Big Trouble In Little China

Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

I wouldn't expect this to be a film I'd enjoy now, maybe when I first saw it around 10 years of age, but I was duly surprised last night at Vic's when a group of us watched it as it was playing as one of those late night movies.

Oh how I didn't realise how comedic it was, I'm not sure if it was intentional but it was funny as! I remember watching it as a kid I was actually kinda creeped out by the Lo Pan character but last night there was one bit that I LOL'd at, when Lo Pan was run over by the massive Mack truck Kurt Russell was driving. That was classic!

So, another weekend that I have to cherish. I'm heading out to my first client on Monday which should be interesting.

Have a good one people.

Full-time Work

Had a huge last week in sunny Gold Coast with the rest of the grads from all over Australia.

They put us up in a nice hotel and even though the training was dry, it was a small price to pay for the shenanigans that went on through the week.

Some memorable moments:
- Grant's toothbrush accident
- Michaela's phenomenal tolerance to alcohol
- Steve's nocturnal activities
- Will's teary after having a few, and his grape throwing exploits
- Winnie - "They didn't play My Humps!!!"
- Jimmy's late night D&Ms
- The managers shouting us shots on the first night

And the grad clown award goes to Vid for his $24 "dance", his speeches and getting kicked out of the club on the last night. Well done mate.

Your Assistance is Required - 26 & 27 March

...said an email which I received at work today.

So, being the enthusiastic employee I decided to add this event as a meeting on my Lotus Notes calendar so I wouldn't forget it. So, after filling in some details I clicked on "Save and Send Invitations."

About five minutes later I received an email from someone in the office whom I didn't know accepting my "invitation" to this meeting. I didn't know what was going on, but I opened up the acceptance of the invitation and to my horror, I realised that I had sent out invitations to every single grad and heaps of seniors, managers and directors. Dammit.

Today was my third day at work.

Album: Parklife
Artist: Blur

I've forgotten how good this album is but it's now been resurrected from my CD stash so I highly recommend checking it out.

Anyway have a good Labour Day everyone. I'm off to Philip Island for the long weekend. Then I'll have to start WORK! See you guys on the other side...or not.

Tiny Dancer

I could sum up what I did today in five words: I went to a wedding.

But instead I have pooled so many thoughts in this melon of mine. The first I should divulge is congratulations to Winnie and Jason! Hope today and the future is all you guys hope to be.

And once again I find myself thinking about the past, present and future. It's been yet another marker! I can't remember if I made mention of the other milestones I've been thinking about but it's been constant progressing, from my peers beginning full time work, to me graduating, to having the pre-work holiday, to arriving back counting down the weeks till work, and then work itself. Included during this time is the wedding today.

Now I've been to a couple of other weddings in the last year or two but I don't think they impacted me as much as the one I attended today because in a skewed way, I didn't quite connect the previous weddings with me moving along in life, but rather other people progressing. I figured out today that because I only felt advancement in life with my peers at university, it wasn't until someone from this social circle progressed that I felt self progression too. Hmm that was a bit of a mouthful, don't mind me if I've lost you.

Anyhow, to help make what I just said a bit more digestible, I concluded that it's like playing Wii Sports and collecting win after win and increasing your point level along the way - I'm collecting all these milestones (graduating, friends' weddings, full-time work) and using them as tangibles to define what stage of my life I'm at.

I'm unsure of what it is about these last few days but I've been hit by a sizable wave of nostalgia. First, on Thursday a friend from high school SMS's me about wanting to catch up after a year-long study hiatus in China. The same day I engage in a discussion about Introductory Microeconomics (haha I hear all you Commerce guys out there go "Oh my gosh I remember that!") and uni life in general with a friend from church who's starting uni this year. Then I have a huge chat with another school friend about where we all were ten years ago in 1997. And today pretty much topped it off in an explosion from the past during the wedding seeing faces I recognised from years back, then later going to Box Hill for lunch when I bumped into another friend from high school whom I hadn't talked to in years and then later at lunch seeing yet another friend from my early uni days.

And in a typically melancholy way, I now find myself unwittingly replaying past memories in my head and missing those good old times, but that's not to say I don't like the present. I acknowledge that we each have our own way in life, and we follow the paths we forge for ourselves. But with this means that where we intersect paths with certain people along the way, it's sometimes only for a brief moment before we all diverge and continue along our journey again.

I don't know why but while thinking about all this Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" started playing in my head. And I didn't really relate to it until now. You see, my memories are my Tiny Dancer, the one that's always with me, in my hand. Where sometimes I say "Hold me closer Tiny Dancer" - you had a busy day today.

Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway...
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today