Diary of an Australian Born Chinese

Short 33 - Summer's Gone

2012-02-16T13:48:00.001+11:00

Hey guys! Summer's come to an end for me. I'll be in China soon, visiting my extended family and doing a bit of shopping. I'll hopefully finally get to update my wardrobe.

For the first time in like 10 years.

Summers has been filled with memories, nights and days which seemed endless at the time. Summers are always so long, the weeks seamless, the days long enough for everything to be done. There was always tomorrow, to do what we wanted today but now University is just around the corner.

About a week ago now I cut my hair at a barbers. I know I'm talking about my hair.

Since I was in grade 1, my dad has been responsible for almost all my hair cuts. And finally I got a nice hair cut not from my dad. Just as many people have said my old hair cut is as good as my new one.

And I had to pay 22 dorahs for it.

But its a nice change. It seems an appropriate time to cut hair differently. I mean who knows what I'm like with a different hair cut.

Life changing, I know.

But seriously, sometimes change comes naturally, often in a more dramatic form; forced upon you, not given a choice as to whether you want to change.

Choosing whether you accept these change or whether you take these changes screaming and yelling is your own choice.

~AngryAsian~

Short 32 - Never to Fall

2012-02-01T23:28:00.002+11:00

Most are scared of trying and failing

To go for that dream and falling

I'm scared of dreaming, not trying
To never go for that dream, never to fall

So January is over. There goes the better part of my holiday. But its been good; going out every other night, working every other day and resting when I'm not doing anything.

And often I just like to be at home playing dota with "da boyzs" and pub stomping it up all over Bored Aussies. Because we're all just so chilled and don't have to worry about anything but the game at hand.

Having said that, I love going out to see friends. At University you get to see them every other day of the week, because you're already in the same place you may as well see each other.

And often we just take that for granted being in the same place; being lucky enough to be with enjoyable company.

And on the holidays, everyone needs to make the time to see each other.

When we're all busy we have time to find each other. And when we're not; when we're on holidays we need to make time.

Judging by the start, this year isn't going to be easy. I suppose as we grow up we have more and more to do. More and more people to keep happy. More and more people influences to juggle. And eventually, the influences clash, the priorities aren't the same and inevitably they'll clash.

And it is then we need to remember. We do the best we can and no one should ask for anymore.

~AngryAsian~

Happy Chinese New Year!

2012-01-22T22:07:00.001+11:00

Hey guys! Chinese New Year in 2 hours and I'm going to be working. fml. Alright lets do a bit of house work I associate with new years.

This is the video I made to close 2011 off. It contains over 1000 photos, with each frame about 1/8 of a second. Hope you enjoy it.

And with that I think we can close on 2011.

If you haven't noticed I got a new layout. Its a diary for obvious reasons. I might keep this one a bit longer, and I'm still working out a few kinks in it but it will do for now. Its amazing what you can do with one year of programming at Melbourne University. You can click on photos to go into cinema mode. They look better if you do .

New years resolution was to not get angry, not take things personally and not lose my temper. I feel I did that a bit to much last year and I did let myself go a bit. I'm sure I can keep it together.

And thats why this year I'm going to be signing my posts as Angry Asian. I still haven't made a dp.

I'll have a new post soon and everything will be back to normal.

~AngryAsian~

Short 31 - Between

2012-01-06T02:35:00.002+11:00

Between dusk and dawn

Between day and night

Between sun and moon

Between the lights

Between tree leaves

Between sand grains

I just can't find you

~AngryAsian~

2011 - The Ties That Bind (part 3)

2011-12-30T22:35:00.001+11:00

This year has been as close to perfection as it gets. No year can be absolutely perfect but this year comes very close.

For better or for worse, these friends have made this year. I haven't achieved as much this year as I have other years but sometimes the best things in life aren't achievements.

With the year drawing to a close it would be unrealistic of me to expect this great run to continue. Perfection never last, the world changes and it wouldn't be perfection if it did.

Sometimes the world needs to be a bit cynical. We can hope that everything will go right, that our plans will align and the world will line up for us and just for us.

For every success, there are many failures. Without failures there would be no success.

We can't just buy things without looking at our bank accounts first.
We can't pass exams without studying first.
We can't just meet the perfect girl if we don't look.

As children we get taught that everything will be alright. That if we believe hard enough we'll get all that we want.

And as we grow up, we realise that dreams are not enough. Nor are beliefs. Not even hard work.

We must hope that our dreams and expectations will come to fruition just as we must expect failure and disappointment.

And on this note I'll sign off, for the last time in 2011. I wish everyone the an amazing New Years Eve for 2011 and for 2012 to be everything you hope it to be.

~TastyJacks~

2011 - The Ties That Bind (part 2)

2011-12-27T01:57:00.001+11:00

I know all of these were suppose to come out before Christmas but I've been rather busy. I'm blaming the 30 hours at work for it.

To the friends I don't see enough of, who I don't get to see everyday, who I try to catch up with on weekends on holidays.

To, Declan and Susie, the inseparable couple, may your second year be like your last, with the world ahead of you and no moment too long.

To Catherine Leigh, may the new year bring great news. All your goals ticked off, to try new things and all the merriment that you want.

To Yash, there is not much more that you could have, that you don't already have. May 2012 be brilliant as 2011; in all aspects.

To my engineering group, its been an amazing year, the antics, the facebook group and the many hours we spent on those assignments. I've learnt a lot working together and plan on learning more next. To Tash, Raj, Ana, Jason and perhaps most importantly Hazel, thank you for UNIMELB engineering.

My bowling group. What can I say? You know you're on holidays when you're bowling 3 games for 15 dorahs. To Declan, Jacob, Elliot, Jacob, Ash, Allan and Jack. To many more bowling nights.

The following are those I don't see enough of. Friends who's always there over MSN and facebook, ready for a chat and to have a listen to whatever I have to complain about.

Chris Greenwood, Michael Hop(e)croft, Thomas Parasiuk and Blair Bellamy, from the Mousehunt Friends group. All those games we played this year has been really quite fun. All those yelling, all the plans and the amusing moments we've had. There's two games that stand out. One when Chris wasn't there, I was phantom lancer, Thomas played as AA and Mikey played as Skeleton King. We got mid raxed and I was like fuck this, one push.

It was with Chris and Thomas. -RD no em, pros only. It was a high caliber pub game and we did really well. I babysat Thomas,shutting down spectre's farm. After 6 a minute creep kills we started and we roamed. We pulled out some pretty miraculous saves and got off some pretty solid team fights and kills. When the game was on the brink, we steadied and was still able to come out clutch.

To Allan, always up for a chat about the past present and future. To helping me solve problems and just being an all round good bloke, thank you.

To Amelia, thank you being ethically sound, many jokes and banter as well as many conversations about the major tennis tournaments.

To Raymond, for sticking by me for another year

2011 - The Ties That Bind (part 1)

2011-12-25T03:33:00.001+11:00

Hey guys! Well its the end of yet another year and so once again its time for me to write my end of year post.

2011 has been without a doubt a wonderful year. Regrets were few and far in between, whlist highlights was just about every other week.

I can honestly remember every night I went out this year. From the very first bowling night to the very last one. From the SSS ball, to getting Pho, to my birthday dinner to just simply going out to the Queensberry for a parma and jug. This year has been filled with memories.

As for regrets, well, this is probably not the right medium for it here. I misjudged a person and tried to rectify it. Looking back on it I don't know why I gave him a chance when he really didn't deserve one.

And here's where I thank everyone, for this wonderful year and all that I have to be grateful for.

As always, the very first people I need to thank are my readers. This year doaabc has grown again, in terms of readership. Without your help, this blog would not exist. I say this every year but it does not make it less true. It has continued to evolve to feature more multimedia and more serious posts. Everytime I don't post, I remember that there are those of you waiting for a post from me.

Doaabc will continue on in 2012, and it is because of you the readers.

This year I'd also like to thank everyone who's given me a like on my 365 photo album. 365 hasn't turned out quite how I expected but it has achieved its aim. I've improved my photography and have found a talent/hobby to take to the new year. I'm not going to lie, I get a kick everytime someone likes my photo. I hope those photos has given you a smile or two.

And so here we go, time to thank the friends of 2011.

To my new found University group.

At the start of the year, I was talking to Gab, and we were saying how nervous we were to make new friends at University and having to find a new friend ship group. And look how we've turned out. This group is the one I drop everything for. The one that I skip lectures for, not attend workshops and get lunch with. They are my point of call when I need someone to hang out with during breaks.

Don't ask me how it happend, because I don't honestly know how.

To Alice 'mother hen' Dunn, thank you for being honest with me. It is your opinion I've come to respect most the most because I know it is your own. It isn't necessarily what I want to hear, but what you think. Honest opinion today is hard to find. From that very first question at Star Camp to telling me when my present ideas were horrible, I thank you.

To Amanda Chong-Halliday, thank you for being un-assuming. Of the group, actually, out of anyone you're probably the easiest to chat with. Conversation with you always seems to be flowing and everything I say seems to make a lot more sense after talking to you. From those Jager bombs at the nerd party to being very high at Luna park, I thank you.

To Gabreilla Sgro, thank you for your faith in me. There's a lot things that should be said but thank you for believing in me. I don't have a longer chat history with anyone on MSN or facebook. Nor do I stay up so late for no reason. From reassuring me about my exams to assuming that the best outcome would happend everytime, I thank you.

To Joshuah 'I'm from the country' Wren, for being neutral through everything and anything thank you. Well, if there was ever a person who had a different personailty from me than you'd be pretty close. And it is this difference, that I think makes us such good friends. From that first night at the Hawthorne to that train trip back from Brighton beach, thank you for the banter and the jokes, I thank you.

To Mina 'Derkaderka Barsoum, for all the stories I will have to tell everyone at parties and for being a friend through ESD, maths and Linear. This year would have been a lot more boring without you. There wouldn't be nearly as many stores nor nearly as many antics to remember. ESD and maths would have been harder. From the 20 parmas and pot at the Queensberry and cheers to staying at Uni to finish the spider man assignment I thank you.

To Sam 'Responsible' Briggs, for being the responsible/reliable one. I don't know how I would have got home that night if you weren't driving, nor do I know how the others would have got home. You always seem to have a plan and I reckon you should have the looking after Drunk Mina medal. Thank you for that moment when I went ' you do engineering?' to taking away the champagne from Mina's hand at Catherines, I thank you.

My Birthday (was 2 months ago)

2011-12-24T00:40:00.001+11:00

Hey Guys! So I was reading through my old posts and I realise I never wrote a post about my own birthday.

*Gasp*

Criminal I know. I can pretty much hear you guys calling the police.

My birthday was on the 23rd October, a week before swotvac. I'd planned it about a week ahead (as opposed to... ) and contacted everyone and found that my birthday was the only day when everyone was free. Which I found quite nice.

It was a great night, not one I'm about to forget any time soon. I orginially planned to go to Sofias, but my parents had decided to have dinner there and really there's no humane way to have Sofias twice in the one week.

So we went to Taco Bill.

Not going to lie, I'm not going back there any time soon.

Afterwards we walked to the Rivoli and watch The Help. Great movie. Then Mina and I covered the distance between Rivoli and Camberwell station in 3 minutes. Solid effort.

The night wasn't anything fancy.It didn't involve a 3 course meal. It wasn't at a club. There wasn't a million people there. It was simply what I wanted, A group of close friends spending the night together.

These are the friends I troll. The ones annoy. The ones that stay up till 2 talking to me. The one that texts me to make sure I get home on time. These are the ones that make University bearable. The ones go out with. The ones that splits the bill with me. The ones that keep me on my toes.

These are the friends that has kept me smiling all year.

And thats all I can ask for.

My friends got me this voucher for Ted's Camera. A few of them knew that I had been looking to replace my broken gorilla pod with a tripod for quite a while.

When I finally redeemed it about a month ago, I deliberately drove back to make sure I got it back.

And with it, I got this tripod.

Tripod (It can still go higher)

At maximum height its a little shorter than me. With 2 legs extended, it is still sturdier than anything I have ever used. It has a spirit leveler, 3 axis of pivot and full portrait capabilites.

Tripod's head

This is the best birthday present I have ever had. This tripod will hopefully last me till the end. I don't forsee myself getting another one.
And everytime I pick it up, I'll think of you guys.

To my friends

For putting up with me

For when I'm annoying

For when I'm not

For always being there

Thank you

~TastyJacks~

Rage

2011-12-17T01:16:00.002+11:00

My temper.

Hey Guys! So I've been working way too much lately to the point where

I
Am
So
Sick
of
Work.

It makes me rather angry and moody. I tend to lose my temper a lot easier and snap at people when usually I'll just ignore little things that I find annoying. But lately I just get angry and don't have the patience for it, so if I've snapped at you recently, yeah my bad.

The other night I had my work Christmas party. It was really good fun and got to know the bakers who I don't normally talk to as much a lot better as well as some of the front staff who I don't get shifts with. When we ordered drinks, my tables' drink took 50 minutes to arrive.

As per above I was mad.

The watiress after about 40 minutes asked if we wanted 2nd drinks. I had kept my temper pretty well under control until then. But then I snapped.

Firstly I asked where my first drink was. And she said, ' don't worry, its coming soon.'

Then I asked, 'why would I want second drinks, when I don't have my first drinks.'

The coke she served me was flat.

I've always been taught to look after myself by my parents. When I was young I would watch my parents get the waiter/waitress to come over to fix whatever problem they had, even if their English were limited. Since then I've learnt from them; to never back down from what you derserved.

If I was with my family, it wouldn't have taken me 50 minutes to get my drink. And for that I was very happy to to be called my parents son.

So I Think Too Much?

2011-12-09T23:58:00.001+11:00

Happy Birthday, Gabriella!

Hey Guys! Last night I had a friends birthday as well as the 12 hour shift of work. Not going to lie, if it was anyone else I probably would not have gone. I was so tired at the end of that 12 hour shift. In my half hour break, I ran down to Officework in bloody hiking boots and got dinner.

They cooked fried noodles in 3 minutes.

3 MINUTES. Ate it on the way back.

The card didn't turn out as nice as I'd hope I think I saved it in paint and so the colours were all mucked up. You know what would have smarter, if I wasn't a retard and actually opened up photoshop and done it on there.

The last 30 minutes or so of my shift, I prepped the present. NAH JOKES I'M A FOCKN RETARD WITH GIANT PUDGY FINGERS and can't cut in a straight line. One of the girls tied a bow from crepe paper that was actually pretty amazing (she was pretty annoying and slack the whole week). The piece of crepe paper was too long enough to wrap the box with one piece paper.

Again, I'm retarded.

I get told that I think too much. Its easier to think little about things. To not care and just hope everything will go right. To let others do the thinking.

I have never put so much effort in a present, but even the best plans don't always work.

~TastyJacks~

Comdians on Swanston Street (serious)

2011-12-06T23:35:00.001+11:00

Just put these up

Hey Guys! Has anyone gone out of the Melbourne Central onto Swanston street lately? It is a god damn joke. No, it is not a metaphor. It is quite literally a joke. The State Government have hired comedians. Comedians.

What do comedians do for a living? Tell jokes?

NAH THEY TELL YOU WHICH PART OF THE ROAD IS THE FOOTPATH AND WHICH PART IS A BIKE PATH.

Why would you hire comedians? Seriously? You know how much they spent? 50,000.

Fifty Thousand. On Comedians. Telling people how to use the road.

You could have put up 500 signs at 100 dollars each.

Edit: Well I was going to write more but I spent the rest of the night watching tennis videos so awks.

~TastyJacks~

When Your Back is Against the Wall

2011-12-05T23:29:00.001+11:00

When your back is against the wall

When the world appears so tall

When you've taken a fall

You rise

Open your eyes

And look to the skies

And yell "Come at me guys!"

~TastyJacks~

No One Told Me That It Was Going To Be This Way

2011-12-03T21:37:00.001+11:00

Hey guys! Right now I'm listening to a livestream of the SMM DotA finals in Malaysia. I thought you would all like to know that.

I just finished an 8 hour shift at Bakers. It was quite tiring and I really need to get to sleep soon.

What is it that we look for in a friend. Someone who is reliable? Someone who is easy to talk to? Or just someone who has things in common with you.

