It is probably for a new name no?

Traveling to Queensland

2010-07-03T03:35:00.000-07:00

So Allen Zhang is interstates, is been a few days, but it was relatively boring.

Mostly went to see some Koalas, they were quit kewte. As I would probably tell Matt... which is torn between his family and wanting to hangout with his friend. Haha... Then there's the guy I'm actually visiting. Who is hung up with work, girlfriend and inline skate state championship.

Sitting in the lobby of Matt's Hotel right now, not really doing much. Enduring the bad singing of the lobby singer guy... who is actually god aweful.

So I've established 3 rules while traveling.

1. No Gambling or online gaming of any kind, you are not sitting at home comfortably, or is able to know the local casnios well enough.
2. Must make all plans ahead of time, what to do and whatnot.
3. Work heaps beforehand if the trip involes going to the casnio to kill time beforehand.

The weather is nice and the trip itself is actually quite lovely. Will make some photo updates soon :) When I get home to the laptop, or when I get home and is back in Melbourne.

Love Allen

Food! Poker! Exams! and others.

2010-06-26T03:17:00.000-07:00

I've been working heaps, its so tiring... = = but I will post some interesting things.

Exam have gone swimmingly, hopefully. :D hahaha.. its so tiring. Exams are so stupid, I hope people should just stop doing exams. If you work hard enough and try your best. Universities should just let you win! I mean COMEON!

:) I recently picked up a new poker hand, 78 suited, it just feels soo good when I play it. And I feel like I can read anyone when I have it :D. Don't really know why, but its just slowly becoming my favorite hand.

Lastly, I wanted to do a little food review from veggie bar! It’s a nice place on Brunswick Street. Stuff there tastes quite good! And VERY VERY enjoyable. Most of the food there are either vegan or vegetarian. This means if you’re big on meat, probably not a good choice.

So I was there with me and Matt, we ordered, the Rotti Chunai and Vegetarian Nachos for our entree, the rotti chunai was full of flavor, which is great as it was just yellow beans and the curry powder, long cooked in a pan. : ) served with a white fluffy rotti bread. The vegetarian nacho was what Matt and I agreed is the best dish we tried. It had a bit of everything, fresh salsa, guac, sour cream and other bits and pieces....

For main Matt ordered the migoren, which were nice and thick noodles, they were great and fluffy, it had potatoes, and bits of tofu with bean sprouts. The only downside is that it lacked in flavor. Probaly because the vegies were a bit undercooked.

I ordered the pumpkin risotto. It had broad beans which were VERY nicely cooked, it was crunchy and served with some nice fresh pesto, the flavor was very rich and combined with a creamy texture. YUMMO! It was a very generous serving as well. (it doesn't look like it on the photo, but the bowl was quite deep). All of the food were washed down with a chocolate milkshake for Matt and a Honey Pollen / Banana blend for me (which tastes SO GOOD!)

Lastly the atmosphere is very very alternative, lots of pretty people with pretty and strange clothing, great way to spend a lunch or afternoon just chilling out in this funky place. The service was very friendly and the food all came right on time :) which is when we're getting hungry / feeling like the next dish!

PHOTOS! : O *Proceeds to make yummy noises

2010-06-10T14:02:00.000-07:00

It takes 14 days for you to realise that you don't like me as much as I like you

It takes 14 days to realise that investing too much feelings into this was a mistake

It takes 14 days for me to fall in and out of love with you (So my friends say)

It'll take 14 days to go through those four stages again

It'll take 14 days for me to grow some balls and realise that I'm a man

: ) I love you, all the friends that supported me through the times when I'm down, thanks for being there for me. I know it wasn't that bigga deal with her. But sometimes as most of people who are close to me knows, I can easily be an very obsessive fellow with too much on my mind.

This doesn't mean that we'll never see or talk to each other, we can still be friends (or I hope so anyways). I don't want all of my quest for love end in tragity, because if that happens, things will just be weird between me and a lot of people. Bahahaha.. xD

And lastly, no regrets, other than taking things too seriously. It was worth every minute of that 14 days.

What do I have to be?

2010-06-10T00:55:00.000-07:00

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Apparently this guy, what makes him so special? Because he's such stereotypical hot-Asian guy? I don't understand why people see that as attractive. The dude has nice features, but come on, he's not worth being called Sama...

This is my rant for today.

Allen

So its been ages since the last one.

