One of these mornings I'm gonna.....

...surprise my family!!! Haha... I'm not telling when I get back!!! My flight is arriving at 6:25 a.m., so I'll just catch a cab home! It's daylight, after all! Hehehe.... I can't wait!

Actually... the only one I'll probably surprise is the maid.... since if I arrive at home say around 8 a.m., everyone will have just left for work, P'Oad won't be back from work for another two hours... and... well... I'm not sure whether Indy and Inc will be old enough to understand that I'm not really supposed to be there...

By the way... a belated happy first birthday to my beautiful niece, Inc!

My dog will be surprised... Alba will probably wet herself :p

As for my brother's dogs.... Conan will have a fit... it'll take him a month to remember me again (he's a wire-hair terrier with a shorter memory than a Goldfish). Cola will revert back to his puppy days... although he's now fat and old black lab... and cover me in drool and whatever else happens to be on his tongue! :p Ick!

Hehehe... well, I've given away that it's a weekday, in any case! HAHA! I guess I'll catch up with Steve and his daughter for lunch after P'Oad comes home and goes to sleep, and just kill time until the evening.

Or maybe I'll just sleep... haha! Me and Kan will probably be playing DS games all the way back to BKK anyhow, so I probably won't get any sleep.

Can't wait to get home!! Should I tell, or should I not tell... hmm...

*The suspense is killing me!*

nostalgia extreme!!

This is something that kept me up all night when I was only 8 years old...

I would bite my nails in suspense as new monsters appeared...

My brother became the hero that conquered all in his path - all from the tips of his thumbs! The joystick somehow controlled the characters onscreen... no - he BECAME the hero!

When I played it myself, and won... what ecstasy!

Can you guess what it was?

Final Fantasy!!!

I'm playing the first Final Fantasy on my Nintendo DS... totally hooked!!

thinking of better things

Best Buddies!


Mermaid with a bad hairday (haha)


Daydreaming self-portrait

Spending more time with the creative arts than studying... here's my latest story and above was some procrastination.

Saving the president

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally.

The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision.

Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.

You are in Florida, Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot career-making photos.

There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.

Suddenly you see a man floundering in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer... somehow the man looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's George W. Bush! At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to pull him under.

You have two options--you can save the life of G.W. Bush or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful men.

So here's the question, and please give an honest answer :

Would you select high contrast colour film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

design part II

After working on Naomi's dress until 10 a.m., I decided that I wanted to learn how to use illlustrator, too. So I sat down thinking I would fiddle with it for about one hour. It took me one hour to discover that there was no erasor to be found!

But that glitch aside, I thought I would make myself a template to design clothes for myself this summer, since I always end up getting things tailor made by my own design :)

So here's the illustrator "Fon template." (PG version with bikini - original version has no hair, face or ... clothes!) Yes, I know. Very fat already. Will lose a couple kilos.



Yeah.... so essentially, I skipped a whole night of sleep... cos by the time I was done with illustrator, it was time for dinner.... then i've been fiddling with illustrator again ever since I got home again...

Time for bed.... first time in two days! Good night!

New design

This is what I spent all night... until NOW working on. Naomi (James' girlfriend) wants a gown tailor made in Thailand, and having seen my designs, wanted me to help her design it.

Well. There it is. I wouldn't wear it myself, but it's my design, according to the general idea of what she wanted, and she's really happy :)

She's so cute! She stayed up with me all this time, watching me work on it!

But yeah, I'm pretty excited about it, because I made the dress entirely from scratch.... and her body was cut and pasted from various photos, resized, recoloured, blended to make one body only.

Silver silk on top, schiffon layers underneath, with a little bit poking through at the bottom and top. The sash is also make of schiffon. Slits in the front of dress to show off schiffon just a little bit more :)

Phew... Now I know how to use photoshop to design clothes... I know what I'll be doing this summer!

Note one small detail: I drew it so that she's sat on her gown and it's a little wrinkled in the back!

A plea...

My body and my eyes may still be moving, and my hands may still be turning the clean pages of my law books...

...but my heart gave up after first semester.

Studying law is a battle I am losing... I'm putting in so much time, and barely scraping by.

