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Monday, December 1st, 2003

Time:12:54 am.
What an interesting raya I've had. Had my bday bbq on the 21st, my actual bday on the 22nd, went back to Msia on the 23rd, went to Langkawi Island on the 24th, came back to KL on the 28th, went to JB with Keong, Ivor, and Preema on the 29th and just now i just got back from a day trip to Singapore. Whew.

I'm now in Keong's house waiting for Ivor and Keong to come back from watching football at some mamak. Preema's in Keong's room doing...I dunno...something. I've had quite a tiring day but am now quite refreshed from a nice cool shower. Brb.
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Friday, November 14th, 2003

Time:4:25 am.
Music:Sounds of the Princes Higway.
Aaaah...finally a keyboard that works. There's been a major lack in typing for me coz my laptop's keyboard has gone nuts. I blame it on the ginger beer I spilt on my laptop a few weeks ago. Hmmm...did I mention this here? Well, basically I accidentally spilt ginger beer on my laptop, rendering it unusable for a week. Last week I switched it on and tada its working again. Except for the keyboard that is. I'm actually in Adrian's room rite now, happily typing away on his Compaq Presario.

I've been here (in Tim's house) since the afternoon, after I went to see my Business Communications lecturer. I went to get feedback and the overall grade for my oral presentation, as well as try to scavange for a better grade for my written report. I was really worried about failing (gasp!) Business Com, and this by itself sounds utterly ridiculous. I mean...it's Bus Com for god's sake. Nevertheless, my report marks had me depressed for nearly 2 weeks. Well, turns out I got a Distinction for my presentation and since I looked so nervous (she wouldn't change my report grade) she checked my final marks and told me that I didn't need to worry, coz I passed. YES!!! hahaha...I was literally skipping towards the campus centre after we were done...all my worries were blasted away with that meeting with my lecturer.

I spent the better part of the day playing Suikoden III...yea I know...playing the ps2 can be so unproductive, but most of you know I'm a gaming freak and it was good to finally have the mood for SOMETHING.

Shit! I forgot to call Nick! Nick's having a post-exam party at his place in South Yarra Friday night and unfortunately, I can't go. I'm on-call. Sigh. Nvm. It's of to Next Blue on Saturday night! Yea! I'm so gonna dance my ass off.

Okay that sounded weird.

Anyway, I need to sleep.
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Saturday, November 8th, 2003

Subject:DAI DAI DAI
Time:11:10 pm.
Music:DAI - Tsubasa no Keikaku.
Do-As-Infinity Rocks!!! I've been listening to stuff from DAI since my last update and I'm becoming a bigger fan of j-pop by the minute! There's a very distinctive sound to j-pop which I find very interesting. I think its in their bass lines. yea...most definitely...

playlist:
1. Fukai Mori
2. Under the Sun
3. Enrai
4. Tsubasa no Keikaku
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Subject:Fukai You
Time:7:14 pm.
Mood:sleepy.
Music:Do As Infinity - Fukai Mori.
Sigh...it's like 7am rite now and I'm up. Amazing no? Okay so I haven't slept yet. I've decided to stay up coz I know if I go to bed, I'm gonna be waking up after 2pm. I need to be up before 2pm. Why? Coz that's when Jessica leaves for Singapore. Who's Jessica? The girl thats selling her fridge to my sister. Jessica's been in Halls for a year and a half and we spoke to each other for the first time the night before she leaves.

What a waste of a good friendship. I mean, for all I know she could be totally different deep down inside but I was seriously taken aback by how friendly this girl was. This is someone who would be seen walking to the common room to get her laundry without a word for anybody. Well, she hung out with the lil' korea gang in stairway 7 but other than that she wasn't really much of a socialite. It just sux how you miss out on some good ppl due to things like social intimidation, isolation, and even disinterest. She was obviously a nice person so it baffles me why ppl like her don't end up coming out and making themselves a true part of the community here at Halls.

