Thursday, June 9, 2011

Maths exam

Ok, the exam I did today was alright. I did my best. I didn't stress. I focused on what I could do, and performed to the best of my ability.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Piling on the study

Alright so right now it's 10:18 pm. I took a 23 minute break before. What I did was revise the trigonometry part of my exam for like an hour and a half. I still haven't finished and I still have a whole chapter of linear to do and a few 15 minute essays to write!

I think I'm gonna have a go at writing a few creative essays. Hehe, let's see if my imagination is still creative enough to come up with a wacky story.

Anyhow, I hope to go to sleep by 12, the latest.
My eyes are so tired, but I have to work at my study!

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

High school graduates should take a year off before entering college

After two years of stressing your butt off for the VCE exams, what you need is to relax. High school graduates should take a year off before entering college so they can decide on the future they want, travel to new places to bring back more knowledge and to find a part time job if they haven't already to increase experience and help pay for college fees.

It's over. It's finally over. All that crying, stress and hardcore studying is finally over. But what are you to do now if you haven't picked a career you are interested in? How can you go to college without your mind set on a clear future career path? Yes, you should take a year off before entering college to give you time to experience more life as an adult so that you will be able to decide on a future you are content with. Nowadays people are jumping into college straight after graduating from high school and most of whom are not content with the course they are studying. To prevent this, high school graduates should take a year off before entering college.

Once you're out of college, you're busy with a new life, a new career and will be wondering when you'll be able to have the time to go on that dream trip to Hawaii. Well it's not going to happen because you don't have something called 'holidays' any more. You'll regret not being able to take the chance to travel to new places, experience a different culture and environment when you were younger. That time should have been used when you had just bloomed into adulthood. That year before college. High school graduates should take a year off before entering college so they can travel. In the future, they will come across financial problems and time management issues that will stand in the way of them.

College is not cheap. It is expensive and if you come from a family with a low income, it will be difficult for them to support you with your college fees. To take the burden off their shoulders, high school graduates should take a year off before entering college, so to look for part time jobs to earn money for college fees and to increase their work experience.

High school graduates should take a year off before entering college so they can travel, decide on a secure career path and find part time jobs to build work experience and help pay for college fees.

* 2 minutes over

Both parents should assume equal responsibility in raising a child

As you grow up, you are taught many life lessons from your experienced parents. Your parents' duty is to nurture you, so that you can grow up to become a person who is strong and able to support oneself. Parents must realize that when it comes to raising a child, they both must put in an equal amount of effort so that the child learns new things, prevents family breakdowns and prevents the child from straying off the 'right' path.

You learn to cook when you're helping mum bake cookies in the kitchen, you learn to fish when you're out with dad camping, but if only mum teaches you how to cook and dad is 'too busy' to take you out to go fishing, then you've lost a new experience you could've discovered. There are so many different things your parents can teach you. But if only one parent puts in that effort and the other doesn't, then your knowledge and mind will not be able to become more open and aware of all the wonderful possibilities out there. Therefore, both parents should assume equal responsibility when raising a child.

Your dad always comes late from work and never has any time for you and your mum is always around you, looking after you, caring for you. When your mum has finally 'had enough', what will happen then? Your dad's too busy, your mum  is too stressed, how are you to go about your daily life once the fights between mum and dad become too much? Unfortunately due to parents not putting in an equal commitment to raise their child is also the cause of family breakdowns and lead to children developing depression and or becoming social outcasts. Parents must realise the importance of assuming equal responsibilities when raising a child.

You need both eyes to see the clear path. Without one, it becomes blurry and you may be sidetracked from the path and may not be able to find your way again. Same thing goes for parents raising children.|| If one nurtures the child by him/herself then the child may feel far away from the other parent and because their brains are still developing, may resort to dangerous means to make up for that loss. It is vital for parents to have an equal hand in caring for their child.

When you're a child, you're weak and need both of your parents' love and compassion for you to grow up into a strong person. When one parent doesn't put in that same commitment, their child may become sidetracked, may lead to family breakdowns and will limit their knowledge. Both parents must assume equal responsibility when raising a child.


* Note: where there is a || is when the time was up.
Today, I wrote 5 minutes over the time limit but have improved on my structure.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Feeling Tired

I'm really tired right now. It's 12:13 am in the morning and I'm not feeling in the mood to study. I'm sick of studying. I've only been studying really hard since 2 days ago and I'm already losing the passion to reach my goals. I guess this is a part of becoming intellectually stronger. I have at least 4 hardcore study nights to go through.

I've already deprived myself of Facebook, Tumblr, Deviantart, Tetrisfriends, Mangafox and many more so that I could realise how much I really need to study, but my mind's still not getting it. I swear, my mind is amazing at finding different ways to procrastinate! If only I could put that to good use and actually let my brain work for itself.

I wrote an essay today. It was shorter than my previous one and it took 3 minutes over the 15 minute mark.
DAMN, I won't give up yet though! I have to drink more water so that my brain will be able to function properly.
 I choose you WATER BOTTLE, beat that tiredness. 
Yes, even when I'm tired, I'm still able to come up with different quotes from Pokemon and change the words accordingly.

 But I won't lose hope! I will strive for a better future. Strive for one where I won't have to break my back for. So I'll work hard now so I will have no regrets later!

