Its back to uni. Back to classes and back to the relatively lazy life. What I'm worried about now that I'm going to have heaps of time to just sit around and do nothing. So today I'm sitting with Sam and Age in their Civil Litigation lecture. Basically they learn how to sue other people and take their money. No wonder this subject is so popular, the theatre is quite packed, and I'm probably taking some poor law student's seat.
I guess thats where lawyers get their repuatation from?
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Friday, February 24, 2006
Crazy night
I think my life has just turned upside down. Its really weird, and its related to the other night, but its kind of strangely intruiging as well. Not only for you guys who don't have a clue about my rather vague ramblings, but also for me.
Or maybe I'm just still hung over.
Or maybe I'm just still hung over.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
A good day at work
It was good more likely because I didn't actually do much work. This week is the last week that I'll be working there before uni starts, so I'm kind of taking it pretty bludgey. There isn't really that much left for me to do anyway.
So what did I do instead?
Well there was the presentation. I was a bit (ok, very) nervous about it until it actually happened. But when I actually got into it, it was okay. I'm not sure how that works because I pretty much just did the powerpoint presentation, then winged the actual presentation part. Somehow, people were somewhat impressed. Big ego trip...
The other thing was lunch. This was meant to be because its the last day that I was free to do lunch with my department before I leave. There was Indian food, mango lassi, and somehow they paid for it. I wasn't complaining at all, and the food was good!
Lastly there was the intern meeting. One of the guys from equity research came and talked about what he does. Its actually quite interesting....
Anyhoo, that was my day.
So what did I do instead?
Well there was the presentation. I was a bit (ok, very) nervous about it until it actually happened. But when I actually got into it, it was okay. I'm not sure how that works because I pretty much just did the powerpoint presentation, then winged the actual presentation part. Somehow, people were somewhat impressed. Big ego trip...
The other thing was lunch. This was meant to be because its the last day that I was free to do lunch with my department before I leave. There was Indian food, mango lassi, and somehow they paid for it. I wasn't complaining at all, and the food was good!
Lastly there was the intern meeting. One of the guys from equity research came and talked about what he does. Its actually quite interesting....
Anyhoo, that was my day.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Presentation tomorrow
I got talked into doing this presentation tomorrow at work. So basically I have to show people what I've been doing at work for the past 6 weeks or so. I can't believe theres like 15-20 people coming to watch. High stakes game!
Oh well, at least I won't be doing any 'real work'. I just hope the application doesn't crash during the presentation. How embarrasing...
Oh well, at least I won't be doing any 'real work'. I just hope the application doesn't crash during the presentation. How embarrasing...
Monday, February 20, 2006
Can't Sleep again - The small Vietnamese Theory
I don't know if this is the way everyone else is, but normally when I think about things, my mind flitters from idea to idea. Somehow I manage to cover quite a broad range of things in the space my sister thinks of a few. Usually I don't dwell on anything for any prolonged period of time, and take the quick and simple solutions to problems along thw way. Take for instance what I'm doing now - Can't sleep, so the soluation is to sit in bed with my wireless stuff and blog.
THe problem is now that I seem to be stuck thinking about a couple of things over the past week or so. I can't seem to get them out of my head. Its quite frustrating actually. I'm just so used to thinking about things and solving the problems (if there is one), or discovering something.
As an aside,, while on the way home from badminton the other day, I came up with a rather ridiculous theory as to why theres so many small Vietnamese people in this generation. So it goes like this: The Vietnam war was aroud '79. So there was a lot of stuff going on, lots of people dying and so forth. In that kind of warfare, snipers were pretty dominant. So if you youi're tall, and in the jungle, you're more likely to get shot than if you're small and in the jungle. It deson't really matter how far you can see, but rather on what you can see. In desert warfare, thats a different story - theres nowhere to hide. So during the years that the war was going on, all the tall soldiers were more likely to be shot than the smaller ones, thus restricting the gene pool in the country to generally smaller people.
This works well because most of the Vietnamese people I know are around my age. So, if the war ended in '79, the adults who survived would be having kids soon after that. So for everyone remainging in Vietnam, they're more likely to be procreating with people who haven't been shot during the way (i.e. the little people). Little people and little people make more little people.
