Moon Lit Night

Haven't written a blog entry in awhile. I've been playing games so figures but I did end up finishing three games in the last week. Just replaying some parts of the games but pretty bored. Thought I'd do some posting because there's a red moon out at this time from the bushfire smoke. Not that it's out of some dread feeling but just thought it was a change to the usual so I thought I might as well do a little change by writing in my blog XD. The bushfire's getting pretty close so hopefully everyone's safe.

Anyhow I'm going to go through a bit of my week so bear with me.

Last Saturday I had a brood of hatchlings from last last Monday's 'mother' huntsman. I probably would of left them alone if they hadn't built a tangle of webs which I walked into after waking up. Yes baby huntsmans make webs to catch prey not like adult huntsmans. Firstly I didn't realize there was a infestation until later in the day when I continued to have solitary spiders crawling around. There was about thirty plus around my window area where the mother had come in and about a dozen where my light fixture was. Tried a few ways to kill them but was unsuccessful. In the end it came to bug spray. Pretty much killed them all. Also gave me a nice high XD.

Sunday was a bit disappointing seeing how it was like the quad birthday time so we should of had some sort of celebration lunch or something ... Maybe there was something after I left but oh well.

Monday I had to meet with Centrelink person about Working for the Dole so that was a hassle and just means I'm so much a bum now that they're soon going to force me to work.

Tuesday had a friend come over and play games so that wasn't boring. Didn't stay long though. So got pretty bored after.

Wednesday was more of a weird thing happen other than an actual event. It's always weird when people get off at a intersection with me and I wonder where they are going. It's like are they going home, to work, or just shopping. But most of the time they always going off in different directions. Anyways was going to a meeting at church, got off the tram, and four other people also came off. The surprising thing was all five of us made our way in the same direction and side of the road. None of us were going to the same place because it was a residential area and everyone was walking in a single line. So five separate destinations. I was curious to see who was going to break the line first. Unfortunately up the road was my church. So I was first to break off. Dang.

That's probably the last weird thing that happened during my week. Anyways Happy Valentines Day to all of yous. Even if you don't believe in corporate holidays. You know who I'm talking about.

Moving On

Joy I'm another year older. Okay its not that good. Guess I do get money for my birthday but its just telling me I'm losing my youth ><. Well been feeling like this for awhile now and doesn't help that I teach kids a decade younger than me. So to feel better I wore my i don't wanna grow up T-shirt. I'm not that fickle but what, can't I wear what I want? Anyways had lunch to celebrate my birthday so that was okay. Got lots of messages wishing me a happy birthday so thanks to everyone who gave a cheer.

Government makes me feel even older. Every time they support a cause for youths which could have been great if only I was just younger it makes me feel older. Received a letter from government on how 'my children' can save money on anything they need for school. Just a few years before I was getting how I could be saving money. Bah I've been feeling old for awhile now so I guess its nothing new. Anyways that's the only rambling I'm going to do today.

The New meets the Old

Okay this post might be a little boring but what the heck its my blog. I didn't know this but apparently people still make games for the NES. If you don't know what that is it is the Nintendo console that is older than me ... coincidentally I'm twenty three on tomorrow so that makes the Australia Nintendo Entertainment System roughly twenty four. The interesting thing is that one of the new games that some geek who can't get over the NES made was ... *drum roll* ...

'D+Pad Hero'.

Great I go and get Guitar Hero: World Tour and they go and release something I could of just played on my own NES ><. Just joking around. There's some interesting list of songs you can find here. So anyways here's a screenshot from the game.




If you have an emulator you can download the game and have a go. I'm just going to go back to playing World Tour.

Nothing but Black

Sort of forgot I had a blog till today. Actually only remembered because I wasn't playing games XD. Was because had a blackout. The blackout lasted for about forty five minutes. Thing was it cut out all my gaming consoles so I thought for a bit what I did before without games. And that brings me to blogging. However there was no power so I couldn't do that either ><.

So what to do for an undetermined time ...? It was still a bit hot and my fan tower died with the power so I opened my window which came to be not such a good idea. Thought it was a good idea to have a shower seeing how it was end of day anyways to did that. After that I came back to my room and lay on the bed for awhile. That's when I noticed a shadow behind my curtain. Apparently a huntsman had gotten in and it was pretty big. I have a fly screen cover on my window but its old and huntsman can flatten themselves to slip under ... either that or its been living in my room for awhile which is scary to think about. Took about ten minutes to safely capture it and release it back in the wild. Picture's dark because there was no power or light.



Half an hour had passed and by this time there was no light at all. Someone kept bugging me to post photos but my camera was always out of batteries but luckily by this time I had charged my camera. Had a look through some old photos and got power back eventually.

So that someone that was bugging me to take a photo when I went to the beach can have a look at this photo which was taken the day after at the same beach.

