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Dusted by an Angel

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or how I railed on Friday, rolled on Saturday and landed in a hospital on Sunday. Mr. Foaf's report on his interesting weekend. All text below the line (including captions) written by Mr. Foaf. He also apologizes for being not his eloquent self, he hasn't slept since then and is now feeling the debilitating crash from his remarkable weekend. This is a true story.

********* All lines after this are written by Mr. Foaf **********

Friday (27.09.2002)

railed 1.5 points of methamphetamine powder over a one hour period. I wanted to go to sleep at around 8 am so I smoked a new bag of weed I got from a new dealer. The buds came in chopped halves mixed with some kind of wood shavings (?) and dusted with white powder (?!). The dealer assured me that they're just a mixture of the three most potent strains of marijuana. I smoked two bowls of finely shredded bud and found it surprisingly strong. It floored and stoned me with just two bowls, and I already have significant tolerance from smoking daily. The stoney feeling felt very indica-like and I felt comfortable crumpling myself into a ball and sitting on my seat. Surprisingly, the weed felt "speedy" for lack of a better term. I did get the munchies after a while, and ate a couple of corn chips while I watched a movie, which I promptly forgot all about. I didn't sleep much that day from the meth and "speedy weed", which kinda brought me up again instead of down.

Saturday (28.09.2002)

After a fitful couple of hours sleep, I woke again feeling totally untested and rather lethargic, which is common after taking stimulant substances. I wanted to catch Lab 4 [lab4.com] at Hard Kandy [hardkandy.com] later that night, so I called up my meth dealer and met up with him to get 3 points of meth. 1 point = 0.1 gram, which should keep a casual user up all night. I arrived at Hard Kandy at slightly past 12 pm and got a ticket for A$35 (A$25 prepaid) and a free Lab 4 - Virus CD with 9 tracks running at 58:13. I checked my coat into the clock room and waited for one of the toilet stalls to become free. There was a long line for the cubicles in the men's toilet and from the snorting sounds, they didn't sound like they were vacating themselves. I myself dabbed 1.5 points and swallowed it and insufflated the other 1.5 points.

Not much dancing going on.

The dance floor was pretty empty then, despite the DJ's efforts to get people to dance. Most people were handing out in the chill room or on one of the many sofas around the dance floor. Perhaps they were saving their energy for the Lab 4 set, which is on from 3-4:30 am. Anyway, I was feeling the drip by then, so I positioned myself dance floor and started dancing a bit, enjoying the nice coming up of meth. I haven't eaten anything since the couple of corn chips last night so the oral dose kicked in right about the time the nasal dose peaked so I felt pretty good for a while, typical "body buzz", but not so much of a rush, perhaps due to tolerance from last night's dose. I noticed that I started to gnaw on my tongue, cheeks and lips, a bad habit I have while on stimulant drugs. My hands felt like they wanted to constantly keep on moving too, but I felt the meth plateau at around 1 pm. That seems disappointingly early, so I started looking around the venue for someone who looked like they might have drugs. The first guy didn't have any, but I caught sight of this Chinese looking guy loaded with tattoos who stood near the toilet. Seems like a good bet, so I asked him if he had any "stuff". He asked me what I wanted and I thought he said he sells pills and sex. That seems like a funny question to pose in a rave, but I didn't think much of it, until I realized he sells Durex - Safe Sex pills. Ah, now that sounds more logical. Heh. I've heard mostly good stuff about the Durex Safe Sex pills and he has the white ones, which I hear is a good batch. These pills are round and white with tiny blue specks and has the word Durex on one side and Safe Sex on the other. Here is a photo I took in the popular men toilet.

Durex logo on front. White pills with light blue specks.

Safe Sex written on the back.

The white w/ tiny blue specks are said to only contain MDMA (Ecstacy) but I did not have a reagent or testing kit with me, so I can't really be sure. I crunched up the pill at 2 am and was assaulted by a wave of potent bitterness that only washed away after I grabbed a lollypop from the counter. Please note that methamphetamine use is not recommended in conjunction with MDMA as there is research that suggest the combination could be neurotoxic. Furthermore, it is said that meth doesn't add much to the MDMA experience anyway since MDMA can be "speedy" by itself. But personally, I can't dance the whole night without a speedy drug, so usually speed or meth is on my itenarary for a big night. :) I enjoy the speedy effects of meth too, but there is some stigma associated with amphetamines in the rave scene. I didn't receive any disappovings looks though, even though my dancing style is "speedy" as opposed to "E-style". Don't really know how to describe the difference between the two though. The people at the rave today seemed really friendly and E'd up too. I had a lot of good conversations with other rollers, always a plus in a good rave scene. It's good to see that the PLUR aspects has not totally gone from the rave scene in a big city like Melbourne. I couldn't for the life of me remember their names, but I was rolling hard last night as you'll see as the report progresses. :)

The friendly bartender.

