LIFE THIS LIFE THAT!

DONE.

2009-12-12T20:57:00.005+11:00

500000 words worth of essays

389 hours doing research

264 highlighters fucking dying on me

140 interesting/boring lectures

130 awkward tutes

36 skipped lectures

30 skipped tutes

20 text books

17 theorists with kewl moustaches learned about

10 notebooks

10 destroyed notebooks

10 units to pass

10 units passed

4 lectures/tutors that were actually good people

3 years

2 years it took me to realise i could scam free parking

2 marks above 80%

0 uni friends made

Bachelor of Legal Studies DONE.

I might not even use this degree to find a relevent career or whatever but I don't regret for a second doing university for a second. Uni helped me learn so much cool shit, erase my ignorant attitudes and open my mind.

EXACTLY why facebook is killing myspace.

2009-11-25T20:17:00.005+11:00

Firstly, maybe the best thing about myspace was lurking. Lurking was KEY to myspace's good times.

Although the option was already there (I think) people weren't really into making their profiles private. Making your profile private became popular a few years ago.

This fucked up the the BEST thing about myspace: LURKING.

Yes lurking is creepy and whatever but everyone that used myspace loved that shit.

Making your profile private just reflects our paranoid and hyper-individualistic society. Maybe the whole terrorist thing, abundance of internet stalkers and continuous fear in the media perpetuated this. Loose theory though.

Enter facebook with it's new focus of networking. Interest in facebook traps you into being social. Everything that sorta involves you like photos, comments, photos/statuses/comments you've commented on you get alerted about. Even of profiles a private if you are somehow involved/tagged/whatever you can......wait for it.......rhymes with kirk (softdrinks)............LURK.

LURK.

Facebooks statuses even mean you can LURK people thoughts. How fucked up is that? Awesome though true? This is why twitter (follow me twitter.com/patdac) is winning too.

We live in a technological age and private vs public has become a concern on our online lives.

Facebook has found away around this.

Myspace fucked up.

/rant.

got some doc pep that i'm gonna smash soon. at first i hated this shit but now i love it. how kool is that yeah?

you just LURKED my thoughts.

LURK my latest set up too.

Hopedogs roadtrip steady giggin.

2009-11-23T22:29:00.003+11:00

First photo.

Floating sleepy head.

Piss stop.

I really appreciated that my friends were practically giving me a free holiday as i didn't have to chip in for petrol, pay for any of the shows or anything like that. So I didn't want to just leech off the good times so I tried to help out as much as possible. Merch was the main thing I helped with.

Bondi.

Master gambler.

Late night Sydney tattoo session.

Lol.

"It's interesting that on tour it doesn't really matter what day it is. It's all about when the next show is."

"Yeah man steady giggin'".

Hopeless.

Our first friend in Byron Bay. He was talking shit and we played a game where we'd pass him off to the next guy to talk to. I discussed with him the plausibility making frisbees float more if there was some sort of in-built helium container. He was keen but an idiot. Brett's turn to perish in this photo.

Cheeky Monkeys, Byron Bay.

We made Brett jump up on stage for a game. Didn't know he'd end up....

Next day. Byron Bay is beautiful.

Australia's most easterly point.

Gambling lord.

Steady giggin'. Hopeless.

Gambling lord.

The Amity Affliction.

Good store in Brisbaine.

Went to some gallery focusing on fonts. This was my fav.

Shleepy.

We Are The Ocean.

Steady giggin!

Last photo. Jase aka gambling king jussst waking up. Probs not the safes to take this while driving. It's fanny though. Nearly home in this one. Blue bar statue things on the Hume.

Hidden Clues

2009-11-18T20:31:00.002+11:00

I was at my gf's aunty's house a couple months ago and she had this keepsake. The story behind it is one day Anne, my gf's aunty, was bummed out one day so she went shopping. She was in some shitty antique store and this necklace-thing made her happy so she bought it. The person that sold it to her told her that the person owned it originally found a little chest with all these separate pieces in it at a market. That original person decided to make a necklace out of it. This person is completely unknown to everyone in the room.

