Adrian!

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

2009-12-28T12:31:00.001+11:00

... but better things begin!

Like I said last year in my final entry of 2008, its been an action-packed roller coaster ride of a year. Another year later, and I can definitely say it has seen the best and worst of things. Walls have been broken, friendships have been made, but overall it was worth it.

[brief recap]
Can I honestly say I've learnt lessons? Soitenlee, Gov'nah. A lot of things that happened this year I can find memorable. I still think 2008 was a great year though. 2009, for me was the year of dealing with a lot of stuff, but its still a memorable experience I'd like remember. Everything from going to Hawaii and California, going around everywhere and meeting up with UTC again!!! My second Soundwave Festival, the amazing bushwalk with Lenny and Jasmine at Wentworth Falls (Blue Mountains), getting my green P's (lol), ze birthday parties (being the most drunk I've ever been at Wendys), my UTS-organised 20th birthday, the unexpected drama, other IT outings, the K sessions, a Night in Fantasia, catching up with friends I rarely get to see, St. Patricks Primary 3rd reunion, late/funny nights spent on L4D and MW2, and the other noteworthy events I fail to recall.

I'm sure I've missed out on a lot of other crap to mention but made my year FOR ME.

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? Philippines for me in 2010/11 and hopefully America (by myself) in 2011/12.

As my yearly tradition says - So long 2009 and thanks for all ze drama!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

k thanks and bye.

Above: Spot the siblings. HAHA. There are 4 pairs of siblings and 2 cousins to 1 pair of siblings.

Random Cards to Random People.

2009-12-14T19:41:00.001+11:00

So today I met up with Jelli to do some Christmas shopping. We went into Top Bargain and bought some cheap Christmas cards (and also a bow/headband for herself haha) because I think it looks greaat.

Anyway we had more cards than we needed, so what better way to get rid of the excess, than to cheer up a couple people for Christmas with it. We both wrote one, each for different opportunities. I wrote mine addressed to whoever picked it up and left it behind an Assassins Creed II box in EB Games. I wrote that it was from Tom Riddle.

After that (and some more shopping), we walked to Oporto’s and sat inside talking. She asked for wet hand towels, and the then-friendly cashier, Nikki, handed her two. She needed the towels to clean out the mess she had in her bag - and by mess, I mean the melted fizzer that made everything sticky. ;)

She needed more and didn’t want to ask, so I asked and Nikki for more, who mentions that she just gave my friend some and was reluctant to give out more, but I gave the excuse that I needed it for myself. She felt hesitant about giving too many away (because we only ordered drinks) and so we sort of felt bad.

This was Jelli’s opportunity for her card giveaway, so she addressed hers to Nikki. We apologised for the hand towels, but thanked her for them, and her service and told her to keep smiling in life.

We left that card on the table we were sitting at and walked out of there whilst she had her back turned to us.

This reminds me of the random postcards people slide into Post Secrets books.

It felt good. MLIA.

OH HAI.

2009-12-10T21:28:00.002+11:00

CPU: Intel Core i5 750 $234
Mobo: Gigabyte P55-UD3 $132
RAM: G.Skill-Ripjaws 4GB DDR3-1333 $125
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB $105
GPU: HIS 1GB ATI Radeon HD5770 $189
Case: Lian Li Lancool PC-K60 $125
PSU: Antec Neo Eco 500W $70
ODD: Sony-NEC Optiarc AD-7240S $43

Total: $1,023

mm.. MSY..

So.. recently, my computer has been shitting itself.

BSOD whilst having only 3-4 applications open.
CPU/RAM intensive processes leading to said BSOD.
Artifacts and broken textures in games.
Self-restarts (not from updates).
Crackling sound makes bass beats sound like a fucked up wind chime.

This really didn't help when I had to edit/put together a certain video because the sound was horrible. But whatevs.

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I made a Christmas wishlist (which includes the build above), along with other crap, but I'm too lazy to post up at the moment. Next time.

So my threadless shirt has stretched out a bit, sleeves are a little short, but oh well. Jelli's leaving for China soon, going to miss her! And also, it shall be a milestone in our friendship soon, so I put together something. HAHA. Shit I am somewhat, sort of, awesome. Also, I think I've been playing too much MW2. I'm starting to get a headache, that prompted me to go run on the treadmill for a bit and get some blood pumping. Did 20 mins on that and I feel fine!

:)

Also, whytf am I updating this again?

kthxVI(olation of your probation)

Wokon Inn

2009-12-04T14:20:00.001+11:00

Stuff from Adrian Camua on Vimeo.

Digging through the Past

2009-12-03T02:55:00.008+11:00

Today I dug through my shoebox of stuff.. and I found my awesome Sega World business card holder that I got when my mums old work held a function there. Excuse the shoddy photographing skills. I took it in poor lighting.

Anyway, its shiny, and has Sega World Sydney engraved on the front. Inside is where I kept the awesome.... and the ... strange...

Above:
1 Timezone ticket
1 Sega World ticket
1 AMF ticket
1 Sega World Token
1 Sega World card
1 piece of a ruler (explained below)

Missing from the pic:
Money (coins) from the Philippines and Singapore.

Above: Ok the story is... back in high school, I found this on the ground. I honestly don't know what I was thinking at the time, but the animals intrigued me. So I kept it, took it home and decided to see how long I could keep it for... so I wrote, on the back, the date I found it.

Over 7 years, I've kept a piece of a ruler that should've just been thrown in the bin. Haha. Bloody awesome, I reckoooon. :D

kthxbye

Headed some place new

2009-11-24T22:06:00.002+11:00

"Walls" by All Time Low was my top song for some time because it gave me the encouragement I so damn needed. Same with "Dare You to Move" by Switchfoot. I was telling myself, "Okay, this is it." It was either, don't and regret, or do and regret. Why I had to give in to external factors is beyond me. I'm confizzled?

"I don't mind spending everyday, out on your corner in the pouring rain."

Well anyway, I bought another shirt today from Glue. I like it, everyone else liked it, so I bought it. At the moment, my threadless shirt is a temporary pillow cover because its a tad too tight. I'm pretty sure this method will stretch it too, right? Correct. Of course. Or I could get someone fatter to put it on. I have plenty of candidates there.

kthxmy

All or Nothing

2009-11-22T09:44:00.003+11:00

I've started a tumblr.

http://its-adrian.tumblr.com/

I don't know. I think I'm still going to update this from time to time. Man, I still update my xanga one every now and then and that is like 4 years old or something. Anyway, lots of things happened, lots of things not happening. Long ass hours spent on MW2 with Ivan, Thien and Jason, and my other friends. After a week and a half, I've racked up 70 hours or so. Compared to L4D, that is fast because my total playtime on L4D is ~480 hours over the course of a year. Hell yeah? ...

Twitter and tumblr. Btw, Jay Seans album rocks my socks off.

kthxbye

Roach and Ghost Die, and Shepard too. There, I just ruined MW2.

2009-11-18T19:52:00.005+11:00

Wakari masenka?

Okay, now today I did something drastic. Do I regret it? Perhaps, perhaps not, most likely not because it was a burden to me for a while. Although... I don't know what I'm doing now or what I'm meant to do... or what I should do.

I don't think I have the worst luck here, I'm also not an idiot, I also don't think I'm deserving of anything, I'm not doing anything wrong either, so why do I lack results?

Who. Knows.

GET OUT OF THE WAY!

2009-11-18T19:11:00.001+11:00

The situation:
You've just got off the bus and you are on your way to meet up with someone, or even catch the train to reach that end of the rainbow. Everything's riding on your shoulders, you're making great time to beat the meet-up time, the winds in your hair, and you feel like nothing can stop you now. Nothing... until... your pace breaks. What was once a steady stride to your goal has now been turned into a turtle-paced lead boot marathon, caused by none other than the completely ignorant slow walker. Oh how quickly my disrespect-o-meter rises when I'm behind them.

I don't get these callous characters. They're either individuals, or they walk in packs. Packs that can't be avoided. Walking at their own pace with no respect for the appropriately speeded walker behind them. hahaha. I understand if they're walking with someone, but alone, they're nothing more than a walkway hog. The escalator rule should apply to the walkway lol.

/endrantbecauseIhadwaytoomanysituationslikethisinthepast20years

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kthxBYUEAOBUIDYIBSUD

Minesweeper Bonanza

2009-11-05T23:40:00.005+11:00

Recently I've been getting addicted to minesweeper. 100 games later, I had a gut feeling that this game would be the one to finally get my first win on advanced, so I took screenshots.

Great start. I clicked randomly hoping to open up a few big ones. hehhh.

So far so good..

Getting there.. 38 mines left to flag..

Okay, by now I was stuck for a bit because I couldn't find where I could open up next..

Until I found the bit on the top, and now all thats left is the guessing part. HELLO, NERVOUSNESS. (Disregard the time I have taken)

...sigh...

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU......

My pride and joy.

kthxmi(ne)

The Awkward and the Damned.

2009-11-03T20:55:00.008+11:00

I am, of course, referring to awkward conversations that lead to a dead end, as this is a topic I've mentioned to people and confronted people with doing. I've had my fair share of experiencing them, and I've also done it to others. Conversation killers, I call them.

I can almost feel as if I'm leading myself down a dead end, stuck in a conversation that will undoubtedly get me that very important sensation of feeling bored, not interested, or simply with just nothing else to reply with. These things require special actions and reinforcement. What used to be a topic of agreeable awesome standards can now be hindered with the undesired result of 3 simple characters:

"lol"

The motherload of it all. It prescribes the shutdwn of a conversation. In some instances, it means the writer of the 'lol' wants to move on, or simple doesn't have anything better to reply with. On the receiving end, one abruptly discovers theres nothing more to respond to, and thus ends all.

Awesome Storyteller: So Paranormal Activity was such a scary movie. OMG I was so freaked out by the end, I almost have skid marks on my underwear. What did you think of it?
Awesome Replier: lol
Awesome Storyteller: ...

Or even replies like "yeh", or "nup". As Amanda Bynes said in She's the Man, FLOW IS FLOW. AND YES I DON'T MIND CHEESE. I've heard it been said before (can't say who said or received, because it sounds harsh either way): "Learn to keep it flowing, you suck to talk to."
haha.

I noticed I've done a lot of this to keep it going, and that is asking questions, to the point where I've taken the role of an interviewer/interrogator. I guess its better than the awkward silence. Which brings me to my next topic: awkard topics.

These convo's just warrant a "lol." ending. Questions need not apply, because after the who, what, when, where, and hows are over with, its just done.

Unless of course there is humourous appeal to it, in this case, I am going to end with this awkward topic I just encountered and prompted me to do this entry:

(name hidden to avoid embarassment)

bobthebuilder says: hey man. i want let something off my chest but promise you wont say anything
adrian ! needle and haystack says: yeahh what sup
bobthebuilder says: i did a poo
adrian ! needle and haystack says: .........
bobthebuilder says: it came out as pebbles
adrian ! needle and haystack says: LOL
bobthebuilder says: hahah
adrian ! needle and haystack says: what the eff!
bobthebuilder says: it means i have not enough fibre
bobthebuilder says: it has to be cigar like

Take note, the person saying this is a girl, and goes against all male belief that:

Girls don't poop
Girls don't fart either

kthxbye?

PS. This post is dedicated to Nicholas. haaaa.

Case of the Clueless Asian Lady

2009-10-28T12:03:00.005+11:00

I'm not one to complain, but when it comes to helping randoms, there has to be some level of sanity from them. Today as I got off the train from central, I walked towards the stairs going down heading into the tunnel. At the top of the stairs was an asian woman wearing the ugliest pair of green pants my eyes have ever seen. As soon as I approached her, this is what happened:

Asian woman: Hey! Excuse me, could you please walk me down the stairs?
Me: Yeah sure.
Asian woman: Hold my hand please..
Me: Um... okay..

At this point I'm holding a complete strangers hand, not her arm or anything, her hand. At this point she pauses and I'm standing there in limbo holding this womans hand. People walking past me kept looking at me. I was getting impatient so i asked her:

Me: Um.. the railings right there. Do you need help?
Asian woman: *no response*

She then walked down the stairs, not even holding onto the railing. WTF? (edit: Maria: "She's just trying to hold your hand"). Got to the bottom of the stairs, thinking I was free from the awkwardness, I let go of her hand.

Then she began demanding me to hold her hand again. People behind me knew she was a stranger to me, and I still did what I thought was right.

Asian woman: Hold my hand.
Me: (thinking) um wtf, I am holding your hand.
Asian woman: TIGHTER!
Me: um.. okay.. (crying inside)
Asian woman: yes... tighter...
Me: Um.. are you okay? Do you need help? (I thought she was depressed or something)

At this point I began looking around at the people around me, or at cameras, thinking I was on some hidden camera show. She began doing these squats or whatever, the sort of stance you have in primary school when you're busting to go to the toilet.

By now, i thought she needed to go to the toilet. It was scary.

As we approached the ticket barriers..

Me: Uh.. I'm kind of in a hurry..
Asian woman: (pausing in 2m in front of the barriers) Walk me to the barriers.
Me: Uh okay...

I walked forward but she wouldn't follow (still holding her effing hand). Then she let go and ran for the barriers. To which I then ran away to avoid her at the other end.

PS. Maria is funny and likes to bake cookies.

kthxbye

Ban-anner.

2009-10-24T10:44:00.015+11:00

Because Tim suggested this... I included the banners I used, didn't use and plan to make.

Banners that I've used on my blog (in chrononological order)

My personal favourite (hot air balloon).

... and so begins the bananer peel project.

Yes, I'm aware the text slightly changed from the first to second one.

Banners that didn't make the cut.

Um.. was trying to convey the transition from adolescence to adulthood. lol.

(Jasmine, shh)

Works in progress/Concepts/Ideas/Stuff

Couple of random stuff

The banner I made for my clans forum a couple of years ago. lol. Back when we used to play competitively. Yes, interesting clan name too. We were all a bunch of idiots, and we still are. Funny dudes.

Haley Williams, random.

The Xanga backgrounds I made are a different story. Its where I began actually using photoshop. I think that was back in 2005 or something. Then came myspace, and I got a bit better I guess. I hope to get even better in future because... Young Workers poster competition is now being held every 2 years. I should've promoted mine more to get more votes. Hahah. Oh well, I tried? 2010, here I come!

kthxbye

I Want.

