Couldn't miss a sunny day out in winter...So I hopped on the sandringham line and headed for the Brighton Beach!
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Saturday, July 16, 2005
the White Tomb
When the half-blood Prince pointed his wand at him and incanted 'Avada Kedavra' - I couldn't hold back my tears.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
I Have No Right
I hate it so much whenever I see "To be eligible to apply for this position you must have an appropriate Australian or New Zealand work visa." or "Only people with the right to work in Australia may apply for this position.".
My initially high enthusiasm would just drop to the level right beneath one's shoes, ready to be squashed, together with the dirt on the ground. It has been unsuccessful for me, so far, to be able to be even considered for an interview after attempting for a few months.
I don't know if I should send in my resume whenever I see those rather comforting and kind remarks at the bottom of the job ad. Sending in well I least I give a shot, which is what I believe in that everyone should at least give it a go. Albeit I maybe wasting resources and earn myself an opportunity to be blacklisted! Not sending in, that is like going down without a fight.
And it'd be perfect if I had a partner whom I would have been living with for at least 12 months and supported by our families and have gone on holidays where pictures would be taken as proof...All that would make me eligible. I should have done so - it'd be so much more efficient rather than writing stupid resumes and going through a million and one companies details to come up with a decent cover letter (which got rejected anyway!). Not to mention the high but false hope that I'd held for myself everytime I went to talks held by any immigration agent and DIMIA.
I've realised that I am so incompetent compared to others. A lot of my frens have earned much more advantage compared to me. Result wise - not the top; extra-curricular wise - not even worth mentioning; general knowledge wise - I only know BB and a whole bunch of craps. Other vital materials like the stock market, top 50 companies, latest tech, all-rounded-and-cunning-ness, fluent English, fast thinking, wot are Richard Brandson, Donald Trump, BG doing, what are their recipes to success...There is no need to finish the list as I am already feeling rather dumb and dumber.
Here I am sitting in front of my computer, on a cold and wet Thursday morning, only 10 more days to go before the break ends. With a million things on the back of my mind, which they have the full right to claim on me, I've decided to stop whingigng and get back to my lovely APC, ASP and HP5/DaVinciCode when I am free. Most of the time I find solace whenever I finish studying. So why not..
Till next time fellas.
My initially high enthusiasm would just drop to the level right beneath one's shoes, ready to be squashed, together with the dirt on the ground. It has been unsuccessful for me, so far, to be able to be even considered for an interview after attempting for a few months.
I don't know if I should send in my resume whenever I see those rather comforting and kind remarks at the bottom of the job ad. Sending in well I least I give a shot, which is what I believe in that everyone should at least give it a go. Albeit I maybe wasting resources and earn myself an opportunity to be blacklisted! Not sending in, that is like going down without a fight.
And it'd be perfect if I had a partner whom I would have been living with for at least 12 months and supported by our families and have gone on holidays where pictures would be taken as proof...All that would make me eligible. I should have done so - it'd be so much more efficient rather than writing stupid resumes and going through a million and one companies details to come up with a decent cover letter (which got rejected anyway!). Not to mention the high but false hope that I'd held for myself everytime I went to talks held by any immigration agent and DIMIA.
I've realised that I am so incompetent compared to others. A lot of my frens have earned much more advantage compared to me. Result wise - not the top; extra-curricular wise - not even worth mentioning; general knowledge wise - I only know BB and a whole bunch of craps. Other vital materials like the stock market, top 50 companies, latest tech, all-rounded-and-cunning-ness, fluent English, fast thinking, wot are Richard Brandson, Donald Trump, BG doing, what are their recipes to success...There is no need to finish the list as I am already feeling rather dumb and dumber.
Here I am sitting in front of my computer, on a cold and wet Thursday morning, only 10 more days to go before the break ends. With a million things on the back of my mind, which they have the full right to claim on me, I've decided to stop whingigng and get back to my lovely APC, ASP and HP5/DaVinciCode when I am free. Most of the time I find solace whenever I finish studying. So why not..
Till next time fellas.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
This is my definition of soulmate
Soulmate /soldm8/ n Someone who can bring out the best and worst in me and still love me for who I am, vice versa; someone who can strip me bare naked (not in the literal sense o'course) and see right through me; someone whom I can safely and conveniently share a space with and be totally cool with my weird habits (if any, yet to develop).
Top to bottom, perfect fit.
