Sunday, December 24, 2006

blue christmas...

Of all my not so considerable 19 years, this has got to be the most unChristmas Christmas ever. Doesn't help that I'm not home most of the day to even look at the tree. Doesn't help that I have a 9 to 5 job that's more accurately 8 to 6, barring travel time.

I think I've grown too old. One driving force for the legendary Christmas magic is likely the idea you get presents and other goodies. Now, whatever I want, I can buy. Whatever I can't, I'm not likely to get for Christmas. Ignoring capitalism, the spending time with the loved ones thing, the idea just makes me depressed. Don't know why.

In spirit of the lack of spirit, here's something I came up with this afternoon:

Blue Christmas

5 ml blue curacao
15 ml gin
30 ml vodka
1 green caramelized cherry
1 red caramelized cherry

Fill a shaker with ice. Add curacao, gin and vodka. Shake well. Serve in a martini glass with caramelized cherries.

Have a fun Christmas, everyone.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

validate me, please...

Sometimes I wonder if the point of finding that significant other is to validate your own existence. As I see it, living in and of itself is very much a non-issue, at least on the larger scale of things. It only becomes issue because we know, subconciously or otherwise, that we are pretty much left with nothing.

The search for a higher power is to give us a sense of purpose. Strangely enough, some people come to the conclusion that we are here to help other people. If that is so, what are the other people for?

There are people who are divinely optimistic. Then there are others, like me, who are scathingly realistic. Both types are far and few between, because we're mostly surrounded by the types who just want to live as long as they can, do as much as they can, and then die.

Face it, if there is a being of a higher level out there, we're only a jar of 3 hour live-d fruit flies busy trying to reproduce.

Want to be validated? Go get your parket ticket stamped on the way out.

Monday, December 11, 2006

at 10am...

Today is tomorrow where yesterday is concerned.

I wish it was tomorrow.

My grandmother split open a toe. I don't know how it happened, I was napping.

I made brownies. With orange and rum. Wish I had some Cointreau though.

It's not a good idea to blog when your desk is right next to the major walkway in the department.

It's times like these that you wish someone would just sit and talk with you rather than go about your work. Or at least give you something to do. Or not.

I was thinking of bringing my laptop here, except for the fact that it wouldn't be nice. Maybe I'll just bring a portable hard disk here. Hyeh hyeh hyeh. And play Fallout.

I need a faster processor for my laptop. And more RAM. And while you're at it, just get me this.

I need a holiday from this holiday. And maybe more interesting posts. And more importantly, but not as pertinent, the ability to be my quirky self with more than a handful of secret-life-options enabled.

Monday, December 04, 2006

work work...

10.15 am

Day one as an intern at some merchant bank. Delightful. I'm already feeling lost. Sitting here in this cubicle place thing. Only another 7 plus hours before home time. Whee.

10.16 am

Been told a lot of random things I'm already forgetting. Guess that's what happens when you didn't really have a clear idea of what the fuck you're getting yourself into in the first place. Heehee.

10.20 am

It's been awhile, but I don't have anything to do. Hell, I might have to resort to playing with myself *ahem* to stay awake. I do not understand the lack of workplace efficiency. I'm thinking that people tend to be more efficient when they aren't. It's the only way to explain the bloke that's intermittently reading newspapers, napping and playing random games on Yahoo! Just absolutely fah-bulous.

10.50 am

Found a copy of Forbes. Or as Evans would call it, Foh-Base.

11.05 am

They dropped a stack of previous research articles for me to read. Some of it is fascinating shit. Some of it is pointless drivel on stuff. All of it are compilations of news articles coupled with a few simple opinions put into a sleek looking format to make it all look professional-y. Or something.

11.49 am

Fallen asleep twice already. Hyuu. They don't have my passcard yet. So I get to play with this nifty remote control trigger or something. Bwahahah. Heard there's a cafeteria and some San Francisco Coffee downstairs. Hwoo.

11.51 am

Just wondering how in the Nine Hells and Seven Heavens and 5 Earths anyone can stand an office job. It's so incredibly mundane, it's boring even.

12.44 pm

Lunch break! Gotta NOT eat like this anymore. In other notes, I need a new bed. The freshly repaired junk heap is already giving way again.

2.19 pm

Sitting around reading research reports reminiscent of blog entries. This is either so the job for me (and 5 million other people around the world) or a serious lack of research type writing ethics here, or that investors are absolute dimwits when it comes to understanding fanciful writing styles. I take it all their definitions come from Encyclopaedia Dramatica.

3.41 pm

Yay! Internet connection. It's slow as a dingdong bat, and the firewall blocks Messenger, but there are ways around an eville corporate propaganda machine! Also, I have no real assigned tasks so I can fuck about until they give me something to do. Or not. Whee. Only 2 more hours to drop all balls. Except mine. I like my balls where they are.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

diets...