2009-10-14T13:17:00.011+11:00

The "I wants" are like an incurable infection. Its contagious, and it won't go away. Hearing about dreams makes you want some of your own, but before that you begin with the little things. Can you honestly say that after achieving your wants that you are 100% completely satisfied? There are but 6 things on this list that I can confidently say will make my life complete.

I'm aware that as we grow, so does this list, until we reach that threshold of satisfaction. But until then...

I want a new computer.
I want to excel in uni.
I want those clothes.
I want to meet Story of the Year.
I want to feel giddy.
I want Story of the Year's new album.
I want more of You.
I want to get rid of my lazyness.
I want a room makeover.
I want COD: Modern Warfare 2.
I want you.
I want a car.
I want pop rocks.
I want to understand how the world works.
I want to go sky diving.
I want to go quad biking.
I want to be successful.
I want to be able to pay off my uni debt.
I want a Disney marathon.
I want to go on an adventure.
I want to feel like I'm dependable.
I want to be less of who I am, and more of who I aspire to be.
I want to do/see the things on my "places-to-go" list.
I want pez.
I want to go to Jamberoo.
I want a future/career I can enjoy.

I DON'T want to start over again.

To be continued... or maybe not.. I think that's all.

Edit: Jasmine brought to my attention the ad about the Jesus: All About Life campaign. I saw them set up around the city and I see the banner around schools I go by, and so I went to check the ad on youtube. I think this entry is so fitting, along with the section starting at 0:10s (Shoes, Jas? HAHAH.)

kthxbye

The Cheapskates.

2009-10-05T08:12:00.005+11:00

Location: Norita
Situation: Indecisive about food... we really didn't feel like eating, just felt like taking a nap there. Until we saw the picture of the choc fondu.. except we didn't want the fondu, we just wanted the wafers.

Jelli then pushes the button without warning to call the waiter and pretends to fall asleep so I'm left to the wolves (the waitress).

Waitress: Hi, can I help you? :)
Me: *flipping through the pages of the menu to find the fondu picture* Hi... um... is it possible if we could.. uh.. just get the wafers?
Waitress: The wuhfes?
Me: Um.. the wafers?
Waitress: Yes the wuhfes.. Umm.. I give you two wuhfes. Because.. *chuckling* I don't know if have enough.
Me: TWO?

(At this point, I don't think she knew I wanted a whole BOWL of wafers)

Waitress: Yes, I can give you two for free.
Me: ..How much is that?
Waitress: Two wuhfes... :)
Me: Oh for free? Ok. Thanks
Jelli (to me): Order something else! Can't just get free stuff!
Me: But I don't want anything else!
Jelli: Get the drink!
Me: I don't want the drink though!
Jelli: Can I get the Lemon Iced Tea? Thankyou

Hahaha saved.

Direct linked. I will wait till someone tells me off. I love ice cream cones. I love plain pasta with no sauce.

That is all.

Today Jeaneline and I got free food from Lennys work (visited and also to give the debut invite), then went to Rouse Hill.. with Jeanelines soccer mum car, in the pouring rain, to go buy Gaytime Krushers from KFC.. where we also got free food from one of Jeanelines friends working there. Gave so much, we got so full.

Moral of the story: Food is good. Free food is even better.

kthxbuy

Making Waves

2009-09-22T15:55:00.006+10:00

The difference might not be there in the video, but it is.. and my room feels 'cleaner'. I did a bit of dusting (minus the duster), vacuuming and rearranging. Behold, the half-assed job.

No one can resist the awesomeness of the Pokerap and my favourite of all Pokemon theme songs - Pokemon: The Johto Journeys.

At 2 minutes, I broke my keyboard desk thing (accident). The wheel that it rests on just broke.. its plastic, so I couldn't do much about it. It still slides out though. Cleaning out my tower was a bitch. So much dust. Even after cleaning it, I still got a bit of artifacts on my screen. I faced the fan in my room into the tower and it sort of worked.

Also... walking to the station today, I almost got stopped by those dudes who ask you to sign up to stuff.

Dude: Hey buddy have you heard....
Me: (interrupting, whilst continuing to walk away) I'm not 21!
Dude: Oh you're not 21 yet? Cya later.

Thankyou.

Then coming home from getting a haircut, waiting for the bus at Blacktown station, these Red Bull girls were giving away free Red Bull.. at Blacktown.. I know right. So they were moving from bus stop to bus stop (since its at the bus station/bay place) and this bogan dude 3 bus stops down notices them giving away free drinks and so he yells "come over here, bitches! /bogan laugh". I'd imagine a bogan laugh to be spelt HIYHAHAHAHEHUA. Anyway, they came over my way, told them I got a haircut, told me they liked it, then gave me my free Red Bull. Why couldn't it have been Vitamin Water?

kthxrhy(horn)

Phase 5001: Decisions and the compu-nerd.

2009-09-20T00:55:00.012+10:00

In the case of Woody or Buzz Lightyear - I chose Woody. Won't ever changeee.

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Anyway, I've been looking at upgrading my current computer. I looked online and it appears that most people upgrade within 2-3 years. Criteria depends, but most do it for games, application workload, speed etc. How bout all of the above? Originally I wanted a new video card, as my current one seems to be turning to crap - as if its starting to overheat. But then if I upgrade that, everything else needs to be upgraded. Newer, faster, quicker response time needed, therefore new CPU, therefore.. new motherboard, therefore, new power supply, therefore, new case. My current recommended wishlist:

Mid-Range Multi-purpose Build:

CPU: Intel Core i5 750 $268
Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-UD3 $154
RAM: G.Skill 4GB DDR3-1333 $109 (maybe DDR2)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB $104 or Seagate Barracuda 500GB $62
GPU: HIS 1GB ATI Radeon HD4890 $239
Case: Lian Li Lancool PC-K60 $125 or the Antec 300 $99
PSU: Antec Earthwatts 500W $103

= ~$1,000

Hopefully it'll last 5 years. And if that's "Mid-Range".. then what the hells mine? Super Low-range?

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 1.86GHz (stock, not OC'ed)
2GB DDR2 RAM
300GB HDD
256MB 7600GT
Antec Sonata II Silent ATX Case

The place where I got my current computer has prices that exceed those prices by $100 for some. Pricey! MSY ftw.

But seriously, running the system idle, with no applications eats over 50% of my RAM already, and the geek inside me wants to try Modern Warfare 2 on something that looks decent. Early Christmas? :(

HE'S THE ANGRIEST GAMERRR YOU'VE EVER HEAARD
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HE'S TEH ANGRYY VIDEO GAME NERD.

What a funny-ass cool dude.

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In other news... Zoo w/ Wasaii.

Sleeping on a bear (yes he was real...).

Leopard Seals love to show off.

Okay.. this emu wouldn't leave us alone.. so.. I just let it peck away.

I wish Brownie could do tricks like that. I'll teach him one day.

kthx(MS)Y

I Can't Help It

2009-09-08T22:54:00.003+10:00

You know we kill it teamed up. I'm as myself as I can be when you're in the air. It's comfortable here.

New banner. Slightly changed. Mehhh. "SEND THE SMS THIS WEEK". LOL. Okay, enough being silly. You can make out some of it.

Just got home from some intense programming with Jasmine, the screamer of unnecessary things on the train. It was intense, that she started to cry. I really hope I get it done. :( Anyway, enough about uni because I dread that word.

A Night in Fantasia 09 is in just over 2 weeks. Arghh I'm excited for it! Play! A Videogame Symphony was bloody amazing. It literally sent shivers up my spine to hear such awesomeness rolled into one. Looking forward to hearing the epic MGS score again, on top of other ones I'm looking forward to. :)

Eminence = win.

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Also, lately I've begun a Pokemon project with Mel. This involves us attempting to draw the original 150 Pokemon. I think its quite fun, I love her drawings, they're so good. And well.. mine are just a pile of burning unicorn ass hair.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=139953&id=714726693&ref=mf

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Also, I tried this for the first time, its a bamboo charcoal bun. It was tasty. in the sense that I just imagined it was something else and not a giant lump of black/burnt peanut-looking bread.

kthxcry(?)

Chinese Hickey Doctor at the Garden Buffet

2009-08-30T11:34:00.002+10:00

Random banner is random. I think every few days (ok who am I kidding, maybe weeks) more of the banner will be lifted open. Hahaha. Or not. Anyway... since it was suggested we blog about it.. here is my take on last Thursday...

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Last Thursday was the day another teenager (term used loosely) bit the dust and found themselves in the ranks of the 20 year olds. It never actually hits you, and you do feel a degree of denial because if anything, the teenager years define the most awesome times of your life (minus the whole school thing). It was Lenny's 20th birthday.

Anyway, the day start at around 10:00am when Lenny came to pick me up to go to Blacktown station. I shouted him his train ticket (bar 60c) and then we preceeded to catch the train to Wynyard. We had some Taboo games for the whole trip, and along the way Jasmine calls to ask about Lennys present. I think i did a pretty good job of trying to keep the convo subject subtle since Lenny was sitting right next to me. We reached Wynyard to meet up with Jasmine, then business Tim came shortly after from work.

For lunch we ate at the Altitude Restaurant at the Shangri La Hotel. The actual restaurant was situated on the 36th floor, which was actually the highest you could go and the view was ama-za-zing. The food was equally as nice. They had a range of seafood and meats as well as chocolate fondu and other assorted desserts that I dug my teeth into. During the meal, I must've ate the most mushroom I've ever eaten in one go. Took 1 glass of water to wash it down but it was worth it.

The view from the top floor

Walking to Botannical Gardens via Opera House way!

Towards the end of the lunch, we handed over his present from General Pants then took some photos. The restaurant staff also came out with a little surprise of their own and brought out two cupcakes with candles and sang happy birthday. That was not planned either, but they must've heard us sing happy birthday and so decided to bring that out. Would've been funny if we were singing that for fun on another day, and they came out to sing that. :] lol

After that we headed to Botanic Gardens to go and relax for a bit before leaving. Said goodbye to Tim at central then headed back to Jasmines house for some strawberry cheesecake. It was delicious/scrumdidlyumptious. Got dropped home after that and finished off my assignment.

11 pages of awesomeness, and 1 day of celebration.

kthxhai(2u)

Weekly Dosage of Things

2009-08-21T19:20:00.000+10:00

Sunday: Park with Jasmine, weather was awesome, so took that opportunity to go snack on junk food.

Monday: Uni, typical day, boring lecture (and lecturer, I should add).

Tuesday: Uni, plans failed to watch the 7pm session of District 9, so Shirley, Lenny and I played a game of bowling, then ate at Panarotti's, then caught the 9:30 session. The movie was amazing. Peter Jackson = winner. 5 thumbs up.

Wednesday: Uni, ate my Maltesers. UTS vs UNSW dance comp, bought A Night in Fantasia 2009 tickets with Ada and Lenny. (woo! Can't wait :)) Went gym that night with Lenny, arms just shutdown so quickly. NTS: Don't sleep before leaving.

Thursday: Took advantage of the weather so went to Darling Harbour by myself to study whilst I wait for Jasmine to get out of class. Went to Parra when she got out, shopped and ate at Criniti's. She's right, their Risotto is freakin' awesome (minus the mushrooms that I extracted from my food). :) The meatballs were tasty too haha. $45 well spent. Saw Gabby, Christine and Christian on the train and got dropped by Christian. The pictures below don't do it justice, they appear darker than it seemed. It was so bright.

Friday: Stayed at home and went to Blacktown, bought my Ash Ketchum hat, Jelli came over at night to help her with her project.

kthxswi(ne)

"A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man - promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay." - Beautiful Girls (1996) / "Great Romances of the 20th Century" by Taking Back Sunday

hambigyouittee

2009-08-16T18:00:00.005+10:00

Hey.. heyy.. heyyy

guess what?

kthxpry

PS. "Fair" by Remy Zero and "Falling Awake" by Gary Jules = best songs I can relax to right now. Best songs I can call contemplative music. Throw some this way.

Take Me Back

2009-08-13T11:01:00.004+10:00

Twenty-~~three~~ and invincible
Got the world figured out
And the bird on my shoulder told me,
"Everything's gon' be alright (woah-oh)
and that means everything gon' be alright"

kthxbye

PS. I'd like to meet this bird, tell it I'm a bit slow, then maybe feed it some bird seeds from my pocket with the hole at the bottom.

Addicted to playing the game.

Flying off the Grounds of Uncertainty

2009-08-08T09:26:00.008+10:00

I had a meaningful entry drafted about failing plans/planning but I think I'll save that for later.

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New blog banner. One I actually didn't make (except for just adding the text), and its from the trailer of Peter Jackson's adaptation of the best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones.

I haven't read the book but damn, it looks amazing.

Anyway, was at uni yesterday to do some study and make some inquiries about my enrollment. :) I got much study done. Met up with Lenny, who was with Derrick, who were both writing their letters to the Dean. Their case is dragging on for too long, so good luck to them. James and Thien came soon after and we just chilled in the labs till they left for the Start of the Semester party.

One thing that we played was a brain game on Facebook, appropriately titled "The Brain Game". It addresses the way we process visual information in order to create a visual model of the world.

This is the image that had me frustrated to the tip because I couldn't get it to spin the other way as the other guys could.

Right vs Left Brain - Which way is the girl spinning?

What this actually is, is a two-dimensional image just moving back and forth, but our brains interpret it as a three-dimensional model, hence why some people can see it going anti-clockwise, others - clockwise (Yes, I did my research).

Left Brain people see it going anti-clockwise, Right Brain thinkers see clockwise.

Thien, James and Lenny could see it going both directions, except they had no control over it. MINE JUST KEPT SPINNING CLOCKWISE.... so unless they were just bs-ing me ... then I'm a heavy right brain user.

I looked up the differences and here they were:

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

There it is, the last two definitely acknowledge the differences. Although, this image isn't a justifiable test to actually identify your personality (obviously). It really just describes how we approach the image and subconsciously break it down. Its a fun game though.

After all that, had Pizza Hut buffet (again!) at George St then headed home.

EDIT: I worked it out. If you were stuck in clockwise-world like I was, just look at the reflection at the bottom. Her foot sticking out makes it look like shes going anti-clockwise.

kthxrigh(tbrained)

Draw My Thing

2009-07-30T19:06:00.000+10:00

Depressing to hear, but I can't grasp the fact uni has started. Not ready. I need to get myself in the mood. I don't know how .. but maybe after the coming weeks, I'll be init(2winit). Subjects I'm undertaking this semester:

Applications Programming
Network Design
International Marketing Analysis & Strategy

Applications - I'm happy I'm with friends in that, same with International Marketing, although not in the same class as anyone in the latter. Network Design... I don't even know WHAT to expect. So I'll see how I go.

