Toothbrush

Yes. Indeed today I am bringing my toothbrush to uni. Aren't I a good little dentist haha =]
Also I'm worried I might have to get some booster shots to bump up my immunity =[ Yucky needles.



I think I'm going to look just like that kid =[

Anyhoo Post 5 of 2011 =]
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” – Dr Robert Schuller

Listening to: Human - John McLaughlin

Van Helsing

....is probably not the best movie I've ever watched =\ In fact I consider it a couple hours wasted =_=. But yes I'd never seen it before and I wanted to exercise the power of my new library card OKAYY?

ahem. So...
guess who recently:
-ran 8k VERY EARLY in the morning while REPEATEDLY dodging deadly bicycles
-learnt the alphabet backwards in a day (I finally resolved to do it after seeing a video on youtube. You can listen here =] Now I'll be prepared if boost ever has another free reciting the alphabet backwards competition (fwahaha)
-spent today looking at pictures of mouths and (sadly enough) enjoyed it xD
-pretended they were superman when the lift in their apartment building took them upstairs
-and finally cooked a badass chicken soup XD

I am oh so cool I know I know =p OH BTW if you cbb pleeeease gimme ideas for stuff to cook over here haha. So far I've tried scrambeled eggs, spaghetti, chicken soup, two types of stirfry chicken + veg and banana milkshakes. Someone suggested sushi but I'm not sure I trust myself to make it; it's quite hard to get the rice the right consistency right?

Eh anyway onto the slightly more think-y bit. I was having a conversation with my friend the other day. The basic point of debate was, "Assuming that all religions essentialy are different ways of worshipping the same God. Without this God, humans would have no sense of good and evil." My initial knee-jerk response was, no. I know plenty of non-religious people who live lives with good morals. But I guess, if you say those morals are derived from the society the people in question were brought up in, and the laws of...well pretty much every society were set out in a time when religion was pretty much ubiquitous in society. So the other persons argument was that, even though you don't account the values you own to a higher power, by taking them from the society you live in you've indirectly used the Gods morals, and hence without them your values still wouldn't exist.
This sounded a bit weird still to me. I mean, given that pretty much every culture in the world ever had a religion at some stage in their history means that whatever morals you do have would have to be attributed to the higher God. It pretty much means the argument is unbeatable right? How do you crack something like that?

Anyhoo, in my opinion, religion developed because humans have an innate need to feel like they have someone to look up to; someone to pray to and believe is watching over them...and maybe to explain things that seem unexplainable at the time. Also, having people believe there is a badass thrower of thunderbolts watching if you're being bad is also probably very beneficial to a stable community. The term the person used was that in a godless society everyone would be running around killing each other and basically living the hedonistic life. Anyway would be interested if any of you guys have anything to say about that.


Plah anyway to finish off here's a video to reward you if you managed to read/skip down to this far. ^^

Post 4 of 2011 =]
“Use what talent you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best”

Listening to: This Ain't Goodbye - Train

lala

I wonder if anyone will recognise/understand this random picture I found on my internet wanderings.

It's from a wikipedia article about Lagrangian points and Hill spheres. Basically Hill Spheres are countour lines of gravitational pull. So the closer lines are together, the larger the increase in gravity in that direction.
Lagrangian points are kind of special points in the orbit of two objects in space. In a nutshell the nature of the points is that if you put an object of negligible mass on that point, the combined gravitational fields of the two initial objects would keep it in the same position relative to both of them. I thought that was a little interesting ^^"

Post 3 of 2011 =]
“What is today, but yesterday’s tomorrow” - Spongebob

Listening to: A Contre Courant - Alizee

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
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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