First, it was that laptop.
Then, it was school results.
Now, this.

Numbed to the core, to the extent where i do not react anymore. Yes, it happened. Yes, it’s done. No more knee-jerk responses. No more bleary tears.

What could I have done? What am I to do, appreciate the past?

Am I but not a rag doll? -

High heels. The bane of feet?

Ricardian Equivalence states that when the Government increases its spending, the people will reduce their consumption in preparation for higher taxes in the future. Therefore, any increase in G will be matched by an equal or similar reduction in C, resulting in government spending being unable to improve aggregate demand.

The basis of such a theory lies upon the belief that all humans are bound by strict rationality. In the above case, rationality dictates that the increase in current government spending will necessitate an increase in future tax receipts to pay off the deficit. Such rationality demonstrates human ability to make allowances for temporary changes.

Applying the same case of rationality to high heels, rational human beings will realise that the height of those high hell wearers are merely temporary, and there will a mental deduction of the height in accordance to their perceived normal heel height, thus resulting in no gain in the height impression of the wearer.

Therefore, in order to gain a distinct illusion of height gain, one will have to wear heels that are taller than common social norms. And as this becomes a prevailing mindset, there will be continued upward pressure to wear even taller heels until the limits of the human body are tested.

However, for those who eschew the wearing of heels, imperfect information will result in them being subjected to the identical mental reduction of height as others, therefore leading them to appear even shorter than they are in reality.

Does the utility of wearing heels outweigh the costs? Probably not. There is without doubt a gain in absolute height, but any gain in height impression (the main point of wearing heels), is suspect. One can contend that an absolute height gain proffers a feeling of command or authority. However contrasted against the costs (to health, zum Beispiel), it is dubious whehter the utility gained even approaches the costs incurred.

Prom was, erm, interesting.

Moroseness. A bitter cup of moroseness.

Guess I wont be updating here anytime soon. Laptop got stolen white on Rapid.

4 month old laptop. Wtf.

Feels like a stupid bad dream.

1st round: THW fight for your (university students) right to PARTAYYY!
Room: 3 Position: CO Ranking: 2nd. Case: (Opening) literally partying. (Closing): Right for political involvement.

2nd round: THW grant citizenship to environmental refugees.
Room: 6 Position: OO Ranking: 1st. Case: Clashes on temporary asylum vs citizenship, characterization of ‘environmental’ refugees.

3rd round: THW regulate religious schools in the United Kingdom.
Room: 3 Position: CG Ranking: ._. Case: Institutionalised religion studies leads to improvement of interfaith relationships. Our extension did not appear to contain enough new matter, my whip speech was a plain rehash with insufficent perspective changes.

4th round: THW call it a draw when both parties can’t climax.
Room: 4 Position: OO Ranking: 3rd zz. Case: OG set up a case set in Kashmir. Had prepared (initially) for either annulment of marriage due to non-presence of consummation (LOL) or external mediation as a channel to solve conflicts. Had almost zero information of Khasmir’s status quo (fail), and thus our arguments were mostly too generic.

5th round: Thw remove the financial blockade on donations to ‘Wikileaks’.
Room: 6 Position: OG. Ranking: Zzz. Case: Rights, Check and balance, a link of responsibility that goes both ways. Characterization of WL as being merely a disseminator of information.
Got knifed by bad and biased adjudication. End of case.

Frankly, I did quite badly.

Rubicon: The stream that Julius Ceaser fatefully crosses before becoming the 2nd Roman General to enter the lands of Italy with the aim of occupying Rome by force.

Anyways,

Half term and a week into IB. Been trying out new stuff: aquathlon, public speaking, debate, et cetera. Been realising how much more I have to work on.

Been moving away from things that I am familiar with: science, research projects, olympiads. Been having to learn new things from scratch.

Been eating quite some dust so far.

No other better time to take some risks and try some new stuff though.

Frankly,

Not to an extent of ‘crossing the rubicon’, but certain things in life hang in a balance, I wonder which way it will tip.

That song’s lyrics. =/

Got the idea for the tagline when I saw my nephew glued to Barney. Haha.

But then, Barney is indeed different in the sense it invovles multiple human beings having an identical ‘imaginary friend’.Other conventional cartoons only have one child protagonist going into dreamland with some self-righteous, rectitudinous stuffed arnimal.

Image link. I dont know how to clear up the whole controversy, but the point is, it’s just an invitation, not an offer.

Went to the Inti Students Academic Conference yesterday. Finally understood why some INTI people told me to steer clear of it. Suffered from quite a bout of brain damage during the conference. The event management was quite acceptable though.

Guten tag. =)