Live and let live I say. Well done New Zealand. Parliament has voted to make same-sex marriage legal, 77 votes to 44, making New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage:
“It’s a declaration of love and commitment to a special person … ” ~ Louisa Wall
Have yourself a laugh and take part using your mouse cursor in this interactive music video for Kilo by Light Light. To get started, make sure you click on the info button top-right, then close that pop-up info box to activate the video:
Try pressing the F11 button to go full-screen, make sure your volume is on, and enjoy:
Created by Moniker.
A collection of “back to the camera” shots. The character stands center frame (most of the time), looking out at some epic landscape.
To live in an era when a rape report is televised publicly in a First World country as a victimless crime is loathsome, and these so-called professional reporters and the station should be held directly accountable for their brazen indiscretion. Hopefully they feel some degree of emotional accountability for the words they spoke, but more so for the words they didn’t. Implicit or not, this coverage expressed to the world that CNN indirectly (tacitly) promotes the continual normalization of rape culture.
I can’t believe a petition has to be signed before any action is taken. Isn’t the issue obvious enough? People are being hurt by keeping the real issue silent. How many more women are going to be sexually objectified to the point where suicide is considered an appealing means of release from the hurt, before prevalent ideals about rape are properly vindicated by the media and taken to heart by society? Please sign the petition by clicking the image link below:
And then we have internet hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ who claim not to approve of “vigilante justice” but are taking matters in to their own hands anyway. They also claim to have confirmed the identities of two of the four alleged rapists to the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Canada teen who hanged herself after reportedly never emotionally recovering from an alleged rape by four teenage boys:
Rehtaeh’s mother said one boy took a photo of the alleged rape in 2011 and her daughter was subjected to bullying after it went viral. After a year-long investigation, police concluded there were no grounds to charge the four boys because of insufficient evidence. To truly enforce positive change, I personally agree with the signing of petitions.
‘No Problems’ is a diss track aimed at rapper Angel Haze. These two got in a public spat through twitter earlier in January. Azealia Banks released ‘No Problems’ in response to Haze’s ‘On The Edge’ and ‘Shut The Fuck Up’, but who really cares about that jazz? It’s the music that matters and ‘No Problems’ is sick!
21-year-old Azealia Banks brings her Harlem, New York style and slick language to another BAMF of a track — NSFW:
The video, directed by Rony Alwin, follows some Bank’s behind the scenes moments on this year’s ‘Ultra Music Festival’ in Miami, Florida.
Results for last week’s 50minute written exam were handed out today in tutorial. I wasn’t very happy with my result, more so when a fellow student got a mark higher than mine and boasted over how he never even read the required text for it! ॓_॔,
Credit wise, I’m good but I think I deserved a higher grade for my analysis. I understood what the lecturer discussed in classes and what the student tutor spoke of in tutorials, but I didn’t want to waste my opinion on what the lecturer thought was an important aspect of the text. The exam question demanded for nothing as specific as crunching numbers and the vagueness/openness of the question itself allowed room for me to expand my reasoning. But alas, I guess what I have to do in order to score high in this particular course is just regurgitate what is spoon-fed to me during lectures. It certainly worked for that other guy.
*Sigh* So much for fostering freethinkers, and just when I thought my day couldn’t get any worse someone went and deleted my new episode of ‘New Girl’! All I want to do is eat ice-cream and indulge in my guilty pleasures for a while, is that so much to ask?! I’m not easily irritated, but today was just one of those days when everyone around you with a smile on their face just makes you really grouchy. And then sad… But then somehow you’re grouchy again! ॓_॔,
I should really be spending my weekend studying. I have an assignment due next week too that needs to be peer-reviewed before Wednesday and all I have is a draft! ARGH science, why do you fascinate me so?!
…Hmm, in that case, I hope my alternate self fails. NO, I will intentionally fail and give my multiple selves a 100% success rate 💪 and some time in the future they will all return the favour, simultaneously 🤓 Muhahahaha 👨🏾🔬
I missed my first lecture of the year today. Noooooooooooo. My course was at eleven and it was five to when congested traffic started from Ellerslie to Remuera on the southern motorway, so I decided to cut my losses and forgo class. It would have taken me at least ten minutes till my turn-off not counting the drive to University, and another ten to fifteen minutes finding a parking space, and that’s if I was lucky. I made the most of my time at least and got some reading done. I knew I shouldn’t have made the best fried eggs on toast possible this morning, but the basil leaves and fried tomato from the garden with the pepper and Moroccan spices overpowered my better judgement! Too fancy, Fin.
Every dirty word imaginable and even the ones you don’t imagine have been compiled for your…err, entertainment? I wouldn’t watch it if I were you. Why start your day exposing your sensible ears to the filthy talk of Westeros? Taken out of context of the character’s traits and emotions, this doesn’t make a good argument for the show, so I’m not going to post the video, but I will leave an image–link for you to follow, at your own peril:
HaHah! Not sure if ‘bastard’ is a swearword in this case as it’s genuinely used by its definition. Same could be said about ‘whore’ I guess…Moving on! Here in its stead is one of my favourite skits — sort of like the antonym if you will — The Sopranos: MadTv Spoof
In other Game of Thrones related news, season three premiered last night in the states and became an instant record holder for the biggest BitTorrent download ever!
(I wonder if my aunty helped contribute to that?) A whopping 163,088 peers clamored to download and seed the episode simultaneously, beating out previous record-holder — Heroes season three premier — by some twenty thousand. You can read more about that at TorrentFreak. Yeah. I’ll just leave this here:
Aah DBZ, the most frustrating cartoon to watch, ever, also happened to be one of the most violent shows to be broadcast on NZ television. I got sick of it eventually, around the same time when dudes at school started to get into arguments over power-ratings. Had I learnt how to settle disputes like these Japanese Kamehameha masters, well, there would’ve been a lot less chatter in class — nice technique ladies:
You may be wondering why is this even a thing now, considering the Dragon Ball anime aired during the 1980s? It may be because a new Dragon Ball anime, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, is coming to Japanese movie theaters this month. This is the first Dragon Ball animated feature to get a theatrical release in 17 years — That could be the reason — Nothing like free publicity huh?
Japanese teens doing faux manga style martial arts moves has the potential of becoming the new planking, which shouldn’t mean much to anyone really; planking was never cool.
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You deserve to know the truth about Easter eggs…
There are things spoken in this video we can all relate to, and then there are things only few people understand the value of — so to speak — the victor may surprise you:
Kia ora! Hola! Bonjour! سلام! こんにちは! नमस्ते Namastē! مرحبا! 您好！Hallå! Hallo! Selamat Datang! Welcome! ⭐(★´♡‿♡`+)⭐ You have found ditb
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