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Day 7: Chocolate Pizza

2012-01-23T20:32:00.003+11:00

Before parting ways with Carey, he clued me in on how he scored Spiritual State, the incomplete final album from the late Nujabes. Where? Tower Records. Where? Shibuya. Brilliant, I was just about to head that way.

Now, Ho-san and I weren't going to be in Tokyo for much longer, so after our last encounter, Yoko-san offered to show us around Shibuya when the sun had gone down. That's was the original reason I would be on a subway to Shibuya after the motor show.

Every town has a central meeting point. In Shibuya, that central meeting point is around the statue of Hachiko. So after finding Ho-san, Yoko-san and his friend in the pit of people we ventured towards Tower Records.

Tower Records is huge. Properly huge. Each major music genre is dedicated their own floor, with there being ~7 floors. Walking in it's straight to the directory to find out which floor we're to take the elevator to find what I want. Ding. Level 4 and it's time to scurry around to find this CD. Wondering past shelf after shelf, I pick an aisle at random and look for 'N'. There it was, a cute little collection of three Nujabes' album. An awkward transaction later and there I have it, the third physical CD I've ever bought. Sweet.

Making our way downtown, don't know how fast we're walking, faces pass and we're bound for some food. Once we were done admiring how cheap the internet cafes were, a sign advertising all-you-can-eat pizza caught our attention. It was cheap. Sold.

I'm not sure what it is about corn that the Japanese find so appealing, and frankly the why isn't important. What is worth mentioning is that when you walk into a Japanese pizza-buffet, expect to be offered some odd toppings for your Italian disc of dough, so it's advised to not actually think of it as pizza and just random foreign food. However, if you want pizza, there should be one or two with a topping you'd recognise. Anyway, I'm thirsty.

Yoko-san, like most (not me) university students, has a part time job working in a bar. Somewhat more cool than your regular fast food joint. The type of bar he works at is a little different, clearly, with a menu where nothing is over 270yen. Cool ey? It also happens to be a chain, with one of located in basement of our weird pizza buffet building.

After taking off our shoes upon entering, we're escorted past small rooms of people to our very own little room that's outfitted with no chairs and a touch screen monitor next to the table. Kind of like a karaoke room, aside from the room in the floor under the table, lack of a huge TV and microphones. It was cozy, and everything was only 270yen. I still can't get over how sake is served warm.

Day 7: More Car Stuff

2012-01-20T18:06:00.000+11:00

A few days after I landed in Tokyo, I got a message from fellow travelling Melbourian, Carey (you might have heard of him, his online presense is over 9000) "Hey dude, you wanna go to Tokyo Motor ShoW?" Travelling through the subway, I've seen the posts plastered on the pillars a handful of times, but not paying attention to the date, I had just assumed it was one of those shows that packed up when I landed. Never assume. We still had some time to make the show, and today was the day we made time.

So I was told I had grab tickets before hand a Family Mart. For those not familiar with what Family Mart is, think of it as an alternative convenient store to Seven-Eleven, which it is basically. There are no storage of them around Asakusa, so I make no detour towards one on my way to the subway station. Walking in, I approach the counter and ask the clerk, Tokyo Motor Show tikeito arimasuka? to which he replies something I can't follow and directs me to this little machine next to the counter and takes me through the steps. All is well until I have to input my details and the little machine won't let us progress without a mobile contact number, which I don't have. We both look at each other, the clerk looking like he has let me down, and me literally not knowing what to say, but I try. Daijobu. Eto, soko Motor Show tikeito kaiimasuka? This probably makes no sense, but hopefully he catches on that I'm trying to ask if tickets can be bought at the show. Wakaranai...chotomate kukasai.

Next thing I know, the clerk has brought over his younger assistant who leads me into the lobby of the hotel next door and proceeds to exchange a few words with the English speaking receptionists. These guys are going to far too much trouble for me. I'm politely given a run down on how to get to the show and that tickets are in fact available at the gate. Phew. I thank the receptionist before I'm lead out to the street by the assistant clerk who unnecessarily points me in the direction of the local subway station. All I did was walk in 10 minutes ago hoping to get a car show ticket and the clerk could have simply just pointed me towards the machine I needed to use and left it at that. Instead, they've gone far out of their way to help me out. I feel obliged to buy something in their store, but this assistant clerk continues to stand there, waving me off. So I do that. I make my way to the station and wait for Carey to rock up.

Kindly enough, the show had a free shuttle bus running in between the venue and (I believe) Tokyo station. Pleasantly nice of them.

The show it self wasn't all that different to any other show I've been to, aside from one thing, the venue it was hosted in was huge. The venue was made up of a series of different halls, all of which enclosed a different genre of car. In one hall you had your regular everyday city commuter and motorcycles, another trucks and other commercial things, over the side was a floor for kids to cause mayhem in. Aside from the motorcycles, none of those matter, what we really wanted to get a glimpse at was Toyota's new baby sports coupe, the beastly hyped up 86. It was relief to finally see it in the metal, just a shame they felt it appropriate to show it off in orange. Urgh.

After grabbing a bite to eat and ogling each other's cameras it was onto the monorail and off to our separate schedules.

Day 6: Autobacs. Inbound. Wet. Day.

2012-01-15T17:53:00.003+11:00

This is Super Autobacs. It's a automotive supermarket, tyre supplier, service centre and dealership. Those not interested in talk of aftermarket car parts are advised to skip this entry.

Unable to arrange a way to check out Daikoku Futo I needed to get my Tokyo car fix. I'm in Japan. Its car culture is one reason I love the nation of the Rising Sun, so an automotive super store will have to cut the mustard.

Dragging along Mister Ho, we get off at Shinonome station. Where were we? This is clearly not the most socially active part of town. But, walking under the local wangan expressway, spotting a Skyline and Chaser drive past gave me some hope. After eventually getting through the flock of traffic lights, I spot the Super Autobacs sign. All right let's go.

Honestly I had high expectations for this Super Autobacs. Word was there's a wall of bucket seats to admire and sit on, aisles of suspension parts and all that good stuff that a lot of us love about the whole JDM scene. Walking up to this wall of a building, things were looking good. But you can tell I'm going to be disappointed, and I was little.

Walking around inside, a majority of what you see is rice. Cool VIP dress ups, but really it's still rice. My wall of bucket seats was just a corner with less than a dozen different models. Tucked under the waiting room were the exhausts and suspension bits, with a basic display and a catalogue to flip through. Moving over to the gauges, I was hoping to pick up a three gauge panel for my Omoris (45mm), alas only the standard DIN and gauge-cups were on offer for regular modern day 52mm gauges. No Godfather theme horn, either. Obviously no store can have every companies catalogue on display, but I was still disappointed with the dress-up-goods to racer-boy ratio.

Regardless, I still picked up somethings that caught my eye and we made our way home. In the rain no less.

Day 5: Aki-Aki-Akihabara

2012-01-15T16:19:00.000+11:00

Before parting ways yesterday with Mister Yokohama, we arranged to meet up again to take on the otaku filled town that is Akiba. You know for Maid Cafes, Gundam and things. Seriously.

After arriving at Yoko-kun's university a little late (I assume we got lost on our way) it was off to see what it was like to hang out in a Maid Cafe.

Weird? Yeah, I guess you could say it was a little odd being served bad coffee by extremely delightful girls dressed as maids. So it was weird and extremely awkward. That's all I'm sharing on the matter.

Similar to Harajuku, there's just so much going on in the one area. You have girls at every junction promoting their store, cafe or restaurant. The jungle of bright lights and tall buildings close in on you until you inevitably stumble into a store. My days of assembling Gundam kits are behind me, even still, you can appreciate how well these "niche" communities are catered for. Just stay out of the maid cafes.

Day 4: Good Evening Yokohama

2012-01-15T15:52:00.003+11:00

My time in Tokyo was the only time I could spend time with people I knew, and Mister Yokohama was one of the magical few. We would meet Mister Yokohama another time, but tonight he would show around his home town.

Walking around Yokohama, I got my first taste of what a dating hotspot is like in Japan. Regardless, it's a beautiful city at night and you never know what street performance you'll come across.

Chinese food in Japan? Sure, I'm up for a little irony and Chinese folk ignoring my Mandarin. Nah, it was a great little buffet we went to and it was especially nice to finally be properly full after a few days of small proportioned Japanese dishes. So if you're one for checking out different countries' take on China Town, check out Yokohama's, you be disappoint. I think.

Cheers Mister Yokohama.

Day 4: Good Afternoon Harajuku

2012-01-13T22:43:00.000+11:00

Harajuku? Interesting. It's a place that can not escape activity. You want to chill? Don't go there. At least not Takeshita St. It is what you expect of Harajuku; a whole lot of fashion I don't like, 'homies' trying to pull you into their store and crepes. The crepes were nice, I liked the crepes. If anything, get in line at a stall and enjoy a crepe.

However (there's almost always another side) once you get away from all that typical stuff and cross the road at the end of the street, you find something a little more secluded - if such a thing can exist in Harajuku. In a way, it reminded me a little of Melbourne. Tiny stores lined up near tiny cafes and boisterous galleries. It was a pleasant change to see a more relaxed part of Tokyo for a change.

Yoyogi Park. I was secretly hoping to come across some greasers busting a move or a kid tricking on his bike, but we got none of that. Instead we were welcomed by, I assume, a AKB48 tribute group. It was painful. The fanboys around us didn't seem too fussed, so at least someone enjoyed the display.

Day 3: A New Toy

2012-01-11T18:51:00.001+11:00

Whilst riding back from the wondrous house of Ghibli I had my D60 sitting ~~snugly~~ in the front basket of my mamachari. Mamachari, you know, those old grandmother type bike things. Not a cheap decision. At the hostel I discover the lens on my camera has jammed and won't focus beyond half a metre. A fabulous turn of events.

After spending some under the bed covers, it was off to Shinjuku in search of Yodobashi and a new camera. Naturally, once we were out of the train station, we're lost in the sea of people and buildings but manage to make our way down the right street where we see this sign pointing into a building for this place, Map Camera. Turns out to be a second hand camera shop, with different floors for which ever brand of camera poision you fancy. A swell place for any camera lover with some kind of brand loyalty, of which I do not have. Argh.

