malaysia...

Came back a couple a days ago...actually didnt feel like malaysia...when i stepped out of the airport...usually thats when i realise im home..with the humid and all..but for some reason..this time it was diff...however...when i woke up in the morning..and heard the stupid miss lim from the primary school behind my house...yelling at the students at 715am to clean up their class room...thats when i realised...I WAS HOME!!!been bummin since...dad asked me to work...but at the moment...not working yet couz jenny cheng is comin tomorrow...for the week or so. She was only plannin to stay at my place from thursday to saturday but fang couldnt house her in the end couz rachel is coming down from singapore or something like that...anyways..yeah..shes arrivin tomolo...so at the moment..no work!woohoo!!!

Really havent been doing much...came back...slept...woke up..brekkie with dad....followed by 1utama lunch with kenny and mabel at chillis...good ol happy hours!!!ooh...guess what...i was at the supermart getting stuff for my mum...and while i was paying..this lil kid...3 years old ish im guesisng...just came up to me...with his angry face..and kick the supermarket basket into my leg....hahahaha...i was like...WTH!!! after that...i was laughing with kenny pat and mabel.....then...i think the lil kid's parents mustve saw it..and started scolding the shit out of the kid.....poor kid...who ask you kick me...hahahah!!! came back...had dinner...spent time with dad....went mamak with my neighbour...till 1!!!woohoo...got a feeling i dont reli have a curfew anymore...how awesome is that...!!!!

Next day....had brekkie with dad...had brunch ...bak kut teh with kee win keehong...pat and aaron...so fun man kee win....can take leave anytime he likes..hahahaha...well...thats not what he says..but thats how i interpret it...hahaha..so yeah...leave anytime!!! What else...bummed around...dad came back..watch a movie with him....then dinner..followed by world cup...haih...feel so sorry for argentina...losing to germany...argentina played better...but..ah well..theres always luck involved in all sports...thought that the coach made really stupid substitutions though...why do you wanna use up all your subs so early in the game..he took all his strikin options out ...after they scored the 1st goal...and opt for a more defensive strategy with 30 minutes more to play...i dont know..i always feel that you shouldnt opt for defence unless its the last 5 minutes or 10 minutes..but def not 30 minutes in the game. Apart from that....by taking all the strikers out...who the hell is going to take the penalty....Ayala...sorin..your defenders...haih...

Ah well..thats all for me now....dont think ill be updating much in the holidays....not much to update i guess..hahaha..might be going to langkawi this week couz jenny is around...see how we goo....will update aights....

Aussie Dream...

Australia made it to the last 16....woohoo...time to celebrate all you aussie mates out there...It was an intense match i have to admit...the aussies clearly played better and just wasnt rewarded...especially when you have a messed up referee like they did...you wont be able to get anything man...come on....2 clear hand balls in the penalty box....by the SAME man...WTH man...nothing was awarded....come on...anyone can tell you that the referee is messed up if he can show a second yellow card at a player without even sending him off...and needing a 3rd yellow card before he gets sent off the pitch...what the hell man...reason for me getting all angry is...because...australia should have won it man....and because of the referees shitness and the bad mistake by the aussie goalkeeper....a worse decision by guus( i know i know...i love him as much as everyone does...and i think he is a great manager...but....kalac??what were you thinking) so yeah...australia should have won that easily...but they didnt ...and they drew..and i lost 10 dollars...damn you people....ah well...still happy that they got through....10 dollars aint much compared to the happiness that i have that australia got through...



Would like to congratulate the miami heat on being the 2005-2006 NBA CHAMPIONS!!! always had faith in ya...love ya wade...you da man!!! even though they lost the 1st 2 games in a best of 7 series....even though they were 2-0 down...they came right back and won the series 4-2!!! now what do you have to say about that....i know what i can say...WADE is the best basketball player in the world....right now...at least...and to prove that ive always followed the heat...through thick and thin...even when they were the underdogs...this is my winning slip from TAB...which i won 60 dollars...from betting that they will win the championship from the very start of the playoffs...even though they were the underdogs!!!!


WADE...the 2006 NBA FINALS MVP!!!


What else...was going to use that money to buy my shoe today. Went to footlocker yesterday..and it looks like the new york series adicolor....all sold out..at least my size is all gone..not even the black one...so i think rite now ill be going for something similar to that...just not the new york series one...and here it is...adidas adicolor bk5 leather...


Btw...the stripes are interchangeable...there are quite a couple of colours to go for...they give you...white..black....blue....green...red..pink...yellow and green i think...so yeah..can mix and match..think it comes with both black and white laces too...talking about accesories!!!

Dilemma

Need your help guys...im stuck between 2 shoes...and i need your help to decide which shoe to go for. need to know by this friday so i can decide which shoe to go for...and the options are...

Adidas Adicolor superstars...well, their both adidas adicolor superstars...just different colourways. Both of them are based on the New York Bill Mc Mullen series...

On one hand, i want to go for the white/green colourway as i think that the colourway is really nice. Like the different shades of green. However, the design is a bit too simplistic...apart from the sole...its too simplistic. Apart from that, i have way too many white shoes that i havent worn...3 to be precise.




On the other hand, i have the black/white colourway. Reasons for me liking this shoe is that...firstly...its not white...its a new colour...its different. Everyone is wearing white this days...and its differentiates myself and others if i wear something else. Im not trying to be a fashion icon... i still love white...and to prove that...i still have 3 whites shoes not worn..and have owned at least 4 previous white shoes...but sometimes...being different is cool. Apart from that...black is also cool as i can match it differently with other clothings. I reckon the design is also cool as it has the nice gold colour touching for it...







Click on Image to enlarge it so you can have a better look!!!

So yeah...help me decide...leave comments on what you thing...what you think about the shoe and let me know which one YOU would rather go for...thanks!

IH ohh IH.....been contemplating on IH for the past weeks...or more like...the past few months. I guess its not all that great as i have mentioned. Dont know...just feel that...it has changed a lot. Dont reli know whether its the evolution of myself, or probably just the evolution of IHers this year. Spent time chatting with couple of friends here and there...and im not the only one who feels this way.

