Okay now I'm being stalked by more people .. and some are not of the non-psychotic, non-violent, non-stalking stalking kind of people .... and you know who you are :P .. not what I was expecting .... time to watch what I write and hope I dont start to bitch about certain people hmmmmmmmm or not ...

damn that sitemeter and its referring urls gah!

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98/100
woot. I think thats the highest mark I've gotten in an exam that I recall during my life at uni. As I mentioned previously I wasnt hoping for much but I guess I did better than expected. Losign the 2marks on one question. Exam's worth 20% of assessment so not too bad. But then when it gets converted its only like 19/20 .. which is like a lil quiz thing but hey think I did alrights .. now back onto more stressing things. Like 2 assignments due on Monday and I've only got til thursday to finish it all. Need to start the other one tomorrow or later tonight ....
WhY Thursday? Cos I'm going away on Friday til late Monday evening.. good ol family trip up to Cairns and Port Douglas to the Great Barrier Reef... I duno why it had to be in the middle of my semester and not in the break, but sis got forced to take some holidays and they planned to go on this trip. Had been brewin up for a few weeks, but since I got lazy in the holidays I didn't do any work. I'll be glad if I manage to get some sort of report going that gets me some marks.. *fingers crossed*
Me coming back on Monday also means I'll be home alone for an extra 3 days til the rest of em come home Thursday.. hmm now what can I do hMmMmm

Think I shall head off home .. finished tute work and cant do work here.. crap windows 98 piece of shite slowass comps!

Labels: uni

Well I don't know if you have visited Nicole's blog, but since she started to stalk me and me her (in a non-psychotic, non-violent, non-stalking kind of way of course :) she has made her People Who Have Rocked My World (In A Non-Sexual Way, Of Course) list.. and one must agree that points 6 and 9 (well to me anyway) would rock anyones world if they're from the USofA heeheee :)

Maybe when I got the time to write proper, I shall do my own list. So should you! :)

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White water rafting wasn't too bad afterall. Would've been good if it wasn't so cold and raining, although it wasn't actually pouring rain or anything as much as it has been. The course they used was the one from the Olympic Games, so you just go down the rapids .. and back up again .. and down again .. but everytime would be differnt since you would change positions and go down the rapids differently, depending on how good you were paddling with the rest of the people on the raft hehe. Man sitting on the back is fun. You sorta get slingshotted outta your place and if you don't hold on you could jus fly up n outta the raft. I managed to right at the end of the rapids, how I'm not quite sure since we had pretty much gone into calmer waters but I guess i was bouncing off the raft and into the water hah man had a mouthful when I got dunked in. I also managed to get a lil bruise on me lower ribs, nice long red stretch and only hurts if you touch it .. but I cant remember how I managed it.. probably gettin pulled back in to the raft or gettin hit by a paddle hrmmm
All in all it was good fun for the few (2 and a bit i think) hours we did it for, although for $60 I don't know if I'd rather that or Skirmish for the same (minimum) price hehe.
Went to Panthers for drinks and dinner, and I thought Krispy Kremes was opened there. Apparently not. Krispy Kreme's website says that Panthers has a store, but when we got there, it was still being built! Now thats false advertising. I don't know what the thing is with Krispy Kreme but its some yankee donut store that does yummy donuts or something.. havnt tried it so cant say..

Back to uni tomorrow and I better get a move on with these assignments argh shite shite shite what to do .. I aint the type that usually stresses out about much, but since its my last semester (hopefully) I should really aim for the best .. but it aint going that way at the moment .. oh well.

Labels: life

Had a flu vax this morning at the doctors. First time I've ever had one. Duno why my sister screamed in pain when she got hers. Didn't even feel a thing when the needle went into my arm. Been sniffling all day, even before I had the vax, nose just wont stop running. mm nice. Now I'm just feeling drowsy, although the dr only said side affects were headache or sore arm, but I aint getting either .. so maybe this is just another one. Maybe my arm will die tonight at work and I wont be able to lift anything. Yay!
Only good thing about working on a public holiday is that it finishes 11pm instead of 1130pm. That was last night, and thankfully there werent many drunks coming, else it would've been very difficult to work. But why are customers so dumb. The door is closed. The sign says CLOSED, so why open the door, come in and ask are you open yet? Can we not eat our dinner in peace without having these customers waltz in and needing us to get up and show em to a table. Being in the profession we are in, of course we are kind and polite and let them in, sit down and let em wait til its opening time (5:30pm if you were wondering) til we serve em proper. Another fun filled day at work.

