Archive for May, 2007

Watching others lining up for a pork roll

May 30th

Okay, well I’m sitting here with my pork roll and I realise that the line for pork rolls have gotten longer.

People are always there for a pork roll. And I ask myself…"Why are so many people so interested in getting a pork roll now?" But then…it’s uni so I guess everybody wants a pork roll to make their lives a little more enjoyable/tolerable.

Luckily I got my pork roll early cause the current Pork Roll stall have a limited supply of pork rolls but the demand is up there.

I honestly have no idea what the people are thinking when they approach the counter but I can guess

I think some people want to mix their chicken with a pork roll. Now the pork can be a bit a bit ambiguous it can either go "I want no chicken or it’ll be like meh, chicken is fine". Hehe I just find it all extremely amusing. Then there are others who are like "Man I’ve been having pork rolls for too long I think I’ll go for a chicken roll this time" and that’s all fine as well. What’s rather amusing is lining up and getting all excited, walking up to the counter to realise that you don’t really like the pork roll as much as you’d thought in which case you get out of the line.

Yes I know it’s hard getting a pork roll but it’s fun

The feeling you get when you’re lining up and then asking for the pork roll and you walking away with a happy smile…or you could end up walking away with a sad face.

No matter what, there will always be a pork roll in the pork roll stall for you.

180 minutes to midnight

May 28th

Posted by John Jiang in WCEXO

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Thanks to David I can continue on procrastinating…

I WANT: to fly
I HAVE: everything that i need
I LOVE: the things i have
I MISS: the people who are not here
I FEAR: losing the things i need most
I FEEL: loved
I HEAR: my brother next to me
I SMELL: nice
I WONDER: if the light really does turn off when you close the door in the fridge
I REGRET: doing this (thanks David)

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME:
You Smiled? today.
Bought something? 2 hours ago
Were sarcastic? 2 hours ago calling Terry a man
Cried? last night (i cry myself to sleep…is it too late to change the last question?)
Watched your favourite movie?? It’s been months since I sat down and watched the matrix
Had a nightmare? around 2 weeks ago and it was rather vivid
Hugged someone? Last Wednesday

Last book you read? I read that Mathew Reily book Seven Wonders of the world? or something along those lines
Last movie you saw? The Perfect Stranger/300
Last song you heard? Place for my Head – Linkin Park
Last thing you drank? water
Last time you showered? last night
Last thing you ate? japanese bread soaked in…I mean pizza
Last number you called? wtf?

DO YOU:
Sleep with a stuffed animal? I wish
Live in the moment? what is THE moment?
Have a boyfriend/ girlfriend? yes (i think being an IT student it’s actually embarrassing to say that i do)
Have a crush? i’m scared that my girlfriend will come chasing with a stick
Remember your first love? i remember my last
Play an instrument? does DDR count?
Believe there is life on other planets? as much as there are fairies in my garden
Have any gay or lesbian friends? funny how Terry said "Yes i’m a lesbian" during the software lecture today
Consider yourself tolerant of others?? you tell me
Consider love a mistake? people think it’s a mistake when they fuck up. So no i don’t think it’s a mistake…yet…
Believe in astrology? do i believe in fairies?
Have any animals/pets? my bro does what I say…does he count?
Do well in school? relatively okay…
Plan to go to university? USYD>UNSW
Wear hats? hats are sooo 90s
Have any piercings? not that you can see
Have any tattoos? look above
Hate yourself? nope
Have an obsession? Matrix, Linkin Park and Eminem
Wish on stars? Nope, but what about eyelashes?
Like your hand writing? not particularly…
Have a dream that keeps coming back? only once
Have a best friend/s? yep
Have any bad habits? one too many
Sing in the shower? sometimes…
Own handcuffs? i’m not into bdsm…

