http://tumblr.com/xsx1xkgzm5
2. Write about your favourite kind of music.
This is difficult as I don't actually have a favourite kind of music. I guess I'll just write about one of them :p
At the moment I am enjoying listening to Classical Movie Soundtracks. It's awesome cos there are no words (so I can't sing along and get distracted), but it's still all very nostalgic.
...I have been essaying for about 11 hours today so I'm not feeling very creative. This is kind of a dumb question too. So. Yer.
x
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
heckyeatumblr#1.
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1. Write about your favourite charity and why you support it.
I wish I knew more about the world and I could justify my support even better.
I remember I first found out about Amnesty International when I was in Year 8. This was before they had a MAJOR change to their campaigning tactic: we got a letter in the post just addressed to 'The Occupier' and I asked Mum if I could open it ("YAY MAIL!" and she said "Yes if you like but it might not be very nice.". Indeed, the letter was from AI, and featured a story of a young man from South America who had been detained and tortured for something or other (hey, this was 10 years ago). Whilst in prison, the man had been asked to confess to the crime, and for each time he denied, he had to attempt to balance a pen on its tip; each time the pen fell, it was forced into his urethra. The story also included pictures of the man's corpse after 'police' had gouged out his eyeballs.
Obviously, as a 12 year old, this was pretty freaky shit (still is). I took the leaflet into school to show my friends. 'Charity Week' was approaching, which was a week of fund-raisers and activities in the summer which culminated in a fair on the Friday, with games and cakes etc. Each year group selected a charity to support and send their money to. So the week before, there were year assemblies where anyone who had a charity to propose could stand up and persuade everyone vote for their charity of choice.
As a timid and paranoid 12 year old, niggled by many many self image issues, it was a pretty big deal that I stood up and told 200 people about a man who had to put a pen in his penis and who got his eyes gouged out.
Unfortunately, what AI hadn't made clear in their leaflet was how money could actually resolve these issues, and so when someone asked how their money would be spent, I honestly couldn't answer...all I knew was that this was horrible behaviour and it had to be stopped. Anyway, I didn't 'win' the charity proposals (some of the other girls in the year knew someone with access to a Pudsey Bear outfit, and they had also started to developed breasts: I had no chance.).
As I grew up, I guess I forgot about the charity (overshadowed by pop music, then grunge music, skateboarders and under age drinking I suppose). Until I got to uni, where I met my beautiful flatmate Anna (maybe I'll dedicate a post to just her soon...). She was an avid supporter of the organisation and set away starting up her own UEA group pretty quick after we all started. I got involved thereafter, and have been attempting to regularly letter-write since. AI had substantially changed their campaigning tactics since 2000, and their promo materials no longer consisted of corpses and horror stories, but of strong people desperate for change, and making moves to make the change on their own, just asking for a bigger voice.
AI acts to empower people who are falling victim of human rights abuses. Often, they focus on small, individual cases. A prisoner of conscience who suddenly receives a huge influx of international mail is often treated with a lot more respect by the prison guards. In addition, letters to government officials regarding this prisoner let them know: The world is watching. If not that, then it can just make them aware of an injustice that they were genuinely unaware of. AI often acts on behalf of small NGOs who are suffering at the hands of suppressive regimes and struggling to have their voice heard. AI can also tackle HR injustices head on, by lobbying governments to change policies which can have unintentional/ accidental/ intentional affects on specific groups of people and their rights.
AI is an international organisation campaigning for human rights. I NOW KNOW! You can support them with donations which go towards campaigns (public awareness, government pressure, local support) which support the fight against human rights injustices all over the world. You can also support them by buying yourself a HUGE pile of stamps, logging onto their site and writing as many letters as you can to either a) a member of government or b) a prisoner of conscience.
I support AI because it promotes education (maybe somewhat indirectly) about international affairs. I support AI because it's effective. I support AI because it's inspiring that it's effective. I support AI because it's cool to know what's going on in my world, and to know that I can influence it.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/
thanks to samsanwam x
1. Write about your favourite charity and why you support it.
I wish I knew more about the world and I could justify my support even better.
I remember I first found out about Amnesty International when I was in Year 8. This was before they had a MAJOR change to their campaigning tactic: we got a letter in the post just addressed to 'The Occupier' and I asked Mum if I could open it ("YAY MAIL!" and she said "Yes if you like but it might not be very nice.". Indeed, the letter was from AI, and featured a story of a young man from South America who had been detained and tortured for something or other (hey, this was 10 years ago). Whilst in prison, the man had been asked to confess to the crime, and for each time he denied, he had to attempt to balance a pen on its tip; each time the pen fell, it was forced into his urethra. The story also included pictures of the man's corpse after 'police' had gouged out his eyeballs.
