Jelly Baby

You can almost see the smile on it's face. It's so happy to provide happiness to your taste buds.

Right on the spot

Ornamental Size

Is it just me or do the Christmas celebrations get bigger and bigger?

Take a walk with me

Down the path, not knowing what the future holds, but knowing that there will be those willing to take the journey with you.

The green, green glass of home

The green glass makes pretty patterns. So peaceful as the light filters through.

The lights above

After a long day, you look up to rest your eyes and are drawn to your destination by the bright, white lights.

Streaks of white

A lot of people seem to be jetting overseas these holidays.
And all I do is drive to work.

Albeit in a nicer car and with less traffic, but hey, it's work!

Wasp on pink flower

You all know how I love taking pictures of the colorful flowers and insects that fly around. This happened to be on a Sunday a while ago, while I was at church. The wasps seemed to have taken a liking to the pink flowers outside the front doors, so I praise the Lord that it was a lovely day when I brought my camera along!

I could afford to take a lot of shots as there were a whole bunch of wasps swarming around the flowered bush. Thankfully they didn't mind me taking their photographs, and I didn't end up a pin cushion. This was one of the best photographs that came out that day. I hope you like it.

On the inside

There are times when there is beauty inside, and not just out.
Don't waste the opportunity. Take it and never let it go

I caught an interesting angle of this flower while I was strolling through the park in Hawthorn at uni. And if I was smart enough I'd know the latin name for it, but I'm not.

Maybe my year 11-12 biology teacher might know, but he might better know the waste by products of certain animals since he explained about how he purchased a shirt with pictures and names of the animals that made them. Hehe. Go figure.

On the morrow

As the sun sets in the distance, I begin to wonder that the next day will bring.

Because I've bit a tad busy over the past weeks, I thought I'd delve into some of the previous photographs I've taken, and showcasing them here for all to see; as opposed to keeping them locked away deep in the directories of my hard disk drive.

These were shots that I'd taken a while ago when printing digital photos were a little too steep, or just a bit infeasible. But now you can just print them for like 29 cents at Hardly Normal (Harvey Norman) so it's great!

Handy tip

What not to do in the office #658784:
Make popcorn in the microwave, leave it in a tad too long, leave an awful wafting smell of burned food, and making everyone wonder why the fire department hasn't arrived yet.

>_<

The dirty world of Jash

Cleaning one’s room is a chore sometimes. Actually it’s a chore ALL the time, but it’s something that I don’t really look forward to. But when you can’t find a place on the floor to step on and you end up swimming through clothes and books and bags just to get to your waterbed which you remember wasn’t one when you bought it, then you (mainly I) should probably start clearing up so that the next time you lose your keys, you won’t need to borrow your friends scuba gear to search your room.

So that’s what I’ve been doing on the weekend apart from the several 2 hour trips across the city and back because all my friends don’t want to live near me. Come on guys, you know you want to. I mean who wants to live in some place where you get lost just trying to get to some coffee shop in the middle of the night on Friday/Saturday. And they call my area the ‘sticks’. I must have run over so many stricks in the near country conditions when someone *cough*Edgar*cough* actually was supposed to LEFT instead of RIGHT. Gee, I don’t know how he’s going to cope overseas… maybe he’ll end up in Guadalajara instead of London, hee hee.

But it’s amazing what you can find in your room when you haven’t cleaned it. Apart from the Guadalajarans that I found hiding in the corner of my room (they’re friendly people, those Guadalajarans; compared to those London folk) there were sooo many cobwebs hanging off everything. I had arachnids living in my room and they weren’t giving me rent! Cheapskates. They come in my room to procreate, and what do I get; nothing! Nothing but more randy adolescent spiders! I know I know, they would have paid me in ‘insects’ as opposed to dollars and I couldn’t have done much with it, but it’s the principle you know…

And you wouldn’t believe the amount of dust in the nooks and crannies. If I had a dollar for every piece of dust that was in my room I could buy a vacuum cleaner so that I could get rid of the dust and then wouldn’t be rich any more because there’d be no more dust left. Hrmm… I guess that wouldn’t be a good idea then.

I suggest you clean you room every so often so that it doesn’t come down to this madness. Wise advice, that. So that next time you bring a girl to your room, you can find her again, as opposed to not being able to find her; which would not be a good thing. There’s only so much air in those scuba oxygen tanks.


