You need some parts urgently for a job. You ask a sales rep for prices. You don't get the prices. You find out it is because the rep's wife is in the hospital having complications giving birth. o_O What should you say?

Reminded me of this rep that I dealt with last year. Alwez gave me the best prices on goods. Made savings of a couple grand for the company over the period i was here. When I came back this year and called him up...turns out he passed away.

Makes you think a little doesn't it?

watching Densha Otoko. And a wiki link, cuz I'm both lazy to explain, and i'm watching another episode. I'm hooked ^_^

it feels like a quiet weekend. Just lazing around at home. Thos is camping on my computer now, so I don't have much to entertain myself with. I was doing a spot of reading in the living room, but it got a little dark outside. Couldn't be stuffed turning on the lights :p

Its a nice day to just laze around at home though, so i'm pretty content with not having anything to do. I like this kind of weather. The sun is hidden away, theres a nice breeze outside and its not overly windy nor cold. Perfect for spazzing with a good book or anime ^_^ Pity I don't have a good book (i'm reading one of those Kiyosaki/Tony Robbins type of book at the moment) and I'm out of anime to watch. Meh.

It seems fatty has been annoyed with my lack of progress in WoW, hes taken to lvlling my character for me. Hehehe. I haven't been lvling my character over the past 2 weeks. Every1 else is 60 or nearing it already, and I'm still bumming around at 46 (47 as of last night). Just feel kinda unmotivated to play, and I have other distractions as well. Playing 2 other games at the moment, Dragonshard and Fable. Hmmm. I really should start looking for entertainment that doesn't involve the computer. Don't want all my back n shoulder problems to come back, especially since my job involves parking my bum behind a desk most of the time.

Just a side note, I've been looking at some old pictures lately. From the high school days. Gawd... my hair looks absolutely horrendous. Hahahah. Can't imagine what I was thinking. Sigh... I can't say that I look good in any of my old Cempaka pictures :p Sadness. I should look after my appearance more, but its such a damn pain. Have to make sure my hair is short. Apply wax n crap like that. So annoying. So much effort, and it doesn't feel like I have much to gain. Theres absolutely no chicks at work, now or ever :p Sad fact of being in my company. I shoulda done something like accounting, or design or some crap like that. Aihs...

2 posts in a day! woot. don't feel like playing games (gasp!!) so was just looking thru some old pics. like this one:

cookie!

cute yeah? i feel like i've posted this pic up b4 though. miss having a dog around. although i have to become an pill popping crackhead around animals now. developed an allery to dogs :( but would still like them around. maybe i can get a short haired next time.

speaking of dogs, me n thos saw one in Pet Paradise the other day. The ultimate dog for guys... Husky & Malamute cross! So cool! 2 power dogs combo in one. heheh.

im' all pooped out today. didn't go in to work today. kena stomachache again. i'm beginning to think that wicked wings and my stomach don't agree with each other. aihs. i just spent my morning at home alternating between playing games on the computer, and camping in the toilet :p my arse quite pain now o_O

neway, gonna just post up some pics that I took in canberra la. i already blogged about my drive down and what I did on Saturday la. so no point in repeating that. i was kinda bummed out on Sunday, cuz my leg was hurting abit. did I mention that my leg cramped up when I was sleeping on friday night? bloody hell... these are the worse kind of cramps. Thos says these cramps come when u'r bloody tired or something. I guess driving for 5 hours, and then going clubbing and 2 persons sleeping in a tiny bed can do that. aihs. newayz. i pretty much crashed out the 2nd night. i took up the entire bed so sweefong had to go over to her friend's place to sleep. oopss ^_^

newayz. went to Floriade on the next day. Its a flower show la. I wasn't expecting much at first. Thought it was just a normal show where they display potted plants n stuff, but its actually quite nice. The flowers were actually planted all over the park. It would have been really nice, but that was the last day...so a fair bit of the flowers were dead :p Oh well. On to the pics.

red tulips

some flowers

more random flowers

black tulips. my favourite!

me n fongie

some 6-12yr olds made these. we've got a young KISS fan! oh. the theme of the show was Rock 'n' Roll btw. There was a Madonna gnome as well. The one with pointy boobs ^_^

one of those old organ thingos. I saw this one at Vic Mart in Melbourne b4! They actually bring it all over Oz. pretty cool

Chocolate Fountain....'nuff said :p~~

I make the flowers look good :p

Closest thing to Sakura flowers

Kla... thats it. I'm gonna take a nap. Stomach still hurts a bit.

I was intending to post the pictures I took in canberra, but got back rather late tonight. I was lepakking in the city earlier tonight. Walked around a bit, and then met up with Yen and had some drinks and played pool.

Anyway, I've got my picture uploaded. I'm just lazy to blog it. Except for one that I need to share... I encountered the weirdest sculpture ever when I was in Canberra. Behold...

goatse??

In case you didn't know what I meant by goatse, heres a wiki link. Maybe this statue was done by a Kiwi ^_^ omg, i'm cracking aussie jokes now.

what luck. the company deathtrap brought me to and from Canberra safe and sound. when i started the car this morning, the battery was konked out though. Had to call in NRMA to change the battery. Had to come in to work later than usual :p Oh well.