I've been at Bakers for a few months now and I've gotten to know the staff up front and in back. It funny who you can have conversations with , who's you look forward to working with and who you would like working with you so that work isn't so hard for yourself. There are some, who are easy to talk to, others are reliable.

Friends are the ones that make you smile, that understands your jokes whom with you can talk to, who you're not afraid to take a joke or two from. Friends are just easy to be around.

What did the drunk say to his girlfriend?

Are you single?

~TastyJacks~

The (not so) Sunny Days of Summer

2011-12-03T00:08:00.001+11:00

Hey guys! Man, blogger has this new look for a while now and fml the new post button is so impossibly hard to to find. I keep pressing the create a new blog button and it takes me to write a new blog. This new look has been out for months now.

Yeah, I know retarded.

I totally passed Physics. I had pretty much signed myself up for summer school as well.

Its December. Its all downhill from here. Or at Bakers Delight, its all uphill as there will actually be OVER 9 THOUSAND every 2 days.

December; the start of summer and the holidays. /Sweaty days, ice creams and watching the cricket.

Jokes, Melbourne has had the coldest start to Summer in 15 years. God damn the last 15 summers have been memorable. Family trips to random places, cherries, mangos, sweaty days, tubs and tubs of ice creams and watching the cricket. There was that one water fight we had after year 6 graduation and the infamous LANS.

Summer has that magical quality, where everyone just unwinds, where the possibilities are endless and things just happens.

Thinking back on it now, its kinda weird to see how much has changed. I mean when I was young I 'd be looking for things to do because out holidays were that long and we really couldn't do much with our lives back then.

But nowadays there's so much to do, and I don't get enough sleep because I'm constantly tired.

To me summer should be endless.

'Are coconuts nuts?'

~TastyJacks~

Summers Come Again...

2011-12-01T22:42:00.001+11:00

We plan
To never land

To fly
High
Across the Sky

Hey Guys! Sorry I haven't been around and posting; I'm not going to lie I've been putting this off for a long long time.

Well looking back at my last post there's been quite a bit happening over the last few months. I have of course started studying, finish studying started my exam (in the space of 2 weeks) and of course finished them. I felt I did alright in them, except maybe physics.

Thinking of physics makes me sad.

Of course I've been to a few events since my last post. These events has been nothing short of epic. From the epic road trip to a quite dinner where I had no ID to get one of those really expensive cocktails. I was pretty desperate for alcohol because I hadn't drank a drop for like 2 weeks.

I sound like the biggest alcoholic. The epic road trip was, well actually pretty weird thinking back on it. Its amazing how indecisive my group of friends can be and yet, we can get a good group of friends within a day.

The trip to St. Kilda was better planned. The night before it was pouring down rain and even that morning I had my doubts. But towards the day magically cleared and it ended up to be amazing. Everyone invited friends; I asked a friend that I had kept in touch with and I think she had fun.

And everyone there at those events were friends I had got to know this year and yeah, its been an amazing year.

My photography has been going well obviously I'm an obnoxious prick and need to show you how awesome they are.

That reminds me, this year I've been very honest to everyone, abliet close to being harsh and rude. It was a concious choice and the way I've take to it has surprised everyone including myself. To those whose only known me this year, I won't say that this is not who I am, because to be honest, this year has been rather good to me.

Being honest and always speaking your mind is a attribute that is rather undervalued in todays society. They say that a man with no enemies is a coward, a man without an opinion is not a man at all.

Whether we decide to voice that opinion is a different story altogether.

'What is another name for a block loaf?'

'Knot roll.'

Oh puns.

~ TastyJacks~

Short 30 - May You Smile

2011-10-21T01:00:00.000+11:00

May your smile

Shine like light

Right through the night

And just for a while

May it be bright

For it to last the miles

~TastyJacks~

Jack All 35 - One

2011-10-13T21:34:00.000+11:00

We're always looking to meet one

Forgetting the ones we've met

Hey Guys!

Not going to lie, I was hoping for a few more posts by this time this year. Its just my year has been a lot busier than I thought its going to be.

Got a lot to write for this post where should I start off with.

1. I've started on my end of year video. Amanda gave me some nice music which I can syncrhonise it to. Its going to be a lot like last year but with a lot more photos as I've taken so many this year. If you have any good photos of any events that I was at but didn't have my camera with me, don't hesitate to send me a link and we can roll from there.

2. Well I just wasted like half an hour listening to mash ups and covers on youtube.

Wedding Dress - English

There's like 20 of them. But if you don't know that one and you're Asian, its pretty criminal.

3. Here's the usual funnies.

Where to get babies?

Mina such a good friend.

Engineering: decoded message

Happy Birthday!

What does yes mean?

I too read without books

WELL I WAS GOING TO WRITE MORE BUT AMANDA DISTRACTED ME. GO GET PITCHFORKS AND TORCH HER HOUSE.

I'll do it next time.

~TastyJacks~

Angry Asian Antsy Rant

2011-09-27T15:28:00.002+10:00

Life is but fleeting
A burst before burning

Well these holidays has been quite interesting in the sense that I've done very little productive and gone out way too much to the point where I need to start drinking multiple cans of V to keep myself alive. I'm also coughing up flem and my nose is permanently blocked from the hay fever.

I know right, my life sucks.

Nah, not really, these holidays have been amazing. There was the nerd party on Thursday was fun as well the movies night at Susan's the night after. Working has been highly enjoyable to the point where heading into work is like an escape from the otherwise packed weeks.

In between I've been trying to catch up with my lectures that I've missed particularly Physics. God, I hate physics. Physics make 0 sense. Especially electricity.

OH HAI, THIS IS EMF AND I HAVE THIS FORMULA. BUT YOU CAN ONLY USE THIS FORMULA IF THE QUESTIONS SAYS YOU CAN OTHERWISE YOU CAN'T AND HAVE TO USE ANOTHER FORMULA

Or you can spend 5 minutes to derive the right formula. Derp.

Last night I went bowling with the same group of friends that I always go bowling with. We've been bowling for 2 years once or twice every holidays/long weekend/break e.t.c. We play 3 games for 15 dorahs and spend the night catching up, laughing and shenanigans.

I got 77 in my first game. SEVENTY SEVEN. My average is usually like 100. Imagine, if I got 77 on a test and went home and told my parents...

Well lets just say I wouldn't be writing this blog right now.

I was so angry, I couldn't get my bowling motion right, and I had these obnoxiously large shoes. (My shoe size is 8, and bowl with a 12 pound ball.) It too me two games to get my rhythmn right. Hell, if it was for my 19 point last frame I was on track to end up with 70. BUT ITS OK I GOT A 139.

Thomas also spent one of my 3 plays on the juke box to play 'Becoming Japanese.'

I wanted to nuke that juke box when he did that.

You know what else makes me angry. America. Seriously, what on earth is a mile and a foot.

O Hai THERE, I'M AN AMERICAN. WE'RE THE COOL CATS ON THE BLOCKS AND SO LIKE WE'RE GOING TO SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT THATS NOT BASE 10 LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD. BECAUSE THAT MAKES US SPECIAL.

Yeah, really special.

And they call Autumn, fall. Why fall? Apparently because leaves fall from the trees. I suppose 'drop' would have been too dumb. Why not call spring 'bloom'?

Also my friend raise a good point why do free pens always come in black. Have you noticed that, all the pens that University gives you are always black and unless its like coloured pens then you could get a red one. But its never ever blue.

Racist.

Also how does fish and chips go together? In all seriousness. They don't quite rhyme. One comes from the sea, one come the group. But apparently if you put both of them in batter and then fry it in oil it becomes this awesome thing called fish and chips.

Polar Bears.

~TastyJacks~

Short 29 - Us Now

2011-09-09T22:13:00.000+10:00

Time seemed stop for us

Nothing we did was a must

Life meandered

With what we pleased

Everything was a ease

Unlike the busy bees

Or us now.

~TastyJacks~

Jack All 34 - Spring!

2011-08-28T17:50:00.000+10:00

Spring!

Hey guys! Wow, what wonderful weather we're having. I mean everyday for the past week the weather has actually been amazing. You can practically smell spring just around the corner, or its just arrived a bit early for Melbourne.

You know its going to be a good post when you start of with the weather.

I've been busy guys, so I took a break from my photography and my blog here. Now that I think I have everything back under control I'm going to start everything again. One of the reason I have been busy is working at Bakers Delight Chadstone. I've been there for I think 4 weeks now averaging 8 hours a week. Its really good fun; a bit of organised chaos every shift, really nice co-workers and a boss who looks after all of us. I've got an awesome joke.

"What do bakers do for a living?"
"They roll in the dough."

Ok, I think for health and safety issue I'm going to have to let you catch your breath before I go on to my next joke.

You ready?

"What do bakers and mathematicians have in common?"
"They both makes proofs."

I know, you don't need to tell me. I'm hilarious.

Awks.

University is going really well! A bunch of friends and I have bought tickets to the Science Ball, themed "The Future." Right now we're tossing between going as Power Rangers or teletubbies. I wanted teletubbies cause I'm awesome that way. Seriously though, that group of friends at University is actually amazing. The antics that we get up to...

From now on to do a Josh is to soak someone with water.

Also Raj's comment of I've met "Asians before, but I've never seen a Asian Chinese." was awesome.

The last comment is the best.

How do you like to watch your TV? My character in the Sims Social likes to watch it with a

DOOR TO THE FACE

~TastyJacks~

Short 28 - Great leaps

2011-08-21T20:45:00.001+10:00

When we take great leaps

We feel our heartbeats

Beat against our chest

And we try our best

To ignore it all

So that we don't fall

~TastyJacks~

Short 27 - Because the Single Spark of Courage Can Ignite the Fires of Hope

2011-08-17T00:27:00.002+10:00

In a few days, Valve will public reveal to the world DotA 2 at a tournament called "The International." For the winner 1 million USD, an unprecedented amount for E-sport.

For me, it'll be the end of an era. For almost 8 years I've played DotA and I've mentioned a few times on this blog.

Today DotA released a trailer titled "What Does a Hero Truely Need"

If there's one thing DotA has taught me is that the most important feature a Hero needs is belief. A belief to succeed in what he sets out to do even if its against all the odds. In a game when your team is down a dozen kill , the one thing everyone player needs to do is to believe that they can still win. To believe that the extraordinary can still happen and believe that they will be the one to make the difference, to tip the scales in their favour.

Which is what we should all believe in, that our "Single Spark of Courage Can Ignite the Fires of Hope"

Short 26 - This Was All In the Past

2011-08-09T23:42:00.001+10:00

I understood my feeling for you

I had hoped you' understood them too

Ì never understood your feelings for me

What they were meant to be

This was all in the past

None of them would last

They all went away so fast.

~TastyJacks~

Short 25 - Through the Rain

2011-08-08T01:23:00.000+10:00

I stood through the rain

Through the cold

Through the darkness

And came out a little different

~TastyJacks~

Short 24 - Life's Going Well

2011-08-04T22:56:00.000+10:00

(Leave a comment if you want this in Hi-def)

When everything goes well

And everything just seems to meld

When every plan that was a might

Ended just right

We think, "Can it last?"

Can everything just meld?
Can every plan end, just right?

~TastyJacks~

Jack All 33 - I'd Punch Him If I Was Drunk

2011-08-01T22:54:00.003+10:00

So last week, I went out to celebrate a friend's 19th. Its been a very short year so far, been very packed. I think the most halarious moment of the night was when we asked Josh

Is it ever alright to kill a nun?

Josh: It depends.

Oh Josh, you so neutral. I had a wonderful night; right from that taxi ride, to giving the birthday girl her present, bagging Mina at his chick pulling skills and eating a box of Lord of the Fries on the way home.

Yeah, Mina thats what you get for leaving me for dead.

Oh, Cadel Evans won the Tour De France. Congratulations; really quite amazing. I personally didn't think he had it in him as he came second 3 times. This status I thought was hilarious.

Man, I went to sleep at 1pm last and got up at 7. I was like, "I'll just get a few cans of V before I get to uni today."

Train was late, didn't get time to go to Coles. F.M.L. First hour into my 7 hour today and I'm already tired.

Last night, I went down to Sandringham beach to hang out with some friends. It was pretty fun and not quite as cold as I thought it would be.

This is Chirs Greenwood being pro.

Starcraft lolz video from Korea

Epic Kung Fu!

Lolzy comment.

And finally

Something more structured next time!

~TastyJacks~

Short 23 - Falling Leaves

2011-07-24T22:01:00.001+10:00

I don't understand why that leaf fell,

I don't understand why that one didn't.

I just understand that some leaves need to fall.

~TastyJacks~

Jack All 32 - Clutch Plays

2011-07-19T20:50:00.000+10:00

In many games, e-sports or otherwise, you'll find yourself in a game in balance or where one team is poised for victory. At these point all it takes is for one team to play slightly better or to make a single amazing play for their team to pull ahead.

These plays, these moments are called the clutch plays; where the games' outcome is decided. Saving clutch plays forces the an dominating team to continue playing whilst winning balanced clutch moments allows that team to take a lead.

The importance of these plays are important in any game, some more than others. Some players live for those moments. They are often the heros of the games, the one that keeps their head under pressure, who sees with amazing clarity even when his/her health bar millimeters from death.

The game I play is all about these clutch plays. The game of DotA often comes down to team fights which are balanced. The individual skills of both teams and the decision they make in those 30 seconds decides the outcomes of the game. All players practice to win these close games.

So week 3 into my mid year break and it been busy for me.

Going out every other day. Sleeping about 7 hours a night and finding time to do chores and keep in touch with all my friends.

These holidays, I've tried to see all my friends. All those old ones who I rarely see. The new ones who I see everyday and everybody in between.

Further, I have decided to renounce status as Switzerland for most issues now. I still reserve the right to remain Switzerland, but it won't be like the pass few years where I've taken no sides. Its been fun to be neutral, but I feel its time for me to get an opinion now. To be frank, a few things has forced my hands.

Jack All 32 - Clutch

Thomas: Priorities

Lol

Blogging as dangerous as Mountain Lion Attacks

Chris Greenwood: Not a geography student

Are you retarded?

Declan Rowley, unleashing on Melbourne University students.

That is not your typical frape. The person who wrote that was a girl. The 12 people who liked it are all guys.

~TastyJacks~

Short 22 - Trolling

2011-07-13T21:55:00.001+10:00

So from my last post, I had a few request asking me to explain what trolling/ what a troll is.

Trolling has been around for close to 6 years now. The origins or trolling stems from the message board 4chan where a lot of internet meme's comes from.

Since then trolling and the its usage has evolved from user to user, from community to community. Broadly a troll is anyone who posts/ writes inflammatory content. From there the meaning of trolling changes from person to person.

I learnt my trolling from the BA forums, so a lot of my experience comes from there. Trolls only grow from experience, and with practice, trolling and one's competency at it grows.

Trolling, when used effectively, is an effective tool both on the internet and in real life.

Trolls often say things with the sole purpose of causing argument. To be effective, trolls writes things which needs a basis of truth. Straight fiction is ineffective as the person getting trolled will easily be able to identify the troll and act accordingly.

As such, a troll's purpose is to provoke a response from the person getting trolled. The person getting trolled, must identify the truth behind any statement and its purpose.

Other forms of trolling include but is not limited to manipulation, sheer being mean and developing the persona of a troll. In all of these the person getting trolled needs to find the truth behind a troll attempt.

One of the more general rules of trolling is a stronger troll can tell when a weaker troll is trying to troll them. Of course there's exceptions.

~TastyJacks~

Jack All 31 - TastyJacks' Nerdiest Nerd Post

2011-07-02T21:48:00.001+10:00

Hey Guys! So I've been on holidays for about two weeks now. It's been really good finally getting time to relax stay up late and sleep in. On top of that I've played a lot of computer games and have finally achieved a few times and scores in various games that I've been trying to get for a while.

Lets start off with tetris. After about 3 years of play tetris, I've finally broken the 1 minute 10 barrier in tetris sprint. So now I can clear 40 lines in under 70 seconds.

So proud of myself! Also, I'm grand master all THREE forms of tetris in Tetris Battle.

Also I have completed all 3 simple challenge in the game N, The Way of the Ninja without dying back to back.

