Ralphie's Thought Hole

Zombicorns

2011-02-06T01:42:00.001+11:00

Dear John,

In light of the recent release of your Zombie Novella - i would like to say that you're AWESOME. Thank you for letting it be released.

Even though you said that it's terribly written; I found it difficult if not impossible to stop until I had read every last word. I'm no literary scholar but I likes what i likes and i definitely likes this.

I can't imagine how the story would have panned out if it had gone though the editing process that your previous novels had. But I'm sure it would be a completely different story if it had.

To anyone who hasn't read it yet, I don't want to show any spoilers here but I love how you address the subject of humanity and what it is to be human in the light of a Zombie Apocalypse.
i mean it HAS been done before - but not in the mindset of a teenager (well, it's the first one I've read).

By the way, that Cogito Ergo Sum joke made me giggle.

I like the way you drag out the key information about the protagonist and only reveal them bit by bit.

Anyway - i'm rambling here, and this was only meant to be a letter of appreciation, not a book report. it's 1:32am here in Melbourne, Australia and i have church tomorrow (or in 8 hrs); i could have written this letter later but my thoughts for this book would have faded by then.

Thank you again, keep writing and DFTBA.

Yours truly,

Ralph Lim
(aka Cellmate89 on YouTube - blatant advertising? i think so)

P.S.
wouldn't it be great if this was made into a short film or something?

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to those who haven't read the Novella yet, you can download it for free here:
http://dft.ba/-zomgzs

tell me what you think!

Moving out pt3

2011-02-05T22:29:00.000+11:00

so today i went to the property inspection of the place i wanted.

massive disappointment.

the place was scummy. i dont think the landlord/s even considered cleaning the apartment before getting it inspected.

there was a oddly cut patch of carpet on top of the original, the walls had a brown tinge, there were still some screws and holes on the wall from the last tenant; the kitchen was a mess - the drawers could probably fall off their hinges at anytime, NO STOVE (how the hell am i going to make my culinary masterpieces now?!), and it was pretty dang small.

now i know why it was only $150 a week.

but still, i'm a little bit annoyed that there wasn't even an attempt to clean it; it was as is - there were still some dirt on the carpet when i looked at it.
i didn't spend too much time in there.

i regret not taking pictures.

these - however; are the pictures they advertised online.

this wasn't the place i saw.

*sigh* i wish things were easier...

Moving out Pt 2

2011-02-02T10:12:00.000+11:00

i might actually be moving out...
it's pretty crazy, and slightly spontaneous but i think this year would be a good year to move out.

i'll be having more responsibility at work, along the lines of a Leadership role in the Production Department (which means i can't go clubbing anymore - not that i ever went often).
i'll have to attend meetings that run till 9-10pm and if it takes 1.5 hours to get home then why not move somewhere closer?

also - the original place that i wanted to move into but couldn't (cos it was taken before i could do anything); was available again! i don't know why but i haven't actually thought of moving out again since last night - and it was then that i saw the studio apartment available for rent!

and it's crazy cheap considering it's so close to work!

anyway - hopefully this all goes to plan and i end up getting a place near work :D

hope you all are doing well,

Ralphie.

i need more time

2010-12-06T00:21:00.000+11:00

seriously, why is there only 24 hours in a day? cant it be at least 30?
it's ridiculous how much time i spend in transit and doing meaningless crap that take up so much time that i dont have atm.

i'm so time restricted that sleep and time for myself (aka WoW time) is basically scheduled.

thanks work for making my life a living hell of schedules and deadlines.

it's getting late - i guess i just wanted to write this for catharsis.

hope you're all doing well.

I hit my head on the desk

2010-11-06T22:06:00.002+11:00

just a song i wrote about my frustrations at work.

sing to the tune of "i whip my hair back and forth"

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I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Just hit it)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Hit it Real good)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk

drag my arse out of bed cos i slept late
got home at 9 cos i had to stay back
work's being good and all
and i love making videos, but if they keep making me redo crap
i think i might hit someone

so watch out (yea)
if you give me a job
and change it at the last minute
i'm might make a fuss, make a fuss
make a fuss, make a fuss, make a fuss

tryin' not to let idiots keep me off my grind
if i keep my head up i know i'll be fine
i keep fighting until i get there
but if i'm done and they make me do it again;

I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Just hit it)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Hit it Real good)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Just hit it)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Hit it Real good)
I hit my head on the desk

i only got 2 more years in this gig
Soon as i hit that date, y'know i'm quittin it.
never work for church again cos they're idiots
cos they dont know how long it take to render
they tell me "mmmm nah, maybe not"
once they're out of the room, i hit it real hard
i hit it real hard, real hard, i hit it real hard

tryin' not to let idiots keep me off my grind
if i keep my head up i know i'll be fine
i keep fighting until i get there
but if i'm done and they make me do it again;
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Just hit it)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Hit it Real good)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Just hit it)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Hit it Real good)
I hit my head on the desk

All my video people if you feel me
do it do it "head" your desk ("head" your desk)
Don't matter if its wood, steel (wood, steel)
do it do it "head" your desk ("head" your desk)

All my video people if you feel me
do it do it "head" your desk ("head" your desk)
Don't matter if its wood, steel (wood, steel)
do it do it "head" your desk (your desk, your desk)

I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Just hit it)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Hit it Real good)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Just hit it)
I hit my head on the desk
I hit my head on the desk (Hit it Real good)
I hit my head on the desk

Ink

2010-10-02T13:49:00.000+10:00

I wants one.

or two.

btw, the one on your left (my right) is Hebrew script.

Travelling

2010-09-10T12:11:00.000+10:00

i want to travel.

i've always wanted to go places, see the world, experience cultures.
but to do that you need money, and to get enough money you have to stay in one place for a while.

i'm doing that now - i've been at this job for about half a year and counting - which is quite surprising seeing how time flies by so fast; it didn't feel like 1/2 a year at all.

it's a pretty good job, it's got it's rewards, the pay is pretty good for a guy like me but i'm jealous of the people who can just go take some time off work and go somewhere for 3 months.

i mean, it makes sense if you're part of a work force that has 20 other people like you and that it's not that much of a hassle if you go away for a few months.
but for me; if i miss a day or two - God forbid; 3 days - the news and special items go to crap.
and there's no-one to take my place if i go; there's no intern to pass my work on to, there's no volunteer that's going to be able to do the same work i do.

being a company asset sucks!

but getting back to the point - there are times i wanted to go back to studying; not just to learn crap but to have the free time to travel during the breaks and what not.
but i dont want to dish out thousands of dollars for tuition just for "free time".

oh well, i guess i should just take it as it goes. Annual Leave is such a B.

Moving Out

2010-08-10T23:34:00.000+10:00

i want to move out of my parent's house.

not because i hate it here - it's because it sucks having to live so far away from work.
and also i want a taste of independence before i come crawling back to mum's home cooking (hopefully not too soon).

well, i found this awesome place that's basically a stone's throw from work and it's only $650 a month. basically with that, i can still pay for my bills (phone and other repayments) and still have some money spare for groceries and a possible internet bill. it's a Bedsit or a Studio apartment so it's roughly a room with a kitchen... well not that small anyway.

but sadly, as i was trolling around looking for other options, i couldn't find this property. i googled the exact address and i saw that it had been removed by the advertiser.

does that mean that it's been rented out?

probably.

Dammit!

should i take this as a sign from God? dont leave home yet?

but it SUUUCKS having to wake up at 7 in the morning and spend around an hour to get to work! even if i do get a car, it's still the same time frame; and it'd be more cost effective for me if i just took the Train.

Dammit - i wish i had my license already so i could consider some of the (not as) cheap apartments in the nearby Suburbs...

maybe that's what i need to do.

1. Get License and a Car
2. Get Apartmet
3. Live it up :P

i wouldnt mind having something like this (but with a kitchenette)

i have a lot of impressing to do.

2010-07-01T12:23:00.001+10:00

i think it's been agreed on that i'm going to have to go to the UK sooner or later - i'd rather sooner, but other plans have gotten in the way (i'm (trying) not (to be) bitter), cos i have to meet Garbo's friends and family sometime.

anyway - i always knew that i'm going to have to make a good impression on her friends and family, and i always thought i could just wing it.
that might not be such a good idea after all.

i mean, i have watch what i say and do.
i'm a pretty embarrassing guy to be with (for those who havnt been around me enough to know), i dance in public, i sing retardedly catchy songs and i get a bit crazy when i'm with my friends (to a certain point). oh and sometimes i might not catch on the situation as quickly as i should and i usually say something or do something that ruins some surprise or makes the situation be REALLY awkward.

but basically i gotta follow 3 rules.

1: keep your hands to yourself
2: smile and nod.
3: do everything they tell you to.

i think if i follow this, i'm in the clear. doncha think?

oh and an addendum;
since garbs has gone back to the UK, i'm gonna have to adjust the times that i get to talk to her... and it's gonna SUCK! i'm way used to the 2hr difference. i don't know how i'll cope.

PS. the pic above was the ACTUAL picture i wanted to use, but when i direct linked it, it ended up giving me that stupid stop sign.

PPS. i'm actually quite good with my friend's parents, they love me. i guess i'm not that worried as such but it's going to be weird calling them auntie and uncle then in a few years calling them mum and dad (hopefully).

lulz

2010-06-12T17:26:00.002+10:00

sorry i've been totally neglecting my blog; havnt really had any good ideas to blog about lately tbh.

as of right now i'm running on 2 hours of sleep mainly because of the World Cup being shown at 4am and my friends getting absolutely hammered on alcohol and me and a friend of mine being the only ones sober (enough).

so basically i got home at 7am and i went to sleep. soon after my Mum comes busting in my room; her voice more shrill than any alarm man has to make and yells "Get ready - we're going to your aunt's for lunch"...

at 9 am. Faaaantastic.

but that's besides the point. the point is i just wanted to share to you some stuff i found on "FFFFound!" that i thought was cool or made me laugh cos i'm a nerd.

apologies for just posting links; i cant seem to get the images - it's better this way so atleast i can say i'm not infringing copyright.

Italics Pisa

had this toy when i was small

ryu's skills set

evolution of the Hipster

Jesus vs Darwin

RGB

Jesus casts Curaga - it might be a bit blasphemous but it's final fantasy related :P

have an awesome day

guys entry up

2010-04-30T11:31:00.001+10:00

the guy's version of "because God is Awesome" by Musing Mutley is up!
and i'm in it! hehe

http://musingmutley.blogspot.com/

New Blog

2010-04-27T12:55:00.001+10:00

hey guys; a friend of mine from church has started a new blog that has 2 things one should have; God and Style.

so basically the blog's all about God and Fashion :D

enjoy.

http://musingmutley.blogspot.com/

btw - i'm gonna be in the next entry :D :D

Happy One Year

2010-04-10T01:05:00.001+10:00

or Two years if you count the ustream/skype dating.

just wanted to tell you that there'll be many more years where this one came from!

hope they're filled with laughter and lots of love.
and hopfully you dont pull the ugly face too often, it might stick :P

i love you tremendously.

Your Ralphie

Intense Camp Revelation

2010-04-03T20:32:00.002+11:00

So I just got back from a Youth camp - when i say got back i mean i'm now writing this blog after speaking to my girlfriend and my best Chingu in America after i got back from camp.

anyway - i wanted to post this here just so i have a reminder about what God spoke to me in the 2nd night at Youth Camp.

that is; Have A Relationship With God.
that's all there is, but is it?

It's so easy to say that you'll read the Bible everyday or pray to God everyday; but when it comes to doing it and to KEEP ON doing it is Hard as Cuss.

tbh i used to pray every morning and evening and now - nothing.
i used to read the bible with my girlfriend and we'd talk about it on skype; now - nothing.

when i look at myself, i feel so ashamed to call myself a Christian sometimes, an ambassador for God, the light atop a stand for the world to see.
but if this light starts to weaken and starts to die out - then it's not a good light, now is it?

i havn't done REALLY bad things - just stuff that a normal person might do but a christian shouldn't.
and i guess i wouldn't mind coming clean about some of the stuff i've done, because you guys can't really judge me :P

i used to smoke - both the wacky and the non-wacky type of tobacco. i didn't chain smoke or anything, i only smoked when my friends did and as a christian it's worse because your friends know you're a christian yet you're with them doing the same things they are and not setting a better example.

there's another thing but i won't reveal it only because it involves a 3rd party and this is about my troubles not theirs.

but yeah; i live different lives, one in church, one at home and one with friends.

and in this camp God told me to just live one; the one that lives for Him.
and it just struck me, out of the many times that God has tried to convince me about what i've been doing this one i know has stuck on me (before, i started to change then i got complacent and went back).

so now - no matter what my friends say, what they call me i'm going to stop and turn away if they're doing things that are not pleasing to God.

so now i'm going to start praying, reading the bible and being in God's presence more because what's a relationship when one side just does all the communicating?

i don't mind if you dis-agree or you feel like you don't relate; this entry is just for me to remind myself to spend that quite alone time with God once in a while and have a nice chat with my Heavenly Father.

PS i felt like i needed to say this:

God Loves You, i know it sounds cliche but He Really does, He loves you like no-one else can, has or ever will. He loves you even if you've done something bad in the past or you've been "good" all your life. He loves you regardless of your sexual orientation and He loves you for who you are behind closed doors. He really wants to have a relationship with you, and if you would let Him in your life even for just once - you'll see how wonderful He can really be.

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geneology... once removed

2010-03-16T02:34:00.000+11:00

i've always wondered what you would call your Cousin's child or your Cousin's child's child, etc...
in my family, if you're a generation higher; you're an uncle or aunt - no matter what your age is.

so if your great aunt (grand ma's sister) has a child (miraculously - seeing as she'd be probably in mid-menopause) when you're lets say 20 - that child according to my family would be your aunt.
only because generation wise; you're later than the baby.

imagine - calling a baby auntie or uncle... it's freakin weird.

but i did some ~~googling~~ research and found out that your great aunt's child is your 1st Cousin ONCE REMOVED.

i always wondered about the whole "once removed" stuff that i read in books and hear about in movies.
i always thought that the removed status was because they were disowned and was accepted back.
and i thought that if you were "thrice removed" then you were probably a lousy cousin.

but it turns out that the "removed" status applies to how many generations later or previous that cousin is.
so if your cousin is one generation later (your cousin's son/daughter) or one generation previous (your uncle or aunts cousin) they would be your first cousin Once Removed.
and it's twice removed if it's 2 generations previous or later, etc.

the whole first, second, third, etc cousin thing is related to who their parents are; for example:

your first cousin is your direct cousin from your parent's siblings.
your second cousin is the child of your great uncle/aunt's child (your 1st cousin once removed).
and your third cousin is the child of your 2nd cousin once removed.

it's really confusing; no wonder some cultures just call each other uncle/aunt/elder brother/sister;
it's easier that way and also it makes the relation a bit closer.

image courtesy of wikipedia

things i've noticed

2010-03-06T02:13:00.000+11:00

a.k.a "stuff i've already known but just thought of mentioning it now"

i need a waterproof pad to write my ideas whilst in the shower (saw one on google - it exists)
i'm too lazy to capitalize the letters that need capitalizing but i tend to capitalize the ones that dont.
i might possibly be starting my first ever full time job that involves something that i'm interested in and am trained to. i'm also slightly scared i might screw up.
adding 2 front slashes "/" before or after a title or sub-title makes it look cooler.
dual titles are also cool.
i think i have a slight imbalance of hormones that impedes my body from giving me more armpit hair but also stops me from breaking out from pimples. it's bittersweet.
i'm not yet used to sleeping alone.
i know quite a bit about the bible/christianity , quite so that i've surprised myself.
i forget easily
i get distracted easily
i'm a memento hoarder. if it means something to me - i keep it, no matter how slightly insignificant. i have a box.
this blog entry is jut a way for me to write topics out that i cant be bothered fleshing out
or i'm just restraining myself from boring you with long ass entries
i've always like the notion of getting married - not just because of my religion, i cant bear to be just BY MYSELF and JUST have a companion (that i change every now and then).
i plan to get married with the person i'm with atm.

i'm probably going to add more to this as i think up of some more.

short post about airports

2010-02-19T17:18:00.000+11:00

did yall know that i spent more time in china than i did in my own home (i recently moved)

crazy

i'm in sydney domestic airport at the moment and my flight still hasnt got a gate yet. it's worrying me.
i have had a short stint of unfortunate events concerning airports lately and i dont think i'll be surprised if this is another one of them.

btw

my flight from Shanghai to Sydney was delayed because the plane had to go back to Sydney because of electronic problems or something.
so the flight itself was at 1:30 in the morning.
thankfully Qantas went and book all the passengers a room at a nearby airport hotel and that's where i stayed for a couple of hours before we got called back.

the flight was alright, i had 2 seats all to myself, some had 3 but i had the view.
i watched michael jackson's THIS IS IT on the plane, it was pretty good; too bad he died cos that would have been AWESOME.
i also watched Dorian Grey... it's an alright movie, i havnt read the book but i'm sure the movie follows it quite close.

hopefully my flight gets its gate soon cos i'm starting to hate airports.