Watched Ice Age 3 with the Jobo. It was either that, or Hannah Montanna Movie. Tempting, although we stuck with Ice Age 3. There were quite a few scenes that made me chuckle, in particular the laughing gas/helium scene. Loved it. Not quite as good as the first one, but definitely better than the 2nd movie. I took home the 3D glasses and tried to find video clips where I could use it. They're so useless because apparently you need a Real-D screen, or whatever. I wannna put them to use!!

Anyway, lately I've been watching Gossip Girl (to which I have now finally finished) and playing this awesome game called Draw My Thing. Its basically like pictionary. You meet some pretty cool/funny people and the games are a lot of fun. :) Its just interesting to see how peopel interpret some words, or drawings rather.

This was the drawing someone drew... can you guess what it is?

This is meant to be Harry Potter.

Also saw that last Wednesday. Dumbledores gay remarks = full of funny. Overall the movie was great, but not as great as everyone says in comparison to the other movies.

kthxtry(again next time)

Public Post

2009-07-29T21:11:00.004+10:00

/walk up to Planet Ark chick
"YES. I'M INTERESTED :)"
"Oh! You wanna save some trees?"
"... ? Save some what now?"
"Oh hahah! You so funnay!! How bout you.. fill in the details here..."
"Oh.. but I have class... I..."
"... for me?"
"No. But I could offer you some!"
"Okay asshole."

Back to reality.

"You Effing Hoe!"

2009-07-22T21:31:00.004+10:00

Today must have been the most random, and nostalgic days ... this week. I see a lot of bogans catching my bus every now and then, and more specifically at Blacktown.

I went to Parra today to catch up with Jelli and since it was an awesome day out, we decided to take a walk along Church St. Along the way I got stopped by a GreenPeace supporter (Jelli, don't think I didn't notice you hurry off as soon as he approached me), and he asked for "10 seconds of my time".

So then our convo went like this:

GreenPeace dude: Excuse me buddy, can I borrow some of your time? It'll only be 10 seconds.
Me: Oh really? Um.. sorry but..
GreenPeace dude: (interupting) C'mon, it'll only be 20 seconds, I'll just ask you a few things.
(me noticing him changing from 10 seconds to 20)
Me: Uhh.. ok I'm timing you.
GreenPeace dude: (laughs) You're timing me? Ok. (fiddles with his watch) How many whales are killed in Japan every year?
Me: Um.. 100...
GreenPeace dude: Thousands, thousands are killed. How many are processed and stored in.. (something - forgot what he said)?
Me: Um... a thousand..?
GreenPeace dude: 2000... close enough. Now how many do you think are stored in Jumbo jets for importing? (something like that)
Me: Um.. 5!
GreenPeace dude: 12! I'll give you that.. (flips notepad) Now what can you do to help this situation?
Me: Umm... I don't know..
GreenPeace dude: :) Join GreenPeace

NOW I NOTICE HIS SIGN UP SHEET.

Me: Oh, uh we've gotta be somewhere at the moment, we're going to the.. uh... theatre... to watch a show...
GreenPeace dude: Oh thats okay! I'll walk with you :)
Me: Oh you don't wanna do thaaaat, its a bit far.
GreenPeace dude: Yes I do, I'll walk with you!

I walk off, and he's walking with us (persistent guy).

Me: lol umm..
GreenPeace dude: Haha so how old are you?
Me: Oh, yeah 20
GreenPeace dude: Haha okay.. um close enough...
Me: Yeah you gotta be 21 for that don't you? Hahaha.

At this point he gave up. The proper thing to do would have been to ask my age BEFORE giving me a whale quiz. Although it was a bit fun... if I was playing for candy or something.

After that, we walked on to the spot along Church St (with all the shops, near the library), near the fountain, where people can perform music. A dude with a guitar and pre-programmed drum beats was playing, so we sat down. Immediately, we noticed the presence of bogans singing along to his songs. They were freaking me out, seriously. This 50 year old one just starting headbanging like crazy yelling out the lyrics. Another one in front of us was singing along to it, with a beer in her hand, and she randomly yelled out "YOU EFFING HOE". Jelli and I were like wtf... then an asian family sits next to them with a toddler sitting next to the bogan... she grabs the toddlers right hand and starts making her dance, she kisses her hand for some reason and then proceeds to puppet the poor child.

The guy performing then changes songs, and a random old asian man who had been sitting there quietly for some time, suddenly gets up and dances. LMAO He had all the moves, it was so hilarious I wish i recorded it all. :D

Anyway, after that we headed to Oporto's to eat, and their CD playing in the background was so frekaing awesome. 9/10. It was ALL songs from the 80's and 90's! Savage Garden, N'Sync, Boyzone, Michael Learns to Rock, Richard Marx, Ronan Keating, Starship.... we sat in Oporto for close to 2 hours just catching up with that playing in the background. It was great. It brought back memories of the 90's.

The past few days have had perfect weather, I'm so glad I didn't start uni this week. Botannical Gardens was awesome with Jason, Billy and Jasmine. Relaxing there. Just chilled and played card games and had a running race with Billy - to which I lost.

kthxsky

Celebrating the Night

2009-07-19T14:09:00.002+10:00

It was Wendy's 19th birthday.

Travelled to woop woop (Yagoona) for the first time, and got picked up by Thien (with Huy, Tony, and Kathy) to be dropped off at her house. I don't remember much, and I don't think I've made such a mess before.. so.. thanks to Tony, Wendy, Maria, Gordon, Thien, Kathy, and whoever else for putting up with it all.. lolll (and in the car).. but anyway:

- Playing Wii (omg hilarious moments were had with Mario Party)
- Shots
- Pizza
- Comforting
- Alcohol-induced ... pizza ...
- Home timeeeee (NTS: Pay Thien)

In the meantime.... Michael Jackson themed party tonight! And all I have atm is the glove.. haha.

ouimerciau revoir

Welcome To The Family

2009-07-13T15:07:00.003+10:00

St Patrick's Primary School Reunion

So its been organised for a while now, and it finally came - the third reunion held by the St Pats kids. First one was at Bondi during the HSC, second was at Pjay's house (where only the asians came) and now this, more successful one, was held at Adam's house. My voice was still sort of gone (or as Jasmine would say - still going through puberty) so I got a few "what's wrong with your voice?" questions throughout the night.

Anyway, it was effing fantastic to see everyone there, especially the faces that I haven't seen for 9 years! I'm surprised at how much we've all grown up and its something I definitely cherish. First batch of people that came were the asians, haha, which was unsurprising, but as the night progressed, more and more of us came and the numbers increased. I came and Mrs. Jones (Adams mum) came out and recognised me, because I used to live near him, and also brought out the class photos. Plenty of laughs and reminiscing was being had between the different groups there.

Year 6 Class of 2000! Well almost half of us...

Biggest improvement for me to see was Connie, who had came into Year 5 not knowing a WORD of english (having just come from China), we were there to take her through Year 6 too, to help teach her english. One of us managed to bump into her and invite her along. When I spoke to her, her english had improved by mountains. It was amazing, and typically, like a lot of my Chinese friends who moved here - she also had the smarts. Haha. Biggest appearance change would be Adam, the host, himself. Dreadlocks and facial hair. Everyone else seemed pretty much recognisable, except throughout the night people were occasionally guessing some of the other filo guys to be me. They'd approach them and be like ".. Adrian?!" Then they'd point to me. Hahah. Some people came from the Central Coast to make it so i was surprised at the effort they made to come down.

Talking to everyone was not awkward at all, we all had stories to tell and we were having fun and joking around as we usually would, I can't wait for the next one! I loved hanging out with them. Eventually the night slowly came to its end and people began to leave.

Left around with 1.30 with Ijhay to drop Connie home, then I got dropped home. Overall I thought it was great seeing everyone again, we had too much fun that the next one is already in talks. Hahah. A cruise has been suggested, and we're prolly thinking of getting in touch with some old teachers.

Connie, Ivette, Pj, Maggie

Yumyum, pizza.

The 3 close friends in Primary school

Our Year 6 Graduation Shirt! LOL

LOLOL.

Looking through class photos

Me wearing.. something..

kthxbye!

All Time Low - Nothing Personal Review

2009-07-01T22:10:00.006+10:00

It could almost be described as the feel-good album of my summer, but living in Australia has its drawbacks - the onslaught of pop-punk albums are released during this time, and we have the benefit of enjoying it during the coldest time of the year. Its happened to me with Yellowcard, The Starting Line, and FM Static to name a few. Regardless, the way it makes me feel is no different from having that burning ball of gas shining through my window. And All Time Low's third studio album, Nothing Personal is definitely no exception.

Nothing Personal is an ama-za-zing album. From start to finish its a roller coaster of emotions - from the song meanings, to the melodies to the increasingly catchy hooks, it grabs you like a cold if you were buried under snow naked. The album throws in a bit of electronic drum loops (or beats, whatever) that I thought would hinder my pure listening enjoyment because I prefer them using their instruments, but the chorus' in those songs more than make up for it. It's definitely a step up (or down?) from the more raw sound of Put Up or Shut Up, although in saying that, production still gets the okay from me, I really don't have the ear to tell if Alex Gaskarth's voice has been heavily editted or not, but whatever.

The first track on the album, Weightless, is a perfect example of this. I played that song to death when it first came out. It skyrocketed up my iTunes top 25, taking #4 most played song. The first half of the album definitely contains the meat of the pop-punk efforts thrown into this album, but it doesn't deter from what the second half has to offer. Although I admit, the verses weren't as memorable through first listen, it was the addictive chorus' of a majority of the songs that hit me. Tracks in the second half, such as "Walls" and "Keep The Change, You Filthy Animal" are tracks I would love to blast through my stereo whilst driving. Then again, much of the same can be said for 3/4 of the songs.

If I could choose my favourite track, it would be "Keep The Change...". It was either this or "Break Your Little Heart", its just soo damn catchy pop awesomeness. Whenever the chorus comes in, I just wanna sing along to it. Only flaw I can find in this album is probably "Hello, Brooklyn" - that song is a tad cheesy. The whole naming the cities thing at the end deserves to be mentioned here - purely because they didn't mention Sydney. I'm appalled. Even the song "Too Much", if slightly experimental, is one I prefer over it. The instrumentation is different and I quite like it. The first few seconds do NOT sound like ATL.

Songs I found myself skipping upon more listens was Stella, Lost In Stereo and Hello Brooklyn. Compared to "Keep the Change" or "Damned If I Do Ya", they just don't do it for me. I don't know, I base a majority of my opinion on first impressions and those didn't really have a lasting one.

Slowing the tempo down a bit, "Sick Little Games" is also one of my favourite songs off Nothing Personal. If the lyrics are as personal as Gaskarth pens them to be, then I really like the level this song has presented itself on, the emotionally-driven chorus could almost pass off as something Simple Plan could write (if they matured their sound more). Closing the album, "Therapy" is probably the Remembering Sunday of Nothing Personal, although evidently not as good. I find it weird closing the album on a slow song, but whatever floats their boat.

I personally don't think ATL are great at making slower songs (could be best left to another band like Boys Like Girls lol), but for creating a suitable summer album, this takes the cake this summer (or winter?).

7.5/10

Now go to Tim's blog and read his review when he puts it up.
http://moviescriptlife.wordpress.com/

Within six days..

2009-06-30T14:39:00.005+10:00

... I will(?) have done something I probably won't be proud of, or ... to the other extreme, will be most proud of. Here's to that! My friend set a reminder on my phone for the next 6 days, every night at 7pm. I guess its my own personal challenge.

Anyway, yesterday was catch up with the Jellz. Discussed some matters, went shopping (to which I found my next pair of jeans that I want - Black Levi's 568 Skinnys, only $109), met up with Ijhay to hand over my card, then went to usual K. Jeff came shortly after and we sunggg our hearts out like it was 2012. As a present, she gave me this:

Marshmallow Man! :D Thanks Jerri.

Today was spent at home to rest, bro came back from the snows sick last night. On my usual pointless Youtube raids, and since I think Emily Browning is pretty hot (in her movies at least), I watched an interview with her and all the comments basically described how "gorgeous" she is... although this guy definitely had something else in mind...

kthxhi

My 20th Birthday with the UTSers.

2009-06-24T03:05:00.002+10:00

Excuse the post below!

Anyway, awesome times spent with my UTS mates. Thanks for coming guys! And thanks for sort of helping me organise it!

Pictures posted here soon cos I like to.

Edit: Pictures posted now! Some of, at least.

Thanks Hazel for the flower balloon! Haha

Giving the multi-pump a bit of a workout.

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Connecting the dots one dot at a time.

kthxbye!

Part of this Sick Little Game

2009-06-24T01:59:00.003+10:00

Whose seen Sex Drive? Awesome movie.

Just saying. I like the part where he goes on a 9 hour drive to meet this chick. Except this chick is some bitch who just tries to steal his car. (I know)

Plots delivered well.

I want to also throw my shoes into a tree.

That is all.

kthxwtf

Good things come in Black.

2009-06-15T16:24:00.014+10:00

Nokia e63
After the awesomeness that Sony Ericsson has given me over the past 4 years, it was time for a change. Ever since I saw it a month ago or something, my want for it grew.

Yesterday I got it in my grubby, cold hands, and this is what I found on the details:

Something wrong?

A drain? Really?

Anyway, I wanted to keep my old number because its such a hassle telling everyone a new one. I came in the store today do ask a few questions...

I needed to ask
- How long will porting take (transferring my old number)?
- Is Windows Live Messenger (WLM) unlimited?

First I went to the official 3 store..
Answer to question 1: "If it hasn't happened by now.. its a problem on Optus' end." Understandable... I would assume so since they're the ones who need to port it over.
Answer to question 2: He can't answer so he refers to the computer. A computer that he doesn't even know how to use. So he asks his colleague who is busy helping other customers.

At this point, I'm thinking, c'mon dude, just tell me that you don't know where to go (because he consistently asked his colleague where to go on the 3 site). So he makes up some bs excuse to me "I'm just waiting to connect to the 3 site, won't be long".