Lastly I have smashed my previous high score in bejewelled blitz with a score of 410,000 points (a *15 cat's eye, *6 multiplier). Also achieved blazing speed on numerous occasion.

I know everyone, my skills in things that matter should be admired.

Jack All 31 - TastyJacks' Nerdiest Nerd Post

Alright, so apparently I use a lot of acronyms and whlist on facebook chat. I'm going to go through a list of them because, I don't have anything better to do right now.

So lets start with the basics:

:) ~~~ obviously my smily face. Not to be confused with

:P ~~~ I use this after I made a terrible pun like, photo are phun

:( ~~~ Obvious sad face is obvious

:O ~~~ surprised face

:D ~~~ very smiley face

(Y) ~~~ thumbs up

(L) ~~~ love can be interchanged with <3

So they're all pretty basic and universal. My custom ones which aren't seen so regularly:

... ~~~ probably my most commonly used one, when I'm surprised or lost for words.

. ~~~ when a message only contains a single full stop, it means what you've said is exceedingly dumb and I
don't know how to respond.

=.= ~~~ my squinty eyes. I squint at you when I'm suspicious at what you've said.

Strange expressions:

Hurr Durr ~~~ Taken from Thomas Parasiuk, meaning "It's the sound a retard makes?"

gg ~~~ See here

palm face ~~~ just face palm

DOES THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD YELL WHEN I TYPE LIKE THIS ~~~ Well it shouldn't, it should just be me being very excited/exasperated about something.

~TastyJacks~

Short 21 - Something else

2011-06-30T10:46:00.000+10:00

There was

A million words

A thousand conversations

A hundred chances

A dozen moments

Where I could have

Said something else

~TastyJacks~

Short 20 - Guy and Girl

2011-06-27T22:01:00.000+10:00

Guy and girl starts

Guy promised girl

Everything

Girl promise guy

Nothing

Guy and girl ends

The guy was disappointed

Broke his promise

The girl was disappointed

Kept her promise

~TastyJacks~

Jack All 30 - Getting back into it!

2011-06-25T00:33:00.000+10:00

Hey Guys! Here are some photos/ videos that made me laugh out loud.

Short 19 - Post Exams

2011-06-25T00:05:00.001+10:00

Hey Guys!

On Tuesday we went out to the Hawthorn Hotel for some post (well for some of us it was post, for others it was during the exams and hence it was the cbf studying for my last exam) exam celebration. My last exam was informatics the day before and I had totally forgotten about Tuesday night until I was reminded on Friday night.

Before the night, there was a bit of debate as to when the start time for the even should be. I personally thought it should haveeen at 6:30 so people would not be confused as to whether to have dinner before hand. In the end I changed it twice and left it at 8:30.

J and I, had dinner at Grill'd. J is a great kid and thought it would be smart to bring an umbrella. You know one of those umbrella's thats a good size to put away somewhere. JK he brought an umbrella similar to this size...

Ok, lets be fair it wasn't that big. It was bigger.

Anyway, I had a good laugh at that. He insisted it was going to rain. I caught up with him and had a good chat over a nice burger. The topic drifted to Greece and whether it should bailed out by other countries such as Germany. Basically I said it shouldn't be because in the end that's how wars start.

Yes.

Afterwards we went over to D's place. It was a almost 2km walk in the chilly night. I like usual had printed off a map of the walk and knew exactly where I was going.

LOL J/K I never print of maps and knew vaguely where I was going.

J was trusted me with his life. J/K he looked it up on the iPhone.

We got there without taking a wrong turn. To be fair we could have caught the tram, but hell we both needed the exercise.

Like usual I might add.

Get to D's house and we caught up. D started to be his usual racist self. He probably shut me down the same amount of times as the number of exams he (didn't) passed.

S and A arrived with a girl name E who I didn't know. And for a while we had a good time catching up. J, A and I filled each other in from all the gossip from Melbourne Uni.

There are some things that just can't be discussed over MSN/facebook effectively. Like shaking on bets or just getting facts straight. Even for just that, just to catch up with friends it was worth it.

We realise that our lunch times would be different again. No more Thursdays in the Union lounge having a good chat.

Everyone looked at me strangely when they realise I didn't have an iPod.

D was like; why don't you want to listen to my iPod

S was like; cause I don't want to cut myself before we go out.

We all had a bit to drink there... some more than others. S also made an amazing new drink. It needs to be tasted to be believed.

I was quite keen on drinking my drink straight. You know. The Mountain Dew. It makes me do this...

So we started walking to the Hawthorn at 8.

I said something to A that was quite insulting. A was quite pissed and turned around either to rebuke me but probably more likely to slap me. I couldn't remember what I said. Honest.

Well she tripped. On her heels. Clearly someone can't hold her liquor. :D

We had walked for 20-30 minutes when I complained we wouldn't get there before 8:30.

E was like: Don't worry we're nearly there.

I was like: We're not even halfway
E started turning
D who knows me so well was like: he's joking at the same time I said I was joking.

The rest of the night went like a blur. D finished off his Bailey’s with milk and we walked to the Hawthorn. Everyone remembered their ID and we were all happy chappys. J and I split a jug of beer sat down and I caught up with a friend who I hadn’t seen for ages. D was very nice to everyone and made sure everyone was happy. In the end everyone left around midnight, after a few (too many drinks).

It would be a crime not to do it again.

~TastyJacks~

Short 18 - News and a story

2011-06-10T16:06:00.000+10:00

Hey guys! It’s been a while since I last blogged. So I’ve got a few pieces of news. Some good, some bad and some just well neutral. (I know Alice, I’m turning into a Vincent and apologising for something on my blog every time.)

Well I suppose I’ll start off with the bad news. I’m going to have to stop my 365. I simply don’t have the time or energy to keep it up, on top of this and University work. Don’t worry, I promise everyone that I’m not going to give up on photography all together, but really it was either this or the 365 that had to go and there’s too much of a reader base here to give up on. I’ll keep uploading my good photos and hopefully you’ll enjoy them. I’ve got a few on my memory card (my spare one, because I lost my primary one... =.= ) that I’ll shop and upload soon.

Another reason I haven’t been taking too many photos, is because I didn’t have much space left on my 300gb harddrive on my laptop. I had 90 gigabytes worth of videos and the 12000 photos, I was down to 5 gb of memory left. I couldn’t put anything more onto my laptop because, the processing was decreasing by quite a bit and I couldn’t run my python code on it. But I’ve now got a 1terabye external hard drive so my computer can now render stuff without taking like a whole day to do stuff.

If anyone wants old movies tell me, and I’ll give you my hard drive or something.

This is the slowest train I’ve ever been on.

First year science is a f!@#$% b!@#$%^& of a course. Whoever said first year had it easy deserve to be killed. There is nothing easy about my course in any of the subject. Except in engineering. Having said that, I can’t say I’m not enjoying myself. I don’t think I’ve been more proud of any piece of work I’ve done when I finally handed in the phase 3 language assignment for informatics. I stayed up till 3 oclock doing it, writing, debugging, writing, debugging and occasionally raging. In the end I think about 600 lines of code? Yes yes, I’m really quite nerdy. The great irony of it was that I was watching the Social Network at the time.

Half way through 3 weeks home alone. Shopping at Box Hill shopping center was interesting. They need to give people driving license except instead of cars for trolleys instead.

I’m was on Swotvac . From my friend Alice’s blog;

“”

Not going to lie, I’m pretty much like her.

But being on Swotvac has made me realise how awesome the group of friends I’m lucky to be in at University. My lunch times would be pretty boring without you guys. Thanks for putting up with me whining.

This period over Swotvac I think has finally marked a change in my life where I’m not going to sit on the fence anymore. I’ve tried sitting on the fence for a few years now and I can’t do it.

*STOP READING HERE IF YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR THE SELF-RIGHTOUS RANTINGS OF A DUMB ASIAN. THE WRITER DOES NOT GRUARANTEE THE QUALITY OF THE TEXT BELOW. MAY CONTAIN COARSE LANGUAGE. DOAABC RECOMMENDS PARENTAL GUIDANCE FOR YOUNG VIEWERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. *

The day I travelled on 4 train lines, lost my wallet, saw more of Victoria and more of my stomach (Part 1).

It was the Saturday during the mid-term break. After studying very hard for the whole week (yeah right.) I was very keen to get my drink on and get smashed. (Yes. That’s totally me.)

So I was going to meet up with my friend... let’s call her L. I’m so creative with my names.I was going to meet her at Glen Waverley Train station. Its not the closest train line to me and it was about a 20 minute walk to East Malvern. I needed the exercise after all the study I did that week. We would be travelling out to Tecoma. Aka “The sticks.”

Anyway I left home at about... I want to say 7:00 but I think it ended up being closer to 7:30. Here in Australia, things get dark fast. And the streets are really not that well lit. So here I was enjoying a warm summer nights.

Lol J/k it was winter and it god damn freezing. I had packed my camera, my sleeping bag and a jumper. It weighed a preverbal tonne.

To get to the train station you have to cross a river. Humans being the genius creatures that we are built a bridge across it.

LOL J/K it got washed away.

I had two options. I could walk an extra kilometre taking me an extra 15 minute and subsequently missed the train and I would have had to travel all the way to Tecoma by myself.

Or I could wade across the river in pitch black darkness, unable to see more than a metre in front of me. I didn’t know whether the river was flooded or whether it had dried up because I don’t visit the river often on the account of me studying very hard.

Obviously being the very drunk person I was, I decided to cross the river with the aid of my torch.

By torch I mean my mobile phone screen.

Luckily the river was low and was clean.

Jokes again, it was a storm drain.

Amusing experience. However, because I was very fit from all the studying i had been doing that week, I was able to get through it unscathed. There were stepping stones that I stepped on.

Get to the train station and train is delayed. If I had walked the extra 15 minutes I would have made the train.

I get to Glen Waverley (end of the line). Met up with my friend and we caught the bus together. By now it must have been 9?

The rest of the bus trip to Nudawading and the subsequent train trip to Tecoma was pretty uneventful was pretty uneventful. We both made some pretty amusing jokes about where we were going. “Hey look, I have a rainforest in my backyard quite literally;" stands out as one of the particularly amusing ones.

As soon as we got off the train we found ourselves confronted by some very amicable youth. They were very accommodating to the Asians on the train and certainly didn’t make the train wait a few minutes as they told the Asian that they thought of Asians in Australia.

I having drank my double size red bull drink and made comments about what they had been consuming. “Thats a lot of red bull.”

By this time it was 10pm. It was pitch dark except for the street lights. I swear its scary out there amongs nature and darkness. You never know where a drop bear might... well drop.

Seeing I had made the trip before I totally knew where I was going. L had placed her ample trust in me and called her friend. Unfortunately she didn’t pick up. So we were lost.

Nah, I knew where I was going. As if people think I can be unorganised. I sure as hell printed off a map and certainly wasn't going to wing it.

We got to the party and had a great time. I caught up with a few friends and had fun chatting with them. A few of them I hadn’t seen since high school. So it was really good to catch and seen what they had been up to for the last half a year or so.

As the night wore on I realised my alcohol tolerance was not quite what I expected it to be. I had had a very long day and hadn’t got much sleep the night before. So I got pretty tired. I went to sleep at about 1.

And hopefully I'll continue this next week.

I'll have something more normal over the weekend.

Short 17: His Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter marries Kate

2011-04-19T13:17:00.000+10:00

So the royal wedding is coming up soon on Friday 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey

A search of royal wedding comes up with 251 million hits. There is tipped to be 1 billion viewers.

Everyone's so excited! Yay! A royal wedding! It's like a fairytale. Girl meets prince. Falls in Love. Gets married. And the live happily ever after.

No.

Just Get Of My Television Screen.

Get the filthy ads off the TV.

Get rid of the 3 hour rolling coverage. On Every Channel. Seriously I need to find somewhere away from civilisation that Friday night.

I don't even understand how the coverage rolls. Seriously just think of that for a moment.

Poor girl even had to change her name. Kate, to Catherine.

Well, we all know who wears the pants in that relationship.

Imagine that Queen Kate.

I don't even understand why Australia cares. The distance between Melbourne and Westminister Abbey is 16922659 metres.

If you walked one metre a second without stopping it would take you 6 and a half months.

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE STILL CARE. ITS JUST SOME RANDOM CHICK MARRYING SOME GUY NAMED WILLIAM. THERE'S MILLIONS OF WILLIAMS AROUND THE WORLD. YOU DONT NEED TO SPENDS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON IT. '

You know what Williams' official title is? His Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Imagine having to introduce yourself to kate. "O hai, my name is : His Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. but you can call me William" Then Kate would have been like. "O hai, I'm Kate."

William: "Is Kate short for something?"

Kate: "No."

William: "Oh, we're going to have to do something about that."

And an Order of the Garter. Wow, yeah I wouldn't be parading that around.

But don't worry theres plenty of other things for you to parade around.

And now I'm back to engineering.

~TastyJacks~

Jack All 29 - Being Happy

2011-04-13T00:17:00.000+10:00

There's a lovely blog called "I Wrote This For You." If I ever reach that standard of poetry or writing or take photographs as well as the photographer does in that blog I will die an accomplished man.

Many of "I Wrote This For You" posts speaks heavily on all the cliches of life. There's one I want to focus on.

There is a cliche; life's only goal is to be happy. Happy to what extent? If I am happy now, and suddenly get something I want am I happier? Without what I want, was I happy? Maybe I should simply be content with what I have and not be unhappy with what I don't have? Should I envy those who have all that they want and feel sympathy for those who don't have everything?

Is it wrong to dream?

Jack All 29 - Being Happy

That awkward moment when the examiner assumes you want the Chinese version of the hazards test.

My most liked status ever.

Speaking of VIC roads.

Vic Roads totally gets you.

AND HERE'S One... I MEAN TWO PEOPLE WHO PASSED THEIR HAZARD ON THEIR FIRST GO. OH WAIT.

Wayne Rooney

In facebook model search competition

Why beavers and moles are the same thing.

Blonde moment... oh wait she is...

Xavier just gets their lawyer parents to bail them out when sued for plagerism.

Best Airport design ever.

AND KANYE WEST IS GOING TO LET YOU FINISH WITH HIS 9 SECOND VIDEO.

Short 16 - When Our Stars Align

2011-04-05T00:41:00.001+10:00

When our stars align

Will find

The will

To cross

That line

In my mind

To open my eyes

To you

~Tasty Jacks~

Jack All 28 - Charity Fatigue

2011-03-30T11:31:00.000+11:00

Hey Guys! For anyone who blogs and follows others on the blogosphere you will have noticed quite a few blogs, especially Australian blogs commenting on Charity fatigue.

Charity fatigue is not a new term that has gained prominence over the last few year. With the disaster in Japan, the Australian public has been asked once again to dig deep into their pocket to donate to once again another charitable cause.

Already, there has been signs that aid organisation have not been getting what they usually get. After the floods in Queensland and Victoria, A major earthquake in New Zealand, coupled with a period of large consumer spending during Christmas, this is perhaps understandable.

By any stretch of the imagination, the world as a whole, is in a bad way. The media is littered with troubles both at home and abroad. In Melbourne University, a rally was recently held regarding the federal government review of University fees. Victoria is considering another multi-million dollar ticketing service. Aboriginal males in Australia has a life expectancy that is 11.5 years shorter than their non-indigenous counterparts. One in four people world wide lives in absolute poverty.

Everyday, we are asked by both society and by ourselves to consider these facts.

Natural disasters will always happen. Poverty will always exist. Discrimination will always be a factor of life.

And it'd be easy to turn a blind eye to all this. To ignore the person at the door knocking for money. It'd be easy to turn of the TV whenever a new report from Japan comes in.

The world will never be fair. But we must never stop believing it can be.

Short 15 - You and I

2011-03-28T22:23:00.001+11:00

There are some things that never should have been, that was.

There are some things that should have been, that never was.

You and I was neither of those.

You and I always were and always should have been.

~Tasty Jacks~

Jack All 27 - Being an ABC

2011-03-20T22:29:00.001+11:00

Day 64 - Ripples

Hey Guys! Sorry I didn't update last week, I just didn't have much to say and I'd rather post nothing than something terrible.

