More box ticking & Beard Papa’s Sweets

Set up Streamline banking and internet banking account and access.
Buy Engineering School approved calculator and get sticker of said approval.
I’m so proud of me. :D

Now I’ll have to learn to use the damned thing…I’ve been on a graphics calculator for 4 years, man! Four years! How do these puny, weak little things work, anyway?? [And [...]

Men at Work – Down Under

Oh man, I remember this song. Brings back so many lovely, nostalgic memories. :) Lovely beat and rhythm and sweet, sweet lyrics. ♥

Travelling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,
Do [...]

Bend and SNAP

After my engineering lecture, some guy gave me a hard knock on the chin as he flailed to get his arms through the shoulder straps of his bag. My head did one of those movie snaps.
Bastard didn’t even apologise. T__T

What an utter shit

What an example of an utter shit to humanity and a disgrace to Buddhism. Sounds like she should be more into the Westboro Baptist Church [of "God Hates Fags" infamy] line of ‘faith’ because, of course the people of Sichuan deserved the earthquake for China’s ‘mistreatment of Tibet’ just as the [...]

The ghost in the machine

Why does technology exhibit increasingly sporadic behaviour as time goes on? Computers, for instance, become slower, display strange habits and function in inexplicable ways compared to new models straight off the shelf. Is this truly a display of Asimov’s ‘ghost in the shell’ behaviour that he predicts will one day spawn self-conscious intelligence?
I would like [...]

Ticked boxes and to-do lists

Ticked boxes:

picked two pieces to play for CMG audition: Pablo de Sarasate’s Playera and Joseph Haydn’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G-Major
The Concerto is very clean-sounding and pure so it was an easy show-off piece. The Playera, oh gosh the Playera. Two harmonics; I missed the first one by a little [so there was [...]

Semester 1 Exam period

I’ve got a few more weeks until end of semester exams. A little stressed. Not towards content but more frustrated towards format as we’re the first year in the new university education model and so we really don’t know what to expect [neither do the lecturers, apparently.] Anything goes, really.
So no more movie-related posts until [...]

Grey’s Anatomy

Ah, it’s so sad. It’s so beautiful.

Waltzing Matilda

This is one version of the lyrics:
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited ’til his billy boiled
“Who’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?”
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
“You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”
And he sang as he watched and waited [...]

Teacher pay rise

Teachers chalk up a historic history! announces The Age.
Melbourne newspapers have been in an ecstatic flurry the past few days since a pay rise was announced for Victorian teachers, meaning that they’re no longer be worst paid in the country; a fact I found unbelievable considering Victoria comes only second to New South Wales in [...]