Miscellaneous Math

Just a swift update. We have an examination in one of my math classes tomorrow, and as preparation we got a model exam, made to resemble the real thing. We did not, though, get the solutions, so I wrote them down myself and posted them in a prezi presentation (look at the bottom of this post) to the rest of the class.

What I discovered was that it was great fun to write down these explanations and try to make them as clear and comprehensive as possible (which was also good training since I am studying to become a math and physics teacher!). Next time I think I'll do it with even more colour and perhaps some neat illustrations, or animations, or the whole thing as a video perhaps? There are no limits for what you can do these days!

But unfortunately there are a limit for how long we can afford to hold the club open every night (our staff must get their beauty sleep, you know!) so we're closing for today and wish you very much welcome back tomorrow!

(And by the way, for anyone (unlikely) interested in the prezi presentation, you can found it here: (http://prezi.com/unz3ngvbgy1b/fullstandiga-losningar-till-modelltentan-i-algebra-med-kommentarer/ :) )

Discover your Neuro-Symfonica!

This will be a short but enlightening post from the club corner!

I designed this this morning:

It is a logo for a still not created club for development of the mind, called Neuro-Symfonica due to the beautiful thought of a constant symphony of electrical impulses flowing through the neurons inside our brains.

My idea is that we will study methods for boosting creativity, strive for artistic excellency and, most concrete, train memory techniques. If you haven't heard about memory techniques before you should really look them up. They are methods that anyone can use to almost immediately increase their memory capacity by an enormous amount. I have trained seriously for about a month now and yesterday I beat my record at memorizing the order of the cards in a deck and then recalling them perfectly. My new record is 2 minutes and 54 seconds, and it was my first time under three minutes! To become a Grandmaster of Memory you have to make it in two minutes blank. And to be able to beat the world record you must do it in about 20 seconds!! So I guess I have to train some more...

In the autumn I will (hopefully) compete in the swedish championships of memory sports (yes, it exists a such, and a world championship too!).

Hope I'll see you tomorrow. Have a memorable time until then (and go look up those memory techniques!)! Pie so long! :)

Quacksophone Rock

We welcome you tonight with tunes unlike any you've ever heard
before, namely those of the quacksophone!

I did this birthday card for one of my little brothers who will turn 17 tomorrow! (They are growing up so fast!) I really like drawing birthday cards on my own instead of buying them. Usually the ones in the stores are not that good, and even if they would sometimes be funny and original they stop being so pretty fast since everyone who has considered buying a birthday card

(most people who gets a birthday card perhaps)

has already seen it in the store and its laughing

or special power is gone!

Therefore, to be sure to give someone a truly original and personal card, I think you do best in doing it yourself. And I'm sure most people could. Even if one isn't that skilled at drawing it is still much more fun to get such a card then a regular one.

Anyway, enough babbled about doing your own birthday cards! Yesterday I was also at a course in improvisation theater that I'm taking. It's so much fun and can be recommended for anyone. Yes, anyone!

However, it would be sad if I bored my few?/only?/still non-existing? reader(s) to death, so I think I'll try to keep the posts rather short. This is probably an okay length. So, with a funky quacksophone rock I wave goodbye and say g'night t'yall!

Poetry Night!

Tonight is Poetry Night at the club! You are all very welcome to share your works and the winner, as usual, get's a hat filled with the world's sweetest blueberry jam!

Actually, I went to compete in the great art of Slam Poetry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_slam) yesterday, and it was awesome! Well, except that it didn't start before six p.m. which meant that I, due to an overload of nervosity,

had to lie in bed and repeat my poems about a hundred times before finally it was time to leave for the competition.

It is awful sometimes to be so nervous that you almost can't stand up straight, you know what I mean? When your body is overflown by some kind of strange weakness that makes your legs want to crunch down and you eyelids heavy as an overweighty elephant in too much armour. But after all I like it, because when you're feeling like that, it most often means that you are about to do something extraordinary, something exciting, something risky perhaps, something that you don't know the outcome of. And ain't that the definition of adventure? :)

Anyway, as all of my poems are in Swedish (except one which is actually a mixture of Swedish and English verses) it would probably not be much of an idea to share them here, but at least I'll give you a picture destilled from one of my poems, called "A Very Good Recipe", which illustrates it pretty well. The text in it says "thousand litres of possibilities" (and in Swedish it rhymes!).

Did I mention that I won? I did! And so I will compete in the spring finals here in Gothenburg (where I now live and study by the way...). Exciting indeed! And it also means that lots of new poems have (and are!) yet to be written!

Well, poetry night is over, and you won the blueberry jam! Congratulations! Until our lightnings strikes at the same spot again,

have a great and poetic time!

To the Silver Screen, and Beyond!

Hi there all you fanatic fans! ;)

So, it appears (as so often before) that the Club is once again open to the public! It's a little bit like Willy Wonka's factory, isn't it? Closing for a long time, no-one knows what REALLY is going on in there, driven by a mad man? Remarkable how similar they are! :)

Anyway, a lot has of course happened since the last time, both things that I don't want to talk about, things that I don't have the time to talk about, and things that would just probably bore you!

So I'll talk about something completely different: What's ABOUT to happen!

Tomorrow will be AWESOME! I'm, as the title of this post implies, visiting the cinemas, to see the film of the decade, which finally is coming to Sweden... Here's a clue:

(Drew him for my cousin's birthday card!) I don't know if this guy will actually starr in the movie, but he did in the last one! That's right, I'm at last getting the very fine oppurtunity to see TOY STORY 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Successor to the successor to my favorite movie of all times: TOY STORY! :D

What a day! What a day! What a diddeli-day! Hey hey hey! :)

Surely looking forward to THAT!

