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Tired is Underrated
Internet does bring people closer but sometimes, I wonder if people relies on the internet too much to check the status of someone’s existence. After not updating my blog and seeing me on msn for about a month, my mum thought I’ve been either kidnapped or might have died (of swine flu or something).
I have spoken to her twice since then and both times, she’s made the effort to remind me that I have not updated my blog, so here I am.
So, I promised pictures of the anything BUT clothes housewarming party that we had at our pad. I lied. But here are three photos that pretty much sum up the night of drunkards, boxes, garbage bags, duct tapes, a flag, scrubs, towels and lots of fun.
I can’t even remember what I have been up to since my last blog post, but I have been busy setting up www.socialentrepreneurship.com.au and www.newsunlimited.com.au both of which still need some work. I also travelled to Adelaide for a week and a half just for fun. Well, mainly, because a group of my friends have been rather upset and/or stressed, depending on how you see it, over a situation and I thought I’ll try to bring some craziness into their life - not sure if I manage to do it. But I know was it was all a surprise and I am glad it did kind of work out to how I wanted it to be. Everyone gathered at a friend’s house for a gathering of some sort, and I rock up. 2 seconds silence and everyone broke into screams of “WTF are you doing here?!” and a rugby tug that almost killed me.
I flew from Adelaide into Sydney for a two-days meeting, Connecting Up Conference 09 in Brighton Le Sands, the Australian Community ICT Awards, the world famous Happiness and Its Causes Conference 2009, Inspire’s Chairman End of Financial Year Drinks.In between those, 33 and I managed to squeeze in a visit to Bondi, Manly Beach and to some flea markets.
I flew back to Brisbane at 8.00am on a Sunday morning and was picked up by Sarah who brought me straight to the Norweign Constitutional Day’s parade.
I got a job at the Teaching and Educational Development Institute at University of Queensland doing education research and evaluation. I also travelled up to Warwick, a small town about 2 1/2 hours away from Brisbane, for the Mazda MX5 Nationals. It was a really good experience watching a motorsport full of adrenaline and all that. Especially good when we get the behind-the-scene because Ash was racing.
Ben came down for a visit and we drove up to his parents’ west of Queensland. And before he left, he made me enough food to last me for a few days! But most impressive of all, he made pisang goreng, which I still find really amusing and impressive. Not only the fact that he’s never seen nor tasted pisang goreng before, but they turned out perfectly - just like how pisang goreng should be like!
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Life So Far
Have pretty much abandoned this blog since a gazillion years ago mainly because I’m lazy - I’d love to use the word busy but that’s not quite right.
Since coming back Sydney, I am still attending gatherings and meets.Sam came a-visiting from Melbourne the day after I arrived in Brisbane, and she stayed the night. Manage to meet up with Kirsty and Mathew as well which was awesome!
I also went to Lismore in NSW - thank god daylight savings’ over - over the Easter break. Its about 3-4 hours drive from Brisbane and I stayed with Sarah’s family.
Had the most awesome pie in Australia! Award-winning apparently.
I also had a housewarming party last Friday and the theme was anything BUT clothes. I will write a proper post on this one soon.
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Three Distinct Days in Sydney
I haven’t updated in a gazillion years but here’s some gossip for yous curious beings.
Since my last post I have had some rather interesting, crazy weeks including doing some stuff for Reach Out at National Youth Week, attended some incredibly inspiring sessions at Ideas Festival and met some amazing people at an Edgeware reunion. I have also done some shooting and producing some websites as well for a few projects I’m working on with my friend. :) All these have slowly move my scientific brain towards an entrepreneur.
The difference between an entrepreneur and a scientist is, given money, scientists will use them for research but entrepreneur will use them to make more money. Ha!
A big shout out to Jane Ryder for her inspirating words which have given me a brand new definition of creativity! :)
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I just got back from Sydney last night. I was ridiculously tired, but it was a good trip.
I flew in Sunday morning with Meke and hung out with three kool kids - Eddy, Chris and Nick.
