Aha! It's been a painful 3 years of university and I'm finally finished. Doing an honours year next year, so not that through with uni yet. But over these 3 years of uni, a lot of memories will be stored away, locked up and thrown somewhere in the garage until they are needed again.

 

I remember quite vividly, in my first year of uni. I had physics lab with a guy named "Henry" which I knew since high school. And the physics demonstrator was this rally old guy, who talked in a very slow manner - in which old professionals seem to talk. Anywho, the demonstrator was marking off the attendance sheet and his called out "Henry" and my friend amde himself present. The demonstrator had looked taken aback. D:

 

Demonstrator: "What kind of Asian parents would name their Asian son, Henry?!"
Henry: ".... What about the name CHRIS?!"

Me: "...Huh?"

Demonstrator: "Chris is fine... but henry? That's an Anglo name!"

 

I can understand what the demonstrator was getting at, it's quite rare to find an asian named henry, although still not that rare.

 

I am waiting for the day that I find an Asian named Shane. :D 

Oooooh. I've been watching My Boss My hero, thanks to Nazri. :P
It's about a young master Yakuza having to do high school or is father will pass on leadership to his younger brother. So this illiterate 27 y/o Yakuza leader goes to high school and he lives out his high school days, experiences that he's never felt before, bringing him much confusion, agony. However, amongst many more troubling matters, he's able to find happiness in things he's never experiences before... love, friendship, learning or something like that. :P

So anywho, my question to you. How was your high school life? And were you satisfied?

I'm feeling bored and feel like writing. More reflecting. D:
I will start with myself? I was the quiet nerdy type. >_>
It was strange because I transferred into my new high school in term 4 of year7. Previously, I went to an all boys school with a lot of my primary school friends, it wasn't so bad as the all girls sister school was just up the road. It was aprivate school, so we had to wear ties and blazers. I quite enjoyed the activities they held - I won trivia? And weekly prizes? Scored me lots of movie tickets and music vouchers. :D Strangely enough, with no big connection to anime back then - my best subjects were Japanese and Maths.

Then we moved over to Glen Waverley, and I went to Glen Waverley secondary college, it's meant to be an elite government school, well actually it is. I think that's the reason why we moved anyway. And entry into the school was upon selective area meaning - live next to the school and you get in, that's why we're currently sitting on a 800k house.

Anywho, as I said before I transferred during term 4, year 7. Unfortunately glennie only taught chinese, italian and french, so Jap was out of the question. In addition to that, all the chinese classes had been filled. To make it more convenient your form room/home room/class were organised so that students studying the same language would be put in a the same classes. We had a total of 12 classes, 3 italian, 3 french, 3 chinese and 3 advanced chinese. They were out of space in the chinese classes so I was put into a french class. Of course, judging by the amount of chinese classes that were already occupied, it was no doubt that my class was full of aussies studying french. I ended up learning two years of french just like that.

I think my class had 4 asians already in it. I was the only Asian guy. There was another 4 asian girls? if I can remember correctly, and like usual the asians stick together. I quickly made friends with a white guy who was my best friend in which I no longer keep in contact with... and we were friends with the other two asian girls. One of the girls lived kinda close to me, so we walked back together. From what i can remember, she was cool. She had a grudge with another Asian girl in my class, I don't know what it was about, but it was funny to watch at the time. :). She left at the end of the year, to PLC. So all in all, we only knew each other for one term? But that link roke the small group we had? The other asian girl who used to hang with us had to find some other friends, and as year 7's we went back to making friends with the same sex. (cough) sounds wrong)

I think the next three years pretty much stayed the same. I felt the were a lot of distance between me and the guys? Probably because I was asian? I mean, they'd play sports for a team on saturday and go out on sunday? For me? It was more like tuition on saturday  and then tuition on sunday plus being forced to go to relatives place every sunday night...

