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A Little Change Of Scenery / Sunday, May 28, 2006

Today we went to Garden City instead of the city. By Gods I'm soooo sick of the city now == It was so wicked because I got a free bus ride to the city (^_^)V I usually catch the train but I checked out the bus times at the station near the train and saw it went to the city as well and since the next bus would come in 2 minutes, I decided to wait. When it came, it was totally empty except for the driver. I got my wallet out but the driver said "oh no it's alright, just take a seat" and I'm like oookkkkaaaayy.......? *sits* When I got dropped off at the city I asked him why I didn't have to pay, and he was like "just forget about it, it's alright, you don't need to pay, just smile when you get off the bus" and I'm like :D:D:D thanx!!! He might be a paedophile (courtesy of my friend) but hell, what do I care? I just got a free ride!! woo!! heheheh cheapness :P

Garden City is pretty much as boring as the city when you're not looking for something in particular. Spent ages in OPSM trying on new frames. Haha, got a picture of Chris looking like a lawyer :P Saw Mission Impossible 3. Pretty good, but I kept flinching at the loud noises which was pretty much all through the movie. I think we may have pissed off the people behind us because we kept on whispering (^_^)> Some characters were pretty funny. "Rabbit's Foot is either code for something or an extremely expensive bunny appendage" Hahaha, bunny :P

Oh yea, I'm going to Sydney and Perth in the holidays!! wooo!!! That's perfect because I have 3 weeks worth of holidays in June/July so I will spend one week in Brisbane, one week in Sydney, and one week in Perth, then straight to Brisbane and school.

Well, that's about it. I've still got a almost-finished-but-not-quite chem report and a no-where-near-finished eng oral. Better hop to it then :P

~karai~

Hopped! 8:57 PM

A Poetic Feast / Monday, May 22, 2006

I was flicking through the book they gave us in TW and here's some nice poems from it:

She Walks in Beauty (George Gordon Byron, 1788~1824)
(page 42)
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Ode on a Grecian Urn (I & II) (John Keats, 1795~1821)
(page 54)
I
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
II
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal - yet, do not greive;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

If I Should Go Before the Rest of You (Joyce Grenfall, 1910~1979)
(page 62)
If I should go before the rest of you,
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone,
Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice,
But be the usual selves that I have known,
Weep if you must,
Parting is hell,
But life goes on,
So sing as well.

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(page 182)
Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Tonight I Can Write (Pablo Neruda, 1904~1973)
(page 190-192)
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, "The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance."

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer lover her, that's certain, but how much I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my sould is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

Aren't these all so beautiful in their own way, whatever they were trying to express. I sometimes feel I can lose myself in their metaphors, twisting round and round, but never losing track. Confusing but concise. How they manage to express themselves so elegantly I will never match. How beautiful, and how sad.

Hopped! 7:14 PM

Whoa, haven't written in quite a while. But then again, nothing has really happened. Well, not explosive enough to make one post about it. So I'll shove the last three weeks into this one (^_^);;

First of all, Olivia has broken up with Raymond. I don't want Olivia to get hurt, but I feel sorry for Raymond. I wonder if Olivia would have gone out with Raymond at all if it wasn't right after the Jason Incident. Raymond is almost exactly how Olivia was before, all sticky and lovey-dovey type. But now Liv is Jason-like, I-don't-really-give-a-shit attitude. Raymond was half-devastated when Olivia told him, crying for almost 2 hours straight. But he's better now, which is good.

And now there's Maiki. Or Mike. Or Mic. Or Mickey. Or whatever it is. Kakashi from Supanova's friend. Haha I should really stop calling him Kakashi, I know his real name anyways. Both he and Maiki, or as I say, D, are really cute, but Minh is cute in smart way (damn he looks so good in those glasses :P) and Maiki is cute in a hot way. I met Minh cos he was giving me anime, and Maiki cos he was hanging out with Liv.

I'm going back to rock-climbing which is also good. I climbed Dead Set last week. w00t!!! Mr Greatorex is one of my favourite teachers. He's so cool....and sarcastic ^^" I remember when the Fleas were still rock-climbing, we used to piss him off so much. But it's really sad how the Fleas are broken up, cos Walker and Martha hate each other now. You really can't see now how close they were before. And I still like them both, even though nearly the whole school thinks Martha is a slut. There are set-backs to attending the bitchiest school in Brisbane. Mr G would never praise you, he was the type that just told you to work harder. But last week I climbed up Dead Set, and when I got down, he actually smiled. Haha, this seems like something I read in books. Of course, I could say my heart swelled with pride and strove to work harder to gain praise from him but this is reality, and as many books as I bury myself in, I know that. I didn't even think of it until later. I guess, this is the type of thing that you're used to not getting, and don't really mind never getting, but it feels so much better that you do have it. But I reckon it's more special this way, than if Mr G was the type to just praise everything you did. Haha, when I fell off the rock-face cos my arms were too tired, my rope swung around the other rope, so I was spinning for 2 minutes trying to get myself untangled. Hahahahah I almost couldn't stand when I got back to ground.

