Semester 1, FIGHT!

Just letting people know that I'm going to be blogging less often now that I have to actually spend my time studying or sleeping early. I'll be posting about once a week now.

Intro lab tomorrow. Don't need lab coats and we're told to wear whatever such as mufti. Big mistake good sir.

Lightning round!

Okay let's do this.

Woke up,
got to city at 11:30am,
got Mappen before going to Crossover,
taught Bonnie, Ruby and Yuki Warrior - good progress but more practice needs to be done.
We filled out our application form, despite doing it twice and thinking of answers.
Had dinner at Sussex Centre,
Went home, trackworks is a pain.

Now I prepare for first day of uni in over half a year. Should be interesting.

Not much, how about you?

Woke up pretty late today. Till dinner I was at home all day, doing final editing stuff and whatnot.

My dad took us to dinner at a sushi place. Probably said this already but salmon belly is so good. Also my family are savages when it comes to eating sushi. They either overload their soy sauce with wasabi, or dip every single sushi into soy sauce. Feels like I'm the only one in my family who appreciates eating food. But whatever floats their boat. I'll convert them one day...

Afterwards we went for dessert. We got mango and coconut gelatos. My god the mango one was delicious. Also I couldn't figure out the difference between ice cream and gelato. I realised that I confused gelato with sorbet. Gelato does in fact have dairy in it. Probably something to do with the ratios of cream and stuff.

That was a pretty short blog. Allow me to share a hilarious video I just watched.

Warning, it has language. Lots of it.

TIME!

Make the right choice~

Despite me setting my alarm for 10:30am I ended up sleeping in until I got a call from Kelvin who was at campus. I got a small bite to eat before heading over to the city.

I got there early and wondered around Chinatown for a bit. I checked to see if Crossover was open and to my surprise it was. When I got up there Whitney was there as well as some randoms who booked on of the rooms for their own thing. I had to eat something so I left my stuff and went to Mappen.

After eating a tsuke soba and tempura sweet potato x2 I went back to the studio. Soon everyone arrived, and after taking Yuki and Ruby's photos we went into recording our audition tape.

Lack of space turned out to be a huge problem, formation changes were really hard and me and Dan's rolling part was real awkward (Y). Regardless the video turned out okay. I should definitely spend my time editing. My tailbone still hurts, though it wasn't a problem in Warrior since I figured out the proper way to land on my back. My real issue was my right knee. I may have to invest in some knee pads. I hope we get camo pants, it would go well with them.

Afterwards was the group photo, the second take was funny. Then some of us took kpop class which was Jaye Park's new song. The song is actually nice. I should listen to the whole thing when I get home. Others came back on their drink run. Carmen got me an ice tea. That was very nice of her. She also got Whitney yogurt. Delicious yogurt. Definitely the right choice.

Oh right, right now I'm typing this on my phone on the train. It saves me a heck of a lot of time cause I'm usually doing other things at home and also being lazy but I find this super productive to recount the day.

Anyway, we decided to eat dinner at Sussex Centre. I had the ramen at the Japanese place which I haven't ha in a while. I realise the ramen isn't actually as good as the other ramen. So far I only like the one at Gumshira and Menya noodle house. I should get the bento or katsu rice next time.

Kelvin and Rebecca joined us after having their own 'dinner' and then we talked and played fail card games.

We all went to station and on the way Kelvin decided to be a menace to society and tried to affiliate himself with us. One day we should all go to the music store and get a kazoo or another instrument, then we can be a band where people throw money at us to stop playing! Brilliant.

So this exists...

My brother told me to check out certain movies in the trailer section from Apple's website. Specifically these two.

and this

That's right. A movie about the 16th president fighting vampires and a movie about DDR.

Birthday dinner + Shuffling Flashmob

Yesterday I didn't blog because I got home relatively late and I wasn't sure if I had to sleep early. Moving on, I finally finished Ventus' storyline. By then I actually made a command deck that actually did something, I could activate either cyclone or wingblade depending on my attacks. Wingblade was much more fun to use. The most powerful key blade looks like THAT? Okay sure.

I was at O-week again, this time to visit my faculty and program welcomes. When that was done me and Huy decided to take the secret society challenge. Despite our efforts it seemed that we were too late and our clue was already solved by someone else. Our clue led us to the fitness and pool building on the edge of campus. Using our clue it was obvious that the item we sought was behind one of the bricks. We found the brick but the item was gone. We went back to the stall and it was empty with a note saying that all clues were solved and to try again tomorrow. Obviously the clues were too easy if everyone got them. Not really disappointed, my interest faded when it was hardly a challenge.

At crossover we learnt the last part of the Warrior choreography. Now we know it all! Well sort of. Oh right, Yuki and Ruby came back. Fun times were had catching up and receiving gifts. I got socks. But not ordinary socks. Socks that can totally improve conversation by 30%!

After class we showed Yuki her birthday message video in the form of one of her favourite kpop bands.

Afterwards we had celebratory dinner at Pon. It was our first time there and I say that the food was pretty nice. Luckily we were located upstairs so that we didn't disturb the other customers to a huge degree. After dinner cake was had followed by the usual shenanigans.

We decided that it was getting late and we all went home.

Today

Today's agenda was the Crossover/D2MG shuffling Flashmob on campus. I got to campus around 10ish and got pancakes. It was so hot waiting in line. I met up with Elena before meeting up with Bec and Kelvin with their friends. Kelvin proceeded to go to every stall to get free stuff.

