Okay, it's still the day after the last post - even though I'm a tad late - so here goes:
New years is approaching, and for the first time in my life I'm thinking of making some new years promises. Here they are in order of difficulty:
3: Sugar and caffeine only one day per week (honey and decaf the others)
2: Some sort of exercise at least two times per week - three times if I don't have a good excuse
1: I shall meet up 10 minutes early for every appointment I make and spend the time waiting going through arabic or german flash cards
I am publishing these in order to amass the necessary social pressure for actually managing to go through with them. Anyway, those are the easy ones - there's also the issue of having my business succeede (www.fortelle.no - tell all your rich friends) and stuff of that kind - but I don't feel they fit the spirit of new years promising.
To the end of having my business succeed, and for making flashcards more enjoyable - I've been learning arabic calligraphy. The kind I'm learning is called diwani and is probably one of the more popular ones for logos and headlines and such. Some examples:
My name, written by my teacher, just to show how it's done:
A couple of words I wrote:
And then my favorite letter in this kind of calligraphy, the Kaf. Sorry about the bad image quality:
I've also, for no good reason really, been learning 3D modelling, using the free open source program blender (that's a link). This is the best I've done so far:
Bringing me to promise four: do some none-cutesy art. Less puppies and children, more guns and gore. At some point I'll have to draw a picture of the pope - wielding two flying v guitars and being flanked by barely dressed women armed with.. either battle axes or oversized sci-fi guns. Humanity needs this!
Speaking of humanities needs: new years promises are unfortunately jokingly refered to as fragile - and because of this, the true new years promise is becoming a thing of the past - one of those great things that people used to do in the old days. Like being polite, wanting to be a scientist when you grow up or wearing a hat.
In the last words of this post, I'll lift my cup of tea while typing (disregarding the risk!) - me keeping those promises won't merely be for my own well being, it will be striking a blow for all great things lost - and here's to that.
New years is approaching, and for the first time in my life I'm thinking of making some new years promises. Here they are in order of difficulty:
3: Sugar and caffeine only one day per week (honey and decaf the others)
2: Some sort of exercise at least two times per week - three times if I don't have a good excuse
1: I shall meet up 10 minutes early for every appointment I make and spend the time waiting going through arabic or german flash cards
I am publishing these in order to amass the necessary social pressure for actually managing to go through with them. Anyway, those are the easy ones - there's also the issue of having my business succeede (www.fortelle.no - tell all your rich friends) and stuff of that kind - but I don't feel they fit the spirit of new years promising.
To the end of having my business succeed, and for making flashcards more enjoyable - I've been learning arabic calligraphy. The kind I'm learning is called diwani and is probably one of the more popular ones for logos and headlines and such. Some examples:
My name, written by my teacher, just to show how it's done:
A couple of words I wrote:
And then my favorite letter in this kind of calligraphy, the Kaf. Sorry about the bad image quality:
I've also, for no good reason really, been learning 3D modelling, using the free open source program blender (that's a link). This is the best I've done so far:
Bringing me to promise four: do some none-cutesy art. Less puppies and children, more guns and gore. At some point I'll have to draw a picture of the pope - wielding two flying v guitars and being flanked by barely dressed women armed with.. either battle axes or oversized sci-fi guns. Humanity needs this!
Speaking of humanities needs: new years promises are unfortunately jokingly refered to as fragile - and because of this, the true new years promise is becoming a thing of the past - one of those great things that people used to do in the old days. Like being polite, wanting to be a scientist when you grow up or wearing a hat.
In the last words of this post, I'll lift my cup of tea while typing (disregarding the risk!) - me keeping those promises won't merely be for my own well being, it will be striking a blow for all great things lost - and here's to that.
posted by Christer at 11:33 AM
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