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P.S. incognito, fuck you.

"Well, all I have to say is, you're a soft-hearted guy. After seeing u cry, now I know. No worries, ur not the only one."

- Zayaana

I remembered those words my pet sis wrote to me in the memento she gave me during Jalan Impian last year. For those who didn't know, I cried after the second matinee show in the dressing room, as a lotta the cast members and my mom consoled me. At that time, I can say that those were tears of guilt and regret and I would acknowledge that considering that I would admit to being at fault for whatever I had done before that, but I guess that's not the topic for the day.

But one thing's for sure, I am indeed a soft-hearted guy as how Zayaana described to me.

I must be THAT emotional I guess.

Then I thought about it and realized that I can get really emotional at times and sometimes, tears would just flow outta my eyes, particularly if it was an incident that had a certain meaning to it, like the time I cried at KLIA before I left for Perth for the second time last year. Heck, at times, I get emotional watching B'z's Itsuka No Merry Christmas and OCEAN performances from last year's Music Station SuperLive 2005 concert cause I think about my best bud, Masta K, a lot just by watching that.

These days, with my newfound fandom for the beautiful Yuna Ito, I have gotten emotional just listening to her singles. Yes, her career started to kick off sometime last year when she emerged in the Japanese music world, thanks in part to her role as Reira in the hit movie based on the popular manga, NANA, but nonetheless, the singles that she released, ENDLESS STORY, a Japanese cover of a very popular Western song, If I'm Not In Love by Dawn Ann Thomas and was voted by Oricon readers as the Number One Love Song Of 2005, and her latest single, Faith, both ballads by the way, would not fail in making my eyes water a bit. I guess with the powerful vocals that she posseses (She could reach the seven octaves at a very young age!), the musical arrangements and the meaningful lyrics, it's no surprise that it could easily touch my heart just by listening to them. Faith is probably the best example, but I shall save that for the review in my blog if you click on the link right below the Currently listening to section after the post. Rarely do I hear songs that would make me cry and now, with these two singles, I was proven wrong indeed.

I maybe a wrestling purist for 13 hard long years, which would make all of you judge me to be a no-nonsense temperamental tough guy, but I am indeed a softie at heart too.

Anyways, enough about that. I guess I should update about my current life so far, which is pretty, umm, dull. Yeah, but at least yesterday, I got to go out for dinner with Abu, Philip and Esther, my KDU friends who are studying in Murdoch with me, so that is indeed kinda refreshing for me. I'm not entirely sure what else my plans are for this week though, but I hope it would be a good week for me. It has been boring lately, but then again, it's just my second week here in Perth, so I've got about 13 more weeks or so before I depart back to K.L. again.

So, I guess that is all from me today. Till then...........

Woke up this morning with a sore throat and a terrible headache. Body was feeling kinda cold as well, thus I decided to skip lecture today. Despite that, I might still have to go to uni and settle some stuff and if I have to, I might just walk over to the pharmacy in Kardinya and get me some Lemsip to ease the illness.

But despite the illness, I still had a pretty good weekend. Saturday morning saw me attend a gothic lolita breakfast session, where I did make some new friends and reunited with some old friends as well. Sure, I did feel like the odd one outta the bunch, but I still had fun nonetheless. To everyone, must apologise for being kinda quiet most of the time. Usually, I'm pretty quiet when I'm around a pretty new crowd, but I guess now that I know all of you, it wouldn't be such a problem anymore.

After that, I went back home, only to get a phone call from my sis telling me that I have to pack my stuff since I'll be staying over at my grandparent's house tonight. Later on, decided to kill some time by watching several WrestleMania matches for entertainment purposes, then later, with my sis and G-TO, went off to Northbridge for dinner with Tasha M, Jimmy, Ee, Izza and Theo, where we had Chinese cuisine. With the night still being young, we were thinking of what we were gonna do to kill even more time. So, we headed off to Hit Box for a three hour karaoke session (minus Izza and Theo cause they went back after dinner) and sang the night away, which is pretty interesting considering that I have another upcoming karaoke session with Clara tomorrow night. Anyone up to join us?

We went to Oriel's after karaoke for a drink and more chat before heading home. Woke up the next day at around 2:30 pm, then took my shower and decided to watch some Music Station SuperLive 2005 after that. We then headed over to Northbridge again for lunch at Saigon, then planned on going to King's Park. However, instead of going to King's Park, we switched plans and headed over to Cottesloe Beach to check out the sunset. We managed to catch it in time before it did set and all the hype about the beach was all true.

