Can't Help Falling in Love

Wise men say only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you
Shall I stay
Would it be a sin
If I can't help falling in love with you
Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be

Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you
Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be

Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you
For I can't help falling in love with you

Rachael

Rachael is going back to Bluemountains to continue her study...

How long I have been knowing her? It's been 2 years by now? Yeah...probably...

I met her about 2 years ago when I was in Hong Kong. My first impression of her was, frankly speaking, quite unimpressed. The thing was another friend of mine met her in a different occasion and said she's gorgeous, a girl with lighting up the room quality. But she wasn't quite in the way my friend described to me for the first time I met her.

We've exchanged our contacts anyway...

[A year and half later]

Rachael has to do her industry placement in Sydney, so she moved to the city, and shortly after I arrived Sydney this year, we met each other. I must say, life is full of interesting coincidences.

We always live very close to each other, especially after we both moved into Regal apartment. She lives at 13th floor and I live at 11th floor.

I doubt if she realizes sometimes she's quite childish, yeah, like a baby. Of course I am fully aware of her effort of self-improvement, but she's just a 21 years old girl, afterall. One of her all time favourite activities is chatting, and I have a reputation for being a good listener, so we are a match in this context, she talks, I listen.

Hanging out with Rachael often has affected at least certain part of my life (obviously I have less opportunities to get to know other girls since people tend to preceive us as a couple =.=), she's a Karaoke diva and dancing queen. I like singing too, but I wouldn't go to Karaoke often when I was in Hong Kong. Rachael, however, has a fetishistic passion over Karaoke, I think she probably had a record of going to Karaoke box 6 nights a week (that's really unimaginable to me...). So, for a period of time, I would have to go to Karaoke at least once a week(?).

She loves dancing so much that she would go to the Galaxy World Arcade to play "Dance Dance Revolution", with my company (I am a novice to this game, and it's really tough for me, my weight is over 90 kgs!!!).

There is a huge collection of Taiwanese TV shows in her laptop, so she would visit me during night with her laptop, along with snacks and green tea, so we could watch the videos together, and have something for chewing. This is actually one of my favourite moments of the day, as there is a serious lackage of snacks and entertainment in my unit.

No one (except myself?) is willing to eat anything cook by me, because they will become poisoning, toxic and unsuitable for eat once the food received my treatment. Rachael, wouldn't eat them as well, of course, but she would cook for me from time to time and she's really good in cooking. Speaking of food, there is one thing which is really unforgettable, that is, we actually went to Paddy's Market together to buy vegis and fruits...=.=" While she is much younger than I do, but she takes care of me instead of the other way round.

At times, she would dress up and put on heavey make up, the effect of "before and after" is so different that many people would recognize her as a different person. But, as a friend, she's never pretentious, and always caring, a virtue that fewer girls have these days.

Rachael, I want to let you know that I am very proud of having you as a friend, and thanks alot for your support to me when I was facing the adversity.

Best wishes always,
Zenneth

8x10

Received an email from a magic collector in US:

"Hey Zenneth, I am also a magician but my true passion is collecting magic memorabilia. I would like to have an 8x10 autographed photo of you to put on my wall with the other greats in magic..."

When did I become a great in magic? But my name is listed as Notable card practitioners in wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_magic

That is, of course, to my great astonishment to see it, but again, aside from myself, Brad Christian, Jay Sankey, Simon Lovell and Oz Pearlman are also being listed there. That explains a lot of the accuracy and authencity of the list...

自杀前的奇遇

This is actually from my junk mail box, but it's worth reading:

自杀前的奇遇


陈董破产了，原有十几亿的
财产已成了过往云烟
陈董独自坐在办公室里
对着他最喜爱的高尔夫球杆发呆
脑里还浮现着在高尔夫球场笑谈阔论的情形
天啊！我现在连一千元都没有了…


陈董翻着杂乱的抽屉
眼睛ㄧ亮，居然有本存折
噢！是那个好久以前的私人存折
因为里面没多少钱
所以老早就忘了有这一本存折
翻开存折，里头有着一万元


哼！陈董苦笑着
这还不够我以前吃ㄧ顿饭的钱！
哼！陈董又是苦笑
现在倒是可以提出来，大吃一顿
再买瓶高粱酒，带到楼顶上喝个烂醉
在跳下去~ 一了百了
陈董 下了最后这个决定


看看表，还来得及去银行领钱
关上办公室的门，准备搭电梯下楼
看见清洁工老李
手里正拿个东西在笑
又对陈董一笑
我捡到二十块钱，不会是您掉的吧
陈董摇摇头：『二十块钱能做什么呢？』
『切！二十块钱可不少了！』
老李很开心笑着说：
『二十块钱可以吃一顿饭呢。』


电梯门开了，进来两个16~17岁的女生
其中一个女生打开个小信封
抽出了百元钞票，接着跳起来…
我拿到稿费了
另一个急着问：『多少钱？多少钱？』
『一百元耶！』
『好棒呦！要请我看电影喔。』


陈董经过了一个服饰摊
看见一个女人正跟店员杀价：
二百元 二百元我就马上买
『哎呀 不行啦！』
老板娘很不高兴的说：
『说实在我才赚你五十元而已。』


到了银行
陈董填着取款单~一万元
旁边也刚好有一对男女正填着单子
女生拍着男生的肩膀说：
『好厉害喔！你已经存了3万多快了耶』
『再过没多久我们就可以开自己的店了』


陈董填好了取款单，走到柜台
递出存折与取款单
柜台服务人员：
唉呀！你这是好久好久以前的存折
我必须帮你查询一下数据喔
过了一会儿~
柜台服务人员笑着说：
这么多年来这样的存折真少见
生了好多利息
一共是 六万二千一百元


陈董愣了一下：
『真的啊！居然有那么多啦？』
柜台服务人员笑着说：
『你要不要干脆一次提领』
『一万元够了，』 陈董想想
又一伸手：
『不不不！我要改，提一千块就够了』
其它的存款当我的本钱，我要再创业
六万元足够我东山再起了。

Regal 1103

Currently I'm living in unit 1103 of Regal Apartment, together with another 5 sharemates from Korea, Malaysia and New Zealand. The flat itself is pretty crap(I have been killing some cockroachs everyday), but all of the sharemates are very nice.

