the nerding lifestyle.

get up this morning. oh shizz its nearly 10-30 better go do a maths paper before goin to friends place.
do some maths for a while and call up my friend. apparently nba wasnt on hd so that sucked so i decided to nerd out at the library instead
and after being there now for a lot of time (3-4 times a week) you sorta know the people there and they know u. not the you talk to them kinda people but the you know who they are, they know who u are kinda type.
sit my butt down in one of seats and start munching on my kfc snack box while reading weekend financial review. the paper wasnt that good. and some guy from across the table seemed like he was really irritated by me. as soon as some other guy left. he made a quick jump for the seat to get away from me. i wasnt evn talkin or anythin just quitely reading my paper. i think it was the smell of the food . kfc smells so nice
anyways put down the paper and start doin some physics as this stuff really bugs me no matter how many times i read it. coincidentally on the table next to me, some chinese guy is tutoring the exact same page im reading to these two chinese overseas student girls. and i could overhear them talkin in mandarin about how the book i was reading was the same and how they have the new edition or wuteva
anyways so im there reading through the pages while the guys goin on explainin it in mandarin which i understand. so i guess i understand it now i just scabbed free tution :P sweet. free rider problem. eco people know what im talkin about.

get quite a bit of physics done plus sum 4u maths paper which i found pretty challenging stuff. i like hard papers cause it separates people out and i like 4u maths kinda thing. only i wish 3u papers were kinda like that too

around 3 i get off to head off to epping for ben's place. found out stupid cityrail had trackwork in my area and i had to catch crammy railbus. but surprisingly it was really fast and i got to epping around 3-30. 3-30 oh im early, so i decide to hop off to epping library to do sum more nerding out and finish this 4u paper. i;m doin work for like 10 mins without realising carol's right on the opposite of me doin bio . but we were sitting in on of those self isolating study desks and i couldnt see carol over it cause she's so small.
at around 4 carol goes to head off to ben's, i decide to stick around for a while cause i was eyeing some person from across which i thought i knew and i was tryna think if it was actually that person. cause nothing's worse then tapping someone on the shoulder and it's completely someone else.
well i decided it was. so i tapped her on the shoulder and she was doin her nsg past papers cause they have 3u test soon. asks me this simple induction question her grade cant get. which surprised me. cause their best person must be at least in maths 1 in our school. did it for her haha. felt pretty proud of myself and went to ben's.

get there. carol's not there . turns up like 30 mins later with this heineken keg for ben and they were desperately trying to hide it from ben's parents

go there watch knights game for a while, eat for a while. pretty good food. i always love a barbeque . nice meat. and i head off after like 1.5 hours
living far away sucks so bad.
you hafta travel tonnes far to get to people's places let alone school. and theres noone who lives close to you from school.
when it comes to sum1 have a party at their place or wuteva, i'm usually the first one to leave cause i live far away and parents cant pick me up. sucks

made productive use of travel time by digging my head into my 4u maths textbook.

i guess we've just got used to this kind of lifestyle, studying in every spare minute you've got. i dun really think people could make better use of a time. i wish i could still play a team sport on the weekend or attend church
wen i have kids. i'd want them to do a saturday sport like soccer. like the idea of that kind of saturday morning lifestyle. waking up in the morning to my beautiful wife :) pouring a pot of tea of coffee and eating my yummy hearty breakfast while watchin the news something. gettin the kids dressed up for soccer. bring the cooler and chair to the game to watch my kids play and chattin to the other dads. and after the game unwinding at some restaurant to eat lunch with the family. thats my ideal saturday morning lifestyle. kinda stereotypical too.

i've been staring at this maths paper for ages always scanning it and goin yeah i'll do that later. yeah that looks alright. no biggie. but i never actually dig in and do it.

time to pick up the pace. no computer for this week. except for research
relationships can be very time wasting but i guess it's worth it. but for now. some sacrifices.

that's my daily recap. hope to blog in a week's time
ill end with this pic

i have this pic on my bedroom wall cause i was testing out the printer.
macquarie ice skating '06
quite a while back. first time ice skating in Australia. went overseas the year before and learnt then . ruilong looks short there cause he wasnt wearing skating shoes and chose to pimp it with betty instead of ice skating lol :P
i guess this for me was the opening to gettin to know a lot more other people.and they've become good friends. also discovered eddison ice skates so bloody fast. everyone else is just goin at a leisurely pace and eddison just zooms past everyone.

ergh biggest loser america is on right now. kinda sick of these reality shows except for masterchef

to be or not to be

guan's awesome. pulled off that line while he was teaching us probability. and altho the class didnt say anything. i think we all smirked a little inside
really good lesson today. i love learning these new super smart uncanny methods and techniques. thinking outside the square and executing the solution really impresses me. like for example today guan showed us how to do one of these hard probability questions by using geometry. got it in like 3 lines. ingenius.

