because i can.

Your Brain's Pattern

You're a simple thinker, and this is actually a very good thing. You don't complicate matters when you don't have to. You look for the simplest explanation or solution, and you go with that. As a result, your mind is uncluttered and free of stress.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

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Your Monster Profile

Lethal Chemist You Feast On: Fried Twinkies You Lurk Around In: Shopping Malls You Especially Like to Torment: Your Evil Twin

What's Your Monster Name?

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You Are Scary

You even scare scary people sometimes!

How Scary Are You?

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Your IQ Is 120

Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

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How You Life Your Life

You seem to be straight forward, but you keep a lot inside.You're laid back and chill, but sometimes you care too much about what others think.You prefer a variety of friends and tend to change friends quickly.You have one big dream in your life, and you never lose sight of it.

How Do You Live Your Life?

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Slow and Steady

Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It'd really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment. They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it.

How Do People See You?

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Your Inner Child Is Angry

You're not an angry person.But when you don't get your way, watch out.Like a very manipulative kid, you will get what you want.Even if it takes a little kicking and screaming.

How Is Your Inner Child?

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RaWRRr... phear` me! :)

taken from another stealer. gracias`

at the resource lib.

like they are studying. but they aint. more time was probably spent doing anything and everythign else i say. wells, all cos... i was with them. i've to study more. more more more! help. am dying.

meanwhile i'm thinking wad to cook for tomorrow's meal. heh. :)

this cannot be. which is why i will be planting myself in the uni lib in hope of better progress with the revision bit. wish me luck. :P

this cannot do.

waking up before 11 each day is just so hard to do. need to readjust, and soon too. now that i wont be working for the week at least (hopefully) i can start revision proper. the days of studying inbetween naps and meals! bliss...my ass.

been thinking about whether or not i should go to the telstra rally, seeing that it would be the last chance for me to go having missed the last two that were held here. its on the 10th to the 13th and the exams end on the 11th! for me at least. now to find someone to accompany me. hmmm...

oh! and melbourne cup is on tue. the supposedly biggest carnival in the country will see crowds of merry-makers out in full force. even osteria has a special promotion. two course lunch+desserts for $50auD. i hate exams. :(

alrights. green curry tonight... with eggplant! yumm... not too bad for the only main meal in a day. :P

laters`

one week countdown.

sem 2 is officially over. what's left now is the exams and i've only just started on revision. after work tonight i'll have to go diving head in. let me not get knocked out.

once i get into the flow of things it wont be too bad. but for now its the starting bit that's hard. :( that and the fact that i feel sleepy aint helping much. ohwells. shall see how it goes after work today.

its the last day. officially. :)

the sims.

jun's family was here last week and we had dinner with them at warwick. erm. some ulu place north of perth. totally inaccessible i'd say without a car. dinner was fab and i'm sure all of us had more than enough in that many course meal. *mental note - movie after show allows for wine during dinner* :) but since i dont drive it doesnt matter anyways. woots!

after dinner we caught the movie 'pride and prejudice'. its a good show and i'd recommend it to anyone who doesnt fall asleep too easily in the movies. in anycase it made me wanna read the book too. Not till after the exams and the 4 other books i have left unread tho. anyways. they were here to do some scouting for schools and we'll probably see more of the two lil ones when they start schooling here next year. happy looking after them jun. lol..

all hell will break loose with the three of them i tell u. tsk

jolly roger.

to start studying.

to do the laundry.

to stop playing pirates!.

i'll be walking the plank soon enough...

land ahoy!

did i say pirates! is one of the games i absolutely love? i'm saying it AGAIN! lol... cos that's whats keeping me busy in my supposed study free time... as usual, i had no intention to pick up playing another game / starting on another tv series this near the exams, but chancing on my friend playing it in his room one night did the trick. Pretty much the same storyline and fantastic graphics!!!!!!

