An Obituary printed in the London Times – Interesting and sadly rather true. 12 February, 2009

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn’t always fair;
- and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place, Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I’m A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

Taken from Bevan’s Facebook Blog.

“Because Tonight Will Be The Night….” 29 October, 2008

I wonder if I should or shouldn’t. Make the effort. Try. I tell myself that it’s not worth it…. but then again… maybe it will be?

I don’t know I will ever find out if it will be worth it, because the second thoughts will always win.

This second thoughts isn’t based on nothing. It is based on the past. Past efforts.

Because, really, what has changed? To make this effort different from all the rest? But then again I want this effort to be different from all the rest as I want it all back.. normality….

But yeah. Nearly accepted its never going to happen. But still a small part of me, y’know..

Feeling This 19 October, 2008

I remember the day this photo was taken. And the feelings attached to it. According to the Flickr stats, it was taken on January 28 of this year.

That day, or around that time I was feeling disappointed over a guy and was feeling crap over it but my friend helped me get out of it and I’m not entirely sure if I was still feeling that way afterwards but I was pretty antisocial and just didn’t really feel in a social mood (God knows why I agreed to come out) but yeah.. I mention this coz I think I’m feeling similar…. but there’s nothing I can do…

This day was a good day. It was one of many that my friends and I shared of Summer 07/08. Great times.

And this will be my photography post of the week. Lol.. xD

Sigh. Monday.. Again~ 13 October, 2008

It is Monday… again. It’s amazing how fast a week has gone by… it seems that it was just yesterday that it was the beginning of the second half of the second semester… and I just somewaht made it really complicated lol. Oh well.

Monday, Monday, Monday…. =_=

For some reason I have been feeling like tired all weekend after cleaning the bathroom (yes, I know, some people’s gotta clean their bathroom AND kitchen AND lounge etc) and my friend’s 21st.. Not sure why but hmm. /Shrug.

But yes… last Friday was my friend’s 21st and it was pretty good… had a little wine and a Corona before having to leave and look after a friend got sick after too many wines… gotta say that’s the shortest amount of time I’ve stayed at a party~ lol. It wasn’t that bad though, good that she got over most of the throwing up and didn’t have to watch it… coz if that happened, I think I would have been throwing up also >_<

But yeah she was thankful and such… unlike other people I have had to help who was like pretty ungrateful and remembering back, didn’t even say thanks.. and I even got blamed by the father! =_= Oh well. Not friends with them anymore. So, yeah.

Met one of her my friend’s friends at the bar, lol. While I was waiting to get served and yeah, she was nice. Also talked to another of her friends which I met earlier this year/late last year (or almost like a year ago) at a defensive driving course in Mt Roskill area. Other than was just drinking my wine/Corona with family friends and two other friends who I knew.

But yes, I don’t think I will be returning there again in a hurry~ also took something that don’t think will be like ever returning heh.. >_<

The rest of the weekend…. didn’t do like anything other than clean bathroom and then like sleeping on and off and then not being able to sleep till 5 am! >.< Oops..? -_-

Should really study more… wow, I cannot believe that there is only like three. more. weeks of uni~ kinda scary.. well not really but to know that a year’s already over and… well…  guess a lot of achievement(s)… like that at the beginning of this year, didn’t know ANY Mandarin Chinese and yeah.. amazing what coming onto 8 months can do…. can string together like sentences and understand (kind of…) some basic conversation. Quite amazing… sort of…

But yes.. somewhat a lot to do before the end of semester… like creating a Chinese newsletter and like study.. yup, study.. ugh… ><

Sigh. I also hope, maybe even wish that my family and I wil be able to go overseas to China/HK! That would be really great and definitely the cherry on the top of the year~ it’d just make this year somewhat even more awesome and better.. not exactly sure what has made this year like great..

But yes.. till next time~

❤ Friends 27 September, 2008

Don’t you love it how….
~ one thing can lead to nothing
~ so much can change in less than three months
~some friends only talk to you only if they want something..
otherwise they don’t talk to you at all
~some friends, no matter how less you see them, and how less you t a l k,
they’re the ones you realize are the ones that matter most ღ
~ that you pretty much have new people in your life every year
and you are close to and share almost everything with
and you’ve only known them for less than a year.
~ Next year you will probably have a whole d i f f e r e n t set of close friends..

