Halloween

Yes I realise I'm 2 days late, but I just need an excuse to write an entry even though I could just write about crap. Well anyway halloween was 2 days ago. Annoying little bitches knocking on your door asking for free candy. As a child I only went trick or treating a few times. One of the times resulting in me and my cousins ages 8 -12 being to to 'f*** off, my babies sleeping' errmm. Now years on I see how annoying it is, but I see the fun side of it going out and getting free stuff. In previous years people have knocked on ours doors and we've been like wtf? Its halloween? Then having to dig through the pantry and get crappy 12 pack potato chips and giving them to the kids because you know if you dont give them what they want it usually ends in your house getting egged. Well this year we came prepared. We bought the shittiest lollies ever. Hard as a rock, tastes like chalk. Muhahah. So waiting there on halloween night expecting heaps of little critters ringing my door bell, but only a few came this year which promted me to think.. are we too old of halloween. I mean obviously, but are even the 5-12 year olds too old for halloween now? Are they too busy waering their cantebury or whatever pants and their stripe polo shirts with their popped collars and raggedy ass hair and nike tns with a ciggarette behind their ear saying shit like 'awww eshayss feck yeh!!'? The little primary school kids on my bus are doing that and swearing their heads off with sick arse mobile phones listening to hardstlye and stuff. When i was in year 4 i was likr 'mumma mia you swore' and was playing with pokemon cards and listening to the theme song. WTF does a year 4 guy need a mobile phone for? Who do they need to ring? Call 1900 888 to win this sweet prize pack, but make sure you have mum and dads permission first. Year 4 guy- ha screw that i got ma own ph0nes y0!.

Farr well that was a bunch of BS that i wasted the last 5 mins writing. I just wasted my own time . wth. Well school certificate is in 2 weeks and my formal is in 3 1/2. ITs going to be sweeet. hahah.

OMG JAPAN

Our school got Japanese student visitors :D

They were from Seitoku Fukaya High lol. It was a pretty good day besides all the bung activities they made us do. Painting paper bags with cottone buds ftw. My partener was pretty cool, Yukiko :D, she was pretty quiet, but i guess thats mainly because of the language barrier.

I've got to start studying for yearly exams which start next week T_T. Then school certificate the week after. wtfff and then i have to start looking for a job for the holidays oh lawd. haha

Wong Fu Productions

So I stayed up until 5am yesterday just watching youtube videos *nooo my downlaod quota T_T.

I was watching videos from Wong Fu Productions, these are the guys that made the Yellow Fever and Just A Nice Guy videos. They just make a bunch of short films and lip sync music videos, but each of them has a good concept and good ideas behind them.

Heres their website http://www.wongfuproductions.com/

You can see all the videos on it, some good ones are 'Just a nice guy', 'My unspoken words', 'Together at last', 'Im yours clip', 'Sunday Morning clip', 'Senorita clip', too many to list but try to watch them all if you can :)

And heres just the youtube channels

http://www.youtube.com/user/WongFuProductions?ob=1

http://www.youtube.com/user/pwangs

http://www.youtube.com/user/thewesleychan

Well school starts soon, I don't know f its tomorrow or Tuesday. The stupid enrolement night is on Tuesday aswell. Farr that shit is confusing, I'm trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

Guess thats it from me. Nothing much else is going on.

 Kevin

Train Angel

Coming back from Parramatta today on the train and I see the absolutely, most beautiful girl i have possibly ever seen. She was asian, long curly hair, nice smile.. oh god someone stop me. I was dieing in my seat and she kept looking and giggling to her friends. Too bad i wasnt Game enough to approach her before she got off, but god almighty she was the perfect girl T_T. Lol that is all for today :) hahah

School Certificate

Well just browsing the web and why not make a blog entry since its been a while hey?

