:: Friday, June 13
shot through the heart! and you're to blame!
on monday we had yum cha and lasertag. yum cha was normal.. laserzone was cool but we spent most of the time waiting in a horrible long line. although they kept screwin up our group, first there werent enough vests (overbooking?) then 3 people had vests which didnt work. but we did get a bunch of free games which was cool (although quite tiring). also frisbee was cancelled yet again.. so we filled int he time with 2 hours of 2 person karaoke.. *cough*splutter*.. bleh.. my throat is now sore =p
i've been doing a bit of running(~40km) in the last fortnight, its like so painful but still so fun. im running the 10k MiniMos fun run on Sunday, which i guess im sorta training for. Im very confident i can make the distance, but there are some pretty hectic hills in the run which make it kinda scary. Im hoping the adrenaline will carry me over those massive uphill parts.
im getting too good at turning off my alarm clock. I can sorta do it while im 90% asleep now, which oft leads to sleeping in. It might be time for a new clock anyway cos part of the LED is broken.. causing the numebrs to appear all wrong.
so today i went to the dentist to fix a chipped tooth, which i suspect i got from indoor this week. but apparently it wasnt even a tooth, it was a really really old filling, old enough that i dont remember getting it. The dentist just grinded off the filling and it seems fine now..... except for the 6 other cavities i have! which need to get fixed before I go to Japan. I suspect my old dentist was a bit sketchy, cos It hasnt been that long since i last went, how can he miss all 6 cavities?
i think i may have been clocked speeding this morning. gah! it will be mildly annoying to have a suspended licence when i apply for an international licence =p although apparently if i quickly go and get my green Ps, then ill have 6 points and thus not have my licence suspended.
in other news: it seems that ill be able to wear converse all stars to work in japan (yatta!) although i probably wont be able to wear different coloured ones =p
i've been doing a bit of running(~40km) in the last fortnight, its like so painful but still so fun. im running the 10k MiniMos fun run on Sunday, which i guess im sorta training for. Im very confident i can make the distance, but there are some pretty hectic hills in the run which make it kinda scary. Im hoping the adrenaline will carry me over those massive uphill parts.
im getting too good at turning off my alarm clock. I can sorta do it while im 90% asleep now, which oft leads to sleeping in. It might be time for a new clock anyway cos part of the LED is broken.. causing the numebrs to appear all wrong.
so today i went to the dentist to fix a chipped tooth, which i suspect i got from indoor this week. but apparently it wasnt even a tooth, it was a really really old filling, old enough that i dont remember getting it. The dentist just grinded off the filling and it seems fine now..... except for the 6 other cavities i have! which need to get fixed before I go to Japan. I suspect my old dentist was a bit sketchy, cos It hasnt been that long since i last went, how can he miss all 6 cavities?
i think i may have been clocked speeding this morning. gah! it will be mildly annoying to have a suspended licence when i apply for an international licence =p although apparently if i quickly go and get my green Ps, then ill have 6 points and thus not have my licence suspended.
in other news: it seems that ill be able to wear converse all stars to work in japan (yatta!) although i probably wont be able to wear different coloured ones =p
- ian, 11:12 AM ::
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:: Tuesday, May 20
must be toros in the atmosphere
so this past weekend i went to play in the Stampede (v2.0) in Bathurst. at the risk of using a hyperbole it was pretty much the coldest place that any one has ever played any ultimate frisbee. my calves objected to me playing by choosing to cramp up at the same time.
on day one we made it thru to the semis undefeated.. but lost on golden point after i literally crashed out of the game. i managed to run into my own teammate whilst (successfully) attempting a D. it probly wouldnt have been too bad if i hadnt had a similar collision on the previous game. i stopped by the hospital for the usual blaise doctor telling me to take 2 tablets and call him in the morning. useless.
the party was ok. i was kinda floating on a rather toxic mix of panadine forte, sambucca, citrus vodka and melon snaaps. it was pretty fun i spose im still no fun at parties...
day two was the hat. where my team lost on golden point in the grand final. boo. i played pretty badly.. but i did get a big hand block which got a few cheers from some onlookers. the prize for winning was a case of Crownies.. and i ended up sneaking a couple anyway so i dont really care that we lost. there were special rules for this hat, with girls scoring 2 points. as well as layouts and greatests.
