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La Perouse

La Perouse

This is the place that I think I am going to test my device. It is at North Cronulla Beach.

This is the place that I think I am going to test my device. It is at North Cronulla Beach.

Went to a few beaches to search for a strategic place to test my wave device. First off we went to La Perouse, the waves there are too strong and it is kinda rocky so I don’t think it is a suitable place after all. After that, we went to a beach near La Perouse and it seemed like a suitable place for us as there were some man-made rocks which are good in deploying my wave device. It was raining heavily all of a sudden and I was all wet. After that, we went to Cronulla Beach in South Sydney and we found a sewage pipe which runs across to the the sea, it was very quiet, not sure if it was because of the rain but we were very happy with it. The waves are strong enough to generate 1kW of electricity and the water is kinda deep. The frequency of incoming waves is about 6-7 seconds and sometimes even faster than that. The big question will be how are we going to mount or install the device on it?

I am not in the mood yet to start my thesis, still can’t get over my holiday yet after a very hectic semester. Look like I just have to start next week, if not my supervisor will not be happy. There are still so many things to do but thanks to my dad for helping me with the unidirectional gear system, it is like a big step forward for me, I could easily spend months of that! After all, I just have to spend my whole summer on my thesis and working at the same time. My friends are leaving me one by one, either graduating or going back for summer holiday. To add salt to my injury, my love life seems like going nowhere so I am all alone here with no one to be with except for my colleagues. Guess I have to find my own happiness living alone.

Went to my friend’s graduation this evening, hoping that I will graduate with 2nd class upper, I am so close and yet there are so many things to be done to reach my goal. It is solely depending on my honours thesis now. Well, at least I only have 1 unit of study next semester so I can fully concentrate on the thesis. Around this time of the year, I should have been having fun in New Zealand but due to the nature of my work which I will not disclose here, I had to fork out another $230 to change my flight to April next year, during Easter holiday. I have finished touring the South Island of New Zealand so I will finish off the whole New Zealand by travelling around North Island of New Zealand next year. :)

Unfortunately, I just paid ATO (Australian Taxation Office) $2247 today and it hurts me so much. I guess, it will take some time for me to recover the money. In fact, I bought a Wii last week and I spend around $360 for that. Arghhh! Money is not enough! Just gonna work hard this summer and simultaneously curb my spending on food and other expenditures! Money will never be enough, just like sex!

The Invention of Lying

The Invention of Lying

Tonight after having dinner with my colleagues, we went for a movie called “The Invention of Lying”. Well, just to make it short, the world depicted in this movie is a world which everybody can’t lie to each other. Everyone has to speak out from their mind and honest, it hurts of course. But the message delivered in this movie is – no matter how many times and how much you lie, but u have to be honest with your love ones, this include your parents, good friends and your lifelong partner. You have to spend the rest of your life with them so if you tell a lie, you have to live everyday thinking about the lie that you’ve told, it will not be pleasant at all.

If you are a South Park fan, you would have probably watched the episode named “Butter’s own episode”. A lie is a lie, no matter it is for good purpose or bad purpose but sometimes you have to tell a lie to make someone happy so does it make it ok to lie? Well, it is a very hard question to answer. It depends on the situation and person. So I will let you to be the judge when you are lying, just think about the consequences before you do it. By the way, Eid Mubarak to everyone who celebrate it! Cheers!

Saying good is the hardest thing to do.

Saying good is the hardest thing to do.

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?

Yes I love her. I love her more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would like better than to hold on to her forever. But I know it’s not for the best. So no matter how much my heart is going to break, I’ve got to let her go so she can know just how much I love her. Maybe if I’m lucky, she’ll come back, but if not, I can make it through this.

True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

If saying goodbye hurts so much, why do we say goodbye? Because it hurts so much more to keep holding on to something that isn’t there. Like you’re hanging off a ledge and someone is jumping up and down on your hands but you still can’t let go. Like when you’re little and you’re being tickled…you shout for it to stop because it’s torture, but then you go back for more, because somehow being tickled makes you feel safe and special. Holding on is like that…but the torture is painful…and it doesn’t make you smile. That’s why we’re supposed to say goodbye. That’s why we’re meant to let go.

Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped loving them or we’ve stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.

I knew that this moment would come in time. That I’d have to let go and watch you fly. I know you’re coming back so why am I dying inside? Are you searching for words that you can’t find? Trying to hide your emotions but eyes don’t lie. Guess there’s no easy way to say goodbye.

Don’t want to leave, but we both know sometimes it’s better to go. Somehow I know we’ll meet again, not sure quite where and I don’t know just when you’re in my heart, so until then, smile, don’t want to cry saying goodbye.

I’ve learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures never replace having been there, memories, good or bad, will bring tears and words can never replace feelings.