Here in Australia for all you Non-Australians out there who i seriously doubt read my blog anyway, the school certificate is a certificate given to you by the department of education run by the government after your completion of year 10 and for all you Americans thats basically high school for you guys since college for you is years 11 and 12 here.

So why the hell did you need to know that? It's because im in year 10 :) and my school certificate is in a month. Major shiz but yeah. Intense studying and stress is what i will be feeling when the final exams come closer.

Anyway in 'Australian' terms its been a scorcher or really friking hottt T_T, but its not that bad, could be freezing cold i guess. It's been pretty boring, only going out every once in a while, but apart from that ive been at home lazing around like a lazy bitch. I should really be doing assignments or studying early, but meh.

Ive been trying to find things to do, ive attempted to take pictures with my 'pro' slr camera which didnt turn out too bad but yeah kind of given up on that since im surrounded by boring un creative things. Hard to make art if you dont have the right paint. LOL hope you enjoyed that analergy or whatever. I also considered taking up writing. Like little poems. Which can be gay if you want but... yeah. I had some seriously good ideas, i just didnt get them on paper :\.

Oh and my high school basketball team made the semi-finals for the Sydney-west district. Not bad if you ask me ;) lol.

Well thats basically whats been going on im my life for the past month, well not everything, but thats the jist of it (Y). *waves

 - Kevin

EDIT

Oh shit hold on still some more things i need to get down.

That school I got into is a bitch. The enrolment process is so freaking big. I know hey its and exclusive school ect ect but come friken onn. i gotta fill out 20 forms and attened some interview at 7 at night and them fill some more forms and them got to some stooge day about sometihng. @_@.

Okay next thing. The Vice Presidential Debate for America was held today. Sarah Palin vs Borac Obamas old dude running partener. Well to sum it all up for you Matt Damon has read my mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk

TADAAA  hold on I'll even embed this bad boy for you

There was one more thing but i cant remember it grrr. Hope everyone had a good September and look forward to October Fest lolol.

 - Kevin

OMFG YEAHHH!!

omggg i got into the school!!
second round picks came up for the school and i got innn.
OMG parents are happy everyone is happy gives me heaps of relief!!1
YAY. I LOVE EVERYONE!!!

OH MAN!!

Well for those of you who remember my 'Last Day' post, I mention my enrollment into a new school, St Marys Senior High.

During lunch time today one of my friends tells me that she had been accepted into the school which i had hoping to be aswell. I asked her how she knew that and she replies that her mother was at home and they had send the letter in the mail. this just got me all excited and nervous and anxious until i got home. Up to this point i had been pretty confident with my application. Sure i wasn't the best student in my school but i was up there. During our career interviews we had about our futures one of the teachers said that she thinks that i would get in for sure so there i was all smug. Also my sister had attended this school in the last 2 years and was a stand out student, so maybe that was going to help me. So after hearing the news about my friend i congradulate her and get back to playing back to playing basketball, to which i totally pwned :p.
The lessons during they day we totally awesome. We had a role play lesson in which me and my friends were the best in.lol. seriously we should make our own tv show or something were that good.

