Things keep flitting in my mind of things I should get or save for so I decided to use the awesome system that Sawaki Sensei taught us back at MacRob.

Urgent and Important
*Keep active, healthy and losing weight.
*Keep cool this summer, try not to lose temper in the heat x_x
*F I N D W O R K.
*Mobile Handset - though it's not hugely important, it is urgent.
*Take driving lessons with RACV
*Call and enquiry about name change laws/save up monies

Urgent and Unimportant
*Sata HDD Case - so I can remove the anime from two old internal HDDs
*External HDD - my one is nearly filled and need more space for ^
*Commission from Ravenskar - revamping an old roleplay character to get back into drawing and writing
*Commission from Heidi - as above ^
*Bedside table - apparently getting one from one of my sisters
*Bedside lamp - apparently getting an old one from my Mom's *skeptical*

Important but not Urgent
*Enrol into Uni/Buy books
*Bookcase/shelves - out of space to store books
*Think about Uni subjects

Not Important and not Urgent
*Find a good ballroom/latin dancing studio somewhere
*Phone for my room - speaker phone is a must, cordless is a plus but otherwise cheapest possible
*Small TV for room :O
*Sell DS to upgrade to DSi - ...I can't remember why...

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, been bogged down with sleepless nights, WoW grinds cos of the stupid new patch, Christmassy preps for people not in my family and all that jazz.

Now that the gals are on holiday break, YAY time to catch up. Spent a few hours at Ruu's house with Fuu and Choompz on Saturday night, going to Fuu's this Saturday, seeing Avatar in 3D I think on Tuesday and also catching up with Jacq that day. Yet funni enough no Christmas Day or NYE plans...but saving monies is good.

So my Mom now has my mobile handset, mainly for my benefit beause I didn't see the point of her having a phone that not only could she unlock the handset, let alone make calls and read mail. So we went shopping for a new/secondhand one for me. Now I don't believe I ask for that much but buying an outright handset for cheap is saddening.

My budget is no more than $250. I'm looking for an outright phone set, and I'm slightly bias towards Nokias and Sony Ericssons having used them and liked them in the past. I also prefer flip/slide handsets as I like avoiding randomly dialing people when I throw phone in my bag. It doesn't need to have a snazzy camera, or mp3 player, or really any major features. In fact the only thing I would like it to have if possible is the ability to have mp3 ringtones and change of themes/personlised wallpapers - so internal memory >10mb, and prefably an Micro SD card slot. Other than that, minimalistic and black ;3

The few I already have in mind are the Sony Ericsson C903, Sony Ericsson G705, Nokia 3600 and the Nokia 5530. Anyone used any of these that has any comments?

Just a reminder for anyone who wants a Christmas Card from me to remember to post here.

Write your email address in the post if you want me to send you my address details.

I'm doing the cards this weekend so please make sure you reply ASAP so I can get them sent to arrive on time!

Really frustrating that Icecrown had to come out this week when I'm still so behind in my shows after not having decent Internet for a month. I've now set up my netbook next to my PC to watch stuff while I'm doing random heroics for badges and achievements.

Christmas plans and NYE plans are still up in the air at the moment ;x Don't really want to spend it with family.

To continue with my reach out to friends and reconnect project, I will be sending out personalised Christmas cards this year!

So please comment with your details below. All comments will be screened.

Although this is not required at all, if you put your email address into your comment, I will email you my address in return.

>;p

Got Ruu's birthdai present ;D


MEME~
10 years ago:
1. I was 12
2. Had only seen Sailormoon, Pokémon, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Battle Angel Alita in terms of Anime.
3. My only year I was allowed to take Piano class. Grade 3 Piano, Grade 1 theory lol.
4. Library and Computer Room were my homes at school. I knew the librarians well and I was often recommending them books and vice versa.
5. I collected lots of midis, from games and anime ;3