BUT. i have to put it in cold storage for now at least. :(

all because this game even i am powerless against. from saturday night till yesterday i clocked almost 16 hours and i aint even halfway through! *transfers game out of sight in desktop*

i blame min for her gaming post :P

oh btw.... It's the last week of school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *panic*

up to no good.

just when we're getting lots of articles to read and have to print them all out before we can do anything about them, uni print quota seems to have frozen up! bad for the school. good for us students. you see, we get only like 40pages per sem per unit and that's it. beyond that we just have to start paying.

so that was one week ago. or thereabouts la. almost everyone i know has had ALL their notes/articles/solutions printed out already. i shudder at the thought of the amt of 'damage' that was dealt. :)

take that you evil monster they call uni admin. :P

otherwise? i've been a good boy. ;)

study everyday!

that's the idea la. BUT. very hard to practically do. :P

time's running out much too quickly for my liking. in less than a month the exams will be OVER! meanwhile i'll try my best. to.... study everyday la. woots!

ciao!

i surf too much for my own good.

but min's post got me thinking (yet again) about the games that i love, games that i grew up with. these precious few.

1. uncharted waters 2 : new horizons / uncharted waters
the game of exploration, trade, pirates. all the adventure one could hope for in a box.

2. pirates! gold
fame and fortune. with a babe at each port of call! hmmm...

3. colonization
the indians didnt stand a chance against my colonists.

4. star control
melee with alien spacecraft. exploration. mystery.

my favs are all so.... alike. disturbing indeed. of course there were the other usual ones like civilisation, commache, dune, simant, syndicate. but these 4 are it. to me at least. oh how i miss them.... *sob*

ohwells.. now i have songs to keep me company. james blunt is good i tell u. again n again n again. des caught the bug already. :P perishers i just learnt to like. :)

choices choices.

being stuck with having to make future affecting decisions suck la. esp when one doesnt have the luxury to take ur time in deciding. what to do after the exams. to work before i return home. to return home then work. to get a vehicle now. to save up more and wait for a better deal. just a few of many. just told the ppl at the workplace that i'd have to cut back on work to prep for my exams and that i'll be leaving soon after so they could get a replacement in time, paolo was nice to ask me to ring them up when i returned next sem. i sure hope i get a job there then. :)

as usual it was pretty busy on a sat nite at the workplace. flooded toilets that required mopping up. mad rush of salads at the beginning of service. too many pasta orders that caused the shortage of deep plates. an overworked dishwasher. all in a day's work in the kitchen. time never does pass fast enough for all of us. zzzz...

but come end of service the change in the mood is apparent. with singing along to whatever's on the radio to dancing chefs. one just cannot imagine sometimes.

okie back to my last assignment for the sem. the floodgates are about to give way. ohno.......

ta! :P

a cup too many.

after not doing much grocery shopping for the past month or so, cept for the weekly loaf and milk, one major one was planned for the day. buying lots and lots of stuff, someone asked me if what i bought was for the coming week. which, seeing that the amt bought could feed me 3 times over for a fortnight at least, neednt be asked at all. but as you know, the things ppl ask sometimes. :)

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so the conclusion of the shopping trip brought us to the first cup of the day. tiamo just a stone's throw from where i live. its a nice place to go when time is aplenty cos nothing beats sitting around in wonderful weather having a chat with no immediate worries on one's mind. with chris ryan jun tj, talk was about plans after-tare panda seat covers-dota-dinner. dinnertime came too soon with us heading off separately to grab a bite.

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after dinner and in the confort of my room, we met up again to head to oriel's. this time a place in the suburb of subiaco. it was packed but its a good the only option for a place if you want a 3am cuppa. makan makan in victoria park was the chosen alternative. $3 teh tarik and kosong pratas will tell you why home is much better (and not to mention cheaper). but it was the best thing around. i tink. it didnt last too long tho.

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cos when chris joined us later and decided he was hungry, conca's was next. this place along albany highway serves good chilli mussels with garlic bread. if only i hadnt a stomachache from the teh tarik. :( so it left ally ryan and chris to share since jun cant eat 'cheap' seafood and andrea aint hungry. :P

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cant exams be over already? so nites like such can be had without the lingering thought that theres something that needs doing. sigh...

internshipping.

the deadline for submitting a resume is this sat. and i pretty much have everything i need to send my in. but. i dont really feel like doing so. :s why? cos i dont feel like burning away my hols like that. its the last official long holiday that i will be having in a while and it just feels so very wrong. but then again. 3months is a long time to be slacking and the lack of funds to do so would probably be fatal even before i'm halfway through.

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i detest the lack of viable alternatives. its just so so so so so so much harder to get in to the other 3 of the big four. or any of the banks. and working part time does shitz for the resume. tho it fattens the wallet.

