dummie's guide to thoughts and memories

Young doctors

2011-11-24T18:31:00.006+11:00

Exam 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.
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'

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.

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.

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.
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.
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.

BBC version

Australian version

I like Adam from the BBC version (2nd from the left) and the asian John is a really funny awkward guy.

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.
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.

Looking forward to summer

2011-11-12T00:58:00.003+11:00

So 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 =)

My light at the end of the tunnel are summer holidays.

Just a couple of things I'm looking forward to:
- 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.

Pretty nice eh!

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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.

Back to blogging

2011-11-08T21:27:00.011+11:00

It'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.

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.

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.

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.

What else has happened in the last year...

Origin match, which was amazing

Amy's oldest sister gave birth to Joanna. She's such an adorable baby. I enjoy playing with her so much.

Hospital sessions with our class group. They've been really nice. I'll miss them

Baked my first cake. Haha!

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.

Look at that view.

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.
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.

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 =)

Till next time!

Old Gold

2010-06-12T14:10:00.005+10:00

While I was cleaning up my desk in the living room, I stumbled across a coupla things that made me really laugh.

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.)

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:
- a writing piece on how to make lamb cutlets
- 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)
- 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

"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"

- This letter addressed to my friend Dante. The first bit goes:
"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"

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.

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.

End of semester recap

2010-06-11T01:14:00.006+10:00

I'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.

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.

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.

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

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.
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

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.
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.
I see 2nd years and I think to myself, yeah that's where I want to be in a years time.

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

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

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.

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.
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.
Made a quick trip to Neha's uni Bond, and their campus is nice as

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.

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.

Really enjoyed that saturday even though the weather was dismal.
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.

Anyways i think thats enough blogging for now.
Good luck for your exams everyone. Have a safe happy holiday

Song memories

2010-04-06T15:18:00.003+10:00

Was talking to sy about this last night.i thought it was a really interesting thing. wondering if people get this too

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.

for example -
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.

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

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.

there's plenty more. but you probably get the point.
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.
it's easy to hate, but it feels better to love.

as some random deep person said:
"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."

that's all from me today.
have a great easter break.
take care

Hug Someone

2010-04-02T10:52:00.002+11:00

I get up this easter friday morning having just dreamt of being in some live shooting game called "numbers". was very weird indeed

anyways i happened to pick up a book which connie got me during year 10 called "change the world for 10 bucks"
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.
the book contains 50 simple everyday actions which if enough people do, they will change the world.

one of the pages is called hug someone which i thought was nice so i'm just gonna share it.

A friend of mine has
never forgotten seeing his
father kiss his grandad's
hand as
he lay in a coma
just before he died.

It was the only time
he had ever seen
them kiss

And the only time he
hugged his father was
when his sister died

It wasn't that they weren't
close, just that they were
grown up,
they were men, and
Australian, and only
death could take down
all the barriers

But children do it
instinctively - they want
to touch and be touched
to hold and be held.

So if there was one bit
of advice we'd give
everyone reading this
book, it would be this

Touch someone you love

Hold Them

Kiss them.

It's the one piece of magic
we call all do, every day.

uni thoughts.

2010-03-29T10:52:00.004+11:00

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.

Uni has been going well. Been enjoying learning new things and getting to know new people. But something still doesn't feel so right.
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.
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.

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.

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.
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.

*skip 4 hours*

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.

That's it for now. Looking forward to what's to come.
Newton has great cheap thai btw. i wish it was located closer to UNSW

Summer Recap

2010-02-26T20:12:00.006+11:00

Well as of today midnight. Our summer holidays are over. and a new chapter begins in our lives
and mainly as a way of remembering my summer of 09/10. decided to put up a brief recap of the whole 4 months.
when i look back at it. it has been pretty good. lots of things have changed. new things experienced, new friendships made.

Well the highlights for my summer would have to be:
- formal after party

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.
- schoolies
definitely the best week of my life. looking forward to doing it again next year.

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.
-zoo trip and NYE
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.

zoo was pretty awesome seeing all the animals and whatnot, and not a kiddy thing to do at all.

fireworks were average but hey. when you start to say that, you know that you're really spoilt
- Donating blood

First time donating blood for me. So it was a pretty cool new experience. nothing much else to say.
- Job at talent100

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.
- Connect
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.

- Cousin's stayover
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.

- Getting ready for uni
Gosh that welcome lecture for med at Oweek was boring. Hopefully it wont be like that in uni

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

the littman classic II in dark blue tubing. got it for $95 for those wondering how much stethoscopes cost

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.

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

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
Take care y'all

The burger.

2010-02-23T00:30:00.003+11:00

I'm so happy cause I have officially converted everyone at my workplace to the burgerhut17 a.k.a degrill.
It's good to know that they share my some love for the burger. Lunch breaks at talent100 are spent waiting at degrill.
Even the students are getting into it.
Example:
"Hey Mike, watcha eating there"
"Best burger in the world"
"Degrill right?"

Let it be known that theburgerhut17 is famously known now.

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
Everytime i walk in she goes:
"What do you want?"
in my head i'm like "I come here bloody 3 times a week at the same time, and order the same thing everytime"
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.

Anyways. i must go sleep otherwise i'll never wake up for O-week FREE PANCAKES
just dropping in to say the burgers at degrill are awesome as always.

we're all growing up.

2010-02-14T22:30:00.001+11:00

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.

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.
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.

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.
We're going paintballing next friday as a group. Kris and Janette still think intuition is more awesome. I don't mind either way.

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.
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.
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.

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:
- The only job art students get out of their degree is a job at maccas
- The bachelor of medical science is also known as the bachelor of GAMSAT.
Btw, i didn't mean to offend anyone doing arts or medical science in particular. just passing on what i've been told.
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.

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.

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 =)

Take Care All

A piece of my life - living it up

2009-12-09T22:32:00.003+11:00

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

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

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

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

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

went laser tagging today with some of the guys.

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

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

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

In a nutshell - my adventures

2009-12-06T14:48:00.007+11:00

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

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

UNSW interviews followed by aryan's place.

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

Epping BBQ

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

Matt's place

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE WAGYU BURGER

2009-11-14T20:56:00.005+11:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rohan says:
DUDE

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

rohan says:
BURGER!?

[ruse09] .Mkl Ľīů says:
OH MAN

rohan says:
WE'D BE IN SUITS TOO

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

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

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

rohan says:
freaking. awesome.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The start of a new life

2009-11-06T19:30:00.004+11:00

It's been a while since i last posted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Star-Struck/Serendipity

2009-10-15T18:52:00.005+11:00

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

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

BECAUSE.....

I BUMPED INTO NATALIE A.K.A COMMUNITYCHANNEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

study adventures

2009-10-12T18:57:00.004+11:00

nothing better than a nerdy recount to keep you going.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Day in a picturayyy

2009-10-09T21:35:00.004+11:00

my titles are getting lamer. i tried to rhyme

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Study shinannagans

2009-10-08T20:45:00.007+11:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

take care

For the school.

2009-09-30T22:36:00.003+10:00

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

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

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

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

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

i love you all dearly. and god bless

My first day. and the last.

2009-09-28T23:32:00.004+10:00

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

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

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

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

100m out.

2009-09-27T18:15:00.003+10:00

Wow. i just fully outgayed myself last night

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

take care everyone
love y'all

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

2009-09-22T00:40:00.003+10:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Morning adventures

2009-09-15T19:03:00.005+10:00

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

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

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

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

the usual trek up carlingford road.

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

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

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

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

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

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

fine dining.

2009-09-09T19:51:00.006+10:00

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

Feast your eyes on this beauty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The naturally gifted

2009-09-08T19:10:00.007+10:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

shiva with his award looking smug

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

the naturally gifted man getting ready for his moment of glory

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

UNSW entrance at night

Kel's 18th/UNSW open day

2009-09-05T22:28:00.007+10:00

Welp. it's been a while since i last blogged, mainly because i havent had anything memorable or important to share in this blog which i will look back on.
was gonna post up photos onto facebook of today. except apparently i havent downloaded this plugin which i am currently not able to install.

anyways here's my little recount of today:

so basically left home at 10 for train to city. train was unusually packed on a weekend but i figured most people were going to city to play or the open day.

get to central. meet up with some of the other ruse people. and we hit up the 900 to UNSW. after getting there it was already 10-45 and our lecture talk was at 10-50 on the other side of campus. so swami and milo bolted with me and annie trailing behind . finally got to the finanace lecture and the place was PACKED . so after a moment, decided to go across to the international studies lecture which was awesome xD
the guy there was one of those typical asian guys from overseas with a dodgy asian accent and a slight lag in the current "know-how"
anyways. somehow he ends up going onto the topic of 'partying' which is hilarious if you've ever seen an asian old guy talk about partying
he goes "yeah i know some of you will party, but try not to party as much ! study more. this is a problem we've had before"
"i know myself, i have partied before"

ahhhh. well lucky enough to see him walking across the campus shortly afterwards and asked for a photo.

in terms of course wise. it didnt change me much. still the medicine first with the commerce degrees as backup . actuarial studies kind of appealed to me for the first time. although i hear the maths is really really hard
the medicine lecturer was being an absolute cynic xD but i guess he doesnt care whether or not to impress people, cause so many people apply for med anyways. and it was more of a disincentive lecture to discourage people from doing med

that was about it from UNSW . except for meeting a few other people along the way and V cans everywhere. i had 2 myself as well.

just caught a pic of chris au on one of those thingomabobs. i cant remember what they are called. oh yeah and congratulations to shiva and co. for taking out 1st prize in programming comp if he's reading this . sadly i didnt get to see it. was always a bit curious to what they did in those things

some happy snaps on the bus back to city

gay boys in action

so we reach city and the girls just take off on the way to karaoke,while some of the other guys went to find something to buy kelly. so they lost me aryan bosco and alison. we then decide to find kelly a cake

after about 1 hour of aryan's bickering and indecisiveness, we finally find a cake

this is just a giant cupcake which we passed along the way. 55 bucks !! can you believe that? so not worth it.

the girl/woman at the cafe was at first nice to us and offered us free food sample and stuff like that. which was cool
but i think after we mentioned we were yr 12 in conversation, she slightly turned alisonish . haha sorry, don't know any other way of describing it. well apart from that, after some nice haggling from yours truly ;) we managed to lower to price of the cakes and ended up with 2 pretty nice cakes

we all met up at thai restaurant "Chili Cha Cha" again which was already pre booked for us. i brought along two sparkling drinks from woolworths, while benny and ambert brought along some champagne. dinner was REALLY cheap. quite nice too . spent about 9 bucks in total and ate quite a bit, so it was good value for money. although i am a little girl and couldnt really handle to "mild" panang curry. so i stuck to the really nice non spicy dish. went popping the cork to the drinks, the cork made a loud sound and hit the ceiling xD . i think we were a little bit annoying for the thai workers, as we lagged around for a while when they didnt have spare seats for waiting customers. but it was a really nice dinner. would go again.

got out the cake for birthday girl, and dinner went by really nicely . i swear everyone was so high xD and aryan was stalking everyone with his camera.

