PANCAKES AND POWER OUTAGES
Hey all,

Yeah I know I know I haven't been writing for a LONG time but so much has been goin on! A coupla weeks ago us girls decided to meet up to go to pancakes at the rocks because the ones who were working were missing out on the uni goss. So me, amanda, sathya, roma, vatsla, nat and michelle all met up at circular quay and schlepped our way to pancakes. Getting there was easy, deciding what to get was another matter. After an hour of deciding we ordered a stack of pancakes each plus mains so we were SOOOOO stuffed by the end. Whoever said sex was better than chocolate obviousl have not tried the chocolate pancakes at the rocks which come with strawberries, cream, chocolate topping and icing sugar. Makes u feel fat just thinking bout it dont it?

Still missing Arewyn heaps it's weird not seeing his tank there but thats been solved hehehe. Looks like the progsoc room will be equipped with its own fine fishy friends. Though considering the care factor of the guys I doubt they'll stay alive for long I do believe miles will probably pour beer into the tank on one of his drunken rampages ROFL. Speaking of the progsoc gang who have now inducted me as a member, I know I'm being nerdified nnooooooooo! Heres a shout out to da boys, davidina, christina, schnapple, marauder, myles, dan, andikins, ray to anyone I missed out sooweeeee! Considering I'm the only female that hangs out in the progsoc room I sometimes get "special consideration". Ie I get to do whatever I want LOL. We did well at trivia night and won progsoc (programmers society hahaha I can't program for shite) $240 in cash and prizes, good o! I'd tell ya how much they already have in the kitty but then I'd have to killya.

Besides my new found friends and the insanity that is rah I have an announcement to make which is IDOL'S GONNA BE HERE IN A WEEK! That is right friends in on week our idol crew will be rocking up to the convention centre in darling harbour at hopefully 4am, I wouldn't put money on that ocurring... Wish us good luck that reminds me gotta email everyone about a meeting place!

Besides all the events taking place which are all happening this week, is the never ending struggle to finish assignments and start exam studies BAH! So this week's stress factor level is way off the charts and I am here doing my blog instead of work hahahah oh the procrastination don't you love it. On top of this I have been assigned the job of web master for progsoc's website which will be kewl cos I couldn't do any worse than they have EVER. Also the guys are making a BEER POWERED SERVER yes u heard right a server powered on beer (hopefully not VB cos that'll just cause a system meltdown with its crappiness). If you don't believe me they've already met up to buy the gear needed to construct this monstrosity.

Finally to the second half of this crazy post which is the Progsoc power outage that managed to stuff up all the computers including Trogdor the burninator NOOOOOOOOO! Well it took while but we managed to get the buggers back online and after many attempts of restarting and singing to Trogdor along with inspirational messages "You can do it!", the ole boy was set to burnination again and how!
I also found out the horrible truth that Progsocs trusted CSO and standard red head has no idea what he's doin lol and has about as much a clue on how to a fix a computer as I do. Ok well thats not accurate he's slightly smarter. Good job davidina :P

Grieving :(
Hey y'all this is a tribute to my poor little siamese fighter fish who passed away this morning in his little tank.

Its pretty depressing, he was the only guy I could really rely on and talk to :( Somehow the lower half of his body wasnt working properly and because he's a labyinth fish (ie he has lungs and hence needs to surface for air), he couldn't reach the surface. Watching his eyes go red and bulge out whilst his lungs filled with water just reminded me of watching my dog die after he got hit by a car :( Got up thi morning and saw him lying on the bottom dead, so nows I got to bury him (I don't think the toilet flush is very dignified). Not sure if I wanna get a new one, I think its too early for me. I knows y'all think its stupid to care about a fish but he ruled and I will really miss him.

R.I.P Arewyn bought Sept 1st, died 6th May

Arghhh So Bored! TROGDOR BURNINATES CHARLIE!
Mer I have to waste two hours doin nothing at uni till we have a team meeting and I've run out of people to bug. Mind you, most of them managed to find me which was surprising.

Hmm where to start, yes the Pete Murray concert got CANCELLED! Yeah how much does that suck! I showed up with Kris and they're all like "yeh he cancelled due to sickness", WHATEVER! At least I got my money back which I spent on drinks so there ya go.I got to spend some quality time with Kris (maybe thats not a good thing), sorry for eating all your cookies and cream ice-cream!