These are the separate pieces:

Wood that says 'Mabo' (possibly 'ayoW' upside-down)

Wood that says 'SWEET CUENIEVIRE' or 'GUENIEVIRE'. Important to there's accent lines or whatever under the 'E's. French?

A round badge that has the letters I, S, A, A, N. 'I' could be '1'. An unscrambling tool i googled came up with the results 'asian' or 'sanai' for the letters. These were only actual words and not hundreds of possible acronyms. The shapes sort of resemble ice skate blades, bobsleds, razors or some other shit.

This is the back of the badge. It says 'Mirotop'. I can't remember what it says on the bottom bit. Fairly pissed off I didn't note it somewhere at the time.

A heart thing. Probably extremely symbolic. A wild guess is that it's probably English. What the fuck?

Two keys, one smaller than the other.

A locket thing with a baby angel on it. Cupid?

How the pieces are arranged on the necklace is probably important too. Maybe it's clues to someone's grave. Or to someone being held captive but is now dead...thus a grave. I dunno. Could be anything. Definitely worth sharing.

You right mate?

2009-09-03T00:54:00.004+10:00

top reasons why people think they can talk down to me because I ride bmx:

-bmx is heavily associated with deviant behaviour

why is it deviant?
-it's not productive economically (not many people know that the best riders can make up to $250,000 a year)
-appearance: lip rings, bandanas, etc. is linked to 'youth gone wild' thinking and generalised towards riders
-since things like bmx and skateboarding didn't develop in an indoor gym and grew on the street, it is linked to loitering
-specifically within cyclng there is elitism placing bmx at the bottom because there isn't offical coverage like the tour de france
-it's assumed as unnecessaraly dangerous, although other athletes do equally dangerous things or people smoke to calm down. to each their own with self-satisfaction.
-EDIT: bmx may be a seen as a gateway to other forms of deviant behaviour

I thought about this after some dickhead left his house today 'you right mate' wheni I was trying stuff on the road outsde his house. wasn't on his property or anything and went out of his way to have a go at me. his neighbour smoking on the porch also had the audacity to say 'what are doing mate? what are you even trying?'. I've also noticed a few times in the past older people shake there heads at me as I ride past. on one occasion policewoman said to me 'do you dare try and fucking run that red light. I'll give you a fucking ticket'. I copped this abuse even though I was 100% clearly slowing to a break. maybe not specifically not targeted at me because I had a 'pushy' but I still think it's valid.

2009-08-22T22:25:00.006+10:00

Painted my bike. Can't justify getting a new frame yet since I'm not good enough. Black parts with with purple splatter are known as the 'purple rain' colourway. A prince reference in BMX is so ridiculous that i needed it.

these are my marks for last semester.

2009/1 LST3CLC CRIME, LAW AND CULTURE COMPLETED 80 A
2009/1 LST3RCA READING COURSE A COMPLETED 74 B
2009/1 SOC3DCS DEVIANCE, CRIMINALITY AND SOCIAL CONTROL COMPLETED 79 B

Siiiiiked.

Last semester than I'm going to the UK, North America, Thailand and maybe The Philippines and India depending on cash.

2009-05-31T09:43:00.002+10:00

turned 21 recently and one of the things i got was bike stuff. so busy with shit uni shit lately i'd forgotten i had a shlog. still gotta suss the seinfeld thing said i would do haha. thank to all that went to my bday it was good times.

tweet tweet

2009-04-04T00:42:00.003+11:00

my twitter.

I finally finished Seinfeld. When i have some free time from essay writing I'll compile a top 10.

TEPPANYAKIIIIIIIIII

2009-03-15T21:54:00.005+11:00

Went to teppanyaki for mum's birthday the other day. We got her a Mimco wallet and I'm pretty sure she loved it. No idea how old she turned though hahahahaha.

Brother got bored haha.

Good park...

Ride

2009-03-01T21:56:00.002+11:00

Painted my rims.

