Days we had in Hijiville

2006-12-24T04:58:00.000+11:00

Interesting Present For Christmas

Merry Christmas you all good kids, Santa is gonna land you some pressies! He just gave me a niece, my first niece ever in my life! I'm very excited but a bit uncomfortable too as I will be called "aunt", aunty fay! *shiver*

It's been a while to write here, coz I've been really busy working. It's a good thing coz I feel more useful to do something constructive rather than sitting all day and do silly thinking. Problem haven't completely solved yet, but it seems giving me more and more light, so I'll be fine. I make so much money everyday and I'm happy that I'm good at that, coz I've never thought I'm a business type of person. However, my heart is still devoted to music. :)

Does anyone know anything about Yemen? I might go there in Feb.

I hope you all are doing all good and sound. Have a great celebration.

[[audio: Sufjan Steven - Sister Winter]]

2006-12-06T01:33:00.001+11:00

Kill My Time

I've been in confusion and it sucks big time. But thank god I've got a new job, which I will be the sales leader of a glassware company from Germany, mainly wineglasses. I will be on going a part time probation for one month, then will be start it permenantly. It's gonna be a challenge to me, and will exhaust me too much to be a silly arse. So everyone, wish me luck. :)

[[audio: Bloc Party - The Prayer]]

2006-11-28T05:36:00.000+11:00

For Your Entertainment

These few days were covered by job interviews, one thing I hate about getting a job is to give expected salary. I mean, you have to do a number wisely, but it's hard since you just dunno how much are you supposed to be paid. If you ask too high, you might just lost your opportunity; ask too low will make it like a rip off. Why don't they just give the god damn pay range, it can save a lot of god damn trouble!

[[audio: The Shins - Phantom Limb]]

2006-11-23T23:52:00.000+11:00

A Gleam Of Hope

Here is another chance for myself, I need to be brave and veracious. I don't know if tragedy will repeat itself again or not, but I won't let it, because that is just important to me. I wanna thank so many of you who support me, listen to me, and help me with all you can. You guys make me grow to be a better person, I love you all.

Let's hope that we can get through it.

P.S. French people are brilliant.

[[audio: Subtle - A Tale Of Apes I]]

2006-11-21T23:36:00.001+11:00

Storming Rain In A Great Day

Happy birthday mother, I love you. It's just that my heart is messed up as if today's weather. I can't function myself feeling right, I am confused and scared and anxious. I'm glad that I managed to look fine in your birthday, regardless the pain deep inside.

I think it's good to let the thunder strike the bubble dream, let the storm wake up the blind, let the rain wash off the dirt that cover the real picture that I should have known.

But now, I realised how silly could a person be when she doesn't know what she really want. I just remember a piece of advice for me: "You got to feel what you actually feeling, not how it should feel."

[[audio: Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do?]]

2006-11-19T17:32:00.000+11:00

A Down Time

When I have my unfortunate time, I think of something positive of myself to feel better. But what if this is not about luck? what if I knew it could happen some day, and it just did? since the beginning, I knew. I just let it start by hoping even 90% chance is not gonna work, I still hope that the 10% can show me some miracle. It's stupid, I'm just too naive to see things. But sometimes people just like to be a bit naive, as it's so painful to be too complicated. I guess I just have to take the pain, and be a complicated person.

Good bye simple me.

[[audio: Youth Group - On A String]]

2006-11-07T20:07:00.000+11:00

Mercy Mercy ME!

So finally I have finished my contract with Finnair, and I am gonna have 6 months rest. I am actually pretty happy to stop, my body get unbelievable weak since I started. My skin is in bad condition, I was lack of sleeping way too much, I get sick almost once a week and they all take a lot of time to heal. After 6 months? We'll see.

I am taking the whole November off just to recover myself, sleep and sleep and more sleep... But a week and a half after I quit, the company that I worked for temporary in early May had called up, and they were asking me to work for them. I was like "WOW! I have never found a job without giving much effort like this, it's amazing!" So we have arranged to meet up and talk about it, I think we are having a deal for me to work as a part-time first, which will be consider as a probation period, and permenant contract will come after that. Pretty good, ay?

So what company is that? It's a company that sell ceramics and glassware, and they want me to handle all the wine glasses from a German company - Spiegelau. I will be help promoting them, marketing them and also hosting functions like wine tasting and wine dinner. you drink in your job, that sounds great, isn't it? ha. I think it will start in Dec, so it's good I still have time to rest.

I think I really need to catch up with some people, what a bad friend I am, damn me!
(watch out your mail box, I might drop you a one soon!)

[[audio: Hello Saferide - The Quiz]]

2006-10-27T23:31:00.000+10:00

Lena and B&T

Lena finally came to Hong Kong, we haven't seen each other already a year! Time just flies so fast, but she didn't change much at all, except her funny german accent. I haven't never hear her speaking English to me with such an obvious german accent, couldn't stop giggling coz she's just so cute, but she was embarrassed for a silly reason - because it's so germannnn. pffff.... :p

Anyway, she stayed in my place for a few days, and I took her to many places, The Peak, Lan Kwai Fong, Ocean Park and even to visit my grandpa's grave! Apparently, we both like cementary, so seeing the chinese temple and my grandpa has became one of the greatest part of this trip. Seriously, it just wasn't that scary.

Few days fun and a big goodbye.

But the other week Tiani and her hubby Brendan came for a visit. I have to fly, so we could only catch up one day, but it was fun enough, we drank in some local pub in Tsim Sha Tsui. I have never thought it could be so much fun drinking with them, we had so many great topic to talk, we joked a lot and god I just wish that nite could be a bit longer.

We have also planned to do some music business together, but it's just too early to say right now. I wish it can come true tho. :)

P.S. picture will be uploaded later on.

[[audio: Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche]]

2006-10-19T11:29:00.000+10:00

Strike Against Finnair

I have heard about the rumor of strike from so many finnair cabin crew quite a while, can't believe it has become true today, this morning. I was suppose to fly this morning, was already stuggling, since one of my finnish crew Johanna had told me that the strike is very likely to be on thursday.

It was a mess when I arrived the airport, all the ground staff were on the phone and checking computer and so on. Most of the passengers have already left and go for another airline, from 200 people down to 40 people. Rachel is my partner today, and she was a bit worried too.

Finally the Finnish crews showed up, and they decided to fly back to Finland, because there's still 40 min fro the strike, and I think it's pretty much they wanna stay at home for the strike. So they are all ready to go, but then I started to hesitate. I said I need to back home by Saturday, because I have a doctor appointment, plus Lena my german friend is coming to Hong Kong and I need to pick her up. (the later reason was omitted in front of the purser) So I decided to report sick.

Back to the reason of the strike, it's held by the union who support the airline workers. The company wanna slash down 30% of the flight attendant salary (which is like a xmas big sale!) and move them to their sub-airline in estonia - Aero, which has worse working condition and more harsh work. It's very obvious that no one would like it, since they started off with a better working condition, to the extent, this change has no benefit to the workers whatsoever, no wonder the strike is on. The company lost appoximately 250million euro for one day strike, now imagine that.

I'm so glad that I didn't fly this morning, I was told that they are now forcing all the asian crews fly most of the leisure flight and domestic flight. What's worse is they all dunno when to come back home... far out, i wish them luck!!! And for me, it doesn't really matter because I'm quiting in the end ofthis month. bye bye!

[[audio: Evermore - Come To Nothing]]

2006-09-27T16:24:00.000+10:00

Turku, Estonia and Thailand

I really didn't spend much time here, but I've been doing so much and I'm gonna tell ya now. The whole september was full of plans that I don't even have much time to catch my breathe, and it's probably worse in October, oh well!!

September, I've been hanging out with Suvi most of the time in Finland. But I also went to Turku with Catherine in the beginning of this month, it was an expensive trip, but we still had lots of fun seeing some other side of finland. Turku is the former capital of Finland, so there're quite many historical stuff and heritages. We took an express train there cost 30 euro one god damn way, pfff... But the view was absolutely spectacular, you see a nature side of a scandinavian country, it was full of wheat as if we were sailing on a yellow sea. gorgeous.

All the way from the train station to downtown was a shock, we both popped up a silly question in our head "did we just travel back in time???" It looks like a town back to 80's, this place is old skool!!! Anyhow, we visited some churches, some statues, and the outside of turku castle (because the opening hour has passed! F***!). One of the best spots is the Dom (or Doom) church, it's a huge church kept expanding for more knight grave, so yea, basically it's a cemetery for the noooooble. I also like the whale tail fountain very much, I dun really know if that hides any meaning, but is one real cool tail!

Let's move on, Trip to Estonia was with Suvi. Got up 5am in the morning and went to meet up Suvi in the misty bus stop. It was cold and sprinkling, I was so worried that the weather might turn out shit. Three hours on the ferry moved us from the pouring dogs and cats to sunny Estonia! PHEW~! Tallinn was bloody beautiful, it should be as a tourist spot, everywhere were full taste of Medieval mix with Russian designs.

After some churches visiting and street wandering, we went to meet up with Suvi's friend Ani. He is a very nice buddy, even he had a stress out day, was still being so friendly to me. Suvi said he is a funny man, he can make everything sounds like they are originally from Estonia. That actually reminds me 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding', how's the papa always says everything is originally from Greece. Interesting huh?

Anyway, Ani said we should go out of Tallinn and experience the real Estonia, so he recommended us to one of this Russian restaurant, which is just around the train station outside Tallinn. Once we walked in, it was like a old skool fastfood shop. People are all very grass-roots - old women, site worker, family...etc. Food wasn't that great, but it was very interesting to see all this different faces, except that Suvi wasn't feeling too comfortable. :p

Headed back to Tallinn, we went to this painter avenue, that artists hang up their drawings on the wall for sale, that was so cool! The whole ordinary street has all in the sudden become a gallery, my eyes has turned from fatigue to sparkling! Then we had a drink in Olde Hansa, this is a medival restaurant that a New Zealand passenger friend Aaron introduce to me. Place was awesome, they use all the handmade ceramic kitchen ware, we were served by people in medieval costume, and the whole restaurant (inside and outside) were full of "lord of the ring" choir music, it was absolutely facinating! I had a cup of coffee and Suvi went for a cinnamon Beer, both were bloody nice! God I wish I could go there one more time!

After Estonia, I actually go to Thailand straight after I flew back to Hong Kong. Get change, had a nice breakfast in MIX, a small nap and a bit of chat with my mom to reassure her about the Thai's political change and my boyfriend Henning about where to meet up and so on (yes, I'm going with him - our first vacation), then off i head to the flight.

I have to wait for Henning's flight almost an hour, and he's there then I realised he's in another terminal. Thanks to the nice Thai people show me how to get there, without a problem I met my sweetheart and off we go to our hotel. Henning has planned all the hotels, and they were all very impressive. Hotels in Bangkok, he picked all the "art hotel" = all the rooms were designed by different artist, and all the rooms were so cool, but as a leo, I've picked a red room. haha.

We also headed to Hua Hin for a nice beach and some sun, place was so nice and hotel was still very impressive, except the fact that I couldn't get into the sea, since there's millions and billions of jellyfish swimming around. argghhhh!! It's alright, Henning took me to some very nice restaurant, we headed to a place called Bed supper, where we eat in bed, ohlala. What's more exciting is they have this "surprise dinner" nite, where we dunno what's the menu, we just eat and guess, after we all finish the food, the restaurant will put the dishes name on the over-projector. It was so cool and none of the dishes was ever disappointing, they were all bloody excellent. God I really enjoy that.

Well, I really didn't take much photos in Thailand, because what we do were just eat around and sunbathing. Sorry guys, but if you wanna see more pictures, check out my
photo album 7.

[[audio: The Rapture - Get Myself Into It]]

2006-09-04T02:59:00.000+10:00

Picture About Her

August has a lot of things happened around me, some are good and some are bad, but generally I'm a very happy girl. The last post, as you can see, there're are so many pictures uploaded, first two albums was about my birthday, you probably have read the details in my past post.

And about Heini, she is the first Finnish friend I met in my training, gorgeous person. However, didn't see her since after my training was finished, so this time when I realised we were both working on the same plane to HK, that really excited me.

Despite I was very sick, we did manage to hang out most of the time. It's great to see how she was amazed by the view of my city, and of course the low price of all the clothes, shoes, accesories, bags and so on. Anyway, I really had fun with her.

p.s. I love swedish bands.

[[audio: Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks]]

2006-09-01T20:31:00.000+10:00

At last!!

Meeting Jackson in Helsinki

by me

Richard Walters celebrated my birthday

by me

Heini visiting Hong Kong

by me

All these pictures took me a whole month to upload and label, and I still have more, but I'm gonna write a blog for my August life. If the link is not working, they are in the photo album 7, enjoy!

[[audio: I'm From Barcelona - Oversleeping]]

2006-08-26T12:30:00.000+10:00

Clever Choreography

Friend of mine sent me this clip, I was once again stunned by OK Go!
Nice Video!

Music Video: OK Go - Here It Goes Again (2006)

[[audio: Hellogoodbye - Here In Your Arms]]

2006-08-25T18:44:00.000+10:00

This Is So Addictive!

OK, here is a little candy for you.
Whenever you need some entertainment, remember george washington.

Cox & Combes - “Washington”

Isn't it orsum??? ha! I love this video.

2006-08-21T22:40:00.000+10:00

Prelude Of Long Story

Hey guys, I really have been doing a lot, there's so much had happened and I can't wait to tell you all. But I just never have time to sit down and write about this here. Yea, I've been very very very very busy that I don't even have time to write any emails. I'm really sorry about this if you are expecting something from me! Good news is I have uploaded most of the pictures for my stories, just have to organize them abit, and they will be published here real soon!

I miss you all, Shane I love your drunken tough love story and I will talk to you more in the future, Michael sorry I promised to get online but never have time and i miss you a lot too.

Wanna thanks Henning and Alex for filling up my weekend!

I will write the story here very soon! love you all, drop me an email anytime! I dun have time to write back, but i always have time to read! :)

[[audio: The Knife - Marble House]]

2006-08-03T08:04:00.000+10:00

Where Is That Lazy Bitch?

Hey hey HEY!So yea, I've been slack, but you just have to gimme a break, I fly more than before now, and I had a guest came to visit me in Helsinki, oh! and did I mention it's my birthday last week? Yea, what have you done???? Now just shut your mouth and let me suffer my hangover gracefully. aww, i love you, dun be a cry baby!

So yea, I have quite a tight schdule for this month, but I will have some day off in the weekend in Hong Kong, so itäs good, I just go out more, muhaha...! But I just wanna say my last couple of weeks had been really awesome, my good friend Jackson came to Helsinki for my birthday while he's travelling around europe. We got heaps to catch up, 2 nights are just not enough. Anyway, I took him to see some gorgeous churches, amazing islands, and of coz some dodge clubs. We had great fun together, but he's off to Italy already, wish him the best and have a safe trip. (Jacko, stop stealing people's bake potatos! and dun end up in jail!)

Back to HK, it was the exact date of my bday, so I didn't really get much sleep, there's too much to do! I had some good time chatting with all my friends on the internet, I wanna say thanks to everyone who sent me all the bday ecards, text and calls.

What happened was me headed to this very nice venue to see a gig performed by some local indie bands and this very good UK singer Richard Walters. God I love his voice, it's seems so soft and tender. I was so amazed that he did a cover of a song by Joseph Arthur, and he nailed it well. I couldn't go up and tell him how great he is, and we chat a bit, even took a picture together! I will post it later, if you are curious. Anyway, it was an awesome night, glad to see Jo and Christine.

The next day, I went to hang out with my high school buddies, this is literally the first time we reunited since I came back from Australia. It's definitelly good to see them all again, no one apparently has changed much on the outside, but we all have actually done a lot. Just look at Ivan, last time I see him, he was still an accountant, now he has became a police, GO you boy!

But also for this reason, he was not allowed to go to any clubs with us. However, I also have to meet up with some other friends, so we end up leaving my high school friends there, and continued my night with other friends of mine. I know it sounds bad, but it's not really. My high school friends are really understandable people, I'm sure we will have more time to catch up very soon, and there's another bday gal there anyway, so it's all good.

I was taken to this club call SUGAR, it's like a VIP club that you cannot enter unless your name is on their list and so on. But once you walk in there, it's just make no different from other clubs around, well, ok I'll be fair, it's just slighty better with some good techno. But it doesn't mean that it's bad, I think it's pretty ok, but I'm just not happy with the fact that people have to be in the guestlist to get in, it's like bollocks to me.

Although I ended up with two of my German friends at last, I really had a lot of fun with them. Anyhow, I ended the party at 5:30am, Sunday and Monday... I just passed out all day. OK, I did have a bit of good chat with Michael, you are lovely dude, I miss ya.

I guess that's about it, I'm now still in Helsinki, just caught a flu, TATA! Feel kinda shit, it's getting cold here now, why is that the summer's so short here?? *sob* But I have to say, today I went exploring another new corner of Helsinki, and I found so many crazy good stuff in this new street, my heart feel so alive for this moment! Jeez, life is good! (Oh, and to one special gal, I got your bday present that you really want! ehehehe... dun be shy!)

P.S. I was told Ladytron is touring to HK soon, is it true??? OMG!

[[audio: The Strokes - I'll Try Anything Once]]

2006-07-12T00:11:00.000+10:00

In The Backseat

It's been a while to write something up here, why? I'm just being slack. Probably because I was quite busy and uninteresting, I just wanna leave this blog out for a while and do something else. So besides playing Final Fantasy XII and watching TV series, movies & you tube. I caught up with some old friends that I haven't seen for a while, also met up with some finnish colleagues who I flew with.

One thing I found it's funny about meeting up with my Finns friends, I feel like being a guest more than a host, they were the one who TOOK me out eating, in a very fancy Indian restaurant with a fantastic habor view, then after a few drinks, they taxied me to their hotel and we watched the world cup together, and they spared a hotel room for me to stay overnight. I feel more like a tourist than they do, but it was very nice to hang out with them, lovely people.

Talking about world cup, I'm sure most of you know how sad I was to see France, but that missed penalty shot was so close to get in, very unlucky. Right now, the most controversial topic would be Why did Zidane head-butt Materazzi, lip reader claims that Materazzi insult Zidane as a dirty terrorist. Actually for the moment when the headbutt happened, everyone knows it's Materazzi provoked Zidane with some very very bad words. Whatever he said, he deserved that headbutt, even though it's apparently wrong.

Not gonna dwell much on that, moving on.

Let's talk about Miranda July's "Me and You and Everyone We Know" again, have I talk about it before? I can't rememberm but I have been re-watching it again and again, last time I did was few days ago with some friends. One of my friends was the first one who opened her mouth saying this film is gross and disgusting and boring, I personally love this film very much because I don't see it in the way she sees it. I see "Me and You" as a film to depict how people get lonely in isolation by themselves or by others; how people try to react out and express themselves to make connections, regardless whether it has any feedback or not. Every character has their own complex life, they are so real that it seems you can see someone like them across the street. None of the scene is redundant, because they are building on one and each other. Even the scene where the little kid says "I wanna poop in your butthole and you poop into mine, back and forth, forever." ,aka ))<<>>((, it is a very meanful scene despite my friend said it was nasty. Take a step back, I think it was just a child's mind about how sex (poop back & forth) and love ( forever) is. There are so many scenes are very touching, the goldfish, the low ankle, the iceland, the special t-shirt, the art project with the old men, "the bird in the tree" in the tree...etc. This film has so many things to digest, if you think it's boring, you were probably not really watching it.

I try to avoid the word "shal**w" here, if you know what i mean.

you know, the situation here is really like people wearing those wristbands for a look instead of the meaning behind the cancer project/ making difference for poverty...etc. A thing is not what it is if you don't know/care the meaning behind, it's just nothing.

[[audio: TV On The Radio - I Was A Lover]]

2006-06-27T15:21:00.001+10:00

No, Thank You!!

I had enough, I'm going to make a declaration here to several people.

To whoever you know what you are, if you want to be nice to me, please respect what I want. If you think mocking what I really want is funny, I tell you want, no it's not. I'm fully serious when it comes to what I want, I don't JOKE about it and I can't JOKE about it. And don't yell at me because I ain't listening to your "lesson", you've lost all my respect once you don't listen to me. (and yes, I hate patriarchism) I'm very self-centered and stubborn in terms of this, but I respect what you want, so why can't you give me some space?? There're something you just can't mock from a person.

I don't give a shit how rich you are or how powerful you are, respect doesn't come from what class you are standing or whether you have helped me before or something. It's not helping if you don't respect me, not meant to be rude, but I'd rather like to live with my attitude. I listen to only justice and what is fair, if you think I have to listen to you because you are somewhat better than me, no offence, but you can just shut up. I'm good without you.

If you think I have done something wrong, don't fucking scold, come and talk calmly. I will apologize if I've made any mistakes, but don't fucking yell and judge me way before you know the whole story!

ASK, LISTEN AND BE CALM. OTHERWISE, FUCK OFF.

P.S. Good game Aussie! That was not meant to be a penalty.

[[audio: The Grate - Lies Are Much More Fun]]

2006-06-22T14:15:00.000+10:00

Back Home

Oppps, it did get worse, I've became a sick cat again.

Mom was so worried and she want me to go to hospital, but Doc said there's nothing much they can do, coz I'm having allergic reaction, not poisoning. He did a blood test on me and changed a higher level's medication. I'm now visiting my doc very often, once per two days, the rest of my day will be resting in my air-con room. I just hope that I will get well before my next flight, as I don't wanna get worse. *sigh*

P.S. I've finally bought The Sound's CD in Finland! cost me fucking 22 euros, but it's worth since I can't find it in Hong Kong! Rock n' Roll!

[[audio: Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy]]

2006-06-19T15:05:00.000+10:00

Off And Go Again

The photos of my last couple of trips are all uploaded! go and check it out! (in photo album 7)

Went to see my doc this morning, I was so worried that he might not let me to fly tomorrow. Surprisingly he said I can fly if I want to, but I might get worse when I get back because of lack of sleeping and air pressure. Therefore, we have a deal that I will go on flying, but I will visit him immediately after I landed back to Hong Kong on Thursday morning. Phew~! I just hope everything will go well and I might have to stay in the hotel in my entire staying if necessary.

For some reasons, I've been very pleasant regardless how sick I was, can't explain it but I'm in a very good mood. But my mom started to get anxious that I didn't step out of my room for the whole week, she kept asking me to go out with her. I just can't though, outside is too humid and too hot, it will worsen my condition. Now I'm like a greenhouse girl, I have to stay in my room most of the time with air-con on! I guess my mom was very guilty about my situation, because she was the one who gave me the medicine that I'm allergic to. But I never blame her, she is a good mom, even though she can do nothing now, I still love her. Poor mother.

Since I've got so many time in my room, I've got to watch soooooo many movies. All the old movies like Prozac Nation, King Kong, Brokeback Mountain, Munich and Harry Potter - The Goblet of Fire. They are all very good hollywood movies, but I particularly like Prozac Nation, it was introduced by my friend Sarah. She and I have very similar taste of movie and music, so I know this is gonna be good, and it didn't disappoint me at all. Prozac Nation is about how A young woman (Ricci) struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard. Based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's novel, very impressive movie.

