How to recognize that you are a design student

The alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep

You know what UHU tastes like

Redbull, coffee and cokes are tools, not treats

You’ve slept more than 20 hours nonstop in a single weekend

You’ve listened to all your cd’s in less than 48 hours

You’re not seen in public

You lose your house keys for a week, and you didn’t even notice

You’ve used an entire roll of film to photograph a sidewalk

You’ve become excellent at recycling when it becomes to making models

You use holidays only as extra sleeping time

You’ve got more photos of buildings than of actual people

You’ve taken your boyfriend/girlfriend on a date to a construction site

You can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can’t print, its chaos

When you are being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is

You can use Photoshop, Illustrator, and make a webpage, but you can’t use Excel

You buy 50 dollar architectural magazines that you haven’t read yet

When someone offers you a BIC pen, you feel offended

Lazy. Lazy. Lazy.

Man... how lazy am i! 7 posts this year... and haven't blogged properly in over a month! Well things are really busy here and I'm actually not procrastinating... hehe

So what has happened over the past month? not much...

• Badminton comp and many baddy nights
• Uni assignments and *sigh* presentations
• Organising FiGS stuff every week
• Depriving myself of sleep
• Work
• Going out for meals since I'm so lazy... mmmm Grinders side wedges =P
• Poking friends hehehe
• Being stupid as usual

But now I have one week break and I wanna make the most of it!

Want to:

• Sleep
• Play badminton
• Go fishing maybe?? JAYE!!!
• Poke friends
• Be my stupid self =P
• Sleep
• LAN party maybe?? (who's up for easter sunday?!?)
• Catch up with people
• Finish my stupid assignments

Well thats my post for now =P

Do you know how it feels?

Do you know how it feels
To live life every day
Waiting to be noticed
In any particular way

Do you know how it feels
When you are all alone
No one to see or listen to
Or talk to on the phone

Do you know how it feels
To wake up to the bright sun
An exciting day ahead of you
Instead at the end, the day is none

How would you really feel
If your loved ones turned you away
They were your only refuge
The reason you chose to stay

Why do people live every day
Treating others as if all were the same
When everyone carries heavy burdens
Our suffering, hurt and pain.

Jaye's Dream Home!

*drumrolls* J-Dimension presents the Jaye-home Project!

Here are some questions that will hopefully point J-Dimension into the right direction in this exciting new project!

Will Jaye need:
1. a) a huge house
b) a small and cozy house

2. a) one-storey house
b) two-storey house

3. a) a big backyard
b) a small or no backyard

4. a) a new age, sleek, stylish design
b) a traditional, conservative design

5. a) a big gaming room for us all to gatecrash
b) a swimming pool for us to gatecrash
c) a tennis court for us to gatecrash
d) a star wars like Darth Nolla module
e) any or all of the above

Should the design be:
a) Simple and most efficient
b) deliberately annoying

What should be a major idea for Jaye-home Project?
a) style
b) functionality
c) open-ness to visitors
d) star wars like
e) no idea is neccesary

We are also looking for a piece of land to situate Jaye-home Project. Please contact me with some suggestions!

The best bus in the world is...

169!!!
The best bus service in the world! Reduces joshi's bus trip from home to UQ by a massive 30 minutes! Yes... from an original 10 minute walk to GC, 20 minute bus to the city, 10 minute walk and wait for the 407/412, and then another 20-25 minutes to get to the wrong side of uni, and then walking 5 minutes to the architecture building... Joshi now walks 10 minutes to GC, hops on the awesome 169 (at about 9 - 9:30 with a relatively empty bus) and 18 minutes later, he is about a 2 minute walk away from the architecture building :D

Uni is pretty normal again i guess, except heaps of newbies that i know hahaha... We're already getting assignments! The one we got today is pretty cool... we have to renovate an existing building into an 'ecohome' or an eco-friendly home. Yesterday's lecture was interesting too... about greek and roman architecture. Its really awesome looking at the ancient buildings and deciphering the ideologies and thoughts behind their masterpieces.