anyways moving on. i'm in kind of a drifty state after reading joseph's blog. very insightful stuff.
and i'm kinda eating up time as well until my girlfriend comes on so i can talk to her and ask her bout chem & phys research.

i have a feeling that people will start stressing and pulling hair out from now. 3 weeks for me is my alarm bell to start gettin off my butt and doin some stuff. but all i can think of now really are those beautiful fish and chips i had yesterday. and watchin masterchef didnt make it any better
i like watchin the masterclasses cause it's something u can actually do.
i wish i was that fat scarf critic dude on there and just tasted good food all day
they showed how to make a delicious fish which is quite simple and great chips.

yum. i'm gonna try that one day.


and the steak. ohh the perfect steak is so so good. i love hogs breath steak. so soft and yummy. i wonder if anything they make up there in masterclass is actually not that tasty, but the contestants go yumm and look like they're in heaven just for the camera. how good can chips get. it cant be far off from normal chips. but they still oohhh and ahhhh in pleasure

sorry here i am drifting off to food again.


i really enjoy reading shakespeare. once i actually get what it means. and thanks to my no fear shakespeare version of hamlet. it makes it much easier. basically it just has the normal play text on the left, and a translated version on the right. so much easier . the language he uses is so stylish and smooth and the analogies he brings in are so deep. what hamlet says also makes me think.
like the only reason we fear death, is because we don't know what is on the other side. you know. is it bad, is it good, is there even an other side. what do we become. and what good is a human if he just eats and sleeps all day. no compassion, no adventure, no excitement, no heart. what is life meant to be for. are we just here for the experience, is there a purpose we are here.
i guess there's where religion comes in
some believe this some believe that. but in the end. someone's gotta be wrong
i dunno where religions begin. but one of these. some dude's just gotta have gone hey this is the way it is. sorry if i offend some people, it's just the way i think
for me. i'm a christian. not a very strong one. used to attend church but not anymore. ISCF and that's about it. i'm not very open to my christianity. don't talk about it often mainly because people take it the wrong way and cant see it from ur point of view, or think it's all mindwash which is fair enuff cause i can understand that. just surprised they dun have a spiritual sense


for today's memory section

src week. monday '08
wow peter looks weird there with the long hair.
for me, it was probably the first time i was in charge of something, and to come out of it with lots of success . that was really nice
handball tournament was good and everyone seemed really into it and pizzas were all gone in a flash so all good. the pres was delighted

best fish and chips . EVAA

my life is complete. these hafta be the greatest fish and chips in the whole of sydney. they say fish and chips is pretty good in nz. but for now this homebush hut will do. big huge fish and stacks of chips sprinkled with chicken salt and complimented with a lemon all wrapped in paper old style. topped off with a can of mountain dew $5.80

please excuse me talkin about food but:
1. i cant really think of bothering issues or philosophical thoughts right now
2. best fish and chips EVVAAA

food is an essential part of my life. its sumthin i really look forward to and sumthin i really enjoy
dont get me wrong but i think guys appreciate food more than girls. cause wen they eat . there's no talkin. it's just looking at the food and eating. and even if there is talkin. it's about how good the food their eating is.



tday we had shave for a cure. pretty fun stuff. swami gettin his head shaved. i think the look suits him looks sharp. but victor took it too far. that's just not cool to shave and screw up someone's eyebrows. bobby told me just then he nearly got bashed goin home.
i'm feeling really unmotivated anymore to do prefect stuff. i think it's either cause i've been sick and tired the whole week or that i've just worn out. still needa come up with a end of term 2 assembly and end prefect video with our exams in between as well. it's gonna be hard

i'll keep this blog short. perhaps 1 or 2 more posts and then there'll be a long gap
need to really start picking up and do research and all this other stuff. phys bugs me.


i'll probably stop doin these memories things too. im bleeding photos. there aint much left

this was very fun to do. haka performance for year 10 multicultural night. and the whole crowd was laffing mainly cause it looked like 10 scrawny asians (except danny) tryna be scary tank maori's . previously i hadnt been to many school night events mainly cause of the distance i live from the school. but that was the start to many fun night events.

kalixocin is my friend.

i wasnt able to blog yesterday as i was feeling terribly ill. slept for sumwhat around 15 hours yesterday. breaking out in sweat cause of fever.
but thanks to my good friend kalixocin :) im feeling all good now.



today afternoon i was feeling a little bit hungry . so then i remembered that homebush boys was having an afternoon tea today. so i thought. hey whats better than getting free food :P
caught the train to homebush and mariya walked me halfway there before she went home.
their afternoon tea was kind of dissapointing really. i had to leave halfway through but it was a poor turn out (30-35) and most of them were the homebush boys anyway with a few strathfield girls and plc and random inner west schools. played a bit of musical chairs before i left. which was kinda fun but at the same kinda awkward to be rubbing butts against strathfield girls and plc in an attempt to get ur butt on a seat. made it to the top 3 before i decided not to fight over a seat with this other girl as this other guy with his jersey name ">god" was really determined and there was no way you could get his seat.

