Shu Shu Chen

A very special Scorpio

Shu Shu Chen is mysterious and enigmatic; deep, perceptive, powerful, passionate and terribly, terribly sexy! The sentence above must be true because Shu Shu is a Scorpio and Scorpios as we all know are infamous for their interest in... well now, here's a funny thing. Despite what they say, Scorpios are not actually quite as wild and wicked as they are painted. Shu Shu has, it must be said, a very hypnotic appeal but what's truly mesmerising about Shu Shu is not her pout but her perspicacity. Shu Shu has an uncanny, almost spooky to see right through you. She can make you feel naked and exposed just by casting one meaningful glance in your direction. What she is looking at though, when she peers below the surface, is not your underwear but your underlying intention! "Where are you coming from? What are you up to? Can you be trusted? Are you going to tell the truth?" These are the questions that Shu Shu subconsciously fires out as soon as she sees you. Her inner radar never fails to provide her with the right answer. She is sensitive beyond measure, and it is partly to protect her own sensitivity that she scrutinises people so thoroughly.

There is another reason why Shu Shu Chen is so keen to see into your soul: she needs to know how sensitive you are. She knows from long, bitter experience that not many people can take the kind of candour that she cannot help but dispense. Shu Shu is not a person to mince her words, hold back her opinions or shy away from taboo topics. She doesn't want to cause offence, nor does she want to waste her time, so she picks her confidantes carefully. All of which brings us back to where we began. If you are sensitive enough to appreciate Shu Shu 's special qualities you will consider that there is something exceptionally sexy about her and she will feel the same way about you. So perhaps Shu Shu Chen is living proof that it is true what they say about Scorpios after all.

Mandy Zhang

A very special Capricorn

Mandy Zhang is an unsung hero, an undiscovered genius...and an unknown quantity. It is because Mandy is such an unknown quantity that her heroism goes unsung and her genius undiscovered. Some people will blow their own trumpets from the highest hill even when those trumpets are battered and badly out of tune. Mandy is rather the opposite. No matter how bright the light inside her shines, she will always find a bushel big enough to hide it under. Mandy wants to be thought of as stable, steady and solid. She tries her best to do what the world expects of her, she wants to be a trooper - a loyal, reliable, down-to-earth kind of character. In the attempt to give this impression Mandy strives to be modest, restrained and realistic. She almost succeeds. Through diligent effort Mandy manages to persuade himself and the rest of the watching world that she is a known quantity. At best she will allow himself to be known for her talent in one particular area or for her courage with regard to one particular topic. The trouble is Mandy is a Capricorn and Capricorns, despite all that some astrologers say, are always unknown quantities.

Deep down inside Mandy yearns to be wild and crazy, footloose and fancy-free. She wants to break the rules, question convention and court controversy. Only one thing stops her - a little voice in the back of her head that says "Excuse me, who do you think you are? That's not the kind of activity that Mandy Zhang can get away with." If you want to be a true friend to Mandy Zhang you must encourage her to ignore that voice. She will love you for it and she won't need much encouraging. Mandy Zhang was born to be brilliant. She was destined to be daring. One day she will realise this and then...the world had better look out.

Emma Zhao

A very special Piscean

Emma Zhao will never grow up, and nor would we ever want her to. It is Emma 's ability to be innocently fun-loving and childlike that makes her so endearing. Emma Zhao is extremely clever and sophisticated. There is, after all, a very big difference between being childlike and being childish. Emma is open minded, unselfish and able somehow to approach each new day with a spirit of real, fresh inspiration. That explains why Emma enjoys life so much and it also explains why other people, looking at Emma 's life from a distance, cannot understand why she enjoys it so much. Those of us who know and love Emma Zhao find her enigmatic, mysterious or even downright baffling. We can't help liking her, but nor can we quite manage to work out where she is at, where she is coming from, what she is up to or what she is in to. Emma 's tastes and preferences are what some people would call eclectic, others would term unusual and most folk would classify as 'just plain weird.' Emma , though, is consistent in her inconsistency. There is method to her madness. Emma is interested in - even fascinated by - so many strange, different topics and subjects because Emma is such a natural experimenter.

