The Pretender

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?

I haven't really posted lately have I?
I'm becoming slack when I should be getting geared up.

One a side note, I've noticed an increase in silly novelty items in the house.





Kind of odd that my mum buys all this crap.
But she's always been like that.

On a second side note, Happy Birthday Casey.
We never gave you a present because it's on its way.
Be worried.


Crazy noodle serves hot milk tea in a tea cup... like actual tea.
Tasted like normal English tea too.

Except it had pearls.


This is me trying to take a night photo with my phone camera of the road.
I like the blur, lets you imagine what I was taking a photo of.


I've become less... thinky in my posts.
More picturesque.

Am I dumbing down?

Fantasy Stock Exchange

You're leaving so soon
Never had a chance to bloom
But you were so quick
To change your tune
Don't look back
If I'm a weight around your neck
Cos if you don't need me
I don't need you

So, everyone's leaving?
It seems to be the grand scheme of things as of late.
First one to leave, or at least have a going-away party was Amy's friend, Fuz.
No, that's not a cover name to protect her privacy, it's what she's called.

Good luck for Canada, have fun, don't stress and bring me back something nice.

You better.....

I have no photos of you, or at least any that I can link to, so count yourself lucky!
Jesse, on the other hand, I have a few photos of.





So, you're leaving for Taiwan, huh.
Being a PhD guy, huh.
Don't forget us. Three years is a long time.

We may harasses you, we may annoy you, we may even try and make you cry.

But that's coz we care.
Omg... that's so gross and sappy. Scratch that.

Sucks to be you.
And sucks to be on my blog.

After a night of... awful, awful karaoke. Man I hate it.
Never been much of a singer...

And then the next day....

Was just like this...
For the entire day. All study.

Well not all study. (Fooooooood)

Nice.

Rescue

Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

It's funny how you plan one thing, and life throws your another plan.
I had planned an entire day of study.

Yet spent most of it doing other things. Like waiting behind this Evo.

Actually a funny thing we saw today.
Some interior designers were moving this mattress in a ute-type vehicle along Greenlane East today.
It had no cover.
It was raining.
It was windy.
It wasn't tied down. At all.

Recipe for funny.

Wind picked the rain soaked mattress and flung it back towards the car behind it.
Now we were behind the ute, but luckily in the other lane.
I think the car behind it actually ran the mattress over.

Owned.


It's hard... no let me rephrase, it's impossible to see the two goth kids in the middle of this picture, but trust me, they were there.
They tried to order McD's from Shell.


McD's.... from a Shell.

Good one.

Timeskip

I can't sleep tonight
Everybody's saying everything is alright
Still I can't close my eyes
I'm seeing a tunnel at the end of all of these lights
Sunny days, where have you gone?
I get the strangest feeling you belong

So all in all today was a pretty crappy day.
Not because of what happened but more of what the environment was like.

Everyone is thinking the same.
"Let's drive", "It's raining, let's drive".
And so we hit traffic. As you can see, the bus to the left is the one I'm meant to catch to uni.

I didn't catch it.

Then I had to wait for what seemed an eternity till the next bus came.
Listening to punkass high school kids are funny.

I never knew that all the bus companies were loaded.
The one I caught had like 4 cameras placed all around the bus.
The point?
I really don't see past the novelty of it really.
The screen at the front shows ... the other passengers.

Sweet.
I see the back of the dude's head from where I'm sitting.
I wonder what the front looks like?? *sarcasm*

So now I know why the prices were raised.


For cameras.

Wow.
Class is boring.
Many people didn't understand crap.

But that's because not many people were listening.
I was asleep but was awake enough to take that photo.

Of someone asking a question.

Working Diligently


Before tutoring.... sigh

Doriya!
It was surprisingly small, but fulling.
Man, we ate like white people, I think it threw everyone off.

White man food at a korean place.
How broken is that.

A very tasty broken that is.

I think Ted's gay for me aye.
I'm flattered, really I am.

But I'm sure you'll find a guy who is more.... well gay.

Goodluck Ted.

Roger, Over and Out.