Okay so thats turned out to be more than an aside, and it certainly wasn't what I've been thinking about for the last week or so, but I thought it was pretty good, and couildn't really find any holes in the theory...
I think we'll just leave it at that tonight.
THe problem is now that I seem to be stuck thinking about a couple of things over the past week or so. I can't seem to get them out of my head. Its quite frustrating actually. I'm just so used to thinking about things and solving the problems (if there is one), or discovering something.
As an aside,, while on the way home from badminton the other day, I came up with a rather ridiculous theory as to why theres so many small Vietnamese people in this generation. So it goes like this: The Vietnam war was aroud '79. So there was a lot of stuff going on, lots of people dying and so forth. In that kind of warfare, snipers were pretty dominant. So if you youi're tall, and in the jungle, you're more likely to get shot than if you're small and in the jungle. It deson't really matter how far you can see, but rather on what you can see. In desert warfare, thats a different story - theres nowhere to hide. So during the years that the war was going on, all the tall soldiers were more likely to be shot than the smaller ones, thus restricting the gene pool in the country to generally smaller people.
This works well because most of the Vietnamese people I know are around my age. So, if the war ended in '79, the adults who survived would be having kids soon after that. So for everyone remainging in Vietnam, they're more likely to be procreating with people who haven't been shot during the way (i.e. the little people). Little people and little people make more little people.
Okay so thats turned out to be more than an aside, and it certainly wasn't what I've been thinking about for the last week or so, but I thought it was pretty good, and couildn't really find any holes in the theory...
I think we'll just leave it at that tonight.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Changing Soh's Life
In all honesty, this probably isn't the best thing to post about, but nobody else has posted anything interesting at all recently. I'm just going to use that as a rather flimsy justification as to why I am. However, I'm going to keep it deliberately vague in an (probably futile) attempt to protect my reputation.
Supposedly I'm the quiet one in the group. Some might even say the quiet achiever (me not being one of them). Hardly anything ever happens to me. So when something crazy happens, its quite a big thing. Evidently one of these things big enough to change Soh's life happened during the events of yesterday's evening. While I can see where he's coming from, from my point of view, I'm not really sure what to think of it. I guess it was quite an eye opener about some people I've only recently met to say the very least.
I have to admit, it was fun though. We almost didn't end up even going out because I was feeling lazy and it was starting to get late too. In the end, it was probably a lot better than sitting on my arse at home and watching it get fatter by the minute.
Oh and somebody hit me on my neck :/ Its bruised =(
Supposedly I'm the quiet one in the group. Some might even say the quiet achiever (me not being one of them). Hardly anything ever happens to me. So when something crazy happens, its quite a big thing. Evidently one of these things big enough to change Soh's life happened during the events of yesterday's evening. While I can see where he's coming from, from my point of view, I'm not really sure what to think of it. I guess it was quite an eye opener about some people I've only recently met to say the very least.
I have to admit, it was fun though. We almost didn't end up even going out because I was feeling lazy and it was starting to get late too. In the end, it was probably a lot better than sitting on my arse at home and watching it get fatter by the minute.
Oh and somebody hit me on my neck :/ Its bruised =(
Saturday night
Still only half sober from tonight. Borrowing a line from Soh: Tonight was err... "Interesting"
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
There was something good...
I was going to write about something else, but its changed.
There seems to be a lot about what we're going to be doing next year, since a lot of us are finally graducating from university at the end of this year. Some of us have even already got options lined up for next year already. So they know at the very least what they'll have to fall back on if nothing else turns up.
I don't often think about my future. Usually I just take it how it comes. Towards the end of last year, and the start of this year have beena little different. I've had to think about what I actually want to do with myself, and more importantly, how I'm going to do it.
To tell you the truth, I don't really like it. It makes you a bit more mature, which is kind of good in some respects, but you come to the conclusion that you're actually growing up. While having responsibility is usually good on the bank account balance from a occupational point of view, but not really when it comes to life in general. More responsibility just means more things to worry about and do, so the laziness part comes back into it as it always seems to do.
Lets just say I'm not looking forward to it.