Anyway, the E started to kick in about T+30 (30 minutes after I dropped). There wasn't really a noticeable come-up, which happens to some people when taking meth and Ecstasy together. But when I felt the first hot flashes, it nearly floored me. Didn't feel like dancing much then and sat at the stairs near the Vietnamese guys (found out that he's a Vietnamese who happens to speak Cantonese). My Cantonese wasn't really good though, so we mostly conversed in English. By this time the emphatic qualities of Ecstasy made itself apparent and I did felt us bonding and talking a lot and basically just hanging out. I feel that the best part of raves can be talking to other people who are rolling as well. Anyway, after T+50 I start feeling slightly drunk, and totally clumsy when I was walking. I'm having hot and sweaty palms too. I was stumbling here and there, general difficulty in moving but still felt emphatic and a sense of "one-ness" with people I talked to. I postulate that this batch of White Durexes has some ketamine in it as well. This is further supported by my total loss of smell as soon as the pill started peaking. I didn't want to move then, which is too bad because the ketamine bits started kicking in right after Lab 4 entered. :( I only danced in the first couple of songs, and sat at the stairs with my new buddies near the set. I could see everyone who had dropped the white Durexes are getting clumsy and drunken. I laid on my back for a while and didn't experience any of the harsher K-trip portions like disassociation. I did felt my legs lock up and needed to stretch them out though. I need to state that the only family of drugs that I'm scared of are disassocaitives. It feels too much like dying at higher doses and really isn't fun for me. The white Durex doesn't seem to have a lot of K though, and I felt the ketamine portions wear off about 50 minutes after it started, and I was left in a clean E afterglow. Please note that I did not test the pills with reagents and cannot attest to the presence of Ketamine in the white Durexes, but it sure had all the hallmarks of a high MDMA low Ketamine ratio pill. I should allow for the possibility that the Durexes only contain MDMA and it just hit me particularly hard and floored me because I had no tolerance to MDMA. The last time I dropped Ecstasy was years ago.

One of the first DJs.

Anyway, I was still feeling slightly uncoordinated when I moved but I wanted another pill so I went with one of the guys to withdraw money from the ATM a block away from the venue. We were stumbling to cross the road, helping each other out a bit. Must have been quite a sight, since our balance wasn't back to normal. After I got back, I heard that there's a new batch of Durexes in, but these ones are selling for A$40 instead of A$35. I dropped one of the new batches at around 3:30 am. Instead of prolonging the previous E's roll, it instead started a new rushing sensations and a new peak. I'm inclined to believe that these new ones really do have only MDMA inside, but it won't be too helpful, since I didn't even bother to check the color or take photographs, I just popped it and crunched it up. :) Tasted bitter like the first one, with the first rushes felt at T+30. I was told afterwards that these pills are also white Durex/Safe Sexes, just a different batch. By T+60 I was peaking pretty good, with frequent hot flushes, but the second tablet kinda floored me too, in an E way. I guess it was slightly too much after stopping from indulging in disco biscuits for years. It felt good though, but too be honest, I feel that rolling after meth only provides emphatic qualities with much of the euphoric rushes kinda overshadowed by meth's significantly speedier rushes. I feel that Ecstasy is a more happy feeling while meth is more euphoric. I was kinda stoned too, and didn't move much, but that's probably because I've not had E's fro quite a while. I was hit with blurry/wobbly vision for the rest of the night too. But that is one of the good effects of E so I didn't mind.

Lab 4 in da house.

While still rolling hard, this guy started up a conversation with me and I found that he has one of the beige Durex/Safe Sex and is willing to part with it for A$35. These pills were reputed to contain MDA but again I don't have a reagent kit and didn't really care at this point. I was more than a little farked, generally being happy and just sitting on my ass talking to people. I crunched this one up and it tasted bitter with a sourish aftertaste. I did felt the Ecstasy roll longer and occasional heavy "floor your ass" hot rushes that left me slightly confused and very blurry vision. At one point I stumbled across the hallway, fully meaning to go to the toilet, since I hadn't pissed the whole night. I tried to earlier in the night but couldn't even squeeze a drop out of my poor, shrunk to a third of it's former glory, penis. Happens a lot on meth. Anyway, this girl suddenly popped up in front of me, asking if I'm alright because I didn't look too well. I felt pretty good though, just slightly confused by the hot rushes and probably dehydrated. Didn't get much to drink the whole night at all. She led me to the chill room, and I forgot about going to the toilet again. Finally remembered after she seated me down and asked if I'm alright again, and went off to the toilet. I looked at myself in the mirror and could see that my pupils has dilated to a prodigious size, almost filling my iris. Found myself not blinking much too, just staring wide eyed. Heh. I looked pretty out of it, I'll admit.

More Lab 4 shots.

Getting ready...

