2:32 PM
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
I want a brain like Daniel Tammet's!! If not Kim Peek's also can... lol. x)
Extraordinary.
And he even composes poems! o_O
Yesterday I went to Gullfoss
Appeared a rainbow there
I stepped on it by mistake
And climbed into the sky
Looking down I could see
The light-swept land
Wet moss and gleaming stones
Bathed in warm and rippling air
I saw my friends, like angels
Disappear into the shining spray
Wearing the waterfall
Close against their skin, against their hearts
Elsewhere I saw rivers, their floors coated
With travellers’ silvered hopes
Flung below like falling stars
Into the streaming darkness
In the distance I could see
Turrets of steam
Pulling at the horizon
And in the towns and cities
I watched people talking among themselves
Stitching their breath
With soft and coloured words
In a harbour “Sólfarið”,
A sunfaring man
With outstretched arms
Hugs time
Remembering the tide-washed dreams of men
Born and those still yet to be
*Daniel Tammet holds the European record for memorising and recounting Pi to 22,514 digits in just over five hours and speaks a variety of languages including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto!! (fellow monsters: siao~)
**Whereras Kim Peek is probably the world's most famous savant, one who devours books on anything and everything, (as many as 8 in a day! even Huiqin cant do that..haha). He reads at a phenomenal rate, a page that may take others 3-5 mins will only take Kim about 10 sec! He reads the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye and will retain about 98% of it. o____O He has 15 subject areas but about the only thing he can't do is, he can't reason out mathematical problems. Haha he should befriend Daniel... (which he did! lols.)
I simply love documentary shows. hahas. xD
Currently on Arts Central, the Mosaic Monday (9pm) has showcased incredible peeps like Budhia Singh and Daniel Tammet (coming up next: Ben Underwood--the boy who sees without eyes). It's a series of documentaries recording the lives of some truly amazing people who demonstrate abilities that we could hardly find possible.
Highly recommended!! x)
