Guess who has a myspace? February 22, 2008
Posted by novaaesa in Computers, My Days.3 comments
Yup… I know I know, I’ve spoken out against them in the past, but I’ve decided to give it a go. Being in a new town I need a way to meet some new people. Myspace seems to be a pretty good way of doing that to me.
I know all my Linux friends will be like: tisk tisk Nova, you’ve changed 
On the upside, I’ve learned a bit more HTML and CSS in the process of ‘pimping’ my page out.
Moved to Newcastle for uni February 18, 2008
Posted by novaaesa in My Days, Uni.Tags: Uni, HSC, Kempsey, UAI, Newcastle, grandparents, Maitland, share-house, Sydney, weekends
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As a bit of a preface, take note that this blog entry really should be before the one that I made last night. I kinda forgot to write this one before and no it’s somewhat of a jumbled mess. I’m sure you can all work it out though.
Anyway… as I’m sure many of you already know, I finished the High School Certificate last year and am off to uni this year. Living in rural Australia, there are obviously no universities near where I live so I had to move. I didn’t really have much of a problem with this though, because I don’t really like Kempsey all that much anyway. I pretty much had a choice of whatever uni I wanted to go to (my UAI was high enough to do engineering wherever I wanted to). I choose to go to The University of Newcastle though for quite a few reasons, even though it’s not the best in Australia (don’t get me wrong, Newcastle Uni is still pretty good). Firstly, my older sister goes there doing a double Science/Arts degree, and also I have lots of extended family in the region. I have an Aunt and cousins in Maitland, and my grandparents live on the central coast. Most of my friends (the ones that count anyway 
, sorry Corey) go there as well.
So yeah, Software Engineering at Newcastle Uni, should be exciting. xD
Oh right the other half of the story. Okay okay I’m getting to that now. I moved into a share house with a few of my friends from school, Simon and Dan. The other people staying here are a girl our age called Kate (she’s pretty nice) and a mature aged student called Ha. She’s only here on weeknights though, because she goes back to Sydney to be with her husband and kids on the weekends.
Anyway, that’s about it for now. Maybe I will write a bit more about it later when I’m not feeling so sleepy. Being a uni student is hard work (or maybe it’s just me trying to get used to waking up at 7am :S)
Cheap Thrills February 17, 2008
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As I am now a uni student, I am always looking for a cheap thrill. It all comes down to a thrill per dollar ratio, the higher this ratio the better. Anyway, me and some of my new house mates decided that it might be a good idea to polish some of the furniture in our new place. We went to Woolworths and got some 2 aerosol cans full of furniture polish for $1.38 each. When we got home, we did a bit of polishing until someone noticed an interesting notice on the back of the can. It said something along the lines of ‘WARNING: DO NOT USE ON WOODEN FLOORS AS THEY MAY BECOME SLIPPERY’.
This is the point where things got interesting. I’m sure you can guess what happened next…
Yes that’s right, we emptied the entire contents of the two aerosols cans onto our wooden floors. Let’s just say that the floor was now as slippery as a baby pig lathered in oil. With socks on, we could do a run up (from the carpet) and slide across the boards for about 15 metres. We had competitions to see who could go the fastest, who could jump the furthest from the carpet onto the floorboards, and we even did a small limbo competition. I have to say that it was the best fun that I had in a pretty long time xD.
Anyway, it was all fun and games until Dan decided that he wanted to go a little bit too fast and ended up going arse-end first through the plasterboard wall. It was slightly funny at the time, but now we have to hide it from our landlord until we get the mess sorted out.
I have a terrible feeling that someone isn’t going to get their bond back (almost $1000)….
Guitar back in my possession February 11, 2008
Posted by novaaesa in My Days.Tags: 16th, guitar, HSC, Les Paul, loan, school
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I got my guitar back today. I was gone from me for like 10 months by now. I had lent it to a friend of mine who needed it for school stuff. He was doing Music for his High School Certificate and his guitar was somewhat… crappy. I was happy to lend it to him. He was paying me to lend it to him for a while, but that kind of got scrapped and it was just a friendly loan after that.
Anyway, here is the history of my guitar. A bit before my 16th birthday, I had a job at the local supermarket and has earned me a bit of $$$. Before that, I had an acoustic guitar for a while and wanted to learn a bit of electric guitar. Mum said that she would buy me an amplifier for my 16th birthday if I bought the guitar for with my own money. It sounded like a pretty good deal to me xD. Anyway, we went to Port Maquarie and went guitar shopping. I actually forget which shop I got it from, but I fell in Love as soon as I saw it (well, maybe that is a bit of exaggeration, but it was the nicest guitar I could afford). It Les Pauliness was the exact look I was looking for. Anyway, after that me and my guitar were best mates. I was pretty enthusiastic with the guitar playing up until around the start of year 11, at which stage there was just too much school work to be done. I kind of just sat under my bed after that. Until my friend asked if he could borrow it and it got a new home. But now, I have it back and am planning to start learning again now that I have a bit more free time.
