just

a day in warnambool, a couple of parties and long drives. what a way to spend last weekend.

a late, but early start saw us on the road with the sun shining down on my side of the car. a pack of chips and a pack lollies sustained us as julie and i quietly but surely had conversations with the two girls i just met.

a quick toilet stop saw us to the doorstep of luke and bec's engagement party, just late enough to be fashionable. a few hours there, with the sun high in the sky and a light breeze was heavenly! that is until i stuffed myself silly with dessert and realised i should have left some room for the dinner that night.

we stayed in the bridesmaid's place in the middle of the city. it was all so quaint with the immaculate garden, neatly decorated house and a beautiful front porch with small disco balls hanging from the ceiling.

then there was the thing where the grandma dropped her daks to show me her newly operated knee. julie could hardly hide her horror.

not long after that, it was dinner which was just a short walk away from the house. my meal looked really small, but the blueberry sauce was very filling, as was the duck. i thought i would have to order something else. i ended up just as stuffed as i was from lunch.

BUT the four hours in the car each way did something to me. no, it's not whatever you think it was. i have a really sore back from all the sitting and it's not good.

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the flowers are in bloom in my front yard. i have a tree that blooms both pink and white cherry blossom lookalikes.

apparently the previous previous owner (or maybe it was the previous previous previous owner?) grafted another tree that produced the pink flowers to the one that produced white flowers.

prettyprettypretty

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last night, i had the opportunity to ride in a bicycle taxi/taxicycle (i made its name up) with chucky to a party. it wasn't cheap but it was one of those things you try once and never again unless you're with tourist that just has to try one of these.

the funny thing was, at the same time as we pulled up to the venue, two friends were wondering up from the opposite direction and remarked to themselves that it would be kind of embarrassing for the people to rock up to a party in, basically, a tricycle and run the risk of it being stolen. then we stepped out.

how embarassing...

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the back still hurts.

one thousand steps

this morning, i attempted the climb the 1000 steps(kokoda trail simulation). it was incredibly uphill and hard. i had so many rests in between!

but it was so satisfying. once you reach the top of the steps, you'll think 'i've done it!' (although there's more of a hike up to the top of the mountain). then you slowly make the descent only to find that you're not so stable on your feet anymore.

surprisingly, i'm not tired. not at all.

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i should really exercise more regularly...

i wake and feel the fell of dark, not day

i wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
what hours, o what black hours we have spent
this night! what sights you heart, saw; ways you went!
and more must, in yet longer lights delay.
with witness i speak this. but where i say
hours i mean years, mean life. and my lament
is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent
to dearest him who lives alas! away.

i am gall, i am heartburn. God's most deep decree
bitter would have me taste: my taste was me
bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse
selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. i see
the lost are like this, and their scourge to be
as i am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

- gerard manley hopkins

red, white and an icecream tub

i have finally finished my where's wally scarf.

now, all i need is the red and white striped beanie, a red and white striped long sleeved top and the blue pants.

facebook

so i've finally joined. after so long of resisting it, you know what made me do it?

my cousin refusing to send me her graduation photos which were on facebook.

the towel that has a cause

today is the last day i'll be doing research.

i make it sound so sad.

today is the LAST day i'll be doing reseach! yay!

no more writing of research papers and having numerous references i only cite once. no more staring at the computer for six hours of the day copying and pasting data from one software to another. no more looking at graphs and figures and wondering if i should delete one test because it's so variable. no more statistics; means and standard deviations i can handle buy doing t-tests, anovas and variences? throw me out the window. please.

i'm going home to enjoy my freedom for the next two weeks; watch some movies, play sims 2 on my psp and knit a new scarf.

amazing because it is

//the first chance i get to be a firstaider, i was a tad too far away from the action. a lady fainted on the train with a loud thud. i was half asleep and had no idea what was happening//i saw a group of eight young people wearing the same creamcoloured caps. i wonder if they were on a corporate company sponsored school excursion to conquer vic market for the glory of the corporate world//i spied for two seconds so i could see a redhead guy carrying an instrument walk to class. i didn't see him//my supervisor is away for the next five weeks so i might not get to fill out some forms to pass this subject with her//



//i'm addicted i'm needy i'm lost without you i need you amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me i once was lost but now i'm found was blind but now i see//

- the almost

happy birthday, dad & dan!

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happy twentyfirst birthday, dear brother mine
i thank God, you turned out so fine
all the best in your aims in cricket
in life, i hope you'll never sit on the picket

happy fiftyfifth, daddy dearest
at being our dad, you certainly are the best
but with the silly jokes, would you please stop
because mum's almost chasing you with the mop

//

you know, i've stopped thinking about you until you started to talk to me again. i forget how much i was enamoured by you, your eyes, your voice. you've got my heart racing again. the pupils dilating, the whole works. but i do enjoy talking to you. you come up with the most interesting topics. i am afraid that i'll fall back to those days; especially with where i am now.

but i'm glad i know where we stand. it helps a lot.

it really does.

fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer

this film is one you should wait for the release on dvd. save your money for another movie. like watching transformers for the second time.

ff2 did capture a lot of the playful squabbles between the characters as in the comics, especially between johnny storm and ben grimm. switching powers was also a nice touch.

however, it borders on mediocrity despite the amount of money spent making the silver surfer look as silvery as he did. the storyline was painfully predictable and the plot lacked twists and turns.

actually, i take back the dvd thing. wait till it comes out on free to air television.

more than meets the eye

only a child of the eighties (and the little kids it's made for) will enjoy this. i vividly remember the pink energy cubes that the decepticons had to cut and cart around. and they always seem to be stolen; either from each other or some other place. the film...ohh. i had a silly grin plastered on my face for the entire one hundred and fourtyfour minutes. and for a long time after.

what more could you want when a movie starts off with action scenes, realistic-looking cgi, lots of explosions, consistent action sequences and impulsive robots from outerspace? however, with a film of this magnitude, there is no avoiding the cheesy insertion of that infamous phrase. but that's not the only thing that was cringeworthy. there are too many closeups that can cause problems with the flow of your vision and you can lose your bearings. but it was just for a moment and you're slammed back into the action.

one thing i was hanging out for was the noises that they make when they were transforming. i'm not sure whether it's the lack of it or the noise of the action masking it but i didn't hear much of it.

and bumblebee...ooh, how my heart jumped when he took the form of the new camaro...

i'm sure this will amuse some people to no end