Venus Bay

so ok; i couldnt sleep and i ended up sleeping at 4:30am and i got woken up at 6. =.=

so we get ready; mum's practically bringing the whole house to the beach.
but we didn't go until 8 i think... cos we had to wait for my aunts to get to our house.

so anyway; dad gets irritated whenever we're late. so he's irritated already.

we get in the car and drive to Venus Bay; and dad needed to refill the LPG tank - but since it was sunday; everything was closed. that got dad even more annoyed.

so we're on the road looking for Gas stations that refills LPG tanks; we end up finding one but the guy refused to fill my dad's tank up cos "he was busy"...

what a bastard.

anyway we get to this surf shop, where we were gonna get our Fishing Licenses but apparently they dont sell the ones we need. pah
we were told that the life Savers building near the beach sells them, so i thought - Great! we can get it while were there and it'll be one smooth motion.

so we drive to the beach and we meet my uncle and aunt who funnily enough didnt recognize us even when we were a meter/3 feet away. lol
we go to the life savers building and they tell us that it's not open until 1pm.
crap 2 hours to burn. so we just waited underneath a shelter with the rest of my uncle's party.
We ate lunch as more people came to join us and the adults then decided to change to another beach cos there'll be more pipis there. so we did.
on the way back to our cars we thought since it's almost 1pm we can get the licenses now.

we thought wrong; we had to wait 10 mins for the 1st guy from the council to get there; he then informed us that another person will be coming to bring the books/permits.
5 mins past; another jeep rolls in, they tell us that they dont have the books and they have another person dropping by to give it to them.
another 10 mins past; it's practically 1:30pm by now and a crowd of ppl who want their fishing licenses to get Pipies/fish have gathered the kiosk window.

the council people then cordially inform us that this weekend is a "educational weekend" to teach us to buy the licenses ONLINE rather than the old way. wow, they're teaching us convenience by sacrificing out time and stretching our patience...

bastards

anyway, they then tell us that the place'll be open at 2. At 2? are you serial?
so i got fed up, we devised a plan to leave a couple of people to get the permits and the rest to move on to the beach.

so that's what we did.

i think like 30 mins or so later the rest of the people came back with the permits, so we all started to dig and hunt for the pipis.

it's cool cos you gotta dig into the sand to find them cos they bury themselves as the waves rush into the shore. and they look really creepy alive.
anyway, we ended up getting like a Shiz-load of em, like 2 big buckets full.
we divided them amongst the party... kinda like an RPG or WoW :P

so after that people started to leave to go home cos the other people lived like... 3-3.5 hours away where as we only lived like 1.5-2 hrs.
a couple of us stayed behind cos we wanted to go fishing in the lake.

i didnt catch anything but it was relaxing.

we finally went home and it was dark already - i checked the time and we got home at about... 10:40pm and the rest of the people didnt leave our house until 12 i think.

anway it's 3am now... and you're probably as tired as i am... not because it's late - it's because of this Freaking Epic Long Blog.

i'll finish up.

bye :P

Happy Lunar New Year

so yeah; for chinese lunar new year my family and a collection of our friends are going to Venus bay, give or take 120 km/65 mi south-east of Melbourne.

there were gonna go clamming, catch pippies...
these things:



so yeah; we're probably gonna end up bringing like a bucket of these things home to eat...

so if any of you likes seafood; come down to Ralphie's Clam Shack. :P

take care all; much love.

oh fun!

President Obama~!
awesome, i never thought my insomnia would benefit me :D


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so yeah; today i woke up freakin 30 mins before my alarm going off...

i hate that.

i got ready to go to the city cos my friends and i were going to go eat yum-cha at Docklands.

we got to the docklands and we walked around the shops to burn some time; but we ended up kinda getting lost and we couldnt find the restaurant we were supposed to go to.
we found out where it was and it was on the other side of the area. =_=

anyway, we got there at around 2ish, we ordered quite a bit, but all of it ended up costing like around $53... pretty cheap cos we used Hannah's discount card :D

anyway, we went back into the city and we decided to get sticker photos cos we havnt taken one for ages; we went to this new joint and it was pretty awesome.

wasted so much money on those damn claw machines... they're bloody rigged i tell you.

we went home, but before that i bought some sour cherry cola gummies and a can of Dr. Pepper.

the Dr. pepper came in useful cos it took my mum a while to pick me up from the petrol (gas) station.

and i also had trouble with my Photoshop saying that the serial expired; after 15 mins of Hardcore googling - i found a solution and hallelujah; it now works again.

so yeah; here's my favourite photo of me and my friends.



did i mention it was a top of 40°C/104°F today?

