23:09 sunday

yo! on my break at the moment. this stupid nrb100 isn't as stupid as i thought it was. i've probably said it before in some other post but this stuff get more and more interesting the more i get into it ay. environmental sustainability must be achieved for an increased way of life for earth populatants. hahahaha, yeah.... yeah, i've got a few more lectures to go into detail and i'll be sweet for past exams and some questions tomorrow. hopefully i'll be done by 1:30 tonight; i just feel like sleeping tonight ay.

work this week was a nail biting one. not the biting when your on the edge of your seat watching a climatic action movie but one where your standing around doing nothing bored out of your brain. the carpark and reception door shift at the vale and alex was endured for 5 or so hours this week. i guess it was a pretty good shift overall ay, didn't get into much fuss, most people listened, did about 36 refusals saturday night; there were just so many intox people ay.

yeah, gym was good today, had a good session tonight. the no-explode is still doing wonders and have started the slow use of fish oil, l-glutamine and carnitine upon rise and set which is doing my immune system good. just so you don't think i'm a vain arse dude (cheers trung) the piccie is just one i took after training today to see if i've gotten anywhere. seems to me that instead of losing weight i've actually gained some. bugger me, bugger me. i guess i'll just have to get big then. back to study now, take it easy people. fat

cancelled shift

it was stink but i guess a relief as well getting a phone call from the office saying my shift at the koala tavern was cancelled. stink because if they had called me 10 minutes earilier i wouldn't of been half way there and a relief because i didn't really want to work so early; 7 is heaps early hmmmmk. hahaha, so i've been freezing my arse off at home, trying to read through a few of my last exams notes while watching the craziest police chases on tv. an hour or so of doing nothing because there's not enough time to do anything and too long of a time to sit around waiting serves good relaxation time to just chill ay. ohh well, i've gotta go and get changed again, hope this weather stops heaps of people from going out, if it were to me i'ld rather be at home in my cosy warm bed sleeping. fat

poo poo

i hate being lactose intolerant. growing up i always thought getting runs after eatting a pizza was due to it's preparation. a long period without milk, cheeses and yoghurt followed by a one good dose one morning left me clenching to keep it off of the floor. damn, an easy 30 or so grams of protein per couple of glasses doesn't help either. hahaha, stuff it, i'm gonna go and buy that soy milk from the super tomorrow, i hear it increases your oestrogen levels, gives you tities; hahaha we'll see how it goes. fat

pretty good effort ay, didn't even use a flash.

farout bloody damn, chemistry is finally dead! well for now anyway, (can't wait till we get to do it again next semester). yeah, rocked up fashionably late to my exam; its funny how you never learn that closing your eyes for another 5 minutes of sleep just doesn't work ay. woke up an hour after i was supposed to, picked up peter and sped all the way to uni (well i would of been able to speed if it weren't for the stupid insane traffic). peter dropped the kids off at the pool when we arrived and i raced to find m block (after realising that it wasn't the place i thought it was originally).

it's real stink how they structured the exam ay. after the first few questions during perusal it felt choice as finding out that the questions were bloody basic as! confidence was high, i thought my non craming efforts the day before worked brilliantly untill i hit about the 20th question onwards which blasted all hope out of the window. far, they had real strange assed questions with answers where your tossing between two answers and you find that there's a choice where it says none of the above. e) none of the above was probably chosen the most for me, i really hope i didn't do too bad ay. overal the exam i guess wasn't too bad; just gotta get 20% out of the total 60 to pass, don't have to pass to actually pass the course.

we had a good feed at hanaichis afterwards with bondy. got a real large japanese chicken curry wif extra rice and extra chicken. it was a real good feed ay cause i hadn't eatten anything all day. wintergarden down at hanaichis made us forget about the outside weather. it was windy as a mother f*cker and was freeezing ay. i reckon the cold is nearly on the same bar as dunedin ay; maybe it's because i don't have 2 doonas, a heater and an electric blanket but for real it's heaps cold ay. after cutting through the wind and getting to my car on the opposite side of town, i was frustrated to have found yet another parking ticket flapping under my windscreen wiper, my 6th one altogether (i thought because i recently got one from the same place i wouldn't get another one for a while to come).

