So whats the solution?

I should have actually just included this in the original post, but oh well, its a bit late now, and its going to seem like a doozey.

Since winter is nearly on our doormat, threatening to slam the door shut in a bout of anger, we should use it to our advantage. Nobody likes taking public transport when its raining, cold and hard to get a seat. It makes it even worse when people on the same ride as you have diseases. Mainly the infectious ones like colds and flus. So what I propose is that everyone just pretends to be sick about every day of the week on the bus. That way, people have less incentive to take the same bus as you.

To get out of it, they'll drive, or find another mode of transport, leaving more room on the bus for you and the rest of the sick people. Oh what fun.

I could elaborate, but one of the 'big 4' consulting firms just told me to shove it (in a much more polite way), so inspiration isn't really holding up.

Talking to myself

The lack of blogging is bad. Well, it makes me look a little bit insane. Not blogging that is, its the substitute I have for blogging. I just seem to be talking to myself more. Its quite disturbing, even if I say so myself.

So I'm hoping that the blogging will pick up, and that I'll have stuff to say, and that I'll seem less insane to myself.

Or maybe I should find myself some more friends.

A bit of overlap

I just had a lecture for a subject called Operating Systems. Now I'm in a lecture for a subject called Business System Design which is about Operating Systems. Somehow I think I'm wasting my time.

Interviews over the next two days... Looking forward to some hardcore questions. Well, not really, but its one way to psych me up.

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Tis the season to be *cough* ... sick

Its quite strange how the public transport system works. It could be just my bus route, but somehow theres quite a difference in the services. (Warning: whinge factor 10)

"But what do you mean Ez?"

I'll tell you what I mean, and for a low monthly fee of err... actually just buy me food - I'll let you know the solution to all our problems. So the problem is this - the bus route starts at 6:30am or so in the morning, taking all the working commuters into the central business district (CBD) for their daily office job. For my bus route, this comes about every 10 minutes until 8am, when it stops becoming every 10 minutes and reverts to coming every 30 minutes until it stops at around 6pm. So during the period between 6:30 and 8, theres about 10 bus services. This is completely fine. The buses aren't too crowded, theres only the minimal amount of people standing, its generally on time, and theres been a minimal fuss about this in the past few years.

On the other side of the coin the commute back home is a nightmare. For all the people that the buses take to work in the morning, there aren't quite enough buses to take them back. When people normally start work at 8:30am or 9am, they'll finish between 4:30pm and 5:30pm. But the problem is, between 4:30 and 6pm, theres a total of 5 buses to take people back. So we have to cram 10 busloads of people into 5 buses for the trip back. Not exactly what you'd call optimal.

Its also a lot harder to stand on buses than it is on trains. Trains usually go in a straight line, slow down left often, don't have to stop for traffic lights, and don't go around hairpin turns. Buses have traffic lights, bus stops every 200m or so, and do hairpins right before hitting the freeway. Something a rubber handhold isn't quite going to help you with.

I promised the solution to this problem... It'll be short and sweet, but just wait till next week. Or view the source.

Feeling anxious? Too bad

Its been a bit slow. No thats not quite true. Its always a bit slow for me. Everyone else seems to get quite stressed about things. Some people even get stressed about everything. Apparently stress isn't even the right word - it all comes from the magic thing otherwise known as anxiety.

An analytical approach to this would suggest that people get stressed because things which are 'important' in their lives have a significant amount of influence. For some, important things will range from the breakfast they have in the morning to the way they tie their shoes. If you're anything like this, maybe having anxiety attacks is quite a common occurance for you. Maybe you spend a large part of your life crying youself to sleep because your significant other started smoking (for those of you whre this is true, find a non-smoker). Ironically, these are usually the kinds of people that say they can't handle so much stress.

Others are a little more reasonable. They understand that theres only so much time in a day, and they need to prioritise those things which are really important. So its only when these kind of things have problems (like you don't have enough money for rent) that they get a little stressed. Maybe you'll lose your job if you don't get that report on the desk in the morning.

Then theres the other extreme. Nothing really means all that much. They realise that not only are a lot of things quite trivial, they can see that theres another way to do something. Its not the end of the world if you lose your job. Pick yourself up and plod along some more. It sounds like they're a little depressed most of the time. Or maybe they've just discovered the secret for themselves.

Take a chill pill.

April FOOOOLZZZZ

OK so I missed it by a couple of days. Shoot me.