Sunday 31 December 2006

NYE

New Years Eve, just got back from Sydney, what better time to reflect on the past year. Year 11 has been a tumultuous year, with huge highs and massive lows. Some of the highlights:

- World Cup and consequential moments: Australia qualifying for second round, Zidane's headbutt, etc.
- Holiday in Canberra and Sydney: had what could be classified as a good time.
- Clarinet exam: fluke or no fluke, I liked the result.
- Meeting new friends, hanging with old ones: you know who you are.
- Finding my groove: don't worry, I know what I mean.
- Finding out I actually passed Year 11. I actually didn't get expelled.

Some definite lowlights:

- Exams. Just school exams in general.
- Australia crashing out of the World Cup. Almost cried.
- Homework overload. I'm sure you've all experienced it.
- I'm sure there's some more, I had a lot a few moments ago.

Thanks to all my friends (haha, I hear you say) and family for a generally great 2006. Hope next year's a lot better than this one. Go enjoy the fireworks now and have yourselves a great new year.

Saturday 30 December 2006

Sydney, a day

Reporting live from Sydney:

First stop today: the Chinese Garden. A great place, full of lizards, plants, a lake, trees, ducks and lizards.

We then took a ferry to the Harbour Bridge and Opera House. I think it's a bit over-rated, but it's still worth going to.

I've noticed that people in Sydney think nothing of bowling you over. They just keep walking. They also seem to find it very hard to say 'excuse me' or 'sorry'. Maybe I'm just being to general and forming my opinions based on a few bad people, but I seem to keep meeting bad people.

So anyway, I'll be back in Melbourne tomorrow, probably in time to watch the fireworks. Wish I could have stayed in Sydney for that. Rooms are a bit expensive at this time though ($1300). Just a bit.

Anyway, I've enjoyed my journey to Canberra and Sydney. It has indeed been insightful. Quote and ad lib: "Journey to Sydney was a grrrreat success."

Friday 29 December 2006

Sydney

Before our journey to Sydney this morning, we visited the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra. Wasn't much to do there, apart from "making your own coin" and looking at the history of the mint. At around 11 o'clock we said good-bye to Canberra and travelled to Sydney, arriving at about 2 o'clock.

Sydney is a great place...if you like crazy driving, insane road designs, angry people, crazy driving, hard to find hotels, random weather and crazy driving. Things started off great, with two hoons with apparently broken indicator lights cutting in front of us. The situation got even better when we couldn't find the actual CBD. When we finally found it, my dad nudged a Benz. Even though you couldn't see it, the guy just blew up. We offered him our apologies and insurance number, but he told us, in effect, to get lost. So we did.

We got lost. Then we found a funny little Chinese restaurant near our original accident site so we parked there. After lunch, we found out that the Mr. Benz decided to stick a note to our windscreen after driving away and he said he wanted us to contact him. How weird is that? That's Sydney people for you.

We started searching for our hotel. After an hour and a half of no left turns, no right turns, dead ends, roadworks and angry people to reach our destination. The place is alright, but the chairs are falling apart.

On first assessment, Sydney seems to be a bit crowded and fast-paced. I'll get back to you when I scout stuff out better tomorrow.

Thursday 28 December 2006

Journey to Canberra

The journey to Canberra. It began today with me waking up at 4:30, feeling all revved and ready to go. Then I remembered how long it would take to get there and calmed down significantly. Anyway, we left at about 5 o'clock in the morn. The journey was relatively uneventful, unless you count the excruciatingly bad pun about us being 'yesmads' instead of nomads (clearly I didn't come up with it) and the toilet that was, to put it mildly, dirty. We also got ripped off by this 24 hour convenience store thingo for breakfast.

We started entering Canberra, but believe it or not, we almost got lost. We began our search for the golden arch, the yellow M, McDonald's. Anyway, we found it eventually at about 1 o'clock, although it took a while. It seems that Canberrasiders/Canberralians/Canberrazoids like putting the M sign down at ground level, hidden by huge buildings. Then they left two burgers, a coffee and a Happy Meal toy out of our meal. What do you expect?

