TAG YOU'RE IT!!!

Yo bros! Firstly on the agenda... apoligies are in order for a lack of blogcast being cast into my blog of late. It was an unfortunate situation of crapness, uni-ness and work-ness which rendered me "busy."

Today is the last day of semester for Uni! (heck yes!!!) Now for 2 weeks of exams - or for me, major works upon major works (HECK CRAP!) I have to get my butt down to the beach and collect some seaweed and gross but cool shaped beachy things to take to crapclass - a.k.a. Urban Mapping.

So I am still rushed for time. Luckily, I owe a blog and will have my work half cut out for me. I mean to say, that I have been CHOSEN! Yes, I am the chosen one =]

While I wouldn't like to confess to following "The Rules" - oh yeah, I'm such the rebel! - I also don't like breaking the chain of what I think is quite a cool idea.

So without further adieu, I present to you, The Rules and my consequential blogcast!

The Rules

~ Link to the Blogger who tagged you. She goes by the name of Zoe.

~ In your blog, post The Rules and...

~ Six quirky but unspectacular factoids about yourself

~ Tag six other bloggers by linking to them

~ Go to each person's blog, and leave a comment that lets them know they've been tagged.

Six quirky but unspectacular? 

Yeah. Ok? First 6 things that I think of are...

1. I hoard things. It's an unfortunate obsession... as I'm cleaning my room at the moment, and having trouble moving due to the mass amount of things I have er..."collected."

I sulked so badly when my mum chucked away the 18 bottles of Mount Frankins/flavoured waters (some still half full) in my room last month, which I insisted I would need one day to use as a drink bottle... At the moment, I have 7 on my floor hidden in the corner.

2. Bending books is a pet hate of mine. I cannot stand it when people read chapter books with the cover folded over so it touches the back. Anything wider than 45-60 degree angle makes me flinch....  and I hate it when people write in books (both chapter books and textbooks) in anything other than pencil! 

 

3. Hair! As vain as it might sound, I love hair. I constantly strive for airbourne, cool, japanese-y, anime, punky hair!!!! I am still yet to achieve it though. BUT whenever anyone says they like my hair, it puts me on a high for the whole day! WHEEEE!!!!!!

4. Drums! I am expert at air drumming! And I am not ashamed to airdrum loud and proud on all public transport while listening to my mp3...now if only I could be so expert on the real thing...

5. I like to make up my own lingo. One day, I will write music which incorporates this lingo and my band will release our album with a special edition dictionary inside it so that people can actually understand the songs. Fo shizzle my nizzle, it'll be bangin!

6. Weird fact. In my first year of Uni, it seems I have managed to accumulate more shirts for free than knowledge from various events. I have gotten shirts for:

- Unicrew

- Suburban Team with Prince Caspian on it

- AIME - Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience as well as a Hoody

- Rocka with an "N" on it as part of the word ROTWANG.

- Colgate

There are probably more... but other than the hoody, none of these I will probably ever wear again...

So my Chosen People are:

Sav dog 

Jess dude

Matty boy 

Hfm

Shinsei Onnen

Seeing as I shouldn't tag people who have already been tagged..... i'll add someone on Livejournal...Areyoustrange

Well, I'll leave it to these good people to decide if they wanna continue the chain thing. It's actually kinda hard to get 6 people!

Oh heck, I just found 2 more bottles of water on my table. LOL

Peace out xox

5 cents

I'm at Uni right now. I was just about to leave to go catch the bus and it will leave in about 10 minutes so I need to hurry up.


It costs me $1.50 to get home and I just went through my entire wallet and found I'm 5 cents short. DAMMIT! So instead of running around the uni looking for a spare 5 cent coin or hoping to bump into a friend who can lend it to me, I thought I'd whinge about it on here and run to the bus stop and then just hope the bus drive doesn't mind breaking a 20 dollar note.


But man... don't you just hate it when your 5 cents short?!?!?!?!!

Salads, Carparks and Doggy doos = ACE!

OMG. 

