Kelda

No reply

Laughter


This is Eric.

Hello Eric!!

He is wearing a bottle of stuff [Edit Kelda: Canterbury Cream] on his head and a halo that Kelda gave him for his birthday.

This is a contradiction.

Alcohol + Eric = Not angelic as one might think initially.


We have just decided that Laurence is cute [Edit Kelda: this is news to me...] Yeah whatever KALDA we all know you think he is..... And Laurence is just telling me he'll read it when he gets home so Kelda we have to make this extra special... And according to my phone I'm being 'inbred".... I swear I have no idea what it's talking about....

Anywho I'll wrap it up

"Sinners are much more fun"

So all you goody-to/two/too-shoes, be bad....

Love ya

Ali-Belly

A Time of Change

I’m so sorry Kelda. I was going to update but then I couldn’t be bothered. But I was feeling sooo guilty I went and ate some chocolate… Anyway I have been thinking and thinking since New Year’s Day about what my New Year’s Resolution is going to be and after much deliberation, I have finally found what I need to change about myself.

I am going to be nicer and be a better friend.

2006 was an interesting year full of ups and downs. I’m just hoping that this year will be better. It’s as simple as that.

Anywho I’m off to my mum’s with no computer so the next time I’ll update will be in February. By that stage I’ll be a step daughter. Wahoo. Finally everything is falling into place.

Ciao

Alex

December

Well, well, well…. I cannot believe I have not updated for 42 days (thanks Char, you’ve saved me from counting up the days myself)… I must admit, not updating is very naughty but not updating in December…. That is truly terrible! December is my month! The month of birthdays, of Christmas and of summer! So I shall tell you about all the exciting happenings that happened attributing to the fact that I had no time to update in my beloved December (well apart from now because it is in fact still December but it’s the end of the month so it doesn’t count)….

First of all…. Tum tiddly tum…. Exams… Yes exams…. I was one of those unlucky people who had exams in December and I am bitter about that. Instead of having one exam like my fantastically amazing Latin chums, I had two. Six hours of hell. First there was the Latin exam and I have to admit it actually wasn’t that bad, which was very surprising. I wrote too much on the Aeneid but hey I had too much to say…. The translation and comprehension didn’t make much sense but that’s ok… That’s what it’s like all the time. Plus I got to use my creative licence and the outcome is usually brilliant so fingers crossed…..

Secondly, the day that makes December so fabulous: My Birthday
Well for all of those who didn’t know (and those of you who do know), it was my birthday on the 19th of December…. And this is getting really boring so I’ll put it into a lovely concise format that goes like this:
It was sunny in the morning and quite possibly the hottest day all December, consisting of a nice 21C.
I got to spend it with some lovely people and they doted on me all day (unnecessary attention I think).
So yeah…

Then Christmas!!!! Another quite hot day, beautiful food and more lovely people…

Moving on to summer…. As I look out my window and marvel at the exquisite dash of red in the pohutukawa tree, I tell myself it is not summer. Because beyond those lovely crimson flowers there are grey clouds and surrounding the stunning scarlet is cool air. No sun and no warmth.

This is so uninspiring… O well I’ll see you guys in 2007!

Ciao xoxo

Ali-Belly

Why do people ask dumb questions?

That in itself is a dumb question... I mean come on! Everyone knows that it's because they're dumb... Which I take back entirely... They are not dumb, just.... intellectually challenged. Which I take back again because I just asked a dumb question before in asking why people ask dumb questions, so I'll start again.
People ask dumb questions because someone needs to... There are some things out there that we just never question, believing that we know the answer without even asking the question.

But seriously, dumb questions have challenged humankind since the inventor of the wheel asked: “So when are you going to add the corners?” And upon finding a groovy little book entitled “A little book of dumb questions”, in my father’s “Counselling and psychoanalysis research” Bookcase (which is a little weird… but then I figured out that perhaps while counselling, people ask him dumb questions, or that while researching he asks dumb questions and just keeps the book there for reference… But when I asked him, all he asked me was: “Are you the author of that book?” to which I replied: “Are you going to write a sequel?” We have funny conversations, my father and I.) I was thrown into a world of such beautifully succinct questions that pretty much summed up life on earth. Anyway… After reading the introduction that stated that a room full of monkeys wrote the book, I found myself getting quite excited, enthralled at the prospect of reading such an intelligent read… And despite them being pretty much the dumbest questions of all time, they were actually quite profound.