Here's an interview Letterman did with Joaquin Phoenix.

Wikipedia says Phoenix did an interview earlier and he was completely fine. Publicity stunt? Completely fucked up? Going crazy? The one thing that is sure is that Letterman is an old douchebag.

Some successful lomos...

2009-02-28T13:41:00.004+11:00

Taken while overtaking this van. Probably not the safest.

Saw some bands this week. These are some shots of Saves the Day and Every Time I Die. Also went to Soundwave where Say Anything played the best. I only knew a handful of songs but seeing them have made me like them so much more.

Uni starts next week. I'm looking forward to my third year, finishing off and traveling next year.

After some successful lomos, here's an actor successfully playing a homo.

no god

2009-02-11T10:01:00.004+11:00

Satellite imagery, smoke even going over to NZ.

Its times like these when you feel a bit powerless. Also you feel a bit guilty for being safe in the city but there are ways to help. You can donate pretty much everywhere just google how. You can even do it through netbanking, I know my NAB has set up a relief account. Every little bit would help.

Over 180 confirmed.

Fuck this.

I'm guilty of thinking of why people wouldn't get out of there when there was plenty of warning. On second thought, your home is simply not just a house, it is your home. Memories are forever but these will never translate back to touch, sight or smell ever again if you've lost your home. The ultimate problem is if it is worth staying a bit longer risking your life. Rox's aunty's family lost their house in the fire. As they where driving to get away, they had a neighbor with them and he wanted to check up on his wife at their house quickly and he perished. Everyone on that dirt road fucking died except Roxy's auntie's family. How fucked up is that? You could actually understand how quickly a fire fucks you up unless you've been in one which means I'm a fuckhead for thinking such things.

David after Dentist

2009-02-06T22:52:00.003+11:00

In other new I've bruised the shit out my heel learning how to drop in.

:(

Gran Torino

2009-01-17T19:52:00.004+11:00

Jesus Clint Eastwood is getting old but he still manages to be as cool and intense as he was in Dirty Harry. My main problem with the film is however its flow. It sorta lags a little bit in the middle and you're stuck thinking, 'So what now? What's the next problem?'. This is where it lacks as a drama. The asian dude in it is pretty annoying too.

2/5

THE ERA OF YES HAS BEGUN

2009-01-11T22:05:00.004+11:00

So I saw Liar Liar, ahhh .. I mean Yes Man today and it was pretty good considering the similarities in plot to Liar Liar. If you're after a feel good movie for a change this is a very easy option and you'll be saying yes to everything for the rest of the day. 2.9/5

Douchebag trend of 2008, if not 1778-2008, is definately non-prespription glasses. Take them off you pretentious fuck.

Anyways I fucked my Nudies pretty badly today riding my bike around today. They've had a pretty good run - two washes in two years. Now they are beyond repair and fairly unwearable. Denim nerds are jealous of the fading and non-carers are saying, 'shut up you pretentious fuck'.

09

2009-01-06T16:14:00.004+11:00

One of the things I got for Christmas is a nifty new fisheye lomo. I thing with something like lomo you appreciate the photos you take a lot more as you it is more effort to see an end result. Also you learn from mistakes and you don't care if film fucks as you learn what you did wrong and fix it on your next go.

Here are some photos from my good friend Jase's New Years party. A party he was kind enough to throw at his place. Happy 09

16.5/20 and lately...

2009-01-06T15:39:00.004+11:00

4 short reviews..

