Lunch Variety!!!

I've been thinking, what do most uni students eat when they're feeling poor and know they shouldn't buy lunch at ridiculous prices?

My first year of uni consisted of me being lazy and stupid, so I spent roughly 25 bucks on lunch every week. Then the next year prices got more expensive by a whole dollar! so I was like, no stuff this. I am going to make my own lunch.

What was that lunch? it was normally me grabbing two slices of bread, a can of tuna and a fork....and some milk-in-a-popper, which was normally Up & Go...the liquid breakfast haha.

That pretty much lasted me till end of 3rd year, or I would just starve myself, or buy hot chips/wedges. Afterall they were the cheapest thing you could buy that was filling hehe...and I JUST BURN IT ALL DOWN BABY WOOOO!!!

But now, its holidays, so I get a bit more variety at home... it normally looks like this

bread with butter
bread with peanut butter
bread with strawberry jam
bread with blackberry jam
bread with apricot jam
bread with various other different jams
bread with vegemite
bread with cheese

mi goreng
mi goreng with cheese
mi goreng with fried egg
mi goreng with various left overs from previous dinners

and a beverage which would be...
milk
milk with milo
milk with nesquick (strawberry/banana/chocolate)
milk with sugar
milk with coffee

I *might* have some fruit. lol... If i'm told to eat it HAHA. I need to grow up.

as you can see, I have a lot going for nutrition in the middle of the day. Best of all its mostly free since my parents pay for most of that stuff. hehehe, money saving powers.

So what have you been chewing on all holidays? or are you rich enough to buy food everyday? =P

So its 2010...what's planned for me!!!

I got lots of plans! Lots and lots of plans! well I think I do, more like I got lots of scheduling to do lol!

Well these holidays for me = very little to do, so by all means call me up if you wanna hang! XD Of course there are few dates where I am not free, but for the majority, YES I AAAAAAAAAM!!!

Will be heading to Perth in February! Got my grandma's 80th birthday so I really gotta be there for that and to really catch up with friends and family in Perth! Totally miss them!

Between then and now, I'm just bumming around and looking around for places to apply for a casual job! I think I can only keep a casual job and if I were to take on a part time job, I will most likely die from exhaustion lolololol. Well centrelink and piano teaching keeps me up financially quite okay though! XD I just really want to get some retail experience lol.

I'm also *planning* on practising guitar and piano more. Maybe I'll get some singing books and learn how to sing properly so people don't die each time I start randomly singing hahahaha. I've had a few things holding me back, in particular the past 6 months, wasting my time playing World of Warcraft hahaha. Well I'm not completely done with it, I really want to finish the story line! so total excitment for that, but quitting for the meantime =D

That said, I have so much time on my hands, so reading times! I've bought some Mark Driscoll books, one called "Vintage Jesus" which is a highly detailed yet entertaining piece of work, well about Jesus. so totally having fun digging through that!

Long term wise for this year, is continue studying! Well I gotta make plans for graduation from my B Music too! so hurray for that, Masters of teaching here I come! I'm not exactly excited about going back to study, but I am pumped about being a high school teacher, so I gotta get the pre-requisites done first! This year I'm gonna really try to put more effort into my studies, as opposed to just sitting around being content with a credit average all the time. So hopefully, some D's and even maybe HD's will be flying my way! Wishful thinking right now though hehe

Ministry wise at church, is well keep doing what I'm doing with the youth group and continue attending night services! I'm really gonna gun it this year with ministry this year I hope! Will keep it all in prayer, loving teaching and hanging with the teens at my church. Bunch of brats but I love em ;) haha not really, they're a bunch of sweet angels lol.

Will be upping the music again this year I hope! Theres been lots of changes to our old school church to get it looking like its actually come out of this century! Recently had all the pews thrown out and the whole church hall carpeted with new chairs thrown in (really comfy ones too!) I'm feeling pretty optimistic about this year in terms of ministry and God! <3

Will continue my exercise regime training at moorebank and get more fit! Will try to make 3 classes per week! Monday Tuesday and Wednesday! possibly Saturdays if I have nothing planned! I'm loving training, but I really need to put more effort in! Its so fuuun! Its also good me time haha. Love punching and kicking stuff. Glad my bro pulled me into it.

Additionally I would really like to just build up my friendships, better and keep time aside for my friends!!! Afterall, what is life being a loner? I have to admit that I totally suck at being there for "everybody" and I probably have a lot of priorities all messed up. Anyway, really wanting to build up my relations with people, since I know I can be pretty distant and incredibly private about...almost everything in my life. Will definitely try to catch up with those friends who I haven't seen in a long time! I hope theres no awkwardness! hahaha... I think I got too many circle of friends to be able to keep friends really close to me >< oh well. lets see how things go for this year.

