Bach

So by now I'd think that the number of people who come to this page would be around about 0. Actually, not even around about 0, just 0.
Anyways, holidays make me lazy so I think i'll just kinda ease my self into the whole tiring process of blogging with a blog meme stolen off jubilicious.

Are you one of those people who are always tripping over things?

Nope. 

Would you ever consider taking evening classes in anything?

I do take evening classes every friday for physics and chem. Yep, nothing like being stuck in a room for 2 2 hour periods with a half hour break in between listening to a teacher prattle on about science.

Are you the type to make situations awkward?
Well occasionally I do on purpose just to see how the other/s would react. Most of the time they stare at me until I retract what I say.

Do you prefer fast food or “proper”, restaurant style food?

If the food tastes good, then imma stay in your hood. (to eat your food, regardless of fastness or properness)

Would you ever go out with someone shorter than you?
I'd say that this meme was more directed at females...whoops.


Is your mum the type to pressure you to have grandchildren?

Funnily enough I don't think my mother has ever mentioned grandchildren. My father on the other hand, being one of those firm believers in carrying on the family name by procreating until half of the world has my genetic material in it (kinda like an enthusiastic genghis kahn), would love for my future wife to be a factory to pop out babies.

Do you have any traits that you inherited from your parents?

Both mendelian and sex linked (holler at bio takers)

Are you still in touch with people you went to primary school with?

Well half my class from primary school ended up in my current school, and a third of my primary school ended up in my previous school so...kind of inevitable isn't it? I mean you try to avoid the buggers, but they always seem to pop out of nowhere and waste your time.

Jokes.BLAXCELL '06 REPRESENT.

Do you like Sushi?
I believe I coined the word sushi.

Are you the type to get easily embarrassed in public?
Not particularly if I'm with a group of people. If I'm by myself and I do something really weird on the other hand, then I'll probably just run away in shame.

Do you have to reply to texts straight away, or are you happy to just leave them for a while?
Depends on the person texting me. If I can't really think of an adequate response I'll just put it to the side for a while.

Have any of your friends gotten engaged recently?

I was going to make a witty pun about engaged like 'being engaged in a conversation' but then I couldn't think of anything cool. So, straight answer would be no.

Would you ever drop everything and go traveling for several months?
I'm quite sure that a predicted mark for me would be better then my current marks so as long as that was ensured I'd be more then happy to travel for a while.

Have you ever had a negative encounter with the police? What happened?
Well the police came and knocked on our door when one of our neighbours called about loud sounds coming from our house. Knowing me, you'd think I was having a madarse party with the mad hatter and some others right? Turns out it was the house on the other side of the street. 


Yeah, living on the edge of life. 

Do any of your close friends have any really annoying phrases or habits?
I do have a friend who does enjoy calling me 'Aaron Gong Worshiper'. Doesn't really matter though, she can go eat a strawberry. :D

When you go out for meals, do you try and eat healthily, or do you just pick whatever you feel like?

Actually, I seem to remember going with a couple of friends to a KFC and picking whichever menu item had the largest number of calories. 

Do you enjoy going out and socializing, or do you prefer to stay in?
I do enjoy having fun with friends but I need alone time as well.

What’s your favourite thing to cook/bake? Do you eat it often?
Fuck me cooking is horrible. I'm pretty sure I've ranted about this to someone else but cooking is just the worst possible thing on earth. So you get a cookbook/recipe right? Now, given that the cookbook/recipe is supposedly a set of instructions to tell you how to cook a specific dish to eat, you'd think that the cookbook would be more specific. No. It'll give you vague phrases like 'a pinch of salt' or 'a dollop of cream' or 'a sprinkle of flour'. What the fuck does that mean? You might as well say 'Aw mate, just chuck some salt, cream and flour in there and you'll be right'. Shitson, when I pay for a cookbook, or I take time to search online for a recipe, I would like something to tell me exactly how much I should add for optimum taste. None of this 'guess and hope itll taste good' shit. Then you'll have stupid instructions like 'beat until light and fluffy, but don't overbeat or your food will taste crap'. Obviously I'm paraphrasing here, but how light and fluffy is light and fluffy? Its not like if you beat something for 5 minutes itll become light and fluffy immediately, and then you have 30 seconds, and if you keep beating after that the whole thing will die. No, beating is a constantly changing concept, so please at least include some image or be more descriptive or something. These people who create recipes need to go back to primary school, take a course on the 'method' text type which everyone took in year 2 or something, and learn that specific is good. 


To conclude, cooking is shit. If someone forced me to cook, I'd make scrambled eggs, but I only know how to make that because the recipe was specific and told me excatly how much milk to add.

If you’re being extremely quiet what does it mean?
This topic does not interest me, or I'm really bloody tired, or I'm more interested to know everyone elses opinions before I contribute my own.

Do you think your life will be different this time next year?

Yeah we'll all be dead cause apocalypse on 21st December 2012. Mayans predicted it guys, don't try to deny it.

Are you keeping a secret right now?
First thing that sprang to mind was 'keeper of keys and grounds at hogwarts'. We need more harry potter books/movies :) Maybe a prequel? (in case J.K. Rowling checks my blog) 

And yes, I am, cause I'm like, totally dark and mysterious and stuff.

Where were you last night at 8 PM?
I was at home watching Hamish and Andy pranks on youtube. Those boys are top stuff.

Is your last name longer than 6 letters?
Nope.

What colour is your cell phone?
Silver and white.

What annoys you? 

