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Philip Pullman is from Norwich

Sunday, October 10th, 2010 by Kiyu

PHILIP PULLMAN, the most talented and well spoken man on earth, my literary tutor if I could have him and my storytelling hero, was actually born in Norwich — where I live right now! How this piece of information could possibly elude me, I cannot fathom!

Tags: books, Literature, philip, pullman
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First week in MPharm Year 2

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 by Kiyu

I’m back in track in England have settled down nicely in my new flat. I still live on campus due to some very unforeseen last minute decisions last year, but I’m not complainging — I’m still close to everything and campus life in England is a very social one. The photo above shows the dressing corner of my room. I have a wardrobe, but I’ve always been fond of clothes racks to showcase your more original/pretty pieces of clothing. I reckon anyone interested in designing would benefit from having a rack instead of a drawer or a normal wardrobe! The long white garment at the front there is actually my ball gown from last year’s pharmacy ball :) I’ve met the new pharmacy freshers and they all looked a bit scared and overwhelmed. Hah, feels like it was only a month ago that I was a fresher myself! Oh well, I already have quite a bit of work to do only 3 days into the new year, but I’m a second year student now so I guess they expect us to work for a change.

I went to London on Friday to see some friends of mine I’ve been meaning to see for a full year now but never got around to. I saw this guy in Trafalgar Square and was so intrigued by it that I asked him to hold up the signs for me so that I could snap a photo. He refused and said he would do it on one condition: if I agreed to do what the sign said. I reluctantly did my bit by letting them take photo of me holding one of their signs, and there is now a slight possibility that I will be in their music video for their debute single on 4th October. Should be exciting.


It was SocMart yesterday, which means all the societies at my university set up stalls to try to convince you to join their society. I managed to join about 6 societies – Literature, Creative Writing, Hong Kong (I’m in the committee, actually), Pharmacy, Coctail and South-East-Asian. I also signed up for Ladies Society (female equivalent to a Gentleman’s Club, you know those posh ones you sometimes see in England) and Glee society, but I’m not entirely sure how I am going to juggle all this in addition to my studies. Sportsmart commences today as well, which is when all the sports club set up stalls and I might rejoin archery this year. I’m not sure. I wish there were 48 hrs in a day.

In any case, I just realized I forgot to tell you that I am the Creative Director in Hong Kong Society this year. My job is to do all the designing bit for logo, membership cards, business cards, tshirts and hoodies, leaflets, brochures etc. Basically anything that needs designing! Am I enjoying doing something creative again? Hell yes I am!

Tags: colour, creative, cws, England, films, hksoc, Hong, Kong, Literature, litsoc, London, music, of, pharmacy, societies, society, socmart, sportsmart, UEA, UK, video, writing
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Go! Little Novelist, Go! (Rualyn)

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 by Kiyu

Preface.

Something was wrong.

Something was awfully wrong.

An omnious aura crept over the smooth surface, glacing the already perfectly clear marble. Instinctively she crouched against the dark material, hunching her shoulders together to make herself smaller and invisible to a threat her instincts told her was coming.

Without making any more noise than a lithé mouse would, she extended her un-broken left hand and let it wander searchingly over the polished pillar. She could feel no dents nor any damages left by the course of time under her probing fingertips, but there was a determined rush to her hand that said she knew she was going to find something. A few feet away from her it came to a halt, and she budged her tender fingers slightly.

Nothing happened.

She pushed again, this time applying more pressure than she thought necessary. But to her radiating fear and frustration, the only difference she could tell was her own blood roaming with increased speed in her feeble veins.

It felt wrong. Just too awfully wrong. She shouldn’t have to find it, not until all hopes were forcefully ripped away from her and she no longer was in any power to keep her promise.

No, she frowned. Not a promise. An oath.

She was only warned by a wheezing sound accelarating at an alarming speed towards her before something at the size of a little child rammed into her. Unable to catch her breath and react, she was sent crashing into the next marble pillar with a thundering sound.

