You know what is the worst? When you turn up somewhere expecting to pay $x but having to pay $2x instead. And then realising you have to go back again on Monday, and pay another $x.

Yeah, my car's WOF was coming up (2nd sept), so I thought hmm its pretty close to being due for a service as well anyway, lets do them both at the same time

so yeah. Ahahah. Costs lots. At least they replaced the brake pads (man so much better, you can really tell the difference in braking power...)...but I have to go back in on Monday again. Arrr.

Lol. Okay, so like, today because my car was at the service thing, I wasn't able to make it for my group meeting. And for the 3 or so hours the rest of my group was in the city, they didn't get anything done. It's awesome lol. And then the text i got (which i assume was at the conclusion of their meeting) was all like : "yo can't get the pictures working". I pop on my computer just now, and I get some working in about 5 minutes... lol

And I swear I told them .bmp

Ah well

>.> its not even worth that many % anyway

Tonight, Jason Baer and... what's her face I dunno ANYWAY the leads in the movie The Tattooist were in Hoyts for a while.

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I think James Patterson is shit. He honestly like, is one of those lame authors who churn out a book every month and urgh I just think you should stop saturating the market. Like Dean Koontz. Ok well I liked some of the books I've read of his but when an author keeps hogging the "new releases" bit, it's a bit of a stupid look.



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Started playing Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind today. IT's very cool! yay

Facebook is very flash and fancy and very Web 2.0 and I totally have no idea how to use it.

Oh well!

(yay for AJAX and all these other scripting standards)

Good news: not sick.

Bad news: I think I'm getting RSI in my left hand pinky from playing teh cello, it hurts when I apply pressure oh noes?!

It's just a series of complaints with me, isn't it? Haha, but no, I am happy now :) Because I'm feeling heaps better!!

Normal just became super.

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King Lear last night I saw, it is very good! Like the plot itself is very cool to be honest; a madman leading the blind? Treachery, loyalty, madness, age; it's all under scrutiny in a brilliant play. And yeah I mean c'mon how often you get to see the Royal Shakespeare Company? And Sir Ian McKellen being a crazy king?

Not often!

Wahoo. Uphill from here; I'm not feeling so rot any more. I don't think it was teh Paramax (tm) I've been taking, but maybe it was.

Last night was AWESOME yay totally worth the two year wait!! Thomas' mum got really drunk lol she's so funny :P and yeah it was just heaps of fun playing wahooooooooooo

So I just went to the doctor.

The receptionist at Vincent St Family Doctors....in a word, sucks. Like, like, lol. I don't want to be mean, but I really have to. she is horrible.

But the doctor himself is cool

luckily he doesnt think there is anything wrong with me.

Very thorough checkup. It involved a stethoscope. That always makes me feel better.

I have prescription,

he said i woiuld probably get better without it also

but at least now i can say yeah i saw the doctor.

There is some sort of weird fate-rubbish going on right now.

So yeah. I'm *really* sick. I feel like a broken record but honestly, I am not used to prolonged illness. Normally it's one or two days and I'm feeling fine again but I've had this ridiculous flu/virus thing for almost two weeks now, shitty nose running, and mucus and coughing and stuff, and now the latest addition to that lineup of complaints is something akin to stomach pain. It's weird. Sometimes I think I'm just hungry (because it sort of like..I can't explain but it could be that) and then I eat stuff and then it just hurts with the bonus of feeling like wanting to throw up.

As you can imagine, working was really bad yesterday.

I really wanna get better by tomorrow because a) band playing b) assignment due

But anyway back to the weird fate-thing.

I forgot to wear a tie today (my thing where I am wearing ties to work) but I called in sick anyway. Because you know, I am sick and all that. I really hate calling in sick. It's like saying "i give up, i can't take this anymore" (but seriously, it is just getting to the stage where i dont want to do anything at all)

I also tried to find a free phone today at uni. There is one near cultural space (filled to the brim with cultural PIs lol) but it didnt work. I ended up using the one @ reception in the AUSA house.

But yeah. More twist-fate.

So I have a test today right. And yeah, obviously I feel like shit. So I wouldn't have done particularly well.

So we're sitting in HSB1, the lecturer turns up, test papers are being handed out...

then BAM they run out of test papers. They needed like 160 and didn't have enough for half the people in the room.

So the test has been moved.

Yeah. After that, I tried to see a doctor @ uni but apparently there was a backlog until like Monday. They said emergency service is available but I'd feel like a twat taking that up. I only met one of the criteria anyway, abdominal pain.


