Exams, and they love to screw you over.

I looked to the clock, 5 minutes left. I look back at my booklet. 4 questions left. 'Oh Fuck...................' I think to myself, I'm never going to finish in time. I know it, the supervisor knows, the guy behinds me knows it. Hell, the girl staring me from across the room knows it. I'm stressing. It is text-book exam anxiety. I start sweating up. I stare at my questions, writing random numbers in hope for sympathy marks I know won't come. That's what I get for doing the hardest maths unit, GAT maths, which would be for Specialist Maths, even though I don't plan on doing Specs... I sit in the exam, stuffed.

So, I probably answered enough to get a good 80%, TOPS!! I literally screwed myself over in the exam. Studying in a three day break, and seeking help from my teacher could only take me so far. Bad luck for me, so far was only about 5 questions in. The rest was on what I guessed. I'm hoping I passed, at least.

But enough about just my maths exams, lets talk about the rest of my exams. Psych, English, other maths, Chemistry, and for tomorrow, Economics.

Firstly,
Psych: If I decided to study, even for an hour, I would've easily aced it. But instead of studying for Psych, I studied for GAT all weekend. I did enough to pass, but I won't replicate my better scores of the term.
English: Studied for that. I panicked in the exam. I definitely passed, and almost definitely scored alright, but I won't score what I hoped to score, which includes and A, and a +.. yes, its a MA15+. Yes, I old enough to watch them now.
Chemistry: Like the rest of my Chemistry semester, I finished the booklet easily, but I probably used the wrong formulas for everything again. Hopefully I passed. At least I studied for it.
Foundations Maths: Oh, gosh.. That was a disaster. I looked over to Stephanie, who seemed to be absolutely ripping through her exam, as compared to mine, which was finished, but not thoroughly ripped through. Although I checked later, and she wasn't apparently ripping through her exam. I felt better by this.
Economics: Actually is tomorrow, and isn't graded towards anything. This is good because I am not going to study for it. Too much study for 4/6 exams hurt my brain too much. Also, the fact I had my facebook stolen for two weeks hurt equally as much.

So, exams..... When properly prepared can be a breeze. When not, like I always do, can be a traumatising experience. Although some examinee guns could beg to differ, just know, you guys are special. Sadly, I am not, and therefore epic fail. Oh, by epic fail, I mean epic asian fail.

Exams

I sit there, writing the end of my facebook comment. I stare at it, sweating, not just due to the heat but due to the pressure of the situation. My homework lies somewhere I don't know. I click the send button. It is done.

Exams start the week after next, and as I am finding more and more excuses to procrastinate, the heat is increasing. My latest excuse is that its too hot to do homework. Guaranteed a week worth of procrastination, which is not good. I have just given my facebook account to my dear friend, and I can already feel the pressure mounting. All the forgotten homework, all the lazing around doing nothing, is now counting.
I spent the rest of my saturday, actually doing some work, in which I did some of my CTS, although I couldn't get into the rhythm of working, and soon gave up. So instead of using facebook to procrastinate, I watched TV, played tetris, pokemon and read a book. I truly am, a professional procrastinator.

Heat Wave

I know it may be getting a bit repetitive now, but we are now 5 DAYS into a heat wave, which hits a low of 28.. on MONDAY.

Its Wednesday right now. I think it was pushing 40's today, and the next three days say 39. Monday is the only day it drops BENEATH 30 in the next 7 days, after 4 days already of this weather.

I think the cold showers will continue, and sweating will come as easily as walking. I can barely imagine wearing shorts in this weather, so you pants wearers really should stop.

I'm Melting

Everyone knows that when you turn on the shower, it starts cold, and gradually gets hot as the water is on. In this heat wave, I turned on my shower, for a cool relaxing COLD shower. The shower sprayed hot water at me. This is ridiculous.

The weather is really affecting everyone now. I can hardly go outside without thinking I'm going to melt. 4 days into a heat wave, and I am having long COLD showers. This blasted heat wave started on Saturday, its now Tuesday, and the mercury will hit 41 on Saturday before finally falling to below 30. FOR TWO DAYS!. After that its straight back into the 30's. Screw hot weather over cold, I got what I wished and now I would kick myself, but that might hurt. It is ridiculously hot, and I am finding less reasons to wear pants and shirts each day it goes by. The only reason why I am still wearing shoes is because my thongs broke. Sweating comes as natural as blinking, and even if I were to run 50m to catch a bus, I would pay with sweating my ass off on the bus ride. No longer the days of me legging it whenever I want to, or walking outside barefooted.

No longer do I leave the curtains open, in fear of the intense heat reaching inside. At least with rain, its pretty when I am inside. The only positives from this heat wave is the fact I can easily say no to ALL pants.

So this is me, complaining about how hot it is, and today I wore a t-shirt and shorts, and some shoes. I was walking through town and saw a guy in a suit. I feel sorry for those who feel the need to wear pants. Not only do you WANT to wear pants, but this unforgiving heat will punish your stupidity.

7 days of above 35degree weather, and its not Summer. I think I might need to get a rush on those new thongs.

Kids growing up too fast?

I went to a party yesterday, where there was a large social divide between the boys and girls. Primary school stuff, where boys hardly talked to the girls, and the girls hardly talked. It was quite disturbing, as the birthday girl, was only a grade younger than me. I would assume that there wasn't much of a social divide, but I was mistaken. My grade was much rowdier in my eyes, getting drunk every weekend, and coming to school the next Monday eager to tell tales. I was always the sober one though, looking after the friends because I am a good boy. So I sat at this party, wondering what could spur on the argument that kids are growing too fast. Maybe it was the group at the party, or the social class I am usually with, but there was a large difference. The kids I was with at that moment seemed so young, and innocent. Much different to what I expected at my 17years of age.

So as I went home, I thought about this further, and determined it to be the social class that I must've been with. Admittingly, the girl who was having the party, goes to church with me so she is fair innocent, and I went to a public school for my first 3 years of high school education, so I saw a lot of conflicting features.

But this didn't solve the question on why people believe that kids grow up so fast, so I discussed with a friend to the wee hours of the night on this.

We discussed the increasing disturbance of children, yes not teenagers, but teenagers dressing up, or down, so they think they look good, but to everyone else, they just look like miniature sluts. Now, I am all for letting little kids off to learn from their own mistakes, but I believe there should be some kind of barriers. Clothing them properly, and teaching them manners should be essential.

This would be all fine, and good, but then there is the increasing number of new high-school kids, around the age of 12-13, who think that since they are in high-school now, they have the luxuries of someone reaching the end of their education, around 17-18. Same rules apply. We do not need to see you try and dress if you are in your 20's. Its disturbing enough. All for letting you run off with your free minds, but when you go promoting pedophilia, you can hardly blame them. Well actually, you can, but the children in question, and parents are to blame as well. This again, can be blamed on advertising companies for selling sex, or clothes companies for making monstrous clothing for younger ages, when really, revealing clothing like that should be left to the professionals.

Basically, in my discussion, my friend and I determined that, kids try to grow up way too fast, with kids wanting to go from 13-19, while 19yo's want to go back to being 13yo. The structure is very complicated. This discussion comes after my trip to the beach where I couldn't tell the difference between a 13yo and a 17yo from the back because they were both wearing bikinis.... ewww... ewwwwwwww

Pests

I was wondering to myself why we need mosquitoes. All I could come up with was that they feed spiders. Then I thought what are spiders for, which would be to feed some spider-eater animals. Then I thought, such animals as birds and other insects that eat spiders probably eat spiders too. So, why do we need mosquitoes? They really do annoy everyone, and can carry diseases. Spiders wouldn't be missed either. Arachnophobia would be non-existent and poisonous spiders would be gone.

Basically, I find no need for mosquitoes, and the loss of spiders is a nice consultation.

Heat Wave

I get out of the shower, freezing my ass off (Yes, not hot and steamy) from a cold shower at 2AM. One could assume I was crazy from doing this, but I had planned ahead, realizing that it was going to be hot in bed, and the next night. As I get into the bed, my body starts rapidly heating, and now my cold shower seems a bit stupid, with the only thing it helping in was keeping me awake to murder me in heat, and to make my hair extra smooth. As I am worrying about how my stupid cold shower may be the end of me, I simply drift into sleepyland, to visit my dreams.

The next morning, I wake up. 8:30. Back to bed

I wake up again. 9:30. Back to bed.

This continues till 11:30.

As I wake up at 11:30, I realize I may have actually cooked to a medium rare status, char-grilled to perfection to any passerby-er that happen to want to taste my morsels. This is ironic, as my family just bought a barbecue, and I spent a large portion of the previous day assembling it. I walk outside my room and the wave of cool air rushes at me. This shocks me, as my door was open. Someone must've turned on a heater. In 30degree weather. Bastards.

It is upon me now, the heat wave, with the mercury expected to hit above 30 degree weather for 7 days. I just finished my second day, and I spent the majority of it inside, and I'm already sick of the mosquitoes, and lack of cool air. Forget heat being better than cold, I want my cold back already.

The mosquitoes are frequently raping my legs, as someone continues to leave the back doors open, and mosquitoes seem to enjoy my blood. The double blankets and multiple pillows I have seem to be having a negative effect now, and I am forever wishing we left the air con on all night like we did with the heater. I am waking up, cooked even further. I could be led to believe that it is Summer. I would however, be wrong. We are now in the last month of Spring, and I am feeling the fury of Summer. I should be expecting a girl to not slap me next. Although, that would be a pleasant surprise to this unpleasant surprise. I don't like surprises.

This brings to my attention, the erratic weather patterns happening around Australia. Hailing in Queensland, and I'm cooking in South Australia. I must state again, the weather is a bitch. I think we should seriously consider changing the format for the seasons, as Summer seems to dominate from around November - March and Winter occupies about April - September. October is Spring and Autumn mashed together, meaning October is special.

But yes, this is just another session of me dying with the erratic weather patterns, and OMFG WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FRICKIN' MOSQUITOES IN HERE? WHAT ARE YOU BREEDING ON ? MY LEGS!!

Reality TV

As I sit there, bored on a Sunday night, I switch over to my trusty Channel Ten. They always have something good on. The screen bursts to life, to a person singing. My stomach turns. I know this feeling well. I instantly change the channel. I am breathing heavily, almost being caught in the horror that is called 'Australian Idol'.

Now don't get me wrong here, I think Australian Idol was good. When Guy Sebastian won. It has been downhill from there. Granted Guy Sebastian won in the first season, and after that I thought the show was stupid. This applies to all reality TV shows, spanning from Survivor, to Big Brother. The ONLY exceptions are Masterchef and So You Think You Can Dance.

Now, it is safe to assume I do not enjoy my reality TV shows. They bug me, and I know they bug a lot of people. Granted, they are really awesome when they start out, but as life goes on, the repetitiveness of the show gets dull, and even with new twists and thrills, nothing can save the 'Reality TV' Syndrome. They just generally stink. I don't know why they keep showing them. But I guess for those young pre-teens who are just growing up into adolescent-hood, they enjoy them enough to keep it going, if not hyping it up further. It happened with Twilight, so it can happen to anything.

On the topic of Twilight, I believe that its a good C, if not B-grade book. Just severely overrated. Severely, severely overrated. Mostly by a few groups I have singled out.

Pre-Teens- Those girls, sometimes guys, who just try a bit too hard to be older than they are by being romantic and stuff like that, and reading Twilight because its thicker than all the books they have read up to that point combined. One point for those Tweens; Vampires burn in the sun, they don't sparkle. (Yes, I have read the book, from a neutral, if not positive point of view, so you can't dump shit on me about how you don't think its overrated because frankly, it is)

Teen to young adult couples- Those who try to be more romantic to there significant other, or for guys, to show that they appear to have a sweet side. Yes, it works on the girl, but it doesn't stop you from being a wank-stain.

Old women- I didn't exactly know this one, but a friend assures me that old women read it to rekindle romance in their marriages. It sounds valid so I guess I would put this in.

Back to the point, I was at Masterchef and So You Think You Can Dance being the only good reality TV shows, and that Australian Idol scares me.

Yes Australian Idol, now this year looks far worse than any other year. The producers don't seem to be advertising as much, and they tried to spice up the show by having a country girl who just absolutely had to wear a cowboy hat at every point you saw her.

Frankly, Idol is trying way too hard this year to keep viewers, and it shows quite obviously. The fact that their ratings has been dropping doesn't surprise me. As said before, after the first winner, it lost most of its shine, and about where Damien Leith won, I really stopped following it all together.

Big Brother got a few laughs, but after the Turkey-Slap incident, it should've been taken off all together.

In short, all reality TV shows, start out brightly like any show, and end up in oblivion (hopefully not SYTYD or Masterchef). Prolonging the inevitable axing of the show is really painful for everyone, and other popular shows are prevented from airing. All shows do start out brightly and start dwindling, but as normal shows can develop storylines, and have more twists and turns than seatbelts get in times of urgency. Reality TV shows can't do that. They can't pull of storylines, and twists and turns gets harsh treatment from the government in many cases. Basically, reality TV shows should only go on for a short period of time, and after an appropriate portion of time, are allowed to come back to be viewed, but shoving them in everyone's faces does get annoying. I still wonder how Survivor keeps running. Oh and game shows, I do think half of them fail very badly, but I don't want to get into that now... Tired.