Fallen off the wagon?

As most of you know, generally I don’t drink and infact I don’t really like the taste of alcohol… but I think I may have found something that has lured me back onto the p!ss.

Presenting…

MMmm… the fellows over at Brown Brothers have done wonderfully with this desert wine and after reading the desert recommendations to go with the wine.. Boy, am I going to be buying a bottle and some apple pudding or lemon tart with some honey ice cream! Now, by no means am I going to be a big drinker, but I may be more amiable to the offerings from now on. Especially since the property industry is so fond of wining and dining. So, be prepared to see my ears red and me hugging people more often, since I seem to hug my friends more when i’m drunk apparently.

Besides my new found alcoholism, this week was rotation week for the scholarship program. I am now part of Investment Property Management, which means I will be staring at tenancy schedules and leases lots, not quite as glamorous as CBD sales.

Two more quick things.. firstly, tomorrow is TRANSFORMERS day!! Woot!! Can’t Effing WAIT! <3 Transformers!

and secondly, I’d just like to welcome Tam to wordpress! Finally she has shed the shackles of myspaz!! As we like to say in the business, Myspaz is the suxxor!

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Wow, anything endorsed by Evil Knievel and Chewbacca is worth posting. Such an informative little video.

Aches and pains..

These aches and pains are of the good , “I did exercise” variety though!

Having spent the last two days of parkour training (and a little half @rsed Kali) with Chippa and Tams at the Arts house (shown above) in North Melbourne aka The Meat Market, I must say it is very good to have this feeling again. Not having trained seriously for awhile, today has prompted me to seriously get my act together and organise my time to allow for regular parkour and martial arts training again.

Just lying there spent on the ground today reminded me of the good times we used to have at our old training, which unfortunately changed as the school became more and more commercial, but the atmosphere today was exactly like it used to be. I would very much like to thank McChippa for bringing back the good times, and hopefully we can build on this and get ourselves a good solid little group together! Time to start digging out the training equipment and possibly getting a few new bits and pieces!

Time for more leaping over obstacles, hanging off walls and diving between bars! Then followed by some clobbering of each other! Fun times for all!

Welcome back..

A few welcome backs… Firstly, Amph’s two sisters are back to the family home for both their impending births! Soon there will be new additions to their clan! Woot! Very cool, and hopefully MC will stick with the winning formula of Star trek and Terry Pratchett for the young’uns! lol!

Still on Amph, not a welcome back but just WELCOME… to AMPH’s NEW CAR!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday night was a welcome back for Nuffies who had flown back from China into Perth on Friday morning, then went to work and flew from Perth to here later that day! Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to her too for today! Plus I scored an Abercrombie & Fitch polo shirt from her! Wasn’t even my birthday!!

Considering how long I’ve known her I always find it hard finding something to buy her! LOL… I just take it as a sign she doesn’t need anything from me! Or that it’s karma.. hehehe.. for putting up with her!

Another, welcome back is for Immie! Whom we partied on down with yesterday as part of Nuffies’ birthday celebrations. After her little hiatus in Sydney, she’s back! Always good to catch up with Immie and Harold. Plus, she is a big dork who was wearing her trackies back to front all night when we got back to their place. LOL… <3 Immie!

Now maybe a welcome back for… *drum roll*

The possible early return of Rubinho!

I do not know exactly all the details as communication is limited, but the move has not been what he has desired and may see him return earlier than expected. As a friend I will obviously be glad to have him back in my life, but I also hope he does not return with any unanswered questions for himself that will result in any regrets down the track. It is always hard to face the reality of a dream not turning out the way you had imagined. The hardest thing with life changing decisions are firstly and most obviously knowing IF you should change your path, and then secondly the timing of when you should do it. From experience, I myself stayed on a path too long and should have acted earlier upon recognising that it was not right for me, but I had stayed for many reasons. One of them however was to ensure that I had given it my best attempt at pushing through. Having done that, I moved on with my only regret being that I should have made the change earlier. Hopefully, Rubinho has given it this his best attempt too and can look back on any impending change with no major regrets.

Why?

Why is it that everytime exams roll round I find myself doing the same things. Either re-reading the same books or watching dvds or just plain wasting time?

I just cannot motivate myself to seriously study for an exam and that is the god honest truth. I don’t think I have done more than a total of 10hrs of serious study for any exam in my whole life including my year 12 and all during my law degree days. There is no rational reason for me not wanting to study. I just find myself refusing to really go at it seriously. I find myself just staring blankly at the page, or reading it but not really thinking about what I’m reading, or I will read a paragraph and find something else to entertain me for the next hour and then read another paragraph. It is not until the day (and sometimes night) before the exam I find that I can force myself to focus since the exam is going to be in a matter of hours. The only really focused study I get done is when I am studying with someone else who is studying the same thing.

What does this all mean?

Probably that I’m a lazy f%ck.

Well, better get back to trying/pretending to study… since my exam is on Wednesday my actual study window is about open, so maybe I will actually absorb something in the next 24 hours.

Wish me luck.

Ooo… purdy..

Got bored today and decided to finally check out what new themes I could use, and here be the new look Frutzieland page!

The banner is one of Rubinho’s photos that I have stolen from him.

Anywhos, nothing to report… still got exams. Oh.. well, I nearly got busted crawling around the house practicing quadrupedal movement for parkour. Would have been quite amusing if anyone had seen me. I can go uber fast forwards but boy am I uncoordinated going backwards, also worked on my little cat leaps. I think I’m finally getting the hang of it. Just need to find me a wall to hang onto now.

A week later..

In the past week I have had one of my best mates leave town, one not particularly good exam and then the shock of learning the lecturer for that subject had in fact passed away a couple of days before we actually sat the exam. Made a lot of us feel bad for speaking ill of the lecturer and the teaching performance during the semester. However, I guess the passing does not change the fact that the teaching was subpar and I am sure no one would have being wishing ill upon the lecturer either, so all we can hope is that they are in a better place now. Regardless of whether we were particularly fond of the lecturer or not, I guess death always puts life into perspective and reminds us not to be complacement.

On to a better note I watched Garden State again. I must say it is becoming one of my favourite movies and the soundtrack is awesome. It is also thought provoking and contains some highly amusing scenes, such as the one below:

The vision of them running around cracks me up everytime.

Family

It is especially hard saying farewell to friends whom have been a fixture in your life for as long as you can remember. Having been fortunate enough to have friends who are more like family is a gift that I cherish, and though I do not often express such things I am sure you all know what you mean to me. (NB. if confronted about this, I will deny all knowledge of this particular post.. infact this may not even be me typing.. yes, yes.. not me at all). Now as previous posts have alluded to, Rubinho is off and tonight was the final hurrah. A nice dinner and a long drive (with some bad karaoke) saw us inadvertently pass by some of our old haunts and was a nice way to see off a good friend.

The reality of life and growing up has been rammed home tonight. From what was once a large group of friends, over the years our numbers have been whittled down into a small family that remained. Tonight however, those of us who remain are slightly lessened with his absence. Although I knew we all had to grow up and life would lead us in different directions, inside I had always secretly hoped that we would all be a constant fixture in each others lives and things would not change too drastically, but alas that was a childish dream.

Anyway, like I told you buddy… Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere.. you know where to come if you need anything. You will always be welcome in our home.