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| | Current Music: | "Default This" - 65daysofstatic | | Time: | 12:50 pm |
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| Since this thing is as good as dead, I have moved on to greener pastures and prettier websites. Find me on http://cica-triz.tumblr.com
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| | Current Music: | It's A Small World After All | | Time: | 06:43 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/artistic.gif) artistic |
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| So my work has allotted me to the Map coffee stand in Melbourne Central under the clocks for the past few weeks (in case you people missed the moaning and groaning on Facebook about how bored/lonely I get), and despite some really boring, lonely periods of time staring into the dead eyes of the corporate, I'll-pay-$5-for-a-shitty-coffee-at-Starbucks-but-not-$2.80-for-a-good-coffee general commute droning past, I do get to see some pretty amusing things.
Here is a list of things that are awesome about my job:
1. I make myself coffee when I feel like it.
2. There are regular bums who sit under the clocks for 3 or so hours staring into space.
3. Once, a balding, racist woman came up to me and asked me if she could have a cup of ice, "because it looks so tempting" referring to the salty, unpalatable ice I used to keep my milk cold. I politely declined her request; the next 3 times I saw her, she was swearing at the top of her lungs.
4. Trading stories with other stall vendors about how annoying customers are.
5. I had an American guy wave his arms around and saying very loudly and slowly, "ATM. Money machine. ATM. Where?" Thinking he had aphasia, I understandably replied, "What?". Realising I understand English, he asks, "Where is the closest ATM?" I point, with a deadpan expression, directly behind him, less than 10m away.
6. I was able to direct people to the Swanston St exit, Flight Centre, Hoyts, various restaurants, toilets, Max Brenner, Elizabeth St, La Trobe St, Myer, the train station, Coles, Metropolitan Art Museum store, Borders, T-Bar, a photo booth where you can take passport size photos, the post office, Bourke St and RMIT.
7. Watching posers acting cool until they trip up, and pretending like nothing happened.
8. "Is this coffee free?", "How much is a coffee? $2.80? Pfft...", "Do you have lattes/cappucinos/flat whites/long blacks?", "Can I have 4 sugars?", "Do you put milk in the coffee?", "Can I have it for free? Oh, come on...", "Are we supposed to make the coffee ourselves or something?"
9. Dumb schoolgirl with gaggle of friends walk past. Noticed milk sitting in ice bucket. Proclaims, "OMG, milk." Walks away.
10. Getting lolly samples from the lolly stand across from me.
11. Watching all the soccer mums/old people/tourists get excited about the hourly Waltzing Matilda clock.
12. Watching a bum laughing at a group of tweens dressed as fairies.
13. Watching the parade of greasy, pasty, disgusting, dyed hair "goths" in poser band shirts.
14. Watching the parade of gross bogans having drunk, bogan arguments ("FARKEN, yurslutshit dun brinthukidintothisarrFUCK YOU")
15. Thinking that the earthquake was a troupe of motorcyclists going down Elizabeth St.
16. Having two white guys come up to me and speak to me in Chinese randomly.
17. Seeing the second worst T-shirt I have ever seen in my life: "Daydreams Omg" in curly writing, with butterflies.
18. Seeing people I haven't seen in years.
19. After an hour of no customers, having 3 people ask me for coffees while I'm packing up.
20. Having a guy come up, smell the milk jug, and walk away.
21. People getting very impressed when I pour the milk from high up (it's not that hard/exciting).
22. People being amazed at how I could speak English so well.
23. Predicting correctly who will order the skinny chai with 2 equals and who will order the cappuccino with 5, no wait, 4 sugars. Ahhh, ok, 3 sugars.
24. Having people ask me what the difference between the regular and the large is.
25. Having one suit order a "grande cappuccino".
26. Overhearing people on the phone saying "gee, dunno what the time is, didn't wear my watch" - whilst standing under the clock.
27. Having conversations with people about how Starbucks is shit.
More to come. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
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Mmmm. Sea kitten burger. | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Mardi Gras" - Anathallo | | Subject: | Travel epics | | Time: | 03:48 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/mellow.gif) content |
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| Undead journal is undead.
