one day and counting

it's good friday.

morning service at church was different from usual today. but only got home at 1 something because of worship prac. so hungry - my breakfast was a tiny muffin and smiths chips.

the 16th birthday was yesterday, and i went to the city with a bunch of friends from school. we were this bigass group of asian people that... it was just really scary. i was walking in front, and at one point i turned around and i had to take a picture because I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A HUGE GROUP OF ASIAN PEOPLE IN MY LIFE!!

i am, of course, exaggerating. but how often do you go out with more than 20 people? try cramming yourselves onto an already full CAT bus.

okay, presents.

it walks.. it grunts.. it...... flies a balloon? from emily, nicole, alfred, joseph, zhenya, karina, nigara.... i think. it's so cute too.. thanks guys!


i really like this. william, MOEY, albie and ritz got this one for me. the hana kimi art book translated into english. niceeee.


talk about random stuff your friends can buy for you. this is definitely up there. it's cute tho, in it's... round penguin-y way. awww... i just looked at it again. it IS cute. from hillary, evelyn and yumi.

jack gave me a nice card and cold, hard cash [ten bucks XD]. sharon gave me a necklace [it's not that i didn't wanna take a pic, shar, but it was too reflective]. tze chiang wrote me the funniest card ever and wendy got me a pair of shorts and a cap. thanks guys!!



clockwise: socks from sarah, wallet from jess and erica, baby shirt from sarah, bag from sennie and ee wah. thank you very much. dunno what i'm gonna do with a size 00 shirt, but thanks.

we realized that there is no way you can go to utopia on james street without seeing someone you know.

all these pics were taken with my new baby - the camera my mum and sister bought me. thank YOU.

i slept at nic's house last night, and we watched a random thai horror flick where everybody dies in the end which totally defeats the purpose of what the characters set out to do in the first place. after that we had to go to the toilet together. and i forgot to bring the chocolate i put in her fridge home TT. oh well... i'll live i guess.

one day and counting.

once and only once

one and a half hours till i turn 16.

the good ol' sweet sixteen.

it's funny. i don't feel like i'm turning a year older at all. when i was thirteen, i thought being fifteen was way old, and that fifteen year olds were really deep. but just last week, i realized i was fifteen, almost sixteen, and that being fifteen was really no different from being thirteen.

i had a very interesting conversation last with a girl i have never met in my life.

girl: hi, i'm fifteen today.
me: oh, ok. happy birthday then.
girl: yeah. how old are you?
me: i'm still fifteen.
girl: oh, when do you turn sixteen?
me: next week.
girl: OOOOH... then you'll be legal to have sex!!
me: err.. yeah.. i guess so.
girl: ooh, just in time for the holidays too. *waggles eyebrows* i know what you'll be doing...

i find it funny how in australia, when you turn sixteen, you're allowed to LEGALLY have sex. no, you're not allowed your P plates, and you're not allowed to drink yet, but you can go have all the sex you want.

that aside, i really don't feel like i'm a year older. it's just another number.

but i'm gonna enjoy it while it lasts.

so here's to a great year with great people and fantastic grades [haha. wishful thinking on my part here]. i'm now going to set up a bed on the couch outside because my room has not been cleaned for so long, the dust is making my nose run and my eyes water.

two more days

i'm feeling kinda crap right now.

think i'm getting sick.

it doesn't help that i have a hell lot of work to do before the end of term. mostly chemistry.

double maths and double science has rendered me lifeless.

murphy's law on ADSL

the adsl connection will always die on you at the most inopportune moments. it will then come back to life right after you've pulled two thirds of your hair out, seemingly to piss you off. but the truth is, it does this just because it can.

what would you choose?

i read the newspaper at rick's today. i also watched the news. it upsets me. remember Knut? he's attracting about 30000 people to Zoo Berlin everyday now. but in a sad twist, Yan Yan, the 22 year old female giant panda at the zoo has died. some reckon she got freaked out by the crowds drawn to the zoo. but the zoo, of course, denies it. but she's old-ish. could've been anything. poor Bao Bao [her mate] is 27, and as of today, all alone.

