so anyway the really weird thing about linkin park is
every time I'm starting to get bored of them

their new music happens to be exactly the kind of shit i love listening to at that moment
this is not how i expected an LP song to be, ever, but whoah
its like, fuckin... what how are these guys even a band anymore this is stuff a dj does
that song is really really good btw if i havent said that already

that awkward moment

where you accidentally comment on the wrong post on facebook in the wrong language

how does that even HAPPENING?

uni lyf

here are 2 tiny images of posters that i made. you can click on them to see it bigger i guess

i had to make 2 posters this week.

i are the best at posters. the first one was a group work thing but as usual i did everything 

and i dont know why blogspot on chrome wont let me resize images

also ima have a free house so you guys should come round or something

Uni stuff

My uni is quite empty this week because only a few lectures and tutorials are on, like as empty as it can be while still being attended by 20,000 people. Which makes me think, of every UNSW student went tO the roundhouse semester parties, itd be insane. Also cause they are open to the general public as well although you have to pay more for entry.

Hahah actually courses at my uni

http://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2011/GENS9007.html

http://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2011/GENS4008.html

http://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2011/GENS9006.html

http://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2011/GENR0015.html

http://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate/courses/2011/GEND4214.html


It's like Greendale night school.

These are the general ed subjects. The classes science and engineering students have to chose 2 of to take through uni to make us more well rounded. Apparently our timetables weren't full enough.

Hahahah how I feel in my lectures sometimes.


Also, who does a degree in Dance? What is the point even?

Hey

Why is nyan cat still the person of the month

Nyan cat isn't even a person

He's a poptart

Reports are boring

I have to write a 3 page report on materials in a solar elevator design.
It's exceedingly boring. Here is my first 2 paragraphs.

Our goal was to use recycled materials to construct a solar elevator. For the chassis, we chose light and durable materials that would retain their shape in windy conditions. It was ideal that they would be strong while being able to be drilled or cut through if necessary. For the wheels, we were looking for medium sized wheels that would grip the tether sufficiently. They couldn’t be too heavy, so as not to restrict the design in any way.  We considered the axle and gear’s only material design constraint was whether it would attach to the wheels and motor sufficiently. 

We intended to use high density polyethylene foam for our chassis material as it was available, however we decided that hard formed cardboard and high density plastic would also be suitable. These materials were weighed and tested for retention of screw threads (see appendix 1A and 1B for data) and while the polyethylene foam was the lightest, the cardboard retained the screw thread the best and it was available as well at the time. For the wheels, we originally intended to use skateboard wheels however once weighed, at 125g, we opted for a KINEX set of wheels; weighing only 24g; that a team member supplied. This allowed for the use of gears and axles from the same set, meaning easy attachment and hence, satisfying our design brief.

Yeh, engineering reports are fun.

dis wut ma fortune cookie told me

i want to sleep but i cant

because i have to do an assesment that i havent started yet and that is due in 6 hours. why didnt i start at midnight at least? 6 AM?? WTF ARE YOU DOING JON? time to do a all morninger?

i think im going to hand it in at the very end of class at 2.

fuck me im a shit student. such a shit student.

ahhhh

Gambino's playing in Toronto in July.... ahh..... quick.. i have to make some gambino friends.. because if i go alone.. im going to get killed..

whattodooooo

More 10 hour stuff

Keep listening to this if you want to be like this NARWHAL BOY!!!

^True Story

So I was lying in my room with the windows open
Then all of a sudden everything smells like weed
So I go outside and some people are smoking pot in the sort of abandoned lot thing next to my house
But now my room smells really strongly of weed as well as all my clothes

Damn

Nostalgia or something.. I don't know

Fruit ninja update

It kind of feels like I'm cheating...

Guys I'm so happy!!!

I slept through the night. Granted I went to sleep at 9 and woke up at 5 but that is the most normal sleep I have had in like 3 months, yay fixing my sleep cycle.

Also when I go to uni I spend a fair bit of time in the library, where I sit sometimes, looks out over Randwick, Maroubra and you can see the airport runway, not like super close but you can see it. I spent like 10 minutes watching planes take off, Sydney has a lot of air traffic btw, in 10 minutes I saw like 8 planes land and 5 take off. It's cool the way they time it; so when a plane is taking off and one is landing at similar times, they cross at the same height every time, I guess it is the place where they can't turn abruptly and crash into each other.