Close up.

Another close up.

I decided to get some air and took a short walk around the block. More time must have passed since then but I don't remember much of last night after my third pill anyway. I knew the bouncer commented that I looked really out of it as he let me in though. Decided to be careful and stay inside the club from now one. It was already 8 am at that point and I decided to go for one last pill to cap up the night. I asked around and this girl says she has several pills and asked me which kind I wanted. I couldn't concentrate well enough to think so I just said I'll like the strongest one. After A$35 was exchanged for a pill (totally forgot the name), I swallowed in whole and chased it down with some Red Bull. Still feeling very out of it and it was getting worse. Major stumbling and several people asked me if I was alright. Decided to go to the cloak room upstairs to get my cost. This is where the night turned strange. As I walked up the stairs, I felt a distinctive "going into a K-hole" feeling. Felt myself kinda separating from my body, and was watching myself talk from behind my right shoulder, but still very near myself. I lost my ticket stub so the cloak room attendants had to show me each of the coats which are black. There were a lot, but I was starting to have really screwy vision. It's like there is a black fog over my eyes and I couldn't even focus on the coats. Had a get them to show me coats for 30 minutes before I finally recognized mine. Cheers to those two girls who were patient with a hard rolling raver.

The dance floor later at night.

I decided that I needed to chill out a bit so I sat near the stairs and closed my eyes. I was puzzled to find very bright light shining through my eyelids even when closed so I opened my eyes but the venue was still dark. This is rather puzzling since most drugs do have nice closed eyed visuals, but by this point, it looked like I was looking at the bright sun whenever I closed my eyes. I never experienced this "very bright closed eyed experience" before. I decided to stretch my legs a bit and stumbled over to a table by the dance floor. Now, it was getting pretty apparent that I was tripping balls at this point. Colors start to become vivid and flowy and I could see trails of everything. Felt pretty weird so I looked down at the table and saw that it was starting to become smaller as I leaned on it. Looked to the right as saw this girl dressed in a checkered box shirt turn into a sofa! She was dancing and leaned down and instantly turned into a checkered box patterned sofa and then leaned up again and become a girl again. Whoa...I was pretty sure that what I had was not Ecstasy so I decided to get a water and sit down near the steps to chill out a little. I have some problem in getting myself understood at this point. Making coherent sentences became harder so I just sat near the edge and watched the people dance. I closed my eyes again and saw the bright sunlight so I decided to keep them open. Major visual trails starting hitting and by T+30 I was seeing full blown open eyed visual hallucinations. I see everyone with a fluid face, but it didn't really scare me, because I'm still aware that I had taken some drugs just now and it's just that affecting me. It was fun to look at people because their faces looked like a clean pink slate with shadows forming and swirling on their faces. Liquid shadows, no resemblance to eyes or noses at all, just flowing liquid faces. I could see the darkness "breaking down" into the primary colors too. I don't really know how to explain it, but it seems like darkness is made up of red, blue and green blobs and they move around, kinda floating like an amoeba. It was not a K-hole feeling at all, I still felt clear headed and could move but I couldn't focus on people. It seems that my eyes automatically switched to another person whenever I focused on someone's face. There was major, colorful and true visual hallucinations, which prompts me to believe that either:

Pill No. 3 is MDA and it only kicked in after T+90

Pill No. 4 is MDMA

OR

Pill No 3. is MDMA

Pill No. 4 is 2C-B

I'm inclined to think it was the latter because the visual hallucinations was really, really clear, not just distortions like acid visuals. I've never seen such vivid open eyed hallucinations before, but it was good because I was still clear headed and know I'm tripping. 2C-B is not very common in Melbourne, but I've heard of people who were able to get it. MDA in the third pill is slightly unlikely because from what I've heard, an MDA trip lasts longer. The total time of hardcore open eyed visuals was around 2 hours and I could see people looking at me all the time. I wondered if I was having paranoid delusions or I really looked absolutely fucked. Soon 11 am rolled by and I moved my ass for one last song before the club closed. We filled out slowly and I could feel people looking at me as I walked past. I decided to keep a low profile and looked at the street to hide my dilated pupils. I walked to the Mid Valley Arcade and called for a taxi. I kept on hearing auditory hallucinations of police cars pulling up and that kept me paranoid. It didn't help several times, whitish cars passed by, making me literally jump. I was feeling uncomfortable at this point because there were people walking around and it's already 11 am. Decided to look at the window instead so I could see the reflection of the taxi as it pulled in. That really stressed me out. Anyway, the taxi van pulled up after about 30 minutes and I sat facing opposite the driver to avoid giving myself away. All the while we were on the road, I kept seeing a reflection of a police car right in front of us. I thought the taxi driver must have called the police or something, but when I looked at the suspected police car, it always turned out to be a van or another truck. When I looked back again, a police car started appearing at the corner of my field of vision again. I heard from radio chatter too. :( Finally reached my apartment slightly past 12 pm and tipped the driver a good A$15 on top of the fare.