Lost at what to get, it's time to escape next door to pick up some film. Yodobashi is massive in Shinjuku, by the way, with several building littered throughout one area. Film is easy to pick, there's only so many types readily available and you know what you like using. So now it's back to Map to decide on what to get. Unfortunately the gear I want, I can't afford, even at the reasonable second hand prices. Damn, but I still want something decent. You want what, I've got those SLRs back home coupled to some nice lenses, so it would be nice to use them more often. Perhaps something Olympus. Perhaps a Olympus Digital Pen. Hmm, that E-P1 looks mighty fine with the little viewfinder on top. すみません、これカメラわ　かいいます。Was I rude? Did I make sense? Perhaps. I did exchange cash money for the camera, so I guess my message got across. Finally, I can start taking conveniently quick snap shots again.

おわり。

Day 2: Seeker

2012-01-10T22:53:00.000+11:00

Riding to the Ghibli Museum I spotted this Honda S2000 and stop straight away to check it out.

No shit. It belongs to the Seeker tuning house. It's surprising how small their base is, then again you don't need a massive establishment to pump out neat packages.

I don't care much for Hondas, but I remember these guys entering some of their cars to compete in Hot Version's Touge Battles.

Day 2: Ghibli Museum

2012-01-10T22:44:00.001+11:00

We're skipping Day 1, nothing happened. Well events took place, so I'll just sum it up. I landed, carried my luggage through the rain to my hostel and grabbed some om noms with Mister Ho, before introducing myself to the bed I would sleeping with for the week.

Now, I should point out, though I flew over alone and booked my tickets with the truth that I would be exploring Japan alone, I in fact have a companion for the Tokyo leg of my adventure. Mister Ho. He's already been in Tokyo for a week before I showed up.

Before leaving, the two of us organised some tickets to the radical Ghibli Museum, and me being extremely enthusiastic about venturing through Tokyo, wisely decided that we would bike our way there. Japan's actually not all that big, so it shouldn't take too long. Two or three hours. Short or long?

No regrets. You can see a lot of an alien city in that time, it doesn't matter how many times you get lost along the way to your destination. Be a sponge and soak it up.

Unfortunately, no photos of the museum's interior, it's prohibited I'm afraid. Fear not, I remember what it looked like.

Another disappointment was that there wasn't all that much on display relating to Princess Mononoke, the first Ghibli animation saw and fell for. However, there was a lot (like a lot) of Totoro stuff, so that was good. Happily disappointed.

I'm Back

2012-01-09T14:27:00.003+11:00

After a month of being away from home, I've returned to a completely different climate and culture. Even though this house, and Melbourne, are my home I'm still just a little bit lost.

Over the coming days I'm going to try and get my shit together, go through all these photos I took and see if I can tag a story onto most of them.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Just Thought You Should Know

2011-10-02T21:43:00.000+11:00

After wishing and planning to go back to the land where the sun rises, I'm finally on my way.

What Did Santa Get You This Christmas?

2010-12-27T02:31:00.002+11:00

Now kids, don't believe it when people tell you Santa isn't real. I have proof now.

Teru Teru Bozu

2010-12-19T19:27:00.003+11:00

For those in Melbourne not enjoying the rain we've been getting lately, I apologise.

As a fan of rain, I hung up my tissue roll during the few days of big heat Melbourne got hit with, not too long ago. I just couldn't stay the disgusting hot and humid weather, I'm sorry. If you hate me for what I've done, I can understand, but don't be expecting me to take my teru teru bozu down.

However! I shall be making a new one next month, and singing the chant for good weather then. Why the change? Well, a few of us will be embarking on a road trip, so it'd be nice to have clear sunny skies for that.

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Never Buying From Russia Again

2010-12-19T13:11:00.002+11:00

For those, like me, who can't read Russian, the last update says it has been shipped out of Russia. After a month, no updates to the tracking number, not parcel on my door step. Should have looked harder on eBay for this thing. I never have a problem buying things off eBay.

sigh.

The Way It Should Have Always Been

2010-12-15T16:03:00.002+11:00

After a year driving around with an automatic conditioned licence.

I redid the test, and got my manual licence. Fun times ahead.

Found The Little Bugger

2010-12-03T22:38:00.003+11:00

Dear Blog,

Quite glad I found that little grey thing. Do you see it? It's not very obvious, so it's forgiven if you missed it.

Not sure when, but during one moment of its life, my SD card suffered a bump that managed to damage the little bit of plastic that contained that little grey write-lock. On occasion it'll fall off somewhere, and my lovely camera wouldn't be allowed to save images onto the card. Though, I always managed to find the little thing somewhere on the floor close by.

The holidays started not all that long along, which meant I could work more shifts. However, due to my want to buy that red wagon some presents, times have been a little tough. So...I really don't want to lose that grey little piece of plastic, and buy a new SD card.

PS. Apologies for plasting some dodgely edited photo on you. The iPhone made me do it.

Missing In Action

2010-09-06T10:29:00.001+10:00

"It's been a while. Think it about time for another adventure..."

I Say, It's About Bloody Time

2010-08-22T12:27:00.002+10:00

*poke*
"urgh..."
"Dear, don't you think it's time to get up?"
"..."

"So how are they doing this? Are they looking over the car?"
"Yeah, they just need to see it to verify all the paper work. After that's all settled, I hand quite a bit of money over, then I've got myself rego for the car."

"These are the bolts you want for your plates."
"Mmm, but I'd prefer to have these ones."
"Suit yourself, but these are the ones coppers use. Up to you."
"Thanks."

You Fail At Manual

2010-03-26T06:55:00.003+11:00

Last year when I went for my Ps test, I was given no choice but to take it in a car with an automatic transmission, as our household has always owned cars without a stick shift (oh how American of me).

So naturally, when I went I to buy a car it had to be a manual - I'm that kind of guy. Even more naturally, when the moment called for me to move my "new" manual car out of the driveway and into the garage, I couldn't. I count about 3 stalls from my three point turn.

My incompetence to grasp the skill of a manual transmission struck hard in my heart, so much so, that I had to dream about it. Then again, it was a dream, and dreams more often then not, are full of lies and false hope. So in my dream, I was driving around my neighbourhood effortlessly in my "new" old car, and me being me, I couldn't help but hoon a little. As I made a turn, the car choose to spin out of control...and kept spinning, around and around and around and around and around and around...

Then I woke up and I realised, in reality, I still suck.

Dream Time

2010-03-16T18:05:00.004+11:00

Recently SOMEONE keeps mentioning that I'm ronery and how I must be so ronery living alone. Well I guess those words must have followed me to bed.

This house is huge. Slowly people have begun to leave, and with them inanimate possession follow. It is only
now that I've started to realise how empty this house is becoming - it's lacking things to hold.

Now it's time to stop mopping inside these white walls and make my way outdoors to find things that would be more than happy to call this place their humble pie home.

Absolutely And Utterly Bored

2010-03-15T17:25:00.002+11:00

...officially.

initialise fanboyism

2010-01-30T16:35:00.005+11:00

Hey yo, finally! (Is this what you've been waiting for?) Brand new SNSD.

It's official, I'm a fanboy. So Nyuh Shi Dae's second album just landed in my mail box, and all I can say is, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHH!

...overly cheerful, overly cheesy, and over produced. I couldn't tell one girl from the other. Their sheer numbers freaked me out. I couldn't stand the cutesy mannerisms, no matter how catchy the songs were.

But, over time, I've definitely come to be a defender--maybe even fan--of GG. Maybe it happened just because I was bored and wanted to push buttons...

It was fun trolling/defending Tiffany, who was the centre of a lot of anti-fan hate, but by doing so I've turned myself into a fan. Oh look, my belt was made in Spain, cool.

Argh I Got A Hair Cut

2010-01-22T22:30:00.002+11:00

Now I'm a 12 year old kid again.

Argh My Hair Is So Long.

2010-01-17T11:51:00.002+11:00

Apologies for being so far behind my updates on my mini-365 project, it's just that I've been using film for the past two weeks and haven't been bothered getting my arse down to a lab to get the rolls developed. Sooo, hopefully I'll be able to visit Vanbar tomorrow and pick them up on Tuesday (which is also when I get my haircut) - fingers crossed.

I have no idea who in Melbourne reads this stuff, whom I don't already know, but, if anyone is free this Tuesday come along to the Melb Aquarium at 2pm :]

The Fast And The Furious Produces Great Quotes

2010-01-03T01:55:00.004+11:00

I hope everyone had a fun and eventful 2009, filled with no regrets and plenty of memories. As a wise character once said, "...life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back," deep huh?

2009 ended differently than I thought it would have, but it was a change, and change can be good, so I'm going to keep thinking about that rather than being depressed on how I'll be "celebrating" two decades of my life in 6 months time. Woo hoo~

note. Project photos for this week's batch will be uploaded Tuesday after I pick them up from being developed. So expect lots of grain love soon.

A Time To Rejoice

2009-11-12T18:02:00.005+11:00

So, what is a teenage meant to do with three months of holidays?

Exams are over, which marks the end of first year at RMIT for me. Freeeedom. I'm ever so slightly unsure as what to do now. Three months? That's a lot of free time, in my opinion of course.

SADOSAGFIGADKJGHAG PHWOOOAR!!!

Let the bludging begin.

Hi waves

2009-11-10T00:24:00.004+11:00

“What now?”
“Nothing.”

“Then why are you blogging?”
“Just procrastinating my sleep.”

“Don’t you have an exam tomorrow?”
“Yup. But it’s too hot to sleep, so I thought I’d go looking for some old photos I remember my dad taking years ago.”

“Don’t stay up too late okay?”

“Aiya, don’t worry. See you later.”

And A Happy Slurpee Day To You Too

2009-11-07T22:00:00.004+11:00

Ever enthusiastic about obtaining goods for free, a few of us armed with nothing but a iPhone and a car, ventured out today in the quest of getting ourselves some free Slurpees.

We first attempted to hit the Mt Waverley 7/11 - that failed. On our second attempt, Box Hill, we were also unsuccessful. Third time lucky, Camberwell, we managed to get one. Not entirely happpy with the rude and grumpy attitude of the folk who resided there, we ventured on into the city. Our target, Collins St.

