home education
Malay, lojban, and pocket money for bookwork
Sunday, 1 April 2012 @ 1:37pm
F=Faham (Photo credit: :Salihan)
Not “versus” because it’s not a contest. Not really.
I’m about to give up on my Malay Anki deck, mostly because it’s not ordered in a way that makes logical sense to me. I grew up hearing a lot of Malay, sadly I didn’t learn it formally because I couldn’t be bothered going to Malay school on Saturday mornings (I already went to school five days a week, why in the hell would I want to go on a sixth?) and I didn’t pick up nearly enough in daily life (partially because I think my parents were more concerned about me speaking and writing decent English while going through school, partially because I had for a very long time this idiotic notion that if I couldn’t grasp something the very second it was presented then I was obviously too stupid to live, and mostly because I was probably too damn lazy to pay proper attention). I figured that I should just be able to pick it back up, and I did to a degree. I’m not sure how the deck was structured, perhaps relevance to something that wasn’t relevant to me. There were many instances where I wondered why the root word hadn’t been introduced before a word that built off it.
Fun with static electricity and other things
Saturday, 17 March 2012 @ 1:45pm
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Just randomly (and because they asked nicely), we decided to go down to the park at the end of the road on bladei (okay, fine, Thursday, to be followed up by a trip to City Farmers to stock up on roo meat and mutton, and more flea meds).
The day was lovely, and of course I hadn’t brought the camera, missed out on some awesome shots. I really need to buy something that will cart just the camera with my favourite lens attached, don’t really need the monstrosity that is JJ’s camera bag (I have enough crap to haul as is).
Music session with Child's Play Music (and other things homeschooly)
Friday, 9 March 2012 @ 7:04pm
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The most recent session at Natural Learning Co-op (formerly known as Learning Hub, apparently there’s another group in the northern suburbs also called Learning Hub, and which I’ll probably shortern to the last word as I’m lazy like that) involved a music session with Alec from Child’s Play Music. He had a huge van full of musical instruments that he’d constructed mostly from recycled materials.
Life and !schooling in 2012
Sunday, 19 February 2012 @ 12:11am
Apparently there was a bit of a kerfuffle in the moderator department, which meant I completely forgot about the moderation until the new moderator rocked up on my door towards the end of my work period. Oops. Fortunately I work from home and can make up hours easy, and I hadn’t gone out to pick up my shiny new computer yet, though I had gotten dressed to do so. So all she saw was that my place is a mess, which is about normal and I don’t clean up for anyone!
Massive Christmas Island photopost
Sunday, 12 February 2012 @ 10:44pm
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Everything that happened after the dangers of parking your ship next to a cliff, which I would have posted if my sites hadn’t been playing silly buggers. Everything is okay now, which means I’ll be posting about as much as I was inclined to post before.
Weird looking spider
Family themed photos and miscellaneous ramblings
Saturday, 7 January 2012 @ 7:44pm
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Yesterday, we went out for a drive. Christmas Island isn’t the biggest island in the world, if you point the car’s nose down the road and drive without stopping along any major track you’ll end up back where you started in about half an hour.
We went out in an exploratory mood and took many photos. Of course all the photos JJ took while we were out and about were with Kerchunk and nothing on Snap so there’s nothing I can post. We’ll just have to go out again and take more when the battery charger arrives.
Photos. Lots of them.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011 @ 12:00am
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Not quite intelligent enough for a coherent post, so have lots of captioned photos instead.
Homeschooling art and English: storyboarding with Mummy (who was working on AR storyboards)
Drawing on the Cintiq
Thursday, 13 October 2011 @ 3:59pm
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4yo likes experimenting in all media. Recently I let her have a go with Pixelmator and my Cintiq. This is what she came up with.
Now I have to go to Carousel to get her more paints and a canbus.
The Mythical Farm of Legend
Monday, 26 September 2011 @ 11:56pm
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Since I first got together with JJ, I have heard stories of the farm which has been in his family for generations (or at least, his grandparents ran it, and it’s now owned and operated by his uncles and their family). It has a name but is just referred to “The Farm”.
For the last seven years, JJ has told me he will take me to “The Farm”. For various reasons, we never quite got there.
You're doing it wrong
Monday, 22 August 2011 @ 2:30pm
Here was supposed to be yet another whingepost about how I’m doing everything wrong and there is now nothing that I “can” drop. So I’m going to see if I can somehow write myself into doing “it” right.
The computer room is a f***ing mess There is more crap than there should be on the desk. Most of it is paper that needs to be filed or recycled, and I have just been too damn lazy to process them into the appropriate location.