After getting back, I immediately jumped into the shower to sober up. When I closed my eyes, the bright lights were back and when I opened them again, the walls (which were white) looked very yellowish and depressing. I could see minor trails and a mesh wire pattern when I open my eyes.

Sunday (29/09/2002)

I still haven't had any sleep at this point. I tried to sleep at 1 pm after I got back but couldn't fall asleep for the life of me. Must be all that meth I ingested. By 12 am I was still wide awake, so I grabbed a hot coffee and decided to wait till the crash. By 6 am I was STILL wide fucking awake and closing my eyes only produced bizzare red, green and blue blobs, so I thought it was time to smoke some weed and chill out a little. I broke off a large bud from the strong weed I got before and was puzzled to find it somehow intertwined with wood shavings. It didn't look like the normal bud fibers at all, and smelled like chemicals. I didn't think much of it at that point though, and slipped the Lab 4 CD into my CD player and chilled out while hitting 4 large cones and holding them in for nearly 2 minutes each. After I put down my pipe, I felt kinda weird, as if the meth effects were coming back. I was feeling speedy and my hands started becoming nervous and moving really quickly again. At some point I started to trip again. This is what I wrote while that happened.

The PCP laced cannabis buds.

Trip report:

I can see really promising color distortions and dissection into red green blue RGP and furthermore can create vistas! Can make myself bleed camn make myself hairy, can frighthen myself and create realistic RGB persistant eye trailer detailed movie that a mind can belive and control, they are too powerfull. Shooting at me with their missles and their laser weapons. Can feel the speedy effects take over me too. This is strong weed. I hurt myself. I make myself bleed and comfort myselfs. White flashes and loud hairs. Rewarads. Stike is called, the swarm swarm forth and the defenders defended.Close battle, this will be a close one won by the battle ships under the stress emmiters and fire@!!!!!!!

ATTACK THEM@!!!!!!!!!!!!
(sounts of warships battling.)

3-2

2-2

1-3

change

You win!

Attack them!\

True!

Battle of heaven and earth!

The battle is being decided as we speak.

True realistic open eyed visuals! Detailed, though only in RGB! But it can now
display more colors as we speak. I evolve...

I upgrade.

True trails when got hand movements now!@

Realistic OEVS! I CAN"T BELIEVE THIS!Q!!!!!!!

More colors now as dawn break! I EVOLVE AGAIN!!!

Wow ... indeed he did

Nearly true color now and my left hand is bleeding, now both of them are bleeding....

One last fight to determine who wins

And it said "It's now the time to terminated your services"

*static*

dead

I EVOVE AGAIN TO TERMINATE THE EARTHLIGS!!!!!

Persistant worls and I don't even need to wave my hands for them to stay!

I EVOVE YET AGAIN TO TERMINATE THE EARTHLIGS!!!!!

End Trip Report

A closer look reveals a powder sprinkled on the weed.

