just like a tin can hat

5.41 in the AM

2007-11-25T05:32:00.000+09:00

Just got back from metros, had shower and now blogging. Too much of the alco-mo-hol and the red bull makes for one awake grace. Plus my comp is on, so had to turn it off before bed.

My feet feel all pins and needle-y.. is that normal? One should think not. Back in the old days I'd probably be advised to use leeches to drain all that excess blood from my system. Thankfully we don't live in the olden days and sleep is probably the best cure for me right now.

Off to bed chickens, where you all are probably right now!

what is that? no it can't be..

2007-11-15T16:48:00.000+09:00

Once again Grace's little blog is neglected, left to fend for itself in this harsh wilderness known as the internet. Blame Facebook and Teevee and Pac Man and DVDs and Exams. Exams which are now finally over! Hooray we can now get down to business with all important summer-day bumming around time, lovely lovely.

First afternoon of the holidays has already gone well :

Massage at Health Point in garbo, I think I fell asleep and dreamt about the exam I just did. Very relaxing.. not the part about dreaming bout exams, the actual massage part that is.
Manicure at the bitchy professionails. Is it a requirement for all nail painters to appear annoyed and act rude? or is it something they learn on the job..

Bring on the movie marathons and going out and beach-ing and Christmas I say!

Marathons to be completed this summer :

Gangster/mafia movie marathon: Godfather parts I, II and III and Scarface. Who doesn't love old style gang warfare -> guns and cool guys in suits.
Disney marathon: cos after all that bloodshed and backstabbing what you really need is singing mice and dancing teapots. It's been a while but I'm pretty sure I'll know all the words still. Is that a skill or just sad?
Musical marathon: Its hard to believe but there are some people (i.e. stef and yenny) in this world who have never seen Grease!! Its a travesty, an abomination, an all out outrage and I intend to rectify it as soon as possible! *summer loving had me a bla-ast!*
Johnny Depp and Gilmore Girls marathon: because no holiday experience is complete without johnny and gilmore girls dvds.

That list looks quite long.. considering thats four different marathons... I think excerise will definitely need to be put on my to-do-list what with all the couch potato points I'm accruing. And so this calls for yet another set of dot points...

to-do-list :

Work work work, gotta make the moneys that make all other things on the list possible
Shopping, a perennial holiday favourite. Need shoes, need more dvds, need more clothes.
Sleep, all this exam nonsense has severely cut down on the whole sleeping thing. Totally bogus man!
Hang out with people, everyone is leaving so must make sure to use up all possible hanging-out minutes.
Clean my room, no one needs that much paper on the floor, chuck out all those notes I say!
Excercise, I guess seeing as I said it should be on the list. Swimming sounds nice

It feels much nicer after exams. I think I've been in panic-mode for the last two months and I must say its really unpleasant. Now comes that time where I say "Next semester I'll be better". Hopefully I'll actually be able to. Definitely Year 3, 2nd semester sucked the big one and I really don't want to do that again.

And so, boys and girls, with lists-a-plenty and three months of free-free-freeeeedom its time to start the holidays! Jolly good I must say.

Grace is one old chappy

2007-09-13T12:59:00.000+08:00

Grace is

no longer sick
coming to the end of her "study" break
quite pleased with her and lynda's movie marathon efforts
slightly worried that she has not done any study
now 20 YEARS OLD!!!

Theres a lovely huge stack load of pics from party night, alas too many so go facebook cos Grace is lazy... here is a nice one though:Ok back to the gold-mine of distraction, Grace is off to tag on facebook!

ahChoo

2007-09-03T23:17:00.000+08:00

Let us all celebrate that flu season is still upon us, even though its officially Spring now. Thanks to the joint efforts of many of my friends, together with talking to lots of people, for I am in sales :

I Am Now Sick

Hu-zzah for the sneezing and sniffling and general phlegm-ee-ness. Feeling quite whiny and tired now. Had some lovely tea and a nice chat with miss lynda though, so my throat is slightly less painful.

RE: Facebook. Yes I've succumbed and now cannot get away. The conspiracy that is facebook lives on! There are way too many useless applications to add, and lots of photos to go check out. Distraction and procrastination abounds indeedy.

Things to do:

Catch up on hours-upon-hours of monotonous iLecture. Can you feel my excitement?
Two extra shifts at work, both this week and next week. Well at least I'll get a chance to spread on my germs to get back at all those customers who made me sick in the first place.
Wear warmer clothes. Even though I'm very ready for it to get warmer and be done with all this wind and rain nonsense.

Things to look forward to:

Birthday!! Good byee teenage-ness, helloo early 20's!
Birthday Party!! (self explanatory)
Haircut and manicure. Time for something different, and fancy new nails too.
Mid-sem Break. Conveniently forgetting all sorts of assessments due once the break is over.

Ok off to try and sleep a bit earlier so as to help out the ol' immune system.

Btw, went to Caro's Blog and did what I was told to and turned myself into a simpsons character:Looks nothing like me.. except for the glasses.. and I have earrings like that.. and I also have that shade of lipgloss... and the same coloured hair. But other than that, looks nothing like me, and for some reason I've got a pair of stethoscopes...

to facebook or not to facebook?

2007-08-27T11:45:00.000+08:00

It seems inevitable, facebook is taking over the world! A conspiracy perhaps to take over the world, one camera-whore at a time?

At uni at the moment, stuck in lectopia-hell during my three hour break. Damn I should've just slept in today, lectopia sucks the big one... so here I am wasting my download limit on blogging in the upsl.

Had a pretty good weekend:

Friday: Jeremy's Birthday pre-drinks and Mambo! if only my camera didn't die on me... us girls would've gotten the chance to perfect the self picture taking technique.

Saturday: Whheeeeee slept in! Sleep deprived Grace was sleep deprived no more. No work for once, instead got a manicure.

Sunday: Early start.. freakishly early at 0500. miss loo, miss lai and I got some Karma points for volunteering at the Help Desk at City to Surf. and then there was pancakes! and then there was too much pancakes. and then there was a stomach ache!

At least we didn't drown in the freaking rain, I'm thinking there would have been many a runner to slip and fall into the mud. We on the other hand, were warm and dry eating breakfast and having coffee *pfft* Serves them right for being all athletic and such.

Jeremy's eng people dinner, got a change to wear my new pinafore/overalls thing, lets all just hope I really was wearing it the right way round...

Ok off to try and pay attention to the lectopia lady, blah blah metal... blah blah fishcakes

Pick a Pack of Pictures..

2007-08-12T00:23:00.000+08:00

Picture pretty prom-like picnic.. sort of thing. Its harder then you'd think, finding all words starting with 'P'

More pictures below, from the fancy ASIA Charity Dinner on friday.. an opportune time for all of us to respect our asian heritage, and indulge in a spot of camera-whoring.

With miss vice president herself!

Me, Cindy and Clarissa

Stole Kath from her table for a quick pic

mmm profiteroles.. with bunny ears!

ooh jungle-y!
whose got attitude? we've got A-ti-tude!In the lobby with 3 camera timers at once.. Super Camera Whoring!

Alright it must be true.. I have turned into a limited word-blogger who instead fills the space with just pictures. Only temporarily though... probably...

more pictures to come

2007-08-07T22:46:00.000+08:00

Got a lovely stock pile of pictures from assorted events. As soon as I find a good online album place i'll put em up. For now heres some nice ones :

aaww smiley smiley!

mmm cake..

group shot!
though quite bad with everyone looking the wrong way or not looking at all

so from this ......to this!

much nicer and with more people + Birthday girl

change of venue to the beach.
see here I'm too cool to wear sunnies, unlike the rest of them!
(plus I have bunny ears... oh yeah... I'm cool)aaw cute picture.. and only slightly posed!

lovely little beach shot with a tiny bit of ocean in the background

Ok off to pretend to do some work now, which is what you should be doing at the moment too!

Is it a bird? Or a plane?

2007-07-27T20:57:00.000+08:00

Alas it is neither bird nor plane, it isn't even Superman which is the normal answer to that question. It is, however, something just as surprising, just as good at flying and similarly bullet proof... An update on Grace's blog *gasp*

If you need a moment to recover at the sight of something new on this here blog I shall understand and wait while you collect yourself. Feel free to go have a lie down after the shock or fetch youself some water, go get some water even if you don't feel like it... Hydration Is Important Kids!

And now a poem:

Bad bad blogger-Grace
Baddest blogger in the whole damn place!
Haven't updated in a long long while
and so is typing in rhyming style!

Have been remiss in my blogging task
is the rhyming annoying yet, I ask?
Not to worry this is the end
No more bad rhymes for you my friend!

"Oh high school english class! How useful you were in teaching me the grand AA-BB rhyming scheme!"

So in return for two months absence of blogging you get a very dodgy-type poem, aren't you glad that you are productively spending your time here?

Things from the past two months:

Exams: done, dusted, dealt with, d-over and all other things starting with D

Indonesia:
- two full days of shopping, eating good food
- tiny domestic indo planes with lots of delays, eating bad plane food
- my cousin's pretty pretty wedding, eating both pre-wedding and post-wedding food
- huge 7-tiered wedding cake which was cut with a sword, alas didn't eat that as it was fake
Plane delays made us almost miss our plane back to perth, new experience though, running through Jakarta International Airport while they call out "Miss Ong, please board the plane.."

Harry Potter 7: bought last saturday before work, finished sunday night. It was pretty darn great and yes like the good little that I am sap I did cry. No spoilers here though I promise.

Back to Uni: Ah yes, now most of us have returned to those hallowed halls of institutionalised tertiary education, all ready and waiting to demonstrate our grasp of rare and multi-syllabled words. However to be specific, in the case of Eng its more the use of really long and complex looking equations full of latin symbols. Welcome Back To School Kids!

Darn Uni though, its first week and I already have a lovely large load of work to do. Books to read, iLecture to catch up on, my oh my do I love the overloading. Overloading you are #1!

