Thirteen Things I Love :)

1. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy; the characters and their dialogues are so amusingly witty and the writing style is beautiful. Also, the fact that it was written by a baroness who studied art and not writing makes it twice as good.

2. Italian meatballs.

3. Teaching my brother calligraphy. He has the most awkward, scratchy, tiny writing I’ve ever seen and yet somehow he’s managing to use brush pens after a few days’ practice, and he’s so dedicated to his girlfriend that he’ll learn calligraphy just to write her an invitation to go out.

4. Vietnamese food. But that’s something I’ve been in love with all my life.

5. Writing my journal. I started journalling exactly nine days before my eighth birthday and I’m just about to complete my second book of random thoughts.

6. The sky and nature in general. I keep promising myself that one day I’m going to find some beautiful meadow spread with wildflowers and empty of other people and just lie down to watch the clouds or the stars for an hour. I just have to find the meadow :)

7. Good old Aussie meat pies.

8. The presidential slogan used by W. H. Harrison and J. Tyler, “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.” Random, but humorous.

9. Gelati.

10. Telling Americans about Australian slang. They think it’s hilarious that football is shortened to footy.

11. Foreign sweets such as soan papdi and pandan cake :)

12. Polish tongue twisters.

13. Reading the New Testament and a marvellous book called Theology and Sanity which both blows my mind and puts it back together again.