Why can't we all get along?
I think the answer to this is that we simply don't understand and agree with each other, because we're all different and come from different backgrounds.

In psychology this year we did a bit on development. One thing that young kids don't have the ability to do is empathise with others. They can't see things from other people's perspectives. As they grow older, they learn this gradually, and become more considerate of others. They start seeing why other people do the things they do, and why everyone is so different. This, in my opinion, has a lot to do with how mature someone is. Immaturity stems from a lack of understanding of others (and often themselves as well) and a lack of control of oneself.

One very important thing that many people forget is that their judgment of others is often incorrect. It's one thing to learn to see things from another's perspective, but getting that perspective right is another task altogether. I try not to make judgments which are absolute, as there's always room to be wrong. I suppose this thinking partly comes from my low-self esteem and/or anxieties, but it's in fact very true. I am sure of it. Shortly after realising this my psychology tutor (also the main lecturer) explained to us what the "fundamental attribution error" is, confirming my beliefs. The "fundamental attribution error" refers to the fact that we over-emphasise personality-based explanations for people's behaviours and under-emphasise the importance of situational explanations. An obvious example is when someone is aggressive. Is it because they are just like that? (i.e. personality) Or are they like this because they were once abused themselves or are under a lot of stress? (i.e. environment). People with poor understanding would more likely assume the first explanation. This ain't a great example though, since aggression is much more easily understood, and so it's more obvious to most people in this case that it wouldn't be "just because they're like that", but because of some circumstantial factors. However, there are many cases where this is much less obvious.

Empathising breaks down when you make assumptions about others, because you are not understanding them, but what you think of them, which can be vastly different. Unless you know for sure, do not - ever - assume. Because if you are wrong it can really mess things up, and for someone that's having a rough time, it really hurts.

I was gonna write more but as usual I can't think of all the things I want to write when I have the time.

What Finger Are You?

You Are a Pinky You are fiercely independent, and possibly downright weird.
A great communicator, you can get along with almost anyone.
You are kind and sympathetic. You support all your friends - and love them for who they are.

You get along well with: The Ring Finger
Stay away from: The Thumb

Sometime last year I started making a play list of music that I liked enough that I wouldn't get bored of them even if I listened to them over and over again, those type of music which gets stuck in your head but which you don't MIND getting stuck in your head cos they're good. =). I thought I'd list them in a table here, just as another way of keeping track of my playlist, and another excuse for an entry. Alphabetical order (artist) since that's easiest for me.

