Déjà vu (A LONG POST!)

'Déjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", "weirdness", or what Sigmund Freud calls "the uncanny". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past.'

Well Hello Mr Blog! It's been a few days again!

It seems like only last week I was in this same situation where I have to blog about Friday all the way to Sunday.  Haha actually it was only last week =O It's been such a long week for me...what with all the 'out and abouts', the interview and the ridiculous amounts of alcohol consumed. (WITH PARENTS!...IT'S ALL GOOD!) So as I was last week, I'm now sitting comfortably in my cosy bed with my fan set on one (I remember last week was hot but I'm pretty sure on the Sunday night I had my fan speed also set on one) and I'm now going to recount once more~

'Step'-ping out on a Friday (ohoho...)

Ok...so here it begins...Friday morning. I had to get up early on Friday to catch the 545 to parra and meet up with the group there. Little did I know I was in for a surprise early in the morning. Normally if I were to catch the 545 to get to parra and catch the school bus, I'd run into Belzy but on this particular Friday, Ying Da caught the bus. Shocking I say. What he gave as an explanation was that he was 'at a friend's house...gaming all night' but let's not read into that. We met up with most of the group at parra minus...Zac, Li and Steph! It was said that Zac and Li were going to meet us in the city but Steph was 'not going to make it BECAUSEE...(correct me if I'm wrong) an optom test, an oral visit and a medical check up...ALL ON THE SAME DAY?! Seriously...do you guys have a yearly body check up like this? It seems a bit overwhelming, but that's just me o''o I guess I'm not man enough. Anyways, that's just to make sure the subtitle pun got through. *facepalm*

Meeting up with Li and Zac weee...what did we do? Oh I know! We went into Galaxy world (like always) and we won stuff, played bumper cars etc. It was good to feel like a kid behind the bumper car wheel. It was like pure excitement just trying to crash into other people, especially when you're rewarded with people nearly flying out of there carrrrrMWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAahahaha..okay I'll stop. (Sorry Miho, hopefully you didn't get a bruise!) Special mention to Zac for helping me get the angry bird! =DD You are the best claw-mechanist ever!...I digress and say that the amount of money and time spent on the machines are also not too healthy in my opinion but that's for a later paragraph~ Me with my angry bird, Jen with her SPONGEE BOBBU and Viv with her frog...did she get a frog?...we left Galaxy world relatively happy.

Onwards to CRAZY WING! This restaurant was suggested by Viv and was said to be the place of Australia's hottest chicken wings. So a lot of the guys (who could stand chilly) were kinda talking themselves up (including myself) and we were all cocky with our teen-sized egos and were like 'Yep, we've got this. If NSB and SB peeps could take this surely it couldn't be that bad.' There was a small disagreement and a discussion period when we were deciding whether to split off into two/more groups to go to other restaurants for lunch (eg. Jen wanted to go Taiwanese dessert place; Meet Fresh) but we ended up staying together at Crazy wings since there were none chilly stuff on the menu. Sorry in advanced to Jen for keeping you hungry...but was it not funny just to see us go through the ordeal? This ordeal I'm talking about is of course in the relations to the HOTTEST BLOODY CHICKEN WINGS IN AUSTRALIA. Lunch started off okay, with everyone ordering what we wanted and deciding on shared/not shared meals and Ben, Zac, Miho and I ordered what we thought were the hottest wings on the menu. All we did, by eating these chicken wings we thought were the hottest, was give us a confidence boost and stroke our egos even further... It wasn't until I went up to the counter to order the 'hottest chicken wings in the place' did we get KO'd.

