The Musings of Ivan

The best thing ever

2009-02-17T22:26:00.001+11:00

I don't care if this isn't a memorable post or haven't put a lot of thought into this because frankly im busy! haha but for all those 2 readers out there heres something to quench you're thirst.

it's off stress relief - the office (season 5 episode 13)

The Black Book

2009-01-04T22:20:00.004+11:00

This blog is directive to the random readers out there unfortunately, I'm sorry for not pointing the spotlight on you today, but this sort of blog is a somewhat reflective piece of material.

Well, quite recently I've found a gem within my yearly cleaning, a gem that seems to sneak its away for just over 2 years. It is a bestly described as a black book, and no, not those sort of raunchy black books, but a book filled with.. words towards a graduating 16 year old Ivan Cerrafon.

Each person (well most) I've connected with throughout my high school years has added an entry to this special book of mine. Now as I was reading this, mixed emotions sparked.

Sadness, as people may have not reached there goals back then;
Happiness, as people reminded me who I am;
Bitterness, as strong relationships dwindled;
Joy, knowing these people are still accessible;

I could go on, but my English skills aren't up to scratch.

I would love to put each entry here, but that would be tedious to me :) so I'm going to try and do the next big thing, to connect with the people who I have or had (unfortunately) great friendships with. Many memories treasured back then, seems like its go out of date, and is in need for some catch up. I do not want to just throw away something, or maybe even put things right.

So I now add the entry people to a hit-list (sadistically worded, but very effective haha) and make it one of my countless duties to catch up!

Signing off,

Ivan.

The Lack of Commitm.. ugh

2008-12-18T17:39:00.004+11:00

It has been over 3-4 months since I have expressed interest in this blog.

Do I decide to kill this miniature project or do I take this bull-like metaphor and utilise it! I say "Yes!" whilst taking control over the horns and kicking the face of procrastination.

Judo-Kick!

Now in your very chairs you're wondering, whoa whats going on?, this orgasmic pleasurable return of Ivan is too much to handle, I nod my head and reply "Prepare". Now you're just in some form of mind-eroded state, Prepare for what? well.. guess what the confusion heightens even more as I do not know whats in store as well.

Secondary Judo-Kick (now targeted to your face!)

Well I have a topic that just blasts the arms right off you. It is the unfortunate return of the most confusing subject of all, Woman. Well what about them you furiously ask seemingly close to vampires (and not those womanzing males pretending to be vampires) I'm talking about the real case of actual deathly vampires. Now you're beginning to understand the topic altogether, its the crazed misconception of females and their desires for this vampiric (or so we may think) male.

First at foremost, let us dissect this character Edward Cullen by using the only facts I know, his name and he is ALLEGEDLY a vampire.

Edward Cullen, now has anyone in the world know of or has dated an Edward? not that I can think of, its because their kind is extinct due to lack of female attention, now I have used science to track this creator of things. you Twilight heads may jump to conclusion and raise their high-pitched voices to the gods and pounce to the answer of being Stephanie Myer.

How very wrong you are.

The only true victor in this situation is a young or old male named Edward, he has been trying to find a way where a woman would say "Edward, my dream-boat honey cookies and custard tart" instead of "Edward, are you sure that's a name? I swear Oprah said it was some sort of scientific element". Firstly Edward was stupid, as Oprah has never mentioned the name Edward, nor does she discuss the periodic chart of elements. Its beyond absurd. Poor Edward just wanted to make a name for himself, and thus with his manipulative ways by shooting bullets of seductive words straight to female and particularly questionable male hearts he has achieved such a goal.

Second on the agenda is the use of vampires. Has Edward gone mad, from the movie posters of the movie Twilight, I see no indication of the whereabouts of lust for not woman, but for blood. Vampires, are known to love blood, hell, blood is pretty gruesome and its a vampires sole diet. Do they eat carrots? probably so, for their impeccable eyesight, but in no way do they feast on cabbages. You know why? because they are vampires and not to mention cabbages aren't the greatest on any one's favourite food to eat. Furthermore, vampires are cursed or burdened wit ht the fact that they must consume blood in order to survive. Where is this anywhere on the poster or in Edward Cullen's name, if by any chance I was a vampire, I would not be called Edward Cullen, I'd have one awesome name like, Bloodbath Bill, or Fangfrenzy Fred. More vampiric and more awesome.

This just in, secret sources have told me that this so called "Vampire" can roam the world in daylight. Number 1 rule of vampires, they cannot roam the world when the sun is about, it originated with bats,

DO BATS ROAM THE SUNNY BANKS OF THE GOLDCOAST.. IN THE SUN? most likely not.

Just another discrepancy in this whole twi-lame phase the girls are having.

To wrap this all up, this Twilight book/movie has captured the vampire name and created something else, which is a person (NOT A VAMPIRE) who just bites people, and lives for ever, hes an immortal, I bet the whole biting thing and blood thing is just for kicks.

Signing off as a slightly annoyed citizen of an apocalyptic world,

- Ivan

Adaptability

2008-10-24T19:10:00.003+11:00

One thing is for sure is that, us as humans are able to adapt to our environment, almost naturally. I'll begin on why, adaptability has struck me as something important for all the limited readers out there in the world.