Once year 11 hit in, we got to choose our subjects. I amde a lot of friends with asians for some reason... similar interests maybe? More understanding of my troubles? I don't know. Something like that. I'd known them through electives in year 9 and 10. It's strange you see. If you walk into an electives class with people you hadn't met before. The asians will go with the asians and the caucasians will go with the caucasians. I was still pretty much the same in year 11. Then in year 12 I started talking more... and before I had time to enjoy it, it was already over. Sad, no?

Less playing. More studying.

 

Went for a movie the other night. I saw Rogue Assassin. Jet Li movie, very Asian. Mando, Canto, Jap and English all in one movie. I think there was like one white guy - and he was the FBI. Anywho, I've never really been that conscious about food additives and artificial colouring/flavouring. It was always for the world of health freaks and their childen. So for the movie - I bought a slurpee. That wasn't ALL - it cost me $5. Probably most expensive one I've ever bought. And like all shitty 7/11 stores, Village cinemas was no different. Out of order slurpee machines that spawned slimy-watery shit not fit to drink.

On the topic of watery-shit. Those crushed ice coffees that they sell in cafe's, I ordered one from coffee HQ in uni the other day. And the girl sold me one that was full on liquid. Of course I knew that it was meant to be icy - so I said: "Isn't this a little bit watery?" She hesitated, and I took the drink anyway. I deeply regret that. Tasted like "cold diabetic coffee piss". Very diluted and very sweet.

 

Anyhow, I'm drinking this slurpee inside the cinema - as u do when you get thirsty. The popcorn never helps, because it's so damn salty and makes you want to drink more, then you have to go to the toilet, bobbing as low as you can in the aisles (so that people recording the movie with a cam don't get heads popping up and down) you sprint as fast as you can to the cinema. And as ALL movies and in process there is ALWAYS one guy at the urinal with you... WHY? Synchronised pissing? How the hell do females get their periods to sychronise?! That's just as bizarre. After you're done with your business, you find out that you've missed the most important part and you can't follow the movie anymore. You keep asking your friend: "Hey, who's he?" He tells you - you don't get it, so you ask him again. Then nosey sons of biatches go "shhhhh!!!" and you sit there not knowing wtf is going on.

 

Luckily for me, I didn't have to go to the toilet even though i drank a large blue slurpee. But when I got home, I wasn't feeling too well. Felt nausea. Felt like throwing up, a bit dizzy and I was tired as hell. Didn't want to sleep because I was afraid that if I did, I would end up puking in bed. And so I stayed awake till I felt better then slept a bit. The slept till morning.

 

As I went to the toilet in the morning I was amazed at my blue poo. To tell you the truth it wasn't blue. It was more a soft teal coloured - compliments to the blue slurpee.

*I* have the worst luck with plug and play hardware.

"Oh really? How so?"

 

Headphone 1.
Well, on my year to china I bought a pair of Logitech headphones. It was a pretty cheap one - cost me like 120RMB which is about AUD 20. I didn't expect it to last very long, but it didn't even last until my expectations. It was one with a plastic band that went around the back of your head, like the ones that the people on help service phones and call centres use - probably because it also had a microphone attached. The microphone broke off in about a week. I tripped over the thing next week, and tore the wires right out of the head phones, it also snapped in two. YOU CAN EXPECT SO MUCH FROM SOMETHING BOUGHT IN CHINA.

 

Headphone 2.
I was headphone-less and my need to play CS was too panful to handle, one an endeavour to DFO (Direct Factory Outlet) I went into EB games which was having a massive sale (when aren't they having a fucking sale?) and picked up a Logitech Precision Gaming headset. It was marked down from $0, so I got it for half price. Took it home, it was quite nice. However the ear muffs that go around your ear were too small - so it squished your ears against your head, the headband was also too tight and wouldn't extend anymore. Quite uncomfortable. It's give me a headache after 2-3 hours - not to mention the amount of sweat that had accumulated in my ears D:. Or I might just have a big head - circumference around the ears part is  cm (measuring tape on table). After a few weeks, the left speaker became defective. So I returned it. They didn't have anymore in stock so i was told that I had to get something of same value. EB Games is FULL OF SHIT.