And you reading this probably thought there was something 'dirty' in this post. Well shame on you :P

Middle of November

Just hangin' around

After the moist weather of the previous week, a snail is still resting under a window ledge on this sunny day.

Under a blue sky

Under the blue sky the flowers grow, and make everyone smile.
Yes I know, it sounds like something from a folder/book you get at Morning Glory... but I made it up myself. Honest :)))

Working on the weekend

This bee probably won't get paid for its overtime. Better to spend time with your sweet sweet hunny on the weekends I say ;)

In suspense

I bet when you're hungry you look like this too.

Procrastination to the max

Ever wanted to waste time with your study papers as opposed to actually studying them?
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der=8&list_id=5105133&uid=bdaisy

Let's see someone try this in an exam...
:)

If Quirky Jash were in South Park

He'd look something like this:

What do you think?

look where they're going

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE

OI OI OI


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By the wayside

Sometimes things just don't go the way you'd like them to.

Warm and fuzzy

Chocolate Suckao at Max Brenners

If you're part of the female persuasion then there is a good possiblity that chocolate is a good friend of yours. Trying not to sound like a plug for Max Brenners, that place is one of the best places to go and eat chocolate. Chocolate there comes hot, cold, liquid, solid, milk, white, dark, and in several other nationalities.

Located near Chilli Padi on the Elizabeth St, Lt Lonsdale St end of Melbourne Central.

Bonsai

With shiny pebbles of sorts.

Ooodles of drool

Cassie the dog will jump all over you, and make sure you don't leave without being drenched.

Pretty flower

You can tell I like photographing flowers can't ya...

Sometimes you want to just sleep in.

Until 3PM in the afternoon.
(Picture taken 3 o'clock in the afternoon...)

The horse with no name

Because the horse never told me.

Quirky Jash's Top 10 Random Study Tips:

• #8696 - Attempting to study and play Xbox at the same time is not very good.
• #236 - If you have hayfever and study with your dog in the room, do not try to feed the dog the notebook pages you sneeze on. Dogs do bite.
• #47315 - Studying and driving IS bad for your health contrary to what other people say.
• #761 - Including text books in your breakfast omelette is tasty, but not the correct way to store knowledge inside you.
• #94 - Naming your text books does not give you better grades.
• #5108 - Take a break from your study once in a while. But remember to come back to it, which I forget most of the time.
• #786912 - It's not a nice sunny day outside. That is just a figment of your imagination.
• #149 - Searching eBay for fashion accesories does not constitute study.
• #5445 - One is lying to themselves if they say Instant Messaging facilities are productive tools for individual study.
  *jash has just given you a nudge*
  
• #16847 - Don't take forever to think of 10 things to put in your blog when you're at work pretending to study while pretending to also work.

Study, you say?

So I'm in the thick of action of exams again. Well exam, I kinda only have one... that I chose to do... for my own reasons.... I once thought that study was long gone and I was fancy free, but...

Getting back into the study stride is difficult. Being used to playing Xbox at night until the wee hours realising that you have to go to work 3 hours later is not the way to go when one should have delved into the books a couple of hours earlier.

And life without study is very nice because you go to work and come back. Then you go to work and come back. Then you leave all the worries of the day at work while you walk your dog, or figure out how to not get your dog scared of your massive camera. He's really scared of it you know. Barks and everything. He thinks the flash is lightning or something.

The weekends are also different. Gone is the mind set that I will get a good night's sleep on Friday and wake up refreshed on Saturday. You get home late on Friday, you wake up early on Saturday because your friggin' body clock is telling you to wake up at 7AM, and you watch cartoons again.

Cartoons on Channel 7 these days are weeeeird. How can kids watch these shows?! I mean the Disney cartoons are classic, but these new fangled ones are too radical. There could be better shows than a green alien kid with other aliens; stick to the good old ones and work from there I say.

There is just no more time to fit in all this study! Aghhhh! I mean one has to fit in the hours upon hours of Tom foolery and cheekyness that I get upto on MSN right? It also doesn't help that there are a select few that also want to procrastinate with you when those bells of instant messenging come a chimin'.

