...And Anticipations Arrive Acutely

After reading Relgin's most informative essay of a blog entry it inspired me to write up another post, though I'll never be as catchy and entertaining as Sir James. I usually write my blog titles prior to writing the actual post and as untraditional and unorthodox as that may seem, it works for me. This time however, my mind is running blank at the moment so instead I'll write the post before I create the title. Like you pathetic people care anyway.

Well one week of uni has elapsed considering I have no uni on Fridays. My thoughts?

I'm enjoying it thus far. Obviously the amount of assignments and homework spat at us by the lecturors and tutors is an almighty atrocity, but that's life and life sucks. Whinging aside, I'm enjoying the commuter's life. Actually, 'enjoying' may not be the most appropriate word. Perhaps 'adapting' is a more suitable term. The routine of waking up early and driving to St Marys in time to catch the 8:30 train every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday was the life I didn't eagerly anticipate, but to my surprise I'm tolerant about it.

Think about it. I'm sure sitting on a train 45 minutes or so minutes twice a day isn't everyone's cup of tea. I cursed at the prospect of having to sit on a train for 90 minutes each uni day all year, but it's not too bad. I'm aware that only a week has passed, but as long as you have an mp3 player combined with a train buddy, the world still revolves joyously. If one thing must be admired, it's the approachability of my fellow students. Everyone seems very relaxed and in the mood for a chat. I'm yet to see any 'scene-makers' or people looking to cause unwanted attention.

New addiction readers. Daytona USA ! Most of you will be familiar with this great racing game from Galaxy World or any other good arcade. Seeing as that I'm in the city quite a bit now, it only makes sense to spend some time at the arcade and thankfully, UTS has an underground arcade ! I usually play Daytona with my friend Adrian who I am yet to beat. We must have had 10 races by now. We've had many exciting races, particularly yesterday in which I almost had him until I fucked up the last drift and he won by 2 milliseconds.

Overall, this week of university has been very pleaseant. If you subtract the boring 5 hour gap I have on Mondays from the picture, university is great. Since there is so much more to blog about, I'll just list some highlights of the week at uni:

• train ride home with the boys and watching those two Japanese girls slap each other
• running in the rain countless times, especially on Wednesday.
  
• lecture for 'Introduction to Information Systems' - who the heck pronounces Google as 'GOOGOLL'?
• the many daytona races with Adrian and losing by a hair length
  
• getting owned by Nikki at almost everything, and getting owned by Ivan whenever I talk about 'Queer Space'
• meeting up with my old friend Jessica and catching up
• catching up with Shirley - here's to being unemployed !
• meeting randoms at the co-op bookstore
• freakishly running into Denise right after I txted her
• 30 minute crash course of Unix with my old mate Simon (thanks again man!)
• witnessing all the babes in my business subjects. DAMN !

I'll conclude it here folks !
Do keep reading in future !

...And (Perpetual.Torment.Commence)

Like most of my friends, today was my first day at university.

I actually had trouble sleeping lastnight. I don't know whether it was my nervousness towards a fresh start or my irritating illness driving me insane, but luckily enough I was able to wake up early today in time to meet up with Nikki and catch the 8am train. I started the day with a lecture at 10am for 'Communications for IT Professionals'. In this lecture we had to read an article about the dying music industry and then write a summary about what we read. Personally I wrote 120-150 words which was what we were asked to do, but some people weren't obviously content with such an amount. Instead they had to write a bloody essay *cough*. I saw this one Japanese girl who covered her entire page with writing - not a hint of white was to be seen on the paper. Was I intimidated? Heck no. I actually like to follow instructions.

After my first lecture, I had a whopping 5 hours to kill before my next class. I spent 2 or so hours with some friends at Market City eating lunch and checking out chick jeans (HAH!) and then I went off on my own for the next 3 hours. The amount of boredness I was experiencing drove me insane to a point where I started calling randoms on my phone. Particularly I talked to Shirley for a good 20 minutes which was a great catch up seeing as I hadn't talked to her in ages.

I still had a rough 2 hours to consume, so I made my way to Building 4 to check where my next class would be. For some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to send a text message to my friend Denise to see if she was around (keep in mind that I had no idea whether she was at uni or not). Freakishly right after I txted her, she came walking out the lecture room that I was outside of. Major coincidence right there.

Finally at 6pm, my business lecture for accounting commenced. I met up with my friend John who fortunately has the same timetable as me. My lecturer left me the ultimate first impression. I think I can speak for all students who attended that lecture that he is one hilarious bloke. I'm glad to see lecturers with a great sense of humor.

Anyways, that's it for today. I'm feeling very ill at the moment; thankfully there's no uni tomorrow.

...And Acknowledgements Among Amigos

It's 4am and I am reluctant to hit the sack. This is probably the final chance I'll have to stay up all night/morning before the autumn semester commences. Uni starts tomorrow. YIKES.

In other news, lastnight was Donnie's 18th birthday celebration. Using this blog, I'd like to take the opportunity to wish Donnie a happy birthday. Despite the fact that the chances of you ever reading this blog are one in one trillion, I hope your birthday celebration was everything you dreamt it would be and I wish you all the best for the future.

Meanwhile I just got back from Brent's place with Kiye, Dazz and Ashwin. I've been seeing these boys a lot lately; hopefully there's more moments to come seeing as we all have Friday's off. It was good sitting in the middle of the road at like 2am talking about university/tafe and the future despite the sub-zero temperatures, however standing half an hour outside Ashwin's house waiting for him to sneak out is something the boys and myself could have done without. There must have been around 20 cars that drove past in which I thought bottles would be thrown.

It's almost 4:30 in the morning and I'm slowly falling asleep.

... logging off.

...And Aggravation Attacks Anatomy

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't catch the train very often ... but my train ride home this afternoon was the worst ride ever. My extensive position of awkwardness with my face against the train door and various strangers breathing closely behind my neck was an experience to forget. From Central to Parramatta station, I could feel myself sense of irritation proliferating; the urge to inflict grievous bodily harm on a random was skyrocketing. The only thing to keep my sane was listening to Minus the Bear songs on my PSP. You know what the problem is though? Crowded trains that replicate Japanese subway trains are a part of Sydney city life and there's nothing you can do about it.

Sooking aside, today was UTS O-Day or in my case, get-all-the-free-shit-that-you-can day. The freebies weren't 'all that', but I managed to snag some razors, a coin box, a 'Fantastic Furniture' voucher of $50 off when you spend more than $500 *eyes rolling*, cans of zu energy drink, bottle openers, bunch of bags that I'll never ever use, deck of cards and a packet of mi-goreng. There really was no point in me going though.

But hey, I have to back there tomorrow.