they actually have hospitality as a subject over there at homebush and there were people dressed in chef costumes to serve us food. shulda taken a foto of their awesome uniform but unfortunately i didnt. and unfortunately the food they made werent as good either. the chicken wasn't moist and slightly overcooked and the dipping sauces werent sumthin u'd wanna dip into again and again. and the pizza was too heavy on cheese and that just dominated everything else that was on it. and the spring rolls were dry and not very crispy. i think i'm watching masterchef too much.

i'm gonna finish it there.havent done work for ages due to my sickness. here's a coupla fotos to sum it up


final round of musical chairs.



my favourite place to get fish and chips. the fish is soo good. damn victor's a regular there too. only cause he's white and tall. so the woman can recognise him.


for all the haters. that's right.


and for michael's memory moment..


year 9 camp. haha eddy looks like he's having a nice dream
pretty awesome stuff. long nights, adventurous excursions around canberra and fun bus trips. fun and very painful actually. i can still remember on the bus trip on our way there. playing yellow car with shirin, larissa and jero. my leg was so red and sore after an hour. that girl's got one hell of a slap. and then we watched some boring movie. which i cant remember what it was. but then the ending was really good but sad as well. this guy who was crippled or sumthin decided to commit suicide by burning himself up. if anyone knows the name. i'd love to watch it again

nights were spent crammed into a 4 man room with about 20 people. ballyntyne took one look at our cabin, went 'holy cow', and just left.

mr ye times

well it's currently 12:01 am. and im just doin my daily post now so that i wont hafta have the temptation of coming onto computer tonight.

i just recently recieved an email from facebook. and u know how annoying those things are . but what surprised me was that it was an email that tagged me in a foto from way way back. and seeing that foto just brought back so many memories.
so many people used to go to mr ye.
what mr ye was . it was a selective school tution centre where all these asian kids used to go to cause apparently it was good. just listing some names from the top of my head. eddison, ruilong, tanya, laura, emma, me, nicole, suzanna, joseph, mawson, benny, bobby all went there. i'm prob missing a lot since about 20-30 people in our grade used to all go there
i guess this foto kinda fits under my memory category for today since i wanna go to sleep :)

see if you can recognise anyone. i still remember whining to my mum about her making me wear this plain orange shirt to the farewell thing. lol at bobby . and as you can see. the girls (nicole, emma, laura) were way taller than us guys (me, ruilong, joseph, bobby) back then. amazing



oh man. those times were so good. nintendo 64. table tennis. now all those things were gone :( i also remember mawson being the ladies man because he was so smart and used to come first every time. and the asian parents like usual would always want you to beat him. but it was like impossible.

will blog on wednesday with better stuff :) this will do for now

L.N.H.S

i will be making this post very short as i am off to take my 1 hour nap :) so i can be refreshed and go study
but the problem is. it just encourages this vicious cycle which is really unhealthy and stunts my growth. not that i need to be any taller :P
once i take a one hour nap around this time. it usually means i cant fall asleep until around 12:30 and then i hafta get up at 6:30 which leaves me sleepy for the rest of the day until i can finally get home and get sum sleep. and the cycle continues

well anyways the purpose of this blog is to introduce a new term of mine. sorry i really cant think of anything else. my day has been uneventful .

well LNHS is what i'd like to call the late-night-homo state. which i'd like to think it applies to most guys
what happens is. wen its really late at night. say like 1 or 2. some guys get really girly and in touch with their emotions and they just release all of these emotions out. thats why its call the late night homo state. its like your almost in a love-drunken state and u just cant help but saying all this homo sweet stuff
and you wake up the next morning thinking. what the hell was i saying.but you're kinda glad u said it anyway. guys have too much pride to say all this loveydovey stuff wen their normal.

here's a foto i took in physics today of aryan 'robin' shahabi. this one's for you aryan. just to cheer u up after you got beat by us in 3 on 3 :P i know you're reading my blog



i'm running really short of these memory fotos. many memories dun have a foto to go with them. but i dug deep



hockey knockout '08. now that was a team. a bunch of people who didnt really know anythin about hockey. we did a pretty good job to beat doonside 1-0 . and to this point i can proudly say that team is still undefeated. cause we never really got to verse our next round opponents glenwood. the grade sport team played for us and lost. we look so happy in that foto. mainly cause danny's dad just said thank you in a really fobby canto accent so we were all laughing

Under Pressure

this is gonna be a pretty blindsighted and hypocritical post.
but just recently. i've been finding myself under a lot of pressure to perform.


especially from my dad.