So, um, for those who haven't noticed yet - I'm alive and back in Melbourne, have been for the past week. Which is cool and all but I've been bitten by the travel bug and I want to spend money that I don't have and fly out somewhere tomorrow. Maybe Cuba or Greece or Japan. Or whatever else looks nicest judging from the Lonely Planet guides in Borders.
I can't be bothered writing everything that happened, because being there was a totally amazing experience and too much has happened. I think one memory that will stay with me for a long time was riding down the Tonle Sap in Cambodia in this little motor boat, with me, Simon, and two guys on our tour just sitting on the tip of the boat, dipping our feet in the water, chilling out while the sun went down over the river. Or when we went to Halong Bay in Vietnam, kayaked to a beautiful grotto on the emerald waters and swam in the ocean, while some people dived from the top of the boat... and then the ridiculous games of Mafia that we had afterwards.
But now I just want to go and explore. It blows my mind sometimes, and still does, that there are billions of people around the world whose lives are completely different to mine, what they hold as their basic truths and morals are. I'll never meet every single one of these people, and the fact that they're existing and changing the world around them - and I'll never know about it by staying here forever - amazes me. I want to meet as many of these people as possible, see their culture, visit the sites that mean so much to them, spiritually, historically, culturally. I want to try food that I could never get anywhere else, listen to people converse in near-dead languages that I'll never encounter again, stand at the tops of mountains, walk through the busiest and the quietest streets, go underground and through the valleys and the oceans and the skies and back out again.
It's not the same looking at photos and videos and recounting experiences to people. You don't feel the true impacts, the emotions, the noise, the serenity, the smells, the tastes, the surroundings outside of 640 x 480 pixels. The photos and videos I do have are only memory triggers, for the places and experiences I had I can only visualise in my mind. It was wonderful to share it with Simon, and with the people we met.
Living is living, exploring is living enriched. And I really, really can't wait until the next adventure. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Enthralled In Essence" - Atheist | | Time: | 11:16 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/bigeye.gif) awake |
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| 3rd year Pharmacology. 5 hour prac every fortnight. Worth two subjects in terms of workload (25 points). To be honest, I'm actually amazed I didn't completely fuck up the RATHER DIFFICULT exam, let alone get into a quota-restricted subject where everyone is basically trying to get into post-grad med. And, in case the first mentioning didn't generate enough impact - 5 hour pracs.
Nearly finished booking everything for South-East Asia. Me and Simon succumbed and decided to book a shitload of tours, since it saves us lots of tears and money and crying and WHAT THE FUCK MY BAGS ARE GONE. But my bank account is pretty much cleared out and Sisi is but a poor penniless girl. So, y'know, it's kinda pointless going on holiday when you have no spending money. Sisi stresses.
I've been thinking about death a lot lately. And not in the emo, suicidal I-hate-my-life kind of way... more like, just thinking about it. It never really occurred to me that once I die, that's it. Everytime I imagine myself dying, I imagine the aftermath. The funeral, the hospitals, the grieving relatives and friends. But then I realised... there is no aftermath. Or at least none that we know of. That's it. You die, and that's it.
And then I started thinking about all the different views of death. Afterlives and reincarnation. And it's a very lonely thing, how people construct these things, to comfort each other and also themselves. That death isn't the end. It's only a door to another reality. But there is nothing in my logical mind that thinks that any of those constructs hold any truths. Maybe after existence, that's it. There is nothing, no conscience, just nothing. And I lie to myself and think, maybe I'll live another life and I'll be a new being. Reincarnation and all that.
I've always thought of death in such a shallow manner. Like it's unimportant and it'll never happen to me, and when it does I'll deal with it then. I don't really know what triggered this thought process. Maybe it was me watching Oldboy (brilliant movie, by the way). Either way, I'm terrified. Maybe that's why people bury themselves in shallow existences. Maybe I've got it wrong the whole time. Or maybe I'm in the right. Maybe it's a good thing that I know about it now, that I'm aware.
Either way, I'm terrified. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | drink recipes | | Current Music: | "Dick Suffers Is Furious With You" - Don Caballero | | Time: | 10:21 pm | | Current Mood: | calm |
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| Another nice drink idea:
Jager and vanilla coke.