Honestly, the Monday of the holidays, if I still feel remotely like this, it's just gonna be like..

lie in bed

fin

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You can find anything online. I found the phone number for Vincent St Family Doctors there.

Man, I love the internet.

ARGH SO SOICK ARGH !@#!@$!@%

i HATE this sick for FAR TOO LONG

i might actually consider seeing a doctor soon

Finished 1 composition.

HOLY CRAP. I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE HOLIDAYS IT WILL BE MINT

sssssss band practice we are actually going to play on Friday. That is like...a 2 year hiatus. Last time we played for a crowd was in 2005. My gosh.

I am still sick. This is ridiculous now lol.

programmers and old people have a lot in common.
we're both always looking for ways to control leaks.
and dumps.

Eagle vs Shark is awesome. Funny moving funny mostly funny lol. In a very subtle sort of way. Verye Kiwi yay for backyard and sound of lawnmower in the back evocative good

last night, tony and I decided to stop off on the way to the party to get some beer
we come out of the shop a few minutes later and there's a parking guy writing a ticket
tony goes up to him and asks him what the ticket's for, parking guy explains that the car is parked in a no standing zone
tony starts abusing him and tells him to cram it up his ass, so the guy writes a ticket for abusing him
haha
so tony gets up him even more, and every time he says something the guy writes another ticket
14 tickets later, the guy gives up and walks off
...
and we both PISS ourselves laughing as we walk back to tony's car around the corner, leaving some poor bastard with 14 parking fines :D
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ROFL!!


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[01:33] (hilo21) ima looking for a site that seels amp
[01:33] (hilo21) ima looking for a site that seels amps
[01:33] (hilo21) iam looking for a site that seels amps
[01:34] (hilo21) I am looking for a site that sells amps
[01:35] (nexxai) how bout you look for a site that teaches english?
[01:35] (hilo21) fuck you
[01:36] (nexxai) Lemme guess, you'd kick my ass, but can't read the road signs to get to my house?


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<@AntiHeiss> friend of mine went to jail last night
<@AntiHeiss> he probably isn't getting out for a while
<%The_Coolest> y?
<+Enyo> why?
<%The_Coolest> :o
<@AntiHeiss> it was a girl cop, she was pretty cute too
<@AntiHeiss> she said anything you say can and will be held against you....he sat there for a while and said 'tits'

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Egger: Heres the history of our medicine.
"I have a sore throat."
2000 BC : "eat this root"
1200 AD : "That root is heathen, say this prayer."
1500 AD : "That prayer is superstition, drink this elixir."
1800 AD : "That elixir is snake oil, Take this pill."
1900 AD : "That pill is ineffective, Take this antibiotic."
2000 AD : "That antibiotic is artificial, Here why dont you eat this root."

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We vegetarians love the environment. carnivores are sick freaks.
How can vegetarians possibly love the environment.. you keep eating all the fucking plants

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This linguistics professor was lecturing the class.
"In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative."
"However," the professor continued, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
Immediately, a voice from the back of the room piped up: "Yeah..... right...."

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dftpnkezln: For all of you reporting a score more than 100 as you iq lol @ you. How can you possibly score more than 100%?
dftpnkezln:I'm very happy with my score of 89.

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Diana Ross' husband died
how
fell while climbing in South Africa or something
that's sad
i guess there is a mountain high enough

3rd December. Saturday. 2005.

I think that is the meaning of life, to sit around and think about things, until you think you know it all and then you finally realise you are about to die.

Is it wrong to enjoy reading what you'd previously written? Strange. It doesn't seem like reading my thoughts, yet that's what it is.

Jeez that sounds pretentious. As you were! Hope the sick-germ bombs are spreading to everyone so I'm not alone in my misery :) Maybe I'll go cough outside for a bit.

Borders. Fathers Day Catalogue.

DVD.

$13.00 dvds:

The Prestige
V for Vendetta
The Departed
Batman Begins

can you say CHEAP?!?!?

1) Driving for longer than an hour in the dark in the rain and if you're stupid with directions like me, is incredibly stressful.