My heart doesnt fully belong to this place anymore. Sure the 1st year was awesome, got to know the most amount of friends in a very long time. And then came 2nd year, where half of your friends leave and 170 new faces shows up in no time...having their own personalities in groups, clicking much better with themselves...among freshers then with seniors. Now i come to understand what the seniors were saying last year, now i come to understand why people tend to move out after a year or 2. Im not saying the freshers are stuck up...just...different...

I guess when 2nd year kicks in with college life...it aint always pretty. The breaking up of groups might leave one or 2 odd ones out...which leaves them without a click. Friendships might take a turn...ppl changing groups with freshers coming in. Ppl changing...new things you learn about your friends...that you didnt know b4....or friends just changing into something there werent last year.

People change...there isnt anything in the world you can do about it. Change is inevitable...everyone changes. but at times people change more than you would expect them to...and those are the times where conflicts arise...and separation of groups,separation of friendships happen.

As this goes on...you always have relationship problems. Everyone say...the 1st year of a relationship is always the honeymoon year...where everyone is all cuddly and all...and 2nd year comes along where they reli start droppin the whole cuddly act...start treating the relationship seriously...and realise...it was all wrong to start off with...which leads to...well....nothing good basicaly...

Dont know...all in all...just dont feel good i guess...feel quite down in fact. Just sitting down..witnessing and then analysing all that is going on...its just ...quite sad at how things are...its harder to put on a smile....its harder to make a joke...its harder to help people out...its just...harder...

Just wondering...where was that IH'dreamland' in which i didnt want to leave last year...where has it all gone...

Had my IFA yesterday. Quite disapointed with myself...i didnt sleep the whole 24 hours prior to exam...and that really killed me. I was totally alrite b4 entering the examination hall..but totally fell dead inside. My head was totally blank when i read the exam paper...and was totally blank the 3 hours through...pretty sure i failed the paper...ah well..shit happens...cant believed it though...most of the stuff that appeared on the exam...i have done it b4....and i knew how to do it....but my head totally went blank when i went in the exam hall....ah well...

Went to the city after that..had lunch with keehong...cc...kai...isaac and dan...after that....walked around the city a bit...went back...fell asleep but woke up an hour later to play basketball...was totally tired at that time but i just had to play basketballl...too long didnt play already...and the urge to play was just too strong....had dinner...cleaned my room and went to bed quite early...mid nite ish...

Woke up in the morning..slacked like never b4...slacked..slacked b4...played basketball..slacked...play more basketball..dinner....laundry...laundry....slack!!!watched soccer...slack and going to bed soon...so much for studying at nite...

ooh....its kimmy's b day party thingie...her actual birthday is on sunday but shes celebrating it tomolow...gonna be lots of fun....lots of cool food and drinks and stuff like that...cool food includes like..teriyaki chicken with stuff on pita bread...erm..what else...bruchettas...random dips here and there..lots of lots of fun....drinks wise..we made a vodka lemon!!! tutor henry managed to get us syringes and we injected vodka into the water melon...how awesome is that huh...imagine myself injecting vodka into my blood...dead man!hahahhaa!
Kimmy and i at commencement dinner at the start of the year...think she was tipsy already...haha

what else...dont know what else...watched soccer just now...england played alrite...not good enuff to win the world cup though..they better step up their game....

5 more days and im done with exams...woohoo!cant wait till its over!!!

wanna sleep now i guess...wanna wake up to watch the basketball match....

OOHH!!!WAIT...ONE LAST THING....GOT A SPECIAL INVITE TO FOOTLOCKER THIS COMING FRIDAY TILL SUNDAY...WHICH IS THE 23RD JUNE TO 25TH JUNE...30% DISCOUNT AT ALL FOOTLOCKERS FOR ANYTHING IN STORE...INCLUDING SALE ITEMS...ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PRINT THIS THINGIE OUT AND SHOW THEM..AND THERE YOU HAVE IT...30% OFF!!!!!TIME TO GET SHOES!!WOOHOO!!!


Gonna spend like hell man!argh!!!

Lil jo...the person who told me not to study the past year exam...and the one who cause me to fall..and hurt my toes...haihh...."suey" man....nah...im just kidding


Hero to Zero...with pain...

Well...one paper down...2 more to go. Done with intermediate micro economics. how was the paper? argh!!!well..judgin from my expression..you should know that it wasnt that great...well...thats because the paper was like....80 percent carbon copy....a replica of last semesters paper... and now im guessing...your wondering...well..did you do the paper...NO i didnt!!!well...i did..sorta.but didnt seatch the textbook for the perfect answer to each question. How am i spose to know...in the words of lil jo jo "nonit to do last years paper la, whatever came out last year wont come out this year again wan lar"and so i just skimmed through the paper...thinking of what i would say if those questions were out but not actually lookin for the textbook answer to each...well...i paid the price lets just say...argh...I still managed to do everything...and its sorta correct..but its not so much accurate....more bullshit i reckon...

On the way back from exams...i was actually plannin to go to the city to go to myers stock take sale...and probably come back after that..have dinner and play basketball after that cause i wanted to take the night to rest and chill. In the end i changed my plans...instead...i was going to go back and play basketball 1st b4 going out to the city at night cause myers was open till 10. Ended up walking back with Randi and lil jo. Was just at a traffic light infront trinity college on the way back....where jo and randi started crossing the road even though it was red...i sorta followed after they took a step or 2....then...the light turned green...FOR THE CARS!!! i noticed it and quickly tried to hold back jo...at this point of time randi was too far ahead already...haha...well...jo didn even listen to me or didnt noticed that i was holding her back and she just kept on walking. I quickly turned back and wanted to go back to my side of the road....and i tripped over the pavement....argh!!! From hero to zero man...tried saving someone...in teh end the person didnt even notice...and i got myself hurt...how bad is that...so much for helping ppl. I fell and i got this 2 ....cuts?bruise thingi on my toes. well...my toe sorta scraped the pavement and a bit of skin and flesh got cut. Was bleeding all the way back...the cut was about the size of a 1 cent coin...Malaysian coin...had to wash it...it didnt hurt that much...but i was just too disgusted by looking at it when i was washing it...considering the skin was still flappin abouts....i had to tear it..wash it..argh!! and there was a tiny stone stuck somewhere in the flesh..had to pinch it hard to take it out...that was gross too..with all the blood running out...