INFORMATION:
Name: John Jiang
Location: Sydney.
Current relationship status: In a relationship
Nicknames: John, David John, Wong, Johnny boy?
What do you look for in a relationship?? Someone that can always be there
What makes you angry in a relationship?? I’ve been angry several times…but i can’t recall any right now…guess that’s what happens when you fix the problems huh?
How can you tell if your friend is really your friend? When you feel comfortable calling them a "dick". But in all seriousness, when you can talk to them about things.
Do you believe that no matter how big the fight friends should always make up? yes, you should always try but it doesn’t mean you’ll succeed
How many close friends do you have? I honestly don’t know…they just keep on fluctuating
What do you do if you get in a fight with a friend? make up afterwards
What are the good sides about friends? They enjoy your company as much as you enjoy theirs.
Have you ever lost a best friend? I’ve lost many close friends in the past…

Goodbye

May 27th

Posted by John Jiang in WCEXO

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I’ve known you for more than two years but now I have to let you go.

You’ve been with me through rough times, and I’ve occassionally put you through troublesome periods. But I would never be where I am today without you.

Almost everyday you’ve helped me and for that I’m grateful. But I can see the wears and tears in you. You’ve been overused, giving so much yet taking so little. I took you for granted but I shall do it no more for I am shutting the door.

…

Goodbye…

…

MDR-NC5…you’ll always be missed.

You can see the wiring…the right earpad-foam is completely gone and the left earpad-foam is coming off…I thought I could save it by purchasing a new pair of foam off ebay…and I did…but it was too late…who would have thought that my mum arrived today with another pair of headphones exactly the same way she got my MDR-NC5. The replacement headphones dubbed MDR-NC20 is a rather nice improvement but a little more bulky but offering greater sound quality. However, I may be a bit paranoid as to think that the left earphone is slightly louder than the right creating an imbalance. But yes…the NC5 will no longer be my symbol throughout UNI as it was throughout High School. I shall no longer be distinguished by my unique NC5 but rather replaced by the NC20. I feel like as if I’m in those scifi movies where an android is getting replaced by a newer model and then the audience all go "Awwwww" for the replaced model. Hehe.

Well I that pair of earpad foam should arrive soon…and I’ll still keep my pair of NC5s and use it just in case…or perhaps donate it to Diep

but knowing Diep…it might break after 24hours considering it’s current state already.

The NC20′s earpads are closed so they envelope the entire ear. So you don’t even need noisecancelling. But WITH noise cancelling you CAN’T hear anything…it’s pretty awesome yet dangerous. I don’t wanna get run over by a car

WONG

May 26th

Posted by John Jiang in WCEXO

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Right for those who do not know Sam…he’s a half asian/half white dude who plays DOD like crazy and has an uberleet programming brother…

Well anywho Sam used to (still does at times) call me David-John. Now…you know something has gotten to me when I actually turn around when somebody calls out "David".

Some dude: Hey David…

Me: *turns around*

Some dude: *looking in the general direction of the "real" David

Me: *turns back*

Sam: Ahahaha *points and laughs* you thought it was you! *points and laughs*

USYD is sooo Asian-inept

~During the IT barbeque~

Ben: Yeah, just talk to John *points* (Note: I was taking the money…like an Asian)

Customer: *looks in my general direction…sees past me and possibly looking at Tim…or some of the other white boys*

Customer: *walks over*

Me: Hello!

Now if I didn’t say Hello, they probably would have kept on walking…

So yes…momentarily later…

Ben: I think we should give you an Asian name so they know who I’m talking about…

Me: *says the first name that comes to my mind* Alan Wong

Ben: nah, that’s still too anglo

Me: Wong

Ben: ahaha

So that’s how I became "WONG".

Don’t know how long this will stick if it sticks at all but meh.

sniff sniff

May 23rd

Posted by John Jiang in WCEXO

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Oh where’d you go? I missed you so! Seems like it’s been forever that you’ve beeen gone!!!

The last time that I’ve actually used emoticons in my blog was back in early 2005. So me using emoticons now is fairly special.

Making new friends is all good, but I still miss my old ones. The non-replaceable high school friends who you’ve played gay-chicken with, the ones who you argued with, the ones who did things to you that nobody else would. You know…those kind of friends.