Emma doesn't need to travel the world in search of variety. Emma can wake up one morning feeling quite sure that she is one particular kind of person. By the afternoon she will be someone else. Her personality will not change, her loyalty will not waver but her mood will evolve allowing her to explore, enthusiastically, ways of behaviour which only a few hours ago seemed unattractive. Thus Emma Zhao creates a world in which there is constant variety and excitement. Boring people, who like to follow life's laws to the letter and stick rigidly to one fixed plan find Emma Zhao hard to handle or even to relate to. People with a sense of adventure, a sense of imagination and, most importantly of all a sense of humour, cannot get enough of Emma 's company.

Maya Shamid

A very special Virgoan

Maya Shamid is deeply perceptive. Remember the story of the Princess and the Pea? Maya could detect a lentil under a million mattresses. Not, you understand that Maya spends her time looking for things to criticise. Far from it, Maya goes out of her way to avoid finding fault. It's just that faults have a way of finding her. It is as if they walk up to her and tap her on the shoulder saying "Maya, look at me can't you see how badly made\designed\organised I am? Please put me out of my misery. For heavens' sake let someone know what is wrong with me and tell them how to put me right!" Maya Shamid is a kind, sympathetic person who is always willing to help. How can she resist such a request? Reluctantly, for she knows it will cause controversy and she hates any form of conflict, she will come bravely to the aid of this poor little problem.

Or so, at least that's how it seems to be. Maya Shamid is a Virgo and all Virgos find themselves, for some inexplicable reason, being labelled 'fussy.' Maya, though is actually very broad minded, tolerant and far sighted. She can forgive a thousand transgressions and excuse a multitude of mistakes. You can take advantage of her endless good nature and generally abuse her willingness to be friendly without ever hearing so much as a word of complaint. If, though, as you walk all over Maya you commit the cardinal sin of leaving your shoelaces undone, you will soon hear sharp words of complaint. There is though, a reason why Maya is so often easy going, restrained, and liable to take the blame for things which are not her fault. Given her impeccable eye for detail, her infallible insight into other people, and her accurate good judgement she could soon end up ruling the world. To ensure that others have at least a fighting chance nature has imbued Maya Shamid with a small handicap in the shape of a mild (and totally inappropriate) inferiority complex.

Alaine Ding

A very special Arian

Alaine Ding is an energetic Aries with an irrepressible zest for life. When you need a problem solving or a decision making, Alaine Ding is the ideal candidate for the job. If you are ever worried about how to handle something - or you need someone you can absolutely rely on - Alaine will be the first to stride forward boldly declaring "Don't worry we'll soon sort THIS out."

And, what's more, she will.

Alaine Ding is not the kind of person to issuean empty promise. What Alaine says Alaine does - regardless of the consequences! That's part of the trouble. Alaine just doesn't know how to play the game of 'consequences'. She likes to live for the moment. She likes to throw herself passionately into whatever she happens to be feeling, thinking (or lusting after) right here right now. That's why Alaine usually ends up getting whatever she wants. That's also why, regardless of what she gets, she always ends up wanting something else!

It is not that Alaine is fickle, more that she is fast. Fast on the uptake, fast on the trigger, fast on her feet and fast with her thoughts. She may give you the impression of being calm, and measured but inside her head, there's a state of the art computer, processing information at the speed of light. Her ideas are not the only things that can come and go in a hurry. Sometimes Alaine's moods are just as mercurial. One moment she is secretly seething, the next; perfectly poised. You can usually tell though - because Alaine rarely hides her feelings.

You can't help loving Alaine Ding because no matter what she does or what she says you know that she has a heart as big as a mountain.