There seems to be a lot about what we're going to be doing next year, since a lot of us are finally graducating from university at the end of this year. Some of us have even already got options lined up for next year already. So they know at the very least what they'll have to fall back on if nothing else turns up.
I don't often think about my future. Usually I just take it how it comes. Towards the end of last year, and the start of this year have beena little different. I've had to think about what I actually want to do with myself, and more importantly, how I'm going to do it.
To tell you the truth, I don't really like it. It makes you a bit more mature, which is kind of good in some respects, but you come to the conclusion that you're actually growing up. While having responsibility is usually good on the bank account balance from a occupational point of view, but not really when it comes to life in general. More responsibility just means more things to worry about and do, so the laziness part comes back into it as it always seems to do.
Lets just say I'm not looking forward to it.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Birthday
Another weekend post, but I guess this time its something special. I had my 21st birthday party this weekend. It was pretty special because well.. it was my 21st. The night was really enjoyable, and I probably didn't get as drunk as I had planned, but I think thats kind of a good thing, bceause nobody else was really getting drunk, and its not good to be drunk at your own 21st anyway.
Its probably a bit arrogant to say this, but it felt good having a bunch of people who are all there to celebrate something about you. Even though a lot of people probably only went for the free food and the free drink, I'm just going to pretend they didn't :). Nah, its just nice to know that people think you're special enough to go out of their way to get you a pressie and hang out with you for the evening, then stand around for ages trying to decide what to do next, and then realise that what got decided isn't rreally something they want to do anyway. Oh well.. I guess kareoke isn't for everyone.
Presents were nice however. I got some shirts and a tie and a wireless mouse and keyboard, so now I can be really lazy. There was also a webcam, so those of you who feel like having a chat, just you know... message me. But I'm not into all that kinky stuff okay?
People from work got me a pen and a business card holder... which is kinda optimistic.. but we'll see how it goes. Maybe if they have enough confidence in me, it'll be all good and things wil turn out okay.
There was also some cologne. Obligatory, but always makes you wonder about what the giver things you smell like. Its okay though... I think... maybe it was just that time I was playing tennis with them... and sweating... yes... that must've been it.
Anyway, after that we went to kareoke. Most didn't go, but that was kind of expected anyway. Oh well, thanks people for coming anyway, even if you had to be somewhere else earlier and stuff.
P.S. People who actually know me can ask for pics and video if they like.
Its probably a bit arrogant to say this, but it felt good having a bunch of people who are all there to celebrate something about you. Even though a lot of people probably only went for the free food and the free drink, I'm just going to pretend they didn't :). Nah, its just nice to know that people think you're special enough to go out of their way to get you a pressie and hang out with you for the evening, then stand around for ages trying to decide what to do next, and then realise that what got decided isn't rreally something they want to do anyway. Oh well.. I guess kareoke isn't for everyone.
Presents were nice however. I got some shirts and a tie and a wireless mouse and keyboard, so now I can be really lazy. There was also a webcam, so those of you who feel like having a chat, just you know... message me. But I'm not into all that kinky stuff okay?
People from work got me a pen and a business card holder... which is kinda optimistic.. but we'll see how it goes. Maybe if they have enough confidence in me, it'll be all good and things wil turn out okay.
There was also some cologne. Obligatory, but always makes you wonder about what the giver things you smell like. Its okay though... I think... maybe it was just that time I was playing tennis with them... and sweating... yes... that must've been it.
Anyway, after that we went to kareoke. Most didn't go, but that was kind of expected anyway. Oh well, thanks people for coming anyway, even if you had to be somewhere else earlier and stuff.
P.S. People who actually know me can ask for pics and video if they like.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Sunday, February 05, 2006
I'm back to normal now... I think
No, I haven't got a chick, nor have I been or even seen a gym.
I did, however, shoot some things this weekend (virtually of course).
I did, however, shoot some things this weekend (virtually of course).
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
This is bad...
Having a bit of trouble sleeping. Couldn't get to sleep last night until about 1:30am. Its almost 2am now and I'm still having trouble getting to sleep. Have to get up both days at 6:30 - 7am. I don't know if its related to the previous post, but chances are it is. Nothing happens by coincidence, or by an act of God (but that one is between you and the insurance company).
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