So yeah...suey day for me... toe didnt hurt that bad then..but for some reason its hurting now..and its hurting quite badly right now...the reason i woke up was because of the pain...dont know why...it shouldnt be that pain kua...and the skin isnt healing..argh!!!

'Lil jo...if your reading this....im being sarcastic...and joking....its not your fault...so dont feel bad ok...hahaha...so yeah..dont get mad at me...:D'

Ah well...enuff of that....IFA in 4 days time. Havent started...plannin to start at 2 or something like that...rite now my toe is hurting too much to the point that my brain is centrally focused on that right now...prob should go see a doc and get it patched up properly...

Been shoppin the past couple a days...still managed to go to myers even with my messed up toe. Got a pair of jeans for $59 bucks....couple a boxers...a fleece track pants...and i placed an order for this nice..trench coat jacket hoodie thing...that everyone thinks is nice..so yeah..i really like it to..and its been something ive been looking for for quite a while lor..so finally..can find it..just a couple of days away from seeing it!woohoo!!!

What else...lots of ppl done with exams...Pat and kim..my housemates are done already..guessing its going to be super hard to study from now on since so many ppl are done already..ah well..just have to keep it together and focus!!!

things i want...

exams are a mere 2 days away...and what am i doing...blogging..hahhaa...so slack man...been having so much distractions man. Msn and ebay.com.au being the top 2 of them all. Its a wonder how things that you dont really need suddently becomes a neccesity when you sit your ass down and try to study...

So here it goes...things that i want...

Trip to Japan...reli hope that ill be able to go to japan at the end of the year so i can fulfil my obsession with Japanese girls..*i mean...*japan*. Nah...just want to go there...couz i havent been there b4...or apparently i have...when i was a lil toddler of some sort. So yeah..wanna go there by myself...explore the place...check out how "cute" jap girls are...why they are so "cute" ...nice sceneries...check out how 'high tech' they really are... to try all the nice foods...etc etc...

might just be able to meet up with the morning musume girls(so kawa-iiiiii!!!)...and find out what they actually meant in the lyrics of their songs...

Polo black...argh...need new perfume..or cologne..whichever makes you happy...really like this one..argh...must have it!!!

Okay...dont worry..i do know that even if i do put on the perfume..i wont be as good lookin as this guy(even though i wouldnt say he is that good looking)so dont worry..i aint asking for a miracle..just like the perfume thats all...

Trip to the states...to really see what the "free world" is meant to be. wanna go to california...miami...the big apple...places like that. And want to watch as many NBA matches possible. Wanna actually go to footlockers in the states to check out kewl kickz that wont be available anywhere else....wanna check out "getto" fashion by checking out rapper clothing stores such as akademiks, rocawear, phat farm etc...

man...i would do anything to watch this guy play real life man...if any of you have been watching the nba playoffs...you would definitely be convinced that this guy is the closest thing to michael jordan right now...

nikon D70...want a dslr camera...always had an interest in taking nice photos....scenery etc...really want to get a really good camera so i can take along with me on my trips to take photos of "sights to behold" along my trip...

argh,...its so so nice...must get...must get ( no im not trying to immitate Harvard with the photography and jap act ok...i jus happen to do it one year after him...nothing more...nothing less)

Adidas Adicolor...The new adidas sneaker shoe where you can change colours of the shoe....of their stripe....logo etc...you can even paint whatever you want on the shoe with the marker pens that they give you....

look at that man..fully customisation...need it...must...have it!!!

Nike air max 360...for my next bball shoe..the shoe just looks so siq....or...nike zoom kobe...argh!!!which one?

thats the zoom kobe...would go for this more i guess..couz of the colour..not a big fan of orange and supposedly thats the only colourway they have right now. besides...the red black and white will be able to match my WADE jersey

air max 360

well...for all the above...i want em all...however...i want a small laptop!!cant reli decide though...want a small laptop that i can bring to uni everyday...not like my bloody big 3.2kg laptop that i have now...no offence..i do like my laptop..buts its reli heavy to bring to uni everyday. And considerin that i do actually plan to go to uni next sem(yes i know i do say that everytime...however ill try to make it come true this time). So yeah..im sorta...confused about which one to get ...on one hand ..i can get a macbook..which looks siq in white...a bit more expensive...but its cool...and wouldnt mind tryin a mac now...on the other hand...if i do want to save money..i can get a dell...and stick to normal windows that im familiar with....so..which one should i go for?

the mac book...argh.....so so so nice!!!

and dell...the cheaper...safer choice...but ...their design....dunno..in comparison to a mac...how can compare!

man..its not funny the amount of things that i want...and this isnt the full list man...pretty sure thers more..just dont wan to waste the time to think about it..couz i need to get back to my work man..gonna fail..argh!!!

EXAMS!!!

As im typing right now, im pretty sure everyone is either stressing the shits out of themselves, sleeping whilst stressing the shits outta themselves, or studying while stressin the shits outta themselves. In conclusion, everyone is stressin the shits outta themselves...

Dont worry...your not alone...im just about dead myself. been studying but havent been productive at all. Wasted nearly 2 weeks on one subject and im only halfway there...there goes my micro. Whats even worst is that i havent started my IFA yet...and this is considering that i havent been to any lectures, not a single tute...dont know jack shit about the sub...and i only have 5 days ish to study it after my micro paper. Am i screwed or am i screwed...

For those who arent in IH or for those that i might have missed out on, i sorta made a card/photo thingi for all you guys. Sorry if it didnt make it to you, its sorta last minute...and didnt develope enough i guess... so for those of you whom i might have missed out...here they are...