Other stuff: I'm sure that a whole range of other things have happened over the past two months, such as Caro, Alison and I getting to see the very funny Ross Noble and of course Pirates 3 with all the Johnnys plus other miscellaneous things.

I now no longer feel like I have neglected my blog, I think this is an adequate update and shall now go off to tackle some of that uni work, that or watch one of the many pirated dvds acquired in Indo.

Bye Kids!

Sa-ta-res-sed-ded

2007-05-23T18:04:00.000+08:00

Don't underestimate the weather. Believe the forecast when it says its going to be 21 degrees. Don't be fooled if it looks all nice and sunshine-y outside! Devious, tricky, weather gremlins will get you every time.

Rocks suck. There is really nothing interesting about them and no matter how much the lecturers talk to you about them, they are still just freaking rocks!

Two weeks to go! and the only things sustaining me are the thoughts of watching Pirates 3 on June 1 and seeing Ross Noble on June 2! (after the pile of assignments is finished that is)

Official Hermit Status. Self imposed for the next two weeks and then continuing into the exam study break. Oh-what-a-life I just cannot contain my excitement...

ooh look!

2007-05-09T00:18:00.000+08:00

Too much work getting you down?

Does your head feel like it might implode at any moment?

Do you worry that if it does you'll have bad-hair-days for weeks?

If you answered YES to any of these questions well worry not kids all you need is this :

It sure does the trick for those pesky brain cells!

Just a few repeated applications and you can say buh-bye to your normal brain functions!

Its THAT Easy!

You don't have to thank me, the dazed and unfocus looks in your eyes is thanks enough!

*Procrastination is key for stress managment! 12.20am and with 9am lecture I think its time for Grace to go to bed.*

Picture overload

2007-04-02T18:46:00.000+08:00

What is the answer to a very neglected blog? Pictures of course! Still new to the world of digital camera so I have a bunch of previously-not-yet-uploaded pictures.

So here is a selection of pics all the way from new years to now-ish :

NYE 06/07

In grandmama's house while she was off in indo.

All the Girls and all the Boys just after the countdown.

Who needs oxygen really? Breathing was sooo five minutes ago..

Varying stages of redness

hahaha this is probably my favourite pic of the night

Melbourne Trip

mmm cake... and pretty too!

Random pics with grandmama and mother dear while waiting for father dear to pic us up after shopping spree

Hip Mo Toast!

Jazz + Subway + cookies = Good

Yenny's 21st Birthday

aaw pretty dresses! Unfortunately I had to cheat with my mask... I don't have one of those stick things

All very spiffy

Thats some really nice cake there.. mmm cake...again...

Where's Wally? I mean Where's Grace? 15points if you can find me!

Bits & Pieces

2007-02-21T21:18:00.000+09:00

It's hot, I'm lazy, don't expect the best sentence/overall post structure.

Back to school kids, so pack those lunch boxes, shine them shoes and put on your learnin' hats!

I think I better start remembering to put sunscreen on because uneven tan line season has finally set in to my dismay.

Host day today. Pointing out buildings and what not to freshers, only to find that I don't know where much is..

Working tomorrow : 11am till 9pm!! damn you english guy for leaving.. stupid 10 hour shift.

I think I should read a book. Get my brain in training for the beginning of uni and all. Though instead I'll probably watch a dvd or paint my toenails.

I finally got a 3 phone! kind of.. a 3 phone with my optus sim in it. Might buy a 3 prepaid so I can use it for work, that's dedications for ya!

Happy belated chinese new year to everyone, wish you all luck and such things for the year of the pig.

alright..That's all folks!

Melbourne bound

2007-02-03T00:31:00.000+09:00

Apparently its the "cultural and sporting capital of Australia" though there probably won't be very much culture and/or sport involved in this trip, mostly just the accumulation of consumer goods.

If you were wondering what Perth is known for (if you pay attention to the sign on the way in from the airport that is) Perth is "the city for people"... right... as opposed to unicorns? or perhaps they don't want people to think we live in a city for mutant aliens? cos Nope just People..

Anyways I am off to go and dream about all of the shiny-shiny things I will buy in Melbourne!

a quick note

2007-01-25T00:53:00.000+09:00

Want to know where you can find the most superior potassium? I bet you do.. they also invented the trouser belt and have supposedly very clean prostitues.

Now we can all sing along to the Kazakhstan National Anthem!
*One..Two..Three!*

ho-hum-do-dum

2007-01-21T17:33:00.000+09:00

I'm one bored little marshmallow! Someone please send me a life raft, a rescue plane anything, I'm bored and cleaning the house is not a substitue for interesting activity damnit! As you can see its ranting season.

The bad thing is that this particular mood often leads to one of two things:

a) a new blog skin... something shiny and different.

b) a haircut

Much to lazy for option (a) and I made everyone promise to not let me do option (b).

So whats a marshmallow to do?

*goes to sit in the corner to think of something to do.*

Dear Santa..

2006-12-23T21:34:00.000+09:00

For christmas this year I would like :

panda slippers

world peace

my two front teeth

a bottle of rum

a can of spam

rubber ducky

roller skates

and as always a pony!

Christmas is approaching in case you hadn't noticed and thus begins a period of much eating and merriment of sorts, presents and such are of course mandatory.

Try not to be an Ebenezer Scrooge this season... we don't want any 'Bah Humbugs' round here! Instead here is a little christmas card to all you moppets and muppets in blog reading land.

Also everyone gets to take home a free virtual cookie!

Uploaded fresh from my camera today! Mmm digital cookies... Can you taste the pixelated goodness?

blog news

2006-12-14T21:46:00.000+09:00

To no one's surprise I have once again been found to be remiss in my blogging duties. Not to worry, come the morning I shall be drawn and quatered for my actions.

Wishing a belated birthday to lynda and my bro who were both born December 11.. It would've been cooler if they were born in the same year too. Then there could've been a weird twin seperation and/or baby swap! Which could in turn result in a hilarious half hour sitcom about all the wacky adventures that would then occur or perhaps some sort of sappy korean/jap drama.. not that I would even watch something like that...

The good thing about my brother's birthday is that his friends got him a Nintendo Wii which I have found is quite fun to play. Even though you look quite stupid while flailing around playing fake tennis/bowling/boxing as long as not too many people are watching you and no one is taking pictures then its O-K!

In other news myself, miss djunaedi and mr tan went off to see tripod in their "Hey, We don't make the Yules" Christmas show. Oh my, why these three chaps were indeed funny.. and just to further prove my obsession with my new digital camera here are some pics of the night :

In case you were wondering this is tripod dressed up as the three wise men. Pretty much them in giant sheets with papier maché heads.. things started getting weird when they began dancing and one of them (scod) started rapping...

This is the lovely fly by night club. Looks pretty cool here.. It'd be a nice place to have a party, oh if only I had an endless supply of money...

*Dear Santa...*

Tripod with a very festive christmas tree in the background!

Yay we even got a picture with two of them!

Here you may notice that all of our smiles look slightly forced. This is because we were stuck in that awkward situation where you've been smiling for a long time and are still waiting for the camera man to take a pic.. very embarrassing when you have two thirds of tripod standing very close to you and a bunch of tripod fans (some very nerdy/scary) waiting for you to finish.

Some more news, slightly sad, Risto Matilla was injured once again! That is to say that my beloved red car was hit by some silly old woman's car and now my indicator is broken. Silly old woman reversed into my car when I had already stopped.. it pleases me though that there is a lot more damage to her car then to Risto Matilla. Oh well what can you do, insurance info and what not was exchanged but it really does make you question whether or not we should have senile old people behind the wheels of cars. ( though to be fair she wasn't that old.. but could still be senile)

Now because I'm getting too lazy here are the rest of the news highlights :

JB HI FI the glorious emporium of cheap cds and dvds will open soon near my house! Huzzah and let the spending start soon!
Uni results are out and I am still alive. Hope you are too!
My Grandma left for indo today and my bro is leaving in a few days. At this rate there'll be no one left in perth by christmas.
Went beaching and now I am a shade or too darker then previously. My old goth self would not be pleased.
I want to see the movie Happy Feet. Cute dancing penguins and the voice of Hugh Jackman, theres not much more you could want!

I'm off now, to blog again another day.

(oh my god. Only a month out of uni and already I've turned dumb. I've had to go back 3 times to fix spelling mistakes! noo I'm turning into a Jessica Simpson!)

I'm bringing Sexy back..

2006-11-30T14:54:00.000+08:00

Yeah!!.. can't get stupid timberlake out of my head.. I apologies for singing it so much at Lynda's impromptu birthday party.

And on that note I wish:

a belated happy-early-birthday-and-temporary-farewell to miss loo

At the moment I'm trying to get myself some form of online album thing... my old one was too dusty, so my pics were "moved to the attic" I don't really know what that means... so I think I'll just get a new place to put them up. Will have to see how that goes.

Alas I am off.. In the mean time you can have a little *squizz* at a selection of the part-ay pics. (squizz is a weird word)

Swimming time!

All the girls

Trying to be emo...

..well some of us trying to be emo...

Santa old girls.. aah the memories

very up close pic.. and slightly blurry

*mwah!*

can you say 'crazy'? I can.. craa-azy!

Lynda's bday party crew..minus grace

thoughts o' the day

2006-11-26T18:45:00.000+08:00

mm the house smell like chips : BBQ's are good stuffs

sleeping in after a late night : grandma will think you have some weird sleeping disorder/sickness

blog updates : dot point/weird format will suffice when lazy

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

2006-11-22T15:58:00.000+08:00

I wonder if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be miffed that I stole the last line of his speech to refer to the end of exams..hmm oh well.

Grace has been way too lazy to update her blog so its been neglected for over a month!

Oh dear.. the blog will probably resent me for giving it abandonment issues, then turn into a crazy axe-wielding blog intent on murdering poor unsuspecting bloggers while secretly pretending to be a mild mannered little web log, because as we all know, its always the quiet ones...always! Who knew not blogging could have so many consequences...