Name	Artist	Personal Rating (out of 10)
Don't Wanna Miss A Thing	Aerosmith	10
Amazing	Alex Lloyd	10
My Friend	Alex Lloyd	9
Bus Ride	Alex Lloyd	9.5
Left Outside Alone	Anastacia	10
I'm Outta Love	Anastacia	10
Catch My Disease	Ben Lee	9.5
Into The Night	Benny Mardones	9
Last Call Casualty	Bowling For Soup	9
Almost	Bowling For Soup	9.5
1985	Bowling For Soup	10
Skin	Breaking Benjamin	9
Genie In A Bottle	Christina Aguilera	9
Accidentally In Love	Counting Crows	10
It is You	Dana Glover	10
Bad Day	Daniel Powter	10
Reflection (Mulan)	Disney	9.5
Someday (Hunchback of Notre Dame)	Disney	9.5
A Whole New World (Aladdin)	Disney	9
Can You Feel The Love Tonight	Elton John	9
A Little Less Conversation	Elvis Presley	10
Breathe No More	Evanescence	8.5
Missing	Evanescence	8.5
Bring Me To Life	Evanescence	10
Imaginary	Evanescence	9
My Last Breath	Evanescence	9
My Immortal	Evanescence	9.5
Meaning	Gavin Degraw	9.5
I Don't Wanna Be	Gavin Degraw	9.5
Bad Reputation	Joan Jett	10
Name	Goo Goo Dolls	9
Slide	Goo Goo Dolls	9
Iris	Goo Goo Dolls	10
Misery	Good Charlotte	10
Dance Floor Album	Good Charlotte	10
Break Apart Her Heart	Good Charlotte	9.5
All Black	Good Charlotte	9
Summer Nights	Grease	10
You're The One That I Want	Grease	9.5
Lucky	Hoobastank	8.5
The Reason	Hoobastank	10
Look Back On Your Way	KOEI	9
Cross Colours	KOEI (Yuki Koyanagi)	8
Like Wow!	Leslie Carter	10
Mambo #5	Lou Bega	8
Don't Say You Love Me	M2M	10
The Feeling Is Gone	M2M	8.5
Makes Me Wonder	Maroon 5	9
Down Under	Men At Work	10
Beat It	Michael Jackson	9
The Way You Make Me Feel	Michael Jackson	10
Black Or White	Michael Jackson	10
You Are Not Alone	Michael Jackson
Torn	Natalie Imbruglia	10
Photograph	NickelBack	10
Savin' Me	NickelBack	10
Far Away	NickelBack	9.5
Rockstar	NickelBack	9
Against All Odds	Phil Collins	10
One More Night	Phil Collins	8.5
Lonely No More	Rob Thomas	10
Ever The Same	Rob Thomas	10
I Believe I Can Fly	Robert Kelly	10
When You Say Nothing At All	Ronan Keating	9.5
Life Is A Rollercoaster	Ronan Keating	9
Lovin' Each Day	Ronan Keating	10
Escape	Rupert Holmes	10
Smooth	Santana	10
Truly, Madly Deeply	Savage Garden	10
I Want You	Savage Garden	9
I Knew I Loved You	Savage Garden	10
The Animal Song	Savage Garden	9
Affirmation	Savage Garden	10
To The Moon And Back	Savage Garden	10
Hold Me	Savage Garden	10
Crash And Burn	Savage Garden	9.5
Stay Home	Self	10
Lift	Shannon Noll	10
Shine	Shannon Noll	9
Lonely	Shannon Noll	10
Losing It All	Shannon Noll	9
All I Want Is More	Shannon Noll	9
Don't Fight It	Shannon Noll	9
There She Goes	Sixpence None The Richer	8.5
Kiss Me	Sixpence None The Richer	10
All Star	Smash Mouth	10
Walkin' On The Sun	Smash Mouth	9
Come On, Come On	Smash Mouth	8.5
Holiday In My Head	Smash Mouth	9
I'm A Believer	Smash Mouth	10
Can't Get Enough Of You Baby	Smash Mouth	10
She's So High	Tal Bachman	10
I'm On My Way	The Proclaimers	10
In The Summertime	Thirsty Merc	10
Someday, Someday	Thirsty Merc	9.5
Drops Of Jupiter	Train	10
She's On Fire	Train	9
It's About You	Train	8
Respect	Train	8.5
Hikari	Utada Hikaru	10
Simple And Clean	Utada Hikaru	10
Everything I'm Not	The Veronicas	10
When It All Falls Apart	The Veronicas	8.5
Leave Me Alone	The Veronicas	10
Heavily Broken	The Veronicas	9
Teenage Dirtbag	Wheatus	10
Schala's Theme	Yasunori Mitsuda	10
Robo's Theme	Yasunori Mitsuda	9
Frog's Theme	Yasunori Mitsuda	10
Magus Battle	Yasunori Mitsuda	9.5
At The Bottom Of The Night	Yasunori Mitsuda	10
Peaceful Days	Yasunori Mitsuda	9
Corridors Of Time	Yasunori Mitsuda	10
The Day The World Revived	Yasunori Mitsuda	8.5
To Far Away Times	Yasunori Mitsuda	9
Delightful Spekkio	Yasunori Mitsuda	9.5
Wind Scene	Yasunori Mitsuda	10
Time's Scar	Yasunori Mitsuda	10

I still remember those times back in Primary School when I wanted to commit suicide. It's been almost 10 years and my feelings on that don't seem to have changed much.

Being gay is much harder than I thought it would be. Didn't realise how it would make me feel so different, so abnormal. Heck, the word used to describe anyone who isn't straight is 'queer', meaning strange or abnormal. I don't feel strange, I feel like a perfectly normal human being. But these labels, and the comments I hear from people about how it's sick and wrong, challenge my thinking. I try to ignore it, but I see it everyday. In the media, in real life. It's all the same. Being heterosexual is assumed. If you're not, you have to explicitly state that you aren't, and face judgment.
From how I grew up, I already had immense trouble just trying to fit in, trying to find a place I was comfortable in. This just makes me even more of an outcast than I already was.

One thing that I really hate was that I wasted a lot of time trying to convince myself that I was straight. This was due to pressure from every single source possible telling me that gay feelings were a big no-no. The media, peers, family; all linked as they influence each other. My high school  was spent trying to convince everyone, including myself, that I was straight. It was really stupid, how I'd enjoy looking at guys and then say that I wasn't actually interested in them (to myself), and how I'd try to make myself like girls even though they didn't interest me that much (in a physical sense anyway). I also remember the anti-gay attitude that everyone adopted back then. Anything annoying or bad was 'gay', if you didn't like someone you'd call them a homo, or say they were acting like one. 'Queer' was a term my friend tried introducing, although 'gay' dominated. I was guilty of it too, as much as I hate to admit. My mum (and brother although I hardly ever talk to him) were in on it too. She would tell me how she though it was sick that there are homosexuals in Australia, and that homosexuals were where AIDS came from. She would also tell me to watch out for gay rapists whenever I went out alone (which was pretty much never since she was so darn overprotective).

Given this, how on Earth is someone meant to openly admit that they're gay? or bi? or whatever you happen to be? I certainly couldn't, not then anyway. Instead, I wasted my time trying to make myself straight, thinking that these 'unacceptable' feelings would just pass, like it was just a phase. Many years down the track I finally realised that it was for real, and that I should just accept it as it is. From my experience, sexual orientation is definitely intrinsic. You are born with it, and no amount of therapy or brainwashing will change it. I hate those people that think that non-heterosexuality (homosexuality in particular) is a disease that can spread. Sadly, my mum is one of those people. Being with homosexuals won't make you one, which is why, similarly, that gay people will remain so even if everyone in their environment is straight.