So i arrive home after school and my legs are absoloutely spent after sport. I could hardly walk. I take a peek into my mail box and its flooded with letters. This is where i start getting nervous. The first letter was some stupid bank one adressed to my Dad. I flick it to the bottom. Next was the same letter from the same stupid bank but this time adressed to my mother T_T. I then anxiously flick it to the back. Then low and behold, what ive been waiting for, a letter adressed to me. I start to get really nervous and think about what this means. The immense pressure coming from my family. I playback previous conversations, 'you ABSOLOUTELY MUST get into this school', and my friends, they had all applied and i wondered what would happen if they all got accepted and i was the only one left out. There i was, i wouldnt exactly say i had the worlds weight on my shoulders but it was pretty close. Too nervous I text message my friend first and tell him im about to open it. Out of hesitation i tear it open. I start reading. To my utter disbelief the letter read 'Unfortunately I must inform you....' as this point i knew that i had been unsucessful but refused to believe what had come. I kept reading in some hope that they had made a mistake some where. ' inform you that we are not in a position to offer you a 2009 place at this time'. My heart sank. It goes on to read about how there was such a quality of enrollments and that i should not let this affect me personally + i can send in some bull of a form so they can reconsider me if any spots open up. I ring my friend and tell him that i hadn't made it, my throat was all effed up. He tells me that he hadn't made it either. This was kinf of bitter sweet because i was sad for him that he hadn't made it but happy because we would probably be attending the same school now and keep being 'bros'. My other friend of 8 years, she has made it in, i feel happy for her. And another of my friends also female makes it in. Im starting to see a kind of trend forming here, but that was jsut an excuse i was making up. The more i thought about it the sadder and angrier i got. That sadness and anger soon turned to a slight depression.
Then not being able to log onto blog spot and vent my feelings made the anger come back!!! But then i jsut forgot about it. I thought to myself ' hey life goes on, this isnt the worst thing that has every happend to you'. Then i tought back to all the times i've really wanted something. Not material things like a little kid, but things that are important and i thoguht how many times have i actually been good enough to myself to reward myself with sucesss. One.... One times out of countless. This was the point where i thought to myself that i was digging my self a hole and that i was selling my self short. I could do so much better. I vowled to get 100% in my upcoming maths test to prove something to myself that i CAN do it. Being accepted into the school would of made my weekend. I was going to go out to the local festival with a very good friend of mine that i had actually never really med in person properly yet and she isnt messaging me back. Seems like a lonely weekend for me.

Yeah so have a good weekend. byee.

- Kevin

R.I.P Isaac Hayes

http://www.nme.com/news/isaac-hayes/38778
Isaac Hayes passed away yesterday (August 10) in Memphis after being found unconscious near a treadmill in his home. He was 65. Hayes was discovered by his wife, son and his wife's cousin who returned home from buying groceries to find him on the floor of a downstairs bedroom. After being taken to hospital, Hayes was pronounced dead. Born August 20, 1942, in Covington, TN, Isaac Hayes was orphaned as a baby and was brought up by his grandparents in a poor rural environment where the family raised their own food. At 21, Hayes joined the Stax Records family in Memphis and his first paid sessions were as a pianist with Otis Redding in 1964. Going on to work with Booker T And The MGs, The Bar-Kays and Rufus Thomas, Hayes performed as a session musician with a string of acts that created what became known as the Memphis Sound. His most famous collaboration proved to be 'Soul Man' which he co-wrote for Sam And Dave. The track had been inspired by the African-American Civil Rights Movement and specifically Hayes seeing coverage of the 12 Street Detroit Riot on television. He noted that African-American owned and operated institutions were marked with the word "soul" so that rioters did not destroy them. He co-wrote the track with his regular song-writing partner David Porter, as "a story about one's struggle to rise above his present conditions. It's almost a tune [where it's] kind of like boasting 'I'm a soul man'. It's a pride thing". Hayes' 1969 solo album 'Hot Buttered Soul' was groundbreaking. The record put him on the map thanks to his unique style, which introduced new music directions, from his rap-vocals to longer songs. It was his 1971 album 'Shaft' that shot Hayes to stardom. As the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, the album was the first record by a solo black artist to reach the top of both the R&B and Pop charts, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song and landing three Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe. The album stayed in the charts for 16 months. In addition to his music, Hayes forged a successful career as an actor, with roles in over 30 movies including 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights', 'It Could Happen To You' and 'Reindeer Games'. His TV career also flourished as the voice of Nickelodeon's 'Nick At Nite' and acting roles in 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air', 'Sliders', 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'Girlfriends'. In 1997 he landed the voice of Chef on animated TV show 'South Park', voicing the popular character from the show's inception until 2006. In character, he scored a UK Number single in 1999 with 'Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You)'. Hayes left the show acrimoniously after reportedly being unhappy with an episode which criticised his religion Scientology, with the star reportedly saying at the time "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins." However with Hayes suffering a stroke just before his departure from the show, there was some question whether he could have been capable of making such a statement, or the decision by himself. Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, Hayes's music has been sampled in over 200 songs by the likes of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Destiny's Child, Tricky, Portishead and Notorious BIG. Hayes was married four times and had 12 children. He is survived by his wife Adjowa.