Another film I've just watched a while ago is Factotum, I think it's still playing in Dendy. I like this film a lot, the protagonist is actually the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, which is also the reason that arouse my interest, as I've watched a doco about him - "Bukowski: Born into This". Movie was superb with a lot of humor in it as well as Bukowski's interesting philosophies, it was also impressive that Bukowski's doesn't-give-a-shit attitude was very well portrayed.

OK, I'm being a movie geek now, gotta stop and pack for tomorrow's trip! Before I'm out of here, wanna share this funny footie video with you, thanks to Shane for sending me this. You must be very bored, haha.

Bad day to soccer!

Also this funny ad sent by Danny, it's been a while, but I still laugh so bad from watching a min ago. You can't miss it. :)

German Coastguard wanna know what you are "thinking" about.

OK, Peace off.

[[audio: The Stills - Yesterday Never Tomorrows]]

2006-06-18T08:43:00.000+10:00

Almost... Back To Shape

So, think I'm well enough to get myself back to the blog, I've been very sick after I flew back to Hong Kong. (Took me 3 days on and off to write this blog...) Well, I don't wanna dwell about the details, but I have some very bad allergic reaction towards some medication. I'm not totally recovered now, but it's getting there and I'm doing my best to get well soon, so I can fly on 20th Jun! To be honest, I actually started feeling sick at the time I took off last week, but I didn't know it would turn out so serious after I get back.

Anyhow, last trip was very great, I was pairing with Harry, he is very helpful and fun to work with. We did a lot in Finland since we got more time to stay in the weekend, plus we are both beach nerds and museum geeks! To the extent, the weather was super fine there, sunny and warm - just like Summer Oz, so I was very pleasant even though I was unwell. Special thanks to Johanna, the Finnair crew we met on the street, she told us so much about Helsinki and took us around to see something very nice, kiitos!

We went to the Helsinki beach, all the little parks, went through some Finns festival, fish market, visited National Museum as well as Design Museum, and of coz did some serious shopping there! The powerful sunshine can really drive people to do so many things, I felt so energetic, didn't seem like sick at all. I guess it also had to do with Harry, we can just kept joking once we see each other. It was so funny when he told me how he can be so quiet when he was tired, and he said he's exhausted but he just kept talking. Well yea, Harry is a good dude, love working with him. :)

We bumped on a street festival "Reclaim the Street", people were drinking and dancing on the busy main street, skateboarders were doing tricks on the statue, and you can see DJ were spinning some nice drum n' bass, was very cool coz I rarely see Finns go so active and crazy (people were dancing on the top of a tram statin) like this, guess I smelled some weed too. ha. Another festival was more religious, the Helsinki church was having some outdoor ceremony, I didn't know what that is since ya know I'm not religious at all. It bores me anyway, so I leave before it start.

Next day, we went to the beach after breakfast, the beach was alright there, quite a nice view, but I have to say Aussie beach is still far much better! One thing that I don't really enjoy was the cheesy pop music they play in the public announcement system, we are like being forced to listened to stupid Pussycat doll and shit like that, arghh... Oh well, we've decided not to stay too long and spend more time in the museum instead. We spent like 2 hours in the National Museum and 2 hours in the Design Museum, couldn't even feel my legs after that!

Our last day, we just utilized our last 2 hours, went shopping like crazy! I spent like more than 100euros, oh my goodness... The moment I give pay my stuff, I feel like a monster and burn my money to eternal hell! EVIL! Full of guiltiness, but hey, I got a lots of good thing! Back to hotel and just pack and go!

Back flight was really good, the crews also invited me to go drink in Lan Kwai Fong with them! I even said yes, but I was too sick to go after that, so I ditched them. I'm a sucker, sorry mates!

I'm going to see my doc again tomorrow morning, hopefully he would allow me to fly on tuesday. Right, I'm gonna upload the pictures and will post you a notice here once I'm done.

[[audio: Thom Yorke - Atoms For Peace]]

2006-06-10T02:29:00.000+10:00

Way On

Ready for my second flight, Yeehaa!

I've been on a movie marathon:

I just wanna say Million Dollar Baby is really a good movie, the ending is a bit out of my expectation, so which is even better. I love Hilary Swank, so she is a plus to me. :)

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is awesome, Tommy Lee Jones is a bit crazy, but I like him a lot. That Mexican corpse is something exciting to watch, am I a bit psycho here?

Brokeback Mountain is OK, i know a german film had done the very similiar story before this, so I wasn't very excited about the whole scenario. But hey, nice scenery!

OK, I should go to bed now, I got few hours to sleep only. Germany beats Costa Rica, it was what I expected but I still wanna see Costa Rica win. Damn~~~

[[audio: The Kook - Naive]]

2006-06-05T20:23:00.000+10:00

Lazy Me

I hate being tired, it just kills all my mood to do a lot of things. Anyhow, my flight did come back safely, and I also did a pretty good job as a flight crew. It was amazing to see the take-off and landing in the cockpit, it's a very magical experience, better than disneyland! ha.

I've taken some pictures here, so you can see me in summer uniform, a lot of people say that I look like a nurse... On the right side, those are some of the Finns crews who I worked with on this plane, and we were about to serve the meal.

The weather was abit out of expect when I get there, It could be fine for this moment and then rain in few minutes later. I was being too Australian, walked out with a pair of throngs, and end up having freezing toes!! However, this unfortunate walk did pay-off, I got a chance to see the beautiful rainbow while walking along the lake. Check this out:

On my way back to the hotel, saw a board saying "Hyva Lordi!". I just have to take a picture of it, some of you may know about Lordi won the eurovision this year, and they are just a bunch of heavy metal dude wearing monster-liked costume! I just love this contest, it's getting more and more ridiculous, picking Lordi to be the champion is just perfect to explain the european's insanity! haha.

Anyway, I've also uploaded some pictures we took in my training period in Finland, they are located in photo album 7, but you can also simply click here. I'm flying on 10 June, which is this weekend, can't wait!! Coming up, I will also fly on 20th and 29th June. Wee~~~

My life has been great, it's full of potential and happiness, I'm just content and hope it keeps on going. Right now, I just wanna wish the Australia Soccoroos the best! I'm so happy to see the Soccoroos get into the world cup since like 32 years ago, but it's also abit harsh to have them playing with Brazil and Japan! (I don't know about Croatia...) But ya know, just have a good game and that's all matters! Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!

P.S. Lena is coming to Hong Kong~ YEAH~~~~ Sehr Gut!

[[audio: Holly Thornsby - Making A Fire]]

2006-05-25T01:33:00.000+10:00

I Am Coming Back Finland

I've been suffered from some irritating calls by an Indian diamond company, they kept asking me to do audio typing for them in a very low salary. Well, it wasn't that low, but compare with the one they offer at first, is relatively too low!

You may wonder why I'm working there instead of flying, coz as a flight attendant, I'm allowed to do ad hoc/ temporary work! Plus my agency can help me grab heaps job, which includes the exhibition promoter I previously work and this high pay stupid work.

I mean, why the hell people need an audio typer? when they can tell you what to write, can't they just write/type it by themselves? I think this is kind of like showing off how rich they are to pay someone to write/type for them!!! To be honest, I don't really mind doing this job since they pay very well, but I really hate the boss's attitude. He always call me to work randomly (he asked me to work on saturday nite and sunday before too), and he also constantly need me to be there immediately, but the thing is, everytime when I got there, they just want me to wait for like 2 hours before doing something!

I spent like 60% of my time waiting there. I thought it would be good since I got pay anyway, but ya know, you just feel so meaningless just to sit there and do nothing. Why did he ask me to be there immediately at the first place then? I mean, it just make me feel that they don't respect people's time, and they think money can buy people's time.

Not really. Because I quited.

But then, they called my phone and ask me to work again! This time is more ridiculous, they want me to work for them personally in a low salary, but in cash. I mean why I wanna work for you while you are cutting my salary and I think you stink?

So I call the agency to deal with those bastards, they can kiss my arse. Problem solved.

I'm flying very soon this morning, everything is ready, except me~ *nervous*

P.S. Happy birthday Shane my Biggie the pimp, you sexy mature man~ ha! have a good craic! xo

[[audio: Human Television - Saw You Walking By]]

2006-05-16T01:11:00.000+10:00

We All Have Been Waiting

New Zealand 2nd album Is Finally Done! Gimme a Heyhoo! "HEYHOO!"

In this album, I have uploaded the second part of the Milford Sound (The best part of this place), Queenstown, Glenorchy Paradise, Cardona & Wanaka, Franz Josef Glacier and Okarito. They are all very beautiful places in the Southern Island, and you should definitely not miss it!

Check them out on the side bar, or simply click this link:
http://community.webshots.com/user/hijinz2

I will start working on other photos in New Zealand includes Punakaiki Pancake rocks, Wellington, Taupo, Auckland and more. CRAZY!

[[audio: Sunset Rubdown - Three Colours]]

2006-05-14T02:43:00.000+10:00

I Don't Like People Who Do Cute Or Depress

Guys and girls, seriously, what is your problem? I don't get it, why people have to act what they are not? What is the point?

CUTE: not everyone is cute, but why they have to act like that? This tendency is most likely to happen on female, expecially when they are in front of a good looking male or in a group of friends. All I can think of is, they want to catch attention, they want to be taken care like a cute baby or cute puppy. Look girls, if you need attention, go streaking; if you want to be taken care of, go back to your parent! Cute is just for kids and people who are being sweet deep from their heart. You are not giving sweet, you are giving pain!

DEPRESS: I understand people who need time to get over something bad, and they have all the rights to be depressed. But what I hate is people who like to indulge in their depressive world, they asked you to help while you can tell they just want something else (probably they need some sportlight!) - They didn't make an effort to change or take your help, though they said they had. If you really want to make a change, I'm more than happy to help, but if you just want someone to be your sad film's supporting act, fuck off! You are not emo enough to write a song, so why don't you stop wasting time? People's attention can be attracted in so many ways, perhaps you can get it in a less miserable way?

In short, do something constructive and positive!

[[audio: Kaiser Chief - The Modern Way ]]

2006-05-11T00:25:00.000+10:00

Behind The Red Dress And High Heels

These few days I've been worked for a Germany Company promoting wine glasses in a very big exhibition show for all the restaurants and bars in Hong Kong, I had a fabulous time but also painful feet!

My boss was expecting me to wear a pair of high heels not less than 2inches, it might be nothing to other girls, but I've never really standing on a pair of high heels for 6 hours without a break! My weight was all supported by my poor toes, they were all like squashed together.

Moreover, I have to be very cautious while walking around the booth, since my working area was right next to a huge expensive wine glasses display. Every step I took, I went to myself "Be careful... Be very careful....!" Other than that, everything was wonderful.

The craziest time would be the couple of days before I start working, as the company wants me to get a red dress. Plain, fire engine red, tight, not loud, high class... etc, those are all the description they gave me. And I can only conclude that they are looking for a bloody Flamingo!

Even though they sponsor me the dress, it is just so difficult to find a specific red dress in Hong Kong in only two days, not even mention RED is absolutely not popular here! But thank god I found one and the only when I was about to give up, this dress issue really drove me mental!

anyway, that's my working clothes:

Great fun! I even got a pile of namecards, didn't expect that at all, I'm just a temporary promoter anyway. You won't believe how many things I could get, someone wanna give me a whole Alaska Salmon, another booth wanna give me a whole chocolate mud cake (4 pounds!). I didn't take any though, don't think it would make me look good in a celebration party that I intended to go.

I believe there's bad people everywhere, there's one man really pissed me off though. I don't know where he's from but would be somewhere tropical since he got dark skin. He's not chinese but speak fluent cantonese, as he told me he has been living in Hong Kong for 20 years. A very arrogant man who claimed he secretly work in some underground gang, he was convincing me to work for him and was being very touchy. I don't like to mess with this kinda over the top asshole, so I just find a chance to sneak off. Fucking hate gangster-wannabe.

[[audio: Shouts Out Loud - Please Please Please]]

2006-05-05T22:06:00.000+10:00

People Like To Do What Is Stupid

Today I was very irritated by a couple of things in this time of my life, because I couldn't think it straight about something. There's so many complicated formulas in a human mind, just trying get one that works to solve a stupid problem. That's why we whinge so much, I'm just not as optimistic as you thought. I agree what one says that whinging is what we can count for sure as truth.

The only reason we whinge is probably because we found out errors in the world, in people or in ourselves. Just like the Chinese say, "Ignorance is a bliss." It's so true, wisdom is what we discover the contradictions between our life and the society, what a tease to all the philosophers! Sometimes you just don't know who is the real smart and who is being stupid here.

Anyway, I made some actions to sort my problems out, don't know whether it works or not, but at least I did something.

Then, I read this very nice dialogue from an email, I like it a lot, it cheers me up:

Fish tells the Lake, "You cannot see my tears, because I live in the water." then, the Lake replies, "I can feel your tears, because you live in my heart."

with some Télépopmusik, bad mood's gone.
I Love Electronica.

[[audio: Télépopmusik - Just Breathe]]

2006-04-28T03:36:00.000+10:00

Two Years Old Baby

I just noticed today is exactly two years away from the day I started this blog, do you call it 2nd anniversary, hooray!! I guess I've missed the 1st year, hmmmm.... anyhoo, it's cool to be nerdy!

For this special occasion, as well as to celebrate FBi 94.5FM radio station has finally got its tail hooked to the internet (aka. online streaming), I've moved my sidebar template a bit, top to the bottom: FBi Radio streaming link**, My profile, Photo Album has moved here!, more cool link, more cool douchebags, and more old shit.

So go on, explore the site! and listen to Fbi! donate money to them! sure you can donate money to me too! *grins*

P.S. Final: Barcelona v. Arsenal, GO BARCA!

[[audio: The Dandy Warhols - You Were The Last High]]

2006-04-27T19:01:00.000+10:00

Ready To Fly

Ello, me again.

As I promised, the story continues here, the Closing ceremony.

Well, I've been studying hard and playing hard in Finland during these 7 weeks, I'm sure everyone can kinda sense that. ha! Now I know how to save you when the plane crash, I know how to save you when you have a heart attack, I know how to save you when a drunk russian harassing you from the back, I know how to beat your arse if you are not behaving well. Of course I know how to open a champagne bottle for you, and make your mom a cup of coffee. Therefore, me and my colleagues deserve a ceremony to celebrate the beginning of our cabin crew life.

Katriina, who's been look after us during the course, has given out a very touching speech. Kiris, who's the chief of crew training, was there giving out each of us a flight attendent certificant. In the meanwhile, we have offered a secret present (a photo album with some pictures of us) to Kati, she was very surpirised and touch. Other instructors also received a present (a picture of the whole crew) from us, everyone was very delighted and emotional.

After we headed back to the hotel, our neighbour, Finnair Nagoya crew, has organised a surprise party for us. They are the most lovely Japanese people I've met, making us sushi, salmon salad, okonomiyaki and much much more. However, we also offered them some white wine and champagne as a thank you. It was such a great party, I get to talk to many of them, awesome people they are. My Nagoya gang, if anyone of you are reading this, good luck to all your exams, and I will see you all very soon! Keep it real.

The next day, I was trying to find my Finnish friend Heini to say goodbye before I leave Helsinki, but she went to a friend's funeral, which was quite sad. It was a shame that I couldn't see her, but she calls me to say good bye, it was very sweet. I didn't mention Heini much here, coz we didn't spend much time together, mostly meeting each other in the smoking room when the break is on. However, she is one of the people makes me believe that Finns can have so much fun, a sweetheart with good wits. Way you go girlfriend!

The trip coming back was incredibly terrible though! Since there's no direct flight back to Hong Kong, we have to fly ourselves to Guangzhou(9hr) and get the bus back down to Hong Kong(5hr).Was trying to get some sleep, but there's a very annoying flight attendent kept chatting with the couple who were sitting in front of me, they were loud and it was dreadfully irritating. To all the cabin crew, talking in a cabin while everyone wants to sleep is a big no-no! It was bad since I was not allowed to give any comment as a ID passenger, but thank god the man who sat across the aisle was making a big "SHHHHH....", well done mister!

The most horrible part of this trip is to get through the custom from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, because there's no trolleys or whatsoever. Each of us were carrying at least 3 lugguages which weight not less than 60kg in total, plus it was a saturday and the place was fully crowded. Now imagine that! harsh, huh? Now imagine that again! coz while we thought it's over, the driver said we have to do it again while getting into hong kong custom! F*cking Hell! I was completely wrecked after all this, and I do appreciate that it's really over!

So this is the end of it, but hang on, I do wanna talk about the music scene there.

Finland is a dreamland for all the gothic punkers, famous gothic rock bands like H.I.M., Lovex and Kwan (this group got a bit of hip hop there!) are all Helsinki based.

The first time I listen to HIM and Lovex, there's a sense of familiarity, I started to ask myself "doesn't it sounds like Japanese visual rock (aka. Jrock)?" Yes it really does, very much! It's just that the Finns aren't tend to do any over-the-top feminine make up. Whereas Kwan is a very interesting case here, goth with a bit of rap in there, and the video is very goth cool too. (I saw their latest MTV "Diamond") So yea, you can easily see bunch of lolita goth walking around the street, and personally I think they looks heaps better than Japan and HK, sorry.

Some local Finnish bands like Egotripp and PMMP are very nice to listen to as well. The former is a soft rock band, they got some very good tunes, and I like them quite a lot. The latter one is a 4 piece rock band, sounds pretty much like tegan and sara with a youth spirit in it, I really like their latest song "Matkalaulu".

Well, I didn't really have any chance to dig into the Finnish Hip hop scene, but I heard of this Helsinki Hip Hop dude "Redrama", who apparently won some music awards. So I went to check out his CD in a record shop, goodness he looks like a Finnish Eminem! He sounds a bit like him too, let me guess, he must has won the cheesy poppy eminem clone award. Since I didn't have much research in this area, based on only Redrama, I'd like to hold my comment here.

"Yo, I'm like soooooo Eminem right now."

Besides Finnish, I listen to Swedish bands most of the time, and I'm lovin' it! The knife, Royksopp, Jens Lekman, The Cardigans, The Hives and so on. Now I've found another band called "The Sounds", I totally dig it! I haven't get a chance to listen to their debut "Living In America", but their latest release "Dying to say this to you" is really good. Old skool 80's rock with a bit of blondie attitude, muah muah mamma mia!

They are gonna be the NEXT BIG THING! TREMENDOUS!

[[audio: H.I.M - Killing Loneliness]]

2006-04-22T23:47:00.000+10:00

Smell You Later Helsinki

Time flies so fast, a blink of eyes and I'm back to Hong Kong again. I also notice my blog has been neglected for a month, oh my poor baby... Mama ain't no slacker tho, it's just a difficult time for me to use the only computer that share with the whole hotel. Anyhow, it's good to get back to my technological home for a while~

Let's do some update here first, where was I? Oh yes, the cruising trip to Stockholm!

Dream Comes True In Stockholm

It was pretty cool to cruise in winter, coz you can see how it break the thick ice. Inside the cruise is all very touristy, ya know, live show, casino, expensive restaurants, spa & sauna and so on. I did had a very good time there with my mates and my intructor Kati, and her good friend Tony who is also working for Finnair. The buffet was something I would like to mention, they have so many fresh salmon in different cooking style, and I digged in so much expensive black (russian chewy one) and white (very tasty and more expensive!) Caviar without feeling guilty at all, sooooooo good~~~! Champagne, House Wine, Beers, Vodka... drink as much as you like! Hooray!!!!!

We arrive Sweden the next morning, it was absolutely beautiful and impressive, even though I didn't stay there for long. This kingdom has everything I always dream of: Old town, Modern city, theatres, museums, great bands, poetic snow view with elegant cello player sitting under the sun. To all my game lovers, that's exactly how it looks like in most of the Japanese RPG games I have played before, do I have to say anymore?

Visiting Kati

We do have a very good relationship with all our instructors, and we are like a family there. It was so cool that Kati invite us and our first aid teacher Kristina to her place, doing what? Do you really need me to tell you? Of course PARTY!

To bring in the Australian culture, I bought 4 extraordinary Australian Wine to Kati, very proud of it! Brown Brothers, Wolf Blass, Rose Estate, Hardy's - They are all my favorite, and everyone loves them. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!

Kati is such a good cook, she bakes very nice bread, makes excellent dip and mushroom soup! (She told me all the mushrooms were hand-picked by herself in the forest!!! Now this is wicked.) I enjoyed all the food very much, but never more than seeing Kati's photo album when she was a crazy teenager, wearing a see-through dress with a white heart painted on her hair. She said it's a grown up ceremony in Finland, do believe that!

City Of Porvoo

Easter holiday is always a good excuse to go travelling again, especially for whose staying in the hotel in Finland! I was thinking to go to either St.Petersburg ior Estonia, but I dun have enough time to organise the trip, so we ended up staying in the city of Porvoo, northeast from Helsinki.

It looks quite empty in the town since it's Easter holiday and most of the things are sorta closed. However, you never know if you don't explore, and yes we did found this beautiful old town on the frozen riverside behind all the modern shops and malls.

Me and Harry decided to left the group for a while, walked up the hill and checked out the Finnish cemetery. Many people don't really like to get into a cemetery, but it's just not a creepy place really, it was very peaceful there. After that, we went back to the other side of the river and visited the Porvoo Church, it looks simple on the outside, but quite delicate inside. There's a tiny little chocolate shop next to the church, very cozy and very nice shopkeeper, I got to taste their chocolate for free, in return, me and Harry bought some expensive chocolate and share, yumm!

We met up with the group after a cup of coffee and some delicious chocolate, headed to the other river where we can see the ski resort. No I didn't ski coz the snow were melting, but we were singing out loud on the street like a bunch of drunk brits. Well, I guess I have done that with the germans in Sydney before, so why not doing it again? Me and Elaine also sneaked to people's ship, but we headed back immediately after we found out the ship is just painted and there're some dirty shoes' prints newly added. Opps!

Ok, I'm off for some sleep now, will mention the closing ceremony and other Finnish stuff in the upcoming post, so why dun you come back later?

[[audio: The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes]]

2006-03-27T01:55:00.000+11:00

3 Weeks Time

Hey guys, how's it going? I am doing very well in Finland and really enjoying the training here. I finally have time to upload some of the pictures that we took in the first few days, will show you more soon... when I have time.

Training in Finnair is great, and I really learn so much. Imagine me operating the aircraft door, jumping out the slide, fire fighting, smoke diving, doing CPR and so on... and craziest one would be seeing me in that uniform! ha!

I also get to see the nightlife of Finns, went out to a pub last weekend. It's very cool and finally get to talk with some finns outside work! I have to say clubbing in sydney is still my top one, but hey, different countries different style, or maybe I just went to a crappy one.

Went cross-country skiing last weekend too, it's great fun and only cost me 10 euros! Bargain~~~! This place is called Lansi Pakila, 90% looks like a Narnia scene, very gorgeous!

And After the tough exam of First aid, I will go to Stockholm next weekend, BY CRUISE!!!! Woohoo! I will only be staying there for one day, so unfortunately won't be seeing my sweetheart Corynne. But hey! that biatch is going to see The Knife in Berlin on Thursday, Im sooooooooooooo Jealous! I need to get myself on hook with some Finnish bands too!

Ok, Off I go now! Peace with one love my people!