Top to bottom, perfect fit.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Can't you finish already?
I've just discovered that there is one thing I dislike about some ppl's blogs - LONG winded, FULLY detailed to the point where it's like a replay of the experience with all interesting and uninteresting bits.
It's just me. Some people like reading long accounts of a simple events which I find it boring and normally I'd just read the first quarter of the articles. It's not just blogs, news too. It maybe a bad sign that I might need to spend more time and energy going through reports, journals, and news in the future when I work.
Oh, what a way to torture my eyes...
It's just me. Some people like reading long accounts of a simple events which I find it boring and normally I'd just read the first quarter of the articles. It's not just blogs, news too. It maybe a bad sign that I might need to spend more time and energy going through reports, journals, and news in the future when I work.
Oh, what a way to torture my eyes...
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Alfred and the Half-Blood Prince
Hogwarts Express is now at the Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, getting ready to roam back to Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft!
Counting down the number of sleeps to next Saturday - the sixth instalment of the HP series "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (672 pages, July 16 2005). Now my heart is racing, probably the same level of excitement if I mount the firebolt.
Just talking to my friend just now. I feel like buying a whole set of the Harry Potter series for myself. We have had a family set, which is now back in Malaysia. I can't imagine myself having to wait for my friends to finish their HP6 so that I can borrow and read it. The reason being my brother has already ordered a book back home.
Any guess as who is gonna be the half-blood prince? I did think about Hagrid - since he's half-giant and half-human. Also Voldemort, half-magical and half-muggle born.
Other excitements that I am looking forward to - Quidditch! Ron and Hermione! More spells and potions and duellings! Chemical and/or non-chemical conflicts with Professor Snape! Remus (he's my favourite teacher)! And all other new, fun, adrenaline-rushing elements that JKR is gonna give us. She's is already richer than the English Queen by $250 million!
In my small little heart, I wish that Sirius is not dead somehow. I don't believe that he died so easily. Harry deserves at least a relative in his life. (And because I am like Sirius, too =P)
Ah well, it's time to to write a spell that will make me have the intelligence of Hermione so that I can complete my ASP2.
Something wicca this way comes!!
Counting down the number of sleeps to next Saturday - the sixth instalment of the HP series "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (672 pages, July 16 2005). Now my heart is racing, probably the same level of excitement if I mount the firebolt.
Just talking to my friend just now. I feel like buying a whole set of the Harry Potter series for myself. We have had a family set, which is now back in Malaysia. I can't imagine myself having to wait for my friends to finish their HP6 so that I can borrow and read it. The reason being my brother has already ordered a book back home.
Any guess as who is gonna be the half-blood prince? I did think about Hagrid - since he's half-giant and half-human. Also Voldemort, half-magical and half-muggle born.
Other excitements that I am looking forward to - Quidditch! Ron and Hermione! More spells and potions and duellings! Chemical and/or non-chemical conflicts with Professor Snape! Remus (he's my favourite teacher)! And all other new, fun, adrenaline-rushing elements that JKR is gonna give us. She's is already richer than the English Queen by $250 million!
In my small little heart, I wish that Sirius is not dead somehow. I don't believe that he died so easily. Harry deserves at least a relative in his life. (And because I am like Sirius, too =P)
Ah well, it's time to to write a spell that will make me have the intelligence of Hermione so that I can complete my ASP2.
Something wicca this way comes!!
Saturday, July 09, 2005
alfred's most wanted playlist July 2005
Arghhhh my thumb hurts...just burned myself a little bit with the match. Back to the topic, I think I would like to share with my "vast" readers of my blog, some songs that are currently being played on my iTune.
1. A message by Coldplay
2. Like a prayer by Maddy
3. I am so excited by The Pointer Sisters
4. Fix you by Coldplay
5. I am every woman by Whitney Houstan
6. Midas touch by Midnight Star
7. Back to basics by The Shapeshifters
8. Star 2Fall by Cabin Crew.
9. Sweet Dreams by Eurhythmics
10. We are family by Sister Sledge
If you guys want any song from the above playlist, please leave ur email (preferably those with big storage space) and song names in the remark.
1. A message by Coldplay
2. Like a prayer by Maddy
3. I am so excited by The Pointer Sisters
4. Fix you by Coldplay
5. I am every woman by Whitney Houstan
6. Midas touch by Midnight Star
7. Back to basics by The Shapeshifters
8. Star 2Fall by Cabin Crew.
9. Sweet Dreams by Eurhythmics
10. We are family by Sister Sledge
If you guys want any song from the above playlist, please leave ur email (preferably those with big storage space) and song names in the remark.