It's a coincidence that all of us are single guys, and there are some single Japanese and Thai girls living the unit next door. My Korean sharemates are very interested in getting to know them, but they never knock the door and being proactive.

Being the most mischievous person in the flat, I decided to do them a favour and invite the girls to join us for a sunday night gathering, so that all of us could have some good time. One night I met Akane(Jap) as I returning home, so I talked to her to see if she and her flatmates will be interested in joining us for a friendly gathering.

It went well and it was planned that girls will come to our place at 8:30 p.m. on the last sunday night, but they didn't come until Akane finally arrived home at 11:30 p.m.

Keith(Kiwi) and I went to the next door at 10:30 pm to see if they were ready or not. It was Ai (Jap) who answered the door, she asked Ryoko(Jap) to see if she was ready, Ryoko said she's not because she has to put on make up, Ai then asked Ryoko if she will be ready in 10 mins, Ryoko replied that she needs 20 mins...both Keith and I almost went literally ROFL when we heard her reply.

When we told this to other sharemates, Lucas (Malay) said if a girl said she needs 20 mins for doing make up, chances are she will be more likely to be ready after 30 mins - an hour time.

Pall(Thai) came to our place but stayed for few mins only, Keith was a bit disappointed as he's actually interested in Thai girls than Japanese.

Akane was a very tough spectator, she was very grabby and insisted to have a look of the card that I placed onto the table when I was performing a card trick. But this challenging attitude of her actually enhenced the effect of my performance of Sponge Lips a great deal. She asked if I could make the sponge lip in her hand split into two, hahaaa...your will be done, she was freaked out and throw the sponge lips away when she opened up her hand. When I perform it for Ryoko, Akane asked again if I could split the sponge lips into three, I said no, but I could do better than that, both Ryoko and Akane screamed when they saw 5 sponge lips when Ryoko opened up her hand.

Ai said her bed is attached to the wall, and that sometimes she would hear some noises from the other side of wall during the night, and then we all looked at Martin(Kor). He was surprised, and insisted he didn't do anything. We joked that the next time when Ai hear some noises from the otherside of the wall, it means Martin is trying to to say hello to her (Martin actually knocked the wall that night before he went to bed, and he was delighted when Ai responsed him with three knocks.)

Eddie(Kor) was really interested in Ai too, and he was very happy when all the girls said they really like the omelette that he made.

Lucas was more interested in Ryoko, he told me afterwards that he has exchanged some stares with Ryoko. But he was terribly sorry for he didn't write down his mobile number on the card or asking Ryoko's mobile number when he perform a card trick for Ryoko.

Among the guys, Jonathan(Kor) speaks more Japanese than the rest of us, it's funny that Asian people tend to be amazed when they hear someone from another country could speak their langauge. So the girls gave him some very animated responses when Jonathan spoke Japanese. (O.T.: Why is that native english speakers are never amazed by the fact that Asian can speak good english?)

After girls left our place, we talked about them and finished all the white wine, nachos and chips, it was a great fun. And what's really good about it is that each of us only spent 5 bucks for everything.

Later on, all of my sharemates told me that it's actually the first time that they see someone who has the balls to invite the girls in this way. hmm.....

Card Magic Tasks

1, Your Signed Card -- Bro. John Hammon

Problem:Lay out four of a kind onto the table, but effectively only use a pair of them?
Task: Find a use for another pair

or

Using only one pair?

Build Up...

2, Poker for Your Eyes -- Chris Kenner(incidentally based on a routine by Bro. John Hammon again)

Problem: There are two or three face up cards in the set up
Task: Eliminate the face up cards in the set up

Rule of the Game: Hofzinser's Toss after the revelation of the Second 2.

3, Biddle Accross -- Elmer Biddle

The replacement sequence
Bobby Bernard False Cut

4, Back in Time -- Myself

Task: Work out a suitable Presentation
De JaVu?

5, Three Times Three [Second Time] -- Myself

Task: Phase 2, Multiple Shift, Revelation of 3 of Spades - one phase Ambitious Card effect

6, Cut Force + Secret Reversal -- Myself

Task: Come up with a Good Application for this Sequence

7, Three Times Three [Fourth Time] -- Myself

Task: Real World Audience Test

Recent encountings

It's been a few days since my last post, so where I have been and what I have been doing?

Good news and bad news:

Bad News department -- I believe that I have failed Takeovers and Reconstructions, which is probably one of the hardest courses, if not the hardest one, among all of the postgraduate law courses at USYD. Not sure what I can do about this at the moment, but am prepared for some undesirable and unpleasant consequences.

Tommy Wonder Passed Away -- Rest in Peace

Good News department -- Finally, I can take a short break from assignments and examinations, doing nothing at all, even it's just for a few days. I am tired and exhuasted, both physically and mentally. The break comes right in time, otherwise readers of this blog will be reading some really ingenius thoughts here, as they will be posted up by an insane.

Moved in a new apartment (actually same as the previous one, different unit though), interesting combination of flatmates, all single guys at the same age as I do, they come from different countries, not funny but very nice people...