Went to APO concert tonight. It was very good (and worth the stress of the drive to get there) - Ives 3 pieces of New england (or something), then Gareth Farr's Triple concerto and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

ok Ives

its very modern yay

2nd movement was the best, lots of energy and very eccentric music, totally awesome and vibrant. full of character (and lovely rhythms and interplay between them)

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Farr's triple concerto (this is the piece i had to hear) - was very cool. the NZ trio were very proficient, the triple concerto: 1st movment very eastern in harmony and flavour, lots of pentatonic stuff left hand on piano played octaves which added to the lushness and lots of string work thick rich kind of like chocolate

2nd movement was cool

3rd movement i believe was started attaca (no break between the 2nd and 3rd ) - highly driving and rhythmical, always a constant pulse

i have notes somewhere but im sure you all dont care

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prokofiev's romeo and juliet, well, i was kinda waiting for the one that josh groban sings but i guess it isn't prokofiev's lollllzzz it was still cool though and again a lot more "modern" than i thoiught it would be

awesome

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I was coughing like you know the tickle cough do you have any idea how incredibly painful it is on the mind to try and withhold those coughs >< I was making spastic faces and breaking out into sweats in efforts to curb the coughs. Nice lady sitting in front of me gave me smints and they kinda helped lol. im pretty sure she only gave them to me to shut me up but oh well lol its not like I enjoyed ruining the pepole in A Reserve's time (hahah $120.00 ticket ruined by some stupid student who coughed heaps)

it was real funny too you could tell a lot of people wanted to cough because between ppieces and movements and stuff there would always be a cough-wave

lolz

dammit i hope this sickness isn't goiung to stay much longer, i dont really care for it to be honest

oh yeah Sonny + Dennis: Avenue Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtiGd58J0bY

Pizza at work. Sweet.

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Man IM SICK urgh what is this crap thats going around sneeze tickley chest ARGH lol headache man SUCKS

POST 1500

A short history of this Blog follows:

I remember William did some Harry Potter parody, and was hosting it on blogspot. And then he had a blog. And then I had one. The earliest entries were, to be honest, very reflective on just how far we've all come. I mean, devilmatrix? come on lol can you say lame

actually, this blog is still very lame. But the difference is, at least now, it's not contrived lame, just pure unadulterated lame!

This blog has seen me through countless rants about exams both in school and uni, this blog PREDATES FFXI (yeah can you believe that, I sure cannot), has heaps and heaps of hidden secret easter eggs that only I know about (don't bother looking you won't find it), seen me through holidays, overseas trips to Australia, Thailand, taken heaps of complaints about assignments (espeically the ones I do at the last minute, like today...), neuroticism...

It is almost a certainty this blog will not last forever. But the best one can hope for is that before it disappears, I will have the opportunity to record the last...I don't even know, is it 5? years of my life from this digital medium into something that lasts even longer. It's fun to look back.

But it's even greater to be moving forward. All the best!

woo happy 18th birthday mr arron :):)

Today at work, had a competition to see who could sell the most calico bags. Actually, to see who could sell two bags first (and to be honest lol I was very skeptical, considering they are not very well sold)

Well, I won lol, and I sold 4 at teh end of the day (yeah thats right, i won AND kept selling them how dumb is that huh) so I got to pick something to the value of $10.00 out of the paperchase section. i have a nice notebook now yay

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New Yorkl New York real great food as usual lol Monique forgot to give us our menus when we sat down but it was all good lol funny :D reminder to not get entrees next time cause we always end up ultra-full

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1 hours!!! i'll do it officially tomorrow :D

Free 10-ride 4 stage train ticket: tick.

Really REALLY RELALY OMG tired from work: tick.

Basically...no dinner until 11:30 lol and like as we were about to leave some woman wanted to enter the store to search for her missing car keys

which i guess is kinda stink to say no. so we let her

and

it was extra time

i could have spent at home

but

oh well lol at least im gonna get paid for it or someting

yea.

ya

Two questions for you, today.

1) Why is David DeAngelo still emailing me?
2) Why does he find it NECESSARY to capitalize PARTICULAR WORDS in the fashion i am now DESCRIBING?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtiGd58J0bY

BAHAHA sounds like an awesome musical to go to

CS345

No offense to the lecturer but...sometimes I wonder why I am doing such an arse paper lol.

Okay, so like we have an Assignment. Yes.

Part of the requirements is a scenario.

From the handout:

"Write a persona and scenario for your child – be sure to include age, gender and
ethnicity"

"Scenarios (2 x 200 words)"

And the sample scenario in the lecture slides: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/compsci345s2c/lectures/L2%20PictureScenario.pdf

Ok. So we're doing a diet diary right.

