i saw your face, in a crowded place
just another boring week in the day of this lowly public servant. nowadays i actually dont mind going straight home after work and just chilling out, its quite refreshing.

on friday i went to drinks after work (something which seems to be gaining regularity). will was in town from tasmania so i caught up with him and some other uni ppl who i see once every blue moon. its good to chat with different but familiar ppl every now and then. the a few drinks in the conversation turned mostly into tales of bitterness due to everyone there being single =p luckily we're jsut young enough where it doesnt seem pitiful and lonely... jsut yet =p

the week consisted solely of frisbee.. and soreness. on saturday we went to parra to practice a bit and do the beep test. in case u werent tortured thru it at school, the beep test is a fitness test where participants must run 20m laps in time with a tape playing a series of beeps. these beeps slowly get closer together so u have to increase ur speed. if u miss 2 beeps in row then ur out. the longer u last, then the fitter u are (duh). i made it to level 8, lap 10.. which is about what i thought i would get. i ran something like that when i was school. on this day i got beaten by lachlan who did something very good (i forget what). for the record, u need to get to level 7, lap 5, to make it into the defence force =p

sunday (today) was UTS training, and it was very much training, which i wasnt really in the mood for =p my foot is really sore (still), i am starting to think i have a serious injury now. gah.. injuries suck so much =p

on the way home i saw this old friend who i havent seen in a while, but i didnt say hi (cos im a snob) and whilst we didnt exactly have a fight, we didnt exactly leave off on great terms. so i thought i was a bit too mentally (and physically) fatigued to stop and have an awkward conversation =p ive had enough conversations which start with .. "uh, so hows um.. whatever ur doin now?". and which end with "uh.. so um. i have to go now im late for the um.. thing". =p

stop making the eyes at me and ill stop making the eyes at u
so.. anyways.. i win! i passed my Ps =) the whole day thing was pretty cool actually. it started at 7:45am, and finished 4pm so it was kinda tiring and i dont think i learnt heaps, but it was good to relax me before the test. i was like i think ill be ok as long as i dont have to go first.. and sure enough, the list is in alphabetical order, so im first =p i was heaps nervous for the first section (out of 4) but after i cleared that i was fine =)

i stopped at the RTA on the way home to get my license.. and since id been wearing a helmet all day i had rather terrible helmet hair =p in other craziness, when i get off my Ps all restrictions are lifted. which means i can even ride a 1100cc motorbike even though i did the test on a 125cc automatic scooter =p scary

.. afterwards i went to frisbee. it was intense, we had no subs and only 4 guys. so we had a girl marking a guy for both games. hectic. we wont he first game suprisingly easily, and we probly shouldve won the second (grr). it was against phil's team who was the corresponding first placed team in the other pool. and we were winning most of the game, but they scored the last 4 points of the game to win by 1. partially cos i cramped up and cos they had 2 more subs than our zero... and partially cos they exploited the mismatch of our girl marking one of their guys.. and partially cos they were more composed at the end of the game than us. gah. we'll probly meet them in a later final, when we'll have our best player back~ mwahahaha...

.. today we did the spit to manly walk.. cept in reverse. it was quite nice.. but my legs were still suffering a bit from cramps. it felt kinda rushed like everyone jsut wanted to get out of there =p the weather wasnt the greatest but we still had a few glimpses of sun =)

i bet u look good on the dance floor
i havent really managed to achieve much this week. im heaps scared of this upcoming scooter test. i dont do well on pass/fail tests.. i have a tendancy to choke. frankly id rather do a hundred regular school tests marked out of a 100.

this week has been relatively busy in the office though. for the first time in forever im on a different project. ive been using hibernate, spring and AJAX. which are all quite new to me. its kinda fun and kinda frustrating to play with new stuff =). i ended the week with a unresolved memory leak from hibernate.. gah =p

in other news: im so tired of waking up tired

underwear goes inside the pants
uh.. i did nothing on the long weekend.. what a loser =p the only time i left the house was to go to frisbee. which was still cool. we won both games =)

.. im starting to think that im an anti-conformist. not a non-conformist but an anti-conformist. where a non-conformist has the mentality that their choices arent affect by whats "in" atm. i actually will purposely not do or be what is "in" atm. which i guess makes an anti-conformist a bit oxymoron.. cos its actually conforming to what is not what everyone does =p i find that whenever something becomes "cool" i think to myself "meh.. thats not for me".