Hong Kong

2010-01-27T04:03:00.001+11:00

hi

so sorry if i havnt been writing, china internet blocks all form of free speech, ergo, no FB, no YT no blog.

however dailybooth works...

that aside i've been having a GREAT time; lemme give you a quick walkthrough of my trip here in the motherland.
(WARNING - HELLA LONG ENTRY, make some tea or coffee or our favourite drink before/while reading this)

Day 1 - 2: in nanjing, chill out post flight and getting ready for shanghai trip.

Day 3 - 17: Shanghai, i saw falling snow for the first time EVER... i was like a little kid.
we went to the Shanghai Financial Building (100 floors up, you can see all of shanghai), this place called "Fenshine" where everything was pretty dang cheap and probably fake to a degree; "The Bund" which was like the river side where you can see the Shanghai City Scape but bits of it were in under construction for this business conference later this year, The Shanghai Aquarium (pretty good) and Hooters... which was funny - a chinese hooters. (make the racial connection people)
We also had garbo's friends over (we stayed at her sister's posh apartment). we got introduced to the awesomeness of Squash and i felt very inadequate after working out with Garbo's friends Ian and Luca. We also had Christmas in shanghai - we ate italian food.

Day 17 - 22: Went to Beijing where we saw the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Temple of Heaven, saw how Jade sculptures were made, had a tea ceremony, saw Peking Opera, Chinese Acrobats and did the Michael Jackson leaning thingie on the Great Wall (we went to the great wall on Jan 01 2010 :D ).
We celebrated the turning of the New Year on the roof of the Youth Hostel we were staying at, and it snowed that night and on the morning of the new year, the roofs of beijing were white with a light blanket of snow.
We also had a taste of fried silkworms, which tasted FOUL beyond words, ate shark meat (on a stick) and dog meat (on a stick). some guy tried to sell us Sheep Penis (or sheep cock or sheep dick - the guy's exact words) but we said no.

garbo wanted some as soon as we went away though...

Day 22 - 35 (i think): Back in Nanjing, but a couple of days re-packing in Shanghai first.
in nanjing we tried to get my visa extended (cos my plane ticket was booked for 2 months and 2 days), but were told that we had to have about $5000 AU either in hard cash or in some reserved form.
so i had to ask my parents (and sadly garbo's aswell) to help out with the money thing.
Which actually happened, we gathered around 26,000 Chinese RMB (more than the required amount) and just left it in my Paypal Acct.
We went back and was told that we had to fill in this form for temporary residency at the local police station, so again, we had to go back the next day.
the thing was, we thought that if we were filling out a residency form; the place where i'm residing (garbo's accomodation) required guests to be registered as to avoid future problems. well, we tried to do the right thing and instead ended up getting told to only stay there for 3 more days and then get out.
we filled the form anyway and thank God that the cops didnt/havnt check/ed.

to make a long story short - we got the application approved (after alot of stress that is...)

4 days ago from now, garbo decided just out of random to go to hong kong.
so i got my parents to wire some money and 3 days later: here we are.

so first night in Hong Kong, we walked the breadth and width of "Nathan Rd" (BIG BIG road) and went to "Ladies Night Market".

Today we got on the Ferry to go to Victoria Peak, on the way there we stopped to check on some Camera stores, because Garbo wanted a clear lens filter. on a particular store, i asked how much the Sanyo Xacti was and got told it was HK$1000 (which is quite cheap), i said "Oh, ok; thanks." and started to walk out. The man followed me and said, "$800 then" i was like, "i would, but i dont have enough money at the moment."

the man's face changed, he scowled "no money? Then why are you in Hong Kong? Go Back Home!"

douche.

anyway, we had to go on this tram that went up this REALLY steep incline to the peak and we just had a walk around, the place wasnt Awesome but it was still pretty cool, they had a Madame Tussaud's but we didnt go cos it was EXPENSIVE.
when we got down and got back to the mainland, we went to "avenue of the stars", it's like hong kong's version of The Hollywood Star Walk :P

it was pretty cool, saw some hand prints of the chinese actors/actresses that i recognised and there was a statue of bruce lee (that i posed beside of).

afterwards we jsut went to a shopping mall to look for Lomo cameras and found a small shop FULL of Holgas.
Cheap Holgas.

planning to get one... hopefully, when i get money.

anyway that's pretty much it, thanks for sticking around reading this stupid arse entry.
i also kinda wanted to get rid of my previous emo entry.

Cya guys, till next time.

Dear Parents

2009-12-03T23:48:00.001+11:00

let me get straight to the point:

Why are you so disappointed in me?
Why is it that whenever you see other people's work - ones that are exceptionally better than mine - that you feel that i've failed you?

Has it not occurred to you that i might have tried as hard as everyone else?
Has it not occurred to you that i might have classmates that are more adept at design or at animation than i am?
Has it not occurred to you that i might not be used to the software?
Has it not occurred to you that animating on that certain software my not be my strong point?

Why is it only when i've gotten an award or i've gotten a high distinction that you tell your friends how good i am; why is it that you never seem to be proud of my other work - i never hear you talking about how your son aspires to be a television producer or something like that.

Has it not occurred to you that i'm NOT my classmates.

My experience in design and Their experience differs, my style and their style...

why you dont get that?
i dont know.

yknow what?
i'll show you, i'll be so damn successful you'll have no choice BUT to be proud of me.

oh and btw;
saying "i'm not comparing you" and then saying that i dont work as hard on my Major Project as my friends did, completely negates that fact that "you're not comparing me".

Late at Night

2009-11-29T02:19:00.000+11:00

When everyone's asleep...

i crave companionship the most.

sometimes, i just like the fact that someone's there.
it's probably that i just got so used to living in the same room as someone, now that i have my own room, it feels kind of empty.

to be honest - it's only around this time that i want a friend or Garbo to just be there...
mostly to talk, or in garbo's case - look at her while she studies or does anything (even tweeze her hairs).

even though i know right now, it's in my best interest to go to sleep - seeing as it's almost 2am and i'm going to church in the morning - i feel like just spending some time with someone.

i hate it when i know i've absolutely exhausted my options on the internet - like i've checked facebook like a gajillion times, the same with twitter and youtube and dailybooth - cos there's nothing else to do.

to be honest, normally i would watch a movie or a tv show that i've downloaded.
but i'm saving all the movies until i go to china - so me and garbs can do the whole "night in" kinda thing (which we failed to do the first time cos we were always tired after running around the city being all touristy).

lately, i've just gotten really clingy to garbo all of a sudden.
even i've noticed it (she's prob not just saying anything).

i dunno, i just feel the need to be with her all the time.
i think it's because i feel insecure with all those guys Mackin' on her in China

that i'm afraid that i'll lose her.

i'd HATE for that to happen - but knowing garbo, i know it wont.
but for some reason it's not enough. I NEED to be with her.

oh and you know what i've also noticed?

i dont have a clique at church.
like i dont have a Certain group that i belong in.
well, that's what i feel like.

the thing is, i'm friends with almost everyone. i try to be nice to the new guys, if i havnt spoken to one guy at youth i try to get to know them more. yknow, christian brotherhood kinda stuff.

but i dont have the kind of group thing that i have at Uni, or with my mates (we call ourselves "The Brotherhood - kinda lame but whatever). i'm usually wandering about after church looking for someone to say hi to, or have a chat. but everyone seems to have their own niche.

do i need to be more exclusive? i'm still in the HighSchool Youth because i cant adjust to the young adults one... and also i have leader responsibilities (which i probably took on so i can stay for longer), and also my Uni had got me going to classes on a wednesday evening, which was when the Young Adults had their youth night thing.

ahhh it's too late and i'm just going on about crap.
i need to sleep.

My Wishlist

2009-11-23T00:28:00.000+11:00

So, because Steben told me to - and mostly because i have nothing to blog about lately; i'm gonna do a wishlist.

1. An HD Camera.
to be exact a Sony HVR-Z7P

its a really pro camera but i want one for future use, business and what not.
if not... a Sanyo Xacti - cos it's cheap and good.

2. A proper Desk.
like one from ikea or something.

as long as i have a proper desk, not like my 3rd Grader Red Desk - stephen knows.

3. Monkey King (Son WuKong) Ring

see this guy?

see that thing on his head? there's a ring of that. i saw it at a trendy japanese t shirt boutique.

i wannit (which explains it being on my list)

4. A Tattoo... Maybe

yeah i want a tattoo...

I know it's a TAD patriotic, but what the hey; it's an awesome design and i've been meaning to get this for a long time now.

lol i love how all my wish list items cost alot of money...

looks like i'll need to get myself a job... or two.

i love marketing

2009-11-16T00:35:00.000+11:00

i really do

i just love how advertisements and brands just manipulate us into buying their stuff.

dont get me wrong, im not saying that the world is run by capitalists and blah blah blah, freedom this, anarchy that.

i already get enough of that at Uni.

i'm saying that i always look for the best thing out there, whether it's computers, clothes, gadgets, even food. if it's new and exciting, lemme at it.

providing i have money - which as of current - i dont.

technology might be advancing at such a fast rate, the economy might be getting a teensy bit better, but the wonders of advertisements never change.

for example.

Coca Cola.

everybody in the WORLD knows it. it's like one of the most recognized words of the english language next to "hello" and "OK".

since they released coke, they have had some of the best ads out there, from the christmas ads to the more recent "happiness in every bottle" slogan.
it makes it SO MUCH MORE appealing to the public if said drink was going to make your party better, and who doesnt want their party to be better?!

now, not only does advertising make us feel like we have to buy something because it's going to make us a better party host or that it makes being with friends a whole lot more enjoyable (than it already is), it also lies.

like you didnt know that already.

what i mean is, advertising or branding just uses the same formula and wraps it up in a different package.

like diet soft drinks (or soda, or pop - depends where the hell you come from);

normally people who drink those kinds of drinks (low in sugar, low in joules or calories) are either Women or Health conscious pricks.

ok, not all health conscious ppl are pricks... i mean it's good to be healthy - it's just that some make it their life's work to tell every one how they've ran 30kms on the treadmill and how they love the smell of their pre packed and calorie counted lite n easy meals cos they wouldnt be able to live with themselves if they put on that extra pound.

now with most guys, fit or not, sometimes being found with a diet coke bottle in your hand is very emasculating. no man is afraid of a little sugar! not unless you're diabetic. nowadays men are more accepting, we wear pink, some wear make up... we blur the borders now.

but seriously, think about it. the only Men you see having a "Diet Coke" are well... gay or efemminate. (which btw dont fall into the category of pricks - some are quite nice guys)

that's why the wonders of advertising and branding devised a cunning little plan to make sure guys who DO want a little less sugar in their soda dont get chastised out in public and shown as a sissy.

and so they presented "Coke Zero"

now, this concept was not new at all.
there was already Pepsi Max.

yeah, that's right. if you didnt know - pepsi max is pretty much diet pepsi - for men.
rememeber how pepsi max ads are all like guys doing hardcore stuff and the slogan at the end is like "Maximum taste - no sugar"? i mean look at the actual can! it's got breakdancers and stuff on it, and we all know breakdancers are awesome (no sarcasm there).

yeah - if you bought that and you're now drinking pepsi max because you like it and you think it's hardcore to drink it while it having no sugar... you've just be advertised.

and you're also a bit of a prissy.

i'm kidding.

so Coke released this Coke Zero and you guessed it. it's Diet Coke for guys.
they've also approached it the same way as pepsi did, it's HARDfknCORE to drink Coke Zero cos it makes you blow crap up and do all that crazy stuff all with out sugar! and sugar is a big no no.

and it's worked!

young men are buying this because they feel since it's low on sugar, it's good for them and they wont get made fun at cos they're not drinking a "girls drink".

i'm not really trying to make much of a point here.
just saying that i love how advertising shapes the way we choose what to buy or what to drink because it focuses on something that we desire as humans.

acceptance from others

if we buy this certain clothing brand it'll make us feel like we're part of something - either a clique or a fashion movement (which will probably pass on) or if we buy buy coke zero instead of diet coke guys might feel like they're keeping their masculinity.

it's all about being part of a group.
and hey, if you identify yourself within a certain group then go for it. drink that Coke Zero/pepsi max/diet coke/diet pepsi with pride.

i'm just gonna sit here with my normal sugar loaded Coke (no pepsi for me thanks) and be awake for the next 6 hours.

Cheers.

Hisashiburi da ne

2009-11-02T19:40:00.000+11:00

it HAS been a while.

since then i've pretty much finished my Major Project (soon to be put on YT for your convenience) and some of my assignments.
i've still to submit them but that's no biggie.
i also have to animate this thing for our end of year DVD to showcase our stuff and what not.

i'm %80 sure on the date that i'll be going to China... all i need is the money (which will be coming in a couple of days) and all that's left is Graduation.
well sorta, cos i might be doing a Bachelor's Course in Animation and interactive media next year (only one more year though).

we have a puppy now, still dont know what to name it - either Ratchet or James (i like ratchet better cos it doesnt sound like i'm calling my Sister's friend)
i dunno it's breed - my sister says its dad was a pug or something.
but it's tiny and it's gonna stay that way.

awesome.

i've also bought DJ Hero, so if anyone out there wants to add me, gimme your friend code thingie and i'll add you. cos i dunno how to find mine :P

what else...

i guess that's it.

oh!

i'm doing Movember again - not fundraising tho - i'm just trying to see how much of a mustache i can grow in a month.
i'll try and post a picture on Daily Booth everyday for the month of Nov. so you can see the progress of my 'Tache.

which i predict wont be much anyway.

FREAKIN A

2009-10-12T15:27:00.000+11:00

I Have Internet Again!

it feels like a high when you havnt used the net for a long long long time.
and you kinda end up going on a binge cos you've missed so much. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, dailybooth, emails, tigers, bears, oh my!

but seriously... awesome feeling.

that is all netizens.

Crap, I have no Internet...

2009-10-01T10:28:00.000+10:00

Right so let's cut to the chase,

I've moved house, much further from my uni, oddly enough.
It's in keysborough but most of yall probably don't even know where that is except for the fact that it's in Australia.
But I digress, I don't live in a 2 bedroom flat anymore, I've got my own room now thanks to my incessant complaining about how I'm 20 and how why I still have to share a room with a bloody 10 yr old.

But this means I can decorate. my room the way I wanted to for ages now, I can put up the posters that had collected dust, rolled up because of the lack of wall space. I can get a decent green screen goin since I don't have to compete space with my female sibling anymore. Although I don't think that's gonna make me make more videos :P

Back to the point, since I've moss house I now have a new number, new address (no crap), and a new phone number. That also means that I had to get my Internet relocated and there no guarantee that my net is gonna be available in the area that I will now be calling home in the next couple of years. On top of that, i found out yesterday that the phoneline in our house is shot and the telecoms ppl have to fix it... Gosh, I don't think i could live like this.

So enough with the pleasantries, we technically started the move on Thursday, didn't go to class cos it was too early, and also couldn't go to the next class cos I was to tired. I was told to start packing my clothes into boxes so we can just move it all at once and be over with, oh how I wish it was like that. Anyway, Friday dad borrowed a van from a friend and be and I moved our entire living room plus a ton of books in boxes to the new house and going there was the actual first time that I saw the place since I heard about it a fortnight ago. So we carried the heavy arse sofa-bed and the 2 arm chairs, I hurt my forearm and that was that for the day. Saturday he whole Lim clan came to help out, my aunts and uncles including my cousin helped out with the moving and packing of the test of the stuff, which were mostly mum's, who btw had 5, count them, 5 big straw bags (yknow those?). How much clothing can one person wear in a week?

So it's Thursday and the house still looks like it's been ransacked by robbers, but know what? I don't really care (that much), as long as I got a place where I can vlog in peace then I'm happy.

Btw this was written during a train ride to uni and uploaded through uni wifi >:D

L4D2 Classification Left for Dead?!