I'm trying to find a moral of the story here. Maybe it's that one shouldn't throw away countless hours of doing absolutely nothin, or maybe that one should just win the lottery and well, I wish I could win it...

Aww nuts...

Sometimes we try to do or take too many things at once, and at one time or another we can't keep it all to ourselves. We feel despair and are frustrated, but there's no need to be; you have two nuts and that's all anyone can hope for really...

Where I'm home

A wooden doll in a wooden place.

Nothing quite like having something warm, comforting and familar surrounding you. Maybe it's holding you back, but for now you quite like being in a place like this.

Watchu lookin' at?

pretty little flower

Nice and pink. Very pink. Almost bordering on fluorescent.

eBay item of the week

Title:
DKNY Men's Leather Pants I Unfortunately Own
Stylish. Expensive. Very much a bad purchase for me.

Description:
You are bidding on a mistake.

We all make mistakes. We date the wrong people for too long. We chew gum with our mouths open. We say inappropriate things in front of grandma.

And we buy leather pants.

I can explain these pants and why they are in my possession. I bought them many, many years ago under the spell of a woman whom I believed to have taste. She suggested I try them on. I did. She said they looked good. I wanted to have a relationship of sorts with her. I’m stupid and prone to impulsive decisions. I bought the pants.

The relationship, probably for better, never materialized. The girl, whose name I can’t even recall, is a distant memory. I think she was short.

Read more

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Note to self: Don't buy leather pants to get with girl. Don't buy leather pants. Ever.

dreams

If you've just woken up and in need of a laugh click on this: http://users.bigpond.net.au/filmbuffs/ I thought it was hilarious.

But if you are still sleeping, then there is a good possibility that a) you're not reading this, and b) that you will have a dream of some sort. When I sleep, I remember I have dreams, the only thing is that I don't remember what they were about most of the time! Does anyone else have a problem like this? Or are you supposed to forget dreams because they are only dreams in the end.

I wish I could be in a dream for a while, and I do remember some dreams where I've had control over the situation and doing stuff in your dreams is really cool. You can do all the things that you wanted, like fly around like Superman except not wear those tights. You definitely don't want to see me in tights and spandex. But if you do I'll leave that to YOUR dream. And tell me too, because I've never met anyone that's wanted to.


Imagine all the other crazy stuff you could do if your dream lasted for ages. Living an entire lifetime in a dream would be awesome. Kind of like playing the Sims! You could be a teacher turning into a professor, or a doctor that retires and gets money by doing stuff on this technomagical machine that you put into your living room because you get to win it at the end of your Sims career.

I don't know how good I'd be at being a doctor though. Getting sued is a big probability, and I'm still dreaming! I'd have to be so careful, much more so that I am now being a graduate database administrator. Some of the stuff people tell me doesn't quite get translated correctly from the screen/or phone, through my eyes/ears and onto the keyboard that I'm typing on. *sigh* I would reply in apology saying that I've lost your money and I can't get it back!


Actually it doesn't really come to that. I then wake up and realise I'm still at work, and thankfully no one has been the wiser and noticed my snoring and drool all over my desk, hee hee hee... Only there's 6 messages on my phone and another 187 emails to be read, ah, reality slaps hard does it not.

And reality's not that bad. It's just nice to dream once in a while.


PS. Avoid sleeping and dreaming at work.

PPS. Don't use greater than and less than signs for emoticons on web based text editors because you lose your blog as it can't handle those characters!!

iPod boob.

Chips that store music could one day be built into breast implants. One breast could hold the MP3 player and the other the music collection. BT futurology, who developed the idea, say it could be available within 15 years.

Would it get a bit strange if they got around to making it play video as well?
;)

Life's little mysteries

Ever wondered what it would be like to live inside a water bottle. Well there's no need to anymore! Click on the picture to view! Watch out though, it enlarges the browser when you click on it. :)


Yes, it's quite interesting. I wonder what it would be like to live in other small sized objects.

Flutterby Butterfly

Well I don't really have anything interesting to say this week. I'm busy at work, but I definitely don't want to bore you with the details of database administration right? I mean after who's interested in setting up tablespaces, exporting and importing schemas, and maintaining a pre-production test environment, right? And if you are... *looks at you in disbelief*

You seriously know you've been busy when you start to close MSN conversation windows by typing the command "exit" in the chat windows... urgh..

