Sunday, March 30, 2008

What's your Wiki-path?

If you are a serious procrastinator like me, you would definitely have a wiki path.. at least one for a day.
I traced my latest one:
I am trying to get stuff done for my Solar Power design project, then I thought sunflower.... I don't know much about it hmmm.

Sunflower >>Golden Angle
>> Kitakyushu >> Ted Fujita
>>Saaya Irie (bloody hell what is wrong with people, 14 year old posing in bikinni!! @%#$%#@)
>>>Myung Jae Nam >>> Hapkido >> Takedo Sokaku
>>>New Delhi
Then I stopped... had to get back to work.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Why I hate holidays

I can't get any bloody work done, *$%*()@*$@

With Easter we got a long weekend where we got off Friday, Monday and Tuesday. Sweet 5 days to catch up on my research project and read more about solar technologies for my design( (solar power plant in NZ, how brilliant is that).. WRONG! I couldn't get anything done. Read a bit for my research and attempted the tests I wanted to do but nothing worked out so I gave up! Then didn't do anything for my design until 10 pm Tuesday evening, which brings me to my position now trying to cram as much as I can before I meet up with my group tomorrow.

Oh and before anyone labels me a nerd, I love holidays but not the ones that come straight after uni started and break any "momentum" I have established. I would much rather they added few extra days to the mid-semester break instead.

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Ochaaaaaaa


Oh how heavenly can a good green tea cup be...
Last night a couple of good friends and myself decided to eat Japanese. I am a nutter of anything Japanese and love their food but it is usually hard to convince others to go. I looked up a few restaurants and decided to go to one called "Maru". We found it but left after waiting for 10 minutes with no one coming to clean the table, take our orders or even acknowledge us. Bunch of wankers, we concluded the reason for this was that one of their staff members was a Japaneses friend of ours who is always baked/on drugs, he must've influenced the whole staff haha.

So anyawy, we hopped to another restaurant just next to it, the food was good but the most important thing. The green tea they had was AMAZING. It reminded me just of my green tea I had when I went to Japan. So tasty yet so light, just the perfect combination aaahhh. I actually have some good Japanese green tea but I don't know why it doesn't taste like the one they have.

To think of it , I never tried any of the Chinese green teas they sell in here. Its probably worth a shot hmm.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Nawrooz Mobarak... wait what!!?

Last night was the celebration of Nawrooz, which is celebrated by whoever is following the Persian Calender (Iran, Afghanistan and who else hmm). Anyway, growing up it was a thing we used to celebrate with my family. My mom would clean the house and we would prepare sofreh haf seen and colour the eggs and stuff, it was fun and a good family gathering. The coolest thing was having the bean sprouts grow on a clay weeks in advance then break the clay after the celebration, representing something which I can't remember.

I am actually grateful I didn't know what the everything represents, its been 5 years that I haven't been home for Nawrooz, so I thought of reading about it. It has all sort of un-islamic traditions and beliefs (no wonder its celebrated by Bahais as well), I think this is another way the Iranians are trying to distinguish themselves from Islam. To think of it I don't even know why we call it Eid Nawrooz... damn I was brain washed as a kid.

But I gotta admit, it is kinda cool that we have our own calender and our own "NEW YEAR" or whatever, so I don't mind it. Not that I did anything special for it... ahm