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Explosive Diarrhea

February 7, 2003 by HB

I woke up today having to run to sit on my porcelain throne. I
barely made it. In fact, I think maybe I didn’t after all. *cough* I
haven’t expelled such a large volume of watery feces with such force
for a long time and I’m looking back to dinner last night to see what
went wrong. I had:

King Island Dairy Roaring Forties Blue Cheese

This one is not very likely because I’ve eaten from the same wedge without problems yesterday.

Superior Gold Tasmanian Smoked Salmon

Vacuum packed and sealed package, so it doesn’t seem to be the offending party as well.

Coles Croissants

It’s bread. No mold, so not very likely.

Frozen cooked prawns from the Coles deli

I’m putting my money on this one. Are you supposed to eat prawns
labeled as “frozen, cooked” from the deli straight off the package? It
came in a ring of about 40 prawns and it even had a small indent in the
package for dip! It sure looked like it can be eaten without any
further cooking. Well, the prawns still looked a bit raw and tasted
raw, but there was a dip bowl built into the ring! Why would someone do
that if it’s meant for cooking?

Strawberry Mentos

February 6, 2003 by HB

Limited edition? I’ve always seen strawberry Mentos around. Hmm…

Sibu, CNY, Class of ’98

February 5, 2003 by HB

These are the photos of the Chinese New Year mega gathering of
Methodist High School Class of ’98 which I missed due to coming back
early. 🙁 Daniel sent me the pics today for everyone to download. He
also sends his apologies because the pictures are not taken very well.
I’m going to put this up for a week and then I’ll take it down, so if
you’re in the picture, get it now. 🙂

Right click, Save as

Download here. (2.12 MB)

Download here. (2.00 MB)

[Edit: Large pictures have been removed.]

Curious George

February 5, 2003 by HB

I didn’t do too well in the exam today, but I should be able to
pass. *fingers crossed* I only got 1 hour of sleep last night. Wanted
to sleep at 2:30 am but couldn’t so I laid in bed doing jack shit until
5:30 am before I finally decided against sleeping and got up and
studied some more. I thought about crunching up a couple of Valiums
(legally prescribed) and getting some sleep, but that would not be such
a good idea considering there’s no way I would be getting 8 hours of
sleep. Diazepam makes me feel really scattered if I don’t sleep for a
decent amount of time after taking it.

Anyway, I did finally sleep for slightly more than an hour at 8 am.
Woke up feeling strangely refreshed and got some serious studying done.
I always tend to cram a few hours before the exam. George picked up the
shovel and started digging into the ground. The tree has been there for
more than 7 decades, but good things must come to an end. He digs, one
shovel at a time, one rock at a time, one pebble at a time. The
children crowded around him, peering curiously at George. Curious
George.

Sleep beckons me.

Sexually Explicit Entertainment May Offend

February 4, 2003 by HB

I’ve got an exam tomorrow – the final paper of BUS 3650 Business
Applications of Neural Networks. That’s my summer semester subject if
you’re wondering. Well, the subject is not as easy as I thought due to
several formulas that requires knowledge of DIFFENTIATION.

/me makes a gesture to ward off evil.

I never would have thought I’ll come across that word again after
Additional Math in high school. My thinly disguised attempt to solicit
specific hints didn’t go so well either:

I suggest you make sure you understand
the tutes and examples given in the lectures. If you don’t understand
something, come and see me during my consultation hours this week (see
web site for times) with very specific questions.
regards,
kate

Dr. Kate A. Smith
Deputy Head & Director of Research
School of Business Systems telephone: +61 3 9905 5800
Monash University    mobile: 0438 112912
Clayton, Victoria 3800    fax: +61 3 9905 9422
Australia email:
kate.smith@infotech.monash.edu.au

WWW:
http://www.bsys.monash.edu.au/staff/kate/kate.htm

Walk for your lives!

February 3, 2003 by HB

I remember that I used to stuff things down the overflow protection
hole in sinks when I was younger. You know, the holes that appear on
most sinks to prevent flooding when someone puts the plug in and leaves
the tap running. Anyway, when I was younger I was simply amazed by this
concept and with my vivid imagination, I thought of the hole as the
mouth of the sink, and I used to bestow offerings to it, lest it turns
into an angry sink and rampage or something. I was 13 at that time. 🙂

Well, I’ve stuffed all sorts of stuff into the hole during my youth.
Small plastic toys, the bony wing part of chicken wings, my sister’s
hairclips. Oh, and those black flat seedless prunes were a perfect fit
too. It’s a wonder my sink’s pipes never got blocked. The worst thing
was, I used to do this to other sinks too, not just my own. I remember
my grandma’s sinks received plenty of offerings in it’s time. 🙂 I got
tired of it after a while though. Rampage on, hungry sink.