Theres also my family! Must spend time with them! I think people my age spend too much time away from their families and family is important! So I will spare time everyday to play some foosball with my dad and talk with my mummy and granma! I think I hang out with my bro enough haha.

oh, and get a casual job lol.

AND!!! to keep all these things, I will have a whiteboard, use a diary and the scheduler on my phone for me to keep up with all these things!

So things to concentrate on this year are in a summary... in no particular order is!!!

Keep a diary and be more organised! Also keep my room neat!
Study hard at uni and concentrate! Must not fall asleep every lesson!
Train hard physically!
Be there for my family!
Keep up with friends more often and maintain my relationships properly!
Get a casual job and pick up some (or more in reality) responsibility!
Practise and keep learning more about music!
Maintain and continue learning more and growing my relationship with God while serving in youth ministry, in music and teaching! oh yeaaah totally <3 Jesus.

Well yeah, if I'm busy you'll know why, but I do wanna catch up still! hahaha! BRING IT ON 2010!!!

Disclaimer: these are not news years resolutions...because lets be realistic, most of them end up in the can.

HMM MAYBE I SHOULD START POSTING AGAIN

lolololol its a new year so maybe i will xD

The Full Realisation

When you notice you've spent so much time where it sounds like its worthwhile when its not.

B Music degree at UWS, major suckage on so many levels.

Sure I've learnt some useful things and definitely opened my mind a lot more

But when it really comes down to my purpose of being there...

Its not going to be very practical in the long run.

Some of you guys may be aware that I study music, but the main reason is because I really want to be a high school teacher.

I figured music was a fun thing to do and would probably be a job that I won't grow to despise.

Unfortunately, in terms of whatever music education they're teaching us, its just not the full deal. In reality, it really sucks. The level of music theory based study is hardly tertiary and I tend to forget that I actually have to pay for this garbage.

Yes in the end I will get my degree and move onto my masters of education and most likely be able to kick start my teaching degree at some point.

However I don't think I'm gonna be any good at teaching students who already study music as a extra-curricular activity. I don't know if its because a lot of music theory has become naturalised to me, or because we weren't given any courses to actually study music on a high theoretical level. Its all basic stuff which you can learn out of AMEB prep material.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a large portion of music high school kids out there that know a hell lot more than I do. Haven't met any, but I'm sure I will eventually.

Basically in the end I'm gonna be walking around with 2 degrees, which don't even make me look that great (UWS FTW) and when it comes to the practical side of things, its gonna show even more.

I think people need to stop making up excuses on how great the course is and how great UWS is at making teachers. All horrible rumours, totally misleading people.

face it, the course sucks, you learn jack all and its definitely not worth the HECS fees even though they're relatively cheaper than every where else.

Unfortunately its something you find out by wasting your time studying there. At first I thought, awesome this course is easy. Just lots of assignments and little exams. But no, my laziness and like of convenience and efficiency has left me with an education level not much higher than a TAFE music student. Should've transferred my lazy ass over to UNSW when I had the chance.

In all honesty, the only thing I look forward to at uni is hanging with friends and going to CBM. (campus bible ministry)

anyway, three cheers for the crappy music teachers coming out...unless I can afford to go to Sydney looooooool. play too crap for that.

Our Retarded Society #2 Self Help

Welcome to the most high self esteemed countries in the world where we love to tell people how they can fix themselves by reading a book or attending a special conference/program. That way you can feel better about yourself no matter what and get through anything on your own =D
...
tell that to an orphan.

I don't know who came up with the "self made man" concept, but all I know is that he's a major idiot =D

Jelly Babies

The other night my mum gave me a jar of lollies (to feed my ridiculous sugar addiction).

It was a mix of all sorts of lollies, including Jelly babies. now we all should know what these are.

Weird thought came to mind just now, is that we're so used to calling them jelly babies we don't really think about the terminology we use for it. Like what happens to a fobby person (well foreign I should say)that isn't used to us referring to these lollies as 'jelly babies'.

Its like "omgosh they eat babies in jellified form!"

Do you feel wrong eating jelly babies? I'd imagine you wouldn't be.

How about if you eat a life sized jelly baby? Would that make things very awkward for you?

or just a big chunk of lolly ready to be consumed?

DO U FEEL LIKE A CANNIBAL NOW?

=P

Teeeeeeeeeeeeamwoooooooork!

Remind self. Teamwork leads to finishing assignments a hell lot faster than doing it alone.

Good job Evan and Ninos! I think we did well.

Remind everyone else. If there's an assignment where you can work together on, do it.