Ready to be chopped into pieces...

You know the scene in action movies/cartoons where the good guy/hero is captured by the bad dude and then strapped onto some sort of conveyance belt ever so tightly and is moving towards the point where they get chopped up or something? I feel exactly like that right now (except the good guy/hero bit).

*sigh*

Life Skill #234423 - How to change a car tyre

So after 4 years of driving, I got to change a car tyre for the very first time and it's actually not as hard as I thought it would be. The Castro site has a pretty good guide on how to do it and includes a flash demo too which is good because sometimes you need pictures to go with instructions.

So yeh, this morning I went to West Ryde to change the rear left tyre of our Corolla. My sister took the car to finalize the hiring of West Ryde Hall for her combine 21st party this weekend and noticed the tyre got punctured. When I got there I drove the car to a vistor parking spot of this unit cos it's a flat surface. Anyway, just before I changed the tyre, this old man approached me. He looked to be the unit's residential gardener and was frustrated because he tried to put this garden tool together but the screwdriver on his pocket knife wouldn't work. He asked whether I have a screwdriver on me and I actually grabbed a few on my way out of the house. So I helped him and he was so happy he gave me his pocket knife (After chucking it to the ground out of frustration - what a nut). Of course I'm gonna clean it with disinfectant before I use it.

Downtown - Japanese comedy show

10mins of absolute laughter. ROFL!!

4 weeks to go

4 weeks, that's how much time I have left to do thesis. last night (or this morning) I slept at 5am and the night before 4am. Oh man, I'm gonna be so whacked out over the next month >.< On top of thesis I have:

~2 Java labs for network management
~project management seminar (wk 13) and report (wk 14)
~tele systems 2 group assignment (due around wk 13) and a presentation of the assignment if unlucky enough to be chosen by lecturer
~did I mention thesis?

After week 14 comes exams! The provisional timetable came out this morning and it looks pretty good:

12/6-15/6: Stuvac
19/6: Project Management @ 2-5pm
29/6: Tele Systems 2 @ 2-5pm
30/6: Network Management @ 2-5pm

At least all the harder subejcts are at the backend of the exam period and all 3 are in the afternoon (good for all night cram sessions).

On a different note, got a reply from the one and only grad program (SKM) I've applied so far. They said:

We have received a large response to this opportunity and are currently in the process or reading, sorting and assessing applications.

We anticipate our shortlisting process will commence soon. Interviews will be at our offices in St Leonards and offers forwarded to successful candidates shortly after this.

"Large response"? That's not good...Oh well, expecting the reject email to come any day now...

http://?????.lumini.org

What should I call it? Jeff? Jkfkam? Kogster? Thanks to Sam for purchasing the lumini.org domain name though. I'll figure out later how to make use of this cyberspace 'land'. Maybe another blog, a photo gallery, whatever....RIGHT AFTER THESIS (and exams too).

Human Domino Effect