Dammit. My bed just collapsed under my weight. That seals the deal. I'm fat.

Time to go on Liberace's watermelon diet. Bleh.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

maddening...

People always say that you don't miss something until you don't have it anymore. I found that I live a lot nicer and happier when I'm away from my family.

It's difficult to live when there are people nagging you over pointless things, and pointing out every damned flaw. Like, I'm fat, apparently. More than half the family stated that most clearly at the family barbecue gathering. Also, my hair is kinda fucked and I'm wasting money.

I suppose I could easily take it all in jest, if it were actually FUNNY. You'd think they'd notice that I am far from the kind of person who can take personal appearance as a joke. You'd think also that they'd know better than to poke repeatedly at a person with some sort of history with suicidal depression. You'd think also that I could make it rain purple chocolate soda at will.

I've been accused of being antisocial. It just so happens nobody likes the things I do, and when I try to engage in their activities, I've been pointed out as ignorant and sidelined. I have no heard much, if any, positive statements since coming home. Everything from my dress to my face has been scrutinized and shot down. I have been contemplating just sitting in my room with my blanket woven into a rope tied around my neck hanging from the fan spinning at full speed.

There are fewer great disappointments than to come home and realize that they don't really seem to care if you're around or not. I just can't bloody wait to get back to Melbourne. Or die.

Monday, November 13, 2006

back...

I am. The weather, murder is. Humid, it be. Suffocating, it is.

Bored, I am.

Monday, November 06, 2006

shotgun...

Both barrels are now empty, reloading for two more. Still don't know if I hit the targets.

I'll be back in three days. Miss me then.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

say my name, fame...

The dearth of recent posts is kinda of a problem with having too many readers. You're always afraid to offend. To the point where I have had to have a seperate and anonymous blog. Except that one now has too many readers who know who the fuck I am.

The resultant lack of quality posts has driven people who read this (READ: you) away. So now I don't really have much of a problem people reading stuff and feeling touchy.

Except people are unpredictable and they could google up some serious shit on me. It's a good thing I have such a bloody common name.

I've heard that some people have lost their jobs over blogging. That's like reading other people's diaries that happened to be lying open on the coffee table, you bastards!

Blah. This is sickening. I'll be home in pretty much less than a week and it's becoming hell to even figure out what to do about this whole contract termination. I have nowhere to live when i get back. Wish things were more predictable, almost. Blah.

Packing your stuff in anticipation to go home is kinda like what those suicidal people do. Cleaning house. Ooooh. THERE's an idea.

People sicken me. I should set off a humongous bomb that causes sterility and stupidity. Wait. I don't have to. People are already stupid. But not sterile. Damn it.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

well hung hamsters...

Not just five minutes ago on MSN:-

Stick-figure-friend's-ancient-older-sister: hey jin. are u having problems logging on to friendster?

jin: i don't LOG on to friendster. ever. you'll catch me dead first.

SFFAOLS: lol. oh yeah i forgot tht u dun do friendster u snob.

jin: that's like accusing someone of being smart. or well hung.

Oh yeah. I'm such a snob.

Friday, October 20, 2006

apples...

And now, back to the ancient daily blogging routine.

On my desk are three green apples. They're much like any other green apples. They are apple shaped and they have little stalks. They are about apple sized and they smell like apples. They are on all counts, apples.

Only problem with them is that they're ugly. Ugly looking apples. So ugly that I didn't want to eat them. But then, I figured it would be pretty sad if they were thrown away on sole qualification of their looks. They probably have perfectly nice insides.

So I've decided to peel them, to find the nice insides. Of course, if they have worms and shit, they're yesterday's trash.


People are terribly like apples, aren't they?

Thursday, October 19, 2006

week 13...

I don't even know why the hell they bother having a week 13. Nobody does any lectures on week 13, and there are no tutorials or stuff. If anything, it's only like a deadline extension.

Besides, 13 is supposed to be bad lack, isn't it? What are they trying to do? Jinx us!? Gah! They want us to fail so we'll keep having to retake the same blardy units over and over again.

Hmm, seems that I have a little suitcase problem. How I'm going to get it to move to the airport. Taxis sound viable, but unlike the small mosquitos we get in KL, these things are the size of twin engine Cessnas. Looks like that can of Ridsect is gonna need a flame-thrower dispenser.

I've become a boring writer. Woot.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

heatwave...

Lovely weather today. Wearing a collared shirt for the first time in a long time.

One thing about this place is that the weather can be a really fucked up thing. Like the other week, we had a 30 degree heatwave, and the next day it was 12. Yesterday was deballing cold, but today it's a lovely 19 degrees out.

Three more weeks. Just three. Friggin. Weeks.

