29.8.05
hehehe...thanks to everyone who said/msg happy bday :)
without going into too much detail of what happened, i had a great weekend! and boy was it busy...so much so that i ended up deliberately (well..) sleeping in till almost 10am before i decided to crawl outta bed. it's good...sleep..mm
rehearsals are going well for the play up in late october@zenith, bought some nice basic stuff from jeans west with virgin credit card!! :) so got like..20% off for every $50 spent. and i thought "the price after discount is about right...." but at last i have some new tops! and a pair of 3/4 (fold up) jeans. gained 2 sizes during the course of the past year...but bleh, such that is life~ as long as i generally don't look like a fatso and feel slobby, i'm happy.
which brings me...bikram yoga, anyone? i love it!! started doing it last week and went 3 times already (that many times because i didn't have much rehearsals on)...i'm going to the one in lane cove, perfect for afterwork...went on sunday morning w/o breakfast with kenny - not a good idea...i was dizzy by the end, and i assume he was too...
assume: ass-u-me: make an ass (of) u (and) me.
anton the random dude from kenny's work is like..the funniest dude...he says the most randomist things...met quite a few people, but i think i ended up talking to ceri and him most. can't make up examples...u gotta be there.
hope everyone loved raquels...apparently the vego meal was the best!
going skiing soon...must get warm (things)
without going into too much detail of what happened, i had a great weekend! and boy was it busy...so much so that i ended up deliberately (well..) sleeping in till almost 10am before i decided to crawl outta bed. it's good...sleep..mm
rehearsals are going well for the play up in late october@zenith, bought some nice basic stuff from jeans west with virgin credit card!! :) so got like..20% off for every $50 spent. and i thought "the price after discount is about right...." but at last i have some new tops! and a pair of 3/4 (fold up) jeans. gained 2 sizes during the course of the past year...but bleh, such that is life~ as long as i generally don't look like a fatso and feel slobby, i'm happy.
which brings me...bikram yoga, anyone? i love it!! started doing it last week and went 3 times already (that many times because i didn't have much rehearsals on)...i'm going to the one in lane cove, perfect for afterwork...went on sunday morning w/o breakfast with kenny - not a good idea...i was dizzy by the end, and i assume he was too...
assume: ass-u-me: make an ass (of) u (and) me.
anton the random dude from kenny's work is like..the funniest dude...he says the most randomist things...met quite a few people, but i think i ended up talking to ceri and him most. can't make up examples...u gotta be there.
hope everyone loved raquels...apparently the vego meal was the best!
going skiing soon...must get warm (things)
21.8.05
love chestnuts. i can't describe it...and it's even better how we can buy vacuum packs of peeled cooked chestnuts.so much easier than doing it all myself.
made tofu dessert. and just left it there. never bothered to eat it.
went shopping for clothes today coz i dont have any decent clothes ( i shouldn't say that...i actually have a fair few items. they just dont feel...me..anymore) but i'm really good at buying things in fashion and then going "nah, i don't like it" and let it sit a few years and then match it up with weird shit. but today, today i tried so hard to find clothes (because i have spare cash to spend)..and what should happen but to find every item of clothing so...overrated and boring. i don't know what is wrong with me - maybe it's been a while since i did serious damage to my account like that, but i'm out of touch, i don't know what to buy!!
so what did i do to compensate for the lack of damage to my bank account? i went bought junk food instead - one of them being a pack of chestnuts...a fair few azn sponge cakes...(pieces, not the whole thing!)..strange, didn't buy lollies. *sugar, gimme gimme some, right there on my tongue...*sweet sweet**
saw jub and her very tall dutch bf...he's quite good looking, and friendly guy. he's cool...saw the old unsw bunch...so sad...it's so not a group..it's 2 groups squushed into one.
been listening to feel good inc. constantly. that song is addictive. why can't more music sound like that?? for some reason i love the guitar bit in it. it's so simple, but i love it. along with bass in the rap bit...or it could just be the animation v.clip. i first noticed this song when i was at blue mts a few weeks back (i know. i'm slow - i hadn't noticed good music so i lost faith in radio) and when u hear this song it's just so OBVIOUS that the music is from the city...the rhythm and sounds are like...well..the city. i don't mean a sleepy city like sydney. i mean one with nightlife. like..new york...hong kong...that sorta thing..tokoyo? i dont know what i'm on about. it almost feels wrong to hear the song when you're on a farm. it just doesn't make sense. and when i heard it, i almost missed the city.
it's been too long i've become complacent about suburban life. i must venture out into the city once more...for the caffeinated buzz and collective stress levels building up into a cresendo on friday night, when the week is over, and the cbd will be a ghost town till monday morning.
