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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
hitting past papers
my angsty blog will consist of:
stuff
and this past week
and month
Firstly, I would like to put out there that the more and more philosophy I read, the more I acknowledge its its lack of practicality in society. It is pretty much like a never ending chess puzzle book. For the thinkers, but really, it still wouldn't help you play it better. It further re-affirms my belief that, philosophy is pretty much the theory behind psychology, but not limited to it.
Secondly, since I am now reading on the philosophy of language, it seems to me that unless you are educated in the right way, it is actually extremely hard to grasp concepts presented by modern/pre-modern philosophers. John Locke and his essays in Human Understanding encapsulates my point exactly. It is not the fact that it was written sometime in the 18th century and that word uses/meanings have changed, but that they are still used in the same way, seemingly disjointed from how we might use it.
Thirdly, I have only two lessons of it left and it occurs to me that I really will miss it alot. Although now, I can have my tuesdays off, which is a plus.
~
On a non related note,
I dislike the notion of saying/texting/messaging "bye" very very much.
I guess it is how one might apply the word in a situation, but to me...no matter the occasion, I don't like it.
Because I always think of the word like a sort of full stop.
Sentences end at fullstops.
I don't like the way "bye" connotes that. That, it is the end of some form of relationship.
Also, I see it as a short half-arsed version of "later" or "see you" for when you're pissed at the person.
"goodbye" however, rings a completely different bell.
~
Massive mood swings this week/month. But now I realise why, and so I suppose it should be smooth sailing from now. It didn't occur to me that it was simply a change of pace. Life is simply a blur now, and as I think of what I did in the past month in terms of HSC preparation...well, honestly nil comes to mind. The first option is not to care and let it run its course. The second is the middle ground of not caring and running myself into the ground. I have to start notes D=<...It always feels like I'm not even interesting at all. I have no idea of what I am gaining from this anymore. Words are seriously meaningless. Like this "conics" question I was doing at tutoring yesterday. It is question 3 of selftesting exercise 6.1. Maybe I was drunk or something but it just didn't click right away. Should it? Took me ages to get the diagram, let alone what it was asking in the first place. Also, questions involving " prove that there are 3 tangents to the ellipse..." and some specific condition. I knew there was more to conics that meets the eye. I feel used. Maybe it takes something big to quench the constant doubting that I find so so terribly hard to ignore. Going to start hitting past papers for subjects. I'm seriously worried that marks will be indifferent to this past year. Oh and,
I love you so much.
When you can't increase the level of happiness in your life, reduce the level of displeasure, so that, in comparison, life isn't so bad after all.
stuff
and this past week
and month
Firstly, I would like to put out there that the more and more philosophy I read, the more I acknowledge its its lack of practicality in society. It is pretty much like a never ending chess puzzle book. For the thinkers, but really, it still wouldn't help you play it better. It further re-affirms my belief that, philosophy is pretty much the theory behind psychology, but not limited to it.
Secondly, since I am now reading on the philosophy of language, it seems to me that unless you are educated in the right way, it is actually extremely hard to grasp concepts presented by modern/pre-modern philosophers. John Locke and his essays in Human Understanding encapsulates my point exactly. It is not the fact that it was written sometime in the 18th century and that word uses/meanings have changed, but that they are still used in the same way, seemingly disjointed from how we might use it.
Thirdly, I have only two lessons of it left and it occurs to me that I really will miss it alot. Although now, I can have my tuesdays off, which is a plus.
~
On a non related note,
I dislike the notion of saying/texting/messaging "bye" very very much.
I guess it is how one might apply the word in a situation, but to me...no matter the occasion, I don't like it.
Because I always think of the word like a sort of full stop.
Sentences end at fullstops.
I don't like the way "bye" connotes that. That, it is the end of some form of relationship.
Also, I see it as a short half-arsed version of "later" or "see you" for when you're pissed at the person.
"goodbye" however, rings a completely different bell.
~
Massive mood swings this week/month. But now I realise why, and so I suppose it should be smooth sailing from now. It didn't occur to me that it was simply a change of pace. Life is simply a blur now, and as I think of what I did in the past month in terms of HSC preparation...well, honestly nil comes to mind. The first option is not to care and let it run its course. The second is the middle ground of not caring and running myself into the ground. I have to start notes D=<...It always feels like I'm not even interesting at all. I have no idea of what I am gaining from this anymore. Words are seriously meaningless. Like this "conics" question I was doing at tutoring yesterday. It is question 3 of selftesting exercise 6.1. Maybe I was drunk or something but it just didn't click right away. Should it? Took me ages to get the diagram, let alone what it was asking in the first place. Also, questions involving " prove that there are 3 tangents to the ellipse..." and some specific condition. I knew there was more to conics that meets the eye. I feel used. Maybe it takes something big to quench the constant doubting that I find so so terribly hard to ignore. Going to start hitting past papers for subjects. I'm seriously worried that marks will be indifferent to this past year. Oh and,
I love you so much.
