A piece of my life - living it up

Recently i've been getting in basketball quite a bit lately.
Actually starting a team in competition at auburn quite soon, so looking forward to that.
So I'd just like to share a piece of my life with you guys.

Go here probably 4-5 times a week in the arvo. A basketball court right next to this park which is behind burwood girls.
Tonnes of people come in the arvo to play and we'd play for hours on end. Like I said in my med interview, i love it how sport brings people together. i've gotten to know so many of the people there, and we've become good friends. Feels pretty cool to be homies with maori guys as well, so that's an added bonus.
Most of the people who go there are chinese guys who've migrated from china in the past 5 years. since Ashfield i predominantly asian.
To them i'm like a white kid who is chinese. cause they always speak in fobby english to me, when i can perfectly understand and speak mandarin.

Anyways, the other night my family went out to beverly hills to eat at seafood restaurant again. On the way home, my dad insisted dropping by stanmore to look at the houses decked with christmas lights. Which were pretty impressive, but not as good as my dad hyped it up to be.

I reckon it'd be pretty cool if i could fully decorate my place with christmas decorations. A few years ago, our neighbour did that and also had the jingle bells music playing over and over again on one of their toys. got kind of annoying, especially when we had to sleep.

can't believe christmas is coming so soon. where did this whole year go.

went laser tagging today with some of the guys.

thursday $8 games for whoever is interested laters. and we can do it in suits this time. that's one thing checked off my things to do before i die list.

this post has been really disjointed. but just wanted to post this stuff up so i won't forget them in years to come. this blog is sort of my little time capsule to come back on and remember what i did and felt and stuff like that

hoping to see many of you soon at ATAR bbq. until next time
take care

In a nutshell - my adventures

Can you believe it. It's only been a month since we all finished our exams. That's crazy.
Also been nearly a month since i last blogged. so
1- i've pretty much forgotten how to type and recount properly
2- a lot of stuff has happened

To avoid a TL;DR i'll just quickly summarise some of the things that have happened since i last blogged.

UNSW interviews followed by aryan's place.

interviews went pretty well. i felt really comfortable talking in there and the time just passed by so quickly. it was so damn hot that day too. so afterwards i drove me and sy up to aryan's place on full blast air con to join some others in some fun n games.

Epping BBQ

I always love barbeques. Especially when it's with a big bunch of friends.
Nothing better than having a sausage sizzle with some few cold drinks on a summer's day. It's so calm and relaxing.
Bought a big bunch of sausages and drinks . and it was really good. played some basketball and around the play equipment afterwards. cheap thing to do too. 5 bucks a head with drinks food and ice blocks . Definitely will do again

Matt's place

Afterwards caught the bus to matt's place to stayover at his place for the night.
Went out to a bistro nearby to eat. I love going to bistro's cause their steaks aren't bad and they're really cheap too. Food tastes good when it's good and it's cheap.

Dropped over the red rooster to claim some cheeseburger kris had on his entertainment book voucher thingo. and headed back and just wii'd and snooker'd and pool'd all night. The time passed so quickly. It was already 5am when I thought it was 1. Pulled my second all-nighter after formal. Felt so bad afterwards xD
Got to parra maccas and just ate a whole load of hot cakes and headed home. Had a shower and crashed my bed for 8 hours. Sleep deprivation makes you feel so bad afterwards.


SCHOOLIES TRIP
I gotta say. perhaps one of my best weeks of my life. actually definitely.
Such a fun new experience. Loved it so much. Miss the place so much. Already looking forward to doing it again some time.

So much stuff went on and they were all so fun. Highlights for me would be the late night beach sparkle bomb sessions. the day at erina fair. the music stereo playing when we were preparing food and the late night dnm session.





Had a hot streak at erina fair where we decided to buy heaps of scratchies from the newsagent and ended up walking away from it 5 dollars richer. which was awesome. then we spent some money on those chocolate grabbing machines in the shopping centre and walked away from it with a load of candy.
had dinner at spur steak ranch which was really cheap since it was 2 for 1 night for the burgers.

Me and swami also came up with an idea of making a new blog dedicated to recounts of our burger eats and our ratings of the burgers we will try all around sydney. Kind of like a grab your fork. only its just burgers. We still need a name for it.

after dinner. hit up intencity and i hit the jackpot on the monopoly machine. so we were able to all get BEST FRIENDS bands (also thanks to sweet talking the intencity lady ;) into allowing us to have 240 tickets instead of the 232 we had) which was awesome. I flashed them in my UWS interview.
Shopping centres close really early over there. So by the time we left. we were the only ones there. Made an awesome sparkler bomb and attempted to make a bonfire at the beach that night.

Day after, me swami and bryan went out to erina fair again to get matching manbags which were on sale like crazy. reduced to 14 bucks from 60 bucks. and the bags look awesome.


had to include this in. alison found a kid's girl bike in some thrown away trash. and tried to ride it.

Just felt so good that we could live together well as a family for 7 days. That we all cared for each other and looked after each other. Also got to know some people so much more better after this experience. Cause you don't really know how people are at home and stuff really until you spend a lot of time 24/7 to them. They all became my family and i just felt much more open to them afterwards.
We had this late night dnm session until 5am which really made me think about some stuff. But it was just so awesome that we were all open to each other and didn't hold back.
Games of mafia were awesome too. Had a bunch of pretty funny people. and we went on a laughing high for about 2 hours late at night.


UWS interviews followed by HOUSE PARTY
UWS interviews were screwed up. Didn't like it much. Role play sucked. I wouldn't go there anyway after having to travel for ages to get there for interview
Although i did look pretty fly in my business clothes and my manbag. Bryan decided to turn up with his old adidas manbag. which was a dissapointment

Drove up to house party the next morning. Picked up carol from chatswood station. She got me some korean ice block thing which kinda melted by the time we got there since i couldnt eat along the way.


Felt so good to see people from school again. Not just our grade. But all the rest of the peeps. And that we were all there for the same cause. Had lots of fun. Especially picking up basketball again after a week, getting into some deep discussion and the night concert that vijay put on with his band 'road to canaan'. They are a pretty good band. Check them out. Everyone was up and jumping up and down to them. Geoff went kinda crazy haha.