In order to appease the blog Gods I have put up a nifty new tag board thing aka Shoutbox, the old one went a bit odd so I had to send it to tag board heaven aka Recycle bin. I hope you come to love the new one just as much as the old one, don't hate it just cos its different! Martin Luther King Jr. would've wanted it that way.

Bah humbug! Christmas is on its way. That means its gonna start to get very hot and not many people will be here to hear me whine damnit! *shakes fist at all the people going away* But still three flightly-free months, I'm looking forward to getting really really bored =)

Things to do:

Work - back at 3 toting that barge and lifting that bale.
Buy shiny things - dvds, clothes, cds, mints and the like
Go to melbourne! - its revenge on all you people going over seas.. I'm going away just bout the time you all come back
Clean clean clean - those dust bunnies are going down.. they won't see me for..er..dust
Blog more - hmm though past records would indicate that last comment is probably a lie..

Anyways marshmallows, I'm off now. Todays post was brought to you by the letter M and the number 5

happy chappy snaps

2006-10-08T15:49:00.000+08:00

Grace is very old and to prove this she has lower back pain.. not fun.. reminds me of high school when I was told by some sort of occupational therapist/chiropracter/practitioner lady that I had 'injured my back' and told me to lie down all day. Very ambiguous injury indeed.

Anyway, in lieu of a proper update I'm gonna take a leaf out of miss loo's blog and post a bunch of pictures. I blame it on the whole me being sick thing.. it equals laziness.

So here you go, birthday shots and cocktail pics :

mmm cake time!

miss loo and I

Quite a lot of the Eng-gang.. and If you look you can see miss loo and mr revster posing in the background

miss murni, miss sugiarto, miss djunaedi and mr tan

It's time to cocktail!

a bit squished

stef, yen and me.. and nic in the background

After Part D..

2006-09-23T23:46:00.000+08:00

comes Part-E!... 'party' in case you didn't get it... perhaps that one is better left as a spoken word pun.

Thank you to all the little marshmallows who came to the part-e, too much food and too little space but I thought it was fun and had a good (if somewhat frantic) time! =)

Very very very tired now... next year I'll just treat everyone to Macca's and be done with it. Less planning, cleaning and general host-duties me thinks.

Watching a play tomorrow, I think its going to be a scary one and just to warn you, if I get scared and can't get to sleep I'm blaming you miss loo!!

Be back with better update later when my limbs do not feel as if they are about to fall off...

Officially official

2006-09-13T23:08:00.000+08:00

Am now 19... much like 18, however it is missing one little curvy bit at the bottom of the 8 to then appear like so : 9

Had a nice little holiday-break get together thing last night, and even got a suprise birthday cake made by stef and fern... mmm chocolate. Alas plans for the proper birthday shin dig are slow going. Planning indeed is a bi-atch.

I'm experiencing a lot of sneezing, which I might be able to attribute to the thick layer of dust on this here poor neglected blog, but is probably due to the fact that I am sick. Bleh a phlegm-y Grace is a gross Grace... phlegm-y anything is usually unpleasant I guess... it might be best to stay away from such phlegm related topics, its not very proper to discuss such things is it? Though it should be noted that the word itself utilises some pretty nifty spelling : ph-l-eg-m

Ok.. now that the little blog is all nice and updated I am off to go do some more myob... *sigh* oh the fun.. I don't think I can contain myself with all the invoice-purchases-and-electronic-transfering-madness going on in the land of myob!

Grace is :

2006-08-21T22:59:00.000+08:00

STRESSED!!

Will update more gooder post-Friday

luv Grace

and now, a poem

2006-07-31T15:30:00.000+08:00

Its raining, its pouring,
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and bumped his head,
And couldn't get up in the morning!

A warning to all : Rain + sleep = concussion and DEATH!!

I wish you all umbrellas that don't turn inside out and warm socks!

I am now off to the land disgustingly known as "lectopia". I'm almost sure its exactly like that movie 'Dinotopia' but instead of Dinosaurs you have really old guys talking bout things and what-not. So you see, it is exactly the same... only not.

Like a shamrock on St. Pat's day

2006-07-28T22:49:00.000+08:00

ooh lookee here.. Tis all different and green now! I have decided to embrace the hidden argyle-pattern-lover in all of us with this new motif.

And please note... the sidebar is now on the other side!! I know, I know.. it is a crazy world we find ourselves living in, but we must all learn to accept radical change in order to grow. Grow like flowers in the wind... or perhaps grow just like normal flowers in soil as that would probably be the most prosperous way to grow flowers. I think I'm getting 'flowers in the wind' bit mixed up with that 'candle in the wind' song... moving on.

First week of uni, done and done. A week of rain, dragons, Gelares, cookie/sugar OD, fruitless shopping, wet ankles, pizza dough, horoscopes, Guild coffee and lastly redecoration, as seen in evidence here.

Well done to all the UWA-ians for surviving, to Curtin-ites I hope your first week isn't filled with as many drowning hazards, and while yes, we all realise the rain is good for the farmers, on the other hand rain splattered glasses are no sight-deficient-person's friend.

-the end-

Bak 2 Skewl

2006-07-24T18:08:00.000+08:00

I don'ts no bout use but I noes That I am in neads of sum learnin!

So chums holidays are now over and we are back to uni.. just in time for the weather to go to hell and drench us silly people who try to catch the bus. Good thing that I missed the bus this morning then!

Was late to my first class this afternoon, which doesn't really bode well for the rest of the semester I would think. I blame the rain and the crappy parking now that zoology is closed and the pay parking lot near the library where I got stuck for ten minutes waiting for the pedestrians at the zebra crossing and that one stupid white car that stole the spot which was rightfully mine... but anyway I digress.

Off to latin line dancing in a little while with all those middle aged ladies who are surpisingly active when it comes to uniform dance routines of the latin perusasion, so that will be all for now.

Oh bugger

2006-07-11T23:22:00.000+08:00

Holiday report :

Pirates of the Caribbean viewings. Johnny Depp always equals good stuff, even really badly written films such as the dubious piece 'The Ninth Gate' was saved by Johnny Depp... even when there was this weird sex bit with a burning church in the background and this devil woman with crazy eyes... but enough of that. Pirates 2 not as good as the first but still pretty good.

Dvd purchases. Scrubs is funny.. I would expand on this oh-so-profound statement but alas there is a lziness factor which prevents me.

Lots of people going to melbourne and slowly trickling back to Perth. All these cheap airline tickets are probably a giant conspiracy created by Richard Branson.. one more step toward world domination perhaps.

Extreme procrastination + lack of motivation has meant that all the things I planned to do this holidays i.e. post-exam clean up, cookie manufacturing and the general organising of social events, all have been forgone in favour of general couch-potato-like behaviour. This can be displayed through the lack of blog updates and the like.

Two week to go... one would hope that the rest of the holidays will be more productive than the first half. Me thinks that a blog-skin-spruce-up is in order. Bye bye for now sports fans!

examination-nation!

2006-06-14T00:07:00.000+08:00

Ah exam time, how I do so love thee.. It has turned me into a hobbit/hermit/yermit like creature as predicted so I hope everyone is being good and studious and not staying up till odd times of the night watching the soccer!

I myself have cultivated some particularly bad sleeping patterns, going to sleep at 5am thanks to large amounts of coffee and/or tea and then waking up at 1pm in the afternoon. The system is very useful when writing up copious boring microeconomic notes. However it of course fails once one is required to wake up before 7am for a 9am exam, so it is sadly true that the system is faulty.

Ok back I go, banished to the land of maths.. it is not a fun place this world of maths, for the roads are paved with calculus and the sky is full of statistics and probability clouds.. grr

Ouch.. brain..

2006-05-27T00:56:00.000+08:00

Huzzah and what not for it is that time of year once again. No dear ones it is not Christmas or any sort of festive season, it is alas Exam Time.

A time for stress, cramming and beverages filled with caffeinated goodness. But for some lucky few it will also be a time for funny guys in suspenders making nifty sound effects! *The Umbilical brothers!* Just after my maths, a reward you may say, for countless hours of math-e-mat-ic-ing and an assortment of other units too.

Also a side note: Ross Noble's show Randomist was incredibly good. Due to scheduling conflicts however Miss Loo was not in attendance, instead she was prancing around in a borrowed bath robe and hair curlers as opposed to laughing at Mr Noble's tales of monkeys, politicians and theodolites.

In case you were wondering-->

<-- that is the Dalai Lama telling us all to "Sit down and enjoy the show" And also little Ross Noble in cartoon form [which actually belongs to Miss Loo when I eventually see her]

Alritey then, I wish you all non-exploding brains in this time where brain explosion is considered quite common and good night!

yawn

2006-05-12T17:51:00.000+08:00

Grace is now back from her little stressed out hiatus, updating her neglected blog before she once again freaks out before exams are once again upon us little uni-bees.

Feeling a little bleery-eyed at the moment.. woke up at the nice, early, freezing, ungodly hour of 6am-ish to go to a boring tute and now I'm suffering the after affects of early mornings and insomnia.

Anyways, off to see the 'gals' from ye olde Santa so best get ready.. perhaps chew on some coffee beans or stick my hand in an electric socket.. and then I shall be off.

aaand *scene*

Bad week

2006-04-01T23:04:00.000+08:00

This week Grace had a mostly shitty time.

Too much work, not enough brain power. Had quite a nice time shopping with Miss Loo but alas both did not buy anything.

By the way did Grace mention she got into a car accident?

Risto Matilla is fine and all limbs are still connected to all parties involved, not to worry. Bah-humbug though! Anyway she shall digress as that is all she wishes to say on the matter.

