Cheerio 2005, Howdy 2006.

Well its that time of year again, the end. This blog entry has been in the making for a week or so, I thought I’d give a little recap of my trip through life this year, and maybe give a sneak peak for next years expedition :-P

Uni this year has been hard, originally It looked to be my savour, how wrong I was. In the past week I came up with the theory that my studies have started to become an exercise geared for me to assist the education the third world, rather than to expand my own knowledge. It has had its ups and downs, I guess I have learnt some stuff. I did have one highlight, I celebrated my undergraduate graduation, which I place more value on than my postgraduate education.

Travel wise, well, I learnt how to drive a manual car this year. I also had a nice little trip to Mount Gambier for a couple of days. Looking back, the trip provided me with what were probably the last consecutive days that I enjoyed, they seem so far away! I also went to see my friend Ian’s new house at Port Pirie, that was nice too.

Work wise I have not managed to start real full time work yet. However I have managed to spend about 5 months in the IT industry, which has been a good experience. The majority of which was spent in government siting behind a desk twiddling my thumbs (not enjoyable). But where I am working at the moment is nice, it provides me with lots of work and keeps me busy enough not to have my mind on other things.

Personally, this year I had my closest relationship I’ve ever had with a girl (even though it went nowhere) I really enjoyed what I had! Things were really good, but due to outside commitments, things went slow and I managed to make things go sour. Woops! This has provided me with so many regrets about things I did.

I went to a few 21st birthdays this year, some were very good, some were average, but they were all unique and enjoyable in their own ways. Hey, I just realised, Tim never had his 21st, what a shame, maybe he is going to have a 22nd in 2006?

This year I lost my dog whom I have shared two thirds of my life. This was a huge upset for me (I even now shed a tear when I think about him), adjusting to life without him was hard, it came at a time when I needed him, I was having other issues and without him I had lost that unconditional love that I could always rely upon from my dog.

Material wise I managed to get some cool geek gadgets this year, I’m happy with what I have got this year and am not rally looking to get much more. However, I somewhat suspect I was trying to fill holes in my emotions with these items, which they were not successful at. Hopefully I will be able to enjoy them in the future.

I think all in all, this year started of hard, in an exhausting way, and became and ended hard, in an emotional way.

Am I happy to see the end of 2005? Hmm, well maybe yes; this year has not been one big constant enjoyment, but I don’t know if next year will be any better. I think 2005 just opened my eyes to the reality of life and to who I am. I have some important decisions next year that will shape the rest of my life. I’m not sure whatsoever in what I should do, all I have managed to develop this year are questions and issues, not answers and solutions.

But looking on the positive side, my sister gets married in January, so the big events in my life will be starting early in the year. I should also finish my masters and therefore finish up with my education (In the first half of the year if I push things, or in the last half if I take things slowly.)

So, I thought an honour role to the people who provided me with happiness (a couple of these people also provided me with issues, but they did provide me with enough happiness that I think they deserve a mention), I just wanted to keep this small so I have missed some people, but thanks to everyone for visiting my blog and for those people who shared their time with me this year.

Tim; Thanks for constantly "pulling me out of my shell" and being a good friend.
Cat; Thanks for all those long chats we had.
Khun; Thanks for always being there.
Ian; Thanks for always catching up when you come down to Adelaide.
Mum; Thanks for putting up with me and for all your support.
And finally, Heinie; Thanks so much for being there for the majority of my life, I will never forget you!

Cheerio 2005

Xmass 2005

Hello, Last week has been a mess. . .

I am now sort of on holidays, but not fully due to my last week at work, which was very unproductive. Unfortunately, for the 2 month project I’m working on, my team of 4 people have been given a 300 page document to write, we have not scheduled for this, eak. To add to this, I was not invited along to the work Christmas get together as I am new, not nice.

Also on the work front I ordered some books for work off of my own back and wallet. Unfortunately I could not get them in Australia, so I had to go to Amazon to get them, amazingly after ordering the books on Monday, I got them on Friday, even with the x-mass workloads of various people. What’s better, even though I paid $40 US for postage, I still saved 25% from what they would have cost in Australia. Now I have 2 X 1400 page books to read this x-mass break.