i made the terrible decision to play league on monday. my ribs are still sore from the weekend's multiple collisions.. and we won both games so easily that it wouldnt have made a difference if i played or not. especially since the points i played i was pretty much just mucking around and not doing anything particularly productive.
in another amusing story. I sorta had a car accident, where i ran into the back of another car at a traffic light. it was this old lady who was maybe, and we both get out of our cars to inspect the damage.. to which she decides that ive removed a fair bit of paint from the rear of her car. i dont argue, then she goes back to her car .. at which point im assuming she is getting a pen and paper to exchange insurance information. but instead she just drives off. wtf? so i was thinking "uh.. i hit you, you arent supposed to do a runner". i dunno what she was thinking.. unless it was like a stolen car or something, but then why even get out to have a look?
on day one we made it thru to the semis undefeated.. but lost on golden point after i literally crashed out of the game. i managed to run into my own teammate whilst (successfully) attempting a D. it probly wouldnt have been too bad if i hadnt had a similar collision on the previous game. i stopped by the hospital for the usual blaise doctor telling me to take 2 tablets and call him in the morning. useless.
the party was ok. i was kinda floating on a rather toxic mix of panadine forte, sambucca, citrus vodka and melon snaaps. it was pretty fun i spose im still no fun at parties...
day two was the hat. where my team lost on golden point in the grand final. boo. i played pretty badly.. but i did get a big hand block which got a few cheers from some onlookers. the prize for winning was a case of Crownies.. and i ended up sneaking a couple anyway so i dont really care that we lost. there were special rules for this hat, with girls scoring 2 points. as well as layouts and greatests.
i made the terrible decision to play league on monday. my ribs are still sore from the weekend's multiple collisions.. and we won both games so easily that it wouldnt have made a difference if i played or not. especially since the points i played i was pretty much just mucking around and not doing anything particularly productive.
in another amusing story. I sorta had a car accident, where i ran into the back of another car at a traffic light. it was this old lady who was maybe, and we both get out of our cars to inspect the damage.. to which she decides that ive removed a fair bit of paint from the rear of her car. i dont argue, then she goes back to her car .. at which point im assuming she is getting a pen and paper to exchange insurance information. but instead she just drives off. wtf? so i was thinking "uh.. i hit you, you arent supposed to do a runner". i dunno what she was thinking.. unless it was like a stolen car or something, but then why even get out to have a look?
- ian, 12:30 PM ::
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:: Thursday, April 26
go away, give me a chance to miss you
hrm.. it used to seem like a long time between posts when i missed a day or two.. but its been like 10 days now and i dont really feel like i have anything much to say. certainly nothing that profound.
anyways.. last week in frisbee i did a 'greatest' =) which is like when you jump out of bounds and catch the disc, then throw it again before you land. i almsot did it twice in one night.. but no one on my team was paying attention to catch the disc again =p
i snuck in an extra frisbee session this week by going to hills training, which included the vertical leap gizmo. its basically this big pole with a disc attached to the top to test how high you can grab a disc out of the air.
this week frisbee was "rained out" which means not enough ppl turned up cos they were scared of the rain. we still had pick up games in the pouring rain which is always fun. there was some guy there who wanted to fight me for some reason.. and im like "dood, what are you? like in high school?" .. and most of the guys were like "yeh" =p some of them were up to 10 years younger than me (gah i feel old now)
on the way to frisbee i accidently left my handbrake on for about half the trip.. is that bad? it sounded terrible and im like "wtf? why is there no power" =p
in the world of java wev development, ive been playing with some new things lately like Spring Web Flow and a lot of different methods for building UI like pagination. sadly none seem to be that great. web based UI is always so buggy its so frustrating. and on top of that, most of the business user requirement ambiguity lies in the UI, which means lots of last minute changes there (gah). oh how id love to be in one of those places where a designer builds the UI and the coders do the backend.
