Category: 1998

*Sunshine – 20th August 1998

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Email with TLJ

S: Sweetheart. Sorry I couldn’t talk earlier – too many people around. I’m real tired too. Gotta clean out my car tonight – first time for everything. I feel good for not drinking you know! Still feel like a Gin and Tonic though. Miss you – love ya baby.
Shauny

T: i’m in at uni already – i should work more on the report, but i’m not really sure what they want. Anyway, about my dream. I think we were at sean’s place with lisa and craig and this other couple and one more guy.
Anyway, we were just sitting around talking but i think i had to go somewhere. You kept kissing me and i felt a bit uncomfortable about that. Anway, when i came back i invited everyone to your place for your birthday and said we could have cheese rolls and salad – and whatever else you vegetarians eat! but i’m not really sure if your friends wanted to come, so i was a bit embarassed after that. what do you think it means?

S: This simply means you love me and want my children – which is understandable of course. You always get some food into your dreams, don’t you?

T: on my wallpaper now, i have a beautiful picture of jeff buckley. It says
“Jeff Buckley – A heart full of Music A soul filled with Grace. We will miss you”. A bit corny maybe, but a beautiful sentiment.

S: What – no picture of me? I have some scanned pictures of me – should I send them to you – you can view jpegs right? I can’t find my photos of us together – I wanna get a picture of you and play with it! Bring me some photos will you (oh, I just remembered where they are!)

T: Anyway, i don’t know if our data systems design is right – i found some mistakes last night but was too tired to think. Anyway, may get back to it.

S: You’re one smart cookie – hope you can fix it up. How are the other groups going?

T :Are you still going for a massage? tell me about your day – hope it’s good.

S: Really want a massage so I’m gonna hafta borrow some cash off my mum and pqay it back when I get paid. the day’s OK – but my wrists are sore and my neck is sore and my feet smell. If you wanna meet me at the physio tonight I can drop you home. Otherwise I’ll call you later tonight – don’t forget South Park. Hope your day is good too sweety. Man the summer sun sure is inspiring.

T: Love you babe, tlj

S: You too angel
“If you found everyone responsible, and hung them from the highest trees – would you have enough trees?”

T: would love to meet you at the physio now i know where it is. anyway, don’t think i’d like you “playing” with photos of me, so no – i won’t show you any.

S: Yeah, but now I remember where the photos are that I have already – expect a physically altered tracca soon! I could make you look beautiful! (how could you be more beautiful..?)

T: If it’s going to be too hard to meet me, don’t bother.

S: It’s easy for me cos I’ll be laid down getting treatment – it’s only if it’s easy for you.

T: Otherwise, give me a time and a place.

S: Right here – right now baby!

T: went to john colville to get a reference from comp prac, but i never see him around and it’s so late in the semester.

S: Keep hassling – mail him – do whatever…

T: mail me please.

S: I’ll think about it.

T: 5:45 – 6pm at the physio? meet you there – that ok with you?

S: Yes – meet me there.

T: getting a bit of a headache.

S: Want me to rub yr temples?

T: dad gave me $50 to get the rest of my textbooks, but i gave it back cause i didn’t want to carry it around. now i’m afraid he’ll gamble it all.

S: Bye bye fifty dollars…

T: anyway, we’re not celebrating dad’s birthday this friday or wednesday, or ever i suppose, because he wants to go the casino on Friday with his friends and relos etc. anyway, what are you planning?

S: Seeing you of course!!

T: maybe i could see you if we’re both free.

S: Yeah sure – we have to do something that doesn’t cost too much though – sorry – I gotta look after the pennies for a little while. so we can have a big summer together!)

T: was speaking to caroline and mel about the project. caroline’s boyfriend only gets to see her on the weekend just about, so he’s pretty sick of her working on the weekends. I told them i wanted to go to the art gallery with my friend because he wanted to see the japanese art exhibition. i’ll see if i can get out next weekend, but i might be having a violin lesson (i didn’t have one saturday, since he was bogged down in ballarat) and i think it’s father’s day on sunday – i’m not sure though. but maybe you should go if I’m busy.

S: No no – we go together!!!

T: how are you celebrating father’s day baby?

S: With you?

T: thanks for going shopping with me yesterday. You made me feel good about buying the dress.

S: It was fun. You looked beautiful in the dress – let me tell you.

T: see ya maybe this afternoon? tlj

S: Absorutery, Shaun

*Plebs – 19th August 1998

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Email with TLJ

S: I hope you have fun tonight with the suited plebs tonight. Put on yr glasses – the suits will probably think you are more intelligent (even though you’re a grade a student anyway but they won’t know that will they) Be strong and assertive and say ‘I WANT A JOB PLEASE!’. Remember it’s all about bullshit!
Your biggest fan, no. 1 lover

T:
Invitation:
What: Party at my place
Where: xx Murray St Berala
When: 7:00pm 21st August
Other: Feel free to bring significant others etc
How Much: As much as you want to contribute to the alcohol fund

T: so, are you my significant other?

