(Written last week) First week of uni started last week and I’ve had a few problems with enrollment and which submajor I wanted to study. So on Friday night, I had Distributed Databases class which went on for way too long. Afterwards was spent at my cousins place checking out, and drooling over his ADSL2+ connection which off the ozbroadband test website, with the TPG mirror, would download at 1.67MB/s! I ran the same test at home (though through the wireless) and with optus cable, I achieved .. 246kB/s
After that, cousin was after a new Desktop, so I spec’d up the machine for him, and it ended up being the same as mine, apart from the 3.0Ghz chip as well as a Leadtek 8800GT graphic card (which looked so much nicer than mine – physically, since I haven’t yet seen its performance – but I’m sure its a whole lot better than mine.) That was saturday, Sunday was spent…. yes, I had a wedding. Lovely sweet couple, I’ll upload photos later today when I get the chance. Last week, was uni, uni, uni, horrible uni. Well, the .NET classes and the Database programming class weren’t bad, but the IS Methodologies was really bad.
I would have to say my weeks this semester are a bit crazy. Full time work, with uni on Tuesdays from 6-9, Thursday 2-6:30(there is a break) and Friday 6-9. I ended up going to watch Paranoid Park on Wednesday night with Lucas – wasn’t such a good movie to take him too, one reason being it was hard to understand (it was confusing for me to watch), and the cinematography was really tied down to the story line, which he wasn’t a big fan of. It was a pretty good movie, although I thought i twas a bit long for a 85min movie.
Friday was spent watching Grinspoon at UNSW RoundHouse! It was entirely my taste in music, but it was a great end to the week. Saturday, beautiful day for another wedding, with the video guy keeping me going throughout the day with numerous occasions catching him with his lens cap on, watching him stuff his face with both food and alcohol and also watching him stand in the middle of the aisle in the church.
Sunday, was the last day Lucas is in Sydney. Having been here for 3 months now, and spent 2 months studying English at TAFE, I would say his level of English is a whole lot better than mine. We spent yesterday at Taronga Zoo, since he hadn’t been, and the late afternoon at Coogee beach relaxing. It’s a bit sad to have him go, and I hope he ends up coming back here after his studies in a few years.
At work, new desks came in, now the office is a whole lot smaller, door is behind me again, so not such a good thing, bit to complain about, but nothing I can really do at this time. Too much to do this week, I just hope uni doesn’t get the better of me. Pics to come later in the day hopefully
Written by Milton Lai