University is well and truely underway. I had my first 23 hour week, and not going to lie, it was very tiring. My god, we're expected to do so much ourselves now. Like god damn it, if you don't do homework, literally no one cares. I mean teachers don't check whether you've done you're homework. I thought I'd enjoy not having someone constantly hovering over my shoulder to see whether I've done all the homework, but now that I get to choose what homework I want to do, I'm not entirely sure I enjoy this new responsibility.

I mean at Melbourne, we don't get set a lot of homework (well at least I don't.) A lot of the stuff, we're expected to do ourselves and work out what we need to study and revise. I skipped my engineering lecture because its honestly that boring. We're learning how to do concept maps for, fruitloops sakes. I mean 2000 dollars to learn how to do concept maps. Really.

I went out on St. Patricks Day, and had dinner at the local Irish Pub called. Puggs. That's right, its called Puggs. We waiting in line for like 2 hours (when I say we, being Andrew, Mina and I. Joshuah (THATS RIGHT HIS NAME IS SPELT WITH A H) and Alice just jumped in line.) Once inside, I had to leave after like 90 minutes. Still it was ridiculously fun, getting into all the festivities and greeness of the place. And I think that's where we'll start this weeks quotes.

Day 65 - Hose

Jack All 27 - Being an ABC

Me: pointing at blue shirt bro that's not green
Random guy: it is when we're in yellow light.

St. Patricks day. Guinness from a tap, is an acquired taste.

Alice: I don't like the Pope. He looks sinister.

Alice: Church? The only good thing about it is the controversies.

Oh Alice, that was a very fun lunch time. Let's do it again!

Me: Oh, I'm a bit sick of rice, lets see whats in the pantry. *finds noodles*
This will do... ONOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.
Wow these noodles are really good! What are they made of?
Rice.

Man, when you're sick of rice, get rice stick.

Whilst at Sofia's restaurant "Damn this spaghetti is hard to eat with a fork, it keeps falling off."
Get's home with leftovers. Whips out the chopstick. THIS IS MORE LIKE IT.

Try it with chopstick, its a lot easier.

~TastyJacks~

Jack All 26 - We All Race On The Same Track

2011-03-06T22:31:00.001+11:00

"We All Race On The Same Track"

Hey Guys! Running. We all do it at some point in our lives; whether its physically on mentally. Sometimes we run to get away from our past otherwise away from everyone else. We run to chase girls just as we run to chase after a bus. We run away from responsibilities and we run towards our dreams.

We run for all sort of reasons. Sometimes it gets tiring, other times; exhilarating. The same track that so many has tread before, chasing those same dreams; running away from the same fears. A track that none of us ever walks.

Jack All 26 - We All Race On The Same Track

I wonder if XXXXX would be any taller if he was weighed down by his over inflated head.

Oh Burn. Seriously, if that was said to you about you how would you feel. That's just shut down to its maximum.

Anonymous: Talking to friends is pointless

Awkward.

So I have friend who's last name is Hore. And throughout the whole day he misheard all these comments that were well...

Alice: your last name is hore? That explains a lot

Man, Aaron that day was most amusing.

Joshuah Wren: There's a party in my mouth and everyone is invited!

What do you think he was referring to...?

Informatics lecturer: explanation of Baby Boom - The Soldiers got back from several years at war and came back to celebrate with their wives. -.-

Oh University.

~Tasty Jacks~

Jack All 25 - When Push Comes to Shove

2011-02-27T16:56:00.000+11:00

Hey Guys!

University starts for Victoria tomorrow. Finally pushed into something that requires a little effort compared to the last few months that I'll happily say I've squandered playing DotA, watching vidos, taking photos and last but not least going to various parties.

But tomorrow, we all have to be some what responsible again and make an effort to get up and go to sleep on time. Listen into lectures, read a timetable and generally be responsible for ourselves. We're literally gonna be pushing ourselves out of bed and getting ourselves to train on time again. We've done all these before, but there are many things that we won't have done before this year.

And thats what we should be looking forward to. All the things that we're pushed to do.

Jack All 25 - When Push Comes to Shove

So I was swimming a bit these holidays and I was reading the feedback at Ashburton pool. There's a list of feedback of what should be fixed and how they can improve their facility like how the showers don't have hot water, or the ground is too slippery. One of them read exactly like this.

"FIX THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BECUZ I LIEK TO DRINK WATERZ"

I lolled.

Whilst on the train.

Young girl: Why do they put rocks on the tracks? Is it because all the naughty kids threw them on?

Why, yes little girl that's exactly how it happened.

Alright, look below what does that guy look like he's doing? Be serious.

Why do we say kk and not k?

No seriously why do I always type kk. It doesn't even make sense. And then there's people like Thomas who says Kay. Why say Kay when you can say OK?

Me: Are you political?

Aaron Hore: No, I'm Liberal.

IN OTHER NEWS

Well, I'm back.

I know, everyone you can stop crying.

Well I suppose I should explain myself for my absence from the blogosphere.

My last serious blog post regarding wikileaks received OVER 9000! (pun intended) page views. By itself it received as many views as all more posts last year. I worked on it for a quite a while and posted it on a few forums. It was quite hard work. No really, blogging sometimes is hard work.

*stop judging*

As a general rule of thumb, if you have 10000 views a week you can make a bit of money from it. I realise I couldn't post something like the wikileaks post every week because its simply too time-consuming. So, in reality my blog isn't going anywhere, anytime soon.

And that's not the best motivation to keep posting.

But as many of you have pointed out, I should continue blogging none the less, for all those really obvious reasons that flew over my head.

~Tasty Jacks~

Short 13 - I'm Not Dead

2011-02-18T01:49:00.001+11:00

Hey Guys! Contrary to popular belief I am not dead. I just haven't posted a while because well, I wasn't sure what I would post. I've been rather moody lately and I apologise for any rage, angst and general ignoring of anyone out there who I've offended. Thank you for sticking by me.

I don't know where this blog is going, I don't know where I'm going and I sure as hell don't know what I'm doing.

So far this year I've changed quite a bit; certainly deviating from what I imagined myself to be like a year ago. All these new experiences I'm not exactly sure that these experience are "right" for me nor do I expect them to do any serious detriment to my health or character. Yet.

I've met a lot of awesome people this year (a little under two months), got to known a few people I didn't know well and hopefully this will continue.

University starts on Tuesday for me. What's commonly termed as 0 Week, is the beginning of a three year journey. I have all these clubs that I already want to join and we'll see how we go.

Failing in looking for a job. Still have save money saved up from the past few years so hopefully I won't burn through that too fast.

Plans for the future? I think I'll upload on Tuesdays, because I have a giant gap in the morning of my timetable. Um besides that, I don't want to promise too much.

Please bear with me and hopefully I'll sort myself out.

~Tasty Jacks~

Jack All 24 - Wikileaks; Caution advised

2011-02-07T20:21:00.002+11:00

Hey Guys! I was inadvertently caught up in wikileaks protest in the city yesterday on the way to a friends 18th. The protest was obviously about Julian Assange and the "attack" on wikileaks by various governments around the world in particular, America. Australia has a particular vested interest in this issue as Julian Assange is an Australian, who graduated locally at the University of Melbourne.

Wikileaks is without a doubt something new to this world. It has caused great change in the world in international relations and how everyone sees the government. People have been quick to jump on the bandwagon of wikileaks saying it has given the people power and made government more accountable.

Currently various newspapers who releases the cables (The Age in Melbourne) work closely with wikileaks to decide what the public should know. The cables released so far have done everything from toppling a government to personal information of those who worked closely with the coalition forces in Afghanistan.

This is where the Wikileaks is on shaky grounds. Which documents to release. In many cases they get it right, in others they get it wrong. As they continue to release thousands of cables they will inevitably get blood on their hands if they haven't already.

To the uneducated, Wikileaks is the best thing thats happen to society since the invention of the silicon chip. The effects of Wikileaks on society has yet to be ascertained and it would be naive to think that Wikilekas has no flaws. Freedom of information should only go so far; governments have cables hidden from the public for a reason. If you think they're not doing a good job then don't vote for them. Calling for total transparency is not how the system works, nor is it how it should work.

The media attention on Wikileaks has been bias to put it lightly. Jumping on its bandwagon and blindly supporting it, doesn't show you care about society either.

Jack All 23 - Odds

2011-01-24T22:48:00.000+11:00

Day 20 - Piano
Hey Guys! It's that time of the year again when the Australian Open is in full swing and for the few weeks in the year people actually seem to care about the tennis. Every night my parents are there, around the dinner table (eating rice) half heartedly watching the tennis. I could probably name all the players thats left.
Everyone watched Dokic and Tomic play hoping against all odds that they'd win. Two Australian ranked over a 100 spots below their opponents, one who's been through hell and back and the other only have just started his career. We know in all likelihood that they're not going to win.
Yet, we cheer them on at every point, applaud winning shots even though its all futile. The chance of them winning would be similar to me doing Chemistry in University again but that chance is still there. We want to them to win because we want to believe that the odds are made to be beaten.
Then we can beat our own odds.
IN OTHER NEWS
fml, seriously this 365 project is a lot harder then I thought it would be. I've joined a really advance group which has professional photographers in it and my photos just looks
God
Damn
Terrible
in comparison. I've added a flickr gadget to the side bar so you guys can follow my progress if you don't have me (WHICH YOU SHOULD) on facebook. ALSO ZZZ LOOKING FOR A JOB! I cannot find one.
Jack All 23 - OddsSo I was at a party and my friends James and Andrew were there. This is a picture of them.

Andrew on the left and James on the right. OR IS IT?
They attracted comments of "You guys look similar!" and "Are you guys twins."
Um. Hmmm...

An awesome promotion by AMF bowling on facebook. Awkward people prefer to sleep in instead of going bowling. O RlY!?

Latrobe University: It's all good. Seriously if you were a university, couldn't you come up with something other than It's All Good.

Context is always important

And from my good friend Chris Greenwood.

~Tasty Jacks~

Jack All 22 - Whats Important

2011-01-17T01:19:00.000+11:00

Hey Guys! I was at Tullamarine Airport last night picking up my sister who's spent the last month or so in France. So there I was in the arrivals gate just outside customs and waiting like the onther 100 or so people there. We got there pretty early because none of us (being my parents and I) wanted to make my sister wait, so I had plently of time to watch everyone else come out.

And it was very interesting. Some when they saw their loved ones, a huge smile broke out across their faces, some screamed, others cried and others still just gave a simple hug and walked off. There was a girl, holding a single rose for her boyfriend of 2 weeks, a mum waiting for her 25 year old daughter coming back from Germany. Of course when my sister came out it was no different.

Everyone in that arrival lounge had a loved one. It was only when they were departed did we realise how important they are.

Jack All 22 - Whats Important

So when you guys are reading this you probably have had your university offers. Congratulations to everyone who got in and hang in there for second round offers for those who didn't.

Because I'm awesome I found out last night, that I'm doing at Bachelor of Science at Melbourne University next year.

Yeah, because I'm awesome. Nah, but seriously it was because I did extension Maths at Melbourne University. So I had an account and everything. I was in such a rush, I forgot my username.

It's jachen for future reference.

I tried every god damn combination except that. Seriously.

You know whats else is awesome, taking awesome photos. Whats the best way to ensure you take an awesome photo? Take about 500 photos or so, 1 of them will bound to look good.

Best photo ever.

Don't you hate it when you take a photo and you obviously know the smile is all fake. Next time when you take a photo don't tell the person you're taking a photo. Better yet, just don't tell them you're taking a photo even after you've taken it.

I just shat my pants.
Also how much does this guy look like me.

True story; that photo is my head and skull. Apparently my brain was so big they couldn't fit my face on it.

Or was it my face was so big that my brain couldn't fit in it.

Anyway...

My skull is really thick in places. I reckon I was dropped as a child.

yeah...

Also from Alice He: "Man, if you took pictures like that of girls, that would all hate you."
~Tasty Jacks~

Day 14 - People Just Pass

2011-01-15T01:16:00.000+11:00

Thousands of people pass me each day, but I'm only waiting for one.

Jack All 21 - Windows

2011-01-09T23:20:00.000+11:00

Day 7 - Windows

Hey Guys! The above image is from Day-7. This photo was taken from my balcony, looking into my house. The shutters are behind a piece of glass. Some can law of physics me as to why the shot is behind me. (cough nathan cough)

We tend to look outside from our own perspective, we rarely take a moment to take a step back from it all and look at ourselves from other peoples'eyes. It is through the other side of the window that we see ourselves how others see us. Through the lens of admiration, hate, jealousy, contempt; we often just assumed how we see ourselves to be how everyone else see us.

Jack All 21 - Windows

So this guy makes an 18th birthday event. And the picture or the event is himself at like 6.

Best call ever. It was a good joke/call

So I changed my relationship status to being in a realtionship to being single. (It was with mathematical methods) and all these ads came up

ONLY AT INTENCITY CAN YOU FIND... HEEL OF FORTUNE.

Whoever dressed this manikin... well...

And a joke I read on another blog

Guy 1: Did you hear the joke about the bird

Guy 2: No

Guy 1: It flew right over your head

Guy 2: What...?

~Tasty Jacks~

Day 2 - B is for Bowling

2011-01-02T23:34:00.000+11:00

Candid is Always Best
The above photo is Ashley Davies from photoguides.net.
Bowling is not unlike life. There are many things you can control, but there is just as many things as you can't control. When you release the ball all you can do is hope to get a strike, but as soon as it leaves your hands it is out of your control.
Pick your battles, pick when to retreat, pick when to attack.

~Tasty Jacks~

Day 1 - "You forgot your zoom lens"

2011-01-02T00:04:00.000+11:00

Shoutout to Declan Hutchings, Delcan Rowley, Ashley Davies for a New Years Eve to remember. Thank you to Ellen for a New Years Day to remember.

Hey Guys! 2011 is finally here and I must say I had a great time celebrating it in. As many of you know I went into the city and watched the fireworks. I took about 500 or so photos and after going through them there was only 70 or so that were actually worth an upload. After getting ridding of duplicates there were only 50 or so.

Life is like that, we try for 365 memorable days, 365 days of first, 365 days of being happy, 365 days of success, of being loved and of doing what you want. But in reality we only get a few.

Hit and misses, life is full of them.

I have a few new year's resolution. Most aren't relevant to this blog but here are the ones that are.

I'm starting my 365 photos project. The one you see above is my first one. I'll post them here with shorts and on Saturday I'll just put the weeks worth together.
Sunday will be for my Jack All series.
Monday-Friday I will be coming to you with shorts.
As always please comment and like or dislike.
Any ideas for photos would be greatly appreciated.
I'll make videos from time to time, but they are very time consuming

Here are a few more people from 2010 that made the year worthwhile.

Superdave, thanks for all the help you've given me this year. Someone who always has good advice.

Laura, thanks for another year of advice, late night conversations and me failing to understand. Good luck with your exams.

This year this will be my DP.

To the person who gave me this idea for this, thank you for believing in me whilst I didn't believe in myself. Belief sometimes makes all the difference in the world.

2010 - The Ties that Bind

2010-12-31T12:22:00.000+11:00

This year I must say Christmas and the end of the year has snuck up on me and so I haven't been able to draft this blog like I did last year.

Firstly, a huge thank you to all my readers. This year I have asked for and received countless snippets of feedback from you guys and I have tried to tailor my blog accordingly. It's always a pleasure to write a blog but it is all the more better when people come up to me in the school yard telling me they read it or saying what a great post over MSN. Doaabc remains dynamic because of the feedback I receive. Without it, it would still be me yabbering on about something completely irrelevant and not interesting. Thank you.

Jackson Juang Jeng Chen - Golduck

Greatest Achievement - Completing Year 12

Tag - Star Camp, Valedictory, Formal, St. Kevins College Class of 2010, Badminton, VCE

Song(s) of the Year - Just a Dream, Love The Way You Lie

What Will 2011 Bring - Bachelor of Science at Melbourne University, 365 photo project, Adulthood

Where to start this post?

Did I see myself in here this time last year? No. Am I happy about where I am? No. Will I be happy about it? I don't know. These are the people who helped me through the year, created the memories that will last and the people that I will take forth.

