Gone and Never come back

My blog is dead.. I know that.. And I think I would love to keep it that way..

Another part of me had just being born so I'll try me very best to keep it alive. I welcome everyone to pay a visit to my flickr account. I promise there are more interesting stuff there as compared to my dead blog. Here is the link.

Crash Out,
Nic

Sunday!!

The context of Sundays in most people's thoughts are fun, enjoyable, go out, hang out.. Bla bla bla.. Whole lot of activities to spend their quality time.. Apparently, yesterday was the perfect sunday to do exactly what everyone had in mind.. Actually it was what I had in mind.. Take a break from my studies and get my butt out to do something useful... Hmmmm.. I'm not sure about the context of useful.. But the point is.. Get my BUTT out..

What actually happened was, the moment I opened my eyes!! Holy cow.. 4pm.. Good gracious.. Half my day was spent on sleeping!! Hmmmm.. But it is still bright out there and it doesn't turn dark till 8?? So I still have another 4 hours of sunlight before darkness engulf the entire Melbourne.. Ok!!! What am I to do in this 4 hours to make full use of it.. Shops close at 6 and the streets are gonna be so quiet.. Typical Melbourne life.. So I can't just go sunbathing right??

Well.. I made up my mind.. I'll study anyway.. Stay at home and then go out later for dinner.. Eventually, all the plans to go out, eat was backfired.. I ended up cooking pasta.. *Hmmm.. Scrumptious..* And studied all the way....

It was just the perfect sunday.. I stayed home the entire day.. Studying, cooking, eating, doing laundry.. Other than that, I did something else that caused my addiction to kick in again.. NO!! I'm not talking about drugs..

Crash In,
Nic

Canon PowerShot SX10 IS

Yoooo.. I used to be this really crazy fan of the new and improved Canon PowerShot G10.. It so damn cool as compared to all ordinary cameras.. Not just that, the features are just awesome...

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Then, few weeks back... I saw this new camera on display in one of the Canon shops in Melbourne.. It was like the best camera I've ever seen.. I can't say it is better than the G10 I wanted but it was definitely much more 'handsome'... Hmmm.. I've spent the past few weeks searching information about it besides drilling my head studying and writting my essays.. Oh well..

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Oh one more thing!! It is much cheaper than the G10.. So I don't have to burn a volcanic hole in my dad's wallet!!!

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The camera is so damn cool.. It is my new crave.. My new hope.. My new ermmmmmmm..... What ever that sounded good...

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Crash In,

Nic

Literature exams

How was the exams?? Honestly it was kinda rushed...... I remembered how terrible I prepared my Literature essay the night before the exams.. Actually, I got it all done like about a week ago and I left it there to rot till the night before the exams.. How sad.. Anyway, I rewrote the entire essay and I corrected many points and evidence... Hmmmm.. Sounded like a very good ending right??

Naaaaaaaaaa.. Actually I finished everything at 2.30am.... That is a whole lot of bull crap.. Then I sent the entire file back to my dad for final checking.. Well.. He called me instantly and asked me to correct this, correct that.. Bla bla bla.... Everything was settled finally.. And what time was it?? 3 am I think...

OK!!! Now the fun bit.. I gave myself like half an hour to memorise 1500++ words so I can go to sleep at 3.30 am and have at least 5 hours sleep before my exams.. Apparently, I finished everything and successfully memorising my 1500++ words essay.. How proud am I.. Oh ya.. It was 4 am...

I'm so screwed... Well, since I'm screwed, who cares about sleep now... I went on YouTube to watch Whose Line Is It Anyway.. What a great way to relax and have a good laugh before falling into my slumber.. Well.. At least it was better than sleeping with Hamlet floating in my mind.. I finally went to bed at 4.30am.... Another 4 hours, I would have to wake up and write my essay..

Ok.......... Fast forward to exam time.. Many people are thinking.. How the hell could anyone write an 1500 words essay in 3 hours.. Well actually, I finished everything in 1 hour 30 minutes!! Half the amount of time needed.. So proud.. But did anyone thought about the time I used to prepare the essay.. Spilling out what you memorised was not that hard as compared to impromptu writing.. So, I kinda banged through the whole thing..

Ahhhhh.. A little flash back.. I had Red Bull before my exam.. It was awesome..