Blasting

Well it's been awhile since I last blogged so I thought I'd do a quickie ... maybe longer if I am bothered.

Just "cleaned" my room a bit because people coming over. When people come over it means I have to actually do the annual work of cleaning my room. I usually just shove stuff to one corner but I to tend to throw that odd empty bottle of juice out (if you don't know what this is referring to be very afraid) and sort through my pile of game boxes. It sometimes ends up quite clean. But just wait a day and its back to its previous mess. That's why I don't bother cleaning it usually.
Guitar Hero - World Tour is great and it has a drum which is quite the new concept other than DK Bongos ... anyhow the only problem is where to put that giant box? My cousins moved out so no ones using the guest room so I thought while I was cleaning I'd move it there. The moment I leave the box, my mum happens to need the room and makes a fuss on why I put the box there in her way (mothers ...) ... So I move it an inch outside the room and supposedly its in a better place now. I have a lot of trouble with boxes from new computer case boxes to gaming console boxes. A majority of my room is box space if you look carefully. Anyways lately most of it has thankfully moved to the garage so my rooms abit more free ... to get messy.

Ok getting long but I guess this is what I get for not posting for awhile.

Beached again. I know. No I didn't get sunburnt. The sun was basically gone but just in case I used some sunscreen. Weirdest stuff I've ever used though. This stuff seriously looked and smelled like hairgel. For a minute or so I debated whether someone had replaced the sunscreen with hairgel or not and whether I was going to dare put this stuff on me. My friend laughed at me and told me not to blame him this time for getting sunburnt (yes its the same guy as last time). As soon as I used it I realized it wasn't hairgel because it rubbed away (try rubbing hairgel away ...). So I swam while my friend waded abit then went back on shore to sunbake in the ever dying sun. It was pretty cool watching the sunset and coincidentally a fish jumped in front of the sun just as it set XD (where's my camera when I need it ><). Even though I was swimming by myself overall it was relaxing and great experience.

Bunch of forty degree days coming along so people slip slop slap or suffer the consequences ><.

The Controversial Holiday

I was thinking of just blabbing about mX's excessive articles on blogs and the physical and mental damage of smoking but its the first day of the Australia/Chinese New Year long holiday so I thought I'd write something about this event.

Box Hill decided to pull all the stops this year. They blocked off a section of Whitehorse Road for more stands and even set up an amusement park in a carpark at the back of Centro. I didn't get to Box Hill till the evening but the sun was still out because of summer so it was still alright to move around. However it was still crowded and if that didn't make it hard to move from one stand to another there were lots of prams and strollers ramming into the back of my heels. One parent even continuously ram me and seemed to have no idea what he was actually doing with his stroller. There were lots of kids and at these events that meant lots of balloons. Every time you look up you could see a lost balloon floating away and hear the crying of a child.
The stands were the usual. Lots of food stands that are overpriced for Asian food that I've probably had at home but I guess it's the convenience of having them all in one place. I had some food using my money sparingly but ended up buying a double beef and cheese from Maccas instead XD. There were also the usual Asian Christian, Asian DVDs, Lion Dancing, and the Arts and Craft stands. There were a few different ones like ice cream vans, NAB booth, Toy vans, and some Whitehorse council runner with the name Blake I think. Didn't go into the amusement park section because I assumed it would involve me losing a lot of money. I was glad to see that they finally put bins every ten metres apart around Box Hill just for this event. They filled up pretty quickly but if they only have the regular bins then we'd be in trouble.

Round the middle of that paragraph I was interrupted to go see Underworld: Rise of the Lycans which turned out to be pretty good. Still lately been interrupted a lot so my blogs get pushed further and further back.

But actually came back to Box Hill at midnight for dinner and found it still lively with a healthy dose of crowd still left. Some stands were closed and others opened to take their place but the night seemed to be wrapping up for most people. There were still some lion dancing and drumming which were loud enough to bug some people in the Box Hill residential area. The next morning it was like nothing happened XD.

And for some reason I am burnt again. I did go to the beach but it was partly cloudy and I had a shirt on the whole time. Thankfully this time wasn't as bad as last time. SOMEONE said it would be impossible to burn with the weather we had yesterday ... damn you ><. Wah didn't even get my point out because writing up this blog over and over. Australian holidays means people having days off and everything is closed. Chinese holidays means shop open to take in more customers who have the time to shop and eat. So how's a day that's both an Australian and Chinese holiday meant to work?

Bloggers see new dawn online

Apparently today's the day to flee Australia. My cousin just left to return home to Taiwan and some friends are going around Southeast Asia. Guess that's the only real happening today so I thought I'd post what I wanted to post yesterday.

