Tongue-Twisters (Inspired by Vlogbrothers’ Video)

Aaah what a week it’s been! <—blatant exaggeration!

Probably the most exciting thing this week was taking part in the electromagnetic spectrum workshop for the Physics Outreach Group. It was my first time at a workshop so it was exciting/ nerve-wrecking. There were around 20 grade 10 students altogether in our group, and they seemed quite interested. My bit of the talk went reasonably well (actually, the whole talk went reasonably well), and they didn’t get bored with the laser game like I thought they would. Whenever I asked them questions, they gave pretty good answers—it was pretty impressive! So all in all, it was a great experience.

The rest of the week was not that interesting—I’ll spare you the details.

There was an interesting video this week from the Vlogbrothers about tongue-twisters. I already put a link to it on my facebook page, but in case you missed it, here it is:

This got me wondering about tongue-twisters in Sinhala. I’m sure I used to know a lot of them when I was a kid, but all I can remember now is රතු චීත්ත දෙජාතියයි (rathu cheeththa dhejaathiyayi) and චූටි ටීචර් ගෙ චූටි ටෝච් එක (chooti teacher ge chooti torch eka)—well that one was partially English . If you guys can remember any tongue twisters in Sinhala or Tamil, leave them on the comments. I’d love to see them. Actually, if you know any cool tounge twisters in any language, leave them underneath. I’ll have fun trying to read them fast .

If you’re more interested in getting your twing tusted—I mean TONGUE TWISTED, do a Google search. You’ll find lots of stuff to keep your tongue occupied. Don’t start imaging stuff now, kids—I meant that in a very wholesome way.

I’m still reading through Joe Abrecrombie’s Before They Are Hanged. This book is much better than the first book, pretty impressive. But still, not on par with George R. R. Martin and Robin Hobb and the like. The plot just seems… shallow. I’m not saying it’s a bad book, but it lacks that… I’m searching for a word here… complexity? I don’t know.

That brings me to my reading wishlist. Here are some of the fantasy books/ series I can’t get wait to get my hands on. If you’ve read any of them, let me know how they are. Suggestions are welcome as well. (Don’t leave spoilers though !)

The Wishlist:

• Wheel of Time saga by Robert Jordan
• Rain Wild Chronicles series by Robin Hobb
• Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher
• Demon trilogy by Peter V. Brett
• The Edge Chronicles series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
• Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan

etc. I’m such  a bookworm. I know .

I’m trying to make these blog posts a weekly thing. We’ll see how that goes!

Ooh! A Blog Post! [but really just a rant about my life]

Well I haven’t written much in the past couple of months, have I? But then I was going through Rangitha’s blog, realized how much he has written and I felt like I was not being as committed to my blog. Made me feel ashamed. So I forced myself to write a blog entry, and here I am. Blogging. Again. And it feels good. Maybe it’s just the heater in the room…

This blog post is about how my life is going. Way to prove how boring it is to the readers. 😉

Well I’ve been absolutely impressed with Nerdfighter community. They make awesome YouTube videos, have their own little record label and do some good community work with their “Project for Awesome”. I wonder if I should become one too, but then I don’t think I’ll be making much videos. First I should get this blog going, and maybe then, maybe, I can join YouTube, start making videos… and all that.

Speaking of YouTube, I’ve recently discovered Wheezywaiter’s YouTube channel and I’ve totally fallen in love with the guy’s videos. His videos are very funny and creative. Makes me a bit jealous. 😛

I’ve started to read fantasy again. Medieval and medieval-ish fantasy, just thought I should make that clear :P.  I’m reading Joe Abercrombie’s “First Law” trilogy at the moment and I’ve just started on the second book. They’re pretty alright. There’s no “wow” factor, though—but I may be wrong, I’ve just started on the second book—but definitely interesting and they give you enough to keep turning the pages. I’ll give the first book 7 out of 10.

In the meantime I’ve been disappointed again, because it looks like George R. R. Martin’s “A Dance With The Dragons” publication is going to be delayed some more. Sigh. Sigh. Sigh. I’m waiting impatiently… but HBO is making the first book of the series into a TV series—“A Game of Thrones”. This should be exciting. I hope they don’t ruin the books. I’m optimistic, though, because George R. R. Martin himself is involved in the production. If you don’t watch this series when it is airing, I swear I will disown you as a friend. Just kidding. Or maybe not.

I’ve also been acting a bit. No, not a movie star just yet (I like these things to go slowly, you see :P)—but I’ve performed in two of the productions by the “Scribble” writers’ group in the LUDS (Liverpool University Drama Society). On the Ghost Tour, I was an evil politician planning to drop a bomb on Liverpool just to gain votes. On the 12-Hour Play I was a drug dealer. I kind of like working with the group, it’s fun. Weird how I end up with evil characters, but hey I’m not complaining!!! For me, the weirder the character, the better. 😀

Uni work has been going quite well, got pretty good marks for the Science Communication Project and for the mechanics test (comparatively in the second case :P)… but then I made some stupid mistakes in the relativity homework stuff and got some stuff wrong. Oh well. (I said “stuff” twice in that sentence. I can’t be bothered to change it now.)

I haven’t kept up with any news though. I’m pretty much living under a rock. In a sense, though, it feels good because I don’t get all worked up about the stuff I hear on the news. But I guess I should know what’s going on. Maybe I’ll start reading some news after this…

Hmm… and that’s about it, really. I promise I’ll come up with an interesting blog post that isn’t about my mundane life soon. In the meantime, though, have fun aaaand subscribe to my blog!!! 😀