Well it seems that every one is joining up on these social networking site thingys, so I decided to join facebook (www.facebook.com). Anyway it looks pretty good, however some idiots have put down Haileybury as being in Canada, so theres two Haileybury Colleges that you have to add yourself to. Just thought I’d share!!!

I decided that my blog needed a small face lift, so I have changed the colour of the heading to a nice blue, resized and changed the font. Overall I think it looks better than what It used to. On another note, school was pretty good today, however Luke today spent about an hour, applying for, canceling and getting information on an ABN. Eventually after a visit to the finance department at Haileybury he decided that an ABN wasn’t for him and simply filled out the declaration form he’d been given in the first place. Anyway now I don’t think a single staff member/department is unaware of Luke and his ABN troubles.

On another note Pat has received 150 free sms from 3, so I thought I should congratulate him on this wonderful effort.

An update about whats been happening recently:

Last Night’s Spring Sports Presentation Night went off without too many hitches, anyway none of them were our/my fault, although Luke came awfully close to not turning on a microphone when Stefan went to speak. Mr. Twist looked really pissed off after some students got a little too personal with the lady presenting the awards.

Today I woke up late (as usual on Saturdays) and helped the Foxtel guy fix our Foxtel cause someone had to change the menu settings while he played around with the cable, I then went out for lunch down at Zanubas (Toorak Place), they took ages and substituted Tomato, for Cheese on my Toasted BLT which was rather strange. After that we went home and I then walked up to Chadstone and bought Citizen Kane (I didn’t buy it on the book list cause it was a ripoff, I got my copy for $22.95), and I also bought a couple of CD’s from JB Hi-Fi.

On the Editorial front everything is looking good, however Mr. Lawson keeps calling me Andrew (Ms. Fanhauser calls me Andrew as well so obviously I look like an Andrew that went to Haileybury), 0ur new camera has arrived, its a Canon EOS 400D which is pretty good, so hopefully I get to use that over the next few weeks.

Also if you didn’t notice I have run out of ideas for titles for my posts, any suggestions would be welcome.

One Last thing, Don’t forget to turn your clocks forward by one hour at 2:00 am Sunday (thats tonight)

Since my last post a couple of hours ago, people have been asking me about the cat that is mentioned in the survey (the one that was walking on the keyboard). So I have decided to introduce him to the world, his name is Simba (very original) and he is less than one year old. He can be highly frustrating, and funny, and he also thinks that he is better than me.

Here are some photos of him: (Click on the photos to open a bigger version)

Pant recently posted this survey on his blog, so I decided to do it to give all my loyal fans an insight into the mysterious me, plus boredom had a bit to do with it.

SECTION 1 - YOU

+ Known as: Matt (Pedders, or as Rohit calls me, Perfect Prefect)
+ Born: 07/06/89
+ Hair color: Blonde
+ Eyes: Blue

SECTION 2 - HAVE YOU EVER

+ Fallen off the bed?: Not that I know of
+ Broken someone else’s heart?: Yes
+ Had your heart broken?: No
+ Has a dream come true?: No

SECTION 3 - CURRENTLY…

+ Wearing: Long sleeve shirt, jeans and shoes
+ Listening to: Bob Sinclar – Love Generation (it’s on the radio right now)
+ Located: In front of my computer
+ Chatting with: Sarah
+ Should REALLY be: doing Anything but this (ie preparing for exams)

SECTION 4 - DO YOU…

+ Have any piercings: No
+ Drive a car?: Not legally
+ Have a cell phone: Yes (an awesome Siemens SF65)

SECTION 5 - LAST PERSON YOU…

+ Hugged: It was either Bosko, Alastair or Satwick I can’t quite remember
+ IMed: Aaron
+ Talked: does telling the cat to get off the keyboard count?
+ Texted: Michael

SECTION 6 - PERSONAL…

+ What do you usually think about before you go to bed? Tomorrow
+ Do you want children? Yes

SECTION 7- FAVORITES

+ Show: Frasier
+ Food: KFC
+ Color: Blue

SECTION 8 - DO YOU…

+ Like to give hugs: I suppose so, people always seem to hug me!
+ Like to walk in the rain: Hell no
+ Prefer black or blue: Blue
+ Sleep on your side: Yes
+ Have stuffed animals: somewhere, I know I have a cool teddy camel I bought in central Australia lying around somewhere

SECTION 9- THIS OR THAT

+ Pierced nose or tongue: neither
+ MTV or BET: MTV
+ 7th Heaven or Dawsons Creek: 7^th Heaven
+ Color or black-and-white photos: colour
+ Stay up late or sleep in: both
+ Hot or cold: hot
+ Sun or moon: moon
+ Left or Right: left
+ 10 Acquaintances or one best friend: one best friend
+ Happy or sad: Happy (who would want to be sad)
+ Wonder or amazement: Wonder

SECTION 10: FIRSTS.