after dropping the two off home, kicked the ball and did some rugby drills wif ricky and phuc over at dutton park state school. afterwards we dropped over to ipm for a solid couple of hours of dota and starcraft (yeah man!) and went fishing till about 1 in the morning with phuccie and ross. i reckon we would of stayed longer but phuc and i were freezing our asses off. we left after ross had a good fight with an eel. out of nothing, we saw ross fighting to keep the fish on his line. after a good 10 minutes, he finally reeled the bitch up to find that it was a 1metre huge jawed eel, prolly about 10 centimetres in thickness. ross being the man he is, slugged the eel over his shoulder and the night ended with success and a to be feed. (not really, he lost it after the eel pretending to be dead, jumped, making phuccie and i run like a mother f*ck and ross not knowing what was going on let go of the eel and it slipped back into the water).

yeah, that's my story for tonight. it was a good day. fat

just a few photos







damn!



this place has changed ever since the last time i was on to update. blogger has introduced so many nifty things we can add to our blogs; the holidays will give me time to explore all of them. officially not really on holidays yet ay but finals give me a bit more time to chill out and stuff, reflect. hahaha

if it weren't for karan i probably wouldn't of got back on this thing to update (yeah sorry man, i know it was pretty long ago since when you told me) but got so much to talk about and so little people who have time to hear my random ramblings; haha i wouldn't blame them, these days we seem to be able to talk for ever.

it's been over 4 months ay and heaps has happened. it's been a great year so far i reckon. life could be a little less systematic though as it just seems as though if i'm not waiting for the week to end for work, i'm waiting for it to begin for uni.

uni, gym and work seem to work pretty good for me every week. monday starts with the 8 o'clock and the state library is prolly where i'll be after that. by about 3, i'll probably meet up with some of the uq guys in the city and go for a good feed and a few hours of dota. yeah, i still haven't been able to quit dota but it's the only thing other than gym which lets me relax, pretty lame ay. hahahaha.

tuesdays will pretty much be the only day i'm at home after uni cause nothing really happens. the guys rock up to my life sciences lecture in the arvo and we stuff around before going to the library to study (talk) and sit around southbank afterwards when it closes. but yeah, im usually able to catch up on some prac readings and tute preparations when i get back home.

wednesday - thurdays the week of work start and i'm out over at the muddy farmer for the 9 to whenever they decide to close. my super out there is a choice bloke, i love working there. the only place i've worked where i can actually sit on my arse and watch people (usually by then we've only 5 people in the whole place and no-one really cares anyway). love the wednesdays there cause there's karaoke on and time flies by real quick (karaoke finishes at 1 so you know u've only got an hour left). thursdays aren't too good cause music stops at 10:30, after this, ur just sitting around till people leave from the pokies.

friday is probably my favourite day of the week cause it's calamvale day. i don't know why i'm so passionate about working on the friday. its just heaps and heaps of fun ay; a venue i've gotten real close to due to great staff, workmates and just the atmosphere, there's always something thats going on and u just feel it. Saturdays are the same but i've been thrown out to heaps of different places. Looked after eskimo joes concert at the alex one night which was one cruisy ass night (got to stand at the backgate and look after gear and the crew from screaming crazy fans which did not happen).

Sunday we get to sleep till afternoon and exhausted from the whole week, i get to do absolutely nothing cause i reckon i deserve it (bloody lazy arse). stay at home usually and prepare for the whole week as it starts all over again.

gym has been real good ay but could be heaps better. ricky showed us a real mean suppliments shop over at carindale. yeah, i've gone pretty hard with it ay. taking l-carnitine (not fully yet though, im saving it for my cut and gotta research into it a bit more), creatine, glutamine, protein. the creatine i've got atm is sick as. no-explode it's called and it's insano crap ay. really does give you a kick. i've been loggin heaps of stuff, actually trying to do it properly. but yeah, have cut down on all the junk and have watched my diet; pretty much as little carbs as possible. but yeah, it's been sick learning about just how the body reacts to what you give it and do with it. fitness first stopped being my second home, i've been more acoustomed to working at home just because of the convenience; i miss having bondy there to push and spot me though.

