displacedpixil

Maybe I was wrong about the previous post

displacedpixil — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:10:33 +0000

I don't think I actually want to have the life that they have, cause I found out afterwards on The Hills. Lauren actually ditches all her childhood friends for new friends and doesn't talk to the other people anymore... So maybe i'm better off... Oh well such is life

Ok finally a random post of sorts

displacedpixil — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:51:13 +0000

Well I went to the Sounds Music and DVD sale. I got Laguna Beach the first season. I've been watching it for the past couple days I'm beginning to feel as though I have missed a lot of my life especially in high school. I should have made an effort to actually spend time making friends. But it seems as though sometimes I don't think I could have done much better than I did. Although in saying that I have found that a lot of my friends who were in high school with me are actually still my friends. Well at the time I didn't actually realise that they would be my life long friends. But now that I think about it high school friends do last forever. Well maybe not forever but close... I miss not being in high school but I don't think I ever missed it when I was actually there. I guess it's like that with everything you usually hate the things you love the most. Becuase of the fear of what it will do to you if you let them into your heart.

New Years Resolutions

displacedpixil — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:58:55 +0000

I really do need to get my act together and start writing in this blog. It's been neglected over the past half year cause I thought there was nothing in my life and other people could be interested about. But in fact I think it's probably a perfect place to start it's like a personal psychologist. Maybe I shouldn't think of it like that too much or else all of you will think i'm completely nuts not that I ain't.

But anyway tomorrows post from work is going to be something to look forward to I think... We'll see. Well hope all of you who actually read this blog are well and happy

Laterz

Oh my god oh my god

displacedpixil — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:45:00 +0000

Oh my god i have not posted in so long but oh well, i'll post something more about myself and my very entertaining life soon

Melbourne - 30 June 2006

displacedpixil — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:38:00 +0000

Original Map of the Melbourne Train System

All the Lines indicate the train routes I have taken, and the circles are where i've gotten off and had a look around

So, I got up this morning right, after doing all my usual stuff I went out to get myself a travel pass for the day from southern cross station where just the previous day they accepted visa as a form of payment for the $9.70 daily pass. But today no they won't accept it, it's just completely insane how they won't accept credit cards for anything under $10 even if its like only 30 cents off. I'm just complaining cause it's an extreme inconvenience when you're a traveller and all you have is a visa card. In fact I think, this is purely my opinion travellers and cities and countries that rely on cash as a form of transaction, encourages petty crime because opportunistic thieves look for visitors as a target. But anyway after my debacle with the transport sales officers about this problem with their way of doing things, I found a 7-11(oh the savior of my day yet again) which would sell me a met-card. I went to Epping an outlying suburban town about an hour away from the city centre it's quite nice. But anyway here are some photos to keep you entertained, they are photos of the train stations i've been to or stations i've stopped at.

Back posting (U've Been Warned)

displacedpixil — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:09:00 +0000

So you've been warned the next 10 or so blog entries are back postings, they should have been uploaded before I got home to New Zealand. But I was unable to find an internet connection so that I could post it that's all.. But in saying that the entires should make cool reading, well i'd hope so anyway

INTERNET CONNECTION YEAH!!!!!

displacedpixil — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:43:00 +0000

So Here is more or less the first post I have since i've been here in melbourne apart from the first day that i had internet, well to be fair I did have internet for around 3 minutes each time at the shopping mall Melbourne Central. I'm actually in a magazine/book store/coffee house thing called Mag Nation right now where there's wireless internet. Well things have been so fun, I've rode on almost every train line since i've been here. There are so many cool places to go it's just insane i haven't been to any tourist places yet but I'm sure if you know i'm not very touristy anyway. I went shopping with a french girl one day which was really cool. Found a place which had chocolate fountains one white and one dark. Then I spent around 2 hours talking to another girl at the backpackers she was from the States but she's really cool.. Finding being on my own in a foreign city kinda interesting and fun but sometimes a little sad. Like the other day when I went to have dinner at a chinese place in Box Hill the people looked at me funny cause I was eating on my own. Well it's not my fault now was it that I wanted to travel. Aside from that I've tried to find the slum of melbourne, there isn't such a thing although there's alot of random angry people on the street whom complain cause i was taking photos but then again that happens in Auckland as well. Apart from that everything here is so much bigger than back home. Prices as well which is a little annoying but what you supposed to do. I'll post some photos later right now i need to get a bed...

