Moving On

Hello all twelve followers of this blog! It has been nearly a year since I have posted here and just wanted to give you the heads up that I've decided to try out wordpress and have been blogging there. Here's the link to the new blog if you wish to follow. Cheers and have a nice day!

http://sailorstale.wordpress.com/

Maureen Johnson

This is why she's my FAVOURITE!

Dream Job!

This job combines two of my great loves: scuba diving and Disneyland. If you could have ANY job in the world, what would it be?

Decorating

It may be from PBTeen, but this vanity is divine. I'm also rather fond of this chandelier and this revolving bookcase. My future apartment is going to be beautiful.

An Afternoon at SFMOMA

Today my dad and I took a trip into San Francisco to expose ourselves to some culture at the Museum of Modern Art. The entire day, I kept having strange flashbacks to past times in London when I was walking around the rainy city to a gallery for class. My dad would remark how something (i.e. the weather, BART, etc) was just like London. My only reply would be, "Yes, but not really." I do miss that city terribly.

Anyway, after getting a wee bit lost, we arrive at MOMA! I love walking into a place, seeing a painting, and thinking Huh, I'm pretty sure I've written an essay question on that.


Such was the case with our good friend Monsieur Matisse here. He's lucky I like his paintings so much or else I might hold a grudge. Of course we saw other like a Picasso, a Dali, a Pollock and many many others I didn't know and cannot come close to even trying to understand what their art was trying to say. With modern art I just assume it's questioning "What is art?" and leave it at that.

It was the day of Henris, apparently, for there was a special exhibit for the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. He is an absolutely spectacular photojournalist able to capture a moment perfectly through the lens of a camera. Please look up his photographs. They're absolutely breath-taking.

Oh, and what is this? Is this a Cartier-Bresson portrait of Henri Matisse?
It is! Well, look at that. We've come full circle. Is your mind blown? Well mine was in the gallery.
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After approximately three and a half hours of art gazing, we were in dire need of refreshment so we headed to the closest corner pub to grab a pint and reflect on the art we just saw . All in all, it was a fantastic bonding day between father and daughter.

Study Abroad

In the fall of 2009, the fall term of my senior year in college, I spent three months living (and studying, I suppose) in London. It was some of the best three months of my life and one of the things I regret is that I did not document my travels to the extent I would have like, apart from thousands of pictures.

I suppose in a way this is a good thing because I was actually out in the world doing things instead of cooped up somewhere writing about how I was at that somewhere... if that even makes sense. Anyways, I find myself now, looking back on my travels wanting to put my pictures and scrap bits of journal entries and ticket stubs into some kind of organized fashion.

So from time to time when I'm feeling reminiscent, I'll post pictures, video and lots of good memories from my three months as an "International Student."


This is my entire class and I love each of them to bits. Because there were so few of us, we really got to know each other very well, very quickly which made for an amazing experience. I'm looking forward to relieving all those experiences again through this blog.

Happy trails!

The Curse

There are no words to describe how much I love this song. It is a touching and equally chilling story of an archaeologist and mummy who fall in love. I only just discovered the official video for the song and I think it is haunting but in an absolutely fabulous way. Marionettes creep me out something awful but there is something sweet about the way the puppets look at each other while the song is telling us what they are talking about-almost as if they are communicating telepathically or through the power of LOVE.

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That is... until the end. Maybe not quite love...

wish

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Make a Wish!
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Rereading Book 7

"Tell me one last thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?
Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean this it is not real?"

-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, pg. 723

Second Star to the Right

Via Briberry's flickr. I'm a bit obsessed.

National Alaska Young Day

Appropriately, my Pizza John shirt came in the mail today - just in time to wear for National Alaska Young Day. I wasn't aware this was a thing until two days ago when John Green tweeted about it. I'm not exactly sure what one does to celebrate this occasion, so I'm posting my favorite song based on John Green's premiere novel:

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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

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You can go here to the facebook page to attend next year's INTERnational event!
Good night my lovelies!

Be the Best YOU!

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'"

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

My New Theme Song

Skyway Flyer - "Ready for Anything"

Dear Future Children,

If this were a real book, I would read it to you every night before bed.

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Inappropriate Start

Oh, the jokes me and my friend come up with while watching Disney movies... I swear, when we watch movies together we turn into twelve year old boys.

So, I thought this would be the perfect way to start off this blog! I've completely redesigned it and deleted all previous entries. It went back about three years and posting was spotty at best. Today I was remembering something a friend once told me. "With a great new year comes great responsibility." Wait, that's not it. No, what he said was that new year's is a time for new beginnings, to see yourself in a whole new light and to make the transformation you know is inside but have been putting off. I'm the queen of procrastination so it's easy for me.

I have a feeling that 2011 is going to be a fantastic year for me. I have no facts to back this up. I just feel it in my bones.

So to my few followers, I hope you enjoy the new direction this blog will be going... which is yet to be determined by yours truly.

Ta for now!