I was basically seeing opened eyed visuals again at dawn. The red sunlight shining in caused my low lighted bedroom to swirl with red, green and blue colors. Red was the predominant color though and I looked like I was bleeding. I could see a whole forest sprout out in my room and there was a girl in a blue jumper just in the corner of my eye and she was there all the time, except when I looked. She scared me and made me jump a few times, before I realized that she's not real. But I couldn't be sure though coz the opened eyed visuals are starting to become really creepy now and really realistic. I started to become really dizzy and confused too and started becoming rather worried. I decided it's time to sleep and tried lying down in bed. Now, this is where things take a turn for the worse. My CD player was off but I could still hear The Creator by Lab 4 playing from the speakers. Not just some refrain too, a full song that I've only heard for the first time a couple of minutes ago. Suddenly, I was hit with a severe wave of nausea and a scary sound started reverberating around my eyes. If you're seen The Exorcist, that sound was the loud metallic scary clanks when Linda Blair was about to be put into the CAT scan machine. :( It really scared me and I could feel myself kinda slip away. I was really worried at this point, so I tried to close my eyes but that scared me again for some reason. I put my hand to my heart and felt it become slower and slower and I felt myself breathing shallower and taking fewer breaths too. I won't kid you, I was really scared at this point and just wanted to sleep. But another wave of a nausea hit me and I turned myself into the coma position so I won't choke on my own vomit. Felt something come out and threw up in my sink. I think I threw up about 2 liters of pure water. I haven't had anything to eat for days and not much to drink too. I couldn't piss as well and this was all starting to scare me. I tried lying down again but only felt myself disassociating from my body. I did not like this feeling at all and felt as if I was dying. I was scared and kept monitoring my pulse rate. I could hear it slow down again and I quickly sat up when it did and moved my hands a bit to make my heart speed up. I somehow "knew" I had to keep doing that or else my heart will just stop and I'll die. I wasn't thinking rationally at this point and was getting really fucking scared. I could hear the banging noises again and promised that I will not do any drugs again should I get out of this experience unscathed. I felt myself disassociating again and willfully pushed my soul back into my body coz someone was telling me that if I either let my soul leave of let my heart stop bleeding I would die. I could hear the voice talking to me, but I don't know where it came from. I was having a panic attack because I've never experienced this effect before. I felt my legs shrink and my arms elongate as if my soul was stretching me to escape. I was frantic at this point coz no amount of movement will make my heart beat faster so I opened my window and looked down at the car park. I know the car park is a good few floors below my apartment but at this point my depth perception was absolutely shot. My large room felt like a small coffin and I was starting to shrink and shrink and my cupboard looked very large and mountain-like and I know that if I let myself shrink I'll never come out alive. I don't know why I thought that, I was absolutefuckingly freaking out in a bad, bad way. I opened my window and looked down at the car park and it looked like I could touch the ground if I just reached out with my hand. I live fairly high up, so that wasn't possible, but I couldn't think rationally at that point. I just know I could touch the car park floor if only I reached out with my hand, so I did. I leaned out through the window too, and felt the wind on my skin, which sobered me up only a little. Just then, the speakers told me "Please don't do that". I heard it clearly and I was totally scared and freaked out and wanted to cry. I closed the window again and went to throw up. I couldn't throw up anymore so I lied down on the floor and immediately felt myself shrinking again. This time it came faster, if I didn't pay full attention I will immediately shrink to the size of an ant. The speakers told me this is not good, because you'll need to travel a long distance to reach the door because you're shrunk an you're an ant. I was seriously not rational at this point and wanted to run away from my apartment. My thought processes were fucked and scaring me and I was delirious and paranoid. I did know I took quite a few different drugs over the weekend and that combined with days without sleep and food and water was probably causing me to freak out. But disassociation and auditory hallucinations and frame choppiness and wild thoughts on cannabis? I don't think it was possible and looked at the bag again. I suddenly remembered that there was people selling PCP (Angel Dust) dusted weed and I did remember the dealer telling me it was "killer weed". My definition of killer weed is a strong, indica-like stoney high but apparently the common lingo here is that killer weed = weed laced with PCP dipped wood shavings. I've never done PCP before and I've only heard bad things about it, so I was getting more and more agitated. I couldn't remember much after that, but I know the voice told me to grab my cell phone and dial 000. If you still don't feel sober after 30 minutes, press the Call button. I sat that way for a couple of minutes, not wanting to call at all coz it will lead to a lot of complications. But I could really feel my heart stopping now, it sounds silly now when I think about it, but it was really scary last night. I even got the chills from hearing the Lab 4 track - The Creator today. :( After about 10 minutes where I was in near total disassociation, I finally told myself to get up. I couldn't move at all and felt like I was going to void my bowels right there and then. The speaker told me to press the Call button NOW and I said fuck it and called. Except I didn't call...I stumbled outside to get a drink of water and knocked on one of my neighbors door. Didn't know why I did that, but soon the paramedics were called. I was still feeling disassociated by then and felt like I was looking at the scene from a weird angle. I couldn't feel my heart beating and was sure I had died and I cannot control my vomiting, which has become dry heaves that I couldn't stop. I was totally dehydrated and my skin didn't settle back down when I pinched it. I realize now that I just had a bad PCP trip because I was not expecting it and after all that major drug use the night before, it made me paranoid and totally freak out. But let me tell you, while on PCP you feel like you're actually dying and start thinking really strange and irrational thoughts. I can't remember half of the PCP trip, but I know I was constantly scared and I felt like my heart stopped beating. Now, I've been a daily smoker of weed for a long time and I know what cannabis can and cannot do. This batch is either salvia divinorum + cannabis or more likely, PCP + cannabis. I called a friend up today and he said that PCP laced weed does come intertwined with wood shavings and dusted with white powder so that explains it.

Close up showing more powder (they do not look like THC crystals and tasted chemical when inhaled)