When the deadly wings came along we knew we were in deep shiet. Not only could you see the chilli but the smell of it just kinda chiselled at the inside of your nostrils and numbed your tongue instantly. Although we kinda dreaded it, because of our previous run-in with the 'not-so-spicy' chicken wings we remained unphased by this daring task and Ben, Zac and I took our first bite. Ben...having taken the first bite preceded to say 'This is the real deal.' Zac and I knew it too and we kinda raced to get it finished. The chicken wing was...tongue-numbingly, nostrils-flaringly, eyes-popping-y, brain-fryingly spicy. No joke. Zac and Ben went through two bottles of water EACH and I went through my own bottle of water just to try and soothe our burnt tortured souls. Miho looked on with slight amusement as she has yet to take a bite. Everyone looked on with a smug look on with their 'I-told-you-so' faces. Hmmm just a suggestion for the brave souls out there who want to attempt this feat; don't ever burp after you eat it. It's kinda like taking a flamethrower and directly applying and unleashing most of the fire on your brain. I thought my brain had melted and started dribbling out my nose but it turned out that it was just from the CO2 I was breathing out. It was an insane experience. I CAN FINALLY EMPATHISE WITH DRAGONS. I felt the power of breathing out fire yet understood the pain in producing the almighty flames. A double-edged sword.

Through dazed minds and many bottles of water later we legged it to Meet Fresh where we hoped to eat very cold and dairy-based products. (FYI...when I typed this post I put 'Fresh Meet' down until I realised that 'Fresh Meet' sounded very canabilistic and decided that the restaurant name was actually called 'Meet Fresh', which resulted me having to go through and change all the 'Fresh Meet's') It was at Meet Fresh did I realise that everyone that was going to Jervis Bay was there except for Steph x(

Moving along...we went to CEO K were there was singing to be done; running into Ivan and Rebecca randomly who were coincidentally there. I cannot critic others but if I am to ever sing at K ever again I demand singing lessons prior to our next meeting so that I can be a better singer and you guys wouldn't have had to suffer. It was also a three hour K session like last Saturday and...there's not much to talk about at what happened at K...since it's mostly just singing that goes on. After takoyaki Jen left and the rest of us went dindins.

Very persistent about going to Capitol (NO DOUBT TO FEED HIS CLAW MACHINE ADDICTION...this couldn't have been more subtly done), Zac kinda persuaded the group to walk in that direction while we decided on dinner plans. We ended up going to 'On ramen' and I ate a Chicken don. haha I ate a don. =P Being Zac paid off and the group headed to Caps right next door where he proceeded to win toys...most noteably a very cute horsey thingy for Viv. XD The group split up after that with Miho, Sam and Don going to see a movie (What movie did you guys end up watching? PNA3?) and the rest going to Central and catching trains etc...but me...I stayed in the city.

My parents surprised me and told me that as a birthday treat for my bro and I we were gonna stay at 'The Star' (Previously known as 'The Star City' hotel) for two nights =D I be the happy! After the day out with friends I just crashed on the couch in the hotel room for most of the night...watching TV like a fat boy.

Super Saturday

Waking up in a hotel is very different. It's relaxing yet...awkwardly uncomfortable. I went down to the Gym (first time I've ever been in one) and decided to 'work out'. Man I'm so fat and unfit it's not funny. After breakfast in bed at around 10:30am the family just went to the city and browsed through store after store after store...I shan't bore you with meaningless details about shopping...We bought lotto I think...for something. I'm pretty sure it wasn't for Oz lotto but yeh...whatevs. We ate dinner at Wagaya =D and walked back to the hotel room to watch the Sydney Harbour fireworks from our hotel room. (You jelly? xP) 

The fun really started at around 10:30pm when I went to the Casino with my rents after my bro was asleep. First time in casino. Will never forget it. It was exhilarating and scary at the same time. This was made extra exhilarating and extra scary with the amount of alcohol consumed when my parents where apparently 'testing' my tolerance and taste buds with an epic amount of cocktails and wines. White russian, Black russian, Long Island, Hennessy L.S.O.P, Pinot Noir Chardonnay, Rosemont Sauvignon Blanc, Appletinis, Bloody Mary etc the list goes on. Mind blown. I actually got tipsy and started talking to the pianist ><''. The casino! Blackjack tables, roulette wheels, poker rooms, poker machines, baccarrat chips, pontoon rules etc were everywhere. There was music, dancing and a lot of people. The numbers didn't even dwindle a bit as the night wore on because of the fact that it was Saturday...To stop myself from being overwhelmed by these new waves of experience all I could do was stroke the furry walls ('GET HIM TO THE GREEK' REFERENCE! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET; SEE IT!) I crashed out at around 5:00am and yeh...I guess this is technically Sunday now...

