This past week was damn hectic! Being a part of the Swinburne News Bites team is extremely hectic. But rewarding. I get in on all the cool events all over! And I'm learning new things about multimedia, like handling cool cameras and making videos.
Solo presentation next week and High School Musical 2 coming this weekend. PLus I discovered Shopaholic books in my uni's library! How fantastic is that!
More pictures coming soon. I promise. Hang on in your seats!
Saw this off Yahoo's News:
"Married men do less housework than live-in boyfriends, finds an international survey. But married women do more housework than their live-in counterparts.
“Marriage as an institution seems to have a traditionalizing effect on couples—even couples who see men and women as equal,” said co-researcher Shannon Davis, a sociologist at George Mason University in Virginia.
Understanding the dynamics of couples who live together but are not married has become more important as cohabitation around the globe increases. More than 5 million unmarried partner households (more than 10 million individuals) currently exist in the United States, according to a 2006 report by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The scientists analyzed surveys gathered in 2002 from 28 nations, from 17,636 respondents (8,119 males and 9,517 females) as part of the Family and Changing Gender Roles III Survey. All respondents were either married or cohabiting with a significant other.
Overall, they found men spent about 9 hours a week on housework compared with women, who spent more than 20 hours weekly.
"There's still a gender norm, since women do more housework than men regardless of union type," said study team member Jennifer Gerteisen Marks, who is working on a doctorate degree at North Carolina State University.
Regardless of the couples' relative earnings or work hours, cohabiting males reported more household hours than did their married counterparts, while the opposite was true for women, with wives picking up the broom less often than live-in girlfriends.
Other factors also came into play. Men who raked in more earnings than their partners did fewer hours of housework than men with lower relative incomes. "Those in the household with greater resources will leverage those resources to bargain their way out of housework," the authors write in the September issue of the Journal of Family Issues.
Couples who viewed men and women as equals were more likely to divvy up chores equally. But even in "egalitarian households," married men still contributed less to household chores than did their wives.
"It's consistent with prior research, which has shown that the roles of wives and husbands are very powerful," Marks told LiveScience. "In a cohabiting relationship there aren't such strongly prescribed social norms, which trickle down to things like housework."
Heck, that's it. Even I want a live-in boyfriend now!
SO we caught the Pitcher Plant Exhibition last Saturday. It was held at the Old Courthouse, whereby they transformed the place by setting up display tables mimicking the forest. There were people spritzing water every few minutes which kept the plants damp and forest-like. We took a great lot of photos! Enjoy~
(Seriously.)
Oh yeah, regardless of my wqarnings to Choulyin and Lilian to watermark their photos, I myself did not watermark my own photos.. Hehe! Lazy~~~
GOt this from TIff thru Friendster:
"Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.
It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am . It will look like the earth has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287."
I love astronomy! I definitely will be staying up to check this once in a lifetime opportunity! Luckily for me, I have no class on Tuesday so sleeping late won't be a problem
Last night was the best night of my life because I had one of my life goals accomplished!
IT was the Charity Cancer Concert whereby celebrities came and sang in order to raise funds for cancer patients. I dragged a friend along, who complied by uttering "Oh Hell no', "I fucking hate you!" and " Why did I let you do this to me!" So it was pretty amazing when, time passed and the event reached its peak, he was as high as I was.
There were many celebrities performing , namely Evenstarr, Juwita Suwito (correct ka?) and my long time favourite icon of Malaysia JACLYN VICTOR!!!!!
I met her! I spoke to her! She is like my idol of all times! I was estatic when she belted out four songs for us, the last being Gemilang.
Even my friends exclaimed to me, when it was over, "I can't believe I am seeing this!"
Star struck, indeed.
Promised a food post a looooooong way back so here I am. These are photos taken with my phone during my adventures eating around Kuching. Enjoy!