5 years ago:
1. I was 17, and in Year 12.
2. Probably was one of my laziest years if not the laziest of my High School life.
3. I was IT Co-Captain at MacRob, in charge of the design, construction and maintenance of the school's public website.
4. Although I was already involved with my House's stage crew (for House Drama and Chorales, was Stage Crew Manager in Year 12 too), I really wanted to be as involved as I could in my final year so I did something every House event ie. Swimming Rep, Athletics Rep.
5. Having been brought up Buddhist, and attending Year 7 & 8 at a Catholic school, I'm kinda mixed feelings in regards to religion. I went on a camp with a group called Friends For Christ with 'Noa and it was AWESOME fun and really really eye opening

1 year ago:
1. I was living in a tiny place called Merrigum.
2. I was missing my friends a ton.
3. I wasn't in touch with my parents.
4. Hadn't watched or read Twilight yet ;o
5. Hadn't watched anime in forever...


Yesterday:
1. Went to the City in search for Ruu's birthdai present
2. Now has a double bed in her room! (instead of her single, with plastic still covering the base so it squeaks and rustles
3. Surprise visit from Ruu who had an unexpected afternoon off
4. Was woken up at 5am this morning by Mom starting the washing machine
5. Killed some bosses in Icecrown Citadel on WoW

5 snacks I like:
1. Nori snacks
2. Unsalted nuts, particularly macadamias and cashews
3. Anything with tuna or salmon in it
4. Mini quiches
5. Potato Chips


5 songs I know all the words to:
Blah I know lots of songs~


If I had a million dollars:
1. Pay off all my debts. ie. HECS
2. Buy a car my Mom, something for Dad and something for Anita
3. Buy myself a media centre *_* new PC, surround sound system, PS3
4. But myself a house
5. Invest the rest into real estate


5 things I would never wear: (except if required for cosplay)
1. Boob tube
2. Ballroom Gown
3. Hot pants
4. Anything bright pink
5. Leopard Print


Favourite TV shows:
This changes fairly often...
1. So You Think You Can Dance US
2. Glee
3. How I Met Your Mother
4. Criminal Minds
5. Merlin


5 bad habits:
1. Spending too much time on WoW instead of other hobbies
2. Sleeping in
3. Rant or deviate onto many other topics when I talk, then often forgetting my point
4. Worry and stress over everything
5. Lapse ocassionally back into biting my nails in stress


5 biggest joys:
1. My friends
2. Eleison
3. Leilani, my PC
4. Feeling a lot more comfortable with myself and confident
5. Mm, I guess that I'm on good terms with my parents again. They are fairly into their years


5 fictional people I want to date:
Doumyouji Tsukasa. Confident, little slow at the smallers things in life, willing to stand up for his beliefs and his girl. There was another fictional character that had these traits that I loved but I can't remember who now...

ADSL2 Getto!

So I can't really feel the difference between ADSL and ADSL2. >_> <_< But this is hella better than Optus Wireless Broadband bullshit. I'm a little over halfway over through Project Runway Season 5. I really want to get the earlier seasons, I'm grr that I missed the start then you know me and chronologic orderness. Redcliffe (Night) battle is tough! ;o; Incoming patch 3.3 to WoW. Lagger day tomolo. Tomolo going out for #Day of finding Ruu's birthdai presents so I'll be in the City.

Lol, and then no one replies to the long emo post.

On Thursday, I went over to Ruu's to take advantage of her week off by having a sleepover. I watched her finish Assassin's Creed 2, which spurred me to borrow her copy of Assassin's Creed. It kinda reminds me of Fable, just a lot more killing than I'm used to ;o. We played Mario Kart on Wii (to "help" me get the drift of recentering the steering wheel after a turn, something I'm not good at), and Mario Galaxy which was fun too.

We had many many facepalm, klutz sort of moments throughout the couple of days, but then again I guess that's why we click together. xD~

Home bound, I had the first two Dresdin File books, Neverwinter Nights 2 (+2 expansions), Dragon Age + Guide book and Assassin's Creed with me. I've been playing Dragon Age quite a lot since xD~

I'm really happi with my initial group. Alistair is a bit thick but kind hearted and morally good. Morrigan is great fun, though I've had to lie here and there since she's not really into helping and caring for others, love and family and that sort of thing. Dog (who I've named Tank) is soooo cute >;D I thought I'd keep him until second bard came around, Leliana is a tiny bit loopy and zealous for me, but Wynne is just such a damn good healer *grumble* I've had to take her along. I went to see the Tower first (I sided with the Templars), but I still don't know how to get my Spirit Healer unlocked ;o; I'm now up to the Redcliffe Night attack.