Speaking of which, I'm totally zoning out on the whole Halls thing. Maybe its becoz i've been having a real shitty week. I dunno. At this point I really couldn't be bothered. I think the Reza battery for interactive socialising has reached it's annual limit. Time to go back to Malaysia and recharge. Actually I take that back. Its not the batteries. Its just Halls. I mean, I get along fine with everybody (to my knowledge) but I didn't really find any new friends that I can really click with this year. Xcept Kate that is. Kate's this adorable girl who I've known since I got here, but we only got to know each other better in her last semester here. She was the RA for Stairway 3 back then. I really admire this girl's strengths...she's smart, mature, responsible, dedicated, hardworking, reliable, and tough as nails. She's also cheeky, cute, witty, and a big softie deep down inside. Oh and she's gorgeous. Seriously. I'm really polishing you up aren't I Kate...hahaha...I know you're reading this!

Anyway, Kate (or munchkin as I like to call her) invited me to her post-graduation get-together 2 weeks ago. I have to say that I felt truly honored to be there coz as munchkin put it, "Only close friends are invited," Needless to say I was surrounded by ppl that knew Kate for years. Thankfully they were all nice ppl and that spared me the task of impersonating a mute that night.

I sometimes find it very natural to measure my relationship with a person through how we say say our goodbyes to each other. And saying goodbye to Kate that night was the sweetest, and saddest experience for me that evening. We haven't known each other for a long time, and there's no way I can measure up to some of her friends that I met that day, but after saying goodbye to Kate that night, I knew that she was special to me. I was really sad when I got back to Halls. It was just heart-wrenching to say goodbye to a person so beautiful inside and out. You're special munchkin. Remember that!

Anyway, I gotta kill some time before I call Jessica. Anime time!
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Thursday, October 16th, 2003

Time:12:08 am.
Well...looks like I'm staying. Seems Niraj will be joining Mick and Ben on the list of RAs who will be leaving. Why he chose to leave or whether it was his choice to begin with, I don't know. Looks like I'm RA for another year. Yeay. I can't wait. Sigh. I almost wish I could have moved out and stayed at Tim's place. So much better then having to put up with this RA thing. Not like its a hell of a load, but I'm starting to feel saturated here at Halls. At least Preema's still gonna be around. Keong's moving out and most of BBIT ppl are graduating. Tim and Marv are still gonna be around, so is David but he's moving to the city. I know CS and Steph are staying as well. Not sure about anyone else.

Now all I have to worry about is my assignment due this Friday, I have to write a paper on a layer of my choice under the OSI Reference Layer. Yippie. Oh and I have a Business Com presentation next Thursday. I also have very little time to prepare for my finals. First paper on the 24th, rest is on the 27th, 28th, and the 29th. Of October that is. Pretty quick huh...then I'm all done.

It's just that time of the semester when I want to everything BUT study. Ever get that feeling? I just started Gundam SEED yesterday. God. I'll never learn will I.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

Time:2:32 pm.
Mood:whatvr.
Music:Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive.
Hmmm...haven't been here in awhile. Let me summarise my past few weeks.
- Went for paintball. shot lotsa ppl. got shot lotsa times. Pain and fun, all in one.

- Watched "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" with a record of 22 ppl. It's been awhile since we ALL managed to go out in a big group like that. Movie had some great elements, but the storytelling was really bad.

- Met a new ressie from Indonesia, he's Malay Indonesian, making him, me, my sis, and most of the MARA students the only ressies with Malay ethnicity in Richo. He came to Halls a week ago and knew absolutely no one and nothing. I brought him to the city the next day I met him and introduced him to my circle of friends. He's a pretty nice dude and we managed to have interesting conversations about ethnicity, history, and politics in Indonesia and Malaysia. He's settling in quite nicely these days. He's also 28 and has a fiance back in Jakarta.

- Went to the God'sKitchen rave at Rod Laver last Saturday. That was excellent. I went with Hanim and Adrian, but met up with old friends like E-Vin, George, Mun, who are all old classmates of mine in secondary school. Also met up with Alex who just got back from the UK, he's an ex-ressie in Richo, and Katie who just got back from Canada. We were there from abt 12am to 7am. I was absolutely trainwrecked after that. No, actually, I was still quite hyper and crazy-like. I crashed when I reached home on Sunday nite. Also there was John, O Shin, Adrian Tsu, and Ru Shyuan. Ru Shyuan's one of my fav dancers to watch these days. She's such a cute raver! Plus she dances to RnB and Hip Hop pretty well too.

