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New Year's Resolutions are all about weight loss

December 31st 2007 00:21

Well as that transparent blog title suggests, today I'm going to be looking at what my peers are hoping to achieve in the New Year and the fact that the overwhelming majority are focused on slimming down. While I didn't come across any specific plans as to how to do this, I did come across references to 'toning' up and 'gaining muscle' which leads me to think that Generation Super Highway contains sensible dieters and gym junkies who seek to shed their unwanted fat healthily, how spectacular.

So now that I've established that I assume you all think we can just go home and climb a tree or something to get in position for this evening’s fire works. Well alright, if you must but I'm not done revealing my revelations you know. It turns out that although these plans are floating around, there aren't many among us who willingly label them 'new year's resolutions'. This label is thrust at them by persons such as me that need a collective term to describe these happenings but the individuals in question don't seem to tie their decisions to the ushering of the next 365 days. Preposterous, I know.

It seems Generation No Starting Point will get to it in its own time thank you very much. While the New Year may act as a general queue to make a change, it is not a definite beginning and there's no sense of failure attached to not making the change come reflection time at the end of the year.

So there you have it, yet another insightful blog from yours truly and the last for 2007. I hope you all enjoy your evening and I wish you much success with any plans you’ve made for 2008- goodbye and good luck.

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New Year's Eve around the World

December 29th 2007 22:35

How are you celebrating New Years? Who cares, the question is, how is everybody else celebrating New Years, and why?

If you'd care to step into the time machine with me, we'll go back to the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians for who New Year's was determined by the harvest. The Sumerians lived it up for a few days then went to plant their crops while the Egyptians celebrated the flooding of the Nile in September because this meant there would be fertile silt for plant the new crops in.

Stepping out of the time machine and back into our world, we have New Year's Eve as a mark for the last day of the year on the Gregorian calendar which we all abide by. (If anyone mentions Chinese New Year, I will see to it that they don't live to see the next one). We secular, technological people send pretty shinny things into the sky that sparkle and dazzle us to show the happiness we're feeling inside. Yes, sensational for us, but what else is done across the globe to celebrate the dawning of another year?

My sources well me that our Mexican counter parts decorate each other with 12 elaborate necklaces and make a wish upon each one.

In Greece it seems that bread is baked with a lucky charm inside. This is eaten at midnight and whoever receives the piece of bread with the charm will have good luck for the whole year. I would feel incredibly guilty doing this and so my bread would surely contain more charms than flour just to save my conscious.

Moving right along we obviously have to make a stop in the US where Time's Square has what I like to think of as a large disco ball that drops to signal the last moments of the fading year. The only potential problem I can see with this would be people getting over excited, counting too quickly and starting the New Year a few seconds prematurely but hey, what's a few seconds, really?

Certainly there are many, many more traditions that accompany this time of year but if you think I'm going to find out about all of them and blog about them, you have another thing coming. I do think, however, that it is fairly safe to say that new year' ever is about celebration and high hopes. So exchange gifts, make a wish, dream big, just don't throw up on my shoes- it's not my fault if you can't hold your liquor.

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'tis the season for over eating

December 27th 2007 01:05

Ah yes, Xmas and New Year's Eve, 2 celebrations of gigantic proportions within a week of each other- how spectacular. But let's not forget all the other things that need celebrating at the end of the year like various graduations, goings away and so forth. Add a few get-togethers just because and you have yourself a lot of people each eating enough to feed a small country. This certainly seems to be the way things have been done, but as Gen X passes on the torch of... something… to Gen Y, one really does wonder if this will continue.

A few Xmasses ago this little blogger was online and having an IM conversation with a friend who is known to be religious and have a large family; turns out the celebrations were wearing a little thin and this person had sought refuge online- no Xmas pudding for them.

Families in general are getting smaller, but if you think I'm going to go and find some official figures to support that you’re kidding yourself- you're just going to have to take my word for it. Small families mean smaller gatherings or no gatherings at all if the family unit isn't a particularly strong one so what we have ourselves are more people with no reason to prepare an Xmas turkey/goose/ stick some prawns of the Barbie.

Adding to our reduced waistband is the fact that we are Generation Paranoid about our Weight, so even if we have a mountain of holiday food in front of us, we're going to be sensible and eat smaller portions- or nothing after 6pm. You may think I'm kidding, but I have been to celebratory feasts where the hostess has not had a single bite because her diet forbade her from eating after sunset. Well that was her official reason, I suspect she'd poisoned one of the deserts but couldn’t remember which and didn't want to end up with it herself.

If my evidence is anything to go by (and it isn't) I suspect we're in for a menu revamp which features carrot sticks and water as the specialty. If however, you'd like to prove me wrong, please send me photos of your holiday meals; my blogs could do with a few more photos.

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Why whaling is a no no.

December 24th 2007 05:00

Australia is busy leading the diplomatic charge against Japan's whaling for 'scientific' purposes and I of course, have decided to capitalise of this and write a blog entry about what today's youth think of whaling. Well I had no Japanese participants in this highly important study so we'll have to make do with the thoughts of a few of my friends.

What it basically comes down to for them is that whaling is wrong because it is the killing of animals that we do not usually kill for food. I'd like to stress that none of my participants are vegetarian so they're fine with the killing of pigs and sheep and things just as long as these animals are farmed and not in the process of dying out. Whales by contrast, are not on the menu but they do crop up on the endangered species list a fair bit and seeing as we're Generation Eco-Friendly, we've got a problem with that

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Goodbye Christianity

December 21st 2007 05:16

Christianity is the big one. Yes, there are other religions but in my opinion this is the one that had the most followers. If at anytime you want to tell me where to stick my misinformation, please go ahead, but for the purposes of this blog entry we'll be operating under the assumption that this is the supreme religion in terms of pulling power... sort of.