must sleep.
made tofu dessert. and just left it there. never bothered to eat it.
went shopping for clothes today coz i dont have any decent clothes ( i shouldn't say that...i actually have a fair few items. they just dont feel...me..anymore) but i'm really good at buying things in fashion and then going "nah, i don't like it" and let it sit a few years and then match it up with weird shit. but today, today i tried so hard to find clothes (because i have spare cash to spend)..and what should happen but to find every item of clothing so...overrated and boring. i don't know what is wrong with me - maybe it's been a while since i did serious damage to my account like that, but i'm out of touch, i don't know what to buy!!
so what did i do to compensate for the lack of damage to my bank account? i went bought junk food instead - one of them being a pack of chestnuts...a fair few azn sponge cakes...(pieces, not the whole thing!)..strange, didn't buy lollies. *sugar, gimme gimme some, right there on my tongue...*sweet sweet**
saw jub and her very tall dutch bf...he's quite good looking, and friendly guy. he's cool...saw the old unsw bunch...so sad...it's so not a group..it's 2 groups squushed into one.
been listening to feel good inc. constantly. that song is addictive. why can't more music sound like that?? for some reason i love the guitar bit in it. it's so simple, but i love it. along with bass in the rap bit...or it could just be the animation v.clip. i first noticed this song when i was at blue mts a few weeks back (i know. i'm slow - i hadn't noticed good music so i lost faith in radio) and when u hear this song it's just so OBVIOUS that the music is from the city...the rhythm and sounds are like...well..the city. i don't mean a sleepy city like sydney. i mean one with nightlife. like..new york...hong kong...that sorta thing..tokoyo? i dont know what i'm on about. it almost feels wrong to hear the song when you're on a farm. it just doesn't make sense. and when i heard it, i almost missed the city.
it's been too long i've become complacent about suburban life. i must venture out into the city once more...for the caffeinated buzz and collective stress levels building up into a cresendo on friday night, when the week is over, and the cbd will be a ghost town till monday morning.
must sleep.
19.8.05
mmm...we should actually take a moment to welcome masaki bak to cyberspace...well, he has been online here and there apparently...
feel like some good indian food - jaipur springs to mind.
actually thinking of hearty meals, montezumas...aah, yessss...had some of their good spicy bean and corn and rice sorta arrangement...i always love that place. please someone organise a huge group out, we can't finish 2 mains between 2 people so we cant use the entertainment voucher :P hahahahha aah, we will use it at some stage...they are cool! or hot! or something - you get me.
yessss again... off work...cheerio! masaki, i'll update your link (lhs) later on, i gotta get OUTTA HERE!
feel like some good indian food - jaipur springs to mind.
actually thinking of hearty meals, montezumas...aah, yessss...had some of their good spicy bean and corn and rice sorta arrangement...i always love that place. please someone organise a huge group out, we can't finish 2 mains between 2 people so we cant use the entertainment voucher :P hahahahha aah, we will use it at some stage...they are cool! or hot! or something - you get me.
yessss again... off work...cheerio! masaki, i'll update your link (lhs) later on, i gotta get OUTTA HERE!
15.8.05
faux pas lesson learnt #10000: when saving contacts onto your phone, ensure that you include surnames in all contacts who share the same first name. that way you will never be asking about party details from the person who was in no way associated to the said party...
aah...good one abbz.
in the process of transcribing all the lines into engrish (yes, japanese accented english, for those who are unfamiliar) much harder than i thought at first...and i first thought i would be very difficult! aikes.
anyway..lines again...back to lines...
before i go, welcome AXEL!!
aah...good one abbz.
in the process of transcribing all the lines into engrish (yes, japanese accented english, for those who are unfamiliar) much harder than i thought at first...and i first thought i would be very difficult! aikes.
anyway..lines again...back to lines...
before i go, welcome AXEL!!
8.8.05
wow weekend...kenny and i went up to mill paddock on friday, and arrived at 8 ish...the rest of the weekend can only be described as amazing...went to jenolan caves on the next day after a homey countrystyle french toast made by kenny, and found out the cave's river system is full of minerals that change the refraction etc of the water, so a "puddle of water" that was knee deep was in fact 1.8m deep! it was only upon closer inspection that i noticed the reflections off the water was warped...how deceptive...i was so tempted to kick something/someone in just to find out how deep it would look...hehe...
