Monday, May 28th, 2007
Had dinner with my family at Pacific Seafood Restaurant at Toorak Rd. Good food, good price, simply fantastic. Well, fantastic aside from the $118AUD fish we got conned into ordering. We thought it was a normal sized fish that is chopped in 2 and cooked in 2 different ways with other meat and such. Sounds tasty, sounds good. Pricewise though, not good. 118 bucks fish. C’mon, thats fucking expensive mate. Thats equals to about 12 movies at the cinema or half a year worth of World of Warcraft game time. >.>
Then again, theres an even more expensive fish out there. It costs about $300,930.41 AUD (30 million Yen). The 80cm/32″ robot was developed by Ryomei Giken, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, in conjunction with two other companies in Hiroshima, western Japan. It was created to analyze water quality, shoot pictures with its CCD camera, and swim around in a life-like manner via remote control. Apparently this expensive piece of fish is the fifth in a series of robotic fish developed by Ryomei Engineering.
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
0300:
Went to bed after hardcore study to provide for falling short of study quota for the day.
0700:
Alarm rang. Snoozed.
0710:
Alarm rang again. Snoozed
0720:
Alarm rang yet again…. oh shit, late.
0730:
On way to airport.
0830:
Mum called, said they were out half an hour ago. Damnit, mistimed. Morning arrivals are usually packed and are usually out around this time.
0845:
Reached airport and picked them up.
0940:
Home. Parents settling in and unpacking stuff, bro rumaging through my room.
1015:
Parents, Aunt (mum’s sis) and me made coffee to drink while chatting and discussing Aunt’s (dad’s sis) condition.
1050:
Outside Sharkfin House awaiting entry for Dim Sum.
1200:
Left Sharkfin House. Hang around in city with family.
1530:
Bro desperately needed to heed nature’s call. Took him home by train whilst parents, sis and aunt continued to hung out in the city.
1615:
Home. Bro watched NBC’s Heroes while i studied in the living room, after making a cup of coffee of course.
1715:
Family back. House too noisy to study zzz. Bro still hogging my room.
1800:
Dad kicked bro out of my room so i could study. Poor guy ><”’
1845:
Dinner time.
2000:
Continued my studies. Lagging waaaay behind study quota. I’m so dead.
2130:
Taking break to make a cup of coffee.
2140:
Started Blogging.
2154:
Spilled coffee while blogging T.T
2158:
Ending blog session to continue studies. Sigh~~~
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Just found out my ‘korkor’ (dad’s sis) has Uterus Cancer and is in the late stages. Last we heard was it has spread to the stomach and neck. Her husband quit work as a professor for the past 6 months and my cousin resigned from her job to take care of her. Sigh. Very depressing news indeed. Anticipation of my family coming to Melbourne for a visit has been dampened with this piece of bad news.
Sometimes it makes me wonder, why do innocent people suffer? Innocent people tends to suffer alot more than bad people and the evil seems to live unscathed. Why is it that the wicked seemed prosper?
This passage from a book I’ve read may shed some light.
Grief and sorrow do not come to us by chance; they
are sent by the Divine Mercy for our perfecting. When
grief and sorrow come, then will a man remember his
Father Who is in Heaven, Who is able to deliver him from
his humiliations. The more a man is chastened, the greater
is the harvest of spiritual virtues shown forth by him.
(Dr. J.E. Esslemont, Baha’u'llah and the New Era, p. 96)
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Hmmm, so my parents are arriving at 7am tomorrow. My room is in a mess, stacks of papers and books sprawling on my desk and my floor, jackets and jumpers in piles on the floor, unmade bed, wires from various charges under my desk, side-table and bed, dust covered equipment and furniture etc. So what do i do u ask? Well, theres is only one thing to do:
Yep thats right push the PANIC BUTTON! Cool button to have eh? Well, you could order your very own one here.