Also yesterday, they gave out free hot chocolate at uni, it was tasty.

I was walking around Japans city

And there was love in a hopeless place. It made me smile,
and then shine a light through an open door. (insert more lyrics)
But seriously i dont understand all the lyrics in that song.

I stopped Judo club by the way. It turned out to be inssanneelleeyy tough, 7 days a week 2 1/2-4 hours a day depending on the day, i was really scared to say i wanna stop to my sensei because he reminds me of a really strong Japanese warlord. (either shimazu, or oyakata)

But yeah, so strike one, judo gone. Im having trouble deciding whether i should join Kendo or Kyuudo. Kendo is japanese bamboo/wooden sword training, and in that club there are about 6 people, 4 of them are 1st years (one guy who went to america for 4 years and i get along well with) and 2 are 2nd years (my grade). {also i frequently think.....omg these guys were in year 9/10 when i was in year 12} The second years a both girls, and one of them is my host brothers girlfriend. But the second years hardly go to kendo. But i really wanna learn to fight with a sword more. And also the first year guy is really strong, hes done it for 8 years.
And the kyuudo club is japanese archery, good points it has heaappss of people so i can make plenty of friends (and a really insanely good looking guy) and also i like archery. However, bad points, it takes like 5 months to train to actually shoot a bow, and yeah....poo.
Either club i join, im definatley buying the shinigami-like outfit haha so badass.

Advice?? Id appreciate it heaps!

Also i miss you guys alot. Hui you were in my dream, and we fought against my judo teacher haha.

Also i had a disorientated dream of schoolies, the hotel was more like twilight tower (thin and tall) and very posh and titanic-decoritive style. When you guys dream, do your minds distort the original image of the place you are seeing? I have dual images of places in my head, one of what reality shows me, and one of how my head interprets it. Stupid hipster brain.

Btw hogg that anti corrosion-magic is awesome! It reminds me of how you put a copper wire around a tree that slugs like to eat the leaves of, because their slime has an acidic chemical reaction, silly slugs ho ho ho.

I have to take biology, which is fine cause i have an interest in it anyway- but seeing as though i barley know the english meanings of the scientific jargon, doing it in japanese is level 100 >.< (yeap im in japan haha)

Also, ive recently realised (well i mean i was always kinda conscious of it) that whenever i think/read something, the voice that interprits it in my head is a kids voice. I think i might try from now on and make it a mans voice, it might be a psychological thing hey. I guess its time i grew up (even though im in school again haha oxymorrroonnn)
No youre a moron.

Okiz im off, gonna drink some strawberry milk and sleep soon (i really need to cut down on the sweets)

Miss you guys

Alex!

COMPETITION TIME

I lasted 1 minute and 27 seconds listening to this. The person who listens to this the longest gets a surprise gift

I was walking in my plane of existence today

When I saw a homeless mortal preaching that he was the new messiah

Of course, I had to smite him to the ground

it made me smile

I was walking in my house earlier today

...nah there's no homeless people in my house.

that would be a mad paradox though

Walking around the city

And there was this homeless beggar person who had a sign that said 'Be ellen, Be generous' and because I was a retard, I thought it was really funny.

But then I didn't give him any money.

makes my heart smile

today, while i was walking back from uts through the city,

i saw a kid fiddling around with some homeless guy's stuff.

i later saw that he slipped a 10 buck note and a pair of really nice gloves in the guy's bag.

it made me smile.

My throat hurts

Guys, I feel tired and my throat hurts. It's all sore and my sinuses are blocked and I want to sleep.

Also today we had a chemistry lab and listen to this awesome piece of info I got.
When you connect magnesium and iron in a circuit, only the magnesium will corrode because it is more reactive than the iron. So when civil engineers make iron bridges; they bury a block of magnesium nearby and connect it into a circuit with it and only the magnesium corrodes, not the iron. Then when the magnesium is done corroding and there is nothing left, they replace it. Preventing iron corrosion. How cool it that. They also use galvanised iron, which is zinc-covered iron, which is similar to the magnesium, the zinc is far more reactive than the iron and so even if the iron is scratched; the zinc with oxidise before the iron, meaning no iron corrosion

Sorry nerd moment, but this sort of thing is what I study engineering for; I like materials and this kinda of stuff; makes me happy.

my house

is significantly dirtier than on saturday. significantly

Shopped for groceries,

I bought a bag of fortune cookies, some seaweed and watermelon.

someone post something before this becomes my personal blog

Hey guys im going to make a triple post now....

