well... have just been on the Coles Myer site. after 1 month of pressure from my parents, i have decided to apply for jobs left right and centre...
anyways... the site (http://careers.colesmyer.com/home.asp?ref=coles) is ok... but well lets just say that filling out forms online is one of the more frustrating things in life... up there with trying to decipher Eastern European Maths Lecturers at 8am in the morning ("an noe weevil dry to do ze hipothesis tezt agan wit a alfa valu of ze-ro pont ze-ro fie" *yawn*)
well so anyways i fill up my details... up to the point where they ask you to put 2 references... and all the questions have to be filled... so anyways... the first reference is easy... i put down my experience at Gelares in Yr 11-12... for the second reference... i tried to put my headmistress, and there was where i got stuck.
you see, for each reference, the form forces you to list down 3 duties performed at the organisation... so i was like... err... what did i do at school?
here's what i put down initially:
1. Study (well on occassions... i did most of it in early November 2003 if i recall correctly)
2. Sit in class and look pretty (hahaha ok, i was actually about to submit this... how sad)
3. Ensure that my education did not interfere with my learning (well, i had to try and sound intelligent after point no. 2)
well... then i thought: "i actually want this job, my parents are threatening to cut my allowance"
*sigh... blackmail*
so instead i put down Leigh Simpkins at the EDO as my 2nd reference...
then i had to determine what my role at the EDO was first...
lets see i originally put down "volunteer worker"...
but then after advice from WK hahaha does "volunteer legal assistant" sound too flashy?
and well hahaha i was very hard pressed to think of 3 things i did there...
1. photocopy cases
2. photocopy more cases
3. all of the above
hahaha no really...
at the end i settled on putting in some stuff that looked serious... so that it looked like i actually did work at the EDO, rather than sit and chat with WK and ST, and look busy when Leigh came near...
ahh well to cap this all off...
all i can say is that i really hate online forms... (i'd swear they were created by the Devil) :-P
on a more somber note... the death toll from the earthquake has already passed 60000... and will probably rise significantly... at this point... well i really hope that enough aid arrives at the areas afflicted to minimise casualties. what can i say? at this point... the words of Shakespeare in Act 5 Scene 5 of Macbeth come to mind:
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
that's so depressing it isnt funny... but well it's true up to a point...
life is ephemeral... it comes and goes with the seasons... and if this tragedy doesnt teach us anything else... it is that to live is a temporary gift... and thus to live life to the fullest (interpret this whatever way you wish to) is the best thing that you can do with God's gift.
my prayers...
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Sunday, December 26, 2004
earthquake
as i write this, an earthquake that struck about 12 hours ago off the coast of Indonesia is still wreaking havoc now... it has killed thousands so far in countries around the region. So far its claimed about 2000 lives in Sri Lanka, 1000 in India, 156 in Thailand, 400 in Indonesia, and 43 in Malaysia. (I quote from the BBC news site http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4125481.stm)
apparently its the strongest earthquake to strike in 40 years...
i guess i feel the most for the Sri Lankans, which are going through a long, painful civil war now, and then this happens. i mean, these are people we are talking about here, fathers, mothers, children... and thats not including the people who survived but will be affected by the destruction of infrastructure. also there is an intangible human cost... in terms of parents who have lost children, children who have been made into orphans, families split apart... and so on...
what can i say? all we can do sometimes is just pray...
personally, i'm thankful that KL wasn't affected, because i have relatives and friends there... but my heart goes out to those who were affected.
these are a few eyewitness accounts from the BBC site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/4125619.stm)
"Only yesterday afternoon(the 25th), my friend and I were sitting in the same Marina beach, watching local people enjoy a golden evening and today all those footprints have been washed away...and more."
Arun Rabindar, Chennai, TN, India
"At least 2000 bodies have been found so far. At Velankanni alone more than 1000 bodies of people who were at Mass have been found...It is much bigger than originally thought to be."
