bludgy

i feel so refreshed! man staying at home doing nothing for a couple of days does wonders to ur general mood ^^

i guess im going to need that refreshment for tomorrow. my "long lost" cousin (well not relaly i just havent seen her for a long time) is coming to stay with us on saturday, so ive decided to go to the airport to pick her up. catch is i have to wake up at 5am in the morning =/

really not looking forward to that. i wonder what is going to happen to my slob of a life another once another person moves in with us, the last time results werent too good, i had to share! share my bathroom with somebody else! bah! just the concept of sharing is foreign to an only child like myself.

anyhow i spose that sharing will be good for me... i guess eventually im going to have to learn the intricacies of co-habitation. that or ill move out? =P

pictionary!

I have discovered the saviour for my holiday blues.
Online PICTIONARY. yes it is crazy fun. i know pictionary is a really nerdy game, but seriously im a med student - let me have my nerdy moments. its surprisingly addictive and i ended up staying till 3am playing it. thanx wayland, you have just introduced another procrastinator in my life, aside from blogging i now have pictionary to play. if i fail med i blame u =P

the only problem with staying up to play pictionary is the fact that im not sleeping. and having to keep up with social obligations after a late night? unpleasant. having trouble staying awake during lunch and trying not to fall asleep on my food, somewhat embarassing. alas, i now i have a free day in which to lie around in bed or on the couch. ahhhh its good to do nothing at all.... hopefully i dont get bored.

but if i do, i know theres always blogging and pictionary =P

tired...

i checked up my bank balance yesterday... it was terrible. somehow i had blown over $400 in the last 3 weeks. i guess sometime during the spending splurge since the beginning of the holidays i forgot that my allowances don't cover excessive shopping sprees. hmmm perhaps its time i stopped this ridiculous outburt of money wasting?

perhaps another way to stop this outflow of cash i should learn some restraint and to be less impulsive.

And people say shopping is sposed to relieve stress... somehow i feel more and more worn out, and generally on a downer. maybe ill spend the next few days wasting at home.

ahhh isnt life ever so confusing, i never quite know when im satisfied

once upin a time in a galaxy far far away, there lived a boy in hibernation. until at 10.30 he was rudely awakened by the sound of chainsaws going across the street (no this isn't texas). This was MY HOUSE 2 days ago! i can tell you, i was shitted, i mean, what kind of insane fool gets up in the morning and says to himself "damn its a mighty fine day today, i think ill just wake up my neighbours by fucking up the trees in my yard" this racket went on for a hour or so before it stopped, at which time i was already so awake that i couldn't fall back to sleep. you know that feeling, comfortable in bed but thinking that theres is something that you should do with your day, rather than pretending to be lying in a marshmallow flavoured couch? (ok i was chewing on my doona cos i was hungry).

aside from that however, the last few days have dissolved into a blur of memories. doesn't seem to make a lot of sense in my mind (but then what does? you have probably gathered that by reading these posts). and i wonder, has the "holiday effect" already start to set in at only one week? in case you don't know what that is, its just my name for when you go on holidays with nothing to do and your brain turns into a sort of strange slurry with ZERO function. i really should aim to do more things with my spare time, at the moment it basically involves watching DVDs that i havn't bothered to open yet. yes its getting sad ive seen some really B-grade movies lately. which brings me back to my holiday plan... so much for that. i have achieved NOTHING from that list (just goes to show how much willpower i have). but i have managed to stay out of the house, until today that is.

so with the olds constantly hassling my arse to get a job (i have tried, just not very hard) life isnt getting any easier in the holidays as i thought it would. i wonder, is there some way i can enjoy my holidays with minimum exertion? and without the guilt of not doing anything productive... ahhh it is a riddle. but... alas, im getting sleepy again, maybe i should have a nap before dinner....

one small step to doctorhood

*phew*

man what the hell has happened to the last 3 days? i have somehow blown those days doing very little. ok maybe not... now that i think about it it has actually been quite productive.

although i do have to say. the actual productivity and the expected levels do not quite match. post exam party was - somewhat disappointing. i honestly thought that HEAT was a kickass club, what with the overlooking river and lets not forget that CAGE. i had envisioned that it would be a great place to get drunk and rave until the wee hours of the morning. alas, i was wrong. the DJ was unfortunately an untalented git who could not spin records if he was forced to stop his manhood from sliding down a razor blade. getting to the bar was like D-Day all over again, battling the crowds until finally forcing my way up to the bar only to get knocked back by the drunk bartender... damn her! and it closed at 2!!! now really... had it gone until 5am maybe i would have been too tired to give a shit... but 2am... COME ON! were trying to get drunk here! people need time to ingest alcohol.

ahhh enough bitching for one day. the night wasnt all that bad, i gotta say that at least i got to see some drunken lesbian dancing...

