I got 2 new whiteboards. One for my room and one for the living room/lounge. I immediately wanted to do a Randall Munroe, but held the thought for a party, as Sean had pointed out that a party ain’t fun without a whiteboard. Surely advice from two very smart people (one’s my age and had already worked for NASA, and the other’s a cosmologist - go figure) couldn’t be wrong!

And they weren’t! Here on in, I chronicle the story of my whiteboards in mostly pictures. Here’s the whiteboard a few hours after Australia Post dropped it at my door:

It’s still plastic wrapped and all. My housemates have already doodled on it.

On the board: Most notable is the phrase “Lovely Plastic“. French flag was drawn by my French friend, so is the British flag and American Flag, as well as the color-inversed EU flag. The Ugly Vampire man was drawn by Tubby, and the caption above says “Moobs make me hot!“. Moobs are Man-Boobs of course. The bottom triangular stick figure was drawn by Shyuing, and carries the caption “The Biggest Loser, whatever it takes” - The Biggest Loser was on Ten when we were doodling. Also present in the picture is a graph of the power law. Drawn for fun (dun think I drew that though.. don’t remember).

Then the plastic came off the next day, and this was what the board looked like a few minutes after the plastic was taken off -

On the board: Of note is the multiple wrong spellings and wrong phrases of “Je ne suit pas” (I don’t know in French). Also, a phrase written: “Damn it Chewxy“, with arrows pointing towards my name. The arrows say “Alien“, and “not from Mars or Venus!” - this explain my disdain at you humans. At the bottom left corner, is my attempt to draw a rabbit, but ended up looking like a kangaroo with a jackass’ head. More foreign words here, Chinese and Japanese words and phrases are pressent. Also present is a simple integral, integrate 2x + 2 (lim: 0→1) = [2x² + 2x + c] (lim: 0→1). The original idea was to break into the board by writing a mathematical equation. Alan first wrote f(x)= [elephant]. All the chinese text in green was written by a guy who didn’t really know chinese - not bad. Oh, and “God” in French means vibrator.

And then we had a pizza party - that’s when the whole board became fun (and crowded):

On the board:

1. Whiteboard duster
2. Magnetic strips Alan got from Singapore. Top one says: No loitering, bottom one says: Entrance and Exit
3. Someone wrote this phrase, and someone else didn’t like it so she edited it. Here’s what it says: [person] likes to eat dog, because [he] is a pig. Don’t worry. We seldom make sense when we get together.
4. More magnetic strips. From top to bottom: Emergency Exit, Entrance, Exit, Junction
5. A scary rabbit drawn by Vincent, the French friend.
6. Matchstick girl much? Reminds me of Bincho-tan… dun remember who drew that.
7. Rabbit front view, by Kelsey. French words underneath: un beau lapin nom Nibbles - English: A beautiful rabbit called Nibbles
8. Cat’s rabbit drawing. Best artist of the night she was.
9. A variation of the original Study=Fail joke. With totally wrong mathematics!!!
10. Days of the week in Japanese. Because we don’t know Tuesday comes after Monday. I always thought Sunday came after Moonday.
11. My attempt to logically explain the Study = Fail joke, and why it cannot work. Study != Fail, (Study)^-1 = Fail
12. Chinese rhyme.. written by me! (except the black 道. I originally wrote 到, and Ash corrected me)
13. In english, it means: Singaporean
14. Formula for Theil index. Refer to the picture earlier about the Power Law. I was coincidentally telling Alan about the Power Law and Pareto Optimalization…hence the Theil Index.
15. Another rabbit, with the formula 2 lapin = lapin¹⁰⁰ (which made no sense to me LOL… must be one of those higher level math thing.) Lapin = rabbit in french. Lupin = werewolf that died in Deathly Hallows.

The next day, after the party, I had wanted to copy Randall - do a wikipedia board, but that ain’t to original now is it? And then it hit me - writings on the wall! So this is what it looks like:

Yep, as you can see, it is literally writing in on the wall - the Facebook wall! Inset are things that might interest you: The Weighted Companion Cube application, and Ads by goooooogle, featuring Antworten zum Universum (aka this blog).

On the wall: Chewxy wrote: I need to go to Coles yo!; Kelsey wrote: We really need something to do! (Like activities)

Hah! Now if only Kevin Rudd had a whiteboard on his wall, Chas wouldn’t have to resort to spray paints! LOL

And yet another random photo:

This one has Kelsey thinking about the things on the board, LOL. Also on the board (what she wrote) was Family Procyonidae procyon lotor, aka the common racoon. And yes, she remembers species names.

Ah… great times!

And now, an off topic note: When I found out I had to use EViews for my econometrics course this semester instead of the more familiar R, I was kinda upset. But now that I’ve used EViews, I’ve changed my mind.. a bit. Ah. And yay! Uni’s starting soon! Also, my FaceBook Boredom Index is rising like mad.

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