Sorry about the lack of posts recently but I have simply been too busy! Here’s what has been happening during the last couple of weeks,

I have of course been working which has been fun, however going home on the train every night has been extremely painful as the trains are packed with both business people, and noisy kids whom had been to the Royal Melbourne Show, the latter being extremely annoying as it seems every showbag contains something that is big, noisy and painful. Also it looks like we (work) are going to be bought out by a large American company (can’t tell you who) so that will prove to be interesting.

This last week however I only worked two days and had the rest off, in which I went shopping at Chadstone to get some new shoes, clothes etc and today I spent an hour at the ANZ bank in Chadstone sorting out my bank account as they keep charging me these ATM card replacement fees however amazingly I have never requested or received a new ATM card, so anyway they wiped those charges as they believed me when I said that I had no need for 7 new ATM cards that I had supposedly ordered.

In the computer world I have gotten into “The Movies” game, and have spent many hours attempting to make a 5 star movie (3 is the highest I’ve gotten), I also borrowed the game Hearts of Iron II from work (it is a WWII strategic game), the graphics aren’t great (its like a board game type layout) however the actual strategy is extremely in depth and challenging. Well I have nothing interesting to say, except go the Swans in the AFL Grand Final (I have adopted them because they were once Sth. Melbourne) and go the Storm in the other, crappier grand final.

As you have probably already noticed I have updated the style of my blog. I think the new style certainly suits my blog, making it sharper and more modern. I have attached a screenshot from my old design for memories sake, and it also helps compare the two designs

Well that’s it for Physics for the rest of my life, never again will I have to listen to another ‘Newtons Laws of Motion’ lectures, never again will I have to work out net forces, energy loss etc. On a slightly less joyous note it is also the end of Psychology for me as well, and while I didn’t dislike the subject I decided not to do it next year simply because it was my least favourite of the 5 subjects I was deciding on. So now that my Unit 1 & 2 exams are over, I can concentrate on my 3 & 4 subjects

Of course many of you will be aware that today was also Nicolaai Morris’ last day at Haileybury as he is going to Singapore to attend the Australian International School over there. So he brought his video camera to school and did some filming, and said some goodbyes to staff (he had a particularly long talk with Mr. Bell)

Thats all from me, I’m off to enjoy my hard earned break.

The new public transport smart card has been unveiled and will be called Myki (pronounced My Key). So what does this mean for me, well I have no idea as information on the smartcard is limited, however one concern I have is how it will affect my student pass (I currently receive unlimited travel in Melbourne for $400 a year)

For more info go to www.myki.com.au or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myki

I have long been plagued by the incompetence of the people over at Optus, so I have taken my business elsewhere - Vodafone. So I’m now on a $79 Super-Cap which suits me perfectly however due to my move to Vodafone I have a new mobile number (I could have kept my old number but that would have meant dealing with Optus). The only complaint I have about Vodafone is that their reception is not as good as Optus however I only noticed this when I was in the city loop in which Optus receives minimal reception (Vodafone gets none - however Optus generally got none as well). One thing I did notice while I was on the hunt for a new mobile plan was that apart from Optus and Vodafone there really is no competition in the GSM market. (who in the world would voluntarily sign up with Telstra?).

Yesterday I went to Olympic Park at 9:00am, and took photos of Athletics for about two hours, I then went into the City to get my mobile plan (I was amazed, I was only in the Vodafone store for about 5 minutes, compared to the usual hour it takes over at Optus), I then caught a tram (route 112 if your really interested) to MSAC and spent the rest of my afternoon taking photos of Volleyball and at about 3:00 pm I got sick of taking photos and decided to go home.

Anyway that is my news for the weekend, anyway I should be off studying for exams but its only English and I really don’t care enough.

Exams begin next week which I’m completely unprepared for however I’m not that worried as they are only Unit 2 subjects and Unit 3 & 4 Trial exams. I would have studied more if I simply did not have so much to do because as many of you know Haileybury has shortened the year by about six weeks, and in typical Haileybury style none of my teachers have planned for this from the beginning of the year and are now trying to cram six weeks of course work into one week which means that I’ve been doing outcomes, SAC’s, test, competency assesments, assignments, summaries and oral presentations pretty much every class of every day.

In other news I received my Drama colours on Tuesday due to my Tattoo contributions as well as for doing some things on Haileybury Online, Photos etc. On Saturday I’ll be at Olympic Park to take more photos of Athletics, I will then be heading down to MSAC to get some shots of Volleyball, which I stupidly promised Mr. Schneiders that I would do, anyway I hope you all enjoy your weekend.

The end of Term is fast approaching, with only one more week before exams. Unfortunately I have an exam on every day, with some days having two exams. This morning I had to get up early to go to school and take photos of Middle School Touch, which has to be the stupidest sport (right up there with Triathlon) that Haileybury ‘offers’. After I finished I went and had lunch in Caulfield, before heading home.

This coming week should prove to be exciting, with an Aerobics Championship Assembly on Tuesday, followed by morning tea in the Barney Allen center for those involved in the Tattoo (for six nights), and Mr. Bell told me on Thursday that I would be receiving Drama colours this week for my Tattoo services as well. Also on Tuesday I have to go to some Water Polo event during lunch and take photos.

On a completely different note, I got a letter from the MCC (Those guys love sending me pointless mail) telling me that I can go to the Grand Final because Im both a member of the MCC and VRC which have reciprocal rights with each other, and I can bring one ‘guest’, so thats bound to make my school holidays exciting, now I just hope that a Victorian team gets into the Grand Final.