say goodbye, itll make me wanna kiss you
on friday we had outback steakhosue.. mmm.. and then we went for a play date with Tiffany. with some games as the plastic food game.. and a curious card game which goes something like this "these cards are yours, these are mine, i win!". but sitting thru Bratz and Hi-5 dvds were all too much and had to lie down. quite awesomely, at the end she proceed to clean up the millions of toys scattered around the place and put them in boxes and stow them away. since she is like 3 some of the things (like toy ovens and cars) were taller than her =p

at frisbee training today we had this vertical jump test where u jump up and grab a disc at different heights to help judge when u can get it. i got 290cm from a standing start.. and i also got 290cm from a running jump.. which is quite strange. i wasnt feeling that fantastic though. i easily got 300cm last week.. so i dunno whats going on.

i went to the swans game last nite.. which was fun.. and they won convincingly. i got to sit in the SCG members' area, which id never done before. but annoyingly you need to have a collared shirt to sit there (unless ur a girl). i was however, wearing a tshirt and a hoodie, so i went back to the entertainment quarter to try to impulse buy some shirt which cost less than the price of just buying another ticket ($29) =p i ended up with a $25 brown polo from espirit.. so even if it never wear it again it saved me $4. hehe

lastly heres an amusing conversation from car park elevator:

drunk kiwi: haro haro!
k: dood. not cool.
kiwi: *slur* can u speak new zealand?
k: um.. baa baa black sheep..

p.s.
do u think its creepy if someone tells you that they had a dream about you.. but then then wont tell you what the dream is about? its happened to me a 3 times in a my life and frankly thats about 3 times too many =p

Labels: afl, frisbee

go away, give me a chance to miss you
hrm.. it used to seem like a long time between posts when i missed a day or two.. but its been like 10 days now and i dont really feel like i have anything much to say. certainly nothing that profound.

anyways.. last week in frisbee i did a 'greatest' =) which is like when you jump out of bounds and catch the disc, then throw it again before you land. i almsot did it twice in one night.. but no one on my team was paying attention to catch the disc again =p

i snuck in an extra frisbee session this week by going to hills training, which included the vertical leap gizmo. its basically this big pole with a disc attached to the top to test how high you can grab a disc out of the air.

this week frisbee was "rained out" which means not enough ppl turned up cos they were scared of the rain. we still had pick up games in the pouring rain which is always fun. there was some guy there who wanted to fight me for some reason.. and im like "dood, what are you? like in high school?" .. and most of the guys were like "yeh" =p some of them were up to 10 years younger than me (gah i feel old now)

on the way to frisbee i accidently left my handbrake on for about half the trip.. is that bad? it sounded terrible and im like "wtf? why is there no power" =p

in the world of java wev development, ive been playing with some new things lately like Spring Web Flow and a lot of different methods for building UI like pagination. sadly none seem to be that great. web based UI is always so buggy its so frustrating. and on top of that, most of the business user requirement ambiguity lies in the UI, which means lots of last minute changes there (gah). oh how id love to be in one of those places where a designer builds the UI and the coders do the backend.

yesterday was anzac day public holiday so some of us went around to hemas to discuss investing.. which was mostly the ever popular real estate vs stocks debate. i think stocks won in the end.. but it will probably continue at a later date =p we also went to see the movie Sunshine at Towers. it got a bunch of really good reviews from all over the place, which is pretty rare for a sci fi nowadays. but i have to say i was a bit disappointed with it in the end. whilst it looked cool and there were some interesting concepts in it, it kidna tailed off at the end. actually the first half of the movie was really interesting... but some exec probly said "this is boring" and made them put some stupid hollywood crap into the end to make it more "exciting" =p

on the tues nite before the holiday we headed to shelles to watch some Black Books and to consume large amounts of wine, cheese and leftover easter eggs. mm. it was a bit of a pig out session, but its been a while for me, so i wasnt too fussed as i scoffed down caramello eggs =p

Labels: driving, frisbee, java, movies

watching a vegetarian realise she just ate chicken
the only interesting thing to happen since the last post was the visiting of sheralyn to sydney (me speak not good grammar). anyways,a big bunch of the old anime crew met up to go to Kworld. it was pretty fun despite i sorta had a sore throat and a runny nose which kinda sucked. but that wasnt why my singing sucked =p i try to not sing the same songs everytime, but its so hard to pick songs where i sorta know how it goes and also i can sorta fit in my range of about half an octave =p

sher now has this creepy super vein in her arm which is used for dialysis. its apparently a vein which they connect to an artery so it becomes supersized, and thus easier to attached the dialysis to. she likes to make ppl listen to it which involves it being forced up onto your ear.

after a brief stopover at the coffee club we went to this lebanese restaurant called fifi's. we got the banquet, of which i probably enjoyed the hommous and bread the most. but i spose the other things were ok too.

