danny’s space

this warm weather is annoying.. insects and other creepy crawlies (the emphasis on creepy), in a desperate attempt to get out of this unexpected heat wave, constantly invade the house now.. it’s probably partly our fault for not using that exterior surface spray thing, but with jaz busy licking and chewing everything within snout height that could get ugly..

so i walk into my room and switch on the light.. straight away this huge ugly moth bears down on me from the ceiling, decides that my face is actually not the source of light, and as in frantically duck out of the way in an attempt to avoid getting bombed with a zillion dirty moth scales, it zooms back up towards the ceiling towards the light that hangs from the centre of it..

now begins 15 minutes of activity that’s comparable with the amount of exercise i’ve done these holidays.. thinking i could whack the moth to death with a big wooden stick, i grab one from under my desk (don’t ask me why i have them there…) and wrap a tissue around the end.. but alas the moth has sensitive thingos on its antennae and detected the stick a mile off..

i bet it couldn’t beat a fine, gas-propelled mist of tasty baygon though

so for the next little while, we played a game of dodge.. i was actually the one doing the dodging - i hate moths, and their dusty scaly bodies and the crap that explodes off them every time they stupidly smash into the light or a wall.. so a few hundred bursts of baygon later, after leaving wet patches of insecticide on walls and fixtures where i sprayed a bit too fervently, it was moth down..

unfortunately my eyes and lungs took a hit as well - but hey, at least my nemesis for the night was obliterated.. i gingerly took 3 pieces of 2-ply tissue paper and wrapped the fat moth up, and threw it disgustedly into its plastic bag grave..

eww

on a slightly different note, holidays are ending, so sad.. back to uni tomorrow for another 4 weeks which will undoubtedly whizz by way too quickly - kind of good and bad, mostly bad.. but good because that means the big long holidays are coming up! but bad because it means assessments and stuvac and exams are hindering the onset of those much-needed holidays.. ah, the bludge that is to come..

my goodness, where to start…

this past week has gone by much too quickly for my liking, too much bludging and not enough work.. i guess that’s what holidays are for anyway, so maybe i’ve actually achieved what a holiday actually means.. unfortunate isn’t it?

so last night was my 21st.. being the pessimist, i was envisaging segregated cliches of friends who would each sit in their own little corner and chat amongst themselves.. who would have thought that i had so many friendly friends! by the feel of it, i think everyone had a good night although the food service kind of stopped half an hour early because everyone eats way too fast and i didn’t think of catering for more people..

but food (as important as it is) aside, many kudos and thanks must go out to everyone who was there and a few that were not.. (where does the apostrophe go in werent? mental blank..)

in no particular order:

thanks to sara and her mum for finding the place and organising cake and for driving and stuff - couldn’t have done it without you.. great speech as well, although i think people were laughing at me rather than with me :P plus good work organising that massive chip-in present that will keep me entertained for ages to come.. and hopefully get me places relatively on time.. thanks for being such a tolerant loving partner over these last few years - don’t know what i’d do without you..

thanks of course to nerd con (moo, joe, bazz, chap, xing, alex, smok) for organising the nerdy powerpoint and avi’s and photo book.. each presentation that nc does improves by the 21st - we won’t however be able to do moo justice at his since he’s the g33k although joe’s apparently moo’s jedi apprentice in this regards.. thanks nerds for putting up with me over the past 9 years (that’s 42.8% of our lives) and for all the fun times and memories - much more still to come i’m sure..

thanks to liz and ken for being great pals and support and encouragement at uni and for speaking - although i do protest at the out of context snippets about giggling and taking snapshots of ed’s hairy legs.. there’s always a good cover-up story hehe.. thanks for the fun times in lab (eg ken spilling acid all over his lab book and blood all over the bench) and in eu (eg getting lost on the way to the science weekend away)..

thanks to the church bunch (so many! umm.. alex wu, amy, poon, chap, charis, cheuky, chris x2, nuggy, dennis, derek, henry, karen, marcus, phil & fiona, ray, rita, sara, ming, sarah, vinci, –insert your name here if i’ve missed you–) for being such open, friendly, caring brothers and sisters.. it’s been great having fun and fellowship together and i’m sure God will use us powerfully according to his plans..

thanks likewise to the eu lot (or little.. iain, dee, poker, albie, maggie, liz) for the great fellowship we’ve been able to have over the last 3 years

thanks to the few sydney-based olympiad friends (liz, ken & anna, the anna with the 7.2mp camera, vince) and for guangy who called - fun times in canberra! ingenious presents too, what with the stargate dvds wrapped in newspaper wrapped in newspaper wrapped in liquorland paper bag wrapped in stjohn bag wrapped in newspaper ad nauseum.. and the toilet tissue holder.. and the hammock! now all i need are two trees :P

thanks to litty, cavegirl, libby & eric, deng, shirley & tommy, tracy & steve as well.. litty my only uni friend hahaha, cavegirl for being such a fun sister in Christ, libby & eric finally got to meet him! thanks for the great times in high school as well, same goes to deng, shirley, tracy.. and their miscellaneous attachments like tommy and steve haha.. thanks :P

thanks also to those who couldn’t make it (not saying that you weren’t wanted there!) like aaron, howie, alfie, kylynn, alex chan, john, jon, guangy, nick, sarax, shereen, sean & julia, loz, lenny, etc - thanks for being great friends but i’m sorry to say that i’ll have to disown you now since you couldn’t be bothered coming last night..

