The quirky world of Jash

Procrastination

2007-11-18T00:11:00.000+11:00

It's evil. It's bad. It definitely is not my friend.

Boo. Hiss.

Just as I was writing on this post I searched for CD/DVD burning software that is free for me to install on my machine when I basically didn't need to at the moment.

How does one fix this?

More boredom

2007-08-14T22:29:00.000+10:00

Go to www.jash.id.au, it's good.

Meow

2007-05-29T20:33:00.001+10:00

If cats could talk

2007-05-28T23:46:00.001+10:00

Well, when I'm bored, I put ROFLBOT and Google Images together. Enjoy.

Awkward Keyboard Moment Of The Week

2007-05-08T16:10:00.000+10:00

More like incredibly yuck keyboard ever!

I was at the Knox building for work when I came across this ancient piece of technology. Perhaps the person that was using this was so ancient that they somehow passed away on this keyboard and their decaying remains made a mark that can never be removed...

:-O

Fly away

2007-03-06T02:05:00.000+11:00

Argh. I really, REALLY don't like flying. I don't even understand how people can fly to places like the USA and Europe. Those places on the planet are more than 15 hours away from Australia. Manila is only 7-8 hours away and I'm hopeless at NOT getting dizzy on a plane.

Anyway here's the plane to blame.

I thought I could make it the whole way without feeling like my head was going to implode while my stomach was going to explode, but in the last 2 hours of the trip I started to lose it.

I'll post more images as they come, but the pre-broadband speeds here are beginning to irritate me!

3 bars

2007-02-27T11:41:00.000+11:00

Is 3 bars of reception on a Samsung phone really that bad? Since I've moved up to my desk on level 7 again, I just realised what a black hole it is for phone reception. I walk 1 metre to find myself frustrated, and walk another metre back the other way to find that it's fine!

But perhaps it's because I have a new phone. It's nice and sleek, but the fab feature of the phone is its 3 megapixel camera that actually isn't too bad... I've been playing around with it during the past week, and this is what I've been able to come up with (after some very simple touch ups on Picasa2 of course...)

Silhouette of Cow Up a Tree.

The East face of the NAB docklands building.

Melbourne Central Shot Tower and Cone Roof.

Enjoy.

Docklands Morning

2007-02-27T09:32:00.000+11:00

It's always nice when the morning sun illuminates the boats in the bay, and the water is so still that the reflects coming off them are perfect.

A man fishes, while facing the Bolte bridge.

The marina at New Quay

That's gold Jerry, gold!

2007-02-20T12:00:00.000+11:00

So, I entered a caption competition at work. The projects newsletter caption competition. And guess what... I won!

Here's the winning entry:

"Who do you think you are, telling me that my program runs like a dog..."

And for my efforts, I get 2 gold class tickets to watch a movie. Isn't that just great!?

Also if you don't get the funny part of the caption, I'll be happy to explain it.

Search somewhere else

2007-02-12T13:12:00.000+11:00

So I've got these MapStats statistics for this blog right. It lets me see the visits for only the past week. I was having a browse over them to find that this blog comes up on some search engine when someone searches the words "Dirty World"!!!

Totally weird! I know the post it relates to is "The Dirty World of Jash" which is about me CLEANING MY ROOM! CLEANING!

It gives me a strange feeling now, just thinking about it. I mean after you search for something, hundreds of links are returned - and somehow that person clicked this site's search result!

It reminds me of the time the viking mistresses blog got hits because they put some rather strange pictures and topics up as their posts. They got lots of hits with those things! Go have a search if you really want to.... :)

Just get home

2007-02-06T21:48:00.000+11:00

This is one crazy doctor.

I took a different route home today. A totally different route.

It was because I was at Lygon street having some cake for L's bday, and there were so many different roads I could have taken to get home. Dr Kawashima said it's good for your brain to take a different route driving home.

Who is Dr Kawashima? He's the Dr on the Nintendo DS Brain Training of course! And you're probably wondering why I'm taking directions from a doctor in a computer, ah? Well I thought it would be interesting... and there definitely some crazy conditions.

Traveling down roads I normally don't go on makes me a tad nervous. After all I don't usually drive on them, and are not well acquainted with which lanes are best. There was this one section which was quite confusing.

This road was 60 km/h. But only from 7PM to 3AM. And only from Wednesday to Sunday.

I sat there for a while, quite distracted as I was floating down the road. What time is it? What day was it? And am I still going 60?!!?!

I seriously must have zoned out for a bit thinking about whether I was doing the right thing - which was actually quite bad! I wasn't concentrating on the road!

I finally managed to bundle myself home, over stimulated by all the new surroundings I passed. Dr Kawashima was right. It does stimulate you. Too much..

And to top it off, I have some frozen tripe taped to my right foot because someone stepped on it today. Gotta love icy-cold beef intestines to soothe those aches and pains...

The Green Run

2007-02-05T20:15:00.000+11:00

Larger

Just couldn't fit

2007-01-18T10:39:00.000+11:00

Crazy traffic this morning. Backed up for hundreds of metres. I was wondering why everyone suddenly decided to take MY route to work this morning, until i read this article on the age.

Notable quotes are:

An oversized truck ripped out electrical cables and overhead signs the length of the Burnley tunnel this morning, forcing the closure of two lanes and major delays to peak hour city traffic.

and

The truck's load damaged 14 overhead safety signs as the driver continued through the tunnel just after 6am, CityLink spokesman Craig Little said.

and

Mr Little said a warning bar outside the tunnel should have alerted the truck driver to the height specifications.

Reminds of the shirts I ordered from the US that just got delivered yesterday. Wayyyy to small. I tried them on last night, hoping they'd fit. I ordered the size Small, thinking that because everything in the U.S. was bigger, perhaps this would actually be too big for me.

Wrong. Too small! They're small shirts are much smaller than small shirts here in Aussie land. I'm gonna have to order some more in because the designs on them are just too cool not to try and order again.