Played tourist for a day.
Fun to be able to catch up with these people again - Eddy who always have energy to share, Chris who always have some wisdom to pass on and Nick who always have some sarcasm and jokes to spare.
Monday and Tuesday were filled with meetings. Monday was a bit more full-on in a room with a few CEOs and Chairmans of various organisations. We were on a tight schedule but it was a really productive day.
We had the honour of having Professor Tim Sharpe from the Happiness Institute, otherwise also know as Dr. Happy to talk to us about positive psychology and application of it. It was a really reality check for many people, I believe and a totally enlightening talk, especially when it was rather from a rather realistic view of things.
Tuesday wasn’t the best day, but we did get things done at the end of the day. I wasn’t particularly excited with our product on the second day, but its one of those days when you have either some thing or nothing, so it was better to have a product that’s do-able at the end of it.
Aight, end is this entry right here. Waiting for Sam to arrive from Melbourne and picking her up from the train station.
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There’s a Giant Penis on Your Roof
How would you react if someone from the local newspaper call up your house and ask for an interview because there is a giant penis on your £1million mansion’s roof?
That is exactly what happened Andy McInnes. His son, Rory McInnes, has just watched a Google Earth Documentary. Google Earth takes pictures of the earth from a satellite, so he thought it’ll be funny to see a giant penis on his house’s roof. Rory, armed with a bucket of paint and a brush, climbed to his rooftop and painted a giant penis, and for the next 12 months, only he knew about it.
When the local newspaper called his dad, his dad was puzzled. A call to Rory had him burst out laughing, and said, “Oh, you’ve found it then!”
Funny news - check it out here.
How would YOU have reacted?
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I broke my phone (again) a few days ago whilst buying groceries. I dropped it while I was paying, and the screen just went blank. And then yesterday, my laptop decided to stop working - it did work for a bit, but it was really slow, and kinda bizzarely behaving, so I backed up all my files and reformatted it this morning. However, I just realised I didn’t back up all my work emails in my Microsoft Outlook!
I’m all settled down in Brisbane, and just applying for jobs right now. I’m flying into Sydney next weekend (Sunday) for a meeting on Monday and Tuesday. Flying back on Tuesday night, and on the 17th of April, Luke and Liam are coming a-visiting from Adelaide. My (with my housemates) housewarming party is also on the 17th of April, with the theme “anything BUT clothes” - which means, you can wear anything you like except clothes. If you’re in Brisbane, or is willing to fly in for the event, let me know! :)
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15 secs fame
My first week in Brisbane has been rather uneventful, but I guess it’s also a good time for me to get settled and all that jazz. I have got all my things delivered and they arrived safely on Tuesday (took me only 4 days) so I have them all unpacked! I’ve got everything in, except my mattress, which we’re still cracking out heads how to bring it over from a friend’s house.
So, I’m pretty much all settled in and ready to roll!
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I used to be very involved with the Malaysian Red Crescent Society, and used to appear on newspapers quite a bit for that. And then, a few years later, I was involved in a movie production and again, was in the papers quite a bit for that as well.
The last time I appeared on the papers was for the Australian-Malaysian Business Council Merdeka Award where I was in Malaysian and Australian newspapers. But never have I appeared on any magazines or journals before.
But as of early this week, I did!
I can take pictures of the mag/letter from the hard copies I have, but its just a bit ridiculous since you can view it by itself online from VicHealth’s website. I’m impressed that the lady at VicHealth who sent me two hard copies of the letter actually recognise me and found me amongst the hundreds in Page 2. I’m also in Page 5 looking like a woman, with lips redder than Rosalynn Carter next to me, who is the wife of former US President, Jimmy Carter.
Then on Page 26 is an article Krista wrote. Krista’s such an intelligent and wonderful journalist - she asked us some really interesting questions, and kept us posted about the article’s progress. So, there. Go read.
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Research has recently show that showing key to happiness is to feel grateful to yourself - and appreciate things you have done. What are you grateful about?
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