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

This is a special one. The director of Se7en and Fight Club and the writer of Forest Gump makes for a great film. Like Gump the story of Benjamin Button is told very well and the cgi and/or makeup to show Brad Pitt's age is incredible. Roxy thought is dragged sliiiggghtly but i thought the sound track helped the movie flow very well. Prepare to cry. 5/5

Slumdog Millionaire

Perfectly told story in this film. Here's the trailer, I tried to explain the plot a few times in drafts but it got too wordy. Great editing and the love story element is woven into the story so well that it doesn't become cheesy. 5/5

Twilight

Fans of the book will be pissed off and non-fans of the book will be annoyed. The story seems rushed and the certain dialogue very dumb. What saves the film is Robert Pattinson hence the photo of him and not a screenshot from the movie. If you're lucky his fierce good-looks will distract you from a weak film. Correction, his fierce good-looks will definitely distract you from this weak film. Could he be the next Jude Law? Does it matter? Fuck he's amazing. My friend Brett likes the colour grading of the film and I agree with him which is a positive of the film. But c'mon, Robert Pattinson. 2.5/5

Australia

As far as epic dramas go this is nothing new but I still loved it. 4/5

Lately....

I got a new bmx and I've been riding for about a month. I got it because i needed a hobby as Uni had finished. I busted the front tyre tube today but I learned how to fix it. I need someone to ride with, it sucks going to the skatepark by yourself hahaha.

Quantum of Solace

2008-11-23T12:11:00.003+11:00

Daniel Craig continues to be the dark, cold-blooded and steely Bond that he started in Casino Royale but its other aspects of the film that were a bit of a let down. The actual plot was not as strong as Royale and the use of product placement was a little disgusting. Being a Bond fan it was still very entertaining action film but i was expecting a little more from the plot and a little more for the characters to explore (although Bond's pain concerning Vespa was shown very well). I wanted a smart plot like The Dark Knight but instead it was a find-the-baddie-and-stop-him-dealio. Even Royale was more than that. Overall Solace was an enjoyable addition to the Bond series, especially if you are a fan of the new Daniel Craig Bond. Not so much you're not a fan at all, example being Roxy who was seeing the first Bond of her life and she fell asleep.

3/5

New Killers soon...

BRRRRRRRRAH!

2008-11-18T13:28:00.003+11:00

There was a spanish festival happening on Johnston St. the other day so Rox and I decided to do a spanish date.

The best bit was probably the food.

Entrée: Calamari rings
Extra saaaalty

Main Course: Columbian Barbecue
Very tender pieces of beef, spicy sausage and chicken. Very rich and saaalty! So good. Also came with a green salad and a potato salad.

Dessert: Caramel filled churros and dutch pancakes

To wash it all down: Homemade Lemonade

There was some music playing too. It was pretty cool. There were these latino hip hop dudes. Even though I could only really understand 'Brrrrrah' (something that Dipset copied???) and 'loco' it was pretty cool top here hip hop inspired from a different culture. The dude next to me didn't know what was up.

On a different day Rox and I went bowling. I naturally won. (By like 10 points phew i was losing and getting worried and one point).

Rox's sister got a puppy. Its whippet crossed with a foxy. It is a very beautiful dog and I'm going to steal it.

My good friend Olivivia Marcina's 20th birthday.

2008-11-18T12:17:00.002+11:00

Self explantory.

The race that stops the nation and makes you lose money

2008-11-18T11:16:00.005+11:00

Cup day happened a few weeks ago and Rox and I had the day off so we decided to do stuff. Rox's sister was having a barbecue which was an irresistible plan.

I lost $10 bucks which was a mighty blow since I won last year. I almost expected to win this year. Bleh.

There's this thing that happens in some parts of Asia where the bet on horses fighting each other.

To ruin the mood, am I worse that these people betting on horse fights?

Let's break it down, the spring carnival is basically and form of entertainment and a social event where betting is concerned. It has risen out of a context where horse racing and gambling (to a non-addictive gambling degree) are widely accepted forms of entertainment.

In these parts of asia where horse-fighting exists, there is a lower socio-economic standard of living compared to western parts of the world. It is a completely different context and what is socially constructed to be acceptable forms of entertainment would be completely different. It is not barbarism as google results would tell you as it is simply just a different form of entertainment which is the product of a different context. Maybe gambling is an issue, as it is a chance to win money for your family since you are poor and your kids are starving. Wouldn't you go bet if other options where exhausted? Another issue could be the value for animal life. There are many factors that cause low socio-economic standards of living in Asia, so vegetarianism or veganism wouldn't be so important when food is food and without it you and your family will die. Maybe this is one of the factors that make animal-on-animal combat acceptable.

