This is the end, my only friend, the end... *sniff*

my display!

Nathalia and her suggestive lollipop sucking (LOL, sorry Nat)

Kiss my ASS! (and leprechaun)

me trying to look cultured

Far out, my time as a design student is over, well almost. Tuesday marks my last day as a student over at Enmore Design Centre. It's been great, been a major bludge, but great. I didn't learn much, or actually I did, and that was:

* I HATE flash/actionscript and even HTML/CSS. Anything that requires the use of a brain, other than my creative side anyway.

* I LOVE video editing and static design (print, desktop publishing, that sort of stuff). But I LOVE making videos. Love it.

Tuesday also was the start of the graduate exhibition where all graduates show off their work for everyone to see - prospective employers, family, friends and so on and so forth. I had a look around at what other students were doing, and let me just say that I got a real bad case of little man syndrome. It seemed like all of the other classes works were just SO bloody good. All their portfolios were creatively done, their works were displayed so well, and the works themselves were bloody ace. Mine was okay, but I was just way too lazy to make something good.

Here's the thing, I reckon my collective work that I've done progressively throughout these two years have been pretty good. However, I did not even prepare a proper portfolio for display. Even the works in my portfolio was like, some of the shittier ones that I did throughout the year. I so could have done better. But yeah, I suck.

And it was so hard for me to hang around our room while people I didn't know browse through my stuff. People looking through my work, browsing my website, looking at my business card and then moving on to the next person. I just hoped to God that they loved my work.

But the past two years have been great, met some great new people, whom I now call great mates. I will miss that I won't get to see them as often. But we will still DEFINITELY all meet up again and again and again. They can't get away from me that easily.

And here's the end of that chapter...

I Do?

"All the single men to the front for the garter throw. Come on right up!!"

"Oh geez, here we go" I think to myself and proceeded to head up to the front along with another three (!) guys out of the whole congregation who attended my cousins wedding.

I line myself up in the back corner and think to myself "Do I really need this? Do I really need to get married in the first place?"

So up goes the garter straight up into the air and right into my general direction, all the while I'm thinking "Oh, shit. Oh, fuck no." Mind you, the person closest to me was about a good metre away. I didn't want it, and it seems like none of the other guys did too, and besides, I didn't want to smell fishy for the rest of the night. So I just let it drop, right next to my left shoe.

"You want it?" I asked the guy to my left. "It's yours if you want."

"Nah, mate. Take it." He replies

Got me thinking, is matrimony appropriate in this day in age? In an age where promiscuity seems to reign supreme, are marriages these days doomed to fail right from the get go? To me, marriage these days just seems to be a slight step above the BF/GF stage, only in that the partnership is legally bounded by law and "in the eyes of God". Perhaps I've seen quite a few marriages fail in my time, hence my view, but I'm pretty sure the same thought has come up for many of you all.

I find the whole notion of being 'bound' to someone for the rest of my life quite daunting. Imagine that, eternity, with someone. It might sound romantic for some, but really, bound to someone, for your whole life. No one else. Maybe it's a reflection of my nature, but I don't think I can do it.

I would just not like to put myself in a situation or position where I would limit myself to the one thing. Im an explorer, kinda like Captain Cook or something. Like, he didn't stop even when he found Australia, he wanted more, so he continued on with his journey to find more land. And along the way, he found kick-arse places like New Zealand and Hawaii. Okay, he got killed when he found Hawaii but still, he wouldn't have found it if he just stayed in one spot.

My point? Life is way too short to limit yourself to anything. Explore, live life and have (safe) fun along the way. Translate that in any which way you want.

Perhaps it's just the youth in me saying these things. And maybe it's because I haven't met anyone who's knocked me off my feet enough for me to want to spend the rest of my life with.

Who knows what will happen, but for now I'm pretty adamant with my particular view. The balls are now in your court to make me change my mind.

I like you, I like sex, it's nice!

Okay, I just got back from watching one of the most funniest films I've seen all year - if not, my whole life. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has got to be one of the most cleverly created films that I've seen in a while. I don't want to give out much of the movie, but it basically tells of Borats travel around the United States in what was primarily a documentary for Kazakhstani television. He then goes out to find his 'true love' and with hilarious consequences.

Sacha Baron Cohen has got to be one of the most bravest men I have seen in my entire life. To put himself in such situations (that he gets into) in this film for me is just plain lunacy. Yet, he pulls it off like it's nothing. I guess playing a character helps, but still, crazy!

This film is not LOL funny, rather it is OMFG ROFL LMAO OMG AHHAHAHAAHA kekeke (^_^) funny. I found myself in tears quite a lot.

Watch it, dag nammit! Four and a half stars from me

****1/2

Identity Crisis

Okay, here's what happened. I was at the gym, just doing my thing when this native Maori NZ guy came up and had some random chit chat, which is fine. He then proceeds to ask me which island I was from, which kind of threw me off a bit. He meant what Pacific Island if you haven't realised and I proceeded to tell him I was of Filipino descent, which surprised him.