We came.

We took.

We rejoiced.

I hope your 7/11 day was just as fun :]

Sharing The Fun

2009-11-04T13:33:00.004+11:00

Some time last week I decided to replace my "bag camera" from my Sony P&S with my newly acquired, and vastly more awesome, Fanta can shaped film camera. Nothing fancy, just fully mechanical point and shoot, but it was great fun to use.

After taking photos normally, I tried see if I could maybe do some double exposures with it, but the shutter button would lock after you take a photo, forcing you to advance the roll. Did I give up? No, I tried rewinding the roll to the previous photo and took another photo! Yeah...that didn't actually work out, Half my roll came out completely burned out, with a few black spots. So sad...

I love it how warmth, crappy focus and grain give some photos such a nostalgic feel.

Who ever can tell me what the hell is in this photo, wins a bottle of Calpis Soda. I don't actually remember what it is, but maybe something will spark my memory.

Flickr set

Aiya.

2009-11-02T20:13:00.000+11:00

Short post.

Am I going mad?

Last week I thought I saw a friend get on the same train I was already on. I admit, I was shocked to see this person. After messaging them, I discovered they were on the other side of town. Imagine if I had walked up to this stranger, assuming they were a friend, and tapped them on the shoulder - awkward.

I did something more embarassing recently though. Yesterday and today, I went into work thinking I had a shift but nope, no shift. 4 hours of sitting on public transport to get to "work" and back, for nothing other than the know what it felt like to do the walk of shame.

Perhaps exam stress is actually getting to me, however, instead of it having me pull my hair out thinking I'm going to fail, my mind is becoming delusional.

Just Your Average Little Rant

2009-10-21T17:22:00.004+11:00

LOL @ fail photo of me trying to break my phone.

What a crappy day. After waking up too late to make it to my practical class, I get online to check my bank balance. No change. Fan freaking tastic. A week after I should have been paid, I still haven’t been paid. This sucks, because I might have to pay a fine to Metlink as I didn’t have my health care card (concession card) on me today. The one time I forget to bring my wallet with me, the one time, and there has to be inspectors on the tram.

But why am I catching public transport when I have a car? On the weekend some foo managed to run into the rear of the Rav. The damage wasn’t huge, but it still means the car had to be sent off to be repaired under insurance. So, I’m carless for about a week. Yayy...not. To think I missed catching public transport.

On my way home on the bus I try going online, but the phone won’t connect to the internet. Yeah okay, this has happened before, no big deal. I get home, decide to make a call, but then get a nice message from a lady informing me that my 3 service isn’t connected. Oh really? Even after I paid your stupidly huge bill last month for random crap? 3 can go get stuffed once this contract is over.

As of today, and until sometime next week, I will be without my baby Nikon because it's with Steven so he can do some photo shoot this Saturday. I don't mind this, but when I went for my little digi cam, the battery was flat, which means that I actually typed this post up two hours ago but have simply been waiting for the battery to charge so I can take a photo to accompany this post. Fuuuuuu..

Only things that could make this worse is for my mum to come home saying that Centrelink have cut off my Youth Allowance support and that the Rav won’t be coming home until next month. Then, in a few weeks I get an appeal rejection from Metlink, forcing me to pay the $175 fine and another massive bill from 3 for crappy service. ASODHASHGFJKAHFSAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edit: Phone issue resolved~ For some reason a bill payment from July was rejected. That been paid for, and I now have a huuuuuuge phone and internet cap :D

Oh Hello

2009-10-19T20:04:00.002+11:00

Been a while since I posted something, so here's something for the sake of posting.

I really can't be bothered actually, so here's a panel of photos of my Fanta Can shaped 35mm camera that came in the mail today. It was cheap and looks awesome...didn't need more reasons to get it.

This Was The Happiest Day Of My Life

2009-09-14T17:30:00.005+10:00

It’s been a week full of work shifts, photo whoring and driving.

The week started off with me stressing over whether or not I’d be able to find an instructor, so I would actually have a car to do my driving test in. After calling RACV numerous times, I got nothing and decided to give Dr. Traffic, a driving school suggested by a mate, call. Couldn’t have been simpler. I called up, gave my details, got a lesson booked within 10 minutes.

So with that out of the way, I had nothing to worry about, or so I thought. Mum had opened up a new store in Docklands and got Telstra to setup an ADSL connection to it, so there I got appointed resident tech support. Then over the course of the week, I begin to discover the problems wrong with the PC sitting in the shop. First off, the CD drive doesn’t open, it works but just doesn’t open. Fair enough, I’ll bring a spare over and put that in. Nope, the thing won’t boot now. Okay, I’ll just bring my laptop and setup the modem through that, done right? Nope, turns out some drivers didn’t get installed on the shop’s PC, so it can’t pick up Ethernet connections. Hopefully they’ll finally get online this week.

Oh yeah, be wary when you go overseas and buy a pair of fake shoes. By second pair of Vans slip ons don’t really seem to like my feet all that much.

And now the photo whoring part of the week begins.

And do fellow co-founder of the Darren Cheah Fanclub Chloe, wanted to use me and my “pro” camera to take some snaps of tram power lines and spiders. Sooo, for three days we ran around the city, asking places if they’d let us take photos from their windows as the photos obviously had the be taken from above.

Of course, we took photos along the way of anything that filled the criteria of “that looks cool!”.

Oh, yes, I did manage to pass my driving test...luckily. Umm yeah, that was the happy day of my life. I've been driving as much as I can since, and already managed to go though a whole tank of petrol OTL.

I'm Bored, And It Appears To Be Blogger's Birthday.

2009-09-10T18:12:00.002+10:00

Home life can be pretty boring when you’re home alone on your day off, and even though I do have a few other things I should be finishing off, I decided the best cure for my boredom would be to take some random photos around my room.

Let the photo spamming begin (or continue)! I still need to learn how to post process properly, but, I cbf reading the online tutorials. Maybe if I had the time, and plenty of disposable cash, I’ll enrol myself in some photography short course, but for the time being I have others to study. Enjoy :]

Hey look!

Wait, wtf is that?

You're Buseyyy

2009-09-04T23:24:00.002+10:00

Ah busy busy busy...busy. Too many “busy”s? The past two weeks have been none stop, giving me no time to take just one day off to sleep in and bum around the house.

I had my first closing shift two Sundays ago, where I managed to miss the last Glen Waverley train from Holmesglen, which gave me no rather option but to then walk all the way to Phil’s place...in Mount Waverley. The sense of achievement I felt when I finally made it there was, awesome. And as a form of payment to dear Philip, and with his approval, I brought a cheeseburger meal with a chocolate thickshake – apparently it tasted like crap the next day.

For some retarded reason, I took someone’s shift at Nando’s the following Sunday, completely forgetting I had my own shift just before >< Do you know what it’s like completely a 10 (plus two 30mins breaks) shift? The pain in your feet...jhgasdhfkjh!! However, thanks to that epicly long shift, I received a nice big fat cheque this week. Minimum wage employment with tonnes of working hours ftw.

Finally, over the past few days I’ve managed to get out and take some photos for once, instead of running around the back kitchen of Nando’s and being bored out of my mind in classes. Hoping I can have Monday off, fingers crossed.

BEEF!

Can't Wipe The Smile Off His Face

2009-08-20T14:15:00.005+10:00

After spending the past weekend using a 350D I was somewhat looking forward to using my D60 again. It's not that the 350D I used was bad, it just wasn't the best shaped body to hold for hours on end.

Having been busy with classes and work over the past few weeks, I haven't really had the chance to go out and take some photos, so it was nice to take some photos over the weekend, however it was even better to use the D60 again. What better excuse, than the arrival of a new toy.

Two days I come home, pull out my fake iPod ear buds and hear my mum calling out, "RICHARD!...the car's coming tomorrow." I don't know, everytime my mum calls something out, it's like she's annoyed about it - Asian parents. But that's besides the point, what matters is that the Kluger was coming...the big black Kluger! Okay, that didn't come out right...

The thing is huuuuuuuuuge and actually has some power, unlike the Rav4. I love the new car smell. I think I might just go out to the garage and sit in it for an hour. Or not..

Chad Wants You

2009-08-13T23:23:00.006+10:00

After just spending several hours attending a family friend's dinner, and then moving on to sit through a very long and boring conversation at another family friend's house, I come home to a link given to me by a SeoHyun fanboy. It's because of this link I unearthed an amazing fact...that I have a country.

Feel free to read about my fantastic country here. If you're confused right now, Chad is one of my nicknames :]

There's A Needle In My Foot - The Adventures of the Green Jeans

2009-08-10T18:25:00.002+10:00

My black jeans are missing in action; not really, they’ve just been hanging on the clothes line for a few days because of Melbourne’s random weather and my laziness. This meant I had no choice but to wear the green jeans today. Any day I wear my green jeans outside has to be a day that I do something semi blog worthy, and so, after checking my work shifts for this week I stayed on the 623 bus from Chadstone and didn’t bother getting off until I got to Luna Park.

It was interesting to see how St Kilda had changed since the days I used to wonder the streets as a primary school kid. Well, it hasn’t changed that much, maybe for my next solo adventure I’ll take a tram up Carlisle Street – maybe.

And The Adventures Of The Green Jeans Continue

2009-07-26T18:26:00.003+10:00

So today the random and crazy people that make up Improv Everything Melbourne decided it would be most fitting to have a mass pillow fight...in the middle of Federation Square.

At exactly 1pm, on the stage into of the giant television in Fed Square, someone blew an air born which was when pretty everyone hanging around pulled out a pillow and just started hitting each other over and over.

After about half an hour that was the end of the pillow fighting but the Improv Everything group had other plans, and my camera’s SD card was full so I just went home...yay fun. Would have been interesting to see how their Melbourne Central thing played out, apparently they were going to start singing from each one of the levels in Melbourne Central around the clock.

Beat that girl so she's no longer a social outcast!