2010-06-09T09:52:00.001-07:00

I think the last time I blogged was the middle of last year... So its time for an update!

So since the last time, I can tell you that I am on the third year of my education, and hopefully going well considering I just finished my first exam for the semester. (Business Statistics, I hate you) My other three subjects are pretty straight forward and theory based though ... International Marketing, which I love, and E-Commerce, which turned out to be pretty fun at the start with a good group but ended in us having a grudge against each other, the same sort of applied to Professional Development 2. But the good thing is that I only have 3 exams! (YAY!) And all of that will finish on the 21st of June.

After all that shenanigans I will take a quite and lovely trip to Queensland, where I will relax with the best mate and enjoy the warm weather.

In other news, I broke up with who I thought was the love of my life, it seems that the on and off relationship is finally over. It has been a very rough 3 years, I still wonder how she is now... I wish I can say that I have no regrets in breaking up this relationship, but I did what had to be done, or else the both of us will be hurt over and over...

On the employment front, I am working currently at Collins Street Salsas Mex Fresh! : ) Its probably one of the most exciting places Ive worked at, the bosses are quite approachable, and very friendly, the same apply to the exciting co-workers! (You lovely bunch of coconuts. [surprisingly the closest person to an actual "coconut" is an Indian girl! ha-ha...])

Finally, in the life front. Everything is back on track... New friends are coming and going, old friends still sort of maintaining touch. The same still happens as well, the enigma in my life is still the love - life that I wish I had. The relationship with her right now is weird and I wish I'd know how she really feels about me. >3<

P.S. Thanks to Jenny for making me get off my ass and post again!

P.S.S Not many people will read this, so an excuse for me to play poker : (Kaitlyn I love you)

P.S.S.S I no longer play magic: the gathering, at least not for the next 2 years as I am suspended by the DCI.

De-cluttering your life, with Allen Zhang

2009-11-17T09:21:00.000-08:00

So its been a pretty interesting two weeks after the exam. I found out a few things:

I'm not really scared of many things, exams aren't that scary, put accounting in front of it however, will cause me to shit myself.

Creating a first impression when you meet someone is really important, but maintaining that good impression is even more important. It's pretty hard to do both however.

Awesome people are awesome, Jack Ten suited is my favorite hand in Poker.

I miss some people I haven't seen in AGES.

Keeping anything too intense would cause people to be scared.

Gay, is a word I will no-longer use as an insult... or at least I will try and use less of it.

MODO at 3am makes me play the best drafts. WOTC please fix all the buggies.

Crown is my home away from home.

Slowrolling people are stupid hoedogs who needs to die.

: ) Needs to delete some people on msn... the ones I haven't spoken to in AGEES.

looveelly.

Back to life

The events that occurd happened between 10am Friday the 16th of October to the 18th.

2009-10-17T20:38:00.000-07:00

So, Friday during the day, many things has happened, Allen was all pumped up to go out and get my standard on for Saturday. This means lots of crazy crazy times ahead. Matt is probably the most awesome times can provide.

An ingredient for an awesome night contains:

Sing it, the game
PS3 Obviously
A Car
Some money
Some crazy flavored water
Mobile phone
GPS
And some awesome people who will just get in the car and drive.

:) That's pretty much what we did. Teehee. I wish I had some photos, but a few videos should come on on facebook soon ish?

P.S. Lots of problems in life are solved today... Which means YAYNESS!
<3

So you know your fucking famous when you have 3 people following your blog.

2009-10-15T05:38:00.000-07:00

:) So, its been a while since I post anything. Its time to give you a quick run down of life.

YAY! Handed in my last piece of Assignment in Wednesday. Which means party time... no, not really, it means that its time to get ready for the HELL STUDY PERIOD. Why is it hell study period? It means no late nights, nothing fun for a while until the end of the exam period.

But who cares? Its time to unwind and crunch some books when you feel like it right? Fuckyea!

The other thing is that I saw 500 days of summer, which made me think, why are people so serious when it comes to love? Why can't it just be casual? KEEP IT CASUAL, is probably what should be like, nailed onto people's heads, on a small piece of wood, decorated finely with rind stones. So people would know not to take relationships seriously... and I've learn that the hard way.

Last but not least, this lovely girl's birthday was quite recent, so I thought I'd say HAPPY BIRTHDAY SYD! YOU ARE AWESOMETASTIC.

