daytrip!

uh yeah jason and i took a trip to sydney today. we were terrorists for the day. yah kidding. he went around taking photos for his assignment... uh... well ok it's not really his part but... his group members suck. so we walked around town. and my my, the number of asians we saw were plenty! a lot of japanese, chinese, yada yada yada. it seemed almost as if there were more asians than angmohs there! well ok to be fair, we wandered around mostly close to chinatown. but you get the idea. and not that jason noticed it much, but i was seeing cops at every other junction. tight security i say! pretty neat. then there were the emergency vehicles roaring past us so often you think they were under siege. and then we walked past a building with a bunch of guys with walkie talkie headsets on their ears. i'm 90% sure they are security personnel. had the urge to ask them which bigshot was coming to town, though i won't want to be pinned down by a bunch of burly men. that would be embarassing.

ah well, we had meat pies, and we had dinner at the food court in chinatown. i had a bowl of wanton soup for AUD $6. i guess the price is ok. considering it's in sydney, in australia.

while we were eating our early dinner(practically 4.30pm started eating) there was a couple seated beside us. they were just finishing up their food and left. had plenty of leftovers. then this angmoh came around and sat down at their seats moments after the chinese couple left. and he STARTED EATING THEIR LEFTOVERS! omg. :( so poor thing. at first i couldn't really believe my eyes. he looked fairly well dressed: long blue checkered shirt and jeans. he didn't look too messy. but he was seated there. i wondered if my mind was screwing with me, and that i actually didn't see a couple leaving their seats just moments ago (i have a poor memory) but NO! i was damn sure they just left. the angmoh wouldn't order all those food for TWO. and he was eating the remaining morsels of food on their dishes... he didn't touch the rice though. and he was using his hands... finishing up the bits of chicken left over, food here and there.

that was saddenning. i felt sorry for him. for starters, he wasn't begging. neither was he disturbing any of the patrons there. he wasn't doing anything bad or annoying basically. i felt the urge to pass him some money (AUD$5?) but i hesitated. if i did, either he'd feel insulted and not take it, or some commotion might kick up... i'm so ashamed of myself. he eventually had his "fill", stood up and walked out of the food court. this food court was in a chinatown building. i'm still pondering about the possibilities as to why he had to resort to eating leftovers of other people in a food court. was he mentally ill(aka had the money but still does it anyway)? did he just escape/got released from prison or somewhere? was he really so poor he couldn't afford to eat? were we on candid camera (doubt it)? why did he not find a proper (labour) job to get paid and eat something proper? i've got all these questions floating in my head wondering away... it's just that this is my first time seeing this situation. right in front of me.

i've got a list again! this time, it's the assignments i'll be working on:-

• C++ assignment 3 (i prepared a written version while on the train, so proud of myself ^^;; but having stupid problems compiling so far),
• Annual Project
• User Manual (Admin/Forum)
• Tech Manual (Database/XML Guidelines)
• Feature Tour animation in Flash
  
• WWN programming project (practically 50% done only)
• and soon, a risk assessment part for a group project that's to do with security issues.
  

obviously the week-long holiday we'll have next week won't see us being too free any time.

*i want vinegar pot =x*