Tommy Emmanuel concert 19-6-2009

My cousin is a big fan of Tommy Emmanuel, he pre-ordered these tickets last year just to make sure he doesn't miss the master of acoustic guitar himself in action, haha i even remember discussing about the concert and i was thinking to myself "ahh there is still a long way to go", well, last friday, that day came, for the first time in my 4 months here. i stepped foot into Sydney's city...pathetic i know..i've been here for 4 months and i have not been to the city before....so anyways...there was nothing to shout about in the city as we went late and did not have much time for sightseeing.... and by 5pm it was night time and it was freaking hard to take good night view pictures with these shaky hands of mine....should have asked cousin to bring along his dslr..


So.... for the concert, we were very lucky to be able to meet and shake hands with Tommy Emmanuel himself!! to have a guitar god standing right beside you is a crazy feeling i tell you!! he even gave a few lucky fans a few tips and tricks on playing the guitar...well those guys are already pro's who bought their own guitars to play along with Tommy backstage...


And for the main event, the concert itself.... this is my very first time watching him live and i was never a big fan of his to start with, i only tagged along with my cousin who was kind enough to buy me a ticket, after wacthing him play, i was simply amazed by his speed and creativity, he was so fast that i think no normal human can achieve that speed, and about his creativity, he utilizes almost every part of the guitar for his songs, i can say that from that very moment, i never looked at the acoustic guitar the same again, there is just so many things you can do with it, as he said "the guitar is a weapon of mass construction" the only downside was that the audio was a bit off, as he turned the volume up too high, the sound is not as sharp as it should be, but it was a fantastic show nonetheless, i will definitely buy a ticket if he ever performs in sydney again!!

Holidays!!

YYEAHH!! EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER!! i have been looking forward for this day for quite a while... but to be honest, i don't feel all that great and excited, mainly because i know i did very badly in my marketing paper, which i think i will most probably fail...:( the excitement for the holidays faded away
as soon as i flipped open the paper, all the processes that i thought would be important and memorized never came out, to add insult to injury, i was stuck at the most important part of the paper, the case study which weights 40% of the entire paper,so unless i score something close to a full mark in my multiple choice and short answer question, i ill fail marketing....:( i feel so bad for my parents.. :'( well, let this be a lesson to me, i just have to start working hard from the first day of next semester, not during the final month of it


But i am pretty sure no one is here to read about how i did in the exams, so after the exams, i got one of my friends to watch Terminator Salvation with me, and we both agreed that this movie kicked ass!! the best terminator ever!!! behind terminator 2! :P


Also.. i quickly grabbed myself a copy of The Sims 3 from EB games for $69, it was a pretty good deal as the market price is $99!! started playing it yesterday and i really did not feel the excitement as i used to have when playing games...partly because my laptop does not perform half as fast as my desktop :(:(:(

The funny part about after exams is that when i came home, i just dunno what to do....for the past month i've been rushing home for assignments and the like, even more for the past week...which resulted in my now pimply-ish face, ( i was free from pimples for quite a while :P, how ironic that my friends used to call me pimple face, when now they have more pimples than me lol) no longer i have to keep thinking about how much should i get done by today...ahh i think i'm gonna need 1 or 2 days to settle in this "new life" of mine :)

What the!@#$??

I have always been known for being a clumsy person, once i slipped on my slippers which resulted in my knee hitting the sharp edge of a gutter, leaving a deep scar that remains till today, well today i have proven it again, so i arrived at the train station early, the train doesn't arrive in 7 minutes, so i thought it would be a good idea to "visit" the public toilet upstairs, bad mistake..... some of you may know that i like to "skip one step" when i am walking up staircases and escalators, people always say i shouldn't do it, as i may fall, well today is the day.... i fell and cut my finger......at first i thought it was just like a normal cut, i was wrong, the cut was deep, so deep that blood wouldn't stop oozing out from my fingertip.......i washed my hand again and again to get rid of the blood....to no avail, then i decided to ask for some band aid from the staff, luckily, the bleeding stopped shortly after that.....and this entry wouldn't be complete without pictures right?? so here goes..

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OMG!!

omg!!! i have once again successfully abandoned my blog......in think my blog holds the world record for the lowest frequency of updates....i am so sorry my good friends, Uni has not been kind to me lately, had 2 assignments right after the semster break, not to mention that i spent 4 days rushing for my economics assignment last week, which i think i messed up because when i was uber tired and stressed up when i was producing the final "product", then after that i had to study for my statistics test, so i was averaging on 4 hours of sleep per day for a week(with 0% coffee mind you ;), not very healthy at all, but this is the price you have to pay if you enjoy the semester break haha, so now that i have some breathing room, i shall update my blog!!

