Sunday, December 23, 2007

Tagged by Clarian!

Rules: Do this tag and answer all the questions into your own blog. Delete one question from the questions listed and add one of your own questions. Make sure it's 20 questions. Tag 8 persons.

1. What was your dream when you were a small kid?
- To be a ninja. xD

2. What is your happiest thing in your whole life?
- Talking with my brother. :)

3. What do you wish to have now?
- About another 1500 dollars. Enough to buy my PC and visit somebody. :D

4. How should the world be seen?
- As home.

5. What have you realised recently?
- That it's Christmas tomorrow! :O

6. What is the bad habit that you cannot accept the most?
- Irrationality.

7. When you have something which you are unhappy about, what will you do?
- Ignore it. If I can't, run away from it.

8. Are you afraid of losing?
- Not afraid...but I sure hate it. xD

9. Do you think that you feel helpless, or uselesss, sometimes?
- Not really.

10. When you meet someone that you like, will you confess or hide your feelings?
- Probably hide, but I have no idea.

11. List out 3 kind of people you hate the most.
- 1. Prejudiced people
2. Irrational people
3. Those who relish the pain of others.

12. If you're given a chance to change the world, what will u do?
- Take out the monetary system. I know every economist in the world is cringing at that sentence, but there has to be a way to make it work, and even though it's impossible, it would solve almost every problem this world faces.

13. Are you satisfied with your life now? Do you think any changes should be made?
- My life right now is a thoroughfare from my past to my future. Am I satisfied with it? No. Would I change it if I could? No. It just...is.

14. When was the most recent time you felt touched?
- When I was watching Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. xD

15. Where is the place that you visited and you felt the most beautiful?
- The beach yesterday. I walked out onto a natural pier, made of rock, and smelt the sea air, felt the chilling breeze, and looked out upon the infinite azure of the sea.

16. Use a song to describe how you've felt recently.
- LIFE by Yui.

17. If you had one wish that'll come true, what is it?
- I would wish that I knew what I should have wished for.

18. Do you have anything to worry or to be scared about recently?
-I sure do.

19. What am I looking for in my life?
- To not die.

20. If you could take back one decision you made in your life, what would it be?
- To not drop Japanese lessons at the end of year six.

I tag... Everyone on my friends list! Unfortunately, they've all been tagged already, so that's sort of superficial. :/

Holidays thus far...

It certainly has been a while.
Holidays have been...and been...and they're still be-ing. In fact, they will be be-ing for quite some time, which is a slightly daunting prospect when I think about it, seeing as I have been doing next to nothing for the past....while. (I haven't been counting days...in fact, I couldn't even tell you what day it is, let alone the date)

I, so far these holidays, have started, and finished, watching: Claymore, Elfen Lied, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Air and Trigun. This is because these holidays thus far, I haven't slept at a time preceding the letters: "PM", and I haven't woken up at an hour with only one digit, unless that digit is a one. I feel fine, but I know that it's not healthy nor smart...but what else am I to do?

The PC is on it's deathbed. The registry was so clogged up we couldn't run anything, and after a re-installation of Windows, we realised that there must also be a hardware fault, since the thing still crashes every half-hour. I went through some more details of getting my own computer, and nearly had a heart attack upon seeing the lowermost cell in my spreadsheet, telling me that I needed almost another thousand dollars before my purchase became realistic. So I've now decided to go job-hunting after new-years.

Speaking of deathbeds, I woke up two mornings ago to find my awesome fish, Glaedr (Who some will know from a very old blog post in my first blog, and others will know is the name of Oromis' dragon in Christopher Paolini's Eldest), laying on the floor of his bowl, coloured a pale gray, with black fins and empty eyes. He was still alive. After tearing my mother away from her joke emails, I hurriedly googled his symptoms, which came up with nothing. Not phased, I then brought up a list of common pet-fish diseases. After quickly scanning a list of about 50 ailments, I came up with the one that fit: Velvet Disease. A bacterial skin infection, I learned that it is far easier to spot on darker coloured fish, harder on lighter coloured fish, and very difficult to spot until it is very advanced on patterned fish. (For those who don't know, Glaedr is a paradise fish - he is gold with vertical, blue stripes) I wasn't too sure, but judging by his condition, I decided that the infection was pretty advanced. Turning back to the monitor, I quickly perused the course of action I should take. It seemed I needed to quickly remove him from his current bowl, and put him into a clean one, with water at a temperature of 31-34 degrees celcius, with two grams of salt p/litre dissolved in. He then needed to be kept in a dark environment. This was speedily arranged, and before long, Glaedr was laying on the bottom of his lovely new, salty, warm, freshly-cleaned mixing bowl. I closed the pantry-door and went to play some piano. Some time later, I checked back on him. To my surprise, he was perfectly fine. I'm watching him closely now, and from what I can see, he might be developing a secondary infection. I'm going to check in the morning...or...later this morning. :/

I just realised...again. Christmas. This year has gone by so mind-numbingly fast, I simply cannot hold the thought that it's going to be christmas in...tomorrow. Even as I type it now, I can scarcely believe it. It's not even as if there has been as much commercialisation this year. I'm used to seeing every store snapping up the fresh opportunities the yuletide season can bring, every advertisement blaring out some jingle or the other, stores hung about with tinsel. Not so this year. There has been a lot, just nothing even nearly approaching that of previous years.
Perhaps the entire season is just beginning to lose its sense of wonder for me.
I can't say I'm particularly exited. In fact, I wouldn't say I'm at all exited. It will be nice to see a few relatives I haven't seen in a while, and it's always good to obtain things you didn't pay for, but beyond that, I see no value for Christmas. I'm a deeply unreligious person, to the point where I am morally opposed to joining a religion at all. The very concept seems wrong to me. On the flipside, however, I am also opposed to the traditional "Happy Holidays", "Santa and His Reindeer", "Christmas Tree" American-Christmas that seems to have infected the rest of the world. The way of going about the season as though we are all children, and all that matters at Christmas is the food, presents and happiness. It's supposed to be a religious holiday. Either you're in, or you're out. It's at this point that I begin sounding slightly hypocritical, since I have already mentioned that I'm against religion, but I would have to concur, saying that I try to avoid getting involved in the holiday as much as possible. I buy gifts for my immediate family, I accept gifts given to me with thanks, I participate in the traditional Christmas lunch we have each year, but beyond that, I stay pretty much out of it. I wonder if I'll be getting any visits from spirits tomorrow evening.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Cadet Camp (Again)

Whenever I return from being away, I expect things to change. Camp was so different, I just expect that things at home will be like that too.

They're always the same. Things never change, and it depresses me. That's the main reason I don't like going away...it's a painful reminder of how little I matter (At the moment?).