We eventually got to the Quad at the D2MG stall when they said that the Flashmob practice was already starting.

We high tailed it to the round house where it turned out that Jaye was late. So we just sat on the couches. Some of us were hungry so Kelbecca went for a Maccas run, just when Jaye arrived. We relearned the routine, by the time we finished half Kelbecca returned with food.

After finishing practice we decided to do it for realsies at the main walkway. We performed it and I'd say that it was a success, though I'm not sure if it convinced many people to join. We ended up doing it again at the Quad in front of the D2MG stall.

When that was done, Jaye wanted an impromptu Warrior Flashmob in front of the kpop society stall. We ended up doing the entire song. Also I injured my tail bone while doing the last move of the dance break. Hopefully it will get better tomorrow. Pretty much feels sore when I sit, lay on the floor or walking.

We chilled for a but afterwards. Kelvin and I were interested in the rpg boards, and I decided to try out fencing.

We got back to city where we got food/drinks. Then we went to Crossover to check up on things. Bonnie was taking the Wedding Dress course and Kelbecca got called to do promo work. Afterwards we got asked to exchange some money. On the way a random person who was walking in front of me asked if my accent was Canadian, and asked where I was from. Ooh close... but not close enough friend. Yeah I don't really know what my accent is like. I just assume my voice is normal.

Afterwards we pretty much jammed till 6ish and then everyone decided to call it quits.

Time to watch Naruto and Sherlock. I don't feel like going to the final O-Week, unless there's something extremely cool happening. Otherwise I just want to go straight to film our audition.

Listened to BigBang's new song. It reminds me of Love Song, but you know, less annoying when they repeat "I hate this love song" a million times. I was disappointed in the lack of any explosions in this MV. I thought it was the trend in YG MVs.

What explosions you ask? Allow me to show you.

http://youtu.be/IKZEmLvYVF0?t=3m52s

http://youtu.be/NGe0hHvAGkc?t=4m12s

http://youtu.be/NB5jyYD2WEw?t=3m13s - okay this one is questionable but hey, the guy doesn't, you know, get blown to bits.

I'm getting attached to SE7EN's new songs. Though it lacks a full dance, it actually makes you think about how good he can sing, and there's enough dance to remind you he's not a total wimp. But yeah that's what I think...

What year is it?!

Holy crap it's been a while since I blogged, mainly because I'm super lazy writing when nothing much happened. Let's see what I remember.

Saturday
uh... hmm...


Sunday
Went to the city for practice. I had a very filling lunch at Mappen before heading over. When I got there I attempted to teach Whitney the last stepping move in the dance break. It's very fun to do.

Practice pretty much consisted of the dance break and getting it right. Then we realised we needed more work on the verse cause we pretty much fudged that part every time. So we did that too.

Afterwards we waited for Jaye to finish his class. People were playing Pokemon so I joined in as well. Despite Whitney having done so many more hours than me, she only realised how to progress further with the help of David. Luckily she was still hasn't passed me yet! I (under Nuzlocke) luckily encountered and captured a Mareep! Now I have an ace against Falkner. Thinking of nicknames, the guys suggested something 'posh', hence SheepsMcBa was born. It's by far the most greatest name for a Pokemon.

Rather...

Afterwards we ended up not filming our audition and left it to Wednesday. We did some stuff afterwards and then I had to leave to have dinner with my family in the city near World Square. Sushi is nice especially salmon belly, that stuff is awesome.

I decided not to play Pokemon and focus on finishing Kingdom Hearts. Getting there, needs more grinding.

Monday

O-Week time. Arrived there early for some free pancakes. I also got a muffin and apple slices. Nice. Afterwards was just wondering around looking for free stuff. I signed up for Arc and got a bag full of random things. Many other free stuff was taken. Games were played such as sumo wrestling where I won 2/3 rounds. We met Huy and he tried playing giant bowling where he was inside a giant ball thing. We also also signed up for Deetoomage. I considered joining the Kpop society but not sure if it's worth going to. I'll see these coming days.

Went to the lecture block to listen to a talk on game theory and strategic thinking. I found out that it didn't have anything to do with actual games and it was more of a commerce thing. It was helpful anyway. 

Afterwards we went back to the Quad to help Jaye with fliers. Eventually we got them all sorted. Bec's team was too slow and me and Dani totally kicked their butts. Afterwards we decided to leave. Had a late lunch then I went home, Elena wanted to go all the way back to UNSW for a movie. Oh yeah there was that screening where that Channing Tatum guy was going to be there. I bet it was real crowded. Glad I wasn't there.

I probably need to prepare more for uni, such as tours for my actual classrooms and stuff. Also maybe try out that nerf war thing if that's still happening.

I always find these dorkly videos to be funny, cause they're surprisingly accurate.

Carrying Capacity? Level Awesome

Yesterday I didn't blog mainly because nothing much happened save for buying shirts with Huy. Also because I was lazy.

Today I got up at around 10:30AM. I was supposed to catch the 11AM train but I clearly was going to miss it. I ended up being twenty minutes late. I told Huy and Elena to go to Kmart without me. The ended up buying the shirts before I arrived. Turns out that they took a bus from the station which explained their efficiency.

