:@

great. i was going to finally make a post on mylitterbother and i needed three photos from my phone. i tried to email it to myself cause im too lazy to take the sd card out and stuff, but it said that the message got saved to my outbox. then i realised i forgot to turn on my phone's wifi. so i turned on the wifi and tried again.

but then it says that it fails cause there's something wrong with my account. and it says that my password doesnt match with my username but IT DOES!!! i tried it several times but it still DOESN'T WORK. urgh. and now it's 11 and i cant do my post and my mail on my phone is not working.

trivial matters in the context of the world but .... grrrrrrrrrrr.

mens rea - guilty mind.

after all my instalments regarding my manipulation of Australia Post with my mail experiment conducted with katherine, my subconscious self must have felt guilty.

why? because just then, checking my mail, i received an email from Australia Post.

and guess what was the first thought that entered my head? it was kinda jumbly but it was something like: omg AUSTRALIA POST? they must know that i've been messing around with their system! they must've managed to use RELATIONAL DATABASES and navigated around them and found my email address connected to my home address! oh dear.

then i look at the subject. EPIPHANY. right. oh. ehee :)

on the topic of ipt invading my everyday life, i think my internet's dead today cause this commonly occurs:

DNS SERVERS OMG.

AND asynchronous communication annoys me when my friend (*cough**cough*katherine*cough**cough*) gets my text almost 10 minutes after i send it.

P.S.S. i'm wondering if anyone will point out anything about one of my screenshots BY COMMENT. it's nothing unusual, just something stuck in my head. if you do - chances are it'll be by luck - i'll give you an entire post and TAG ENLARGEMENT :D

Fifth Instalment: SUCCESS!

as the title reads . . . WE HAVE REACHED SUCCESS!

today, after school, Katherine Fan finally received her letter addressed to her from me posted in a mail box nearer to her home . WOW. at 4:14pm my phone received her text reading 'I GOT YOUR LETTER'. i guess you can imagine our excitement at the fact :)

so therefore only two hypotheses prevail:

1. the post office simply mails the letter to the address that is nearest to them, writing RTS (return to sender) when the from address is nearer (which should be in most cases?)
2. the post office does not bother about returning to sender, etc. and simply mails it to the person for you (this will render RTS a . . . MYTH!)

yay! we have cut it down to 2 :) now in order to distinguish between them, my next run will be posting a letter TO katherine FROM me in a post box nearer to MY home . if the letter goes to katherine, the second will prove true but if it returns to me, the first will be.

and katherine is currently editing out the addresses of her millions of photos that she took of the letter and envelope . . . i am awaiting her email containing the final images. when i get it i will add it here :) and she will provide her in depth account of her experiences on the other side of the mail in the form of a comment to this post. hopefully :)

here are the photos! flickrrrr - remember to tell me if links are broken!

Fourth Instalment: A Second Run

if you are confused about what this is about, read:

First Instalment: The Letter

Second Instalment: Failure

Third Instalment: A New Hypothesis

so having all my hypotheses proved wrong except for my last addition of the postman mailing it to whichever address is closer, I finally got around to testing this hypothesis yesterday :)

I ventured (yes, ventured) to Hurstville and mailed the letter :) WOOT! Theoretically Katherine's house would be closer to Hurstville unless the closest post office branch is closer to my home .

kudos to Katherine's photoshopping skills . . . the address is GONE.
security issues, you know.

this time the letter was addressed TO katherine's home, FROM my home with no postage stamp.

Prediction: The letter will be delivered to the TO ADDRESS - Katherine's. It will have the same orange markings and weird printed code on it.

If that is so, then that will prove my current hypothesis correct. However if the letter is posted back to me or otherwise . . . I WOULD HAVE RUN OUT OF HYPOTHESES rawr.

so yeah :) keep yourself updated on this blog as you await my results :D thank you for reading me advertising.

and no, you did not just realise that you could go straight to Katherine and ask if she got my letter. no.

Third Instalment: A New Hypothesis

i was thinking about it today, and i realised that i may have generated a new hypothesis . . .

• it doesn't matter whether it is the TO or FROM field, but whichever address is closer they mail it to :)
• arguments for: it may explain why they mailed it to me . . .
• arguments against: although the post box i shoved it in was closer to my house, chances are the post OFFICE which the letters were delivered to wasn't

so there :) a new thing to think about. did i mention that i realised that the Americans spell instalment as installment? i found out writing out these posts :D it's weird cause it's usually the Americans skipping letters.