Was helping vijay carry some stuff from his car beforehand and met his band people. Realised one of them 'joel' used to be in my class back in year 3 when we had composite class. So it was pretty awesome to see him again. Back in those days, he was like my big brother. Went digging in my photo archives for photos, and i found him.

He's the one on the left. Guess who the one on the right is.
Left around 9-30 with carol. Dropped her off at chatswood again, and went driving back home. Kinda got lost along the way and i found myself driving past ryde aquatic centre. So i pulled over and checked the map. Went to get maccas for a bit. and drove the long way home. But it was so carefree just driving back at night with my coldplay cd on and just my car on the road . Felt so independent.



So that's about my adventures for now. I can definitely say that my past month has definitely lived up to the hype that i was expecting beforehand. Especially schoolies. Can't believe theres still so much time until we start uni, and that ATAR results are coming out soon. But i don't really care about those things right now.
Enjoy yourselves everybody. Do what you've always wanted to do. Don't hold back
Take care

THE WAGYU BURGER

I'm so damn excited for formal. i actually don't know what goes on during the 5 hours but pretty excited at finally being free and not being restricted by study or parents. my parents have been especially nice after HSC :P

If i haven't excitingly already told you, i passed my P's on thursday
oh joy :D i was so happy
the day when i was actually supposed to do my driving test, this asian driving test guy told me my central brake light was not working, so I had to go get it fixed and do the driving test the next day.
I had a lady instructor on the thursday and i wasnt really nervous actually since i'd already been to the rta the day before and went through the motions. The test passed by really quickly and i was really really careful making my head movements really obvious xD must've looked like an ostrich
waited at this T-junction for around 6 minutes just waiting for the road to be clear, so that ate up some time thankfully :P

Straight afterwards i drove to school by myself for the first time :P It felt pretty good. I dunno why, but i must say i feel more of a man now i can go places without being restricted by transport xD

What happened today:
went grocery shopping for some food and drinks for formal after-party, it feels good to be of some help :P
got about 5L of juice, 3L of ice tea, 4 cans of red bull and getting the rest of the stuff on monday. afterwards went biking and went to play some basketball down at the local courts. it's full of chinese fob uni students and maori people
was just chatting to swami online, and he was asking for a lift to formal and this is what came across:

rohan says:
fair enough
hey can you give me a lfit to formal?

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
yeah?
umm hey what about this
im going into the city beforehand
to unload the drinks into the apartment
the girls are gonna be there too
can you catch a train to strathfield and i'll pick you up there?

rohan says:
yeah thats fine
are we still going drinks shopping on monday?

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
yep yep
umm do you mind going into the city with me?
and we can chill for a bit while the girls get ready
then head off
saves me making a return trip

rohan says:
awesome
itd be good to chill in the arvo
what time is all this?

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
umm
can you get to strathfield at around 4-30?
so we'll get to city by 5

rohan says:
DUDE

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
and then chill until 6

rohan says:
BURGER!?

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
OH MAN

rohan says:
WE'D BE IN SUITS TOO

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
YES WE WOULD
I NEEDA CHECK WHERE THIS PLAN B place is

rohan says:
oh my god oh my god oh my god this is so perfect

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
i reckon eh
ok the place closes at 4pm
so get to strathfield by 3
i need to part into the car space at meriton
*park
and we'll walk over to get a burger

rohan says:
freaking. awesome.

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
man i cant wait

Finally, getting to taste that plan B wagyu burger in the city AND in suits. for himym non-fanatics or people who are not regular readers of my blog, seems like we're making a fuss over nothing.

But i'm so excited to try this burger. a nice filler before the formal
finally everything is coming into place and life is becoming more and more enjoyable.

That's it for now. I must include a picture before i leave so here it is:

kris at his sweatiest and best after an intense squash session. man that sport is heaps of fun. really really tiring too. i recommend giving it a try, no wonder drew is so fit. sadly my phone can't capture the strongly defined sweat patch on his shirt which extends all the way down the shirt. yum

play safe, can't wait to see you all at formal. lets have some fun

The start of a new life

It's been a while since i last posted.

What's happened since the last post:
- HSC. exams are not worth mentioning as post-HSC is hardly a time to be thinking of how we did in exams. during that period went on an obsessive search for fellow 3u math competitors. felt like i did ok overall, so we shall see how the results come out.

- Got an MSI netbook :D thanks to joseph's sweet hookups from his dad.

MSI Wind U100 plus for only 400 bucks !! pretty awesome deal. and thanks to the government, we get half of that back :P so really i'm just paying 200 bucks for this netbook. Currently typing on it, and its great. Bluetooth all my phone pictures over to here for my blog :P and just enabled my wireless internet again, so i can finally type here lying on my bed.

hey i thought there'd be much more that went on during this period, but turns out it was just all study.

anyways i've been waiting for this moment for a long time and here were a couple of things i had planned out earlier:
- Get a bike and go riding along birkenhead point to rozelle track
- Go taste the wagyu burger in the city
- Go get a therapeutic massage
- Go basketball
- Go meet up with old friends
- Go gym
- Go squash
- Go enter table tennis competitions
- Go start a tutoring job
- Go get my formal stuff
- Go prepare how to cook some food just in case for schoolies
- Go get new clothes
- Go get a pair of sunglasses
- Go get my Ps
- Go crash peoples places and play
- Go sleepover

and there's more which i currently can not think of. and it'd be tl;dr
so far today, went on a drive with my dad to practise for my Ps test, so we went on a route out to five dock-rozelle-abbotsford-russell lea . most northern western people wouldn't have a clue where these places are. but its just between my place and the city with lots of water front views. doing my Ps test on the 11th, so thought it'd be good if i got used to the roads near the five dock RTA place.

on the way we passed this shop which my dad mentioned had really long queues at night. as i was driving past on the shop, it said " best fish and chips in the universe ". so we stopped by to try it out

apparently this shop has won best fish and chip shop for 17 years in a row. and the shop looked pretty good itself. on one side they sold raw seafood stuff, and on the other side was the cooked stuff


