And all good things must come to an end...

...but greater things begin.

Like I said last year in my final entry of 2007, its been an action-packed roller coaster ride of a year. One year on and I can safely say it has definitely seen the best and worst of things. (Huh? What details?)

[recap]
Have I learnt anything? Definitely, its just a matter of putting the lesson into practice, or keeping it consistent! Everything that happened this year just helped define the type of experience I seek to have in probably every year (bar the things I didn't want to occur). Everything from the IT camp, my first Soundwave Festival, seeing BSB, the unexpected drama, the random picking up and other experiences in first semester, World Youth Day, hangouts with Julie, meeting UTC, beach outings, first Sydney Flash Mob experience (even though that was wasted getting Maccas!), the K sessions, catching up with friends I rarely get to see, and also the other events I had at uni or with uni friends - the pounder eating contest, clubbing, Tim's bday performance, the programming blob, Lenny's bday celebration every Wednesday, IT beach outing, the bike riding and chick flick marathons with Jasmine and Lenny, shooting the 'video', this list could go on. All of that made my first year at UTS that much more awesome.

And I'm sure I've missed out on a lot of other crap to mention.

To all those that went overseas or interstate, enjoy as much you can and take care. Also, I know you can read my mind -- bring me back something nice. :D /cough. Wait, what? Its almost my turn for America. February 5?

So long 2008 and thanks for all the drama!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR



k, thanks and bye.


L-R (back): Diane, Aaron, me, Mick
(front) Gabby, Khaye, Pjay, Marvin, Karen

PS. I made a new banner, I like the text, but the picture doesn't really fit, I had a bunch of options so I don't know what to think of it. (thumbnail)

... and a million different people

HOW IT FEELS AT WORK DURING THE FIRST HOUR



... and in the second, third and fourth hour.

Ok so new banner. Completely different style from what I usually do but OH WELL.

Work began last week, can't say I enjoy it, but it pays for stuff. Hopefully a lot of stuff. Still in need of a freakin' car. Getting chauffered around by friends probably is ok, but having to rely on other people, say like parents or siblings to pick you up before whatever time they deem appropriate for themselves clearly isn't what I'd hope to be doing at times when I just wanna be out. Which is why I ask the question of why there has to be so many things to save up for?

But anyway since work has slightly ruled out any chances of doing anything during the day, it sucks, except for those nocturnal insomniacs who keep me company at night.

Its less than 2 weeks till Christmas, it hasn't really hit me, but I'm looking forward to it. That, new years, and Americaaaaaaa. In saying that, its occured to me that in all my life that I've lived here in Sydney, I don't ever recall seeing the fireworks in the city.. EVER. I've always been elsewhere at a party or whatever.

Bring on '09?

Oh, and happy bday Ijhay!

kthxbye

... So you can hear me say...

HEY THERE ONE IN QUADZILLION!

Okay so the past 4 days have been quite the awesome. There was the idea that we record a video for Gloria since she's going to HK and possibly might be dropping out of uni next year! That makes all of us sad. So it was partly our duty as the uni friends to record this video. Since Mondays plans to record it were cancelled since someone (Hello, Lenny) had to go to uni for another someone (Hello, Nikki), I decided to just head over to Jasmines to finish off the LOTR trilogy. Well we got through the rest of the Two Towers then Return of the King.

Afterwards we watched the Hana Kimi Special where Sano now embraces a new haircut! Needless to say, it was very gay.

On tuesday, Lenny and I then headed to her house again to commence Operation: Goodbye Gloria. Hahaha. It was fun indeed on the 30 degree day. We enjoyed every minute making it and taking luvo shots and band photos. Overall I think it was a success. That night I spent a few hours editting everything and putting it all together. Here are some of the photos:

RAWWWWR


Just some kids asking for money...


Our band cover/photo. ;D


Me.


.. dancing/about to kick Lenny/whatever.


Smileeee.


Lenny, Jasmine and I

On Wednesday, I still hadn't of finished editting the video so Jasmine and Lenny then headed over to my house for some feedback/help. Couldn't set up World Tour because a certain someone (Hello, fag) had to be stingy about everything that day. Anyway, we watched Josie and the Pussycats then played some Wii instead. Since it was also hot that day, we decided to walk to Shell and buy Maxibons. Then I also had my medical.

Anyway, then came Thursday (Hello yesterday!) and Jasmine, Lenny, Gloria and I all met up in the city. We had lunch with Business Tim at the Lindt Cafe then watched Four Holidays. Umm overall I'd give the movie maybe a 6/10. It had its moments, but I guess it just wasn't that good (Hello, HSM3). Afterwards we did some shopping (well the girls did) then eventually it was home time.

