Yay! Hit counters!

As you can tell, above my blog archive lies a hit counter, which is meant to count how many people have clicked on my blog! The reason Invisi is getting all exited about a lil ol hit counter is because she happens to be rather technologically inept... T_T  So this is a big step for me! I also realize, that though I don't get many regular readers, I can amuse myself with clicking on my blog multiple times and watching the numbers go up! (Just kidding) Seriously though, I just want to see how much traffic my blog gets...

Eesh... I can't believe I just wrote a whole post about a hit counter...
Poor Invisi... gettin' all exited over a bunch 'o numbers.

Greetings People Around the World! episode 2

I'm going to make my Greetings post into something I'll update regularly! So, today, I welcome the Indians and Canadians who read my blog!

Thanks for reading!
Invisi

Hawaii

We went hiking with the cousins one day of our vacation. It was pretty funny because I forgot to put on sunscreen and had a bunch of bracelets on my hand.... and, well you can see where this is going. I now have a non-tanned stripe of skin on my arm.It was a really windy hike up the mountain, I kept getting blown over and falling down! :)
Note: Don't wear converse when hiking... It's soles don't give you very much grip.

Here are some pictures that I took:

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A few days later we went to our cousin's place to spend the night. I have a question for you: Have you ever tried playing tennis in your flip flops? Don't. It's no fun having 90 mph tennis balls shooting towards your poor, vulnerable, defenseless toes.

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The next day me and my family went hiking at the BE-autiful Manoa Falls, which is officially the muddiest place I have ever been. I had mud splatters up to my waist.... T'WAS AWESOME!!! Here are some of the (many) pictures that we took:

As you can see, 'tis quite pretty!

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Later, my family and I went to a swap meet to look for souvenirs. I saw a black jade bracelet that I liked, but didn't want to buy. It was 88 dollars. Just a tad bit too expensive for little Invisi... But the salesperson INSISTED that I buy it.... She was trying to force it on me, and kept on haggling... here's what it sounded like:

Saleslady: You like?
Invisi: Yeah... It's pretty! *hands bracelet back*
Saleslady: Only 88 dollar! *gives bracelet back*
Invisi: No, it's okay, I don't have that kind of money. *gives bracelet back*
Saleslady: I give you whole sale price! 50 dollar! (the lady is Vietnamese, by the way, with a heavy accent)
Invisi: N-no, it's okay, I don't want it! *backs away*
Saleslady: I give you CHEAP! 40 dollar!
Invisi: NO THANK YOU, I DON'T WANT IT! *backs away farther*

By now, the second salesperson had joined, and they were both yelling prices at me.

Salesperson #1: 33 DOLLAR!
Invisi: No thanks!
Salesperson #2: 30 DOLLAR!
Invisi: I DON'T WANT IT!
Salesperson #1: 25 DOLLAR!
Invisi: I'M NOT GOING TO BUY IT!
Salesperson #2: 20 DOLLAR!
Invisi: NO THANKS, I REALLY DON'T WANT IT!

This goes on for a while, until the formerly 88 dollar bracelet becomes 15 dollars... I didn't buy it though, I had run from that store as fast as I could. I could still hear them shouting out prices behind me.

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Since our hotel was on Waikiki Beach, I was able to go walking along the store front at night. Invisi has discovered that she finds drunk people VERY amusing! As I passed one group of friends, I noticed an unusual thing- that they appeared to be singing. What's unusual about that, you ask? The fact that they were singing into each other's t-shirts in an attempt to get them to light up. The sad thing was, it worked. I saw other drunk people doing stupid things... Such as riding an escalator... The wrong way.

While we were wandering along the storefront, I saw someone drawing caricatures of people, and I stopped to watch. Of course, my family stopped with me. We watched the artist for a little while longer, and when we turned around we found that a crowd had gathered around the formerly empty caricature artist. The reason for the crowd? They were all Japanese. Why is this important? Hawaii gets many Japanese tourists, and it seemed as if they all were at Waikiki Beach, at the same time. Now, the Japanese aren't known for being tall, but my dad IS. What I think happened, is that a majority of them stopped to see what the big man was looking at, and other people stopped to see what the other people were looking at, and by the time I turned around, I had to force myself to get out of ALL THE TINY JAPANESE PEOPLE. (sorry, i don't feel like i explained the reason for the crowd very well...oh well... :P)

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The day we left, we went to go to Pali Lookout. It's really pretty up there, but really windy. I'm not exaggerating, but there were hurricane force winds there. It must have been hitting 80-90 mph. Again... I'M NOT EXAGGERATING!! It must have been hitting that high, because when I jumped straight up into the air, I got pushed back a couple of feet... I'll try to upload a video later. It was officially the coolest experience in my life. The reason for all the wind was because the breezes from the sea and city were coming in, hitting the mountains, and channeling STRAIGHT INTO PALI LOOKOUT. I was being blown everywhere. To be able to move at all, you had to lean almost vertically into the wind.