I'm just glad I didn't smack anyone's face or take down any signs trying to sqeeze into the shirts. :)

Bike Rack

2007-01-15T21:55:00.000+11:00

No one ever puts their bikes here. Who'd want to.

Ouch

2007-01-10T22:58:00.001+11:00

In all my time playing basketball I never got smacked in the nose.

But today playing indoor soccer someone smacked it so hard, I got a nose bleed.

Why, when playing a game with feet, does someone's arm give me a facial injury, but not when people's arms are swinging with an even larger ball.

I'll let you think about that for a bit.

And I'll leave the ice on my face in the meanwhile...

That's balls.

2007-01-08T22:26:00.000+11:00

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
— Honore de Balzac

For one, if this guy lived in this day and age, he would absolutely not live down his last name of ball sack! Imagine all the jokes they'd come up in order to rile this guy... this is the top 10 7 I could think of at this moment:

7. (While at the tennis) "Is being a ball boy natural to you, or did you have to work at it?"
6. "Would you actually play soccer with all the kicking that goes on..."
5. "Psst, do you reckon this guy is kind of, nuts?"
4. "Buddy, slapped any turkeys before?" (I sarcastically thank Big Brother for this one....)
3. "Would you sleep on a hammock, or would that be too much like underwear?"
2. "Aren't you glad your parents didn't call you Harry?"

...drum roll please....

1. "How's it hanging?"

Tada. My lame attempt at creating some humour ...sorry de Balzac. Won't do it again. I'll stop being so testy next time ;)

But seriously. To be effective, you have to be passionate about what you're doing. Without passion, do you think someone like Shane Warne could have made a effective fool of himself in front of all the media? Without passion, I'm not sure Brett Lee could have done a video clip in India like this (nice one btw!). Without passion, someone like Ronaldinho would not be where he is today.

Passion can be described as boundless enthusiasm and Ronaldinho definitely has that. He plays the real football (or "sah-kur") with a smile, he loves what he does, and he worked very hard to come out from all the players from Brazil and the world, to be one of the best in the world at a younger age than most. I have a shirt with his name and number on the back (thanks for the present guys!) and sometimes I hope that some of his passion would rub off on me when I play on the pitch.

Unfortunately the closest thing I get is someone throwing passionfruit at me. And boy does that hurt. But they taste good though. Hmm... Passiona is a fantastic fizzy drink...

Without passion, we'd be without this lovely drink by Cadbury-Schweppes, we'd be without Ronaldinho, and there'd definitely be no singing in hindi by an Aussie fast bowler. Without passion, you might as well be balls up.

Ah Chew

2007-01-07T23:04:00.000+11:00

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
— Frank Lloyd Wright

Have you ever been in an elevator, and touched a chewie that's been stuck behind those hand rail things? It's quite disgusting. It's also quite surprising that it happens a lot at work!

I know my work building has plenty of elevators, but for people to still do something like that is pretty low. So low that they should be shot. Not just ordinary rifles with bullets. Maybe a gun with used chewies that's still got fresh saliva on it.

Muwahhahaha. *laughs in an evil manner*

I've felt those chewing gums a few times, and I go straight to the toilet to wash off the icky feeling that it leaves me. But does television give me the same feeling after I watch it?

I'd be lying if I said it didn't give me that icky feeling watching some shows. I'm not a big fan of the Big Brother TV shows. It definitely doesn't do George Orwell's book 1984 any justice. I know they reference it because "Big Brother" was the entity that could see everything you're doing - and if the George Orwell Big Brother was the TV Big Brother, oh boy, I think that show would be more like a boot camp instead of what it is now.

The whole year level read the book 1984 back when I was in year 10. We also watched a film adaptation of the book, and it was more dark and macabre than flaunty and voyeuristic. The film wanted to teach you something, whereas it's small screen counterpart wanted you to SMS away and make them rich!

But chewing gum isn't something that you'd want to fill you up is it? If that was the case, I'd bring a pack with me and it'd last me the week! I could microwave the chewing gum and it would be nice and melty, and instead of cheese on toast - chewie on toast! Yum yum. Much better than I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Butter. I wonder if they'd make chewing gum with a Chicken Parmigiana flavour... Would it be as tasty and nutritious for you? o_O

I bet watching shows like Desperate Housewives and The OC doesn't exactly doesn't fill your brain with mind expanding knowledge. You know... hypothetically... if I were to watch the OC, it would probably be just for a hit of Rachel Bilson :)

Chewies are there to chew when you're bored. You can also watch TV when you're bored. There are probably many things you can also do when you're bored - like read, or knit, or play pranks on your unsuspecting workmates with chewing gum. (And if you're reading, sorry about the chair boss!)

Even dentists also say that chewing gum is good for you. Just don't go to the optometrist. And That old female tennis player Liz Smiley says chewing Extra is good for you. Do you think they actually meant something when they hired someone with a last name SMILEY for something related to your mouth, haha! Crazy advertisers...

And if TV is actually like chewing gum - my advice is probably not to watch too much of it... it might send you running to the toilet!

....because chewies have a laxative effect! (for the slow people...)

Quotes of the day

2007-01-06T16:08:00.000+11:00

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
— Jorge Luis Borges

It's January 6th now, but the above quote of the day from Bookreporter.com was from January 5th, the blame should fall on good old time difference. Crazy western hemisphere.

The idea I have now is to start blogging from quotes, as I seem to have lost the ability to do interesting things in order to write a blog entry. But in the end am I doing something in order to post on my blog? Or am I writing in my blog because I've done something interesting? Hmm. I digress. That should be covered with another entry. Perhaps a more exhaustive entry - but now this entry is beginning to look like one isn't it!

SOooo.... Library... why would paradise be like a library? There'd be so many books, many of which are uninteresting. However, some books would turn my head -books like graphic novels.