Let The Adventures Of The Green Jeans Begin

2009-07-25T21:49:00.004+10:00

"What do you think he sees in her?"
"She's smart... funny... attractive..."
"Attractive?"
"Well you know... she has nice... skin."
"So you think he is going out with her because she has nice skin?"
"I'm just saying it could be a contributing factor."
"Hermione has nice skin. You know, as far as skin goes." etc.

If you haven't guessed it, that was an extract from a conversation between Harry and Ron in the latest instalment of the Harry Potter movie adaptation series, which to be honest, was quite amusing having watched it for the second time. Apologises to any Harry Potter fans, but don’t you think that maybe, perhaps, just a little, they were trying a tad too hard this time around? I’d have to agree with my friend that it was a little too serious, even if they were going for the more mature feel.

In other news, I have exchanged sheets of plastic rectangles for a pair of green skinny jeans. I’ll find out soon enough if they were an absolutely horrible choice or if they’re simply just meh.

And that’s the news.

"It Combines Jogging And Photography."

2009-07-18T03:52:00.004+10:00

For some the second semester of TAFE started this week, as for the others this will be the last week of holidays for them before they drag themselves through another semester of university – suffer. I on the other hand have another week to sleep until 4pm and aimlessly surf the internets.

As I’m still unemployed and without a car, it can be a little troublesome making the journey all the way over to the east side of Melbourne to meet up with friends – not that I get invited over regularly. So...lately I’ve decided to take my camera with me whenever I go for a run. Yes, it was inspired by Yes Man...shush up.

You can view the rest of the photos I edited from today on my flickr page.

Now if you’ll excuse me, my secondary LCD screen seems to want me to pull out its power cord with all the whinging it is doing.

The Day I Died And Came Back As A Mindless Retard

2009-07-09T20:55:00.004+10:00

This morning nearly I burned the kitchen down. Don't leave food cooking in the oven for too long mmkay?

The sound of the phone ringing is still echoing in my head. Telemarketers, sod off. If you won't play a game with me, don't bother calling. Let me sleep in next time.

Went to Highpoint in search of a cross over cable and a audio extension cable. Dick Smith wanted 10 times the amount of MSY and Jaycar. They can get lost. JB...were just hopeless.

Went to ALDI after. They didn't have corn chips. They really should start stocking corn chips. Cashier gave me extra change, but I didn't realise until I got home. Now I got free lunch and an extra $10.

How'd the above cause my brain to explode? They didn't. The internets did.

A collection of thoughts

2009-07-09T00:01:00.004+10:00

Morning.

...my phone just crashed on me. Love it when it does that. No seriously, I'm not being sarcastic or anything, it truely is fantastic.

What's you view on smoking?

Had a odd dream last night. Not sure what to make of it. Had aspects in it that related to my real life, so maybe it means something? Pft, time to be a man and think manly things. Woo look its my bass.

Someone once told me, a sign that you're happy in life, is when you look up at the sky at least three times a day. Times where you remember this and force yourself to look up don't count.

Just remembered that I don't know when semester starts. RMIT email won't work for me. Meh.

After one of the longest, most indirect conversation of my life, I was finally told some good news last night. At least I think it's good news. We'll see how it pans out later.

Really wish I had my Ps. Aimlessly driving around after midnight sounds so appealing. Guess I got that from my dad. Wonder where that guy is right now. Better not be dead.

I think I'll give doing parodies of people's blogs a pass, might come across as offence.

Let's hope the next one of these is more positive.

Here again to make your brain implode

2009-07-06T18:12:00.004+10:00

As you can see, I now have a shoe/tee shelf in my waredrobe. At first I thought having one would be a great idea, keeps the shoes off the floor and out of the way, what more could I want? However, it only crossed my mind when I finished putting my shoes in it, that, my waredrobe will now stink of dirt and sweaty socks. Brilliant.

Any of you who read my blog, which I doubt there are many of you, do you have any ideas on how I could prevent this? I'd rather not go outside smelling like yesterday's turd or some cock that drowned himself in after shave.

Another thing it made me realise, is that I don't wear about 80% of the clothes that are in my waredrobe. How you girls manage to convince yourself to keep so many bits and pieces is beyond me right now. So it looks like there's going to be a few trips to the Op Shop bin once I get my Ps...

NB: this was not a parody post.

meh.

2009-06-30T00:28:00.002+10:00

Thought I might as blog about something, as it has been some time since my last one. Bu bu bu buuu.

Woke up at about 3 something this afternoon, after a 14 hour or so sleep. Meh. Stickers for the forum guys found their way into my letter box while I was asleep. Meh. A whole lot of stuff got downloaded last night, so I had something to watch. Meh. Now I'm blogging about my very eventful day. meh!

Oh I ended up reading through a tonne of other blogs today, which got me thinking, what if I – in all my lameness – attempt a “parody” of all of the personal blogs I read. Might work, might not. First, I need to get out and do things with people, as to fuel the events that make up these parody posts. Hope that made sense, and if not, meh.

Chadon is still getting fustrated

2009-06-18T21:09:00.004+10:00

I'm trying to look for something to post as my first blog on KPop 1 but stuff is taking forever to load! Trying to look through some recent articles to make sure I don't double post (oh how embarrassment that would be), but I think by the time I finally finish typing it up and post it...it might be very old news already.

Someone tell me how to use my phone as a 3G modem without paying 3 to let me do it ><

credits to Chloe for the drawing once again.

Oh Restaurant City

2009-06-18T19:31:00.003+10:00

Was having such a good day, then people started coming home, which meant they would jump on the net, which means I get fustratingly slow internet. Normally if everyone's home internet speeds would be fine...but we're capped!

Yeah I'm a bit to blame for downloading a bit *sniggers* during the off peak periods, but for whatever reason someone thought it would be an ingenious idea to go and download 4 odd gigs in the middle of the day. If I find out who is downloading during the day in the house, they're going to get 10 good bitch slaps in a row. Chadon is getting fustrated!

By now you should have figured out, 'capped net with many users' plus 'Facebook's simplistic yet addictive Restaurant City' equals the reason for the ranting blog post. Good thing the last thing I did before last logging onto RC was closing up and putting all my staff to rest (they're sleeping, not with the fishes silly, in bed peacefuly). I've spammed the refresh button for 10 minutes straight, but I get nothing!

Now I'm off to go see if my Google Reader will load. If it doesn't, I'm going to forcefully retire my laptop over my balcony edge.

What is this poop

2009-06-18T15:02:00.003+10:00

*insert upset face*

Man there goes my nights of sitting out on the balcony with my laptop. What the hell is this?! There were tiles there yesterday. This black poop better be covered up with fresh tiles by the weekend or I'm going to rage quit over the had rails.

And a little word of advice to you tradies, it's probably not the best idea to start hammering and banging things at 7.30 in the morning - some people do sleeping and quit enjoy it.

A new, old love

2009-06-14T16:59:00.006+10:00

No this isn't another impulse buy. Despite what you might think, photography has been a hobby in my family for generations...at least for the boys on my father's side. My father had an old slab of steel Olympus film SLR when he was still hanging with me - which might explain why one of the cameras I really want is a super old skool film Olympus.

Not sure why I didn't remember it sooner, but this morning I suddenly remembered I stashed away some old black camera in a box in the garage. After playing with all my old toys I came across, I found it! All I remembered was that, for whatever reason, it was in a Canon box...but wasn't a Canon.

Actually, I think it was Richie's tweet about high-speed photography that made something in my brain just click. Reading about flashes, and wondering how much a flash would cost, then just tweeting back asking for a flash, then suddenly remembering about this flash an aunt gave me out of the blue for no reason what-so-ever. Yeah, that's probably what happened...

Like I said, all I remember was that it was in a Canon box (was a Canon Super 28 Caption Prima box if you wanted to know) but I had no memory of what it was. Turns out, it was a MINOLTA! A fully automatic one, aside from the ISO settings, which was a little disappoiting. But a MINOLTA! Red Ranger couldn't believe it either.

I noticed this switch on the back, which I initially had no idea what it was for. Thinking, after reading that high-speed photography articleit might be a sound sensor for the shutter, but sif this camera has one. Turns out, it talks to you! I switched out the awesome old skool Energizer batteries that expired in 2003 (the ones with the cool power bar meter thing) and popped in new a new pair of AA. It rewinds and then I hear this Japanese woman tell me in Engrish, "no film". This little feature just makes up for all it's auto'ness.

If your eyes are dead after looking at all these photos today, I'm sorry...still a total noob at post-production. But I leave you with a final shot of the whole camera body.

Remember folks, smile

2009-06-13T21:03:00.002+10:00

Took this at a family dinner I had last week. Was bored out of my mind with everyone talking about buying property and different way of investment. So I drew a smiley face using tea from a near by puddle on the table. :]

An old love

2009-06-13T18:42:00.002+10:00

Today turned out to be full of win with a splash of fail. For it would be the day I was reunited with one of my favourite foods, the mighty Crepe, and was made to endure the cold cause I'm an idiot.

So today I joined vanny boy in, as he likes to put it, Bokky Hill for some awesome crepe action, and a little history lesson in mecha models.

I can't believe the last time I feasted on the beautiful pancake cone (they're usually rolled into a cone right?) was 3 years ago when I was in Osaka! It's been too long. There are probably better Crepe joints around Melbourne, but for today, Ichipan sufficed.

Damn perv. That Mike guy....funny man.

Vent Stress - Yes/No => Y

2009-06-11T09:28:00.005+10:00

Okane, qian, geld...it's driving me insane.

I know it's not Centrelink's fault I'm broke, I was stupid enough to spend my savings on expensive toys before they fixed up whatever problem they're having changing my status. On the other hand I think I'm entitled to rage at them for taking over a month to sort this crap out.

Seriously, each time they tell me it'll be sorted out by the end of the week. Pft, almost as meaningful as in when you walk into a packed Chinese restuarant and they tell you it'll be five minutes before you get a table. But they're being to polite for you to rage at them, and there's nothing you can really do to improve the situation.

And to think I laugh at people who get into debt by spending money they haven't got yet. kgdskahgfdjbds. We're just a stupid race, with a few exceptions...you guys are a minority. Yeah...that doesn't mean minorities are retarded, a good majority of them are. Segway~ :]

To top it off I have a cold...bloody brilliant. Think I'll go have a nap then see if I have the strength to make myself some food.