Crash In,
Nic

Mesh

It was a beautiful friday night.. Wowwww.. This sounded like the starting of a fairy tale.. Jovy and I had planned this dinner since weeks ago.. On that particular day, both of us packed up our books way earlier than before and started dressing up to go to this dinner.. It took me about 15 minutes to get ready.. This included bathing, dressing up, and changing lotsa clothes just to suit Jovy's preference... Well, guess what??? It took Jovy about 45 minutes just to put on her make-up!!

We left home at 8pm and took a taxi to the grand and classy Crown Promenade Hotel.. How nice!! Then, we had our buffet dinner at MESH!! Thanks to Sze Nee's recommendation..

Honestly, the main dish I ordered was not that good.. I ordered a Potterhouse with mushroom sauce and it turned out to be so hard that I had to cut it into thin slices to eat it.. Wooooooo.. This is the good part.. We were allowed free flow of fresh oysters and prawns... Sad thing was, we only took one serving.. And it was not the mountain type serving, all we got was just a few oysters and prawns to fill our stomachs..

And this was Jovy's favourite.. She had been waiting to have it the moment we entered the restaurant... Dessert!! Well........ It was not as mouth watering as it looked.. Ok... Dinners over!! We went home..

Hmmmm.. This don't sound like the usual way to end... Of course not!! We took pictures.. And it is kinda weird that a guy is much better in cam-whoring than a girl..

Crash In,
Nic

Drama: Patchworks

Today I had my drama performance.. It was awesome.. That's all I can say about my drama.. We arrived at the hall about an hour before the performance to do some practise.. Apparently, as we arrived at the drama room, it was locked.. Well, not actually locked, its just that it can't be opened from outside.. We had to break into the room!!

Anyway, it was nearly 4pm when the audience started pouring into the hall to witness for our great performance.. Show off.. Danny came into the drama room to wish us a final good luck before our turn.. We were the second group to perform at the 4pm to 6pm session.. Apparently, we are not allowed watch the drama group that was performing before us.. I had no idea why.. While the first group was performing, we waited in the drama room.. My gosh!! Anticipation and nervousness... Not such a good combination..

Moments before our turn to perform, we gathered around, place our hands together and shouted 'Danny 7!! PWN!!'... Mercy.. I thought this only occur during rugby..

Finally it was our turn to perform, we were only allowed 2 minutes to prepare the boxes and props.. I was kinda surprised that we were very organised actually despite the fact that 'our group was made up of 5 guys' (Audrey: 2008).. Everything went on smoothly and we received lotsa great remarks after our performance..

Allow me to describe our roles:

Audrey: The accused that loves knitting.. Sad case for her.. Actually she did not do anything wrong..

Ethel: The witness to everything.. The only person that knew what actually happened.. And she lost her hand phone..

Daniel: The murderer that betrayed his friend.. Killed his friend with a knitting needle..

Hur Kuan: The mastermind that planned everything.. A psychopath who just loves killing people.. Amazing laughter..

Nicholas: The dumb dude that follow orders and loves knitting.. Get pushed around alot by Daniel..

Most famous line: Oh! I'm slain..

This line made everyone in the lecture hall laugh their asses off.. Thanks to the 4 humans that made me did it..

Anyway, I'm very proud of our group's performance.. Very satisfied

Danny 7: Patchworks

The white board Hur Kuan used to stick Audrey's picture..

Crash In,

Nic

Literature Essay

This is so terrible.. I finally made up my mind to do which Literature question after so many days after the question was released.. I did not even go online to check on the question about a week after the Trinity Webpage had its link.. This is so ridiculous..

This essay would be based on the great story written by William Shakespeare : Hamlet..
I have no idea what is so special about this story but apparently it is like one of those mystical stories where one dude killed another dude's dad and that son had to take revenge.. Lotsa fight and killing and finally everyone died.. A random block just so happened to be there gets to gain all the advantage.. What a great ending..

Moral of the story: Good guys and bad guys will die at the end, the monkey at the side wins all..

Moral in life: You don't have to work hard, just sit there and good stuff will happen..

Anyway, 6 questions was released and I all of them sounded so boring.. I bet it took the teachers ages to think of those questions to screw the students' minds.. How glad they would feel for being able to finally beat us at something..