yesterday was anzac day public holiday so some of us went around to hemas to discuss investing.. which was mostly the ever popular real estate vs stocks debate. i think stocks won in the end.. but it will probably continue at a later date =p we also went to see the movie Sunshine at Towers. it got a bunch of really good reviews from all over the place, which is pretty rare for a sci fi nowadays. but i have to say i was a bit disappointed with it in the end. whilst it looked cool and there were some interesting concepts in it, it kidna tailed off at the end. actually the first half of the movie was really interesting... but some exec probly said "this is boring" and made them put some stupid hollywood crap into the end to make it more "exciting" =p
on the tues nite before the holiday we headed to shelles to watch some Black Books and to consume large amounts of wine, cheese and leftover easter eggs. mm. it was a bit of a pig out session, but its been a while for me, so i wasnt too fussed as i scoffed down caramello eggs =p
hrm.. it used to seem like a long time between posts when i missed a day or two.. but its been like 10 days now and i dont really feel like i have anything much to say. certainly nothing that profound.
anyways.. last week in frisbee i did a 'greatest' =) which is like when you jump out of bounds and catch the disc, then throw it again before you land. i almsot did it twice in one night.. but no one on my team was paying attention to catch the disc again =p
i snuck in an extra frisbee session this week by going to hills training, which included the vertical leap gizmo. its basically this big pole with a disc attached to the top to test how high you can grab a disc out of the air.
this week frisbee was "rained out" which means not enough ppl turned up cos they were scared of the rain. we still had pick up games in the pouring rain which is always fun. there was some guy there who wanted to fight me for some reason.. and im like "dood, what are you? like in high school?" .. and most of the guys were like "yeh" =p some of them were up to 10 years younger than me (gah i feel old now)
on the way to frisbee i accidently left my handbrake on for about half the trip.. is that bad? it sounded terrible and im like "wtf? why is there no power" =p
in the world of java wev development, ive been playing with some new things lately like Spring Web Flow and a lot of different methods for building UI like pagination. sadly none seem to be that great. web based UI is always so buggy its so frustrating. and on top of that, most of the business user requirement ambiguity lies in the UI, which means lots of last minute changes there (gah). oh how id love to be in one of those places where a designer builds the UI and the coders do the backend.
yesterday was anzac day public holiday so some of us went around to hemas to discuss investing.. which was mostly the ever popular real estate vs stocks debate. i think stocks won in the end.. but it will probably continue at a later date =p we also went to see the movie Sunshine at Towers. it got a bunch of really good reviews from all over the place, which is pretty rare for a sci fi nowadays. but i have to say i was a bit disappointed with it in the end. whilst it looked cool and there were some interesting concepts in it, it kidna tailed off at the end. actually the first half of the movie was really interesting... but some exec probly said "this is boring" and made them put some stupid hollywood crap into the end to make it more "exciting" =p
on the tues nite before the holiday we headed to shelles to watch some Black Books and to consume large amounts of wine, cheese and leftover easter eggs. mm. it was a bit of a pig out session, but its been a while for me, so i wasnt too fussed as i scoffed down caramello eggs =p
- ian, 1:46 PM ::
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:: Tuesday, April 10
can i go nowhere with you?
ok, i accept that the days of daily posts are dead.. but even once a week is becoming a struggle now. now if only some interesting things would happen in the gaps between posts =p
i can barely remember last week, but at the start there was some frisbee in there and meeting up with hoy and jamo for pancakes. pretty stock standard really.
on thursday was bunny's bday and i spent most of the day making a popup bday card. i didnt have time to take a picture but it was like a party scene with all her fav celebs doen up south park style (with real faces, but south park bodies). from what i can tell she quite liked it =)
we ate at this swish place called Pony in the rocks. although as fancy pants as it was, it didnt have its own bathroom. which meant u had to walk all the way down the way down the shared bathroom at the end of the arcade.
on friday i went to The Great Escape and has this great idea of driving to bunny's house then getting a lift to great escape (so i wouldnt have to find parking there). but this sorta backfired when we found ourselves stranded at the end of the festival wondering how the hell we'd get back to our cars in Strathfield =p
anyhoo the festivall was pretty mad. it was quite relaxed unlike other festivals it didnt really feel that crowded despite the crowds =p id quite like to try the camping option one of these days. since under 15 yo kids got in for free, the place was crwling with junior high kids all skanked out to impress other junior high kids who had no idea what music they were listening to.
highlights included Hilltop Hoods and Wolfmother (who we watched in part from on top of the ferris wheel =) but the music of the week is the Joel Plaskett Emergancy, check em out if you can.
