ahh have a million things running through my head, good and bad.

oh yeah i've got the sniffles too. damn! i thought i just got over my cough but now i've got the blocked nose again and stuff...oh dear.

i think because of yesterday's shooting incident in the city at the foot of the building where i work i've become emo again.

other than that not much else to report. work's okay, i'm starved of work but today i got a whole heap of work from a new source! it's like a game for me, it's exciting when i go looking for work and can rely on certain people to give me work. i think i've got some good suppliers, one of the manager's came back from his annual leave and he's pretty dependable. first thing this morning, he comes straight to me and gives me some work so i'm happy i'm his first port of call.

my new source i have a good relationship with, since he's a computer science graduate and i can relate to him from the IS angle which is sweet as! haha and he's really into guitars as well so we spent a good 45 mins chatting about this program he recommended called guitar pro 5. i'll have at least 1.5hrs of chargeable work from him tomorrow, and he said i'll be the first grad he gives work to since i understand IS stuff. he does all the data analytics and data mining so the work i get from him will be programming related which is fine by me. and that also is a bonus since he probably won't be able to palm it off to other grads since the others in our group don't have any IS/computer engineering background. that means that all his work will be saved up for me and me alone! muahahahahaha am i odd now? i guess i was always somewhat weird but does it sound funny that i get excited by finding chargeable work? hmm...

so that's about it. nothing else to really share at this moment. yep.

thank God for the queen

ahh, i'm so up and down.

no matter how annoyed or unappreciated i feel sometimes, in the end i just keep coming back for more.

last night's surprise bday dinner was great! good to see people enjoying their food and just hanging out on a long weekend. i guess all the bitterness or frustration in organising abates when you just enjoy being in the presence of friends. it kinda makes all the stress worthwhile.

also had a good time fishing down at mornington peninsula on saturday. didn't catch a thing, and didn't look close to catching anything either, but it was good fun getting out there despite the cold temperature and doing something different for a change. also had good laughs, especially up the bow with the boys talking about "Chaser's" and "The Office" and pimping out frank. i think i wanna get back into some good quality comedy television.

curse you sheep

being the organiser of an event has reared its ugly head again.

if everyone just stuck to one thing it'd be so damn easy and simple. instead you've got ppl replying through others, last minute rsvp's, last minute piking and just a general lack of respect.

i've learned that when you're an organiser of events you have to be a hardass, no less. so dont be surprised if next time i organise something and you see hardass Greg coz i'm not wasting extra time, on top of the time it takes to get the thing together, to follow you up and look after every single person.

when all people have to do is reply a single bloody email saying yay or nay, somehow it gets so convoluted into this friggen monster. it's really not that hard! it just seems that so many people just wander aimlessly, waiting for this and that, not being decisive, daydreaming, unreasonably expecting that whoever organising not only has to pull the event together, but is somehow also responsible for each individual getting there, staying there, transport, chasing up yes's which are rumoured to be no's and vice versa. pathetic.

from now on if i organise something and for some reason you have to pike or you're a late replier saying you're coming, don't expect me to bend over backwards for you. and if you're lucky and i do, you'd better be bloody grateful for it. i dont want any credit for organising it, i just dont want you to make it harder for me.

like was well said in Pulp Fiction:

"If I'm curt with you, it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So pretty please, with sugar on top - clean the fuckin' car."