By now, he gives up, and just decides to call three support. I asked him "Is WLM unlimited, included in the $8 pack?", what HE asks support is "Is WLM compatible with the E63?" The answer he receives is a distinct NO. What the eff? I can clearly see WLM application on my phone..

Anyway, I was done getting answers from this guy.. so I walk to Optus.

Answer to Question 1: I walked in and I'm attended to. As SOON as I mentioned that I "switched from Optus to Three". I know his enthusiasm to help me just dropped, seeing as he works for Optus. As I'm talking to him (still asking my question), the dude walks off and goes on the computer to check a completely unrelated matter. His answer was a brief "I dunno." /shrugs. Where's the customer service, douchebag?

One of the many faces of Optus.

I got out of there and went to MO's Mobiles (or whatever the hell its called), as I got my 3 deal from there. I asked the girl working there same 2 questions.

Answer to question 1: Finally these guys had the decency to call up three and ask about the status. They said its still in the process, I hope SOON because I don't wanna receive anymore calls or SMS's on my old phone.
Answer to question 2: She doesn't know, so she asks her colleague.. to which he confidently answers "Yep, unlimited!". Thankyou.

After much time walking around.. and coming home now..

I realised I forgot to buy myself a data cable for the phone lol. Which was half the purpose I went to Blacktown today.

gg.

At time of writing this, I am now with 3. Same number. :)

kthxtri

Finding Me Out

2009-06-09T21:07:00.001+10:00

For me to be doing the right thing, I would need to be doing the wrong thing.

Efforts go unnoticed, except for those who see it first-hand. Only when they understand, will it bring me closer to closure. The truth will set EM EERF.

kthxwhy

I heart.

2009-06-04T17:42:00.004+10:00

Well... after 2 weeks(ish) of neglect, I shall blog again. I honestly can't remember what happened in the past few weeks, except for Khaye and my bro's birthdays, and then Ivan's.

The day before that though, I think I went to the city with Lenny and Jeaneline to hang. I got my LEE hoodie (thanks to Jasmine's eyes for good finds) and then had lunch at Meat, Wine & Co. Their pasta (on special) sounded VERY APPETISING so that's what Lenny and I ended up getting. The verdict? TASTES LIKE EVERY OTHER DAMN PASTA. $25? Really, MW&C? Really?

Anyway, the next day (23rd May) my brother and Khaye joint their birthday and held an event to raise money for cancer (courtesy of Australia's Biggest Morning Tea). We went to Mars Hill Cafe @ Parra for some fun and games. We played Jenga and pictionary. FUN X 10000. Our team was coming second, but the birthday team clearly owned it in the end. :] One of the funny things was when an old lady came and asked us if we were a "computer club" LOL.

The Birthday Pictionary Posse.

The disappointment in losing... not cool.

Jenga2ez. As unsteady as it might look, it didn't topple over. :)

Ivan's birthday was that night so met up with Jasmine @ Btown afterwards, and then Tim @ Sevo, and then Billy, Thien + the rest @ city. It was a series of unfortunate events. Except for Burgerfuel, and maybe a bit of Pav.

3rd June, 2009
Up until now its been assessment after assessment. But its all over, and to celebrate, we all went drinking @ Glasshouse for some celebratory times. T'was good fun.

Ada + Moi in the comp labs

@Glasshouse Bar.. the unsuspectfuls.. HAHA

This guy allowed me to take a photo with him. I gave him 20c.

Jismine, the face of climate change, me licking the face of climate change, Gardan, tN.

Lately I've been obsessed with playing a little game on Facebook called Geo Challenge. Mostly because of how much I wanna beat Tim lol. But anyway, the game is highly educational, and it made me realise (and actually look up) that the flag of Cuba and Puerto Rico have striking familiarities. The only difference being the inverted colours.

Flag of Cuba (above)

Flag of Puerto Rico

Its just weird because the game teaches you a lot of crap, that will hopefully become useful one day. Travelling is the best. I think I will make it a goal of mine to visit all the landmarks that are in the game..

kthx(extra)dry
"Who are we to judge the alcoholic, or the prostitute, or the addict, or the criminal as if we are any better?"

PS. MY BIRTHDAY SOON :) TURNING TWO-ZERO.

Live Long and Prosper \\\///

2009-05-14T11:36:00.008+10:00

Ok so the Star Trek "live long and prosper" sign looks like crap in the title...

Last Friday 080509 was Kay's 19th. Started at me going to Uni with Lenny and Jasmine so I could finish off some lab work before heading off. Anyway, Lenny left around 4.30, and I had time to kill til 6. So I went to sleep in front of these 2 curry dudes who were having an engaging conversation, each time I woke up they would look over to me.. with this.. creepy ass look. So whatever.

6pm met up with Thien and Wendy + Co. Then headed off to Dome Bar/Lounge. GREAAT NIGHT. Regardless of the price of drinks, I had much fun. Too bad I didn't go to Havana, heard it was packed anyway.

Mmm

Mothers Day weekend. Didn't do much cept work on Jismane's present and have Yumcha at Blacktown. We got there at 11.20 or something, and had we arrived 10 minutes later, we would've been waiting in a long ass line. It was nuts. But we got there and it was packed in minutes. The food took forever coming around. We also ordered peking duck and san choy bow. Yummoo.

Wednesday - 130509
Jasmine's Uni Birthday Bash. The theme was ties and only Lenny, Tim and I wore one. Disappointing! Anyway, we headed to Newtown to go have Thai. $6! So cheap!! Asians..cheap.. etcetc. We were waiting on the train to go back to the city, and so we decided to play hackysack on the train platforms, I knew the inevitable would come, but for the sake of having fun, I took it out and we played. Few kicks later, Lenny kicks it, Tim misses it lol (well not really, but yeah) and it goes onto the tracks. Good thing I have 3 more. So I can safely say i can still practice juggling.

After that we headed back to the city to watch Star Trek. omg. For someone who has never seen a show of it, I enjoyed it a lot (you don't even need to have any prior knowledge of Star Trek). J.J. Abrams is the new Spielberg or something, or slowly becoming. Creatively mindblowing.

Trained it home afterwards, so Jesmani can "shave" on her room. HAHA.

EDIT: Compiling my list of wants.

kthxtie

Someone's a Star!

2009-05-10T16:52:00.001+10:00

WANTED: 3.5" tall silver K'NEX robot. May be hostile. Last seen on the bench, dry humping the dog, and looking over a 30cm cliff.

Something to keep.

Complete.

Success.

kthxjai(ho)

I Won't Wait for Something Else

2009-05-05T22:36:00.000+10:00

Meditation is defined as a mental discipline by which one attempts to get beyond the reflexive, "thinking" mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. Secular meditation promotes physical and mental well being. That's a truckload of relaxation and a tad overdose of peace-juice.

Last night I undertook (well tried to) a meditation session. Not any fancy one, I just downloaded some podcast, that was aptly named "The Meditation Podcast". There were 12 or so episodes/topics of meditation to choose from. Previously I had already listened to "Releasing Fear" and "Addiction". I'm not even sure if they worked, although I doubt I would be lying in a bed of bugs anytime soon. I decided I would give another one a go, and so I proceeded to download "Positive Thinking". It sounded general enough to apply to my life.

First mistake I did (and did when listening to the previous ones) was listening to these in bed, right before I decide to go to sleep. I guess if you don't plan on falling asleep to these hippy tapes, then listen to these when you're on a bed of nails.

Anyway, I pressed play on my iPod and immediately I hear the soothing voice of a dude who tells me to download more of their podcasts. Um okay. Get to the freakin' point already. 3 minutes of advertising later.. I'm told to "let everything go, and relax". I'm told this about 5 times in 5 different ways, so I thought okay, I'm relaxed. I just felt a sensation of euphoria as he continued to blabber on. There was birds singing in the background to his voice.

At random times, he would pause for about a minute and I would just hear the birds singing. By this point ... lets do some maths, birds singing + eyes closed + lying in bed = recipe for fail. I dozed off to SleepCity (Sleep City here we comeeeee).

If there's one thing I've learnt, its that I don't think I will ever be awake or free enough to be able to sit through the whole 20 minutes.

The only way I'm relaxed is with You.

kthxfly

Sunny Days Sweeping the Clouds Away

2009-05-03T12:29:00.003+10:00

Bro's graduation was last Friday, congrats to him, same as Julies bday, happy bday to her, same as Jasmine's fail study session, thumbsup to her also. lol. I will one day be wearing those graduation gowns. Frightening to know that that event signifies the end of your undergraduate studies, only to be thrown out to the wolves.

Afterwards, had dinner with family + Carlo + Fran + Michelle at a Chinese restaurant in the city. Traffic was horrible, it was planned at Fox Studios but then due to traffic, had to settle for that place. Afterwards, parentals drove home with Michelle, and my bro and I headed to Star Bar. Met up with Wendy and Bec, then with Maria + Kathy + VSA people. lol. Funny bunch, is all I can say.

Then Library + Workers Club with Lenny yday. Which leads me to the topic of um.. octopus? No thanks. That stuff reeks of crap. Maybe if someone molded and shaped the octopus to look like a drumstick.. then I would be fooled into trying it.

I'm lazy and too much on my mind. So I'm gna end it there. Okay.

kthxpry

Creating the indecisive reality often leads to frustration. It's not quite indecisiveness, but more so you don't want one opportunity to go to waste.

PS. BBQ Bacon Rollers from KFC are the best things ever.

WKY?

2009-04-29T08:40:00.001+10:00

What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you? What's keeping you?

Exactly.

kthxdry

You're Comfort On My Mind

2009-04-27T17:41:00.000+10:00

Tuesday, 21st April
Went Bowling with Lenny, Jeaneline, and Shirley, except Jeaneline decided not to play. I can't even remember who won the second game, but I know Lenny won the first and was getting near-strikes on every bowl. I've tried spinning the ball before and it just hasn't worked.

After bowling we went to Rouse Hill for a feed. Obligatory purchase of the KFC BBQ Bacon Roller was at hand.

Wednesday, 22nd April
Went Bowling again, this time with Lenny (again) and Tim. Lenny owning again. He started work after we finished our games and gave us free food. Best things in life are free. In this case, they were chips. With tomato sauce.

Friday, 24th April
Went for my green P's. Because I'm so late and lazy, I received the warning/renewal letter (since it was gonna expire on the 23rd May) so I decided to book it and go for it. I've heard people recounting how easy it was, and after doing it.. I don't think so. Either that, or nerves just got the best of me. To start it off, I got the FIRST freakin' PRACTICE QUESTION wrong. I was thinking.. shit, this is going to be an indication of how I'm going to go.

The test commenced and I was heavily relying on the "second-chance" confirmation question asking if I had touched the screen or not, because most of the time I had pressed it, only to realise a speeding car was approaching, or that I had second thoughts. Anyway, I got my green P's in the end, and my brother (who also was taking a test for his FULL licence) got his. So congrats to us both!

Later, went to Sevo to get picked up by Tim to go to Maria's 19th. This would be Tim+Adrian Driving/Navigation combo #3. Numbering these had a reason, because each time, there has been some sort of failure. Going to Ivan's house in Penrith.. and going to (or was it from?) Soundwave. Anyway, we were going good for the first 10-15 minutes. Until we found ourselves still on Cumberland Hwy. On the directions I had printed out, we were only supposed to be on it for 18 seconds. We were on it for about 15 minutes. Gave Thien a call and GOOD THING he was soo close by. So we met up with him and followed the car he was in before he jumped into ours.

Got to Maria's,said our greetings and drank/ate/mingled the night away. There were drinks, food, BBQ, games, and Singstar!! I think it was a pretty good night, minus the mishaps. Maria is a trooper and I know she'll (as she said on the night) "look back at this and laugh". :) Good on her for that, and for hosting an awesome party.

Happy B'day Maria!!

Wendles and I

Tony, Thien, Maria, me, Tim

Saturday, 25th April
Korean BBQ at Charcoal Mine with the uni peeps. Great organisation by Ivan. We all got in there and started eating. And smelling like KBBQ. Afterwards we decided to go Bowling, for cheap! cos we're cheap cunts. $3 a game thanks to Lenny. We had 5 vs 5. I had Tim, Billy, Thien and Jasmine on my team, and it was Simon, Nam, Ivan, Hazel and Ada on the other team. I couldn't say it was neck and neck, but between certain people, it was. Except for me.

I dominated. Conceited, but I did. HAHA. Not by much in the first game, but in the second, I managed 173. That was way above my personal best. But we all had fun. Lenny gave us free food again. Good times. :):) Afterwards, Tim dropped us all home, and Jasmine to my house where we watched an Ants documentary. It was very informative. They're so organised. Next on the agenda is bees.

Bring on winter.

kthxtry
&put a hat on your head.

The Ants Go Marching One by One

2009-04-20T16:27:00.000+10:00

During one of my strenuous study sessions at uni last week, I took a much needed break from all the hard work and found myself on a little attention-seeking distracting site called YouTube. (What the hell is procrastination?)

Following Jasmine's encounter with ants, we went on to watch documentary (BBC) videos on Ants. Also watching ants kill other creatures. This fascination quickly evolved, as I found myself watching videos on the other animals we share this earth with. In particular, watching them devour their meals - to which I vote the Anaconda's elastic mouth ingesting another huge ass mammal as being the most awesome sight to watch.

Anyway, there was a video on these Ants building a raft made out of the ants themselves, and the Queen Ant was carried on top, and taken across the water, then carried off the raft onto dry land. I was amazed at the sheer dedication of the worker ants to commit themselves to keeping the Queen alive and safe.

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adrian ! nothing personal says: i wanna be queen ant for a day
adrian ! nothing personal says: sit back and do nothing
adrian ! nothing personal says: have ants build me ant bridges and rafts, or carry me, so i can get around
j(*)smine * ! - - Think beautiful. says: you're so gay

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This Wednesday (April 22) is Earth Day and DisneyNature's Earth film is released. Excuse me while I bask in the presence of watching the life of 3 families live their lives.

Anyway, last Friday went to some hotel thing, that served some preetty good steak. I went with some mates, hung out, caught up, drank then watched Fast and Furious. Something about the film was lacking. Can't get over Vin Diesels character. But anyway, it was ok I guess, more muscle, less import in this movie.. Just needed more racing.

