The Problem

The problem with having one of these things is that it requires maintenance and thought. That, my friends, is the problem with being the owner of a blog.

It is sometimes, funny, that we undertake responsibilities such as this only to throw it away. We start a blog with dreams and aims and hopes and ideas only to fall way behind and throw it all away. I once had plans about what I want to write about. I had, in my mind, simple and easy steps to achieve what I imagined would be great and splendid.

But I fell behind. That is no excuse, but that is exactly what I did. Fall, or fell behind.

The problem with shouldering responsibilities is that failure is often irrevocably unavoidable from the very moment the job become ours. From the moment we love, we are condemned to a certain sort of ‘forever’ with our object/person of desire. From the moment we say ‘yes’, it becomes harder to say the opposite of ‘no’.

And from the moment the first post was honestly written, I have since found it hard to write untruths and lies. It was never my intention to use this as a platform to tell inventive stories. Stories are stemmed from the underlying current of my life and to spin new ones bear too much of a disrespect to my way of living.

I could cry from that thought itself.

The problem with having one of these, my friends, is that it is sometimes hard. To write. To say I have been busy is a wayward excuse. To say that I have had nothing to say is form of shying away.

The truth is that it is sometimes so god-damn hard to acknowledge your rawest moments. Those bare moments are sometimes meant to stay that way. How can I violate them by putting them into mere words. Nothing can capture their existence for they are beyond the human realm of beauty. To do so would be an insult because even if I tried my damnest, I would still be so far short. And for that I would rather say nothing, for if I did, I would suffer the pain of my words.

So instead, I’ll apologise for my absence.

Random Facts

Because the title says so. Because I am moving and that I am going to throw away those snippets of little information. Because they are fun. Because fact no. 20 is more amazing than anything...

1. Fish have been known to kiss up to 25 minutes.
2. If 80% of your liver were to be removed, the remaining part would still continue to function.
3. There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
4. A skunk can be detected by a human over one kilometer away.
5. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
6. A newborn hedgehog starts to get their spines within 24 hours of birth.
7. The art of mapmaking is older than the art of writing.
8. All hurricanes form over water and last for about 10 days.
9. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
10. The main purpose of growing rice in flooded paddocks is to drwon the weeds surrounding the seedlings.
11. It takes an average 90 squirts from a cow’s udder to make a litre of milk.
12. Horse-racing regulations require no racehorse’s name to contain more than 18 letters.
13. Sheep will not drink from running water.
14. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
15. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, egg whites were a popular form of laundry detergent.
16. The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923.
17. Sugar was added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.
18. Mosquitoes have teeth.
19. In Elizabethan times, carnations were used to spice wine and ale.
20. Up until the age of six or seven months, children can breathe and swallow simultaneously.
21. Due to its eye placement, a donkey can see all of its hooves at the same time.
22. The mechanical shark in the movie ‘Jaws’ was nicknamed Bruce.
23. Fish can get seasick.
24. Rats can swim for a kilometer without resting. They can also tread water for three days straight.
25. When the Effiel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as ‘the tragic lamppost’.
26. One of the best ways to clean pewter is to rub with cabbage leaves.
27. Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920s was called crisphead.
28. About 10kg of milk is needed to make one kilogram of natural cheese.