I think I've wrote enough for today.

What's Your Inner Color?

Your Inner Color is Blue Your Personality: Your natural warmth and intuition nurtures those around you. You are accepting and always follow your heart.

You in Love: Relationships are your top priority, and this includes love. You are most happy when you are serious with someone.

Your Career: You need to help others in your job to feel satisfied. You would be a great nurse, psychologist, or counselor.

I forgot to post a quiz for my last entry, I'll post 2 here to make up hehe =P

1)

How Does Your Intrapersonal Intelligence Rate?

Your Intrapersonal Intelligence Score: 92% Your Intrapersonal Intelligence is Very High

You've spent a lot of time introspecting, and it's really paid off.
You are comfortable with who you are, and you have a life philosophy that you are happy to live by.
And you're always re-evaluating what you believe. Because you learn something new about yourself each day!

2)

What Planet Are You From?

You Are From Neptune You are dreamy and mystical, with a natural psychic ability.
You love music, poetry, dance, and (most of all) the open sea.
Your soul is filled with possibilities, and your heart overflows with compassion.
You can be in a room full of friendly people and feel all alone.
If you don't get carried away with one idea, your spiritual nature will see you through anything.
I think I got Saturn before, or was it Jupiter? Meh its still pretty good at describing me I think.

On a side note, I'm not feeling as down lately, tis a good thing =)

Really wanna cuddle someone though =/

Man its been ages since I wrote in here. ^^"

My feelings have really been going up and down, but overall its down. I don't know if I'm being really demanding, but I think I'm the type of person that needs a lot of encouragement. I'm just too insecure I suppose. I can only be confident when I can see that people admire or acknowledge me, otherwise I tend to think that there's something wrong with me. Even the smallest things make a difference. However, I find this works either way. I am very sensitive to comments that imply something bad about me as much as any good comments. I like to trust people, but I know that a lot of people don't really deserve trust. I'm often afraid that I might be trusting the wrong person. But I always give everyone a chance even when they don't give the best impression.

I'm gonna make this an LJ cut because I kinda feel like swearing. Although I probably won't much at all since it's just not me.
EDIT: Bah, screw that.

I fall in and out of depression frequently. I hate it, understandably. I'm just so dissatisfied with my life and who I am. I feel like I've done so little, and don't feel at all capable of doing much. I guess what I'm saying at the moment is a bit one-sided since I'm feeling like absolute shit right now, but its definitely not the first time its happened. Even right now I feel like such a loser for whinging, especially since I know that there are many other people that are in a similar or worse predicament than I am. Perhaps I demand too much of myself, or of other people. But even if this is true, I don't know what to do. I know a lot of the bad things I do and think of. For example, today I felt immensely jealous over something which I consciously find very trivial. I was completely aware of it, and I hated it and hated being that way, but try as I may I could not suppress it. I've done a quiz before which described me as a robot. Although the result was deliberately exaggerated for fun, at times like these I really wish that I was 100% rational and incapable of feeling. It's seems better than all this emotional crap that I have to put up with at the moment.

I'm constantly thinking about killing myself, even though I know it's not gonna happen, but only because I'm simply not brave enough. On most days I lack any will to live, I mean suffering and false hope is all there seems to be. When life looks like that it seems incredibly pointless and a real waste of time. I find it hard to concentrate in class these days because I'm so darn depressed. I try to concentrate because I know I need to, but my mind is really not functioning properly. Often in class all I actually feel like doing is crying. But I've spent a lot of time in my life keeping my emotions in check so I find it very difficult to get to the point where I can actually cry. Plus, I don't want to create a scene and have everybody think I'm some inconsiderate person who wants to make it known to the world that my life sucks as if I'm the only one.

I try to keep a balanced perspective of things, as a way of keeping things realistic. This goes for my emotions as well. I know there are many things that I do have, and that I should be grateful for those things. The problem is, I always see the people around me as having so much more, and they seem so much happier than I am. Sometimes I am able to strike up the confidence to start doing things, but seldom am I able to do much before I fall into depression again, where I simply can't do anything. There's simply so much to do, with so many obstacles, and one of the worse things is I don't even know if I can achieve those things or if its even possible given my circumstances. Everyone I see looks like they are ahead of me in life. I think I am capable of being just like them, but feel like my circumstances have meant that the opportunity has been taken away from me. Despite objections from those close to me, I actually have confidence in myself. It's just that showing it doesn't seem to get me anywhere because of my damn situation. It definitely seems like every time I try to aim high I just end up crashing back down. It isn't encouraging at all.
I've always thought as myself as rather modest, but I've actually been called a show-off in my time, from a friend too. Some things I just don't get.

Getting run over by a car seems like a good idea given the way I feel right now.