To combat this I’ve been going around and calling all the white boys asian. I figure there’s a little bit of asian in all of us. One guy refused to accept the fact that there is asian inside him but I quickly shut him down by asking "Do you eat asian food?". Yup we’re all asian.

What is real? How do you define real?

I guess after spending 6 years with people it’s hard to just "let go" but then who said I was planning on "letting go"? I guess I’ll let go only if they let go, but that’s not too good putting the pressure on others. I guess few of them would actually read this blog. I’m guessing Francis as always will be reading this…not sure about the lurkers though. You can never be too sure. I guess I also have a new audience of readers. But then again they might be as bored as I am reading up something they don’t really care about.

It’s still hard to comprehend that nobody came to USYD.

Sometimes I have more USYD people online than my "Friends" list. I tend to have to have kept my "Pre-Uni" "Friends" group as it is and created a group "USYD" for all the people I’ve met at USYD. For some reason seeing the fact that there are actually more USYD people than Friends saddens me, (not to say that the people in USYD aren’t friends or anything) I can’t really describe it. It’s like Wow, I now know more people.

*sighz0r*

UNI is just going by so quickly…I just cannot stay up after 12 doing work. I NEED my sleep. If people with 33 credit points can manage then so can I. There are no excuses. Social life? What social life? My mum thinks that I have "too" much of a social life. It’s really ironic. Before the midsemester break my parents were complaining about how I shouldn’t go out so often. Then recently my dad is saying how I should go out and do other stuff than just sit in front of my computer. I would LOVE to go out. I would LOVE to just walk out the door and run over 2km to my girlfriends house and just throw pebbles at her window and then climbing up into her room. But I can’t.

I would LOVE to just hop on a UNSW bus and just hang with the old crowd. Perhaps do a workout in their gym, play daytona, or just play pool and be smashed to bits. But I can’t. There’s no time. There’s never enough time. I somehow need to find time.

I guess after watching Heroes there are only two powers that I can really use right now. I would like to fly away and manage to sit down somewhere high. Or just simply freeze time allowing me to get my things accomplished. I’m sure everybody would like that right?

If only I could…I would…

Everything has to end, you’ll soon find we’re out of time left to watch it all unwind

Kudos to you if you know the song.

Important Days to Note Down

May 19th

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2005

March 28th – The Beginning

November 14th – Hello Stranger

November 18th – Old man’s incestuous prophecy

2006

March 23rd – MSN LoL ROFL n00b ROFL lololol

April 6th – Trivia Night

April 12th – Half arsed

April 14th – V for Vendetta

April 19th – Ceremony

April 23th – K

April 26h – Library (Part 1 – Studying)

June 12th – Australia vs Japan

June 29th – Tempest before the calm

July 3rd – Streets of Hurstville

July 8 – Regrets?

July 9 – Spilling the beans

July 12th- Library (Part 2 – Keeping it cool)

August 28th – Library (Part 3 – The Toy)

October 1st – Happiness

October 8th - Carpark Surprise

October 9th – Carpark Revisited

November 26th – Accomplishment

2 Oranges a day keeps the apple away

May 14th

Posted by John Jiang in WCEXO

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Sometimes you feel happy about something and then you have that happiness taken away from you. You don;t necessarily become unhappy…just less happy knowing that you’re not as happy as you were before. Then you get into this can’t-be-fucked mood where you just don’t give a flying fuck about anything.

Great, assignment due next week, so? Great, I should be doing some work…so?

So you gradually feel worse and worse, cause the thing about procrastination is that even though you’re fucking yourself, and you know it, you still continue doing it. What a great feeling ja?

People talk to you but you don’t really want to talk back…you just can’t be bothered talking to them…there’s just that tiny bit of emptiness you need to fill…

…so one by one the convo list lights up 2, 3, 4…7 convos all at once. You’re cycling through them…replying to everything.

It’s times like these where you don’t want to get involved in anybody’s business but then you see the eventful popup with the person’s name on it and you think to yourself…"Maybe I should say something".

So you begin with the usual lame ass icebreakers and all the formalities but then once the opportunity arrive you strike.

