Aroma Japanese Cuisine.

I haven't posted in a while but I felt compelled to after going to Aroma today. This will be my little 'review' of the place. I'm writing this so that if you do visit, you are aware of their little tricks so you actually have an enjoyable experience.

Let me start by saying I love the place. The boyfriend and I have been many, many times because we love the amount of food you get for $13.80. It's not too bad quality as well, and it's made fresh. But there are a few catches where they suck your money...

Ok so I've already established that it costs $13.80 for lunch. Great. They also charge $1 per jug of tap water without telling you until you get to the counter. The staff can be quite careless and rude as well. I never really thought anything of it the last few times I went. Mistakes here and there, but the really dodgy thing is that they only let you stay for an hour to eat. Last time I visited, the waitress forgot about our dishes and we were waiting 20 minutes. Then when we asked where our food was, she said we never ordered anything. (Why would we sit there looking at you for 20 minutes when we only have an hour to eat?!) When we re-ordered the food, she said this was the last time we were allowed to order because we'd been there an hour. Even though we were waiting 20 minutes! What the?! We decided it wasn't worth arguing and just accepted.

Today, a group of 12 of us returned there. Like I said, in the past I've had good experiences there and could overlook the annoying little things. One friend could not afford to eat so just drank water when she was there. However, when it came time to pay, we had to pay for her, even though she hadn't eaten a thing. Just because there was a butt in the seat, it cost an extra $13.80 (plus $3 for what we thought was free jugs of water). It seems the waitresses have no concept of understanding or customer service. I'm understanding if there are rules there. But this is not a rule, it has not been stated in the menu that if you don't inform them you're not eating, you have to pay. (Though the menu does say that any food left uneaten will cost and extra $3). There are times when you have to use common sense, and that seems quite non-existent among the staff at Aroma. We're fed up and will not be back for a while, at least.

If I were stronger, I would have refused to pay and walked out. But I'm not that sort of person, so instead I told the waitress our side and got ignored... and now I'll tell the whole internet my little story.

Overall, the food is good but the way they go about things is ... meh. I wouldn't say "DON'T GO," but I would say to be aware of hidden costs. It can be VERY annoying.

EDIT: For reference I have been to restaurants where they spell out in the menu that everyone must order a dish or there will be a surcharge. So it's not like they have a "you should know" excuse either!

"You have hypochondria." "Oh, no! Not that too!!"

Hi everyone! It's been a long time. How have you been? I've been really busy being dead.
I've written one line and it's already stolen from somewhere else. Those who have played Portal 2 may recognise it.... [there are no spoilers in the video, it's basically a trailer.]



Aaaaaaand there you go. Nice segue into talking about Portal 2. My brother bought it on PS3 when it first came out, and got an extra Steam version. Guess who has two thumbs and got the Steam version? THIS GUUUUUUUUUUY! *points at self*

Every review gives it a 10/10 and I'm no different. It was eeexxcellent. The characters were quirky and lovable. As you can probably tell from the video above. You did watch it didn't you? No? FORSHAME. I do have one complaint though, and this isn't Valve's fault. It's too much fun. I played it the week before I was to start exam study, which was an awful, awful idea, because I wanted to play it all the time. I didn't of course. I'm a wonderful student. But it took every ounce of my willpower to stop myself... to combat this problem, I did the only thing I could do: I finished it as fast as I could. When I finally did finish it, nothing stood in the way of studying. Well... until I remembered I have episodes of How I Met Your Mother on my computer...

When I study, I study like crazy. During SWOTVAC (The week of no lectures for exam study), I didn't wash my hair, I ate a lot of lollies, and I studied from when I woke up until I got too sleepy at night to study anymore (Normally around 2 or 3am). Obviously, this is detrimental to my mental and physical health, and I felt like crap the whole time I studied. Feeling like crap makes my imagination run wild, and I'm a hypochondriac at the best of times.

I'm left-handed. During the study period, I wrote so much that it hurt my whole arm, right up to my shoulder and even my ear. I was tense and stressed so that means my chest was tight too. I didn't eat properly so I felt sick/dizzy quite a bit.

Of course, naturally I assumed I was having a 2-week-long heart attack and was going to die.