We decided to take up John Howard's invitation to coffee at Parliament House at 3 o'clock, but he never fronted. In other words, we were stood up by Johnny. It's an alright place I guess, not all that exciting, but that's pretty much what one visits Canberra for. It's good if you like history. There's lots of museums here, but I think we'll just be visiting the Royal Australian Mint and leaving after that tomorrow. Until my next post, au revoir.

Tuesday 26 December 2006

Cold

Sup all. Hope you all had a great and relatively warm Christmas.

By the way, I'm going to Canberra and Sydney on Thursday, so if anyone has any suggestions for where to go, especially for Canberra, give us a shout.

In case you were wondering, I obtained a grand score of 33 for bio. I know you're all thinking "step back" because it's such a great score, but you shouldn't. I'm sure many people did much better. Many, many people. In fact, now that I think about it, 33 isn't such a great score.

This post has been a revelation. I've discovered that 33 isn't the great score I thought it was, among other things. I'll blog my journey to Canberra and Sydney. Till next time, stay warm, cool and dry.

Friday 20 October 2006

Sheva

I can just imagine the post-match conversation between Essien and Sheva after yesterday's clash.

Sheva: "Why didn't you pass to me? I was open."
Essien: "You would have missed anyway."

Snap.

Between Sheva and Drogba:
Sheva: "Hey Didier, get a haircut."
Drogba: "Hey Sheva, score a goal."

Double snap.

Anyway...

I swear I saw this gangsterise himself overnight. I mean, he was all good and normal the day before, then the next day he's got all the gangstery. Country road bag, orange hair, untucked shirt, massive pants...you name it, he's got it. It's funny how people do that. I've seen it a lot.

Wednesday 13 September 2006

Crash

Just when I thought me and Jimmy where doing alright in the ASX Share Game thingo, along comes a share market crash. Such is the way of the world.

There's a new iPod nano out. It's kind of plagiarised my iPod mini, in that it looks exactly the same except slimmer. It's still pretty cool though.

Sunday 10 September 2006

Yeer

Yeer here being a variation of yeah (rhymes with here). Welcome to another post, another month, another day.

I was just thinking, why do mainlanders always suspect people of hating them? You say something like 'poor' as in the context of 'poor effort' and some of them will react and say 'Did you just say mainlanders are poor?' It's like the bald man overreacting to people saying 'shiny'. Of course, I'm not referring to anyone in particular. Just a random thought.

For those of you that care and appreciate it, I obtained an A on my clarinet exam. Not that any of you would care or appreciate it. Such is the way of the world.

Arsenal. Still haven't won a damn game. And what's with the Blackburn - Sheffield game? What kind of team gets two penalties blocked and blocks one themselves? The Blackburn keeper made 25 points from that game (clean sheet, penalty saves, etc.)

Sad things have been happening lately. Steve Irwin, Peter Brock...rest in peace.

Until next time, chill.

Monday 24 July 2006

Would the real James Cheng please stand up?

Hey, guess what? Orrin's sick! And so is Ben Niles! Who would have thought.

Yeah, anyway, to those that are conscientious enough to actually go to school, I say well done. Real men go to school.

Speaking of which, I'll tell you who's not a real man. But in my next post. I kind of don't know who isn't right now.

Tuesday 18 July 2006

ZZ

Yeah, I kind of haven't posted in a while, so I thought I might do it.

About the Zidane incident. Yeah, I kind of didn't post on it 'cos I wanted to discuss it with people first.

Personally, I thought it was great. It's kind of a reminder to FIFA to crack down on cheating i.e. talking about people's mothers. It's not very nice. Plus, he goes out with a bang. Actually it should be BANG! Who would have remembered him if he didn't do that? And he got Golden Ball. And rightfully so. As Ron Shell said, it's for the best, not best and fairest. The headbutt deserved the Silver Ball as well.

Your all welcome to give me your opinions. The prerequisite for that is that you actually have an opinion.

Thursday 6 July 2006

France

If you have been on MSN lately, you would have realised that I stopped going for Portugal long ago, simply because I don't like Cronaldo. And guess what? France won today! Which means both Peter Wang and Molly got owned. And I'm still leading the tipping. The only thing that could ruin this for me now is if I don't start on this bio sac now.

