Waah! My dad got a new phone in Hong Kong! I despise the fact that both my parents have trendier mobile phones than me now!
Well not really. I'm not the sort of person who keeps up with the latest model of phone, although after four years, my Nokia 3315 is starting to feel a little dated. (Poor phone.) Hey, but it still works.
I've also had my current glasses frames since Year 12, so I think it might be time to get new ones...not that they're falling apart or anything (although they did fall apart at AnCon, luckily I packed contacts just in case!), I could probably wear them for a bit longer, until the screw at the side starts coming loose every other day or something...
That's the thing with life these days, you're constantly updating things when you don't really need to, there's a lot of stuff that you could keep using for years and years if there wasn't such thing as "going out of fashion".
Although I am glad that some things do go out of fashion. Corsets are one of them. Women should have the right to breathe as much as men.
And there are some things around the house that we still use that have been around for ages. Like my little pillow filled with down feathers, I've had it since I was one. I guess it's well and truly infested with Vivian germs by now. And I think most of the bed linen we use currently emmigrated with us from Hong Kong. And I have my Dad's copies of the Narnia series, printed in 1978 (except for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which got lost, so I have a new copy of that.)
So there you go. Old things, and new things. I think I'll leave it there.
Monday, July 24, 2006
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006
Beautiful Bruises (yes, there is a picture - you've been warned)
They really should call paintball PAINtball or something.
Firstly, you have to get up at a ridiculous time in the morning to get there by 7:30am after a one and a half hour drive, secondly, it's freezing at that time of day in the winter, and thirdly...well obviously getting hit is painful.
One of the highlights of the early drive on Saturday however, was that crossing the Hawkesbury River was absolutely breathtaking, with mist rising from the water and fog shrouding the early morning sun. We actually stopped and got out to take pictures...well, Sam (the one who wears glasses) who had a camera took pictures, the rest of us just froze while admiring the view....if I can get Sam to send me his pictures I'll post them up. There was a professional photographer on the bridge taking pictures too.
I have to say that paintball was not *quite* as fun as I was expecting it to be...compared to Lazer Zone, I definitely enjoyed Lazer more. Maybe cos I was freezing for the first half of the morning and grumpy from lack of sleep....it did get more enjoyable as the day went along. And getting hit made things more exciting. I didn't really do much in the first game (capture the flag), just spent most of the time hiding behind the barricades haha...but the game where one team goes hiding in the bushes was fun, and so was the one played in the long trench....However getting hit in the mouth by a paintball is not fun...even with the mask, it felt like my lip had been fully busted, but it turned out it was only bleeding very slightly and the rest of the wetness in my mouth was paint. Paintballs don't taste very nice =( At least I didn't accidentally shoot myself in the face like Cecilia, hehehe...
The last lot we played was where you had to shoot the other team's nominated "governor" to win...during the very last game I actually managed to make my way across the playing field to the other team's fortress...took a few shots at the governor, missed, and ran out of bullets. LOL. If only I could aim better. Then I was trying to look for fresh bullets on the ground, actually found one (!), and was going to try again, but got shot in the leg by someone on the other team who finally realised I was there. Owwwww.
And that was the resulting bruise. Nice isn't it? I don't think I've ever had a bruise that big before.
One of the other things about paintball is that you have to keep an eye on the $$$$$$$. At about $20 for 100 paintballs...hrmm, yeah, don't think I'll be going again for a while =P
Firstly, you have to get up at a ridiculous time in the morning to get there by 7:30am after a one and a half hour drive, secondly, it's freezing at that time of day in the winter, and thirdly...well obviously getting hit is painful.
One of the highlights of the early drive on Saturday however, was that crossing the Hawkesbury River was absolutely breathtaking, with mist rising from the water and fog shrouding the early morning sun. We actually stopped and got out to take pictures...well, Sam (the one who wears glasses) who had a camera took pictures, the rest of us just froze while admiring the view....if I can get Sam to send me his pictures I'll post them up. There was a professional photographer on the bridge taking pictures too.
I have to say that paintball was not *quite* as fun as I was expecting it to be...compared to Lazer Zone, I definitely enjoyed Lazer more. Maybe cos I was freezing for the first half of the morning and grumpy from lack of sleep....it did get more enjoyable as the day went along. And getting hit made things more exciting. I didn't really do much in the first game (capture the flag), just spent most of the time hiding behind the barricades haha...but the game where one team goes hiding in the bushes was fun, and so was the one played in the long trench....However getting hit in the mouth by a paintball is not fun...even with the mask, it felt like my lip had been fully busted, but it turned out it was only bleeding very slightly and the rest of the wetness in my mouth was paint. Paintballs don't taste very nice =( At least I didn't accidentally shoot myself in the face like Cecilia, hehehe...
The last lot we played was where you had to shoot the other team's nominated "governor" to win...during the very last game I actually managed to make my way across the playing field to the other team's fortress...took a few shots at the governor, missed, and ran out of bullets. LOL. If only I could aim better. Then I was trying to look for fresh bullets on the ground, actually found one (!), and was going to try again, but got shot in the leg by someone on the other team who finally realised I was there. Owwwww.
And that was the resulting bruise. Nice isn't it? I don't think I've ever had a bruise that big before.
One of the other things about paintball is that you have to keep an eye on the $$$$$$$. At about $20 for 100 paintballs...hrmm, yeah, don't think I'll be going again for a while =P
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Nooooo...the poor guitars!!!
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/video/default.htm
Click on "Play Latest Highlights", then "Rockstars Famous Face Off".
I've watched all the videos on that page now...they're funniest thing ever =D
Click on "Play Latest Highlights", then "Rockstars Famous Face Off".
I've watched all the videos on that page now...they're funniest thing ever =D
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