tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53161493421292147532024-03-06T17:46:54.427+11:00dummie's guide to thoughts and memoriesinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-15488653655615669482011-11-24T18:31:00.006+11:002011-11-24T19:03:54.231+11:00Young doctorsExam period is making feel a bit peckish. Ok I don't know what peckish means but I feel like I just want to be active and do lots of things. <br />Only got one more exam to go where the examiner is not allowed to fail you, but it's just that feeling that you know you still have exams that inhibits you from feeling totally free and doing 'holiday stuff'<br /><br />Meanwhile, I've been watching a lot of medical shows. I don't know why I'm all into it now, but maybe it's cause of that curiosity of what life is gonna be like in a couple of years. <br /><br />So it all kind of started when Channel Nine put on this new show called Young Doctors, which basically is a camera following interns around Newcastle hospital as they work. First time watching it, the thought of doing the stuff they were doing made me really excited, and at the same time, it makes you realise how long you still have to go. <br /><br />Anyways for some reason Channel Nine decides to fill the time slot with Celebrity Apprentice and Big bang theory. So after 2 episodes the show's gone missing, and on the channel nine site it doesnt say anything. Apparently some people say that it's coming back on next week. <br />So I still felt like I hadn't gotten my medical fix, and I stumbled across a previous version called Junior Doctors, made by BBC in England. And the show is REALLY GOOD. I really like it. It's so much more genuine and real, and english doctors seem so much more humble than doctors over here. It doesn't just show the good side of being an intern, but the bad stuff too. <br />The Australian version seems a bit more glamorous and one of the doctors goes out to get her eyelashes done before going to work. Amy went nuts over that when we were watching it together. She's currently doing a clinical placement in Ingham, and she works 14-15 hour days each day. But on the upside it sounds like great fun and I've just been dying to get my chance to do that sort of stuff. <br /><br />BBC version<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKPdUpH0IkpPkIk8e77mal4Z6WARuzHqGG4eKNpN6ooKOHZPm1NpndqoSu9woHtBjfhAx65oEouz53fMKCzXu-3aDf0x8j3mhFjoi-Bvahn4dGqPqPi5wgdIl_6Rc_o2lGtXyyRwP0/s1600/junior+doctors.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKPdUpH0IkpPkIk8e77mal4Z6WARuzHqGG4eKNpN6ooKOHZPm1NpndqoSu9woHtBjfhAx65oEouz53fMKCzXu-3aDf0x8j3mhFjoi-Bvahn4dGqPqPi5wgdIl_6Rc_o2lGtXyyRwP0/s320/junior+doctors.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678465777653674146" /></a><br /><br />Australian version<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGi8UOWxrz1zCNPnps_cqd7EpozZ4-osf3LHi_o5WvMtVJPIydI3IGVKgL2bnpyMxtjJg-RdYsAPFIwz8TuZ4xd06p9jk9Knp93ObLi0mSbC3z2NN8oxfUZvmeG4EJ6KG0_6OzdRq/s1600/YoungDoctors.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGi8UOWxrz1zCNPnps_cqd7EpozZ4-osf3LHi_o5WvMtVJPIydI3IGVKgL2bnpyMxtjJg-RdYsAPFIwz8TuZ4xd06p9jk9Knp93ObLi0mSbC3z2NN8oxfUZvmeG4EJ6KG0_6OzdRq/s320/YoungDoctors.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678465957490130098" /></a><br /><br />I like Adam from the BBC version (2nd from the left) and the asian John is a really funny awkward guy. <br /><br />Anyways I've finished all the episodes (there were only 6 any) and now I've moved on to watching Amadeus. Wow if Mozart really was like that, then that would have been extraordinary. I feel like I've got a new appreciation for classical music. Started learning moonlight sonata by beethoven as well. <br />Music just isn't what it was. Especially pop music nowadays. It's all about hooking up and getting this girl and that guy. Not like the 90's and 00's where it was all about raw emotion. Although I must say I'm really enjoying Coldplay's new album. Really colourful and happy music.inamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-27793424260589611092011-11-12T00:58:00.003+11:002011-11-12T01:39:11.024+11:00Looking forward to summerSo I finished exam 2 of 4 today. prac exam was alright and I've only got end of phase exam and OSCEs left to do. Feeling quite relaxed =) <br /><br />My light at the end of the tunnel are summer holidays. <br /><br />Just a couple of things I'm looking forward to:<br />- Gold coast trip!: Going up to GC to spend a week jetskiing, theme parking and chillaxing on the beach with some of the guys. We got this awesome apartment to stay in which overlooks the beach and ocean. Gold coast accomodation is actually so cheap.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8bdQwToodEHoTX9eUxrZytYmEs1LpUMl325J2uLlDoqG9TrGap5JW7jyrMUIqKFIYOF4vtdflNa3yq5WhhP8lPcrqqUt2l1qbdUKHD5J9CNBt_c0VzQYRwDDZrlcCXYkZQgSimtY5/s1600/gold+coast+apartment.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8bdQwToodEHoTX9eUxrZytYmEs1LpUMl325J2uLlDoqG9TrGap5JW7jyrMUIqKFIYOF4vtdflNa3yq5WhhP8lPcrqqUt2l1qbdUKHD5J9CNBt_c0VzQYRwDDZrlcCXYkZQgSimtY5/s320/gold+coast+apartment.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673744624106412386" /></a><br />Pretty nice eh! <br /><br />- Christmas time: Christmas time is always a time I look forward to, and it seems that people are more merrier. Looking forward to attended the christmas services and for some reason carols are such a nice thing to listen to now. You just know its christmas time when you here them. A couple of my friends in class a few weeks ago started singing carols and it made me miss christmas. <br /><br />- Rural clinical placement in Wodonga: Really looking forward to this. Going to be doing a placement for 2 weeks in wodonga with a mentor doctor. Wodonga's just across the border in victoria. Albury is on the other side of the border. Looking forward to spending 2 weeks with totally clinical exposure. I think it'll make me see the bigger picture when I study for stuff.<br /><br />- Australian open: Since I was in VIC anyway, will probably be going to melbourne to watch the australian open. I wanna get the quarter finals night package which is about 215 bucks for 4 night matches. I hope they're gonna be really good ones, cause during summer when the australian open is on, you always wish you were actually there for epic matches. Especially Nadal vs Verdasco. I wished I was there sooo much for that. <br /><br />Might also go to hong kong and china with family during late feb/early march. Tickets are so cheap right now. Cathay pacific return to hong kong is 750 and qantas is similar too, although I dunno if I trust qantas as much. Although it is the A380 and apparently it's really good to fly on.inamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-39054752445922873152011-11-08T21:27:00.011+11:002011-11-08T22:18:26.775+11:00Back to bloggingIt's been pretty much more than a year since I blogged, but when I went to check my email today, I saw a new post by Bosco. I read it, knowing that I wasn't going to spend the time studying, and it just took me back to what it used to be a year and a bit ago. When blogs were abundant and that's how we shared our lives to people we didn't see as much anymore. <br /><br />So I started going back to read my own blog to see what's changed in a year. I saw this comment by belle which said 'you don't blog anymore' and it sort of made me feel good on the inside =) thinking that my blog was read and enjoyed. <br /><br />Well what's been happening since a year ago.... hmmm well, the girl I mentioned about 2 posts before (back from a year and a half ago) well we ended up becoming really tight. It's funny now cause I forgot what life was like without her. Before we knew each other. Sometimes we tell each other how weird it is that a year ago we were just complete strangers who sat across the table from each other. I guess I'm going into a lot of private pondering, but that's why I've missed blogging so much. Its just a space where you let all your thoughts flow into words. <br /><br />Hmmm what else has happened. I've quit my work at talent 100 to pursue a job which gives me more satisfaction in what I'm doing. I guess that just basically means I'm unemployed, and I'm fortunate to be in the position where I don't really need a job (thanks parents!) but I've applied for a couple anyway. I've applied for douglas hanly pathology clinic which basically applying to be the guys who take tubes of blood from you for blood tests. I also applied for boost, but I don't know why now. My mum mentioned that a new boost was opening in Ashfield and they needed staff so I figured I might as well. Maybe it was because I wanted to be a vibrant bright worker, and I wanted to experience what it was like to do a job where you had to clean this, and scoop that, rather than sitting on a chair and answering student's questions. I've always had an appreciation for people who have manual labour jobs like that, whether they work in restaurants, or juice bars. It just seems they are always on the go, scurrying around with no stop. And people who do that for a living, I just imagine them going home at the end of the day to their families and whatnot, I don't know, maybe it's because my mum's in that sort of job too. <br /><br />What else has happened in the last year...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixnQBCnBQD3WjX4bIGtort2-rtd5bwt1Bm9Pn5hnwglCFn3BpuxmaSrU_Umy4lXWLf0m-3oB_B0EDmgKq6pQ4URZLVe2LLZXzfywdwVnsiW4s1mbCzu6xV7EJEHNIU4i2ir0vEBZ6C/s1600/IMG_0009.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixnQBCnBQD3WjX4bIGtort2-rtd5bwt1Bm9Pn5hnwglCFn3BpuxmaSrU_Umy4lXWLf0m-3oB_B0EDmgKq6pQ4URZLVe2LLZXzfywdwVnsiW4s1mbCzu6xV7EJEHNIU4i2ir0vEBZ6C/s320/IMG_0009.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672575149030006242" /></a><br />Origin match, which was amazing<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimbabz33SgHe9H2mgIJBNABcfOPyVkrfxKLFTMRLmGRnK7jBuwrSmx2kykQp6i_WSWEUmOkzcVyRnp-OleXb4wNQkqC1f9BogSLen6PM2zTh_xAn4JfUx_tlOaM_pzP-e7Lptc_F7i/s1600/IMG_0029.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimbabz33SgHe9H2mgIJBNABcfOPyVkrfxKLFTMRLmGRnK7jBuwrSmx2kykQp6i_WSWEUmOkzcVyRnp-OleXb4wNQkqC1f9BogSLen6PM2zTh_xAn4JfUx_tlOaM_pzP-e7Lptc_F7i/s320/IMG_0029.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672576724844292962" /></a><br />Amy's oldest sister gave birth to Joanna. She's such an adorable baby. I enjoy playing with her so much. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmBc2EDxEiFqqMDmKNiLNNKqoe-jurvEe1F5Lb6PA1w2aBHlDIOs710UUc2kXZg1OvU0f5IShfb3nna6RQUkr4nJAkZXb7i-JZ1iSZ6ggI6k3GyaDX2iG2ZwPadhsQXTjw-RibPCv2/s1600/IMG_0058.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmBc2EDxEiFqqMDmKNiLNNKqoe-jurvEe1F5Lb6PA1w2aBHlDIOs710UUc2kXZg1OvU0f5IShfb3nna6RQUkr4nJAkZXb7i-JZ1iSZ6ggI6k3GyaDX2iG2ZwPadhsQXTjw-RibPCv2/s320/IMG_0058.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672577442897844370" /></a><br /><br />Hospital sessions with our class group. They've been really nice. I'll miss them<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GCbzjSVIP-Efaor8r9lC90IzWoUUKJXIeKv2s8UF5SMiAOU3cvLJWSWfCVDvyA6Bmy2TP10FrozLW_W97ONzJGid2vSK26AOIN-afae5yyEZTYt9unHG0k2EhRvVJH7H9uuXBGVV/s1600/IMG_0198.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GCbzjSVIP-Efaor8r9lC90IzWoUUKJXIeKv2s8UF5SMiAOU3cvLJWSWfCVDvyA6Bmy2TP10FrozLW_W97ONzJGid2vSK26AOIN-afae5yyEZTYt9unHG0k2EhRvVJH7H9uuXBGVV/s320/IMG_0198.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672578329339825410" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0RaG6vdPMBTMDVWv_ZvwMPg71FAdweD8abe6BS6G2bDMymYSNhU4dQTUlMqsPYzuLu-06riDh_GY8by3DLNCuS0lF7cjWhPnUthV-ng9ds-uc7Az8jD5tgWBL_DgAH2DOO2a_-Ncu/s1600/IMG_0098.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0RaG6vdPMBTMDVWv_ZvwMPg71FAdweD8abe6BS6G2bDMymYSNhU4dQTUlMqsPYzuLu-06riDh_GY8by3DLNCuS0lF7cjWhPnUthV-ng9ds-uc7Az8jD5tgWBL_DgAH2DOO2a_-Ncu/s320/IMG_0098.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672578868369037602" /></a><br />Baked my first cake. Haha!