[[audio: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion]]

2006-03-08T03:24:00.000+11:00

Living In Espoo

Hi everyone, I am so excited being in Finland here for the training. I cant believe how I move from the lovely Sydney to the snowy Finland, this is all so wonderful. Except that I forgot to bring my warmest jacket, my watch and my camera, but its all good, some of mz crews lend me a jacket and took pictures for me, so what can i saz? I am lucky!! I do miss all the people in Australia tho, I hope you all doing well.

I have to keep this post short, with three big reasons.

1. I am using a stupid european keyboard, so many letters go with different keys, and so many symbols go missing! It took me an hour to finish this post, so feel my effort!

2. I do have a lot to study for my training, they just gave me this thicker-than-the-bible-handbook to read! so... yea!

3. Theres five people standing behind me to use the internet! thats whats bad about free internet when theres only one computer here in the hotel!

anywho... if anyone wanna send me something or give me a buzz, here is my contract information-

Address - Room 402, Espoon Privatel Oy, Porarinkatu 3, FIN-02650 ESPOO, Finland.
Home Phone - +358 9 511 05402
MOB - 044 927 6196

OK, I gotta run! will send some pictures on soon!

[[audio: Uncle Ho]]

2006-03-01T19:44:00.000+11:00

The Answer

Finally I've got it, a call that decides my next adventure! After so many mental and physical tests, interviews and medical checkings, "Hi Fay, you are hired." and that's how I got the job! Despite I have another dilemma right here to solve, I just have to ditch everything for now and scream "HI 5, HELSINKI!".

No more jinx, so what happened? Well, I'm employed by Finnair as a flight attendant, and I am flying to Helsinki on this coming Saturday night, and will be trained for 6 weeks over there before I start working. Now isn't this exciting? I have to admit this is all about Finland and good money, but I'm sure I can follow up my desired career later. Woo, it's gonna be cold there, but let's think positive here: "SKI SKI SKI!!!"

Yes, I did mention a dilemma here, which is a very awkward situation that kind of tore me apart. I am actually also invited for an interview as a production assistant by a local music video production company, and this is a position that can push me up to one of my desired jobs - music video producer. I went to the interview today, and the manager was very satisfied about my interview and my qualification. However, (1.) I am heading off to Helsinki three days later; (2.) I have a contract with Finnair that if I quited within 6 months, there is a hugh amount of compensation fee responsible to pay! Terrible, isn't it?

P.S. Don't really care about having an operation, piercing and tattooing, but I am in fear of dentist!

[[audio: Soho Dolls - Stripper]]

2006-02-18T15:59:00.001+11:00

Angels And Demons

You just have to read this, Maddox rules.

I don't have much to say for this moment, just like to be quiet while I'm waiting for something. Anyway, hope this post finds everyone is well.

[[audio: Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye]]

2006-02-14T23:23:00.000+11:00

Bloody Valentine

It's like a rollercoaster ride this week, a mixture of excitment, nerve, worry, happiness and sadness. Crazy job interviews are driving me crazy, things are looking up here, but I'm not gonna say that much now, coz it can really jinx me to hell.

To all the couple, happy valentine's day. No offence to this special day, the reason I put this topic up is all because a nurse said happy valentine's to me while doing blood test on me this afternoon, and I just get back to her "yea Bloody Valentine's to me right now!! ewww~". Then I started to think "Hmm, I'm bloody creative or what? gotta put this bloody sweet line on my bloody blog!" So yea... I got wit.

I've been digging myself to some retro 80's, damn I'm like soooooooo gonna perm my hair like those 80's chicks, and put on a black leather jacket with a short skirt, then walk out to the street and sing "I NEED SOME HOT STUFF GIVE IT TO ME NOW!~" Yes, this part of daydreaming really hype me up. Even though Shane said 'Total Eclipse Of My Heart' is a mad fu*k up song only for girls who have a problem, I still like it very much. So go away you Bonnie Tyler hater!! OK, let's clear this up in case you really think I'm a HOPELESS chick, I don't have a problem and I think 'RESPECT' is my top 1 80's... FU*KIN' BELIEVE ME!

Speaking of good music, I wanna said thanks to Nick from Nonzero Records, Bluebottle Kiss latest single and the album sample are on my hand now. Great Aussie band they are, people should check it out if you got a chance.

[[audio: Coldcut - True Skool]]

2006-02-08T16:14:00.000+11:00

Suppose To Be Funny

What is going on here? After me and my brother, yesterday my dad was the one who enjoy the hopitality in the emergency. He had vomited more than 10 times with serious dizziness, doc said he got balance disorder. I was like "is it like motion sickness or something?", he went "well, that times... five." I didn't get it "five. how serious is five?" after a helpless explanaiton, he finally gave me the best conclusion, "OK, it's like after you drank 10 shots of tequlia at once, your head couldn't stop swinging and you feel like totally fucked." then I went "arrrr....!"

Anyway, I really think this is jinx or something. I said to my mom, "Jeez mom! It was me, then Tom (my bro), now is dad! who's the next?" (staring at my mom with a smirk) Then she wemt "well, it won't happen, I was in the hopital few months before you back to Hong Kong." I was very shocked! but then I went "oh! very well then."

Well, let's move on to something else.

got an email from a friend responding to my china trip, she said I should go to Guilin and Yangsok. I actually had been there when I was a kid, and I still remember how my dad accidentally pushed me down the stair. (I ain't kidding!! it was fookin' steep too) But well, after she sent me this link (http://nwn.myweb.hinet.net/index2.htm - it's a chinese site, but just pay attention to the pictures), it does ignite my heart to go there again, I mean, c'mon look at this!

Yea, I wouldn't doubt that the pictures in that site have been through Photoshop, but I do believe there's place like this. Because I have seen them before, only with a crappy weather. Anyone wanna join? Let's do it!! (after I have enough money.)

[[audio: Film School - Pitfalls]]

2006-02-04T12:59:00.000+11:00

Let's Keep It Simple

I went to China for a week trip, just get back last nite! I went to Huizhou and Foshan, which is located on the southeast side of China, pretty cool place with a bit of mix of heaven and hell. My trip was basically very art-related, seeing all the oil paintings, some Ceramic art, lantern festival and some heritages. If you wanna check out the pictures:

http://community.webshots.com/user/hijiville7

I think the most amazing thing is how I found this cherry blssom land behind the temple, and I sat down there for like an hour. I started to think about my life and people around me, while holding a string of cherry blossom.

I mean, it's like a natural landscape that release my soul from the body, and I finally stopped thinking of anything and just lied down there as if invisible. For that moment, I'm separated from the world, it's heaven...

P.S. This morning I realised that my toothbrush went missing, and found out my brother took it to his trip in US. Damn!

[[audio: Youth Group - Forever Young]]

2006-02-03T20:45:00.000+11:00

Never Know You Good Enough

The following email extract is responding to my old post about black christianity inspired from the film 'Rize':

"hey baby, just read your blog, so freakin' interesting!!! but there are a lot of black people in africa, south america, all over the world that are christian not just in america. i think it originated with the european missionaries going to africa, mid-east, north and central america. you're right that black christians in america is cultural, they have their own music called gospel. but it's european culture that originally created this particular branch of black christianity and it's slowly evolved to become fully american. don't get me wrong, it's still annoying sometimes, especially when they preach at you and you don't care what the hell they're on about! i think it's the worse when they're born-again christians...anyway, babe, just wanted to pass that info on to you...love ya, kath xxx"
(Email received on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:17:22 -0800)

First of all, big up to Kath for telling me such an interesting historical fact, this actually tells me something. There're so many things that's unreal or uncertain, but it's always rumors and fantasies that makes it real, in other word, romanticism. What can I say? We are so creative and full of imagination. Oh Jesus! What did the Da Vinci Code tell us could be the fact in the future, if we keep believing... soon or later, Dan Brown will become the father of God too, who would know that he is just a writer who's inspired by pure fantasies?

Well, the point being is, if you see a preacher, don't listen to them. Coz they don't even know whether what they believe is real or not, they just think it is so. Believe in what you think it is real, yea it could confuse your life, but at least you are not living in a lie.

But then, I don't mind religions exist in the society, even though I'm an anti-religious person. Because I understand there're people who need religious, people who don't wanna be lost, who want a light to guide their life... (even it's a lie) That's human-being, we need love, and love is god, and god is uncertain/nowhere, and the substitution is religion, coz religion is love from god. So who care about the damn romanticism?

A piece of advice, There's nothing we know good enough, unless we creat it.

No, not asking you to be God, but this is your life, so make your own fookin' path! Whatever you believe I don't care, just don't preach me.

[[audio: David Kitt - Dancing In The Moonlight]]

2006-01-28T03:38:00.000+11:00

My Resolution For This Year

Alright, why am I saying this now? Because I wanna wait for the Chinese New Year as well for my declaration of my new year resolution. Well, This sunday is gonna be the Lunar Chinese New Year, and the Rooster is going to pass the year to the Dog. Well, if you are interested in The Chinese horoscope, you might like to check this Chinese horoscope site out or the astrology for more details.

So yea, I've been very busy celebrating another new year here, so many gatherings, banquets, drinking parties and red pockets (they have money in it!!). To be honest, I am kind of numb about all this, and even want this pass sooner, not that I don't like the fest, but it slows me down in job hunting. Both new years and the fecking xmas are like... sooooo wasting my time! Damn. (Yea I hear you Shane! I'm doing it!)

I'm so tired really, but I managed to watch some films, like "The Aristocrats" and "Me and you and everything we knows", I'm about to watch "The Primer" when I have time later. Sure I won't forget the reviews, but I desperately need some rest now, so I'm gonna keep this post short, and I will reply your email very soon. Bye.

Oh yea, my resolution for the new year is ...become an Aristocrat. HAHA! That will be dirty, but I'm just kidding!.... or am I?

P.S. "Sung Nin Fai Lok" (Happy New Year in Cantonese) xo

[[audio: Kanye West - Never Let Me Down feat. Jay-Z]]

2006-01-23T02:51:00.000+11:00

A Day Cannot Go Longer Than Twenty Four Hours

So I have finally met this guy, who I've been expecting for a while. It's been very cool, even though we had just hung out for a day. Yea we didn't have much time to do stuff, since he needed to study for his exam (which was his main purpose to come here), and the crappiness of telecommunication. Funny how I've planned heaps things to do, and just ended up hanging out in the train (MTR) and a pub. Oh well, I'm sure there'll have more people come and visit me soon, and I hope you (yeah! you!) will be the next! Aiiii~

p.s. thanks for the Indian incense box(es)! totally love it!

[[audio: Modeskeletor - Hasir]]

2006-01-18T21:05:00.000+11:00

Save Your Money For Something Better

I am confused, very confused. Can someone help me? Can you? I just don't understand why did Hollywood ruin such a good movie. Why?

Memoirs of a Geisha

It's just a bunch of ignorant brats making a romance out of an absurdity, dreadfully non-sense. Look, I love Gong Li, Ziyi Zhang and Michelle Yang, but everyone knows that they are bloody Chinese for God sake! It's like telling people that British invents Flamenco.

Sure sure! What a beautiful story it is, I agree... but why all the Geisha and all the Japanese are speaking English? It's like I'm Japanese, but don't you know that our mother tongue is English? American English to be more accurate.

Bollocks.

This is all crazy Hollywood commericalised shite, making what they think can earn the most, but the fact is that, this is not selling and the audience are not idiot. Indeed, the more you know about Japanese and film making, the less you like this film. That's why this film is not getting any award, I can't even bother to give this piece of crap a score.

Better save your money for something worthy.

[[audio: Modeskeletor - Die Clubnummer]]

2006-01-16T21:57:00.000+11:00

Nostalgic Canned Salmon

I'm very excited for my first visitor from OZ, even though I don't really know him. No, this is not a blind date or internet meet up shite. This guy is my friend's buddy, and I was asked to be a tourguide. He is coming very soon, and I know this is gonna be a great week.

Recently, I came across a email from my friend, telling me this new conception of instant food in Finland, very innovative indeed. You don't even need a microwave, I think it would be great for a bonfire party.

P.S. my dad rushed into my room and saw me in bikini, ended up he was the one who taste the embarrassment. I just don't understand why can't parent learn to knock.

[[audio: Saul Williams - Grippo]]

2006-01-09T00:28:00.000+11:00

No Limit For The Rize

RIZE - Dave LaChapelle (2005)

I knew Rize is gonna be an excellent documentary since I had read about it from the brochure of Dunedin international film festival when I was in New Zealand. Ached myself never had a chance to watch it, but tonite I finally tasted the good! Dave LaChapelle found an amazing topic for a docu, using krump & clowns to explore the "American culture" (nah, it's not black culture... not anymore). I always have a great enthusiam for dancing (you will know if you had read my blog, or had simply clubbed with me), and hip hop dancing is always inspiring to me. yes, I had watched all the crappy hip hop battle dancing films and i love it! It's like how others love watch the cgi of King Kong even they knew where the story goes.

Generally I really enjoy the movie, and it's been very cool about all the history of LA clowns & krump, the interwoven reference of hip hop dancing and african tribal dancing, and how can you not love the battle? Until the film has moved its direction to "krump for Jesus", yes, very spiritual but not very interesting to me. I mean, I'm not religious at all, so there's no luck to push. But ya know? I often have this wonder in my mind, and this is a very good moment to put it here.

Why most of the black people are so christian? Most of the films that involves black people stories, they are always very christ-loving (seems like more passionate than other American ethnic). I believe this represents many black people in America, based on what I know from the media, and I had a black preached to me when I was on the ferry. Prove me wrong, but I reckon it's not a black thing, since sense told me their African ancestors ain't dancing for Jesus Christ in the ancient time. (or were they??) So what make them so in love with the Christ? I guess I have the answer in mind, yes, the American Culture, but it's just so shallow and lame to say it out. I mean, are you sure all the black people believe in Jesus is because they live in America? and it's all affected by the American Culture? I dun know, but it'd be absolutely ridiculous if it really is.

Great music, great move, fair intepretation. [4.5 out of 5]
Big up to Dave Chapelle and Tommy The Clown!

P.S. James, can I see Anthony and The Johnsons with you? Arrgh!!!! I have to come back for that~ gimme that spare ticket!!!!!

[[audio: Flii Stylz - Make You Dance]]

2006-01-01T05:18:00.000+11:00

Watch Out The Backpackers!

Wow, Happy new year people! I'm sure you were so trashed as I am, even though in a different location. God I had a fabulous time here, I believe it's the best one I have ever had to celebrate nye in Honk. I just grabbed two of my high school chicks and have dinner til late in Lan Kwai Fong (where I spent my last halloween at). Same Irish pub I went, but the atmosphere was so much better this time. Sorry, have forgotten my camera, but my friend Joe took a couple, hopefully she'll send it to me soon.

I get to know the DJ there, and only found out he owns this pub before I left.To be honest, he plays crap music, they are all like Billboard hits (e.g. Kelly Clarkson, Black Eye Peas...) and classic Brit-idol-pop (e.g. Robbie Williams, U2, Sugar-fuckin'-babes...), some actually reminded me of North Point, yea, imagine that. I requested a few good tunes to save the dance floor, can't believe he doesn't know who is Ladytron, shame on him.

I also met some American blokes, apparently they were all drunk and shite. Guess they were trying so hard to dance and maybe just wanna get some chicks' attention. On the other hand, the british dude stood next to me alone, who's just staring at the TV for the goal of Liverpool, was a bit pathetic. Hey, no offence to all the soccor lover, but I mean, c'mon! it's nye! in a crazy pub! and you are watching soccor game here by yourself! why dun you just go home and watch it???

So why was it fun? Well, perhaps it's the north point-liked tacty atmosphere, or maybe I've never had a random dance party here in Honk. Yet I think it has to do with the people, I mean, I have never seen my high school friends dance like that before, they told me no one had ever taken them to a dance party like this before. Man, I ought to take them to Sydney and experience the nightlife scene! Oh no, Fayske is EXPLORING THE SCENE!

Back to this morning, I dunno how's it supposed to feel when a TV company asked you for an interview... in NYE. It just so weird to do it in a public holiday, but afterall, I did it. Took me like 3 hours to finish all the tests and verbal interview, they'd better hire me or I'll cut them in pieces. *finger cross again...*

It's great, I've got a bread machine as a xmas present, even I'm not a christian, isn't it great ay? My mom bought it for me, partly because she's sick of me asking her to buy me bread every 3-4 days (I consume my bread real quick), the rest of the reason? well, she definitely knows that I wanna be good at baking but I'm just suck at it. Thank god! All I have to do is put all the ingredients in the machine and let it do the job, quite easy. Everyone's mind was interwoven with suspicion and curiosity, we all like checking the dough in every 2 minute, it was like a kid first time ever waiting an egg to be hatched in the incubator. It makes good bread, i suppose, I had only a couple slices of it after my family ate them all. I started to think if my mom bought it for me or for their own benefits, hehe.

OK, I better hit the hay now, I had 5 cocktails and currently feeling a bit tipsy. It's quite a miracle if my post makes any sense. ciao and have a great 2006~! xo

[[audio: Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead]]

2005-12-26T19:59:00.000+11:00

Worth To Mention before The Next Year

Holy crap! It's two oh oh six very soon, can't believe two oh oh five goes so fast. It's been a wonderful year to me, tho some old Chinese feng shui geezers said I have a bad fate in 2005 and will continue to 2006. Well, I say "talk to my hand", ya know what I'm sayin'?

I did my best to keep myself on the top of what music I listen and movie I watch. So now, I can share my 10 favorite album, single, and movie to you here, they ain't in order, good stuff in order are unnecessary as there're too many good stuff to enjoy. Just catch it and have a Great NYE!

My ten favorite Albums in 2005:

Sufjan Stevens "Illinoise"
Final Fantasy "Has A Good Home"
The Rosebuds "Birds Make Good Neighbors"
The Editors "The Back Room"
The Herd "The Sun Never Sets"
Hermitude "Tale To The Drift"
Asamov "And Now"
Kanye West "Last Registration"
Hot Hot Heat "Elevator"
The Knife "Deep Cuts"

My ten favorite singles in 2005:

The Cloud Room "Hey Now Now"
The Clientele "My Own Face Inside The Trees"
Aqueduct "Five Star Day"
Bloc Party "Banquet"
Anthony And The Johnsons "Hope Somebody's There"
Damien Marley "Welcome to Jam Rock"
Röyksopp "What Else Is There?"
Ladytron "Destroy Everything You Touch"
Lindstrom "I Feel Space"
Lady Sovereign "Random"

My ten favorite Moviein 2005:

The Motorcycle Diaries
Bad Education
Mysterious Skin
Sideways
The Edukators
Grizzly Man
Being Julia
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
Sin City
Kung Fu Hustle

A little extra, since I didn't attend enough live gig, there's only a few that I would mention here.

Impressive Live (I've attended only) in 2005:

Hermitude + Unkle Ho + Plutonic Lab + Urthboy + Oz batla, @Newtown
Hot Hot Heat + Faker + Wolf & Cub, Metro Theatre
The Presets, Metro Theatre

Cheers for the good.

[[audio: Feist - Inside And Out]]

2005-12-12T01:50:00.000+11:00

When Things Meant To Be...

Hmm, my first post in December, if you're reading this, Merry Christmas!

Last night I went to a wedding banquet with my mum, the little girl who lived next door when I was a baby is the bride today. There I met all the old neighbours, my anmesia problem was immediately challenged by all these familiar faces.

The most suprising thing to me was that, I met my high school teacher AGAIN! Yes, if you read my blog, I had met my teacher in New Zealand, and we were very surprised to see each other in the wedding banquet!

It feels weird when things play time with me.

Talking about that, recently I was introduced to a fortune teller. I've never met one before, and never intend to meet one frankly. Someone gave him my day of birth before I was there, and he has already written down my life's prediction on a piece of paper. He gave it to me as a present, I don't know should I be appreciated or not, coz I am very regret that I read it. It's just scary when life becomes predictable, sense of direction started to be confused, wish I could undo this, unfortunately it was too late.

A serious advice - Don't let fortune tellers fuck your life up. Runaway from them.

Before you finish, check out my latest pictures of Disneyland day.

P.S. I wrote a story and it was brilliant, but why did my inspiration come at 4am?

[[audio: The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now]]

2005-11-30T14:37:00.000+11:00

When Bird Cries

I was watching a local TV program about barn swallows today, and a flash of shot caught my eyes, that moment I was stunned with a mix of touching feeling inside. It's a picture about a barn swallow grieving for its kind which died in a car accident, taken by a Taiwanese Photographer.

My tears have overflowed when these shots are seen...Feelings is not just for human beings, perhaps birds have a stronger attachment with its own kind.

P.S. I'm so in love with Jens Lekman and The Rosebuds, damn awesome.

[[audio: Jens Lekman - I Saw Her In The Anti-War Demonstration]]

2005-11-29T01:12:00.000+11:00

Clap Your Hands And I'll Come Again

It's true that when you like something, you will eventually lose the abililty to think rationally. Whether you really like it or not, everything that involves feelings are moody.

One may says there's no point to think of silly questions, you possessed the happiness and that's all. I'm a stubborn person who want to possess a rational mind, this is always a good question to revolve and reaffirm - DO I REALLY LIKE IT?

Lots of questons here with only one way to find out - Try to leave it. Being apart is like a slap on your face, wake yourself up and let you see how much you like it, and how much it likes you.

Of course no one likes the feeling of separating oneself from something that gives us happiness. But this challenge allow us to find out - is it really something I can't live without? is it something I still care after I had it? is it or not?

(extend to another question: Do you like something more when you don't have a chance to have it? are they more precious because of the missed opportunities? but this is a bit irrelevant to discuss in this post.)

There's another way to get through it though - Work like a whore, take all your energy away to think. Once you got time to think, it means you have enough money to go back there, of course sometimes you need to race with time.

We are aging, what will last?

[[audio: Bloc Party - Two More Years]]

2005-11-24T23:45:00.000+11:00

Hey I Saw You On TV!

Howdy everyone, I've been pretty quiet recently, but unfortunately that doesn't mean I'm dead. Well, I've been very very sick in the past couple of weeks, dare to say that I'm nearly die, at least I thought so. At first it was a flu, then it got worse, worse like shit, started to puke, diarrhoea and a fever. A question popped up in my head "Am I having the shitty Bird Flu?" Living in the fear of Avian flu, my parent took me to the hospital for a check. Diagnoses: Digest system infected by flu virus... AGAIN. Thank god I'm fine now. But it's my brother's turn, he is suffering from nasosinusitis and enjoying the big bed in the hospital. I told him it's a curse of watching too much Miss World 2005 'vote for me'. (It's been advertised in TV a lot, and my bro was so into it, he even wanna vote, Poor fuck.)

Today I have a new interview as a TV news reporter, last about 4 crazy hours. who can imagine a trashbag like me wearing serious suit like those anchor nerd? I couldn't until the moment I sat down in the news studio, with a professional make-up artist doing my face and my hair. A moment of Celebriteeeeees~! hehe. I don't care if they hire me or not, I had a fun time that's for sure. Tomorrow morning I have another interview for something more...boring, like some crappy clerk or shit. Well, we'll see how I mess this interview up.

