Today was a busy one at work - but it was well worth it! The weekend is here :)

Tonight didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would. After chilling with my bro and his friends for about two hours I hopped on the computer to see was online. I hadn't really seen Lindsay for about a month, so I decided to send her a messaege on ICQ. Right, so we chilled at my place until about 1:30am or so watching tv, talking - eating maccas. She died her hair a dark red colour, looks good!

That got me thinking... Since I will be getting my hair cut tomorrow, I might as well get it coloured as well. I think I will get some bleach and throw in some blonde streaks, or just blonde tips. I also think this will be the last time that I spike my hair - its time for a change :) I don't know what the new look will look like though :/

My online application for my personal loan didn't get approved. Which is why I am heading to the bank tomorrow to see if I can get another shot at that $5k. Speaking of money - I have been tossing the trip vs. car thing today, decided to talk to Linds about it. She just brought up points I already knew :/ It looks like I am going to have to make this decision on my own. If only I had the money for both :)

Daylight savings starts tomorrow - yipeeee! And its supposed to be around 8C on Monday, yaaaaay spring!

(and whats with the title you asked? Thats what Linds and I watched on TV :P~)

.... well sorta. Still have one more day of working to do. Today should go by fast. Have quite a few things at work to do. No plans this weekend (quel surprise), but still nice to have a weekend with money! I was thinking of going someplace to take some photos - might go with Gord. I also need to go down to Bryans place to pick up a Hard Drive and a SCSI Card. My new machine will then be complete. I was able to push my new CPU to 950Mhz last night - seems stable at that. Coupled with the new scsi drives that I will be getting, this machine should fly. Thats it for this box too - no more upgrade.

I didn't hear back from the bank yesterday - so lets hope I will today! I also did some preleminary shopping for my new machine. Doesn't look like its going to cost me too much, since I am using old hard drives from computer. The only problem is finding a 1U case that isn't $400USD. Hopefully be able to get it up and running in 2 weeks time.

The weather the past few days have been super shitty. Cold - it even snowed yesterday. This has been the worst spring so far. It's almost April and the temp hasn't reached any higher than 5C.

eeeeek work time.

Work is going good. Got my first pay cheque today plus I also got my tax return back as well! I am now debt free! That totally made my day!

For the past week or so, I have been thinking about which laptop to get. I have narrowed it down to the following: 1) Titanium Powerbook 2) Sony Vaio 3) Dell Inspiron 8000. All three have features that I want. I decided to go with the Powerbook because it contained the best of both worlds. The only slight thing that kinda worries me is that its a Macintosh. I always wanted one, and I think they are cool. I am just worried because well... I never really had to pay for software before. There really isn't that much pirated Mac software out there. I am pretty sure I will be happy with my purchase.

Nothing really else to report. Work is going good. Still yet to be challenged, but that should happen soon! I am a little worried about getting there after next week. My ride isn't going to be available anymore. So I will have to work something out with the parents.

It's amazing how immature people can act some times. I don't mean people who like are bouncy

and giggly, i'm cool with that. Some times people can't stand other people, or they hate

them for no reason. That's immaturity, not being able to get along because of a small

problem or situation.

When I first got back from Australia, I was looking for work. My brothers friend, Craig,

told me that the local movie theater was hiring. If I was hired, I would get free entrance

to movies - plus it was a fun atmosphere to work in. I never heard back from them.

Fastforward to yesterday. I was downstairs with my brother and his friends when Craig told

me Kinley (Kristens boyfriend, who also works at Silvercity) had "sabotaged my job

application". Don't ask me why he did that. The more that I think about it, the more I was

glad he did that. If I had gotten that job, I probably wouldn't have gotten the job I have

now - making three times as much. Yay for Kinley!

I am torn between Australia and Canada. On one hand, I have a nice job. On the other I have

friends and a life. I really wanted to buy a new car. Have the freedom to go where I want, when I want. Then again I have all my friends in Australia. This is going to be one of my toughest choices. One thing is for certain - I don't have to make it until this time next
year. I am definately going to save up at least twenty thousand dollers. Whether that goes towards the purchase of a new car, or my moving to Australia is yet to be decided. A lot of things can happen between now and then.