anyways hit french riviera afterwards and everyone was just photospamming and being all happy and crazy. got the peach melbe while some of the other girls got giant icecreams.

woah. what a good night
didn't really manage to finish the entire ice cream tho xD cause at the time we were all sooo full. kinda wish i had it now to eat . soo nice

it's times like these which i will remember for a long time.
feels so good to be free and not have any troubles.
hope to have many more moments like these in the future.

for now that is it.
take care and peace out

Sitting and Waiting

2009-08-30T18:58:00.004+10:00

First of all. don't know if he reads this or not
but i'd like to give a shout out to Ruilong my old bud :) for turning the big 18 today
happy birthday mate

we've known each other for all these years. was kinda looking back at primary school photos and stuff yesterday . but i don't know how to scan it up onto my computer. not even sure if my printer has a scanning function
well if i ever find out how to scan up some old photos . i'll put it up on my blog one day and share a part of my life with you guys

Well its nice to be checking my blogroll and seeing new posts being put up. havent been doing much today apart from just reading everyone's blogs and reading through the boredofstudies site
wow xD that forum is like a place for people to brag. this lyounamu kid is incredible. talking about state rankings and everything. his ego is phenomenal
i actually just wanna meet this guy out of curiousity
while everyone else is living it up after HSC xD he's guarding the forums at home posting every 5 minutes.
whenever i google something up related to work (usually english) google results always turn to boredofstudies
and i see lyounamu going on and on xD

well what happened today and yesterday:
while people were at usyd and doing their jap exams . i went to school to do a little bit of study with connie. friday night my friend who does jap came over to ask my mum some stuff about japanese, in preparation. i was going over her transcripts and everything she typed up :O crazy. there were like 15+ pages, and she was just tryna memorise it all. realised i forgot all my kanji

damn cityrail had dodgy track work again. so i had to drive to burwood to catch the train to epping. and then when i got to epping, the next bus was in 30 minutes. so i decided to walk to carlo. since carlo court was on the way anyway and i need to get some lunch. the route wasnt as long as i expected. i remembered the time when me and benny werent allowed on the kings school bus early in the morning for some reason in year 7, so we decided to walk to school from epping. and it took forever.

managed to get a catch of the view from the bridge thingo that i crossed along the way.
finally got to school. it was so hot. my jeans were burning up
didnt do that much study. just showed connie a coupla questions in maths
went off the guan where he taught us some funky stuff. and headed back to epping
got to epping. 27 minutes till next train. great. weekend transport is pretty dodgy
so i just keep contemplating whether or not to get something to eat. i knew mum had bought duck. but itd be ages till i got home. bumped into betty on the way who just finished intuition.
so in the end i get a whole pizza which was slightly undercooked . that dominos pizza place was going off . they were so busy with phone orders and everything.

days are so good now. wish i had a car so i could go places and do lotsa sporty physical activities. instead im stuck at home half-heartedly browsing through math papers. yesterday night. stayed up till 2 (which is normal for some of you) talking to someone i havent seen in 8 years. she was in my year 4 class, and she still looks the same. looking forward to meeting her and catching up soon

for now that is it :) ill try to have a more exciting life for future posts
seeing everyone going out to city and concerts and stuff. dayum
take care

Happy Days

2009-08-27T19:58:00.007+10:00

Well today was a pretty eventful and fun day.
first of all. i have finally finished my "art" project .

guess it turned out alright, except the reflection turned out kinda dodgy cause i got lazy and just drew whatever. hands went all blue after smudging so much so switches and stuff around my home have a bit of blue covered now

looking to be giving that to someone else to do whatever they want with it. cause i dun feel like keeping it

anyways school days these days are very enjoyable. no work. everyone is in good spirits (kinda) and we just don't do much in class
maths was the bomb with woodhouse's little lecture xD which perrins hated on for a bit in class
and english was awesome too with the luvos we took with steele xD hahaha.

its so funny introducing steele to the "new technological world" with stuff like facebook, luvo pictures and various movies. oh that reminds me. need to watch the reader. and also track down her 17 year old daughter.
sadly noone really listens to speeches which is a bit rude, but we do other things instead

got some results back. won't go through that

after school me and victor hit up epping. get the usual burger and chips
then head off on 548 to epping basketball courts. its nice to get out and do some relaxing stuff instead of staying at home and surfing computer for ages which is still ok.
get there. play around for a bit and then join the game of pick up basketball
one of the guys said he used to go to ruse but didn't really recognise him.
although he did look quite similar to owen tsao if anybody knows him.
played well. won our first 2 games with victor hitting a fluky 3 with the ruse guy all over him. and then lost the last one so we started heading back to epping station

on the way. we spot a basketball ring at a relatively low height attached to the hut of someones garage . victor decides he wants to have a go at dunking on it xD
makes a bloody mess of it and we get the hell out of there before anyone notices. halfway through running. we realise noones in the house so we contemplate whether or not go to have another go. but literally seconds later a car comes and pulls into the house. and we run like hell xD

i love this time of year. when the cicadas or crickets come out and chirp
and the birds start chirping too
do you know what i mean? when you start to hear those noises, you truly begin to feel like summer has started to begin
and long days until 8 . so so nice. looking forward to when the day will get longer
i reckon looking at sunsets is more nicer than looking at sunrises
just my opinion though.

looking forward to tomorrow. going for a run around the school in the morning . and who knows what happens later
until then
take care everyone
be happy :)

waiting for love to come my way

2009-08-26T19:23:00.004+10:00

as gay as this is gonna sound.
i reckon. that if you found the 'perfect person'. nothing else would really matter in the world.
but is that even possible? is it really possible to be happy for a long time with the one person. damn movies and their happily ever after story tales
gives us hope. which is fake
i needa see proof before i believe xD

but who knows. i guess we're too young to know

today afternoon was pretty fun. felt like year 10 again. mucking around playing oz tag and stuff. went back into common room and watched a bit of 'love actually'
although i think it's better with a loved one or by yourself without people who've seen it before.

just finished watching harold and kumar. not bad a movie if you're just looking for a bit of a laugh and nothing much else. not one of those epic deeply emotional ones

it's one of my friends birthdays today. and couple of the other crew came to surprise him at his place. but its too late now xD so i'm not able to go.
been working on this drawing project of mine. here's a little progress ive done

yesterday

today
now my hands are all bluish from rubbing on the artwork. should be done in one more day. although its looking a little bit dodgy . my colour pencils have all been coloured out blunt and i dun have a big sharpener

mum made wonton for dinner

which was yummy. and here i am sitting here now typing

for a second i though i lost all my blog stuff cause of my mum's incompetent ability to use firefox
she closed all the tabs in one shot and i thought i lost it all. but thank god blogger saves this stuff.

enjoying school right now. looking forward to double free tomorrow
take care all.

I can't take it anymore.

2009-08-25T19:10:00.004+10:00

Damn. i'm gonna rant a little bit

Its getting back marks season again. and this time round. i really can't stand the nitty-gritty of mark discussion. i gotta say i too have been in some mark discussion
but seeing these various people. i'm sorry. just can help but demise them

I kind of understand now how other schools see us as nerdy neurotic people. cause i caught myself shamely telling them about how we scab marks and discuss about marks and etc.
for us its normal. but i'm beginning to see it from another side

lets call this person X
X is a good student. but sometimes can take it too far.
marks are their whole life, they enjoy talking about marks. they enjoy the satisfying feeling of being on top of everyone else. they get extremely upset when they don't do as well and have a cry
they go and annoy teachers about ambiguous questions every
there is nothing else going on in their life
they are HAWs too - that is. high achieving whingers

i kinda feel sorry for them. i dunno if its parents expectations, their natural instincts or what. you gotta realise marks are such a tiny part of life. ive changed my perspective so much lately
i mean its understandable to be upset, after you've tried so hard.
but they take it too far.

meh. as long as its not in front of me. its ok. cause i'll feel compelled to make bad remarks sadly.

on the other hand. i have finally had the time to start doing little things which study (or procastinating to study) held me back from. started drawing on of those pictures from my previous posts like promised earlier. here's just a working progress

also been exercising quite a bit lately and taking nice naps in the afternoon :)
really wish i had my Ps so i would be able to go out and do fun stuff over at people's place even on school nights

and that freedom of driving by yourself. and maybe perhaps turning on the radio and singing in your car xD without your parents looking at you weird. which.. hasn't happened to me before.

i'm gonna keep it to a short post for now. off to work on my working progress.
take care everyone
chill. its after exams . don't be sad about marks

A piece of my life

2009-08-23T15:42:00.004+10:00

Woke up feeling great

It felt like summer time again. and to me things that remind me of summer time :
- hot weather
- getting out the singlets to wear again
- long sunny afternoons
- the song "call on me- eric prydz" which i just managed to get ahold of
- seeing people without blazers and junior girls with summertime dresses
- fun on the farm
- beach time followed by ice cream
- the old bamboo mat coming out to make it cooler when sleeping
- chillaxing at home watching channel ten summer shows or the cricket

i think mainly its cause i've been going through senior and junior old photos which reminded me of summer. but nonetheless it feels great. summer for me is my most favourite season.
and that summer feeling is the best feeling.

trying to currently get my speech and everything done. but i just feel too relaxed and have been going through valentines assembly vids and watching the jamaican 4x100 relay team own everything at beijing olympics on replay about 10 times

got the old colour pencil box out today which has been unused since the last visual rep. and hasn't been used to drawing for a long time.

i think i'll have a go at drawing sometime this week.
the big pencil box was generously gifted to me when i was about in year 6 or 7 by a generous work colleague of my mum. sadly i don't remember who he is. but i am very thankful towards him. as you can see, over the period of time some pencils have gone missing, probably picked up by my drawing teacher

had a little bit of a clean up in my room since during trials i've been very lazy and disorganised

half of my life has probably been spent in here. eventually when i move out it's gonna be a sad occasion. my dad can't bear the thought of moving out, cause he's just gotten so used to the location.
i have trouble of letting go of things. like year 8 assignments xD
so funny to look back on stuff like that. even primary school portfolios where you had to write recounts and stuff.

well really just planned on making it a short one. it's gonna take me forever to go over and relive all my posts in the future.

take care all. enjoy the rest of high school

The search for another side

2009-08-23T00:19:00.005+10:00

Wow. just gotta say . even though this may make people feel uncomfortable and awkward about it. just wow. tonight made me think and feel about things so much more differently. got a couple of people to thank for caring and helping me. i hope they know who they are
It's really nice to get in touch with your spiritual side even though obviously some people out there suddenly get the idea of brainwashing and scams. which is kinda sad.

well today was quite a very eventful and exciting day :)
first of all woke up late but managed to do a little bit for the school at working bee. my moral sense called on me to help out the school, even we didnt end up doing much except for shoveling mulch.
been starting to feel really nostalgic and sentimental lately about school. actually been talking about old school times a lot lately to a few people. just the memories. where we can just look back and laugh at how stupid and naive or shallow we were.
the school has been good to me. and as gay as this sounds. it feels like a second home.
so how could i not go to our last working bee.
turn out from our grade wasn't that strong. other grades were quite reasonable. afterwards played a bit of footy and soccer on the oval with a couple of the guys

still remember the times when we had 1.6 and we'd run across the demountables and the old canteen. where the oval used to just be a patch of hard ground without grass. and juniors and seniors would play footy and soccer at the same time on the same area.

so anyways swami's mum gives us a lift afterwards and we go to swami's place for a bit of table tennis and chillaxing. played table tennis. sadly i did lose a set to swami 11-7
and also took some incriminating photos which i kinda wish i hadn't after they were posted up on facebook for people to see. didnt know that was gonna happen. funny how it's only funny when it's happening to other people

anyways after some nice hospitality,me and matt head off to epping station and get into the city for rice!

pass the E&Y building on our way to pepper lunch. go in and order some stuff and shortly afterwards the whole ruse group comes to eat and we took advantage of our numbers to get a free eel pepper rice after 10 purchases :P

was quite nice and headed off to sydney entertainment centre.

wow so many asian people and all together for one cause. it was a really nice feeling. and just the whole feeling of togetherness and spiritual feeling was just priceless. really glad i went. it was a first for me.
i highly recommend it even if you're not christian. i know you think it may be awkward but.
i remember my first time going to church. and feeling really nervous because i thought i'd be judged by my actions and everything. but it just turned into something i really looked forward to going to and the people there were just such good people.

as belle already mentioned. it was jampacked
and overall a very good fun night
dad came to pick me up and we headed off home. watched a bit of the notebook which i really like. very sweet romance movie. i don't get why they made the lady forget the husband again in the end though.

