Two Yoghurt Pots and a Plastic Spoon

"The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you." -Charlie Brown to Snoopy

It's sunny! It may not be warm, but it's sunny and therefore people don't care. I feel like I've witnessed such an incredible change in people, and I attribute it to the weather. Not one miserable face have I seen out and about today, everyone seems grateful that they don't have to walk at a forty five degree angle against the wind. This post was inspired by a complete randomer who this morning, whilst I waited for my course mates ran up to one of his friends wearing t-shit and shorts and shouted, "It's sunny and I'm wasting my life. Look at me, I've got two yogurt pots and a plastic spoon!" For some reason this creased me over with laughter, drawing some odd looks from those around me but I couldn't help it. I just thought that it said everything about University life brilliantly. I hope by some odd coincidence this random chap reads this, you deserve recognition.

Now onto something else entirely. With my course comes a module in psycholinguistics which it seems is incredibly interesting, so much so that I enjoy the lectures. Today we were introduced to to wonders of audio visual illusions, for anyone who enjoys optical illusions I highly reccommend what I'm about to move onto. I'm not going to bore you with details, I merely want to point you to something on YouTube which many of you I think will appreciate, especially psychologists, it's called the McGurk effect. Look it up and follow the instructions listed below the video, it does mess with your minds a little but it's easily explained.

I'm not sure about how things are at other Universities, but it seems to me that all lectureres and research fellows who run tutorials are foreign. I will quickly say that I don't have a problem with this at all, they are generally superb lecturers and they obviously knwo there stuff. What I do have a problem with is that they assign a post-grad to teach the tutorials who is evidently not cut out for it. My tutorial group and the woman teaching suffered for an hour trying to understand one another which inevitable led to the difficult subject we were covering being clear as mud. Oh well, it's sunny, so I don't care.

It's just occured to me that wherever you are, it could be raining, snowing or blowing a gale. In which case you damn well deserve it, Manchester will take your usual good weather for once.

Something Charitable

Hello all, and if reading from Queensland then, well, best of luck.

Just a small post, mainly as I have nothing interesting to add on previous posts. Ahh the mundane life of a student...

Anyway, a friend of mine is raising money to climb Mt. Everest for the fantastic charity of Childreach International. He's a great guy and it's for a good cause so I just thought that if anyone feels particularly generous today or if you have bundles of cash that you just don't know what to do with, then you might be inclined to donate. I know I myself am not normally charitable but I think it's such a massive thing to undertake and I want to see it all succeed.

For more information, and to donate, here's the link:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=fahimclimbseverest

Thank you if you support, if not, then thank you for reading my blog.

Best of luck mate.