Anyway, the ambulance came about 20 minutes later. I don't want to talk about this part because it's kinda embarrassing. I trooped through my apartment unit with my pants half on (had a pair of boxers inside) and a tatty shirt. I grabbed my cell phone in my right hand because the speaker said not to let go of it, it's a lifeline. In my other hand I had a number of random bits of paper but I didn't think to bring out my wallet nor my keys. I have quite a lot of experience with drugs and can talk myself out of a bad acid trip, but somehow everything seems bizarre and frightening on PCP and I could not convince myself of anything at all. I really wanted to tough the trip out, but I felt my heart stopping and it was real, I couldn't feel my heartbeat and nearly cried because I was scared, confused and just wanting to sleep. That's PCP for ya...don't know why some people can enjoy this fucked up drug, it made me feel like I had a near death experience and totally freaked me out. Anyway, I couldn't walk well and stumbled with the paramedics to their ambulance and lied down in a stretcher. I felt that the paramedic was an angel, because she monitored my heart beat and blood pressure and told me they were low, but still okay. I couldn't remember much of the journey in the ambulance except that I'm safe now with the angel with me. Usually when you think of stuff or hallucinate stuff while on drugs, you kinda know it's not real and can ignore it if you want. On PCP, it can't be ignored. The stuff you think is really happening and you have to follow it, you don't have any volition or free will or control, that's the best I can come out with of the PCP experience. I have no doubt that if the speakers told me to do something stupid, I won't even think it was stupid and just do it.

It even had bits of a purple tablet mixed into it. Or maybe it was a remnant
from the previous bag's contents.

Anyway, I arrived at the ER room of a hospital some time later and was shot with a sedative. I looked around the ward and saw two Indian guys opposite my bed and an old Aussie lady with a black eye beside my bed. I was knocked out in les than a minute and got treated for dehydration and nausea. I woke up two hours later feeling better and saw another angel, one of the ward keepers telling me not to move too much coz I'm on an IV drip for dehydration. She also asked me if I wanted anything to eat (angel) but I said I'm not feeling much like eating now and slept for another hour. I was awakened by a doctor who asked me how I was feeling. He also mentioned that they have drug counselors if I want to meet up with one. I politely declined and said that I was only doing drugs recreationally and just had a wild combination last night that left me with a panic attack. After that, he said I was free to go whenever I want, so I started undressing my hospital gown (I didn't even remember putting it on). The angel nurse came over again and showed me the way out. I thanked her and she told me not to worry because the hospital does not have an obligation to share information regarding admission with the police. She offered to call me a taxi back but I declined politely and thanked the angel and gave her a smile and walked around a bit to clear my head. After a while, I called my friend to meet me near the hospital because I just realized I didn't have my wallet with me. Good thing Mr Speaker Man told me not to let go of my cell phone no matter what. What an experience. This is surely a weekend that ends all other weekends. Fuck yeah. Still a promise is a promise and I flushed all my drugs down the toilet. A promise to God is one you have to keep since he was kind enough to send two of his angels down and nothing bad came out of the experience except I probably fried half my brain cells. I'm typing this about 6 hours after being discharged from the hospital. I did crash heavily and slept for a while a couple of hours ago. Still feel very out of it though, and I'll probably feel depressed for the next week, but I survived a very wild weekend and had some absolutely wicked experiences. =D It was an interesting ride indeed, from the arms of the death angel into the arms of the life angel. Heh.

Things I learnt today

PCP is a strong disassociative and should not be used without a trusted and experienced trip sitter.

Disassociatives can cause bad reactions with some personalities.

Meth makes you paranoid.

Poly-drug use can result in strange interactions.

Get drugs from a trusted dealer and party safe.

The crash from a drug binge is pretty horrible and depressing.

Remember to drink water while on E.

If you feel that you've taken a dangerous drug and/or OD'ed, don't hesitate to call the paramedics. They have no obligation to report you to the police.


********* End of Report **********

It's hailing!

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I was wondering why the rain sounded so loud just now. It sounded like it was hitting my roof directly, and I didn't even live on the top floor. Puzzled, I opened up a window and was assailed by chucks of ice the size of M&Ms. I've been caught by hail in Christchurch, NZ before but I've never seen hail in Melbourne. Hail!

Putting it bluntly (haha)

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Ellen Feiss is hot. I only knew about this meme today. That translates to a two month lag between the propagation of the meme and the time I hear about it. I heard about the All Your Base and Mahir one several days after they become popular and now I have to resort to hearing about Feiss from The Age [theage.com.au] of all places. Alas, I have been out of the scene indeed.

Anyway, I heard this Indian couple arguing on the shuttle while on my way back home today. They were sitting beside me and talking so voluminously that the whole shuttle bus were exposed to their quandary. It seems that the boyfriend was tardy in introducing his girlfriend to his project group mates. Allegedly the girlfriend "finished photocopying half the fucking book" before the boyfriend thought to introduce her. Good thing he didn't introduce her as only a friend because she sweared she "will knock you down there and there if you introduced me as your friend". I could see several other people in the bus making minute changes like shifting their seating subtly and casually removing their headphones to maximize their auditory bandwidth.

I have a lucky 10c coin

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Well, not really lucky, but it was in my shoe for the whole day.

I noticed a slight anomaly in my shoe soles when I stepped out to go to uni today. Upon further tactile inspection, I found that it has a distinct coin-like feel to it and surmised that it was a 10c coin. For some reason, I never took the time to remove it from my shoe, I just walked around with the coin inside for the whole day. It felt kinda nice too, a change from the usual feeling. Heh.