I missed you blogger <3

2009-08-20T19:15:00.004+10:00

yes i quite missed blogging. and its finally good to be back again and typing :) although i have nothing much unique to say. trials are over though
so it feels bloody good to be free .
my dad was extra nice to me during these two weeks xD knowing i had trials. and has been driving me to school every day for trials.
on the way to school on wednesday, there's this yellow ute that's just in front of us the entire time. and i don't know if you can see it clearly, but the number plate just says 'marks'.

what are the chances of that happening? damn probability. you never know if you're right until you really check the answers. just in case you missed out some condition

today's physics was alright. stayed up till about 2 just reading the physics textbook. for a one-day prep. it was pretty alright. lucky they had stuff which i still remembered from before. don't really care about phys either. doesn't count for me. so i have this ceeebs(as the nsgs and baulkos would say) attitude. but luckily it turned out moderately ok

got out the door and just felt so good. so much stuff to do now. if i am allowed
asian parents don't get that the end of trials means time to go play for a coupla days. they still think. oh time to study for HSC now !

things i wanna do from now until when i start feeling guilty and start to study for HSC:
- watch nrl double header tomorrow :D
- lotsa exercise including basketball and perhaps tennis :P
- kayaking !
- do one of my things on my things to do before i die list
- eat lotsa healthy stuff and feel great

i only just realised this while eating. how stupid is a KFC dinner for 2?
they have 5 pieces of chicken , 2 regular chips, 2 coleslaw and 2 drinks
but 5 pieces of chicken?! cant KFC do maths or something
especially if its two guys eating. they'll all be finished with their second piece and going errrrrrrrr. and just staring at the last piece xD

any food tastes so nice after you've finished doing lotsa swimming. or kayaking probably.

to finish this off. some lame joke posted by my 'msn stalker' . more details on that later.
Anaesthetised says:
hey
what's red and looks like a bucket
A RED BUCKET
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
now what's blue and looks like a bucket
a red bucket in disguise
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

its not even lame funny. just a facepalm reaction joke
take care everyone. have some fun :) that rhymed.

Complete Sleep

2009-08-16T18:52:00.003+10:00

Just minutes ago, i see on TV this new product called nature's own complete sleep

so i quickly google it and check it out.
think i might go and buy this thing if it's not too expensive. not because i think it'll work, but just as a novelty. haven't had a "good nights sleep" for a while.

while on the site checked out their "tips for sleeping" and maybe it'll help for such a stressful time when people are pulling all nighters and everything. crazy.

Wait until you are sleepy before going to bed.
Establish a regular bedtime by going to bed at the same time every night.
Get up at the same time every morning, even on weekends.
Before going to bed, do something that relaxes you and takes your mind off any worries .
Use lighter-weight bed coverings and turn off central heating - becoming over-heated can disturb your sleep.
Don’t have a heavy meal just before bedtime. If you are waking up with ‘night hunger’, eat a light protein snack before you retire.
Don’t drink alcohol in the evening - it helps you fall sleep but causes disturbed sleep and over-heating during the night .
Don’t engage in strenuous exercise before sleeping.
Cut out coffee and tea or restrict it to mornings only .
Don’t watch TV, read a book or think about problems. If you must do these things, go to another room to do it until you become sleepy.
Keep your bedroom quiet, dark and conducive to sleeping.
Never go to sleep in front of TV - go to bed when you start nodding off.
If you are prone to worrying, write problems down before going to bed, together with possible solutions .
Don’t stay awake for long periods in bed. If you aren’t asleep within 15 minutes of getting into bed, try getting up and doing something relaxing until you become sleepy again.
Check for tense muscles when you go to bed and consciously try to relax them.

don't stress and take care all.

Library adventures

2009-08-15T23:53:00.004+10:00

So today i hop off to macquarie uni library for the first time. cause i like those kinda things. visiting different libraries. gives me incentive to work

Stupid city rail inconveniently trackworked the northern line so i had to catch the railbus which took 40+ minutes to get from strathfield to epping despite the 20 minutes which they said it would. but i read my chem textbook on the way like a nerd so not much time was lost.

on the way we passed rhodes where all the corporate buildings are and waterfront apartments. why does water look so pleasing to the eye?
i realised rhodes would be a pretty sweet place to live, however it'd be tonnes expensive

so anyways, eventually get to the library with some help from kelly (damn macq uni is big) and start to get into the work. uni's have a different vibe to it, not as homey like school, but the library was pretty nice. 4 floors and the top floor was quiet as. such a nice study environment. mr bal was right when he told us to go study at uni libraries if you couldn't concentrate.

after a while, carol was there too and we go lie around in the sun for a while with this really really nice view. and there was a fountain and stuff too
such a good day to lie around too. so sunny and my jeans were burning me.

must've been the vitamin D or something, but i felt great afterwards and went back to chem. gosh there's so much to learn. but made efficient use of my time and went through quite a bit, so feeling quite alright. just looking forward to the end of trials really. though it's gonna be kinda saddening in some aspect

and that was about it for my day. left around 5 to catch dodgy cityrail home . been thinking about my next 10 things for my list and here it is :

- nerd at 25 different libraries in sydney
- become good friends with a black guy (the american ones)
- go to a TGI friday
- attend a lawn bowls match
- stay at an all you can eat restaurant for more than 4 hours
- stay in a waterfront property for over a week
- ride a bike to work once a week for 3 months
- pick up squash
- go to watch an origin match
- buy one of those giant spirit bottles which are like 5 L and just use it as a display

thats it for now. take care all

Some things in life you just gotta do.

2009-08-13T18:54:00.005+10:00

I feel like a douche for going to school in a suit today.
but some things in life. you just gotta do.

in terms of productivity of study on a scale of 1-10 . i'll give it a 5 . but it was kinda fun. just can't work when doug is around.
but it was nice to have an empty quiet library for once . hopped into connors' old room to study for a while. feeling ok for eco. i have this pimple on my nose. i'm blaming it on the 'stress'

ok i have this theory. do you know those people who just have one single mole on the side of their lip. i can think of like 15+ people who just have that. it's crazy. i reckon they all came from the same ancestors or something . cause that's just really abnormal to have all these people who have this trait. recessive gene or something

well this will be a short post. but just to share some photos from today.

decided to come up with a list of just 100 things to do before we die. and we made an agreement that we can change those things as we progress. seeing as as we mature, then we'll have changing preferences to things that must be done. so just to start myself off with 10 things

- order everything off the maccas menu
- make a public announcement on a speaker phone
- have an international pen pal
- make a fake account for a friend on rsvp
- become a maths tutor
- beat peter chen in at least 2 subjects
- run 20k non-stop
- finish reading the entire bible
- finish a whole pizza by myself
- go laser tag in suits (obviously)

i quite enjoy the trip back home. and theres quite a few people that go to ashfield all in different grades. so its pretty cool that we all get along. yeah we fitted 8 people in a six seater. quite an uncomfortable train ride but nonetheless. fun

and i also met kate's sister again at ashfield. weird. she smiled at me weirdly and i was thinking why the heck she was doing that. then i realised 10 seconds after who she was

for now. it is good luck and enjoy the rest of exams :)
take care all

INTERNATIONAAAAL suit up day

2009-08-12T19:03:00.004+10:00

Yes my friends, tomorrow is. international suit up day. first created by some guy on facebook who thought it would be a good idea. but what the heck
always wanted to show up studying in a suit . so indeed we will

having a little study date tomorrow at school library in our suits and although it may be hot and uncomfortable. it is international suit up day and we must respect that.

well i won't fuss much on the 4u exam today. just that it was incredibly hard and i actually felt happy about that for some reason. i also saw howlett lurking around to see people's reactions to the paper during reading time. perrins gave me a sarcastic laugh afterwards when i told him it was very easy. sarcastly too. but doing hard papers makes me feel head and shoulders above the rest of the other schools. which is kinda a nice feeling in some aspect.

well anyways what i enjoy most about exam period apart from doing super duper fun exam papers.. is the time afterwards where we all go and discuss and chill for a while.
so once again kelly drove us to epping with me swami drew and winnie in the back and marcus at the front. decided to go for an eat so kelly suggested this italian restaurant that jero supposedly blog reviewed about some time before. must go and find that.
so anyways get to the place and nobody else is inside. we have a look at the lunch special and decide alright we'll go in and eat.

so order the lunch special and we get one of each pasta for the 5 of us so that we could try a bit of everything. and overall i guess the food was pretty good. i like eating italian. although the portions coulda been a bit more generous. i felt satisfied, but not to the point where i felt tonnes full. which i guess is good cause its good to eat portions where you don't feel like your stomach can expand anymore. oh and afterwards, even though we didn't really want the dessert, the lady sold it out well xD and tempted winnie into gelato and drew and kelly into sticky date pudding.

swami's tutor saj comes in halfway through and he seems like a pretty cool guy. although i was imagining a more shaven no.1 cut on his head rather than a mop after all the times swami has been talking about him. swami and saj head off to intuition. drew and winnie go home. so me n kelly go to library to do some bit of study. sorta realised how much i still needa revise for chemistry so i will get onto that soon

also met kate's (from our school) sister. who was frantically tryna call her or something. but i didn't have her number. i thought it was kinda odd not to have your sister's number.

however now. while i blog, my arch rival in economics: peter is probably studying. so i will go do that now too. actually not fair to call him that. cause i'm way behind him.

good luck for exams. take care all

fork.