10-50 for fish and chips, a bit over price compared to the homebush 5-80 which included a drink. but it was ok cause it was supposedly the best fish and chips in the universe. started eating it, and it was ok, but nothing real special. the batter was real crispy and i'd be very happy to eat that if i had that lunch very regularly.

it was my mum's birthday today as well so we went to one of the ashfield's chinese restaurants to eat. also a very happy birthday to eddy if you happen to read this in hong kong :) ashfield restaurants make pretty nice chinese food for a really cheap price. you could get full on 10 bucks a person. and the food is quality stuff. so if you wanna give it a try i'll gladly take you :P i still havent forgotten my promise to shout you guys in the future cause we're all schoolmates.

afterwards we went to kmart to pick up a bike. got a really good helmet for 3 bucks as well xD . kmart always screws up prices on some stuff. when i scanned the helmet to check the price i couldnt believe it. and when i went to ask the checkout girl she couldnt believe it either. but i got it for 3 bucks anyway :P
went home and assembled the bike. really looking forward to riding it and getting fit.

also hooked myself onto a tutoring job for 30 bucks an hour. well the person is still considering whether or not to go to dr du or me xD i told her if she brought a friend i'd do it for 20 bucks an hour
also went to visit talent 100 to ask about tutoring there. i need to make a CV which i've never done before. i was expecting talent 100 to be intuition like, but seems like the business is totally student run. the guy there was probably 21.

got a few things coming up, really looking forward to schoolies and getting active and going places. also reading looking forward to driving by myself if i do pass my Ps. i see forums are dead
but it'd be pretty cool if the grade went and did something together. i remember the year 10/11 grade picnic kinda failed, but it was still really fun. i hope there's plenty more time to do things
dad's also been bugging me about going to do an interview training course. so i dunno if i will. i was telling kelly how i really didnt like planned responses for that kinda thing. kinda ironic cause it was the day before english.
so i guess we'll see

for now that is all
enjoy your holidays :P
let loose

Star-Struck/Serendipity

I'm so glad that i left parra library when aryan pleaded me to stay

I'm so glad that the sydney terminal was delayed by 10 minute at parra


BECAUSE.....























I BUMPED INTO NATALIE A.K.A COMMUNITYCHANNEL


and here starts the very descriptive but not obsessive recount. i'm sure many ppl have met her before, but i just felt literally weak when i met her. My knees buckled and my words were starting to slur.

so it all starts when sydney terminal is delayed at parra station. there's a loud groan among the crowd. finally the train arrives and it gets to strathfield 10 minutes later.

On the way down the ramp, to my other train i hafta change for. i was kinda in my mind thinking about what to blog about tonight. I hadn't blogged for a coupla days and just wanted to keep on motivating everyone and posting my daily routine recounts. It was about 6 so people were just finishing work and strathfield station was flooded with people. Suddenly on my way down the ramp, this girl in a grey t-shirt walks past me and we catch eyes for a moment. Suddenly it rushed my mind. oh my gosh. was that communitychannel? i quick look back and she's on the phone to someone and yep it definitely was. still i wasn't that keen to pursue her and ask for an autograph. had to catch my train on the way home. i thought oh, that'd be an interesting side story for tonight.

reach the screens at stra, and i find that next train was 13 mins. great. but then i suddenly realised. hey i got time to check out if that was really community channel. walk up the platform which i just came from, and i walk past her inconspicuously. oh my god. it was actually her. or if it wasn't. it was someone who looked exactly like her.
I'm not that big a fan myself, but i know that some people in our grade were. immediately thought to jero and belle. maybe i can get an autograph for them. but she was still on the phone calling and texting away and i was a bit submissive.

3 minutes left till her train came. i was telling myself not to be a chicken. she's just a girl on youtube. just like me. cept a hundred thousand times more people watch her videos than prefect news.
so telling myself that i'd kick myself so hard if i missed this chance. i walked to her. she originally thought i wanted a seat so she moved across

Me: Hi. Is it natalie?
Natalie: Hahah. yeah
Me: CommunityChannel right? yeah my friend really loves your videos.

In essence i was just pulling out a conversation continuer. I knew in my head that she would get that a lot.

Natalie: Oh that's nice
Me: Would it be alright if I got an autograph for them?

At that point in time there was also this other business guy sitting on the bench with a "what the hell" expression. Obviously he'd never heard of or seen her before. So she goes "yep sure thing"

2 minutes left to the train. I rummage through my bag and get out the first piece of paper i see and a pen. It's my chemistry notes. Great.

I pass her the pen and the paper. She turns the thing over to see what it is.
Natalie: Oh what is this?
Michael: Oh haha. yeah it's my chemistry notes. i've been studying for HSC
Natalie: Oh HSC, that's a sucker. Don't worry trust me. It'll be much better afterwards.
N: Oh sorry, what was your name?
M: Oh right Michael. I was really kind of star-struck and i was beginning to slur my words. and my whole body was really weak for some reason.

She begins writing away. I was really stupid and did not think to mention jero and belle's name == i really was just gleeing over the fact that I met her.

She hands the paper back over. and i go. "Mind if I get a photo too?"
She goes "yeah of course" and then i get my phone out to take the pic. all those luvos during farewells paid off. aimed perfectly.

M: Hey thanks a lot.
N: Hey no problems, you should send that photo to my email and I can post it up on my video.
For a split second i made a natural instinct to ask for her email and writing it down. but then i realised. can just get it off the net like that
M: Yeah sure. i'lll errr i'll i'll definitely do that.

i was really starting to slur my words. so i thought better get the hell out of there.

The train had arrived.
N: Well it was nice meeting you, good luck for your HSC
M: Yeah thanks

She gives me a hug and i start turning away to head to my platform with a huge grin on my face.



And so that ends my very descriptive conclusion. here's what she wrote for me.
"This is far more important that your chemistry notes" - if it's too blurry to see
Sorry jero and belle for not mentioning your name. If you want it you can have it, but after HSC of course :) i need it to study.

