9 posts tagged “rant”

How the hell did it become Saturday already? Where did my Friday go? I can't believe how fast the week flies, I can't get my work done on time and every time I look in my diary due dates are getting closer and closer. I have exams in another week! ANOTHER week! What the friggin' hell!?!?

I must admit I think I may be taking things too easy. I have been bludging, or not working as I should be. I mean, I just spent the whole hour on Vox posting loads of crap. On Thursday I actually remember doing absolutely no work!

Speaking of Thursday, I did get to do some errands. I went to visit the old High School to ask my old teachers to be my references for the future. It's been four years I was a bit defiant in going firstly because I haven't visited or kept in contact for about 4 years and secondly, I wondered if they wondered why I was asking for a reference back in high school and not anyone in uni?

Surprisingly, on my visit back as I was walking toward the school one of my old teachers was smoking near the carpark and she recognised me! I can't believe it, they have such good memories, think about how many students have passed through their lives over the span of four years? And yet she remembers me and my history! As I went into the grounds I met more, said hello, shared some stories, took a tour and got to see all the changes in time. I can't believe how small the place is - compared to Uni this place is so so so small.

 

I made my vists and asked for references from certain teachers - and slowly made my way out, some teachers had to go to their classes so there wasn't much for me to do there anymore. As I passed one of the rooms the teacher who met me at the driveway asked me to come into her Economics class and asked me to talk about career choice and uni. Always the student and never the teacher - it was such a weird experience. But it's like talking to a bunch of mates, except these mates felt the need to put their hand up to ask questions. I only hope I made a difference. I also wanted to emphasise that the HSC (examinations to determine what you do later on) is not the end all. Back then my family had put so much pressure on me I broke down. I told them there were always options open.

 

I told them about the courses, what I do, my job now and what I look for in the future and so on. What a nice and weird experience.

As for my second worry, not one of my teachers asked me why I was stretching my reference so far back. I told them anyway, I told them the fact that University lecturers never give you the time of the day to get to know you and therefore I would feel like a cheater if I got them to make up bullshit. I wanted my references to be people I know and people I have demonstrated to my work and ethics. I did a lot of extra-curicular back in my high school days, I did some at uni too, but the people you meet in those activities come and go - not the same.

So I walked out of the school quite happy. Nostalgic as well, I'll admit that too. The high school days were good to me. But as life goes on, people come and go, friends start dating, moving away - not taking the time to be with you but returning to high school and meeting the same people, the old areas where I hung out for 6 years of my life really carried this nice sense of security - the world that has stayed the same...

I paid some bills, I did some errands and I walked the long trek home. I stopped by to get some food and just rested at the park near home. Just sitting, under a tree - doing nothing. How often can one do that?

 

 

 

Yeah, I know chips and coke is bad - but I also had a salad before that and I took home most of the chips for my brother because by that time I was full.

Oh, today I also went to the Grand Opening of Myer near home. Soooo many people went today and I came across so many familiar faces. Greeting people ecetera. There was also the radio station there broadcasting live - lots of excitement. But the most exciting was the Gloria Jeans (mmm...drool...) inside the store itself. Damn Gloria, it's everywhere so you just can't resist!

 

Note: My brother took some of these pictures- he's still learning how to use the camera properly and what better way to learn? By using the camera itself!

 

 

Big crowds in confined spaces. There was one thing that bugged me though, I overheard one of the radio hosts saying to her friend in between being "on air" and saying something along the lines of this, "Oh my god, look at all the wogs - thank God where I live there aren't this many of them" and later on I heard from another, "So loud, I bet these parents don't know how to teach their kids how to behave, no wonder this place is like this."

They're pretty judgemental about our area - in fact we're not all "Wogs" and we're not all crap as you make us out to be. We're all educated well, perhaps not like the richer suburbs, but it's a really safe community - I reckon even closer and less "Fake" than other communities by far. A lot of us finish high school (statistically more and I think its because we value education and the better life it brings).

I remember the other day being at a park hearing a parent tell their kids, "Look at them taking up the entire park" - hey at least those kids are playing sport and not out on the streets dealing with drugs and stuff - what's your problem??!

