My Blue Heaven

Jack Johnson Gig

It was abso-friggin-lutely AWESOME! 🙂 Despite the rain (was pouring at one stage – so glad I had my “Great Barrier Reef” poncho.. even though must have looked ridiculous – but hey, ppl were even wearing garbage bags), going solo, and 6 hours of standing squashed in a crowd of 30,000…. I had myself a GREAT time! With over 5 hours of live music – 3 support acts, and Jack playing for a solid 2 hours – it was almost like an outdoor music festival. The supports included Xavier Rudd (very cool stuff!), Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love & Special Sauce and DJ Katalyst playing a good mix of tunes in between sets. My first time seeing Jack live… he’s awesome! Very natural and friendly on stage.. a great performer, his songs sound even better live. Even with everyone singing along to most of his songs. 🙂 I took soooo many photos (and *cough* videos) at the gig.. I’ve uploaded all the photos here. Here’s a sample below.

[Update: Videos have been uploaded! All up, 9 vids, 45 megs!! Clicky here, for a limited time only coz they take too much space!]

Incidentally, I met this italian guy called Fabio (and no he was not the most beautiful man in the cosmos). He was there alone too, and was my gig buddy for the evening. As cool as it was being there alone.. it was nice to chat to someone occasionally.

Day Out @ Wattamolla

What a great weekend! Not only was there Jack Johnson on Friday night, I had a very enjoyable day out with friends on Saturday at a BBQ/day out at Wattamolla beach, down south at the Royal National Park. (Hello guys if you’re reading this :P) Though it had been forecast to rain, the day turned out just beautiful.. blue skies, fluffy white clouds and sunshine. 🙂 We started the day a bit late as one of us had a small car accident (on the way to pick me up incidentally).. but we eventually made it to Wattamolla by lunch time. The day was then spent eating a scrummy bbq lunch (hey it was a good effort, even though we had no oil, no bbq utensils and no sauce! :P), playing various sports involving balls (cricket, volleyball.. or seeing how high you could throw a tennis ball?? The things that amuse some people. :P), frolicking in the rather nippy ocean (learnt an amusing new term that surfers apparently use for cold water – “spanner water” – can anyone guess what that phrase means?), or lazing about on the sand. Here’s a few piccies (more pics here, and also thanks to Steve for some extra pics):

Karaoke Craziness!

After having dinner in Liverpool, some of us headed out to K-Mix in the city for some KARAOKE! What was meant to be a 2 hour booking got extended (twice) to a mammoth 4 hours of karaoke fun. I think this is the most fun I’ve ever had at a karaoke session. These guys are a crack up! Everyone fully got into it – from dancing on table tops (*cough*), to singing our hearts (and lungs) out, or doing “backstreet boys” style moves (ROMYL!), posing like a very.. *cough*homosexual*cough* “Dancing Queen” (ROMYL!), and just generally letting loose (note that NO alcohol was involved whatsoever) and having an all round awesome time. 😀 Some great singers too! We even kept on singing acapella after they turned our machine off. Hehe.

Afterwards, a few of us were feeling a bit peckish.. and I was cravin some pancakes (“Make you banana pancakes… pretend like its the weekend…” Ok I gotta stop reciting those Jack Johnson lyrics.. :P), so off we went to Pancakes at the Rocks.. at 3am! Ended up getting home (once again) at around 6am. You guys are such a bad influence. (Btw if you guys are reading this, I think you should be nice to Kazzart and leave a comment. :D)

Current listening :: “Wasting Time” – Jack Johnson (Hehe.. appropriate.. took me aages to get all these photos from the weekend up and this is a mother of a post!!)

Crazy?

Does anyone else have a habit of talking to themselves? Was just realising – I think I talk to myself a lot – like whilst I drive (if alone), when another driver is being annoying, I’ll call out to them “Aw come ON!”… or insult them in some manner, or if they are nice I’d gratefully say “Thank you!” And so on…

Then I remembered, during uni, my friends told me I used to talk to myself quite a lot whilst programming. So geeky.. they told me it was like I was giving myself a running commentary whilst programming assignments and labs. Rather amusing really.

Here’s a probable example of what it may have been like sitting next to me in the computer labs… “Ok declare variable i, and assign it to 0 for now. Now, lets see I think I’ll use a For loop… hmmm I need to start from i until the end of the array… etc etc … ok lets try it… What?!? Why aren’t you working you stupid piece of… oh wait a sec… duhh… its i+1.. alrighty then give it another whirl… *waits*… Yay its working.. woohoo!” Or something along those lines.

