i love life of pi, but i hate school

okay, so you know how i said i finished life of pi?
well, i discovered, life of pi is one of those books where, when you finish, that is when your love for the book starts. and by love i mean CRAZY LOVE. like i finished it on saturday and now i'm like OMGSH it was so good. cuz that twist at the end, just makes you rethink everything! like the entire story (except part 1) and now your like wow, the author is pretty genius. gahhh you have to read it to understand me.


well, i dislike school very much. like, it's so horrible. == arghhhhhhhh studying and prepping for exams is just so crazy. and i hate how in science vasram is moving onto a different subject that's not in half yearlies, when we really should be revising stuff. but i guess it's okay, we asked him if we can do revision and he said next tuesday in the double... ughhhh.
and then history, where theres tons of sheets except its so boring and seems so irrelevent. i get so confused with history =/
and maths, is just....i think you guys understand.
and english, argh screw you shakespeare. its only like 1/4 of our half yearli report which means its onli 10% of yearly, so i think i can experiment with that... like try to not memorise the whole thing but just quotes and some points about themes.... hmmm hopefully that will work out..

sorry about my rant on school =/


to cheer us all up from this frequently melancholic period of our lives...

genius #5: 4 colour theory

wiki: In mathematics, the four color theorem, or the four color map theorem, states that given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, called a map, the regions can be colored using at most four colors so that no two adjacent regions have the same color. Two regions are called adjacent only if they share a border segment, not just a point.

dude. i love this theory. i remember when i first discovered it, i was like WOW and then i would make random squiggles and colour them in just to try and prove it wrong, but (obviously) it was un-disprovable! =O

happy anzac day

well, i finally finished the life of pi. hmmm, what can i say... it's different? good or bad i'm actually not sure. some parts are so incredibly boring that you're like 'why am i even reading this'? and then some parts are like OMGSH WATTHEHECK THAT'S CRAZY MUST KEEP READING.

yeh, i dunno it's just, the vocab and the way he describes stuff. it's amazing. like...just soooo knowledgeable. and it's crazy the amount of research he did on this like the behaviour of animals, their lifestyles, the ocean, ships, surviving sunken ships, etc etc. it's crazy how much i learnt just by reading this book.

it's also so interesting to read on the levels a person would go to stay alive. this guy was desperate. he ran out of his food supplies and just practically ate everything he caught: turtles, fish and birds were semi raw; not a single thing was wasted: blood was drunk, cartilage was sucked on and all organs were devoured. it's soooooo interesting how people would react and think in desperate situations.


anywai, i believe i want to pursue a different non-permanent career right now. seriously i'm so sick of michel's. the long hours are just killing me and the low pay is terrible. and i only get to learn coffee when i've been working for "a while", which i'm not even sure of when that is. i'm pretty sure that i won't get a pay rise until i actually turn 16 so i don't know if i want to continue this. i wouldn't mind the same pay but something more lax, like...CINEMA, where i wouldnt have to stand for so long...seriously, that looks awesome!


anyway, seeing as SOME PEOPLE are getting sick of my paper-binding fascinations, let's take a break from the inventions, ...

genius #4: six degrees of separation

wikipedia: Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in six steps or less.

dude. isn't that just. awesum?!
that means that i am connected to everyone in the world by onli SIX people?! how little is that! that's crazy!
although, yes, it is a theory. but come on. that's insane.

Frigyes Karinthy was the guy that first suggested this, and it became popular by some play (of the same name).
I believe that is quite the genius.

this picture is crazy.

perplexed.

"A shocked migraine sufferer from the UK has woken up speaking with a Chinese accent. Doctors believe she is suffering from Foreign Accent Syndrome and may never recover."

wat...that's just plain weird. and why is there even a syndrome on this. and wat a creative name at that.
lol... so confuzzling.


so anywai, last time i was like WOW stapler. genius.