Oh My God (DO NOT READ)
God (of wotever religion, believe or race) please show yourself(ves) if you really exist. If you are really almighty and if y0u are right that your teaching is pure, is genuine, is above everything else, it's about time you show yourself(ves) to the world.
In the face of bombing, hatred, massacre, discrimination, abuse, delusion and manipulation, you have been all of those things! They go against everything you would like your worshippers to follow. And some of your followers, have manipulated and abused you for personal gain, at the expense of other human lives and free will.
If you really exist, maybe it's time for you to update your little books of all source of good and evil. Your teaching (that I believe, was made up by some smart-asses some thousand years ago, to fool and deceive everyone that they came in contact with), if you really do exist, has been interpreted to a gazillion types of meaning, advice, motivation, guidance, tool, myth, exaggeration and lie.
If you really do exist, it's time for you to hold something like the G8 summit and hope that you are not bombed, to reconcile wotever crap you intended your followers to practice. The games of oh-God-told-me-this or oh-God-sent-me-to-save-mankinda or He-the-almighty and you-must-believe-me-or-you-will-be-helled have gone out of hand. You need to stop your game - your puppets are killing each other!!
I have just come to realise that one maybe his/her own god and dog (wotever the reserve of god is) and we don't need you! Indeed, someone realised the existence and inexistence of 'god' and 'anti-god' in everyone's mind and used it to his/her own advantage on those who hadn't realised it, or at least hadn't taken a stance. Why do we need to believe the first persons? Human's fear of unknown has led us to believing something that brings more fear.
There are many unexplanable concepts like where do we go after we die, the existence of some spirits we can't see with our naked eyes, the existence of life beyond earth, the existence of magic, even our own existence. And someone who gets ahead of everyone else comes up with some quite believable idea like god. And this idea expands and abuses our lax of knowledge. In short, wot do men with power want? More power. And control.
Human will end. Not because of we don't believe in god, not because we don't practice wotever they say. Our minds will switch us off. God is just a made-up, by those clever people, to make the final cover-up for their master plans, to cover the flaws, to cover the unexplainable, to cover the real truth.
In the face of bombing, hatred, massacre, discrimination, abuse, delusion and manipulation, you have been all of those things! They go against everything you would like your worshippers to follow. And some of your followers, have manipulated and abused you for personal gain, at the expense of other human lives and free will.
If you really exist, maybe it's time for you to update your little books of all source of good and evil. Your teaching (that I believe, was made up by some smart-asses some thousand years ago, to fool and deceive everyone that they came in contact with), if you really do exist, has been interpreted to a gazillion types of meaning, advice, motivation, guidance, tool, myth, exaggeration and lie.
If you really do exist, it's time for you to hold something like the G8 summit and hope that you are not bombed, to reconcile wotever crap you intended your followers to practice. The games of oh-God-told-me-this or oh-God-sent-me-to-save-mankinda or He-the-almighty and you-must-believe-me-or-you-will-be-helled have gone out of hand. You need to stop your game - your puppets are killing each other!!
I have just come to realise that one maybe his/her own god and dog (wotever the reserve of god is) and we don't need you! Indeed, someone realised the existence and inexistence of 'god' and 'anti-god' in everyone's mind and used it to his/her own advantage on those who hadn't realised it, or at least hadn't taken a stance. Why do we need to believe the first persons? Human's fear of unknown has led us to believing something that brings more fear.
There are many unexplanable concepts like where do we go after we die, the existence of some spirits we can't see with our naked eyes, the existence of life beyond earth, the existence of magic, even our own existence. And someone who gets ahead of everyone else comes up with some quite believable idea like god. And this idea expands and abuses our lax of knowledge. In short, wot do men with power want? More power. And control.
Human will end. Not because of we don't believe in god, not because we don't practice wotever they say. Our minds will switch us off. God is just a made-up, by those clever people, to make the final cover-up for their master plans, to cover the flaws, to cover the unexplainable, to cover the real truth.
Friday, July 08, 2005
When in France, do as the French do...
According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, only 47% of French people shower or bathe every day compared with 70% of Britons and 80% of Dutch, Germans and Scandinavians. But the French are Europe's biggest consumers of perfume and deodorants.
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