A day in the Life

EXAMS ARE OVER!

2008-11-17T14:15:00.003+11:00

Finally exams are over and now I'm overwhelmed with all the free time that I have. I'm not sure what I should do with all my free time, but I do plan on learning some web design and some Japanese during all this free time. There are many things that I have wanted to do throughout the semester but haven't got the chance to do because of all the assignments and stuff that I had to do during the semester. I'm at work now so I should get back to it ^^.

Exam 4/4

2008-11-14T08:57:00.002+11:00

Good morning, I'm up early to study for my last exam, but I haven't got anything done yet hahaha. Pretty lame I know. I was such a random night, I didn't get much sleep so I'll probably be really tired by the end of the day. I should get to studying soon so that I'll be super prepared for my exam and stuff. I'll be posting later after I finish my exam and go for a couple of drinks hahaha. Till then Sayonara.

Exam 3/4

2008-11-13T22:54:00.000+11:00

Another day, another exam. Today was my games exam, nothing too flashy or retarded to speak about in the exam, it was just your average exam. I'm super tired right now since I had to wake up really early to get to the exam, so I'm probably going to end this post here. Till next time Sayonara.

Exam 2/4

2008-11-07T22:20:00.003+11:00

Been a few days since my last post, its been a few hectic days of unmotivation and study, but its finally over. My hardest exam past fairly quickly it was all multiple choice so it wasn't too bad, but some of the options for the mulitple choice questions were pretty outrageous like "some of the above" and "all of the above" such vague options. Ah well its done and gone, now I just gotta start studying for my last two exams.I think im going to take the day off tomorrow and go for a skate because its been ages since I last skated. Till next time, Sayonara.

Exam 1/4

2008-11-03T23:48:00.006+11:00

The first day of exams is probably one of the worst days in a University students life, well I can't speak on behalf of every University student, but it is for me ^^. My exam for Multimedia Delivery Systems was an afternoon exam session, which is a good thing and a bad thing. Getting extra time to "study" is always good right before an exam, whether or not you use that time wisely or not is another question. Having to wait for your exam to come creeping up behind you is probably the worst.

George and I got a fair bit of study done, then we went to catch up with the others which were in the IT labs. There was no chance in the world that we would get much study done there, but I tried. Joy mentioned that there was a car out in the carpark thats engine exploded or something, and we all went out to see it. Low and behold there was a car out in the carpark which looked like it had been set alight or something. You don't get to see this sort of thing everyday so I had to get a photo of it ^^.

Looks like this car had a rough time. Seems like the engine exploded since there is no sign of there being and engine in there

DOTA is great for killing time...time that could be used to study ^^. Gordon is owning those creeps.

Felix and Joy heavily focused on the task at hand. Defending their bases in DOTA.
George studying away, well I think he's studying away.

A years worth of lecture slides in a nice little package. Mostly printed double sided of course to save the trees.

This is what happens when you look at lecture slides too long ^^.

When the time came to do the exam I was nervous, but composed. The exam went for 2 hours, I left about 20 mins early because I knew that I wouldn't be able to magically pull something out of thin air at the point in time. The exam was alright, there were a few things that got me stumped but as usual I tried to make do with the knowledge that I had from the days of study for the subject, so I should be right. With that exam out of the way I have 3 days before my next exam. Oh how exciting, I better get back to the books then =\

Study: Day 3

2008-11-02T19:00:00.010+11:00

Ahh today was a good day, didn't even leave the house to go somewhere to study. We studied at home and George and Joy came over to study with us. When I woke up I managed to get a bit of study done before George arrived, Joy was already over and we were all studying, well 2/3 of us haha. Felix was busy watching Califonication, which is a good show, I really have to start watching it, I only managed to watch the pilot of the series when it came out and I haven't watched it since.

Georged rocked up at around 10ish and we all did a bit of study, just cramming all the knowledge of Multimedia Delivery Systems that had been bestowed upon us, well George and I any how. At around lunch time it was time for us to go shopping so that we could cook up a storm, we were going to have Mexican wooooH!

These were the best chips..soooo tasty!

My poor effort of dicing up some tomatoes. Felix you gotta get some sharper knives lol.

George and Joy doing some cookin' of the chicken. Yum chicken.

