Leading the wild into the ways of the man…
HB I can’t keep my eyes open. I was supposed to write up the Grampians trip right after I got home
but I was caught up with something else and now I’m too sleepy to write the trip up. =D I shall
leave you with this teaser photo and I’ll write up the trip right after I wake up tomorrow
afternoon.
Grampians Rocks
I’ve noticed that the lineup of prepared meals at the Frank and Lily Lee’s Asian Grocery in the
campus center has improved somewhat. This is Fairy Calamari with XO Sauce on rice. Interesting.
Anyway, I’ll be going to the Grampians [grampiansrocks.com] early tomorrow morning.
It should be fun, but it also means I’ll be missing out on one “day” of my weekend. I like to
stay up late in the weekends but I have to sleep early tonight coz the trip leaves early
tomorrow morning. That makes me lose one “day” of my weekend – Friday night. There is a rave of
some sort going on at the dining hall of the campus center from 10 pm – 6 am and I would have
gone to that if I didn’t have to wake up early tomorrow. Too bad. Oh well, the Grampians would
be fun too and I’ll take heaps of photos and post them up tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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Poh Huai Bin (22/08/2002 11:17 PM + 1000)
I was supposed to have a half day off today but ended up spending the whole day on campus due to
my ITPM and IE projects. Brass Monkey Consultants first deliverable is due tomorrow. Don’t look at
me, I didn’t choose that name. Anyway, I was at the MONSU lounge around noon, so I did get to eat a
couple of doughnuts courtesy of MONSU’s Sex It Up Week. I was reading the paper there and saw this
funny article which is also available here [theage.com.au].
Apparently someone decided to rob Crown Casino [crowncasino.com] yesterday and managed to
get away even though it was a half-assed attempt at best. He was operating alone, took out a
handgun and robbed Crown of “a substantial, six-figure sum”. However, he didn’t have a getaway
car and left fingerprints and all sorts of personal info at the casino because he’s a Mahogany
Room member. Guess how he got away? A cab. You can’t make this stuff up folks. Heh. He didn’t
even have a bag to put the cash in (?) and just stuffed it into his pockets. Here is a choice
quote from the article: Police were quickly on the scene, but were unable to find a suspect
with bulging pockets. Man, that totally cracked me up. If you’re still wondering, he got
away. Somebody up there must like him. =D
Guess what week this week is? If you said “It’s SEX IT UP WEEK” you are absolutely correct. It
happens every semester and it’s organized by the student union of Monash University in Caulfield.
Unfortunately, it’s not as interesting as it sounds. Heh. It is mostly a safe sex and sexual
awareness week. Today there was a massdebate (har har) in the student lounge. The most promising
event is on Thursday night, where there will be a blow job competition (it says so on the flyer).
Don’t know what that’s about, but I’m not going to go anyway. I’m absolutely swamped with
assignments and there are two due this week.
I was late going to queue up for the shuttle bus to Caulfield today. I had to go to the
operations office beforehand to ask about one of my bills and there was this line already formed
when I got to the bus loop.
Good thing there were still seats left after this line crowded into the shuttle. I had to be on
this shuttle because there was an Industrial Experience supervisor meeting I had to attend. Anyway,
I have another meeting tomorrow – an ITPM one at the unholy hour of 9 am so that’s it for
today.
In contrast to yesterday, I had a rather easy day today. I slept in until 4 pm and woke up to
get some dinner. A solid 12 hours of sleep. Jimmy was saying that it’s equal to wasting away 1/2 of
my life and I agree. Perhaps I should tone down on the shuteye a bit. Anyway, since I’m doing my
final year of university, I’ve decided to go visiting around this year. Thus, I’ll be going to the
Grampians [visitgrampians.com.au] next
Saturday.
It’s a day trip organized by MONSU (Monash University Student Union) so it should be pretty fun.
It will go through the big five of Grampians – Halls Gap, Boroka Lookout, MacKenzie Falls, Zumstein
and the ominously named Jaws of Death. I wanted to go to the Great Ocean Road day trip as well, but
it was already sold out. No worries, I’ll take one of the travel deals offered by YHA [yha.com.au]. I feel an urge to go around Victoria since it
will probably be my last year here. After I graduate, I’ll be going to the United States to do
my Masters, so it’s pretty unlikely that I’ll be coming back to Australia. To work I mean, of
course I’ll be coming back for holidays and such. I’ve always found it depressing that time
seems to pass by so quickly. Why, I can still remember the good times I’ve had in primary
school. That is life I guess.
I’ve had a pretty busy day today. Woke up early to meet with my Industrial Experience group
mates in South Yarra and worked on the assignment for a couple of hours. I went to Soda Rock after
that to have a late lunch. Soda Rock is a diner near Jam Factory in South Yarra. I’ve never been
there before though. The food is okay but the service is really good for a diner. It has an
authentic 40’s feel, and it looks like Pop’s Diner in the Archie comics to me. Anyway, I had to go
to the library after that so I went back to Clayton. I’m really sleepy now, so I think I’m not
making much sense anyway. I am going to go and die my small death.
View from the counter at Soda Rock. The ketchup says he’s happy.
Well, now that the “catastrophic hard disk failure” (that’s the third time I used that phrase
today) issues has been resolved, I can write a bit about my day. I found this interesting drink
named Coffee Cola.
The lettering on the can suggests it’s made in Malaysia, but I’ve never seen this before in my
life. Perhaps it’s one of those “for export only” deals. The taste is…rather dismal, I’m sad to
report. It tastes like a cross between a cola sweet and a coffee sweet. In fact, the whole drink
tastes like barely carbonated melted sweets. Not very nice at all.
Anyway, I went to Doug Ellis Aquatic Center
[monash.edu.au] with Jimmy this evening. I just wanted to use their spa, sauna and steam rooms
but did a couple of laps in the heated pool since I have to pay for pool entry anyway. It was
chilly today and I was looking forward to some sauna action by the end of the day. The pools are
rather hard to swim in though because there are floating barriers (don’t know what it’s really
called) dividing each lane. This is because there are designated lanes for slow, medium and fast
swimmers. However, there are often more than 3 people in each lane, which makes swimming very
difficult. It didn’t bother me though, coz I wanted to use the sauna/spa/steam rooms only
anyway. =D There is nothing like walking into a steaming hot sauna after a cold winter’s day.
That sure felt good.
One good thing came out of this “catastrophic hard disk failure”. I have found God and He goes
by the name mput. I would be lost without Him. If you’ve been following my blog for a while,
you’ll have heard me mention that I update this blog by manually uploading the files via telnet to
my uni’s Unix server and then from there to my hosting company. I have always used put to
transfer my files and that requires you to type the each and every file name after put. Due
to the large amounts of files I have to transfer today, I decided to dust off some Unix books
(actually I just did a Google search) and find out how to transfer files using wildcards and I have
been shown the light! Oh, Hallelujah, mput is almighty indeed.