I didn't shower much. Yes, I know. Too much information. I'm sorry. And here's even more cringe-worthy stuff. Because I didn't shower much, I got a lump on my back. Some sort of blemish pimple type thing under my skin. I tend one or two if I don't shower everyday. Ah, nature.

OR IS IT? D:



Yes, it ended up being fine.
I'm running out of time to write this so I might end it here. Thanks to everyone who's been reading this and telling me to write more because it's really inspiring :) Now the pressure is on...

If you want to read more, drop me a note here and let me know what you like and I'll be sure to include more crap like it in the future!

Love!

GLaDOS: Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: A horrible person. We weren't even testing for that. Don't let that "horrible person" thing discourage you. It's just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep.

List of things to do!

Saturday evening will mark the end of my exams and therefore the end of my first year of University. I'm looking forward to the following things:

• Eating out with friends
• Going to The Cavern, a band room in the city. It's like the best place in the world
• Celebrating my 2 year anniversary with some dude ;)
• Jamming with my other half of It's Almost Friday
• Working on my Jazz piano/bass skillz
• Knitting/sewing (shut up. I like those things)
• Finally finishing my blog layout... maybe
• Shopping
• Running/Sports/Swimming (If myself from 5 years ago read this, I'd think I was crazy)
• I'd like to go to some sort of dress up party because I couldn't on Halloween! D: (Time to hang up my shame curtains)
• Casino/clubbing ;D
• WATCHING TV SHOW MARATHONS

I have a lot of TV shows I want to watch in the holidays. Dedicate a day to just watch as much as I can.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends



Friends. Everybody knows this show. I don't think it ever gets old.

http://www.dvdsetshop.com/products/How-I-Met-Your-Mother-Seasons-1-4-DVD-Boxset-DVDS-1870.html

How I Met Your Mother. I think this is the 'Modern Day' Friends. The origin of the Bro Code and all that is good in this world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants

Spongebob Squarepants. It's been a while since I've seen the newer episodes... I have to catch up!

http://www.verumserum.com/?p=3854

Dr Who. You know, I never thought I'd like this show. BUT IT'S SO EXCITING. I always get so curious as to how it will end! Last time I left an episode it had 3 minutes to go and I'm STILL on the edge of my seat... My friend recently got a Dr Who tattoo because she loves it so much.

Now... it is time for me to continue studying Chemistry. Ugh. I can't learn anymore. Kill me nowwwww.

Mr. Krabs: [Attempting to convince SpongeBob to give him a hat] I didn't want to tell you this in front of Patrick, but that hat makes you look like a girl.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Am I a pretty girl?
Mr. Krabs: Well... yes, you're... you're beautiful.
[Mailman passing by stares at Mr. Krabs in disgust]



Phone dilemma!

I've been looking at new phones for quite a while now. I have a Samsung SGH-G800 and I love it. It's my lovable brick and it's been very good to me. However, recently, well not really recently. This year, from wear-and-tear (and being dropped constantly), it's been dying. I've had it repaired three times and it's slowly fading away. It's still usable, but this has caused me to start researching new phones. I'm EXTREMELY picky. Like you wouldn't believe. The only reason I'm picky is because I use my phone constantly and I use most - if not all - features that my phone offers. Of course I'm going to want something reliable and stuff.




www.topnews.in


So I've looked into a few. I'm a bit of an old woman in the fact that I'm not a huge fan of touch screens. I wasn't a fan of slide phones before either. But I know I'm going to have to move on and stop living in the past. :(

Every iPhone user has told me to just get an iPhone. I've looked into it. I like them. I like every Apple product, Apple is my friend. We hang out all the time. Shopping, sleepovers, parties, you name it, Apple and I have done it together. I love you, Apple.

www.digitaltrends.com

But there is one deal-breaker for me and Mr iPhone.

I've been told that iPhones do not facilitate file transfers phone to phone, unless it's another iPhone.

Apparently it's to stop people sending copyrighted stuff. But... MEGA dealbreaker, Apple! WHY? :( You lost yourself an awesome customer: ME! I love you but I do not love that idea. I use file transfer between friends all the time with photos and videos and stuff. It's something I use VERY often, I don't want to lose something as crucial as that. It's like losing my finger D: And I play piano! So that's bad. My friend Tom, a hardcore iPhone junkie has told me numerous times that I'm crazy and should just get an iPhone, but I can't do it. Not yet. Not until they fix that problem, those copyright nazis.