Honest line for today:
Today I procrastinated too much and did not at all use my time effectively. 

 My Promise for tomorrow:
I will work extremely hard tomorrow and I will do double the work to compensate for procrastinating and going against my 'use time effectively' rule. 

Dieting makes people fat

People always want the easier way out of things and prefer the shortest and easiest route to completing tasks. The same goes with people who would like to lose weight. Even though they know that to lose weight, one needs to exercise and eat healthily. Knowing this, people still want to find a faster way to lose weight. Most of them have turned to dieting and dieting makes people fat.


The banana diet, the lemon detox diet, both of which are part of a long list of fad diets. They don't work and it's as simple as that. If one were to really commit to one of these diets, the weight loss would only be short term because once they return to their normal diets, their weight will eventually boom up dramatically. If you want to lose weight, dieting is definitely not the way to go because in the end, it will only make you fatter than where you started.

Another reason why people result to dieting is because they "don't have the time to exercise" or are just to lazy to even bother. The reality is that the fat you would like to burn is not going to suddenly disappear while you sit there and munch on your banana, you need to get off you seat and pump those arms and legs if you are trying to cut away any of that fat down. So the bottom line is, dieting makes people fat.


Aside from the whole set diet plan, people even resort to taking pills that will "burn fat" or magically erase the fat from your body. Sorry but not unless the manufacturers possess god-like powers, then none of that fat is going to come off any time soon. These 'pills' that you take are supposed to compliment your diet plan so that at one time, you're eating healthy food and on the other you're still "burning fat" without having to go through the trouble of exercising! Well call me Jesus, HOW AMAZING THAT IS. It sounds just too good to be true and too good to be true it is. Diet pills will never be able to replace exercising and diet plans will never be able to replace eating healthily. So top making yourself fatter by dieting, try eating healthy and put in that commitment to exercise.

Diets do not work. Neither do pills. Long term results? Why don't you try eating healthy and exercising daily because I can guarantee you that dieting will only make you fatter in the long run.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

5th June 2011 - Overview

  • Completed Chapter 3 - Expanding & Factorising including 3/4 of chapter review
  • Wrote a 15 min argumentative essay about 'Shoelaces'
  • Finished off the chapter review for Chapter 2 - Surds and exponentials
  • Did more research into how to improve one's memory, brain capacity & brain power
  • Learnt some more study tips that would be useful (http://www.itests.com/xg/editorial/public/about/links/13)
  • Repeated to myself at least 10 times the following:
I am destined to succeed, therefore I will let nothing stand in my way.
I am smart. It's just practice that I need.
I will succeed. I can succeed, therefore there is no excuse for not succeeding.

This is what I did from 8:30pm - 12:30 am the next day.
 Because I can and I will. I believe in myself. I have the confidence and strength to succeed.
 
 

Shoelaces

You use it to tie your shoes, it's what holds it together so you can walk. . .
It's a shoelace! People don't pay attention to shoelaces and don't realise the importance of shoelaces. Shoelaces need more recognition for the things they do!

Let's take it back to the history books, shoelaces have been around for a long time. Your grandpa tied his shoe with a shoelace and his grandpa most likely did too. Now let's picture if these shoelaces were to suddenly disappear into thin air? They wouldn't be able to walk properly because they'd be worrying too much about their shoes falling off their feet! If they can't walk properly, then that leads to them becoming unfit and unattractive, therefore making it so that they couldn't attract your grandmother and great great grandmother, which means there would be no you. Now do you understand what kind of role shoelaces play?

You don't need history to tell you that shoelaces are important, just look at our society now. Preschoolers, highschoolers, university students, labourers and even business people need laces to carry on with their daily lives. So if we were to get rid of the world's shoelaces, that means all our students wouldn't even be able to get to their classes to be educated, meaning they won't be able to graduate, which means that they will not have any qualifications for future careers, thus making it so that there will be an economic crisis. If all the world's workers were to give up their shoelaces, that would only add to the economic crisis, which will lead to starvation and poverty and to the end of the world! Shoelaces need to be recognized as a vital part of our everyday lives.

Now you say that the world doesn't need laces because we have something called 'slip ons' or 'velcro straps'. What you obviously don't know about is something called 'fashion'. Yeah, it's what makes all those teenage girls go crazy and the whole world so judgemental. In this era, shoelaces are in. We wear it with sports shoes, work shoes, school shoes, casual shoes, whatever kind of shoe, it has laces. Even our flats have laces attached to them. The problem with slip ons is that they're not practical. They don't cater for all different foot shapes unlike shoelaces. With shoelaces, you can loosen them so that wide feet can fit into the shoe nicely and comfortably and still look good. With slip ons, it becomes harder for the user to stretch out the entire shoe so that their feet can fit them. Velcro straps are also quite problematic. There are many people who dislike the sound of velcro so much they have even developed phobias of velcro. If everyone were to wear velcro straps, how are those people who have phobias of the sounds going to deal with it? Are they to block their ears with ear muffs? Also another impractical means of wearing your shoe. Shoelaces are soundless when tied and are definitely a better alternative to slip ons and velcro straps, therefore adding more to the importance of shoelaces.

Shoelaces play a vital part in our everyday lives. Without them, our world would not be the same. They determine whether or not someone is even born, when someone dies, are fashion symbols and determines the future of the world itself. Shoelaces should receive the recognition they need.