<br /><br />Hahaha I'd like to think there were other things that I did, but that's all the images I have on this computer. I guess one big change that's happened is that it's become really hard to stay in touch with people. I remember in the last days of high school being so compassionate about being in touch with people in uni and throughout life. I guess it's what happens when you don't see each other anymore on a regular basis. Family time has also become so so much more important to me now. I play basketball with my dad at the local courts once or twice a week, and I must say he's not bad for his age. We play pick up basketball with people who are always there, and its a good way to get him fit and healthy. I also go walking along the bay area with my mum on saturdays, and it's such a nice place to walk. I definitely recommend it. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSYTsMgW7zlDkPMlfIbNUy44ptoQcnZev-R19W9rtCOh_VlrJUAteWc7NWro1MHIjRb3NC7erbAdf0QFjLIwlJ6my7tOvpB-aw1JPh20kuvayOLPFiJ76UGHgkP7jRXBAqE-OxLZO/s1600/IMG_0179.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSYTsMgW7zlDkPMlfIbNUy44ptoQcnZev-R19W9rtCOh_VlrJUAteWc7NWro1MHIjRb3NC7erbAdf0QFjLIwlJ6my7tOvpB-aw1JPh20kuvayOLPFiJ76UGHgkP7jRXBAqE-OxLZO/s320/IMG_0179.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672580928517295570" /></a><br />Look at that view. <br /><br />Anyways, I had an exam today which turned out to be atrocious. I think I failed it, but the only comforting factor is that everyone found it so hard, so surely medfac won't fail everyone. <br />So onwards continues to month of torture, with 3 more exams to go. Really actually, it's not so bad. People who do other courses have way more exams than us, I just sometimes forget that. Prac exam is on friday so I need to work hard for that. Good thing is that I only need around 35% to pass, cause my previous prac results were above passes. Ahhh medical course surival... you'd be so happy just to pass. <br /><br />It's felt great to get back on the blogging wagon again. I hope for anyone who might be reading this, that you are well and happy with where you are and what you are =) <br /><br />Till next time!inamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-50225740134401596042010-06-12T14:10:00.005+10:002010-06-12T14:26:38.258+10:00Old GoldWhile I was cleaning up my desk in the living room, I stumbled across a coupla things that made me really laugh. <br /><br />Back in year 5, I attended this creative writing class since creative writing was gonna be on trial for the selective school test. So each week our teacher would tell us to write something (story, letter etc.) <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIcOvkmM-frgl1xyI558rpmVsEhRAyXsR4dsyL659-hsthvYlJzHm1_sZ_O8oevwCakwmi8zJ0UQyAjWPe_0E1wQVEKXGuwMUavVifP4IOs68yF9WLLBOcAuPwHcs8HMwqbAMdX3H/s1600/120620101294.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIcOvkmM-frgl1xyI558rpmVsEhRAyXsR4dsyL659-hsthvYlJzHm1_sZ_O8oevwCakwmi8zJ0UQyAjWPe_0E1wQVEKXGuwMUavVifP4IOs68yF9WLLBOcAuPwHcs8HMwqbAMdX3H/s320/120620101294.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481737313712989138" /></a><br />So i find this whole stash of writing pieces on my desk shelf. Most of the stories i wrote were somehow relevant to what happened in my real life. Out of the whole pile, my favourites include:<br />- a writing piece on how to make lamb cutlets<br />- a story about how a boy ripped his pants playing soccer and ran all the way to the toilets in embarassment to hide (which actually happened to me in year 3) <br />- a diary entry on how i want to become a mathematician when i grow up. Reading this really made me think, this kid was such a retard. Just to share a bit of it<br /><br />"I plan to become a mathematician when I grow up. This has been my goal since my teacher first praised me for my maths work. I also like using my brain which makes maths seem like a fun subject to me. Sometimes my relatives email me maths problems. I always turn on the computer to check my email eagerly to recieve more maths problems. My teacher gives me problems as well and I work them out. She also explains how to solve the problem. I love maths"<br /><br />- This letter addressed to my friend Dante. The first bit goes:<br />"Dear Dante, I would like to thank for making me a much happier person. When I was in class 2C I had no friends except for Daniel and Oscar. But one day you invited me into a match of soccer and our friendship began. I loved having a match of soccer every afternoon with you and all your friends. It made me so happy"<br /><br /><br />Something else I found when sorting through was my desk junk was this photo I bought from luna park cause I thought it was the funniest thing ever. I think it was during year 10 while on the wild mouse with Betty.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8FR0lUj9Y9ZjO3IRRGopSCW2zBtIk6ijfUCmugI4y8JDtkpj9vKsRsb297o_319TX-FbVF6M_x3iBJ1VQTNXsjcLDF9kl_7MROPHDd2OgeZ7GliZHo_BuJf8h8LtKJU-kpj9HscZ/s1600/120620101293.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8FR0lUj9Y9ZjO3IRRGopSCW2zBtIk6ijfUCmugI4y8JDtkpj9vKsRsb297o_319TX-FbVF6M_x3iBJ1VQTNXsjcLDF9kl_7MROPHDd2OgeZ7GliZHo_BuJf8h8LtKJU-kpj9HscZ/s320/120620101293.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481737325960338066" /></a><br />On the 2nd time around I realised that they actually take your picture like in space mountain at Disneyland, hence my well timed pose. I really don't know what Betty was doing though.inamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-59634603806813050852010-06-11T01:14:00.006+10:002010-06-11T01:58:11.283+10:00End of semester recapI've just taken this antibiotic and i can't lie down afterwards for 30 minutes for some reason. I don't want to do my long-need-to-be-really-done-by-now-already assignment, so I thought I'd do a long time not done blog. <br /><br />For most people, it is now stuvac and uni these days are so empty. For the med kids, there's still 2 more weeks to go until out little break. Exams are in exactly two weeks for us, so really need to start studying.<br /><br />But anyways, a lot of things have passed by since the last time i've blogged and I just wanted to post down my thoughts and feelings on my first semester of uni and also I wanted to photoblog a few things i've done recently. <br /><br />T&F(Thoughts and feelings) on the first semester of med: First half of semester was something that didn't hit me that hard as a really significant change. Workload wasn't that much and everything I was learning was still pretty ok. Med's pretty interesting and we're usually just working away in lectures and computer labs like these<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWZoqXAxjoMLL3i1o_3-huYUT084N_PjMHxXrH0mQsGSs4Rvwpcet0Ur5TVzubpIT1sKksoB_PY8y6IgmRIhkfjL4rVFNw5Ot3vfYJ4p2LhvRlAe8BYiRi4J3KpV8AauzqT70AsGc/s1600/020320101166.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWZoqXAxjoMLL3i1o_3-huYUT084N_PjMHxXrH0mQsGSs4Rvwpcet0Ur5TVzubpIT1sKksoB_PY8y6IgmRIhkfjL4rVFNw5Ot3vfYJ4p2LhvRlAe8BYiRi4J3KpV8AauzqT70AsGc/s320/020320101166.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481166436826288674" /></a><br />People had told me heaps of stuff beforehand, so I guess some of the new things i had to adjust to were somewhat expected. Adjusting to uni gap breaks was a little bit weird at first cause there was no more of that lunchtime basketball, or lunchtime chilling in the common room. <br />Discovered people's passion of hating on ruse. I learned to let it go. There should really be a fb group which goes "the awkwardness when someone mentions that they're from ruse" But med people in general are pretty cool and cheery people. Still getting to know people and starting to form tight friendships with them <br /><br />Second half of semester was so much more overwhelming when the 2nd years started coming in and joining our classes. You look at them and you just go omgsh. how smart are they all. and they all work so hard and know all this stuff. how do you even find the time to do that. <br />There's this girl in my Scenario Group (Basically a bunch of people you are with 2 times a week, to go over and discuss what we've learnt with the help of a facilitator- usually a GP) who i swear is the combination of peter chen, simone, jackie, ruilong in terms of work ethic, and smartness. My mind was just blown away. What made me even more amazed was that she is the nicest person i have ever met. There cannot be a single person who hates her. It's just impossible. She's polite, she's helpful, she's caring. When we first started, she emailed me to ask how i was finding everything and to see if there was anything she could help me out with. She went on to say that she knows 1st year can be tough and that if I was having any trouble, she would be there. My initial reaction was just :O woah. I was really touched by her caring nature. Not only that, she brings baked cakes to class every time, she's always cheery, annnddd i could really go on forever. <br />I see 2nd years and I think to myself, yeah that's where I want to be in a years time. <br /><br />Anyways since uni have started, the beginning was really relaxing and watching footy, driving around and going for maccas runs was a very regular thing<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijr5L5CUxDGZZyihc6716WaqND9Gh8C6mx5zwk0cXso4eXfDkN7PSmeMtRutdboE9sHJtPEqDMstxcp1Fp68MbwFOyni85CelHP58UqBPmKFe2hYaYi7nN5pV7-BfqTIQ1zHwpN64O/s1600/020420101190.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijr5L5CUxDGZZyihc6716WaqND9Gh8C6mx5zwk0cXso4eXfDkN7PSmeMtRutdboE9sHJtPEqDMstxcp1Fp68MbwFOyni85CelHP58UqBPmKFe2hYaYi7nN5pV7-BfqTIQ1zHwpN64O/s320/020420101190.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481166444457266610" /></a><br />Night driving is one of my most favourite things to do. The feeling of independence hasn't worn off yet, and its just so soothing too. Traffic frustrates me though<br /><br />During the semester term, I decided to fly up to queensland for a weekend to meet neha and mariya. Made trips to brisbane and gold coast to see em and hang out n it was really good. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLUHK6QK3trsxzRpEMUwZZVYQ10EvTMA0tntv5GiW2ZVKceu7pOywJcRc5UiMttxa1WvsPdbHiRZ6wX19BQIF6K-g3rGefBOPSEdQBQnJdfPVn1gJpdFvJQEYGFJ56Ze-nR9edBAMg/s1600/140520101248.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLUHK6QK3trsxzRpEMUwZZVYQ10EvTMA0tntv5GiW2ZVKceu7pOywJcRc5UiMttxa1WvsPdbHiRZ6wX19BQIF6K-g3rGefBOPSEdQBQnJdfPVn1gJpdFvJQEYGFJ56Ze-nR9edBAMg/s320/140520101248.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481166454229072434" /></a><br />went all around brisbane with mariya. south bank, city central, XXXX brewery tour, suncorp stadium, city central clubs, brisbane casino (just to look of course), south bank cinemas and much more. Can't believe i crammed so much into a day actually, but it was all good. <br />Went off to the GC the next day to meet up with neha and for it being my first time in the GC, i just thought it was a really nice place to live. Water channels are every so really serene and beautiful. Not many people live there either so its heaps quiet. <br />Made a quick trip to Neha's uni Bond, and their campus is nice as<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbbE_v-4iHCFjoG44FOo8oB8vI90c_KvP73MJgkkqpyNdJ23Ql1q5QLtdCfksCVIFX9z9YoKKcexPisU9PU3mJLwx3nDaEMCsREi2xX_uRIUKiwRwBsuU8w00OxjztDIfMJX-uuhE/s1600/150520101263.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbbE_v-4iHCFjoG44FOo8oB8vI90c_KvP73MJgkkqpyNdJ23Ql1q5QLtdCfksCVIFX9z9YoKKcexPisU9PU3mJLwx3nDaEMCsREi2xX_uRIUKiwRwBsuU8w00OxjztDIfMJX-uuhE/s320/150520101263.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481172084438794930" /></a><br />Being a tourist moment for me, we had to go to surfers paradise to check it out. So caught the bus there from bond and spent the rest of the arvo there lying in the sun and chatting. Sadly i had to say goodbye and leave for the airport shortly afterwards.