Other than that... really tired and stuffed from working 6 full days last week. FiGS was awesome though... first time we had such a full on program... and it was great! Hopefully we can continue on this platform we have begun to build, and really have fun while learning heaps. Also... so much stuff happening lately! Mum went to melb for the past 2 weeks cos of my cousin's wedding! First one from mum's side i think. Last year, we went to malaysia for the first wedding from my generation in the whole family (both mum and dad's side). Now 2 weddings have taken place... both my fav. cousins from each side :P and another wedding in the next month down in melb... and then one (or two... waiting for news... lol) at the end of the year!

What else has happened...? hmmm... last sunday was first soccer game with all the youth around bris. It was really awesome, even though a few randoms rocked up. Badminton is getting a little boring lately... thought i mite still play in the next comp. Hopefully more people and better people will come on fridays and sundays so I can have a good hit out!

Well.. that's all from me... busy busy me :) might take a nap now hehe (look at the time i posted :P)

Norm kicks in again...

Well... after a massive summer holiday... it looks like the norm has kicked in again for 2007. Work has been a real eye opener about how to manage time more efficiently... and I'm probably gonna learn more about that with work + uni combination, and also missing parent(s) for at least 6 weeks this first semester! Been awesome catching up with my best buddy for the past week or so... but now, uni is around the corner and we are really into 2007!

Anyways... have a few funny work stories... (from a computer shop)

1. Customer calls in: "do you guys actually sell computer parts!?!?"

2. Customer calls in: "do you have any 5.25 inch floppy disc drivse for sale?"

3. Customer brings in system that 'overheated'. After technician analyses the system... he finds a piece of plastic melted on the CPU (plastic was part of packaging and customer did not remove it...)

4. Customer asks if CD rom drive can be used as a cup holder.

Proud to be An Aussie

Being Australian is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows ona Japanese TV.

Only in Australia ... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Australia ... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Australia ... do people order double cheeseburgers, large friesand a DIET coke.

Only in Australia ... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens tothe counters.

Only in Australia ... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars on thedrive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

Only in Australia ... do we use answering machines to screen calls andthen have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't wantto talk to in the first place.

Only in Australia ... are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.

NOT TO MENTION...
3 Aussies die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
142 Aussies were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.
58 Aussies are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.
31 Aussies have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.
8 Aussies had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.
A massive 543 Aussies were admitted to emergency in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
And finally.... in 2000 eight Aussies cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the toilet.

2007... the busy year...

Its just the second week of the new year, and its been so busy already! So much has happened... good and bad... especially in the past week, and right now I'm so tired I just wanna sleep forever! Well... lets see what I've done so far this year...

• picnic at Roma St.
• Dinner with friends at home
• lan party
• shannon's place
• badminton mornings x 4
• sunday 4hrs badminton
• 8hr figs meeting
• job interview
• started new job, quit another
• worked 22hrs in 3 consecutive days
• went fishing and got a crazy arm tan

Got home from fishing yesterday at 5 and looked in the mirror to see a huge arm tan and a strip of neck tan. SIGH... as if i'm not tanned enough!! Fell asleep last night at just after 10 while i was reading... *yawnnn*

woooww... so much has happened! more than i thougght too... and its just 2 weeks into the year. Who knows what good and bad things are around the corner... lets just hope that there's more good than bad huh? Either way... it must be an omen that 2007 will be a busy year!

New Tech

I've been browsing around while at work... looking at some new technology out there... and this is what I have found so far:

-Corsair Dominator RAM... with its own fan!!!

-Carbon fibre Computer case (wow... light! and expensive too!)

-Iphone (apple's new phone... too bad its not as good as the other brands)

2006... The year that flew by...

Well its the last day of 2006... and almost 2007... and i guess its an appropriate time to look back on what can be summed up as the year that flew by. Although for me the year 'flew by', i gotta admit its the busiest year i've ever faced... with heaps of big decisions and milestones. I reckon the highlight of my life.. and the lowlight of my life so far has occurred in the past year. But in the end... what really pulled me through were all of my friends... those who are there for me when i'm happy or sad, smiling or crying, whatever the situation is, my friends were always there for me. I met heaps and heaps of new friends, which probably don't know how much they have impacted on my life... also old friends from high/primary school which I am so happy to still be awesome friends with.

