finally.

got myself a digital camera. yay for me.

you know, i can't even begin to imagine how our folks generation feel about all the advances in technology. whatever happened to the beauty that is old school polaroid cameras, i used to say. but, after having a little fiddle around with my new POWER SHOT CANON...well, suffice to say, i'd tell those baby boomers with polaroids to stick it, cos they're living in the past, man.

my new camera is great. took some time trying to figure out what exactly was going on though. for a while, i was very upset, cos i saw the two AA batteries given in the pack, and thought i bought a dud camera, cos i really wanted the cool ones that you could recharge. i voiced my dissapointment to my brother, who shook his head in disbelief. he then explained diligently, that it was not the camera itself, that you needed to recharge, but the batteries which go into it.

hmmpf. i'm a little skeptical. pardon my technological ignorance, but is this true? i'm still not sure whether my brother's trying to pull a fast one on me. *looks sheepish*

to more news on my brother. good ol lil kev went to work at the hopman cup a couple o weeks ago, and just received a statement of his pay details in the mail. boy, was he spewing. turns out the youngest cho has finally been bitten in the ass by mr taxman. and he does not care for it too much. a mighty $12 was cut from his fat pay check of $212. not bad for three days of work. however, he also found out that he didn't get paid the correct public holiday rate of $18 when he worked on the 2nd of jan. i told him that some of these recruitment agencies are dodgy, and he probably would go through more trouble than it's worth to get the $50 or so reimbursed. he started rattling on about "that's not the point. it's the principal. lalala" ooh. apparently, the youngest cho will fight for his rights.

it's fun to rile my brother up. when my cousins came from KL and melbourne, we started teasing him about these chicks that he likes from school. apparently, the youngest cho likes blondes.

which makes sense. after all, my mother is a blonde herself.

my poor father. he had such high hopes for his children. all he wants is full-blooded asian grandkids. and with michelle and aaron getting quite serious, i dare say that avenue is closed. me? well, he'd probably have more luck getting full-blooded white grandkids from me than full-blooded asian grandkids. i know logistically, this isn't exactly feasible. but it still works to emphasise my point. so there you have it. all my father's hopes, rested squarely on my brother's narrow shoulders. the last cho in the family line. if he doesn't reproduce full-blooded asian kids, the cho name dies with kev. as does a family ancestry full of petty theives dating back to mainland china. with semi-mongolian roots.

meanwhile, my latest disaster of the week is that i finally have a tan. those of you who know how naturally pasty i am, will understand this near feat. however, it came at a cost. i fell asleep on the beach after applying my sun tan spray...the result? streaky, blotchy, uneven semi-tan semi redness. it looks like i have a skin pigment disorder. humpff.

and i finally got my graduation notification. :D apparently, i also qualified for the award of vice chancellor's list. however, i have to formally reply to the notification, by notifying them if i want to attend said graduation. all in all, that's a shitload of notificating that's flying about. whatever happened to the good old powers of assumption.