wow, working in public holidays is just plain crazy. on saturday there was like...4 of us working and at one point is was just soooo busy. i was on large cakes and there were like so many customers, when i served one two more would come and i couldnt call for help because everywhere else was swamped too. people were queueing up on the small cakes and pies side, and a million people were getting coffee it was insane.
and then after that you get a very long period of just absolute boredom, where no customers come and it takes forever to become in contact with other humans again.
*sigh* but at least im getting paid lol. cant complain about that.
hmm so i saw rio and i LOVED IT!
it was awesome, and had a great cast. it's basically about a blue macaw bird who is the last male of his kind. he lives in america and a scientist comes to his owner wanting them to fly to rio de janeiro where the last female blue macaw is. then they fly over but because theyre the last ones of their kind, theyre extremely valuable and so these kidnappers come and steal it and then its like epic journey to get back to safety!
and of course theres a love story in it too...
but yeh, despite its typical and predictable plot, the animations are so cute, the jokes are funny, the actors are awesomeeeee its so good go watch it =D
i also watched how to train your dragon...man that was a good movie. but the title is really misleading...i mean here i thought that it was the society's customs to train dragons as their pets, but then... i guess not. but yeh such a good film, definitely rewatching this one!
first year law student
vietnam cave
reverse psychology
how cute.
unwanted christmas present
LOL thats hilarious!
but i hear that he has finally scored so this picture is less meaningful now...
caution
an impossibly awesome exposition about the ninja educational system
little dog boo
most adorable thing you will ever see!! EVER
greatest proposal ever
michael jordan is so rich
10 interesting junk food facts
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Saturday, 23 April 2011
P is for Paintball
so you know how we went paintball the first monday of the holidays...WELL here's more or less how it went.
Top Ten Tips for those playing Paintball:
1. Don't gym it up the day before.
The guns are heavy and the canisters are heavy.
2. Eat a very very very filling breakfast or lunch before you play.
Our game was meant to start at 9.30, but in reality probably started at 11, and it finished at 3. What did I eat? 2 Weetbixes and milk for breakfast, and a Peach Iced Tea during our 15 minute break...Needless to say I was starving throughout the game.
3. Get hit once.
It's a good experience. After you get hit for the first time, try to never get hit again. That's a bad experience.
4. Don't get hit on the butt.
One of the worst places to get hit, not counting a guy's private parts, since that's most likely protected by a Hector Protector.
5. Don't get shot repeatedly in one area.
This is what happens:
(...yeh my face looked disgusting but you get the point...and it wasn't as bad as it seemed. in the photo it looks like its relli relli red...like blood red, but it was actually purplish at the time)
6. Don't waste your bullets.
I never understood it when people, before and after games, started randomly firing off their guns, as if practicising or something. You're just wasting your bullets, and you're not really improving your aim.
7. Don't open your mouth.
It's not pleasant when someone shoots the mouth bit of your mask and the paint splatters into your mouth. Not pleasant at all.
8. Decide what balance of fun and pain you want.
If you want to have some fun but not get hurt too much, then linger around your base and don't advance. If you want more fun and don't mind getting hurt a lot, advance a bit. If you want the most fun ever and the most pain ever, do a Mukhtar and just walk out casually shooting everyone you see (but remember, everyone who sees you will shoot too).
9. Try to work as a team.
I don't know about the other team, but my team didn't discuss tactics much. Who was going to advance? Who was going to stay back and defend? Who was going to start off where? Who was going to partner up with who?
10. Get a Maheesha on your team.
By this I mean get someone who is absolutely crazy about cadets, and knows everything. And stay with him. We had a free for all game and the last two people left were Maheesha and Nicky. I don't know if this was to do with others just blindly shooting out paintballs and the two cadets conserving their bullets, or if the two cadets just had relli good coverage and whatnot, but I mean, it's gotta mean something.
Top Ten Tips for those playing Paintball:
1. Don't gym it up the day before.
The guns are heavy and the canisters are heavy.