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvHmA_LV2jaqvzyJemwNOMPSBlS_hEDgIzG0ng52jgMkakNCUemmm2qbIf3LseybWjYdQZM22iJoGswPNS_3TyHsgexKg3yb8DSi1pKMDQ2qUAP3w8yPgPQbkhpmVWiiqEAt3rAmy/s1600/150520101270.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvHmA_LV2jaqvzyJemwNOMPSBlS_hEDgIzG0ng52jgMkakNCUemmm2qbIf3LseybWjYdQZM22iJoGswPNS_3TyHsgexKg3yb8DSi1pKMDQ2qUAP3w8yPgPQbkhpmVWiiqEAt3rAmy/s320/150520101270.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481174747886847186" /></a><br />Another final thing i thought was worth mentioning was a med charity event a few of us did a few weekends ago. It was a kind of spoof on amazing raise, and if some of you had read bosco's blog, you would know a bit about it. Basically the real amazing race around sydney, with the challenges being wacky daring things we had to do. One of them was to take 5 different photos. Jump photo, striking a pose at channel 7 HQ, a skateboarder smiling sweetly at one of the team members, posing in front of lindt cafe, and running pose at martin place station. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1fOMhCw7CqrzxyofbY3MFpV9dMycYwUVYWMKBd8QaQkmranzhA-EzP7dHULwwgB-gDyfNOPI351Wo8sqfcdDiFeCIz_sroPaJbeVR6UurTx52YynTiRor8ikw1M90mpJyy0y-EtF/s1600/220520101280.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1fOMhCw7CqrzxyofbY3MFpV9dMycYwUVYWMKBd8QaQkmranzhA-EzP7dHULwwgB-gDyfNOPI351Wo8sqfcdDiFeCIz_sroPaJbeVR6UurTx52YynTiRor8ikw1M90mpJyy0y-EtF/s320/220520101280.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481166503533562690" /></a><br />Really enjoyed that saturday even though the weather was dismal. <br />Thought it was worthy to mention that Kelly got off the bus to buy some sushi while we were still on it, and then ran back to get on the same bus again. Pretty impressive even though we were stuck in traffic. <br /><br />Anyways i think thats enough blogging for now. <br />Good luck for your exams everyone. Have a safe happy holidayinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-33923232992154131022010-04-06T15:18:00.003+10:002010-04-06T15:41:36.343+10:00Song memoriesWas talking to sy about this last night.i thought it was a really interesting thing. wondering if people get this too<br /><br />for me, certain songs just remind of certain time periods in my life. mainly because that song was played in some way or manner during that time, and since then its tune will always be stuck with that patch of time. whenever the song comes on, it just takes me back to that point in time. <br /><br />for example - <br />slide - goo goo dolls & save tonight - eagle eye cherry. reminds of the autumn of '07. jero played these songs on his phone repeatedly during our hike and we all sorta sang along. it just reminds of this beautiful crisp morning we had, just soaking the nature and all of it in.<br /><br />chasing cars - snow patrol. reminds me of the winter of '07. everyone used to be really into this song during then. it was played during our musical afterparty and we just all belted out the lyrics. it'll forever remind me of the good times we had in musical <br /><br />big girls don't cry - fergie . haha this reminds of the summer of '08/09 . i think it was played during our valentines day dance and the school as one started singing along. girls n guys included. it just reminds me of the great fun we had at school and the great people. <br /><br />there's plenty more. but you probably get the point. <br />anyways thinking about this sorta stuff drifted my mind to the amount of crap we get for going to ruse. and sometimes i joke that i actually went to brisbane state high school. nowadays i just cop it, cause i realise it's nothing to be ashamed of. to me high school will forever be filled with good memories and the great people. i wouldnt have had it any other way. <br />it's easy to hate, but it feels better to love.<br /> <br />as some random deep person said:<br />"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."<br /><br />that's all from me today. <br />have a great easter break. <br />take careinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-85136192288353330422010-04-02T10:52:00.002+11:002010-04-02T11:41:13.434+11:00Hug SomeoneI get up this easter friday morning having just dreamt of being in some live shooting game called "numbers". was very weird indeed<br /><br />anyways i happened to pick up a book which connie got me during year 10 called "change the world for 10 bucks"<br />and it's a really nice book. you suddenly feel the need to be an environmentalist and be an active community member. makes the world seem like a much better place as well. <br />the book contains 50 simple everyday actions which if enough people do, they will change the world. <br /><br />one of the pages is called hug someone which i thought was nice so i'm just gonna share it. <br /><br />A friend of mine has<br />never forgotten seeing his <br />father kiss his grandad's <br />hand as<br />he lay in a coma<br />just before he died. <br /><br />It was the only time<br />he had ever seen <br />them kiss<br /><br />And the only time he<br />hugged his father was <br />when his sister died<br /><br />It wasn't that they weren't<br />close, just that they were<br />grown up, <br />they were men, and <br />Australian, and only<br />death could take down <br />all the barriers<br /><br />But children do it <br />instinctively - they want <br />to touch and be touched<br />to hold and be held. <br /><br />So if there was one bit <br />of advice we'd give<br />everyone reading this <br />book, it would be this<br /><br />Touch someone you love<br /><br />Hold Them<br /><br />Kiss them.<br /><br />It's the one piece of magic<br />we call all do, every day.inamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-18264489477817032192010-03-29T10:52:00.004+11:002010-03-29T14:46:52.077+11:00uni thoughts.I'm sitting here in an ethics lecture kind of zoning out. even though a person has taken his time to come and give us a talk. He's telling us about his struggle with his daily life and the things he has to do to cope with a paralyzed life. <br /><br />Uni has been going well. Been enjoying learning new things and getting to know new people. But something still doesn't feel so right. <br />I guess it's in one way because i miss school and i miss the environment. Sat on the train this morning thinking about all the teachers at school and wondering how they're all doing. <br />Met up with Joe yesterday as well and he seems to be having a good time at school. Talking to some of the ruse kids at talent100 also made me feel a bit of nostalgia. They have exams right now. But instead of thinking "i'm so glad i'm not doing that anymore", i think "ahhh. i remember those days" and smile. <br /><br />Things during the week keep me going. I look forward to monday basketball each week, and also our med faculty has a touch college cup this afternoon. So looking forward to winning our first game for college C. Work and church on sunday is very enjoyable too. I enjoy working and just having fun with the students. Yesterday we went out to get tubs of ice cream from coles, and just ate it in the study rooms with forks. <br /><br />A guy I work with (Dr Tony Hall) told me heaps about the stuff he's done over his life. He used to be a doctor intern for 2 years before he became sick of treating sick people. He then went to become a head math teacher at sydney grammar before moving on to being the head of newington. He's good friends with Bill Pender (Mr Cambrdige) too. In high school he used to bully Tony Abbott around because he was 5 years above him. <br />He's invited me and a couple of the guys to have dinner with him at his home. He lives in a really nice house along kirribilli wharf. It looks out to sydney harbour. His son's a chef too so i'm really looking forward to that. <br /><br />*skip 4 hours*<br /><br />I'm currently in my scenario group session discussing about how to make good communication. It really is just verbal blab. But i guess i gotta get back to it before my coordinator guy thinks i lack attention skills and whatnot. The people in my group are pretty cool though. <br /><br />That's it for now. Looking forward to what's to come. <br />Newton has great cheap thai btw. i wish it was located closer to UNSWinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-49579271878288624562010-02-26T20:12:00.006+11:002010-02-26T21:02:35.395+11:00Summer RecapWell as of today midnight. Our summer holidays are over. and a new chapter begins in our lives <br />and mainly as a way of remembering my summer of 09/10. decided to put up a brief recap of the whole 4 months. <br />when i look back at it. it has been pretty good. lots of things have changed. new things experienced, new friendships made.<br /><br />Well the highlights for my summer would have to be:<br />- formal after party<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3oN5XikiRUoj_ihUeUs5xnns3y5S75Kks6cJ41SPkI3F2sujCtx44AXYqxnTNKPrr9Q2DYO-4Ot7Q5YibN_VMkGGnqTy59lLFc4cyzqHVVLCiLdHi23O0oh5crARsf0qePwEYumNZ/s1600-h/18112009992.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3oN5XikiRUoj_ihUeUs5xnns3y5S75Kks6cJ41SPkI3F2sujCtx44AXYqxnTNKPrr9Q2DYO-4Ot7Q5YibN_VMkGGnqTy59lLFc4cyzqHVVLCiLdHi23O0oh5crARsf0qePwEYumNZ/s320/18112009992.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442482400106821186" /></a><br />renting and staying in a high rise apartment was just something so new and exciting to do. the views from up there was so amazing and just reminded me again of how beautiful our city is. Also walking in the middle of the city has a certain serene calmness to it. It was just empty at 3am. and that sunrise was just wow. <br />- schoolies<br />definitely the best week of my life. looking forward to doing it again next year. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwySmQGeGRce0WPRpjxdgzhL4DDa-IVtLoHJPCh0L7X5zeVpGJ1CDrZssPd4wt5qtCGCKgSNsqkh7DXwFf7pTnpGNUnhEjdzw84xeQA1_kanIvSwdtPclLy0mb_-juX1cTpn6eZ9U/s1600-h/021220091027.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwySmQGeGRce0WPRpjxdgzhL4DDa-IVtLoHJPCh0L7X5zeVpGJ1CDrZssPd4wt5qtCGCKgSNsqkh7DXwFf7pTnpGNUnhEjdzw84xeQA1_kanIvSwdtPclLy0mb_-juX1cTpn6eZ9U/s320/021220091027.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442482407801203074" /></a><br />just the stuff we did was so fun and it was so nice spending a week with friends doing everything. beaching, lighting up sparkler bombs, cooking, late night talks, movies, wii, erina fair. <br />-zoo trip and NYE<br />for me it was the first time i've watched fireworks in the city since i was around 5. definitely made me feel like the city was such a dirty place with all the rubbish floating around afterwards. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1v0IlC0tgd7Zmjhtw9IUSKNvZZQPNAPrX6ZKQbr3ea8TikIPD7kwjXUrEJUTuZ5hxB7AzvbPQ1mo5ixemLcHTnwqt-QYN7g-njXDQDjQdkFz7ozkuDPR1ZZ6Szul-J-979GuzUND/s1600-h/311220091079.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1v0IlC0tgd7Zmjhtw9IUSKNvZZQPNAPrX6ZKQbr3ea8TikIPD7kwjXUrEJUTuZ5hxB7AzvbPQ1mo5ixemLcHTnwqt-QYN7g-njXDQDjQdkFz7ozkuDPR1ZZ6Szul-J-979GuzUND/s320/311220091079.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442482417481726402" /></a><br />zoo was pretty awesome seeing all the animals and whatnot, and not a kiddy thing to do at all. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrKgU9qxgRmeUpR5pW8uB7xxlyxe_EEwYVgD7MRvteQBr67YG4ImaqicO9BK8P_c3zTnl58GJSXTLHTw82RkE64ozbzSDvxg_3nt1w8xJCl0V6QahP3DqkDzPNOytcTv0sHXqcoJW/s1600-h/311220091091.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrKgU9qxgRmeUpR5pW8uB7xxlyxe_EEwYVgD7MRvteQBr67YG4ImaqicO9BK8P_c3zTnl58GJSXTLHTw82RkE64ozbzSDvxg_3nt1w8xJCl0V6QahP3DqkDzPNOytcTv0sHXqcoJW/s320/311220091091.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442482425573688402" /></a><br />fireworks were average but hey. when you start to say that, you know that you're really spoilt<br />- Donating blood<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmgzIkMahyphenhyphenLRLSdwNiHyzuj_XRvQS8SqmkbHQNDdesiB914jSR6FgG4CKI8a4K8yB2-QNHqB65sN3vzFJ0zOphtFaCqcSLb7o9-7YSvtrc1zq15szZc9DV0C66zIMUlvmjQKWKWK8A/s1600-h/200120101128.