The Strawhat Heros

There is no one common factor which holds the Strawhat Heroes except we all attended SKC together. The name is a reference to Luffy and his lucky straw hat in the anime "One Piece."

From the left back row. Andy "Pokemon Master" Luu, Raymond "I Organise Shit"Chiu, Davin "What a Dancer" Nguyen, Jonathan "I Got 50 in Bio"Choi, Jerome "YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I GOT INTO ARTS." Gilbert, Dean "I Went to America" Soste, Keenan "I'm a Leader"Chiu, Jo "I Draw" Ao, David "I Get All the Girls" Nguyen.

We've done a lot over the years and it'd take me too long to write everything down. We have nothing in common except that we go St. Kevins. Seriously think about it name one thing that ties us all together.

There was badminton, winning 2nd badminton without losing a game. There was the formal and everything that led up to it. Running around organizing limos, corsages. Me and Raymond fucking around in Physics and Specialist, Keenan duxing the year level, talking with Jerome and Andy about pokemon in my studies and rocking up to Melbourne Central every Friday.

Of course there's been DotA. I mean one my earliest memories this year was when I was in China and you guys were 2 raxes down (I was obs.) Then Raymond finishes butterfly on phantom lancer and all of a sudden you guys single lane push finish them. There's always Andy's triple kill in sandstorm with ionshell Dark Seer and Keenan's epic morphling carries. Jerome always making impossible looking kills with bat possible and a team dynamic that's probably unique on Bored Aussie.

For a fair few epic moments in school, packing bags, over MSN and editing stuff for your blog. For being a steady friend and always backing me up.

To Dylan and Nathan, thank you. Nathan for epic doubles badminton, 9 million hours helping me in maths and everything else in between.

Dylan Smith, for always being there and not filtering his opinion. For keeping me on the straight and narrow.

Thomas Parasiuk. Thank you for some truely epic moments in DotA, over MSN and teamspeak. For helping me organise awesome bowling and movie nights with a little bit of chess thrown into the mix. Thank you.

Thanks to Chris Greenwood for his raging self, Blair for his bald self and Mikey for his organised self.

Thanks you for an awesome time at schoolies, countless laughter over MSN and a raging time raging about ragers. It's always fun hanging out with you guys.

To Ashley Davies, thank you for all the help you've given me this year regarding photos, editting and video making.

To Emma, thank you for a great night and coming with me to the formal. A leap of faith for both of us.

To Darius Family, thank you for well, just about everything. From the advice you've given me about life, to raging about my lack of quality programs and always willing to catch up.

Awesome events

A dozen bowling and movie nights, Valedictory (that final warcry on the steps of St. Patrick's)

Winning against Caulfield Grammar to finish the season undefeated.

A wonderful formal

And a lovely star camp (Thank you Brittany for making it that much easier on me.)

And that ladies and gentlemen is Good Game, Well Played. I wish everyone all the best for 2011, have a great New Year and I'll see you all for another year of DoaabC

For the last time

~Golduck~

Jack All 20 - Star Camp

2010-12-21T12:40:00.001+11:00

Hey Guys! I've been on Star Camp and because I didn't think bring my camera would be too safe this is the only photo I have. (Ironing is terrible.cause i'm a guy)

Sponsored by Sony, Star Camp is a charity camp hosted at Xavier College with graduate students from 5 independent catholic schools (Genezanno FCJ, Loreto Mandeville Hall, Sacre Cour, Xavier College and of course my school St. Kevins College) volunteering their time to give respite for the carers of physically and mentally handicapped children. These disabilities ranged from Autism to Cerebal Palsy with many children being non-verbal and or wheel-chair bound.

I'll be honest, it wasn't easy. Over the 4 days I became physically wasted. But perhaps most strangely was that I didn't expect was how emotionally challenging it was. The child I was looking after was Autistic, hyperactive and non-verbal.

There are many messages to take away from Star Camp. For everyone who didn't have the chance to attend then this message is perhaps most important.

It's easy to see only the disability in a person. I don't think anyone who volunteered at the camp could come away from that without seeing past their child's disability.

Their disability hinders them to a point where they will not be able to lead normal lives; never hold a job, never go out for dinner and won't be able to go to toilet by themselves.

Jazz liked honey sandwiches, hated sitting still and loved the jumping castle. He loves music, sleeps 7 hours a day and runs more in a day than I do in a month. Yes, you can obviously see that he isn't normal. You can see that he needs help. But in the end he too wants the same things we do.'

Jazz's disability is part of him, but doesn't define him.

Jack All 20 - Star Camp

My VCE results came back and I was very happy. There was one subject I was particularly happy about. I did Chemistry for VCE this year, it was my worst subject by far. I got 31 average being a solid 30. So I beat half the state. I did no work, no practice exams, no worksheets, no homework and read the book every now and again when I could be bothered. My score was too good. I was just a smart arse during class, asking stupid questions and pretending to be a pro at Chemistry.

7 days before exam 1: "Sir, when's our exam?"

2 days before exam 1: "Do we get a cheat sheet?"

Why is diamond and graphite both got "C" as their chemical name.

What's the charge of silver?

Dowling hands out work sheets.
Me: Yay, more scrap paper.

Dowling: Why don't you study Chemistry?
Me: Because I'm doing teaching and only need an 80.

Dowling: How do you expect to get a good score if you don't know how HNMR works?
Me: I only want a 30.
Dowling: ...

Me: Sir, I noticed on our practice exam renewable forms of energy was not on it. Is it going to come up on the exams?
Dowling: There is a small chance you'll be asked it, but I suggest that you cover it
Me: I'M A BETTING MAN. It won't come up on the exam. (didn't come up on the exam)

Half way through Semester 2: So, ah, what the difference between a redox and galvanic cells.

What does OIL RIG stand for?

There was more but I can't think of it right now.

~Golduck~

Jack All 19 - What 4 digit numbers don't matter

2010-12-12T23:28:00.002+11:00

From ABC

Hey Guys! Tomorrow our results come out. One of my first posts last year was titled

"Tomorrow I start the 2 year epic journey, which decides my social standing in the Asian community, which will (according to my parents) decide the course of my life. Tomorrow, I will be attending St. Kevins College, doing the first of 2 years of VCE. This is one Asian stereotype that I do fit in. I wish everyone else taking this journey with me good luck and have fun."

That was the 3rd post of this entire blog and since then very little has changed. Except perhaps I don't care as much as to where I stand in the Asian community. The journey has been long, arduous with the words tedious and finiky coming to mind. But the people I have met along the way has made it all the worthwhile.

When tommorrow comes around, in less than 8 hours some of you will be happy, jumping up and down like a complete lunatic or you will crawl up in a little ball in bed shut yourself away from the world.

It's a 4 digit number accurate to the nearest .05. Nothing more. It may be reflective of the effort you have put in this year, it might not be. It may be reflective of the knowledge you accluminated over 12 years of education and it might not be. It could be your ability to regurgitate information on the day of the exams or it could be your social events that you sacrificed to study.

In the end it doesn't matter except for the fact of whether you get into your course. The 4 digit number only indicates whether you 're in your first, second or third preference. That is the only question I'll be asking and answering tomorrow.

Gl Hf, It's been a Gg and Wp

Jack All 18 - What 4 digit numbers don't matter

The best status update to come up so far!

Hm.... I wonder if I agree.

Speaking of numbers...

o.O

What to say when you need conmiserate a friend about not getting what they needed. "You tried your best, have fun with the rest of your life as a janitor."

Harsh much?

And now for something completely different... or not so?

~Golduck~

Jack All 18 - What Defines Us

2010-12-05T00:06:00.000+11:00

Hey Guys! Does anyone else have those memories which randomly comes back whilst you're relaxing or when you're bored? They're often completely irrelevant to what you are doing and they always come back. Sometime they're happy memories, sometimes they're memories which you just want to go away but when they do come back you remember everything about that memory.

And you look back and you wonder why its such a special memory. To you it didn't seem all that special at the time, just another embarrassing moment for you or another moment with friends. Yet you something about that moment in time made stands out in your mind enough for it to come back.

These are the memories that defines us, the ones that seem just like another moment but last forever. These are the ones which we put no significance to yet for whatever reason it is important enough to stay with you.

Jack All 18 - What Defines Us

So my sister left for France today. We were running a bit late to the airport pretty much because I'm such an Asian driver. Her friend goes

"Drop her off at the international terminal"

Really? International? I thought France meant domestic terminal.

So I had my LAN on Thursday. It was really fun with lots of awesome moments. But the best one has to go to Chris Greenwood with this whilst we were on MSN.

"Do you have internet?"

In the great debate PC vs. Mac.

Some genius coversations

Genius.

And the best ad to grace facebook to date.

~Golduck~

Jack All 17 - It's All Over

2010-11-29T16:05:00.001+11:00

Hey Guys.

This post is dedicated to The St. Kevins' Class of 2010

It's been a while since I've done a real post and in that time I've done quite a bit. I actually drafted this whilst on a Vline train but didn't really finish it. last.

Since I've last posted I turned 18. With that, I haven’t been given any more responsibilities but perhaps more is expected of me and I am more responsible for the actions that I take and more accountable for them. When I was young I couldn’t wait to grow up and be given more chances at freedom. But as I write this I’m probably just as nervous about it all as I’ve ever been.

And yet whether I like it or not I’m pushed towards adulthood ready or not.

Of course I finished my university entrance exams or VCE. I don’t think I did well as I’d hoped at the start of the year. Certainly I did not see myself in this position and the list of preferences is not what I thought it would be and I think this contributed negatively to how I went on my exams.

What else has happen? Ah of course, I graduated from Class of 2010, amusingly, with a clean bill of behaviour, no detentions and no suspensions. I won a few awards, learnt a lot and have grown from away from a 14 year old, afraid of the world.

But perhaps most importantly I’ve made a great group of friends that I will surly miss. At times it has not been perfect year group to be around. It’s been fraught with dramas and littered with highlights. 2010 has disappeared in a blink of an eye.

I tried many times to write a blog post to capture the year, but it was too lengthy.

So I made a video of the last two days. I spent incredibly long on this video and its by far the most well thought out, most technically difficult and longest video I've editted. Making it brought back a world of memories and I hope it puts a smile on your face. It contains footage of the traditional warcry, a selection of the 1100 photos from the last two days and some music editting.

As for me, the period between now and Christmas is pretty packed. I have a LAN this week, work next week and then STAR camp the week after.

Jack All 17 - It's All Over

This is from a form for a video game Look below the gender question... BLOOD TYPE WHAT DO YOU NEED THAT FOR?!?

Does this advertisement look wrong to anyone else?

Thomas Parasiuk is very excited for the LAN

From chess.com, which one would you pick!?

For Dota players only

New Harry Potter movie came out this week. Here's a great facebook update "I don't like how they left out half the book in this harry potter"

Nor do I, nor do I

A lift at schoolies, notice the company

Ashley Davies at schoolies: Where are all the girls? It's like none of the graduated from VCE.

Check out his awesome book its really quite good.

~Golduck~

Charity 2010 - Kristie

2010-11-08T01:01:00.000+11:00

I try and do a charity post once a year.

This year will be kind of different. It’s quite easy to be overwhelmed be the big picture. Everywhere you look there always seems to be someone asking you for money for various (worthy) causes and asking for your time to help fundraise and what not. Often we see only the big picture and see only that; natural disasters become only about how many that die, diseases the number of death they cause. Often (rightly so in many cases) we rank these problems in order of how many people it affects.

But sometimes we have to take a step back and ask ourselves what we are trying to do.

It’s easy to be lost in the numbers and forget about the people behind the number. The stories, the faces, the names that are affected by this problem, we forget the meaning behind charity.

This video is about a lady; a single lady, out of millions who are suffering undeservingly, inhumanely and without much hope.

The youtube community is trying to make this video go viral and help her out. I’m not sure how much help will come out of it but in this post, I just want to show that I care even if, I’m only helping one person today.

Because that’s the meaning of charity, simply caring.

Short: Final Two Days!

2010-10-21T23:33:00.000+11:00

Jack All 16 - Guest Blogger (e.g. Jackson is too lazy to blog himself )

2010-10-15T00:06:00.003+11:00

Photo courtesy of Darius Family Link: What holds water

I'm finding my way right now. Sometimes I trip, fall, get back up. But I know I'll get where I want to one day, and I just want to be happy. - Alice, author of "With a Heart Wide Open"

Jack All 16 - Guest Blogger (e.g. Jackson is too lazy to blog himself )

Oh the irony! I'm never talking to you again,but my heart is wide open!

I found this hilarious for some reason, HOW DO YOU LOAD THE 25th page of a comic that's 24 pages long!?

When minds collide

Space invaders proudly sponsored by the Australian Government!

And Oz's Dream: study and net

Probably some school related quotes next week...

~Golduck~

A Break from Blogging

2010-10-14T15:08:00.000+11:00

I think you guys deserve a quick update.

I’m now just under 2 weeks away from my first exam. And about 6-7 weeks away from completely finishing VCE and going off to schoolies.

I have a lot planned for the coming few weeks but I think I’ll delay it until after exams or when I need a break. Which is pretty much never knowing me.

I have about ten quotes enough for 2-3 weeks. If Alice gives me something to write about than I'll put that up along with it, same as if Darius gives me a photo for the chain.

Otherwise I wish all my readers the best of luck for the upcoming exams especially the Engrish. I'll see you all in late November or early December!

Short 11 - Perfection and a Review

2010-10-07T01:00:00.003+11:00

Photo Chain 5 - Water: Ashley Davies (It's bokeh)

Hey Guys! As we strive towards final exams we are now finally fine-tuning each subject increasingly towards perfecting. The tuning of perfection in itself an oxymoron. we strive for so much , to be amazingly incredible asking for perfect marks or at least as close to perfect as possible.

Perfection is something we all strive for, something which stays in our mentality seemingly unattainable. We strive for perfection and in the hope of getting close we hope to have achieved enough.

Perfection is something we will all fail to achieve, yet perfection is something we should all strive for.

Because in failing, we have achieved enough.

Hopefully it'll be enough for everyone. But particularly ourselves.

Alright, a few changes. You'll notice that my headers is different. Thank You so very much Jo! I thought it was time for a change and there's something about it looking more professional. I've also removed the auto play feature on the music. So if you want to hear music you're going to have to scroll down and hit play.

I've also written a review for their website. You can find the site for the product here. Please, please, please give me feedback on these changes and whether you like my review.

Short 11 - Perfection and a Review

SnapIt is a piece of software developed by Digeus. It allows you to quickly take screenshots of exactly what you see on the screen and then automatically save it. In essence its just a really simple print screen button with an inbuilt crop function.

SnapIt is an extremely small file with (1.17mb) and takes up practically no RAM. As such you can have it running in the background whilst you’re web browsing and you will not notice it at all.

Using it is a breeze, just set your shortcut and then minimize it. Whenever you want to take a picture of your screen just hit that shortcut. Then drag a box around whatever you want to take a picture of. SnapIt crops screen dumps for you.

After you drag the box around whatever you want, it automatically saves it to a folder you previously specify. You can choose between any of the usual format (jpeg, bmp, tiff, gif) e.t.c.

This is where SnapIt shines. You don’t have to hit ctrl v in paint or anything and then save it. Also if you paste it in paint and then save it, by default its a bitmap file which is completely useless for uploading onto the web. Using it SnapIt you don’t have manually change the file type every single time.

If you don’t want to automatically save the screen dump, you can save the screen dump wherever you want. The screendump also replaces whatever you had on your clipboard so beware of that. Obviously you can use this to your own advantage.

I would have been very impressed if you can draw a region instead of it being a rigid rectangle. This isn’t a big set back, but for the price (18 dollars.), I would have liked to see something special to justify the price. You also can’t set a predefined size and take a picture of that size every time.

In essence for 18 dollars you get
• The time you waste pasting print screen into paint
• The time you spend cropping that print screen
• The time you waste selecting file format and deciding where to save it.

What you can't do without SnapIt is take multiple screenshots within a few seconds. Because SnapIt automatically saves files you can take multiple screeshots within a few moments and not worry about saving it to paint or anything.
Whilst it is extremely easy to use, for the current price I wouldn’t buy SnapIt unless the time you spend listed stretches into the hours. Even for a weekly blogger, I couldn't justify spending 18 dollars on it.

