September 2005

30-Sep-2005 - Prophecy

Its friday today - and the long weekend starts tomorrow (labor day). And its pay day for me too - so today is a good day! :-)

Last week was my birthday - and I got some goodies from my mum. Didnt do that much on the day itself - just the usual friday night antics with Julian and Ben.

But i've been dying to go to a rave, and on Saturday I got my wish. Tim H convinced me to go to Prophecy. At first I was a bit skeptical because from the flyer it sounded like another totally hardcore/gabba rave. I've been to a couple of those before and hated them. But after Tim called me I had another look at the flyer and there were DJ's like Nik Fish, Amber Savage etc.. who aren't hardcore DJ's.. so I thought "Why not!".

So I turn up to the rave with Tim, and i'm wearing my flashing alien tshirt ;-), my little alien figurine thingy and a little ultra bright light hanging over his head to make him glow. Plus the usual glowsticks/bands. I was ready to party! :-)

The party was at the superdome at Olympic Park. We get there and the queue to get in is HUGE. But surprisingly it was very quick.. only about 10 mins to get in. Lots of security and even police sniffer dogs. When we finally got in, there were 3 rooms - the main superdome room, a smaller (but still warehouse sized) hardstyle room and a little alcove room.

Me and Tim go into the main room and the music was great and so was the vibe.. lots of people dancing away, great lighting set up. Lots of fun! Later on Ben (tims friend) and co join us. Later on we head out to the smaller alcove room which also had awesome music. Its been ages since I went to a huge rave (NYE was my last big rave).. because I usually go to smaller ones, but i'm glad I went to this one - i had so much fun. Tim was partying hard the whole tim too - both of us were partying harder than Ben and co, even though you would expect them to be the ones partying hardest ;-).

As usual I got heaps of comments about the flashing tshirt and of course had a ready supply of "business card" type things which I was handing out to anyone who asked where to get it from. I probably gave about 15 cards away hehe - what a life hey, business and pleasure at the same time!

Anyway me and tim head off around 5am - the sun was coming out just as we were leaving. Wasnt very tired when I got home, but went to bed anyway, and spent the majority of Sunday asleep. Today my shoes are starting to fall apart - they couldnt handle saturday night... damn gotta buy a new pair.

I'm looking forward to the long weekend this weekend. Should be fun!

28-Sep-2005 - Small photo update

I have put up three more photos. They all happen to include Ben! Still got lots to talk about but no time - my birthday, the weekend rave etc.. I'll write a bigger post soon.

27-Sep-2005 - Arrr Matey! Shiver me timbers!

Just a quick entry today. I've got lots to talk about but I'll do that when I get time.. but for now..

Every now and then you come across something funny thats out of place - or in place as this was that case. The following is a poker machine that I spotted in a gaming room inside a well known gay bar on Oxford St.

Now is it just me or does it say "Bugganeer"? I thought it was pretty funny given the location. :-) Arrrrrr!

21-Sep-2005 - The evil bird of death

It was a long weekend for me last weekend. I spent most of it sleeping!

But when I was awake I played lots of CS, played around with 3D Studio Max, and did some bike riding.

I rode from darling harbour over to five dock, and down a little street next to the five dock RTA (where I did my street test for my drivers licence). The street is about 150-200m long, and I was riding along minding my own business when I hear a woosh! I turn around and a magpie is right behind me. I look forward again and it swoops on me again hitting the back of my helmet. I turn around, and its hovering about 2 metres behind my bike. Having no real option I try to outrun (outride?) it but it swoops on me a couple more times.. and finally it swoops on me biting my ear.

So there I am, a grown man riding my bike in fear as fast as I can to escape a relentless attack from a viscious bird :-). After it bit me on the ear I turn around again - it stops attacking when I look at it. I stared the little shit in the eye (using my evil death stare). But it was not intimidated. So there I was for a few seconds going down a street at high speed not looking where I was going, engaged in a bitter eye-locking duel with my nemesis.

It looked at me with its cold calculating eyes. I look at it with Rays Stare of Death (tm). Who would flinch first? Who would buckle under the pressure?

My heart was racing. But I could not continue without looking ahead. The bird was outstaring me and I had no choice but to break contact with its eyes. So I looked ahead. And swoop! And swoop again! Finally after about 100m of this the magpie retreated back to its territory to my immense relief. I had been beaten, and bore the scars of the encounter.

Now, 2 days later, my ear is still a bit sore. Little shit.

15-Sep-2005 - Not a creature was stirring..

