Wednesday, March 25, 2009

i'm so freaking busy

and having no internet doesnt help.

seriously all week last week was me working on Youth Stuff and Church Stuff aswell as Homework and Assignments and Classes.

honestly - i think when i went home last week; majority of it was at 9pm. give or take a couple of hours.

either from church or work.

and the only time i can unwind is at home - on the internet - chatting with people - by people; i mean garbo. :P

anytime i have a chance to talk to you americans - i'm off at class or just too damn busy with housework/homework/assignments.

i havnt even got time to post a vid saying i'm busy.

all i got is my tweets and my dailybooths.

that aside; internet is pissing me off.
it constantly drops out and loses connection.
so i'd be talking to someone and then 2 mins later - nothing. i got d/c

i called my ISP and the lines were full. i assumed it's because their service was jsut dead for everyone.
so i called through another call service (mobile phones query) and asked THOSE guys some questions.

when i DID get through - the chick jsut told me maybe it's the router. get a friend to lend you their modem and test it out.

i dont have any friends that have the same internet connection (adsl2+) therefore they dont have the same modem.
and apparently - if they send ppl to fix the line and there wasnt any problem - they're gonna charge us.

WTH.

anyway tomorrow i got a day off... kinda - evening school. so i'll count it as a day off. gotta do with what you're given.

hopefully i can talk to so of yall then.

peace and word to your mom.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

*WARNING* LONG ARSE/ASS BLOG

so on saturday i had a pretty nice day - albeit the re-occuring bouts of cough that would aggravate my skull giving me a dull headache.

so i meet kate and hannah at melbourne central, we were going to go to a Dance comp. in which my friend Johnny and his Crew were participating. so we were going to show support. We were trying to decide where to eat and stuff when they told me they were going to make a banner for the comp.

who brings a poster to a HipHop Competition?!
sure you see em in ABDC or SYTYCD... but the underground, un-televised comps; no one does that - lest you be labeled Lame.
Kate and Hannah you see arent the kind of people that would be into hiphop.
i on the other hand...

anyway, so i decided to help them with their banner making and we went to get paper supplies from the art store near my uni; cos i get a discount :D
anyway, surrounding the art store are alleyways peppered with graffiti Pieces and random tags - it's an awesome place. but what wasnt awesome was some guy who was minding his own business was getting beat up by 3 guys.

like seriously; the girls and i stopped in our tracks and i stood infront of em.
yknow when you see something shoking all sorts of things go through your mind - yknow; fight or flight stuff like that.

i didnt think - i should help the guy, jump in the fray, be heroic - that kind of thing i'm usually not heard of doing :P
i also didnt think - maybe we should walk around the other way... it's safer.
no - first thing i thought of was

Shit, Am i in the shot? where's the camera?
crap hope i'm not ruining the shoot.

honest. that's the first thing that went through my mind.
the scene was so ridiculous; the 3 guys' method of inflicting pain was so weak that it didnt occur to me that it might've been actually real.

the Art shopkeeper, comes out yells at the gang "Oi! WTF are you doing?" whist brandishing a metal baseball bat.

and they ran... past us.

we walk past the bash-ee and people crowded around him, asking him questions and he was clueless. either that or he was covering up for em.... i dunno - i'm such a cynic.

we got our poster paper and glue and we went to look for a place to eat and put together the poster - we went to a indonesian cafe/restaurant and ate there.
it was hilarious because i had the idea of adding "i hart" to the poster of the crew name so it wouldve been "i hart Ntice"
but we needed a felt tip marker, which we dont have and didnt have time/money to get cos we were almost late. so we asked the staff at the restaurant if they had a felt tip marker. or generally called here in Australia a "TEXTA" (its a brand of marker).

and almost immediately we had a failure of communication with the waiter. i tried doing sign language, writing in the air while saying "pen, marker?"
he replied with "knife?"
so kate and hanna tried to help out
"do you have a marker? a Texta" says kate
"yeah, a texter, do you have a texter?" says hannah

my eyes twitched at the sound of "texter"

"sorry?" says the waiter
"a texta - yknow a permanent marker" says kate
"yeah, yeah, a texter, a texter" added hannah

and i just snapped.

"OMFG! it's TEXTA! TEX-TAH! - NOT BLOODY TEXTER! THERE'S NO FREAKING 'ER' AT THE END! SO WHY SAY TEXTER?! GOD! WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AUSSIES?!"