zigzag railway up in lithgow was alright, but only worth the visit because we had entertainment voucher. it was good scenery and all, but we had been driving through similar spectacular views the whole time since the closest food shop that was open is actually 1 hr drive from where we were staying. kenny bought 1+1complimentary ticket, and we sat in the carriage, a group of people and a dog came in. and i saw it. the dog ticket for the train ride. and i knew i had to have it...and i did :-D
the place had free range roosters and hens...and they just wander casually around the farm...rosellas come and eat seeds, and how lovely it was that we poured some left over croutons in the same tray from the night before and magpies came and fought the rosellas...oops :P
the old dog on the farm was doing his rounds, small, slow and stocky, he wanders around in a circular fashion around 2 driveways that connect the house we stayed at, and the host's house. he comes up to you, and knows you will pat him, then when he's had enough, he walks on by his merry old, retired way. it's lovely to be a dog eh? looking after the chickens...etc...
came back to sydney and visited Banksia Cafe and had their world famous scones in blackheath on the way. mmm i still dream about it...the absolute best. moist, and not too crumbly, it had a bit of texture but not to tough...and tastes lovely...
and then hotpot on at derek's, and all was great, love the conversations...kenny calling "wu xi" (those yam white stringy things) as "nurse" in chinese (or did he actually mean he wanted a nurse?)...chris' endless funny comments..he only needs to open his mouth. we talked about permanent cosmetic surgery (well, just the persons involved in undertaking them, and how funny it would be if someone showed up one day to school sporting new eyebrows they previously never had). frank commented on the way those fried gluten balls, when immersed and boiled in steamboat water for a while, look strikingly familiar to certain part of the male anatomy. "warm and relaxed," he observed. what of mankit forgetting to take off his glasses before showering? why did eric want to find out? and why o why chris and james get "wrist guards" for their belated b'days?
the one that just did it for me, the sentence of great funniness, was:
chris/kenny/me: how is she mean? what does she do?
julya: she abused his buns!
everyone who heard: WTF?! and LOL..
julya: dereks buns, PINEAPPLE BUNS!! from asian shops...
everyone: *still laughing at someone's buns being abused*
julya: and she would just squish them!
everyone: *still laughing at the inuendo behind the earlier sentence*
and if that wasn't to top the night, we have a celebrity cartoon likeness competition.
votes:
derek vs bert from sesame street
mankit vs grimace from maccas
lill' kev vs calvin from that comic strip (i think)
now, i think those photos will show up on derek's site...who will win....?
zigzag railway up in lithgow was alright, but only worth the visit because we had entertainment voucher. it was good scenery and all, but we had been driving through similar spectacular views the whole time since the closest food shop that was open is actually 1 hr drive from where we were staying. kenny bought 1+1complimentary ticket, and we sat in the carriage, a group of people and a dog came in. and i saw it. the dog ticket for the train ride. and i knew i had to have it...and i did :-D
the place had free range roosters and hens...and they just wander casually around the farm...rosellas come and eat seeds, and how lovely it was that we poured some left over croutons in the same tray from the night before and magpies came and fought the rosellas...oops :P
the old dog on the farm was doing his rounds, small, slow and stocky, he wanders around in a circular fashion around 2 driveways that connect the house we stayed at, and the host's house. he comes up to you, and knows you will pat him, then when he's had enough, he walks on by his merry old, retired way. it's lovely to be a dog eh? looking after the chickens...etc...
came back to sydney and visited Banksia Cafe and had their world famous scones in blackheath on the way. mmm i still dream about it...the absolute best. moist, and not too crumbly, it had a bit of texture but not to tough...and tastes lovely...
and then hotpot on at derek's, and all was great, love the conversations...kenny calling "wu xi" (those yam white stringy things) as "nurse" in chinese (or did he actually mean he wanted a nurse?)...chris' endless funny comments..he only needs to open his mouth. we talked about permanent cosmetic surgery (well, just the persons involved in undertaking them, and how funny it would be if someone showed up one day to school sporting new eyebrows they previously never had). frank commented on the way those fried gluten balls, when immersed and boiled in steamboat water for a while, look strikingly familiar to certain part of the male anatomy. "warm and relaxed," he observed. what of mankit forgetting to take off his glasses before showering? why did eric want to find out? and why o why chris and james get "wrist guards" for their belated b'days?
the one that just did it for me, the sentence of great funniness, was:
chris/kenny/me: how is she mean? what does she do?
julya: she abused his buns!
everyone who heard: WTF?! and LOL..
julya: dereks buns, PINEAPPLE BUNS!! from asian shops...
everyone: *still laughing at someone's buns being abused*
julya: and she would just squish them!
everyone: *still laughing at the inuendo behind the earlier sentence*
and if that wasn't to top the night, we have a celebrity cartoon likeness competition.
votes:
derek vs bert from sesame street
mankit vs grimace from maccas
lill' kev vs calvin from that comic strip (i think)
now, i think those photos will show up on derek's site...who will win....?
