Social Fruitation
August 29, 2006
Most listened: Massive Attack streams off the official site
Current longing: Flavour?!
Just scrapped the last idea, now I’m just gonna blog.
I have this crazy insatiable feeling that for some reason I need to justify myself. I don’t know why but I just do. You see I am a very responsible adult(being 18 and all ;)) and unlike many of my peers I am not one that is interested in drinking or getting drunk. It’s the social lubricant of today. I think that I am just too responsible for my own damn good. Sometimes. But I know that I am right in this case.
I just can’t see the good in it. Don’t get me wrong here, I don’t oppose drinking as a social standard, theres not anything(or much, I am not really sure to be honest) wrong with it. But there seem to be so many idiots that just drink to try and get drunk. Getting drunk isn’t too bad but intentionally doing it is just unjustifiable (IMO, but you already knew that, right?). I can’t see the good or the point in it. What good is there in it? It makes you feel fantastically good? I think that its sad that some people require it to actually enjoy themselves. What dull lives they must live to not enjoy themself otherwise. And also drinking to actually have the balls to do things that they normally would be too scared to do. It’s gutless if you ask me. Just shows how pathetic some people really are.
I don’t mean to have a go at everyone but there are some real idiots out there. In fact whats even more pathetic is people that don’t really stand anywhere on the social ladder. They are uncategorized(not cool/nerds/losers etc). Whom drink only because everyone else is doing it. They just gotta fit in. Serious load of bull. I hate such patheticness but then again some people can’t sum up enough courage to decide how they want to live. They can only be dictated by the current social trends. Now that really is sad.
So where does DP stand on this you say? Now you see, I would never allow myself to fall into a social trend, unless of course it was me and in that case I already would be doing it. Like I said I am a responsible individual. I don’t go to wild parties and find myself waking up in a pile of spew(be careful how you read that as I just humoured myself) with a semi undressed girl next to me. Yeah I love to over emphasize.
I’m not a boozer nor do I consider myself a loser. I love having a great time and going out. Just not crazily drinking me liver out. I feel as though I need to therefore justify myself as not drinking=cutting myself out of much activity=more so able to justify myself as a nerd or a loser. Now lets not kid ourselves here, I am a nerd. But at my age most people have the maturity to cope with the fact that I engage in nerd like activity yet am still a human being and am perfectly fine(if not better, ladies?) to talk to.
So I am not a loser. Well..actually I am. To the ignorant and people yearn for some leverage over me. But lets just let them mellow in their ignorance and enjoy the true fruits of life, eh?
Despite my nerdish qualities I am a fairly outgoing chap. Nothing gets my rhythm bone jiving like breaking it down to some great music(I mean dancing :)). I love spending quality time with my friends and my brother and always ensure that when our friends come over for a get together or party that everyone is happy. I go out and about quite often. Although with this years work load that has become not so often. I make conversation with people all of the time. I just love it.
I just had to say that, which wasn’t too much really. I just can’t stand people that are slaves to society and I just felt the need to justify myself as being someone whom isn’t a loser/trend follower or just one of those ignorant apes. Whom is clearly happy with himself and the love shared by the people around him. Whom(repetition!) doesn’t need the frivolous short lived thrills of alcohol to pass his cheer some days.
God Bless you for reading such a fine piece of literature. If you ever wanna talk about stuff in my blog then please just email me @ danielprimed@gmail.com . I know that I am a very strong willed person, so if you don’t like what your reading then yeah lets duke it out with some quality argument. Cause God damn I enjoy the trill of a good battle.
BTW I was allowed to say God damn as I am now Buddhist and was refering to another God. Actually I am prolly not…I really should check that out before some karmha bizatches me on the buttocks.
Safe
DP
Tags: Life, nerd, society, friends
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Reinterpret
August 23, 2006
Most listened: Mad Season-Matchbox 20
Current longing: Some more scope
Its been a pretty good week from the last actually. I managed to start and practically finish the bulk of my Physics indepth study and to a good standard to. I’ve handed in my draft and today was told that it was rather good. I’m so pleased. I put in heaps of effort to get the indepth to be really professional and its paid off. Infact I need to dumb it down a bit. I also have got my result for the last Physics practical which was 75% although the teach had misplaced the front page, so I printed off a 2nd one and they are remarking it. So prolly around 80-85% he thinks which is a smidge less than my other practical but I didn’t quite understand it as much.