- Rebekah got kicked out of Australian Idol! *sniff* Okay I admit it. I watch the damn show. And it's only becoz I know what it's like to go onstage and sing your heart out. Me, Tim, and Preema can sooo relate to all these ppl who go through the show. Why did Rebekah have to get kicked out! She's got so much soul and style...and she's just so beautiful when she's in her element. Oh well....

- I've got 3 assignments due this Friday! ARGH! A Business Com 5000 word report, a B2C assignment, and a 2500 word VSA essay. I'm using last year's Business Case Development for my Business Com report. I can do this coz it's almost exactly what I need to do for my Business Com report. Thank god they're diff subjects. Next week I have a 2500 word IT research report and the week after that I have a presentation based on my Bus Com report. Sigh.

- I bought comics! #5 and #6 of the Transformers: More than Meets the Eye series, which is like a Transformer profile book, #4 of the very dark and matrix-like Wolverine: Snikt!, and the Uncanny X-Men: Holy War compilation book.

- Had our last RA meeting last nite. Seems that in addition to Ben, Mick is leaving as well. He said that he's planning to do a Masters in Geology and he doesn't the whole RA thing to take up his time. So now there's only one more RA that needs to be bumped off. I kinda have a feeling that's it's gonna be me. Maybe I'm just paranoid. I've been thinking about it alot, and now, I don't think I care anymore. If they really wanna let me go, then so be it. It's been kinda hard working under Judi and Tash anyway. Especially Tash. I mean, Judi knows what she's doing and if there was anytime I screwed up, she would tell it to me straight. Tash on the other hand has been slowly shifting to my "People I'd rather not be stuck in a room with" list. She sent out an e-amil recently implying that Me, Niraj and Mick haven't done ANY work for the kitchen since she reminded us weeks ago. She claimed that we didn't put any signs up in the kitchen, and that the kitchen locker issue still hadn't been resolved yet. This was only 3/4 true. The truth is, the day after she reminded us (this was weeks ago), I personally printed the signs and put them up in the kitchen. A few days after that Niraj printed more and put them up as well. I also went through the kitchen locker list and checked lockers that might be potentially empty. Heck I even opened some of them up. I only came up with 2 empty lockers so I figured that we could only settle the locker thing at the end of the year when ppl return their locker keys. This was all concluded weeks ago and now she sends out and email saying we have been doing jack shit. I of course replied the email in the most diplomatic way I could come up with, to clarify a few things. I so wanted to say something like "Maybe you checked the Roberts kitchen instead," but refrained from doing so. I saw her before the meeting to ask her abt the email, and all she said was she needed to talk to me abt it but she was to in too much of a rush to do it now. Talk about it? What the heck does she wanna talk about? That she was too blind to see the signs that have been put up in the kitchen for weeks? She's probably gonna hit me with the kitchen locker thing, but thankfully Judi had already brought it up in the meeting, and I was prepared with a full lowdown of the situation. That was a close one. Tash was too tired to talk to me after that, so I think I'm talking to her later today.

- I bought jeans. $40.

- The open mic night is coming up this Sunday. Me, Preema, Tim, and Keong are performing, but we'll probably only practise on the weekend. I dont have time to practise just yet.

That's abt it I guess. I may have missed out a thing or two. Whatvr.
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Saturday, September 27th, 2003

Time:2:42 am.
Mood:slightly tired.
The break is here! I got very worried today. I've got sooo much shit due after the break. A research assignment, a fashion critique report, and a buscom presentation. God. I really need to get my act together soon.

I was on-call today...same old same old. It was Leila's bday today and she had some sorta cocktail party going on in the later year's. Everyone who came was all dressed up. Earlier Aida n Preema were absolutely dying of boredom. A lot of ppl were out today. Some to the MUMSU Ball and others elsewhere.

