sydney trip

update time! just got back from sydney trip with my good friend marco.

first of all, sydney airport/tiger airways conspired together to delay us aaaaall the way through our trip. We had like 3 delays all up. First departure, was delayed like half an hour to board, and then was held up in the air in holding pattern for another half an hour before we landed. We were almost late to the concert!


Anyhow, the concert was awesome! In terms of content and variety, it was way better than the years before. They had a few games and anime I've never heard of, and some of them I sorta zoned out on, but there were some that were impressive. Some new arrangements of old favourites (ala laputa, shadow of colossus, metal gear solid encore) were simply AWESOME and renewed those songs in my mind. Gonna go dig some of them up asap.

Three things that disappointed me/us. The Sydney Entertainment Center was quite large inside, so I think they had to electronically amplify the orchestra...and it didn't sound as great as I wanted it to be. Sometimes it didn't sound live at all. Second, bloody camera men kept walking in and out. GO AWAY. And third, we only got three signatures per poster at the signings after cause they were running late =[ I usually get everyone's at every concert.. ><


This was our 'cell' that we lived in that night. The fat bald man at the reception said only three things. 'Paper', 'Room 105', 'Checking out?'. No hello, how are you, nothing. That's what you get from a backpacker's hotel. Apparently we had some noisy drunk girls next door too, but I'm a heavy sleeper :D

Sunday morning was a really nice sunny day, albeit windy. We visited Hyde Park and Royal Botanical Gardens on the way to the bridge and opera house. We looked around the city after that and I've come to this conclusion: sydney city is just like melbourne's except it's dirter, rougher and the people are less friendlier. Even McDonalds, the staff sucked, no greetings or anything, bathroom was filthy, smelt like vomit...bah. Not a fan of sydney to be honest now.
Anyway, that'll do for now. The pictures will make this post slightly long. Thanks for coming along marco, it was a good experience! I sense an exciting new update coming soon =]

teoh,

sleep and sleep

happy birthday (on tuesday) tim! great fun, reminded me of the good old times in high school.

I'm really tired this weekend. I only had four hours of sleep on the saturday morning, since we played hats until late and then work in the morning. Spent the whole afternoon sleeping, woke up and didn't have the energy to get into the city for my workmate's outing. Sorry Lucky >< Then I slept some more.

Yeah, I'm in the mental state where I can't really write anything interesting just yet. Maybe next time.

teoh,

excel killed my computer

here's something you don't see everyday:


you know, it's hard to complete a computing project, when it's crashing your computer every 10 minutes. damn this project, it's too CPU intensive for my poor humble sony laptop.

would really like a quad core right now. and a dual screen. and some nice speakers, with the doof doof and the dosh dosh...

teoh,

like balloons inflated with helium

things are looking up!

just finished blitzing a 3000 word essay over two days, with much success. unfortunately it means I've degraded my eyes a few more points; been staring at a computer for over 20 hours in total over the weekend.

my dad has gone to denmark and france for two weeks, so we did the usual car bump which means I have a car this week to get me around to work and such. Nothing terribly exciting, but it still helps improve my mood.

this week has a few exciting things planned; meeting up with ann who I haven't seen in a long time, just to take a break from assignments etc. going to chaddy to buy some clothes I suppose, birthday dinner on friday and workmate's bday outing on saturday night!

also, the best thing yet, my noisy Indian neighbors upstairs have moved out! Actually, in the process of moving out, they're still passing my window carrying boxes and luggage. Most awesome thing yet!

teoh,

satisfaction

today was tuesday, my day off from everything,
free for any commitments I choose to commit.

today I slept in, but still got to uni by 10:40am,
I met up with uni friends and did productive uni work.

today I met up with friends lillian and quor,
had fun hanging out in general (as always!)

today I spent no money cause I starved myself until 4PM,
then ate ravenously when I cooked lunch at home.

today I did my exercise, relaxed, and then proudly cooked a proper dinner.

today was satisfying. truly.

teoh,

thinking thoughts

Have you ever thought something that is forbidden? Unmoral? Selfish? Things that you shouldn't, but you do. Things that you shouldn't even consider, and it scares you that you do. And I'm not talking about sexual stuff. >.>

I had a thought of taking advantage of friend...and I was so shocked that I had it, that I immediately did the exact opposite of it, as strongly as I could. But I'm still shocked that I had the thought.

Do you believe in people having a dark and light side in them? I do. I think we're always battling ourselves inside, struggling to do what is right.
and end rambling. why am i so moody all the time...

teoh,

caution: fireinmymouth

"Vodka as with any alcohol consumed in sufficient amounts can be lethal by inducing respiratory failure and/or unguarded inhalation of vomitus by a comatose drunk person." - wikipedia



Yeah I believe it after having a shot of it... man did it light my mouth on fire.

(dangerous activity of drinking and watching people dance was located at loulou's, knox ozone on saturday night, get together with some high school friends)


teoh,

okamiden~

how cute does this game look? If you've seen the original okami game, I'm sure you'll agree it's very cute. And the music reminds me of how good the soundtrack was. Hopefully we'll get to see more of this in Sydney marco!

activating blogcron.

What is this teohcron:
It's my own made up word creation that stands for a teoh's chronicles. It will be a storage for my daily thoughts, events, questions, out bursts and many random things. It is both for readers (if any) but mostly for myself, a record keep of my life as I go along.

Feel free to read along, drop in now and then, comment anywhere, leave a message on the soon-to-be chatbox or ignore it completely.

This teohcron is in it's earliest stages of development so it might look a bit rough at the moment, but it'll get there. I'm happy enough to get it at this stage, kudos to xuan for helping out during the frustrating times.

teoh,