Yi Chen

A very special Libran

Yi Chen doesn't know the meaning of the word 'enough.' It's not that Yi is greedy or that she lacks self-discipline - far from it. Yi goes out of her way to share, care and be fair. That's why she never quite knows when to stop. To draw the line you have to be a little insensitive. How, precisely, should it be measured? With a magnifying glass? Or with a microscope? Yi Chen is extremely sensitive and keenly perceptive. She is a Libran, born under the sign of the scale. Yi knows in her heart that no matter how meticulously you ever weigh anything in this world you can always reach a different conclusion if you apply a more refined set of measurements. Yi knows that those refinements are infinite. Hours have minutes, minutes have seconds. Seconds have nanoseconds. No wonder Yi Chen is never sure what time it is!

Some people are prone to assume that Yi has her head in the clouds. They think that she lives in a world of her own full of lofty ideas and complex theories. Other people have the temerity to watch Yi at work in this way and to suppose that Yi is indecisive! Where on earth do they get that idea from? Actually Yi is one of the most decisive people on the face of the planet. she absolutely, definitely knows what she wants but she only knows it from one second to the next. To the untrained eye this appears to be an inconsistency. What they fail to see are the countless nanoseconds during which Yi's sense of purpose is solid as a rock. Yi, though, knows what people are thinking and so, to keep them on their toes she makes a point of declaring her intentions loudly and clearly. she makes quite sure that these brave statements never differ from day to day. That fools most of the people most of the time.

she goes to me:

 

"Maybe they are building a train station"

ehhhhh....

 

I asked her why? 

She was like:

"Because the Eastern Freeway is too full"

 

I asked her how? There are no train tracks anywhere in any of the neighbouring suburbs around Donnie

She had nothing to say....

 

 

I go to her:

"ehhhh...maybe move forward a lil"

She starts to move forward....and then she moves forward again...and again....(until she is almost in the middle of the road)

 

 

"I better take my purse....they might check my licence"

ehhhhh....

 

I love my mum, really, I do...

 

Shes not always like this....

 

As i was walking into the office, I grimaced as I found that the office window had been once again barracaded by "It's up to you!" questions and dodgily cut up inspirational quotes (yesterday, a couple of cool alumnis took the whole thing down- once again revealing a window to the outside world) I won't name names, but lets just say that our president, also known as "Ling Ling", was determined to stick it back up again (and he did...and he did). Then as I entered the office, I grimaced again because our office appeared more cluttered than ever before, something that is utterly amazing, I never knew it could get worse! More amazing perhaps is how frequently the office is cleaned. None of us actually like clutter, Murad is afraid of it, Raj cannot stand it, Richie and Dino sigh each time they walk into the office (I hear it!) Daz thoroughly cleaned it during transition, then a few weeks later, Murad cleaned it again, then Raj cleaned it, and then Murad cleaned it, and then Raj cleaned it again (that very afternoon Raj came into the office and was very angry that within a few hours the office got dirty again) I think between those massive cleaning tasks (Gen, Richie and I have all put on our cleaning gloves- to no avail!)

 

Anyways in entering the office, I found some solace in Gen's warm smile and greetings and some nicely well brewed coffee. After our coffees, we planned to re- establish somewhat of a window by "editing" Murads creative (and interesting) "poster collage" by reordering and recutting his "artfully cut" inspirational quotes so that we could have at least 1/4 of a window. After I got final preparations for induction sorted out, I started to clean up the clutter, frantically finding places to store weird random items (there was this block of something...I sat there thinking for ages about what it could possibly be and in the end, I just gave up and placed it next to the 1/4 filled can of beer (never has been opened), and a tin of a now long overdue coffee (seemingly untouched since initially purchursed...it expired two years ago) Anyways as I was cleaning...I found a notice on our board which stopped me right in my tracks....