*sidenote - hannah and kate are filipino; but are pretty much white washed. except for kate cos she speaks kapampangan (local dialect of her parents) and a bit of filo, hannah just understands tagalog*

honestly; i have this Hatred with australians and the way they pronounce things. especially the Ah/Er sounds. i get how their accent tends to make words with "er" at the end sound like "ah", like breaker or shaker; it becomes breakah and shakah (shay-kah).
but the thing is, sometimes they just become retarded and switch the rules, especially when aussies "imitate" or mock American Accents (yknow - pronouncing the "r"s)
so when they say "America" they dont say "AMERICAH" they effing say "AMERICAR".
i just lose my sh!t right there.

the waiter comes back with a permanent marker; and we thank him - he jokingly asks for a dollar for the use of the pen, funny guy - i replied; i payed for the food and the drink! cmon mate.

we finished up and completed the banner - using the brown paper that once wrapped around the yellow poster paper as the extension where we wrote "We <3"
we met up with hannah's friend Bonnie, who - by the looks of the way she dressed was also a dancer - or in the HipHop Scene. finally someone i could relate to; when she heard of the banner idea - she laughed and stopped when she realized that the girls were serious.

we took the train there and arrived 15mins past 5 (apparently doors opened at 5) so we were expecting a long line. we were actually early and doors opened at 6. we got seats at the 3rd row in the middle. it was a pretty good spot.

the performances were Great, some were ok but others were pretty damn good - including johnny's.
but it wasnt just a dance comp - there was also singing aswell, so we got to hear a bunch of girls and 2 guys sing their rendition of popular songs or their own (as was the case of this guy called the Rudy Vee - crap singer btw)
This Chick sang "if i was a boy" and absolutely Destroyed the song... it was out of tune and was definitely not in her singing register; the verse was too low for her and the chorus was too strong for her to keep up.

one of the judges performed the same song... but it was definitely better. thank God.

anyway, Johnny danced so well - too bad i didnt get vid footage cos he was really good.
he even got an invite from another crew to join them! and it was his first performance!
amazing... makes me wanna join a hip hop crew.

sadly as well as johnny danced, they didnt win but it was ok cos they were up against really good crews and held their own even though it was their first perf.

the whole banner thing was pretty fail cos Kate and Hannah got too self conscious about it and ended up only doing it half arsed; like barely raising it up. i got fed up and snatched it from them and raised it up high like a crazy arse.
it even blocked the camera that was filming the performances (filming it badly may i add).

we headed home after the comp, and after we said our congrats to johnny's crew for doing so well, yadda yadda. we got off at Melb. Central again and i got some crepes cos i was hungry.
waited till kate, hannah and bonnie got on their trains then left for church (cos that's where my parents were).

went home with my parents arguing the whole way...

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the next morning... it all went sour.

i've already written way too much but i just want to say that this morning was the crappest sundays i've had ever.

i wasnt feeling well and i had splitting headache from the coughing that i've been having, i told my mum that i cant go to church because of it - she tried to call my bluff, didnt work. i told dad - he was slightly more cooperative but with an included insult... "why so you can play games all day?"

bastard

my sister then tried to borrow my Laptop cos she needed to practice this dance (for a secret perf.) but i needed it to work on an assignment due on tues. so i said no, and told her just use the portable dvd player - she said it's the wrong format, i asked her why didnt she convert it; she replied "it didnt work"
"well why didnt you try to find out another way?"
dad comes in and he's like "why do you need to practice at church anyway?"
"cos there's more room there than here at home" my sis replied
"you just want to show off dont you?" says dad

Really? you wanna go there? such an arse sometimes...

and he makes it that it's my fault and blablabla and starts interrogating my sis why she's practicing and she cant say cos well it's for him... for is "iftiethfay irthdaybay"

so out of frustration; i pack up my laptop and give it to my sister, just to stop all this shit.

they leave.

i then proceed to try and do some work on the other computer.

yknow that phrase when the shit hits the fan?
well it hit 30 mins ago - i didnt know there was a 2nd wave.

i get a call from church saying i was supposed to be on vision mixing but they've already got somebody else to do it... ugh.

and then i get my wacom tablet to work on some story boards and i find that not only is the USB cable and the Pen missing, those two things are currently in the bad that my sister used to put the Laptop in fater taking out the aforementioned Tablet and my sketch book.

FRAKIN HELL!

ugh... i still got some work done tho... drew em in my Sketch Book, but couldnt scan cos my laptop was with princess unprepared!

they day got reasonably better but with still acouple of hitches such as the internet dying for half an hour for no apparent reason.


anyway i'm pretty sure i've ranted and raved enough to last me till next week..
ttyl

if i dont die of high blood pressure or stroke.