But I hope that the close friends I have this year are the friends that I have next year.
And the year after that. And the year after that.. For a long time, really.
Coz they are the best. I ❤ my close friends
They are the ones that know almost everything that is going on
and who might hate me for going on about it so much
But so much love for putting up with it~ <3

You know who you are.

Albums and Artists That I Will Never Get Sick Of.. 26 September, 2008

Another entry! Coz I don’t really feel like doing work and felt like doing some sharing..

Albums That I Love <3

♥ S.O.A.P – Not Like Other Girls ~ yes, I know. Oldddd! But sooo good! Pop all way.. although not really sure if it could be considered/classified as pop.. I dunno. It’s good. Note-worthy songs include This Is How We Party, Wishing, Deep In My Heart and Stand By You. Love<3

♥ Colbie Caillat – Coco ~ Awesome. Just awesome. Awesome artist. Awesome songs. Love it. Very different from everything else ^.^

♥ Kelly Clarkson – My Decemeber, Thankful and Breakaway ~ I LOVE Kelly Clarkson. She is an awesome and great singer! And she is one of the few (or maybe even only?) international success because of American Idol. The first American Idol winner~ ^^ Songs I love from those albums: Thankful: Anytime, Just Missed The Train and You Thought Wrong feat. Tamara Grayson as well as released songs; A Moment Like This and Before Your Love. My Decemeber: Be Still and Don’t Waste Your Time. Breakaway: Breakaway (of course), Because of You, Behind These Hazel Eyes, You Found Me and Gone.

♥ Michelle Branch – The Spirit Room ~ Michelle Branch is another awesome singer. She also has that difference about her too. It’s great. Songs I love: All You Wanted, Goodbye To You, You Get Me and Something To Sleep To. Quite awesome album! =]

♥ Bellefire – After The Rain and Spin The Wheel ~ I was just thinking how I discovered this band and just remembered… I liked one of thier songs from a music compilation I bought in China three years ago.. it’s a good song, the song was Say Something Anyway.. it reminds me of the band of the similar name? Oh that band is called Say Anything.. famous for thier song ‘Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too’. Heh.. alright and interesting song… :] So anyways, songs I love from the albums: After The Rain: Perfect Bliss and Spin The Wheel: Stay, Damn and I’ll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me. Pretty awesome songs.

I really do recommened these albums and artists. They’re pretty much the only albums that I can listen to from start to end.

A artist that I’m getting into and loving is Boys Like Girls… especially their songs, Thunder, Learning To Fall and Me, You and My Medication! And of course, The Great Escape. I want the album! I also love the karaoke of The Great Escape! You should go there. Lol. It’s called Luxury Karaoke or something… located at lower Queen Street near like the hotel there…? It’s a Korean-owned, I think. Pretty good value for money too! ($30/hour) And the rooms (the room that we went to anyways) were decently sized and had awesome strobey disco lights ^^ It was awesome.

Something else I want to randomly mention….

Before I mention this. Yes. I watch soaps such as Home & Away and Shortland (what else is there to do? And who doesn’t like to watch overplayed and really dramatic drama??? Haha.. ). And somewhat sometimes enjoy it but… again, who doesn’t ? =x

So. What is REALLY cute on Home & Away is the new couple they hooked up togehter… Annie and Jai.. awww!! Soooo cutee!! >_< Lol. Yeah, that’s probably pretty much all I wanted to mention.. haha xD

But it really is fake and like really overplayed… some of the stuff really doesn’t happen in real life… oh well… one can live in…. not-reality. It’s qutie predictable too…. hmmm…

Oh yes. I am like soo out-of-touch with movies! It’s been like literally forever since I last saw a movie… what was the last movie I saw…. I think either What Happens In Vegas or Don’t Mess With The Zohan? Hmm… omg… that’s both ages ago! >_< But anyways the movie that I really want to see is The House Bunny… seems funny from the trailer~ ^_^ Definitely will be going on a Tuesday… haha.. cheaper

Hopefully get to see a movie (or specifically that one! ) sometime soon! But for the while… study, study, study…. =_= Oh, and assigments~ just one more left! And lots of Chinese study~ -__-

How Ironic 20 September, 2008

Isn’t it ironic that when you’re looking for something, you don’t find it?

