Farnie's Blog: 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Futsal

No more exams!!! :D
watched The Social Network aka Facebook movie
Only got home from late night futsal match just before, where our team put in the best performance of the season beating the league leaders 10-4.
I scored a goal for myself and played keeper for the 2nd half as our keeper was away.

Roof-top futsal anyone? Only in Japan...

Going to sleep. Gotta wake up early. 7am. Manchester Derby.
COME ON UNITED

-Farniee

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

balls

I played pool today for the first time this semester. In the first game, I was two balls up with the black one to go. I had it right in the corner, next to the hole. I got it in.. but my white ball flew off the table, meaning i lost. The next game i lost... The third game was horrible. I lost and didn't get a ball in. Then this rule was sprung on me which I had never heard about.

Coming from 'The science of pub pool' rules...

The 'Pants' Rule
If a player loses a game without having sunk any of his own balls he must walk or run a lap of the table with his pants down. There are two opt outs for the pants rule: girls do not have to do it, and a player can buy his way out with beer (a pint or jug, generally up to the incumbent.)

Having not sunk any of my balls in, I was forced to do a lap around the pool table, in the pool room at uni, with my pants down to my ankles. I was considering chickening out.. and of course I couldnt buy my way out (no beer and im not a girl..), so i did it, while the two old ladies at the counter were distracted by new customers. I did cheat a little though, instead of having my pants around my ankles they went down to my knees. I was lucky there weren't many people around today, no girls either.

It's been a bad start to the week :(

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Banana

Urban dictionary's definition of a banana:

An asian person who acts like they are white. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside.

Quang doesn't know what Dim Sum is? man that guy's a Banana.

Close enough.. I think im slowly turning into a banana. I've forgotten to speak mando. I am absolutely terrible at it. Last night when i was downstairs in the kitchen, my grandma came out to see who was making so much noise. I struggled to string a few chinese words together to make a sentence telling her that i was just putting a bowl in the sink... she was like wahhhhhhh? o_O???? At that moment I tried to run away.. but she insisted on me telling her what I was trying to say. And eventually it came out in a bit of a mumble. Loss of self confidence right there...

Someone recommend me a good Taiwanese drama to watch?

-Farnie

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Asian Masterchefs

Sorry everyone, havent been on the net much lately because i've been capped. Anyway, the recent season of MasterChef Australia has just finish with the winner being Adam Liaw. It is quite interesting that Asians, especially of Malaysian heritage, have done extremely well in this competition, with Adam Liaw, a half Malaysian, coming first in the 2010 season and Poh, also a Malaysian coming 2nd in the 2009 edition. Also, an honorable mention to Alvin Quah, another Malaysian contestant.

Could their success be attributed to the multi-cultural society in Malaysia? With people with native Malay backgrounds, people of Indian heritage and people which have Chinese ancestry, the food in Malaysia is both diverse and unique, often a mix of these cultures.

Perhaps their success just comes from the judges lack of knowledge of Asian cusine. For example, Adam Liaw's egg custard with pork is a dish that my mum and grandma often cook at home to eat with rice. Not saying that they are as good a cook as Adam, but it is quite a simplistic dish to cook. I could probably cook it... That dish was something that the judges had never seen or tasted before and rated quite highly.

Anyway, congratulations to Adam on winning MasterChef. He thoroughly deserves it.

MALAYSIA BOLEH!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Sports blog

Lately i've been struggling to find inspiration to blog about. And i have found it, looked to something that i love watching and playing. With the World Cup finished, Wimbledon finished, you'd think i'd have nothing to blog about. But there is a wealth of different sporting events on at the moment...

Tour de France
AFL season
NRL season
Australia vs Pakistan in the cricket
the A-league is about to start and so is the EPL

So to start it all off.. English Premier League's 2009/2010 season's runner up, Manchester United have revealed their new kit for the new season. They have gone with one that looks very similar to the one they wore many times in their history including the 1946/47 season kit. United's new kit has gotten rid of the black V on the front and has now included a white collar.

So what do you think of Manchester United's new kit?