I just read this news in Milk Magazine today, Australian band 'Town Hall Step' is playing in Hong Kong's World Battle Of The Bands 2005 soon! I'm so ignorance, who are they??? But Hey~~ so Aussie band finally!!! According to my research, they like to wet theie feet in Power Pop - influenced by Jimmy Eat World, The Cure, U2, Crowded House and Blink 182. (I dun think the first three bands are power pop, aye?) Anyhoo, it's a good news! check this out! http://www.worldbattleofthebands.com

OK, I'm out of here, back to my dark dark world. Send me a x'mas card!

P.S. haha... that dude in Japan is so funny! you are so dope, keep going!

[[audio: The Joggers - Back To The Future]]

2005-11-05T20:26:00.000+11:00

Get Back On The Flight

Finally~ all the Halloween's pictures are done, check it out!!! fun fun fun~~~

http://community.webshots.com/user/hijiville6

Someone told me Halloween is came from Ireland, is that true? I thought it's n American thing, coz all the anti-American Aussies said they don't like Halloween as it's American thing.

I've been spending lots of time to look for a job, and I got my first interview in no time (this coming morning!!!!). This job isn't actually what I really wanna do, but my mum asked me to give it a try and that's why I did so. Cathay Pacific flight attendant, haha! How funny!? I just said how much I hate Cathay Pacific... But hey! If I got this job, I might see you all again in no time, no matter where since I can fly everywhere~ *grins*

However, my ideal job is still working in Hong Kong radio station, so I sent my CV and an unsolicited letter to all the radio stations (3 in total...pfff~). If they take me to be a presenter/producer/ whatever, I will quit this flight maid job immediately. What a bastard I am... :p

I don't know, am I doing a right thing?...:-/
Tomorrow is hiking day, YEAH~

[[audio: Faker - Hurricane]]

2005-11-03T16:23:00.000+11:00

On The Flight

Hey there! yea I had great fun in Halloween, call me pagan, I don't care. But the photos are still uploading to my photo album, you can't miss them, I wil announce them here again, so stay tune! So what the hell am I doing here? Well, I'm just bored... :) And mainly wanna share some cool photos, so you will be reminded how great I am. LOL! Alright, let's cut the crap, check it out:

My Breakfast Before Landing

I hate Cathay Pacific coz they don't let my extra luggages go up to the flight, but look at this picnic box, how decent! One little secret to you - everything was delicious, but that sausage was disgusting.

Heading To H of the K

They gave me seat H, but seat K is empty... so basically I seized H and K. Now who is the queen of the HK? :p

Does size important to you?

Good question, I think further elaboration is no need. hehe... I found it when I was randomly walking on the street, that is actually a gate of a jewelery shop, nice....

Trust me, You will see how much fun I had in Halloween soon. muhahahah....

P.S. Jacko's email make me laugh sooooooo bad! you funny bastard, love your style.

[[audio: Action Action - Don't Cut Your Fabric]]

2005-10-30T22:38:00.000+11:00

Waiting For The Ghost

I'm still catching up with family and friends, very bored by all those crappy family gathering, it just way too much. pfff! Not even how much I miss Sydney Beaches... But today my cousin took me to the Soho area and have cheese cake, now that was great! Tomorrow we are going to celebrate Halloween in Lan Kwai Fong (western pub area), which is gonna be (hopefully) fun. It's been 3 years since my last Halloween street party in HK! Hell yea!!!!

I've been sending my resume to all the jobs that I like with useful experience for a better job. But if this stage is failed, my second stage would be sending my CV to whatever I can see on the newspapers and job websites, or probably let agencies decide my fate. crossing finger for a good job. :(

It's still hot in HK, but it was a bit chilling tonite. I wear singlet and short skirt all the time, regardless people on the street staring at my small boobs. one of my aunt said my skirt is too short that she can even see my underpants, she should dream on. No one can see anything but just because I'm wearing less than them (they all wear cheesy glittered trousers and long sleeves micky mouse shit top), they all like exaggerating crap like they can all see my fucking nipples. God help them... die faster please.

Happy Halloween dude~

P.S. found a great site for hiking in HK, now I can be a tour guide...

[[audio: Royskopp – what else is there?]]

2005-10-21T14:25:00.001+10:00

Leaving My Second Home

Everything that happened last week was very fast but intense, I didn't have time to breath until now. It was a very harsh week to me, having my farewell, my last day in FBi, packing stuff, moving out and leaving all the people that I love. I've never felt so sad before, cos these 3 and a half years mean so much to me that I just can't afford to let go. Every night when I was about to sleep, my tears just uncontrollably came out to grieve.

Hong Kong time 5:00am, I stepped on the ground of my hometown, nothing was in my mind, all I got was the moment I left Bill and Jackson at the Sydney airport departure gateway. Feelings was absolutely complicated, but I am doing my best to refrain it. I got so many things waiting for me to do now, so I let the action lead my soul, hopefully it could numb my feelings a bit.

I've been very busy moving out last week, but I do wanna say thank you for all the people who came to my farewell in the Clock, it was really great to see you all one last time, and very surprised seeing whose I haven't seen for a long while. For whose didn't come, don't have to say sorry, I will see you all again for sure.

Here is some special thanks:

Soph & Claire: Thank you so much for helping me to move, I would be seriously in big trouble without you both. so much love, hope you enjoy the stuff I gave you, tho they are not big things.

Sam: Thanks for coming to see me one last time, you are not an idiot, cos you came. You are a very significant friend to me, and I won't forget you and your caring. Enjoy Canada.

Jackson: What should I say to thank you? The friendship between you and me are hard to express it by words. You are awesome bro who always look after me, and always there for me. Thank you Jacko.

Jaime: You are very nice person, I cherish our friendship so much. bless you and Tuk. Thanks for fixing my computer, you are the legend! :)

Fbi crew: Fbi makes me believe that music can really be made out of love, and it's all because of you guys. Keep FBi alive, keep my dream alive. xo

When will I see you all again?... hope it won't be long.

Here is my postal address:
20/a The Blue Yard,
1 Tai Uk St., Tsuen Wan,
Hong Kong.

send me your love :)

[[audio: Cage - Perfect World]]

2005-10-13T07:07:00.000+10:00

Last Allnighter on 13th Oct 2005

Tonight I got so many people called up to say good-bye, very nice! Some people kept calling back just wanna chat with me, they asked about my feelings, my next plan, and even my starsign...! Interesting, isn't it? I also invited one of the Fay's radio fans to come to my farewell, everyone says I'm crazy, oh hell! who cares? :p

It's a fun night, very busy, but I was happy! and I played:

2:00 What We Want! [Alice Russell]
2:04 Girl And The Sea [The Presets]
2:17 Spirit Dittie Of No Tone [Deerhoof]
2:21 Pardon My Freedom [!!!]
2:28 Losing My Edge [LCD Soundsystem]
2:37 High Til It's Hurt [Good Buddha]
2:40 We Can't Hear You [The Herd]
2:48 C-C (You Set The Fire In Me) [Tom Vek]
2:50 Opium Of The People [The Mint Chicks]
2:59 Ophelia [Ambulance LTD]
3:03 Always Love [Nada Surf]
3:15 The Rat [The Walkmen]
3:18 Signal and Sign [Maximo Park]
3:21 Munich [Editors]
3:29 Fortress [Pinback]
3:33 El Cargo [Amon Tobin]
3:41 Helicopter [Bloc Party]
3:44 We'll Make A Lover Of You [Les Savy Fav]
3:48 Alana [The Panda Band]
3:55 Cream [Dappled Cities Fly]
5:58 I Think You're Blind [Red Riders]
4:06 Bus Stop The [Lyrical Madmen]
4:10 Cay's Crays [Fat Freddy's Drop]
4:16 Back Then [PEGZ]
4:20 Is Your Love On? [Botanics]
4:29 Can't Stop [Hermitude]
4:32 Fast Cars [Aesop Rock]
4:36 Read To Me [B(if)tek]
4:45 Four tet feat. Perecee P [Fourtet]
4:48 That Sound [Ohmega Watts]
4:49 She Gets Up [TZU]
5:01 Melody DJ [Nu Mark & Pomo]
5:07 Mind's Eye [Wolfmother]
5:10 451 [Decoder Ring]
5:15 History [Controller Controller]
5:20 Juice Box [The Strokes]
5:25 Word In The Sky [Sparkadia]
5:30 When I Goose Step [The Shins]
5:33 The Neightborhood #2 (Laika) [The Arcade Fire]
5:40 The Engine Driver [The Decemberists]
5:44 If I Try [Intercooler]
5:47 Chained To The Wall [Bluebottle Kiss]
5:54 Sleep Less [The Devoted Few]
5:56 Like A Girl [Brian Campeau]
6:00 Shine A Light [Wolf Parade]

Oh well, I'm done with Allnighter. Thanks for everyone who've been listened to my show. Merci.
See you all on Sunday nite! (YEH! whoever's reading my blog, you are all invite, and I mean it!)

::7 days left::

2005-10-12T14:04:00.000+10:00

My Last Allnighter

Tonight (Thursday morning) 2-6am.
Send me your request or I see you later.

::8days left::

[[audio: The Herd - National Holiday]]

2005-10-11T22:58:00.000+10:00

my farewell

hi my coconuts, time goes fast, i'm finally leaving sydney. but i would love to see you one last time, so please free yourself on this sunday night, and come to my farewell for a drink.

FAY's FAREWELL
date: 16/10/2005
time: 6-midnight (6-7pm happy hour!)
location: the clock hotel - balcony bar (470 crown st, surry hills)

hoping to see you, really.

::9 days left::

[[audio: Coco Rosie - Good Friday]]

2005-10-10T19:25:00.000+10:00

Tolerance Is Limited

Today I just know that my tolerance of hunger is limited, walking on the street feeling dizzy and then fainted at the station. Thought someone would care, but the reality is that don't expect people would care, especially the one who close to you, they just too busy to care. Sometimes strangers are nicer than people you know.

P.S. Thanks Ben, Totoya is very nice.

::10 days left::

[[audio: PEGZ - Back then]]

2005-10-10T13:53:00.000+10:00

Peel Off The Skin

The freedom of media in china is zero, yet they pretend that it's 100% open. All the deception just to conceal their ugly side, but who really know their conspiracy? They just let you to do the story under the government's control, so they can make sure you are not writing bad stories. Those who don't follow, will end up like the story below.

I wonder how many people know about this.

'They beat him until he was lifeless'

How democracy activist in China's new frontline was left for dead after a brutal attack by a uniformed mob

Benjamin Joffe-Walt in Taishi, southern China
Monday October 10, 2005
The Guardian

The last time I saw Lu Banglie, he was lying in a ditch on the side of the street - placid, numb and lifeless - the spit, snot and urine of about 20 men mixing with his blood, and running all over his body.

I had only met him that day. He was to show me the way to Taishi, the hotspot of the growing rural uprisings in China. It felt like heading into a war. Taishi is under siege, I was warned. The day I arrived a French radio journalist and a Hong Kong print journalist were rumoured to have been beaten somewhere around Taishi.

The Taishi election had also been scheduled for that very day, and news of a hunger strike by one of the two most famous figures in Taishi had just come out.

Mr Lu was a very soft-spoken man, one of those skinny guys who looked like he might start tearing at any moment. Born as a peasant in Baoyuesi village of Bailizhou town in Zhijiang city in Hubei province, he was a people's representative and had been in the village of Taishi since the start of a democratic movement in the area.

That movement, deeply unpopular with the local authorities, has come to be seen as a weather vane for China's tentative steps toward a more representative society. It has led to beatings and mass arrests among its population as well as for observers who ventured into its environs.

Mr Lu was at the forefront of this maelstrom. And yesterday this was where the problem lay. We had hired a taxi. Mr Lu got in the car to put us on the right road. As we got closer, I asked him to get out. He refused. "If you go, I go," he insisted. I told him he would be endangering himself, the driver and maybe us. He was unfazed, not even listening. I repeated for a third time that I wanted him to get out of the car. It didn't work. The translator was annoyed and asked me to leave it. Mr Lu knew the risks better than us, he reasoned. So I dropped it, and it was this appeasement that determined Mr Lu's fate.

We arrived on the outskirts of Taishi, just as the dirt roads start. There were 30 to 50 men - angry, inebriated, bored men. Most looked like thugs. Some wore military camouflage uniform. Some wore blue uniforms with badges on the shoulders, and one guy had a greyish-mauve uniform with a walkie-talkie. Our taxi driver, who we had hired randomly in a neighbouring village, was called out by the thugs. They screamed at him: "What the fuck are you doing here?"

He knew nothing. He came back in and screamed at us. "Fuck all of you, look now you've gotten me into trouble."

We told him to reverse but by that time it was already too late, the car was encircled. "Don't go out!," I screamed, telling everyone to lock their doors. I called a colleague on my mobile, asked him to stay on the phone with me.

The men outside shouted among themselves and those in uniform suddenly left. Those remaining started pushing on the car, screaming at us to get out. They pointed flashlights at us, and when the light hit Mr Lu's face, it was as if a bomb had gone off. They completely lost it. They pulled him out and bashed him to the ground, kicked him, pulverised him, stomped on his head over and over again. The beating was loud, like the crack of a wooden board, and he was unconscious within 30 seconds.

They continued for 10 minutes. The body of this skinny little man turned to putty between the kicking legs of the rancorous men. This was not about teaching a man a lesson, about scaring me, about preventing access to the village; this was about vengeance - retribution for teaching villagers their legal rights, for agitating, for daring to hide.

They slowed down but never stopped. He lay there - his eye out of its socket, his tongue cut, a stream of blood dropping from his mouth, his body limp, twisted. The ligaments in his neck were broken, so his head lay sideways as if connected to the rest of his body by a rubber band.

We were probably in the car another five to eight minutes. The front windows were open and various men were reaching in to unlock my door. I held my hand tight to the lock. They punched me, twisted my wrist, tried everything possible with a quick grab to get me out. But I wouldn't let go, and I defended myself while watching Mr Lu get beaten through the window.

Eventually, my translator got out. I followed. They opened my pen, searched my pockets, underwear and socks, asked my translator if his watch could record anything. They asked what we were doing in Taishi. They found my Chinese press pass. "You foreigners you are ruining Taishi," they screamed. "You write write write so much about what's happened here that all these businesses have fled the new industrial zone."

My head was spinning. I was in a mixed state of shock at what had happened to Mr Lu and utter fear for my life.

I shamelessly begged. I prayed. I offered them money. I tried to smile at them. Random people came up to Mr Lu and kicked him in the head, clearing their nose of snot on his body, spitting on him, peeing on him, showing off for each other. I had no idea what to do.

I stood there, sweating, my hands ripping my hair out, just staring at the blood all over the man who had risked his life to help me.

An ambulance came. The medic got out, checked his pulse and left. Then it hit me: I'd done absolutely nothing to save Mr Lu. I stood there watching. I'm trained as a medic, and I did nothing to save Mr Lu. Absolutely nothing. They put us in a car, told us we were being taken for interrogation. On the way the men joked, laughed and we shook.

Mr Lu spent his adult life working to empower villagers and to get the attention of Beijing and the world. He was beaten up many times, had scars all over his body. This, he thought, was part of his work.

Once at the township, they put us at a conference table with flowers and spring water. About 15 officials sat round it and politely questioned us, videotaping the interaction as if it were a TV show. "Why did you come to Taishi? Why did you meet Lu Banglie? How did you meet him?" they asked.

"We are not interested in the reception of media interviews of any kind at this juncture in time," one official explained.

His superior arrived: Ms Qi Hong, associate director of the government news office in Guangzhou. "China is open to foreigners," she said. "We welcome any journalists in Guangzhou, but if you don't follow the proper procedures how can we guarantee your safety?"

The initiator of Mr Lu's beating sat at the table, eyes bloodshot, arms crossed at an angle, his elbow jutting into the air as if to show his extreme disinterest in us.

They said we had broken the law by coming here without permission. We apologised. That is all, that is how the night ended. We walked out of the government building, still being filmed, across the lawn, past the Chinese flag at high mast, and into the car.

They waved and smiled, filming us as we drove off. And this is all I can say about the story of Mr Lu because I never saw Taishi from the inside and cannot tell you how it looks, what the people say, how the air feels.

What I can tell you is that what's going on in Taishi is perhaps the most significant grassroots social movement China has seen since the Cultural Revolution, a rural revolt against corruption, against deterioration of healthcare, against the illegal sale of farmland, and broadly against urban capitalism that has reaped no benefits for these farmers.

The Guardian has been unable to confirm what happened to Mr Lu.

Police said they had received reports that he had been taken to hospital, but that he had been released and was "fine". The three nearest hospitals said that no one had been admitted yesterday.

The last words of Mr Lu I wrote down were: "The police cover their arses. They employ all these thugs whose lives mean nothing to them to kill you. That's why once we are in this we can't go out."

Source - Guardian UK

2005-10-09T14:26:00.000+10:00

Saturday Night Fever

I had a good Saturday, it's just so great that when all the things you wanna do work out well with time and people and everything. Yeah! In the afternoon, I went to have lunch with Pauly in his friend's cafe in Glebe, he had mushroom with melted cheese on bread jammed with pesto; and i had super tasty smoke chicken salad with snow peas, mangoes and so many other things in it. Yum! Then of course, to meet up in Glebe on Saturday is always for the market, we had a good time there and both of us also got something, which is the best since we all satisfies~ Walking all the way back to central and cruised up to Surry Hills and stop at our final place - Lounge Cafe. I'm never sick of this place, brought Jackson there just couple nites ago and now with Paul, so good...

Headed down to meet up Sophie and have sushi on George street, good food and good conversation. After that, we went to Petersham for Susan's 80's housewarming party. This is the best house party I have ever seem, really! Theme party ain't always successful, as some people never into this dressing up thing, and they just walk in with normal clothes and then they just sit in the corner coz they can't fit in. But not this one, everyone was so 80's and very into the party, I love it. Susan is so sweet, the first thing she said to me once i got there was 'Fay I don't want you to go, marry me and we live together forever.' how cute!? but of coz I don't doubt that she was drunk, haha! still I love her. We had a couple of drinks, mingled with some kool people, jumped on the trampoline til we all got dizzy, then me and Soph headed off to see The Presets in Metro.

Gig was pretty good even we were fashionably late, lazer show, big balloons and flying tissue paper, what a good vibe! I was a bit worry that my 80's dress would embarrass myself, but seems everyone was dressing up quite 80's like (2005 fasion statement!?). It ended so late, and I was so cold and tired when it finished. But yea, it's good for a saturday nite.

::11 days left::

[[audio: Tom Vek - C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)]]

2005-10-08T02:57:00.000+10:00

Raw Or Burnt?

Can't believe Tiani is leaving earlier than me! Oh well, it's good to see her move on for a better change, and it's about time to get some new blood for FBi. The tea ceremony was great, though it's a bit decieving that there's actually have heaps alcohol involved. *hell yeah!* It's also good to see how the present we prepare was appreciated, a photo album with pictures and people's farewell note, so much good memories! Oh, I hope she like my Wonder woman special edition page, I can see many people found it amusing. :p

I was awaken by a phone call 3am, but it hang up when I picked the phone up. No number shown up, was thinking all night 'who the fuck did this prank??' 9am the next morning, the phone rang again, and I realised it's Kath who called from Chicago! Wow, what a surprise!! I mean, I don't usually getting long distance call from friends, this is very very sweet of her. :) We talk about 30mins and the conversation just ended by my stupid phone fucking up the connection, as usual. But it's really good to hear her voice and the memory how she like to tell me everything.

Went to FBi and it's just so quiet without T there. So I left early and back home for good. In the middle of my journey, Clare called me to go to this 'hairdo' art performance party with her, as she wanna do a story of it for triple J. So yea why not? I went. Realised it was a kinky warehouse party with hairdresser giving you weird haircut, Clare asked me to give it a go and I was keen, until the moment I saw him shave a quarter of a girl's beautiful hair...

Since the theme is hair, they made this pubic hair parade. Men and women's pubes, long one, short one, heart shape, slashed shape and more, I just couldn't believe my eyes. It was crazily weird and funny, but personally I dun think it's really that artisitic as they emphasized. I just can't take it as art seriously, but it was a good nite to see something special before I leave the country. haha! All the best to your story Frosty~!

After the seeing so much hair, we drove back to Chatswood to meet up with Sophie for a coffee. Ended up in my place having tea and chat funny shit up til 2 in the morning! Geez, I never know the time when chatting with these gals, the conversation just seems never end! FBi, 'M&M' bitching section, childhood memories, life, friends and family, and so on. Really enjoy it and such a good time doesn't seem like to happen all the time at all, so I really appreciate it! Love you Soph and Clare! xo

Damn, I better sleep now, got heaps to do tomorrow~

::12 days left::

[[audio: Mr Morning Jacket - Dondante]]

2005-10-05T23:59:00.000+10:00

Time To Wake Up

Loving is a waste of time when the other person isn't puting an effort to love back.

Waiting is a waste of time when no one is coming.

Dying is a waste of time when we only got one life.

So please make an effort and don't do stupid shit.

Helping is a waste of time when the person who seek help isn't giving an effort to make a better change.

P.S. Can't believe T is leaving tomorrow! I'm missin her already...
P.P.S. Fun night Jackson, with you I never feel alone. :)

::15 days left::

[[audio: Muph & Plutonic - Heaps Good]]

2005-10-04T23:42:00.000+10:00

Stay Away From Sycophants

Recently I watched two really good animations, and both of them are involved a lot of human touch, which is what an animation should be to claim its own name.

Howl's Moving Castle
by Hayao Miyazaki

I grow up with Hayao Miyazaki's animation, My Neighbour Totoro(1993); Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984); Castle in the Sky (1986); Princess Mononoke (1999); Spirited Away (2002) and so on... I've seen them all, and it defines what an animation really is, instead of those blunted computerized shit.

Howl's Moving Castle is another Hayao's masterpiece to show how rich his imagination is. Everything is so unbridled as if all the amazing things you dreamt in childhood have came up to the silver screen again: walking in the air, flying like a bird, living in a mysterial castle with a prince-liked magician. The sense of humour in this movie is very cute and childlike(not childish!), no nastiness nor idiotic lousy joke. The only thing that I have to complain is the story didn't state clearly about who Markl is, why is this little boy live in the castle with Howl?

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
by Nick Park

Well done!! This is one of the few movies proves that the fourth production can be as good as the first production! First time know about Wallace and Gromit was in A Grand Day Out (1986), which was done when Nick Park was still a student! After the successful DIY start, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave have also became his classic work, which I can hardly resist. I always love Gromit, a smart dog that loves knitting and reading papers more than barking.

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit dives into the mighty british humor, the story is incredibly funny with a brilliant plot. Compare with his past work, the animation in this production is more vival since he got a huge team helping, instead of all done by himself that could take him 5 years for one shot. Oh, and who can hate those rabbits? aren't they just so adorable? absolutely love it!

I'm very impressed by the 15 mins madagascar penguins short film before Wallace & Gromit, reminds me how funny the penguins are and how violent the old lady is! Wonderful!!!!!!!

They all receive my touchdown (5 out of 5) !!!!

P.S. three days beach meditation trip was good, have to do more!
P.P.S. ok, any suggestion for a good place for farewell? I need some inspirations!