2. Eat a very very very filling breakfast or lunch before you play.
Our game was meant to start at 9.30, but in reality probably started at 11, and it finished at 3. What did I eat? 2 Weetbixes and milk for breakfast, and a Peach Iced Tea during our 15 minute break...Needless to say I was starving throughout the game.
3. Get hit once.
It's a good experience. After you get hit for the first time, try to never get hit again. That's a bad experience.
4. Don't get hit on the butt.
One of the worst places to get hit, not counting a guy's private parts, since that's most likely protected by a Hector Protector.
5. Don't get shot repeatedly in one area.
This is what happens:
(...yeh my face looked disgusting but you get the point...and it wasn't as bad as it seemed. in the photo it looks like its relli relli red...like blood red, but it was actually purplish at the time)
6. Don't waste your bullets.
I never understood it when people, before and after games, started randomly firing off their guns, as if practicising or something. You're just wasting your bullets, and you're not really improving your aim.
7. Don't open your mouth.
It's not pleasant when someone shoots the mouth bit of your mask and the paint splatters into your mouth. Not pleasant at all.
8. Decide what balance of fun and pain you want.
If you want to have some fun but not get hurt too much, then linger around your base and don't advance. If you want more fun and don't mind getting hurt a lot, advance a bit. If you want the most fun ever and the most pain ever, do a Mukhtar and just walk out casually shooting everyone you see (but remember, everyone who sees you will shoot too).
9. Try to work as a team.
I don't know about the other team, but my team didn't discuss tactics much. Who was going to advance? Who was going to stay back and defend? Who was going to start off where? Who was going to partner up with who?
10. Get a Maheesha on your team.
By this I mean get someone who is absolutely crazy about cadets, and knows everything. And stay with him. We had a free for all game and the last two people left were Maheesha and Nicky. I don't know if this was to do with others just blindly shooting out paintballs and the two cadets conserving their bullets, or if the two cadets just had relli good coverage and whatnot, but I mean, it's gotta mean something.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
O is for Optimist
transformers comic
this is a MUSTTTTT to look at.
hmmm so what have i been up to...
not much...studying, driving, movieing...
studying...i dont think ive been as productive as i would like to be, but still quite productive, doing lots of past papers and stuff...still a bit worried aobut memorising stuff for ancient and legal...havent started on legal oh gosh.
movies... oh i watched avatar in 2D...still pretty good but yeh itll never beat the 3D IMAX experience i had on my 15th birthday =]
DID YOU KNOW?!
The first letters of the main characters’ names in Inception can be arranged to form the word ‘DREAMS.’
Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mallorie, and Saito
(thanks eddie for telling me this)
the greatest craigslist room rental ad ever
the dating site murderer
weird and wacky furniture
pretty sure i posted this before...
bach played on a giant xylophone in a forest
facebook for toy story
simple animation to explain complex principles
ive always wondered how a sewing machine worked...
funny facebook puns win
88 important truths ive learned about life
the what do i look like game
this is a MUSTTTTT to look at.
hmmm so what have i been up to...
not much...studying, driving, movieing...
studying...i dont think ive been as productive as i would like to be, but still quite productive, doing lots of past papers and stuff...still a bit worried aobut memorising stuff for ancient and legal...havent started on legal oh gosh.
movies... oh i watched avatar in 2D...still pretty good but yeh itll never beat the 3D IMAX experience i had on my 15th birthday =]
DID YOU KNOW?!
The first letters of the main characters’ names in Inception can be arranged to form the word ‘DREAMS.’
Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mallorie, and Saito
(thanks eddie for telling me this)
the greatest craigslist room rental ad ever
the dating site murderer
weird and wacky furniture
pretty sure i posted this before...
bach played on a giant xylophone in a forest
facebook for toy story
simple animation to explain complex principles
ive always wondered how a sewing machine worked...
funny facebook puns win
88 important truths ive learned about life
the what do i look like game
Friday, 15 April 2011
N is for Nothing.