Anyway, my mid-semester holidays is coming up next week. I couldn't possibly make it to Sydney or Canberra because I have meetings in the first few days. The final exams comes 3 weeks after the holidays too, so I probably need to be studying in the holidays. I wonder why it's called a mid-semester holiday when it doesn't come in the middle of the semester. It's either 3 weeks from the start of the semester (in the first semester) or 3 weeks from the end of the semester (in the second semester). Alas. However, I'm planning to go on a short overnight trip somewhere. Currently, I'm still mulling over whether to go to:

1. Hepburn Springs [mineralsprings.net.au]

It is known as Australia's spa capital. It would be nice to go for one of those mud wraps and soak in a natural mineral spa before my finals. There are free hand pumps dispensing the legendary Hepburn Springs sparking mineral water all over town too.

2. Bonnie Doon [bonniedoon.net]

Waterskiing! Bonnie Doon is a really small town on the way to Mt Buller. It is famous for waterskiing, but there are other stuff to do like fishing and horse riding.

3. Sovereign Hill [sovereignhill.com.au]

A replica gold rush township in Ballarat. They have a nightly play called Blood on the Southern Cross which I hear is really good. It's about the revolt of gold miners against unfair taxes.

Three different places offering three different experiences. Hmm...

Mid-Autumn Dinner

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I had a belated Mid-Autumn Festival dinner today with a group of my friends from high school. The list of attendees are: Ung Hing, who arrived 1 1/2 hours late because there was a train accident which delayed his train, Karen, Fu Liang (the only one who is not from our high school), Thien Na, who drove her Lancer down from the city, Chuck Fong and his brother Chuck Yong, the elusive Christopher, Adrian and of course me. We went to Ocean King in Glen Waverley and had one of their banquets. Off my memory (which is slowly becoming erratic) there was abalone soup, prawns with noodles, black pepper beef, fish (a meal isn't complete without fish, or so I hear), spicy breaded chicken, some tofu dish, fruits and tong shui. Thien Na and I had the misfortune of sitting beside the rice holder so we were delegated to serving rice the whole night. Heh. The banquet only came to about A$15 each, so that's pretty good for the dishes that are available.

Group photo at Ocean King. I forgot to put force flash on, making the picture somewhat noisy.

After dinner, we headed down to Intencity, an arcade just opposite the restaurant. Chuck Fong trashed everyone with his Virtual On skillz and I dominated the Daytona race track. Well, perhaps dominate is not exactly the right term because Thien Na kept catching up to me. Karen on the other hand was nowhere to be seen. =D

Daytona action. Karen (furthest from camera) is devastated at her loss. Heh.

The fruity looking guns are from...

Point Blank.

It's not even 10 pm yet, and Karen and Ung Hing are already sneaking off to get some quality time alone behind the arcade machines. =D

The line forming to dethrone Chuck Fong at Virtual On.

Another victim falls to Chuck Fong's Virtual On skillz.

Pedal Faster Karen!

You don't want to meet us in a dark alley. We'll probably force you to play Point Blank with us or something. =D

I find pictures in my digicam that I don't remember taking. Heh. =D

This is me and Thien Na. She sat in the row beside mine in Form Five. Interesting fact: All but three of the people that came tonight are from the same class in Form Five.

The girls. I've been in the same class as Karen since Primary 1. Imagine that. =D

A partial group shot in the arcade.

Mooncakes

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Mmm...mooncakes. I'm not doing anything tonight though, gonna have a belated mid-autumn dinner tomorrow instead with a group of my ex-classmates. I only had one measly mooncake this year, the one you see above. I see there is a chick on the top of the container.

Ah...this is the best place to get stuff in Clayton. Not the butcher, the food clearance center. They have big ass Toblerone bars for only A$8. According to my empirical chart, a unit of big ass = 750 grams.

Roberts Hall annual photo

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The annual Roberts Hall photo for 2002 was taken today at 6 pm. The photos will not be out till later, but here are some preliminary shots:

6:05 pm People start arranging themselves. The guy with specs with his arms crossed is the photographer.

6:08 pm A formation starts becoming apparent.

6:12 pm This is the view from the top.

6:27 pm This is my next door neighbor, Michelle Yuen. The room beside mine used to be occupied by a guy named Glenn but for reasons unknown, he moved out early this semester and Michelle moved in.

6:31 pm This is Jessica Albin who lives three rooms down. I couldn't find my other neighbor from two rooms down. There are 4 rooms in a floor of each stairway.

6:37 pm People milling around after the session. The girl in the red dress, the guy with the bluish tie, the girl in the blue wraparound and the girl in the purple dress (partially off frame) all live one floor above mine.

Google search strings

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Top 20 of 39 Total Search Strings
20 1 2.38% why does my advantix film develop all blue

I dunno mate. Why does it develop all blue?