In other news ADSL2 is predicted to be up and running tomolo, which I really hope so because it is greatly rumoured that Icecrown is releasing this week on WoW. I hope not since the Officers are in disaray. We've promoted up two new Officers but neither is quite like Peggy who has a great interest in reading up strats for new bosses like I usually am, though lack of decent Internet has held me back too.

By the way, EB is having a one day Online sale. Free shipping (or so it says) and there's some good prices on a bunch of games, go check it out if you're interested.

Pre-ordered my Eminence CD/DVD late last week ;o. It feels forever since I've seen one of their concerts but funnily enough I haven't missed much since they've been fairly quiet. It looks like Hiro has got some amazing deals to be selling the Blizzard CDs on the Eminence store, and featuring so many musical pieces from US games on the latest CD. I look forward to listening/watching it.

I am sure to the bone, without a doubt that I'm an introvert. Being with people drains me of a lot of energy and I definitely need time to alone to recuperate.

That being said my greatest fear in the world is being alone. This is probably followed by someone walking out (like mid conversation or during a fight/discussion). I don't react well to people yelling at me either, but then again who doesn't?

I've always felt a bit lonely. I lost my first best friend because she became besties with someone else in...Grade 3? My family consisted of parents that never showed me affection, "encouraged" me by putting me down (to make sure I didn't grow a big ego and continued to work harder), older half sisters that envied me and couldn't relate to me, and Anita who mostly teased me (in a caring-ish way until she moved out and we grew close). I switched Primary school mid Term 3 in Grade 4 and got blended into a group of girls that although were definitely my friends, were never that close. Primary School is like that, close on the surface. "The first one of us who gets their period has to tell us what it's like okies?!?!?!?" And of course no one spoke.

At my first High School, although I was friendly with most people, I was definitely an odd ball. I made a few beautiful friends in Jacq, Krissie and Kerry though, before I was ripped away to change schools by my parents. They had suggested I take the MacRob test in 8th grade, no pressure, let's just see how you go, you don't have to move. And of course when I got in, they forced me to move. "WELL, you made it in now! You HAVE to go!" I hated to be torn away from finally making some friends that I thought could be life long.

However, for the rest of my life, I will always appreciate and thank my parents that the best thing they ever gave me was forcing me to go to MacRob. MacRob was a slap in my face. I couldn't do a 1 month assignment the night before and get an A anymore. I had to work hard, with all my might and even when I did I only ever managed mid pack scores. But it was MacRob that shaped me. Made me work hard for what I wanted, introduced me not only to some close friends but my best friend/my soulmate, let me envelope myself in clubs and activities that made me happi and teach me about leadership, growing up and the great world outside ahead of us.

That is of course all in reflections. MacRob was definitely a part of my darker years, leading to my breakdown in Year 12. In about year 10, I decided to make a nickname for myself, something unique that really suited me. So I created mayoukoneko. In Japanese it means Lost Kitten. Lost was the best way I could describe how I always felt growing up. Not feeling like I could fit in anywhere, that no one wanted to stop and share moments with me. Kitten because I've always loved cats and feel that they represent me well (and by Vietnamese Zodiac I'm a cat ;3) and definitely without the confidence or strength of a fully fledged cat, only a kitten.

Another very bad habit of mine I developed very early on in High School. Due to all the conditioning I received at home, I had seriously thought I was inferior to everyone. Everytime I wrote "I", I spelt it "i". Man that got me in a lot of trouble in English. I would get papers back with a red mark through every single one of my "i"s. I always used Capital letters for other people's names but never for my own. There was a strange period where I suffixed everyone's name with -sama too. @_@ Over regaining a lot of self belief and confidence in the last few years (and also filling out a lot of formal documents and letters like Résumés), I've making sure I've re-corrected that bad habit. It all seems a bit silly now but it's really hard to not listen, be affected by things your family tell you, repeatedly.

