I Fucking Hate: The trendy emo/goth scene.

Go suck a fucking whale penis. You're not sad, mad or different. You're just attention-whoring.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Alex: On study

Once again, I make my news-worthy opinionated posts, although this one isn't about why some vice or other is being stomped out by those that 'used to be cool', this one is about questioning everybody and almost everything they've done at one point or other. Yes, I'm talking about study.

Chances are, you've studied on at least one occasion in your lifetime. Maybe it was because you were forced to, maybe you decided that it would help you do better at whatever it was that you were attempting to do better at. Maybe it was because you needed to pass the [insert subject here] final and you stayed up all night only to get an E in the exam the next day because it was all the Red Bull and No-doz could do to stop you from falling asleep. I have never done this, although I almost inevitably will at some point due to the cyclic and hypocritical nature of human stupidity, i.e; I see someone doing the same thing and say to myself "I will never do such a stupid thing", but eventually I will and then my previous statement has just been proven wrong. But hey, I'm rambling.

Studying is something that people can claim there can never be enough of. Of course you take breaks, but apart from that, study like hell! To this I say, [put on voice of assumed grandeur] you sir, are WRONG!

Why? I'll tell you why. You ever been to the test for the selective schools? I did (I actually did well enough to get into North Sydney Boys High School, but really that's another story) and no racism or anything, at least half the kids are asian. To take an example from a certain person I know, these kids work very hard to get into the selective schools, and due to their amazing work ethic (something I admire in a way) they study non-stop until they get into that school, then study non-stop once they're there. This, I think, is wrong.

Pardon the cliche, but it is always said that childhood is the best time in your life, and while horribly depressing as it may be, it is almost certainly true (with the exception of retirement, which is kind of like Childhood: Uncensored and Uncut. I really won't go into detail with this reference). When you are a young child, you have little if any responsibilities, you have your own misinterpreted sense of freedom, you never need to 'mind your language' as you don't know any foul language (and if you do you don't know how to use it properly) and you can get away with anything really. This I like, but unfortunately one of my biggest life regrets is that I didn't realise all this until it had slipped through my fingers, filtering out the goodness and leaving me with work and all other types of painful effort.

Childhood is freedom in a sense, and to rob someone of their childhood is akin to robbing someone of their brand new European luxury car before they even got to drive it, or if they drove it once so they know how good it is but can never ever get a new one because they're so damn expensive. Anyway, when you force your child to study every day of the week so they get into a school where they can study every other day of the week so they can get into college to study some more to pass their exams to wind up in a job where they work all day and sleep all night until they die, you have done something wrong. Give your child a life! I mean, if you must, make them study for exams or something, but don't force them to study around the clock so they can work for the rest of their lives.

My one "advice of the blog post" however, is don't not study at all. If you don't study at all, you will probably eventually fail your exams, and then you end up working all day and sleeping all night, except your working will be packing boxes and we all know that gets dull after a while, and before you know it, you'll want to do something else, which starts the cycle all over again as you try to re-enter university. And guess what? This time, you'll have to study, because no amount of "real-world experience" can match word for word what is written in your textbook (note: the previous sentence was part sarcasm and part not, in case you were wondering. If you ask a university professor, they'll tell you it was not sarcastic, which just goes to show you whether you'll fail uni or not).

Long story short; study, but not too much.
I'll find something else to blog about soon

~Alex.

P.S: Comment if you have any interesting points, complaints, or incoherent ramblings around this subject.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Anthony: Valentinez

I have naught to say on the topic other that: Most women just think of it as an excuse concocted by men to get laid more often.

This is, of course, probably the case.

Is there anything wrong with that?

Quote of the Post:
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer (1928 - Some Time )