But that's beside the point. I will now give a one-sentence summary of year 2007 Senior Promotions Camp.


"Before I left, I tried to get a good song stuck in my head, but throughout camp all I had stuck in my head was 'Left, Left, Left Right Left, Left Right Left Right Left Right Left.'"


I know you'd probably rather hear about it in a little more, detail, but I really can't be bothered to do so. Yes, I'm sure you're shattered.

Anyway, for the last few days, I have been eating nothing for breakfast, since I've been waking up rather late, then eating either takeaway for lunch or heated-up pies/fish-fingers. For dinner, I have had ONLY takeaway for the last 3 days. I've been playing a lot of PC, watching a lot of anime. The kind of thing that I think I would be happy doing, but although I feel contented for the majority of the time, in between episodes, or levels, I find myself surprisingly melancholy, for a reason I can't quite put my finger on.

I'm probably just tired, I haven't been sleeping much. I'm not going to copy this into anti-infin0ence, simply because I don't really think anything worthwhile has been said.

Ja.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Where angels dare tread...

Cadet Camp. We had it last year, we had it this year, we'll have it next year. Coming into this year's camp, I was feeling slightly apprehensive, what with what had happened last year. (Fire, injuries, massive brawls with weapons, drugs, etc). To be honest, this camp wasn't really anything like that. It wasn't fun, that's for sure, but it wasn't nearly as bad as last year, from a rank's point of view. That's the other difference between last year's camp and this year's: Last year, I was a cadet, doing what I was told and just getting through it. This year, I am a corporal, so not only did I have to do all the hikes and activities, I had to make sure that the cadets did pretty much what they were supposed to be doing, and were getting engaged...not an easy task.

But let me tell you about the camp from a more chronological point of view. There may be some inaccuracies, since for the majority of the camp I was either tired out of my mind, sleeping, eating, walking or attempting futilely to get the Year 9's to do what the hell they were told.

On day one, after a relatively short bus-ride, we all jumped out of the bus, stiff-legged and weary. First thing was first: Walk about 5km to camp carrying all of our stuff. The pack's weren't too heavy, maybe 30kg max, but that didn't stop all the cadets from complaining 'till they were blue in the face. It didn't take too long to get back to camp, however, and the boys were soon sitting on the side of the road, looking angrily at the HQ tent and the portaloos that they would probably be becoming very familiar with over the next few days.

There is something I must explain...one major difference between this camp and last year's.
The Cicadas.

I spell Cicadas with a capital C because they went, from the start of the camp to the end, from insects, to an aspect of the camp. A theme, if you will. One of the components that served to make the boys hate the camp. The reason? Imagine the loudest noise you have ever heard being made from something natural. This was as loud as that, times...10? They were so loud, and so many, that the high-pitched screeching they made emanated from the trees in which they resided, bounced off everything, and came at you from all directions. So, rather than being a high-pitched screeching from the trees, it sounded almost as if it were coming from the inside of your ear. A high pitched, piercing, throbbing scream that was enough to drive anyone crazy. The only sanctuary was to wear a hat, which blocked out the noise that was coming from above.

Cicadas weren't the only fun insect that was around the campsite either, no no no. There was a myriad of creepy-crawlies all over the place. Bush-cockroaches, beetles, worms, flies, weevils, true bugs, ants, scorpions and SPIDERS. There was definately at least one spider per 10cm squared on the ground. If you picked up a large handful of dirt, the odds were that you had also picked up a spider. The majority of them were quite small, smaller than a fingernail, but there was also quite a few funnel-webs, huntsmans, black house spiders, white-tails and trapdoors if you preferred something bigger to crawl on you while you slept. I'm not afraid of spiders at all, but I would prefer it if something that can bite me would come and face me like a man, rather than falling on my shoulder when I'm least expecting it.

Anyway, back to the chronology.

The first day, we really didn't do anything other than get set up and introduced. We went for a little walk that night, just a couple of km, and we went to bed.
On day two, we took a considerably longer walk. It was probably about 10-15km..I'm not exactly sure, but it took us about 4-5 hours. There was quite a bit of cross-country stuff. It wasn't too eventful, it was more of a dreary trudge than anything else. We played spotlight that night.
Day three: Abseiling and a game of situation spotlight. I, Nick and Tom didn't participate in abseiling, Nick and I electing to spend most of the time sleeping. After all, we had just been on an abseiling and rock-climbing camp, and this was a pretty small abseil. It wasn't all that great hiking up and back to the rock, but that wasn't that bad either. The situation spotlight, however, was a little more interesting.
The target: A glowstick. Weapons-grade uranium, important documents, blueprints, evidence, whatever. Each squad had to go and get it, and bring it back to HQ. It was pretty much pitch-dark, save for the moonlight, and it would involve a lot of cross-country movement, since there were about five guards stationed near the glowstick. Two were patrolling the road near where the glowstick was, two were stationed at intersections to catch out unwary squads, and one (Nick) was placed just off the path into the bush near the glowstick, with his torch off...waiting. Our squad got mostly lost, ending up at HQ with no glowstick. Two of our squad broke off, grabbed the glowstick and got caught. This meant our entire squad was out...but then, no-one got the glowstick. Too many guards I guess. We all went to bed and slept soundly.
Day four was slightly more eventful. It was to be the day that I would remember the best, since it was the only day that anything really bad happened. Everyone was to be making bush-shelters, out of logs, sticks, bark and ferns. They would be sleeping in those that night, even though it was going to rain. Rank didn't have to sleep in the shelters, but we did have to have everyone's bag thrown into our tent. (By tent, I mean hoochie, a piece of water-proof canvas thrown over a string suspended between two trees and pegged to the ground) So the rain was one bad thing that happened that day. But that stopped after a few hours, so it wasn't anything too disastrous.
The other bad thing that happened was a fight that broke out near to the campfire. Paul broke wind (An odd thing for a fight to start over, but oh well), Oscar said "Doorknob" (An odd thing for a fight to start over, but oh well) and began punching paul repedatively. In case you don't know, which you probably don't, Doorknob is an idiotic rule thought up by some genius a while ago. If someone farts, and doesn't say "Safety", and someone else says "Doorknob", the person who says Doorknob gets to punch the offender until they touch a doorknob. Why you would say that out in the BUSH, where there AREN'T any doorknobs, I have no idea...pretty sadistic, if you ask me.
Anyway, Oscar's started punching paul repedatively. Paul has hit at Oscar with his hat, to brush him away, and he must have hit him with a hard part of the hat, or somthing, because Oscar then proceeded to kick Paul in the back. Hard. The toe of his shoe connected and I winced as Paul recoiled from the blow, yelled, and got up to charge at Oscar. It was at this point, (A little late, I know, but better late than never) that I got up, cursing under my breath, and ran in between the two. The break of eye-contact was enough to stop the proceedings. Paul ran off into the Bush a way. I instructed Oscar to come with me to HQ, and walked him over. The teachers (Officers, Leutenant Emmet and Keslar) wished to first know why he had burned a hole in someone else's tent, and then wanted to know why he was there. I left him at this point. After a while, he came to get Paul, who was still in the bush. He was qute upset. He obviously wasn't going to want to talk to the teachers for a little while. After maybe another half-an-hour, Mr. Keslar came and collected Paul, bringing him over to HQ. I don't know exactly what happened to Oscar, but I do know that he was isolated for the rest of the camp - no social contact. I suppose that's the step down from being sent home. That was pretty much it for day four, except for a very short hike through the bush.
Day five: Everyone was going home. The cadets were pretty exited, and many play-fights and tree-pushing downs were happening. The rank and officers had pretty much resigned to leaving late, but surprisingly, everyone banded together and got the campsite packed-up and cleaned pretty quickly. We left exactly on schedule, and got onto the busses at about 1:00. We got back to school at about 2:30. I won't go into what happened in the time between that and me getting home at 4:30, but I'll just say that it's a 10 minute drive, and Nonna needs new glasses.

That's pretty much it. I'm tired of typing now, so I'm going to go and watch Claymore.
Ja ne.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

An Intermittent Calm...

Well, exams are over. Of course, such an extraordinary event cannot go unblogged about, so I will now proceed to briefly outline my week of examinny goodness.

Day 1: 19th November, 2007.
Yes, the week had finally come. Exams were upon us. This came with a feeling of slight resignation, as I realised that I probably wouldn't be doing much worthwhile stuff this week. I did, however, feel slightly glad that I wouldn't be at school anywhere nearly as long as normal, and this meant more studying/relaxing time and less strenuous thinking time.
It's not all bad I suppose.
The first day was IT Multimedia, a flash exam, and Maths.

I'll start with the flash exam. Let me just say this: I have been working with flash for approximately a fifth of my life. 3 years. I seriously doubted that I would be having any trouble with this exam, but, just in case, I studied for it anyway. One does not want to become complacent. Well, the exam was about as easy as I thought it was. I got everything completed with about 30 minutes to spare, and then I began adding some extra-features, to grab some extra marks. This venture was, however, interrupted, as my keyboard went, for lack of a better word, apeshit. Every. Single. Key. Got. Randomly. Assigned. An. ASCII. Code. This meant, basically, that I typed the letter "A", and got the very useful "◄". Attempts at typing "Symbol 1" were met with the output of "^○(F┘dÚ". I tried going onto a different computer, to no avail. So, resigned to my efforts thus far, I took out my 'cube and began twiddling with that while waiting for the exam to end.

Next up was maths. I went in feeling fairly confident, I left feeling even more confident. I found it surprisingly easy. I am reasonably sure I will get a pretty good mark there.


Day 2: 20th November, 2007.
I was free for all of Tuesday, which was definitely a welcome reprise. I spent the majority of the day studying for my Commerce exam on Wednesday, but I did brush over a few key chapters in Macbeth, for good measure. I also started playing Call of Duty 2 again.

Day 3: 21st November, 2007.
I woke up late, did some last minute study, and headed out the door to start my second day of exams. Commerce was reasonably easy, but I suppose the whole reason I'm doing that subject is because it is easy.

English was...annoying. Although I do enjoy English, because of Mr Vernon being the monolithic pillar of negative-inspirational energy, I really couldn't be screwed producing anything of value for him. I churned out 3 B+ essays, and spent the rest of the time looking out the window. I suppose the only good part is the fact that never again will I have to quail under the Silver Fox's negative aura.

Day 4: 22nd November, 2007.
Well, IT Programming today. Fun AND challenging. A great subject choice. I walked into the exam at midday, walked out an hour-and-a-half later. It was quite an entertaining exam, since I rather enjoy programming, and I went quite well. Not really much to say.

Day 5: 23rd November, 2007.
Final day, final exam. Science. Biology. 3/4 work. It was a hard exam, but I knew most of the material that was on it, so it went fairly well. I was expecting a pretty good mark until I turned the paper over at the end and realised that I had missed the last page. Worth 7 marks - 14%.
My entire consciousness t that point: "Shit."
So now I am expecting a very mediocre mark. But oh well, that's the way the wafer crumbles.

And at that, the exams were over, quite abruptly. Now I have two days of peace before marching off to Cadet Camp '07, which should be...fun...
As long as it's anything like last year, with the bush-fires, building shelters out of sticks and sleeping under them in the rain, walking for 7 hours with 20kg strapped to your back, sleeping and waking up with spiders all over you, falling onto a tree only to disturb a NEST of huntsman's which begin crawling all over you...
Only this year, I get to be the one to deal with all the dickhead year 9's who consider me as much of a disciplinary leader as they do the pus-covered congealed blob of festering blood that they just picked off their scabbed elbow, before examining it critically and flicking it down into the dirt for someone to puzzle over later.

Yeah..should be good. Wish me luck...very, VERY good luck.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

eGames '07

Well, yesterday was the big day. eGames expo - Australia's largest gaming exhibition was coming again, to the Melbourne Exhibition Center, known affectionately as "Jeff's Shed".
Nick and I had agreed to go together. I would pick him up at his house, and we would proceed to the expo. As we pulled up on Jeff's Shed, I found myself again marveling at the sheer size of the building. I have been many times, but each time I visit I am struck anew by it's awe-inspiring monolithic...ness.
After hurrying down to Southbank to get some lunch and back, I could barely contain my apprehension for what eGames would hold for me this year. Last year it was great fun to play the games that had not come out yet, but that was about as far as the worth of the expo had gone for me. Now that I am interested in breaking into the gaming industry, the courses I will need and the contacts and skills I will need to establish, I knew that this year's expo would prove far more valuable.

As we opened the doors to the Exhibition Center, my eyes widened instinctively, just so I could grasp as much of the view presented to me as possible. The ceiling was easily 50 meters high, and facing me was a corridor which would take easily 10 minutes to walk down. Neither of us were sure which of the many exhibition rooms eGames was being held in, but as we walked down that massive corridor, we soon found what we were looking for. After a surprisingly short line, we walked, almost reverently, into the expo. I was hit by a sensory tidal-wave.
The most prevelant sense was noise. A combination of the exited voices of over 500 people, otaku, gamers, cosplayers, industry-people, officials screaming into microphones, games being played loudly on surround-sound keyboards and the general ambiance of enough footsteps to mistake the crowd for a stampede was enough to make me almost stop walking forward. However, before I could process this mass of noise assaulting my eardrums, I adjusted, and everything just became a loud drone. This didn't stop me from having to yell whenever I wanted to talk to Nick, however.
Before really moving forward, I looked around. It was clear that there were very many things to see this year. Nintendo had a small, slightly disappointing area right at the front, where they were last year. They really only had old games that I had already played many times, so I didn't visit that area at all during the time I was there. Industry and education stalls lined the two side-walls, and I had a bit of a look at these while walking around. It was interesting to see just what it might be like for me in the years to come, as I am shaped to become the game-producing machine I will hopefully turn out to be. The back wall was a competition-area. Team Immunity, Australia's most noted gaming-clan had a large stage set up, with 10 state-of-the-art gaming PC's set up. It seemed that they were taking on a few players in various games. I had a look at how that was progressing a little later-on, I saw that they had inverted their controls and were using only pistols, and were still completely obliterating all of their opponents. I briefly considered giving it a go myself, but decided I had better things to do than wait in a massive line in order to play Source against a group of professional gamers for five minutes. There was also a Halo-3 area, but that too had tremendous lines. The center of the area was a hodgepodge of various companies. Hardware, Software, Game-Developers, Vendors, even an anime-vendor, who I recognised from last-year's eGames. Probably the most interesting feature of the center was very close to the Team-Immunity stage. Crysis - one of the biggest releases for the gaming industry this year, was being showcased. 8 PC's were running single-player Crysis, 5 were running MultiPlayer. I wanted to try it, but knowing that it will be some time before I will be able to play it, my PC being the equivalent of CSIRAC in comparison to what is needed to run Crysis, I decided to only give single-player a quick go, before going to play COD2/Quake3, which was running in an area adjacent to the Crysis multi-player area. Nick, having a PC that is good enough to play it, for the most part, played quite a lot of Crysis. There was a competition running every hour, in which five contestants had a match of Crysis, first to 20 kills. The winner gained the ultimate prize-a free copy of Crysis. Needless to say, the response to this was phenomenal. When the commentator spoke the words: "NOW WHO WANTS A FREE COPY OF CRYSIS?!!??!!!", 50 people simultaneously exploded, jumping, screaming, begging to be chosen to be in the running. The loudest, wildest-looking fans were chosen, and the one who displayed the most skill would be the one to take home the game. While I was playing COD2 and Quake, nick was training, seeking to gain the skills required in order to win this competition. I must say, I wished him the best, but doubted that he would be chosen over the horde of ecstatic fans who looked like they would kill for a copy. The first competition began, and ended, with disappointment.

Nick said that he would watch Team Immunity compete against "The Community" (A bunch of n00bs selected from the audience), so I decided to go and have a look at a presentation that was about to begin: "The gaming industry - What goes into it, what comes out of it."
It was actually surprisingly fascinating and informative. I learned many things which I believe will be invaluable when I go and try to break into the industry itself. I got quite a lot out of that presentation.

After that, I went and found nick, and we walked around for a little longer. Nick said he would go train at Crysis some more, and I decided to go and play Quake3.
I found that game surprisingly easy. I had never played before, but after coming first twice in a row, I had decided that either I was awesome, or everyone else was a total n00b. Someone behind me, who had been watching, asked: "Oh my god, dude, you're totally awesome! How long have you been playing Quake?!!" to which I replied: "This is my first time. How do you switch weapons?" He just looked at me. I figured it out eventually though. Once the round was over, I got off to give someone else a go, and went to look at other people's computers, to see if they were as sucky as the seemed.
I found myself shaking my head at how horrible they were. I was almost entranced by how much they sucked at the game. I was suddenly and unpleasantly broken out of this reverie by a loud, blaring voice coming out of a speaker next to my head.

"OK! THE NEXT, AND LAST CRYSIS COMPETITION IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!!! COME OVER HERE IF YOU WANT TO WIN A COPY OF CRYSIS!!!!!"

A large crowd almost instantaneously formed around the Crysis booth. I spied nick over on the far side, in the outskirts of the crowd, behind some sort of microphone-stand. Knowing nick, I sort-of doubted that he would make it into the competition, so I decided to go back to watching Quake. I heard people being chosen one by one, each time my heart sinking further as I knew Nick had not been chosen. Finally, it was announced that the contestants had been chosen, and the competition was about to begin. I decided to go and have a look, to see what was going on. I couldn't believe my eyes as I saw none-other than Nick, sitting at the furthest computer, a concentrating look on his face.

I must admit, I was quite surprised, but I couldn't keep a grin off my face. I almost ran over to where he was, standing next to the computer. He did not turn to look at me, concentrating as he was, but I knew that he had noticed I was there. I watched him play. I watched him dominate. It was really great seeing a friend of mine beat down other gamers to win something. A few times I was scared that he might suddenly trip up and lose, but after seeing him obliterate two people with one rocket, I was pretty confident that he would win, and so were the commentators. Finally, he needed three more kills to win. He was ahead by four, and it looked like the game was his. *BANG!* two to go. Before the commentator had even finished saying the sentence, it became one to go. 30 seconds later, and it was all over. Nick actively relaxed in his chair, and I breathed a sigh of relief. I glanced at my watch. 4:30. Nick was going to be late for choir, but I don't think either of use really cared at that point.

Nick gave his details to an official from the company, who said Nick would be receiving Crysis in the mail. Nick was at first disappointed that he couldn't take a copy home with him, but I pointed out that I probably wouldn't feel comfortable carrying a copy of Crysis around with me, and he agreed that neither would he.
On the walk back to Flinder's Street Station, we grabbed a drink, as after all that yelling and screaming, both of us were barely capable of speech. The train ride passed quite quickly, and as soon as it had all started, I was home.

Exhausted, I collapsed on my bed, and studied. >_<
Hehe...long post. :P

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Yes...

It's that time of year again...exams are on the way, about a week away, in fact. Everyone has suddenly come to their senses about how much work they should be doing and have begun to study furiously. Well....most people anyway.
It's a time which, for some, is completely unbearable. Different people deal with exams different ways. I, for one, have never really been all that stressed about exams, even from the first one I ever had, back in year seven. It's looking around me and seeing the utter chaos that seems to be going through people's minds that I begin to wonder...am I really the one in the right here? I thought that not stressing too much would be a good thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm studying...I'm studying for about three hours per-night. But lots of other people are studying at lunchtime and recess, studying before school, studying without taking breaks. I was a little worried for them until I wondered whether that was what I should be doing...

I certainly hope it isn't, for if it is, I could be in a little-bit of trouble...
The very fact that I am posting this rather than continuing with my ITP Evaluation says something about how frantically I'm working.