::16 days left::

[[audio: The Herd - We Can't Hear You]]

2005-10-02T13:41:00.000+10:00

For Sale!

Well, as you all know that I'm leaving on 20 Oct, which is not more than a month, so it's better to sell my heavy stuff out. So please please help me to spead this post out to whoever's interested, that will be a big help to me, thanks!

Computer: (AU$800)
- Pentium(R) 4; CPU 2.40GHz; 256MB Ram
- Window XP Professional Version
- 1/2 year old
including:
CD-Writer (Nero)
DVD-Rom
LCD Monitor 30.5x23 cm (Radeon 8500; excellent display card!)
Infrared Mouse
Keyboard
Lan Card (Moderm is free too if you are 56k Dial-up user)

T.V: (AU$80)
- 41.5x31cm
- with remote control
- 2 year old

Desk 1: (AU$50)
- 120x55cm
- 4 drawers
- white color
- 2 year old

Desk 2: (AU$50)
- 170x46.5cm
- no drawer
- black color with wooden top
- 1 year old

Double Bed: (AU$500)
- nice black frame
- "hi-tech spinal zone" mattress
- 1 year old

Express your interest! Some of the price are negotiable, just e-mail me or call me!
email: fayske@yahoo.com.au
phone: 0402 599 464

Cheers!

2005-09-26T07:05:00.000+10:00

Allnighter Playlist 26th Sept 2005

I almost late tonight, fucking train didn't come at all! I have to take the cab from Chatswood to Redferd, ouch... that really hurts my wallet!! Anyhow, no big drama in the show, I actually did better than usual, probably my nerves all gone sharp after I was getting scared to be late in the taxi... Sometimes bad situation does come up with a good result. So yeah, I played these tunes tonite:

1:02 …So Far [DJ Soup]
1:05 In A State [Unkle]
1:15 Tapedeck Sound [Hermitude]
1:20 Girl And The Sea [The Presets]
1:25 Saturday [Cut Copy]
1:32 Hard To Beat [Hard-Fi]
1:36 Lights Out [Bass Kleph]
1:39 Destroy Everything You Touch [Ladytron]
1:48 When I Return feat.Ladisix [Shapeshifter]
1:55 Your Move [Blackalicious]
1:58 Where It All Started feat. DJ DNA [Ohmega Watts]
2:00 TZU Blues [TZU]
2:06 Effortles feat. Braintax [The Herd]
2:13 Your Way [Sarah Blasko]
2:17 Too Careful [End Of Fashion]
2:20 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea [Neutral Milk Hotel]
2:27 Gunnen em' Down [KRS-One]
2:30 One Beer [MF Doom]
2:36 Signature Dish [Botanics]
2:43 Crazy Love [Colder]
2:48 Munich [Editors]
2:51 Deceptacon (DFA Remix) [Le Tigre]
2:59 Love Me Like You [The Magic Numbers]
3:04 Looking Backwards [Lazy Susan]
3:08 Ghost Town [The Specials]
3:12 Politician [Kora]
3:18 Realtime [The Bird]
3:24 Media D'Out [Urthboy]
3:28 George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People [The Legendary K.O]
3:32 Too Cold [Root Manuva]
3:39 Touch The Sky feat. Lupe Fiasco [Kanye West]
3:45 Oh My God [Kaiser Chiefs]
3:50 No Way Out [Love Of Diagrams]
3:58 Float On [Modest Mouse]
4:01 I Think You're Blind [Red Riders]
4:05 Anecdote [Ambulance LTD]
4:11 The Sporting Life [The Decemberists]
4:16 It's All In My Mind [Teenage Fanclub]
4:20 Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) [The Arcade Fire]
4:27 Baby Boomerang [The Shins]
4:31 I Love The Valley OH [Xiu Xiu]
4:34 Hey Man (Now You're Really Livin') [Eels]
4:37 Steal Their Gold [Wolf & Cub]
4:43 The Fbi Idol [Various Aritst]
4:47 Everything Begins nd Ends At Exactly The Right Time [Bluebottle Kiss]
4:54 Forget Myself [Elbow]
4:58 Hyperballad [Bjork]
5:01 My Beautiful Friend (Lionrock Remix) [The Charlatans UK]
5:07 … Pass The Pepper On [Krill]
5:11 Luv 2 Born [Decoder Ring Vs. Spod]
5:15 Jackie, Dressed In Cobras [The New Pornographers]
5:17 Decent Days And Nights (Max Tundra Remix) [The Futureheads]
5:24 Use What You Got feat. Sonny Akpon [Quantic]
5:28 Flutter [Bonobo]
5:24 Get It Together [The Go! Team]
5:38 Left Over Wine [Plutonic Lab]
5:43 Shoot From The Hip feat. Urthboy [Unkle Ho]
5:46 Starring At The Sun [TV On The Radio]
5:50 Do You Realise (T.P.S. Remix) [The Flaming Lips]
5:55 Night On Fire [VHS or Beta]
5:58 King Of The Rodeo [Kings Of Leon]

Fun Fun Fun~

2005-09-18T23:59:00.000+10:00

Time Is The Enemy

Can you believe that it's mid-Sep? Geez... Time is flying. I'm leaving Sydney in mid-Oct, and this is gonna be like forever. One month time for me to do things I love here, and spend time with people that I love in Sydney. After that, my graduate holiday will be reach the end, I'll go back to Hong Kong, find a job and spend some time with my family and friends over there.

I've been trying to relieve myself not to worry about things that I'm gonna left behind, it will work out when time goes by. FBi will have streaming radio soon, internet will let me keep in touch with people here, and I'm sure one day I'll come back for another visit again. But ya know, this is just not working at all, coz it's gonna be very different. I'm looking forward to living in HK again, but in the meanwhile, thinking about leaving Sydney is really upseting me.

OK, I need to suppress this again, ahem... yea, let's talk about it a day before I leave, it's too early to worry right now.

Well~ well well well well... Last week I did lots of thing, went to Come Together Festival 2 with Corynne and Bill last weekend, we all had great fun though the line up isn't as exciting as the first time. Some bands did play very well such as Midnight Juggeraut, Sparkadia, and especially The Mint Chicks. Crazy Mint Chicks singer jumped on everything that's taller than him, even tried to wreck down the Triple J banner. Also, he almost hit the security while swinging the microphone around, that was impressive! Other than that, we mainly focused the day on the rides, Wild Mouse, Pirate Ship, Spiders, Coney Island and more... It was a fun day.

Another highlight would be two excellent gigs I saw last week, namely Hot Hot Heat (canada indie) at Metro Theatre on Wed nite and Hermitude (sydney hip hip/electronic) at @Newtown on Friday nite. Both night I had to queue up a very long time to get in, Friday nite was worse due to shit weather, but it's worth to do it. Billy even declared Hermitude is the gig of the year, what a big call, but I don't see any point in going against it.

Let's talk about Hot hot heat first, I've been waiting to see the boys for ages, crossing finger for their coming and the ticket, and thank god I got them both! (Big thanks to Tiani and Zilber xo) It was so pack since it was a sold out show, but I got a good spot in the front row. The band's performance was great, and I was glad to be surrounded by the crowd who could sing completely correct hot hot heat lyric, coz that's part of the element to make it a good show. However, for some reason the mic went off for like 5 sec, which was definitely not the band's fault but the Metro's set up problem. Alas, I feel sorry for them, but I really enjoy the show. Good to see Susan too.

The night I saw Hermitude has a terrible weather, and we have to wait almost an hour just to get into the venue, you can imagine how's it like. Anyhow, I've been waiting since last time when DJ Krush's visit with Hermitude supporting, who cares about waiting an hour more in the rain? The show didn't let me down, even we were sitting in the back, it was a pure joy. They have Unkle Ho, Plutonic Lab, Ozi batla and Urthboy supporting, which even make the night better. The most amazing moment would be the duo mixed a great song out of a few lines sang by a girl who they randomly picked from the audience. awesome!

OK, it's been a very long tome to update my photo album, what a twat I am! Oh well... I just been busy in FBi, taking care Billy's glandular fever, as well as sending Hanna and Lena back to Germany. But hey! I did do something for my blog, here is your sweet as a reward for waiting in my blog days and nights.

Sweet 1 - Here is the first part of New Zealand pictures, I spent so much time on doing all this, so you better not miss out! I promise I'll finish the rest and let you all know!
http://community.webshots.com/user/hijinz1

Sweet 2 - My graduation picture! Oh dear, that was like ages ago! Well, blame it on my dad, he deleted all my graduation photos in my computer after burn himself a copy. I have to wait him to send all the pictures back to me and upload them. oh well... hope it's not too late....!
http://community.webshots.com/user/hijiville5

Sweet 3 - They are all new~~~ Come together 2 and some pictures that me and Bill took on the weekend. AND JOY!
http://community.webshots.com/user/hijiville6

Well, I think that's all for now, stop giving me that grumpy face. I'll update my blog more often now.

[[audio: Ambulance LTD - Young Urban]]

2005-09-07T06:08:00.000+10:00

Allnighter Playlist 7 Sept 2005

Tonight I did the show with a new girl Sophia Ticehurst, a training show is alwys fun. Apart from this hip hop weirdo called up and freaked her out a bit. This dude was bitching about the aussie hip hop we played were crap and we should listen to his music. Of coz he ended up talking to me and bitch slapped back by me. (I even met him outside, which was very risky...) But somehow I wasn't scare to see him, coz I can tell he does have a heart for hip hop and people who truly like hip hop know how to respect others, especially me - who he labelled as a challenger. He was extremely nice to me when we met face to face, tho I gave him a lesson about how to show respect to me, the radio station and other local hip hop artists. It was funny that he begged me to listen to it and called him just for my opinion and left, he said he doesn't care about who Dan Zilber is no matter how I explain to him that Zilber is the music coordinator. How weird!? Anyhoo, no drama. :)

So we picked these tunes to piss you off:

2:07 Way Of Life [Stylophonic]
2:12 Appreciation [Plant Life]
2:16 Inhale Exhale[Kid Confucius]
2:20 Talk Your Wrist Off [Chasm]
2:26 She Gets Off [TZU]
2:30 Rebellion (Lies) [The Arcade Fire]
2:34 Closer [Dead Dead Girls]
2:41 Fighting In A Sack [The Shins]
2:44 Stay Where You Are [Ambulance LTD]
2:49 Hello Again [The Vandas]
2:53 This Day [The Sleepy Jackson]
2:59 My Spartment [Ben Kweller]
3:02 Evil [Interpol]
3:05 Hounds Of Love [The Futureheads]
3:08 Then You Appear [The Panda Band]
3:11 Pills [The Mess Hall]
3:15 Sukkafish [The Grates]
3:20 End Of The World [The Cure]
3:26 They(Cut Chemist remix) [Jem]
3:28 100% [Moloko]
3:35 Mishap Happening [Quantic]
3:44 Echoes Of Blue [Pasobionic]
3:50 Nightfall's Messenger [Hermitude]
3:58 Resonate [Velure]
4:05 Loverman [Vassy]
4:10 No Going Back [Gold Mice]
4:14 Munich [Editor]
4:17 Twin Sisters [The Panics]
4:20 The Coast Is Always Changing [Maximo Park]
4:24 You Owe Me an IOU [Hot Hot Heat]
4:30 Something's Going On Tonight [Ugly Duckling]
4:34 Simple Livin' [Gym Class Heroes]
4:37 P.S. [Jean Grae]
4:44 Lesfortunate [Downsyde]
4:49 No Rider [Urthboy]
4:55 Too Much To Do [Sparkadia]
4:58 Guys, Girls, Guitars [You Am I]
5:02 We Both Go Down Together [The Decemberists]
5:06 Soul Meets Body [Death Cab For Cutie]
5:10 Won't Go Out [Holly Golightly]
5:16 2002 - A Hit Song [The Free Design]
5:19 Laser Beam [Super Furry Animals]
5:25 Get On Back Experiement [Arc Solo]
5:32 Lights Out [Bass Kleph]
5:36 Letz Dance [Spod]
5:40 Summertime [The Camels]
5:44 Quarter To Three [Faker]
5:49 Cream Puff [Intercooler]
5:56 Building Bridges, Digging Caves [The Boat People]

Peace out until next time.

2005-08-29T23:10:00.000+10:00

NZ 5: Wellington - Taupo - Matamata - Waitomo Cave - Auckland - Sydney

Deeply sorry that I didn't touch the blog recently, so many people sick around me, made me a bit ill as well. Hopefully they all get well soon. OK, let me update the last piece of my journey...

The next morning in Wellington, our first town in the northern island, we went to the Te Papa Museum, an unusually nice museum according to Catherine we met in Punakaiki, just to see how special is it. Basically, it was like going back to your high school geography lesson, quite interesting though the interactive games they have there were rubbish. We met Danny again in the museum, what a coincident! In the conversation, we also awared that he's going to the similar places as we do, so we decided to meet up in Taupo. In other words, he has became our travel buddy as well. Hey hey hoo!

Taupo, a place where we stayed for 4 nights, which is the longest stay among all other towns in New Zealand. Once we arrived, it was night already, so we just made some stuff to eat and sleep. Next day was really slow, since some had hangover and some didn't sleep well, we still have managed to do something before dusk.

Headed to Craters Of the Moon, if you silly enough to think that we took a rocket up to the moon, no, it's just a volcanic thermal area in Taupo. It was quite amazing to see this landscape, pretty much like a Scotish battlefield after a war - smoke everywhere in a forest area. Two of the craters in this place was erupted (when steam passages below the surface, after heavy rain/earth movements) in September 2002, also the biggest eruption in a decade, you can see the pumice stones and a myriad of colors in the craters.

In the evening, I didn't stay up too late, coz we have a huge mission to do the next morning. What so inportant??? Well~ We planned to do SKYDIVING the next morning! Now that's something I can never say I'm ready no matter how much time I got... As some of you might have known that, falling from the sky is the worst nightmare I had in my childhood, possibly is my biggest fear. Cannot believe I did that, not even now.

We got up really early just to throw ourselves out of a plane, and we paid to do it, how stupid?? But hey, at least I did something that I am always fear of! I personally don't know what to expect to feel, so I wasn't like freak out until the moment I know I have to jump. I was silly enough to ask "dude, is this thing safe?", I almost shit my pants! What has to be done is done, I landed safely, 10 pointswith 5 points bonus for kicking one of the assistants into his face and got caught in the video, it was hilarious to watch it again and again... hell yeah!

The activity in the morning was too intense, so the crew decided to chill in one of the hot pools here, and me went back to meet up with Danny. I went to his hostel and watch his solo skydive plus 3 times bungy performance DVD, which was absolutely extremely. Told you! Dutch are mental! :p Headed back to my hostel and gathered up with Jon, HAnna and Lena, off we went to the Huka falls. No, instead of doing rafting there, we did a nice walk around the area.

Next day me, Lena, Joe and Danny have planned to do the Tangariro Crossing 6 in the morning, which is basically walking through the valley between the Mountain Ngaruhoe and Mountain Tangariro to the other end of Mt Tangariro. Here is the map for you to get the idea (We were walking the red route):

Crazy huh? yeah, we were all quite excited, but also a bit worry that the weather wasn't really stable. Hell, everyone says you can't say you've been to northern new zealand without doing the crossing, so I just gave it a go. The snow mountains were stunning, but when we arrived south crater (see map below), the weather began to get worse. When we attempted to climb up the red crater, a big snow storm almost blow me away, thank god Danny grabbed me back on time. We could hardly see anything around the mountain, everything were entirely white, I could barely see anyone who's five steps away from me. Hence, the guide said we need to cancel and return to the base. Boo...

I guess most ofthe people in the group were very disappointed, Lena was trying to convince the guide to keep going, but no hope. To be honest, I don't really give a shit anymore, coz it was freezing up there, have you even experience the cold that can cause you so many pain? It was like your face was constantly slapped violently, and all your fingers were stung by a thousand bees... I was indeed pretty happy that we headed back, though I have to say we are quite unlucky. But the thing is, traveller should learn to enjoy theirselves no matter how crap the situation is, so me and Danny were playing snowball battle and making snowman, it was good fun. After attacked by the vicious snow storm, everyone was exhausted... So we decided to get back to the thermal area and enjoy the hot pool in the rest of the evening.

The next day, we all packed up and headed to Rotorua, apparently it is a very beautiful place where you can see lots of amazing volcanic stuff as well as the Mauri village. We were fully expecting the best in the car, but didn't expect the worst once we arrived. God this place is so stink, it was like everyone in the town farts in every 10 seconds. The crew thinks it's not a bright idea to stay there any longer, so we planned to go up Tauranga, a poshy town in the bay of plenty. Stay for a nite and straight up to Matamata and visit the Hobbiton.

We didn't follow the Hobbiton tour, but just hung around the outside region. (coz me 50 bucks to see those 'Hobbiton' shithole!? no way!) It was so misty a minute ago (some people call this place 'silver mist'), but after a while, the mist began to clear up and the amazing scenery started to show! The landscape is really story tale like, crispy air, pure green lawn, lovely sheep, layered hills... I would say that is probably the most impressive scenery in the northern island.

However, the time was running out! We have to drive all the way to the Waitomo cave, coz we have determined to do the underwater tubing (known as rafting in the leaflet). Met up with Danny and off we go! Took like an hour just to put the swimming suit on, they are soooo tight and everyone could barely breath! We went in to the cave and sat our arse to the tube-ring then slided down to the waterfall. It was so dark, so it's a good idea to do some splashing and pushing. (coz you never know who did it... heehee) The glow worms were so kool, there're so many and it gets brighter if you shout in the cave. (I still don't understand why tho.)

After the chilling activity, we headed to our last destination - Auckland. This is a pretty kool city (tho I prefer Wellington!), where we can see people doing bungy at the sky tower. We went to the local market and shop around for the first day, they got some pretty kool stuff, but also very expensive... We waited fo Danny the next day and wandered the city, a spontaneous idea came out when me and Joe sawthe game center - "how about a dance machine challenge, Biatch?" I can see the fire in his eyes, so I accepted his challenge and filfull my wish to kick his arse! Man! I haven't play this shit like forever, but it was somehow really fun to play with these people! :)

After mucking around in the game arcade, we went to see Sin City! FINALLY!!!!!! God this is such a good film, I was so impressed by its visual effect and the comical perspective. Was a bit freak out by Kevin, especially knowing the fact that he is starred by Elijah Wood (aka. Froddo). But overall, really good cast for such a legendary comic film. Excellent intepretation. [5 out of 5] touchdown*

After the movie, we went out and get pissed, and the rest I just couldn't remember anymore. haha... peace out. Golly, I'm back to Sydney in a blink of eye! It's been great to see New Zealand and meet lots of kool people there. keep in touch fellows!! xo

P.S. Photos will be uploaded very soon! I just put up some new photos in album 5, including more additional picture in shane & Chrissy farewell, Blue mountains trip with Bill, and My Sydney Diary IV (pre-birthday celebration at Bank Thai Restaurant, museum station, crazy karaoke nite, cockatoes at botanic garden). Check it out! :)

[[audio: AmbulanceLTD - Ancedote]]

2005-08-22T06:29:00.000+10:00

Allnighter 22nd Aug Playlist

Back to the studio! got 9 people called up, which wasn't bad at all. :) Especially thanks for Jason and Chris, Tho I dunno them, but we are like having a relationship in the air! can you believe someone would called up and tell you they call you up 3 months ago and been looking forward to your next show? I was totally flattered. Anyway, I played all these tune tonite:

Pinch [Can]
We Listen Everday [The Go! Team]
2002 - A Hit Song [The Free Design]
Yeti [Caribou]
Tapedeck Sound [Hermitude]
Mishaps Happening [Quantic]
Manufactured [The Herd]
Ladies And Gentlemen [Hot Hot Heat]
The White Unicorn [Wolfmother]
Monday Monda Monday [Tegan & Sara]
Marceline [Barrage]
Any Hopeful Thoughts Arrive [Hood]
Dirty Harry [Gorillaz]
Oh My God [Kaiser Chiefs]
Sad And Lonely [Secret Machine]
Quarter To Three [Faker]
Up At The Lake [The Charlatans]
Munich [Editors]
Disco 1 [The Mess Hall]
Summertime [The Camel]
Resonate [Velure]
She Gets Up [TZU]
Come Around [Urthboy]
Soulreply [Stylophonic]
…Pass The Pepper On [Krill]
Wrong Baby [Colder]
Beetlebum [Blur]
Up in the Air [The Spark]
Wires [Athlete]
Primitive (The Way I Treat You) [Amblance LTD]
Opium Of The People [The Mint Chicks]
The Doldrums [Night Hour]
Hope There's Someone [Anthony & The Johnson]
Simple Livin' [Gym Class Heroes]
Dead Ringer [Ghost Style]
Front Frontier [RJD2 feat. Blueprint]
Feeling Good [Nina Simone]
Giraffe Girl [Coda]
Cold Wind [The Arcade Fire]
Building Bridges, Digging Caves [The Boat People]
If I Try [Intercooler]
Slow Down Gandhi [Sage Francis]
Hoe Cakes [MF Doom]
The Last Trumpet [Lyrics Born]
If We're In Love [Roisin Myrphy]
Lebanese Blonde [Thievery Corporation]
Not So Distant Drums [Enduser]
Apply Some Pressure [Maximo Park]
Timestops [Teenage Fanclub]
Sally Go Round The Roses [Holly Golightly]
Fire Below [Midnight Juggernaut]
Sukkafish [The Grates]
Comfort In Sound [Feeder]
Artificial Horizon [Pivot]
Sound Of Everthing [Alice Russell feat. Quantic]

Cheers Kids. xo

2005-08-08T01:37:00.000+10:00

NZ 4: Queenstown - Wanaka - Franz Josef Glacier - Punakaiki - Nelson - Wellington

I know I know, I'm a lazy bastard. Well... Not really!! I just couldn't find a cheap internet place since Queenstown, in other words, I'm simply a tight arse! bite me.

Hee hee, anyway... let's continue my journey at Queenstown. This place is a pretty kool ski town for city people, but we decided to do the skiing in Wanaka for cheaper deal.

Next morning, a random English dude Tom ran into our dorm just wanna put his melting butter in our fridge, our curiosity kicked off the conversation. (quite easy to friends here, huh?) He was actually 80% looks like Hayden Christensen (aka. Anakin in Star War III), pretty boy... but very tough, he did 3 different bungy in a day, mental! I might do the bungy or skydive at Taupo in the Northern Island, apparently it's the cheapest place to do all this shit. But... we'll see~

Did a crazy walk up to the Bob's Peak, where people usually spend $15 to take a cable car up instead. It was breathtaking but definitely worth it by seeing the nice view around! There, you can see heaps people doing paragliding, yet we were more attracted to the luge up there. It was quite fast and we did a luge race too, absolutely fun! WEE~~~!!!! *happy*

Me, Lena and Joe did a special extra trip while Hanna and Jon rest in the dorm. We headed to the north of Queenstown, where the place's called Glenorchy. In this little town, a hidden area named Paradise was also another stunning filming spot of Lord Of The Rings, it was a very nice place, clear river, crispy air, beautiful mountains mixed of green and white. Took so many pictures, golly that was amazing!

