Whilst writing notes for my finals, I ran out of 0.05mm copic multiliners with…well, ink in them.

To save me making unnecessary trips to Kinokuniya (who are a rip anyway for any copics. $12 for a marker now? Really?) and knowing I will still keep using these superfineliners unlike its biggeer brush brothers, I bought a 12-pack from studiocopic. Manga arts online shop is cheaper by like 5c but studiocopic’s postage was like half and I was only ordering this box so…away I went.

$3.50 × 12 + 8.50 later… they arrived and my notes are legible (but still tiny) again! =D

Oh and I had my micro2 exam today and think I did alright but I had a stomach ache the whole 3 hours so I couldn’t think too clearly. Now to print off my psyc2061 notes so I can at least highlight even if I don’t have enough time to write notes…

This blog has gone unanswered for so long…
Then I saw this little box that I swear wasn’t there before, or I didn’t have the sight to pay attention to it.

A simple box to type content into, upload a file or two, and tag.

Perfect.

Let’s review
Choga: A korean restaurant located on 8 quay st at the prince shopping centre serving all day buffet for $10. There isn’t that much of a selection but there’s a nice lady there and the bulgogi is really nice and addictive and I’m craving some now. The pajeon is nice too!
Can’t say I ate much of anything else though since I didn’t want to be there for long as I was late and kept people waiting for two hours (although I do recall moments where I was stood up at the train station for an hour in the past sniff).
Meant I was hungry and ate a lot after though which is strange. I’m still hungry now.

We went to morning glory. Both the one in Chinatown with a crazy number of yoshi and the market city one.

It’s funny how we managed to spend like 3 hours in that shop.

There was a light blue yoshi which I bought, a pink one, a yellow one (I was debating on getting all three!) and then a black one and a white one. The white one looked like a ghost and the black one was the same colour as its eyes.

I make no mention of the original keen green yoshi because there was none bar a tiny little keyring yoshi! =O

When you look at American high school students trying to get into university, you see them so heavily focused on participating in extracurricular activities; so driven to do something for the world.

In Australia, high school students might do something more basic, like raise money for charity.

And come university? There is so much greater a distinction between different degrees. University students are more capable of helping than high school students I suppose. More time (usually), more freedoms.

But it’s really something rather fascinating when trying to encourage students from certain degrees to be more involved.
It’s funny that commerce, law, and engineering students are the most heavily involved in volunteering but that’s probably only linked to the external motivation of getting graduate jobs.

Is it because arts students already have guaranteed education positions already that they refuse to do anything but protest hopelessly in front of the university library or just lounge outside there doing nothing? (Or that they have no hope in the future because there are no job prospects except bludging on the dole?)
Is it because medical students just have too much to do? (Fair enough)
Is it because science students just like to sit and chill in the student lounge because they can? Actually science varies too much to generalise.

It’s rather funny that these people are happy to just not do much at university, since these degrees are more aimed at helping people, okay, not so much the Arts students who just study why people need help, although I am partially one, whereas something like commerce is usually considered the more selfish of degrees. Hey the only aim is to get a high paying job, further big business and turn into a corporate drone isn’t it?

Then again, students are going to university with the aim of getting a better job or to further their knowledge…

Not to evoke a motivation to help people.
It is quite hard when people don’t care intrinsically…
And changing that is going to be a problem.