Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

People do not wish to appear foolish. To avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we’ll take up, and the more we’ll have to be reckoned with.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Be a sponge.

When there is so much information being thrown at you, it is time to forget everything you learnt it uni. Why? 2 reasons. 1. Need more space in brain. 2. In uni, you learnt more ways to keep info out than assimilate it. So now, need to do a 180 degree turn.

Leave out the inessentials, focus on that which matters.

Be that person you admire.

Regret is not a luxury you can always allow yourself.

Life may not turn out the way you had envisioned it. Things may not always go as you had planned. Crushes may not always pan out.

But there are so many opportunities around you. Do not let one closed door make you close your eyes to every other opportunity around you.

Be bold. Be ambitious, Be humble. Be open. To ideas, people, their perceptions of you. To learning opportunities, to growth areas.

Be the person you admire.

The truth hurts only if you run away from it.

How many lasts?

As uni comes to an end, slowly but surely, I will feel the need to lament about teeny tiny things. So I shall update them here.

8.4.11

Now its 27 days to go. Not even 4 weeks.

I just opened IVLE, out of habit, to check for new notes. And it struck me, all my lectures are over. Only presentations/test/tutorials will be done next week. I will never, ever need to open IVLE to check for notes again.

I remember feeling sad about how I did not have to apply for hostel anymore for next sem. Don't get me wrong, I am glad I will (hopefully) move to a bigger room than the current hostel one. But PGP has been my home for 3 of the last 4 years.

Speaking of future homes, I have no idea what I will be doing once exams end. May - July. A blank. Where I will be living, with whom, where I will be working, I have no idea. I don't like uncertainties.

11.4.11

9am
Last week of undergrad teaching. It's gonna start with a Big Bang. Literally. My Einstein module ends today.

8pm
Last 7-10pm lecture ever. At least till I ever do a Masters or something.

12.4.11

After my (ungraded) presentation today, I will need 2 more bursts of energy to get through the sem. And uni. 2 papers and an exam on 22-23. And 2 exams on 3-4 May. And lo and behold it shall be gone.

The end is near

The end is near
It has been a blast
But now we must say goodbye
Not because we want to
But because we have to

It may not be forever
We will meet again
If it was meant to be

Now is the time
When we look back at the good times
And leave each other with open hearts

We have been through
The bad times as well
But we won't look back in regret
But learn from it
And become wiser

And when we move on
We will remember
How much love and care
We felt for each other

Remember that
I am always here for you
I will never forget
Our time together
It will always be close in my heart

by Kylie

13.4.2011

Last lecture. check.
Last test. Check.
Last presentation. Check.

Still to go - last tutorial, last paper, last exam.

3 weeks, 2 papers, 3 exams.

15.4.11

Last tutorial. Check.
So basically, I'm done with classes. And if my Palmistry is anything to go by, I'm done with classes for a long time.