Went to Wanaka after we had enough in Queens of the town, grabbed our ski equipments and headed all the way up to Cardrona. My skiing's virginity was gone with Hanna and Jon. Hanna taught me how to turn, slow down and stop, practised twice in the learner ground, then we go up to the top of the mountain!! *shit my pant!*

Funny thing is my first accident was happened on the cable chair, where I tried to ski off in the middle of the seat in between of Jon and Hanna. I was tripped back down to the seat while they both ski off the left and the right way. Chair began to rise and U-turning, I was panic since it would be very embarrassing to sit by myself all the way down to the mountain, while others were looking at you on the other side. Hence, I decided to jumped off, unfortunately fell, and that's how I hurt my thumb...

That, however, didn't devastate my gut! I enjoyed skiing so much and know nothing about the pain on my thumb! (probably it was really cold too...) I ski quite fast after a few times, then Hanna and Jon took me to the next level - a new path! (intermedia level) I was just trying to keep up with them, went down to this track called Highway 89', I ski down with the speed of 100K! Didn't know how to stop so I just sat down on the snow, dragged my arse 5km far until it finally stopped! A stranger just came up with an amazing eyes saying "God you are spectecular! I've never see someone skiing that fast!" After I told him that's my first time skiing, he was even shocker as I'm still alive. Good fun. :)

Drove up to the Franz Josef Glacier the next day and found a very nice cottage, we couldn't do much since it was almost the evening. So I started to chat with some strangers, met this interesting Danish guy David, great fun talking with him. We even watch Lord of the Rings together, Joe started to put a character's name on us. Here's the game for you, we have 6 people (Me, Hanna, Lena, Joe, Jon, David) with 1 character each (Gandoff, Sam, Froddo, Sauro, Arwen, Tree Beard), you do the match! :p

Went up to see the Glacier in the next morning, didn't climb it since it was very expensive and we were really tight in the budget. Instead of that, we did a lunch break at the bottom of the Glacier, was very nice! Plus, Joe went for a chilling shower under the waterfall. He's bloody crazy fool! but I respect that.

After that, up we went to Punakaiki where they have the Pancake Rocks and the Blowhole. On our way, we stopped at Okarito to see the amazing Lagoon and tried to search the wild kiwi. (no luck tho...) Pancake Rocks was so facinating, I was totally blown away! We stayed at Te Nikau Retreat for one night, there I met this lovely English lady Catherine and we talked until god knows when. Have a good trip at the south Catherine!

Last night we arrived Nelson, which was a shithole, I got a terrible (sydney) homesick there, so there's nothing to talk about. (worse than Christchurch) We took a ferry to the Northern Island this afternoon and here we are in Wellington - The capital of New Zealand!

Love Wellington a lot! Especially the groovy building in the city center~ Except one thing... Can you believe that they haven't got Sin City yet??? God, we need to wait til' 11 Aug! So probably will see it in Auckland, no one allows to spill the story in front of me! Or I'll Kill Ye! We went to see The Island there at night, it was a pretty kool film. Start with detective genre and shifted to purely actions. I quite like it tho it made me feel a bit numb in the end. (3.8 out of 5)

Staying in the Wildlife Backpacker now, It's a very funky building (Zebra painting on the wall!). Free internet!! Woo hoo!! I spent like 5 hours for this message! Including chating with people online, and the kool Dutch guy Dan who sat next to me. I really enjoy the great chat with him about the trip, art, junky email, kool sites, stupid jokes and other shit. Nice to meet you man!

Ok, I guess this is long enough for you to read it in a week. Keep your email and message coming!! Damn! It's already one half here! I better head to sleep now! ciao!! xo

P.S. Thanks for answering my question Em! miss ya girlfriend!
P.P.S. Happy Birthday Pauly! Tell me how's your party~~!
P.P.P.S. I MISS FBi!!!!!!!!!! Arghhh~~~!

[[audio: Do You Know The Way To San Jose? - Dionne Warwick]]

2005-08-02T07:55:00.000+10:00

NZ 3: Dunedin - Te Anau - Midford Sound - Queenstown

Hi everyone, guess what? It's August now, so.... STOP CALLING ME TRASHBAG! Ok, let's see I've got here:

We went to see the Mysterious Skin in the Dunedin Internation Film Festival, since I'm gonna miss the preview screening organised by FBi. Anyway it was quite an interesting film, if you like to see how people deal with traumatized childhood. The guy who do Neil, swear to god I have seen him somewhere before! Tell me if you recognize him! His acting is alright in this film tho, I think it's a bit over-acting. (4 out of 5)

We had a good breakfast in Metro again, and started to drive off the town. Before Te Anau, we went to checked out the Baldwin Street, which is claimed as the most steepest street in the world. It was very kool and very steep, went up to the top to see the whole Dunedin and drove back down... God I almost died in heart attack there!

Off we go, headed to Te Anau and picked up Joe, a new travel company in the group! He is a friend of Hanna and decided to meet us in NZ. A very funny dude knows how to entertain, tho sometimes I a bit smart arse, I actually quite enjoy travelling with him.

Te Anau is a very quiet version of Queenstown, a huge lake in the front and the snow mountains behind. We just stayed there for one night tho, since the accomodation is quite expensive there. We were also told that they have better Lord of the Ring view in Milford Sound, so there's where we wanna go the next morning.

Heading to Milford Sound is definitely a trek, icey road around the mountain wasn't comfortable at all. But it's very kool to go through the old skool tunnel to this remote town, it's kinda like a coal mining tunnel. Joe just screamed 'Let's go out of the Batcave, Robin!!!' pretty much you know how's it like by what he said, yeah? :)

Milford Sound is a rainforest region, so it rains almost 365days - cold and wet, but Golly, the view there was absolutely amazing! The road we walk up to the mountain is green color, the whole nature is so well-protected. Trees are so beautiful there, oriental shape with moss hanging down from the branches as if they all wear clothes. Stunning! It's like the dreamland that you would only think it does exist when you were a kid.

We drove back to Queenstown and head for a cheap place to live. Now we are staying in this place called Pinewood Lodge, pretty kool place but a bit dirty.

I'm running out of time, so will tell you what happened after we hit the Queenstown. :) ciao!

[[audio: Blur - Tender]]

2005-07-29T15:50:00.000+10:00

NZ2: Christchurch - Oamaru - Dunedin

Hey guys, thanks for all your lovely birthday messages, I really appreciate all your blessings. I don't know how's it gonna be like to be 24, but this is what's fun about, you never know what would happen and life should be full of unpredictable adventure... Just like my trip in New Zealand! Here is a little bit of update for you all!

Christchurch is 85% like England, the buildings, the weather (Cold rain with chilling wind), the trees...etc. It's a beautiful town, especially the Bontanic Garden is very pretty! However, the town is really dead, everything open so late and close so early... To be honest, I don't like the atmosphere here at all.

At night, we went to this Irish pub - Mickey Finn's City, for a drink. This pub is so Christianish, Jesus christ statues everywhere, very dim light with white candle in all tables. Hence, we started to discuss some anti-religion topic. There's a pub band (The Bills) playing, they were really good. All in the sudden, they even played a birthday song to me! I was totally stunned, then Hanna and Lena came out with a card and a bracelace. (I was so keen to buy, but walked away after Jon told me the seashell crisis in Thailand) Yeah, very touched... I was quite emotional this nite. :) Really appreciate all these friends I have.

Yesterday, thank god we left Christchurch the depressing town, I would suicide if we had to stay for one more day. After breakfast, we picked up the Subaru car and raced all the way to Oamaru. To celebrate my birthday, the crew suggested to see the blue penguin, they are the smallest penguin in the world. (averagely 35cm tall; weight 1kg) We didn't see a lot this time, since the male tend to be with the female penguins while they're about to give birth. However, We did see some up close penguin action, they were soooo cute though the staff said they are very aggressive and not really scare of people. It was great fun, too bad they don't let people to take picture, but if you are interested, check out their website: http://www.penguin.co.nz

Next, we reached Dunedin and very happy that we came here instead of stay in Christchurch, it's such a magnificent town, I love it! We picked a slightly expensive hostel, but something really random had happened! In the backpacker pub, I encountered my favorite highschool teacher - Annette Tam! (if u checked my old pic in HK, there's one me and my classmates with her in Dan Ryan!) Haven't see her like decades and never expected to see her here, in this hostel, in this town. Far out...!

Today, we went to see some churches here, all the buildings here are very nice, stunning architecture they have. We were supposed to join the Speight's brewery tour, but it's full. Therefore, we had a Chocolate ale there (taste weird...) and headed to the Cadbury chocolate factory for a tour. The guide looks like an animation, you would think the same if you saw his facial expression... It's amazing to see the giant chocolate waterfall, it's the biggest in the world. Some chocolate splashed out and get to our shirt, of course the only way to clean it is to lick it off. We did that, then the guide said "yeah, this waterfall is just for tourist, no use at all, and we pump all the chocolate up and re-use them again..." Re-used chocolate... Apart from that, we ate so many nice chocolate, it's quite addictive. yummy!!

Tomorrow we will be heading to Te Anau (where the Lord of The Ring is!) and meet up with Jo, our 4th travel partner. It's gonna be kool. Wee~~!! Happy days...

P.S. Dunedin's internet is so bloody expensive!!! :(

[[audio: Common - The Corner]]

2005-07-26T15:43:00.000+10:00

NZ1: Sydney - Christchurch

OK, I finally arrived New Zealand, so far everything is pretty kool. So many embarrassing moment on the way, the worst one is they misprinted my title to 'MR'. I thought it's not a big deal, but then I was stopped several by the staff, they were so shocked and went 'Wait! This boarding pass is for Mister!' and once they found out my passport name is as same as the boarding pass, they just went silent and let me go. I tried to explain that was a misprint, but seems they are more convinced by the presumption that I am a transvesite... bloody hell!

Went to the X-ray section, I was checked by this lady with a name tab 'HARDEEP' on her chest, sounds quite erotic indeed, but she looks so serious as if some macho soccor couch. Ms. Hardeep was so shocked when she see a X-Box came out from the Xray machine and asked if that's mine. Ending up a dude came up and claimed his 'portable game device' back, some travellers really know how to entertain themselves... Ms. Hardeep didn't laugh at all, whereas I was giggling aside.

Finally I arrived Christchurch, though it would be nice to buy a calling card to reach my mum and let her know that I'm safe here. Bought a $10 card and realised they surcharge everything, fucking pissed me off. Fine! I tried to find a phone booth to make the call, but life just isn't that easy... None of the phone booth are coins available! fucking A!!! and I was stupid enough to get a $5 local phone card, then thought I can finally reach mom. Nope, somehow they didn't let me to connect mobile... why everything has to be so difficult??? hate the motherfucking phone system here.

OK, enough whining. I promise I will have fun. xoxo :)

[[audio: The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love]]

2005-07-26T09:05:00.000+10:00

Way To New Zealand

I'm now waiting for my flight to the Kiwi land, this is very exciting, at least it kept me awake the while night. There I'll meet up with Hanna, Lena and Jon as my travelling companies, we are gonna have lots of fun. And sure I will feep you with our up-to-date news.

Some message for some people:

Bill: Thanks for celebrating my birthday in advance, I love all the presents that you gave it to me, but I think the best present would be you! :) Don't touch my Placebo DVD tho, it's my PRECIOUS~~~~ Be good my jellybean. xo

Kath: I have a very great time living with you, thanks for keep me company at home. Of course I would never forget our good time and... little britain hours! keep in touch with me baby and I promise will visit you! Oh, and don't you forget the operation again, fix it asap!! xo

Marley: Welcome back to Sydney, I had so much fun in your welcome back party with all your kool friends! Sorry that me and Soph just kept eating in the party, the food was excellent. Will let you know when I'm back, have fun in FB the Aiiii~! muah!

Hanna, Lena & Jon: Will see you all bums real soon~~~

I'm still struggling about doing Skydiving.

[[audio: Placebo - Commercial For Levi]]

2005-07-22T06:09:00.000+10:00

Allighter Playlist 23/07/2005

It's a very great show, thanks Twayna and Jackson for helping out.
Nice tune and hey! nice rap Jackson, love your freestyling. :)
I'm happy but dead tired, back to FBi 7 hours later, and Willy Mason tonite! woo hoo!
So I played:

2:05 GodHopping [Dogs Die In Hot Car]
2:07 Neighborhood 2 (Laika) [The Arcade Fire]
2:12 The Familiar [Faker]
2:16 Hounds of Love [The Futureheads]
2:21 No Going Back [Gold Mice]
2:25 Media'd Out [Urthboy]
2:31 Galang [M.I.A]
2:35 White Light [Gorillaz]
2:37 Since I Left You [The Avalanches]
2:41 Resonate [Velure]
2:49 The Power Is On [The Go! Team]
2:53 Zodiaccupuncture [Aesop Rock]
2:59 Go! [Common]
3:03 Colossal Insight [Roots Manuva]
3:08 Cay's Crays [Fat Freddys Drop]
3:17 Splendid Isolation [Hermitude]
3:22 Crisis [Sole]
3:25 Loaded To The Gills [Michael Liggins & Supersouls]
3:31 Echoes Of Blue [Pasobionic]
3:38 Perception [Quantic]
3:44 New Year Resolution [Lootpack] - (Jackson Freestyling round 1)
3:48 Answers [Lootpack] - (Jackson Freestyling round 1)
3:51 Dust [Recloose feat. Joe Dukie]
3:57 Talk Your Wrist Off [Chasm feat. Ozi Batla]
4:05 Tricky Kid [Tricky]
4:10 Buddha Finger [Arc Solo]
4:15 The Seed (2.0) [The Roots]
4:20 Oh La La [Goldfrapp]
4:24 If We're In Love [Roisin Murphy]
4:29 Staring At The Sea [TV On The Radio]
4:34 Into the Trees [Sime Nugent]
4:39 Giraffe Girl [Coda]
4:42 Oxygen [Willy Mason]
4:49 Hold Me Now [Polyphonic Spree]
4:53 Float On [Modest Mouse]
4:57 I Hear Noises [Tegan & Sara]
5:01 Disco 1 [The Mess Hall]
5:03 Trampoline [The Grates]
5:08 Saturday [Cut Copy]
5:15 On Heat [Spod]
5:21 Hit Me Again [Neon]
5:24 Never Let Me Down [Kanye West]
5:29 Funkin' With Your Mind [The S.H.H.I.T]
5:36 Eatadiccup [J-Zone] - (Jackson Freestyling round 2)
5:38 D&D Soundclash [Afu-Ra] - (Jackson Freestyling round 2)
5:41 Whoz that? [Littleboy from the Woods]
5:44 The Denial Twist [The White Stripes]
5:47 Dirty Mouth [Hot Hot Heat]
5:49 12:51 [The Strokes]
5:51 Slow Down [The Architects]
5:58 Up in the Air [The Spark]
6:00 Oh My God [Kaiser Chiefs]

Happy days...
Thanks for listening and I do very appreciate the 7 request calls from you. xo

2005-07-17T15:45:00.000+10:00

A Moment Of Celebrity

Went to see Watussi at the Basement last night, this venue was surprisingly very pack. (as I got some negative comment about them) First impression was ozomatli meets kid confucius with a touch of boyband vocal!? someone said Watussi is some latin music that won't sell a buck in South America, I don't know about that, but they made a lot of butts shaking last night. The gay man who's sitting in front of me was kept shouting "I love WATUSSI! I love WATUSSI!!!!" Jeez some crazy fans here, don't have to shout tho...

It is totally funky latin pop, I won't say it's hip hop at all, they did rap, but nope, not hip hop. Doesn't mean that they are bad~! They got excellent instrumental players, good beat with a funk style. Although we didn't rock down to the dance floor, I really had a great night.

Anyway, on my way back home, four North Shore boys skateboard their way to me and asked me to send a txt message for them. So I helped them out, but eventually they began to realise I'm the trashbag girl in the Cat paper and started getting so excited that they were talking to someone who's in FBi. (mann, I'm not even a famous DJ...) They kept shaking my hands and even took some pictures with me, I just wanna go home coz my feet were freezing. We talked on the street for almost an hour before they let me go, they were very nice kids tho. Oh well.

P.S. If you like Maddox and is a good illustrator, check this out: illustrators helpout
P.P.S. The Yes Men is overrated, can't be bother to write a review for it [2.5 out of 5]

[[audio: The White Stripes - The Dental Twist]]

2005-07-16T03:19:00.000+10:00

An Extract Of A Joyous Letter

...Last thursday we did a little adventurous "amazing race" in sydney which I have never done before.

After a great big breakfast in Newtown, we took a ferry to a random hidden place called Cremore point, it's where those super rich people live. Flamboyant architectures with beautiful garden and old school european fountains. Far out, I was thinking to kidnap one of the kids there and hold for a ransom!!

Then we took the ferry again to Mosman, which is only 2 min across the habour but we just couldn't be bother to swim there. Another beautiful suburb, first thing that you noticed in this place is the shops, 95% of the shops have a French name, even domino has changed to dominioque. And a chinese retaurtant has a name like j'aime le god damn chinoise or something like that. amazed me.

We took a bus to Manly Beach, we did a wonderful walk up to the hill, watched the sunset and had the delicious fish and chips (fried oyster and calamari rule!). Had a beer and a pool game, then we just head home for good. Was absolutely a fun day, despite my legs were totally sored the next day...

one love, fayske xo

P.S. thanks Billy the jelly~, you are the best. :) xo
P.P.S. people who got the original letter, please forgive my mistypo, i typed it 3am while i was sleeping. [note added 17/7/05 12pm]

[[audio: Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You]]

2005-07-12T04:06:00.000+10:00

Macho Versus Your Own Skin

I've come across so many male in my life, from strangers to a close one; young and old; straight and gay; tall and short; fat and thin... Most of them have a problematic perception about skin care, you didn't get it wrong, even gay men have a wrong concept about it. Why? because they are being so damn macho, think ignoring their skin is so kool and attractive that can score lots of chica/chico. 'Men don't use skin product, that's for chicks' is usually what I would heard after giving out a suggestion of skin care. Dude, I don't hate you as a macho man, but what kind of excuse is that? It doesn't even make sense.

I am not here to strike the masculinity and support feminism, since I'm not interested in this issue here. Help is what I wanna do, so listen up, having a good skin care won't make you become a homosexual/ a woman, but a better looking gentleman. I'm doing you a favor to help, if you don't give a shit coz you have big balls, I do you a favor to let you go on your lonely macho life. OK, I don't wanna go too harsh, coz I consider you, who reading this, are a good friend of mine.

Rashes, Acne problem, oily skin, big pores, skin peeling...etc. are most of the men skin problems. Why? coz you didn't clean your skin right, here are the general problem that you might have:

Rub your face - some girls do that too, but big mistake! rubbing your face will create big pores that cause oily face, blackheads and even wrinkles. Even using scrub cleanser, you don't rub! you use your finger tips to GENTLE massage it. (Gentle like moving your fingers on your face without seeing your face skin moving up and down dramatically)

Use water only - OK, you think water is pure, huh? think about those chemical in the water, why the government spent so much money on filtering water and suggest boiling water? By the way, you think water can really clean those dirt inside your skin pores? PH 5.5 doesn't mean it can clean your skin, it means that water doesn't dry your skin too much.

Using body soap - I know I know, there are millions of skin products in the shop, and busy man like you just can't be bother to look at them. But think about it, why are they so specific to have body soap and facial product? coz they are different! why do they have so many kind of cleansers? coz they are different! Now imagine using shampoo to clean your skin, you are basically doing this on your face now.

No toner, no cream - cleansing, toner and cream is the golden 3 steps of skin care, you did the first step, might no even in a proper way, and you totally neglect the 2nd as well as the 3rd steps, now stop whining your mom inherited you bad skin.

BASIC 3 STEPS OF SKIN CARE

I know you don't like to spend too much time on your face, but at least stick with these 3 steps, just THREE, take you only 3 mins! Here I help you to choose the right product easily.

Most of the men have oily face, I used to have oily face too. But I was wrong thinking I have oily type of skin, usually (esp cases in Australia) is because of DRY weather. Dry skin creates oil to moisturize itself, then oil becomes dirt, which your skin can get infected and form pimples/blackheads.

Step 1. Cleansing: To remove dirt from your face. I like to use nourishing cleanser in winter and deep skin cleanser in summer. If you don't know what product to choose, they have cleanser for men, start with it. If you wanna use Scrub cleanser, it is important to only use it 1-2 per week.

Step 2. Toner: To wipe off the remained dirt, to refine skin pores and to balance your skin tone (back to PH 5.5=water=purify). Skip it if you think it's not important at all, but I won't if I were you. bigger pores = bad oily skin = more dirt, so refining pores give you better skin. If you ar using a cheap cleansing product/ body soap, it could make your skin go dry, toner is to insert water inside your skin before you moisturize your skin by cream. Use non-alcohol toner please.

Step 3. Facial Cream: To moisturize your dry skin. This is a very important step that many men just literally omit it. Look, keep it simple, get the Nivea Men Cream, put it on every morning and before sleep. avoid eyes area (or you will get greasy spot). If you are more fuzzy and would like to take more time for this step, good on you, read the next paragragh, otherwise just skip it.

You may notice there're day cream and nite cream in the market. Day cream is usually to protect your from the sun while moisturizing your skin, and not too greasy in case it clogs the pores when you sweat. Night cream is to recover your skin's elasticity and firmness, it's more nourishing coz skin can absorb it better while you're asleep. My personally opinion - Don't get greasy cream, use something waterish but deeply moisturizing. Our skin needs water back in, not oil.

Don't say I didn't warn you. Sun is not really skin-friendly. Not that you shouldn't get some nice sunshine, but it can damage your skin structure (collagen breakdown) and dry out your skin. You think asian's skin look so young, coz they don't stay under the sun all day, also they put SUNBLOCK. Sunblock always being misunderstood that it's for people who like pale skin, actually you will still get your tan if you choose a lower SPF sunblock. Sunblock can protect your skin structure by blocking out strong UVA and UVB. If you are a Mr. surfer, get the waterproof one.

OK, here is the main part for all the men, Shaving. Shaving balm is nescessary because when you shave, the blade just scratch through your face, if you scratch your hand, it goes white (aka. dry), and you do know that your face skin is more sensitive than your hand skin, don't ya? That's why it can hurt you when you shave.

Two shaving tips just for you amigo:

1. shaving skill: DO NOT pull your razor all the way down to the chin, I know you are so macho and so busy, but that can cut your face in any second (have you seen 'Face-Off'?). Do me a favor, shave it bit by bit.

2. shave after shower: This HELPS when shaving is so mothefucking hurt to you, because it softens your mustache as well as expand the pores.

Other tips for your macho skin: Drink more water is good too, 8 glasses per day if you can. Plus, good diet and good sleep help you acquire a better skin for sure. So don't be like me, staying up here so late just to watch the Wayne Brady show.

Now I can go to sleep... Good Night.

[[audio: Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty]]

2005-07-10T07:08:00.000+10:00

10th July Allnighter Playlist

Tonight I was doing with a new girl Cassandra, she reminds me my first time doing my allnighter with Tim Dean, the feeling as a freshman Allnighter is definitely nervous and excited in the same time.

