Archive for October, 2007

Well, I’m contracted under Nexus working for IBM working at CISCO.

I had two training sessions…and yeah think it went smoothly apart from the bit where my trainer went "You guys must have an awesome memory, because when I was doing this I was taking heaps of notes". Yeah…

The kitchen is awesome, unlike some of the other companies I’ve worked at…which just had coffee these guys have their kitchen packed. They have cereal for people who want to have breakfast and 3 fridges. One fridge is filled with milk, another fridge filled with Soft Drinks and another drink filled with Juices. They also have this place for cookies, pretzels and other random stuff. Yup…free food is always good.

We ended up talking to one of the people and got our training shifted to the 21st since we have exams and stuff. Did I mention that I’ll also be getting a laptop? I’m not sure what the specs are but I know the model and it’s a T60. The specs for the T61 involves 2gb ram, 128 mb gfxcard, core 2 duo processor. Which is pretty decent. Hopefully the T60 isn’t that under speced. According to Cnet though there’s 1 gb of ram, 2ghz core duo processor, 128mb gfxcard and it’s 2.8kg. Well a free laptop is a free laptop

Well I really should be studying for my exams, currently I’ve only really studied for Calculus, barely touched psychology and need to start on the rest There’s going to be a study session for COSC on monday so I’ll attend that apart from that I think I should be relatively fine.

I also managed to get the Timetabling Job for USYD, however, I rejected it and asked if there were any casual positions available. They did, and I took that up So hopefully, I’ll be making a fair bit of money over the Summer Holidays Overtime ftw! They pay us 1.5x for overtime and 2x for public holidays. I only get paid 20 bucks an hour though…so that sucks…but meh, can’t complain…free laptop and food. So yeah…40bucks on Christmas…if I work 8 hours…then it’ll be 320 bucks! W00t!

Anywho, enough talk about money, I need to be able to do the job…it seems rather hectic, have to know all these stuff…new stuff…and they use Internet Explorer 6 rather than 7 so there’s no tabs. I’ll have to use my Alt-Tab skills rather than my Ctrl-Tab skills I hate Alt-tab, it’s sooo lame. I especially hate using programs where the tabbing feature isn’t implemented…like PDF readers and window managers…it’s not hard!

Can’t wait until exams are over. Speaking of exams, 3 more days until HSC is OVER!!! w00t!!!

Anywho, Ciao.

Yesterday…was a turning point in my life. I went to a concert. But no it’s not just any concert. It was a LINKIN PARK CONCERT.

Okay, I’ll just do a recap here goes.

Okay, so in the beginning it was confusing as to what we were planning on going. I think I mistyped Lisa’s number so two of my smses didn’t get through. So basically in the end it was decided that we’d get to Central at 7 and walk to Entertainment Center. I got there first…waited around 10 minutes for Jase to show up and then waited another 10 minutes for Lisa to show up. I’m used to doing a lot of waiting for other people so it was fine. It only seemed long cause I was so excited about the concert.

So yeah, we caught up and walked to the place. We got out our tickets and they took it. I was like "Noooooo I want my tickets back!!!". We entered the door and was like "okay, what the hell do we do now?" since we were n00bs and didn’t know what to do. But then we just walked into this door and it felt sooo grandeur as we walked into the Arena. You see people everywhere and it just felt awesome. Heaps of people were there already and yeah…we just stood around talking whilst Chris Cornell appeared.

Seriously, omg, Chris Cornell and his band played for like 1 hour and it was sooooo long. Omg, it was just like "I didn’t pay monies to see you". It was sooo loud as well and I could barely hear the lyrics something along the lines of "Save me" or something.

So anywho, after that the stage cleared and we waited for LP to show up. And it was soooo cool. The curtains were drawn and then music began playing and yeah…omg the use of lighting and stuff just blew my mind away. Once the curtains fell away everybody just charged forward. I felt sorry for the guy behind me, he spilt his coke and bits of it came onto me. But the fact was nobody cared…and after a while the stickiness just got absorbed by all the sweat.