S: YES, VERY MUCH SO…

T: and are you coming?

S: I DON’T THINK YOU WANT ME TOO, DO YOU? WILL IT BE A PROBLEM? DO YOU WANT TO GO? YOU DIDN’T SEEM THAT KEEN YESTERDAY? WILL THERE BE ANYONE ELSE I KNOW OR HAVE MET PREVIOUSLY?

T: please take down the details in case i lose them?

S: OK.

T: where are we meeting tonight and when?

S:I GUESS IT WOULD BE EASIER IF YOU CAME TO CHATSWOOD – I’VE GOT TO GO THE PHYSIO – I’LL PROBABLY BE THERE TIL SIX. WE COULD GO TO THE PARTY STRAIGHT AFTER IF YOU WANNA CHECK IT OUT. I’M OFF THE GROG THOUGH. IF YOU WANNA STAY THAT’S COOL – IF IT GETS TOO MUCH FOR ME MAYBE I COULD GO AND PICK YOU UP LATER OR WE COULD DO SOMETHING ELSE OR ANYTHING REALLY! I’M THINKING OF AFTER COMING TO WORK TOMORROW GOING INTO THE CITY TO TAKE THE VINYL I WANNA SELL/TRADE – OH, I JUST REMEMBERED YOU WON’T BE FREE TIL TOMORROW NIGHT….OH WELL. WE GO JIGSAW SUNDAY AM THOUGH?

T: email me with what you wanna do. ok babe?

S: OK. I WANNA SEE YOU. BABE.

S: Tongue
No this isn’t rude. I bit my tongue at Ann’s lunch. it fluffing hurtf.
Wanting
Waiting
For you
I feel a song coming on…
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

*Make up – 18th August 1998

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Email with TLJ

T: with a cherry on top – I love you – truly, madly, deeply – you seen that movie? it’s pretty good.

S: Not sure – don’t think so…

T: Just finished typing in everybody’s timesheet details into a spreadsheet only i don’t know how i should set it up.
Anyway, finally remembered what i was gonna say to you after you got the milk at the corner store but forgot when you came back – i was just gonna say that when Notorious BIT (topdeq, ice-D, Futang et al) have their meeting, Sue-pergroove and hammerDogg (jeff) sit at the front because they’re the project leaders. I was just gonna say how i’d absolutely hate the project leaders actually displaying their leadership, but remembered that our project leaders do that as well (but not as obviously).

S: Power always goes to the head and initiates the search for more power and so on…

T: oh well, we’ll never make it to the top will we.

S: It depends on how you look at it. we could already be at the top (of what we want) other people just want more and go further than we have – but happiness is more important – wherever you are. Us, together, we are at the top, sweety.

T: we just have to work harder and give them all the glory.

S: Yes, this is the thing that shits us below – where we were happy the people above seek to make us unhappy to make themselves feel better – arseholes!

T: i hate project leaders as a rule. don’t become a project leader babe, cause then i’ll want a divorce.

S: There are good leaders too I’m sure. (Ok, I haven’t met one either…)

T: saw Sandie’s snow photos the other day, and all her friends. they all got on really well (except for Jackie’s friend and her boyfriend who were real tight-arse)

S: What’s the goss?

T: and are planning a summer getaway. i really want to get away with friends as well. my school friends (laura and michelle etc) wanted to go to the Hunter Valley this winter, but i guess none of us really had the time. also wanted to go to the central coast for the summer – but I forgot i might be going to Taiwan. also, everyone seems to be going their
separate ways for the summer hols

S: I think that is kinda what happens after leaving school and those close relationships kinda disperse. I hope you keep close with your friends – they are very important – I realised this myself, after losing most of my friends. I’m still kinda jealous of you you know! I wish we could go away. We have to one day all right?

T: like Thailand and stuff. actually, i’m not so sure i would want to go to Thailand anyway – not yet, cause I wouldn’t want to go with Laura and Gerard’s friends – don’t think that much of them – they’re very elitist – Laura doesn’t think much of them either. we refer to them as the ASM – Asian Supremacist Movement. ok, so it’s very immature i hear you say.

S: She must like Gerard a lot…

T: Mich rang last night. she’s going to return my Jeff Buckley video this afternoon cause i’m meeting her at markets.

S: I don’t think you ever told me about a Jeff Buckley video did you (but then you know what my memory is like)

T: only prob – i haven’t got her the rest of her b’day present yet. there’s also a free BBQ as part of union week here at the uni. so i don’t think it’ll be hard convincing the fellas doing SDD to take a lunch break (you should see the size of some of
them). Dan was saying how much Yuri likes crackling (so do i) and how Trent just eats hot dogs). anyway, it beats Bar Broadway for lunch. told Mich if she wanted Jeff Buckley dubbed, i would try. do you think you could set up your video to dub, or would that require another power socket that you don’t have?

S: Call me Chief Dubber MC Hemsley. Course I can. Just gotta find the leads and set it up.