.. oh also ive started playing Sid Meiers Pirates on PSP .. its like the original.. its quite repetitive but each quest is just different enough that i have to see what happens next.. and keep on pirating....

Labels: karaoke

can i go nowhere with you?
ok, i accept that the days of daily posts are dead.. but even once a week is becoming a struggle now. now if only some interesting things would happen in the gaps between posts =p

i can barely remember last week, but at the start there was some frisbee in there and meeting up with hoy and jamo for pancakes. pretty stock standard really.

on thursday was bunny's bday and i spent most of the day making a popup bday card. i didnt have time to take a picture but it was like a party scene with all her fav celebs doen up south park style (with real faces, but south park bodies). from what i can tell she quite liked it =)

we ate at this swish place called Pony in the rocks. although as fancy pants as it was, it didnt have its own bathroom. which meant u had to walk all the way down the way down the shared bathroom at the end of the arcade.

on friday i went to The Great Escape and has this great idea of driving to bunny's house then getting a lift to great escape (so i wouldnt have to find parking there). but this sorta backfired when we found ourselves stranded at the end of the festival wondering how the hell we'd get back to our cars in Strathfield =p

anyhoo the festivall was pretty mad. it was quite relaxed unlike other festivals it didnt really feel that crowded despite the crowds =p id quite like to try the camping option one of these days. since under 15 yo kids got in for free, the place was crwling with junior high kids all skanked out to impress other junior high kids who had no idea what music they were listening to.

highlights included Hilltop Hoods and Wolfmother (who we watched in part from on top of the ferris wheel =) but the music of the week is the Joel Plaskett Emergancy, check em out if you can.

Saturday activities included cooking and "How i Met your Mother" marathon. mad props go to b and k for cooking chilli crab and honey soy chicken wings =) the start of a very gluttonous weekend.

sunday started with much eating at Marigold yum cha with some frisbee and anime ppl of old. after filling up we headed to the art gallery to watch My Neighbour the Yamadas, which you may have seen since its quite old. but its still pretty awesome even though its not so much one long story as it is a bunch of skits.

afterwards we had coffee and cookies and cream cake..mm.. followed by a drive to the Cross (i drove! yay) where we ate more in the form of Hugo's Pizza. the pizza was good, but we got stuck waiting for ages and ended up at the end of a very long line to see Sneaky Sound System. a line which eventually turned out to be too long and we headed off to some 24 hr cafe in Neutral Bay instead, for more eating/drinking (i am about to explode at this point). it is however pretty cool to drive around sydney at night to jsut hangout wherever. and not jsut stay where i am cos of transport concerns =)

monday i was sick. id caught a cold from the previous night shenanigans. i spent most of the day watching MythBusters on tv and trying in vain to get PSX games to work on my PSP (anyone done this before?)

.. this post is too long already.. but heres some photos courtesy of mon http://himiko.fotopic.net/c1252109.html

Labels: driving, music

that boy's not right in tha head
so this week has been mostly filled with java coding and frisbee. ive kinda been tacked onto the end of a few projects at work just because we dont have enough ppl to finish them and i seem to be the best going around at writing dodgey hacks to make horrible projects look like they sorta work =p

we've started using maven instead of ant which is a new build system that no one seems to know how to use properly. theres a lot of "hey it works on my machine" going around when ppl cant use it. a typical conversation goes like this..

slave: i cant get this to compile
ian: uh. it works on my machine. see *points to screen*
slave: well none of us can get it to work, so it must be broken
ian: yeh either that or you all did the same mistake *points to blatantly obvious configuration error which couldve been spotted in less time than it takes to complain to me*

ive also been working on this CRM project outside of work, which seems to be dragging on for longer than id like. but it does give me something to do i guess. due to the rebuild mentioned in last post, i had to reinstall Java and my dev tools. and to test it out i started to write a hello world application, which soon turned into a mini text adventure game about a guy in a dungeon. its pretty fun even =p i might finish it one day if i can think of a good story to go with it.

i played frisbee mon, tues, wed and sun this week. and i considered going on thursday to mac uni training. despite all this frisbee i think im getting worse at it =p my forehands arent going anywhere good, and my backhand is bad as it always was.

on saturday i went to the Reel Big Fish + Guttermouth concert at the roundhouse at UNSW. it was pretty mad, i havent been in a decent mosh/skank pit for a while and this one was not too violent due to it being an all ages gig. one amusing this that happened was these 2 sweaty high school kids who thought it would it be a good idea by pouring the contents of a bottle they found on the floor over their heads. unfortunately the bottle was full of coke =p so the first one got coke all over his face and down his shirt, while the other one ran away laughing hysterically.

it also wasnt as loud as normal.. usually my ears are ringing well into the next day.. but they were fine even on the way home. either the concerts have gone soft.. or im jsut too hardcore.

:: the music of this week has been The Fratellis and the Fort Minor mixtape =)

Labels: frisbee, java, music