Tuesday, 26 October 2010

STREET WORKERS





are COOL.
It's just hard to decide whether YELLOW jackets are better than ORANGE ones
or the other way round.

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

MEANINGFULNESS

Stop looking for a reason to get up in the morning and start being the reason others get up

[cit. Minna Kathrine Larsen]




Photos were taken in August 2010 on Isola di San Pietro (St Peter's Island), Sardinia, Italy

Saturday, 16 October 2010

IDIOMS

Here is a small collection of English idioms I've learnt so far, together with three pictures of flamingos I took through a telescope in the Hamburg Zoo last June...

(I like them because they look a bit like lollipops)
[...don't you think flamingos are really cute, too?]

It doesn't flick my switch
*
It doesn't float my boat
*
It doesn't tick my box
*
It's raining cats and dogs
*
Bob's your uncle!
*
You're barking up the wrong tree...
*
Don't beat about the bush

Erm, I think that's it for now. Please let me know if you know other ones, I really want to learn them!!! :)
p.s. apparently blogspot doesn't want me to write in colour anymore...prrr @.@

Thursday, 14 October 2010

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I suddenly love MATHS!!!

Look at these (borrowed from the very interesting website that I highly recommend viewing "http://easycalculation.com/funny/interesting-facts/math-beauty.php")!


Sequential 1's with 9
1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 + 10 = 1111111111

Numeric Palindrome with 1's
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

Without 8
12345679 x 9 = 111111111
12345679 x 18 = 222222222
12345679 x 27 = 333333333
12345679 x 36 = 444444444
12345679 x 45 = 555555555
12345679 x 54 = 666666666
12345679 x 63 = 777777777
12345679 x 72 = 888888888
12345679 x 81 = 999999999

SO PRETTY!!!
Don't you agree?
Ok, now let's use maths to count how many strawberry pieces there are and then divide them equally. YUM :)


Wednesday, 13 October 2010

POEMS











Anyone can write a poem. Especially in their own language.
Here are some creations of mine...if you can at least read Italian you'll get the musicality of it, on which I actually worked a lot! You know, when you don't feel like reading, thinking, staring at the world around you and listening to music, there isn't much else you can do on a bus, apart from inventing poems :)

"Food Zapping"

Stasera, se riesco,
faccio shopping da Tesco.
Anche Sainsbury's mi piace,
ma li' dentro e' una fornace!
M&S e' un buon partito,
fa venire un appetito...
C'e' poi Morrisons, che
ti da' due al prezzo di tre.
Ma la Co-op sei tu:
chi puo' darti di piu'?

[random pictures taken in Roma, Italy]


"Giorno Y"

Crumpet tostata, burro ed aranciata:
e' cominciata una nuova giornata!
(Suvvia, patata, via l'aria assonnata)

Svuota il lavello, riordinare e' bello!!!
Scegli un orpello che s'intoni al mantello,
prendi le chiavi e dimentica l'ombrello.

Una volta uscita procedi spedita:
bus numero quaranta e lettura preferita,
profumo di vita e menta piperita.

Sandwich all'una, con humus o tuna;
svolgimento di taluna mansione opportuna
per passar dalla cruna e andar sulla Luna.

E' un fatto, oramai: studiare dovrai
parecchio ed assai, per evitare guai:
su forza, dai, vai a svuotare i calamai!

Pane, pesto, pasta e il resto
non sara' poi cosi' mesto.
Fai un bel gesto e dormi presto.
[Leggi tosto. Scrivi un testo.]


"Ungaretti-style"

A. Il vetro
mi morse
porzione
di dito.

B. Padella
ustionante
bollo' pollice
ignaro.


"Terzina Dantesca"

Al pian di sopra dei grossi bus rossi
ci si diverte un po' come si puote:
gli scarabocchi, si sa, vengono mossi.

Io penso al lavorio delle ruote
che portano imperterrite il gran peso
di borse piene zeppe e teste vuote.

Il passeggero medio e' alquanto teso
si affanna, impreca al tempo che scarseggia
nel suo profondo, lui si sente offeso

perche' l'ineluttabile troneggia
e a nulla vale la sua indignazione.
In questo brodo Irene si dileggia.


"Sul ponte di Londra"

O fiume limaccioso
limaccioso fiume
sarai pericoloso
o salverai le mie piume?


[to be continued...I really enjoy writing fake poetry!!!]

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

BACK 2 BLOG





LOVELY PEOPLE!!!

I am baaaaaackkkk and apart from this I have to confess I haven't got much else interesting to say, maybe because I'm trying to do about two dozens things all together at the same time, and my head is kind of virtually banging on the wall and spontaneously activating a self-destruction control in order to prevent the virus of madness from spreading all over the universe...but ANYWAY!

Here is a series of pretty pictures I took on the plane, to start with. I ADORED this vision of a cloud valley up in the sky!

Hope to hear from (at least some of) you very soon!!! Let me know that you read me.
(Ok, well, I'll keep posting even if no-one does, but IT WOULD BE NICE to feel like someone is actually out there reading me, got the message? THANKS.)

love love love
and peace peace peace
and chocolate.
:D

ZIA ELENA

This post is for you Auntie!!
And that's why now I'll switch to Italian (sorry guys)

ecco le foto che avevo allegato all'email, come promesso
1.cameretta prima delle decorazioni

2.cameretta post-decorazioni (ma manca ancora qualche elemento)

3.tre dei miei coinquilini, quelli che vedo piu' spesso a partire a destra verso sinistra...il quarto non lo vedo abbastanza da potergli fare una foto senza vergognarmi!

4.questa in realta' agli altri non l'ho mandata perche' non ci stava...weekend a Leamington Spa, puoi notare gli alberi-fiamma al parco, il frigo dei ragazzi e la passeggiata lungo il canale, nonche' il viaggio in treno


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Un bacione
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