Ah yes, back to Maiki. Olivia seems to favour him over Minh, but I seriously could not care less. It makes me laugh that Maiki is scared of me XD Last time we (me, Liv, Maiki) went out, I didn't say anything and kept a blank expression, though it was probably really scary to other people, especially people who don't know me. He thought I was gonna kill him. BHAHAHAHA!!! But I think it would scare him more if he knew I would ^^" Damn that guy is so touchy. Not to me of course. (When I weren't there) he kept on hugging Liv, and kissing her, and messing her hair and stuff. He was probably too scared if I were there (^_^)V!!

Yesterday, Liv, Maiki, Chris and I went to the city (again) and Liv wanted to go shopping for the guys. I really have nothing against Maiki so I feel free to say he looks sooo hot in that jacket!!!! *droolz* hahahha!! Me and Liv kept on whispering to each other, laughing and making (seemingly) random hand motions, and laugh more while eyeing them. Haha the guys were so confused :P Chris finally bought a jacket at Jay Jays, and Maiki bought that hot jacket. Liv tried on a few things, and Chris managed to bully me into trying on some girl's clothes *shudder* now I remember WHY I wear guy's clothes now :P I don't have the best body figure and I know it, unlike some people, ick. Chris wanted to see me in some clothes other than black, and he was like *lightbulb* brown!!! He picked the first thing to hand and i'm like.....are you serious.......? I tried it on and OMG!! X_X Olivia came in and she nearly screamed. Haha, my skin colour is already brown, and then brown shirt is like a one-tone all the way down. Hahahahah. In the end I just changed back and we walked out. But in Valley Girl, Chris got me to try ANOTHER shirt. Black this time, but like it was any better coz the neckline went all the way DOWN! >_<"

This term is shorter so the teachers are already cramming us with assessment. My ITS website is so screwed cos my client is soooooo slack!!! And even worse, he's picky as well!! At first he's like I want a picture of so-and-so of which I will get to you later, and then last week he's like oh no I can't get it. Cos I needed to show him a template, I pulled a random picture off Google to show him what it would look like and I said we can't use it cos of copyright and he said he'd go somewhere and take pictures for me on the weekend, then this morning he comes to me and says oh sorry, I was too busy on the weekend, so can we just have a simple background instead? Then he says I don't want a solid background, give it a little texture so it doesn't look so blank. And I'm trying to NOT kill the whole damn site cos I had to lighten the background by heaps so it won't look heavy and that clashes with all the other shit on it >_<>

Hum-ho, I've seem to have run out of things to say, but I have my maths assignment which should occupy me *waves*

~karai~

Hopped! 6:16 PM

The Buddha Festival cont. / Sunday, May 07, 2006

I worked for the rest of the Buddha Festival at Malaysian Delicacies. On Saturday after Chinese School (which my teacher finally let me skip) and guzhung I took a bus to SouthBank. It was crowded so I stood near the entrance. There was this one stop where this guy wanted to get off, and he was pushing past me saying excuse me, and I couldn't turn back to see if he was going left or right so I just stood closer to the bus driver, and nearly got a pram smashed in the back of my head. When the guy got off he turned back and yelled at me "excuse me means get out of the fucking way!" Geez, I was TRYING to move it's just there's NO SPACE!!! And the driver shut the door in his face XP

Work was awesome as usual. Met Doris, another helper, and two other guys, of which I don't know their names. Haha, me and Ivy and Doris keep on picking on Vince. But he's just so laughable XDXD We make fun of him and tease him and gang up on him and poke him and he pouts. Hahaha, they're all so fun to be around with. Omg, I keep on bloody singeing myself!! So annoying. And I burnt the back of my hand on the light/heater thingy in the top of food display thingy. Most annoying thing was I was wearing a glove at that time, so I melted the plastic on my hand and now there's a welt ;( Ivy left early and Doris wanted to go watch the fireworks. Vince disappeared on a 'toilet break' for most of an hour during the fireworks. Doris was so pissed she was missing the fireworks and he was watching them with his girlfriend. I see it from my house every year for the Ekka so I didn't really want to. But I did want to go walk around, although during the day would be better. I left late at night, helping to wash the dishes even. It was 11 when I got home. I just took a hot shower and went to sleep. I was so tired I nearly fell asleep in the shower, although I was hyped when I got home.

