End of November Update

HI

So how are things I guess you are asking, why else would you be here? Hmmm, well things are average like normal, it has been a little bit better over the past couple of days, but into the future who knows…

Today I do not feel like a continuous prose, but have to say some things of note that have happened, so here they are in note form:

• I attended the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 & SQL server 2005 launch in Adelaide at the Hilton hotel. The event was not as good as I was expecting it, but then again I was expecting it to be like the worldwide launch which would have had more effort placed into producing it. But hey, Microsoft provided me with a free lunch :-)


• I managed to find a Microsoft website that allowed me to download Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition and SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition as I am a student. Therefore I now have these 2 nice products, I have been experimenting with them a little. I am a Geek.


• Last Friday a group of my friends at Uni just had their final presentations and therefore marking the completion of their degrees. Proceeding this we went into the city to celebrated the occasion. I had never got as drunk in public as I did this night, and still I think I managed to have a good time without embarrassing myself too much. I did learn a couple of things from the night, and in my intoxicated state observed the behavior of others in such a state. Without going into details in order to protect others, I will no doubt ponder over my observations for some time, but I did have a good time!


• A couple of friends from uni and I went to the StKilda Playground as some of us had never been there, and others had not been there fore a while (I think we organized this whilst a couple of us had some drinks, so that may explain why a group of people in their 20s and 30s went to a playground for a day out). I was the only one to get a playground injury, a cut/abrasion on my back, although a couple of us got badly sun burnt, ouch! This was also fun!


• I am starting work this week in a large multinational IT consulting company in the city. This is kind of scary, but it will be interesting to see how things pan out, hopefully I will be able to perform to their standards, I’m kind of scared.


• I recently completed my coursework for my last semester at uni for this year. Hopefully I did well, I think I’ll be aiming for a couple of credits.


• In the 2 exams I had just recently I observed a some of mishaps, these included:


• Multiple Students reading exam books before they were allowed to in clear sight of supervisors who did not do anything,


• A students mobile phone ringing in an exam 5 minutes after being told that we are were not allowed to have mobile phones, that we could had them up when they were giving the warning without penalty, and that the supervisors might conduct random searches for mobiles,


• a Lecturer mumbling an exam correction to an error in their exam over the loudspeaker whilst I was trying to do my exam for a separate subject (The other subject had over 400 so you would think they would get it correct)


• And finally one student who had some writing on a pencil case which the supervisors picked up on and discussed at length in front of me whilst I was trying to do an exam.


• I have recently installed windows server 2003 on my laptop to be extra geekey, however after multiple driver issues and issues with power management I decided I had to go back to windows XP, sad hey.


• I saw some road workers removing line markings on the road with flamethrowers when I was driving along at 3 am in the morning. This was an impressive sight, I should have taken a photo, I had my camera with me, but I thought the road workers may not have appreciated photos.

I cannot think of much else of noteworthiness to put on my blog for now so I might as well depart. I will include some photos pertaining to the above, but not right now.

Uni, ARGH!!

Life has been meh for me over recently.. I have been writing things down just to get my mind around things, and to vent my issues. I don’t know whether this is productive, or counterproductive.

If you have ever been around me, you would know I am a very reflective person. If you have been around me long enough you would have heard me utter the statement “oh well… I hate life.” I usually say this a-couple of times a day, sometimes dozens of times a day. I even reflect and regret on things that I did when I was 4 years old. I guess I’m just too self critical. So maybe writing things down is bad… hmmm…

Anyway, I think I’ll share one of my multiple areas of angst I have at the moment, university.

This year my university has been awful. At the start of the year I was placed in an industry placement. Whilst working I was not supervised very much, nor did I feal like I was valued by the organisation, or those in the organisation. This time was not enjoyable at all.

Also, my university has a huge push at the moment for students to complete work in groups, I think this has taken a huge tool on me. This semester only 6% of my grades for work during the semester were for work done by myself. Having so much group work means I have totally lost any motivation to work, I have forgotten how to push myself, what my limits are, who I am in terms of learning, why I should work and how to work. All in all I do not know, at the moment, who I am and my work at university is not assisting me in finding anything out myself, which I would think would usually be part of an education . Oh how do I wish for some uni work to be done by myself.

Some of my subjects at uni this year have been awful. I have to say, if I were an employer, I would never look at anyone from UniSA with a masters degree and value them above someone who had an undergraduate degree from the university. The majority of subjects are just a repetition of undergraduate subjects. The students they have doing masters subjects have been selected, on what I would believe to be, solely on the fact that they have money. The university in my mind is a expensive babysitting service that gives a piece of paper at the end of its customers stay so they can pretend they have done something constructive whilst being babysat.

Al in all, uni sucks, its eating at me, its wasting my time, it has put me further into debt, it has detracted from my life, it has hurt my potential, its hurting who I am. If I were to have my time again, I would not do what I am doing now.

Enough said about that I guess, they are a couple of my issues, not all of them. However on a lighter note regarding uni, Today I discovered the perfect excuse for not doing study. After doing some work, I shut the book I had been using for a couple of hours, and to my surprise a white tailed spider climbed out of the book. I find this an ample excuse to avoid going close to anything exam related.

Oh well, that’s enough from me for now.

Im back

Howdy...

Meh... Long time no blog… I’m a little happier since last time I bloged, I got to chat to a couple of my friends about a couple of things… Life goes on I guess...

It’s that time of year again, Exam Time, so I’m in a cleaning mood… To distract myself from eaxm study this semester I have purchased Ne-Wo Dot Com. There is not much on it for the wide world to see at the moment, although all my content for website finished and on the server. I Just have to decide whether I will make it public, I am in sort of 2 minds about it. Will see I guess. It is still being put to use for a couple of other "projects" Iv'e been thinking about, so its not a waste of money (I think I am trying to convince myself here).

If you know me, and want a sqiz, then contact me how you would usually contact me and I’ll give you the URL & password to have an advanced screening... If you did se the website earlier on in the year, well it has changed a little and has also had some interesting additions.

Enough from me for now I guess, I better get back to (start) my uni work/ exam revision / sleep before my uni presentation tomorrow.