Almost forgot about the quiz, dunno which one to do, just pick one at random.

Are You Id, Ego, or Superego? (don't even know what that means =S )

You Are the Super Ego While some people may think first and act later... you often don't act at all.
You rather be safe than sorry, and you take ethics pretty seriously.
Like everyone, you have some pretty crazy desires. But unlike everyone, you restrain yourself.
You have high standards for your own behavior. And you happily exceed them.

I reflect on myself an awful lot. I'm sure I do it way more than most people, hopefully not to the point where it's unhealthy, if that is possible. I believe that how I was brought up has something to do with it. I was never really allowed outside of home except for school or family outings. Even playing with the neighbours was a hassle. I was usually very bored, so I thought. A lot. I don't know whether how my mind functions is just how I am or a result of all the "training" I had back when I was little, but it's definitely something that I can't change.

Ever since I was little I always had trouble making friends. I've always blamed it on my strict parents as well as my innate shyness. I don't remember too well, but  I think I didn't have any proper friends till I was in year 3, where 2 girls felt sorry for me and decided to let me hang around with them. The next year I made my first "best friend", also my only friend that I hung around with for the next 3 years. Actually, I didn't make him a friend, he approached me first and invited me to join him. However, I was really insecure about that friendship, and even now I can't really understand why. I didn't even remember till I looked at an entry in what was supposed to be my journal back in primary school (turned out to be my only entry) where I wrote about my insecurities. It seems I was a very depressed boy.
Back then I hadn't a clue how people befriended each other. It was so strange to me. If someone asked me how to make friends, I would not be able to say anything at all. To me, it was like everyone had default friends and no-one ever really had to do anything. I now know that that is not true, but it took me a long while to realise that.

I was a loner at the start of high school as well, since I didn't go to the main high school where most of the people in my primary school went to. Only 6 people from my primary school (WBPS) went to that high school, but they were all people that I didn't get along with much. Bar 1, who I was fairly close to back in year 7 (the last year of primary school). However, he started to hang around the people that we never did before (the "popular" group as I used to refer to), where I didn't fit in at all. I remember there was 1 other guy from WBPS that tried to get me together with the other WBPS guys, which I was grateful for, but I was pretty much ignored by everyone and eventually gave up trying to fit in. Recess and lunchtimes were hell for me back then. Everyday at school I would just wait for the day to end. I hated school, being the loner I was.

Eventually I did get some people to hang around with, but those friendships were fleeting. Furthermore, when I introduced them to each other (well I didn't really introduce but when they met because they both know me sort of thing) it was as if they would start talking to each other and ignore me. Maybe I was just paranoid though.
I ended up with just one friend in the end (although soon to be joined by another). I found he didn't give a very good impression. He was arrogant to the point where he would make up lies about his triumphs (so I found it hard to trust him after a while). It annoyed me, but he treated me as a friend so I did to him too. Currently, he's the closest friend to me now. He's changed a lot though, which is great.

I'll write more later.

How Shy Are You?

You Are 40% Shy You are slightly shy, but overall, your reactions to social situations are normal.
You dread difficult social situations, but you still handle them with grace.

Ummm...ok.

This year has been such a big year for me. So much has happened, and I plan to do a lot more. My views, my ambitions, my thoughts; they have all changed. It's been really hard to come to grips with it, but I have no choice but to go through it all.
This entry will be about my thoughts on friendships, with a focus on what I've been through and what I think about friends in my own life. I don't know how they'll take it if they read this, but these are the principles I go by. I know I said I was gonna write about something else in my previous entry, but I want to write about this much more.

Friends are an important part of life. You can say you don't need friends as much as you want, but the truth is no-one can live happily without them. You can have everything in the world, but if no-one cares for you, if no-one wants to talk to you, then you have a feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction. Such is the power of friendships. Only a truly heartless individual could live happily without a companion. These people are extremely rare, I'm not sure if they even exist, but if they do they are very dangerous people.

Friends are meant to help you, to support you through life. However, they are, in essence, volunteers. There is no incentive for them to do what they do. You can argue that the incentive is so that they can get help back, but I see that more as cooperation more than friendship. True friends would do things without really expecting anything back, that's what I believe anyway (although I feel incredibly guilty when someone does do something for me). As volunteers, it is also unreasonable to expect anything from them. If they feel it is right, and they are capable of doing it, they will help you when you need it.

If a friend doesn't do it, I don't hold anything against them. After all it is up to them to decide whether they can or cannot do something. I don't dislike my friends if they don't show up for something or decide not to help, unless of course they deliberately tried to avoid it or they don't honour what they say. If you know your friends well, you will know whether their intentions are good or bad.

An employee doesn't work when he/she is sick, so it is especially unreasonable to expect a friend to do things when they are sick. Well, I don't believe in expectation altogether (in friendships). I hate expectation. It puts a lot of stress and pressure on people. Although I understand a lot of it can't be helped. This is life after all. But its best to minimise as much as possible in my opinion. Some things we weren't meant to do, so whats to say what is expected of us?

