A youtubeful post

So today is last week of Uni before midsem break, and also my last week of the exercise thing hopefully!! ^^ Have been quite consistent with it, doing it in the morning, except on Wednesdays because of the 8am start =-=

Anyhoo I've recently (ok not recently but this is the first time I've remembered to do it) found out how to embed youtube videos properly! Finally a better way to convert you guys with my music!!! xD But before that some....extremely varying videos ^^"


Tankdrift - because it was the first lol video I found this morning =] I thought OJ and Hungy might like it, if noone else ^^



Steve Jobs - This is one of the speeches I have youtubed over the years, and since alot of my friends will be graduating this and next year I thought it is slightly relevant =] Anyway it does have some nice meaningful parts, if you're willing to trawl through it for 15min ahah, also he makes a better case for crashing lectures than I do xD


Lisa - I found this girl online a little while ago, and shes the person I was telling you about last night Elaine ^^
I like her for three reasons:
1: She smiles when she sings, and it always makes me smile too ^^ You know how they say smiles and yawns are catching etc. Oh oh I read something somewhere about your brain 'mirroring' the brain of someone when they do something, for example facial expressions =] Anyway since it makes me smile it cheers me up ^_^
2: She's actually not a bad singer...I think. Hahah I can't say I'm the best judge of singing ability :x
3: I seem to remember clicking around her links and finding a bio-video. From what I recall she moved from California to Japan to pursue her love of singing. I'm not sure why Japan, maybe a side dream or something ^^" Anyhoo I kind of admire her for having the guts to go and do something like that for what she thinks she wants =]

*I'll put a footnote here to remind me to talk about optimism next time*

Post 15 of 2011 =]

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) (Brave New World Guy)

Listening to: Your Song - Elton John

Check in

So I said I'd get back to you guys about my attempt to do that pushups/situps program. It's been about 2 weeks now, today was Day 1 Week 3 and I'm happy to say I've been keeping to to schedule pretty well ^_^ Only two more weeks to go =]

Yesterday was a day of uberfail for me =[ Well, it started off pretty well, with me waking up at 5.30am to see if I could/go for a run. Btw it was also an initial trial for the 3mile in 18min run thing, I got 26min hahaha >< It equates to just pass on the grading scale =.=" Anyhoo after that went out and ended up eating lunch at Nandos. Do you think the sauce hotness varies between establishments? I swear I couldn't take hot flavour in Melbourne but here it's like =\ Maybe it's just because everyone else around was like from Malaysia/Singapore/Indonesia and they were making fun of the 'extra hot' flavour lol.

After that I went home and my day of fail began. I spent about an hour shortening my uni office pants, which worked out pretty well considering I was using a $2 sewing kit (apart from breaking a needle, cause I'm tank like that =.="). But after when I tried to iron it to make the edges straight I managed to melt a freakin hole in the leg >__>" Apparently highest setting is a nono. I should know this, as it's happened to me once before ==" So now I've ripped a piece of material off the pants, to use to test the melty-ness of the iron before I use it on anything else.

After that I decided to play some Starcraft to you know...de-rage from my loss of pants. Teamed up with two guys on NA for 3v3 goodness, and we won 4/5 matches of placement. The fail was the last game, against diamonds, where we couldn't even deny ONE expo. So by midgame they had like a billion things flying around the map and my whole team was still onebase =-="

After that slightly sad ending I decided to make dinner because you know...food =]. I was going mega ceebs that night, so dinner was buttered wholemeal toast with leftover curry in omelette + spinach. 15min start->eating ftw!! xD Anyway I managed to burn my tongue on the curry/omelette thing which resulted in me closing my mouth and scraping my hard palate with hot, hard, toast (with added pointy wholegrains!). It didn't help one bit that I know exactly what the bits of mucosa I had scraped off were called =[(rugae).

Do you reckon by being able to better verbalize your pain you increase the pain? Kind of like when you don't want people to start a revolution in your country you don't let them have a word for revolution in their language - it makes the concept harder to grasp.

*sigh* So that was my fail day, which started off so well =[ Now I have to deal with having only one set of un-melted pants, an embarrassing SC2 replay and a very smooth hard palate =_=

And no more curry!! ;__;

I hope today's going to be better xD

Post 14 of 2011 =]

“It’s quite hard to soar like an eagle when one thinks like a turkey”

Listening to: Mother, We just can't Get Enough - New Radicals

Not a Monday

Recently I've been trying to eek out a post every Monday.
Today it's only Friday :O

The reason I felt like posting today is because the girl I sit next to in Preclinic (the class where we drill into plastic teeth in fake people) said something I thought was really nice. Also because I have time to kill while my chicken defrosts. I'm not sure how we got to it, but the quote was was "Time spent enjoying yourself is never time wasted".

I just thought that was a really succinct way to remind yourself what is important in life, and that you should not feel guilty/regret the times you've enjoyed yourself (with the exception of all the weird fetish people). The most important goal in life is to be happy. Happy with yourself, and what you've done/accomplished in the past, and where you're going =]

In Preclinic right now we're doing Class V cavities, which is basically cutting a smiley face mouth into the outside surface of the tooth near the gums. It looks super simple on paper, but it is omfg hard to angle the drill properly >__>" It turns out it is helpful to actually get the patient to close their teeth together when doing these preparations, because it takes tension out of the cheeks, meaning they don't pull your drill in random directions when you bump them.
Nevertheless, I think I'm doing quite well in Class V's, which is good because we have an assessment on them in a couple weeks ><

In other news I finally watched Dorian Grey, the movie adaptation of the book, almost exactly 2 years after it came out. Lol. I've been meaning to get that story into my head somehow for ages, so yeah ^^ I knew the general idea but never went through the whole thing. There was probably a nice philosophical lesson in there somewhere if I think hard enough but I've already rambled about that other thing today ^^"

Post 13 of 2011 =]

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

Listening to: Nothing - The Script

Saturday Night

Was Riverfire. It's basically and annual event that involves and airshow in the afternoon and fireworks at night =] It signals the opening of several weeks of art shows and other random stuff. Anyhoo I went down to Southbank (same general idea as the Melbourne one =]) with a couple of people to watch, and I've gotta say, fireworks still amaze me ^^ They also has this whole laser light show that synced with music that they were playing out of speakers all along the bank.

I wonder where I'm going to end up in 10 years. I read a quote ages ago that said something like "as we become older, we become more like ourselves unless we make conscious changes". I.e. angry people stay angry, if you have bad habits you'll stay that way, unless you do something about it. Things won't just change themselves. I hope I end up being somebody I'd be proud to become.

Watching everyone run off on their chosen career paths makes me sad. The whole 'road not taken' deal. I'm pretty sure we read some kind of poem about it in year 7 or 8. It's like when you're playing some kind of RPG and you want to try out the stories of all the character classes at the same time, but you can only pick one because you cbs playing the game through like 6 times. Irrelevant of which one you choose, you're always going to wonder if things might have been different/better if you went another way. I guess the only thing to do is to be happy with the boat you're in after you've cast off =] (Necromancer F.T.W)

Post 12 of 2011 =]

True humour is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humour has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
Hugh Prather

Listening to: I'd Rather Be With You - Joshua Radin