Anyways I'm having issues with my poor little fishy Arewyn, I think he's sick either that or he's depressed. I think I'm gonna have to take him to the vet (thats if he's alive when I get home :s). Thanx guys for posting to Dr Vats! Keep em coming! Surely your not running out of problems, impossible! I was pleasantly surprised when I was visited by Danny today apparently he had that C book he wanted to lend me last week and couldn't seem to find me the poor bugger. Then I visited Progsoc again, yes it seems like I live there now and beautiful Wendy was there and she assessed my personality, apparently I'm Sanguine which means I just keep talking about all kinds of things all the time but I don't think thats true do you?

Then to my great surprise as we were discussing other peoples personalities who happens to drop by but good ole Kezzle! Waasup buddy long time no see, almost forgotten what you looked like and then I saw you and remembered why I was trying to forget(jks :P) He managed to insult me five times before leaving which was pretty good. Ok call me a nerdling if you must but it has to be announced, TROGDOR HATH BUNRNINATED CHARLIE! For all of you who are goin huh? Trogdor is Progsoc's server and Charlie is the faculty of IT's server, we have received official confirmation that Trogdor is much more powerful than charlie which can't be good cos charlie is what the uni students fees are goin into.

Shoutout to my girl Lela, who turned sweet nineteen on Saturday, hope you had a good time at your partay! I promised you a present, it's coming, it's coming and it's not chocolate okay!

The last coupla days have felt pretty twilight zoney, I managed to turn to look at a truck driver who looked back questioningly and started to laugh. I had to suppress my laughter however (stupid public transport). My bus drove right past today although I was hailing it madly so I had to walk to the shopping centre, the only good thing about that was that cute little kid walking in front with his dad who kept turning around and waving at me. Who knows maybe I'll have my own little shits, maybe not. I met up with my assignment partner Mary eventually, I went to lunch with Christian and I forgot the time. Then we got real lazy and she was sleepy so we didn't do much and now I'm here passing time. Hmm I think I might go to the Progsoc office again....
Peace out peeps, much love!

Pho Overload! THE OFFSPRING ARE COMING!
Okay so I made Nicky come in on tuesday to help me with my programming assignment and I promised him Pho again seems like I been eating it every week or sumtin. I got the shits with the assign cos it WORKED PERFECTLY and still would'nt submit! I finally figured it out that night and was jumping around the house screaming yay! Like all normal sane people would in that situation of course. Anyways Minh dropped by cos she was bored and we played dodgem cars with our wheelie chairs. Yes our faculty has only wheelie chairs how mad is that. We dragged her to pho as well and it freaks me out that her and nick ordered the same thing added the same sauces and stuff, wierd. Makes sense now why they went out.

Wednesday sucked it was all work I hauled ass in at 11am and met Roma at 2pm to do a stoopid presentation/report assign for IT & Prof. We met at the library and found a whole ton of books and Roma got hit on by some guy who didn't "know" where section 63.58 was right suuuree. Roma didn't mind though she was checking him out and mouthing "nice" behind his back lol. Then she made me get some books she was too short to reach and I end up perching precariously on this stool while dropping books on her head. Dialogue as follows:

"I'm so gonna fall off this thing, which book is it?"
"The end one"
"Here you go, hmm this one looks good(drop) and this one and this one"
"Heyyy I'm only little stop dropping stuff on me!"

We also found some videos and then had issues with the multi headphone system and then got bored so we had some chupa chups then we had to find shell cos she's never been in the library before (tut tut). Sha also didnt know we had self-serve borrowing, honestly she calls her self an IT student. Then we headed to Market City for food and I had more pho-ness. Then we went to building 10 and invaded the empty FIT lounge where michelle attempted to make tea and accidently poured 1/2 cup sugar into it. Once again Andi didn't show up and hasn't shown up to a meeting yet. Mer to that, now I'm at uni today trying to figure out how to edit a video and I'm stoked cos I'm goin to da PETE MURRAY concert tonight! Which reminds me THE OFFSPRING IS COMING presale starts tomorrow!yay!

LIFE IS A CABERET OLD CHUM! LIFE IS A CABERET!
Hey all my favourite peoples! Waz happenin? I have had the maddest coupla days twas plenny fun. I know I haven't blogged for a while, damn uni! Trying to multi-task all my assignments is no fun.