Sdnuay

-Woke up at 9:30am

-Felt alive

-Ate a chicken corn roll

-Packed up stuff

-Signed out of hotel at 11am

-Drove past Homebush on the way home and said hello to volleyball girls and guys

-Arrived home

-Crashed into bed

-Woke up at 5pm

-Hung the clothes

-Had dinner at 6pm

-Washed the dishes

-Typing this post

WOW. It's been a mighty long post. I waffle and ramble on a lot...kinda like now...

Hahaha, it's been an exciting and tiring three or so days. Gotta get up early to go sign-out day tomorrow at school. I'm probably gonna forget to return a few things ><'....why do we have to return our bus passes? D= Tuesday formal...staying out that night? TBD (To be determined)

My bed is like a capsule where I recharge. I'm a rechargeable battery I say ^^. Hopefully I'll greet all of you with full power soon~!

TOODALOOO!!!

The Quiet Place

Shhhhh--->  http://amitaytweeto.com/thequietplace/

Contranyms

The word contronym (also antagonym) is used to refer to words that, by some freak of language evolution, are their own antonyms. Both contronym andantagonym are neologisms; however, there is no alternative term that is more established in the English language.

Contronyms are special cases of homographs (two words with the same spelling). Some examples:

apology - admission of fault in what you think, say, or do; formal defense of what you think, say, or do
bolt - secure, run away
cleave - separate, adhere
custom - usual, special
discursive - proceeding coherently from topic to topic, moving aimlessly from topic to topic
enjoin - prescribe, prohibit
fast - quick, unmoving
grade - incline, level
handicap - advantage, disadvantage
left - remaining, departed from
mean - average, excellent (e.g., "plays a mean game")
oversight - error, care
pitted - with the pit in, with the pit removed
quiddity - essence, trifling point
ravel - tangle, disentangle
sanction - approve, boycott
transparent - invisible, obvious
unbending - rigid, relaxing
variety - one type (e.g., "this variety"), many types (e.g., "a variety")
wear - endure through use, decay through use

Meh~ You learn something new everyday...Anyway it's just a tangential segway that I'm using to go onto what I'm actually gonna talk about. xD

I shaved for the very first time today...o''o. This is kinda new and weird for me since...does shaving make you a man?....or less of a man? Firstly, I guess, shaving means that you're a man but in the process you're kind of just shaving off an iconic symbol of being a man (THE MOUSTACHE)

LOL THE THOMSON AND THOMPSON THING FROM TINTIN!! THAT'S HOW YOU TELL THEM APART!!!
This whole facial hair thing is mind boggling I say.

The reason I shaved was because I needed to attend a UWS interview today...and it was such a random experience. I signed a confidentiality form so I can't really go into detail but it's sooo different from a panel interview etc. Hmmm hopefully it went alright. I think I can be a horrible person at times. D=

Evil sleeps until it's time to rear it's head.

I'm going out with the group tomorrow!! IT'S GOING TO BE THE FUNSIES AND NO-ONE SAY ANYTHING ELSE OTHERWISE!! >=D Cya bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at parra tomorrow...LIKE AN ANGORA RABBIT!

OMGSH GUYS!! THEY ARE THE CUUUTESSTTT!!!












 I'mmM gOnna DiieeeeeEEE!!!

Is air-conditioning a sign of a weak will?

Hmm...today I couldn't get up for Ivan's party...I hope everyone who went had lotsandlotsa fun though ^^. One of the many reasons why I was being so lazy is that I looked at the temperature on the Bureau of Meteorology website and it told me that it was gonna be 37 degrees celsius today. So now I come to the question posed as the title of this post: 'Is air-conditioning a sign of a weak will?'

By noon it was 35 degrees or something and I was pretty much dying in my oven of a 'house' (who knows...I could actually be living in an oven for all you know ;p) and I was sweltering and sweating like a pig. A very vivid and unflattering image but it's the truth, like a whiny child I pleaded for the aircon to be turned on. What I got in response: 'WHY YOU NEED AIRCON? FAN NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU HUH?! IN MY DAYS WE HAD NO AIRCON. WHAT IS AIRCON? YOU STOOPID LAZY FAT BOY. GO STICK HEAD IN FREEZER OR SHOWER.' ...I'm paraphrasing a bit but you get it. =/ If you can't stand the heat then apparently your will (to live?) is not strong enough...eg. In my mind I had my parents imagining a scenario where the building was on fire and I had to run 20 metres to safety through the inferno; them implying that I wouldn't do it because it was too hot...