For more information click here

~Golduck~

Short 10 - Why We Take The Harder Road

2010-09-30T23:24:00.001+10:00

More than ever now, we start making plans for the future. Why do we keep making these plans? By now we probably all know that even the best laid long term plans have rarely come to fruitition. We put all our heart into the one road map for the future and label it “The ideal map”

Yet, rarely do we travel these roads right to the end. Instead another road presents itself, or the road has a block in the middle of it or even you realise that the ideal road is just too fraught with bumps that you decide that the end isn't worth all that effort.

The best roads in life are sealed and lead somewhere. The best roads in life are even, preferably straight, well lit at night and littered with rest stops. However, often we choose the roads that are filled with bumps, which bends with no knowledge of what really is ahead. Often the nature of these roads means that as soon as we start we can't stop, essentially there's no rest stops.

Why do we choose to continue making these plans? Why do we always choose the harder road?

Plans gives us a sense of direction as to where we're going. It gives us guidance so that we know where we're heading. Whilst often we may never get there, the journey itself is always hard, so in the end we know that we don't wonder what could have been. Perhaps the best reason for taking that road at all.

Jack All 16 - Why We Take The Harder Road

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on the videos. I took them all into consideration. Please continue giving me feedback! Hope you enjoy. Give me a good or bad below!

~Golduck~

Jack All 15 - I Do Things INXS

2010-09-27T15:47:00.000+10:00

Image courtesy of smh.com.au

Hey guys! I've noticed I do everything INXS (in excess). I read a 100,000 word book in less than 24 hours. I can study for an entire day stopping only for meals and sustenance, and then spend the next two days off because I can't be bothered doing anything else. If I get into a game of Age of Empires or DotA or Soldat, I can sit in front of the computer for hours on end. You give me one those so called "family sized" block of white Kit-Kat and I'll devour it, in its entirety within the half-hour. When getting food from MC I'll be like "large double quarter pounder meal with a large thick shake, and then a mcflurry to wash it all down." I don't think I consume anything in "moderation" All this when I feel like it.

We are all subject to our whims and desires. We all have random urges on any given moment of the day and night. -.- Hopefully I'll be at Melbourne University next year doing a bachelor of science, majoring in civil systems - mastering in Civil Engineering.

Jack All 15 - I Do Things INXS

State library, lady sits on stairs staring out into the road. Declan gets curious, walks over and asks what she's doing Conversation starts flowing...
Alex: “She’s using hand signs, that’s a good sign!”

Quite an amusing situation. She was an artist looking for ideas?

Whilst discussing preferences last night for university. I commented that I wanted to go to Melbourne university so I could take breadth subjects like AFRICAN DRUM AND DANCE

Raymond said:
They won’t accept you…
Me: why not?
And he said: CAUSE YOU’RE NOT BLACK!

I lolled.

AFL Grand Final ended with the scores being locked at 68-68
Tim Hughes: The only way this could be better is if both team were at 69.

Typical.

He also said this

Everyone, stop worrying. You are SUPPOSED to fail practice exams. That's why they're PRACTICE exams! You fail, which motivates you to ACTUALLY STUDY for the real ones!

Good luck Guys! But as Tim puts it, you don't need to study.

Melbourne University offers a range of breadth subject, one of them called Academic English 1. Reading the description I was like yeah this sounds like its for me. "This subject develops the academic English language required for university study. Its primary focus is on developing students" academic writing ability in English. The subject also aims to develop essay and report writing, effective reading strategies and analysis of texts, critical thinking, group discussions and examination techniques. "

I was like this is totally for me. Then.

This subject is designed for non-native speakers of English. Native or near-native speakers of English are not eligible to enrol.

lol.

This is me trying to do a Vlog. Clearly it's not the great but I think I'll give it another go down the line somewhere.

~Golduck~

Jack All 14 - A Dark Humanity

2010-09-20T01:10:00.002+10:00

Photo Chain: Link Water

STUDY SESSION STATE LIBRARY.

23/09 9 AM till close/whenever

Hey Guys! This coming Thursday particularly those in Ms. Seymour's English class. Everyone is welcome! State Library. I'll be doing an essay int he morning and maths in the afternoon or some shit. We could do that practice exam that she gave us.

Many of you would have watched Batman "A Dark Knight" last night. A Dark Knight is a great action movie with state of the art special effects as well as amazingly choreographed action fights. However "A Dark Knight" is not a great movie because of its action scenes but rather the many themes that it explores. I'm going to touch on one, that of humanity. Throughout the film, Batman believes in the people of Gotham. He refuses to believe in the anarchist in each person. He believes like Gordon that when law and order breaks down humanity still resides in each and every one of us.

Humanity present itself in its darkest light when there is no law and order. Without law and order we're become stripped of the things that we pretend to be. Anarchistic suggest that it is human nature all our values disappears when we're faced with situations like Gotham City. I prefer to suggest the the human nature means that we can keep the beast chained up even if we're not accountable.

If you like Liero or worms or quake play this game called Soldat. (Actual Download link is in the description) It's bloody awesome. Great time procrastinator destroying thing the community is very good. There's also a lot of Australian servers so no lag.

Also Music! I have music on my blog now! So if anyone has any good suggestions for background music please tell me. If its not screamo then I'll probably feature it!

Jack All 14 - A Dark Humanity
I have a series of facebook fails that I was going to compile together, but apparently I have too many so here's a few

Me: I wouldn't expect someone who does ESL to understand that.
Tom Ruddell: (Whips out his highlighter) Don't make me highlight you!
No we wouldn't want that now would we?

The Class of 2010 at St. Kevins decided to get varsity jackets this year. We weren't terribly happy when we didn't get them on time. What do all "future leaders of tomorrow's do when we're not happy?" Start a petition? No! Go to the head master? No! Write to a local MP. No! Why, make a facebook update.

Bit far? Just a bit.

Me: (Getting my Varsity Jacket)

House Head: Do you know who 'Golduck' might be?

Me: Um... me.

House Head: Oh.

*awks*

Another facebook fail. What is 1,000,000. "That's a lot of 0's to remember." :P

Um. Should I be amused or worried?

Xavier; the stereotypes continue.

~Golduck~

I Don't Have Dementia.

2010-09-14T00:31:00.027+10:00

Melbourne in Spring Time!

Image found here

Blogging is never suppose to be hard. The hard posts however define the blog, the blogger and its content.

So here we go. This post probably goes against everything I've tried to blog about, to get rid of all the seriousness of life. One relapse.

We continue to inch closer to the dreaded day of when exams begin, when they finish when we get our results back.

Then there's the day when we find out whether we get into the courses we want.

But first we must pick courses, courses we want to be in.

For most, its simple, the job they've had their mind out since they were young or since they started high school or simply VCE.

For others it is harder, harder to choose what they want. For us we don't know what we want.

Is our purpose in life to succeed? To be successful means to earn lots of money? Or it to be happy. Or to make others happy, to make our children happy, the ones we care for, happy?

Or is it simply the legacy that we leave behind?

Chances are always dangled in front of you. Only the naive take every possible risk.

Spring is suppose to bring renewal, life and energy. I remember when I was in primary school, when spring rain brought that smell which felt so good in your lungs. When the sun started to shine again meant an end to soggy ovals and wet bags. We didn't have any responsibilities then.

This year, like everything else, Spring seems so very different.

The Secret Life of Asians - GG and Its Many Meanings.

GG DOES NOT MEAN GOSSIP GIRL. IT DOES NOT REFER TO SOME (bad) TV SHOW. GTFO MY BLOG IF YOU THINK THAT.

GG =/= Gossip Girl

I've been asked countless times what the words GG means. To the uneducated GG is just the 7th letter of the alphabet repeated twice in quick succession. (You have no idea how many times I had to count on my fingers there.)

To the educated gamer, the techo savy kid or your average Asian GG, is an acronym for the words Good Game. How it is used however is far more important. The subtleties behind each context is take many year to master (young grasshopper.)

2.0 This is probably the original form of GG. After a fair and close game GG would be uttered by both teams to demonstrate sportsmanship.

GG (Good game) Game finishes score is 50-47. Red Team GG Blue Team GG
If you're Asian it'd probably be "GG LAH."

2.1 So gg is used to represent exclamation in this case.

Me: How'd you go on your exam?
Person 1: 88/90
Me: GG! Well done!
(Person 1: Gossip Girl? *scratches head*)

That's a GG nice car

2.2 Bl stands for bad luck. Here gg was used to express remorse and pity. Notice the lower case use of gg.

Me: How'd you go on your exam?
Person 2: 30/90
Me: gg man, bl bl.
(Person 2: Beautiful Lady?!? ARE YOU CALLING ME A LADY?")

2.3 Here GG stands awesome, strong, good e.t.c.

Person 3: That movie was GG! or Man, those soldiers are GG

2.4 Here GG is used to represent a very or to place emphasis on the adjective.

Person 4: Man that movie was GG bad!

2.5 Again, Asians fail at grammar. So we just add -er to everything and think it makes a new word. A gg-er does not have to be positive. When someone says "What a gg-er" that (usually) means he's arrogant or annoying.

Gg is called after every good game.

Person 5: That guy is such a gg-er

2.6 Here GG is used to express shock or dismay. Again context is important.

Person 6: Man we have to do 5 hours of homework tonight.
Person 7: GG! WTF?

2.8 Gee gee is used far less. Gee gee rhymes with bee bee. Used to convey dismay, exaperation.

Person 8: Teacher: You have a test next week. The week after you have practice exam
Me: Gee gee.

2.9 Used to convey laughter or palm face.

Tom Ruddell: Don't make me highlight you!
Me: GG LOL!

Palm Face!

Something for the Jack All Series on the weekend!

~Golduck~

Music

2010-09-05T23:39:00.006+10:00

River flows in you

Wedding Dress - Taeyang and River Flows in You - Yiruma

Short 9 - Asians and sleep

2010-09-03T00:33:00.008+10:00

Hey guys! I haven't updated for a while so here goes.

I swear to god I have all these great ideas for my blog but when I finally clear my homework I have nothing to write. I'm really scraping the bottom when it comes to ideas now. If you have an idea give me a yell and I might just give a try :D.

So I've watched a lot of videos tonight. Found a few quotes which I really liked. From Jet Li's Epic movie Fearless

"Mastering others will make you stronger, but mastering yourself will make you fearless."

From Mulan II

"My duty is to my heart"

Both are admirable sentiments. Yeah... just wanted to share....

I might just rant, I haven't done that for a while. Year 12 <50 days. Yay! Get pumped. My aim is to do 1 engrish essay a day and 1-2 Specialist exam a day. Should be fun! Tension is running high and new friendships are formed :D. Hang in there guys!

I've been getting night terrors. Yes I sound like a 5 year old, but its not very fun. Just waking up in the middle of the night, bolt straight up and you're sweating all over. Sore throat lack of sleep and what not.

SAC day today! Was OK... did myself justice on the Engrish SAC. Specialist .... clueless.

Well, I think the person who reads this will know who this blog is for. Sorry I haven't been on much and can't talk to you :(. Come online soon!

The Secret Life of Asians - Sleep

Only Asians are allowed to make fun of other Asians.

Asians some pretty ridiculous habits. One of them is sleeping patterns and habits. Most of my ABC friends at school and through family enjoy sitting in front of our laptop or computer or with a book or their phone into the weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hours of the morning. God forbid, some of us even do Maths. *GASP*

I really don't know why we do this. For me its like a general cannot be bothered going to sleep. My (personal) theory is that we fall asleep faster if we're more tired. So why not just wait a few hours so we're really tired and then go to sleep. It always seems like a pro Asian idea at the time but then we get up then next morning... Look up youtube videos, watch some anime, play some chess or pokemon e.t.c

Others do it for the social contact. People always are a lot more open at 12 midnight. It's like the lack of sleep makes us let our guard down. You can get so much more out of a person when they're tired. It's like...

interrogator: "Who do you like"
Me: "what"

Now if its like 9PM it'd be an instant reflex "NOBODY!"

But if its midnight it'd be like

interrogator: like who would want to spend your final hours with
me: Um... I don't know ... no one really
interrogator: you would want to spend your final hours with no one?
me: well no...
interrogator: Well who then.... you can trust me!
me: well... i guess... you...

DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US ASIAN AND LETTING OUR GUARD DOWN. ITS AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE.

=.= I'M WATCHING YOU!

There's always the gamers. It's a lot less common in year 12 now, but it literally use to be.

"Hey, Jackson come play DotA with us."
"Nah, parents still awake, you guys go ahead, I'll finish up some work."

And then you're in a game coming to a crucial moment, everyone is typing frantically. And then.

xxxxx has left the game.

INSTANTLY the messages would pop up.

"His parents woke up." (needs to go to toilet or something
"Pwned."
"Don't expect to him to play with us in the next few months."

Then there are those who study in the middle of the night. Think about it. Everyone's asleep. No one (except your Asian friends) are awake nor are they on MSN. You are quite literally in a distraction free zone. Awesome? Yeah I think so!

So, R, thats why we don't sleep until the wee hours of the morning. To everyone else get your 8 hours of zzz and don't follow us Asians.

~Golduck~

Jack All 13 - Politically Obvious

2010-08-28T17:55:00.000+10:00

Hey guys! My mind's gone into partial meltdown this past week and I imagine the state of it will keep declining for the next week or so.

I spend a lot of time thinking up topics to write about. On numerous occasions I’ve been given the choice of sitting in front of my computer for another 10-20 minutes doing other things hoping an idea pops up or taking the piss out of someone or something.

Writing a blog is like writing out a message and then pinning it on the notice board at school. Just like you shouldn’t put all your problems you have about life or how much you hate someone, or how they’ve been going behind your back on a public notice board, you shouldn’t put it on a blog. To be frank, I don’t think anyone cares how much your life sucks. I thought that was pretty obvious but apparently not. Since a lot of other people seems to be doing it do you guys think that I should make my blogs a little less neutral and a bit more politcal? What do you think? Comment , rate and follow below!

Shoutout to Libba for that awesome photo last week, Sorry I forgot to acknowledge you.

A shout out to Declan Rowley and Jacob for an awesome effort in the Amazing Simunye race on Sunday. I have a great ball of fun and I’ll definitely be doing it next year. Even just the chance to yield Andrew, was worth the run around the city.

Jack All 13 - Politically Obvious

Australia had the federal election last Saturday. The two main candidates were Tony Abbot of the Liberal Party and Julia Gillard of the Labor party. Here's an image I found from facebook.

Tony Abbot

The Caption? "It was this big."

The lead up to the election night had all the channels advocating that they would have the best coverage on the night. SBS had the following on one of their ads.

"On Election Night, SBS will be offereing a unique AUSTRALIAN perspective on the Australian Federal Election."

Damn it, I was so looking forward to a unique American perspective on the election. Why SBS WHY!?

We got a new television. It's pretty cool and we could see the Election in awesome clarity. Here's the TV remote.

Caution: Replace with Fresh Batteries of the same kind, observing polarity.

Whoever designed this remote was a genius. I mean, really if you understood the word "polarity" there is no way you would "observe it" when you change the batteries.

This appeared in the Age 28/08/10. It's an advertisement for Officeworks which sells stationary.

Money not included.

Imagine that, the money is not included! Would you still buy

Ms. Seymour: If you don't study you don't get good marks.

SAC day Thursday boys! Get pumped!

Comment, Rate,Follow!

~Golduck~

Photo Chain 3 - The Future.

2010-08-26T20:13:00.001+10:00

One of My Stock photos. Link: (Silhouette) St. Kilda Beach, Victoria

Hey Guys! Why do we look to the past? Why is it so hard to look towards the future? Are we really so protected by our past that we feel safe by dwelling on it? The past makes us comfortable; in it we see who we are, the reasons for our being and who we are. The future shows us the unknown, what we can become and what we have yet to achieved.

We are daunted by the future as we are daunted by the things which we can't control. We are unsure of what we can become; whether we'll be happy or sad, selfish or selfless, brilliant or a failure. We don't even know whether we'll respect our future selves.

Ash and Darius: 1 week of Stock/ chain photo, 1 week of chain photo only. So take a photo this week. Everyone has to take a photo this week!