Economic crisis, plunder? or beneficial? personally you can go two ways about it, you could either mope about it and keep thinking negatively or you can easily take advantage of it. Some people have accessed the market as a way of creating money, personally I haven't mastered, nor learnt how to do this, but in the coming weeks, hopefully it will work successfully. Another example is how some companies have managed to still be ahead of the crisis, some have opted for different changes to there business, for one, with the petrol prices soaring car companies are needed to adapt to these changes for the consumer benefit, this may include electrical cars or different methods of petrol. This is just one case where adaptability is prominent.

So why exactly am I talking about this? well for a miniature rant, i'm tired about how people are hurting on the recession, when you can easily do things positively and make things work. Petrol prices go up? more chance for people to carpool and thus not using too much petrol as well as helping the environment.

Well enough with petrol, but this can be guaranteed in any circumstance you fall into, if you are emotionally ill, you do not mope about, you can adapt to the situation and look at it in a different perspective. I just feel, maybe not as much as a right, that I should let some information pass by to you, knowing if you had a bad day, that if you just take that day differently then you can turn things around so much quickly.

From a guy urging for something great,

- Ivan

PKR and Books

2008-10-02T21:42:00.002+10:00

As i momentarily play poker on the client PKR, I'd like to give a status update and what has been occurring these days. Well recently I've been applying my positive attitude to things, an been rewarded greatly. My usual days of slothery and gluttony has come to a standstill as I not endure myself, but graciously invite a social and healthy lifestyle into me. I've been considerably grateful for these things, and continue would love to keep this momentum going, by having a gracious attitude toward things, others will be inspired and will manifest with something great.

One example of this that is greatly evident is one of my great mates who has inspired his friends to eat healthy, on top of things his carefree and positive attitude has inspired me to do great as well. I feel like if many people had similar attitudes to us everyone would feel the same way as well. Like means provides like results.

Well when I began getting into this blog, I lost in poker by going all in by a fella who trapped me with his trip Aces which I thought he had none, unfortunate mistake, and curses to you blogger!

The three books that I got, are pretty much things that interest me they are:

The Secret - Rhonda Byne
Richard Branson: Losing my Virginity (Autobiography)
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

The third one was a recommendation from a friend who I believe has great taste, and I know I wouldn't go wrong with it. The other two are some good knowledge book, with one discussing the Law of Attraction and one about Richard Branson a successful businessman. I hope to learn as much as I can from these two and see how I can apply these to my life.

Well the weekend is coming, and my mate has advised me that a blog is due after it, so I'll let the suspense seep through your toes and into your heart.

From a guy who may return to Vlogs,

- Ivan

Holidays!

2008-09-24T10:41:00.002+10:00

Quite recently I've finished my one and only mid-semester exam, and I feel exhilirated. I'm so thankful that I managed to even complete the exam as well as providingpassable answers. A big help was actually putting the effort into studying, although some pieces of information were more needed to be absorbed than others, I feel as if I did a decent job.

On a much more better note, I've taken this opportunity to provide time for myself, in self growth in health and studies, not to mention catching up and developing better friendships with others. I've made it my objective to start running once a day which may be tedious at first, will soon evolve into some sort of habitual thing. Also eating much more healthy will be more of a concern to me to keep my body in great shape for whatever comes.

Lastly I just want to wish all the 08 graduates all over Australia on doing a good job with their studies and keeping it all together, I've been through this task 2 years ago and it seems like it was yesterday. I just hope many people don't stray off and feel negative when people start to do their own thing, because in the future you would have so much to catch up on, and when that day comes it's always awesome. In the end I would just love to congratulate you all for going through this far and to send good luck to your studies as well as any future endeavours you manage to get into.

From a guy who's sending good luck to all,

- Ivan

Vision

2008-09-21T17:57:00.003+10:00

It startled me that I finally know what I want to do. I know in my mind this could be a procrastination method sabotaging my marketing, but it was something to good to pass. I currently have a vision of what I want. This happened out of mild influences as I browsed the net. It occured to me that I and of course you, must take control of our own lifes. We must fulfill what we want to do, or we will surely dwindle to meer nothingness (slight exageration).

This is sort of a subtle confirmation to myself, and a little inspiration to you that we are our own makers of our life, we control what is around, maybe not entirely all, but we can control the things that allow us to push forward to what we want.

Personally I wish for financial freedom, that is being able to not worry about money anymore, which will able me to contribute to society, work my inner and outer self and be a better person with relationships, both family and friend wise.

I must constantly seek for advice and mentors out there who will help me in this journey as well as the encouragement of others as I go through this strict change. As I adapt to this sort of mindset I hope I can share my experiences to all in the future and the trials I have yet to face.

- Ivan, A guy who is in for change

The Female Psyche

2008-09-12T23:14:00.003+10:00

After many procrastinating hours and mindless waste of pure bleak nothingness I've decided to somehow avert my attention to the mystical and hard to understand mind of a, yes you've guess it a woman.

Now people have just been stopping in the streets knowing such a rift in the mind of Ivan has developed and are just itching to know what the more specific topic we'll delve into today, would it be into how they are incredibly hard to read, why they aren't to the super fly golden belt attachment you recently bought or that their aphrodisiac is pure confidence.

Well for the sake of privacy i'll edit peoples names in blogs which may become personal so if they were to 'accidently' search their name on the good ol' search system google they would not easily find this post.

Well, firstly girls and young woman alik are mysterious and trivial things, and not to mention smart. No one can truly in there right mind understand a girl, with the guys its easy, for example

are you hungry?