Monday, June 14, 2010

just like a wavin' flag

60 seconds in a minute
60 minutes in an hour
60 hours in my log book
60 hours to go...

i cant get the world cup song out of my head

Give me freedom, give me fire, give me reason, take me higher
See the champions, take the field now, you define us, make us feel proud
In the streets our heads are lifting, as we lose our inhibition,
Celebration, it surround us, every nations, all around us

Singing forever young, singing songs underneath that sun
Lets rejoice in the beautiful game,
And together at the end of the day.
We all say

When I get older I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a wavin’ flag
When I get older I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a wavin’ flag
So wave your flag, now wave your flag, now wave your flag

Oooohhh, Oooooooooh wooooohh, Oooooooooh wooooohh

good luck with exams everyone :)

Monday, May 31, 2010

Kokoda

Hawthorn 10.19 (79) def. Sydney 11.11 (77)

In the Kokoda match with Hawthorn wearing a one off jumper to raise funds for the Kokoda Track Foundation, Hawthorn were able to hang on to win by 2 points over Sydney. It's close frantic finishes in matches like these which makes me love going to watch the footy live. With less than one goal difference in the dying moments of the game, your heart beat accelerates, the adrenaline starts pumping, you start going into madness with everyone contest possibly affecting the outcome of the game. You and everyone in the stadium try to will your team to win, to push your team further. The buzz around the ground grows, the decibel levels rise, the time ticks on. You immediately become friends with those supporting your team around you as you all share the same emotions. Not knowing how much time is left until the final siren creates a fear within you that the other team could score a goal and potentially win the match. But when that final siren goes, and your team has won, the excitement overwhelms you. You instinctively get up off your chair and jump for joy, fist pumping the air. The massive grin on your face tells it all. Five minutes after the game your hands are still shaking. I've lost my voice.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

eww

threw up at training today.
never eating breakfast on a sunday morning ever again.
stood around for 30 minutes cos i was too sick to do anything
then finally chucked up
people been calling me weak for it
and it's probably true
i guess it's time to tank up, get fit.
time to go at 100% in my attempt to reach my goals.

... after exams...

like a pyramid

Monday, May 17, 2010

coincidence #2

I had job training today for my new job. It ran from 2-5pm. My accounting tute started at 2pm so i had to skip it. Who was at job training? My substitute accounting tutor... Zack
"Don't you have class at 2?"

Oh btw.. i didnt tell yout that Zack has left us... our old tutor is back =( Obviously he left us.. so that he could go to job training too...

All about youu

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Sadness and Sorrow

I almost cried while listening to this...

thanks tom for showing this to me

i'm sorry for hurting you

Sunday, May 9, 2010

good weekend

Happy Birthday Dad
Happy Mothers Day
Happy one year Viv

Had a pretttttty good weekend and Friday night

Things were normal again :)

Patched things up with bffl thank goodness

Watched Ip Man 2 with friends and edi's dad :D epic movie

Dad came back from Brisbane yayyyyyy

Had Max Brenners with family over ate...

Messed things up with bffl again.. im so sorry

Went shopping with sister for presents flowers, movie tickets :)

Had lunch with family :)

Watched a movie at home with family fun :)

Watched footy with dad go hawks!

Raged at footy with dad fk hawthorn are shit..

Patched things up with bffl again :) thank you S2

Had dinner with family over ate... again..

Raged at dinner with family poor service.. soso food.. :(

Went to glenny to farewell a good friend im going to miss you :(

Patched things up with bffl some more :) yayy

Slept in ZzzZzzZ

Had lunch with family over ate.. AGAIN!..

Webcammed with gf hello there :P

and here i am =] in a good mood.

thank you everyone s2

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

coincidence

i just found out...

my sister's good friend's sister is my good friend =]

cool right? :)

~PURPLE RAIN PUUUUUURRRRPLE RAIN

Monday, May 3, 2010

I believe in Zack

So today we got our accounting midsem tests back...

27/45
=(

It wasnt that great.. about half the class failed. Zack our substitute teacher said it was discouraging.. our class had 1 HD, in one of his other classes he had 3/4 of the class get a hd. Do our results reflect on the performance of our previous tutor? Or is it that we're all lazy and cbf? Perhaps the statistic that does reflect on our previous tutor is that out of his 3 classes, approximately 60 ppl.. only 1 person scored a HD and in all the other classes, about half the class failed too. In my opinion.. our tutor is just too weird... our classes arnt fun. Accounting isnt fun. Perhaps this is the reason why we all ceebs.. With Zack on the other hand, he makes us laugh, but also teaches us. Zack has encouraged us to continue persisting with our accounting and has used various methods of persuading us to do so

Money, we pay a lot, dont waste it (yea trust an asian to come up with that)
Shame, dont shame ourselves, dont shame his reputation.
He will fight for us to pass even if we dont
Threatening to bring back our old tutor if we dont do our work... =O
If we fail.. fate will bring us and our old tutor together next semester

He believes in us. Im not too sure that our other tutor did. I believe in him, that he can bring the group out of this little hole that we have dug ourselves into. I hope that everyone can pass at the end of the year.