But as for now I gotta get some sleep so that I can register every little beautiful detail that the beloved masters at Pixar has put into this (as I hope) brand new masterpiece! ;)

G'night to ya'll! S'ya soon! :)

The Return of the Club(!)

Whoa!

After over 13 months of silent lethargy the Blueberry Club is open once again! Really? Really! You all knew I wasn't going to let you down, didn't you? Just waited for the right moment for a comeback. And what's better than the beginning of a new decade? Not much! :)

So, let's hear some applauses for the shiny new year:

So it has begun then. Exciting! I'm sure that the following ten years will

bubble over with amazing events, magical moments and (hopefully) lots of interesting posts on the blog! My decade promise would be to take chances, seize every day and approach new things with an attitude as daring and courageous as that of the little bird below:

(The completely terrifying snow monster above was made by the unbelievably sweet subject of the previous (13,5-months-old) post, who's more mine than ever! :) )

Happy new decade everyone! Let's hope that the Club will make it a little bit longer this time and, well, see you next post! :)

And I Love her...

Long time no update!



Sorry for not writing during the past two weeks. I've been busy. When I'm not with her I think of her and when I think of her everything else seem not so important anymore, this blog for example. But I don't want to leave yet another young blog dead on the internet so I'll try to start updating again once in a while.

Since the last post a lot has happened. We've been to the movies twice, went to the "Culture Night of Skövde" last Friday, she's been at my place and I'm at hers. And I love her. Everything's just getting better and better. The more I get to know her, the more I like her. She's awesome.

Love tends to make me lose focus a bit. Instead of doing my homework I browse YouTube searching for love songs (now I see why there are so many of them!). But well, I have actually been able to keep some projects running. I made yet another contribution to the list of Creative Study Techniques, a board game for our last test in Physics, worked fine and was really fun to do (my teachers even let me do it in class). I and Oscar did some songs for our Swedish test on Friday just some hour ago. I'll soon be entering a competition together with my class where you can win $15 000 if your lucky (and work hard!). It's about creating a web page connected with school, knowledge and creativity. That suits me perfectly, ours is going to be about creative study techniques!


I've also made an interview with Swedish TV celebrity Hanna Johansson, a farmer from the program "Farmer Seeks Wife" (although she searched for a man). That was fun, she was very nice and owned 60 cows. It took a while to get rid of the smell but it was worth it. The interview was for the local newspaper, I work as a youth reporter there, it's neat.

And as you can see I've been drawing too, guess who I was thinking of?




I haven't put my hands into a chainsaw or so, it's just colour. Drawing with watercolour using your hands is great fun! The drawing is inspired from the last movie we saw, but there it was a strawberry. Don't know which movie? Here's a clue:

Love and Good night!

Love's Hard Stuff, Charlie Brown!

Good Evening folks!

This is a strange post.

It feels lovely, but I find it all quite complicated. I can solve the most mind-twistingly difficult math problems, physics is fine, biology makes sense. Love, is so much harder. I don't even know what to think about her, just that I do think about her, all the time! I've been trying to do my homework all day, but I haven't read more than a few pages.


Okay, enough of that for a little while. Another reason for the, not so good, Charlie Brown drawing and title of the post is that my cousins were here Friday to Wednesday and we watched almost every episode of Charlie Brown! It's an amazing show, truly entertaining, although some of the episodes are better than others. One of my personal favourites is "There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown" where Charlie Brown must get an A on his field trip report on an art museum but enters by mistake a super market instead. All while Peppermint Patty's trying to get Charlie to confirm his (non-existing) love to her. Very amusing, and it all ends well!




So, hopefully Sunday turns out great to (and it did!)!
I suppose there's no need to worry, or what do you say, mr Lennon?
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Beatles!

Celebration Times!

O'boy!

Today something amazing happened!!! I won't tell you what it is. Not yet anyway. But I will say that it made me feel dizzy and crazy and uncontrollably happy. Even happier than this snowman:

And as usual on Thursdays I went to the culture house to draw some life, here's some of it:

Now I have to concentrate on the horrifying chemistry test of tomorrow.

As always, expect marvelous things to happen!
Good Night!

Steal From the Rich and Eat at the Club!

The Club's opened again!

Sorry for not writing in such a long time (6 days!). The reason for this lack of updates isn't lack of things to write about, rather the opposite! From Thursday night to Monday morning I and Oscar worked on a film for our upcoming chemistry test this Friday. We wanted to make a movie that was educational AND entertaining (easier said than done!) so that we and our classmates could sit down and watch it instead of reading the tremendously boring pages of our chemistry book over and over. And still get high grades!

So, we wrote the script on Thursday. Filmed most of it on Friday. Edited and filmed from 4 pm to 4 am Saturday-Sunday and then 12 pm to 2 am Sunday-Monday. And then we burned it to DVD Monday morning and showed it at chemistry class the same day!

It was meant to be about 5-10 minutes in length but turned out around 23. Doesn't cover the whole test but big parts of it. You may watch it on YouTube, divided in part 1, part 2 and part 3. It's in Swedish so you probably won't understand anything but the story is about Karl-Bertil Jonas (me) who falls asleep during his studies and dreams that he is Robin Hood (here named Jonas Hood). Together with Little Oscar and brother Tuck he regains the protons from the evil Prince Ylva (our teacher) to restore the chemical equilibrium in Nottingham.

Also, I went figure drawing last Thursday, here's part of the outcome:

And I promise new posts soon, the Blueberry Club is going full speed again!