So yeah. So we wrote our two scenarios as sort of like background stories leading up to use of the interface. I mean, considering we already have all the interface documentation and we did test it by "Wizard of Oz" (mock-test), it really didn't seem very helpful to have a page of "and then John pressed this button and it showed this, he decided to click this" etc

but it turns out thats what she fuckin wanted

okay

and get this

she expected us to do it this way, because it's in page 201 in the textbook.

Okay. Sweet. Except we weren't told to read it. So how can you say "okay we're gonna mark it based on *this* particular definition of what we mean by scenario"?

She then went on to say "omg ur third year should i have to tell you to read a textbook"?

Well, yeah, if you want to actually get back scenarios in the style you require. You know, when you assume...ass... yeah...

And anyway. If the textbook is so awesome, why don't we just save like the extra 400 bucks or whatever, just buy the textbook and be done with it? What is the point of lectures?

Gosh. Sometimes eh, and then this other group was like "oh i thought it was obvious" well obviously because you guessed right and you're on her side you silly suckup slut

ok lol thats enough hate

woo

...urgh.

I have lost my iPod shuffle somewhere in between the IC commons and Architecture.

DAMMIT. :(

and also

this weird dude in the computer labs

just kept saying "oi" like I *swear* he was on P

crazy nutcase

and it turns out he wanted me to take my watch off

like you know

how am i supposed to know that if you jsut say oi and then stare at me

fuckin cunt

anwyay

yeah

lost my ipod :( :( hope someone turns it in

Totally unmotivated for CS335. Will *have* to do it tomorrow. Presentation for HCI is tomorrow as well, urgh.

So yeah, I was looking around at domain names (cause William has one) so like... www.henrychong.com is free. I kind of want that. Or www.blakomen.com.

But www.henrychong.net is taken. And so is www.blakomen.com.

But okway anyway the point of this post is (apart from dumping my mind)

i like just randomly put in www.henrychong.com on a couple of domain name things, and this one particular site (to save it face i wont tell you which) also offers "alternative domains"

here is the listing i got:

yourchong
dawnchong
bestchong
searchong
superchong
savetommychong
chemistschong
tommychongdesign
henrychongworld
chingchongpress
henrychongguide
tommychongdetox
henrychongdirect
tanchongtee
thechongsun
annabelchongpics
greatchonghing
tommychongexposed
chongsite
tanchongtees

Seriously. Lawlz

ok as you can see i now have converted from html to a xml template.

yay. took far too long lol

dream theater score yay for 49 min song.

blades of glory is funny iron lotus ftw

What's wrong with this picture?

totally worth the money lol had like 5 different products and 4 different people to do it

very well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

+ arron is kool :)

so yeah just watched the new simpsons movie

heaps good!!! much better than i expected! thats the way to wathc movies lol go in with low low low expectations it was touching and funny

and much more laughs than in the trailer

LOL you have toi watch this its AWESOME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o

and yeah lol i thought brangelina was a stupid name, but zanessa?

oh man lol

LOLCANO!~

Wohoo! Time to try Oprah's favourite, The Law of Attraction!

Okay

Decree everyone

yeah everyoen cause everyone reads my stuff cause IM AWESOME

FROM THIS POINT FORTH (unless I lapse in which case it is your responsibility as the reader to remind me of this decree) I SHALL ADHERE TO LIVING BY THESE TWO RULES:

- If you think it, it will happen; if you believe it, it is true.
- Let light surround you.

OH YEAH! OPTIMISMISM RECOVERED ++ hurrah yeah!!!!

i'd just like to say to all my friends YUP I GOT HEAPS allll of you even though like we never talk or see each other or wahtever

YOIU'RE ALL STILL INCREDIBLY AWESOME PEOPLE!!! yes even you David who i dont think ive seen for ages YOURE STILL MY FRIEND CAUSE I BELIEVE IT OOOHG YEAH!!!!

wow lol i can see how insanity can be an attractive option

lets live life like we're slightly insane!

SONNY EVEN THOUGH YOU HATE ME YOU'RE STILL COOL!!!! hows architecture!!! build lots of cool models!!!!

HAY DENNIS EVEN THOUGH I HARDLY TALK TO YOU AS OIF LATE YOU'RE STILL AWESOME!!!

KAT EVEN THOUGH YOU KEEP TRYING TO CONVERT ME YOU'RE STILL COOOOOL!!!!