This was meant to be for the guys...but a lot of ppl fancied this one to the other one...Ah well...
This was meant for the girls. However, a lot of girls thinks that its too..."Ah Ma" ish...looks like one of those cheap cards from back home. Ah well...i gave it a shot!! Lots of ppl say that it looks very gay...well IT WAS MEANT FOR A GIRL!!!!THUS EXPLAININ WHY ITS GIRLY!!!

On another note...Happy b day D cunn!!! or should i say D cunt? hahaha...anyways...happy birthday David Cunningham!!!

All is good i guess, hope i wont fail... hope ill be in all of your prayers this coming weeks...and ill be facing a real tough task...wish me luck

Quite happy that im finally getting much better...though ive been feeling tired, the annoying cough, phlegm,cold, runny/blocked nose are almost gone...and this time...im determined to finish off my anti biotics.....

IH is going alright i guess, ppl getting stressed. Lots of conflicts within friendships happening though...hope all of that gets resolved soon. Relationship wise...lets not even go there....ah well...shit happens...Guess ppl have changed...thats all there is to it i guess...shit happens...

Anyways...dont wanna end it on a sad note....Wish you all the best of luck for your exams...and hope all goes well...Take care...

"Life can only go as far as you take it"


The end?

First...got to know what SWOT VAC is... and sorry for my typo in the last post...its SWOT VAC and not SWOT WAC. According to mabel...i quote" it's short for Swot Vacation. Where you "swot" for the entire time meaning cram for exams. I think it's in the dictionary somewhere." Not too sure about that. Daniel higgins came out with another explanation for it...being Studying WithOut Tuition Vacation. Apart from that...he also mentioned that SWOT is a brittish colloquialism for studious fellow/ chap aka nerd. Ah well...theres a couple of explanation... its up to you which one you choose to go with.

Watch the NBA today...my team miami lost to pistons...argh...then again...i dont blame them. Pistons are former champions...they were the best team in the season...they are playing at home...and they are fighting elimination...all in all...they played really well...and they deserved to win. However, i have to add that ....the heat will win it and wrap is up on saturday. Trust me on that...they will!!!

Studies are officially...down the drain...i shant go any further...im going to fail...and going to get kicked out of uni. This i promise you...so...this might be a quick farewell to everyone out there in IH. Only person that can help me right now...or should i say ....2 person...would be...god ...and myself.

Hope i can pull through...plan to start something new tomolo..change my routine and start studying hardcore and cramp everything in starting from tomolow...hope theres still enough time left. Hope i get better too...couz im still quite sick...been coughing like never b4....aving fevers on and off...argh!!! also....really low on my nicotene right now...been trying to quit smoking for the past 2 weeks...smoking only like...1 or 2 sticks a day...and i feel really dozzy and tired throughout the day....haih...dont know man....hope i can pull through...

Ah well..wish me luck!!!peace out!!!

Swot Wac...

Argh...the pain of knowin that exams are only a week away, however the pressure isnt quite enough to make you piss in your pants...jk...

Swot Wac is here, dont really know what it stands for. For us, it just means a week of holidays to bum around b4 friday comes along and you realised that you havent studied shit...you panic, possibly piss in your pants...and start doing all niters with lots of consumption of V and redbull. Anyways...yeah...dont know what SWOTWAC is...i know whats a S.W.O.T analysis though. Through business management....strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats...but pretty sure it doesnt apply here...

Anyhows, have been studying a bit, plan to pick up the pace tomorrow. Starting to feel the pressure bit by bit but not so much yet though....dont reli know why too...i should reli be shitting myself right now, considering i havent been studying this whole semester...

MSN and eBay isnt good during SWOTWAC. Been surfing so much and chatting so much....aint healthy man. Its funny how...things that you wont usually buy...you would buy during swotwac...things that you dont even considering needing or wanting..you would want during this period of time. Apparently thats what they call retail therapy...and i got a feeling that i am going through that right now. Considering i am actually looking up second hand ibooks and laptops on ebay is a sign that i am desperate of retail therapy...haha...bought a basketball jersey though for 60 some aussie bucks....worth it cause its the authentic nba jersey, one that the players wear, and one that will cost around 165 USD...and im only paying 60AUD for it...hahaha...SCORE!!!

Been watching NBA the past week or so....cause they are showing the miami-detroit game...eastern conference finals. My idol Dwayne wade has been nothing less than spectacular all throughout the series man...i respect him totally as he dominates the game. i also like him cause he isnt as snobbish as other ppl like..lebron james and stuff...ppl who keeps hogging up the ball...keep shooting...keep showing stupid faces after they made a tough shot. Wade is much more a quiet player..and lets his game do the talking. He also passes the ball much more...and realises when to shoot and when not to shoot!!! and he is also very humble..doesnt talk about scoring points..but talks about winning games!!!RESPECT!!! Apart from that, i also placed a 10 dollar bet on TAB that miami will win the NBA finals... its not that im a compulsive gambler...i guess....once in a while aint all that bad...and i aint gambling with huge amounts of money....besides..its the team i support...AND!!! the odds are 7-1...that means if i win i get back 70 dollars...making a profit of 60 dollars..how cool is that!hahahhaa!!!

DWAYNE WADE...doing what he does best!!!

Been in the mood for cooking this couple a days....will start cooking tomolor..or tonite....!!can cook either...mapo tofu....mince beef fried with basil and chili..random stuff here and there. Bought frozen unagi to try out too...hahahha..so hungry!!!man.i swear i have put on so much weight this sem its not funny anymore..!!!

Been listening to lots of jazz....chinese music lately...Not much R&B for some reason. Probably its because im trying to calm myself down to study or something like that......

Ah well..that sorta my update for now!!!ta...

Guilty conscience...

Its really shockin how time flies by so fast...one minute your back in oweek having a blast with newbies in college,no worries in your mind whatsoever, no studies to do...the next minute...your stuck in your room wondering how the semester flew by, with me slacking again...and the thought of...is it too late...lingers in your head...

