Never Buying From Russia Again

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

After a year driving around with an automatic conditioned licence.



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

Missing In Action

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

Dream Time

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

...officially.

Argh I Got A Hair Cut

Now I'm a 12 year old kid again.

Argh My Hair Is So Long.

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

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

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.

Just Your Average Little Rant

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

This Was The Happiest Day Of My Life

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, a 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. My 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 so 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; “that looks cool!”.



Oh, yes, I did manage to pass my driving test...luckily. 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.

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

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!

Chad Wants You

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

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

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

"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."

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.