These are the questions:
1. In what ways does Shakespeare explore the issue of revenge in Hamlet?
2. "Hamlet is a play about conflict, chiefly about the conflict between loyalty to country and father, or loyalty to oneself." Do you agree?
3. To what extent is Prince Hamlet to blame for the tragedies in Hamlet?
4. "Hamlet shows that if we are not mad for love we are mad for power, mad for honour, or mad for language." Do you agree?
5. "Hamlet's rage comes from a need to dominate Ophelia and Gertrude." Do you agree?
6. 'Sine members of the Elsinore court use deception and betrayal in a bid to establish what is real. In some instances this is to revwal the 'truth', in others it is self-protection." Do you agree?

Oh boy.. I choose Question 3.. Although it seemed kinda short but I think there are loads to write about.. Whooooooo.. This would be difficult..

Crash In,
Nic

New flips

Its been awhile.. Or was it my first time?? I don't think I've done it before.. Everything seemed so fake, just like a story told by some old jock.. Just like a glace of light speeding through the universe.. It really took me quite an effort to get everything done, everything in place, everything in perfect condition.. It really is not simple..

I was walking around my house just now.. I glance down and I saw my pair of flip-flops in a dreadful condition.. I remembered its perfect state when I first bought it in Melbourne Central.. It was perfectly white and squiky clean.. There was not even a single dirt on it.. I was so attracted by that perfect pair of Havaianas.. I had been wearing that pair fo thongs ever since.. And talking about wearing it all the time, the white just magically turned into a dirty, ugly grey flip-flops..

I made up my mind to do something about it.. Hmmmm.. WASH!!! As a kind boyfriend.. I would kindly wash Jovy's thongs for her as well.. After half an hour of endless scrubbing and screaming.. Screaming?? Ya!!! Its good as new.. I'm so proud..

Before..

After..

Crash In,
Nic

Good Bye Charles

Charles is this really funny dude that so happened to pop his head into CMC when I returned from my short break in Penang..

Anyway.. He had been in my so called 'supper-gang' in CMC before I moved out.. We are the ones that had late night supper after studying.. Late as in 4am?? That's life man..

This lucky dude just finished his semester in RMIT and he is off to Sydney and Brisbane for vacation.. Well.. Since Charles is leaving, Jeremy organised this surprise dinner for Charles in Cafe Cavalino.. *Thanks to Jovy's recommendation*.. After that, we went for Freddos.. Holy crap!! I don't know when was the last time I had Freddos.. It really did satisfied my cravings..

Random picture..

Dude in town..



Jeremy teaching.. I'm not listening..





Guys only..

You see me??

I have no idea why I raised my hand..

It really took us a while to realise that we can't just walk home without doing some stupid stuff so we all ended up in a park and took some really cool pictures.. Thanks to me great photographer.. Ahem *me* ahem and the cool camera he had of course.. That was awesome..

Marcus being ridiculous..

We are still thirsty..

Erm??

Trying to block Jovy..

Is this the way you do it??

My turn..

Another group picture..

Family portrait..

Oooooo..

Crash In,
Nic

After Party

This post is a continuation of the previous one.. As I said, we left the Trinity Ball earlier so we could go home and change into out so called 'costumes' and attend the after party at SEVEN.. We took a taxi back and the girls went straight into the room to change into their clothe while I waited outside.. From outside I could hear soft giggles and loud screams coming from the room.. Apparently the girls were having so much fun helping each other out with the cute hairbands and make up..

Then the cam-whoring session begun.. They just love to take pictures of themselves whenever possible.. Even in front of mirrors.. Typical double X chromosomes.. I'm the only dude waiting for everyone to get ready.. How sad..

When the girls were ready, we left home and took a tram towards SEVEN.. We met Colin and Eric in the same tram.. Such coincidence.. We arrived at 12.45 and we were 30 minutes late.. According to the organizers of this after party event, we will have priority if we arrive before 12.15 but what the heck.. We were so late..

We waited in the cold chilly weather till 2am before we realized we had no more hope and we left the place.. Within that hour of waiting, we made thousands and thousands of phone calls to those that was in the club or those that had relations with anyone in the club.. Sadly, none could get us in... And waiting outside in the cold weather is not a fun thing to do.. Especially those girls who was wearing nothing except their skimpy dresses.. Attractive but not very smart..

Well, we ended up having our after party at Chilli Padi.. It is this really famous restaurant in Melbourne Central because it is the only one that was still opened at that time.. To tell you the truth, the Prawn Noodles was awesome.. Hang on!!! The girls had their photography sessin again.. Good old Nick being the great photographer..




