Speckled Green

Well, now it’s time for me to wait for Uni offers. Cannot be bothered talking too much about it on here. I know this is a personal blog, but a part of me is somewhat reluctant to give too much detail of my life, even though an astute(?) person could go through several of my posts and tell an awful lot about me (particularly if they’re of the Sherlock Holmes deductive genius level). Like all my grammatical or spelling errors I’ve made. There’s probably already one in this post, and I’ve barely finished the first paragraph. Read more »

Well, I haven’t posted since November 2011. What should I talk about in this post? Oh, I know. A generalised glossing over of what’s happened in the last 34 days or so!

So, let me see… I remember it was fun… and there was food. And friends. And fun. Oh, and at least 2 movies. And popcorn. And Skyrim. Lots of Skyrim.

Ok, well, first their was a friend’s belated birthday ‘party’, where several of us met up at Castle Towers to watch Puss in Boots (3D!), and then a rather enjoyable dinner at an Indian restaurant afterwards. Besides all the laughs, the conversations, and meeting new people, or eating a lot of food as I seemed to do, it was great to be with friends again!! Even if I had been with them just a few days before… You can never be with friends too often, right? Darn, this widescreen is messing up with my ability to judge how long this post is… Time for a blog redesign, I say! I just wish someone would do the visual designing for me, I’m awful at creating designs (I just find something I like on the internet, and make my own version of it). Read more »

Looking at the photos of formal, Year 12, past years, from parties, school events, days out, and such, I asked myself a simple question.

If the world were to end now, would I have any regrets about my life?

And yet, despite the simple nature of the question, I find myself thinking that its answer is a very deep and complex one, an answer that causes me to think deeply, relive yet more memories, and an answer which I am finding it very hard to, well, answer. I suppose that like most people, there are things I do regret about my life, things that I wish I had done differently or not at all, but large portions of my life I do not regret at all. In fact, I’m quite glad to have such cheerful, supportive and fun friends, and I can only hope that we continue to be good friends throughout our lives and well beyond our high-school (or uni) years. Read more »

Well, it’s been a while. Almost a month since I wrote my last blog post, and in that time, some stuff has actually happened. Yes, I know. Shocking. Life happening. Read more »

I’ve just had a realisation about how I treat smartphones these days. If I can’t afford the top-of-the-line phone, I ignore all the others in the middle and look at the ‘budget’ end phones (e.g. Nokia C6-01 or Nokia 700). It’s like I think to myself “If I can’t get the best, don’t bother settling for the next best thing. Stick with simple and let your iPod or PC handle the fancier functions.” So, somewhere in my mind, I’ve already decided that it’s the Samsung Galaxy S II or the Nokia 700. Not even going to consider the Samsung Galaxy S, or the HTC Aria, or whatever middle range phones there are. Read more »

I really should get around to removing all the non-backup duplicates of files I have on the computer. Such as the 2 extra copies of the photos of our New Zealand holiday in 2001 (or was it 2000? I cannot remember. Maybe it was 2002…). Or the 3 copies of my phone’s memory card. I’m sure that there’s not too many things of value on each copy that was different. I suppose after the HSC (probably around Christmas time, when I’m not partying, or on holidays, or watching movie marathons, or practising piano/flute/clarinet/guitar… can’t be practising piccolo any more by then because I’d have returned it to the school =[  Unless I buy my own) I can just go through the… (at this point I paused in my writing to find out how many files I have in my “Documents” Library) …54,093 files contained within 4,550 folders, taking up 39.9GB… Read more »

Been a little while since my last post (too lazy to find out when I did post last) and I thought I could just type out something quick. Although I’m not sure it’ll end up that way.

So, latest big event to happen to me was I met Matthew Reilly at the book signing in Parramatta last Thursday (13th Oct.). He was very friendly, and warned me to not read the new book until after I finish my HSC. Advice I plan to follow. Sadly, it is awfully hard to do that, and I am continually tempted to pull the book out and open it up to find out what happens in the latest instalment of the Scarecrow series. I’m hoping I can at least manage some level of self control and not read it until at least near the end of my HSC. And speaking of the HSC, I’m trying to not think about the looming nature of it, hence the title. Yes, I know, that doesn’t make much sense. Read more »

So, time is pushing me closer and closer to my HSC, and I’m sitting here typing up a blog post. Oh well. Beats playing games. I hope.

As I head towards my HSC, the distractions that a procrastinator looks for drives me to read stuff other than my text book. One of the things I looked up was the prices of unlocked phones. Needless to say, the prices for certain models have come down, although that has more of the fact that prices come down over time rather than the exchange rate changing, which recently has dropped us below parity with the US dollar, but that’s a whole other story. Anyways, what I want to know is why the Galaxy S II was listed on simplymobiles.com.au as $729, but the “Optus version” and white version are listed as $685. And they’re all unlocked and have the same specs listed. So what’s the difference in the price? Two got updated and someone forgot the normal Galaxy S II? Or is it about the popularity (supply & demand)? Read more »

Speeches were given, songs were sung, dances done, slide shows hung (hey, I was trying to make it rhyme). My graduation has occurred, and joining over 60,000 people across the state who over the last couple of days have done just like me, completed around 13 years of schooling (some more, some less), and have felt emotional, cried, laughed with joy, experienced relief, or something else. Read more »

It’s the evening/night before my graduation from High School, and I’m feeling a mixture of emotions. Part of me is obviously sad to leave a place I’ve grown to love over the last 6 years. The students there are all brilliantly smart (and awfully hard to beat in exams), mostly mature and responsible, kinda a sheltered haven from the rest of the world (filled with plenty of immature people, sadly). Part of me is further saddened to think that I’ll be losing regular contact with plenty of my friends, through the fact that we’d be going to different unis, live pretty far apart (one of the problems with academically selective schools is how everyone lives so far away from it), or just get out of contact. Read more »