This is my Project 365

Orange Ladybug

2007-11-05T05:33:00.000-08:00

[Too much nuclear radiation makes the lady bug turn orange. Honest. Nice though.]

The beginning of the end

2007-11-04T05:55:00.000-08:00

[You see how there is a slight smoothe patch in the middle of the shoe? It signifies the beginning of the end and I need to look after them extra carefully. I think I am going insane from the amount of exam study]

One exam down...

2007-11-03T21:53:00.001-07:00

[It was such a kickass day on Saturday. But I'm in exam mode at the moment. Sucks.]

Modern asian meets traditonal asian

2007-11-02T19:45:00.000-07:00

[My two sides of cultural heritage come togeter at kung fu. Lion dance meets Converse]

A long long LONG day

2007-11-01T15:08:00.000-07:00

[8.30am to 12.30am. Thats a long time to be at uni for one day. Above is only a very very small proportion of papers of a very very difficult unit. Apologies for the friday morning update.]

You don't make friends with salad

2007-10-31T06:49:00.000-07:00

[After a 14 hour day; salad does nothing refuel the tank at all. So hungry!]

Chinese New Year pre-season

2007-10-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

[It's that time again when CNY training begins. It consumed a decent chunk of my night.
It might sound stupid, but part of living life this last year has been all about making time for things. I reckon only in the last few months have I got my act together and now I am juggling "it all" better. Although I suspect alot of people doubt me.
So I leave you with this quote: There is no such thing as having no time. Make time for things.]

Productivity

2007-10-29T06:54:00.000-07:00

[During study break I fall off the face of the world for the simple reason I have alot of study to do. Then during study break, there are times like these when I seriously wonder. How much study do I get done?
The above it a picture of Josh's flip-flop being unplugged and we inserted a pin from a badge into it. I swear it took 15 minutes to fix it but it was damn worth it. Damn it! It was!
I then look at my mountain of notes I did today and glad that I got something done. *phew* Unlike that girl in front of me who was on Facebook for at least 6 hours. I'm not lying.]

Daylight Saving

2007-10-28T03:57:00.000-07:00

[The sun setting at 8 o'clock. Love it.]

Nimbus

2007-10-27T04:27:00.000-07:00

[These are my new shoes I mentioned in my other blog and they have been providing a world of comfort. Anyways; I wanted to take a shot of them in an interesting way and after about a billion poses I settled on this one.]

Worst. Luck. Ever

2007-10-26T07:09:00.000-07:00

[My morning sucked. Thank god it's not my fault and the guy is forking it ALL out. Everyone is ok (and yes i PS'd my number plate) except for the car (duh). Just alot of paperwork now]

My home away from home

2007-10-25T06:53:00.000-07:00

[No it's not a picture of Metros. It's the Reid. This photo makes it look quite haunting. I am there too much. And will be there even more as the next three weeks mount on me. Care to join?]

Sleepness nights

2007-10-24T08:43:00.001-07:00

[Trouble sleeping again has seen me watch Futurama to get to bed. It's working. Kind of.]

The Mark of a Gladiator

2007-10-23T07:40:00.000-07:00

[Today was my first ever reality TV Show "audition". Got through to the interview stages but reckon I didn't cut it because they used the line: "We'll call you". Oh and what reality TV show? GLADIATORS! Somebody. Anybody. Shoot me now.]

A Hole lot of fun

2007-10-22T07:22:00.000-07:00

[Beach weather provided great opportunity to go to the beach. Then I digg a hole and then go for a power swim. Ahhh...lovely days]

Twist, lick and dunk

2007-10-21T07:07:00.000-07:00

[Oreo's makes the pain go away. Wasabi brings it right back.]

Away

2007-10-20T07:23:00.000-07:00

[I just like the shot of this. And yes; that white stuff is a layer of dust]

Innocence

2007-10-19T08:18:00.000-07:00

[Remember when you were a kid and got temporary tattoo's? This rushed back alot of sweet memories]

Car mess

2007-10-18T06:23:00.000-07:00

[The mess from my room has migrated to my car. I know what I'm doing this weekend]

Knot my muscle!!!

2007-10-17T08:03:00.000-07:00

[Today at training I had a weird WEIRD experience. I got a knot in my bicep. The first time in 7 years or so. My muscle went all deformed, can you see? And it feels really weird now. I should shower.]

So cheaaaaaap...

2007-10-16T06:46:00.000-07:00

[Today as I parked my car I watched in amazement as the driver (Asian) next to me got out and just left it there (then I took my snap!). He didn't bother locking the doors or winding up the windows. Why? No windows to wind. Is it really that expensive to get your windows repaired?]

