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Yay! My university exams are finally over. I cannot believe it, there was a time there where it felt as if they would never finish. Although I have finished, I recently got a new job in Melbourne that I start tomorrow so no breaks for me, off to work I go. But it’s not all that bad, I’ll be working for a month then I’ll get my christmas break from work for about two weeks or so.

So I’ve got a few end of year parties coming up for uni, but I found myself wondering…If I didn’t have to goto work right now, what would I be doing for end of year celebrations? How would I be celebrating? Mmm…

• Party all day and all night
• Stay at home
• Sit by the calendar and wait for the new semester!

However you celebrate it, let us know in the comments section. I would be interested on any huge parties happening in your area and what other students get up to this time of year.

Ever found yourself so bored that you’ll start thinking of really crazy stuff to do just to keep yourself occupied? Don’t have any ideas, try some of these:

1. Wax the ceiling
2. Rearrange political campaign signs
3. Sharpen your teeth
4. Play Houdini with one of your siblings
5. Braid your dog’s hair
6. Clean and polish your belly button
7. Water your dog…see if he grows
8. Wash a tree
9. Knight yourself
10. Name your child Edsel
11. Scare Stephen King
12. Give your cat a mohawk
13. Purr
14. Mow your carpet
15. Play Pat Boone records backwards
16. Vacuum your lawn
17. Sleep on a bed of nails
18. DON’T toss and turn
19. Boil ice cream
20. Run around in squares
21. Think of quadruple entendres
22. Speak in acronyms
23. Have your pillow X-rayed
24. Drink straight shots…of water
25. Paint stripes on a lake
26. Ski Kansas
27. Sleep in freefall
28. Kill a Joule
29. Test thin ice…with a pogo stick
30. Apply for a unicorn hunting license
31. Do a good job
32. Crawl
33. Invite the Mansons over for dinner
34. Paint your windows
35. Watch a watch until it stops
36. Flash your goldfish
37. Paint
38. Flirt with a hot girl
39. Smile
40. Rotate your garden…daily
41. Paint a smile
42. Shoot a fire hydrant
43. Apologize to it
44. Pretend you’re blind
45. Annoy yourself
46. Get mad at yourself
47. Stop speaking to yourself
48. Be a side effect
49. Ride a bicycle…up Mt. McKinley
50. Mug a stop sign

Even after this stuff, if you are still bored you can check out 474 Things to do when you’re bored. 

If you feel like contributing to this list, drop a comment ‘What do you do when you’re bored’? I’d love to hear what you guys have to say.

Well guys, I am officially back at uni for another semester of pure study bliss (or so I always hope). For those of you who don’t know what I’ve been doing, im currently studying a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) at Victoria University here in Melbourne.

I have been really enjoying the course thus far (besides from the obvious pain of having to do schoolwork) and I have all my subjects picked out and timetables organised ready for another semester of school. This semester, the subjects I am taking are:

1. Discrete Mathematics
2. Data Communications & Networks
3. Intelligent Systems (Artificial Intelligence)
4. 3D Web Technologies

So there is a fairly broad range of topics for me to study which is something. Last semester I was stuck with really boring subjects, mainly mathematics, statistics and heavy theory based computing subjects. At least this semester I have a little more hands on stuff to do which should be good.

Well, as it usually goes, I always love the first two weeks or so, but I will hit me sooner or later, and I will no doubt be counting down the days until this school year is over.

Just thought I’d check in and give you guys a quick idea of what’s been happening with me and that Im finally (not) back at Uni. Until next time, take care.

Oh how exams do suck. I just finished my first exam yesterday (Operating Systems) and I think I did pretty well, but I'll just have to wait and see what happens. Becuase of my exams at the moment, I have been unusually busy which isn't good becuase my weekly (i try) audio posts have kinda taken a back seat this past week.

Episode 8 will be here in good time. My final exam is monday 19th June and after then I won't have a thing I have to do for school as the semester will be over. YAY!

Things are happening with Ep#8 I can guarrantee that, just 1 more week and I'll be through with exams. I knew getting a new audio post out each week was going to be interesting and I did it for 6 (pittyful) weeks but the next one will be out shortly.

Thanks for sticking in there with me guys, busy times I'm faced with at the moment, but hey, who isn't busy these days right?

Stay Tuned!

Today as I was making my way home on the ever interesting Melbourne train network, I spotted a man sitting down beside me with his arms out in a meditation kind of position with his eyes closed, and his legs folded. He was sitting on one of those seats which fold back to allow room for disabled passengers and the seat next to him was unoccupied (folded back). His legs were covering the view of the seat in which he was sitting on from my position and looked as if he was just FLOATING IN MID AIR! lol.

This was so very very funny amongst myself and two other friends travelling with me at the time, I wish I had my camera with me, it would have made such a great photo. Lol, we joked amongst ourselves that when he gets up and opens the train door to leave, he would just float out the door still in the meditation position lol. Ohh, I guess you had to be there, but it was just so hillarious. So wish I had my camera.

Hey everybody, hope you’ve all been doing great. I haven’t made a ‘personal’ post for over a week now so I thought i’d fill you all in on what’s been happening with me, interesting or not lol.

School is school really, same old same old. I only have two weeks left of classes for the semester, then a week of exams so it will all be over very shortly, I so can’t wait. I’ve been applying for all kinds of jobs lately. I’m most probably going to be taking some time off studying after this semester is over so looking for a new job.

Applied for mostly full time positions in a whole range of fields such as data entry (boring), various programming jobs, mainly experience with .net languages, some web development stuff (php/asp.net), some consultancy work, even applied to work full time in a sports store here in Melbourne. I hope i get an interview with the sports store, I think i’d really like working there for a bit.

Ummm, what else has been happening. I mentioned in this week’s (episode 6) audio I caught TOTO’s Melbourne concert, which was really great, had such a great time. Lost my voice at the end of the night but was fun nonetheless! lol. Anybody who has ever been to any kind of rock concert knows fully how hot it can get down in there, and I was totally stuffed by the end, soo hot….about half way through I was really dying for some water or something, but didn’t wanna move. It would have been hell trying to get out of the huge wave of people I was nestled amongst. But, still so cool!

Anybody close to me knows I’ve been doing it tough over the last few weeks, just with my personal affairs and stuff. Most of the people I’m close to do come here and read my blog too, so to all you guys, thanks alot for being there for me it really means alot to me. Good to know I have such great friends around me.

On a lighter note, I’ve been hyping it up for the last few months you are all aware. New Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo DS finally came out this week, hope to pick up a copy of it sometime soon. If you have no idea what i’m talking about, just browse through my blog, you’ll most definately find a post i wrote on it.

So thats about it I guess, If i’ve forgotten anything, i’ll be sure to tell you guys about it. Take it easy, have a great week!

Hey guys, I was just in one of my applied mathematics lectures, got out like 5 mins ago. My lecturer is really good, and he really knows his stuff, and he was funny as hell today lol.

About half way through, he started going over logical expressions of boolean algebra and gave an anecdote to understand the rules and that they are something that need to be learned:

“Maths is just like music, if you don’t know what the musical notation is, what the little squiggly fly shit is, then your’re stuffed aren’t you? It’s rules that you need to learn.”

Lol, it sounded really funny comming from an applied mathematics professor. Another thing he mentioned which was amusing was when he was discussing how not to implement specific rules and such:

“Imagine if you were trying to tell somebody that this is an algebraic law…bullshit they’d say.”

That was funny as hell. Applied Mathematics professors typically are not very humerous, and are usually straight to the point. I love my math lecturer this year, funny and he knows his stuff at the same time, the best way to learn.