(Tasteless) Joke of the Day:

Q. What does NASA stand for?
A. Need Another Seven Astronauts [cnn.com].

Chu Er

February 2, 2003 by HB

Day 2 of Chinese New Year

Who?

Me.

What?

Nothing much basically, I’m just trying to finish reading my lecture
notes today for my final exam. Oh man, I am sooooooooo not prepared.

When?

Wednesday.

How?

I don’t know.

Why?

Fish sandwich and chips from slops.

My head feels like someone had a go at it with a sledgehammer. My
brain feels like porridge. Someone eat it before it gets cold. Note to
self: Everything in moderation.

Year of the Goat

February 1, 2003 by HB

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that everyone is having a great
time. Myself, I still have to study because the final exam for my
summer subject is on the 5th of February, which is like four days away.
Not feeling the CNY mood at all. I did get an ang pow from Uncle Tatt
though. It was a A$25 dollar ang pow, not bad eh? 🙂

Chai Shen dau!

I actually picked this up on Chinese New Year Eve after dinner but
didn’t remember it until today. I can’t remember the last time I got a
scratch card – I think it was in 1996 in New Zealand and I won NZ $10
that time. Well, it seems that I’m pretty lucky with these things, coz
I got A$25 this time. Heh. The scratch card costs A$10 though, so
that’s like a A$15 profit. It’s still good though, my only ang pow this
year. Not bad for New Year’s luck eh? 🙂 Gong Xi Fa Chai everyone!
Meeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!!

That’s a goat bleating if you’re wondering.

Royal Blunts Cognac Flavored EZ Roll Tube

February 1, 2003 by HB

The front of the packaging with a see thru window.

The back of the packaging.

I purchased this blunt wrapper from Off Ya Tree a couple of days ago. It’s made by Royal Blunts
[royalblunts.com] and I decided that today was a good day as any to
smoke a blunt, being Chinese New Year and everything. 🙂 A blunt is a
cigar with cannabis inside instead of tobacco. It retails for A$3.95
and Off Ya Tree has several other flavors besides cognac. Cannabis sold
separately, of course.

Inside the packaging is a single leaf of tobacco and a plastic tube.

Anyway, the package is air sealed and has a single blunt wrapper
inside and a plastic tube, which serves the dual function of preventing
the leaf of tobacco from getting squashed in the package and to pack
weed into the blunt you’re rolling. The blunt wrapper was surprisingly
fresh, it didn’t reek like stale cigars do.

Rolling the blunt.

The blunt wrapper was easy to roll too, and it sealed by itself. I
did give the side of the wrap a lick to make it seal better though. I
used the plastic tube to pack the cannabis tightly, as I prefer the
draw of a tightly packed cigarette as opposed to an unpacked one. In
lieu of a roach (a cardboard piece you put at the end of joints as a
filter), I folded the end of the blunt and it works just as well. I
didn’t inhale any small bits of plant material even when I toked hard
on the blunt.

The blunt.

And the taste of the blunt…oh my God, it was simply divine! Very,
very tasty indeed. It will be hard to go back to smoking bowls after
this. The cognac flavored wrapper achieves this synergy with the choof,
providing this rich, satisfying smoke that tastes pleasant and smells
wonderful. It tasted like a good cigar with the sweet, sweet smoke of
cannabis instead of tobacco. The burn rate was very controlled too, the
tip burns slowly when you’re not toking on it and even when you draw on
it, it doesn’t burn that fast either, just a slowly moving red rim that
produces a nice lungful of that rich, satisfying smoke. It gives a
slightly different high too, there was the added stimulant high from
the tobacco leaf wrapper. Highly recommended!

Chinese New Year Eve dinner

January 31, 2003 by HB

This is what I got for the New Year reunion dinner without the reunion today.

Honey chicken, kai lan in oyster sauce, sliced fish with scallops and ginger.

Steamed rice, garlic prawn and char kueh tiaw.

Magnum almond ice cream, Sara Lee Bites – frozen cheese cake and fudge brownies.

Mmm…I’m going to attempt to eat everything in a gross, disgusting and totally unacceptable manner. 🙂