2009-09-22T23:33:00.000+10:00

ok, with weeks upon the release of the Sequel to the very popular First Person Shooter by Valve, Australian Government's Classification Board, who filter games and movies and practically every media that comes to australia, have effectively BANNED Left 4 Dead 2.

which begs the question - why was it banned?

a statement released by the Classification Board says that it refused to classify L4D2 on the grounds that it has "realistic, frenetic and unrelenting violence".

realistic, frenetic and unrelenting violence on ZOMBIES~!

right, so the last L4D didnt have that? it's the same damn gameplay (albeit with some changes in weaponry, characters, graphics and story). but come on, it's practically the same game. High Emphasis on GAME.

there's so much argument on the whole "Video Games influence children to commit acts of violence" but all we hear are those prudish people who think any source of enjoyment is a chance for the children of the future to be corrupted by.

but i'm straying from the topic, which is - why the hell the Australian Govt. wont allow this game to be sold here.

y'see australia's got a classification system here that ranges from "G" for General to MA15+ - Mature Audiences 15yrs and Older and sometimes R18+ (Restricted for 18yrs+).

we've got all that in our movies and what not but our Games stop at MA15+.
so anything that is classified over MA15 is theoretically banned from getting into the country. i dont get it - what's the difference from watching an R18+ Movie and playing a similarly classified game?

is it because you "get to do" those R18+ type things? i dont know - all i know is, i sure ain't out in the street gunning down civilians just because i played Counter Strike.

so okay; you tell me if it's sold here in australia - children can buy this game and be influenced with gory violence early on in life.
well that's why we need the 18+ classification; a child cant buy a certain game unless he proves that he's 18 and over, and if an adult buys it for him/her then it's that Adult's decision and responsibility.

what im saying is - game developers work to the bone and when they end up releasing to Australia or some other country they lose a majority of their audience because that country banned it, and not alot of sales mean not alot of money in the pockets of those hard working developers, coders, illustrators, and every one workin in that industry.

another Game released recently was Fallout 3 and it was banned because it had a bit in the game where you can buy drugs (which were correctly named) and use them in the game.
to be able to be released here in Australia they had to set back the release and rename all of the drugs so they didnt match their real life counter parts.

and it was allowed to be sold here.

do they think we're stupid? it's DRUGS. no matter what the name is it's gonna do your body some harm.

so i guess the only way L4D2 is gonna get released here in Aus is if they turn down the violence or the gore or something stupid like that.
it's not gonna be the same game experience, and it feels like you're drinking a heavily watered down glass of Kool-aid or Cordial or Juice;

tasteless.

the Big Freaking Two Oh

2009-08-19T01:02:00.000+10:00

who's got 2 thumbs and is cynical? this guy.

so as of midnight tonight; i am 20.

i know.

i cant believe 12 years ago i was just this short asian kid who could speak english quite well.

and now. freaking 20.

i'm not a teen anymore; i mean i cant make excuses anymore. i'm forced to make decisions on my own and be responsible for them.
sure, they expected that when i became 18 but nobody takes anyone seriously with an age that has the suffix "teen" on it.

i dont even bother capitalising the start of my sentences let alone take care of myself.
i havnt really tried out my resilience in living by myself, as i have not left the family residence.
nor do i plan to unless i make substantial money for myself.
aaaanyway moving on.

i've slightly out grown the whole birthday party thing, i mean, i still like receiving them but not so much organising and planning and whatnot.

it's too much work and you get alot of flack from friends or "friends" you havnt invited.

what i'm saying is, age is overrated. i dont need some number dictating how i should damn well act.
i will act as i please thanks very much, if you dont like it - bugger off.

no seriously - i would like to be able to watch cartoons, play computer games and run around like a lunatic while out with mates even though i'm bloody 20.

who knows, i'll probably be doing the same even when i'm 80...

only slower.

SIFU~!

NOMNOMNOM

2009-08-11T17:32:00.000+10:00

i was bored in web class, and i saw this.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/505282

i felt happier.

:)

I think i'll probably do this if i Meet him :D

2009-07-30T11:17:00.000+10:00

See more funny videos and Entertainment Videos at Today's Big Thing.

hahahaha crazy girl
i love how there's this lag between the translators

daniel's pretty cool
i wish there were subs.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND!

2009-07-25T01:55:00.000+10:00

Lemme get straight to the Point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiPR6kA4_iU

WATCH.

NOW.

IN HD.

Gah! so much work.

2009-07-22T00:56:00.000+10:00

i've been inundated with so much work recently; i have no room to breathe.

but the sucky thing is; i've been procrastinating a bit with the only time i have to work on em.

i have this major project due in like 12 weeks; then i have this freakin Conference videos due in 2 weeks (July 31) and i have this debutant Ball to go to on Aug 1 and i have to learn this dance and everything.

i have 4 days of class a week but they take up most of the day. i then have dance prac every thurs evening and sunday afternoon.
fridays, sat and sunday is for church.

and the only time i have is monday and every other friday afternoon.

if i only have one class in a day i usually go home and sleep which takes up more time from work.

and on top of that i haz no ob cos i haz no time to work. not even freakin freelance.

sigh...

i'd be so glad to get this Advance Diploma course over and done with.
i dont even know if i want to go and do a batchelors.

pah. whatever. i'l just worry about what i've got now.

take care yall.

RIP Michael Jackson

2009-06-26T09:59:00.000+10:00

so i wake up and i see this on twitter:

"oh no; MJ's in Hospital"
"RIP Michael Jackson"

and etc

i was honestly shocked by the news and the fact that it was unconfirmed at first, but gradually fiction was turning into fact.

but here's the thing.

amidst the tweets and status updates of condolence there were some of these:

"good riddance to that pedophile"
"ding dong the freaky freak is dead"

really?
the man is DEAD

leave him alone already. (i'm not gonna go chris crocker but hear me out)

he influenced alot of things. he was one of the first to make music videos that was like a movie (best eg THRILLER). he popularized popping and locking; and i'm not gonna say he "Invented" the moon walk cos he didnt - he just renamed it and popularized it. (it's called the glide btw)

he freaking wrote some of the best pop songs known to man. he was one of the best performers out there, he was a singer, dancer, song writer... he was THE Package.

a death is a death. no matter how bad the person is; their life does not mean any less than that of someone with a better reputation. i agree he's made tremendous mistakes but the fact of the matter is that a man has died. would you want someone to remember you through your faults or your achievements?

i can tell you that he shouldnt have changed his looks so much, i can tell you that he shouldnt have done those things that he's now so famous for, but i can tell you this.

God loves him as much as he loves you.

everyone is equal to His eyes; and for that - i'm not gonna celebrate that an accused pedophile and over all mess has died.

i'm going to mourn that another human being has passed on.

RIP Michael Jackson,
You'll be Missed.

Last Air Bender Teaser Trailer

2009-06-23T16:50:00.000+10:00

here it is guys; it's finally out.
it's not much but i guess it shows promise.

Complete WTF-ery

2009-06-22T08:22:00.000+10:00

i dont know if you guys know, but there's gonna be an AVATAR: The Last Airbender Movie.

as a fan of the show i initially thought it was gonna be so cool; being able to see this bald monk with arrow tattoos gliding around in his air scooter.

well i was half right.

there IS going to be a bald monk kid that can bend all 4 elements...

But he's gonna be white

i dont know if M. Night Shamalamadingdong watched the LAST movie that had an asian character cast with a White Kid.
cant remember? lemme refresh your memory.

oh wow that's horrible.

anyway; it seems that a couple of picture have been leaked on the net as to who Aang and Prince Zuko is.
have a look.

Aang doesnt even look like freakin Aang, he looks like some white kid who decided to cosplay Aang at his local ComiCon or some crap.
And Zuko (who BTW is Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire) is just well...

WEREN'T THEY ASIAN?!

ok technically Dev Patel IS asian... just the wrong kind.

And on top of that apparently the casting calls SPECIFICALLY

i repeat - SPECIFICALLY stated that the characters of Aang, Kitara, Sokka and Zuko were to me (and i quote) "Caucasian or any other Ethnicity"

OR ANY OTHER?!

like it was going to be a back up idea that Kitara was going to an Inuit girl.
She was meant to be one in the first place!

that's just only a fraction of what i read on this site:

http://www.racebending.com/

have a good look and decide for yourself.
i know it kind of seems like they're making a big fuss out of this but if you think about it in the stance that for this movie to work with the white actors; they're going to have to strip all Easter Culture from this movie for the characters to even barely blend in the story.
in short, they have to white wash the movie, just so the actors dont look so out of place.
oh and while i was reading the rest of the site - i was taken aback by the fact that the movie "21" - yknow, the blackjack movie - was based on a book that had Asian students INSTEAD of what we've been given, caucasian.

but that's ok - i guess, seeing that there wasnt much culture to "whitewash" other than the characters themselves, it still made the story work somewhat.

i'm rambling here, but all i want to say is that if they go through with the casting on this movie - it's going to suck the same balls that dragonball: evolution did.
and not the glowing yellow ones.

Ps.
there's an online petition boycotting the casting for the movie; here's the link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/racebend/petition.html

and dont forget to check out the website at: http://www.racebending.com

ZOMG VlogBrother!

2009-06-01T02:48:00.000+10:00

so yeah i got to meet john green on sunday (it's now almost 3am monday as i type this) and it was pretty cool.

it wasn't in a Youtube gathering Environment but it was still Rad nonetheless.

He talked about Paper Towns; what was the meaning behind it and he took questions from the crowd (of like...30, it was 11am sunday morning).

he was really chill and cracked some funny ones. i kinda wanted to stay back for the 2pm one just to see if he had something different but i had to go home and work on a church video.

i was trying to figure out if i should bring my VidCam or my(ahem Dads ahem) DSLR.
i decided on the DSLR and sometimes i regret not having a close friend who knows about the VlogBrothers to go with me yesterday just so they could maybe film while i take photos or vice versa.

cos john freakin danced his happy dance; i mean it's one thing seeing it on YT but it's another seeing it IRL.

ok i sound like a fan girl - shutup.

anyway - it came time for john to sign books and what not; and they let us go out if we need to get anything - and get something i did.

they were selling john's 3 books that he wrote by himself.

Looking For Alaska
An Abundance of Katherines
and of course Paper Towns

i wanted to get the 1st 2 cos i CBS looking for em in bookstores.

and i found out - that AAoK isnt even going to be released here in Aus. until like... July or something. Air Freighted Copy - Booyah!

but i didnt have enough cash on me and i only had my card. so i ran - RAN - to the nearest Commonwealth Bank ATM (which was fortunately 100meters or so away - because i dont wanna pay $2 surcharge... freakin banks.) and ran back.

only to find out that they had an eftpos machine thingie anyway! gah.
i bought the two books (for a cheap $30 may i add), waited till my row got called (i arrived slightly late so i was 4 rows before the last) and waited.

while i was waiting i recognised some Aussie YT in the line infront of me; but by the time i could say hi - they've already gone.

except for 1. we'll get back to that later.

so i got to meet john green, Far out he's a REALLY nice guy. i'd love to hang around his house and just listen to him ramble on about his passion for cartography and race cars. i mean he already does that in his videos but IRL there's no jump cuts :P

that aside he was pleased to know i lost sleep because i couldnt put his book down. and he then proceeded to sign all 3 books ( i bought my copy of PT aswell.. duh). i took a photo with him and we said our farewells.

so yeah the other YTer that was there was FREZNED (who is 2nd most subbed comedian in YT Australia) i asked him if i could take a photo and proceded to rave about how he hasnt made a video in months (so have i actually - i promise to make one after this week). we talked for a couple more seconds and i then went on my way home. if i seriously didnt have anything to do - i woulda hung around.

definitely.

anyway - i went home and got some Chicken Curry Don for lunch.

got cracking on the Promo Video and i ws hit with complication after complication; in the end the thing stopping me was FinalCut's inability to export videos fully and to constantly leave 5-10 secs off the end so you have your video (which is around 100mb) being incomplete, and having taken about 15 mins to export.

i did that about 7 times. as i waited i read Looking For Alaska.

i'm 1/3 done. that's how long it freakin took. and i leisurly read - didnt do any speed reading. like any one cares.

finally it finished and i sent it to my friend who gave me the thumbs up.
all done.

so yeah - i'm now doing this while listening to the ambient sounds of Garbo's Room.

speak to you all later!

DFTBA

The Man himself

Frezned and I

more pics on my FB btw.

just for the record

2009-05-22T01:16:00.000+10:00

My MacBook is NOT my prized possession.

my Comics are.

kidding.

Course its Garbo.

and i'm not posting this just so she can stop saying that She hates me.

Tweet Cloud

2009-05-09T00:20:00.000+10:00

so yeah; i took cue from simon, and checked out my tweet cloud :P
pretty cool - it says i @reply to sophie(crayonpainting) more than i do my girlfriend :P

dont get mad garbs; i do talk to you practically everyday...

so yeah; here 'tis - the tweet cloud.

parting is such sweet sorrow...

2009-04-24T22:05:00.000+10:00

so yeah; in about 21 hours; Garbo will be on her way back to the UK.

and i'm absolutely Gutted that she is.

obviously.

i've been telling her all the ways she could come and stay in australia after her China thing...

argh.

i could marry her.
seriously.

my bed's gonna feel so empty - my room's gonna be uncomfortably bare, now that her stuff's gone.

i really wish there was an instant way i could get her to stay...

unexpected pregnancy anyone?

NO, helll noooo.

both her parents and mine would KILL ME.

kill me DEAD!

twice!

so yeah; in short.

my life is arse at the moment; but hopeffully i'll get over it.

sorry stephen we havent skyped with you; 2 weeks is such a short time.
and sorry we didnt do any blogtv shows or anything; cos none of yall woudlve been awake at our time.

sigh.. looks like it's gonna be me and an empty bed again for a while...

peace.

ULTURA SUPAH COORUH AWESUMUH DAY!

2009-04-12T08:57:00.000+10:00

Yay! Garbo's in melbourne!
i think i've pretty much stressed the fact that she's here.
twitter, FB, dailybooth, youtube... where else?

eeeeeeeee!

Dearest Leah

2009-04-07T00:42:00.000+10:00

wow. time flies huh?

Btw get ready for a nostalgia fest.

i cant believe its been 11 years since i met you at GCF for that summer sunday school thingie (Jesus' Kids; totally His! >.<)
and then to my surprise you enrolled at MY school - fate had it in for us.

Even though i lost contact with you for a good 7-8 years, i somehow never forgot you, maybe because i had a thing for you then - i dunno - but you can imagine how psyched i was going back to visit the Phils. only to find out that you've moved back here to Aus. :S

Then i got your YM, then your Msn, and before you know it - i'm visiting you in Sydney. I swear, even though the visits i've made (2 and counting :P) have been somewhat short - they've been the most fun.

i know we've had our moments, i know i've made promises to you that i ended up breaking and even though we're now starting to live our separate lives; i'll never forget the times we've had together.

(this is starting to become some sort of long winded break-up speech :P)

Basically i just wanna say that you're a great girl and an even greater friend. I love you heaps and i hope we stay friends till we're old and wrinkly.

See ya when i See ya huh?
-Ralphie

Chivalry isnt Dead, but it sure is neglected

2009-04-02T13:00:00.000+11:00

i'm sure most of you that read this know of Natalie aka NDTitanLady of youtube.
and have probably watched her video of her worst date ever.
if you havnt yet - watch it.

now that you've watched that.
lets get into it.

sometimes it's not our fault.

you might be going;
"are you crazy? that guy was an arse!"

yeah, he was.
but other men tend to become Mr. Jerkface because some women are equally Jerky.

yeah - that's right.

sometimes women who are too "Empowered", too engrossed in the "independent woman movement" give chivalry a bad name.

i'm not saying that women have to be confined to the kitchen or whatever (woman! make me a sandwich! lol) - by all means, be self sufficient, be independent. But when a nice guy opens a door for you or pays the bill; don't lose your head thinking he's looking down at you or he's making you feel inferior.

ladies - pull your head outta your arse. he's just being nice - it means he likes you.

thats why sometimes guys can be jerks without knowing it - because they've experienced the "Miss Jerkfaces" so many times they dont know what to do to be nice anymore.

they think twice when holding the door open for her, or letting her go in first... the small stuff that men were expected to do a couple of decades ago.

when i was small, my parents would teach me on how to be a gentleman, they taught me that when you're walking with a woman - doesnt matter what her age is - you always walk on the side that's closest to the road. so if your walking on the right side of the road - you walk on her left.
so if a car comes speeding towards you - you can push her out of the way.

yeah? yeah.

back then, if you didn't pay for the date, YOU were the Jerkface.
back then, if you didn't go up to the door to pick up your date for the prom, you would be considered an arse (and the parentals would have a thing or two to say about you)

but now, feminism's just gone way over the top. i believe in equal rights for everyone, but that doesnt have to cancel out being nice and polite.

phew... yep that's it for me.

take care of yourselves.
and for the love of pete; dont be so uptight.

i'm so freaking busy

2009-03-25T00:52:00.000+11:00

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.

WARNING LONG ARSE/ASS BLOG

2009-03-01T00:40:00.000+11:00

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.

Sunday Snorefest

2009-02-22T21:24:00.000+11:00

it took my family 9 freakin hours to go home after church had finished today...
seriously

i'll tell you real quick what happened

after church they had a Filipino Fellowship meeting - which was ok, cos i had my laptop with me, which meant i could watch movies and surf the net.
this went on for 3 hours after 12pm.

at around 3 / 3:30pm they decide to pack up and go home
but my parents dont JUST go home...

some of us stayed back and dad had the brilliant idea of going down the local McDonalds... ok... free food, free internet - i'm ok with that.
but my laptop only had about an hour 30mins of life left.

we were there for almost 3 hours....

so yeah - at around 5:30-6:00pm my family (and the ppl we were with) decide to go home, so we walked to the car and lo and behold... dad cant find the keys

so mum and dad talk amongst themselves asking each other where each other's keys are
mum's are inside the trunk, in the bag
dad's are missing - presumably in the trunk as well
so we're trying to jimmy open the car doors through the key hole
but the keys that our car uses are realy diff from the usual key
so we were in deep
we could either - keep trying to open the door, or, call the car repair ppl and get them to open the door
which would cost us $
we chose the first option
so anyway, one of our family friends was with us and he was also trying to give suggestions on how we were gonna open the thing
i only had one thing on my mind... i wanna go home.

anywhoo - dad calls up of the people that were with us about hours ago and asks them if they could help
one is a mechanic
and the other has the same car as us - so we hope that his key might be able to open the car door atleast
so me, still as uninterested as ever; go to sleep in the other person's car
i wake up - and i find adults jamming crap down a gap in the passenger's side window

they had a plethora of wires and cables and they were pretty much trying to wind down the window
and somehow open the door that way
after about 15 mins or something, the guy that was with us the whole time, brings out a unravelled coathanger
which btw he had the whole time - just never thought of using it.
that aside, we used that and successfully open the car.

hooray! now i could go home!

big mistake

they stayed there talking about how it was great to have friends and if we didnt have anybody we'd be stuck

btw; they found both keys in the trunk
so anyway we stayed at the carpark for another hour before they decided that we should go to somebody else's house and talk some more.

i told them if they were gonna do that - they should spare us the long agonising death from boredom and take us home first

so that's what they eventually did.
and now i'm here... 9 hours after the church service actually finished
i pretty much bugged mum, and dad pretty much knew we'd rather be at home than be stuck with them and other adults for another freakin 3 hours

my parents can honestly (if they were left in their own devices) talk the leg off a damn donkey

like literally

FREAKING A.