But some people don't call graphic novels books. They call them comics. True, they are in a form of a comic - there are text, and pictures. But since when did books just have to be words? Is it so wrong to have a story that you can also see the action to? I don't think it is.

In some respects, comics and graphic novels are much, much harder to produce than ordinary novels. Many people are involved in the story telling, the writer, the inker, the colorist. All these can also be one person - one VERY talented person perhaps. And just because there are many aspects to comics/graphic novels doesn't mean they are all good.

There are some bad graphic novels out there. Yep. One that are too focused on the art lose the story line. And there are ones that are almost like a "regular" novel but still have a bad story line! Story line is the key, I say. Without it, nothing you pick up, read, watch, or listen to will be of any interest.

When I do read comics and graphic novels, it's the superhero ones I read. It's a nice way to remove yourself from reality. I do understand that flying around in tights could perhaps be frowned upon by some, but the fact is people don't fly. If I wanted to fly, I'd buy those plane tickets that Virgin Blue Airline keep sending me ads for. But seriously, I don't have a need to go to Darwin, even if it only costs me 49 dollars guys, so QUIT IT. There is someone I know who would jump at the chance to take that trip, but if you're not sending it to them, then that marketing department is doing a crapola job.

Speaking of jobs, I haven't been to my job for a good two weeks now. I've been cleaning my room while I was on leave and the funniest thing happened. While re-arranging my room, I had to clear the bookshelf in order to move it. And when I grabbed my old Database 1 book, waved it around and said that "This would probably get 5 bucks on eBay right?", The pages split open to reveal 2 $50 notes! Money! And I didn't even know about it! I must have put it there a long time ago during uni...

Man that would be paradise wouldn't it? If every book in that library had a hundred smackeroos. We could go to the comic book shop and buy all the graphic novels they have :)

Happy Birthday to ...

2007-01-02T15:46:00.000+11:00

Happy Birthday to ... Kate Bosworth!

Kate's a total babe isn't she, and she even starred in Superman Returns with good old Superman. Also pulls off the brunette look really well too, ah?

So everyone give 3 cheers to 24 year old Kate, and cheer also for another certain someone who turns 23 today... :)

Double oh seven

2007-01-01T00:08:00.000+11:00

Yes yes, a new calendar year. It's here now.

Woot.

It was very hazy last week.

2006-12-18T22:16:00.000+11:00

You couldn't even see the bridge. Poor bridge.

Get me out of here

2006-12-13T21:50:00.000+11:00

Sometimes, work is like a prison.

Flickr

2006-12-12T10:21:00.000+11:00

You'll find the real picture here on flickr.

If you explore that some more you'll probably find all the crazy things the current nab grads get up to.

Good thing they won't be grads for much longer, hey?
:P

Nessa

2006-12-11T00:08:00.000+11:00

Spent all weekend wrapping my head around tracing photos and figuring out how to shade with vectors and blending modes on photoshop....

How did I do?

Nessa

Eeeek

2006-11-26T23:41:00.000+11:00

Don't people make the most outrageous facial expressions playing football...

Nutty weather

2006-11-15T20:02:00.000+11:00

How insane is the weather in Melbourne! There was just enough time of non rain for me to walk across Docklands to my car in the car park before more rain set in, and as I was driving it then became sunny. I would have preferred that it was cloudy actually, as I face the sun when driving in the direction towards home.

It starts to pitter patter. Hmm still sunny though. Then comes some rain. Still sunny. But then out of the blue (or gray) it's starts hailing! Insanity! It's hailing and it's sunny! I felt like my car was in those ice machines at Hungry Jacks that make whirring noises to drop the ice down your cup, and there was a whole kids party with kids lining up all wanting ice.

o_O

And if that wasn't enough to drive me up the wall, all the hail/ice/frozenbits on the road were now reflecting the sunniness back to my eyes. Ouch.

I got hit in the eye as well by a soccer ball today. Double Ouch.

Get fresh

2006-11-14T14:09:00.000+11:00

So fresh, that it includes a frog.

You won't need to toss your salad, the frog will jump all over the place for you.

Well..

2006-11-12T22:11:00.000+11:00

Hey look it's November and I haven't written anything on here for a while.
Boo Hoo.

Well now I have.

So anyway, picking up where I left off, I've finally signed up to this myspace thing, and I must say that signing up on a Friday night isn't the best thing for Australians. The site screws a lot of the things up, but now it's fine. So add me as your friend.

It's similar to friendster, but less networky-ish, and more meet-up-with-other-people-who-are-like-you thing. It's default options are to publish all your details to anyone on the web! Imagine that... people will now know that I have no kids! Compared to them thinking that I might have kids...

But kids are so cute aren't they. When they're toddlers ~~all~~ ~~most~~ some of them are quite adorable! My currently two year old cousin thinks she can communicate with everyone now - she only manages to say one or two syllables at a time. Everyone falls for it and loves her... it's only two syllables!

Somehow I still manage to communicate with my family with two syllables and less:

Mum: "Do you want chicken for lunch?"
Me: "Yeh."
Mum: "How was your day?"
Me: "Mmmhehmmm..."
Mum: "Do you have someone special in your life?"
Me: "err." (Followed by walking away to avoid more questions)

But people don't find it anywhere near as cute.

Oh yes, that lousy glass cup. It's so lousy, I haven't taken a photo of it yet.

oOOoOoOooooh

2006-10-13T10:27:00.000+10:00

OOooOooOOooooh, Friday the 13th. Scareeeeeey
:-O

The shirt says it all

2006-10-09T11:12:00.000+10:00

Well we only finished runners up in the end of what was a close Futsal/Indoor Soccer match.

Dead tired today, gave it my all last night. But I kept thinking what I could have done if the final wasn't straight after the corporate games training... anyway, I'm young - there's always another season to play.

yum

2006-09-07T10:54:00.001+10:00

There's nothing like gulping down a big 250g packet of Cheese Supreme Doritos to kick start your morning.
:D

Victory, victory, curtains and blinds...