....as in Nothing to do. (and Nothing i can think of)
oh, finally got that certificate for winning that textbook cover design.
oh and they sent us two copies of the cover design on paper too
anyway..
this article on rebecca black says that her parents paid $2000 to a record company to show her what its like to be famous. did anyone else know this? i actually feel sorry for her. let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say she never really wanted this, her parents just forced her to insanely autotune her voice and sing a song that was written terribly (and she didn't write the song, two people from the record company did), in order to get famous.
and now, without any fault of her own (possibly), she is being hated by everyone. yes...i feel very very sorry for her. the people who wrote the song probably didn't even write it seriously...i mean, come on, we all know the lyrics. i doubt she ever believed she would get this famous, and so when she read the lyrics she must have thought this was some funny joke, like the type of comedic songs that people write when their aim is to purely make fun of themselves.
i seriously feel sorry for her, and her parents should be ashamed of themselves! (unless of course you asked to be famous, then you got what you deserved, rebecca black.)
k, getting OFF the topic of friday...
let's stumbleeee!
what bp could have bought with all the money they lost
everything i like
drugs explained through alice in wonderland
funny satan cartoon
7 really basic things you won't believe you're doing wrong
how to use an elevator without stopping
cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread
OMGSH MUST MAKE THIS.
the best dr. seuss quotes
man knowledge
street art
oh, finally got that certificate for winning that textbook cover design.
oh and they sent us two copies of the cover design on paper too
anyway..
this article on rebecca black says that her parents paid $2000 to a record company to show her what its like to be famous. did anyone else know this? i actually feel sorry for her. let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say she never really wanted this, her parents just forced her to insanely autotune her voice and sing a song that was written terribly (and she didn't write the song, two people from the record company did), in order to get famous.
and now, without any fault of her own (possibly), she is being hated by everyone. yes...i feel very very sorry for her. the people who wrote the song probably didn't even write it seriously...i mean, come on, we all know the lyrics. i doubt she ever believed she would get this famous, and so when she read the lyrics she must have thought this was some funny joke, like the type of comedic songs that people write when their aim is to purely make fun of themselves.
i seriously feel sorry for her, and her parents should be ashamed of themselves! (unless of course you asked to be famous, then you got what you deserved, rebecca black.)
k, getting OFF the topic of friday...
let's stumbleeee!
what bp could have bought with all the money they lost
everything i like
drugs explained through alice in wonderland
funny satan cartoon
7 really basic things you won't believe you're doing wrong
how to use an elevator without stopping
cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread
OMGSH MUST MAKE THIS.
the best dr. seuss quotes
man knowledge
street art
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
M is for Movies
yay, movies, movies and more movies!
BUT firstly! i went to sanity on the last day of school to see if i could get tangled, since it came out in america on the uhm...30th of march i think. so i go in and i cant find it anywhere! and i ask the guy at the counter and he checks it out and he says that it actually comes out on the 11TH OF MAY!? what is this!? arghhhh. BUT, joyce saw some awesom tangled posters on ebay, and the guy who made it makes like an amazing amount of awesome photos, he has about 200 pages on his ebay page, and everything is free shipping and so theyre just like $10 each so i got one of the tangled posters, as a temporary relief for the lack of dvd-ness going on here.
seriously, why does it come out so much later than in america?
okay so now for the movies:
The Social Network
For those of you who don't know what this is about (and how can you not), it's about Mark Zuckerburg's creation of Facebook, starting from the days he was at Harvard when it first launched, and how he has used and exploited the friends which helped him to create it.
It's based on the true story of the real Zuckerberg (I wikied the characters) and it is pretty interesting, although quite heartbreaking towards the end when you see his friendships crumble. I mean of course, I feel sorry for the friends he used, but I also feel kind of sorry for him. The movie portrays him as a some sort of innocent guy who actually follows the advice of another, and this turns to be his downfall and I like the ending of it, it adds a sort of, not cliche, but reflective and happy-ish ending.
Oh, what's also interesting to note is that one scene of the film has someone saying all the people that facebook has attracted, like two Olympian rowers and a movie star. Another person asks who the movie star is, to be replied, "Does it matter?" Well, I IMDb'ed this up, and the movie star was actually Natalie Portman! She was at Harvard during the time that facebook first started, and she even helped the scriptwriter by telling him what went on during that time. That's amazing, props to you Natalie, I never knew you were smart enough to get into Harvard.