After 24 hours of plane flights.. I have landed..

I missed so many K pop updates imma cry

packing so far

Today was the last day of uni in UTS

but more sadly today was last day with uni friends. hopefully not forever tho... ;n;

So I have my design presentation in like an hour and I'm not as stressed as I would be at school. I guess partially its cause the only people I really know in the room are my group members and they are in the same boat as me. But of the entire class 90% at least would have never noticed me and the other 8% besides my groups 2% probably don't care and would not recognize me in a line up. I think that is a bonus at uni, not knowing as many people I mean. Anyway, I'm going to go back to the library, I was just chilling outside to eat lunch

Stressful Day

So now, I am sitting at home trying to make stress go away. I have to go to uni in 15 minutes but there are 4 issues with today.

1. I only got like an hour and a half sleep. I tried going to sleep at like 12 and then I was stressing about issue number 3, and so I did some rewriting and watched a movie and then it was 5:30 am and I went to sleep. And I got up at 7 to like get ready for uni, although I had an argument with mum and ended up missing my chemistry tutorial.

2. Because I only had a small amount of sleep, my sinuses and sinusitis-caused conjunctivitis are playing up, so my left eye is red. From spending a lot of time in a hot steamy shower, and drinking tea, I have managed to get the swelling to go down; now I'm just waiting for my drops to work, then it should be cleared up.

3. The reason I was up stressed was because with my group we have to give a design presentation at 2. And for one, if it wasn't bad enough having to give the introduction and conclusion; so actually speaking. I also pretty much wrote the rest of it including the slides to go with it and so if it sounds wrong, I'm basically the one to blame. But yeh speaking to a room of like 80 people, so fun stuff that is; I really wish presenting like this wasn't such a big thing for teachers and curriculums.

4. I have a massive freaking headache too. Like huge, cause I have had hardly any sleep and stress and such.

EDIT: Good news, my eye drops work, now I look normal even tho I feel like absolute crap. But I have to go to the presentation meeting so we can practise so our presentation doesn't sound "truncated" as the head lecturer so nicely stated.

I will let you know how it goes I guess.

oh gosh ive tried to start packing like 50 times. it's so dam hard..

#hoarderproblems

hahahahahaha

hahahahahahaha today was a really bad day.

People I quite like and kinda aspire to be: Alan Alda

So I feel like I am going to a short segment on people I kinda idolise. The first of these is the actor, Alan Alda.

He was born on January 28, 1936 in New York, so he is now 76.
His main career success was/is as the character Hawkeye Pierce is M*A*S*H.
And I guess I wanted to pay tribute to this man firstly because he played the character very well in the show but also for his work outside it.

Firstly, he has always been a supporter of feminism and women's rights which I find incredibly respectable. He is also interested in science and has presented programs on scientific research in the US and he produced a program about the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN, which is really kinda cool. I generally respect anyone who conveys science as something that is good.
Like it will change my opinion of someone if they are interested in Science, I guess because that's how I view people a bit, I mean if you are a nice person otherwise but don't have an interest in science that is cool too, but like if someone's a bit of a wanker, I will accept it more if I at least know they are slightly geeky or nerdy. Just saying.

Anyway, Alan Alda is pretty awesome, just cause he has had a really varied life and I like that he has more interests than just acting and such.

I got an extension

I Love The System

bias on wikipedia

happens on the stupidest shit
you can tell an article is biased when under the 'criticism' section everything that it said is refuted

like this article that is blatantly biased towards windows vista's retarded security popups and you can tell it's microsoft's team trying to 'it's a feature' it
It is possible to turn off UAC while installing software, and reenable it at a later time.^[21] However, this is not recommended since, as File & Registry Virtualization is only active bla bla bla bla bla
or this one that's biased towards NZ becoming an australian state that uses the lines:
"Others argue New Zealand is too far away from the mainland of Australia, although Julius Vogel once stated, Otago was three times as far from the Auckland than it was from Victoria or Tasmania in terms of shipping days"
What a joke

yeah i don't know where I'm going with this
just thought i'd mention it
laters

My thoughts as I'm procrastinating:

Should at least open up a new word document.

