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because Obama has been elected the 44th (ironic how it's a rather unlucky number in Chinese) President of the US. and of course, because I'm now completely. and utterly. DONE. with this bittersweet HSC business.
Although I was pretty sure that Obama would win, there was always a small part which feared otherwise, maybe because of rigged votes, people changing their minds last minute, and of course the phenomenon that Colleen keeps mentioning (but can't remember the name of).
His win is like a breath of fresh air with his promises of change and proactive-ness. I'm hopeful, but you know, election promises are often empty and hopes are shatterable.
In any case, I'm just glad that Palin won't get a chance at the White house... at least for the next four years. Believe it or not, there are some women who are determined to see a female in the White House and swore to back her if she runs in 2012.
That's completely taking feminism the wrong way. It's about equality, not superiority. I myself would love to see a woman in the White House, but I wouldn't support her regardless of her policies or her competence. I would rather have another term of George Bush than have Palin. Because frankly, she scares me. I won't go into it because I'll end up getting too worked up over it.
And my parents are kicking me out of my room.! My dad is telling me that they only gave me the biggest room in the house because of all the shit that they knew was going to accumulate during high school. So now that I've finished high school, I'm getting the second worst room in the house (actually I've just realised that my room is the only good room in the whole house).
My parent's room is extra stuffy and it looks out onto the street (that's not really legitimate complaint because there's these giant bushes infront of our fence anyways). It's just that I've spent the last year or so trying to make my room into my petit coin so I'm really reluctant to leave it. Can't believe they're making me move.
But I guess it means they accept that I'm moving out then?
P.S I'm a bit late on this but I can't believe that they are getting rid of free travel for school kids. I though that in Australia, every child has the right to free education? Doesn't that include travel? Although they say that there will be financial help for struggling families, it probably still won't mean free travel, and it's unavoidable that it will have an effect on school attendance rates. They justified it by saying that kids can always go to their local public school; but as one who has travelled 50mins to get to school every day for the last 6 years, I have strong objections to that.
P.P.S I've also deleted almost all trace of high school work from my computer. I found it wonderfully therapeutic.
High school is truly a thing of the past now.
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jenny GUESS WHAT I REMEMBER IT NOW. IT'S CALLED THE BRADLEY EFFECT!!!
what more, I've discovered a new 'effect' which according to analyst Thomas Friedman played in Obama's favour - The Buffet Effect - no doubt named after magnate Warren Buffet.
Anyway, you're going to China soon so hopefully your parents' decisions won't effectuate before then!
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jenny GUESS WHAT I REMEMBER IT NOW. IT'S CALLED THE BRADLEY EFFECT!!!
what more, I've discovered a new 'effect' which according to analyst Thomas Friedman played in Obama's favour - The Buffet Effect - no doubt named after magnate Warren Buffet.
Anyway, you're going to China soon so hopefully your parents' decisions won't effectuate before then!
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