Travel - A Holiday Through Time

That familiar feeling rushes through your body as you sit writing your report for work or university at 3.30am. That familiar feeling that comes when you're feeling low, feeling frustrated, feeling angry, feeling tired. "I need a holiday". Most people get it once a month or so. I get it approximately every 48 minutes, give or take 20 seconds.

But not the type where you're constantly on-the-go, 10 hour tours filled with walking and learning. I long for the holidays where you do nothing. Bask in the sun on the beach. Watch sea gulls try and fly against the wind. Drink coconut milk from a freshly opened coconut. Swim in the ocean. Then sit in the sun some more. You know the ones...

But then I got to thinking. What if instead of traveling to a destination in our world. Imagine traveling to a destination during a different time period. For example, to be there at the opening of the first Heineken brewery. Maybe they were giving out freebies...???

People could go back to the olden days. See the dinosaurs. Watch the parting of the Red Sea (with popcorn of course). Attend an Elvis concert. See Britney Spears when she was attractive. The list continues...

Anyone remember this?

Just the overall coolness of the idea made me jittery with glee. A chance to regain my dignity from all the times that I lost it. This would take several vacations. But a good investment nevertheless.

It would provide a way to see the world like never before.

A lot of people never post responses on other people's blogs. But if you have read this, please write where you would go and why. Doesn't matter who you are, if we've met or not, where you live. I'm interested. Spill your thoughts. In this case, the world really is your oyster. Happy travels!!!

Goldfish

Sitting in my International Business lecture, I can't help but wonder, do goldfish really have 3 second memories?

International Business discusses globalization, free trade, and the impact multi national companies have on a global scale.

One of the arguments against globalization is that it harms the environment. Billion-dollar companies like Nike couldn't give a shit if they over-pollute a creek in central China, nor could they care if that river happens to be the water source for thousands of people. As long as their clothes and shoes are produced cheaply and sold for ridiculous profits.

The polluted rivers, lakes, seas and oceans contain some of the most important organisms in the world. The balance of life and death in the murky depths is drawn with a very fine line. Any disruption could be catastrophic.

So the place where goldfish live is being polluted daily beyond belief. Could this mean - and this is a crazy, out-there theory that is bullshit but helps tie this story together - that we are possibly responsible for them having a 3 second memory? Who knows? We don't. And I'm betting neither do the goldfish, chances are they don't remember...

(No goldfish were harmed in the writing of this story)

Very Well...

OK, so I haven't written a post in a while. I'm a terrible human being, I'm going to hell, etc. etc. The point is, that while a meaningful method of expressing myself has failed to present itself over the past month or so, I have been busy planning my trip to "Lets not fail macroeconomics" land. Its impossible to get a visa, not to mention the vaccinations..... I needed three against boredom alone.

However, it will be pleasing to those of you who have been following my lack of progress that I have in fact made some progress. Feel free to ignore this blatant contradiction and read on for an explanation.

While most people feel that I have done nothing to improve my circumstances, I am inclined to disagree. I know a lot more about the subjects that I am studying. I am more than capable of passing. If you remain cynical, keep it to yourself. In my world, everything is peachy, especially peaches.