 

Headphone 3.

I used my $40 to get a pair of crappy Logitech headphones. I must've been high on something to get another Logitech... It broke cleanly in half about a month later - and because this was a retured item - EB didn't give me a receipt/invoice. At this point I thought to myself: I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF LOGITECH CRAPPHONES.

 

Headphone 4.

One day we were in the city and I went into the EB Games @ Melb Central - we had a bit of time to kill. A bunch of crappy headphones were on sale for $10 - made by some brand called "Rock". The microphone snapped off cleanly on the first day, but since then I've had these headphones for 2 years. They are seriously not bad! Sound quality can be better - but they're comfortable and they're th emost durable pieces of shit ever. Kind of like my iRiver H340.

 

After that I bought the Logitech 5.1 speakers (instead of creative speakers because logitech ones are black!) they've been working quite fine. =)

 

Now. For the mouseys. :D

2007 mid year holidays lasted for 4 weeks. I wanted a Razer Copperhead mouse. I went to my local computer store and requested a red one. D: They said they only had blue and green in stock but new stock was coming in about a weeks time so I thought I could wait. They told me to come back on Monday and that was fine. I come back in on Monday. No stock - they tell me I'll have to wait till next Monday. So I was like: "omfg. CPL is gay." I checked out other stores. Centrecom came into mind - they had stores in Springvale and Nunawading. I called each store up and they didn't have any. So I ordered online. The transaction was done smoothly thanks to my debit card!

 

They had an online tracking system where you can check up on your product. My Mouse moved from "processing" to "confirmation" to "awaiting stock". It pretty much stayed on "Awaiting Stock" for about a week, before i sent an e-mail to them about when stock was going to arrive. Of course, I received a typical e-mail requesting my patience and that new stock would arrive in a few days. Another week goes past and my mouse is still "Awaiting Stock". I send another e-mail and they assure me that the stock is coming on the Thursday and will be sent off by friday and I will receive it by Monday. On Tuesday, my mouse is still awaiting stock. I get aggravated at centrecom, it had been 17 days since I first made my fully paid order - and they say: "Well, it seems as though your mouse isn't coming. However we do have the Razer Deathadder in stock, we can give you that instead for no extra costs." Awesome I get the lastest Razer mouse for $20 cheaper than retail price!

 

They sent the mouse to me staight awaya nd I got it in two days. My holiday had officially ended. That night I plugged in my Deathadder. The grooves on th emouse, moulded into my right hand and the feel of it was dreamy. It was as if my hand and mouse had melted into one and became a super-sensitive cursor instead of a pointy interface D:.

I go to the Razer site and update the firmware: "Do not unplug the mouse when updating." Sure! The mouse is plugged in properly, I can feel the uber sensitivity and I click on upgrade firmware. Suddenly an error message pops up saying: "Mouse is undetected". Wtf? My mouse stops responding. I plug it into different USB ports - no signal. I uninstall and reinstall the drivers - my mouse just sits there. A bubble comes up on the taskbar that says: "Unknown Device". I tried it on other computers and the same problem. My new mouse is dead.

 

I go to the Centrecom site and read up how to return faulty products. They told me to type out my problem in a feedback box, filling in contact details and in return they would check out my problem, and give me an RA number in which indicates that I would be able to send them back the product to be replaced. One week passes and I get nothing from centrecom. I decide to give them a call before heading off to uni. They tell me that I can just send it in...

 

I send my Deathadder back to them, and two days later I get a new one delivered to my door. A brand new mouse! This time I take care not to update the firmware. I am quite content with my deathadder as it's so nice.

 

This afternoon, my friend Aupi comes and plays starcraft on my comp with the deathadder - he thinks his all pro and stuff with uber micro so he pumps up the dpi, polling and sensitivity to max. The mouse stops responding. The "Unknown Device" bubble appears again. My mousey has died a second time. :'(