you know what really bugs me?

1. (still continuing from the last post), people will watch the video or see the posters, feel sad for her, and then carry on like usual. i mean seriously, this isn't gonna stop someone from drinking and getting drunk. once they're drunk, they have no control over themselves and they wouldn't even know what they're doing. it's relli sad. i think for someone to finally learn their lesson is for them to experience it first hand. *sigh* what has the world come to?

2. the stupid refs. wat is WRONG with them. i reckon they're totally biased against australia. seriously, first game red card cahill now second game red card kewell!! that is NOT a coincidence. they didn't even do anything wrong! as if that hand ball even LOOKED deliberate. gahhhh makes me so angry. and that ghana dude totally should've gotten red carded but noooooo give him a yellow card cuz you hate australia. geez.
and who saw that match between germany and serbia? that ref was soooo retarded. how many yellow cards did he give! gosh, for no reason at all. that was retarded.

anyway, so i guess now we have to wait for thursday morning at 4:30 am to see whether ghana beats germany AND australia beats serbia. which is really stupid because we're relying on TWO UPSETS. basically, we're hoping for a miracle. should i waste my precious sleep and watch that match? what are you guys gonna do?


OH i started reading cloud atlas last...wednesday i think.
i tried reading it at the start(ish) of the year...after i finished the book thief... and i gave up after a few pages just because it was soooo boring and the language was so hard to follow. and now... not even a week later and i'm up to the third part of the book.

okay, so how this book goes is that there are six different stories, all different from each other and in a different sort of time period. the first is in the 19th century and the sixth is in the post-apocalyptic future. the structure for the book goes parts: 1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1. they are all quite different to each other (i'm guessing) and so far each part has been written in a different style, however they are all connected to each other in some sort of way. right now it looks like a relli cheap way of connecting them, but my bro assures me that later on in the book (and if i check with wiki) that there will be a deeper connection to these stories.

but yeh. quite interesting. it's amazing how the author has changed his tone and structure for these six different parts. i can't believe i've read so much in the past two days. i think once you get past the first part it's really easy and interesting to read. =]


genius #15: chaos theory (the butterfly effect)
From wiki:
small differences in the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system...The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with "what if" scenarios where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

and you know how much i love time travel.
it's called the butterfly effect because of the first thought: "Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?"
The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location.

i find that an AWESOME theory. i remember they made a reference to it in one of the lilo and stitch episodes and i was like WOW it's the butterfly effect (yeh, don't ask me why i knew of this theory when i was like in year 5/6)

this kinda relates to that jacqui chick and her being hit by the drunk driver. if she didn't go to that birthday party she was attending and didn't get hit by that driver, then maybe she would be perfectly fine, but then again maybe someone wouldn't have seen the drink-driving campaigns, gone out, gotten themselves drunk, and maybe it would've happened anyway?

or like those chain mails you get where they say some guy got stuck in the traffic on the way to work, or maybe had to go back in to their house to get a wallet, and because of that they avoided the 9/11 attacks?

seriously i find this amazing because now i wonder what could have been if tiny stuff did/n't happen to me?

like that how i met your mother ep when ted goes left instead of right, cuts across the street to the beggar, spends a minute at the magazine stand and then ends up bumping into stella, which causes him to meet the chick who will be his wife. and he does those things because of past events that he wouldn't have thought would be of anymore importance. but it turns out it was a crazy part of his life.

anyway, too much ranting from me, but yeh. i love these crazy theories.

i'm so in love with the butterfly effect, last year for major work i kinda based my story on this concept and titled it the butterfly effect.

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