Looks like all the splashy holiday plans we made are shot executioner style. Bound, gagged, and two bullets to the back of the head.

Friday, October 13, 2006

old...

I haven't been to a terribly many lectures this week. It's not as if I don't fall asleep in enough of them already, revision lectures are just downtown Snoozeville for me. So I decided to do what is probably the last grocery shopping trip in Melbourne this year for me.

If you ever want to get a taste of what it's like to feel like part of a mummy-dust generation, go to Clayton town on a Friday morning grocery shopping. Coles kinda smelt like mothballs. And interestingly, I was about the only Asian there.

A quick aside, I'm getting the feeling that I have this kind of aura that disgusts people or something. Smiles dry up faster than Barisan Nasional charm after an election when the service people see me approaching. I'm wondering if I look terribly imposing six feet tall, or if it's my hair.

Anyhoo, I got a real nice cashier lady. If tipping was customary to checkout clerks, she'd have gotten my 10 bucks change easily. Also, it turns out I wasn't the only Oriental there. This pushy old lady with a face to match a wrinkly elephant butt just charged up to the counter, that spot where a customer stands so they can swipe their charge card.

The bitch must either be real constipated or blinder than that old ah pek in the old Wong Fei Hong movies who painted his glasses black when he sees all the gwai lous with their sunglasses. Probably as stupid, too.

Outside at the trolley bays, I saw this old lady who was looking bloody frustrated at her trolley. Something about the locking key on the trolley in front being lost, so she couldn't get her dollar back. But that's not the important thing. Besides being otherwise perfectly normal, as far as old people go, she couldn't speak consonants. All she could speak were the vowel sounds.

It scares me to think that this might happen to me when I get old. Losing bits and pieces of the personal interaction interface. Like speech, "patience", even bladder control. You're still the same person inside, but you're being locked away.

I never want to get old. But it looks that few people have a choice.

Monday, October 09, 2006

nervy...

Feeling very irritable recently. Every damn thing is rubbing me the wrong way. Yes, even THAT.

Don't know what's up. It's taking lots of willpower not to snap at random people who walk past me. The air turbulence they're causing pisses me off too. Even this keyboard is annoying me.

I can't talk to anyone about it. If looks could kill, mine would eviscerate.

Maybe I should fly home and visit a parliamentary proceding. The resulting massacre should be most noteworthy.

Friday, October 06, 2006

slice...

Everyone tries to get their own slice of heaven. The closest piece of heaven on earth is a cake made up of many different earthly pattiseries. There's the economic pie. There's the space tart. There's the social quiche. And there's the heart shaped cake.

The first three are fairly easy to juggle. Pies, tarts, and quiches are all quite to bake. You can make the crust seperate from the filling, so if you screw up one, you still have the other half left. And you can try again.

Cakes on the other hand, are pretty easy to fuck up. And best part is you won't know until after the baking.

Baking aside, it seems to me that quite a few friends of mine have their own slice of heaven. While I'm pretty okay with not having much of a dessert to speak of, I'm just wondering at the people who are actively being stopped from having their own.

There IS more than enough heaven to go around.

P.S. I am exactly 19.5 years old. My brother is exactly 6. Today, that is.

Monday, October 02, 2006

beans beans...

...the magical fruit. The more you eat, the more you poop.


These beans won't take it too kindly to being eaten OR turned into poop.

"Ne'er was more savage a beast that appeared cute, fluffy, adorable, or collectible."

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

meet...

... Nosferatu.


One. One panda. Ah ah ah ah ah... *insert thunder and lightning*

Monday, September 25, 2006

derailed...

Engineering is starting to piss me off. I hate the math, I hate the lots of theorizing and doing kablooey splat nada. Right now, I'm just waiting for the semester to end so I can go back, do the insane stuff I was supposed to be doing on my LAST holiday, and maybe fuse together some brain cells.

Was never one for stupid sit down and write shit. More the type for making things and maybe watching them work. All the things I've SEEN work are simple shit primary school projects, in the guise of proof of concept work. Like, I built this newspaper bridge that carried about 30 times its weight. Or something like that. Whee. Such fun. Only thing is that THAT'S the only actual application of concept shit.

If next year isn't more interesting than this year, I'm going into hospitality. Gah.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

travel plans...

Mine are complicated as hell. As far as my short attention span allows it to convolute, that is. Only thing that seems like it MUST happen is the fact that I'm sorta destined to travel alone.

Meh.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

censorship...

Hmm, I think I've written a post with the same title some time back. Oh well.

Now now, what ever happened to the deliciously random and delightfully sparkly blog that was quicksilverlining? Where are the hilarious criticisms and the sharp acid wit, or even the contemplative moroseness that made this blog somewhat readeable?