Dudes, I discovered an awesome, new shopping centre today! It is in a suburb called Rouse Hill which is up North West Sydney, (42km North West of CBD according to Wikipedia)

I know this sounds pretty random but hear me out, eh. As vain and ditzy as it sounds, I'm a real fan of shopping centres. I love them. I like to go to as many as I can and see which are better. By better, I mean I like to know which ones have better carparks, better designs and wayfinding systems, better shops, and of course, the food court is always worth checking out too! Ha. 

Anyway, today's road trip up to Sydney began with a 6am start and a 2 hour drive up to the Hillsong Service. That was pretty cool. After that, by recommendation of a family friend, we found ourselves in Rouse Hill's shopping centre, which is apparently only just opened late last year so everything is still.. all shiny and NEW! (heck yes)

So first bang wow whammy to make this centre a stand out amongst others was the carpark. They have this special system there where you drive in and there's red lights over all of the parking spots which are occupied and green lights over the vacant ones making it a cinch to get a spot! That's not all. As you drive around, there's signs at each turn telling you how many empty spots are in that aisle so if there isn't any, you know not to bother. Do you kinda get me?

Oh and when I parked in, there is a sensor above my spot which senses my car and the light turns Red to indicate my spot is now occupied! Wow, it was really, really cool. I took a photo on my new phone thing (cause it has a camera now and all-big woop) but I can't figure out how to bluetooth it onto here, so no photo for you. I'm sorry :(

So the fantastic carpark paved the way to a really colourful and, interestingly designed shopping centre. It was one level only, and set out as 4 separate blocks in a square shape. You walk through the block and go to the other block by crossing a closed street which was also full of shops. So, if you guys have good enough imaginations with my crappy description - it is really kinda strange but cool. There were also road signs everywhere and lots of crazy colour coded areas.

The other weird thing about the place was that the actual four buildings were more like half buildings - an open mall, that is to say, that parts of the mall had a roof and others didn't. It was like, if you were shopping in there and it rained, you would need an umbrella and then you wouldn't when you walked to, I dunno say, Target which did have a roof. Yeah! 

So the whole mall was lit up by natural sunlight and it was like walking around a themepark because there was all these playgrounds, and little sideshow game things and the weirdest looking bench chair things (eg. some were benches which then morphed into tables, some were like upside down mushrooms). Everything was just odd. 

I also took a photo of this thing on the side of the "mall road thing" which was a doggy doo station, where if your dog poos, they provide all the facilities you need to clean it up but again, sorry :(

Hmm, what else?... oh yes! The food court! Well it has all the fastfood typicals eg. "Mcinedible, KFC, Subway (but not $3.95 subs - bah), as well as your typical fake asian food, kebab shops, crepes, sushi, sandwich bar, and this place which I had heard of called, Sumo Salad!!! Here I can show a photo which I scabbed off their site.

So, OK. It's obviously a salad bar. Big deal , right? Yeah, that's what I thought too but as I'm trying to eat healthy, I thought I'd get a salad because my gosh they looked tasty. I took their menu brochure thing and every single salad looked, like, damn these are the best salads I have ever seen! So what you do is, you order what you want, and they make it on the spot and it takes a few minutes but you watch them get the ingredients, cook things like chicken, beef etc. if you are having that, and present it to you in them boxes like Noodle Box does, with the Box and the metal handles! And I have never tasted anything so good. So It was amazing. A bit pricey, but, considering it was a dollar more than Oporto charges for a salad and it was about 5 times bigger and nearly impossible to finish, and a hundred kazillion times better in quality, it is worth it. 

It's also really filling! I eat a lot like crazy but I had that salad at 2 and now it is 11:30 and I havn't had anything since except a Chai Latte, and I'm still FULL!....nuts! (speaking of nuts, my salad had almonds in it)

Right, so anyway. Good place to go, this Rouse Hill, it's so new, the actual suburb (houses and residential such such) is being built now around the shopping centre and they have so far built a library too. Yew! Oh I also finally bought Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from Borders (yay Borders) there for 10 bucks and now the collection is complete. 

Just to sweeten the deal I'll throw in a free phone...(not another one!)

Alright, so I've always found it really hard to say No.