Sunday 2 July 2006

10 bucks

I'm putting ten bucks on Portugal taking out the World Cup. Anyone wanna bet?

I should probably switch off the World Cup. I haven't done anything during these holidays except three days of Tattam. It's probably not all that healthy for my VCE.

Monday 12 June 2006

Update!

Due to the enormous clamour caused by my gigantically enormous fanbase, I have, after carefull consideration decided to update my blog. Now, I could stop here, and say that my blog has been updated, but that would be really tight.

For all of those living under a rock, I'll remind you that the World Cup has, in fact, begun. For those of you who don't know which World Cup I'm talking about or what the World Cup is, I suggest you leave now and never, ever talk to me again for the next week. So far, my tips on Banh's tipping thingo have been going excellently. I've only tipped the Ecuador vs Poland matchs wrong. Ecuador won. It wasn't supposed to. Anyway, I think I'm coming second out of a possible three places.

Yeah, it is Australia vs Japan tonight. I would watch it, but we have school tomorrow, and my parents aren't letting me. I guess I'll watch the replay.

If anyone finds Meng's moustache, give me a shout.

Monday 24 April 2006

Arsenal or Villareal

Arsenal or Villareal? I'm picking Arsenal purely because they have Henry.

Schwarzer got injured. So did Cahill. And Viduka. And Kewell. Just thought I might raise some optimism among Australian fans.

Saturday 22 April 2006

Exams

Exams are about four weeks away and my workload doesn't look like decreasing. I feel like I need an extra person to help me get through my work. Tattam Band isn't helping either, what with the Anzac Day stuff.

I really should do more work on the weekend. I just never get around to doing it.

Monday 17 April 2006

wowzor

Another post, another update. Welcome to the 17th of April, 2006. Easter Monday.

I'm sorry. This is probably not going to be a very good quality post. I'm kind of posting on a sudden impulse. Or maybe I just realised that I haven't blogged in a while.

Anyhow, I've been set so much work its not funny. You know in the last couple of years, you'd finish a piece of homework and you wouldn't have to do anyting for ages? Now I never seem to finish my workload. Maybe I'm just not applying myself. I'm open to suggestions for improvements.

My marks have been severely mixed. I did, shall we say, bad on the second maths test, but I've gotten alright marks for everything else. Except for chem. But that's a different story.

On a random note, if you guys know who Cisse is, notice how old he looks. The guy's like 25, but he looks like he's 40.

Tuesday 21 March 2006

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Thursday 23 February 2006

Stabbed

What an eventful day. Let's start with methods, period 4.

OK, Banh said he had brought fifa 06 to school today, which was all fine and dandy. Skip to period 5, chemistry. The teacher started picking on me and asking stupid questions. Then, I got kept back with 5 other people who happened to miss out on the test which was on yesterday. So I did the test, it took 15 minutes, and I got 9 out of 20. Which was still fine and dandy. Then I met up with Banh, grabbed the said game then walked to the train station. Still fine and dandy. I was a bit worried that there wouldn't be anyone to catch the train with. Thankfully, I found Alexei and Chae Il Joong. Unthankfully, I found Mason and Ivor (just kidding Ivor). Then we caught the train. Then we were told there was a crime scene at Box Hill, so we had to stop at Camberwell. Not fine and dandy at all. So what did we do? We caught the tram to the crime scene. It took us about an hour. After we got there, we heard murmurings about a 23 year old getting stabbed over a guitar and that he was now dead. Oh happy day. What a fantastic day. To top it all off, after I got my new gangsta pink metcard, I saw Arjun. Guess what he told me? 'I caught the train to Box Hill.'

Thursday 2 February 2006

Bday

Nothing much to get excited over. It's just my birthday today.

Not much good has happened since the first day of school (yesterday), unless you count being told you have a chem test on monday. Or that David Lee is the only guy in your bio class that you know. Or that the world doesn't care about your birthday. Or getting 'half an hour' (accounting teacher speak for 'two hours') of homework on the first day back. But hey, after all those good things happening, I'm prepared for worse.