no, just kidding..

i hope i haven’t missed anyone but knowing me and names i probably have.. thanks everyone for a great night and for not using up all the bar tab :P i think the guy was a bit sad that we didn’t drink some more..

thanks for the assorted gifts as well - stargate dvds (stargate fest!), shiny pens to sign bankrupcy forms with, a watch and 6 sticks of dynamite, photo book, simpsons poker set, roald dahl’s book with that fantastic title, john stott’s book, crystal trees, jelly beans (food !), hammock, the dog toilet paper holder, and of course the satnav (woah)..

but of course your presence was the best present of all (i smell corn) so thanks for all those who turned up! thanks especially to those who turned up without being paid off..

anyway, i hope this post posts not that anyone would have survived to the end of this post.. thanks for a great night and i’ll be seeing y’all around hopefully!

argh back to ‘work’.. which means playing texas hold’em online.. blasted addictinggames.com..

hmm i must admit though, 21st’s are a strange experience.. everyone should have one if not only so that their friends can tell dodgy untruthful stories about them.. it’s strange having so many eyes fixed on people talking about you and seeing so many photos of yourself - you do get sick of looking at yourself after a while.. either that or you grow to love yourself too much.. both are dangerous :P but no a great experience 21st’s are nonetheless.. like blogging! well, not quite..

gotta love the holidays

i missed bludging like this during the 9 long weeks of uni that have passed..

today chap and i met up in the morning after a pleasant sleep-in (not together…) at the cafe in north epping close to church, and ‘wrote’ a ’speech’ for a good friend’s upcoming 21st.. we must have gotten lots of weird looks from the people sitting around us, what sitting there with a laptop blasting music away at 9:30 in the morning.. what nerds!

church service was great too, our english pastor andrew hong preached from 1 thessalonians after quite a noticeable break.. it was great to hear about the ‘pauline triad’ or something about faith, love and hope and how it applied to the dudes in thessalonica and also to us right here and now..

afterwards went to macquarie for a nice relaxed lunch and chat with a bunch of pals from church - we hadn’t (well i hadn’t) done that for so long it was great to just eat and bum and talk with them.. and have a whinge about 21sts and how everyone has their parties at the same time..

then bummed at sara’s place for a bit and introduced her to the wonderful world of crickler puzzles..

then back home for dinner and tv - spy kids 2 is so cool! that scary scientist person looks like the mental freaky dirty guy from that movie where bruce willis drills a hole in an asteroid.. but yeah kids movies are fun to watch, they have such predictable characters and a pretty good moral storyline as well, which reduces the need to think - perfect!

after that went to chap’s house for a bit of singstar action with a bunch of church friends - it was great, everyone got involved and had lots of fun.. chap nearly beat his record in ‘the reason’.. we had a good guys vs girls comp going but yes the girls were too good.. karen had to get medical treatment in the form of a throat lozenge though.. but yes, fun fun!

taping the transporter now, will watch it tomorrow, hooray for bludge!

ah damn still have lots of uni work to do as well unfortunately.. i can’t pull myself away from this bludge-a-rama!

hooray, after 9 long and kind of boring weeks, the midsemester break is finally here!

a bit of nc and billy got together this morning to play a bit of cricket at north rocks oval - too bad chap had work, moo had 21sts and alex was in canberra.. it was interesting getting into it after a few months of cricket void.. nash is still the sri-lankan champ and billy ain’t that bad either..

two trips to the airport this morning (although i was only awake for one, so actually only 1 trip for me) to see people off.. no matter how many times you see someone off at the airport, it never really loses its punch..

also had a haircut, i think i left it much too long this time, the hairdresser mowed it back like usual but it was still pretty long and bushy so we had to keep going.. it looks okay now i think, although some people would say otherwise.. it’s low maintenance!

took jaz for a walk again today.. scary thing happened a few days ago when i took her walking alone (normally my sister and i walk jaz together).. this dark taxi rumbles down the road in the opposite direction, sees us (jaz and i), and then pulls to the side of the road, does a U-ie and then drives slowly behind us for a bit.. i keep looking backwards with a concerned look on my face while jaz also looks backwards excitedly, thinking about any new friends that may be sitting inside the taxi.. i rather not have found out, so i pull my phone out and gave sara a call so that at least someone could be witness to my abduction.. thankfully the taxi left us alone.. phew, got out of that one

so yes, sitting in front of the computer all smelly now.. backing up photos and the like.. i swear dvd burners are cool, everyone should get one if only to back up important stuff like photos and documents and whatnot..

and.. went to buy dvd+rs today at bigw.. saw a spindle of 50 tdks for $42 and a spindle of 25 hps for $43.. i had previously bought the hp ones and they worked pretty well so i was going to go for them again, but then did a price check (how cool are those scanning things) on the tdk and found out that it was a buck cheaper for double the amount of dvds.. so i got that instead just to try it out.. go home, check up the disc info, turns out that they both come from the exact same manufacturer, and the tdk discs are actually a few models up from the hp one.. score!

yes anyway the afl is on, i normally don’t watch it but hey its the grand final, 70-odd years since sydney last won, so i’ll make an exception.. doesn’t look good though, 8 minutes to go and eagles are up, but only by a bit..

ok, publish!