Guys response: Yeah man im starving
Girls response: Hmmm it depends

Depends on what? the colour of the sky? the soles of your shoes? the calorie intake you've had? In retrospect its a definite yes or no answer, its nothing to trivial, you may think. I jsut do not understand why not they just say yes or no, with 2 possible concrete answers you can decipher anything. With girls they make a yes or no question difficult by answering it in complete essay form, fitted with an introduction, a body and a conclusion, or what I remember in highschool a girl had summation in conclusion, sure that may be slightly similar and slightly standing out but.. really? is it neccesary? ok ill stop the rant with that slight subject.

So now you're asking how can we easily solve this dilemna? well, you maybe thinking, just simpler questions! but now they will find a way, so instead of the obvious giving up, you simply gamble with the hope they are hungry, and not hungry for a preconceived essay or speech answering your question.

To all the guys out there, good luck, and to the girls, your psychological superiority is note worthy

- Ivan, A guy who'll eventually understand

Fuck it

2008-08-17T20:25:00.004+10:00

These two weeks I've been watching the show Skins, a show which showcases friendships of teens and trials they face. This show is probably one of the greatest shows I've watched, I was immediately captured by all the characters. Their unique personalities and the way they interact with each other is simply immaculate. If you have watched this show and is up to date (end of season 2) you would of gone through one hell of a roller coaster. If you have not, I highly recommend that this show has it all, in my eyes it is real, none of this OC or Gossip Girl bullshit (though I do consider it good screenplay), Skins is simply real to me.

Well set aside my devotion to this show is what happened to me this following weekend. Friday started off well with so much confusion on what to do, not to mention the yobbo who gave us a fair bit of flick because of our indecisiveness. More so that very yobbo pretty much castrated Tim as he was specifically told that he wore "a skirt". With that in mind we quickly hit the Sutherland for 5 jugs of beer that we all mastered. Then Tim decided he was cut out for the rest of the night so he went home, and thus arose EBT, aka Early Bird Tim.

After the beer started to take effect we decided to kill more time by crashing into Lenny's Programming lab. We chuckled a little too much and the lab tutor began to question us, with every single sober cell in my body i decided to come up with the biggest bullshit, and to my surprise we were off the hook. We later on visited Springfest which was probably the lamest events out, I did not get any of the free tab, I had to pay the $5 entry and the spirits were like $5. Well further along the night it got better, started to loosen up and ripped the dance floor, now, Im not one to brag but if you were out there with me, oh the floor was burning, we got others to get in it, and heaven! the house music was enough to get my happy feet on. Other than that it was good hanging out with my Uni mates.

The next day I had Nonna's dinner at the restaurant called Rashay's to attend to, I frustratingly met up with Joy who took a total of 5 hrs late (mild exaggeration), but then again she helped me to get through the Liverpool horrors that is the train station. Benjo picked us both up and we headed out to the dinner all spic and span, and we made our hello's and how are you's and we felt dandy. Well so you would think, for me I find the Liverpool people a mysterious breed, maybe its just me all accustomed to the west but I guess you could call it a environmental divide. After I downed just a few beers I felt good again, I think I can honestly say that beer is my preferably choice of drink for dinners, I think it just mixes so well. After the whole embarrassing happy birthday sing-song we decided to head on outside to decide what to do.

Chaos abruptly struck under the flashes of camera's flaring as it took around 20-30minutes to decide what to do. Now I used up my sober patience for Joy, and now this? I suppose if you wanted to do something, you have to get some planning done. I caught a lift off Davis and he unfortunately had to drive Cel and Joy home, which is sort of a stretch for him. On the way we had to fill up, and just like the nice guy Dave is he bought everyone a Gaytime, the sad thing about it is that the girls declined on the offer, and we were left with 2 extra Gaytimes melting away. Later on we met up with AJ and Jay to play poker with Anthony, his bro and Jayman. Intense games to say the least, I came 3rd the first game and won the 2nd game which ended up being an endurance game keeping us up till 4am, quite the triumph. It was simply blissful on how I won, I don't remember Anthony's brothers cards but I had an 8-6 off suit, a 9 and a 5 were on the board already and he had a pair i think already, turn came over, nothing changed, finally the next card with all my might turned out to be a 7, making me win the match. I "river rided" my way to victory it was the best win I've ever had.

This now brings me to the present, holding with me is a packet of Hamish and Andy's or more accurately known as the "People's Chips". The gravy chip, I decided to tank down half a packet and gave the rest to all, In my opinion they are heaven. Its so tasty and gravy like, oh the wonders. Speaking of which, I think i'll stop now, the thought of gravy chips is watering up my mouth.

I hope everyone had a good weekend and I wish to party with you soon.

- Ivan

4th out of the 8

2008-08-09T11:27:00.009+10:00

The 08/08/08 was a day that had so many mixed emotions. It brought upon joy, happiness, despair, anguish, courage and endurance. These are just the tip of the iceberg of what had become this very day.

The day began with me going to work at the most annoying time 6:30am, not really much to say there as the adventure truly begins once I've entered university. Originally I was meant to study marketing by myself but decided fellow companionship was in order, as I hastily went to my mates class. As they began to finish up we began planning on where to eat, unfortunately for all of us, we went our separate ways, Gordon and Jason went off to the gym, Simon and Jimmy went off to eat elsewhere and me and Tim went over to the computers for me to buy my camera on Ebay.

This got me ecstatic knowing that this would be my first online purchase. The risk involved, the transaction, the whole process, it made me feel like some CIA operative, one operative who was fired recently and now searches the internet full-time for cheap deals.