Even with Ruth though, I can honestly say, I didn't really fully trust her until...mm maybe a good 6 years, definitely after our years spent in High School. I always just called her a close friend. I didn't want to go down the BFF line. I guess my experience of losing my childhood Bestie had scarred me into investing myself that far.

I find it a constant battle within myself. Too scared of being hurt and desperately seeking love and confirmation of existence. When I was in early High School, I used to periodically call up all six/seven girls in the Primary School group I was in to catch up. Most didn't want to talk, and those that did eventually weren't interested either. Ever since then I feel really odd contacting people that I haven't talked to for a period of time. At the back of my head I keep thinking, what if they don't want to talk to me? What if they're just trying to be polite but aren't interested?

So after isolating myself from the public for many years it's kinda weird resurfacing. The MacRob bunch are all spread and in Uni, the Manifest/MOC bunch I almost don't recognise anyone...Everyone has their lives to live and some people move on and don't look back. I haven't been around for people who could have been in need while I was gone and that doesn't sit comfortably with me. Not that I'm in need now, but I feel awkward trying to get in touch to people having seemingly turned my back on them for so long.

So I am humbled to have got replies as like those from Mark's and Chi's. It makes me feel lucky and blessed that these people still remember me and perhaps think of me fondly. It gives me strength to continue fighting to reconnect with the many who have touched my life in the past.

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out. (:



FIRST NAME
English name is Tina. I'm the only one of my sister and six half sisters that was given an English name at birth (Anita officially took her name during High School). It's strange because I don't relate to this name very well anymore. Most of my friends call me a variation of the name, like Tee or something, so when I actually hear the name "Tina", I oddly enough hear my family, particularly my parents say it from my childhood years. It brings back a lot of suppressed memories and makes me feel extremely uncomfortably.

While I was up living in the land of Whoop Whoop, I had adopted the name Leila there. I am seriously considering changing my name formally to that.

Quynh is my Vietnamese name, Phuong Quynh, Phuong being my Mom's first name. It's supposed to be calmness and serenity...or some shit. No one calls me this. In fact when members of my family hear it, they'll like...who?


AGE

22, 23 in less than a couple of months.


LOCATION

Back with my parents for now, though only my Mom is present as my Dad is in Vietnam. I'm nervous about being back here. I don't consider it "home" only as "my parent's place." With my parents continue to get into their years though, I guess it's good that I'm trying to reforge good relationships with them now.


OCCUPATION

Looking for work zzz. Hoping to go back to Uni next year to kinda pick up where I left off. Will be looking for part time work while I'm studying too D:.


PARTNER

Not at the moment. Trying to get the rest of my life back on track so I guess I'm not too concerned about it right now.


KIDS

One day. My eldest nephew is in year 12 next year. Like holy crap!


BROTHERS/SISTERS

I have 6 half sisters: Hue, Lan, Phuong, Thanh, Thuy & Linh (fraternal twins) ranging from mid 40s to 30s. I get along with them in varying degrees. To all of them, I've always been a babysitter. I used to babysit my nieces and nephews a lot. At times they've been very jealous of me because of what I have, calling me "spoilt" when they don't factor the generation gap between us. It would be like me complaining that my nieces and nephews get more stuff than me -_-;; All my sisters are married to Vietnamese guys. This doesn't bother me, just I don't really see myself hanging out with the Viet crowd much and following down that same path

Anita, is my full sister who is the one I'm always talking about if I mention "my sister." She's 29 and works high up in Accenture where she has been working at since being offered a job before she finished University. She's married (to a Viet guy!) who doesn't like me much due to some slack behavior when I was in High School when he was tutoring me in Math. She has a beautiful young daughter called Kaitlyn. I always looked up to Anita, we had similar tastes and growing up we oftened teased and bickered together. When she married and moved out, we became a lot closer.