She says its cold outside and she hands me my raincoat
Shes always worried about things like that
She says its all gonna end and it might as well be my fault
And she only sleeps when its raining
And she screams and her voice is straining

So it's getting kinda late again.
Time for another post I guess.

Not much has happened lately really.
This week I only have 1 lecture. Only 1 lecture.

Minuscule.

But then again I have to be at uni for 4 days because I'm tutoring.
Brilliant.

For some reason this week has been quite... slow-paced.
This is highly peculiar for a postgrad student like myself. Since the beginning of the year I have not known this pace. Maybe I'm missing something?

I tend to do that alot.

On a side note, when we were going back to uni, we saw ... an odd sight.
This dude has 4 huge as mofo aerials on his car.


And another picture from slanted passenger seat window.


Pretty pointless huh.

Maybe he wants better reception? ............... from satellites.......

External Threats

Lines ever more unclear
Not sure I'm even here
The more I look the more I think that I'm
Starting to disappear

So this is how I filled my weekend.
Reading.
How wonderful.

While moving... but you can't really tell.

I really should stop taking photos when I'm driving...
Bad habit.
But I guess in a way it's a nice way to 'focus' on driving while taking the tediousness of it out!
I'm a boy genius.

So I spent another un-needed day at uni for the ever surmounting work that piles around me.
More reading.
It's quite funny how I've done so much reading, yet, my reading skills are still on par with a 10 year old with reading deficiencies.

Surprised Raymond shot.
Even I was surprised when this came out so good.

"To Enter This Blog Go To The Rear Door Facing Registry Blog"

I'm not hugely too sure of what to make of this.
What becomes of the broken hearted?
Or more precisely, what becomes of the other half?

One is utterly depressed, whereas the other has moved on.
Should you feel sorrow for one and scold the other for moving so quickly?
Or should you ignore the depressed and let the other be?

That is true, one should not have moved on so quickly. Makes them look... whorey.
Never a good look.
But when has he or anyone ever listened to me.

Or anyone else for that matter.

I've been told we shouldn't let him off this lightly.
But what can we really do?
Scold him, he runs off to his guy mates and consoles with them.
Ignore him, and it seems like we're condoning his actions.

I end on some more driving shots. The last one was particularly crap.

Good job BJ.

Midnight Mind Traffic

In my dreams I'm dying all the time
Then I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie

I don't quite know.
I've been busy lately so I haven't been bothered up to posting here.
Assignments, tests, dissertation problems, the lot really.
Good old staying up till 3am doing assignment work. Can't say I miss it, but can't say I'm seeing the last of it.

So, what do you want?
I've had a comment that this blog is somewhat.... for a lack of a better word, "emo".
I do slightly agree with that, so this is why I've decided on a change of style in this post. It's not going to be emo.

I'm going to describe my drive back home tonight.

It was awesome. I actually like driving at night when there's little people. Maybe its the solitude. The quiet. The speed I can excessively go on straight roads.

This picture looked alot more cooler on my phone. I tried to take a steady photo while I was driving and it looked like there was awesome speed line effects going on. It seems like it's just blur. And the night.

Again, this looked cooler on my phone. The light effect given off by the oncoming traffic really pushed the limits of my phone... because the limits are pretty low. And I was moving.

Probably the worst combination of conditions when taking a phone camera photo.

As seen from this photo it shows that I can actually take a decent night photo. That's when I'm not moving. This dude in front was picking his nose the whole time. I was following him for about 3 km's and he was still going hard when I overtook him. Must be alot of snot.

And into the garage. My car's underbelly scratches every time I drive in. It doesn't help that sometimes I go slightly too fast. SCCRAAACCCCHHHHHHHH.


And finally my last port of call before going inside. Inside to a house which is "colder than outside" (Johnston, 2007)

And so that was my emotional drive home.
Packed filled with adventure, romance, action, drama and even some horror.



See?
This is what happens when I post a "non-emo" blog entry.
I think posts are usually done when you have something to complain/nag about.
Rarely do you come across a blog which people post articles of awesomeness or news of good-fun.


Also, we found this note on the floor to someone yesterday night.
Someone loves you, someone.

I don't remember the names.


It was gone today.
Must've ended badly.