Trying in vain to do her Micro essay at this moment in time... but she has reached the point where you just want to say 'Aw fuck it' which means that future-Grace is gonna be really screwed. Seriously the level of screw-ed-ness is extremely high.. its off the chart.. its not even on the table that the chart is being drawn on.. it is in the other room.. in the neighbours house.. really

Recipe to make Grace's head explode [aka kablooey]
2 x commerce essays
one micro & one HRM
1 x test
statics and solids which has the FOB lecturer who says walue, manus and statistics when supposed to say value, minus and STATICS.
3 x group assignments
three different units.. brain squish imminent
1 x approaching midsemester exam
damn you micro.. I'll get my revenge one day.. one day..
1 x job
though I must admit the moneys are quite enjoyable
- With due dates in close proximity to each other and also close proximity to current date, mixing the ingredients well will surely produce the desired outcome. KA-BooM!

Now one might think 'Grace why are you here at 11pm at night blogging when you should be saving future-Grace from the threat of a massive brain haemorrhage and/or spontaneuous head combustion?'

And to that I would say that this is just a friendly notice to tell others that from here onwards Grace has turned into a hermit. Please aid her in this venture by yelling at her often to go study. Every scolding counts. Just one verbal reprimand a day could make all the difference between a sad-failure-Grace and a happy-pass-Grace. You have the power. [Just don't let it get to your head]

As requested..

2006-03-22T11:38:00.000+08:00

Okay Ms. Loo I accept your challenge.. but damn you for taking a lot of the Franz songs... Now those are the only ones I can think of... I blame you!

1. A song by a Beatle/the Beatles:Can't Buy Me Love

2. A song featuring piano as the main instrument: The Special Two by Missy Higgins

3. A song with a woman's name in the title: Hey Jude by the Beatles

4. A song with a man's name in the title: Danny Boy by whoever... hmm I'm pretty sure someone hates this song..

5. A song about money: Money (That's What I Want) by someone miscellaneous

6. A song with weather in the title: Autumn Goodbye by.. oh god.. Britney Spears.. part of my yr 7 obsession knowledge base

7. A song with parentheses in the title (these are parentheses): Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) by Garbage

8. A song made by a punk band: American Idiot by Green Day

9. A song with the word 'song' in the title: Here's A Love Song by Syd

10. A song you love so much you stop and listen whenever you hear it: Walk Away by Franz Ferdinand

Okay done and done... hmm I guess I tag Ms. Djunaedi to complete this task also... see if it makes her move her butt and actually update that neglected blog of hers.

Some things :

2006-03-13T23:44:00.000+08:00

Uni life - bah humbug, curses to this summer weather. Not a fan of the uneven tan line and yet one cannot seem to escape from it.

Latin line dancing - woohoo fun! No really thoroughly enjoyable. Yenny + Me + lots of middle aged ladies. right-step-cross left-step-cross step-step forward mambo

Wong Fu Productions - A new found obsession of mine. Funny american college guys with funny little american college guy video clips. I recommend Yellow Fever if you haven't seen it yet and also I'm Yours for a sweet/cute little music video.. its sappy and yet I like it still.

Tripod's DVD - coming to a store near me soon... definitely something to add to the list.

Risto Matila - he's doing very very nicely. For those of you who don't know mr. matila is my red subaru liberty. Just need to get my hands on that elusive tape adaptor and all motor vehicle issues shall be solved!

Grace's head - hurts... either its the sign of the apocalypse or it means that Graces needs sleep right now...

Btw sending happy belated thoughts to Jo and happy up-coming birthday wishes to Au and Yenny on the off chance that any of them read this.

Regulalry Scheduled Program

2006-02-26T22:59:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow is the day that all the little uni-bees return to those hallowed halls o' learning & stuffs. Time to say your bye-byes to that flighty-free time known as holidays. *sigh*

Meh.. Grace is quite over this weather thank you very much. She would like global warming to stop freaking out and make the climate less schizophrenic please. If one of you readers out there could kindly get onto that she would be very thankful.

Oh dear.. Grace's head feels awfully empty. She hopes that its not a sign that her brain has

a) liquified into useless goo within her head

b) suffered some sort of brain-specific rust

Hopefully not, what with uni being the place where one's brain needs to do all sorts of complex activites and what-not.

Okay, that will sufficiently count as an updated blog. Off now.. Grace bids all the uni-bees a good first day back with minimal 'getting lost trying to find new classroom' moments.

Big Day Out Recap

2006-02-05T23:57:00.000+08:00

Just got back from the Big Day Out and having finally eaten dinner at 11.30pm I am now here to recap the festivities while they are all still moshing in my brain.

Weather
Bleh hot and shiny... meaning Grace now has more interesting tan lines to add to the bunch... even though there were copious sun screen applications, nevertheless. Note to self.. next time bring a hat.

Also because of said hot weather the security guards kept spraying water into the crowd, whilst refreshing, the questionable nature of the water doesn't exactly make you want to be doused in the face with it.

People
As expected plenty of sweaty bogans to go around. They are really not fun to be around when in a mosh-pit type situations e.g. when myself and Alison were trying to get in front of the stage before Kings of Leon started. Got elbowed and crushed quite a bit.

Also bumped into quite a few familiar people, Andre and friends watching The Grates, Jason and gf Jenny at lunch time, Amanda Murray who kindly gave me a discount at Red Rooster and also Miss Loo [the more senior one] and their cousin Stoo [I think its spelt that way anyway..]

The Bands
The Greenhornes - cool band from Cincinnati Ohio, must now track down their albums... a trip to 78 records is needed me thinks.

Sarah Blasko - nice voice, album in the process of burning from Alison, she reminds me a lot of Missy Higgins.

Kings of Leon - really really great live band. After being smushed into the barracade to get in front of the stage the good music made up for the pain and bruises =)

The Living End - While waiting for Franz at the Blue stage, the Orange stage next door had the Living End.. I snuck over and got pics while they played classic yelling-type songs. Cos I'm a brat and I know everything and I talk back, Cos I'm not listening to anything you say...

Franz Ferdinand - for our patience we were right at the front for their set! Well like second or thrid row from the front... damn those tall people. Franz was truly great, they too sound really good live. [Auf Achse with three people playing the drums at one time was particularly cool]

The White Stripes - Alas at this point the mosh-pit got much more mosh-i-er. Too many people, lots of pushing and squishing. I stayed up the front while the very-slick-with-his-black-top-hat Jack White and the very-cool-with-her-hot-red-short-shorts Meg White played Blue Orchid. After that Alison and I got a bit trampled so the tank security guards pulled us over the barrier... thus truly providing a true Big Day Out experience. But still they were still el fantastico, even if we had to watch the rest of it from the big screen instead of up close.

That was Grace's day at the Big Day Out, she is now off to sleep till some time in the afternoon.

The End.

[Insert your own title here]

2006-02-02T22:40:00.000+08:00

Its official fellow blog-reader-people, Miss Ong is going to the Big Day Out! She only hopes that there are fewer smelly/sweaty/overtly bogan-ish people then there were at Cat Empire.. admittedly the crowd will probably be very similar though! Damn those bogans and their non-showering ways!

Also hooray! 3 phones have been selling like hot cakes! While one doesn't know the specific statistical information about the rate at which the hot cakes are selling, the saying suggests that they are being sold in reasonably large quantities and within a short span of time. This reflects the way 3 phones are selling at the moment for they too have been sold rather quickly of late... very good for Miss Ong who does so like that extra commision money.

For future reference, Hungry Jacks breakfast is a rip off. Stick to Maccas people unless you're desperate... in that case eat a whole packet of mints in one go or something to that effect because the eggs at Hungry Jacks are dodge and the pan cakes are pretty much the same as Macca's...the mints are a better option..really.. Stupid Hungry Jack ads with their influencing campaigning..

Old news but Yay! Miss Djunaedi has returned and Miss Loo is back soon-ish... we hope... as long as she remembers to get on the plane and all!

Ok so my head is hurting now and I'm once again working tomorrow so I'm off.

Strange People : Bus Edition

2006-01-11T14:05:00.000+08:00

I have now started working at the 3 store in the City [the one near crazy clarks in case anyone wants to visit me], meaning I am again one of the many commuters on the bus's in the mornings and afternoons.

So here are a bunch of distasteful chracters that one must learn to identify when on public transport.

Creepy, staring people
Don't sit next to them, don't make eye contact with them, don't even acknowledge their existence in case that causes more overt staring.

Groups of Giggling Girls
Annoying and loud, and yes I do remember a time when myself and other certain Miss's could be considered one of this particular group. But at least we knew we were being annoying and disrupting the quiet atmosphere of public transport. These kids today... no respect...

Smelly, unwashed people
Good to avoid at all times as a rule. Not just on buses.
Also note : try not to sit where such folk have sat as seats still smell of soaked in unsavory scents. [Now say that last sentence 10 times fast... and GO!]

People with headphones who laugh to themselves
I must confess this last category pretty much describes me on the bus recently. I downloaded the podcast of Ross Noble and Terri Psiakis who are back on triple J and I have taken to listening to them while on the bus. I can't help it, they are funny and random and every once in awhile will make me laugh very suddenly... which I must quickly muffle so that other bus passengers won't look at me too weirdly.

I'd try and quote some of their stuff but you can't quote comic genius [well you can but it always comes out dodgy and unfunny]. SO this means don't sit next to me on a bus when I'm listening to my podcast, because I will break out in silent giggles at weird and random times and I don't need the stress of someone sitting next to me thinking I need to be committed to an asylum... cos I don't... really...

Okay and now I am off to get more Ross and Terri podcasts because I need more fodder for future bus adventures.

Btw bye bye to Miss Loo who has gone over waters... have a good trip and don't forget to stay away from Olga!

Something in the Water

2006-01-07T17:31:00.000+08:00

or perhaps its the weather lately, but some weird external force is causing me to have really detailed and very odd dreams.

Example 1 : The one where Robin Williams is in love with my sister, who is Tea Leoni, but is actually just using her to steal some shiny object. Then Robin Williams, whose name is Floco in my dream, falls in love with me. Also there were like sniper's trying to kill people and me running/crawling down travelators to get away from Robin/Floco cos I feel betrayed or some such thing.