The Oscars are on TV. That was the first show I saw in Australia *sigh* I miss watching Neighbours and lauging at the retarded Channel 9 News guy. Oh man..

Well my first week at work has ended, and what a LONG week it was. The work is also starting to pile up :) Which is good, that way it will keep me busy. Nothing too exciting yet - but I am still learning the ropes. Will be nice to get my first pay cheque next thursday!

I was talking to my friend Kat on IRC last night. I only met her twice in real life when I was in Australia. Some of the things she says just reminds me of me so much :) I still can't beleive her dad was on the Samba team - that she used to use a Dvorak keyboard - and she can crimp her own cat5. I can only dream about that in my next girlfriend ;)

Nothing too much planned this weekend - it will be spent resting and playing Counter Strike. I will of course put up more of my journal archives online. If I feel like it I might also put a search facility in there as well. Doing some laundry - much needed laundry. That's about it! Nothing too exciting. I will also probably finish up the infiniteloop.ca website this weekend too, along with tidying up some billing stuff. I don't think I will be putting up a video journal entry this week, I think I am going to stop even doing one. Problem is I dont have that much time anymore - now since I am working!

About half of the snow has melted - finally! Apparantly this was the worst year for snow cover in recorded history. Something like 140 days, where the average was only 40. Its been over 5 degrees for the past week. The days are longer too!
Don't really have much to say. I was mentioned in Sue's journal w00t - http://www.suey.net/journal/march01/19.html

I think a new travel website is in order.

When I was younger - I always used to wish I could be in someone elses body. Not be able to control them, but just watch and observe from the inside what they do. I would do this by looking at them, while I was at school - walking down the street. My body would keep on doing what it was doing. It was almost like I was linking the other persons eyes and ears into my brain. I still did my thing, they still did theirs. After a few years, I never really desired to do anything like that - I was reminded about this fantasy tonight.

I decided to rent a movie - there really isn't anything on Tuesday nights. I was going to rent "Boiler Room", which I have already seen - when something else caught my mind. "Being John Malkovitch" was sitting on the shelf right above "Boiler Room", I grabbed it - headed home and popped it in the VCR.

Fucking weird movie, no doubt about that. I can relate to it though. Although I never wanted to be John Malkovitch, nor did I ever want to control him (or anyone else). I think thats why I find people with webcams (I really hate that word) so interesting. They are letting me to see apart of their lives. Granted, not through their eyes and ears - but its the closest thing I will be able to get to being inside them.

My sleeping patterns are all fucked up. I am finally pretty good at Counter Strike, and I have been playing it hours on end. Last night I didn't get to sleep until 4:30am. I showed my brother the game the other day, and he loved it! So Duraid is going to send me a copy of half life, so that I can install it on the other computer so he can play. Will be kinda cool if we are on the same team together - knowing him, he would want to be 100% terrorist.

I officially start work tomorrow, but I already went in on Friday to spend the day - get things organised. I also got some office supplies, pens, paper trays, and a wrist rest for my keyboard. I am also going to bring in my head phones plus another keyboard. I am also trying to look for a copy of wwwinamp, which allows you to control winamp via the web. That way I can set up a shoutcast server, and stream my mp3s to my machine at work without having to download them all. Trouble is, I can't seem to find it - I was using it about 4 years ago.