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Cheese Balls - a poem

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Noir sounds good
Swaying me to the melody
I'm stepping on a piece of foil
Mars bars are sweet and nicely coat the mouth
Cheese balls will be fun too and that's why I got it just now
My eyelids feel heavy
Cheese balls satiate me
I shovel them through my mouth
and crunch them with delight
Music brings me back
To memories, sealed in wax
That is so cliché
and cheese balls are good
Detached dissociation
I see blue light through the foil
and streaks of towers too
A cheese ball rolls off the pack
down my trousers pants
before I caught the wayward one
and shoved it in my mouth
A very deep meaning
My teeth hurts
From rubbing on salt and sour stuff
I think of softly undulating waters
riding atop a canoe
Cheese ball dispensers
Dispense me more cheese balls
I want to crunch them

Elune save us! The Undead advance in waves!

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The halls external network connection was down practically the whole day! I've only been able to get online at night, no problems accessing internal sites in the day, just can't get into any external ones. Never mind that, at least I got some solid hours in Warcraft 3. I can't really play Warcraft when ICQ is on because it's too distracting. It's my pet peeve when someone messages me while I'm in a game. =D Anyway, I've never actually played the single player campaign until recently because I jumped into multiplayer the moment I got it. The single player story is pretty good, but a bit hackneyed. I'm at the Night Elves campaign now and damn, the Archers look good. I am retarded.

Well, I got a pack of these egg puddings yesterday and lemme tell you, those are EVIL! The sweet stuff (caramel?) on the bottom is all congealed and shit and it tasted horrible. I sacrificed them as offerings to the porcelain god 15 minutes after I ate them. :(

Fatigue

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I am tired. I woke up early for an IE group meeting in South Yarra and I just got back after 6 pm. Anyway, I've noticed that 7-11 now carries a variety of calling cards. They don't actually have the cards, but they call a number and prints out a paper receipt with a PIN number on it. Interesting.

Formicidae

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I have slept for 14 hours straight. It feels good. =D Anyway, spring is out in full force now. One way for sure to know that the days are getting warmer is that the ants begin their infestation again. In winter and autumn, I can get away with leaving half eaten chocolate bars on the table and it still will be there, unmolested after 1 week. Not that it will retain much of it's flavor after one week, but still, the option is there should I choose to take it. Now, I can't even get away with leaving foodstuff on the table for an hour before the ants start trooping in.

And then?

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I had to attend a WIER research study today. It was held on the 7th floor of S block and the view out of the windows is amazing. I could see right to the CBD and Yarra River was visible too. That was not why I was there though. I've been requested to attend the WIER research study to improve the site. WIER stands for Web Industrial Experience Resource and it should be noted that I am part of the IE team that is actually going to make the modifications to WIER. I'm rather puzzled as to why we're asked to attend since there is a potential conflict of interest. We as the developers would obviously like the features on the "To Be Added" list to be kept to a minimum. Anyway, the study only took 30 minutes and it involves me answering a couple of questions while a tape recorder was running and doing a couple of tasks in WIER while a video camera recorded the screen. I got A$10 for participating in the research. A$10 for 30 minutes...hmm, I just realized that's the highest wage I've gotten to date. Little known fact about me: I worked part time for a short stint at a Chinese restaurant last year. The wages are really shitty (below legal minimum wage) but the upshot is you don't pay any tax. I did not stay long though, because I could not write any Chinese and all the cooks can read is Chinese. My poor Cantonese didn't help matters either. =D

Recipe for Regurgitation

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Queasy Quiche

Serves: 1

Cooking Time: 7 minutes

6:36 pm: Heat one BBQ Pork on Rice rice box (3:30 on high)

6:45 pm: Eat rice box

8:00 pm: Sleep

12:00 am: Heat one Hainan Chicken Rice rice box (3:30 on high)

12:06 am: Eat rice box

3:30 am: Eat two chocolate bars and a large bag of chips

4:00 am: Sleep

7:45 am: Eat two bacon and egg muffins and 3 sunny side up eggs

8:20 am: Drink a large fruit smoothie

9:47 am: Throw up

Queasy Quiche can be keep for up to a week in room temperature, although it will give off an unpleasant smell.

28 days

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All the toilets of Stairway 8 seems to be not working. The tanks must have burst or something because I can hear constant gurgling behind the toilet. Thus, the water pressure is less than optimal, making flushes practically impossible. I took a shit this morning and it damn near took me 3 whole minutes of constant pressure on the pump to flush away the assorted shit and toilet paper. The water pressure has degraded since then and someone disposed a menstrual blood stained piece of toilet paper on the front of the bowl. Since water travels from the back to the front in most toilets and the water pressure is seriously lacking today, this resulted in that period stained toilet paper laying undislodged for the rest of the night.

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