Although something was interesting enough to write about last week, but my lazy gene took over and I never got to write about it, sorry! It was all of the butterflies floating everywhere!


There were hundreds and thousands of them, just flying around, going about their business of flying around while the times were good and sunny. But it was the numbers that astounded me. There were so many that you could take your dog for a walk and choke to death on these insects! Yes, yes, I know now you're giving me looks of disbelief, and no, I didn't choke to death when I walked my dog.


It was probably a sign that consolidated the spring weather, and of course being Melbourne they end up playing the cricket (no pun intended with the insect stuff) under cover in Telstra Dome. So the rest of the week was dull and grey, and dull.

And the weekend doesn't look like it will improve either :( I shall have to find something else to occupy myself while I am indoors. Meanwhile, here are some more pics to brighten up your day!

In Melbourne Tonight

So my experience tonight has indeed confirmed that clubs and lounges are not for me. It's not particularly my cup of tea (if I wanted tea, there were plenty of place in China town that are more civil and welcoming!), as many of the others frqeuenting these areas drink from bottles and glasses filled with intoxicative beverages that are somewhat hard in nature compared to the Coke and Sprite that I stick to.

The parking is also terrible at the late hours of the evening. Clubby, loungey places seem to only kick off at 10-12AM so to get there at a specified time means that's there's no parking in the vicinity of the venue! Argh! On the brightside, I got to use my legs for the first time in the weekend in order to walk all the way across the city. Being a warmer night there were also plenty of people walking around, and I was surprised that how many do stay out on Saturdays in Melbourne. They (I really don't know who they are) say that Melbourne's a quiet town, but if it's quiet, then they can subsidise the extra 10 or so kilometres I drove to find parking.

Finding the place was easy enough I guess, but along the were there were plenty of other bouncers to indicate the many lounges that are scattered across the city centre. Because I am not of the clubbing persuasion, I was startled as to the size of the protectors of the lounging domain. Very big and bulky these guys, so I thought I should be nice to them. I think my body mass equates to their forearm. Well, maybe.

The place was located underneath some buildings, kinda like the ones you see on TV shows where the mafia hang out, and it was pretty average I'd have to say. Even if I did manage to like getting jiggy wit' it I would suggest to these guys to update the lighting! I guess the lack of lighting helps the proverbial 'smashed' people not remember anyone or anything they'd danced with.

And play some better music next time! Even for people like me! If I'm not in the mood to dance, then why not entice me with some enticing music. Typical doof doof stuff isn't gonna get me to dance. Gee, my friends couldn't even get me to dance!

So thus ended a night of unspecialness. Apart from revving up my car so that it at least grumbled on the way back home, this drinky, loungey, dancey, clubby stuff should just stay with those that are willing and capable. I think most of the persons livers weren't actually capable of taking in the amount of the happy drinks, but hey, I bet they were more than willing.

Dark Food

Just make sure you get it in the right place, and not all over your shirt.

By the way

I've turned on word verification for the comments, so that probably only real people can post, as opposed to the spammers trying to sell their weird wonder cream to turn those mosquito bites into juicy juicy mangoes ;)

So just watch for that when posting new comments.

Cheers.

crazy

What am I doing this late on a monday night? I should be sleeping but I'm not. Going to see friends is so much more better than going to work on time I say!

:)

I'm bored

Feast your eyes upon the sight of Krispy Kreme.

Yum yum.

Wada

Waah, I am so honoured to have such imperial presence on this such lowly blog.

Oh, and there was a hit from Singapore too, lah.

training

green bag girl
i see you standing there
so still and silent

shall i be graced by your countenance once more
before the week is done

Fly me to the moon

Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words hold my hand
In other words darling kiss me

Fill my life with song
And let me sing forevermore
You are all I hope for
All I worship and adore
In other words please be true
In other words I love you

I thought that might read like something more elegant. The moon just looked like a massive melon in the sky, with all the bumps and rough stuff and everything. *sigh* So beautiful...

Welcome visitors

Ever wanted to know who might visit your site? Well I've asked myself this question a few times, and I really didn't know the answer... Until I found this new nifty tracking tool that incorporates Google's new map service! And so far it hadn't yielded any cool results yet but it did just today!