Whats going on? First Bernie Mac and now Isaac Hayes. A very sad week. I'll admit that i never knew who Isaac Hayes was but from what i hear he did accomplished great things in his life. Rest in peace Hayes.

- Kevin

Rest In Peace Bernie Mac

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxU6PJjRqPOON16dBrcLCWEHcIXgD92EQFBG0

CHICAGO (AP) — Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show," died Saturday at age 50.
"Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.
She said no other details were available and asked that his family's privacy be respected.
The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.
Recently, Mac's brand of comedy caught him flack when he was heckled during a surprise appearance at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama.
Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine, Mac joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language. The performance earned him a rebuke from Obama's campaign.
But despite controversy or difficulties, in his words, Mac was always a performer.
"Wherever I am, I have to play," he said in 2002. "I have to put on a good show."
Mac worked his way to Hollywood success from an impoverished upbringing on Chicago's South Side. He began doing standup as a child, and his film career started with a small role as a club doorman in the Damon Wayans comedy "Mo' Money" in 1992. In 1996, he appeared in the Spike Lee drama "Get on the Bus."
He was one of "The Original Kings of Comedy" in the 2000 documentary of that title that brought a new generation of black standup comedy stars to a wider audience.
Mac went on to star in the hugely popular "Ocean's Eleven" franchise with Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
His turn with Ashton Kutcher in 2005's "Guess Who" topped the box office. It was a comedy remake of the classic Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn drama "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" — with Mac as the black dad who's shocked that his daughter is marrying a white man.
Mac also had starring roles in "Bad Santa," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Transformers."
In the late 1990s, he had a recurring role in "Moesha," the UPN network comedy starring pop star Brandy.
The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series "The Bernie Mac Show," which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006.
The series about a man's adventures raising his sister's three children, won a Peabody Award in 2002. At the time, judges wrote they chose the sitcom for transcending "race and class while lifting viewers with laughter, compassion — and cool."
The show garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac.
"But television handcuffs you, man," he said in a 2001 Associated Press interview. "Now everyone telling me what I CAN'T do, what I CAN say, what I SHOULD do, and asking, `Are blacks gonna be mad at you? Are whites gonna accept you?'"
He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001 along with his "The Original Kings of Comedy" co-stars, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric The Entertainer.
In 2007, Mac told David Letterman on CBS' "Late Show" that he planned to retire soon.
"I'm going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit," Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977."
Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on Oct. 5, 1957, in Chicago. He grew up on the city's South Side, living with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church.
In his 2004 memoir, "Maybe You Never Cry Again," Mac wrote about having a poor childhood — eating bologna for dinner — and a strict, no-nonsense upbringing.
"I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy," Mac told the AP in 2001. "I decided to try to make other people laugh when there wasn't a lot of things to laugh about."
Mac's mother died of cancer when he was 16. In his book, Mac said she was a support for him and told him he would surprise everyone when he grew up.
"Woman believed in me," he wrote. "She believed in me long before I believed."

I can't believe this, comes as such a surprise, such a funny guy, lived a great life, R.I.P Bernie :(

Olympics!11!!one!