Did we have fun?? We created fun..

Crash In,
Nic

Live! From the Red Carpet

Jovy and I..

The last day of October.. Live! From the Red Carpet... The Trinity Ball was held in The Grand Hyatt Hotel.. It was an awesome hotel with great services, cool swimming pool, huge rooms and great room services... Oooopps I'm like making promotions about the hotel..

The Ball commenced at 7 and I was all ready by 6.30.. I bathed, got my hair styled and dressed in my best suit and ready to go the moment the taxi arrived.. One thing blew my mind when the girls called me saying that they were still doing their hair at 7!! I waited and waited till everyone arrived at my place dress up and go to the ball.. Lotsa things happened when I waited for everyone to get ready..

1. They don't know their way.. So I had to go get them everytime they called me..

2. My phone is out of battery.. I can't receive their phone calls..

3. Sze Nee fell as she was walking towards my place.. Felt so bad for her..

4. Sze Nee left her stuff at the hair saloon so I had to run there to take it for her..

5. I have not called the taxi..

6. Eric making so much complaints..

7. I lost my perfume and hairgel..

Finally, we left my place and headed for Grand Hyatt.. We were late for like an hour.. Thank God we did not miss much.. And the King Prawn entree dish was still there..

Michele and I..

Boss and bosstress.. Jovy and I..

Chermaine.. Taken outside the toilet..

Heng, Nic, Dan

Adi (square)..


Randy, Sze Nee..

Good old Bin..

Great musician.. Through This Song..

Wen Ting..

Caitlin..

Cam whoring..

Now in a more formal pose..

Shaw.. Trying to act cool..

Chen Yi, Eric and Me

The Red Carpet.. Before we left.

All I remembered was that everyone was rushing like mad dogs..

We left the Ball early to go home and change for the after-party at Seven.. Things happened.. And you do not want to know..

Crash In,
Nic

The Butterfly Award

For those who decide to accept this award, I would appreciate it if you could do the following:
1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate 10 other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message for your nominees on your blogs.

I was Nominated by good old Darren, Manson and Jovy

I shall nominate:

Jovy: Her blog is like one of those cool sites where every dude on earth would crave for.. She just happen to have this awesome style of writing that attracts the reader to continue reading her materials again and again.. She just loves to post about her happenings in Australia and all other weird stuff that occurred to others..

Darren: This is one really weird blog where the writer himself is a dickhead.. His unique way of using song lyrics and post titles can really catch the readers attention and also confuse them.. His blog is full of words but apparently his words are interesting enough to allow readers get hooked on..

Manson: I have no idea what he wrote sometimes because he blogs in Mandarin.. But other than that, it is just the perfect site one would linger on for hours.. Perhaps its the pictures he posted or the songs he used.. What a perfect combination..

Elaine: One very personal blog I would say.. Everything in there is all about her and her emotions.. Its like a public diary written everyday and spilling all her thoughts and feelings into it, and making it her daily routine..

Madeline: She is one very narcissistic individual just like me.. Her blog is full of her own pictures and mostly she thinks she looks hot in it.. She is a very good writer but honestly I spend more time looking at her pictures rather than reading her long-winded essays.. Overall it is a good blog..

Tracy: This blog is very interesting.. She has a bunch of weird looking pictures as her header and other self portraits of herself.. She has so many links in her blog!! Everyone who is so free could just click on any one of those.. It might just take you somewhere far...

Caitlin: C'est la vie.. One very interesting title for her blog.. Even though I have no idea what it meant.. Her powerful usage of language and the great ability to use pictures to tell her story made everyone crave for more every time they clicked on her link..

Patrick: This guy is so full of himself.. Even in his blog, he uses his own picture as the header.. He blogs about lame stuff that happened around him so those who are free could just read his blog to kill time.. They are all interesting but lame posts..

Zi Sheng: This dude used to use Blogger.. But right now, he uses his own web page where he is supposed to pay money for it.. Anyway, he just loves to use his so called computer knowledge to decorate his blog and making it the perfect place to be during lunch-break..

Jun Yeu: He is a new blogger.. But apparently this guy is so enthusiastic about blogging till he posted about 2 to 3 posts each day.. Crazy dude.. Loves blogging about pointless stuff about his interesting life.. He is a great musician so he loves posting videos of himself playing his guitar...

