3/9/12 Fathers Day

And so... Happy Father's Day.

It was that time again, it was Fathers's Day. Like usual with any festive event, we had the family dinner and catch up with the family with the addition of a few new faces - Louis is here every other weekend, and Pam is our new homestay student (for how long, no idea). It was a nice night, I was glad to see what Peter (nephew) was up to, it sounds like he has got some big aspirations, he just finished high school last year and is working out what he wants to do. I was rather concerned before because I was beginning to think he was hanging out with the wrong crowd but I guess it was just a phase. Ali (niece) reached the Grand Final of her basketball comp, will have to ask how the game goes and finally Rodney (brother) is considering buying a place in the Geelong area, about time he got that sorted... tough to continuously pay rent.

Now back to Dad... I do worry about him, for instance today he felt like was going to fall while we did some yard work together. However, He is starting to ask for help now. Still has been rather frustrated as of late but asking for help. Also... his hands are 'slowly' getting better, still have doubts he will get back the what they were but as long as they get to a point where he manage better than he is now.

Night Lamp
"Sesame Street" Happy Birthday 

On a random note it was rather hard... but I got finally rid of my good old Night Lamp, been many years since I have actually used it but it always lit up my room since I was small. Unfortunately, there comes a time where you need to let things go. Bye Bye Night Lamp. 

22/8/12 Difficulty

Everything is starting to get much harder for my Father. He hit 76 years old this year and now he is plagued by various problems, one of which making things much more difficult - he is having trouble opening and closing both hands. After various trips to the doctors and specialists to try and figure it out, we still are not 100% sure what is it. Currently he is on a number of pills and creams that supposedly help the condition, a few new ones he picked up yesterday. Although I can't see too much of a difference, he says there is - IMO I think he is being a little too optimistic... I do hope I am wrong in this regard.

Dad is a wonderful person who takes pride in doing things by himself although he has always been willing to lend a helping hand if able. That, I feel I picked up from him. However, nowadays, things have only gotten harder and will continue to do so but he still he unwilling to ask for help and as a result he is just getting increasing frustrated with himself, which at times lashes out to my Mother and myself. I hope he is beginning to realise he isn't as young as he used to be, and there will are times where he just needs a hand.

Sometimes things that were will never be.

25/2/12 Family

Today should be interesting, I am having a family dinner to celebrate my nieces 11th birthday. I have to admit I am little concerned how the night will turn out because of some reasons I won't mentioned. Well who knows what will happen, time will tell. Later tonight I am pulling another shift at work. Will be doing it without sleep, I have done it before and I figure I will be fine. Just need to make sure I have enough rest afterwards for my gym session tomorrow. Need to make up for my bad session the other day.

29/1/12 About time

Where to start? Well I FINALLY got my remainder of my form signed. It has been a long time since I have wanted to get this form signed and its a little scary to know that my application will finally be complete. The thing is that... after all this time I am beginning to wonder if I really want to go now. Things have happened to make me really wonder if what I really should be doing is heading to Japan. Sure I have told everyone already and this doesn't concern me at the end of the day, the question I should be asking myself is that... Should I go?

It was Chinese New Year a couple days ago and I went to China town in Melbourne to check out a little bit of the festivities. Check out below for some of my snap shots... Don't judge me by the quality of the photos, all I had was my photo to take the photos (HTC Incredible S)

I took a 15 minute video of one of the performances... turned out to be 312 MB. So I will just throw the link below, if you are interested feel free to download it. No pressure though but I can assure you it is a great little clip and well worth the watch.

http://www.2shared.com/video/LNWlHRk4/VIDEO0003.html

That was the first part of my day,  second part of my day consisted of a family dinner. Was nice seeing the folks again... we only seem them once a month if we are lucky. Although I was really frustrated for a few reasons am not going to mention. Happy the day is over, tomorrow is a new day with the new challenges. Onward to tomorrow.

17/1/12 2nd Family

I went to see my second family today. That is of course the people I am grown up over the years at my Dojo, I started training with these people when I was 14 and now I am 21. Needless to say, but I am quite fond of them as they are me. It was simply great meeting up with them. It was a nice catch up for sure. I didn't get to speak with all of them as much as I would've liked but still I suspect I will have my deep meaningful conversations will everyone once I get back into the swing of things.

Stitches will come out next week on the 24th and I hope I will resume light training there after. Mind you this is after about a year and a half sitting on the side lines. I have lost part of myself over the past year or so and I can't wait to meet him again.

I know I meant to hand in my study aboard forms today but I left things too late, I will do it first thing tomorrow.

14/1/12 Let Down

I was looking forward to today. I had planned to have a computer lesson with my mum. Bit of background, I have put myself forward to give my mum some computer lessons to get her into this new age. Will help her with skype and I will most likely make her an e-mail as well. However, things happened and she bailed on me. A little disappointment, was looking forward to it a little bit but we may reschedule tomorrow, we will see.

11/1/12 Bandages are off.

I took off my outer bandages today. Definitely feel like I have more movement but look at that swelling! Be a while before all that goes down that is for sure. I can walk like a normal person but not really fast at this stage, should be much better tomorrow.

Family day was a little disappointing for reasons I won't mention but hopefully the next family day goes much better.

Today I feel like keeping it short, be in for a good lengthy post tomorrow.

10/1/12 Collect $400 when you pass GO

Was much shorter than I expected, I am already off crutches! Booyah. Although I didn't expect to be on them very long anyway as it was just a minor op. Will most likely return them tomorrow. I am still walking with a limp but I expect that to go tomorrow albeit it will be a while before I am able to run, just restricted to walking in the mean time.

Like I said in my previous post, my niece came over and is staying the night. Ended up breaking out the good old 'Simpsons' Monopoly set. Since it was only two of us, we ended up created some really cool house rules to keep it interesting. Time flew by, hard to believe we ended up playing roughly 4-5 hours all up... Sadly it ended in a draw, she didn't want to trade properties anymore and with in house rules... we only saw the game lasting hours, most likely only ending when we both broke the bank! Fun times. Might have to come up with another house rule to prevent it occurring again. Time to put on the thinking hat!

Tomorrow should be good, rather unexpected but we are in for a family dinner during the week.