Fizzle

Sleepyhead

I’m a warm person. If you know me well, you know this statement is not in reference to my general demeanor, but my core body temperature. I get warm quite easily, especially in bed. Because my dad thought Canberra was freezing all year round he suggested i bring flannelet sheets with me at the beginning of the year. Not only did he do that, but he brought two cover sheets, instead of the other sheet (no one knows its name). So now when I am warm I can either have a doona or no coverage, and it is common wisdom that everyone likes coverage. Also, I live upstairs where it is significantly warmer than downstairs. So I sleep with my window open. I need to or I simply won’t sleep. The other day I lay in bed till 2:30 in the am before realising my window was shut, a prompt open and I was soon asleep.

Yes this story is going somewhere. Birds in Canberra are weird. Before I talk about Canberra’s aviators I shall share a bit of 3am wisdom I fell upon. Animals are not like humans, they sleep at different times. They sleep when they need/want to. They don’t think…”hey If I am going to get that worm I need to be the early bird and go to bed soon.” So why do you never see/hear birds, barring owls and bats, at night? A riveting question I thought.

Back to Canberra birds. When it hits about 8am and birds worldwide are waking from their 8 hour doze they are supposed to sing. It’s supposed to sound good. Birds here are different. I would compare their noises to a pterodactyl (I bet you thought it was spelt ‘teradactyle’ you gooses) more than bird. Then again, I guess pterodactyls are birds…

So we come to a conclusion that a bit more wisdom in packing from my father and I would be much more peaceful from the dinosaurs of this state. And who knows perhaps I would have a warmer personality due to more consistent and healthy sleeping patterns?

Where’s Your Head At?

It appears as though Rio de Janeiro has won the rights to host the 2016 Olympic games. I was looking at the voting, and among other cities there was one that I found quite strange. It was Abstention. It had only received one vote though. I had never heard of that city, so I looked it up.

I’m going to make a great journalist…

I Want You Back

So as you can see I haven’t posted in a while, due to, among other things, my boring life and inability to effectively and interestingly convey my thoughts and actions. Chances are I will still encounter that problem but I shall persevere.

Last night, being the busy uni students we are, we watched a movie. It was going to be mainly a girls night but a couple of us guys, through different reasoning, decided to stay in. The outlook was bad from the very beggining. On the way to the video store words such as “fame” and “flashdance” were being thrown about. The signs were ominous. That wasn’t the only problem though. There was a bit of a conflict as to whether we wanted to watch classic original Fame or the 2009 remake, and they say uni students care about the real issues… As we took two cars, I went straight home resigned to the fact I would be sitting through two hours of dancing and after being told that “80′s chicks aren’t hot”, my mood hardly improved. At least I had my recently purchased 13 sour warhead lollypops to drown my sorrows.

When the movie was put in, to my suprise delight it wasn’t in fact some cheesy dance movie, but The Boat That Rocked.

I found it a pretty awesome movie. The concept of 10 guys at sea listening to the best music, and just having a good time was quite appealing. The soundtrack was awesome and a bit of sentimentality creeped in while hearing the likes of Hendrix, The Beatles and a dash of Motown too.

Whilst the plot and ending were a bit ridiculous, you learn to not really take movies with Nick Frost too seriously.

On another note, follwing a spur of the moment dare I am going to see how long I can go without my beloved fast food. The last time I tried this can best be described as a spectacular fail. On average I probably go like 5 times a week so this will be quite an entertaining struggle, but a struggle nonetheless.

Also next week I have some friends coming down to visit. I have been in Canberra for seven months now and they will be my first visitors, not that they should feel guilty or anything.

Until something interesting happens next or I can bothered to post something non-interesting I shall bid you kids farewell.

four tapping shoes

you know what are heaps good? unexpected surprises.

today, i thought i had to go back to uni tomorrow, because uni starts back this week.
then, when i went to check my timetable to see what buildings my classes were in, i saw that none of my classes start till week two of semester…

bonus week of holidays heck yeah

Ride With Me

So like many others around me I have decided I’m going to get into Le Tour this year. While I don’t really fancy bike riding and the thought of doing it for 200kms straight literally hurts me, there is this aura about the Tour that is pretty hard to resist. I’ve been doing a bit of research and while I may not have the same knowledge of Tricky/ others, I thought I would share my thoughts.

Cadel Evans- After coming 2nd in the previous couple of years Evans will be pretty desparate to win it this year. There are a lot of favourites out there this year, as opposed to last, so he shouldn’t get bullied too much in some of those mountain stages. His team is a bit weak so that will present a challenge for him.