Christmas was cool, I bought all of my family alcohol, and I got some chartreuse and absinthe, good stuff :-P

For x-mass day I spent the day with my relatives, I got to spin my 3 yo cousin on a swing for about half an hour after which he staggered around like he was drunk, but he loved it, screaming in laughter!! It was nice to see him, he was soo much more animated over the last time I saw him.

I have had some heavy stuff to think about that has been clouding my mind & life for some time, it just reared its head yet again last week. I will not go through it here though. I think I’d like to address these issues, but I dont think it's my place to start that, so for once I’m commiting myself to not do the starting, will be hard though, turning my back on so much.

Ohwell, cheerio... A 2005 recap might be on it's way...

Bah Humbug

Hello, might as well update my blog...

This week has been full on t work, heaps of early starts, but I’m surviving. What’s better, is that at the end of the coming week, I will have 2 weeks of holidays (Which I’m hoping I can progress enough on my project at work, that I will be in a position to be able to do some constructive work in my holidays.

My brother has come home from interstate for Christmas. So once again the house is noisy, He had the TV turned up during tea the other night so loud that it literally hurt my ears :-| so it went off :-P

Yesterday my friend Khun bought me a jar of Bah Hum Bugs since I always refer to myself being a Bah Humbug. Thanks Khun!

Oh well, GTG, I have my mum’s family Christmas gig to go to.

Cheerio

Exhausted

WOW!!! What a busy week!

As I said on Tuesday, I started work on Monday at a new company. It has been very busy indeed, I have had a couple of starts at 7:30am and the rest at 8 (It’s not the starts that kill me, its trying to stay awake and concentrate that kills me) Although I rock up early so I can leave late, I have been leaving at the normal time if I had arrived at 9. I was so exhausted last night I slept for 16 hours strait, and want to go back to sleep now.

Work is enjoyable, There is plenty to do, and its interesting. I am amazed by the businesses work ethic and culture, It is so different to government where I have previously worked.

So, am I achieving what I am meant to be achieving so far? Well yes I am, but the heat is on, I have allot to achieve in the small amount of time before I leave, so it will be busy Ne-Wo for the rest for a while yet. What makes this even worse, as time goes on, the more the scope of the project is increasing, making the hard, almost impossible, Woops...

On Thursday I talked to a friend that I don’t manage to catch up with as much as I used to. It was cool to chat once again, although, as always, I think I have managed to annoy them, Woops :-/ All the same, you know who you are, THNAKS HEAPS for chatting and putting up with me over the past, I have learnt so much from you about life
;-) :-D

On the Uni front, I have all my grades back, All Credits, I am in part happy with this, and in part upset about it, but all the same, I’m not complaining.

Time to go, Cheerio (hey, that rhymes)

Gallery Launch and Casino

Hi,

Well as promised I have photos of my playground adventure along with my playground injury.

As I have previously mentioned, I have some non-public websites that are about me that i have created in private and have thought about making public, Well I have decided to make my photo gallery public, but, I am still thinking about makeing the full content of my websitewebsite public , hmmmm..... (If you click on my website's link to the right all you get is my ugley mugshot :P)

So, the grand public opening of my gallery is here – go to http://gallery.ne-wo.com if you wish..

Photos of my friends and I at the StKilda playground can be found here

Last night I went to the casino in the city with my friends. Whilst there my friends convinced me to play two-up. So, being the non betting person and idiotic person that I am, I hesitated, then decided to participate. I bet $10 and got to throw the 2 coins up in the air, and from that I won $75 for getting two tails 3 tines in a row, YAY!

I could not stop bragging to my friends and showing them the chips I won. However, don’t fear all this excitement, I have decided not to bet again / for a long time, as I am currently wining, especially after seeing all my friends loose what they won last night.

I officially start work on Monday, on what I belive to be an interesting IT project, in the city. I have been swinging between excitement and hesitance, but as time goes on, things are look better and better.

Ohwell, Cheerio.