Just 4 days out of Xmas the head of the Anglican Church has told us that the Xmas story of the 3 wise Kings in a myth; non-believers were celebrating everywhere. If you think I'm blaspheming just for the sake of it please click this to read the story

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Stalking... is made so much easier via the internet.

December 20th 2007 04:33

The internet is by far the most incredible thing to have happened to humanity since the steam engine. I could praise it to death but I imagine you already know its benefits, so why bother? The internet however, can make it so much easier for persons with malevolent intentions to find what they're looking for- take the messenger services; some random adds you and says they're a 19 year old female from Fremantle, even if you don't believe this, you can't prove that it's a lie so you just go with it. Certainly you could block the person, but most of us seem willing to share with strangers providing they're not weird straight off the bat.

This seems all well and good but as usual, I have some not so sensational stories to share with you

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Little While Lies wil be the Death of You

December 12th 2007 05:30

There are certain social situations where what you actually think is more taboo than homosexual marriage in Iran. You may think your colleague’s baby is the most hideous thing on the face of the earth, you may wonder if it was a high school science project gone horribly wrong, you may even think the tot had been exposed to obscenely high levels of radiation while still in the womb, but under no circumstances are you to make these feelings known. Instead "Aw, he/she's gorgeous" must be uttered despite how repulsed you are that the sight of what you have mentally labeled 'It'.

It is little white lies such as thess that keep society functioning by steering individual members away from depression and hopelessness. How do you look? You look fabulous; red/green/neon orange is really your color. The truth, i.e. that you look like a wardrobe malfunction malfunction would cripple your self esteem, you wouldn't enjoy your night and this of course would ruin the host's night. They would begin panicking and thinking they didn't do a good enough job of preparing the meal or the venue they picked failed to meet expectations. They of course, will vent to a close friend who really doesn't need all the extra stress and so the end of the world begins and it's all thanks to the tool that did not give the only accepted comment. I hope they're happy

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The lies we were told as children

December 9th 2007 00:08

What's with lying to kids? Seriously, apart from insulting their intelligence, you have to undo the lies at some point if they’re to have a hope in Hell of functioning normally in society, so why lie to them if eventually they need to be set straight anyway? I'm talking about Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny but I'm also extending this to other falsities such as if you're pulling a face and the wind changes, your face will be stuck like that or you won't grow if you don't eat your peas/brocolli/carots/ any vegetable under the sun. What's up with wasting your time and ours with these tall tales?

Christmas- that a man squeezes his way down the chimneys of good, Christian children on one night and deposits gifts under their Christmas trees is a phenomenal tale to expect us to believe, why not just give us the presents? I don't care if you find it cute that I've decided to stay up to see Santa but I do question why you've turned a religious holiday into a gift-giving fiasco and morphed St Nicholas's Day (Dec 6) with the (assumed) birth of Jesus Christ. When I grow up I'm going to find out about this anyway so why lie to me? I mean I have to learn that Santa does not park his reindeer on the roof and navigate his way into my house because could you imagine an adult still wholeheartedly believing in Santa? The social stigma would be crippling

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Our ever-morphing thoughts on money

December 8th 2007 00:46

I recently came across the disturbing prediction that Gen Y will the first generation in history to be poorer than its parents. I mean I know there's a first time for everything but gees, there are better things to be first to have done. With this discontenting outlook in mind, I decided to find out just how important this currency stuff is to my peers who seem destined to not have too much of it.

Well whatever our views on money now, it seems in our earlier days a fair few of us thought we could do without money altogether. Our solution to poverty was that you went to work and in return you were allowed to take what you needed. We didn't understand the international monetary system and didn't understand why, if money had to exist, there couldn't just be one, universal currency. Surly that would solve all economic worries and we were going to write in to our nation's top dog and inform them and they were going to be over the moon about our suggestion and we would be hailed a hero

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Fined!

December 6th 2007 02:11

When it comes to paying fines, most of us take this matter seriously and so return our DVDs on time and don't park in the disabled spots illegally. Still, there are times when even the most brilliant of us slip up and have to shell out for not sticking to the conditions of a transaction.

The most severe of these seem to be parking fines and although that means we avoid over staying our welcome in a parking spot like the plague, there still are incidents that leave the most weathered of drivers scratching their heads

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The average dining out experience

December 4th 2007 06:39

The average dining experience consists of a meal being served within 40 minutes of it being ordered and staff being mildly interested in their customers. This works well for all parties because the patrons are there to eat rather than socialise with strangers and the staff have multiple persons to serve and thus don't particularly care whose birthday it is or who's moving away.

The bad experiences in terms of service are kept to a minimum although there are certainly times and places where patrons are left waiting a ridiculous amount of time for their meals or ignored altogether. The kitchen remains a bit of a mystery with many placed that are given terrible reviews by health inspectors still trading with venue goers none the wiser. But hey, providing you don't get sick and die from this lack of hygiene it's not like you'll be put off your meal because you won't have clue about it. And despite this supposed breach in OHS standards, the food usually manages to tastes pretty good

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A day at the markets

December 2nd 2007 04:32

If you're looking to feed the family or stock up for a massive feast for a special occasion I can suggest no better place than your local markets to pick up all the necessary food stuffs and even pick out some unusual ingredients and experiment in the kitchen.

If you're looking to bring variety to more than just your pallet you can also head to your local market place for some unique decorations for yourself and/or your house

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