Seriously, it's lovely. Try it. It'd be a lot more lovely if my coke wasn't devoid of fizz and warmer than a fat person's hug, but at this point in time I'm not complaining.
For I need a strong, strong drink to forget the horrors of performing in a church Christmas gig. A Christmas, primary school gig.
Oh, the joy!
Oh, the wonder!
Oh, the love of Jesus Christ and the celebration of Christmas! Bring the donations here, oh quickly! Oh please let us sing that song, I love that carol oh so much. The children look beautiful and their songs, brilliant! The powerpoint presentation of carol lyrics was so helpful! Merry Christmas everybody, and have a wonderful, wonderful holiday! Remember that Jesus is always with you!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "The Melancholy Spirit" - Agalloch | | Time: | 02:51 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/straight.gif) lazy |
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| My internet sucks. Last.fm, Facebook and Hotmail don't load properly.
I love being lazy. I like rolling around on my bed like a pig in filth. I like collapsing on the couch/bed/floor for a nap, just because. I love waking up past 7am because I no longer have anyone to answer to (except for work tomorrow, bleh). I love being able to listen to metal again because I abstained from it during exams since it's not exactly good study music. I love being able to do whatever I want. I learned 2 songs today and yesterday that I've been wanting to learn for a while.
Feels good man, feels good. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Flower Sun Rain" - Boris with Merzbow | | Time: | 02:01 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/bouncy.gif) HILARIOUS |
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| Sisi repeats herself when she's under stress. Repeats herself when she's under stress. Repeats herself when she's under stress. Repeats herself when she's under stre. 9:29pm
Sisi is si isiS. 8:52pm
Sisi is shitty coffee. 6:56pm
Sisi wants to finger paint self-portraits with a puree of her brain. 5:33pm
Sisi is quietly freaking out now. Hahahahahahaha. 11:43am
Pretty self explanatory. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | CLING! CLANG! | | Time: | 07:03 pm | | Current Mood: | accomplished |
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| This week must be Sisi Buys Expensive Things That She Cannot Afford Week because I now have plane tickets back to China early next year. Me and Simon are touring South East Asia and bringing our noob Western mentalities with us.
Places to go to include:
Guangzhou (my hometown)
Beijing
Ho Chi Minh City
Halong Bay (LIMESTONE CLIFFS OMG)
Hanoi
Siem Reap (ANGKOR WAT OMG)
Sihanoukville (SEAFOOD OMG)
Vientiane
Vang Vieng (TUBING OMG)
Bangkok (TRANSSEXUALS OMG)
My bank account weeps.
Ha, I just realised now I have white chocolate all over my elbow from work.
*licks*
Speaking of work, funny thing happened the other day.
Woman: Excuse me, but what's in the quiche?
Me: Hmm... to be honest I have absolutely no idea, I'll ju-
Woman: I'll take it.
(later, after I gave her the quiche)
Woman (frantic): Do you know what this meat is in the quiche?
Me: Umm, no, I said I didn't kn-
Woman: Look, this meat here. (points to brown meat)
Me: I don't know, it looks like beef or someth-
Woman: No, it CAN'T be beef, there's white meat here like chicken.
Me: Well then maybe it's chicken, I said I didn't know what was i-
Woman: Because there are certain meats that I can't eat, I can't eat this.
Me: ................ I'll get you the vegetable fritatta.
In other news, I witnessed a case of animal abuse today. The person in question is someone I have zero respect for (even before I saw the animal abuse), and this incident makes me hope that when I report it, it brings this dipshit asshole down.
Ok, time to bury heads in sands. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | :) | | Time: | 01:16 am | | Current Mood: | quietly ecstatic |
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| So, I bought a drumkit today. Pearl Vision VBX 6-piece in a natural finish with a Sabian cymbal pack, all up about 2 grand. Came with a free drum stool and tom, 10 inches I think it was. It's cute. I haven't taken it home as of yet, but once I do, expect photos and me posing with said drumkit, mainly in provocative positions but I might do some nice G-rated ones for the kiddies out there.
