I headed out to MSY this afternoon to get some PC equipment. General stuff - Hard drives, memory cards, RAM, etc etc... On the way home I had to go down Parramatta Road and for all Sydney siders, we know this road is hell.. littered with traffic from top to bottom and you DON'T want to get stuck in traffic here. Anyway, I'm driving along happily with my new purchase and come to a point in the traffic where it has to merge from 3 lanes to 2. I'm in the middle lane so I've left in one or two cars that have signaled politely as I've allowed them to merge in front of me. Just as the merge lane was ending, a Honda comes up beside me and shoves the nose of his car just enough in front of my car, forcing me to have to let him through. THIS pisses me off.. with extreme passion. I swear and rant furiously then I stick my finger up at the dickhead Honda driver who did not even wave to say "thanks" to me for letting him in. Then after a few seconds, I notice that HE is sticking his finger up at ME! At ME?! WTF!? He has the nerve to stick his fucking finger at me when he was the dickhead for shoving in front. I was soooo pissed off. I was incredibly tempted to ram his car or force him to move out of my way. Luckily by the time we reached the intersection for the M4 and Church St, he turned left and I was going straight. Argh.. if he ended up going straight I would've made his driving experience on the M4 a living hell. Bastard drivers...
On a lighter note, I've got new PC stuff. Funny story with this one. My bro wanted the iOmega External 1Tb so I ask MSY if they had it. Unfortunately they only had Seagate. My brother didn't want seagate because he read it has a higher read/write failure rate. So I went over to the complex where there was 4 other computer stores. I walked into the first one and asked if they had any external drives. The woman offered me an enclosure and they're put in a HD. I asked which one she'd put in.. Seagate.. she said. SO I went to the next store.. salesman looks over at the shelf, "This is the last one. It's a Seagate." Onto the next store, "I've only got seagate." LOL! 4 stores and they're all Seagate. I tried the last one in the complex. The sales assistant was serving a customer so i grabbed a price list. I noticed there was a WD 1Tb external on there so I called up my bro and told him I could get him a WD. He agreed. A sales assistant calls me over and I ask for the WD 1Tb. She walks over to the shelf, looks around, then grabs.. a seagate 1tb. "This one very good. My boyfriend has it," she says with a strong chinese accent. uhh.. "We only have 640gb for Western Digital." Heh.. I walk out to the car laughing.. if my bro was ok with Seagate, I'd be able to buy it from any of these stores. ROFL!
Friday, November 13
Tuesday, November 10
Chocolate Cake and raspberry
Nom nom nom! My room smells like chocolate cake and raspberries from these awesome soaps i got from hippy fest! Soo awesome... The bathroom smells like watermelon from the watermelon soap i put in there! xD the awesome smells i am greeted by when i enter these rooms make me just smile. ^^,
Monday, November 9
Smells like Hippy
On Sunday, Jen invited me out to the Mind, Body and Soul Con at the Exhibition Center in Darling Harbour. It was a day of ultimate hippy life compressed into one building. Now we all know now I'm anti-80s but hell.. if I get to go out and hang out with my friends its all good so had an open mind to the event.
Alright, so we headed out to the Exhibition hall and you could smell the hippy soap, oils and essences and feel the *good vibrations* coming out of the place. We wandered up and down the stalls, looking at a variety of spiritual beliefs, tonics, perfume, soaps, oils, health food, etc etc. I purchased some burning oils for my mum and one peppermint oil for me.. it smells like chewing gum.. num num.. then we sat in on a meditation session.
The Meditation session was interesting... 7 minutes of a guy telling me to push my energies to the front of my brain (which made it hurt a little) then imagine a bright light coming through them. After that I kinda zoned out and opened my eyes to realise the host was sitting back in his seat at the front of the room.
We wandered around the place again.. Jen got her Aura read.. hers turned out mostly blue and green which was mostly interpreted by the *sensitive* as that she has lots of Spirits around her guiding her through her life at the moment. I later got mine read and ended up with a heap of colours (totally unexpected) which were interpreted to be that I am very intuitive in all 5 senses and that I always look for honesty and truth. (Funny thing to note here was the *Sensitive* asked me, "Can you sense things with your sense of smell?" I was like "wtf? well I can smell food when its not around?" She's like, "uhh.. no.. not like that.. like smelling roses when there are no roses around." Well isn't that just the same as smelling food when its not around? silly old woman.) Anyway.. there was heap of other things that were interpreted.. I was going to list them but my notes don't make too much sense now. Wishing I actually recorded her translation.