The beach was just simply gorgeous. Probably in my mind, better than Hillary's where we would usually go to. I don't mind living near the area anyways since I am a fan of the sun, the sand and the sea. In fact, I do wish to own a beach house of my own one day as my personal retreat if I need to unwind all of my stress. The good thing is, we will be heading off to the beach this coming weekend. Can't wait for it.

After a short, yet good time on the beach, we headed to Victoria Park for dinner, then parted ways, as I then came back to my beloved flat, did my flat duty since I was still awake, then went off to sleep.

Maybe it's just me, by I'm beginning to like two-member bands these days. I like B'z, I like Dreams Come True and now, I'm beginning to like Sukima Switch as well. I guess the combination of having a lyricist and a songwriter as a duo does indeed prove that you can make beautiful music together.

Till then, I shall bid ya'll adieu.

I remembered writing good things about Kid Chan last time in an old blog of mine and agreed what he said that sometimes, great comments can be better than sex. Hehehe. Weird comparison if you ask me.

I did stumble upon my friend, Sze Ching's Friendster blog (I'm gonna add a link to it sometime tomorrow) and, well, what she wrote about me in her blog, I dunno what to say, but I'm really flattered. Here's the excerpt of it from her blog:

well joe, if you're reading this, i went through your postings in detail after i sent u the message. and i must say that you have evoked a sense of envy in me on what you do all the time! you have met so many sorts of people, so many friends, so many opportunities, thanks to your beloved mother...compared to me! We're both the same age, but what have i done that is worth feeling your degree of satisfaction and passion? we've both been in 'Jalan Impian', yet you came out gaining more from it than me. you have to be proud about yourself for this joe! well, i guess this only comes natural to you^-^. i'm sorry if i sound envious......

And your songs and poems, they are lovely. it's not everyday i meet a person who really takes the effort to pen down what it is in their hearts. Not many people can have such intensity in their feelings to overflow into the tips of their pens. keep the pen flowing joe. you have a new supporter^.^

Well, I already commented about it in her blog, but all I can say is, once again, thank you so much for writing that, Sze Ching. Trust me on this when I say that I'm very proud and privileged to have such a great friend like you.

Guess I have to end it here already. Am feeling so drowsy at the moment. I need sleep.

I need Nero badly.......................

I found that I have another DVD burning software in my laptop, but unfortunately, the problem I seem to be facing is that the audio isn't in synch with the video upon viewing the final product and that itself pisses me off.

But anyways, onto more happier topics.

Yesterday, I went off to the city for the first time since I got here last week. I went out with Josh, Ayumi and Kyoko and we had a short lunch before the three of them had to head off to uni for classes. It was good chatting with them about j-pop and other stuff as well and it was interesting for them to tell me that I know more Japanese stuff than them. Maybe they're just amazed that these two particular gaijins know a lot about their culture. XD XD XD

After that, I headed off to Gloria Jean's to meet up with Jeff, his friend Emily and Clara. It's been a while since I last met Jeff and Clara, so I was really glad to meet up with them for a chat. Learnt some new info from them as well in terms of what's happening in their lives as well. Finally, we all bid each other adieu when both Jeff and Emily left, while Clara and I went off to hang out some more before we both parted ways after sending her off to the train station.

Later that night, I decided to hang out with my sis's group of friends, which includes Jimmy, Tasha M, Ee, Izza and Teo. While having some crepes, Reem and Sasha, two of my former classmates from KDU, dropped by to lepak with us as well. After that, we headed over to Syaza's house near Garden City and had a good time talking about all sorts of random stuff before heading back home.

I've sorted out most of my uni stuff already and in the end, I've come to the conclusion that I'll be graduating by middle of next year with my Degree. I'm hoping to partake in my Masters as well after that is over and done with before finally completing that phase in my life and moving onto the real world in the near future.

Dang. I'm bored. Perhaps I'll just go over to the city later and maybe have some grub there.

I hate being dyslexic.

It cost me one hour of lecture just now.

It all begin like this. I woke up at about 9:30am and the class starts at 10:30am. As I took my shower, checked my laptop to see whether my D Drive is being defragmented, I decided to head off for lecture, while Falique's parents, who came by today, asked me to join them for breakfast. I told them that I was heading for class and to my horror, as I looked at my watch, it was 11:30am!

So, I missed my very first Principles Of Journalism lecture, as I sat in shock over what had just happened. Okay. In a way, I felt as if I just entered some weird-ass time paradox, where time moved by so freakingly fast. It could probably stem from that nightmare I had last night, but I dunno. It was just so weird. Somehow, I knew something like this was bound to happen sooner or later, although I guess this was just a little too soon. Hopefully, there's iLectures for the unit for me to catch up on.