So with the semester ending in about 4 weeks, it's pretty much crunch time now!! Things that are left on my checklist are Marketing literature review on product branding, Marketing group presentation, Philosophy final essay, and statistics final assignment!! Then finals comes about one week after that!! Damn and i am so worried about economics now! couldnt get a study group together :( looks like its a solo battle with economics!! i shall start studying for it today!!!

On a not so distressing note, i have applied for a job!! If everything goes well, this well might be my first job, i applied for a nightfill job at a nearby Woolworths supermarket!! Basically i will have to work from 7pm-3am if the job needs me, for up to 20 hours per week, i know the hours are shit but at least i get a pretty decent paycheck :P

So that about sums it up for my update! I will try to update more of the time allows me to...and wish me luck on getting the job!! peace out and stay tuned! :)

Halftime!!

Hey!! Happy Easter everyone!!! I am now halfway through my first Uni semester!!! I can still remember feeling all so excited for Uni...which is rather stupid if you were to ask me now,because now i just can't wait to get this semester over with!!! So i am currently having my 2 week long Easter holidays, and it does not give me a holiday-ish feel... because i have tonnes of work to do... my stats quizzes, my marketing literature review and presentation, my economics and philosophy assignment ....goshh... i think i'm starting to hate Uni!! :P....anyways, my holiday have been good so far,been relaxing and bumming around.... haha i didn't mentioned that i spent almost all friday playing Final Fantasy 10!!! well i didn't finish the last time i played...which was almost like 6 years ago?? Too bad the ps2 decided to die on me today, which is a Saturday......maybe this is some sort of message that i should get started on my work!!! C'mon!! i am not done with my holidays yet!!! I am still planning to go to the Easter show but i currently have no company to go with!!! anybody up for the easter show?? was supposed to go with a few friends from Newcastle, but just found out that they are going with a group of 40 people!!thats right!! 40 living breathing homosapiens!!!on a superpacked Sunday with around 100,000 more people there!!! As most people will agree, i would prefer a "smaller" group.. so i rejected them. Sorry guys!! :) Ohhh!!! and did i mention that i am gonna get a new phone!!!! More info on it on the bext post!!! Till then, cheers!!

Silly me

I've done tonnes of silly things in my life, i think might even be doing silly things on a daily basis, like that time when i was supposed to finish 2 papers in 2 sessions and ended up rushing both in 1...not to mention the other time where i filled in my student number on the other surname area, coz it was under the surname and i assumed that you write your student id after your name right?? so to the lecturer, my name is now Teh 41622111 Theng Tsing.... damn i am an idiot......

So, my day started at 7am, i woke to hitch a ride from my cousin, who's office is around 10 minutes away from my Uni, convenient eh? :P, and yea, we left the house around 7:50am and faced the usual morning jam, and i reached Uni at 9am...which is pretty early since my tutorial starts at 10am, so i went to the computer lab to do a bit of revision and watch some Youtube(I can't watch Youtube at home.) Funny thing is, when i went for the tutorial.... no one was there, i was starting to think that class was canceled and everyone was off to an early easter party..lolol....turns out that we don't have tute for this week.....damn... my second tutorial doesn't start until 12pm, so i went to the library, hoping to find a book for my Marketing Literature review!! and i did!! not to mention that i almost gave up looking for it, and when i grabbed the last one, i thought to myself, if this one doesnt have it, i'll just do an online research...and i hit the jackpot immediately after that, the very topic that i am looking for!! Product Branding!!!! I couldn't be any luckier eh?

So the day went on as usual...until....around 2pm..... this one is quite embarassing actually haha... but i am gonna share it here anyways!! So i was in the toilet, about to do everyone does it the toilet, when suddenly, my belt buckle fell off and dropped to the cubicle next to mine, where some guy was taking a poop, i can tell by his leg position :P, so i used my feet to drag my belt buckle back to my side... i was soextremelyfucking embarrased after that.....wonder whats on that guy's mind when he saw my feet creeping into his cubicle......

Well.... that's pretty much it for today's silly events... maybe someday if i do more silly things and did not die from embarrasment, i will post it here again :P

I miss you.....

I am always thinking about the good times we had, you were with me for almost every waking hour of my life, we spend some days together from 1oam till 2am, i thought i could simply move 4000 miles away from you and not think about you all the time, i was so wrong, i am so miserable without you here, sometimes i can't even sleep when i think back the old days, i just wished that you were here now......i can't wait for my holidays to see you again, but until then, i know you're in good hands......i miss you so much........................



God.... i must be the lamest person on earth..... (-_-") anyways, happy belated April Fool's day everyone, this year however is quite different from many other April Fool's day, this year, i did not witness any pranks or neither did i pull a prank on my friends......Damn i miss pissing people off on April Fool's day :P