At least I get to go out tomorrow. There's a free bbq at 1pm (apparently), and I'll be karaoke-ing in the city at night. That should prove to be quite interesting actually. We've booked this place in the city and we've got a room from 8pm till 4am. I've vowed that I'm gonna belt out some Bon Jovi hits. Yea! So far we have Tim, Preema, Keong, Adrian, Steph, and Jaime. Hanim can't it coz her parents are down, Marv actually considered but decided that paying money for entertainment goes against his way of life as a hermit, and James might come if he's willing to fork out the money.

We're also going to a Diesel sale the next day. Diesel is one of those trendy brands that have not-to-bad looking clothes that cost ridiculous amounts of money. We're gonna see how cheap this sale really is and hope to get lucky.

I can't seem to get these 2 melodies out of my head these past few days. One belongs to Van Morrison's "Moondance" and the other belongs to a highly popular Indian movie called Kabi Khusi Khabi Gham.
Argh.
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003

Subject:I'm Ifrit! Grrrr!
Time:3:36 pm.
I am Ifrit
You are Ifrit! You're a mainstay in everyone's
party, even if you do have a breath problem.
Ever steadfast, you reduce all but the toughest
(or flame-retardant) foes to a pile of ash in
moments.


What Final Fantasy summon are you?
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Saturday, September 20th, 2003

Subject:Les Girls
Time:2:19 am.
Haha...what an interesting nite. I just got back from a 'cabaret' at this place called Les Girls. Me and CS rushed to the city to join up with the rest of the gang (Adrian, David, Tim, Sarah, Moey, Ira, Pauline, Bill, Kris, and Mary) to celebrate Kristin's bday. We found out when we arrived that this 'cabaret' featured...well...drag queens. Okay, fine. No problem.

It sucked ass. Big big ass. The choreography was messy and they seemed like really bad performers. A few of them could dance, mainly these 2 dudes named Dominique LeBeau and Tony LeGay or sumthin. The rest just dressed up as famous female artists and lip sync'd the whole nine yards. This made it very boring and unentertaining. The only saving grace was the host who made fun of members of the audience in a very dirty yet funny in-yer-face manner.

Oh and this lil' incident as well...we had to fill out these forms which required our names. These forms were later used in a lucky draw (we had no idea) and who did they manage to call? Mr Timoty Satriani AKA our very own Timothy Wan! Hahaha...I told you to use a different last name dude...suffice to say our whole table laughed REALLY loud. Especially when Tim went on stage and went into shock. He didn't understand a word the drag queen 'hostess' was saying.

I've had so many bdays this week. A few more coming up as well. Kirsty's and George's was on the 18th, Jaime's on the 19th, Ivor's on the 21st, and Kristin's on the 24th.

I recently looked at the pics I took at the Coldplay concert I went to during the winter break. They have been on my com for the longest time but I guess I just forgot abt them. Here's my fav:

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Monday, September 15th, 2003

Time:9:04 pm.
Haven't updated in awhile. Lots of things going on and I feel like I'm being rushed thru my life. So many things to do...uni, RA shit, life, whatvr.

Just found out yesterday that I might lose my job at the end of the year. Monash Residential Services is pulling a major restructuring stunt, and I have this bad feeling I won't get thru. They need to reduce the numner of RAs from 9 to 7 and most of the current RAs still want to stay on. I wanna stay on as well, but only for a semester. This will probably make me a poor investment. God I'm so depressed.

Thinking of doing up a site like Lindsey's that focuses on Intercultural education. Seems like a good idea. Good thing to add to my portfolio as well.
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Saturday, September 6th, 2003

Time:3:52 pm.
Mood:blah.
Music:Fuel - Shimmer.
Okay...so I haven't updated in a week. Sigh...so much has happened I don't even know where to start. Hmmm...okay...first off was International Night last Sunday. I was pretty stressed out the week before it coz we still didn't have a proper skit. On Saturday afternoon Me, Karin, Mary, Chris and Preema cooked our stairway dish, which was chicken curry. Big thanx to Preema for being such a helpful darling. She's not even from my stairway. Later that night, Me, Jill, and Anthony re-wrote Dale's script and came up with something that was decently funny I guess. The three of us practised till about 1am and called it quits then.