but yeah, uni has been alright. haha, that's probably all i can say about it. kerwin and the guys were right when they explained qut for me. "it's just a place to go for lectures and pracs and then you piss off home". just wasn't like that down in otago ay boys, well...sorta, i guess it just didn't seem like it cause everything else was close to uni.

jackpot noodles is the brisbane sampan, the state library is the brisbane link and i swear the weather at the moment seems to be much like dunedin. it's a real noticable cold, probably not as cold as down south but it's pretty freezing.

i went for a pee and came back and i don't seem to remember anything about what i was supposed to blog. ohh well, maybe save it for next time ay. i'll be on more regularly (i say that everytime) now that the holidays are near. take care and wear a beanie. fat

past couple of weeks

past couple of weeks have been mean hard. uni has been pretty cool. completed first chemistry test for the year and it wasn't too bad. seemed pretty good for the amount of study i did. gotta do a bit more to get into the course i want to tho. don't have an 8 o'clock tomrorow so it's pretty mean hard. have heaps and heaps of time to study for my tuesday lsb exam and nrb exam on thursday.

had our last ray jays dinner saturday and it's gonna be hard to never come back to that place. so many memories ay. anyways, yeah, just felt like posting. i'll try and get some photos from ray jays posted asap.

take it easy people.

QUT



farout, yeah, it's been a long time since i posted something and i guess i've got a few minutes before work so why not ay. hahaha, uni's been pretty mean hard. it's good to get back into study mode again, and have a bit more routine in daily life. my time table isn't something too sweet but its good to get up at 8 in the morning and keep active till 6 in the arvo. hahaha, ohh well.

it feels good ay. it's great being at qut. it's a different great from being down at dunedin...it's just different. but its goood ay. great making new friends, great learning new things and just great being a uni student again.

i'm already using what i've learnt in the past few weeks of uni; especially environmental science, beginning to use less and less of my car to save our global warming issue. (not really...just sick of paying for fuel). but it's good ay, catching the bus is pretty fun. it's better now than in high school, just, have time to reflect on everything happening in the day. it's good alone time ay.

hahaha, anyways, i feel more satisfied now now that i posted something. my to-do list is still there in the back of my mind, i'm just trying to fix a few of the major ones up atm. a few tweaks here and there, add in a bit of time and hopefully i'll be able to cross a few off by the end of the year. take it easy people.

fat

hey guys, would love to wish you all a very very lucky, healthy, wealthy and enjoyable chinese new year. had a real awesome time tonight going over to cho tet (new year festival gathering in inala) and stuffing our faces with the popular nem nuong (baked meatballs), bo la lot (beef wrapped in leaf) and washing it all down with some nuoc mia (sugarcane drink). it was a pretty good feed ay. we pretty much just went to the festival to keep our stomaches full before popping over to the temple for some praying and firecracker and lion dancing watching. it feels good stepping into temple again after so long. was just good in general being able to pay respects to our elders and heavenly guardians. was a very great night indeed. got my fortune told on a piece of paper as well...really hope it does come true cause it doesn't sound too bad ay. we waited for the new year to arrive at midnight and headed over to to pick up mark and reagan to see how we would spent our first ours of chinese new year. we drove around for a while hoping to play some pool but the owners too had better things to do. we decided to hang out at kangaroo point in which we were mosotly occupied with our fortune tellings, quangs farting and a "who can run fastest" race. hahahaha, take it easy guys, have a real good one.

i have officially....

