[Current Mood : A bit stressed, Bored]

[Current Music : José Feliciano - Affirmation]

 After all this planning to start studying a month before finals and here I am in the same rut that I'm always in this time of year. Although, through all the years of experience, I'm feeling slightly more prepared this time. Just the other day, I had to enroll for Semester 1 2008. The enrollment website stated that the enrollment would open at 7am, but from past experiences (-__-) it's a good idea to wake up a bit earlier and start hammering the server about an hour prior to the actual time of opening. Lucky I did, I started hammering the server at about 6 and only JUST managed to get the class times I wanted.

... On second thought, I'm still a little stressed. Went to uni for a test the other day, only to be greeted by the lecturer who announced that the test had been pushed back two days because some KNOB JOCKEY broke in a stole a test paper. Man, what a fuck head, he didn't even send me a copy.

You can usually tell it's time to stress when the Jacarandas are in full bloom, but assignments and exams aside, the Summer holidays are just around the corner again. I predict it's going to be a decent one. First, I will be spending what time I have with Clara, because sadly, she is leaving me for another COUNTRY. I guess I'm used to it by now, but hey, I'd like to spend Christmas with Clara for once. Maybe next year I'll go to Singapore and spend Christmas over there.

It seems like everyone is leaving this holidays too! John and Puff are going to Kuala Lumpur for no particular reason, Quinton is going to Hong Kong, Taiki is going to fulfill his pilot fetish. It's just you and me this holidays, Hayato.... oh wait.... Linh... nevermind. I would've liked to go to KL with John and Puff, but I can't afford it....

So... this Summer holidays will be (hopefully) spent working at a new job. I've put my resumé into a few places in the city. I've gotten ONE callback, from Myer, and they were kind enough to call me to tell me that I had be REJECTED, but was on the "potentials" list if they were short-staffed during the Christmas hustle-n-bustle period. I say Fuck That! Thank you Myer for the call back though, you got my hopes up for a full 3 seconds and destroyed whatever Christmas spirit I had left in me. I guess I'll be posting out my 2 page (shit) resumé out to a few more random places next time I'm out.

Maybe I'll find a job at the new Calamvale Central shopping centre. There's some big WAR going on between the new shopping centre and the old one. The owner of the old one has 'stooped' to an all new low and is giving out a Mercedes EVERY month for about a year or something. If I were to put money on the battle, my tip would be the to put everything on the old shopping centre (Sunnybank Hills Shopping Town). Calamvale Central pretty much sealed their fate when they built their shit on a piece of land that was so bloody hard to get to. To make things worse, they now have a HUGE traffic circle that is shared with three locations (The Calamvale Hotel, Macdonalds and a Petrol station). Good luck guys,

In other news, my favourite shows are in full swing (almost). The next couple of episodes of Heroes looks damn promising. I've pretty much figured out the show. Kensei is the killer! Scrubs is slowly getting back into the groove of being funny (kind of like when Season 6 re-started, it pretty much sucked). I'm enjoying Elliot and Keith's break up (Keith is a loser). Bleach is supposedly rushing to get to the good bits, and Naruto (I'm downloading the whole series, minus horrible fillers, from the start).

I've stumbled across a few good movies while surfing RottenTomatoes. One of them is called Better Luck Tomorrow, a film by Justin Lin. It's an all Asian-American movie about a group of high school students who get mixed up in some kind of shit. Really, it's a good movie, find it if you can! Another movie is Finishing the Game, also by Justin Lin. It's a mockumentary of the making of remake of Bruce Lee's final (unfinished) project, The Game of Death. It looks funny.

The first two weeks of the holidays should be pretty awesome. We're getting some visitors from Cairns and Erks is due for another bash. Funny, the whole Cairns visit started with (I think) me saying that someone was shit. The whole thing snowballed and now we are getting 4 guys coming down to Brisbane to prove their MIGHT! I'm talking about Tekken of course. Erks and I have this first to 50 battle with a few games. Loser has to shout dinner.