Here are some of my favourites:

1. If Barbie is so popular, why do we have to buy her friends?
2. If money is the root of all evil, why do churches want it so badly?
3. Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavour while washing up liquid is made with real lemons?
4. Can you imagine a world with no hypothetical situations?
5. If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?
6. If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a great height, what would happen?
7. Why are they called apartments if they’re stuck together?
8. If a person with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
9. If you try to fail, and succeed, which one have you done?
10. If the earth didn’t suck, would we fall off?
11. If olive oil comes from squeezing olives, how do they make baby oil?
12. When an agnostic dies, do they go to the “great perhaps”?
13. If you have a mid-life crisis while playing hide and seek, do you automatically lose because you can’t find yourself?
14. What’s the word for when you can’t remember the word?
15. Isn’t it worrying that doctors call what they do “practice”?
16. Hehe… Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
17. Whose cruel idea was it for the word ‘lisp’ to have an ‘s’ in it?
18. If a man talks in a forest and there’s no woman there to contradict him, is he still wrong?
19. If people from Poland are called Poles, then why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?
20. How deeper would the sea be without sponges?
21. If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?
22. If a tree falls in a forest and there’s no one there to hear it, do the other trees laugh?
23. Why isn’t phonetic spelt the way it sounds?
24. Do you realise how many holes there would be if people could be bothered to take the dirt out of them?
25. Are people more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s much easier to harass little old ladies than motorcycle gangs?
26. Should crematoriums give discounts for burns victims?
27. Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
28. What if the lid of a milk carton said: “Open somewhere else”?
29. Do radioactive cats have 18 lives?
30. If vampires can’t see their own reflections, why is their hair always so tidy?
31. Did God invent alcohol so ugly people can have sex too?
32. If the pen is mightier than a sword, and a picture is worth a thousand words, then how dangerous is a fax?
33. If everything is a part of a whole, what is a whole part of?
34. Can sexual harassment at work be a problem if you’re self-employed?
35. If beauty is only skin deep, do ugly people look attractive if you remove their skin?
36. If all generalisations are false, is this one true?

Oh dear… Some people are weird… I particularly like the 'pulling off people's skin to make them look beautiful' one... I should try that one time... On others not on me.... You should see some of the ones I didn't right on my blog... Some of them were quite crude!

Oooooooooo some food for thought... The Thought Police… Wouldn’t it be great if there was a department, a secret department, in the NZ police who could hear your thoughts… No… Absolutely not! That would be a breach of human rights… But wouldn’t it be cool if you yourself could hear other people’s thoughts?.. But of course it would have to be like in Harry Potter where you can also block invaders into your mind… But anyway you could hear what people are thinking and therefore restrict them or punish them for thinking what they're thinking... Like don't you just hate it when you're walking down the street and these random guys say: "Damn you're fine" and all you want to do is slap them in the face and ask them why the hell they thought that it would be beneficial to me to know that I was “fine”? I was fine until you opened your mouth matey… Some people just have no respect at all… But the good thing about being able to hear their thoughts is that you could stop them saying it before they opened their mouths… Plus the reason why they say things like that is because they are unable to have a proper conversation with females… O what fun… Although there are some people’s mind that I would not like to read…

Secondly, Family Guy… What is with that programme?! I don’t understand it at all… Apart from that it epitomises the stereotype of the typical American male: whiney, annoying and entirely crude… Oh and stupid… Almost forgot that one…

Wow this has been quite an anti-male post… I apologise…

Anyway I have got to go because I'm whipping out for my Monday summer hockey game, well the fact it's absolutely POURING down with rain and is freezing cold kind of defeats the purpose of the summer part so I shall see you later...

Ciao xxx

P.S. I hope you're at school tomorrow Char because I was lost without you!