1) Picasa mapping. Google adds new mapping functions to photos, hours and hours of time wasted trying to find the exact placement of photos. Ends in tears as i try to locate the Amphitheatre hostel in Northern Drakensberg, South Africa, by following road directions. I know its 21km down the junction between route 161 and route 74, but i cant seem to get the path stuff to work on google maps, google earth. Microsoft live maps work.. but ITS SO SLOW

2) Sunday night is comedy night. Free comedy at the brisbane powerhouse museum. A grand location on the river in an old abandoned warehouse, nice bar, kitchen and good comedy to boot. World press photo exhibition was impressive as well.

3) Stair climb, new personal best 24 flights of stairs in 3:08 secs taking every step. Progressive laps was 3:20 and 3:30. Not great but not too bad as well, really does get your heart rate up though.

4) Burnt chicken tonight.

5) Going to church camp, picking up people i have no idea who they are and driving them all the way to a dam with no mobile reception, i should print out some reading material... To the todos!

6) Conference paper writing fun begins.. tomorrow! yay!

mmm.. nothing exciting =) but nothing 2 boring either =)

>.<

if something looks precarious, yet when applying logic in all sense of the matter should be safe, my mind and body feels compelled to prove my eyes wrong.

shrek 3 was awesome, i would say it's one of the best ever 3rd movies ive seen. Fantastic animation as usual and was still able to deliver in the laughs department. =) for $5 bucks.. i woudlnt mind going to see it again =P

there was this bit in the movie.. that i thought was absolutely hilarious, that no1 else did (maybe it was a nerd joke). The complete silence of the cinema was pierced with me laughing hysterically =) I've never heard myself laugh, but at the moment i'm pretty sure i sounded ridiculous =)

Have you ever had a lunch so good, that you think to ureself, hey i'm not too hungry right now, if i dont eat all of it right now, i could eat some of it later... like for afternoon tea or dinner ...my lunch today was roast pork on top of soy+sesame oil flavoured rice, coated with fried shallots and coriander with a side of eggplant acar.

mmm... simple food.. YUM. I'm gonna have a sweet afternoon snack! =P

There are many distractions at the office, firstly there is the 13x13 Go board in the kitchen, then there is the kitchen and then there is coffee and all assorted snacks. But today there was a new one called the "Stair Climb". A group of us prop the firedoor open and catch the lift down to the bottom and proceed to walk/run/jog to the roof. That's a whole 24.5 floors i believe, it's an awesome and gruelling run which basically leaves ure legs trembling.

Started with 4min 10 every step, then 2:45 skipping steps and finished with 3:45 taking ever step. Man, it was fun, ooooh the burn! =)

Hello everyone. I'm stubborn. Although there are other ways of saying it, like persistent, persevering among others that attempt to sugar coat what essentially is stubbornness. People say that the word has negative connotations like its a bad thing that one should rid from one's character. They could be right but a lot of good things come from one's stubbornness. Here's my case.

Stubbornness breeds self-confidence. Several times i hold a position because i feel that position is right, intuitively i feel that I'm correct and it's stubbornness that sees me through all the barriers people chuck at me. I don't intend to be un-persuadable though it may seem so sometimes. It really depends on the other opponents and their ability to seed doubts in my intuition. (i'm also very aware that i could be wrong, but what use is intuition if you don't use it?)


Stubbornness build character. There's a lot of pressure in the world to be conform to the mainstream and it's prescribed behaviour. While we're young we don't know what we stand for, what kind of people we want to be so some of just waver along with the masses. It's stubbornness in your opinions, ideas and thoughts that outline who you are and who you will be. Perhaps in some cases you are with the crowd, perhaps sometimes u cut across, but it's clear to observers who and what you are.

Stubbornness is the precursor to ambition. Once decided on a path, you persue it till the goal. You know where you're going and you're determined to get there eventually.

I have self-made "laws" or "situations". Things that i've predefined for myself that govern the actions of a person who i wish to be. "laws" that I intend to stubbornly follow despite the costs. Perhaps this is a function of attempting to manipulate how others perceive me. Either way, the by-product is that i become or become perceived as the person i wish to be.

It's strange.. the interaction between external perception of one's self and one's own self perception, there must be some interplay between these two factors but i can't really wrap my head around it right now.

I'm stubborn about being me and through that it defines me. So how can that be a bad thing?