Overall fun week. :) Glad to have shared it with 'em before work takes over!

kthxbye

For the Uninspired.

Currently Playing:
Left 4 dead

Jess and MJ's 18th [221108]:

Awesome night. Got driven there by Shane and Ivan, taking the biggest detours and getting lost. Eventually arriving to the party over an hour later... All part of the plan of course, to make a better entrance, although it was still pretty dead at that time. lol. Things started kicking in once everyone finished eating. Great to see even the parents getting their groove on

Umm.. it's how we roll?

L-r: Ivan, Rheanne, Natasha, Me, Jullian, Andrea, Nicole, Shane

Us and the Birthday girls!

Shake shake shake.

Hanging out with Jelli before she leaves [271108]:

No K this time. Bumped into Shirley at Blacktown, and she was heading to Parra, so went together there and met up with Jelli. Lenny was supposed to meet us there but had to go to the "gym". Lots and lots of walking around (window) shopping. I thank the dude who invented "husband chairs" or schmuck chairs. Although, they were redundant as I was much intrigued at Shirleys expansive knowledge of clothing. She left for work so then Jelli and I watched Quarantine.

The verdict? Pffft. POS. Not worth seeing at all. Maybe for a few decent scares, but theres just too many "OMG Are they that stupid" moments to be even in the same category as other decent horror films. At least this is better than those American adaptations of The Eye.. and such.

Hanging out with Julie before she leaves [291108]:

RAINRAINGOAWAYCOMEAGAINANOTHERDAY.

Rain made it kinda homo at the start, my mX newspaper saved me. Had maccas then headed to CEO for K. Wow expensive as there, but it looks so classy. Was in there with Julie for 2 hours.

........... then did some random stuff. Like we usually do. :] Lots of funny things happened. Her lying on the dirty ground and refusing to get up, inappropriate yelling in public, "faiwy fwoss pwease", hahaha amongst others. I had fun though. Always good to catch up/hang out. All the best with moving houses though! :)

Another emo shot by Julie.

Julie and I

On another note, I recently bought Left 4 Dead for PC. Jason and I ended up playing till 5am the other night.

lol. Stupid game for being so hard. But fun.

And now I'm so damn broke I don't think I can afford to go out more than twice/three times a week until I start work. Which is next week!

kthxbye

Wake Up, You're Alive

My MSN nicknames through the ages. Starting at 2004 through to 2008. I'm not putting up everything I ever changed it to, only the ones that distinctively showed the changes in the structure and content, which obviously was reflective of my age and maturity. There was more before 2004, but I would have had to connect, switch on, and dig through my old computer, and I'm lazy.

From the start of 2004 to now:

Red text = comments I've made.
Same with blue.

2004

- _¨"дdяiаи"™«¨(·´¯`·.·÷×_¦¦ chalkcowate ¦ #Lusн ¦ º4¨¹²³²¹

Going through what every TB would've went through. A nickname with some overly obscure junk. I don't even know what in the world #Lusн is meant to be.

- _¨"дdяiаи"™«¨(·´¯`·.·÷×_¦¦ y r u so stupid... tell me ¦ #Lusн ¦ º4¨¹²³²¹
- __^ дdяiаи™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×_¦¦ u got dat roite.... ¦[#Lusн.²³]¦ º4¨ имш.isluidC <---

More random msgs. This time, so no one can understand.

- __^ дdяiаи™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×_¦¦ yeh......think about it ¦[* eh. INk.rediblishus.²³]¦ º4¨ I
- __^ дdяiаи™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×_¦¦ ----stupid ppl below---- ¦[* DATS. iNk.rediblishus.²³]¦ º4¨ I
- __^ дdяiаи™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×_¦¦ stopcomplainngnstartwhingng ¦[* itsokmoite.²³]¦ º4¨ I
- __^ дdяiаи™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×_¦¦ meh.... PHMG!1 :( ¦[*bleepBLEEEEP.¹-²³]¦ º4¨
- ___ ^:дdяiаи™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×x_¦¦ ders onli so many times i can sai sorri n still mean it ¦[i.м.u]¦ ROFFLEZ~!bleep!
- ___ ^:дdяiаи™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×x_¦¦ ifonlyuknew--10letters ¦[i.м.u]¦ toot toot chuga chuga big red carrrr
- ___ ^:дdяiаи™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×x_¦¦ toot toot ¦[i.м.u]¦[р.u.s.н]<-- i hav for so long..n nuthings changd
- ___ ^:дdяiаи:™ «¨(·´¯`·.·÷×x_¦¦ tOOt tOOt chuga chuga bigg red carrr ..KABLAMOO ¦¦ ‡:coиfзssioиs:‡ ¦[iшs]¦ ^^,

The idea of including lyrics probably started here... just not from the right song..

djkfhkldvgfdhdj

Ooh, anger!!