Also, new banner, I don't like the colour scheme, but I didn't know what colour would match the banner. I've already had orange, and green was the most dominant I think... unless I'm colour blind...

kthxfly

Floating in the sea of Wrong

2009-04-15T21:32:00.002+10:00

The purpose of speed drawing is to capture the gesture of a subject quickly. Now, speed drawing within a time frame of 2 minutes - brings a whole different outcome. Subconsciously, it becomes a task where people either tend to focus on the quality and the details, rather than the time frame (this is where the real pro's stand) and even if I said to "draw as much of the picture", this should still stand... ON THE OTHER HAND, it becomes an attempt to get as much of a picture in, because ..well, to put it simply - we're all assclowns who feel the need for closure.

Now, I asked 9 people to draw this man (citation needed):

I wanted to see who used what tool, how much they got done, and just how good their skillz were in MSPaint (or photoshop, whichever).

Looking at the outcome, the results varied. I asked for the black superman! Half of them look like the bastard child of a 6'2" black pedophile and Ronald McDonald. One of them just looks like death.

Anyway, the first paragraph is just bs, I did it for kicks ....and some laughs. Without further ado, these are in no particular order:

Wendy
I could easily pass this off as the most typical of adolescent drawings. I can't quite call it a rush job, or a job that had the effort either. And nothing says eff off more than STD infected lips.
Drawing Age: 5

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Xander
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you coloured it in with the picture underneath it. This immediately came off as the most accurate (until I saw Lenny's), and those eyes... seriously?
EDIT: ok you told me you didn't cheat, but lol this is pretty close then.
Drawing Age: 14

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Jelli (stupid bitch who got her friend to do it)
What I noticed about a lot of these drawings so far, is the lack of shoulders. Wonkipated nose, and the only one to put the spraycan to use. Helmet hair ftw?
Drawing Age: 12

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Lauren
Anyone ask for Superman dressed turd? As the only one who probably used photoshop, this wouldve been cooler if it was finished. BUT I LIKE. Makes his hair actually look like hair. But still.. this is turd.
Drawing Age: 16

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Jasmine
Who knew drawing with straight lines could be a work of art. It's too bad this doesn't showcase it. HAHA JK. His 'S' symbol screams Sex Whore, not Superman. Fire-engine red lipstick doesn't help. And wheres his neck? Is that a cape or a black tie? Or his arm? Third leg?
Drawing Age: 8

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Tim
Um.. it almost looks like you drew all this with one line. Contour art... at its finest? Debatable. But damn thats one hell of a chin. I don't know what else to say. I suppose you could classify it art.. to an extent.
Drawing Age: 2.5

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Gordon
Trust Gordon to do the wrong thing here.

"oh, :\ i thought it was our interpretation. HAHAH well dik... cz well he looks like one" - Gordon
Props to you for actually drawing this tho. hehe
Drawing Age: -50

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Ivan
I think this was one of the most seirous ones, did it without much hesitation (unlike Xander, who thought I was a virus bot). The first time I've seen a black man look half French in a drawing.
Drawing Age: 16

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Lenny
Cheated. I said paint. Zero points for effort, zero for final product. Now he looks like a cherry ripe with the chocolate sucked off.
Drawing Age: ???

After receiving these, I drew the conclusion.. that I like chicken flavoured twisties, and that maccas nuggets are worth every cent.

kthxsigh (10q jc for your valuable input)

Project Weightless

2009-04-01T19:47:00.001+11:00

IT Cruise was last week. Went with the IT boys (and girls) to that. The free pizza and beer meant another excuse to get smashed. It was fun, well I had fun, more than I thought I would. It ended around 10.40ish, and left with Jismine to accompany her on the way back to her other party. Possible thought of rapists of being mugged was out of the question for the hobbit. But I had fun. Met some new people so tops to that. Some random photo's from that, and a photo from LK outing.

Chilled at Jean's house on Sat night. Gave her some movies, tried to convince Lenny to drive there. We almost succeeded until he signed back on MSN saying he had accounting hw to do? Okay!

Anyway, I have listened to the song 'Weightless' by All Time Low over so many times and the chorus just hits me like crazy everytime I hear it.

Maybe it's not my weekend,
But it's gonna be my year
And I'm so sick of watching
While the minutes pass
As I go nowhere
And this is my reaction
To everything I fear
'Cause I've been going crazy
I don't wanna waste another minute here

First two lines give a sort of bittersweet vibe. Still being in Q1 of 2009, it makes me want to just take opportunities, or even just create small ones. *Cue Yes Man*. Makes you forget abouttt anything in the present. Don't deal with the bs.

Anyway, Maria and Kathy's bdays coming up. Kathy's is 1950's and I'm ok for 1920's era.. but.. I don't think I have anything remotely 50's... well I at least I don't think I have anything that'll make me look like I do. IDEAS?! IDEAS?!

DAMN THESE ASSIGNMENTS.

kthxfry

Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains

2009-03-22T10:43:00.001+11:00

Bushwalk Extreme

Starting Point: Conservation Hut
Track Intended: Valley of the Waters Nature Track
Finishing Point: Conservation Hut
Length/Duration/Grade: 4km Circuit / 3 hours / Medium grade walk

Okay, by "medium" it means, some steps and stairs. For people who walk occasionally. We thought okay, we're doing this.

Although by the end of the day, this is how it ended up being:

Starting Point: Conservation Hut
Track Taken: Valley of the Waters Nature Track + Wentworth Pass + National Pass (a bit of it) + Burrell Dr + Short Cut Track
Finishing Point: Conservation Hut
Length/Duration/Grade: ~10km / ~5 hours / Hard grade walk

Given the weather conditions, we figured we would be in for a decent day of walking. First idiotic mistake was using the old busted 50 year old toilets just before we started... only to find the cleaner, more modern toilets inside the Cafe/Conservation Hut which was literally 10m away. /facepalm

We ate some spring rolls, grapes and pods just to give our bodies a last minute energy surge. From there our trek into unknown territory commenced.

That sign is a little wrong.. well compared to our information.

We went on 4 of those.

Starting off easy...

Initially the track began relatively easy. The wide large steps that descended into the valley made it obvious then, that this probably wasn't going to be the strenuous exercise I had envisioned. But I was wrong. Walking along the main track opened up doors to detours that just asked to be taken. So whilst Jasmine probably objected to the idea of taking wrong turns or killing unnecessary time, Lenny and I proceeded to explore and the outcome was worth it. For the most part it took us to views that wasn't made for lookout points for the general public, also allowed us to discover an old site used to "sacrifice children".

Next to the cliff edge.

Lenny falling asleep 1m from the edge.

Viewtiful

One of the lookouts

Santstone. The Rock formation was awesome.

I only took this photo to give the impression I was climbing up, but we went down these.

Resumed our walk, we often stopped to admire and observe the views, rock formation, and carvings made into the rocks..... not by the indigenous people, but by people who've tagged their names. About an hour into the walk, I was already breaking a sweat. Damn, about 15 MINUTES into the walk I already was. But anyway, by this time, we still had plenty of energy left (only because it was going down the valley), we had experienced a number of fairly big steps that required a bit of precaution because the rocks were wet and covered in moss, or as Jasmine would say "moss covered in rocks".

Lower down the valley it got very dense, this accounted for a change in everything. The coolness and the moisture gave us the cooldown we needed. The ground water and moist also introduced mud. This sucked because it meant slippery grounds and forcing us to go around the mud because we're so conscious about the shoes we wore. LOl. Heading along down we encountered our first waterfall which was being used for wetsuit-clad abseilers. We watched them for a bit before taking our first break.

Moss covered rocks.

Gladiator challenge #1

Jasmine told us to tie our shoes and look in random directions.

Ate some more grapes and Pods, then resumed our walk. 10 minutes later, we came across another waterfall (I'm not sure if that's the right term to describe these type of falls), that gave off an awesome view on the opposite end (above). Being the unsafe rebels that we were, we climbed over the fence to take a closer look, and at the part of the cliff/drop where the water falls, was a broken tree lying on its side sticking out about 3m off the edge with about a 5m drop below (pic below). It wasn't much but if you stacked it on that and fell, or if the tree fell, you wouldn't be able to stop yourself from going all the way to the bottom.

So being the enthusastic photo-op capturer that I am, sat on the tree to test it.

Making sure it was stable. Yep.

We threw leaves into the stream and watched them get stuck.

Ancient tomb.

Sad, confused Jasmine.

The bridge we were expected to walk across (smaller than you think).

Making our way further down, we came by other visitors walking in the opposite direction and asked how much further it was to Wentworth Falls. A couple of Americans told us 45-60 minutes. So we continued our trek. We made our way down to this small river/creek that we had to cross, but didn't really look like the track progressed any further. We had our doubts, but spotted the small 10x10cm icon that signified that the track was here. -.- Climbed over some huge ass boulders and carried on.

Looking at this now is nothing compared to the strenuous climb at the end.

I like this shot.

Bumped into 2 girls and asked them how much further it was to the falls. They told us about 3 minutes, so a part of me was cheering, and then warned us about some steep stairs/ladders and ropes that you had to use to climb up back to the top. I thought AWESOME, BRING ON THE CHALLENGE.

About an hour later we eventually reached Wentworth Falls, where some Korean/Japanese dudes were taking photographs. The waterfall itself was spec-tac-u-larrrrrr. Would've went in the water if we had a change of clothes, but didn't so we spent some time there then began our ascent up the mountain.

Wentworth Falls

LJA, or.. JAL? Japan Airlines? No.

I also like this shot.

"Sensible" footwear indeed.

This is the point where a little part inside of me died.

Walked up Slack's Stairs and hit our first fork in the road in our uphill climb. We spotted a sign and it said "Experienced Walkers Only". By this point we knew we had taken a different track to what we had intended to take in the beginning. Asked another passerby and told us to go right, so we did. This took us along the side of the cliff, and then reached what I considered to be the biggest bitch of the walk. The steep incline of steps, that almost would be considered a series of ladders, ascended about 200m+, and that wasn't even to the top of the cliff. The idea that put me off wasn't the fact that was at an 85 degree angle, but the fact that these steps came in about ~20 steps at a time, and there was a shitload of them to climb up. Although after every set, came another great view.

Using a rope tied to a tree to climb up this rock.
lol poor Jismine
"Are you serious? I have to do this?"

Steep stairs. Or ladders. Whatever they were.

I look so orange.

Me taking a break every 2 minutes.

Jasmine was leading us and I figured she had no problem climbing these, same with Lenny. But I was struggling hard by the half way point. I was the one mostly asking to take breaks after every 2-3 sets. For every 5 minute break we took, it replenished about 3-4 sets of steps worth of energy.

My Darth Vader breathing again. Although I'm pretty sure all of us complained at one point.

I was almost on the verge of collapsing. Not really, but to the point where I could feel a pulsating sensation in my ears. After finally making up to the top, this indicated another resting point. We bought ice cream and made our way to the Short Cut Track back to the Conservation Hut (our starting point). We cut this 20minute walk short by running up the last flight of stairs. Which was still a huge set. But they weren't the steep ones. Just the normal 1m^2 huge steps.

Final photo.

By now, I just wanted to get in the car and sit down. This experience, although put so much stress on my legs in the climb, is one I would do again. Although next time, I'll come prepared.

The track we took.

kthxpie

This desolations driving you insane

2009-03-18T20:23:00.000+11:00

Currently listening to: The Waiting Game - Waiting

I recently discovered this song to be on my iPod, and its skyrocketed to become my favourite song this week.

Thursday, 12th March 2009

Last week was Back 2 School event at UTS, plus the fair. UTS had a couple of free rides, which was okay, but for the most part, they should invest in hiring more. The spinning ride was awesome, as shown below. Imagine a normal ride with 4 arms, and these arms spin in a clockwise motion.

Now add another 4 arms to those arms, and you have all sorts of shit happening to your body if you sit on the outside of those seats.

Thats where I was. Nam, Tim and I all got into one seat, and I pretty much got owned. It wasn't until a few hours later that the right side of my body started to ache.

Afterwards went to UTS Glasshouse Bar for the Back 2 School event.

Birrong Girls + Patrician Brothers

*****

Tuesday, 17th March 2009

Anyway, St. Patricks Day last Tuesday, so in light of the tradition, I wore green.
Lots of stuff happened, so in summary:
- Bumped into Rheanne on the train who wasn't wearing green, but blue and yellow, so for those that even have a basic knowledge of colour mixing.. then work it out.
- Had Sushi with Wendy, Yifei, Kay (kathy) and Albert with student discount.
- Saw Jasmine, Tim and Nam also wearing green. :D
- Chilled with Kay for 3 hours since her class got rescheduled.
- And then went home with Jasmine, and bumped into JULIE. Holy wow. Totally unexpected.

*****

kthxwhy

My Top 8 Childhood TV Theme Songs

2009-03-12T22:08:00.002+11:00

First thing I wanna get out of the way - new banner constitutes for new outlook. It makes me feel relaxed. So there.

Anyway, this topic I discussed with a few people because when I look at the shows on ABC1 and ABC2 now... I find trash served with a cup of piss. I look back at the 90's when I would come home from school and turn on the TV, I anticipate to be immersed in an afternoon full of awesomeness until 6pm Simpsons would come on, from there on after, it was Neighbours, from which my afternoon-awesomeness block ended (before it). Because Neighbours is also trash.

Some of these shows were aired in the morning too, so whatever, I'll just include them:

8. Rocko's Modern Life

"Garbage day is a very dangerous day." Rocko was voiced by an American. I demand justice. But anyway, entertaining show in the likes and weirdness of Ren & Stimpy (but not to
that extent). THAT WAS A HOOT!

7. Arthur

If I wanted to walk down the street as if I'd just won $1,000,000, this would be the song I would probably listen to*.

*given the circumstance that this was the only song on my iPod

6. Feral TV/The Ferals

I just found out they only aired 18 episodes for this show. Wow, expected it to last longer than that. But this had an awesome theme song, even if it went for about 20 seconds, it was catchy. Rattus was my fave.

5. Round the Twist

"Have you ever... ever felt like this?" YES I HAVE. New or old actors, I don't care, the stories and theme song did it justice for me. My bro owns the DVD boxset, but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

4. Rugrats (new AND old theme)

If this was randomly played at a concert or something, who wouldn't recognise this tune? Assclowns with no childhood. I found the new theme to be just as good because it portrayed the growth and just how far the Rugrats have come, also alluding to the fact that those who watched it with the original theme, were probably close to teens now (like I was) so it gave an edge to an already awesome intro.