I can barely remember 2006... it started off on a bad note: my uncle passed away on 2nd Jan because of throat cancer. I spent new years in the hospital ward, and woke up the next day with the news. I knew 2006 would be when I turned 18... but adulthood really hit me in the face then. Life can come and go just like that... but I remember one of the last things I heard my uncle say... he said that he was satisfied and happy with his life. That really challenged me to live a good life and be satisfied with whatever it throws at you. I should be happy because maybe there will be no tomorrow? I should tell my friends how special they are to me as if it was the last time I could do that.

Another step for me in 2006 was the beginning of university life. I was happy with my course and eager to settle into university life. The first thing that hit me was the scope difference between school and uni. In school there are 25 people in class and 1500 in your school... but in uni there are like 100+ people in a lecture and like thousands of people in the actual campus. I was lucky to find a group of friends who are really friendly and also relatively focused on uni =P. Also, was able to meet with other friends during breaks, which was really good.

Because of uni and everything... I think my friendship groups were really mixed and stuffed up. I rarely met up with high school friends, and i wouldn't say I had 'best buddies' among my church friends, but I was really blessed to find a new group of friends through badminton. These people overlapped to church friends and also friends of my old friends, so it was really cool! I reckon I wouldn't have survived the year without these people, and they mean so much to me.

I've said it so much... especially in the last few months (where i've tried to get the most outa them by sleeping at 1am at least every night) but I think its true. Time goes by so fast. Once we catch up with wat is happening around us, something else pops up and we have to catch up with that. Can't we just pause time and savour those moments? There have been so many occasions where I just wish time was infinite and at our mercy. Also times where we could just have things the way we thought them out to be. Times where everything would be perfect. But we live in a fallen world, where imperfections are abundant. Life can be cruel, but life is something to be treasured. I don't wanna ever waste a moment of my life. One thing I've learnt is to always have a smile on my face ^__^ ... Its been plastered there by various ppl many times this year... and I hope it won't need to be plastered on anymore! I probably will still be evil and mean when i can get away with it... but otherwise I wanna be the best person and friend I can be.

2007 is coming... with its ups and downs. Sure... there will be moments of helplessness, but I know for sure that there will be times of celebration... times of happiness, love, friendship... times that I wouldn't trade anything for. 2007 is a big year... let's just hope its a good year for everyone! ^______^

Random

Holidays...

Well the past few days have gone pretty fast... been keeping myself busy with church stuff, badminton, work, reading, and the occasional msn chat or two =P And its amazing! tonight will be the third night in just about 4 months that i've slept before 11!! Great accomplishment for joshi~!!

Mmmm christmas time is getting closer~ less than 2 weeks away!! I wonder wat suprises will there be this year? Lots of X-mas carols coming up i guess... voice gonna die and everything... Work is making us wear santa hats and stuff... But the most important thing about X-mas is to remember and remind ourselves of the truth behind it! X-mas isnt just some made up time where some big fat red dude comes down ur chimney (or the big fat red dude who is lonered at plaza says my parents) and gives you presents... That's obviously a fairytale. Just remember... why X-mas equals presents... and then you'll realise what the greatest gift can ever be... and what the greatest gift is...

Badminton + holidays

Yes holidays sinking in! Last sunday was QLD Juniors Badminton comp... and it was awesome! Got there at about 2 and bummed around with the others... everyone was playing so seriously! Watched heaps of games and umpired a few too... talking with ppl about really random stuff :S listening to ipod... until my first game at 3:45. Man... my games were all pretty scary... against state level players and stuff! Under 19/21 singles... won my first game amazingly and comfortably 31-24. I pissed the guy off so much with my serves and he chucked his racquet on the ground. Talk about anger management lol.