2006-09-04T23:23:00.000+10:00

Yes, the good old war cry of the really silly people sitting behind us at the Telstra Dome was amusing for a while. It was a free ad for Victory blinds, but the real victory was for the Melbourne Victory who edged out a 10-man Sydney team 3-2.

Fantastic atmosphere in the stadium with nearly 40,000 people paying their way to see a win over their arch rivals Sydney - because we all know that Melbourne is just soooo much better ;)

Shaking of the hands...

A penalty kick taken by the kind and caring Kevin Muscat.

A lovely father's day red card for the Sydney captain who got sent off. What a present.

Something in a name.

2006-08-31T22:01:00.000+10:00

So, going to the Picasso Love and War exhibition gives one a new perspective when looking into things. Starting with his name you can see that there is actually more to it! hehe.

And I just realised that it does say "love" there in the background... Kinda makes it really weird..

Down by the docks

2006-08-20T22:40:00.000+10:00

Actually there aren't many docks here, or those bulky dock workers moving whatever needs to be moved onto ships. The only bulky people you'll see here are the builders making even more apartments for people to live in - and then again they use massive cranes and bulldozers and catterpillar things, so I guess they don't have to be as bulky - they just have to pull on those levers.

There are a range of interesting things at Docklands, and they are made even more interesting at night. I now realise that one good thing about winter getting dark early are the lights turning on at Docklands.

The darkness and the lighting give the sculptures and structures an ambigiouity. Is that really a bird, or a light? Straight lines or shadowy bends? Girl, or guy?

Just don't take a picture of that shady character that you walk past, or the camera might just be thrown into the water...

Stop them whalers

2006-08-12T18:30:00.000+10:00

The Sea Shepherd's "Farley Mowat" has been docked near Telstra Dome for the past week or so. Good on them for trying to stop those whalers trying to eat other massive whales. They also have this cute plastic toy whale near their walking plank that the Japanese also try to eat.

Crazy Japanese... those teeth marks are hard to get out...

6pm

2006-08-11T23:28:00.000+10:00

The day draws to a close.

One leg

2006-08-10T19:47:00.000+10:00

Why does this duck only have one leg?!
o_O

yum

2006-07-26T10:38:00.000+10:00

I love cherry ripe. I'm about to finish one off right now.

They had soem of those fundraiser things in the kitchen, and I reckon if there was an endless amount of $2 coins in my drawer, I'd eat them all. And get all fat.

That's all you can do here at work - eat at your desk. It helps ease the pain of actually doing work, and keeps me happy ;)

Better check if all these 5c coins add up to another bar of cherry ripe...

Coffee

2006-07-15T00:06:00.000+10:00

Coffee makes you so much hyper! For those who don't know, I don't normally drink coffee. I don't really know why, perhaps because I have never had it before, and I've always stuck to water. But I had a mocha today (what the heck is a mocha anyway) and I just went off my head!

I had a coffee break in the afternoon with actual coffee!

I just kept talking and talking all afternoon and just kept on asking so many questions at work. Have I found this secret weapon that everyone else has been having? Or is it just making me hyper because I don't normally have it?

But as you know, the higher you get, the faster you fall d..o...www...n.nnn..........

I think I need sleep nowwww...

ps. sorry for not posting for a while to those still reading. or maybe no one's reading...

Office funnies

2006-06-21T15:37:00.000+10:00

Dilbert is normally hard to understand, but I found this in a cupboard, and anyone can understand it.

One of the best ones I've read.

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE...

2006-06-13T01:00:00.000+10:00

Oi oi oi!

AUS 3 - 1 JAP

Docklands Dusk

2006-06-06T21:37:00.000+10:00

Apprently IT guys find this funny

2006-06-06T18:15:00.000+10:00

Two IT guys were chatting in a pub after work. "Guess what, mate," says the first IT guy, "yesterday, I met this gorgeous blonde girl in a bar."

"What did you do?" says the other IT guy.

"Well, I invited her over to my place, we had a couple of drinks, we got into the mood and then she suddenly asked me to take all her clothes off."

"You're kidding me!" says the second IT guy.

"I took her miniskirt off, and then I lifted her and put her on my desk next to my new laptop."

"Really? You got a new laptop?"

Yes, I would probably ask that same question. Even how big or how sharp the screen is on the laptop, because those screens are now oh-so-sexy! Yumm.

My screen's quite good even at 17". And so bright as well. Almost like looking into a real photo...

And Dell.com might be releasing a 20" soon!

Isn't it funny when...

2006-06-05T17:05:00.000+10:00

Isn't it funny when you use the shaving cream bottle and spray it all over yourself because you thought it was the deordorant.

Yes yes, lap it up.

It's funny, but not when it happens to you...

Words of wisdom #675:

2006-06-03T21:44:00.000+10:00

The only time Australia will top group F of FIFA World Cup 2006 finals is if it is sorted alphabetically.

Ai Who?

2006-05-28T16:15:00.000+10:00

While you're on the 'net... check out
Ai Hui - Find youself lost
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aihui/

Listen to the sample tracks and the lyrics of her up and coming album. And if you like it - rock up to her gig on June 24th.

Over the fence.

2006-05-14T20:22:00.000+10:00

Don't you hate it when the ball goes over the fence. It's so much trouble trying to get it again. You gotta explain to the neighbours that you're quite a crap soccer player, and that somehow your friends ball was kicked into their yard all the way from down the street.

It's even worse when you're kicking the ball over the fence at Melbourne Uni hockey pitch - because that fence is like 20 feet tall. You have to run after it with shame as everyone points and laughs at you.

Ah, the troubles of a wannabe...

White

2006-05-08T21:12:00.000+10:00

I thought a flower might brighten up your day.