Furthermore the day was not there, I decided to take Tim on at super smash brothers, him solely being Ice Climbers and me being King Dedede and Wario, with one of the egg guys being a Grade A cock. Saying house rules, only time no stock blah blah blah, but in seriousness if it was a club introducing the game to all, it would cater to all, my arguments surely defeated his when he didn't allow Fifa 08 because he didn't like sports and that they would need to continue to update the game every year (aka Fifa 09, Fia 10 etc). My argument was that well they've had Guitar Hero 2 and now 3 up, also the addition of rock band is a similar upgrade, he stumbled and fell as I claimed myself in my very head the king of kings.

Later on we headed to the coke booth for some free drinks and the demon magician. Not much to say about that only to say that the demonic gods have given him a gift. After the small showdown we met up with Lenny and Nikki which ended up into being Beijing's very own Table Tennis Championship. I honestly thought that I was pretty noob at table tennis, but for some reason I turned out to be fairly good by beating Tim and tying with Lenny until we got to 8 all each he then carved me up in the end. The shots were amazing on both sides it was incredibly intense. A random guy named Chris I believe decided to join in the fun and he ripped a whole in Tim and Lenny which then came Mr Doonside, aka Adrian. Unfortunately he was caught under surprise as he did not even know he was entered into this unofficial competition. As usual the Table Tennis shark Chris pistol whipped Adrian.

Disclaimer: The following may want you to eat a series of 20 McDonald pounder burgers

Something was in the air in that moment of time, when we all congregated together in utter confusion as to where we were going to eat we knew something big was happening. We decided to walk seeing if anything pleased us on the way and with one sudden whisper Gordon asks the group,

"Hey want to go for a Pounder"

Tim replies in shouting with

"Yes! Let us race to see who can eat it the quickest!"

All eyes looked at one another, the sense of competition hit the air as Beijing's aura has hit the Australian shores. We went into McDonald's with different mindsets, people were going into there blind, some were scared, others in total anticipation, as for myself, I was mentally preparing myself for such a journey that could only end in heart burn.

These still images does not make justice of the live performances Pounder burgers make in real life. As Nikki counted us down to begin the competition I strategically thought of tactics on how to pull away the other competitors, psychological warfare was one with me making gagging noises in front of Gordon and squishing my burger to show the fat seeping through waving its hand at his face.

The leaderboard showed this in the end

Jimmy: the guy who knew he had it at the start
Simon: a tank, one who had lunch before the pounders with Jimmy
Gordon: a big surprise to me
Ivan: me, who just got above average, a magnificent
Lenny: he had it going, although I thought he had me
Adrian: someone who has been on this life longer, im disappointed haha
Tim: let down, would of been funnier if he was last
Jason: total struggle

As the end of the competition came to the close, we shared our cries, joys and laughter, and which then came to a messy end. As we all laughed around with the Pounder stillin Jason's mouth he laughed and the burger went all over the table

After the pounder craze the guys had class so I decided to crash their programming classes. After I met up with Justin and Billy to hopefully get the networking done which did not happen for me as I signed up too late. We later on went to glasshouse for a jug of beer and headed off to Star City.

My love of Star City is always bad so far. Think of it this way, imagine your making love to someone and in the end only to find out they have AIDs, you feel stitched up hard. I blew 25 on Blackjack with a fantastic first game and then dwindled off to roulette with 25 on red, which the lady did as well, and as usual with fate it decided to go on black. Later on I tried my luck on the pokies with the remaining $3 I had, similar to the table games I fell and burned.

We went back to the Loft hoping the drinks were still there, and luckily enough there was! I tried to drink as much as I could to get my moneys worth of $50 flushed at Star City. It was great seeing my good mate Tien there as we haven't seen eachother since last semester. Adrian, Billy, Tien and I managed to discuss the ways of woman, trying to understand the things they do. Little can be told in here due to it being a confidential conference. :)

The day altogether was an incredibly long and great one, this is just one of the days that I may remember for the rest of my life. Thanks for everyone who took part on the journey of 08/08/08

- Ivan

Getting Comfortable

2008-08-04T13:39:00.010+10:00

Currently I'm waiting for the phenomenon of internet purchasing and selling as my paypal is slowly getting ready to be good to go. I've been browsing a few places on what I could spend now that I have this already well known power. So far this camera has caught my eye, it is just amazing. I am talking about this beauty, the Panasonic Lumix TZ15.

As you can see its stylish and looks bloody awesome. The aesthetic of it is amazing, and that's not the only thing, this baby can record movie clips at 720p, dare I say one heck of a beauty. Not to mention the image quality it produces is beautiful. So as I impatiently wait for paypal to get my account linked with my bank account I can only look and stare and the beauty it provides.

Furthermore, I've been looking at Threadless shirts which I also plan on buying over the net, and get it imported into Australia. If you haven't experienced the creative flavour designers have put onto the form of a T-shirt then you best be visiting it right now at www.threadless.com.

My mate Tim and I have selected 5 shirts each so the postage will be minimal. I'm seeing if others are willing to jump the wagon and I would go ahead and make the purchase the people doesn't have to do the nitty gritty stuff. These shirts are the ones which have caught my eye.

Well I best be doing something more productive such as creating a logo for the page, it seems so nude right now. I hope your eyes enjoy the layout so far, I tweaked a template found on the net.

- Ivan

Operation Update

2008-08-02T05:00:00.000+10:00

Currently I'm moving blogs which I believe are interesting from my various blog sites all onto this site. Generally because I feel the need to have one medium instead of plenty.