Very, very, very little. Cooking, clearly, is one of them. 

Your ex calls you to tell you they hate you, what would you say?

How'd you get my number? 

Do you like to wear flip-flops? 

Hell yes. Flip flops are the ultimate footwear. Comfortable, protective AND easy to put on. 

Do you think you can love someone without trusting them?

Not really. I would absolutely hate to be the jealous dude who gets paranoid about every other guy who looks at the person I 'love', and if you don't trust a person then how do you know if the person you're 'in love with' is really that person? Maybe they've been telling you a lie all this time.

If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly what would it be?
Fly. One million isn't really that big of a deal nowadays with inflation and things like that. right about now I'm sounding pretentious and snobbish, but when radio shows are giving away one million dollars, when lottos are giving away 20 million dollars, when there are houses in unspectacular areas worth over a million dollars, i'd much rather be the only person able to fly.

Do you want to have kids?
Right now, I'm focussing more on my career, you know? Haha sure I'd like to have kids in the future.

Have you ever stolen a street sign?
Is this a thing now? I mean of all the classic pranks, 'knock and run', 'tping' etc. i really don't think stealing a street sign would be up there with them. I mean, how inconsiderate would you have to be to steal a street sign. There are only so many street signs in the world, and there are definitely a lot more pranksters then street signs. If street signs are taken away from our society, then what would we have? Postal service would die out cause posties are going to be wandering around, knocking on doors "Hello sir/madam. You wouldn't happen to be Mr. Johnson from wallaby way would you? No? YOu might want to get a chair or something, I have around 500 letters I need to deliver and I'm going to have to go through all of them'. Street directories and GPS services would become redundant. Lost tourists are not going to be helped by anything. Hipsters will have to find new things to take photos of. The world would be in ruins.

How long have you known the last person you spoke on the phone to?

Almost 17 years now. (P.S. the last person I spoke to on the phone was my father)

If you could go anywhere right now, where would you go?
Los Angeles. Playoffs are right around the corner.

Are you good at doing other peoples hair?
Yes. You don't mess with the James (geddit).

What’s the last smiley faced you used? 

I think I used ':D' in one of my responses in this meme so taht would be it.

What’s the last picture message you received on your phone?
Never gotten a picture message.

What do you prefer Skittles or Starbursts?
Skittles. Call me a weirdo, but the crunch of skittles is suprisingly satisfying.

Are you more fond of snowstorms or thunderstorms?
We're in Austrah-lia mate. We don't have snowstorms. We hop around on kangaroos in thunderstorms rejoicing that Warragamba Dam will get some precious rainfall. Actually I heard that Warragamba overflooded lol.

What color shirt are you wearing?

Hwite. (I am like, so English and posh today)

Has anyone recently told you something you didn’t want to hear?
A few people told me that kevin durant or lebron james would take the mvp instead of kobe this year. That made me sad :(

Has anyone recently disappointed you?
Not particularly.

When was the last time you wanted to punch someone in their face?

A few years ago me and a couple of friends went to the movies, and someone suggested that we watch the movie 'Suckerpunch'. When I came out of that cinema, boy did I want to suckerpunch that person in the face.

Rent a movie or go to movies?
Never rented. *Puts eyepatch and hook on*

Could you cry right now?
People cry because they're sad. For example, I cry because other people are stupid and that makes me sad.


-Sheldon Cooper P.h.D

Do you like to text or call more?
Calling seems more personal then texting.

Do you think you’ll be married in 5 years?
I would have to be preeeeetty whipped to get married in 5 years. I would highly, HIGHLY, doubt it.

Do you take walks when you’re mad?
Sometimes I walk to Parramatta River and mutter angrily. Most of the time I'll tell the person to fuck off for a while so I can calm down and stop being mad at them.

Why were you last scared?
I dreamed that Mrs. McKenzie was going to throw a GPS at me. I don't have Mrs. McKenzie for any subjects and as far as I know, Mrs. McKenzie and I have never spoken before.

Would you rather have ice cream, freeze pops or popsicles in the Summertime?
Ice cream. If you get a huge tub of the stuff, you can just go nuts. Popsicles and freeze pops you get allocated amounts.

What color are your toe nails right now?
Ew they're only a plain clear. How ordinary. I need to get around to painting them.


Do you prefer writing in print or cursive?

Cursive. It's more loopy!

Have you ever been in a big maze? If so, how was it? 
Never. I went to Melbourne with my family and found a huge maze but it was already closed :(

Who was your best friend in 6th grade?
Uhhh well in the beginning of year 6 it was Samuel Tieu i think. But at the end of year 6 i had gone to China, so probably someone from there.

Whose birthday is coming up?
I can remember 2 birthdays, jubilicious and gongys (go eat a strawberry), and jubilicious' is closer so hers.

Has anybody ever given you butterflies?I think this is meant to be a metaphorical question, but my cousin actually did give me a box of butterflies. It was like a collection of rare butterflies mounted on a cushion thingy.

How old do you think you will be when you finally have kids?
Late 20s, early to mid 30s.

What woke you up this morning?
Lakers game was on. I watched as we were decimated by the Spurs. It was heartbreaking.

Do you find the opposite sex confusing?
Mostly no. Some people though...

What color is your toothbrush?
White with hints of green. (sounds enigmatic right?)

What’s your favorite part of the song that you’re listening to?.

Do you think you’re a good friend?
I'd like to think that I'll help my mates out when I can, or when they're really in need of some sort of help. for the other times, you'd have to ask them.

