Oh kay, this is the earth...
As some of you may or may not know, the 14th was my birthday. So what happened on my birthday? I got up early Saturday morning to catch a train to the suburbs to tutor a student. Yay for more money. Came back and took a nap and just woke up in time to take a shower and then off to meet a bunch of people at the train station to go to Camberwell to Sofia's for dinner. Fairly big group with about 20 people there for the dinner. It was a good time talking to most of them but it was pretty hard considering a group that big and also how busy that place was on a Saturday. Incidentally, our pastor and extended families were there for another birthday, unknowingly. It's their second daughter's birthday on Sunday and they were there to celebrate as well. But I was soon to discover that I was going to be upstaged by her. When the cake came out for my pastor's daughter, half of my group left and went to their table while saying "Sorry Juwen". I light-heartedly gave the wth-look at them but fair enough. Cute children over smelly old man. That's just the way it is. Anyway, good dinner. Then went to Markov for some drinks (for those who have done probability, no. It's not him or anything related to him) and had a beer and two cocktails. Not a bad place for drinks. And then went to church to clean.
Yeah. Not exactly my average birthday but it's nice. My other birthday's are normally a lot quieter. Waaaay quieter. I was actually trying to have a very very very quiet birthday but obviously it blew up in my face. I glad it did. This birthday marked a few things. For one, this is the first birthday where all my exams were done before the birthday. It is also one of the biggest turn-ups for breakfast/lunch/dinner (probably top 3). Also the first time I had my thunder stolen but it's ok (it's the pastor's daughter we're talking about here). And Sofia's was also the first place I had my birthday dinner when I first came to Melbourne with a failed attempt to get me drunk. But they passed with flying colours to making my stomach feel really painful.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes in person, on Facebook and that one SMS. Also, thanks for making me use more Lolspeak. It certainly trains me to make the LolCafe a reality.
Ok, in other news, I ordered a copy of Windows 7 so that I can get right into playing games. Since I can't really do the download, I'll just have to wait for the DVD to come. So the DVD has been sent by FedEx from Singapore which I was like "Seriously?". Isn't there a place in Australia that would send the DVD? I mean they should have a place right? Anyway, I have been tracking the order and it arrived in the local FedEx office on Friday late afternoon. Thinking that they don't deliver on the weekend, they should come on Monday right? Wrong. Monday afternoon and still no DVD and when I checked back at the tracking, they displayed the status as "Package not due for delivery". What part of "Priority Package" don't they understand? This is beginning to look like the time when I ordered stuff using UPS, took an unusually long and convoluted trip for it to get here. At least FedEx is not convoluted but it certainly took it's time. If it were DHL, they'd be knocking at my door waking me up from my sleep. Not cool FedUp. Not cool.
I've also started doing a side project with a friend on doing some probabilistic modeling of spending habits of customers. It's been quite cool so far and hope that we can do quite a fair bit of analysis before submitting our solution. It's a pretty long shot but hopefully it is worthy of the prize the company is giving out to the most robust solution. By the way, that figure is about US$10,000. Yup. We wantz it, k? It's times like these I sometimes feel like going back to math again but I guess that is going to have to wait. I miss math. Or any math related problem and/or subject.
An interesting article on putting a price on marriage, in particular for the men if one goes sour or the death of a child or spouse. Makes you wonder how true is it that some men who are divorced suffer so much monetarily like depicted in some TV shows or movies. Best example is Two and a Half Men.
But I'm le tired...
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Good to hear you had a good time at Sofia!
Have you realised you've just turned a quarter of A CENTURY OLD!!!???
Oh dear...
Oh, did you make a birthday wish/resolution?
I think I made it quite clear that I am a quarter of a century old by virtue of the blog post title =P
I somewhat made one but obviously I'm not telling =P