Guns and violins

2006-05-03T22:06:00.000+10:00

If you didn't quite get the pun of the heading, it was supposed to sound like guns and "violence", but yes, lame Jash strikes again...
:)

I had the strangest inkling on Sunday morning to play the trumpet all of a sudden. It was like I had dreamed of becoming a great trumpeter guy, but I hadn't, and was awake. Most of my inklings go away - like the one I had about pilot, and flying all over the world to have hot stewardesses give me that scrumptious airplane food, and the one about becoming a doctor so that I can have a Dr. as my title. Chicks dig that you know.

Well this trumpet thing hasn't gone away, it's nearly a week later, and I still find myself figuring out a way to get hold of one, and to play it and play it well. The next James Morrison could be me - you never know. But as I searched the Internet on resources on how to play the trumpet, it suddenly dawned on me that this learning to play the trumpet wasn't an easy task - just like that pilot and doctor thing.

All these references about using your lips and pushing wind from your belly was sounding daunting. I haven't let my lips loose yet on all those lovely ladies, yet I found that this challenge of letting it loose on an unsuspecting trumpet quite strange. The fascination of playing this instrument still isn't receding!

For years (not so many years actually) I've been playing the clarinet, and even though I'm still crap at it (yes, self deprecation is a wonderful thing) I thought trying something else out might be refreshing. And a brand spanking new red trumpet might be the thing.

I could also try to play the french horn, but you know what they say about people who play french horn...

Aren't they so cute?!

2006-04-28T23:30:00.000+10:00

They're quite fun to shoot. But Dale the brown one is so frightened of the camera!

Center

2006-04-23T21:02:00.000+10:00

...

2006-04-18T22:29:00.000+10:00

The Easter Bunny is dead.

(psst. you won't believe all the chocolate eggs I found in its head! Curayyyyzeee i tell you!)

Daffodil

2006-04-15T22:54:00.000+10:00

Get rid of that bunny now...

That time of year again

2006-04-09T20:53:00.000+10:00

EB waves hello

So, since Quirky Jash has taken a hiatus this time of year, it will be me, "EB", doing the posting for a little while. It also seems that I will be resuming the position at the certain company that Quirky Jash works at.

I can say that the learning curve for learning Oracle Databases is quite steep. All this jargon that people talk, it is very strange. During my day at my work, all I do is eat carrots and find female bunnies to go hang out with, and hopefully get to know better (if you know what I mean). You know what they say about rabbits...

(They say they rabbits listen very well because they have big ears! I wonder what dirty things you were thinking about... rabbits aren't just objects you know.)

Getting those biscuits are a tad difficult...

It also comes to mind that it is quite hard to type on this keyboard. My paws can't quite type every letter, so I am afraid I will wear out Jash's backspace key. Sometimes I get jealous of the dextrous and nimble fingers that humans have. There's only so many ways you can eat a carrot when you can't chop it up. Although Jash gave me a juicer for my birthday that makes carrot juice verrrry nicely :)

Thanks Jash, you're the best.

EB attempting to wear out Jash's backspace key.

The life in Jasher's work building isn't so bad. When the ladies walk by, they like to pat my fur, the toilets are near his desk too, and there's this massive wheel that looks similar to the one in my house. They say I cannot run on it though, however they keep referring to this Ferris person. Apparently it's his wheel, so if I'm lucky maybe I can go run in it with Ferris some time.

Or I could bribe him with some chocolate...

Accounting for myself

2006-04-05T20:51:00.000+10:00

During Uni, everyone seems to procrastinate right before their exams downstairs in the library.
Perhaps it's only me.

Walls.

2006-04-02T22:59:00.000+10:00

Build one, or perhaps tear one down.

Cup of brollies

2006-04-01T23:08:00.000+11:00

The rainy season is upon us. I don't know how much good these will do...

Gleam

2006-03-27T22:06:00.000+11:00

The red gleam accompanies the purpose of the pink flower.

Wallpaper

Commonwealth Games 20km Mens' Walk

2006-03-25T20:22:00.000+11:00

So the Mens walk was later that afternoon. It was more sunny, and the clothes were more modest. But then again I'm not sure if you want to see guys running down the street near your building in speedos!

If you look closely at the image above, I think this guy was cheating! You're supposed to have at least one foot on the ground aren't ya?

Commonwealth Games 20km Womens' Walk

2006-03-21T22:47:00.000+11:00

Guess what happened to walk by my work building yesterday...?

So I rocked up to my car park a bit after 9AM and I see the games walkers already starting! I didn't think they'd start that early. But I planned to bring my camera along to take photographs, and give my 70-300mm lens a bit of a work out!

Problem

2006-03-19T21:23:00.000+11:00

I can't upload photographs today, unfortunately. This blogger thing just won't work in Internet Explorer or Firefox :(

I'll have to try again later.

Good morning

2006-03-12T22:09:00.000+11:00

This was taken bright and early in the morning, on one of my road trips to good ol' Sydney. We always wake up nice and early (around 3 or 4 AM) so that we can hit the road before anyone else. It would be dark and mysterious for the first part of the trip, as we travelled through the outer suburbs of Melbourne, and then through the country side.

Little by little, the sun would come up slowly; getting brighter and brighter as the morning minutes ticked by. Of course I'd still be trying to get some sleep in the back seat, as I was lulled by the hum of the engine and the tyres on the road. Waking up early clearly isn't my thing.

By the time the sun is just before full flight, we'd always hit the McDonalds in Wangaratta. I think on this particular trip it must have been Christmas day or Boxing day, or something and the fast food stores weren't opening early. Hrmm...

So as we had breakfast outside, the flowers too were looking for the presence of Ronald, but instead they found me and my camera.

Flower power

2006-03-11T23:03:00.000+11:00

Something to brighten your day
:)

Fireworks

2006-03-06T09:05:00.000+11:00

Well the typical no posts for a while comment goes here. I've been caught up in playing Age of empires 3 on my brand spanking new notebook pc, so I'm moving all the data across, e.g. photos etc.