Edit: just remembered, she didnt write my name. cause i mentioned i was getting it for a friend. so if either of you want it. it's yours

That's it for now
Take care everyone. Make the most of your time.

study adventures

nothing better than a nerdy recount to keep you going.

following recounts include past 3 days. saturday, sunday and monday.

saturday: hit up burwood library with a friend. got there nice and early. first i really actually woke up real early to go to library when it opened.
got some hungry jacks brekkie along the way. sausage and egg mcmuffin meal with the coffee. the hungry jacks coffee was pretty good surprisingly. cause usually fast food coffee taste really really bad. especially at maccas.
get there and the entire upper floor is completely quiet. it was really quite nice to study in.

friend gave me some english notes from her school. pretty funny cause she told me that her teacher told them not to show it to anyone from any other school. crazy. they weren't that good anyway. but i took down some good hamlet notes.
we were sitting on a table of 4. and these 2 other girls come to sit down later, and one of them had really whack make-up. i'm just saying. my friend wouldn't stop going on about it how her eyes were covered with so much green make up. kinda just look like she drew an artwork on her face. i didn't really care though. was in the zone with my study.
i don't know why. but when i'm around out of school people. i feel an urge to live up to my james ruse stereotype. not the talk about maths stereotype. but the really diligent smart type. so i was being all studious is really did quite a bit of work. i was tonnes happy. 10-4 with 25 minute lunch break.

sunday: hit up state library with eddy n nathan. after the nice breakfast and coffee the day before. decided to hungry jacks again, for convenience of time too.
got lotsa good questions and material from nathan. where does that kid get all his stuff from. he could run his own tutoring centre with all the material he has. it was an okish day in terms of work done. state library was packed with other year 12s too. and people love to wear their school jerseys too. it's like a big silent corregation at the library where everyone comes and studies and reps their school.

one of my favourite things of going to state library is passing by circular quay station on the way there and on the way back. you never realise just how beautiful city of sydney is until you see that image. damn train windows are always dirty.
hyde park is very nice too. its a good city we live in. something about australia being 2nd best country to live in as well. HDI eco peoples ;) primary school friend was on the train on the way back. he goes to fort street, and he started talking to me all about scaling and subjects and stuff. was pretty degrading actually xD
friend: yeah i know cause 4u scaling is crazy, don't even try for it. i'm getting 90's in my school without trying
me: dude man, i don't talk like that == just cause i go to james ruse. i don't talk about scaling my whole life.
friend: haha yeah sure ;)
it was still nice to catch up again. end of high school kinda feels like end of primary school, except 50 times bigger. so good to see him again.

monday: i've just come back from my very productive day at parra library. picked up some earphones just for today so i could block out all the noise. pick up some hungry jacks brekkie again. but this time i try the brekkie wrap. omgsh it was soo damn good. i was asking the manager guy what was in it, and i think he might have accidentally undercharged me afterwards. cause i only paid 4-95 but on the menu it said 5-95? weird.
get to parra library 15 minutes after it opened to find jero in his spot, as he said he would be in his blog put my stuff down next to his. and sit outside to eat my breakfast. enjoying every last bite. see this baulko girl walk past who i know of, and she knows of me. give her a smile but she walks right past. meh.
head back up to start on work. and work chocablock solidly for quite a while. i see jero beside me working away on his maths

sy comes shortly afterwards. and finds a desk of her own.
jero gets to go lunch, returns. then i go to get lunch, then return. i think next time I go to parra i'll eat lunch at rishi's restaurant toscani's. it's a nice cafe/restaurant. but i feel too rude to ask for a discount.
way it works in parra library i feel. is that everyone camps on a desk. and shortly afterwards they all run out. leave all our stuff on that desk so that noone else grabs it. otherwise you'll be finding yourself vulturing around for an empty seat.
in strathfield, i see people doing laps of the library just tryna find a seat. pretty funny stuff seeing them tryna act all cool and that they know exactly what they're doing. seriously who cares. its HSC study time.
sy books a room at 3 and we go study quietly in there for 2 hours.
a really productive day. but i needa go do more now. cause a little bit more never hurt anybody. unless you're peter or ani and law of diminishing returns works on you. i'll stop with my eco terms now.

can't believe it . surreal actually. used to think before that when HSC came around, i'd be so overwhelmed cause it's the bloody-ruddy HSC . but i feel pretty good. not stressed or anything. calm and collected. that's the way to go.

oh and i think i may have stumbled across everything. i drank like 5 600ml bottles of water today while at the library. had to visit the toilet 4 times. the counter lady gave me weird looks like i was having some bladder problem. but all that water made me really focused and feel great. try that if you're having trouble concentrating. otherwise maybe placebo.

50metres to go, give that last ounce of energy. hit the books 10 hours a day like peter. might update with more study adventures later . for now that is it
take care everyone

Day in a picturayyy

my titles are getting lamer. i tried to rhyme

i'm running behind a tight study schedule but before i'm off i'd like to share my day .

headed off the state library to study. i didn't bring these books. just wanted to show off my success one stash.

detour to saint honore bread shop with eddy . which is a particular favourite of ours. detour to maccas as well where I took advantage of experience to get a 2dollar sausage and egg mcmuffin for eddy with my meal.


hoarded up state library for 6 hours. went out for a lunch break. got this. satisfying.

surrounded by business people in suits as i ate. dayum. the city business life. doesn't seem too shabby. the stuff apart from the work that is. med or commerce . either way. it's all good.

hope you are all still doing very well for yourselves and digging into that work. didn't type a long post so that'd we all benefit. i wouldn't waste as much time typing, and you wouldn't waste as much time reading, if you do read everything i type that is.

take care. study hard. seriously. study hard. less than 2 weeks to go

Study shinannagans

I don't know how to spell shinannagans. ok it's been red underlined

anyways this post is just a recount of my study progress. i rate progress as moderate, but hopefully if some of you are still sitting on your bum facebooking and msning away. maybe you'll get off it and be encouraged to do some work.
to those already doing tonnes of study. good stuff. i'll try and match it.
just decided to recount blog after reading jero's blog

what has happened:
- thursday: woke up late for the first time for a long time. extra sleep wasn't that good actually. was still in missing-everybody mode, so msned and facebooked for a while. headed off to ashfield library for about 3 hours. didn't really do much except for math papers. there's this girl from sydney girls that goes there, and its funny cause she puts all her stuff on the table. goes away somewhere for 30 minutes. comes back. has a swig of her water bottle sits down for like 1 minute, and goes away somewhere for another hour.
people who intend to study but don't end up doing it. i find that a lot . me included.

