| I've been a terrible blogger. And my excuses range from being incredibly bogged down by uni work during November and hence I was not very interesting at all, then super busy during the holiday period and then even busier during the first month of the new year! Go figure. So a much needed update ... with pictures! |
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| First things first, Garry (second from the left) won $110 on the Melbourne Cup which we proceeded to drink away on our personal little balcony at Cookie on Swanston. |
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| For those who keep insisting that I am NOT at uni, here is my stunning High-Distinction worthy business proposal for Multimedia Business Studies (fun times had by all indeed) ... | ... and because I'm a big fat geek, here is my giant research paper entitled "THE EBBS AND FLOWS OF MAINSTREAM ANIMATION: Tracing the Development of Mainstream Animation and Its Movement from Mass Entertainment to Saturday Morning Cartoons and Back Again" which is 39-pages full of rich, gooey research goodness. From 12,000 words down to 10,000 down to 9,869 ... oh to NEVER write an essay again! |
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| The week after I finished uni, I landed myself a data-entry job ... which somehow translates into a 6am-12pm morning shift until uni starts again. February 26th can't come fast enough! I thought my body would get used to the early starts but nope, I'm still as tired as ever, I'm DEFINITELY a night person. Ah well, thankfully, in my second week of work, they moved from South Docklands to Lt Collins St which shortened the 25 minute walk down to 8 hehe. So this is the view from Southern Cross Station footbridge (it will ALWAYS be Spencer St station to ME! *sigh*) if you've ever wondered what it might look like at 5:30 in the morning. | For something new this year, my parents decided to have Xmas lunch out of the house, at the Grace Hotel to be exact. Go the classy buffet! A far cry from Sizzler I can tell you! We even got bonbons and alcohol was included which my Dad seemed to particularly enjoy as evidenced by his headgear ... |
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| Next up on the must-do list for Melbourne was the Oz Open. As you can see, the weather was perfectly Melbournian but we managed to get through these massive queues rather quickly and camp out at the Vodafone Arena for Nalbandian vs. Grosjean (I was very tempted to shout "GROSS JEEN!!! GO GROSS JEEN!!!" several times but alas, I was sober) | Yes, that's me. And, yes, that's a tennis court. |
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| Old skool uni crew: (from back) Ian, Kat, Matt and a very large looking me. It appears a NON-viscommer took this photo seeing as I'm covering Matt and the others rather superbly with my triple chins. Thanks. | Juan Camilo (from Colombia) from New skool uni crew ... Michael was lazy and late and ended up sitting in the rain (as did Bo) waiting for Tommy Haas (for very different reasons I assume) to play on Margaret court. Alas, no matches on the outside courts all Satuday, 20th Jan! Kudos to Bo for sitting there for 6 hours. THAT's dedication! |
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| Another random court shot. Even though we were 3 rows from the back, it was a pretty good view. If I had glasses. I really need to see an optometrist this week ... I tried on Matt's glasses and it was like a whole new world!!! | I wonder who Bo is gunning for? This was the Sunday because Ian and I scammed extra tics using the rained out excuse (Bo legitimately earned hers!). He won! She had a 12x zoom! Germans are hot! |
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| In other news, after I came back from Xmas, the Animation Club, a mish-mash of students in my course, worked on a film for Tropfest and while pre-production was finished before everyone left Melbourne for Xmas (does noone actually COME from here?) the bulk of production and post-production was completed in 4-5 manic days!!! This is a screengrab from my scene ... | ... and other characters I created for another scene. I won't say anthing about the film for now, I'll upload it or post a link to the finished film at some stage if someone else uploads it first! WE'RE IN THE TOP 60 out of about 800 films so YAY US!!! Have to wait 'til Feb 10th to see if we are in the top 16 finalists or not. If we are, there will be yet another road trip to Sydney for me!!!! Weeeeeee!!!! |