If the year consisted of only one season, which would you choose?
Autumn. Not too hot, not too cold. Leaves are crunchy...(I think I may have answered another blog meme question or formspring question about my favourite season so refer to that)

Can you handle the truth?
So you run out of questions to ask and you default to a movie quote huh? 

Are there some songs you can’t listen to because they remind you of someone?
Stacy's mom. She had it going on. She was all I wanted and I waited so long.

Do you hate anyone?
Hate is such a strong word. So is dislike. I think that at worst, I neutral some people.

Do you think someone is thinking about you right now?
Hopefully Stacy's mom. :'(

Do horror movies these days scare you?
Not really. I find that the plot of the movie themself more scary.

Have you ever thrown your cell phone in anger? When?
No I haven't. Although, my dad has thrown my cell phone in anger. That was a fun moment. 

Do you know what it’s like to be truly happy?
Once, Stacy's mom come's out with just a towel on, and I could tell she like me just from the way that she stared. And when she says 'you missed a spot over there'.

That's what it's like to be truly happy.

Do you have a box anywhere with special items you’ll keep forever in it?
Not really, but I do have a secret stash with letters and other things.

If a horrible rumor was started about you and you found out who started it, what would you do with the person who started it?
Nothing much. If they want to go around starting rumors thats their thing. As long as I know that I didn't do whatever the rumor said I did, I'd be ok with it.


Are there any keyboards in your house that aren’t being use?Yeah, just got a few in the garage. That might sound sarcastic but it really isn't meant to be. I do actually have a few keyboards lying around in the garage because the keys screwed up.

Do you have any pictures of yourself on your bedroom walls?
Nope, my bedroom walls are quite plain. I did have a poster of my 'group' at baulko but after waking up to Nugg's mug staring at me every day, I was just a little bit put off.

Does your dad collect anything?
He likes collecting hobbies. He'll just randomly pick up a hobbie out of nowhere.

Would you have a career you can’t stand if you made a lot of money?
Nope. My theory is that if you like your job enough, money won't be a HUGE problem.

If a random person asked how old you are, would you tell them?
STRANGER DANGER. FOLLOW THE RULES OF NO, GO, TELL. GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE SCREAMING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THIS PERSON.

Do you ever have days when you just want to stay in bed all day long?
You know that moment where you wake up for school in the morning because of an annoying alarm and you just think to yourself 'Gosh, I am so excited to just hop on out of bed and go to school today because I love school and I love the world and I love rainbows and I love unicorns and I love the world and I love everything'? No. me neither.

Ads

So I was listening to the radio today, and they play some random ads in between songs...and usually I don't really pay any attention to these, but there was one ad that the station seemed to really enjoy playing for some reason, and so it just kind of stuck in my brain.


Unfortunately, the ad was for (in my opinion) the most useless piece of garbage ever. It was trying to advertise a new tv show that's apparently coming out on channel 7 called 'Please Marry My Boy'.


Just let that title sink in for a bit. This is not a hoax, there is going to be an actual show...where mothers try and find partners for their sons.


I don't know what to be disappointed at...the creators of this abomination? channel 7 for picking up this egregious concept? the mothers/sons for agreeing to appear on this stupid show (yeah...no more big words)? or even the viewers, however few, that this show will no doubt have?


Seeing as school begins tomorrow, I hastened to google search in the hopes that the radio show was playing some sort of cruel and distasteful joke in an attempt to cheer me up, but alas my hopes were in vain. The first page of google is filled with links dedicated to the promotion of the show. Perhaps my sense of entertainment/humor had gone so out of whack these holidays that I no longer understood the meaning of 'good idea'?


What I find even more puzzling is that this show is apparently to be told from the point of view of the mother...So...will the mother be attending her son's dates? Will the show be focussing on the changing dynamics of the relationship between the mother and the girl instead of the boy and the girl? Is it going to be the mother who ends up proposing for her son?


After looking this show up on wikipedia, this is what i find:


"The premise of the show consists of a group of males speed dating a number of females. The males don't realise that their mother will choose their top three candidates. Then the girls move in with the mothers."


How could the sons possibly not 'realise that their mother will choose their top three candidates'?? THERE WILL BE FUCKING CAMERAS EVERYWHERE. It's not like the mother can just palm that off and be kind of 'Oh you know, they're just filming a documentary on our family cause we're so interesting. OH LOOK, HOW CONVENIENT, THERES A CHICK OVER THERE YOU SHOULD TALK TO, AND WHILE YOU TALK TO HER, I'LL SIT IN AND LISTEN TO YOUR WHOLE FUCKEN CONVERSATION AND SILENTLY JUDGE HER. Oh...and the cameras will also be recording everything....for the...documentary...yeah.'


The only logical reason I can think of for putting this monstrosity on the small screen is to attract viewers with the "It sounds so terrible that it MUST be funny. Therefore I MUST watch this trainwreck of a show", because if that's not the angle they're approaching it from, then channel 7 is doing tv broadcasting wrong.


As an ending comment, I will be supporting my comments above (because as English teachers say, evidence is everything) with some evidence from a...'critic' of sorts.

Racist? Perhaps, but I'd still trust this person's opinions over that of the Channel 7 employee who picked this show up.

Hello my darlings

[Insert creepy face picture here]

haha i dont know why thats my title, but whatever it's a pretty rad title.