Anyways I had a great time doing the sound and lighting for Carlo's show I actually didn't stuff anything up which was good and I think they'll ask me back if they need help. Carlo was brilliant!(Send me the bribe via mail *wink wink*) I also got to meet his niece Bianca who he's always crapping on about who is just so adorable. After the performance he drove me and his friend Pascal to the show and we met up with Michelle and her sis at the showbag stand. I couldn't find her under all the showbags she bought, she was looking a little flustered. Her sister was walking around with a huge blue toy unicorn that she had won and she's littler than shell. Cos it was the last day of the show most of the bags were half price so we went nuts and I'm still trying to finish all the candy I bought :)

Managed to get shell and sis on the Ferris wheel which was kewl cos carlo and I could see the rest of the rides and figure out which ones we were goin on hehe. Then cos I had some Wendy's vouchers we all got some ice-cream and then shell and sis had to leave so we saw them off draggin their thirty showbags or so. By the way shell's sis was working at the showbag stands and she's been paid about $1000 for her efforts (she's 15) so thats where I'm gonna be next year dammit! We managed to persudae Pascal to go on the Rainbow with us which was mad fun and then Carlo and I got on the La Bamba disco thingy which is my flavouritest ride eva and b4 we left I got a Pluto Pup so I was pretty stoked.

Ok your thinking simple minds well mer to you, cos afta that we went to pancakes on da rocks and Carlo shouted us Nachos and buttermilk pancakes with cream AND ice-cream oh yeh thats a good pancake :) So I had a damn good day got to bed at 1am and then had to haul ass to work the next day. Sat night Carlo had another show so I did sound and lighting again thats the day he's whole family showed up and it was his mum's bday so his dad rented a limo to pick them up and carlo took photos of her shocked face lol which he showed to me in the car on the way there. Unfortunately I didn't get to go to the afterparty with the performers cos I has to work again but I shud see if Carlo got to make out with a certain chick who's name I shan't mention heh.

Now I shall complain about Limmy who was very inconsiderate and msged me at 7:40am on SUNDAY MORNING with "hows dspp assign goin, I need help" when the assignment isn't due for another week. Hello ever heard of waiting a coupla hours geez. So I came in today to uni to help him with his assign and he decides to be impatient and calls me TWICE while I'm in the toilet like what the! But we managed to get his puzzle to randomise so I got bear hugs!

EASTER SHOW !
YAY! I'm goin to the easter show tomorrow and I'm so stoked! Showbags! Cheese sticks! Rides! woohooo! Okay so I'm a 20yr kid big deal I'm gonna have so much fun! Plus michelle's sista is working there so FREEBIES! I have my showbag list all ready hehe.

Getting back to the real world monday was fantabulously eventful. Two young girls brought in these cute black furred, blue-eyed, white-pawed kittys and I got to hold one! My manager wasn't too impressed tho hehe (evil-eye!) and she made me go clean up a honey spill in aisle five which was actually quite fun! It took five of us and I got most of it on the bin than in it. Let's also contribute my cheery mood to the fact that I got paid DOUBLE TIME on saturday AND monday so I'm rich yay! More to spend at the show! Pay day is today!

Fwoa we're on a good roll this week despite having to come into today to do THREE yes THREE assignments simultaneously how's THAT for multi-tasking! You may be wondering why my writing is so ! and FWOA. It's cos I have had completely waaaayyy too much sugar and have thought sooo much that my brain is dead. Oh yer time to go bug some people mmmwahaha ciao!

Mer
Hey all not much goin on here cept a lotta uni work. Besides that sooo damn glad we got two weeks off starting next week yay! Cept most of the time will probably be spent doing assignments boo! I have FINALLY picked a song that I'm goin to perform for the Idol audtions and everyone wants to know which is why I ain't tellin! Only hint I'm giving is it's from the Honey Soundtrack heh.

Mer to Mandy for cancelling again! Damn you woman come to the lecture! Also we're goin out clubbing at Jigsaw and/or Mocha so if yall wanna come along your more than welcome, thankgod sunday is a public holiday no work! Missy "misdemeanour" Elliot will be gracing our shores on the 30th of May coincidently the day of the Idol auditions which'll be kewlies. Hopefully I'll also get to go watch the footy on friday Roosters Vs Broncos with my cuz, her friends, kris and his bro, shud be fun I haven't actually been to a live game before. Can I still scream out "run like your dick's on fire"?

My friend charlotte is in a panicked state right now she finished an assignment which was due today and lost it 3hrs before it was due. She's got about an hour left to retrieve it hopefully god willing she finds it :( Me thinks she's gonna have do to it again. Last but not least a promo for my buddy Carlo whos performing in Double Bay on Sat the 17th April at The Caberet 5. It's $60 for dinner, desert and a show so please come and support the local talent! You will also get to see lovely moi stuffing up the lighting and sound :P.

Sevendust/Incubus
Well I'm baaacckk! Yes I've had to spend some time recovering from the stomp fest that I've been undertaking lately.

Well friday was Incubus and Saturday was Sevendust I had a great time and I have the bruises to prove it!