Well, I'll do a blogthings quiz relevant to today's entry.

What Kind of Friend Are You?

You Are A Good Friend You're always willing to listen
Or lend a shoulder to cry on
You're there through thick and thin
Many people consider you their "best friend"!

hmmm. The first time I did it I got that I was a fun friend.

Ok, I'm gonna share my feelings on one of the most controversial questions there is to humankind: The meaning of life. Note that this is just my opinion as of now, so don't take it too seriously.

My view on it is fairly simple - there is no meaning. It's something that just happened. Life to me is no more than an event that occurred due to chance. The saying that I can think of that best reflects my view is that "There is no meaning to life - you have to give it meaning". Although I think this goes away from what is actually meant by the question, since we're asking about the meaning of life as a whole and not what it means to you.

I have my reasons for this, but it take ages to write about it all since I like to explain exactly what I mean and look at other viewpoints etc... (I actually tried this and deleted it since I was digressing a bit too much)

Anyway, today's blogthings quiz will be:

What's Your Love Profile?

Sagittarius - Your Love Profile Your positive traits:
Your playful nature brings out the happy inner-child in dates
You're willing to take risks in love... and reap the rewards
You've got a killer sense of humor that gets talking with any hottie you meet

Your negative traits:
Sometimes your sarcasm comes off as biting and abrasive
You can be brutally honest, tactless, and truthful even when it hurts
You're such a free spirit that you find it hard to commit to one person

Your ideal partner:
Someone high energy who will pick up and out with you whenever
Is creative and fun - thinking of new adventures for the two of you
Is bold... and not afraid to tell you "I love you" early on

Your dating style:
Unpredictable. You never know how the night is going to end up.

Your seduction style:
Daring. You're always pushing to try something new in the bedroom.
Full of imagination. You've always got a new fantasy you're dying to try.
Spiritually driven. Sex for you can be an other-worldly act.

Tips for the future:
Realize that while freedom is great - sometimes a stable relationship is better.
It's not all about you. Focus on your partner's needs every once and a while.
Make up your mind about your partner, and stick to it. Your fickle will ruin things otherwise.

Best color to attract mate: Purple
Best day for a date: Thursday

As for how well this fits me, I did another quiz hehe  =P

How Sagittarius Are You?

You are 93% Sagittarius Quite surprising no?

hmmm I'll think I'll write about UFOs in my next entry, it just seems really dodgy to me what some people think.

Gonna try and force myself to write something. Must make this routine...but I don't wanna write about boring stuff, like what happened during the day. =S

Meh I'll just do a quiz first maybe that'll get my brain working

The Five Factor Personality Test:

Your Five Factor Personality Profile Extroversion:

You have medium extroversion.
You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party.
Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences.
But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time."

Conscientiousness:

You have high conscientiousness.
Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life.
Most things in your life are organized and planned well.
But you borderline on being a total perfectionist.

Agreeableness:

You have high agreeableness.
You are easy to get along with, and you value harmony highly.
Helpful and generous, you are willing to compromise with almost anyone.
You give people the benefit of the doubt and don't mind giving someone a second chance.

Neuroticism:

You have high neuroticism.
It's easy for you to feel shaken, worried, or depressed.
You often worry, and your worries prevent you from living life fully.
You tend to be emotionally reactive and moody. Your either flying very high or feeling very low.

Openness to experience:

Your openness to new experiences is high.
In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas.
You'll try almost anything interesting, and you're constantly pushing your own limits.
A great connoisseir of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.

Cool. I got a bit different I think the first time I did it though. I think its pretty much right. A bit worried about " you have high neuroticism", which is extremely ironic I know. I hate my moods. I could feel like suicide one day and then be perfectly happy the next, for absolutely no reason!! It's so incoherant. The other weird thing is, I can rarely change how I feel by thinking of different things. Like, thinking of depressing stuff on a happy day won't make me sad, and vice versa. Seems so hard to figure myself out.

I was just packing up my uni stuff from this semester and once again I came across a script for The Simpsons which I wrote along with a classmate in year 9. I thought it was quite funny, and decided that I should include it here in case I throw it away. It does have some problems though. The beginning isn't very believable and a bit incoherent, but it gets better towards the end. I also think it would be offensive to some people, but hey, it's just for fun.  =)

This is gonna take lot of space, so I won't post any blogthings quizzes today. I've put it in a similar format to how it's written on paper, which is how we were taught to write a TV script. I've edited some bits. I've made comments in square brackets as well.
And I'd like to extend my courtesies to Alex Paton for this, who was the one who helped me out on writing this.

Part 1: Interior. Simpson's House. Day

Bart, dressed in his pajamas, creeps downstairs and towards the phone. He dials to Moe's tavern.

MOE: (At his Tav) Hi, Moe's Tavern
BART: Hi, is there a Mr.Nude here? First Name, Iem.
MOE: O.K. Just wait a sec. (shouts) Iem Nude, is there an Iem Nude here?
The people at the bar laugh
MOE: (angry) When I get my hands on you I'll cut your throat and shove it up where the sun don't shine!

