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I saved money by spending money! :D
Basically, Wesfield shopping centers are having a promotion that give you a $20 gift card if you spend $120 or more at participating stores (which is a quite a long list).
But you ask, how do you spend money, and still feel like you saved money at the same time?
Well............. that's because I bought all my stuff using gift cards collected over the year.
WooooT!!! .......... And thanks to everyone..haha..........
I'm glad I got the opportunity to watch Star Trek the movie (2009). It lived up to the great reviews and hype the audience and critics were giving it.
It had its "WTF, that happened to easily" or "erh, what a coincidence............. not" moments. You know, when things go according to plan without good reason, and we just say "It's Hollywood". But it was only twice.
I was expecting to go into the movie, and keep seeing Spock as Sylar in a new hair-do, but surprisingly, I forgot about it in 15 minutes. The story was told well, and the little Star Trek hints and fan services were noticeable, even from a non-Trekky like me.
Anyways, I won't say anymore if you haven't seen it. It's a good movie and you should see it when you have the time. Okay. That's all, I shall not be emotionally compromised, otherwise I could lose my captain's seat.
I apologise to anyone I may offend in this post, and I will disclaim that I don't know the basketball rules that well, and I have not watched more than 20 or so basketball games.
Recently, basketball has been pissing me off. Why? It's because it's such a non-defensive sport. You hardly see any defense tactics, and if you see it, it's so rare. People are ultimately running back and forth and just shooting the ball in hoop whenever they get the chance.
I understand it's a high scoring game, but it seems like it's a skill based game and not enough tactics. It doesn't appeal to my limited intellect. You see in soccer, you can win a game by either having a good attack, but that can always be countered by a good defense and a goalie. You can win a game in soccer by having a good defense, as long as you win by one point. So overall, the chances are scoring a shot are not high, and hence it comes down to really working with your team, and that's everyone, not just passing it to your ace whenever he's free.
In basketball, you win by two things, shoot alot, and hope the enemy makes lots of mistakes. Not enough time for comebacks, and that's why the game is so stressing.
Eriz has already shown me some good defending in basketball, and I acknowledge they're pretty hard to pull off, but most of them are just steals. Where's the blocks? From what I've seen (which is very little amount of basketball games I remind you), steals, blocks & intercepts are rare to see because they are hard to pull off legitametly. You COULD have a tall defender blocking the ring, but that's ultimately countered by others doing 2 point and 3 point shots. And it would seem it's hard to counter a 3 point shooter, unless...he misses, but most of the time, in professional games, they get it in, unless the 3 point shooter is not experienced enough, or really feeling the pressure of catching up.
One more thing, the word 'foul' is used so many times in the game. That really pisses me off. Every minute there's a foul being called. Most of the time these fouls are due to a little tap or touch on the arm. Surely you can be lenient on a person if they accidently touch your arm while they're trying to steal the ball of you! It's not like they're directly going for your arm. Or when you reach your arm out for a steal, you push your arm out so fast, it's very hard to pull it back quickly, and then attacker runs into it, and that's considered a foul. I know, it's a non-contact sport, but seriously, when most of the time an attacker runs up for a layup, or dunk or something or rather, the defenders 85% of the time are considered to make a foul, and the attacking team then gets a free point shoot even when the they've just scored the point in. Oh come on, they're just trying to defend. Let them defend!! I'm not saying that touching them is okay. If it looks bad, like it was intentional, yes foul them. If unsure about the result, then use a video referee. Catch up with the times.
I know it seems like I don't know the game that well, so whoever reads this, please correct my understanding of this game. I want to appreciate it, but I can't seem to at the moment. The game is good, and it's popular for a reason. In fact, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'm playing it. And I'm not a newb, but I'm not pro good. Okay. That is all. Bring on the flame if you like.
Photos taken on Chinese New Year '09.
Bamboo shoots growing in oriental vase.
Oriental dork growing on coat hanger.
At work I have sitting behind me my Boss (Team Leader), my boss's boss (General Manager), my boss's boss's boss (The Director), and in the room behind them, the boss's boss's boss's boss (The CEO). lol. Now don't slouch. Sit up straight. Be a good boy.
Ah @_@ internal conflict between wii and ps3. I'm slowly leaning towards getting a PS3 now. It's all your fault eriz!!!
YAY!!! I got a letter today saying that I received the stimulus bonus. WOOHOO!!!
I was initially scared because I heard other people couldn't get it because they claimed back all their tax back that year. I couldn't remember if I claimed all mine back, and I couldn't check because I lost my 07-08 tax return form.
But all good now :)
Wonder what I should buy. Maybe that moded Wii, but... I probably will have to wait till July. Or maybe get a new camera lens, like a AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D. Maybe even a 600W Studio Flash Kit, though, I'll probably need a studio to maximise it's usage.
Hmm..... how should I stimulate the economy???.... hmm........ why don't I just save up the money for the car. Decisions, decisions...........
lolz!... Today I was in a car with no working speedometer, traveling from Gosford to Campbletown. I was helping move furniture. This car was very "senior", carrying pots, computers, microwaves, toasters and more, towing in addition, a trailer. In the trailer was a full sized fridge, building material, and several other large pot plants.
I learnt how to judge how fast you are going without the help of a speedometer? How???
Judge it by how fast the other cars around you are going. =)
(hmm........., mozilla doesn't recognise learnt as a proper word)
I've found a new site that'll give us inspiration for M12's future presents. Hehehe.......
http://www.goodsmile.info/top/eng/ They showcase a lot of very cool anime figurines.
DANNNG!!!!!The poses are so well thought out!! ........ so good !___! It makes me want to buy figurines too ~__~
Oh, and I just realised most of them are female figurines... fufufu.......