Sis and G-TO are coming down to Perth today. Might probably meet up with them later on tonight for makan. Will see how things go.

I think one of the most controversial moments I went through last semester was failing my Popular Literature unit. What shocked me about the results was that I was doing really well, participating as much as I could, doing good with the presentation and scoring a Credit for the first assignment. I wasn't the only one who got hit with this bug as my friend, Leng, also got hit by it and to my surprise, Aceh, who's a classmate of mine and is a pretty bright student as well, also failed the unit! So, the three of us are planning to meet our lecturer/tutor at that time, Grant Stone (aka The End) and ask him what went wrong today.

Interestingly enough, that wasn't the first time that happened to me. Back in KDU, a whole bunch of us failed the Digital Media unit, which was later revealed that it there were errors in our results! In the end, quite a number of us passed that unit and we can all blame that dumbass lecturer, Lucinder Joseph, for fucking things up with our results.

I've got flat meeting afterwards, meaning I'll have to try and clear things up in our lounge so we don't give a bad image to the RAs, our fellow residents and of course, good old Willie, who'll be popping by to partake in this meeting as well.

Meanwhile, I'll have to try and figure out how to get to the city tomorrow to meet up with Jeff and Clara for coffee. Wonder what service is Transperth using now?

Oh. And be sure to check out this hillarious Mario Kart DS commercial. It's sure as hell funny as ever!

http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=3407

Yeah. It's freakingly hot today here in Perth since it's currently summertime and at this rate, I would kill to have a good time at the beach right now.

Surprisingly though, coming back to Perth was like coming to Perth for the first time. Sure I was a little homesick, but suddenly, from I believe Saturday onwards, all of those homesickness were gone and I felt a helluva more at ease right now! Pretty funny feelng if you ask me, but I'm really having a good time here at the moment.

I currently live in Flat 86 Room 1 in Student Village. As per my request, I am now in an ensuite instead of a single room, so not only do I have a personal bathroom, I also have a personal telephone to go along with it as well! Furthermore, compared to my previous room, there's a lot more space in this cozy room of mine now and it's pretty near the south carpark of Murdoch Uni.

My flatmates consist of Falique, a Malaysian who's been studying in Brisbane for a long time (and picked up a heavy Aussie accent) and is majoring in International Business, Queenie, a Norwegian girl who's enrolled in a Science course and Chantelle, a gorgeous Aussie who's majoring in Biomedical Science. All in all, I'm having a great time socializing with my flatmates and their bunch of friends (had a good chat with Chantelle last night as well) and compared to my previous flatmates from last year, I'm loving it here.

Yesterday was a pretty fun day. Queenie invited me to join her and her mates in a game of volleyball and we played several rounds of it and enjoyed ourselves a lot. Later on that night, Student Village had their welcome BBQ, which was really really fun. I met a lotta new friends, including two superbly hot American chicks, Jackie from New York and Emily from Seattle, a Japanese girl name Ayumi from Nagoya and also several other peeps as well. The highlight was being able to reunite with some of my juniors from KDU whom I hung out a lot with last time, so with most of us around (excluding Aaron and Josephine cause they're still stuck in KDU), we could go back to the good old days of hanging out with each other again.

I had Media Audiences lecture today, which in a way was the first chapter in my new semester. So far, everything went okay and I was a lot more focused than ever as well. I guess the three month holiday that I had really motivated me to work extra harder than ever and this time around, I'm aiming for Distinctions all the way. It's gonna be a tough road for me, but I'll do whatever it takes to be the best at what I can do.

On another bright side, I'm finally done downloading the full Music Station Super Live 2005 concert with every performance being in it and zero commercial breaks. (Would actually be cool to actually catch the Mario Kart DS commercial featuring the "Hot" Super Mario Bros. Hehehe.) I'm trying to see if I can make DVD copies of it, but unfortunately, my VAIO Click To DVD software loves to fuck up on me, so I was wondering if any of you guys (particularly those in Perth) could recommend me a good software to burn these DVDs and lemme know asap.

Till next time!

From killermovies.com:

Mei Melancon As Villian In 'X-Men 3'

[Thursday, January 5th, 2006]
Mei Melancon has joined the cast of X-Men 3as the evil mutant assassin Psylocke, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Melancon, who appeared in Brett Ratner's Rush Hour 2, is reteaming with the helmer for the third installment of the superhero franchise. Word began leaking last week from the Vancouver set that the latest "X-Men" installment would introduce the character Psylocke, who has had several incarnations in the Marvel comic book series and is best known for her fighting and telepathic skills as well as an ability to transport herself and others through shadows.

In the film, she will fight against the X-Men as a member of Magneto's (Ian McKellen) Brotherhood of Mutants.