~Golduck~

Class of 2010 Part 2 The Final Push

2010-08-23T20:50:00.000+10:00

The end is nigh,the tunnel is about to finish and the final few months at Saint Kevins College approaches. This year has been hectic. It has been strenuous and it has been hard work. But with hard work comes its rewards and so to the Class of 2010.

Let the "End of the Beginning Begin." (Or end)

The culture at St. Kevins is really awesome. One of the hall marks of our class apparently is the relationship we have with teachers.

Mr. O: Bob what are you looking at through those binoculars?
Bob: Girls
Mr. O: Give me those, get back to work!
Bob meekly hands it over. Mr. O puts the binoculars to his eyes and starts looking at the girls.

One of the long time serving teachers at St. Kevins. Since retired.

In Math classes we find all kinds of things funny.

Now if you integrate you have a arbitary vector. Let's call it a i and b j.

Don't get it? See image below We find stuff like this hilarious . Being boys and all.

It's not only our relationship with teachers its also relationship with each other.

Me: Take a picture of it, it'll be funny.

Davin: Take a picture of your face, it'll be funny.

Destroyed.

Maths at St. Kevins will always be behind English.

And then there's your jocular male attitude to school life and each other.

I believe he lost a bet...

Casual Clothes Day: Could all the year 12 boys make their way to the theatre and not forget their coats.

St. Kevins College is a very Catholic school. Here's what we do in R.E classes.

Religion is hard work.

And then at the other end of the spectrum we have the Physics boys. Apparently the Class of 2010 had the best mid year results.

"Explain the operation of a commutator"

Dr Davies: I'm sure if we renamed all the questions to become riddles we would get more work done.

Every school has their really popular students. Here at St. Kevins College we have Justin Wong!

Justin Wong!

I NEED FUNNY PHOTOS, VIDEOS, SUGGESTIONS OF ANYTHING ST. KEVINS COLLEGE RELATED. THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE TO BE FUNNY JUST REPRESENT THE SCHOOL SPIRIT. YOU GUYS KNOW WHERE/HOW TO FIND ME

~Golduck~

Photo Chain 2 - Being Good

2010-08-19T22:41:00.002+10:00

This is a special, never before seen photo from a long time ago. In Cambodia infact. I kinda copped out on this one as I didnt take it for the chain, but I havent had time. Otherwise I would have loved to do some water related photography.

Chain: mountain By Darius Family

I'm pretty sure Darius was on the World Challenge expedition when he took this photo. Every school offers a charity trip to somewhere and lots of people go on it. They fund raise tirelessly, they put all their emotions into one trip and then they fly home. In the grand scheme of things they have done probably nothing. In a few years the difference they've in, all likely hood, probably has been wiped out by the school throwing their lunches which they don't eat out. Probably.

Another friend asked me a good question today. Are the Jedi more limited in their abilities by following compassion compared to the Sith who can be evil? Are those who do good in society limited by the rules they choose to follow? Yes, we are. Everytime we choose to give up time and do the right thing by others we are restricting ourselves. In the end it makes very little if any difference.

But we are forced to persevere. We've all heard "evil flourishes when good men do nothing." We choose to do what is right because hopefully whilst it seems futile at the time hopefully one day it'll come together.

COMMENTS, SUBSCRIBE AND PRESS GOOD OR BAD!

~Golduck~

Short 8 - Memories

2010-08-16T20:25:00.000+10:00

M is for memories

Memories that glow

Glow like the morning sun

A Sun which shines bright

For all your smiles

M is for memories

Memories that wane

Wane like the evening moon

A moon that fades softly

For all your frowns

~Golduck~

Jack All 12 - Religion

2010-08-15T14:02:00.001+10:00

Hey guys! I apologize for not updating this during the week but I've been pretty sick.

A few people now has asked me whether I believe in God. Why is it that, I know the Lord's Prayer, but don't take communion. Or why I make the sign of the Cross before I take a short corner, yet I wouldn't be able to recite the Hail Mary. Or indeed why I take a blessing, but seem so very disinterested during masses and the Eucharist.

Even as I write this my mum is at Catholic church listening to Mass. I'm not going to be saying she's celebrating Mass but she is at a church. I've read much of the Bible and I agree with a lot of it. Christianity preaches a lot of great messages and provides a lot good guidance to a lot of people. I'm sure their lives are enriched by it.

But in the end I am too cynical, too pessimistic and there is a general not enough faith in humanity to believe that God could be a positive influence in my life. ~~I don't think the Catholic church would want someone like me in it.~~

Jack All 12 - Religion

Blair: I cant understand your think asian accent (Whilst on MSN)

Probably one of the better calls I've ever heard on MSN. That conversation then (d)evolved into a huge Liberal versus Labor debate, which I really could not be bothered weighing into.

hmm on the bus ride, do you have to sit next to a girl? (Winston before CLC camp)

Not too unlike me a year ago.

Andrew Kieltyka: James sit the methods exam for me
JamesKieltyka (did methods last year): No
A.K: I'll pay you 1000$
J.K: No
A.K: Why not
J.K: Becacuse I might beat my own score.

Twins. Highly Strung.

Declan: Miss are you taking this class
Substitute teacher: Yes.
Declan: YES! I DON'T HAVE TO HAND IN MY PHYSICS CHECKPOINTS!
Me: Dr Davies sends out Physics Checkpoints. Declan uses substitute. Physics Checkpoint uses "Due Friday." Declan's substitute takes damages for Declan.

I found this halarious. Pokemon Pun!

(Cheese TV reunion page) Dom: "We at least deserve one episode due to the bloody Twin Towers.... i guarantee you there were more people crying in australia bcoz of cheez tv not being on than people crying over the twin towers"

Support reuniting the Cheese TV gang!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=117847321595698

Check out http://alexanderventuri.deviantart.com/ for similar photos

~Golduck~

Short 7 - Photo Chains and talents

2010-08-09T22:52:00.002+10:00

This photo reflects the surreality of the Doubtful Sounds. It was a cold day and a perfect reflection had formed. Ahead of the boat were two mountains which seemingly separated as we came closer, revealing a hidden waterway.

So me and a few friends are about to start a photo chain. A photo chain is a series of photo where the photos have to contain a single element from the previous one. Accompanying each photo will be a PhotoGuides! No stranger to my readers.

This ties in nicely with my short about talents. I know a lot of you think I'm wtf at maths. I'm not. Not even close. The only reason, ONLY reason I get 50% of my answers correct is cause I study heaps in maths. I use to be the biggest dero in maths when I was like 4. I actually couldn't count on my fingers. No jokes. Being wtfs at maths is not a talent. It's something which I've had to work really quite hard to be half decent at.

What is a talent is taking pictures like the one above. The two photochaining guys I will be working with are really good at what they do. I doubt either of them has had any formal training. Thats talent, when you have a feel for something thats more than what us ordinary mortals have. We have to work on it day in and day out.

I think the only talent I have is pretty useless. Probably me being empathetic to charity and what not. I mean really why else would I be doing it? And if I have talent, then surely I'm required to use it. AND THEN WE'RE BACK TO THE ENGINEERING VS. TEACHING DEBATE. YAY!

Generally awesome week. Heard some great news. Apparently this blog did something good.

Comments and subscribe. What are your talents?

Jack All 11 - Love is Fickle

2010-08-06T10:53:00.003+10:00

Love is fickle

One day love comes

The next it leaves

One day love smiles
The next it frowns.

It makes tears and smiles

You can't control it

It consumes

Filling you with joy

Then it throws you

Needlessly aside

Creating a vast void

But eventually it doesn’t leave you

Then it stays with you forever

Hey guys! The year 7/8 had a 55 word competition. I would so win if I entered that. =.=

Engineering courses are predicted to all go up. I mean commerce/engineering at Monash is already 95.3. If it goes up by say 2.5, a 98 looks fairly QQ borderline. Sigh.

I probably could have gone out twice this week and I dropped both of them. Such are the sacrifices of VCE.

I think last weeks blog made the required impact. I think I lot of you will be happy that I'm back to regular now.

Selling Cans for a dollar. I have Coke, sunkist, and Solo Lemon Lime. All proceeds go to the Winter sleepout and the Melbourne City Mission. Donations can be made by credit here.

Giving Feedback. Guys, I love feedback. You don't have to register to comment. You can just comment and use the anonymous option then write your name as part of your comment. COMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMENT

Jack All 11 - Love is Fickle

Chris - i dunno what it is, but I don't want to do it

An interesting philosophy.

Alice - I have little respect for Skevs

Me: That's cause your brother goes to Scotch

Alice - I have more respect for Scotch than my brother.

Welcome back Alice! Everyone go read her blog. NOW! http://diary-09.blogspot.com/

Alice: Why am I the dumber sibling?

Me: Older siblings are always Dumber

Alice's younger brother: It's cos the parents have time to improve on their upbringing scheme after the failed experiment.

Me: Oh Ouch.

Alice:‎...good to know I'm a failed experiment. does wonders to my self-esteem. :(

Me: Jonathan's next

Alice: hey! you're a failed experiment too. why do you seem so content?

Me:cause I get to compare myself to you.

Alice: no way man. I've been degraded. D:

Des. Troy. Ed.

Jacob: The seconds hockey team had a DECEPTIVELY negative looking win loss ratio with 8 losses and 1 draw.

Thirds Hockey turned out to be the more successful senior team.

Sallyanieee: Hi, um yeah, I don't really have anything to say, so I don't know why I started talking so I'm going to stop now. *cue music*

Go visit her blog as well! http://sallyannieee.blogspot.com/

~Golduck~

Short 6 - Being crazy

2010-08-05T23:11:00.001+10:00

Hey guys! This is my fourth year blogging. Much like my own life, I have to admit I try and plan out all my blogs before hand, even if its just in my head.

I WANT TO TAKE A ROAD TRIP AROUND AUSTRALIA ESPECIALLY WEST AND NORTH. ANYONE WANT TO COME WITH ME. BETWEEN DECEMBER AND MARCH. I WILL TAKE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO COME (year 12). Email/facebook/w/e me if you have an intreast.

And my life is similar. I really don't have the courage or general sense of retardedness to sieze the moment and not worry about the consequences. It's probably one of my greatest flaws. For some reason resonsibility always comes first. I think I'll tell the story of one of few times I decided to be spontaneous.

It was a Thursday afternoon. Coming close to mid years we were beginning to panic and start having those ridiculous twilight lectures. We also had debating that night. It was secret topic and we had to be back by 6. The lecture was scheduled to be finished at 5 and so 1 hour to get into the city and get back. We should be right.

But then it dragged on and on and on and on and on... and on

and on

and on

So we weren't on the train until like quater past 5.

We could still make it. I said, "yeah we can make it as long as the train doesn't get cancelled."

the whole time we were on the train we debated about whether we should go to MC (Melbourne central, apparently only Asians use that short hand) or Flinder Street Station. (Amusingly we don't shorten it FS)

We went to flinder street and we were out of the gates and running through the crowds trying to get to the bumpers. Validate our myki and then waited for the traffic lights. Turns green. Go!

In our candy coat uniform we cut a swath through the incoming crowd. Literally it was a swath. It was awesome. Get to maccas and waste some time deciding what to eat. Get to the counter and order really fast. Even the serving lady could see that we were in a rush. It was like

"iwantalargebigmacmealwithnoiceinthedrinkandhewantsalargemcchickenmealkthxbai."

I also got a nice green merobillia green promotion glass. That was free! Obviously I couldn't leave it behind because that would be not very Asian of me.

So we run back to the station. That's not as easy as it sounds. Running with a paper bag in one hand and a drink in the other. Its more like a really fast walk because you really can't swing your arm back and forth. run back to flinder street. I think we had 30 minutes left by the time we get on the train. We just charged on to get a seat.

Onomnomnomnom those big macs. Big Mistake. Investigate nutrional value.

We get off at Richmond and hear the fateful announcement. "The Glen Waverley train has been delayed. We don't know when it will arive."

o.O

Start debating (oh the irony) our choices. Alamein arrives.

"We could run to heyington."

"What from here?"

"From Burnley."

We stare at each other for a moment. Then we both turn simultaneously for the Alamein train. I get flatten like a sardine but we till manage to get on.

"You should probably finish that Big Mac and then throw it out."

Attempts the GTFO train and throw stuff in the bin.

Get off train.
Throw stuff in bin.
Try to get back on.
Cannot be opened.
I QQ.

Chris runs to the door that is open and block it from closing using his bare fingers.

Get back on.

So in the end we ran the distance from Burnley to Heyington. In sweaty uniform, having just finished a large serving of Mc Donalds. 2.1km.

We get to heyington and bang. The Glenwaverley Train arrives before us.

WE COULD HAVE CAUGHT THE TRAIN BACK AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO RUN!

Win debate.

~Golduck~

Short 5 - Tying a Few Loose Ends.

2010-08-04T19:30:00.000+10:00

Hey Guys! There's a few posts that I never got around to resolving and few incidents that I should have spoken about. So here's a quick list.

Do not make me choose between friends. If you make me choose between you and another friend, I don't care how close you are to me, I will not choose you. Friends don't make others choose.
Teaching vs. Engineering debate has to take a back burner. I've made up my mind. I'm now looking at a solid 98.00. This number is not easy but certainly achievable. Means I have to knuckle down hard. Get that and medicine isn't out of the question.
Specialist study Monday Tuesday and Thursday. I'm going to be starting practice exams from next week in the library. Come if you want to work with me. Don't if you're your going to fuck around like I usually do. =.=
No comment on house captain. I'm pretty sure I'm being watched now.
Few people have asked whether I will be monetizing my blog. Answer is no.

That's about it. I'm not even going to advertise this one because really not much point.

Short 4 - Being a hero

2010-08-02T00:12:00.007+10:00

Hey guys! Midyear results came out today. I didn't open mine because that's just how I roll. Pretty sure I failed everything, so (Y) there.

So I played hockey for the last time for my school. On the hockey field (and the sporting field for that matter) there's quite a few chances to be a hero. There's a thing in hockey called the short/penalty corner. It's a bit like a corner kick in soccer but in professional standard its a lot easier to convert. Well I'm always first runner, the guy who puts his body on the line against the opponents first hit on goal. Basically my job is to run out, (screaming) throw your stick down to either deflect the ball out or block it completely and clear it out.

I also try and pray as I'm running. Thinking about anything besides the extrodinary unsafe act you're about to do is extremely helpful.

That's the plan anyway. Whether you get hurt or not really depends on how lucky you are and whether youre concentrating. If you let them get that hit off unhindered, your team is pretty certain to be a goal down. (and angry at you.) :@

I let one get through in my final game. Good thing I nailed (lol nailed) all my short corners so team wasn't mad at me.

That much.

It's funny, you always dream of being a hero. But really, being a hero comes down to how well you've prepared yourself to be a hero. How well you play when you are ordinary.

It's the same with these mid year results. What's coming is coming. You really can't be much of a hero now and so I didn't open mine. Having said that good luck to everyone! I hope you got the result you wanted and if you didn't keep your head up.

I also got to lead my first and only war cry. Wow was that an experience. Didn't really know the words, but if nothing else Thirds hockey have a real sense of team and backing each other up. Making noise appears the only real purpose in the warcry, that and piss off the other team

ITs an awesome feeling being part of a group. Perhaps its part of the human condition to be part of something bigger. Even if it is the lowest senior hockey team in the school.

I'm Here To Show My Support for My House Captain.

2010-07-30T09:52:00.012+10:00

Hey guys! I never in intended this blog to become political, especially not about school yard drama. But I feel I have to write something.

There was an incident on Thursday night at debating. I was in the thick of it. Unless you are socially out of the loop at St. Kevins or Sacre Couer, you will know about it.

I'm not even going to go into how he's such a good bloke and what not. Because really I don't need to. Even if I was completely unbiased to both parties reputation I would be supporting Mason.

I've heard a lot of lots version of the story so here's what actually happens. Skip italics if YOU are certain you know the entire and whole story. (e.g. first hand)

G= Mason's ex

Qz = Declan

SKC 5 was up against SAC 1. We were preparing happily away when about 40 mins before the debate we were informed that G was on the other team. We continued to prepare. About 15 minutes before the start Mason walks in and helps us prepare. It was at this point that I offered Mason my position as chair of the debate. Yes I did realize that G was Mason's Ex.