So...I was planning to stay at home IN AIRCON instead of sweating like a pig, trying to party/karaoke in the city but it turns out that I ended up sweating like a pig at home...with no friends... =( Oh how the trifling aspects of life could be, at random stages. be a big pain in the butt *sighcakes*

From a psychological point of view...looking at pictures displaying 'cool/cold' stuff is meant to make you 'feel' colder. See if it works...(It's mostly icecream...)








(BRAINFREEZE)





would you ever share food with your dog? :S

Costco.

One thing before I go into what I did today~
I swear his name was 'Doug'...and not 'Dug'...have I been swearing wrongly this whole time?

So...I was planning to be lazy today; sleeping in and sleeping more etc~ you get the jist but SOMEHOW I managed to get a Costco membership card and spend around $120 on random stuff...mainly just 'dry-mouth' snacks (like pretzels) and lollies D=

Soooo whoever wants to go to Costco and they don't wanna go with an adult and wants to buy a 1.2kg jar of sour coca cola lollies *mouth watering* you can come along with me! =P  BTW there's actually a lot more stuff at Costco...you can get dodgy laptops...jewelry...plants...glasses...hearing aids...clothes...pizzas =/ It's scary what they've done. You wouldn't BELIEVE the size of the trolleys =O It's impossible to fill them up. EVERYTHING'S JUMBO SIZE...

Aiyah.

So today I got up and dressed in mufti to catch the school bus...to school. People looked at me weirdly but what the hay... A group of us got together and decided to come up with questions they could ask in the interviews; giving each other tips for interviews etc... which included a sampling of mock interview (which I bombed out in. no joke) My head is full a buzzin' and I'm still kinda suffering from lack of sleep and my oxygen *yawn* deprived brain is doing all it can to keep me awake...

No UNSW interview for me =(
Wasn't expecting it but I guess it's good to know for sure now ><' MUST REMAIN OPTIMISTIC.

Lychee Spumoni and Rosemont Savignon Blanc

That's how I'd describe my weekend.

OK sorry for not posting for the past few days but I've just been so tired at night...though this isn't saying that I'm not tired at the moment. I feel compelled to blog since I haven't been online for a while xP

Last Friday Night


Well...I finished exam on the Friday as you probably know already...AND while I was being asian and going into an asian news agency to buy an asian newspaper (DID YOU KNOW THAT IT WAS TWO WORDS?! IT'S NEWS AGENCY D=...I've always thought it looked more correct if you put it together but hey...what the hell do I know?) I ran into Flora and Sonya (you know... the girls that left baulko for ruse...) AND IT WAS DA AWKIES...because I knew both the girls...and they were kinda waiting for the bus...with their boyfriends. D= Bleurghhhhh so I asked them if phys was their last exams and blah blah blah you get the point...I had to walk past them again back to the car...it was all I could do to walk at normal speed and wave a hurried goodbye instead of bolting around the corner...face all red and everything =='

Friday night...as a celebration I had a drink with a friend (Smirnoff's Vodka + Lemonade) I know not very classy..but w/es. HSC WAS OVERRRR....

Yesterday was Saturday

I had to get up at like 6:30am to get to the SAT testing centre (Macq U) on time...and like a doofus I managed to leave my phone in the car (although phones aren't permitted) so after the test I couldn't find mummy to pick me up D= Finally...after ten minutes of walking the university grounds I spotted my mum's car and ran like a wild man while swinging my hands in the air trying to get her attention (I'm exaggerating of course but you get my desperation) BECAUSE I needed to get into the city for Chris' BIRTHDAY partayyy~

The party began at 'The Lindt Cafe' down at Cockle Bay Wharf. Most of the group met up there and just say and chilled for a bit while sipping at EIGHT DORRARS AND NINETY CENT ICE CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKES...>.> I know...it hurt my asian side too...but anywho~ Are the guys fretting about formal?...do the guys ever fret about the formal?...because the girls seem to do it =/... I shouldn't be publicising this but the amount of money Vivian Ma apparently spent on her dress is mind-blowing ridiculous. And I MEAN, F**king MIND. BLOWN. I never knew a dress could worth so much D=...
BTW!..that's not to say that the amount of money spent is directly proportional to how pretty and elegant a girl looks in her respective dress...o''o