- ___ ^:дdяiаи:™ «¨·´¯`·.·÷×x_¦¦ i kno i made a mistake, now its too late.. ¦¦ :coиfзssioиs: ¦[.iшs]¦sкзртiкaL¿

2005

- дdяiаи:×× " LOoking back on tOday -- did i take the fall again " « -_ : [ sтзp ; тшo ] : :x hah

Capitalising O's, making up my own groups (what the hell is step two?) ...

- дđяiαи:×× ; міsъяёď ћopε - « :×: • ...yes
- дđяiαи:×× ; u ŋ т i т Ł з ď « × _ • +h.o.p.e+
- дđяiαи:×× ; яeаŁiтч ; 『iиғaмч』 « × _ • y e s t e r d a y // o n c e // m o r e
- дđяiαи:×× ; яeаŁiтч ; 『iиғaмч』 « STOOPID MSN × _ • laurens a lazy/crazy/uhh....bazy..modazy...yazy?...bum!
(f) - дđяiαи:×× ; this asphyxiation — –› !!!
- дđяiαи: ; fate fell short this time ; your smile fades in the summer — –› ;<
- дđяiαи: ; a reason to keep you at arms length — –› .
- дđяiαи: lets make this awkward moment last — –› +onethreesix-

Countdown to my first concert! Taste of Chaos. :)

2006

Slowly getting to what my nickname is today....

- adrian;__pepito: well i trip over everything you say

Pepito = inside joke I had with an old close friend. She was (obviously, if you watched the show) Madeline.

- adrian;__pepito: something strange in me, i feel the same for you
- adrian;__ ! lets waste time chasing cars around our heads
- adrian; safe and sound in phone lines

2007

Simplicity achieved!

. adrian !
. adrian ! in the confusion and the aftermath, you are my signal fire
. adrian ! we shot the moon.

2008

adrian ! go with the seasons
adrian ! the walls will fall before we do
adrian ! wake up, you're alive, we're on your side

I don't know how it'll look from there. Maybe I'll end up just using my name.. or maybe I'll add some stars to it... or maybe i'll add some other emoticons to it... or maybe I'll add my full name..

It took a while, 4 years to get from

- _¨"дdяiаи"™«¨(·´¯`·.·÷×_¦¦ chalkcowate ¦ #Lusн ¦ º4¨¹²³²¹

to

adrian ! wake up, you're alive, we're on your side

MSN in the futur, perhaps?

kthxbye

Archers in your Arches

Moment of the Day:
Jelli drowning in a sea of school kids.

Catch up time!

Went to the city to catch up with Jelli aka Jerri last Wednesday. It started off by me shouting nuggets (since we do make up 100% of Team Nugget, emphasis on the 100%) since I was the late one. Afterwards we headed to the Powerhouse Museum because what day wouldn't be complete without a visit to a museum. It was $5 entry, so it was a win-win situation.

Got inside and checked out many of the exhibits (although not all!). Unbeknownst to our knowledge, we were reminded that it was in fact still a school day and so explained the influx of little kids and TB's. They were all over the venue, but one of the most memorable moments (Memorable Moment #1) would be when I had exited a small room showcasing past Australian utensils and such. I turn to see if Jelli had also come out, but no, it was obvious the kids were holding her back. I look back, and my theory appeared true. It was like struggling against a river rapid. Completely blocking the doorway, all I could see was Jelli's upper half amongst the young kids intrigued by a dead wallaby behind the glass. It looked like this:

Fight them kiddies!


Sadly, it was bolted down.

The point of this experiment was to look stupid.

We were in there for about 3 hours, checking out the Space and Science experiments, the giant piano and other musical instruments and Zero Gravity Space Lab. That was fun. I didn't feel weightless at all though, just dizzy.

Afterwards, we met up with Jeff and headed off to sing k. (Memorable Moment #2) Coming out of the museum that consisted of a LOT of Australian history, Jelli, Jeff and I began to sing Waltzing Matilda. We were all in our own little world until a LOUD SCREECH occured, followed by a thump then the sound of glass breaking. Everyone had heard it. Turning around quickly, a 4WD had hit another car and began rolling/flipping, eventually coming to a halt upside-down. We were all in shock. Half the street came running towards the victims. Here's hoping nothing serious!