The next day was pretty hectic. I was running around for reasons even I can't remember. We did 2 hours worth of modification and practise with everybody (Me, Karin, Chris, Dale, Mary, Jill, and Anthony) in the skit. Basically the skit is based on the TV show E.R. and I play the part of Gaylore Dang Wang Ching Chong Focker the nurse who is also an illegal asian immgirant from Dimsim Land. My vocabulary was limited to "Ho!" and segmented Chinese Malaysian English. It was loads of fun to practise. We even had a little choreographed YMCA dance at the end. While we were practising, Preema again saved my balls by offering to help fry the roti canai. I really owe her now. Poor girl sacrificed her make-up time to help me. You da best la girl!

Hmmm...I should mention at this point that I wasn't exactly in the best condition at the time. I had 2 assignments due on Friday and had severly underestimated one of them. The result was stress and 3 hours of sleep. Didn't get much rest on Saturday either. Somehow I managed to pull through it all.

The night itself was absolutely FANTASTIC. I spent the night switching between taking pics and acting as the stage manager. Almost nothing went wrong. The food was great (even though I didn't eat much) and the performances were excellent. All the stairway skits were top notch. Judi herself said that this has been International Night yet (there have only been 3 including this one so far). Our act went really well, xcept for the bit where I forgot to give the soundguy our CD. I sang as well that night, I did an acepella "Negaraku" in honor of Malaysia's National Day, STP's "Plush", and Utada Hikaru's "First Love" which I did with Preema.

I received the best compliment that night from Sayaka who's from Japan. She said that I touched her when I sang "First Love". I was like whoa. That's like amazing. Me and Preema don't even know japanese. We just memorised the song. Ayako and Shohei both said that our pronounciation was very good. They could understand what we were singing perfectly. Thanx to the excellent soundguy, everybody sounded really good that night. He just knows his shit and weaved musical magic that night.

Cleaning up later was a breeze and we were done within an hour. A fantastic night!

Besides that, the night before (Saturday) we all had a big makan session at Blok M in Chapel. Preema, Pete, Keong, Tim, Aida, Hanim, Jaime, Puipui, Nick, Andrea, and Rio all came for dinner. Its been awhile since we all got together (we were still missing Jo and Marvyn tho) so I was real happy I managed to go. Jill was nice enough to work with Anthony on the skit while I go for dinner. The food at Blok M was excellent!

This week has been filled with Warcraft III (Keong got me hooked. Stoopid fucker.) and my assignment. Well, the assignment occupied the later part of the week la. Managed to get it done at the cost of some sleep and now I'm here typing this update. Today I need to see Jodie abt chairing the RA meeting on Monday and later tonite I'm on-call. Neverending siut.
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Thursday, August 28th, 2003

Time:1:38 pm.
Mood:lazy.
Music:Rage Against the Machine - Snakecharmer.
God I feel like I got hit by a truck. Waking up late in the day can sometimes be one of the most excruciating things I go thru daily. Today I was woken up by the receptionist over at the uni optimetrist. This is the second time she's called me. This is the second time i've missed my appointment. Somehow she didn't sound as nice as the first time. Oh well, at least they're nice enough to call me and ask me whether I wanna reschedule.

Had lotsa of fun at Tim's last Tuesday nite...watched Tim reach a point where sitting became a problem and collapsing became his main activity. Heck, even Bill drank till tears were coming out of his eyes. I bought Tim X-treme X-Men: Volume 2. He's got volume one and was very happy that I bought the second book. You see, Tim's like my comic buddy and we just love spending huge amounts of money on crap like that. Besides that, Aida got hooked on Naruto that nite while watching it with Hanim in Adrian's room, I got my ass kicked in Winning Eleven, Val caught a bottle with her boobs (really!), Adrian kept doing imitations of the Val incident, and David starting dancing to Justin Timberlake.

Today I need to distribute the scripts for the skit to my ressies, discuss how we're gonna make the skit funny, organise a rehearsal, go to uni and attempt my assignment that's due on friday, and call Hannah to tell her I can't do her on-call tonite.