Incubus was awesome however their support band Modular Lounge was not. Think Lash on crack ie, an all girl group with dodgy pop/rock tunes. After many cat calls and "get off the stage u suck!" they finally ended their reign of toture and the real fun began. Incubus opened with their new hit "Megalomaniac" which sent everyone into a frenzy and most of the songs were heavy moshy stuff broken by some slower songs. DJ Kilmore was on the ball tonight and the lead singer had a go at the drums which was MMAADDD! He also brought out some congos to beat along to. Famous for his need to do a cover or too he broke out into the classic "My Girl" which we all sang along to. Some of the highlights of the show, which I was happy about, were Are You In, Consequence, The Warmth, Redefine, Certain Shade of Green, Just a Phase and Circles. The highlight of the night was Brandon picking up underwear and shoes that were thrown on stage and giving them to the guitarist "cos he likes blueberry pies" (wha?).

OKAY SEVENDUST WAS DA BOMB! I have never ever seen a band who had two AWESOME support bands. Take note YOU NEED to download Full Scale they are awesome. You should've seen the look of shock on the crowd's face when they started to play. They have a great fusion of heavy riffs, metallic rock with some rapping and screaming. Also SUNK LOTO was in da house and they rocked the roof so by the time Sevendust came out everyone was sufficiently drunk and hyped up to truly enjoy. My brother had already downed 8 beers , a viagra (vodka+redbull) and some other weird strong red concoction which was great cos he was buying me drinks too and we made heaps of mates in the mosh. That was the friendliest crowd I've hung with shout out to Kimberly, Ryan, Brad, Kate and Tanya (I think). Unfortunately Kimberly passed out before Sevendust came on and Ryan and Brad had to carry her out so I didn't get to see them after. Svendust played the good stuff I haven't got all their albums so I didn't know most of the stuff but they played Waffle, Denial, Praise and Angel's Son. Tho I wish they would've played To Close to Hate and Home. Lagen was da best and kept coming up to us seeing as we were the only black ones in the crowd. I missed out on so many pics and drumsticks they threw out (damn the shortness!). The highlight of the night was the guitarist playing Waltzing Matilda and everyone singing along which was classic!

So I'm stoked about the weekend and even more happy cos IDOL IS COMING! My posse, my crew we gotta et it together and head on down to the Convention Centre Darling Harbour on May29th & 30th. Seeya there!

Depressed Scandanavians 101 vs Vatsla Fest!
Hmmm where to start, where to start?

Ok yes I know I ain't been blogging lately and theres a lot to catch up on but I intend to remedy that. One very IMPORTANT detail today is that I have FINALLY got the Ask Dr Vats section up and you are all invited to post your "issues" hehe, it's under the Rah's Friends link. Theres also a poll to rate Vatsla's evilness so be sure to vote! It's a Vatslafest!Mmmmwahhaha let the write offs begin!

Anyways back to the real world, argghhh!! I had Jim Underwood for last weeks It and Prof lecture (sucked in Mandikins!) and he is just so damn weird! All I learnt was that there were depressed scandanavians in the world and that Jim's in with a tribe of "South American mystics that take weird drugs", thats a direct quote mind you I wrote it down :P Plus we got an unwanted insight into Jimbo's private life, thanks but uh no thanks.

I'm stoked because my Incubus concert is on tomorrow yay! And Sevendust is on Saturday double yay! So I'm gonna be sufficiently roasted (North Shore term). Which reminds me I gotta put up a dictionary of friend terms (bodgilly = to do something notso gooda). I'm also stoked because my brothers friend SOS has come good with some free studio time for us, apparently it comes with the course he's doin at JMC so we'll be sure to use that starting next week. I'll put up anything we record here so watch out for dat.

Another good thing is my friend Carlo will be performing in Double Bay at some place, will have to find that out. Anyways I've been asked to do lighting and sound so's I can get in for free which should be interesting. Can't wait to see him singing his heart out.

Our gang in the PMQA tute has been dubbed by Bernard Wong as the "Wedges Gang" and I have a feeling that the name shall stick followed by the "Wedges Corner". Why? Do you ask, well me n Mary was very hungy so on da way to tute we bought a big box of wedges with sour cream and chilli yum! Anyway we got lotsa comments about the pleasant smell and Bernard just couldn't stop coming over and staring and we did offer some but he declined. I also had to call Nat in the middle of tute to ask if she was enrolled which also got some laughter (thanx bernard!) I think everyone in the tute knows me by now (even when Im not tryin to cause a scene...).