Today

I attended a formal banquet. The host was delivering a speech, when I felt the urge to pee, so I tried to quietly excuse myself. My chair screeched over the floor as I got up, I tripped over my own feet, and I accidentally took the door leading outdoors, where I ended up peeing in shame. FML

I fell

So you know how I fell on those spider rope thing.
Look at my bruises. (My legs look kinda fat)

damn school

today i took an online test.
like one you can take anytime in a couple of days where they put a time limit from the time you start.
anyway, since it was online, i was too lazy to properly do it so i googled most of the answers. and i got 55/65.
which is pretty good. but like, i dont know nothing about my subject. at all.
in fact, i dont remember anything i learn from any of my classes.

thats all

also, i have crappy grammar that escapes my mouth too quickly and people think i are bad at engrish.
which doesnt really mean anything since it's true. and some charity guy on the street thought i was 19 :(

WTF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation

crying

Enrolment Congestion

So I am waiting to enrol. But the site is congested.
On a side note, I will get monday off (except from 4-6) and all of friday off. Happy.
It does mean i am at uni 6-8 hrs the other

EDIT: I enrolled, it's pretty good although thursday i basically go for 6 hrs in a row, with 5 hrs of tutorials so I really can't get sick. But then I have friday off to do any necessary work and shit.
I'm excited for my engineering subjects now.

This is my timetable now...

Also this video


Vanadium is cool guys.

You know how in group work there tends to be that one fucking useless group member?

Well I'm that person now.

6:22 am

so its 6:22 am. and i have not yet gone to sleep even though i have been trying to for the last 3 hours. what the fuck is wrong with my body?? what should i do about this as it is the 2nd time in a week this has happened and its making university very difficult.

right now...

i'm eating mascarpone and berry ice cream with grape must

must is this stuff thats related to wine somehow - the word mustard is related to it

anyway its not that great together and its cold and i can o nly type with one hand but its totally worth it
i feel like a boss, like this is some next level dessert you'd order at some ridiculously expensive restaraunt with the menu in another language you can't read, which is okay because the point in itself isn't to order from the menu, they just exist as part of the ritual and to co-erce the guests to ask the waiter for the reccomendations, meaning the restaraunt ultimately dictates what everyone has

(cool tangent longer than the post)

You should all be on skype more.

Hey guys !

Hey guys! Sup. Im still in Japan.

Im getting pretty sick of school....but its what i gotta do so ill do it. The people are all really nice and all, but the mindset of going to school everyday never changes. Im waking up at 6:30 everyday, and i dont get home till 7 everynight- and i often have to convince myself not to waste money on delicious japanese snacks, they are all so cheap (by like 50 cents) haha so yeah successful advertising on me.

I read the previous posts, i dont have time to reply cause im waiting for my host brother to get outta the shower so i can brush my teeth, but yeah i was laughing on my own when ru heard boobs or whatever instead of something something hahaha i dont even remember it properly but im still laughing.
Also i think i have reached a new form of stupid. Its being content with the braindead 0 memory space head.

Also guys i wanna give you some advice. It all sounds like a really long run to the end, with tonnes more work and all- but you know that feeling at the end and how good it feels. That feeling is the combination of hard work (well not for me) and friends. Uni for alot of people is the best thing ever because of their friends, and the things they do. Face it, we arent kids anymore- but we arent adults. We are still able to have fun risky stupid times ahead of us and thats just what we'll do.
So keep your heads up yeah?

And dont think about the future too much. It will be infront of you before you know it. What matters is that you are in the moment, enjoying the now. Thats what i was taught.

Ok i gotta go brush my teeth and sleep! I would have liked to written more and edit any wrong words or anything but yeah im exhausted, especially from Judo.

Also everyone workout. Do excersize. Now.

Laters :D

Cause I am reflecting

Remember ages ago Jon posted that video with the graduation speech. I am reposting it cause I think it's a good thing to listen too when you are feeling down about life or are looking for some motivation or what to do.





I also think about my life when I first watched this it was the 3rd of June 2011. I went back through and used the new blogger search bar to find this in all the posts. Most of year 12 was ahead of me and I was on top of the world. It was a great thing.
I dunno now I don't feel like that. I feel like I can't see my goal at all, even though I am working towards it, my goal/my job/my independence is nearly 4 and a half years away. That's like the entirety of high school all over again. And I know it's not really that long but boy it feels like 10 years.i guess cause you get out of school and expect independence but in reality, you have really got another 4/5 years at home and a shit load of work to do before you actually get that independence like it's better, with uni being all hands off but still.


