Speckled Green

Well, those two days were sure eventful. At Sean’s house on Thursday, Ben & Sean were busy working out the coding behind the ATM and getting it to work. I have just read an email from Sean saying that he’s finished putting it together, and now I just have to come up with an acceptable GUI design for them to conform to. Ahh… time to let my imagination roam free. Except I have to remind myself that it has to be doable. So, that will cause several ideas to be immediately ruined.

It was an enjoyable day, with Ben and his MacBook and a school laptop, Sean with his desktop plugged into the TV, and me borrowing my mum’s laptop. Ben certainly had the most resources =]  And when it came to deciding what we would have for lunch (Sean’s mum gave us a choice), since we were running short of dice, Ben even wrote up a script to randomly choose what we would eat for lunch!!

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In one week I will be back at school, living the horrible, or different, or whatever, life of a Senior high schooler, with all the pros and cons… and I’ll also be scrambling to get a copy of Lord Sunday!! But, really, what are my chances of grabbing a copy on that Monday, let alone that week?? Probably higher than I think, actually.

So, as the month of January draws to a close, and I learn that I can’t spell the name of the month as the spell checker flags it up, what do I have to do to prepare for school? You’d think I’d know it all by now, but every single year, I feel I’ve forgotten something, just like every morning I go to school, I think now, what have I forgotten today? Normally turns out that I haven’t really forgotten something, it’s just me being kinda paranoid… or overly worried… yeah, overly worried is a better description. Read more »

It’s been almost a month since I last posted something on my blog, and in that month, I’ve done my school certificate, badly went through my piano exam, had a get-together at Ben’s place, and played plenty of games.

Not much that’s happened really.

My piano exam was last Tuesday (17th November). Didn’t do as well as I should’ve. Didn’t practise enough though, so that is my own fault. Not pleased with my result, but I’m happy I passed and that it’s done, finally.

Thursday saw the Band ‘Christmas’ Concert, with performances from all the bands in the school, plus a few other groups. It also, sadly, saw the farewell of our Band Conductor/Master for the last 11 years. Bye Mark!! We’ll miss you (well, some of us will at any rate)!

After my piano exam, I haven’t really been bothered doing work much. Playing games a lot, reading books, playing what-ever-I-feel-Like on the piano…… Friday arvo, I went over to Ben’s place to have a celebration of sorts. Also there was Don, Lok and Simon. Mostly all we did was play Halo 3. Once again, Ben and I dominated, unless they forced us to play solo while they teamed up. Then it was much harder. But Ben and I still got nice scores (even if neither of us won). For hours we played, stopping only for food, drink, monopoly, and for all the others except Lok and I (who didn’t feel tired at all) sleep. On that thought, I didn’t really feel tired till I had been awake for 36 hours straight………. Finally went to bed at 9:41 pm, which means I had been awake for over 40 hours. Tiring.

But, besides playing games all night/morning long, my brother has finally got a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the Xbox 360, and so I’ve been playing through that (I really suck at it… maybe I’ll be better when I learn the levels), and watching my brother playing online multi-player games. Definitely looks, feels and sounds awesome, and is a step up from CoD4.

But now I gotta go to Church, so I’ll just end this post here and now. Besides, I don’t really have much more to say, except that having only 5 hours of sleep before being awake for over 36 hours makes me feel really tired (unless I get distracted, or have caffeine!!)

P.S. This post is the 256th post by me, Ant! BTW, 256 is 2^8

Yes, I’m alive. I just haven’t felt like writing. Haven’t felt like doing much except mindlessly reading stuff from my school books, and playing on the Xbox about once every 4 days. In these holidays, my attention span seems to have shrunk from 10+ minutes, to about 30 seconds. On that thought. My ability sleep in has gone from ‘not really sleeping in’ to ‘kinda sleeping in’ (from 6:50 am to 8:30 am). I think I feel better waking up at 6 am than 8:30 am.

Probably the only thing that’s worth a real mention here in this post is the small outing some of us people of the ‘Back-stoop’ & others had on the 1st Tuesday of the hols. We met up in Parra for lunch (after Anthony and Michael Lee had a ‘study’ session, which included hardcore study of Tap Tap Revolution), before wandering towards the Cinemas to buy our tickets for our movie (Mao’s Last Dancer, very good movie, you should all go watch it if you haven’t already). As usual, the guys out-numbered the girls, but that didn’t stop us guys following the girls like a gaggle of geese around the shops, till we realised that they were shopping for formal dresses and such, and then strangely we felt like going off on our own. Read more »

As we edge closer to the middle of July, I take a moment to catch up to saying Happy Birthday to people (even if I’ve already said Happy Birthday to them in person).

Happy Birthday to Stuart, who was a year older on Thursday. Happy Birthday to my Dad, who was another year older on Friday. And Happy Birthday to Dietrich, who is a whole year older today.

Gloomy day to start the holidays. One of these days, I’m gonna walk down to that new Woolworths that has opened in Bella Vista, and see what else is in there. Might even be able to see a movie, or go out somewhere for a while to do something different for once. Oh, and having had a quick look at Mr Simmon’s “Virtual B15″, HE USES THE MANDIGO THEME for WordPress! Great Taste, Mr Simmons!

Yeah, so, I haven’t posted (anything about life that is) in a while, even though it’s the holidays. So here goes.

On Tuesday 14th April, 2009, I went to the orthadontist. Yeah yeah, nothing special, except that after one and a half hours I got my braces. That was what… 2 and a bit days ago? I wonder how long till I’m used to them… Yeah, so, if you see me now, I’ve got braces (the first Baulko people to see me were… I’ll talk about that later). Read more »

Happy Birthday Yeli!!

Oh, and sorry about forgetting you cousin Paul… Happy Birthday to you last week. =]

Holidays so far have been unproductive, most because I don’t want to face the work infront of me… Miss seeing my friends, but happy that I get to sleep in (wait.. I haven’t been sleeping in…) and read books and stories…

The name of a river, and the name of the cabins I’ve stayed at for the past week. It was a long drive up there, around 4 and a half hours in total, including the breaks and time spent working out where on the map we where (actually, we didn’t have a map of the area…). The place was rather well set up, although the trees around the cabins could’ve been changed a bit to encourage more wildlife (some more flowers would’ve brought birds!!) Read more »

Back at last from the holiday trip. Feeling a bit tired, mostly from the car drive. Had to watch out for leeches in the forests up there!! My parents got bitten, but my brother’s and my own vigilant watch made sure we didn’t get any.

We stayed in a cabbin next to the State Forest up there, Barrington Tops State Forest. Went on a few walks through the forest. Enjoyable, but tiring. Managed to read through 2 and a half Artemis Fowl books while I was there, and still find time to play on my DS… more of a recap later, when I feel better…

Next week I’ll be gone from Monday morning till Friday afternoon, off up the coast past Newcastle, with my family. Spending a week doing nothing much but sitting around, relaxing, and I don’t know what else. Wish I had some new books to read…

Nothing much been happening with me. Now Level 12 in Oblivion (yay!!). Had some fun playing with Andrew, Kevin and Don yesterday on Halo 3, my brother joining in later. Looking for a copy of Ryan and Sean’s Not So Excellent Adventure. Hope it’ll be good.