Water rafting tomorrow at Penrith. Never been before and hope it'll be good weather. Not that it matters if its gonna rain or not since we will get drenched, but if its a hot day the drenching would be worth it. Now what are you spose to wear whilst water rafting? Boardies .. T .. "wettable" clothes as I put it to me friends .. but anything is "wettable" (if that's a word hehe) just depends on the saturation level of the clothing. *fingers crossed* it will be a good day for rafting.

Labels: life

Lest We Forget
This is probably 24 hours too late, but better late than never. Yesterday was Anzac Day. The day the Anzacs (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) landed on the sands of Gallipoli during WW2. The day where the Anzac spirit began and lingers on forever. The fighting spirit. The never-say-die attitude. The mateship. Thats what its all about. I guess for some of us, it never had a real profound affect on our lives, especially those from a non-anglo background. But those who were pretty much educated here from their young days, will understand what its all about. It's part of our history that we will never forget.
I have probably changed over the years. When I was a lot younger, I was a member of the Scouts Association and every Anzac Day we would parade in the local community. I guess this made me more aware of what Anzac Day was all about, but when I grew older, the memories had started to fade and Anzac Day was just another public holiday. But one does not forget the Anzac spirit.

Age shall not weary them. They are forever in our hearts and minds. Lest We Forget

What I have said above is only a little of what I think, know and write about. English writing was never my forte even though I was born, bred and educated here. Funny that. But its the thought that counts. I am not the type that expresses oneself openly - my feelings and thoughts are pretty much a closed book, or half-open book you might say .. but I guess thats the same with a lotta people .. hence I do not even know why I wrote that above or this paragraph at all. I guess this is a good place as any to start, without having to face the people I know (but theres you thats reading this of course that I do know :) and only sharing it with you that dare set foot in my domain :) And of course, any comment is appreciated hehe :)

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Lame. Aunts at cousin's cousins place playing mahjong. They have 8 people, enough for 2 tables. They only have 1 set of mahjong tiles. Uh oh. No problem. Ring sis up and ask to borrow a set. Now mums a lil annoyed cos she rung to see if she could borrow the mahjongg, and not to call her to ask her to play, but since they aint missing a "leg" (a person to play) then she aint needed. So she comes over, and brings her cousin-in-law or some crap like that ( I wasnt there for the intros as I was being rude hiding in me room hehe) who came from HK. Now mum got really peeved off when they left, saying stuff like knowing better to bring someone from HK into our house, who knows if they got SARS n crap heh. So shes wanderin round getting stuff to spray n disinfect the doorway where they were haha man my mums a lil bit paranoid. Now shes like wanting to disinfect the mahjong set when they bring it back. oookay then.

Now Hero was pretty good to watch. Sorta agree with other folks with regards to Zhang Zi Yi's role .. was pretty minor and not much in it. Only probably used in the beginning for Jets story and that was it. I would've thought Donnie Yen's (Sky) character was more than that but obviously not. Really wanted to watch a matchup with people who can really fight, but it only lasted for about 5mins. I think I'm gonna have to watch it again to watch it without reading the english subtitles.

Labels: life, movies

I have a new non-psychotic, non-violent, non-stalking blog stalker direct from the U S of A. I've added her to my Another Life section over there --> so you too, can stalk her to your hearts content (in a non-psychotic, non-violent, non-stalking kind of way of course :) hehe. This way, she can get more hits from Aussies down under, so I don't appear to be the only Aussie stalker hehe :) I hope you dont mind Nicole .. just let me know if you do and I'll take it down :)

Sis got the VCD of Hero so gonna watch that nows. I still have yet to get my DVD copy of it, because someone has whored my DVD around the block.. its goin around the block before it gets to me. And to think I would've had an original shrinkwrapped copy .. now its 4th or 5th or 6th or n-th hand original copy. gah.