on a lighter note. some chinese gangster dude sent a video to the news, threatening to kill some other chinese dude. he sent it to the NEWS - no mask, no hi-tech voice disguising thing. just a video.
very smart oh.
read for yourself. i dont want to write anything that might induce a video threat of my own XD.

another thing i read in the paper that made me really sad was an article about kids in Romania whose parents work in other countries. see, these parents think their working abroad is ultimately for the good of the children, but they don't see that the kids would rather be poor and have mum and dad at home, than have a mobile [seriously] and eat aunt's cooking everyday.

the saddest part is that these kids kill themselves. they're 9, 11, and they're committing suicide cause they'd rather die than live without mum and dad.

this little guy's parents work in italy. he and his brother are model students but they're quiet. in fact, the only time they light up is when they talk about their parents.

there is seriously something wrong with us when we can't see that life is more than anything else you can find in the world. it's an argument we've heard many times, and one you're going to hear again.

yeah, you need to work to eat. people who think love and happiness transcends all are idiots because no matter how much you love him, you're still gonna die if you don't eat. then your love is wasted anyway so yes, money is important; but only to a certain extent.

the reverse side of that is that money can't buy love or happiness. and when you die you can't take money with you, but you will always have the intrinsic value of having lived and loved.

it's not like these people aren't earning anything in romania. it's just not a lot. but in going away to make more money to give their kids a better life, the strive for money is sucking any chance for life at all away.

it's money vs life.

i know what i'd choose.

still converting

HALLELUJAH!

i've finished my physics report which has been killing me. all i have to do now is print it out and then draw on some crappy diagrams.

i miss RM1.20 kampua and RM3.00 penang kuey teow.

it's probably RM 1.70 kampua and RM 3.50 penang kuey teow now.

damn inflation.

but it's still a hell lot cheaper than food here in perth. cheapest chicken rice you can get here is $3.80 [about RM11], and that's only one [maybe two] stores IN THE WHOLE OF PERTH. crazy la, sarawak chicken rice is less than RM3.80 la [we're talking coffee shop chicken rice, ok].

we usually opt for $5.50 chicken rice at bullcreek hawkers because it's close, damn nice, and bloody big!! and also because $5.50 for a plate of chicken and rice and soya sauce is considered cheap here. oh, and don't forget the ajinomoto soup!!

i never thought paying RM15 for a chicken rice would make me so happy.

i love him

WARNING: super biased post.

name: Knut
D.O.B: 5 December 2006
P.O.B: Berlin Zoo, Germany
weight: 8.7 kg
trivia: spent first 44 days of life in an incubator; his mother rejected him; his brother died; first polar bear to be born in Berlin Zoo for 30 years


he is the latest addition to the polar bear family of Zoo Berlin... and also the latest controversy in animal rights campaigns.

apparently, it is more humane to kill Knut by means of lethal injection than it is to raise him in Berlin Zoo. it is seemingly a violation of animal rights to keep a naturally free creature such as the polar bear in captivity...... even though he was born in the zoo.

in fact, Frank Albrecht [animal rights activist] is so concerned about the well-being of this bear that he said "the zoo must kill the bear".

but he's just a baby.

his mother rejected him [no, i'm serious] and in the wild, he would have had to fend for himself or die [usually the latter]. the argument is that the zoo should let the natural order of things be: that is they should kill Knut.

i guess they're right in one sense. we shouldn't interfere with nature. so the next time i see Mr. knut-must-die dying in a ditch, i'll just let nature take it's toll.

no i wouldn't. that's hell mean.

so why do they want to kill Knut?

the vet says Knut may one day be charged with the burden of creating more Knuts. that's quite selfish of us humans, keeping him in captivity just cause we want more Knuts. but hey, it beats no Knut at all.

here he is wrestling with that famous adidas ball from last year's world cup.

and here he is losing.

