Silver Bullet 101

Hey everyone I'll get around to another historical interview eventually. Probably.  Anyways. I was complaining about doing maths (as usual) and Mum tells me to write an article on attitude. So I did. It really changed my perspective. Now she wants me to put it on my blog... Well, here we go: Alright so, you told me to look some stuff up on attitudes and how to get a better attitude. People tell me all the time why having a positive attitude is better, so I decided to focus on how to have a better attitude. However because I'll feel bad if I don't write something on why positive attitudes are better, I'll give you some reasons. It makes me miserable It makes Mum miserable It makes Dad miserable It makes Ral miserable Oh yeah and science says that having a positive attitude is essential to happiness and success So yeah. The first thing I decided to look up was how to have a better attitude. In other words, how not to be a

Blogging's really hard sorry for the long absence... nah I'm not sorry.                                                                                                                        - a haiku, by me. Hello everyone! After many many months, I'm back! Today for school I was told to write some haiku and a tanka for english. For those of you who don't know, a tanka is a Japanese style of poem invented over twelve hundred years ago. The Emperor of Japan actually still holds a tanka writing competition to celebrate the new year! Tanka are short and lyrical poems, traditionally consisting of 31 syllables. In Japanese, tanka follow a pattern of syllables like haiku - 5, 7, 5, 7, 7, 5. A tanka doesn't rhyme, but it makes use of metaphor, similies, and other things. Here is an example of a tanka, written by Komachi Ono in the mid tenth century AD. The blossom’s tint is washed away By heavy showers of rain; My charms, which once I prize