I'm going to admit now to being a very poor shopper. I don't even window shop that great. I just go for a walk about, up and down the various... corridors?... I'm not actually sure if you'd call the large open walkway that links together shops a corridor... never the less... I have to be in the mood to buy stuff to shop effectively and recently I've been a little low on the money side of things. By no means broke but a part of me is a very avid saver, really probably a hoarder of money. After having to touch my semi savings for the first time in a while (yes I actually have two different levels of savings account) I've gone in to conservation mode.
I'm not saying I'm unique in my month matters schemes. In fact I'm sure a lot of people do far more extreme things than I. It just entertains me that I manage to be a saver at all given my non-planner approach to such matters. I don't have any sort of formal or informal budget plan. It isn't that I'm planning money in order to save this much and have this much by this time as it is for lots of people. I just like not spending it. I need to have very wide buffers when I use my money - never know what could happen :).
But who wants to hear about my money anyway? As with so many things it is often more of a taboo topic. Anyways.. The movie I went to see, Sunshine Cleaners, was pretty good. Though I walked into a cinema of older people... Except for two younger men sitting together (I don't like the fact that society stereotypes mean that I'm not able to see that without going to 'homosexual') I was probably the only person in the room under 45 or 50. You can always seem to tell a movie by its audience to... I know for sure that had it been the Transformers 2 cinema I'd have been surrounded by a lot of guys around my own age. A lot of the guys from uni were there watching it, I saw them in the ticket line. However our crowd of middle-aged/older women, alone in many cases, hinted towards more life drama than the obvious action and sex appeal of the other movie.
That sounds about right to me :). I've never handled horror full stop and I'm not a great fan of some action movies either. Suspense does it to me. I mean I actually got a little worried at one point in the movie I was watching. I always get the awful feeling something bad is going to happen at the least encouragement. Perhaps some people are just more sceptical, or is the word gullible, than others. I am willing to admit to being gullible in the sense that no matter how unlikely something is IF I can't prove it isn't true... who knows? Not a bad thing. However the movies thing? I am overly susceptible to the music I think... Who would have thought a person completely incapable of accurately gage or responding to other peoples emotion could be the most susceptible?
Other than the movie though. I couldn't really bring myself to hang about the shops. Doing though one of my infrequently frequent loner spells. It strange just how physical a feeling it is. My brain feels almost like it has wrapped itself up in isolation. Its not that volume changes or colour grows dim but it feels just as though I've surround myself in glass or something. I become a watcher... and often not a particularly good one. I am not one for remembering what I've seen even if the thought sequence I went on was long and reasonable profound (in comparison with others).
However I did notice a few things. The number of Asians in Australia. I realise they are everywhere. They are always going to be. With one billion people in China and a colouring that is dominate enough that no others exist any longer in the Asian peoples there is going to be a lot. But I was more thinking about the ticking clock until Australia is a predominate Asian country. With our migration policy it may not be too long, though for the moment will still have UK coming in second billet of nationality populations. More than the turning in population minorities/majorities though. I was thinking about the number of people that already assume that is how it is going to be... after all Australia is in Asia, right?
Somehow the whole Australia is a CONTINENT thing gets neglected because Australia is a single country which has 21 or so million people. It basically only got those from which ever other country lets people come our way. Not a bad statement to make though given the majority of the population are from overseas or first generation Aussies. It hurts to think that no matter how long you can trace you family in Australia when people ask your origin you still have go back to the country they came from BEFORE here. Apparently Aboriginals are the only people who are native to Australia. Sometimes it amuses me to think we manage to have any patriotism at all in light of such arguments.
Back on the topic of Asia though. Australia cannot become an extension of Asia. Because it is not IN Asia. Maybe people get confused because Indonesia and the like are parts of South East Asia and they really aren't all that fair away. However I picked up the other day while studying for my Indonesian exam that Indonesia actually sits across a line, the Wallace line I think it was. That separates the flora and fauna of Asia and Australian regions. I'll even allow the use of the term Australasia because of other countries part of our region of the world that aren't Australia. (not New Zealand though we always wanted to prove a 'blood tie' of sorts to them) Flora and fauna are far better separators. Unlike people they don't (generally) go around the world attempting to thrive in areas other than their own outside the influence of humans.
The other thing I noticed was a couple with a significant height difference. It entertains me that people who are 2 feet different in height manage to appeal to each other... Sometimes it seems more often than not. I'm not sure if its the shorter wanting taller kids or the taller never wanting their kids to have to know 6'7" but so many tall men I know have very short, 5' nothing short, partners. The law of averages that keeps the height from not increasing in variation too much from generation to generation?
Just to point out I hope nobody takes this as insulting in any way, shape or form. I am not speaking through prejudice. I'm more than happy to take people as equal. But it doesn't stop stereotyping from amusing me. Some stereotypes are almost ludicrous and yet there are people conformed to them. Almost as if no longer is it base the stereotype on the people... but base the people from the sterotype :)
I opted blogging for the reason that I want to improve on my language skills. As English is taught as second language we people in India require work hard to make it world standard. I do have radical thoughts but I hardly get time to write them.
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