Ramblings

Saturday, 25 April 2009

  • My colleague at work has this funny collection of work-related quotes on her desk...

    "When stuff hits the fan... it will not be distributed evenly"
    "If your request really was urgent, it would be done already"

    So true.

    I think I want a holiday. There really wasn't an easter break, since I was working on the Monday and Tuesday, and had exams on the Wednesday and Thursday. VC's week was cut short because TFS was run on the Friday. Can't wait till I stop working. I'm already being phased out. mwahaha -__-"

    I watched Knowing on Thursday. Such an annoying movie. I don't like how it ended. The rest of it was pretty good... good build up. But crap ending.

    I also wanted to watch Dragonball Evolution... but it was like... at 7pm. I wasn't particularly interested in waiting until 7 for a movie.

    I really like taking afternoon naps. For some reason, afternoon naps are actually more revitalising than night time sleeps. I should be nocturnal. If only the rest of the world aligned with my sleeping habits. One day :)

    Finally depleted our stock of Easter Eggs.

    I really like winter and cold and wet weather. I like miserable weather :) (i'm not being sarcastic btw).

    I have a group assignment due soon, and I haven't done my bits yet. I feel like I'm letting the team down, but I'll get it done first thing tomorrow. I'm actually planning on waking up in the morning. :)

    Not exactly anything else left to update. Life is just slightly repetitive, so there isn't really anything else left to update. (I repeated myself just for effect).

    All this has happened before, and will happen again, and again, and again.

Friday, 10 April 2009

  • Cash flow management

    I've been trying to save up money for a long time now... given my income, I should've saved at least $10k since I started working at Woolworths... but... it's alllll gone!!!

    So starting Monday, I decided to limit spending to $100 for the entire week, which is theoretically doable, as follows:

    Monday - $5 for lunch, $7.20 travel to Uni,
    Tuesday - $5 for lunch, $30 for petrol
    Wednesday - $5 for lunch
    Thursday - $7.20 travel to Uni, $5 for lunch
    Friday - $7.20 travel to Uni, $5 for lunch
    Total - $76.90, with room to spare.

    Actual spend

    Monday - $15 for lunch. $30 for easter eggs, $7.20 travel to Uni, $20 for dinner.
    Tuesday - $15 for lunch, another $40 on easter eggs, $25 for petrol
    Wednesday - $20 for lunch
    Thursday - $7.20 travel to Uni, $5 at 7-11 for chewing gum + tic tacs, $15 for lunch, $10 for dinner...
    Friday - public holiday!!!
    Total - $209.40

    and on top of that, I need my mobile phone repaired.... which could cost... a lot...

    So wasteful...

    My theory is, I don't (/can't) save money, because I subconsciously want everything to be about right now, because I know I have no future and so saving would be a waste of money anyway.


Saturday, 04 April 2009

  • I have a Xanga!

    I only just remembered. .I'll blog more properly later


    I find it informative how the toilets at the UTS Library have these little pictures on the cubicles... indicating the proper way to use the toilets is to sit, and not squat.


    That's all.

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

  • War Inc.

    You know how I rarely rant about a movie I've watched, but this one is quite an exception. No doubt one of the best movies I've watched in ages... so you should watch it too!!! It's not supposed to be released for a while, and I don't condone *cough cough* versions online... but yeah. Awesome movie.

    Who knew Hillary Duff could actually act?

    Anywayy, that's all I really had to say.

    I have an assignment due tomorrow and I haven't started, and I woke up late, watched a movie, and now it's 4pm and I still haven't started. So I must be off now. =D

    WATCH IT!!!

Friday, 16 May 2008

  • Blogging properly

    So much has been happening yet I haven't been writing any of it down... which I find is quite strange considering I used to blog like every day just one year ago. Well, here I am now. Though I can't really think about much to say.

    Firstly, I'm tired. Mostly because of the lack of sleep. People are always saying how hard University is compared to high school and stuff, and I mostly disagree... because (so far) everything's been smooth sailing and easy. The only REAL trouble is time management, which for me, means doing everything the night before. Literally everything. From assignments to studying for exams.... even if I have an entire day off, I tend not to start until like 10pm then study/assignment like crazy until the early hours of the morning.

    Hence the tiredness.

    Luckily for me, I have three assignments which I should be getting done tonight and over the weekend. I shan't bore you with details, but suffice it to say that I'm not looking forward to it.

    But anyway, what else has happened since I stopped blogging? I've started reading again!!! It's been a long while since that happened.. because I stopped regularly reading things from like... year 4? And it's only started again now... but it's never too late. The book I'm reading now is called "The Schumann Frequency", which I picked up at Basement Books (right outside Central Station) for $9, is quite fantastic. Not fantastic in the English technique-y sense, but you know.... entertaining and stuff.

    What else has been happening? I'm seriously spending so much money, I don't know where it's all going. I find it hard to believe that I spend about $200 a week, considering I do nothing but go to Uni, basically, but meh. Just another reason why you should try out for BAcc - so you too can spend lots and lots of money meaninglessly =D

    Actually that is true. I've always got things I want to buy... I bought a computer like 2 weeks ago and now I want a laptop, though chances are I'm going to get an MSI Wind (google it if you feel interested). Yeah I'm slightly materialistic... but meh.

    Other stuff? It occurred to me that there are times when I do get angry. Quite angry in fact. Just today I happened to be discussing with a few friends of mine how they've never seen me angry. Which is probably a good thing. But then again there's nothing to be angry about. The only thing that really makes my blood boil are my parents attempts to shatter my beliefs and world views... and it's really infuriating. I don't think they really understand how painful it is to constantly hear about how the way you see the world is wrong. Though I'll never show I'm angry. You sort of just.. agree with them and drop the topic as soon as possible =D

    Which brings up another thing. Quite recently, I've decided to suppress many emotions that I've been having. No real reason for it, except that there are some things I'd rather not deal with at this point in my life. Maybe down the track I might bother looking back at things, and I'll probably regret it, but I guess that's part of the whole learning-while-doing thing. Let me shatter my own world view and not just have my parents shatter it for me from their experiences.

    Besides that, nothing much has changed. Sure, Uni and life in general seem to be moving at a blindingly fast pace, and in under 2 months I'm going to be wearing a suit 5 days a week, working what will most likely be 8am-6pm hours, pretending to be an accountant. End of semester assessments are just around the corner and I am yet to do anything about it. Nonetheless, I hope I'll understand everything the day before the exam... but we'll see. We'll see.

    I guess I'll wrap up this random crap that I've been going on about. Life is good. Yeah, that's basically it.

    PS: Xanga layouts changed again... it's slowly getting more and more confusing to use...


    --- Mendoza.

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