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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Just something I forgot to say in my last post

How stupid was Networth's idea of having a pocket for your laptop in a jumper with a hood thing! Omg, cringe! Stupid stupid stupid!

Finally after getting IP takehome done I get succession, doesn't seem that bad at the moment, hopefully I can do a good job!

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

April 26th.. omg..time flies

Kelvin's 20th birthday today.. omg..... just gave him his present for me and mum, a Jamie Cullum CD which I handpicked, literally from Borders at Mac Centre today.

Its a pretty good CD, great soothing piano jazzy, bluesy, tunes. I haven't listen to it fully yet, apart from my browsing at the store, but I'm sure Kelvin will lend me it with gentle persuasion or force if need be!

Read the star wars pictorial dictionary for the upcoming film whilst I was at the bookstore too. Really interesting info about the movie, looks good, we can expect to see unrealistic Jedi fights with gratuitous use of force powers etc, and hopefully we'll get to see some decent acting and story, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.

Just finished IP assignment, trimmed it down to 1600 wds plus which is within the word limit plus 10% i.e. 150 words on top of 1500.

The apprentice was cool tonight, the idea was to design clothes that can incorporate technology- i.e. have pockets and stuff that can hold ipods, 'cell' phones, gameboy etc.. Magna Corps clothes were pretty cool, I really like the kangaroo pocket that could hold and conceal the gameboy, haha, the pocket made it really easy to conceal it if a teacher caught you playing it.

Anyway yeah, I go for that Tanna MILF chick hehe. She's good, a strong leader but not up herself. The tasks on the apprentice are so cool, I wish I could be on it, I reckon I'd do OK too competing with most of the idiots on it, they're supposed to be business people with entreprenerial savvy etc.. but they don't even go about market research for a task.. talk about stupid! Even I'm not that dumb!

Monday, April 25, 2005

Getting hooked on teeny soap dramas on ABC

Am I nearly done with IP mid sem?? Seems like it never ends, its due tmr so I won't be worried about it for much longer. Anyway just a short break, had to pull myself away from the TV cos I was getting addicted to this teeny soap drama on ABC!

Any one watch summerland? Pretty disappointing I must say, boring as. Watched it yesterday on the recommendation by a 'Jesse Mccartney fan' lol

Deez's birthday lunch on Sunday, so many birthdays in April! Went to this belgium place near Wynyard, it was pretty good =) what did I eat? provencale mussels, about 30 mussels in this big black pot with stew.

Sunday, April 24, 2005

negative attitudes/thoughts

Does a negative attitude prevent you from achieiving your potential? Obviously right! I was just thinking, if you have the attitude that you won't get a particular job, and you do a half assed job of applying for it, can you really expect to get the job? Wouldn't this be an example of how a negative attitude will prevent you from achieiving the best outcome from yourself?

Anyway, the things is, I think most people don't realise that they have a negative attitude, including me. I go by life not even realising I have this negative attitude.

Anyway who cares for now.. I just want to blog about the 'butterfly effect'. Interesting movie, basically its about a guy who suffers from blackouts during his youth. When he's at college he realises that he can change the past by revisiting the past, finding out what happens during the blackouts and changing it "for the better". It was an interesting concept, though done before.

The title of the movie is derived from the quote which is shown at the beginning, something about how a storm can be caused by something as little as the fluttering of a butterfly's wing.

ooh, I also want to talk about the experiment on TV which proved that goldfish have memories! It was on SBS, it was such a cool science experiment. Brings me back to psychology 1B days, fun fun fun. Basically they proved fish have memories by showing that the goldfish overtime learnt how to swim through a "maze" through positive reinforcement. Top stuff!

Saturday, April 23, 2005

sleeping and intellectual property mid semesters

'seafoody' should be classified a proper english word :P

Its 20 to 7 and I'm just about to resume work on that damn take home midsem. I think I'm getting there, but I'm over the word limit as usual, so trimming up the whole thing will be a pain in the bum. Anyway thats a concern for later.

Long weekend this week, I don't have any plans nor can I have any plans cos of the midsem =(

Hope I can have time off soon

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Industrial and Intellectual Property

Man, what a hard midsem I have for IIP! Makes me feel like quitting the damn course! Seriously there are so many cases, and its all about the same thing, copyright infringement, things can seriously be simplified!