Splurge Item - Niiii

2009-06-10T02:01:00.004+10:00

Have you ever set out to do one thing and end up doing something else? It's completely different, still related to what you originally wanted to do, but not exactly what you planned. I've got no idea what the term is called, but that's what happened to me mid-last week.

One evening, being bored, I felt like it was time to get that film camera I've wanted. Started on eBay, all's going well; signed in, PayPal account has moneys for the hopefully not to steep price of the Olympus film camera I find and there's plenty of auctions to view. Next thing, I'm looking at a receipt for a D60. Whoops...

The little second-hand bargin Sony can take a rest now :] I thought about cancelling the order for the Nikon...meh.

Splurge Item - Ichi

2009-05-31T14:10:00.007+10:00

Remember how my hachi fund doesn't exist anymore? Well, now I'm splurging out on things I wanted to buy but didn't because I wanted to save for the car!

About a month or two ago, when I started expressing my interest in actually buying a bass guitar, a friend offered to take me to a place he knew in South Melbourne when I was ready to buy one. On Friday, I took him up on that offer...after having rescheduled a few already, and now thanks to the guys at the Bass Centre I have my first bass :]

I was originally hoping I could get a OLP Stingray, but no moneys. Second option was to get a white or red Squier but...they didn't have any in stock. So it was either black, blue or sunburst. I think the photos speak for themselves.

And Chloe if you're reading this...I really think we should come up with a payment system so I don't spend all my money before I get a chance to pay you back hohoho

NB: sorry for the low quality english in this post and any other posts recently...I honestly have no idea what's wrong with my brain OTL

Cooking with Chad - Lesson 1

2009-05-29T10:40:00.003+10:00

hmm are they really lessons? maybe sessions? meh.

Was plannig to make a whole stack of them for my mum, who just came back from visiting gramps yesterday, for breakfast - well I was planning to make them for myself last week but...I wake up late. Anyway, I come downstairs early in the morning to on them, but to my displeasure I open the fridge to an empty bottle of milk. Who leaves empty drink bottles in the fridge?!

Sadly...ALDI don't open until 9, which is the time my mum opens her shop, so I couldn't make any for her today. Oh well, there's tomorrow.

Step 1 - Make your mix:
My mix is the most basic you can make: 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of self raising flour and 1 egg. Mix well, and you probably should sift the flour if you think it needs it, which mine did...but I didn't sift it.

Step 2 - Cook your pancakes:
Put your pancakes on your nice hot pan, if it's not non-stick you probably should put a THIN layer of oil. When you think one side is brown enough flip~

Step 3 -Eat your damn pancakes:
Place your pancakes on a plate. Try and not be unco and somehow fold or break your pancake, and if you're using something to help you put it on the pancake...try not to stap it. If you manage to do all these...well it's just not possible to do all these in one attempt.

Sadly I couldn't finish all my pancakes :[

If your name is Ben Chang and you're reading this, Tiff made the mix but it wasn't runny enough to make awesome thin pancakes. What do you think of her now huh? :P

Breakfast with me

2009-05-23T22:14:00.002+10:00

Today's plan was to make myself some pancakes, but I kind of forgot about that and ended up eating a huge bowl of cereal, using up most of the milk we had. Whoops.

Hopefully tomorrow there'll be more milk in the fridge, and I'll be able to make my pancakes. Hmmm I needs some butter too

(-.-)Zzz

2009-05-21T22:56:00.004+10:00

ohhh I'm so asian with that title ^-^,\/

You'd think that after being absent for a month from tafe/uni/hs (or whatever form of education you're in) that you'd be some what behind right? Wrong~

As you know I "just" came back from China, and honestly it's almost like I didn't even leave. I think I missed out maybe half a chapter's worth at most per unit. Easy~

Basically, this means it's back to sleeping in class for me again :] sleep is good for you, you know?

oh, drawing credits to Chloe :]

Locked and Loaded

2009-05-06T21:49:00.004+10:00

I'm fully unpacked and back to normal life. Surprisingly I haven't missed out on much at school, nothing a few nights studying can't solve. Now life is moving along at quite a pace...I LOVING IT! Would be nice if I could talk during the day though but I can't complain, I made a choice.

Today's mission has been grand. In the morning I woke up (cause normally in the morning I just fly in my sleep in my class until noon) and left a note on this neglected Rover 416i expressing interest in buying it, as a friend just recently bought a Honda Integra which is simply a 2-door version of what the Rover.

So after waking up at the end of my class today I headed further into the middle of Melbourne's grand CBD where I jumped over a long as truck that took forever to enter China town, dodged all guys hanging outside of bluehouse and found myself in Cignal which is where I wanted to be. Next thing you know I'm home, here in front of my PC filling up two Zippos and chatting on MSN :]

When the Grand Master sleeps...

2009-05-04T13:26:00.005+10:00

...his students went out to play.

Well I am back from China, and I've taken quite a few photos and bought quite a few things. When my grandfather was sleeping my mum and I took the opportunity to explore some of Beijing's markets and have a look at some of the more recent buildings that have been established since the last time I've been there.

Let the photo dump commence!

Nice try but it still doesn't make much sense

cookies for the person who can guess what this is. If I told you already, you don't get a cookie.

Golf club. That's how you review the size of a car's cabin in China.

Some of my hachi fund in RMB.

my Flip Flap :]

Hello Kitty. Kit Kat. Get it? ...LOL

I'm a great cousin posting this photo.

Twas a wild cat. We found a white one near our building too that was being bullied by the older cats, can't help but pitty them and give them some food.

Okay...

...we will totally do that :]

ZOMG ENGRISH. The goggles, they do nating! Okay it wasn't that bad...

I don't know these people, but I was invited to their wedding Owo

Mum, Grandma, Gramps and cousin.

New laptop yo

I actually kind of like this car o-o

Disabled in Beijing? you get to roll in one of these

Entrance of one of my uncle's place.

continued...

...

...ULTRA MAN...end house.

The Commonwhore of Beijing

Teh Tata Nano can go bye bye, say hello to the QQ. 800cc to 1.1L (maybe larger)

A pimped disabled trike

The Nissan Paladin, the car for every WoW household.

Just playing with the MF on the Olympus. Movie was just a cam recording so I threw it out once I watched it.

what the sign says

Cat belonged to one of the two girls that ran this gaming store. Was a pretty store, and the only one I found that sold FF Dissida, but were closed when I came back with cash.

this guy was a ninja, didn't see him before or after I took the shot O_O

Expensive...AUD$4

Another disbaled person's trike

I told him what Facebook was, this was his reaction. Seriously....I'm kidding.

He has been known to kill people with those noodles

NB: all night shots were taken with my uncle's camera without tripod, so that's why they have awesome motion blur =o

NB: I took 1,778 photos. No one has the bandwidth or patience to upload that much :]

The emoticon o-o was brought to you today by Ben the boy

Wei Lao Ye

2009-03-31T18:03:00.003+11:00

Well I'll be leaving for China on Sunday for about a month. Before you ask, I won't be going there for a holiday, I'm going to have visit my grandfather who is suffering badly from lung cancer. My mum left a few days ago, and I would of too had I of had a valid passport at the time.

It's been a few months since we found out about his condition, but the last few weeks have proved to not be so good for him.

Lao Ye...please stay with us...great now I'm tearing up...

Finally I have my own prize

2009-03-27T15:40:00.003+11:00

A while ago I picked up a Super sized slurpee from the Seven Eleven near opposite Yoyogi (next to...Club X) and got handed a ticket saying I won a Slurpee tee. Firstly, I was shocked that you can now buy 1.2L cups of slurpree, and secondly I WON A SLURPEE TEE!

So when I got home I jumped online and claimed my tee, however that was about a month ago. I had completely fogotten about it until today when I saw this huge paper packet stuffed into my mail box.

Til next we meet

Some things have happened

2009-03-19T20:11:00.005+11:00

not 56k friendly, which is a bit ironic considering I'm capped at the moment.

So a week or so ago I hosted a secert ninja BBQ at my house where we would undertake the task to try and recreate the BACON EXPLOSION! Obviously Feng couldn't be left out, and if one member of SID comes, then the whole band must come. Not the mention our boss vanny boy was in attedence, and Calvin Klein happily tagged along and took some snappies.

Refreshments

It begins

Just waiting...cook already

HWOAH!

The beast

I'd like to just point out, despite being made up of: weaved bacon, sausage and a bacon inner, the 'explosion' turned out to be somewhat of an...anti-climax. But then again I got a fairly over cooked piece which I assumed, being a end piece, would be savory and have the perfect level of crunch - last time I assume something about an end piece on a bizzare food.

To be honeset, I have no idea what social event came up next, so I'm just going to leave it with the one.

evil laugh

2009-03-11T15:31:00.003+11:00

I'll let the pictures do the talking...once again. Thanks to Rus for source them for me whilst in Japan. :thumbs up:

I wonder what it could be

*speechless*

Now I'm just whoring

If I had a DSLR...I would still be taking photos of these. Never had so many at one point in my life *dies*

And so I've been slack

2009-03-10T00:53:00.005+11:00

So I've been falling behind on my blog posts lately, I;ve got like 3-4 unfinished posts that need...finishing.

Anyways, school...TAFE...whatever, has been annoyingly boring and slow. As a result I've kind of left a little early on a few days, but I'm slowly getting out of this habit and just sticking with it. That's one area I've been slack.

Another is that I've meant to have had my Learner's log book filled out. I promised myself I would have it done by this weekend, but sadly I never got it done. HOWEVER, I'll promise to get it done by the weeks end. I'm not even going to think of a punishment for myself if I don't do this. That's the second thing I've been slack with.

Next are these blog posts. I shouldn't just leave them unfinished simply saying "oh, it's saved, I'll come back to it later" NO! I shall go through with each post till they're done so I can post it and be done with it. So that's number three.

Let's make this the last one. Just a few general things I need to get done...let finishing burning some DVDs for people, find a JOB, stop spending money on things, make sure my room is constantly dust free etc. These are things I've told myself to do...but I get lazy and don't do it.