When you can't increase the level of happiness in your life, reduce the level of displeasure, so that, in comparison, life isn't so bad after all.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
pffft
so like i dont even care anymore, so liek whatevers maannnn
stupid stupid stupid 5 day morning classes are killing me T_T....
and no way do i want to go to those offline classes in the afternoon, just too much.
but yeah, assessment tasks are comming up in week 8 D=
START HITTING PAST PAPERS YO !
=D
stupid stupid stupid 5 day morning classes are killing me T_T....
and no way do i want to go to those offline classes in the afternoon, just too much.
but yeah, assessment tasks are comming up in week 8 D=
START HITTING PAST PAPERS YO !
=D
Monday, November 9, 2009
IM SO PRO AT LIFE
because the interwebs seem to be a safe place to bitch about things related to school and how it seems that you're safe, i too will bitch.
morgan, this is directly towards you, because sooner or later you will read/find this.
Stop reading if you want me to say this in person.
anyway, I think all this stir you have caused was completely unnecessary. No doubt you might feel like reporting possible hate posts across the interwebs. To that, I say to you: what did you expect?
When I first saw those posters I thought " hmm... nice.. " and after that, it was not worthy of anymore of my attention. It was that, it seemed nice in the sense that it might have been some sort of social commentary on how often we use the word "gay", so understandably, I took it as some form of satire. Having said that, and now enlightened with words of the true intent,to be proactive in this aspect, yes I applaud your efforts. Those posters seemed to be handwritten..
But let me understand why you undertook such actions.I assume you wanted to reduce the level of discrimination related to the word "gay", and in that sense, remove the direct links that "gay" associated with, namely that it be used as an expression of dislike towards an object or phenomenon. Now, the simplest way that I can comprehend why, is so that the word "gay" no longer only be associated with expressions of dislike, and that it should be used only as much equally as those other words you so kindly suggested.
I LOL here.
The very fact that you are trying to undertake a reduction of discrimination towards that particular word, emphasises this: that because the common and widespread use of the word "gay" is seemly so integral to our teenage audience and dialect, you and your actions are provoking 'special consideration' towards that word. In other words, you are discriminating against it(gay) by making people reconsider its use in what otherwise would be commonly accepted. Causing this stir has not only elevated the attention towards the word, but has infact caused a majority to move against your wishes.
Don't get me wrong. I have already said that I applaud your efforts to raise awareness of such an 'issue', but clearly, actually making change was not feasible to begin with. Language is a funny thing, but it is not up to you to decide how it is used.
totally gonna get told off for this =3
~
morgan, this is directly towards you, because sooner or later you will read/find this.
Stop reading if you want me to say this in person.
anyway, I think all this stir you have caused was completely unnecessary. No doubt you might feel like reporting possible hate posts across the interwebs. To that, I say to you: what did you expect?
When I first saw those posters I thought " hmm... nice.. " and after that, it was not worthy of anymore of my attention. It was that, it seemed nice in the sense that it might have been some sort of social commentary on how often we use the word "gay", so understandably, I took it as some form of satire. Having said that, and now enlightened with words of the true intent,to be proactive in this aspect, yes I applaud your efforts. Those posters seemed to be handwritten..
But let me understand why you undertook such actions.I assume you wanted to reduce the level of discrimination related to the word "gay", and in that sense, remove the direct links that "gay" associated with, namely that it be used as an expression of dislike towards an object or phenomenon. Now, the simplest way that I can comprehend why, is so that the word "gay" no longer only be associated with expressions of dislike, and that it should be used only as much equally as those other words you so kindly suggested.
I LOL here.
The very fact that you are trying to undertake a reduction of discrimination towards that particular word, emphasises this: that because the common and widespread use of the word "gay" is seemly so integral to our teenage audience and dialect, you and your actions are provoking 'special consideration' towards that word. In other words, you are discriminating against it(gay) by making people reconsider its use in what otherwise would be commonly accepted. Causing this stir has not only elevated the attention towards the word, but has infact caused a majority to move against your wishes.
Don't get me wrong. I have already said that I applaud your efforts to raise awareness of such an 'issue', but clearly, actually making change was not feasible to begin with. Language is a funny thing, but it is not up to you to decide how it is used.
totally gonna get told off for this =3
~
more pretentious
As the late afternoon sun made its slow, lazy journey down the orange sky towards the cityscape horizon, Jane felt her consciousness seeping slowly from her mind. It had been a long day. She knew running away was not going to solve her problems, but her mum had always been telling her to get out of the bloody house and do some damned exercise. Her friends had always told her that they’d be there for her if she needed someone to talk to if she was finding it hard to cope with everything, but Jane didn’t want to talk to her friends. She just wanted to be alone. She just wanted to get away from the desperate mess that she was living. She just wanted everything to fix itself up so everything would be back to normal and okay again so that she could stop living like she had a weight in her lungs, but she knew she couldn’t have everything.
this is homework, not my major work.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
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