I'm procrastinating too much

Thursday night, Friday and Saturday

I stayed up pretty late on Thursday doing my database report. That was actually after I went to maccas for 'supper' with Adrian and Eric. Hopefully the report is actually good though. I don't think I was very in depth. I think I've gotten to the point that yeah...whatever, I don't have to explain myself anymore and people should be able to understand with the minimum level of explanation. Or maybe its just concise... At least thats what I like to think.

Had work on Friday, as usual. The call center work that is. I figure this is like a really good job for me somehow. Its relatively easy, and its decent pay. Granted its not as much as most people get, but its a lot more than I was ever used to. Maybe thats why I seem to be relatively good at getting jobs - I'm willing to work for less.

Also went out for dinner on Friday night to another Chinese restaurant. The food was really crap actually. I don't really want to go there again.

Finally to top Friday night all off, I also went to go see Star Wars episode 3. Very nice. Definately worth the trip just for the light saber fights. There was plenty of that, including lots of force stuff, and the Yoda fights were probably the best.

Saturday:

Got up really really really really late. Came to work (restaurant). WOrked, then blogged.

Randomness

Almost did a skid on the way home tonight. Was kind of funny because I almost missed the turn into the street. I wonder if the people in the car will trust me driving anymore. That could be a good thing actually.... :)

Anyway, today was the last day of uni classes for the semester for me. I've got to finish an assignment tonight, but hopefully it won't be too hard. Its just a small 'less than 1000 words' report on the database that we built. Won't be too hard I don't think. All we have to do is answer some questions, and I've got the answers, its just a matter of writing it up into a report.

Exams are looming and stuff. I dunno what its going to be like. A couple of subjects I'm not really too sure about, todays lecture in psych suddenly made me a little more confident about it than I was before. Although the mark I got for the lab report didn't help much. Oh well, its not like I ever do well in psychology anyway. I think it just wasn't meant to be. In fact, I don't even know why I'm doing it anymore. I think its only for that one Industrial/Organisastional psychology subject in third year.

This blog post is a bit all over the place.

Oh. I got a call from Destche Bank about my internship application. I thought I definately wouldn't get it because Terence said they'd contact me almost straight away. So much for that. I have a telephone interview next week because they're up in Sydney. Supposedly I'm meant to look at their website and find out stuff so I can answer their questions. I thought that was really stupid. Also, I might get a few technical questions and stuff. Hopefully it should be OK. I wonder if I should just wing it. Apparently if we get through, and get the internship, they'll fly us to Sydney, put us up for the duration of the internship, and then fly us down again. I thought that was pretty nice.

Speaking of calls, I also got one about my phone. I think my contract is up again, so I get to get a new phone. Hmm... need to speak to Adrian about it.

Assignments..?

So its almost the end of the semester, and a lot of assignments are due. There was that thing on Monday for software Engineering. Advanced database is due on Friday. I was actually planning to stay later at uni to try and finish the programming part of it off. Fortunately I managed to finish the programming part of the assignment before I had to stay any longer than needed. Its all working now, I think. Bit hard to tell if there are any small errors due to the limited specifications, but the testing all works, but I'm not really complaining.

Actually there aren't that many assignments. Everyone just seems to be so busy. People are getting graduate jobs all around me. Some people probably won't be getting graduate jobs as such, but its ok. This is the point where people start to drift apart, but also in turn get closer. I'd think that once you become separated from the people you spend a lot of time with, it helps you appreciate them more, and I guess thats what its all about: appreciating your friends and those you like to keep close to you.

The graduate job recruitment process keeps reminding me how scary the real world is, not that I didn't already get another reminder last week. That was enough thankyou very much.

EeEEEEk

I bummed around the whole weekend, thinking that my software eng assignment was due in on Friday. Woke up today and found out it was due today. Not a good start.

Luckily Chunks and I (well mainly Chunks) managed to fudge it up and hand it in with a silver platter. Hopefully its ok.

The usual...

Things are back to normal again, kind of.

Dad rang at around 3:30 in the afternoon to ask me to come and pick him up. He seems to be pretty good now. Just gotta take some pills and go back for another consultation in a couple of weeks just to see how he's doing. So he's back at work again, refusing (as usual) to take the rest of the day off or anything like that. See what I mean about stubborn?

I had a pretty good day off as well. After submitting my assignment last night, I slept from about 1am till about 2pm. Ah it felt good. I'm not sure if it was actually any good or not though, but hopefully it will be up close to the standard that the rest of our software engineering submissions were.

Mum is still not back yet, but then we weren't really expecting her to be. I don't think she knows whats happening here yet either. We decided not to tell her since we felt that it would just make her worry unneccesarily. Its not as if she could have done anything to help while she's 2000km away. Its good to just have a holiday and not worry about anything.

Not much else to say really... All I need is a big hug.

Nappage

Had a nap between 7:30 and 9:30... then straight back into it.

Gotta get up at 5:30 or so to go shopping for fish and fruit. Fun. Anyone wanna come Vic market at 6am? hahahahaha. No? Didn't think so.