I currently stand at a crossroad. On one path, I want the holidays to just end so that my boredom cycle (get up, check lakersnation, look at nba scores, watch youtube, play basketball, more youtube, sleep) can end and so that something can take up about 6 and a half hours per weekday of my life...even if it is school. On the other hand, I want these holidays just to continue just to avoid fucken year 12.

year. 12.

fuck.

But, as I have seen people writing stress posts about the pressure of year 12 etc. and me, being the cool cucumber that I surely and truly am, I will be focussing on the positives of year 12...YAY

+ New batch of Year 7s. Before I start, don't you dare start assaulting me with pedo comments. Every year, it seems that Year 7s shrink. No, it isn't because we're growing taller, its cause those little buggers are just shrinking from their asian parents withholding foods and forcing studies. OK? Besides, who doesn't like to torment year 7s every now and then?
+We are three terms away from freedom. Freedom. We've learnt ever so much about it in English and History....and...Art? O_o And it's something that we've come to appreciate as one of the fundamental rights of humans. As William Wallace said so famously (or at least Mel Gibson did in 'Braveheart') FREEDOM OR LIBERTY!!! Eventually of course, William Wallace would be horribly tortured for his belief in freedom. Sadly, even though we are all children - or for those who's egos will not permit such a word, 'teenagers' - and are technically going through the freest time of our lives....we aren't truly free what with society expecting us all to sit a life-altering set of examinations at a time where some of us won't even be considered to be full-fledged adults. YAY SOCIETY.
+University is coming. Now this is a source of stress as well, but with university comes with meeting new people (or for the socially awkward...more gaming time), the possibility of earning money (more than what one is currently earning now) in a part time job and actual independence if one is planning to get out of the state where their parents reside. If the above still aren't enough to see this as a pro, consider how in uni we'll be learning something that will actually be used in our future careers (seriously...fucken essay writing, integration etc.) so we'll actually be using our time properly...instead of sitting through a class where the shit we learn isn't going to benefit us in any way, shape or form.
+Senior fucken commomroom. OHHH YEAHHHH. Ok, its a small win, but one that is magnificient. I've been at ruse for 1 year and i've wanted air con for pretty much 11 months of that one year (yes I hate any tiny bit of warmth. you don't want to be around me in summer, I will drive you around the twist). Granted, the senior commonroom aircon is currently broken, courtesy of the graduating year above us, but once that is fixed, shotgun once of the corners of that room for 5 hours a day.
+This is our fucken territory. Ok by now I'm just clutching at very, very loose ends, but now we are on top (unless you count the teachers and the deputies and lovely treskin, and really, who does anyway). We run this house. We could probably...like...leave our shirts out...and most teachers won't care....yeah. sweet as bru amiright? Actually, on revision teachers don't really mind anyway....but we could  probably bring like...those collectable tazos in and those trading card games that are banned for juniors, and like...duel each other all fucken day (except class time...). yeah. suck it. feels good right?

So overall, year 12 might be looming, it might be a source for stress, we might feel squashed and smothered underneath the blanket of these 'final examinations' but we must continuously cling at the positives, and remember that tens of thousands of kiddies like ourselves have managed to do this shit before us...so most of us will probably survive.*

Also. (NBA comment here) Kobe bryant. Fucken hero. Haters can't say anything right now. The dude is in his 16th season, he's 33, his wrist is fucked, his knee is fucked, his fingers are fucked (and thats most of what you use in bball) and he drops back to back to back nights of 40+ point games? Are you kidding me? And he leads the whole NBA in scoring and is 3rd in the PER ranks. Fucken champion. Lakers for Larry O'Brien trophy mate.

*I am in no way liable nor will I take any responsibility if you stumble upon an unfortnuate set of circumstances where you do not survive the final year of your secondary education. Whilst bicbostik industries hold nothing but sorrow at your misfortune, we will not be responsible for the payment of any funeral costs or for the payment of the psychologists that your family will hire. we will however be sure to attend your funeral, and would in no way object to the receipt of any item or items taht you wish to bequeath upon us, and would honor said items (note plural...dont you dare do any of that singular shit) with the utmost respect. Why is this paragraph even here? If you don't survive you won't even be able to pursue me for what I wrote....unless ghosts are real? Nah fuck that shit I don't believe in ghosts. I'm a big boy. Cool. If you read all this...then you seriously need a fucken life son. Go out and frolick in the sun, get that UV light and vitamin D boy. Ok this has gone on for long enough - by now even I realise taht I'm just trying to extend my post....as if I were writing an essay and need to meet the word limit.

COOL. BYE.

Remixed

So apparently my response was a little on the critical side. And by a little on the critical side, I mean I was extremely mean. So in an effort to level the playing field and give anyone out there an equal oppurtunity to absolutely demolish me for my poor 'blog meme' creating skills, here is my rendition of this thingy.

Hidden Hypotheticals:

1. Quick! You have to choose a superpower to fight a hoard of zombies. What do you choose? 
2. You are asked to give a speech in front of the whole school. What do you talk about?
3. You're planning a scavenger hunt with all your friends. What do you include on the list of things to find?
4. You discover that one of your long lost relatives is actually Mrs. Bennett from Pride and Prejudice. How do you react?
5. Imagine that North Korea asks (and by ask they mean command) you to be their new "Glorious Leader". What is the first policy you implement?
6. Tomorrow you are going to take on a Bear Grylls style adventure where they drop you in the middle of no where and you must find some sort of civilisation. How do you prepare?