Saturday activities included cooking and "How i Met your Mother" marathon. mad props go to b and k for cooking chilli crab and honey soy chicken wings =) the start of a very gluttonous weekend.
sunday started with much eating at Marigold yum cha with some frisbee and anime ppl of old. after filling up we headed to the art gallery to watch My Neighbour the Yamadas, which you may have seen since its quite old. but its still pretty awesome even though its not so much one long story as it is a bunch of skits.
afterwards we had coffee and cookies and cream cake..mm.. followed by a drive to the Cross (i drove! yay) where we ate more in the form of Hugo's Pizza. the pizza was good, but we got stuck waiting for ages and ended up at the end of a very long line to see Sneaky Sound System. a line which eventually turned out to be too long and we headed off to some 24 hr cafe in Neutral Bay instead, for more eating/drinking (i am about to explode at this point). it is however pretty cool to drive around sydney at night to jsut hangout wherever. and not jsut stay where i am cos of transport concerns =)
monday i was sick. id caught a cold from the previous night shenanigans. i spent most of the day watching MythBusters on tv and trying in vain to get PSX games to work on my PSP (anyone done this before?)
.. this post is too long already.. but heres some photos courtesy of mon http://himiko.fotopic.net/c1252109.html
ok, i accept that the days of daily posts are dead.. but even once a week is becoming a struggle now. now if only some interesting things would happen in the gaps between posts =p
i can barely remember last week, but at the start there was some frisbee in there and meeting up with hoy and jamo for pancakes. pretty stock standard really.
on thursday was bunny's bday and i spent most of the day making a popup bday card. i didnt have time to take a picture but it was like a party scene with all her fav celebs doen up south park style (with real faces, but south park bodies). from what i can tell she quite liked it =)
we ate at this swish place called Pony in the rocks. although as fancy pants as it was, it didnt have its own bathroom. which meant u had to walk all the way down the way down the shared bathroom at the end of the arcade.
on friday i went to The Great Escape and has this great idea of driving to bunny's house then getting a lift to great escape (so i wouldnt have to find parking there). but this sorta backfired when we found ourselves stranded at the end of the festival wondering how the hell we'd get back to our cars in Strathfield =p
anyhoo the festivall was pretty mad. it was quite relaxed unlike other festivals it didnt really feel that crowded despite the crowds =p id quite like to try the camping option one of these days. since under 15 yo kids got in for free, the place was crwling with junior high kids all skanked out to impress other junior high kids who had no idea what music they were listening to.
highlights included Hilltop Hoods and Wolfmother (who we watched in part from on top of the ferris wheel =) but the music of the week is the Joel Plaskett Emergancy, check em out if you can.
Saturday activities included cooking and "How i Met your Mother" marathon. mad props go to b and k for cooking chilli crab and honey soy chicken wings =) the start of a very gluttonous weekend.
sunday started with much eating at Marigold yum cha with some frisbee and anime ppl of old. after filling up we headed to the art gallery to watch My Neighbour the Yamadas, which you may have seen since its quite old. but its still pretty awesome even though its not so much one long story as it is a bunch of skits.
afterwards we had coffee and cookies and cream cake..mm.. followed by a drive to the Cross (i drove! yay) where we ate more in the form of Hugo's Pizza. the pizza was good, but we got stuck waiting for ages and ended up at the end of a very long line to see Sneaky Sound System. a line which eventually turned out to be too long and we headed off to some 24 hr cafe in Neutral Bay instead, for more eating/drinking (i am about to explode at this point). it is however pretty cool to drive around sydney at night to jsut hangout wherever. and not jsut stay where i am cos of transport concerns =)
monday i was sick. id caught a cold from the previous night shenanigans. i spent most of the day watching MythBusters on tv and trying in vain to get PSX games to work on my PSP (anyone done this before?)