You don't see racism a lot - but when you hear it, no matter how softly said - you hear it like the person is screaming.

Some people are really judgemental. But if I know the truth and the people living here knows the truth then let the ignorant continue to be ignorant - because I know that we are better people for having a greater understanding.

Gee, what a rant!

Anyway, better end on a happier note: GLORIA JEANS in Myer. I can smell those coffee beans brewing! Drifting through the store.... oh how DIVINE!

Since when did retail therapy become stressful?

Going to rant about my day whether you want to read or not!

Today I dragged my sorry arse with little brother to the city Careers Expo - which was a total dissapointment. I didn't find anything I would be interested in and I found the people annoying, those who tried to grab any freebie under the sun blocking the way for real job-seekers.

The trip to the city on a Saturday by train was horrific too - due to trackwork (again) I had to change trains and being in the first carriage I didn't have to battle the crowds. See photo. See the hundreds of people getting off the terminated train to get to their desired destinations. You sitting there seeing it is not as bad as being pushed and shoved by the evil crowds - some people either walk really slow or decide that they're in a state of emergency that shoving you up the stairs is the only reasonable way to move us along.

 

I did however managed to catch the unexpected Buddha display which was stunning and I guess made up for the angry morning I had. I love how the city has changed and now offers all these different festivities every weekend and advertising things on a month-by-month basis. It makes Sydney a little bit more exciting than it used to be.

There was a huge/massive main display with people buying pots of flowers and cards as offerings to the Buddha, it was so beautiful. There were also these gorgeous garden displays which were extremely detailed. Busy, packed city (probably last minute mothers day shopping) made it all the more exciting!

However, as I stated at the start of this post, the rest of the day become ugly. I had to run around the city buying gifts and something for my mum - with brother in tow complaining. "I'm cold I want to buy that jumper" (got the jumper), "These shoes hurt (again and again and again so I got him these thongs), "I'm thirsty" (this x 7 times = 7 lots of drinks), "I want to go to this shop", "I'm hungry", "I need to go to the toilet", "I want to buy this", "I want that".....

Stress.

And oh my god, can the boy complain, "My feet hurt", "I'm tired", "I can't carry this bag it hurts my shoulders", "Why are you taking so long", "Where's the food?", "Where's my drink?" and on and on and on.

So in between all that and the desire to cut my ears off so I can stop hearing him - I did manage to get some sort of shopping done in between, ticking off lists, seeing my account dwindle to nothing...

 

 

Clothes, shoes for mum, clothes for the kiddies and cupcakes for sister and family. Oh dear, carrying all the crap was such a struggle...

And don't forget the endless feeding of the little man with junk - why is junk so expensive?

See these photos below - these are some of the stranger displays I've seen in a while. Although the middle one, Thomas the Tank engine I'm sure had eyeballs but was scatched off by some punk - but without his eyeballs he looks damn scary dont you think?

 

 

Above: The PriceWaterhouseCoopers sign, this burnt off a while ago and I thought it was hilarious that their logo burned off! I was supposed to take a photo of this ages ago but never got the chance.

Anyway, I did get something for myself - some winter gloves and a random kiddie DVD (not really for me but my brother - but hey if the DVD is in my room and I don't mind this cartoon then I feel like defining it as mine, cmon let me grasp onto my childhood and watch cartoons, okay?)

Oh and the gloves are funny ones, they look like just the ends of a jumper sleeve - thought they were funky and would come in handy. Let me show you:

 

I would show you with my real hands but then logically the camera and taking a photo would be a bit of a struggle....

Other than the gloves I didn't buy myself anything, but I did tick a massive list off, swallowed a lot of panadol (headache tablets) and will probably pass out any moment now. It is a relief to get all that jazz done though. But yes, shopping has become extremely stressful. Gone are the days of simple window shopping. Gone i tells ya!

(Oh yes, I have also gone slightly hysterical due to the overdose of coffee tonight - my body and head wants to pass out but the coffee is keeping me awake - the result? Complete hysteria....I will probably look at this post tomorrow morning and wonder what the hell happened....)