And .... horror!! Why is Lelouch wearing high heels @___@?
Why is an escalator called an escalator when only half the time it is going up (escalating), and the other time is going down (de-escalating)?
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Anyways, at work, I'm known as Dex! Haha.. it's pretty cool. I've never had another nickname in my life, except for Ray (which really isn't a nickname). The head content-collecter gave me the name, and everyone else seems to have picked it up well :)
The head content-collector also calls me Ze Ray, because I sign off as Ze Ray when I leave him notes to finish off a service job. (WHIP WHIP)
Aahhh.... me and my "awesome" accents XD.......
Talking to colleagues today, we were discussing our eye vision. We talked about the definition of far sightedness and close sightedness, which came to conclusion that close sightedness is clear vision between you and the screen infront of you, while, far sightedness is everything that's further than that. Does that sound right???
Anyways, after the discussion, I decided to play a prank of them. I downloaded an eye chart, printed it out, and then took the same file, and blurred the image.
With those two pieces of paper, one behind the other, I approached them up close, and explained that I was going to work out how good their vision was. All they had to do was read out as many letters as possible. The un-blurred version was shown.
I then walked off with my back towards them. At this stage, I swapped the two around.
I stopped. Turned around. I asked them to start reading.
Everyone was glaring at it, trying to read it.
There was utter silence for 2 seconds.
One then shouted out "We're not stupid ray, that one's blurred"
DAMN!!! HAHAHAHAHA............ Had them for at least a few seconds anyway.
Some people decided to make a site tracker that displays the most recent updates made to Wikipedia. It locates the "anonymous" user and displays the edited topic, section, and area from where they are writing from.
Now that's creepy. No wonder there are paranoid people out there. I seriously don't blame them.
And if you thought that was creepy, there's more. There's one for TwitterVision (http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d), and actually, my personal favourite , FLICKRvision (http://flickrvision.com/)
Okay. Now you know about, you can't unknow it. Happy stalking!!!
It's pretty ironic how taxis have car sales advertisements on top of their roof because it somewhat takes away the business from themselves.
Next time I go to passionflower, I'm getting this drink. I don't care that it's all red and pink. For all I know, it could be a girls drink, but I don't care. In terms of presentation, this drink has won me over. Looks so nice.
Anyways, after passion flower for Jill's bday, I took this picture of the skyscraper. First thing that comes to mind is Bleach, where Ichigo is standing on the windows. He does something like talk and talk and talk. And then fly away.
Then travelling underground, I took this a picture of the MX stand. For many Sydney-siders, it's the epitome of afternoon information intake.
Earlier that day, I saw an old lady dressed up inthe uniform just like the people below. I thought she was cosplaying something I didn't know about.My funny guess is that they were the Chinese ANZ marching band, taking over Westpac grounds.
Come on band!! MARCH!!!
I just had a $100 bet with my dad.
I bet that the interest rates will go up around July 30. He bet it wouldn't.
Wish me and the Australian economy luck :D
(p.s: I'm writing this up here because it will remind me of this bet later on. lol)
Hahaha, my turn.
This is how I visualized myself as a Simpson Character.
What do you think? Did it work on me? Does it look like me?
Try out the Burger King and Simpson Movie marketing toy at http://simpsonizeme.com/
Didn't really sleep too well last night. It was very late in the night when I felt a sudden itch on my finger. Next thing I heard was the buzzing noise. Put two and two together, and I realised I had been sucked.
It was a mosquito! This mosquito had flew around and sucked my blood.
Dang. Because it's dark it's really hard to locate the mosquito by sight and noise.
I put the covers over my head and covered my entire body. Try suck blood over a layer of blanket.....hahahahaha!!! I am awesome. I heard it flying around and around, and as I listened to it I laughed (in my mind)
After 5 minutes, it must have gave up because I couldn't hear it anymore. I dozed back to sleep.
*flutter*
I opened my eyes again, heard buzzing. I felt a breeze across my arm and leg. Oh no!!! The mosquito probably came and bit me again....... I suddenly felt an itch across my arm and neck.
Dang. I'll be ready next time.
Alright! Let's start of with a question. Would you go 1 week without water, or 1 month without internet?
Why the question? That's because recently I've had renovations done to my kitchen. Clearing out the kitchen, having it knocked down and building everything back up. It's now very nice and pristine. Just the way I like it.
And tada!! New kitchen. We've had this new kitchen for almost 2 weeks or so now, and I still rather like the design. Opening the doors are fun!
Here's a closer picture of the kitchen when everything was knocked down. How spacious.
When the removalists came in to knock down the place, they were very careless. They dropped the whole friggin cabinet onto the stove. If it wasn't for my dad who was supervising them at the time, the whole thing would have landed smack bang in the middle of the stove and cracked the whole thing. The cabinet still fell down, but it was pushed away in time and landed on the stove knob. The small thing shattered into pieces @__@!!! My parents were too nice (or silly) to ask them to reimburse one. Now we're still looking out for a similar stove knob.
Anyways, just below, here's the old stove. Looks very old and tacky aye? Cockroaches used to crawl in that grid area just below the table top. (Oh, and notice how we had 4 knobs before)
And here's the new stove. Very modern.
Looks so much more classier too. We have still yet to use it though. lol. Let's hope it works XD
Anyways, regarding the question I asked in the beginning. I would go for 1 month without internet rather than 1 week without water. It's funny how we take water for granted. When our hands get dirty (like cleaning the rubble, and moving furniture around) we wash our hands; when we become sweaty after a long day, we shower; when we're thirsty, we drink water, etc etc etc.......
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