We wandered around some more.. bought some fruity and sweet smelling soap - a watermelon one, raspberry one and a black forest one. I've put them in my room and omfg.. the smell just hit me 3 meters before I even reached my room this afternoon.
We also sat in a "Finding your Soul mate" session. It was pretty interesting... basically, if you write a list of what you want in your soul mate partner - scrap it cos they'll probably be the complete opposite.
All in all, I found the day quite interesting and I'm totally hooked on honey popcorn.. Soooo lucky I didn't buy the 4 for $10 deal otherwise I would be stuffing honey popcorn in my mouth like crazy and I'll end up putting the weight I lost back on. Also loving the soap.. drool.. sitting in my room just makes me hungry.. Also intrigued about my aura.. if/when i go to this event again or something of similar sorts I will see if my aura will/has changed by then. Also will go for a tarot card reading or something like that.. just for curiosity.
Anyways.. thats all folks! I've got the Teacher Mentor sitting in on my yr7 math class tomorrow and will be sitting in on yr7 2010 interviews on Wednesday. Exciting stuff.. must get sleep..
Alright, so we headed out to the Exhibition hall and you could smell the hippy soap, oils and essences and feel the *good vibrations* coming out of the place. We wandered up and down the stalls, looking at a variety of spiritual beliefs, tonics, perfume, soaps, oils, health food, etc etc. I purchased some burning oils for my mum and one peppermint oil for me.. it smells like chewing gum.. num num.. then we sat in on a meditation session.
The Meditation session was interesting... 7 minutes of a guy telling me to push my energies to the front of my brain (which made it hurt a little) then imagine a bright light coming through them. After that I kinda zoned out and opened my eyes to realise the host was sitting back in his seat at the front of the room.
We wandered around the place again.. Jen got her Aura read.. hers turned out mostly blue and green which was mostly interpreted by the *sensitive* as that she has lots of Spirits around her guiding her through her life at the moment. I later got mine read and ended up with a heap of colours (totally unexpected) which were interpreted to be that I am very intuitive in all 5 senses and that I always look for honesty and truth. (Funny thing to note here was the *Sensitive* asked me, "Can you sense things with your sense of smell?" I was like "wtf? well I can smell food when its not around?" She's like, "uhh.. no.. not like that.. like smelling roses when there are no roses around." Well isn't that just the same as smelling food when its not around? silly old woman.) Anyway.. there was heap of other things that were interpreted.. I was going to list them but my notes don't make too much sense now. Wishing I actually recorded her translation.
We wandered around some more.. bought some fruity and sweet smelling soap - a watermelon one, raspberry one and a black forest one. I've put them in my room and omfg.. the smell just hit me 3 meters before I even reached my room this afternoon.
We also sat in a "Finding your Soul mate" session. It was pretty interesting... basically, if you write a list of what you want in your soul mate partner - scrap it cos they'll probably be the complete opposite.
All in all, I found the day quite interesting and I'm totally hooked on honey popcorn.. Soooo lucky I didn't buy the 4 for $10 deal otherwise I would be stuffing honey popcorn in my mouth like crazy and I'll end up putting the weight I lost back on. Also loving the soap.. drool.. sitting in my room just makes me hungry.. Also intrigued about my aura.. if/when i go to this event again or something of similar sorts I will see if my aura will/has changed by then. Also will go for a tarot card reading or something like that.. just for curiosity.
Anyways.. thats all folks! I've got the Teacher Mentor sitting in on my yr7 math class tomorrow and will be sitting in on yr7 2010 interviews on Wednesday. Exciting stuff.. must get sleep..
Tuesday, October 27
An unexpected, yet unwanted, turn of events
So my plan for next year was this... If i don't get an extension of a temporary placement or some kind of job, I would attempt to work for a term or so then buzz off for an overseas trip for 2-3 school terms where I attempt to work while overseas in schools to find out how much better the Australian Education system really is *cough*.