We walked back to the City area for lunch. Tina called Huy cause she had no friends so we met up in World Square for lunch, which was held at the nearby pub. I had the steak while Huy had the chicken. We had then come to the conclusion that the food was nowhere near as good as the one at Cook's Hill. I should take note to not eat there again.

Afterwards we headed to T2 so I could purchase my Gyokuro green tea. I also signed up for membership and I got a card that couldn't even fit in the card pockets of my wallet. Afterwards we went to Coles to buy yogurt for Whitney. Afterwards we realised that Whitney wasn't coming to rehearsals today. Hopefully the yogurt will last till Sunday. When we headed to Crossover Tina left to join her other friends.

The elevator was closed again, yet Jaye was having private class. Strange. Well not really. David, Dan and Carmen arrived and eventually we got in. After a bit of rehearsing we were asked to buy and bring over some water. We travelled to Coles to find the cheapest water. Deciding whether we should buy as much as we can, we ended up buying about twelve cases. We ended up filling an entire trolley as well as four of us carrying a pack by hand. Must of been interesting bringing up a trolley to the studio. We also found Jibbie waiting at the studio.

Picture stolen from Dan. I regret nothing.

Afterwards I took popping because nothing else was going on and it was $5. We learnt backsliding and box gliding.

Then Kelvin and Bec showed up so we did more practice. Kelvin was being his usual self during practice. Why am I mentioning this? No idea. All I know is that Kelvin was with us during said practice.

Afterwards we got kicked out for RnB. I didn't feel up to it so I skipped out on it. Kelvin also didn't want to do it for reasons. Jaye was still teaching Kpop class. Apparently he was teaching Clap. When he was watching the video he then proceeded to go back in the room to teach Crazy. WHAT.

Clare joined our circle. Kelvin was being troll as usual. Giving out random candies and testing Clare if she's Hogwarts material. Yeah too bad it doesn't really work twice. Unless you want to be fooled again.

Dinner time. We went to Eating World. I got the usual and I believe everyone else got theirs as well. Kelvin was throwing chocolates into my ramen as well as everyone else's foods. Bec also shared her dinner with Kelvin who ate nothing but chocolate. How nice haha.

We walked to Town Hall station. On the way David was being stalker on Kelbecca. He has much to learn Padawan. We all went our ways. Kelvin also took the train home. Most interesting indeed.

Start of an Adventure

Dream: I had a dream that I was at a lecture and I met this random girl who did something oddly significant. I couldn't recognise this person at all. Though apparently your brain keeps a mental picture of every person you've seen/met. It would be funny if I met her in real life. Could be some strange sign.


Woke up and got to the city at around 1-2ish. I went to visit the T-2 place in World Square. It was really cool there.They had a lot of containers and pots and stuff. They also had the tea I wanted. It was pricey and I didn't have room in my bag so I decided to buy it another time.

Had lunch with Huy at a Japanese place in the alley way with Crazy Wings. It was alright. The bento box was filling. Huy only got a pancake which left me eating most of the time. When we were done we headed to Crossover.

Jaye wasn't there yet so we waited till he arrived. I decided to practice the dance break of Warrior and then Tina randomly showed up with chocolates and then immediately left. Okay. Jaye arrived and we started setting up for stuff... We got most of it done before class. Class was awesome yet hard to remember. Oh well I can always go back to it in videos. It wasn't that hard anyway. Partnering with Ellyn was fun.

Afterwards meetings were had. I finally decided to eat the chocolate Tina gave me earlier. It was nice, despite people saying that chocolate was too sweet. No such thing as TOO sweet. Dan and I got cast for the roles of Jong Up and Zelo for the headshot part. Multiculturalism? Anyways after that Kelvin and I finished off our parts for the thing despite people constantly watching. In the end we couldn't get the group shot so we decided to save it till Sunday. I should start editing soon.

Dinner was had and I got to eat my favourite ramen at Gumshara. Surprisingly Whitney was eating again after saying she wanted to faint. More surprising is that she was eating more than David. Talks were had though I barely remember most of what was said. Monkey dentists?

The way to the station was ugh. You know who you are. On the train ride home I just listened to Warrior on repeat while reading the paper. I could've started playing DS but I forgot.

When I got home I got asked to drive my brother home from school again. So I did that. Awkward mistakes were made. I dislike driving at night.

I finally started my Pokemon adventure in Johto. Rebecca (Mt. Man) is my rival who continues to be ahead of me. I'll catch up soon enough. I just don't want to run into more night pokemon...

My left finger is swollen. It annoys me.

Comformity

Society is a funny bunch. They make you think that it's necessary to be in a relationship. From TV ads to what friends tell you and a a certain "holiday" that celebrates relationships. What it does is leave single individuals feeling left out and lonely, then they complain about it in some way or form which in turn adds to the discourse. They never tell you that being single has it's own perks. Sure dying alone doesn't sound pleasant, but if you're too busy having fun with life who cares? I for one will never feel loneliness. I have family and friends who I trust and be happy with. Get over it society.

Today I woke up at 4PM. FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON. What the heck. Having nothing to do I decided to head to the shops to look for some of that red material which I called red harness belts. I also wanted to get more fruit juice because I really like fruit juice. It's like my second favourite beverage at home other than tea and juice is much faster to make a cup of. Also we were out of milk.