Moe hangs up. Bart laughs. (Marge enter the lounge and catches Bart hanging up the phone)
MARGE: (accusingly) Have you been making prank phone calls again?
BART: (innocently) No, I was just calling Milhouse.
MARGE: Well I'll just check that shall I?
Marge picks up the phone and presses the 'redial'  button. Moe picks up.
MOE: Hi, Moe's Tavern.
Marge hangs up.
MOE: Anyone there? (muttering) Bloody prank callers.

MARGE: (To Bart) How could you? You lied straight to my face! That's it. You're grounded for a week.
Bart angrily storms up the stairs and into his room. He slams the door. Marge follows and locks the doors and windows in his room.
[perhaps Marge should really have said he wasn't going to Itchy and Scratchy Land, given the next bit]
MARGE: (yelling) Are you ready to go to Itchy And Scratchy Land?
HOMER and LISA: (yelling from another room) Yes, we're just waiting for grandpa.
Marge opens the front door. Grandpa is standing there ready to knock but has fallen asleep. Grandpa wakes up.
GRANDPA: Is my dinner ready yet?
MARGE: It's too early for dinner. You're here to watch Maggie. Bart is locked in his room and is not to be let out. We'll be back before tea.
Homer, Marge and Lisa go into the car and drive away. Bart stares out as the car heads off.
[Should add that Lisa is yelling "yay, Itchy and Scratchy Land!", or something similar]

Part 2: Interior. Simpson's house. Day. (it starts getting good here)
Bart, still in his pajamas, is bouncing a tennis ball on the wall. He misthrows and it hits his Krusty the Klown doll. A lockpick falls out.
BART: Hey, I forgot about that. Hehehe. [perhaps another boastful comment should be included here]
Bart unlocks the door, sneaks down the stairs and heads towards the phone. He dials a random number and a Japanese General picks up.
JAPANESE GENERAL: (in Japanese with english subtitles) Moshi moshi, General Yasaki speaking.
BART: Huh? Do you speak english?
JAPANESE GENERAL: Uhh..Yes. Who is this?
BART: Oh. Uh...hi. I want to talk to a Mr. General. First name and initial Arm.E.
[Something extra should be added here. If the General spoke in Japanese earlier, Bart cannot know that he was a general]
JAPANESE GENERAL: Hang on. (yelling). Arm.E General!, is there an Arm.E General here?
His subjects laugh
JAPANESE GENERAL: (to Bart) How dare you! (to his subjects) Trace that call. (to Bart) O.K. We wage war now. Sayonara.

BART: Uh oh. (Bart hangs up the phone and rushes to Grandpa) (worried) Grandpa! Grandpa! The Japanese are going to invade Springfield!
GRANDPA: (startled from his nap) What? What?!!!
BART: The Japanese are going to invade Springfield!!
GRANDPA: Invade Springfield? I remember back  when (goes on a digression)
Bart decides to phone Marge. He rushes to the phone and calls up Itchy And Scratchy Land
INFORMATION ATTENDANT: Hello, this is Itchy and Scratchy Land, how may I help you?
BART: Hey, can you get my mom? It's an emergency. This is her son Bart.
[have to spell mum as mom, pfffft]
INFORMATION ATTENDANT: O.K. we can page her. What was your mom's name?
BART: Marge Simpson.
INFORMATION ATTENDANT: O.K. (over loud speaker) Could a Marge Simpson please report to the Information Booth? Repeat. Could a Marge Simpson please report to the Information Booth?
MARGE: (in a disappointed tone) Oh dear.
Marge rushes to the info booth.
INFORMATION ATTENDANT: Your son Bart is on the line. (hands the phone to Marge)
MARGE: Bart, this better be important. I told you specifically not to use the phone [when?] and you should still be in your room.
BART: Mom, the Japanese are going to invade Springfield!
MARGE: And exactly how do you know this?
BART: It was on T.V.
MARGE: I don't believe you.
BART: Alright mom, I admit it. I did a prank call to the Japanese and they threaten to invade Springfield.
MARGE: Alright Bart, we're coming home. But if I find out you're lying you'll be grounded for the rest of your life.

Marge hangs up and turns around. Homer, getting excited gets on the ferris wheel. It slows down when going up and drops down fast [cos Homer and other fat people are so heavy]. The wheel starts breaking after the second revolution.
MARGE: (yelling to Homer) Homer! We're leaving now, Bart's done something.
HOMER: (whining) Awww, do we have to? (Homer gets off the Ferris wheel while its still turning. The wheel breaks apart completely, and rolls away)

Part 3: Exterior. Itchy And Scratchy Land Carpark. Day
Homer, Marge and Lisa are packing up the car. They get in. Homer looks out of his right window and sees the ferris wheel from before crushing cars in his row. Homer quickly reverses and avoids the wheel just in time.

