thats a booking, 10 mins in the sin bin

I'm really over studying for a subject I won't understand for the final.. so this is a promotional post about a band I absolutely love atm.. Yellowcard... will be buying their album from hmv tomorrow, yay for $20 albums, hehe... actually, something really funny happened jus then, I checked out the hmv aus website just to see how much they sold it for (if they sold it) and right there on the home page, the album is listed under $20 tunes.

woah.. (keanu reeves style)

yeah, that was cool, it must be meant to be for me to get the album, heehee! :P

"Here I go, scream my lungs out and try to get to you
You are my only one
I let go, there's just no one who gets me like you do
You are my only, my only one"

streaming vid tune: Yellowcard "Only One"

seriously, how awesome is a punk-pop-rock band that can pull off having a violinist? (an extrememly energetic one at that, he absolutely rocks!)

-d

wildfire

omgomgomgomgomg

tonight I had a work Christmas party dinner (early yes, but who cares, I got to go), and it was at the Wildfire restaurant, at Circular Quay.. and omg it was swanky, I'm soo not used to that sort of place :) But it was cool as! There was fully like a buffet thingo where they brought the food to you, and you got to pick which ones you wanted and stuff.. and the food was sooo nice, chicken especially, best I've ever had! Man, just a great experience all round, I had to really savour it, cos I doubt I'll be in such a place for quite a long while :P

anyhows, sleep.needed.indeed

-d

iTune: Foo Fighters "MIA"

tuning: BDDDDD

this semester has been sooo weird for me
I'm just not into studying at all (not like anybody ever is) but no motivation in the tank whatsoever... *checks again* yep, its not there..

all I keep thinking of is the freedom I'll have after the 29th (my last exam) and I frankly don't care if I fail that subject either... its so annoying... in the past I was able to drum up some emergency motivation, and get through... I doubt that will happen this time... all I wanna do is sit down outside with my guitar and write some songs...

I soo need to write some by the end of the summer, there are too many things floating in my head, hehehe

back to my state of trying to study

-d

tune: Missy Higgins "Scar"

scar

ever do something that is like, cool and fun.. then you just don't think you should do it anymore, because you feel like a you're being a burden or imposing..? even if others continue to do it? that you think you're unique, realise you're not (as far as you know), and come to the conclusion that this whole thing is just another stepping stone in the lesson that is life... and you should just pack up your bags now and just watch others more qualified and interesting have the chance.

confidence really is a shaky attribute... it can drive you do the most awesome or stupid things... but without it, all that is left is the stupid things.. and what becomes of you when all your life has become is the stupid things? when what you had confidence in just confuses you so much that you just don't know what to do, what to say, how to think, how to decide... when every fibre of your being wants to, but you don't want to be just part of the crowd, just doing it because everyone else does because everyone else feels that way. what if you want to be different to all of that, have your actions stand out on their merit, for them to be noticed because it was something others in the same situation wouldn't do...?

how your world changes so much when you discover an entirely different set of things to what you knew before, and see how much it opposes world views. what will happen by living to these things? acting them out, staying true? will I find happiness? will I find destruction? only 1 person knows the answer to all of this. and I hope that He's reading..

-d

tunes: Missy Higgins "The Sound of White"

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funny outing I had with the family tonight...
Myer had running an "exclusive" shopping night for Myer one card holders, which was all good, cos by getting the free card we got a night of shopping with lotsa % off lotsa stuff!
As a result, I have now entered the world of anklet socks, as I got a pair of Human (the brand, not the species) shoes which require socks like these, or i'll look like a dork. :) Man, I'm feeling fashionable. I even got a couple pairs of neato shorts which I had REALLY been needing (I only have one pair of decent shorts).

ohohoh, and I got Jimmy Eat World's latest album "Futures" which is sounding awesome up to where I've heard so far (3 tracks). But who cares, its JEW! Also got Missy Higgins' album as well, yaaaay.

hmm, I just completely posted about shopping. I have a worrying feeling that I sound like Michelle at this point.... :P

who cares, my shoes rock!

-d

tunes: Jimmy Eat World "Futures"

leave of absence

hmms, haven't posted for a while.. lots going on, as well as not much going on.. such is the life of exam period... I'm also dreading/looking forward to my comm theory exam.. which I seriously (and realistically) doubt I can even pass

sigh

the dilemma of Distraction comes out about now.. it sort of gives me comfort at a time like this, as well as making me have no motivation at all to do any work :P

anyways
food

-d

kate

(This is in relation to Monday, I'm not actually backdating it on blog time, as Monday's post was important.)

Productive day today, I'm actually making progress with my comm theory assignment! woot! Nothing to write home about of course, but yeah, atleast I got stuff done today.