2009-08-11T18:18:00.007+10:00

no not the eating utensil.
the way manbir says it.
but i'd prefer not to swear
well the worst of exams is behind me. so i guess its all good ahead

i've ever only panicked in exams 2 times before today. first ever physics exam and term 2 4u maths exam. but it was kinda agonising going through that exam. not cause of the hand pain. cause i kept on forgetting stuff and moving on. then remembering the stuff, then it's too late to fix it. there were lotsa indentations in my work. but not gonna complain any further. it'll be interesting to see what i get.

well anyways the time after was quite enjoyable. so much free feeling. i'll let the pictures i took to do the talking.

afterwards kelly drove us to carlo court to get some food to eat. since we had 6 people. me being the biggest. i was in the front. while swami was in the back with the ladies. so here's just him 'pimping'. later afterwards went to epping and we got off . kelly went home

so annie winnie and carol go off to macquarie while me and swami go up to intuition to do some work. intuition aint a bad environment. friendly people and stuff. and if you actually do some work. not bad. did a 4u paper. did about 6 questions in around 1.5 hours so i was pretty happy about that. but when i went back to check the answers at home. so many careless mistakes. so hopefully tomorrow i will be more careful.

stayed there for about 2 hours and left to catch the train. on the way there epping boys had just finished school and i saw a swami lookalike. seriously this guy was identical. like he was year 9 swami i swear. he had the same everything. so i tried getting a pic without seeming sus xD but didn't manage to get his face obviously as he woulda saw it. saw got a back shot. its the one to the right in case you didn't notice

oh yeah and i've been tryna order the laksa at tom yum thai for 2 days but everytime i go there. they're closed. even though they say it's open on their sign . i go in today as ask whether the lunch special was available but the woman tells me everyone's already left. so i went back to ashfield and ordered a laksa at the local thai shop (i like laksa on cold rainy days) but it had already gotten hot and the laksa was a bit chilli. so i started to sweat a bit after eating it.

oh and i realised what my dream job would be. after listening to hamish and andy quite a bit lately. i reckon that'd be a pretty awesome job. just hosting a radio show just talking about random crap and doing random stuff. like going across to america and all these other places. that would be pretty awesome. they don't really have much else to do. just host a radio show for 2 hours and they get paid quite a bit i'd imagine. but you'd hafta be funny. so that's never gonna happen .
oh well time to aim for my 2nd dream job. being a doctor
although doing a commerce job would be pretty cool too if you didn't have to do any of the work xD pranks awesome lunches awesome pay etc.

for now it is time to start my 2008 4u paper. take care all

The calm before the storm

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

First and foremost, good luck to everybody for the trials

Furthermore, don't stress too much. Try to relax and be calm and composed

On the other hand, if you're that stressful type and it works for you. then so be it

Ultimately, at the end of the day if you know you've done the best you could do. then that's good enough

As you can see. I'm getting myself into essay mode for tomorrow. I feel relatively calm amongst all the F******** ,the FML's and the 'i'm so screwed for trials' that i've been seeing pop up everywhere.

It's been a while since i've blogged. and not because i've been working very hard. maybe squeezing a smidget of work in every now and then. english pretty much dominates my life. and it doesn't feel like you've done much or made progress.

in my mind i've been cutting deals with myself. which is really bad
"ok i'll start memorising after i read the paper"
"ok i'll start revising after 7"
"ok i'll start doing work after i watch ashes highlights"
"ok i'll get onto my module B as soon as i do some maths"

which prompted me to ask myself. why do we hate study so much? i mean what is it about sitting down on a chair and learning stuff that makes it so detestable. some of the stuff is kinda interesting actually. what i really detest is memorising information for the sake of getting a good mark for it in an exam. there's really no purpose to that. 10 seconds after the exam. you forget it all again
unless it is english of course. whereas you can't really reproduce some fine work without memorising something. unless you're naturally super talented with writing.

anyways moving onto what i've done recently:
- library hopping as usual in an attempt to study

here's just a snippet i took while walking to state library. just realised. it was city2surf today damn i miss those carefree fun days. stupid guilty study feelings
- doing nothing at school
- going for a run
- drinking large gloria jeans cookies n cream everyday because i can't bite (braces)

today i was feeling hungry so i went to a local chinese restaurant to eat a bit and memorise my essays. didn't quite work. i was just staring at the page reading the same lines a hundred times because of a little awkward situation

so i walk into the restaurant. take a seat. oh and this restaurant is called taste of shanghai or something. and it's really popular, so it's always packed inside. so i take a seat and more people come in a sit next to the table beside me. The tables are like 2-seaters lined against each other in pairs.

So there i'm tryna read through my blade runner while drinking my soup and tea. The people sitting next to me are a chinese uni girl who by her accent i can tell just transfered from china. and her mum. so they start going on about food in chinese which is really distracting xD though it is my fault. since a restaurant is hardly a place to study
so anyways. all the people clear out since its 4pm and they've finished eating. except for the uni girl, her mum and 3 or 4 other people sitting somewhere else. there are heaps of other empty seats since other people have left. but they still sit there cause you know. its a bit rude or weird to suddenly change seats

its like when you're on the train when its jampacked and your sitting next to some person. then suddenly theres an empty seat cause someone leaves. you don't (well most people don't) get up and hog that empty seat cause its a bit rude.

stupid social situations. belonging and all this other crap. i won't go on any further since i think most of you will be confused at this stage

It's only funny in our school

2009-08-02T19:19:00.001+10:00

Today at the library i was reading a book for belonging and guess what one of their suggested related texts was...

FIFA 08 the playstation game. lols
victor suggests i should recommend it to michael yoon as a related text xD harshh

and dumb jokes are only funny in our school. it's normal other places
when i'm with friends from outta school, they say so much dumb stuff but it's not funny

that is all.

Justaquickreliever.

2009-08-01T19:22:00.004+10:00

these damn things. i keep on expecting things to happen for me, like getting automatic 99> UAI. but i realise those things won't come unless i work
so i just typing my "daily" blog.

was telling swami about new things to put on my "things to do before i die" list
and i finally remembered what i couldn't think of
i must:
- create an awesome drink by accident and share it with all my mates. kinda like that simpsons episode where homer makes that accident drink with cough syrup. that'd be awesome

other new things included:
- busk on the street one day. probably not by singing though.
- pretend to be a hobo. oh and i must point out. found a very funny hobo sign whilst browsing through facebook. it reads "family kidnapped by ninjas, need $ 4 karate lessons" it's funnier when the hobo holds it up
- be really good friends with someone famous
- be an extra on a tv show or movie

have a good weekend all
take care

the truman show - a short film

2009-07-31T19:00:00.002+10:00

i feel like the same thing is happening to me everyday. well not exactly
but some weird coincidental stuff has been going down.

every day when i walk home, the bus passes me at the exact same spot. might be that the bus is just really on time and the speed of my walk is really constant. but that is weird

and today when i went to the station to catch my train, this girl who was wearing this usyd shirt which said department of xray (or something along those lines) caught my eye simply because she was wearing that usyd shirt. (i wanna get a syd uni hoodie btw even though i wont go there) and the fact that i got xrayed by someone wearing the exact same shirt and was tryna figure out whether it was her. she did give me a few looks too

well anyways on my way back she was there at the station again D: at strathfield catching the train back to ashfield . which kind of freaked me out but there used to be this other person who was my "train buddy" a while back. and i use that term very loosely. so probably a giant coincidence

on another note i recommend to anyone when they have the time to do so . go check out wongfuproductions videos on youtube. if you're the sentimental philosophical type, some of their short films are really good. after watching some of their shorts (especially at musing's end even though end was a bit weird) it really made me appreciate short films. i think i'll get more into after trials or HSC

they also have the funny stereotypical videos which i'm sure some of you have heard of like yellow fever or baller

that is it from me now :) hopefully have more time to blog and enjoy the simple things in life .
take care all

post-UMAT blog

2009-07-29T18:46:00.003+10:00

well. what a day

around about 4000 people packing themselves into that massive hall over 2 time periods to sit a 2.5 hour exam (it was more like 3.5 hours actually with all the waiting)

i don't think i was as nervous or stressed as other people, probably because i didn't think of the enormity of this test. to me it was another practice test on medentry or one of those UNSW comp thingos. but i did start taking deeper breaths on the way driving there

do some preparation in the morning doing some medentry exams and that was a really nice confidence builder cause i got 99 percentile in one of them even though the mark wasn't that high

so get there about 15 minutes early. walk into the waiting area trying to find people i know, i first see aditi (deshwal) who's talking to her NSG friends and say hi and stuff and then i bump into arni, jessie and a few others. surprised at how many people there were actually
jero was telling me about how all these people would be smart people with ATAR above 90's since they were taking the UMAT. i didn't really think about that beforehand

so we get in and i happen to see all these randoms who appear on my facebook home page constantly posting statuses, people which i've never talked to before. and a coupla people i haven't seen in about 5 or 6 years. wasn't really in the mood to talk. so just went straight through to my exam table.

so after what seemed like an eternity, some big loud voice on the speakerphone started announcing stuff and info . you know that kinda jazz
and then after a while we start getting into it. it wasn't until question 4 where i thought, woah holy crap i'm doing the UMAT exam. can't screw up. so while i'm doing section 1, this chinese helper lady starts talking to this other supervisor. and i really can't read when there is noise around me, so i put my head up and gave em a dirty. then they stopped talking thankfully :)

to add to that, i brought a drink bottle with me and had taken a few sips of it before i did the exam. towards the end of the section 1 exam, i really feel the urge to pee. and i was thinking to myself. the exams 2.5 hours surely they'll let pee breaks? so i ask the lady and she tells me that i cant go during the interval (which turned out to be 30 seconds) and i have to go during the exam which kind of made me worried but it was ok cause i finish in time anyway.

so when i've finished my section 2, i really need to go and there's ten minutes left so i get off my chair and suddenly the lady goes
"I'm sorry there's only 10 minutes left, can you go as soon as section 3 starts"
i asked what was wrong with now. but for some reason i'm not allowed to go in the 2nd half of an exam or something which really annoyed me

so as soon as section 3 starts i bolt for the toilet, take a leak and get back to my seat within 1 or 2 minutes. for once moment i was thinking oh that'll be ok since section 3 turned out to be quite easy cept there was 1 or 2 i couldnt do which i might've done with tha little extra time

overall i was quite satisfied, got out of the hall after much waiting and had a little discussion with arni and victor and aryan about it. caught the packed train home and here i am.

doesn't feel like a school night, but it's probably wise for me to start working

take care all

pre-UMAT blog

2009-07-28T23:13:00.005+10:00

they say it's important to feel good and happy before you walk into the UMAT exam or else it will drastically affect your result. hence why i am blogging

no it's not really why i am blogging, since i don't believe in that mumbo jumbo
but i got nothing else to do.

so i'm a 1-30 peep so goodies for extra sleep

lets see.. what happened today.
- got chem results back. don't really give a damn

- tried to be conscientious in class. it kind of worked

- maths classes got new carpet !!!. i find it funny how when you get new car or new carpet or anything like that, you can't eat in it or drink stuff either, but after a while, noone gives a damn and it just ends up dirty anyway.
kind of reminds me of primary school when we used to sit on the carpet and listen to stories, and there was this one place of this carpet where there was missing carpet, and so us kids used to pull off the remaining carpet and eventually the carpet had to get replaced.

