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Anything related to uni.

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Apart from that, I’m really tired and should go to bed. Early start tomorrow and a fucking late finish I can assure myself. Gotta write my 3 page scope document for my ISYS group report.

Not looking forward to it much at all.

Must also remember to do other uni work, cash my dividend cheque and buy another uni book. I should really fork out the $11 (fuckers) for my uni transcript and start writing a friggin’ resume… It’s just so hard to actually bother.

I also think I drank too much coffee today. Mmm. I’ll repeat the process tomorrow.

Wet.

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I saw again today. Trippier.

Had uni for 2 hours, was ok. My team member, Dave, knows his shit. It’s good, because I don’t, really. Well I sort of do, but whatever. Too hard to explain. He watches Naruto, too. Whee.

Grinded out some more hours on KOTOR2. Yes, a game. Addictive little thing. It’s captured me the same way the first one did, so I believe I’ll finish it and break the standard 3 day timelimit (I already have).

Winesoc had an exec meeting at 5pm tonight at Manning. I braved the cold and wet rain to get there on foot from the flat. Taking notes and running meetings is fun, it’s a benevolent bullying outlet of sorts.

Speaking of rain, our roof started leaking over the stairs. I almost killed myself when I slipped on the wet wood without knowing it was holding up a puddle. A bucket and two towels seemed to have tamed it, but I had to call mum to let dad know so he can organise something to fix it. ^_^

Now to write up the minutes and email my other team from EBUS3003! Huzzah.


Your Seduction Style: The Natural


You don’t really try to seduce people… it just seems to happen.
Fun loving and free spirited, you bring out the inner child in people.
You are spontaneous, sincere, and unpretentious – a hard combo to find!
People drop their guard around you, and find themselves falling fast.

Sales.

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I saw Gus today. Trippy.

I also sold some more tickets to Winesoc’s first dinner. We sold out. Even more trippy.

Uni’s already boring, yet I intend to force myself to accomplish my work. As long as I sit down to do it I’ll be ok. I think.

I don’t want to work tomorrow or Friday night. I don’t have a choice. Things are looking up.

Some silly Winesoc member hasn’t gotten back to me about the two tickets I’ve reserved them. How rude. I’ll have to bust their chops.

Burp.

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Bored. Meant to be going to uni to flog more Winesoc memberships today. Have to shower first. Lala.

I ate too much curry last night along with a naan. I have a food baby indicative of sextuplets.

I got really sunburnt yesterday during O-week as well. I knew I would too. At least I picked it. Might try some suncream today, although we’re only milling around Manning.

My timetable isn’t too bad, I guess. Considering I could only move 2 labs on the whole thing. Blah. I only have labs/tutes on 2 days of the week, so the rest I can potentially bludge at will. That’s comforting to me. I think I’ll try and work long Wednesday afternoon/night and my good old standard Friday night leading on to Saturday morning. That’ll end up with me losing almost $400/w if I drop the other 20 hours I’ve been working each week. Hopefully it’ll be manageable. If not, I’ll just bung on a Thursday shift or something. That’d be crap, though. Hmm. Maybe I can get youth assistance now that my hours have dropped back. I’ll have to check again.

BOLD the ones you have seen from the IMDB Top 100 List

1. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)yes
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)yes
5. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)yes
6. Schindler’s List (1993)
7. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
8. Casablanca (1942)
9. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)yes
10. Star Wars (1977)yes
11. Citizen Kane (1941)yes
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)yes
13. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
14. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)yes
15. Rear Window (1954)yes
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)yes
17. Pulp Fiction (1994)yes
18. Usual Suspects, The (1995)yes
19. Memento (2000)
20. North by Northwest (1959)yes
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)yes
22. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
24. Psycho (1960)yes
25. Fabuleux destin d’Am?lie Poulain, Le (Amelie) (2001)yes
26. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
27. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)yes
30. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
31. Vertigo (1958)yes
32. Matrix, The (1999)yes
33. Cidade de Deus (2002)
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)yes
35. C’era una volta il West (1968)
36. Apocalypse Now (1979)yes
37. Pianist, The (2002)
38. Third Man, The (1949)
39. Paths of Glory (1957)
40. Taxi Driver (1976)
41. Fight Club (1999)yes
42. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
43. Some Like It Hot (1959)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)
45. Boot, Das (1981)
46. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
47. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
48. Chinatown (1974)
49. L.A. Confidential (1997)
50. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
51. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. M (1931)
54. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
55. Se7en (1995)yes
56. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)yes
57. Saving Private Ryan (1998)yes
58. Rash?mon (1950)
59. Raging Bull (1980)
60. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)yes
61. Alien (1979)yes
62. American History X (1998)
63. Sting, The (1973)yes
64. L?on (The Professional) (1994)yes
65. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
66. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
67. Vita ? bella, La (1997)
68. Touch of Evil (1958)
69. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
70. Finding Nemo (2003)yes
71. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)yes
72. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
73. Great Escape, The (1963)yes
74. Modern Times (1936)
75. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)yes
76. Amadeus (1984)
77. On the Waterfront (1954)
78. Ran (1985)
79. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)yes
80. Annie Hall (1977)
81. Wo hu cang long (2000)
82. Jaws (1975)yes
83. Apartment, The (1960)
84. Braveheart (1995)yes
85. High Noon (1952)
86. Aliens (1986)yes
87. Fargo (1996)yes
88. Strangers on a Train (1951)
89. Shining, The (1980)yes
90. Metropolis (1927)
91. Blade Runner (1982)yes
92. Sixth Sense, The (1999)yes
93. City Lights (1931)
94. Donnie Darko (2001)yes
95. Duck Soup (1933)yes
96. Great Dictator, The (1940)
97. General, The (1927)
98. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
99. Princess Bride, The (1987)
100. Dogville (2003)