every 10 minutes or so, if im taking a break from work by blogging, or watchin basketball, or chatting to friends. it'll always be the same thing
STOP PLAYING AND DO YOUR WORK.
and i just crack it.
you know. what is this all for. sitting at my desk staring at textbooks all day tryna get these good results.
and when i do. noooo its still not good enuff. they always try to find a fault in you.
this time i was really happy with my results. did well in almost everythin except for physics which was 53rd/96 people. not bad for your worst subject.
but nooo. my physics is under average. just not acceptable. if i dun do well in physics then i'll bring shame to the family cause my grandfather is a physics professor ==.
sometimes i think parents are so focused on one thing. that they are oblivious to see the effects of it. that one thing. the high UAI.
i work so hard to earn my father's praise but it always seems like i fall short.

and what happens if i do get the UAI in the end. you know. will it be much better. will life be much much better . will sacrificing my adolescence be all worth it
altho in saying that. i have had some good times. but all those things i couldve been doing out there instead of putting my head down and reading word after word of some textbook.

i figured out . that in the end. all we ever work for is money. its how the world works. its run by the ambition for money. money helps us buy things to make our life seem better.
money gives us the incentive to succeed. but it also is the cause of crime, murder,dishonesty.
my mind has gone blank now. so i will end it there

back to a time when there wasnt so much pressure


year 10 formal. that was a really fun night :) basically the first time you saw everyone dressed up and everything and you know. it was kinda a new thing.
lotsa fotos. lotsa dancing.
the grade seemed to be really together too and overall . it was a good night

the stupid things we do

something that happened in english the other day made me think back to a very fond memory. and i still crack up at it everytime i think about it

what happened was. steeele was tryna get the damn smart board to work, which she accused me of screwing up. and as she was trying to get it to work. you could see the dvd screensaver. actually i might have got the dates wrong. but anyways i will continue
i dunno if many of you know what i'm talking about. but on the school's dvd screensaver, there's this little cube kinda thing which says 'dvd video'on it that bounces around the screen deflecting itself. if you still dont know what im talking about. just think of it as a ball on a snooker table bouncing around it forever and ever. and the ball says 'dvd video' on it. and is blue

well what we used to do in year 9 and 10 english was. we were really annoying and unstudious little kids and neva did what mcfadgen told us to do. he used to put on videos of the texts and stuff to make us be quiet for once and actually learn sumthin. but after the video ended. he wouldnt turn off the video player. and soon enuff the screensaver with the bouncing box would come on

and as mcfadgen was talkin and tellin us stuff. none of us listened. we just stare intently at the bouncing box deflecting around and about the screen. what would happen sometimes was the box would hit the actual corner and bounce straight off. and this would be a really exciting moment for us. we'd all hurray with jubilation.
but other times the box would be gay and just missed the corner and deflection and we'd all go AWWWWWW. which left poor old mr mcfadgen awfully confused about what the hell we were doin xD clearly talkin about educating rita wouldnt be that exciting.
what retards we were xD i think it was mainly the guys tho
i imagine some of the girls finding us awfully annoying as they were tryna listen

good times.


6 months today :) so off to talk to the girlfriend.

a picture from the end of '06

yr 9/2006 was a great year for me. being segregated from LT in year 7 and 8 most of the time. i made a lot of new friends in year 9 who up to this time i'm still great buds with. i especially remember year 9 camp.
i dunno if you think this sumtimes. but its so hard to think how you became friends with some people. seems like they were just always there

M.H.S.O.A.T

thats right ladies and gentlemen. the most hardcore sport of all time is table tennis. its just the noobs just dont get it
i'm sick of people laffing at the idea of there being a table tennis knockout team. and ironically its basically the only sport our school is good at. in terms of how far we go.
sometimes its kinda goes like this :
person: woah you worked up a sweat what were u doing?
me: oh yeah we were just training
person: for what?
me: table tennis knockout
person: LOL

==. people just dont get it
but to be honest. i dun really give a damn. its just annoying
attending regional and CHS gala day every year is probably one of the funnest things :) probably the best KO sport to play in terms of enjoyment
here just some couple of fotos i took just so i can sum up the day without saying too much

so basically we won the regional comp :) so that means we go to CHS now. there's usually about 18 teams in the regional comp with our main rivals baulko. but this year baulko was really bad and got beaten by some other random school. who we proceded to beat 4 matches to 0 in the finals


playing arena homebush park sports hall


one of our guys in action against a 1st round team



cambridge park. runners up of the comp



us with our certificates. and some of the boys being gay



on the car back with mckenzie and pronger

while we were waiting for mckenzie to pick us up. had a little match with the infamous edward zhao. and i almost lost. that wuldve been humiliating. and we taught mr pronger some tips on playing table tennis. he was pimping it with the female teachers from other schools and playing doubles table tennis with them. mr pronger's a pretty cool guy. like he doesnt really act his age. hes really into sports and talks pretty funnily. we were also watchin him mark some of the year 9 ag papers. some of the answers were absolute shockers xD brought back memories for me.