Moving along...the procession then proceeded (funny choice of words I know) to K1 Karaoke where Chris had already booked a part room (We got the Beatle's room!) and then...as inferred...we had three hours of successful karaoke-ing headed by the lead vocalists, Vivian Ma, Chris Kew and Jeff Lui. Your all going to be popular someplace because of your voices in one form or another. *bows down* I jelly. I sound like a dying frog when I sing...unless it's the rapping parts because...there's not much fluctuations in the vocals...you just need to be able speak AR-MOI-rican and be black...(I'm half-way there with my tan)

After K it was at 6pm that we rocked up to Wagaya (that place across from the McDonald's next to the Sydney entertainment centre, if you haven't been I highly recommend it!) and the usual hectic ordering thing happened...and I was nearly the last person to get food...because I kept giving it to people who were hungry ><''...this kinda resulted in Don, Jeffery and Anthony Liang finishing their meals before I even got mines...Anthony Liang's crazy. He ate twice what everyone ate and yet still managed to finish all his food before I even got mines =='. WTF. ANYWAYS...After everyone was properly fed we had two rounds of sushi roulette in which (if you haven't played) one out of six sushi contains a mega ball of wasabi in it...In the two games, Jasmin got stung in the one I was participating in and Michael Lee got the sushi in the other one. Oh yeah...we ordered a few drinks on the night just coz we could ;) and yeh...I bought Chris the Lychee Spumoni...everyone shared...there was underaged drinking going on...not responsible friend is not responsible...=(
Vivian got red in the face because of one bottle of beer...and Betty ordered something that tasted...and I quote Jeffery: 'The taste when you drink concentrated orange juice right after you brush your teeth' hahahahahahahaha Cannot believe that phrase actually popped up in a convo AGAIN. XD...we got a bit rowdy opening the presents and eating the birthday cake o''o but we didn't get kicked out...probably because of the amount of money our group kindly generated for the restaurant...BUT YEH. AWESOME NIGHT.

Sundaeeee


Hmmm...I won't go into detail about today because not much really happened today except that my family went out to dinner with one of my tutors and since beginning my tuition we've gotten quite close but the teacher/student relationship has been long been surpassed especially when she's now trying to set me up with a 22 year old girl...WHO might I add...isn't too bad on the looks...but yeah. WTH. We went to a Brazilian Restaurant in Concord and it's pretty good. Not too classy and not too tacky. I had a glass of (you guessed it) Rosemont Savignon Blanc and it's pretty good as my first glass of white wine =P I'm really scared I'm gonna become an alcoholic since...I think I'm drinking waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much. So yeah. xP Never trust me o''o...I'm still not sure if I'm a responsible drinker or not. If I totter off when we're on outings or at Jervis Bay ...you have my permission to leave me to sleep on the footpath with a cat...=/

I had a Tiramisu sundae and a cappuccino as a dessert (from a cafe a bit further down from the restaurant). xP Just thought you should know since I'm recounting most things anyway~

I'm now full and fat and in my jammies. All in all...not a bad way to start my partying campaign after HSC...except for the fat part D=

Sorry it's such a long post...but there's just a bit more to go!

Who's going to that thing at school tomorrow?

Li/Ben?! Gogo facebook if you haven't checked yet and arrive at school bus bay by 9am and we'll go from there!

Hmmmmm

Here's a random Medley...


AND YEH! THAT'S ALL. WAIT. GUYS PLEASE DON'T DITCH US D=...(I JUST GOT A TEXT FROM ZAC AND MIHO ABOUT AN OUTING ON THURSDAY!!!) *a sad desperate cry for attention* yeh that's me o''o Egocentric, narcissistic and pessimistic. <---- JOKES xP I'm in a happier state of mind! =DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

OK. I SHALL SHUT OOP.

GOODNIGHTS. SWEETDRMZ. aaaaaaaaaaand...HOPE TO CYA SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS. YESSSS posting this JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT!....winnnnnnnnnnnn...