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Recipe for Regurgitation

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Queasy Quiche

Serves: 1

Cooking Time: 7 minutes

6:36 pm: Heat one BBQ Pork on Rice rice box (3:30 on high)

6:45 pm: Eat rice box

8:00 pm: Sleep

12:00 am: Heat one Hainan Chicken Rice rice box (3:30 on high)

12:06 am: Eat rice box

3:30 am: Eat two chocolate bars and a large bag of chips

4:00 am: Sleep

7:45 am: Eat two bacon and egg muffins and 3 sunny side up eggs

8:20 am: Drink a large fruit smoothie

9:47 am: Throw up

Queasy Quiche can be keep for up to a week in room temperature, although
it will give off an unpleasant smell.

Gedera

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I had lunch at this Sri Lankan place today. It’s behind Caulfield Plaza
and it’s pretty good. Billed as authentic home style Sri Lankan crusine,
it has a different special for each day. Their chutney is tasty and there
is a drink called woodapple cream that you should try. Devine. Anyway,
I’ll be heading down to the city square tomorrow for the
Melbourne
Spring Fashion Week [melbourne.vic.gov.au]. I’ve got tickets for two
shows tomorrow so I’ll be there with my trusty digicam. The tickets are
free and can be printed from the page above, but all of them has been
allocated out. The choice shows are the lingerie shows of course, but the
tickets for those must have gone really early coz there wasn’t any when I
looked. Heh.

Kaze

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There are really strong (gale force?) winds blowing in Melbourne
now. I was walking down Blackburn Road and the trees were practically
bent in half from the wind. Okay, slight exaggeration, but it has got
to be a scary sight on acid. Heh. Anyway, the supposedly robust Halls
of Residence power grid conceded to the wind for a couple of seconds
just now. Damn blackouts…good thing I didn’t have anything unsaved on
my computer.

Monday

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I’ve just had a discussion with my Industrial Experience supervisor
regarding the Christmas vacation period and it seems that going back will
be out of the question for most people because the workload will be pretty
hefty right around then. I’m aware that Industrial Experience does not
follow uni holidays since it’s supposed to provide a one year working
experience in software development and project management. Oh well, we’ll
see how it goes. I’ve just noticed that half the semester is gone and
there will be a lot of assignments due soon. Bummer.

Anyway, I was taking the train back at around 9 pm today after working on
the IE project in the labs. Interestingly, I saw three policemen (one of
them was female but for the sake of being politically correct) board the
train at Caulfield and get off at Clayton. I’ve never seen police use
public transport before. They were still in their uniform and obviously is
still on the job since they were questioning a druggie at Clayton station.
I wonder why they don’t use cruisers and have to take public transport.

Well, as I was reading the Herald Sun today, I saw this advert regarding

Southgate’s [southgate-melbourne.com.au] 10th birthday. There will be
a fireworks show and other entertainment as well. I might head down if
I’ve nothing better to do on Saturday night.

Life, the Universe and Everything

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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.

The church of mput

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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.

Time warp back to July

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If anyone saw the main page revert back to July, fear not…you have not gone back in time.
Apparently, the server my blog is hosted on had a “catastrophic hard disk failure”. My hosting
company only does monthly backups because they want to minimize server downtime, which is fair
enough, but now I’ll have to re-upload one month’s worth of stuff. How fun. It’s going to take a
while so expect some pictures to be broken and not all links fully working. My apologies. Fun fun
fun.

Nostalgia

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I went to get some fish and chips just now and man, did that bring back some memories. It seems
that Australia/New Zealand fish and chips shops looks about the same. Greasy interior, a bench with
old magazines for people waiting in line and a slightly depressing ambience. I remember I used look
forward to eat one serving of fish and chips as a Sunday meal back when I was in New Zealand. Just
a pack of fish (NZ$1.10) a piece of fish (NZ$1.10) and a whole bottle of tomato sauce (NZ$2.40). I
will then absolutely saturate the chips with tomato sauce (about a 400 ml bottle) and eat the whole
thing with relish. Another “fish and chips memory” would be staying out in town late most weekdays
while still wearing my school uniform with a couple of my buddies. I was in high school then –
Riccarton High School in Church Corner, Christchurch. We would go to the city square straight after
class and hang around town until around 12 midnight. There was a fish and chip shop near the city
and we would always get something to eat there and play the old arcade games in the shop for a
while before taking the bus back to Church Corner.

This picture is from the Riccarton High School [school.nz] website.
Hmm…looking at the web page sure brings back a lot of memories. The circle shows my first home
stay when I was there. I was always late for school and to avoid the gate keeper, I would jump
over the fence which connects the school grounds and the backyard of my home stay. Pretty nifty
eh? =D It works both ways, but climbing into the school grounds is easier than climbing into my
home stay backyard. This is because there are lumbar supports on the backyard side of the fence
to use as footholds. If I wanted to climb back into my home stay backyard, I would need to pull
myself up and vault over. It was hard to do that in the beginning, but after a bit of practice,
I got really good at it. This is useful for an entirely different reason. I didn’t have a lunch
pass then so I couldn’t go out of school grounds. The backyard trick allows me to go out without
having to pass though the gate. Heh. Those were the days indeed.

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