Anyway, it was a very good show. Although we had 4 request calls, Louie from Bassline dropped in and played a very kool dub tune. It was so much fun having people around, thanks Louie and hope you will do your show well after your crazy party! :)

Anyway, this time me and Kass chose the following selection:

3:04 Wild Card [Bass Kleph]
3:10 Too Cold [Roots Manuva]
3:16 Just Let Go [National Pornography]
3:21 Something's Going Down Tonight [Ugly Duckling]
3:25 Modern Romance [TV On The Radio]
3:29 Cay's Crays [Fat Freddy Drop]
3:37 Rough Diamonds [End Of Fashion]
3:42 Dimension [Wolfmother]
3:47 Night On Fire [VHS Or Beta]
3:50 Patrol [The Charlantan]
4:01 Cakehole [Skunkhour]
4:05 Train [Goldfrapp]
4:09 Lounger [Dogs Die In Hot Car]
4:15 Attitude [Suede]
4:18 In The Backseat [The Arcade Fire]
4:25 Sleep Forever [Red Sun Band]
4:28 Do The Whirlwind [Architecture In Helsinki]
4:40 Sunshine On My Mind [Major Boys feat. Mark Kelly]
4:47 Destroy Rock n' Roll [Mylo]
4:51 Last Tango in Paris [Koolism]
4:56 Alter Ego Rocker [Poxy Music]
5:03 Push Up (Plump DJ Remix) [Freestylers]
5:10 77% [The Herd]
5:15 Sukkafish [The Grates]
5:20 Fire Below [Midnight Juggernauts]
5:25 Don't Say Nuthin' [The Roots]
5:29 Reptila [The Strokes]
5:33 No, Not now [Hot Hot Heat]
5:37 Hi- Skies [The Morning After Girls]
5:42 Wonderful People [Q And Not U]
5:46 Get over it [Ok Go]
5:50 Breakin' [The Music]
5:59 Echoes Of Blue [Pasobionic]
6:03 Icarus [Chasm]
6:08 Take Off [Resins Dog]
6:11 B Line [Lamb]
6:14 Free Salute [Little Barrie]
6:18 Old Fashion Morphine [Jolie Holland]
6:22 Agaju [Bebel Giberto]
6:28 Jam Love Dub [Prince Douglas] - Live DJ Guest (Louie/Bassline)
6:34 Something Wicked [Soma Rasa]
6:40 Stay with you [Lemon Jelly]
6:42 Way Of Life [Stylophonic]
6:45 Kings of the Rodeo [Kings of Leon]
6:50 Sex call [Rocket Science]
6:53 Dramamine [Modest Mouse]
7:00 All Is Full Of Love [Death Cab For Cutie]

Thanks Tiani, Shalini, Louie again for coming in and said Hi! Cass you did a great job, wicked partner you are~ Thanks all the people calling up and tune in to listen. Thanks for letting me sleep in before the show, Jellybean. muah! xoxo

Time for some good sleep, good niteeee...

2005-07-09T19:03:00.000+10:00

Steaming Steady

Went to see Faker's Album Launch at Annandale hotel after FBi, thanks millions Jackshit for helping me to get in. Far out! The show was totally sold out and I was told all each band can only have one guest, how harsh!? I was expecting the worst, which is do nothing and just talk shit with Bill. But hey hey!!! Simon got me and Bill in as a VIP (Free booze, woohoo!), and it was a very good show, god it turned sleepy fayske to a dancing malfunction trashbag!

The Spark and The Expatiate were supporting last night, both were doing quite well with different level of satisfaction. To describe these two band, The Spark - I will say it sounds quite like Keane with a passionate Irish Spirit; whereas The Expatiate was more like a rock version of The Cure. If you had never heard of Faker, they are kinda like bridge of Kaiser Chiefs and Rocket Science.

We saw some dude were dancing like crazy, straightly recalls Dave Chappelle's Show - about white people dancing. I was, too, getting quite excited, regardless how tired I was before. (Imagine this - Thur: Allnighter 2-6am, Grooverider at night til 2am; Fri: Lezel farewell breakfast at 9:30am, FBi all day, Faker at night.)

If you wanna know how was Grooverider, I guess Bill has a better opinion than me :)
check out his In The Mix review:
http://www.inthemix.com.au/reviews/events/21780/

I got put up on an extra show, which is gonna be on tonite (Sunday morning 3-7am). This time I have a new girl Cassandra coming in with me, it's gonna be great. Anyway, buzz us for a wicked request - 83322999.

P.S. Deeply sorry Leo, Lena and Cappelle. I apologized for ditching the win trip today, I just so desperated for some good sleep.

[[audio: Bass Kleph - Wildcard]]

2005-07-07T06:25:00.000+10:00

7th July Allnighter Playlist

Good mix of tunes, but I had the worse tongue ever, talk like crappy shit in my mouth, and got cramp in my stomach too. *sob* special thanks Chris's supportive phone call, we love you too!
Anyway, thanks for listening and calling up!... if you did. Good job!
So I played:

2:05 Crooked [Evil Nine]
2:10 We Want Your Soul [Adam Freeland]
2:16 Don't Talk Moonwalk [Arcsolo]
2:19 Women [Wolfmother]
2:22 Ladyflash [The Go! Team]
2:28 My Doorbell [The White Stripes]
2:33 Honeymoon [Gauche]
2:40 A House is Not A Home [Clinkerfield]
2:44 In The State [Unkle]
2:54 Haiti [The Arcade Fire]
2:57 Power Lunch [Har Mar Super]
3:02 Hip Hip Hooray [Sneaky Soundsystem]
3:05 Les Fleur [4 Hero]
3:14 Returns Of The Saturn [Daniel Wang]
3:18 Mr Tough Guy [Ugly Duckling]
3:28 Oxygen [Willy Mason]
3:32 This Old Love [Lior]
3:35 King Of The Rodeo [Kings Of Leon]
3:38 Love For Sales [Faker]
3:43 Ageless Beauty [Stars]
3:51 Too Much To Do [The Spark]
3:55 Saturdays [Cut Copy]
4:00 Gimme A Break [Krafty Kuts]
4:05 Madlymantics [Macromantics]
4;08 Elektrik Shoks [Urthboy]
4:16 Wrong Baby [Colder]
4:21 Ohh La La [Goldfrapp]
4:25 Diddley [The Mess Hall]
4:33 We Got The Horror [The Emergency]
4:38 On Power Off [Snap! Crakk!]
4:42 No Way Out [Love Of Diagrams]
4:47 Holy [Gelbison]
4:50 Slow Hands [Interpol]
4:55 Closer [Quasimoto]
5:01 The Corner [Common]
5:06 Easy [Black Grass]
5:10 Splendid Isolation [Hermitude]
5:15 Hot Cakes [MF Doom]
5:20 Our Break [Poxy Music]
5:24 Iced Lightning [RJD2]
5:30 Southern Girl [Erykah Badu feat. Razhel]
5:33 Sunrise In Juhu [The Bird]
5:39 If I Try [Intercooler]
5:44 Positive Tension [Bloc Party]
5:49 Oh My God [Kaiser Chiefs]
5:53 No Going Back [Gold Mice]
5:56 405 [Death Cab For Cutie]
6:00 Such Great Height [The Postal Service]

P.S. Hey hey! I got 10 people to call up for request, not bad in an overnight show! CHEERS!

2005-07-06T21:13:00.000+10:00

Indie Trashbag Is So Hot Right Now!

OK, for those who came up after you've read the Cat Magazine and wanna know how trashbag I am. Me, Fay with the Chan, is very proud to be misunderstood as a girl who have 'minor social standing but more importantly several public displays of overtly mashy behavior. Ten-hour drinking binges, dancefloor malfunctions and snorting copious amounts of blow.' (Cat) Thank you.

Now, it's about god damn time to stuff you all up with all the movies and gigs and shit that I have seen and done. Last post I said 3 movies and a gig, but now it has already been expanded to 5 flicks and 2 gigs.

Movie 1: Madagascar

Oh it's funny. I'm really entertained by this wacky animation, all the characters are very interesting, but my favorite character is the penguin crew for sure. What's interesting about this movie is how it can be conceived in different way. Kids can have fun watching it, grown-up have a further understanding of the jokes with different references. Well done! This is probably the best animation I have ever seen so far, Nemo can go home. [5 out of 5] touchdown!

Movie 2: Bukowski - Born Into This

This is a documentary about the life of Charles Bukowski, the famous novelist in 70's but also is a serious alcoholic. He writes really good stuff, but also a very self-centred person, living in poverty, violence and yea, alcohol again. Sometimes I do believe that only being self-centred can really write something original.

I really like one of the poem that it mentioned, as follows:

Oh Yes

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

Charles Bukowski

Bukowski really reminds me what I have been struggling last month (it's gonna be in my whole life actually) - receptivity vs creativity. Can't they just be fucking co-existed? Anyway, back to the movie, it does depict another side of the world of what Bukowski really is. [4 out of 5]

Movie 3: Batman Begins

I finally understand why Levins was so excited about batman when he saw me after the movie. It is the best batman serie for sure, kick away the bulky love romantic crap shit poo. No homo Robin, no sluty Catwoman, nothing too gimmick. I do have to admit that the ninja scene was a bit annoyed me, since I hate hot western people try to worship the ninjaism and samuraism when they don't know shit about it. (fucking hate last samurai) But I can see the reason why they want to relate ninja with batman. (in case you are too dumb to get it, hiding in the dark, dah!)

Christian Bale is a good actor, but doesn't look good in the batman suit. Sorry, you are not then you are not. I prefer seeing him in machinist and american psycho. But I'm very very happy to see Gary Oldman, he is the legend. [4 out of 5]

Movie 4: Oyster Farmer

This is a very charming Australianish film with a touch of good humor, though some part of the story seems a bit strange. (like robbing a fish market by using a frozen lobster and cover up with fruit roll-ups wrap) Really love the scenery, very beautiful and poetic. But what is going on with that background music? Since when Australia sounds so Irish? I wonder if that is part of the humor as well... [4.5 out of 5]

Movie 5: Tarnation

I was absolutely stunned by this movie. Jonathan is definitely incredible, since he started filming himself at 4 and using film to sketch out his life in this broken family. Interesting fact is that this film cost $217, a very low budget film with a very good message in a person. This is one of my favourite indie movie.

“I’ve loved films since age four, but it was never just for fun. Filming things had a critical life-and-death purpose. It was always a defence mechanism and a way to have a sense of control over my life. Filming was also a way to control and defend myself against my environment and disassociate myself from the horrors around me. I’ve wanted to be a filmmaker since I can remember, and filmmaking definitely saved my life.” (Jonathan Caouette)

This film makes me think of my ex-best friend and my grandmother. [5 out of 5] touchdown!

Gig 1: The Mess Hall with Whirlwind Heat at Gaelic Club

If you are not familiar with Whirlwind Heat, listen to Four Track, they use one of their song "uptight" as they show's theme song! Anyway, this band has a lot of action on the stage, from crazy dancing to torn off a Tshirt. you name it.

The Mess hall was really good that nite, good drum, good guitar. I really enjoy it, except some songs that sounds too typical Oz pop-rock. (sounds a bit too spiderbait, sorry not a big fan)

Gig 2: End Of Fashion with The Spark at @Newtown

Far out, it was a very good show! I really enjoy seeing The Spark and End Of Fashion, except this band Tanbalame or something like that. It is formed by a ex-silverchair member who I don't really care, coz it sounds so boring and trying too hard to impress me. The Spark was absolutely grat tho, I'm very amazed that they have just been out for like a month and two, yet is already supporting bands like End of Fashion, Faker and Bravery. KOOL!

To Shane: Love the email, keep coming and kiss chrisse for me! Enjoy Santiago!

P.S. Allnighter tonite 2-6am, feed me up with request!
Ph: 83322999/ email: fayske@yahoo.com.au

[[audio: 4 Hero - 9 By 9 (M.I.S.T mix)]]

2005-07-04T21:19:00.000+10:00

Day In Williamville

So that's how we began.

[[audio: End Of Fashion - Rough Diamond]]

2005-06-30T17:10:00.000+10:00

Carry The Light

I've been trying to blog something up, but I never have time for it. Everytime I have time, I don't have the energy. Everytime I have energy, I don't have time again.

Paul, Aoife, Ciara, Shane and Chrisse all came back to Sydney for a short stay, so we try to do one last catch up drink, and I went to Pavillion after the lovely dinner in Artarmon with Bill. I couldn't believe Paul, Aoife and Ciara are leaving this morning; Shane and Chrisse are leaving tonight. When I got there, I see a scene back to several months ago, all these people that I used to hang out all the time. I even see Peter, Grit, Kendra and Simone, even they are not there really.

It was definiely hard for me to say goodbye to Paul, Aoife and Ciara, neither it will be for tonight's finale goodbye drink with Shane and Chrisse. (Damn! Rob is leaving next Wed, All these farewell shit are like a combo attack to my fragile heart...)

Paul - You are a very amazing dude that inspire me a lot, I'm so proud of you for how you be proud of yourself.

Aoife - You are very tough and charming woman, I take you as a role model! Go hardcore girlfriend!

Ciara - You are the most loving person I've ever met, standing next to you makes me feel like a tomboy. haha...

Take care you trio! and I'll see you guys later in Ireland! *winks*

P.S. three movies and a gig coming up next.

[[audio: The White Stripes - Blue Orchid]]

2005-06-22T23:38:00.000+10:00

Wu-Tan Clan are Asians

Oh god, I'm so glad Dave Chappelle to the Aussieland, happier than seeing Douglas Wood indeed. The Chappelle's Show is on again in SBS every monday, last episode was so damn funny! Samuel Jackson, Race election, Chappelle's kool slow motions, oh dear...!!! How good was it!? I just love to stay at home on monday, it's a TV night! OZ, Queer Aa Folk, Fat Pizza, John Safran vs God...etc. Love it!

Actually, if you are seeking for some laugh, here are some good show you shouldn't miss.
The Chappelle Show - Monday 10:00pm @ SBS
Comedy Inc.: The Late Shift - Wednesday 9:15pm @ Nine
Very Little Britain - Saturday 8:15pm @ ABC
Whose Line Is It Anyway - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 5:30am @ Nine
(They should move Whose line is it anyway to earilier at nite! pfff)

Other good comedies that I hope to see again would be Wayne Brady Show and Mad TV... Life without any humor is terrible, the world world would have turned to a shithole.

OKIEEEEE, let's get back to Last Saturday nite. I headed to Bar Century for a goodbye drink of Chrissie, Shane and Alli. It was a fun night, except that I can't drink anything. My throat was so fucked up during a lack of sleeping, and I've been coughing a lot lately. Shane kept asking me to get a Gin n' Tonic, but the point is I can't drink cold stuff, sorry mann.

Since I was being sober, seeing a drunk girl sitting on my lap was definitely a shock. (guess it would still be a shock even if I were drunk... lol) I don't know this girl well, she is someone's friend, but I guess someone think I'm a lesbian or something like that. Oh well, I just ignored her.

Later on, we saw an unexpected person, Levins, there! It was funny that the first thing he went to me was 'I've seen Batman!', it must be a good movie.

I was being boring the nite since I was sick, so I headed back to Hanna's and stay over there. The next day I was just daydreaming in the sitting room, til Shane and Chrissie came over for dinner. We rent a dvd, and I picked Old School, coz this is the only movie can make me awake. It is such a good comedy! Worth to see it twice!

Then I went to station with Alli and Jon, and gave my farewell blessing to Alli. So yea, it was quite emotional indeed, but I'm not gonna mention it here.

Anyhow, an exciting news here! I've finally booked the flight ticket to New Zealand, which means I've confirmed my trip with Hanna and Lena. We will head off there to Christchurch on 26 July and travel for 3 weeks, then back from Auckland on 16 Aug. This is gonna be very very great! :)

At last, I've uploaded some pictures in my photo album, so head up there and check it out!!!

P.S. Madagascar Madagascar! woohoo~~!

[[audio: Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet]]

2005-06-18T19:55:00.000+10:00

FBi Love Pashin' Me

I'm so tired right now, I didn't have any good sleep recently. I finally did my catch up with Bill after he left FBi, thing sometimes just come up a little bit odd, you either don't see a person for like bloody forever, or you can see a person for like 7 days a week. Well, I haven't seen this dude like more than like 2 months I guess, then we just met like Thursday at sly Fox and Friday nite at Cricketer's Arm, but then we just encountered again on Saturday when me and my Eurocrew randomly get into a cafe. It'd be funny if I saw him again tomorrow! :p

Anyhoo, I just back home and think it's about god damn time go through FBi Night Of Pashin'. I don't have much time here now, coz I'm about to go out again for Shane and Chrisse's good bye drink. So I'm just gonna roughly talk about it.

I was there 5pm and help decorating the Mandarin Club with Meagan, Tes and Levins. I did the hanging gloves, the black hearts and the whole pashin' tent. Then met up with my Eurocrew in Bar century for some drinks before we head up there.

Once we got into the party, things started to get crazy. I put on the pink tight plastic gloves and holding a turkey filler (I don't know what is the thing's name, but it's like a tube with a pump at the back for us to pump the stuffing inside the turkey). Well, I like that shit, it's like in Halloween, coz I scared off many people. *smirk*

One of the shocking news was I kissed 4 people that nite, it's not a pash (no tongue!). 3 gals and a boy - Miska, Corynne, Vina and Sam (unsigned bridge producer). God, am I being too wild? Actually my head was being pushed to the people's lips! Oh well, reality... just let it happen.

Funny thing was Dan Illic opened up his top and asked me to lick it. Sorry, there's no way I could do that! So I just PRETEND to lick it, oh well... posing for the media press, me and Illic rule!

Levins and Linda's DJ set was probably the climax of the night. Hollaback girl really boost up the night.

Another big news was me and Nic C. KILLED THE STAGE! There's no one wanna dance on the upper lighten stage, so Nic took me up and dance. I've never seen this dude dance before, and he was like so damn good! I was like 'OMG, I finally found someone who remind me how much fun dancing could be!' So we did the symmetrical dance performance to the audience. Then very soon, they all get up the god damn stage, broke it and we all died.

I'm glad everyone had massive fun that night, here are some pictures of me:

taken by Cat Magazine

Go here if you wanna see more!
photos from cat magazine http://www.boudist.com/gallery/fbi-party
and our own fbi spy http://www.fbi.org.au/content.php/628.html

P.S. I'm the 'Connect 4' champion. Behold! I'll kick you arse!

[[audio: OK Go - C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips]]

2005-06-16T06:18:00.000+10:00

Playlist Of 16th June Allnighter

This is the best show ever! I don't need Red Bull, no Coffee, no people around, but I did well!
Why? I got 11 phone calls for request, that's why!
So this is the list of songs that I've played the whole night...

2:05 Get It Together [The Go! Team]
2:09 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town [The Panda Band]
2:14 Appreciate [Plant Life]
2:17 Night on Fire [VHS or Beta]
2:21 Everyday I love Less and Less [Kaiser Chiefs]
2:25 Terrible Angels [Coco Rosie]
2:30 Inhale Exhale [Kid Confucius]
2:34 Finally [The Frames]
2:41 Neighbourhood 2# Laika [The Arcade Fire]
2:45 Let The Music Talk [Katalyst]
2:50 Spitfire [Prodigy]
2:57 Beverly Hills [Weezer]
3:00 Every Planet We reach is Dead [Gorillaz]
3:06 Trampoline [The Grates]
3:09 We'll Be There Soon [Red Riders]
3:11 Cream [Dappled Cities Fly]
3:15 Quarter To Three [Faker]
3:20 No Sensitivity [Jimmy Eat World]
3:24 We'll Make A Lover Of You [Les Savy Fav]
3:30 Nerdz [Spod]
3:33 Turn Up Your Radio [Master Apprentices]
3:36 You Own Me an IOU [Hot Hot Heat]
3:44 Familiar [Faker]
3:49 Foxtrot Yankee [The Cops]
3:53 I Need You Back [Ben Kweller]
3:55 Gamble Everything For Love [Ben Lee]
4:02 Wave Of Mutilation [The Pixies]
4:05 My Door Bell [The White Stipes]
4:10 Banquet [Bloc Party]
4:15 Take Me Out [Scissor Sisters]
4:20 The Irish Keep Gate-crashing [The Thrills]
4:25 Lounger [Dogs Die In Hot Car]
4:29 Tribulations [LCD Soundsystem]
4:34 Doldrums [Night Hour]
4:00 This Old Love [Lior]
4:44 Title And Registration [Death Cab For Cutie]
4:46 Saint Simon [The Shins]
4:56 Streetwise [Bap Kennedy]
4:59 Feeling The Moment [Feeder]
5:03 How Do You Keep Love Alive [Ryan Adams]
5:11 Hip Hip Hooray [Sneaky Soundsystem]
5:15 Do The Johnson [Johnson]
5:20 20 Leopards [The Herd]
5:24 Unemployed [Bluejuice]
5:27 Little Sister [Queen Of Stone Age]
5:33 Walk Idiot Walk [Hives]
5:37 Madlib Invazion [Peanut Butter Wolf]
5:38 I've Been Thinking [Handsome boy modelling school ft. The Cat Power]
5:45 Walk Home [Velure]
5:49 Float On [Modest Mouse]
5:53 Post Op Alley Drop [Music Vs Physics]
5:58 Dreams [TV On The Radio]

Thanks for everyone who listened to me, and especially all those lovely people who called up.
Oh that's what I'm talking about! Amazing lives sparkle in an amazing live radio show!
ok... time to go home and sleepzzzZzzZZZzzzZZZZzzzzZZz...

P.S. State Of Origin was fun to watch with Jackson. :) Go New South Wales~~~~~!!!!
P.P.S. Happy Birthday James! xoxo!
P.P.P.S. Let me have some sleep, and I'll review our crazy FBi Love Pashin' Night. *grins*

2005-06-15T02:45:00.000+10:00

Soul Versus Sustenance

I found a very powerful lyric that speaks out a young man's dream.
Since when did we start to think about it and when did we forget?
Since when did we stand up for the right and when did we give up?
Oh Mason my friend, release the spirit and awake the sleeping souls.

I wanna be better than oxygen
So you can breathe when you're drowning and weak in the knees
I wanna speak louder than Ritalin
For all the children who think that they've got a disease
I wanna be cooler than t.v.
For all the kids that are wondering what they are going to be
We can be stronger than bombs
If you're singing along and you know that you really believe
We can be richer than industry
As long as we know that there's things that we don't really need
We can speak louder than ignorance
Cause we speak in silence every time our eyes meet.

I wanna see through all the lies of society
To the reality, happiness is at stake
I wanna hold up my head with dignity
Proud of a life where to give means more than to take
I wan't to live beyond the modern mentality
Where paper is all that you're really taught to create
Do you remember the forgotten America?
Justice, equality, freedom to every race?
Just need to get past all the lies and hypocrisy
Make up and hair to the truth behind every face
That look around to all the people you see,
How many of them are happy and free?
I know it sounds like a dream
But it's the only thing that can get me to sleep at night
I know it's hard to believe
But it's easy to see that something here isn't right
I know the future looks dark
But it's there that the kids of today must carry the light.

On and on, and on, and on it goes
The world it just keeps spinning
Until i'm dizzy, time to breathe
So close my eyes and start again anew.