They played heaps of songs…Numb, Somewhere I belong, Don’t Say, One Step Closer, In the End, Breaking the Habit, Place for My Head, Pushing me Away, Crawling, Given Up, Leave out all the Rest, Bleed it out, What I’ve Done, No More Sorrow, Little Things Give you away and probably some other songs I’ve forgotten…

Omg, I wish they’d just play all the songs

Yeah it was hot, steamy, sweaty (sounds a lot like something else huh?). But it was all good, lots of jumping and screaming. I was like screaming "I Bleed it out digging deeper just to throw it away" and yeah it felt really good except for the bit after where my voice felt like dying

Mike threw water into the crowd and I drank some. I feel fulfilled.

Lisa took some photos, I think, so she’d better give them to me. So I can upload them here

Afterwards, Lisa went away to meet up with friends, Jase and I went to 7/11 and I bought a Large Slurpy (they didn’t have any Super slurpies) and I finished it sooo quickly and afterwards I was still thirsty…

Jase also managed to get a bunch of tickets but none of them were ours. I shoulda gone back to look for ours but meh.

It was an awesome night.

Best 100 bucks I’ve ever spent.

This blog is becoming more empty as I tend to blog a lot less.

But what can I possibly say?

Alright I know what I can say.

I remember this one incident in Year 7 where I just got back from Music camp. Yup, the good old days of Year 7. I remember vividly how cruel it was to make friends as to some it was like a game where the universe revolved around them. I shall not review their name but let’s call them…Tiny.

Okay…so I got back from Music Camp only to have my friend tell me that my so-called friend Tiny had been making fun of me whilst I was away. I just brushed it as away since he didn’t say it to my face. Funny…people always get upset when people talk behind their back but what would you really prefer…talking behind your behind or insulting you in your face? Anywho, like I said I didn’t take notice of it too much, however, it didn’t surprise me too much since this "friend" was such a tool from the beginning…(and always were even after the 6 years).

Okay, so we were all working up to Music…to Ms Gilmore’s class *shudder* and as usual we would all leave our bags outside…for some reason a small group of people were highly inclined to get inside to music…at the same time shouting "I’m sitting next to Tiny" or "Tiny come sit next to me". Naturally I was irritated by this and I made a comment which I honestly cannot remember…and then Tiny said "Won’t you feel good if everybody wanted to sit next to you?". Well sure…who wouldn’t want to be the centre of all the attention? However, I wouldn’t want anybody to pine over me…and I wouldn’t like to pine over anyone else either (apart from my dear Hobo-friend). Tiny then walked into the room where a sit was specifically saved for him whilst I sat next to another friend which looked rather disinterested with me sitting next to him.

Okay I’m going to be slightly more emo now. Since I’m the "gay asian emo" as Peter likes to call me for going to the Linkin Park concert as quote "Only gay asian emos likes Linkin Park". Yes Jase (if you’re reading this) I’m afraid you’re gay.

I’m just thinking to myself…did I really ever "fit in" with my group of High School friends or was I just a "Nth wheel" tagging along? I never got into any fad that they were into. This included CS, Runescape, Magic, Fencing, Table Tennis and DOTA. The reason I never liked DotA was cause I was so shit at it. It irritated me every time I got killed. Now that I’m better and know what I’m doing it’s slightly more encouraging, and the fact that I’m not on the bottom of the ladder all the time helps as well.

The biggest fad of them all is doing Commerce Degrees and like me I decided to chase my interests. I just don’t get why I love computers so much! Maybe cause I was brought up using Windows 3.1…and playing Prince of Persia…maybe…but I must admit I’m far from being the "best" at USYD. That aside, me doing a BIT degree at USYD is like being a arrogant brat. It’s like having my parents tell me to go to UNSW and doing Commerce…not only do I not do a Commerce degree, I got to a different uni altogether!

Yes yes, here I am again…talking about this shit. When will I ever get over it? I don’t know…but I guess I think about it a lot. But more and more I find myself appreciating the fact that I did come to USYD, learn all the new stuff I’ve learnt and meet all the new friends I’ve met.

That said…list of people who have groped me:
* Sam
* Peter
* Ben

List of people who I’ve converted to Aznism:
* Sam
* Peter
* Ben
* Alex
* Anybody else that I forgot who use the word "la" at the end of every sentence.

I don’t know how the "z0r" thing came into place…but I’m pretty sure it was me whilst we were walking down Redfern after our INFO1903 exam.

Anywho I need to go to UNI to work on my TREAP which is oh so sexy.

Ciao you later!