Well, thats what i have been feeling lately...Finally broke the news to my mum yesterday, told her that i have failed one of my sub...concepts in software developement. She asked me why...and i told her the truth...that i never attended classes...that i never did bother attending classes and all...and this was what she said...

To do the test, or go to classes and fail...that is still understandable...but not to even try...now thats wrong...

And i guess...she is absolutely right... I never really tried...

Whats even worst...is that...she took it well...of course...she is sad and all..but she didnt get angry at all...which was what i was hoping for...for her to get pissed. At least it wouldnt make me feel so guilty as i feel right now. Think its a thing that parents do...they do know how to switch your guilty conscience plug on and make you feel even shitter than before.

Ah well...as for now...all i have to look forward to is my exams...wouldnt say im trying super hard...but im putting in the effort...bit by bit i guess. And the rest...well...we will see i guess...

IH badminton

On the 12th of may...IH defended their crown of badminton champs...beating trinity 3-2 in the finals to clinch its glory!!!

Well, it was an awesome day that i must say. The built up to it...the training that we all had to go through!! Victory has never tasted to sweet!!!

All wasnt easy i must say. Training started weeks before.We knew we had our work cut out for us because trinity is really strong and we needed to field in a strong team. It was also the first year that they implemented mix badminton instead of single sex badminton...so in order to win...we needed to have a strong mens and womens team...

Training was a pain in the ass. I was asked to take over and organise the team. Had to wake up at 7am in the morning day after day for badminton training...for someone who doesnt even wake up at 7 for classes, waking up 4 days in a row is somewhat an achievement!

Then there was narrowing and choosing the team to play for IH. This was quite complicated....as for the mens, we knew that James martin, Fang and Pat were in, but me, dharen and david was sorta on the same line as each other...and for the girls, we knew that kaori and erina was in...but wasnt sure about the rest...in the end, me and Fang went with our gut feeling and chose...Fang and Kat for mix doubles, Kaori and Erina for womens doubles, Veta for womens singles. As for me, pat , dharen and James...it was all on rotation...

Then came real proper training where we had to work out our partnership and our shots. It was really fun i reckon cause all of us made improvements to our game...I also trained the womens doubles constantly...not because they were japs, but because we knew that they would be the decider of our game plan of beating trinity.

Matchday came on the 7th of may...day after cafe...with me and pat having a lil hangover look on our faces...and just about all of us having just under 4 hours of sleep the nite b4...we faced UC in the 1st round....piss easy...i played singles and thrashed their singles....hahaha....me and my vanity! but it was true....thing was..we wanted to finish everything ASAP so we can get more rest in between for the next match...went on to win them easily...after that came ormond...and we won that easily too. While all this were going our way...we were still practising our doubles constantly as that was our tactic and our strategy to win. After that...we had st hildas....i played singles again....meeting mr Matt Walkerden....my mate from high school. funny how we used to play doubles together...same boarding school...next door to me actually..hahaha! Sadly to say...we didnt care who was it we were playing...we just wanted to win..and we did exactly that!!!

The next week came along...with us having a couple of training sessions. I was going to rest for the finals agaisnt trinity...and dharen was going to be our singles to face state player marty from trinity. I pretty much had the job of training the girls doubles in order to make em a....sure win combo!!!

Finals came along...tension built up really high. We had a massive turn out of supporters....which was really good in comparison to the token ...8 to 10 ppl who turned up last year. we even had...coursemate friends of erina....Ex Ihers...tutors who came to watch....im guessing we had...50 odd supporters....really helped and i would like to thank each and everyone of them for coming to support...you really did us good!!!

Fang and Kat won their match easily....while dharen gave his token effort before losing to marty. Next was the mens doubles....which came down to ....nothing at all. They were really easy to the point pat and james didnt even break sweat!!! My biggest shock came when i realised that trinity didnt put their strongest women for singles....and instead she was going to play doubles. This was a risk that they were taking cause we stood a chance of wining their singles now..which would make it 3-1 before the womens doubles played..and we would win the competition there and then...Veta lost the 1st set...before coming back to win the 2nd. She held a 10-1 lead in the decider rubber b4 suddenly collapsing to lose it 15-10...still wondering how that was possible.

And there it was...it was coming down to the wire with our womens doubles facing a must win situation. We lost our 1st set to trinity...as their best womens player showed what she was made off...playing each shot perfectly and aiming it at erina...who couldnt keep up...Me being their coach..i was really nervous till the point that i almost pissed in my pants...kidding!!!:D I talked the girls through it....told them what i wanted them to do...told them to hit the ball at the token white girl on the other team..and not play it to the other player...which i believe was a uni player of some sort...Even with that....we had to endure a nail biting 2nd set....tied 13 all....our womens doubles finally pulled through..execute our game plan...and won the set 15-13...and made me a tactical genius somewhat...hahaha!

3rd and final set came along...With all the supporters cheering our cutest doubles ever....couz they were japs...or prob couz they were so polite and smiley ...that the crowd was actually confused whether they were winning or losing cause either way..they were still smilling...or couz they performed the morning mussume dance to perfection the night before...It was picture perfect....with them..."screaming" haik each and everytime...with them....showing hand signals...before each and every serve...with the crowd randomly doing random dance move from their dance the nite before....one of which is branded...the new "chicken/duck dance" with the rest of the team mates shouting "hakujin yarou" which means..hit ...white...or something like that....basicaly we wanted them to hit all the balls to the token white girl...hahaa! but yeah...our womens doubles...played to perfection...and with the crowd screaming..drum rolling(thanks char) behind them...we executed our plays to perfection....and beat trinity 15-9!!! everyone screamed when we won our last point!!! it was awesome..everyone jumping around....hugs thrown everywhere!!! tears even!!!it was just...splendid!!!