Second Instalment: Failure

so this is what happened today.

walking back home after school like usual. taking the usual path, nothing much.

UNTIL I SEE A SCUBA DIVER WALKING TOWARD ME.

. . . well . . . not really. it was actually my brother in his swimming costume with his goggles strapped to his forehead going out to swimming lessons :) that and my lack of glasses itself suggests a myriad of possibilities other than scuba divers. and so hehe i hugged him and kissed him (yes, i kiss my brother to all those flinching atm). then he told me that he came 7th in the cross country out of his grade and it was cool.
yes, how sad, no scuba divers walking around, i know.

anyway when i got to my unit i was going to go through the garage cause i assumed that on coming out my dad and brother would have checked the mail (i usually do after school). but i decided to go my usual way anyway.

LUCKY I DID THAT. why? well, there was one letter in my mail box. and what other than the very same letter i posted to Katherine (with my address in the 'TO' field)? i almost laughed out loud when i saw it. there was extra printed writing on it reading SWLF 01APR11 ML 502 and another one that was right above it reading SWLF 01APR11 ML 519. and also random short orange stripes that look not really straight (hinting its handwritten nature) although i dont think anyone did that by hand since there're quite a few (think a barcode in orange, not black).

. . . i still haven't opened it, maybe due to the sinking feeling in my stomach that i didn't succeed in this experiment the first round. and despite my first reaction to text Katherine updating her on the latest events, she still hasn't replied.

i am planning to take the letter out and put it on an envelope with Katherine's address in the TO address and my address in the FROM field, just like normal. After all, the letter DID get sent to the TO address.
but maybe i should wait, since this run proves both my parents' hypotheses incorrect . . . leaving only Katherine's mum's. READ ABOUT IT HERE :D so yes, i should wait in case there's a big fine :( but then i can't get Katherine to pay it all, maybe we could halve it or something.

so there. i managed to write two blog posts in little more than 30 minutes. now off to mylitterbother to link to this post since the first bit is dedicated to my brother only :')

First Instalment : The Letter

although i actually finished this part about a week ago, I realised just then that i HAD to share this story :)

my friend and i are conducting an experiment in order to get around buying postage stamps for mail.
not that either of us are too lazy to buy one, too poor to buy one or too cheap to buy one - rather we are just doing it for the sake of fun.

method:

1. i will write a letter to my friend katherine (hi katherine if you're reading this :D)
2. i will post it with my address in the TO field and her address on the FROM field
3. i will pop it into the POST box on my way back from school

hypotheses:

• katherine's mum: they will send the letter to the 'to' address and send a bill to the FROM address 
• katherine and i disagree: it would  be far too much trouble to send a bill for 50c or so
• on a second thought just then: what if they incur a fine o.O
• my dad: they will simply not mail the letter
• i disagree: they can't do that. what if it held important information?
• my mum: they will send it back to the FROM address
• katherine and i support this: makes most sense, commonly accepted RETURN TO SENDER concept

prediction: the letter will be sent to the 'FROM' address (in this case, Katherine's address) which will satisfy my aim of sending a letter to her home free of charge.

now will all the deets set out, i'll detail stage one of the process: WRITING THE LETTER.

i can't exactly remember what the letter said, and i cant be bothered going and fetching it (SUSPENSE: QU. TO CONSIDER: how can i fetch it if it's not with me . . .). BUT i did incorporate a letter to the postman (in case my dad's hypothesis was correct and the postman decided to read it) concerning the importance of my privacy. oh, and of course i wrote a message to Katherine in the event of experimental success :D

after several days of constant forgetfulness and the agitation of Katherine (who, as you should by now be able to conclude, was intrigued by this idea that i brought up), i finally remembered to post THE LETTER.

how this happened: i walk past the post box. hesitate. glance. think. REMEMBER! back tracks (like those epic cliche dramas), pause, drops bag. takes out letter. inserts into post box. SATISFACTION. leave.

well, the end of the first installment. now to the second and final installment for today ~

P.S. i love it how Katherine kept asking me whether i'd 'posted it yet' and my brain keeps referring back to blogger posts and i wonder what i needed to post on blogger . . .