I'm not trying to sound mean or anything to all the X-Men purists out there, but who cares about Gambit not being in the new X-Men movie! At least there's Psylocke, my favourite female X-Men character, that will be in the movie! I do wonder why she has to be a Brotherhood member when I thought she was one of the X-Men members?

Ah! Who cares lah! I'm looking forward to this movie even more now!

This was a scan from the AJPW DVD I received last night. See if you can spot me out. XD XD XD

Ouch! My biceps and abs are terribly aching after yesterday morning's workout and having said that, I decided to skip the gym today and probably go over there and workout again tomorrow.

If that wasn't painful enough, Torrent is still slow (well, my connection to be exact) and thus, I'm still waiting for the Music Station Super Live 2005 concert to finish being downloaded. I find it funny that my upload rate is very good, but my download rate is the absolute shit (negative connotation). Hopefully, it would be done by today itself cause I am after all very impatient and most importantly, I wanna give this wonderful laptop of mine a much deserving rest.

My parents have already bought me the flight ticket back to Perth and that would mean I will indeed be going back to Perth on the 17th and also missing the Orientation on that week, but then again, it's orientation, so what would I be missing out on anyways? Only thing is I'll have to make the best outta this week and next week before I depart off and enjoy myself for as much as I can while I'm here.

So, I went out for coffee with Arina today and had a good time chatting with her. Masta K would later join us and after that, we parted ways. That was enough for me to enjoy myself today, as I then took a short nap back at home and am now updating this blog of mine.

Am pretty pissed that my new Samurai Shodown game ain't working. I've been dying to play that game for a very long time and now, it ended up dying on me instead. At least my Onimusha: Dawn Of Dreams game is working, so thank god for that, but I'm stuck at the third chapter and have absolutely no idea what to do. Looks like I'll have to rely on Gamefaqs for this problem of mine.

I was suppose to update the blog with more songs I wrote, but my mom couldn't find the lyrics. She was suppose to keep them to show it to Helen and Alex, but now she couldn't seem to find it at all. This absolutely sucks cause one of my favourite works is included in there and I really need it badly.

I've ordered a couple of puroresu DVDs, including the two events I went for while I was in Japan and at the same time, I also ordered several joshi puroresu DVDs, including the Belief II event that I watched on TV while I was in Japan. Yup. Ever since the time I went for that M's Style event (and met the lovely Hikaru) and checked out the free DVD that came with a Lady's Gong magazine that I bought (it was a Christmas issue and featured AToZ's Kana, J'd's Fuka and M's Style's Ayumi Kurihara on the cover), I've become a lot more fascinated with the sport and have since wanted to watch a lot more of it, hence the purchase of these DVDs. Hopefully, they would arrive in time before I leave for Perth since I wanna show everyone the AJPW event at Korakuen Hall and point out to them as to where I sat at.

My parents have planned on going to Cameron Highlands in August to attend a relative's wedding, leaving me and my sis over in Perth. Now, it's been eight years since I last went to Cameron and the last time I went there, I had a blast as much like the Penang trip I mentioned in one of my updates, we had the Yusofs, Hatims and Rahims all taking a kick-ass holiday up in the hills and enjoying ourselves a lot. One of my more fond memories was when we stayed up late at night and Awe and I were freaking bored, while our parents were playing a game of Boggle. So we switched on the telly and there was this show that RTM2 would always play before the telecast for that day ends, which was called "Thought For The Day" and they would have an expert in whatever field (mostly in Islamic stuff) lecturing about, well, the thought for the day. (Duh!) Now, this professor with glasses, a kopiah and a beard which made him resemble NOAH wrestler and president, Mitsuharu Misawa, was talking about eating. With all due respect to his command of English, but the way he pronounced some words sounded like the way a three year old kid would say whenever he/she would try to talk.

Don't get the idea? Consider this. While most people would say, "I'm eating a banana," properly, his version went like this:

"I.........eat...........ba-NA-na!" (Yes. He emphasized on the first "na" in the word banana.)

Awe and I were snickering in the background, while my dad overheard that bit and started laughing hysterically and thus, that very phrase turned into a phenomenon. Okay. Maybe not a phenomenon since we rarely say that these days, but it is indeed good for a laugh or so at times and definitely one goofy way of reminiscing times.

But anyways, as I mentioned, my parents will indeed be going to Cameron without me and this really sucks cause I'll do anything it takes to go back up there again since I really miss Cameron Highlands a lot. Hell, if we could relive the previous trip to Cameron again with the same three families, the more better!

Ah well. Looks like I'll have to wait longer for that to happen again.

That's all for today. Have a nice day ahead!