The King's Speech
This also tells of the true story of King George VI (hopefully I got that right), and his terrible stutter. This is during the time the radio was first invented and used, and so everyone not only in England, but in Australia and other countries under British rule could listen to the Kings' speeches.
However, how does one give a great speech when he has a stammer? He can't, unfortunately, as the dreadfully heartbreaking first scene shows. Well, this is based on a true story, and so you can expect some happy ending which is NOT cliche but compeltely realistic, which is exactly what I love. And gosh, I just loved all the actors in it! There's three Harry Potter actors in this, by the way.
127 hours
Well, it seems I've been watching a lot of true stories lately... This time about a climber, Aron Ralstone, who gets stuck in a canyon when a very large and heavy boulder crushes his arm. From the time he leaves his truck in the morning to the time he gets rescued takes 127 hours, approximately 5 days. At the end of the 5 days you find himself acutally cutting his own arm off with a blunt swiss army knife... O_O And remember: this is a true story.
And Aron Ralstone himself even said that this movie was so factually correct it could have been a documentary with added drama, or something along those lines. Ralstone actually did have a video camera with him and filmed himself when he was stuck, and now this video recorder is kept in some vault for protection, with only his close family and friends, the director and james franco having seen the footage he took. And no, him cutting his arm off is not meant to be a spoiler.
The beauty of this film is just...the awesome directing and the realistic acting...not to mention the crazy special effects during the scene of his...cutting... (apparently some audience members fainted and needed medical attention because it was so realistic - and yes, i was squriming on my sofa...i can never look at a swiss army knife the same again).
Black Swan
Okay now, shying away from the heartbreakingly true stories, we move to Nina Sayers, a professional ballet dancer who, basically, just goes insane. No joke, this chick goes mental! I felt so sorry for her all throughout the film, since her sanity is seen to be caused by the stresses of her ballet company.
Okay, and whilst a lot of people hyped it up to be a really awesome horror movie, it's not horror. Whoever coined it as a horror film; you are wrong. This is more of a thriller...and I love thrillers. It's a bit slow-paced, though, at the beginning but gets better as the film progresses. There's not much I can say without ruining the film, but Natalie Portman is a great actor and dancer in this and deserved all the awards she got. The ending is one where you have to sort of think about it. Some might take it in the most literal sense, but I dunno...it's all very weird to me and I have my theories of my own. But yes, good movie.
SO, now that you have just read this, go out and watch these movies! =] Of the four of them, I would have to say that my favourite is 127 Hours...I don't think I'd want to watch the other films again for a while now.
BUT firstly! i went to sanity on the last day of school to see if i could get tangled, since it came out in america on the uhm...30th of march i think. so i go in and i cant find it anywhere! and i ask the guy at the counter and he checks it out and he says that it actually comes out on the 11TH OF MAY!? what is this!? arghhhh. BUT, joyce saw some awesom tangled posters on ebay, and the guy who made it makes like an amazing amount of awesome photos, he has about 200 pages on his ebay page, and everything is free shipping and so theyre just like $10 each so i got one of the tangled posters, as a temporary relief for the lack of dvd-ness going on here.
seriously, why does it come out so much later than in america?
okay so now for the movies:
The Social Network
For those of you who don't know what this is about (and how can you not), it's about Mark Zuckerburg's creation of Facebook, starting from the days he was at Harvard when it first launched, and how he has used and exploited the friends which helped him to create it.
It's based on the true story of the real Zuckerberg (I wikied the characters) and it is pretty interesting, although quite heartbreaking towards the end when you see his friendships crumble. I mean of course, I feel sorry for the friends he used, but I also feel kind of sorry for him. The movie portrays him as a some sort of innocent guy who actually follows the advice of another, and this turns to be his downfall and I like the ending of it, it adds a sort of, not cliche, but reflective and happy-ish ending.
