As the world turns

Some questions occur repeatedly as we go about our lives. Some of them are:

• Why is your queue always the one that takes the longest?
• Why does technology malfunction when you need it most?
• When you search valiantly and in vain for something, why does it pop up as soon as you give up looking for it?
• Why, when you do assignments, work, etc. , does it seem like that anything BUT the task at hand is interesting?

The last point is particularly relevant. Say something is due tommorrow (or the day after). You strive to finish, but ALAS, like all homework plans they are destined to fail! Many other things capture your attention, things that if you had time you wouldn't have the remotest intention of doing, like surfing the net for pictures of comb binders or whatever. Ironically, by doing this it probably means there is no time after finishing work to muck around.

That is enough from me today.

Childhood misconceptions

As the title suggests, I am sure that as little younglings, you may all have had some sort of childhood misconceptions. Here are some of mine:

• Thought that rendezvous was pronounced ren-dezz-vus instead of ron-day-vooo.
• That batteries were called 'bones'.
• That a car is a living thing that consumes petrol as food.
• That the word for country was 'world'. Allow me to illustrate. Once I went to this guy, and I wanted to know where he came from. "What world are you from?" spake I. And he replied with bewilderment "Uhh, Earth?"
• That plane toilets were extremely scary.
• That Sherlock Holmes actually existed.
• That misshapen was pronounced mish-happen.
• That seat belts were supposed to look like a police officer's sam browne (yes this misconception was formed in Hong Kong where the police used to have sam brownes as part of their uniform).
  

Yeah those are some. Perhaps I may add more when I recall them.

Feel free to share some of yours, if you wish to, of course.

Oh, and another thing. Why do some shops spell their shop name with shoppe

E.g. Ye olde shoppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppe Haha I knew you'd like that, or maybe not.

Endgame

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I come to you at the endgame (of exams of course). That is to say, except for exceptions like Nihongo etc. etc.

Speaking of which good luck for any remaining exams (I understand some people may still have some?) No I am not being sarcastic for those who do Nihongo (Japanese).

NOW!!

Check out this:



Absolutely PUN-ishing HAHAHAHA!! From Batman and Robin, Mr. Freeze is Arnie.

That is all for today.

Midway

Alright I have decided to break my self-imposed exile from blogger-ism.

There is nothing to say about exams except that Bio and 3-poonit were both quite ridiculously ridiculous.

Which brings me to a point.

Why do some people dwell on exams gone by so much. e.g. straight after a bio exam people would go on and on about what they did or did not do.

Uhh, slight problem...it's already happened!! Maybe some remarks are alright. But when it starts messing with your mind's wellbeing (sorry I don't know the word right now, but in canto it's sum ching "heart (something)") then maybe its not alright.

OH NO!!! 3 poonit mathematics tomorrow. THAT means that afterwards half the grade is going to be super-dwelling on it and drawing in the air outside the exam room (to show their homies how they drew some graf or whatever). HAHAHA.

Sorry, sometimes I am so stupid.

Good luck everyone for your remaining exams. Don't get too stressed out (alright that might seem easier said than done). Because in the grande scheme of things there are much more important things.

GOODBYE

Sorry for the hard-to-understandness of this post. I did a sort of stream of consciousness thing, as Bal told us to do last year (those in my 3U last year can relate to this).

Comment pls!!

Upcoming exams

Hey!

Before I begin, might I wish everyone all the best for their upcoming exams. Remember not to get to stressed out (alright that might seem unrealistic)

NOW!!

Check the date NOW!

If the date on which you are reading this post is before 26 June 2009 and you are in year 12 at Ruse, close this window/tab NOW NOW NOW! You are clearly pro-crap-stinating xD. Seriously.

If not read on.

One of Stephen Chau/Chow's best movies. Fight back to school 2 (逃學威龍 2). Here's a bit below (for non-cantos the subtitles are just as good).




Pretty much what happens is that a police officer in the Hong Kong equivalent of SWAT, gets fully demoted to traffic duty and rage quits. But then he discovers a terrorist plot to blow up a school and he goes undercover with his homies from the previous movie to foil their plot.

Now hopefully I don't give too much away. I recommend you watch the movie. SO extremely funny!

Remember! No more procrastination during this period!!! xD


Good luck everyone.


AUF WIEDERSEHEN!

Homework plans

The title is self-explanatory. Have you ever had grand and fantastic plans about finishing all your homework, or at least a significant chunk of it one day...

Only to discover at day's end that you have barely touched anything?

Sometimes it is procrastination, no, usually it is procrastination, but in the other times it may be the extremely hard to conquer maths exercise or assignment. (Hard to conquer=it is very long and/or extremely hard).