- friday: headed off to school in the aim of camping myself in quiet library room for the entire time with people, playing quiet chicken. the way that works is. once you're in the room, you cannot talk. and to make sure that happens, first person to talk shouts the other lunch. questions are asked at the end.
get there a little bit late, and discover half the grade is there. go into the quiet room to find some people there. so decide to join them and do work for a little bit. then recess bell went and decided to head off to ask st louis for eng help since steele went to france. turns out all the eng teacher were having some party of some sort during our normal double period. i think they were just preparing for end of term staff luncheon. i remember times of when we used to raid the leftovers. and lowcock recommended his dish to me, which I politely tried.
anyways devesh was at school teaching. and i hear his signature laugh, so i go out to see what the noise is about. they were playing jungle speed. rest of the afternoon was just spending half heartedly working, helped aditi (deshwal) out with eco for a bit. and then end of term.

saturday: last guan lesson ever. morning spent doing math papers. i never feel like when ive done maths, i've accomplished much. maths 3u papers are just "feel-good" papers to me. makes me feel like i've done something when i really havent. drive off to guan (with my dad in the car off course. grr cant wait until P's)
not a bad lesson. in the final minute. guan become sentimental. something we havent seen from him before. took a photo of each of us, just to compare if we meet in the future. said something about doing him proud and notifying our marks to him when HSC was over. i'm determined to make him proud. he's been a good tutor to me for 5 years and i wanna return the favour. our class used to be packed with about 40 people, and people started dropping out, and here are the people remaining.

vanessa (leung) was cut out. cause guan made her go take the photo for us xD

sunday: grand final day. pretty hyped about it because annual tradition of going to someone's place to watch it. and outcome wasn't so good. but not a bad match. if only eels scored off that slater knock-on
beforehand headed off to fairfield to study with eddy at library. that's a new library to add onto my visited list. got a bit of work done. and then we drove to kris' place for the grand final.

monday: planned to go to library originally. until mum told me it was labour day. so day was spent at home doing work, and cleaning my room and organising all these sheets. never realised how much paper we got during school. every day its a few sheets here and there. and they all build up.
did study, but keep on avoiding english. had a read over it but i didn't make much progress in english area. mainly mathing and cheming

tuesday: pooviah's class. i found it pretty helpful. just as a general overview of both phys and chem options. kinda impressed by pooviah's knowledge of chem syllabus too. rode in kris' car for the first time. pretty fun day, its nice when you spend the day studying with people, than just yourself. encourages you to all work hard. headed off the parra library afterwards to skim a bit of study in and borrow a phys book.
during short break in pooviah's class got caught in short convo with bobby and peter
bobby: you been studying michael?
me: yeah
b: how many hours a day?
m: umm, probably 7. (i was probably overestimating. maybe 7 hours including time just sitting there pondering other stuff)
b: peter does 10.
p: (nods with recognition)
10 hours ?! that's commitment. only awake for probably 15 hours. when you look at it that way. 10 hours outta the 15 awake does seem doable. eating takes about 1 and a bit. less if you're fast. and the rest of the time is studying i guess. also read somewhere arni has done 6 test papers in a day.
so that's what i've been trying to aim for each day. 10 hours or 4/5 test papers and falling a bit short each time.

wednesday: spent strathfield librarying. that place is packed seriously. people are going 'save me a seat" for the day after. in order to be able to study at the place. its majorly just filled with so-called "bludgers" who just go there to talk really. but it's not as bad as parra. studied with manbir victor and mariya for a while.
as you can probably tell. didn't get much done, well at least they didn't while i was there. their attention spans are crazy short. finally saw who eden was . not all that flashed about those stupid things. it's all about study now.

today: strathfield library take 2# i booked a room, but victor mariya and bobby didn't end up showing up. which probably was for the better. got quite a bit of work done. although i was only there for 4.5 hours before i headed back home. the problem with shared tables is that other people on it talk. but like the wise don said:
"it's only noise if you think it is. you can block it out if you want to"
which is totally true.
some girl a bit older than me was teaching little kids basic arithmetic and was taking luvos with them as well. she kinda reminded me of carol for some reason. probably the love little kids in a non-pedophilic way bit.
some guys in suits came around and asked if we wanted to do a tution-related survey. said we got a pen and a chupa-chup for it. did it in about 30 seconds. it was only about 10 questions which i quickly ticked through.
the pen is pretty awesome. or should i say pacer and pen combined into one. anyways the guys were from cambridge education centre. and i was thinking of being brave and asked if they recruited tutors. until i read their pamphlet and it said taught by professional HSC past markers.
been hoping to be recruited by intuition after HSC for maths. but apparently they are big bullies and like the exclude people from having a sense of belonging. nah they're all good. excuse the lames.
but yeah been looking to do maths tutoring as a part time job after HSC. cash is handy, and i really like helping people out and seeing them do well makes me feel happy. whether or not i'd do a good job is a different story. but lets just keep hoping.

there was also random discussion of the success one covers. and we noticed this particular girl called "amelia mckinnon" was purposely showing her name to the camera. we thought alright. add her on facebook. so aryan. she is now your friend.
oh yeah and for kicks searched her up on boardofstudies. she came first in drama.
some other girl who accidentally flashed her name too came 1st in arabic continuers
and we laughed out loud at the guy who's face was blocked by the "new 2009 edition" sign. aditi almost got blocked out too by that.

anyways like they say for the celebs just for fun. here are the following venues I will be at over the past days. feel free to come in and say hi.

friday: state library
saturday: some library undecided ashfield/burwood/state/strathfield
sunday: state library
monday: parramatta library

for now. if you're reading this. stop reading. close the window, close your facebook and msn. turn off the computer, and go do a chem paper :D . about the same thing i say to aryan every day.
study hard everybody! cause everybody is doing it. you can never get sick of study ;) it's fun learning and revising !
for the school!

take care

For the school.

It's been a great run. I've loved every minute.

Now it is time to give back to the school and your teachers.
Make them proud.
Stay safe, take care of yourselves, study hard.