I got there and I visited Lincraft and after searching I had no luck. I did however find the material but in black and pink only. (so guys...) But I did manage to find that it was called strapping not "harness belts" which made looking it up on the internet so much easier. I went to the supermarket and bought apple and mango juice as well as milk. I also bought moth traps for those annoying little moths in my pantry. It was about time I start destroying them. Also the method of these traps is quite teehee. Do I dare quote? Nah.

When I got home I spent the time trying to learn the stomping part of Warrior. The beat is really fun.

Nothing else was done I suppose. Guess I should aim for an early night and try finish off the dance break.

Unbreakable

The task for today was to collaborate with Ellyn and Elena on finding suitable costumes for the audition/performance. Unfortunately I ended up sleeping at around 4:30AM because for some reason at the last minute I decided to finish off Terra's story in Kingdom Hearts. I woke up slightly late but Ellyn said that she was going to be late so that was less pressure for me. I made it to the designated area of meeting at just a few minutes past twelve. Soon after the three of us were ready to start searching.

Our first place of searching took place in Kmart because I think Elena wanted to find a leather jacket. Also it was a good place to find cheap shirts and pants. I was still voting on camouflage style cargo pants. The girls found their black denims while I found my beloved cargo pants. While looking at the shirts we found a really good skull design t-shirt that had the words 'unbreakable' under the skull. I was really excited because 'unbreakable' was also a song that B.A.P has in their album. This was the shirt. The three of us went to try out the clothes. I was to wear the cargos while the others wore their black pants. The result for mine was this.

It works. Because the other two were wearing the same shirt and black pants they were really dark but the cargo pants definitely makes a difference. Even Ellyn who was initially against the camo pants agreed that the combination was good. To complete the image we just needed red straps and accessories. But we got the idea.

Once we were satisfied we decided to go look around in other shops for good alternatives. In the end we couldn't find anything as good as the option in Kmart. Our only measure left was to check other Kmarts for the same clothes perhaps in other sizes. People were craving food from the city so we decided to head over there. 

After a while of searching we decided on eating at On Ramen. I tried out the ramen. I really liked the egg, though I think I get what Jibbie said when he said that it was like instant noodles. The noodles itself were really soft. Different than other places. Maybe cause they weren't using buckwheat noodles? No idea. 

Afterwards we headed over to Crossover. It wasn't open so we tried calling Jaye. I tried yelling from the elevator. After moments of stupidity Jaye showed up from the street. We rested a bit and then me and Elena decided to check out the Kmart in Broadway to find copies of the costume. Ellyn had to stay and do staff work.

We got there and found that they did in fact sell the same clothes. Which was good so we didn't have to worry about not having enough. Though they didn't have small cargo pants for the smaller people. Perhaps Ellyn can find some in her area. If not alterations can be easily done.

We got back to Crossover and told Ellyn what we found. After that we just sat around the couches. Ellyn took class and after seeing a post that the Lovey Dovey Plus MV was out I proceeded to tell the current receptionist to look for it on youtube and then watched it with Elena and Jaye. Epileptic seizure attack! Was the editor partially blind when they edited this? Perhaps the other version will be less harmful to human eyes.

Then it was home time, and now it's time to relax.

We Gonna Rock This

The arranged meeting time for everyone to meet at the studio was at 1:30PM. I decided to get there earlier so I could practice the beginning myself. I arrived at 12PM and Jaye was about to teach the basic Kpop class. I also overheard something very teehee. Anyways after a bit of practice I remembered that others were having lunch at 12:30PM. Knowing that I'd need as much energy as possible I went and joined Dan and David.

Huy and Whitney also showed up though Whitney didn't eat anything. I had my favourite food at Naruto again. The lady who I usually see was in today. She invited me to her other restaurant which I said that I would visit that night. However I couldn't cause the store wasn't open on Sundays. At least for now I think. She said she'd give me a deal so we should definitely go!

When we got back, other people were already there. We started to go through the routine. We worked pretty hard, then the studio was taken and we had to wait till Jaye finished his class. I went into studio 4 to do even more practice along with David, Jibbie, Elena and Ellyn who occasionally joined in. Eventually Jaye finished his class and we spent about an hour-ish practicing.

Then came Jaye's shuffling flashmob class which I chose not to do cause I was low on energy. Though I was then convinced to take it. Took me a while to get the first part which I missed but during the break Jaye taught me properly which I then got it down. Shuffling was a bit difficult, mainly because I hardly practice it. I think I apply too much force on my feet resulting in friction, making it harder to do. I should try working on that. When the class was over Jaye wanted to film an instructional video. It seemed like it was going to turn out well until his camera's memory was full. He then had to call off the video. It was too bad cause everyone was there and we were going well.

Afterwards we started discussing on the matter of costumes. I'm still a bit sketchy on the fine details but I'm sure they'll be resolved by this week. I still think we should work on the flour effect(click for video). Also the costumes they were wearing that performance weren't half bad. Maybe we should consider it.

We ended up not leaving until 9PM and we haven't even had dinner yet. Dinner was at Eating World and to my dismay Gumshira Ramen was closed. I ended up getting karaage (garage) don at the real Japanese place. Feeling extra hungry I decided to get refills for the first time. I certainly got my money's worth. I should do it more often. Then again I still like eating ramen more.

While waiting for the trains we found interesting new facts about celery. Hmm. A certain someone should test it out.

Got home and now I'm relaxing after a tiring day.

Lightish red

Didn't blog last night because I was mindlessly playing Kingdom Hearts till 1AM.