Example 2 : The one where I live in Hogwarts and its very very big with lots of steep stairwells. There's a war going on and me and a group of people are trying to hide. We get found out and I do some spells with my wand, yes in my dream I have a wand, and end up making more noise causing the bad people to see us. Also for some reason people had bows and arrows, and it was all very medieval till people with hand guns showed up. And Harry Potter was trapped in a wooden cage of some sort.

Very weird, though I do admit that the last example may have been caused by reading one of the Harry Potter books again. Where the first one came from I don't know...

And now for an announcement :

"Ross Noble is teaming up with Terri Psiakis again for a triple j radio show like no other! Last January, their show climaxed with a cardboard Nanna being released into the air, propelled by helium balloons. Where will Ross & Terri take you in 2006?

Starts Monday January 9 from midday - for two very special weeks only."

I listened to them last year, and it was oh-so-fantastic. Really great and funny so I'm awfully pleased that they are back. Alas I think I'm gonna be working/training when they are on. Thank heavens for Podcast!

If you're free and like listening to funny people then triple j. 12pm -3pm. starts this monday!

New Digs

2006-01-03T01:30:00.000+08:00

You like? It's just as if it was autumn all the time! But what with the weather being all non-sequential in these recent times sometimes one could mistaken it to be autumn now anyways.

And now a venting post. an attempt at deep and meaningful perhaps.

Some things about myself I know to be true are : I don't like pink, I have selective taste in shoes, I often use sarcasm and the topic of this vent, I don't like confrontation.

Confrontation, it would seem, can only lead to bad things. In my mind, after a big blow up it would be difficult to move on, unless you completely ignore the confrontation all together. All this of course would depend on the scale of the issue. In the past, due to my dislike of confronation, I have learned to deal with small annoyances, doubts and what not.

However recently certain different matters have been popping up, all seeming to add to a lessened ability to deal with such annoyances, even if in hindsight they are actually quite tiny.

I don't know, maybe I'm being incoherent as always but I'm something [pissed, bitchy, confused] and I don't like it at all. Though I feel slightly better now after venting.

I'm in the mood for bitching. Dome?

Poor blog : Hunted, Despised!

2005-12-29T00:37:00.000+08:00

*in the words of Ed Wood*

We now blow the thick layer of dust from the surface of this wee blog and present forth with an update! Gasp.. I have been remiss in my blog maintenance duties and for that I should have my hands cuts off. Though in retrospect that may cause more problems within the blog-updating realm so perhaps the dismemberment can wait.

Many things to be discussed, example :

'3' promotional street team work is tiring, especially when one does not get paid, so quitting and sneakily getting an interview else where is all good.

8 player DDR looks just plain strange. Also requires quite a bit of concentration, those jumps are tricky tricky tricky.

Hogbreath steak is very good. Mmm steak...

To those who are great observationalists my hair indeed is darker/blue. However to most people it looks the same, so phooey to you then.

Christmas shopping is madness, close proximity to warm-bodied-odour-carrying people is just wrong.

Happy belated to Miss Loo... really belated. I must say though, good little shin-dig old chap! Well done for joining us all in 18-ville =)

In any case, I shall strive to update more. Especially since now I don't really have an excuse for not updating. [I shall also strive to think of a synonym for the word update]

Hope you all had a truly smashing Boxing day and I wish to you all a great January 2nd! Think outside the box people, don't conform to society holidays! Celebrate when the rest of the country is hungover! [poor boxing day and January 2nd... no one else loves them. They've got abandonment issues]

And with that thought for you all to ponder I'm off.

[Btw Miss Loo : The word is Elective!! Now my brain can rest]

Bad Sentence Structure

2005-12-03T20:49:00.000+08:00

Woke up late. Did not succeed in cleaning room.

Body Combat : Endorphins are very nice. I like the hormone induced happy mood.

Lynda passed driving test! Congratulations! Apparently she was at my house. Silly girl, I was not at home... obviously... [well to me and miss loo probably. Not to those who are just now reading about it]

Gilmore Girls. Finally. Die channel nine, die. For toying with my viewing habits.

Pondered baking cookies and painting finger nails. Not at the same time. Laziness prevails. Neither were accomplished.

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This post gets a C+ marks taken off for bad sentence structure. Lack of depth. However good use of set-out. Post is quite neat.

And on that note...Vote for Pedro

Long Live the Empire of the Cat!

2005-11-26T00:29:00.000+08:00

Events of the night 25-11-05 include :

Lots of driving, including two wrong turns, fixed with the help of Navigator-Loo

Picnic by the side of the car [because the organisers are scheming, greedy people who won't allow you to bring food/drink inside] mmm subway is nice... as is sushi! =)

At least five different spot changes, in reference to the stage. Some were not good enough, other's had blonde womenly-men swaying/dancing inapproriately in the line of sight, or random weirdoes deciding to stand right in front of us and at times on top of us. In the end we mosh-pitt-ed it [for the problems which lie therein see Note]

Two mediocore warm up bands, the first an instrumental group named the Sunshine Brothers, whose name alone is sappy enough to make you gag. Also the band King Curly, who weren't too bad, kind of funny, a little bit sappy, but they had a double bass so who can complain with that?

Then there was Cat Empire. Excellent on stage performers, cute trumpeter named Ross and lead singer Felix was also rather nice to look at. All in all it was a great concert! Cat Empire rule...[did you recognise the pun? if not brush up on your play on word skills]

Note: Things that I wish there had been less of : bogans, weirdoes, smelly people, drunk people, tall people, inconsiderate people.

*Sigh* but one cannot have everything, for if one could have everything one would then need a lot of storage to put it all in. And don't say that having everything would include storage, because then where would one store the storage?? In any case I digress...

Cat Empire = good/superlative/impressive

Smelly, weird, tall people and also having everything = bad

For pics go to the side bar and click on Miss Loo's name. She's got pictures from her digital camera and I am too lazy to put a link straight to it, so go to her blog and find them yourselves!

[As indicated by this uncharacteristically long update I am in a much better mood as opposed to the last post. Thank you Johnny Depp, Cat Empire and the people who make such things possible]

take cover around now

2005-11-22T22:46:00.000+08:00

I'm not in the mood to talk/blog/be chirpy/organise so here is my quick lazy version of a blog update.

It it hunger? boredom? a pissed off feeling? blank-ness? Is it that I'm sleepy?

Unless I feel better tomorrow [unlikely RE: MYOB : 7am wake up call] Duck! and Cover! Grace might feel like throwing/ripping/hitting/ things so I'm warning you now.

*sigh*

mood : melodramatic it would seem

My heart's imprisoned like a monkey..

2005-11-13T16:44:00.000+08:00

..Throw me a romantic ba-na-na!

Coming to you from the free land of holidays!

All you still in exam mode :

Chin up!
Buck up soldier
Take it like a man/woman [cos lets not be sexist here]
Think happy thoughts! [or is that how you fly if you're peter pan... one of those]

So what has this little strumpet been up to now that examination-termination is over?

Not much really.. telethon-ing because I like the people on their like home and away people and the Sam Atwell dude... cos he's cool and shut up don't snigger at me!! He used to be on Home and Away as the guy who 'assaulted' this girl then fell in love with her sister...

[deeep breath]

They then ran away together.. then he made her go back because he was all noble.. then he came back.. they fell in love *again*.. then they ran away together *again*.. they got married, illegally *gasp*.. then the girl lied and said she was preganant.. she then lied and said she had a miscarriage.. then she found out she was *actually* pregnant but had a bad kidney so lost the baby.. then he had cancer and lost a testicle.. er hmm.. then his abusive father came back and robbed something.. then he was framed for it.. then the girl got pregnant *again*.. then he got arrested for the dad's robbery.. he was then found guilty for the thing he didn't do.. then they ran away *again* to live happily ever after.. as fugitives.. So everyone was happy!

Except me because I liked them and now they is not on the teevee no more! [Also some time in there the girl got trapped in a mine shaft with her family and the whole town thought that the dude killed them all.. but he did not and he dug them out of the mine and was a hero, but not with a cape or anything] Its just like Bold and the Beautiful..

Now were you paying attention? Because there's gonna be a test on this next week... mmkay?

Anyways, that dude is gonna be on that new aussie show Headland so witness me as I glue myself to my tv. I'm allowed to, as I am one of the free-flighty-holiday people! woohoo... sorry to those who haven't started yet!! *LUCK* [good luck and not bad luck obviously]

Alrite then... happy lamda? I have now officially updated. You may now let go of your horses!

Official Hit Tina Day!

2005-10-29T14:27:00.000+08:00

Which is tomorrow... so all you near and dear to Miss Djunaedi don't forget!!

OFFICIAL HIT TINA DAY

30th of October =)

Thank you for reading this public service.

hehehehe witness me giggle

2005-10-26T16:47:00.000+08:00

Just a quick note... Go Look :

Asian Backstreet Boys!

Hehehe its funny... with all the greatset songs like "get down get down and move it..." etc etc [well I find it funny and if you don't... pfft!]

And one of the later ones even has the Good Old Fav of fellow Villa 43 residents Tong hua or toong hue or whatever =)

Back to study *sigh*

I is incommunicado

2005-10-23T22:24:00.000+08:00

To hell and damnation with that msn of mine! Haven't been able to sign in for the whole weekend, furthering my incommunicado-like nature.

First exam this thursday... **watch as I magically freak out all over the place this week!**

Stress and caffeine to be had for future-Grace and for that I pity her. Present-Grace here watched a documentary on Michelangelo which, while fascinating, probably won't help when it comes time for Structures 101 exam...

Ah well... what can you do... unless there's some way to instantaneously invent a time machine, it seems there shall be copious amounts of cramming for this first exam in my future... will have to save time when speaking to people and only reply in monosyllables thus freeing myself up for further academic save-age.

Alrite... enough procrastination here... back to work!

I built my bridge..now I can get over anything!