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wad to do wad to do wad to do wad to do?

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ok time to send it in. :(

half a million miles away.

looking around the ads on autotrader recently and one ad in particular caught my eye. 97 white holden combo in very good condition going for 3k. its something like a car van combo, not unlike the kangoos u see back home. anyways it was small (enough) to drive ard not looking like a clown in the city. and with space enough to put stuff to go camping in. it was pretty perfect actually and it got me calculating if i could afford to buy it. yes. with my meagre savings from work. i came up a lil short. but it still was very tempting. :S

so a few two days later i called the guy to ask about the mileage. cos it would be the deciding factor imho. expecting around 200 000kms on it but hoping for more like 150 000kms, one can imagine that i was pretty shocked to hear it had covered 530 000kms. heh. which... explains the low price for an otherwise 7-10k vehicle of that age. poof.

i'll keep cycling to work(and school) i spose. and keep dreaming. :)

but now i know a well maintained vehicle can go that far... ooooooooo :P

*vroom vroom*

magic mushrooms.

not me actually. just the others that i work with. cos mondays only paolo (chef) is in and it means he has to do all the cooking. which is pretty bad if there happens to be lots of customers. also cos it gets pretty boring otherwise. nick the apprentice on the other hand, hates everyday. heh. i am glad for quiet mondays. less dishes to wash! but it also means we do prep work. :)

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but it gave us time. time enough for nick to find this while doing up the mushrooms for baking. they're yum i tell u.

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it also gave us time to hum along to super mario tunes. you see... the manager's called mario. heh. i spose he wouldnt have found it to be funny. ohwells. it did help us pass time. hmmmm....
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so anyway, this is nick. the apprentice chef. he is very very messy. and leaves a trail of destruction in the kitchen. very terrible indeed. but otherwise, he's alright.

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thats it. a boring introduction to a night in the kitchens of osteria dei sapori.

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ciao`.

where are you now.

these days time has been moving far too quickly for my liking. not that it isnt good that it also means that i'm closer to home. its just that i would very much prefer i am in slightly more control of time and more importantly. life.

i for now have fallen into the routine of just going thru life and not really living it. hmm. maybe its just cos there isnt that much to 'live'. heh. but anyways the one month countdown requires me to focus much more than i currently am. and i somehow have to find a way to do it. otherwise i'll be diggin a hole bigger than i can get out of. not too good indeed. admin stuff almost settled. so it leaves just sch and work. i should be able to handle both and in time enjoy at least part of my hols fully! cant wait. ;)

to learn means not to know. but to understand.

screwed up sleeping patterns. irregular meals. not enough work done. bad bad bad. but i'm rested already. i think. :P

spring feast.

yesterday i headed down to spring feast on a mission. on that requires the use of oly to take pictures! the results however, were disappointing. obviously i havent mastered the use of the cam. either that or i am that very bad. :S either way its a scary thought. lol.

was an improvement over last year's and the crowd was much bigger too. or so it seemed. heh. notable crowd favs were the chendol drink (which ran out pretty quick) and the satay (which imho wasnt worth the wait in the >30ppl queue...) in any case, i will get to eat all i want back home soon enough so a lil longer without it i dont mind. good things are just worth the wait. more so when it comes to goooooood simple food. :)

after that i headed back and chose to read one of the six books i newly acquired (for all of $16!! :P). Valhalla Rising by clive cussler. he's just one of the authors whose books i enjoy alot and the one that started me on him was Dragon. that was probably 6 books and almost at least 3 years ago. so i got hooked till 330am and managed to finish it before work this evening. it felt wonderful to be 'bedridden'. :P

more more more! i think i have learnt long ago to enjoying time alone. try it sometime. ;)

overcoming laziness.

ellis brook. one year on. i still love the views from there.
jess' visit. oly's test run. juice. hogs breath cafe.
spring feast. asian food. samba-like thingy. :)

flop.

so we got back our marketing law essay today. and the title explains it all. sigh. i guess we followed the instructions too closely. rawrrrrrrrr. else we would never have left out discussion on one whole topic. boo. i am entitled to be cranky. for one week.

credit this.

msn night.