Sigh.
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Monday, August 25th, 2003

Time:8:42 pm.
Mood:blank.
Whew. What a load of my chest. I managed to secure a soundguy for this Sunday, and he's the same one we have every year for International Nite. I was kinda lucky coz it's a week away and coincidentaly he was free Sunday nite. I also managed to get a price list for some hot food bars we need for the food that night. I'm supposed to look thru last years records to check how much we spent on that last year.

Tash (my SRA) sounded quite relieved when she heard that there was progress concerning the soundguy and the hot food bars. She was getting REAL worried. Now I just have to worry bout my 2 assignments due this Friday (I think) and maybe shorten my to-do list. I'm watching Rockstar with Preema tonite. The movie sounded interesting and Preema likes Marky Mark.

Manda dropped by Halls today. She passed my a cd containing the recordings I did with Luke in the past month. It had a band version of "Summertime", an acoustic version of "Summertime" with only me and Cece, and my solo recording of "Long White Dress". I liked the echo and reverb Luke used on my voice but I'm not so sure whether the same thing worked for Cece.

Anyway, time to makan!
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Subject:Argh
Time:12:55 pm.
Mood:slightly stressed.
I don't feel my best today. It probably has to do with my little talk with Judi yesterday. Judi's my College Head here at Richo Hall and is basically my boss. She wasn't too happy with the fact that I skipped the Mock Wedding last week. You see, I'm the Richo Hall photographer and I was supposed to be on-hand to take pics that nite. The photography bit totally slipped my mind and I thought that missing the wedding wouldn't be that bad. I instead decided to go grocery shopping with Keong in Clayton. Just as I was unloading our shit from the car, I bumped into my Senior RA and my Deputy College Head. Great. I didn't really understand the what I had gotten myself into at that moment, but now I that I think of it, I did feel like an odd vibe from the both of 'em.

Anyway, Judi was kinda extra annoyed coz she had called me that night to talk to me, but me being the idiot I am I didn't check my msgs on my room phone for a couple of days. When I finally did check my msges, it was already Friday. I finally talked to her yesterday and she told me what I needed to hear I gues. Its all good now, and I'm kinda glad that they tell me shit now rather then surprise me and fire me later.

We worked it out and now I just feel shitty coz I feel like I screwed up. We live and learn I guess. Hehe...I went to the office straight away after that to check up all the dates of upcoming functions that might present a photo opportunity. I've managed to cook up some stuff for my portfolio so that's sorta covered. I wanna do more tho. My main concern now is International Nite which is this coming Sunday. Sigh.

On a lighter note, I went to the comic shop and spent ALOT of money. I won't mention figures coz it's just too painful. I bought Warlands: Atrelegis, which allows me to read my Warlands: The Age of Ice, New X-Men Volume 2: Imperial, and New X-Men Volume 3: New Worlds. God I'm such a comic freak. I managed to have lunch with Jaime and Hanim, at the best ikan panggang place in the world. It's called Block M and its on Commercial Road, off Chapel Street. Hanim came back with me to Clayton, and I worked on her clip she's using for an upcoming presentation. She shot all the clips and I basically added a song and put 'em all together. Managed to get that done so that's settled.

Aida came into my room saying that her laptop has been infected with 150 viruses (later found out that it was 150 infections). Dr. Keong came over and helped fix her laptop. I think she's gonna have to have everything re-installed. Her laptop was really screwed up.

Hmm...I better get back to work.
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Sunday, August 24th, 2003

Subject:Malam Gemilang
Time:3:35 am.
Mood:sleepy.
I'm sitting in Hanim and Jaime's living room now and I have Jane's Addiction new video playing on the TV behind me. God these dudes should really stop acting like they're the coolest things on earth. They're all dressed up like washed up has-been rockstars and they're acting like they're the newest thing on the block. Do young ppl still listen to stuff like this? I think the song's called "Just Because" and btw, it sux big time.

Went to the UMNO organised Malam Gemilang tonite. Keong didn't believe me when I told him it was organised by UMNO. He said "UMNO??? Don't fucking lie to me laaa! You might as well say Mahathir is coming!"