The DSPP lecture was also upset by Andi's antics this week, yes I think he's gonna be doin sumthin stupid every week. But it does entertain the kids. Lingard was writing very small on the board and us blind ppl can't see so someone suggested that he write it on the projector but he was stubborn and decided instead to write it larger because "he had no pen or paper". So at this point Andi took it upon himself to pick up some paper and a pen march to the front of the theatre and bang it onto the projector which caused an uproar of hooting and clapping.

I got to hang out with my girls on Monday, shelly, romes, mandy and I all got together after they knocked off from work to have dinner and watch a movie. We saw Thirteen which was crap I thought and we stuffed ourselves with lollies and timtams. Also the day later shell msged me saying she got sick and threw up three times poor bugger. We blame the tim tams which were past the expiry date (I warn thee not to purchase from Seven Elevens) but incredibly me and mandy ate the same stuff and are fine. She still doesn't want to blame the chicken nuggets!

By the way I highly recommend IT Prof and Society where else can you have an ethical debate with your tutor and always be right? I'm off now more work to do on this thingy and I gotta clean the house, mum's gone away for the week yay! But she'll be back, better reverse the festiness.

That was a Hoot! Haha Limmy!
I got to uni on tuesday to do a "Focus Group" which was worth getting up early for cos I got TWO yes count em TWO movie passes to Hoyts haha eat your heart out! I can see y'all sucking up so u can come to da moobies for free and I'm tellin ya lots of beggin will be involved.

Well after that I realised that I had four extra hours to spare til I had anything on really. So after pretending to do some work I caught up wit my cuz who studies at Sydney Uni and we sat there and talked about how UTS is just so much better :P Well after that I headed on to the Compsoc office where my ole buddy Andi was also doing nothing and we both sat there and did nothing in unison (twas great) Did I tell you Andi is the president of Compsoc now? Good thing too otherwise asses would've been kicked! Christian and Marcus were there too, chris was trying to teach me the finer points of PHP (wha I dun get it!) when some lawyer dude dropped in so he kicked us out of the progsoc room. Marcus found that the webcam was working hehe so we spent most of the time spying on christian and lawyer guy who were making out...just kidding! And then Marcus realised that you can see the street via webcam and spent the rest of the time perving on girls walking around outside (yes I know, so sad). These three second years came in a little later and there was praise to Marcus for his webcam stalking(men pfft) and I got invited to a LAN party, give in to the nerdiness! I also got abused by Jase da bum who is happy now he has his own set of shiny new keys with double digits yay! The power! Too bad your still Andi's minion :P

Just want to let everyone know that Andi is the very proud owner of two businesses, he's got a whore house and a crackhouse and his motto is "it's good, it's fast and it's cheap". Which was provided by our good lecturer Gordon Lingard who was talking about code at the time, but this is much more interesting. Speaking of lectures we went to ours after the four hours were up and that was pretty fun cos everyone was rowdy and lacking of sleep and all hyped up on caffeine. Unfortunately I got caught out when my curry friends from across the room got my attention by giving me the finger and making faces, and I decided to flip em one back when Andi (who was sitting next to me) decided to get Mr Lingards attention. So I do believe he looked up just in time to see me making a face and flipping the bird at the same time gee thanx Andi! Most of their convo was about the evilness of SDP and how Andi doesn't have to do it no more. I do belive Lingards direct quote was "there always has to be a smart arse".

Of course Andi cacked himself silly which was good considering he only had four hours of sleep and needed the humour to keep awake. I think it was during the lecture break, when someone decided to go ask good ole Lingard a question and stuck a piece of paper that said "Sean is gay" onto the projector when Lingard wasn't looking, which caused a chorus of laughter from the students and a couple of slaps on the back were given to the victim (good sport!).

Also Limmy who was sitting on the other side of me, blames me for losing his green pen lid and thought it was funny when I said the chick he was checking out looked like she belonged in Final Fantasy. Twas fun buggin the crap outta him tho, I think I pointed to every asian girl in the room and asked "so would you go out with her?" Truc and I almost died with laughter when Limmy told us he's been putting SUNSILK CUSTOM HIGHLIGHTS in his hair! Omg the thought of a blonde limmy is just too too scary. It was when me n lims were checking out the chicks that limmy came up with the misguided friend quote of the week. Dialogue is as follows:
"See the chick next to the pretty one with the pigtails?"
"Yeah"
"Wait til she turns, she looks like a man"
"Lol what!........Oh yeh I see it!"
"She must be smart"
"Are you saying that smart people can't be pretty?"
"No I'm saying that most women that look like men are smart"

Hahahahahah I'm sorry what the? Thanx Lim, I've never laughed so hard :)