:) Blah. Here's some light reading Jess, teehee.

Allen...

P.S. Mish will now decide what I do in life... because she knows everything.

20/20?

2009-09-07T03:51:00.000-07:00

-currently:
Watching Good New Week (Weak being not funny weak) [Just wanted to add that Cassie Davis just came on, so its a bit better?] <3>

The longer the play, the bigger the shirts! - Murry Hewitt

So its been ages since my last blog post. After seeing some friends made some spampage about that shiznet and what not. I thought I'll post some stuff and keep it going. Turning 20 would probably be one of the recent highlights. :) Thanks to everyone who got me something, brought me drinks and wished me happy birthday. I love you all.

So I thought it was time for a B30 list as well for the long coming year. BRING IT ON! I'm going to make 200 things on it and start with my first 10 today! Well, maybe I'll even cross it off as we go along? :D

- Own my own car
- Move out and be independant
- Get my Ps
- Make top 100 in Australian Idol
- Get on TV
- Meet a half Chinese half Indian person (preferably a girl)
- Win a GP (Magic related)
- Win a PTQ (Magic related)
- Be on TV
- Learn how to cook (professionally)

What a delicious tragedy

2008-11-13T11:14:00.000-08:00

6:28am, exactly 3 hours before my marketing exam, which I think I am quite confident at, is coming nearer and nearer. This is the perfect time for me to blog (after reading bren's message telling me to blog on FB).

I think I'm going through a phase where I stop trusting everyone who are my friends, or just general people I talk to. For some reason everything they say becomes a little harder to believe. Weird right? Yup. Like when people say maybe, it generally means maybe for me most of the time. But now, it just feels like they're saying no in the politest way possible. Which is a hosing and a half.

In other news, my exams are about to finish, I'm quite confident I will pass all of my exams. Except accounting, which is bit of a guess.

Weird but wonderful people on the trains makes people's days so much more colourful. I spoke to an "inventor guy" on the train so seems like an absolute bum with a really bad smoking problem who is trying to generate electricity with magnets. Call me crazy, but after explaining his theroies to me, he even got me to believe what he was saying... Then there's the girl who I thought was just a really girly looking boy... We exchanged eye contacts, which later on became funny faces. I didn't know 100% she was a chick untill I checked her out and she pulled her hood off, she had lovely blond hair. (I think she got off at airport station, should have went for her number as well. Hahaha..) By the way, now I have a taste for girls who wears boy short underwears. Yummy.

Having chinese takeaway for breakfast at 10.30 am rocks, there is nothing better than freshly cooked msg concentrated bits of questionable meat early in the morning. LOVE IT! SPICES IN MELBOURNE CENTRAL! YOU RIP ME OFF LIKE A HOEBAG EVERYTIME I GO THERE!! BUT YOU ARE STILL THE MOST CONVIENETLY PLACED CHINESE FOOD PLACE... EVER!

No stories for today, can't really remember considering this week has bee such a haze for me.

There's yer damn blog.

:D Love you all

Allen

Big world little Allen.

2008-10-28T10:25:00.000-07:00

Another week of random thoughts just filtered through my head. Meeting new random people seems like a thing last week. First there was my gal-pal's ex-best friend Jess, who is a young aspiring blond runner with a dream and a boyfriend. She seems to care way too much about what other people are like, and seems to just... see people from the get go. In other words, shallow.

I felt like the world's smallest person, while I was talking to her, while trying to make a smart and polite conversation that continues to get shut down.... I guess, it's probably just me, as said by a friend, not everyone understands my humor.

The other is the Casino people, poker is awesome, and for some of you who don't really know me, I play some poker, I may not be the best player, I do enjoy the odd game and the colorful people. :) If someone's reading this that knows me from playing at crown. You're awesome.

Played in a GP Trial on Sunday as well, such a disappointment, which lead to a 3-2 result, pushing me out of the top 8. But Lindoran manages to mise his way into the top 8, so I stayed back and watched. Luckily he won the game through flying colors. I am very happy for him, also it means that I have to attend the Aramgeddon expo's GP Trials. Hopefully the higher price will cause a lack of attendence. Which might equals to a higher chance of me getting into some free byes!

Other smallers things include, congrats to Matt who got his first girlfriend, first kiss and stuff last week! I'm proud of you man! *Claps*

The other thing is, is it worthwhile applying for a part time job, but you'll only be working for about 20 days before taking a 2 months break?