If you look at the maps, the points where there are pinkish blobs is where gvisit estimates people's vicinity was when they visited a site. Quite interesting isn't it. Now you'll really know if you're popular; or if you're really not. And it seems that I'm somewhere in between.

Nothing quite exotic though, as it seems the North Americans and Ahzzies (how the North American's pronounce Aussies) are the only ones to have visited in the past few hours.

So to those from Centreville, Virginia, salut! And a question as to why you actually stumbled upon this blog. I was expecting hits from the UK, but I'll post again if that happens ;)

Beeep

Ah crap, I'm currently worried that when I accidentally entered the intersection the light might have been red this morning :( But I do remember it being yellow when I passed it, I do! Well cameras don't lie so a fine comes in, I shall inspect those images carefully.

But I really don't like it when you're a certain distance from the lights, and it turns amber, and you have to decide whether you can or can't make it, or whether you can or can't brake >_<

Also the fine's like 200 bucks! That's 2 days work if I get fined, it just had to be that intersection with the red light camera didn't it. Yerr *shakes fist at Murphy's Law*

If the fine comes along then it would be one of those firsts I posted earlier, and boy hasn't this day gone reeeally slow...

One

No, this blog isn't a year old. And I'm not a year old either. You've gotta give me some credit at least for putting this blog up, right!? Even though I don't quite act my age sometimes...

My cousin turned 1 last week, and you can definitely hear it everytime you see her. Her learning to walk last week also changes everything now too. She can walk over and pretend to talk to you, or walk away and not want to talk to you (much like in her later teen years too, I'm guessing).

Can you remember the last time you did something for the first time? Try and do one this week!

Movies galore

I thought this weekend was a lazy one, but I did end up doing many things. I did watch a few movies out of DVD however, and this quote in it's entirety used in Coach Carter was the highlight of it:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

It was used in the context of a highschool basketball scenario, but can be applied to many aspects of life. The references to the God above was "edited" out of the movie, but it's a film, so what can you expect. But I believe it gives some sort of perspective of why the passage was originally written.

So are your deepest fears? I haven't really thought about what mine is. But I guess when people ask you that question you really just shrug it off and try not to think about those questions again. Like where do you want to be in 10 years? Or many long term questions like that. It's probably good to think about them as I would say I'm the person that does tend not to, but when you do it puts your current situation into perspective.

You're not just running a treadmill, wasting time until you figure out where you're actually going. Because you can't get to where you're going if you don't know where you want to go.

Man this post is getting deep. My time to shrug it off again.

Yippee!

It's 5:55 on a Friday, the sun is shining it's golden glow, and the weekend is upon us once more!
:)

Spring sprang sprong

So it's spring time once more. Time for the weather to get worse before getting better, and time for my nose to start blocking up just at the thought of hay. Isn't it lovely?

Driving the car home the other day, I got caught in traffic just before the train station closest to my house. They have the worst setting there; a roundabout with about 4 roads coming into it as well as electric trains and the VLine diesel trains running back and forth. During peak hour, it's not a pretty sight.

Being stationary for a period of time I looked around to amuse myself while I was waiting there and polluting this earth, and remembered that there was a block of land that didn't have a house on it. It just had grass there. I didn't really know why until I saw these two cute widdle lambs playing together. AWwww. Running around carefree in the middle of suburbia, so cute and fluffy and sweet.

Then right in front of my car, gahaahhhh!H!HG~HG@!@#$watTHe?!~ The lambs started getting it on! My car just happened to be the closest to them, and to reward me, one of them started to jump over the other (I'm guessing the male one) but not quite going over; and trying again and again!

I could only look away, and be in shock as this image of two cute little fluffy creatures behaving like their older more horny (I meant horny because Rams have horns!) relations. This image of cute little lambs in my head have now been destroyed! Sooooo wrong!

Well to Upeka the vet-to-be, I'm guessing this wasn't such a shock, and attributed it to "spring", so I guess I should be as jilted. I think I'll just drive a different way home tonight...

baaah.

Orange you glad I blogged today?

Alone, I walk

City lights

A visual representation of what it's like to go home at night all dazed and confused.

Genius

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