Influential Halfies of my Life

Ange, Sass, and Fil: My bestie from year 2, and onwards and her older and younger sibling. They influenced a lot of the music I listen to now, and general behaviour patterns... like treating friends like literal family. We slept at each other's houses, and they also slept over at my cousin's houses too. Then they disappeared.

Sass says they moved. Whatever. But dance truly unites and reunites people... because she is at uni, and in the dance society with me... as a krumper.

Deewhy: A major primary school obsession/academic+dramatic+dance rival. I say obsession because I was both fascinated by the interest he was receiving from all the girls in the grade, and rival because I wanted to beat his ass at everything.

Cookies: Current bestie, from highschool. Understands my unintelligle mutterings. *sappy emotional stuff*

Bus guy: first cute *and* interesting guy at uni.

Anyway, tl;dr version: OMG childhood friends who I thought had disappeared forever and ever make a sudden, unexpected reappearance in my life. I am having a weird day and thinking weird thoughts.

The Alpha Meme

Today we ripped this meme off a blogger known as Suzanne from the blog Because Life is a Blessing. She thanks Alpha for the meme. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Cheers to all us thieves!

Sunday Stealing: The Alpha Meme


My roommate and I once: set chopsticks on fire. We were quite the pyromaniacs.

Never in my life have I: broken a bone.

High school was: pretty awesome. Life didn't get much better than that.

When I’m nervous: I wave my hands around a lot, and sometimes I smack people in the face.

My hair: is long and black. Much like Neji's ^^

When I was 5: I was a miniature wedding singer. No kidding folks, I sang and people paid me. Aww yeah, that's was the life.

When I turn my head left: my neck makes this funny cricking noise and it hurts. Is that normal gaiz?

I should be: cleaning my room... or something.

By this time next year: I will hopefully still be having fun.

My favorite aunt is: living in NZ and using skype xD

I have a hard time understanding: spanish. Which is somewhat unfortunate when I salsa. But that doesn't bother me much otherwise.

You know I like you if: I bake you cookies.

My ideal breakfast is: nothing. I prefer not to eat breakfast.

If you visit my home town: you'll be quite cold. Srsli, nz is bloody freezing most of the time.

If you spend the night at my house: be prepared to either boil or freeze to death. Temperature varies according to season.

The animal I would like to see flying besides birds: I think a flying cat would be cool but it has to look like this:

I shouldn’t have been: sticking my hand into the back of the freezer, because now I can't feel the my hands.

Last night I: braided twiggy's hair into cornrows! HAH! It's your fault for growing your hair out so long =P

A better name for me would be: Captain Tabouli. I'm a superhero at heart.

I’ve been told I look like: my brothers. Despite the fact that they're younger and taller.

If I could have any car, it would be: a nice, cheap fuel efficient car. Who wants to spend money on fuel these days?

Hey, it's ok to lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings right?

I'm not going to see 1.5 spot, because I can't be bothered. Sure I feel guilty about declining one of the parts, and sure I feel guilty that I'm not more involved in the club. That doesn't make me anymore inclined to make plans to go see it. So I'm going to lie and say that I was busy. It's not so bad, because I don't know the people in the drama club that well.

And also, one of my new psych buddies at uni is having relationship problems. It wasn't my place to ask, but I did. And there's so many problems I don't even know where to begin to help her out.

I figure she's a girl, so she'll be needed some kind of emotional reassurance. She wants someone to tell her it'll all be ok, and that it will all work out. So I did.

I lied. Most highschool relationships don't survive the transition to uni. This also includes friendships. Most long-distance relationships don't work out. Most people realise that they don't actually know their partner that well after the initial flood of hormones goes away.

Statistically, her relationship is destined to fail. I could work out the probability of it happening.

Friendships don't really last into uni either. It's either a success (π) or fail (1-π). The success rate is approximately 2/15. The Bernoulli distribution indicates that in general, there's a right skew, i.e. you lose most of your friends. I actually punched this into Excel, and that's what I got.

It's kind of sad really.

We tell each other lies everyday. It gives us hope and happiness. Without happiness we are depressed. Without either happiness nor hope, we are suicidal. Hence we tell each other lies to keep each other alive.

But hey, that's ok. Because in the long run, surviving is all that matters.

Easter, Oestre and Hōnen Matsuri

It's that time of year again.

Every shoppping centre you visit is decked out with Cadbury Bunnies and eggs.

In Christian terms, Easter. In pagan terms, Oestre. In Japanese terms Hōnen Matsuri. Yep, it's harvest time, and everything fertility or birth related time as well.

I suppose the Oestre festivals and the harvest festivals were historically first. Human kind seems to have an affinity with celebrating with rituals and large groups.

In Japan, the Hōnen Matsuri is the celebration of a bountiful harvest, prosperity and fertility. Its most famous symbol is the large wooden phallus that is paraded from shrine to shrine. While this is highly amusing to foreigners, it is a sacred event for the Japanese.

The bunny (or a hare) and the egg were originally pagan in nature. Rabbits breed very quickly, and eggs represent birth, so it makes sense that these are symbols that, to this day, represent fertility and birth. These were once offered to the goddess of fertility, who has been called a variety names, one of which has been Anglicised to Easter.

So there we have two festivals/tributes to the harvest/fertility.

Where does the Christian Easter come from? Historically, it's very vague about the actual date that Jesus was crucified and resurrected. (It's also very vague about the date that Jesus was born.) It's very convenient that many of the Christian festivals fall on or near dates of the equinoxes and solstices. As for Easter, it's VERY convenient that the death and rebirth of Jesus is represented through ancient symbols of birth an fertility. Which has been pointed out before. In fact, a lot of pagan rituals have carried over to Christianity, as it's been stated, to allow for an easier transition of religion for the pagans in the countries where Christianity originally flourished (The Roman Empire I think).

So why make the bunnies and eggs out of chocolate then? Chocolate was imported from the Americas, and was once described as one of the Devil's temptations. Hilarious that it's now a major symbol for many of the countries that celebrate Easter.

Can't really think of a conclusion, just thought I'd bring up some observations I'd found interesting. Happy Easter!