Month: April 2014

IBQ Writing Prompt: Focus

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Focus now.  As this week’s IBQ Writing Prompt is about.

When I was a child, focus was not one of my strongest points. Especially when it came to school. I just wanted to play instead of studying. I never wanted to do things I didn’t want to. Homework was one of them. I was good at some things but a subject like Maths was a pain. I’ve never been good at that. I just couldn’t focus. Never been good with numbers. The weird thing is, I do remember numbers but I never seem to be enough focused with the counting part.

I’ve noticed in recent years that even if I’m focusing on something, I still can focus on my surroundings. Multitasking in my head, I would call it. People think I’m not listening while I do something else. But I really do. For example, if I’m using the internet and someone is suddenly talking to me, I can still hear them.It’s not like I become deaf if I’m focusing on something else at the same time.
When I’m writing fiction, I’m so focused on that so I forget my surroundings. But that’s probably the only time I’m not listening if someone is talking. Or I get irritated if someone interrupts my train of thought.

I’ve always seen myself as a creative person. I made scrapbooks of a few bands I liked and later one with a Formula One team and the other two drivers. I had text and pictures in them. I think I could be quite good at making websites. But I don’t think I could keep my focus on that for too long. I just get bored easily. Even photography gets boring after a while. I’m just interested in different things so my focus is not on one thing only. Maybe that’s the reason I don’t know what I want from life. Career wise that is. I just focus on so many things at once.

So tired, tired of waiting, tired of waiting for

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Game of Thrones, 4th season. Why can’t these shows never appear on Finnish TV earlier. It takes months and months after the season is over in the US before it’s shown here. It’s a real shame. I can understand it takes time to get the TV rights and put the subtitles on but still it could happen earlier. Then again when it’s shown here, it’s always 5 episodes in a row. And the other 5 later on. At least that’s something. The worse things are the spoilers. People keep talking about the show on FB or Twitter. And other social media. I feel left out. That’s one of the downsides of living in Finland. Things gets here slowly.

I’ve watched Game of Thrones from season 1. There was a lot of talk about it so I decided to watch it. It takes at least two episodes before I start to like a TV show. The same with this one. At first I was a bit confused with the plots. There were also a lot of characters to keep up with. I had no idea who was who and still don’t. And don’t ask me which characters are the best because when it comes to names, I’m really bad at it. I remember faces but not names. I had to visit IMDb for the names.
One things for sure, Joffrey is definitely to most annoying spoilt brat in TV history. Great actor but the character is not. He deserves to be slapped. If I would relate to any character, it would be Arya. She’s a bit like me, a strong-willed tomboy. But I’m not as brave as her though. Also Daenerys and her dragons kicks a$$.
At first I didn’t know if Tyrion Lannister was bad or good but as the seasons went by, he seems to be the only one of the family with a heart. So I would say he has become one of my favorite male characters (and not forgetting Jon Snow)

Even though the sex and nudity scenes are a bit over the top, Game of Thrones has become one of my favorite TV shows. So this news makes me really happy.

‘Game of Thrones’ renewed for TWO more seasons