Today I got up at 7:45AM because I was going to help Huy out with moving houses. I was about to get ready to take the train to Cabramatta when my dad said that I could take the car. It was very awkward but doesn't matter. I now had an efficient way to get to and from Huy's. This was also my first time driving long distance on my own. No pressure at all.


I arrived at Huy's old house in one piece and unexpectedly Huy wasn't there. I helped out by carrying heavy furniture into the truck. While doing so one of the edges of wood dug into my arm and left a small cut that bled a bit. What is with me and bleeding?! How lame. After filling the truck we travelled to Huy's new house to unload. David showed up and helped out. While we were unpacking the stuff into the new house, we noticed something of great significance, but I'll get to that later. 


After unpacking we went for a second round back to the old house and packed some more. Coming back to the new house Huy was there. We then proceeded to unpack even more and etc etc. We were surprised on the amount of stuff Huy had. Eventually we finished and it turns out that was only about 1PM. That's crazy cause it felt like forever! 


Huy was going to treat me and David to pub steak at ______. Saving fuel, we played rock paper scissors to see who was designated driver. Of all people, I was the one to do it. Thanks to Huy's back seat driving we arrived at the pub. And it turns out that I've been to this place many times, yet I never remember the name. Also the weather was really bipolar. First it's raining, then it's sunny and hot, then it rains again.

Driving mission results

Collisions: 0

Fatalities: 0

Success!

Bonus parking stage

time taken: forever.

Reverse parking was so much easier when I was in Ls. That doesn't even make sense. The food was really good. Afterwards I drove back to Huy's and dropped him off and dropped David to his car. I then proceeded to go home in time for dinner. Once I got home I found my brother playing Resident Evil. I then went on my bed and fell asleep until we had to go for dinner. 

Dinner was at Star City. I had steak again. Surprisingly I was able to eat the whole thing. My appetite must be improving. After that we walked around the place and then went back home.

Practice on tomorrow. Time to work hard. Apparently we only have this Sunday to the next for us to finish our audition tape. Going to go through the routine again thoroughly before I head to bed.

HUY'S ROOM IS PINK. PINK! IT'S LITERALLY THE ONLY ROOM IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE THAT'S PINK AND IT BELONGS TO HUY. DID I MENTION HIS ROOM WHERE HE SLEEPS IS THE COLOUR PINK?

Flaming garbage. What could possibly go wrong?

Dreams. People say dreams represent your innermost thoughts. Based on last night's dream, I certainly hope not.

Today was another one of those days where I stay home and do whatever. I decided to start the day doing exercise. By the end I made my back go sore, still not sure how that happened. Oh well, it'll probably go away by tomorrow.

When my mother came home after picking up my brother, she asked me to get some milk from the corner shop. I asked if I could drive and she said that I could. So exciting, I get to drive my mother's car which is the first time I get to drive a 4WD. Oh how technology has evolved. The handbrake is a switch! Also note to self, get magnetic plates. Reason so is that you don't end up covering one of the crash sensors with your plate. Every time I drove slowly the car would beep and warn me that I'm going to hit the area that my plate was placed. Anyways I got the milk and returned home.

Results

Number of crashes: 0

Number of deaths: 0

Mission Success!

I played more KH at home. I managed to finish 3 worlds in one play through. Now I'm about to go to Never Land.

Holy crap two new episodes of Naruto Shippuden today. I know what I'll be doing tonight. Speaking of nights. Nights are quite interesting. Looking up old TV show opening themes and such. It was agreed that Digimon Frontier had a good theme song. A rarity in english dubs.

I also looked up my favourite live action TV show, Power Rangers. Their early theme songs were incredibly laughable. Power Rangers In Space was by far the most ridiculous.

We get it. They're in SPACE.

Lightspeed Rescue was actually one of the first themes that I liked from the franchise.

Power Rangers Time Force was the most trippy one. The theme song was really trippy. Also everyone on that show felt really out of place. Reminds me of those old movies that are so bad that it's funny.

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?

The rest of the series was meh until Dino Thunder. I actually liked it cause it reminds me of the first Power Ranger series.

Theme song is nice too.

Woah wait. Dr Tommy Oliver? Tommy as in the green/white ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ends up getting a PhD in Palaeontology? Not bad for someone who had to fight monsters all the time while studying. Not only is he a doctor in the show...

awesome moment when your childhood comes back

That's enough for today. Time to watch Naruto.

What's your A?

We look to the past, as we head for the future to reclaim the digital world. With faith in ourselves and trust in each other, we live by the lessons we've learned.

Today was a good day. Woke up to find messages from Kelvin on my phone. Clearly bored at the museum (haha). Today we were supposed to do a photo-shoot mainly for profile purposes. So I had to pack my camera into my bag. I also wanted to put the Warrior mp3 into my phone so I could listen on the way to city.

I got to city just in time for lunch with Huy, Elena, Jibbie (then later) Angeline at Cya Cafe. Hot metal pots were hot and I managed to spill some of my green tea on the table. Silly me. After food was had Huy and I wanted to check out the new Japanese and Korean restaurant next to the cafe. When we got there we saw Shock being played on the TV. I like this place already. There was an upstairs and we decided to check it out. Surprisingly I found a lady that I knew from the Market City Japanese place in the food court. I used to go there all the time in my UTS days. Apparently she now opened up this place and I'm guessing is going to work there from now on. She's really kind, like a typical Korean mother (haha). She told me that I can book the table at the top floor whenever I wanted, which was nice. Should totally go there one of these days.