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmgzIkMahyphenhyphenLRLSdwNiHyzuj_XRvQS8SqmkbHQNDdesiB914jSR6FgG4CKI8a4K8yB2-QNHqB65sN3vzFJ0zOphtFaCqcSLb7o9-7YSvtrc1zq15szZc9DV0C66zIMUlvmjQKWKWK8A/s320/200120101128.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442482432594778306" /></a><br />First time donating blood for me. So it was a pretty cool new experience. nothing much else to say. <br />- Job at talent100<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_vcPLTaq_Y3xk8LHa0YT1SrIzcksoU7gF0K5_uH6tkwpPGWpe-ikSpp2skFqWRI4RaWFI_i7sRKg3gtLR_hVEkUNd9HfF-QuSWy_Q7-Bg05grXc1irwpnoIee38FzZ5Tn5oB7jjz/s1600-h/220220101161.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_vcPLTaq_Y3xk8LHa0YT1SrIzcksoU7gF0K5_uH6tkwpPGWpe-ikSpp2skFqWRI4RaWFI_i7sRKg3gtLR_hVEkUNd9HfF-QuSWy_Q7-Bg05grXc1irwpnoIee38FzZ5Tn5oB7jjz/s320/220220101161.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442485577629558802" /></a><br />being my first job ever, it has turned out pretty good. i actually look forward to working each week. The staff are pretty awesome to talk with and the students are funny too. Although i think i bludge too much. Hopefully i'll get to teach later on. for now it's just marking and tutoring. <br />- Connect<br />Over the holidays connect has been something i've been regularly going to. Jian, Joy and Andrew Gan of ruse run it, so it's been fun learning new things and meeting new people.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeySOLUAJg3nio0VUZ5Wf27iXclYlhQtiG3Zf_oJuVvFkIC7qmKrncEXMWej_krwVRUQxMMChIpbXGZawu4bE2OZufViw-XQyBj6UtrvyhxxJbF7xBJI-USJT0jyyfpT7LItdMiTm/s1600-h/connect+dinner.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeySOLUAJg3nio0VUZ5Wf27iXclYlhQtiG3Zf_oJuVvFkIC7qmKrncEXMWej_krwVRUQxMMChIpbXGZawu4bE2OZufViw-XQyBj6UtrvyhxxJbF7xBJI-USJT0jyyfpT7LItdMiTm/s320/connect+dinner.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442485587052521026" /></a><br />- Cousin's stayover<br />My cousin came over with my aunt (his mum) to sydney this feb for the first time ever. So my parents and I showed them around. It was nice seeing my relatives again for the first time in 5 years. My cousin is still pretty naughty though. We had dinner at the beverly hills restaurant while they were here, and the lobster sashimi was so nice. looks pretty incredible too when they bring it out for you.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk8OsCWWp2juqD9Ec9n3OOpqScb5sT6kw2sHpqCr7hWNUVD75-7nCnNGmLmrTmC3uyFaYTX1-MyzzP0krjn8ITIwaIUNNsgzbtbVXKzo2Il0UvxRHHh8R6Kf9_93I-Sk-aKKmExMli/s1600-h/030220101141.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk8OsCWWp2juqD9Ec9n3OOpqScb5sT6kw2sHpqCr7hWNUVD75-7nCnNGmLmrTmC3uyFaYTX1-MyzzP0krjn8ITIwaIUNNsgzbtbVXKzo2Il0UvxRHHh8R6Kf9_93I-Sk-aKKmExMli/s320/030220101141.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442485569669147378" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-gr1PQKtosxrUghL8R9pSWnlQRhArWGjRqfFidp1lNDXiyUOtyjWeqEfHFBXBzM110fl4kOjDQupJWLkPW6w6M78RYpjZFpol1AR4XRB2sK_PGjGbSYVj13l8MzS4Y5r1-W1cplOR/s1600-h/050220101142.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-gr1PQKtosxrUghL8R9pSWnlQRhArWGjRqfFidp1lNDXiyUOtyjWeqEfHFBXBzM110fl4kOjDQupJWLkPW6w6M78RYpjZFpol1AR4XRB2sK_PGjGbSYVj13l8MzS4Y5r1-W1cplOR/s320/050220101142.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442485556199656962" /></a><br />- Getting ready for uni<br />Gosh that welcome lecture for med at Oweek was boring. Hopefully it wont be like that in uni<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh49bUS1s7eApSy00dSXMTUC6lV-xys2JVyWkUzE6PO1D5lc4FiQmXSwOzRRIIX9UqpmOcX3-owgD0XTMF02PvpnU0zeND8xBfy-YvvvAxjTwESh_bsluX8rREgfjOSOuctMHZuWB3k/s1600-h/230220101162.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh49bUS1s7eApSy00dSXMTUC6lV-xys2JVyWkUzE6PO1D5lc4FiQmXSwOzRRIIX9UqpmOcX3-owgD0XTMF02PvpnU0zeND8xBfy-YvvvAxjTwESh_bsluX8rREgfjOSOuctMHZuWB3k/s320/230220101162.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442485600940394114" /></a><br />Been spending the past week tryna get ready for uni. Just clearing out space in my room. Got a new portable hard drive too. Oh and something i found pretty exciting was going to buy all the med stuff for uni. kris got me my stethoscope today and it looks somewhat like this<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihpSSEaoXIKuAPSlXrIZk8uAyator0RUwOu-KzyHF2jtkssEw6d528mKlxCss7kcj5Hj98kPbabhh6XmP3WCfwP9TItqONaUOJ_GxHnXqmoxe8Chfm5FXMSHaUWwHCB7g0heUoX2NB/s1600-h/littman+classic.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihpSSEaoXIKuAPSlXrIZk8uAyator0RUwOu-KzyHF2jtkssEw6d528mKlxCss7kcj5Hj98kPbabhh6XmP3WCfwP9TItqONaUOJ_GxHnXqmoxe8Chfm5FXMSHaUWwHCB7g0heUoX2NB/s320/littman+classic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442489156656037186" /></a><br />the littman classic II in dark blue tubing. got it for $95 for those wondering how much stethoscopes cost<br /><br /><br />After reading what i've just written, it's so disjointed. so i apologise. but yes. i'm looking forward to the next stage. mainly the people we'll meet, stuff we'll learn and the new things we'll get to experience. <br /><br />I'm already looking forward to the next summer. Now that we know how much time there really is, hopefully i'll be able to pack more things into it <br /><br />Hopefully we'll all still be in touch. and not too busy. The thought of exams in june makes me sick already. But yes that is about it for now. Have fun in uni and <br />Take care y'allinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-30997076085929449342010-02-23T00:30:00.003+11:002010-02-23T00:38:44.457+11:00The burger.I'm so happy cause I have officially converted everyone at my workplace to the burgerhut17 a.k.a degrill. <br />It's good to know that they share my some love for the burger. Lunch breaks at talent100 are spent waiting at degrill. <br />Even the students are getting into it. <br />Example:<br />"Hey Mike, watcha eating there"<br />"Best burger in the world"<br />"Degrill right?"<br /><br />Let it be known that theburgerhut17 is famously known now. <br /><br />The only thing that pees me off is the lady still pretends like she doesnt know me. I've spent 2 freaking years tryna become a regular at that place<br />Everytime i walk in she goes:<br />"What do you want?"<br />in my head i'm like "I come here bloody 3 times a week at the same time, and order the same thing everytime" <br />Yeah and I saw her giving some special offer to some woman when I was waiting for burger to be cooked. She sold her a 600mL bottle coke for $1. Yeah I was pretty cut. I've paid full price everytime. <br /><br />Anyways. i must go sleep otherwise i'll never wake up for O-week FREE PANCAKES<br />just dropping in to say the burgers at degrill are awesome as always.inamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-39146717282403629722010-02-14T22:30:00.001+11:002010-02-14T23:23:49.219+11:00we're all growing up.During these summer holidays, I've probably sat down at my desk several times, opening up blogger trying to think of things to say. thoughts and feelings. things I've done. But i don't know. just didn't think there was anything really important to mention.<br /><br />Haven't been doing much over the past month or so. Just kinda little things here and there, and i'm just kinda itching to do one last adventurous thing before uni starts. But over the past month, i've been noticing a lot of change in most of us. I mean heaps of people have started to work. whether its just tutoring jobs or with big firms for cadetships. enrolling for uni, getting all our timetables, and even some already starting uni. just reading about it in other people's blogs, or just talking about it with people, just kinda really gives me the sense that we're all growing up. maybe even a bit too fast. <br />Don't get me wrong. work can be great. i think for me one of the nice feelings is taking on that extra role of responsibility. stuff that is attached with the coming of age. such as getting Ps, or becoming a senior, a role model and especially starting a job. <br /><br />I've just recently started working at talent100 as a marker. and i'm finding it really fun. well not the work itself. which is kinda boring. but the people who work there and the students make it so much more fun. There's a couple of guys there who are doing med with me next year as well. so it's been pretty awesome getting to know them all. Today i spent 10 hours working there. but it really felt like nothing. half of the time was just spent talking with people and playing games. <br />We're going paintballing next friday as a group. Kris and Janette still think intuition is more awesome. I don't mind either way. <br /><br />Sometimes when i think about it. It feels weird to be on the other side of that "HSC wall" when i was a junior, i remember always thinking that the day after HSC will never come. it was just so far away. and just something i didn't hafta worry about for a long long time. and for me it feels like i've just gone from that mindset and just jumped over that wall without even thinking about it. <br />Going back to school for valentines day assembly kind of made me realise that. Just talking to the teachers and catching up on stuff we've been doing and stuff they've been doing at school. Reminded me of the many things i left behind as we graduated. KO sport team tryouts, school carnivals, school assemblies, shy year 7's coming through each year, newbie people, agriculture. <br />Facebook in a way reminds you of these things too, when people invite you groups such as JONES OWNS or people post up videos of valentines assembly. <br /><br />But uni is something i'm really looking forward to. Just meeting these incredible outgoing people at my workplace doing med, it makes me excited to get to know the rest of the med bunch. I'm also sorta working my way through understanding uni in-jokes as well. Like I told Bosco: <br />- The only job art students get out of their degree is a job at maccas<br />- The bachelor of medical science is also known as the bachelor of GAMSAT. <br />Btw, i didn't mean to offend anyone doing arts or medical science in particular. just passing on what i've been told. <br />Something that James Xu from ruse 08 said made me laugh a bit. He mentioned at melbourne uni one day, that they had put dynamic lifter on their lawn to fertilise it. His friends cowered at the smell, but to him it just smelt like home. <br /><br />Anyways. I'm just gonna limit to there. For whoever reading. sorry if it didnt make any sense. I just basically rambled what was going through my head while i was typing this up. <br /><br />Enjoy the little time you have left of your holidays. Do whatever you've always wanted to do. Don't spend all the time working. We got 50 more years or working to do. Lets just enjoy the time we have now =)<br /><br />Take Care Allinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-33802630070881355332009-12-09T22:32:00.003+11:002009-12-09T22:46:05.618+11:00A piece of my life - living it upRecently i've been getting in basketball quite a bit lately. <br />Actually starting a team in competition at auburn quite soon, so looking forward to that. <br />So I'd just like to share a piece of my life with you guys. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW07ugQesot4Pnfp2ap0VqbvuKGZUPAcRAfCDtFK_YHmKFQt7f-chaIQNASO5ZOL4gCaJFIr2SPijQ3hCv4zyWJhO-cKDZR-Af-fkid4EGlEECmvxWYoxO9MkH0CXiAkhcRM_pexAT/s1600-h/061220091040.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW07ugQesot4Pnfp2ap0VqbvuKGZUPAcRAfCDtFK_YHmKFQt7f-chaIQNASO5ZOL4gCaJFIr2SPijQ3hCv4zyWJhO-cKDZR-Af-fkid4EGlEECmvxWYoxO9MkH0CXiAkhcRM_pexAT/s320/061220091040.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413198442842870658" /></a><br />Go here probably 4-5 times a week in the arvo. A basketball court right next to this park which is behind burwood girls. <br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuTDDdE78YxY4bVd1TXC5ELhsRGKgHdqbR8MtSFV-QfrJ448ODPYj6SUbJOl6rhbi8JaQCGC4xxallcTpRiP1uD1o8ohxbwfIv7Wb8HAlFhHqkhU5HIeMek1rXXGNKJwD7zTPVy5k/s1600-h/081220091042.