Fucken tightwads is what happened to it. Some people take things in this blog too seriously. Other people don't like certain stuff written in it. And while normally I wouldn't give a ficking duck about that, it so happens that more often than not, these same people can affect my life in a way I would NOT enjoy eviscerating very much. So what can you do? Especially since some "garblement" is out controlling what people blog and whatnot.

Well, you can stop writing about other people and the stupid comments they made but rather not have written down because it might affect job prospects, among other things. That kind of leaves me with only pretty photos. Okay, so here's one:


See, I thought it would be too dangerous to reveal the face of the person behind the photo, because who knows? Maybe he/she/it is being chased by some Inuit mob. Then I decided to censor the crotch area because some people might find open legs very provocative and stuff. Then I censored to computer at the back because some people might zoom in and see the sensitive contents on the screen behind the person. And then I should blank out the the background, JUST in case someone could identify this place and put said person in one hell of a fucked up mess. Also, the shirt design should be blanked out because it may be putting across unsavoury messages that we don't want underaged children to pick up. And then for my OWN safety, I should blot out my watermark too, since I sure as hell don't want people blaming me for something I didn't do, no?

Well, seriously. People who have issues with me writing what I write should take that thing below there and shove it up where the sun don't shine.

Friday, September 08, 2006

survivor...

Ever wondered if you'll make it out of this world alive?

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

golden spoon...

Some people are lucky enough to be born with one of those up their butts. For the regular others like me, we have the occasional splurge on the delightful fine dining that such a hedonistic world offers. Check it out.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

bluefire...

BlueFire Churrascaria, Level 3, Melbourne Central. Let the lack of pictures convey the experience. Alternatively, read this.









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Sunday, August 13, 2006

dandenong ranges 3...


Barelling down the Dandenong Tourist Road in the Beast at a speed too high for any effective steady hand photography but much too slow for a V6 engine.

cry not...

And one fear put to sleep. At least for now.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

dandenong ranges 2...


The Canadian Pancake breakfast at Flippin' Pancakes in Sassafras on the Dandenong Tourist Road.

Monday, August 07, 2006

dandenong ranges...


Grounds of the dam in the Dandenong Ranges.

Friday, August 04, 2006

if...

... I need you more than you need me, what does that make me?

Thursday, August 03, 2006

throwing bones...

For no apparent reason, I'm already sick of university. I do not comprehend it at all. Monash is a pretty relaxing place. Quite comfortable and all, what with the campus-wide internet connection (sort of), and the multiple food places, and a few nice napping spots and plenty of greenery and lots of curious things (like the Boob Lawn). Lectures aren't that bad. If anything, only one or two fascinating-as-potatoes-grow lecturers, and the occasional senseless assignment. Nothing I can't handle, and nothing I haven't come up against.

I think I'm just pretty sick of the pointlessness of it all. What happens AFTER uni? In fact, what's the whole doodad during that long tenure have to do with after? And then, what of it?

Right now, all that morbid musing about dropping out of uni and becoming a rent boy has to be put on the back burners. Plans for an uprooting and planting of the motherplant are in the pipeline. I think. Lots of things to figure out and lots of things to sort.

One of the most infuriating things is when people find it amusing imagining you in any sort of sexual/romantic situation. I mean, is it really all that funny considering that I may have some sort of sexual proclivities? Yes, yes. That big fat guy having any sort of sexual urges must be amusing indeed. Very funny. Har har har. It must be hilarious indeed even placing a possibility that I am anything more exciting than a rock. Just because I'm fugly as Michael Jackson's nose doesn't mean I have no needs you know. Even non-existant appendages of fallen culture icons have feelings you know. The dead kind.

If I really was all that asexual, at least half my current considerations could be junked. Half of them are too complex to discuss, and the people they concern are exactly the ones who are best not knowing, and they would most likely not want to know at any rate. All this, and an ongoing cocoa overdose has been driving mental images not unlike hentai with the pixels on. Intriguing, but frustratingly obscure.

I did think of going to the student health psychiatrist the other day. Then I did a double paracetamol and vitamin C infusion with 5 grams of peppermint cream chocolate.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

so...

...it's not that there isn't anything happening recently. Quite the contrary, too many exciting and randomly fun things have been happening. So why HAVEN'T I be writing about them?

Ask me to my face, it's a simple "can't be fucking bothered to anymore". Seriously, too many things are happening for things to be a simple "Yay! This is some randomness I can write about and receive tons of comments about and increase my readership by a bajillion-fold! Yes, yes. Even the improbability of that happening is not enough to faze me from my piss-shitted stupor on the grandeur of things-I-don't-have-words-to-describe-anymore!" No, no. Indeed not.

A more honest answer would be that I can no longer be bothered about chronicling a life anymore. When I started recording things down, DESPITE the earlier "gawd-I'm-so-gonna-fucking-die-every-day-next-week-except- Sundays-because-I-won't-work-weekends",
I seriously thought that I'd amount to something more then a few pennies and a some copper wire.