On a side note, my good friend Chris made a featured comic on my dilemma, whilst to a certain extent its kinda true, there is one thing i would absolutely like to do for defaming with me using my GF as an excuse, that is:
Take that dude! Btw, if you are wondering, the game devil told me that punching Chris will net me 1500 Bonus Points.
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Exams is just around the corner, lots more to study yet so little time. Been trying to study but i just couldn’t seem to focus my concentration on. There is always 2 choice:
And guess which one usually wins? (By play i mean the word, not the picture, but i wouldn’t mind that if my gf was here.. heh =p)
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Already own a DS and always wanted to be able to read comics on your DS instead of gaming whilst traveling/commuting? (Well i do!! I’ve always wanted to read my Batman Chronology, Hellsing and Heroes manga whilst commuting to uni) Look no further for Gnese has released a Homebrew software for the DS that lets you do just that. There are 2 parts involved in getting it to your DS. This is assuming you already have a Hombrew enabled DS. (I’m not going to divulge information on how to get it done. Potential legal issues and all. Google it)
The first part is the PC part, where you used a software called PictoDS (developed byNicom00k) which converts your pictures into a .cbds file (those pictures can be in a folder, a .zip, a .cbz, a .cbr, a .rar.)
The second part is the DS part, where you used a Homebrew called ComicBookDS (developed by Gnesse), which allows to display those .cbds files in a fast, pleasant and intuitive way.
To get it, click here to get to the official site.
Now all I need now is a pdf reader for my lecture notes …… nah >.>
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Earlier on i complained bout the Australia Post service. Today i received the following email reply:
Dear Mr Lee,
Thank you for your enquiry via our website.
It is the aim of Australia Post to provide a secure and reliable mail
service and complaints, such as yours, are of concern.
I would like to assure you that our service is normally very reliable and
that our mail-processing arrangements are designed to support the secure and
speedy delivery of mail. I am lodging your complaint with the Richmond
Delivery Centre, requesting that in future an attempt of delivery is made to
by knocking on your door or ringing the doorbell to your address. Where the
Postal Delivery Officer has to leave their mail unattended or out of sight,
to make this delivery attempt, then the correct procedure is to leave a card
on the letterbox.
Should you have any queries in relation to any of the above, please do not
hesitate to call our Customer Contact Centre on 13 13 18 and quote reference
number VH1105957 or respond by return e-mail.
Regards,
Darren
Resolutions Consultant
CUSTOMER CONTACT CENTRE
GPO Box 72
MELBOURNE VIC 3001
Telephone: 13 13 18
Email: DLVICCCCWebmailResponse@auspost.com.au
Hopefully, if i ever order anything through the mail or something, I expect them to do as promised.
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On to the other matter, my aunt came back and saw my sis didn’t do as she was told and i got blasted for it as well. Do i look like a punch bag? Maybe i should introduce to her the following products:
<- Swearing Photo Punchbag
or
Man who offers self as Lady-Punchbag ->
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
There I was, happily sitting in front of the TV watching Lost Tribes whilst eating my dinner and my sis blew up on me.. She just blasted me for speaking about the allowance we get from our dad to my gf, my uni fees, my daily expenses. I mean what the hell?… And for your info, I’m OLD enough to decide what to disclose and what not to disclose. Geez.
What is wrong with her anyway. Its that one thing I don’t like about her. Shes very short tempered and sensitive to stuff. Cut me some slack.
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
I was under the impression that as a receiver of a Registered Mail, the postman was suppose to ring my doorbell to deliver the mail to me where i would sign the acknowledgement of receipt. I called the post office earlier to see if my mail has arrived and they say I would be receiving it today. So, based on their advice, i stayed home all day awaiting my mail. Out of curiousity i went out to check my mail and there was a card there asking me to collect my postal article at the Toorak Post office.
I was very annoyed that the postman did not even bother to ring my doorbell and personally give my registered mail to me as it is his job even though i was home all day. Now, I’ve to make a trip to the Toorak Post Office which is NOT the closest post office to my location (Hawksburn is the closest to my address), to collect it the next day.
Bastards.
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