It's another season

Of Big Brother, that is. I still would watch re-runs of the simpsons though... on my newly purchased 32" LCD TV. It's got a little bit of scratch on it, plus a red pixel, but no drama, it's still very nice to watch, obviously. The 21" CRT TV goes into the kitchen, and the other 21" gets thrown into the rubbish of time. So far I've watched about 5 hours worth of TV on that, and my mum even more so. I've also bought a SDTV set top box, and it should arrive this or next week, and well, I can't wait. Also on other news, it's like 3 weeks I've lost 3 days of pay... *sigh*. But I will make up for 1.5 or even 2 days on Saturday, cos it's end of month... yay :P Too many holidays means I get bored... but I do some papercraft and it's time consuming.

Both my brothers have left Sydney. For this week at least. The one which got married went to the US for a week, for a conference, leaving his wife behind. The other one's gone down to Melbourne to shoot arrows at targets all week, taking his gf along with him, because she also can shoot arrows into targets. Meanwhile I'm busting my ass shifting and moving and wrapping and driving forklift and whatnots, while my supervisor and other colleage takes a holiay, then tomorrow is Anzac day, then we'll all be back on Wed for a big rush towards EOM. Fun fun fun fun fun. :P

So thats how it is...

Well, after Easter Friday, people tend to go shopping. I went to shop for a pair of shoes, because my current pair has seen better days. So I asked if any other family member wanted to come along, and my dad said sure, why not. My mum didn't wanna go, but asked my dad to buy a list of stuff, and well, my bro had his gf over so he doesn't wanna budge. So, I drove to Bankstown, and then spent a good 30 mins circling the carparks trying to find a spot... eventually finding one. We went to "Payless Shoes", and found that it was pretty expensive, around $50 a pair. Then we went to a "Sportsco" and found out the shoes were around $30 a pair, for the cheapest. So lastly we went to check K-Mart, there wasn't much variety, but for $19, it was cheap. Also having a 15% storewide sale helped, which means it was $17. Yay :P Then we got out of there, there was a lot of people shopping today, we parked in a 1 hour zone, so we left 30 mins later. We then drove across to the other area, and bought some incense, meat, tofu, fruit and rice vermicilli. Then headed home. Pretty uneventful, I will have to add more petrol, but with the price being jacked up to $1.30/L, it's not easy to say "let me add some petrol". I watched a movie called "Hoodwinked", a computer animated story about Little Red Riding Hood. Funny and silly at the same time, it provided a time wasting opportunity for an hour and several minutes. Dinner was the rice vermicilli, and my bro baked a cake. Carrot cake. Anyways, I think there's something wrong with the person I've been chatting for a while... They normally talk to me as a normal person, but today... very rude and then finally told me to piss off... So that's probably it then... I don't think I will talk with them unless I have to, because well, I don't think I've done anything wrong and I certainly don't deserve that kind of rudeness.

contact

so... I was talking about applying for a job that's similiar to mine, and well, I got called in for an interview. Wednesday, and in the morning. I figure it's better to be in the morning since people are still working, and I rather that than to subject my colleagues to stay behind and load up the trucks, like what I do. We did 34 pallets of tvs, 400 tvs... took a big truck (and a trailer, called a "B-Double") to load it up, and well, we did, and we had to scan them all as well. It's always an effort, but it's required. Hopefully I don't need to do that in my new job, but it might be necessary. On other news, the person who crashed their car getting out of the carpark, they have to carpool with somebody else, till they get another car to drive. They are rich, so they should be able to afford it. Me, I have my heap of junk which might actually die without crashing, I feel that it's starting to lose a cylinder... loss of power and all that... rather shite car!! If I do get the new job, then I will definately consider getting another car. Definately.

Weekend

So... it's the weekend again. Nothing much to report, except that work's the same, and somebody crashed their car going out of work's carpark. They were in the wrong too. Easter show's started, and well, getting into work takes a while because of people trying to get to the show, at the same time. So I was late on Friday... also somebody saw a job online, and then asked why I wouldn't go for it. I checked it out, and well, it looks just like my ex-job. Or current job, if my colleague was away. Its also with another tech company, also in Homebush. So yeah... I might apply for it and see if I can get it. If not, then it's back to the daily grind... :P

Update

With time back on my side, it's time for an update.

Daylight savings ended. Now we've "gained" one hour of sleep. Clock has been wound back one hour.

Weather has suddenly gone cold. It happened on Saturday early morning, brrrr. Friday was really warm and all. But now, it feels like autumn. So now I think I'll be wearing long pants now.

Bro got married a week ago. He's a married man now. Don't think that really bothers me though, I'm still single and nothing's changing. Haven't really gotten pics of it either, because they are on the other bro's computer, and in RAW format. about 3 gigs worth. I don't have that space free on my two drives. Considering getting a 300 g drive very soon.

I ordered and got an Ipaq H5550 for $200. No Cradle. So I got a cradle for it. It works, and I've been playing with it for a while. To some, it's a tool, but for me, who doesn't have a handheld, it's a games machine. I could buy a Nintendo DS which has a touch screen, but the games would cost a bit. Also I was "offered" a PSP for the princely sum of $350. It includes some videos and a 1 gb memorystick. Tempting, but I don't think I will get one yet. I had an invite for an XBOX360 Guiness World Record thingy, but I didn't wanna go to that either, it costs $20. But apparently u get $150 worth of gear when you do go (after paying, of course). Still... I'm not a Microsoft fanboy. Maybe when Sony or Nintendo does a launch I might consider...

Today was a weird day. 3 people messaged me on MSN. AT THE SAME TIME, asking different things. I haven't talked to them for a while, and well, one was to say hi, and told me she spoke with a friend she didn't talk to for 4 years. They had an argument 4 years ago and suddenly they are gonna make up... Good for them. The other guy, he was asking me about what LCD screen I got, I had an 19" ever since I upgraded my comp and well, he was asking about refresh rates and stuff. Weird. The third one asked me about a girl that we used to chat to on irc's surburb. The fact I know this was that I used to live a few streets away from her (almost a km away though...) and thats why he asked me, because he knew we were in the same surburb. I actually also used to live a few streets away from her too, on the opposite side (think of a straight line) but that was because we moved from a small house to a big house, in the same surburb. The small house was probably 500 meters away from her, while the big house was a km away. But I never met her, and I don't think I will. All three who msned me are brisbanites. First one was there, but lived in melb a few years, then moved back. Second one, he lived there till a few years ago and then went off to shanghai. Third is still there. Stuck there till he decides to leave the place. Which is probably never.

The friend I chat to who isn't in Australia, she's off to TW for 3 weeks. Hope she has fun there, she probably will, but sometimes when I chat with her, she doesn't sound happy at all... thinks too much. She probably wouldn't know what's going on till her sis gets married, then something something. Because I wouldn't know what would happen, but it's still fun to chat with her.

I got a haircut today, I asked my mum to cut it short, and she thinks that 10cm is short... Next time I wouldn't save the money, I'll go to a barbers and then they can decide on a style. I think I have the same hairstyle for the past 20 years, that's for sure. (Except the years I lived by "myself" (with cousin's family) and in college. I got my uncle to cut my hair then...)

Work... same as usual. One ex-colleague, he worked with us for about a week in the warehouse, asked me on MSN if I was interested in doing call centre work at his company. Now, I could've gone into our callcentre, except I don't want to, because I don't like to hear people complain all the time. So why would I leave this job for that job, where I don't know anybody else there, and have to listen to people complain? I think if I'm ready for a change, I will go, but not yet... by the end of this year probably. I do need a holiday of sorts...