Your school and teachers have given up so much for you, so return the favour back to them. let's do this as a team, as a family, as the very last thing we'll ever do together. care for each other, and work hard for each other. that's my new motto. I promise to put in 100% for each one of you because i really want everything to achieve their goals.

As strange as this may sound. i'm missing our grade already. all the farewell hugs from tonight just made me realise that it'll never be the same ever again.
My only regret is not being brave enough to know some of you guys better.

I hope to be seeing you around
This ain't gonna be the last farewell. i refuse to believe that

i love you all dearly. and god bless

My first day. and the last.

I still remember the first day of school vividly.
waking up to school real early and so excited. felt also proud for waking up so early at 6-30. primary school days consisted of waking up at 7-40 and waking cheez tv dragonball z at 8.
got on the train from ashfield to strathfield. strathfield to epping. with my parents by my side of course. with my big bulky bag my dad brought from china. had every single book that the list we got in the mail said. including a 64mb memory stick, which cost me 50 bucks back in the day. on special. we were so worried that if we didn't have it, then our marks would get affected xD ahh typical.
after about a few minutes of waiting at epping bus stop, seeing all the older grades and feeling scared. seeing all the people in my grade and most of their parents with them too.
get on the harris park school bus. sit down with my parents. so the trip seemed to go with a breeze. i particularly notice adam kelly-mill's parents sending him off and saying goodbye.
finally reach school. and i see all my peers looking around and standing lost as i was. many i recognised from tution and went over to meet and greet. and there were the ones from my old school too. before not too long. my parents said goodbye and we were to stand in that daunting thing they called the quadrangle. half the school was missing, as mr quinlan calmly explained why, which was followed up by a speech from rose - the current school captain back then. i think i might have been too busy talking to either shiva or joseph. but soon enough, they start blurting out these letters and numbers
"7A TO L1.1, 7K TO L1.2... "
i didn't pay attention, and soon the crowd disperses, leaving me confused and dazed as to where everyone was going. what were these weird letters and numbers they blurted out. where they something mathematical.
after about 5 minutes of pacing around looking for people. finally somehow manage to find my class 7K. say sorry to mrs mason all embarassed and just went to grab any seat. i saw shiva in my class, and joseph, and dan who i didn't know at the time, but he went to my old school.
first lesson. double DT. in T1.2 no idea what or where that was. but with the aid of the school diary map and directions from seniors, we got to the class, where most of the people were seated. was walking with joseph, who was the only person i knew, but as soon as we walked into class, he joined his hurstville clan, consisting of don and other people. i chose to sit next to adam kelly-mills as i recognised him from the bus trips. anyways being the enthusiastic student. i try to have a good posture and listen really intently to whatever he was saying. but after about 20 minutes, i couldnt take it no more. this mr bastian guy was just too boring. striked up a very formal douchey conversation with adam, about politics or something. the details i can't remember.


that's what i remember from my first day of school. other things i remember from when the school was old.
- no canteen where it is now, instead if was a storage house for equipment i think.
- demountables on the oval, which consisted of classrooms and the canteen
- bare dirt oval pitch. whethered by the million of students (mainly boys) playing soccer and football on it
- haribo coke bottle lollies for 30c at the canteen
- lolly vending machine, which consisted of skittles sour packets for $1.30
- coke can machines
- recycling crate behind girls' change room. had so many aluminium crushed cans in it
- richard and his apparent fame with the ladies. and his amazing 1.6 time of 6:36.
- peer support camp, and people going on dacking rampages. was trying to be gee with the LT's like leo danny and drew, but failed.
- LT's being gay
- AK ballers. michael li always calling james JA-MEZZZ
- Michael yoon being a hardcore baller, and having beef with michael li
- James (Zhang) and his awesome fan hat which he brought to swimming carnival
- That massive hill they have a ryde aquatic centre, and how we just raced each other up and down it
- Trying to join into a massive game of cricket at swimming carnival with all the curry seniors. i can remember shiva and danny also being a part of that.
- Going down to the farm at recess and lunch with my homies dan, shiva and joseph. watering our crops. my carrots were da best. until they got eaten by gay birds, and i begged joseph (my ag partner) to give me some on his row.
- Gay 7L boys accusing me of liking helena in the first few days of school because i mentioned something about her always rolling up her sleeves for her sport uniform
- Awesome peer support leaders eun-ji and gary. and joseph's peer support leader gavin, who had long hair.

Now looking back on that first day. I realise how young and stupid we were xD. not a bad thing. we've learnt since then. and all these things have come to develop us into who we are today . those gay LT's we detested once upon a time. i came to discover how wonderful and kind they all were after year 9. maybe we just hated on them, cause we didn't belong to them.

I can not really remember of any bad times. mainly good. it's been a hell of a journey, both physically and mentally. i guess it's only the start of the road. we've finally reached the start of the hiking track. now its turn for us to walk along it.
best wishes for the future.
i'll be blogging sometime soon to thank y'all
for now
take care everyone
i'll be seeing you around

100m out.

Wow. i just fully outgayed myself last night

Went on a late night homo syndrome rampage. talking to a friend on the phone about feelings and stuff until 2.
i woke up. and i felt really gay. but i meant everything i said.
and i know i should be feeling sad about everyone leaving. but it hasn't really hit that strongly yet. maybe other stuff is masking it. but maybe also because i know we'll be in touch in the future.
been trying to think about a post that'd be really moving and emotional to just thank everyone involved for what they've done for me and for the entire grade. but it's just not coming to me.

well what happened today:
i planned to go to city to study at state library, and buy some past paper textbooks so i can actually get motivated and not do stuff half heartedly anymore.
woke up at 8-30 forcefully, hopped in the shower to try and wake myself up . and got in dad's car to go off to the city.
had breakfast in qvb, in one of those side cafes. the pancakes were really nice and soft. and i was surprisingly really full afterwards.

the coffee was kind of refreshingly bitter. but i was really brain dead afterwards.probably not enough sleep

trying to do questions and papers at the library, and it just didn't come to me

library opened at 10, so i got there on the dot, so it was empty. but as usual, it gets really full afterwards. after about 2 or 3 hours of trying. i decided to go grab some lunch and go buy my textbooks.