HOMER: (turning the car towards the ferris wheel)(angrily) No you don't! (He follows the wheel towards the carpark exit)
[Change scene]
Homer has stopped at the traffic lights. Out of nowhere the ferris pulls up beside him. Homer and the people in the ferris wheel give each other the evil eye. Homer revs the car , the traffic lights turn green and both the wheel and Homer take off. [like in a race]
HOMER: Grrrr.
Homer nudges the ferris wheel off course. It crashes into a box factory, causes a small explosion and the building to catch on fire. The people on the ferris wheel are screaming, and the people in the box factory are jumping out using boxes as makeshift parachutes. Some are yelling "save the boxes"
HOMER: (triumphantly) In your face ferris wheel!
Homer is driving along Main Street and stop at the traffic lights, which are green. Homer starts honking at the Japanese tank in front of him.
HOMER: (annoyed) We don't have all day you know. The Japanese are going to invade!!
JAPANESE SOLDIER 1: (in Japanese with subtitles) Who is he?
JAPANESE SOLDIER 2: Who cares, just run him over.
LISA: Dad I think they are the Japanese!
The tank starts to reverse. The Simpson's jump out screaming as the car gets flattened.
HOMER: (looking at his car) Doh!
Nelson: (Nelson is revealed from behind the car after it gets crushed)(pointing at the car) Haha!
(The tank continues to reverse and falls into a ditch without any damage. Then a pebble falls onto the tank in the ditch and the tank falls apart, revealing the tank frame and 2 soldiers reading porno magazines.
Nelson: (pointing to the tank) Ha ha! (A random soldier walking by trips into the ditch) Haha! (The soldiers start chasing after Nelson. Nelson runs, and while doing so notices someone else gets shot.) Haha!

The Simpson's shrug and start walking along Main Street. There are gunshots and explosions everywhere, which they ignore. [perhaps Marge and Lisa make some comments] They walk past Moe's Tavern. Homer goes in and sees Moe and his goons preparing for a defensive.
HOMER: Hey, Moe, can I have beer. (he turns around and sees a hotdog stand) (excited)Oooooo, hotdogs. (runs outside)
MOE: (preparing his gun) Ready guys, the enemy will be passing by any moment now. (the gang murmurs, a Japanese soldier wanders in)
SOLDIER: (In Jap accent) Do you sell Duff? (he sees Moe with his guns) Ooooo, bad timing. (runs outside)
MOE: Barney! Why didn't you shoot him?
BARNEY: (removing his mouth from the beer tap) What? He was Japanese?
MOE: Barney just go out there and get him.
Barney wanders out. Moe hears a Japanese say "seize him", and then Barney yelling as he gets caught.
MOE: Oh Barney. Come on gang lets get 'em! (Moe and his gang rush outside, only to be surrounded by Japanese soldiers) Oh god no. (they drop their weapons and get taken into custody. They are dragged along in a cheap fishing net, which is painful) (murmuring) Stupid Japanese cheapskates (Moe gets kicked in the head by one of the soldiers)
Moe and his gang are seen getting dragged into the Japanese embassy.

Part 4. Exterior. Evergreen Terrace (Next Door to Flander's). Early Evening.
The Simpsons are walking along the street heading home. Suddenly, a white truck labeled property of Japanese Army pulls up and kidnaps Bart.

HOMER: (pointing) Heehee! Look Marge they stole the Flander's kids.
MARGE: No Homer, that was Bart. He's been kidnapped!
HOMER: Marge stop complaining. Bart gets kidnapped, the dog runs away, Maggie gets trapped in a newspaper holder.
MARGE: What?! A newspaper holder? When did this happen?
HOMER: Doh!!

[Scene changes to the Japanese Embassy]
(Words at the bottom, as in the style of crime scene investigations) Meanwhile...at the Japanese Embassy.
Bart is in an electric chair being interrogated by the General he prank called.
GENERAL YASAKI: So little boy, who was the one that pranked me?
BART: (innocently) I dunno. (gets zapped)
GENERAL YASAKI: Would you like to try that again?
BART: It wasn't me. (zap)
GENERAL YASAKI: (angry) Wrong again. Tell me! (Thumps hand on desk) Who was it?
BART: Eep. (zap) I'll never tell you (zap) O.K. it was ...(zap)
The roof suddenly lifts up . The embassy is completely surrounded by the U.S Army.
U.S. GENERAL: Ahh, Yasaki, what a pleasant surprise.
GENERAL YASAKI: (surprised) What happened to my guards?
U.S. GENERAL: They're all here. (camera turns to his soldiers who are drunk in a fishing net, some with porno magazines like before)
GENERAL YASAKI: You'll never get me alive!!!! (Yasaki flicks a switch and a trap door is revealed 2 metres away from him. He does an angered grunt and jumps down. Seconds later the sushi bar across the road
lifts up and a one-manned jet flies out)
U.S. GENERAL: Lieutenant, fire the missile!
LIEUTENANT: Yes, Sir! (fires a missile at the jet)
The jet starts sputtering before the missile reaches him, and Yasaki loses control. The jet then does a nose dive into the fireworks factory. The missile also crashes into the factory and blows up, igniting the fireworks in the factory causing a magnificent display.
FACTORY WORKER 1: Awww, not again. It's the fourth time this week!!
FACTORY WORKER 2: And it's only Wednesday!!
Yasaki, battered and bruised, crawls out of the jet.
U.S. GENERAL:  Fire another one!! (the lieutenant fires another missile at Yasaki)
GENERAL YASAKI: Nooooooooooooooooo!!!. (Yasaki somehow manages to get on the missile and start riding it) Haha you stupid fools!! (suddenly, a bird above him does a poo and it lands on the missile, causing it to explode)
The Simpsons and the army personel celebrate.
U.S. GENERAL: (turning to the Simpsons) For all your hardship we present to you this brand new Japanese car. (the general points to the car, which is exactly the same as their old car, but without any damage)
LISA: But that's exactly the same as our old car!!
U.S. GENERAL: O.K. then, we'll take that back and...(you here the Simpsons rush to the car and drive off) Oh, I guess they didn't want the million dollars.