First Screen Name?: noghriwillkill
First self purchased CD: Can’t remember
First pet: Dog – Ceaser (he was a Doberman)
First piercing: don’t have one

SECTION 11: LASTS

Last time you cried: maybe 5 years ago
Last phone call: about 20 seconds ago
Last time you laughed: just before when the cat fell off my desk
Last purchased CD: a couple of weeks ago at JB Hi Fi

SECTION 12: CURRENT.

Current mood: content
Current food: just had a Magnum Ego Caramel
Current annoyance(s): the damn cat

SECTION 13: WHO LAST…

1. Made you smile?: Mr Berry
2. Saw you cry?: don’t know

SECTION 14: WOULD YOU RATHER..

1. Be serious or be funny? Be funny by being serious
2. Drink whole or skim milk? Whole (skim is shit)
3. Spend time with your parents or enemies? parents

SECTION 15: DO YOU PREFER…

1. Do you prefer grey or black? black
2. Lust or love? love
3. Sunrise or sunset? sunrise
4. M&M’s or skittles? M&M’s (Peanut)

SECTION 16: ANSWER TRUTHFULLY…

1. Do you like/love anyone?: Yes
2. Do you believe in love at first sight?: Nope
3. Do you miss someone right now?: Yes

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Today we officially became year 12’s, with many people receiving senior ties. On Friday morning I was called by Mrs. Furusho who told me that I had been selected as a prefect this year which was quite a shock, so today I had my first prefect meeting.

This year I have some pretty good teachers, as well as some pretty bad teachers, however the subjects are good. Tomorrow we have a whole school assembly which I beleive is where the Year 12’s officially become the Senior Class of 2007, and of course we heard the new school song today and it was no where near as good as the old one (Vivat Haileyburia). Also we came 5th (I think) in athletics!!

The Class of 2006 has officially graduated, with their ceremony going off last night without a hitch. I of course attended to take photos and I managed to get some pretty good shots of the graduates as they accepted their certificate from the Hon. Justice Ross Sundberg. Overall it was a pretty good ceremony, and I think a special mention goes to Mrs. Brown whom accepted Simon’s honourary graduate certificate (Simon passed away earlier this year).

Yesterday being the year twelves last day was rather emotional (for the year 12 at least) with there being a last assembly, and a last chapel. The assembly was really good considering we (luke) spent a fair time getting ready, however we spent close to half an hour down at Newlands trying to get their banner (Jimmy sent us down to Newlands to get it, however the hall down there was locked so we asked Mrs. Robinson to open it for us, she said that she may not have the keys and would have to ask Mr. Davey, after saying this Alastair and James burst out laughing so she got really suspicous and said she would have to ring Senior School)

Anyway congratulations to the class of 2006, and good luck for the future.

Finally I’m bloody competent in VET IT 3 & 4, which means that I can do my Final Exam. Anyway it wasn’t actually that hard and the only reason that it took me so long is that I was lazy and kept mucking around in class.

Also Today many people (Luke, James, & Alistair) have been asking me why I quit my job so here’s a quick run through,
-They wanted to pay me less
-I would be doing more work
-The hours weren’t as flexible
-They were getting me to help some rather objectionable websites get more visitors
-The company will be closing down its Australian operations over the next 3 years (starting with Brisbane, then moving down to Melbourne before finally closing Sydney)

Also on Thursday I will be at Graduation to take photos, which will be fun. I will also be at Athletics on Saturday and I urge you all to come, I think Haileybury will be chartering a bus (or two) so that you can go support the team, if not Olympic Park is extremely easy to get to as it’s on the Pakenham, Cranbourne, Frankston, Sandringham, Alamein, Glen Waverley, Belgrave and Lilydale train lines (Richmond Station is the closest station to Olympic Park, simply walk down Swan St) Anyway I hope to see you there.

I’ve finished all of my IT work finally, so now I just have to get it assessed, and yesterday I quit my job, I had this planned for a number of weeks and it was certainly no suprise to my boss. So I am now in the hunt for a new job, however I have resigned to the fact that I will not be able to get a job that was as flexible or paid as much as my old one. Anyway just thought I’d let everyone (by which I mean Luke) know.

Well three exciting things have happened this week, one, Telstra launched its ‘NextG‘ network which is pretty much 3G that runs on a lower frequency than 2100Mhz that Optus, 3 and Vodafone use. Telstra also launched the “hiptop” service here in Australia. For those of you whom have no experience with these little devices they are similar to blackberry’s, PDA’s etc however they are much simpler to use and focus more on entertainment, web surfing, chat, so they are pretty much fun blackberry’s, anyway some people at work use them to keep in touch with friends, colleagues etc around the world. Now the amazing thing about this service is that Telstra are actually extremely well priced, its $30 for unlimited data/usage in a month, anyway I won’t be getting one simply because I hate Telstra. Visit Telstra’s HipTop website for more info

On a similar topic, I’m now with Optus again as Vodafone amazingly managed to piss me off more than what Optus used to. As much as I didn’t want to go back to Optus, there were simply no other choices that suited me, anyway I have kept my Vodafone number which was a pain in the ass to port across (ask Luke, I seemed to have real issues with the recording asking me my phone number), well everything is done now and I’m now a ‘happy’ customer with Optus.