I spent most of yesterday looking at cars. I am really keen on getting a VW, either a Golf or New Beetle. I am probably going to end up getting the Golf, because it has almost all the same features, but is about three thousand dollers less. I'm still not sure if I want new or used, but I think I will go with used. A nice barely used 1999 or 2000 VW Golf will be significantly cheaper. I also spent yesterday looking at getting a DV Camcorder. I am leaning towards a Sony DCR-TRV6, if not that then a Canon ZR-10. It would be nice if I could get my hands on a new (or even used) Canon Optura, or Optura PI. Ideally I would LOVE to have a Canon XL1 - but that is just WAY out of my league. I emailed Mark about it, see if he has any suggestions as to which kind I should get. First I have to pay off my debt :)

I have been tossing this travel vs. carrer thing in my head all week. I still don't know what I want to do. If I do end up getting a car, I will be locked in to working for at least three years. It will be nice to have my own place, and a car - the freedom to do anything, go anywhere. Thats how it was like in Sydney, sure I didn't have a car - but the public transit r0cked! On the other hand I still want to see the rest of the world. So like I work at Click for a year, then go off travelling for another year or so. I come home, and then what? I dont have my own place, still living with my paretns - no job either. I figured I would finish all my travelling when I am 25, to me - thats not a long amount of time (4 years).

I always wanted to live in Australia once my travelling was done - not still sure if I am going to do that or not. I can't really say much - a lot can change between now and '06.

The days are getting longer and longer :) It doesn't usually start to get dark until around 6:30pm now. It's been nice to have a full year of summer (not so nice with the full year of winter), so I am looking forward to when it starts getting warmer.

It's going to be really nice to get out of this place and working. Give me three weeks and I will be wishing I was back at home again :)

Gord and I, along with Sal and his Wife went to see 3000 Miles To Graceland last night. Only after having some drinks at Jack Astor's. I thought the movie was pretty good.

I woke up this afternoon (yeah, 12:01pm meh!) to an e-mail from Amy Barton! I haven't talked to her in like YEARS. So it was nice to hear from her again. Lets just hope she replies back! :)

I heard back from work yesterday - turns out that I will officially start work on Monday. I do, however, need to come in to sign some papers and all that goodness. I am going to pop in on Friday, I want to spend the whole day there just to get the feel for the place and meet the people I am going to work with.

Most of today will be spent playing video games :) I am also going to start on next weeks Video Journal as well.

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeh! I am getting sick, I can feel it. Whenever I get the flu, I usually have this wiggy taste in my mouth. It's sort of a sweet, yet really annoying taste - hard to explain. I really hope it passes quickly, because I start my new job early next week and I want to be in tip top shape.

I started watching U8TV (www.u8tv.com) and for some reason, I can't stop. I think its because they are so close to home - Toronto. Six people, living in a loft together, their lives broadcasted on the internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The cool thing is that they also do shows - which are put on air on real life television. This is something I have always wanted to do, which is probably why I like watching it so much. Who knows - I will probably slowly stop watching it.

You might have noticed that there is a new Video Journal on the front page. I decided that every week I would put a new video online for people to watch. I figure it would be a nice way to sum up what I am thinking or what I did that week. I am going to try to make it a little more "topic orientated" than the text version. Should be a big hit - I already got some comments from this weeks episode!

I miss living in the city. I miss the freedom if just going out at one in the morning, and hitting a McDonalds or going someplace. In Aurora, everything is so far apart - plus when you finally do get to the "downtown" there is nothing there. Suburbs really do suck. I might even move to Toronto instead of buying a car, or going traveling. Someplace along Queen St. would rock my socks. Heck, woudln't that be funny, making the commute OUT of the city to get to work each day.. nice! In fact, that would probably be easier, take the subway to Union - then the GO Train to King City.

I hope I don't puke tonight or tomorrow.

Meh! that seems to be my new word, infact it was mentioned on The Simpsons a few episodes back. I have been using it for almost a month before it was on that episode and I guarantee you that people are going to start using it - MEH! I'm going insane - the boredom is driving me nuts. It's almost like I am tweleve again and I am grounded for something that I did. I have no money, my friends don't call me (except Gord), I havn't really gone anywhere. Not to mention the stress from the past few days havn't put me in the best of moods.

I got a call today from Click Media, turns out I wont be starting work until Monday. Some bullshit with Human Resources Canada. Nontheless, I am still looking forward to work, even if it does start in 5 days :/

My brother seems to think our house is a hotel. He didn't go to school today, instead he went to work. I woke up this morning with the sound of Craig looking for me. I was like "what the fuck are you doing here". People just go in and out of this house, don't lock the doors. Craig even invited Collin over. I am sick and tired of being his secretary. Answer the door, his phone calls. Normally I wouldn't answer the calls at all - but I was expecting one from Click Media. I almost told Craig to fucking get out of my house. I am still pissed at my brother.