UNINSTALLED WARCRAFT 3 - FROZEN THRONE EXPANSION - DOTA 6.31A. NO MORE OF THAT ANYMORE. TIME TO GET REAL MATE.


yay, yet another lunar year is nearly about to commence. i'm excited ay. excited as, hopefully if my fortune teller is right, this year to come will be my year; well better than the year that is about to end anyways.

i can see good changes happening already. i love my job ever so much more, i love seeing my mates heaps regularly now, i'm loving and looking heaps forward towards my new year studies; i just can't wait for the year to actually start ay.

gyming has been heaps awesome lately and i can feel it's just going to get better. with kerwin trading places with bondy in melbourne, bondys homecoming has pushed me even more harder. we're already adding an extra 30 kilos to squats and completing full sets of 12. i was happy as, i can see results.

i'm officially a student of qut. bondy and justine took me around campus yesterday and showed me the places to be. i grabbed my id while i was there and alot brought back memories of studying down in otago. i really can't wait to study. cheers heaps to ming for getting me started, lending me his notes from last semester and saving his books for us to buy for the year to come. damn, if i don't get a good gpa, i don't know what else will.

i've really got to commit myself this year. i know it's pretty late for a new year speech or something similar but there's just an urge in me to do well this year. i reckon it's my year this year. i really really reckon.

i've finally realised that it's probably about the time to actually manage this blog rather than pretending to do it by adding random posts. things have been quite hectic lately so i haven't really had the time to post properly (that's probably a lie) but yeah, i'm going to do it now. have decided to stay home tomorrow because it's going to probably be a 30+ degree day but mostly because i've been out way too much. i know, the guys are probably saying, "your full of shit mate" knowing that my parents aren't at home anymore but you know, it's just a responsible thing you know boys, knowing when to stop.

i'll probably go hard posting and updating till about 3:30 or just whenver the sun rises really. i'm not sure why or how i came up with the deadlines but they just exist ay. at least to me, it will make me a bit more productive knowing i've got to finish something before the set time or unfortunate events that i'm still not certain of will occur.

hmmmm, chop chop, dig dig, chop chop, dig dig, chop chop, dig dig, chop chop, dig dig...just need something to fill in this blank space....ya know....stylish mate, you can't have blank spaces, it just doesn't look right in a blog ya know....

hmmmm, an update on the goals for the past couple of days has left me to cross off:

make a food and supplements chart (still to print out)
put council dog tabs on collar (doing it now)
buy more connecting wires for home cinema (bought the subwoofer cable the other night)
post more pictures on blog (there will be a few pretty pictures for you to enjoy in this post)
buy fish for the fish tank (bought 70 dollars worth of fish which isn't really much)
check for council pickup times on junk (all our junk we want to throw out will be picked up in may)

yeah, work has been great awesome great lately. nothing really special, i'm not sure if i mentioned that i worked big day out. it was crazy and that's about all i can say about it. it's like looking after a million bevans or a million evans in 40+ degree weather ay. hahaha but i guess i did gather alot of experience from it as well as having a listen to some of the best bands in the world....fark...evermore, the sick puppies, tool and scribe went off ay. i can just remember that evermore: it's too late riff and the reaction it got from the crowd....amazing mate. other than working, it's just been gym, going out and sleeping. that's probably about it ay, ohh and looking after the house.


for gym im soo happy ay, i'm actually progressing, not like all the other years i've been doing on and off and then leaving a few weeks later cause i got bored of it. i guess motivation is the main thing ay, i've gained probably 2/3 cms on my bi's ever since i started and can lift nearly more than double what i started on. cheers to bondy for the encouragment and mentoring ay, he's a pretty choice gym buddy. yeah, gym relaxes me ay....if i get angry or annoyed about something; after a gym session you could beat me with a stick and i would smile and walk off as if nothing happend (most likely not) but you know what i mean.

yeah, i feel a sense of dunedin running in my blood at the moment. i was telling bevsta this just today, just how that feeling of independence and freedom you get down at otago has gotten to me ever since mum left for a vietnam visit. i mean, i know, i know, most have experience this long before i ever thought about it but it feels good ay. as much as i always want someone there to cook for me, wash my clothes for me, clean up after me, doing it all yourself to me gives me some satisfaction, i guess bad habits are results of too much nurturing. i'll probably be back to the same old self once mum gets back home. (i hope i'm not).