 

On our (newly cleaned whiteboard- thanks to antibacterial face wipes), written with new whiteboard (not permanent) markers was a very simple yet an exciting proposal from Oendrila- encouraging us to apply for Gloria Jeans! A few of the following events that day propelled me to rush to any internet cafe bar, write up my resume and rush down to Gloria Jeans to apply. Anyways, after I saw that notice, I called up Oendrila who told me how they really needed people in Chadstone (and how I would be getting double what I am paid now) Also when I got to work at 12, my manager at optus rolled her eyes and told me that I actually start my shift at 1. It finally occured to me exactly what I had to do, I rushed to the closest internet cafe, got ripped off but in the end, was able to hand in my resume at 12:53, speak to the manager for a few minutes before I literally ran back to Optus to start my long dreaded shift. 

 

Working at Optus yesterday, it was starkly clear to me that I made the right decision. Again, we were understaffed and I was worked all alone from like 3-7 which was stupid. We were busy and all the customers I got from 3-5 were all "difficult". There was one stage when some guy was on his mobile, another girl was on the phone to customer service to port her B number to Optus, another guy was on our other phone trying to stop the premium smses that Optus was sending him (and charging him to receive), this lady comes in to use our store mobile to call her daughter (And our phone doesn't work so she kept asking me questions which I didn't want to answer) And at the same time, this dude who got connected by us but whose phone line is still not connected (Even though today is his service start date) so I had to chase that up. Anyways, I kept getting requests for W880's (that cool slim sony ericsson that 3 sells- that phone that we don't have) It was just so stupid. It becomes clear that Optus mobile department is a sinking one (and I'm not just saying that because I'm some embittered staffer). It makes no sense to me why anyone would want a mobile phone plan with Optus, we have shitty and expensive mobiles, crappy customer service and crappy plans save "yes time". Our DSL, phone and internet plans are okay, mostly because Telstra is just so crap.

 

Anyways later that night we (Celia, Kay, Kev, Frank & Rex) held a "surprise" party for Emma at "Mojo's weird pizzas" down at Queens Parade. Anyways, we hatched a most brilliant plan to really surprise her. Kay told Emma that we were having an AIESEC meeting in the library (I told emma to prepare for it too! haha) Anyways, it was all going to plan, Kay was driving Emma and was going to prank us when they got there. Anyways, I called up Emma to complain that they were taking so long and that I was all alone. Anyways, long story short, we stuffed up our surprise. Don't really know whose fault it was but Emma could actually see us roaming about trying to help Kay find her way and as they approached us, I was outside with Celia and I was saying "i think she knows" when we heard emmas laugh.....We got caught! hehe...anyways those pizzas were sooo nice. Afterwards, in the alleyways of macdonalds, where we just "hanged about seemingly for an extensive period of time" they gave emma her present which she really liked.

 

Anyways, it was a bizarre but interesting day. I am seriously craving a Nachos pizza right now....

 

 

 

 

  

Looking at everyones blogs...one theme is evident-

 

Its all sad!

 

Why? Why is everyone going through such a difficult time?

 

looking forward to the happy blogs

 

 

 

My Internet stopped working on Sunday

The work computer was really really slow on Monday

I went to Celias house on Monday to use her internet and her Microsoft word happened to die when I was using it

My phone signal went down on Tuesday

My wireless at uni died on Tuesday

I used gmail today and gmail chat went down this morning

I emailed important induction documents and it was never received

My computer just shut down on me for no apparent reason a second ago

My MSN froze a minute ago

I lost my USB

 

On the flip side:

- I fixed my DSL! Even though the first techy support dude was lik "all you can do is report a fault..some optus dude will come in and fix ur lines". Seriously if i took that option...I would have been fined $99 becuz they would have found that it was an internal error. All i needed to do was reset my modem (I found out after I contacted another techy support dude after him)

- My phone miraculously is working a bit better....

- Everything is back on track with internet...hopefully they received the induction documents

- My friend fixed her word...for the better!