Homer is pulling up on the driveway. He dents the front by crashing into the bin.
HOMER: Doh! (he snaps the aerial in the driveway) Doh! (He breaks the bumper by slamming the door) Doh!
MARGE: I think we all learnt a valuable lesson today.
BART: Yeah, never trust Japanese products.

END!!!

Well, that took ages didn't it?

Just had my last exam. Quantum Mechanics. I find it really interesting for some reason, and it actually makes more sense to me than all the other topics that I've done this semester.
I wonder what governs these so called "Laws of Physics". Science can find out what does what, but why is it exactly that everything works like that? An interesting question to answer, but beyond the realm of what we can figure out.

Emotions, emotions, emotions! Driving me nuts. I thought could control them, but it seems more like they are controlling me =/ . I can only ever experience my own, but I wonder what it would be like inside the mind of someone else. Is it similar to me?, or vastly different? It's something I think about a lot, and something which affects how I act around others. For example, I try to never assume things about others, for I have learnt that you can be wrong no matter how certain you may be. People I know have made assumptions about me, which I know are wrong, so there's no reason why I couldn't be wrong about other people. I guess the moral there is just to not assume unless you know, after all there are many things that can affect your right judgment.
I hope I'm making sense here =S

Anyway, today's quiz shall be: Are you rock. Paper or Scissors.

You Are Paper Crafty and creative, you are able to adapt freely to almost any situation.
People tend to underestimate you, unless they've truly seen what you are capable of.
Deep down, you're always scheming and thinking up new plans. Your mind is constantly active.
You are quite capable of anything you dream of. You can always figure out a way to get what you want.

You can wrap a rock person up in your sheet of trickery.
A scissor person can sneak up and cut you to pieces.
When you fight: No one can anticipate your next move
If someone makes you mad: You'll attack them mercilessly when they're unprepared

XD. Gotta love these quizzes.
The 3rd sentence is very true, I make up convo's, events, jokes and lots of other stuff that don't happen all the time. It may look a bit strange to other people in public since I'd appear to start giggling for no reason.

Overall it seems to describe me quite well hehe =)

Ahhh first ever entry here hehe.

Planned to start yesterday, but had one of those moments where you just forget everything you planned to write.

This shall serve as an addition to my handwritten diary, where I can write stuff that I don't mind everyone knowing. I think an awful lot, it seems a waste not to record it all. I love to come up with my own explanations for everything that happens in and around the world, it's something that I grew up doing. There have been many times where my ideas have been right, which has made me a bit more confident in my own abilities. I'll try to write as much as I can come up with, but I have a tendency to think about these things when I'm in no position to record it. =S

This livejournal thing is gonna need some getting used to. =/

Ahh and the other thing I wanted to do here, blogthings.com quizzes!!! Haha I'm addicted to them, I find it very amusing and interesting. If you're reading this I suggest you check it out (www.blogthings.com). I'll do a quiz and post it here each time I write.
I'll start with my favourite one =)

Your Candy Heart Says "Hug Me" A total sweetheart, you always have a lot of love to give out.
Your heart is open to where ever love takes you!

Your ideal Valentine's Day date: a surprise romantic evening that you've planned out
Your flirting style: lots of listening and talking
What turns you off: fighting and conflict
Why you're hot: you're fearless about falling in love

Wow every other time I've done it I've gotten "First Kiss". Oh well its still cool =)

Changed a few answers that I was torn between and I finally get this:
Your Candy Heart Says "First Kiss" You're a true romantic who brings an innocent hope to each new relationship.
You see the good in every person you date, and you relish each step of falling in love.

Your ideal Valentine's Day date: a romantic dinner your sweetie cooks for you
Your flirting style: friendly and sweet
What turns you off: cynics who don't believe in romance
Why you're hot: you always keep the romance alive

Well I should get back to studying now, damn exams.