The only person I recall truly telling me I was worth what I stopped thinking I was worth was my geometry teacher in ICPU. I don't think I've ever told anyone else this, but she said something similar to "You know, I envy your mom so much. If my son would become half of what you were, I would be so proud." At that one point, just after that period at the end of the second sentence, I was like, wow, someone who had no real preconceived notions or internal biases believing I was gonna be something great. In my yearbook, she signed off "... and I know you'll be a great man one day."

Now I can smile something less than what you'd think I would be. It's a blasphemous crossbred mockery of a flit of happiness with a vengeful smirk, and that smile you see people jumping off buildings have plastered on their already hollow eyes. The mouth is that of a genuine glow, the cheeks a portion of smirk, and the eyes hollow.

As I was walking back up the hill just now, I was just muttering to myself, how fortuitious should some murderous bunch of juvenile street thugs a foot taller than I was armed with dangerous utensils should chance upon me and felt like beating me into a pulp. I doubt much of a resistance would have been put up. Not even reflexively. Or if I accidentally strode out onto a road with rushing and unstoppable traffic. Or if I fell onto the train tracks. Teehee. How positively delightful.

I was wondering. What happens at the end of this five years? Three decades of mindless servitude in some soul-sucking corporation earning big bucks and stomach ulcers? Or that same three decades spent at some back breaking self induced indentured servitude for a posh apartment filled with IKEA furniture and the sound of silence? And I have more to fix before I'm technically done with my life contracts. Damn these things they make you sign in blood. And all before learning how to write, too.

Someone told me that this path of one-ness that I'm walking isn't something that's imposed on me. Oh definitely not. If it was, I would have most definitely broken it. No, a simple inventory take shows that I have no capacity to take care of anyone else. Not on any remotest sense of permanency. Money I think I can manage. Time, maybe so. But I have nothing inside me to give anymore. I think I burnt it all. That happens to pyromaniacs. You sometimes forget that fire can bite you. And I don't have an extinguisher.

Did you know that slashing your wrists won't really kill you? It will probably just cut a tendon and render your hand limp and disabled and shit, but you won't bleed enough to actually die.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

walks 5...


Last in the Walks series. Pink.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

walks 4...


Picture Four in the Walks series. White.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

walks 3...


Picture Three in the Walks series. Yellow.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

walks 2...


Picture Two in the Walks series. Green.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

walks...


Picture One in the Walks series. Purple.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

erk...

Aiseh. So annoying la. Still, I fulfilled my requirement lah.


Haiyoo. Oh well. Now to download games. Heehee.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

stupid...

For an excellent example of circular logic, read this.

Some people are just so blindingly stupid I have to wear seven pairs of shades just to prevent their "brilliance" from killing me. Then I down an industrial sized vat of 100% proof paracetamol to slightly reduce the universe-rending headache I get from such idiocy. Then when it's all over, I just point and laugh and wait for them to die so I can dance and spit on their graves.

I'd write a rebuttal, but I think it makes more sense using the energy to finger my ass. Gah.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

it's...

...fine when I'm fixing it for other people.

...not when I sit there facing my own.

...fine when I have that extra dollar to spend.

...not when I spent it with another 414 other friends like it.

...fine when they walk past.

...not when I know I can't follow.

...fine when I sleep.

...not when I wake in the morning and realise that dreamless sleep is better than dreamless conciousness.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

gah...

Well, I was going to do a photo post about a walk around Monash. But then, Photoshop crashed. It further blackened an already dark mood. So, nope. None. Nada. Too bad Jon. You'll just have to come here and look at Monash Clayton yourself.

Monday, July 03, 2006

moo...

And so the fat bull in the fluffy yellow towel bemoaned to himself. How tragic that the what little time he does not need to spend pointlessly ploughing fields to grow celery he spent sitting around chewing crisps dusted with sour cream and onion powder that tasted so much like the farmer's Red Bull carton cardboard. Verily, he'd much rather spend his time ploughing other, err, things. Besides, who ate celery anyway?

Bored out of his humongous thick skull, the stupid fat bull pulled up his fluffy yellow towel in a manner not dissimilar to the way fat humans would pull up pants that were too tight for them. Indeed, he was a metrosexual bull, fat though he may be, and t'was a fluffy yellow sarong he was wearing. Of course, this is all just digression.

He decided to attempt to communicate with other cattle in farms all over the world. First, he thought he'd try instant messaging. He soon gave that up, however, because the lack of fingers made it quite difficult to type. So he decided to shout, or rather, moo. Except that mooing was effiminate. He bellowed instead. Then he picked of a horn and put it to his ear, to make hearing the replies that much clearer, though why body parts were detachable and how disturbing that was did not occur to him.