Yeah... its pretty bad

So everything seems to be going a little bit pear shaped. I slept about 2 hours last night. Well.. more accurately, this morning. The night before I only got about 3 hours, so that makes... 5 hours in total over about 2 days.

Dad was feeling quite crook last night, so we called the after hours doctor. He only came at around 12, way after we closed the restaurant up for the night. Apprently he has a really bad infection, so we went to the hospital. After the usual wait, they took some blood, injected some things, and put him on a drip. It was kind of scary and sobering actually. I've never seen my dad so vulnerable. He's always been strong (, stubborn and authoritative maybe) and stuff... but watching him writhe with pain and shake with cold while he's got a high temperature... its not really something you see everyday.

Fortunately, by the time 7am rolled around, he was feeling better. Not that much better mind you, just a little bit. Hmm... I feel the weight of responsibility now. Its not the kind of responsibility you have to keep to your team members in a project or assignment, but its a responsibility to keep your family going smoothly. It really is quite scary.

I had to come to work, other people had to fill in, and my weekend looks even more ruined than it already was. Oh well, I guess now I know what its like to be my parents. Maybe it'll help me appreciate them just that much more.

The outlook isn't good...

For the next couple of weeks, I don't think I'll have a life.

Now that mum has gone, it seems theres quite a lot more I have to do. In addition to house work (which hopefully Fi will take care of =)), theres things such as general bookkeeping, processing credit card transactions at the restaurant, cooking food (looks like pasta and toast dinners for me! hahahah), and other assorted things.

Dad is actually feeling really sick too. We're waiting for the doctor to come and have a look at him at the moment.

Of course, thats on top of what I'm normally doing, which is work, uni, and the general mucking around I do. It especially isn't good since its coming up to the end of semester, and that means that a lot of assignments are due. I guess that means I have to muck around less, do more uni work, and go out less too. So don't be suprised if I say I can't go out because I'm busy, or have too much work to do. Sorry.

I guess I'll also have to postpone that free movie thing :( I really wanted to watch Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy actually. Maybe sometime in swotvac when I'm really bored of studying and have finished all my assignments.

If this situation gets any worse, I think I'll be like... dead. Ah, so this is what its like to have a family and have two jobs and go to uni... I wish I didn't have such a strong sense of responsibility.

Way too early

As per the title...

Mum and grandma left for China today. We all kind of woke up at around 4:30am and left at around 5:30am. Not exactly the most convinient time to wake up and leave the house, but I guess at least theres limited traffic on the roads. Its kind of nice to drive on roads where nobody else is. You don't really have to worry as much about other cars, and it gives you a lot more freedom.

We managed to get there on time and I got myself some maccas for breakfast. There were no teary goodbyes, since they're only going for a couple of weeks to a month or so. Then we just kind of came straight to uni. We got here way too early - around 7am. I'm currently blogging from the union house dining hall after sitting in the car for about an hour. I think later I'll just get a newspaper and sit in my lecture theatre. Maybe I'll do another blog waiting for the lecture to start.

Audit

I forgot to say that our team got audited today at work. What that means I don't know, but some sort of manager dude (coincidently, the same guy who recruited me) came up to some members in the team and asked us a series of questions. I thought it was kind of silly, because all we did was bullcrap our way through it. He then sat through a few of our calls, which was fine. I didn't really do anything different though. I have a feeling its because the contract could be in jeopardy. Hey, not my fault, I'm being productive. I think its a bunch of people who are just slacking off.

Yeah... anyway he finished up with me just as I was going to knock off, which was nice.

Call of the month!

So... I got call of the month for April at work today.

The whole team came into our bay and kinda sat around. I didn't really know what was going on because I was still on a phone call. Yeah, was a little confused because the last time that happened it was a going away thing for one of the other staff who was leaving. Anyway, when I got off my call, I turned around, make my speeches, LOL.. Nah.. I only thanked my mum and my dad.

The quality officer said that she liked how I paraphrased stuff out of the script. Like, what the? I think its because I was fairly easy-going, and probably one of the most productive of the team. I don't like having recorded calls actually. Anyway, I win a couple of tickets to the movies, which is awesome. Maybe I'll go watch episode 3 with them, or maybe something else.

I also manage get my name stuck on a wall with a piece of paper. Awesome... Now people who walk past will be like.. woah... this dude made call of the month. No, thats just sad, nobody cares. Its just a morale thing, and an incentive to do good work, which nobody seems to care about.

I'm actually in a psych lab at the moment. We just did some thing about procedural safeguards for young offenders. Didn't really make much sense to me, the questions were all pretty silly. Maybe I have too strict a sense of justice. *sigh*

Walalalalalalalalala

I've been kind of struggling to think of things to blog about recently. I guess I just haven't been as thoughtful as I was a month or two ago.

Not much has changed in the past couple of months though. I'm still just going to work, going to uni, and sleeping. That seems to be about the extent of my life. I don't seem to be getting any richer though. The money just seems to find its way into the rest of the damn economy, and away from me. I think this week was the first time there was no direct withdrawal from my bank account for ages.