3. Babar

I've been wanting to learn this song on piano/keyboard.. and I sort of have but it still doesn't sound like this..

2. Captain Planet

If you heard someone openly belt out this song in public, it would most likely put a smile to your face. The concept of the five Planeteers with magic rings, used to summon a being that slowly dies by a splash of pollution... amazing. But anyway, catchy theme song that I would join in if someone sang. I wouldn't change channel until I heard the DIC at the end.

1. Power Rangers

Music for when you're lifting weights, moments when you muster up the courage to do whatever you want, times when you're eating bricks and flies for breakfast. Whatever the situation, it does get you pumped, and it deserves to be #1 on my list. I also just recently found out Trini (yellow ranger) died in a car accident. RIP.

Honourable Mentions:
Johnson and Friends
The Book Place
Samurai Pizza Cats
Little Lulu
Madeline
Ducktales
Gummi Bears
Bangers and Mash
Lift Off
Pokemon
Wayne Manifesto
Genie from Down Under
Noddy
Bump in the Night
Angry Beavers
Home Improvement

kthxbye

I said how 'bout we get away

2009-03-08T09:27:00.005+11:00

Was Christians Bday last Friday. Got picked up by Lenny early so we could help Jeaneline cook and prepare for the party. In the car, we played the game where you had to try and name as much movies starting with a particular letter. I think I picked 'A', and I struggled to even name one. ONE. /facepalm. That was appalling on my behalf, I had a total mind blank. =\ Anyway, overall was a fun party, they had Wii, kareoke, and Guitar Hero World Tour set up so everyone was having a blast. I dominated the mic at the end but not everyone got to see my in-key-and-worthy-of-a-band-that-sucks vocals. Also saw some familiar faces and met some new ones! So that was awesomee. Also, sorry to Wendy I couldn't go Mardi Gras with you and co.

Anyway, lately every time I've looked at the clock it always says XX:34. I don't want to sound like Jim Carrey in The Number 23, as if its freaking me out, but its getting to the point where I want answers explaining this series of coincidence. HAHA. Jelli tells me 34 is bad luck in Chinese, but told me that I'm "not Chinese" anyway - but that didn't stop my friends and I from going to Star City on 08/08/08. Anyway, I really hope it isn't bad luck, and that I'm just overlooking the possibility that something amazingly awesome (hint/nudge/wink) will happen on April 3. teheh. It could happen. Well something better. It happens to be a Friday. I don't have uni on Friday, what gives? I'M TALKING TO YOU, FATE AND DESTINY. Assholes. *shakes fist*

Anyway, I think I'm due for a new banner.. or so it seems, I've made a draft of possibilities:

kay tanks pie.

PS. I killed a cockroach. You hear that, Jasmine? Just reminding you...

The Perfect Scene

2009-03-03T00:15:00.002+11:00

kthxbye

Hawaii + California [February 2009]

2009-02-27T20:49:00.004+11:00

About 90+ images so yeah.

So my trip began in Hawaii. Weather was great, plenty of Japanese chicks around, overall it was so much fun.

No. We flew JETSTAR.

Decoding the fun. ;)

Our hotel, at Outrigger Reef!

Crater in the background that we didn't get to visit.

Bean shaped pool.

Find me, and you are awesome.

Down at the (rocky) beach.

NFL Player Larry Fitzgerald was at our hotel!

Dad and mum @ sunset. For the amazing sight that it was, a lot of people come out at this time to witness the sunset because it really is a great view that just takes your breath away (if you're actually there)

My random shot of a couple silhouette.

My family!

Very yellow.. suns almost down aye.

My silhouette.

Dad and I

A photo of someone taking a photo of someone taking a photo.

Giant balls of fire.

What it looks like after the sun goes down.

Dad driving in Hawaii on the wrong side of the road.

Dole Pineapple plantation! Even though I used to remove the pineapples from my Hawaiian pizzas!

Our rented car. Pontiac G6 GT.

Luxury.

Drivin' around Hawaii.

Wouldn't think it was Hawaii, but it is.

Cheesy.

Nigel, much.

These waves were massive.

Kualua Ranch (or something), locations where movies such as Jurassic Park, 50 First Dates, Might Joe Young (and so many more) were shot!

Bro and mum.

Kualoa Ranch.. I was close.

How we got around...

Movie tour bus.

Actually.. its the magic school bus.

A cheese factory... well what was left of it after WWII.

We climbed up that mountain.

The rustbucket that we took.

Marijuana farm. Actually it's where the flowers for the lei are grown. :)

The two kissing gorillas (if you can see them :))

THE LOG FROM JURASSIC PARK! The one that the kid, his sister and Sam Neill hid under during that stampede.. then the T-Rex ate one of the dinosaurs.

Godzilla footprint!

Wallpaper!

Pro Bowl (not quite Superbowl) was in town.

Its too bad I only got to stand next to it.

I so wanted to draw on this tree too, but had no pen/marker on me :(

Mum copying me.

Our ride back to the airport, to head to California!

Now flying: Hawaiian airlines

My current desktop wallpaper.

So relaxing.

DISNEYLAND, YEAHH.

A, for awesome.
Oh and Adrian.

California Adventure Park.

Disneyland makes anyone feel all giddy inside.

LOL. This native american knows what I'm talking about.

The black buzz lightyear.

Me too.

One of the coolest rides.

It's a small world after all.

Toon town!

Hard Rock Cafe @ Universal Studios.

Another A.. for amazing.

Barbie shop.

To coincide with the opening of the new Simpsons ride, they had a Kwik-E-Mart here. It was so cool.

Just hanging with my buddies..

Inside the Kwik-E-Mart. Too bad Apu wasn't here.

"Buy 3 for the price of 3!"

They sold DUFF. Which turned out to be just an energy drink.

AHH.

When Marge knocked my glasses off my face when she tried to cover it. Stupid idiot in the costume.

Made me do a gay cheeky smile.

Spongebob yeah..

And Sully.

Aladdin: The Musical Spectacular! WAS ONE OF THE BEST ATTRACTIONS THERE.

HSM3, with asians.

Our families' shadow.

Meeting up with UTC (whom I met from WYD last year). Jonathan and Criselda in this shot.

The couple-to-be (when I was there). Abby and Mark. They got married 5 days later so congrats to them!

Cha, Gio, Tim, Me, Nikko, Jeanora, Alyssa.

Raven, Kim and Me pulling faces.

... and again.

Same people before.. cept with Joyce now (if I remember right) @ the Pike, Long Beach.

Our chauffer in LA, my dad's friend.

Heading back to Australia....

But who's luggage is that? (excuse the blurryness)

It was freakin' Emery's. :D:D

This shot is out of place and I cbf putting it back in order, but here's me driving the Pontiac G6.

kthxbye

LOOK HEREE ADRIAN.

2009-02-21T18:26:00.002+11:00

Ughh, well I'm back from the states, with a bunch of pics that will take a while to upload, and comment, and whatever so I'll do that when I'm not feeling like I have a turtle up my nose. Good to be back. Thanks for the surprisingly time-consuming letter Jelz, and for the refreshingly heartfelt video Julie (as much as I had trouble getting to view it). Haha, much appreciated<3. Also to anyone else in Australia that gave me more of a reason to want to come back, haha. Yeah. But yeahnah, I had fun :D

Note to self: Add pics soon.

Soundwave tomorrow.

... Cos I'm leaving on a jetplane

2009-02-03T07:41:00.001+11:00

NEW BANNERRZZZ. Lots of inside jokes, mainly referring to one person who will understand all of those, except the puzzle piece one - that was just stolen off an album cover that inspired me to even do that craptacular show of a banner.

Anyway, few things happened in the past week or so, bowling with Lenny and Jeaneline, where I won all 3 games. Although by not much. Haha, Wii Bowling skills ftw.

Also hung out with the Joobster couple Fridays ago. Always fun. We met up at Parra, and eventually made our way to the city. It was freaking hot in the tin can of a train. The aircon was on but it seriously just circulated the hot air. Eventually got there and went to CEO to sing K. Hehe fun times, that went for a couple hours. Lots of stuff happened, then rode the monorail to Darling Harbour for a visit to the museum we've all been to a thousand times. As much as we've been there, we still don't know a thing about the Navy, apart from the fact that boats can be made out of beer cans. Buoyancy is not an issue here. Afterwards we watched Role Models. HAHA. Hilarious movie is hilarious. But still maybe a 7/10.

Went over her (new) house last Wednesday, watched a couple movies, mucked around etcetc. I don't know how 10 hours went by like that. I want her piano. lol. I want A piano.

Anywayyy, its like 30 degrees over here... so spent yesterday at Royal Botanic Gardens for a picnic (with Glorz, Jaz, Lenz and I).

Opera House from Royal Botanic Gardens

Tree climbing.. because this huge tree was just asking for it.

Jasmine's pro silhouette shot.

After about 15 minutes of attempting to get up there, one of us finally makes it up.
Had to get up from my shoulders to get up there. Sadly, no gold in the tree.

Gloria getting some sun.

Gloria's story was so intriguing, it put the others to sleep. :D

Lenny, Gloria, Jasmine, Adrian

Went swimming with high school friends after that, and played some Virtua Tennis on the PS3, haha. I came second. Dumb Jonno and his winners benefits. LOl.

Anyway, Jiayings 19th Bday Bash tonight (HAPPY BDAY), and America in 2 days! :)

This is my excitement:

I don't know whats more frightening, the immersed expression on the girls face playing the Atari; the boys amazing Beatles haircut or the fact that the old man has successfully lured these kids to his home so he can receive some buttsecks at the same time.

kthxbye

PS. Project Something. http://i42.tinypic.com/2lk5p4i.jpg

Kids and their Curiosity.

2009-01-22T18:20:00.006+11:00

14 days till Hawaii/California.

Forgot what day it was now, but went 'shopping' with Lenny and Shirley the other day last week, and during this time while Lenny and I were sitting down waiting for Shirley to come back, a random kid (from NZ) came up to us and kept eyeballing the glowstick necklace we won from Galaxy World. He literally was standing 1m in front of us and just staring at it. We exchange our greetings and told him if he wanted it, he had to ask his dad first, so he did, and grabbed it from us.

Later when Shirley came back, she ate some of her Starburst lollies in its bright yellow packaging, and the kid comes back and asks "What's that yellow thing?" (pointing to the Starburst packet). We told him it was lollies and, at the expense of sounding like pedo's, asked if he wanted some. His dad immediately said no, because he was coming off a bit greedy. We then hurried off... :\

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Last Friday we also managed to drag Gloria all the way out to the west, Jasmine's house to be exact, and go bike riding with us. LOL. Quite a bad experience for her I guess, because it was blistering hot, and on the way back from the shops her bike chain came out of its place and Lenny and I were too far ahead to notice her little mishap. Lucky Jasmine was there to walk with her back.

Prior to that, Jasmine made some carbonara which was tasty so thanks!

Only thing missing is ET.

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Christian, Jeaneline and Lenny came over last Sunday just out of boredom. Since it was promised a while ago, Jeaneline baked a cake and brought it over. We played Wii (which was hilarious) and Xbox, and a bit of basketball, and also took Brownie for a walk to the nearby park.

The cake is NOT a lie.

Headbands? On a guy dog? Really?

That was also tasty. Lenny also ate some of Brownie's Schmacko's as seen below:

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Caught up with the Jellz0r yesterday. Sang K for a couple hours, managed to get scores of 100 even when we weren't singing some of the verses to some songs. Then just walked around. Went to Market City and sat at the food court so I could get my 'souvenir' from China. Man, was I in for a surprise or what.

But yeah, thanks for that. lol. I walked around the Market City food court wearing them and got some weird looks thrown my way, but oh well. All for kicks.

kthxbye

PS. Joobs get well soon. Pleasekthx.

My Top 8 Album Covers

2009-01-11T21:33:00.006+11:00

I'm bored so this is just something I feel like blogging about. I'm aware I don't have the usual top album cover veterans like Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon, or Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album, while they are iconic, I've chosen mine based on other aspects (described) interpreted by me. So if the meaning behind an album cover is wrong, carefactor = zero.
8. Thousand Foot Krutch - The Art of Breaking

Just as the album title says, and in the cover, the girl's reaching into an unknown reality. The Art of Breaking ? Conformity? Bad Habits? Burdens? Tension? ... Faces?

Its ambiguous and I RIKE it.

7. E for Explosion - Reinventing the Heartbeat

Up here for colour scheme and pure amazingness. Similar to my number one spot, but doesn't quite get there.

6. Eudora - The Silent Years

Melodic punk act Eudora with this. Who even knows why shes wearing a gas mask, but I like it anyway (I'm just being lazy, I tried to look it up but can't find anything).

5. Mae - Singularity

Everything that exists out there gives us a reason to question - there's so much more for us to learn and understand. I suppose that's where this band got the 'Singularity' reference from. Even if it does look like a scribble, what it means to anyone could be however they see it in relation to their own lives. Corruption? Heartbreak? Uncontrollable-ness? Rebellion? ... g0t rage?

Singularity simplicity.

4. The Fold - This Too Shall Pass

The album name is a phrase associated with some story about a ring (no, not LOTR -.-), so that's where the band got their album name from. This cover, I had trouble choosing between this, and Anberlin's 'New Surrender' cover. Both atmospheric in a sense, and Anberlin's title seems more meaningful and easier to dissect, but just the tone of colours in this captured my attention more. It has a hint of bland, but not enough to make this album seem like a bore-fest.

3. The Starting Line - Direction

I'm an instant fan of the picture alone, and having it rotated 90 degrees to coincide with the album title? Semi-genius. Awesome bright yellow arrow too, just to make it less subtle.

But seriously, I love it, its refreshing to see something (orientation) different done to an untouched picture.

Awesome album too.

2. Brand New - Deja Entendu

Never would I have guessed where this came from. Much like how Déjà Vu translates to 'already seen', Déjà Entendu means 'already heard'. And its a take on modern rock. Same stuff being juiced out eh? Whatever, if a floating baby in water can get famous, then a floating astronaut gets my vote.

1. Mae - Destination: Beautiful

Mae gets another spot in my list, this time number 1! The colours, the name of the album, the text, the music, the bird silhouettes, I love it all.

Well, OLD Mae is what I love, not this 'Singularity' trash (still, good cover). Their music is perfect for springtime, and its just where I'd wanna be sometimes aye.