But there doesn't seem to be any relevance as to why I put a photograph of fireworks from new years eve at this time, although I think I might need some fireworks in my life to spark it up a bit! It's getting a bit dull!

You beauty

2006-02-22T10:20:00.000+11:00

One nil to the Arsenal.

It would be real tragic for Monsieur Henry to leave at the end of the season, but for now he is brilliant.

I'd love to have taken these photos myself, however give the kudos to GettyImages.com

Flowers are much prettier than spiders

2006-02-19T18:08:00.000+11:00

For those who aren't into spiders.
I know some of the visitors here aren't ;)

This is a different shot of a flower I've posted earlier.

Chockies

2006-02-16T00:22:00.000+11:00

m&m's lined up one by one.

Spidey

2006-02-10T21:40:00.000+11:00

Just hangin' around in the toilet. Quite a small spider. But you don't want any of these guys crawling on you when you're on the loo.

Can can

2006-02-07T22:36:00.000+11:00

When you have a friend named Ally, this can becomes quite amusing.

Wombat

2006-02-06T22:09:00.000+11:00

You don't want to meet this animal down the street.

Looking down

2006-02-02T22:53:00.000+11:00

You never quite know what you'll see when you look down.

Crazy, crazy birds.

2006-01-31T11:30:00.000+11:00

I went to Ben's house yesterday and parked my car under a tree, which I found out later was a tree that birds use as a toilet... crap! Literally!

My car was dotted with little white splatters of bird poop, and I think the tree also decided to get in on the act by dropping its nuts and whatever else was hanging on the tree, onto the roof, bonnet, and back of my car.

To make things worse, the little white bullets of evil that came out of those birds that hit my car's sides, dripped all the way down, e.g. on the doors. Oh please have mercy!

I should have known something was up when, as I parked and started walking away from my car, some guy standing in the other yard was smirking at me. I thought it was just because I smelled funny. Or maybe because my fly was undone (that happens often too, forgetful silly me), but I didn't feel a breeze, so it mustn't have been that.

He should have warned me! My poor car! If you poop on my car you might as well poop on my head! But then again I'd already been pooped on the head several times before. I'm just a target I know... Perhaps I offended some bird when I was younger, ate too much eggs or something a rather, and the word's just spread around.

The most memorable target practise session for the birds happened when the city of Melbourne was still young. Federation Square was not in existence, train tickets had holes punched in them, Flinders St had a Hungry Jacks inside it, and I was still in grade 4. And while on the way of being shown the arcade gaming venues by my then high-school aged cousin (Street Fighter was the bomb back then), this was the time the winged beasts decided to strike with accuracy that was comparable with anti-terrorist snipers waiting in the shadows.

But shadows were not to be seen during this moment; it was noon and everything was illuminated – out in the open. It was their day. And not mine.

I bopped along Swanston St, taking in at all the new sights and sounds that a 9 year-olds find interesting - the many clocks at the train station, the beeping and clicking of traffic lights and crossings, a few scraggly looking guys sitting in front of the shops. I might have been walking slowly or fast, I can't recall. But as I passed the first bank ATMs as I walked away from the station, I felt something that I had never felt before.

Something landed right in the middle of my head. As in RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY HEAD. So perfectly did it land, that there were no drips, no spills, that as I walked another few metres, my brain failed to register that there was foreign material just above it.

"What was this cold, viscous, jelly like thing...?” I thought to myself. Because my cousin was older and taller, I was sure he'd know.

I tugged his shirt.

"Is there something on my head?" I asked.
"Heh. Oh. Hmm... What the?"
"On my head what is it?"

There was a feeling of impossibility. I remember looking up and seeing a roof and some cover over the footpath, and my cousin probably remembered that too. How could this be? Why is there bird turd on my head? Could a bird actually bend it like Beckham?

"You got shat on by a bird." He replied
"What's a 'shat'?"

We walked into the nearest fast food store that had plenty of free napkins/serviettes, and the evidence was removed. The day continued on as normal, but that incident is something that will be etched in my mind forever. Ah those birds... crazy, crazy birds...

So if you see my climbing a tree trying to get revenge, please don't be surprised. A little boost helping me up the branches would be much appreciated though :)

Cosy

2006-01-28T21:47:00.000+11:00

It's nice to find a place you can just curl up in.

Cang's Dog

2006-01-23T21:25:00.000+11:00

I never caught its name. But it was under the table after the barbeque.
Maybe it was after some food.

Good things come in threes

2006-01-19T13:40:00.000+11:00

Playing soccer at the Melbourne Uni hockey pitch can be memorable, but yesterday’s game was quite out of the ordinary.

I rocked up to the pitch after work in the late afternoon, decked out in my new Ronaldinho No. 10 Barcelona top, to meet up with my soccer buddies. They were already settled into playing a game with a bunch of other people, who refused to let more players in the game!

From afar I heard them mention they “only wan 7 players a team” with an accent from some southeast Asian country. This was of course hard to believe as the other half of the hockey field was completely empty!

As I was ready to give them a go, I knew it wasn’t worth it. So the others and I played with more hospitable players playing on the opposite side.

When we began playing with these new,friendlier guys, a crowd of high school aged kids started hanging out on the end that I was scoring goals at. They seemed to be there for some hockey tournament/practise later that night, and were quite keen spectators. Their loud and rowdy nature could be heard all over the pitch.

(In your best imagined Aussie accent)
“Oh, mate, who’s playin?”
“Hey man I can’t see anyone, but there’s a guy in a Giggs shirt”
“Oh yeh, and Ronaldo!”
“That’s not Ronaldo you idiot, that’s Ronaldinho”
“Hey Ronaldinho, score a goal mate. Give us a wave”

Yes, I think they were referring to me. So not to disappoint, I upped the tempo and scored, and the kids let us know how they felt.