Yeh that's my perspective.

in the library today, i was studying like a bitch, and i had forgotten my head phones so i had to listen to all the people around me (because i need a mac (because the stupid uni only puts Indesign on the macs)) and there were 3 girls sitting next to me doing management and they had to write a 10 minute play on good conflict resolving or something. and i was listening to them write their play and i was like..... "that used to be me having all that fun writing plays, but instead now im doing shitty essays about things i dont understand, i should have done drama"

but then i was like "drama? wtf would you do with drama?" and then the girls realised i was staring at them and kind of looked back at me like "wtf are you doing ?" and then i was awkward.

so anyway yeh currently hating my life, or more specifically past jon and his shitty decisions about his work ethic.

basically i hate myself and my classes.

In uni today, we were in economics and talking about the concept of 'booms' and 'busts' but i heard 'boobs and busts' so i started laughing uncontrollably and i couldnt stoop.

y m i so embarrasing

Now seems to be a good time to start my 10-20 page report on the property sector that due at 10 am tomorrow

lol no going to watch the lastest episode of Legend of Korra

EDIT: omg I'm meant to write 4000 words not 15 000 hahahahha lol life is great again~

Physics makes my head hurt

So I am sitting in my room doing my Physics test assignment thing.
It's not due til 11pm tomorrow but I will probably have a hangover tomorrow and it's just easier to do it now while I have the time and my head isn't hurting.
But the stuff we are doing in physics at the moment is like physics and chemistry.
The question I am trying to do now is about Kinetic theory of atoms, then the previous one was about specific heat of air in a piston.
Basically thermodynamics
It hurts my head. But it should only take me another hour and then I don't have to worry about it any more.

Anyway, I'm off to put my washing in the dryer, eat some cereal and continue my work.


EDIT: I finished that quiz thing 5 hrs early; I got 80% so not bad. Now all my other work to do.

i woke up at 7 30 instead of going to sleep at 7 30. im so happy guys!

what do i do now?

the sad moment when I clicked on 'I am 18 years or older' and I really am 18 years or older

The Future is Here

Guys so you know in Futurama how they all get iPhones and it's like a screen in front of your face.
I always thought that was a thing of the distant future but then I was browsing through the engineering tag on tumblr and I came across this. I know it would initially look exceedingly dorky but if everyone had one it would be a very interesting way to communicate. Like a phone I guess. But seriously, watch the video and realise how amazing technology is.

Chem tutorial fun times

So Im waiting for my tutorial. Just curiously Jon, why do you hate yourself? (it popped up on the newsfeed thing, apparently I follow your blog) I'm assuming that since that was posted 2 hours ago that you had not yet gone to sleep. In which case, well done. I was still awake at 2:30 and thinking my sleeping pattern is fucked but you beat my sleeping failure by a long way. Either that or it's something else. This is a much better distraction than texting people. Thank god for free Uni wifi. I would spend my time talking about the people in my class but my teacher is here.

I LOVE K-POP MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..........................just kidding!

well kind of. i don't really know any k-pop but I love JaeJoong!!!!!!!!!!!!

he's so cute and he speaks and knows better japanese than me!!!!!!!

i don't really know what this video is about but it's something about BAI BAI and radiance...

ONe oF ThOSe teSts

|THIS Is A teSt| its pretty trippin. It's about anxiety.
My results:
You are currently inhibited and unsure of yourself, and you feel a constant sense of the world closing in and making demands. You feel that emotional relationships will bring with them responsibilities or limitations that will be damaging to your sense of self. Compromise is seen as a danger to your identity, because you secretly fear that this identity is fragile.

You feel unsatisfied with your professional or romantic relationships. There is a sense that others do not have the same high standards, or that circumstances have put you into a position in which your true value is not appreciated. You want to be loved and admired for talent and skill, and if you do not feel either one, anxiety and frustration will lead to a sense of nervousness. You will often feel that emotional release is weakness and this will be frustrating to your sexual relationships. You will often confuse restraint with strength.
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and somehow this thing is pretty accurate.

Lol

I lol'd in my chair