Blah.

Or is it Bleh?

It's been a long day. 12 hours of work non-stop, no lunch, no break and even missing class for work.

At work we have a guy who distributes the work, I bugged him all morning to give me the priority work and he tells me that I've done them already. Come 4pm and comes over and hands me 235 items to process. I was so damn angry. And all he says is, "Oh I forgot to sort this out." F***in fantastic. And this is not the first time.

So I worked into the night, everyone's left the office and I leave at 9pm (after the floor level's light switches off automatically twice).

Tomorrow I will not be a happy chappy.

 

And to top it off I have a presentation for class after work and none of my members have prepared their slides. I sent mine 4 days ago. FOUR DAYS. And they're making me put it together?! Screw that!

 

P.S. Was really tempted to do the "Things on Tuesday" this week but all I have in my head is this rant. Venting group it goes!

3 o'clock, Saturday afternoon - you know what that means. My net is back! I've officially banned my brother from excessive pod-cast downloading until I finish uni when I won't be needing the internet so much!

Sadly, I am back to procrastinating and sadder - I'm doing uni work while the world is out there having fun. The family has gone to the mall while I'm sitting here attempting to do some research for my assignment.

All the things I wanted to post about when I was gone has also gone from my memory - in other words I have forgotten all the things I wanted to add here. Let's face it, I don't have a brilliant memory so I guess I'm just going to have to leave this as is...

Oh, we got our car back! Instead of our insurance company fixing our severly damaged car, we got a really good mechanic and he re-did our entire car and it's really impressive. The damages were quoted "unreplaceable" from our insurance company but our mechanic and my dad argued their way and we fixed our car and our insurance company gave in. And my parents being my parents threw a party last night (I was couped up in my room, i'll explain in a sec) for the car being back and them defying all odds LOL. Our mechanic came and everyone got wasted, sung badly at karaoke and I became temporarily deaf.

In my room I had to 'outdo' the folks and blasted my music louder than theirs - so I didn't have to listen to their music. As an asian, I really don't understand asian music. When my parents throw these parties sometimes the guests bring things (fruit, a dessert etc...) but the best thing that came was last night's Beer Keg! 5L of Heineken!

As for being couped up in my room, the reason behind this is "Asian" talk. My parents and their friends have a wonderful thing going on where their children have to 'outdo' their other children. As a non-medical studying family member, my parents prefer if im not mentioned, unless I marry a doctor or something haha. But hey, better for me because I don't have to 'sell' myself to their friends anyway. I'd rather stay in my room. My brother imported loads of Coke-Zero and food to keep me going for the rest of the afternoon/night so it was all good.

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, better get back to work but I'll be back!

Some Saturday Photos to share with you!

 

 

 

 

Didn't I warn you previously that my blog is insanely boring?

At the moment I'm sitting in the computer labs at uni attempting to do some uni work but guess what, have found myself wondering off to Vox. Again.

 

And I have an itch on my stomach. I'm not exactly going to pull my top off to look at my flabby stomach right now to see what itch it is, but I feel a bump which can't be good.

I had a horrific presentation yesterday at uni. My group who-does-nothing didn't help me with the report so I ended up making up a 17 page report Tuesday night to hand up. I did my part 3 weeks ago and the last minute I get an email from one member who said he's stuck and another dude who wrote: "I'm tired and going out tonight, can't do my part. Sorry" I was so angry and did the rest of the assignment in tears. And to make matters worse, I knew there was a presentation but in the Subject Outline it goes, "short 5 minute talk about the strategies you are undertaking" and so I thought i'd be just sitting there outlining what we did. We get to class and the tutor goes, "Why don't you have a powerpoint presentation ready? This is going toward potential shareholders". And he kicked us out. I couldn't argue my case because two other groups had a presentation ready. 5 minutes and a powerpoint? That doesn't even make SENSE. Another 3 groups were also kicked out. Not fair. Lost marks. All work. No reward.