Even if it is 'barbaric', don't jockeys whip the shit out of the horses just to make them run faster? Don't the kill the horses when they fall over? Isn't there evidence of trainers giving horses performance enhancing drugs in the past? Isn't that 'barbaric'?

If so, that I am indeed hypocritical about betting on horses as it is a way of condoning it. But its important to understand that 'barbarism' and entertainment mean different things in other contexts.

Rant over. In other happenings that day I successfully mastered my brother's Ripstick while him and my sister played Soul Caliber Legends on Wii (It fucking sucks don't get it).

All done!

2008-11-01T22:47:00.002+11:00

Uni is all done for the year soo..

and..

.

Rox got a new mackbook. I feel a little inadequate having the inferior mac but at least I don't have to share anymore :):):):)

Had some dinner with mates. Lost at guitar hero lots fuck fuck fuck.
Tim's sweet horse.

Funny thing that happened at Sportsgirl the other week.

Weird ad at Uni. It's one of the cafe's mascots I guess. Looks like a Jamaican ballsack.

Anyone seen Gone Baby Gone? It's one of those mystery/neo-noir films like Memento or Brick. A must see if you're into that sort of thing.

For those who have seen it, do you think Casey Affleck's character did the right thing in the end?

Procrastinaysh

2008-10-16T13:17:00.003+11:00

Thought I'd update before continuing with an essay.

We went to Torquay the other week as weather has gotten even hotter. It was a longish drive from Rox's but it was alright. How nice are the clouds when they look like paintings.

Fish and chips at the beach. The fish and chips guy forgot to give us our chips so Jase and I had to walk back. I expected some apology nuggets but no go. Massive resent for the fish and chips guy.

Bit of shirtless kick to kick. Getting the ball down from the tree was equally if not more fun haha.

Couldn't stay the night because I had work early the next day. Bummer, but we still had a lot of fun. Back to the concrete world.

Finally it was Bill Gates birthday the other day. This was his cake.

Lately...

2008-10-06T08:54:00.010+11:00

I've been a bit busy lately with assignments and more shifts lately due to school holidays which explains the lack of ranting. A few things have been happening though with the sunnier weather coming.

I tried to get MGMT tickets lately but managed to miss out like 4 times. I had three computers trying to get Meredith Festival tickets as they were playing there as well but no luck. Fairly annoying, so annoying that this band is now off from my Ipod.

For one of the first sunny days of this spring we had a picnic at the Botanical Gardens. Very chill day.

Roxy up on dem tree ballz.

Not really into the football but my friend Jase threw grand final barbecue where there was sweet chicken skewers, burgers, sausages and potato salad. Thinking about it makes me hungry. We played epic four square. The person that fucked up on dunny copped a two finger slap on the back of the hand and later on the pale side of the forearm.

Now back to 8000 words over 3 essays due in a month and being emotionally raped by rude customers.

P.S. Hi Tyson.

Homemade Lomo*

2008-09-13T23:02:00.003+10:00

Hopeless

The Broderick

Carpathian

Van She

*I'm a liar they're phone pics. Ahaaaaa

Discipline & Punish

2008-09-11T20:26:00.003+10:00

This thing from X-Files fucked me up a little bit the other day.

Bart doing a noseblunt? What the fuck?

I did an essay on this building recently. It is called the Panopticon, an architectural design of a prison by Jeremy Bentham. Michel Foucault, this french philosopher/sociologist, referenced this building while discussing the way space is organised around us is actually a way to control us through surveillance. This would create, what he called, 'docile bodies' which means that we wouldn't really need rules and shit anymore if we are constantly being watched by someone or each other. This would cause us to self-police and self-dicipline. If you look this goes down everywhere like in classrooms, homes, facebook etc. Interesting shit.

What up snow-mie?

