Greetings from your uninspired sensei

Today I sat on a blue spinny chair in deep meditation for a long time hoping to begin the carousel like a firework show but my ideas were blander than baby formula. Guess that's what happens when the sky looks like a giant grey sheep.

I'm Harris. My name is not Beyonce. I'm not so tall, but in compensation I DO own a very sweet rubber bracelet shaped like a hippopotamus. I like coffee, owls, the sky and stars, instant noodles, reading and my nintendo DS. I'm a writer. No, I don't have any qualifications.

I hope you had a gleeful new year.
Can you believe it's 2011 already? I used to love the number eleven until the september I was in year six and did not receive my Hogwarts acceptance letter...in which followed several years of bitter mourning.
ANYWAY, like ten billion other people (ignoring for now the fact that there are apparently only six billion people on the planet) I find myself in that shocked bucket of thought, trying to desparately grasp the concept that it will never, ever be the year twenty ten ever again. Ever. It's almost sad; though I'm yayed at the thought of a fresh start! It smells good; like blank notebooks ready to be turned into skilful origami. Though I really have to stop writing '2010' whenever I date things.

This time, rather than make a bunch of new years' resolutions I'm bound not to keep, I've decided to create a to-do list. Beware foul monsters of boredom. You shall not pass this year!
Things to do before the deadly deadline of 11:59:59pm December 31st 2011:
[ ] climb a big tree and carve something on it
[ ] ride a blue bike with yellow stars
[ ] leave the house in a batman costume
[ ] paint a painting
[x] send a letter
[ ] record my European wonderland at cafe etoile
[ ] create a picture book
[ ] master the downward facing dog yoga pose
[ ] post at least 144 blog posts
[ ] finish the novel Harry Potter et l'ecole du sorciers
[ ] learn to sing Happy Birthday in 10 different languages
[ ] make a board game
[ ] learn guitar
[x] do the forty hour famine
[ ] earn twenty bucks
[ ] laugh until I cry
[ ] make someone laugh until they cry
[ ] have a full 8 movie Harry Potter DVD marathon
[ ] have a Disney marathon
[ ] do a thousand star jumps to make up for the marathon bumming
[x] read Pride and Prejudice
[ ] read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy
[ ] complete a Universal Yeti project
[ ] do 10 perfect cartwheels in a row
[ ] bake a cake
[x] finish something wearable with the sewing machine
[ ] sing kareoke
[ ] grow flowers
[ ] become fluent in left handedness for this will be most useful in exams
[ ] catch something with my chopsticks
[ ] do a perfect roundhouse kick - heeeeeYAH!
[ ] rap alongside the outsider
[ ] swim 5 kilometres (100 laps)
[ ] build a lego city
[ ] on the piano, learn: Pachebel canon in D
[ ] Kiss the Rain, Yiruma
[ ] Hedwig's theme
[ ] Debussy's Children's Corner
[ ] Flight of the bumblebee
[x] Pan's Labrynth Lullaby (okay, so I learned the easy version... but it's still creepy and beautiful!)
[ ] at least three songs by Adam Young
[ ] and on the violin: something Paganini
[ ] and Spring by Vivaldi
[x] run on the beach
[ ] write and record a song
[ ] finish that balance bubble game on wii fit
[ ] go paintballing
[ ] go busking
[ ] buy 'duck song' buttons
[ ] follow Cooking Mama instructions in real life and see what happens
[ ] high score at least 20 dances on JUST DANCE 2 wii
[ ] learn the directors of all my favourite movies
[ ] give a flower to a random stranger
[x] play air guitar on a jetty
[ ] become a coffee connoisseur
[ ] make a music video
[x] sing in the rain
[ ] prank someone (watch out!)
[x] learn something worthwhile
[ ] write a fairytale
[ ] make perfect scrambled eggs
[ ] take pictures at time zone
[ ] do something so incredibly cool and humanely impossible that it promotes me from daggy high school student to super-awesome ninja.

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