Well Christmas is over for another year. I was fairly pleased with what I got. Anyway to recap my week, well I went to the Boxing Day Test (Cause I’m an MCC member), and also went to day 2. Then Yesterday spent most of the day doing nothing and then today did nothing again except have a swim. Also Yesterday the guys from Melbourne Water came out to fix the sewerage pipe on our road, cause apparently tree roots had grown into it so that was a rather disgusting visit. In my week ahead I will be going fishing on Port Phillip Bay, going down to the Mornington Peninsula to visit my Grandmother, and possibly up to our house at Gembrook to ride motorbikes etc.

Well I just got home from Jenny and Tony’s annual Christmas party (they’re family friends), I didn’t drink much however my parents did so we caught a taxi home. It was a good night with the usual Christmas songs, food and presents. Well it’s Christmas Eve now, tomorrow is Christmas and Luke I have no idea what you can buy your dad for Christmas but the fact that you asked me an hour ago is a worry.

Well today I finished my Christmas shopping, I also ran into Mr. Scott at the bank. In other news it’s just a little over two days until Christmas which will prove to be its usual tiring self, we are having lunch at my nanna’s (my mum’s mother) with my uncle & auntie etc. Also today I booked my flight up to Sydney in June, I’m flying up there on the 25th June on QF 430 and flying back on the 2nd July on QF 419. Anyway the flights cost me 16,000 frequent flyer points each way (business class) so now I’ve only got 100,000 points left, the reason I’m going up there is because my brother will be moving up there in February, and I’ve never actually got to look around Sydney as I’ve only been there for a couple days at a time, so hopefully being there a week I will get to have a look around plus because I will be 18 I can do some pub crawls.

Well Time magazine has announced the winner of its person of the year, and it is you. Apparently no one person stood out this year so they decided that everyone deserved to be person of the year.

In other news I went up to Chadstone to buy some Borders vouchers, and tickets to the Australian Open, I then headed in to South Yarra to buy Gold Pass tickets to the movies, and being on Chapel Street I decided to do some shopping at JB Hi-Fi and ended up walking out with the Indiana Jones box set which was only $39.98 (was $88.95) so I felt like I got a bargain.

Today I went and saw the new James Bond film, Casino Royale up at Hoyts. I thought it was pretty good (I’m a sucker for James Bond films) and was much better than some of the previous James Bond films (the modern ones, not the old ones which I think are good). In other news I’ve bought a new wireless modem which is much better than our old one (the new one is made by CISCO). Well it’s now only a week until Christmas, and people are running around like mad trying to finish their Christmas shopping which is annoying for people like me whom are picking things up like magazines from Borders.

Tomorrow I will be running around Chadstone, and the City, picking up things like tennis tickets, and gift vouchers (I seem to be doing all my families Christmas shopping for them). Hope your all having a great break, study hard and don’t do drugs.

Well today has been a very smoke filled and busy day. Anyway I spent most of my day looking for a Pocket PC for Dad (it’s his birthday/christmas present), and as it turns out Myer are the cheapest place (I couldn’t believe it either). I also managed to convince Mum to spend money upgrading our home wireless network as ours seems to dislike if it if you are more than a foot away. Also I had an argument with Connex today as my yearly metcard failed and they are unwilling to give me a new one, (well they’re willing but it’s going to cost me $14), anyway after a long and drawn out argument I now have a new metcard. I also must mention that I’m insanely jealous of Luke and his adventures with Clarabel, also my name is in the paper (both The Age and Herald Sun) because of my score in VET IT.

Well today was the big day, with VCE students receiving their results. I must say I was very suprised with my VET IT mark, but a little disappointed with my International Studies mark (it wasn’t a suprise however). Here are my results;

IN12 - Information Technology (Software Apps)
GA 1: A+
GA 2: A
GA 3:
Study Score : 40

ISO3 - International Studies
GA 1: A
GA 2: B
GA 3: B
Study Score: 32

So as you can see, I was shocked with my VET IT marks, and a little disappointed with International Studies. Now its on to Year 12.

I’m amazed that bushfires that are hundreds of kilometres away manage to fill my backyard with smoke. However it wasn’t all that bad, It meant that I spent the last two days indoors watching movies. I ended up watching United 93, which I was rather disappointed in (The Seconds From Disaster - Flight 93 documentary was much better), and an Australian film ‘Kenny’, I must admit it was one of the best Australian films I’ve ever seen (it however can’t quite compete with ‘The Castle’). I then spent today watching the ‘Make Poverty History’ concert DVD which I was rather impressed with considering it came free in a newspaper. After this I spent the rest of the day watching CNN newsclips, and watching music videos on Bigpond Music.

Well today was my final day of school for this year. Today was fairly relaxed, with only one of my classes actually running (Math Lecture). We had an end of year assembly, which was rather good. The school rock band was pretty good, singing ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ by The Verve. Also I got my blazer back from the uniform shop, it now looks pretty good, with my Prefect, Drama and Editorial colours/honours now on it.

Well the Speech Nights are over, with Newlands capping off a great year last night. In typical speech night fashion they were rather boring, however I managed to get some pretty good shots. Today we had a Newlands end of term assembly, which was rather boring, I spent most of the time talking to Mr. Freeman. The highlight was of course Mr. Bacon making an idiot of himself in the staff rock band.

Also the school magazine will be distributed at the beginning of next year, with volume 2 coming roughly at the start of term 2.

Finally, Alastair Bryant now has a web presence with his blog Paradoxical Oxymoron (seriously I think they were all on drugs when they thought up their blog names)