2005-10-21T11:56:00.000+08:00

Huzzah! Take that structures! In your face! [Well if a unit had a face... I would laugh in it... I'm metaphorically speaking here]

So there you go... the 35+ hours of work went into making this :

[err... the picture would go here but I can't upload it till I get home]

But its pretty-ful and yes I'm a nerd...only if we win though...which is only slightly possible.

Ok I'm off now.... gonna sabotage... I mean scope out the competition!

cotton wool feeling

2005-10-16T03:05:00.000+08:00

Happy birthday Mr. Ohara, who now is the little yellow blur thanks to his performances at rise this saturday!

My head is a bit full-feeling all fluffy and cotton-wool like... not as bad as cocktail but funny all the same.

Not much to say today... building myself a bridge at the moment and burnt my hand on the glue gun numerous times! *ArrtT's & CrRAfFTts is FuuUUUunn!!*

Anyway, here are some things to keep you little muffin-headed-pokemon occupied, or at least distracted before upcoming exams :

home star runner... funny little flash site

[I highly recommend the Strong Bad emails for those of you who are not hip to the ways of home star runner dot com... therein lies the origins of the great trogdor the burninator]

Arj and Poopy ... another little flash site about this american comedian guy and his cat. Arj Barker equals funny indeed.

[I recommend going to the episodes section... to warn you though, their theme song gets stuck in your head very easily *arj and poopy, arj and poopy, what will they do next!*]

And with that I leave you to your previous activitites...

asia cocktail 05

2005-10-01T03:23:00.000+08:00

hey there chipmunks

this will probably be the only 'drunken' post I shall ever post so enjoy it while it lasts...before I get sober, re-read and delete =)

Drink count :

1 harvey wallbanger
2 bourbon and cokes
1 b151

there must be something I'm forgetting cos the list is pretty short and right now I'm feeling pretty tipsy/drunk. That b151 is hell good... next time not wasting money on weak drinks!

Asia dance kicked ass... my lovely friends miss djunaedi and miss loo did a absolutely fabulous job...why the hell weren't they at the front?!?

Still drunk/tipsy...room spinning... I'm a bit sad that I didn't get to stay longer and dance with above miss loo + djunaedi ... next week shall we club? I don't reckon tonight is counted!! Us three still haven't gone clubbing all together! [in perth at least ]

You know who is very funny and affectionate when drunk? Mr Teo...heheh funny stuff... I think he had too many shots...he kept spilling drinks on me!

alrite...thats enough of my drunken rambling... asia cocktail was good... but I wish I could've stayed longer but my ride [frans] was leaving and a lift is a lift... so go I did.

to sleep or to stay up? To all the rest of you who attended cocktail...make sure you drink lots of water!! Keep those hangovers away =)

anyways I'm off

Early Morning Hi Jinx

2005-09-26T06:09:00.000+08:00

Good morning candy apples.

If you notice the little yellow time thingo at the bottom of this post you will notice that I am here at the forsaken hour of 6.09 in the am! *gasp*

In an attempt to assert normal sleeping patterns upon my body and its respective clock I have undergone one of my patented-random-stay-up-all-night nights.

[Btw one's body clock, I feel, should not be confused with one's biological clock. As one has to do with one's sleeping schedule while the other is in reference to babies and the having of them.]

So here I am at this early early hour listening to the new cds I have procured by way of Mr Teo. This includes

Get Behind me Satan : the new White Stripes album. Tis Excellent, my favourite is My Doorbell
It's Time : the new-ish thing from Michael Buble. hehehe which reminds me of the oddness of Mr Buble singing at the AFL final...riiiight cos AFL fans strike me as big appreciators of jazz
Aha Shake Heartbreak : great titled album of band Kings of Leon which I now like
Plus some random fillers, like Little Birdy songs not on the album, some Machine Gun Fellatio =)

Also before I forget happy-belated to the elusive Kris Djunabli [as dubbed forever more says Miss Loo, the Kris part... I don't think the term 'elusive' is officially in her title]

Hmm...so strange can't get this whiskey taste out of my mouth *blech noise insert here* But you don't want to hear/read about that so I shall return to my CD ripping now.

sidenote : I watched The Transporter [which stars the guy from the Italian Job aka Handsome Rob] and I thought it was quite good, so I now want to watch the soon out-coming sequel =) volunteers anyone?

[renovations = good = yes? Any eyes bleeding? oh well *pfft* to you if they are! Me likes the renovations me does]

Re-vamping in Process

2005-09-24T22:26:00.000+08:00

Please excuse the mess... this blog is under construction!

So don't forget your hard hats... just like the construction worker in the village people..

*he is sooo dreamy, I lurfe him almost as much as Jay Maynard, aka Tron-Guy*

Things & Stuff

2005-09-21T21:22:00.000+08:00

Had my little birthday bash-shin-dig last saturday. Karaoke and clubbing..thank you to those who came... hope you weren't bored ... I get paranoid bout those things...

Study break update : watched Wedding Crashers, baked choc chip cookies, IPE-ing, 10+ hours of sleep per night and birthday funded shopping trip!

The only thing missing is actual *study* [with air-quotes of course] but to this I have only one big : MEH!

Instead I think I'm gonna go trawling for a new blog skin... probably something in the black-semi-goth genre.

[yeah.. I don't know why I chose some bits to be blue... does it look festive?]

...and hooray!

2005-09-12T18:15:00.000+08:00

Legal and now able to vote... Grace Version 18.0!

One more hour to go!

2005-09-11T23:05:00.000+08:00

Or to be more precise 55 minutes to go.

Say bye bye to Grace Version 17.0 ...

Coming to you LIVE!

2005-09-09T15:07:00.000+08:00

Greetings marshmallows, coming to you LIVE from the uwa mcl! My second home...[or at least it was until those freaking EBS people moved in..freaking EBS..]

Just hanging round here, being lazy... hooray for finishing assignments! *smiley faces all round* Also pondering the debate of whether or not to buy an ice cream... it is indeed a great thing to be pondering... *now a thoughtful face*

In other recent news : My team [i.e. Stef, Jo and Myself] came in the top two for our structures project! [Out of 36 teams btw... not like top two out of two teams as Sanjee suggested]

It's all good, we like winning =) words such as "best in the class" and "Exceptional" are awfully good for ones ego! Downside of course being : our reward is to present a 10 minute oral on our project. Though if we kick the asses of the other team [being Dan, Nick from IPE and some other dude] then we get a prize!...and me wants it...me wants it, myyy preciousss...

Ok, in the span of writing the above words I have indeed decided to buy an ice cream...wow decisive-ness in action.

Alritey I'm done now... am hoping that Jeremy's head doesn't explode while he completes his programming thingy two computers over and am gonna join Stef in checking out Johnny Depp pics next to me...I shall convert her to the ways of Depp! First Stef ... then the world!

A Powerful Force

2005-08-22T23:07:00.000+08:00

And that force ladies and gentlemen is boredom.

At times like these I know I should be doing homework, for it is plentiful. But alas my dear fellow marshmallows, the force is everywhere.

In this way it is much like the force spoken of in those little known Star Wars movies, where the guy [who used to be a hot boy named Hayden] then becomes a baritone with a fetish for plastic clothes. He too speaks of 'the force' and also of parental issues but I digress about the latter.

The force I speak of consumes me, or that is to say consumed as now blogging has given me a required outlet and the force has now dispersed.

Ok... thanks for reading my rambling! And for those of you who closed the window before finishing my post I now display a series of "interesting hand gestures"

Shiny Happy People

2005-08-20T18:21:00.000+08:00

... and of those said shiny happy people I am not one of them. Well not entirely.

This week consisted of experiement/lab fabrications, obtuse oral assignments and Noah-and-his-ark worthy weather. All things which I do not fancy to discuss.

However on a happier note : My shiny shiny ipod mini arrived! Its green and cute...hooray early birthday presents =D [By the way that was not an attempt to remind you of my upcoming birthday honest!! Neither is this by they way!]

Also for update-worthy-news from that person who I bet is still smiling right about now... Congrats! I'm happy for you! [Does one say congratulations at a time like this? Hmm perhaps i should just leave it with the I'm happy for you] Anyway, updates provided me with a lovely break from the scary un-do-able assignment, twas a lovely distraction.

In case you didn't know I updated my online album with Stef's Bday pics --> so go see!

Poor little blog hasn't been written in/typed on for awhile so this was my attempt at an update.

Off now to go catch up on my back-log of homework. If you go out, don't forget your umbrella!

[Johnny Depp on Rove this week!Johnny Depp on Rove this week!Johnny Depp on Rove this week!]

Multi-tasking in progress

2005-07-31T23:05:00.000+08:00

I greet you now while listening to iLecture for Observational Behaviour, while also chatting on msn. Multi-tasking hooray!

Had a lovely weekend... Happy birthday Dan!! [well for last monday anyway] had his party on Saturday which was fun [chicken, tree climbing, DDR, chinese checkers, that Uno version of Jenga that I can't remember the name of] also had some nice conversation after at macca's with the some of the rest of the engineering 'crew'

note to self and to you all : losing your voice is not fun. It's annoying... and people laugh =p *blah* to you all! But hooray its back...from outer space... So yes now I can talk =D

Don't really have anything else to say. Perhaps I shall go.... finish my homework.

Quote/Prophecy of the day [courtesy of Jeremy via msn] : oh black sheep, of capalistic gluttony, beware the isolated showers of dooooom

And on that note...

Things that will benefit your soul...

2005-07-28T15:37:00.000+08:00

Okay, so not benefit your soul per se, but certainly benefit your sense of procrastination.

Turn yourself into a South Park Character! I myself look like this if i were to live in South Park

Also, ever wanted to know where little barbies come from? it's fascinating [Tina : quick go see how you were born!...just tell me what the horse is doing....]

And lastly the website which led me to find the other interesting sites : Hanzi Smatter ... "Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters (Hanzi or Kanji) in Western culture" good stuff!

And now you know what i've been doing when I was supposed to be doing my assignment =)

Movies|Whedon|Uni|Hogwarts

2005-07-20T22:30:00.000+08:00

Poor little blog. Poor neglected lonely blog of Grace's. No updates = abandonment issues.

