LTYER
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Shoes
Jun 24th
My brother says the darndest things.
Jimmy: You like attractive and smart girls?
Me: Yes
Jimmy: I only like attractive girls
Me: *laughs* What? You don’t like smart girls?
Jimmy: Well…I don’t want them to look like a nerd
LMFAO.
I have much to teach this young one. Though I never really did tell him how babies are made. Maybe I should do that first…hmmm.
Anywho, I went for a jog today. Jogging in the arvo seems so boring for some reason. I gave up after around 2.5km. I checked the watch and it took me 15 minutes. Anywho, not long after my right foot began to get numb. I have no idea why it was only my right foot and not my left foot. I got back home and checked my shoe…yeah…half the sole has eroded from wear. Every time I stepped I more or less placed all the force on one side of the foot.
So anywho, I went home and was like:
“Muuuum do you know if Paul’s is having a buy one get one free sale?”
“I dunno, drive over and look it up”
“*groans*”
After a while she comes into my room, opens up the built-in closet and started digging out shoe boxes. So yeah…I actually had 3 pairs of shoes in my closet the entire time, the tags are still on them, never been worn ever. So I picked out a pair and threw my old pair in the trash. She also dug out a pair of leather shoes which I’ve never worn, so I placed that on the shoe rack and threw out my old pair of leather shoes. So now I have two brand new pairs of shoes. AHAHAHA. I’m pretty sure some of you are looking at the screen in awe.
So yes, you get two blogs from me today. Aren’t you feeling lucky. If only I could get a comment or two.
Grey Hoodie
Jun 24th
I think this makes perfect sense.
So I made a facebook wall post to a particular someone that may or may not be reading this, but considering the person they’re most probably definitely reading this. I was hoping for some kind of response in which I would then make a more hilarious response and thus generating LULZ in my own little head and whoever else that understands the connotations of what was behind said message. However, irrevocably, nothing came of said response. Having said that, I do not wish for one to publish the meaning of said connotation as it’s far more interesting/hilarious for others to figure it out for themselves. So to the said person in question, just don’t. Or maybe I’ve already said too much. Let me just say it’s not what you think.
So I purchased my USYD Grey Hoodie from the co-op store on Monday. The day of my last exam. I walked in with couple IT peeps, spent around 5 minutes and tried on hoodies until I was pleased and decided to purchase one. It was a good fit. Comfortable. It’ll definitely replace my black hoodie which I got from HK years back. That hoodie is too old and needs to go replace by a newer, better hoodie.
Not a lot of thought went into purchasing this hoodie. Someone was bugging me, well…bugging isn’t really the correct term…but basically made me feel bad that I haven’t gotten a USYD hoodie for the 3.5 years that I’ve been to USYD. Disappointing!
So I decided that I will buy a hoodie. I can’t buy the Navy coloured hoodie, the black hoodie is too dark, the red hoodie is too bright, all thats left is the white and grey hoodie. So I thought to myself, white is probably too bright, stains will obviously be noticeable so I’ll get the grey hoodie.
I’ve been wearing the hoodie everyday since I bought it. It’s a nice hoodie. It feels comfortable. It’s something that I would wear consistently, at least that’s how I feel. But I guess it’s like eating the same food everyday…
It’s 7am, and it’s gloomy as hell outside. Was hoping to take my hoodie out for a run but I stepped outside of the house and stared into the glum that stared back. Probably not this morning. Maybe I’ll go for a run in the arvo. Yup. Maybe I’ll grab a running buddy 
But nah, it’s nice. I wish I wasn’t thinking of food but oops, thought just popped into my head. Hmmm.
Maybe…
Saving your own ass
Jun 22nd
When we conduct things for other people do you sometimes offer a solution that is NOT optimal just to save your own ass?
What I mean is say hypothetically someone asks your opinion on buying an item of interest.
I remember a friend asking me couple of months ago regarding replacing a damaged laptop charger. I did a quick ebay query and found that you can get it for more or less $20. Now the manufacturer was charging somewhere along the $100 mark and the local computer store offered a replacement for around $50.