Nary a whisper came back. Even the wind, which was moving way beyond the speed limit and technically howling it's head off, if it had one to howl, was deathly silent.

The fat bull soon gave up, and walked back to the crisps. Just as he sat down on his great giant behind, almost squashing his tail and a whole flock of sheep in the process, a bajillion bellows and moos returned. This pretty much flustered the bull, and the flock of sheep was turned into mutton patties.

Ignoring that digusting mess, the bull frantically tried returning each of the replies. In the process, he got a few messages mixed up, and basically fucked things up for himself.

The farmer, not pleased with all the cacophony, took out his shotgun and shot the bull in the head. The thick skull, so solid that even Superman would blush, deflected the pellets, and sent shrapnel all over the place. One pellet flew straight back at the farmer, knocking out his one good tooth, which lodged itself in his windpipe, causing him to drown in his own spittle.

The farmer's wife ran out screaming, "oh Abner!!!" The bull, already annoyed at the few pellets stuck on his face making it look like a vicious outbreak of acne, which was oh-so-not-happening-to-a-metrosexual-bull, was not taking anymore of this, err, bull, gored a hole through one of her bounteous bottoms. Or at least it looked like it. So voluminous was she that the horns merely displaced one of innumurable fat layers, hence knocking the fat Mrs. Abner into the mud.

In reflex, the farmer's wife proceded to release an anal outburst. And we all know, fat lady farts are the most toxic, so all the plants and animals on the farm died. Just like that.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

hey...

... Fun, Enjoyment, Life. How y'all doin'?

Listen, I was thinking we could hang out a bit. Like, maybe go to the arcade and play some random shit or something. Or maybe go watch a movie or something. I heard that new Superman thing is out.

Huh? What do you mean you've got appointments with other people? What about me? Hey! Hey!

Hello? Hellooo?

Oh, right. Ignore me, why don't you.

Friday, June 30, 2006

retail therapy...

...is good. It helps lighten the soul, and the pocket.

And the black 30GB iPod is so sweet.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

frustration...

It's really bad when you plan something, then you can't do it. It's even fucking worse when you plan something, can't do it, then be given hope that you might be able to do it, then can't, and then ANOTHER time.

I'm just so bloody frustrated I think I will just sleep the next 2 weeks away.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

tired...

I am so exhausted. In so many ways. I can't believe I fell alseep while playing games. Maybe this has just been an exhaustive week. And I wasn't even planning on posting. But, gah.

First off was dinner with Kian's friends at Papa Gino's. Food selection was quite good. Comments on the food selection:


The bread had a slightly rubbery crust and the inside was a bit too soft. Olive oil would have gone better with the bread. It would have been better if it was warm or lightly toasted.


This pizza was very meaty. Quite nice, well balanced flavours, nice amount of toppings, no real complaints. Personally, though, I would have enjoyed it if the chilli flake bottle cover didn't come loose and spill like half the friggin bottle of chilli flakes on my pizza. I couldn't eat much after that.

In the background, the ham omelette was a bit too thin and too salty. Not to be considered full bodied food.


Fettucine with clams was okay, slightly spicy, a mite too clammy. The clams weren't fully washed, so there were grains of sand in it. No major disagreements with it. Worth the eat.


This pizza was too mushroomy (not coming from me, though I must agree), too many capsicums and stuff, but edible.


Strawberry crepe was very nice. Strawberries were fresh, the serve was large, and most importantly, still warm. Excellent finisher.


Overall, a worthy eat, Papa Gino's. Only thing is you must know what to order. And avoid spilling chilli flakes all over your pizza. Use paprika or tabasco. Gah.

On Friday, I cooked some random things for Michy's parents and an assortment of friends.


Not a flattering picture, but gets the point across. It wasn't too good a run, I must admit. Sigh. I'm so losing my touch.

Museum trip on Saturday!


This huge-ass whale skeleton was the opening exhibit. Nice.


I suppose Ban would like some furry things once in awhile. Wallaby!


And kiwi. See? They look nothing like the fruit. Or sheep.


Talk about huge calamari.


They have some weird fish.


Ooh. Looky. A UFO. Or is it AN UFO?


This is so Jurassic Park.


Pretty metallic morpho butterflies. Nice.


And naked statues. It's like being made of rock immediately renders you in an income bracket too low to afford decent clothing. Must be that stick thing he spends so much money on.

Okay, too exhausted to continue. Bye to Kim and Kian who left this afternoon, and to Vonzie who's leaving tomorrow, I think. Have fun, come back soon.

Something interesting happened today. 40 bucks fell out of the sky. And then I found 2.50 on the road. Woah.

Edit: Gah. Jon. You're right. I must be more fucked up than I thought.

mirror...