First week back at uni, had a good little weekend just before starting. Movie marathon watching such things as Cry-Baby featuring Mr. Depp. Its classic, a rebel who breaks into song and often cries. Good stuff. And yes, he's hot in it. The Shining slightly scary even if it was the mini-series version...but I'm a wuss so it doesn't really count. The ending was terrible...For example one of the last lines : "Kissing kissing, that's what I've been missing" As far as I know most horror movies don't end in sappy-I-love-my-family-crap. Well not usually...

Watched the whole series of Firefly on DVD cos my brother dear bought it. It's pretty good, but it seems I have a partiality for Mr. Joss Whedon and his verse's. It's a space western! Meaning : Cheesy, action, romance, guns, spaceship and interesting dialogue. I thought it was quite interesting that in this universe everyone speaks chinese... just slips it into conversation every now and then, not too shabby.

First couple of days back at uni, a bit busy. I'm having wardrobe issues though which is never good. And bad timetable!! Weird breaks and too many lectures in a row. I'm gonna be very dead at the end of this year.

And finally the last thing occupying me : Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Good read, not my favourite of them all but I digress. Bought it yesterday and now I'm done. Ok so I'm a bit obsessed and I read it quite fast, but its good! And very addictive, like sugar or caffeine or drugs...not that I'd know bout the last one... anyway...

So that is my current little blog maintenance update =)

Holiday update

2005-07-07T18:28:00.000+08:00

Been doing some emergency babysitting lately, Mother dear's friend is sick and pregnant, so I'm looking after her two year old daughter. Hence no going out for me... mostly just kiddy DVD's. ie The Wiggles, Beauty and the Beast and the Mickey Mouse version of The Three Musketeers.

Anyway, have also been trying to update my blog a bit. If you have a look over there--> under [Things to go see] you'll now see a link to my new photo album! Go. Click. Poses a plenty. Includes pics from my b'day 04 and also the recent Asia camp... The horror of it all, I am red... not good

RE: the weird guy at the bus stop. Father dear dropped me off at the licensing centre to book my next driving test [4th of august if you're wondering] I finished quite quickly so ended up trying to find a bus to garbo. After calling tina bout bus schedules I did end up finding the right bus stop, but had this weird guy who came up and was just standing behind me. Not meaning to offend anyone here but I think he was disabled... and well.. it was creepy. But have no fear I got on the bus unscathed, but for future note, I don't particularly like standing on random suburban streets with odd people standing behind me. Alf Curlewis moments are bad [specially when you are by yourself]

What else, what else... had an Engineering dinner on monday at Jo's house which was nice... ate a lot and played cards but since then I have been a hobbit/hermit/yobbit creature again.

Off to dinner now... *Catch you all on the flip side* ... or not...

[and even though you probably don't read this... *Happy Birthday Frans!*]

Things to remember from Asia Camp :

2005-07-02T16:00:00.000+08:00

Villa 43! And also the great villa 43 family [i.e. Tina, Lynda, Sam, Kim, Nick and myself] Not to mention all of our adoptive family... missing all of you guys!

Really, really bad, cheesy, romantic asian music! Apologies to those who enjoy such tunes, but alas they made my ears bleed, give me the Strokes or Jet any day. [ Oh also if I have to hear Catch My Disease one more time... just... bad... my god... no ]

The pumpkin and the faggot... never was there a truer love. Aaaww!

Countless card games, led to a veery interesting 2nd night for me... Also Tina's super human abilities when playing poker, she had all the marshmallows, maltesers and skittles in the land.

Lots of spa-ing turning us all very prune-like and always ending in a mad dash back to villa 43... Brrr

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It is really Felix and his incredible flying shoe! *Splash*

Saunas, Ice baths, a mosh pit of sorts, falling in the "crack" and that creepy grudge woman... still scary looking.

Picture! Picture! Picture! Twas very good that we had a bunch of photogenic people in our villa, lots of good poses! Also many poses that should never, ever see the light of day... ever...

Quick Quotes :

" I know my rights " Where is Yas, is Yas here? " I like scotch boys " endless guy-talk about sports " miscelleneous girl-talk about cutlery " Who's hand is that? " Lynda stop patronising me! " I'm not drinking tonight [right...] " Darren, do you have the pringles? "

Ok can't really think of anything else right now so shall be off. To summarise, Asia camp was good.

Many thanks to Miss's Djunaedi and Loo for inviting me =)

Look! My Evil Plan :

2005-06-23T22:32:00.000+08:00

Your objective is simple: World Domination.

Your motive is a little bit more complex: Sadistic pleasure

Stage One
To begin your plan, you must first seduce a pope. This will cause the world to slaughter a sacred calf to appease the gods, overwhelmed by your arrival. Who is this despoiler of all that is good and nice and true? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good in classic black?
Stage Two
Next, you must seize control of the Moon (ooh, tides!). This will all be done from a abandoned church, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will spontaneously combust, as countless hordes of ninjas hasten to do your every bidding.
Stage Three
Finally, you must prepare your arcane ritual, bringing about something that's really metal. Your name shall become synonymous with sheer dementedness, and no man will ever again dare sabotage your music career. Everyone will bow before your superior firepower, and the world will have no choice but to whisper your name in fear.

Do you want an evil plan of your own? Well go get one! http://www.darksites.com/evilplan.php

Holiday Semi-Hi-Jinx

2005-06-22T22:44:00.000+08:00

Bands of the moment :

The Wrights [ Seriously... Evie Part 3 ... brilliant/awesome/freaking-good ... can you not tell by my many synonyms? Though in truth all three parts of their remake of Evie are pretty damn good]

Phantom Planet [ Many thank you's to Lynda for lending the cd to me. It too is very good and is continuously playing via my headphones]

Recent Movie :

Mr and Mrs Smith [ Brad Pitt with guns! Yay! But in all seriousness he does look quite nice in a suit I must say]

Recent Book :

Girl with a Pearl Earring [Pretty good, also means I will have to add this to the list of movies we need to watch *hint hint*... hooray it shall feed my Colin Firth inclination]

Time fillers [also known as photo-shopping] :

Tis Lynda, Tina and I in our 'rock' poses. Basically just us making funny faces. And then its us again, but this time pouting!

Ok, so what I like this one. It looks almost real and everything! Yes I know pride is a sin... *Mummy I have to go to church to confess my sins...*

So that is it and I shall see you all later.

Just like a Hermit...only not

2005-06-14T23:33:00.000+08:00

Exam study has turned me into a hermit!

Two more exams... FA and Physics. My most "loved" of all units! In case the quotation marks weren't enough that was sarcastic.

Oh well, almost done and hopefully these last two will be ok and leave me relatively in tact.

To the rest of you also in exam-land I'm sending you **GOOD LUCK VIBES!!**

- grace [who is stressed and wants to go out damnit!]

Happy Birthday Johnny!!

2005-06-09T00:00:00.000+08:00

Quick note : It's the great Johnny Depp's Birthday today!! woohoo!

So yes happy birthday to Mr Depp who is 41 today, the 9th of June =)

In honour of the occasion Tina, Lynda and Myself will be having celebratory breakfast tomorrow/today. mmm breakfast, I like breakfast!

Side note : Exam study is not going as well as I would like it to... not good... oh exams how I fear and loathe thee.

Anyway to cheer me up on this day of days some pictures of the birthday boy himself :

[hmm "birthday boy" sounds oddly suggestive...]

So nice in his suit!

Also very nice with his green shirt!

Anyway thats it for today, off to sleep now. Night!

Life, Theories and Television

2005-05-22T00:07:00.000+08:00

Would you like to hear my theory? It is very likely that you have heard this before because either:
a) I've already shared it with you OR
b) My theory is true and therfore you would already have been privy to the workings of my brain via other avenues.

To elaborate. My theory: Life is a television show.

Ok now I'm gonna get into the sticky stuff, so I advise you to leave now if you're gonna get bored.

If life is a tv show my theory, Version one is that my life is like some great big truman-show like reality program. Where all my friends and family are highly trained actors who get paid and it is all being filmed as we speak [or as I type]. This would be the very very self-centred version of my theory.

Version two : we are all part of this great reality televsion show, and are being watched all the time by tiny tiny cameras hidden in obscure places like walls, lamp post and the like.

If either of these was true then my questions are as follows:
How are the ratings going? Is any body out there watching?
Is the television program of my life interesting for all the little people out there?
Or are they all just flipping channels to watch another repeat of the simpsons?

Yeah, so that's my little thought that I have recently been pondering =)

Today I went to watch Star Wars with Lynda and Jeremy [or perhaps highly trained actors known to be Lynda and Jeremy, whichever. I mean for all I know their names are really... Carol and Robert!] It was quite good but note to self *Sith's are a bit minty* The trailer for Mr and Mrs Smith looked very good and now I really want to see it, as do Carol and Robert so shall drag them and everyone else to go watch after exams!

Also watched the fantastic, random, talented, tangent guy also known as Ross Noble! [this would be thurday night] Incredibly funny stuff. He was a blur of long hair and anecdotes about his 'plums', owl's on rollerskates and even "Fiddy Cent"!! The only bad thing was that there were Jay Maynards in the audience... they always seem to sprout up at such events, very odd. They sat behind us and one had a very distictive nerd-ee laugh. Lynda/Carol and I were both slightly disturbed. All in all though the show was very good! Yet another funny comedy performer and will have to see him again next year if he swings by.

Had Asia quiz night as well. *FlashbacK* to high school socials and music camp quiz nights. Twas alright but alas my team the Umbrella Monkeys did not win! And another note *masks are freaky!* This is in reference to one of the Asia committee guy's costume which had him wearing a full white mask, much like that of the freaky guy in Nip/Tuck.

Anyways, Carol lent me a bunch of cd's so now I am gonna work my way through the musical stylings of Queen, the Strokes, Phatom Planet and others. [and by Carol I mean Lynda in case you forgot already!]