Then a few more mins passed... then had to verse brian... crazy state level A/open player... and lol.. was beating him in the beginning 14-9. I was like OMG! Think he wasn't playing very well though... and i didn't give him many smash chances so yeah. I think I managed 20 points in the end. I was happy... was playing pretty well hehe. Then i got wasted by this dragon club dude... he was playing awesome and i was still playing okay... i got just under 20 points so that was okay. hmmmm... haha then i vs'ed this Aus jr team guy... he beat me 21-1 once ages ago so that was a scary proposition hehe. I was beating him in a few stages... then he romped home and beat me about 31-20ish so I was pretty happy still. Then vs'ed this other dragon club guy and lost about 31-20 and i was dead at that time so meh. Can't believe i beat a state team dude and got 20ish points off everyone else hehe. Then up came mixed doubles lol. Me and Elaine had this game plan =P and it worked LOL. We were both a bit tired (well i was anyway...) and SOMEONE kept on hitting the net and giving nice lollipop shots *stare* but we got through and won comfortably... even though the scoreline was a bit close. Then came MD which sucked so i wont talk about it.

Funniest moment was when it started storming... thunder went BOOOOM! and then... LOL half the lights went out! One court was closed cos all these leaves and rain came in through the top lourves... and the other courts had a bit of water on them too! So the lights went out for about 20 minutes... and with 1 unavaiable court for about 1hr... the comp was delayed soooo long. On the way home all the lights on mains rd were dead.. and the intersections were all chaotic. Luckily no stupid drivers on the road or else joshi might not be here. Crap moment was when sandy did a spectacular 180 degree twisting dive! lol thats not the crap bit... that's the awesome bit =P crap bit is she did her ankle badly :( hope you get well soon =P

Anyway more later... c ya

When it all falls apart

Have you ever looked forward to something... something that u really really wanted to go to, or some event that u just really wanted to take place, or just a certain day to come... but when that day came, your expectation, anticipation, and all that excitement and hype was just torn to shreds? Not just torn to shreds... just totally obliterated. Your anticipation gone down the drain... but thats not all.. not only that something is gone... your future is just muddled by this unexpected twist of fortunes.
I am not a guy with huge expectations... and i'm sure there are many out there like me. There are times wen u just wanna smash your head on the wall out of frustration or disappointment... not because of your huge expectations, but merely because logic has not prevailed. Somethings that are straightforward become a tangled mess.
I personally have never experienced what it feels like when everything is falling apart around me... but gee... from what i'm going thru now... it must be a pretty bad feeling.

December has come... what now?

Well, it seemed like yesterday we were staring into a new year... 2006... but now, we are looking back at a year that flew by so fast... and waiting for 2007 to come! So much has happened this year... and there's so much to look back and reflect on, yet theres still so much to come in the last 31 days of 2006. So many good and bad, fun and lonely, happy and sad moments waiting to happen. Well... lets see what is in store for December of 2006!

1. Christmas!
2. New Years Eve
3. Holidays
4. Work
5. Meeting up with friends that we haven't seen in a while
6. Eating out
7. Poking people!
8. Late nights *yawn*
9. Movies
10. Saying goodbye to friends ditching aus XP
11. Playing sport!
12. Swimming
13. Watching sport!
14. Reflection time
15. Fooooooooooood
16. Poking people!
17. Learning CAD/CG programs
18. Badminton self-training
19. Being nic... *coughcough* mean..
20. (hopefully) Presents!!!

Things to do this Holidays

1. Spend heaps of time with friends... especially the ones I didn't get to bum around with due to various different reason
2.Rest and relax after my first year of uni! Stupid late nights and everything took its toll...
3. Work and get more $$$ and more work experience... Hope i get more shifts than I am getting now!
4. Play sports on Nintendo Wii with the wireless controller thingo... *drives to shan's house*
5. Watch all the movies I missed this year *stares at certain ppl*
6. Eat out at many different restaurants... yum yum!
7. Poke people i didn't get to poke during uni *pokepoke*
8. Play heaps of crazy badminton with my friends
9. Wish my friends merry christmas and a happy new year for once (instead of being in malaysia)
10. Re-learn mandarin and maybe learn cantonese
and finally... 11. Clean my room XD

Scientology is a Joke!

Here are some quotes about the founder of Scientology that are just so stooopid and funny!

"Hubbard enrolled at The George Washington University, where he took a course in civil engineering. His grades, however, were consistently poor and university records show that he attended for only two years, was on academic probation, failed in physics, and dropped out in 1931 without a degree. One of his classes was on "atomic and molecular phenomena"; on the basis of this, he later claimed to have been a "nuclear physicist", though his records showed that he scored an F in this course."