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuTDDdE78YxY4bVd1TXC5ELhsRGKgHdqbR8MtSFV-QfrJ448ODPYj6SUbJOl6rhbi8JaQCGC4xxallcTpRiP1uD1o8ohxbwfIv7Wb8HAlFhHqkhU5HIeMek1rXXGNKJwD7zTPVy5k/s320/081220091042.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413198450911908194" /></a><br />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.<br /><br />can't believe christmas is coming so soon. where did this whole year go. <br /><br />went laser tagging today with some of the guys. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHwBQ2CbZVIRdlVpXsPn7qtZyAFIJ3hyphenhyphenfwNLwNL4tIlpfp_OCQtTE2-4weBioGA7NavptNuMgNFky4QFytVemekHPvyKszxUXoNlG_EroZQr2wSK7S3ezVdylCKbOm9Lcg3XeFjpG/s1600-h/091220091045.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHwBQ2CbZVIRdlVpXsPn7qtZyAFIJ3hyphenhyphenfwNLwNL4tIlpfp_OCQtTE2-4weBioGA7NavptNuMgNFky4QFytVemekHPvyKszxUXoNlG_EroZQr2wSK7S3ezVdylCKbOm9Lcg3XeFjpG/s320/091220091045.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413198464418940194" /></a><br />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. <br /><br />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<br /><br />hoping to see many of you soon at ATAR bbq. until next time<br />take careinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-74217936894681327172009-12-06T14:48:00.007+11:002009-12-06T15:33:32.911+11:00In a nutshell - my adventuresCan you believe it. It's only been a month since we all finished our exams. That's crazy. <br />Also been nearly a month since i last blogged. so <br />1- i've pretty much forgotten how to type and recount properly<br />2- a lot of stuff has happened<br /><br />To avoid a TL;DR i'll just quickly summarise some of the things that have happened since i last blogged. <br /><br />UNSW interviews followed by aryan's place. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR3jQ3IcmAP3178Hf3SQdnekwSqwcWuqtryEXXXEdJh8lZXzCmfK9Cg7sXMKBCxE-PNVSw7pjC-lWQlwGLMBoROdFeyuune-qQm_TaUa70Ge7Hp5xX1cjt6IkMUHIvhyImfLFM9TnC/s1600-h/20112009999.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR3jQ3IcmAP3178Hf3SQdnekwSqwcWuqtryEXXXEdJh8lZXzCmfK9Cg7sXMKBCxE-PNVSw7pjC-lWQlwGLMBoROdFeyuune-qQm_TaUa70Ge7Hp5xX1cjt6IkMUHIvhyImfLFM9TnC/s320/20112009999.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411966568965195170" /></a><br />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. <br /><br />Epping BBQ <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnsFsK7NpQghzf3XhZT-phdxgmBJJ8jH3uNVn24s2Fg_Emr-33boY0V7Idn8wDv4MgqNfv8ukPkL38HLyg4Anodi4ScpEn4E5WHVHIYuNSymjvygchnXg1rygkZIv-VPBYIwrFoeLC/s1600-h/251120091000.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnsFsK7NpQghzf3XhZT-phdxgmBJJ8jH3uNVn24s2Fg_Emr-33boY0V7Idn8wDv4MgqNfv8ukPkL38HLyg4Anodi4ScpEn4E5WHVHIYuNSymjvygchnXg1rygkZIv-VPBYIwrFoeLC/s320/251120091000.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411966576064892418" /></a><br />I always love barbeques. Especially when it's with a big bunch of friends. <br />Nothing better than having a sausage sizzle with some few cold drinks on a summer's day. It's so calm and relaxing. <br />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<br /><br />Matt's place<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYICmLUIA5b88orRow_554dWew60yt7IGnoGkanLIDZ3chTkK2JaUZxWkVB2Vgzj__hzXtBSomoYvFYkFkVS-3edm-C4opHdfY9U3Ok0P-JqmBjuhmgvLXjky8iHtmUHv7wMgM4luK/s1600-h/251120091001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYICmLUIA5b88orRow_554dWew60yt7IGnoGkanLIDZ3chTkK2JaUZxWkVB2Vgzj__hzXtBSomoYvFYkFkVS-3edm-C4opHdfY9U3Ok0P-JqmBjuhmgvLXjky8iHtmUHv7wMgM4luK/s320/251120091001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411966581215559890" /></a><br />Afterwards caught the bus to matt's place to stayover at his place for the night. <br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkSgSc353PtPJzmx2rYWt3bBZw8_ZR1wj8IZNeZlM953oGLoBQFZN3sh9rdUJ8aGTJy_sbmqE4Rtr36P5LIsIlK5OMItA_jucrwCAx1XI4XlsvULjxfJk3c80E4GVaFU_b8Vm101Jd/s1600-h/251120091004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkSgSc353PtPJzmx2rYWt3bBZw8_ZR1wj8IZNeZlM953oGLoBQFZN3sh9rdUJ8aGTJy_sbmqE4Rtr36P5LIsIlK5OMItA_jucrwCAx1XI4XlsvULjxfJk3c80E4GVaFU_b8Vm101Jd/s320/251120091004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411966593439520802" /></a><br />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 <br />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. <br /><br /><br />SCHOOLIES TRIP <br />I gotta say. perhaps one of my best weeks of my life. actually definitely. <br />Such a fun new experience. Loved it so much. Miss the place so much. Already looking forward to doing it again some time. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZ7w08l51FngbtPiHqPp7ElwOVchRCkv5eb37l24tmti-oifwOlrjHrIHZA09PvxjNyqsyo6BZVr5oFLq87IHkZdZh57pio-qZ6cBU8J_FCcPIUgOmCOwj6_Godai6AW81fV4WN-q/s1600-h/021220091023.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZ7w08l51FngbtPiHqPp7ElwOVchRCkv5eb37l24tmti-oifwOlrjHrIHZA09PvxjNyqsyo6BZVr5oFLq87IHkZdZh57pio-qZ6cBU8J_FCcPIUgOmCOwj6_Godai6AW81fV4WN-q/s320/021220091023.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411968771961350658" /></a><br />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. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUp7mVQeacH4yfmAvix_mWA4rifH4yOBA8UkPkDEiA-uLa74dYyieRTDgzNrMduIEPOdBDQBg2_wf8RqZog0A4TQj0_ZNS8bB3MnvD8MRq8UtxzWXndpkxP8piXaa63sjDYb0OZIw/s1600-h/281120091020.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUp7mVQeacH4yfmAvix_mWA4rifH4yOBA8UkPkDEiA-uLa74dYyieRTDgzNrMduIEPOdBDQBg2_wf8RqZog0A4TQj0_ZNS8bB3MnvD8MRq8UtxzWXndpkxP8piXaa63sjDYb0OZIw/s320/281120091020.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411976606722124386" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5wsuIYIrc0cBGoet3QE8Y0aWD6coIx0GazdN4UiYLKvWFPFxPLji5qUEXnNRGE9KhrSNB6i7Zb53mxI2kkGnz-DMe1MqZSJEHyCfP_C059xlQ8L8jqwxh-pE45ArnAE0mhciA5lIM/s1600-h/021220091029.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5wsuIYIrc0cBGoet3QE8Y0aWD6coIx0GazdN4UiYLKvWFPFxPLji5qUEXnNRGE9KhrSNB6i7Zb53mxI2kkGnz-DMe1MqZSJEHyCfP_C059xlQ8L8jqwxh-pE45ArnAE0mhciA5lIM/s320/021220091029.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411968796926502658" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsY5rs0TN3JTVB6oZ5n-bQg5_90SkOZAWHmWT3rXPqrIRvCuaw4IX2AaPRYQJWwXErRFlqBKMMJ6FRDI7xXBwCR2bmmr0tFboJu02f9m7wRjhx81DTAoFnn5VEf8ToC-wsD_49ZO34/s1600-h/021220091027.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsY5rs0TN3JTVB6oZ5n-bQg5_90SkOZAWHmWT3rXPqrIRvCuaw4IX2AaPRYQJWwXErRFlqBKMMJ6FRDI7xXBwCR2bmmr0tFboJu02f9m7wRjhx81DTAoFnn5VEf8ToC-wsD_49ZO34/s320/021220091027.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411968794316524226" /></a><br /><br />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. <br />had dinner at spur steak ranch which was really cheap since it was 2 for 1 night for the burgers. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1viCaQsZLz1L4UgGXbrbd9RE4-qEbaZiui34k0kqcV2MFhYZSsTn722b8UDMQHg1MEPdFTem40Mq89Cypalmi-xH_q_4yEfDXwUGXteq32lg4N7d6QOZR5BVdogZ9MNIwiDfw8PS7/s1600-h/021220091025.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1viCaQsZLz1L4UgGXbrbd9RE4-qEbaZiui34k0kqcV2MFhYZSsTn722b8UDMQHg1MEPdFTem40Mq89Cypalmi-xH_q_4yEfDXwUGXteq32lg4N7d6QOZR5BVdogZ9MNIwiDfw8PS7/s320/021220091025.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411968780356329714" /></a><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qEZFg-YApAFo8uGoWvE1Ws8zqpZ6A4v25urBlCa2dLxg0rXRTySWkvL8rTj2WFTGQCD-PA46kvX_aWFEq2zARnzVctbgtN7lntn1wa6ACqCS-IhWX1NcUZkfWZaJofhbAcRmXML5/s1600-h/031220091031.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qEZFg-YApAFo8uGoWvE1Ws8zqpZ6A4v25urBlCa2dLxg0rXRTySWkvL8rTj2WFTGQCD-PA46kvX_aWFEq2zARnzVctbgtN7lntn1wa6ACqCS-IhWX1NcUZkfWZaJofhbAcRmXML5/s320/031220091031.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411968804071268242" /></a><br />had to include this in. alison found a kid's girl bike in some thrown away trash. and tried to ride it. <br /><br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br /><br /><br />UWS interviews followed by HOUSE PARTY<br />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<br />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<br /><br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFyCCMWKWqxOtwcQhfTKUBGRCxYs5GewaZPESi4eRGDEjyEfw3S6cdzRv7oL8nrov4z2IkxQyWk86_MJGHoF_L4hWACkMADxmnCzup5C-ILEUtj8RnUIsbIU6sG4oeo7drVw_KQl_G/s1600-h/051220091034.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFyCCMWKWqxOtwcQhfTKUBGRCxYs5GewaZPESi4eRGDEjyEfw3S6cdzRv7oL8nrov4z2IkxQyWk86_MJGHoF_L4hWACkMADxmnCzup5C-ILEUtj8RnUIsbIU6sG4oeo7drVw_KQl_G/s320/051220091034.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411973981234535698" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKt_w58-quG2BjAg5wk-hslyLBj4Sv904m61a8tOXwbiOpnf7vSl2rDpmBrqhNScAh-war95HEkckOEVNJmnS_S3HEDZsiFchEvJvt-iAYugUjMN8CrN90OL1IbI-KRXo3dpnAvJgG/s1600-h/051220091033.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKt_w58-quG2BjAg5wk-hslyLBj4Sv904m61a8tOXwbiOpnf7vSl2rDpmBrqhNScAh-war95HEkckOEVNJmnS_S3HEDZsiFchEvJvt-iAYugUjMN8CrN90OL1IbI-KRXo3dpnAvJgG/s320/051220091033.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411973974689796674" /></a><br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Xwu6DTYXCgVS88iAWBbNzkbOI1N6U0i0J4EZlvHyqwqGhfcsQy7rJ1y-EniVVFd_z-Ckti1g18vn7zs66SWYFhE7SOGaqoaFDbFr8TXYWn4syHS_dBe3j52XKJ6M4YM-OuWzShxO/s1600-h/051220091035.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Xwu6DTYXCgVS88iAWBbNzkbOI1N6U0i0J4EZlvHyqwqGhfcsQy7rJ1y-EniVVFd_z-Ckti1g18vn7zs66SWYFhE7SOGaqoaFDbFr8TXYWn4syHS_dBe3j52XKJ6M4YM-OuWzShxO/s320/051220091035.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411973987931879106" /></a><br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRtK3SCZTIBwIRWkXgi9r5U_ibRb5lbh-GlTJ-QKkblB5sDzqVYBu_7poMpqGl4NEWizE_rZSpqyxroIO_UnYBRmpPgP8Cr4RqROGMEOdB6Zg0-zhEqb2NNY0ApB-u9r_FndMBGyj/s1600-h/061220091039.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRtK3SCZTIBwIRWkXgi9r5U_ibRb5lbh-GlTJ-QKkblB5sDzqVYBu_7poMpqGl4NEWizE_rZSpqyxroIO_UnYBRmpPgP8Cr4RqROGMEOdB6Zg0-zhEqb2NNY0ApB-u9r_FndMBGyj/s320/061220091039.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411973997039691618" /></a><br />He's the one on the left. Guess who the one on the right is. <br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEith5FYrN7Lgec2B-2_Gjw8e09n4Kdhid_C1tJ_uY9Bm_GmWdR5vM7eyzG9Lrfdv2tD_heJ_ZPdh4QFtlRqWJ1kQESNH9PW1mU2b1ijMsKsQD318Y1KqvY4CNyhnPWgb3lQkZik9sKT/s1600-h/051220091037.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEith5FYrN7Lgec2B-2_Gjw8e09n4Kdhid_C1tJ_uY9Bm_GmWdR5vM7eyzG9Lrfdv2tD_heJ_ZPdh4QFtlRqWJ1kQESNH9PW1mU2b1ijMsKsQD318Y1KqvY4CNyhnPWgb3lQkZik9sKT/s320/051220091037.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411974003642776642" /></a><br /><br /><br />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. <br />Enjoy yourselves everybody. Do what you've always wanted to do. Don't hold back <br />Take careinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-16142984260138133702009-11-14T20:56:00.005+11:002009-11-14T21:35:27.476+11:00THE WAGYU BURGERI'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<br /><br />If i haven't excitingly already told you, i passed my P's on thursday<br />oh joy :D i was so happy <br />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. <br />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<br />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 <br /><br />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 <br /><br />What happened today:<br />went grocery shopping for some food and drinks for formal after-party, it feels good to be of some help :P <br />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<br />was just chatting to swami online, and he was asking for a lift to formal and this is what came across:<br /><br />rohan says:<br /> fair enough<br /> hey can you give me a lfit to formal?<br /><br />[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:<br /> yeah?<br /> umm hey what about this<br /> im going into the city beforehand<br /> to unload the drinks into the apartment<br /> the girls are gonna be there too<br /> can you catch a train to strathfield and i'll pick you up there?