So I've been looking into other phones, namely the Nokia N97 mini, though I've gone off that one now because EVERYONE has it and there are about 20 for sale at Cash Converters in Chinatown, indicating something's wrong with it.

news.cnet.com

Another one is the Nokia N8, because it seems to have all the features I'm looking for and it comes in Orange. I love orange.

images.fonearena.com

I've heard Samsung Galaxy S is good too. Anyone have any ideas on phones? Keep in mind that it will be used constantly and will probably be thrown around a lot. I'll probably use a case now since all new phones are flimsy pieces of crap and not lovable bricks. >:(

"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."

-Jeff Pesis

Everyone!

I watched a movie many years ago about a lion on a farm with two men and a boy. There was more to it but you know, that's all I rememeber from the movie. A quote in it really hit me and I've remembered it ever since. I forgot the name of the movie, but tonight, after participating in a very passionate discussion about Evolution vs the Bible, I searched for this movie via IMDb to find the quote. I just typed "lion" and the movie title just happened to be the first one that came up: Secondhand Lions.

So the quote I remember was something along the lines of: "Always believe in something. If you don't believe in anything, anyone can tell you anything and you'll believe it." It really really stuck with me. However I looked up the database today and found this quote: 

Hub: Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

WHAT?! THAT'S NOT WHAT I REMEMBER AT ALL. I lived by that phrase! Either the quote I was thinking of wasn't on the website, or I made up my own quote. Did I just make up my own movie in my head?! I think I did! I think I did what Homer Simpson did and make up my own movie when I got bored!

Damn it, meg!

Homer: Wait, I'm confused about the movie ... so the cops knew Internal Affairs was setting them up?

Man: What are you talking about? There's nothing like that in there.
Homer: Well, you see when I get bored I make up my own movies. I have a very short attention span
Lady: But our point is very simple, you see when...
Homer: Oh look! A bird! Hee hee hee!
(Homer runs after the bird)

 
Anyway I still think that's a good thing to live by and yeah. Totally giving advice from my blog.

Firemen and movie stars!

You know what annoys me? SPAM. And not the meat spam. I've never actually tried that, I'm sure it's nice. It looks really nice. I should buy some one day. I'm so hungry. What am I talking about? Oh right, spam.

Have you ever wondered why everytime you comment, it requires "approval" from me? If you write blogs too I'm sure you know why. If not, here's why:

Every time I log into this blog, I open the homepage and see like "4385 comments" (because that's how popular I am in my mind. In reality it might be like 3 - 5 depending on how often I log in or post) I get so excited. I love comments, they make me happy. Everytime I read them I'm like "YAAAAAAAAY!" People like Thuong, Daniel, Mara and Jackie tend to comment a lot so they're my favourite readers ;) Anyway I'll open up my comments, heart full of hope, and begin to read them.

This is when my heart sinks :(
Instead of finding comments from people, I find comments from ROBOTS.
THAT'S RIGHT, ROBOTS.

They spam me! They spam me like there's no tomorrow! In reality, 90% of the comments I get are spam, so I delete them. :( Especially on my Bruce Willis post. I'm assuming robots like Bruce Willis. I wish I didn't get spam. Unless I was friends with those robots. If I were friends with robots, I'd get spam and I'd say "That's so nice, they read my post" But for now, until I learn to read robot language and befriend them, they're such a hassle. Email spam is the same! I open up my emails like "OMG I'M SO POPULAR" and then I read about how my penis is not big enough, or hard enough. I need to please my woman.

Or there's some other alien language! HOW DID ALIENS GET MY EMAIL ANYWAY? I'm assuming they don't think my penis is big enough either!

END POST. XD

P.S You know what? Spam doesn't really annoy me that much. It's just a lot of clicking.

Mum's Facebook status: I had lemons and made lemonade....I had oranges and I added vodka

Jordan's comment: and 2 others like this.
Ojaye's comment: And then you gave it to your daughter... And she drank it all.
Jordan's comment: and got drunk. Thus the brain damage

Nelly - Just a Dream

For those of you who don't know what Nelly looks like:

Wait a second.

HERE he is:

Nelly: Hardcore rapper, not pink elephant who packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus.

You know, I like Nelly. I like this song. It's nice. There's just this one thing that bugs me. Nelly is a giant cheater. If I could play chess and were playing chess with him, I wouldn't look away because I think he would move my pieces around. This is why I think he's a giant cheater:

"If you ever loved somebody put your hands up.

If you ever loved somebody put your hands up."

Now, I'm no expert on people or anything, but I assume this will cause everybody to put their hands up.Whether the have loved romantically or familally (I just made up my own word for family love because I couldn't think of the right one) was no specified. THAT WAS YOUR PLAN ALL ALONG, WASN'T IT, NELLY? You just want everyone to put their hands up! Cheater!

You know, some artists just call everyone to put their hands up. They tell them to wave their hands in the air like they just don't care (Here is a list of songs that request people do this). Some artists are selective. They tell everybody in the club to get tipsy (J Kwon, 2004). Or everyone on the dance floor to grab a partner or something. But you, good sir. You use mind games to make people think that they are special and meet your criteria for putting their hands up. But in actual fact you are being a 'hands up' whore and referring to everyone!

I will not fall for such shenanigans. I have loved many people and therefore I am obligated to put my hands up. But as I do, I will yell "THAT MEANS HE WANTS EVERYONE TO DO IT."

And don't tell me that he later adds "And now they're gone and you wish you could give them everything." after the "If you've ever loved somebody" line, because by the time you hear this, your hands are already up. Everything is ruined.

Anyway here's the song.

*trying to sleep*

Ojaye: Jord, can you turn the light off please?

Jordan: Wait, no not yet. I'm getting changed and I don't like to be naked in the dark. I glow.

You are the moon that breaks the night for which I have to howl

I am obsessive. When I like something, I like it too much. When I was a toddler I was obsessed with animals and constantly pretended I was a cat, meowing everything I said and expecting people to understand me. (The meows would have the same rhythm as the sentences I was saying. Example: "Hello" was "Meow meow" and "how are you?" was "Meow meow meow?")

When I was in school, I was obsessed with Pokemon. Ok, I'm still obsessed, but MUCH less than I was before. Trust me on that. Both the cat and pokemon incidents led my mum to believe I would never have friends. She openly and honestly admits that because even I'm surprised I managed to make friends so easily.

Now I am a hormone-raging teenager, I am obsessed with social aspects of life. Friends, and, of course, the boyfriend. I'm so creepy. I wouldn't date me. My other obsession is musicccccccc. That's one of my lifelong ones. When I like music I dive into it and relate to every single freaking song I hear. If the guy is in love with a girl in the song, I'll fall in love with her too and think, "aww she sounds so perfect!" or I'll go "I hope I'm like that too..." Anyway let's get on with what I'm actually writing about for this post.

Florence and the Machine. Very good music. I love her lyrics. I used to repeat 'Rabbit Heart' over and over and over again. The other day in the boyfriend's car, Mara played "Howl" on repeat on Grant's mp3 player. I couldn't hear the lyrics because we were talking. I went home and listened to it properly and became completely addicted to the song.

If you could only see the beast you've made of me

I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free

Screaming in the dark, I howl when we're apart

Drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart

Song: Howl
Artist: Florence and the Machine
Album: Lungs


That's not the only song I've come across this week that I love. No, this is not 'song of the week.' I have another one. When I started listening to this, I had to push condoms into my ears to protect myself because HER MUSIC IS SEX. SEX FOR EARS.

Song: Precious
Artist: Esperanza Spalding
Album: Esperanza


Esperanza Spalding: Another girl crush. She's added to my list of girl crushes. I might post a blog of my girl crushes one day. She has an amazing singing voice and plays sexy double bass AT THE SAME TIME.

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

SHE PLAYS DOUBLE BASS AND SINGS AT THE SAME TIME.

Incredible.

My flawless future business plan.

I have not, nor will I ever use or sell drugs, especially not to Japanese politicians to cause a downfall in their government. This conversation came around because my dear friend Claudina and I were talking about how we both have no idea where our degrees will take us and we fear for our futures. She is taking a double degree in science and arts (Japanese) and I am taking a degree in biomedical science with statistics and psychology. This conversation happened on MSN and has been edited to make it more readable and many instances where we were laughing at our own jokes have been removed.

Ojaye: I wonder if we'd ever start a business together
We could do an international science business and travel the world with my Statistics and your Japanese,
selling ecstacy to Presidents and Prime Ministers

Claudina: LMAO
sounds like a plan

Ojaye: then we can take it away from them suddenly and I can provide counselling services
then you can write reports on the downfall of modern Japan due to drug problems in the Government
we can sell it for millions
or the government will bribe us to withold its release

Claudina: we'll be rich, we'll be out and st petersburg will have some more to talk abouttt~~

Ojaye: we'll take the bribe and then "accidentally" release a copy of the report to the black market for a small fortune
then we can sue the people in the underground who released it for even more money!
CLAUDINA I'M A GENIUS

Claudina: yes you are
I'm in

Ojaye: We may need someone with a law degree
I know a guy
well he doesn't have one yet
but he's in first year

Claudina: a few more years

Ojaye: yeah
don't worry, we can work the kinks out of my perfect plan in that time
I reckon we'd be a pretty good team in the workforce
I could imagine us in like.. a really stylish boardroom
have you ever seen the movie "Old Dogs"?

Claudina: ....
I can't say I have

Ojaye: Ok well its a movie with John Travolta and Robin Williams and they're business men
and they're trying to do this huge deal with these Japanese businessmen
and the boardroom in Japan is so sexy
it's got a whole wall of windows and it's pretty
and we'll be there
talking about ecstacy and government

Claudina: are you basing our future plan on a movie?

Ojaye: No but when I was talking about it , the movie came to mind
How dare you accuse me of such unprofessional behaviour!
basing our future on a movie
Pah!

Claudina: pah pah pah

The conversation immediately turned into one about internet shopping and dresses. We are easily distracted by pretty things. If you're curious as to how the conversation changed so suddenly, it happened like this:
 
Ojaye: I really love that dress I showed you

I think I'll measure myself

Claudina: lol xD
the clothes on there are nice

Ojaye: OMG
MY BOOBS ARE 88cm!
This was too big for the dress.

“I have nothing to declare but this opium”

- Oscar Wilde on airport protocol (Might actually be from here.)

I hate those sappy emails.

From my other blog.

You're my friend. I love you. Hey, share a smile with those around you. If you send this to 25 people, you're an amazing friend. If you don't send this back to me, we are officially enemies. How dare you be so thoughtless and not send it back. I don't care. They're stupid and fill up my inbox, and I delete them. Unless they're actually good ones. Sometimes they are, and if my dad sends them to me, it normally means that there will be an asshole punchline that will amuse me. I like those.

You know what thought? Sometimes smiling is a good thing. I'm actually well known for smiling at everyone. It's a bit of a nervous habit, but I also just like to smile. Big. Like this:

:D

I was going to post a photo but now I'm having second thoughts.

Let me tell you a story. One day I was at the supermarket, buying a drink because it's cheaper than cafes and stuff. I'm clever like that. The only checkout chick who didn't have a line as long as (something really long), was a woman about my mother's age who did not look happy. In fact, I thought she was going to yell at me for choosing her checkout. I approached her nervously, at first avoiding eye contact but as I put my bottle on the counter, I looked up at her and automatically smiled as I usually do. Her reaction was: "OH! What a beautiful smile! That's so nice! I'm so glad you smiled at me, thank you! You've made my day, I really needed that!" She went on and on like that. It got me thinking, do people actually care if you smile?

I've been learning in psychology (even though it's common knowledge) that you're more attractive if you smile. Whenever I'm walking with my friend Eric and there's a shop assistant/charity person/advertising something person/whatever, he always says "They're going to go to you first. Watch." and they always do. Apparently I'm approachable. That might also be why homeless people and druggies also stand in front of me and ask me for a dollar until my dad swears at them, or I freak out and jog past them.

What am I trying to say? I have no idea. Smile if you want. People will like you. You don't have to smile though. People might ask you for money.

Ok, as a bonus for reading this, I'll show you a comparison of what I look like when I am smiling and when I am not smiling. You can decide which you prefer, and then we will see if my psychology lecture was correct.

Here is me smiling:



This is me (in red) with the beautiful Super Duper, who braved the rain to say goodbye to me at the airport. [and get cheap lunch on tuesdays at IKEA next door.]

This is me on a bad day, when I'm in a terrible mood:



I actually think I'm kinda sexy when I'm pouty and in a bad mood like that, but I have no say in this. You decide.

John Mayer in Sydney

Unfortunately, after all my hard work,* John Mayer did not come to Adelaide. Lucky for me, I have an awesome boyfriend and dad who helped me get to Sydney to see him. I must say, it was completely worth it and it was the best concert I have ever seen.

*By the way, I've had general people being annoying and making comments about me posting tweets like I did on my profile. Let me explain. It started off as a joke. A hilarious genius idea by me. (I'm joking when I say that too, I know I am neither hilarious nor a genius.) I never liked twitter but I posted tweets to Mayer when I thought of it to keep myself occupied and amuse myself. It worked well, and it got a little more attention than I expected: Randoms reading it, Chilli company 'supporting' me (they posted one tweet about it, thanks) dad's friend at his work (journalists) wrote to their friends at the Advertiser basically saying "if you have nothing better to write about, here's a story"...  Yeah. Anyway my point is, even though it would have been cool if it had (for some reason) worked, it wasn't expected to and I'm not some ditzy crazy screaming fangirl. My friends would scoff at me saying this, but goodness, a lot of the 'obsessive' things I say are joking. It's my dry humour coming out, gosh.

ANYWAY moving on. I might post photos if I can be stuffed later, but for now my teeth need brushing and I'm sleepy. After the JM concert, dad and I wandered the harbour and found another place - Tokio Hotel. Coincidently, a name of a German band. We were walking past this place, and being a lover of live music, I heard this girl band with a great pianist, vocalist and bass player singing "Work It Out" by Beyonce. They were very good, especially for a pub band. Very entertaining and I really enjoyed it. We stayed there until about 12:30am, just standing against the wall watching the band. I got a few weird looks because I wasn't drinking or dancing but you don't need to when watching music like that.

In the past, I did not like Sydney. After spending more time in the tourist areas, I really do like it though. I still don't want to live there, but I love being there. The harbour is expensive but great, especially the bars and bands that are around. Now that I'm 18 and can actually go in there, I'm living for nights like that.

I have a headache. Goodnight dears.


For tonight's quote, I will show you an old MSN conversation between myself and the beautiful Mara:

(11:18 PM) PYRO-Mara: The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.

(11:18 PM) ojaye.infatuatio: HAHA COOL
That's so nice!

(11:18 PM) PYRO-Mara: if all the world had that mentality. I'd easily kill everyone

Things I want to steal from the school.

This week is my last week of year 12. That means that I'll have to give back all the textbooks I borrowed over the year. Unfortunately, I'm finding it difficult to part with some of them. So that I feel better about parting with them, I'll write the titles here so I can buy them later. Clever me.

The Century of Invention: Piano Music of the 20th Century.

Selected and Introduced by Maurice Hinson.

 Just a collection of sheet music. I performed two songs from this book, and played a few more just for fun. Such a shame to part with this one, I've had it for two years. My teacher told me that this book is quite pricey, but I found it here and could save 56 cents.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

I had to read and analyse this for English Studies, then wrote a paired text essay for it with Fly Away Peter by David Malouf. All Quiet on the Western Front is a really good read, and I really want to read it again  just for enjoyment, without having to analyse every quote for possible essay questions. I'm too lazy at the moment, though, so I just want to buy it and read it later.

Lieder ohne Worte: Songs Without Words

Felix Mendelssohn

OH, THE HORROR! I was tempted to steal this book. Another collection of sheet music, this had one of my favourite pieces in it: Op. 102 No 4. Definately buying this one at some point in my life. I don't want to forget this song.

Grande Sonate Pathetique: Piano Sonata in c minor op. 13

Ludwig Van Beethoven

C'mon. It's Beethoven. Need I say more?

The World's Contracted Thus: Major Poetry from Chaucer to Plath

Edited by J.A. and J.K. McKenzie

I like poetry. Shut up. T.S. Eliot has got to be my favourite. I would keep this copy but it's actually my teacher's from high school. I assume she did what I'm tempted to do, but I can't be sure.

I think that's all for now. If I find any more books I'm tempted to steal, I'll let you all know, because I know how much you care. And I'm touched.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

- P. J. O'Rourke

Stalking interweb celebrities since 2009.

I haven't been on the interweb in a while. But that's ok (Not for you, I know you've missed me), I've been studying for exams! Here's my checklist so far:

[ x ] Music

[ x ] English Studies

[ x ] Physics

[ x ] Maths Studies

[ - ] Chemistry

As you can see, I have one to go! I'm taking a break today because I had three exams this week, (Maths was today) and Dad is making me. I'm wasting my time on one of my favourite websites, http://www.27bslash6.com/. This is the guy that wrote the 7-legged spider email. This guy actually makes me laugh out loud, so I could write "lol" if I wanted to. But I won't. Ignore that last one.

ANYWAY. I was reading his site and I am aware he's from (R)Adelaide. I live in Adelaide so it's AWESOME that he does too. I could see him around and not know it. Why do I keep getting off-topic? Ugh. I'll start a new paragraph.

I was reading his blog or whatever it is. The funny articles. And I found a photo he'd posted that had a desk. On the desk, it had what I assumed to be his company name.

Being the stalker I am, I googled this, and I found David Thorne's workplace. It wasn't hard. I'm not a super-spy or anything, so please don't freak out and start asking me to stalk your favourite celebrity. Please, no. Stop. *waves hand dismissively* I even got to see the pictures of he and his collegues in a 'professional' light. How cute. Another interesting thing is that I have walked by this workplace many times. I MAY MEET HIM ONE DAY. If I do, I'm taking a photo. Awesome.

For those who have never seen his blog, I'll post a short quote of it here. And yes, this will count as this post's "quote."

Click here for the full post.

Google Images

Google Images is useless. I used it once to search for a photo of farm equipment and it showed me twenty thousand pictures of horse dicks.

Chatrooms

If I wanted to chat with strangers, I would pick up the phone and press random numbers. I tried a chatroom once and was talking to guy who claimed he was an obese fifty three year old man living in a caravan park but there is no way of knowing if these people are telling the truth.

Twitter

Why would I want anybody I don't know knowing what I am doing? I don't yell out to everyone in the supermarket "I am buying oranges" so why would I want to do it on my internet? When I was young, I lived in a small village where everybody knew each other and knew what everyone was up to. There was a fat italian kid who lived next door to me named Tony. One day I shot him in the leg with a home made bow & arrow from my treehouse that overlooked his yard and his parents called the police. Within hours the entire village was calling me William Tell. Having escaped the small town mentality for the last fifty two years, I am hardly going to advertise my movements now.

The Bath Mat

I realise this is not internet related but I cannot understand why it is so hard for people to hang the bath mat over the bath when they are finished using it. I don't leave the mat all soggy for other people to walk on after I have been in there.

Facebook

I have a photo album on my bookshelf full of faces of people I know which I haven't opened since 1982 so why would I want their faces on my internet? None of them are even very good looking. I tried facebook to see what all the fuss was about and was only on there five minutes before some idiot poked me. It is easy to be brave when you are on the internet.

Reddit / Digg

These sites are the online equivalent of walking down the street, finding a rock shaped like a frog and holding it up in the air while yelling for all my neighbours to come out and tell me what they think of my frog shaped rock. My neighbours can all go to hell. Especially Mrs Carter in number three who leaves her bins out all week. If I did find a rock shaped like a frog, I would throw it at her.

Email

People are always sending me all kinds of rubbish. Why would I want dozens of pictures of lots of love cats? I hate cats. I went away for a week recently and when I got back and checked my email, I had eight hundred and forty three messages. Eight hundred and forty of these were adverts for viagra and the other three were pictures of lots of love cats. I bought a 'no junk mail' sticker and stuck it on my modem but nobody has taken any notice.

POKEMON JAPAN GAME DS WOW. (Plus a new cute thing that connects to your DS :D)

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OMG. OH EM GEE. GUESS WHAT?

What is it?

NEW POKEMON GAME COMING OUT.

Aren't you a bit old for that?

No. No one is ever too old for Pokemon. Especially not me.

Dude, I played it when I was like 8 years old. I'm over it.

WELL I'M NOT. And ever since Pokemon Yellow, the first one I played, they have been my favourite games of all time. When the next games came out, I was really disappointed that your Pokemon don't follow you anymore like Pikachu did in Pokemon Yellow.

Get a life, Ojaye.

I HAVE A LIFE. I DO. But I like these games. So for those who care as much as me, I'll list what I know about these games so far.

Please don't. I don't care.

SCREW YOU. If you don't like it, stop reading! >=(

Alright I will.

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  They'll be Gold and Silver remakes.
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  They'll have Pokemon that follow you around.
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  There will be something called the PokeWalker. Looks interesting. You can see the PokeWalker in the Japanese trailer below. IT'S CUTE. It's like a little Pedometer that you can send pokemon from your DS to this thing. When you walk around, your pokemon's health and happiness goes up and you can also catch pokemon and send them to your DS apparently. There will be items and a diary too. There's other details and stuff I've missed, because I should be studying right now. To read up more about the PokeWalker, which I think is awesome, click hereeeee!
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  It'll be out in America in Spring 2010.

SO FAR AWAY. I have to wait so long. Maybe I can get my hands on a Japanese version for a while. When Pokemon Platinum came out, I tried playing it in Japanese because I couldn't wait, then I gave up because I was too lazy to figure it out. Anyway, here are some trailers I found. One is in English and one is in Japanese.

"I haven't seen this many strange letters since I placed an ad in the personals!"
-James, Pokémon 3

The Central Station is aliveeee, with the Sound of Music (aaaahhh)

I love this. Central Station Antwerp - The Sound of Music

Over 200 dancers at the Antwerp train station, Belgium.


I would so play the game in today's quote.

I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital.’
- Demetri Martin

Stuff makes me better than you.

Two comics that I love: explosm.net and theslackerz.com. They both have had something in common recently. Talking about HAVING STUFFZ. I find it amusing when people get NEW STUFFZ and they think that they're better than everyone for having NEW STUFFZ. It hasn't happened recently, but I have encountered it in the past. People can be so silly. I love you, people.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Click here to read the theslackerz.com comic you see above.

Love, Me.

"I believe he is unconscious, though with Meres it is difficult to tell."
- David Callan

I had a Zorpia.

... but I'm going to delete it. I have one friend on there - a previous exchange student from my school. She has facebook, so it's all good. I made it one day when I was extremely bored, and didn't plan on using it ever again. It's pretty obvious, judging by my profile. I viewed my profile again, for one last time, and it amused me. I'm going to post it here so it's not forgotten.

Basic

Gender: Female
Age: 104
Ethnicity: Inter-racial
Occupation: Government/Military
Country: Australia
State: South Australia
City: Adelaide
Hometown(s): Gotham City
Personal
About me: Don't add me. I'm not cool.
Language: Random crap
Interests: Scaring old ladies at the supermarket
Clubs & Organizations: Nightclubs
Favorite books: Hentaiiiiii
Favorite music: sexy music ;D
Favorite TV programs: Hentaiiii
Favorite movies: Hentaiiiii
Places I've Traveled To: Uranus
I'm looking for: Rusty axes
Dating
Dating Status: Divorced
Body Type: Thick
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 3'0
Religion: Others
Smoking Habit: daily
Drinking Habit: daily
Currently Living with: Boyfriend/Girlfriend
TV watching habits: Sitcoms, Movies

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.
- Demetri Martin

I kill people, so show me your genitals.

Two awesome youtube videos that I found the other day with some people I love very much.

Later on, we went to town and sang them, extremely loudly. I think we disturbed many people, but we were having too much fun to care. (SORRY, CITIZENS OF ADELAIDE. - especially those in Chinatown on Friday night!) We were singing them so much that many people forgot what the original sounded like. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. (Which is a lot!)

War is a great asshole magnet.
- P.J. O'Rourke

New, but not improved!

http://afterhoursjamsessions.blogspot.com/

Fun for the whole family!

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
- Demetri Martin

Guitar Pro Skillz.

Not really. I've only been 'playing' for 2 weeks. But you get it. Here's Thuong and I playing "Stupid Love Song" by Amiel. I put that title at the bottom to cover my strumming, because I'm still trying to co-ordinate it, so I don't want pros to see!

Well we were being stupid. But y'know. All in good fun. Enjoy.