Ok geek rating has just gone off the scale. I think I need to go…. play some sport or something. Ooh.. hiphop class tonight. That’ll suffice. 😎

Anyways. Only 2 & 1/2 hours to go until end of the week for me! Yay! I have tomorrow off coz I’m going to the Jack Johnson concert at Centennial Park! Woohoo. And its gonna rain. Woohoo.. not. *sigh* Guess I better waterproof myself good and proper then.

Oh yeh and as promised, a piccy of my uber hot sim. Everyone… meet Rosalyn. 😛 (Sorry she’s in her pjs.. they’re a bit risque.)

Current listening :: “Belle” – Jack Johnson

Kazzart + Sims 2 = BAD IDEA

Oh boy, I knew it was gonna be a bad idea to buy Sims 2. Bought it on Sunday arvo. Installed it on my new laptop on Sunday night (at like midnight), and slept at 2am that night and last night, playing it.

It is such an addictive game! Played it for good solid 5 – 6 hours last night.. taking a break to have dinner and wash the dishes. I was so into the game, and totally zoned out by it, I felt like a Sim washing the dishes… giving myself commands to do household chores. Sorta scary really!

Anyway, I’ve been playing in Pleasantville (for those who know Sims) to just get the hang of things – with the Pleasant family lot. I kinda suck at it so far – too many people to try and manage – they never get enough rest or food, and time goes too fast! The dad even passed out outside the house from exhaustion due to my neglect, and then pee’ed his pants upon awakening. And in front of the sexy house maid (with whom I was trying to get him with). Hehehe.

Then I decided to create my own Sim – my very first Sim! Of course, I had to make her an uber hot chicky babe. 😉 Which is sorta why I slept so late last night – spent ages adjusting the features on her face to make her perfect. 😛 And damn is she hot – black hair, blue eyes, pouty lips. Nice. And then you get to choose make up and clothes too. Haha.. just like barbie dolls for grown ups. Err… or maybe not. Anyway, I think you can take snapshot pictures of your Sim – so I’ll see if I can post up a portrait of my hot chicky Sim. Hee.

Anyway, time to do some work – I’ve had my mocha for the morning. Methinks I am gonna need more than one today!

Current listening :: “Banana Pancakes” – Jack Johnson (Going to see him this friday @ Centennial Park!! Woohoo! But its forecast for showers.. nooooooo!!!)

An Ode To Blog Spam

Blog spam, blog spam
Oh how I hate thee
Thy neverending life I would if within my power
Willingly throw off the highest tower
To fall into the darkest pit
And be crushed into a lifeless
Ball of blackness

Current listening :: “How Could You” – Mario

Revisited

It’s funny how, after nearly three months, it still creeps up and bites you at times. Funny how it still kinda burns.

I mean, I’m mostly fine now.. over it and happy. I don’t regret where I am now. But there are still times….

I was listening to the new Mario song “How Could You”. I LOVE it. Such an awesome song… old skool slow jam. 🙂 But yeh… it did trigger things a little bit I suppose. Made me feel a bit sad & emotional.

(Temporary treat for you folks – clicky here for the mp3. Get it while its hot! Only gonna be up for a few days.)

And also been listening to the song “No You Didn’t Say” by Kandice. The lyrics just remind me….

Switchfoot Gig Videos

Another treat for you folks, thanks to my friend Colin, you get a sneak peek from the front row of the Switchfoot gig I attended last Tues.

Clicky here for the video segment taken during “Dare You To Move”. There’s another video coming soon (kindly provided by Joe)!

Freebies

In other news… what is it with getting freebies whenever I’m served by an asian guy. I just walked into Harvey Norman today to buy Trend Micro antivirus software ($99), and the guy gave it to me for free! (Coz I’d bought a laptop from them a week ago, though it wasn’t part of my laptop deal). SWEET! Not that I’m complaining!! But yeh.. its funny. Like the asian guy that serves me when I buy my OJ from Juice Station at Wynyard every morning – he always gives me the 500mL one for the price of the 250 mL one ($1). Even if I try to take the 250 mL, he makes me take the 500 mL instead. Strange.

Current listening :: “No You Didn’t Say” – Kandice Love

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