PETS

No pets currently and god damnit my parents won't let me get a kitten. We used to always have dogs. I had fish periodically during my teenage years that just always ended up dying with their bellies floating to the surface ;o;


THREE TO FIVE THINGS GOING ON IN MY LIFE

*Applying to Uni *crosses fingers*
*Trying to find work ;o;
*Getting fit and losing weight
*Trying to reconnect with friends who I haven't spoken to in years
*


PARENTS

This is a lot different to how I would have written it a few years ago. A lot of it is what Anita has noticed over the years and through talking to me, I've grown to see how true it is.

My Mom doesn't have a self identity. She only relates to being someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's cook. When she talks to you, she will often try to act and talk the way she thinks you want to hear. She also often tries to bring her stresses and worries to light to gain sympathy and understanding from people. In doing so, nearly every issue that gets brought up gets centred around her.

I'll give you an example. Since I've moved back to Melbourne, I've put on some extra weight. I'm very unhappi with this because I'm young and trying to get my life back on track, I want to have more stamina and energy to do everything I want to do! So before I stepped into my parents' home, I said to Mom very seriously, "I know, I know. But I'm very serious about losing some weight and getting healthier, you do not have to tell me. Leave me to my own devices." But of course she didn't. Everytime she spoke to me, she'd mention it, eyeing me up and down. To the point I lost it and I said to her, "Look can you ease up on the lecturing about my weight. I already said that I'm completely commmited to losing the weight, I don't need you to tell me every 5 minutes. I don't need you to constantly eye me up and down and make me feel like an ugly blob that's getting nowhere." Then she burst into tears and yelled back, "How do you think I feel?!?!?! I only tell you because I care about you and love you. I look at you and I feel so bad, it makes me so sad. etc etc." I was like...uh....huh?

Anita tells me, Dad is very very different to who I think he is. I remember my Dad as someone who was physically, mentally and emotionally abusive to me for most of my life, mostly revolving around my studies. Neither my Mom or my Dad showed much affection to each other or the family. My parents never came to talk to me about anything that wasn't school related. I had to ask where I came from to Anita (who replied I was bought from the Reject Shop, which I took very seriously for many years). When I was younger, my Mom had often said if I got into trouble or anything, we had to speak to her or my Dad would get really angry. So Anita and I did that. Since getting married, Anita and my Dad have been really close. They've talked a lot about the past and various incidents and choices that have caused Anita to truly hate Dad and have now come to resolved them all. She was saying Dad was asking her why she never came to talk to him when she was younger, and she told him the story about Mom warning us not to tell Dad stuff. He got upset and said she should have come and talked to him. Anita was like, "YOU'RE the Father. You need to reach out to your children, it's your job."

Anita doesn't get on with Mom much anymore, gets frustrated with her too often. I don't really hate Mom, I feel sorry for her. I can't change her. So I make time to make small talk with her to make her feel wanted and needed. We fight a lot, and in a way I can see that perhaps I fought with my Mom a lot more than my Dad in the past than I realised. Unlike Anita, I never hated my Dad. I understood that he was always trying to teach me and show me the path that he thought was the best for me. Unfortunately, some of his choices, and particularly the way he communicated with me just didn't really sit well. Like Anita, I never felt that Dad ever tried to reach out and find out much about me and who I was, only ever caring about my studies. But it's mainly a communication thing. I know he had a tough life and the war did him in pretti badly, I just hope in the future we can find a level of compromise so we can talk together sensibly.


CLOSE FRIENDS

Mm this list has been shortened due to me, well being antisocial for one for the last few years and moving to Whoop Whoop didn't help either. First and foremost there is Ruth, who I couldn't live without. Fuu is also some very close to me. Pass there are the people I used to be oh so close with that I want to really reconnect with. Like Jacq, Krissie, Kerry, Anna, Sefie, Aashish, Nana, 'Noa, Natty, Jeni, Kath and Mizuki just to name a few >w

Think I'm over the flu but the weather has caused my asthma to flare up.