Honourable Mentions:
Anberlin - New Surrender
UnderOath - Define the Great Line/Lost in the Sound of Separation

kthxbye

I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend...

2009-01-07T07:59:00.000+11:00

So last week (tuesday) I went to the Drive-In Cinemas with Lenny, Jeaneline and Laurence to watch Bedtime Stories and Wall-E. We came in our pjs cos we thought it'd be cool, even with all the blankets and pillows that Jeaneline brought along (and pizza).

Anyway, we got a pretty good spot, it was mine and Jeanelines first time there so we didn't know how everything worked. Initially we were in the lot/lane with the speakers that hang over your window or something, everything was good until we realised we were parked too far from it, and the speakers were as good as teather-balls. So Lenny adjusted his car.. until Jeaneline spotted the lot/lane that had the sound that supposedly 'plugs' into your car. So we ditched the "flintstones" style speakers and drove over to that one.. only to find out it was just a cord with an end that plugged into absolutely nothing, so we drove back over to the flintstones speakers. By this time, the family behind us must've been wondering "wtf are these kids doing?". We were all over the place. :D

Shoddy drawing, but oh well!
Black dots = poles where the speakers are.

Eventually, Lenny decided we weren't gonna move anymore no matter what, because Laurence was coming anyway (was still driving there). Movie started and 2 of us sat in the back of Lenny's boot (albiet a bit uncomfortable if facing forward), and 2 in Laurence's stationwagon. Bedtime stories was ok. Better than Rob Schnieder's 'Big Stan' failure, and everyone but Laurence fell asleep during Wall-E since we've all seen it.

The movie finished around 12, then headed to 2 different Maccas to use their toilet, but they were both closed, and Jeaneline was busting. LOL. Eventually just went to Laurence's house and chilled there for an hour or so until 2.30ish.

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Apart from that, got called into work a few times. Bought my Canon IXUS 90IS. Ate at some Spanish restaurant in the city for mums bday, bummed at Jeanelines house on Sunday, where we unsuccesfully watched Finding Nemo, so we made a mango smoothie... which turned out okay. Then filmed around the house 'MTV Cribs' style.

Yeah, thats a pretty big cloud.

Anyway, also went to drive-in movies again last night with Jasmine, Lenny, and Jeaneline. We saw Yes Man and Four Holidays. Yes Man was better than I expected. I just hope Jim Carrey sticks with his comedic side. Before and during the intermission, we played taboo. I think its safe to say that I owned (minus Jismine who knew all 10000 of the words anyway).

kthxbye

Time to embrace the aircon.

HAWAII+CALI.

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

2008-12-25T14:00:00.004+11:00

...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

2008-12-14T14:39:00.002+11:00

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...

2008-12-05T12:27:00.009+11:00

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.

2008-11-30T20:59:00.000+11:00

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

2008-11-14T21:48:00.003+11:00

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

2008-11-07T09:25:00.001+11:00

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"

2008-11-04T21:25:00.002+11:00

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!

2008-10-22T00:05:00.000+11:00

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

Good and Bad Procrastination

2008-10-04T22:48:00.007+10:00

Currently listening to:
"Boy Moves to a New Town with a Positive Outlook"
FM Static
Dear Diary

Reason for lack of blogging: No Time.

It was an awesome second week of "holidays". I suppose thats the only way to describe my supposed week of dedication to getting things out of the way. Namely my partnered assignment for Mobile Networking. John understands, its all cool!

Anyway, without further ado...

Sunday, September 28:
Tim, Ivan and I decided to go eat somewhere. Lots of unfortunate things happened. But the gist of it is:

Tim having trouble finding my house
Us having even more trouble finding Ivan's house
Taking one too many wrong turns and/or missing the exit.
Finding Ivan's house because of the odd numbering system
Deciding to eat at Chilli's (YAY) ............ before finding out they've been closed since March. Standing outside those boarded doors = owned.

"Lets eat at Chilli's!"
Tim stating that he did not drive all the way to Penrith to eat fast food.
............ resorting to Maccas because Tim needed to go home.
Ordering 50 nuggets through Drive-thru (finally some compensation for our growling, hungry stomachs!) ......... only to find out the chick forgot to give us sweet 'n sour sauce. Great.

T'was fun though. :)

Monday:
Lenny, Jeaneline and I decided to go watch Wall·E today. 4.15pm was the time we all agreed upon because Jeaneline had to go to her mum's birthday dinner. Ivan messages me and I invite him along. Drove up to Jeanelines mansion to go pick her and Laurence up. By this time it was already 4.30pm, so we knew we would miss the start of Wall·E, and if you miss that, screw watching the rest. So we just bummed at Rouse Hill, talked, then drove back to Jeanelines house, greeted her mum happy bday then left to meet up with Tim at Rouse Hill.

We all then decided to eat at Hogs Breath at Castle Towers.

Tuesday:
Since we didn't watch Wall·E yesterday, Jeaneline, Lenny and I decided to watch this today. The movie was great. I probably wouldn't rate it as high as Finding Nemo, as I personally think that's better, but both are still awesome. Maybe after a few more views..

EEEEVV-UHHHH!!!!

Wednesday:
Met up with Jelli in the city. Our routinely catch up day always consists of some singing, so what usually happens is we go to Darling Harbour, and watch the kiddies play in the park. Cough. And if they're worthy, maybe they'll hear us sing our hearts out. jk Jelli you pedo. After our inevitable trip to Maccas to have nuggets, we headed to K for 2 hours. That was fun :) as it always is.

After that, we went to go shopping. Jelli bought these cool striped Mossimo shorts with buttons on the side pockets. Great choice (by me). Then we headed to the food court underneath Myer and caught up on the things in our lives, but had to leave because of the ear-piercing siren that kept going off. *shakes fist*

Thursday:
Another organised day of movies and bike riding with Lenny and Jasmine. Lenny decides to arrive filo time, so by the time we got to Jasmine's, we were already on the brink of dehydration. Nonetheless, we soldiered on and started the day off with a movie.

Throughout the day we watched a total of 4 movies. Which were The Devil Wears Prada, Battle Royale, The Butterfly Effect, and Zathura. All were great movies. Only one I hadn't of seen before was the first one. I thought it was great. For lunch we ate at Panarotti's at Blacktown. We devoured our meal pretty fast, which consisted of The Mobster, and Three Cheese Pizza.

The always-filling three cheese pizza.

I was so stoked to go bike riding in the 33 degree heat, so off we went. We rode to the park nearby to go play in the playground and be kids again, then we rode into the forest! That's always a blast because mountain biking is also on our agenda... once Jasmine gets the hang of riding through ditches. :)

This is how asians roll.

Friday:
I.T. BEACH OUTING! Met up with Jasmine at Blacktown station then met up with Jason/George Wong, Dizzy, Tim and Hazel at Central. Trained, then Ferry'ed it to Manly to head to Manly beach. The weather was great, perfect for the day. Played some volleyball, even though we couldn't get a good rally going a majority of the time, then went in for a swim. Leg cramped up one too many times (which still aches now when I walk -.-), so that was uncool. But overall it was a pretty enjoyable day.

L-R: George, Me, Hazel, Tim, Jismine, Dizzy

Jason, Adrian, Hazel, Tim, Jasmine, David

Deportation never felt so at home. (for George)

Lenny/Wilson

Touch Footy with Wilson

Mango Sorbet + Devils Chocolate = awesome.

Same people before + Celine + Ricky

Came home with a massive headache but I was alright enough to drive to Jasmine's to drop off my vest for Dizzy for the 1920's party, then watched a bit of Sorority Boys. Hilarious movie!!

My weekend begins with some study now... so good luck to me!

kthxbye

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

2008-09-26T20:03:00.005+10:00

Currently listening to:
"Miles Between Us"
Stephen Speaks
No More Doubt

Anyone who goes through anything to achieve something, always faces challenges. Unlike taking a stroll through a park painted with the lush greenness of flourishing vegetation, it becomes an ascention to the top of Everest. Like the enthusiastic mountain climbers that we are, we always take 5 steps forward, 2 steps back. Drama strikes, and we're left in a state of regret. Falling 2 steps back could be because of our stupidy, arrogance, or ignorance. Really, it doesn't matter how we fall back, or why, we all have our reasons, but its the notion of that we're always moving forward. (Eventually) Reaching the top, who knows... I'll leave for those that have actually been there and slid down the other side of contentment down to Awesomeville.

In other news... yesterday Jasmine, Lenny and I went bike riding. My heavy breathing at the start was because I was using a bike with flat tires, and I hadn't noticed that until later. Oh and Happy Bday Lenny, since I didn't get to go on Wednesday to SUPPORT you guys and hang out (hello Tim), I we made up by giving you a mini bamboo flute from the Philippines.

Went to Bondi Beach today with Ijhay and Celine, then bumped into Kinjoe and Steph. So we all hung out, played some footy, hacky sack, being idiots, etcetc pics later. Lazy now.

kthxbye

Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere

2008-09-24T00:10:00.006+10:00

X-Men: Cyclops-Laser-Tag.

The Cyclops clones are at it again.
Blinded by and oblivious to the obviousness at hand.
What was once fun and games, isn't anymore.

Lesson? Fun and games leads to unwanted places.
http://explodingdog.com/drawing/nowihavetoworkagain.jpg

kthxpie

Tangled Up In Blue [Programming Blob]

2008-09-17T07:49:00.007+10:00

Currently listening to:
"Summertime"
NKOTB
The Block

Yes. Please.

Programming Nerds.

What we hoped to become. What we failed to become.

But it was a fun while it lasted, seeing the same people in the same room all frustrated over the same thing. It was 1.5 weeks of ambivalence and distraction.

It was the same week Lenny, Jasmine and I all decided to start bringing noodles to uni. Question for all the geniuses out there:
If you have hot water, what would be the safest option to put it in?

A. A foam noodle cup, thats made for hot water to be poured into.B. A thin plastic package meant for... well not hot water, obviously.

Or C. The tower humper.

Correct Answer: A
Lenny decides to bring both A and B (and decides to do C while he's at it). How to solve the hot water problem: Take out a dirty, used bowl from the trash, wash it and eat from that. MM tasty, soy sauce-less, flavourless noodles.

Early mornings with Jasmine have been exciting, I guess. :) Arriving at Blacktown early to stock up on supplies to last the day sort of became the routine. Waiting at the station also led to the assbolt. Which Jasmine likes to sit on. Comfortably. HAHA. I much enjoyed the MP3 train trips listening to thought-provoking songs. :)

Word Challenge Nerds.

Arriving at uni became less productive than staying at home, and there's only one thing to blame: Word Challenge. If I wasn't playing 20 questions with Jasmine, we'd be at it playing Word Challenge whilst waiting for Lenny. To add fuel to the fire of procrastination, it became our regular escape from programming, even with Lenny and everyone else there.

During one of the nights, it was Lenny, Jasmine, Gordon, Ivan, Jason and myself all doing programming. Putting Word Challenge aside, Ivan decided to do the PhoneTracer trick to Jason. One of the funniest moments in this programming period. Oblivious to what was about to happen, Jason waits, then suddenly the image/video pops up. LOL It wasn't the typical in-your-face type of scare, but just imagine that.. with a bit more exposure. A little TOO much exposure. Hilarious stuff.

Don't worry. We'll be quiet.

Getting 25% of the assignment done was only just a slice of the cake. We were cheering, unaware of the amount of crap we still had remaining. Nonetheless, we soldiered on, long hours spent in classrooms, even with other classes using the classroom. Xander, Jasmine and I had stayed in a classroom with another class, quietly working on our assignment so we don't disturb them. Lenny then comes into the classroom, tutor again, reminds us to stay quiet.

Tutor: Could you guys please be quiet while you're in here?
Us: Its okay. We'll be quiet, we'll be quiet.
Lennys Phone: RINGRINGRINGRING *guitar solo* (btw thanks Tim! Perfect timing)
Us: omg... ok we'll leave.

HAHAHAHAHA.

Come the next week, we've made progress in the assignment, but the due date was drawing near, and there was still much to be done. Walking to Uni one morning, I realised I had forgotten to bring noodles, so Jasmine and I stop by the closest convenience store. I purchase my chicken and corn noodles and Jasmine the hobbit decides to take it from me and run off. I catch her, and there we are in the middle of the walkway fighting over a $1.50 cup of noodles, which I offered to buy another one for her. Karma being on my side, smites JC and causes her to slip and almost stack it, with her gripless shoes. HAHA. If I had let go of the noodles then... You would've more than just hated me then JC. lol. Model and the gangster. Hmm?

Completion, Birthdays, and Celebration.

In celebration of Lenny's bday anniversary, which happens every Wednesday, and to coincide with the completion of the programming assignment, this week Jasmine and I decided to get him an expensive lolly from.. a shop we cannot name. Pictures will explain the day for now. (scroll through)

Happy Bday mate. Enjoy the candy we specifically picked out for you.

Posers!

Lenny obviously hard at work on programming....

.... guess not.

Sneaking around.

Umm, dunno what's going on here, buts it looks pretty homo.

AJL.

What we get up to in our spare time...

Magic?

Hacky Sack? or are we dancing?

Lenny contemplating how to go about consuming his birthday dish. (Thanks btw)

Yeah..

The Jap place at Market City.

Action shot! Ping pong after programming!

Hiding your true skills...

kthxbye

I'M SAD

2008-09-12T12:43:00.006+10:00

My name is Jasmine Cacdac.
Hello world, I am really sad at the moment.
Because Tim hates me.
And I don't know why.
Actually I know why.
He told me explicitly.
But one person he really hates is Lenny.
And Lenny says "Eff you Tim!"
But it doesn't really matter.
Because Tim is like a stranger to me now.
A few weeks worth of good friendship.
And it was all for nothing.
It was fun though.
Because we ate lots of KFC.
And tried to do the Mentos/Diet Coke experiment.
But we failed.
Well Lenny failed.
Because he had the Mentos in his mouth.
And spat it in the bottle.
Which is so wrong.
But, back to the topic of hating.
I guess I'll just have to accept that Tim hates me.
And that Tim also hates everyone.
I don't know if that's such a good thing.
But it does bring a little comfort to my little heart.

Bye!