Anyways, thanks for reading.

Allen.

Open it up, disrespect is only a step away.

2008-10-20T09:10:00.000-07:00

So this weekend was the leaving dates of a dear member of the Melbourne Magic community. Rob (AKA Choopa, drafting Giraffe, cool judge, 3 testicles in one room) is going to Boston. :( He will be sorely missed by the rest of the community no doubt, and best wishes for him and the missus in the US of A.

Third legging, officially sucks, especially being the wing man for a chick friend. Because the dude they're meeting are always intimidated by you. Which is not always a bad thing. Good thing the friend was not that interested in the guy (1 because he was semi drunk 2 because she was not really keen on meeting him in the first place). Also for the record, Infectious in Melbourne (The club) has now become a sellout, terrible music with fat girls on the first floor and random fights on the second + third.

I've been tubing around last week, it was huge. Heaps of interesting people out there....>> also fell in love with a random Hongkong show, guess it's back to my roots heh?

Hehehehe..

Also exam stress coming up! Good luck for all you uni creepers, and good luck for your exams you students!

LOVE

Allen.

Weed out.

2008-10-12T18:50:00.000-07:00

It's been about a month since my last blog, to be totally honest, the last month has been pretty damn boring. Went to a few outings, and finding things always the same as the last time I went out. Melbourne's nightlife is just... The same.

Friday 9th of October however was just a little different from a usual night of randomness. As usual the night started with a unplanned outing, then followed by me realizing wearing shorts and sandles was totally a bad idea when you're trying to get into clubs / pubs. Not even places that I go quite regularly liked the fact that I was not following the dress code.

Note: Sports bar has a LOT of 40 year old people, and I feel sorry for the 2 Bercardi girls who had to wear skimps and bring them drinks, harassment are always not welcomed.

A detour at Ann's work turned into a philosophical conversation with a 40 year old man about "sorry day" and the Australian outback. Which led to a free drink from the nice gentleman. It seems that he's going through some troubles in life with his family as well, and I wish him the best of luck with that.

It was also the first night I've ever gone to this place called Pony, sure it sounded cute, but what's inside shows what Melbourne's alternative culture is truly like. After walking in there and sitting down, I felt really really gross... There were midget girls, guys wearing balaclavas, freaky looking Asian kids with really weird hair and of course, the blasting of grunge rock music filled the small 2 story complex.

Note: Never walk around in crowded places with little or no shoes.

Next couple of places was somewhere familiar, Eurotrash was really cold, but we still manage to spend a few hours dancing away followed by me hitting on a lovely girl in a red dress. This was of course semi alcohol induced in combined with peer pressure. (Turned out her boyfriend was about a meter behind her, so she gave me a hug said she was flattered and it ended with that. Haha).

Note: When it's past 2 am, door bitches don't really give a shit what your wearing.

The night ended with the three of us (Patty, which we picked up @ Ann's work)
Sitting infront of the Melbourne University's Law building cutting grass.

Note: Smoking tobaco + *cough cough* tastes like smoking it through old socks.

Suddenly @ 5am, I got a call, it was Lindorian and he hollared me to the shop. Yes, 5 in the fucking morning I was told to go and play MAGIC, after a night out. Still, I was there with the boys. We were about to start a round of 2 headed giant winston drafting, sadly after the picks were made, Jesse and I fell asleep, so Issac and Lindorian had to play 1v1 with 2 decks, which was the lolz. Ann at this time was also asleep on the floor.

Note: If you don't usually walk alot, walking + drinking = painful legs in the morning.

While having a smoke last night, I thought about a lot of things, where do we come from? Why am I slightly overweight? Who shot JFK? Maybe I was a little under the influence, but it made me realise that there are so much crap in this world that I shouldn't be worrying about. (Granted, being slightly overweight should be something I should be worrying about) Hehehe... So as of today, probably should stop caring so much about the small things in life and worry about what is acutally important.

Mumblejumble

Blah

Allen.

Ranting! rant rant rant + (Miss Melbourne? Part 1)

2008-09-16T04:56:00.000-07:00

:) Hi hi hi!!

This is yet another update of my life. Seems a little too soon, but it has been two eventful days. Someone very close to me has told me that they want to end the relationship that we've had so far and eventually put the relationship to a stop. I was very upset about this... Hence the msn name for them kiddies close to me.

