The Duck Song! :D

This is the awesomest song ever! It's my favorite, just if anyone was asking. I might put on the second one some other time, but it's not as good as the first once, and the third isn't as good as the second. But I promise, this song will be stuck in your head for a long time. But it's totally worth it :D

If it's popular I'll update it with the lyrics :)

I remember- Chapter 1 (a story)

'Do you still remember what happened?' Nola asks me. I sit down on the school steps and stare at my bag.

'Yes. Yes, I do. You know I do. So why are you talking about it?'  I look up at her. She looks uncomfortable.

'Well, I dunno, I was just wondering. Sheesh!' She walks away to talk to her best friend, Stephanie.

I remember, I remember everything that happened. I don't want to, but I do.  Nola was there. She knew what was going on and yet did nothing about it.  It was the same for Mandy.  Except she didn't want to do anything. In truth I don't know about Nola. She is super popular and that's partly because she seems nice. But she convinces you to tell your secrets, and silently spreads them. And you don't know that she did unless she says she did. But Mandy, she is a bad case. She has many friends, but she hurts people. She calls 000 for fun. And we're not even in Australia.  She already has a record at the ago of 12, and gloats about it. Having a criminal record just over a decade of having existed is nothing so gloat about. She has little reason to.  I do not tell anyone what she does to people because I know when she's older, fate will lie it's bony hand on her head, and grasp it. But Mandy isn't the reason for what happened. She was just a witness. I didn't do anything, but not just anything happened to me. Something big had happened. Something bad.
After what had happened time slowed almost to a standstill, words became knifes for other people to use. Not everyone can see the depths of what can go on, in or close outside of school, friends' houses, etc. Some say what happened was bullying. Others, a joke. Both seemed minor to me. I call it verbal murder.  It wasn't what they said. It was the people, especially one, who said it. That is how I sum it all up. If that was somehow possible. But that gut feeling I still have is tearing me apart, still making every shallow breath a painful one. I haven't seen them in more than a month. But today I am suddenly trapped with them. And I will be for a year.  I feel guilt having done nothing. Pain and yet  have no grazes. Scars, and yet have never had a wound as deep as the one I can feel so far down. Everything that had happened before, all the happy memories pierce my heart and make lonely tears prick my eyes when I think of them.
After the incident I started walking alone, trusting no one. It is better to trust no one than to be gullible and get hurt. I sit alone at lunch now...And yet still I don't want to forget. Because if I forgot, I'd forget what had happened before. I can't let one bad incident change my life like this, I always tell myself that.
All that had happened before, those happy smiles, the warm laughter.
I remember......
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Hey people! I hope you liked it so far. I'd write more, but I'm going to make a recipe. I'll tell you how it ends out! :3

Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
By playing it to me with so sour a face. -Shakespeare


Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief. - Anon


Those two quotes sound fitting for my story. :)

Nyssa's guide on how to do: Healthy Apple Treat (is super quick to make)

Ingredients: 1 large apple, 1/4 cup peanut butter, 1 tablespoon of honey, 3 spoon fulls of your favourite dried fruit (optional), and granola.

1. Core the apple with an apple core of a sharp knife.
2. In a (small) bowl, combine the peanut butter, honey, and the dried fruit (raisins work well)
3. Stuff the mixture into the cored apple.
4. Sprinkle the granola on the top.


Tada! Super quick, super easy, super simple, and best of all, super tasty ;)
Thanks for reading!

UPDATE: Sorry for the *terrifyingly* bad spelling! I'll start editing my work from now on, :)

All copyright for this recipe go to Activity TV.com @

School uniform and what I think of them

School uniform. Two seemingly regular words. But what images flash into your mind when you think of them? Do you think of smart children walking in a neat pristine line? Or dull grewy skies, where children 'play' on the schoolground, in dull clothes to match the weather? For me I think of disipline. Pro? White and black clothing only. Con.
But I've only just scratched the surface.......

School uniform: Pros
Can disipline children.
2.There is (supposed to be) no diffrence to what the wealthy and er....not so wealthy wear.
3. It leaves children to think more of their work than what they're wearing.

Now for the easy part. Let me warn you beforehand, that I am a firm disbeliever in school uniforms.


School uniform: Cons

1.There isn't any individuality at all, all you have are black bottoms, white tops, grey sweaters.

2. You can't really express yourself in uniform. You can't wear an anti-rasicm t-shirt to school, and if you want to show how much you love a certain hue of red, and you want to show your friends what you mean, I know it's a very small limitation, but there still is dissapoitment

3. It can actually make students feel kinda 'blue' (grey more like) and it makes school a less colourful place to be.

4.This kinda adds to the individualitism, but it can kinda open up a world of people, in a way. There may be the kids with t-shirts with expressive quotes, the kids who always wear their favourite sneakers, the kids who wear bright colours and wear homemade accesories, but that's the kids who don't wear uniforms. The kids who do sit on the step thinking about them and wish they were in their situation.

These are just a few of my reasons. There was a poll with me and some friends over the internet and here are the results so far:

20.29% Wear uniforms and like them,
28.99% Wear uniforms and do not like them,
1.45% Have strict dress codes and like it
10.14% Have strict dress code and dislike it
24.64% Have standard dress code and like them,
2.90% Have standard dress code and dislike it
And 11.59% are homeschooled.

I enjoy writing about this topic, s I think I might continue, but now it is my duty to go get lunch! :3


Thanks for reading! :D

Scrapbooking and Whoppers, and a video

In the last couple months I have taken up scrapbooking. I don't know why, but I get some strange thrill from cutting out pictures I like, but the problem is that I don't have any scrapbooking paper (which I will buy soon) to stick the pictures in. I am also making a collage from US candy wrappers :) it's fun!
Most of my pictures come from hair magazines, and maybe a couple from some others. I am so strang,e I hate cutting close to the edges, but if I can cut as close or as far as I want, it suddenly becomes really fun....?


We're hunting for a recipie with Whopper (chocolate malt balls) in them, but no luck. Even when I just searched 'Chocolate malt balls', or plain 'malt balls', all I got were to recipies with hocolate malt powder, so we'll keep searching. Or just eat them :) Maybe Whopper cookies? That would be freaky, but it's exciting - well, as exciting as making cookies can be. The exciting part is eating them. I have such a hard time not eating the whole batch of cookie dough (even though there are eggs), so at some point I'm just goint to make plain eggless cookie dough to snack on :)

And here is the video, as promised.  Never is a Promise, it's my favourite Fiona Apple song <3 A real 'classic' too!

Thanks for reading!