Emish's Once in a Lifetime Blog

Working Poor

2011-01-12T10:32:00.001+08:00

Whilst doing research for a client project today, it has come to my attention to that on my current income, I will not be able to borrow more than $200,000 for a 15 year loan from at least 2 of the major banks. With median house prices between $400,000 and $500,000 it appears that I will not be buying a new house anytime soon.

Thankfully, despite being born and raised in Australia, my Asian heritage allows for me to continue to live at home and leech off of my parents for all of eternity without it being frowned upon :)

Right Hand Lane Madness

2009-06-01T20:44:00.002+08:00

Recently, I've noticed that whenever I drive in the right-hand lane or in a single-lane road, I have been quick to anger at slower drivers. Only when switching to the left-hand lane does the anger subside.

Could this be the long vented up anger within me coming to a boil and being released every time somebody drives slow?

Supra Dragon!

2009-04-18T11:13:00.002+08:00

Look, over there... what is it? It's Supra-Dragon!!!

Asian Names

2009-04-13T14:53:00.002+08:00

Felt like doing some YouTube surfing and came across this video:

Comic-Con 08

2009-04-02T18:26:00.002+08:00

In days gone by, comic book and sci-fi nerds were stereotypically less then easy on the eyes. However, the following link will open up your eyes to just how diverse nerds and geeks alike are nowadays. Perhaps a trip to America is in order...

Click Here to see what I'm going on about.

Breathe

2009-03-07T21:04:00.002+09:00

Today, I walked into my local JB-HiFi and bought myself a spindle of blanks CD-R's and a couple of albums. Not something that most people would blog about.

Of course, if I did have something else to blog about, I wouldn't be blogging about buying a couple of albums. Except that the albums in question are "Human After All" by Daft Punk and "Their Law: The Singles 1990 - 2005" by The Prodigy.

Buying a Prodigy album is an especially big step for me as I used to consider them a bit too hardcore and would people would stereotype me based on the music I choose, naive as it sounds. However, I have grown up now to not care about such things. I'm self conscious enough already, if i'm still worrying about the music I listen to, I may as well just commit myself to Graylands.

Suckered

2009-03-01T09:34:00.002+09:00

As I was getting ready for soccer training this morning, I realised that I have 2 shirts and a pair of goalie gloves which incorporate Adidas's Clima-Cool technology.

I'm a sucker for sales hype :P

90's Nostaglia

2009-02-20T23:12:00.002+09:00

The 90's produced some of the most memorable pop songs to me. In fact, apart from meeting some of my friends back then, I actually don't remember much else.

So here I am, in the closing hours of a Friday night going onto YouTube view some of the MV's that, while not bringing the memories flooding back, makes me feel like I'm travelling back in time. Makes me feel like a kid in the 90's again. It's a weird kind of feeling and that's the only way that I can describe it.

And so I present to loyal viewers, the fruits of my quest to obtain nostaglia:

"Steal My Sunshine" - Len (1999)

"You Get What You Give" - New Radicals (1999)

"Baby Got Back" - Sir Mix-a-lot (1992)

"Tubthumping" - Chumbawamba (1997)

"Everbody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" - Bas Luhrman (1999)

"All My Life" - K-Ci & JoJo (1997)

Note: In case you were trying too hard to figure it out, they were posted in no particular order... Although I do leave the best till last :P.

And here's a little surprise that came out for a certain television series that came out in the 90's about vampires:

Click Here

Apologies for those wondering why "U Can't Touch This" (1990) isn't on the list. Reason being it seems that they all seem to have been taken down by WMG due to copyright or something so you'll just have to make to with this live performance by Mc Hammer.

Stop! Hammer Time!

Lastly, another song I failed to find the original MV for would be this

"Iris" - Goo Goo Dolls (1997) [Performed Live on MTV]

These guys (one hit wonders or otherwise) could probably have released these songs today and they'd still be certified hits.

There are definitely more (eg Savage Garden) that I haven't posted tonight but may get around to one day.

New Person, New Blog

2009-02-04T23:48:00.003+09:00

Until recently, I was sporadically updating a blog which I didn't feel proud of. If you're lucky, you maybe able to find some cached version of my stupidity but never again will it see the light of day on this here blog.

As such, I have since decided to reboot my blog and attempt to make it even better then what it was before, not a very hard task to be frank. While others who got over the blogging craze deleted their blogs, I have instead left mine to rot and leave a cloud over my head.

But as I feel that I am a different person to what I was when I first started blogging, I have decided to delete all of my old posts and change my blog.

Maybe this time around I'll have more interesting stories to blog about to my loyal readers... wherever you are.