Rugged Randoms

1. Who do you talk to most on msn?
2. What is your favourite time of day?
3. Do you listen to the radio, and if so, which radio station do you listen to?
4. What do you do as part of your 'morning routine'?
5. Who is your favourite NBA player? (had to have this in here somewhere :D)
6. Is society slowly heading towards total destruction?

Fancy Philosophicals:

1. Pro choice? Pro life? Pick one and justify.
2. Should students be forced to wear uniforms? 
3. Do you think that the existence of life on Earth is simply due to fantastical coincidence?
4. Do you think that the world's best phone or the world's best computer is more useful?
5. Politicians are ruining our country. Discuss.
6. Why is it that butter alone tastes horrible but is necessary in almost all pastries?

Interesting Inquiries:

1. Can you pull a good poker face?
2. Are you the type of person who wishes everyone in your contacts a Happy New Year?
3. What do you think is the most important job?
4. Are apple products overrated?
5. What do you think happened to the baby in the banana boat ads?
6. Which is your favourite pokemon and why?

Fuck. This was so hard to write. I have respect for you reid for being able to produce yours in just 30 minutes. Anyways, I'm not going to edit. I'm sure its an absolutely egregious production so have fun picking it apart.

All credits go to Mr. Duetofone for the coloured titles.

Fine reid. I'll do your blog meme :P

Here we go.

Hidden Hypotheticals:

1. If you had a donkey, what would you name it?

Ladies and Gentlemen. When introducing it, I could say "This is my ass, ladies and gentlemen"

1. One day your doctor gives you an X-ray and discovers that your brain is actually the size of a peanut... would this have any effect on you?

That depends. By the size of a peanut, do you mean the actual size of the nut itself without the outer skin, or with the outer skin? Reid. You must be more precise with your blog memes. :P

1. You are locked inside a metal cube with no way out. There is a locked door and the key is placed behind your eyeball. You are given a scalpel... will you gouge out your eyeball to retrieve the key, or will you wait five hours for the oxygen in the box to run out?

I. What? How did the key get there? If the key was somehow placed there, then if I did the same procedure in reverse then the key would end up in my hand or something right?

1. A random stranger gives you a box with a button. Inside the box is one trillion dollars and the only way to access the money is to press the button. However, the button, when pressed, causes the world to end the day after you've died. What do you do?

Reid. Seriously. If one trillion dollars were to be placed in a box, the surface area that it would take up would make the box several times taller than I am, and by extension, the button would be unable to be pressed. Whilst It would be a very enjoyable experience to attain one trillion dollars AND to have the opportunity to ultimately end the world, this scenario is simply impossible.

1. You find a dog that is worth close to one million dollars and sell it on ebay (dunno if that's legal) to some 8-year old girl (million dollars?) who is sure to love and care for it properly. However, before you send it through Australia Post, you see a 'Lost' sign with an image similar to the dog you sold, with a reward of half a million. However, the person who lost it is dodgy and does not look like he cares about the dog at all, also he refuses to give proof that the dog is actually his. Who do you give the dog to?

....Are you kidding me?

1. I receive 1 million dollars compared to the 5 hundred thousand dollars when I give the dog to the girl

2.The girl will actually give a shit about the dog unlike the other person

3.The other person doesn't even have proof that he/she is the original owner. Surely a reasonable owner of a pet has at least some record of purchase, or a picture or even a video with said pet.

Please restructure this question reid.

1. Someone invents a way to record all your dreams that you have forgotten, however you are only allowed to watch it with your entire family watching along with you. Would you use this invention to view your dreams, knowing that all your most embarrassing and innermost thoughts may manifest themselves in your dreams?

Meh. By now they should know that I'm a pretty retarded person. Besides, If my forgotten dreams were really screwed up in some way, I'd love to get their reaction. Priceless. 

MEME ANSWERERS NOTES:

So far, your questions are either not specific enough, have one sided answers, simply make no sense or have easy solutions. The only questions that have actually caused me to pause for a moment to think are the first question and the last question. 

Rugged Randoms:

1. Pick a number between 1 and 2 inclusive. It may not be a decimal.

2 is always better than 1.

1. In your opinion, what is the single largest problem that the world as a whole faces?

Really really REALLY fucked up people in high positions.

1. Do you have certain friends only for lack of options?

Don't even understand this question. Who on earth has friends only for lack of options? Fuck if you're that out of options then make some imaginary friends up. That's what I do.

1. Everyone has a certain ratio of brains to effort needed in order to achieve. What would you say your ratio is?

I'm sorry, but wouldn't this ratio be a constant amongst humans? Everyone would need to have some level of intelligence to some level of input in terms of effort in order to achieve....therefore there wouldn't be an individual ratio. Extending upon this, the 'amount of brains' and 'amount of effort' are unquantifiable quantities, therefore making a set ratio impossible to implement. Even if one were to approach this question from a purely qualitative stance, 'amount of brains' and 'amount of effort' are two different concepts which are unable to be equated.

1. Do you have a fake call application on your phone to get out of awkward conversations? If so, have you ever used it?

My phone does not have one of these applications. BUT, if I hypothetically did have a phone with one of these applications then I would most likely use it. If I wasn't the type of person to use an application to get out of an awkward moment, then I definitely wouldn't be the type of person to install such an application in the first place.

Sloppy question Reid. Sloppy.

1. If you were to have a movie made about your life, which songs would you include in the soundtrack?

You make the false assumption that I would have a soundtrack. I'd probably make my movie a silent one, so taht only those who actually gave a shit about the move about my life would want to sit through it.

