Is there anywhere that far?
Anytime you're feeling low
Is there anywhere that love cannot reach?
Oh no
It could be anywhere on earth
It could be anywhere I'll be
Oh baby if you want to see
Anytime you're feeling low
Is there anywhere that love cannot reach?
Oh no
It could be anywhere on earth
It could be anywhere I'll be
Oh baby if you want to see
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It really has been a while since I blogged... Or at least, feels like a long time. I should have started revision of stuff from last term by now, but I haven't. This week has been quite mad so far as it is for me to even think about revision. I can barely keep up with the homework... Fine, so I'm not keeping up with the homework. Yeah I know I'm screwed.
I could just spend this post crying about this week, but I think people know/had enough to appreciate that it's been busy. I shall now expend a ridiculous amount of energy resisting the urge to do so.censored
Went to happy cup with Em, Chris and Jiyoon on Monday after the Chem SAC. That was quite pleasant, hadn't done that for a long time. It's sad that we had to forge a pact not to talk about chem while we were there. The chem SAC wasomg shit fail asdjfkl; wrist. Must... Resist...
While we there sitting along the sidewalk, people were walking past. We were in school uniform, and a variety of greetings were exchanged with people we knew to varying extents. This sparked an observation to me that everyone probably realises, but no one seems to document or talk about.
This phenomenon can be summarised thus: the the magnitude of a greeting is affected by two factors, one being the extent of the relationship of subject to the other party, and as this factor increases, so does the degree of the salutation. A second factor exists, however, that is normally overlooked, and that is the relative distance from which the rendezvous point is from the location at which the relationship between the two parties in question spawned, or the point of origin. An increase in this distance from the point of origin also seems to cause an increase the magnitude of the greeting, regardless of relationship, as long as one exists, no matter how shallow. Note that this hypothesis is only applicable for meetings of pure chance on the part of both parties.
The elaboration of such a phenomenon is such: Meeting a good friend in any place would result in a more forthcoming greeting than meeting a mere acquaintance. The location is not relevant in this case. However, consider this scenario. Let the acquaintance in this example be someone from your workplace or school, whom you chance by often, yet talk little to, if at all. Meeting this place in the immediate vicinity of your workplace/school would not result in any marked increase in greeting at all from a greeting at the workplace/school itself (assume the standard greeting to be a nod). However, if the meeting was somewhere of reasonable distance from where you met them, like in the city centre, this would result in an increased reaction to seeing the opposite party (perhaps a wave). Likewise, if you then met this acquaintance in some other far away country, the extent of the greeting seems to scale together with the magnitude of the distance from the origin (exclamation, smile, physically stopping to converse).
An extreme example might even include: You are in the middle of an arid wasteland in some forsaken corner of the world, with not a person in sight. You then see a fellow countryman. The reaction might be quite similar to the above, just with more dramatic circumstances to make up for the weaker strength of relationship.
The general formula's for the different effect of these two factors are unclear and vary amongst different people, but from my observations it seems that it is safe to assume the suggested hypothesis to be reasonably accurate.
Everyone probably already knew that. But has anyone ever written it down, documented it, made an entry of it somewhere? (Probably, actually. But you get the point).
Friday is evidently a holiday. Yay. More time tostudy waste catch up with homework? Mid-years are evil. Zzz.
Oh yeah! Today when walking to train station from Uni, I saw this shabbily dressed, shrivelled and unshaven man with stark, blank eyes holding up a huge wooden sign in front of the pedestrian crossing. I will attempt to summarise what it said: "There is no such thing as a mental illness. Psychiatry is a huge conspiracy by the government. You cannot treat something that doesn't exist." It even had smaller red letters inserted subliminally between the lines of text, with pretty much the same message. At first it made me think. And then I looked at the guy holding it again. Then I just lol'd and crossed the road, along with everyone around.
Good night.
To see your smile again.
It really has been a while since I blogged... Or at least, feels like a long time. I should have started revision of stuff from last term by now, but I haven't. This week has been quite mad so far as it is for me to even think about revision. I can barely keep up with the homework... Fine, so I'm not keeping up with the homework. Yeah I know I'm screwed.
I could just spend this post crying about this week, but I think people know/had enough to appreciate that it's been busy. I shall now expend a ridiculous amount of energy resisting the urge to do so.
Went to happy cup with Em, Chris and Jiyoon on Monday after the Chem SAC. That was quite pleasant, hadn't done that for a long time. It's sad that we had to forge a pact not to talk about chem while we were there. The chem SAC was
While we there sitting along the sidewalk, people were walking past. We were in school uniform, and a variety of greetings were exchanged with people we knew to varying extents. This sparked an observation to me that everyone probably realises, but no one seems to document or talk about.
This phenomenon can be summarised thus: the the magnitude of a greeting is affected by two factors, one being the extent of the relationship of subject to the other party, and as this factor increases, so does the degree of the salutation. A second factor exists, however, that is normally overlooked, and that is the relative distance from which the rendezvous point is from the location at which the relationship between the two parties in question spawned, or the point of origin. An increase in this distance from the point of origin also seems to cause an increase the magnitude of the greeting, regardless of relationship, as long as one exists, no matter how shallow. Note that this hypothesis is only applicable for meetings of pure chance on the part of both parties.
The elaboration of such a phenomenon is such: Meeting a good friend in any place would result in a more forthcoming greeting than meeting a mere acquaintance. The location is not relevant in this case. However, consider this scenario. Let the acquaintance in this example be someone from your workplace or school, whom you chance by often, yet talk little to, if at all. Meeting this place in the immediate vicinity of your workplace/school would not result in any marked increase in greeting at all from a greeting at the workplace/school itself (assume the standard greeting to be a nod). However, if the meeting was somewhere of reasonable distance from where you met them, like in the city centre, this would result in an increased reaction to seeing the opposite party (perhaps a wave). Likewise, if you then met this acquaintance in some other far away country, the extent of the greeting seems to scale together with the magnitude of the distance from the origin (exclamation, smile, physically stopping to converse).
An extreme example might even include: You are in the middle of an arid wasteland in some forsaken corner of the world, with not a person in sight. You then see a fellow countryman. The reaction might be quite similar to the above, just with more dramatic circumstances to make up for the weaker strength of relationship.
The general formula's for the different effect of these two factors are unclear and vary amongst different people, but from my observations it seems that it is safe to assume the suggested hypothesis to be reasonably accurate.
Everyone probably already knew that. But has anyone ever written it down, documented it, made an entry of it somewhere? (Probably, actually. But you get the point).
Friday is evidently a holiday. Yay. More time to
Oh yeah! Today when walking to train station from Uni, I saw this shabbily dressed, shrivelled and unshaven man with stark, blank eyes holding up a huge wooden sign in front of the pedestrian crossing. I will attempt to summarise what it said: "There is no such thing as a mental illness. Psychiatry is a huge conspiracy by the government. You cannot treat something that doesn't exist." It even had smaller red letters inserted subliminally between the lines of text, with pretty much the same message. At first it made me think. And then I looked at the guy holding it again. Then I just lol'd and crossed the road, along with everyone around.
Good night.
To see your smile again.
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