For Great Justice!

It's finished. It's over. It rocked, as Serena would say. The year 12 concert is something of a tradition that looked easy, until we actually did it. Then you have to think about the timing, sound and lighting, technical difficulties and organisation. So let's go through this in a chronological fashion.

Firstly, my skit died. It's performance was good, but it was long and in hindsight, didn't fit the concert mould very well. Yes it was funny, but it wasn't fast. It was a three-course meal in a tray of quick snacks. It died an honourable death, and while I'm a bit disappointed, it was for the best.

Then Jack rings out of the blue and asks me to be the MC. To be honest, it was something that I desired and dreaded. I'm not much of a funny improviser. I tend to improvise good lies better than funny comments. So I rushed a quick script. It was quick, bite-sized humour that would let the stagehands do their thing. Did it work?

The concert itself ran very well. The Sound/Lighting crew had wired the stage. Jack and Alex set up a wireless link from the front to the back so that Kathy could see what was next and how we were going for time. We even had a comm link straight to Alex, so she could yell stuff direct to the sound department. Also, congrats out to Sabrina and Corrina. They made sure that the acts were prepared and onstage and confirmed which act was next.

I don't know how the jokes ran with the crowd. From the general impression, it went down quite well with most of the school. There were mixups though. Apologies to Helen, when I introduced her fashion show as Hiba's Dance. And much thanks to Phuong for doing some wonderful script work and improv. I couldn't ask for a better partner MC.

The acts? Grease was groovy. Sway was sexy. Kirteeka was cool. Rae-li's dance was all razzle. Anderson was awesome. The Fashion show was fabulous. Hiba's dance was hi-five. Kung Wow was the pow! Phat crew was phowerful. Land's song was lovely, despite hitches. and the Kylie Minogue act killed. Literally. It was that good. With 15 guys in skirts, it was the best act and I think it'll be hard pressed to be beaten.

Time was against us due to technical difficulties with Land's song, so the intro was skipped. But here it is, for you to see:
P: Tomorrow, it's the end of year 12, and we're free, while you're still stuck here! Ha!
S: Yep, and that means we'll be driving, while everyone else to take the bus to school.
P: I betcha I'm a more hardcore driver than you.
S: No you're not. I'm hardcore.
P: Yeah?
S: Yeah.
P: Do you swerve to avoid kangaroos?
S: Never. Do you?
P No.
S: Koalas?
P: No!
S: No?
(Silence)
P: ... Children?
S: I do, I do... Children, yeah. I have swerved to avoid children.
P: You see, you see, you're too soft for this game.
S: ...Dammit.

It was great, dammit. For moments I thought that our concert would be mediocre compared to the previous ones, but we pushed the envelope and did it. We fucking did it! The Kylie Minogue act was some guys acting, er, questionably and Petersen was lurking near the stage in disapproval. Who cares? Not us!

I also have to say here that we got, hands down, the best present ever! It was seriously that good. We got a SuperSoaker Triple Agressor for Mr Armitage. You have the main gun, a small pistol, and a water grenade (read: a fabric ball that absorbed water). We managed to trick Ms Pham into taking over our class temporarily. Go Land doing the lying. So she's in the class and we say "Mr Armitage said to duck" and Pham was like "what?". That's when Armitage burst through the door and sprayed her with water. Awesome.

Hope everyone else had fun during the concert.

Note to self: Buy concert DVD of Gough ASAP.

I'm not a superhero. I kill superheroes.

Just finished applying for my UAC application and preferences. I need to submit a copy of my STAT results, which have disappeared. Well, at least I have the weekends to try and find it before I have to ask for another copy.

UMAT results are back and I did...I don't know...crap?...average?...one of those words.

Section I - Logical Reasoning and Problem Solving - 49
Section II - Understanding People - 49
Section III - Non-verbal Reasoning - 47

Considering I did better than 49% of most entrants that I must be average at least.

I bet a whole ton of people got better than me though.

OMGWTFLOLROFLBRBBBQ!