it feels really good to come first in something for once :P. all the other teams treat you with lotsa respect and everything. and coaches from other schools ask us to go easy on their guys xD so as to not lower their self esteem

but that all changes wen we enter CHS. hoping to come first and get the gold this year as its my last year . there are a couple good teams out there in NSW who are home-schooled and basically just play table tennis all day. i've gotten a silver medal before back in the day in yr 9 wen owen and keith were still playing. that was a nice moment for us :P
and what sucks is that the day of the CHS finals tournament is on the same day as our term 2 exams. so i guess ill hafta ask connors or whoeva to let me do the english test on the next monday. asked belinda (coordinator) today about the CHS shirts she used to sell. but she didnt bother to bring em to area this time. but i really want one of those shirts now as a memoribilia kinda thing. so she's ordering some just for me for CHS :p

just came back from hamlet. the acting was ok and the settings were decent. didnt really take any fotos except for this one of swami seeming really glad to be next to winnie.

thats really just a cover up actually.

anyways for my special kodak moment to day :

year 7&8 DT/AG/VA times . mainly yr 8 when girls and guys werent scared of catchin each other's cootes anymore. so many random things we did and talked about in VA3. i still remember most of the people who were in it. marcus, me, don, kris, mariya, annie, belle, shirin, sim, william zhang, rishi, vinson, andrew li
reading back to stuff i wrote in those times makes me realise how childish we really were and how retarded too O_O altho it might be mainly me. but im sure we still look back at those times not about how weird we were. but all the fun we had in goggin's class drawing stuff and talkin.

cadetship evening

i was about to blog about these awesome sushi sets my dad brings home everyday after work at a really cheap price.


but who knew cadetship evening would be pretty eventful. this may draw parallels to belle's future blog

well left school for the first time early eva. since i had a double free. i usually spend double free doin unproductive work or just lazing around cause im too "tired"
go home got dressed. a little bit worried that i was a bit overdressed
and it certainly seemed that way wen i first got to darling harbour
here i was in a suit and everything
and i see all the ruse people coming towards me with their school uniform still on. evn the people who did dress up only had a shirt
but it was alright once we got inside. there were STACKLOADS of people. i would probably say 700 altogether and there were lotsa people in suits so it was all good :)

i think we all went there with higher expectations than it turned out to be. by that i mean tryna look really presentable and everything. but it didnt turn out to be that important. quite enjoyable actually
freebies were a nice thing . torches, cards, jellybeans, rubiks cubes, soccer ball, pens, pencil cases, stickynotes, drawstring bag, name card holder :P and loads of drinks



also met quite a few people that i made friends with out of school so that was quite nice. seems like loads of people wanna do commerce related stuff
but cadetships dont sound all that attractive anymore
the people at the convention were all really positive about it and stuff but wen we went to pepper lunch and talked to random people who were actually doin cadetships. my interest plunged

the evening was just 2 hours of walking around within this 50m capacity to various businesses and pretending to seem interested wen all you really wanted was the cool free torch xD well that was the case for me. and many of the people from other schools :P

these awesome people in uniforms were serving us drinks and snacks and i managed to get a foto with one of them :P but the guy gave me a really weird look wen i asked xD



left the place full and content with all the awesome brochures and freebies we got, and me milo belle and peter headed off to pepper lunch to grab some dinner
and omg. they shoved so much pepper into the rice. so hot
personally i cant handle spicy things. far as i can go is kimchi
i love the initially taste of spicy things wen it dusnt burn. but then afterwards it starts burning and i cant handle it. the misery suffered over the burning sensations overpowers the pleasure of the initial taste. i wish that they would invent sumthin were u can only get the initial taste and not the nasty afterburn
moving on. some guy next to us just happened to be a cadet working for ernst & young. told us that he only gets 2 weeks of holiday in the whole year and so he practically works 350 days a year. and he only just got off work at like 7. kinda weird guy :P belle thought he was the same guy who did that thing to treskin at assembly and then got expelled.