One and a half hours later…you feel somewhat better knowing that you’ve helped someone.

Even though it’s a small change in the world, it somewhat makes you feel happy, filling the hole.

Some people can’t seem to get out of their way to help someone, whilst others have an impulse to just help.

I don’t feel better giving homeless people money. I don’t feel better giving mone to charities. I don’t feel better when they say "It’s because of YOU (plural) that we were able to make a difference". I want to make a difference personally…however small…however insignificant…and that’s what makes me happy.

Edit:

Best Quote this lifetime: "I love you and that’s all I care about even if thats the only thread keeping us together I’m holding onto it."

Blogging at UNI is coolz0r

May 11th

Posted by John Jiang in WCEXO

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Anywho, thanks for Francis who dug it out…

Here is the infamously famous Seating Arrangements Blog http://wcexo.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4779FBA648496C08!1039.entry

Okay…I guess Situation D was pretty hyped up…but…I’ll just post it here (can’t believe I still remember).

Situation D

You’re with a friend (of the same sex) and you board the damn bus to see someone you like (of the opposite sex or not…whatever makes you happy) and your friend sits down somewhere else and you have to make the tentalising decision of where to sit…is it bro’s over hoes or will your friend just be a "fully sic bro" and understand?

I think I had a far better example in my head when I was writing that blog LAST year…oh ahahhaa I remember now…hehe…now I did NOT do this *rolles eyes*

You get on the bus…and you see someone you know…and you DON’T sit next to them and sit in another seat…hoping that somebody else would sit in that seat. OR…you get on the bus and you avoid eye contact with the people that you know to prevent them from sitting in the seat cause we all know that if they do, you just lost an opportunity where in your head you’ll be cursing them like a bitch.

Meh, buses. Who catches them these days? Oh wait…UNSW people…everyday…twice a day…just like High School.

Anywho…I guess lecture theatres are different now.

But still the same concept applies. Would you rather be nigelated or nigelate? Maths lectures suck. But these days, I’ve changed my tact. Hehe…I’ll catch a later train…arrive at USYD just when the lecture starts…and just wonder off and sit next to anybody that I know…that usually works fine. No longer do I need to sit by myself like a loser. Hehehe.

I need to come up with another theory of some sort to keep my mojo going.

John out.

You don’t know

May 10th

Posted by John Jiang in WCEXO

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There are MANY character flaws in the world. One of the most prominent character flaws is arrogance. Now…everybody is arrogant to some degree, and I can handle many forms of arrogance.

Now one of my character flaws is that I am rather self conscious in certain aspects. Now…often I would like to not care…however, at times, I would not do something due to the fact that in some form or another I’ll be judged upon.

It’s the snickering nature within people that I dislike. Where one feels that they are better than someone else or perhaps more superior, thus portraying an air of arrogance.

God, I remember before where I type up around 1k blog entries every day with heaps of things to rant about…but nowadays I can’t seem to be able to do that.

However, hypocrites are rather entertaining, cause during one instance they’re denying a fact, once you prove your point they instantly say something like "Yeah, I knew that" or "That’s what I was saying". Err…no you’re not.

My bro is arrogant, but he’s arrogant in the sense that sometimes he just doesn’t do the things you tell him to do. I can make my bro do anything I tell him except for some stuff…like eating certain types of food…or getting him to do something remotely embarrassing. But at least he doesn’t go around going "Nananannana I’m right and you’re wrong *sticks out tongue*". If he did that I would slap him, but good thing he doesn’t

I’m probably the only person that can get my bro to shutup, my mum wants to use the computer so my bro begins yelling shit like "After I’m finished". It was like the day before. I was doing work…and then all of sudden you hear my bro yelling and my mum trying to use the comp. I went next door and just said "James!" and he just shut the hell up…but obviously that wasn’t good enough…cause as soon as I went back into my room he began yelling again…and then I just went "Shut up!" and that was the end of that. I’m sorta glad my bro is relatively easy to deal with…I don’t have to use as many words.