Have you ever caught yourself using a net acronym in a real life conversation? While this requires the assumption that the reader does participate in real life conversations, it is actually kind of sad that this is occuring. Someone says something funny and instead of laughing really loud and saying "that's so funny!", you laugh and "lol, dude". I'm also reading Jack's blog and for him it's more like these acronyms have lost their meaning. Maybe, but the day they enter common speech is when they definitely lose their meanings.

So 4 weeks to the HSC and now it's time to ditch light study in favour of heavier studying. Still it's a bit hard to believe that there is only 4 weeks left to the HSC and that our compulsory education started 13 years ago ends in 2 weeks. I mean, wow!

Everyone else's blogs seem to be on a extended hiatus, so procrastinating is less fun now. As far as I can tell, out of my pathetic list, only Jack and Sophia are posting new things, and Corrina too I guess. Everyone else is more or like "meh...i'll do it in a week.....wait I said that a week ago! Stuff it!" So yeah, Jack and Sophia, keep posting.

Probably about time to arrange a rehearsal session. I'm thinking of a Wednesday or Thursday as a preliminary and maybe a final one on the last week or something. Give me several hours to mull on that.

Lost my Physics textbook several weeks ago, but a few minutes spent moaning about it produced a miracle. Lesley was in Physics and managed to find my textbook. You legend, Lesley! Now I can do those shitloads of physics questions Fearnside gave us.

Now I have to finish these questions and maybe sneak and hour of DoTA. Too much and I'll be failing my HSC.

Game on, people.

Work, Work, Work...

Five weeks until the HSC. Five weeks. Read it and weep, because now all my energies have to be directed towards this milestone. After beating my way through the trials, I know what I need to learn and what I need to do. This blog will probably be on semi-hiatus. I'll probably post once a week or less, just to show that I'm still alive and kicking.

Finally got our jerseys today. They are all right, but to be honest, they kinda suck with no names on them. Even if it was just our first name printed the jersey would be a whole lot better. Still, it's kinda cool in its own way.

Pretty much finalised UAC course preferences. I'll probably submit on Tuesday. Get it over and done with. And references too. Damn it, I hate school paperwork. Might as well gather all my textbooks so they are in one place as well.

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm setting up a study timetable. When I actually followed the table, I did better in the Trials, especially for Maths 2U and Biology, unlike the 1-mark below average I usually pump out.

Hate the way we are learning in Biology. Here's this booklet. Go learn. Damn it, I need to write things down, drawn diagrams and paste sheets. Not memorise the entire booklet. Well, it's probably a good time to update my notes.

Damn rain. So much rain. I hate walking in rain. At least the dams will get some water.

Higher School Certificate Examination
20th of October to 10th of November (2006)
Target UAI:
95
Target University:
University of Sydney
Target Course:
Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Radiation Science)
Diagnostic Radiography

I heard this from a friend of a friend of a friend....

Girl #1: My tits feel weird.
Girl #2: What do you mean?
Girl #1: I did Party Tits at the share this weekend.
Girl #2: What??
Girl #1: Party Tits. You get saline injected into them, and they get really big. It wears off in a few days. The guys love it.

--Subway platform, Fulton St, New York City

What the hell? I think some verification is in order. It's not on Wikipedia, so I'd say be cautious about this.

Rest in peace, Steve Irwin. Killed by a stingray. This next little story may be considered bad taste to some viewers. So we're in Biology and I'm sitting in between Albert and Charles. We're doing work on the option topic communications out of a booklet and we need to draw this graph. Charles wants to copy off Albert, who doesn't want Charles to copy. I pass the graph to Charles and he starts complaining about the scale and line of best fit. I tell him to stop complaining and he argues he's telling the facts. He asks me, and I say that I think the scale and lines are perfectly alright, so Charles is at a loss on what to counter with. So I start poking his chest, where his heart is and said "Stingrayed!". Then we broke into gales of laughter. *ahem* So anyway, RIP Steven Irwin 1962-2006.

Euro hand ball comp against a team called Nameless. Anybody remember the Chinese movie Hero with Jet Li? And he was called Nameless (according to subs anyway...) and he was really good? So our team name is WBNBBBY8A or We Better Not Be Beaten By Year 8s Again.