First Week of a Second Year

2009-02-13T23:53:00.000+11:00

so yeah - this is my last year of my course and i have just started on the first week.

my class pretty much started on tuesday; met up with a couple of my group mates whom i knew were in the same course last year but didnt talk to cos; well - they were in a diff. class. Ben was there though (ben's a mate from last year - same class) so i had someone to talk to.

anyway we were taught on how to animate on AfterEffects and utilising Lights, Cameras and Shadow effects to set the mood of a scene.

it turned out really awesome - i wish i could post it up here but i'm too lazy :P sorry.

next subject was a briefing on our group major project - but with different ppl again...
but i was fortunate enough to have 2 of the people for my group last year.

we were to make a short advertisement, a promotional poster, and a website for a charity of our choice (probably because of the whole bushfire thing).
we chose to do an environmental awareness group call "Friends of the Earth"
cos we didnt want to do a depressing charity like oxfam or world vision.
it's been done to death (no pun intended).

wednesday was a WTH day - i had to get out of the house at 12 to get to church, because i needed to film this week's Youth News; which btw i didnt get an email for.
so anyway since i had a class later in the day anyway i decided to stick around church.
i also started to do the rough cuts for the news so i dont have to stay up late editing the whole thing. but as i was capturing the video from the camera - it kept screwing up!
so the capturing (which was 13mins in total) took way longer than expected.
it was almost 5pm so i packed up and headed to the tram stop.

did i mention that my class was at 6:30pm? and it was my only class for the day?

i know, wth right?

that aside - i attended class and while the teacher was talking about the course we were doing, i fell asleep... for a good while, i woke up and only an hour had past...
=_=" it's gonna be a long night.
we ended up watching a 10 min clip of a movie 4 times and on the 2nd time watching it we had to list down all the noises we heard from the movie.
it was ok i guess.

thursday was ok too - Major Project class; had to share some of the ideas i had for a mojor project to the class - i was supposed to have 10 - i only had 4.
and seriously - it was like a freaking "Magic SchoolBus" Moment, my teacher was talking about Movie sets and he was like - "hey there's an exhibition in the ACMI (aus. center for the moving image) about movie sets; lets go!"
so yeah, we went on a surprise field trip to see how movie sets were implemented and created in the movie industry. and because of this trip - i was broke; i had to use my 10 bucks i was saving for dinner... i ended up getting dinner anyway but i had to use the money in my card.

I got told off during Design 3 (the class afterwards) cos i wasnt paying much attention to the teach.
i was on facebook and Aim talking to Elizabeth, a friend of mine from phils and my cousin in philippines (who by the way was telling me off cos i sleep late).

when i got home i finished up the Youth Video to show at youth today.

so Today - i only had one class but it was for 4 hours... but only went for 3 cos everybody just started to leave. it was pretty easy - basics of Website building and HTML... after that went straight to church and took care of everything that needed to be taken care of.
Loved the message today - really spoke to me; it was about relationships and about being with the right people and being in the right environment.

i got in a minivan - along with about 15 islander guys and girls (samoan, fijian... big guys) and me, my sis and this guy william were the only asians.

Dave (my fijian youth leader) drove us home and here i am; typing this blog and talking to garbo at the same time.

sorry for the long blog - just giving you the taste of what i'll be going through these next couple of weeks.

ugh... let this be over please.

starting my 2nd year

2009-02-05T22:27:00.000+11:00

so yeah; i just had orientation today and our teachers gave us a schpiel on what we're supposed to expect during our last year in the course.

so i'm going to be doing mostly motion graphics and 2d animation. cos i hate 3d - it's too complicated.

anyhoo; the whole thing took like less than 2 hours to finish. so that meant that we all had time to spare to go out and catch up.

i saw everybody again and some didnt seem to change while others had some sort of makeover during the summer.
one friend of mine cut his hair (it was previously past his shoulders), i mean so did most of the guys.
as for the girls; uhmm there werent many girls in my class last year, so seeing them today wasnt much diff. although i was told that one of my classmates was going out with another guy in the same course for a good 2 months now.

so that aside, we're gonna have new lecturers/teachers this year as well as the old ones we had last year.

my timetables so weird though cos:

i have monday off
8:30am-3pm on tues (two classes - 3hrs each)
6pm-9pm on wed (yeah only one class)
12pm-6:30pm thurs (2 classes)
12-3pm fri (one class)

i'm not complaining about some of the time but the time's are really odd. i wonder if i'll be able to work with this kind of schedule...

so that's my day pretty much; when i got home i just took off my shoes and started playing L4D; kept losing - bad team - so i changed games and played TF2; pwned in that game.

left early and now i'm in my current position.
i'm about to watch Lie to Me, which is starting to become one of my favourite shows.
and its not because of the "youtube hype", i so coulda watched LTM even if SXEphil hadnt made a tag game of 2 truths and a lie to commemorate his liking of the show.

Check out this pen! the body's made out of rolled up recycled paper and the clippy thing's made out of recycled wood.
as for the plastic... i'm taking a stab that it's recycled too.

see you guys around,
take care

Venus Bay

2009-01-25T23:48:00.000+11:00

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

2009-01-24T22:57:00.001+11:00

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!

2009-01-21T00:18:00.000+11:00

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

2009-01-13T18:20:00.000+11:00

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

2009-01-11T00:12:00.000+11:00

yeah i Haz em.
hoorah for Bolt 3d

Great movie, i LOLed in it.

i want a cool camera

2009-01-09T22:57:00.000+11:00

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.

New Years Biotch!

2008-12-31T18:22:00.000+11:00

so yeah posting before the new year.

dad asked me to get ready cos we're gonna see the fireworks.
i said "now? it's still bright outside (which it was - very bright for 6:30pm)"

dad was like yeah; there's one at 9 and another one at 12.

we were going to the one at 9? really? wth is that about?

it's redundant.
to be honest i dont see the point of it.
although i guess its for the kids who cant stay up late.

well too bad for them!
tough tits!

it's not my fault their body clock isnt as screwed up as mine :P

oh and i'm also ticked off that i dont have anyone to kiss when the new year turns in, it's sad =_=

anyway - hope everyone had a GREAT Year and may this Coming Year bring More blessings.

love you all!

Peace, 2008~!

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25T15:07:00.000+11:00

Happy Holidays

Freakin Motherboard [WARNING: NERD TALK]

2008-12-22T01:35:00.000+11:00

**NERD TALK UP AHEAD, PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND A DICTIONARY/WINDOW OF WIKIPEDIA UP**

so okay.

i'm assembling my dad's computer.

processor's in its place, hard drive's there, Blu-ray drive too.
graphics card's good to go; it's all plugged in and ready to fire up.

i press the button...

nothing.

wth?
i check the plugs again
nothing.

ah crap...

i unplug everything; unscrew the power supply, get the other computer, switch the power supplies, and plug everything back in.

NOTHING

i wiggled the plug going into the Motherboard and i saw some lights flash - GOOD lights, not bad sparks...

i thought maybe the bits at the bottom of the board must be shorting against the case.
so i loosened up some screws and it seemed to solve the problem.

so anyway i turn it on, the Bios loads up and i press DELETE to go to the setup screen

while going through the menu

the Whole thing Freezes

i couldnt even use my keyboard to navigate through the menu...

i restart the computer
it does it again.
and again and again.

i look at message boards and some say that the motherboard might be dead.
PLEASE DONT DIE! YOUR EXPENSIVE!

long story short:

it didnt get fixed - it probably IS the motherboard.

this sucks...

12 days more till christmas

2008-12-13T15:02:00.000+11:00

In the spirit of christmas and the fact that i havnt blogged for so long - here's a present guys; courtesy of Kim Dong-won

Have a happy holidays guys :D
love yall

OMG YAY (O'.')-O BAM!Q('.'Q)

2008-12-07T22:35:00.000+11:00

Manny Pacquiao won the fight against Oscar DelaHoya!

yay

but to be honest - Manny didnt have much to lose.

i always say this; if he won - AWESOME; he freaking beat someone 2 weight levels above him (was it 2 weight levels? i cant remember) and on top of that he beat DeLa Freakin Hoya! that guy was a gun in his HeyDay.

but on the off hand that he lost, it was "expected", he was 2 weight levels from his norm; and he was against Delahoya!

FREAK! i'm so glad he won tho.

Mabuhay ang mga Pilipino!

i'm gonna go see if i can watch an online replay of that fight :P
i dont gots no PPV

my second home

2008-12-06T23:58:00.000+11:00

if you've seen my tweets or know me and talk to me often enough to know my weekly schedule (AHEM GARBO AHEM) yall would know that i spend a minimum of 2 days at church.

whether it's because i'm serving (doing video mixing or just helping around), worshiping (straight up church services), or i got dragged there by people (most likely my parents) - i'm usually at church.

normally i'd got to Church on Fridays for Youth and Sundays for Church.

simple enough right?

no

lately i've been doing alot of video editing and filming for my youth group; announcements and promotions, and i'm usually available all week (well before i was available almost 5 days a week) so my time for filming is usually on the weekdays where i have my days off school or well; during the holidays.

so thats 1-2 more days

then there's my video mixing thing. i just recently got rostered on for video mixing atleast twice a month (sunday and saturday - same weekend). And sometimes i take over people's "shifts" so i do their weekend as well.

that's i guess 1 more day (cos i'm usually at church on sundays anyway)

so lemme tally up all the days...

1+1+2 = 4 (duh)

with 1 to 2 days margin of error.

i spend 2 to 5 days at church.

and my parents wonder why i'm always in my room for the time that i AM home...

Dont get me wrong; i love spending time at church, helping out, praising God and all.

but when it just DRAGS ON.
i cant take it.

Saturdays and Sundays are the worse;

on the saturdays that i DO go to church i usually have to do my vision mixing thing. which coincides with my parents cooking food to feed the homeless and disadvantaged.
my work finishes when the church service does - around 8pm. my parents finish when the kitchen is spotless and clean and it's 3 hours into the next day.

so today - being saturday (actually sunday now but we'll say it's saturday for argument's sake) i had to be at church early (4 pm) to set up the cameras - my parents needed to get there early too, to start on the cooking. so we got there and i did my mixing thing and my parents did they thing too. i finished at 8; went to the kitchen and got some food. i stood around, talked to people, ate some more, talked to people some more, stood around, helped a bit... when they were all done, we eventually left.

we got home at 11:30pm

tomorrow; i'm doing it all again. get there before 10am - preferably 9 - set up finish at 12pm; but this time after church: instead of waiting for my parents to finish their bible study which drags on til 3pm mind you, i'll be at the local housing commissions, filming some of the people at church give christmas hampers to the residents there. so YAY i get to do something!
but it's what happens after that i'm worried about.
i'm pretty sure that my 'Rents aill STILL be at church, STILL cleaning, STILL talking, and STILL wont go home.

wrapping up; ive tried going home myself, taking public transport and commuting home. but i gotta tell you - it sucks.
if you dont own a mode of private transport during the weekend, you're gonna have a hard time getting anywhere.

so yeah i'm stuck at church; it's ok when you want to go, but it starts to go sour when you're there for too long.

Back in Melbourne

2008-12-02T00:38:00.000+11:00

so yeah; i woke up today at 5.
and i just chucked some pants on and re-organized my stuff before we had to go.

while waiting for Leah's older Bro to get ready, she and i had a little talk, reminisced on what happened during the week and did some heavy duty hugging.

just before i walked out of the house i quickly slipped a letter to leah (that i wrote the night before) in between her laptop. so she'd def. find it when she got back home.

so at the airport i got my boarding pass and got inline for the security check; we said our goodbyes as i got lost in the winding maze of airport security.

so the procedure was; i got all the crap i had around my neck, and in my pockets on a tray. i also had to take my lappy outta my bag and put it on a tray aswell. then my Bag and then the gift that Leah's mum gave me to give my 'Rents.

did i mention that she gave me (by me i mean my family) 3 boxes of Lindt chocolates o.o
as a gift?

i cleared the metal detector with my pants still up, i took my stuff and as i was walking towards the stairs, this security guy stops me and tells me that he needs to do another security check.

he then starts wiping my had with this thing that looked like the child of a lint picker and a metal detector. after he wiped my hands, he took of the small piece of cloth that touched my hands and put it in this small machine.
i had a glance at the piece of paper that was on the table - this check was actually to check for gunpowder residue. They were prob. thinking that the chockies was a bomb... noobs.

anyway, the guy swiped my hands, clothes, bag and the gift itself before calling for his mate to triple check in the xray machine.

i eventually got to go to my gate and i fortunately got there in time (10 mins to boarding time). went in and had to go all the way down the back; it was ok.

the plane took off and i thought i might order some food while the flight was going... i ended up falling asleep (uncomfortably mind you) until we actually touched down in Melbourne.

Dad was already at the Arrivals gate but my bag wasnt.
it eventually went around the conveyor and went to me.

*My eyes are so heavy right now... i wanna go to sleep*

so anyway on the dive home i told my Dad about some of the stuff i did while in Syd.
and how i wished i couldve been there for longer :P

anyway; i'm really tired. i've gotten used to sleeping quite early now.

gnight guys, love you all.

Sunday!

2008-11-30T23:44:00.000+11:00

so this morning; we were meant to wake up at 7am because we were going to church at 9 - i set my alarm up at 7am.

i woke up at 6

DAMN IT!

i then went back to sleep; and woke up at 7... no one was awake, so i went back to sleep...

i woke up at 9 - crap; everyone just started to wake up :P no morning church then

we (Leah's Mom, Leah and I) all got ready and took the train to the city; cos we were going to watch this Christmas Parade (originally right after church).

it was ok.
as far as parades go; it could have been better.

we then went to go eat lunch at a sushi Train place; oddly enough i got full even though i ate like 5 pieces of sushi.

I got Leah's mom a nice bouquet of Lillies to show my thanks for putting up with me for a whole week :P

anyway; we then decided to go check out the swarovski Christmas Tree in QVB (queen victoria something) and it was HUGE - 3 levels of crystal decorated tree goodness; they had barriers put up so people like me cant steal the crystals :P

afterwards we separated; leah and i took a train to Meadowbank to go to a Korean Church; it was cool cos they had it at a Warehouse.
it felt so underground; kinda like Tokyo Drift, but it was church :D

i met new, cool people (all who were Korean) and the message by the pastor was very encouraging :]

we got a lift from a guy who we just met - he was MAD cool - back to the train stn. and when we got there the train was just arriving so leah didnt have time to buy a ticket.

ZOMG what a REBEL

anyway, we got off scott free and we met Leah's mum at Woolworths/Safeway.
we walked to the Korean BBQ place and we placed our order while we waited for the rest of Leah's family to arrive.

they did eventually but by that time we already ate most of the Bulgogi, have cooked the Wagyu Beef, and was starting on the SamGyeopSal.

omnomnomnom

anyway, we finished eventually; i'm pretty sure the waiter/waitresses that served us were glad to get rid of us, cos we were pretty annoying with all the asking for rice and bowls and what not.

we went home full and i kinda got ready for tommorow's EARLY ARSE FLIGHT.

Leah and I burned some time by watching "one tree hill" and talking about stuff.

now i'm just writing this blog.

Man i'm SO gonna miss sydney - and i havnt even gone yet!

i'll post some pics up on my FB and maybe some on here... if i can be bothered.

Sat ur Day

2008-11-29T22:25:00.000+11:00

O em Gee

the YT gathering was pretty cool; i had tons of fun :D

hopefully Leah or I'll post some pics up on Facebook and yall could see em.

so anyway; we took the train to Circular Quay but we were worried they'd be gone cos we were an hour late :P (again)

but it was alright cos they we all there, with their cameras and what not.
there i met some YouTubers such as:

AngryAussie
FatAussieBarstard
ChrisonTV88
Chris (livingChrasityDreams)
babyPorridge
arthur40twodent
englishteaboy
forfun808
fizzyco2
andysmiirnoff

and so many more :D

but yeah, we all met up at the park near the quay and once clock struck 2, we headed off to the ferry to go to Manly Beach where we just walked around and bonded IRL (in real life) :P

these people were sooo cool in real life, really laid back and not what you'd expect from just watching their Youtube Personas.

so yeah - when we got back from Manly we then gathered back to the park and then we decided as to what we were going to do now.
They all went to karaoke and goin to a bar after but Leah and I walked to CBD and went to get some Sticker Photos!

yay!

here's some of my fave pics:

but yeah anyhoo it started to rain; really hard - better later than before tho :]
it sucked tho cos we missed the bus cos it arrived too early - Leah and I were like "WTF? it didnt even think of stopping!"
so we had to wait for the next bus; which we did.

we got home - and we ate Spaghetti Bolognaise :P
and dont forget the garlic bread!

after that we just went back upstairs and i am now chillin like a villain.
i might get the pics from her camera now actually...