Weird marks

2007-10-15T07:21:00.000-07:00

[Do you ever get random scratches/marks on your body and you have no idea where they are from? I do. Who can spot it? Explanations? (edit: On closer inspection they aren't so bad *phew* guess I can be a tad exagerrated)]

Barter system

2007-10-14T07:55:00.001-07:00

[There is some weird agreement going on betwene my family. We always seem to have boxes of fruit coming in and out of the house, people asking me to come pick up/drop off fruit etc etc. Sometimes we eat some, sometimes we don't...either way I am suspicious. Does my family run a black fruit market?]

Whats underneath the table?

2007-10-13T06:34:00.001-07:00

[Shoes, shirts, kung fu pants, jocks, singlets]

Rice noodles dominate

2007-10-12T08:16:00.000-07:00

[Rice noodles > Egg noodles. End of story]

Gunk

2007-10-11T07:28:00.000-07:00

[There is gunk on my keyboard. It's getting pretty gross. How can I clean it?]

Grief

2007-10-10T07:27:00.000-07:00

[For a piece of plastic and mental, my phone can cause me so much grief and distress when it doesn't work properly! What a crap photo. I should try harder.]

Maturity

2007-10-09T07:24:00.000-07:00

[Sat in front of Niss in lecture today and she thoroughly enjoyed annoying me by drawing on me.

Jase: "You said Nissa was the most mature of the Musketeers"
Alan: "And you said it's all relative"]

Water, Water everywhere but not a drop to drink

2007-10-08T08:09:00.000-07:00

[I seem to have this bad habit of only drinking bottles halfway. I wonder why? And then worse, I leave the bottles around in my room. Even more worse; if I'm feeling thirsty...]

"Sparring"

2007-10-07T08:04:00.000-07:00

[I took kids class today! Suffice to say, I ran out of ideas what to teach them so I geared them up and let them spar. It was pretty awesome. The downer was towards the end when the kid in black gloves realised that 1.5 years lets you really dominate. Tears almost complicated things at the end but luckily; hands were shaken, tears were wiped, smiles were grinned and all was forgotten. ]

Crappy month

2007-10-06T07:49:00.000-07:00

[Spilling industrial strength bleach on my jeans is just another thing that went wrong in this past month or so. Losing to England as well in the RWC was just icing on an excessively rich cake.
Wonderful.
If you could all only hear the profanities my thoughts project at the moment; you would all think: "Alan swears quite alot"]

Where are you!?!?

2007-10-05T03:21:00.001-07:00

[A part of keeping my shoes in good shape is that I store them in boxes. When I'm done wearing them for the day, I chuck them back in or swap them out. But I'm not so organised that I keep them in the same boxes they came in. Yes, I am also lazy. I tend to swap them around and whenever I need a specific pair...I end up taking them all out. Will have a case of this tonight as I search for my dress shoes!]

I particularly liked this shot. The darkness enroaching around the edges. Symbolic. ]

It's like eatig tomato with tomato sauce

2007-10-04T08:16:00.000-07:00

[I was drinking the last of the FV (and it had solidified in the fridge) and eating the fruit salad at the same time. It was a weird. Disturbing at best. It reminded me of this one time when I was a kid and put tomato sauce on a tomato. Not exactly the same taste...]

She loves me the most

2007-10-03T07:04:00.001-07:00

[The girl at Icey-Ice loves me the most. Why? Look how BIG mine is (in the middle). Jason got the crappy small one (left) and Kath got a pretty decent one too (right)]

FV

2007-10-02T19:50:00.000-07:00

[Boost? What is that? Forget that. FV.]

Cut your toe nails

2007-10-01T07:38:00.000-07:00

[I have found that when wearing flip-flops, people often ask you to cut your toe nails. You be the judge. Looking at that big toe...hmmmm...]

That'll teach him a lesson

2007-09-30T04:21:00.000-07:00

[He rode inside. He fell inside. Now his fallen inside.]

It attacked me...again

2007-09-29T05:20:00.000-07:00

[That meat slicer at work lunged at me today, I would show you pictures. But they look pretty gruesome. Just like last time. And like last time, I am lucky to have my fingers still.]

Pretentious BBQ

2007-09-28T06:48:00.000-07:00

[Kit made a sausage with chutney and dip. It looked pretentious. I also made one later on. It tasted pretty good! Ahhh...spring bbq]

Sleep me up

2007-09-26T21:34:00.001-07:00

[I'm a coffee man through and through. However at night I like to drink tea. This tea has sort of grown on me and it's flavors really are intricate once you get over the weird before-taste. Anyway; the label say's it will help with sleep patterns. Exactly what I need. Let's see how it goes]

Monster!!