Now the dilemma. Personally I would get it off Ebay, it’s $20 bucks. If it works then I got a cheap deal. If it doesn’t I’ll take it to the comp store and get another one. I just had the image of a decision tree in my head right now with probabilities and expected values. LMAO. Commerce/IT students should get it.
Anyway, um, but then she started asking questions like “Will it damage my laptop?”, “What about warranty?”, “Is it safe?”. Well, the answers are more or less “maybe”, “no” and “maybe”. So in the end I suggested to get it from the computer store. If it doesn’t work they’ll be held responsible. If she had gotten it off Ebay and it broke then I’d be the one responsible since I was the one that made the suggestion. Get me?
Yeah…
It’s the same everywhere, make sure you have something to fall back on otherwise you’ll be hitting the concrete.
It’s the first day of my break. I finished watching Las Vegas. It ended with a cliff-hanger. What is this bullshit. I was hoping for some nice closure but instead they drop this bombshell on me. Ha. Irony. Not like it hasn’t happened before.
Anyway…
I enjoy telepathic conversations. =)
Okay so maybe…
Jun 20th
…I was lazy this morning. I actually woke up naturally at 6:30am. But I decided it was too cold and went back to sleep for another 4 hours.
FAIL.
So tomorrow I will also try and get back around then and driving to Brighton for the run.
Sun’s not even up around that time which is what I’m aiming for. I feel more comfortable when there’s minimal people around.
Studying is quite painful at the moment.
I have 3 past papers but they’re more or less the same. So chances are it won’t appear in this year’s paper. In addition, there’s no practice questions anywhere else for the course. I was going through the course outline and it said that attendance is compulsory. Hmmm, I’ve only attended like 4 classes and I don’t remember ever putting my name down. I think it’ll be fine. In my defence, the tutorials is just a period to talk to tutors, no work is actually assigned. So there.
Sigh.
City2Surf in 7 weeks.
Watch me.
Botany Bay
Jun 19th
So I got my 7am wake up call this morning. Trudged out of bed and slowly got my act together before grabbing the keys and driving off to Brighton Le-Sands.
It was cold.
Although probably not as cold as those 8am soccer training sessions that we had back in High School. Those were absolutely freezing. I still remember sitting down on the cold cold grass and putting on my shin pads. Good times.
I snapped a pic using my iphone. It’ll obviously look epically better with a DSLR haha, but i’ll get there one day.
It was quite nice.
So I ran down the Grand Parade and tried to remember the last time I was here. Let’s scratch that memory out shall we.
My original plan was to run all the way North till I reach the end of the grand parade and then run back. That would have been 5km. I stopped short of 500m of reaching the end, not because I was tired but I thought it was the end, later I checked google maps to find that there lies a less obvious trail. I decided to walk the rest of the way back, trying to take things easy on the first day. It was a good run. Would be better running with someone though. Levelling up solo is always a lot more monotonous huh?
Skip half a day and we’re in a Teppanyaki restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Teppanyaki imo, is somewhat of a gimmick. It’s more or less “Japanese” (it’s in quotes since most of them aren’t really Japanese…) people trolling Westerners and the occasional Asian. It was my second time and the novelty sorta wore off pretty quickly after the first time. We were the only Asian family in the restaurant. I think Teppanyaki is the only form of Asian cuisine where “foreigners” make up the majority of the business. But yes, I guess it’ll be more fun with friends in a large group but not many people can justify paying $30 or so to have food thrown at them. It is more of a novelty dining experience though and not something you’d do on a regular basis.
I think I’ll go for another run tomorrow morning. This time I’ll try and do the entire 5km.
Final exam on Monday and then it’ll be 4 weeks of nothingness.
Well I have things planned out. I plan on getting a lot of honours done. Google Calendar is neatly organised which I plan on filling up with events.
For some reason the phrase “nosce te ipsum” just came to mind.
Roar!
Jun 19th
I am a tiger! Here me roar!
Anyway, I want to go to sleep soon so this will be a really really fast blog. Well fast in the sense that I will blog whatever comes to mind.