Alberto Contador- Great all round rider. Finished 2nd in yesterdays time trial but is such a strong climber. Is he actually the leader of Astana or is it Armstrong? Either way they have a strong team and he and Big Lance will defintely be in the mix come the end of it.

Dennis Menchov- Winner at this years Giro D’Italia, He was going to be my smokey coming into this years race. Had a great race last year and will be looking forward to improving even further. Not the best time trial yesterday, lapped by Cancellara 600m from the finish. Look forward to seeing him move up the field from stages 10-15 when the going gets tough.

Carlos Sastre- The defending champion. Not a noted time trialer as seen yesterday but the speed he gets up the mountains is pretty crazy. With the help of his team, the Spainard could easily go back to back.

I’m planning to stay up and watch every stage but we will see if that actually happens. I’ve been given a couple of Le Tour shifts at Fox so I’m even getting paid to watch the race. It should be a good month of July.

what up, whitebread?

cherry cola

For marketing at uni I’ve been researching sports drinks, and in my research i found a report on the most popular drinks bought per state. i was expecting coke to top every state, but actually, it’s only first in New South Wales and Victoria.
The most popular drink in WA, SA & Queensland?
Iced coffee.

I remember hearing something about how iced coffee was really popular in the northern territory because it’s too hot to drink regular coffee, but i was surprised that it’s the most popular in those other states too.
That being said, NSW & Victoria still consume enough coke to make it number one in Australia, and iced coffee only makes it to number 10 in the total Australian tally.

Hit That!

Recently, with all the assesments I’ve had, I’ve been discovering new and intersting ways to procrastinate. One of my favourite is this, The Space Bar Game. Sorry I’m not an internerd and hence don’t know hwo to embed the game. Anyway the game explains itself. My best scores are as follows

5 Seconds- 59
10 Seconds- 104
20 Seconds- 204

Each keyboard is different so try it out in as many places as you can. Unfortunatley it’s not the most quite game and hence you can’t really play in computer labs at uni, not that that stopped my trying. Also, after a while you get really tired.

Camera Obscura

Yesterday i was in the city trying to find a roll of film. I tried various stores, even a chemist, to no avail. Finally in a 7-11 I saw some film in a rack behind the counter.
I asked the guy for the roll of film, and he turned around and got me a pack of roll-your-own papers. I laughed and said, no, the film.
He then went and got me some filters.
Thinking maybe he couldn’t quite understand me, (he was esl) I clearly pronounced “film” and pointed it out.
He looked quite confused, so i added some buzz words. “photo!” “camera!”
Still very confused, he was basically looking at everything next to or around the film, but never got it. i was almost yelling now, pointing, trying to help him, but finally “kodak” seemed to get the point across and he picked up the roll of film.
He had to wipe the dust off it before he gave it to me.

Pick It Up, Lay It In The Cut

currently my sister is out of town, she has been for a week so far and will be for another two weeks due to her learning how to teach by pretending to be a real teacher.

i view this experience as a rad easy way to experiment with bacheloring awesomeness.

First thing i did was clean up the place and i’ve worked out that as long as i mainly stick to my room or stay out of the house, the rest of this dwelling stays clean. i’m way smart (or something).

a few people i know have expressed some concern about my eating habits (mainly females really, apparently boys don’t care). But actually, i’m doing fine, thanks to instant pasta and ikea meatballs i’ve been eating gastronomic delights. Huw knows what i’m talking about. the other night i even went to the supermarket after work and got some discount (ie old) meat for half price and there was enough meat to save half for another eat later on. that’s like quarter price value.

speaking of groceries, shopping is yesways easy. so far none of my shopping trip totals have been more than 9 bucks. all i really need is milk and bread and eggs, which also happens make up the ingredients of french toast, my most common meal. one of my mates laughed at me when i went shopping, cos bread, milk and eggs is pretty much the most stereotypical shopping list ever.

also, another fun (if slightly erd-nays) thing i’ve done is take my tv out of the living room and hook it up to my laptop so i can have dual-screen computing. apart from effectively doubling my computer productivity, now i can be one of those way cool white/indie kids who say “oh nah, i don’t watch tv“. especially cos now instead of watching tv i listen to records, drink coffee and read I.D.

whilst i’m on the topic of shunning modern technology so i can appear to be a hipster, the car’s battery is flat so now i walk/bum lifts/catch public transport to where ever i need to go.

bacheloring is way rad.