“Waaa, go Ronaldinho”
“Give us a wave mate!”
“Score another one!”

And score another one I did; a cracker of a goal with my left foot after making a good turn, edging it past a couple of defenders.

“Yeh! Ronaldinho’s on a hat trick”
“Pass the ball to Ronaldinho!”
“Give us a wave Ronaldinho!”

Of course the comments did go both ways; when I mistouched a ball or someone took a ball off me they let us know about it.

“Oh, that’s not good enough Ronaldinho.”
“Give it to Giggsy he can do better.”
“That’s disappointing man…”
“Wave back man…”

All said in a very loud and very audible tone, down to the other side of the ground.

When the hockey coach whistled and signalled that in 5 minutes teenage girls waving hockey sticks will come on the pitch and remove us with force, I knew I had to focus to get that elusive 3rd goal.

Some nice passing (thanks to good team mates) led to a chance, and I wasn’t letting this one go… GOAL! Top right hand corner, and it just managed to squeeze in!

“Yeahh, Hat Trick for Ronaldinho!”
“Give us a wave!!!”
“Man that guy is good looking” (note: I may have made this line up)
“Good stuffffff!”

So after celebrating the hat-trick in a reasonable fashion, I finally gave those guys a wave, and realised what home crowd support can actually do for players. They supporters can make it known when you improving, and their cheering can also make you feel like you can do absolutely anything.

Read more on Ronaldinho

Let sleepy dogs sleep

2006-01-15T22:40:00.000+11:00

Dale the dog looks like he's about to nod off on this warm summer's day.

Broken Pot

2006-01-13T19:08:00.000+11:00

Don't worry, there are more where they came from.

Dazed and confused.

2006-01-12T23:27:00.000+11:00

The way home is sometimes not what you expect

Squizz

2006-01-10T23:14:00.000+11:00

I was going to do another blog but I decided to cop out and do this question thing on Miss L's blog craponomy.

1. What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
Lodge a tax return. If you don't need to do it, why would ya?

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any new years resolutions, and I won't make any for this year!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My cousin. And that makes me a cousin-uncle. Or a Kunkle.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not quite.

5. What countries did you visit?
Australia. And Australia. Would you consider Glen Waverly to be another country as it's quite far?

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
A date.

7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 17. Started full time work!
March 3. University graduation.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Graduating Uni! Staying at work for a whole year! Woohoo!

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not slowing down during amber lights at traffic lights... I know.... it'll be the cause of my downfall...

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Hayfever strikes regularly.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
A new shiny red car.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
People who quit smoking.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Those who started up smoking again after quitting.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Did I mention a new shiny red car already?

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Well I didn't really get that excited about the car, more excited about my D70! Ok ok, both were pretty exciting!

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Home - Michael Buble

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
(a) Happier or Sadder? Happier
(b) Thinner or Fatter? Fatter
(c) Richer or Poorer? Financially richer.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Exercise. *holds gut* Who wants to play more soccer at the Melbourne Uni hockey pitch?

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Procrastinating.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Sleeping.

21. Did you fall in love in 2005?
I did mention that car right? But if you mean people then probably not...

22. How many one-night stands?
one. With an N appended at the start (thus spelling None, for those who can't spell)

23. What was your favorite TV program?
Smallville! Woooo! Lana Lang is a babe.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Noo, I love everybody!

25. What was the best book you read?
Superman: Secret Identity by Busiek and Immonen.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That I can play Coldplay songs on the guitar. And that Backstreet Boys songs are out of my range.

27. What did you want and get?
A car.

28. What did you want and not get?
Super powers.

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
21st baby! On the actual birthday I didn't do anything, just like my 0th birthday.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Another 6 months in a year.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Business casual and whatever I could find in my closet.

33. What kept you sane?
Work. It gave a structure to my day.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Thierry Henry. His fight against racism in football, and his great skills.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Those Japanese need to lay off those whales. Eat something else that reproduce quicker and can be farmed.

36. Who did you miss?
Patrick Vieira... and so do the rest of the Arsenal Football Club *sob*

37. Who was the best new person you met?
I met lots of new people at work. But none of them were that good... but umm... best new person... would have to be... Ally, she got closer to North London than anyone I knew in 2005! (North London being the home of Arsenal FC, and her living in Chel$ki, woops i mean Chelsea...pfft)

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Money doesn't grow on trees. They grow in banks.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"But Belle, Je ne comprend pas français,
So you’ll have to speak to me some other way"
Belle - Jack Johnson

Peekaboo

2006-01-02T21:49:00.000+11:00

Peekaboo.
Someone's twenty-two.
I wonder who.
Do you have a clue?
He likes red but also the colour blue.
He supposedly lives where the cows go moo.
Last year he didn't get the flu.
He's got a car that's fairly new.
And on it, the birds thought they'd poo.
He didn't know what to do.
So he thought he'd get rid of it with his shoe.
It didn't quite work, so boo hoo... *sob*
Do you need a reminder or a cue?
I know who it is, do you know too?
;)

Happy New Years

2006-01-01T09:56:00.000+11:00

Bloody building was in the way...

Jelly Baby

2005-12-31T01:06:00.000+11:00

You can almost see the smile on it's face. It's so happy to provide happiness to your taste buds.

Right on the spot

2005-12-21T21:03:00.000+11:00

Ornamental Size

2005-12-19T21:56:00.000+11:00

Is it just me or do the Christmas celebrations get bigger and bigger?

Take a walk with me

2005-12-14T20:23:00.000+11:00

Down the path, not knowing what the future holds, but knowing that there will be those willing to take the journey with you.

The green, green glass of home

2005-12-13T22:56:00.000+11:00

The green glass makes pretty patterns. So peaceful as the light filters through.

The lights above

2005-12-12T21:56:00.000+11:00

After a long day, you look up to rest your eyes and are drawn to your destination by the bright, white lights.

