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| Happy New Year! Bye-bye 2006... New Year's: 
Christmas: 
Birthday: 
Dance:  
 
Rowell: 
Cambridge summer programme: 
Modelling:  
Thailand: 
HK Model UN: 
Dogssss: 
I <3 Hong Kong:  
A wonderful year, what can I say. Lucy x 
~ Tantum religio potuit suadre malorum. (So great the evils which religion could prompt.) | | |
| Merry Christmas! 
 
May the spirit of Christmas peace touch our world with new hope. Thank you, dear friends, for your lovely words of support this season, when I really needed it. So, last week was perhaps the worst of my life (Oxford). My dreams were slashed again and faith ruined. It's not a nice feeling. Oh god, it just didn't seem real. To invest all my hope and energy into an amazing and real ambition that everyone said I'd get and have it wasted. It all sounds so cliche when I write it down, so I'll use other writers' words.. "I sleep all day. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. But sometimes sleep abandons me and I pretend. I breathe slowly and deeply, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his fascimile. Sleep erases all differences. I am past hunger, past vanity, past caring. This morning I caught sight of my face in the bathroom mirror. I am paper-skinned, gaunt, yellow, ring-eyed, hair matted. I look dead. I want nothing." - Audrey Niffenger, speaking to me. Haha, maybe Christmas will be my cure. I found this in my stocking today... "We who fight for our dream suffer far more when it doesn't work out, beacuse we cannot fall back on the old excuse: 'Oh, well, I didn't really want it anyway.' We do want it and know that we have staked everything on it; our whole heart is in this. Then, we must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favour, even though we may not understand now. Because, once we have overcome the defeats we are filled by a greater sense of euphoria and confidence. In the silence of our hearts, we know that we are proving ourselves worthy of the miracle of life." - Paulo Coelho If you do succeed in something in which you've staked everything, please appreciate it beyond measure. Lucy x ~Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. | | |
| My 17th Birthday! 
 
 
Had a great day at school with everyone. Hope you all liked the brownies =) Then shopping shopping and more shopping with my mum. Thennn dinner at Red last night. It was fab, thanks friendlings* =) Especially for all the luvvvly presents. ;) Ushashi, Angela, Siobhan, Sisi, Sherman, Gokce, Tuce, Matt, Nikita, Ian, Anna, Rushabh*-^ Now time for a happy happy Christmas... Lucy x ~ In historical events great meno-called?are but labels serving to give a name to the event, & like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, & predestined from all eternity. | | |
| Yay Rowell =) 
Winning the swimming gala So, I've had my Oxford interview, got my first uni offer (from York), am writing essays to send off to Christ Church, and am reading many many things about everything. It's all getting quite serious, I think. Friday night was Sating Dolls, Sherman's fashion show, which I was really impressed with. Well done, luv. And Akiko, Joce and I did a bit of ballet too, which was fun. =) Isaiah Berlin thinks we are only free by understanding, because by understanding things, we can accept the nature of them and they become part of what we will freely. If you're the paranoid dictator of a friendless state that's still technically at war with both South Korea and the US, a nuclear arsenal is your ultimate insurance policy. To say this isn't to say that North Korea should go unpunished. That's because other would-be nuclear proliferators, with Iran to the fore, are now watching to see whether it's really so easy to go nuclear. American military action would threaten the security of NK's neighbours in firing range of Kim's missiles. The Chinese could, if they wished, starve North Korea's people and switch off its lights. But Mr Kim cares little about the starvation of his people and the darkness of his country. I'm reading Orwell's 1984 illegally online. It's very good, I'm addicted. And Isaiah Berlin's philosophy. He did Ox PPE too. Here's a bit out of George's book. I frowned for quite a while after that chapter. Byeee x ~Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.  
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| The summer fades and to bother to stay in touch regardless becomes steadily more effortful. 
Loitering last, palely skipping, most glorious seed. Make music: duet with blue Tit. Hallelujah! mimic wolfe cries. Stay indigo, not periwinkle with my Sky. He means it all for me. Be me, Rol. And subtle. No goodbyes, boy ?no, glorious. And of course there can be no end, as progress will be eternal; and the prospect of infinite progress is so delightfully overwhelming and inspiring to prove that it is the reason for which we live, the end not the means, and an end that does not in fact end. Yes, how delightful. ~ The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. | | |
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