Once again, I’ve decided to stop blogging.  I don’t really come on here that much to post, and I really prefer reading my friends’ blog posts rather than posting my own. Besides, hanging onto a thread with this blog is really killing my time. Other than that, I’ve noticed that this blog has been very depressing despite what I usually write and feel. That’s negativity that I just don’t need to experience; my usual life style seems to have slipped a bit from the happy-go-lucky type. (My friends are probably remembering high school and scratching their heads a bit right now, but you know it’s true to some extent!  For these reasons, I feel that this blog has been tortured and exhausted to its fullest, and so have decided to close it, like many before.

I’ll probably start blogging again later on, but it’ll be less personal. I really don’t think anyone is interested in my life.

You know it’s true.

It’s funny to think that I actually started blogging purely by inspiration from another blogger, who is now just trying to relax and complete a degree at USYD. I wish her luck for the rest of her life, and hope she’s doing better at uni than I am.

So..

So

I say:

Well, to some of you, this will be old news, but something that’s happened since the last time I blogged solely about tea is that I started going to uni. On my way to uni, there is a bubble tea store called EasyWay, where I would stop almost every day just to order large sugary teas.

I knew it then and I still know it now.

It’s a waste of money.

Lately I’ve been thinking of a solution to this problem, and have finally come up with something plausible. Every time I pass an EasyWay, I will bar myself from buying it, and when I get home I will get a pack of some other tea at Woolworths for less than $5. I will do this for a week, probably accumulating a few hundred teabags in the process, and then stop. From there, I will bar myself from all EasyWay purchases period. Thus, I will not only have saved money, but I’ll have also satiated my tea addiction when I get home. Further, I will be much healthier, since I drink tea without any additives at home anyway, and my family will also benefit from a larger variety of tea to choose from.

It’s foolproof, I hope.

Progress report when the week is over.

I find it stupid that the government is trying to intervene with how large supermarket chains obtain fresh produce for resale. From what I could see on the Ten news reports, the government’s argument is highly hypocritical by attacking Woolworths with the greed card – that they want more profit by outsourcing their fresh produce. Apparently, Woolworths aren’t supporting local battling farming families, they just want more money. In reality, the government just wants more local trading because they want to sap all the profits from the battling farming families here with taxes, something they just can’t do when a retailer outsources.

I don’t understand why this is such a big deal. Woolworths are clearly doing this for more money, but at the same time they’re passing on savings to the consumer. In this situation, it looks like the only ones who are losing here are those rich enough to even own a farm and the government itself. Sure, the government can’t channel the money into important aspects of our slightly troubled nation such as education or infrastructure (let’s just pretend that they actually make legitimate attempts at this), but at the same time, civilians are allowed to live at least a little more comfortably and healthily and are able to go to work. Considering that the prices of fresh produce are already too high as it is, I just wish the government would leave Brittany alone.

I mean, leave Woolworths alone.

Derp.

Unfortunately, my computer was on hibernate, so I was welcomed to the remains of my attempt at one out of three of my assignments due within a week.

My memory was instantly wiped.

Clearly, this is an awesome feat at any university, and practically impossible without any well-defined rules. So we brainstormed, and eventually came up with a decent few. While it is still a game in the process of being debugged, I guess you could call the following set of rules part of the v1.0 beta stage:

1. There must be at least two teams each containing at least 1 person. Just putting it out there that two teams of many people is probably the best way to play.
2. Each team must have at least one means of instantaneous communication with the other teams, whether this be via SMS, phone call, social networking, etc.
3. One team must be elected or volunteer to be seekers, the other teams are hiders and must get out of sight as soon as the seekers are determined.
4. The seekers must wait at least 5 minutes for the hiders to hide in some area of the university/park/typically huge  (but still familiar) area they are using as a play zone. No one is allowed to breach the boundaries of the play zone, they are only allowed to stay within it. After the 5 minutes are up, the seekers may begin hunting down the hiders.
5. The hiders, upon settling on a location, MUST in some form indicate to the seekers through their means of communication where they are in a cryptic form, most notably a riddle. They must then stay in this location for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, they can go to a different location and repeat this step.
6. The seekers must use the riddle to figure out where the hiders are located, find them, and without their knowing get a clear photograph taken of them in their location. This photograph must be sent to them through the preferred form of communication. The photo must be clear! If it is blurry for some reason (eg, motion blur) or the photo is of the other team running away, then it doesn’t count!
7. If the hiders make eye contact with the seekers, they are permitted to immediately run away and find a different hiding place. The rules then repeat from 5.
8. If a clear photograph is taken and successfully sent to the hiders, the game must immediately end in the case of two teams and restarted from 3, merely swapping roles rather than going through another decision process. If there are multiple teams, the found hiders become the seekers and the seekers that found the hiders that became seekers become hiders. The other hiders must be alerted of the change and the game restarts from 5, and all the other rules before 5 (eg, no breaching of the play-zone boundaries) still apply.
9. The game ends when you get tired of it.
10. Have fun. Don’t cheat.

One of them commented on losing their virginity.

This really resonated in my mind a bit before I grasped what he said. He really wanted to have sex before he died, and probably knew that his chances were limited given his vital condition. I just couldn’t believe how we take this for granted every single day, especially the abstinent and sexually active, as I tossed the idea of being in his condition in my mind.

Heck, as a guy, of course I’d want to have sex too!

It didn’t take me long to forget what I saw that day.

That was until I saw a movie today, called The Be All and End All.

In short, it’s about a 15 year old kid with a deadly heart condition that wants to have sex before he dies. As unrealistic as the story unfolded, it really stuck me again how people in this situation react.

It’s unfair, cruel, sad. Whatever you want to say about it, to have to know that you would die soon is a real mindfuck when you’re an adolescent.

Whatever, it was just a thought.