the guy was the person in the middle


belle looks a bit lost here

and then a few seconds later
we see ambrose and lawrence who used to go to ruse walking up and down and around .
and caught a glimpse of dai-wen too. at the end of the meal. we managed to strike up the courage to say hi and have a little chat. altho they showed no recognition of us being there evn tho milo and peter were in school uniform.
had a little chat to dai-wen (mainly belle did) and she turned out to be really helpful explaining a bit about the study side and the social side to choosing co-ops and cadetships and otherstuff. cadetships are harder than they seem. and co-ops are hard to maintain. u need a consistent high score (distinction)

belle went to get 85 degrees cake. which milo pursued to destroy and the box landed on the floor. all this cream was on the ground


checking if it was still alright. luckily it was otherwise milo would be dead


that caps of one the most eventful days for me in a while.
now for my daily memory moment:





ruse valentines day 2009
that was a really exhilirating adrenaline pumped day. loads and loads of fun despite frustrations here and there and hard work. particularly exciting for one because i had someone to be with on valentines day for once :P
but delivering all those goods and performing at that assembly was so satisfying. just to see people happy. (altho sum ppl were unhappy sadly due to misgiven goods) especially mr alder :P
and the assembly i thought was brilliant. i think ive watched it on youtube many times now. very good script writing i thought :) and the audience responded quite well to it.
wen the audience responds really well to it and laughs with you and everything. its really satisfying. cause all that hard work was worth it, just to entertain the rest of the school and see them enjoy it. i love this job.

s.syndrome

being a guy. i find it often fun to make up stupid terms with friends which define some social things.
s.syndrome being one of them
s.syndrome - noun. commonly known as the 'sarah syndrome'; where you get along really well with a person from out of school, but after a week or so, they suddenly go cold on you.
today while walkin from intuition after an hour or two of "study" . which really was no study at all. i crossed paths with one of my s.syndrome girls. now i wont mention her name just in case people know her. but i met her at hornsby girls and she seemed like a really cool person and we started talkin afterward on fb (lol) and msn. and about after a week. she suddenly went cold
and by cold i mean. those one worded answers, those 'hey brb' for hours and the obvious lack of interest. so it was pretty weird bumping into her after a lengthy time period of not talkin. at the time i didnt recognise her actually so i only realise who the person was until i got to the station
i guess its a pretty awkward situation when you bump into someone you suddenly lost contact with. what do you say? knowing that they intentionally ignored you in the first place.
anyways i will backtrack. to why i was at intuition was because me kris swami krishanthy and matt decided to go to epping and intuition is often really nice and let us study up there during school times.
intuition seems like a really nice environment to be doing tution in. the only problem to it is i guess u get distracted by all the people you get to know. the tutor seem to be super-awesome who stretch beyond the teacher-student relationship; same with the receptionists. and i guess you feel more comfortable that way. i reckon half the people go there because of these reasons. in terms of a business, its really good

after not doing much work at intuition. i headed off to my local library to finish off work. maths mechanics is so hard. didnt end up finishing, but i was about to stretch my hand out to get the latest version of financial review from the rack when this other guy just took all the issues from thursday to wednesday. talk about a hog. he's only gonna read it one at a time.

i'm really looking forward to thursday and friday.
thursday because its cadetship evning and we all get to dress up and hopefully have a good time
friday because KO table tennis is on, and outta all the KO sports. i must say KO table tennis is the most funnest. altho ive neva been in some of the KO
and also hamlet by the beach

probably the most eventful thing that will happen for me for a while

in later blogs. i promise i wont drag on about my adventures at the library. just that i have nothing else to talk about; my life being so uneventful and whatnot

i will end it there for now . i think im gonna run out of memorable fotos soon




these are just fotos to symbolise the good memories shared at many people's places. whether it be going over to watch the footy/cricket/tennis, someone's bday party, a sleepover, a pool party, or just a "failed study session", i've always enjoyed going to people's plaaces. and one thing about it is. i guess you see a different side of them when they're at home. you see all the kiddy fotos :P and meet their family and etc.

pride.

pride. it's something that annoys me but it's also something that i always chase
i guess we all have that sense of achieving pride or glory . maybe thats why we work so hard, so we can truly say that we're the best of the best.
i enjoy recieving comments from random people on the street about how good our school is, or how polite our students are etcetera. i often feel very proud.
but the problem is after gettin fed all this compliments from people and ESPECIALLY MY DAD. he wont stop sucking up seriously. i dunno whats with it. always going on about how smart i am or how good the students are at our school. seriously, he manages to randomly slip in that i go to james ruse anywhere we go.

example at the bookstore buying textbooks in like yr8 for guan:

me: excuse me. how much is this ?
counter lady: umm check the price tag. its in the book. wow year 12 3u already?
dad: yeah, my son goes to james ruse you know. so they do lotsa accelerated work

probably one of the thousand examples . i guess its just cause he's proud of me. but it gets annoying i guess. and i think it develops this arrogance inside of me too.
many other schools go on about how arrogant we are and we always deny it. but i think it's actually true to some sense.
but i find sometimes that my arrogance can sometimes help me in terms of confidence. for me confidence is a big factor wen i'm playing sport or doing an exam or making a speech. that confidence helps me a lot in achieving good results

what i hate about pride is how people become so stuck up and wannabehardcore because of it. seriously, especially some of these year 11s
what is their problem. have they no moral conscience. swearing and doing stupid stuff does not earn u respect. i guess pride isnt the particular word to specify this
this garvey kid often catches my train home from strathfield to ashfield and at first i tried being nice to him asking him about year 11 and how its going etc.
but he keeps on giving this "i'm pretending im too good for this chitchat tedmoseby-"sorry bro"-nosesnorting cold" attitude. btw you probably wouldnt have gotten that unless you were swami or happened to watch that himym ep.