2008-08-31T16:33:00.006+10:00

New template, the guy that made the mac one I had isn't replying to my emails about his template fucking up so i changed it. What a dick. This one is sliiiiiiggghhttly confusing but its just a bit different from other ones because it has two columns.

Anyways...

About a week ago Rox and I went to Lake Mountain to see the snow, toboggan and drink hot chocolate. This is how the day went down.

First, we got to a pretty slow start as we didn't to check the engine shit of the car. Here's me not knowing anything about cars and not helping out.

Got to Marysville which is the town before lake mountain. I suspect that the town's economy is based on tourists as it seemed that every house was renting out snow chains and snow gear. You'd think the woman helping us out with gear would be nice to us because of this but she was a dick anyway. We got our pass and got our hands dirty putting the dick snow chains on.

The drive up the mountain was like entering another realm. Much like the Mortal Kombat movie.

Awesome place.

Then I met one of my snow-mies. His name was Channing and he was from Nova Scotia.

Tobogganing and flight happened.

We had a very lovely time, we needed to do something out of the blue for a change as we'd just been working and shit lately.

I saw my friend's band, Hopeless, last night. They were fantastic. At one point there was a heckler and my friend Brett, to my delight, did not enjoy it one bit and called him out. Next thing you know, to my delight, a drumstick was thrown causing the heckler to get angry. He chose to throw one of the fall backs on the ground. The band, to my delight, did not appreciate this at all and decided to get off stage and get this guy out of here. This included a four-limbed aerial stage-attack from Brett. They then, to my delight, continued to play harder and better. It was fucking sick.

It should be noted that my good friend Jase, who turned 24 recently (I still haven't given his present to him, sorry Jase), decided to stay on stage and chill. Mad dog true?

Finally this is Madonna on her latest tour. What do you think?

I just wanted to watch Will & Grace season 4....

2008-08-19T21:21:00.003+10:00

Ok so the other night I just wanted to watch a few eps of W&G when my dvd player just wouldn't play. It's a perfectly good disc and it just wouldn't play, despite easily being able to play dodgy burnt dvds from Thailand. So I drove it to the nearby creek and smashed it. Here's the scene of the crime the next day.

In other news Rox and I will be going to the snow on Friday. I haven't been to the snow in a very long time so I'm looking forward to it. Something to do out of the ordinary work-nintendo-uni-essay-work-facebook-work-destroydvdplayer-uni routine lately. Will post some snaps.

You were cold and I clothed you.

2008-08-13T11:46:00.005+10:00

How is a stoner movie funny in 2008? Pineapple express, that's how. Maybe the first one since Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back back in 2001? Shit call? Go see it if you are into that Judd Apatow sort of comedy.

One last tidbit, fuck PCs. Blue screen of death at the opening ceremony.

The 'Bunch of Guys' theory.

2008-08-09T00:48:00.021+10:00

This video is this test that shows how people just conform to the others around them.

It's a bit oversimplified of what actually goes down between people, but you can't deny that it has a point. If you enter any social sphere, wether it be with your siblings, a pair of animal torturers or a gay bar, you'll at least want to fit in and the way to do this is to conform.

This isn't a whole spiel on conformity, I just found this one thing really interesting in school haha.

Ok so once this happens, you understand the groups norms and you either follow (conformity) or you reject. This brings me to the "Bunch of Guys' theory. Its basically the fact that when a group of guys get together and some fucking shit just goes down because they egg each other on. This dude Marc Sageman made it up when he figured out that there's no profile that would make you able to predict that someone will be a terrorist, it has to do with the people a person involves themselves with aka conforms to.

He figured it out when he was researching the London bombings. The dudes that did it weren't terrorists at all, no affiliation with Al-Qaeda or any shit like that. They were all believers in Islam, but Sageman found that that can't be the only explanation. All it took was the four of them to find some common ground, hang out at the gym and soon enough their frindship became so strong that this relationship trumped the ones with their families, even causing divorce in some of the men involved. Then eventually the fucking killed 54 people and injured like 700 others.