Today I was given the *good* news (as my head teacher called it) and told me that I am being given a temporary block for the entire year of 2010. I will be teaching VET IT, junior/senior Child Care and random junior TAS classes. When she told me, I was just thinking, "Well my plan of going overseas is no longer going to be happening.. *sigh*". Then during the Staff meeting, the Principal announced that I was getting the role of Assistant Year Advisor for Yr7. 0o" eh? I looked confused when she said it and had to clarify with me after the meeting if I had actually applied for the role. I did apply for it, I just wasn't expecting to actually get it. >.>
So, uhhh, now I have a job for next year. I wasn't expecting it nor did I really want it but am taking it for the money, extended teaching experience and regular holiday periods that are spent on marking, programming, lesson planning, resource developing/collecting etc. You might be asking, "Why are you taking the job when you don't seem all that enthused?" Well, I'm too lazy to go and apply for something outside of teaching since I don't actually know what I want to do. I've never really known what I've wanted to do and teaching is the only thing I can really think of doing at the moment. Nothing really pops into my mind possibly besides owning my own business of some sort. ahh well..
Least Now I have stability for another year.. even if its just for a year. Who knows what'll happen after 2010..
Today I was given the *good* news (as my head teacher called it) and told me that I am being given a temporary block for the entire year of 2010. I will be teaching VET IT, junior/senior Child Care and random junior TAS classes. When she told me, I was just thinking, "Well my plan of going overseas is no longer going to be happening.. *sigh*". Then during the Staff meeting, the Principal announced that I was getting the role of Assistant Year Advisor for Yr7. 0o" eh? I looked confused when she said it and had to clarify with me after the meeting if I had actually applied for the role. I did apply for it, I just wasn't expecting to actually get it. >.>
So, uhhh, now I have a job for next year. I wasn't expecting it nor did I really want it but am taking it for the money, extended teaching experience and regular holiday periods that are spent on marking, programming, lesson planning, resource developing/collecting etc. You might be asking, "Why are you taking the job when you don't seem all that enthused?" Well, I'm too lazy to go and apply for something outside of teaching since I don't actually know what I want to do. I've never really known what I've wanted to do and teaching is the only thing I can really think of doing at the moment. Nothing really pops into my mind possibly besides owning my own business of some sort. ahh well..
Least Now I have stability for another year.. even if its just for a year. Who knows what'll happen after 2010..
Sunday, October 25
Climbing your mountain
As much as I don't really like church or talking about religion, I'm slowly trying to listen while I'm sitting there at Hillsong. Why? It makes time go faster and sometimes the things they say match my own perspectives on life. Today's Message was pretty good in fact and for some strange reason I decided to write it into my phone. It was so inspiring that I am going to publish it here. I don't really care if you don't like it or can't accept it or just blatantly refuse to read it. Skip this post and come back when I've written something that isn't related to religion in any way whatsoever. I just wanted to share something mildly insightful that isn't associated with the crap that goes on in my life.
The Message was delivered by Grant Thompson and is titled "Climbing your Mountain". It went something like this....
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5 points to climbing your mountain
1. Lead yourself first
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I found it interesting.. it may not really mean much here since there was a lot more insightful things that he said while he gave those steps and I didn't write down those details but it still gives the basic premise:
Live your life so that you are reaching your potential and ultimately your dream. In order to reach that dream, discipline yourself, trust in others, learn from your mistakes, face reality and continue to work towards that dream.
It's pretty obvious and these are basic life lessons that have been modded to fit passages in the bible for some guy at church to re-iterate them to people in a Message "from God" but hey.. some people just don't listen and learn so why not just try it out?
The Message was delivered by Grant Thompson and is titled "Climbing your Mountain". It went something like this....
- Live your life in order to fulfill your potential.
- Life is like climbing a mountain. There are many obstacles along the way and not necessarily can take the straight path.
- This helps to see a different perspective in life and your job in life is to find your potential.
- Proverbs 15:24, Psalms 119:27-32
- You are required to live like a leader – to have a mindset of a leader is an attitude where you have the responsibility to fulfill your own potential.
5 points to climbing your mountain
1. Lead yourself first
- Colossians 3:1-8
- Attitude of self control and discipline
- Power of connectivity and community
- At some point you may encounter a failure, but failure isn’t final.
- It’s a chance to learn. Chance to change an opportunity to learn.
- To change, to learn, to grow.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5
- Don’t be afraid of the facts. You need to open to accepting the facts.
- Psalms 37:4
- Keep dreaming
I found it interesting.. it may not really mean much here since there was a lot more insightful things that he said while he gave those steps and I didn't write down those details but it still gives the basic premise:
Live your life so that you are reaching your potential and ultimately your dream. In order to reach that dream, discipline yourself, trust in others, learn from your mistakes, face reality and continue to work towards that dream.
It's pretty obvious and these are basic life lessons that have been modded to fit passages in the bible for some guy at church to re-iterate them to people in a Message "from God" but hey.. some people just don't listen and learn so why not just try it out?
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