This is our last goodbye…it’s over, just hear this and then I’ll go: you gave me more to live for than you’ll ever know.

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Missing Star

I can never really tell you why
I’ve been missing you a lot
And I just have to take another look of your photo in my wallet
Ad there’s no reason why I keep your tshirt by my side when I sleep
Pretending you were never really gone

Its like a missing star that always ends up in your sky
Its like the rainbow never comes after the rain
Its like the sun never rises in every of your morning
How am I supposed to live without those things
they are all you

Heaven Knows

She’s always on my mind
From the time I wake up,
Till I close my eyes.
She’s everywhere I go
She’s all I know.

And though she’s so far away,
It just keeps getting stronger everyday
And even now she’s gone
I’m still holding on

So tell me, where do I start
‘Coz it’s breakin’ my heart
Don’t wanna let her go

Chorus:

Maybe my love will come back someday
Only heaven knows
And maybe our hearts will find a way
But only heaven knows
And all I can do is hope & pray
‘Coz heaven knows.

My friends keep telling me
That if you really love her,
You’ve gotta set her free
And if she returns in time
I’ll know she’s mine

But tell me, where do I start
‘Coz it’s breakin’ my heart
Don’t wanna let her go

(Repeat Chorus except last line)

Bridge:

‘Coz heaven knows
Why I live in despair
‘Coz wide awake or dreamin’,
I know she’s never there
And all the time I act so brave,
I’m shakin’ inside
Why does it hurt me so?

(Repeat Chorus)

Heaven knows… heaven knows.

KFF

KFF

Well, today is a special day because today is the end of KFF (just in case you don’t know, it’s a brand of us) after almost 4 years. It has been a very long journey and I thought we will make it to the end but sometimes we can’t really get what we wanted. The end is not the end I wanted, it is a sudden end in which I am not prepared off. It is indeed heartbreaking and I am shattered by it but somehow every cloud has a silver lining. Perhaps it is a good thing for her as finally she can move on and once and for all, release all the pressure exerted on her all these while. In fact, I think she will be happier without me as I have been giving her so much misery and trouble ever since we were together. I am not a good person or partner so I am very sure that she will find someone better than me and be happier than before.

While for me, life will not be the same anymore. Going to sleep at night or waking up in the morning will never be the same again. I don’t have to look at my mobile anymore nor message anyone as before because things have changed. It will certainly be a boring and dull life for me especially during holiday now. I am all alone in my room most of the time, even if I go out, I don’t have friends as most of them are going back to their own respective country for good or temporary for summer holiday. I am lonely and blue. I am more like a robot now, doing the same thing everyday. Well, I am devastated, I miss her and I still love her but there is nothing much I can do now. I hate improper goodbye but we promised to end it in a proper way later by meeting up for the last time, doing things together for the last time, enjoying the last moment as much as we can, this is how we started and this is how we are going to end it. At least we will cherish these moments for the rest of our lives. Sorry, I am not good in words especially in describing my feeling now, all I can say is I am real sad. It’s like you lost something very close to you, very valuable and precious to you after 4 years. You miss it so much but there is nothing much you can do to get it back, it is lost forever (figuratively of course). It is a deep cut, like a 5-inch knife stabbed into my heart and it just keeps bleeding, even if you stitch it up, it will take so much time to heal. Time is a good medicine because it is the only medicine that can cure this kind of injury. But it also means that it is going  to take so much time, years after years. Last time, it took me almost 3 years though the relationship was only about a few months but now, it is a 4-year relationship so how long would it take? I will let you do the calculation. :)

Looking back these 4 years making me realize that actually we don’t spend much time together due to the nature of our relationship but somehow I don’t know why we have so many moments, good or bad, sweet or sour, joy or tears, happy or sad, exciting or dull. I think maybe because we don’t meet up a lot but once we do, we really make use of our time to the fullest we can. This is something that I never regret of. Once said, “life is not measured by how long you live but it is measured by how exciting your life is.” In this case, 4 years might be short or long but it doesn’t really matter because we have been through so much together and make use of every moment when we have the chance. Looking back the photos certainly bring back a lot of memory to me, I laughed, smiled and cried. I miss you and you have always been a good life partner of me, I appreciate you now more than ever. Thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart, you are the source of my inspiration, my happiness and my life. Thank you once again. I will never forget you and in future (probably when I am in my 30s) if I have a partner again, I will tell her how great our love is, I don’t care what she will think but I just want her to know that I had a very wonderful partner before and it is a fact that cannot be altered, it is carving in every inch of my heart.