Ravisankar, Chennai
"I felt the tremor and feared the worst. We had little time to prepare for the waves, no-one could have prepared for what arrived. My home has been destroyed, I have lost everything. I thank God i am alive to send this message."
Sandeep Kumar Jain, Chennai, India
"My partner and I were 700 metres above sea level having just taken the cable car ride. We saw the waves rounding the tip of Langkawi and round the west coast, but as we were so high up we were not aware of the size until we saw the aftermath during our journey by road back to lower land. The picture taken from the top of the mountain clearly shows the main wave. The pictures of the devestation to small fishing villages and the like are hard to comprehend."
Jamie Hancock, Langkawi Island, NW Malaysia
i really dont know what to say... so i'll stop here
apparently its the strongest earthquake to strike in 40 years...
i guess i feel the most for the Sri Lankans, which are going through a long, painful civil war now, and then this happens. i mean, these are people we are talking about here, fathers, mothers, children... and thats not including the people who survived but will be affected by the destruction of infrastructure. also there is an intangible human cost... in terms of parents who have lost children, children who have been made into orphans, families split apart... and so on...
what can i say? all we can do sometimes is just pray...
personally, i'm thankful that KL wasn't affected, because i have relatives and friends there... but my heart goes out to those who were affected.
these are a few eyewitness accounts from the BBC site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/4125619.stm)
"Only yesterday afternoon(the 25th), my friend and I were sitting in the same Marina beach, watching local people enjoy a golden evening and today all those footprints have been washed away...and more."
Arun Rabindar, Chennai, TN, India
"At least 2000 bodies have been found so far. At Velankanni alone more than 1000 bodies of people who were at Mass have been found...It is much bigger than originally thought to be."
Ravisankar, Chennai
"I felt the tremor and feared the worst. We had little time to prepare for the waves, no-one could have prepared for what arrived. My home has been destroyed, I have lost everything. I thank God i am alive to send this message."
Sandeep Kumar Jain, Chennai, India
"My partner and I were 700 metres above sea level having just taken the cable car ride. We saw the waves rounding the tip of Langkawi and round the west coast, but as we were so high up we were not aware of the size until we saw the aftermath during our journey by road back to lower land. The picture taken from the top of the mountain clearly shows the main wave. The pictures of the devestation to small fishing villages and the like are hard to comprehend."
Jamie Hancock, Langkawi Island, NW Malaysia
i really dont know what to say... so i'll stop here
standing up
okies, after standing for 5 hours straight, i can honestly say that im tired...
ahh it all started with worship practice at 8am as usual in the good old SSLT...
so we practice, until about 10:30... when service starts... then we stay standing more or less until 12... i have no idea why the whole team had to stay on stage today ehh... but yeah it got a little tiring
on another note... we actually had close to a full band today, courtesy of JW playing guitar today, which was good cos that means someone covers for me when i screw up, which is quite often hahaha :-P
anyways, what did i do on christmas day? nuffin much... spent the day with family... quite boring actually
went to Uncle Charles' for dinner, which was a quiet affair as Aunt Cindy and Mich had left for London... hahaah was so quiet we ended up sitting around drinking Marnier and coffee... not that i drank much....
but yeah overall im tired now... should take a nap...
will make full use of this week to go out and stuff, as i unfortunately am doing a summer unit which starts on the 3rd of Jan, sighh... its 6 hours of lectures a week and 2 hours of tutes... all done on monday and wednesday, with the exam in late Feb....
hehehe so call me anyone if anyone has anything to do this week :-D i have no plans as yet
ahh it all started with worship practice at 8am as usual in the good old SSLT...
