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I can’t remember the last time I’ve lost something. Lost my wallet, keys too a few times when I was in high school, that was enough to teach me to always look around the table for stuff before I get up and go, but last night I lost my Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera.

I was out catching up with old mates. We ended up at Sean’s place and on the way out I left my jacket in his apartment so I had to go back up to get it (I think this was already a sign ahaha), we then walked from Broadway to Central to grab some McDonalds (as you do when you’re wasted) and after that we hopped in a cab home. A few minutes into the ride home I realised I’d lost the camera. Christina suggested we go back to get it, but I was pretty sure it would be gone for good. The cabbie urged me to call McDonalds and after some failed attempts I finally got through, camera wasn’t there though (of-course).

No-one to blame but myself. It definitely wasn’t on the table. I took the water home instead of the camera! It must have been on the bench next to me. There are a few really nice shots on there which I’m a bit sad to lose. Some shots from Wagaya the other night, new footage of Mia going nuts with a catnip toy, sunnies hunting with a mate Ben (who ended up with some hella pimp Armani’s!), a great accidental shot of Suga whilst she was placing a VWGolf card on a car windscreen last night and shots of Liz and Tab from last night’s catchup.

I’m sure the person who found the camera’s going to absolutely love the GF1, you never know, they might even get into photography because it’s so good!

Where to from here? I’ve been reading up on the new GF2 and everything I’m reading sounds crap. Funnily I had a random last night stop me mid conversation to ask if I had the GF1 or the GF2…when I told him it was a GF1 he gave me the thumbs up, very strange. The GF2 doesn’t come with the nice 20mm pancake lens which is what makes the GF1 so nice. I might consider a GF1 again, they’re cheaper now than when I bought mine (about $1k before and about $700 or so now at some places).

I’ve been caught up in the whirlwind of wedding planning, and it’s been getting the better of me. I figure I might as well fight for what I want now, whilst it’s still early, but I’ve been coming up against brick walls. I’ve never been a conformist. I’ve always liked doing things my way and I’ve always tried hard to be a little different from everyone else (despite understanding that in doing so I’m just like everybody else who’s trying hard to be different!).

As the Groom I get to choose my suit, cars and music. Excitement comes before reality. I’m me right? I couldn’t help but be inspired by Kanye West’s red suit with matching red leather sneakers for my wedding. IE: The idea of wearing a black suit, white shirt and black tie NEVER crossed my mind. And as for the cars, despite Christina dropping hints that she’d love an old vintage car in white I refused to go there. What do cars of the 40’s and 50’s have to do with my upbringing? With my life? Nothing. I’m a car guy and choosing the cars was my part of the job and I intended to have fun with it. Maybe some pimp black current model S Class mercs, or better yet current model Bentley Continentals, or what about a Porsche Panamera or a couple of white R35 GTR’s? And the music? My day, my music. Suggestions of a live band were quickly binned. Wedding singer at my wedding? Unless it’s Jeff Buckley himself, no thanks. Jazz band? Again, what has Jazz got to do with me?! What about music which I love? Gunners, Nirvana, Faith No More…

So I’m feeling pretty defeated. Every single suggestion I’ve made has been met with blank faces which add to my frustrations. Where’s the trust huh?! It’s killing the motivation and excitement before I’ve even had a chance to get obsessive compulsive about the wedding. Those who know me well know that the best of me comes out when I get obsessive compulsive about something, where I can give something my all.

Holy shit I’ve even been contemplating that my whole life has been about rebelling against something, or someone that doesn’t even exist? Who am I trying to impress?!

Breathe.

OK so I’ve got to adapt, and I fuuuucking hate to say this word, but I have to compromise. I’ve got to let go, think about Christina and everybody else (and not just myself) and most of all I have to believe that everything will be beautiful and wonderful on the day.

/vent.

At the junction.

At the beach.

So glad to be living by the beach. It’s hot here but it’s crazy hot everywhere else!

I’m well on my way to paying off my -$9k credit card debt (Christmas, new Mac and most likely fish tank stuff!). Head down and I’m working hard on both community stuff as well as a couple of new jobs.

I know at some point I’ve got to slow the work down to plan the wedding (October this year). In retrospect I believe that I stuffed it all up. I really liked the idea of a long engagement and I convinced everyone it was a good idea a year ago (I tend to have a knack with manipulation!) but what I’d give to be already married right now!

Christina and I have thought about the budget for our wedding and minus the reception (which our parents are generously covering 50/50) we’re expecting to spend about $25-30k…and that’s all just for one day (well, there’s the honeymoon too).

The money and saving up for the wedding isn’t the only stressful part. Having a max capacity of 200-250 people means we’ve got to be tight with who we can and can’t invite. Both sides of the family could easily bring over 250 people so that means at some point we’ve got to say “no” to our parents inviting their friends and relatives just so Christina and I can bring some of our friends too.

I’ve had a couple of good friends cancel their weddings, the most recent cancellation came quite a bit after wedding invites were sent out! After catching up with both parties I learned a little more about the pressures involved, both financial as well as the question of what and who are you doing it all for.

It’s still early January but I’m feeling like time is flying. I’ve got so much on my plate right now, debts, work, The Wedding and managing everyday things which I’ve always been really shit at (health, cleaning the house, doing the washing, cooking etc!). I’m not kidding myself this time around. I know my relationship with Christina is going to be tested, but for the first time in my life I know where I want to be in the distant future and I also know what it’s going to take to get there. I’m all in!

Fuck me.

Last night I clicked on a suspect link in an email from someone I know. The email message was “Check this out:” and a link. I thought clicking a link would never hurt. It brought up a pharmaceutical web site and I shut the window not thinking anything more of it.

This morning I was greeted by a windows warning box (which might have been a pop-up window) saying I had infected files and that I should restart. I ignored it but found that I wasn’t able to run Firefox so I restarted.

Boom.

A virus scanner called “Think Point” greeted me after my login screen and it prompted me to scan my disk for errors. On the laptop I googled “Think Point” and found that it indeed was a virus. I followed steps to delete it (using malware programs) but in trying to fix it I got the blue screen of death and no matter what I tried the PC just never recovered from there.

I dropped the PC off at Jing’s shop and hopefully he can save my working files but I’ll definitely be losing all my applications, most likely all my email settings, browser bookmarks, FTP details etc… this is going to be a massive pain in the ass.

Thinking about moving back to Macs but a specced up iMac for $7k? You’ve got to be kidding me. My PC is 3yrs old and with it’s RAID hard drive set-up I think it’s faster than Christina’s brand new iMac! A new PC that would be even faster than my old one would cost $2k.

No-one to blame but myself really. I feel depressed. Haha. Awesome.

OG.

REMIX.