Firstly...would like to thank all the supporters who came to support...we really appreciated it..and u know and i know...that you did make a difference in what was a deadknot match!!! I also want to thank tutor charlie for supporting all our moves!! thanks to student club for having faith in us...giving us lots to spend!!! on shuttles and court hire.... to the team!! thanks...for comin for training...for showing up at random meetings to talk things through!!!To Fang....for helping me with the analysis of our strategy....for pat and james for thrasing each and every opponent they met...for dharen for his effort agaisnt marty....for veta...for trying her best!!!and lastly...to the cutest doubles in IH sporting history ever!!!for having the patience to listen to my long strategic talks...and for enduring my...scolding once in a while.....i only did it cause i knew you were much better than that!!and thanks for making me a coach extraodinare!!!!Love the times!!!!


PICS!!!

DHAREN!!!


FANG!!!


VETA!!!


KAT and FANG!!!


PAT and JAMES!!!


KAORI!!!


ERINA!!!


KAORI and ERINA!!!


our CHICKEN/DUCK POSE!!! with all the supporters!!!

Updatez!!!Cafe!!!
Hey guys...

Just realised yesterday that i have totally neglected my blog...for a very very very long time. 2 months or so i reckon. Just totally neglected it...Thats it...from now on...updates will come really really often i promise.

Also been told by jeannie..that apparently my blog is boring...couz i keep introducing ppl...well...to hell with that then...haha...sorry jeannie...didnt get to introduce you!haha!!!

moving on...what has happened in the past 2 months? me being slack would take lots of priority in this sector. Let me see...uni life...is as always...me not attending classes and now seating on the edge of getting knocked out of uni for failing too many subs. Doing assignments too last minute and needing so much help from everyone. However, i have to admit that im quite happy with one of my subject, organisational analysis and change. Its really quite interesting, our tutor is really really good. And i have actually been attending classes. Reason for this is...tutorials are compulsory...80 percent of them...its a hurdle to pass the subject. So i actually attended one of them, and found it interesting...been to classes ever since...haha!

Cafe wasnt too far back either. Did a saturday night fever dance, with about 23 other people. Went really well...was bloody hard to learn thats for sure!! but in the end , everything paid dividends, the dance was great, cafe was awesome!!! Cant really compare to last year, i reckon last years cafe was really good too...but both are really good in different aspects. On one hand, this years crowd was much more lively as most of them are ex IHers or IHers parents in comparison to snob ass rotarians from last year. But yeah...all went out with a bang!!!

Oooh...mum came down for cafe too. Was really a good week for me, mum was here to take care of me cause i have been sick the whole bloody semester. I swear to you...out of the past 10 weeks, i have been sick ....7 weeks outta 10 i reckon. Which isnt good. Well, mum came down...went out to eat practically everyday. It was either going out to eat or she would cook food and bring it over to my apartment to eat with my friends. All was good. She even brought cakes and tarts and random sweets for everyone too...thanks mum!!!

SWOT WAC is coming up soon enough...more like...7 days time. Started mine about a week ago now. Going pretty good i reckon, kinda updating myself with all the work that i have been missing out the whole semester, just hope that ill be able to do it in time. Wish me luck i guess!

What else...personaly life wise...all is good!!!hahhaa..no updates on that...doubt theres ever any...me and my lack of a happening life to get anyone!hahaha!nevermind...according to sheanee...i ihave to be more optimistic...and so i will!

Thats the short update i guess...and i was just kidding bt the introduction of ppl. Dont ask me why i do it..but i just want too...for fun!hahahaand as for what i promised 2 months ago about oweek...see how..i might write on it if i do feel like it..hahahhaa!

thats it...gonna get some studying goin for me!peace out!!!

Its been a while...


Been out of the blogging scene for quite a while im guessing...2 months? Not that theres anyone out there reading it...but still... Finally found my time to sit down and start blogging again, to get things underway and to fill everyone in on my life...which isnt that interesting to start off with...

Lets see, the last i recalled...or the last you read in the blog would be...CNY? man...that was long gone man. What has happened since then?

Firstly to start off with...summer was great. Made lots of awesome pals. Though i knew them b4 summer actually began, we got closer during the summer. Awesome time spent in the kitchen with aaron, prateek with his spices, fred and vincent with his whole pack of dimsims, burger pattees with a pack of bacon? Missed the times where we would just hang out at the noodle bar from 6 ish when simpsons starts up till....midnight even when aussie open end or the cricket VB open would end. Miss the times where we would go for bowling...and me having bets with 24. Good memories will be kept from summer...and though we dont hang out that much anymore couz we are all living in diff buildings...our own group of friends are back....in out hearts...we have gotten closer i guess...

Summer was also awesome...i PASSED my exam. One which i was late for... by 30 minutes in fact. My story goes like this. I had a good sleep the night before as i totally discarded the tactic of 'not sleeping' before exams, got up early, took a nice long shower, ate a wholesome breakkie, took my time to calm down , went up, grab my calc and pencil case and headed off to aarow on swanston where my exams was going to be held. Took a tram down to grattan, walked up to swanston and took a tram down to aarow in which, if my plans fell through, i would be 25 minutes early for exams with plenty of time to rest, calm myself down. No... it all went wrong. One stop away from aarow, i realised my calc wasnt with me, as it slipped out of my pocket at the IH tram stop. Got out of the tram, took a tram back to grattan, ran down to royal parade and took a tram back to IH, took my calc and got all the way back to aarow. Things could onli get worse as i had to wait 6 whole minutes each time i wanted to tram...it just wasnt my day. Ah well, arrived the hall 30 minutes late, took me about 5 minutes to calm myself down...it wasnt a pretty sight to behold. Ah well, all went well, got a 59!!! woohoo!!! i passed!!! though i din get a H or anything like that, all that matters was that i PASSED!!!

What else happened...ooh...then there was O-week!!!Will blog about that sometime soon as its just too much to write about right now. to sum it up...it was awesome. I got to realise so much stuff that i didnt take notice off before. I reckon i took a big step up for myself...basicaly, i learnt a lot....about myself...about human behaviours, about everything in general...while having fun. How awesome is that. I also got to meet a wholesome bunch of freshers...Awesome bunch of them... Got to bond closer with the oweekers which i might not have done so in the past. It was an awesome week basically, and one that i will keep in my mind forever as long as i live...that im certain off.

