Different Social Circles

May or may not be how it is for you

When you graduate from high school, whats left of your friends form a social group that last throughout university. This group would face your passes, failures, and party throughout your years in university.

However, for some people, they cannot find a balance between study and play. Which means that if they try to do both, it ends in failure. This means on of the options must be chosen.

For me, it was trying to find the balance, failing, then wizening up and choosing to focus to a degree on study. This meant my goals have changed, when goals change, same as how you interact within your social group. For example my social group that lasted from high school to university, love to party, this conflict of my current interest made me seek a different social group, one that was more mature in ways and orientated to study and success. From this change of social groups, you will realise that how you act previously may not be suited to the people you interact with in the new group, thus a change in attitude and how you act occurs, but not your personality.

Different groups have different social mannerisms, with that said, a word of advice is to consider careful if you try mixing social groups together. It may work out fine, but more often then not, two fundamentally different social groups do not act well together as their mannerism may be too different which may ensure conflict with you in the middle.

Thus, if you are the type of person that is transiting from one goal to another, it is important to have people with similar goals to you as it may drive you to the right direction, but you must not forget the original company of friends as they may not understand you, but they have stuck with you through thick and thin in the past. Even now such friends may not understand you, but as time passes, peoples mentalities changes, as such in university would mean they have gotten serious which with their priorities and formed a goal that may be similar to yours.

However, you have to remember that mixing social circles is a hassle due to differences and that beforehand the two groups are suited together in order to lessen the impact between each gtoupd.

Karate

Karate has been listed as many different things such as a waste of time, used for attacking when in a fight and many other different negative comments. Well that is totally wrong because the principals of Karate are Self-Defense, a sport and a way of life as it can help you overcome any obstacle that blocks your way. A quote that really is inspiration for life is "How you do anything is how you do everything" which implements that if you are always positive in one aspect of life it will be illuminated in all aspects of your life. The way people think that Karate is a waste of time because they think all we do is just repeat thinks over and over again and don't do anything else.

Karate has really helped me improve all aspects of my life by being positive about anything that tries to put me down, has made me focus in all arrays that need concentration and has also helped me stay aware of everything around me. When talking about being aware of my surrounds in Karate we use the term Zanshin and this term is very helpful for when working and studying as it will help with knowing how to study or work in an environment that is very busy and you have to focus. With the amount of good Karate has brought me I never think back to how my life could have been if I hadn't started it. The fact that is Karate has helped so many people in the world and I know it has helped so many of my friends lift themselves up and continued with their life.

The 2013 NBA Playoffs

So as ya'll know the NBA playoffs have begun. First of all I'd like to say i am pretty disappointed that Orlando Magic didn't make it through to the playoffs, but then again, they lost Howard to the Lakers. Anyway in this post  I will be briefly discussing each match up and conclude with playoff predictions.

Round 1 is somewhat still in its beginnings with only 2 games played by each team. first i will discuss the East. So we have Miami  Heat against Milwaukee Bucks, Heat were 2012 NBA champions and they have been playing with such great team work that i feel its obvious they will win against the Bucks and proceed to the next round. Lets be honest, they have probably the best starting 5 in the game. I go for the heat by the way, and no I am not a band-wagoner, i have rooted for them on and off since the 5th grade.

Next we have the Brooklyn Nets which is somewhat of a new team, well lets say they have been refreshed, against Chicago Bulls. Now i feel Bulls are all hype, yes they ended Heat's winning streak back in the regular season stage, but they fail to beat other insignificant opponents. They have each one a game, but I'm not sure if its my animosity towards the team or the skill the Nets show but i am going for the Nets on this one.

Moving on, we have Indiana Pacers against Atlanta Hawks. To be honest i really didn't care about this match up however, i watched highlights from the first game, and i have to say, Pacers got skill! I don't even really pay attention to the players but Pacers could be a threat in this game. I feel the Hawks have nothing on them and Pacers will proceed fo' sho'.

Last but not least, in the East is Boston Celtics against New York Knicks. Now this is a very interesting match up, so Boston i feel is giving it their all but they are missing something, could it be their 3-point shooter Ray Allen who is now shooting threes for the Heat?? i think it is, maybe their team morale has gown down, however whatever it may be, all i know is the Knicks be beating their ass. Knicks got this in the bag.

Next time i'll go through my thoughts on the West, I have put up the 2013 Playoff bracket down below within this post. However for now, Go Miami! and have a Happy NBA playoffs.

