The Strange Things

The last post was made in October. Awks. I wanted to post more often but life is pretty damn boring anyway. I went around looking at some of my friend’s old blogs and a lot of you dropped off on blogging too. Maybe the working life is too overwhelming. Every day goes by in this really stream line way, I think I need something to look forward to every year otherwise it gets really boring when the only thing to look forward to is the weekend (in which nothing special happens anyway).

Speaking of being bored, I am quite tired of my job. I really wish I was motivated to do something. Maybe I should go pursue something greater then just being a working individual and then I can get shot back down to reality when it doesn’t go well (like most of the people who attempt to).

Holidays

Haven’t blogged in a while. I have been on holiday the entire time. So.. it has been 2 weeks. I didn’t do very much, I went to a few birthdays, played a lot of games, spent many nights at Brad’s house and the usual. I ate a lot of food and an infinite amount of chocolate. I went to the SVGA 24 Hour LAN, went to the airport to say farewell and see you later to our dear friend Jeremy and didn’t really do much else. It was a pretty good 2 weeks I’ll have to say. I should be more diligent in posting on my blog but I get really lazy. I guess you could say I’m doing other things instead of blogging. Now that work is starting tomorrow (CRIES) I’ll probably blog because I use my lunch hour blogging (as I can’t do other things at school).

A Dilemma

So I have recently been put with a large dilemma. My goal is to be a teacher. I want that career. Right now, I am a mere Integration Aide. This job does not require a ‘degree’. Only a diploma. It is really hard to get a graduate teaching job. I have been applying for them and I don’t ever seem to get any. I was offered a contract to work another 6 months at my current school as an aide. The job is simple, and it allows me to have the time to hang out with my friends as I do not need to prepare anything day by day. The pay is low, I could easily make the same amount with a part-time job. But I suppose unlike casual work, at least I know I will get the shifts (and the same pay each week). SO! THE DILEMMA. I have only days left to answer this offer of more work. But if I take it… it means no teaching job for me next year. Of course, even if I say no and continue looking for work – I may not get any and I’ll be in trouble as I cannot afford to be unemployed.

I guess I’m pretty worried about whether I can become a teacher or not. Sure… I can be an integration aide. But, what about the career I wanted? I don’t want to be some unimportant integration aide forever. I feel like I was lucky cause I finished uni at 21. Now I’m 22 and I have barely reached anything. Soon, I will be 23 and probably working the same job. Will I finally get to be a teacher at 24? I don’t want to waste any more years of my life not doing anything. I have already lost the advantage I gained by graduating from uni at a fairly young age. Of course, many people leave uni a lot later. Many people also have trouble finding work (and working low paying jobs for a long time). I know it isn’t that easy to just ‘get a job’. I know plenty of unemployed budding Engineers working at a coffee shop. Teaching might be one step easier, but it’s not like offers are gonna be falling onto your doorstep.

I asked a lot of people for advice. What they mostly agreed with is to continue my job next year because jobs are hard to come by and there’s no guarantee I will get a teaching job from just applying. I mean, it took me 27 applications to get this one job (even if it’s a lower paying job) so I should be happy I have it. Maybe another 6 months as an aide and then look for the job while living off savings?

As for today… didn’t do much. Just worked and went home and did nothing.

Party, LoL and Brad’s Curry

More work… more parties… more LoL playing. Throughout last week I just played tons of LoL and worked. Friday night I went to Lynn and Tony’s 21st party which was really good. It had nice food (even though Martin was allergic to it all), a fun game, some really funny moments and good company. Lynn had a beautiful dress (IT WAS SOOO NICE) and everyone looked nice. After the party I stayed at the Brad house until Saturday morning. I woke up and went to Jells Park for OPG (Old People’s Gathering). Had a lot of delicious food with Vu, Yi Xin, Bernie, Damien, Ally and her bf. He made some epic cake (IT WAS SOOO FATTENING). But yeah.. the food was REALLY REALLY good. If I organised a gathering with ‘young people’ the food is never that good (probably cause only like 2 of us can cook / really poor). Then I went home. Sunday was like rest day (also known as LoL day). Cause I did a lot this weekend it felt really really long which is good (the longer it feels the better).

On Monday I had work then… went to uni to watch Redline for MMN. Then went to Maccas with the Brad, Larry, K-man and Marty for some maccas food. Brad wouldn’t eat cause he wanted to use his remaining money for Jap curry ingredients. I felt bad but he wouldn’t take my money T.T So yeah… today was more work. I didn’t have any lunch or money but LUCKY LUCKY it was staff morning tea today so during recess I like… ate a lot of food. And then I took some food with me to eat later at lunch. It was a gooood idea (food was nice too although it was snack food). After work, I went to Brad house where he was making curry. It was really really good as usual. He invited lots of people this time. Sam fell over and thought he might have injured his arm in some way so I drove him to Monash Medical Centre but the nurse in the emergency section had a look then said come back tomorrow if it’s still hurting. And that is a week worth of blogging. It was a pretty good week. I guess I can’t do these daily entries like I used to.