Other example are these fucking idiots killing koalas I read about on ninemsn, Anakin Skywalker joining the dark side and harnessing the dark side of the force and competitive shit like sport and video games.

UPDATE: The Cronulla Riots is a really good example of this too.

Pretty fucked up don't you think? But good stuff can happen too, like my friends have started a band and come up with good shit. But yeah, this insight on how shit goes down was pretty cool to learn at school.

To finish off a few tidbits:

Bit of light photography I came across being a nerd on the net by Alan Jaras.

I'm not a big sneakerhead at all or anything but I copped the shit out of these the other day, even rocking up an hour early to secure a pair. The colours are just so fucking good on them. Slight Bunch of guys theory?

How awesome was the opening ceremony? They're all epic when it happens, but I think 4 years is long enough to get every Olympics that last happened. I was just watching the judo then, fucking pissed we lost the bronze to the Brazilian. Fuck. Fuck yes to Steph Rice though, showing a bit of ownership in the pool.

Finally RIP Bernie Mac.

Fuck, long post?

Did you go out last night?

2008-08-03T18:38:00.007+10:00

I haven't got a problem with going out to clubs but I've noticed lately that's it's such a normalized thing to just do, especially when being a young. Just something I've been noticing lately with people the same age with me.

In other news, Miku, our Japanese exchange student is settling in and has been doing origami and playing Wii with us.

Here's my shot at an origami Fred Perry.

Rox has gotten me back into a show I forgot I loved so much. We're continuing season one with some crumbed lamb chops in a bit.

Egg chips

2008-07-29T15:10:00.005+10:00

My good friend Tim showed me this dish. You'll only need:

-cooked chips (preferred kind)
-eggs

Then:

1. Put chips in frying pan
2. Crack egg/s over chips
3. Mix around until all the egg looks cooked

Voila! It's a bit weird but it'll taste good if you don't mind chips and egg separately. Good fatty dish for any time of the day. I first had it at 3am on a saturday night haha.

On something else, I was looking through photos from Thailand the other day which I hadn't seen in a long while. This was my breakfast view while i stayed at Koh Phangan.

Should've made some egg chips while I was there.

"Second year blues"

2008-07-24T20:35:00.006+10:00

Fucking traffic.

First week back at uni today and one of my new lecturers for the semester made a joke about wether or not people in second year had 'second year blues'. This is supposedly the phenomenon where people are really excited in first year and third year but sorta lose momentum in second year. I probably have it and my grades from last semester show it haha.

Two days a week this semester compared to one day a week last semester. I'll probably get momentum better since its two days a week because I have to give a shit for a longer period. My subjects are:

Punishment in Context - Looks at what punishment is and its implications around the world
Crime and Psychology - Looks into homicide fairly deeply
Social Theories of Deviance - Looks into 'deviant' behavior sociologically

I hooked up some pretty interesting ones this semester, I really happy with these subjects.

Then I got home and did a bit of wii with the siblings.

We get a Japanese exchange student tomorrow. My good friend Brett made the joke that maybe he should be there so that the girl will think she is in actual Australia with whities. Being Japanese and going on exchange to Australia with a Filipino host family has got to be a pretty good cultural experience in itself.

Final tidbit: check this out - www.dopepose.com

Why so serious?

2008-07-20T13:12:00.004+10:00

Woah. This film is not just a great comic book film, but its also a very effective crime-thriller/drama as well. All actors were great but Heath Ledger was exceptional. He made the character so much more darker and menacing that Jack Nicholson did. Such a great performance makes it even more saddening that such a talent is now gone. Go see this film.

PS. Just as a tidbit, this is what the tank-lamborghini would look like as a Transformer.

Room

2008-07-18T01:16:00.004+10:00

It'd probably be easier to clean if it was 2D.

S.O.P.

2008-07-15T23:12:00.004+10:00

I watched this film today. Its about the prisoner abuse that happened in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. It was fairly confronting especially as the news wasn't that big in Australia as it was in the States. I remember news reports of the photo with the girl and prisoner's with black hoods but not much about the actual aftermath and consequences of it.

