Art of Waving

Hey, it's Tim here.

Now here's something I noticed when extreme boredom sets in and it actually got me thinking. The way people wave to say hello or goodbye is quite different (and hilarious). Now I'd like to start off with the "classic hand wave". Now the way this works is exactly how you think a wave should look like. Your hand is out at shoulder height and you move the entire arm from side to side, pivoting from the shoulders. Basically both your hand and elbow swing like a pendulum. However, a lot of people have strayed away from this and started producing different forms of waving. By the end of the blog I'll even talk about people replacing the wave with...abstract body movements!

Here's a list (and by no means a complete one) of different hand waves and the descriptions. (Note: I have witnessed all these)

Title: Fake high five
Description: Mostly guys do this. Basically when you enter a room with your hands down by the side. All you do is lift the forearm from the elbow, as if you were to high five someone. Variations include how long you keep your arm up for.

Title: Lazy mans wave
Description: Basically a variation of the Fake high five, only this time you wave with your wrists. Usually only one or two swing movements

Title: Crazy twitch wave
Description: Again, think of the fake high five, but this time, you are attempting to completely bend your elbow back trying to decrease the gap between your hand and shoulder (incredibly tensed bicep). From here you twitch you hand from the wrist A LOT. Basically it reminds me of Wallace from Wallace & Gromit where he says "CHEESE, GROMIT CHEESE" (except with a wave). Mostly girls do this.

Title: THE OMG I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN AGES WAVE
Description: Basically, the Crazy twitch wave, but with your arms fully extended out at 90 degrees to your body. Turn the wrists wildly for dramatic effect. A Bonus is doing with both hands. Again, mostly girls do this <.<

Title: WTF, DEAD HAND?
Description: Start from the fake high five position, and just flop you hand BACK and FORTH (not sideways) like for some reason, all your nerves are dead and you no longer have control of your hand. Girls do this, and yes I have witnessed it.

There are plenty more and other popular ones eg The Queen Wave (However I'm glad I have not witnessed anyone doing this atrocity). I also may have sounded very sexist showing the last few extreme waves to only be girls doing...but...it's true? I'd like to point out that us guys are now even lazier and no longer acknowledge the hand wave, and instead do the nod or tilt the head back and God forbid the eye brow raise. I think society is getting lazy and we should all do our part to bring back these social norms including the "classic" hand wave.

PS: The author of this does not agree with that last few statements and he himself does a "lazy mans wave".

my turn

ok this is Roland btw and great background Tim, really shows our otaku side. But yeah anyway, this blog was created on a whim so we really didn't put much thought into it.

anyway, everyone having a good holiday so far? or like me is everyone suffering from the effects of not doing assignments eariler? not much of a holiday this week, been going to uni almost everyday, on top of that i had to look after my sister, so i ended up ditching her in the archi/music library and goin down to the studio to do my own thing. One of the girls in the studio complained that im being a bad brother since i made her go back into the library and return some of my books. But for those of you who have younger siblings, you should know that you need to use them as much as you can while they're younger and don't know any better, cause once they get older you will no longer be able to manipulate them. Anyway better get back to work cause im looking at an all nighter tomorrow, instant noodles for dinner FTW.

ZOMG FIRST POST

You know, I'll be honest with you. This will probably fail really hard but hey, hopefully Roland and I will actually post stuff frequently and you guys might enjoy it.

Anyways, as I sit here thinking about what to post/rant about, I really have no idea. It's probably because its 1 in the morning and I've been staring at these html coding trying to figure it all out again (haven't touched it for quite a few years). It will probably take me a while to edit the template to something that I like and is readable. Only to have Roland come in and ruin it when he expresses "HIS" opinion on it.

I also don't know who'll actually want to read this blog. It'll probably become a sausage fest as we post about manga, anime, games and other nerdy... manly things. But remember every woman has a "man" in it!

So, what should I talk about. Well it's kinda half way through our 1 week break and I havn't done much. Mainly because I caught a cold at the start (stupid me) and couldn't go to KK. I still have a killer throat and blocked nose. I've spent most of this time either in bed, playing a lot of tf2 or reading a lot of manga. It probably doesnt help my cold when I go to bed at 3 in the morning and wake up at 1 every day. And... I'm sure you're bored already, since I'm already bored talking about myself.

Yeah, screw that. I'll post something interesting next time or hopefully Roland will.

Introduction

Hello people,
It's Tim here and welcome to a blog created by Roland and I. The first thing you're probably wondering is "WTF ARE YOU GUYS DOING?". Well my answer to that is "I don't know...". But we're really bored, and we'd like to share that boredom.
So what can you expect from this blog?

• Anything about manga/anime
• Random rants
• Games
• More rants

Also if you have an opinion on something we can blog it for you.

tiM Meh