Okk.. Most of the things I said were kinda exaggerating.. But I love it.. And to all readers... Just deal with it..

Crash In,

Nic

New Haircut..

Oh boy... In a few days time would the great Trinity Ball... Themed Live.....On the Red Carpet.. It is gonna be so cool.. It is impossible for me to attend such a grand event in my old-school hairstyle.. I'm talking about the long-helmet type hair which suited me so much.. Anyway.. I just got my haircut from this Korean lady in Melbourne Central.. That hair saloon supposed to be very good but maybe the person who gave me the hair cut sucked...

I had no choice accept the fact that my hair is now too short... I received many comments from friends and my sister.. Some said it looks very nice.. Suited my face.. Made me look fresher.. Some said it sucked.. Lousy.. And a girl said she can't even recognize me.. How sad is that.. People actually look at appearance only..

Oh well.. Who cares about the few strands of hair being cut off the end.. *In my case, white hair too*... I still look as good as before..

Crash In,
Nic

Fanny called Gooty

Its been a while sinced I've spoken to Mitchell.. That German dude was like completely gone from this world.. No online, no call, no nothing.... Then one night.. One very cold and windy night in Melbourne.. I decided to make a long distance call all the way to Germany to my good old Gooty.. *sounded so gay*..

I called him for like 4 times and there was like no answer.. Then finally.. Someone picked it up.. It did not sound anything like the good old Mitch at all.. Totally different from his old Penang slang.. Mitchell is speaking in this really weird American mix British slang.. It sounded so weird.. I was laughing for the entire conversation..

The weird thing is..... I'm in Australia for like 9 months already and you don't hear me slang and the dude who went to Germany had the British-American mixed slang.. I was expecting some German slang..

He also asked me for my address.. Wowwwww. Gooty is gonna send me something!!! I'll be checking my mail everyday from now...

Gooty is the dude in red..

Crash In,
Nic

Telstra

Well.. Telstra seem to provide the best service for Internet, Phone lines bla bla bla... But wait!! Actually it is a whole lot of bull crap.. They called themselves the best?? My ass.. Ever since I moved out, I've called up Telstra and ordered a wireless broadband... Its been a month already and I still have not received anything from them..

Ok.. You people might think that I just don't give a shit about it and let time past... I rang up Telstra dozens of times and all I did was wait because apparently they were too busy to answer my call.. I also went to Telstra main office for like 4 times already and I've spoken to 5 different people there.. And all they did was gave me useless and incorrect information.. 'Don't worry mate!! It will be delivered in a week' 'Sorry.. I can't help you much with it.. You just have to wait'... What the hell man.. This is so terrible.. I've waited for a month!!!!!!!

*BigPond is Australia's largest Internet Service Provider. Our service has won numerous awards, including Best Broadband Provider in the 2004 Smart House Awards. As BigPond is part of Telstra, you can count on our advanced technical expertise for a great Internet experience and relax in the knowledge that this ISP is here to stay. Our Internet access networks are vast and fast and we can get you online no matter where you live in Australia*

This is the whole lot of crap they say in their official website!! I swear I did not add anything new in there or paraphrase any single bit.. It is all genuine!!!

First sentence! The one in red.. *Our service has won numerous awards*... Hmmm.. I'm starting to doubt what you said.. Awards in what?? Making customers wait?? Giving them false information?? What awards??? This is a whole lot of crap.. *Best Broadband Provider in year 2004*??? Oh my GOD.. You were given that award?? I bet in that year, you are the only broadband provider in Australia..

Look at the second sentence.. The one in yellow! *you can count on our advanced technical expertise for a great Internet experience*.. What the heck???? If I were to count on you, I would not have counted how many days or weeks have you made me waited for my Internet.. Ah!! I would not have counted how many times I've called you or even counted how much time I've wasted waiting on the phone like a jackass..

Now the last sentence.. The one coloured in orange!! *We can get you online no matter where you live in Australia*.... WOW.. Bragging and exaggerating your capabilities again.. Hey!! If I were to live in the country side where the Aboriginal Australians are, I will not complain about your slow services.. But come on man!! I'm living in the city.. In the middle of the business district!!! Get me online then, if you are so smart...

*the you is referred to TELSTRA*

Anyway.. Better get it done quick!!

Crash In,
Nic