How am I going to tackle this assignment? Its definitely related to Channel Nine v Network Ten case, the High Court appeal went in Ten's favour, so does that mean you can a 'insubstantial' part of a TV broadcast and reproduce it in your own broadcast? I with the majority judges were clearer!!!! I like Kirby and Callinan JJ's dissent purely on the basis that I understand it! Shish

A lot has happened since my rejection letter, Owen's graduation party last Saturday at Darling Harbour was really nice, and cool to see high school friends there too. Missed out on Jimmy's party on the same day unfortunately, but saw church people on Sunday and celebrated Rich's 22nd at Capitan Torres. Nice Spanish food there, try the paeola and the sangrea! Quality food, was definitely a nice chance from Sydney Central.

Spanish food seems really seafoody, but the veal is good too I suppose.

Ok, I have til next Tuesday to get this midsem done!

Saturday, April 16, 2005

My first rejection letter

just got home from bluesky, checked my inbox and then it came, my first rejection letter for a grad position. I applied to PWC Legal department last Saturday, it was a dodgy effort mind you, but I think I was hopeful that even my dodgy effort would be accepted and I would at least proceed to a 'meet and greet' round or interview stage etc etc...

So it seems that my lack of effort has paid off, or has not paid off, either one.. i'm confused!

But who cares actually, I'm not going to lose sleep on this issue. I should trust God, and indeed I will. I think law/commerce is not my thing and I will eventually be steered into the right career path.

But its now a matter of me researching and finding that path, I need knowledge and it would be beneficial for me to get off my butt and start doing it.

Anyway, bluesky was awesome tonight! The fellowship was great, the message spoke to me, and growth group was fun! Its nice to be led for a change, and have like minded people around you from which you can learn. Thanks to Irina for doing a great job, I think this year will be great!

Monday, April 11, 2005

I'm awake at 3am

My body clock is so stuffed, I've done what I haven't done since high school, slept at like 8pm last night and now I'm awake at 3am this morning. Such a weird feeling, I'm not tired but I feel gross, need to have a shower but I don't wanna wake up everybody in the house just as yet.

Had a pretty good Sunday, church service in the morning as usual but followed the guys from church to 20-40 service at the Vibe hotel in the afternoon. The service is run by the people from cousin Ju-yan's church so there were many familiar faces there. The message was particularly inspiring, it was about the potential of humanity and the individual to 'produce' good works in society every generation. It was relevant to me, having to come to grips with the fact that next year I won't be at uni any more and will have to find some way to support myself financially.

I'm still confused, is there any point in doing college of law to get professional qualification as a solicitor when you might not even be guaranteed employment after that? I don't want to end up a junior solicitor in a firm like EP, too many pressure on the individual to get things right, and I can't handle such pressure and perform well! Getting into a medium sized firm is the ideal in my opinion. The problem is that I want a high paying professional job in something that I do well and in an area where there isn't this 'pressurising' culture. Any I'm hoping for God to provide the way, trusting in him in all my ways and acknowledging him =)

Did my graduate applications on Saturday night, it was a dodgy last minute effort as the cutoff was on Sunday. I applied to Deloitte, PWC, ANZ, Qantas and Sparke and Helmore. Hopefully something good will come out of that!

Monday, April 04, 2005

Omigosh... finally!

So I've learnt how to post photos on my blog and how to add links, two things in one day, but it has taken me 2 precious hours to learn these basic tasks!

It feels rewarding to have finally accomplished these two things, and yet I feel stupid for taking so long!

Anyway I have to watch my spelling and grammar now that there's a secret police going around. I seriously don't want to have to buy princessnan a 1 way ticket to New York so that she can be with her 17 year old boyfriend!

Nite


Jun and me inside Scientia Posted by Hello


Dan and me at graduation  Posted by Hello


Random shot of Kelvin and Bobby at home Posted by Hello


Rich, Kim and Brian  Posted by Hello


Guess who's the smoker?! Peter is 2nd right btw ;) Posted by Hello


Dodgy close up shot of Jase, Han and half of my face (don't look at my ugly zit!) Posted by Hello


My evil twin (Eric) and me lol Posted by Hello


Jay, Han, Me and Sam Posted by Hello


I still suck at pool :( Posted by Hello


the Mafia bunch ;) Posted by Hello


Kon! Posted by Hello

Kon! Posted by Hello

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Other blogs

Other blogs are great, you can become so self centered on your own blog that you forget to visit other people's blogs and see what they have to say.