<br /><br />rohan says:<br /> yeah thats fine<br /> are we still going drinks shopping on monday?<br /><br />[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:<br /> yep yep<br /> umm do you mind going into the city with me?<br /> and we can chill for a bit while the girls get ready<br /> then head off<br /> saves me making a return trip<br /><br />rohan says:<br /> awesome<br /> itd be good to chill in the arvo<br /> what time is all this?<br /><br />[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:<br /> umm<br /> can you get to strathfield at around 4-30?<br /> so we'll get to city by 5<br /><br />rohan says:<br /> DUDE<br /><br />[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:<br /> and then chill until 6 <br /><br />rohan says:<br /> BURGER!?<br /><br />[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:<br /> OH MAN<br /> <br />rohan says:<br /> WE'D BE IN SUITS TOO<br /><br />[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:<br /> YES WE WOULD<br /> I NEEDA CHECK WHERE THIS PLAN B place is<br /><br />rohan says:<br /> oh my god oh my god oh my god this is so perfect<br /><br />[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:<br /> i reckon eh<br /> ok the place closes at 4pm<br /> so get to strathfield by 3<br /> i need to part into the car space at meriton<br /> *park<br /> and we'll walk over to get a burger <br /><br />rohan says:<br /> freaking. awesome.<br /><br />[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:<br /> man i cant wait<br /><br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpbL3sPOwn9HXL5dhcbg6aMRxSLeI6QdojXj2iTRIzsjJMS8CIYuOE8leEa3BriH6RAqHDXWe3Ey2mBQI_OFQFk3sb0dW9MiVHbxObbNufEr9A_K4gNupzhTtN4xRsT2KqN2b7d2bf/s1600-h/wagyu+burger.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpbL3sPOwn9HXL5dhcbg6aMRxSLeI6QdojXj2iTRIzsjJMS8CIYuOE8leEa3BriH6RAqHDXWe3Ey2mBQI_OFQFk3sb0dW9MiVHbxObbNufEr9A_K4gNupzhTtN4xRsT2KqN2b7d2bf/s320/wagyu+burger.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403904881667614434" /></a><br />But i'm so excited to try this burger. a nice filler before the formal <br />finally everything is coming into place and life is becoming more and more enjoyable. <br /><br />That's it for now. I must include a picture before i leave so here it is:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0CMWoPOvSlzjQN5U2lmxnsCEBSA95cZbPWbWXsxGGFVPKi_OMZgqS6uc5X6hhO_s7VHy1BOz0PWU_TO3PzD1EjCnJji3lE5bIEHvWDuJkhI-MMtOQfdaCATvbK9UCUacMddf7wJVJ/s1600-h/11112009891.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0CMWoPOvSlzjQN5U2lmxnsCEBSA95cZbPWbWXsxGGFVPKi_OMZgqS6uc5X6hhO_s7VHy1BOz0PWU_TO3PzD1EjCnJji3lE5bIEHvWDuJkhI-MMtOQfdaCATvbK9UCUacMddf7wJVJ/s320/11112009891.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403904887852779218" /></a><br />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 <br /><br />play safe, can't wait to see you all at formal. lets have some funinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-33545402926895172242009-11-06T19:30:00.004+11:002009-11-06T20:03:59.995+11:00The start of a new lifeIt's been a while since i last posted. <br /><br />What's happened since the last post:<br />- 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. <br /><br />- Got an MSI netbook :D thanks to joseph's sweet hookups from his dad. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqBH-6XYVMy3d8MDaqFhFVslgRGcamDQhD4KiYxuCReW-f41y7D2mPXVEuhUxgggb5GxphKTf4MF3LtydOwnDFjDauZycliD2OkxudIb6etfc6jAxqP6UK_KIByTaVug5j8Zqzz5t/s1600-h/msi-wind-u100-plus.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqBH-6XYVMy3d8MDaqFhFVslgRGcamDQhD4KiYxuCReW-f41y7D2mPXVEuhUxgggb5GxphKTf4MF3LtydOwnDFjDauZycliD2OkxudIb6etfc6jAxqP6UK_KIByTaVug5j8Zqzz5t/s320/msi-wind-u100-plus.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400910213111543794" /></a><br />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. <br /><br />hey i thought there'd be much more that went on during this period, but turns out it was just all study. <br /><br />anyways i've been waiting for this moment for a long time and here were a couple of things i had planned out earlier: <br />- Get a bike and go riding along birkenhead point to rozelle track<br />- Go taste the wagyu burger in the city<br />- Go get a therapeutic massage <br />- Go basketball<br />- Go meet up with old friends<br />- Go gym <br />- Go squash<br />- Go enter table tennis competitions<br />- Go start a tutoring job<br />- Go get my formal stuff<br />- Go prepare how to cook some food just in case for schoolies <br />- Go get new clothes <br />- Go get a pair of sunglasses<br />- Go get my Ps<br />- Go crash peoples places and play<br />- Go sleepover <br /><br />and there's more which i currently can not think of. and it'd be tl;dr <br />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. <br /><br />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 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9DbkturMpw4NZB9BwKviz6AwfQYu9G-FMk0WviyGFzXi0QOOyS0YCESNW4QmQGlpsGdAC4tbf_n8nZfQLQi3GrG0teHkJVJ-iUTA5XRtWZM7_kP9Fz_KQ2u3ZbAqrYe0K0enNGEA/s1600-h/06112009883.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9DbkturMpw4NZB9BwKviz6AwfQYu9G-FMk0WviyGFzXi0QOOyS0YCESNW4QmQGlpsGdAC4tbf_n8nZfQLQi3GrG0teHkJVJ-iUTA5XRtWZM7_kP9Fz_KQ2u3ZbAqrYe0K0enNGEA/s320/06112009883.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400910223965415138" /></a><br />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 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix9n8yoE6qub1RpP13bNA4A51OIGn_rox-D320KkxtagReKKhgbEfddjZQ__WqD_MaO5lWM9Wp5eQiRm-1lBVsbHD8XNurHwS-d1OtmmYqAXjA-FRoE7wna-zSTwRzfHjtFX17d_JH/s1600-h/06112009884.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix9n8yoE6qub1RpP13bNA4A51OIGn_rox-D320KkxtagReKKhgbEfddjZQ__WqD_MaO5lWM9Wp5eQiRm-1lBVsbHD8XNurHwS-d1OtmmYqAXjA-FRoE7wna-zSTwRzfHjtFX17d_JH/s320/06112009884.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400910230751422946" /></a><br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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<br />went home and assembled the bike. really looking forward to riding it and getting fit. <br /><br />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 <br />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. <br /><br />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<br />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<br />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. <br />so i guess we'll see <br /><br />for now that is all <br />enjoy your holidays :P<br />let looseinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-63738933654386707162009-10-15T18:52:00.005+11:002009-10-15T21:29:35.798+11:00Star-Struck/SerendipityI'm so glad that i left parra library when aryan pleaded me to stay<br /><br />I'm so glad that the sydney terminal was delayed by 10 minute at parra <br /><br /><br />BECAUSE..... <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I BUMPED INTO NATALIE A.K.A COMMUNITYCHANNEL<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2vbIyUPAezLd_ijXBnH-FqEUYNpYYFKtryiQ6NRj7ogVwEh05KLMk4CN9K5eeoQ9yzozwsNqbM93enaCqSGj6aA7WE_pVcBsrLMay2sN6VRB2ZJtrxJsBB2MxCOgtZp3BsaUEpkds/s1600-h/15102009877.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2vbIyUPAezLd_ijXBnH-FqEUYNpYYFKtryiQ6NRj7ogVwEh05KLMk4CN9K5eeoQ9yzozwsNqbM93enaCqSGj6aA7WE_pVcBsrLMay2sN6VRB2ZJtrxJsBB2MxCOgtZp3BsaUEpkds/s320/15102009877.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392732676742178802" /></a><br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />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<br /><br />Me: Hi. Is it natalie?<br />Natalie: Hahah. yeah<br />Me: CommunityChannel right? yeah my friend really loves your videos. <br /><br />In essence i was just pulling out a conversation continuer. I knew in my head that she would get that a lot. <br /><br />Natalie: Oh that's nice <br />Me: Would it be alright if I got an autograph for them?<br /><br />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"<br /><br />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. <br /><br />I pass her the pen and the paper. She turns the thing over to see what it is. <br />Natalie: Oh what is this?<br />Michael: Oh haha. yeah it's my chemistry notes. i've been studying for HSC<br />Natalie: Oh HSC, that's a sucker. Don't worry trust me. It'll be much better afterwards. <br />N: Oh sorry, what was your name?<br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />She hands the paper back over. and i go. "Mind if I get a photo too?"<br />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. <br /><br />M: Hey thanks a lot. <br />N: Hey no problems, you should send that photo to my email and I can post it up on my video. <br />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<br />M: Yeah sure. i'lll errr i'll i'll definitely do that. <br /><br />i was really starting to slur my words. so i thought better get the hell out of there.<br /><br />The train had arrived.<br />N: Well it was nice meeting you, good luck for your HSC<br />M: Yeah thanks<br /><br />She gives me a hug and i start turning away to head to my platform with a huge grin on my face. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghQHI9lLBvtPgKuuwU5MJbTvxPwUbEj7TNLDfehQ6sB-j3TxtFNfpS_iVOIhp6A_PksCfCum5HamsmJU4uUwrQtgT3SSb7LIMGllh9i-NxBbmQ-V-0rH-MhIdiVw-h84yA9kWqtoSo/s1600-h/15102009878.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghQHI9lLBvtPgKuuwU5MJbTvxPwUbEj7TNLDfehQ6sB-j3TxtFNfpS_iVOIhp6A_PksCfCum5HamsmJU4uUwrQtgT3SSb7LIMGllh9i-NxBbmQ-V-0rH-MhIdiVw-h84yA9kWqtoSo/s320/15102009878.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392738781977266194" /></a><br /><br />And so that ends my very descriptive conclusion. here's what she wrote for me. <br />"This is far more important that your chemistry notes" - if it's too blurry to see <br />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.<br /><br />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<br /><br />That's it for now<br />Take care everyone. Make the most of your time.inamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-60588911252654072982009-10-12T18:57:00.004+11:002009-10-12T19:37:54.622+11:00study adventuresnothing better than a nerdy recount to keep you going. <br /><br />following recounts include past 3 days. saturday, sunday and monday.<br /><br />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. <br />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. <br />get there and the entire upper floor is completely quiet. it was really quite nice to study in. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU8_Tfqmviz-LdVzKjMRcTcDZw-u9rAlbt2a2wxcvODXjSUWOHwsWiJAadahOfBjmx691DspkYZFxXonW3-FOt4ZoxGbjy1OUJvsFY1MZSDDcfq8NbjAA21SM-lyhE3cQHIg8xpPA4/s1600-h/10102009874.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU8_Tfqmviz-LdVzKjMRcTcDZw-u9rAlbt2a2wxcvODXjSUWOHwsWiJAadahOfBjmx691DspkYZFxXonW3-FOt4ZoxGbjy1OUJvsFY1MZSDDcfq8NbjAA21SM-lyhE3cQHIg8xpPA4/s320/10102009874.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391620556243023746" /></a><br />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.<br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZFOt7x84G3Dkif1JtXGtAYtIypMJVqT46ERqYm3aAUnEOtBH-aFUwv9420Kb640IUmdCx9DiMVjQDhZrTSyyx-G3XUsHx13C8moaOZq012_WLbdl574WRHqNj8FUolXJNz8GPE-eo/s1600-h/11102009875.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZFOt7x84G3Dkif1JtXGtAYtIypMJVqT46ERqYm3aAUnEOtBH-aFUwv9420Kb640IUmdCx9DiMVjQDhZrTSyyx-G3XUsHx13C8moaOZq012_WLbdl574WRHqNj8FUolXJNz8GPE-eo/s320/11102009875.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391620563285306402" /></a><br />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. <br />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 <br />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<br />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. <br />friend: haha yeah sure ;) <br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />get to parra library 15 minutes after it opened to find jero in his spot, as he said he would be in his blog <a href="http://thepassengerseat.