Jasmine, again.
Tim, maybe our friendship has a chance.
Just stop hating the qualities that I have I guess.
Such as liking bands without knowing their history.
Or liking songs without knowing what album they are from.
Or liking music that you don't like.
But in all seriousness.
Your red hoodie is cool.
You can be Little Red Riding Tim.
The stranger.
The one that the wolf will trick for a bit.
The one who didn't follow the path.
The one with red shoes like Dorothy.
From the Wizard of Oz.
I like wizards.
Especially the ones in Harry Potter.
This entry is long now.
Maybe we can make it into a song.
Tim, do you hate this as well?
Making songs up without proper inspiration?
I'm sorry if you do.
But you can't change it.
Cos I already said it.

Adrian: JC, stop hating the hater.

Oh that's not true Adrian.
I don't hate Tim at all.
I wish it would go back to how it used to be.
With flowers and lollipops and KFC snackboxes all around.
But it's up to Tim.
I hope it all works out in the end.
So we can tease Adrian together.
Happily.
Like a happy group of friends.
United together for "Annoy Adrian Time".
And we can discuss blog antics.
And catch the train together.
And walk backwards and step on each other.
And find hoodies on the internet and buy it in real life.
And wear red shoes.
And pink sunnies.
And not take off our backpacks.
And think of situations too much until it passes us by.

Its African Fruit Hat Cyclops Woman!

2008-09-07T16:54:00.000+10:00

Currently listening to:
"Memory"
Sugarcult
Palm Trees and Power Lines

What happens when no programming gets done...
EDIT: For the record, its not a real fruit hat, its her wearing all her headbands. LOL. Sorry to disappoint.

Her Fruit Hat accomplice.. cept hers doesn't even have fruit. CHEAPSKATE.

... and cyclops.. zzzzap..lol. Silly woman.

kthxbye

Progress, I confess, is way overdue..

2008-09-04T17:47:00.000+10:00

Currently listening to:
"Freedom"
Run Kid Run
Love at the Core

Wednesday (27/08/08)
Lenny's bday today. The day started off with Lenny picking me up from my house, then it was off the JC's house to go pick her up. Knowing Lenny's goldfish memory, it was only a matter of time before we ended up somewhere we weren't supposed to (Haha). And that's exactly what happened. Eventually found her house. lol.

Drove to Rouse Hill to go see if we could find some clothes we wanted. Walked into Glue and GP. Only to walk out with nothing. I did end up getting to try on some nudies, and shirts that I probably would buy, but just not now. Had some churros after (no visit to Rouse Hill would be complete without churros). JC's churros were so.. .big.. and... chewy. Looked.. delicious. ;) Went to JC's house after, to go watch Zoolander and one episode of Seinfeld. That was cool, I've never seen Zoolander before, yeah, I'm such a knob. Headed to Blacktown after .. although, according to Ivan's beliefs, we were heading to Newcastle. LOL.

Got to Blacktown Workers Club, and met up with Shirley and Veronica. Later, Ivan and Tim came then we walked up to the buffet. More of Lenny's friends came, then we ate into the night. Got dropped off home by JC afterwards (cool parents).

Saturday (30/08/08)
UTS Open Day. Picked up my Lee Jeans from Zero. Then headed off to UTS to go eventually meet up with Nicole.

Eventually found her with her friend, then we headed to the Great Hall to grab some pamphlets. on the way out we were stopped by this "hot" asian chick, to go take a survey. The incentive? FREE FOOD. So we take it. They take us to a secluded room, the free food we get is mini croisants and some.. custard pies? And a free drink. The survey... was bloody 50 pages long. So we ended up just ticking random boxes. Oblivious to the fact that it was only meant for high school students, I handed mine in, until they realised I was in uni. And still got away with free food. They looked a bit disappointed. Hahahahaha my bad.

Watched some animations by UTS students, then I took Nicole to her first bar. :) Bought some drinks then played some pool. Met a couple of drunk dudes, and a lonely guy who kept commenting on everythign we did. Smashed Nicole in pool. Because I'm such a pro. :)... at bs-ing. Walked her to her bustop then she left.

Yesterday.
Watched The Strangers with Lenny, JC and Shirley. Hmm... like Jelli described it.. it was "suspenseful but stupid". The ending was dumb. The scares were... decent. LOL. It was building up to a scary moment, and JC was walking up the stairs (having just come back from the toilets), there was a loud shriek, Shirley screamed, and next thing you see, JC's bolting up the stairs. HAHAHA. ..... HAHAHAHAH. Good stuff. After that, we headed off to Uni for some tasteful Programming.

Well thats it up to now. I think. Left out some things but I blame myself for not remembering.

kthxbye

KaRens KRazy KRuise

2008-08-27T11:43:00.000+10:00

Currently listening to:
"In the Way"

Ne-Yo

Year of the Gentleman

Saturday:

Met up with JC at Blacktown and met her friends, Daniel, Milly, Pat, and Kathy, whom which I have seen a lot before, but not actually spoken to til then. Hahah. Except for Milly and Pat, new faces! :)

Trained it to Wynyard, and we already had the sensation of our stomachs grumbling. But Karens being a cocktail party (i.e. finger food), we knew we weren't expecting to have a feast. Took us a while to actually find the wharf the ship was actually at. Every one of her guests were lost. Pat and I eventally found it and we all boarded.

*ALL ABOARD*

[TOP] L-R: Milly, Kathy, Danny, JC, ME! (Guess which one I made?)

[TOP & BOTTOM] LAME KRU! :)

[BOTTOM] Our LK Gift to Karen. LOVE THE MASK!

Karen posing with the mask, then the rest of the lame kru posing with it on. GO US.

Playing Catch Up (Catsup? Ketchup?)

2008-08-23T12:00:00.000+10:00

Currently listening to:

"The Resistance"
Anberlin
New Surrender

It's been a desert on this blog for the past couple of weeks. The whole point of making a new one was to get me to start writing more frequently.

Uni/Lazyness: 1

Adrian: 0

So last Friday was Springfest. Shared 5 jugs of beer between the guys (Ricky, Aakash, Tim, Ivan, Jason) and myself. Crashed Lenny's programming class where we convinced the tutor we were there for a purpose.. as tipsy as we were. Come 7pm, SPRINGFEST! MEANING FREE BEER WITH THE $1000 BAR TAB!!!!!111!!1 But no, to all of our surprise, as soon as we got there (arond 7.10pm), the bar tab was already finished. Oh well. Bought drinks instead, danced. Met Rebecca, Wendy, and Hannah. aye, aye. lol. Also met some Marketing people in my class, Vanessa and Jenny. I'm so great with names. Later on, we met Fiona and Allison, who apparently says we dance so well. I dunno if that was the alcohol or what. But ok. :D haha. Fun night.

Forgot what I did Saturday night. Uni throughout the week was pretty average. Except yesterday. Walked 20 minutes through the rain to go to the Ksubi sale, only for all of us to come back empty handed. LOl. Bussed it back to make it back in time for programming.

Karens 21st tonight, on a cruise. I should've bought the mask (masquerade) before and asked around for ideas on what to paint on it. The mask I bought doesn't even have eyeholes, let alone holes for breathing or even an elastic to tie it around my head. Oh well, it came with a paint set. You get what you pay for. All $3.50 of it. Pictures of the mask later.

kthxbye

I can see clearly now (the rain is gone)!

2008-08-14T12:57:00.000+10:00

Currently listening to:

"Let's Groove"

CDB

Thursday, my only day off uni, and also one of the few days recently with clear skies.

Ok, so the above pic was taken at WYD. So what.

Above is the view outside my house. I guess I like my area a lot. Not a lot happens, but its still a fairly good neighbourhood, especially with the shops and friends nearby. :)

So yesterday, went to Blacktown library to go study with Lenny. He ended up coming 2 hours later, and it was damn humid in the library. Those old ladies need to tone down the AC. As soon as Lenny came, we headed off to eat the usual $3 meals at Pizza Hut. Bumped into Jeaneline and Edwin, so we ate with them. Edwin managed to spill his can of Sunkist, then along comes the Westpoint cleaner lady who blames Jeaneline (when she didn't do it). And to have Lenny and I continuously blame her for what she didn't do was friggin hilarous.

Westpoint Cleaner Lady: "Next time, when something like this happens, make sure you tell me, okay?"
Jeaneline: Oh ok, but it wasn't me!
Lenny & I: Yeah it was her. Its ok (directed at cleaner lady), we'll make sure she doesn't do it again.
Jeaneline: -.-

HAHA. :)

Later, we headed off to Blacktown Workers Club to play some ping pong. Although Jeaneline was underage. So we went in, unprepared for rejection, only to have it come hit us in the face, well Jeaneline more specifically. Haha. She got singled out. But oh well... next time wear your glasses! Makes you look 5 years older.

Headed off to uni for Programming. Got off at Sevo on the way home cos the family was at Marvin's house. Had dinner there, then headed home. :)

Tomorrow is Friday. Springfest tomorrow! If my friends plan to go too!

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adrian ! hey there one in a million says:
you say
adrian ! hey there one in a million says:
"no. i didnt"
adrian ! hey there one in a million says:
then we walk off into the crowd
electricityscape says:
AHAHAH
electricityscape says:
deal
electricityscape says:
DEAL
electricityscape says:
you better do it

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Good luck to me.

kthxbye

08/08/08 - Lucky, much?

2008-08-09T15:32:00.000+10:00

Currently listening to:
"That's Wassup"
Frankie J ft. Baby Bash
Untitled Album

So last Friday was 8th August, 2008. Maybe lucky for some (well according to Chinese culture, but I'm sure a lot more people took it that way), but unlucky for others. I guess its safe to say I'm part of the latter.

Got to uni around 1.30 and met up with Ivan, Tim, Lenny, Nikki and Chris (too good at table tennis). After Lenny lost, I had my go and expectedly got owned. After that, Tim, Ivan and I hit the EGG lounge for some Smash Bros Brawl. Tim won both games I think, and I seemed to be the only one using the Wiimote as the controller. lol. Least I didn't come last..

After that we all headed to McDonalds/Maccas/Mickey D's for some lunch. From there, it was Simon, Jimmy, Jason, Gordon, Ivan, Tim, Lenny, Nikki, and I. I was just going to go in for some fries... but the other guys had something bigger in mind. Much bigger (in a non-gay way).

Someone had suggested the idea of having a race to finish this huge lump of fat:

Pounder.

It wasn't until a few bites in that we all started to get an idea of how we would place. Further hilarity ensued from the result of gagging noises and watching the oil drip from the burgers (TASTY).

In the end, we all eventually got there, except for Jason who eventually had everything in his mouth, only to have all that come bursting back out. LOL winner, right there.

The Rankings:

Jimmy
Simon
Gordon
Ivan
Lenny
Adrian
Tim
Jason

After Programming Fundamentals, had a jug of beer at Glasshouse Bar, then we split up. 4 of us went to Star City, whilst the others went and did their own thing until 7pm (BiG event with free alcohol).

My good luck? Like I had any, I eventually ended up down $20 on the pokies. The most I was up was by $1 something. Then it was just a rollercoaster from there, which then eventually plummeted to zilch. Around 7.30 came, then we all headed back to UTS to go to the Loft. As Ivan had already mentioned, Thien, Billy, Ivan and I engaged in a convo about the ways of women. We came up with some theories that we'll soon test out in the coming weeks when we eventually all agree to which club to go to, and when we're all free. Awesome fun night though.

And because I noticed a trend in the other guys' blogs, I think I'd be fair (:D) to give the plug on their blogs.

Ivan - http://ice-van.blogspot.com/
Tim - http://moviescriptlife.wordpress.com/
Lenny - http://lenstaa.blogspot.com/

kthxbye

PS.

New Beginnings

2008-08-06T23:35:00.000+10:00

Currently listening to:
"Mighty to Save"
Hillsong United
With Hearts as One

Dark Knight @ Gold Class
One Word: Amazingly-breathtaking-awesomeness. Christian Bale's rusty Batman voice is so manly. "WHERE IS HE?!"

Nikki's 18th
Since I can't be assed writing in full sentences, a quicklist will have to do for now (cos I'm lazy, and because I faintly remember every detail now!).

Dropped off by Lenny
Xander getting off at BANKSTOWN, instead of BLACKTOWN. LOL
BONFIRE.
Catch up with Dex
MEETING PEOPLE.
Food, Drinks
Dancing
Meeting more people
Lenny getting melted plastic in his hair.
Singing Happy Birthday 50 billion times to Nikki.

Gloria's 18th
Met up with Billy, Tim and Ivan. Went to Maloney's first for some drinks before heading off to SOHO. Got to SOHO, dumb bouncer told me my name wasn't on the list, but it actually was. After going in, it seemed a bit dead, but then the night was still young so it took a while for everyone to get dancing - albiet it was so packed/crowded. Bought some more drinks, danced some more, saw some other IT people, and continued to dance - in fact, Ivan and I didn't stop for a minute. Haha.

Caught the nightride home on the bus where Tim was still wide awake. Ivan also almost manages to get mugged by some loser. Lucky I woke up in time to see him do it. Came close to chundering, but held it in, only to get off the bus and have someone else do it right it front of us, NICE WORK MAN. Cabbed it to Ivans and then crashed on the couch.

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Apparently, we're (family and I) going to Hawaii and California next February, so UTC, I WILL SEE YOU GUYS SOON HOPEFULLY AGAIN! Haha. :) Can't wait.

Had our usual Daytona race with Lenny and Ricky today. Came 2nd. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Anyway, I'm so lazy right now.

Time to watch "Stand By Me".

kthxbye

New Blog. Fresh Start?

2008-08-01T21:36:00.000+10:00

Finally got onto making a new blog. Thankyou lazyness for the delay.

Xanga, being the ad-ridden hole that it is, was too cool for me. Too much crap on the pages whereas blogger keeps it simple, and its so easy to use. This is just going to be an introductory entry for my new blog. In the meantime, since I can't yet import my entries:

LINK TO (1) OLD BLOG

Reminder: Make a proper entry later:

The Dark Knight @ Gold Class

Nikki's 18th

Gloria's 18th

Uni
Unfunny but funny dude on the bus
Hawaii + Cali next February
Library + Snooker on Thursday

Hoping to keep my update trend going. *cough*

Anyway, uni has started again. Not too bad for a first week. :) NEW FRIENDS! And thanks Jasmine for the band-aids - Never leaving my wallet, along with my other ones.

Reminder: Find Spongebob! And import entries from old blogs. Stupid Xanga!

Random pics from uni taken in Programming Fundamentals taken with CJ's mac (I think its hers):

kthxbye