I also had a phone interview this morning with a company for graduate positions. I screwed it up completely. At the end of the phone call she goes, "If you are successful we'll be in contact. If you don't hear from us we apologise but you are most likely unsuccessful and we wish you the best in your future endeavours". That's a definite "Good-bye". The thing is, I didn't prepare myself because I didn't expect a phone call at all! A phone interview without warning! The assessment schedule on the internet wrote: online application, assessment online, assessment centre, interview, job. But I should have prepared anyway, and I didn't, so it was my fault in the end. Oh did I mention that I did this interview while on my mobile and on a loud packed train? I didn't tell you that? *sigh*

 

For every bad thing there must be a good thing to come my way right? Yeah right. All I can do is hope that the bad is not tragically bad. There are people worse off. Just need to remind myself over and over again.

 

 

Oh my precious Voxers,

The battle with the Internet has not ceased.

 

I am missing you guys and my daily log-on to Vox. It’s crazy right? But somehow I have managed to build my own world here and am going mad without it. How have you guys been? Where are you up to in your lives? What interesting thing are you going to share with me next? *sigh*

 

I am currently at work on my lunch break and actually having time to have lunch and browse the net, which of course means heading here to Vox straightaway! At home my net is totally bummed out on me. My brother has been downloading podcasts, and my laptop is running out of space. Then I’ve been using the internet to do my major projects and research and so in the end, the net has lapsed and loading Vox is an absolute nightmare.

 

I have taken some photos of what I’ve been up to and all these tall weird news stories that when I saw I wanted to share so I’ve been saving them up on word (but I don’t have it on me now to share)….

 

There’s been:

• Lot’s of sun/rain type weather, you know when the sun shines but its still pouring
• Cold weather (our Winter’s now fyi). And this morning it was minus one degrees (can’t convert it lol) but basically cold enough to make me cry….
•  Met Keanu Reeves when he was in Sydney promoting Street Kings (which is on my "To Watch" list along with movies dating back to 1998 HA)
• Graduate-application-stress dysfunction disorder
• Staying back, working longer hours, getting paid the same
• Babysitting! They're cute but there are times when you just want to sleeeeeeeeeeep

Oh man, my life isn't interesting at all! Why are you still reading my blog??!!!

 

I was going to be sly and start off this entry with: I'm leaving Vox for good. But who am I kidding?

 

Anyhooo, basically when I get the internet problem solved, I’ll be back. I don’t make promises I can’t keep!

 

And you shall suffer the boring life of me!

 

 

 

 

Killing time, procrastinating (with exams tomorrow) - I found myself just browsing other vox blogs and realising:

1. I am bored

2. I am bored & uncreative

3. I am bored, uncreative and lazy.

If I reflect on my Vox not only do I post endless amount of crap on it, I find that I am endlessly finding more crap via youtube, posting some forwards that I get, a rant here and there - basically whathever the hell is entertaining me at that moment in time. Does that make for one of those "uncreative" blogs? I suppose that's why I ever called this blog Procrastination because it is just me sitting here on the laptop procrastinating.

Additionally, I realise that when I post additional content whether it be pictures, videos, music - I never even structure them nicely and even worse, I am the most laziest "tagger" in the world. I tag my post with one-word. If I am so bored, then why the hell don't I spend a little more time on the actual post?

Now that I make entries like this - I feel that without something to add to it makes it look lonely.

So here is a cartoon called "Worst Job Ever" by Natalie Dee for the sake of it.

 

 

 

Just to add to this: I have officially got myself outta MySpace because I couldn't handle the dumbness of it all (to me, no offence, if one more person asks me "ASL" one more time I shall hunt them down and thump them personally on the head). Now that I have let myself off MySpace - I will also hunt down the next time someone emails me about FaceBook. I'd rather listen to real people talk to me or post REAL comments than expand my "friends" list thank you very much! Sorry to all my mates who do use myspace and facebook though - I just had to get out of there - too many weirdos!!

Note: Nothing is bad about the creation of MySpace and Facebook BUT there's just too many teenage-boppy wackos on it that freaks me out!

