WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!
-ME
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Weak in the Knees
What're you lookin' at, frog? What do you want? What do you mean?
I shall do this post in chunks.. screw you, coherence and flow.
Was having an interesting time taking a visual approach to studying. Bio and Econs, specifically. It's.. closing my eyes and seeing the points in my notes flow together as a visual story (bio) or closing my eyes and starting with a problem in my head from absolute scratch, and progressing with the answer from there (econs). And I think this visually thinkingy thingy works very well for me. WOO.
Then I went on applying it to other weird headproblems. Like how I would defeat myself in a battle of two other clones with identical relative starting points. Cool stuffzorxz. Really. Really!
And the day before, I noticed something odd in the mrt. I was walking from Outram's purple line to the green line at about 8:30am in the morning when I realised all I could hear around me was the stamping, the consistent marching, of feet. Nobody was talking. The fact that it was very, very crowded made it odder. I realise I hadn't consciously noticed the ambient verbal rambling of the crowd until that morning. Heh.
Third chunk: One of the best places to be alone in is a club washroom. With grooming tools by a huge mirror. And fantastic shower facilities. And a sauna. Oh yes.
Fourth: I have increasingly found usefulness in the practice of 'tagging' onto people publically. Usefulness, particularly, in getting oneself through crowds with ease.
For instance, you are in a crowded mrt cab. You are leaning on one door, and your stop comes. The door on the other side opens. You need to get through. Normally, one would have to do the uncomfortable "excuse me" routine several times as one passes through the idle, rigid bodies, rushing with the fear that the door will soon close.
However! If you are lucky and have someone beside/around you who must go through the same problem, you may simply 'tag' onto them. This means as they push through the people to get to the door, simply follow directly behind them in the temporary space they have made by getting through people.This way you can depend completely on the other person to get you through without doing the 'excuse-me's.
(If the person you've tagged happens to be very slow, or the crowd is particularly thick, and so you two don't make it to the door on time, at least you are in it together ey?)
This also works wonderfully when one is moving through a large crowd in, say, a shopping aisle in Bangkok..
Fifth: There should be some sort of sport where you can use all manner of hand and foot techniques (from soccer, basketball, handball, etc.) to get the ball to the other team's net. This game would be called "Ball".
First, we would all be in a large, empty expanse. We would be sitting on a chair each, and a table, facing each other to form a perfect equilateral triangle. Because we're all me, anything I do would be exactly what the other two would do. They'd be thinking the same thoughts, working out this problem too. The only way to get out of our identical mindpath would be to screw it up with the forces of randomness. So I'd throw something in the centre of the 'triangle', knowing they would do the same. I (and therefore we) decide that the first person to be targeted would be the one who had the thrown objects located closer to them after the collision. So I would go about beating him first, before setting myself on the other clone. One would eventually win, despite identical physical ability, as there is bound to be a difference in our responses due to different starting positions in the fight. Especially given close contact.
Of course, I would have to anticipate what I would do were it myself who ended up the 'loser' in the throw-things-to-the-centre gamble. I would immediately dash in the backwards direction and continue running. As the other two would have started out behind me, there will eventually come a point where they have just enough energy to travel the distance between me and them, and I can stay still to wait for them to do so. I use this equal amount of energy to recuperate, while they have expended it in their last steps.
Then, having thought of that, I would need to find a counter-measure. Because I would want to chase someone till my death. So I guess my starting move towards the first clone victim would be to throw the furniture I have at them. yay for long range weaponry, I guess.
And then I would have to think of a counter for that! And the list would go on!
Crap.
Maybe I would end up just.. chionging into the fight of three.
-Zan
I shall do this post in chunks.. screw you, coherence and flow.
Was having an interesting time taking a visual approach to studying. Bio and Econs, specifically. It's.. closing my eyes and seeing the points in my notes flow together as a visual story (bio) or closing my eyes and starting with a problem in my head from absolute scratch, and progressing with the answer from there (econs). And I think this visually thinkingy thingy works very well for me. WOO.
Then I went on applying it to other weird headproblems. Like how I would defeat myself in a battle of two other clones with identical relative starting points. Cool stuffzorxz. Really. Really!
And the day before, I noticed something odd in the mrt. I was walking from Outram's purple line to the green line at about 8:30am in the morning when I realised all I could hear around me was the stamping, the consistent marching, of feet. Nobody was talking. The fact that it was very, very crowded made it odder. I realise I hadn't consciously noticed the ambient verbal rambling of the crowd until that morning. Heh.
Third chunk: One of the best places to be alone in is a club washroom. With grooming tools by a huge mirror. And fantastic shower facilities. And a sauna. Oh yes.
Fourth: I have increasingly found usefulness in the practice of 'tagging' onto people publically. Usefulness, particularly, in getting oneself through crowds with ease.
For instance, you are in a crowded mrt cab. You are leaning on one door, and your stop comes. The door on the other side opens. You need to get through. Normally, one would have to do the uncomfortable "excuse me" routine several times as one passes through the idle, rigid bodies, rushing with the fear that the door will soon close.
However! If you are lucky and have someone beside/around you who must go through the same problem, you may simply 'tag' onto them. This means as they push through the people to get to the door, simply follow directly behind them in the temporary space they have made by getting through people.This way you can depend completely on the other person to get you through without doing the 'excuse-me's.
(If the person you've tagged happens to be very slow, or the crowd is particularly thick, and so you two don't make it to the door on time, at least you are in it together ey?)
This also works wonderfully when one is moving through a large crowd in, say, a shopping aisle in Bangkok..
Fifth: There should be some sort of sport where you can use all manner of hand and foot techniques (from soccer, basketball, handball, etc.) to get the ball to the other team's net. This game would be called "Ball".
First, we would all be in a large, empty expanse. We would be sitting on a chair each, and a table, facing each other to form a perfect equilateral triangle. Because we're all me, anything I do would be exactly what the other two would do. They'd be thinking the same thoughts, working out this problem too. The only way to get out of our identical mindpath would be to screw it up with the forces of randomness. So I'd throw something in the centre of the 'triangle', knowing they would do the same. I (and therefore we) decide that the first person to be targeted would be the one who had the thrown objects located closer to them after the collision. So I would go about beating him first, before setting myself on the other clone. One would eventually win, despite identical physical ability, as there is bound to be a difference in our responses due to different starting positions in the fight. Especially given close contact.
Of course, I would have to anticipate what I would do were it myself who ended up the 'loser' in the throw-things-to-the-centre gamble. I would immediately dash in the backwards direction and continue running. As the other two would have started out behind me, there will eventually come a point where they have just enough energy to travel the distance between me and them, and I can stay still to wait for them to do so. I use this equal amount of energy to recuperate, while they have expended it in their last steps.
Then, having thought of that, I would need to find a counter-measure. Because I would want to chase someone till my death. So I guess my starting move towards the first clone victim would be to throw the furniture I have at them. yay for long range weaponry, I guess.
And then I would have to think of a counter for that! And the list would go on!
Crap.
Maybe I would end up just.. chionging into the fight of three.
-Zan
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