Labels: blogging, movies

I was out at Westfield today .. and on centre stage was some performance starting. Yowies. I have never heard of them .. big round furry creatures .. that I have never seen before. But obviously these lil kiddies have .. they were up n dancing and going 'ooh wow its yowies' .. I had no idea what they were til I walked past one of those advert signs and saw Cadbury Yowies and the Lost Kingdom. Ok. WtF?! I havnt had cadbury's chocolates for ages and never seen any ads, but a quick search online gave me yowiepower.com. Looking through that, I still have no idea what they are.
Yowie Power to the max! (I don't think thats what theyre spose to do .. but it sounds good anyway .. well to me :)

Labels: web randoms

Okay, as you can see, I got bored so I decided to change the template. Nothing too funky.. only thing thats buggering me is the dumb archives. It's using my old template and trying to republish it wont work.. some stupid java error. Blogger still hasnt gotten back to me why my March templates aint showing everything yet either. grr.

Next on the agenda is a graphical logo ... which would probably be a long long way away :)

Labels: blogging

Victorias Secret
Who is this mysterious Victoria? and why is it a secret? I'd like to meet her one day hehe. It's no secret anymore when you show everybody everything now issit hmm But yes, someone started a topic about underwears last nite on IRC (dont ask, I cant remember why :) and then there was a mention of victoriassecret.com and as you do, have an urge to click and find out what its all about. Now may I say, its very erm enlightening hehe.
I finally found out the technical term for the bras that you clasp on the front. Racerbacks. Now why is it called that? It is the front not the back? Or do you race for the back and suddenly find out ..oh its on the front ..?
Oh and I was having a nice friendly private chat about this with a female acquaintance of course hehe. We did agree that this mesh babydoll was damn fine hot n sexy .. along with the model :) She sorta reminds me of Jessica Alba, and with those eyes. hmm yes. :c) Oh and also there was this cami-widow too. oh so fine.

Now what is it with lingerie and these names. Babydoll. Merrywidow. Teddy. I still duno what they are exactly .. but does it really matter? :)

I think it was a very erm educational experience all in all :)

I really think I should start doing some uni work, especially for the assignment I got an extension for, which I have yet to start .. but I'm stuck in holiday mood and a bit lazy to do anything hehe ..
Maybe I should go over to friends place and get the original DVD copy of Hero that I asked her to get for me from HK. Checked out the site the other day and its only US $3.99 when I gotta pay AU $28. Bugger. And the extended version is coming out too ergh Oh well.

Labels: web randoms

Conversation overhead between a lil kid and his mother last night at work:
Kid: Mummy what's an animal starting with the letter I?
Mum: An Insurance Man.

hehe I guess the kid wont understand what she was going on about until he gets older .. but yeh .. quite a good response nonetheless haha got me thinking .. an animal with I .. took me yonks til someone said Iguana! Man how many I-animals are there .. then got down to U and X ... other bad letters for animals .. i don't think theres a proper animal with the letter X .. besides dinosaurs and such hrmmm

crap weather this long weekend .. why wont it stop raining ... im running out o clothes to wear and the wash is forever wet haha okay .. you didnt need to kno that .. but thats the drama im in .. hmm time to raid the reserves hehe

and a Happy Bday to Mey again :) Since it was her party celebration last night hehe was a good time at the Comedy Store @Fox and karaoke afterwards. Don't think I've been to stand up comedy live before .. nice and close atmosphere, and as mey said .. sorta like Seinfeld doing his acts.. too bad I missed the first half hour or so due to uni, but caught the rest of it which was goodo. Only thing that sucked was the weather. Pouring rain, couldn't hardly see driving down or leaving. Seems to be a recurring theme- raining when you dont want it to the most... I remember graduation last year. Pissing rain as well. Outta all the graduation ceremonies of that period, ours was the only day that rain. now that sucks. ah well I just hope this years one is a fine and sunny day ;)
It was also nice to meet the people who I've been chattin to online for quite a while.. few years at least.. Meyo who I met at the Usher concert after hmm 3? 4? years .. and Yui who I've come to annoy lol and then a couple other serial stalkees listed by riss hehe and all those from irc from way back when .