Mister Sparky came over todai and now I have a phone socket for my ADSL as well as a phone socket for the old phone line in my room, yay! Due to all the hacking and coughing I've been doing during the night the last couple of nights, I was pretti buggered after he left and have been sleeping since. I feel a lot better after the nap ;D

TPG SIM Card is home so I'm just waiting for my Telstra SIM to stop functioning before I switch it over. Remember I'm keeping my #...which most of you don't know @_@

I've been spending a lot of time cleaning up my room, carting childhood crap downstairs into the bungalow, countless fucking Math books that just keep coming out of nowhere @_@. At the moment, I'm sleeping in my Dad's bed in the next room because my room still has the single bed from my teenage years. It's on wheels and the base is still covered in plastic, so everytime I roll, the bed rolls and the plastic makes plastic noise. So I asked if I could get another bed, which my Mom is cool with. I think I might just be getting Dad's bed, I'm not sure.

Ruu and I helped Fuu with some last bits and pieces of her move on Sunday. I accumulated two boxes of stuff from her, some Japanese stuff from Uni, some piano books since I want to start getting back into both again. Making space for this stuff reminded me that I have quite a few things that my parents put into storage in the bungalow when they were cleaning my room while I wasn't living here, like my big Atashi plushie ;o;. Think I won't do that until Dad gets home from VN since he wants to really go through it, get rid of stuff that no one wants (there's stuff there from my sisters...like over a decade worth of stuff down there).

I've also been working hard on organising and filing all my "data." My new 1.5TB is just over 2/3s full, moving some old CDs and DvDs data onto my PC, good DvDs into CD wallets, shuffling my stuff around on my computer so it's ordered well and can easily be found. Also been throwing a few dozen CDs (and Ruu's new music) into iTunes to plump up my playlist of with some new music. I need some new anime music, open to suggestions. Well Japanese music in general. Anyone know where to find some Arashi albums/singles?

Went with Mom DFO Moorabbin last week and I got a new wallet/purse thing ;D I haven't had a wallet for ages.

Mom is going to take me shopping for a new phone at some point since she took mine. I was confuzzled why she had a handset that she didn't know how to use so I offered my Nokia 6085. Open it to talk...close it to hang up. Tada! I'm using a Samsung E2510 at the moment, which I'm not as fond as my Nokia because it doesn't have a window at the front to tell me to the time. In fact, when I'm receiving a call, there are no lights shining whatsoever, you have to rely solely on the ringtone.

Changed my preferences this morning on VTAC. Monash BITS as first preference. I've had a lot of time to consider it and I think I want to do this degree and try to get into the Game Industry. If I don't make it in, I'll do another similar course, perhaps at Swinburne and try to transfer over after 1st year.

JobSeekers appointment tomolo nice and early.

Although I didn't feel the injection, I felt the aftermath. Been sick since about Saturday, lots of phlegm stuck in my throat, haven't been able to speak because of it. It's just starting to clear up now...

Haven't been on much cos lol, I'm on overuse of the Internet...roughly 300mb over now and I think Optus wireless overcharge 6c per Mb so I think I'm roughly already over $20 in excess charges. My new phone line is in, I've got a Sparky coming on Tuesday to make a new socket for it, and it seems like SuperNerd are going to take 2-3 weeks to get my ADSL2 running, apparently they need to send a techie out too. So God damnit, this stupid Internet.

Signed up for TPG's mobile 49 plan which is $20 for $300 worth of calls and sms on no contract. I'll be bringing my old # with me, though this # is different to what I had when I was living in Melbourne back then. Email poke me if you want the number.

Still no luck finding work. Hella depressed.

WoW is even more depressing, so much for be relaxing and taking me away from the world...

I watched the first season of Code Geass. I quite like it. I mean it's not amazingly fantastic...I think why I'm so drawn to it is because Lulu reminds me sooooo much of Laito from Death Note. So charismatic, egotistical, it amuses me. I can just sit there imagine Lulu waving a pen around dramatically and furiously ;3 lol.