Last but not least, life is never fair and will not be fair. Sometimes no matter how great our love is but in the end, there are things that are more important that love such as family, religion, race, family background and etc. Love can break all the barriers as love is blind but then not in all the situations. True love is hard to find but once you found it, there are so many obstacles which can test the strength of the true love. Well, if it isn’t strong enough, it will fail and bring catastrophic outcomes. For those who have found their true love and live happily ever after, I wish you all the best, may God bless you all and hopefully it will last forever until your last breath. Sometimes I do envy those who have found their true love and being so happy together but in the end I know that I am not a good person myself, that’s why I don’t deserve any of this. I do believe in Karma and I know I am such a bad person and I truly deserve it. I accept it wholeheartedly without any complaint. So from now on, I will try to move on my life and will try to be strong. It is going to be hard but I have to give my best.

With that, I dedicate these 2 songs to you. The first song is about how much I miss you and the second song is about how much I love you. They are my most favorite songs of all time.

p/s If you are reading this and would like to offer any encouragement, advice or opinion, please comment below this post. Thank you.

The big doghnuts in Coles Worldsquare!

The big doghnuts in Coles Worldsquare!

Well, after studying for about 4 days, finally I have finished my exam. Well, the questions are taken from the textbook, not a single word or sentence is changed and I have some of the solutions of the book but somehow I made one big mistake, hopefully it will be alright. This will be the last exam of my uni life as I don’t have anymore final exam next semester as I only left with Honours Thesis B and Professional Engineering 2. Thus, I don’t have to sit for exam anymore! I hate exam coz normally I can’t score in the exam, I only get good marks from assignments, quiz (except for Renewable Energy), presentations and etc. I have no idea why, maybe it is due to my nervousness especially before and during the exam which affect my performance. So no more exam after this! Hooray! Haha! Yes!

But it doesn’t grant me freedom as I still have to work on my Thesis during the whole summer holiday which is about 3 months long. Had a meeting with my supervisor just now, look like I still have so many things to do including measuring the theoretical energy from the sea, finalised my project plan in detail, finish the manufacturing, find a suitable site, figuring how to install it near shore and etc. Can I finish all these in 3 months? Well, I hope so! But thanks to my dad for helping me with the unidirectional gear system, it has certainly made my work easier quite a lot as it is the most important part of the whole device. Just in case if you don’t know, I am doing a device that can extract energy from ocean waves and my aim is to generate 1kW of electricity. The expectation is high so the pressure is mounting on me tremendously.

But for these few days, I will just enjoy myself and tomorrow I am going to watch A Christmas Carol 3D in IMAX Darling Harbour, Sydney. Maybe next week going to watch New Moon though I am not a fan at all. Till then, enjoy your holiday and hope to hear from me again!

P/S   The picture above is taken from Coles Worldsquare, the doughnuts are big, aren’t they? Somebody told me they look like somebody’s ass! Haha.

Like the multiple display at the background.

Like the multiple display at the background.

Big screen of Nickelback Concert

Big screen at Nickelback Concert

Someone threw her bra to Nickelback and Nickelback decided to hang it around his guitar while playing it. Cute!

Someone threw her bra to Nickelback and Nickelback decided to hang it around his guitar while playing it. Cute!

Went to Nickelback concert last Friday in Acer Arena, Sydney. Got two tickets but couldn’t find someone to go with me though I gave away the ticket for free. Each ticket cost me 150 bucks but since it was somehow like in the middle of exam or maybe people don’t find Nickelback interesting enough so no one wanted to go for FREE. I have always wanted to go to Nickelback concert so I don’t really mind if  no one wants to be my company. I tried to sell the tickets via ebay or gumtree but to avail. In the end, I forced my best friend, Andy to go with me though he never really likes concert. Overall, the concert was really cool and fun! Never regret going there! Shame on you who reject my invitation! :P

There were quite a few memorable scenes. First off, there was like so many F*** words throughout the concert and many obscene words as well especially from the special guest – Sick Puppies. From the picture above, one of the fans took off her bra and threw it to Nickelback. LOL. Nickelback said it was cute so he just hung it around his guitar while playing his guitar and then put it near the drum for the rest of the concert. And then I saw one hotchick who basically took off her shirt and showed Nickelback her huge “assets”. LOL. Left my jaw dropping though. Haha.

Next stop is Lady Gaga concert in March next year. well in between I might go to Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Green Day or even Kelly Clarkson. See how it goes though. I still have a few videos of Nickelback performing live on stage, guess I’ll upload to youtube and post it here. Till then, wait for my next post! :) Have fun and enjoy your holiday!

Snapshot from 2012 movie.