Arrived in Melbourne Finally

displacedpixil — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:12:00 +0000

Lots of photos be patient

Well the flight or there lack of was very entertaining indeed had a flight attendent whom was quite hot, but i never managed to get a photo with her how stupid of me. But in saying that I did have 3 mini sized bottles of wine and that was quite interesting. I like that, watching 1 and a bit movies the first of which is No. 2 a new zealand film, very nice actually i enjoyed it alot but the second one i couldn't finish because we had to land and that was Match Point. Oh that's not really the point of this post or is it. Well I got to Melbourne Airport at around 10:30am Melbourne time, tired as hell because i couldn't control my nerves and get to sleep last night. Anyway after customs I went out to the information desk asking the lady where to catch the bus to melbourne city all she said was over on the curb. Oh come on no one told me it was like a mile down at the domestic terminal. But anyway not about to complain about things that have no relvance to me actually enjoying my time. So I got to the city at a train station called Southern Cross Station, i swear some of this stuff sounds like they ripped it off the british. I mean sure we got britomart but come on Southern Cross Station, or am i just thinking bullshit I don't know anymore I'm so tired. But anyway I couldn't believe how much the people wanted me to pay to use a locker for 24 hours AU$7 for 24 hours of a locker come on that's a total rip off. But you know I had to spend it cause I wanted to walk around town without carrying the luggage around. So got that sorted, then proceeded to go buy a metcard (fancy name for a bus, tram, train card) well when i put it like that it is fancy. But anyway man was very helpful at the ticket counter. Then walking to the side of the road to cross random car stops in the middle of the intercetcion and just stays there and then starts moving when all the lights are red. I was like what, but then I remembered that's right the weird "HOOK" turn thing. Long story short I was totally confused. If that wasn't enough i was even more confused as to where I was. Luckly there are people around every where to ask for directions I ended up on Elizabeth street in the middle of melbourne city, went to get lunch and got told off for taking photos inside a building cause they're worried i'm about to map it out and bomb it. Then went to a discount store that sold electronic equipment and for the first time got inspected on my way out. My god just my luck ain't it, but after that I started meeting really cool australian people the first of which is a girl named Julia (Me and Julia's) she was nice and we started to talk she studys at Melbourne University and so forth and so on. Anyway the conversation was never going to go anywhere but the fact that I was able to start a conversation was enough. Oh yeah did I mention the abudance of women in melbourne man I don't think I've seen so many women in my entire life. I swear this city has more girls than the entire of new zealand put together and they ain't bad either looking wise i mean. After this I started getting really tired so I started heading home the train was fun it's got bits that are underground with like 3 stations that are underground and the rest above it reminds me of germany. Tomorrow I'm going to head to a place called melbourne central it's supposed to be real cool I think maybe, we'll see.

So this is Southern Cross Station in all it's glory

The tallest business building in the southern hemisphere apparantly, The Rialto Towers

Discount chain I think maybe I went to do some minor shopping there for deordent and a packet of allens lollies

Melbourne busking, it's like a nz idol competition to this girl, she wasn't bad though, if only i had change oh wait NZ dollars would do

Melbourne Graffiti

Melbourne Art, what were they thinking... Umm maybe they're all crazy here, that could be quite cool

Leaving on a jet plane, Don't know when I'll be back again

displacedpixil — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:48:00 +0000