Now, seriously If I had a dollar every single time someone asked me that question, I'd be fairly rich. I've been mistaken as a Pacific Islander quite a few times it's quite funny. Fair enough, I don't look completely Filo but when I look into a mirror to me its quite evident - the Filipino in me, that is. What is it about me? is it my wide nose? My puffy lips? My thick build (despite my height - or lack thereof)? Do I look like I was from Once Were Warriors ?(LOL) I Dunno. My eyes are rather chinky, which isn't really a trait of an Islander so I dunno.

Yeah, Dunno. I might as well be one. Okay, from now on, my name is:

Alakakutau Furukuaoa Lakatuvilaka from Samoa

I have no fucking clue how to even pronounce that. LOL

Even more funnier if it actually means something in some Polynesian language.

Random Youtube

I love youtube, and I'm lucky to have a bunch of mates who direct me to a whole shitload of funny stuff. I'll start of with Darth Vader. Now, just for the record, I am absolutely NOT a Star Wars fan. I hate the damn thing. However, I found this incredibly hilarious. Great job with the editing.



And just for something completely stupid. Just watch this:



What. The. Effffff!? So wrong, but hilarious at the same time. Surely the man must be drunk.

My (new) Baby

Okay, I really have a bad habit of impulse buying. It seems that most of the time that I walk into a retail outlet, I end up getting something that I never really intended of purchasing in the first place.

It also seems, that from my last post that no one was offering to buy me anything from that list. So I decided to get me the first item on that list. Friends, I introduce to you my new baby...

checking out the site

Windows on a Mac? What The EFFF?!

the collection (and Hanauma Bay)

Okay, now I'm $3200 poorer. But buyers remorse hasn't hit me yet, but give it time. It's still the honeymoon phase so at the moment im just in a perpetual state of enamour.

I love this bloody thing, it's so nice... so shiny. It feels so good on my lap - the plastic/metal finish just feels so good, I just wanna rub it up and down my leg. LOL. It is by far the most (literally) coolest computer I've ever encountered. It's never scorchingly hot, it's just... warm. And whisper-quiet to boot too. Most importantly, it's incredibly powerful. I've thrown at it many apps, Adobe CS2, macromedia suite, final cut, after effects and it's just played them all like it was nothing. Amazing. Even weirder was Windows, it does windows better than my mums Win PC laptop.

Oh and I finally have some sort of broadband. It's through Unwired but it is rather shit, speeds are up and down and never consistent. But it will do, I guess. However, those bandwidth intensive porn downloads and sites would have to be sacrified for a little bit. Thank God I'm only in this house temporarily... Would hate to have to resort to fantasy. Need. Visual. Stimulation.

LOL

Anyways, it looks like it's all settled down over in my end. The house looks tidy enough for people to actually come visit and stuff so yeah. I'll post pics up as soon as my phone gets recharged. I'll be back soon...

Oh and LOL at this pic of my nephews. Gotta love Photobooth.

Jingle Bells...

Christmas is nearing, and I thought I'd give out a list of my top 5 "wanties" for Xmas in the hopes that the good people out there might give me a hand and well, buy it for me. LOL

In no particular order (ie, I want them all):



Apple Macbook Pro (Intel Core 2 Duo)
OMG I want one of these NOW. I love macs, am a huge mac boy. Mac OSX is just the perfect operating system to do anything. Easy to use and it's got everything you need to do. And if you still want to use windows, no problem simply dual boot using bootcamp. Windows on a Mac? Hell yeah! But who uses Windows anyway?



PlayStation 3
Most people who know me know that I'm a pretty big geek. And Fair enough, this thing isn't out in Australia and won't in until sometime next year. But it can always be imported from Japan and/or North America. And who doesn't want one of these babies? Next-gen gaming, blu-ray movies, bloody awesome. One of these under my tree would be way awesome, thanks



Sony Full Hi-Def Bravia LCD TV
*Drools* And what better way to play the new PS3 on then on this baby - and in MY ROOM. Full 1080p resolution ensures this thing is futureproof. What else can be better?



Panasonic AE-1000 Full Hi-Def LCD Projector
Probably one of these babies. Full Hi-Def images on a massive screen OMG *faints*

BROADBAND!!!
FFS this is probably the thing I want most now. I miss ADSL2 so much and I didn't know how much it had an impact on my life until it got taken off. Dial up is ancient and I feel like I get older with each little file that I download. 30 minutes for an mp3? eww.


As you can see I'm a rather expensive boy to maintain. I love my gadgets and gizmos and If I had my way, I'd just be like, rolling in gizmos...

So if anyone out there would like to buy these items for me, please do not hesitate to do so. I'll be your slave and I will do anything... ANYTHING...

What. The. EFFFFFFF!?!

I am fuming. I got an email from my ISP telling me that ADSL cannot be provided at this house due to "incompatible equipment". So apparently I am stuck with dial up for an extended period. Seriously, how would I be able to fricken stand that? How the fuck, in this day in age can someone NOT get either ADSL or Cable? It's just stupid. Pardon me for a second while I swear:

FuckinShitFuckFuckDickPeePeeCunts!

Not happy Jan.

It looks like I have to get unwired for the next six months or so. Picking up a modem soon. So all is not lost. But its only 512kb/s. eww.