Just came back from the premier of 2012. It was so crowded so it was very hot in the cinema. Such a relief to come out after 2 hour and 40mins. Well, what can I say about this movie? It is awesome, the special effects are good, this kind of movie you have to watch it in cinema and not downloading the crappy version. It is definitely worth every single cent. I am not giving too much away about this movie, there are some funny moments when some of the moviegoers clapped their hands, there are some touch moments when some dropped their tears and in the end, it is a very complete movie with lots of emotion as well as heart inside. But then, sometimes I just don’t like happy ending because it supposed to be realistic, it is not a children’s movie which must have a happy ending you know. Sometimes a bad ending can be a very good ending too, it will touch your heart more.

After all, for those who are not aware of the 2012 Armageddon theory, actually it has been rumored since the Mayan existence. According to Mayan’s calender, this is the last day of the calendar so does that mean it is the last day for the world? Well, recent theory has showed that it will just start all over again. Besides, I have watched a 1-hour-long documentary about Nostradamus. I have the documentary video with me now, you can borrow it from me or I can show you where to get it. But if you just want to have a quick understanding, please visit here. Some even claimed that Einstein supported this theory as well. So what will be the truth? Guess nobody will know until the day comes.

But most importantly, the end of world is not what really matters, in fact what really matters for us now is to appreciate everything and everyone around us. Life is short, you will never know how much you miss something or someone until you lost it/her/him. Never take things for granted, life isn’t fair sometimes but we just gotta make use of it, isn’t it? So the story behind this movie is not really about the end of the world, it is more than that. It is about humanity, about appreciation of people around you, someone you love, someone you hate just because of difference in opinion, someone annoy it, someone care for you, someone helps you so much in your life and so on. Believe me, when the day comes, you will repent, regret and reconcile with every wrongdoing you have made.  Tonight, let us put up our pillow and give this a thorough thought. Till then, have a good night everyone and I need to study for my exam next Tuesday again. Hear from me soon again. Cheers.

12
Nov

Patience is a virtue. Well, it sounds true. In my life there are so many times that I have not been patient enough, getting too emotional sometimes. I really need to work out my emotion as well as patience, something that I have to improve. Over the past few weeks, there have been a lot cases in which I was getting too emotional involved but in the end I managed to calm down and control my action. A Chinese proverb once said, “Retreat one step you’ll be able to see the vast sea and borderless sky.” If you be patient and hold your emotion for a while, a better outcome might awaits you sometimes, well most of the time actually because normally you will act without giving a second thought once you are emotional.

In another story, I’m going to list down things that I don’t like to do in DELI (delicatesteen):

  1. Taking the ice out from the seafood section. It is so heavy and everytime I will hurt my back doing that!
  2. Taking prawns out from the seafood is so painful to my fingers! Not to mention the freezing cold ice that make my fingers numb!
  3. Serving Ricotta cheese? Yeah! They are so soft and “fragile”, it is so hard to take them using hand without destroying it.
  4. Cleaning oven racks that are not soaked more than 1 hour with degreaser.
  5. Serving Salmon’s head! It is so disgusting when the salmon seems staring at you when you hold it! No! I didn’t kill you, I am just selling you!
  6. Chickens punch a hole in the bag and the chicken oil is spilling all over the warmer! Gross!
  7. Serving customers who are very rude, never say thank you and never trust you!
  8. Serving customers at after 11.30pm is annoying especially they are getting the salad!
  9. Throwing rubbish! It is so hard to find a bin to throw all the smelly-like-Malulee rubbish! It is as hard as finding a kangaroo meat in the store!
  10. Cleaning slicer! I always have a dream that I will cut off my fingers using the slicer!

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Well, I think there are still more but they are not that significant compared to what I listed above. Ok, time to study for my management exam now. Daaaaaaaaaaaa!

Cameron Jerome celebrates his spectacular goal.
Cameron Jerome celebrates his spectacular goal.

Ok it’s Liverpool again. The early morning match between Liverpool and Birmingham City shouldn’t catch much attention but this time around, it was different. Everybody stayed through the night or woke up early in the morning just to know will Liverpool extend its current miserable form. Well, it was definitely worth it. Liverpool has lost 6 matches in 8 games before coming to this match. But well,  as we know, Liverpool was lucky to come away with a draw thanks to a “dive” by Ngong. Just to take a few funny quotes after the macth:

“It’s a joke,” said the former Evertonian Carsley and current Birmingham City’s captain. “I’m sure he’s (the referee) got a family member named Boumsong. If I went home having done something like that, I’d be embarrassed.”

Well, actually the referee does have a cousin named Jean-Alain Boumsong. LOL.

Benitez concurred: “We had a penalty that maybe wasn’t a penalty but we deserve to score. I was asking [Ngog] and he said maybe it wasn’t [a penalty].”

So did he mean that Liverpool deserve to score by diving to get a penalty? Well, it seems to me the answer is a certain yes judging from Benitez’s comment. :)

These two funny comments after the match really made my day. After all, to those who missed the match, you can watch it here.