Min Wye

I had the weirdest encounter today, after Tim and I went out to town to do some dancing at Smooth Latin Groove studio for the October Salsa Fest, we decided to meet up with Ben and his workmates at the Normanby bar since it was on the way back to Tims place.

Im not that fond of bars when im sober(Designated Driver) cause thats when you notice the sticky floors, shoving around, really really corny jokes plus watching all the people around you make a fool of themselves. 10 minutes into the bar adventure, a slightly older man, probably about 50s if I would give a guess joined Ben, Tobey McGuire(a look-alike) and I in a conversation.

He was basically totally ignored so I decided to take the liberty to make extra small talk with him. I noticed he was acting weird, but nothing could have prepared me for the next 20 minutes. Here are a few snippets of the conversation.

Conversation 1(after some menial small talk)

Old Guy: So, do you have a girlfriend?

Me: No

Old Guy: Are you looking for a girlfriend?

Me: Not at the moment

Old Guy: Oh, why not?

Me: …..(didnt answer)….

Conversation 2(as he was leaving to get another drink)

Old Guy: I would like to see you again, what do you think?

Me: maybe

Old Guy: Maybe? what can I do to make that a yes?

Now that I look back at the exact words he said, its so blatantly obvious where he was going with this but its really not the same in person(plus im pretty slow and was tired)

Me: urm…..(wtf? in my head), yeah, you go get your drink and ill see you back here….

At this point, I was telling Tobey Mcguire about my encounter but he assured me that it was nothing…

Conversation 3(after he gets his drink, walks back and stands next to me *sigh*)

Old Guy: I would really like to see you again..

Me: Maybe in some other circumstances….(as you can see, Im way too nice to tell him off -_-)

Old Guy: How about over coffee? Can I have your number?

Me: urhh….no….Youre making me uncomfortable…

Old Guy: alright…

Me: Im going to make a move now, its getting late and I have an early morning appointment(I wasnt lying)

Old Guy: ok, youre a beautiful boy

Me: *stunned* (wtf?)

I then proceed to evacuate Normanby Hotel dragging Ben and Tim out with me to tell them about what just happened….yeah, they couldnt stop laughing…its definitely one of the weirdest things to ever happen to me. What a way to start off my 24th year huh =/

Seriously...

Im totally speachless..so, apparently, Im a beautiful boy?…

Another year has passed, 23 years in total. Out of all the years of my lifetime, I feel that this past year has probably been the most eventful and interesting of the lot. Just to list a couple of things that happened in the past year in no particular order.

Dancing on my birthday

1. I started dancing, salsa to be exact, and moved on to Bachata(my current favourite), Zouk, Mambo(just started, on2 Salsa). Dancing has probably been one of the biggest changes to my life from the usual sitting at the computer all day long play games, which gives me a relatively social activity that costs almost nothing and the sense of progress I have gone through the past year has been phenomenal. If you asked me 2 years ago whether I would be dancing Salsa, I probably would have laughed at you.

Graduation =)

2. Graduating from uni! After 4 1/2 years of studying, doing a Bachelor of Information Technology/Bachelor of Creative Industries(Communication Design), I finally graduated. This was probably one of the biggest things I looked forward to ALL my life, to graduate and get into the working force and its not the usual, “I hate my job“, quite the contrary because i LOVE my job.

3. Starting to work Full Time! I enjoy it alot =) Its not always sunshine and rainbows of course but I am blessed to be working in such an awesome environment. Forever thankful, especially to Tim who referred me =)

2008 Sydney Salsa Congress - 5 times world champions, Oliver and Luda

4. Buying my first Digital SLR! This is probably one of my biggest purchases and followed by my first gig at the 2008 Sydney Salsa Congress shooting alongside Justin Cogley

2008 LDA Ball - Ben and Bronwen

5. My second big shooting gig, at the 2008 LDA Ball.

Armed Combat Team searching for props

6. Making a game alongside Jenn, Tim and Reilly, Armed Combat. Its a really awesome game that we created for our final studio subject thats makes use of tangible media, in our case, hands and feet to control a tank battling it out against other players. It was such a hit that not only did we put it on display at the 2007 Communication Design Graduation show we were asked to put it up for display again for the Body+ 2008 Shape of Things to Come show.

7. To tell you the truth, it isnt what I did or achieved that made the past year so special, it was just an icing to the cake which are the people in my life! especially my family and friends, whether they were re-kindled or newly developed relationships, that is what really made my year what it was.

23rd Birthday, missing Pat

 Just to finish are some pics from my mini-birthday party at home, the big party is at the end of the month! Its nice to have a relatively quiet time at home since Im out and about every other day of the year =)

Oreo based blueberry cheesecake, made by Charissa(taking orders)

PS – I said “biggest” a total of 3 times in totally different contexts, thats how big this year has been =)

One of my roles in my company(CareerHub) is to provide support to universities and employers who use our system. There are normally a couple of us who handle the support simultaneously. However, most of my support colleagues by chance took an extended 2 weeks leave simultaneously! leaving me to handle support by myself.

Anyway, point being, today there was a black hole in support where calls and emails were left unanswered for 30 minutes, here is the reason why…

Min(imum) Support

 The title Min(umum) Support is derived from the title of my blog in the company named Min(imum) worries and my colleague decided to take a picture of me during my powernap…

ps – No calls were harmed/unanswered in the making of it. Picture courtesy of Dom