Eventually we made our way to K. Not because we're asian, but purely for the enjoyment of screaming at the top of our lungs and having fun. People must be thinking, why pay $10 for something you can do at home for free? The fact that I don't even have that equipment (oh noes, a filo family without magic mic! Or any sort of kareoke!) makes up for that, as well as the place and sound. (Memorable Moment #3) Well the screaming and having fun was achieved, along with losing my voice to Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne. lool. That one song strained it so bad.

ON ANOTHER NOTE:
SOUNDWAVE '09 HERE I COME.

Anberlin
Funeral for Friend
Hellogoodbye
Emery
Houston Calls
Forever the Sickest Kids

And I wouldn't mind seeing:
Jack's Mannequin
Goldfinger
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
New Found Glory

Also on another note:
Training for Australia Post next week and AP are still yet to contact me about getting a medical checkup. Nicee.

kthxbye

"Fantastic is a Lovely Word"

Moment of the Day:
"It's either they're playing WoW or Counter-Strike...... what's counter strike?" - Nicole
/facepalm

Saturday, 25th October 2008
It was Jeanelines birthday party today so Lenny came to pick me up, the off we drove to Pancakes at Northmead. We didn't know what to expect because of all her youth and high school friends, but with all of us being from the Blacktown area, a handful of familiar faces were there. :) Briefly caught up with Leandra and Ivy, then we had to order. I had the Devil's Delight with 2 extra pancakes. Man, was I wrong about this. As soon as I got it, I dug straight into it, that hunger gradually slowed down to a standstill when the chocolate pancakes just looked like shit. Literally. Not to mention the (very thick) Iced Chocolate drink to go with. Argh. All in all it was good though. Managed to finish that monster.

Oh mah!
Our bill total. Not too bad, eh?
The party posse after Pancakes. Happy Birthday Jeaneline!

After Pancakes, we headed to Jeanelines house. Played with their gym equipment then headed up to Christian's room to play guitar for a bit, then headed back down for some Guitar Hero. Awesome night!

Inside the study, of the massively big house.

27th-29th October, 2008

The last Programming Fundamentals assignment was due soon and so was the last ever lecture for it. In the time up to the leadup to the due date, there was plenty of time again spent in the labs to do some work. All of us were being productive, until the inevitable bludging occured (this time MacBook Cam Whoring 101:

Left half of the photo: gay. Right half: Not as gay.

Symmetrical Jasmine = Fat Jasmine.

And now its alien Jismine.

My baby. Perfect for Jasons new implants boobs!

My tongue looks like a dick.

Back: Me, Jason, Gordon
Front: Gloria, Jasmine, CJ

Friday, 31st October 2008 - HALLOWEEN!
What better way to celebrate the completion of another programming assignment, then to catch a movie. I couldn't make Celine's in time because we had gotten out pretty late after programming so I was bummed about that. Argh, sorry again Celine if you're reading!

Using our free movie ticket, Jasmine, Lenny, Ada, Gloria, Jason, Nam, Gordon and I watched Saw V. My opinion? Worst Saw movie out. Traps were okay. The plots just getting out of hand now, Jigsaw sets up traps, he's almost dead, so someone else takes over, then they die, and Jigsaw dies, then someone else takes over. Kill them already and make it stop. Anything past 3 isn't worth it. Then again Saw VI could bring it back, but I strongly believe it won't.

Tuesday, 4th November 2008
Drove to Nicoles house since the other days had to be called off. Got there around 10.30, watched Rogue (that giant croc movie) then went to Winston Hills Shopping Centre to eat. I won't even go into details about that, because .. just because. (lol shutup) But anyways, thats where the quote at the top of this entry came about. After eating, headed back to her place to play some Mario Kart Wii. We both got owned playing online, but oh well it was fun. Got a good laugh out of that.

Headed home after that, and now I'm blogging about me blogging. Powerhouse Museum tomorrow! :)

kthxbye

Tide is High!

Moment/Quote of the Week:
Moment when Gordon thought it was Negrophilia, rather than hearing necrophilia.

What I hate most about not blogging for a while is the little details you miss out on when you actually try to blog about it. Not to mention how untrustworthy my memory is.

Lets see..

Wednesday, 8th October
Tim's bday performance.
Got to uni around 12.30ish with Lenny, met up with the other guys then headed off to the alumni green for Tim. The day consisted of Tim playing (also in front of randoms that Ivan and I rounded up, ok more like 1 random), Tim shouting us ice cream cake :) Then heading to the VIP lounge to eat some $8 steaks. One memorable moment was on the way to the lounge, Tim voluntarily and unhesitatingly told us to cross the road when it was still green, informing us "do whatever you want, its my birthday", so we did, oblivious to the lights, we crossed and a van came beeping at us madly, speeding up (hoping to hit us? Who knows) then narrowly avoiding us. Yay.