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/field-studies/"></a> 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. <br />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 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOlHnWCJr9gEVUxpW3vQ4wzhQlQOdFEh4rasSUHU8ymfaIWQU_fn9kT6L5q2YIoh3dj3WWWjCoXpqu7HAJpwAXVXNEdYPfMFCSSybXMRZMF5s-aKvv7g30en40WfsMARP33D3RHv8/s1600-h/12102009876.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOlHnWCJr9gEVUxpW3vQ4wzhQlQOdFEh4rasSUHU8ymfaIWQU_fn9kT6L5q2YIoh3dj3WWWjCoXpqu7HAJpwAXVXNEdYPfMFCSSybXMRZMF5s-aKvv7g30en40WfsMARP33D3RHv8/s320/12102009876.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391620575685897474" /></a><br />sy comes shortly afterwards. and finds a desk of her own. <br />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. <br />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.<br />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. <br />sy books a room at 3 and we go study quietly in there for 2 hours. <br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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<br />take care everyoneinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-40777840129239865932009-10-09T21:35:00.004+11:002009-10-09T21:42:50.133+11:00Day in a picturayyymy titles are getting lamer. i tried to rhyme<br /><br />i'm running behind a tight study schedule but before i'm off i'd like to share my day . <br /><br />headed off the state library to study. i didn't bring these books. just wanted to show off my success one stash. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW1KS2oM-ftN-aBPDtsjRJ3USs1D81wgiKlEuSdCyt9g-8uW9w8jS7UsvTsvBgoeqCvAa3yKuuyWIj0VYcrlTZfe0Pe-1aR1yZ-IvaqFdOpW4tKLvlEIHDbBmsqoYjgxl5EQFYTmLE/s1600-h/08102009870.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW1KS2oM-ftN-aBPDtsjRJ3USs1D81wgiKlEuSdCyt9g-8uW9w8jS7UsvTsvBgoeqCvAa3yKuuyWIj0VYcrlTZfe0Pe-1aR1yZ-IvaqFdOpW4tKLvlEIHDbBmsqoYjgxl5EQFYTmLE/s320/08102009870.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390547729043763586" /></a><br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-haHzN6GUoejf0Xa6Pg9Wxn5EVoKynDcpIZ-GPyVyBEw8sMmr3DZ2rDBtwNS8YYULCInTXwDXQcaexPU371z6BlrHZUxQOp2c1EwyUQGCSLEV3g4L8tfrZ8FcmX7pCetE2rM-Knu/s1600-h/09102009871.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-haHzN6GUoejf0Xa6Pg9Wxn5EVoKynDcpIZ-GPyVyBEw8sMmr3DZ2rDBtwNS8YYULCInTXwDXQcaexPU371z6BlrHZUxQOp2c1EwyUQGCSLEV3g4L8tfrZ8FcmX7pCetE2rM-Knu/s320/09102009871.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390547742008922642" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7t6hLCxQXT87so1z1T5fY4jt8jn3L5wwcAyTxryvS-A4ZvGS1rvpeQRnkT_rVQmj_l0T8FvprxTXQQgf54STpedlUy7Cq5BFDyeBLCtXZ7NtKhmzy-mgtiPPxaCAShbA2ZcnDkV7/s1600-h/09102009872.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7t6hLCxQXT87so1z1T5fY4jt8jn3L5wwcAyTxryvS-A4ZvGS1rvpeQRnkT_rVQmj_l0T8FvprxTXQQgf54STpedlUy7Cq5BFDyeBLCtXZ7NtKhmzy-mgtiPPxaCAShbA2ZcnDkV7/s320/09102009872.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390547760349886818" /></a><br />hoarded up state library for 6 hours. went out for a lunch break. got this. satisfying. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiftOkZWonigI5X3CCF5p79fD_Ld_Pm1HS2PKLfDS8ElUBrNfDQ0aKwEe52DULJVM_HAT7CwegodQX9JbMLmQJLSvoeKubP7Yk1XglisKB6rwXzNnSXBp3v9UvBerdSorOy4Srk2bEE/s1600-h/09102009873.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiftOkZWonigI5X3CCF5p79fD_Ld_Pm1HS2PKLfDS8ElUBrNfDQ0aKwEe52DULJVM_HAT7CwegodQX9JbMLmQJLSvoeKubP7Yk1XglisKB6rwXzNnSXBp3v9UvBerdSorOy4Srk2bEE/s320/09102009873.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390547766594425218" /></a><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />take care. study hard. seriously. study hard. less than 2 weeks to goinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-55601916809421406072009-10-08T20:45:00.007+11:002009-10-08T22:12:26.274+11:00Study shinannagansI don't know how to spell shinannagans. ok it's been red underlined <br /><br />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.<br />to those already doing tonnes of study. good stuff. i'll try and match it. <br />just decided to recount blog after reading jero's blog<br /><br />what has happened:<br />- 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. <br />people who intend to study but don't end up doing it. i find that a lot . me included. <br /><br />- 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. <br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />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) <br />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.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrW-I1SGnlSsWKFamJO4nnN3Lj63BDFY9wLQNGS7Weaepv0UiOIcmWLCFvfxyMvFQSxdSJo9v74ciWxn5igfqCxZ1URdRvDhkOV8Tc39DDd6fxB5gg2a97ZNj66gFHe-fBSxpPgxOn/s1600-h/03102009866.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrW-I1SGnlSsWKFamJO4nnN3Lj63BDFY9wLQNGS7Weaepv0UiOIcmWLCFvfxyMvFQSxdSJo9v74ciWxn5igfqCxZ1URdRvDhkOV8Tc39DDd6fxB5gg2a97ZNj66gFHe-fBSxpPgxOn/s320/03102009866.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390171043242327602" /></a><br />vanessa (leung) was cut out. cause guan made her go take the photo for us xD <br /><br />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<br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />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 <br /><br />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. <br />during short break in pooviah's class got caught in short convo with bobby and peter<br />bobby: you been studying michael?<br />me: yeah<br />b: how many hours a day?<br />m: umm, probably 7. (i was probably overestimating. maybe 7 hours including time just sitting there pondering other stuff) <br />b: peter does 10. <br />p: (nods with recognition)<br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />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:<br />"it's only noise if you think it is. you can block it out if you want to"<br />which is totally true. <br />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.<br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />oh yeah and for kicks searched her up on boardofstudies. she came first in drama. <br />some other girl who accidentally flashed her name too came 1st in arabic continuers<br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />friday: state library<br />saturday: some library undecided ashfield/burwood/state/strathfield<br />sunday: state library<br />monday: parramatta library<br /> <br />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. <br />study hard everybody! cause everybody is doing it. you can never get sick of study ;) it's fun learning and revising !<br />for the school! <br /><br />take careinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-4259726021293892832009-09-30T22:36:00.003+10:002009-09-30T22:45:33.790+10:00For the school.It's been a great run. I've loved every minute. <br /><br />Now it is time to give back to the school and your teachers. <br />Make them proud. <br />Stay safe, take care of yourselves, study hard. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />My only regret is not being brave enough to know some of you guys better. <br /><br />I hope to be seeing you around<br />This ain't gonna be the last farewell. i refuse to believe that<br /><br />i love you all dearly. and god blessinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-36177260845246728282009-09-28T23:32:00.004+10:002009-09-29T00:42:59.638+10:00My first day. and the last.I still remember the first day of school vividly. <br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br />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<br />"7A TO L1.1, 7K TO L1.2... " <br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br /><br /><br />that's what i remember from my first day of school. other things i remember from when the school was old. <br />- no canteen where it is now, instead if was a storage house for equipment i think. <br />- demountables on the oval, which consisted of classrooms and the canteen <br />- bare dirt oval pitch. whethered by the million of students (mainly boys) playing soccer and football on it <br />- haribo coke bottle lollies for 30c at the canteen<br />- lolly vending machine, which consisted of skittles sour packets for $1.30 <br />- coke can machines <br />- recycling crate behind girls' change room. had so many aluminium crushed cans in it<br />- richard and his apparent fame with the ladies. and his amazing 1.6 time of 6:36. <br />- 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. <br />- LT's being gay <br />- AK ballers. michael li always calling james JA-MEZZZ<br />- Michael yoon being a hardcore baller, and having beef with michael li <br />- James (Zhang) and his awesome fan hat which he brought to swimming carnival <br />- That massive hill they have a ryde aquatic centre, and how we just raced each other up and down it<br />- 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. <br />- 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. <br />- 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 <br />- Awesome peer support leaders eun-ji and gary. and joseph's peer support leader gavin, who had long hair. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />best wishes for the future. <br />i'll be blogging sometime soon to thank y'all<br />for now<br />take care everyone<br />i'll be seeing you aroundinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-52299198547915076392009-09-27T18:15:00.003+10:002009-09-27T18:48:58.974+10:00100m out.Wow. i just fully outgayed myself last night <br /><br />Went on a late night homo syndrome rampage. talking to a friend on the phone about feelings and stuff until 2. <br />i woke up. and i felt really gay. but i meant everything i said. <br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />well what happened today: <br />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. <br />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. <br />had breakfast in qvb, in one of those side cafes. the pancakes were really nice and soft. and i was surprisingly really full afterwards. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSauR93809WORcelolISb7qlofdqF-DlYI1UH43IdUM5OWZffUN1hfkTRsIhGc1xTu85hc3cHJ6CmRf8es0vMywGUBIn6gbwRjxKrL4Yg5H0cO0zd5NZCDeDIVmhhBhgC1oBi9QYRR/s1600-h/27092009762.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSauR93809WORcelolISb7qlofdqF-DlYI1UH43IdUM5OWZffUN1hfkTRsIhGc1xTu85hc3cHJ6CmRf8es0vMywGUBIn6gbwRjxKrL4Yg5H0cO0zd5NZCDeDIVmhhBhgC1oBi9QYRR/s320/27092009762.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386060368258605650" /></a><br />the coffee was kind of refreshingly bitter. but i was really brain dead afterwards.probably not enough sleep <br /><br />trying to do questions and papers at the library, and it just didn't come to me <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicqVvvBJ3dr3jcqlfkhDn3G-XJlLOakLa7Kgh3avULw4pJDVyCMyM0TzH9K9LmLZXKbza32F46VNsRPkbKLa-6WcV9mSQiWnLBbuOacYJnCNzJgb7RL9RmpGcJkSm2mr68OWYCs5_N/s1600-h/27092009763.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicqVvvBJ3dr3jcqlfkhDn3G-XJlLOakLa7Kgh3avULw4pJDVyCMyM0TzH9K9LmLZXKbza32F46VNsRPkbKLa-6WcV9mSQiWnLBbuOacYJnCNzJgb7RL9RmpGcJkSm2mr68OWYCs5_N/s320/27092009763.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386060379209110498" /></a><br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkyT_44Bancq0N9TLmFYqpyEPe-2OC0kvNtGP5JAkUjR3ZFHNcFDpdKvzJuFMuIBN59Dk0VUgvGVOqH6H2WYSRRIpf-5JtzSYJ4-4KD4DwI5MXLQL4fBT1uaj71eWc5zu7wA9qbGS/s1600-h/27092009764.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkyT_44Bancq0N9TLmFYqpyEPe-2OC0kvNtGP5JAkUjR3ZFHNcFDpdKvzJuFMuIBN59Dk0VUgvGVOqH6H2WYSRRIpf-5JtzSYJ4-4KD4DwI5MXLQL4fBT1uaj71eWc5zu7wA9qbGS/s320/27092009764.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386060384412891426" /></a><br />there was some rural greens protest outside parliament house for some reason as i walked past. <br /><br />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 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XaJuX07p1bsjA-n6P0C4rMPk2kwWIZKzyvVYsbNPEeOMnyWq0ZBLwReHzqiV8U1jpAMpsMCsPn0lYNdHHN9H9xGCSLQZe5NLD2v5uLdV5cVWB0gLVE8KK0ViIAUxPd424rYjGWyw/s1600-h/27092009765.