Canada?

So… Canada.

They gave us Celine Dion… now they give us Justin Beiber!

No wonder no one takes Canada seriously.

09.Jun.10 Random Comments (0) 

Who are you?

More to the point, who am I?

Yes I have returned, but perhaps not as I once was.
A little older, a little wiser. Or am I? More cautious, less trusting, maybe.

22.Apr.10 Random Comment (1) 

Oh yeah, umm hi.

Busy doing lots of stuff, but at the same time, somehow managing to waste time doing nothing. But i’m not unhappy about that, really.

I should really do some back-issue posts for the last 9 months. Lots of fun.

Random muse for the day:

It’s weird how some people can be at an academic level where they are tutoring other people in a specialised technical field, and yet their grasp of the English language which they use to convey this knowledge is nothing short of atrocious.

Powerpoint does have a spell checker, use it.

14.Dec.09 Random Comments (0) 

Fan or stalker?

Wow, someone actually reads this thing. Lol!

15.Aug.09 Random Comment (1) 

Optimistic Pessimist or Pessimistic Optimist?

Sometimes I have reflective moments where I pause and analyse myself, and think that i’m a pessimist. But then I look a bit deeper, and find I really seem to be an optimist.

When it comes to other people though, when is optimism crossing the border into naivity?

Thanks to someone tagging a friend of mine in a Facebook picture, I realised he was back from Overseas and in Sydney – though he hadn’t told anyone. Not me, nor his best friend from when he used to live here (they were almost inseparable). I thought this was strange, but figured he might just want to keep things low key.

I told him i’d be in Sydney as well, and that we should catch up – seeing as it’d probably be another year before he comes back again. He replied with the suggestion that we catch up on Sunday for a coffee. That sounded good.

I met a friend for dinner on Friday night, and although expensive, both the restaurant and the meal were fantastic. It’s kind of sad that nowadays we’re bowled over when we experience good service, but this went beyond that. It was FLAWLESS. If you’ve got a bundle of cash for dinner and you’re in Sydney. DO go to ‘Rambutan’ on Oxford St.

After dinner I met another couple of friends and we went clubbing at The Shift. After dancing awhile and watching one of the tragic drag shows, I went to get a drink. On my return, I passed a group of guys, and did a double-take – my other friend was here too!

So much for keeping it low-key if he’s at the shift.. haha… Then he saw me too and we hung out for most of the rest of the night, and it was all quite fun. Around 4.30 I was heading back to the hotel for some sleep, so he confirmed again we’d catch up for coffee on Sunday. He’d send me his mobile number on Facebook later the next day. We said our goodbyes and I headed off.

Now here’s where the optimism kicks in: I assumed he would send me a message with his phone number, and plans etc on where we’d meet on Sunday.

Now here’s where the naivity kicks in: I started making excuses in my head (eg, no net? busy?) why he hadn’t messaged me, right upto about lunchtime on Sunday.

Now here’s where the pessimism kicks in: Considering he didn’t tell his best friend he was coming to Sydney for a month, and he didn’t immediately give me his contact number on his first message nor when we met in the club, I can only assume he had no intention to do so at all in the first place. So why go through all the pretending bullshit then?

This is actually a saddening fact to accept, because I like to believe that when people say something, they mean it. I will believe they mean what they say, right up until their actions prove otherwise – kind of like the “I love you’s” my ex used to tell me right before I dumped him.. Actions speak far louder than words.

People change, and a lot of the time it’s not for the better. Maybe I should start off with the pessimism and be occasionally pleasantly surprised when they prove me wrong.

15.Jun.09 Random Comments (2) 

Void

There’s a big hole, and it’s not going away.

I don’t like it.

25.May.09 Random Comment (1) 

Weirdos

I had this Thai guy message me the other day (Very cute, too). A bit of a weird one, but amusing.

Firstly, he’s in Sydney, but he doesn’t like it there. Too many people.

Secondly, he’s renting a 2 BR apartment, but he’s got about 10 people living there so he can subsidise the rent.. (if you don’t like so many people, don’t make your apartment into a commune?)

But here’s the best bit – he’s looking for a loving boyfriend who’s not into material things, not superficial, etc. And then in the next sentence he says he’s dating some guy who spends lots of money on him (buying him clothes, etc), aka sugar daddy. Lol.

Even better, he wants to find some ‘perfect boyfriend’, but he wants to be the first Asian guy this ‘perfect’ guy has dated. So if you’ve ever dated an Asian guy before, you’re instantly excluded.

Some people have some seriously fucked up logic going on in their heads.. LOL!

21.May.09 Random Comments (0) 

Culture Shock

Monday night. 10.43pm. NOTHING FUCKING OPEN.

So it’s mi goreng for dinner, I guess. (CBF cooking, worked late)

I could really go an izakaya right now..

23.Mar.09 Random Comment (1) 

Bookie bookie

First day back at work… checking flights to Tokyo again.. bad sign?

23.Mar.09 Random Comments (0) 

29

Meh.

13.Feb.09 Random Comment (1)