Now let’s see…I’ve gone rather offtopic haven’t I?

Well back on topic…arrogance. I hate it. You might hate it. You might be arrogant yourself. But you know, I can handle it most of the time. If I can’t, then I’ll be giving you some attitude. So yeah…angry Johnny is a no no. You don’t wanna see me angry. Hehe, I still remember the angsty moments during soccer and basketball. Hehe, let’s see angry Johnny was unleashed at my Soccer Coach (who was a prick), at some random Joey’s kid (Who’s also a prick)…at Jack Phu during a basketball game (cause I was subbed off during the last 3 seconds of the game, I was also sorta pissed off due to the fact that I wasn’t able to take my own penalty shots). I guess the last one can be a bit childish and boyish, but hey, we all need to be a bit selfish right? But selfishness is another character flaw in people. Everybody is selfish, we would rather risk someone else’s neck than risk ourselves.

Hehehe quoting Chris Rock "When you’re single you want to kill yourself, when you’re married you want to kill your spouse. *pause* Better her than me!"

But yeah…you get the point…selfish people = bad. I dislike selfish people.

Hehehe, having a girlfriend is good in a sense that you can observe other people’s behaviours around girls. Doesn’t work too well on girls unless they’re really clingy, but guys…pffft…pretty damn easy to read. Problem is I can’t really test it. It’s like "Hey! You like her don’t you?" and they can either say yes, no or say nothing. If they say nothing that means yes. If they say yes that means yes. If they say no that means they’re in denial. But it’s funny. Hehe, ahahahaha…one of the most original blogs that I can think of is the "seating arrangements blog" man that was awesome (yes I’m arrogant enough to say that my own blog is awesome…yes I’m just that awesome). Who remembers the seating arrangements blog? Can somebody dig it up for me and post it in a comment? Hehe.

What guys do that say "I want to get inside her":

1. You make extremely lame jokes where people pretend they didn’t hear it.

2. You laugh at every lame joke that she makes.

3. You get out of your way to do something for her.

4. You stick your finger in your nose.

5. You lay down your newly bought shirt over a puddle of mud.

6. You begin memorising shit you never knew existed.

Okay okay, honestly I can’t think of that many things…actually I can…but I don’t want to write it here cause you know…courtship is really a touchy issue which we should all avoid. All hope is lost, don’t bother. It’s pointless, they bring nothing but pain, don’t do it.

But yes, it really is a beautiful thing, having somebody there to care, to hug, to…to…to do other things like talking for example! Yes, talking is very important!

Speaking of talking.

How many of you have an outlet? If you don’t have an outlet, I recommend you get get one. It’s great!

What is an outlet you ask? Basically, it’s a bitching post. Just get a random friend who is not affiliated (or has as less affiliation as possible) with your other friends and just bitch to them about shit. Look, I’ll even be your bitching post. But yes, it’s good to have a bitching post. You just bitch, eat, bitch, eat, bitch, wank, bitch, eat.

Okay okay, that was extremely crude of me but hey! You can either learn it the easy way or the hard way that I can be rather crude. Actually there is no easy way…everybody just accepts it for some reason, nobody gets offended at my crudeness at times. I guess everybody at heart find it hilarious. Just like chicks riding horses ja? (Long story…)

So yes, what was the most important thing you learnt from this blog?

People are arrogant suck?

No, do not make Johnny angry…cause generally I don’t snap at people. But once I snap….you don’t want to see me snap at you, cause when I do I will own you so hard that your grandchildren will feel the 0wnage and they’ll be like "zomg yulehz0r, that 0wnz0r3d by b0x0r, I shatz0red my pantsz0r".

So please take that to heart.

I’m out.

P.S. I’m back Francis

Minor Changes

May 6th

Posted by John Jiang in WCEXO

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I’ve made 3 minor changes around my blog…see if you can notice them

Windows Live Spaces don’t give you much flexibilitiy as to how you can structure your blog, so I guess these tiny changes would do to make it stand out from all the rest *rolls eyes*

edit: I added guestbook AGES ago, nobody write anything

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