so we practice, until about 10:30... when service starts... then we stay standing more or less until 12... i have no idea why the whole team had to stay on stage today ehh... but yeah it got a little tiring
on another note... we actually had close to a full band today, courtesy of JW playing guitar today, which was good cos that means someone covers for me when i screw up, which is quite often hahaha :-P
anyways, what did i do on christmas day? nuffin much... spent the day with family... quite boring actually
went to Uncle Charles' for dinner, which was a quiet affair as Aunt Cindy and Mich had left for London... hahaah was so quiet we ended up sitting around drinking Marnier and coffee... not that i drank much....
but yeah overall im tired now... should take a nap...
will make full use of this week to go out and stuff, as i unfortunately am doing a summer unit which starts on the 3rd of Jan, sighh... its 6 hours of lectures a week and 2 hours of tutes... all done on monday and wednesday, with the exam in late Feb....
hehehe so call me anyone if anyone has anything to do this week :-D i have no plans as yet
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
man its warm today... yeah plan to spend it with family today, family dinner tonite...
went carolling last night. hahaha my fingers are completely gone ehh... playing guitar for 4 straight houses has its bad points... but now its like all the songs are imprinted in my head...
also had the privilege of going to Hollywood Hospital with a few people to help sing some carols,
which was well amazing really. we went from ward to ward singing... and yeah well i've never had so much fun really. it was well... a great opportunity to give back to the community. most of the people we sang to were seniors, and well having occasionally gone through periods of loneliness in my 17 years of life, i can partially empathise with them (im being serious here)
it must be a terrible thing to be alone on Christmas Eve. one of the more touching points was when, after we had sang several songs, an old lady in her bed started crying. i mean, here she was, struggling to breathe and she was just so sad that she couldnt be with her family. standing by her bedside, well i nearly cried myself... last night at the hospital, well though the seniors thanked us, i could honestly say that the pleasure was entirely mine...
it is at such poignant moments that one discovers the pain of loneliness. but it was an amazing opportunity to just serve people in the community. one lady actually hobbled out of her ward to hear us sing... i mean wow!!! yeah... i guess i have a soft spot for seniors, because well i have grandmothers whom i dearly love...
both spent alot of time with me when i was young because my parents worked alot... and they have both sacrificed heaps in their lives to bring up families, to work, etc...
for me, well when people talk of inner beauty, i look at my grandmothers in my mind, and i know thats what inner beauty is, not dependent on outward appearances but on a beautiful, loving soul. having said that, i dearly hope my maternal grandmother, still a staunch buddhist will accept Christ soon... as i write this words, well i'm realizing that my paternal grandmother just returned to KL last Saturday, and i miss her so much. she's had a very interrupted life... she was 5 when she went to Malaysia. just before she was about to enter high school at a convent, the Japanese invaded. telling me this, she was reminiscing of how she already had her school uniform fitted... and she's always wondered what would have been if she had completed school...
well she also talked to me on occasions on the war, and how all they had to eat at times was just tapioca, whatever they could dig up from the ground really... got married after the war, had 9 children... raised all my fine uncles and aunties, and my dad... which is absolutely legendary, because well my grandfather wasnt particularly well off... they lived in Jinjang, KL (it's like one of the poorer chinese suburbs) she also spent alot of time raising me, picking me up from school, making my lunch, bandaging my cuts (little boys tend to fall down and get heaps of cuts). in fact, i think i would go so far to say that she spent more time with me than my parents did when i was young... i saw her most of the day, only seeing my parents in the morning before school and at night... having said that, i am in no way ungrateful to my parents... and i love them dearly because they raised me, took care of me, and worked hard to bring me to Perth, where well i believe have a better chance of achieving my dreams... they sacrificed alot to bring me here so i'm extremely grateful... and it is at Christmas, when one remembers this... how the gifts people give us... material and the immaterial ones (which are always more important) reflect the greatest gift of all that came 2000 years ago.
okies, i've sorta lost my focus here ... i think i started with the carolling... how did i end up talking about my Grandmothers? :-P
well anyways... all i want to say, on Christmas Day 2004 is thank you to all the people who have contributed to my life in a large or small way... and i pray that God will bless you all in this new year.... that your hopes and dreams will be fulfilled... AMEN
man its warm today... yeah plan to spend it with family today, family dinner tonite...