anyways moving on . as i mentioned previously. ive been visiting the library quite regularly for two main reasons:

- i get a heck load of work done in a non-stressful surrounding environment
- i get to read the latest edition of the $3 financial review daily while drinking my ice tea
being the cheap asian i am. i cant afford to pay $3 to read the financial review. so instead i go to the library to read it. id go to the library anyway but this is just one of the fringe benefits ;). i actually look forward to goin to the library and doin work now. wow i neva thought i'd be into doing work.

eva since i picked up one of these financial reviews on the train in term 1. ive been quite interested in reading it. i think it's because it talks about stuff that ive just learnt in economics. and being ruse kids it feels pretty cool to be reading stuff you've just learnt. its a very interesting read kinda makes you feel intelligent too.

i took the time to take a photo of my daily spot. pretty cool.


one of the things ticked off my things to do before i die list
- have your own "spot": a spot where noone else will sit because they know you are gonna be sitting there at 4pm - 5:30pm
well thats not particularly true. but usually the spot is empty

on the topic of economics. i'm beginning to appreciate the return of my old economics teacher even more and more each day. i love his funny-biased views on things. he's such a woman-hater! it would be interesting to meet his wife. and his basis of teaching is really good. we learn really well and we get entertained at the same time
he must have a million stories up his sleeve . i remember him telling us in yr 11 that someone offered him 90-100 bucks an hour to tutor them but he refused :O thats crazy.
also i found out that khoury is single and lives alone in a top floor unit. full-flying bachelor he is. i thought he'd at least have a girlfriend with his charm and all. lol.

i try not to make my blogs long as it might be an eyeful for people to read. so i will end it there
thank you for the comments. janette i have changed the settings so you and other anonym can comment :)
here's one from quite recently.
and i swear swami will giggle at this (i dun think smiggle is the right word xD i cant think of it. help please. some onamotapoeia (H)
EDIT: oh it was giggle !)


if you look carefully. you can see me joseph and minoli on the right
north sydney girls afternoon tea.
it was sooo soo fun. and for all of the right reasons. very animated people. great strong characters that i met and made friends with. its nice to have lotsa connections out of school.
the activities were tonnes awesome. pony game, speed dating, team competitions
they were all really nice people. and you never know some of these people might be your colleagues in uni.
oh i guess that's one more add to the ttdbid list.
- own a "i love nsg" tshirt
just for the fun of it. their prefects are pretty awesome tho.

a good memory stored into the bank

what to wear... what to wear....

well my mum took the time to exchange my old shirt for a pretty nice new one today


now the only question is.. what tie should i wear? i know i shouldnt make such a fuss about what to wear, but i wanna look presentable and professional in front of the business people :P so outta the 6 ties i own, personally i quite like the silver and the bluish-black one. but if u'd like to point out which one might look good thatd be much appreciated :)

my image of a becoming a business person has totally changed. previously wen i was shallow and not able to see over the benefits, i thought being a business person was pretty cool. sleek suits, bluetooth headsets, spending 50 bucks on a burger for lunch, and having lotsa cool colleagues and awesome partners. i mainly blame this on watchin himym all the time.
but now it kinda seems to me its more like evil greedy ppl being selfish and tryna get rich making lotsa money, long hours behind the desk doin pages and pages of paperwork and bogan colleagues who have a immoral sense of humour.

so im kinda leaning toward doin medicine now :)


had one of the strangest conversations on the bus today about poo and pee which was actually not that dirty at all. quite a clean conversation actually. and it was pretty funny.
speaking of poo and pee, kris today was gathering his bombs and deliberately releasing them amidst a crowd of people so that they could all smell his auror
freaking hilarious watching him do it xD so unsubtle

also had a bit of table tennis training in the morning to get back into the rhythm again. first round at regionals is on friday and hopefully we can beat baulko in the finals so we can go to CHS. i think i have this curse. where since ive been with mel, i haven't won a single match against baulko in any sport :( hopefully it wont be the case this time.
krissy as usual was giving me slack for not putting him in the team so now i hafta play him tomorrow morning just so he can stop xD

well i am off the read other blogs now :D
a photo from 2 years ago:



the bundeena to otford hike '07. my first ever hiking experience. and must i say, probably nothing can top that hike
despite the long 25km, u dun really remember those parts of the hike. all i remember is the conversations along the trail, the place we stopped by to have lunch the first day, the gay moments we had at garie beach (and by gay i mean joyful and happy)dipping our feet into the water and running around like lunatics, the night talks we had with abraham (bosco's brother). man i learnt some new crap that night. morning talks while we were packing up. and of course gettin to the end. the accomplishment

i plan to visit this place soon after the HSC :) probably one of the best times ive had. and at night just lying there hearing the waves crash in while the stars shine out in the dark sky, it's almost carefree.because at that moment you forget about anythin else that worries you in the world. i guess thats why people go away far from where they live for camp

library hopping

recently i've made it a habit to visit the library about 4-5 times a week. it's about the only place where i can really do a lot of work. might have mentioned that earlier
usually i hop around strathfield (great fish and chips), burwood and ashfield library after school to do my work.