I swear Lord of the Rings 1-3 don’t deserve to have 3 of the top 10 spots. Fucking movie geeks. There’s a few there that I know Dad has at home and I just haven’t gotten around to seeing, either. I will though, then that list will be MINE.

I’m barred up that Leon is on it, though. :D

Seems the list has changed a bit anyway. I notice Spider-Man 2 made it at #250. Good times. :)

Shipwrecked.

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Lokitorrent got owned the other day. :(

Tried to post this yesterday morning, but LJ was fucked, too. Nice one.

Fortunately I still have my other premium torrent sites to entertain me! Just hope they don’t get raided and have to give up their member details. :O Possibly the worst thing about all the new sites: user databases.

So, my late wrap-up of recent games:

COPS 2170: The Power of Law – (…) good idea, decent graphics, bad implementation. Kind of like Jagged Alliance meets Syndicate Wars. I really like most of this game, but it’s just not balanced correctly so it can be incredibly hard even on the easiest setting. Not to mention it has a reallllllllllly lame name.

The Punisher – Cool. True to the spirit of the comics. Very brutal and ruthless, but with flair. Nice to see a few Marvel cameos as well. Think Manhunt meets Max Payne, but take out all the stupid annoying shit from Manhunt.

Fallout Tactics – not too bad either. A beefed up version of the Fallout games, with nicer graphics and higher resolution. This one is a bit old now and I’ve been after it for a while, just haven’t been able to get my hands on it properly. It’s a tactical combat style game basically, again similar to Jagged Alliance or X-COM. It has 3 different settings though, from real-time (Warcraft 3 style) to squad turn-based (X-COM style) to attack precedence I guess you’d call it (Fallout 1 & 2 style). Anyway, I got a bit of the way through it then started pining for some old Fallout 1 and 2, but my copy of Fallout 2 doesn’t work so I may just order it from a games website if I feel like spending the $15.

I could get Fallout 2 for US$2.50 and another US$2.50 for shipping I think if Amazon’s marketplace let people ship video games internationally. Fuckers. :<

I don’t suppose anyone really cares about any of the stuff I just wrote. I just thought I needed to make it look like I’ve got something to say for once. Hmm.

I’ve got a feeling I probably wont get the tutoring position at uni that I applied for. I’m kind of happy about it now though, turns out the course I applied for isn’t set out the way I thought it would be, so I’m not really keen on teaching it anyway. I don’t know if I could be fucked with doing the programming courses as well. Might just do another shift or so at SDS during semester and save myself the trauma.

That shouldn’t be too bad, since I seem to have scored myself 6 hour (minimum) shifts every Saturday for the next few months, leading to time and a half. If I can slip in a couple more decent-length shifts each week I should be plum. Well, scrape by for semester.

Still don’t know how I’m going to cope if I do honours next year. Hopefully I’ll be able to get youth allowance or something (there’s about 50 different names for it depending on your situation), since it’s meant to be a full time course. Hmm. I’m really not even sure if I want to go through with it now. Depends what options I find available for myself at the end of the year and if I’ve decided what I really want to do. Or perhaps on how well I do this year at uni.

I still hate being the only person in my circle of friends left at uni. Gah. :s

Reflection.

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I was bored at work today (surprisingly), and it dawned (again) how quickly the last year has gone. Let’s have a quick run down from what I can remember:

  • This time last year I’d just moved back home from Ross’ flat and was gearing up for my trip to the Middle East with Lou.
  • team.dot was in preparation for the Enemy Territory finals on GameArena, which we ended up winning whilst I was overseas.
  • I was starting to get a little nervous about going back to uni after taking a year off, wondering if I’d be able to keep motivated to get through the year fully, even though it was part time.
  • I began playing CoD after I got back from the Middle East with dot, learning the game and helping the team develop in to a big competitor on the scene.
  • Around the same time I’d started to have more of an influence on dot’s direction and activities. We still had the pro attitude and aspired to get full sponsorship with the hope of getting to play overseas at some big CoD tourneys.

That’s a little bit. So much sort of happened but it all went so quickly. Maybe I’ll do some more when it comes back to me. :O

Retro.