during the recovery day (in which i managed to lock myself out of the house, resulting my waking my folks at 4.30 in the morning.... hmmm ill remember not to do that again) i actually managed to get myself out of bed and... STUDY for a first aid course today. big mistake. i got so bored after reading it i decided to shop (there was a sale on, does that make it ok?)

so today was the big day. culminating in the so called "hurdle requirement" for all us meddies. we had to learn the art of first aid. yes just for those dramatic moments in our lives where someone suddenly yells "is there a doctor on board?! a man has collapsed" "NO! BUT IM A MED STUDENT!" at which point we would heroically jump out of our seats, pull out our compact face masks and gloves, rush to the scene of the incident and examine the patient. upon finding that his heart has stopped beating we would defy all advice and continue with CPR... after 3 hours of exhaustive battling with nature, his heart would start beating again, the sick would arise and triumphantly, we would return to our seats in a cheer of champagne, ticker tape and many beautiful women.

ok back to the real world. we were asked to complete a multiple choice quiz of 30 questions and then practice our "techniques" on dummies aptly named - marianne? (WTF) then sitting through so called cases where we had to treat our fellow aiders for "a 6 metre fall" and "a snake bite" pardon me but dont you die if you fall 6 metres? last i recall people did that when they wanted to commit suicide. anyway i passed so im now an official St. Johns first aid officer, well when they send me the certificate that is.

WATCH OUT PEOPLE!

SEX SELLS!

the wonders of public transport. it takes a bloody hour to go a block in this town?! in ventura's defence however it WAS a public holiday, i just wish they would actually publish somewhere that they dont run the only bus that goes by my house on public holidays *sigh* what can one do in situations such as this but take the only alternate form of transport... a ride on the train, a brief walk and then a bus

but alas... in my little trip today i have discovered that SEX SELLS. in shopping for a card for a friend's niece's first birthday (yes complex) i found what i want for my 18th... a card with hot chicks ^____________^
i thought that would be great for the kid as well... until my friend so thoughtfully reminded me that there needs to be some decency in today's youth. so of course the card was not purchased. we opted for a more conventional "happy birthday" card.

after coming home, just lazing about the couch, watching tv and eating snacks after dinner, my hypothesis was proved further by the new duracell advert. im not sure if all have seen it, but it has the duracell bunny (naturally) and its just him going thru a regular rabbit day as a human (does taht work?) im not so sure... but anyway he goes to work, runs up the lifts and works out. at night, he comes home while all the eveready super heavy duty bunnies are dead. the our hero of the advert goes home... gets a piece of hot bunny and the screen fades to black. now does that not scream "buy duracell and you will get some"?

ok so maybe my mind is hyperactive... dont blame me i didnt have alcohol today, i think im going thru withdrawl symptoms >.<

what a way to spend sunday night... is there anything better than watching movies and eating junk food (lets not forget the beer)? i think not.

the only thing that bugs my conscience is that fact that my poor folks left the house to let me entertain my guests. now technically i didnt ask them to.... but maybe i had some subconscious way of pushing them out of the house. so right now im giving myself a guilt trip.

i find myself in a dilemma that many of us students living at home face, how to maintain harmony with the folks while still enjoying the benefits of socialising at home. this is definitely not a dilemma that is easily solved, perhaps i should enlist the help of some experts such as doctor phil? i could really see this particular issue coming up in a near episode of some TV show... so if anyone sees it, you know who thought of the concept first. ME! copyright 2004

tomorrow... my folks are heading out to phillip island. what am i to do? they even asked me if they should go. that is awfully suss, why would parents ask such a peculiar question, its not as if i have any sort of bearing on their decisions. another contributer to my guilt. argh, how will i sleep tonight knowing something could be brewing in the midst!?

to work or not to work? that is the question

hmmmm.... yesterday didnt really go to plan. i didnt watch the footy, and i ended up being productive. PRODUCTIVE! i am ashamed of myself. after finally working out how to overburn on nero, the guests came. i felt extremely proud of my manhood after starting a fire. looking at the bright orange flames incited a subconscious image of myself slaying a woolly mammoth with a club. it somewhat compensated for the lack of footy yesterday because the guests were here *sigh* at least we won though.

but the real productivity came in the way of work. yes... in order to feed my ever growing budget, i decided to pursue a part time job. i called a potential student who i was supposed to tutor and today arranged to meet them for tuition in a couple of weeks time. SCORE! now i can shop... i mean... buy a tool belt... i also applied for a job online at you guessed it... MYER. i probably won't get a job but hey, the aptitude test was a real confidence booster. i did some random questions, guesed the answers and got put on this graph. one of those bell curve thingos. and i was right at the end ^_____________^ yes my head is really that big now... or was it the other end of the curve???

all this job searching made me ponder, what will happen to my sedentary lazyman's life once i have work? will all those days spend watching random television programs be forever gone? i frightened myself terribly and then reassured myself - i can always purchase a portable tv and watch it at work... or even better, work in the electrical section and hang around the tvs.

until then however, im going to enjoy the relaxation and carelessness of finishing exams and holidays. in fact a movie night is already planned with plenty of popcorn and food as well as some mahjong... even though i have no idea how to play that game, its time i learnt to be more asian.

