YAY! My cyber life is now utterly fulfilled! With msn, blogspot, bebo, emails, it was almost the package. Now it IS the package. Hooray for online connections and videocalling to people a hemisphere away!
Which reminds me.
I still have homework.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Teenage trivialties
As I scour the internet for bits and bobs to help me in writing my speech for English, I lament at the fact that this is due in about a week, I haven't even settled down on a point of view let alone found substance.
Procrastination is a waste of time. I should get going.
I'll post something about resources and researching soon, yes that's what I'll do, after I find some more stuff for my speech, but then I also have to write a German speech, and study for a fraction of a mock exam, and write another German speech for Goethefest which good'ole teacher entered me and 2 others into, good'ole speech competitions, and that's in a week or two, and finish some long-due homework (due about 2 months ago), this is all I dwell on while my sister pants doing press-ups to impress herself and the dust in the carpet.
Procrastination is a waste of time. I should get going.
I'll post something about resources and researching soon, yes that's what I'll do, after I find some more stuff for my speech, but then I also have to write a German speech, and study for a fraction of a mock exam, and write another German speech for Goethefest which good'ole teacher entered me and 2 others into, good'ole speech competitions, and that's in a week or two, and finish some long-due homework (due about 2 months ago), this is all I dwell on while my sister pants doing press-ups to impress herself and the dust in the carpet.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Days feel like days
You know how certain days of the week, Monday through to Sunday, feel different and unique?
So that every Friday you know it's Friday because you feel it in your body calendar?
Then you get the days that don't feel like their names.
Yesterday felt like Friday when it was Thursday and today felt like a total Sunday.
It depends on your weekly routines I suspect.
If you go to school, then the first day of school after a break feels like Monday, even if it's Tuesday because of Queen's Birthday weekend or something.
Yesterday felt like a total Friday, because exams had finished on the Wednesday so the week felt ended due to the conclusion of a hard two-week's worth of strenuous study and two-hour sized pressures. It was Thursday.
Today felt like Sunday, because Sundays tend to be my nothing-useful-much days, and I didn't have school so it was rather a day of nothing-useful-much. It's Friday.
If life goes on like this, then isn't it interesting that we have our own associations with days? Should we thus name the weekdays with the day-name they feel like?
For example: A day with new starts on projects and new meetings with old faces is called Monday (say). The next day feels the same. And the next. We can thus legitimately have multiple successive Mondays.
And school holidays would be called 14-weekend-days in a row.
Mind you, that would result in much confusion due to personal differences.
But an interesting prospect anyway.
So that every Friday you know it's Friday because you feel it in your body calendar?
Then you get the days that don't feel like their names.
Yesterday felt like Friday when it was Thursday and today felt like a total Sunday.
It depends on your weekly routines I suspect.
If you go to school, then the first day of school after a break feels like Monday, even if it's Tuesday because of Queen's Birthday weekend or something.
Yesterday felt like a total Friday, because exams had finished on the Wednesday so the week felt ended due to the conclusion of a hard two-week's worth of strenuous study and two-hour sized pressures. It was Thursday.
Today felt like Sunday, because Sundays tend to be my nothing-useful-much days, and I didn't have school so it was rather a day of nothing-useful-much. It's Friday.
If life goes on like this, then isn't it interesting that we have our own associations with days? Should we thus name the weekdays with the day-name they feel like?
For example: A day with new starts on projects and new meetings with old faces is called Monday (say). The next day feels the same. And the next. We can thus legitimately have multiple successive Mondays.
And school holidays would be called 14-weekend-days in a row.
Mind you, that would result in much confusion due to personal differences.
But an interesting prospect anyway.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Earthquakes = karma? Don't be bad to other people.
The tragic 7.9 more or less Earthquake in SiChuan, China, Monday 12th May 2008:
The triviality of people:
Sharon Stone, Hollywooder, being the idiot* many Hollywooders are, said (quote): (source http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/26/sharon_stone_on.php)
'Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like THAT.
2. She can't do anything. She's not powerful, she's not Chinese, and when it comes to issues within a race, only will changes be made by people within the race.
3. Karma? as in, my karma ran over my dogma**? so, Sichuan was hit by this massive fatal and horrific earthquake, purely because of political and internal issues. Ok. Then let's disregard all aspects of science, y'know, China's not sitting on any faultline, God decided he didn't like China anymore so killed tens of thousands of people to prove something.
Well, we being in NZ, a nice little land right on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, are absolutely fool-proofingly safe from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as long as we are nice to people.
I suppose the Napier Earthquake in February 1931 happened because some people in that town were mean to other people.
I suppose Pompeii in Italy was destroyed in AD 79 because the villagers were nasty to other villages.
So Japan, Hawaii and all the other nations on the Pacific ring of fire and other natural disaster hotspots on Earth are safe, will be completely free of natural*** disasters forever, as long as their people are nice.
Then I don't understand why God showed favouritism to Hilter, and didn't strike him and all his family and Nazis with a monstrous seismic wave or two.
* idiot: for saying and thinking what she said and thinks. I do not mean this in any other way, relating to any other features of her, this is merely based on her utter lack of knowledge in geology.
** my dogma ran over my karma: Beloved biology teacher at my school shows brilliant humour.
*** will they still be natural if they are supposedly directly caused by man-made issues?
- 9000 or so aftershocks
- up to 5 million homeless
- 69 000 dead, 18 000 missing, 373 600 injured
- and too many more stats to make you teary-eyed about.
- http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoservice/reference_services/china-earthquake-sichuan.asp
The triviality of people:
Sharon Stone, Hollywooder, being the idiot* many Hollywooders are, said (quote): (source http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/26/sharon_stone_on.php)
'Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like THAT.
And I had been this, you know, concerned about, oh how should we deal with the Olympics because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine.
And all these earthquake and stuff happened and I thought: IS THAT KARMA... when you are not nice that bad things happen to you?'
1. For crying out loud, she ought not to pretend to be 'concerned about how to think', it's not like she knows anything about Chinese history and the politics involved.2. She can't do anything. She's not powerful, she's not Chinese, and when it comes to issues within a race, only will changes be made by people within the race.
3. Karma? as in, my karma ran over my dogma**? so, Sichuan was hit by this massive fatal and horrific earthquake, purely because of political and internal issues. Ok. Then let's disregard all aspects of science, y'know, China's not sitting on any faultline, God decided he didn't like China anymore so killed tens of thousands of people to prove something.
Well, we being in NZ, a nice little land right on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, are absolutely fool-proofingly safe from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as long as we are nice to people.
I suppose the Napier Earthquake in February 1931 happened because some people in that town were mean to other people.
I suppose Pompeii in Italy was destroyed in AD 79 because the villagers were nasty to other villages.
So Japan, Hawaii and all the other nations on the Pacific ring of fire and other natural disaster hotspots on Earth are safe, will be completely free of natural*** disasters forever, as long as their people are nice.
Then I don't understand why God showed favouritism to Hilter, and didn't strike him and all his family and Nazis with a monstrous seismic wave or two.
* idiot: for saying and thinking what she said and thinks. I do not mean this in any other way, relating to any other features of her, this is merely based on her utter lack of knowledge in geology.
** my dogma ran over my karma: Beloved biology teacher at my school shows brilliant humour.
*** will they still be natural if they are supposedly directly caused by man-made issues?
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