The pillar shattered into the floor in huge pieces, the cascading sound of the falling rocks echoing powerfully in the room.

Before she could think of a counter-attack, great silver light errupted from the ruins of the pillar she lay sprawled in.

She lifted her good arm feebly and let the silver touch her mark.

Did I make it?

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Tags: Literature, litteratur, novel, preface, Rualyn, written
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Mildly say – I’m quite surprised

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by Kiyu

Woah.

I’m.. surprised. No, that’s underexaggerating it. I’m.. shocked? I don’t know.
Remember half of the Essay om kjærlighet essay that I posted two weeks ago? I was very happy with it at first, but then I started to wager. What if..?
There’s always a ‘what if’ somewhere.

School started today, and my first period was Norwegian. I knew I would get my essay back, and so I wasn’t too eager to get a look at my grade with all the depressing thoughts that had occoured to me lately. Thankfully my teacher didn’t hand them out at once, she first had a few words to say to us. She was mildly surprised and quite content that we were doing this good with this essay genre compared to the previous more normal ones. I’m not surprised, an essay is a more philosophical and reflecting text. I’d much rather write this than a boring article.
She wanted to read a few of the remarking ones that stood out, out loud for us before she handed the essays back, so we settled ourselves as comfortable as possible in our hard chairs and waited patiently for her to start.
She was silent for a bit, surely to consider how to best start it off, and then her overly dramatic voice echoed in the room.

“If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They’ll remain a part of each other’s lives no matter what.”

That’s when I started to laugh.

Both because the sudden realization dawned on me, and because her English pronouncing was.. well, not the best one I’ve heard. Certainly not from a teacher. (But her German is remarkable, though!) But I really shouldn’t have laughed though. All my classmates’ heads turned in my direction, and by the look they gave me, I realized that I had given myself away.
When my teacher had finished reading the more than two pages long essay, she paused again and the classroom went silent as if in after thought. Suddenly an applause boomed out of nowhere, and I was so taken aback that I started yelling “What the hell!” while I laughed again.
I really laugh too much, and certainly also at the most weird times. *chuckles*

She then started to talk about the traits of the essay, the techniques and style that was present in the essay to explain to us how it made the essay great. She then followed with two more essays, both of them impressive in their own way. One of them was Elisabeth’s. Why was I not surprised? I recognized it by the kåseri-ish style and the great language that is so very Elisabeth.

We both got a 6 on our essays. I was quite taken aback by mine. Very much so. BUT OH SO VERY HAPPY :D *grins* I will post the full-length, final edition of the essay later today if you wish to read it The final edition is up, you can access it through here.

I feel very very content today! I feel like I’ve succeeding in so much, because I found a way to keep myself awake in physics class aswell. I doodle! I think physics class will be very productive from now on. Reflecting over thoughts and ideas in class? Checked. Doodling in my physics book during class? Checked. No more sleeping and therefore no pooking from Snorre? Definitely checked. Still get the stuff the teacher is preaching about even though my focus is somewhere far away? Checked.
Yes, I absolutely like this! Ahh, well. I guess I’ll have to show you today’s product from physics class. Just click it, will ya?

I also found out today that Elisabeth is reading Twilight aswell. She’s going to start on New Moon, the second book now that it has arrived though. I think I will lend her my Eclipse if she wants to borrow it :3
Alice, oh Alice. I would have sworn I was your twin when you were still a human if only we weren’t born in a complete different era. Time for some fanart of my second favorite Cullen!

Listening to: Rikki – Suteki Da Ne
Reading: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Am. fantasy/romance)
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Tags: 6, alice cullen, Art, bella, cullen, cullens, eclipse, essay, essay om kjærlighet, Literature, slumber party, twilight, writing
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Høsten – en mangefarget dans

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 by Kiyu

En vanligvis travel gate står stille og våt en klar dag i oktober. Små og fargeglade gummistøvler gnukker mot fuktig asfalt en tidlig morgen, samtidig som skinnskoene til travle forretningsmenn- og kvinner får en heller mindre behagelig behandling der eierne utenksomt klakker høylytt av sted på vei mot møter og intervjuer.