So~ less MSN because there's too much stuff I need to do...and I'm moving to Brighton, no idea when though

note: It's become even more evident to me that my vocab is quite small. Richie's thinking of reading on the train to uni, so I might start reading too. Unfortunately my local library has a horrible range of books, so I may have to buy some.

hwoar!!

2009-02-26T20:38:00.003+11:00

I never liked this group before or their music, but the amount of anti-fans that post up crap about them has turned me into a person that...enjoys their music. I ain't a fan and I don't love their music...I just enjoy it.

Their song "Gee" has now been added to my play list of "Catchy Asian songs". If there wasn't so much hate posted about them on the internet I would continue to dismiss each MV and song released by them...funny how things pan out.

teh birthday gurl ^-^\/

2009-02-26T17:55:00.004+11:00

Yes I used a crappy/cheap photoshop filter on that photo, but that doesn't matter...I was bored with the normal one okay!

So on Monday a few of us got together in the city to celebrate Narae's 19th birthday fuu~ I had tafe that day, but meh, when I left for the lunch break I didn't bother coming back. Anyways~ Narae wanted to have a picnic, which doesn't sound all that appealing but turned out to be quite relaxing.

I got there a good half hour before the others came, so I took a few random photos of the grass and fell asleep. Then they showed up, and wokes me up. Richie, Feng, Ivy and birthday girl came walking over all carrying something. It's been so long since I've seen all those guys (well two out of the four of them). VERY soon after Helen showed up...with a lot of stuff

So we chatted, than the girls went off to play in the playground while Richie and I talked about WoW (mostly I think...I'm sure we talked about other things too) before Feng joined in too.

More talk and the day was getting late...apparently someone had tennis but wanted to be home for dinner. boo~

So as Richie and Ivy headed for home, and Phil making his way to Melbourne Central after calling up to see what was happening, the four that remained began deciding on a movie and what to do to fill in the time before the movie started. Gonna guess what we decided on hmm? I didn't care what we watched and the rest were girls so what could it be? hmmm~? Well we told Phil we were going to watch The Dark Knight again :]

Phil came, and we were off to Priceline as completely different people! Who would have thought buying movie tickets would cause us to have a identity crisis, where we all thought that Phil was Helen, Helen was Ivy, Narae was (slowly turning gay) Phil, Feng was (gay) me and I was (also turning gay) Richie. Well at Priceline the normal random things happened, I got a something that seemed important, Richie got a tanned arm with glitter on it and some hair spray and Phil was really bad and picking out either lip stick/lip gloss or mascara

Soon after it was movie time, which meant that Helen (the Helen that looked like old Phil had died and become dead man, so the Original Helen returned and I think Ivy just died) had to go home...and the rest of us went off went to watch..."HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU"! Which wasn't so bad, I lol'd a fair bit...but the cinema before and after sounded like high school again with all the chatter from the girls (I guessimate 80% of the audience were female)

The Party that never was

2009-02-22T18:03:00.005+11:00

So on Friday night Mong hosted his 18th that held high expectations in some areas, but it delivered nothing but LOLz for all the wrong reasons.

You see this would be the first time my friends and I would have gone clubbing, so we had all these ideas of what might happen. In particular one friend and I had a good conversation at how we’d socialise with other random people in the club as we didn’t really know anyone that was going. Evening laughing at the idea of one of us having to leave early with a girl but dragging the other along because they needed somewhere to stay.

Enough talk of what might of happened, what happened was quite disappointing...

I meet up with Steve at Flinders for a little pre-clubbing meal. We wanted to go to either Yoyogi or Ajisen ramen...but Yoyogi was freaking packed and Ajisen was sadly closed. Our only choice then was Ito, which now has more actual Japanese people working there!

We ate our single dish meal, and consumed our small amount of alcky before beginning to finally make our way to "Eve". My body is crap with drinking, I had the face of a Japanese Macaque...win >.>

On our way dear old Philip, oh so wise called me to find out where this place was, and of course where we were. We told wise Phil where Club Eve was, and that we were already inside. Phil, being so wise mistook the random group of people around us at the tram stop for the random sounds you would find in a club, so wise Phil believe our 'clever' little story and made his way to Eve with Richie. Twas quite funny, because later the two of them called up from insider the club wondering where we were...because of course we were inside too :] Again, twas quite funny for Steve and me haha

By now it's 12am and we've finally made it to Eve, where we wait in line for over an hour with Kishan and Fang's people, one of whom over heard Steve saying something about wanting to kick Mong in both balls when he sees him...again we all laugh and discuss hurting Mong was about 30seconds.

More waiting happened, Richie and Phil come out because Mong's small $500 tab was long gone...which Steve got told via text while we were eating at Ito - I guess you could say that's why we really took our time getting there.

Eventually everyone comes out, Steve and I saved $18 on the entrance fee...Phil and Richie aren't happy about that and ask me to pay up :P Silly boys.

I believe the "group" broke up, with one group going to Maccas, another going back to an apartment Mong rented out and us (Steve, Richie, Phil and myself) went to Crown cause...I don't remember why actually. I think I won around $1 worth of credits on the pokies from my $2. There was this random loud super happy fun poker player at the table we watched.

What next? hmm...oh I'll skip the rest of the Crown part and the getting to Mong's apartment. Actually forget the rest of the night, except for one part. As Mong, being asian and all and still being in debt from schoolies, would have obviously wanted us to pay for some of the apartment fee, the four of us did the best we could to ninja our way out of the place. This involved us running through the corridor 'quickly' holding back laughter and pushing ourselves agaisnt the evalator door until it opened just so that we would have every chance of not seeing Mong (not hearing, sound is too hard to dodge) and caving in and paying a little. Umm so we won! We wasted a night, doing nothing really, and avoiding Mong on his birthday ^-^ Who would have thought how different our expectations of the night were to the actual events hmm?

I < 3 Gatsby

2009-02-22T16:17:00.005+11:00

Ever find random things in your house that belong to you, but you have no recolication of buying it or receiving it? I've had it happen to me quite a few times, usually with pieces of clothing I find in my waredrobe when I clean it out - they're usually nice pieces of clothing that I whore out too.

This time it was different, I found a tub of Gatsby in my bathroom cupboard. It just appeared one day, and wondering if it was mine (it was in my section of the cupboard) I went to investigate to see if it was actually mine. After asking all my house mates...no one claimed it as their own, so it must have been mine. However this was when I didn't know the awesomeness of Gatsby, so there it sat for months.

Then the day came, it was a Tuesday if my memory serves me correctly, that I decided I'd use the awesome Japanese wax with my new straight hair for my first day of proper TAFE. But I was but a Gatsby newb, so I began to research on how one uses Gatsby, grey Gatsby to get technical. Steve tells me to use A LOT of it, but I needed to know more. So I YouTubed it. I watched and learned. I'll just say, I'm slowly developing a style....and I need hair spray now.

*steps outside**gust of wind comes by**hair is screwed~*

PS: I've finally started to watch Boys Before Flower/Boys Over Flower/Korean Hanayori Dango drama, and I'm going to be like the main character in terms of my loner status at school. I'm not going to care about being on my own, and if other groups try to make life hard for me...they can get stuffed!

...boring

2009-02-22T15:57:00.005+11:00

After hours of looking through different universities to find an engineering course I'd have some chance of getting into for the second semester I threw in the towel and decided to just give RMIT a pile of applications for some TAFE engineering courses that lead onto a University degree in the same field. Luckily, I guess, RMIT had two spots left in Telecommunication engineering for their semester one classes...which started on the 2nd of Feb, so I was going to be behind.

Anyway, more running around and screwing around with the admin office I got in and started last Monday. Damn do the hours go by slowly in class...maybe it's because I'm a loner there - meh.

So far the class is pretty bludge, see how I go on my first test this Wednesday. Networking fuu~

Birthday for Shunny!

2009-02-22T01:18:00.007+11:00

Today is Shun's 18th birthday! He's a grown man now!! The thing is though, Shun and his wonderful spoon decided to celebrate their birthdays on the same day, and that day was last Monday (all I can say is my days are going by really slowly).

Anyways, during the mass "organising" convo about the day, someone suggested that it be a semi-formal event in terms of clothing...which I took to heart. Bastards. So I ended up wearing my suit jacket for the entire day, which I didn't mind in the end.

The night;s plan to my understanding was; soccer followed by dinner and a movie before heading off to karaoke. All being done in the Glen because the city was too far >.> But that's not the point, in the end it was; meet up at school for boxes and boxes of pizza, then going to Glenny to see if we could watch a movie or go bowling before heading to karaoke at 10pm. BUT! there was nothing to watch and a certain two people didn't have proper ID for Strike Ten-Pin.

Okay I just woke up like 20mins ago, so I'm not really in a blogging kind of mood but I thought I'd post this anyway before it's too late.

Photos for karaoke~!! An apology to everyone because of my camera's flash, I tired turning it down in the settings but it made no difference.

oh...dear me

2009-02-09T00:43:00.002+11:00

This looks soo good~ Someone make it for me. Here's how to make me it :] Get cooking!

Oh my god I'm emo

2009-02-08T19:15:00.001+11:00

I cut myself! Nooo

Damn desk...it must hate me.

Then it hits like the bad pun that is this title.doc

2009-02-02T14:38:00.000+11:00

Considering I have no ‘other half’ to regurgitate any hard hitting news to, I’m using my blog as a form of medium to lineally let it out. My grandfather has cancer. Lung cancer. A serious case of it. And I’m a jerk face.

I haven’t been given many details, and I’m not sure if my family in Australia don’t really know anymore than they’re telling me, or they’re simply choosing to hold back. He’s suffering and wants to see us, however as much as my mother and I would like to drop everything right now and go visit him, we can’t.

It’s now that I begin to wonder if I’ve been a bad son, actually bad seems slightly light – shit son. Constantly making things up to cover my own laziness and lack of motivation to do things as best as I could, which would not only benefit me but give my mother one less thing to worry about. I keep telling her not to worry, yet I give her next to no reason not to worry, I have achieved nothing to ease her worry. They say money isn’t everything, but right now if we didn’t have to be considered about money a huge weight would be lifted. I feel that my picky nature is what’s preventing me from obtaining my own form of income.