About time, eh? | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | mp3 | | Current Music: | "Breathe Me" - Sia | | Time: | 11:33 am | | Current Mood: | blah |
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| MP3 OF THE WEEK
Yes, this is still going.
This week, it's Breathe Me by Sia. Singer/songwriter from Adelaide (HAHAHA)... one of the main reasons I'm posting this is because it's the song they use in the final scene of Six Feet Under and it's really pretty/sad/depressing, but pretty. PRETTY.
That's all I have to say on this matter. Download hia (see what I did there?)
>> (6.34MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XBW0SJ8G | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Someone To Watch Over Me" - Ella Fitzgerald | | Time: | 12:36 pm | | Current Mood: | amused |
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| Eyebrows looks human when she sleeps. I felt sorry for her because she was sleeping near an open window (which she broke, but whatever), so I put my shorts over her like a blanket.
I had a pretty good birthday. I'm also on capped internet. Painfully capped internet. I haven't been on YouTube/Facebook/deviantART for a week or so because it takes so goddamn long to load the login page, and even if I do log in it takes another 50 years to load the home page.
Anyway, I didn't know I had capped internet. It's really not my fault - I told my brother I downloaded the Evangelion 1.0 movie, and what does he do? He downloads it again. I mean, really. What the fuck. Logic jumped out the window screaming and exploded into a bloody mess below.
I also finished watching Six Feet Under. Not only did I soak Simon's pillow with watery snot and tears at the REALLY FUCKING DEVASTATINGLY PAINFUL AND HEART-WRENCHING ENDING, but I haven't stopped thinking about it. The characters were like my friends :( anyway, you all need to watch this, it will change your life and your outlook on life. Not joking/exaggerating.
Big Day Out lineup sucks absolute shit. Very disappointed this year. Possibly the worst lineup I've witnessed thus far. Here is a sample of some of the suckiness:
1. The Ting Tings.
I also got my exam timetable as of several hours ago. I'm actually quite happy. It's the best thing I could have gotten. So now to uhm, try. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | --------- | | Time: | 04:38 pm | | Current Mood: | accomplished |
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| So last night I bought a 120GB iPod Classic for $300 from JB HiFi. Simon named it 'Open The Pod Bay Doors HAL'. It was either that or my (awesome) suggestion: The PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD.
Other People: Hey, nice iPod. What's it called?
Me: The PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
Other People: ...
Me: -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
Other People: ...
Me: -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
Other People: Uh, I really don't know how to deal with epileptic people, how do w-
Me: -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
Impulse spends FTW. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Road Rage Breakdown" - Blockhead | | Time: | 04:20 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/mad.gif) frustrated |
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| Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
I can't focus. I'm fucked. I want to run around in the nice sun and work on that graphic novel idea that is going to be totally awesome. I want to go out and wheatpaste. ARRRGGHHH WHY AM I SO LAZY. WHY DOES WIKIPEDIA LINK ARTICLES. WHY DO I CONSTANTLY KEEP THINKING ABOUT EATING. WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE EXIST.
Answers to some questions, we will never know. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Night" - Devin Townsend | | Time: | 04:48 pm | | Current Mood: | exanimate |
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| ( Stuff about menstrual cycles. )
I wrote that a few days ago and forgot about it. Good thing LJ has that nifty little "Restore from saved draft?" thing.
Can't shake this cough. It's been 3 weeks. GO. AWAY. FUCK. | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | drink recipes | | Current Music: | "High Rise" - Ladytron | | Time: | 11:53 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/smilec.gif) cheerful |
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| Non-alcoholic drink here.
*writes to an empty crowd*
NUTELLA HOT CHOCOLATE
Take a nice big teaspoon of Nutella and dump it in your mug.
Heat/froth your milk to the desired temperature.
Drop a little of the heated milk with the Nutella and mix with a spoon until smooth.
Gradually AND SLOWLY add more milk whilst stirring to make sure the Nutella won't clump - it tends to do that a lot.
Garnish with cinnamon/nutmeg/hazelnut/chocolate/vanilla/all of the above and enjoy.
I dunno, if you're really desperate for alcohol add something in. Jeez. Alcos. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
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