.. except for my MX518 Mouse! I had a try of it on tuesday night (13th sep), but I was totally crap - it took some getting used to, but last night I had what was probably my best night of CounterStrike in a long time. Its so much smoother and easier to control that my previous mouse. And combined with the crazy fluoro skins, its time to kick some arse! If I keep playing so much CounterStrike I will become Korean :-)

Tim H came to chatswood yesterday for lunch. He is now a chatswood wednesday lunch regular :-). I've seen lots of Tim lately after a big mysterious absence ;-). His friend Rochelle came as well, and they discussed lots of gross things while I attempted to eat my lunch hehe.

Saw Ben too.. he is working at Chatswood as a barista. Me and Jules went in the other day too to say hi, and Jenny Woo and co turned up as well.. it was like a big Ben fan club in there :-)

I've been dying to go to a rave or something lately.. havent been to one in ages. Had a bit of a look and there is nothing much coming up until October. The only thing earlier is some Hardcore rave... but the totally Hardcore parties are not my style, so i'll wait until the October one and hopefully I can convince some people to come with me!

Why dont they organise another Rave Back in Time or something.. hmm.. if only i had unlimited money i would just organise my own :-). Speaking of that, I just read a Sydney DJ's weblog today and he said he and his mates lost $25,000 trying to put on a big party. Hmmm.. an area to steer clear of I think.

There used to be so many great raves back in the 90's and I think the "One" party killed off a lot of those promoters. After the huge success of Field of Dreams 4, the same organiser got a whole lot of other promoters together to organise a 3 day party called ONE. Unfortunately Sydney wasnt ready for such a party, and they didnt sell enough tickets so the organiser pulled the plug, leaving lots of promoters out of pocket. I think that event changed the rave scene for good, and got rid of a lot of the smaller great promoters and left only a couple of big promoters who all turned commercial. Bummer hey.

13-Sep-2005 - Quiet weekend

The weekend was very quiet this week. Didnt go out at night at all - didnt really feel like it.

Played way too much counterstrike as usual, and went for a rollerblade at Centennial Park with Richard.

Me and Jules were wondering around chatswood on Sunday and he wanted to go into the Apple (as in Mac) store to see the new Ipod Nana (yes, things man). And who was working there? Mike B... a guy who long ago I met with his other friend Mike. I didnt even recognise him, even after talking to him. Julian only told me when we left the store. Pretty funny - he was out of context and I never seem to recognise people out of context.

Went for a bit of a jog last night, since I havent done any jogging since the City to Surf. Went to the gym beforehand and used some of the machines while listening to music on my mp3 player.

And today I bought a Logitech MX518 gaming mouse. I never thought i'd spend so much on a mouse, but hey - i'm addicted to counterstrike and the old mouse I have is a pile of crap. This one is a very high resolution optical mouse (highly precise - as opposed to my old wireless mouseball mouse!), and has lots of configurable buttons on it, perfect for gaming. Gonna pick it up this arvo - looking forward to it..

And so concludes a pretty damn boring weblog entry... what else did you expect!

8-Sep-2005 - The next decade

It was Julians 30th birthday on Tuesday - Happy Birthday Jules! We went out to Cinque for dinner with Ben, Dave and Ish.

I had another long weekend, and spent lots of time going through some 3d Studio Max tutorials. And of course played lots of counterstrike - our team is doing very well lately and we are creeping up the charts.

Met up with Matt M, who I havent seen in a while and had a bit of a pizza / xbox night. He has returned to Australia for a bit but is going back to the US to live for a couple of years soon. Hmm.. I will eventually do some travelling..

Last week I went and played tennis after work with some of the guys from work (Jenny/Mark, Brian, Vannis, Wilkin). It was pretty fun - havent played doubles tennis in a long time. I should probably go and play with Heath sometime soon now that summer is on its way.

Yesterday on the way home from work I saw a woman on the street with an ambulance next to her. She had been hit by a bus on the recently changed lower part of druitt st. They have finally opened the cross city tunnel and the street which used to be one way only is now a two way street. I have noticed a lot of people forgetting its two way and not looking both ways when crossing the road. It was bound to happen.

I have almost walked straight onto the road without looking a few times myself - its hard to break years of habit.

Star City Casino is turning 10 and to celebrate they are having a whole bunch of free events on this week. So I might go and see Eskimo Joe on friday.

Only 2 weeks until my birthday. C ya!

2-Sep-2005 - Thin veil of civilization

We all live in a civilized society. The pubilc in general consider themselves 'civilized people', and act with civilized values and humanity.

But this week's Hurricane in the USA has reminded us all how thin the veil of this civility is, and how easily it can be left behind leaving nothing but complete anarchy and savagery.

Only a day after the hurricane hit there's looters, violence, rapes, carjackings, riots and complete chaos in New Orleans. Armed gangs have gone on looting sprees, gunshots have been fired at rescue helicopters, bus drivers have been forced to carry passengers at gunpoint.