Donkey Fish

Back again? Well not really...

2008-04-22T09:54:00.002+10:00

Wow this blog got off to a flying start then nothing for 323 days. Par for the course really, what did you expect?

My life in the last 323 days? 10 words (or mini sentences):

Meeting Roni at Homebake
Japan Snowboarding
USA and Canada Work Trip
Festivals (V, Field Day, Splendour, Homebake)
Ross Noble comedy gold
Considering university in 2009
Board Games
3rd in Aus in Battlefield 2 competition
3 trips to Sunshine Coast to see family
Still a smoker damn it

facebook horses

2007-06-04T10:11:00.000+10:00

So I got a couple of invites to facebook and decided to sign up. God knows the total number of things I have signed up for on the interweb now. Must be at least a hundred by now. Anyway facebook is another social networking site kinda like myspace. Here's my profile. So go on sign up. You know you want to :P

Won $70 on the horses yesterday which was kinda cool. Thing is I'm not really a betting person normally, but friends were putting $ down so I thought I would try my luck. Worked out better for me this time than the last time when I lost about $70 :)

Not sure

2007-05-25T12:47:00.000+10:00

Everyone who has a blog seems to write an opinion about something. Unlike me, I have an opinion about nothing. I don't even have a favorite colour. It not that I try to be opinionless it just happens that way. So that's why I don't write about it and instead just say what I've been up to. Which I'm sure is boring but some people might be interested to know what I've been up to. Like my parents. And a few friends I haven't seen in a very long time. So thanks for stopping by.

Although I do think that the story about the 17 year old girl who was stoned to death in Iraq because she loved the wrong man is very sad and a disgusting state of affairs, and easily the most disturbing thing I read this week. Source. But what can I do about it? Nothing I am afraid. It's not that I don't want to, I just don't know where to start.

So to console myself tomorrow I'm going to go to the races to drink beer and lose money on horses. (It's someone's birthday who I don't really know but I am friends with her friends).

Oh and I thought this was funny :)

Back to reality

2007-05-15T08:31:00.000+10:00

What an awesome trip that was! Swimming, Snorkelling, Sailing, Eating, Drinking, Chilling. Crazy good times. Lots of piccies up here.

Back to reality this week. Work is seriously depressing. Not all the time but it is right now because last week was so much fun. Post holiday blues. Ah well. Got my Splendour tickets yesterday. Took me three hours online getting them. Stupid Oztix queue system keep kicking me to the back of the queue. Retarded. Bring on August!

Holiday time!

2007-05-04T08:34:00.000+10:00

Woohoo! Last day at work for a week. Tomorrow morning I fly off to Hamilton Island for a bit of a break. Gonna be sailing around the Whitsundays on this:

Oh and in case you are wondering the Whitsundays look like this:

Yes I am looking forward to it :)

See y'all when I get back...

Good God?

2007-04-05T12:55:00.001+10:00

clipped from www.cs.helsinki.fi

4 day week hooray!

2007-04-02T08:02:00.000+10:00

Started boot camp this morning. Ouch. What is boot camp? This. Wasn't too bad this morning really. Did a fitness test so we can gauge where we are at now vs. when we finish. 2.4km run, as many pushups as you can in 3 mins, then as many situps in 3 min, then another thing which I forgot the name. Theres all sorts of people on this thing. From very fit, to very not. Seem like a nice enough bunch. Pity they're all Aussies. Ha :P Managed 8:06 on the run, then 28 pushups and 23 situps. Not very good but not very bad either.

Went and met Steve on Friday night for a few beers. Used to live with him in Auckland in '99. Took him down the rocks to Lowenbrau and then Orient. Was a good night. Little hung over the next am. Then Saturday was the V festival. Definite highlight for me was Groove Armada. 2 Many DJ's and Pixies were also good. Took this one pretty easy, cos I knew it was coming up to the boot camp.

Not smoking is going well. Day 11 now. Managed to get a little drunk on Friday and not have one so that was a good test. Then the music festival on Sat was another which I passed with flying colours. Pretty happy with that. I think it should be easy enough whilst I am still doing boot camp. The next big test I think will not be until August during Splendour but thats a way aways and if I make it that far then the skys the limit.

Easter coming up. What to do... Hmmm. Have an invite to Lightning Ridge but not really sure that I wanna go. Would be quite happy to just chill over the break so we shall have to see.

OK enough of this. Laters.