Avatar: The Last Airbender rocks. Everyone must watch it along with Dragonball Z and the first few seasons of Pokemon. Every young child must be exposed to it.

Naruto is nearing end of fillers, I hope. Bleach fillers are meh, but still good. Waiting for House and Doctor Who season 3.

And, Battlefield 2 rocks.

Compass Heading: New South

Let's make this clear. I have no intention of going to UNSW. This is of course assuming all goes to plan with the HSC and whatnot, but my aim is for USyd. Still it was interesting at the open day. I met Charles and Ray L at Central at 8:30am, and we journeyed to UNSW. Some freebies later, we journeyed to the Medicine lecture, which was quite packed. I have no intention of doing Medicine, but the stuff you learn is eye opening. A UAI of 99.4 is considered below average for Medicine at UNSW. Below average. Some guy did make it in with a UAI of 95, but that was a fluke in a sense. And it takes minimum of 10 years to finish all your training. Damn.

Since I didn't have any real timetable for UNSW I mainly hung around Charles and Ray attending their lectures, mainly on engineering. UNSW is pretty big and quite pleasing to look at compared to USyd. So lets see who I saw or thought I saw.

• Charles
• Ray L
• Ray D
• Kevin T
• Kevin N
• Land
• Phuong
• Julia
• Jimmy
• Yiling
• Yang
• David V
• Andrew
• Kathy
• Ann
• Jennifer
• Jack
• Lesley
• Angeline
• Gough
  

That's pretty much it. From anecdotal evidence, it seems a whole bunch more Seftoners came along, but I missed all of them. Anyway at 1:30pm, Charles and I left to meet Jack and Lesley at the Roundhouse. Our plan was to journey to Croydon, get Jack to drive us to Burwood and meet up with other Seftoners at City Hunter, a net cafe. Charles eventually left at Central, saying it was too late and Jack, Lesley and I made the trip. We joined up with a whole bunch of other Seftoners and started to play Battlefield 2. My team won the first game, but lost the second in a closely-contested match. In one instance, Jack and Lesley stormed a small island where the artillery cannons were located. Their intent was to knock them offline so their team wouldn't have to suffer the deadly barrages. Except I was sitting in between them, heard about it and got there first. I held them off for a while, but it was 2v1. They left and I just repaired the artillery. Jack and Lesley make a great team, especially when they both are driving tanks.

Initially I was going to play for an hour or so, but the second match took longer than expected and altogether I played 2 hours. I had told my parents that I was to be back at 4:30pm give or take 30mins. Since I finished at like 5pm, I called and made up a story that the train was delayed and whatnot. So I got home close to 5:45pm. They didn't seem to mind (Cityrail problems, yeah!). There was a BBQ on, but most of the guests had left. Some people remained and as I chomped on leftovers, washing it down with Pepsi, I regaled them to the stuff at UNSW, and the new facts in Medicine. Day over!

I'm quite sure that everyone else had a great day at UNSW, whether they plan to go or not. And I'd like to not that yesterday marked one year of blogging. As I read back, some things have changed quite a lot. And some haven't.

Skit is finished and now its about learning the lines and doing a quick dry run so we're ready for the rehearsals. Here I have to give some credit to Jack, for actually being one-step ahead, and thinking about rehersals and stuff. Kudos to you, Jack.

Shit. Now I actually to have to organise some stuff for skit. I hate doing things. I like deadlines though. I love the whoosing sound they make as the fly right by....

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Writing a skit has been an enlightening experience. Given the chance I would never do it again. Then again, I might change enough to do it again. Writing is tough. Making it funny to the majority of people is difficult. I've never been a fan of slapstick or crude jokes. Yes, they're funny but you can only laugh so much. I like more wordy jokes, jokes that rely on puns, irony or satire. Intelligent jokes if you will. But since those types of jokes actually require some thought, it's not ont everyone's wavelength.

Also, following the 2Unit skit, there was a bit of fear around. They were funny, because they were so lame. That's not to say they didn't try. They did try hard, and they deserve kudos for them, but it showed the problem of not really appealing to everyone. Reviews were mixed and most poeple could not say that it was definitively funny. But this fear should stop us. I have knowledge that Bill is working on a skit, it's rather random, but quite funny in its own right. I also know that my skit is pretty much done, with only practice and minor adjustments.