On Sunday I nearly got up late, but it was alright. I helped set up store which was fun as well. I tied the pole of the sign to make it stand up and plastered the front of the food display thing with signs. I am sooo tired of people asking what's this what's this so I just stuck a million signs everywhere of everything. Of course, there were always tools who couldn't/wouldn't read and asked me anyway. But then I could just point instead of explaining again XD I managed to burn my other hand in the first half hour of the last day. But as least I didn't have a glove on this time. Neither Ivy nor Doris worked that day, instead there was Lisa (Vince's little sister), Davies (Vince's friend) and Sandry. Lisa is cool. She talks and works really slowly but she's cool. Haha, she gives me fairy floss XP Davies is like stoned all the time. But he's funny as well. We pick on Vince too XD "You're useless Vince, no one wants you" But Vince picks on us too so all is good. But I don't really like Sandry. She has this goddamn annoying American drawl which is so annoying. It was definitely more fun when you're with people your age I guess. You just understand the jokes. Me and Davies kept on arguing over who was serving customers and who was packing the food in bags.

You feel so stupid when you ask people who are looking at the food displays "can I help you?" or whatever, and they either ignore you, or walk away. Just like geez, fine, leave then :P Hahahah

Since it was the last day of the Buddha Festival I wanted to go have a walk around. Technically we don't get any breaks, but Vince's mum is cool, she doesn't say a anything if you disappear for like a half hour toilet break. And she's not the I'm-gonna-take-every-second-of-rest-and-every-noodle-you-eat-and-take-it-off-your-pay type. She keeps on urging us to eat and doesn't mind if we steal stuff from the displays to eat.

I 'changed my shirt' (and took 20 minutes at it XP) walked around, bought stuff to eat but other than that it was all tourist-overpriced stuff. I only felt tired when there was nothing to do, because you have time to stand still and contemplate your boredom, but when it's busy I felt so hyped. Hahaha, I kept on tripping over stuff. It's really oily and slippery near the back of the stall where they cook, and if you run, you'll slip. I never learned :P I always seem to trip over Vince though. Once he caught me when I was rushing back to get some rice and he said "oh I didn't know you were falling for me XD" and all the customers were laughing >_< Haha but I slapped him back. I had to take my glasses off because it was getting really oily and when I rubbed them they would smear all over, so I had to work for 2 hours without them. Funny because I had to bring everything within an inch or so to my face to see it. Almost spilt the packet of food all over myself. I sneaked out and bought some ice-cream. I felt so bad because I was taking so many breaks eating that day, but oh well, last day after all.

Davies left early and Sandry left at 9ish so I stayed behind to help pack up. It was so fun because they were trying to sell everything off before they left so everything was on discount. Me and Vince were stuffing around heaps and they kept on telling us to stop mucking around :P I got a bonus for every customer I served during the last hour. w00t! It's always no one wants corn, and then 10 people want 3 cobs each. I think my thumb is desensitized now from having 50 skewers stuck in it. Gah, I accidentally dropped a cob when I was getting it from the pot and hot water went all over my hand :( I seem to have this problem with hot stuff. But during the last hour I was most hyped because we were all yelling stuff like "corn for 50c! everything on discount!" I nearly yelled "everything for 50c!" once. Hahaha.. During the last half hour they couldn't be stuffed trying to sell things off, so we just gave stuff away for free. Haha, cheap bastards XD But I'd sure be there for anyone who was giving away free food!!! AZN PRIDE!! w00!!

I helped them pack things into the car, and got a free ride on the trolley :P nearly got rammed into a pole XD Then I took the train home. Fun night altogether. Really worth it. So fun. Hope I get hired again next year. Pity I did NO homework this weekend. Bah, do it later :P

~karai~

Hopped! 11:58 PM

Buddha Festival / Friday, May 05, 2006

Lunch was fun, messed around with people's hair. Managed to persuade two people to buy hair accessories from me (^_^)V

Today is the first day of the Buddha Festival. Vince (Vince's mum to be exact) hired me to work at her store (Malaysian Delicacies). I went down to Southbank after school, getting to the bridge from the city alright, but afterwards I got hopelessly lost. Following Vince's directions to walk along the Flower Bridge I did. When I got to the Stadium, looked around, and upon seeing nothing in the immediate vicinity resembling their store, I called him, but he didn't pick up. Then I remembered him telling me towalk to the end of the Flower Bridge. Damn that bridge goes on forever. It probably spans across all of Southbank. Out of desperation I called Olivia and Sherlyn told me where to find his store, which was back near the start of the Flower Bridge *shakezfist* damn Vince and his vague directions!! Haha, nah, jkjk.

Well, finally got there. I had to wear Vince's shirt because he had forgot the spare ones -_-" At first I was fumbling around just trying to stay out of everybody's way, until I got the hang of it. I guess I like serving people better than stacking things on shelves. I really want to find a job at a restaurant. The noodles are fantastic, hehe, the K likes XP Saw Sean there, pity he didn't stay.

I really don't know why everyone hates Vince. I reckon he's kool. He's funny, cute (puppy dog type), and really nice. Bilingual too :P Yeah, I had an awesome time today. Thought I'd be tired when I got off work but I'm really hyped. Ah well, better sleep anyway, or else I'll never wake for Chinese school. Working again tomorrow!!

~karai~

Hopped! 11:01 PM