Seasons greetings...

So I haven't "blogged" for some time now. This reveals a few things: 1] i an a nerd, seeing as how i spent the past couple of months (actually) studying and doing my homework. (weird, i know) 2] i am unorganized. and this brings me to the topic/issue/point for this blog...

With the festive season looming it brings two universal holidays. These are Christmas and the New Year. (but right now i will only focus on the New Year...)

With the new year ever dawning, many people find that they want to create some changes about themselves or their lifestyle for the coming year. These include losing weight, getting a job etc. Many of the resolutions people create often either fail completely when one fails to even try to accomplish their goal, or they try to start at the beginning of the year, but as the week/ days (depending on ones will power and attention span) draw by, ones motivation begins to dwindle. Though all know this fact, this doesn't deter anyone from making new year resolutions for themselves.

I myself have been attracted by the looming prospect of a fresh start. this has caused me to formulate various plans in my mind for what is to come.

In other words... these are my New Year Resolutions:

1] blog more - i have decided that (starting form January 1, '09) i will blog at least every two days. this, i have premised, will prove to be hard, as lately i have found that i can't find any inspiration for my blogs. which brings me to...

2] find a muse - pretty self explanatory if one has read "Resolution Numero Uno"

3] actually do homework the day it is given, not the morning it is due - i have found that this pleases teachers and doesn't provide them with fuel to get annoyed with me.

4] create study notes throughout the year - should prove to be beneficial in the long run. rather than cramming within the couple of weeks before yearlies/half-yearlies trying to make pages upon pages of study notes.

5] improve my sleeping habits - apparently only four hours of sleep a night, regularly, is not healthy for a 15 year old. (maybe that is the reason i am not growing as fast i want to.)

6] prove to people I AM A GIRL - so that i say or do anything remotely girl-like, people won't go all "OMG!!! Ewy is actually a girl" I mean seriously just because i like sport and "hang with the guys"and do other various (apparent) guy targeted activities ( for shame all you sexist idiots), that doesn't mean that i can't be a girl and like chick flicks and watch various TV dramas.

7] improve my spelling - for the benefit of those who don't know (aka people who don't talk to me on msn and/or don''t have facebook) i really suck at spelling. For example, up until recently i have spelt ''awesome'' as awsome and ''pretty'' as preety (which no one has bothered to tell me that i have spelt that wrong, even though it is one of my most used words on msn, along with ''like'' and ''totally'')

So in preparation to the festive season...

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

anyways...

from a deranged lunatic...

i bid you farewell...

Just a few words...

You know, people tell us that we should live a good life, and live as good people. But what is "good"?

Is it that we always say please and thank you and leave the toilet seat down, or that we don’t commit murder or rape someone.

What defines a person as a good person?

A friend of mine said that a good individual is a person that goes out of their own way to help others

They then went on to ask me, "If you saw someone sitting down looking obviously upset, would you go up to them and try to help?" I thought about it for sometime. I didn't answer them, but it got me thinking.

A situation like this can go two ways.

1] You go up to the person and ask them "Are they are okay." and in more cases than some they will look up at you and say "do I look like I’m okay." conversation (if that even counts as a conversation...) ends there.

We have all experienced this kind response from others and this deters us from trying again.

But then there is the rare chance where the situation can go in a different direction.

There are people that are just waiting for someone to come along and ask them if they are okay, and to stop and take notice of them (as this is obviously one of the things that they are lacking in their life).

When you do meet someone like that, you can change their entire life by just a few words.

But when the time comes will we be "good person" and try...

Because after numerous rejection there will come a time where we are needed, but will we be there...

From a deranged lunatic...

... I bid you farewell

HTML and assumptions

ok... so like for the past couple of days i have like been up all night (ie. 1am - 2am )trying to learn HTML


Why? because i feel like it.




Why am i telling you this? because it is like totally freakin' awsome!!!


Cheack this out
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i mean isn't this so cool... and i leart how to like wite the code for this... isn't it totally awsome... P.S. i like ellipsis's (or is it ellipsis'...)


and other random stuff...







NOW WITH THAT OUT OF THE WAY...
back to my "intellectual" blogs that i have previously known for.





You know what i find weird about society these days (and when i say "society" i mean "my friends" and when i say "these days" i mean the "fifteen years i have been on this planet")... is that people hold many assumptions about people due to various characteristic attributes.

For example some time ago I was talking to Smokey and Chase one day about chocolate. (i think Stein and Smokeys sister[doesn't have a nickname so smokeys sister will do] were there aswell... but i can't remember)

we were conversing about our favorite brands of chocolate and i so happened to say that my favorite was Hershey's. Then they had the audacity to say the only reason i like hearshey's is because it's American. I think i would know why i like something. I mean seriously, just because I have an American accent and i like the NBA doesn't mean my life is centered around the "do's and do not's" of America. I mean it's called being filo, it is in my blood.

Now see they made the assumption that i like hershey's because i "want to be american" (which i don't) and just like totally forgoed the theory that i might just like it because it taste good.

I would be hypocritical if i said i don't do it myself, but i just think that the world be a better place if we didn't.






P.S. as i was reading over this, i just realized that i say "like" and "totally" a lot.





anyways...

from a deranged lunatic...

i bid you farewell...

Stupid english

For English we have to do a reflection statement on what we learnt while completing out major work... like we even learnt anything.

anyways... whilst i finished my major work... this is what came of my "reflection statement".

Reflection statement.

As of yet this “reflection statement” of sorts will be of me randomly rambling on about the pointlessness of doing this reflection statement which out of sheer boredom while the parental units are under the pretense that I am doing some form of work that will contribute to my overall learning experience.