That is all for today.

Comb binders

Hello again,

As I was trawling through the vast entity known as the WWW, I came across this image





















Yes, the binder spines they use in the Citizen Kane / Hamlet study guides things we get at school. Notice how in the top one the prong things are sticking out rather than tucked in behind the spine proper. That is the source of much merriment in and out of English.

Because the prongs-out mode looks absolutely ridiculous, you can annoy someone just by pulling them all out. Naturally, it isn't a good idea to (accidentally or otherwise) dismantle the book in the process. The faster and stealthier you do it, the better. Trust me it doesn't sound like much, but if you do it to the right person, the reaction will be like as if you nuggeted their bag. An easy way to get a bag of laughs, for want of a better phrase.

Bee-tee-double-yew Topher did you notice I did that to your book last Friday? Haha. Or should I say Darth Gaylord?


One day I was reminiscing of bygone years and this came to mind:

Once upon a time, in the year of 2003, a boy who in time would become the Mysterious Stranger, was about to leave his primary school. I happened to chance across one of the classroom computers for the last time, and I, with nothing better to do, browsed in to the My Documents.

To my genuine surprise, I found a file entitled "Alan Gno". No that was not a typo.

I was thinking ???? What on earth?

When I opened I realised it was a 'murder-in-the-classroom' detective puzzle activity a classmate started to make, and never finished. Just like homework plans.


Enough! Perhaps I bore you. I shall desist for now.

Probababababababababability

Greetings friends,

One day I was contemplating the issues of the world, and the word probability came to mind. It's quite ridiculous. Allow me to illustrate h-why.

Suppose something really bad has a chance, no matter how small, that it may happen to you (e.g. A terrorist hijacks a fighter jet then does a zillion loops over Sydney so everyone sees then drops a bomb so it precisely hits you and blows you up as you are reading this, with no one else harmed at all). OK that might be an exaggeration.

But seriously, something like you missing out on something that everyone else can achieve insanely easily, that relies partly on luck.

So someone tells you the chance of the crap thing happening is something like 0.000000000000000000001%. So you feel reassured right?



WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And guess what happens next? The 99.999999999999999999999999999% magically escapes you and the infinitesimally small chance happens to you.

Yeah, even if it's so small an electron microscope will have trouble looking for it.

So really, maybe we should just ignore speculating too much unless it is for the good of all humanity.

Going off on a tangent (which isn't normal HAHA geddit?), it annoys me a bit how some people furiously speculate who will mark English exams. What's the point? In the actual HSC you won't know anyway.

Anyway

If you try reassuring yourself something isn't going to happen, guess what? IT WILL.

Allow me to illustrate:

Example:

SMH article about planets colliding

Read it, some small chance right? Bet it will happen.

I guess probability is useful. Work out something then think the opposite. Like reverse psychology.

Enough from me today

FAREWELL!!!!!!

K is for Konstant

Hello again,

Click on this link.

From Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, when Aragorn, Gimli and Lego-less (Legolas) chase the Uruk Hai. Around 30 seconds into the thing the music gets very iconically Lord of the Ring-sy. At least that's what I think.

So, the title of the post. K is for konstant. That's right, spelled with a k. Some of you may have heard me say that in and out of class. Very true XD especially for those who do chem. Hahas.

On Tuesday the astronaut guy came to visit. His presentation was really interesting and worthwhile listening to. But some people from Ruse asked really awkward questions (having said that, not all were).

Then yesterday was musical. Yes, long awaited and it was pretty decent. Most of the leads performed very well. But Act III was super short AND someone kept hitting their mike, making this really loud DOOF every now and then.

Anyway

One day I was doing nothing and some memories of the distant past crossed my mind.

SITUATION: The after-school care centre that primary schools have. It's those places that let you just play and muck around until your parents pick you up.

So I wanted to watch TV with another like-aged child. And I pick up "Dr. Doolittle".

Quoth I, the Mysterious Stranger: Hey let's watch this (or words to that effect).

Quoth the youngling: Let's not.

MS: H-why?

Kid: Because it's too hilarious.

And then I thought ????? Isn't hilarious a reason why you watch something?

When I became more familiar with words such as hilarious I thought the incident was very....HILARIOUS HAHAHAAA.

I don't know, but when you were a little kid did you have second thoughts about something you know is definitely true just because someone else thinks otherwise?

OK that just didn't make sense.

Enough from me now. Perhaps I will reminisce in a later post.

P.S. Hey Bubbles do you like your pencil pencil pencil pencil pencil pencil case disappearing every now and then HAAHAA.