So afterwards we headed to the studio where we started setting up for our photo-shoot. The only place we could find that was decorative and decently lighted was the graffiti wall in studio 3. Since our performance is gangsta related, it was a justified choice. The whole thing went smoothly. Now we need two more people and a group shot. But now that we got most of the individuals down already, there's less stress down the line.

The Warrior class was awesome. Luckily I had the mp3 on me cause Jaye didn't have it. By the end I was sweating a lot and out of breath but it was so worth it. It was fun working out the fight choreography with Huy.

Meeting was had afterwards. That's about it. Nothing too important was talked about.

Dinner Time. We decided to go to Eating World. On the way some wanted to get Chatime. While I was there I decided to go get a copy of B.A.P's first single. Mainly because I like the song and I wanted to support the rookie group and their hard work. A guy had their arm on fire. I can't help NOT buying their album. Then I got Chatime as well because the drink I normally buy at Eating World is never enough to satisfy my thirst after a hearty meal. However when we got there it was packed so we opted to go to Sussex Centre. I however really wanted the ramen at Gumshara so I got take away. Good thing too. I found out that the Japanese place at Sussex was closed, and perhaps closed for good. I was sad. Lucky I got ramen from Eating World because I would have literally no idea what to eat at Sussex. Talks about performance were had. Apparently I have a 'solo' where I do a handstand. That's not much of a solo though.

After dinner we headed home. On the way we saw a clothes store that totally fit the bill for our costumes. We had a look around. Then the guy at the counter started playing B.A.P's Warrior MV on the TV. We were like "woah such a coincidence". The bigger surprise is when he said that he was the brother of one of the members of B.A.P. That was really cool. I showed him the copy of Warrior that I bought earlier and he was impressed, given that the band is fairly recent. We talked about how we were going to be doing his brother's dance. We should probably plan to get something from that store. I'm already thinking about masks and maybe a jacket.

Everyone went home except me because I went to Jibbies place first so I could give him the photos. Good luck with them Jibbie! After that I went home.

Walking home, I got a phone call from my mother asking me to pick up my brother from school. My first time driving as a P plater! At night! On a road I'm not that familiar with! Naturally I asked my dad to accompany me this time so he could give me advice. I'm not used to driving with a purpose but I think I'll get the hang of it. They key is to remember the roads and where everything is.

Listening to the Warrior album. It's good though too bad that there's only four songs. My iTunes doesn't show the album cause it's too short

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In the safety of home

Today I stayed indoors the whole time. There was absolutely no reason for me to go outdoors which was good. Although prepare for a short and most likely boring entry.

Anyways yes. Not leaving the house means not spending any money which is good. Speaking of money, my mother tells me to open up a bank account. She tells me to use ANZ but I'm not really knowledgable in banks. I'll get around to doing that... eventually.

A new episode of Adventure Time. Yes! Something to keep me busy during the day. I also played more KH. I'm starting to get used to Terra now. Now that he has more abilities he seems more faster and actually usable. Speaking of abilities, the command system is so weird. To get abilities I need to mix commands and mix in an item. I miss the days where they just give me abilities without being so strategic about it. So many abilities, so little time.

I also had my go at mixing the songs for audition so we could get the overall idea. I made the first version at like 5AM haha. The more I listened to It's War the more I believed that it was good. It's like the Before U Go to Why. And just like Before U Go it needs to have feeling and emotion for it to shine. I get the feeling this is going to be the new 'TVXQ' performance. In retrospect, the TVXQ mix was actually good. Weren't really any other mixes that were better. I think Only Maximum came close but War could maybe do it. Speaking of It's War, I learnt the 'canon' part. It wasn't hard at all. But yeah I need 4 people to do it for funsies.

Here's something for your boredom. I found the new YGO Abridged episode to be really good.

Just another manic Monday

Got up at like 2pm today, I forgot what time I actually went to bed. I was playing BBS last night and I got stuck at one of the bosses. The giant wheel thing kept jumping around and every time he landed a hit I took massive damage. By the way I'm playing on Proud mode so that's probably why.

I decided to head out to Parramatta. I ended up at the library cause I felt like getting my literature on and start reading all of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Unfortunately all the books were already on loan. No surprise, given the recent movies of course people would develop the interest in reading them. So I made the decision to go to Dymocks and find the first novel. When I got there they mostly had compilations and stuff. I was going to buy the first novel (A Study in Scarlet) and get the rest later when I saw The Complete Sherlock Holmes A Luxury Edition. I pretty much fanboyed. It was then I knew this book would be the start of my collection of awesome looking books. I may have one or two already but this was super cool.

Shiny cause it's wrapped in plastic

After that I decided to go home and play more Kingdom Hearts. I realised that if I'm going to win in an RPG then I'm going to have to grind. Insert montage music! After a few minutes of fighting in the same room I proceeded to engage the boss. My hard work paid off. The boss did less damage to me so I hardly had to use any healing items. And easily enough I defeated him. Using Terra is difficult for me cause he's so slow compared to Sora and it's really hard to avoid getting hit. Usually with Sora my defence would be to land a hit before the enemy makes a move. But yeah Terra moves too slow and they attack me first. Guess I'm going to have to grind so I can take more hits.