Streaks of white

2005-12-11T19:07:00.000+11:00

A lot of people seem to be jetting overseas these holidays.
And all I do is drive to work.

Albeit in a nicer car and with less traffic, but hey, it's work!

Wasp on pink flower

2005-12-10T21:35:00.000+11:00

You all know how I love taking pictures of the colorful flowers and insects that fly around. This happened to be on a Sunday a while ago, while I was at church. The wasps seemed to have taken a liking to the pink flowers outside the front doors, so I praise the Lord that it was a lovely day when I brought my camera along!

I could afford to take a lot of shots as there were a whole bunch of wasps swarming around the flowered bush. Thankfully they didn't mind me taking their photographs, and I didn't end up a pin cushion. This was one of the best photographs that came out that day. I hope you like it.

On the inside

2005-12-09T19:54:00.000+11:00

There are times when there is beauty inside, and not just out.
Don't waste the opportunity. Take it and never let it go

I caught an interesting angle of this flower while I was strolling through the park in Hawthorn at uni. And if I was smart enough I'd know the latin name for it, but I'm not.

Maybe my year 11-12 biology teacher might know, but he might better know the waste by products of certain animals since he explained about how he purchased a shirt with pictures and names of the animals that made them. Hehe. Go figure.

On the morrow

2005-12-08T20:47:00.000+11:00

As the sun sets in the distance, I begin to wonder that the next day will bring.

Because I've bit a tad busy over the past weeks, I thought I'd delve into some of the previous photographs I've taken, and showcasing them here for all to see; as opposed to keeping them locked away deep in the directories of my hard disk drive.

These were shots that I'd taken a while ago when printing digital photos were a little too steep, or just a bit infeasible. But now you can just print them for like 29 cents at Hardly Normal (Harvey Norman) so it's great!

Handy tip

2005-12-02T09:52:00.000+11:00

What not to do in the office #658784:
Make popcorn in the microwave, leave it in a tad too long, leave an awful wafting smell of burned food, and making everyone wonder why the fire department hasn't arrived yet.

>_<

The dirty world of Jash

2005-11-30T13:39:00.000+11:00

Cleaning one’s room is a chore sometimes. Actually it’s a chore ALL the time, but it’s something that I don’t really look forward to. But when you can’t find a place on the floor to step on and you end up swimming through clothes and books and bags just to get to your waterbed which you remember wasn’t one when you bought it, then you (mainly I) should probably start clearing up so that the next time you lose your keys, you won’t need to borrow your friends scuba gear to search your room.

So that’s what I’ve been doing on the weekend apart from the several 2 hour trips across the city and back because all my friends don’t want to live near me. Come on guys, you know you want to. I mean who wants to live in some place where you get lost just trying to get to some coffee shop in the middle of the night on Friday/Saturday. And they call my area the ‘sticks’. I must have run over so many stricks in the near country conditions when someone *cough*Edgar*cough* actually was supposed to LEFT instead of RIGHT. Gee, I don’t know how he’s going to cope overseas… maybe he’ll end up in Guadalajara instead of London, hee hee.

But it’s amazing what you can find in your room when you haven’t cleaned it. Apart from the Guadalajarans that I found hiding in the corner of my room (they’re friendly people, those Guadalajarans; compared to those London folk) there were sooo many cobwebs hanging off everything. I had arachnids living in my room and they weren’t giving me rent! Cheapskates. They come in my room to procreate, and what do I get; nothing! Nothing but more randy adolescent spiders! I know I know, they would have paid me in ‘insects’ as opposed to dollars and I couldn’t have done much with it, but it’s the principle you know…

And you wouldn’t believe the amount of dust in the nooks and crannies. If I had a dollar for every piece of dust that was in my room I could buy a vacuum cleaner so that I could get rid of the dust and then wouldn’t be rich any more because there’d be no more dust left. Hrmm… I guess that wouldn’t be a good idea then.

I suggest you clean you room every so often so that it doesn’t come down to this madness. Wise advice, that. So that next time you bring a girl to your room, you can find her again, as opposed to not being able to find her; which would not be a good thing. There’s only so much air in those scuba oxygen tanks.

And you reading this probably thought there was something 'dirty' in this post. Well shame on you :P

Middle of November

2005-11-20T21:15:00.000+11:00

Just hangin' around

After the moist weather of the previous week, a snail is still resting under a window ledge on this sunny day.

Under a blue sky

Under the blue sky the flowers grow, and make everyone smile.
Yes I know, it sounds like something from a folder/book you get at Morning Glory... but I made it up myself. Honest :)))

Working on the weekend

This bee probably won't get paid for its overtime. Better to spend time with your sweet sweet hunny on the weekends I say ;)

In suspense

I bet when you're hungry you look like this too.

Procrastination to the max

2005-11-20T18:32:00.000+11:00

Ever wanted to waste time with your study papers as opposed to actually studying them?
http://blog.joins.com/media/folderlistslide.asp?fol
der=8&list_id=5105133&uid=bdaisy

Let's see someone try this in an exam...
:)

If Quirky Jash were in South Park

2005-11-20T18:07:00.000+11:00

He'd look something like this:

What do you think?

look where they're going

2005-11-16T23:13:00.000+11:00

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE

OI OI OI

www.gettyimages.com

By the wayside

2005-11-14T21:02:00.000+11:00

Sometimes things just don't go the way you'd like them to.

Warm and fuzzy

2005-11-14T20:59:00.000+11:00

Chocolate Suckao at Max Brenners

If you're part of the female persuasion then there is a good possiblity that chocolate is a good friend of yours. Trying not to sound like a plug for Max Brenners, that place is one of the best places to go and eat chocolate. Chocolate there comes hot, cold, liquid, solid, milk, white, dark, and in several other nationalities.

Located near Chilli Padi on the Elizabeth St, Lt Lonsdale St end of Melbourne Central.

Bonsai

2005-11-14T20:55:00.000+11:00

With shiny pebbles of sorts.