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XaJuX07p1bsjA-n6P0C4rMPk2kwWIZKzyvVYsbNPEeOMnyWq0ZBLwReHzqiV8U1jpAMpsMCsPn0lYNdHHN9H9xGCSLQZe5NLD2v5uLdV5cVWB0gLVE8KK0ViIAUxPd424rYjGWyw/s320/27092009765.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386060394785726034" /></a><br />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. <br /><br />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 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK_2whWs4ztroiJKFJEhhY58GEPCxn66IhJDhBJzMT0yyYbyLd5-bxCH9-w5tuZ06cMkOHPInpWOwEI4QOV-h_JBQc816fH208eZO9ym1_HmUHiC58g2_KZC26h6xkOMvMkBN3KyT/s1600-h/27092009766.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK_2whWs4ztroiJKFJEhhY58GEPCxn66IhJDhBJzMT0yyYbyLd5-bxCH9-w5tuZ06cMkOHPInpWOwEI4QOV-h_JBQc816fH208eZO9ym1_HmUHiC58g2_KZC26h6xkOMvMkBN3KyT/s320/27092009766.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386060403396683154" /></a><br /><br />and here i am typing. <br />i'm really proud of our grade. well most of it. <br />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. <br />i love our forum and all the funny stuff that goes on in it. <br />and the blogging community. opening up to each other and sharing parts of our lives. that's been really nice. <br /><br />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. <br />just all this stuff we share with each other, and our arrogant school pride :P <br />other schools might hate it, but i don't really care. <br /><br />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 <br /><br />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<br />the lunch is on me. no matter how cash-poor i am. but don't exploit me ;) <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br />may your future lives be filled with joy. <br />and i'm going to stop there now. before i get all gay again. <br /><br />take care everyone <br />love y'allinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-69311170967477882632009-09-22T00:40:00.003+10:002009-09-22T00:49:47.653+10:00Can't change the past. Just look back on it fondlyI 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. <br /><br />It's getting late, and i need to fill my co-ops forms <br />Just posting up this pic to express my great admiration for it <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNlU_P8g5rzTHObz-912R1FeLt2U6wN6Vx0C-vJ2bHuJXf9UI2fX2V8m0THwNW4l3VOoq-r-oMaUpUdfVws7NQmVODSW2I_aMnMxTlZdJ-CsTLEzG2WO4G3PDcm32xzKZRMeVjGkw/s1600-h/reenacting+past+photos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWNlU_P8g5rzTHObz-912R1FeLt2U6wN6Vx0C-vJ2bHuJXf9UI2fX2V8m0THwNW4l3VOoq-r-oMaUpUdfVws7NQmVODSW2I_aMnMxTlZdJ-CsTLEzG2WO4G3PDcm32xzKZRMeVjGkw/s320/reenacting+past+photos.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383931312603476050" /></a><br /><br />I love it. Oh how much we have changed. The memories<br />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<br /><br />But we must not be afraid of change.<br />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. <br />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 <br /><br />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 :) <br />If you know anyone who needs a tutor. Recommend me ;) . I'll be nice :P<br /><br />It's getting late. i will post very soon with a very deep and meaningful post. <br />Just needa think of what to say without sounding like a homo<br /><br />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. <br /><br />For now. take care everybody <br />Gonna miss y'all when you're goneinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-21555052917326447002009-09-15T19:03:00.005+10:002009-09-15T19:36:44.655+10:00Morning adventuresI'm gonna keep this to as short as possible. because i really feel the urge to study. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYvIQpurNFLrdKuuAwPakWAae5AnyJh5SV7O84CYNxtjkO9MCRSil7L_QUTFAyYV9z-XREH1mBBDdwfnwMf1_HSSc_NoKSXTNjJHT4ZoDqzMlum9DQ-mozRJifF8qDjvNhrFG9r6e/s1600-h/15092009672.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYvIQpurNFLrdKuuAwPakWAae5AnyJh5SV7O84CYNxtjkO9MCRSil7L_QUTFAyYV9z-XREH1mBBDdwfnwMf1_HSSc_NoKSXTNjJHT4ZoDqzMlum9DQ-mozRJifF8qDjvNhrFG9r6e/s320/15092009672.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381621309137864434" /></a><br />i've got papers just waiting for me at my study desk. but before i go just like to share my day. <br /><br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br /><br />i promise this story is getting somewhere. <br />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. <br />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 . <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnfcDe38lNHDEcbRoi3iEXZpJgAyxN2lj5yM-6b7R5HCfeu45whP8nYYRRxoPV1AjqQUo1oyRZ7SHOnGD40LLwe7BA2xnnSYw_62W3Wy2KXyei_Ria_4IRxaQuoWAN5NLfObXe6mlX/s1600-h/15092009670.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnfcDe38lNHDEcbRoi3iEXZpJgAyxN2lj5yM-6b7R5HCfeu45whP8nYYRRxoPV1AjqQUo1oyRZ7SHOnGD40LLwe7BA2xnnSYw_62W3Wy2KXyei_Ria_4IRxaQuoWAN5NLfObXe6mlX/s320/15092009670.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381621285668231042" /></a><br />the usual trek up carlingford road. <br /><br />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. <br />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. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBP1YMfF6bCbevlPIckctXaXPPyfTmvJZTVFsQ0TX20ULYiYj5AY4QsrZVH-igE-2cUQGBwjRZ8V8daHAA135LdEPF4BOzGeGZbX3ALHQIc-pC6C1lMGkaMoXNdAc1o1b0MP-hwuJj/s1600-h/15092009671.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBP1YMfF6bCbevlPIckctXaXPPyfTmvJZTVFsQ0TX20ULYiYj5AY4QsrZVH-igE-2cUQGBwjRZ8V8daHAA135LdEPF4BOzGeGZbX3ALHQIc-pC6C1lMGkaMoXNdAc1o1b0MP-hwuJj/s320/15092009671.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381621291042361186" /></a><br />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 <br /><br />finally reach school to see assembly is still going on.<br />that was a pretty nice morning. maccas breakfasts are so nice. <br /><br /><br />period lessons these days are quite enjoyable. although i still feel guilty that i should be working . <br />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 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD3i2tT9i-uNTZFTN6fnNK1nCmdYTtxiWPfiHcovxDwCJpPQN6z2FWiiBi2bYGSYGqNenpIVR4hyDD08_BkRkhfpe5Q-l_Cmkt54rWg7tNYBwxzdCf4vDhc6FUsMLz7Ux2aiK-YCcO/s1600-h/15092009673.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD3i2tT9i-uNTZFTN6fnNK1nCmdYTtxiWPfiHcovxDwCJpPQN6z2FWiiBi2bYGSYGqNenpIVR4hyDD08_BkRkhfpe5Q-l_Cmkt54rWg7tNYBwxzdCf4vDhc6FUsMLz7Ux2aiK-YCcO/s320/15092009673.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381621299337652994" /></a><br />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. <br /><br />go to school. play hard. go home. study hard. <br />that is it for now. take care everyoneinamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5316149342129214753.post-3858384089058870022009-09-09T19:51:00.006+10:002009-09-09T20:33:42.880+10:00fine dining.I am very excited at this prospect. I might have just found what could be the greatest burger in sydney <br /><br />Feast your eyes on this beauty. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zQvggdpP7j5Sn4b6J0jmSJLOmJPcSe9QaWDcr4JHnFB_H5Zl9RhwJmjgD_Hlca7gGQ5n8T18ZOe-04ODcIQfocdmXjQ07CTqTRhled0TQcVXJECM3wsMs5jsxbRQYpsTLk74jnvM/s1600-h/wagyu+burger.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zQvggdpP7j5Sn4b6J0jmSJLOmJPcSe9QaWDcr4JHnFB_H5Zl9RhwJmjgD_Hlca7gGQ5n8T18ZOe-04ODcIQfocdmXjQ07CTqTRhled0TQcVXJECM3wsMs5jsxbRQYpsTLk74jnvM/s320/wagyu+burger.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379405047804659586" /></a><br />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<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Today i went to maccas in burwood to have a go at this angus burger. It fell below my expectations. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNaLr84tGEOqQrasjok_i6g5sqYSEXmuFKpy6Q8AP5_smNPcHVIALoiGsU253ZJr0JZbwc1FUxBg9Tu9MHishVgmMCoSFEOEgFXCbTi-1dlVP5Cj5edo66pYQ4lKN4SZs165ndj957/s1600-h/09092009662.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNaLr84tGEOqQrasjok_i6g5sqYSEXmuFKpy6Q8AP5_smNPcHVIALoiGsU253ZJr0JZbwc1FUxBg9Tu9MHishVgmMCoSFEOEgFXCbTi-1dlVP5Cj5edo66pYQ4lKN4SZs165ndj957/s320/09092009662.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379405074518467074" /></a><br />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. <br /> <br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiFd-yISQogUTR4VEHoqM2kB32HHKoCkMCLNzx4n7YkqqLRasc-gTHYXHZiu_rkN6NBrmL2hz4DqVjlSt2k85NwEiPOaQ-BUSnymUZXCoePwQpl9h6Sqsm8Htivo8OHqbWt6SShC7/s1600-h/09092009659.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiFd-yISQogUTR4VEHoqM2kB32HHKoCkMCLNzx4n7YkqqLRasc-gTHYXHZiu_rkN6NBrmL2hz4DqVjlSt2k85NwEiPOaQ-BUSnymUZXCoePwQpl9h6Sqsm8Htivo8OHqbWt6SShC7/s320/09092009659.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379405055673631314" /></a><br />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. <br />joseph commented on the bus that the pic could be used to establish his tutoring firm. <br />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<br />we'd have specialists in every subject including maths, english, eco, phys, chem and bio <br />deva and devesh would be running the math tutes, while peter taught eco, peter taught phys, peter taught chem, and peter taught english (maybe) <br />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 <br /><br />dreams aside. <br />people started to get a little restless towards the end, and we just mucked about.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZuf02KKp8ohkIhVWOMcHxFtxJ4-CknU5CEjWkmZdJ7KVE-l0_SOB02y0vBLR56vi8SWfFzE-BmaP_dcMSLWB6e9MPPqQQJNSjcf8M6qhTx_7mvZ_fhYXtCYZCbVyujg8xJ1O090l/s1600-h/09092009661.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZuf02KKp8ohkIhVWOMcHxFtxJ4-CknU5CEjWkmZdJ7KVE-l0_SOB02y0vBLR56vi8SWfFzE-BmaP_dcMSLWB6e9MPPqQQJNSjcf8M6qhTx_7mvZ_fhYXtCYZCbVyujg8xJ1O090l/s320/09092009661.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379405064077441954" /></a><br />deva tryna drink outta a long straw. didn't work unfortunately. and just throwing all written on sheets into the bin. <br /><br />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 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglFF7HbbdyIgnNNfh0Aka06B6w0W-SAKmd0HG7jcmfppXHdUh3w3s-WoVH1xSGiieAKzncfF_DGxa7cBB666copBezju0r63yKTevLt8VfE8GAfgGAYzUntnqC4wOORYjUqd2PcHCv/s1600-h/09092009663.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglFF7HbbdyIgnNNfh0Aka06B6w0W-SAKmd0HG7jcmfppXHdUh3w3s-WoVH1xSGiieAKzncfF_DGxa7cBB666copBezju0r63yKTevLt8VfE8GAfgGAYzUntnqC4wOORYjUqd2PcHCv/s320/09092009663.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379405081186676066" /></a><br />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 . <br /><br />Last of all i'd like to give a special honorary mention to the prince. for turning the big one-eight today. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOskAyNUuweGIY-j4LSaxuBkZL2nYp031kZYKaI5Bg_RBEy3nDZgYKSbtYsMP8BG7aTCLrcjamJ9cDD9zv_QXbZvcNPEP_QZ7x6jeyCFTasDe92AkEy92wFCOXY19vI9t719bRJGG/s1600-h/me+n+aryan.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOskAyNUuweGIY-j4LSaxuBkZL2nYp031kZYKaI5Bg_RBEy3nDZgYKSbtYsMP8BG7aTCLrcjamJ9cDD9zv_QXbZvcNPEP_QZ7x6jeyCFTasDe92AkEy92wFCOXY19vI9t719bRJGG/s320/me+n+aryan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379412237091395954" /></a><br />my good bud, and my loyal blog reader :) <br />in all your uniqueness and special qualities. you're actually alright <br />go easy on the privileges mate. <br />happy birthday. <br /><br />oh and for anyone who might be interested. <br />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. <br /><br />anyways that is it for now. <br />study hard and take care everyone. lets get that 99.5 median ATAR ;)inamotoichibanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977557988953058450noreply@blogger.com5