Okay, so I got up this morning and took a shower, and then I had to dash for Macquarie Summer Intern lunch. I had Taste. For those that have nfi on what Taste is. It’s this amazing sandwich bar in Wynyard and it’s fucking amazing. If you work near Wynyard and never been to taste you’re missing out. Fine fine, it’s not all that great, but still it’s pretty decent sandwich bar. But yes, I had lunch there and I made several hilarious calls. Yes, I’m full of hilarious calls lately.
So anywho, afterwards, I rushed over to the bank, but on my way to the bank I stopped by Pantax and asked about the D5000, it’s $1.3k including lens…fuck off. Then I dashed over to the bank to cash in my cheque from the lovely Chopsticks Society. 30 seconds later, I was given a receipt and I GTFOed.
So then I was like “Hmm, I want boost” so I got a boost from the Metcenter. And I also called up a friend and we had a chat as I walked over to Officeworks. I got to Officeworks and chatted some more. I picked out the mouse that I wanted and asked if they would do a pricematch. Uh-oh, city officeworks is too smart for me, wouldn’t pricematch MSY because they don’t give out manufacturer warranties or some shit like that. Sigh.
So then I walked back to the station before being confronted by a green peace activist. I don’t know, I decided to stop and actually talk to the guy. Went on about Palm Oil that Nestle has been using, how whales are killed off these days and how it’s cruel. At some point I was like “But to be honest, I don’t really care about the whales”. It’s true. I don’t. I mean. Whales dying has no direct effect on me. But yeah…the greenies love the whales. Anyway, went on and on for around 40 minutes telling me to sign up. Sigh. I was hesitant, not too keen on forking out my wallet but was like thinking “Well…it’s going to a good cause…and yeah…who knows…” so I forked out the debit card and signed myself up. Sigh. Might be a mistake, I’m not too keen on parting with my precious monies. And it’s also going to make my “hobbies” harder. Sigh. Anyway, whatever, what’s done is done. I can cancel at any time, and the good thing is it’s tax deductible baby! Ooooh yeah.
Anyway…ended up heading back home instead of going to uni. I also got a haircut, bludged at home a bit longer before heading out to Hurstville for Dennis’s fairwell “feast”. All you can eat Korean BBQ. Man, what is this madness, 2 all you can eat Korean bbq’s in one semester? Outrageous. Anywho, it was good and now I’m here typing this ridiculous blog about how my day which not many of you care about but I’m surprised that that many of you guys are even reading this shit.
Hmmm, man, too bad we’re not in the States where IP addresses can be traced with accuracy. But still…it will be rather interesting to data mine IP addresses. Anywho I digress.
Tomorrow…well today…I will wake up at 7am and drive down to the beach. Where I will run for 5km (if not more) up and down the beach. It will be LEGENDARY.
Sleep time. Bye bye.
My friends told me that I’m too patronising
Jun 14th
That means I talk to people like they’re stupid.
50% of the people in this country have a below average IQ. Unbelievable huh?
Facebook is only amusing when you’ve been gone the entire day and you arrive home to find somewhat entertaining updates.
When you’ve been stuck at home all day trying to “study” it’s not so entertaining.
I have a dinner to go to in around 30 minutes, work tomorrow, nothing on Wednesday and two exams on Thursday. Fun!
Hmmm I’m going to be driving tonight. It’s a public holiday and it’s at night. Perfect.
I love driving at night.
It’s so soothing.
But have you ever had the fantasy of hitting the curb at high speeds just to see what would happen? Car might flip if you do it right. I think about it all the time. Haha, I’m sure lots of people have these crazy fantasies.
Anywho…I also just realised that “anywho” isn’t a word, well it is in my ESL dictionary so STFU. There, it’s now added to my chrome dictionary, can’t complain now can ya chrome?
Anywho, I have my glasses on at the moment. A good reminder to not forget them since I’m totally blind when driving at night. Sigh, I have ‘Airplanes Part II’on repeat again. Ha. Ironic.
