background music...

khalsom, check out this site...

http://www.ricocheting.com/js/music.html

this will give you the source code to copy into your blog template. As for the music URL, you'll have to find it yourself, depending on what which song u want. easiest way i find is to just search thru google. once u have found the song, right click the link and choose properties. this should display the address(URL) of the music clip. (it should be blahblah.wav or blahblah.mp3). copy this whole URL and paste it into the template accordingly.

freakin flies! shoo! shoo!

omg melbourne must be where all the flies in the world come to spawn.
my friends warned me that during summer there would be lots of flies around. at the time i thought "you pansies...its only a few flies."

but OMG!!! these flies come in swarms!!! and they're freakin HUGE too! (albeit slow also. they can be killed easily, like how you would normally kill a mosquito. aussie flies are big and dumb and dont seem to have the "spider sense" that asian flies do)

anyways, back to my fly-bitching. i went for a walk today (my only form of exercise at the moment) to uni and this grp of like 5-6 flies followed me ALL THE WAY! wah its the most irritating thing!! and when i look ard at other pedestrians, i can see a "halo" of flies around their heads. you can see ppl flaying their hands around for no apparent reason on the streets of melbourne.

this is really giving the pulau tekong mosquitoes a run for their money.

hoooommmee...hooooomee on the range....where the deeeeer and the antelope plaaaaay...

tick tock tick tock.
waiting for time to pass by.... watching the paint peel on the walls....
haa
oh well, i DID wish for my exams to be over, so now that i've got my wish, i really shouldnt be complaining that im STONED BORED! haha. like i said....SHOULDN'T be complaining. but that doesnt mean that i cant.

good thing is, i finally have the time to attend to my comics. more than a month back, i bought this thick comic called Runaways (i mentioned it in one of my posts). thru sheer force of will, i was able to avert myself from reading it before the exams. but now i can relax on my couch and flip thru every glossy page as slowly as i wish, savouring the devine artwork in every panel. ah.... (sigh)

ive also had time to catch up on my own comic lately. been at work on it since last year (june i think). but during term and exam time, ive rarely had the time to sit down and finish it. now looks like hopefully i can get it done by the end of this year! hopefully! im normally very bad at keeping deadlines, especially when they're personal ones...hehe. once its done i'll post it here, or in a new blog or smth....

i'm also starting to miss home... maybe its the solitude of being cooped up in my apartment all day.

ooooo! i think its about time to take a nap! heee.

zzzz, snort snort....zzzzzz
(in his catatonic state, iylia unknowingly puts on 2kg)

past the 70kg mark!...among other things

not been exercising much lately. knee's still in pretty bad shape. =(
yesterday i went out and i ran across the road to beat the flashing crossing light. it mustve been only 15m or so, but afterwards my knee hurt like hell! i just dun understand....one day im running several km with no problem, and the next i make a short dash and end up hobbling the rest of the day. are any of u out there taking medicine as a degree? pls pls invent a way to inject cartilage directly into the knee. i will be eternally grateful...

oh and in related news, i have bypassed the 70kg mark for the first time since 2002. i'd like to think that its all muscle gained, but the fats that are beginning to hang over my waistline suggest otherwise...

supes official site launched..

The official site for Superman Returns has been launched!
and surprise, surprise.... the teaser trailer is coming out on Nov 18th!!

i've added the link to the site under my "Links" column...

i need a job!!!

1st sem of uni is almost over....only one more paper to go! bloody City in History....i hate mugging and memorising dates. We must memorise the names of architects and the buildings that they built. altogether there are about 24 lectures, with about 10 architects n buildings each....so thats 240 things to remember!!!!!
and some of these guys have weird italian names, and greek names and blah blah... AHHHHH!

