zvyx's BLOG

This has really been a dead blog, at least in my eyes, since I haven't touched this for 6 months or so. I'm generally a more serious person than what seems to be the case here, and my proper blog is sitting at

In my original post I was actually doing a little bit of a self-fulfiling prophecy, and I'm actually studying Medicine at the moment, which......

   You're 70 years old, diagnosed with bowel cancer. Doctors say without treatment you will live for about a month; with treatment, six. Chemotherapy is needed, as well as invasive surgery, but at the end of the day, your cancer is terminal and spreading rapidly.

  You're 45 years old, diagnosed with progressed HIV/AIDS. You face a life of solitude and frequent hospital visits,......

Australia is a wonderful country. I've lived in it my whole life, and even though I've only travelled to one other country, I can tell that Australia is easily one of the best places to live.

This got me thinking about our penal system. As you may or may not be aware, Australia was discovered by the British in 1788 and was founded in New South Wales by a shipment of criminals and officers due to......