2.8.05
afterthought...
it's been a great 3 month journey, and i'm privileged to have worked with so many great people, been supported by friends and family on my first out of college show. those who went to support me, thankyou, and those who put up with my lack of sleep moodiness, thankyou. some people who i didn't think would come see the show rocked up and watched and gave me all their support. those who had other agendas and couldn't/didn't come to the show but gave me best wishes, thankyou - this means just as much to me. without you, i don't think the memories would be as sweet, considering the content of the play.
at first i had hesitations. young cast (i knew they could do it, but i'm insecure about myself and the judgement i may receive), director on her maiden directorial pursuit, i was a complete newbie...i was scared i'd waste people's time by asking them to come. i mean, how many people do i know love theatre as much as i do? but as the production went on, into final stages of preshow preparations, i knew we struck a chord somewhere. for almost the whole show i was blessed (and unblessed at the same time) for not having any pre-show nervous energy. with exception of final night, i can almost completely say that i was on the ball the whole time, hitting the nail on the head to the best of my ability playing that mother character. final night i got jitters, and nervous, and found it hard to focus, knowing that tonight, any judgement i receive, i will hear it first hand that night.
losing my voice on the first night of the show turned out to be a very liberating experience for me. strangely enough, i think it made my performances in the show alot better than what it could have been if i wasn't forced to use a part of my voice that i was not used to, desperately communicating with whatever tool that was still usable...in all honesty my voice still hasn't gotten back to normal...but it's getting there.
this play has changed me in a way i didn't expect. i expected to turn all bitter etc. from doing a depressing play and a depressing character, but that didn't happen. i was shown how lucky i really am (not that i thought i was unlucky) and that life is beautiful, and the tragedy of the play isn't so much in all the lives wasted and all the people Josh killed, but rather the way he sees life. how sad is it that he feels so alone, that everyday, he will continue to live, but each moment goes by, he begs to die. that is suffering.
death in itself is not something i find sad. death occurs in much the same way as a blink of the eye. if you live, you will one day die. you may suffer before death, but after death has occured, the other things stop mattering. there is nothing one can do to change things. it is the lack of acceptance of one's death and the inability to let go of a life once lived that form part of the human condition of suffering.
but no need to get all d&m on everyone.
the past 3 months have been a blast!
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it's been a great 3 month journey, and i'm privileged to have worked with so many great people, been supported by friends and family on my first out of college show. those who went to support me, thankyou, and those who put up with my lack of sleep moodiness, thankyou. some people who i didn't think would come see the show rocked up and watched and gave me all their support. those who had other agendas and couldn't/didn't come to the show but gave me best wishes, thankyou - this means just as much to me. without you, i don't think the memories would be as sweet, considering the content of the play.
at first i had hesitations. young cast (i knew they could do it, but i'm insecure about myself and the judgement i may receive), director on her maiden directorial pursuit, i was a complete newbie...i was scared i'd waste people's time by asking them to come. i mean, how many people do i know love theatre as much as i do? but as the production went on, into final stages of preshow preparations, i knew we struck a chord somewhere. for almost the whole show i was blessed (and unblessed at the same time) for not having any pre-show nervous energy. with exception of final night, i can almost completely say that i was on the ball the whole time, hitting the nail on the head to the best of my ability playing that mother character. final night i got jitters, and nervous, and found it hard to focus, knowing that tonight, any judgement i receive, i will hear it first hand that night.
losing my voice on the first night of the show turned out to be a very liberating experience for me. strangely enough, i think it made my performances in the show alot better than what it could have been if i wasn't forced to use a part of my voice that i was not used to, desperately communicating with whatever tool that was still usable...in all honesty my voice still hasn't gotten back to normal...but it's getting there.
this play has changed me in a way i didn't expect. i expected to turn all bitter etc. from doing a depressing play and a depressing character, but that didn't happen. i was shown how lucky i really am (not that i thought i was unlucky) and that life is beautiful, and the tragedy of the play isn't so much in all the lives wasted and all the people Josh killed, but rather the way he sees life. how sad is it that he feels so alone, that everyday, he will continue to live, but each moment goes by, he begs to die. that is suffering.
death in itself is not something i find sad. death occurs in much the same way as a blink of the eye. if you live, you will one day die. you may suffer before death, but after death has occured, the other things stop mattering. there is nothing one can do to change things. it is the lack of acceptance of one's death and the inability to let go of a life once lived that form part of the human condition of suffering.
but no need to get all d&m on everyone.
the past 3 months have been a blast!