- felt massively pissy at someone for a while but its all resolved now :)

- went to burwood to pick up my fixed computer. i walked in with my school uniform and the guy fixing it suddenly said hey my son goes to your school ! and as always dad couldn't help himself from mentioning my prefect status == although i highly doubt chinese people know what that is
and for that he gave us 20 dollar discount. muahahaha i love connections.
took a while to figure out who's kid belonged to the computer guy cause they look very similar, then i realised it was ivan, the ladies man of year 7 who hangs out with the girls and gives them gifts as bobby the ivan-stalker would tell us

waiting from the drivers seat for parents to finish talking to ruse father guy while munching on my subway

- burwood subway sells the cheapest subs ever. after 4pm you can get any two footlongs (excl steak and bacon ranch) for 13 bucks! yes 13 bucks. so usually on the way home from guan me and my dad would make a detour to burwood and get 2 sweet onion chicken teriyaki footlong subs for 13 bucks.

- went to library to do a bit of UMAT questions. the library was so empty, felt weird as its usual full of old grandpas and grandmas gettin their moneys worth reading the newspapers. was the last to leave the library after the librarian told me they were closing. i was too in the zone to realise

i don't know whats with my council, and i feel like one of those today tonight people for complaining about this. but this escalator has not been fixed for about 8 months now. and it leads straight to the library. very annoyed that i hafta walk up stairs

well its bed time now, i was photo browsing through my albums and came across a time we played around at star city's gym and pool cause my cousin came overseas and stayed there . i'll leave with a picture of the nice city view :) (it's supposed to be calming)

Beautiful from behind

2009-07-27T20:37:00.003+10:00

I feel a bit weird and shallow for mentioning this

but have you ever seen the back of someone and just gone wow i have to take a look at this person. and when you finally do you're kind of dissapointed.
probably applies more for guys than girls, but i hope someone knows what i means xD so it doesn't mean i'm a freak.

well i was at yumcha today and then sitting across from me was this person who looked absolutely amazing from behind. she was playing with her hair and pushing it back and for a moment i felt physically attracted. my moral senses got to me and i quickly turned away as to not further distract myself. but my curiosity got to me and i just had to see who this person was. so at the end of eating i took a unusually long path to get a look at her
AND.......

she was a woman in her 30's or 40's =="
man i feel so bad for doing that. erghh

well with that out of my way. head off to computer shop in a hope to fix my computer . waste like 2 hours of my time there waiting for them to scan viruses and stuff and my dad's there waiting asking really dumb questions being a computer-illerate

head off to the library shortly afterwards to do a coupla UMAT questions and head to the station to go home.
on the way up to the station some lebs look like they are about to stop me or something and i was thinking. oh must be asking for money as usual. while tryna think of what to say they suddenly ask me
"hey, umm could you buy some cigarettes for us?"
kinda surprised me at first and i casually mentioned how i wasn't 18 to their disapointments and headed off to catch the train again

while on the train started thinking about how the boys would've eventually gotten cigarettes anyway and how sad that is.
few people i knew from primary all smoke now, which really shows about social pressures and stuff.

well there's an afterthought to leave you with. looking forward to school tommorow actually

Being smart has it's disadvantages

2009-07-25T22:45:00.004+10:00

When people you meet find out that you go to ruse. They suddenly get one of these 3 stereotypes:
- you're extremely smart
- you're a farmer with no taste whatsoever and no life
- you do 4u maths, chem, phys, eco and english which you only do because you have to

sadly. the 3rd one is true.
the reason i bring this up is that this girl on msn (who i've never ever met before in my life but she claims she's seem me over 50 times. which scares me) is constantly pestering me on msn literally with a new maths question every 5 minutes. it's like that's all she ever does - maths.
being ruse, she expects me to have the answers to everything, and thankfully they are all do-able .
at first i didn't mind it because it refreshed my mind and made me feel good i was helping someone out, but now it's just getting annoying. i really feel the urge to block her.

i remember at north sydney girls afternoon tea and we were all sitting around and just chit-chatting someone just asks me what subjects i do. and you know naturally i go through them. and they just start cracking up
"hey! this guy does 4u maths phys chem AND eco !"
in my mind i was thinking. whats the big deal. but you know. fitted into the perfect ruse stereotype

and as for the 2nd point. one of my friends was going off about her skin and hair or whatever and i was criticizing her for caring so much about her looks.
and i got this in return:
" i don't wanna be some ruse farmer who wears crap clothes and doesnt care about how they look"
which kinda surprised me seeing as its a really inaccurate take on us .

and it is always the same line i hear with new people:
"awesome, i finally have someone who can help me with maths"

i guess i don't think much of it anymore because been used to it for quite a while. doesn't really bother me either.
what i like about our school is that we can joke about these things and put these stereotypes on ourselves. i guess we are pretty nerdy though in general

the way i see it is that we're all trees in a canopy of a rainforest competing for sunlight. some will get higher than others but overall as a bunch we are higher than other trees in the rainforest.
seeing people out there blatantly let other people know that they're really good makes me cringe a bit though. nobody likes a show-off . although i might be hypocritical in this sense.

anyways what happened recently:
- made steak and hot chips masterchef style and they turned out to be very nice.
- lotsa UMAT preparation
- falling a bit sick
- worrying a bit about last prefect news
- appreciating cadetship people's experiences through their blogs
- picking up on exercise although asthma is kicking back in

on the topic of exercise, i was running laps of the park yesterday and at this one point i ran past a "sydney buses" bus parked weirdly at the bus stop with all its lights off . and as i looked inside, there was just this one guy in there just sitting really still. i took about 2 more laps to only see the same thing. very strange
also the day before yesterday was running in the sun-rain which gave me this most amazing view of the park as i was running around. i wanted to take a photo with my phone i was using as an mp3. but i didn't wanna stop my run.

i will end it there for now. enjoy the rest of your holidays everyone

Jetlagg.

2009-07-23T14:09:00.006+10:00

I just woke up about an hour ago and feeling really guilty about the time i coulda used instead of sleeping all that time.
But its mainly because of :
- chats with friendly people i've just met, on msn late late at night
- watching the tour de france

i don't know what it is about 200 guys in tight bike shorts dancing on their bicycles that makes it so exciting, but i quite like watchin the tour de france.
Currently i'm gunning for this guy Andy Schleck who's coming 2nd overall

and the commentators get all excited about it and stuff too. that aussie guy cadel evans screwed up a stage so now he's chucking a dummy spit

just watching the speed of the race and the phenomenon of air resistance is incredible.
obviously for us we're not travelling at high enough speeds to experience this air resistance but in cycling it makes a big difference.

and what these guys do is freaky. i mean cycling 200km a day for 14 days .

i remember back in year 10 when we decided to have that 'grade picnic' of ours except it rained and about 20 or so turned up.

so we all decided to head back to sy's place for a barbecue which ended up quite nice
but what i remember was me eddy and eddison deciding to ride bikes to her place. i had to use alison's bike and her seat was making my bum really sore the whole way.
to add to that it was pourrinngg and everything got soaked.
in an attempt to get directions, sy's car decided to drive slowly with us so that we could keep up, except we lost em halfway through
and i just remember going up those hills and eddison, i dunno how that guy does it, but he just seems like its effortless. while eddy is about 20m behind him and i'm about 50m back screamingg "please sloww down"
i think it was faster for me to run my bike up the hill than pedal on it.

i've been meaning to post up my hiking trip recap but i'm still halfway through it. bosco how do you do it.

anyways what happened yesterday/after midnight: i'm kinda gettin used to saying "today" after 12am now instead of tomorrow

woke up late as usual, hoped onto the comp to watch highlights of tour de france and the usual facebook and blog check to see if anyone posted up some interesting stuff.
about to settle down to do some UMAT questions when the plumber calls to say he'll come and check up on something and our plumber is a pretty big talker. so i decide to escape to the library with my laptop and books.
get to library and sit myself down and using the library's wifi i start doing questions. but i find it so hard to read while there's noise. cause i keep losing my spot while wishing it would be quiet.

during the holidays there's always kids around the computer section playing wuteva games they play now. i know. that used to me back then playing runescape with all my mates in year 7 when it was the shizz. so i mustve been annoying to people studying for HSC.

well anyways they run out of computer booking time (muahaha quiet at last) when some kid beside me is watching some japanese show and cracking his pants every 30 seconds. and he would be laughing his head off and banging his hand on the table. it was kinda weird. and me and the curry guy to my other side were just exchanging looks of confusion. and then i catch some other guy on his laptop googling pictures of curry girls.

despite all the noise i manage to ace my practice exam surprisingly(i just realised UMAT was on the wednesday so we miss school) and i move on to some other stuff. mum comes to find me after work and we go buy some groceries and go home. and then the next 5 hours seem to pass by within 10 minutes. damn tv.
you think that you'll go and do some work afterwards but noooo there's always gotta be some good show next and so on. i can almost watch anything. except for biggest loser, that got old for me.

planning to lock myself in my room tomorrow for a whole day so ill get some work done, unless i happen to go studying with someone.
so it's bye for now.

Enjoying.theScenery

2009-07-18T21:15:00.005+10:00

after i read jero's comment from my previous blog, i went to flickr and checked some fotos out. wow the difference is amazing and theres a lot of awesome pictures there. here's just one of my finds.

ashfield park. it's where i've grown and been raised up all my life. you can actually see my place in that pic but i won't point it out. when i was young my mum used to always take me to the green house they had in the park and see all the plants and butterflies in there. and go play on the equipment . the same old rocking horse thingo is still there to this date.
i've probably run around the park over 1000 times and played cricket in the middle of that field over 100 times in the summer. I would see people playing from my bedroom window and i'd go down to join them. all these curries all the time

one day i was running around the park and the sun was setting and i just got this most amazing view. been meaning to take a picture ever since but i guess now i don't have to

in comparison to my desktop picture i found some good quality alternatives. i still like mine the best tho

this will be somewhat similar to some of your views you business cadet people. maybe wen you rise up the ranks. do the lower ranked people working nearer to the bottom?

gotta do this one day. maybe when nobody is watching in the summer.

watching harry potter IV on tv. dayumm emma watson.

that scene with her walking down the stairs to the ball. i think that's the first time people started percieving her as sexy. i mean before then you could say her character wasn't fitting of the title 'sex symbol'. she was only a kid anyway.

i remember in year 9 or 10 there was some girly obsession with the guy who plays draco malfoy. i still don't get that.

have you realised that in every single "commercial" movie there's always gotta be this absolutely beautiful woman in it that plays a main role. and by commercial i mean movies that are mad to make money, not to "make a point/statement"
like the only reason half the people go to see transformers is megan fox. the other half of the reason is there's robots in it.