We all know its pretty horrible to rely on real news from mX so it was clear that its articles on the inauguration of Obama wasn't going to be any good. What was even worse (yes it gets worse) is that their titles aren't even close to accurate. Guess mX really puts it forward to be more entertaining than to accurately depict the news. Basically the title I've used on this post is what was used. But the article was talking about everyone who used the internet to watch the inauguration. I've only just started blogging so it just bugged me that they assume everyone's a blogger because there was a few blog posts on the inauguration. If you think I'm weird for being bugged by something so little its because I am weird.
And yes there was probably another reason that title was used. Apparently the Whitehouse has a website and there's a blog on it. It actually has been there for awhile but because Obama is starting up his reign so they took off Bush's Whitehouse website and replaced it with Obama's while announcing that the site would have better communication with the public. I don't think any of the presidents would actually write on the blog but the Media guy does and a few other important people. I haven't read anything on the blog yet but here's a link if you're interested XD.


Whitehouse.gov/blog/

i don't wanna grow up

I'm always getting random stuff here and there and also get a boatload of YouTube stuff so I was thinking of posting something about Obama but here's something I thought was probably more interesting than the government of the US.



And if you don't get the title then you don't know me enough XD. Actually it's just a t-shirt that I own that has the below image.


I have a few t-shirts from the site where I get them from so I'll link it for those who are interested XD.

Bich?

I took a break from blogging. Also was out all day with nothing to write anyways. Something did happen yesterday.

It was around six when I had a phone call to go beach. It sounded like a plan because it was a hot day and like I was saying I didn't have much to do. However I was the first one called to go so had to wait to see if anyone else was going. It wasn't until eight when we left and the sun was already going down. Only three of us ended up going in one car. It would have been fine if we went to a close beach but the destination wasn't decided and we eventually ended up at Brighton beach because it was close to where one of us worked. By this time it was eight forty and the sun had just gone over the horizon.
There was still some light so we still went to the beach. It wasn't much of a beach because you could walk like twenty metres out and the water would still be knee deep and also there was no waves. The whole area was filled with people and their dogs which was pretty weird but then again the houses in the area were quite expensive and there was also boats lining the other side where there was a pier so guess they all can afford dogs. So all we ended up doing was walkin up and down the beach on land and water watching the lights and dogs. We spent a hour or so so it wasn't too bad.
After that we had kebabs and ice cream in St Kilda. Ice cream was from Cold Rock which was so worth waiting in a huge line for on such a warm evening. We took a walk up and down St Kilda road and just chatted, even chatted with some random motorcyclist who was walking back to his bike. Had quite a few random conversation topics. We dropped by Sidney Myer Music Bowl for no real reason and just watched the seagulls in the light of the Australia Open at Vodaphone Arena. So a day of weird places but overall fun.

On another note I'm feeling alot better XD.

Hey Sport

Saturday television is basically sports sports and more sports. There's usually quite a bit of selection to watch ranging from usual team sports like netball to spectator sports errr like lawn bowl ... Today was no difference. There was a bit of beach cricket which is eight overs of exciting random bowling and batting. The finishing up of the tennis before the Australia Open starts. Woman's basketball was a bit awkward especially when they try to force fouls. The Woman's League wasn't much better but there was one entertaining event that I was present to see.

So after many years now Australia has dozens of soccer teams here and there. They even managed to get enough girls together to start the W-League. Today's game is Queensland Roar versus Canberra United. It's about three quarters through the game and Queensland's up two goals so Canberra's quite desperate to get on the board. There's a free kick for Canberra just a bit outside the outer goal square (whatever its called) so all the girls line up at the square. As the free kick is taken the line of girls seperate and heads jump to knock the ball in each teams intended direction. A head or two hit the ball and it bounces to the side and several people scramble to get it. One striker on the Canberra side is left on the ground but the game goes on. Canberra players manage to get the ball back in front of where the line of girls were and there's this whole wave of both team players swarming forwards towards the ball. The striker that was knocked down having been on the floor long enough gets up just to manage to get her face in the way of a Canberra kick for goal. Ouch. Basically shes down again but game is still on. Even though it had seemed that her getting in the way had totally diminished their chance of scoring in that attack, the rest of the team manage to score. Unfortunately there's a call offside and a replay pops up. Apparently as the striker had gotten up, everyone else had moved forward just a step leaving her offside and a millisecond later with a ball in her face. Queensland ends up winning anyways.
Even though I'm always hearing how its too dangerous for girls to play with guys, just watching something like that leaves me thinking that girls probably try harder than guys and probably endure more hurt from each others than they probably would get from guys.
I've also had my share of ball injuries while playing soccer. However there's one place that hurts more than the face that only a guy can go through ><.

I just realized that post how I said that I shedded like a cat shedding hair probably could of be described better as a snake shedding skin XD. Meh looks like I finally have to clean my room to clean all this skin up :P.