*after a short while*

so yeah it's transferring on my HDD, i'ma transfer it now on my Comp! yay

wait... putting it on FB...

ok; here you go

Pitchures

Enjoy~

PS.

CommunityChannel wasnt there...

freakin...

Fry-Day

2008-11-29T01:59:00.000+11:00

so today at around 3- pm that is; we went to burwood Westfield Shopping center to buy some clothes cos we had to dress up as something "S" for a party that we were about to go to.

i went as a skater so i bought a cool new shirt and a Flexfit hat. i wanted one of those anyway.

Leah dressed up as a soldier, the sexy kind :P
we went to the army disposals store and got a camo green shirt and a hat. we then went to the dollar store to buy a cheap arse toy gun.

Leah's friend YaeJi came along too - she dressed up as a surgeon, from SCRUBS :D

when we got there; there were asian guys outside talkin and they were all NOT in costume; it's cool - i look pretty Cas, and fly anyway.

but the girls... phew - i bet the S that they were going for was Slut cos most of em had the whole midriff thing goin, skirt which barely covers they underwear...
there were Students, Sailors and... i dunno.

but one group of people got pretty adventurous. there were 4 of them and they dressed up as the Scooby Doo Gang. problem was there were 3 guys and a girl... velma was played by a fat dude.

anyway, there was pizza and chips/crisps stretegically placed all around the room, even though it was an 18th there was no alcohol cos most of the ppl that came were underage.

anyway, Leah, Yeaj and I got our dance on.
i reluctantly did a short showcase of my "skills" and yeah... impressed a couple of ppl.

sadly the party was cut short cos the Bday girl got a bit sad about the turn out of the party - she expected more ppl.
so we went home, Yaeji is sleeping over tonight at Leah's, and both of them uploaded the pic from the party on facebook.

here are some of em:
(ones of me ofcourse)

anyway; that's all from me - YOUTUBE GATHERING tomorrow - OMG
pretty excited :D

take care all.

Furs-Day

2008-11-27T21:10:00.000+11:00

woke up again at 7... for no apparent reason.
and slept again
and then woke up at 8:30
then slept
then woke up again at 9:30

then stayed up 0.0

we skipped breakfast and then got ready to the Bank cos Leah need to get like a traveller's Card thing.

Her friend invited us to watch Mirrors this morning at 10 but we had to cancel cos of this. but yknow what happened? the bank told her that she needed to get her passport and Driver's license.. and the convo only took 5 mins.

ugh - we coulda gone and watch Mirrors and hung out with her friends!

anyway, we went and ate; she got a chicken roll, i got a Meatball sub (footlong thanks very much) from subway. i was full afterwards.

we then went to shop for a dress... not me; Her.
Leah ended up buying like shirts instead of her dress. :P
we also made a pit stop to the Supermarket to grab some Tim Tams and a packet of marshmallows.

we then went home and just chilled, i played on the guitar and sang some songs; and i did my chubby bunnies video.

i'd still eat marshmallows after this... def.

we had dinner - Leah's Dad cooked the juciest, most delicious Lamb Chops i've tasted. it was like WOW.
too bad i was full so i couldnt eat more.

so anyway, after that we went back upstairs and we watched "The Classic"
Holy crap that movie's sad.
really. i didn't cry although sometimes i wish i was man enough to :P
it sucks not crying at a very emotional part of the movie...
like REALLY EMOTIONAL.

so many things are running through my mind right now because of that movie; argh.

but nevertheless "The Classic" is really good. i recommend all those who haven't seen it - see it. and those who have; See it Again!

anyway, Leah and i are now just on our comps; doing our rounds :P
yknow: facebook, youtube, myspace, Msn/Skype, blogspot...

anyway - i dont think anything else will be happening today so i'll guess i'll leave you all with my chubby bunnies video.

Enjoy!

WED-NEs_day

2008-11-26T22:26:00.000+11:00

apparently 2 days ago today was supposed to be all thunderstorms and shizzle.
but not really - it was overcast (like cloudy) but it didnt rain one bit.

so today we got out of the house at 3pm, that's right lazy morning.

we went to meet Leah's friend Jenny at the train station to hang out, she also brought her friend Ryan along.
we went to this korean cafe thing and we ordered some sweets.
Leah recomended this Korean Versions of a filipino Halo Halo which is shaved ice with stuff like red beans and fruit preserves.
the korean version (called patbingsoo) had Actual Fruits, ice cream and Red Beans :9 nummy...
leah had a banana split with black sesame seed, mint choc chip and tiramisu ice creams.

all four of us shared and it was good :D

we talked and laughed and talked - it was fun. but leah and i had to go cos we were going to eat dinner at a thai restaurant nearby with her family and her Mom's boss.

food was great, here's a snap shot.

i ate Green Thai Curry with Lamb and Thai Fried Rice
Leah ate like some sort of salad and Leah's brother ate Lamb Shanks in curry.
AND for dessert: Fried Ice-cream!

then we just went home...

oh and did i tell you i can solve a rubix cube now?
yeah, THAT just happened :P

good day today

----EDIT----

day just got better

Tuesday~!

2008-11-25T22:38:00.000+11:00

so today was another sunny day, although it was a bit cloudy at first.
i had steak for breakfast (leftover from last night) and naturally with rice.

so anyway, leah had to go to the Phillipine Consulate in the city for her Visa stuff, and i went with her ofcourse - like i'd stay at home with nothing to do.

we missed the 1st bus cos we had to go back and get her documents and her mobile phone (or cell phone for you americans).
got on the 2nd bus no probs and went to this stop called "Museum" and the station looked like that station from Price Caspian, like really old school.
anyway, we met up with Leah's Dad and we went to the Phil. Consulate.

after a while, they finished and we went to Chinatown and ate Yum Cha!
it was pretty damn good, we got like... 7 things. i ordered steamed rice and Leah's dad left early so the food that we ordered for 3, i ended up having to finish what was left.
i was pretty full after.

so after that we just walked around and did some window shopping, we went to Bread Top (an asian bakery chain) and got some Mango Pancakes :P mmmm
we also stopped at a candy store and i bought Razzles and Hershey's Chocolate sauce.
oooh yeah!

anyway; we met up with Leah's mum and we did some fruit shopping and then headed home.

when we got home i was ready to take a nap but i got distracted by Youtube, topher and Christian.
it was time for dinner and we went out to order some Fish and Chips, i got some Battered Shrimp (which was pretty big - and i was still full from the yum cha) and Leah got some fried scallops.

afterwards we watched Get Smart (even tho i've seen it before it was still hella funny), the Finale of To My Internet Lover (which btw if you havent been watching... Get the Heck on it!) and soon Heroes!

so anyway, just writing this blog while my comment on the TMIL gets posted (somehow the internet is so slow)...

btw.
are Razzles supposed to be like kinda powdery? i might have gotten an old batch.

Monday blues

2008-11-24T21:00:00.000+11:00

not that kind of blues.

i wish i should have taken a picture but when i woke up to day you could see the bluest sky ever outside the window. it was awesome.

so anyway, leah and i agreed to wake up at around 8... i somehow woke up at 7 >:(
so i slept for a bit more and then when leah did get up, i talked to their family for a bit before the went off to work/school.

i took a shower and we ate a quick breakfast before heading to the bus stop to travel to the train station.

ok to the non sydney people reading this blog - which is like All of yall, sydney trains are bomb. they're double decked, you can switch the seating whether to turn to one end of the train or the other and most importantly, they run on time.

Compared to the crap arse effort of the melbourne railway system >:(

so anyway, we arrived in Circular Quay (pronounced as "Key") and we walked around before going to the Museum of Contemporary Art. pretty good, although sometimes quite disturbing.
we went out, got ourselves some Starbucks and went to this place called "Pancake on The Rocks" it's this 24 hr Pancake place (they also sell like, steak and what not) that was the brain child of a couple of doctors who didnt have anywhere to eat during their graveyard shifts.

anywhoo, i ordered Fish and Chips and Leah, this slightly shorter than my height girl... orders RIBS.
like half a pig's set of RIBS; when they freaking brought the plate over it was like a Foot and a bit long (around 50cm) - the plate i mean.

so after a while, we got to talking and eating... i finished; and so did she.
like she ate all of it.

BEAST

anyway, afterwards we went to Town Hall (a shopping center) and we ended up watching a movie; we were tossing up between 007 or death race.

we picked Death Race cos it was earlier. and i wasnt dissapointed, its actually pretty good if you dont mind the blood and gore >:D

so we decided to head back and catch the bus home instead of the train, the bus was packed when we got in but we eventually got seats.
there were a brother and sister coming from school infront of us, they were just sitting down quietly, minding their own business until;

"Ahem, excuse me" says a middle aged Woman
"is there a rule now that children cant give up their seats for adults?"

0.0

all the kids could do was get up (still in a fairly packed bus) and let this Betch in.

i mean seriously, did she really have to ask them like she did? all it would have took was a soft, "uhm, excuse me. but do you mind if i can have a seat?"
and anyway, she was probably like - what - 40, 50 at the most. she's not even classified as freakin elderly! and she's got the cajones to ask for a damn seat from 2 kids? i mean, she didnt ask leah and i - no... she friggin picked on the smaller more easily influenced ones in the bus... >:(

What a wench.

all anger aside, we got back home and we had steak for dinner (i ate but leah didnt cos she was still full... no duh).

we went back up to leah's room and i talked to steven on skype, damn that guy is hilarious. i think the whole time we were talking to him, one of us 3 were atleast laughing or giggling.
we played a word game with Steven and he owned leah and i. he also tried to copy my Snoring video, and i told him all about utubedrama.com and amongst other things.
but then he had to go to sleep; being that it was almost 4am over in colorado.

so now i'm just writing this vlog, asking leah what's been happening all day - cos my short term memory is SHOT.

anyways; pretty crap that i didnt take any photos but i did take some video clips on my camera - hopefully i'll import them and upload em on the Tube.

Peace out and take care.

Where's my BoA?

2008-11-23T20:54:00.000+11:00

so i watched the start and end of youtube live - didnt see much of the middle cos i was out having breakfast.

so it ends and i found out that there's a youtube live in tokyo and BoA's performing!
so i was like Sweet!
and leah was like Dude!
and i was like Sweet!
and she was like Dude!

ok i'll stop.

so anyway; we calculated the time and figured out that it'd be around 5:30pm sydney time, we waited until the fateful hour (and a half) arrived...

But there was no BoA.

there wasnt even a streaming video thingie.

it was just the damn channel; with its increasingly annoying autoplay...
WAAARGH

so leah and i wait.

and wait.

i refreshed and there's a new playlist and it said live performance so i was like; sweet! we get to see it.

but no - it was a freakin clip.
of ngl a girl who played drums really well.

i checked the jap youtbe blog and she was first to appear on the list of ppl. but she was meant to appear like 1hr ago.

Freakin hell! so are they just gonna upload bits of the whole thing? argh.

well while i wait for that i guess i'll just keep watching this bad arse recap.

peace and good night/morning whatever

--------------EDIT-----------

finally here it is; it wasnt even live - it was just a recording... what a rip.

sigh... one thing after another.

2008-11-23T02:29:00.000+11:00

ok so my dad makes me get in the car at 4pm; the WHOLE FAMILY drives me up to the airport (avalon - which is like the other side of the state for me) and we wait there for 3 bloody hours before i get on the plane and travel for 1 hour.

so far so "good"

so anyway, i meet my friend Leah and we go to her house. (i had to rephrase this sentence cos it made me think bad thoughts :P)
we're conversing and she then decides to go so she can edit her video downstairs.

i'm upstairs and i get changed to my sweatpants and talk to Garbo and Leah (yeah, i know what your thinking) on skype.

i then decide that i should go brush my teeth; cos cleanliness is next to Godliness.
anywhoo... as i open my bag of toiletries, i get my toothbrush case and open it.

Oh My Effing Mother Of Gondolas.

I Left my toothbrush at home.

SHIZNITTY SNIP SNAP!

ugh, i inform garbo about this who then (not very sneakily i might add) relays it to Leah via skpe chat.

the wench...

just the thing i wanted to avoid! i was gonna wake up tommorrow morning and buy one from like a convenience store. but nOOOooooo Garbo had to go and be funny...

so yeah, Leah went to her parents and asked them for a spare toothbrush.

*facepalm*

they give her a spare head for the electric toothbrush (THAT'S EVEN WORSE!)

but anyway, i'm brushing my teeth with the Oral B Awesome-brush5000... and it's the COOLEST THING EVAR.

it's got like MODES...

FAST
SLOW
one like a Sprinkler (vvvt... vvvt... vvvt)
and then there's one where its like a MOTORCYCLE where it REVs Up and the it goes back down again...

i can Haz an Awesum toofbrush?

NGL

trip's been pretty good so far :D

i'm Leaving... on my G5 G5

2008-11-21T01:36:00.001+11:00

not really.

but i am leaving for sydney this saturday; hopefully i'll get my arse off my bed and speak to you guys on skype tomorrow or something.

i'll probably start packing like...

11 shirts
3 pairs of pants/shorts
Board shorts (just incase i Beach it up)
3 pairs of shoes
UNDERPANTS!!!! only need 4... joking! i need 5. XD
socks... lots of it - cos i cant seem to have enough when i pack them.
3 jackets/jumpers/hoodies (just in case)
flip flops
towel/s
Toiletries
Deodorant (cant forget that)
Toothbrush (that too)
various Chargers and cables.
my Lappy
My Camera
tapes
headphones

did i miss anything?

havnt blogged for ages

2008-11-17T15:36:00.000+11:00

so yeah, its summer holidays for me now.

that's 2 months of nothing.
just sitting around at home talking to people on the net and just generally being a sloth.
I could get a job, i mean i might.
i could just call my old manager and ask him if he could give me some shifts.
it wouldnt be too bad.

this also means i can do more vlogs.
that is if i can get some good ideas.
i've got a couple, but it'll take a while to do.
i have all the time in the world right?

i'm also going to sydney hopefully next monday.
i might spend a week there and visit my friend Leah.
and then the following saturday i'm going to the Aus One Youtube meet.
cos the last one i went to was FAIL.

anyway, i might go do a bit of house work just so my mom doesnt yell at me when she comes back from picking my sibs up from school.

Peace and Take care

what i'm feeling right now

2008-11-10T18:38:00.001+11:00

i'll try to do more of these meme things...

GoBama!

2008-11-05T19:31:00.000+11:00

yay! America voted for the right person! i'm very happy, even if i'm in australia.

cos even though Obama wont help me directly as a Leader; what he does in america will make ripples through out the rest of the world.

i guess we'll just have to wait for these next four years to see what he's really capable of - being commander in chief of the most powerful country in the world and all.

take care guys; today's a great day.

great day

2008-11-04T00:52:00.000+11:00

So today was the improv AUS.'S Frozen @ flinders, it was the absolute bomdigitty!
but i gotta be honest tho. there were too many people involved. It got too crowded SO alot of people ended up frozen standing, doing nothing for 5 minutes.

i recorded a bit of the action myself but I gave up and froze aswell :P
3 seconds into the freeze you can hear this huge yell and once it struck 7:00, absolute silence...

afterwards, I went and got some food and went home.

oh and also if you havnt been following my tweets; i got myself a brand spanking new Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet. it's no Graphire or Intuos, but it gets the job bloody well done.

so i'm happy.

Improv Australia

2008-11-02T23:31:00.001+11:00

hey guys; just a short update.

i'm still working on my assignments - ergo - busy as a bee i am.

hopefully i'll be getting a graphic tablet on monday (tomorrow for me) so i'll be able to complete my work faster, especially my animation.

i'm just getting the Wacom Bamboo - dont have enough money for the Graphire.

on the other hand, i'm also participating in an Improv Australia stunt; the good 'ol Frozen *insert location*

we'll be doin it at Flinders St. Station from 7pm - 7:05pm but i'll need to be there at about 6:55. come and join if you're in the area.

i'm so excited. i'm gonna be wearing orange :D easier to spot on video :P

i just dunno what i'm going to be doing as i freeze... damn; i cant think of anything.

gimme some ideas; QUICK! lol

catch yall later

Re: Steven Bae's Blog

2008-10-29T00:51:00.000+11:00

you can see it here:
http://weblog.xanga.com/steveninbay/679895109/item.html

ok.