Spoke to Dave (one of the many I know) today about Something For Kate, and it just reminded me of all the music I was listening to before my two shopping sprees at Koorong, hahaha. So I've gone back through all my singles, listening to the b-sides and stuff - as we had a long discussion about their b-sides and concert performances.. Can't wait to go see them again sometime next year...

Had a funny memory while I was walking home from the bus stop today, the same bus stop I had for so many years walked home from after school before 2001...

*cue mid-90s to late 90s music, namely earlier Oasis, Foo Fighters and Matchbox 20 stuff*

As I walked up the street, I remembered back to the times when I was wistfully depressed about my inabilitytoknowANYgirls situation, with music about girls and being with girls usually occupying my Sony Walkman (thats cassette tape walkman, thus making it more originally genuine.. none of this new fandangled MP3 player stuff we have these days... You had to actually wait to get music on those things....) anyways, I would constantly dream about meeting the right girl, the perfect girl... and I would meet her because she would get off at the same bus stop (hey, it was my dream).. then, as we were walking up towards my place, I would strike up a conversation with her and have EVERYTHING in common, you know, sport, Victorianess, music... and discover she lived not just in my street, but right next door!! Yes very sad I know... This was the subject of many of my daydreams back then, high school naivety is so funny... especially when you don't know that many girls and therefore these sort of things just propogate unchecked inside your mind.. also, it wasn't helped by watching dramas aimed at teens (yes, I watched Dawson's Creek, Party of Five, Felecity... hahah, you've lost all respect for me ;P) and seeing guy girl interaction in all of that made me crave for any female friends at alll.. hahah, i was so sad.

(This is a tip for parents, if you are thinking of sending your kids to a single sex school, your reasons should be "I don't want my kids to be disctracted by girls" or "I want my kids to have no ability to communicate effectively with the opposite sex". Its not always the case, but its a good probability :P)

annyywayys, yes, I was continually depressed back then in my stupid little teenage world about girls mostly, ohhh and also the music propogated it, like Matchbox 20 stuff... maaan, what was the point of all this rambling on? Insight into what I used to be like? hahah, its so funny how much I've changed since then, except this time when I worry about girls, I don't wish that Miss Right moved next door to me, I've learnt that is one of those things that will NEVER happen :P

hmms, this ramble got misdirected, I'm sure I'll revisit it in the future when I have a proper purpose for it :)

-d

in tribute

I had another post lined up for tonight... but I just found out something which has pretty much sunk my mood...


I've always been proud of how good my dad is at relating to non-asian people... probably due to the fact he has worked in many companies in finance departments during the 80s when there were not as many asians about (I think, its not like I was that conscious of my surroundings then)

Anyway, he's always had lots of non-asian friends, and me and my bro would joke about when he would put on his "Aussie" voice when talking to them, saying things like "telly" and "fair dinkum". I guess I liked to latch onto this fact due to my hanging about more in non-asian groups and understanding non-asians better (I refuse to listen to music in a language I can't understand :P)

One of my dad's best friends was Steven... they both followed rival footy teams (My dad goes for Richmond, him the Bulldogs), they played golf together and our familes went to dinner or even holidays when we were younger.. Both our familes even moved up to Sydney from Melbourne at the same time, but settled in opposite sides of the city, us in the north, them in the south... They had nicknames for each other too, which I thought was really cool, as not many people ever call my dad by anything other than his name...

Thus why it came as a huge shock to find out he passed away a couple of days ago after battling illness for some time, but it was thought he was on the recovery (I think anyway).. and it just came out of the blue.. you never get used to death happening to people you know, and thats two for me this year... its even more sad that my dad has never been able to visit him since he had found out about the initial illness, for fear of getting him sick with a cold or the flu or something...

Of all of my dad's friends he was the most awesome and funny, and really nice to us too, and even though we haven't visited them for so many years, I've never forgotten him..

I pray that he is in a better place now, and that his family are comforted by the prescence of family and friends in this time...

You will be missed Uncle Steven..

luck

maaan, so just our luck
a distinct sense of deja vu about tonight..

had the Credo ball tonight, which was good fun... but afterwards when we got to the car.... well, if you remember back to an incident with my car a month or so ago, well, something similar... jus not my car this time...

damn annoying though... its just like... what is wrong with the world, seriously... argggg

yeah, nothing else much more to say..

-d

dil

Dilbert rules. full stop

just take a look at such classic strips like this:



soo incredibly funny
I'd just like to add at this point. That I am a geek. Thus why I find this veryvery funny :)

Thank you all, you may go back to your non-geek activities now. If thats what you'd rather do. :P

-d

rail

I hate City Rail

I think its rather ironic that the timetables were changed a few months ago to provide "more efficient service during peak hours", yet, the service at these times have hit an all time low as far as I've observed.. and many Sydney people would agree

I hate City Rail

-d