WELL, if you don't have the handiness of a stapler with you, why just look at

genius #3: the folding thing

sorry, i'm very unclear of the exact phrase it's called, but it's basically folding the corner of the page, making two slits and folding that downwards to "bind" the page. it works just as well as a stapler and looks pretty cool too. i googled to try and find the name, but the only related site was this, naming it "How to bind papers without staples or clips"... wat a long name... but fitting.
this person says a taiwanese program showed it, although i have my doubts that it orginated in taiwan.

another site, lifehacker (lol wat a noice name), also got this from the same (most likely) taiwanese program.

wow...on my researching path for this topic, i found out (according to this site) that the inventor of the stapler is Samuel Slocom! Oh, not to mention that site's way of stapling without staples is pretty cool too. And yes, someone commented on the cbox and haha i find it so funny how it's called stapleless staples, but yes it's very good for the environment and i found this site before i read that but WHY you even know about stapleless staples is very questionable. haha

sorry the picture isn't showing up for some reason, i think it's because i can't steal from sites, but it's in the first site i linked to you so yeh. =]

sorry guys

Don't let your morale flag. Be daunted, but not defeated. Remember: the spirit, above all else, counts. If you have the will to live, you will.
-Life of Pi by Yann Martel


okay so that itouch layout was extremely difficult to read and very small so here is another one! =D

well, it seems as if our past is catching up to us: so many assignments/tests coming back: short films essay (although van loon was being relli retarded and showed us the stack of essays but did not give it out to us!), science test, geo test, and....nothing else. BUT it still seems like a massive load when it all comes at the same time.

anywai...


genius #2: the stapler

alongside the paperclip, actually no...more like the arch nemesis of the paperclip, the stapler. what an interesting piece of equipment. all it does is push some bent piece of metal through the paper and then bends it inwards once more and voila, the paper is binded. genius. although it does not completely make the paperclip futile, as they, to some extent, serve different purposes: the stapler acts as a permanent binder whereas the paperclip is easily removable.

and not only is this stapler limited to paper, but it can be used for carpet, furniture, boxes and surgery... it's amazing!
once again, i'm not really sure who invented it since wikipedia says: "The first known stapler was handmade in the 18th century in France for King Louis XV, by an expatriate Hungarian"... and the rest is history.

geniuses in the most simple of things

because of this new layout, i'm gonna write shorter posts, or at least try...
and since there's nothing that interesting about my daily routine except the fact that school is starting soon and with it the half yearlies, i shall start sharing with you anything that i think is genius.
so, genius inventions, genius theories, genius discoveries. anything genius.

genius #1: the humble paperclip.
it's such a simple thing that we take for granted, but look at it!
any other shape just wouldn't work as well as the one most popular nowadays, the Gem paper clip. i have one paperclip that is in the shape of a hand, and another in the shape of a triangle, but i never use them since they're practically useless. they always get loose and never work out to actually 'clip paper'.

so wikipedia says its unclear who was the actual inventor, since early documents don't have drawings of their paper clips and the Gem paper clip isn't even patented. BUT i still reckon that guy is a genius. imagine if he patented it, such a tiny thing would leave you swimming in money all day everyday.

masquerade

THAT'S MY MASK
which i made for mattkan's church's masquerade night =D
look at it's left eye and the shadow from the flower makes it look like it has an eye! how awesum is that.
i wanna make more masks now... from scratch
i think i'm craving plaster

lol, i found it so funny that only now are people asking me about my essay, or essays in general.
"have you started your essay?"
"what's your essay question?"
"wat does our essay question mean?"
"what are the themes on macbeth?"
"what is macbeth even about?"
"who the heck is macbeth?"

especially when today people asked me if i've started...and i'm like....uhhh i started a week ago.
but then again, i'm the type of person that needs about a week to do this sorta thing. your day/night before roll...i can't do that.
i get the same panic level the week before it's due.
anywai, i'm too focused on the masquerade to think about the stupid essay, or anything else for that matter.
and a series of very fortunate events has led me to believe that i will no longer fail at science anymore, i hope.
yes, that's right, my insecurities about vasram have fled because of awesum friends such as yourselves!

thank you to everyone who's ever helped me with science, even if i just asked you one question. now there's just maths, history, geo and cooking to worry about...oh golly.

P.S. today me and my mum went to jb hi-fi and we bought the dvd for 300 and it came with these picture thingos, kinda like postcards I LOVE IT =D

happy seniors day

so yesterday we went EASTER SHOW and it was seniors day, hence my title.

hmm soo when we got there everyone was like yeh lets be crazy and suicide on speed, so they went on speed. and by everyone i mean: rebecca, grace, winona, florence, daniel hwang, will, cedric, laurence. oh and by speed i mean the ride, not the drug.



and me, being sane, stayed on the ground and still went crazy scared just watching them being thrown around like that!

so then i went on hard rock, which wasn't even that high compared to speed, plus it only went 180 degrees and i was like WATTHEHECK. soooo scared. far out. that was....ughhhh.



and then everyone who went on speed PLUS MORE went on XXXL which was like a more epicer version of hard rock and i was like WAT!!



so you can tell it goes 360, like speed, and unlike hard rock.

anyway, the rest of the rides we went on after that were pretty gay and we were just walking around trying to win stuff, so we got relli bored relli quick. so then we went to have lunch at the woolworths dome.

free samples ftw.