Oh, what's also interesting to note is that one scene of the film has someone saying all the people that facebook has attracted, like two Olympian rowers and a movie star. Another person asks who the movie star is, to be replied, "Does it matter?" Well, I IMDb'ed this up, and the movie star was actually Natalie Portman! She was at Harvard during the time that facebook first started, and she even helped the scriptwriter by telling him what went on during that time. That's amazing, props to you Natalie, I never knew you were smart enough to get into Harvard.
The King's Speech
This also tells of the true story of King George VI (hopefully I got that right), and his terrible stutter. This is during the time the radio was first invented and used, and so everyone not only in England, but in Australia and other countries under British rule could listen to the Kings' speeches.
However, how does one give a great speech when he has a stammer? He can't, unfortunately, as the dreadfully heartbreaking first scene shows. Well, this is based on a true story, and so you can expect some happy ending which is NOT cliche but compeltely realistic, which is exactly what I love. And gosh, I just loved all the actors in it! There's three Harry Potter actors in this, by the way.
127 hours
Well, it seems I've been watching a lot of true stories lately... This time about a climber, Aron Ralstone, who gets stuck in a canyon when a very large and heavy boulder crushes his arm. From the time he leaves his truck in the morning to the time he gets rescued takes 127 hours, approximately 5 days. At the end of the 5 days you find himself acutally cutting his own arm off with a blunt swiss army knife... O_O And remember: this is a true story.
And Aron Ralstone himself even said that this movie was so factually correct it could have been a documentary with added drama, or something along those lines. Ralstone actually did have a video camera with him and filmed himself when he was stuck, and now this video recorder is kept in some vault for protection, with only his close family and friends, the director and james franco having seen the footage he took. And no, him cutting his arm off is not meant to be a spoiler.
The beauty of this film is just...the awesome directing and the realistic acting...not to mention the crazy special effects during the scene of his...cutting... (apparently some audience members fainted and needed medical attention because it was so realistic - and yes, i was squriming on my sofa...i can never look at a swiss army knife the same again).
Black Swan
Okay now, shying away from the heartbreakingly true stories, we move to Nina Sayers, a professional ballet dancer who, basically, just goes insane. No joke, this chick goes mental! I felt so sorry for her all throughout the film, since her sanity is seen to be caused by the stresses of her ballet company.
Okay, and whilst a lot of people hyped it up to be a really awesome horror movie, it's not horror. Whoever coined it as a horror film; you are wrong. This is more of a thriller...and I love thrillers. It's a bit slow-paced, though, at the beginning but gets better as the film progresses. There's not much I can say without ruining the film, but Natalie Portman is a great actor and dancer in this and deserved all the awards she got. The ending is one where you have to sort of think about it. Some might take it in the most literal sense, but I dunno...it's all very weird to me and I have my theories of my own. But yes, good movie.
SO, now that you have just read this, go out and watch these movies! =] Of the four of them, I would have to say that my favourite is 127 Hours...I don't think I'd want to watch the other films again for a while now.
Saturday, 9 April 2011
L is for Lazy.
feeling lazy today...so why not stumble? =]
tangga house
just a fence?
badminton jedi.
LOL
anamorphic drawings: hidden images revealed.
truly awesome.
bedroom designs.
the swimming pool and the tree!!!
dude, where's my canoe?
The book surgeon.
seriously, how can people be so amazingly creative? or have that much time on their hands? or that PATIENCE?! gosh, im in such awe at the moment.
50 things everyone should know
numbers 39, 44 and...last but not least...25...O_O
i'm obsessed with this pirate bedroom
ARGHHHH i want this.
an attack rumour
oh, the irony.
tangga house
just a fence?
badminton jedi.
LOL
anamorphic drawings: hidden images revealed.
truly awesome.
bedroom designs.
the swimming pool and the tree!!!
dude, where's my canoe?
The book surgeon.
seriously, how can people be so amazingly creative? or have that much time on their hands? or that PATIENCE?! gosh, im in such awe at the moment.
50 things everyone should know
numbers 39, 44 and...last but not least...25...O_O
i'm obsessed with this pirate bedroom
ARGHHHH i want this.
an attack rumour
oh, the irony.
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