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If I am blogging for the sole purpose of fulfilling my one post per month obligation, should I continue?

OF COURSE! >:D

Done with 3A (technically). Now time for FUN FUN FUN.

Movies to watch : Pirates of The Caribbean
                              Kung Fu Panda 2
                             X Men Origins.

Time to watch movies : Unavailable.

kthxbai

Exposure Effect

Sup my peoples. Notice the absence of blog post updates. This can be attributed to the increasingly atrocious nature of Ausmat. Being in Ausmat, takes real consistency. Gone are the days of SPM; fun fun fun fun for months on end, and only study crazily when exams are around the corner. Now, the steady flow of tasks keeps me on edge. Every task; must score MAXIMUM! Competition here is also insane. Well done, ranking-based Ausmat. Just brought out the best (and worst) in everyone. So, 99.95... Probably too much to ask. It's good to aim high, but not too high, especially when it is seemingly unattainable. Optimists might say otherwise, but they are the ones who will go into spiralling depression when all their goals are not achieved. Therefore, I'll try to keep my goal in the high 90s. All for the sake of Auckland, Otago, Canterbury.

Many people can't wait for Ausmat to end. Well, I think that time is flying fast past us as it is. It's already what? April? Yeah, I've already completed 53% of my time in Sunway, but talking qualitatively, it's only been about 35% done. :/

That brings me (or does it?) to my title. The exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon, whereby people tend to develop attraction to something or someone due to the element of familiarity. In the context of interpersonal relationships, it can basically be said that : the more you see/spend time with someone, the closer you get, and the more pleasing and likeable that individual appears. 


As a HSBC (Human Social Behaviourist), this may seem obvious enough, maybe to the point of this concept being tautology. However, deeper analysis to interpersonal relationships reveal startling results. For one; out of sight, out of mind.

So, where does this all bring us? Or bring me? If you want to forget someone, it doesn't help that you share multiple classes or meet each other 5 days a week. The exposure effect is just too strong for the bond to be broken. Therefore, one has to rely on the converse of the exposure effect. Hoping that 'distance makes the heart grow fonder' does not hold truth at all. Therefore, while the breaking of chemical (or interpersonal) bonds may exert a little pain at first, time will heal most things, turning the fresh wounds of this broken link into long forgotten, and disappearing scars that can be overlooked. Just like the scratch that Lampard ( cat, not the human) deployed on my hand. It is now fading. Although I remember Lampard when I see that scar, in 5 to 10 years, you probably will catch me saying "Scar? What scar? Lampard? Frank Lampard?"

And that is the exposure effect from the point of view of a HSBC.

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

4 Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited,

5 it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances.

6 Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.

7 It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.

8 Love never comes to an end. P/s I was wondering why this verse sounded so familiar. Turns out it was the passage that we used while playing pass the message game in SCSF.

Fo sho.

Last year, I told Ausmat to bring it on. I thought it didn't hear me, .... until now. I take back my words.

fret not.

Matthew 6: 24-34

No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.

'That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and what you are to wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body more than clothing!

Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are?

Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life?

And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin;

yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these.

Now if that is how God clothes the wild flowers growing in the field which are there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you who have so little faith?

So do not worry; do not say, "What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?"

It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all.

Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God's saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well.

So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'

How To Save A Life?

Sums up everything.

In Solidarity With Christchurch

:(
Yet another earthquake has hit Christchurch, as most of you would probably know by now. It was the second major earthquake to hit the city in 5 months. The previous one, although it registered a higher value on the Richter scale wasn't as devastating as yesterday's quake. 75 people have been reported dead, and the number is expected to rise further.

I hope and pray that Christchurch will recover speedily. University of Canterbury. :|

No, I'm not afraid to go there, but most are.

Hopefully, this will be the last major earthquake to hit New Zealand.