As off oweek, classes has started. Have i been attending much...NOPE!!! will i be attending much...i bloody hope so. Hahaha... but yeah....dont wanna dig myself a hole anymore... so you all out there will be seeing a different eddie coming atcha sometime soon i hope.

Been sick for quite a while now. Been getting better though...but yeah....soon i reckon...and i hope...

Just a lil update....will post up more often from now on. Sorry for my on-off situations with bloggin. Was busy with exams, and oweek...and from then on, i was just slack...things will change i hope!!! keep checkin...leave comments...some shit like that at least!!!

CHINESE NEW YEAR...

Cant believe it...chinese new year has passed!!!its been so fast...seems like it was yesterday where i was collecting ang pow back home. But this year...couz i messed up my studies...no CNY for me...haih. Ah well...shit happens, would be my 3rd time missing chinese new year i think. My two years at high school and this year...Just think of how much ang pow money have i not collected...dammit!

Though it may seem that way, chinese new year aint all about ang pow money!!!Its more about the atmosphere, the togetherness of the family...a fun week where everyone forgets about their worries at work or even at home...just push that aside for a bit and celebrate together as a whole.

My family will always have a new years eve dinner at home...(dads side) then we will bumm around..chat about anything...or just watch TV or anything like that till midnite. At midnite...we will wish ourselfs happy new year...and go to sleep after that i guess. New years day is much more exciting. We will all have to wake up at 730 or 8 to rush for the toilets...get ready and go to church. When we come back from church..which would be around 9...My mums side of the family will come over...and mum will prepare noodles and such for breakkie...followed by coffee tea and cake sessions. After that mums side of the fam will leave either to other sides of the family or somewhat like that. Dads side of the fam will then com...and we will then have to do the whole procedure of praying to my ancestors.

Even though im 19 now i dont think i fully know the procedure of the prayers. I know all the ladies of the house will be in the kitchen preparing a feastful lunch. Dad and my uncle will just be sitting in the living room talking about either...politics...education or china as a whole. That only leaves me, my bro and one of my cousin to prepare the prayer stuff. Have to roll the paper gold thingi...prepare all the stuff to burn. After that, we will then have to do the 1st round of prayers...with lighting up 51 joystick(3 for each person and we have 17 ppl all in all), taking turns to prayer with the eldest male going 1st followed by the other males in order before the eldest female can go followed by the rest in order of age. After that, we have to fill the wine and tea cup a bit and wait for a bit...this steps will be repeated another 2 more times...then we just wait for a bit...quite a bit actually b4 we actually start burning all the stuff.

The burnin part is always quite kewl. We will have this 'tong' and we just start burning all the stuff. Oh...btw...this whole burning thing...let me try to explain. We are burning stuff like...paper money..paper clothes..paper shoes...paper mobile phones..anything that is made of paper. The story goes like...if we burn this stuff, it will be sent up to heaven for our ancestors.It will usually be me my bro and my cousin who will doing the work. The ladies will still be in the kitchen...dad will still be just standing quite a bit away just starin at the guys burning the stuff while he chats with my uncle about politics, education or china in general!!!hahaha!!! Burnin part can get quite hard..couz after a while we have to take a wooden stick to sorta check whether all the stuff we burn has actually burnt(couz it has to be completely burnt off b4 it will be sent up to heaven for our ancestors)...However, we cant poke anything we burn if their not burnt yet couz that would me we have damage the gifts and it will no longer be useable in heaven.

After all is burnt...we will have to pour the wine and tea in clockwise rotation over the 'tong'. After that, we head back into the house..where the food should be ready and we will all have a big feast.After that is just bummin around again till dinner where we have another big feast...haha...its all eating man CNY!!!

after the 1st day...there isnt much. Its more of going to visit other family and friends...to collect ang pow...or to gamble. Have never been good at gambling for some reason. Dont think i have had a winning CNY yet. yet to break the record this year. But have got off to a losing start ...not in cards gambling..but in bowling and pool gambling. So far lost 25 bucks already to 24 in pool and bowling. Damit...nevermind..will try to win back 10 bucks tonite!!!watch out 24.

But yeah...thats sorta how my CNY is usually spent. Nothing great really, as for this year...since im in IH...didnt do much of anything. We basicaly just went out for dinner on new years eve, went for dinner on new years day followed by watching the aussie open finals at fed square...and nothing much since.

But yeah..alls good...and thats all for me on my CNY post. Just got up 3 minutes before i began this post so forgive me for my nonsense..hahaha! Take care all and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

ps. i sorta drafted this b4 new year...but didnt post it up...and now im doing so after new year...so it may seem a bit weird a read due to the whole past,present and future thingi...thus me askin for your forgiveness!!!nah man...as if i care whether you like what im writting o not!!!ITS MY BLOG!!!

Anyhows...some pics
NEW YEARS EVE




NEW YEARS DAY

the JB(Johor bahru)twins!!!
How should i describe this two...i dont even know where to start...
This two will never be seen individually around IH...they take the safety saying 'go in pairs' really seriously, and are always..when i mean always...i mean ALWAYZ together. They do everything together...eat...sleep...eat...sleep...eat...sleep...couz thats just about what they do.Prob thats how they got to become best pals, couz they have too much in common...
They are practicaly 'twins'!!! even though not much resemblance of looking alike. One is short...the other tall. One has straight hair( or used to have straight hair till she took her cravings for maggi mee too seriously and permed her hair till it looked like maggi mee), the other...bit wavy i think.
But...personality wise...their a perfect match! both of them are blur to the point you start to wonder how they got into uni of melb...and into commerce law!!! however..dont get fooled..they may act blur...but still get h1's for their exams!They both cant do housework(thats what i heard from LB), they are both really really cute when they start runnin with their hands sorta up for some reason. They both sleep at most random hours and wake up at the most random hours too...and being probably one of the most nocturnal ppl around in IH...with examples of doing laundry at 3am in the morning etc...
These...my dear friends are Joanna & Sheanee(i can just imagine the voice of you two calling each others name in my head)
Joanna is the short one...hahah!!!and sheanee is the blurer one out of the 2. Personality wise..they are just about the same..with lil diferences. Sheanee
One being Sheanee and her obsession with Zhai Zhai...(ZHAI ZHAI NUMBER ONE!!!). For some reason...when i 1st met sheanee with her funny hair way back during oweek..i swear to you i thought she was a jap...was going to say 'mushi mushi' but i decided to play safe and just say 'hey' instead...and thank god for that!
Joanna
As for joanna, as Eugene and i used to say...totally a hippy!!!and according to joanna herself...
-she doesnt shower(both of them rarely showers anyways and always wears the same oweek t shirt to sleep over and over again)
-she smokes pot
-her fav quote being "love is like oxygen , you breathe it etc...(or something like that..it was a quote from moulin rouge...dont know whther its oxygen or air)
So yeah...thats the JB twins...really nice ppl and really fun to hang around couz you'll laugh constantly at how blur they can get. Everytime you may think 'thats as blur as they get', they will somehow prove you wrong by being even blurer than b4. It just doesnt get better than that. Nevertheless, they are an awesome pair to hang out with!!!