Seriously Keong, I wasn't kidding. I dunno why its so hard to believe tho. Anyway, abt the nite, I havent seen so many malay ppl in Melbourne before. Like, there was a whole ballroom full of 'em! When reading this you have to appreciate the fact that where I live in Clayton, there are probably like a little more than 20 malay students. In my Hall itself, there are only 2! Me and my sis!

I'm always surrounded by chinese malaysians, white aussies, and other ppl of various ethnicity. So walking into a ballroom filled with malay ppl was abit of a rare experience here in Melbourne. Plus we're not just talking bout kampung malay ppl. Quite the opposite actually.

I know this sounds weird, but being in such a situation was both slightly intimidating and refreshing for both me and Hanim, who I went with. Why this is so requires a long chat over coffee and biscuits. Those interested call me. Anyway, the night wasn't that bad. Made a few new friends, saw a pretty good performance that involved a circle of indonesian gendang players (which was quite impressive), and saw some tarian melayu. That was nice.

Anyway, caught a cab back and then me and Hanim had supper on Chapel. I was hoping Jaime was going to be awake when we got back but the wombat was sleeping. I miss her heaps so I stuck a note on her door with a picture of a crudely drawn wombat.

Tomorrow I need to wake up early and do some shopping, then I need to make it back to Halls in time for Hannah's "Express Yourself" function. It involves canvases put around the courtyard and ressies painting 'em with their hands or other body parts. Its part of her Community Outreach portfolio.

International Nite's being quite the bitch. I need to go to uni and ask the Activities ppl abt getting a soundguy, and I need to call catering companies abt renting hot food bars. Also need to collect the hopefully good scripts from Dale and go thru whatvr torture and suffering he's planned for me and the rest of my stairway.

Ugh. Getting cold. Time to go to bed.
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Thursday, August 21st, 2003

Time:9:29 pm.
Had a pounding headache again today. In addition to my pain, I called up Grace to ask her whether she was coming to the meeting today and she said that she was feeling sick. She asked me whether it was okay if she didn't come and I said it is, but reminded her that International Nite is a week away and she needs to get the skit going. The worst bit was that she said that she doesn't think she can do anything coz she's sick and she has loads of work or some shit like that. I was like "Uh...okay...you need to tell me if something like this happens so I can arrange for something else," and she told me that Dale is handling it and is more than happy to do so. Dale is another ressie of mine.

I knocked on his door and asked him whether he was coming today and he said yes. I was like "Good, coz I NEED you to settle this skit thing,". We had our meeting, 7 ppl turned up which was okay I guess. I have abt 20 ressies in my stairway, 6 are Honk Kong ressies that traditionally never show up, so that's only 7 other ressies that didnt come. Dale said he has a script ready and we agreed to meet up on Monday to collect 'em, and have rehearsals at the end of the week. We're also cooking curry and roti canai, and that's gonna be done on Sunday itself.

I've been watching shitloads of Naruto...I'm at episode 39 already, I think the network only has till 45. Superb anime.

Biscuit lovers, keep an eye out for Arnott's Venetian. It is to die for. It'll make a hole in your wallet, but it is to do die for.

I think I'm gonna borrow Keong's pot and cook some of the fish tofu I bought from the asian grocers yesterday. Hopefully its the same as the ones we had during Steamboat Nite.

Back to Naruto!
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Subject:Topless Models
Time:3:19 pm.
Mood:whatvr.
Music:Eminem - The Way I am.
I had the weirdest dream last nite. It involved me competeing with this chick who was a model, and I can remember is this part where she took her top off and jumped from a helicopter in the middle of this golden jungle. She then started running around. Weird.

Watched the last episode of Young and Dangerous, and frankly I kinda got sick of it. There are just too many loopholes and plot twists. Plus they keep re-using characters that have died in previous episodes! God! I could take that in the first few episodes, but not so much la. They also have the same ol' elements. Somebody betrays someone, someone's gf gets raped, lotta anger, heng tai togetherness etc...

I'm having a stairway meeting today. Can't believe International Night is next week. Grace (my stairway rep) better come up with a skit soon. I'm starting to get worried.