Was suppose to watch The Pianist today .. but damn the broadway cinemas were packed and the session was sold out .. I wonder whos idea it was to go on a public holiday when everyone has a day off duh. Ended up watching Shanghai Knights .. wasnt bad .. usual jackie chan flick, paying homage to his buster keaton, and that guy that did singin in the rain . .forgot his name .. (mey will prolly kno hehe ill rmemebr it another day when i dont need to ).. whilst fighting a gang he does the moves as thingo does whilst singin in the rain ... hmm wouldve been good had it been fast but hey .. who cares :) was a lil weird watching donnie yen tho .. he seems so much older now and I hadnt watched him in an english film .. besides Blade 2 when he had a nonspeakin part as the Snowman heh.. but yeh... I think Noon was better than Knight and supposedly a Dawn is coming out too .. eesh. Now just hope Pianist wont be taken down any time soon .. shouldnt be since it won a few major oscars .. but its down to 3sessions a day so it will be soon hmmm
next on the to watch list . .X2, Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, The Hulk .. is there a connection between them or issit just me that theyre all based on comics hehe

Labels: birthday, life

Happy Birthday to ME!

lol yes lame, but I couldnt help it. The clock struck 12, and my brain went dead!

Well since I told dad I'd be goin out tomorrow (tonight ie Thursday) parents went out n got me a cake, so home time, was photo time. Mango cake. mMm. Yes. mango. not sure about mango beer, but mango cake tis delicious :)

I duno if I'll be the type to start reflecting back on the past 21 years of my life, or even the past year itself .. especially on an open forum like this .. but you never know heehe Possibly later when I got the time .. and aint worried about all this uni work thats due tomoro!

Hopefully I'll get my stuff done to go and enjoy myself tonight and partay hard. Well not tooo hard, damn double demerits just started as well and its going for the whole holidays, til the 27th. argh. shiznits.

Labels: birthday, life

Happy Birthday Mey! :c)

Since you read this now too eY? hehe i was contemplating it before .. but now you know about it .. why not :)

Hmm I've just noticed I managed quite a few hits the other day .. from sources unbeknownst to me .. I guess listing on the directory gives me hits? But nobody leaves me comments! hehe doh oh well .. it would be nice to see who is reading this and where theyre from .. theres a Guestmap that you can sign, pretty map of the world .. be good to know!

Thanks :)

2 more days .. weeeeeeeeee

crap gotta do that assignment ey? heheh

oh and thanks for the dinner Mey :) ykno you shouldnt have done that .. it was your bday! i said i was gonna shout .. bugger. . just you wait! heheheh

Labels: birthday, life

Sis went to the Easter Show yesterday .. she asked me what I wanted .. so I told her just get me a Coke bag. She herself got a Pepsi one, and when I looked at em, they were almost the same design. SHe also won this toy soldier thing, some cheapass plastic toy.. with a gas mask that makes it look like an alien or something .. I've uploaded some pics so here they are ..
Me lovely coke bag
Toy Soldier
The soldier with a funky gas mask hehe

bump bump bump. I got that song stuck with me all day now. Playing it on mp3, then somebody mentions it on irc, and I hear it in the car on the way home! Now thats scary hehe

Sometimes I love jobnet, sometimes I hate it. I love it when I get called by agencies or employers that see my details on there and think I've got the goods for the position they're after. I hate it when I don't get a call back from employers after I've applied for jobs. But I love it even more when I get calls from employers or agencies that have seen my details and decide to call me and have a chat. For jobs that I don't even know about. For jobs that aren't even advertised. Now I love that the most. Strangely enough, it only ever happens when my Job Availability status is about to expire and I log on to reset it. I wonder how jobnet works in that way. I say this, because I got a reminder email early this morning that I needed to reset it, so I log on this morning to do so. And about 30mins ago I received a call from an agency for a job. Exclusive offer. Top secret. If I told you, I'd have to kill you. Wait. You're dead now! :)

More on it later when I can reveal anything, if anything has been guaranteed.
woohoo :c)

Labels: job hunting

Okay, I duno if its just me, for some weird reason my page wont load up .. all i get is the banner .. but if i view source i can actually see my blogs.. weird.