with uni just around the corner, it seems as though i've wasted my 6 months on break ay. i've done most of my timetable and am pretty happy to say that i've got mondays and fridays off. mean hard, a four day weekend which will probably be days to catch up on the work i missed out during the week. lol, hopefully it's a new beginning for me and i've been through enough shit to know that this is probably my final chance to get it right ay. i pray ay.


farout, this evanescence song lithium is bloody amazing ay. i've had it on repeat for a while now and i'm still confused and dazed at the fact that there are people out there who are gifted with talents which can make a difference to the world. the main singers voice is absolutely amazing ay. after watching this songs live mv on video hits one morning, i'm still uncertain whether or not it's any different from their actual recording. she sings live exactly how she would sing it on the recording, it's really quite amazing ay.

yep, my head now is leaning on my neck and i've to make an effort to keep my eyes open. sorry but i'll have to break my word that i'll finish up at the time stated. maybe tomorrow or tonight ay, i'll make sure i update my to do list at least. take care people, hope you enjoyed this long blog filled with random accounts of happenings for the past few weeks.

picture1: fat and phuc at the golfing range with kerwin and lam. it was a fun session, poor young asian blokes and "gentlemen" don't mix, go there and you'll know what i mean.
picture2: lams b'day and the 3 litre tequila
picture3: my dog cola
picture4: bondy showing his taste of fashion.

yeah i've been cramming heaps of stuff in lately, mostly because of mums going to vietnam and uni starting just around the corner. i don't think i've done too bad, hopefully i'll get the few things left over done by the end of this month. if not, i guess there's always the next.

finish cloudstreet
step up and look after my cat
check up for my hecs-help
make a food and supplements chart
make gym measurements and record
put council dog tabs on collar
clean the rest of the house
buy more connecting wires for home cinema
fix the lawn mower and mow the lawn
advertise the boats
burn phuc house and step up
start looking over science notes
visit marius
post more pictures on blog
ring qhss and ask for pay slip
update and post completed goals
buy fish for the fish tank
buy flowers for the garden
check for council pickup times on junk

enrol to qut
ask the boys for which papers i should take for my course
re-confirm my shifts for this week (12 monastry, 8 calamvale, 9 alex hills, 6:30am big day out)
clean my room
call justine (she called)

a few things i've completed since yesterday and some things to be done by the end of the month

finish cloudstreet
watch pursuit of happiness, step up and look after my cat
teach Co Uc how to use messenger on her laptop

just a list of the few things i need to complete by the end of the month. i have a to do list widgit but never really come to ever noticing it; maybe if i blog it i'll be able to keep track of what i've already done and no done.

accept my offer for qut
apply for hecs-help
check up for my hecs-help
enrol to qut
ask the boys for which papers i should take for my course
fix up centrelink
re-confirm my shifts for this week (12 monastry, 8 calamvale, 9 alex hills, 6:30am big day out)
ask about big day out information
get creatine and more protein
make a gym workout chart
make a food and supplements chart
make gym measurements and record
finish looking for alibrandi

return the da vinchi code and the interpreter to video ezy
drink 3 glasses of green tea a day
drink 5 litres of water a day
wash the dog/ put council dog tabs on collar
clean my car
clean my room/ clean the toilet/ clean the house
fold the clothes
fix the lawn mower and mow the lawn
advertise the boats
check my car rego expiry date
find out if any bills need to be paid
burn phuc house and step up
start looking over science notes
visit marius
call dad
call justine
sew the fitness first bag up
post more pictures on blog
ring qhss and ask for pay slip
update and post completed goals
weed and water the garden

farout...looks like i've got a fair bit to do, gotta get off my arse soon.

value each moment...