Saw New Moon with my cousin Stef. It was okies, better than the first but still felt too fast compared to the slow and depressing consuming feel of the book. Was distracting to have girls squealing and screaming (and Stef rolling her eyes and poking me saying "This is ridICulous") everytime someone was half naked on screen, which was fairly often.

It's been a few weeks since I've been able to watch all my usual shows too ;o; Top Gear has started up again (!! I was thinking bout heading up to Sydney to see the Live show in February...if I can afford it then) and I keep seeing Glee ads and I can't watch it it ;o; (WoW Raid time...no TV in room).

I had an interesting chat with Aashish yesternigh. It was spurred on because I was talking about how fond I was of Criminal Minds, the TV show. I was saying that if I could get rid of certain traits, bad habits etc I think that I would really really enjoy being a profiler. I was telling him that when I was younger, I really wanted to be a psychologist. What appealed to me was sitting there and thinking from other people's points of views, something that I've always enjoyed and always done from a very young age. I like to think that because of this I tend to be a lot more forgiving to people due to empathy, don't rarely hold grudges (which I find a serious waste of energy in life). So with that in mind, profiling to me would be an amazing career, to be able to piece together bits and pieces of facts and to put yourself in a person's place to save people's lives ;o. That would be awesome! There is the fact that I am rather lazy when it comes to boring, repetative work (like homework) and am extremely squeamish to blood/injuries/corpses etc. Aashish kinda nudged me to think about Psych though, saying he could see me in it and it's not too hard to get into. I'm rather anxious about it though, I don't know what finding work with a Psych degree would be like. I really want to make sure I have work at the end of my degree

that's enough from me for now ;3

45 minute wait. 2 minute appointment. I don't miss Springvale doctors. Though Aircon in there was nice

H1N1 vaccine GETTO! Didn't even feel it.

Call Optus. YES, YOU MOST CERTAINLY CAN GET CABLE. *hangs up*

So, I had a long chat with Anita and I've come to the conclusion that I need to get another phone line at my house to set up Internet. Now I'm really unsure what these "Naked" plans mean but I have been recommended to look at these. I'm kinda freaking out how much the connection will cost me to make another phone line. @_@

Any recommendations for ISPs for Naked plans? and can anyone explain what they entail simply?

So pissed off. I got the okies from Anita to get Internet.

Call TPG. ...Is this home number active? (yes duh) They say I can't get ADSL with them.
Call Supernerd. Is this home number active? (yes duh) They say I've got fibre optics and can't get ADSL.

So now I'm lamenting that I have to go back to Cable. Only two places offer Cable, Telstra and Optus. Both charge a lot, both include upload and download for Data. So eventually I get over it and say that I'll go with Optus cos our home phone is with them, and I've got Cable with them 4-5 years ago when I was still living with my parents.

Call Optus. Cable? Yes! Bundled with your home phone? Not a problem! ...but we can't do it unless we have approval from the account holder (Dad, in Vietnam, for the next two months). So they suggest I get a mobile plan with them to bundle with the Internet instead....but I don't have a CC or Debit Card...So they tell me to go to an Optus Store

Hurry to Optus Store. It's 4.10ish. Your home phone is with Telstra. Uh, no it isn't...it's been with Optus. We pay you...monthly @_@. You can't get Cable. But I had Cable 4 years ago? Well, you can't get Cable. Many calls and half an hour later, you can't get Cable, but if you change you phone number, you can get ADSL.

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My sister rather heavily suggested I look into the Monash courses too ;o; where I'll know no one...

They are as follows, in no particular order:

Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems of which the Majors are Applications Development and Networks; Business Systems; Information Management; Information Systems; Multimedia Applications; Multimedia Games Development; Net-Centric Computing; Security; and Systems Development

Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering

Bachelor of Computer Science

Bachelor of Software Engineering

Bachelor of Multimedia and Digital Arts

Any ideas? Preferences? Comments? These courses have me a lot more lost than Swinburne's...

Thank you for the people who have already commented on my previous post, I really value the opinions of people who know a bit more about the field. Please keep them coming!