MEME ANSWERERS NOTES:

Unfortunately, this section was even more disappointing then the first. The second and last question stood out in this as the 'better ones', but apart from these the questions were poorly asked with an obvious answer.

Fancy Philosophicals:

1. 'Prove to me that you are not figments of my imagination', says the solipsist. So prove it for them. How do you prove that the world as you know it is not a figment of your imagination?

I wouldn't. I'd start a debate with him about the concept of nihilism versus the concept of solipsism.

1. Do you believe you have free will? Or is everything you do simply a pre-written reaction in your DNA to certain stimuli?

This is an actually interesting question. The first one of the blog meme. I feel like I should hold a party for you after having to sit through the other more easily answered questions. In response, I'd say that I have a combination of both. I can't always be in control of my 'will'. When the moment allows it, I'd prefer to say that I have free will, but in the event where my reaction needs to be instantaneous it would probably be a pre-written reaction in my dna to certain stimuli.

1. Is the idea of customising babies before they are born a bad one? If you could ensure a baby is born without any genetic defects, but could also change their hair and eye colour, level of intelligence etc?

This would not be a good idea. Social standards dictate a set number of qualities that are deemed to be 'attractive'. The concept of genetic modification of a fetus would encourage a decrease in variation within a species (or in this case, within the human race) and would make the populace of Earth weaker to changes in the surrounding environment.

1. You clone yourself one day with the clone having exactly the same memories as you. Can you prove to yourself that you are the original?

I don't particularly see a need to prove that I am the original. Knowing my nature, my clone would likely think himself to be the original, and I myself would think that I am the original. Eventually we'd probably agree to separate to two completely separate areas of the world and just stop all this nonsense about original and clone. 

1. Is a positive attitude beneficial? Or is it lying to oneself about the nature of life?

Positive attitude is incredibly beneficial. Though it may create a facade concerning the nature of life, the alternative, a negative attitude, is much more detrimental. Stemming from a negative attitude is low self confidence and without self confidence, one cannot accomplish anything.

1. What do you think would be the most useful wild animal to domesticate?

A Lion. I would ride on its back. I would call it rumble roar. And together, we would explore the figurative world of Pigfarts that I would conjure up around me, blissfully ignoring the qualms of the real world.

MEME ANSWERERS NOTES:

Just when I thought all hope was lost for this blog meme, this section provided a slight glimmer of light. Provided, some questions were easily answered, they were not as easily answered as those above this section. The other questions were much more challenging and could well be used in debates.

Interesting Inquiries:

1. Do you think of yourself as having a great insight into how the human mind works? ie, do you think you understand other people's motives well?

I'm insightful into certain aspects of the human mind. On other aspects however I am hopelessly oblivious and incapable of interpreting even the simplest motives of others. Ms. Jubilees has great experience with this. Regardless, the aspects that I understand well are sufficient for me to predict what others may do successfully.

1. How long does it take for someone to work off a bad first impression for you? How about ruining a good first impression?

I give a person a week or two to make an impression on me. If by the end of that time period, I still think that they are alright, I'd probably keep that impression of them. If by the end of that time period, I think that the person is a dick, I tell them that they are a dick. Simple.

1. What is your favourite type of mollusc?

Scallops are quite nice. Oysters are nice as well. I say this not because of appearance or other trait. I say this because of their taste :D

1. Do you have any type of phobia? (you have to name it too, not yes/no) If not, what is the most irrational phobia that someone you know has?

I am a slight germophobe.  I am incapable of sharing drinks/food that other people have taken a bite out of etc. It is just....unhygenic. Horrible. Ugh. The most irrational phobia? I have no idea. I don't exactly take note of other people's phobias. Just observe, forget, and move on.

1. What would you name the autobiography of your life?

I'd leech the sale of my autobiography from another popular series at the time. In the current situation. Harry Potter and the ....

1. If you were someone else, what would be the first impressions of yourself?

I don't understand. Who is the someone else?

MEME ANSWERERS NOTES:

You know? I was happy. I was happy that you were donig well in this last section. Most of the questions were nice and thought provoking. Then you decided to ruin everything with the last question. Frightfully lacking in specifics. Incredibly unimaginative and extremely disappointing. 

OVERALL:

If one were to graph my expectations for this graph from the time that I started it to the time that I finished it, the graph would look like a concave down parabola, intersecting the vertical axis at an infinitely high point. The vertex of the parabola would be somewhere around the end of the second section or the beginning of the third section. The end point of the parabola on the right side would be at around the point where the parabola intersected the vertical axis. Whilst this blog meme was...disappointing at times, it did manage to recover near the end, only to be killed by the last question.

GRADE: 

First section: D-

Second section: F+

Third Section: B-

Fourth Section: B+

Overall: C

Nice try reid. Nice try indeed.

As predicted. Boringness sets in.

So I apologise for 2 weeks of absolute nothingness. Actually, no I don't, this is my blog so I'll write whenever I damn well please :P.

