The elegance of handwriting is deteriorating. I don't think many people of my generation remembers how to write cursive correctly. Our parents still use cursive, but with a distinct taste to it. Of course, we all have our own different styles and some people are poorer at handwriting than others, but the general effect is still the same.
I really wish I learned how to write so beautifully. Look how perfect the handwriting was in the 18th century.
Even when they're writing letters in the 18th century, their handwriting is still really nice. In my opinion, that is.
Abraham Lincoln's handwriting was nice. Seems like everyone writes like that back in the 1800s!
In the early 19th century, the handwriting still had the good cursive, but you can still see a little bit has evolved from the 18th century handwriting to how our parents write!
Now, there are so many styles of handwriting, from chicken scratches to artsy, from plain to elegant. But everyone now seems to have their own style. And I'm pretty sure 95% of young adults and kids don't write in cursive. I only know very few. I personally like to write with the fusion of both! I really like that kind of style, but I am yet to be consistent in my handwriting.
We're losing something that will soon be forgotten. Especially when the technology has moved to keyboards.
This is pretty sad, although I haven't seen my piano teacher in 6 or 7 years, this is really saddening. He had a deep appreciation for music and he knew how to perfect the piano. His teachings gave me a new view in music and a new effort in life. Thank you, Mr. Deveny. I wish I had better conversations with you. Rest in peace.
This is only the 2nd person I personally know who had passed away. First being my grandmother when I was in 2nd grade. Definitely very saddening seeing how my mom cried that night. But life goes on.
"Changes. That's just the way it is. Things will never be the same."
I don't know how but I lost my motivation to be writing in my Xanga. Nothing has come up yet! Well, not like nothing has been happening, but nothing that's Xanga worthy, ya'know? I'd like to share my interests here, but I have yet to remember to do so or to come upon so. One really neat thing I recently discovered and like is TED Talk. The site is: www.ted.com.
Here's one of a very nice video from ted.com, although the actual video isn't loaded onto the site, but onto YouTube. But it makes it easy for me to embed it onto Xanga. Direct link is here. And here it is for easy viewing!
I want to visit a cenote. It's basically a hole in the ground that is filled with water. In general, I want to visit a cave. I don't think I have done so, but I have into an abandoned mine, but that's a different story. Underwater caves are even more cool, but a lot less likely to be a place for me to visit.
Cenotes are so cool and they come in different shapes and sizes. They are actually "sinkholes with exposed rocky edges containing groundwater."
They usually first start out as underground caves by the mildly acidic rainwater eroding the limestone beneath the ground. Eventually the roof of the cave becomes weak and collapses.
What makes it even more cool is that the water is very clear mostly because the rainwater infiltrates very slowly through the ground at about 1 to 1000 meters a year, which acts like a filter system.
It can look creepy sometimes, though.
Some places were built for tourist attractions, but those places aren't as interesting since man-made stuff is in a place where it shouldn't be. IT RUINS THE SCENERY!
Wow, I remember seeing the poster for Avatar last year and I thought it's lame and how stupid it was that they have some weird mythical creature with the name for the movie as "Avatar." It just totally made me think it was just a movie about some game.
I didn't think about watching it until last week when I started to hear so many good reviews from the critics. And even my trustee IMDB people gave it an 8.7 (when I first checked, now it is 8.9!) and I thought to myself that it must be amazing. So I decided to do some research about the movie and I guess it got me interested. I watched it today (in San Diego, and yes it was a fun trip! happy birthday Anna :)) and, WOW!, that was an awesome movie. I gave it 10/10 on IMDB. It caught my interest, my heart, my soul, my mind for the whole 162 minutes. If I find myself mentally wandering, it is usually because it got boring or I thought something was stupid, but this movie never took me off the ride. It was nice and fun.. as if I was living in that world. So in other words, you should try to watch it in 3-D. This is the first 3-D movie I watched where I wasn't dissatisfied with using the glasses - I usually find them annoying.
So, yeah, totally best movie of the year.. of the decade. This movie secured my man-crush on Sam Worthington (the main guy, Jake Sully, in the movie). He was in Terminator Salvation and I thought he was an awesome character/actor. Then after watching Avatar, I totally think he's the coolest actor. And the next movie coming out with him is Clash of Titans, which I'd be interested to see. He's soooooo cool!