Buy Buy and I'll see you all at a later juncture!

I want to :

2005-05-15T23:05:00.000+08:00

Update my blog with witty observations and funny remarks. Alas I don't have the brain capacity at this moment.

Be less stressed and have more time to do nothing, cos laziness is fun and enjoyable.

Have more money to extend my CD collection.

Be organised and good-work-ethic-ee.

Not be the type of person that bugs myself. Cos it's bad if you turn into the type of person that you would normally mock.

Hang out with my friends more. Especially the ones I haven't seen lately. Even though I see you guys sometimes... [You guys there I miss you guys!]

Be less "Bleh" and more =)

Stop wanting things that are unattainable... perhaps I need to rethink some of the above...

Ook! I'm now nicely vented. I think... It's always nice to rant every now and then =)

Thank you for your time! And to end, in the words of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh : TTFN... Ta Ta for now!

Tripod : freaking-awesome

2005-05-10T23:26:00.000+08:00

I really should go to sleep right now but one must not neglect one's blog. Else they become resentful, grow bitter and get abandonment issues and we wouldn't want that!

Tripod are Freaking-awesome-bloody-hell!! SO good a new catch phrase must be procured for them!! I think I may have scared Alice with the extent of my obsession but thankfully Tina and Lynda joined me in my crazed mania. "Oh it's my pastry chef!"

Before the show started I found this window that was slightly opened and I convinced myself that Tripod were in there getting ready so I checked it at regular intervals for signs of movement. Miss's Djunaedi and Loo were likewise gazing at this fateful window at times... till we found out that it was actually the people form Captin Planet getting ready for their play. Much to my dismay...but anyway...

Tripod were really great/fantastic/incredible/humouress and I even bought myself some merchandise =D
CD : Open Slather [there are songs containing Mucus and Ikea what more could you want?]
Video : Tripod tells the tale of The Adventures of Tosswinkle the Pirate [Pirates, Dancing, Helicopters and a wooden woman named Enid!]

Ok... time to sleep now, but I end with a note as thus:

Note: Tripod are SUPERLATIVE! I am definitely going to see them next year and you are a fool among fools if you do not care to join me!

Current Status

2005-05-01T22:57:00.000+08:00

Am in an utter state of "meh"-ness, where even proper syntax has been neglected.

Not good: too much homework, not enough of the doing of the homework, too much use-less time spending, too much guilt over aforementioned time spending and feeling slightly cold-flu-like-ish.

Hence my current mood status.

It is at this juncture that I tend to make many elaborate analogies of my current study situation using such things as water and my sinking therein, or ladders, climbing and my non-increasing height. But enough of that.

Coming up this week:
- FA presentaion .. [motivations and justifications: fun! only not..]
- Driving test! .. [scary... come on a pass!]
- Tripod Show .. [exciting, funny, finally in Perth!]
- Smirnoff night .. [we hope...]
- A towering mass of work .. [as of yet undone]

And it is with that I sign off.

A Pointless Post

2005-04-23T18:00:00.000+08:00

[This post today brought to you in blue-hued vision!]

Grace is bored right now, and has reverted to talking about herself in the third person for no reason other than she wants to =) At about eight she is off to visit with miss's loo and djunaedi for updates, goss and what not so alas her math study will have to be put off till tomorrow!

So what happened to Grace this week... nothing too drama-tic. She had a few mock-driving-tests and passed [mostly, the real thing on thursday week!] And for some reason she couldn't get the word 'spanakopita' out of her head...[its greek spinach pie in case you were wondering!] Is this the key to passing her practical driving test? Who knows...

One other thought that Grace has been pondering: Is it wrong to think that the new pope is slightly creepy looking? Will she go to hell for such thoughts? Is it a sin to think that this german pope looks kind of evil? Will these rhetorical questions ever end??

Grace recently watched Team America too as it was highly praised by Jeremy and Frans, and to some extent Stef too. Therefore to conclude this little random post she will leave you with a little quote from Team America [it's funny, sick and wrong in a puppet kind of way]

"I like you...you've got balls...I like balls..."

And with that to final thought..
buy buy!

Grace's week...

2005-04-16T19:28:00.000+08:00

[in point form]

My mp3 player arrived! All shiny and new... delivered by a little old chinese guy with a van. But yes, I am now one of those anti-social types on buses who'd rather listen to their carefully selected music then talk to their friends! Oh the joys of possesing material goods =)

Had a lovely little gossip session with Stef while we were studying for physics on Friday. There was goss, the 411, the 'low-down' and I am now an expert on the Doppler effect. Great stuff! Plus after four years of knowing her I finally went to Stef's house.

There was a slightly off moment towards the middle of the week: lots of panic, slight depression and a few feelings of perturbation in reference to the word "supposed" in certain contexts but it all came good in the end! Shall blame it on stress and be done with it.

The tests: Well lets just say that if physics was a bitch then financial accounting would be its porn-star drug dealer. And that is all that we shall say on that subject...

Was feeling a great annoyance towards un-helpful, lazy, indifferent lab partners in physics and also stupid minty-looking [with his maroon turtle neck shirt/jumper thing] workgroup partners with hard to pronounce names and who like to be elusive when friday comes for math assignments. Grrr...

Read "The Partner" by John Grisham [very un-satisfying ending] and also "All God's Children" by someone who I can't remember the name of [quite interesting but leads me to want to research who the "Quakers" are...]

Went to 'do lunch' with Tina, Lynda, Stef, Jeremy, Jo and Fern. Followed by a bout of shopping when joined by Nic [Nick? Nik? Nic?] unsuccesful search for a usb cable but $1 earings and quite fun to hang out with Eng. people out of UWA grounds so: good day =)

[notice the point form, enabling me to be lazy and not care about structure.]

Done now!

Larry: the creepy guitar guy

2005-04-08T23:49:00.000+08:00

Were you waiting with bated breath for the story of creepy guitar Larry? Well breathe easy good folk for now I shall tell you of his creepy-guitar-ness =) If you weren't waiting with bated breath then I suggest you click that little x in the top of this window and go away quick, cos if you don't I will tell you about aforementioned creepy guitar Larry and you will have no choice but to read it!!

Every thursday I have guitar lessons at Leeming rec. centre, cos it's cheap and I'm too lazy to find myself a real teacher. (sidenote: do you know a cheap guitar teacher? sharing is caring!)

Anywah Larry is the teacher of the class and he is indeed creepy for the following reasons:

1. He wears very strange clothes for a guy his age. He's old-ish, like 40-50-ish and so I don't think it's a particularly good look for him to be wearing surf shirts and shorts (eugh the shorts...see point 2.) It makes him look slightly homeless as he looks very scruffy all the time (and not in a nice way!) with his mismatched clothes.

2. His shorts are just wrong, why? He has much body hair *eugh again!* It's bad...its more then is humanly natural...its scary! What's worse is when he puts one leg up on a chair to balance his guitar on... You'd be scarred for life too if you had his hairy leg in shorts that close to you...

3. He doesn't shave...but doesn't have the cool-guy stubble thing going on for him. instead he has this whole "I'm a creepy lecherous guy who likes to hang out in dark corners and smile weirdly at little children" thing going on. That's not a good thing. Plus his hair is greasy which adds to the lecherous look.

To summarise, Larry is creepy because he has bad fashion sense, wears shorts with his unnatural amounts of body hair and doesn't shave so he leeringly smiles at children.

Well now I've got that out of my system I shall go now. And we shall never speak of creepy guitar Larry again (at least not until i mention him next time)

Tis Thursday Today...

2005-04-07T16:34:00.000+08:00

Did you enjoy that lovely piece of alliteration in the title? Who doesn't love the excessive use of a single letter such as T !

Anyways on to more important manners. Did you know that I can't do a French accent? Was quite strange...my driving teacher started speaking in a funny little french accent but horror of all horrors I could not reply back! I tried...it came out kind of English/British, an accent I'm much better at.

Can you do a French accent? Yes you...the one reading the screen. I bet you're trying to right now aren't you? I bet you are sitting in front of your computer trying to produce a french lilt to your voice...if not shame on you, you should be!!

What else happened today, other than that little drama... not much really. If you must know I did some math-ing with ms. stefanie, while people who do E&E [jo, jason, jeremy and frans] were studying for a test. hehehe three out of those four names mentioned started with J...perhaps it is a conspiracy...some plot to take over the world. *x-files music enter here* ooh and then later on when I left the math-help-thing-y the four people that I knew there all had names starting with S [stefanie, sanji, stuart and sandy] it just gets creepier and creepier!! *x-file music get louder*

Another question to you good people (completely off topic) Do you like tripod? They're funny, if you like them I commend you on your good taste. Tripod coming in may and I'm going on may 5th which makes me awfully merry! =)

So that seems it for now, tis thursday today, which you would've known if you read the title! Anyway its thursday which means guitar lessons with creepy Larry (I think the story about creepy guitar Larry will have to wait for another day however)

Ok done now!

New and still shiny

2005-04-05T16:51:00.000+08:00

Hello there you there [or some other non-cliche greeting would go here]

This is Grace's blog... yes indeed she has succumbed and gotten herself her own little blog to rant and rave with all she wants. She even gets to speak in third person if she so wishes! Wow the wonders of the digital age...

So what does one say on their first ever blog entry?

I could always tell you about my *fantastically eventful* day at uni but alas I think the excitement of it all would send you into shock (though I'm not sure there would be very many people reading this right now anyway so it might not matter anyway!) Really there is just a certain amount of engineering *hi jinx* that one persons system can handle and I think it best not to put such a strain on yourself.

Instead for my first post why don't I just say that my name is Grace and you should definitely come back here if you are at all interested in my random and abstract thoughts (oooh clever...see how I oh-so-subtely linked to my URL? I'm as sharp as a tack I am! I am of the quick witted and savvy with the puns!!)

So there you go! Grace's first post... she is now off to procrastinate, do some engineering and physics pre-lab-ing before the O.C. starts.

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