On the other hand, I know I could do so much better in Arts, if only I could spend just a little bit more time with it.

I bear a grudge against Law for taking time away from my true love: Arts.

Would anyone blame me for quitting law? Is it really such a shame to quit now? Can I? Please?

And Arts, I'm sincerely sorry for betraying you, and thinking I could share my time between you and your enemy!

MUISS election results

Congratulations team!

MUISS team for next year:

Rick: El presidente
Tammy: La secretaria
James: Treasurer
Patrick: Activities
Farhad: Services and Welfare
Ilie: Publications

... and why the hell did I run for Education? Hehe... will be so much more chilled out that all the NLC stuff I've been doing! And I get to be more involved on campus level :)

Lost EHD.

I left my external harddrive in the Matheson library annexe. 40 gigs. Ouch.

I wouldn't be so upset except for that I just backed up all the data from my laptop onto the HD and wiped windows clean before it happened.

1 + 1 = no EHD, no data.

Maybe it's a sign... I've been trying to get myself out of NLC/NUS politics... and what better way to do it than to simply lose the recorded history?

Don't care so much about the old assignments that I've already handed in...

But working progress of my final story (80% of my final grade for creative writing) was there (luckily, I printed a copy of the first and second draft for Farhad and Kan to read before the EHD disappeared...)

And... pictures. All my pictures.

Oh, well... I've got my memories.

All my NLC files, MUISS files, Students First, NUS, ... all my involvements for the past two years... not gone... but all my collected traces of them are.

Oh, well. Such is the nature of life I guess... No attachments! Keep smiling, life is not over!

done... finally

Time to get life back on track.

Sorry Rick, couldn' make it to campaign today - will skip yoga tomorrow and come for sure!

I hate law and I don't want to think of it ever again. Oh, well... guess I have to, though.

overslept, and still overdue!

Aaaaargh.... 7 hours until it is officially two days overdue. Must get it in by 4:30 today... only lose 5%... But I overslept... and in the middle of the day need to campaign... and here I am procrastinating again.

What a ding-a-ling!

Stress-level = 98.47%

overdue items

1. It's official. My first overdue assignment.

I can't believe this... I *still* can't find the motivation to do it...

Does that mean that maybe I'm just not meant to study law?

2. Also.... so homesick. Should be back in Thailand already!

3. Illness. Yep. Sick. I wonder why I didn't get sick in the middle of MSA elections.

4. Haven't played with Nintendogs: Kip and Tarn for four hours now.

*yip*

wails of grievious boredom

don't wanna don't wanna don't wanna don't wanna do frickin' law assignment, hate law want to drop it... AAARGH! This doesn't INTEREST me in the least:

“Law is an expression of values and traditions of society.”

Discuss and critically evaluate your chosen quotation.

Not difficult, just not interesting at all. 2,000 words on that bullshit?!

It's going to be late. The first time I'll ever hand in an assignment late (with no excuse/extension, that is).

I'm a random brutal love master... erm...

Can you tell assignment writing is not going well?

The Sudden Departure Random Brutal Love Master (RBLMf) Sweet. Dear. Loving. At Gate 18. Final call. You are The Sudden Departure. You've been in a lot of serious relationships. More than a few have ended ugly. Uglily. Whatever. Our guess is that you're a really fantastic girl who doesn't really know what she wants, and you've broken a few hearts as a result. You fall for people easily, and you enjoy the feeling of falling in love, but once you're there, either boredom or the old "grass is greener" syndrome sets in. The mind wanders, and with it goes the flesh. And then the toiletries. Your exact opposite: The Intern Deliberate Gentle Sex Dreamer We know you're not the classic "love 'em and leave 'em" type, at least not in a purely sexual sense. You have too many serious bonding tendencies for that. But even though you're theoretically looking to settle down, you don't settle long on one person. "Serial monogamist" is probably something you hear a lot. "Emotionally loose" is another way to put it. To the poor guys eating your dust and sniffing your panties, it doesn't really make much difference. Of course, it's not really your fault that people get hurt. You have every right to move on when you choose. ALWAYS AVOID: The Backrubber, The Gentleman CONSIDER: The Vapor Trail, someone just like you Link: The 32-Type Dating Test

The day I die as a mermaid...