- gmail chat is up and working again

- i'm appreciating my internet more

- I know enough about DSL to actually work for tech support hehe

 

My boss hates me....what else can i say?

 

On the flip side:

- Everyday is a learning experience

- Its a mentally stimulating job unlike the last one

 

COM3120 = WTF?

I dropped it....theres no way im going to be good at it (not this semester anyways) I asked the lecturer what it takes to do well and he goes...make sure you read the texts every week-> I asked him....ok so like which chapters and he goes...the whole book...and ffs its Charles Dickens! I cannot read a Charles Dickenesque book every week (even though we were doing Hard Times which is only 324 a slimmer book compared to his other books)

 

On the flip side:

- I have taken an interest in Charles Dickens writings

- I can be a dodgy nerd and read all my books anyways so next year wen i do it...ill have that extra edge

 

 

 

When I first joined AIESEC, I always hated describing AIESEC as being "an international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential" because frankly, I didn't understand it, actually maybe I didn't understand AIESEC at all back then, but as I write this entry today, two months into my EB term, not only do I fully understand what our brand promise means but also I am able to clearly see exactly the impact it has.

 

It is a very individual and personal platform which had allowed me to completely step out of my comfort zone, to do things I never dreamt I would be doing for someone my age. It's a platform which has allowed me to dabble in leading a team, planning and running a event, public speaking, networking, contacting externals and learning heaps about my uni- all within three weeks!. In performing all those functions, honestly, I wasn't that good at it at all. I found that I made heaps of mistakes which at times lead to dire consequences. But then again, I found alot of hidden strengths I never dreamt I could do as well.

 

For example:

 

I did my first lecture bash last week. I always thought that public speaking was one of my weakest links,  but actually I really enjoyed it. Before I walked in, I was shitting myself srsly, I was so scared, I was so nervous and I did not know what to expect. I actually didn't know what came over me, but as I did the bash, this absolute calming sensation came over me and I was able to deliver it. I actually thought I did very well. I got a really great audience response and the lecturer was so nice. Its strange what happens to you when you feel confident!

 

I have also experienced my biggest failure yesterday as well. I was organising a brand building event in order to wow the attendees, in the weeks coming up to yesterday, I was feeling fairly confident that the event was going to be successful and also that it would attract alot of attendees. So imagine our disappointment and embarrassment when 10 people showed up. I felt so bad, especially because Susie O'Neill had driven down to Clayton to talk about how she started and expanded her Kids Foundation. You would seriously think that someone like Susie would attract a much larger following than like 10 people. I felt like I had let my team and my EB down. I also felt crap because everyone put alot of faith and effort into this, just like me. But then again, I have learnt so much from this event, I can see so clearly where I stuffed up and in a way, this could be the biggest blessing in disguise. Its a event which we learnt heaps from and to have that sort of experience in the beginning of the EB term would be helpful down the track.

 

So back to the AIESEC Platform, I guess the message is that, if in one week, if in one day I could get that sort of experience and learning from this organisation. I can only begin to fathom all that I could possibly learn and experience for the rest of the year, and the rest of my experience in AIESEC. In that way, AIESEC has made a definite and real impact on me.

 

 

Bit inappropriate of me to post that?

 

What if I told you that a billboard with the exact above message "want longer lasting sex" boldly stated in the middle of an intersection is currently being advertised in Bulleen??

 

Yep today as I was driving home for work, first I saw SEX in bold letters and then as I drove closer I saw the rest of it....

 

Is it me? Or is that just a tad inappropriate??

 

I am NOT kidding, see it for urself (bulleen/manningham rd). The Billboard is bright yellow so it definitely stands out!

 

This is worse than those viagra ads they play on the radio in the arvo (trust me, it gets very awkward when you work in a quiet cake shop too!)

 

Parents are going to have aloooot to explain to their kids for sure!!!!