Without giving too much away, the documentary takes a turn that attempts to make the audience feel sorry for the soldiers stationed in the prison. I myself don't feel sorry for them and I think they deserved the sentences they got but one thing one of the soldiers said in the interview was interesting. She said something about being in the situation where you are trained, from the moment you sign up, to follow orders. Their choice was either go to jail for disobeying orders or go to jail for being part of the prisoner abuse that occurred.

A bit off topic but related to the soldier's remarks, doing sociology has allowed me to see that everything is socially constructed such as your value systems and your actions and more often than not your social setting will determine your actions. Even when you defy your social sphere, this deviance is a result of the social sphere.

On that thought uni starts soon, should be sweet but a little can't be bothered haha.

Caught in my guitar-solo-mindset.

2008-07-14T11:03:00.001+10:00

I passed!

2008-07-13T10:04:00.002+10:00

Fairly weak marks but I got there. I'll probably try harder this coming semester. I hope everyone did well on their results too :)

Pedantic, obsessive and a little bit dramatic.

2008-07-11T23:25:00.002+10:00

I saw this template and wanted to use it but Wordpress didn't allow you to upload custom templates so I have moved to Blogspot! An extremely nazi move but now I'm satisfied.

My marks for university were meant to be available today but the intranet crashed haha and now it should be okay in the morning. Hopefully I did alright and passed all my subjects. Results will be shown asap. I'm doing a Bachelor of Legal Studies at La Trobe by the way. Its not law but the theory behind law and its implications on us. Not only that but I've been doing all sociology units for my electives because it tends to go well with legal studies.

Fingers crossed!

Re: Sleepless...

2008-07-11T22:49:00.003+10:00

Sleepless...

2008-07-11T22:47:00.002+10:00

The most excruciating thing I have been experiencing lately is sleeplessness, both getting to sleep and staying asleep. I don't know much about it but its probably a psychological thing that is fucking me up. It ruins me the most, if anything only at these times, when I know I have work or class the next day and I stress in my mind that I neeeeeeed 8 hours. I've heard of ways to clear your mind like to pretend you're slowly sinking into your bed or to imagine you are gradually being squashed by something. Nothing helps me as the loop ALWAYS goes back to stressing that I'll feel like shit the next day. And the more I can't sleep, the more stressed I get, the more sleep I lose. Another way of getting to sleep I have heard of is to get all your thoughts out of your head by writing them down saying them out loud i.e. what I am doing right now haha. But even then, any little thing such as body temp, body position, a constant loop of a 3 second portion of a song in my head, my girlfriend breathing or adjusting or the most miniscule of sounds anywhere will contribute to the stress I feel. This problem only really started this year and I don't think i've actually gotten a good 8 hours the night before work or school all this time. I think I need to get brutal prescription sleeping pills that knock me the fuck out or maybe it is a very simple problem that I need to find a way to naturally get over.

On another note, you know how REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is the deepest stage of sleep? Isn't it creepy that your eyes actually move side to side rapidly at this stage. I googled rapid eye movement and got this haha.

This blog setup is looking pretty standard hey? (Well actually it is the actual standard option) I'll fix it up soon enough :)
Good night ... or good morning?

Hello!

2008-07-11T22:45:00.002+10:00

My name is Patrick Dacaya. Life is good at the moment, just chilling, working, saving, spending at the moment because I'm in between semesters. Here's a few intro tidbits.

The instructions on the jeans were not to wash it for at least 6 months so that your legs would give the denim natural abrasions. I went ten months. A few months on and they fucking stink again but they are still my favs.

This is Mr. Game and Watch. He's a character from one of the first Nintendo portable players and he's been re-visited as a character on Super Smash Brothers Brawl on the Nintendo Wii. He's my fav Character in the game. Along with my little bro we've played like 80 hours of the game in just a week.

I might go to Game On this week but I dunno. That's all for now. I'l try to update lots :)