So what has James been doing these holidays? I've been out twice, once to Kynan's boxing day dinner which was of course filled with funness...(making up words?). Of course yours truly the mahjong mogul was slightly too good at it getting pongs everywhere and flowers and stuff, but we also (or I also? or like...some of us also?) met this cool guy called ryan. Oh gosh I hope his name was ryan...cause bit awkward if its something completely different like Steve or something. In short, I lost all my chips to 'ryan' of 2 or 3 rounds of blind poker. Damn luck. Then of course bartog (not even sure if thats how u spell it), snap, etc. for group fun :D (except no mafia D:)

Day after went to kif's for some farm fun. Got up extremely tired extremely dead after getting home the night before at 11ish and just kind of lay in bed staring at my ceiling telling myself to get the fuck out of bed before I fell back to sleep. Anyways, this too was an extremely fun fun fun day...but got hammered by kif in bball, despite winning the most games with the ruse trio team (YAY) and suffered taunts of the loss to the kings by the lakers....(but i'll veer away from nba talk seeing as none of you readers enjoy this topic)...and I got a few taunts in towards b1 for abandoning my purple and gold team for...THE HORNETS....=.=

But anyways. Woke up next morning sore EVERYWHERE. literally EVERYWHERE. did not even want to get out of bed. Damn i'm getting too old for such activeness ;)

HOWEVER, that has all been recovered and now I face my workload. English will be a delight. Maths (and woodhouse) will be a delight. 3 Sciences........plus extension english on top of 2u english work....

GAH

On reflection, this blog post was extremely poorly organised. Such low calibre of writing is not to be expected from myself on a regular basis and I apologise for the disruptive nature of this post.

Quiz? Meme? Questionnaire? Survey?

Given that the seashell economist was the one to encourage me to try my hand at another one of these, I've come out of retirement, stolen this little meme off the clothes line of the seashell economist and now eagerly anticipate the failure of it and my total destruction of it. quite fitting don't you think?

BEGIN

What are three things you did today?
Spray painted Morgan's delightfully red balls white.Then proceeded to over do it and get white sticky liquid all over my fingers. Which wouldn't come off so I ended up having to use turpentine to get it out. Oh, and I think Morgan mentioned turpentining his balls to get rid of some of the spilled over sticky white stuff.

sexual innuendo? in your endo. 

Would you rather sleep at a friend’s or have them over?

I would much rather sleep at a friend's. Unfortunately, due to the...'restrictive nature' of my parents, this has only been achieved once. As a side note, this would be a perfect set up for that joke that goes 'why do i have to clean my room? the party's not going to be in my room!' to which the parents would cackle evily to themselves and be all like 'oh but it is!'
Last thing you spent money on?
Bought a few BHP billiton shares. I think I'm going to get into the market by investing in a few blue chip shares to have a stable basis, before going for a few of the more riskier shares when I have the money to spare and the ability to take risks.

Do you believe that love lasts forever?
Father time is undefeated. He will capture everything. That includes love. Don't get me wrong, I'm not those people who run around screaming LOVE IS NONEXISTENT I HATE EVERYONE. before breaking down in a corner rocking back and forth in fetal position. Love can only go on for so long. Death is the ultimate master. Unless of course you possess the hallows. In which case love would last forever. It could even last fivever.

What’s your favorite season of the year?
Autumn. leaves are crunchy wherever you go. temperature is nice and cool. the night arrives earlier = more raves. equinoxes occur. it is one of the top 100 names for girls in the united states. it is considered to be the preferred season of the goddess of learning, Saraswati in Indian mythology. Canadian football is on. and professor wikipedia is amazing.

Do you hate when people call you when you’re sleeping?
Really depends on the person who calls me. Most of the time I won't mind. I'll probably use a few more expletives then normal but don't let that discourage you. It just means that from now on I'll stay up until 3am and call you repeatedly and hang up. Every night. For a year.

Do you talk a lot?
I don't think I do. Perhaps this is my highly inflated ego talking, but I prefer to think that I take a more logical, more thought out approach when talking. Well...serious talking. For serious topics I'll usually stay quiet unless I feel something that needs to be said hasn't been said. On non-serious topics, I don'te even noe whats going to come out of my mouth, nor the frequency at which it will manifest.

What are you looking forward to?
The school gym. Stealing questions off other blog memes are we now?

Are you nice to everyone?
I do try my absolute hardest to be. Actually. Let me rephrase that.I have varying degrees of niceness for people. For those who I've only just met, and who I barely know, I will try my hardest to be nice. Once I feel that the relationship has moved from acquaintance to friend, I either continue being nice or diverge into meanness showing only slight glimpses of niceness. When a person moves from friend to a person I consider a close friend, most likely I will be mean. I'll be caring and nice when you're down or in need, but in normal situations I'll be mean to the extent where I know you'll be able to tolerate it. Once close friend becomes best friend, or extremely extremely close friend, I will rarely ever be mean. Rarely. Still sometimes :P

Have you ever kissed anyone with a lip ring?
What the? NO? What if your tongue gets caught in it or some crap and it just rips the whole thing out. Holy shit that's scary. No fucken just no. If a girl has a piercing, apart from like ears, then in my mind it is 'nty'. unless our personalities are extremely good for each other. then i'll tell her to take that shit off.

What about braces?
nope? these questions are weird.

Are you slowly drifting away from someone?
Are pigs capable of flying on a normal day in opposite world, or on opposite day in the normal world? I'm disappointed. This meme showed potential. Then it had to ask a stupid question like this. Invariably human's lives will be affected by so many intangibles that relationships are a fluid concept, always changing. In fact, i'd say that the bond of two people is like the aether model. completely transparent, permeates all matter, massless, perfect elasticity (can both bring people together or make people go bye bye from each other) and makes as much sense as ulysses by James Joyce. You should read Joyce's delightful novel. 

Oh back on topic. I've moved schools. Of course I am. 