I dont hate on Gay people; heck i found out a couple of years ago that my cousin was Gay. it was a bit of a shock but i kinda saw it coming.
one of my classmates is gay - and he's one of the most creative people i've seen. not cos he's Gay; its cos he's talented.

i gotta admit i do say the word Fag or Gay or Homo in the sense that i describe something negative; but that's what's been subconsciously programmed in me. tell you the truth i have a slight homo-phobia; but only when i feel like im in a compromising position. but other than that - i'm a physical kind of person.

i prefer hugs instead of awkward handshakes.
i like to get close to a person, yknow arms around the shoulders - all buddy buddy kind of thing.

i'll say it again - i like gay people... but i dont like the stuff they do.
i dont condone their prefered sexual activity; its unnatural.
i can understand how they feel for each other and all but guy-on-guy just wasnt meant to be (imho).

i also think that being "Gay" is not something you were born with. a person develops this thinking that they like the same sex and through peers, media and even parents this mind set is enforced until the person ultimately decides that they are attracted to the same sex and that they were born that way. regardless of all the flack that i'm prob gonna get - i think homosexuality is more of a decision/lifestyle rather than an "in built function" for a lack of a better word.

as a christian i'm told to love the Sinner but hate the Sin. so when i hear fellow "christians" calling homosexuals these names and condemning them, it makes me sad:

- that they're using the label of christianity to "gain the right" to judge someone because of their sexual preference.
- and also verbally abusing a fellow human being (which is a bad thing to do - christian or otherwise)

i say - love these people the way you would like to be loved; the way God loves you. unconditionally and with out any bias towards what you may look from the outside but what you are on the inside.

i think though; that if a gay person truly accepts Jesus in their life, they'll be changed. not immediately but through a slow process of self re-discovery and being in a more meaningful relationship with God.
Sure, he/she may still be slightly attracted to the same sex; but i guess they wont be acting upon it.

its definitely a shaky subject - and i dont claim to know everything and this is one of the topics that i'm unsure about.

Btw; if you've read until here - you probably do care enough about what i do or what i think about so here's some updates...

-------

i'm still freaking swamped with assignments - i'm not sure when i'll be recording a new video.
i have like 4 things due next week, 2 of which i have barely started or even at all.
on top of that i have to go record Youth News and edit it and blech...

i hate being busy; i also hate being restless.

i just want to sit around all day; reading comics, blogs, eating food and spending time with friends.

anyway; it's getting late an i'm filming youth news at 10:30am tomorrow =_=

just some stuff

2008-10-24T18:18:00.000+11:00

hey;

i havn't had the time to blog or even vlog lately cos i've been busy with work.
hopefully those who read my blogs havnt unwatched me :P

anyway; these past 2 weeks or something i've just been working on my animations and other projects. hopefully when i finish my ACTUAL animation project instead of excercises, i might be able to post it up on youtube or something.

lately i've been kinda of sleeping late - which is normal for me. but i think, like 3 days ago; i actually slept before 12am.

i know, shock and awe. but thanks to me being tired and Garbo doing dishes and being afk, i fell asleep. when she got back - i was sleeping. (good thing she didnt record any of it) so i woke up the following morning and found myself more awake. i mean it was THAT different from before that i noticed straight away.

i functioned in class slightly better cos of that :P when i mean slightly - i meant i didnt end up sleeping in class.

speaking of sleep, my friend Nick and i went to astor Theater in Lygon St. and watched "Man on Wire" it was a movie or a documentary or a bio-pic about this french guy who was a guerrilla tight rope walker. i mean he secretly goes to high points in the city; secretly sets up his tightrope thing and just walks aross and even stay in the middle and lie down.
And y'know the police would try and stop him which would eventually lead to his arrest. but his dream was to walk across the Empire State building.

but i dont know what happened for the rest of the movie; cos i fell asleep. id wake up ever now and then and probably catch a few sentences in french and my eyes got heavy again.

so yeah; $11 bucks slightly wasted.

but in better news; two of my short films, "The Panda Man" and "The Persistence of Memory" are being shown in the State Library in Melbourne - for those living in victoria, go and check it out. in on the HUGE screen in the library media center thing.
But for those who cant be bothered going to the city, just check out my YouTube channel, both films are in there.

anyway; i have work to do; i havent been doin much all day today. just talking to Garbs, sitting outside (great weather btw, it was awesome NGL) and eating.
but even though i've just been such a lazy bum, i'm pretty tired... i wanna take a nap. like fo' shizzle.

anyway i'll catch yall later.

PS i was thinking of doing a BlogTv Show but i couldnt be bothered...

my Shortest Blog ever

2008-10-16T23:58:00.000+11:00

check this mother out; i'm featured man!

http://utubedrama.com/

Happy Birthday

2008-10-15T21:56:00.000+11:00

Drinking

2008-10-12T22:51:00.000+11:00

lets be honest; we have drunk some sort of alcoholic drink once in our life; or will be as soon as you're legal or something.

either beer; or some mixed cocktail drink or some "alcopops" (premixed drinks with weak alcohol constitution), wine or even hard drinks, mixed or neat.

i've tried em all... and i gotta say; i dont like drinking.

i hate the taste of Beer; especially Vicoria Bitter. ugh!
i hate that "Elevate" crap (energy and alcohol mix drink)
Vodka Cruisers arent that bad
Some Hard Liquor arent bad either. Rum and coke tastes pretty good.
I dont like wine...

i myself cant hold my alcohol; i've been told i have this thing where i dont have enough enzymes in my stomach to breakdown the alcohol and it just sits there... i get a splitting headache and later on i get drowzy and pass out and much later i violently throw it all up along with whatever i ate that night. not a pretty sight.

but i can see why people like to drink;
alcohol is a social drink, people drink it to fit in with people and such; nobody drinks beer cos they're thirsty... that's stupid.

the thing is i dont see why people like getting drunk. Getting Plastered, off your face, Sh*t faced and other terms that coincide with the throbbing headache; loss of inhibition, loss of balance, slurring of speech and pretty much making a complete Ass out of one's self.

and then afterwards if you end up drinking too much; you throw up everywhere, and the next morning you have the Biggest Headache known to mankind and no amount of Painblockers could help to relieve it.

nothing good comes out of drinking...
unless you're sober enough to actually enjoy the company, or if your sober enough to watch the first Drunk guy from your group to make an ass of himself.

i guess what i'm trying to say is:

Drink Responsibly, cos i wont be responsible for your ass.

Sick again?! i'm too busy to be sick.

2008-10-08T00:38:00.000+11:00

seriously i'm getting sick and tired (no pun intended) of me being ill all the time.

i need some sort of super soldier serum or something... get huge like capt. america :D
or have some sort of advanced Healing factor like Claire Bennet / wolverine (adamantium claws might be nice).

i hate having a blocked nose. every bleeding consonant becomes a B or a D T_T
if it isnt a blocked nose it's a runny one - constantly having to blow your nose (i get pretty loud too), and sometimes if i'm in class; i walk out of the room to do it and i end up walking in and out 5+ times a lesson and to get back it you gotta knock cos the door's constantly locked.

i also hate feeling tired and have no energy - you feel like you cant do anything; all you wanna do is sleep. but in my situation; being tired is not an option.

i'm busier than last time - with curricular and extra curricular work.

by this week i gotta have done the Voice Acting for my Animation, my Video DvD assignment is due on Friday and i gotta start on my design (i'm supposed to have already done 4 pages already)
by next week i gotta have a "recap" video clip of the youth Camp and slot it in the news.

sometimes i wish i just worked at a Tv station and just did vision mixing or something... atleast it's a constant stream of work and it's the same thing not like 6 things at once.

good news is - i finished the Tshirt i'm giving Garbo for her Bday.
hopefully i'll be mailing it wed. morning and it'll get there hopefully ON her bday.
She knows about the shirt; just not the design on the shirt :) that's a surprise.

anyway - it's like 1am and Terry (my friend) is coming by at 10:30 to do the voice Acting.

peace out, Girl Scout

PS;

ZOMGBBQWTH
HEROES~!
i wont spoil dw

My Family Friend's Wedding

2008-10-05T23:05:00.000+11:00

so waking up at 10 am today i realised we werent going to church.

ok, so i knew that i was going to a wedding - didnt know we were gonna skip church altogether. oh and also - by going to this wedding; i'd be missing a Best Friend's dinner... i had to go to the wedding; its not like they can just do a catch up ceremony the next week. Doi

anyway, i got spiffed up - suit and tie, with an added fedora to top it all.
and i also put product in my hair for the first time in a really long time.

so the 1hr or so Ride was boring but when we got there i recognized it.
it was the same place where we had my Graduation Dinner.

i saw the inside, it was all white and really pristine.
i had a bit of trouble with the guest list.

i'm used to being called RALPH outside of home; at home i get called by my middle name: Louisse (pronounced Luis) and that was the name i was listed as.
so when i said my name - Ralph - the receptionist had a difficult time finding my name, i realized what was happening and i finally got in. :S

i sat down and waited for the ceremony to start.
it did eventually aside from all the late people coming in minutes before the bride walked down the aisle (who by the way looked absolutely stunning)...

tsk tsk

anyhoo; it was a really nice wedding - you could tell that the couple getting wed REALLY loved each other.
made me think - could i make that kind of commitment? would i be able to love someone that much?

well i guess i'm pretty darn close to a certain someone right?

anyway - after that we all went to take photos with the newly weds, while we were all waiting h'Ors d'Ouvers (sp?) were being served.

i ate practically every type they had except for the spring rolls/egg rolls and the small meat pies.
i ate:

fish sticks
dumplings
falafel
spinach and ricota pastry

the dips were this Curry thing and sweet chilli sauce.

Dinner was eventually served and here's the menu.

entree was good; even tho it smelt burnt...
for the Main course i ate the salmon but i also tried the Chicken

dessert came 'round and i went all out.
profiteroles, creme brule (which was freaking awesome) and triple choc Brownies!

they had a toast for the bride and groom in which i participated...

and followed through a bit too enthusiastically...

and caused a bit of a prob. :S

anyway - it ended up being a good day and yeah... congrats to Aris and Ai Hoon McRae; and may they be blessed with many years of marriage.

peace

Camp Aftermath [warning = LONG ENTRY]

2008-10-04T20:19:00.000+10:00

Hey; so yeah - i got back from camp today.
And may i say; it was great.

although there were some downsides but i'll tell you about that later.

so on thursday i left class earlier to get to practice - which i didnt end up making cos i was running around trying to get stuff organized and etc etc.

got to the bus - it was a fun ride; watched hancock on my Laptop (so asian), Ps Jesse (my youth pastor) went up to me ans said he have you got Kungfu Panda? then i realized:

Ps. Jesse asked me to Get KungFuPanda the night before cos we were going to watch it after supper - i said yeah; i should be able to get it.

but i didnt - i forgot about it!

we was like.. oh... do you have any other movies then? i said - i have the new indiana Jones, and some other movies... but they werent really suitable... he looked disappointed..
Urrgh... why did i forget it?!

1st night at Camp; Dinner was Curry Chicken, well i thought it was with Vegies and mash potato... mmm

(here you go Chris; food stories :P )

session one was with Ps. Jesse speakin a little something about what to expect in the following meetings, the meeting ended and we had supper. no movie so i just played Killer Bunnies with the kids in my cabin and we watched 3rd ep of heroes.

i realized that i forgot my FireWire cable - so no Camp news... another dissapointment.
=_=

morning broke and we had Cereal for breakfast. then we had some Games and activities and then we had lunch.
Ham / salami sandwiches with veggies and a side of potato and bacon salad or egg and chicken salad.

good eating

we had our first session with our Guest Speaker Ps. Cameron Bennet all the way from Queensland. He was good. at the end of his Schpiel everyone got to the front incl. me and started to seek God - it was awesome.

then i sat with some of my friends and talked about stuff and then the guys set up the slipNslide...

oh yeah; so yep - i went and took a run up and slid down the hill pretty darn fast.
afterwards - we had an egg war; two eggs strapped on our heads and armed with pool noodles.

there were Islanders there - fijians, samoans and NewZealanders.... MASSIVE GUYS.
They play rugby for cryin out loud!
they ran in my direction; i ran in the other.

but then one of the leaders - Otto targeted me. i ran for my life... That guy was in the ARMY! i was honestly scared; he got me cos i'm so unfit; i got tired easily and got egg on my face... i got him in a headlock and got him back.

serves him right - dont mess with me.

after that was over; we fired up the catapult and chucked eggs at the other boys.
so we're all covered in egg, and detergent (from the slipNslide) and soaking wet. it started to rain.
then one of the islanders brought out the fire hose and start to soak the plastic sheet that covered the hill. i took a huge run up and flew down that hill.

then i took a shower.

Dinner - we had Spaghetti Bolognese mmm yum yum.

3rd session with Cam Bennet was freakin awesome too bad i didnt record the end bit cos he started to prophesy on people.

we went to our cabin afterwards but my friend Jay and I went Ninja-ing; we spyed on people still outside - unseen, unheard. heck i was a meter away and they didnt notice me.

Jay and i silently went back in our cabin and slept - i watched abit of the Avengers (cartoon movie) and then slept.

we woke up at 7:51 am and we panicked - thinking we missed practice... we went to the dining hall and found ppl just started eating. so we ate; cereal, toast and bacon and eggs... mmm yummeh.

we had our last session with Ps. Cam and it was great as ever. i left the cam on record just in case... i didnt have to... DANG!

we went back to our cabins and packed up - i reorganised my luggage to fit my dirty clothes and put it all in the bus.

had our group photo - will post later when i get them.

i got on the bus (there were two coach buses - did i mention that?) and got comfortable. soon enough i ended up sleeping. i'd wake up every now and then, but i went back to sleep.

we got to the church and they were getting ready for the sat. Evening service - i called up my 'Rents and they said that they were upstairs.

they got one of their fam. friends to drive myself and my sis Home and well here i am - 2 hrs later and still typing.

WOW long blog.

i guess i'll try and make some sort of Vlog video later this week.. if i find something interesting to talk about.

talk to you guys later,
Peace

Goin to Camp

2008-10-01T23:14:00.000+10:00

tomorrow, after 1st Class, i'll be going straight to church cos at 3pm we'll be going to Rutherford Park (somewhere out in victoria) for our annual Raw Energy Youth Camp.

this time i'll be going as a Leader - yknow being 19 and all.

anyway, i've got a few responsibilities to take care of during that time:

1. Record EVERYTHING
2. Record and Edit News for each session.
3. Play the guitar for the band
4. Take care of the Tech equipment, sound and cameras
5. get people to help you do point 1 and 4
6. try and have fun
7. get closer to God.

so yeah, i'll be so busy i dont think i'll end up doing point 7 but i hope that doesnt happen.

on top of that, the week after this AKA next week; my Video DVD assignment is due - and i only just finished the first part of the menu today... crap; looks like late night and being a social outcast for me.

i also have other assignments i have to work on that are due the following weeks - CRAP.
and on top of that, TERRY who i need to do some voice acting for me, is not answering my txts! bastard!
can i get maybe one of you to do it for me - if it isnt any hassle?

so yeah; i'm a tad on edge right now - i'm glad i got to talk to the peeps on skype and blow off some steam. gosh, i hart you guys - you're all so funny :D

i went and watched indiana Jones and the crystal Skull movie - man the ending was WEIRD. wth?

it's almost 11:30pm now, i dunno if i should try and go to sleep or watch another movie...

anyhoo, i'll talk to you guys next week.

PS
i hate the Computer company that Garbo bought her Computer from - they didnt have stock of her comp, but they didnt tell her - instead, told her that it was going to be shipped on wed. Today. it didnt get there, she called AND IT'S STILL NOT IN STOCK!

i'm not mad that i dont get to talk to garbo on skype anymore, sure i'm a little annoyed, but it's trivial ykno.
i'm mad cos the DAMN SHOP or whatever Doesnt have the common Courtesy to tell the customer that they STILL dont have the stock. i mean - if i was in their position i would've given the customer a choice of either waiting for the Laptop to be instock or pay a bit more for a laptop that's instock and slightly better.

anyway - hopefully garbo gets her laptop so we can hear her british accent again; i think it's starting to wear off.

Ralphie's Culinary Adventures

2008-09-29T20:52:00.000+10:00

thats what this blog should be titled; cos everytime i write in here i end up talking about food. which then makes Murdoc hungry.
so Chris, better get some chips and dip cos there's gna be alot of food in this entry.

what are you gna do? food is pretty much a central part of my life.

anyway, today's classes were boring; 3d not so much i got some stuff done and it looks pretty good - i might post up a pic in my next entry.

ate a lamb kebab for lunch; i actually felt kinda full before ordering (cos i ate rice and porkchops for breakfast) so i was a tad hesitant... i ordered it anyway i finished it and i was really full afterwards.

multimedia was boring as; fell asleep.

i went to the arts store and got a new sketch book; and headed home.
got home and played TF2 >:D

threw down some Pwnage.

afterwards; i decided to do some assignments. so i took some pictures of the stuff that i needed to animate and transferred them on my pocket drive.
then i was bored, i heared my sister doing something in the kitchen, went and saw she was cooking french toast.
so after she was done; i made myself some french toast. with lots of butter.

my sis then had teh great idea of making rice balls; she doesnt know how to make them exactly, she was just "mucking around". who messes around with food?

she had to eat what she made anyway so i was ok with that.
i washed all the dishes (sigh) and i thought I could make some rice balls; so i surfed up the recipe and quickly made some with the leftover rice.

here's one of em

so yeah and that's pretty much it until now. btw cant wait till the next ep of heroes; 1 - 1.5 sleeps left for me!

awesomes;
ttyl

Expectations

2008-09-27T21:50:00.000+10:00

Here's the thing; i like to help people out. i'm a pretty generous person.
may it be giving someone a bit of my food or some change if i'm able to spare some.

usually i just help with my abilities; in the tech area that is.

if a family member gains knowledge of the fact that you're able to do something they cant or that they can do but you can do it better; 100% for sure they'll ask you to do it.
its the same thing with friends.

the thing is; i have an inability to say no.

so when this person from our church asked me if i could record her wedding for her, for $150, i naturally said yes.
but i didnt think about my transportation and what camera i'm gonna use.
i asked my friend Dave (who worked in the church and where i help out) if i could borrow the Sony HDV camera. he said yes.

then upon informing dad what i was asked to do - he cracked it.