I'm also under the impression that the current layout sucks and hopefully I'll be able to edit it successfully for the safety of both your eyes and mine.

Hope I keep on update with such inspirations like Jasmine and Lenny at the moment, who are heaps dedicated, tops to them!

Well, might as well end this quickly and continue working on.

Generation Greatness

2008-07-08T08:24:00.000+10:00

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. - Charles De Gaulle

Recently, I've been fascinated by the idea of greatness, how one attains such status, what greatness becomes and one of the most simplest questions, what is greatness.

Looking through my life, relationships with everyone, stranger or not, I search for the greatness in everyone, maybe to take advantage of this or to rather observe and acknowledge their 'great' qualities. Everyone has that one thing about them that makes them shine, that piece of spark that goes 'wow, that truly is something'.

Now you're wondering why I pointed this out to you guys? is simply because I feel that with our generation we tend to look over such things, or we forget that they aren't just a piece of existence, but someone who holds or is able to attain greatness.

Whether it be a newborn child, a busker, a scientist, each person has the ability to become something great. Well what is stopping us? nothing except ourselves.

You already possess everything necessary to become great. - Crow Proverb

Maybe I want to see the world to be something more than it is already, maybe I do not want to accept that our world is not reaching its full potential as a global community, so as a miniature challenge I strive for anyone to do something small, and as those small things build up we come to realize that we have built something great.

Consistency and Cause

2008-06-19T17:12:00.000+10:00

First and foremost, eye candy.

Eye candy comes in different forms and names but for me, eye candy sticks with me. Its the act of well, checking out someone. Now your thinking, whoaaa seedy guy here get those security barriers up and running, but stop just a moment and think hard about it when I take you to a different view about it.

Being looked at can be a great thing in my honest opinion, sure the ugly seedy guy down the back may pause for question, but being acknowledged but others, possibly for an interesting physical quality such as, eyes, hair, ears, nose, brea.. bread? *shifty eyes*. In honest fact if no one looked at you for the effort you put in taking care of yourself is quite disappointing, I see it as people who frock up are willing to be noticed.

So that's my point on why you shouldn't be startled by a quick stare here or there. Sure it could cause ill-effect, but in the long run a stunning girl cannot be stunning without an audience to stun. If that makes sense. Kind of like the whole tree in the forest falling rah rah rah.

Well, I hope to keep up with this miniature blog seeing as I transfer from one blog site to another I need a safe medium to sink my feet in.

The end?

Dissolve

2008-06-06T05:00:00.000+10:00

s it just me or have I suddenly been sapped away of witty comedic lines.

One perfect example which shows my prime is this comment found on my friends photo.

17 Feb 2007 11:05 PM
why hello, theres a package at my room for you :P

you guessed it.

antharax

—-

Where have I been?

Insight

2008-04-16T05:00:00.000+10:00

Hey readers,

Today I guess i’ll spill some little insight on my thoughts on a more ‘serious’ tone… well not specifically but more lengthy I supposed you could say. Set aside the introductory’s and enter the mind of Ivan.

*switch on: Foo Fighters - Everlong*

Currently i’ve been listening to this song non-stop, maybe as a sign of something cool going to happen or something i wish would happen. Either unexpected or not it seems like something great will soon come. Although this feeling could end up being something terrible, the war on terror (which I really hate) might come to our shores, or the rise of China will overtake America’s super civilization. Who knows!

So far, everything has gone pretty much great for me, from university enticing my social levels, my new temporary job for the holidays reeping in the money and my health gradually getting better (workouts are the best). Although one thing really is now in need for attention, I know it may sound desperate or whatever and this is definetly not a plea for some magical godess to come down and provide some instant cure..

*breathe out, so I can breathe you in*

No, but what i’m wishing is for someone who will give me that feeling of chase and accomplishment, i know it may sound bad but the journey of it all, starting off with simple text messages then gradually booming into marriage, thats right the big M word. With our ages now (hopefully teens) we have a decade to somehow find the right one, it seems old fashioned seeing as divorce is so easy to do, giving you another chance, but getting right in that first go, hole in one, thats what satisfies golfers (or mini golfers alike).

*If everything could feel this real forever*

Maybe like my dear mate said that we have to go out with as many girls as possible so in the end that one special girl would rise amongst others, or like my other friend who says you just know when its right. I’m not one to waste eachothers times, if I forsee that it is a mistake then I back off quickly, but maybe thats my problem I just look at the most possible negative outcomes making me curl up in a shell. Time will tell in the end, that one girl spotted in the crowd, when everything slows down and all you can do is just stop, that is probably the time when I know. Until that moment I can only enjoy what I do and jump to that one life changing opportunity.

*And i wonder…*

- Ivan

PS. Probably one of my most corniest blogs ever, but I seem to be victim to them, echoes silence patience and grace (foo reference again haha)

Programming Sucks

2008-04-07T05:00:00.000+10:00

public void post()

{

I would create a meaningful, god inspiring, heart breaking experienced filled post but I'm under the severe bombardment of Captain. Java, ruthless as he is, hes destroying my social life as well as my other subjects, most notably Senior IS.

Its a terrible day.

}

public void end()

{

Im not even sure this if is correct,

Ivan

}

Prequel to Church

2008-03-31T06:00:00.000+11:00

As i patiently wait for church to come along and then come back to kill another section of my IS assessment (strengths and weaknesses) which I assume will be easy, I wonder what this year will hold. Come to think about it, many people will become full fledged dults including myself, many people improving themselves and everyone around is changing.