Obviously, as a 12 year old, this was pretty freaky shit (still is). I took the leaflet into school to show my friends. 'Charity Week' was approaching, which was a week of fund-raisers and activities in the summer which culminated in a fair on the Friday, with games and cakes etc. Each year group selected a charity to support and send their money to. So the week before, there were year assemblies where anyone who had a charity to propose could stand up and persuade everyone vote for their charity of choice.
As a timid and paranoid 12 year old, niggled by many many self image issues, it was a pretty big deal that I stood up and told 200 people about a man who had to put a pen in his penis and who got his eyes gouged out.
Unfortunately, what AI hadn't made clear in their leaflet was how money could actually resolve these issues, and so when someone asked how their money would be spent, I honestly couldn't answer...all I knew was that this was horrible behaviour and it had to be stopped. Anyway, I didn't 'win' the charity proposals (some of the other girls in the year knew someone with access to a Pudsey Bear outfit, and they had also started to developed breasts: I had no chance.).
As I grew up, I guess I forgot about the charity (overshadowed by pop music, then grunge music, skateboarders and under age drinking I suppose). Until I got to uni, where I met my beautiful flatmate Anna (maybe I'll dedicate a post to just her soon...). She was an avid supporter of the organisation and set away starting up her own UEA group pretty quick after we all started. I got involved thereafter, and have been attempting to regularly letter-write since. AI had substantially changed their campaigning tactics since 2000, and their promo materials no longer consisted of corpses and horror stories, but of strong people desperate for change, and making moves to make the change on their own, just asking for a bigger voice.
AI acts to empower people who are falling victim of human rights abuses. Often, they focus on small, individual cases. A prisoner of conscience who suddenly receives a huge influx of international mail is often treated with a lot more respect by the prison guards. In addition, letters to government officials regarding this prisoner let them know: The world is watching. If not that, then it can just make them aware of an injustice that they were genuinely unaware of. AI often acts on behalf of small NGOs who are suffering at the hands of suppressive regimes and struggling to have their voice heard. AI can also tackle HR injustices head on, by lobbying governments to change policies which can have unintentional/ accidental/ intentional affects on specific groups of people and their rights.
AI is an international organisation campaigning for human rights. I NOW KNOW! You can support them with donations which go towards campaigns (public awareness, government pressure, local support) which support the fight against human rights injustices all over the world. You can also support them by buying yourself a HUGE pile of stamps, logging onto their site and writing as many letters as you can to either a) a member of government or b) a prisoner of conscience.
I support AI because it promotes education (maybe somewhat indirectly) about international affairs. I support AI because it's effective. I support AI because it's inspiring that it's effective. I support AI because it's cool to know what's going on in my world, and to know that I can influence it.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/
thanks to samsanwam x
Saturday, 26 March 2011
still burning.
" Now I feel home. We talk about everything, the keyboards have disappeared. This week has been so intense, we are burning and I’m scared we will burn out.
17/10/09
Friday, 25 March 2011
hilarious.
I had to share this somewhere.
One of my acquaintances had an almost sort of but not quite threesome last night.
I caught the bus with him into the city today, and instead of asking for a return, he instead asked for a 'two-way', terminology which I have never heard used by our city bus providers nor any of their users.
ACTUAL LOL.
One of my acquaintances had an almost sort of but not quite threesome last night.
I caught the bus with him into the city today, and instead of asking for a return, he instead asked for a 'two-way', terminology which I have never heard used by our city bus providers nor any of their users.
ACTUAL LOL.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
waste.
If I didn't waste 80% of my energy analysing just how shit a person I was...
I wonder what I could actually achieve.
I wonder what I could actually achieve.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
real life.
first time applying for a real life job. though it's not paid. so maybe it's not real...
anyway.
it dawned on me that i already know how this will go.
if i get it: i'll know that the position/ organisation is shit.
if i don't get it: i'll know i'm shit.
this is truly how i real about myself. and i realise that this is representative of a number of aspects of my life.
yup.
anyway.
it dawned on me that i already know how this will go.
if i get it: i'll know that the position/ organisation is shit.
if i don't get it: i'll know i'm shit.
this is truly how i real about myself. and i realise that this is representative of a number of aspects of my life.
yup.
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