On Monday we had a Maths Specialist test and it was grueling. Just how I like it. I managed to blitz it hard and put in a real top effort. We have the Maths Studies test on the upcoming Monday which I probably won’t be as good with imo.
On Monday I spent most of the time(as I have 2 study lessons and an IT lesson(we are doing Flash and Chris and I are better than the teacher, despite his somewhat arrogance towards us)) working on my Chinese indepth assignment(english written, Chinese written, Chinese oral). I finished the english component which ended up being 2x the maximum length. This year I chose my topic and decided not to do the default Spring Festival selection. This is because I found a SABSSA marking report for last years exam, in the exam we do an oral component which we have to talk about our indepth study. Now in the report it said that the examiners were sick of hearing people talk about Chinese festivals among some other general faults. So I have decided to do a different topic and focus on improving the common mistakes of last year. 
I am now ready to start the other components as I have gather all of the vocab I need for them. BTW my topic is Chinese martial arts movies. For the english part I talked about the timeline of the movies, how they started, main changes in the genre and whatnot. In the Chinese component I am going to compare some martial arts films and for the oral I am going to talk about Jackie Chan and his influence on the industry and on western audiences.
Today I have been gathering materials for the Physics oral presentation. I am doing a Flash presentation which should be some of my best Flash work yet. I also just checked out my old Killer 7 project as done in yr10. Damn its good. I can’t believe how pro it looks and feels.
I had a pretty interesting weekend too. On Friday night my best mate(Matt) txt’d me and I went over to his place for a few hrs. We caught up a bit. On Saturday morning I mainly did school work and revision for the test. On Saturday night I went to my friends 18th of which I left early as I wasn’t feeling too good. Too much staying up and designing during the week. On Sunday Chris went to the Unis with Matt and John whom conicidently met up at the train station, they talked about going in separately as it would have been easier and then all met up. I went in later in the day to UniSA to my Visual Communication course. Matt and I went in together after John said that he wanted to go in with me. The lecture was alright I guess. We then went to the gallery and had a look around. Found out stacks more about the courses I was into. Then Matt and I went back to Matt’s house and stayed there for an hour then I left and went home.
Matt told me about this Media of Arts thing that he was at. He spoke of this course similar to Visual Com. But it was focused more on skills of designing with a computer instead of design theories. So I found out some more info and have decided to go for it. In the first year of the course you learn about general media/design theory then in the last 2 years you specialize in certain areas like film or screen play etc. I have chosen to specialize in Digital Design. I’ve also decided that sometime during me doing the course(probably 2nd year) I shall also do an Advanced Diploma in Interpreting…
I left this entry for a while and then checked out the Uni book to see about courses in Chinese interpreting
I’ve found out that I can actually do a course based on the Chinese language. Yay thats great. I am almost finished putting in my applications for my choices so I don’t know if I wanna still do Digital Design or not. Oh such hard decisions…I’ll keep you posted.
-DPrimed
Tags: Life, physics, maths, it, SABSSA, jackie chan, flash, killer 7, unisa
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Clubs
August 16, 2006
Most listened: TWM/Synkronized-Jamiroquai
Current longing: To prove some people wrong
There have been two things that have upset me a little bit recently. Its sort related to the entry about nice guys. My Maths class just really irritates me this year. It started off okay and went bad ever since I have been more work focused. You see, the start of the year was fine, until the first 2 tests scores came back and I decided that I had to do something about it. So a while later I moved away from my friends and into a small single desk in the back corner so I could focus a bit more. Its mainly been from there that I have been irritated. As mentioned previously, I am not a fluke. I work hard to get where I am and that is where I am at. No magical spells or giftedness. So there I have been for a while, sitting in the corner, busing my gut and keeping up with everything. Going very well.