As soon as our first speaker got up to speak it became clear that the final debate would be a joke of a debate. We didn't take it too seriously and had come up with semi-serious arguments like 5 year olds should be sent to juvie.

When Qz got up to speak, Mason introduced him saying. "Well the next speaker is pretty bad so we'll just skip to the next speaker" to which Qz replied "He's just angry because I refused his offer of butt sex."

It is worth noting here that most people in the room laughed from the adjudicator to G.

Debate continues on with little incident until Mason is introducing G (his Ex.) This is what he said. Word for word.

"The following speaker is bad at Madden, pretty good at guitar hero and alright at some other things, I should know."

Adjudicator asks if she wants to make an official complaint at the end of the debate, She says no. Aujudicator hands the debate to SKC. LOL JOKES! Sac won by 12 points. (he actually send he handed the debate to St. Kevins and then went LOL JOKES)

We all leave. I didn't see much what happen afterwards. Next day news hits us that G told her school that Declan has inferred that she had rejected Jack's offer of butt sex.

I was there on Thursday night when all this happen. I was also there 3-4 weeks before. If you think that Mason is the only evil character in this story then you are wrong. Mason has coped a lot of flak from false rumors and malicious slander that night and over the month. He has however never tried to return this slander in kind and as far as I'm concerned couldn’t have acted any better.

Mason has more integrity than most boys at St. Kevins I know. Most boys at St. Kevins would have reacted and (rightly so) had they been questioned as he has. But Mason taken it on the chin and ignored her for several months. He could have reported her and then some.

But he didn't.

And now we're in the situation where from one little jibe, made in a humorous context, (we lost by 12 points for god sakes.) has been reported to the school. Again I am not condoning what Jack said, but this dobbing into relevant authorities and blowing it completely out of proportion and is little more than an attempt to get revenge at Jack.

I'm not going to comment about the actions the leadership group at school has taken in stripping him of all his leadership position. All I'm asking my readers to do, particularly those who are part of the student body at St. Kevins is to consider the facts and then judge. I feel that he has been unjustly victimized by the other party.

As always comments, inputs, questions and discussion is welcome.

Yeah general ceebs with blogging the usual this week. Sorry. Made this awesome video though.

Short 3 - Songs Which Brings You Back

2010-07-28T19:30:00.006+10:00

It was the spring of 2004. I was in year 6 and in my final year of primary school I've spoken a lot about my days in primary school especially the extraordinary group of friends. I think by the time I heard this song I had already known that I would be going to a private school and that I would be separated from my friends for all of high school. Being a guy, I never told them I was sad for leaving, but like everything else I did I took it with bravado and valor. I just pretended it didn't dwell on mind at all. Which it did. A lot.

As the year drew to a close, the school ran this ridiculous idol thing. I think American Idol was out that year. And that's when I heard this song.

You know those songs that you hear for months on end. That you can associate an entire holiday with, an entire period with or just a specific event. Well this song did it for me. With this song came the memories, the really hot days, the months of tigi, the final graduation disco and staring at someone's back wondering what could have been instead of paying attention in the final assembly in that ridiculously carpeted hall.

I don't really know why, it was probably my first exposure to so called "rock music." I didn't know the lyrics then except for the main line of the chorus.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
And I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway

Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I love
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway

--"Breakaway", Kelly Clarkson

IN OTHER NEWS

UMAT was ridiculous. Easier than I thought it would be, but still ridiculous.

Debating against SAC's first team tomorrow. Yay.

I'll have some awesomes on my Saturday blog. I might do another short Friday if I can be bothered.

~Golduck~

Short 2 -Paths

2010-07-26T22:55:00.000+10:00

Short 2 -Paths

The nature of our lives means that we can only take on path forward. The destination of which each path leads to, we don’t know. Yet, blindly we take it forward. We can do nothing but hope for the best, and trust that each path we take is the correct one.

Yet often we have our doubts that we are taking the right paths. We wonder whether the world ahead in front of our path is any better than the other which we could have taken. If we had taken them would it be more fun and more exciting? Would we be more successful or happier?

We smile and say that the path we took was the best one. We try and justify the path we take, telling others that it was the best one for ourselves at the time. But inside we wonder and watch the others who took others paths. The same paths that we could have taken.

We look at them often with jealousy when we see that the their paths are better.

I’ve decided to taken an undergraduate degree in Melbourne when I get out of high school later this year. I know about 90 % of people I’ve asked will probably disagree with me.

In the end I reckon I can make more of a different in society if I become an engineer. One of my friends said more or less, “The money you’ll make will make a difference with. But there are others that will not.” I know a lot of you guys will say that I should be pick a job that I’ll be passionate about. Something I enjoy.

But in the end I enjoy making a difference. And I honestly think that I can make more of a difference to society if I become an engineer.

I've heard all the arguments. I should be thinking of myself, I can make more of a difference being a teacher. Yes I know all this. But in the end, a lot of charities need monies. A lot of charities need money then they need volunteers. And if I have more money I won't have to work as much and can volunteer more.

And like usual, I'm doing what is right, rather than what I'd enjoy. I will be looking at teaching and telling myself that, that could me. And I'll most probably regret it.

But sometimes you have to live life with regrets.

Comments would be HUGELY appreciated.

Short 1 - Let's Go!

2010-07-21T22:26:00.000+10:00

*Shoutout to the First XI SKC soccer team. Wonderful effort, unlucky not to get a second goal.*

Hey Guys! I've decided not to play tetris anymore until November. so that I don't waste my time aimlessly too much. Instead I'll be updating during the week. The short series will be just me rambling with a with quirks. I least I get something out of blogging.

So few wtf's been happening. The school term started and with it brought homework. Yay! But that's not the wtfs.

Our year level is finally get jumpers. They're varsity Jackets and they look incredible. HUGELY EXPENSIVE and to be honest I'm not sure whether I agree with getting one.

Anyway I need to think of a name. I've had so many nicknames over the years but none of them have really stuck.

Year 6 Jackass
Year 7 Chuck (look at the guy whose initial is 'AT', NOT GOSSIP GIRL RELATED)
Year 8 Jackamo
Year 9 CHANG
Year 10 Quackson
Year 11 Jackson Chenson
Year 12 ...

I have no idea to be honest.

Exodia suggested Jack Jack (Incredibles).

Jack Jack! Certain resemblance there.

Dardas suggested the Jumping Jack! Which actually has a lot of amusing connatation because when you play those silly "remember your name" I usually think of Jumping.

How to do a Jumping Jack!

Sallyannie suggested Jackie Chan. I know a lot of you guys have called me that.

OMG. What should I get?

Obviously Golduck is a great candidate. I mean after all it has been my MSN name this year. Someone awesome suggested I should spell it Goldduck. I'm also thinking about LOLduck. There's my usual gaming name, Hijacker, Hijackoff, Hijack. But none of them seem all that much like me. And then there's your usual Jacko, Whacko, Whacko Jacko variants. I should just get Jack's Jacket.

What's in a name?

Man I'm always been so excited to get one of these. I remember in year 6 getting that year 6 jacket was like AWESOME. I was so excited too! Basically these jackets makes you feel part of a group. Your own personal name contrasted against your school's name. At University Melbourne Extension Math program today we were discussing (amogest other things) what really hold the sentimentality to this year level. Will it be this Jacket? Or will it be the year 12 jumpers. No one really knows until we leave.

And really this is the message of this post. We do not know the legacy that we will leave behind. We don't know whether our year group will exceeds the extraordinary expectations that has been set before us. It is only when we leave the school and we look back we will know.

Term 3 has been termed the "business end" by our esteemed leader. So let's make the most it. It is going to be hell. But hell is no match for us together. (I sound like a power ranger.)

vs.

How can Saints lose to Hell?

~Golduck~

Jack All 10 - The End From the Beginning

2010-07-19T23:50:00.000+10:00

Shoutout to Alice! Thanks for a great night! Really enjoyed myself and made me feel especially dumb. Also shoutout to everyone who helped celebrate my father's birthday. Thanks for coming!

Is that not the most awesome bag you've ever seen

Hey guys! Is it just me or is the start always the hardest. When you first meet someone that seem good company its always most awkward at the start. You barely know them and you're trying to appear like a complete wierdo to them (obviously harder for some than others. ) You have probably have some idea on what this person is going to mean in your life but getting there is always difficult.

That's like this for me and blogging. Every week I have some idea where I want to head when it comes to my post. But I never know how to start off. We're well into the "middle" part of the year now. I think I'm on track for the end. It is the beginning of years that defines the end, the beginning of relationship that defines how it ends (if it does.) It is the beginning which is the hardest but the most influential in anything.

Jack All 10 - The End From the Beginning

Me: If I said Xavier College, what would it mean to you?

Laura: Xmen?

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/i-dont-steal-5-grand-worth-of-ski-shit-lol-jk-im-from-xavier/124519830925434?ref=ts

http://www.news.com.au/national/xavier-college-school-students-shoplift-in-new-zealand-during-ski-trip/story-e6frfkvr-1225893866694

There are something that schools just get associated with.

Me: we're going to lose to girls

Dave: you're going to lose to girls your whole life, when you get older and married a girl will be running your life and then when you have daughters you will be wrapped around their finger

St Kevins College 5 vs. Sacre Cour 1. I mean really? Could you make the draw any worse? Both teams are 2 from 4 with SAC having a bye (which counts as a lost).

Coach: There are two types of people who attend Geelong.

3rd's Hockey Team member: Boys and Girls?

Another last minute goal let the side down to a 3-2 lost. There was 1 girl on the other team who played 5 minutes. A shank at 2cm from the goal line and two hits on the post were costly in the end. Full back were heroic saving all 4 short corners.

The report showed that when couples were removed from the study, just 15 percent had conversations (on the train). Conversations stimulants included

the weather,
sporting events
the short comings of public transport

This came from TheSundayAge July 25th "Commuters defend against the attaack of the space invaders." Apparently socializing with strangers is the best way to ignore the invasion of personal space.

Other suggestions for names for year 12 jumpers: Tasty Jacks or Son of a Jack

Any more ideas are appreciated. Or even you're opinions!

A generally awesome video made by Ash Davies!

Page 4 - Who Are We? SKC's Class of 2010 Part 1

2010-07-15T21:10:00.001+10:00

Hey guys! I watched the 10 seasons of the Sit Com. "Friends." Whilst it sets an unrealistic expectation on us guys it does make a good point. During the final episode as the relationship between Ross and Rachael was finally resolved, my eyes were getting a tad misty.

The relationship between Ross and Rachael had its up and downs. Both of them had to go through hell and back yet they came back together. Sometimes the belief that you'll end up with the right person is more important than how you look or who you're looking forward. Just believing when it comes to love will get you there.

Images aren't mine. Copyright and what not.

Page 4 - Because everything I do, I do it for my school.

February 2007 I started my time at St. Kevins College. The environment I was suddenly thrown in was vastly different. We were dumped on a campus that was really too small. From a year level with about 40 guys, I went into a testerone filled year group of over 200. I remember on orientation day one of the guys I ended up being friends with gave me this piece of advice.

You don't play Runescape right, because that would be like... unfortunate.

And so began the epic 4 year journey at SKC. Would I have it any other way? I don't think so. Everyday begins with a train ride in.

You know you're going to St. Kevins when you get off at Heyington and there's about a hundred boys (literally) trying to get through that little passage.

I feel sorry for the other commuters trying to get on the train. You see them there trying to buy tickets at the ticket machine.

"Should we go around?"

"Nah."

Walk towards the locker bay. You see someone you don't know all that well but you think they're a good guy.

Purton House Pyramid

You hold out your hand as you walk past. Your friend catch that hand with their own hand. Your two hands touch and mutual respect flows between them. No words are exchanged. This moment lasts for a split second as you continue to walk past. Failure to let go with correct timing means your arm is stretched and all respect disappears.

There are occasional back pats. And other palces...

Get to home group or "mentor period"

Period 1.

The first thing you notice at St. Kevins is the 90123 flights of stairs we are forced to climb. It is actually not a joke. Classes are taken across 4 buildings. That sounds ok right? There's 5 levels above the surfact and 5 levels below the surface. Yay. Classes at the top floor followed immediately by classes on the bottom floor are not uncommon but an everyday facet of life. If you're overweight, spend a year at St. Kevins, I swear you're legs won't be able to thank you enough.

Mentor Period!

As you climb the stairs, remember not to touch any part of the rails. The rails may contain but not limited to any number of the following things: honey, glue, confetti, sandwiches, smeared fruit, tuck shop "food" and urine.

English. English class is usually taken the most seriously by the boys at St. Kevins. Our year level's aim is to get 50% of all boys over the study score of 40. Discussions are always epic, orals are always epic and Andrew Bolt has successfully featured in every St. Kevin boy's English exam somewhere over his senior school exam.

What we get up to at Recess.

Recess. There was this one time, when someone broke a window. The single biggest incident of the calender year. How do we alert the teachers of this dire situation?

Everyone, I mean everyone, literally 90% of the whole school stand around that one window and make loud noises. The theory is that a teacher somewhere or somehow will hear the sounds and come solve the problem.

School canteen is renown for the extraordinary prices we put up with. Here's a sample.

For 4 dorahs and you get ... Shepherd's Pie!

Yummy!

It's really fun. Then after recess you need to take a dump. After you take a dump you need to flush the toilet.

How do you flush it? Nah! Just brush your hand over the toilet flushing sensor. Strictly hands free! Yay!

Typical St. Kevins Dairy

Jack All 9 - June Holidays

2010-07-09T01:41:00.000+10:00

Shout out to ChunkyMuff (alias) ! Being mature when you're an adult is overrated! I had a great night!

Hey guys. It's back with the usual today now that I've completed my 3 part on the formal. It was really fun writing and getting your response. I don't think I've had that much response from a series ever.

A makeover! Regular readers will notice that I've made the posts wider so I can fit more images. If you don't like it give me a yell and I'll see what I can do.

Blog Roll!

If you look to your right you'll notice that I've added another pages. So I'm 3/10 pages now. The new one I added is my blog roll, which are blogs I follow and read. No blog seems to be complete without one. So have a read of other people's blog, they're all really good and I have a pretty diverse range of reading. (Yes, Fi, you are on there. Also be careful at the boarding house, I've asked people to kill you.)

Holidays right. It's been quite frantic. Probably gone out most these holidays compared to all my other holidays. What's extraordinary is that I haven't gone out with the same group of people these holidays more than once. Which is really quite interesting. I really want to get all my group of friends go see a movie and see what you guys would think of each other.

From that, I went to two vastly different 18th's. Jonathan's was alcohol free, whilst the other one was B.Y.O. I have no idea how I can be friends with such two vastly group of friends. Both parties were really awesome and fun. (My gift picking out skills are really bad.)

And so, the question is if I'm judged by the company I keep, who am I? Everyone does this, yet it doesn't seem all that accurate. Like me! I don't drink, yet at a party where almost everyone drinks, I had a really good time. Judging people by how they act around you seems like a far better way to judge people.

Jack All 8 - June Holidays

Whilsts playing Mafia: I reckon Jackson's Mafia because he stopped playing music when mafia was killing people so he could see properly.

He stopped playing music so he could see properly. Yes. For the record I wasn't the mafia.

From Reddit forums: I once had a cute female in my bed. Said she was cold. So...I gave her another blanket. Not one of my most shining moments.

From here.

After reading through the post I realize I screwed up back in primary school. Too late to fix it now! Guys are retarded, if you want us to say something or do something, don't give us hints, don't give us obvious hints. Just tell us.

I like listening to music that I don't understand!

Well for me its, I like listening to music that I can't sing along to because I'm don't talk fast enough. e.g. people rapping

Me behind 6-2 in air hockey.

Ashley: Ok I'm going to give you 4 own goals

Score: 6-6

I score.

Ashley: That wasn't suppose to happen.

O rly? Yes I beat Ashley Davies in Air Hockey.

Ashley Davies after losing bowling as well: "Well, you're good at it because you're Asian and the Japanese invented bowling."

:P. I can't remember the final score, but Asians dominated. Here's a video I made from the night.

~Golduck~