Actually, one good thing did happen today. I met this guy called Mundhi (I think that's how you spell it). Nice guy. New year 11. He's a nunawading gangsta. I thought he was in Ankit's form, cause they were talking like they were hommies that went way back. Turns out he wasn't. I think he's doing asian five plus legal studies instead of 3 and 4 Accounting or Bio plus legal studies. That's why he's not in the homogenius (cough) group. I wouldn't want to be in it either.

Tuesday 31 January 2006

Damnit

Damn hommie...lots of things to say damn about.

Damn...School tomorrow. I've almost forgotten how to catch the train. Plus I can't find my shoes.

Damn...Baghdatis lost on Sunday. Lucky I didn't bet on him.

Damn...No new games to play. I'm thinking of actually buying FIFA 06.

Damn...Year 11. Bio 3 and 4. I'm completely lost.

Sunday 29 January 2006

Friday 27 January 2006

Baghdatis

Baghdatis...that guy is a genius. I told my mum to put 10 bucks on him to win yesterday night but she said that I was wasting my money. I feel so robbed. I mean, I would have won 26 dollars off that. I'm so putting ten bucks on him for the final.

Chinese New Year on Sunday. I wasn't aware that a haircut was needed before then, so I thought that I would be able to get one today. Turns out the barber's are booked out because of this New Year haircut fad. I told you I hate fads.

Tuesday 24 January 2006

sigh

Hmm, yes, the holidays are almost over and what have I done these past few days? A little bit of studying, going to the Australian Open, owning someone in pool, swam, yeah, nothing much. If you want to see Get Rich or Die Trying tommorow, give me a shout.

The thing is, I'm really stressed right now. I want to study for bio, but I can't be stuffed. I'm stressed because I know I'm going to fail if I don't study. Oh well, guess I'll go do it now.

Wednesday 11 January 2006

lol

(¯`·._.·[Äñð®éw]·._.·´¯) - http://www.mohork.blogspot.com/ I want my FIFA 06 says:
where have u been

james - banhy.blogspot.com wants everyone who wants to go to cricket on friday to talk to me. pronto. says:

hiding

(¯`·._.·[Äñð®éw]·._.·´¯) - http://www.mohork.blogspot.com/ I want my FIFA 06 says:
have u found my fifa yet

james - banhy.blogspot.com wants everyone who wants to go to cricket on friday to talk to me. pronto. says:
thats why i'm hiding

(¯`·._.·[Äñð®éw]·._.·´¯) - http://www.mohork.blogspot.com/ I want my FIFA 06 says:
cos u havent found it

james - banhy.blogspot.com wants everyone who wants to go to cricket on friday to talk to me. pronto. says:
i'll get it this friday

james - banhy.blogspot.com wants everyone who wants to go to cricket on friday to talk to me. pronto. says:
definately

(¯`·._.·[Äñð®éw]·._.·´¯) - http://www.mohork.blogspot.com/ I want my FIFA 06 says:
lol

Lol pretty much sums up this conversation. I'm sorry, it was a spur of the moment thing. But if you new the background history of this conversation, you'd be saying lol to. It's just a loltastic thing.

Monday 9 January 2006

Only Three Weeks Left...

Only three weeks left until we start school again. Just thought I'd remind you all.

I've just been back from Lakes Entrance (as in I was back 2 days ago). Anyway, it was pretty cool. What we basically did was chill around the place and fish. Fishing was exciting, in a freezing, sunburnt kind of way. I caught two massive ones (at least 30 cm). It was all very exciting, as I'm sure you can tell.

A random memory just came to me today. I remembered a science test back in term 3 and a question on molarity, which is Unit 2 chemistry stuff. So me being me, I just put any random answer that sounded good in. To my surprise, nobody got it right. Except me. So when the teacher asked who got the question right, I put my hand up. People actually thought I was smart. For about five seconds. Then they saw who it was.

On a more random note, I got a new clarinet a while back. "New" as in made in 1977. It's a Selmer 9 series by the way, for any of you who are interested. Anyway, have a happy new year. Let's hope we don't fail Unit's 3 and 4.