went carolling last night. hahaha my fingers are completely gone ehh... playing guitar for 4 straight houses has its bad points... but now its like all the songs are imprinted in my head...
also had the privilege of going to Hollywood Hospital with a few people to help sing some carols,
which was well amazing really. we went from ward to ward singing... and yeah well i've never had so much fun really. it was well... a great opportunity to give back to the community. most of the people we sang to were seniors, and well having occasionally gone through periods of loneliness in my 17 years of life, i can partially empathise with them (im being serious here)
it must be a terrible thing to be alone on Christmas Eve. one of the more touching points was when, after we had sang several songs, an old lady in her bed started crying. i mean, here she was, struggling to breathe and she was just so sad that she couldnt be with her family. standing by her bedside, well i nearly cried myself... last night at the hospital, well though the seniors thanked us, i could honestly say that the pleasure was entirely mine...
it is at such poignant moments that one discovers the pain of loneliness. but it was an amazing opportunity to just serve people in the community. one lady actually hobbled out of her ward to hear us sing... i mean wow!!! yeah... i guess i have a soft spot for seniors, because well i have grandmothers whom i dearly love...
both spent alot of time with me when i was young because my parents worked alot... and they have both sacrificed heaps in their lives to bring up families, to work, etc...
for me, well when people talk of inner beauty, i look at my grandmothers in my mind, and i know thats what inner beauty is, not dependent on outward appearances but on a beautiful, loving soul. having said that, i dearly hope my maternal grandmother, still a staunch buddhist will accept Christ soon... as i write this words, well i'm realizing that my paternal grandmother just returned to KL last Saturday, and i miss her so much. she's had a very interrupted life... she was 5 when she went to Malaysia. just before she was about to enter high school at a convent, the Japanese invaded. telling me this, she was reminiscing of how she already had her school uniform fitted... and she's always wondered what would have been if she had completed school...
well she also talked to me on occasions on the war, and how all they had to eat at times was just tapioca, whatever they could dig up from the ground really... got married after the war, had 9 children... raised all my fine uncles and aunties, and my dad... which is absolutely legendary, because well my grandfather wasnt particularly well off... they lived in Jinjang, KL (it's like one of the poorer chinese suburbs) she also spent alot of time raising me, picking me up from school, making my lunch, bandaging my cuts (little boys tend to fall down and get heaps of cuts). in fact, i think i would go so far to say that she spent more time with me than my parents did when i was young... i saw her most of the day, only seeing my parents in the morning before school and at night... having said that, i am in no way ungrateful to my parents... and i love them dearly because they raised me, took care of me, and worked hard to bring me to Perth, where well i believe have a better chance of achieving my dreams... they sacrificed alot to bring me here so i'm extremely grateful... and it is at Christmas, when one remembers this... how the gifts people give us... material and the immaterial ones (which are always more important) reflect the greatest gift of all that came 2000 years ago.
okies, i've sorta lost my focus here ... i think i started with the carolling... how did i end up talking about my Grandmothers? :-P
well anyways... all i want to say, on Christmas Day 2004 is thank you to all the people who have contributed to my life in a large or small way... and i pray that God will bless you all in this new year.... that your hopes and dreams will be fulfilled... AMEN
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
my 10 minute driving test
had my practical test today... hmmm i think i'm the first one in the family to fail after 10 minutes... sigh... so horrible. i didnt even make it to the first maneuver... i was reversing out of a driveway and yes kept creeping down it even though there was a car coming. also, for some reason i was trying to reverse into the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD... I dont know what happened, but i completely lost my wits :-P... complete brain freeze mate... *sigh* i am pissed off with myself... really pissed off. thats $130 down the drain man... could have been almost a third of the way to an IPOD... so yeah... oh well... to my credit... i didn't swear when the test dude slammed the brakes.... well not aloud anyways :-P... yeah the guy was some German dude... andhe did have like the thickest accent... it was like watching old WWII movies... but he was a nice guy and according to my instructor apparently has a sense of humour... hmm i dont know why she told me that hahaha...