.. this post is too long already.. but heres some photos courtesy of mon http://himiko.fotopic.net/c1252109.html
- ian, 1:25 PM ::
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:: Sunday, March 25
We're finding it hard to break the mould
so my ever interesting life has resulting in the excitement that is reformmating my computer at 3am on a friday nite =p i had a lot of trouble with driver CDs that id lost and CD Keys that id forgotten.. it was rather painful.. and oh so lonely in a nerdy way.
luckily for me my Windows XP CD is so old that the FCKGW key still works =) and shame on you if you know what i mean by that (wiki it if ur curious) =p but my HDDs were all mixed up and the wireless router wouldnt login and msn still wont connect... and im sure all the non-computer nerds have stopped reading by now....
moving on.. -> saturday i had to vote in the state election, but im in a liberal blue seat so it didnt really make a difference. still i cant understand how the government got voted back in. everyone who voted for them must have never caught a train or driven on a road in sydney for the past 12 years.
.. ahem.. i also went to Amy's bday thing at this park in Vaclause. i drove all the way there =) which is awesome cos i probly wouldnt have gone if i couldnt drive. ive never been out that way before, but its pretty nice.. if you can get parking. it was like this park/beach area , but since is in the harbour there arent really any waves. so its good for swimming and theres even a shark net. interestingly though its called shark beach.. so maybe there was a reason why they put up that netting.
at 7am this morning i drove my parents to the airport where theyre going to Alice Springs for a week. so i have a week of microwave dinners and trying to find somewhere to go out ahead of me. on the way home from the airport i thought i should stop somewhere on the way home since im rarely so far from home with transport. but all i could think of was Chatswood which is only sorta on the way home. but since daylight savings has ended overnight, my clock read 9:30 even though it was only 8:30.. and too early for any shops to be open on a sunday morning. so i got a couple of krispy kremes and a coffee to tide me over till i could impulse buy some stuff.
at the end of the day (or morning as it were) i had a new suit and a another pair of pants and a new shirt. all for jsut a touch over $200 =) what a bargain. Myer is gold mine for getting a deal.. i have no idea how they make money. although if uve seen their shareprice lately they arent really making much =p
so my ever interesting life has resulting in the excitement that is reformmating my computer at 3am on a friday nite =p i had a lot of trouble with driver CDs that id lost and CD Keys that id forgotten.. it was rather painful.. and oh so lonely in a nerdy way.
luckily for me my Windows XP CD is so old that the FCKGW key still works =) and shame on you if you know what i mean by that (wiki it if ur curious) =p but my HDDs were all mixed up and the wireless router wouldnt login and msn still wont connect... and im sure all the non-computer nerds have stopped reading by now....
moving on.. -> saturday i had to vote in the state election, but im in a liberal blue seat so it didnt really make a difference. still i cant understand how the government got voted back in. everyone who voted for them must have never caught a train or driven on a road in sydney for the past 12 years.
.. ahem.. i also went to Amy's bday thing at this park in Vaclause. i drove all the way there =) which is awesome cos i probly wouldnt have gone if i couldnt drive. ive never been out that way before, but its pretty nice.. if you can get parking. it was like this park/beach area , but since is in the harbour there arent really any waves. so its good for swimming and theres even a shark net. interestingly though its called shark beach.. so maybe there was a reason why they put up that netting.
at 7am this morning i drove my parents to the airport where theyre going to Alice Springs for a week. so i have a week of microwave dinners and trying to find somewhere to go out ahead of me. on the way home from the airport i thought i should stop somewhere on the way home since im rarely so far from home with transport. but all i could think of was Chatswood which is only sorta on the way home. but since daylight savings has ended overnight, my clock read 9:30 even though it was only 8:30.. and too early for any shops to be open on a sunday morning. so i got a couple of krispy kremes and a coffee to tide me over till i could impulse buy some stuff.
at the end of the day (or morning as it were) i had a new suit and a another pair of pants and a new shirt. all for jsut a touch over $200 =) what a bargain. Myer is gold mine for getting a deal.. i have no idea how they make money. although if uve seen their shareprice lately they arent really making much =p
- ian, 8:02 PM ::
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:: Tuesday, February 13
Yatta!