I tend to hold back my thoughts on things, choosing to keep them to myself for the fear of them being knocked back or causing trouble. This is probably why I’m not so good with one on one conversations, and have been unable to help those around me who seems to need it most.

My constant thoughts about myself have me regretting every moment in my life I’ve screwed up because I was only thinking about myself. I used to think I was a nice guy, but now I see I’m just a jerk, dick and a wimp. Grandfather I hope that your condition gets better and that our situation here improves so we can come visit you.

Heat is Death

2009-01-28T22:14:00.001+11:00

Today's tempurature hit a maximum of 43 degrees (that's celsius not fahrenheit) and Connex suffered~ Suffered good and bad!!

Early in the day on my way to Swinburne University services seemed to be running fine, with all of the trains 'emitting' icey cool air into each carriage. It was xcruciating to make the first step out of the train, that's how cold they were T^T

Luckily Swinburne seemed to have adequate air conditioning, so the wait for Richie wasn't so bad. But damn~ when we finally left, it was still bloody hot outside, not to mention the wind was hot wind as well...

...on my way from Glenny, Steven told me over MSN (phone) that the Glenny services had been cancelled because...the tracks had melted. Anyways, by the time I got to Flinders I saw how badly Connex got owned by this heat. Services that were running were at least 30 minutes late, but the amount of people waiting for each train made it pointless to bother waiting. How many people were waiting? So many that I had to wait underground - which wasn't so bad as it was quite a deal cooler underground than it was up top. After 20 minutes of waiting around I decided to call for aid - my mum saved me at Melbourne Central. Win...kind of.

I'm officially straight

2009-01-28T20:10:00.002+11:00

Yesterday was the day I got straight...

...hair. Although I am also hetro, I wouldn't blog about it. My hair dresser of choice was Kiimi (shop 2, 2112 Latrobe St) which is opposite Melbourne Central - Hungry Jacks side. These guys deserve a plug :P Although not having my appointment in the books, they were still open to do my hair. After quoting me $210 including cut, they ultimately charged me $180 because they were nice...and I only had $150 on me.

I'd like to thank my sponser and photographer Feng Chloe Wok Chen and moral support Phil "Richie and I have a plan" Esmore. They agreed to come with me after I meet up with the two at Box Hill a few hours before hand. Good friends. I'll let the photos do the talking now.

PS. I'm sorry about the concession card Steve I'll get you that hat for your birthday!

Normal daily me

It begins!

So I look like a Michael?

2009-01-26T02:15:00.002+11:00

It's a Sunday and I get woken up at 10.30am by my mum who reminds me about this Chinese New Years eve lunch that my grand aunt and uncle were hosting. Honestly though, who really enjoys going to this events? It seems so awkard having to force yourself to come up with some kind of conversation with relatives that you see maybe two to three times a year...

As I seat there with two of my cousins and my "aunty", the conversation turns to names...and what we think each other looked liked. I got tagged as a Michael - do I look like a Michael? I remember someone saying I looked like a George...but a Michael? And apparently Richard is a common name...yeah I don't really believe that.

Oh, and the food was awesome! Uncle guy, you pwn at cooking...TEACH ME!

That's just wrong

2009-01-24T02:33:00.001+11:00

Threadless has some nice tees, but this one is just wrong >.> Spotted at the "official" outlet for Threadless tees in the city the other day.

Lag

2009-01-24T02:21:00.000+11:00

Laaggggg...I've never had lag so bad before. Never though there was a router worse than a G604T but there is...and it's a Linksys.

I sent over $100 on this piece of shit, it's all set up correctly yet I get huge lag! At times it take 5mins for Google to load!

Get ready PC DIY in Box Hill, cause I want a refund on this shit...

The wonders of Media Player Classic

2009-01-20T16:23:00.000+11:00

Just thought I'd post up images I've saved with Media Player Classic that I felt were a little funny/random at the time. And for those who don't know...my name is Richard if that helps.

Good times

2009-01-19T16:37:00.001+11:00

Caught up with a friend I haven't seen in a while through a family friend dinner. And what do friends over 18 do in this situation? They get smashed~

I never realised how much more fun drinking games are in comparison to just plain drinking.

However, there's a moral to this post. Don't wear contact lenses if you plan on getting mellow :]

IT LIVES!

2009-01-19T16:32:00.000+11:00

I had pretty much given up on the camera, but I kept playing with it in my hands anyway. Then, for some reason I thought I'd hold the power button~ AND IT WORKED! My camera turned on T^T I could of hugged any random person at that time.

Blue Eyes bitch!

2009-01-17T13:21:00.001+11:00

Just a little update. I got blue eye contacts!

Oh, I finally got my batteries for my camera. And the camera doesn't work...for flickr chops for now

A day of fail

2009-01-14T23:17:00.000+11:00

I don't see how people can love summer in Australia, the weather is murder...39 degrees was today's forecast, no idea if it hit 39 but the morning's air and thirty something heat was enough to drive me insane!

Today was meant to be a good day, I'd get to go to Box Hill and buy a few tech things for a change and meet up with the JType boys for dinner at Nandos & Subway. I'd get Seinfield off Steven and I'd also get "How I Met Your Mother" off Vanskee. See it was meant to be a good day.

I wasn't feeling too bad after pulling an all nighter due to the heat, but I had a short nap anyway before heading out just to give me a little recharge.

Five minutes into the tram ride to the station, my iPod dies. That's okay, I have my crappy mobile with MSN! Get on the train to Box Hill and this woman sits a bit too close to me...

Getting to Box Hill my banking went well, was very smooth~ Being all happy about my banking I go to Asian Mix in search of a marble drink for Steven...they didn't have it.

So I meet up with Steven at McDonalds. Nothing to report besides that I choked. So off to the post office~ That went well because Steven needed to go there. Now, my chain of fails begin when I arrive at MSY hoping to pick up a router and a CPU cooler. None in stock. Nevermind, the PC store next door should have the router. Nope. Ghey. But they might have some in on Monday. Friendly guy. Burn not so bad.

*sigh* On the way back I get a bubble cup. Steven doesn't want because he's saving. Fine. Large Mango Milk tea with pearls. STAB IN THE FACE haha. So happy about stabbing the face of the girl on the bubble cup label I don't notice some of the bubble tea drip onto my vest. GAH! Steven LOL'ed.

Wonder around. Text Van about tonight. Doesn't seem like it's going ahead. Wonder around some more. Okay bored nothing to do, we both go home.

*sigh* today wasn't as good as it was meant to be...

But don't worry~ Steven's day was great! haha
EPIC DAY!!!

Dumplings!

2009-01-14T03:06:00.000+11:00

Or won ton, same thing~ just different skin - I think, please don't flame me Asian purists.

The heat is making it impossible to sleep, so I've decided to just pull an all nighter. Eating and watching anime and drama.

Argh...

2009-01-12T13:04:00.000+11:00

This is the second time this has happened, and my body isn't liking it.

Someone comes and rings our door bell at 8.30 in the morning. Please random person who does this, stop =A= or at least do so in the afternoon some time, most of the people in this house stay up late and don't wake up until after lunchtime.

Yes, I'm still using flickr photos...but should hopefully have my own photos in posts by the end of the week.

Hello from a Sugar high at 4am

2009-01-10T04:10:00.001+11:00

I was in bed a few moments ago, but now I'm awake and full of energy...too much energy. I don't know, I was just thinking about things in life so I couldn't really sleep, so I headed downstairs and opened a bottle of Pepsi Max. "Don't worry no sugar" Yeah, contradicts this post's title but oh well.

No sugar, so there shouldn't be so much energy in the drink right? According to Pepsi it only gives me 0.1% of my daily intake of energy - 3kJ. In which case my mind shouldn't be going at a millions kays an hour, I only had about 200ml of the beverage. Well that's a lie, I've nearly finished the bottle now, but the 'rush' kicked in only after about 200ml.

The only other feeling I can relate this to, is when I'm in a high pressure situation, kind of like when I was working at the Cafe during rush hour. Mind just goes crazy and you just do things with spilt second decisions. Obvious difference now is that I'm at home, no pressure, but very similar result.

I'm not crazy am I? I could probably continue going on, chaining one topic to another and end up with a blog post that would take 30minutes to read, revealing a lot about my life, but I don't want to even give people the opportunity to consider reading something like that, it's just....weird and cruel. One more point before I key my final full-stop: this high is similar to being tipsy/drunk only that I'm not conjuring up any feelings I have, this high is just making my mind manifest the most irrelevant and spontaneous thoughts. Alki=feelings, sugar=thoughts.

Coming to you from my phone

2009-01-09T04:53:00.002+11:00

So bored that I'm typing this from my phone. However, my router playing up again may have something to do with this bored.

One thing I noticed though is that Opera Ming won't let me edit the html code of a post. Just thought that would be something interesting to point out.

Finally sorry to the WoW group I was with...not my fault I disconnected and never came back online. Probably should send the leader a message.

A Night of Catchy Songs

2009-01-09T03:01:00.000+11:00

This morning (it is like 3am that I am making this post) Steven (yeah bitch!) linked me to this jawesome vid! I say jawesome because it'll lighten your mood and make you smile, for two reasons, it's funny and fucking retarded! They might actually combine to make the same reason...meh

Said Youtube vidoe~

Well now, cause I'm in a such a 'nyappy' (Steven's word~) mood I'm listening to every instantly catchy asian song I have. <3 DJ OZMA, Wondergirls, Hyori Lee, Lee Jia, Otsuka Ai, m-flo, Teriyaki Boyz etc~

Don't you just hate it

2009-01-08T15:40:00.000+11:00

I was sleeping for maybe four hours when I got a call from a friend, which turned out me be one of those "my phone's keypad was unlocked and it redialed a recently dialed number" so I hope.

The call had me repeat the word "wei~?" over and over like a Taiwanese school girl in a TV drama getting a call from her crush. It only appeared sus to me when I heard what sounded like a train station annoucement and a lot of shoe shuffling.

My Camera

2009-01-08T02:39:00.000+11:00

If you haven't noticed, I haven't been using my own photos for my posts. Why? Because I'm waitiing for my batteries to test this Sony digi cam I bought for cheaps. Yeah test, the previous owner sold it noting that the battery that comes with it is dead, and that she can't locate the charger. Meh, was worth the gamble, I didn't pay much in the end.

