Six days later...

So I've had no internet for six days. Many apologies to you my beloved readers ><
It's been an interesting experience indeed!

I slept between 10 and 11 every night. Woke up between 5 and 7 every morning. Albeit that might have been due to the early traffic than any improved body clock ^^"

Anyhoo I got up to some weird stuff during my internetless (and tvless) period. Watched about 20 eps of how I met your mother. Watched Iron Man. And then again the next night +.+". Then some Igudesman and Joo. And did a teensy bit of exercise. Actually Alex pointed out that given the situation I should have done much more exercise. I've found some nice routes to run around here, haven't gone running yet though, as I've been moving in etc all week =_= hurah. It's also kind of my excuse to be a little antisocial this week eheh ^^" Need to fix that hey!


Something I was thinking about today. When you're young, everything is up in the air. I think of young things as being a source of hope in the world. When you're young you have all this potential, both in terms of your ability to learn and how much time you have to do it in. As I've grown slightly older I've found that potential has diminished somewhat, and the gap between the polar ends of your peer group widens more and more. And it's a pretty depressing feeling, knowing that that time you could have been using to do something awesome is lost...

But then again you can look at it as we're still about 20 and have at least thrice that time again left to live =] The potential there is still amazing. It's kind of nice to look back and be a bit regretful you didn't dedicate all your time during the past years, and then appreciate how much time you've still got left ^^

Anyhoo that's just something rather incoherent that was floating around my head today. Stay motivated and active your whole life; tis important =]

Post #2 of 2011 =]
"Attitudes are contagious.
Is yours worth catching?"-Author Unknown

Listening to : Matchbox 20 - How far we've come

Boo !

I told you - new motivation every year =p

So I've moved to Queensland now.
The first couple days I didn't really enjoy, since I was still a bit sad about leaving everyone at home I suppose. Also they were like 35 degrees and I was basically roasting walking around the city all day.
The uni here is...kinda like Melbourne High a little in my head - they really value their public image, and also the quality of education. Which is a good thing I suppose, but it's also a bit of a worry since it means they're going to work us like probes the four years they have us. Apparently the pressure comes down alot more in second and third year though, so perhaps I've got a bit of a honeymoon year coming =]

Anyway, enough about me. How've you been dear reader? In this long long....looong absence of mine from this blog xD I'm not sure this is a healthy relationship we have, but as long as you only care about interesting stuff to read I figure I might as well not put my entire life and soul into this, as there is enough interesting stuff already on the internet (see blogs listed on the left) =] And if that's not enough for you there's always New Scientist, xkcd, amirte, cracked and world news. And iuno...^^"

Lastly, over the years I've collected something like 42 pages of quotes that I think are pretty good. I'll probs chuck one in with each post. This way each post will become one of those super short tumblr type things if you skip over the blob of text ^^

Anyhoo here's post #1 of 2011 =]
“The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me". Look what happens with a love like that; it lights up the whole sky.”

Listening to : Dancing with myself - Billy Idol (because I haven't met people I don't feel awkward dancing around here yet =p)

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

d(o.o)b

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networking with industry representatives to help clarify career pathways and get
exposure to career fields of interest.

Speakers include: A Research engineer from the
Bionic Eye Institute and a recently graduated BSc (Honours) student working at Peter
Mac.

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 =]