I'll put up some pics from Canberra when I get home. Its actually lunchtime at work now. Just having a cup of milo. I wonder if I can lose weight if I do this everyday. Sausage and eggs from brekkie, and a cup of milo for lunch. I need more fibre in my diet...1 week of just sausages and eggs aren't too good for me. Owned by constipation :p

i just wanted to blog a little about the Shinobi movie I mentioned. The full name is Shinobi: Heart under Blade. The release is supposedly 17th September, but I haven't found any subbings of it yet ^_^ I watched the trailer this morning. It looks interesting, but trailers more jap movies are always deceiving :p It has Nakama Yukie in it though, so i'm defintely gonna watch it. Shes the chick from Gokusen if you didn't know. Loved that series...so I shall love this movie too :p Anyway, back to work.

i'm down in canberra for the weekend! got the company car to drive too. woot ! driving it isn't too bad actually. the seats just squeak a lot. and theres noises when i turn the steering wheel. but apart from that...its okay once i bring the car for a wash.

newayz. i'm down here just to lepak with swee fong for abit. theres a flower show too. so can see that as well. it took me bloody ages to drive down though. its supposed to be a 3 hour drive, but i missed the turning. ended up taking a detour through the bush. kinda scary in a way. its pitch black when i turn off the car lights. and there seems like theres nothing around you at all. makes me afraid to get out of the car... after kena assaulted by some serial killer that camps out in the bush o_O

it was an interesting drive apart from that though... quite tiring, cuz the road small and in cacat condition. but i had to really concentrate on the driving cuz i was going around 110km/h. and theres wombats and roos crossing the road. i saw a fat wombat amble across the road! didn't get to snap a picture though. in the end..took me 5 hours to get here. aihs

canberra is as expected la. pretty small and not a whole lot to do. i'm just down for the weekend, so its all good to me. i finally managed to get some clothes shopping today. bought 3 shirts and some socks. all on sale ^_^ There was a pair of Elwood thats pretty nice. cheap too! $140 reduced to $70. And its in size 32...my size! BUTTTTTT... the cutting was too fricking tight. aihs. sadness. i was still tempted to buy it, but decided against it la. jeans should be comfy to wear... not squish your balls to oblivion :p

ermm. fongie cooking dinner now, so i don't have much to do. i wanted to download trailers of some movies that I wanted to watch...but her internet is pretty expensive. so can't do it here. aihs. stupid uni internet connections. 2 foreign flicks that I want to watch. Night Watch and Shinobi (after an anime, not the game). Night Watch is some russian flick thats apparently pretty good. Light vs dark, vampires n stuff. so should be pretty cool. it had a good review in the papers too. might watch that tonight...but fongie not particularly interested. aihs

woot! i actually woke up at 6am to go for a swim. heated pool my arse! still bloody cold to me, but it was alright after I did a couple of laps. didn't swim much la, only about 15 minutes. I guess thats alright for a start. don't really have much time, cuz i needed to shower and then cook breakfast as well. should do my best to make this a regular thing. i can save money by cooking at home too! yeah! hoard money ftw!

boo ya! i managed to pass my driving test today! yayyy.. don't have to fork out more money for another test and car rental. and best thing is... i can grab the company car and drive to/from work now!! save me like 2 hours each day. more time for me...more time for wow ^_^ i'm only getting the car next week though :( some1 else needs to use it at the moment. boo.

i cooked myself breakfast today. 3 sausages, baked beans and scrambled eggs. yum!! finally did some grocery shopping yesterday, so we actually have food in the house! i was spose to grill some chicken wings for dinner tonight, but I ended up having some Snicker pods. 1 whole pack made me pretty full, but i think i'll get hungry again pretty soon. guess i should just go to bed. can't be stuffed eating. getting pretty fat liao. aihs. it doesn't seem like i'm gaining weight (unless the weighing machine is lying to me), but i still feel fatter. maybe its cuz i'm wearing office type of work clothes liao. no more loose t-shirts and stuff. most of my shirts are the fitting type too... so my fattiness is more obvious. o_O

thats it. swimming 6am tomorrow...

its an uneventful week as usual. i've quit my job at the cafe last wednesday, so i'm down to only 1 job now. Earning less money now, but at least I got leisure time now ^_^ Don't have to work nights nor the weekends anymore. I'm actually playing WoW right now. heheh. flying around on a gryffon, so might as well use the time to blog a little.

Now that i'm blogging, I don't know what to write though. Brain not functioning properly yet, cuz I just woke up. Haven't had anything to eat yet either, or more to the point... theres nothing at home to eat. Haven't been grocery shopping in the past month or so i think o_O

aih..back to wow la. heheh, lazy to blog liao :p

its labour day today, and i've just been sleeping the whole morning. not feeling too good. stomach ache. i think its from some foods that i had yesterday. had a bbq thing at the bi-centennial park with Ken's badminton club buddies. the park wasn't really that nice la. guess cuz its pretty new. the trees all very puny looking, even Carlton park in Melbourne was even nicer.

suppose to meet with with Tan for lunch today, but then i just slept thru it. He is gonna play badminton at UNSW later, so might catch him then. See how la, stomach still feeling queasy and I have to work later tonight as well. Ugh... don't think I should eat anything for the rest of the day.

nothing much else to blog la. i was suppose to lepak with fongie today as well, but she terlupa her phone in canberra. so end up ffk me. ish! neway. thats it for now la. oh! i've started playing FF7 again :) Its actually not as bad as I thought. Going through the story again is quite fun. The storyline makes up for the outdated graphics. Only problem is using the keyboard for controls. Hmmm. I think Thos has a joypad. Must go dig it up.