There seems to be a whole lot of dancing and music, which is the staple of a year 12 concert. Then occasionally you get some really good shit. Anyone remember that martials arts/game skit-thingy. That achieved a nice balance to physical action and comedy. Hell, they could have gone all serious and stuff, but they mixed it up with some funny stuff. Still, I'm quietly confident that this years Year 12 will maintain the bar of excellence.

UNSW C+C Day tomorrow and I'm attending due to some interesting lectures and courses. I know a whole bunch of people will be there, and just to let you know Charles and I will be trying to meet up at 9:30am at Central. If you want to join, you're definitely welcome. City Hunter afterwards.

There's always UWS, right?

University of Sydney Live Open Day. I didn't want to go initially, stuff to do and things to catch up on, like Bio and Chem pracs, but at the last minute I changed my mind and decided to go. And it was definately worth it. For those who did not go, like Gough (he's going UTS), it was like a huge expo where you could go to hear lectures on university life, courses and such. My main aim was Medical Radiation Science and it was quite packed. Still good info was delivered.

Since I decided on the spur to go, I planned to initially meet up with Charles and co at Redfern 10:30am. They had changed to 9:30am Central. So off I went pretty much alone. I did try to stay in groups but it didn't last very long. Everyone wanted to go to different lectures at different times and so more often then not, groups were split up. On cool lecture was Dr Karl's hour-long on about science. He spoke generally about science, instead mixing amusing anecdotes and hilarious commentry. One funny piece was his three ways to destroy the world:

1. Drop the big one (massive EMP bursts)
2. Do nothing
3. Destroy the innocence of kiddies

Number 3 was cool. He was talking about Santa Claus' trip to kid and using the law of physics to show that it was basically impossible. A few things that popped up was that Santa has to visit at least 380 million kids, at 1,000 visits/sec, travelling at 1,000km/s with basically 500,000 tonnes of payload and consuming 3,000,000 million litres of drink. Now that's what I call applied science.

Now a whole bunch of Seftoners and other familiar faces were there, but again I was so wrapped up in going places that I didn't notice them until a second later and by then they had moved off somewhere. So here's a quick list of people I saw or thought I saw:

• Charles
• Lesley
• Raymond L
• Yang Lu
• David V
• Andrew
• Anderson
• David T
• Tan
• Harry
• Richard
• Julia
• Susanna L
• My Hoa
• Nam
• Carolyn
• Danny
  
• Land (fairly certain but not sure...you were walking with some guy and went to Dr Karl's lecture at 1pm?)

Now I'm sure there's probably more, but that's a hella lot of faces in one place.

I spent some time looking for Lesley and Charles, and cursing the fact that I didn't ask for their phone numbers. Apparently they went to to some net cafe called City Hunter to play Battlefield 2. I was about to search after them, but tired I decided to head home.

So how was other people's experience at USyd?

My name is Tran. Henry Tran.

What do you do when you're trying to procrastinate? Steal quizzes and stuff from other people, in this case, Land's blog, cos no one else had any quizzes up.
On another note, the "official" skit for year 12 concert is done. Heavily revised to be shorter as other acts are eating up time. Casting dates and info are to be announced. Jack, Sophia and Anderson are on, so we have star power for our skits. Kind of like having Academy Award winners on a movie project.
And, err, ignore Henry Tran. That's my alter ego for browsing the deep, dark recesses of the Internet.

A drive in the country

Pushing one-ninety down the open road,
Guzzling thirty litres a minute, with wind blowing through my hair,
Cops in the mirror, sirens screaming with double demerits,
But I don't care, all for a drive in the countryside.

Jack & Steven

Poem that Jack and I pumped out during English Adv. We were annotating Skrzynecki's A drive in the country and Levick had us brainstorm what images came to mind for a drive in the country and then got us to write a poem. With Tom away, Jack and I actually had to think, well, think a little harder than usual. Jack wanted to put all the negative stuff to mind into th poem, but it ended up with a positive spin. Everyone else's sounded better though, especially the haikus.