After getting up at 4 pm the night before, I decided it was healthy to try and bend my bio clock back to what it should be, so I didn't really sleep that night. I spent the entire night talking to a few of my buddies, watching friends and pondering about random crap. Seems relatively constructive.

Then it was off to playing my new addiction "Heavenly Sword", it's a fantastic PS 3 game that I borrowed from Matt (thanks for that by the way) and I've been playing it non stop since I got it. After a few hours of intense gaming, I decided to take a shower and go out. (Skipping university because I just felt kinda shyte) While having breakfast, I decided to see if I can drag anyone to hangout with me. I ended up contacting a friend from Chinese school in year 11, Janice, who I haven't really seen in about 8 month to come out with me. Obviously she said yes (totally unexpected) so we decided to meet and have lunch. After having trouble calling her telling her that I arrived earlier than expected. (because she gave her old phone to her MOTHER) We caught up and had a great chat catching up. But the highlight was sitting at Melbourne Central Gloria Jeans, we pretty much just started bitching about people walking past and pointing out the flaws. A quote said by Jan was "Why judge yourself when you can judge other people?" I was like "OMG YOU ARE SO RIGHT!" There was also some weird conversation in reguards to crapping out money, crazy barbie hairs and carrot legs.... Good times.

After that, I met up with Matt and we decided to see The Mummy 3, we got the ticket an hour before the show. Meanwhile, I got a delightful phone call from a female friend of mine who just returned from a so called "state hopping" trip. It was a hezzy phone conversation of me telling her to come and meet us at MC and her being lazy and needing her hair trimmed. Then she told me she periced her left nipple, quite suprised, I decided to ask random questions, being a guy of course I asked the obvious "can I see it?" question and was turned down, a few times. Hehehe...

All in all, the Mummy 3 was relatively average, nothing compared to the first movie of course, the one where we fell in love with Brendan and his goofy acting. 7 years later, its still the same, which was VERY dissapointing. But if you're into that kinda action movie, it's worth a watch.

After the movie, it was a journy around Swanston street and surrounding areas to take some photos for a small thingo that I'm about to post. And a short trip to Meta Games (my favourite store EVER).

On the train ride home, I manage to fall asleep on the shoulder of the girl next to me twice. She was kindly enough (or scared shitless) to let me do it for some strange reason, untill she had to get off.

Lovely day, manage to let out some steam.

Love you all kiddies.

Now without further adu

:D MISS MELBOURNE? HERE'S ARE SOME OF MELBOURNE'S HIGHLIGHTS (PART 1)

Dedicated to Katie and Laura, my little OE kiddies.

China town!! :) Gotta love that place, for the great food at least.

A TRAM! Bet they don't have that overseas (I think)

MYER! :) Gotta love their perfume department and the hot make up demo babes

KO KO BLACK! For their awesome chocolate. Though you guys are closer to Belgium that we are.. you still have to remember the awesomeness that is the KKB

ROYAL ARCADE! Just because

FLINDER STREET STATION! The start of all awesome trips to the city.

FED SQUARE! Because people need to gather together for major events.

MELB CENTRAL! Awesomeness mixed into one.

Last but not least:

RANDOM STREET POST!

JUST BECAUSE I LIKE IT

Thanks for looking, just thought I bring a piece of Melbourne into people's lives :)

LOVE

Allen

- Tune in soon, for more rants and cyber bitchingness.

100,000 sperm and you were the fastest?

2008-09-14T13:27:00.001-07:00

Probably? I mean, every new life is a lucky one. I guess I'll just start the ranting from here. I was inspired by a lovely young lady to start writing some rants about my life. And this is probably a outlet of some sort.

6.28 am now, still haven't really slept, probably due to a combination of eating too much the night before (Mid Autumn Festival celebrations with mum) and all the procrastination about the coming week. It's probably not even as busy as I pictured it would be. But it's not going to stop me from ranting about it.

After a chat with the young lady mentioned earlier, it got me thinking. Do people regret the mistakes they make? And if it people do, how do they repair the damage they've dealt? Like that girl you asked out many years ago and ruined a great friendship? I supose at times like these, you can just say. "Everything happens for a reason."

And damn right, I am a believer.

None of this probably made much sense, but at least I did something constructive (ish) in the last 5 minutes.

Will blog again when I have the time

Allen Zhang.