It's the day of the end and the beginning of another adventure, but this time on my own around Australia, the land of the great unknowns. I couldn't sleep for most of the night hence why i'm posting something in the wee hours of the morning just if you're wondering it is actually 4:30am, my flight leaves at 8:30 and I have to be at the airport by 5:30 - 6:00. The problem is I didn't get much sleep the night before either cause I was studying for exams but you know oh well. Life goes on I guess, I can't wait to be on the plane and start drinking, that's going to be an interesting trip I tell ya. Oh yeah just as a note of mention if people who read this find that I'm not posting anything for like 2 weeks that's not normal and you should phone the police and report me as being missing well that is if you want to but otherwise you'll probably find that I will post multiple days at a time and there'll be heaps of photos being added as I find interesting things around. Well here are some of the things I want to find and do. Find a true Aboriginal, have something traditional cooked by them. Try not to be bitten or eaten by any strange creatures they have over there, I've been warned apparently. Find Chinatown and see if it's anything like they say it is in comparisons to Los Angeles. Go to a university lecture or at least a campus and have a drink at the local bar. Walk through a supermarket on the first day. Use 20 cent coins to buy a drink which isn't the right currency. Oh the crap I get up to. This should be fun and hopefully I won't get arrested for breaking the law, if I do please bail me out :-p.

Auckland Power Cut

displacedpixil — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:45:00 +0000

So on Tuesday I think everything went to hell here in Auckland, the power got cut to most of Auckland from about 8.30am till about 8pm. That's insane when you think about it in the biggest city in New Zealand, which is considered one of the major cities around the world. The "POWER" the power for christ's sakes was out for an entire day. That's just insane, university exams were cancelled mid way through, banks closed, hospitals reduced to minimal services, airports closed, even traffic lights went out for the entire day. If it was anywhere else in the world for example Los Angeles you'd have chaos well there was chaos here but I expected people to go and loot at least, but we're civil and nice we didn't do any of that. I ended up going into work early to see what the damage was, we blew up the telephone system so we couldn't make any outgoing calls and the incoming was screwed for the better part of the day. As for my father's work well, it blew up the computer there as well costing us around $50 to fix it. I think I should bill the power company that screwed things up for the entire city. I wonder how far I'd get I bet you they'd probably go well it's not our problem you didn't get a generator. I did take some photos of the incident, it reminds me of the times in 1998 when the city went out of power for nearly 2 weeks. My god, we do belong in the middle ages, well everyone does think we're from middle earth so I guess we're proving them right. There's another view on the situation if not relevant but still very funny to read...

What's my startling realisation today

displacedpixil — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:31:00 +0000

Ok... So its that time of the day again... What’s my startling realisation today... Oh yeah I’ve got more than just one today. Well first things first, I got my hair cut today at Just Cuts for those of you who don’t know its a budget hair saloon whom thinks $21 is cheap. Anyway I walk in a ask for a ask cut right, she asks how i’d like it done, so being me i assume that she was competent ask for it to be done in spikes and with an uneven cut. She turns around and asks me all sorts of questions which i have no idea how to answer. Sometimes I realise why i’m willing to spend $50 for a haircut at a place where the people actually know what they’re doing. Well long story short she couldn’t get it right and now the back of my hair is way longer than the front. But who’d know if I didn’t tell them. Thank God for who ever invented hair gel. Next time i’ll be sure to spend the extra $5 and go to like a decent place. Moving right along before my brain explodes with rage, we have a new addition to our family, we have no idea what kinda fish it is or if it is indeed a she is but lets assume its a she, me and mom saw her in a pet store and brought her home to add to our other two fish, she’s so cute with big black eyes... Very energetic and very expensive too $12 for a fish... But very cute i have to say well worth it. I forgot what the third thing was so I think i’ll talk about it tomorrow... But yeah its been an interesting day...

Still Not Online Yet

displacedpixil — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:32:00 +0000

This is insane it’s still not online, online yet. This thing has still not been like half completed and put on the internet yet. It’s in pieces, there’s no links to it. There’s not even an indication that it exists on the internet yet. Oh and the other thing I totally don’t think that you people who read this will be able to comment on it what so ever as there is not support for commenting on the stupid server that it’s sitting on as there is no PHP and MySql support on it. I gotta move it at some point to a better server aye. But apart from that everything is good. I’m relaxing today and going to an exam tomorrow.