And when you’re not looking for it, it’s like right THERE!

Also when you want to forget about something, EVERYTHING reminds you of that one thing?

How about when you are thinking of that one word that is on the tip of your tongue but you just can’t. seem. get!

Life is weird. Life is ironic. It sometimes suck. And then again it could be the best damn thing..

All I can say that it is very ironic.

I am literally dying…. 16 September, 2008

I am sick. I woke up yesterday with a sore throat… I think… I dunno know if the like ‘hurt’/soreness was in the throat region but yeah… and then now, today I didn’t want to get up…

And it was funny in that I like had a dream that I went back to my mum’s house, lol. Weirdd.. ><

I feel soo shit atm. Damn like sickness! Hopefully am better for like tomorrow… where I planned to do some stuff with freinds~ ^^

Aaand also hopefully take some photos too on my new camera!

I hate being sick (then again, who does like being sick…??) and urgh, I have like done no uni related work! ><

And I’m going to leave it there and just post this and then probably post again in like ten minutes lol just to say I’m twenty haha..

So my like last 8 minutes being 19… honestly, I don’t even like feel 19… guess maybe age is just a number for me..

I dunno. What about you? Do you feel your age? Or it just doesn’t even matter to you.

This may also be a first in that I am like sick on/before my birthday…. *sigh*

Random Thought…. 14 August, 2008

at 2.25 am waiting for my hair to dry… and listening to I’m Your Angel by R Kelly and Celine Dion.. yes. It is indeed a very old song but it’s pretty great…. yeah, I did not just say that.

But anyways… I don’t mind helping people friends. If they ask, I help, if I can and not too busy… which is usually the latter. However, I don’t ask for help unitl I absoultely need it… that could explain why I am so lazy in fixing personal problems that arise.

Examples…. #1: My ‘wall’ on facebook…. took me a good couple of days till I got off my ass and went in search of why people couldn’t see it.. and blaming it on my ridiculous amount of facebook applications.. and #2: My laptop when it wasn’t starting up properly… and it took me another good couple of weeks possibly till I couldn’t take it anymore and called the Dell people and then that week got a new hard drive! But…. atm, I have a random piece of hard drive that has lots of my downloaded music and videos on it and photos and pictures too that is just sitting there… have to send it back to them soon… *sigh* Point: I’m lazy when it comes to asking for help. And won’t ask for it till it’s absolutely necessary. Maybe it’s not such a good thing… I’ll work on it..

Not sure if I mentioned it, but good news, have finally purchased an external hard drive (bargain price of $152 including postage for a 500GB external hard drive on Trademe! ^.^). I actually haven’t bought anything from there in a while….. actually don’t even remember my last Trademe purchase! And, also quite happy coz got about $40 left in account after like my rent, expenses and that external hard disk purchase… ^_^

Your Thoughts: Friendship Requests 8 August, 2008

Question for people: When will you not accept a friend request on a social networking site like facebook or bebo?

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For me, when I actually don’t know them. I.e. Haven’t met them offline. The only exception is when I have talked to them and actually know them. I don’t know how I would define “know them” but I know what I mean.. lol. But yeah.. majority of the time, if someone I do not know and/or have not met or know in real life, then it will be declined.. You actually have to have talked to me, you know.. but even if I do like know them in the real world, have met them.. I wonder what their point is if they like add me but don’t like talk to me… at least for me, if I add someone (whether it be on bebo or facebook) I will comment them and make an attempt to comment/talk to them every now and then…. coz I guess there are like people you don’t talk to everyday and yeah. 

Soo yeah I wonder why people add me but like don’t talk to me… is it because to increaes their friend count ooor hmm… I dunno… just random wonderings…. well, not really random but yeah.

Every friend on my friend lists I know, have met and talk to.. some more than others and some every now and then but I still do talk to/comment them.