Libraryblogging

2009-07-17T15:02:00.005+10:00

Currently i am taking a break from my industrial chem studying as i am stuck on one of the dot points and taking the time to blog from the library.

some person beside my is reading the world book while some other person is reading books on how to get rich hahah. good luck with that. while as usual, the rest of the people on my desk are old chinese people reading the chinese newspapers

there's this other guy who was here as well who i see very often at the library studying and he's around my age. but he left quite soon after i arrived

on the topic of laser tagging in suits :P might be an awesome idea for formal after party. as i've already said to swami, here's just one idea that sounds good for after formal.
- go laser tagging in suits at darling harbour M3
- head off to a hotel (star city the nearest one?) and have a chillout session maybe with some talk and games
- go for a walk along darling harbour at 5 in the morning to watch the sun rise. i gotta say, even though i havent done that before. if its a good clear day. darling harbour is absolutely BEAUTIFUL to look at dawn. ( i think dawn means early morning )

i dont know where i got this photo from, but it is currently my desktop picture and looks so nice

might have a go at drawing that one day actually. haven't drawn for ages and it actually used to be one of my hobbies back in year 7 or 8 when i had the time. mum also sent me to drawing class and it was quite enjoyable. i wasn't that bad either. i think one of my drawings is still up on that art place but of course it cant match anything to the crazy VA ppl and what they draw.

i also don't understand the love for cameras. i guess its cause i dun appreciate photography and still art, always been more of an admirer of landscape and traditional art. but in the end. isn't it just another camera. what's the difference between my phone camera and a 2000 dollar nikon whatever. probably better resolution or zoom or SFX. but for now im quite satisfied with my nokia N95 to post up my blog pics

i've been wasting quite a bit of time lately on facebook and other random sites just browsing through other peoples pitctures and its really interesting that u can find out so much about a single person just by looking at their fotos. like people ive only met once or twice before who've added me on facebook
after re-reading what i just type, might've sounded a bit stalkerish but wen sum1 uploads fotos onto the home page u cant help but have a little look.

also realised that a lot of other people from other schools are really into dressing up for harry potter and stuff. pretty strong and confident people. i have yet to watch the movie but i will sometime soon. i hear its good
watched bruno yesterday. erghh it wasnt as good as borat probably because the provacativeness has been done before by borat. so it didnt have the same effect. some pretty gross stuff though.

now it is back to my long tiring study. i feel like im gettin nowhere
but practise makes perfect

feeling nostalgic

2009-07-15T17:24:00.001+10:00

i've been going over old fotos lately and wow. i miss those junior years
such good times
and year 10 formal basically summed it up

i will post up a bosco-esque review of my year 10 hiking trip soon

been uploading fotos onto facebook and wasting my time watchin random vids on youtube

i realise that theres a lot to do and my blogs are gettin really repetitive
just a things i have to do tomorrow so i set it down in stone:
- do a 4u trial paper
- finish writing physics notes
- finish writing chem notes
- re-do module A essay
- do area of study comprehension

congratulations to swami and belle for gettin cadetships and maybe peter too? havent heard much from him. he sure mustve tho, freaky all rounder
you're living my old dream
wow ernst and young. businessman. overseas trips. bluetooth headsets. cashed up lunches. we're growing up so fast. dont fade away tho

short post for today. im feeling lazy

OMG its origin tonight !! just realised :D yayayay

couppla things to do before i die:
- go to an origin match
- go to an ODI
- become a regular at a cafe
- learn a new language
- own a pet
- go laser tagging in suits
- dunk a basketball
- form a soccer team
- spend 30 bucks on a burger
- be on TV

end of term recap - holidaylibrarying

2009-07-13T19:22:00.000+10:00

time is flying fast.
and it hasnt been that fun. well its been ok
preparing for the end of term assembly was enjoyable but also sad cause its the last thing we'll really ever do. didn't turn out that good but heh, maybe with more practise and if we didnt hafta rush it. perhaps it mightve been better.
and this excuse. oh i cant do this and that cause of study. we're all hypocritical for saying that. i probably waste so much time just browsing facebook and even typing this blog, so i can always fit other things in.
hoping that we'll be able to make a good final prefect news .

the quiz thing in the assembly was supposed to be longer and some of the questions were those type of 'questions only ruse people would know the answer to'
for example"

which teacher's glasses do these belong to

how much does this cost in the canteen

what does the sign say. its the name of the road that leads to the quadrangle from the teachers parking lot

wow. this nsg just got offered a cadetship at pwc. she sounds very happy.
but that must be a pretty good feeling regardless of what people say about how crappy cadetships are. gives you confidence in yourself and wow how much dus she get offered? 30K? that's a lot of money for us kiddies
and sounds like her future is all set. the rest of us still aint so sure

that is why i'm determined to get through this period of study. once u sit ur butt down and get into it. its not that bad. its just the sitting ur butt down bit that's hard
2 more exam periods and that's it . went to state library yesterday which is an awesome library. so many good HSC resources and good study environment

and parra library today. which is always noisy. there's always these people who
make themselves feel good by going to libraries but go there and just talk to each
other. but they come out of it feeling good cause they feel like they got sum study done. which is kinda annoying for the rest of us who are trying to work and cant cause of the noise
kinda makes u think why dun u have a nice little chat sumwhere else.
it was ok tho. now i must do umat

to finish it off just some photos. i was gonna put up a foto petey and richard posed for in the change rooms but it was too sexy and private to be shown. if u wish to see it let me know urself.

james and shiva

swami posing in front of a crashed car which symbolises his eventual downfall

GRRUBBSSYYY

guy prefects in the changeroom

studying at state library

Bargain hunting

2009-07-11T22:42:00.001+10:00

due to my mum's asian cheapness and tryna get the cheapest deal for braces out there.
every month i hafta venture out to hurstville to get my braces tightened which basically means my afternoon/night is filled with just waiting at the orthodontist. usually get home around 8 or 9 due to how far away it is.
so i get there at my appointed 6pm time. but end up waiting until 6-50 as usual. saw our school on the news for about 30 seconds and people in the waiting room watchin were giving me weird looks after seeing that.
so finally get called up. and he fiddles around with this and that and tightens my braces. i end up falling half asleep while lying there and it takes him 2 times to say "open your mouth" for me to realise what he was saying and open wide.
so finish at 7-30 to the sound of home and away theme song in the waiting room. go to westfield to get some stuff to eat. and just my luck one of my things stuck to my teeth comes off. and i hafta go back to the orthodontist. get there at like 8-30. end up waiting till 9 something while watching ashes on the tele.
finally sticks it back on and i call up my dad to pick me up. so end up gettin home at around 10 something.

but while waiting for him to pick me up. did something which all true asians will recognise. dad called me up and said he'd be there in 15 and there was a coles right next to me. so i said hey ill go check up coles in case i wanna buy some liquidy stuff since i cant eat solids after my braces get tightened. go around
and this is what we call bargain hunting. u know those stickers they put on stuff really late at night cause they expiry date is coming soon.
used to do this with swami and a coupla other ppl at coles epping sometimes. and sometimes we'd walk away with an absolute cracker of a deal.

go to the milk section and theres this other asian there too looking for those stickers and i just happen to come across the dare iced coffee marked at 50c. check the expiry date and its the next day. after a moment of thinking, i decide against it as i probably wouldnt be drinking coffee at night or the day after.
so instead i go get some oak vanilla malt milk marked at 1-50 and a 2 pack of mango yoghurt for me to eat marked at 1-50 also.

speaking of bargain hunting. my dad just came home this morning with two packets of beef mince. which we hardly eva eat. its always pork mince which we eat in dumplings and other stuff. so i guess its lotsa pasta for the next few days

off to watch zoolander and its a trip to state library tomorrow . they have good HSC resources. and its a nice study environment

Mindblowing.

2009-07-07T17:53:00.001+10:00

wow. i just finished watching the matrix. good movie.

i know it's pretty late. and mindblowing stuff. could be us :O
but whoever came up with that is has a really really deep imagination. did this film win any awards?

anyways i am all good now and to give myself 'rest time' i took the night off yesterday and watched movies. watch hangover, watched harry potter 5th one just to keep up to date, and watched the half of matrix.

cause i suddenly remembered in year 6 all my class wanted to go see matrix reloaded and i didnt go cause i didnt watch matrix . plus i wasnt allowed too since i was a nerdy asian kid who did selective school paper practice and loved fibonacci

team photo day today. felt kinda weird cause its our last one. never eva gonna do it again. planning on keeping these photos for a long time so i can boast to my kids about how awesome i thought i was like my dad does.

btw did anyone notice src week last week? i didnt even notice anything. i guess cause we're year 12 and everythin we're not really into the festivities anymore.
i will leave it there. i promised myself id finish my work

photo spam time from last years src week

look at aryan. weird hair
got used to not seeing that. lol look at mcnaughty too . i think they're all stoned watchin the footy. i cant seem to find the photo of sarav invading helena's personal space

dun ya just wanna kiss him

he got up high. shuldve had handball this time around. that was awesome

I'm bloody drug overdozing

2009-07-05T17:00:00.001+10:00

i'm freakin tripping pills. fell ill on friday with a mild headache and its gotten worse ever since with fever and some other pretty nasty stuff
threw up just as i was gettin out of the car for first aid yesterday. so if u happen to walk by felton rd tomorrow please be aware of a possible pile stile there

in an attempt to cure me and everything, i've been popping so much pills.
this is basically the stuff ive been taking the past few days

feel quite good now actually. but you never know. might fall ill again
the line for the doctor was sooo long today. went to ashfield and there were 21 people ahead of me with only one doctor. damn doctors. there should be more working on the weekend. so instead went to neighbouring suburb haberfield where it was a bit better with only 5 people with two doctors.

looking forward to photo day tomorrow. just to see what everyone is coming as
and its the last photo day eva so i plan to buy all the group team fotos and stuff
special shoutout to swami. who isnt feeling very well right now.
get better mate. bad luck about gettin sick just before photo day

only an unrelated note. came up with a new 'lexicon' term . HAW
stands for high achieving whingers. term given to someone who does very well in exams but still complains about their marks.

now it's off to finish my dodgy eco assignment which i need to fix up badly.

the burger hut.