Thank you for forgiving me

Sunday, May 2, 2010

i wish i could go back in time

wishes i would stop screwing up my life

i have done you wrong

I wish i could go back in time and stop myself

i hope it can go back to what it used to be like

please forgive me

i need you

Monday, April 19, 2010

Accounting

This was the first question in the book for accounting in chapter 6...

Van Huynh believes that the analysis of finacial statements is directed at two characteristics of an entity: liquidity and profitability. Is Alan correct? Explain.

err.. o_O

Coincidentally there is a Van Hyunh in my accounting tute =o

I also got a new accounting tutor. He's pretty cool. Really gets into it when he's teaching. Today he taught us what to do if we couldnt remember the 16 ratios for accounting...

You grab a piece of paper about A7 size. And then you write all your ratios on it.. and then you fold it and fold it and fold it and fold it, then you hide it in any accessable place on your body, it could be behind your watch, behind your collar, maybe up your sleeve.. but it has to be this exact size, because if it's too small you cant fit everything. If you it's too big.. well lets say the person behind you sees you and he's like "HEY WHAT YOU DOING?!?! IM GOING TO GET THE CHIEF EXAMINER!" while he walks off to get him, you quickly scrunch it up and eat it. Imagine trying to scrunch up a A4 sized piece of paper and swallowing it...

Essentially he was teaching us how to cheat. Cool tutor rite?

Sunday, April 18, 2010

The grass is looking greener =]

Literally =] I only just noticed before how green my street looks!

that's not my house =P

Also things are slowly getting better after a hectic week at uni. I've just spent past two days in the library at uni doing a group assignment for Structures. Our task, to design a bridge. Cool right? Not really.. really tedious work and we have to write a massive report and then do an oral on it. Although we havent quite finished, we've finally gotten the report done, just the oral to work on now.

I PASSED DYNAMICS MID SEMESTER TEST!

5.6/10!!!

okay so it's not that great... but considering i was expecting 2/10 so it's awesome =]

Manchester United :) back in the title race. Thank you Tottenham =]

Thursday, April 15, 2010

=O

I was just watching soccer highlights and saw this.
Danny Rose, a 19 year old soccer player on debut for Tottenham against rivals Arsenal scored this amazing volley goal from distance =o

Amazing stuff like this makes me want to play soccer again.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

slowly reaching my goals

YES!! finally reached the 1/3 mark in regards to driving hours for my L's.

My log book now reads..

40hours 45 minutes

Today i went to CYSM training. It was.. tough, but i pulled through in the end. As a noobie, i had to learn the different stances then hold the stances for certain periods of time. We had barely even started at my legs were already shaking furiously. I have been told that i will be sore for the next 3-4 days and i would be surprised, im already feeling the after effects. There is a long way to go before i get to start playing with lions..

Things that i must improve on before the next training session is:

Posture
Tanking up legs
Learn how to punch properly

no need to comment on my curtains xD i know they're ugly

I also got a haircut, more like a thinning =] got the side fringe back, but it's still kinda short, but in the process of growing it out. Longer hair will keep my head warm during winter =] For some strange reason, my fringe is now on the opposite side, hairdresser said it is naturally to that side, but i swear it used to the be on the other cos i remember using my right hand to move the hair out of my eyes/hairflicking to the right side =P
oh btw, those pics are mirror images, i do know my left from my right

CHAOOOOO OUTSIDE MUDA FKERRS

o_O

Sunday, April 4, 2010

time for a change =]

Hiiiiiiiiii everyone =]
i am back, hopefully :)
FIRST POST OF 2010 :D

i deleted all those random posts.. you know what they were.. and we shall never mention them ever again. right?? RIGHT?!?! yea i didnt think you would.

What do you think of the new layout? My favourite colour :D GREEN!!!! nice and clean instead of that dull black colour before.

woo on mid-semester break atm and so far so good. relaxing and partying =D but soon ill have to start working again..

I came into this year scared and confused as to what it would bring but i think things are slowly falling into place now =] doors are opening, and opportunities are arising. i think it's time that i gathered the courage to take these opportunities and start doing things that i've always wanted to do. I have to become a MAN OF DETERMINATION

upcoming events:
hawthorn vs geelong
job interview
yumcha with uni friends?
jacky's house warming party
futsal with CGS boys?
CLASH OF THE TITANS?????
CYSM lion dance training :D:D:D

im excited :D and you should be too =]

i needa take a dump =P JUST KIDDINGGGG