Viva Knut!

i am tired

i woke up at 6.30 this morning to get to school at 7.30. finished school at 3.30 and went straight to work at 4. finished at 9 something and got home at quarter to ten.

i am tired.

lesson #1428 in battling stupidity:

it is inadvisable to space out during chemistry class because when you come back to earth, you will realize you have just missed out on an explanation of the theory behind quantum mechanics.

i wanna cry.

we have a lot of regular customers where i work. there's $3.20 mocha woman, two black teas one white tea people, large waffle with syrup and half cream man, two single tiramisus couple, and many many many others.

one bunch of guys has been collectively labeled as the singaporean pilots. yeah, that's pretty self-explanatory. they come a lot [every tuesday, but they've been sighted on various thursdays and saturdays as well] and they always order waffles and sometimes other stuff.

one of them always orders a waffle [syrup, no cream, with ice cream], and then comes back for a vienna coffee. today, he came to the counter a third time. actually it was more of a dodgy sidle than a walk and i was fully ready to take an order when he suddenly asked

"uhh... can i have a picture with you all?"

"WHY?!?"
"because i'm leaving tomorrow."
"huh? forever?"
"yeah, forever"

he seems to relax when he sees i'm not gonna bite his head off, and then he starts laughing. "why your reaction so funny one?" -____-

because who the hell leaves Perth forever and asks for a photo with the staff of Gelare?

i can tell my boss is a little sad that he's going. she's grown quite attached to this bunch of guys. she's assigned each one of her staff one of them to get married to -____- [i got the one with the round face, i think]. that's how much she loves them. more than us.

the saddest part for vienna coffee dude though, was that i poured his waffle today and it was baked on the faulty machine. then i practised my coffee making skills on his vienna and managed to burn the milk. which means his last meal here was totally crap.

great memory huh?

well, at least he's got a photo with the boss XD.

sunday

i had a good day today.

Ps Dale Baikie told us that the next time someone asked us how our weekend was, we should say "it was great" [ok, it doesn't sound so random in context].

well, i had a pretty good day today. didn't do anything very special, but i dunno. i guess it really does depend on how you choose to look at things.


we had kfc for lunch. the couples [rick, PS; joseph KJ] sat together at one table, while us underage people [me, sam, andrew, sean, tim] sat at the round table with pictures specifically designed for little children. suits us, i think.

went home. sam went to a party. said rachel "how come sam is so happening, and you're like... not." XD sad but true.

rick actually rented out Little Miss Sunshine from video ezy and him, PS and i watched that in the afternoon. it's actually a really good movie. basically, the father that's obsessed with winning, the chain-smoking mother, the gay suicidal uncle, the foul-mouthed druggie grandpa, and the silent moody son all take a road trip together to get the lovely little daughter to the california little miss sunshine pageant.i love how each character has some major defect, and in the end, how they all get through it and find the true meaning of family. sounds corny, huh? watch it.

then a few of us went to cottesloe beach to have a look at the "sculptures by the sea" art exhibition. some of the stuff was really nice.


Tim MacFarlane Reed gestural rhythms. rick, andrew and i took a couple of pics with this one.


this was my favourite one. the guy made a giant tyre bend into a swan. woot. swaneen by Niall David Begley.

il gelato afterwards was a bonus.

i needa sleep. none of these pics were taken by me.

it is thursday

i hate power lines.

moey's gunning for a mention here. his idea for a post was "say my name, then post it". eager beaver.

mm.. we had a discussion in lit on a poem by gwen harwood yesterday. it was actually really really good. ok, it was more a fight than a discussion, with sharon totally blowing everyone away when she said "maybe it's because girls just know how to think better than guys".

profound.that's it in a nutshell. simple, concise, and to the point.

"what happened today, class?"
"we had a discussion"
"i know. that's weird."
"but fun"
"why did we have a discussion?"
"because rama said 'slut'"

bear in mind we're immature 15/16 year olds who are all naturally very confrontational. we all also don't want to do any actual work [i.e. work that requires more apparatus than just a mouth. for example, a brain.]

casper's gonna shave his head to raise money for lukaemia. i have no idea how to spell lukaemia, except that it starts with an L. he's gonna be a bald turtle as of... some time this weekend. go him!!

let's all try to do something for someone else without getting anything in return, yea?

i'll be your crying shoulder
i'll be love's suicide
i'll be better when i'm older
i'll be the greatest fan of your life