Jack had proposed that when he turned 18, he wants to go barhopping. I think that's a good idea, but someone's got to be the designated driver. Currently list stands at:

• Jack (when he turns 18)
• Me

I think Phuong and Ricknam celebrated their birthdays today, but they are only turning 17, not in time to get drunk when Jack turns 18 or after HSC.

I got conscripted into writing skits for the year 12 concert. Or did I volunteer? Right now, I have a basic outline with 5 skits each around 5 minutes or so. Jack, Sophia and Anderson want in, so I can definately say we have some star power on it. Should be done next Monday, with character biographies and script with stage directions. If I'm going to do it, I might as well do it properly.

Physics Prac ReTrial is on tomorrow. Classes are F3, F4 and A4. Dunno which one to go too, but Gough suggests to troll the hallways. Period 1, so I miss out on my free period. Luck to the people who needed. I intend to get there early and jump up to see if I can see the equipment, but I won't be telling anyone. So there.

Happy Birthday to me

I'm very happy to say that on this day, I have survived 18 years in this world. And hopefully more years to come.

Trail HSC is Over...not really...

Maths 2U: Did pretty well, completely screwed by last question.
Maths Ext 1: Screwed, hoping for a pass.
English: Meh...it was alright.
Physics: Very confident
Biology: Can I say aced? No, I can't, but damn close I say!
Chemistry: Urrgh...not very well hoping for 70%
Pracs: Aced Bio, screwed Chem, Physics need to redo

Yes, so these are my feeling for the trial HSC. It was alright overall and it definately helped to show my weakness. Tomorrow I will take steps to prepare to address them. Procrastination, what can I say?

When the Physics finished, Fearnside announced that there had been possible malpractice inthe prac exam, involving 8-10 people. I guess most of us first thought it was some sick joke, but it wasn't. So now we have to redo the prac exam on Friday 18th. But if they have identified the cheaters, why can't the cheaters get their marks reduced to zero? Why a retest? Now the cheaters will get away with it. I think the science faculty suspects malpractice, maybe circumstantial evidence, but can't definitively prove that malpractice had occured. If I had be on the ball, I might have asked why marks weren't cancelled. I have my suspicions on who cheated, but it's all a moot point right now.

So I sure everyone did well in at least one subject. I heard Lesley was really good at the speeches. So good that he made Tom look bad. Is that possible? I'm not sure, but I have good info from MiG.

Rest up and prepare. There are 70 or so days to HSC.

Trial HSC Examinations

Game on, people.
Good luck to all, and miracles to the few that need it.
Of course, I'll be off until Friday the 11th August.
Until then.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
-Robert Browning (1812-1889)

A Flat, Flat World

Went to the SMH Career Expo today with my brother and dad. It started off alright, but we forgot to get off at Town Hall and instead got off at Wynnard. Then we got lost, walking to the Rocks and wandering around before we found our way back down to Darling Harbour and into the Exhibition Center. It wasn't really anything good. The expo had a whole bunch of companies advertising what a career with them would be like. There was a lot on business and computing, but I couldn't find anything health or science related. There was some breakdance comp going on in there as well. Some of the dancers were cool, others were kinda crap.

Of course, the armed forces were there, spreading their propoganda about joining the army, navy or air force. But the weird thing is that there was some Asian guy in Army uniform there. Apparently he joined the army and worked into technical division, wires, computers and communications and stuff. Still it was weird. Not that Asian-Australians aren't patriotic, its just that we don't want to be on the frontline in some war in Whateverastan.

My mother bought me a new phone as an early birthday present. Its a Nokia 6101, and I'm still reading the booklet on what it can do. It kinda sucks in the memory department, around 3 megs, and so I have to do some cleaning, getting rid of themes, tone and other pictures. I guess its a cool phone. By the way, if anyone has a CA-42 adaptor cable, give me a shout. I'd like to borrow it and see if I can add some personal tones and wallpaper.