No codes today, no one has solved my older ones so I might just stop.

Repeat if desired

Got up and took the train to city for some lunch at the Japanese place next to Capitol Square. I arrived there early and saw Jesslyn already there. Soon Huy arrived and I stood point waiting for others. I tried out this new walkie talkie app with Rebecca and yeah it was okay, I think the free "calls" is what makes it good. Soon everyone arrived and we had lunch.

We found out to our absolute dismay that the free ice cream only applied during dinner time. Regardless we still ended up eating. I ordered a bento box, the other guys on my table had ramen. Maybe I should've had ramen. Judging by the name of the place ramen would be their specialty. Next time then. The salad was really nice though. Then me Jibbie and Huy left first. Huy shouted us drinks at Starbucks.

We then arrived to Crossover where everyone was already there. David lent me his PSP with Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. Thank you so much David! Meetings were had and we decided to make the switch to Warrior. I personally like Warrior because it's so strong and hardcore. I remember Dan writing in his blog that this song wouldn't suit IJGK. I'll have to agree on that one. If I may give an honest opinion (without sounding mean (yeah this is going to sound mean won't it? Damnit.)) I have low confidence that most of IJGK will be able to pull it off. We're clearly not the hardcore and power moves type of people. Not everyone has the physical abilities to give that same effect. Maybe I'm wrong though, no one will know until we all try. But remember when people said Cry Cry lacked energy? Yeah that's kinda what I mean.

Afterwards we all played Mario Kart cause we're so cool like that. Then afterwards we just chilled and danced a little at studio 3. Opportunities were also missed. Next time guys.

Then came dinner, we decided to eat Mappen. I found out that they were now selling Japanese sweets. I was very pleased. When we got to the train station me, Dan and David were having a cross platform chat with Bec. It was highly amusing, for us that is.

Now at home I think I'll be proceeding to play KH:BBS until I get tired. Oh crap I'm never going to sleep.

Not thinking about charity concert, I can't wait to do Warrior in class on Wednesday.

Laters.


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Level Up

This morning I got up and had a decent breakfast cause you know, it was game day. After getting changed I proceeded to do something which I hardly ever do when I start the day which was stretching and warm ups. It was a really good way to get out of a sleepy state as well as decrease likelihood of muscle fatigue from sitting in the car too long (it happened to me quite a lot). Then just to be sure, I brewed myself some tea for that extra alertness.

My instructor arrived and I had a last minute practice before my test at 1:45pm. While waiting at the RTA I did a few more stretches after being in the car for that while because yeah, anything to help my cause I'll take. Then came the test. These days I never really get nervous or frightened. I kept telling myself that this was going to be easy and to smile and be cheery, cause it makes the tester think you're confident and hey it even convinces yourself of your confidence. When the tester got in the car I couldn't help but think of plan B (hahahah) Then our test had begun.

My instructor said the test usually lasts about half an hour, though I didn't check afterwards. Point was that it felt like forever. But all I had to do is just remember my practice runs of the course. Afterwards to my relief I was told that I passed. It felt really awesome. Then afterwards I had to wait for my license to be printed and unfortunately they messed it up two times which made me wait longer, but hey, the edge was off and I was feeling good.

Aww Yeah

Afterwards I came home and me and my family went to Star City to eat at that Japanese place I'm not that fond of because it's so not Asian and everything feels overpriced. (Doesn't matter, not my loss). I was actually going to give it a second chance because my dad booked for bar seats with the sushi chefs. Too bad when we got there they said there wasn't any free seats so they moved us to a regular table in a more secluded room. After ordering came the period where we just wait, talk and do whatever, I looked around and accidentally exchanged glances with another man at the table next to us. (how awkward haha) But then I realised, "hey that guy looks like Spiderman" and laughed. I told my brother and he thought so too. Then he told my dad and my dad was actually certain it was him. That's when we realised that we were sitting near Tobey Maguire himself. 

I know you readers are going to say pics or it didn't happen. But yeah no pics. Sorry guys. I knew that if I went up to him it for a photo or anything it would cause a scene and things would probably end up most undesirable for him. And I didn't want to take a stalker photo either cause that would be paparazzi like and creepy.

After we finished eating my dad went and asked one of the workers if that guy was actually Tobey Maguire. They confirmed it but also told him to be quiet about it. They said that no one was able to recognise him hence him being able to eat in the public and the lack in security (there was one guard outside but was hardly noticeable). I totally feel proud about myself right now.

After that we went home and tomorrow is the start of IJGK's next project. Going to be working real hard. It's going to be strenuous I bet, but hopefully the end product will be worth that effort and we'll have some more good times along the way.

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Final stretch (hopefully)

Never theorize before you have data. Invariably, you end up twisting facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Another driving lesson today. I sort of did okay minus a few mistakes which I'm trying to prioritise in my head during the actual test, which is tomorrow. Speaking of which, my mother is actually telling me to fail my exam. Why? Because it means I finish my lessons and pay the final instalment. Apparently she dislikes the fact that I'm finishing so early with him, and wants to make the money last longer(?) Yeah that makes total sense. It doesn't matter really, I just want my Ps and get this over with. If I pass it probably means I don't need that extra time anyway. She told me this over the phone, and I could hear my brother being pissed off at her logic haha.