Look at Joy go.

George cutting up some innocent lettuce.

After having a great meal which went for an hour or two including all the shopping that we did it was time for all of us to hit the books hard...well try too. George and I managed to get fairly distracted and Felix helped the cause haha. Jaz came over from next door for a little bit to see what we were doing, which wasn't much at the time hahaha. George had to leave at 4 to go to work.

After he left we all played a game of DOTA which was more of a distraction to our studies, but seriously what can you do studying is boring and should be avoided like the plague lol, its gotta be done though to further our lives and what not. After the game it was back to study, oh woopie.....

Study: Day 2

2008-11-02T18:47:00.003+11:00

Day two of the study week was spent at Uni in the legendary room 3.5 in the library. Nothing really excited happened today, but I did get a fair bit of study done. I mean listening to networking lectures isn't the funnest thing in the world, but if its gotta be done its gotta be done.

We got evicted from the room so Felix and I went down to the T building to see what was going on. Not much was happening there, it was my break time so I watched another episode of Life (man thats a good show) and Felix started a game of DOTA. We caught up with Daniel aka Waffles in the T building as he was transfering files form his dying laptop to the Uni servers so that he could give his laptop a good format.

After spending an hour in the T building we headed back for 3.5 since we had rebooked it, we headed up and got cracking once again with the study. 2 hours later we were once again evicted from the room so Felix and I decided to call it quits and headed off. When we got back to Felix's place we decided to get the clubs and go to the driving range again, good times. Back at home there was a fair bit of lounging around done, then it was back to the books for me, what a way to end the day....

Study: Day 1

2008-10-27T21:33:00.005+11:00

Ahh the first official day of the study week, when the tension starts to build up and the stress starts to creep up on you. Felix, Joy, and I went to the Thomastown region to study. Before we hit the books though we got some lunch at a Vietnamese restuarant which was good and got me ready to start knuckling down on the study. The library that we went to was pretty awesome looking and it was a good place to study. We stayed there till about 5pm then we went back to Joy's place for dinner. After a few hours we left back for Felix place to get some golf clubs so that we could go down to the range to have a swing. It was good fun, I haven't been down to the driving range in ages so my hands were sore and I got a blister on my right hand. With our procrastination out of the way I went back to the books to study, then called it a night. I'll post the pictures in this post when I have the time after exams.

Week from home

2008-10-26T20:17:00.015+11:00

Its been a long time since I posted a blog on here. I haven't had much time to blog in general, lots of assignments to do. University has been consuming my life for the last few months. I haven't even been able to skateboard as much as I want to either, which really sucks. Exams are around the corner and for the next week I'll be staying at my mate Felix's place, for a matter a fact I'm here right now as I write this blog.

It's been a hectic few days. On Friday I had Uni then went straight from Uni to the main hall they have at Monash University to see my younger brother Tim's school's presentation night, which was kinda boring and seemed to drag on for ages. Then I got dropped off at Felix's place and the start of the weekend began. By the time that I had arrived everyone else had started drinking, and the playing of FIFA 09 had started. It was a long night though people started to leave at around 1-2ish the guys that were crashing the night stayed up till about 6 before we all went to bed. Here are some pictures from the night.

Mmmmmm Bourbon!

Fonzy says "Ey"

You feelin' lucky punk?

Tom and Tim getting in on the FIFA action.

Waffles (aka Daniel), Julie, and Anthony having a good time whilst posing for the camera.

Felix saying hi to the camera, Waffles looking at something, and Julie looking bored.

Georgy Boy!

Menergy!!!!!!

Jager Bombs and other assorted spirits anyone?

On a break

2008-08-23T16:15:00.002+10:00

Its been a long time since I last posted here. A fair bit has happened since then. I finally got my Macbook Pro, so I can now update my blog on a regular basis; I've been playing indoor soccer with the guys from Uni, which has been good fun; and I'm getting my iPhone soon, I'm so excited for that =D. Assignments have been taking up the rest of my free time. It feels like I haven't skated in ages even though I skated last weekend, it sucks, but hopefully everything will go back to normal so I can skate more often. Thats all for now, there should be some pictures up when I get my iPhone lol ^^.

Avalanche Exia 1/100 MG Model

2008-07-31T11:50:00.004+10:00

After watching some episodes of Gundam 00 that Felix was watching I decided to get into watching Gundam. All the talk about building Gundams and stuff made me really want to get one. Today I finally decided to get one. I ordered it off eBay this morning so it should arrive sometime next week=D. I'm so excited, it'll give me something to do when I'm at home not doing much haha ^^.

taken from http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3751/avanlancheexiacd5.jpg

I'll have a lot of fun building this Exia model heaps of parts to play with ^^. Hopefully I don't screw it up since it is my first time making a model haha.

In other news my laptop is dead...deader than dead...well not really, but my screen has stopped working, it seems that the back light isn't powering up properly. Everything else seems to work fine though, but I don't want to fork out any money for a new screen either cause I'll be getting my Macbook Pro soon ^^. Hopefully I get my tax back soon so that I can go out and get it, for now I'll just be without a computer for a while, which should allow me to get some assignment work done and stuff =P

The Dark (K)night

2008-07-22T20:47:00.007+10:00

Ahhh back to uni, it's kind of good to be back I suppose. It fills up my time nicely haha. It was a long day yesterday 10am - 4pm straight lectures with no breaks =\, but the lectures were good.

Today I had the day off so I went to the accountant to do my taxes..finally. After I got that out of the way I went to uni to do a bit of study, because this semester I have to be more studious, it got boring pretty quickly and I was a bit distracted, but I got something done haha.

At about 2pm I went down with Felix, Joy, Julie, Kit and his friend to see The Dark Knight. It was a really good movie, although it was long, it was able to keep my attention with all the events that were going on at the time. I highly recommend the movie and give it a 5/5 because all the acting was really well done and there was a fair bit of action as well, action can do wonders in a movie so can comedy ^^.

taken from http://www.cinematicwallpaper.com/movie-pictures/wallpapers/Batman_Dark_Knight_wallpaper/Dark_Knight_2.jpg

After the movie we all went our separate ways until I got a call from Felix saying that Joys car's battery was dead, so we checked Julies car for jump cables. Julie had her jump cables in her car so we went off to where Joy had parked her car. When we got to the car Felix and I got our muscle on and pushed the car out of the parking space so that we were able to connect the cables up to Julie's car. We caused a fair bit of trouble in the car park since we couldn't push the car to a place where there were no cars, it'd be too tiring =P. None of us new how to jump start a car so we had to wait for Felix's mate to come help, but a passer by gave us a hand =].

Photo Taken by Joy

While waiting for help we had a bit of a laugh with cars getting caught on the island in the middle of the ramp up to the next level of the car park. So many epic fails getting up there by cars haha. It was a pretty eventful night, as Felix said its was the "Jumper lead party" haha ^^.

Big night out and the end to our holidays

2008-07-20T15:59:00.006+10:00

Last night was the first big night that I've had in ages. I went to Felix's place with some of the other guys to have a few...or many drinks haha. The night started out with Tim, Tom, Julie and myself going to liquorland to pick up some drinks and other supplies, then we hit up McDonnalds for a late night feed.

We picked up a slab of these

taken from http://www.mealdo.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/coronas.jpg

I picked up a 6 pack of these

taken from http://www.unholylaboratory.com/stella_artois.jpg

And Felix got a bottle of tequila

It was a really good night playing Wii Sports for shots and then hitting up the karaoke with singstar. Quite hilarious haha, I wish we had more photos of the night, I think Kit got a few unexpected shots of us during the night. After a few games of donkey I was pretty tipsy drunk and decided to play a bit more singstar then a bit of Call of Duty 4 to finish the night of games off. As the night started to quieten down we watched Independence Day. Such a good movie haha, I haven't watched it in ages.

Time flew by and the clock hit 5am, So Julie and Tom decided to go, and I went with them because there wouldn't have been a way for me to get home today if I had stayed over, which was kind of a bummer, cause I wanted to stay over and pull an all nighter with the Felix, Tim and Kit. I got home at around 5.30 this morning, so exhausted I just went to sleep after I had changed clothes. All in all a great night, I had a lot of fun.

When I woke up this morning around 11ish I was sore from playing Wii boxing hahaha, that game made me use muscles that I dont' normally use to often lol. Didn't really do much today just bummed at home recovering from last night, and preparing myself for Uni tomorrow, I'm so excited....not really, but theres not long to go till its over for the year. Have a good week everyone.

Free from the bonds of first semester

2008-07-17T20:25:00.001+10:00

It sure is a great feeling once you've finished your exams and holidays start, but then everything falls back to Earth when results are released. Our results were released today which was probably the most nerve wrecking thing. At 6pm the results were released I didn't want to look at them for the most part, but I just wanted to get it over and done with. I was relieved that I past all my subjects and lifted a great weight off my shoulders. To celebrate a bit I had a couple of glasses of wine, some Brown Brothers. Its some really good stuff =D.

Brown Brothers Moscato 2007
Taken from http://www.brownbrothers.com.au/images/wine/moscato_large.jpg

With all the major things out of the way now, I can just soak in the last days of freedom that I still have before Uni starts next week. I'm looking forward to this weekend, it should be really fun. Till the next time that I post sayonara.

Kung Fu, Panda style

2008-07-17T19:40:00.005+10:00

I had a pretty sleepless night last night, you know the ones where you go to sleep but when you wake up it feels like you didn't go to bed at all. My sleeplessness was probably due to the fact that I found out some stuff last night that got to me. So I didn't get to "sleep" till about 2am watching Dexter and contemplating what I was going through haha.

At 1.20pm I met up with Felix, Joy, Anthony, Sophie and Paul, and we went to see Kung Fu Panda, well Paul didn't cause he'd seen it already. I got a call from my Mum while I was on the bus saying that Felix and Joy were at my place to pick me up, I didn't really know if they were still picking me up =S Sorry guys =[. I got a msg about 1-2 hrs later while we were getting out tickets from Joy saying that she was on her way to pick me up lol...Major delay in the phone network. The Movie was really good, I enjoyed it a lot haha. The next movie that we're going to see will be The Dark Knight. I'm really looking forward to that one, as the rest of the guys are.

Kung Fu Panda poster
taken from http://www.kungfupandatrailer.com/images/kungfupanda%20poster%202.jpg

With watching Kung Fu Panda I remembered that I filmed the pandas that I saw with my Mum and brother in Hong Kong. Heres the clip...Aren't they awesome ^^

Pandas from Ben Sengsouvanh on Vimeo.

Unimportant things to have in laptops

2008-07-15T15:41:00.010+10:00

After using this MSI laptop at work all day today I have found some things that laptops just shouldn't have for the sake of being "complete". Having a full keyboard including a numberpad on the side isn't really necessary for a laptop. It's not like your going to be using it very much when your on the move, and due to the fact that a laptop has a full keyboard means that the more or less important keys on the keyboard become smaller. I've had to deal with a shift key that is so tiny that I'm constantly hitting the forward slash key by accident, which has been making my job of taking note of all things that need to be changed in the help file a pain.

This is the keyboard that I had to deal with...
Taken from http://m670x.msi-notebook.info/klavesnice.jpg

The other thing that laptops need more often than not is a less sensitive touch pad. Over senstive touch pads become a pain in the backside when you accidently touch it and move the cursor when your type. Annoying but it can be changed I suppose, but I couldn't find the driver software for the touch pad on the taskbar so I just left it haha =P. Have you guys experienced any problems like these with laptops or other mobile devices?

Tangents with blogging

2008-07-15T14:00:00.000+10:00

As of late I've been getting into blogging more and more and my other blog is becoming cluttered with stuff that isn't relavent to anything to do with videos or skating or anything so I decided to create this blog for all the other stuff that goes on in my life. In doing this I think both my blogs will be clean and relavent ^^.

I'm at work right now going through the help file for my boss's program that has been just updated and finding all the out dated stuff in the help and noting it down to be updated. Its more boring than it sounds lol. I must admit that testing for bugs in a program is harder than you think it is, and because its an update to a program that I've been using for a while its pretty hard to find bugs. It's a pain staking process trying to break the program every way possible from inserting picture files into a video action or a sound file into a image action. I've been able to crash the program a few times =P, but there haven't been to many bugs which is good. So thats been pretty much what I've been doing for the last few weeks at work, trying to break my boss's program =D