I haven't been blogging much lately hey.. Oh well, I've been busy with labs and stuff. Spending more time with decaying bodies than my girlfriend (sad). You'd think I was numb towards that kind of stuff by now, but the other day, I saw the trailer to Saw 4 (thanks Catfish). It was fucking disgusting! Some guy doing what looks to be a autopsy.. and he finds A CASSETTE TAPE IN HIS STOMACH! zomgzomgzomgzomg!

Anyway.. blogging. Last time, I THINK I left off with talking about all those profile sites. I must say, these fads change pretty damn fast. Wasn't the 'in thang' was MySpace just a few weeks ago? I think it's safe to say that MySpace is OUT now and almost everyone migrated to Facebook. What's up with that!? What ever happened to Friendster? I think I'm pretty 'addicted' to Facebook now. Bloody Clara.. (although I never used it much until now, I was a member since about 2005 or something. Facebook veteran right here!).

Reason I'm blogging right now is because I want some closure on my little procrastination session. If there was any time for a miracle, it would be now, and hopefully it will last until everyone's exams are over. The miracle would involve the simultaneous crash of youtube.com, gametrailers.com, tekkenzaibatsu.com, facebook.com, msnlive..... actually, just crash the whole fucking internet and leave Wikipedia so I can study!

With that said... I'd probably look up random shit on Wiki and find some way of procrastination.... Speaking of Wikipedia, I decided I would show them my support for their "Wikimedia" thing. After all, I've been using it like it was the ULTIMATE SOURCE OF INFORMATION since uni started. Follow this *link* and you'll find the following:

• $200 – We can make Wikipedia available in developing countries through DVDs, books and pamphlets.
• $100 – We can pay for two Wikipedia Academy events in Africa.
• $60 – We can send three students to our annual Wikimania conference.
• $40 – We can deliver 100 million pageviews of free information!

Thanks Wikipedia.. here is ONE HUNDRED of my hard earned cents for helping me so much throughout the years. If you're laughing at my stinginess, fuck you! I think you need to do some calculations!

They need to add this to that little table.

• $1 – We can deliver 2500000 pageviews of free information!  <- Thanks Tom Ho!

FUCK! I HAVE TO STOP TYPING! 

*hits himself*

 

I'm out of here

Thanks for reading!

-Tom

what would you do if youtube, myspace, facebook, wiki, went down?

[Current Mood : Bored]
[Current Music : Say Anything - Alive with the Glory of Love]

Pretty bored at the moment and I haven't made a big blog entry in ages. So here goes.

Remember sometime in October last year how I blogged about being the star of my own show, where everyone would be watching my everyday life without me knowing (ie. like The Truman Show).

Anyway, I've been thinking about the present and future recently (nothing that big) and wondering how it'll all turn out. Which got me thinking about the blog entry I mentioned before. It wouldn't suck THAT much to live like that. I mean seriously, I doubt they would let me deteriorate into a bin scavenging bum that lived on the streets. I'm sure they'd rig exams and shit so I'd get a reasonable pass grade. Of course, it'd suck if everyone saw me pick my nose and shit. I'm sure they wouldn't allow me to die or something either (at least not until I get old and boring).

Speaking of dying, the 'new' Fruitgrove Station puts you in that situation quite a lot now. If you didn't know already, the Queensland Government is using up all their money to beautify up the train stations. That means, refurbished shelters, new rail lines, new ticket vending machines and probably the (finally) implementing of the 'SmartCard' system.

*Side note*

Hong Kong's Octopus Card system was actually designed by an Australian company. Funnily enough, the system never took off in Australia (probably because of fence jumping bogans) and they are actually going to the Chinese for help with the system now.

*end side note*

.... Fruitgrove station is almost done with its face lift and I gotta say they did a pretty shit job. Don't get me wrong, the station looks great, it's just that the person that planned the layout was probably the biggest dunce ever. See bottom for picture of layout.