Went grocery shopping yesterday...i have SOOO much food now. Food causes so much happiness...haha...alot of ppl will agree with me on this. Tim? Hanim?

Time to makan.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

Subject:Massive Migraine
Time:3:57 pm.
Mood:annoyed.
Argh. My head is pounding. Something fishy goes on everytime I use my spectacles. I always seem to be getting these little migraines. I use to get these migraines alot during my pre-u year and it resulted in me having to wear specs. Had something to do with my Astigmatism (I hope I spelt that rite). Wearing specs made the migraines stop. Now all they do is cause it. It could be due to the fact that I didn't wear specs for a year (coz I left 'em in Msia and then I lost them). Me suddenly resuming the whole spec wearing thing (I had new ones made) might be a factor.

I probably should see someone abt this.
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2003

Time:4:02 pm.
Music:Daft Punk - Around the World.
Omigod Naruto is soooo good. It's one of those can't get enough of it animes. I must've went thru 5 episodes last nite.

Just got back from having an Indo Mee lunch (ugh). Hung out with Jill, Nick, Kirsty, Rusty, Pete, and Sharon. Sharon is an exchange student from the States. I was really glad to see her talk to us and like hang out coz I always see her on her own and we RAs kinda know for a fact that some of the American students aren't having the best time here in Richo.

The rest left and it was just me, Pete, Nick, and Rusty. I must say that Rusty is absolutely adorable. She just has this personality that just shines. She's just so happy-go-lucky and she loves to have a good laugh. And like ppl like Rish and my cuz Haniff, she has a very loud, infectious laugh which is something I like in a person. They're the type of ppl that's really nice to have around.

Gonna go back to watching some Naruto. I also think I've been bitten by the Freelancer bug again. I was playing on Keong's com yesterday and was enjoying myself. It's a pretty good game.

I better get some frickin' work done today.
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Subject:Stoning
Time:1:02 am.
Mood:Stoned.
God I feel so stoned. I just don't have the mood for anything. Well, maybe except Naruto. Naruto's this new anime series I'm watching. It's pretty good and it's getting better.

Amazingly I went and stayed for my 2 hour B2C E-commerce lecture. I even went to my tute and finished a very short and simple assignment. Yeay. I'm so proud of myself. No really, I am. I've got 9am - 2pm straight tomorrow, and I can't remember whether I have anything due for my business bullshit tute (this was previously called my business communications tute). God that tute is so full of crap. No, actually my tutor is so full of crap. Me and Tim always exchange lil' notes during classon how i'd love to slam a spade into her head every time she does that annoying laugh of hers. Hmmm. She didn't even bother collecting the stuff that she made us do over the previous week. God.

I cooked sausages today. Now that's kinda rare coz I don't normally cook. Called Puipui but she didn't answer coz she was working. She called me later on but I was busy so I promised her I'd call her later. I'm mentioning this coz I actually didn't manage to call her (time flew when I wasn't looking) and I just realised that I'm so getting my ass kicked for it. She's probably gonna swear she's not gonna talk to me for like forever. This usually happens and lasts around 5 minutes. I miss the girl. She's like a baby monster or sumthin (I'm so gonna get it if she reads this).

Luke msged me today. Said he booked the studio for Friday during the day. Sadly I have class till evening on Friday. He said he'll get back to me abt it. I'm still not to happy with my voice at the moment. Not fully healed yet. I was browsing some dudes music files on the Halls network when I found a Reza folder. And to my surprise, I found ALL my songs from my No Black Tie cd in it. Some dude had my whole cd in mp3 format on his com. I msged him and asked him who he was and where he got the songs from. Turns out it was Jian. Jian's this guy who plays really good guitar and piano. He played for the Open Mic I organised last semester. He said he got the songs from CS. CS is a friend I know from Uni back home who's living in my Hall at the moment. I don't really mind my songs going around, but if it was some dude I didn't know, I would rather he asked me first whether it was okay to share my songs. I dunno...I guess I'm just protective of my stuff ya'know.

Anyway, it's getting late. Need to get up at 7.30am. Sigh.
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