Breast Cancer Awareness

displacedpixil — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:41:00 +0000

So today after I finished my stupid Hong Kong Cinema Exam after only 1 hour, I couldn’t stand it any further. It was a waste of time and plus it was just annoying I left and went to Newmarket... I’ve been planning to do this for a very long time, to get myself a Breast Cancer Research Foundation T-Shirt you know the ones at Glassons, well if you don’t know there’s a picture of one above. You maybe asking why would a guy want to buy a girls t-shirt in a girls store, well it began kinda like this. I realised awhile ago that I love titties, boobs, breasts anything you want to call that part of the female anatomy. Well if I love that part of the body so much why would I not want to help women who have had the most suffering in getting cancer and having to lose that part of their beautiful body. I mean it’s not really their fault that they have to suffer. So I thought to myself it’s a good cause that they’re doing research into the cure and prevention of breast cancer. I should help them out, even if its because i love boobies. I wouldn’t want to be the one suffering from it and know that no one was out there looking for a cure to fix it. There was also one other reason that’s because I know a lot of guys out there couldn’t give a rats arse about breast cancer because they think it doesn’t happen to men so why should i bother. Well I say to those of you who believe that. Imagine if your girlfriend or partner or someone you love dearly had breast cancer how would you feel, would you think I’m so stupid then. For a fact men do suffer from this disease as well in america about 1200 cases are diagnosed each year. Compared to the 200,000 cases in women in america alone that’s a lot of people who are suffering. So... For those males who have the nerve to say that I’m stupid and gay for what I’m doing, think of it as your girlfriend is diagnosed with breast cancer would you still look at her the same way or love her as much, the likely-hood is you would change your mind to some degree. I know I would look at her in a different light and love her differently to a certain degree, to be perfectly honest but that’s the reason why I want to support the need for research into this disease to stop it once and for all. Below is a link that will take you to a page with the photos that illustrate my point and shows me wearing it. Link to Photos

20/20 sex addict and psychology

displacedpixil — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:34:00 +0000

I really should sort out this blog thing and use blogger cause this doesn’t work all that well at the moment. Anyways I don’t mean to ramble. I was watching TV before and on 20/20 they were interviewing some guy who has been a sex addict and sending him to an institution and psychologist and all that, upon seeing that I realized that what I’ve been learning at university about Psychology can actually be used in the same way. The models of behavior, reinforcement schedules, choice behavior, etc. The psychologist used things approaches like forfeiting $50 if he lies about anything to the republican party. Self punishment about inappropriate sexual thoughts by slapping himself, which is what we call the negative reinforcement. Over a period of time, the behavior will become extinguished through negative reinforcement. In the lab if we wanted a pigeon only to peck on the right key instead of the left, we would give no reward on the left key, that is to say that if the bird pecks on the left key they would not get food since food is a reinforcement for them. If enough trials are carried out we would find that the bird does not peck the left key at all as it does not bring the bird reward.
Well anyway I’m getting boring I know but I just wanted to make a point that I’ve just come to realize that what we are learning in class is actually applicable in the real world. Pavlov and his dogs, that reminds me would i still salivate if someone said Pavlov to me, because of the experiment we did. Umm.......

New beginning to an old end

displacedpixil — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:28:00 +0000

OK, so I caved, I sold out I couldn’t be arsed to go make my own blogger right now. I’ve got exams in less than a week. I’ve been stuck inside a darkened room watching movies all day. Damn Hong Kong cinema, mind you the movies we are watching are quite funny some of them. But I’m still not too sure about the whole idea of it. Well apart from Hong Kong Cinema I got another 3 to go, Abnormal Psychology, Learn and Behavior and Media Analysis. That should be fun the last one I mean. Then after that I’m going to Australia. Oh yeah that was another reason why I can’t get my own blog set up cause I need this up and running before I go. First Stop Melbourne then Sydney