If i'm afraid to catch a dream
I weave your baskets and i'll float them down the river stream
Each one i weave with words i speak to carry love to your relief.

by Willy Mason 'Oxygen'

P.S. Willy Mason is 20 years old.
P.P.S. Willy Mason will be playing in Splendour in the grass and Annandale Hotel soon.

2005-06-08T04:03:00.000+10:00

Many Movies With Many Thoughts

If this is others' blog, you wouldn't give a shit, but what's going on with that Fayske Asian byotch who used to blog shit every single day? Get your arse here and blog! So... here I am again, to report my daily report to you ladies and gentlemen. *pants down, ready to be spanked* YOU WISH! *pull the pants back up*

Anyhoo... what happen was, I've been going out the whole week every night and working for supporter drive almost everyday. Good news is supporter drive has already finished with very good number of people who pledged their support, here FBi thanks you, merci merci. And don't forget to come and claim your reward, a free 'Love Pashin" party for all FBi member in Mandarin Club this Friday.

My night time activities have been very colorful, thanks to Hanna, Lena, Rob, Shane, Chrissie and all the other crazy midnight cowboys and cowgals... These monsters drained all my energy away and let me rest right before my last breath (which's about 6am everyday), then drain my energy again the next day afternoon. OK, well I have to admit that I had great fun with these people, amazing memories I have thanks to them. :)

Besides drinking with them, I also managed to see some great movies, so I'd like to spend some time here, talk about it. please bare with me. (and stay with me...)

Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel (viewed last Friday night.)

One thing I really like about this movie is to see this war under the introspective leader point of view, but it's weird to see the soft side of Hilter. This movie gives me an impression that they want to reveal the virtue of Hilter, the humanity to his own people. I don't totally doubt about it, what surprises me is how people (even kids) can sacrificed their lives for a downfall leader. Not even mention the genocidal madness they have to show respect Hilter, now that's shocking!

I can't give it a full score. In the aspect of filming production, it did an excellent job in portraying the war event, but I think Hilter isn't really well-depicted in the movie. Look, he deserves to die by killing so many people, this movie, in certain level, seems to provoke the sympathy from the audience, and I can tell not many of them will be convinced. [4.5 out of 5]

Jabe Babe: A Heighten Life by Janet Merewether (viewed last sat night)

This is an Australian documentary that is going to be shown in Sydney Film Festival at State Theatre on June 20. It is about a life of 31 year old Jabe Babe. Jabe Babe works as a dominatrix and has a life threatening genetic condition called Marfan Syndrome (connective tissue disorder). Jabe works and lives on the margins, defying society's expectations of the 'normal' feminine body and sexuality.

The film experiments in interweaving fiction and non-fiction forms, which create a very interesting effect in the whole film. Jabe became both an interviewee and a performer, and she did a very well in performing, but what I like about her is how she be so bold to tell us her life. And I also very much love the message that I got from this film that many people are more unfortunate than us, but they can also be happier than us. That's why I always like people have gratitude and of course I very much enjoy my life in whatever situation. :) [5 out of 5] touchdown!

Coach Carter by Thomas Carter (viewed tonite)

I believe this is the best MTV movie I have ever seen so far, though there are so many familiar cheesy moves in it that you would probably laugh at it. There are some points behind the story that is very inspiring. I really love the following ideas that the movie brings in: the real sportmanship, the problematic education system and the African-American issue.

This is not just for sport player, I think everyone should learn to see beyond winning and losing; everyone should learn to respect themselves and others; and everyone should just forget about the fucking race issue, whether you are in the high power position (stop discriminating!!) or low power position (get over your ancestor past or you can never rest in peace!!). I really really like this movie, and I'm not annoyed by the cheesy action. [5 out of 5] touchdown!

OK OK! No more movie by now, but I'm gonna see Edukators tomorrow or soon, and sure I'll have a lot to say about this great film, as I've heard many good reputation of it!!!

I have some more to write, keep reading if you like.

Recently, Ben gave me this personality test call 'Enneagram', I know some of you have heard of it. It divides people to 9 different catergories, I think it is the best test I have ever done so far.

Talk about personality test, I'm not a very big fan of it, some of you may have experienced how I whine about those stupid test. They are never accurate, since people like to choose the answer of who they wannabe rather than who they are. This bullshit is just some sorta fantasy of one's ideal self. Moreover, if you didn't know about who you are during all these years of living, that's sad.

But what special about this test is, it explores your unconscious features and behaviours by logically predicting your personal traits in this typology, and it has a personal growth section which is reall valuable to improve yourself.

I turned out as a mix of enthusiast and investigator, both of these characters have problem in expressing feelings, can you believe it? Funny how everyone says I'm god damn extroverted, but I can tell you... I do have problem of it. :) Haha... I've never admited it until now, and no one realises it! suckers! (fuck, I'm pathetic...)

In fact, it is a chain of reaction that creates this magnificent hallucination!!!

P.S. Kid Confucius' live was soooo good. Looking forward to Little Barrie now. *grins*
P.P.S. Hell~ I need it. Let's do Chakra and Mudra!!!

[[audio: Anthony And The Johnsons - Hope there's Someone]]

2005-06-01T23:23:00.000+10:00

The Craic Was Nineties

Besides Shapelle Corby found guilty, Liverpool beat AC Milan, and Gianna got evicted, there's so much more things happened in my life. Two big news: Paul and Aoife's leaving... and FBi Supporter Drive. Thank god I cleared 95% of my flu before all these happen. *phew*

Last Sunday we had a farewell drink with Paul G and Aoife, it was a very good time whereas emotional. We all tried to convince ourselves that alcohol can wipe away the sadness, but underneath we were all grieving...

Hanna made them a wishbox out of a cigarette pack, and asked Paul to whisper the wish in it, then she sealed the box with the heat. It's a German thing, I think it is very cute!

I burnt them a CD, with all my recently favourite hits! They saw Kaiser Chiefs in it, both of them were screaming loud for the joy and bouncing around for the excitement. I'm happy that they love it. :) Kaiser Chiefs rules!

I was very touch when they told me what they think about me. To be honest, there are only few people, who had honestly tell me how I make them feel and how I change them. These people's comments made me believe that it is literally deliberated before it came out from their mouth.

Not saying that other friends of mine ain't being honest or did not think through, but they just either don't tend to tell me that much or tend to flatter a bit (try to be nice I believe). I think it's really amazing to have a person who really THOUGHT about how one's friends make a different in one's life and liberally TELL them without any embellishment. Yes, we exchanged quite a lot of thoughts that nite.

Really appreciate that. Best wishes to them in Ireland. :)

Oh, and I have uploaded the pictures already.

On the other hand, FBi supporter drive has already began. Although I have extra work on the top of my arse, it's been all good and very very exciting. One phone rings, everyone cheers! The spirit of FBi LOVE is not only energetic, but also warm and fuzzy.

It's freakin' scary what FBI peeps will do to show their love for 94.5. This morning 10 weird-arsed listeners pledged their love of the station and became FBI supporters - so that they could make the mighty Dan Ilic strip down to his light-grey Bonds undies and run around the block.

As you'll see.. it was a chilly morning! Good job Illic!!!

Click here for young adult ultra soft porn video.

Actually, I had a call today, a guy said he heard that Dan was doing this crazy thing, and he asked me to do it. I was like "well, if you grab 20 people to sign up as a passionate supporter before the Arvos show end, I'll do it" How sad that he have failed me. :p

By the way, last night Lena, James and I went to Hanna bar work for a drink after FBi, that was a bar where all the dude will come up to you and talk to you like you are their new neighbour or something. It was very funny, and they even asked us to play the trivia with them. So we stayed for it, our team "Vaymes" (pronounce as "famous") won the second place with a voucher prize that's good enough to buy myself a dinner! Me and James also won 2 free jugs of beer by touching our own arse! hee hee... fun but drunk.

bloody crazy.

P.S. I got heaps shocking feedbacks from the previous post, please note that it was a joke you all idiot.

ha ha!!

[[audio: Bright Eyes - Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)]]

2005-05-29T16:33:00.000+10:00

Iron Lady At Site Access

So I found this new job...

Argh... I can't take that flash!!! (taken by Shane)

P.S. FBi Supporter Drive is on! Please pledge your support for the love! xo
P.P.S. Mighty power To Maddox!! You Kick Arse!

[[audio: Audio Bullys - Bang Bang feat. Nancy Sinatra]]

2005-05-25T16:43:00.000+10:00

Stu's wife is giving birth now! That very exciting~ Stu just run off from FBi to the hospital... Wee~~~ *back to work*

2005-05-24T23:48:00.000+10:00

The Most Powerful Gun Is Invented By Angry Housewives

Directed by Garth Jennings

Went to see Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy just a while ago, and I couldn't help myself singing their theme song on my way back home. Although it isn't the funniest film, I was quite amused by the wits - those dry humors were so british.

It's definitely not a let down after the successful of the comics and the first movie back in 1981, but certain things there would only their fans know how to appreciate. Frankly, it's not hard to get the punch line at all, the matter of fact is, does it punch you hard enough to burst the laugh bag? Hmm... yeah fews... try harder.

Well done, but I have to score it 3 out of 5. However, the opening song was absolutely funny, which I'd throw 0.5 bonus point in it. *grins* Yeah it's called "So long and thanks for all the fish", which was delicated by all the dolphins who did a double somersault to the world. hee hee, I love it.[3.5 out of 5]

Worth to see on a Tuesday night!!

Oh, and I did The Simpsons personality test today, which come out the fact that I'm more like Lisa Simpson, hmmm... Does it mean that I'm a nerd? Here is the test if you are interested.

By the way, who can do the perfect Krusty the Klown's laugh? I have a crush on his laughter... Lisa likes Krusty, that doesn't sound right, let me re-take the test!

Hey-Hey kids! Hoo-hoo-hoo-hahahaha!

[[audio: Jody Talbot - So Long And Thanks For All The Fish]]

2005-05-24T08:09:00.000+10:00

The Fifth Season

It's farewell season again... Went to say goodbye to Ciara and Lezel last weekend, feelings was familiar but still not well-adapted. On the other hand, I went to met an old friend who I haven't seen for almost year and a half, that was gold.

So Friday nite after work, Hanna and Lena grabbed me to Balmain to see their friend's birthday. Balmain is a place I used to go very often, it was very odd to visit this place again. Then my mind flashed back the day I met Sam S., who told me he's now working in Balmain. Sam S. was a very special friend to me, he is the first person I talked to and became friends with in the first day of uni. But then we haven't seen each other for almost a year and a half, so it was really exciting to see him again.

It's good that there's something between us haven't changed at all - I guess it's our attitude that keep us so real for so long. Bless him good.

After a drink and some swing dancing in The Unity, we straight up to Bar Century in City for Ciara's Farewell. God that was very crazy, I couldn't stop talking even my throat ached so bad. In fact, I realised that it'd be a very long time for me to talk to Ciara again, so who cares about the bloody flu? Ciara is an amazing girl that stuns me in so many aspects, the spirit, the attitude, the strength and many many things that can take me several days just enough to count out half of her good. Wish her luck and happy here.

I felt very sick at the end of the party because my flu hasn't fully gone yet, so I stayed in Hanna and Lena's in order to sleep more and get ready sooner for FBi's training in the next day noon. I woke up in the middle of the night more than five times just want to let out the cough, mann I tell you... that doesn't feel nice at all.

Saturday morning, we met up with Anja in Surry Hills and walked up to FBi. I really want to talk with her and everyone, but my voice was totally crashed as if my throat got cut through. I was trying to talk in the training, but geez! I could feel thousands pieces of broken glasses slowly but brutally pierce through my throat, it was very hurt. So Clare did a very great favor to drive me home and let me rest more...

I skip to Monday, coz Sunday was just sleeping for good. Doesn't mean that I was well on Monday, but it was just quite interesting that I think it would be nice to mention a bit. Kath caught my flu in the weekend, so we were like sick cats lying on the bed until the arvos. We forced ourselves to get up and make the way to Lezel's in Epping for her Farewell.

There, we mingled with Lez, Andy and Brisha, it was very nice to have some unbridled chat with all these people - I really enjoy the topic "How do you want to be remember 5 years later." I didn't really seriously answer that question since I wasn't sober enough to think through, but it would be hard to respond this sort of question about prospects even now. Perhaps I am very spontaneous or maybe I don't want to let myself down.

Anyway, we left around 6:30pm, but soon we realised that there's no bus to Chatswood. So we have to catch the bus to City and back home by train. All in the sudden, Kath was having this idea to see Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith, I was very surprised as she always claims she's not a fan of Star Wars, and has never really watch any episodes of Star Wars. But I know she heard Mark Fennell's review in Fbi, so that could be the reason...

The film was actually really good, except that I was annoyed by the way Yoda talks. "Go, We must"; "Be careful, you should"; "Too young, he is"... For god sake!! Also, the love scene was really like how Mark described, just like Bold and The Beautiful... If ever I have a remote control, those scenes would be fast forward for good. A good thing is they only let Jar Jar talked once in the whole movie, so my nerve can relief a bit. Love the computer graphic tho! [3.8 out of 5]

aww... happy family~

::Nerdy trivia::
Do you know who do Chewbaaca the wookiee?

ANSWER:

Who do C-3PO?

ANSWER:

I'm nerdy enough to ask one more, who do Jar Jar Binks?

ANSWER:

Note to Jaime: Get well soon from that bloody glandular fever dude. xo
Note to Lena: Congratulation for your new born niece! How's it feel like to be an aunt vonnie? :)

P.S. My Upcoming Allnighter show: June 16; Guest for Hanna & Lena's Allnighter: June 3.
P.P.S. Photos of Dub conspiracy and Come Together Festival has finally uploaded, check it out!

[[audio: Avalon - Juliet (Jacque Lu Cont Remix)]]

2005-05-20T12:54:00.000+10:00

::23 Facts Sheet::

So I am just bored, and started to do some research about number 23.
Why? Because I'm 23 now.

1. There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet

2. W = 23rd letter of the alphabet, It's symbol is 2 points down, 3 up.

3. 23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number. (2 3 = 5)

4. The number of joints in the human arm is 23.

5. Human beings have 23 pairs of chromosomes

6. It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body.

7. The song "Just a perfect day", originally by Lou Reed, has been released in a special BBC edition, and is performed by 23 famous artists

8. In the song "Gett Off", by the artist formerly known as Prince, the lyrics read: "Gett off! Twenty-three positions in a one-night stand".

9. The Police; Their song "Synchronicity I" is 3:23 long.

10. Kurt Cobain; Born 1967: 1 9 6 7=23. Died 1994: 1 9 9 4=23.

11. U2; U is the 21st letter in the alphabet added to the number two gives you 23.

12. There are 23 buildings on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington.

13. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson lived at 221b Baker Street for a period of 23 years.

14. 23 is the lowest positive integer number not scoreable with one dart on a dartboard

15. Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times when he was assassinated.

16. According to biorhythm theory, everyone has a 23-day physical cycle

17. The world's fastest human can average 23 miles/hour in the 100 meter dash

18. 23 degrees Celsius is "room temperature" on Earth.

19. Asteroid researchers measuring the rotation periods of asteroids reported that none were found with periods of less than 2.3 hours. A rotation period of less than 2.3 hours would cause them to be torn apart.

20. The axis of the planet Earth is 23.5 degrees

21. 63 years, the average lifespan of a human being on the planet Earth, is roughly 23,000 days

22. Nissan is a brand of Japanese cars. In Japanese, "ni" is 2, and "san" is 3. (Although '23' is 'nijuusan')

23. The average smoker smokes 23 butts a day

[[audio: Gorillaz - Mix 2]]

2005-05-19T01:47:00.000+10:00

High Accumulation Of Low Articulation

Getting a flu to me, in certain level, is a good thing. Although I attribute it to give up my Hunter Valley trip with Leo, it provides an opportunity for me to be a better person. The bloody flu has not been fully cleaned yet (watch out the gems people!), but it gives me more time to stay at home and do some creative stuff again.

My theatre script has again been continued, which is a very good thing. It is very hard to write a good script, because it does not like a movie script, novel, poem or lyric. It is a piece of writing that is for performing, an idea that is not to be expressed by words, but dialogue and actions; in an environment of expressionism under a situation of reality.

Well, I'm working on it.

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Did so many things in FBi today, very hectic and stressful, yet I'm very happy to see Support Drive is happening again. I thought I wouldn't be able to participate in it the second time, but hey, I'm still here! and It's happening! Zup!?

Nic grabbed me, Hanna and Lena to do the voice for the love fest, and we were forced to do some lines with a sexy and breathy tone - in other words, flirty. heh heh... I know you can't wait for the promo clips out in the air, me too.

See me how to be a bohemian, baby!

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By the way, I found this thing that I brought from the uluru's flight, and it is still worth to mention it here, since every time I saw it, it cracks me up.

It is the paper bag for motion sickness.

Ok, what so funny about it?

It's just that I have never seen it with a print of a digital photos develop service ad, saying:

LOWEST PRICE EVER!
Just send your memory card, CD or film In this STRONG COATED BAG. You'll receive back beautiful glossy 4X6" photos by mail...

But the top of the bag has a print saying:

PLEASE USE THIS BAG IF YOU ARE AFFECTED BY MOTION SICKNESS

So... yeah, how should I use it if I need to do both? Can I still send this USED bag to claim the deal? I mean... I don't mind putting my memory card in it, as long as you can/dare to find it. :) and oh! yea I still expecting my beautiful glossy 4X6" pictures, please...

Oh Oh! There's a small square with tiny font saying:

No Dangerous Goods Declaration
I hereby certify that this article does not contain any dangerous or prohibited goods. e.g. Explosives, flammables, corrosives, aerosols, etc. A false declaration is a criminal offense.
Sender Signature:______________

Hmm... I don't think my vomit is corrosive, so they should have no problem dealing with this extra gift, yea? Let's do it! *grins* Did I mention this company is called "EXTRAFILM"? Well, I'll bring it out, if you wanna see it or just simply wanna develop some films...

P.S. Nice show Levins, sorry for rubbing your face so hard today, I was stressful. hee...
P.P.S. Hell Yes! I'm seeing Little Barrie! Wee~~~!
P.P.P.S. Yea I know, I'm still organising the pictures of my grad and my trips, please wait just a bit more.

[[audio: Willy Mason - Oxygen]]

2005-05-15T07:19:00.000+10:00

Stonewall Love And Irish Passion

Good morning again people, yea... another morning post. I ain't having too much drink, actually didn't sleep at all, to be more accurate, I just back home.

I haven't stay up all night somewhere like forever, as it's never my style to not have my beauty sleep. But last night was different, coz I met Paul G, Paul K, Ciara, Rob and all my Irish-Brit friends again. In the conversation, I realised Ciara is leaving in two weeks, which is definitely a down to me.

Me, Hanna, Kath and Helmut been cruising around Oxford st. and spent most of the time in Suzie Q for Sound Advice, but soon Hanna and I were summoned to the Stonewall by Paul and Rob.

It was such a great night, dancing with these people was amazingly fun. I love dancing with Paul G and Rob, they are excellent dancers let me tell you. In the end, I even sang "I will always love you" to them, Rob bet a drink on me to sing this song. Big mistake, I've mastered this song since I was like... 12yo, of course he was like worshipping me after I finished the song perfectly. *grins*

Stonewall is very kool to hang out with my kool friends!!
Now good night...

P.S. Thanks Rob for walking me down to the station and kicked the badasses for me! :)

[[audio: Modest Mouse - Dramamine]]

2005-05-13T09:22:00.000+10:00

Late Night On The Street

Good morning people, isn't it weird that getting drunk the before night always make you awake in the morning? and your throat craves for huge amount of water? Isn't it suppose to make you sleep beautifully until the other day's dawn and make you feel so good to be drunk? God damn it, who told me that? *although it doesn't change me from being an alcoholic*

Well, there are two enormous reasons for me to get drunk, namely Jos and Steph. My lovely Brit chicks are leaving me this saturday, travel around east coast and Uluru, then head back to England for good. The Sly fox is the best choice on Thursday nite *winks to Julian & crook mouth*, good DJs line up and did I mention cheap drink? *grins* Bascially I had like 6 cocktails and the rest of the night... I just don't remember.

Jos & Steph are wonderful people with lovely Brit chick wits, they are both very easy going with big heart to friends. Well, good luck girls and have a great fun trip!

Well, alcohol indeed has also erased most of my memories, so all I can tell about my past few days is just this little brief list, just a general idea :)

- Went to swim and met a Italian guy, very nice and hot hot hot. *drools*
- Planning to start an arse spankee community with my highschool friend Sarah
- Back to the Fbi family, good to see the everyone again. *biatchslap Leo*

And meanwhile, Read this email I've got from Bob:

Hello, my name is Bob and I suffer from the guilt of not forwarding 50 billion fucking chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, a poor 6-year-old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her to a traveling freak show.

Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you, and everyone to whom you send "his" email, $1000? How stupid are we?

"Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by a model I just happen to run into the next day!" What a bunch of bullshit.

Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my house and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing a chain letter that was started by Peter in 5 AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower.

Fuck 'em.

If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing. I've seen all the "send this to 10 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being wil somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being" forwards about 90 times.

I don't fucking care.

Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are, it's our own unpopularity.

The point being? If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. If it's funny, send it on.

Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has been tied to the ass of a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only salvation is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this email.

Now forward this to everyone you know.

Otherwise, tomorrow morning your underwear will turn carnivorous and will consume your genitals.

Have a nice day.

ps. Send me 2 bucks

See the point why I told you guys not to send me JUNK Forward Shit?
Now send me 2 bucks too.

P.S. I've installed my old skool webcam in MSN now, very slow but great fun to play around!

[[audio: Hot Hot Heat - You Owe Me An IOU]]

2005-05-10T01:00:00.000+10:00

I Know What You Are Up To

Few Hours ago, I got this weird body reaction happened on me. This afternoon I was totally fine, but then I suddenlly started to shiver. It got worse and worse, I couldn't even sit on my chair, fell on the floor and was trying to crawl towards my bed. My body temperature dropped rapidly somehow, thank God I reached my bed and feel much better after laying down a while. Mann... That was shitty scary.

So I started to read my third novel "My name Is Red" now, this book has turned me from a morning person back to a night person. And to entertain you a bit, I did these tests... Have fun.

Your Birthdate: July 28

Your birth on the 28th day of the month (1 energy) adds a tone of independence and extra energy to your Life Path.

The number 1 energy suggest more executive ability and leadership qualities than you path may have indicated.

A birthday on the 28th of any month gives greater will power and self-confidence, and very often a rather original approach.

Unlike much of the other 1 energy, this birthday is one that endow with the ability to start a job and continue on until it is finished.

You may prefer to use the broad brush, but you can handle details as well.

You are sensitive, but your feeling stay somewhat repressed.

You have a compelling manner that can be dominating in many situations.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?
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You Are 45% Normal
(Somewhat Normal)

While some of your behavior is quite normal...
Other things you do are downright strange
You've got a little of your freak going on
But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?
[[audio: Hot Hot Heat - No, Not Now]]

2005-05-08T23:52:00.000+10:00

Sending My Love From The Sliver Cloud

HAPPY MOTHER's DAY

I talked to her a while ago, knowing she got a serious insomnia... Although I worry about her situation, it seems like I gave her the right present - I gave dad a pack of Organic Chai for her, it can help her to get a good sleep. xo

[[audio: Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling]]