Here I am, worrying about how I'll die, and what sort of mythical creature I am, rather than doing my law assignment. I hate law... don't have to motivation to even open the ***** book!

Here's how I'll die:

You scored as Gunshot. Your death will be by gunshot, probably because you are some important person or whatever. Possibly a sniper, nice, quick, clean shot to the head. Just beautiful. Gunshot 80% Cut Throat 73% Posion 73% Disappear 73% Stabbed 73% Natural Causes 60% Accident 60% Bomb 53% Disease 47% Suicide 47% Drowning 33% Eaten 27% Suffocated 20% How Will You Die?? created with QuizFarm.com

And I scored overwhelmingly as a mermaid. Iiinnteresting...

You scored as Mermaid. Mermaid: Mermaids are also known as Sirens. These creatures were beautiful women who tricked sailors into becoming completely entranced by their haunting voices and found death soon after. Not all stories of Mermaids are about gentle loving sea people. They are mystical, magical, and extremely dangerous. They have a way about them that brings anyone they are around to seem enchanted. They are very mysterious creatures and to meet one... Would mean certain Death. Let the song of the Sea fill your soul, for you are a Mermaid. Mermaid 92% Angel 67% Faerie 59% Dragon 58% WereWolf 33% Demon 17% What Mythological Creature are you? (Cool Pics!) created with QuizFarm.com

Feeling tipsy - just got home ;p

Erm. I must say it's a very productive holiday... in the social sense. I have no idea what's going on... but I know I'm having fun :)

I had a great day out today. I went to the Melbourne Museam with Sarinda... and although I've seen mummies before in Egypt I have to admit that the ones here were MUCH better labelled than the ones at Cairo museum. Cairo museum was more like a warehouse. This was a museum. I recommend going. I just wish there had been a display of the Egyptian style afterlife jewelry to match Cairo museum... but I guess one can't have it all :(

It was a pretty small but compact exhibition... I think the 45 minutes we had inside was just right (It was supposed to be two hours, but we took photos... then we had lunch... then I had a coffee...time flies when you are with you best friend.

Anyhow... while we were looking for lunch, I was slightly bored, and I thought it would be 'useful' to use my 'stealth camera' to take pictures of people's asses:





Don't ask. Really. Just don't.


I think it's the fact that I knew that I wouldn't be allowed to take pics inside the museum that caused me to take such photos :( Ofcourse, Sarinda would argue that I'm NORMALLY that deranged (read: confused)...

WHATEVER! I bit him again today, so we're even.



Yeah! More ass! (Ok, now I'm just bein plain weird...)




I thought that sign said "Pimphouse - conservative restaurant" at first... and was trying to convince Sarinda to have lunch there... to no avail :(




I have no idea what *this* was doing so close to where Akshay was staying...



Ofcourse, the museum was not the only highlight of today... the fact that it was a beautiful spring day was great... Sri Lankan dinner was not bad either, although it left Akshay totally exhausted (yes, met up with him again before he headed off to the airport)



We met up with Bernard afterwards... he seems to have derived great excitement out of these hanging... *aherm* I can't believe I had an hour-long argument with Bernard about the safety and legal liability of a three-stage internet security system! That's just super-geeky!! We were wondering whether such a question would go to the highcourt? If one were to have a three-stage security system (user-name, password, variable pin) for netbanking, as opposed to the normal 2 (username and password), where would the liability lie if someone got into the account? The 'variable pin' is a list of numbers on a sheet of paper - and each number is only used once, then crossed off the list.

Brian and his brother caught up with us after that, fortunately. It brought an end to our geeky conversation! (SHAME!)

ok... but it's probably a good thing that Brian came and rescued us from ourselves... time to sleep, can not see straight to blog right now ;p

It's working again!!!

Haha! I did it! Stupid Optus people couldn't sort out why my computer wasn't communicating with the modem... I did it myself! SUCKERS!!!

... more later... now must go to Museum to see my best friend, Sarinda... he wants to see mummies. Silly boy. He should go to Egypt.