It has come to my attention that the above “paragraph”, which in all actual fact is just a really long sentence, has accumulated so many useless words, that it had assembled enough length to become one quarter of the required amount for this “statement”.

Now I am going to try the whole writing aimlessly and see where that takes me.

The boy sat next to his window. His eyes traveled down the street. Waiting, watching. He kept a steady look on ground floor, never blinking. It was as if he would miss something is he blinked. He continued to stare for some time. Nothing happened. Nothing appeared.

Wow I wrote that in like a minute. I wonder how this came out. I would try to remember but that induces thinking which in turn induces pain which I would rather avoid. So without further ado comes the end of my ramblings when I should have been doing my “reflection statement” for English.

Ranking Friends

With the majority of my grade going to do the Duke of Edinburgh bronze test expedition it has come to my attention that everyone ranks their friends. I know that everyone have friendships that are stronger than others, but what i found weird this is applied to real life.

The "stoop" has about 11 male members. As the recommended amount of people per group was 11/12, the guys felt it was the obvious choice. This choice left Liberty to be left out. Now this is where things started to get messy...

Liberty and Stein are tent buddies so that meant they needed two spots. Stein and Liberty could have joined a different group but apparently they all hate Liberty. So then everybody had a big blowout about who would not be able to get into the group. It was either ditch Stein and Liberty altogether and keep the original group, or remove one of the guys and get Liberty and Stein in.

Then somewhere along the way some people decided to boot out Omo. Now how they got to this decision is unclear to me.

But that is beside the point...

The point is that everyone ranks their Friends, it is human nature. It's how we apply these rankings is what matters.





As a side note, I am so glad I have other friends to be in a group with so i don't get caught up in the middle of these fights.

Anyways...
having a variety of friends = choices

From a deranged lunatic.. I bid you farewell

Cultural Identity

Today I went to the Hills Youth Forum. It's where the Baulkham Hills Shire Council gets like input from youth about youth.

Today, in my group, we talked about culture and identity and how youth today find segregation among peers based on race. Seeing as how i go to a predominantly multicultural school (aka selective schools - where there are so many Asians, you can play the game "spot the Aussie") I found it interesting how this occurs in other high schools.

I'm bringing this topic up as at the beginning of the forum we had this entrepreneur giving a speech about opportunities for youth and so on and so forth. His name was Colin Something ( i have a really bad memory... it amazed me that i actually remembered his first name.) Through out his speech he told a couple of stories. One was about a Chinese farmer and his son. I can't really remember what the story was supposed to tell us... but that isn't put of the point I'm trying to make. For the duration of the story he used a Chinese accent (he was Chinese-Malay that came to Australia 8 yrs ago... so his accent was pretty good) . He also did another story about some Indian dude while using an Indian accent (He could rival Russell peters with the way he did his accents) Anyways... me and along the rest of the people from my school found this very funny... seeing how it was supposed to be. But what we found is that we had to kind of stifle our laughter as none of the other audience member found this humerus. Why? because people aren't comfortable with the other cultures around them.

Why is this so?

For generations, Australia has been a multi-cultural society. Then why are people still uncomfortable with other cultures?













My answer... I don't know ( that's why i asked the question in the first place... Der!!!)

Anyways I just wanted to put it put there to make people aware that there are issues regarding the way people perceive other races.


Also on another note... another person who spoke to us was like this random dude who always spoke in a monotone. So for like half an hour we were "listening" to him talk about what he put on a power point. ( i put listening in quotation marks seeing as how i fell asleep halfway through... i mean can you say BORING!!!)

anyways....

From a deranged lunatic... i bid you farewell.

Stereotypes

My Lil' bro told me this blonde joke the other day (no offence to any blond's)

A blonde was going to Manhattan.
She went up to the ticket person and asked for an economy ticket.
After some time here plane was boarding.
When she got on the plane she sat down in First class.

Soon an flight attendant came up to her and told her that she would have to move to economy class as that was what she paid for.
the blonde replied "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, and I'm not going anywhere!"

So then the flight attendant went into the cock-pit and told the pilots what was wrong.
The co-pilot said that he was going to take care of it.
After ten minutes the co-pilot came back into the cock-pit.
"she's blonde and she's not goin anywhere!"

"she blonde!" this time it was the pilot that spoke up. "why didn't you tell me this before! I'm, married to a blonde and I can speak blonde", he spoke as he left the cock-pit.

After another ten minutes the pilot returned and informed them that the blonde had moved to economy class.
In amazement the co-pilot and flight attendant asked him what he said.
As he walked back into his seat he replied...









"I told her, first class isn't going to Manhattan"

Now what i find weird is how some people take stereotypes very seriously. Stereotypes are just ways to poke fun at people. It's just like racism... Now that i think of it... it IS racism.

Stereotypes are just broader varieties of racist jokes because they include hair colour, gender, etc.

This reminded me of the song "everyone's a little bit racist" by Avenue Q (if you haven't heard it... I really recommend it. It's hilarious. I also recommend "the Internet is for porn" by the same people.)




... Anyway back to the point. I don't get why blondes take offence to blonde jokes, because that is what they are... JOKES. I also find it hypocritical how they find it offencive when they tell racist jokes (or "reveal certain character flaws that associate with a certain trait" as one of my friends puts it")

I would just like to say that it is true everyone IS a little bit racist.

I'm not saying being racist or make jokes/comments pertaining to certain groups of people is a good thing... It's just that we all do it... so don't make too much of a fuss about it.

Anyways...

From a deranged lunatic... I bid you farewell