Now you see other people are very different from myself. They are either gifted, a fluke or just whore it out when doing their homework. They don’t really work during class, they muck around and talk. Or play on the new interactive white boards(projector with touch technology with a stylus). Making plenty of ruckus in the process. I grew more and more annoyed with this and expressed my anger. Now because I wasn’t very tolerable of this nuisance some people obviously got perhaps annoyed at me. Well so I suspect.
Eventually one day someone turned around and had a spew at me. People were being annoying and I was annoyed about it and said something. Then someone else turned around and tried to justify me being as bad as them because of something they misinterpereted me saying the day before. I didn’t say anything back(although I am a good debater, I really do need some time to put things into perspective, like Physics really). They accused me of being racist against asian people, which is you know anything about me is completely 100% garbage. I don’t need to prove myself here, so I shall save some time and not.
The people that make a lot of noise also share answers with other people in the class and essential have their own sort of club. Of which I am not a part of. Anyways today I went to borrow the Maths Studies Solutions book overnight. Someone of whom I once thought of as a friend told me that Chris and I should buy our own book and that its not right that we borrow it and then return it late so that other people can use it. Now the thing is, I don’t return the book late(meaning other people miss out on the chance of using it). People in their little club do that. It just really upsets me that people just go out of their way to have a go at someone like myself.
I mean both examples prove that they don’t like me and wanted to say something that would affect me. The first one definetly as justifying me being a distraction to the class is completely irrelevent and isn’t even an argument. Thats forgetting that I am not a racist in the first place.
Then this other thing, it encompasses the same thing. It seems like some niggly excuse to have a go at me.
I dunno why people would hate me enough to want to say such things to me. Its just really sad that they do. I spose everyone needs their own sense of security and self worth.
-Dprimed
Tags: Life, student, maths, society
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Acid Jazz
August 12, 2006
Most listened: Live in Verona-Jamiroquai
Current longing: Some sleep I’m fairly tired atm, but then again aren’t I always
Been having a good week this week. Beyond what was mentioned last episode, I got a 90% score for a Physics prac and an effort award. I have almost finished a new art piece which I have been working very hard on. It doesn’t look like much but its a lot to do. Done about 6hrs of that this weekend so far. The main bit is almost finished. I finally have PS CS2 working on the laptop again, obviously. I’ve been craving some graphical work.
Something thats recently bugged me in the past 1hr or so, is about the new Jamiroquai singles coming out. They are the 2 singles for their Greatest Hits CD coming out in November. The names have been announced as well as the type of song they are. Ones a smooth disco one and the other is a raw rock track. I’m just so annoyed about it.
You see the thing with Jamiroquai is that they started off doing Acid Jazz which slowly blended into Disco funk and once A Funk Odyssey hit it became modern Funk with no acid jazz in there at all. The latest album(Dynamite) goes back a step and is just a unique mix of modern funk, tidbits of Acid Jazz and some other mixed genres. The rock songs is what really bugs me though. They are okay as a once off, like Deeper Underground but it now seems to be another step away from the Acid Jazz genre.
Now on Friday I was on the official board reading about the Lovebox concert which was really big. They played lots of non-single songs and some Acid Jazz ones which normally aren’t played(thats not to say that they still don’t play acid jazz in concert, they just played some acid jazz stuff that they normally don’t play). Jay even wore an older style get up that reflecets the ROTSC era. So I thought that maybe they would go back into Acid Jazz as they did something a bit different. But it doesn’t seem so.
I like the Acid Jazz stuff because it grows on you, the new stuff doesn’t do that as much. Its mainly the announcement of a rock song that bugs me. Although it might still retain some Acid Jazz, lets hope eh? I mean Dynamite(song) is callsed as rock and I love that song. Infact its more funk imo but still.
Also once GH comes out Jamiroquai will be out of the album deal with Sony/BMG which they have been for over the past decade. They are all looking forward to that. Other happenings with the band are going on once GH is out. Jays fashion range comes out etc. I just have this terrible feeling that they will call it quits. That would really disappoint me.
-DP
Tags: Life, Acid Jazz, jamiroquai, raw rock
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