i'll never start doing my assignment so late next time! (famous last words, according to my housemate...) but anyways, so we started our 7.5 mark AIS assignment the day before, underestimating the evilness of the person who set the paper. and almost died. printing was done minutes before the dateline and waiting for my friends to print made it worse. so fresh from the printer and a sprint thru the rain from gp3 later, i handed it in late. but i tink it should be ok, cos the lecturer is nice and he said "there wont be any" when i asked him if we'd be penalised! :P

fast foward >>>

probably the only night this week that i'll be able to enjoy the comfort of my room and i find myself going through a whole lotta crap with ju and des on msn. it was madness i tell u. but the convo shall not see the light of day. if nt we will all just die. or get murdered. pri sch friends. love to hate them. sometimes they just dont die. like des shld. :P

"i shall be nice to ju. so she will wear a sari..."

3.

You entered: 6/4/1982

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You were born on a Friday

under the astrological sign Gemini.

Your Life path number is 3.

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The moon's phase on the day you wereborn was waxing gibbous

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2445124.5.

The year 1982 was not a leap year.

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You are old.

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There are 244 days till your next birthday.

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Your birthstone is Alexandrite

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Alexandrite can assist one in centering the self, reinforcing self-esteem, and augmenting ones ability to experience joy.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone.

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Pearl, Moonstone, Opal

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Your birth tree is
Hornbeam, the good taste

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Of cool beauty, cares for its looks and condition, good taste, tends to egoism, makes life as comfortable as possible, leads reasonable, disciplined life, looks for kindness, an emotional partner and acknowledgment, dreams of unusual lovers, is seldom happy with her feelings, mistrusts most people, is never sure of its decisions, very conscientious.

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The number 3 Life Path is one that emphasizes expression, sociability, and creativity as the lesson to be learned in this life. Here we are apt to find the entertainers of the world, bright, effervescent, sparkling people with very optimistic attitudes.

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A truly gifted 3 possesses the most exceptional creative skills, normally in the verbal realm, writing, speaking, acting, or similar endeavors. The lesson to be learned with a 3 life path is that of achievement through expression.

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The bright side of this path stresses harmony, beauty and pleasures; of sharing your creative talents with the world. Capturing your capability in creative self-expression is the highest level of attainment for this life path. The characteristics of the 3 are warmth and friendliness, a good conversationalist, social and open. A good conversationalist both from the standpoint of being a delight to listen to, but even more importantly, one who has the ability to listen to others. Accordingly, the life path 3 produces individuals who are always a welcome addition to any social situation and know how to make others feel at home. The creative imagination is present, if sometimes latent, as the 3 may not be moved to develop his talent.

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The approach to life tends to be exceedingly positive, however, and your disposition is almost surely sunny and open-hearted. You effectively cope with all of the many setbacks that occur in life and readily bounce back for more. It is usually easy for you to deal with problems because you can freely admit the existence of problems without letting them get you down. You have good manners and seem to be very conscious of other people's feelings and emotions. Life is generally lived to the fullest, often without much worry about tomorrow.

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You are not very good at handling money because of a general lack of concern about it. You spend it when you have it and don't when you don't.

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O_o i smell trouble.... but anyways!

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There are only 83 days till Christmas 2005!

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*Julian date: The number of days since noon 4713 BC January 1. *

the land down under.

this is just so different from home.

try finding a car like this! :P

anyways, this week looks to be a busy one but hopefully next week things will settle down and i can hopefully get some revision done! also, its the time to apply for internships again and i am feeling really lazy about it. i wanna try something else but it seems so hard. e&y again? :s

ohwells, will worry about that this weekend. busy busy busy! but the skies have been beautiful recently tho, just too bad its gonna be raining AGAIN tomorrow.... sigh.

countdown.

just when i was about to blog that cold weather has officially left perth, i step out to find myself walking thru a 'slightly' chilly night. and slightly chilly with my jacket on isnt very funny. anyways its not like i dont like the cold, its just how it catches you off guard sometimes that irks me.

so school begins once again in a few hours and much too soon we will be breaking for study week. the past two weeks of holidays 'non teaching break' did a lil good actually, as it meant time for me to rest up and get ready for more school. heh. anyways more later...

to bed. and regular hours... :)

araluen botanic park.

its a nice place to go at least once. but too bad our once happened to be on a day when it rained. the result? soggy flowers. :P