I find this incredibly warming seeing as our society isn’t sticking to one thing and that we continue to grow, either by ourselves or together. I wonder why others seem to lose themselves in such cycles of wanting to be the same, or how things will always be the same sorta crap when in reality we all change, new friendships, dying ones, new social circles and more!

Well my mother is telling me to head off to church already so ill come to close!

Good luck to me in killing my assessment, and soy for cutting this potentially meaningful blog short.

Until orgasmic singing old lady sings once again,

Ivan.

Procrastination

2008-03-11T06:00:00.000+11:00

Yes its that timely curse we all are diseased with. I know I should be studying learning about Information Systems, Communications with IT professionals, Web Systems and Programming fundamentals, not to mention the crawling assessments soon to come ahhh! its just too intense.

Anyways since I haven’t been here in quite a while, I’d love to give all a not so noticeable update.

Starting to feel comfortable in uni.. a little too comfortable
I am still, quite frankly, unemployed a very low blow there
I am more motivated to do weight training than before
I’ve begun to diet myself much more better
Water is my oxygen
Met some very cool people at university
Harbour Cruise coming up (28th baby)

and more! which I probably can’t think of at this very moment.

Well seeing as its CITP tomorrow I suppose I would do a little bit of research for our group project and then look at the slides for both web systems + CITP.

Hope to keep this blog somewhat alive!

- Ivan

ps. Oh and gamegrunts.com have been officially launched. The layout kind of displeases me atm, thankfully its temporary.

Thoughts, Hot Rod and Super Mario Galaxy

2008-02-10T07:00:00.000+11:00

While at church I started to daze off, sorry higher ups, but I had some shirt designs and business stuff going in my head. Like marketing, how we can organize a big event to introduce the new brand or make it small due to the costs of that. Some ideas popping my head were just simple designs.

But then it hit me, I must do some research! one way I could do this is look over the net on what the youth market looks like or I could goto stores and view the prints there. Although I feel it could be hard making these shirts as some are either plain, or are made with the material (eg pattern all over the shirt) instead of a simple design. None the less its a challenge we must overcome.

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This movie summarised in two words is, comedic genious. Not only did it have such an old school feel to it due to the music being played, the moments which are unexpected are just hilarious. It may seem that some funny areas of the movie are milked out but I believe they cut it at the right time.

This is definetly a recommendation to anyone who enjoys comedies. Its similar to superbads unexpected humor minus the inappropriate material used.

So get out there! buy it, rent it, do whatever it takes to watch it, its definetly a must.

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Yesterday I borrowed this game off a friend and the moment I was allowed I was over the moon, or should I say over the ‘galaxy’. Worst pun ever but its ok, because super mario galaxy is a fun game, everywhere you go artistically its amazing, many areas are so simplistic its just nuts.

Apart from my ecstatic love for this game its got me playing some other console games such as guitar hero 3. Trying to master it on extreme is just ridiculously hard, but its something I must do, also if my brother can do it, why can’t I?

To all the gamers out there, if you have not already pick these 2 games up, its a plus!

Ability (MSN Spaces exert)

2007-12-08T07:00:00.000+11:00

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WELL! i can sure kid myself that sure i got a few problems going willy nilly but here i present you a blog about the preconceptions of life and the emaning of that.. of course that would require a bucket of bible lengths to achieve that but hey i can sure tell you some good things in my life at this current momento.

life as it has it has so many balances from what i learnt in avatar, sure its a bloody anime show but hell, air bending and all that stuff sure captures me. I guess this is similar to most stories that have risen about the balance between light and dark.. ominous khoi fish symbol in the final 2 eppys of season 1 avatar reference, SNAP im actually structuring this as an essay, god thats depressing.. i miss procrasination and the completion AND satisfcation of completing it.. haha how nerdy. ANYWAYS back to the business at hand.. so you have this balance correcto.. but hell lemme tip side the good side within this blog.. bloggo.. sounds like a monster anyways.. gg

so i have come to the realisation adn i bet many other people have come to this.. or better have that how i met your mother is instantly an awesome show. seriously but its got wit, its got humour its got variety.. mmm relationship wise, i could go on but it wouldn't justify the greatness its seriously that good.

ok ok ok

so apart form my love for a couple of tv shows theres outside stuff. well.. a close relative of mine.. not really close i guess.. mainly because i didn't put the effort to become close.. but technically close relative past away. at the time i didn't care that much honostly i try to create this shell of hey i didn't know him so why would i care deal? right so my cold heart.. or rock heart kicked in.. similar to the 06 grad.. man that was good haha off topic but hey that grade was killer instinct on the 64 gg. so i didn't cry or feel much sad.. until i stopped and looked around. the closest of relatives and friends to the person had a deep intimate connection, which i haven't seen in a while.. you know pretty much everyone honored the guy and suprise suprise hes a WW2 veteran aswell, hell cool.. and didn't know until then.. how bad is that ? well to know that this connection with everyone couldn't just come purely out of the occasion its because he effected everyone in a way that touched them, so as i layed on that chair.. i realized that, well, funerals although sad and all that make you realize the true connection with a person whether it was good or bad... well mostly good, its weird aprreciation and respect are enhanced while badstuff (haha not sure what word to say) is faded away. maybe if we all look at eachother in that way without stubborn hearts etc maybe everyone could just get along.. haha im not great at following any advice let alone myself but hell if my experience can possibly nudge someone to do good.. then maybe we'll all climb a tree and eat a fresh apple (thats a proverb.. that i made up.. with no relation unless you're an artsy type who analyzes the hell with it)

HUGE WALL OF TEXT COMPLETED.

well that was huge..

so on the topic of girls all i can say and hell this seriously is the truth

they're all bloody confusing.

if you're a guy and you say you understand a girl, hell you have no slight idea whats going on there head man! seriously im not talking just from personal experience but hell every case calls it the same, you can get right at times but man they surprise the hell outta people. anyways thats all on the ladies subject mainly because i could most definetly be killed through blogs about girls and exploits on people aint that dandy

till next time

Ivan.