I must admit though that I'm a sucker for a blog that has great visual imagery, I.e. photographs!!!

Sometimes I get bored just reading text, especially long tedious ones that explain things in technical detail.

Saw John Foong's beautiful pics of Mozambique, amazing how the whole world is so different!

Getting so confused with languages, I want to be able to speak Mandarin, Japanese, Hokkien and Cantonese fully so I've been trying to self study from my textbooks and dictionaries. It makes me so confused though, my committment to study has been 'start stop' so I haven't really progessed much!

Have uni tomorrow which should be good. I always look forward to me Intellectual property classes because I got friends there and it only lasts 1.5 hrs! Should be good, tomorrow will be sunny and going to uni gives me a chance to escape the house for a while.

Advanced contracts readings has been a total disaster. I'm relying on the commentary book now, no point reading cases when I have no idea whats going on!

Hope you had a great trip to Central Coast for your friend's wedding Vic!

Sunday night

I'm listening to John Mayer's new song 'daughters' at the moment, its making me feel very melancholy but its a beautiful song. I love the cinematographic technique in the MTV of the song too, he's just sitting playing the guitar and the camera pans on his face which is only half visible because of the lighting. In between shots of him they show pics of this chick who has half of her face covered too, I think this imagery is meant to mean something but it's lost on me!

anyway, the song is progressing and I'm already ranting.

Church was great today! I guess we're all on a 'spiritual high' from camp, but seriously it was so great to see all the faces in church, and I just feel so strong in my resolutions and convictions!

Today was an eye opener for me too, apparently DIGJC (high school ministry at my church) have been doing a breakdancing/hiphop thing on Sundays. Jo and Paul suggested everybody go check it out after lunch and so we all went, not sure what to expect.

I was really surprised! and it was so cool too! It was such a breath of fresh air, and I even tried some of the crazy moves they do. Made me feel a lot younger which is great. Made me think that I should get in touch with younger people more and broaden my perspective on life.

These few days its been nothing but graduate jobs and legal cases, its so good just to take a break from everything. I resolve to get in touch with people I meet at uni and just be a more friendly and sociable person.

Lol, now I'm getting conscious about my grammar, spelling and punctuation. Half of the time I'm not even sure whether my sentences make sense anymore!!! Well, serves me right for being so picky with overseas students! Especially the French/Creole speaking ones from Mauritius!

Saturday, April 02, 2005

I thought I lost my blog but I didn't

which is good ;)

anyway just came back from a walk, the weather was so nice outside- absolutely perfect, sunny, not too hot and not windy at all.

On our way home we happen to see our neighbour Leo's dad working in the garden, started a broken conversation in Mandarin, the problem was I couldn't quite understand what he was talking about at times! I resolve to work on my mando skills, 3 years of study at uni has helped built a foundation but I'm far off from fluent and I hardly speak because there's no one to speak to.

Found out from the conversation that Leo's dad has closed his factory in China already which means that he has totally retired from work. He's going to spend more time in Australia now, so he asked us to keep in closer contact with them.

Anyway don't know why I'm sharing this, but he's a really really kind man. When we were kids we used to go over to Leo's place to play his SNES (we didnt' have any sort of entertainment back then) and he would even take us out for dinner on occassion. He used to play mahjong a lot, I had no idea how to play back then (what a waste) and I remember one time we sorta watched them play. lol

anyway, thanks guys for the previous comments, lol...someone at camp said that I was 'a nice guy who liked to help', I didnt' take offence about it, but it got me thinking that that is the image I project of myself. Not that its a bad image, but I thought that that was an image which was kind of superficial in a sense. I guess what I'm saying is that I've always been yearning for 'deeper relationships'.

Friday, April 01, 2005

Lost blog :(

I got home after came yesterday and wrote this long blog about my experience and what I learnt from it. Unfortunately the dodgy server was down so when I clicked 'publish post' everything that I wrote was LOST!

Anyway in summary of what I wrote yesterday I want to live life as a follower of Christ and not of myself. And that means not just living for a cause, but 'crucifying' my old nature. This means giving up my emotional baggage, my feelings of insecurity and worthlessness and replacing it with the love of God.

I want to be a more consistent person, not a different person with a different character to the people in my life. I don't want to be 'Christian' just to church people and I don't want to put on a false pretense of being just the 'nice guy who likes to help out' to other people. I don't like this fakeness about myself, I want to be truthful and have some sort of integrity about me.