"In later years, Hubbard claimed to have been awarded a Ph.D. by Sequoia University in California. This non-accredited body was, however, later investigated by the Californian state authorities on the grounds of being a mail-order "degree mill" and Hubbard later publicly "resigned" his degree after it had become the subject of comment in the press."

"In June 1941, with war looming, Hubbard joined the United States Navy as a lieutenant junior grade. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he was posted to Australia but was returned home, possibly after quarrelling with the US Naval Attaché, who rated him "unsatisfactory for any assignment"."

"Subsequently, he was given command of the harbor protection vessel USS YP-422, based in Boston, Massachusetts. Again, he fell out with his superior officer, who rated him "not temperamentally fitted for independent command.""

"Shortly after taking the PC-815 on her maiden voyage from Astoria to San Diego, California, his crew detected what he believed to be two Japanese submarines near the mouth of the Columbia River.They spent the next three days bombarding the area with depth charges, after which Hubbard claimed at least one Japanese submarine had been sunk. A subsequent investigation by the US Navy concluded Hubbard's vessel had in fact been attacking a "known magnetic deposit" on the seabed."

"Shortly after reaching San Diego, Hubbard ordered his crew to practice their gunnery by shelling one of the Coronado Islands, a small Mexican archipelago off the northwest coast of Baja California, in the belief it was uninhabited and belonged to the United States. Neither assumption was correct."

And yes... this is my basis on saying that Scientology is a joke!

11 things...

I was bored so i decided to copy people and write 11 things about 11 people i know:

1. You have been an awesome friend over the years. You stood by me when others just walked away. You’ve changed a lot since back in the days… but I know that we’ll always be there to help each other.
2. You were always the insane one… and I’m saying that in a good way! I think that we share a weird but great friendship and I hope it continues *poke*
3. I’ve been stuck with you for fives years… and probably am still stuck for another five years. You’ve been a good friend, but you really should stop wagging uni and relying on me hehe.
4. I ditched you. Now you ditched me. But still.. we’ve somehow come through with an undisturbed friendship. I’ll always pay you out and you will always be my guitar apprentice.
5. Time flies by so fast… I wish we just had more time together. Sometimes you can be slow and random, but I will never forget your uber huge smile ^____^ <3
6. In the past 10 years, only recently have we really talked to each other. We’ve always been close to best friends, but now I can really say that we are awesome friends.
7. You’ve been a great friend over the past 5 years… sometimes you even feel like a big sis to me… even though I am taller than u !!
8. We have our ups and downs. Sometimes I can be pissed to death at you, but for other times you are a nice guy. I’m really sorry for being pissed at u ><
9. We’re about a generation apart, and I do understand why you seem to hate me. But I’ve never really hated u and I really wish and want to make the friendship between us better.
10. You’re a fun person to poke and annoy =P sometimes we do share a lot but for the most, we are pretty good friends
11. We became friends coincidentally, but since that day we’ve been great buddies. I hope we can continue being awesome friends, and that you will continue to see me mesmerize you in soccer *wink*

Time

Time is something that governs our physical world. Do we really think about it? or do we just let it pass by to waste without thought or knowledge? I know I do it... but all the times we procrastinate, are lazy, or we hesitate on things... we really are wasting this special gift of time. And then, if we are about to die... we always wish that we had more time. I think everyone wishes they had more time... but that's something outa our control. We just gotta remember to make the most of the time we have. Opportunities come and go... and sometimes we just watch them come and go without grabbing a hold of it. Otherwise we find an excuse not to take it. Sometimes we should tell people how we feel about them... everyone has good friends and people they love. If suddenly something happened, and you couldn't tell your friends how much they meant to you, how would you feel? If you didn't tell someone that you loved them, how would they know that someone actually cared about them? Time is passing by... don't waste it!

Funny Story...

A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband.
Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen.
"Careful," he said, "CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my GOSH! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my GOSH! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK! Careful . CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!"
The wife stared at him. "What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"
The husband calmly replied, "I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving."