Archive for February, 2012

Food

February 28th, 2012 by Meg

Second day of uni and I already missed a day.
I think I got food poisoning, which was making my tummy hurt and making me feel like throwing up.

But anyway, I actually wanted to go.

Oh well what to do.

Tomorrow I must remember to go on the law library tour.


Uni & Aches

February 28th, 2012 by Meg

It’s like, night time already. I should be sleeping cause I have to wake up to go uni tomorrow.

When you plan you’re timetable, you feel like you’re starting pretty late when it says first lecture is at 9AM. But then you take into account travel time and all up you have to get up at 7AM at least anyway. Well, that’s how it is for me. Thank god for no 8AM classes.

Anyway I have a stomach ache. Saaaadfaec. It’s kind of making my uni experience suck. Also, turns out I fail at branching out to new people. Sometimes I just want to jump in there and talk but then it’s raining and I have a sore tummy and it’s too early in the morning and I cbf. Doomed to spend my whole uni life in a secluded group? Yep. Not that I even mind that much, I mean I do love my current friends. It would be nice to branch out though.

Law camp on Friday anyway, I’m bound to meet new people. I just hope I’m feeling better by then.

Anyway, I only just reharged my phone credit and it’s already down to 7 bucks. Prepaid sucks. I want a new phone but I don’t wanna pay. LOL. Iphone 5 should hurry up and get released. -.-’
My current 3g is so old that it doesn’t even update.
Gaaaaah.
I need a job or something.
But I currently don’t have the stamina to deal with the stress of it all. Even my mum says I should just focus on my degree bleghgh.


Politics

February 27th, 2012 by Meg

I’m in such a cbf mood.
First day of uni today. I wonder if I’ll be able to stay awake the whole week.

Monday/Tuesday are my longest days. I’m freaking ecstatic that I have Friday off. The way I used to get through the school week was to look to the final class on Friday, knowing that from then until Monday, I was pretty much free (besides homework and study, haha). Now I can do the same but for Thursday ^__^

I liked my Contract A lecture a lot, mostly because we discussed the kind of law I am actually interested in— uh, duhhh, contracts and legally binding things. Intro to Legal Reasoning or ILR was preeeetty boring, it was the administrative lesson though, so it was bound to be boring. One thing I kind of found interesting was this quick discussion about the Kevin Rudd vs. Julia Gillard situation. Basically, the lecturer asked: Why is there suddenly a ballot for the Labor leadership?

Why is Rudd going up against Gillard, when it is quite clear that Gillard will win?

I laughed when he suggested perhaps Rudd has some psychological reasoning for it. He said that maybe Rudd has just totally misread the situation.

I must disagree. I think Rudd knew exactly what he was doing all along. I just find it so funny that someone can just assume he has some narcisstic motive for the whole thing and thought wrong this entire time— he WAS the Prime Minister once, give him a little credit. His perculiar actions must have some reasoning.

From what I have seen, Rudd has tried very hard to keep in the public eye, right from the moment his position as PM was usurped. First playing the loyal Labor party member, gracefully stepping down from the role as he is somewhat “betrayed” by other members— presenting his leaving speach in tears, even, to show his discontent for what had happened. Gathering sympathy from the public by being the mistreated, bullied PM. That was step one.

Step two, continue to be talked about in media. The worst thing you can do, in a democratic system of government where a voting method is in place, is to become invisible. As Foreign Affairs minister, Rudd was able to keep in public eye through his travelling role.

At the peak of Gillards unpopularity, Rudd made the biggest move you can make. Stepping down from a seemingly solid role as a minister with what seemed like EVERYTHING on the line, in order to challenge for Labor leader.

Now, I feel that Rudd knew that he would lose. This is just my theory, LOL it sounds like a conspiracy theory but anyway. I remember that Rudd called to the public before announcing he would run in the ballot; he said that the public should let their views be heard, suggesting for them to call their local MP’s, etc.

Before any of these challenges even occurred, Rudd and Gillards popularity in the public was polled; favourably towards Rudd.

As the ballot is decided by other Labor ministers and not the people, of course he would lose. However, the law is supposed to represent the views and values of the people. If Rudd loses the ballot, perhaps he was relying on some kind of public outroar or a larger following in protest of his loss. The “faceless men” aka, the Labor MP’s voting on the ballot, are the enemy in the eyes of the public for ignoring the desires of the majority. Therefore, loosening Labor’s hold on the people and placing Gillards position further at risk. Even though he lost, he is probably counting on Gillard to make more mistakes and lose more popularity; all while keeping in clear view of the public eye. He can even afford to make promises to not challenge Gillard again— because who will Labor turn to when an election comes around and Gillard won’t win it? They’ll turn to the guy who is popular with the public, Kevin Rudd. No need to challenge, they’ll beg him to come back. Trickyyy.

Well, that’s what I think he’s planning. I’m not sure whether it will work, but it’s pretty interesting in my opinion. It reminds me of Death Note for some reason, LOLolol.


O-Week

February 23rd, 2012 by Meg

So for the past three days I have been going to my university o-week.

LOL I can’t believe how tired I am, feels like I haven’t even done anything besides collect a lot of free shit and stuff.

OH our timetables are out. At first I was pretty much whinging about how I only had one class on Thurs/Fri. But then I camped the preference change page and moved Friday’s class to Thursday. PROUD.

Now I love my timetable LOL. Friday’s off ftw.

So I joined a whole bunch of clubs. I’ll probably only end up participating in a few of them though.

Yesterday was Bryan and my anniversary. LOL. Calene told me it felt like we had been together foreverr already. Even though in reality it has only been one year. We had to go to uni but at least we got to spend it together, swapped anniversary presents. Had an anime marathon until the day ended.

I thought I saw a guy I knew from primary school on the bus home from uni, but he looked really different so I couldn’t be sure and didn’t say anything.


Chickflicks & Valentines

February 15th, 2012 by Meg

Yesterday was Valentine’s day, which I spent with Bryan of course. :D  We went to Melbourne Central ^___^
LOL, usually I would go into depth about these things.  I mean I go into depth about family stuff and everything.  Howeverrrr, I kind of draw the line at relationships.  Hahah, people who really know me will ask me but it feels like the moment belongs to me and him, not everyone else.  Like, I feel like Valentine’s day is turning into such a media/greedy marketer’s holiday with all the merchandise and stuff that I don’t want to give in to the materialistic side of it all by showing off so-and-so gifts I got or announcing to the world whatever cute cheesy stuff we did.  Though perhaps that is the post-chickflick effect speaking.

Today I went out with my girl friends for dinner, and to the cinema to watch The Vow.  CHANNING TATUM WAS SO CUTE IN IT I FELT SO SAD FOR HIM WAHHHH.

What a beautiful moment ;-;

Anyway it was a pretty good movie, sad.  I’m not really into these sad kinds of movies.  I have like, zero emotion when it comes to cinema.  Didn’t cry when I saw The Notebook or anything.  But I did like this movie, typical amnesia storyline but it was based off a true story.  And it was more realistic than normal, imo.

However I found that the character Rachel McAdams played didn’t really connect with me that well.  In The Notebook I kind of looked past her Mean Girls role and saw her as the new character.  But in this… I don’t know why I couldn’t shake it.  LOL.  For some reason I dont think anyone else has this problem.

I might continue this later.  Blogging mood.