China Bar Buffet

Let’s see… on Friday night after work I hobbled over to uni. And waited for an hour or so before we decided to leave uni a bit earlier then usual to go to Jeremy’s house. He wanted to change for his party as he decided he wasn’t dressed nicely enough. We picked up Rachel from Glenny station while waiting for Jeremy to change and then we got him again. We then made our way towards China Bar buffet to celebrate Leon and Jeremy’s 21st birthday.

China Bar was fantastic, a big mix of eating as much as I can while talking to everyone. It was a really good party, the guys pretty much only invited old-ish members of the anime club (with a few exceptions due to partner and such), not that there’s anything wrong with new ones but you know… some of us older ones had some pretty good memories in our first years together and it sorta felt like that again. I had only about 7 plates of food. I FAILED. After 5 plates was full, then after an hour of talking I ate an additional 2 plates and stopped as I felt kinda sick after that. BAD IDEA. Leon seemed to like the present I got with many people’s contributions. He was like HOLY SHIT when opening it and said this was kind of excessive. Jeremy’s present that I got him was like average. Wish I got him a proper video camera *SOBS* Anyway the night was good. Glad that went well.  We went home after we loitered outside the place for a while and the manager like glared at us. ;__;

The Entitled

Work was work. I had yummy lunch made by Martin yesterday. I had a headache in the morning so it was nice that I had a good lunch at least. I went to uni after. I just sat around talking to some people until Brad, Khanat and stuff all left to buy and cook curry dinner tonight. Me and Martin went to Chaddy to get a 3DS for Leon’s birthday – I was gonna go to JB Hi fi because it was $250 there for a 3DS and the Sims 3 but JUST in case… Martin asked GameTraders how much theirs cost and the guy was like “It’s $250 with a game of your choice” I was like… A GAME OF MY CHOICE. Wowowowow~ a 3DS by itself is cheapest at Toys R Us right now for $230. Last weekend Dick Smith had a sale and it was $200 there (but I missed it SOBS). But yeah, game of my choice meant no more JB as I originally wanted to get him Zelda but could not as it was too expensive so I was really happy to like get the 3DS and the Zelda game. For the gift wrapping, I bought gift bags that were like… fairy princess and cute and pink for both Leon and Jeremy’s pressies cause I thought it was funny.

We got back to the house and Brad was making curry. Just sat around looking at stuff until dinner was ready. It was reallly really yummy. It was like Brad’s curry with Linda’s family chicken shop chicken inside it (sorta making it like a katsu currydon). After that, mainly only me and Brad watched a movie on the TV called “The Entitled” it was surprisingly good. It didn’t start very good, but by the end I was actually kind of impressed. I went home to sleep after that.

Ra-ra-Ramennnn

I felt really heavy when I got up yesterday morning. Work wasn’t very eventful, I stayed an extra 20 minutes then usual after school as there were a number of things happening that lead to me not leaving school straight away. At uni… I… I dunno. I think I did nothing for like 2 hours, played like 2 games of LoL (which were funny ones) and then I was like HUNGRY.. DINNNARSSS. So I went to Glenny with Marty, Jeremiah, Reon, AK, Braddy and K-man. I secretly wanted Petaling Street food cause I wanted DRY wonton noodles but we went to Raramen for the free slurpees and stuff. At Raramen I attempted to still ask for dry wonton noodles but it was so confusing to the waitress and staff that I just gave up and ordered some other noodle. Before she left I caused even more trouble and changed my order back to the soup wonton noodles as I really wanted wontons even if it wasn’t dry. It was a pretty good choice in the end as the food tasted good (at least for me – I think some people were more disappoint).

We ate for like 2 hours as we spent ages just talking in the end. I went home… umm.. called my Mama and Papa as it was Dad’s birthday yesterday anddddd played more LoL before sleep-time. I woke up this morning with like the biggest headache ever and my throat was dry and my nose was blocked. I get pretty bad hay fever when the time comes so I am expecting to be unecessarily sick soon. T.T

A very LoL day…

I think I’ll continue with this format of maybe blogging about the day before each day. I realised now that I am always rather bored at work during lunch and stuff as I am not sociable. What a great idea to do my blog posts during that time. I’m currently working on pages in my blog to do random things like comment about food, restaurants and stuff. Previously, my plan was to make separate blogs for everything until I realised I just can’t do that.

Yesterday was the usual day at work. Nothing really happened at all that was noteworthy but I guess you could say this is a good thing. I prefer my student staying out of trouble and just having a relaxed day of working hard rather then dealing with difficult behaviour. After work I made my way to uni. I had nothing to do there, and I got irritated the longer I was there (I was pretty tired too – I only slept like 3 hours the previous night) so Larry phoned Brad to see whether he was home yet so we could come over. So me, Marty and Larry went over and played UT. Then K-man and Evan finally came home (I mean over… nah, let’s call it home) and with Brad we kinda like played LoL for the rest of the night. We didn’t really eat dinner, but Khanat like put frozen pizza and home-made sausage rolls in the oven so the snacking sorta became dinner. Anyway – I am now over 1320 elo in 5v5 for LoL. Yeah~ I used to be like… below 1200 – it’s like the first time being so high in a pre-arranged team.