=D

we're so asian. but it doesn't matter, the samples weren't even filling so i had to buy a waffle and share it with pamela, and i was still so hungry!

and then after that, we went to the woodchopping arena and just sat there for ages. just relaxing. and not standing. no walking around.

and then at like 3, the abusalims come to the easter show after dogging us for the city because it was raining in the morning (ironic, because it stopped rainly shortly after we arrived at the easter show)

and everyone was like no. screw you. so then they went on some rides, like speed. and then we went to get some showbags and then BUMPER CARSSS!!

except we caused so much hassle because we wanted to go in at the same time so the people working there were like ehhh hate these stupid kids. LOL

and then... after that we just mucked around at a table playing random games, then went homeee.

wat a productive day.

oh except now my neck hurts like crazy from that ride breakdance, which is like massive whiplashing because it moves you relli fast to one direction then quickly changes, so my head was just going like everywhere. argh. it hurts.

rage, pity and laughter; all in one.

on second thought, i don't want to do something in the food or retail industry for work experience. seeing as i am already in the food industry, it's actually quite a turn off. i am literally just killing my legs for standing for such long periods of time and i don't believe it would be sane to do that from 9-5 for 5 days in a row, which is what we would be doing in work experience week. i'm pretty sure this goes the same for retail. not to mention since we are unpaid and not actually employed by them, the chances that they will exploit us to the fullest of their capabilities is extremely high. besides, if i went to the food industry, all i would be doing is serving customers and waitressing (which is actually really tiring) and i'm already doing that at my work; in other words i should just try something new. and retail is just walking around going through the clothes and helping customers and folding the clothes and looking through stock and et cetera. you get the point. basically, i just want something nice and peaceful where i don't have to stand for long periods of time.


anywai, gosh i hate shakespeare. he sucks so much. finally up to the last act of macbeth =D


do you know what sucks?
in hearts, i got rid of all my hearts, except the 4 of hearts
if you were me, you would think: pretty safe right?
....
WRONG.
a 2 of hearts comes out, followed by a 3 of hearts.
and then?
THE QUEEN OF SPADES

wattheheck!!!

that's just not fair.


do you know what also sucks, but on a more serious note?
this.


to end on a funny note, another thing that sucks:
april fool's day (it sucks for the victims)
this is sooo funny.
i wasn't that bored that i read all hundred of them, but i rad the first page and LOL at

#1 (there's a vid on youtube):
Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied, "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

#7:
Soon the article made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly spread around the world, forwarded by email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation.

#8:
Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."

#10:
When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.


LOL
have a good one. maybe i'll see YOU at the easter show?

high expectations

can't wait till:

easter show

i see clash of the titans (despite bad comments about it)

i buy the Sherlock Holmes dvd

i finish all my assignments

half yearlies are over

a work/assignment/test break

i get a pay rise (don't worry, I'm extremely satisfied with the way things are, i just mean a pay rise would be cool because it would be like a sense of achievement and accomplishment that I've done something right; i don't even mean a pay rise at Michel's, although that would be awesome, i mean even after uni and i get my proper job)

work experience (I still need to find something o_o)

year 10 formal

i donate blood

year 12 formal

HSC ends

i graduate uni

i get an awesome job that i would love to go to every day (yeah, like maybe when I'm 50)

my wedding

i have kids

i get an awesome house

my job earns me tons of money and buying whatever i want (once again, maybe when I'm like 50)

i shave my head for cancer

i perform on stage (like once in my life)

i donate something (like bone marrow?) while I'm still living

i sign up to be an organ donor (so when I die, people get my organs)

i die and go to heaven

i meet God


i can't wait for all of these, because i know they're all going to happen. =]

OH and when i die, my funeral must be soooo colourful it'd be crazy!
and i want my coffin to be like raaaaainbow~
and no ones allowed to wear black, because black is gay.


and I'm not being racist, since "black people" aren't even technically black. their brown far out!