After I finished I was home alone and decided to get ready to go city so I could show Jibbie my Kpop albums and photo books for reference for a project. I also wanted to see who was free for lunch, only Elena was free, everyone else either had lunch already or were most likely busy. I felt like ramen at Menya cause it was cold so we went there.

Soon after we decided to hit Jibbie's place. I lent him some of my albums, one of them being Teen Top of course, then we proceeded to crash his place for a few hours. Jibbie was watching Korean dramas, Elena was sleeping and I was preparing for my drivers test. We all decided not to go to Crossover for class because we were lazy and thought no one would be there. Also I was still working on my book. We decided the three of us would have dinner at Pancakes. Then came the argument of whether eating at The Rocks or Darling Harbour. I totally voted for Darling Harbour cause you'd have to be insane to go all the way to The Rocks. Then I remembered that I left my umbrella at Crossover so it would be highly convenient of me to go pick it up on the way.

At the studio I reacquired my umbrella (thanks Kwan) but I also found that Kelvin, Bec and Huy were there too. Turns out they took that MBLAQ class. They were playing Mario Kart and we managed to catch up with them. Ellyn arrived too and we increased our party for the quest for dinner at Pancakes on the Rocks.

Dinner was had. I totally forgot to bring my DS's. I was certain I wouldn't need it today so I left them in my usual bag. Truly I have failed in preparing for all contingencies. It will never happen again. Had steak and tea. The steak didn't have any sauce. That kind of sucked.

Afterwards we hit the park and hung out for a bit. Dances were done and leaps of faith attempted. We decided to leave relatively early. I knew I had to since I have my test tomorrow.

I predict a 70% success rate on my exam. I hope I pass then I can finally start driving on my own. Though I technically don't have anywhere to drive to. I pretty much take the train for my travels. And I easily walk to the station. And if I fail guess it's back to square one. Best of luck to me. Speaking of trains...

Busy Busy

So guys I've got an early start tomorrow and I've got some work to do so I'm going to make this entry as short as I can.

Though I was supposed to have my driver's class at 11am, I got a (wake-up) call from my instructor saying that he's coming over early. How early? He was going to be there in ten minutes. So I quickly rushed to get ready and had the smallest breakfast I could get, a banana and glass of water then I got picked up for class. However the instructor apparently came back from another lesson and he was driving a manual, so he drove us back to his place to change cars. At least I got some time to rest and get ready.

I got home at 2pm and I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail that exam. Hopefully my last lesson I can turn things around. I spent the rest of the day reading. After dinner I decided to go late night shopping in Parramatta. It was a while since I went to the shops and I really needed a replacement hoodie since these days were so cold and wet. There's this place that sells blank hoodies which are supposed to have custom prints on them, but I just buy them blank cause it's cheaper and it's hard to find nice looking hoodies. I also dropped by Game Traders where I saw they were having a Yu Gi Oh tournament. Classy.

Blog finished. Nothing more to see here folks.

Pedal to the metal

Another driving lesson this morning. It was the longest time I drove at once I think. Three whole hours of driving, drilling common actions and whatnot. Apparently my Ps test is Saturday and I have to get as much preparation I can before then. So expect another training session on Thursday and Friday.

After I finished I hit the city to meet up with lunch buddies at Takeru. Elena got me a present, cake and caramellos, hooray for inside jokes! I totally did not see it coming, especially the distracting packaging. Then a surprise visitor came - Ellyn! Catch ups were had and food came. Kaisen don is like my most favourite dish they have. And the ramen is nice too. Afterwards we went to the studio and we checked out the new speakers. They were so cool. We tested it out with a song, you guessed it, Crazy.

In the end only crew people came for Bec and Whitney's class. There were other people who came and were thinking about doing class but I could tell that they probably wanted Jaye to be teaching, Bec and Whitney totally scared them away. Change was learnt and it turns out that it wasn't as easy as we thought it would be. And we didn't even do the whole thing. Makes me wonder when the next opportunity arises for learning the rest, cause you know... It's supposed to be a cover.

Afterwards was a meeting. We decided to do BEG's Sixth Sense. When I heard that Jaye wanted gender role switches, this came to mind.

The thumbnail pic says it all...

But then we decided to do normal roles. Well for now... just saying, I'm pretty sure we could make it that hilarious.

After we finished discussing, we all went to dinner. Dan and Huy figured out the secret. Which was too bad. I had clues and stuff I wanted to use. The secret wasn't that hard. Anyone could simply guess it. But yeah proving it is so much more fun. There were a bunch of people next to us. Apparently David Quach knew one of them so we tried our hardest to make them notice us. Wasn't that right David Quach? One of them was playing Pokemon and we were totally considering battling him but they left. Speaking of Pokemon, Whitney was asking Dan and only Dan about Pokemon. But yeah Whitney, to actually progress through the game, you have to actually beat people with the Pokemon you catch. I really hope we get to start soon, I don't even care if I have to play nuzlocke. I also wish there would be a common Pokemon game that all of us could play and we didn't have to worry about handicaps. It could be a learning process on how to be better.

Then we all went home and stuff. One of my favourite webcomics made the next part of their story in prose. Not only that, it has nine chapters. So I'll be spending part of my night doing that. Then I probably have to sleep early for my next lesson at 11am I believe.

Thanks again for the gift it was really thoughtful. The chocolates are delicious and not too sweet at all. Hope you get better soon. You too Jibbie!