Getting a friend to buy me a battery and charger from Hong Kong cost me more than the camera itself, so now I'm kind of hoping it does actually work, not only because of the money but because I really need a camera that isn't on a phone. So when I get my battery for it next week some time, and it works...WIN! I scored myself a really cheap camera to play around with.

POSSIBLE CAMERA WHORING SOON AND BLOG POSTS WITH PHOTOS I TOOK MYSELF!

Poor Car Fund

2009-01-08T02:22:00.000+11:00

Over the past few months I've been saving up some cash to buy a EF/EH Civic as my first manual car. But the more I think about it, the less I really want it to become my first money-pit project car and the more I feel I'll be quite contempt with the Toyota Rav4. My dream project car is actually a Sprinter Trueno aka a Takumi mobile. Totally~

As my desire for a cheap project car like the Civic demish, my want for things I'll need for when I move out and start Uni grow stronger. When I'm not playing WoW, like on Tuesday when it was down, I spent a good 2 hours looking at the IKEA site compling an array of tabs in FireFox with stuff I want. King Sized bed, 2m long desk, many many shelves etc~

But there's one thing I really want, that be a laptop! All this WoW playing has gotten me surprisingly fustrated at the bulk of my PC. I'm still using a CRT for god sake, and it's not even a flat screen one! *dreamy eyes* yeah I nice 17" laptop would be really nice~ *drools* Something like a Dell Studio 17 or a Vostro 1710. Yeah~

First I need a job...AHH people accept my applications please~! I might have to give this place at the Docklands a call about their open position...

"Hating you just a little bit less"

2009-01-07T01:41:00.001+11:00

Today I got introduced to a nice little application for my phone, the W910i, that will in future reduce the chance of my smashing it into weeeee~ little pieces.

Tonight forum mate ShiRi told me go to mini.opera.com and download the Opera Mini app. It's the first time someone told to me to download something for my phone, and dam was it gooooood.

Far too often have I clicked a link in my phone's default browser, and it tell me after it's loaded 90% of the page that the page is to freaking big. Well it can go get stuffed now cause I have Opera Mini bitches! Unfortunately this phone has bought too much heartache to me, so even with a proper web browser I still truely hate it. Oh, and I downloaded eBuddy's mobile client for MSN'ing too, because the one from 3 for this phone is horrid. Again, I still can't love my phone...sorry W910i only if you didn't crash all those times, and maybe have a slide out qwerty keyboard I would love you.

Well wasn't today a real bitch?

2009-01-06T03:00:00.001+11:00

Another night's sleep, another WoW inspired dream. Fuck I've been playing too much WoW...

Moving on! Today really wasn't that great of a day, dispite the fact that I managed to drag my 'tall' arse out of bed this morning. Got to love waking up to the sound of the Captain Planet theme song.

Anyways, cause I love to procrastinate I kept snoozing my alarm until I had 30mins to get ready to leave....BRILLANT! I end up missing my tram that rolled up 2 minutes early. Meh~ I can't even care the next tram was 10 minutes late, running for the Glen Waverley train at Flinders street was actually kind of fun, in a "I really need some exercise and 'excitment'" kind of way.

Something I want to point out that happened when I got to Glen Waverley...STEVEN WASN'T LATE! haha Even though I was kind of late...myself...yeah. POSITIVE THINKING!

Some things happened, I got a think-shakes, Steven went Post Office then the movement of truth! In a way...our 'appointment' to inspect a house on...wait...GAYNOR CRESCENT!

The receptionist, whom I can understand has a stressful looking job, was a scaary bitch *crawls up into a wall* The look and tone she gave me when I asked her about looking at the place I emailed them about, just gave off this "This job is a bitch and has turned me into a big one, just ask my ex" vibe. Damn, I already said to Steven if it's the same receptionist next time, he's talking.

Anyways, a few more things happened after we got rejected. On the train ride back, Steven stopped Porter and dragged him to our carriage. THE END! Yes I'm lazy ^-^

jellysnake

2009-01-05T21:56:00.000+11:00

One blog I forgot to link was Steven's blog! Crazy asian didn't tell me he started his blog again.

jellysnake, *extra pause* bitch!

Everyone's Blogging Now~

2009-01-03T14:48:00.000+11:00

Seems like it's the season to be blogging. Here's a post linking to all my friend's blogs.

Benjiboyy?? You bet~

The Beautiful Life of Feng (aka Chloe)

Chocolate abbed Shun

The unappreciated designer we like to call Van

Artsy Helen

Kih Kih no one can dress like him.

Dori*mon's blog~

Sorry guys I suck at html code so I can't put you peeps anywhere permantly on the blog with this theme *bows for forgiveness*

The Search Ends...

2009-01-03T02:06:00.002+11:00

After a very uneventful New Years Eve that consisted of a family-friend gathering at Docklands to witness the annual fireworks display and a solo drunken night at my PC, life after high school returns back to normal. Yay...

So today I headed out to the City with Steven in search of a hooded vest (sleeve-less of course), for we were hopeful that there would be at least one shop that stocked them. We know they exist, YesStyle stock them! But they want USD$85, which at the moment is a lot of money (dam exchange rates), although some may consider that a fairly average price for a piece of clothing.

After 2 hours of walking around Melbourne Central and Myer the only sleeve-less hoodie we found was a Everlast one. So it looks like YesStyle is the only place to buy one in you live in Melbourne. However, I could always get a vest and wear a thin-hoodie under that. Hmm~

Just before the Eve

2008-12-30T19:13:00.000+11:00

Not much done today. Finally getting to enjoy some nice long sleeps takes to the cooler change in weather. Now I can wake up at 2pm and not have my room feel like a sauna thanks to the sun raising on my end of the house.

Starting to dream again which is always nice, guess it means I'm getting a good sleep.

Went to meet up with some of teh 'car' boys Sunday. You can read about it here on my friend van's blog who actually has some pictures to go along with his recount of events.

Boxing Day

2008-12-27T11:56:00.000+11:00

Yesterday was the Boxing Day sales, and the sales were quite disappointing. However the day overal was on the verge of awesome! If I were to do it again, I'd have to come with several hundreds of dollars and be one of those sad people who wait for the doors to open as most of the good stuff is gone by 3 V________V

The main aim of the day was to visit Chadstone before the crowds and try to update Phil's waredrobe which was 'full' of hand-me-downs and random shirts his mum bought him LOL The man needed to be given a chance to prove he had his own style and a good taste in clothes! Hopefully he's happy with the three pieces of clothing Chloe (Feng) and I approved of :]

I on the other hand failed to find a hooded vest nor did I manage to buy any clothes, but I bought a pair of Sennheiser HD202s which I don't actually need as much as I need other things. I suck at making the right purchase decision V__V Looks like I;m going to have to save up a bit and get myself measured so I can buy some things off YesStyle.

Anyways, we ran into some people from MWSC and ultimately had Jesus (aka Matt) and Sally join us during for the final hours we were at Chadstone. We went to Gloria Jeans where Steven came to hi before running away.

Some things happened and by the time it was 5 we were on our to Mount for some Asian Charcoal Chicken~! But when we got there they were closed T^T BUT THEY LET US IN ANYWAY because we're just awesome like that...or we just go there nearly everyday...or both ^-^

*not really in the blogging mood* blah blah blah Phil's house to eat blah blah Rock band blah blah midnight people go homes~ blah blah I slept over cause I live in a stupid location in reference to everyone else. Gah

And that was Boxing Day! =P

On Christmas Day...

2008-12-25T17:46:00.000+11:00

...I dreamt.

But I kept waking up every 30mins to the sound of Lee Jia XP

Something that was on my mind a while ago

2008-12-24T22:34:00.000+11:00

**warning! possibly a retarded emo 'rant'**

I recall watching a film by the same name (Insomnia), portraying the story of a detective, whose quest to catch a serial killer leads him to shot one of his own partners. As a result of this event the detective is unable to get a good night’s rest without the help of sleeping pills. Guilt and post traumatic stress were the obvious reasons for the detective’s insomnia, but are they the only cause for such a draining and merciless disorder?

Logically, it would seem that a person suffering from insomnia has something on their mind, something they feel guilty for. However how can one manifest an explanation for this so called inability to obtain sufficient sleep, without experiencing firsthand what it feels like to suffer under its chaotic rule?

Although I highly doubt that I myself am suffering from this disorder. A lack of sleep, or you could say, an inability to maintain an extended period of rest, has me wondering if it would lead to such an extreme level as to be called insomnia. Without even thinking that deep, one begins to naturally wonder why they are having such a difficult time falling asleep. What is it that I am doing differently in comparison to all the other nights I’ve been able to sleep well? You begin to wonder, did my body and mind not tell me a few hours ago that it was time to call it a day? By this point you have already gone beyond the point of attempting to construct your own dream. By this point you do begin to wonder if there is anything that your mind feels guilty about. Your thoughts run free, fabricating different scenarios relating to your current life, possibly making you forget the values and morals you once had for a moment, inducing you to do things in these scenarios you wouldn’t normally do, and you know this as you think it out. Now your mind is alive, not of guilt or stress, it is thinking. Your mind is thinking of all the different situations that could play out in your life, and forcing you into a corner, trying to see what you would actually do, knowing full well that won’t actually react the way you did in the fabricated scene as you would in the real world. Be that as it may, your mind still knows that there is actually something that would trigger such a reaction, yet you know, or at least hope, that if such a situation, like that fabricated by your mind were to happen, that the chance of your trigger being pulled is next to none.

Now, you’re sitting at your computer typing out what just played out in your mind in word, for there is no one in your life you feel close enough to tell, on the contrary, there is no one close enough to you in your life that you could have gone to before these thoughts and scenarios popped up in your mind. It is now that you realise, in the middle of all the teasing you throw at your friends for possibility that they like someone, that you are alone, more alone than your friends are in their confused and emotional state of mind. It is now that you realise, that they are in fact better than you in ways you don’t want to understand. You need to grow some balls and stop thinking about yourself so much, but start thinking about others and how you affect each other.

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