Quick One

Some good advice for life =]
As we get older and older, I keep hearing the message that we'll end up somewhere different than where we planned to originally.

I want to keep old friends.
Keep fit.
Find out what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Make sure I am financially stable.
Travel.

I have this list of things I wanted to do. Just like anything. It's good I think to be able to plot little events in your future. Kind of feels like I can steer where I am going a little bit =]

Fact: Prokaryotes have one RNA polymerase. Eukaryotes have several.

Quote: ‎"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." - Mark Twain

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I just realised the last couple times I visited the "create blog" page I used it to decipher the crappily formatted emails I receive from university. Above is one such example.

Anyway, what is up with me and blogging lately? I don't know, I guess I just don't see it as an integral part of my life haha. I do have random places where I write down stuff I've done lately etc, but I dislike the idea of putting that kind of stuff on the internet. I guess Dad has affected the way I think more than I thought =p

Nevertheless, why not regive it a try. New blog promise, I won't post twice a week, or once a week, or maybe even once a month. But every time I do write something I will endeavour that it contains some actual food for thought, and effort on my part. =] Should have said that to start out shouldn't I haha...I'd much rather quality over quantity.

Spoiler alert: if you have not seen Inception you may not understand/want to read this bit.

So recently I saw Inception. And I wanna skip to the end of the movie. You remember that rageworthy ending that made people jump up and go "WTF DAMMIT TELL ME HOW IT ENDS" ? Ok well I almost did that =.= Anyway I was thinking about it and, well, experiment: Loop that video for like 20min, and see how long people will watch it. I mean, apart from the lolful prolonged almost-climax feeling, that kind of reaction happens alot in real life doesn't it?

Like...unless you literally KNOW the thing fell over, there is always the chance that it will never fall over. And if it has not fallen over yet, then both outcomes are still equally valid. So, while the top is still spinning, it gives you this hope that the ending is happy, and not bittersweet like we know it probably is. This hope is precisely why the joke of dragging out that scene for a retarded amount of time works at all.

In real life, you can kind of see people dragging hope out for inane amounts of time. Like that mega long crush some people have that amount to nothing, or trying to get things to go back to how they were 'back then', or hoping that your marks will magically improve without you studying =p

Iuno if this makes alot of sense...but ye I thought it was an interesting observation at the time =]

Side note: Download/youtube the track "Mind Heist" from Inception trailer. It makes me feel epic. Viv says it makes her want to rule the world from her toilet.

I think I will end here, just because I need to sleep and whatnot. I hope reading this was worth your time ^^ Until next time =]

Listen to: Uncle Kracker - Smile

"Laugh every moment you live, for you’ll find it decidedly difficult afterwards” – Nicomo Cosca

EPIC AWESOME

Quote: "When running from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address."

Fact: Smoking paralyzes the cillia of the cells in your oesophagus for hours, causing lots of icky mucus buildup. Also James says hi and that lemons have more sugar content than strawberries (?) =]

Over the Hill

SO! My massive 3 exams in three days is over, and now I have a whoooooole WEEK until Finance 1 ^_^.

Have been rereading my old Deltora quest books lately, very fond memories =] However Hungy mentioned deltora quest anime and watching that kind of made it less special in my head...== It inserted all those "we're fighting for PEACE and...FREEDOM!" type lines and made the whole thing sound much more corny >3 Way to ruin a memory man =[

Music I have been listening to lately:
Ron Pope - A drop in the ocean
If you're feeling a bit lovesick
Train - Brick by Brick, This ain't goodbye, Hey soul sister
The last one makes me happy. The first two I've just found and am not really sure what I think about them =] I really like this band ^^ They've got some really nice songs.
Josh Pyke - The Summer, Memories and Dust
The summer is one of those nostalgic songs. Memories and Dust MV has baby chickens hatching.
Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin - Cardinal Rules
I laughed that they named the band to make Boris feel better. Tbh I'm not actually sure why they're called that but it's a nice thought ^^
Last Dinosaurs - Honolulu
I'm not sure why I like this. It just gives me alot of energy ^^
Chopin - Ocean etude (Op. 25, no 12)
Pro piano, and it sounds awesome =]
Hancock Soundtrack - The Moon and the Superhero
For feeling epic and superhero-y. At about 1min57-ish I always imagine someone standing on top of a cliff with a cape on a windy day haha.

Anyway yes, so my first day of the finance studying period was spent playing CoD and driving mom and James to/from work/school. Yaay. I love slow days like this XD

Fact: Calumniate - To make maliciously or knowingly false statements about. Also, the washbasin handles in the guys toilet in the Melb U physics podium resemble ninja stars. =]

Quote: Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. - Bellerophon (Euripides)


I always wondered about this haha

So I finished Bio revision...

And our last topic was the animal kingdom (like classification and whatnot, I made a wonderful flowchart for it =]) Somehow, that got me thinking about this type of Australian bird I remember learning about from Primary school. So I sat and thought.

and thought..

and thought...

