i guess you guys know what this is... and it's only the head!!!
my new toy... Audemars Piguet, against the view from my place...
my new toy... Audemars Piguet, against the view from my place...
how is everyone?
i just returned from milan- because milan is really boring so my friend and i took a 3 hrs train ride up to florence! can i just let you guys know that florence is beautiful as well. very different from venice. florence has huge cathedrals, and surrounded by many old buildings. very rustic kind of feeling. of course i had my fair share of pastas and gelatos! how not to, especially gelatos since at every corner you see a cafe selling them. i climbed up 414 steps to reach the top of the cathedral, and from there, you get to see the entire florence. a magnificent view. like they say, no pain, no gain. and after that i made my way across this old bridge which has been there since world war one, and further on to a garden called "boboli gardens". all in all, it was a very good day trip up to florence. next up, i got manchester! my first time there, so looking forward that flight. see you guys soon!
This is going to take a while to read, sorry.
A friend of mine, let's call him Joe, went back to the states during the two week spring vacation to attend his younger sister's wedding. He came back this week telling me he was getting married.
Okay the crazy bit comes in now. He is getting married to a girl he dated once 4 years ago and 4years later coincidentally bumped into her at a restaurant while he was back in his hometown. And for the next one and a half week they were inseparable. At the end of the week and a half, they announced to their family and friends that they were getting married. She has already chosen a date and looked at bridal gowns.
My first words to him when i heard the news was "Shit, what the hell?! Are you serious? You went home for two weeks and you're getting married to a girl you just happened to run into?!"
So i know that any tom dick harry lucy jane mary can get married in six seconds in Vegas. If you were under the influence of alcohol, drugs or britney, i'd understand. i guess i wasn't expecting a friend who lives far away from Vegas to do the same in barely two weeks.
So i asked him how he knew this was it, that this is the girl for him and he gave the annoying answer movies give. He replied, "When it is it, you just know, you know?" (i don't know, that's why i'm asking. stooopid.) But as he was filling in the details of the week and a half about the girl he's going to marry, he was beaming. And you really can't nitpick at someone who is beaming like that. Neither can you get them to make sense. So i told him that i was happy for him. And i am. As insane as the entire story sounds to me, which friend doesn't want their friend to be happy, right?
Now, i know jen and i wont be able to pull off something like that. As jen says, she's too rational. And i agree. As much as i am a nutcase, i, too, cannot bring myself to skip the whole dating part and get married pronto. Aside from any weird and/or disgusting habits, fetishes or smells the person might have which might seriously gross me out, i need time to vouch for that person's character.
But that thought also set me thinking on a different thread: How much time is enough then to know someone? Someone might have spent years getting to know a person before deciding to marry and discover to their horror that the person they married is a living Jekyll and Hyde. As they say, marriage is more like a beginning rather than an end since it is a very long process. That said, it means that a couple has the rest of their lives to get to know each other till they both grow prune-like and wither. So are those who marry at lightning speed after the initial meeting any less rational than those who don't?
A friend of mine, let's call him Joe, went back to the states during the two week spring vacation to attend his younger sister's wedding. He came back this week telling me he was getting married.
Okay the crazy bit comes in now. He is getting married to a girl he dated once 4 years ago and 4years later coincidentally bumped into her at a restaurant while he was back in his hometown. And for the next one and a half week they were inseparable. At the end of the week and a half, they announced to their family and friends that they were getting married. She has already chosen a date and looked at bridal gowns.
My first words to him when i heard the news was "Shit, what the hell?! Are you serious? You went home for two weeks and you're getting married to a girl you just happened to run into?!"
So i know that any tom dick harry lucy jane mary can get married in six seconds in Vegas. If you were under the influence of alcohol, drugs or britney, i'd understand. i guess i wasn't expecting a friend who lives far away from Vegas to do the same in barely two weeks.
So i asked him how he knew this was it, that this is the girl for him and he gave the annoying answer movies give. He replied, "When it is it, you just know, you know?" (i don't know, that's why i'm asking. stooopid.) But as he was filling in the details of the week and a half about the girl he's going to marry, he was beaming. And you really can't nitpick at someone who is beaming like that. Neither can you get them to make sense. So i told him that i was happy for him. And i am. As insane as the entire story sounds to me, which friend doesn't want their friend to be happy, right?
Now, i know jen and i wont be able to pull off something like that. As jen says, she's too rational. And i agree. As much as i am a nutcase, i, too, cannot bring myself to skip the whole dating part and get married pronto. Aside from any weird and/or disgusting habits, fetishes or smells the person might have which might seriously gross me out, i need time to vouch for that person's character.
But that thought also set me thinking on a different thread: How much time is enough then to know someone? Someone might have spent years getting to know a person before deciding to marry and discover to their horror that the person they married is a living Jekyll and Hyde. As they say, marriage is more like a beginning rather than an end since it is a very long process. That said, it means that a couple has the rest of their lives to get to know each other till they both grow prune-like and wither. So are those who marry at lightning speed after the initial meeting any less rational than those who don't?
I love the Japanese, some crazy dude just bought all my ebay items, i think i made in one day more than i make in 2 weeks working
hows everyone comming along? seems like you guys have been busy doing nothing eh? haha.. i'm currently in the slumps in most areas... not to mention me falling real far behind in my work and studies for the upcomming mid semester exams... damn..
Anyway, here's what i'm bitching about.. For the first time in my tertiary education, i have failed to hand up my assignment in time. 5% off for each late day.. and this assignment is 40% of my marks. Why? I found out a freaking huge gaping hole in my entry of prices... let me sum it up...
i am book seller.. supposedly... and i'm doing my accounting entries with this computer programme...
I purchased items from my suppliers.. it's 13.20 a book, 100 books... so, total should be 13200 in total.. HOWEVER, your accountant friend tianli, keeps thinking of large numbers only, corrupted by the greed of finance has taught me... so, i wrote, EACH BOOK COSTS $13200... so, tt's like $1320000... yea man.. smart right? so, this is just 1 entry.. and i did 10 entries.. so i was wondering wtf-ing world was happening to my company? how come everything like -ve for me.. shit...
anyway.. tt explains why i've given up handing it on time and take that 5% penalty... better then handing something so wrong eh? i figured 5% off 85 marks is around 80... as opposed to getting a 60 for handing it in on time?
Anyway... Hope everyone's alrighty... i just bought a new watch.. yea.. bad habit.. it's an audemars piguet... damn basic model... nothing i wanted... but oh well... beggars can't be pickers...
i'll post it up online when i've done finished my damn assignment...
Oh yea, today's aust lotto is 20mil, and next sat's lotto is 19mil.. 2 huge draws comming up.. i guess if i'm in my usual self i'll screw it.. but considering i need funds to buy my 30million sydney harbour front home... hahaha... I will blatently SWEAR TO GOD that i won't even step into a casino or eat ABALONE PORRIDGE forever if i won the full 20mil or 19mil.. HAHA... mark my wordddsss.....
By the way... Alan Greenspan is such an idiot.. he's now trying to salvage his legacy.. but like all frauds... if your'e a dork, your'e always a dork! SHAME ON YOU!
Anyway, here's what i'm bitching about.. For the first time in my tertiary education, i have failed to hand up my assignment in time. 5% off for each late day.. and this assignment is 40% of my marks. Why? I found out a freaking huge gaping hole in my entry of prices... let me sum it up...
i am book seller.. supposedly... and i'm doing my accounting entries with this computer programme...
I purchased items from my suppliers.. it's 13.20 a book, 100 books... so, total should be 13200 in total.. HOWEVER, your accountant friend tianli, keeps thinking of large numbers only, corrupted by the greed of finance has taught me... so, i wrote, EACH BOOK COSTS $13200... so, tt's like $1320000... yea man.. smart right? so, this is just 1 entry.. and i did 10 entries.. so i was wondering wtf-ing world was happening to my company? how come everything like -ve for me.. shit...
anyway.. tt explains why i've given up handing it on time and take that 5% penalty... better then handing something so wrong eh? i figured 5% off 85 marks is around 80... as opposed to getting a 60 for handing it in on time?
Anyway... Hope everyone's alrighty... i just bought a new watch.. yea.. bad habit.. it's an audemars piguet... damn basic model... nothing i wanted... but oh well... beggars can't be pickers...
i'll post it up online when i've done finished my damn assignment...
Oh yea, today's aust lotto is 20mil, and next sat's lotto is 19mil.. 2 huge draws comming up.. i guess if i'm in my usual self i'll screw it.. but considering i need funds to buy my 30million sydney harbour front home... hahaha... I will blatently SWEAR TO GOD that i won't even step into a casino or eat ABALONE PORRIDGE forever if i won the full 20mil or 19mil.. HAHA... mark my wordddsss.....
By the way... Alan Greenspan is such an idiot.. he's now trying to salvage his legacy.. but like all frauds... if your'e a dork, your'e always a dork! SHAME ON YOU!