*change of subject*

dunno why but i feel bad for being overseas and using up my parents money. i mean, i understand when they say that its their job to "give me an education", so i dun mind the fact that they're paying for my school fees. but its them paying for my daily expenses thats beginning to bother me. hai....
dunno if its cos i've been so used to self-sustaining myself during NS (i miss officer pay....), but i feel uncomfortable drawing an allowance from them again.

so to solve this problem....i shall get a job!!! however, first i'll need to apply for a study-cum-work visa, and a tax number (so i can CORNtribute to the aussie govt). will prob do that after my exams. it takes a while to process (about a month)... so i'll most likely look for a job when i come back during summer. hopefully can work at Nike Melbourne(long shot) or Max Brenner (my dream part time job!!!!! though i'll probably end up sampling all the choc in the kitchen and become a fatty-bom-bom). right now i wouldnt mind anything...as long as i can get some cash to spend on myself...and pay for my horrible comic addiction.

oh and my knee is still shit today......

atkins diet here i come.

super low morale...

im in the shits now....

went running just now and my "good" knee just gave way too. dunno y also....sigh. now i have two dodgy knees, and im still only 21.....

so sad right now....dunno wat to do also......

i'll wait a few days b4 i try a slow run again. if it still hurts then thats it, im finished.... will prob have to do something drastic and rest it for half a year or so and keep taking suppliments.

sigh........ i feel like a bird without wings......

nothing will ever be the same...

for those of u non-comic book fans out there, you may not understand the importance of this post, or some of the emotions conveyed in it. but by all means, read on if u want to hear the ramblings of a comic book freak...

HOLY MOLEY SHIT!!!!!
let me say that again.... HOOOLLLYYYY MOOOOOOLLEEEEYYY SSHIIIIIIITTT!!!
i just finished reading the last issue of House of M!!!

background info : House of M is a MARVEL comic book that was hyped up to "completely change the Marvel universe". it was said to be "the Marvel event of the decade"... "nothing will ever be the same".

it was 8 issues long...and i tried so very very hard not to read each issue as it was released every month. i didnt wanna be stuck in the position of waiting one month for a cliffhanger to be resolved, only to be treated to another cliffhanger...
so i waited till i had all 8 issues so i could read them at one go. and that day was TODAY!!!! i have just read possible the single greatest Marvel story EVEEEER!!! and having read Age of Apocalypse and the Galactus saga, that's saying a lot!!

"nothing will ever be the same".... thats not just a cheesy tag line!! those guys at Marvel frickin MEANT EVERY WORD!!! warning...spoilers in the next paragraph...

How could they do that!?!? how could they take away so many A-lister's powers!?!? ICEMAN!! QUICKSILVER!!!.....and most most MOST MOST MOSTEST SHOCKING OF ALL......MAGNETO!!!!!! omg i NEVER saw that one coming!!!!!! they took away magneto's powers!!! we're talking about frickin MAGNETO HERE FOLKS!!!!! in comic book terms, that's like saying hitler's still alive!

wooooo! i'm on cloud nine now! i cant wait for the following issues to come out and see what the after effects of the House of M are. hehehe. at the same time, my exams are taking a significant blow... but in the wake of such comic book goodness, who cares?!?! hahahahaha.

bring on House of M : Decimation!!!!!!!

phew....this is THE reason i read comic books.
yes i am a freak....

warning! warm front...its HERE!!!

its blaaaarrrdddyyyyyy hoooooooooot today!!
just last saturday the weather was a wonderful 20 degrees. today its frickin 30 degrees! aiyoh....
and the melb sun is not like the spore sun. here is burns!!! u can actually feel your skin roasting! i mustve gotten several shades darker today. oh well....embracing my inner mat.

went furniture shopping today! yes, im moving house!!! yay!
well, actually im moving just across the street to my current place. but its a slightly bigger apartment and its much much higher...on the 39th floor! woooo!! i like being hiiiigghh!!!! (easier to commit suicide if need be. currently on the 13th floor its "maybe might survive with a broken neck". but at 39 storeys up....sure die.) haha. ok im sounding a little too grim there. but the view is really sweeeeeet, although partially blocked by this concrete office tower. but beggars cant be choosers as they say.

so, yeah, i needed to buy furniture cos the furniture in my current place belongs to the owner. im renting it. so need to get my own stuff for the new apartment.

while going here n there shopping for furniture, i have completely neglected my EXAMS!!! hahahaha. exams? what exams?? we have exams??? haha. need to start sooooon.