I just looked into the mirror. What a joke.

Hah.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

murder...

If we keep to the legal definition of murder, then most of us are quite off the hook. But if we were to think of ideas and thoughts and hopes and feelings as sentient things, and the product of human creation (as are babies, for that matter), all of us are the most bloody killers imagineable.

For my part, I've been trying to strangle a particular idea/thought/feeling. It's mostly dead, as far as I can tell. Still, once in awhile, it somehow recovers and gets around walking again. Either this thing's really tough, or it just won't be put down. Damnable thing.

And when they say murderers have guilty consciences, they just might be right. I've never been one to fret about guilt. I rarely feel guilty over anything, but this attempted murder has gotten me feeling all turmoiled inside. Isn't that just a hoot. I should sell tickets to the show. People would come and watch this big anguished kid talking to himself on stage, then walking about, throwing profanities at random intervals towards unsuspecting audience members, who would be delighted in how avant garde the whole production is.

Dan might be right. I probably should learn to let go of certain restrictions. But that makes the PAST me seem so silly, right? Especially since those restrictions haven't been long standing. I come across as terribly pessimistic. I like to think I'm a realistic optimist. I keep my high hopes to myself, because I don't like to fall flat. Horrible as my face is, I wouldn't like to damage it further.

What SHOULD I do for dinner, hey?

Someone kill me please. Gah.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

unforgettable...

Some things are, and most annoyingly, they're the very ones that you're trying NOT to remember.

I hate being confused. And that's what I'm doing to myself. Gah. I've said this a thousand times, and it probably won't change anything if I said it again: I'd slit my fucking wrists if I wasn't so afraid of pointy things.

There are things running in my head I didn't think I'd need to consider for at least a long long while. And yet they're back again. Only with a streak I had not anticipated. I should drown myself, but I have a fear of drowning, or something like that. Damnation.

Let's hope this Redken people know what they're doing with hair. I'm supposed to get soft hair that's malleable and absolutely lucious enough to run fingers through. We'll see.

Question: assuming a sufficiently large budget, I need to choose between the Nokia 6280 and the N91. I did consider the LG Chocolate phone, but only trick is that it doesn't have the niftiness I'm looking for. The N91 is sleek enough, only issue being the tiny tiny keypad. The 6280 is a balanced enough toy, but it's music playback isn't as spiffy as I'd like, warranting another huge expenditure in the form of a black 60G iPod.

Much as I like that mouthwatering electronica, a sufficiently large budget is easily felled by many blows. So, I have to decide. N91, or 6280?

On another note, I really need to clean my room. Again.

Sunday, June 18, 2006

simple...

...pleasures. Because some evil assassin rabbit chomped me.

10. Retail therapy. Nothing better than buying un-needful and most scandalously impractical toys like wireless mouse-es and cameras and handphones and mp3 players and... Boys' toys, essentially.

9. Chocolate. Because good chocolate is STILL better than sex. Of course, if your idea of good chocolate are like, Smarties, God help you.

8. Classical music. Because there is no way you can play the 5th Symphony on your lonesome and make it sound remotely fun. So you get OTHER people to do it for you.

7. Live theater. Like TV, but 3D.

6. Preprepared curry pastes. Ever tried grinding and frying your own? Neither have I.

5. Remote controls. Perfect for the time you want to change channels away from all that annoying ball kicking.

4. Quilts. You can never have enough quilts in this weather. NEVER!

3. Potatoes. Carb-laden packets of sin they may be, but nothing beats a well prepared potato salad, or potato mash, or baked potatoes with mayonnaise and bacon bits. Mmm.

2. Overpriced gourmet coffee outlets. Can you say free internet? Ahahah!

1. Public benches. Good for resting an overstretched bottom, tying shoe laces, sleeping on, making out on, reading on, and the list goes on...

Saturday, June 17, 2006

my mistake...

So it seems that my lack of internet connection was because I put it on "Share this computer's internet connection through LAN". Like. Gah. Kim! See lah you!

I still think they should scrap this 1.5M line shared between 11 people. That's slower than friggin dialup. Give us a 5M cable dammit!

Friday, June 16, 2006

thoughts in bed...

Antisocial boy. Maybe that's who I should be for the next month or so. I'm getting a bit too easily irritated by little things. And a bit too stupid to show it.

If the internet in the house isn't working by tomorrow, I might seriously have to think about moving out. No internet is worse than being raped by a ten foot pike.

I don't think downing that bottle of paracetamol is going to kill me. I'm too fat. Gah.

Slashing myself did come to mind, but again, the image of something sharp biting into my flesh left me cringing at my hands for the next half an hour.

I don't think my housemates got much sleep last night with all the headbanging on the wall.

There's an annoying little bit of pale anger that wells up in your throat when your eyes get really moist but you can't cry.