So its been almost a month since my last post
reason being i actually forgot my password =\

anyway its the 8/8/08
and all i can say is... OLYMPICS MOFO
opening ceremony was the coolest thing ive ever seen
just when you think it cant get any better
BAM! something with an even more awesome value hits you
300 million dollars
thats how the chinese roll
and it was worth every cent, china rocks y0

yeah so this is going to be a relatively short post
ive been listening to oldd songs lately
'just my imagination - the temptations'
pretty good
and a random joke i made up to finish

'why is garfield orange?'
...
..
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'because he drinks too much orange juice'
bwhaha =D

The Last Day

So today is officially the last day of first semester break. Tomorrow will probably be the beginning of what might be the most important school term of my life so far. The HSC oh how i dread lol.

I look back on the past two weeks and wonder; was it time well spent?
Well before the break began i was left with an assignment that is hella time consuming, an ass load of maths crap to do and my application to a new school, a better school. Now considering i haven't completed any one of them yet is troublesome.

This new school I am enrolling in, I don't think i should disclose the name lol, most people say that its 'following the crowd' and 'teeny bopper style' to go there. I don't see it that way at all. You generally have to be bright to get into this school, no average joe will just be accepted. If today that means following the crowd, then i guess im just another one of the people following. So why do people label the school as being of teeny bopper stature? It might be because a big percentage of the schools past and present students are asians WhO tYp3s LiEk ThIs y0~! ^_^ hehehe, or maybe not. Whatever the reason I dont really care. So why am I going to this new school? Lets just say that the school I am attending now isnt exactly top notch. Not that i think im too good to continue going there, but if a window opens, who am i not to look through and eventually decide to go through. Plus also the fact my older sister attended this new school and the fact that I'm asian my parents expect alot from me. 1st or last is sometimes the way i think they see things. But thats changed, its been a while scince they've been on my ass about stuff like that. Mind you my marks arent bad either lol.

So the past 2 weeks. I count the days and try to remember what I've done. In total ive spent 6 days out with friends or family and 8 days inside my house doing squat. Most of the first week was spent out in the city, plaza or what have you. The second week i spen the first 2 days out and scince now have been cooped up in my house. Have i been spending my last week in my house doing useflu things?
Ofcourse not. Video games, films the occasional exercise but thats about it. Which brings me to about 2 days ago. After breakfast (or lunch i kind woke up at about 12) the bin was overflowing with crap. So its time to take out the grabage. So as i walk outside and throw the bag into the council bin, i just stop for a reason, I'm not sure. The cold wind blowing only to be balanced out by the warm sun.
I think to myself 'wow what a beautiful day' i look up at the blue sky, instantly feeling refreshed. Its been such a long time scince ive been out side and taken the time to notice all these things that I and maybe most people take for granted everyday. I can think of so many poems that Aya Kito wrote right now that would go so well with the situation.

So two weeks well spent? Well despite not doing much work at all and that i am now phased with an Everest of things to do, I've come to appreciate the smaller, finer things in life. It might not be as important you might think as doing well in my SC for my future, but for me, I'm happy that ive gotten to see again what i once took for granted. Never again.

Oh and what do you call a man in the bushes?

..Russel bwhhaah :p

- Kevin

My Sassy Girl

This is going to start to turn into a movie blog lols, but its just i cant stop watching them, especially when i get hooked. Anyway.

After about a year of contemplating on whether to watch watch the film 'My Sassy Girl' and finally getting the subtitles to work, i put it on last night and stayed up until about 3 in the morning watching it.

TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA

"My Sassy Girl (엽기적인 그녀; literally, That Bizarre Girl) is a 2001 South Korean romantic comedy film in which the lead protagonist chance meeting with a drunk girl on the train changes his life. It is based on the true story told in a series of love letters written by Kim Ho-sik, a man who initially posted them on the Internet and later adapted them into a novel. The film was directed by Kwak Jae-yong.

The film was extremely successful in South Korea. When My Sassy Girl was released throughout East Asia, it was well received in the entire region. An American remake, starring Jesse Bradford and Elisha Cuthbert, and directed by Yann Samuell is scheduled to be released in 2008. A Japanese drama adaptation with Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and actress Rena Tanaka as the leads started broadcasting in April 2008."