2009-07-01T22:36:00.000+10:00

its this tiny burger hut behind a flouro green sign stuck between a dry cleaner and a chemist shop.

you go into the place and you get served by a grumpy mid aged woman and his kinder husband. although i go there probably twice a week and order the same 'special burger and chips' everyday. the lady is persistent in shutting me down and goin:
WHAT DO YOU WANT
the husband is a bit more kinder but i always get served by the lady. so i can never try me "oh just the usual" line.
it all started one day when me and swami caught the 546 bus and the bus dropped us off early near this place. we were feeling hungry and swami noticed a sign. the same bit of chalk written on that board has been there ever since and it reads
special: plain burger and chips $4.50
we thought. hey thats pretty cheap so we persisted to try "the burger"
and ohh what heaven that first bite was. that soft bun, that beautiful patty that just rolled around in ur mouth and melted. and who could forget that single piece of beetroot. which just topped it all off as the greatest burger i've ever had.

and since then we've gone there regularly to taste "the burger"

food was never so good.

speaking of food. planning to rock up to normo tomorrow to eat their food. cept asked one of their guys and sounds like they have bad food. but wutevs. time to soak up this last 2 weeks of prefect privilege
it's been a good run
and now its study study study time.

living far away sucks cause school events are so hard to get to . biggest regret is not gettin my Ls wen i first turned 16. what the hell was i thinking.
it seems like everyones excuse not to do stuff is cause of study. i said i didnt wanna get Ls cause i had to study. what a fool i was.
now i hafta wait till bloody november to get my Ps while i stare jealously at people like rishi kelly ben james manbir etc. in their cars driving home
that'd be really convenient .

but for now it is off to study. i recommend the burger at de grill. its a must-try

Yaattttaaaa

2009-06-30T22:42:00.000+10:00

I have just won lottoooo.

nah who am i kidding
chances of winning from my recent probability studies are 1/45379620
chances of getting 6 numbers right is 19/504218
chances of even gettin 3 numbers right is 0.001 i think...

but people still try like my dad. in the hope for the 90 million bucks . so thats $10.60 i coulda spent on food. mmmm

speaking of food. i got hooked onto canned corn after having some of dannys at lunch. has anyone passed that corn shop in parra westfield and it smells soo nice. i've always wanted to get a cup but its outrageous expensive price has stopped me. so went to woolies, pick up some canned tuna, slab of steak, some juice and of course some canned corn for only 1-60. so much more than that little tiny cup they give u for 3 something. gonna have that for lunch tomorrow. mmmmm

walking home from the station some guy was madly giving out pamphlets tryna get rid of em. shoved one into my hand and it was advertising for tax returns.
i thought, does it look like i need a tax return. but then again the guy doesnt care. he just gets money if he gets rid of em. they why not just tip em in the bin
its a cruel cruel world. everyone just wants a little bit of that money.

get home. dad's home. i try to talk about other stuff to try and divert him from asking me about my english mark which i successfully did until my mum comes home and the thats the first thing on her mind
*mum comes home*
Me: Hey mum! how was your day.
Mum: WHAT'D YOU GET IN ENGLISH

== managed to play it down a bit by saying i didnt count that much and stuff and by mentioning my maths it seemed to soften the blow a bit xD

btw those people who watched that andy chen video on facebook about him gettin flogged by parents for gettin 99.8 . i asked him and they acted it. thank goodness
got some texta and latex or wuteva and it looked really real

currently tryna think of muck up ideas and this is what me and matt are tryna pull off

but i dno where the hell you get a big lab coat from. if anyone has suggestions thatd be great. otherwise we're gonna try make one which i feel might be disaster.
people tryna figure out what we aree

all this stuff muck up day and gettin jerseys and trials just kicks into that obviously its all coming to an end soon. which is kinda sad . was talkin to someone on the fone beforehand and it just made me realise that all the memories and fun we've had in our juniors years and bit of senior makes it all worthwhile. like even if it's the most stupidest thing in the world like staring at the dvd screensaver. that still makes me crack up everytime. just to look back and go man how stupid and childish were we but it was worth it and i wuldnt change a thing.
good 9-10 times. i guess all the stuff we miss has already past us. right now all we eva talk about is work and study. theres no excursions, no camps, no random events. its just heads down into books and lets go.

all those childish crushes and childish behaviour. i would give so much money to go back in time and just laff at what we were back then
that reminds me. gotta ask mr yeo to reup those old DT videos again. those are classics.
this school has been one good place. and when you think back on it. it wont be the bad stressful times. and they dun evn seem that bad anyway. its our way of life.
so glad i came to ruse

the friends made. the memories shared. oh boy

anyways i will stop lettin my LNHS kick in and end it there
dammit im capped

dreaming about maths

2009-06-27T13:22:00.000+10:00

although i'm not feeling it. i think all this HSC is starting to get to me.
but it's ok. nothing to worry about

well i started to panic in the 4u exam and got that feeling which i've only eva got in my first ever exam in year 11: physics. in which i felt totally screwed.
afterwards i was kicking myself at being so panicky and not thinking with a clear mind. kicking myself so much to the point i was dreaming about how to do that question if i had it all over again ==" its quite sad i realise
kinda reminds me of a old neopets game i used to play in year 6 called maths nightmares

and then this morning. i was dreaming about gettin 52.5/54 for my 3u exam and 53/60 for my 4u exam which will never happen seeing as i totally screwed it. i wont complain no more. the most irritating are those super duper smart ppl who kick themselves at losing 2 or 3 marks . i find it hilarious
and then i dreamt i was walking down from top of C block to economics to get my 49/50 back . which i would be absolutely over the moon with seeing as i've been trash talking peter for 2 weeks now about how i'm gonna take over his reign, which wasn't the smartest thing to do. seeing as i'm gonna be absolutely pummeled
this is ridiculous
well off to enjoy my weekend by doing loads of maths today at guan and then doing loads of maths trial papers tomorrow at state library. yayyy . study has become a habit, not so much of a chore anymore.

surreal.

2009-06-26T22:02:00.000+10:00

currently i am playing happy farm on facebook after reading stuff about it on belle's blog. but i find it really hard to gain experience, and it's really tedious.
and how do u get credits apart from paying money for it

anyways as most of you know. michael jackson has died from heart attack. which was a really big shock. kinda parallel to steve irwin
people make fun of them and they're forgotten
suddenly they die and then there's all praise and everything which they deserve

i actually think michael jackson is just unjustly done by by society. i mean he hasnt done anything wrong. he's judged by the way he looks and his love for children. he seems innocent to me, altho there is some biased since he's dead

i blame it all on pepsi. if his face had never gotten burnt in an accident in a pepsi ad, then he wouldnt hafta get plastic surgery and he'd never be treated this way. so don't drink pepsi !!

some person on facebook made a horrible pun xD "his heart just didn't beat it"

so RIP michael jackson
that moonwalk is unbelievable

To Love Somebody

2009-06-23T22:10:00.000+10:00

I couldnt think of a smart or witty title. so my title just happens to be the song im listening to right now. wen i was little my family went to a bee gees concert in what was stadium australia back then. contemplating whether to go to the anberlin concert

moving on. i'd like to share the lamest lame i eva lamed just a few hours ago
don was asking me a question on circular motion and after much working out, i couldnt get it.
Me: sorry don, i don't think i can help you, i'm goin in circles
Don: oh ok
Me: HAHA get it ! goin in circles, circular motion !
Don: i tried not to notice, but i did giggle a bit

my body is aching all over from table tennis yesterday, playing 6 matches took its toll. and i know the ppl who are chuckling to themselves thinking how do u eva get sore from table tennis. but my body has never been in so much pain before xD my pecs, my biceps, my thighs, my triceps, my shoulder muscles, and my butt muscles all hurt
i thought to myself what the hell? butt muscles . i never knew u needed to use them for table tennis. so now weneva i sit down, a let off a little groan of pain
it was worth it tho. flashing my bling to ppl today before sending it off to get engraved
i'm feeling really cocky these days. i feel like i'm on a roll in exams, taking it easy and preparing myself well mentally
felt i did really well in 3u today so im happy with myself.
and most nights dont consist of cramming much study . just perhaps a coupla questions a brief read of notes then its off to bed.

i actually enjoy exam week quite a bit. the exams arent really bad if u think about it. physics and chem theory are all very short . and maths is fine. and then that freedom you get. instead of dreading it, i find the week a chance to shine, chance to prove myself
ruse09 time to shine
i had to add that in there.

had a chat to owen from class of '07 on msn just then. he does med at UNSW and was telling me about it. sounds very good and fascinating. and he was talkin it up lots. i find it really important that you actually enjoy what you're learning otherwise, its just information cramming and stuff u dun enjoy. i enjoy doin chemistry cause i find it interesting, physics is becoming intereseting as well, and english to some extent. it's like the subjects are widening your view of the world. if that makes any sense

anyways off to do a 4u maths paper. needa get up superduper early tomorrow for UNSW maths comp. fml as many would say. but my life is great :D so ilml

i will end with a picture of where i'm goin on sunday to help out a friend with her maths. tutoring gives me confidence in myself

my precious.

2009-06-22T17:26:00.001+10:00

i know its been a while since i blogged. but i hope its worth the wait. lol

anyways. my life is fully complete. i'm so happy
shes finally mine. isn't she beautiful.

disregard the right silver one. she's a has been. i've moved onto the gold

welp instead of studying my ass off as some of you may have done today. it was CHS table tennis finals today and i was so excited over the weekend. practising hitting against the wall.

woke up at around 8 which was a nice change from the usual 6-30's and drove to olympic park

so there was 10 teams from all parts of NSW.they represent the best of their part of NSW. lol some people even brought a suitcase with them, cause they were staying at a hotel since it took them too long to get back.
so there were 2 pools of 5 teams each and the top 2 of the each pool goes through the final and 1st plays 2nd of other group etc. i wont bore u with minor details

anyways we had north sydney boys, kingscliff, duval and sum other random team in our pool and we managed to come 1st winning against all the teams
the way it works in table tennis and tennis is that its a best out of 7 matches. each team has 4 players and sum reserves and it consists of 4 singles matches with ur respective seed and then 3 doubles matches goin (1&3 vs 1&3, 2&4 vs 2&4, 1&2 vs 1&2) so u play the singles matches first and if u win all of them then thats 4-0 and u dun need to play doubles

got to semis, beat "murray" relatively easily 4matches to 0
and then in the finals we met north sydney boys again. and it was kinda deja vu. our 1st seed lost against theirs
but then our remaining seeds all won their games (i'm 4th seed). i was up 2 sets to 1 in my one, and the guy came back because i was being impatient and making mistakes. manage to beat him 11-9 in the last set to win 3-2
so it was time for doubles. and our 1st and 3rd seeds lost against them, like they did in the preliminary stages and me and raymond (2nd and 4th) beat them 3-0 to claim our school's first gold in like 6 years :P

mr lees came to watch us today which was kinda surprising as hes on long service leave. and pronger was being awesome as usual challenging us to matches haha.
mr pronger what a beast. "coaching" two teams to CHS
lees was so happy afterwards, he all shouted us maccas. mmmm free big mac meal.
oh that reminds me. the north sydney boys coach, to try and encourage the guy who was versing me, he said he'd shout him a big mac if he won. i deprived him of one. poor guy

it was the first gold for me, and i had a silver one previously in year 9
so very happy
now to study 3u maths which i enjoy muchly . but beforehand i will photospam .

medals presentation, us in the middle biting our gold, nsb on the right and murray on the left who won the 3rd place game

team foto with mr lees

something cool i found in burwood the other day. its a strip dart mat. if u hit an area the other person has to take that off

my hood. burwood. hope u liked the rhyme

view from my room on a saturday morning. trinity boys playing sum other team in rugby

birdplane.

2009-06-13T23:17:00.001+10:00

omgsh i just watched this video on youtube i went hysterical . so good !

while in the shower i suddenly started thinking about axis of awesome 4 chords thing that jero introduced because i was playing music on my phone while i was showering. anyways i got out and youtubed axis of awesome.
ahhhh
they are so good with these play with words and stuff. and you dun expect it. which makes it so funny.
also found out they did the kevin rudd rap thingo as well which was really good. they are really good with rhymes. i wish they did more .

mr. cool

2009-06-13T17:03:00.000+10:00

while i'm waiting for peter's reply to my billion questions about physics that i dun get
i'd like to mention this

i'm sure many of you have seen this . but damnn he's so smooth. writing the note and listening to his question. and his witty sense of humour
it's like he's got a strong hold on everyone.it's hard to find someone that hates him, apart from like those white blackppl haters in america. probably the most famous man in the world right now

and now it is back to my physics questions.
and english essay which i really need to write afterwards. otherwise i'm gonna get crap in class from ppls and ms steele

we all worry and complain too much.

2009-06-11T23:13:00.000+10:00

it's exam time again. that stress time

time to start listening intently

and the frantic note reading before the exam

and complaining about how gay subjects are as usual. complaining about how we procrastinate as usual. complaining about how bloody cold it is as usual
i think we all need to take a chill pill and start doing things instead of complaining. reminds me of hamlet. haha

today lunch was very interesting. 3 on 3 semi final game between my team and fat kids lag IRL. lotsa complaining, lotsa arguing, lotsa controversy. i still dunno who won. but im guessing they did
tho im pretty happy in how we played and we played pretty good. felt like we were on top for a majority of the time and just got unlucky in the end.
all of this recent complaining and everything during 3 on 3 basketball saddens me. people are taking it too seriously and just firing up in the heat of the moment. it is just only a basketball comp after-all.
we as refs do our best to be correct and give a fair go to everyone. but there is the odd mistake and i guess u just hafta accept that.its just nature. just take nothing from it and walk away goin ok. its really hard wen everyones hounding at you making their own calls, and u feel really bad wen u potentially made it or breaked it for someone because of your decisions.
i think some people just take it all too seriously. after all its just to go out there, do your best and have some fun.
watchin the group stage matches were really fun. like daniel's titties vs liverpool fc. you know. those people arent in it to win it. they just out there to give it their best and have some funn. and that was really good to see. none of that complaining. i saw flannagan watchin it too and she seemed to be enjoying it.

hopefully the year 11 vs year 12 game tomorrow will be good . and played in the right spirit.

and with exams and study. oh who's gonna be marking the essay, who's gonna be writing the paper. in the end it dusnt really matter that much . sumtimes i see our grade as like a group of trees. in a rainforest. tryna reach for that sunlight at the top at any cost. and some end up at the very top and some not so high.

anyways that is it from me. i will try and find some interesting fotos to post up

nadal and verdasco after that epic epic match. that was so good. crazy match. i remember it was like 1 or 2am and everyone else was still on msn goin on about this match. looks like their making out eh

super duper long bill.

D-licious

2009-06-09T20:55:00.000+10:00

first of all in response to the comments i gladly recieved :P
aditi: that's more than ok ;) i'll take the time to read your blog too
swami: haters. haha but it's true. CHS does sound better then 2nd round tho.

welp i'm just gonna massive foto spam now. of all the yummy food i had today
omg so niccee. me and parents went out to dinner at chinese seafood restaurant and i've just come back. i'm so bloated. but it was delicious

to start us off for food i had today:

dominos pizza with vitamin water. thanks to milo's suggestions a while back, ive been doing this quite often. what you do is, you go to the dominos website to order the pizza, and u take off toppings you dont want and put on topping you want for a cheap price (its always under 6 bucks) thanks to ozbargain codes. in this particular pizza, we have a deep pan base spread with bbq sauce, topped off with prawns, seasoned chicken, beef, mushrooms, capsicum, pineapple, oregano, garlic, onion and olives. yum

ok now to the dinner. i apologize in advance for the grief i will cause from posting up all this yum food xD. and im gonna be a bit of a critic here.

1st entree: chicken feet soup mixed with legumes and beans. the soup had a really nice flavour and the chicken feet werent bad either. it was my first time eating chicken feet actually. and after handling all those chicken feet back in the year 10 ag days, surprisingly i didnt get that disgusting image in my head :P

2nd entree: roasted quail with seasoned salt and black vinegar.
the skin of the quail was nice and crispy and the meat was very nice and tender too.

main dishes served with rice -

1st main dish: lobster served with shallots in a special asian sauce. i dun really actually know what the sauce is called in english. altho the lobster was nice and sweet, the sauce lacked a bit and u could really only taste the sweetness of the lobster. still good tho

2nd main dish: soft shell crab served with shallots in a special asian sauce on top of egg noodles. this one was soo nice. altho it's annoying gettin rid of all the shell and gettin to the meat. and your hands get all dirty. the sauce was really nice with the sweet tender crab meat, and egg noodles are always good with seafood.

3rd main dish: steamed barramundi accompanied with palace soy sauce finished with shallots. the fish was really soft and the bones were just in the centre of the thing so it was quite pleasant to eat. by this time i was soo full.

4th main dish: bok choy served with creamed seafood . just your typical asian dish. nothing much special. but the creamed crab was quite good.

just all the mains together.

1st dessert: grass jelly served with coconut milk. the grass jelly was sweet, but not to sweet and the coconut milk went well with it :)

2nd dessert: oranges. need i say more . they were sweet

now with only 3 people to eat all this. we had to take lots home xD so being typical asians. asked for huge boxes to put mostly the noodles and the quail wen didnt finish.

btw the place i went to was in beverly hills if any of you are curious. they just got this main road lined up with chinese seafood restaurants. so the quality is good and the prices are cheap.
enjoy the fotos :)

i'm famous.

2009-06-08T23:28:00.000+10:00

muahahaha bosco's post was so funny. moomoomoo. kinda wish i had one now. but so bloody expensive ! $1.50 my parents felt unwell after eating a box of moos. they were waiting for me to finish tution and bought a box of 8 and had 4 each cause they were afraid they would melt. hahaha

anyways. nice surprise to see me mentioned in the newsletter :P none other by sports captain don.
i will share this excerpt with you

"In other news, James Ruse Knockout teams have also experienced reasonable success.
The Boys Knockout Table Tennis team, coached by Mr. Pronger, boasts the talents of Michael Liu, Vinson Wang, Edward Lo-Cao, Andrew Chen and Raymond Li. The boys were comfortable champions at the Sydney West tournament and have progressed to the CHS tournament.
Michael Liu, of year 12, is cautious but has high aspirations about the team’s chances, “We look forward to the challenge of CHS and hopefully return with the gold medal.”
The Girls Knockout Tennis team boasts the talents of Alison Fong, Chantal Dang, Sakthi Satkumaran, Anisha Arora and Lorraine Li. Their coach, Mr. Pronger, described the girls’ games as “of national importance” and the team as “standard above the rest”. It is no surprise that they are the current regional champions.
We wish both teams the best of luck in future competitions."

Yes i had a little interview with don in the middle of maths. which was awesome.

anyways on the topic of being mentioned in the paper. here's something from last year.

as you can see. grubsy and aditi are in the front. and you might be able to see me prat and jackie in the back. in the paper its goin on about how good our school is and how grubsy is awesome which made me laugh xD. pretty awesome experience. never knew they had to take so many photos and just use 2 of them. for just this page.

thats all from me . photo spam time.

kris testing out his aeehhh theory at musical. you know how if u say cheese during a photo it makes you smile. well if u say aeehhh during a photo it makes a have a better smile

random foto walking back to school from carlo court on the saturday for musical. thought it looked pretty awesome. probably nothin really for VA ppl tho.

free gillette fusion razor which i got from priceline thanks to ozbargain. they always post up great freebies and deals on their site. if you want a free razor. go to gillette.com and fill in the 'enrolment form' and they will send u an sms and u can go get a free razor (men only of course)

it's been a while

2009-06-07T23:28:00.000+10:00

welp.
i havent studied since 4pm after watchin the footy and gettin on the computer waiting for mel to come online. only to realise at 10 she texted me at 8 saying she wouldnt be on. :(
i dun feel like sleeping so i'm breaking my no bloggin for just this time.
computer is such a bad habit. forum this, msn that, facebook this, ozbargain that. and woosh goes 6 hours.

well the other day i had a massive bump into old mates from primary school. met like 3 of them over the course of the day. always nice to see them again. brings back good memories.
when you think back to primary school, i find that ur memory is often very distorted from what it actual was. u forget the little things.
when i went back to my primary school to do a few days of work experience in year 10, so much came back to me. just teaching in the same room i used to grow up in. it's something so much more. sentimental.
reading a book to the children. that was me sitting on the carpet listening years ago. sitting one behind another, forming a massage train . lol . cause the guys wanted female contact xD hahaha
and notes passing. writing notes on scraps of paper and passing it around. i remember one day i was writing notes to this girl and i was asking her who she liked, and i listed all the guys in our class. btw i didnt like her or anything. just as a yr 6 kid, you're really curious. anyways the teacher picked it up and read it. i was so embarassed.
going back and attending assembly. one kid would come up and say "please say good morning to the teachers" and the whole assembly would say good morning teachers in that drony rhythmic tone.
and the cheap cheap canteen prices. soo good . their melted cheese and ham toasted sandwich is to die for.

going into high school was a pretty big thing for me. but it's not what i expected. wen ur a year 6 kid, u only know the facts. like oh james ruse no.1 school in the state. it's gonna be great. but when u get there its so much different. it's not like that class environment where u just in the same class the whole time and u know the people really. it's scurry here go there. i remember my first day of school. i didnt know many ppl. so my first lesson was double DT in which i sat next to adam kelly mills tryna be real studious and listening to mr bastian talk about random stuff. but after a while it got real boring and sumhow i got into a talk about politics with adam. goin home the first day showing my mum all the stuff i'd written in my ag theory book. i thought i was doin it tough then xD gee

6 years have passed so quick. dammit. it's been good .but too short

anyways gonna end it there.
btw belle. if you read this. i asked that kid for a foto. he's in year 7 actually and he rejected me D: how could he !
here's a foto for ur viewing pleasure.

and sorry i'm outta memory photos. maybe another time

the nerding lifestyle.

2009-05-31T21:46:00.000+10:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

to be or not to be

2009-05-30T20:06:00.000+10:00

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

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

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

yum. i'm gonna try that one day.

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

sorry here i am drifting off to food again.

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

for today's memory section

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

best fish and chips . EVAA

2009-05-29T18:33:00.000+10:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

kalixocin is my friend.

2009-05-28T18:13:00.000+10:00

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

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

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

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

final round of musical chairs.

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

for all the haters. that's right.

and for michael's memory moment..

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

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

mr ye times

2009-05-26T00:01:00.000+10:00

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

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

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

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

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

L.N.H.S

2009-05-25T18:04:00.000+10:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

Under Pressure

2009-05-24T20:00:00.000+10:00

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

especially from my dad.

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

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

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

back to a time when there wasnt so much pressure

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

the stupid things we do

2009-05-23T19:47:00.000+10:00

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

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

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

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

good times.

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

a picture from the end of '06

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

M.H.S.O.A.T

2009-05-22T23:22:00.001+10:00

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

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

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

playing arena homebush park sports hall

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

cambridge park. runners up of the comp

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

on the car back with mckenzie and pronger

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

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

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

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

thats really just a cover up actually.

anyways for my special kodak moment to day :

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

cadetship evening

2009-05-21T20:57:00.000+10:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the guy was the person in the middle

belle looks a bit lost here

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

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

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

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

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