Oh Joy of Joy's!

Hey you all,
I was supposed to Wake at 5:45am this morning only I distictly remember turning of my alarm in my sleep! I woke at 6:15am when I'm supposed to be outside catching the bus. So I think, hey what happened here? I had two alarms, one a bedside alarm and the other my cell phone. I look to find the bedside alarm (the one I remember turning off) facing away from me so I cant see the numbers, and the cell phone is no where to be seen!!! I found the cell phone shortly after it was lost in my bed somewhere, which I found very amusing! I rushed to get ready and skipped breakfast then went outside to wait for the next bus, it came and then we ALL waited in traffic. Needless to say I'm here now and I missed my First class!! Stupid Alarm!

I think that serves as a lesson, get to bed early and don't turn your alarm off till your out of bed!!

Anyway my first week back at uni went well, Can't wait to see all the Assignments pile up. I've already got this project and its going to be a bit difficult. Its programming a Robot to just go forward in a straight line. Sounds simple right? Yeah I suppose it is, I've just had too many bad lecturers with my programming classes so I know very little (ok its more like nothing). Will have to see how things pan out. I don't like programming, its just a means justified by the end, though should that ever be the case? It supposedly will help with my Telecommunications major in the next year.

Yesterday my Flatmate and I went climbing outdoors on a real rock face for the first time. It was really cool, I took some pics, I hope they look good. Will probably post them next week , as I'll get them developed on Friday. (still got use up a few shots on the roll).
It was freaky at points but after we had set up the top rope then we were fine! It was so much better than indoors, but also a whole bunch harder in your head than physically harder.
It was quite funny because we went to a shope to pick up an extra Carabiner(biner) that we thought we needed, but we saw some Quick Draws on special so we each got one as well. It turns out we needed the extra biner and the two Quick draws! We probably couldn't have climbed otherwise!!

Well I hope the rest of this day finds you well and that you can rest easy knowing full well I'm slaving and stressing out to try and pass this degree.
See you,
David

Acrobat show and the Zoo :)

Well sorry its late but Happy Chinese New Year! I managed to get some tickets to the Acrobat show (due to the fact my Boss organised it), for Chinese New Year, it was really good. Some of the stuff was impossibly hard, you couldn't help but flinch as they just about failed, but never did!! I got dressed up for the occasion and so did my Friends, it was heaps of fun, as we never get the chance to get dressed up formally very often.

We thought the dressing up was so much fun that the following weekend we did it again for the Jazz Festival!! Even got myself a bowtie and Hat, it was so funny at the festival. We got our picture taken for a local newspaper, then got our picture taken with some ladies and then later on this asian guy. We cracked up at all the looks and questions we got asked. We even got told by some Drunk Ladies that we'd look better naked, man I was not expecting that. We managed to diffuse that situtaion by joking about it! Later on my back was so sore from walking around for ages so I wanted to leave or at least find a place to sit. My Brother wanted to catch up, which turned into more of an issue than it should have been. But that was due to the crazy traffic around the Festival, I'm certain most of the City was there!! Still it was nice in the end to Catch up with my Brother, he asked me to be his Best Man at his wedding, I was and am so proud to have been asked :) It will be cool, now I need to think of some fun stuff for his Stag do etc.!!

We had a Public Holiday on Monday, Waitangi Day, and it was really nice to have a break from work. There is actually quite a bit of Controversy over this holiday every year. My Friends and myself decided to go to the Zoo, I've never been to the zoo before! I thought it was fantastic and a great opportunity to try out a new old lens I just purchased. A part of me felt sad for the animals, even if their enclosures were more like pieces of home than enclosures. Though there are good things about the zoo, like breeding to keep some species from extinction, that all said I still felt a bit stink. The photos from the lens I brought came out great, just a few I didn't focus properly (guess that comes with the territory of owning a fully manual lens).


I'll post more pics on the other site, these are just a few :)

Well till the next adventure,
See you,
David