Note: NEVER, EVER wear a skirt or a loose shirt to Pali Lookout. I got flashed one to many times by some stylish girl wearing a skirt.

To give you a glimpse into how windy it was here's a picture of me at one of the LESS windy places:

That's my vacation, in a nutshell. Sorry if I made it boring!
Bye!
Invisi


Thanks to my dad for all these wonderful pictures! They all belong to him, so please, don't copy or use them without my permission.

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Update: Finally uploaded a video of me and my family at Pali Lookout

click here to see the video

Greetings people around the world!

I have recently discovered the "Stats" button on my blog. It tells how much traffic I get on my blog, different countries where people read my blog, which posts get the most views, etc. I was pleased to see that in the last week, forty-something people from America got on my blog, one person from Japan, and one person from Singapore... Unfortunately, I don't think they stayed long... But, HELLO TO ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD!

This has been an Invisi

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Vacation and Hawaii poems

Well... It's been a while, hasn't it? If you're wondering why, it's 'cos I've been in Hawaii for the past 10 days. I was on vacation, visiting my relatives and stuff like that. I have so much to talk about.... get ready :)

Here are some poems that I wrote, they haven't really been edited yet, so they're still raw....

On a connecting flight out of the Big Island of Hawaii:

Regrets

Good bye ocean, though I regret,
Not dipping a toe,
In your aquamarine waters,
From the sky I look,
Way down at the bleak, slate green sea,
And shiver.


Walking on the Waikiki Beach at night:

Immortal Sands

We leave our tracks,
On a still, yet distant forever,
Knowing that some will wash away,
Like sands by an ocean,
Only to be rewritten by another,
As a good story told again, and again.

Some will stay and be immortalized,
Like footprints on the moon,
A landmark to others,
A goal to be reached, and passed,
Sometime in the distant forever.



Looking at a Banyan tree. If you don't know what it looks like, here's a picture of a Banyan tree in Waikiki:

The roots hang from the branches, and when they reach the ground they enter it and grow bigger and stronger, so that they almost become mini tree trunks. The reason I like the Banyan tree so much is because the roots hang from the tree, then become the supporting force behind it. I could talk a lot more about it... but that's not the point of this post :). Here's the poem:

The Banyan Tree

The Banyan tree,
Reaches down,
To pierce the solid ground,
With it's quavering roots,
That sway in the wind,
And become,
An immovable element,
Solid in the earth.


There were more poems.... But they're not done yet.... ehheh.... *sweat*

MLIA

Have you ever been to the website MLIA? It stands for my life is average, here are some exerpts from the website! :


Today, I ate a fortune cookie that read "Look for the dream that keeps coming back. It is your destiny." Lately I've been dreaming of being hunted down by murderers. I'm kind of nervous now. MLIA.

My 5 year old excitedly told me "I CAN READ MY OWN MIND!!" She was serious. I have high hopes for her! MLIA

Today my mom was watching soap operas. I walked by as some random chick came on and I whispered, "Who's that?" The lady on tv whispered back, "Cassie." I said thanks, and walked away. MLIA

Today i realized that i have never been to walmart, never had a tootsie pop, never eaten lucky charms, never even seen a dime or a quarter. But then it hit me. Im british. MLIA

Last night, I slept with both socks on. This morning, I woke up with only one sock on one of my feet. I looked everywhere for it and found it in my fish tank. I really want to know what happened last night. MLIA.

Today, I was searching up a question on google of why a series came with 3d glasses. I typed in "Why does se" and one of the suggestions was, "Why does seaworld have a seafood restaurant?" You know, google, that's a great question. MLIA

Today, I learned that typing <(") in face book chat makes it come out as a penguin. I then spent my time attacking my friends with hordes of penguin armies. MLIA

.ɐı1ɯ .ɥɐʎ-ooq .uʍop ǝpısdn uǝʇʇıɹʍ uǝǝq ǝʌɐɥ ɯǝɥʇ ɟo ǝuou 'ǝɹoɟǝq sɐı1ɯ ʎzɐɹɔ ʎʇʇǝɹd ǝɯos uǝǝs ǝʌɐɥ ı ǝ1ıɥʍ 'ʇɐɥʇ pǝsı1ɐǝɹ ı 'ʎɐpoʇ

Today my six year-old sister called me "pitiful". Wondering if she even knew what that meant, I asked her the definition of pitiful. What was her answer? Pretty and beautiful. ...I know how i'm going to compliment people from now on. MLIA.

