Saturday, October 29, 2005
IronicI learnt a new word today from my Japanese housemate. Ironic.
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your chardonnayIt's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think?
Chorus:It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
W ho would've thought... it figures
Mr. play it safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought"well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
Repeat chorus
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
A little too ironic... and yeah i really do think...
Repeat chorus
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out
After understanding the word finally after 19 years of my life, i find the word quite interesting, mainly because it describes many incidents in my life. For example, just recently i had a sketch assignment that started after lecture at 1pm and im supposed to like hand it in at 5 pm. We're supposed like to travel to the site and sketch the building and stuff. So i thought like, screw the lecture, wake up early, get the sketch over early so i dont need to rush. So that morning i waked up early and headed towards tram station to realise that i forgot my folio ( which contains my drawing board, paper and stuff). So had to run back to get it and back to the station. Phanting and all. So caught a tram bla bla bla. Reached the destination and walked to the site just to discover.....i left my bag in the tram!!! I had like my camera and important notes for my other assignment inside and stuff, not to mention my drawing equipments too. So means i HAD to get it back no matter wat. I chased after every tram i saw, jumping in for a peek to check if it was around. But after thinking about it sensibly, it wouldnt just make a round that fast... should take about an hour or so. But i was panicking. I was worried. I contacted the nearest tram conductor to lodge a report about it. Thankfully he called the office and said that they found it and its over there right now. In Malvern that is. Yup. I have no idea where it is too. But i had to get there. He told me to take a tram there and tell the driver where i wanted to go and stuff. Im like OK. I had no idea it was one hour away and thats just one way. To and from would take..... yup u guessed it. 2 hours. By the time i got back and had my lunch at Nando's it was almost 1. So basically me skipping lecture, waking up early and all that shit didn't pay off at all. I still managed to finish my work in time, but when i got back i started feeling sick and all. A flu followed that plagued me for the next 2-3 weeks. Isnt it ironic...........Dont'cha think?
Alvin Chan Chee Weng jotted at 1:50 AM
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
RevivialRevival of the blog. Yup. Its been a loooooooooooong time. I wonder if anyone still pops their head to check if anything new was posted. Hmm...
Anyways im not gonna spend my whole new post talking about why i didnt blog for quite some while and stuff like that ( my college english teacher hates this, he wants us to use "and other things of that nature" which makes me sound more classy than i really am ). It was ( and still is ) a busy sem for me, and ive been trying to not do too much at the last minute to avoid my past experience(s). Or maybe im just lazee.
On to the new stuff. All my major assignments are over now except one. The biggest one just went pass and took me and my housemate rounghly 4 full days plus another few not so full days to complete. Full as in day-night, only resting for meals. Figures it turns out to be the most interesting assignment we had, yet it was the most difficult. We had to build a mini model house from scratch. Which means it had to show from the foundations ( below ground level ) up to the timber wall framing ( did u know that inside some of our walls, it is actually made of timber??? i didnt :P ) up to the roof. And just to add salt to wound, one corner of the house had to be finished ( which means the windows, the whole brick exterior wall up to the tiles on the roof ). Phew. Thank god its over now. The presentation went pretty well too. Our model wasn't the most attractive, but definitely neater than many others ( thanks to my housemate or partner who is a perfectionist ).
Finally getting some rest, last night i pursuaded a few familiar faces to join me in a game(s?) of Yahoo Grafiti. Its some kind of pictionary like game. Pretty cool. Probably cause i love pictionary, and drawing of course. It started of with me, Hexiang and Kethlyn, and soon we were joined by Jooyee and Leeq. We played for an hour or so and it was really fun and funny ( watching how jooyee drew ugly stuff :P ). I think im really starting to be a bad influence on ppl. I started off turning ppl into DOTA freaks (dont need to point out, u guys know who you are hehe ), converting my hongkee housemate into a malaysian games addict and now im spreading the tradition to other innocent victims on msn :). Im evil.
I bought myself some gumballs today, and it almost convinced me to get a gumball machine. A small one of course. Still thinking if i should. Should I? I already have a list of useless stuff that i like : lava lamp, electric shocking game thingy, a inflatable basketball rim, some gundam kits, ice shaving machine (closesest i have to a slurpee machine) etc etc
Ive lost some weight now, i think. So when i get home, i'll be expecting less "fatass" comments from ppl, hopefully. Oh, did i mention im going home? Well, maybe. Not sure. We'll see. I might. Anyways its nice to hear that some ppl are finally coming over to melbourne next year : Kaseong, Alex and Tricia ( i dont know who ). Makes the place a little more happening i guess. Starting from today im hoping to blog on a regular basis again. Keep checking to find out how punctual i am. :D
*edit: i had to add word verification when commenting cause of some assholes who are spamming blogger with gay comments like the first one on this post. Sorry for the inconvinience