.. im starting to think snowboarding may have become too cool for me now. im thinking of moving onto surfing.. maybe. its a lot warmer.. and probly cheaper.

my plastic heart cannot love
this week at work was actually pretty hectic (despite being a 4 day week). i actually had work to do to get this app ready for end user testing (again). it was quite fun actually.. although it made me realise just how disorganised i am when it comes to work. i am starting to feel like ill never leave.. and i drew a sketch to illustrate how i feel.

the hat tourny started this week. and we won both our games =) i was playing pretty terribly though. i couldnt throw a forehand to save my life. i also defended rather badly .. but my running into the endzone is still ok =p

on wednesday this guy from work left to travel the world for 4 months (bastard) i really need to escape. today nige was saying that he thought id travelled a lot. but i never feel like i have. most ppl i know have been more places than me.. i wouldnt say that travel experience is relative.. but i woulnt mind travelling a bit more. i dont feel that travel is my passion though.. ive been on as many bad holidays as good.. and id say whilst travel is enjoyable and exciting.. it doesnt really supply a sense of satisfaction that other aspects of life provide. id say a lot of the as much of enjoyment from travelling is from the not being at work as it is from being in a foreign place =p

since its a 4 day week, we went to drinks on thursday.. it was some good ole fashioned drunked amusement. but not trashed.. it was just enough alcohol so we werent bothered by looking silly =) we ended up at the worst sounding karaoke session ive ever been to (and ive been to a lot of karaoke). it was certainly the most drunk ive been at karaoke, and it showed.. in horrible song selection.. and most just the screaming of one chorus before some says "SKIP IT!".

today i was helping nige move into his new house =) it was a lot of driving around and lifting heavy items. we had to get stuff from pymble, north sydney and kingsgrove.. then take it to Telopea. at one point we drove to kingsgrove but nige had left the keys in north sydney, so we had to drive there and back =p the house is shaping up quite nicely.. hrmm.. maybe i should buy a house ....

jsut another day, for you and me...
i totally cant remember what i did this week.. so it must not have been all that interesting =p i do remember buying a pair of new work shoes.. to finally replace the broken ones though.

there appears to be a very large blur in my memory around about friday night, when we had the RBA beer tasting night.. for some reason i can only recall patches of that night =p we hand 7 imported beers from Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Turkey, Brazil, Namibia.. and um.. one more =p and yes that says Namibia! weird. anyways.. we went onwards to Bar 333, then MPB, then Chambers.. then Veranda. i couldnt really walk for the last few.. i staggered a lot. im kinda suprised they let me thru the door.

on saturday all i did was recover. and worked on my drawing for the anime club calendar. it is mildy improved from last time, i shaded the characters and made a horrible attempt at drawing a back drop. it kinda looks like this now.

today i went to the swans game.. which started well.. with the unveiling of the Premiership flag. but it was sorta all downhill from there, as they got thumped bad by Port. they played heaps bad too.. although some officating was a tad dubious in the goal square as Port got a few gifts right in front of the sticks. it was a nice day out though =)

cowabunga doods..
so i went surfing yesterday.. it was at this random 4WD park thing at North Cronulla beach. it was totally deserted, there was beach as far as i could see either side.. and only a handful of ppl about. *shrugs*. anyways im way better at surfing that i remember. i stood up almost every tried.. which is like a thousand times bteer than last time =p i think it helped heaps that i didnt need to paddle out like last time, so my arms werent completely exhausted. also the waves werent nearly as scary. standing up on a board is pretty easy actually.. the hard part is catching a wave properly.

afterwards we went for drinks at this place in Cronulla which was a leagues-club-like place.. it was full of over-dressed, 30-something, white ppl talking about how great their local sporting team is =p

after thant i headed to daph's place where we had japanese curry .. mmm.. and then played a variety of board games. gus totally pwned everyone at Scrabble.. id like to think im quite good at scrabble.. but he was a rather formidable opponent. i managed to sneak into 2nd place by emptying my rack first =)

... previously.. on saturday, i went shopping in newtown with kallie and annie.. it was ok. we didnt really buy anything =p but it was nice to get out of the house.

.. in other news.. i bought a unicycle.. its friggin hard to ride.