on another note... finished the Christmas shopping on Monday (ahh woohoo) also bought a black jacket from RDs so im happy hahaha... dont ask why i bought a jacket in the middle of summer... just dont ask
I was talking with a friend a few weeks ago and she mentioned that i have alot of black shirts... well i laughed it off at the time but well i took a look at my wardrobe today while spring cleaning... i think i have almost 10 black shirts, and one grey one as well, amongst others...
why black? why? ahh well i just like the colour i guess... :-P
hmmm what else... listening to music late last night, i came across Mandy Moore's song from "A walk to remember"... hmm i cant believe i actually got talked into watching that at the cinemas a few years ago... complete chick flick... sigh... but not bad for the genre... (dont tell anyone i said that)
yeah anyways i cant remember the song title but wow it was a good song... ahh i cant believe i'm writing this for public viewing :-P but i liked it.
on another completely non-tangential note, i was in Harbourtown with TL the other day doing Christmas shopping with her. hahaha now i know who to go to when i need to get presents for my mother ehh, because i've always been stumped in that regard. it's easy to get presents for guys ehh... but women are a completely different matter (all the guys say Amen :-P)
also... while browsing through the bookstore... i bought Les Miserables -Victor Hugo and all i can say that it's a classic... am halfway through the second book already and its only been 4 days, im addicted. hahaha it's almost like a soap opera, and the way the book plays with your heartstrings is well... amazing. hehehe its the best $10 i've spent... obviously i didnt get the original French version... my French is pretty dodgy now.. and i'd probably still be on page 1 hahaha... but well 700+ pages on.... i like this book alot. and why does Jean Valjean have to leave Paris with Cossette? why? sigh... reading the book you really do feel for poor Jean, and Marius... sigh...
anyways... ive gone on and on so i'll stop now.
on another note... finished the Christmas shopping on Monday (ahh woohoo) also bought a black jacket from RDs so im happy hahaha... dont ask why i bought a jacket in the middle of summer... just dont ask
I was talking with a friend a few weeks ago and she mentioned that i have alot of black shirts... well i laughed it off at the time but well i took a look at my wardrobe today while spring cleaning... i think i have almost 10 black shirts, and one grey one as well, amongst others...
why black? why? ahh well i just like the colour i guess... :-P
hmmm what else... listening to music late last night, i came across Mandy Moore's song from "A walk to remember"... hmm i cant believe i actually got talked into watching that at the cinemas a few years ago... complete chick flick... sigh... but not bad for the genre... (dont tell anyone i said that)
yeah anyways i cant remember the song title but wow it was a good song... ahh i cant believe i'm writing this for public viewing :-P but i liked it.
on another completely non-tangential note, i was in Harbourtown with TL the other day doing Christmas shopping with her. hahaha now i know who to go to when i need to get presents for my mother ehh, because i've always been stumped in that regard. it's easy to get presents for guys ehh... but women are a completely different matter (all the guys say Amen :-P)
also... while browsing through the bookstore... i bought Les Miserables -Victor Hugo and all i can say that it's a classic... am halfway through the second book already and its only been 4 days, im addicted. hahaha it's almost like a soap opera, and the way the book plays with your heartstrings is well... amazing. hehehe its the best $10 i've spent... obviously i didnt get the original French version... my French is pretty dodgy now.. and i'd probably still be on page 1 hahaha... but well 700+ pages on.... i like this book alot. and why does Jean Valjean have to leave Paris with Cossette? why? sigh... reading the book you really do feel for poor Jean, and Marius... sigh...
anyways... ive gone on and on so i'll stop now.
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