Trærne står majestetiske ikledd kapper av rødt, oransje og gult der de svaier svakt i takt med den sterke brisen. Solen prøver for harde livet å strekke sine varmende hender ned til oss fortsatt intetanende mennesker som hutrer oss for den gustne vinden, men har hittil gjort en fantastisk dårlig jobb.
Rødt og gult virvler om hverandre i et forrykende tempo, når et vindkast uten forvarsel tar tak. De mangefargede flakene som stiger til værs mens de tar seg et par svinger før de virvler elegant ned og forbi oss. Kanskje setter det seg også et pent lite blad fast i håret ditt der det prøver å komme forbi deg.
Det er en vakker dans som skal holde på i et tidsspann som skal spenne over hele to måneder til fryd og skue for allmennheten. Det fine med denne siste akten på forestillingen, er at den kommer tilbake igjen år etter år. Og det beste med det hele? Den er helt kostnadsfri.

Høsten er stadiet hvor liv visner hen og går i dvale fram til den spirende våren. Det er stadiet hvor den udefinerbare overgangen mellom levende lys og stummende mørke holder til.
Når frosten kommer krypende bortover gressplenen på senhøsten og storparten av det kryende dyre- og plantelivet har gått til dvale, pakker vi frem tepper og pledd fra støvete skap og kabinett for så å krølle oss opp med en god bok og en kopp rykende varm kakao. Dagslyset begynner å minke for hver dag som går, og nettene blir bare lengre og lengre. Vi legger oss i stummende mørke og står opp neste morgen til et like stummende mørke.
Og en gang i slutten av oktober får vi atter igjen oppleve Amerikas store innflytelse på oss bleke nordmenn, denne gang i form av skikken å feire Halloween. Bedårende unger i grufulle kostymer trapper opp utenfor døren vår etter å ha fart rundt i natteluften på godterijakt. Om vi gir dem noe godt å knaske på eller ikke, er opp til oss selv. Dog, om vi nekter kan vi bli utsatt for et par mindre behagelige overraskelser i form av en noe mindre tradisjonell eggedosis på vår eiendom.

For mange er høsten en trist, mørk og våt tid, for andre er det en vakker tid fylt til randen av fascinerende farger og nyanser. For undertegnede er det en blanding av begge disse kontrastene. Men først og fremst er det en tid hvor kreativiteten får et stort spillerom. Det er en tid hvor den kreative sjelen virkelig får utfolde seg og slå seg løs.
Når det klare lyset spiller frem mellom rødtonede kastanjeblader og elvebredden er oversvømt av et oransje hav som står i kontrast med det asurblå vannet, er det på tide å ta frem utstyret og sette i gang. Å fange et forunderlig øyeblikk til forevigelse er noe alle burde prøve seg på.
En veldig fin følelse får du av å gå langs sentrumsgatene blant løvtrærne når vinden blåser friskt. Er du heldig, opplever du kanskje den praktfulle dansen som får deg til å stoppe opp og kikke opp i lufta i forundring. Et lite smil brer seg om leppene dine mens du undrer på om du får se det igjen.

Nettopp det fargesprakende løvfallet er hva som gjør at mange trykker høsten til sitt hjerte og omfavner det hvert eneste år med fryd og forundring.
Høsten er en tid for avslutning, en tid hvor det sprudlende tar farvel og blir erstattet med det uskyldige og kalde. Naturen vil nødig gå sin vei anonymt og glemt når den skal vike til fordel for den kalde snøen. Dermed eksploderer den i et fargespekter bestående av rødgule toner for at vi skal stoppe opp og beundre den en siste gang før den gir seg. En beundringsverdig finale til den siste akten på forestillingen før teppet faller.

Den guloransje prakten som pryder våre gater og skogholt i disse tider, er løvtrærnes egen måte å si takk for seg på.

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