Anyway, last night was law ball. I don't have any pictures because I didn't bring a camera. Generally I had a pretty good time without even getting half drunk. In fact, this is probably the ball that I've drunk the least at while still managing to have a relatively good time. However, the afterparty was pretty crap though. So err.. yeah.

Yeah thats about it.

Ghost Rider?

Theres lots of things going on around uni. Lots of trucks, giant lights, utes, and trailers. I've just heard a rumour that its for the shooting of Ghost Rider, the new movie starring Mr. Jonathan Cage. Now if this is what shooting a movie is all about, I'm really not very impressed. Next time I'm at uni, I should bring a camera just to take a picture of a bunch of trucks with a maruqee in the middle of a park next to a bunch of drunks sitting in a middle of a patch of dirt.

Its rather distracting to an extent. Everyone that walks past just seems to stare in awe. They've also taken over a whole bunch of all day parking spots right next to a uni building, putting witches hats in their spot. Some people have been whinging about that. I'm not sure what they need all those parking spots for, since they have a big patch of dirt, but whatever...

EDIT - Should be Nicholas Cage, I was thinking Mortal Kombat.

Turnorama

Turnorama is a nice blog.

Apparently I'm in a funk

funk

n 1: a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk" [syn: blue funk]

from www.dictionary.com

Just one of those months perhaps.

I think I get a lot more annoyed than I used to.

Most of the time, I just don't really care about things. Now I can be really picky about some things. Usually I still don't show it, but it still happens. Things that annoy me can range from someone not knowing how to do something to how other people that just don't seem to take any responsibility for their actions. Maybe its because now these sorts of things affect me more, but its also possible that because the 'other' friends I hang around aren't quite as tolerant as my usual bunch are.

I only kind of noticed this thing today, because I woke up all really happy, went to work, and progressively got more annoyed throughout the day. I think by the end of the night, I had a creased forehead and then the wind changed. Hopefully this kind of thing doesn't make me any more hypocritical than I already am :(

On another note, Kingdom of Heaven was pretty lame. Orlando Bloom always gets casted for these epic movies, and I think he sounds like too much of a pussy. In a nutshell, there wasn't enough story and too much romping around. Ridley Scott needs to make another movie like Gladiator. Thats a classic epic movie, lots of story, lots of action, and lots of character development. Or rather, its a really good mix of the three.

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I'm easily annoyed so watch out!

Impact analysis finished

Pretty glad I've already finished my impact analysis. Its not very good, but hey, what did they expect for soemthing they only give us a couple of days for and which most people would do in one night?

I also went to have supper with Soh and Age last night. Its been a long time since we've last gone, and I hardly see them anymore. Everyone seems to be busy busy busy. Ah, the innocence of childhood is lost :(

Going to go see Kingdom of Heaven tonight. I don't have very high expectations though.

Rifts at work and assignments

On the first day of training for this job, they emphasised the whole 'us and them' mentality was not what they were looking for in this workplace. However, thats what it seems to be turning out to be. The quality dominatrix, as our surrogate teamleader refers to her as, seems to be giving errors to people for the littlest of things. For example, I get a comment for writing 'send' instead of 'fax'. What difference does it make? Its not like the people picking up the documents and matching it to the applications will have first hand knowledge of where to look, it doesn't work that way.

Our actual team leader appears to be a bit of a coward too. She doesn't actually approach the person with which she has a problem with. Instead theres a general email send around the whole team which spells out the details, without actually mentioning any names where its obvious who she's talking about.

Anyway, I've got a 15% assignment due on Monday which we only got today for project management. Apparently its supposed to reflect workplace pressures, which is stupid because they don't put in all nighters without pay. In this case we don't get any bonus marks or anything of the sort. Another stupid thing is that its not like most people at uni just don't do the assignment the weekend before its due anyway, so its not like its a really small timeframe to do a 15% assignment in.

So I'm not going out drinking tonight. Instead, I'm going home to do the assignment, hopefully bum around on Saturday, go see a movie on Saturday night, and then work all day Sunday for Mother's day. Nice looking weekend huh. At least I won't be too bored.

Rip off from SBS

This week I have mostly been eating cow.

Asking a question without actually asking a question

I had kind of a bad day today, but i found a little bit to write about.

Asking questions without actually asking questions:

I was wondering if I could speak to John please.

I think the painting should go right here. (does not apply to females)

No, actually, I'm out of things to say, except that I had a bad one.

=|

Yeah its a little bit like that huh?

Slow day today. I don't even think I've got totally into it yet, and its the afternoon already. Still got uni after work, and going home to sit around. Life was so much more exciting when I had something to look forward to on the weekend.

SADD - Software Architechture Design Document

Its funny how many acronyms tech people can come up with. The other SAD acronym (Systems analysis and design) is kind of the same thing, but was actually a subject. However, I feel like I'm doing the same subject again. Actually, if you kind of combine project management with SAD, you get Software Engineering process and practice, which is the subject I'm doing now for computer science.

Its kind of a slow week this week. Nothing big due in, so its alright. Still have to do work however, and that means actually writing something down about things. Also, theres vac work for some investment bank to do. *sigh* Life kinda sucks at the moment...

I like reading books, its quite relaxing.