Do you get upset over the opposite sex easily?
Very rarely does anything upset me.I can't think of a scenario where any chick could really, REALLY upset me. Well, of course one girl in particular is excluded from this, but the act that would upset me is so grave that I will refrain from even mentioning it.

Ooooh yeah, I can be the mysterious dark horse too.

Do you wish things were better?
Please don't be so general. When the question is general, then my answer will be general. That makes for a general qusetionnaire, leading to general viewers being generally displeased with the generality of my responses which makes me as a blogger as angry as general grevious can get when he's thwarted by general obi-wan kenobi. Generally speaking, that's not a good feeling. General. (fuck da police)

Can you do the alphabet in sign language?
Challenge. Accepted. 

Do you wear glasses?
I recently purchased glasses. They have thin frames and are very unhipster. I wanted frameless, but my eyesight is too good and my lenses are too thin for that. Oh well. But, when I wore them, ms. jubilees looked at me weirdly xD

How have you felt today?
School's out! *breaks into high school musical routine*

Have you ever been in a hospital?
Aren't children usually born in a hospital? BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.

Have you hugged someone in the past 24 hours?
Mmmmm. Nope. Oh actualyl yes. I hug my computer until I sleep every night. 

You receive $ without any reason, what do you spend it on?
Fuck the spending it on. The curiosity of the reason I receive the $ would drive me insane until I find out the reason for finding the money.

Does someone text you goodnight every night?
EVERY NIGHT? at approximately 25c per text over 365 days, that is $91.25 dollars spent on two words (or one word if you look at the question). WHO ON EARTH MAKES THAT KIND OF A COMMITTMENT TO ONE OR TWO WORDS? WHO DOES?

What do you hear?
Cause I hear your true colours shining through. I hear your true colours, and that's why I love you. 

Oh wait. whoops that doesn't sound right.

Do you miss anyone?

Mhmm :( That's ok though. GET TO SEE PERSON IN QUESTION TOMORROW :)

What are you craving at the moment?
I'm asian. I think I am craving dog rump with a side of bull penis and some stir fried rice.

Do you remember who you liked 3 months ago?
No brainer. DUH!

Do you think you can last in a relationship for six months?
I certainly hope so. Otherwise what on earth have I been doing for the past six months O_O

What’s your favorite thing to do in the summer time?
Make an inspirational dance movie about a poor boy who all his life has wanted to dance but never got support. Suddenly I try out for a small production, and i get the LEAD ROLE! THEN I SPEND MY LIFE DANCING AND TRAVELLING THE WORLD. 

When was the last time you were scared?
When Ruse only came first by 6% this year in HSC rankings. LOLJKS I'm not an obssessive noob.

Can you be single and happy?
Hmmm. Good question. You know, I thought long and hard about this question. Staring at the computer screen for over 20 minutes just thinking about single life. After casting my mind back, I think that I have been single and happy, but I no longer am able to. I  vaguely recall being single AND happy at the same time. I must've been around one year old in preschool and I was content to simply play blocks you know? But after the day to day life of generally playing with cards and toys, I felt empty inside you know? I felt like....there was a hole in my heart, like there was just this pinprick of a hole. But even though it was a small hole, I felt the pain. Every breath I took, and with every heart beat, I felt an overwhelming pain , a pain that engulfed me, that made me look at myself and made me look at the shallow child I was. That's when I went out and found myself a woman and BAM. No longer able to be single and happy :(

Whose bed did you last sleep in other then your own?
Your mums. OHHHHHHHHHH. Actually no, i'll retract that. It really was just too easy. Umm I really have no idea.

Does anyone know your password besides you?
Passwords are your identity. Give them to other people and you will regret it. Lol that being said the master of Jubilees knows one of my passwords (I alternate between two). Internet security at its best ;)/

Look around your room, is there anything that brings back memories?
Yeah my yellow fitzpatrick. I remember ruse orientation when I was still in year 10, i went to the library, and the librarian hands it to me, tells me to do some questions over the holidays and calls out 'NEXT'. 

Are you happy?
I think that there is too much sadness in this world. I am always in a state of happiness. 

Will this weekend be a good one?
If by weekend you mean friday and saturday, then yes. Exceedingly good.

Has anyone told you “Forever and Always” then left?
Thats a bit of a dick move. I would almost never say something like that unless I was absolutely sure that it was 'forever and always'. What kind of dickhead just says something like that willy nilly. dick move. 

Who do you sit next to in science?
Biology, my bag

Physics, i sit at a table with people, but usually i'll be with my bag

Chemistry....depends. Our table changes seats a lot. Sun, Austin, David have all sat next to me. If all else fails, my ever faithful bag will be there.

Yeah, forever alone. I KNOW YOU'RE THINKING IT.

Who was the last person you watched a movie with?
Yet another question stolen. Yet another question I will leave unanswered.

How many kids do you want to have?
If I had around 500 to 1000, I could train my own mini army and start my own little nation on an island somewhere. WE can all dream. Of course, this quantity might be slightly...err....overdemanding? of my  partner. So i think that I'll settle for 2 and make sure that they both become supergeniuses and amazing basketball players.

What do you want to get tattooed?
Nadim had a pretty cool tattoo in chem. It said I love human rights. That would be a rad tattoo to have. (and yes i did say rad)

Last girls house you slept at?
STUD ALERT STUD ALERT. THE OWNER OF THIS MEME IS A STUD. WOOHOOO.

Who with?
In my deepest fantasies? Mr. Darcy. OH how I love everything about him.

What are you doing tomorrow night?

hugging my computer. pay attention.

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