Well all i can say is that this is one of the best films i have everrrr seen! I enjoyed every second of it. Kim Ho-sik you're a wonderful writer and this film is very sad, funny and just a great love story all together. In the end i was praying to Buddha for a happy ending (i wont tell you what happens). Now everytime i think of the words My Sassy Girl i get this wierd feeling, just remembering the film.(Im not gay or emo, i bet youll feel the same if you watch this. Not that theres anything wrong with being gay, im all for it but emos *cringe go cheer up or something please)

So i wake up this morning at 6.30. I go back to sleep. lol
I end up sleeping until 12 dreaming that i had brought my office chair to school for some stupid reason. Anyway, after showering ect i couldn't help myself but find out more about the film. So i looked it up on wikipedia. I find out that the movie was filmed in 2001 and i thought to myself, if only i discovered it earlier, i could have felt and experienced the wonderful things that come from it, but then i think some more, if i had discovered it earlier, at a younger age, would it of meant as much to me as it does now? I came to the answer that it probably wouldn't of. I probably would of been praying for the film to end, thinking it was torture to sit through all of it. I don't know if 1 litre of tears had any effect on this.(probably did)
Here i am on wikipedia reading the synopsis and what have you, and i see at the top of the page "My Sassy Girl American Version(White peoples remake)to be released on August 19 2008 with casting of some no name actor and actress to play the lead roles.
I'm thinking to myself right now. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
please god do not let them make this remake. You will ruin the film for everyone that hasnt seen the original yet just like how you ruined all the classic Japanese films. Please Hollywood, write your own movies, go back to guns and explosions. Don't mean to be racist or anything if that did come off abit racist. But then you might say, 'well how are all the white people going to experience the film? Most of them dont go looking for Korean movies'. I cant really argue with you there.

I can't exactly provide a link if you want to watch it but if your thinking about it (Y) go for it.
My Sassy Girl FTW!!

5 chunks out of 5 lol

- Kevin

1 Litre of Tears!!

Ok, so over the past week and a bit ive been watching this Japanese television drama titled 'One Litre of Tears'. "This beautifully moving drama is based on the real-life struggles of a 15-year-old girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The script is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. The book that later followed entitled “One Litre of Tears" has sold over 1.1 million copies in Japan alone."
At 2005 Aya's diary has sold more than 8 million copies world wide. I wont spoil the rest of the story, i dont want to give too much away.
This story is truly touching and has changed my life in many ways. It has its happy moments and sad and how i hate to admit it ive cried many times watching it :'(. I would seriously recommend you if your thinking about it, to watch this series, its very touching.
Watching got me thinking, every person out there has their own story, no matter how big or how small, lives everyday. Through out her life all Aya wanted to do was to help people around her, she wanted to become just like her mother a nurse (health consultant) after she graduated from one of japans top high schools. But during her second year she discovered she had this incurable disease. The disease made her sacrifice many things her sport, love, social activities, and eventually her ability to walk, speak or eat properly with out the help of others. Aya had to give up her dream, realising that she could never fulfill it, but she is happy because her younger sister promises to follow out her dreams. 'Isnt it better that i could hand over my dream to someone else, one which i had to give up'. Her words are so wise for her young age, me being the same age as she was when writing some of her diary, i know that i couldnt of been able to do what she has done. I could go on and on but ill leave the rest for you to find out ;) i think ive spoiled enough.
Thank you aya, you dream has come true in the end, you have helped people, inspired them, you've made me a better person and given me a new out look on life. For that i thank you. I hope where ever you are you are happy and know that you've touched so many others.
You can watch the whole series here:
- http://www.mysoju.com/1-litre-of-tears/


- Kevin

First Post

This is basically my first post on blog spot. Ill be using it as an intro if you will. Well my name is Kevin for starters. In this blog ill be writhing about random things that come to mind, things that are happening in today and expressing my views on them. (Y)
Guess i should start writing :)