Smothering yourself is quite difficult when you have a history of lung weakness and your reflexes are a bit too efficient.

Walking around in just shorts in the winter to clear your head is the surest way to get frozen balls. Next to putting them in the freezer.

Having almost no connection to the big alternate reality where I actually am something is so disconcerting that I can actually watch Family Guy and American Dad and NOT be amused.

Trying to talk to God in the middle of the night doesn't seem to help with this level of depression. Neither does writing it in a blog, apparently.

Four orange Tim Tams does not a dinner make. Too bad.

Monday, June 12, 2006

tragedy...

That's what I am. A walking tragedy. Or rather, a walking embryonic tragedy. This can only be the beginning.

I have to remind myself not to get scalded anymore. Especially when frying stuff. It's a bit much when you start splashing copious amounts of boiling oil on yourself. Quite frustrating. Especially since it distracts from cooking. Gah.


Ooh. I'm becoming a slob. There's some pie in the back there, and there's a lamington crate. And en empty can of Shweppes Lemonade. And then there are stacks of paper all over. The only reason it's reasonably clean is because I need room to move the mouse. Ooo. Looky. New keyboard that so absolutely clashes with the overall colour scheme. Why can't they have WHITE keyboards, eh? Or why can't I have a BLACK scheme? Gah. My eyes hurt.

On another note, it seems I can't write correeckt neemore. And I. seem to, have bad - punctuation? Werdz jhusht sheim du kum aut rong. Heelp.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

jamie who?

Clareen, there is just no way I look like Jamie Cullum. See?



No, I don't even look like an Asian Elijah Wood. So there.

rabbits...

...are scary.

Saturday, June 10, 2006

it's so hard...

...to cry sometimes. It's a good thing I rarely feel the urge to even try.

Another stage of apathy. I cannot believe how easily irritated I feel these days. I've been all chirpy and overactive around people, and I don't know why. It's even less explicable since I have this vague burning feeling of hatred.

It's so frustrating. I feel like killing something. At the same time, I want someone to talk to, but I don't think it would be very safe for anyone to do that right now.

I bloody hate this. I can't wait for the 19th to come around. Then I'll be spending some quality time with myself wandering around the city. Or sitting on benches looking at people pass me by. It's like a literal metaphor of my life. I've hardly moved from that childishly hopeless idiot I've been in years past. What little progress I appear to have made is like some sort of defence mechanism.

It's a good thing I'm scared of pointy things. Otherwise, I'd pretty much have cut myself up a bit, and much of the surrounding. Maybe I just need to build something.

I can't believe I'm listening to Kiroro.

Argh. I just want to freaking smother myself right now. But what ever will Kian do if nobody was there to give him his Blinding Angels? I think he'd just die.

Memories are hard to come by. They're the source of my pissiness, and the thing that calms me down. Only thing is that I'm now just bloody angry without reason. So angry that I cleaned my room. And there's no more chocolate.

FUCK!!!

Thursday, June 08, 2006

gasp...

Finally! Connection to the Wonderful World Wide Web of Whirlygigs and Whorish Whimsy! The fucken connection has been down for 4 friggin days! What the hell do we pay the fucken bills for!?

Okay, that covered, I did think of doing that perfect lover tag thing that Liz so kindly pinned on me, then I decided not. Not ready to love, so thinking about it is kinda like thinking of food on an empty stomach. So, no. But in short, my perfect love would be someone exactly like me, but without the flaws. Ahah!

Yay. New keyboard. I can't be arsed to take a photo of it. And already I forgot how much it cost. Only thing I do know is that it works like a good keyboard is supposed to. Huzzah.

Oo. Er. What else to say? Oh, yes. I lost my flair for blogging, so I think I'll kill this one permanently. Wahey.

Bang.

Sunday, June 04, 2006

end trip...

The apartment in Dandenong was quite a nice place. About 60 a day. Three rooms, three bathrooms. Relatively large place, and best part was it was a new place with all those new-fangled central heating things.


I didn't actually go into the mountains. Too far, and tiresome. Rather, we spent most of the time wandering around doing random things. Like, the Dandenong Market.


And Dandenong Plaza. Which is technically like any other mall.


Mostly, it was house shopping.


Some had cool shrubbery. Like this floating bush.


Mostly though, they were the sort of dumps that you'd expect homicidal paedophiles would hide in. Gasp. Dead babies.


The rest of the time, we spend meeting Dad's friends for dinner and getting myself hopelessly glazed over.


Which reminds me, there's this place in Springvale that's quite good. But it has an absolutely absurd name.


Still, good food and random company with vegans who know what meats to order and what wines to drink is quite interesting.


And camwhore daughters. Gasp. Almost makes me want to have kids.


Then again, they can get hopelessly boring bored.


Still, I think single without kids is still best.