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Day: 149 (Tuesday, 14th May 2002)
Status: On call (I have a feeling I won’t be working at Shakrahari anymore)
Days without PS2: 4 days
Listening to: John Williams – Superman The Movie Theme
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Ironic – Alanis Morissette

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think?

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out

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I’m typing this in MS-WORD at the moment. Blogspot seems to be down at the moment. Kind of fits the topic I’m talking about in this update. Talking about Irony, hence the lyrics above from the song by Alanis Morissette.

Managed to catch an episode of “Felicty” on FOX8 on Tuesday night. Seemed to be the first episode of the entire series. Not sure how many of you have actually seen this series.

Here’s a quick rundown of today’s episode. It’s about a high-school student named Felicity. She was pondering about life after graduation from high school. Her life has been planned by her parents, she was supposed to do pre-med at Stamford University and after X number of years, be a physician.

For the entire 4 years of her high school life, Felicity had the hots for one of her schoolmates. Let’s call him Ben. Why Ben? Because I can’t remember his name but I think that’s what he’s called in the show. The only problem is, Felicity has never in her life spoken to Ben. He was the good-looking, popular one while she was the studious type (I assume). After the graduation, she musters up courage to go up to him and asks him to sign her yearbook. He must’ve wrote in something really special. I , for one cannot remember what it was.

What follows is her going against her parents wishes to go to Stamford and instead, packs her bags to go to New York City to an Art School. This was after a huge argument with her parents who threatened not to financially support her. Why the art school? Because that’s where Ben was going of course. I don’t know how Felicity knew this, because I was channel surfing the entire time and missed bits and pieces of it.

Somehow, Felicity managed to get to New York City and found life hard to cope. She bumps into Ben, and he recognises her from school. In class, Felicity starts crying and the girl next to her writes her a note asking if she was alright. They become friends and start talking over lunch. During lunch, Felicity catches sight of Ben, confronts him and tells him that he was the reason she came to New York and she had a huge crush on him in high school. He says he’s flattered etc. They decide to be friends.

After some time, there was supposed to be some test. Felicity suggests that Ben and her form a study group. She asks Amy to join them as well. Ben asked if it would be alright. Amy asks if Felicity and Ben are going out, and our girl says “No, of course not! We’re just friends”.

We see Felicity, Amy and Ben in a bar after that, telling jokes and having a good time. I thought they were supposed to study? Maybe they were taking a break. Maybe it was after the study session. Amy excuses herself and goes to the ladies. Ben then asks Felicity if she meant when she said they were just going to be friends. She’s at a loss but she says “Of course “. Ben says its cool because he’s “kinda into Amy”. We see Felicity’s face change. Ben senses it and starts apologizing. Felicity says that its ok. So Ben asks her if she thinks Amy is interested in him.

Next scene, Felicity walking home with some sad music. She reaches back to her dorm and sits down in deep thought. Her roommate, whom she’s never seen comes in to grab some stuff then leaves. She didn’t seem interested that she had a roommate. Felicity decides to see Ben in the middle of the night.

She starts shouting at him at his dorm door. Saying that he does things without considering the consequences. She blames Ben for making her fall in love with him. Ben gets agitated and replies “I didn’t make you do anything. I didn’t ask you to come to NYC. That was your choice. I didn’t make you fall in love with me. All I did was be nice to you”. Felicity looks like she’s been hit by a tonne of bricks. Just then, we see Amy coming out of Ben’s dorm room and walks off. Felicity is speechless and goes off as well.

Felicity decides to leave New York and go back to Stamford like how it was planned by her parents.

We also have a side story of her geeky Resident Advisor for the dorm who seems to have an interest in her. He advises her not to leave saying it will be a mistake. As she’s packing, Ben comes to talk to her. Telling her he lied in his acceptance essay, saying she makes him think about things he never thought about. In this moment of friendship bonding, Felicity tells Ben that she has never made any decisions at all. And the first one that she ever made turned out to be a mistake and so ironic.

She meets her parents who try to convince her to go back by giving her a car, a new apartment and the promise that they will take care of her loan for her studies at the Art School. She finds out that her dad pulled some strings to get her re-enrolled in Stamford and was also the one who managed to get her accepted in the first place. She declines saying if she makes a mistake, it should at least be hers.

As the show ends, we see Felicity and Amy making up, laughing, joking and ending in a hug. We see them walking off together, and there’s a voice-over who’s actually Felicity’s French Tutor who’s away. It seems Felicity and this woman have a strong friendship. She was the only person Felicity could talk to, so they record tapes of their thoughts and problems and send them to each other. At the end, we hear that it was the tutor’s turn to learn about life from Felicity and she’s hoping to hear more about life in New York City.


Watching the show made me realize some things. It’s how things never turn up the way you expect them to. You might make big plans for yourself, but a single event can change it forever. A small mistake and it changes the course of your life. Sometimes, the choice isn’t even yours. You have no control over it when you’re just thrown into the mix. That’s the irony of life. There’s a saying that goes “Nothing is certain except death and taxes”.

Well – enough of this crap. Don’t even know if I made any sense. After “Felicity” was WWE RAW. So there. Enough said.

Called Ben earlier this afternoon. Asked him about the job. He said I’d probably get the job at the Glenferrie Road branch as they need someone full time there. He will speak to the manager and get him to contact me tomorrow. He said that he’s already gotten the letter that I photocopied at the post office yesterday.

Speaking of the post office, I was sitting on the bench outside the post office, writing out the letter to be given to Ben. As I was sitting there, I could swear that DT walked past me. He didn’t even mention a thing, didn’t even acknowledge my presence! I’m sure it was him, chances of someone wearing the same beanie, jacket and pants around Kew are next to none. I refuse to believe that he didn’t see me sitting there. After I stopped at McDonald’s to drop the letter off and have lunch, he called me asking me where I was and said if I was in the city, we can go back together after his class ends at 4.30 pm. What the fuck? Is he trying to pretend or something? Like I said, I’m damn sure he saw me in Kew. Don’t know that’s the point of him pretending. He’s good at putting on “shows” I’m sure.

Anyway, deposited $100 worth of coins after the stop at the post office before heading off to drop off the letter for Ben.

Downloaded 2 songs yesterday worth mentioning. Both by composer John Williams. “Superman The Movie” and the “Star Wars” Themes. This guy’s bloody good. There are so many movie themes done by him. “Jurassic Park” is another one I enjoy. I tried looking for the theme song from “Fellowship Of The Ring” but I just keep getting everything but the one I’m looking for.

Also found some pictures of the most beautiful looking BMW M3 (E 46) ever. Have one as my desktop wallpaper in black. Black cars = SEXY.

It’s almost Wednesday. It’s so close. Just 2 more days.

Countdown (according to www.nintendo.com.au) - 1 days 22 hours 56 mins 10 secs to GameCube's Australian Launch.