gone are the days when of "i cant make it, theres no train stn". i passed my car Ps this morning. i was like way nervous.. but it wasnt that hard. after hearing bunny's auto-fail for not letting a jaywalker go past i was a bit unnerved by not one but 2 jaywalkers running out onto the road and stopping in the middle. i let them both go.. but apparently the rule is that if its a traffic light and theres a refuge island then you DONT let them go. but if its a regular street with no island then you MUST let them go. rather confoosing.
now i jsut need a car.. anyone out there selling a 1980s mini cooper .. with auto transmission?
stock check: down $368
gone are the days when of "i cant make it, theres no train stn". i passed my car Ps this morning. i was like way nervous.. but it wasnt that hard. after hearing bunny's auto-fail for not letting a jaywalker go past i was a bit unnerved by not one but 2 jaywalkers running out onto the road and stopping in the middle. i let them both go.. but apparently the rule is that if its a traffic light and theres a refuge island then you DONT let them go. but if its a regular street with no island then you MUST let them go. rather confoosing.
now i jsut need a car.. anyone out there selling a 1980s mini cooper .. with auto transmission?
stock check: down $368
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- ian, 3:29 PM ::
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:: Monday, January 29
hungry and foolish
gah! its been more than a week since last post.. and i didnt even realise. wtf have i been doing for the last week and a bit? i cant really remember.. my memory sucks so much lately.
at some point i was at karaoke.. but that was possibly last week, i think. but i didnt mention it my last post, so im not sure when it happened =p anyhoo.. it started with a trip to the bar on a friday after work, and eventually led to the night markets at chinatown.. and then onwards to karaoke at some creepy place in surry hills where id never been before =p the song selection wasnt too bad though, they had Perfect by Simple Plan.. and some other good songs which i cant remember atm (memory still dead)
on the sunday directly following the last post, i went for a drive to kiama with kallie, which all but finished off my 50 hours (yay). it was a rather warm day and a good day to be at the beach. there was some street market going on which we checked out for a lil while and ended up buying some buttons, mine was like an L plate =p we walked all around town (which took like half an hour) and then settle down on the beach for some fish and chips (mm), by which time it was late afternoon. it was still quite warm though so we decided on a swim.. which turned out to be freezing cold (brr). my toes went numb.. (gah) but it was still refreshing to be out in the surf again =)
i dont heaps remember what happened during the week, i didnt go to frisbee, which probably means i spent time working on my CRM project. gah! this is why i used to post everyday.. cos a week later i cant remmeber what happened!
last thurs i went out shopping at broadway for no particular reason. we'd intended to go see a movie but the times werent appealing to us so we jsut walked around like idiots for a few hours then played time crisis.. then went home =p
friday was Australia Day! and so we ventured to Maroubra Beach for the usual celebrations. it was quite the lazy/relaxing day, it went something like sit, swim, eat, cricket, skate, swim, sit, frisbee, home. i came away with a disappointingly pale tan despite being in the sun all day. i sucked quite royally at cricket, which i am normally ok at .. but that was when i was young =p the skating was spent mostly trying to remmeber how to stand on a board again.. and also avoiding millions of lil kids on Razr scooters. it was however i chance to see some ppl who i never get to see normally. there was actually another picnic right near ours which was full of all these ppl who i sorta knew from uni. by that i mean i knew well enough to talk to.. but not well enough to keep in touch with =p
on saturday i went to lisa's bday thing at her house. it was ok i spose.. other than i didnt know anyone there. i mostly tried to find randoms to discus snowboarding with.. she knows a lot of them i spose hehe. other than that i just joined in the odd game of big 2 (with chinese rules). i did have to escape early to go out to Cruise Bar for cocktails with the peeps who'd dropped into Sydney for australia day. the cocktail i had was pretty weak in taste and alcohol.. luckily id had a few at lisas =p we turned back the clock a bit with a visit to City Extra after.. and needless to say i got home on some sort of nite ride =p
phew.. blogging is so much effort nowadays....
in other news: i bought a PSP.. firmware 2.6 .. but im too scared to crack it. someone help me..
gah! its been more than a week since last post.. and i didnt even realise. wtf have i been doing for the last week and a bit? i cant really remember.. my memory sucks so much lately.