AND REMEMBERED!! It's called the Tawny Frogmouth- I know, awesome name right? That is just the beginning, when I googled this bird to refresh my memory like every page had some lolful pic on it. Anyway, it gave me such a refreshing change from the dullness of bio that I felt I should share the good mood with the internet ^_^

"Smouldering eyes" I need to learn how to do this expression bahah

At the time I thought this one had a kind of evil little dictator look about it but now it kind of just looks out of it ..^^"

"Bed hair"

You may think this this one is happy to see you, but the caption that came with it said it was eating a small animal =[

Ok so now you can all see how the week of being locked up at home has affected me =p Anyway hope that gave you some kind of respite from the hard studying I know you are all doing ^^

Fact: The juxtaglomerular apparatus is made of modified smooth muscle, and reacts to drops in blood pressure by releasing renin which acts on angiotensinogen which acts on angiotensin I which acts on angiotensin II which stiumlates thirst, constricts peripheral arterioles, constricts efferent arterioles in nephrons and makes the hypothalamus produce aldosterone via the posterior pituitary which changes the permeability of the tissue in the thick ascending limb of Henle to water which allows more to be reabsorped and increases total blood volume, leading to an increase in blood pressure, maintaining homeostasis. =] Wooosh! I told you I'd done my bio revision XD

Quote: “How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it” – Mark Twain

See you on the other side of exams kids =]

My little world

So whoever reads this has probably realised I haven't posted for a little while =] This is of course because of the evil evil evil exams I have on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Since they're kind of important and my first ever uni exams I thought I'd try and hardcore nerd it out.

Hahahahahah =__="

I love how I trick myself into doing this every pre-exam period. I mean, by all rights, should have been studying couple weeks before now, so I wouldn't have to try and all out nerd...but it's the same as making lunch on holidays; always too far to prepare for properly so when you actually feel hungry/need to study you just end up with a ceebs 4 layer toasted cheese sandwich lol ^^" (I'm not sure what the studying equivalent of that is >_>)

In other news though, I FINALLY FINALLY learnt Comptine D'un autre ete from Amelie (that song Pingu played heaps at school if any mhs kids remember) and I think you should all search for it because it's awesome! I'd almost forgotten about that song, but Mum found it in my youtube history and loved it so I decided to hunt down the sheet music =] Funny thing is it took me less than a couple hours to learn. I like how you can just steamroll down tasks when you set your mind to them =] Also we got an awesome Tv and I now have the Bridge to Terabithia soundtrack. That movie always makes me feel extra optimistic X^__^

Anyway I'd better get some sleep now XD Hope everyone is still studying hard =]

Fact: I decided to blog at midday today. It is now 11.27pm. Now you may think that is alot of lag..but ... I got hung up playing this towerdefence game, and then eating, then setting up Tv, then some other game made by american uni kids. And yes, the final blow for my apathy was the realisation that I wouldn't be able to say I blogged TODAY if I did it past 12 ^^"

Quote: "Time is like the ocean; you can only hold so much in your hands at once."


Start mornings like this and it is impossible to have a bad day XD

Fruit Ninja

Is possibly the most awesome game ever invented (contending with counterstrike, dota, oven break, tetris, minesweeper and go....don't judge me ><). I spent most of the micro lecture after Finance today playing it on Alex's itouch.

Stuff that happened today:
We had a very emotional last ever Calc 2 tute. That group of kids was my reason to drag myself to uni every thursday morning =[ Ima miss them. Even the ones I didn't really meet.

Bought my first ever warm bubblecup. Very yummy, especially since it was such a cold day ^_^ Mandy and Alex reckon they taste retarded but I think it is just an acquired taste. Anyway, they might have icky bacteria filled icecubes. Also the melting ice dilutes the milktea and makes it taste weird. Totally secure about my choice of bubblecup =\

Crashed a chem tute - I need to revise alot... :O

Finished reading over chem notes made in lectures.

Dot waved at me...REALLY ENERGETICALLY!!!

I found 50c at union house and we spent an improper amount of time spinning/rolling it.

I got some honey chicken from Hungy.

I got half a crab ball from swango; midair chopstick mediated exchange of slippery hemisphere of processed meat was quite pro. (gosh that sounds awesome)

We devised a catapult from a Saigon noodle shop spoon and a polystyrene plate. Said catapult was used by Jacky to plop coin into Swang's noodles. (luckily the crab hemisphere was obtained before this time)

I actually shed a tear laughing at this movie on oj's computer in finance. It was a guy just whacking himself over the head with a sheet of wood over and over again lol. But when I rewatched it myself at home in full it was actually kind of sad...I realised he was trying to prove the usefulness of determination and persistence by not giving up until he broke the thing in half... =\

I scored 270 on fruit ninja. I believe for a first attempt this is quite formidable and this is clear evidence that I am at least part ninja.

I was given a free Milky Way chocolate ^_^

I beat Oven Break again, gaining an E for Alex, who was of course filled with praise because of my blessing her itouch with my skills. Bonita reckons if you spell out FREEDOM with the letters the ingame background music changes.

Fact: Redbull + milk tea from bubblecup = congealed blobs of milk and a clear bottom layer or syrupy/watery stuff. If you look at the top bit from above it looks like curdled milk (which is what I believe it is).

Ps: I am sorry I haven't been updating music. I have been making mental playlists on the way home on the bus but I always cbs by the time I get home ^^"
Pps: ........................................I forget >_>
Ppps: OH RIGHT!!!!!

DEAR LITTLE FISH WHO LIVE IN THE SIDE OF MY PAGE!! You were dearly missed during my absence from this blog. I hope you did not get too skinny =[

There we go, someone said they liked long posts =] Hope reading this left your conscience with enough time to collect itself and nag you into doing homework =p