The 7 Habits of Highly Efective Teens: Sean Covey

to realize the value of one year,
ask a student who failed his or her AP exams.
to realize the value of one month,
ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
to realize the value of one week,
ask an editor of a weekly magazine.
to realize the value of one day,
ask a daily wage laborer who has six kids to feed.
to realize the value of one hour,
ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
to realize the value of one minute,
ask a person who missed their train.
to realize the value of one second,
ask the person who survived an accident.
to realize the value of one millisecond,
ask the person who won a silver medal in the olympics.


when i read, or hear about, or watch stories like these, it lights my heart with joy knowing that even those who aren't as fortunate as others can still live a very worthwhile and fullfilling life. watching the story by Rick Reilly moved me so much that i've decided to review my life and see what i've really done or missed out on. a teary fat says enjoy what's below; it's one of the many contributions to the answers of living life.


[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]
I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.

But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.''

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.''

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a Single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few Years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then They found a way to get into the race Officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the Qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he Was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick Tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud Getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you Think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with A cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best Time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world Record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to Be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the Time.

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a Mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries Was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' One doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass. , always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''

And the video is below....




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back from a break


hey all. yes i know it's been a while since my last post but nothing "too" interesting has happened since then. haven't done too much since then other than humiliating ourselves at the driving range and going to our "secret" fishing spot which because of our drought has pretty much left us with no water to fish. nonetheless, everything seems to be going pretty alright, well problems are in the proccess of being solved so it's a real good start. work has slightly gotten more boring or maybe i just can't be stuffed trying to make it more fun....yippie. hahaha, i think i've solved family and friends ay; not really but what's done or not done is working good for me so yeah, it doesn't seem too bad. life in general is up at just above average at the moment. for once i don't have to worry about anything. i'm actually working towards my goals on my list now. life right now other than be slightly better if i won the lotto is pretty sweet ay. i'm happy but i think it's probably got to do with my exercising everyday making me less grumpy. exercise releases endorphins, try it sometime. i'll probably publish this draft now just for those who actually visit this thing to have something to read. i'll blog more when i wake up hopefully. take care. ciao

the new year cont.

while standing at the back door of the brunswick hotel and keeping an eye on the drunk people counting down the seconds to the new year, i started to reminisc about all the significant things which happend this particular year and not any other previous years. the first memory which came to mind was the start of last year. i remember watching the fireworks, bright red ones, lighting up the skies. i remember my exact thoughts and feelings i had the second the clock counted down to 2006, the second it ticked over. i felt as if i had everything. my carefree friends were among me, my family were only a few kilometres away and the thought that it's only just getting closer to the time i begin my next step in life. the words of the song far away was repeated and my memories of the day i left australia for a new home flashed within my mind. instantly my memories of new zealand were summoned. i remember sitting in my tiny room alone, and then the time i had about 10 massive blokes cramped inside. other than those i've already discussed, the only other memories that were remembered were those not worth remembering but i guess it's better to not take things back from the past.

alot of people compare themselves now to themselves exactly one year ago. i can see that i've grown in so many ways. (im pretty sure i've talked about it heaps of times already). i can see my impatience though has started to degrade as well as my tolerance levels but i'll try my best to improve them this year. things which have changed in relation to friends and family, well has changed alot. those who i were close to the start of last year, seem to have dissapeared and those who i never thought i would be close to have been there for my toughest times. time really does show truth, but i guess that's just how life is. my loving family is nothing short of dogshit (i really am not exaggerating) but like a friend told me, respect, respect, respect, so i guess that's all i can really do. i guess i can appreciate the "few" happy times we all had together. although i'm in no position to say that life at the moment is great or wonderful, i guess i am happy on how things turned out this year. if happenings didn't occur this year, i don't think i would of learnt how to be strong and motivate myself on my own through the tough times.

it's been a great year, i hope this year although it has already begun with a few mishaps, will be a year i'll look back and say, whoa, it was a great year. i hope you all have a great one as well. no regrets.

welcome to 2007

hey guys, hope you all had a real mean new years. i know mine wasn't too flashy but lets not go there yet ay, it's a new year, we gotta be all happy and look forward to what's to come this year. i'm looking forward to crossing off more goals than last year and to become slightly more of a better person. i hope to travel back to new zealand to see my most missed mates and hope that i don't have to deal with as many problems as i did last year. i hope to be more productive and achieve more from even more hard, sweat and blood dripping work. hope it all works out.


''one who has no dreams has nothing''

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