After the steaks we headed back to the alumni green for some hacky sack then headed off to programming.

Tim + UTS

Tim + Invitee's

Poseur Tim lying on the ground under his own will.

Other direction

One paper towel... two... three.. four ............. fifteen!

VIP Lounge. $8 steaks! Which I didn't even finish. YAY.

Thursday, 9th October
Hung out with Lenny, Jeaneline and I on the last week of her holidays. The day started off with me heading to Jasmine's house in the morning to give/teach her some stuff, then watching a bit of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. That was fun because LOTR owns. :)

Drove back home, then Lenny picked me up, then we picked up Jeaneline, then headed to Pancakes at Northmead.

Afterwards, we went to some lake at Bella Vista. Fun times walking around the lake taking luvo's, seeing yobbo's jump into the murky lake, seeing ducks, attempting to "borrow" the wheelbarrow, then sitting on a hill for 2 hours just staring at the sky, until eventually heading back to the carpark to play some hackysack and talk. :)

Jeaneline + Me, looking black.

Lenny and the 3 shakes, including Lenny's disgusting lime flavour.

What a poser..

er...

Blank expression + Model stance + normal

Us being hobo's..

Pushing Jeaneline around in a trolly..

Then being hobo's again with a piece of cardboard and a stick. DAYN-JER-US.

The day ended with us driving around for a bit, driving to Lenny's mates house who wasn't home, then since we had no where else in mind to go, we all headed back home.

Saturday, 11th October
Went to Castle Hill Library to go study with Nicole, because she obviously had HSC, and I had 3 exams on the following Monday. Actually got some study done for the first couple hours before heading into Towers for some lunch. We saw some of the girls in the Miss Universe prelims - they weren't that hot, so we moved on. Caught up with each other, then headed back into the library. Nicole had to activate her new optus number so she rung up the number on the instructions.

What was supposed to be an informative conversation about activating the SIM, turned into a 'gossip'/'small talk' convo between the Indian guy and her. HAHA. Both our faces were as confused as ducks on a playswing. But it was hilarious because it went for about 20 minutes.

Fun.

Wednesday, 15th October
Eagle Eye!

We had already spent a while in the labs doing nothing, so, I forgot who actually suggested it, but whoever it was suggested to watch Eagle Eye. I already knew the stuff presented in the programming lecture, so off Gloria, Jasmine, Lenny and I went to Broadway to watch Eagle Eye.
It was definitely worth it. The movie was great, and the voice of ARIA was done flawlessly to capture that slightly robotic, and psychotic tone. Movie rating: 8 fruit tingles out of 10.

Coming out of the movie, we were all quoting ARIA, then on the way back to UTS, we got in the elevator and none of us were aware we had those ones that told us what level we were on, so when we reached the second level, out of nowhere we all heard a "You are now on Level 2" in that SAME (well similar) voice as the one from Eagle Eye. Jasmine and Gloria freaked. It was hilarious. xD

Friday, 17th October
The supposed day of Programmng.

Well not really, we went to go buy a frisbee, which eventually broke thanks to me throwing it over the fence and it smashing onto concrete. Oh well, it performed even better after that. After we got bored of that, we played a game of touch footy with the tennis ball. Man, did it get hot or what. Sweaty everything. But it was a good laugh for what we did. We went into the labs to do some programming. It was the first week I never got it marked, it was too hard! Damnit. But oh well, after that, we headed to the lockers outside the IT lounge for some random stuff. Then some other random stuff happened. And we also got free sandwiches and drinks. :D

Saturday, 18th October
Went with Billy, Justin, Ricky, and Ivan for some drinks and clubbing. Went to Maloneys, bumped into Jeff and Jelli there! Hurray, because I haven't seen 'em in ages now. Started off with long island ice tea. Oh man, and the best part is, we got (well Ivan ordered it, I dunno what he did) FOUR of them for $2.40. 60c each! DEAL. Anyway, after that headed to the Pavilion then to St James.

Tuesday, 21st October
"We're not leaving until we get 20" (with the hacky sack)
*40 minutes later*
Cheering + Cartwheels
New goal: Getting 30.

Wednesday, 21st October
"We're not leaving until we get 30"
*couple minutes later*
Cheering
New goal: Getting 40.

Great night out.

Awesome week. Awesometime.

kthxbye