Able was I ere I saw Elba.


Dictionary.com, which has been faithfully sending me new vocabulary daily (my Word of the Day subscription, which comes together with complete definitions, pronunciation method and excellent examples), mailed me the word Palindrome the other day, and Napoleon’s Lament (the title sentence) was one of the examples.


I’ve forgotten what palindrome meant, so the word stuck deep enough for me to remember it, but what amazes me is how palindromes are conceived.


Surely, we can only boil enough possibilities to render it a coincidence, but it seems to me that palindromes at large is created, perhaps not so coincidentally, as we may (sometimes) see. Still, I guess it takes quite an effort to come up with a something like Napoleon’s lament that meant the same thing either way and actually mean something at all.


Or, it does take quite a mind. But *shrug*, this is not a thing to ponder immensely, does it?


Well, semester break is coming to an end. I can announce with all pride and glory that I’ve not managed anything worthy of an achievement throughout my 3 weeks of freedom from forced education (I said forced even though I choose to go through it, because I still have to go through it). Well, there’s of course the picture-taking job for Pauline last week, which I shall not deem as an achievement until I see the photos published or commented in any way (bad or likewise).

And working for Uncle Fook, not counting the other 2 jobs I have to decline hesitantly due to other responsibilities, and I’m still not paid… so it ain’t something to talk about, right?


Right, sem break is now at an end… resolutions are up and sticky-noted all over the desk, and it’s down to self-perseverance that I’ll see through every one of them.


Mhmm.


Self-perseverance.


Right…


So, here’s a picture for you to look at; something I took on Melawati Hill and what I hoped as a fairytale shot… only to ruin it.


And here’s an anime you should check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshiken


And here’s the Word of the Day:


agglomeration \uh-glom-uh-RAY-shuhn\, noun:
1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.2. A jumbled cluster or mass of usually varied elements.