on another note, it's nice to know some people are reading my blog :) just so i dun feel like i'm writing to myself :P

in response to comments:
- jero: yes i still remember harry's macbeth sculpture! watched angels and demons on computer last night (really should stop doing that). it was pretty good altho the plot's so complicated. that you end up at the end of the movie a bit confused.

- the booker: i dunno who you are :P i'm guessing swami. i'm tryna pick up the work now ;) should be creative writing right now actually

anyways spent today at burwood library studying for about 3 hours. everytime i do that. i evaluate how effective the study was later. and it always seems like i didnt learn anything from it altho i did heaps of exercises and stuff. but wen i go back to study it, it seems oh so familiar again. Went to burwood westfield to get easy way cause there was a 'buy one get one free offer' and came away from that feeling not so good. I think it was the taro milk tea, and the one thats free comes in a small cup size :(

then went around tryna find a suitable button shirt for cadetship evening on thursday, however i only brought 50 bucks with me, and every dress shirt was bloody expensive like 80+ seriously, they prob make it for like less than 5 dollars. so i ended up going to lowes to just get a plain old blue shirt which happened to be HUMUNGOUS. i only realised wen i got home. on the thing it says 46 which according to their chart corresponds to a 18.5
so i thought. oh thats ok. my school shirts 22 and thats only slightly big
stupid non corresponding sizes.
but when i tuck the shirt in and roll up my sleeves, it looks plausible so thats ok

afterwards dropped by at woolworths to pick up sum powerade and mars bars for KO table tennis and currently i am trying to do sum HSC phys papers ballyntyne gave us.

i might be blogging for about 5 days as i plan to not go on the computer. which might be impossible seeing as i needa do chem/phys/eco research. so perhaps not for leisure then.

i plan to go for a run later so i will end it there
here's something from the vault:



gloria jeans times in year 9 and 10 and a little bit of 11
a nice way to relax after school with a bit of a large iced chocolate with perhaps some quiche, reading newspapers people left behind, playing the games on the gj's shelf,checking out the hornsbys, cheltos and sumtimes nsgs, and also sweet talking the register lady to give us a free large drink instead of a free medium drink . those were fun and very very yummy times

Routine Days

Welp. another routine saturday for me again:
- wake up at 12 with the guilty feeling that i shuldve gotten up WAY earlier to do sum work. however saturday is basically my only day to 'catch up' on sleep
- sort of do sum physics. which basically means scanning all the words and not understanding them again and tryna attempt some questions. i should really get someone to help me
- going to guan to enjoy 2 hours of intensive hard maths, which makes u feel great afterwards. if u understand it that is

currently applying for medicine and just looking at the questions

1. What are your main reasons for wanting to study Medicine and why would you like to undertake Medicine at UNSW?

2. What personal characteristics do you think doctors should have?

kind of routine questions that i expected. i dun really wanna suck up or overexaggerate myself tho. i think ill ask sum people who are doin med right now

one section has a box where an 'academic referee' has to circle the predicted UAI 96 97 98 99 100

guess ill hafta find connors next week and ask her to do it for me. hopefully she'll circle 100 :P seeing as i got 99.55 rounded up to 100 hehe

medicine has always been a thing that's interested me a lot, just to marvel at how the human body works and the 'beauty' of it. But on the other hand, from watchin all those medical shows and stuff, they make it seem like death is just nothin and a routine part of their lives. I cant imagine being a doctor and someone dies because i did something wrong. thats what im most afraid of.

well that is about it to end my post. needa really get off this computer addiction of mine. trying a low computer use diet currently, so i can improve mainly my physics. i will rant on about the hopelessness and hardness of physics another day

ill end with this photo

the good old 9/10 L days. what started off as a pretty odd class, we really seemed to stick it together and become very tight :) new kinda thing too with all the AK/LT merging. still remember the science times with bialy, the agriculture times with roberts lying in the orchards, and MOST OF ALL the great bludgy english times. poor mr mcfadgen, he was one nice fella to cope with us . kinda makes us wish we did do sum work back then tho seeing as english is such a big thing now. but what the heck it was worth it. all that rubiks cube solving, then the target word times and all those in jokes and buddha eating a fly for 10 bucks. i think vinson still has the video soo soo good ahhhh.