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the coming and the going

the coming and the going

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Work today contained nothing very spectacular. the 40 hour famine was over, and people who were involved just need to return the booklets to Mel by the end of this month. aside from all that stuff, it was just a typical monday. i was just feeling so lethargic, and the urge to just try and stop procrastinating my presentation for this week, that i didn’t want to go work anyways.

The only light in the entire boring night, was the return of Aly. She went on a holiday to Norway, to visit the extended side of her family or something, for the last month and a half. so she came back, excited, and wanting to know the gossips (which included the 2 bitches). with her return though, she also brought some bad news.

Mel handed in her resignation today.

admittedly, when we talked last week about her explosive behaviour, i also told her in her face to move on or get over it if she couldn’t take the boredom. it’s good to get paid to do something you like. but sometimes, we don’t have a choice. she doesn’t have much of a qualification to do something more challenging. she is likely to get bored no matter where she goes. the only difference is, she gets to feel excited the first few weeks BECAUSE she’s NEW. and everything FEELS new.

and yes, i said everything in frustration, after being bossed around for a week, insisting that i find something to do when there was absolutely NOTHING to do, or ethically speaking i will never do stuff what she suggested when customers are around. e.g it’s INAPPROPRIATE to methylate the place when people are eating around you. the smell is beyond tolerance and puke inducing.

but with the new boss, despite a new contract and some new rules in place, the basics are essentially the same. we know what we have to do. infact, the boss has to be guided by us. he said so himself, especially since the branch he was training at was also entirely new, so no one knew what they were supposed to do, and when he came here, he just suddenly felt… relaxed. it’s like being on a permanent holiday.

again, with things going this way, sometimes i can’t help but wonder: should i attempt to move on? with an Australian work experience under my belt now, it would be slightly easier for me to get a job. but… there’s still ally, niccie and Ems. not to mention the various other characters, sans the bitches.

oh wells.

well, i guess i squished this image too tight. i joined this “political game” by a recommendation of my colleague, called nation states. Obviously, i am starting to get really retarded i naming my things, and there this “nation” is named after “me”. no big deal, except for the lame names we are limited to choosing from. but yes, you can view my “state” here – CLICK

the things i highlighted though were fairly new to me. firstly, i must state, my colleague is the utter opposite of me. in a sense, i feel she’s easily corruptible and a selfish person. her entire state also reflected that fact in relation to my opinion (0 political freedom, 100% economical success or something). she’s not entirely bad, but it’s her ideas… they aren’t very inclusive and contains 0 care factor.

mine on the other hand sounds like the hippy land dream or something.

“Compassionate” as a word kind of ran through the entire description a zillion times. not exactly the richest in the world, but we have happily bonded people. sounds communistic in my opinion, but oh wells :P this “game” is starting to amuse me about how it seems to be describing ME instead. no, i am not bragging that i am compassionate, but more like… a CLINGY person lol. :)

ok, i am being utterly incoherent now. i guess that means bed. tada…

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Calculations

Calculations

i have so many things on my mind now, i am not sure where to begin.

Firstly, i have just filed tax returns. well i did that on saturday actually but i was working alot of plans out in my head. it got pretty bad though, because while i did do my tax returns online, they have a disclaimer stating that “it will only be an estimate of your actual returns because it depends on blah blah blah blah blah.” and this morning i woke up in the middle of a nightmare whereby i got back 100 bux instead of the 2700 i was expecting.

needless to say, i didn’t pop back to bed straight after.

What it did showed me though, was that every year, i can possibly save up to 3000 bux (after tax returns as well) from my pay. i have since set my tax rates right, but if i save properly on my own, that would be my end of financial year savings. i can do a few things with that.

1) give dad some money

2) buy myself a volunteer work trip (a la STA travels)

3) study some courses via distance learning that has nothng to do with my degree at all.

obviously there are reasons and arguments behind all those pointers as well, which is why my mind’s all warped up.

1) dad’s fine with his “investments” and stuff. however, mum always have the potential to ruin something, e.g right now she suddenly came up with this 10k bill from i don’t know where that she owed some government body. dad’s not very impressed. i just want to send something back though, because i know dad’s scrimping and saving for fear of a thousand calamities and “what if”s., which isn’t a bad thing to be doing, but that means he’s not enjoying his retirement like normal retirees are supposed to do.

2) STA travels’ ideas aren’t very bad. but for the same amount of money, i did alot more in myanmar and spent more time watching those developments than i would with STA. however, their programs are exactly what i want to do: provide education to needy kids. i just need to justify those costs to myself… but if i can really save those money up and shet, i can afford about one volunteer trip a year. and i think that’s awesome. i have been wanting to do something similar to that myanmar trip since i left myanmar, and this might be one of my last few remaining chances (before i grad that is).

3) this is obviously… too much work! :P but would be interesting on my cv, particularly if it includes languages AND computing stuff. this came into my head recently because… well jake said he wants to come here to study. partly to be with me, partly to help out coz i have crazy housemates and it’s driving him nuts. so i went to uni to ask if he could get advance standing for all the crap he studied (trust me he studied so much crap it’s not funny… i am just amused it didn’t include stuff like “how to make a stuff teddy”).

part of the reason why i went personally rather than email that convenor involved was cause that nutjob didn’t reply jake’s email. it’s the busy time of the year anyways, so fairly understandable. however, when the moment he laid his eyes on me, he went CRAZY! he was like “oh, why didn’t i see you before” and “you sure you don’t want to try computing?” and “we have things not related to maths!” the entire 2 hour conversation. yes TWO HOURS! he went crazy trying to convince me to join, change my degree, my life.

i am not saying IT is a bad degree, it just ISN’T my area of interest, because it contains maths. i told him that. and the furthest i am really interested in is how to make games and everything along that line – PROGRAMMING. but programming requires me to know algorithms. so no. no way.

but i don’t mind learning some c++. or c#.

right after all that crap, i was browsing through some sections in the bookshop as per normal (stalking books is a good habit), and something leaped out. it was probably there before, but… it said “GAMES PROGRAMMING’ and “MOBILE GAMES PROGRAMMING” with pictures of things that look like 2D Mario brothers in it. i wanted to eat that book. i took it as a sign from God i should eat that book one day. but otherwise, nar… maths isn’t my interest, especially when it is something that looks like some broken protons and electrons or something.

but languages… i would love to learn some languages. like swahili. *sigh*

maybe, if i pawn off my entire novel collection, i can do all of these things :x

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Wii vs PS3

Wii vs PS3

i was shopping around this afternoon while deciding which drinks i should get, since i kinda just realised i have nothing at home for guests.

then i walked into toysr’us to check out some barbies and shet. yes i know, i am kinda OLD for barbies. i used to collect them though, when they were worth collecting. then…

Despite hearing from some place (kotaku.com i think) that ps3 might be delayed, and from some other sources (some website that you can pre-order) that states that it will only be expected somewhere in 2008, i found these 2 promotion boards at toysr’us. obviously i got excited, and had the security looking at me strangely while i took pictures of these 2 promotional boards.

seems like they are both coming out approximately on the same month or something (states november 2006 there), and both have a pre-order campaign that gives you a free game with the new consoles for a down payment of 50 bucks. doesn’t sound so bad. it’s going to be hard to choose though, between nintendo and playstation 3. i have been a huge fan of playstation and their games though, and games are coming out prepared for all 3 consoles (nintendo, xbox and playstation) that i really want anyways.

no obviously, i am not going to buy any consoles since i am such a broke shet. but fantasizing about buying them is good. looks like there might be a huge launch party up in sydney when these 2 comes out though in summer. ah, would be nice to see some scantily clad women ^_^

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