A Carnivorous Flamingo

For those who you don't watch the Chaser's War on Everything on Fridays on the ABC, you should. Sometimes their jokes could be better, but they do some mad 'stunts' like wearing a stocking and going shopping or trying to smuggle meat into a concert only to have all the sniffer dogs smell the meat and swamp the person, so the cops think he has a ton of drugs. This little music vid is from the Chasers, and for the Doctor Who fans.



I'm no where near that hardcore. Still not a lot of people seemed to be clued into Doctor Who or have watched the earlier episodes. I know has watched the earlier Doctors, Sophia apparently watches the new Doctor Who and Phuong is only watching as the 10th Doctor actor, David Tennant, is good-looking. Still, better than being alone.

I've confirmed that I was the only Seftoner there at UMAT at UTS. Damn that was lonely.

Gotta type up speech to submit tomorrow.

I'm now hopelessly addicted to Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, especially those that invole the Night Watch. Bad time for an addiction.

Undignified but Mandatory Antispasmodic Tablet

Just got back from UTS and finished UMAT. While I can't definately say that I felt bad or good, I did feel anguished, annoyed and apathetic. The first two sections went rather well. I got most of the answers, though I felt that I did better in the 2nd section, that is the 'understand-what-the-bastards-are-feeling' section, than the 1st, that is the 'damn-I-don't-see-any-logical-answer-and-I-want-calculator' section. The 3rd section was the worst for me. It seems that my non-verbal skills are not so good. Like I said before, I want to ask the creators an explantion for the order/solution, then punch them in the face. So I guessed the most of the questions, using my own twisted logic.

What the hell? What comes next?
There's no pattern at all!
Hey, since that triangle rotates 90 degrees...
....then so must everything else!
Done! Now next question...

That was more or less how it went. So how did other people do? Bad? Good? Aced? Failed?

You know when you see someone, then like later on in the day you're like hey I know so and so, they were from so and so! but its way too late and they're already somewhere and you're already home? I think, 95% sure, that I saw two old classmates from primary. It just didn't hit me until now that I'm home. So if anyone knows a Henry(guy) or Tian(girl) that used to go to Blaxcell Street Primary and knew a Steven Nguyen, tell them I would have said hello, if my mental gears shifted up a but quicker.

Supposedly, Raymond L and Tan were also going to UTS for UMAT, but I didn't see them. Maybe they were at the back of the line and since I was at the front, we missed each other. It was hella lonely when you're there and you don't know or recognise anyone else.

Now I have to burn the new Doctor Who series for Phuong. Hopefully, she'll get distracted by it and I have a better chance to doing better in the trials. And English speech, yeah, better finalise that tonight and type it up tomorrow so its ready for to submit and so I can get some practice.

Undergraduate Machiavellian Attitude Test

UMAT is tomorrow and while I can't really say that I'm stuffed, I'm damn near to it. Most of the questions are alright, read the passage, answer multiple choice verbally reason this and that. Then I got to the non-verbal section of the practice exam and it kind of went downhill from there. It's non-verbal so it's basically a bunch of pictures [in/out of] order and after [rearranging/ordering] the pictures you answer the question by noting which picture is [next/in the middle].

Which is okay, except 50% of the time, it doesn't make sense what picture goes next or why a picture is in the middle. To the average person, the ordering can be a load of bull. Granted it may be because I'm too stupid to figure it out, but I want to meet the person or persons who devise these 'logic puzzles' and ask them for their reasoning of the order or solution. And then punch them in the face. Repeatedly. Preferably with blood and broken noses.

Still I get a day off school. But I did pay for the Chemistry Quiz and I am a little pissed off that now I'm going to miss it.

UMAT @ UTS 8am. If you want my phone number, tell me through MSN.

Hocked

Not much happened these weekends. Just ramping up for the Trials and UMAT. And English speech, which I am finding suprisingly difficult. Maybe I should back off on some of my goals...yeah that's a good idea. Now I'm browsing through other people's blogs and I'm a bit suprised how far that little question-procrastination-thingimabob went. Guess a whole bunch of people wanted to procrastinate as well.

Year 12 Concert is floating in my mind, but with trials so close its on the backburner for now. I have no idea what skit we're (so far just me and Jack) going to think up, but hopefully it won't be as lame as the 2Unit thing. So when we (in this case, me) have something concrete, hopefully after the trials I'll submit a 10-page concept paper to Sophia and Dorothy. Ok maybe one page and a few scribbles...