there was some rural greens protest outside parliament house for some reason as i walked past.

so get to this asian store which is located nowhere anyone would know. unless you were told about it. its in chinatown on the third floor, behind a million hallways. they give large discounts, if you go to james ruse or something. cause the guys son used to go to james ruse. get my books and i go get lunch at coffee club

get a steak sandwich and mango frappe. it was pretty nice. but not hard to make. so might give that a go at home some day.

head back to library again to give it a second shot. and study until library closes. never feel like i'm doing much. chinatown was pretty festive with dragons and everything cause of moon festival? i'm so out of it now


and here i am typing.
i'm really proud of our grade. well most of it.
i love it how we can all just go anywhere in a big group. everyone knows each other, and it's just really nice how everyone gets along.
i love our forum and all the funny stuff that goes on in it.
and the blogging community. opening up to each other and sharing parts of our lives. that's been really nice.

i'm proud of our nerdy tag. it's nothing to be ashamed of. and we embrace it really well and make fun of it ourselves. i remember watching james ruse love letter made by the past prefects. and all the nerdy ruse raps :P so good.
just all this stuff we share with each other, and our arrogant school pride :P
other schools might hate it, but i don't really care.

i feel really proud when people tell me about people they've met in our grade, and how nice all of them are. i smile and nod with appreciation. i've never really appreciated that, but everyone is caring and loving. and i am forever in debt to them for that

and i hope that one day, if we see each other in the street in a long time. even if we didn't talk that much in high school. that we'd stop and chat and catch up. that you won't be ashamed to make the first move and walk over if you see me across the road
the lunch is on me. no matter how cash-poor i am. but don't exploit me ;)

and when all you guys are successful and have everything in your lives. we'll share it together and never forget the times we had in our high schooling lives. and how it helped us to be where we are.

it's not a time to be sad. be happy that we've been so good to each other, and that there will be many good times to come. together and apart.
may your future lives be filled with joy.
and i'm going to stop there now. before i get all gay again.

take care everyone
love y'all

Can't change the past. Just look back on it fondly

I have been very lazy to post lately for my somewhat loyal readers. If there are any. and i should be posting, cause many years from now i'll be reading this and wishing i had posted more on my life.

It's getting late, and i need to fill my co-ops forms
Just posting up this pic to express my great admiration for it



I love it. Oh how much we have changed. The memories
Just looking back on old threads on the frams. So funny to just read em and think back to those days. It feels nice to reminisce

But we must not be afraid of change.
Currently talking to owen on msn, mainly asking about med stuff. But it's comforting to see that past students are doing ok out there.
Also bumped into Sen at epping in the afternoon, and he seemed to be doing quite fine as well. So it's always good to know

Thinking of tutoring maths after HSC. I wanna help people, and if they improve by heaps, it'll make me feel really good inside. But i'm kinda scared i'll screw them up. Hopefully not :)
If you know anyone who needs a tutor. Recommend me ;) . I'll be nice :P

It's getting late. i will post very soon with a very deep and meaningful post.
Just needa think of what to say without sounding like a homo

Awards day tomorrow, hurray. 2 hours of thinking of responses to my med and co-op questions. and getting what is branded as the gayest pansy award.

For now. take care everybody
Gonna miss y'all when you're gone

Morning adventures

I'm gonna keep this to as short as possible. because i really feel the urge to study.

i've got papers just waiting for me at my study desk. but before i go just like to share my day.

Today was a tuesday so usually it meant getting up late for me, and catching the last train possible that allowed me to get to school on time.
I catch the train from Ashfield, and get out at strathfield following my very normal routine, making my way down to the screens and waiting till the penrith came. the time for the penrith stayed at 11 mins for 50 billion years. which was annoying.
there's this other kid in the junior grades who i see often at this time as well at strathfield. he goes off to catch the train to epping, so i decide to follow too.

i promise this story is getting somewhere.
yeah anyways. get to epping and start running for the school bus i see on the other side of the bridge. 20 metres away from it, it starts to leave. great. i quickly go check the times for the other buses to find that there are no buses for an hour. there was one that was supposed to come 3 minutes ago, so i look to see if there still is a lot of people waiting for that bus. there was noone except for this one man. i see a bunch of juniors leaving and starting to walk to school.
now this isn't a foreign thing to me no more. walking to school. probably done it about 6 times in my schooling life. its about a 5 km from epping to school. so i go what the heck. and start walking 5 minutes behind the junior group/team . as i trek on i see that public bus go straight past me. but i wasn't all that bothered because i really did want maccas anyway since i had no brekkie .

the usual trek up carlingford road.

walk and walk with my earphones on. it seems like i've been hearing the same old songs over and over again. finally catch up with the junior team. which i find have run out of steam and given up. they are waiting for the next bus to arrive.
i trek on and 5 minutes later reach maccas all sore and hungry. my legs were originally sore to begin with because of the running i've been doing lately. stretching and warming down didn't really help that much. maybe i'm doing it wrong.


get there. order a sausage and egg mcmuffin meal. and i remembered that matt usually never ate breakfast. so i thought might as well get him something too while i was there. got him another sausage and egg mcmuffin with a free hash brown thanks to my VIP card :D . and gulp down the coke with thirst. midway through eating my stuff. i realised the girl undercharged me. i didn't even know that is was possible. but a meal is 5.95 and a mcmuffin is 2.95. she charged me 8.05 . do the math

finally reach school to see assembly is still going on.
that was a pretty nice morning. maccas breakfasts are so nice.


period lessons these days are quite enjoyable. although i still feel guilty that i should be working .
the last period of maths today was just going off. people were stealth nuggeting bags, the girls taking photos for those memories. i chimed in a few of them (sorry) and managed to snap some photos for myself. here's one of them

ruilong brought his hats and hairnet for that gee dance he's doing. man i'm gonna miss these guys. well actually not really. cause we'll all be studying medicine together at UNSW ;) hopefully.

go to school. play hard. go home. study hard.
that is it for now. take care everyone

fine dining.

I am very excited at this prospect. I might have just found what could be the greatest burger in sydney

Feast your eyes on this beauty.