2007-09-26T05:01:00.001-07:00

[I have been on edge lately. I walked onto the porch of my house and greeted by this monstrosity I almost lept out of my skin. Scared the hell out of me. Some sort of green land octopus thing. Until...I realised it was an aloe vera plant that my mum had ripped out. On that note; aloe vera and vodka. Great drink]

Burried

2007-09-25T07:05:00.000-07:00

[I normally don't borrow many books for assignments. But for this unit I got out about seven or so odd books. Then this was towards the end of a very long day of assignmenting. As you can see I used a mountain of books. You can also see Lisa is doing plenty of work]

Student life

2007-09-24T05:52:00.000-07:00

[Tav with a friend today and after buying a jug and lunch we were still hungry. We scrounged around our bags and came up with the $4.50...eventually]

Stamp

2007-09-23T01:24:00.000-07:00

[Today I got to stamp alot of things. While I was stamping things; I realised I had been stamped last night and it STILL hadn't come off after the shower. The irony.]

A Culture of Waste

2007-09-22T02:56:00.000-07:00

[I am surrounded by a culture of waste...it's all around me. And I'm sick of it]

Shhhhh...

2007-09-21T08:50:00.000-07:00

[Remember those breathless red ones I had up a few days ago? Yes well, after a few more days I have decided to showcase my latest ones. I bought them at the same. So it's not like I buy one a week or something. I'm in enough trouble already so don't tell my mum...]

Thumbs up

2007-09-20T08:29:00.000-07:00

[My friend James (who plays on my indoor team) has some werid looking thumbs. He claims too genetics and ancestry. I say too much Nintendo and radiation. When he showed me; I thought it was an illusion of the eye]

Incompetent?

2007-09-19T07:50:00.000-07:00

[Following on from that magical post which everything seemed to fold itself, I am thinking that my mum thinks I'm incompetent. We have a gate and as of late my mum would like me to lock it when I leave the house.

If you zoom in on the picture you can see on the very bright post-it, writing which reads: "Lock here" I was half expecting on the back of it saying: "Incompetent"]

Eeeee Mian Sek!

2007-09-18T05:07:00.000-07:00

[*droooooool*]

ding

2007-09-17T04:34:00.000-07:00

[Speak of the devil...SOMETHING DID HAPPEN!!! Who says nobody loves the middle child?! I feeling kinda guilty though...]

Migration

2007-09-16T05:43:00.000-07:00

[Someone in my family (my mum) decides that washing my clothes would be a good idea but only after it reaches a certain point. Actually; at all points I get yelled at to clean up my act. But only until it reaches THIS point does anything actually happen.
First: it starts in the main cupboard, then I'll wear it to wherever etc, then I'll come home and it moves to the hampers I have floating around in my room, then it moves to my bed where I use it as extra warmth articles, then to my brother's bed...and then to the washing machine. And then back to the cupboard.
And in between everything; I might wear it
As you can all see; I'm reach the end of one of those cycles ]

More then a coffee dispenser

2007-09-15T03:04:00.000-07:00

[Dispenser of my life blood; please never break down again or I won't show up to work]

Gotham City

2007-09-14T06:50:00.001-07:00

[During winter sunsets, there are some days which makes me think that Perth looks like Gotham City if you drive up Mounts Bay Road. All dark and gloomy and sinisterish. Now I think; looking back on those statements I must of been on drugs or something.
How the hell could I mistake Perth for the skyline of Gotham City?]

Eleanor

2007-09-13T02:12:00.000-07:00

[Can you believe this is gonna cost $450 to fix? Thank god I'm not paying for it. And thank god I know I can park. Unlike some hacks in South Perth! I have to say goodbye to the Civic for a week or so; deary me]

Wah-tahhhhhhh

2007-09-12T07:51:00.001-07:00

[Swung by training today. Blasted the legs by dragging everybody through squats, lunges, leaps, horse-stance side squats and then let the class have a good fun go at kicking pads. Sort of like the kid's class. Only with adults.]

Fireman Sam!

