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Last exam of Uni today, which means I have 4 days until I leave the country…again. Lots to do, little time to do it in. Graduation can wait, I’ll do it next year – I gotta go to Europe now!

One of those things to do is fix the script I have running here so that stuff isn’t saved as a draft instead of being posted…incoming lots of backlogged crap spam

That’s right, it’s alive! the little crotch rocket which started it all is back in action.

Cause Saturday was actually warm and sunny for once, yay Melbourne weather, I did some work on me bikes. Pulled apart the minibike completely, gave a clean and lube, flushed out the old fluids…and banging, she’s back in business.

It’s not QUITE as good as my Gixxer, which is looking pretty mint after a wash, but still goes alright – as you can see from my housemate having a go.

The movie night at Jess n Jules’ effectively turned into a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon…not by any means a bad thing. While consuming copious amounts of alcohol (read: getting fucked off Jaeger bombs) and trying to eat our body weight in junk food, we watched Pirates till roughly 4 am…which is when I passed out on the floor. It was a good night

That could have been the end of me for all of Saturday, but I was woken up with a bacon, egg, cheese, hasbrown and bbq sauce burger, courtesy of Jess. Life became a whole lot better.

As I’ve been slogging away over 3 assignments, a final year project and of course, countless bloody graduate position applications, I’m deciding to take the night off and relax, chill with some mates, and get decidedly drunk.

Hence, Movie Night! Jess and Jule’s place for pizza, drinks and lots of movies which we of course legitimately rent from a video store… >.>

After constant reminders by wordpress that my version was long out of date, I updated to the newest version (which is niiiiiice), and in the process I decided to add a live chat window as well as a dynamic image gallery.

Looks pretty cool, not particularly lightweight but whatever, will give it some high-bandwidth testing later on.

anyways, time to go drinking!

We’ll miss you buddy, love you heaps.

RIP Sam Matthews.

well, nothing interesting has happened of late. Uni’s been a hassle, dumping loads of assignments and shit on us…yay for final year. At least some of the subjects are kind of interesting, mainly Computer Graphics. Bar that, it’s the same old stuff really.

Hopefully something interesting happens soon, cause 3 days a week of uni is killing me!

It was an interesting change of scenery, from the desolate, moonlike landscapes that are the bushfire stricken areas in Victoria to hot, wet Palm Cove. Everything is so green!

We stayed in a 5 star resort, pretty much lying around watching movies, soaking up the sun and getting drunk…nightly doses of complimentary fruit punch helped that along quite nicely. In between all the drinking, we managed to fit in jet skiing and scuba diving on the barrier reef, a real experience.

Can’t wait to do it again

Last weekend had to be one of the most…eventful…weekends of my life so far. Down in Geelong, surfing with some mates, when all of a sudden it starts pissing down. Giving up for the day, we make our way back to the car, to hear that half of Victoria is on fire.

Hightailing it back home, headed over to Julian’s place out in Whittlesea to help our where I could. After all the hubbub, we retired to Jess’s place in greensborough to get thoroughly drunk and belatedly celebrate Mel’s birthday.

Next morning I get woken by a call saying Sam had perished in the fires. While still taking this in, I receive another call telling me to make my way to Watsonia barracks asap, to join operation VicFires Assist.

Needless to say, not the most pleasant of weeks I’ve ever spent. Nevertheless, the ability to actually get there and do something, help people, was great. Don’t regret a thing.

After long deliberation (about 5 minutes of trying to find my phone), I bought a motorbike.

K7 GSX-R 600 with just over 2000km on the clock, 11 months rego, Oggy knobs and a fender eliminator, all for $10,000. Pretty damn happy with that, and it runs like a dream. Can’t wait to take it to a track day