Meh!

Most of you probably know about my job interviews I have had lately. I don't want to go into large detail about them - but the last few days have been pretty stressfull. A lot of time was spent thinking about both job opportunities, weighing the pros and cons of each. I decided on Click Media - probably start working on Monday! It will be nice to get out of the house and get back into a routine - not to mention some cash flow.

Yesterday Gord and I headed down to the city - it was pretty good. We got some ideas for a website that we wanted to do.... don't want to give it away. Those of you who watch Speakers Corner will know that what we want to do will be a lot like "The Devils Advocates". He also has a new website up (gord), kindly hosted by Infiniteloop :) Take a peek at http://gordwall.infiniteloop.ca.

My best friend in Australia got ADSL a few days ago. Which is good, now we can start doing stuff at high speed. Video conferencing, mp3 trading. We have also set it up so that backups of our system is stored off site on eachothers boxes. Melanie, someone else in Australia was missing me yesterday. Everyone is wondering when I will be back. I really want to see the rest of the world before I settle in Australia. I however also want to further my career as well. These two things do NOT mix. Employers don't like to see you working for short periods of time at a lot of jobs. Thats what happens when you take a few months off to see the world, then have to come back and find a new job. I am probably going to postpone my trip to Europe to the spring time, rather than this fall. That way I will be able to save up more money, and either stay in Europe longer or also head to South America. I will have to see how it goes with the job/career situation first.

Have plans this weekend to go clothes shopping. Get some new shoes and some outfits for work. Nothing "suit like", nice dockers and some shirts. Possibly a nice pair of dress shoes. Then (hopefully) its work on Monday!

Yup, starting monday Toronto is going to be on it's best behavour while the IOC people are here to tour around the city for the Olympic Bid. The city of Toronto has been cleaning, and shoving all the dirt under the carpet. What doesn't get me, is why dont they do this EVERY night? When I was in Sydney, the cleaners were out there everynight (keeping me awake) washing the roads and cleaning up the trash. No wonder they are considered to be the cleanest city in the world. I think the Olympics would be great for this city! They just have to make sure its executed as flawlessly as it was in Sydney.

This weekend is going to be slow. Lindsay wanted me to pop over and take some pictures for her new website - I will probably do that later today. She's at an interview with Old Navy, so hopefully everything goes good with that!

I still havn't talked to kristen in a long time. She msg'd me on ICQ yesterday, but I couldn't talk because I had to head out. Hopefully we will get intouch sometime this weekend. Also happening this weekend: Mark and Damon are coming home from Florida - so I will have to hear how it went when they were there :) I am glad I didn't go for two reasons, one - I would be four hundreded dollers further in debt. Secondly, I would never have gotten the two job interviews that I have :) I also feel bad for not going, because I havn't seen Damon in like two years!

I talked to Katrina on IRC today. I met her twice when I was in Aus. She's a pretty cool chix0r. I am starting to miss Australia more and more now :/ They all want me to come back. In due time :)

I need your help! I need some new tracks for my ears to munch on. I am already sick of the Chicane, and Mandalay that I have - I need some new beats. If you have any nice DJs you like listening to, give me a shout! (and Andrew, no - don't say Love Inc.)

Only a month until the next Hullaballoo Party !

I have a job interview with potential new workplace on Friday! It turns out that the Web Developer wasn't what I expected and my interest has been piqued. I don't want to say much about who the company is, or what I exactly will be doing there - but I am definately looking forward to the interview on Friday.

It's going to be another short one :)

I am almost done the Infiniteloop website - so that will be nice once its up and running. I also got invited to a focus group thingy, were they do studys on me and ask me questions. Its in brampton, so I don't know if I am actually going to go - they will feed me and give me $50 at the end, so meh!

*plops his head back into FreeBSD goodness*