2007-09-11T05:09:00.000-07:00

[When I was a kid, one of my mum's favorite stories to tell everybody was that I was afraid of cops. Yes. It's true. Unlike the majority of kids gorwing up, I wasn't keen on being a copper. I wanted to be a fireman. Don't forget, Fireman Sam was the bomb. better then that nutcase Postman Pat.
And today; the fire alarm went off in the library and the firemen came]

759 pages

2007-09-10T08:03:00.000-07:00

[I felt disappointed with this book. 759 pages and it felt so incomplete and poorly written. A week of my life gone. And it wasn't from reading non stop, it was "leisurely" paced. Prisoner of Azkaban still remains the best. Not the movie but the book.]

304714-911

2007-09-09T06:14:00.000-07:00

[Breathless]

Even when its bad its still pretty good

2007-09-08T02:46:00.001-07:00

[Pizza is like this; even when its bad it's still pretty good. Love it]

Perth-etic

2007-09-07T06:28:00.000-07:00

[I was driving through the city on my way home and was contemplating cities that I wish Perth was more like. Don't get me wrong, I love this city. the river runs in my blood and the sunsets on Cott beach in summer are breathless but I swear to god it sometimes feel like I know every second person.
So at the lights I looked into the distance of St. Georges terrace and thought: "If I squint enough, it is like New York"
Try it]

Cut the lawn already

2007-09-06T05:59:00.000-07:00

[During winter my backyard reminds me of those English paddocks you see in those Brit-films. Lucious and overgrown in a dignified un-jungleish way with a bit of an overcast in the sky. During Winter, the rain makes everything want to grow (weeds included) and makes me not want to mow the lawn. Then with Spring around the corner my Mum has been badgering me to go and cut it. It's a yearly ritual. I wandered outside to see how much it had grown and it's about up to my knees. I then wandered back inside and had breakfast and left for uni.
I'll cut it on the weekend.]

Still alive!?

2007-09-05T08:53:00.000-07:00

[I was wandering around in the back of my house and stumbled across my brother's old axolotyls. After being in China for more then 9 months these guys are still alive. My MUM had been looking after them! Hmmm...this photo was poorly taken in my opinion. Say it with me: lighting!]

Sunsets

2007-09-04T05:48:00.000-07:00

[This looked nice. Especially the wacko weather today. Sunshine everywhere and then ka-blamo...rain, doom and gloom everywhere. But at the end of the day while the sun began to set, things started looking good. Metaphor? Probably]

How can you screw up a long black?

2007-09-03T07:44:00.000-07:00

[This might look like your run of the mill long black. It's not. It's in fact screwed up somehow. As of late I have been digging the espresso (short black) and loving it. But today to celebrate the start of Exam Overdrive Mode I went for a long black. I swear to god; it did not taste like coffee. Those girls in the Ref seriously need to consider other occupations if they can't make a long black. Even if it is pushing a button.
I sound pretentious]

8 hours later

2007-09-02T05:22:00.001-07:00

[Spent the whole day studing in the Reid Library and being good by actually doing some work. After all I am about to go into exam overdrive. It was pretty much: wake up, breakfast, uni and home. 8 hours later I came home to see brekfast where I left it. On my computer table. Splendid]

Give it to me messy

2007-09-01T07:49:00.000-07:00

[My room is in a constant state of flux. It can be anywhere from OCD patient neat to a cyclone hit catastrophe. As life revolves it tends to fall in the latter. Spent all of 5 minutes trying to organise it in some manner. Result? A milk crate of papers I don't need, two hampers of semi-clean clothes that aren't diry enough to wash and an attitude with: "Ehhh...". Stacking it up on top of each other was the categorising part]

The Monsters in the Moat

2007-08-31T02:51:00.000-07:00

[I was on my way out of the Reid Library and chanced upon this groundsmen FISHING in the moat that surrounds the Reid. Yes thats right: FISHING. Anyways; I asked if I could take a photo and in return he wanted me to get a set of pliers for him. I got the photo. He got the pliers. Everybody's happy.
Except the fish.]

In My Pockets

2007-08-30T06:46:00.000-07:00

[I was in the cafe at the end of the day and finding it very uncomfortable to sit down because of the stuff in my pockets. I emptied my pockets and thought: "I have a crap load of stuff in my pants". Looking at it closely I saw: "iPod, wallet, phone and keys" and then looking at it deeper it was reflection of what runs society: "Culture, money, communication and transportation"]

End of the Day

2007-08-29T03:41:00.000-07:00

[I didn't manage to take a picture that I was really happy with all day. But as I sat exhausted after the ordeals of today my shoes sprawled out in front of me it captured today very well; I was very happy with this shot.]

In the beginning...

2007-08-28T06:06:00.000-07:00

This is my Project 365

Watch as I post a picture everday for a year (starting tomorrow)