My new question I wanted to pose, is what is the difference between Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (Software Development) and a Bachelor of Science (Professional Software Development). There are a lot of core subjects that overlap, then a few that vary.

Bachelor of Software Development - scroll down to you get to the Units of Study
BICT (Software Development - scroll down to Units of Study for Software Development Major

Sorry if I'm repeating myself, I'm just really not sure where the differences are, and if one degree could be better than the other for me

Cheers again

So talking about Uni studies, it's about 3 weeks off Change of Preference. I kinda just hastily threw together a list of 4 into VTAC since late apps were deadlined on Friday (with a $90 processing fee...sigh).

What I want from the course...well obviously at the end of it I want work! O_O~ There's a lot of areas that I hold interest in computing, mainly web design and production, multimedia and programming. I guess I would like to either find work programming, software testing, website design and production or game development. I was concerned about going into a straight degree of web design or multimedia because I'm not sure how readily available work will be when I finish. Finally, I don't exactly understand the Minor/Advanced Minor/Elective Plus Minor setup at Swinburne, but if I can study Japanese somewhere in my course, that's a plus!

So I'm mainly looking at:

Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology - In this degree, I can choose to major in one of the four areas: Software Technology, Business Computing, Network Design and Security, or Multimedia and Games Development. I'm leaning towards Multimedia and Games Dev or Software Tech. Side note: HIT1301 Algorithmic Problem Solving sounds really boring.

Bachelor of Computing - This one seems like a really freelance version of the above degree.

Bachelor of Science (Software Development) - More concentrated from Software Dev POV?

If anyone has any comments about these courses or this field of study in general, I would love to hear from you.

So I haven't written in a long time but I will definitely be posting more from now on.

I'm back in Melbourne now! Back to living with my parents, trying to re-establish good connections with them, which is really quite terrifying considering the amount of mental and emotional blocks come up in my mind when I think about my family and my time living at home. It's only my Mom at home at the moment, my Dad is in Vietnam for 3 months. Mom will be going there for a month in January.

She's being really kind and always asking me to get anything I need/want. There's one thing that she's put on me on hold for. My 2nd sister signed my Dad to a 24 month BS mobile wireless broadband connection that costs like $36 per month for 2gb of data. GOD SHOOT MEH. So we're still stuck under contract for another 5 months but thankfully she's okied me to get another broadband connection, she just wants to talk to Anita bout it first. Which is cool, I emailed Anita herself to ask her about it. However Anita just had an operation on Tuesday and has been very very slow on the mend so Mom still hasn't asked her.

The internet deal I'm looking at is from TPG. 100gb (50peak/50offpeak) for $50 at ADSL2 speed here. What do you guys think? Does anyone have any experience, comments about TPG?

The only thing that really bothers me, is literally every time she talks to me, she has to mention me doing some exercise or something because of my weight. Yes I'm extremely unhappi with my weight and am taking steps towards getting fit and healthy but do I need reminders every 5 minutes? @_@ The last few years I just didn't have the motivation to keep active and now I'm a rolling tub of lard x_x;; Ganbaru~~

I've applied to Swinburne Uni for next year for either Bachelor Information and Communication Technology or Bachelor of Software Development. The fun waiting game of round 1 offers in January.

I'm trying to find some work until them but it's rather frustrating when I haven't been employed before. I'm mainly looking at data entry/office assistant sort of jobs at the moment because I guess with my pc experience I would be okies there.

With no downloading powa, I've been rewatching some old anime. Watched up to episode 23 of Fruits Basket before I realised I was missing the last two episodes ;o; I love Tooru. She is definitely one of my biggest role models. Watched Hagaren up to episode 20 when I realised 21 was missing -_-. So now I'm just ladida-ing making sure I watch things that are complete.

Things I want/Goals for the immediate future:
1. Better. Internet.
2. Uni offer >w<
3. Get fit and lose weight
4. Meet up and hang out with friends
5. Work? @_@
6. New External HDD...The one I bought this week is nearly full >_>
7. PC Upgrades, Windows 7, maybe some more RAM
8. Photography lessons, short courses

Twilight love~ new WP


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