Ribs and Rumps

Another post about food!! YUM YUM.... Todays dinner was ribs and rumps located at North Ryde. Every time i come here im really tempted to do the challenge which consists of 1kg rump steak, chips and a full rack worth $84.95 if you finish the challenge within 1hr its FREE and you will become a vip member a receive 10% cash back every time you dine at ribs and rumps. Too bad its way to much for me..so here is what i ate tonight lamb shanks and vegetables !!

The pricing is a bit over but occasionally come here eating is worth it!! For those that aren't near top ryde there are also others around sydney!! better check them out or else you will really miss out on delicious juicy meat

http://ribsandrumps.com/locations/?region=nsw

Happy Eating!!

Going natural

Now the term 'going natural' refers to ones decision, usually someone of African decent to stop straightening or perming their hair and leaving it the way it should be an should've been.

First of all, our hair is supposed to remain in an Afro/curly type state, that's how we were created. But back n the day we thought we would be more attractive if we had hair like white folks, nice and straight. But as a black girl you begin to realise your hair doesn't and will not stay straight forever because it begins to go back to its original state, so that's hen the term relaxing comes into place, meaning to chemically straighten ones hair.

We've all been doing it since we were kids, relaxing our hair, wearing weaves and so on. But as for two days ago I took a stand and thought who cares, so I got a haircut, even shorter. So from now I'm starting from the bottom and making my way to the top, to what my hair would've been like if we weren't so influenced by society.

I am currently I day three of the transaction, believe me it's gonna take a while but, I feel we should all, as black girls partake in this. Getting back to our roots, hair and culture alike.

Thanks,
Selina

Holidays!!

YAY!! its the holidays and whats better to do than eat! To celebrate my short 2 week uni break i started off with a delicious buffet BBQ. This place is amazing although it rather expensive, but for the quality i guess its worth it. So you can choose between the premium and gourmet set, the premium set consists of wagyu beef and everything on the menu and gourment excludes wagyu. Premium is 55/pp and gourmet is 45/pp. I for sure went for the premium set with the mouth watering marbled wagyu beef. The thing about this place is that it uses charcoal for the bbq which makes the food seems much more delicious and fragrant

Definitely give this place a go even though its a bit pricey, i dont think ull regret it or else ill shout u a meal or ur choice :) Just realised i havent even mentioned the name of the restaurant. Its called Suminoya located in the city, have a look at their website and the menu on the link below 

http://www.yakiniku.com.au/suminoya/ 

Happy Eating!!

Frustration at Team Organisation

Hello, my name is Alan.

I am in my final year at university and I am part of a student association, whilst doing full time study and working on my spare time. Recently I participated in helping out a event called the "Amazing Race".

Some people may have seen such event on TV, but for those who have never heard of it, it involves teams of 3-5 people working together and racing to checkpoints spread out in a geographic location. At each checkpoint the team is required to complete activities in order to receive a clue to where the team needs to head to next. The team who is able to complete all the checkpoint receives a monetary prize.

However, before the event can even start, 2hrs before the participants arrive, the committee of the student association must set up the event and go over their checklist of rules and confirm if everyone understands their tasks and if the teams are arriving.

Lets say it was complete bedlam, one organiser forgot to send out a email to each team to notify and confirm arrival time, another miscounted the amount of teams participating and in general all checkpoint overseers did not fully know their events. Disappointing but not an unexpected result when the president of the committee does not know the full scope of his/her responsibilities.

When organising events amongst friends for the public one must be aware that they may become lax in their responsibilities or they do not see the urgency and importance of their tasks. It can be sometimes very frustrating, comparable to explaining reasoning of what to do and not to do to a 5 year old child, but not just one child but a group of them. This can be very frustrating to the person that is leading this.

When being a group leader, one must continuously go over what needs to be done to each group member individually then explain again to the whole group in order to lessen the interference within a communication process. However its not finished just there, the leader must continuously remind and stress the importance in order for any plans to run smoothly.

As you can see it can be very tiring, but if you set high goals for yourself but your team has lesser expectations, one must continuously push uphill in order to reap the satisfaction for yourself by attaining the desired results.

Alan

Braces

Hey guys for those who are following us today's post will be on Braces. I have had braces since November 2011 and I already want them off cause they are a nuisance. The reasons that I got braces are because I had an anterior open bite and therefore my front jaw needs to be pushed back and down so that they are inline with my bottom jaw. Braces are in for 18 months to 2 years but if people don't wear their plate that is given to them their teeth end up going back to there original state.

The fact that people get braces is a waste of time because it doesn't matter how people see you on the outside it's how you perceive yourself on the inside which counts. They cost way too much for what they are used for. In fact I suggest that people forget about braces fully just for the circumstance in the end they are useless and people have too much time on their hands to worry about their teeth of their children's teeth.

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