On the way home about 12:30 AM, after dropping Larry and Evan home Martin kept making up LoL pickup lines using puns and LoL terminology. It was disgusting. I bet when I finish work today he’s gonna keep throwing more of them at me.

The Nardellian Birthday

I spent most of yesterday playing LoL and working on this blog. In the evening, I went out to pick up Lawrence from his house and then went to Ferntree Gully to consume some delicious Captain America’s with our group. It was to celebrate Brad’s 21st – it wasn’t yesterday – won’t say what day it is as it is a well kept secret. But yes… we did go to eat for him. Me, Larry and Martin arrived a bit late as I sorta left my house about 10 minutes too late. The one thing I hate about Captain America’s is that large groups don’t work in that restaurant. I sat with Larry, Martin, Limmers, Gems, Leon and Sammi on a seperate table to Brad and the others and thus I was like… I don’t feel like I’m celebrating the Brad birthday. T.T But whatever, we had good food and it was loads of fun. Jimmy, Brad, Ryan and Gems did the “Challenge Burger” which is basically a 1kg burger with 600 grams of chips that must be consumed within an hour. You get your name put on the board if you do this. If you beat the record – your meal is free. The record is like 6 minutes though. In general, the ‘burger’ portion of the challenge is fairly easy as the burger is tasty. The chips is the hard part as it is dry, fat and full of carbs and fairly tasteless after you eat a handful. Jimmy and Brad finished theirs (Jimmy ate quicker then he did the first time he did it) but Ryan gave up right at the end (unable to eat the last 7-ish amount of chips left on his plate) and Gems wasn’t anywhere near finishing unfortunately. I had a chicken burger (wanted to try it). I won’t be ordering that again. We had buffalo wings as an entree and they’re soooo good. I’m gonna just get them as a main next time (or make my own).

We then proceeded to sing Happy Birthday to Brad but did not consume the cake as some of us were about to throw up. Anyway, we took a lovely group photo outside before proceeding to make our way home. UNFORTUNATELY… on the way home. I did the wrong thing… with Martin and Larry still in my car… at the traffic light… my car was next to Jimmy’s car. I looked into his car and apparently this meant I was giving a challenge. As we got going I could see Jimmy’s car jetting through the lanes to get ahead of me, I instinctively went to change lanes as I wanted to overtake him but Martin was like… “You’re kidding right…” and then I decided against it anyway as well… I wasn’t speeding at the time yet and didn’t think it was a good idea to do that.

At Brad’s house, Evan plugged his awesome camera into the TV and we watched for a half hour of Brad eating his challenge burger in HD. It was sooo clear it was like we were there again. I took a photo of Brad watching himself eat. I then proceeded to put on a bunch of videos that we made for Khanat’s 20th birthday that was never given to him as a present (and thus he never saw them). It was something I organised 2 years ago, lol. They were great things to watch and gave us a good laugh. Jimmy, Evan and Ryan had some of the funniest videos ever. We then went through a lot of photos on my computer, and old videos that I took on my camera in the past 3 years. It was like… walking down memory lane. So many memories… so many things has happened in this short amount of time. I think some of the funniest moments was showing everyone Khanat’s dantai videos… apparently they never saw him dancing before when he was part of dantai for that one year. But yeah… a lot of things have changed. It’s kinda surprising actually. Group dynamics have changed massively. When almost everyone went home, I put on a video I made for MCAC’s committee when Vu left and it had Crash and Burn playing. Ryan thought it was beautiful and like… so emotional and everything. I completely forgot all about it and thought it was wonderful.

Went home about 1:30 AM. Was locked outside Martin’s house as the key broke. We woke up his parents. Felt really guilty. I really wish I had my own key and well… to not break the key.

1 and a half years…

So, like. I have not posted anything for one and a half years. During this time I still paid for this website. I decided to use it again and post random things once in a while. I thought I would catalogue my various games and manga here too because I’m tired of having 100 lists all over the interwebs.

I stopped posting in the beginning of 2010. This is also when I first started playing a certain game known as League of Legends. I wonder if this has a correlation. In this one and a half years, I taught at two schools for uni, graduated from uni, worked part-time, now working full-time as an aide, went to Thailand with my buddies and generally haven’t really done anything else except play LoL for one and a half years. And watch a ton of anime. Many things have happened but at the same time I don’t think too much has changed in my life.

I currently live with Martin (my boyfriend) and uhh… spend my days working and playing games in Brad’s house. I am now 22! I stopped posting right before my 21st. I feel old now.