WILLIAM UR KOL x 8 turned over sideways AND YOU KNOE IT

HELEN UR COOL

DAVID UR COOL

THOMAS IZ COOOL

JOHN IZ COOL EVEN THOUGH UR ALWAYS BUSY KINDA LIKE ME LOL

CHERYL IS A WHOLE BAG OF COOL YAY FOR COOL INTERESTING PEOPLE

THIRSTY MERCI S COOL!!! EVEN THOUGH YOU HATE THEM ARRON LOL THEYRE STILL COOL

HAYDEN YOU'RE AWESOME!!!! LUAN UR COOL~!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHARLOTTE EVEN THOUGH I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN AGES YOU'RE STILL COOL!!! AND UR BROTHER IS COOL!!!!

EVERYONE'S AWESOME!!!!

holy crap lol RICAHRD UR COOL!!!! I MEAN LAME PEOPLE DONT JUST RANDOMLY BECOME DOCTORS!!! ALL DOCTORS ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and plkus you have a COOL CAR and you make cool witty jokes!!! and ur caring!!!!

hey brian

from australia

yeah

you

from mogenic

YOURE AWESOME!!!!! <3 even though we hardly talk when we do its always a highlight of my day!!!

DENISE!!! YOUR'EEE COOOOL!!!!!!

PAULINE!!! YAY!!!

ALL THE PEOPLE @ bORDERS like DONNA YAY!!!!

TOO MANY PEOPLE! NOT ENOUGH TIME!!!

but this one needs to be last cause you know, how i always save the best for last

ARRON!!! UR COOOOOOOOL!!!!! :D:D:D:D hold on

not big enough

:D

there

here

here is a song for EVERYONE

This is dedicated to everyone.

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Listen, be yourself
That's the most important thing I can say now girl
Don't, let anyone change you
I know life hurts but you're gonna make it through somehow

Forget, all the others
Who were scared so they criticised your views
Of course you're special
And that's why you're different
And that's why life is gonna notice you

You're a girl
You're a guy
But you're someone if you try
I believe in you
I believe in you

And please, just remember
You've always got my undivided love
Prepare
There's someone coming through
And they've always got my undivided love
My love
Got my love
Got my love
Undivided love

So what?
You're gonna die one day
You may as well live before we get too old girl
You might be screwed in the head like me well who really cares
At least you don't aspire to be boring and cold
You're all over the place
Well who isn't these days
Just keep this in your head
It's about the ride
Just enjoy yourself

And please, just remember
You've always got my undivided love
Prepare
There's someone coming through
And they've always got my undivided love

So please, just remember
You've always got my undivided love
Prepare
There's someone coming through
And they've always got my undivided love

sad depressed anxious worried troubled hurt breathless mindless dark sultry sullen blank unfeeling cold nervous confused irritated falling pain hating anger fury wrath vile poison coarse dry blind inert static still unwavering destroyed crushed sick faint tired jealousy agony writhing flinching stupor enclosed isolated alone solitary singular invisible unknown ignore spite scathing heartbroken missing dead corrupted leave abandoned reduced tears ashes dust nothingness crying sobbing wail wretched mindless uncaring worried shouting screaming deluded confined imprisoned scarred bleeding green oppressive missing vomit queasy puke stunned shock horror scared splintered fragmented fractured breaking shattered parted separated split divided cleave slash gore sigh plastered deform flat silent

Morning comes too early and nighttime falls too late
And sometimes all I want to do is wait
The shadow Ive been hiding in has fled from me today

I know its easier to walk away than look it in the eye
But I will raise a shelter to the sky
And beneath this
Star tonight Ill lie
She will slowly yield the light
As I awaken from the longest night

Dreams are shaking
Set sirens waking up tired eyes
With the light memories all rush into his head

By a candle stands a mirror
Of his heart and soul she dances
She was dancing through the night above his bed

And walking to the window
He throws the shutters out
Against the wall
And from an ivory tower hears her call
let the light surround you

Its been a long, long time
Hes had awhile to hink it over
In the end he only sees the change
Light to dark
Dark to light
Light to dark
Dark to light

Heaven must be more than this
When angels waken with a kiss
Sacred hearts wont take the pain
But mine will never be the same

He stands before the window
His shadow slowly fading from the wall
And from an ivory tower he hears her call
let the light surround you

Once lost but I was found
When I heard the stained glass shatter all around me
I sent the spirits tumbling down the hill
But I will hold this one on high above me still
I once could see but now at last Im blind

I know its easier to walk away than look it in the eye
But I had given all than I could take
And now Ive only habits left to break
Tonight Ill still be lying here
Surrounded in all the light