Might Get A Tablet Computer

Things have changed a lot since I started at Uni. When I began, there wasn’t even Facebook yet and people were mostly using Myspace. Sometime during 2008 FB really caught on, and now no one uses Myspace.

Another difference is that everyone has a laptop now. Some other students don’t even carry notebooks; instead they just take notes on their computer. I always thought this was a bit cumbersome and besides the typing noise is a little distracting.

However, I’ve played around with my friend’s iPad and I really liked it. It’s fast and you can record lectures. I prefer Android though so I’m looking around at some other tablet computers. There’s only a few tabs that run off Android. The other day I read a Motorola Xoom review and that tablet looks pretty great. The reviews are pretty positive.

The other one I am considering is the Samsung Galaxy. It also runs off the Android operating system and it’s really small and light. I checked out a Samsung galaxy review and it said you can get the non-3G version of the device for about $350. Since we have Wi-Fi at Uni that works fine for me. The data package that you need with the 3G version costs an extra $40 per month I think.

Otherwise the same stuff is going on. I am still working on the photography and school. My hardest class is chemistry, it’s a really tough course. I need to find someone who knows the subject really well if I want to get an A in that class. Actually that’s not realistic haha but maybe I can pull off a B if I put in the time.

My job is still going the same for the most part. No trips planned right now but that might change in the near future. I will try to keep updating more often now.

Busy At Uni

So, it’s fairly freaking obvious how badly I fail at blogging. Quite simply, I haven’t had anything to say. Same boring shit has been happening, I still am struggling with uni, I still work a crappy job… See, I told you it wasn’t exciting.

Okay, so I did have a birthday. My 20th, to be exact. It was a few Thursdays ago, and, frankly, it was a pretty mediocre day. I got up, handed in two assignments, studied, went to the movies with James, and uhh.. Studied some more. That’s what you get for having a test the day after your Birthday, I suppose. On the plus side, James paid for a pair of prescription sunglasses for my birthday, and I had my fringe (er, bangs, to you yankies) cut.

I’ve been on mid-semester break for the past two weeks, and when I say I haven’t done anything, I really mean it. I worked two evenings last week, but even then I didn’t really do anything – Unless you could reading 250 pages of a book something, because honestly, it was that quiet. I have work again this evening and am really not looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to my double shift tomorrow even less. (Why I agreed to that, I’ll never know.) Stupidly, I’ve been putting off a report and some major study to play Spore and Neopets. Yeah, that is some serious procrastination.

I’ve got a few things to look forward to, though. I signed up for a photography competition yesterday in which Canon will send me a box of items, and I have to take creative photography with them. Even if I don’t win, It’ll certainly be fun, and help me think outside the box a little more with my photos. My cousin, Michala, is also going to participate, so I’m sure that we’ll be able to come up with some pretty decent ideas together.

I’ll try and blog soon. Hopefully I’ll have something decent to talk about. If not, I’ll make Elyse torture me until I make up something worthwhile.

Blogging From London

Here I am, blogging from London! We’ve been away for two weeks now, and have visited Dubai, all over Egypt, and London. It’s been an experience so far! I’ll try and get as much as I can remember down, we’ve done so much that It’s quite tricky to recall it all.

Dubai

We arrived in Dubai at 5am in the morning, and the place was busy already. There were seemingly endless cars on the road, and driving safely seemed to be a feat in its own. The first thing I noticed is how clean Dubai is – the place is spotless. You very rarely see trash on the ground, which is surprising, because even Sydney wasn’t this clean.

The first day in Dubai, we visited the Mall of the Emirates, which is bloody huge. You could get lost so easily in there! The mall near where I live in Sydney is big… I swear that this mall is about 10 times bigger than the one back home. We also visited some souks (markets), where dad got a replacement wedding ring, because he snapped his the weekend before playing cricket. That night we did a river cruise dinner. It took us an hour and a half to drive 20 minutes down the road because of a major accident. It was absolutely ridiculous. The food wasn’t that flash either. Plus, they charged dad about $60AU for a shitty Australian wine you could get back home for about $10. haha.

I live in Antarctica

It appears as if New Zealand has picked itself up and migrated south. Far south. Antarctica south. Auckland is absolutely FREEZING. I don’t think it got warmer than about 12C today. I’ve been sitting in James’s room rugged up, two heaters going… and I’m STILL cold. Hopefully the room warms up properly soon, or I might end up in bed very early just to stay warm!

So, I’ve not really heard any more news on my Granddad. Apparently my dad, aunts and uncles, are going to visit him in a few weeks. It’ll be good for them to see him, but I think it’ll be really hard on them too. I feel really sorry for my dad, but so proud of him the way he’s been handling all this stuff the past few weeks.

I’ve spent today studying. I still don’t understand much at all about chemistry, but hopefully the more I read over my notes and do practice questions, the more I’ll get my head around it. I really am looking forward to finishing this semester once and for all. It has most definitely been the semester from hell.

All this uni work and other crap that’s been going on is starting to wear me down. I’ve felt very lonely, and to be honest, quite depressed the last few days. I really hate feeling like this. Nothing seems to get rid of the feeling I get from it at the moment. Spending some time with James makes me feel a little better, but as soon as he goes back to his computer room the feeling comes back and I feel quite empty again. I guess it’s not really helping that I don’t know many people around here, and most of them are quite busy with their own lives. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch up with my friend, Trish, this week.

I think I’m going to start returning comments a lot more nowadays. I used to do it quite religiously years ago, but have gotten quite lazy in the past year. Within the next few days, i’ll start replying to some recent comments, and will keep it up too.