PS: man, spellcheck, grammar and vocabulary. yeah we all need it but whos going to endorse it? laters!

when one month and one day goes wrong! (MSN Spaces exert)

2007-10-28T06:00:00.000+11:00

Drum roll please..

So its been exactly one month and one day since my last blog and times have defenitly changed.

more of which include freedom of stress and increasment in relaxation thats right kids of the year 2008 (yes you are our future). So your wondering, hey ivan? why no elaborate on this? well the thing is because my hands are detached from my arms.. ok bad joke but really what is it ivan? wow ill answer because my own 3rd person act is getting old. So on a sacred day.. a day in which will remain unknown until further discovery i received.. well earned.. uhh more like bought a Xbox 360. so with my current and nearly finished employment i did what jesus told me.. haha not really but i did what i desired and hooked myself up with the worlds greatest entertainment system for gaming (yes i do consider this statement bias).

So far my library of gaming is (from order bought):

Halo 3
Gears of War
Dead Rising
Forza Motorsport 2Viva Pinata

and i think between forza and viva my bro bought guitar hero 2.

now that my dear friends is an awesome collection of games, and theres is oh so more to come such as:

skate.
Fifa 08
Mass EffectAssassins Creed

those my dear friends are beauties.

now i could go along what i want etc etc but your thinking so what? well ill tell you what! the eperience of one game per entry.. huzzah!

lets start off with.. numero 1 Halo 3.

Ok from the time i played it, it wasn't as revolutionary as i was led to believe... but come on, its 'Halo' it of course promised great gameplay, incredible AI, nice assortment of weapons, action action action and a bloody ending. Now we can all sit and ponder of the stories finale. The various campagin levels are oh so unique, it ranges from jungle, to beaches, to cliff faces, to inside buildings, to deserts, to snow and more! (i think). These immersive environments were great and didn't obstruct gameplay in anyway (maybe sun glare could be too blinding? similar to Fable on the Xbox haha.. bloom central). The sound was flawless, in a tight area it gets tense, when battles emerged music fitted perfectly and when you are about to meet the flood.. well the sounds adds that creepy zombie feel. So i've finished the game and popped xbox live onto my account and mannnnnnn, multiplayer is a blessing and a curse. If creates so much rage when mostly lag happens -_- and when yo do something so stupid.. argh. On top of that it makes games with friends so much fun, (heads up to RevenGz and rOfl_OwnN3D kekeke OH and SquintyHippo). Maps seem to be balanced.. still need an idea of where everything is though seems rather blank.

Well lately i haven't touched it as much due to my huge obsession with Viva Pinata but that is for another entry! sooo that was a badly structured blog/review

till next time!

I love you :)

- Ivan

when return goes wrong! (MSN Spaces exert)

2007-09-27T05:00:00.000+10:00

Hmmm, i've always imagined a good opening scene.. well an introduction visually but extremely hard to express it to words. I guess thats my nature where literature gets destroyed via visual sex. Not literally of course, ahh gosh who am i kidding...

Hello!

yes i feel that i need a place to bog or blog my thoughts and dum dum de dum, msn spaces have launched itself to be quite the contender seeing as myspace is awfully crap, not sure how facebook works with blogging (i doubt its included) but good ol msn spaces goes straight for gold seeing as i have expereince with this. OK!

so little people are going to read this but without disgression, digression? digestion? ...

without further or do! (much better)

lets launch myself into the plague a postive plague! (yes tahts right year 12'ers use alliteration, it saves lives hahahhahhahah.. no seriously it does check out tiny tom nearly killed by a train thankfully tiny tom though theres that tremendous terror tracking tender tiny tim. oh god that was terrible LOL)

so i look back and my other blogs had that.. serious feel to it something that in my opinion ruins the very essence we blog, sure we can use these as to state a political statement, but come on.. a blog used as something serious? gotta be throwing life jackets at people in a desert, it just doesn't happen (although life jackets could be used as shelter of some sort, a large dome of life jackets creating a barrier against the sun! mwahhaha the very best invention in case of survival.. uhh in case of people stealing this idea, this is solely copyrighted by Ivan A Cerrafon, if this idea is already used please refer back to me.