I’ve done a bit of calculating and realised that I need to get at least 84% in the Computational Geometry exam to NOT fail honours. I did really bad in one assignment…and yeah…might be a problem. In terms of Parallel Computing…well I only need to get 50% in the exam to get a credit. Which isn’t so bad. Planning on spending Wednesday all out on Computational Geometry. I already have 3 pages of concise notes typed up for Parallel.
Yeah…you don’t really want to listen to me go on about exams and shit. You wanna read the real shit.
Hmm, I wanna go out drinking. It’s fun! Minus the post-alcohol emoness, it’s fun!
Yeah…I should probably leave soon.
Procblog
Jun 11th
Procrastination Blog. A blog where one writes in order to procrastinate from doing work.
So a couple of things.
It’s Friday and I’m thinking “Hmmm…I should go out tonight.” Then my brain is all like “You haven’t done any study yet…and you’ll be leaving little Jimmy all by himself.” Hmmmm. No Friday outing for me 
So what have I done all week? Well, I’ve been sick so been doing a lot of sleeping. I’ve had many many dreams and I’m starting to wonder whether if some things were said to me in RL or if they were part of a dream. Meh.
So I managed to replace my Dad’s ancient Dell with my PC. Everything worked smoothly. I feel slightly naked though. I have webui setup for utorrent so I can operate it remotely. By “remote” I mean…operating it 5 meters away because you know, it’s a hassle walking to the next room and staring a download and then coming to my desk. Apparently my dad has 6 email accounts that he actively uses. I’m not too sure whether I should tell him to use the pop3 feature of gmail/hotmail to download emails from his other accounts and then using Outlook to sync up with that one account.
Anyway, one bad thing about losing the PC is that I realised my keyboard/mouse combo isn’t supported by OS X. It works. I can type with it and what not. Only problem is the mouse. It has really bad sensitivity and it’s not something you can fix by going through mouse settings. Logitech also doesn’t seem to provide any drivers for it. So I’m thinking of getting a Logitech M950 mouse and give my keyboard/mouse combo to my parents and stealing their usb keyboard. I’ll need a USB hub too since the Macbook only supports 2 USB slots. Yes, all you Apple haters are probably thinking “But I thought Apple stuff just works!” well, it does work when the manufacturer puts in decent drivers!
I’ve also been watching a lot of ”Las Vegas” I’m up to Season 4 now. Only 1 season to go before I finish the series. Then maybe I can bother finishing Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Amidst watching Las Vegas, I’m also looking up DSLR cameras and a new guitar. Yes, that’s right, I procrastinate procrastination, that is how epic I am.
I’ve more or less settled on the camera and lens. Nikon D5000 with 18-55mm Nikor VR lens. NFI on what the mm actually measures but I hear it’s enough. If I become an avid amateur photographer maybe I’ll get the 18-200mm Nikor VR lens which costs more than the actual camera itself. Hobbies are so expensive =(
Then there’s the guitar. Biggest problem is price. I want to get a 6 steel-string guitar at around $200-$300 mark, I read that steel string guitars have a length between frets which is perfect since my fingers aren’t that long. (Make a penis joke about it…I dare you)
Anyway, as I was pondering over this I was like “Shit, how am I going to afford it?”. And then I was like thinking “Maybe I can work some extra shifts at work.” Then I realised that it’s EOFY! Which means I can claim hopefully all my glorious tax monies back. Hopefully I would have enough to pay for my final semester of uni, the camera AND the guitar. I still need to cash in the money I paid for the Chopsticks Website which will be another $200 added to my balance.
Hmmmm.
So now I’m left with a 18.5″ widescreen monitor. Planning on selling it for $50. And TSA owes me $42. LMAO.
Anyway…
Edit: I just remembered that centerlink will be providing $650 at the start of each semester. Sweet! That makes life a lot easier.
What school?
Jun 10th
Mum: If James can’t make it to Sydney Boys, what school do you think he should go into? Caringbah or Sydney Tech?
Me: Caringbah
Mum: Why?
Me: Cause there’s GIRLS!
Oh snap.
Yes this deserved a blog post.