"Who's camera are you gonna use"
"the church's? who asked to use it?"
"you? what the hell were you thinking?"
"what if you lost it?"
(yeah like i'd lose a HUGE SILVER CASE with a $1000+ camera in it and a 2 Meter long Tripod)
"do you know how much it cost?"
"what about insurance issues?"

and it went on.

to be honest; he was right on some points. but then he got personal.

"you always do stuff for your friends, they ask you something, boom you're there."
"but whenever i ask you to do something, you never do it."
"that time i asked you to edit that video in Kyabram (some farm place), where is it?"
"what about that slideshow that Ai-Hoon asked you to do, nothing - I had to do it!"

well i'm sorry, but maybe if i didnt have so many assignments and the fact that i didnt want to fail and waste $1000 of tuition fees just help out your friend's wedding, i would've been able to do it. but i did, and you had to do it.
and YOU had the nerve to think that i didnt want to do it; telling me that "you covered for me" what a crock.
You could've done it yourself and YOU HAVE. you've done so many bloody slideshows on our crap arse computer and it came out great. then why did you want me to do it?
COS YOU DIDNT WANT TO DO IT.

gah it's so frustrating. knowing you might and even will disappoint so many people just to please a couple.
but who do you choose? other people or your family?

if you choose other people; your family thinks you're a selfish Git and ends up hating you. thus repelling them from asking you to do stuff for them and not trust you completely.

if you choose your family; the other people then think you dont care about them and what's important to them - thus repelling them from asking you any favors/jobs.

this sucks. if i didnt have so many assignments; i wouldve been able to do these things easy. but no one's going to hire someone with out any qualifications - and i'm no Genius Artist.

a little frustrated

2008-09-27T02:04:00.000+10:00

so yeah - i got a bit hectic today (fri)

i got up at 8 and went back to sleep - woke up at around 11; and forgot i had to go to church to film and edit the news. i quickly got all my stuff together, showered, ate and left. i was at the train station when i realised:

I forgot my Laptop's power Adaptor

i went and checked the battery percentage

60%

CRAP!

i got to the city and the tram lines were blocked cos a couple of Hours ago there was a parade for the AFL grand finals (Go Geelong)
so i had to go to the next stop ahead and catch THAT tram.
i got to church eventually, and started filming.
i captured the footage on a separate computer (saves me some battery time) and loaded it up on my HDD

I edited like the WIND.
LIKE THE FREAKING WIND

i finished and exported at 10-13% i went and checked the footage and my screen dies.
i panicked abit and tried to restore my desktop.
it went back and i ejected my HDD successfully.

loaded up the video on the laptop we were gonna use for the projector.
and fixed up the sound desk.

the night went well and i took the train home; thankfully not overshooting my station again. (by then it was around 11pm)
called up Terry who called me during youth and asked if i wanted to go out with them.
i said yeah but after youth finishes.

no one answered
i called nithun - he picks up.
and they're all drunk

Dammit now i dont have a way there or back home.
so yeah i'm a bit pissed at the fact that the guys didnt even think/remember that i wanted to hang out with them.
and to rub salt on my emotional wounds (how emo am i) i live pretty far from their house... and i dont drive (omg weak sauce).

so yeah.
i wanna drive
either that or ride a motorcycle.

short update

2008-09-23T01:05:00.000+10:00

so yeah - havnt blogged/vlogged/tweeted for a while now. been pretty preoccupied.

sat to sunday i was at church doing video mixing for the services.
at the last service 6pm on the sunday i screwed up - pressed the wrong button and made the screen bright pink - i quickly fixed it tho. :S

anyhoo; today was tiring as crap. 3d was the same old stuff; learned how to put realistic textures on our 3d models and how to do some 3d mapping.
after that the class had to sit through this boring presentation from some chick that wants us to do some flash thing for her.

i fell asleep many times.

we went out for a break; at sushi and went back to our interactive multimedia class.
i learned how to go to diff. pages in a flash file through ActionScript 3... i guess that's useful.

went home - but before that; i stopped by Games World and i bought:

KILLER BUNNIES!

yeah i'm a sheep; sue me.

but it really is a great game; played my sister and i won the 1st game cos she didnt have any bunnies alive at the end and i also had the magic carrot.
but second game; although i had most of the carrots - my sis won cos SHE got the magic carrot.

guess that's how the game goes.

we went to eat at a chinese restaurant; it was ok - could be better but i did get full. so it was worth it. the szechuan Beef that i ordered wasnt even THAT spicy! and they called szechuan... LIES.

On another topic:

i'm back on Youtube and Facebook! so expect some major activity in those sites on my part. hopefully on wed i'll get some recording done and upload it ASAP.

it's now 1:12am and i gotta sleep or i'll be hella tired again tomorrow morning. =_=

Finally!

2008-09-19T13:36:00.001+10:00

finished all my assignments! booyah!
i am now free from busyness... at least until the next batch of assignments comes in.

so yesterday i watched "stepbrothers" it was the premiere here in aus (no fancy openings - unlike the Mummy 3; when brendan fraser actually came by... damn shoulda went).

it's Hilarious! Will Ferrel's done it again. i know some of his movies were either crap or Fantastic; this one was one of his better ones.
The storyline itself is pretty normal but it's the dialogue and some of the random events that get you. If you cant help but Quote lines or re-enact from a movie and laugh or go "that bit was awesome..."; that movie was good.

so in all of our classes yesterday, we just worked on the things that were due that day and or the next day.
i finalised my walkcycle - as jittery as it is.
also done with my design animation
and my game (which i finished at 3am this morning) is now complete!

oh and these are some of the things i submitted during this past couple of weeks, so when i blog about getting a crap ass score or failing; you'll know why.

so this was my 2dimaging Assignment; we had to make and animate an 8-bit character.

this was my pencil test for my character's Walk cycle... i need to change the upper body motion.

Classroom Hostility by ~ohayo-gozaimasu on deviant ART

and this is my Game. you need 2 players and the controls are:

P1 (left side of screen):

Punch - E
Special - E+W (hold)

Left - T
Duck - Y
Right - U

P2 (you guessed it, right side):

Punch - Page Down
Special - Pg Dn+End (hold)

Left - Num Pad 1
Duck - NP 2
Right - NP 3

so yeah... enjoy?

it was pretty good

2008-09-16T00:37:00.000+10:00

so its the week getting back after 1 week of holidays and another week of classes but no lessons...

in 3d - i worked on my CornPopper Toy... it's looking pretty good.

Interactive media - i worked on my friends game :P didnt even touch mine... i really should start being selfish.

i ate some pretty good sushi for lunch and after class my friends and i went out to eat at a nearby Korean restaurant.

i got a large order of pan fried dumplings (which were piping hot btw - nearly burnt my tongue) and a glass of banana and mango juice.
Nick got steamed dumplings; he got more than me... although mine were bigger though.
we ended up sharing.

every now and then i'd look up and watch the tv screens; they were showing some Korean Song Countdown but they had the actual performers singing their hits. it was cool - too bad i missed Hyori Lee's performance. TT_TT

afterwards i wanted to go stop by this British store which sold products from the UK; my mission was to get some more Percy Pigs. i couldnt find any - i asked the attendant; "do you have any more Percy Pigs?"
He replied "nah, sorry mate; we dont sell them anymore - we got some round the back but they've gone past their best before."
"oh, ok... when will you order some more in?"
"probably never - nobody buys them anyway"

I was SHOCKED, Taken Aback, stunned so to speak.

Nobody buys them? who in their right mind would not buy percy pigs? They're like freakin Manna from the heavens! but only more chewy and pig shaped.

so i just got the next best thing - a pound of twizzlers! for 6 bucks!

i dunno if that's cheap though. its now in a slightly air tight container in my room - so whenever i feel like a pick me up; munch on a twizzler.

Btw - i got asked to go to 2 weddings in the course of 3 days.

1st wedding to go to is my friend Phil's Wedding; he's only 1 year or so older than me!
makes me feel a bit left out :(

2 wedding is of 2 people in the young adults group at church - i dunno how but somehow someone told them (i have my suspicions) that i can do videography - so yeah; now i'm taking videos of the whole procession (1 hour) and i'm gonna be editing it to a 5 min clip. best part of that; i was getting paid! yay for income! and i'll probably get some cake too :D

anyway; i guess i've had my fair share of disappointments and blessings these couple of days. sure would hope for the blessings to keep rolling in... preferably in the form of Money :)

Pretty Good Sunday

2008-09-14T22:40:00.000+10:00

so it's sunday.

i got in the car and went to church. during the service like it was on cue i fell asleep (only for like a min) during the sermon; i'd fall in and out of conciousness :P

after church i had to stay back which was fine; cos i got to hang out with my friend Jei.
He's cool as; so yeah, we went to McDonalds and got some food.

cool thing was we got our burgers $2 less than what it should have. lemme explain:

McD has a burger - "Double beef and bacon" which costs $4.95 which is pretty much a double beef patty, cheese and a rasher of bacon.

yes; my mouth is watering as we speak.

that aside, i was told by a friend of mine that McD's has a similar Burger that's cheaper called the "Double beef and cheese" same as above just no bacon. for just $1.95
Bacon's only $1 to add.

so do the math.

so we got the "double beef cheese w/ bacon" and an Apple Pie... all for only $3.95!
oh the value!

so Jei and I had our small feast and afterwards we walked back to church where they had practice goin on.

Practice was so much fun - even though i wasnt part of it; i picked up a mic anyway and sang along. i was awesome :P
after the practice Jei and i just jammed. he played guitar and i sang, we sang "I'm yours" and "Save tonight".

afterwards; Matt, Bec, Jei, his Brother Gabe and i went out for a pizza - Matt, Bec and Gabe ate, Jei and I played MAME... i brought down the Pwnage. i really did.
Matt and Bec went home (did i mention they were siblings?), Jei and Gabe did aswell, and i started to walk to the KFC where my parents were waiting.

but yeah; we stayed in that area for a while until we finally had to go home - just as i was going to go on the swings... DAMN.

at home i recharged my Lappy and just chilled and i heard the news that we were going to a Korean Restaurant. Yay!

We got to the restaurant and we ordered Korean BBQ (beef, Spicy Pork and Beef spare ribs), Kim-chi, Bok Kae (sp?), Corn Tea (which was pretty good) and fried Dumplings.
I got really full. we went out - impressed the owner by speaking in Korean (lol) and proceeded to make our way to the car.

We stopped to get some coffee and i got some TimTam Cake! it was AWESOME!

we then headed home, but at the parking lot-place-thing, there was a public toilet - but it was fully automated. once you left the cubicle and the doors shut, the WHOLE toilet is cleaned. from Bowl to Floor.

Trippy

so yeah i eventually got home and now i'm doing this!
NEAT!

so yeah, hope you guys have a great Week.
i'll try to enjoy mine.

now's not the time to panic

2008-09-14T01:44:00.000+10:00

BUT ITS THE PERFECT TIME TO PANIC!

well yes and no.

i need someone to slap me.
no not really; i know most of you are already getting you plane tickets or possibly on your way to my house already but no... that was a joke.

only garbo can slap me... but only if she has a damn good reason. or maybe ollie... :P

oddness aside - i screwed up.
i forgot that my video assignement was due on friday - yeah the one that just past.
i mean; i'm pretty much done with everything - its just that i was thinking about it the other day - the friday it was due; and asking myself when it was going to BE due....

i'm such a dumbass

also the lecuturer springs us the point that we have to have "non copyrighted music".

crap - how am i supposed to get a non copyrighted version of "smells like teen spirit"?
so this morning - more like afternoon; i locked myself in my parent's room, soundproofed it so no sound can get inside, got one of the Karaoke mics ("one of the"? yeah we have more than one), my acoustic guitar and opened up Garage band.

i looked for some drum loops that might resemble the beat in the actual song; i did. i hooked up the Mic and got the guitar, got the chords for the song and pressed record.

it sounded like crap. but i had no time for timbaland refinements.
i then got the Mic and recorded my singing voice :S

in the end; i put it all together and it sounded pretty listenable.
so i put it in the timeline of my AfterEffects file. i did some small tweaking and rendered out to see how it was - synching and the animation itself.
it was alright but the criteria stated for it to be compressed using another type - not the usual quicktime one. so i clicked on the new compressor and an error thinie popped up.

There isnt any writer for this compressor... yadda yadda

you cant be serious - i cant even publish this so i can submit it?! this is ARSE.

so i just tried to export using another compressor - just to see if it was all working.
it was; but there was one thing missing. the grunge overlay (to make it look like an old movie)

so i saved it and got the layer which had the overlay and moved it above the camera.
but once i clicked out - all hell broke loose. well just one thing happened.

IT FROZE.

the freaking program froze - i couldnt do anything; i could click and open up the other windows that i had open but AfterEffects wasnt responding.
WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME WINDOWS?!?!
after many failed tries; i just gave up.

so i just got my pencil and started to draw some storyboards for the animation. i know i was supposed to do it beforehand but i kinda did - but not in the form that's acceptible.

after i was done; i got back on the Mac and just "walked around" - so to speak - in the web. i found out that Ryan Terarc (superstar) was on blogTV so i joined and watched his playful antics and intelligent banter streaming live on my computer screen.
at that time; Steveninbay was also on BTV and i momentarily left the confines or Ryan's BlogTv to go stalk steven. I cohosted with him and he Ate his last TimTam on the show; he slammed it with Hot water... i told him to atleast do it with tea. anyway; he had to go and i went back, like a prodigal son, to ryan's channel.

Ryan did one of his patented Terarc Interviews on one his cohosts "Not_June". it was fun but i had this MASSIVE LAG.
he then asked me if *I* wanted to cohost with him - i said yeah sure ok and interviewed me.

when i say interviewed; i mean tried to converse through a MASSIVE LAG that debilitated Ryan's ability to hear me good enough to know what i was saying and on top of that; know when i stopped talking.

so in ryan's words; "EPIC FAIL" *does hand motion*

so he eventually said goodbye and i was again left to roam the internets...

nothing much happened; i ended up downloading more MAME roms and eventually got Marvel Super Heroes and Marvel vs Capcom to work.

oh and also i watched the "Awesome Series" in newgrounds... omgosh EgoRaptor is a FUNNY GUY.

so yeah; i played some MAME, mortal kombat3, metal slug, etc.

Terry called and i talked to him for a bit; somehow our conversations lately revolve around hot girls. he then consequently keeps sending me pictures of girls he "meets" on Facebook. good for you Tez.

so it's 2:27am on a sunday - in around 5-6 hours im supposed to wake up and be getting ready for church. i think all this skyping has made me adjust to either the UK time zone - cos seriously; i woke up at around... 2 ish - that's 5am in Wales. right now it's 5:30pm there; i could probably be able to stay up till around 8 which is about 11pm Brit. Time.

wow... that's sad ralph.

anyway; i gotta get going - i dont want to end up falling asleep during the sermon.

Peace and my regards to your mother.

:D

Blessed

2008-09-11T01:06:00.000+10:00

i've been reading a couple of blogs lately and it seems alot of people have had some sort of event that change their outlook on life or just made them feel angry / happy. but in the end they make some sort of discovery about their life and themselves.

and i think its through these blog that I myself have come to my own discovery.