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Just watched the Breakfast Club with Lou. She hadn’t seen it before and I haven’t watched it in years. It’s so good. :) I was born about 18 years too late, I missed my cultural prime. :(

What else should I mention? Hmm. Looks like Dubya got re-elected. I was expecting it anyway, so I guess I was braced for a bit of disappointment. I hear that Hillary (?Hilary) Clinton is keen on running as the Democrats leader for the new election… Can’t wait to watch that!

Gotta lend one of my textbooks to a guy from uni tomorrow. He wants to photocopy it all so he doesn’t have to buy the book. Hope he gets it back to me swiftly! Otherwise I wont have to feel bad about not studying until the day before the exam. Wee-hoo.

Yesterday I went out to some furniture park near dad’s work in the western suburbs with my parents. Bought some new furniture (el-cheapo to moderately priced) for the flat. Only a few weeks until the big move! :o It should be fun. Hope everything we bought fits in the place and also suits the place. I’m having a minor dilemma in that I can’t find a decent red or maroon-y bedspread anywhere. :(

Mum and dad also said we should be able to pick up a second remote for the garage, so I can more easily attempt to ninja a spot in there (we have a feeling a lot of the spots aren’t being used at all). By the way, tofu/’s the one moving in with me. What an unveiling! He’s getting our assigned car park as he’s most likely to have a new(ish) car by the time we move in.

I worked out I only need to slightly extend my hours at work each week in order to relatively comfortably provide for myself during semester. That means I can probably chuck an extra few shifts in just for “fun” over the holidays and save up a bit more anyway. I’ll see how I go.

My video card is still playing up. Little shit. Purple bars and all. says it’s probably the on-card memory. I don’t know shit about PC hardware in the greater scheme of things so I’ll take his word for it. Tried to talk dad in to getting the guys at PlusCorp to swap it for me… Hopefully he will.

The end.

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FINALLY.

Finished my ISYS3000 assignment.

2500 words later (I think it’s a little over, it’s meant to be 2000, but that’s including the headings and references too).

Thank CHRIST.

No more assignments for the year! Wheeee!

Nothing for 3 weeks, when I have my exams! Wheeee!

Got Lou to book a holiday house in Noosa for Lloyd, Eri, Lou and I earlier this afternoon. The silly boffins couldn’t decide on a place, after throwing about 500 links around for the last few days. Of course, with my masculine hunter-style mind I managed to peruse the thumbnails of available locations near Hastings street and we ended up booking the first one that I picked. ;)

$275 each for 7 nights. Less than 1km to Hastings street and it’s got its own private pool and beach, along with nearby restaurants and a bus stop. It’s also decked out with facilities such as TV & DVD, even a dishwasher. It has this funky blue kitchen counter and it’s tiled through and even has ceiling fans! Yay for nice and cool floor with air flow during what will probably be the hottest and most humid time of the year!

It should be really good fun, I’m looking forward to going there with the guys.

Can’t remember if I posted earlier or not, Lou missed out on the job at Coke. :( She’ll have to go work for Pepsi now just to get the ultimate revenge.

Spoke to FallenAngel/Brendan, a dude from WAY back on austnet IRC (circa 1997). He randomly messaged me on Trillian’s ICQ (as I wont use normal ICQ) tonight as I was writing up my report. It was good to catch up with Prong Brother 1. Mmm hmm.

Looks like I’m most likely moving out to Newtown in a month or so! Holy cow! Deny (pronounced Danny, but he’s stupid) reckons he’s moving up to Queensland somewhere and he wants to sell some of the furniture/appliances that are already in the flat for some extra cash. Mum said she would probably buy it or something (?? but that suits me) so I can use it. I’m probably getting a flatmate too but I don’t know if that’s meant to be a mystery yet or not and I can’t be stuffed checking.

As usual, I’ve stayed up later than I need to in order to write in this journal. I don’t think I’ve got it in me to a) regularly write; and b) write at a reasonable time. I’ve coped for this long though so it can’t be all bad.

I’ve been playing the World of Warcraft closed beta. It’s pretty fun, I think it’s actually fucking good for an MMORPG (even though I promised myself I’d never play one again). I’m still undecided as to whether I’ll be buying it when it goes retail or not. I’ll have to see what my situation is at the time.

I do have some hot photos from it, though:
Picture one.
Picture two.

Very, very hot.

Lunch.

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I just got invited to have lunch with Joseph Davis (from the school of IT at uni) to discuss my plans for the future.

These sort of letters freak me out.

Wonder if they’ll charge me for the food when they find out I’m part time and don’t graduate until next year…

Great.

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Well this weekend has been a cliche rollercoaster ride of emotions. Right now I’m experiencing a shitty one.

More on this later.

P.S. Saggy boobs in some 70s movie on VHS dad is converting to DVD.

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Back again.

Got it finished. It’s a bit shoddy but I really couldn’t care less. I printed out our logo on the colour printer though in a desperate bid to scrape up a few more marks for “novelty”.

My download of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 just finished at the same time. How fortunate. What’s unfortunate, however, is that I have to get up in 6 hours so that I can make it to my tutorial tomorrow and get the rest of my group to sign the cover page of the assignment. That reminds me, I have to submit a .txt version of our plan. Just did it then. Wow.

Right, golf time.