Which also reminds me, there was this gadget thingy I came across that enables you to see how many people tried to "Search" you - that adds to my fear, the stalker-ish element to it all....

Good news: I get my camera back tomorrow! Yipeeeee

Ok, so now how do I tag my post so it's more meaningful?

There is this HUGE Dilemma in Australia at the moment, and it is in regards to Big Brother. I honestly don't like that show in the slightest, but I came across this in the news. Apparently, one of the housemate's father just died - and the big moral dilemma is: Should Big Brother tell her? Surely they should. However, apparently the father-daughter had an estranged relationship also, he had cancer for a while and she knew that the day would come that he would die. Also, apparently (this is from mX) that she said before she entered the house that she knew the consequences of not knowing if such a tradegy were to occur.

Why is this such a big deal? I reckon despite the circumstances just shut down the show and TELL her whether she wants to know or not. It might not hit her until she hears the news. And while they're at it - just take off the whole show too - I want my normal TV back without the 24 hours of Big Brother and the rowdy people.

I have also noticed that in previous years there used to be ethnic people. Australia is extremely multicultural - but it seems that since ethnic people seem to get kicked out so early I think this year Big Brother didn't even bother and got only Aussie Australians on the show. But then again I'm not sure, maybe it's just the advertisements I am seeing, but basically I haven't seen a lot of other races, I mean what happened to Asians? I guess if they don't fit in then bugger it - they just want to make money anyway.

What else was I supposed to rant about? Oh well, I'll get back to it later - like I always do, get back to re-edit all the posts.

By the way, I am never satisfied at the way I structure my posts and have come to the point that I no longer care (or have I ever cared) - but over time I will try to perfect the whole posts thing. Forgive me, I am new (ish!) haha

 

Edit --> I knew i couldn't control myself!

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I have 2 hours to do my uni tutorial work. I cannot do it. In fact, I have been spending the last 5 minutes trying to write with my left hand (I am right handed) - so how well do you write with your other hand? This is my attempt:

Post your attempts!!! I'm just curious. I was thinking maybe if I tried and practised enough I could possibly write with both hands!! Ya?

In the midst of procrastination I have been checking out Wii and the characters people have made: This is rather good:

 

"Let it be" - have a guess who this band is. And the lower one is MJ. Yes, it's MJ. To me its uncanny - tho it took a while for my mate to figure it out.

I have also been procrastinating in other areas such as cleaning out my doornob reminder thing:

This was previously filled with ABSOLUTE junk - my keys hung at the bottom, but inside was candy from who-knows how long, then there was the little loose change, receipts, even MAIL that I folded and never looked at.

Honestly, this procrastination habit of mine is a killer.

 

 

 

I should get back to work now huh?

Oh before I go I think i'll make a little rant about my train ride today.

Packed train, I still decided to cram on because I figured people would get off earlier at the main stops anyway, but it turned out that the train remained to be packed despite the main stops - so I decided that there were a few empty seats I may as well try to sit down because I was still and hour and a half away from home. I went down to the lower carriage and asked nicely, "Could I please sit here?" and she goes, "No I rather you not, I want the space and my bag is occupying the seat" - I kind of paused and thought, okayyyyy - not very nice...

I didn't say anything and just continued through the train to find another seat, but everyone seemed to either have bags or sat on the end of the row of seats to stop people from sitting next to them. I mean, what the hell happened to nice people? Everyone is so mean. When I did find another seat the lady goes, "Why do you need to sit, I was here first" - at that point I just gave up. I can't believe how inconsiderate people are. Sure I hate sitting so close to people too - but I've had a long day at work and at uni and just want to sit, I mean for the three seaters there is SPACE in between the two of us and I'm pretty sure I didn't smell...

So I ended up standing, two hours (train delays) - getting home and missing my bus, walking for another half hour. In two hours time I have to sleep and get up and suffer the same train rides again. I hate trains. Did I ever tell you I hate trains?

 

Oh by the way, to add to Mothers Day: I was told to leave the house! HAHAHA - Give the folks alone time...

Here's a funny video from Happy Slick about Mothers day: