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Archive for April, 2006

Ali Rocks

There you go Ms Ali :P

Today is Good Friday which means the start of a 4-day weekend here in Aus and the start of the mid-semester uni break for me :)

To kick off the holidays, I had a sleepover at Ali’s last night where we spent the night singing(playing?) on Singstar and then scrapbooking except I had left my photos at home so I scammed a photo off Ali from when we went to The Whitlams last Novemeber. Lots of fun :) Then this morning we headed off to the Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens for a few hours of photographic fun before heading back to her house to do some more Singstar with Jack taking part this time. Lots of fun and I have to say Ali rocks Singstar pretty well. In all we probably did close to 4hrs of singing and I won 2 or 3 times lol.

Lots of fun, but then since we are both total dorks could we expect not to have fun????

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yeehaw!

No, I am not thinking of running off with a cowboy (eww!) but the mark I received on the essay I handed in last week. Are you ready?

90 out of 100! High Distinction baby! :):):):) I don’t ever recall ever getting a mark that high before so big thanks to my Mum for helping me proof-read it. I was very unsure of the mark I would receive I was expecting perhaps mid to high 70’s but no way was I expecting a 90. The lecturer for this subject knows Chinese politics etc probably better than the CPC themselves do so I am extremely happy with my mark :)

I have now completed the initial applications for two graduate programs only 500 more to go.

On Saturday night Andrea who is one of my bestest friends celebrated her 21st birthday and her graduation all in one night. It was one hell of a night, lots of laughs lots of fantastic food. Dude, a rice buffet with black bean beef, curries and butter chicken (I love the butter chicken) and mmm sesame prawns or spring rolls can never say no to more spring rolls. Fantastic night :)
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the present day

the present day

You know how there is some things you just can’t get enough of? Well Tracy’s designs are one of those things, they always put me in a mood to scrap or just put a smile on my face when I see something using her designs.

You might just be sick of this photo because I used it on the post from 3 days ago but that is life :)

I am sitting here chatting to Ms Ali who I actually also visited with this arvo :) Going through lecture notes preparing for exams and trying to think about a design for a birthday card :)

hectic

I don’t know how I am going to live through this coming week, though I of course know I will.

Next week I have two mid-semester exams and a 750 word analysis on how a Chinese government whitepaper contributes to a better understanding of internal policy perspective (which is going to be hard).

Then in non-uni work I have five graduate programs to apply for between this Sunday and the following Sunday. I need to get into one of these programs, hopefully from the 20+ I am applying for I will get one. Otherwise I have no idea what I will be doing next year.

Tomorrow is a write-off in terms of getting uni work done as I am working 7-3 and am then driving up to a friend’s 21st/grad party 1hr north of here. Saying that I will get a bit of uni work done on my breaks at work but not much.

Though I haven’t had any late nights yet, I think next week might have a few :(

On a less woo is me topic, check out these things.

Tracy’s wonderful new digital kits, that girl has “it” and always has and she’s my second mother so I am obliged to brag about her. Go check her kits out, you know you want to.

After all the hoo-ha the recent Tourism Australia ad caused in well everywhere except Australia. There was bound to be some spoofs. First is the original for you to watch and then some of the spoofs.

Where the bloody hell are you?

Spoof 1 - Really well done but if you don’t know much about current Australian politics it probably won’t make much sense.

Spoof 2 - Not as well done, this was from CNNN/The Chaser and still is mainly about current affairs in Australia but still great.

Spoof 3 - This is a series of interviews with tourists at Sydney Harbour, asking their views on the wording of the campaign and what would be more appropriate

April 4

me, april 4 2006Because I hate coming up with post titles, lets just use the date as the title. I don’t like posts without photos, so I took a photo of myself today just before I left for uni. Though my hair did not last long before I tied it up in a bun, I like having “longish” hair but I hate the feel of it getting sweaty on my neck. yuck.

I even wore a necklace to uni today, not something I usually do, it is one I made myself for a Scrapbook Creations article I did on making jewellery from Making Memories Stitched Tin Tiles probably two years ago now. I love those tiles.

On to cool things.

I was already ten months ago to make a grass couch in the backyard after seeing this article on the Readymade website and Mum was keen for it as well except we live in a place where that thing called water isn’t exactly growing on trees so if we wanted to have a grass couch in the backyard we would have to move a far, far way away. So dude, if I ever move somewhere where I could do such a thing, it would be the first thing on my agenda.

So imagine how much I loved this article on Treehugger today? Dude, could you imagine five or six of these in a circle, how much would it rock, lounging in grass chairs with a few cold ones with your mates on a Sunday arvo or lazying around on a sunny morning with the paper?

sweet surrender

It is now week 6 of uni and I handed in two more pieces of assessment today, which leaves me with nine more until the end of semester exam period.

The Lizzie McGuire Movie was on tv a couple of weeks ago and I keep on finding myself singing and jazzing along to the soundtrack when it appears on my MP3 player. I was so not in the target demographic for the movie but I have to say I quite enjoyed it:)

Also on the topic of music the other day I had a sudden urge to listen to some Sarah McLachlan, I have no idea why, I just felt like it so I got an album or two and all I can say is wow!!!

So the current mix on my mp3 player at the moment is just in case for some reason you were wondering
The Mountain Goats
Ben Harper
Jack Johnson
Ben Lee
Sarah McLachlan
Tori Amos
The Whitlams
The All American Rejects
Rooney
Johnny Cash
June Carter Cash
Crazy/Beautiful Soundtrack
The Lizzie McGuire Movie Soundtrack
The Very Best of The Chillout Session
The Very Best of Back to the Old Skool

The Very Best Euphoric Funky House Breakdown

Plus some other assorted random songs, mmm what does that say about my general music taste?