How to spend a saturday?

Today the folks are entertaining guests... Sounds pretty normal right? Guess again, "entertainment" in our household means cards and karaoke plus the bickering my parents go through beforehand about when spring onions should be put into a salad.

So this leaves me with the dilemma of how to keep myself occupied while they fire off tunes from... oh the good old days of Mao (in case you haven't guessed already thats when my parents spent their youth). I had originally thought i would go shopping, but after the last post my ideas changed a little bit (that and the fact i can't actually access shops today).

My next plan was to sleep the whole day, wake to eat and the retire to sleeping quarters after, however that plan was shot to pieces by a phone call at 12.30. Damn you stuart! ah well at least i got shouted lunch ^^

After much deliberation, and a little more food, my plan is this... in accordance with my holiday treatment, i will watch the footy. I figure its been a bloody long time since i watched a full footy game, so ill make sure i catch the Bris v. Essendon game.

Between now and then however, i think i will continue acting genrally slobbish... and just lounge around with a can of chips.... that and adding to my blog =P Sound like an interesting way to spend saturday??? Well put it this way, im catching up on well deserved rest after frying my brain over the last couple of weeks.

These next few days, i think ill just stick with my sedentary life... i have to prepare myself (and my liver) for Post exam party on tuesday.... mmmmmmm alcomahol ^^

Freedom (boredom already?)

AAAHHH.... How satisfying it is to finally have finished my first set of uni exams!
Downside is that today's exam = TOTAL WASTE OF TIME. Damn... people who write these things should get a major kick up the arse. You would think that exams should test the stuff you learn, not the stuff not learnt at an stage during the year. Oh wait... maybe i should have listened during those deadly 8am lectures... maybe getting drunk and staying up till 5am isnt a good idea?
Ah stuffit. Its all just a waste of time anyway... i mean really, couldn't they just chuck us fresh medical students straight into the hospital to learn? Didn't some smartarse education minister want to include more hands on learning in the education system? We really should be learning straight out of live bodies rather than those cadavers... they don't even move! There nothing more educational than having arterial spray shoot you directly in the eye, that way you will know NEVER to cut that thing again ;)
Anyway back to today... After exams i went to lunch and shopping. Which may sound pretty average, but the more i think about it the weirder it is. Since starting uni i have experienced a significant change of past times. I used to get drunk and play cards, but now shopping... and going to trendy restraunts are the norm. The thought dawned on me... Am i turning METROSEXUAL? To all you ladies out there... there may be nothing wrong with that, but rest assured... it freaks the living SHIT out of me. So in a vain attempt to explain myself, and in a moment of devine inspiration, another thought occured to me (this was one of those light bulb moments where you that little light in your brain suddenly switches on and you think "oh shit that's the answer"): "There are a lot of girls doing med" OK so it doesn't sound so enlightening, but let me explain...
Well, in those dark pre-pubescent years, the girls hated me (maybe it had something to do with the fact that i gave them shit on the rare occasion that i paid attention to them?) During those years of high school... my brain grew a little, and somewhere in the middle i realised... "hey chicks are appealing" So for the rest of those years, i tried (without avail) to find myself a piece of the "action" (that was so excessively hyped up by movies and friends) between passing school. Come uni however, a sudden increase in numbers (and proportion) of females suddenly made my search a lot easier. Hence, due to some subconscious decision i made in my late high school years, i have tended to associate with ladies. This plus the fact that i now realise there are A LOT of openly gay/metrosexual people around uni have contributed to the way i behave... and today i made the critical observation.
So in order to combat this, i have prescribed myself some treatment/tasks over the holidays:
1. Get a haircut - yeah... it doesn't pay to leave your hair out... it makes you look like a sissy
2. Learn to drive (a manual) - this has a lot of benefits including: freedom, a method of picking up more chicks etc. more importantly though, only real men know how to drive a manual
3. Watch the Hulk - nothing like a mean green thing bashing stuff up to restore masculinity
4. Reacquaint myself with the good old days - get drunk (on scotch, the MAN drink) and play poker
5. Run a lot - aside from the benefit of burning the stores of adipose i have clogged in my arteries... i heard it increases testosterone production (the MAN hormone)
6. Watch football - the MANLY game
7. Act like a general slob - eat cosntantly, restore bad table manners, fart and belch. after all... a METROSEXUAL would NEVER do that right?