On Tuesday I was elected the president of the UNSW BITSA society, thanks to those that voted for me.  What does this mean?  It means that this semester is going to be potentially the most hectic period of my life with so many things to juggle.  Having said this I intend to see the year through with flying colours and so I apologize in advance to my friends if I seem like I don’t have time to go out (because I probably don’t haha)  Second Semester should start to see things improve since I won’t have ‘full-time’ work and I won’t have graduate applications (hopefully)

Well, well I’ve stumbled upon some old sites and blogs that I thought were very nostaligc.  Reminded me of some very fun times =) :

http://www.bluezone.net.au/~cyan/ – the CYAN website, thanks to the bluezone admins for keeping this up! after all these years (our YAA site).

http://zephorz.blogspot.com/ – my old blog full of memories I’ll never forget (both in a good and bad way) some interesting times there.

ans also from my blog there were links to various other people’s blogs.  Made for some interesting reads, check them out if you’re even remotely interested =)

Well, with the new 2.9.1 I’ve managed to implement a new simple (yet complex) theme.  This theme uses javascript and the js libraries of jQuery and Raphael for added coolness.  Unfortunately the quotes plugin I was using before is incompatible with this version of wordpress so I’ll need to find a new one.  Also I just realised I neglected the comments part of the design, I’ll do that at a later stage

Now that I’ve (semi)completed the new design I’ll start diverting my attention to other things.  For example recruitment! and getting back into my Bitsa duties.  I’m about to enter what will possibly be the busiest semester of my life.  Let the games begin!.

Wordpress 2.9.1 installed!  new theme coming up…

And so we begin a new year,  and being me I absolutely must reflect on 2009 as a year… here goes! *deep breath*

2009 was shall we say an eventful year, a year I started off by freezing my ass off in New York’s Time Square.

To begin at the every beginning this is the year I traversed the great pacific ocean to attend my student exchange at Penn State University.  My time abroad seems so surreal now, like a different life time.  I can say that over there I had not a care in the world, money, career, social circles, all the worries of my life in Sydney vanished the minute I jumped on that plane.  I recall that my most frustrating though while over there was when where and how I’d be travelling to next, a carefree attitude I hope to carry forward at least to some degree.  That coupled with all the people I met, people I now consider my friends purely through the awesome times we shared makes those 6 months some of the best of my life, not a period I’ll forget soon if ever.

After my return to Sydney I came back to a life of concerns and insecurities, events that occured I won’t re-iterate as it would make for too long winded a post.

The second half of 2009 yielded the following lessons, thoughts and reflections:

• I have come to realise who some of my closer friends are
• The word friend is ever-changing in definition
• Humans beings, myself included can be incredibly selfish at times
• Though I try to rise above things, there are times when this simply can’t happen
• People change, social groups change, what matters is you still have your friends.
• It is important to forgive people for their short comings.
• Noone is inherently bad.
• I would like to become a consultant after graduation
• I believe I am capable of doing honours, despite my marks this semester

And something I believe in that I have formulated in words:

You can do whatever you like, have the time of your life, go crazy… so long as it is not at the expense of others.

Finally, the end of 2009 yielded a very pleasant surprise:

I was able to find a certain special someone whom I can share my life with, someone I care for deeply…

Thank you 2009, for showing me the time of my life, for re-kindling my belief in love and for all the lessons learnt.  Thank you and goodbye.

To all my friends, those whom I hold dear.

In our first year of uni after high school I made a promise to myself, that I would not let us drift apart, that I would maintain the friendships we had forged.

In second year immediately before my first Industrial Trainig period I made another promise; that no matter what happened, wherever my placement took me, I would never place my career and my job over my friends, including those I have met along the way and am now fortunate to include in this circle.

This past year I have very much been absent from your lives, by jetting off to the states on my exchange and now working a job that at times requires ridiculous hours I have not been upholding these promises.  For this I’m sorry.  If there was anything I took from my exchange, its how important my friends are to me.  I found myself on many occassions longing to come home and partake in the lives of everyone here.

Though I claim to be selfless I’ve come to realise that in the bigger picture I have been quite the opposite, putting myself and my career ahead of everyone else, being altogether absent and yet asking for a trust that needs to be earnt.

As it stands, this cannot be changed.  I can’t go back in time and stop myself from doing the things I’ve done, all I can do now is double my efforts and hope that in time this trust will come back…

I’m Sorry.

A red sun rises, blood has been spilt tonight…

A crazy dust storm this morning, I woke up and the sky was red.  A bad omen perhaps? who knows…

I turn my head to the East I don’t see nobody by my side,

I turn my head to the West, still nobody in sight.

So I turn my head to the North, swallow that Pill that they call pride

That old me is dead and gone but the new me will be alright

You can’t hurry love, oh you’ll just have to wait
She said love don’t come easy, it’s a game of give and take
You can’t hurry love, oh you’ll just have to wait
Just trust in the good times, no matter how long it takes

But how many heartaches must I stand
Before I find a love to let me live again
‘Cos right now the only thing that keeps me hangin’ on
Is when I feel my strength, you know it’s almost gone,

Well two weeks back in Sydney and I was getting bored, no k, no going out a lot of watching svu on my computer and playing old psx games.  But trust my friends to be sneaky and organise a suprise party for me at pancakes =D In the 2 minutes after I walked down those stairs a number of different emotions hit me.  First it was amazement at the huge coincedence that all my friends happened to be there at the same time as me, then confusion at the strange array of people that I all knew but from different places, then realization as I saw the smiling faces of success, then… I sat down still perplexed and speechless…  I’m so lucky to have such awesome friends. Thanks guys!

The reason this post is so late is because my site was down -_- stupid flexihosting… oh well its back now.

So I find myself not going through the same exchange withdrawal as a lot of my other exchange friends.  I This comes down to having succh awesome friends to come back to, and also the prospect of a new room (which still isn’t done yet!!) All my souveniers are still in the bags that I brought them back in because of these stupid ongoing renovations, and I also have to stay and watch the house most of the time because I have so much ‘free time’ zzzzzzzzzzzz