The rest of the Singaporeans!!!

Its been a while since i introduced my pals!!! So i guess i might as well do it now...since i reli dont have anything better to do..haha! As most of the singaporeans that im close to actually live on fourth floor scheps...here are the rest of them i guess...

Teo Jia Hui
This musiq nutter is as kewl as it gets!!! Got to know her when i did the 'grease' dance for cafe! Really nice person...really tall person too. After that...for some reason ...we started studying together in the dining hall for our exams...dont know how we got to that point...but we did...but...it was more like...she was studying...and i was bummin around..hahhaa..but still..had lots of fun studying together...got to know her better then!!!
A med student...who is reli dedicated in her work. Just look at her notes and youll know all about it. Awesome handwriting!!!and a person who likes to learn new handwritting styles...a full on immitator in handwritting...damn cool man!!Shes also reli into musiq...and when i mean musiq i dont mean...hip hop techno trance house stuff...but..the classicals....she loves playing the piano and use it as a way to release her stress and tension...WEIRD!!!
but still...jia hui is an awesome pal to have around...always fun to chat with her...but also a very caring person and always there to help me when i need it!!!Thanks for those times!!!

Ying Yi
One word to describe her....'MOTHERLY'. Got to know her one day while she was lookin for my neighbour...way way way before she practically became my neighbour...And it was really weird and scary in some ways. For some reason we started toking about languages and dialects and i got to find out that she was hainanese too! that itself shocked me...couz hainanese ppl arent that easy to come by...and she speaks awesome hainanese...SHOCK NO 2...and...we were from the same part of hainan...SHOCK NO 3...and we are from the same town of that same part in hainan island...SHOCK NO 4...man....was shit scared man...not scared..but shocked...!!!and we are still waiting to see how close our villages are to each other in Hainan island...a mystery that remains unsolved
Movin on after the shocks...got to know her better after that!!! really studious person...one that is on scholarship from back home...she always in her room studyin..and when i mean her room...i mean GC01...which is next to me...she onli goes back to 'technically' her room at night to sleep.
Really caring and always concern about everyone...always think of her as the mother of IH...hahaha...just too much a resemblance of a mother...gets me quite freaked out at times too..couz she reminds me..and everyone of their mothers..hahhaa! Nevertheless..really nice person ....and a great friends to have!

Jacq
Until now...i still dont quite know how to spell her name for some reason....hahhaa. Prob couz i never bother to even look at her name and learn how to spell it...so i just think of her name as jacq...its even in my phone book..haha! so yeah...refer to her as jacq!
Movin along...Jacq is ..how do i put it...petite!!!ok lar.ill be straightforward....Jacq is short...jacq is annoyin when she screams at the top of her voice..in which glasses and windows are on the borderline between cracking and breaking!!!! She is very 'fluffy'...and always wants her way....gets her way too most of the time. Jacq is rough...very very rough!!! watch out guys...scary lil girl here man..she smacks ppl...REALLY REALLY HARD!!!scary ass shit!!!
However...Jacq is also very nice and sweet...very hardworking...very helpful...and very good in listening and talkin to...even though in the end she will insist that her point is correct and everyone else is wrong...cant blame her on that...after all...shes onli a law student!


Allen and Carmen
Oh..the lovely couples...hahaha! Got to know Allen first...cant quite recall how we met though...but we did...and came quite close too with that...and no...i aint gay!!!and obviously..he isnt either...couz he has a chick now!!
always dressed up in prob the most high class branded stuff...allen is a guy who fulfils the 'style with substance' criteria. he also has....or had a mini cooper to go along with his clothes...but the parent finaly realise they were spoilin him too much so they sold it away without telling him...couz he was sitting for his exams at that time and his parents didnt want him to think too much about other stuff...hhaha(was kidding bt the spoiling part)
Although he probably has the most exp wardrobe in IH....dont jump into conclusions in thinkin that he is spoilt or anything couz allen is far from that!Allen also fulfils all criteria of 'generosity' and is quite trifty with things that he doesnt necesarily need or want...but for things that he craves for...be sure that this guy does not settle for anything but the best!!!
All in all...allen is cool..allen is wicked...and allen likes to do the wasted motion(hand signs motion being done)!!!
All in all..allen is an awesome pal to have...really helpful. Really funny person too...though he is just funny couz he is just about the lamest and randomness person in IH!!!
As for carmen aka 'eye rollin queen', dont mess around with this girl man...or you will get the eye rolling thing that she does so well on you!!!Shes actually reli nice once you get to know her...but sometimes you just get too scared of her couz when she gives you 'the look', man...its scary!
Really studious person too , one of the 2 gettin some scholarship from melboune uni and doing bachelor of Arts...the other being jeannie pig!!!very into her religion as she always go for her OCF's on fridays...which is the onli nite you will see allen in the games room couz he is not on 'carmen' duty.
But yea, carmen is nice, carmen is great, carmen must stop her 'eye rolling' motion even though that is what makes her special...whether it is special in a good way or a bad way...it is still....special!