Republic of Ignorance

I ain't got no money
I ain't got no car to take you on a date
I can't even buy you flowers
But together we could be the perfect soulmates
Talk to me girl

So another weekend has come and gone.
Pretty eventful though.

DV8 was on Friday.
Busy night, spent most of it looking for people, standing and dancing.
The venue wasn't bad, was cool that there was escalators.

I would have taken photos, but I forgot so check Senbonzakura's site for photos

I don't really have much to say this time round.


Uni is starting to get busy again.
Same old really.


Apparently I've lost weight.
But I'm a fatty... how does that work?


Ok I'm gona put up a ToDo list for this week.

1. Finish my Stats/IS assignment
2. Study for my Stats/IS test
3. Write a big ass questionnaire for my dissertation
4. Read/Fill out my contract
5. Relax

I wonder how well I'll do completing this list....

Archaic

I pack my case, I check my face
I look a little bit older
I look a little bit colder
With one deep breath, and one big step
I move a little bit closer, I move a little bit closer
For reasons unknown..

Have you ever been so angry that it hurts>
That it actually physically hurts?


My chest hurts.

It aches.

Jungle Curry

You're leaving so soon
Never had a chance to bloom
But you were so quick
To change your tune
Don't look back

So it seems like everyone's starting to find their little place in the world.
People are starting to decide what to do or actually go off and do what they want.

Here is one of them now.
Chetan "The Darkness" is going off to become a 'Teachers Assistant' over in Japan and we had a farewell dinner tonight.

This is most of us in a horribly blurred photo.
Actually I lie. This is about half.

Went to a Mai Thai which won some award for something.
Was pretty good, food wasn't bad and was fun all in all.
Too much spam but you can blame Hitesh for that.

Ray's flaming homo chicken

I learnt another thing about myself today.
I have the impulsive need to hate on what others like.

Weird huh.

I found myself annoying someone today about random stuff they liked.
I also had the nerve to not back down from a fight even though I was horribly losing.

Stubborn like a dried piece of crap.
Don't you hate that?

Also tonight I'm hating on people who can't take a joke.
Yes. I can take it abit too far sometimes. But it's all in good fun. No harm meant by it.


Calm down.

Maybe

Haven’t we all had enough
Enough for one day
I don’t wanna argue with you
You’ve got me shiverin’ in my spine

So this is a relatively new part to my blog, I think (until I get bored of it or just plain forget).
I'm gona chuck up partial lyrics for a song at the beginning of each post.
Ten points for anyone who can guess it.

And no, points are not redeemable for... well anything.

It maybe profound. It may not.
It maybe thought provoking. It may not.
It maybe personal.

And then again, it may not.

I feel myself just... getting angry at most things nowadays.
My soul has lost patience with most things in life.

I have even less enthusiasm for things than before. I find it hard to take things and smile through gritted teeth just to pass the day.
I find myself ever increasingly tired and although I have an early class the next day, I can't sleep.
My mind wanders as if I should be thinking about something else, but my physical body just doesn't respond.

My mum asked me why I always 'Fat Ow Dou' now. (That's horrible Cantonese direct translation). For all you non-Cantonese people, or just plain "can't read his horrible translation"-people, it means like absent-minded.

On a completely different side note, my brother got a bra+knicker set for his birthday.
From another dude.
Hmmm....

Also I found myself watching TV for once.
I haven't done that for so long, it kinda just hit me.

On another side note, I saw something that kinda lightened my drizzly bus-waiting day.
There was this old white/Spanish lady with a bag saying 'G-Unit' on it.
Whaddup my homie.

I'm not sure if you can read it though.

Also today was filled with the joys of seeing people cram themselves into a building to become the latest job prospects in life and offer themselves to the company gods and hope for the best.
Good old Career Fairs.

Oh yea, there was free pizza and drink.
Here is the chaos that ensued.



On the left of both pictures is Fahad by the way.
He was the King of Scab today.
Free stuff galore for him. Pens, drinks, whatever he could get his hands on.
Once he left, the pizza came. Coincidence?

I think not.

He has a business card.
I really don't think someone who scabs so blatantly really shows the responsibility to hold one of these...

But hey, it's not my money he's using to print his mis-aligned cards with.