I mean, it was this inability to say No that landed me with a new phone (as I mentioned in a previous blog) and it was this inability to say No that saw me nearly miss my bus when I had my first encounter of Jehovah's Witnesses a couple months ago. (The bus was there but they just wouldn't stop talking and who was I to interrupt them?...lucky the bus driver was nice - *ahem* DION'S bus driver might I add)

So, team that with my refusal to hang up the phone before the other person, it really is quite the problem when I get calls from Telemarketers. Luckily, I have been somewhat sheltered from that too and until today, had only had 2 encounters. Both times, I got so close to getting sucked in before getting saved last minute. Then, I got quite a few lectures from friends after them about how I have to just hang up on them.

Well, I just got off the phone with my 3rd telemarketer ever!!! It was a guy from Telstra - no he wasn't Indian. It took me a while to realise that it was a people-I-must-hang-up-on type of call and by then, I had already er and ah-ed myself to a new phone for free, and 200 buck bonus so I didn't have to pay anything for the first 10 months. And being the cheap skate that I am, I wasn't going to hang up anymore.

The thing is, why should I hang up on them? One. They called me. Two. He was a really nice guy. Three. It's just rude. 

So I just loosened up a bit, lost the er and ah's and just had a nice conversation with the guy. Showed genuine interest in what he was flogging, asked lots of questions because I honestly know nothing about how a plan works, made him explain to me all the fine details of changing my plan, explained about how I like freecall too much, explained how I only just got a new phone and explained my hate of change.

It was really great, nobody ever wants to listen me go on and on about how hard it was for me to change phones and how it sucks people aren't on Optus Prepaid cause I can't call them and how the new iPhone is just completely overrated. But he did! I knooow he was getting paid for it. And I knooow he was trying to telemarket me. I don't care. It was funny, I just kept on chatting and chatting. We were having a full on discussion about whether or not Optus or Telstra was better (you can guess who was on which side) until he eventually decided to "let me get back to what I was doing."

Ah well, it had been over 15 minutes, can't blame him really. 

It sure was fun though, I can't wait till the next one calls!

OLLA AMIGOS, PHOTOS FROM MOOCHA CHOSE

Olla!

I have finally uploaded the photos of Amigos Night. They aren't best of quality but not too bad considering it's a video camera. My digital camera decided to take a rest for the night with whines of low battery power... can't blame him. I work him pretty hard and as everyone says, "everyone is getting sick lately."

It was an ace night! We had 3 sombreros to share, plenty of tacos, cocktails and singstar (till 3am) to keep us entertained...and, of course, the Amigos".

We had a heated argument *ahem* discussion on the best order in which to make a taco. Half feel that it is the mince first, then cheese so it melts and then the salad and the other half feel it is lettuce first as the cheese has to be on the top. Any opinions??? It's still an unresolved argument....

The following day, after a good sleep in, we took our Amigo spirit down to the beach. I think Sombreros will be the next big thing!!!!

Due to restrictions Mr Blogger.com imposed, I can't seem to upload anymore. Ah well, if you want more.....  beg =] mwaahahahaha

A piece of crap could not be crapper

Far out.

I'm deathly sick at the moment, the kind where you can hardly function, am oh so sleepy and need tissues by the boxful.

I had to go to work anyway and make myself function and run around for 8 hours straight - 3pm to 11pm. I did that last night too, when I was feeling even worse.

I am now limping due to being on my feet all day, coughing and blowing my nose due to sickness, bumping into things and getting bruises due to exhaustion, stressing due to having to perform the drums tomorrow with no practise, and feeling like I'm on fire due to having just been force fed an absolutely massive bowl of Ginger Soup.

Yes, my Mum's method of curing me quickly is to boil lots and lots of ginger and sweet potato and sit there and make me drink it while it burns my everything. That was after making me eat a big plate of peas, carrots and spinach. What a way to come back from work.

Worse still, it's apparently Daylight Savings tomorrow and I have to go and work at my other job at 8am....which means 7AM!!!! 

Bah. A piece of crap could not be crapper. Let's hope that Ginger Soup works.