T: had great fun with you and Hayden yesterday – he’s a real groovy babe.

S: Hey, what about me???? We both had fun with you too. Thanks for taking the time to hang out.

T: was good to see you parenting as well – that’s another side of you I haven’t seen before

S: What did you think? Am I too slack or too overbearing. I like to let him explore things and figure out for himself what is good and bad. I think it’s cool to let him run around looking at things where other folks like to keep their kids on a tight leash. Let’s face it they really can’t do much harm and it’s fun to watch them open up cupboards in Grace Brothers or pull things off shelves. Wasn’t he cute when I would say Let’s Go and he would say it too!

T: except when you father me!

S: Sorry if I was bossy with you yesterday. It’s pretty important that HJ has his routine of an afternoon sleep – you saw how tired he was.

T: are you seeing him tonight?

S: No, but I saw him asleep last night – he was cuddling Winnie the Pooh as he didn’t have pillow and snuggler. Can’t wait for him to come back.

T: send him my love.

S: I think he felt it yesterday – thanks again.

T: anyway, if you have reached the end of this email, i’m very sorry it was so long.

S: At last a long email from you…

T: i just had plenty of time to kill and nothing much to say.

S: You’re fun, you’re the best…

T: anyway, i hope this makes up for all the mails i haven’t sent and for the rest of the week.

S: Er, no it doesn’t!!

T: love to you baby, tlj

S: And to you too sweet angel

*Oh baby baby – 15th August 1998

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Email to TLJ

Hey – just dropping ya this note to cheer up yr day (if it’s bad in any way). Please accept my humble apologies at the lack of content in this note but be aware that it is sent with great love and thoughts for you.

Directions to the physio:

Walk from the station down Victoria Road. At the crossroads with Archer Street go straight across on the Chatswood Chase side. Just after the sushi bar and just before the entrance to Chatswood Chase there’s a small kind of mall. Downstairs is an Asian grocery, and up the ramp is some food and clothing shops (amongst other things). Go up the ramp and then up the escalator. the physio is around on the right. It’s only a small mall so you’ll find it easy. Love to you, angel baby. I had the best time last night and today’s tiredness is worth every second!

*Thanks gorgeous – 6th August 1998

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Email with TLJ

T: …for seeing me yesterday

S: Let’s do it again.

T: and for jeff

S: Anytime – anytime – anything for you!

T: i picked him up from Revolver this morning and didn’t really have too much trouble convincing them that i was
the great Shaun Hemsley in person

S: But you are nowhere near as great as me! (Actually, you are much better..)

T: or at least convincing them that I slept with you!!!!! ha!

S: Yeah – they know me pretty well and my passion for ‘young Asian birds’!

T: but now i’ll be going to sleep with jeff.

S: Oh well – should I tell you who I’m sleeping with…

T: just saw notlih and he told me what you told me last night about seeing you.

S: Yeah, yeah – we got our stories straight so you’ll never know what we actually did…

T: actually, the guy at Revolver was having a bit of a domestic with his gal (got quite ugly – i was feeling very intrusive) – so he wasn’t really interested in who i was – he didn’t even ask! just handed it to me.

S: I think he was shy of your outstanding beauty.

T: by the way, how come you didn’t return my call!

S: Fell asleep in a meeting..

T: still taking me home tonight?

S: Absorutely

T: gotto go to my meeting now. love ya babe, tlj

I know you guys like doing this psyche stuff – 5th August 1998

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Email with TLJ

T: how did you fare?
coming to see you this afternoon. wanna give me a lift home?
see ya babe, tlj

S: Absorootry! How did I fare with what?
If there’s any babes round here then it’s you sweety.
Shaunus the Menace

T: didn’t you get the questionaire thing? or are you just too busy for such trivial pursuits? tell me the results tonight.
ps – i’ve been offered a job, but it’s only thursdays 8-9pm! it’s a really shite cause i don’t come in on thursdays, it’s late, and i have to catch a train in and back when i’ll be only getting about 21 dollars. Also, we’ve been fucked over by the uni – we did a 6-credit pt subject – Accounting Info Sys, which was only recorded as a 4-credit point subject. So we graduate with 142 credit points and don’t get recognition for the extra credits and hours of work we did!!!!!!!!!! so, i’ve just had sex yet again.

S: Yeah – I’ll do that thing later. Is there much point to the job then? What happened to the one on Monday? Sorry about the sex…..Love ya!

*WELCOME BACK!!! – 27th July 1998

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

Email to TLJ

Yes, yes – welcome back to the world of technology and email (and the reply button – no doubt you’ll have a gazillion mails to reply to and I will be last on the list because you talk to me so much anyway and you have to get home or go to lunch or meet someone else more important than me – and you ask me if I still write – do you still write? that is the new question). Will you come to China with me – I’d feel safer with you there. I want to go there – go to the villages and mountains – the great wall and lots of things. I’m gonna check it out at lunchtime. Why not….

Call me, your sick friend who loves you dearly