anyhoo ..careers fair wasnt all too exciting .. didnt get the freebies i was expecting. . managed a mini stapler and yoyo .. stress ball .. a pen .. n that was it .. i guess i was there also to get info outta the companies. . info which i pretty knew what i had in mind, so it wasnt that much news to me.
Earlier in the day before that, picked up friends from randwick. Her baby cousin was soo cuuuteee hehe was sleepin when I got there, but woke up soon after when friend rung the doorbell to come in heh .. played with him for a lil while, til i brought up the idea to juggle, since he had these mini bowling pins. So friend tries to juggle, but fails miserably, and the baby follows suit. haha it was sooo funny watching him, altho it was bad, cos he couldnt juggle either .. the pins jus hit him on the head, flew backwards and stuff like that. Altho later he blamed me for his juggling act .. I mentioned it, i didn't expect him to do it .. and the baby to follow .. good stuff :)
babys are so cute. only when theyre babies. then they grow up. ahhh such is life!

as i said to someone tonight, live life with no regrets. That's sorta been my motto .. i dont swear by it, i live by it. I've been asked if thats really true, if I don't have any regrets at all in my whole life. I would say almost, theres only one or two things I do sorta regret, but thats not for now to blog about .. maybe later .. Why dwell on the past when the whole future's in front of you? What's done is done, let bygones be bygones.

Labels: job hunting

Had the ADS assignment on XML tonight .. didn't seem to be as bad as I thought it would. Although writing a whole heap of DTD and XML Schema made me get writers cramp, along with a brain cramp trying to think :) all in all ... i think i did okay .. hoping for around 75% at least hehe maintain that average so far.

So now since i've got extension for another assignment, I gotta start ecommerce .. designing GUI wif jsp n stuff i guess. so much fun!

Careers fair tomorrow .. gonna be getting more freeeebies heeheee time to catch up with people too hopefully.

Lets see what I can get :)

Labels: uni

w00t. i think i use w00t too much nowadays. must cut down on w00tage usage. yes. must.
anyhow, i think ive managed to finish me C++ assignment now too hehe wasnt tooo hard overall just a bit of thinkin with stats and how to calculate proper mode n median. yay. 2 down 2 to go aRGH! the worst 2.

still duno why the damn first archive link is like that. grrr.

Labels: uni

Managed to "complete" the first assignment .. on databases .. it works properly .. except for the form validation. bugger. duno how the damn XSP form val works so it wont properly do it .. damn complicated .. all this based on the MVC architecture .. making a simple 1 page html file into a 3 page xsp/xml file! and the lecturer decided to extend the due date til a week later .. so tha tmeans i got one assignment due each day. argh.

damn enetation gone down, so commentin links wont work. wonder what happend to them hmmm

might as well wish christine and shezza a happy birthday since it is their birthday today, but they wont b readin this .. but it's the though that counts :)

Labels: uni

Damn. I don't know why the first archive link on the right only goes for 1 week and not for the month i set it too. Probably from the original setting and it wont change back. Jus hope it wont lose my archives from mar16-30 blehh

On other notes, I got my first assignment for C++ to do. Due in 2 weeks along with 2 other assignments which I have yet to do. I dont know how im gonna plan this out . ARGH!

Labels: blogging, uni

Sad news story. Leslie Cheung jumped off a building tonight at about 6:45PM HK time. Such a pity .. he was a good singer back in the good ol days .. acting wasnt too bad either .. he had a nice singin voice. Ahh news all over the web and I can hardly read a word of it. Besides his name and one or two characters thats about it. Dammit wish I stuck to my chinese.

Off the bad news and onto some better (but not good) news.
I only jus realised how hard my assignment was that is due next week. On top of that, the quiz is next week too. Gotta study and do this assignment. ARGH. XML. XSLT. XSP. DTD. XPath. Tomcat. Cocoon. All these things I gotta learn to use in one week. I dont know how i'm gonna survive. And then I gotta do the J2EE assignment due the week after that. Convert C COM+ code into J2EE. Not a pretty sight.
Then a few days later, on my birthday might I add, is the first implementation for ecomm due as well. ergh. not good at all.

BUt holidays for a week then more fun! Can't wait. Be busy holidays too. more on that later..

time to figure out what to do

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