But I am reasonably confident that I will go pretty well in my exams...I'm looking forward to it being over-and-done with. After exams, I will have the rest of the year to myself...well........except for Cadet-Camp, Promotions-Week and the Senior-Leadership-Course (To become a sergeant.)

Ja ne.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Music.

It was today that I realised something.
I can't function without music.

It's not as if I REALLY like it...it's a complete dependance.
I realised today it is how I have kept my sanity these past 3 years at BGS, being one of, if not THE most unpopular person in my year level. Today in Maths, was listening to my iPod, (which I do for about 90% of my time at school, for reasons unbeknowns to me until now) when Mr Barr took it off me. I don't believe it was wrong of him to do so, indeed, it was the right decision for him to make as the position of authority in the classroom. Once he took it away, the entire class began jeering and taunting me as if I had just been expelled. I instinctively reached for my iPod, too turn it up and block them out.
Upon realising that it wasn't there, I did not panic, I did not run out of the room...I didn't respond outwardly at all...except for one thing. I widened my eyes, and my mind went blank. Not just a little blank....it was like...I could see what was going on, but I couldn't proccess it. It took about 5 minutes for me to calm down, throughout that time I could hardly think. By the time class was over, I was still a little phased-out, but OK. I got my iPod back, turned it on, and started it up again. Turning the music up loud enough so that I could hear nothing else, I calmed down completely, and continued on to my next class.

It was thinking back on this that I decided that the only reason I have not broken down after being so hated for so long is through my mind blocking out things that would threaten its stability. It's as if...if I wasn't capable of blocking things out, I would be that phased-out all the time...

Does that make me insane, and music is simply staving it off?


I'm probably being pessimistic, but I'm still a little freaked-out...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Valedictory Day

Well, today was Valedictory Day at BGS, the official "party" day for the year 12's about to leave the school for good.

We got to school and went to form period. Due to the fact that we would all probably die of alcohol-overdose just by breathing the very air of our form-room meant that we had to have roll-call outside. After that was taken-care of, we all filed into the hall...for a mock assembly.

Music was played and (badly) sung, several boys did impersanations of teachers in a pretend assembly, and a sattyrical comedy of Brighton Grammar was played. It was long, and comprised entirely of in-jokes, so I won't go into that here, but just know that it was moslty very comical.

After that, it was off to recess, then an hour of classes, then lunch (?), then a short 15-minute service, then another hour of classes, then another short service, ending with the year 12's cheering and going slightly crazy, then we all went home.

Not a bad day...at least it breaks up the norm...

Monday, October 22, 2007

It rained today...

Saturday, October 20, 2007

*Insert shikamaru's catchphrase*

How troublesome.
Over the last week, I have spent the majority of my time sleeping. Second to that would be school. Third to that would be moving furniture. FURNITURE. What with the renovations, we have to keep moviong furniture in and out of storage. Mum/Dad don't want to pay goons to do it, so it's me and dad lifting things all day. It. Is. Tiring. Not only that, but we have to keep going without internet for several days, and I almost missed the 13th/7th division wedding. *Kept vague in case he would want me to.*

Speaking of the internet, I will now divulge my fourth largest time-spender: Attempting to set up the wireless for my laptop, which I installed XP on. I'm going to have it dual-boot so I can get the advantages of both Linux and Windows. Windows...my fifth time spender? Singing "Ode to Joy" in my head, but replacing all the lyrics with "I hate Windows." The only reason it is fifth and not fourth is I don't hate Windows until I actually try to set up anything. Let's have a comparison, shall we?

Linux - Starting up.
*Takes about 45 seconds to load the GUI, after that, there is no more booting to be done.*

Windows - Starting up.
*Takes about 30 seconds to load the GUI, then about 5 minutes doing god-knows what, but it is enough to flog the system and prevent me from doing anything.*

Linux - Customising.
*Chooses a cool theme (One of about 10 that came default). Spends about 10 minutes changing the colours and gradients of all the windows, easily adds programs and applets to the taskbar, starts setting up folders in the home directory.

Windows - Customising.
*Chooses a dodgy theme (One of two). Spends about 15 minutes changing the colours and gradients to all the windows, before saving the settings, only to discover that, just to say "fuck you", Windows has discarded all of these settings you painstakingly perfected. Attempts to add programs to the startbar, but instead adds things that I can't, and won't use. Starts setting up folders in My Documents.*

Linux - Setting up the Wireless Network.
*Boots for the first time. Clicks the network button in the taskbar, brings up a list of wireless networks in range. Clicks "Sleight", inserts WEP key, and is now connected.*
Wow...that was easy.

Windows - Setting up the Wireless Network.
*Boots for the first time. The wireless applet does not even appear. Confused, opens up the Hardware List, there is no network card appearing. >_< Goes onto other laptop, downloads drivers for network card. Installs drivers, and the sound one, since Windows thinks I have no sound-card. Attempts to connect...again. Fails. Cannot find access point. Does some research, apparently I need SP2. Plugs network cable into laptop so I can download and install SP2. Installs it, and goes to sleep. Wakes up the next day and posts a blog about how grumpy he is with Windows.*

So yeah...hence the song in my head. At least I have an actual PC now... (Unpacked and plugged it in...since I'm now on a wired connection.....IT'S CS:S TIME!!!!!)

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Things.

Well...been a little while since I posted...and some things happened...so...yeah.

School is going...well. I have been staying on top of all my work, and it' been paying off. I haven't been trailing behind or anything...if this keeps up, then I am going to pwn the final exams.
I suffered from serious GWS* symptoms yesterday, the main symptom being torn by a crazy video-game rage and desperately getting out the PS2, and a TV capable of playing NTSC games and playing games non-stop for about 9 hours. Started with FFXII, then I moved onto Naruto 1, 2, 3 and shippuden narutimate accel. I really have to play Alden in that next time I see him...

Anyway...now I'm just on the laptop, foruming, msn-ing and posting in my blog. Off to nonna's for pizza tomorrow...which is nice.

Ja ne!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Hello.

Hello.
Just feel like posting...it ties me to something.

Interesting, that I need to post something online, something non-material, detatched from the rest of the world.
Just so I can feel like I am still attached to something.

Almost like I'd just drift away if I didn't...


Odd.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Back again.

Sigh....at school.
Something to do I guess...

Had some classes, then we got to do the Beep test in PE! Huzzah... T_T
Since this was the final time I would ever be doing it (No PE in VCE. :D), I decided to completely cop out...the other motivation for me not trying my hardest was the fact that I have slept about 6 hours in the past 2 days. >_<

I dropped out at 4.8, as a final insult to PE.

Then we had ITM, and I am certain that I will get 100%...what a waste of my time.

And now it's lunchtime...and I'm hungry.



What an interesting post. o_O. Btw, Linux is awesome.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

I...

30 sentences begining with I.

I really have better things to do than this.
I have no idea why I'm not doing them.
I just decided that it doesn't really matter. :P
I like to blog.
I wish that this wasn't my last day of holidays.
I wish my new notebook's wireless internet worked. :'(
I should really be doing something more productive...
I have lots to do.
I like this keyboard.
I got it for gaming, but it's a good typing one nevertheless.
I also like my mouse...it's cool.
I am currently just naming things around to the room to fill the sentences that...
I am supposed to be creating. =x
I have pretty much run out of idea's now...time to start describing me.
I am Lachlan.
I spend way too much time on the PC.
I wish I were better at maths.
I look forward to finishing school.
I can't wait until I go to visit Alden. :D
I want to see what Malaysia is like.
I occasionally wonder if he will come back for Uni, like he said...
I hope so.
I enjoy foruming, but
I find it can be a lot of work sometimes.
I can't wait to become an arrancar in the BARPG. :3
I think it will be very exciting. :)
I am hungry
I stayed up waaaay to late this...morning. =x
I am now finished the quiz. Goodbye. :P

Stolen from Alden's blog.
Tags: I don't have anyone that hasn't already been tagged. :P

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Halo 3! :D

Firstly, just let me say that I am currently sitting cross-legged on the back lawn of Nonna's house, hijacking the internet from next-door.
Secondly, let me say that Dad bought me a laptop, and it is awesome. I installed Linux on it, and now I'm messing around with Linux. It is very unfamiliar, but I can already tell from what I have learned so far that it is a far superior OS.

ANYWAY, what I meant to be blogging about...

Went to nicks house 2 days ago at 11:00. Started playing Halo 3 at 12:00. Stopped playing Halo 3 at 2:45. And no...that's AM. XD
Roughly 15 hours straight, stopping only for food, toilet and moving between upstairs (No HD) to downstairs (HD), and back. Yang and Matt didn't sleep over, but they stayed
till about 5. We played much Multiplayer, and I won the most games, for I am teh_pwnage. xD
Then Matt and Yang left. Nick and I started the campaign on co-op, (Heroic Diff.) and played that through. We finished it at about 2:30, and then we got off, watched some Heroes, and went to sleep. Woke up....later that morning, and ate some Lunch, then went home.

Halo 3 = awesome.
Dual Spikers = awesome. :D

Friday, September 28, 2007

Gah >_<

Tomorrow evening, we will be moving out of the house to live at Nonna's for a while. The reason - our lovely new wooden floors are being polished. Pretty awesome. So we leave tomorrow after, according to dad, 1 hour of moving stuff, (more likely 5 hours) then we get back about 4 days later.

So it should be fun not having internet for that time...

I'll have to unpack the PS2...

Thursday, September 27, 2007

*Mutters darkly*

Sigh.
I just spent the last 4 hours of my life wrestling with the PC.
It just woke up today and decided that booting was a generally bad idea, and thought that it might be nice to take a short vacation. So it happily changed (unbeknowns to me) a random registry setting and stopped booting.

The symptom: It would show the processor screen, and then verify that all the hard-drives were working, but then at the boot screen, it hung on the message: "Verifying DMS pool data...............update complete."
And it then decided to just sit there. There is no mouse imput at that screen, but keyboard input is accepted.

Early attempts at fixing this problem failed. The first thing I tried to do is restart the PC, attempting to open the boot-menu, allowing me to load the last configuration settings that worked. That was a failure. After that, I tried to turn off the PC at the wall and wait for a while, in hopes that some of the hardware would reset. (This works sometimes)

Failure. I then decided to take out the notebook and do some research. (Note that by this time I had called dad - an ex-pc engineer, but he was as stumped as I was.)
Of course, my sister had taken the laptop out of the house so she had something to do while mum was working at the pool.

It then occurred to me that we had another laptop...
Granted, the CD drive no longer opened and it was more than 10 years old, there was a chance that if I could get the internet working, I could do the necessary research and hopefully get the PC back.

I took it out of the bag. The network card was lying next to it, but I decided to use the USB one that is currently in the main PC, since it is faster.
The configuration tool for this USB network-card is, of course, on a CD, which I could not put into the laptop, on account of it being dropped some time ago.

Shuddering to myself, I placed the old network-card into the laptop. The lights started happily blinking, and then Windows played the "Hardware failed to disconnect" sound, and rejected the network card.

After letting out a world-weary sigh, I opened up the device manager for the notebook and noticed that that particular card had been disabled.
After enabling it, the lights started blinking merrily again, and I was feeling pretty pleased with myself.

Hopping on the internet (with fluctuating signal strength, sometimes disconnecting for a second), I began my search for some answers. It seems that this is not a unique problem.
I looked in horror as it said that the problem can be caused by corrupt hard-drives, and that buying new ones could solve the problem.
That, by the way, is not cool, as it involves me losing EVERYTHING. Not an idea I was too keen on. I read on...

Apparently, this problem can also be generated by the PC attempting to boot from a floppy-disk or a CD/ROM.
"That must be the answer!" I thought triumphantly.

Parading into the DOS screen, (Which I, thankfully, could access), I looked up the setting which decides where Windows boots from. Sure enough, it had been, fruitlessly, attempting to boot from a CD. Now, last time I checked, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion does NOT come with the partition to boot Windows XP Professional Edition, so that would explain why the PC was not booting.

I changed this setting, saved and exited the registry, and re-booted the PC.
Voila, it worked!


So here I am, feeling a lovely warm-fuzzy glow knowing that I fixed this problem, and also feeling quite dark that it wasted so much of my time.


At least it was something to blog about...


*Looking back, this is quite a lot of text. I know I wouldn't read it, were I reading someone else's blog...save for maybe Alden's...since that is usually interesting. Or Yang's. Unless he posted one of those humungo philosophy things....so damn long...*

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Fought it off for a while...but...

I'm bored again. I spent most of today and all of last night preparing for a glorious return to the BARPG...I made a character and everything...read through 800 posts, with an average wording of several-hundred words, and now I'm just waiting on Brian to pm me back with the OK that I can make another character, since I TECHNICALLY already have a character... >_<

I'll post it here anyway, because I'm bored.....because that makes sense... o_O;;

[App] (Kainashi Heisei) <13th>

Name:

Heisei, Kainashi (M)

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Kainashi Heisei

Age:

26 (At death), 509 (Soul Society age)

Personality:

Heisei is extremely introspective and insightful, often to the point of it becoming a downfall. He was never popular due to his inability to relate to anyone, and he soon became quite detached from what little friends he had. He mostly looks in on groups, never asking to join, and refusing any offers to. His personality has become quite self-destructive over the years, and he has come to know this. Being aware of his own personality flaws only serves to make Heisei more inwardly distraught. He spends most of his time meditating, seeking to cure the incurable wound from his past.

Physical Appearance:

A picture of Heisei is included above. [Spoiler]I'm not sure which anime this character is from, but I like the look of him. This is the same look I used for my original BARPG character, but this character is completely different.[/spoiler] The only difference is that Heisei wears normal Shihakusho, not the clothing that he is wearing in the above picture.

Heisei stands at about 5"11, and almost always wears a blank, if slightly sad, expression on his face.

Division:

13th Division. (Unseated)

Zanpakuto:

Heisei's zanpakuto is roughly 140cm long, including the hilt, so he wears it across his back. It has an unusually long kissaki, about 10cm, and there is less curve to the pale blue-stained blade than is normal for a Jin Taichi. The tsuba is in the shape of the Yin-Yang, only with grossly exaggerated arms, that curve around almost to 180 degrees. (See image below)

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Zanpakuto Tsuba

Biography:

When Heisei was a born in Kyoto. Hailed as a child prodigy, he started school at the age of 5 and was reading advanced literature by the time he was 7. Heisei completed high school at the age of 15, but neglected attending university. Heisei had always been able to sense things that other humans couldn’t sense. He would occasionally hear deathly screams echoing throughout the city. One day, in his 17th year, Heisei saw a man in a black robe fighting a massive monster, during a walk at midnight. The man had fought hard, but the monster was immensely powerful, and the man was eventually overwhelmed. Heisei had watched in horror as the man was devoured. The monster had then promptly vanished through a mysterious hole in the world, but Heisei could have sworn it had noticed him, and let out a quiet laugh.

The rest of Heisei's life was then consumed by a quest to find out what he had seen that night. He joined internet cults concerned with these mysterious figures, which he soon learned were called "shinigami". He spent all of his days inside, researching what he could, making contacts. He learned more about shinigami and hollows than any human had a right to know, and had soon established himself around the world simply as "The Seeker". The human with the most knowledge about anything paranormal. Shinigami's and Hollows were his prime interest.

But then, suddenly, people all around the world became alarmed, as the one known as "The Seeker" simply vanished. No-one knew where he went.

What had happened, in fact, was Heisei had found...someone. The first person he had ever known to take his interest away from the paranormal. Yes, Kainashi Heisei had fallen in love.

The name of this love is not known, but it is known that is the reason behind The Seeker's absence from the internet for almost two years.

Those two years were the happiest of Heisei's life. Not even the occasional screams of hollows were enough to shake his permanent deliria. Life passed in a happy blur for him. He went outside, he threw out his computer. All so he could spend more time with his love.

But then, one fateful day, when Heisei and his love were outside enjoying a late-night walk, they passed the area where Heisei had first seen a shinigami. He paid no attention to their location, just happy he could share another moment with his love. Suddenly, he heard a ripping noise. Wheeling around, he saw another hole in the world. The very same kind of hole the hollow had escaped through on that night, all those years ago.

To Heisei's horror, out of that hole came that hollow. Things seemed to move in slow motion as the hollow had charged at Heisei and his love. Heisei had attempted to push her out of the way, taking the hollow's charge instead, allowing her to escape. The hollow had simply ignored him and turned towards her. Heisei didn't even have time to scream before his love was torn apart by the claws of the hollow. He dropped to his knees, distraught.

The hollow had addressed him. He had paid it no heed.

Heisei had staggered home in a daze. Upon his arrival, he had brought out the notebook computer he had hidden in a safe, the notebook with all the information he had ever collected on Shinigami’s and hollows. He had spent nine hours uploading it all to a secure site, for someone, someday to find.

He had then logged in to the community where he discussed paranormal matters for one last time.

Ignoring the floods of greeting and welcome messages, Heisei posted one message online before closing his laptop for the last time.

The Seeker was never seen or heard from again.

Specialty:

  • Hohou.
    • Heisei prefers to avoid confrontations. He has no qualms about harmless sparring-matches, but he avoids aggressive situations whenever possible. If drawn into a fight, Heisei attempts to end it as quickly as possible. For this reason, he trained single-mindedly for many, many years on improving his Shun-Po and footwork.

  • Zanjutsu.
    • While always wishing to avoid confrontation, Heisei is also very much concerned with strength coming from technique. He much prefers so outclass a combatant in skill than in simple brute-force. For this reason, Heisei has gradually honed his skills with the blade to near-perfection. He is capable of outclassing almost any opponent with the blade, save for his former master, an old hermit living in the outskirts of Rukongai.

Sample mission:

*This mission is from when Heisei was still known as The Seeker. It is based around his meeting with a contact.*

He's late...., Heisei mused.

He sat in an armchair; his legs pulled towards his chest, in the corner of a dark hotel room, his back to a window. He always met with contacts in hotel rooms. It was much safer. It meant that he couldn't be tracked. He had become quite paranoid in recent years...

The hotel room was small and cheap. Very unassuming. It had nothing but a single-bed against one wall, an armchair in the corner and a coffee-table in the center of the room. He was brought out of his reverie by a quiet, but urgent, knocking on the door. He looked up.

"Come in."

The door opened silently, and the shadowy figure walked in, closing the door carefully behind him.

Heisei regarded him as he walked into the moonlight. The man was tall...taller than Heisei, but he hunched over. It made him seem small and ignorant. Heisei knew far better. He had dark, shoulder length hair and a very slight build. He wore navy-blue tracksuit pants and a black jacket. Heisei knew him well, but this was the first time he had met the man in person, so he was understandably wary.

"You said you needed to meet with me?" Heisei inquired coldly.

"Yes. I have something that I think you may like to see."

The man reached inside his jacket and pulled out something. Upon seeing what it was, Heisei leaned in, suddenly interested.

"Where did you get this?" He demanded.

The man chuckled.

"I thought it might interest you. I can tell you already know what this is. I found it in the remnants of what was obviously a battle between a shinigami and a hollow. The hollow was defeated, but for some reason, the mask stayed in the real world. It was quite badly fragmented almost to the point where it was dust, but I managed to find a piece large enough to be worth showing to you."

True enough, the man held, in his hand, a fragment of a hollow's mask.

"And why are you showing this to me?"

"I wish for you to study it for me. There has to be something you can discern about hollows by studying this thing. I think everyone would be most interested to know whatever you can find out."

He held out the white, bone-like fragment towards Heisei. Heisei took it with a gloved hand, placing it in a plastic zip-lock bag.

"I thank you. I will try to find out what I can. Is there anything else?"

The man shook his head, rising.

Heisei did not rise, but nodded.

"Very well. Good night, and thank you again, Infinitum."

The man turned to leave. Heisei watched him go. Once the door was closed, he stood, tucking the bag securely into one of his many pockets, and left to check out of the hotel.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

*Sigh*

I'm....bored.
School holidays start today, and I really don't have anything to do.
I really don't feel like foruming any more, I've made all the recruit's sigs, no-one's on msn, I can't play any online games because of the renovations, and I don't really feel like playing Oblivion...
No more bleach to watch, nor death note. The PS2 and the Wii are packed away...

There's not much to do...
I spent the last half an hour making the kanji for death in ASCII.
That's how bored I am.

How depressing...

*PS, thought I might add the ASCII, so you can see how crappy it is. (I suck at ASCII AND kanji.)


















I actually took quite a bit of time to try and put the text into the post, but it didn't work...so I then invested about 5 mins in taking a screenshot and making it a jpeg.

Sigh.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Wii Connection Tour...

Yes, it was that time of year again (even though this is the first one I went to...), the Nintendo Wii Connection Tour came to Southland. This year's theme was "Big Games for Big Brains", focusing on a new game called Big Brain Academy, sort of a brain-trainer for the Wii. I. Freaken'. Pwnd. It was kind of pathetic how easy it was... I scored two cool key-chains and two drink bottles. I also met up with a few of the guys I saw last time, at the DS connection Tour, Excessum, Mario, Westy, Admeister, Dekar and Freswood. We played many games and sung much karaoke... (In the middle of southland... o_O) Anyway, they also had a preview of Metroid Prime 3: Corruptions to play. I played A LOT of that, and it is freaken' awesome. The control system is so much better than Red Steel, and I can't wait until it comes out. I think I'll play the first two games before that one, though.

On a different topic. I WANT TO PLAY .HACK GU!!!!!
I can't find it anywhere. Alden lent his copy to nick, and I'm 90% sure that he is not playing it, so I want to get it off him. I called him and called him, and he still hasn't called back.

I WANT TO PLAY IT REALLY BAAAAAAD!!!
*Sobs pathetically*

Friday, September 21, 2007

Camp camp camp......

Hmm...
For most of the 7 hour bus-ride home, I was thinking about how best to word my experiences on camp in my blog.

To be honest, I can't really think of any way to word it. I thought about a day-by-day tracker sort of thing, but soon decided that that was a bad idea. I won't say any stories about camp, I won't say what happened, or my thoughts on it. I'm just glad that I'm home right now, but at the same time, I wouldn't be upset if I were still at camp.

I guess I'm....Ambivalent.

Friday, September 14, 2007

I should be posting this tomorrow, but what the hell.

This is going to be my last post before I go on camp...I should be doing this tomorrow, but I'm impatient, and I may not have time tomorrow.

Several things have happened over the last several days.
We got our reports, mine was ok...


English: B (My English mark is falling because I FREAKIN' HATE MR VERNON!!! He is incompedent... I have no idea why he is teaching at all. He should be at home, trying to get fit or something...)

Maths: B+ (Mr Barr says I just missed out on an A. >.<)

Commerce: A (Talked a little in class, but commerce is pathetically easy... The only reason I got an A is because of some REDICULOUS test results. I said an answer, he marked it wrong, THE BOOK SAID I WAS RIGHT. THE ACTUAL QUOTE. FFS!!! Oh well, this isn't VCE, so it doesn't really matter....)

IT Multimedia: A+ (The fact that we are beginning flash, and I have been using it for 3 years may have something to do with it. :P)

IT Programming: A+ (I. Love. Programming. :D :D :D)

Science - Biology: B (VCE courcework... >_< hard stuff..... I have NO idea why I'm doing Biol 3/4 next year... oh well.)

Science - Physics: A (I loved physics. I can't wait until VCE Physics next year. :D)



Mr Jackson said: "Lachlan's passion for INformation Technology is obvious from this report."
To which my thoughts replied: "lol...yeeeeah." :P


Anyway...camp on Monday, off to climb some rocks, then jump off them wearing safety equipment. Whee.

Today my sister was in the finals for netball, and thanks to her team's crazy shwank, they won. Which is nice.


Anyway, that's about all....
See you (Probably Alden, I don't think anyone else reads this.....) next week!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Work Work... (In warcraft 3 peon voice, I'm such a gamer. :P)

Off to get my lazy ass a job today...I need...money for:

1. Buy new PC
2. Go visit Alden (Second only because this PC can't really play games anymore, and I am dying)
3. Get some games
4. Get some stuff.

Interestingly, the job I'm trying to get happens to be the same one as Nick....so if it comes down to me and Nick, I'm going to let him have the job, but if it's between me and Bob, then Bob can go to hell xD.

And if I don't get this one, then I'm off to coles or something...
Of maybe that gift shop that's like 10 minutes walk from my house.....

I dunno....I just need.....money and xp....

Hmm...

Last day of term today...since we all go on camp next week.
We got to choose between about 10 different camps, in a (futile) attempt to get everyone engaged.

The one I liked best (The one I decided I wouldn't break my arm on purpose rather than go to) was the abseiling one...so that'll be the one for me.

Nick, Matt, Mel and most of the other people that I actually LIKE are going on it, so it shouldn't be too bad.


And I'm taking my hexi-stove, and when I get hungry, I'm cookin' ramen. XD

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Haha

I just realised that I seem to have picked the same template as Alden.
Hehe...damn. I'd better change something. :3

EDIT: Looked around, couldn't find anything TO change.
Sucks to be me :P

Tagged by Alden...

Tagged by Alden Cheng.

RULES:
1. The tag victim has to come up with 8 different points about his/her perfect lover.
2. Have to mention the gender of his/her perfect lover.
3. Tag eight other victims to join this game and leave a comment on their blog.
4. If you are tagged the second time, there is NO need to do this again.
5. Lastly, and most importantly, HAVE FUN DOING IT. (-____-)

my perfect lover will be :-
1) Intelligent. (Not smart, just......not an idiot.)
2) Understanding
3) Cheerful
4) Accepting
5) Calm
6) Faithful
7) Kind
8) Peaceful

(Female)

I tag...
Everyone on my friends list... (I only have 5...*sobs*)

Screw that...

I.....don't really know.
I ditched the non-spaces (double negative). I still want them...but I don't at the same time.
I wanted to keep my old blog..but I didn't like it anymore.

I....

Bah. Anyway, here is my lovely new blog. It is quite lovely.
I suppose this is going to be pretty much the same as my other blog...I just wanted to start fresh.

I wonder if I can do that...