In Randomness, I find...

Patterns!?

Someone recently asked me...do you find your life is like a movie? Yes! A Resounding Yes.

My Life...Has always been Very, Very Strange.

Full of the most odd coincidences and synchronicities and I seem to just...Attract Randomness! What does it all MEAN? I keep asking. But unfortunately nobody can just tell me...there are things you just need to work out for yourself. Maybe I am a conspiracy theorist but really my life IS very strange and I feel that within all of it there is some deep and meaningful Universe moving revelation in there somewhere which until I alone can work it out, will just be One Big Question Mark! It's like I'm a rat scampering many hidden passageways and opening hidden panels looking for a tiny golden key in a dark and cobblestoned grey crevice of My Castle.

So the latest weirdness was that I very randomly encountered three new random people this week...who have rather unusual names...the most interesting part being that I already only know exactly one set of people with these three same unusual names, if I pair each set of same unusual named people up...does it make any more sense? No! Can it be mere uncanny coincidence for the zillionth time or is there something The Universe is trying to draw my attention to?

I'm too puzzled. My head hurts. And I'm Tired, all of this constant overstimulation in addition to my usual hectic zillion things on the go, can just get a little overwhelming...

It's kinda Sad.

I Love to play Lawn Bowls.

I Love Swimming at Night.

I Love Board Games.

I Love Trivia.

I Love Music, like REALLY love.

I Like to Look at Art.

I Like Quirky films.

I LOVE Nature, I THRIVE on Wide Open Spaces with Clean Air.

I Love Fresh Organic Produce and would go 200km just to try a specialty food.

I Love People Watching, Psychology and Astrology(yes they go hand in hand).

And okay, it's nerdy but I kinda like chess, or at least want to be GOOD at it.

But NOBODY I know likes or wants to do these things!

So I conclude...

Obviously, I know all the WRONG people!!!

....Where can I find *Fun Fun* people like ME? (Probably cooped up at home blogging also ;)

An aside, Super "Social" Day for me...I had 3 people come to my place...wow, wonder what planet I woke up on today?!!

Highlights: Giving someone my first Vasovagal Reaction and Night Swimming in Ocean ;)

The Re-Formation of "Art"

When does art become "Art"?

So, what happens when you take an untalented punk that can't draw anything for sh*t and give her two different sized brushes (so cheap the hairs come off and stick to the canvas),a few tubes of paint and mini sheets of canvas?

...Exploration of Line, Texture and Colour!

Which is what I did.

Nothing Spectacular.

HOWEVER. This morning I cut the six dried panels to size, arranged them onto some white paper and housed the lot into a black frame....wow, although it was only meant to be a "prototype" and very amateur, Reformatted and presented it looks pretty darn *spiffy*...I like how on a wide angle view it enlivens a white wall and on the eye level there is enough interest in the textures, lines etc enough to warrant a closer look.

Whatever the case, I reckon it makes good living room/office wall decoration and people might actually buy it for $150(but I'd only sell it for $250...maybe).

ANYHOW, for 2.5 hours of labour, not a whole lot of skill and minimally expensive resources...that makes me One Happy Camper! :) Now my very sad Living room looks slightly more funky, and it's so easy to do! I can make another one later for my office/treatment space - yay! :)

I have a good feeling this is the year my creativity comes back. Hopefully, this was just the humble prologue to much bigger and more impressive and beautiful things...

This Blog's Closest Brush with "Art" :p

Once upon a time, when I was but a wee child, before I had been Completely Indoctrinated by the Asian Parent System, I loved to create (and was recognised as somewhat 'talented')...to the extent that I even had a dedicated painting smock- well actually it was a beige white and brown striped collared shirt probably from an Op Shop and not unlike some old man's daggy pyjama top.

That was a long time ago.

After an extremely long absence, I found myself picking up paints and brushes again tonight... I didn't exactly create anything spectacular but rather, tentatively played with the medium like so...

...remembering why it was never a favourite medium! Especially Cos check out the Spectacular MESS it leaves behind which I have noone to clean up for me instead of me :P

Not to mention it's DIRTY:

And I feel incredibly sick-nauseous and headachey- now...from those supposedly "non toxic" fumes...

:-(

Apart from that, I leave you with more pics: a funny sms exchange with my b'day twin who despite being Very Young age-wise still identifies as one of the relatively more mature souls of The Universe...

Apologies for the cynicism (and the "Sic") but, hey...REALITY...Can you BLAME us?

We're...IDEALISTS!!! :-p

Grateful for the Rainy Reprieve

I am such a water baby- rain doesn't bother me much, especially when the temperature is always so high anyway! Thursday night I was pretty wet from swimming and still I walked umbrella less in the rain so by the time I arrived at a restaurant I was sopping wet and had to pull out my chamois towel to catch my dripping hair!

In any case although I did miss an art exhibition I had wanted to catch I got a very luxurious opportunity to just lie on the couch and start on the big collection of DVDs I've borrowed off a mate.

The film I saw was THE READER which I really liked...but then again, I do have an almost perverted interest in any stories to do with Nazi Germany and Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes are even more cool than normal in German mode, lol....I'm not the only one though...my Italian penpal is researching and writing an entire novel set during this time! It sounds quite Dan Brown or Matthew Reilly-esque so far except it's based on true events...

Musically I've been really into BLONDE REDHEAD specifically the sound of Kazu Makino's alien like voice.

Food wise I'm still stuffing my face with dark chocolate infused with berry bits.

I've been enjoying shutting off from the tangible world and going into my cave...during the week exposed to "normal modern city society" it's kind of...insane! I need a peaceful weekend as counterbalance.

My mother called me a loner the other day. And my aunty tried to get me to go to her church where there are lots of people "my age"...I politely declined. LOL. I really don't find much common ground with people my age I'd rather spend my spare time talking to golden oldies or at least the people who are also old inside and not just look it outside. Call me a snob, lol.

Currently, I am debating whether to attempt to fill an empty canvas. Even if I want to break out in paints, I have absolutely no idea what to scrawl...I actually was considering even buying a large mirror and doing a glass mosaic frame since my living room is embarrassingly Spartan white walls with not an ounce of inspiration, spirit or creativity, unless you count my childlike coloured-in mandalas hastily posted randomly with bluetack...