The Wagyu beef burger from planB. a side restaurant to the main chain becasse, which was rated the 96th best restaurant in the WORLD. dayumm

Recently, i only just discovered grabyourfork food blog after much hype from belle and also seeing it on chris' blog roll. oh man. everytime i read their stuff, just makes me wanna go and eat and try all this beautiful food out there. and it seems like she says everything is nice. maybe i just havent read enough yet.

but yes. one day in the very near future, it is the infamous wagyu beef burger than i'm gonna try. although its at 10 bucks, which is a pretty high price for a burger. it's at a classy fancy side restaurant and it is much widely known among food-lovers. its a small price to pay for fine dining.

I've always wanted to eat at the nice side cafes on burwood road. every so often, i walk down the road seeing people feasting on these generous servings of meat and salad and a lot of other things, but i've never really got the chance to go eat there myself. mainly cause i'm passing by, and noone really in the inner west region to eat with either. everyone's so busy nowadays with hsc and stuff. mainly outta school people, which is surprising.

Today i went to maccas in burwood to have a go at this angus burger. It fell below my expectations.

Its a nice burger and all, but without sounding like a matt preston, it was quite monotonous and lacked that tangy sweetness which beetroot or barbeque sauce gives you. for a 6-50 burger. expected a little bit more.

Anyways digressing, stayed behind at school today to attend eco study group and join deva's math gang afterwards as well. for some reason, was really craving hawaiin pizza. so picked that up from dominos right after class and went to eco a little bit late after eating.
out of 10 for productivity, probably a 6. feels awesome to receive free tutoring. but i was kinda hoping to see deva teaching a whole class. just to get a feel for how he thinks out questions and stuff like that, but it was still all good.
doug being the douche he is wouldn't stop talking though xD but that was alright. it was just funny. did a bit of math paper with don and had a go at a few integrals of old guan sheets.

as you can see, don's in very deep thought explaining maths stuff to joseph by writing on a pizza box if you can't see it.
joseph commented on the bus that the pic could be used to establish his tutoring firm.
once i had a dream that just our ruse grade started a tutoring centre to rival all other centres like intuition, matrix and pre-uni
we'd have specialists in every subject including maths, english, eco, phys, chem and bio
deva and devesh would be running the math tutes, while peter taught eco, peter taught phys, peter taught chem, and peter taught english (maybe)
well originally, it would be more wider ranged, with like tonnes of us as tutors in various subjects, and just interchanging shifts when we had spare time. didn't know what name to give the tutoring centre. but it'd be something awesome

dreams aside.
people started to get a little restless towards the end, and we just mucked about.

deva tryna drink outta a long straw. didn't work unfortunately. and just throwing all written on sheets into the bin.

i took a little nap and just woke up recently. was walking through the park on the way home and had this most amazing view in front of me. its like how you know the sunlight shines through the clouds in various strands. like from the heavens. well it was like that. except through the trees

sadly. what i've discovered to be a dodgy camera. my phone didn't capture it. some guy was giving me the look too after taking the photo cause he was in the shot in the distance. sadly he wasn't black nor did he come and approach me .

Last of all i'd like to give a special honorary mention to the prince. for turning the big one-eight today.

my good bud, and my loyal blog reader :)
in all your uniqueness and special qualities. you're actually alright
go easy on the privileges mate.
happy birthday.

oh and for anyone who might be interested.
i'm offering my time to help with maths (only maths, preferably 3u) if anyone needs it. there are better people to ask. but if it just happens so that you see me around and you wanna go through something that you aren't sure of. just give me a buzz and ill give it a go.

anyways that is it for now.
study hard and take care everyone. lets get that 99.5 median ATAR ;)

The naturally gifted

Well yesterday after i came home from UNSW and dinner, i was thinking of blogging, but i had to do my maths cause it was due for perrins.

anywhos, for those who didn't know, yesterday i went with parents to get my pleasant 100 dollars from UNSW for that eco comp which basically noone did.
i think my parents overthink these things and think its a really big achievement, so they insisted on both going and even brought the camera with them xD

so left home about 5-15 and it was all sunny . and i drove to UNSW with mum taking happy snaps in the back seat.

im gonna say this again. but gosh i really wish i had my Ps. just the freedom of driving by yourself.
so we finally arrive and it starts flooding and pouring out of nowhere. walk the entire stretch of that long UNSW entrance and find shelter really briefly until we ask some sydney boys where the heck the presentation is. coincidentally one of the guys didnt bring his umbrella, so he sheltered under mine.
during the brief 30 seconds or so, i found out he was one of Gabriel's church buddies . so hey mutual friends. thats cool

walk into the hall or whatever you want to call it. pants all drenched despite the umbrella, hoping for some sort of food or refreshments. pick up program and name tag and wait there for a while with the other ruse guys discussing estimates and stuff. i have a quick look through my program. people i havent seen for a long time were on the list. so i was kind of eagerly searching for their whereabouts. sadly they didnt come.
some sydney girl walks over and we later discover its Shiva's ex -girlfriend. and we leave em to chat for a while . she also happens to be the National winner for eco in the junior division
finally we get let into the main presentation hall by what seems like the cadets of PWC. and long story short, the rest of it went by quite quickly actually. it was pretty disorganised too. students and parents were just sitting everywhere, and the cadets were tryna get people to move.
During the presentation. my name gets left out for some disorganised reason. so i hafta go up on stage. whisper my name into the guy's ear for me to walk up and recieve my imaginary certificate and shake the head professor of economics or something. later on they do find it

peter chen gets his long awaited trophy. and must i say. it looked pretty sweet.
one of those clear ones with his name and some other stuff imprinted into the glass. mr dunkerley was pretty pleased in eco today as well. as seemed as if he was licking his lips at the thought of holding that trophy and having taught the student who came 1st in Australia for the comp.

Afterwards we chow down some chicken kebab sticks and drinks and head off to eat crab at seafood restaurant. the end

I'm sorry that this post has been very disjointed. but i have some pics to share from the night.

shiva with his award looking smug


parents making me go and get a photo with this guy afterwards with my eventually found certificate


the naturally gifted man getting ready for his moment of glory


peter recieving his trophy. you can't see it cause its glass and seethrough


UNSW entrance at night