It's pretty damn stupid with the new layout. The outbound bus (me going home) leaves about 2 minutes after the train gets to Fruitgrove, so you are forced to risk your life if you want to make the bus (and not wait another 15 minutes). First off, you are forced to run to the END of the platform (because that's the only way out now) and around the 'snake' to get to the inbound bus stop. That's where you have to make a MAD DASH (dotted green line) across two super busy roads. It's basically playing Frogger, but with NO lives/continues and only Game Overs. Of course, you could wait at the lights for the Green Man to come on (heh, Clara! Here is your mention!), but you are definitely going to miss the bus (red line)! I can imagine how infinitely worse it would be if you had to catch the bus after getting off the train coming from the city (blue line). The MAD DASH (green line) is not advised, since you're probably out of stamina from running up/down the stairs, all the way to the end of the platform and around the 'snake'. Game Over buddy. With that said, I JUST made it on the bus today. It was already at the stop and I flagged it about 30 meters away. The driver was nice enough to wait.

This wouldn't happen if I was the star of the show. The director would stop traffic just for me.

... and Good Night.

[Current Mood : Bored]                                                                                                                [Current Music : Dashboard Confessional - Stolen]

Well, Quinton hooked me up with season 6 of Scrubs and I have to say, I was wrong to judge the season by the first episode (pure shit). I guess it went back to regular funny Scrubs after the 2nd or 3rd episode, not to mention more good music at the end of each episode. It's good to know that the series has been picked up for another season (supposedly the last season).

Speaking of American shows, all interest in Heroes has dissolved into nothing. Frankly, I wasn't impressed by the last episode at all. Fucking... Hiro in ancient Japan with a setup for the whole Kensei story? Heh, saw it coming. They also have Miss Universe (Japan) to play the princess that Hiro (Kensei) will stab himself in the heart for.

Uni is in full (half) swing now, but I still haven't really eased into the new semester's timetable. I guess it's expected when you're doing 1st, 2nd AND 3rd year subjects at the same time. The lecturers are alright this semester as well. One guy though, I don't think he could survive without his almighty lecture notes. He might as well have ShitTalker read it out to us.

For those that don't know what ShitTalker is, google it.

What else.. The new online Tekken comes out on Wednesday. Should be fun for a while (at least until T6 drops).

And incase you didn't pick it, the title of the blog is a nod to Scrubs. Hahaha, you suck

 

(shit, what a crappy blog entry)

These are some ギャル男 (gyaru) style haircuts I found somewhere online
The guy on the right is really cute （　´∀｀）つ

[Current Mood : Shit]
[Current Music : Mii Channel Music]

Well.. the winter holidays are well and truly over. The feeling is so shit, when you've been overseas, you come back, have a great time with mates and then...... you have to wake up at 8am to catch a fucking stupid train all the way to the Gold Coast to listen to some guy read off PowerPoint. Kinda lame, but it's got to be done. Maybe this semester will be good (hahahaha... yeah ok). The biggest problem with my uni "experience" is that I've been all over the shop. Repeating subjects, skipping a year etc etc. Any bonds that I make are immediately severed once the semester ends, and if I'm lucky enough to hold onto them for the full year, they probably won't stick around for the next year. Oh well, this semester, I'll be mixed in with first, second AND third years! How's THAT for stupid!?

On a happier topic, I've FINALLY found the music for the Mii Channel. What an awesome song! It's just a 1 minute loop (52 seconds, actually). Haha, we were playing Virtua Tennis 3 the other night on PS3, the music in that is so horrible, they should just replace it with the Mii Channel music. In fact, I think they should replace ALL in-game BGMs with Mii Channel music!

Anyway, without further ado.....

 
Yeah... there's ten and a half solid minutes of the loop, but who cares.

-Late for uni
Tom

PS..
welcome back, Clara, miss you, kiss you