Effing Hot

yeah so today; i slept at 6am cos i was playing team fortress 2 and trying to get achievements for my Heavy. i did get them eventually (at around 4am) then planned to go to sleep but ended up talking to Garbo for another 2 hrs.

anyway i wake up at 9 (by myself - amazingly enough) and try to wake up my sister cos re requested for me to do so at 9, which was then.
after a failed attempt, i went back to sleep and woke up at 10:30.

i had somewhere to go to later so i got my clothes ready; but before that i checked today's Weather.

Sunny with a top of 34°C

Holy Crap.
it's gonna be hot

so i got my vneck and my black skinnies (cos shorts doesnt work with that shirt) and got into the shower.
i had rice and leftover black bean chicken feet for breakfast (yeah; chicken feet), when i finished i brushed my teeth then got in the car.

mum drove my sis to the shopping center first, then me to the train station cos i was going to Federation Square to watch the Asian Pop Idol held by SYN.

well i got there in the comfortably air-conditioned train and met up with Jason.
we took our seats and watched singer after singer sing their favourite Asian Pop Song.

there was a Guest Judge from Japan, "The Road" as he liked to be called was a rapper and he busted some of his tracks during Half Time and also at the end.

there was a SHINee song sung (the eng vers of replay) and 2 DBSK songs (love in Ice and some other song) the others were ones i havnt heard of.

funniest part was there was this white guy who sang this Jap song and at the end he stopped too soon... and started singing again but the same word over and over again to the melody.



then there was also this guy - who was doing ok at the start but once the 2nd verse or something came on he stopped and complained to the tech guys that the backing track they were playing was the wrong one and this one had singing in it. it went on for a minute until the MC took the Mic off him and introduced the next act.

the winner was the White guy who sang the Japanese song; good on him.

afterwards Jase and I went to Minotaur cos i felt buying some Comics... there werent any that i wanted to buy. crap.

so we went back to Flinder's to go home and we also got some food from this viet. bakery in the food court section of the station.
i got a viet sausage roll.

i went home by train and bus.

got home changed to my shorts and did my internet rounds.

summer's here.

Nerd Glasses

yeah i Haz em.
hoorah for Bolt 3d

Great movie, i LOLed in it.

i want a cool camera

that's right.

i've been wanting a really nice SLR for ages now and i dont have one... yet.

i mean even my dad has a point and shoot that isnt too bad (although it needs AA batteries - even though i specifically told them to get the one with the Li-ion).

why dont i use the point and shoot? because i like control.
especially with photographic and video equipment. i like to put things on manual so i can put my own spin on things. sure it's not as refined but that's what's cool about it; it's raw, it's personal.

i wanna do blogs like simon (ddonq) does, he's got atleast one picture in there. me? all words. and if you're lucky; one of my videos.

but yeah; i would definitely like to have an SLR.
the feel of the telescopic lens, your face gently pressed against the back of the camera as you peer into the viewfinder.

i dont even mind even one that uses film although developing your shots would be expensive. i'll just stick with digital.

anyWhoo

i havnt done much these summer holidays and they'll be over pretty soon.
but then again i have gone to sydney and a whole bunch of little things. i was supposed to go out with a couple of friends but it got pulled out (they didnt even let me know - i had to ask).

the new computer's fixed by the way; my cousin resetted the CMOS settings and pretty much rebooted the whole thing. this means i'll be able to play TF2 with no dropouts and weird Graphics, and also this means that i can get my hands on Left 4 Dead :D

which would then mean a gradual decrease in my grades. :P

anyway, i guess i've blogged for long enough.
i'll see you next time

take care.

PS.

i watched The Dark Knight using the Blu Ray drive and the 24" LCD that we got...

BEAUTIFUL, simply Gorgeous.