Tribe

September 30, 2006

Most listened: Yourself or someone like youÂ - Matchbox 20

Current longing: More free time?

Yay, exams are finally over. It’s been one unusual week. I’ve met a series of people Iknow on public transport. Yeah, nevermind. Lemme just run thru all of the trial exams first. Chinese was a cinch probably got around 85%. Maths Studies wasn’t too bad. Maybe a bit over 50% for that one. Physics was incredibly hard. I was finding it fine and then I checked the clock and found that I only had an hr to finish 10 of the 30 pages. Yikes. We should have had 4hrs for the exam, not 3! The questions weren’t too bad in terms of difficulty, but there was just so many of them. The exam killed me as I really need to put every question into perspective before I do it and doing that so quickly…phew. Maths Specialist was just such a poor quality exam 30% of the test was based on about 6 pages of work. It was so infuriatingly annoying and just so simple yet stupid Maths. Its not a challenge when the bloomin’ question is so dumb. Argh.

The rest of today(well..yesterday) has been pretty good. I met Alysha on the train back home which was great. I haven’t seen her in ages, it worked out quite conveniently actually. Spent a few hours preparing for the holidays. Then Matt came around and I spent some quality time with him. He left at about 12:30 and now I can’t sleep.

We were talking about parties. You see(been mentioned a while back), my friends and I aren’t the kind of people that go out to parties and attempt to get as drunk as possible. We are fairly responsible folk. Our parties usually consist of a a few set ups, being the nerds we are, we have some consoles set up, a small LAN, the portable consoles, some table tennis and usually some kind of anime involved as well. Its a plethora of activities thats a great social gathering, everyone loves it. My brother and I are generally the host of the fairly significant parties of this nature.

Now Matt and I were talking an idea that I have got stuck in my head recently. For a while now I have wanted to break that mold a bit. Chris and I always ensure that everyones having fun, we don’t just sit infront of the TV and play, we talk and play, socialise. Break it up a bit. So despite being a nerdy affair its a fairly social one. Matt and I were talking about not including games and trying something different. What seems to be the vast majority of people spend their party time trying to get as drunk as possible, we don’t want that. But we want to have that sort of more adult atmosphere without the idiocy that comes from drunkeness.

So we were proposing ideas on what we can do. I proposed that we have some sort of BBQ as Chris and I spent many nights using the old barbie when the kitchen was being renovated last Christmas holidays. But we weren’t sure of what the medium of the night would be. How people would keep themselves amused. Sure we could put on some music and everything would go well enough, mix it up with some table tennis and yay all good. But(imo) with music and people socializing we need dancing. Now most of my mates are guys so that creates somewhat of a problem. We also need to ensure that the guys just don’t wanna go inside and play some games.

Hmm, how to overcome such problems. Firstly, most of my femmy friends are from a variety of different ‘social’ groups. Therefore we’d have a fairly uneven distribution of people. Wouldn’t turn out too well then, well yeah…tricky to judge.

So were not sure what to do ATM. We had this great idea that we make it an afternoon party and set up a mini golf course, with other activities going on. But thats more of a mates thing, plus the idea does sound a bit far fetched.

Trying to get people to stay outside and not actually hop inside and play games is the other difficult task. We could just launch the idea and see how it goes. It wouldn’t turn out too bad. So we’re thinking that perhaps we can incorporate the idea with this party that Chris wants to have after the Wii comes out. Not sure.

I don’t think that we are the sorta group of people to do that kinda thing. We’re gonna have to figure out a way about it. Whether or not we should have some kinda dance activity or just a general party atmosphere. In anycase we hope to be trialling the new ideas in some form over the final holidays so we’ll see how we go.

Got any suggestions danielprimed@gmail.com

Thanks, DP

Might get some progress on the new blog/portfolio site this holidays, you never know