at some point i was at karaoke.. but that was possibly last week, i think. but i didnt mention it my last post, so im not sure when it happened =p anyhoo.. it started with a trip to the bar on a friday after work, and eventually led to the night markets at chinatown.. and then onwards to karaoke at some creepy place in surry hills where id never been before =p the song selection wasnt too bad though, they had Perfect by Simple Plan.. and some other good songs which i cant remember atm (memory still dead)
on the sunday directly following the last post, i went for a drive to kiama with kallie, which all but finished off my 50 hours (yay). it was a rather warm day and a good day to be at the beach. there was some street market going on which we checked out for a lil while and ended up buying some buttons, mine was like an L plate =p we walked all around town (which took like half an hour) and then settle down on the beach for some fish and chips (mm), by which time it was late afternoon. it was still quite warm though so we decided on a swim.. which turned out to be freezing cold (brr). my toes went numb.. (gah) but it was still refreshing to be out in the surf again =)
i dont heaps remember what happened during the week, i didnt go to frisbee, which probably means i spent time working on my CRM project. gah! this is why i used to post everyday.. cos a week later i cant remmeber what happened!
last thurs i went out shopping at broadway for no particular reason. we'd intended to go see a movie but the times werent appealing to us so we jsut walked around like idiots for a few hours then played time crisis.. then went home =p
friday was Australia Day! and so we ventured to Maroubra Beach for the usual celebrations. it was quite the lazy/relaxing day, it went something like sit, swim, eat, cricket, skate, swim, sit, frisbee, home. i came away with a disappointingly pale tan despite being in the sun all day. i sucked quite royally at cricket, which i am normally ok at .. but that was when i was young =p the skating was spent mostly trying to remmeber how to stand on a board again.. and also avoiding millions of lil kids on Razr scooters. it was however i chance to see some ppl who i never get to see normally. there was actually another picnic right near ours which was full of all these ppl who i sorta knew from uni. by that i mean i knew well enough to talk to.. but not well enough to keep in touch with =p
on saturday i went to lisa's bday thing at her house. it was ok i spose.. other than i didnt know anyone there. i mostly tried to find randoms to discus snowboarding with.. she knows a lot of them i spose hehe. other than that i just joined in the odd game of big 2 (with chinese rules). i did have to escape early to go out to Cruise Bar for cocktails with the peeps who'd dropped into Sydney for australia day. the cocktail i had was pretty weak in taste and alcohol.. luckily id had a few at lisas =p we turned back the clock a bit with a visit to City Extra after.. and needless to say i got home on some sort of nite ride =p
phew.. blogging is so much effort nowadays....
in other news: i bought a PSP.. firmware 2.6 .. but im too scared to crack it. someone help me..
- ian, 10:17 PM ::
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:: Saturday, January 20
i must be fine because my heart's still beating
so its been a while since i posted. mostly because ive been way busy with this crm thing im working on. its not even that much work, but i can only work on it at night, and they can only test it in the day. so i jsut make a change (which sometimes only takes 5 mins) then i have to wait a whole day for them to tell me that they changed their mind, or theyd like me to move and image 2 pixels to the left. seems like its going on forever..
anyhoo over that last week ive also been doing other things... last week Haleh left the rba which is all very sad (boo). but me and betty spend a lot of the week running around trying to find her a going away/bday gift. we decided on a digicam, to replace her rather awful 35mm film camera, but theres jsut so much variety nowadays its hard to make a choice. in the end we went to like a dozen stores about like 100 cameras, and ended up buying it from the first store we went to =p
.. from what i can tell she quite liked it. it was a pretty big day which included visits from a few ex-rba'ers who came to catch up. unfortunately very little work was done by anyone in our team that day =p although i jsut realised that im now at the bottom of our team again.. after 4 years of slave labour, im actually going backwards!! *insert generic comments about quitting*
due to wii tennis and the australian open, i decided to go play some tennis. which closely follows soccer as the sport i am the most woe at. it was still fun to get out into the sun though. quite randomly i rang kallie to see if she wanted to play tennis, and it jsut so happened that she was already playing tennis =p so i joined them for a bit if a hit. i always have to play with the girls cos the guys are too good for me =p i had this racquet i borrowed off chito years ago, and the grip has sorta disintegrated causing me to suck even more than normal.. and also get blisters.