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Normally i don't talk about being a Christian to others openly; only when i get asked a certain question that involves me in doing so.

over these past couple of months i've been challenged to be more outgoing with my faith; not so much the whole knocking on doors in inappropriate times kind of thing but kind of openly saying; "Hey; sup. i'm a Christian and i love God"
and on top of that i've been challenged to spend more time with God.

i find myself veering away from the crooked and narrow (it's NEVER straight and narrow - trust me) and tending to go to the wider, straighter and much comfortable Worldly Road. i tend to succumb to the worldly charms; Drinking amongst other things...

the thing is; Drinking isnt bad... but Getting Drunk; that's a whole another thing.
Drinking alcohol GETS you drunk so it's better off not to drink. even if your Oh so confident that your "Never get Drunk"; you're human - you get drunk.
i was just informed that i might have this thing where i dont have enough enzymes in my stomach to process alcohol (either that or i'm just a complete lightweight) - so if i even drink like a bottle of beer; i go red immediately and i start to get headaches and stuff - worse come to worse; i feel sleepy and end up vomiting soon after.

not a pretty sight i gotta tell ya.

so i try to steer away from drinking really. But being the weak willed idiot that i am - i get pulled in by peer pressure. *headpalm*

My relationship with God has been a roller-coaster ride. i'd be unbelievably passive one time, then a youth camp / youth conference comes up and i'm all high and all Godly and whatnot then a few months pass and i'm back in the slump.

one time i was in a huge 2 year slump - i think i probably backslid or something. i was living a double life; i'd be swearing and doing all this stuff at school then at home i was the Kid sent from above.

i thank my parents for putting me in a Christian School rather than stayin in the Public one. For one - i wouldnt have to wake up at 5:30 everyday just to get to class 10 mins late. but by putting me in the Christian School; i kinda was in a relationship plateu with God. like, i wasnt the bad boy that came from the public school anymore - i was more like the meek kid from the public school who somehow survived hell.

but as the years went by i didnt see myself going anywhere with God. sure; i'd go to youth and church every week, id play in the band, sacrifice time and money to go to christian events and stuff...
but i felt like it was just for show. many of my christian friends didnt come from a christian family; they made the personal decision to follow Christ. now i'm not saying i didnt do that; i made the personal decision to follow God but not because i had a huge revelation and experience of how God loves me SO MUCH; but more like i knew that God loved me through other people and i took their word for it.

kinda makes me feel inadequate yknow.

I feel like that they (Christian - non christian Background) have come to a more personal relationship with God cos they had no idea who God was and then BAM here he is; all his glory and infinite love waiting for you to come to Him. it seems like they experience God on a much deeper level than I do; just cause they know the experience and i just know the Theory and the bible smarts.

i feel like that i dont get the "full Christian effect" that some people have; but the thing is - it's not God's fault. it's mine. i dont act upon it and try to get closer to God. i mean i go to prayer meetings and i praise God but it's all in the confines of the church. i barely do that at home; i only pray to God when i need something - mostly forgiveness - but never just to talk to Him. i never seem to give God time, i'm always doing something; either procrastinating on Youtube and Facebook or just working on assignments in general - i've never stopped and sat down, read the bible, talked to God and think about what he's told me.

i feel like i havnt done a thing for Him when i know for a FACT that God has done SO MUCH STUFF for me.

he healed me from bronchitis when i was a baby;
he provided me with great parents (although frustrating at times)
given me great friends; christian and non, real life and internet ones (whom i will meet soon) - i love you guys
given me the most wonderful girl ever to walk the face of the earth :P lol you know who u are - love ya
and just putting up with and forgiving me for all the screw ups that i've done in these 19 years that i've been around.
and so much more that i might have not known or remembered.

ive been so blessed but i've never seemed to return the affection. i feel so inadequate knowing that other people are so into God that everything else is just an addition prize to what God has to really offer.
i know i can do much better - i'm trying; i really am but these past couple of months i havnt had that push to reach and grasp God's hand; i dont want some catastrophe or some major dilemma to hit me for me to reach to God, but the thing is - God's kind of done that. He's used other people's experiences to teach me these things. to help me realize what i'm missing. because some of the people who have experience these troubles have either come to God or tried to do it themselves; and the latter seldom works - even if it did, not very well.

it all comes down to spending time with God - that's all i've been missing; i know His word but i can always learn more. i know his love but i can always experience it further cos i know that there's no limit.

I've GOT to spend more time with God; even if it's a quick minute, read a verse, pray - i think my relationship with Him will be all the more sweeter in the long run.

lol sorry if i've just yammered on about all this God stuff; but i felt like writing it down. yknow - show you guys my faith and all.

Thanks to all the bloggers that have inspired me to become a better Christian even though some of you arent even christians yourselves. i'm not gonna name any names :P

love you all and God bless.

Blechhh

2008-09-09T20:18:00.000+10:00

ok; just letting you guys know that i barely go to school as it is.

i have 3 days a week of classes.

sure each class might be 3 hrs each and they all start early in the morning and end up at 3:30pm - 6:30pm (depending on the day)

but that doesnt help the fact that i go to school only 3x a week.

then why the hell am i complaining? is this good?

yeah it is;
but it turns sour when you have to wake up early in the morning only to find that there's barely any of your class in the room - and the teacher's either decided to not come in for the day or just hang in the staff room (where you can conveniently call upon him if ever you should need his assistance).

it pretty much happened today - and i'm pretty sure it's going to happen on Thursday.

i got to class today thinking i was already late but when i knocked on the door - i was greeted - by 2 people.
a couple of minutes later 2 of my friends arrived. thank God; some one to talk to.
and then i remembered Web IM.

i need to kiss the guy/girl/people that made Web IM cos i'd be dead bored in class if it wasnt for him/her/them.

soon enough more and more people came in - even the teacher - but only for a bit and only to notify us that he'll be in the staff room, chillin with his homies.

i was practically finished with my video assignment... and it was only 10am.
was i was going to have to endure 6 more hours of this?

HELL NAW.

so i just busied myself with PurePwnage and updates on twitter every bloody minute.

ok i'm exaggerating, but that's beside the point. i was eventually bored and just started to meticulously tidy up the .PSD files that i used in my After Effects project.
a bit of Level Adjustments here, Alpha channel trimming there.
i also put in a grungy overlay so it looked like an old film; changed the background colour and exported it.

it looked pretty good. but not the best.

didnt end up going on a break cos the whole class was like a break.

after the class we decided to leave. normally there's a 30 min break between classes - for me it was quitting time.

i went and ordered a meatball sub from Subway - cos it's awesome - and got on the Cranbourne Train home; at the station i met one of my classmates and the whole train ride we talked about Comics and Super Hero Movies.

i had my sub just sitting on my lap; the steam condensed on the plastic bag that covered it. the girl that made it made a tear in the bread so when she eventually made the sub (footlong - ofcourse) it almost fell apart. Meatball sauce, combined with ranch dressing and honey mustard sauce seeped through the bread - making it soggy, which consequently making the paper around it soggy.

ew soggy sandwich paper...

sorry i deviated there for a sec.

while i was talking to my classmate i wanted to eat my sub; but i didnt want to seem rude, me eating this awesome sub and him, not having any.

but i went for it anyway. we both got off at Clayton Station and went on our separate ways. i got on the bus and went home.

i arrived home and no one was there - i took my bag off; slipped into my sweatpants and took a nap.

i got woken up by the alarm i set up; snoozed it and went back to sleep.
5 mins later my youth group called my - checking to see how the Video News was going - i said it was going well and i told them i'll just need the rest of the footage.

i got up (i already quite awake then) and just talked to people on skype; mainly steven.
he left i was alone again.
so i played WoW

leveled up 3 times in 2 hrs

by then my sister and brother were home already. my sister scolding me for not opening the door for her.
Screw that, she got her own key - she can open the door herself, i was busy doing a quest.

i eventually got sick of playing WoW and i started to surf the web a bit...
i also resumed my viewing of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". great movie - even if it was B&W and got some fairly cheezy effects. funny thing was there was barely any blood around the bathtub or on the floor even though the girl was stabbed so many times.

those were the innocent days.

that aside i finished the movie and did some looking up in IMDB.
there's a Psycho 2,3, and 4! but i bet they were some pretty lousy sequels.

then i just decided to write on my blog cos i thought today might be worth writing about.

meh.

anyway; catch you all later.

oh and A Safe Trip to Nats (UK) cos she's going/gone to france today (tues).

Get Back into the Groove

2008-09-08T01:12:00.000+10:00

ok; so my week off school's finished.

that means back to reality for me.

Dammit!

that means:

6:30 wake ups
Get home at around 5 pm
be exhausted and nap
find yourself waking up at 10pm
and not being able to go to sleep till 1am

it's a vicious cycle.

anywahoo, just wanted to update yall on some stuff.
like my current inability to stop whatever i'm doing and sleep cos it's 1:16 am and class starts again the next day.

and i still havnt figured out the ActionScripting for my fighting game.

If anyone out there knows Action Script 3 for Flash, Hit me up - i wanna pick your brain. My teacher's Useless...

anyway i gotta go now - i shoulda done this instead of WoW...

take care yall;
Peace

Why Ralph? Why?

2008-09-06T22:10:00.000+10:00

Listening: My way Mix - Limp Bizkit

you would be saying "Wth" and asking numerous questions as you read this.

so anyway - that day that Nithun and Terry came by (thurs i think) nithun and terry decided to go to the mall.

so nithun could buy World of Warcraft (or as Garbo says it - War of the Worlds) Credit.

right now you'll be thinking "lol; Nerds - you guys play WoW"
and i'll tell you "shut up"

lol just kidding

the thing was we (and by we i mean Terry) have been persuading the guys - Chris, Nithun, Nico and to the lesser extent Billy - to play WoW since we started. but nowadays every invitation we give them, we follow up with a disclamer:

"YOU WILL GET ADDICTED"

so we eventually broke through to Nithun and he's now playing; the thing is - i'm not playing anymore (or in the present case - i wasnt)

well i'm not playing in the "Pay to Play" Servers; but instead in a Private server - where it's Free to play; so sadly i dont get to talk to terry in-game...

but anyway - because of Nithun buying WoW Credit; i got back on the horse... but like i said above - on the Free to Play Horse.

I started another character yesterday afternoon...
4 hours later i was lvl 16
i took a rest and ended up talking to Terry and Garbo till 6am.

oh and we (terry and i) got Garbo to play a bit of WoW too.
BTW; she's a total Noob... lol

i still love ya Garbs.

anywhoo i fell asleep as soon as every one left.
but had enough energy to tweet about it.

what an addict.

i woke up at 10am - my sister was yelling at the phone; but not angry yelling - that's how she talks.

i fell asleep again - but woke up at 12:30
i had to give the keys to our car to a family friend of ours - they use it during the weekends.

that time i was fully awake.

so i just played WoW.

i took a break at around 5:40pm to watch Steven on BlogTv

he's such a pretty boy, that guy.
and keeps getting asked if he was Gay... i mean cmon he's a hunk! who would confuse him for a gay guy?

anyway - he finished up his show; i washed the dishes.

and i got back onto WoW.

SAD

i got off at around 10 ish; at lvl 24.

and now i'm talking to Terry and Garbo.
and i'm hungry; i might go get some pizza.

Take care,
Peace

Out with the boys

2008-09-03T18:53:00.000+10:00

so this morning i get up at 7:00... give or take a few minutes.
i was kind of annoyed

cos i put my alarm up at 7:30
Bloody hell.

anyway i decided to go on and see who's on skype; Garbo was online - might as well.

we talked for a bit and i keep falling asleep whenever she doesnt reply for about 3-5 mins.

it was 8am - i knew i had to get ready cos Nithun, Terry, Chris and I were going to be meeting up in the city and we were just going to do stuff - and i was still in bed.

i fell asleep again.

i woke up to the Phone Ringing - it was my aunt. dunno why she called; i was still half awake while i was talking to her. The call waiting chimed in; i tried to finish my conversation with my aunt as quickly as i could, but when i got to the other call - there was no one.

so i went back to my aunt and the call waiting chimed in again, i said goodbye and answered the other call. it was terry; he told me that they were going to the city now and he'll meet me at Melbourne Central.

I was still in my pajamas.

i quickly went into the shower and got dressed - during that time dad got back home.
good. i didnt have any money.

he gave me $20 and i got on the next bus and took the train to the city.

i got there 40mins later than we agreed - damn my incessant need for 10 hrs of sleep.

when we got there, Chris and I ordered some subway. there was only 1 person serving this large, accumulating queue in which Chris and I were stuck in.

it took us about 30 mins to finally get our food. the people who sat at our table (when we were at the start of the line) already ate their food and left.

we finished eating and made fun of Chris because he says "Bi-Cycle" instead of "Bicycle" much lollage.

We caught up with one of our old friends because he worked at the local GNC store - and he's huge.

We went in RMIT university and played pool (i won) and daytona (i lost...)

we went out and started walking towards Crown Casino which was at the other end of the city. during that time we played an old pinching game where if one sees an Indian with a turban; that person must pinch the triceps of a person/s next to them and the one/s getting pinched must quickly say the color of the turban to have the pinch released.

it's tons of fun but you end up in a constant state of alertness and paranoia.

on top of that; terry keeps trying to ram me into random groups of asian girls - it's his way of helping me get a girl. so i was even more paranoid of stuff around me.

we got to Crown Casino after numerous stops of trying to scare Chris and consequently having him fall into the River.

he didnt fall - crap.

we decided we might go play on some slot machines - just cos we can.
but i didnt get to cos the time i spent in the casino were spent putting my Bag in the cloaking area, looking for the guys, finding them, then telling me that we were going, me getting my bag back from the cloak room, finding that they've gone and played on the slots while they were waiting for me, me having to get out of the casino area because i had my bag, waited for the guys to get out and well got out without doing anything.

yeah

anyway - we went to the arcade and played some more daytona, some initial D, some DDR, some of drum mania, some of this jungle game where you shoot giant insects, this other dancing game where you wave your hands over these sensors, and uh... i dont know what else.

we were hungry afterwards - so we went up to McDonalds.
i only had $5 left. so i borrowed 50¢ from nithun and i got a large frozen Coke (when i wanted a Raspberry Fanta - didnt give it back - didnt want to make a fuss) and a double beef and cheese burger.

we had more fun in expense of chris; we took his phone without him knowing and we texted random sexy crap to his GF... lol but it kinda backfired when his GF was actually agreeing to it... o.0

anyway we decided to call it a day and got on the train - which was good cos we all got on the same train.

we talked some more and i got of a couple of stops earlier and said my goodbyes.

i took the bus to a home full of chores to do - i chose to get on the Comp. and write this blog. :P

so yeah - that was my day, sorry i didnt write about the past couple of days cos they were very uninspiring.

oh and Terry and Nithun are coming by tomorrow... Mad :)

Catch you guys later;
Peace

Yum Cha

2008-08-30T21:08:00.000+10:00

Today i went with my family to this Chinese Restaurant; to celebrate my half-nephew's (even though he's older than me and from another family line - it's complicated) bday.

we ate yumcha which is awesome cos not only can you pick what you want to eat as you go you can control the portions.

ok what i ate was:

dumplings
BBQ pork
chicken
duck
scallop stuffed mushroom
Chicken Feet <--- i love this
egg tarts
Chinese brocolli
i dunno what else...
and lots of Rice

and i was really full afterwards so when we went home i had a nap.

woke up and we were at a mall - parking lot btw.

my sister was missing so i assumed she was left at home.

we just walked around cos mum had to get something from "Best and Less"
I looked at the puppies in the pet store.. they're so freakin cute!

anyway - i looked for "Games World" (board games store) cos i was thinking of buying Killer Bunnies and seeing what all this hype is for.

found out that the shop wasnt even there anymore and the mall doesnt know when they'll come back...

damn

so it was nearing 4pm and had to get to church by then.

i arrive at church at 4:20pm
Set up the cameras
and by 5:30pm we were ready to roll.

The service went well - i was on the roaming camera on stage and it was pretty good, the video feed came out alright considering the really crappy connection.

afterwards we had supper. the church brought out finger food; party pies, sausage rolls and samosas and spring rolls... oh and Cake.

Went home with aunts and i'm gonna sleep here cos they'll need to be at church early just like i need to be (cos i'm doing cameras again tomorrow on sunday).

that was pretty much my day...

just remembered i gotta tell my sister to get my guitar ready for tomorrow - band practice after church you see.

take care; see ya.

btw; i got a week of this coming week so yeah... free time.

i miss you guys.

Tropic Thunder

2008-08-29T00:46:00.000+10:00

Yeah; Hi.

Watched Tropic Thunder today.

Not as bad as it's made out to be actually.

I laughed at the bit where one was supposed to laugh, wince at the weird bits and question the movie where it goes all weird.

overall it was a good movie; hell it wasnt Bloody "Dark Knight" but it was a good movie to enjoy after you submitted your assignment.

But i think a person shouldn't be persuaded by some Eloquent,articulated pompous "movie expert" that thinks every movie should be in the same par as bloody "Gone With the Wind" or "Citizen Kane" (which i think is a freaking awesome movie)

if you're easily persuaded by a couple of well worded sentences on a piece of paper or some big artistic words said by a guy with glasses - you shouldn't be allowed on your own because by the looks of it; you cant make your own decisions.

but that aside; i finished what i had to do today; submit my 2D imaging Work, Watch tropic thunder and finish youth video.

i'm content.

take care.

PS
i might make an idea i've had for a long time an actual video.

Update

2008-08-27T23:46:00.000+10:00

see more puppies

LOL

just a little update

i'm a bit better now - this week is gonna be BUSY AS

i have a ton of stuff to submit this week and i also have to edit, export, and upload this week's youth news on youtube...

so yeah wowies...

oh and i am also surprised about the Pastor Mike Gugliemucci thing. if you dont know who he is - dw.

closing ceremony

2008-08-24T23:05:00.000+10:00

thus ends another week.

highlights:

- woke up and realised that parents werent rushing to go to church.

- incredibly confused

- bird died - unknown causes (dw i wasnt close to it)

- slept and ate

- played guess the sketch and chatted with the youstreamskype gang

- was somehow persuaded by the remaining ppl online to go live on blog tv

- actually had fun

- watched the closing ceremony.... wasnt really WOWed that much.

- brushed teeth and now about to go to sleep.

gnight.