If you are reading this right now, like right NOW, you may have noticed that this post is being published while not finished. That's because.... *drumroll* ...... It's LIVE!
Just like the title says. >.>
Now, this would be a lot more interesting if people actually saw this while I'm posting and writing, so this is a telepathic message to all you people to READ THE BLOG. NOW.
...Yeah, okay, the main reason I'm doing this is because I'm bored. Like, really really bored. And I wanted to write a post, but I didn't have time to write something well planned out. Such as the second chapter of Elephants. (=.=) I supposed I'll have to post it after the weekend, then. *sigh...*
Let's see, something to talk about... Oh, right. Hallowe'en. I'm not trick or treating this year, as you can probably tell. I supposed this is around the age at which people stop going trick or treating. I went last year, as the paper bag princess, but I didn't go there year before that. And this year, I'm not doing anything. I suppose I look dressed up, though. I spent all of this afternoon painting my hydra/griffin sculpture for art, and I'm covered with paint. I even have some on my eyelashes. And I have an apron. Plus paintbrushes. So I look pretty artsy. : )
My hands haven't been clean for three days now. Today, it's just paint, but on Friday, there was glue and flour paste, and everything. Some newspaper, but that came off pretty much right away. Speaking of which, I went back to Tyrrell on Friday, and J. (sorry, I forgot his last name. ) commented on how my hands were never clean. Well, it's not my fault he always catches me on Day 1 afternoons.
Actually, going to Tyrrell was an impromptu thing. We met a bunch of DMCI's, and a few of them [Eddie, Hay, C.C. V.L, and SingYu] were planning to talk to our old principal for something, and I decided to tag along.We spent an hour? an hour and a half? there. Most of the time was spent on parkour.
Eddie wanted to learn some parkour skills, so we went around the back and SingYu started teaching us rolls. So, parkour, really isn't my kind of thing, [Read: I failed at rolling.] but it was probably worse for Eddie, because she's left handed, and all of us were right handed. After that, we moved to the front to try vaulting over the bicycle rack. See, the thing about parkour is that a lot of it is your mentality. You can't hesitate, or it'll throw off your timing. You have to believe you can do it, otherwise your body doesn't cooperate. And often times, you're physically capable of doing something, but you're to scared to try.
Case in point: vaulting. It's one of the easier maneuvers in parkour (or so I hear, since I really don't know anything about it), but it involves more guts than, say, a roll. To get started, that is. Kind of like handstands. There really is no easy way to do it. The bicycle rack is lower than waist level, so theoretically it's really easy to get over.
It took me a few minutes to convince myself I was able to get over it. Because, let's face it, watching someone else vault over something and attempting it yourself are very different. Once you start, though, it's really easy.
After a few vaults on the bicycle rack, I was confident enough to try the yellow gate blocker thingy. This came up to about waist height, which was "the perfect height for vaults." It also seemed a lot more daunting than the bicycle rack. I took a few practice jumps and a few minutes to work myself into it.
The thing about vaulting, is that while you're in mid air, and actually jumping over, you feel fine. It's easy. The hard part is right before you jump, because you can't hesitate. Another funny thing is that when you fall (yes, I did fall. Once.), you're not scared either. You kind of know that you're not going to land properly, and you have enough time to think "oops" and then put out your hands to brace yourself. And, yes, I did actually land another vault after falling.
So, all in all, Friday well spent. : )
Kay, it's already 10:00 now, so I'm going to stop writing. I feel like I haven't really covered everything I wanted to because I kept getting distracted, so I have these ideas floating around that I want to write about. That, and the second chapter of Elephants. It's almost all thought out, except I haven't typed anything yet. I have bits in my agenda. I wish I had more time. To do, like, everything. This was a really productive weekend (art, blog posts, geo) but I still didn't get around to everything that I wanted to. And I didn't even have that much homework.
Oh well. I should try more of these "live" things later on. Hopefully when people actually read them. Maybe even collaborative ones? Just some food for thought.
~Yaning