on monday i went rock climbing with the guys from work at st leonards. my arms are jsut as weak as they always were, but it was my feet that were hurting the most. the shoes are meant to be really tight, but these were so painful i could barely even climb in them. also my knee was hurting when i tried to push up onto a hold (gah!)
re: frisbee this week, i only managed one game.. but that was enough to end my season i think. My knee could love nothing more than a rest for 4 weeks before snowboarding in Canada. frisbee + tennis + rockclimbing quite a problem for a bad knee, which sucks so so much.
today i had to work (boo). we had a change to our firewall/proxy and i had the option of oncall or overtime. i picked overtime because i figured id probly be in the city anyway for something or other. i had nothing to do today, but i needed to be at work about more than 3 hours anyway, so it was probly worthwhile. that roughly translates to a whole day of pay at double time =)
ive done a fair bit of driving this week, including a trip to see the Big Merino in Goulburn. it is much less impressive than i remember (from when i was about 10). its pretty much deserted now, apparently they are dismantling it to move it down the road. no doubt to make it visible from the bypass which has killed its business =p
ive noticed my posts being quite disjointed lately, i thin i have trouble concentrating.. maybe i actually do have ADD =p .. anyhoo this post is too long already.. time to end it..
driving hours left: 6
so its been a while since i posted. mostly because ive been way busy with this crm thing im working on. its not even that much work, but i can only work on it at night, and they can only test it in the day. so i jsut make a change (which sometimes only takes 5 mins) then i have to wait a whole day for them to tell me that they changed their mind, or theyd like me to move and image 2 pixels to the left. seems like its going on forever..
anyhoo over that last week ive also been doing other things... last week Haleh left the rba which is all very sad (boo). but me and betty spend a lot of the week running around trying to find her a going away/bday gift. we decided on a digicam, to replace her rather awful 35mm film camera, but theres jsut so much variety nowadays its hard to make a choice. in the end we went to like a dozen stores about like 100 cameras, and ended up buying it from the first store we went to =p
.. from what i can tell she quite liked it. it was a pretty big day which included visits from a few ex-rba'ers who came to catch up. unfortunately very little work was done by anyone in our team that day =p although i jsut realised that im now at the bottom of our team again.. after 4 years of slave labour, im actually going backwards!! *insert generic comments about quitting*
due to wii tennis and the australian open, i decided to go play some tennis. which closely follows soccer as the sport i am the most woe at. it was still fun to get out into the sun though. quite randomly i rang kallie to see if she wanted to play tennis, and it jsut so happened that she was already playing tennis =p so i joined them for a bit if a hit. i always have to play with the girls cos the guys are too good for me =p i had this racquet i borrowed off chito years ago, and the grip has sorta disintegrated causing me to suck even more than normal.. and also get blisters.
on monday i went rock climbing with the guys from work at st leonards. my arms are jsut as weak as they always were, but it was my feet that were hurting the most. the shoes are meant to be really tight, but these were so painful i could barely even climb in them. also my knee was hurting when i tried to push up onto a hold (gah!)
re: frisbee this week, i only managed one game.. but that was enough to end my season i think. My knee could love nothing more than a rest for 4 weeks before snowboarding in Canada. frisbee + tennis + rockclimbing quite a problem for a bad knee, which sucks so so much.
today i had to work (boo). we had a change to our firewall/proxy and i had the option of oncall or overtime. i picked overtime because i figured id probly be in the city anyway for something or other. i had nothing to do today, but i needed to be at work about more than 3 hours anyway, so it was probly worthwhile. that roughly translates to a whole day of pay at double time =)
ive done a fair bit of driving this week, including a trip to see the Big Merino in Goulburn. it is much less impressive than i remember (from when i was about 10). its pretty much deserted now, apparently they are dismantling it to move it down the road. no doubt to make it visible from the bypass which has killed its business =p
ive noticed my posts being quite disjointed lately, i thin i have trouble concentrating.. maybe i actually do have ADD =p .. anyhoo this post is too long already.. time to end it..
driving hours left: 6
- ian, 9:08 PM ::
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