My Weekend

2007-03-26T11:24:00.000+10:00

Had a great weekend with the family up on the Sunshine Coast (Caloundra to be exact).

The most exciting part was definitely going off road in my bro's 4WD Nissan Patrol. Check out the pics here

I managed to get it stuck and ripped the left front wheel off the rim. Oops. Sorry bro. But it all turned out good cos he got it fixed up for free. Yay :)

Splendour 2007

2007-03-22T12:05:00.000+11:00

Well Bloc Party is confirmed for Splendour 2007, so I have booked flights, friends have booked accommodation, and we're on our way. It's in August this year, so now I can't wait.

I'm off to see my family this weekend in Caloundra. My bro is gonna take us 4wd'ing in his new truck which will be cool.

And then next weekend is V Festival. Woohoo bring it on!

Hahahaha

2007-03-09T13:13:00.001+11:00

I mean its sad but funny as hell.

clipped from www.caradvice.com.au

Fans of UK Motoring show Top Gear would be very well aware of the Bugatti Veyron. A car worth over $2,000,000 Australian dollars with 1,001 horsepower which can accelerate from 0 to 100km/hr in 2.6 seconds.

Space Flight

2007-03-02T13:22:00.001+11:00

It's something I've always dreamed of doing. And now it's becoming a reality for Stephen Hawking. How unfair. Why won't Branson pay for a flight for me huh?

clipped from www.smh.com.au

Hawking to face the final frontier

British physicist Stephen Hawking, who authored the best-selling
book, A Brief History of Time, soon will experience a
brief history with weightlessness.

Hawking, who uses a wheelchair and is almost completely
paralysed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's
disease, plans to go on a weightless flight on April 26, officials
at the flight operator said today.

Science vs. Faith

2007-03-01T10:37:00.000+11:00

The picture explains it all.

2007-03-01T08:53:00.000+11:00

SO last night I had a lazy night. I was supposed to do the normal climbing with Mike, but he ended up being an hour late, so we bailed. Instead I watched the latest episode of Heroes (episode 17 I think). Damn that show is awesome. That is the best episode yet. WOW! Watch this show.

I also watched the final 3 episodes of Firefly. I really liked it when I started watching it, but the final 3 episodes were only mediocre. If you're a scifi fan I'd say watch it, otherwise meh.

And that storm never eventuated. At least not where I live (which is Darlington), in fact its right here.

And I've got this stupid frickin infection thing on my right eye at the moment. I get them every few months. Last time I needed antibiotics to get rid of it. Might have to make a trip to the doc. I hate them most cos it stops me from going out in public cos its this big red swelling thing on my lower eyelid, which looks awful. Don't want to stay in this weekend though cos theres lots of fun stuff going on. Will have to see what happens. If I look like a freak I ain't going out.

big storm is on the way

2007-02-28T16:08:00.001+11:00

Great I hope my new car doesn't get smashed with hail. Oh well not much I can do really...

clipped from www.smh.com.au

Something wicked this way comes

Severe thunderstorms are set to hit parts of Sydney this
afternoon, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

New Vampire Series

2007-02-28T15:38:00.001+11:00

Might be ok. Have been missing a good vamp series since Angel disappeared. That and I have a soft spot for Anna Paquin, given she is a kiwi. And pretty cute too. And she'd make a good vampire.

Also testing whether I'm better off posting this stuff as an article on me blog, or just leave it in the intrigues bit on the side. Hmmm.

clipped from www.tvsquad.com

Anna Paquin snags lead in HBO vampire series

Madness!

2007-02-28T15:34:00.001+11:00

So this is the clipmarks thing I was talking about.

And besides that, this sinkhole is crazy. Sad for all the people who lost their homes

clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com

Giant Sinkhole Swallows Guatemala Homes

After rumbling for weeks, part of a poor Guatemala City neighborhood plummeted some 30 stories into the Earth on Friday.

Welcome

2007-02-28T15:28:00.000+11:00

So I decided to create a blog. I have no idea why but I thought it would be a cool way to share things with my mates. Like the intrigues me section on the right there. It's bits and pieces I found on the web that are interesting.

Also found a neat little tool called clipmarks, which also allows to take bit and pieces from the web and share them here (or email them). I'll demo it shortly.

One of my favorite tools for keeping a track of things on the net (since that seems to be the object of this post) is google reader. If you haven't used it you should check it out now. It will pretty much monitor any site out there and let you know when new stuff appears, then you can tag it and read it all in one go. Pretty cool stuff.