Today, I started singing 'Snape, Snape, Severus Snape' at musical rehearsal. Another 5 people joined me and we sang the whole Mysterious Ticking Noise. After we'd finished, we heard the teachers singing along as well. MLIA

Today, I was reminiscing about the good old days when I remembered my childhood fear and started laughing. Monsters? Crocodiles? Dragons? Spiders? Snakes? Nope. Cows. I was a special child. MLIA

Today, my dad told me that Sponges actually eat starfish. I cant look at Spongebob the same now. MLIA

Today, I found out about a Where's Waldo app for the iPhone. I searched for it on the app store for half an hour, I could not find it. Well played Waldo, well played. MLIA

Today I googled dying. The first result was, "Dying for beginners". I wondered how you could not be a beginner at dying. MLIA

Today, while at a resturant with my family, my little sister asked my mom for some money to get a Hannah Montana sticker. I was deeply disappointed in her until she got the sticker, put it on the bottom of her shoe, and said "Now I can step on her face alllll day long!" I have never more proud of her. MLIA.

Today, I was supposed to be doing my homework, but I was on MLIA. I laughed, and my mum asked what was so funny. I quickly closed MLIA and it was on my assignment research about Japanese whaling. There was a picture of a whale with a harpoon through it's back. She now thinks I'm a psychopath. MLIA

that one's my favorite :)

Today I went to the bathroom and thought " Who keeps using the last pieces of toilet paper?!" Then I realized I live by myself. MLIA

Today, I was staying at a hotel. I needed to take my incredibly heavy suitcase up to my room, so naturally I took the elevator. I got into the elevator, which was crowded with a LOT of people. I then proceeded to zip part of my suitcase open and whisper "Don't worry buddy, we're almost to the room. Ya got enough air in there??" The looks i got were priceless. Pretty much everyone in the elevator got out on the next floor, and now at least 15 people think i'm insane. It was soooo worth it. MLIA

Yesterday, my friend said something to me and my brain imediately translated it to "munch munch munch munch". I still don't know what she said but I'm okay with that. MLIA




JUST FOR SAM!

Today, a package was received at my work. The package was adressed to Sam Iam. Dr.Suess will live on forever! MLIA


And so on, and so forth.. I could go on for HOURS.... :) tata!

Nuther poem!

My mind tends to randomly come up with poems, this one happened when I was folding my laundry....

Avalanche

A cascading torrent of imagination,
A bothersome way of feeling,
Crosses from my world to yours,
From the thoughts of one,
To the eyes of another,
Willfully bring images,
Shutting out a world of worries,
And wandering through the paths of bliss.

Mai poems

Here are the poems that I submitted to my (old) school's literary magazine. They both made it in.

A Writer's Saga


The battle cries heard,
From the depths of the pages,
Still resonate on,
Throughout all the ages.

The towering spire,
That rises still higher,
Rules on the brink,
Of paper and ink.

The bellowing roar,
Of a great war,
Voices lent,
From minds well spent.

A path well ridden,
Of words well written,
The saga still strong,
Though the writer's long gone.

They dance and curve,
Those flowing words,
As black as night,
On sheets pale white.




I Can't Write a Poem


Of all the things I cannot do,
Poems are the worst, it's true!
The rhyming creations,
Can give me hallucinations,
But even that is not the worst,
It's when I try to make a verse,
It's quite a pain,
And hurts my brain,
To make a poem rhyme.

A poem that sprang to mind

This is a poem that came into being after writing a comment on Skandar's post: Tomorrow. After I wrote the comment, I felt the overwhelming urge to sit down and write a poem about it, and here it is:


A New Era

Sighing, sobbing
Weeping, wanting,
Good bye, normality,
Hello, new era of different.

Innocence lost,
Knowledge gained,
Good-bye, normality,
Hello, new era of different.

Changing, leaping,
Jumping, flying,
Good-bye, normality,
Hello, new era of different

Feet first,
Splash down,
Good-bye, normality,
Hello, new era of different

Walking, wandering,
Tripping, falling,
Good-bye, normality,
Hello, new era of different.

Picture perfect,
Burning up,
Good-bye, normality,
Hello, new era of different.

Loving, living,
Losing, giving,
Good-bye, normality,
Hello, new era of different.

Laughter echos,
Gone forever,
Good-bye, normality,
Hello, new era of different.


A sad poem, I realize, and different, too than what I normally write. But not too bad...