With Doctor Who and House already watched, I'm eagerly waiting the next season with nothing to watch. Naruto is still in stupid filler-arc-for-two-seasons mode, Bleach is in filler-arc-boring-crap mode, and I haven't found any good comic series to dig my teeth into. So what can I do? Mythbusters and Top Gear. Mythbusters because they MAKE science fun and have explosions. And Top Gear because it is an unshamedly biased, male-orientated, non-environmental car show. Watch and learn people.

Hockey competition tomorrow and its for the whole day! Take that!

Note: Ultraviolet is cool, but where's the plot and acting? Still, gun kata for the win!

Doctor Who?

The Doctor theme music has basically remained the same throughout the years, the only difference really being what instruments were used to play it. So as a test, I give you the intro theme to the new 2005/06 series of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who 2005/06 - Opening Theme

Let's procrastinate rather than work...

1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
Very tempted between Bush and Howard. Flip a coin on that.

2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?
Kill of a band? I don't really know...but off the top of my head...Aqua.

3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
The person that fucking invented integration and the dude that thought up circle geometry.

4. What is your favorite cheese?
Coon cheese. It rules.

5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What does your dream sandwich consist of, and does it contain the aforementioned cheese?
It will have bacon, beef, lettuce, scrambled eggs, red capsicum, and the aforementioned cheese.

6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie (porn counts) celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once... Who?
My first though was Jenna Jameson. If you're gonna screw a celebrity, it might as well be the queen of porn. But I would hit Natalie Portman. She's hot.

7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice.
What a music celebrity? In that case I'd hit Hyori Lee. She's hot as well.

8. Now that you've slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy shit, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?
Put it into a bank and watch it grow.

9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
Japan.

10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Shit! Now that you are in the new location, what are you gonna do?
A Chairman Kaga coat. Those are so weird and eccentric. And I want one.

11. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice.
VB.

12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you traveling to and what are you going to do when you get there?
I would go back to Ancient Rome, so I could get a Roman sword and meet Octavius Caesar, Mark Antony and Cleopatra. I would so own the pwoerplay essay then,

13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
Free cable television.

14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what's the premise?
"iT", someone becomes 'it' and everyone else has to kill that person with a handgun. The person who is 'it' gets to defend themselves by selecting any any weapon of choice that can be carried.

15. What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck. The most versatile word in the English language.

16. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren't really doing anything, they're just standing around your bed. What do you do?
Ask about curses, because I would like to drop a few death curses on some people.

17. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don't worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what's the one thing you're going to save from that blazing inferno?
Simple. Computer

18. The Angel Of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel Of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?
Go on MSN and tell everyone. In that half-hour, I'd been spending more time chatting than in a decade of normal chatting.

19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What's it gonna be?
Throwing up between X-ray vision and telepathy. I'd probably go for telepathy, like mind reading, control and stuff. Like Xavier from X-Men.

20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
Last half hour of Year 6.

21. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be? (the answer "nothing" doesn't count)?
All the time I got whacked by my father. It hurt. A lot.

22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit... you can move to anywhere else in the world! Bitchin'! What country are you going to live in now?
Italy. Perfect climate, Italian is quite easy to learn and it has some of the best football clubs. And Italian food is cool as well...

23. This question still counts, even for those of you who are under age. Check it out. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?
The one that in USyd. Manning Bar or whatever. It's like the only bar I know, so I hope I can still enter.

24. Hopefully you didn't mention this in the super-powers question.... If you did, then we'll just expand on that. Check it out... Suddenly, you have gained the ability to FLOAT!!! Whose house are you going to float to first, and be like "Dude, check it out... I can FLOAT!"
I'd probably float to school into the quadrangle.

25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier have given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which celebrity will you bring back to life?
JFK, then conspiracy theorists will have a hoot.

26. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn't think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
Errr...I guess Elvis. I can probably make money out of it somehow. Charge people to see Elvis, like $50/hour.

27. What's your theme song?
Somewhere Only We Know by Keane