So anyways enough of that wild ramble, why did i return to msn space anyways, oh! so like myspace blogs, sure you get into it, you get to see a view here or there but in the end.. it sucks. I tried doing this massive one but it somehow got deleted :/ another example is half way through a myspace blog you just look at it and go eww, do i REALLY want to subject my writings to emo scene kids or people shouting out im not fake! and crap like that on bulletins, we get the point your an individual whoopwhoop. I dont know myspace... myspace ruins lives LOL

new paragraph for myspace banter hahah

So myspace has come a long way with me, ability to add html and whatnot to customize your space, a few guides out there on the web helping you out, ability to hide comments and all that jazz but in the end, its not what i call practical? sure you got the billion of people joining that site but like... in the end myspace.. you lose a bit of privacy? a dose of yourself all shown to the world in a misunderstood easy package. Like, for that.. it seems like as if thers the unwrittin rule where you must disguise yourself to gain someone elses friendship. As silly as it may seem (mainly because these are fresh thoughts popping now) the cooler myspaces you have the cooler the person you are? its true. Come on fellas/ladies as if you hate going to a page seeing pretty stars and bad, i mean REALLY bad .gif images blinking at you, its just not cool. It literally hurts me and my future children, just not cool.

C - O - O - L

is not that crap lol

well enough of that crap (repetition anyone, year 12ers write this down it saved tiny tim, it will save you).

holy crap, it feels i've written alot and looks like it too OH typed for that matter, ahh the internet lingo and bad ergonomic wrist placement will soon devour my soul hahaha

SO next blog hopefully my thoughts will delve into my future in gaming or gaming itself well till next time player haters

- Ivan

PS once your sick is there a quick way to heal couple days after? like some form of judo medicine? cause seriously i need some black belt pounding on this disease im carrying, crap.

Myspace Blog 3

2007-05-22T05:00:00.000+10:00

Seventeen

Wow, the views i have from this blog is 2749 (my postcode) creepy.

Nothing much to being 17, I can drive? lock n load the P's and i might actually get that ATO job. Once i hit myself with those babies I think i'll sail through quite easily, then theres that uni problem i still gotta deal with. Well! hard work pays off so I should get cracking.

Driving lesson at 8:30 in the morningg =________________=

Why did I book it so early? how retarded, ahwells better over and done with!

Hopefully by the end of the week i'll be able to drive to peoples houses and hang out for once (immediate victory).

OH MA GAWD Starcraft 2 is also released, its not what i expected after so many years, but I guess the 'formula' hasn't let them down yet. Nonetheless I greet it with open arms.. ahh how momentum.

Well take care kiddies! Hope good fortune comes your way.

- Ivan

Myspace Blog 2

2007-04-27T05:00:00.000+10:00

Stop. Rewind.And Play.

Skip, Skip, Skip, Skip..oooo Play.

- Hot hot heat - Goodnight Goodnight

After a few skips off the urban flava, I try to fit the mode for tonights.. or must i say mornings blog entry. *comtemplates whther to put it on repeat..

tempted

Maybe its the small clash of shivering despair that has put me into some sort of position to allow me to convert the thoughts in my head to not so subtle thoughts of 1's and 0's. Aka the computer

So! tired eyes.. filling my vessel, ahh blessed. I should sleep soon.

Threats.

Tee, Ach, Are, Eee, Aye, Tee, Ess. Threats.

We all have exerienced one kind of threat, whether being or doing the threat, either unintentially or not. Do we actually make that defiant subtle act that puts others off the hook.

I honostly say, yes we do.

Well obviously right? but the effect on this is grusome.. once we put our feet into there shoes (non literal.. although comfortable with the right pair haha). Some expreiences show me in an ego fountain of endless supply or a retched wreck tailored to kick me out and about.

Exhibit A
Flirtacious remarks just handed down from table to table, subtle yet.. lingering thoughts of excitement destroys the lights out of someone who only restricts themself and their own environment into such vengence. Aka anger.
Aka scared.
Aka cracked.

On one side you feel the best, on the other you feel the aboved. So do we really give a sheeps ass attacking class? or do we just mumble the boundary and feather up some poultry and lay awsihful pattern of hop and dope. I guess trust in whoever your with, w---

and distraction is caused. Answered so quickly. Bah. Oh snap off topic, the way i like it pikelet.

Where was I.. ok hot hot heat is starting to get repetive, letes change the mood creating a totally different measure.

Well, that different measure equates to the end of this blog, for I am tired.

- Ivan

Peace, Love and Transition.

Myspace Blog 1

2007-04-19T05:00:00.000+10:00

Where am I?

With the freshly brewed hot chocolate simmering the air, and the triple chocolate sensation of a muffin dissolving in my mouth...

Top of the day to you guys. Wow haven't been on here long with my oh.. 0 subscribers.. well not literally since i got a handful of much loved people undeniably waiting for a response haha

Well nothing much new, applying for this job at the AT uh O. Cross your fingers, toes, and any other limb possible for this small chance of a life time, maybe i could get into accounting mech up the ranks and snap! im running donald trump as my man-bitch serving tea and apples on occasion. None the less, his overwhelming power could serve purpose in my all growing empire within the future.. bah! lets just lay back and 'enjoy the present'.

Why? Because Van Wilder says why, and he has the upmost authority, sure hes fictional but 7 years at college *clap clap* truly a god.

Well the milo love has just been tarnished i tell you, tarnished due to me carelessly drinking it away, ohhh but isn't that what your supposed to do with milo?

No.

You water polants with it, and i am aware that says polants and not plants. If you cannot understand that? then you my dear friend cannot understand my language.. Oh but why be so intimidated! its all for love for i shall teach.

Step 1:
Not care about the order of words, aka, the dog bough eat shop food.

Step 2:
forget step one not even I understand whats going on haha

Well, I honostly felt like a blog so! I hope you guys are doing well, wherever you are!

My the light shine! Let the worries decline! and keep it on good times!

- Ivan