So it’s Sunday night and I wonder where the weekend went. It seems to have gone so fast, that I am not sure if I ever really had one.

Yesterday, I went to the Collingwood & Essendon ANZAC day match, and it was a killer. We lost it in the last few seconds and to think only three minutes earlier we were 14 points up and kicked a goal which was disallowed. Grr!

It’s bee freaking cold today. How on earth do people live in climates with snow? I can’t stand the weather now and it’s just wind. I hate the cold and am glad that I live in a country with hot summers. I love the summer and am lucky to not have the extreme winters.

It looks like another busy week at work. It’s amazing as I had some pretty quiet weeks there a month or so back and not its completely turned around and I feel like the busiest person in the department. I have acquired some work from three different people that left - nothing major from any of them, but it is still extra. Plus my own work load has really increased. That part is good though, as I am enjoying the stuff I am doing. I feel as though, I am finally doing the stuff in this job that I want to do, and I also feel as though I actually know what I am doing. What I have learnt over the past 18 months is finally paying off and coming together.

The new work load is a little daunting though. Because its all new and one of the projects is still pretty close to the beginning stages, I am not sure if I will have the time to do it all or if I will still have free time up my selves. I think that I am guaranteed another few months of pretty busy work though. This main project I am doing, is huge and it is due for launch in July - so two and a half months to construct it. I love analysis though and I love that I have this chance to prove what I have and how smart I actually am

Posted: April 26th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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On top of the world

This photo was taken last November when I was at the Grand Canyon. I really was on top of the world that day and amazingly, I never let my fear of height.

I am really just playing around with some of the new features Words Press has since my last blog. It pretty cool and very easy to use now

Posted: April 21st, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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I doubt after two years that anyone will believe the above statement, but I think it’s fate. I remembered that the domain was dye to expire soon and realize that I left it too late to cancel. My provider start the renewal process 15 before it runs out and it’s now day 5. So I have now also upgraded my blog and can post from my iPod and hopefully my phone too. Yes, I know, you will believe it when you see it. With long daily train trips, I have all the time in the world to blog. So I will see you all soon.

Posted: April 21st, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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I am not really one of those people that makes resolutions as I don’t see much point to them. They normally don’t last. If you couldn’t do something last month, then why can you suddenly achieve it today?

But I am going to kind of break this rule (not that its really a rule) as I want to try and loes the 5 kgs that I added in 2008 this month. Not sure how I will go as I do have to go into hospital in 3 weeks time, so that might throw out that date line. But I started 2008 pretty fit and haven’t really done enough to keep it up. I not totally unfit now and despite adding a few kgs, I could have done far worse, but I want to improve it again.

Biggest problem the last year was fatigue, which won’t just go away so its about overcoming that challenge. But part of the reason for being tired is about my sinus issues and that is why I am going into hospital in a few weeks time.

One thing that I do know is that I am capable of doing anything I set my mind to. I have done it all before and can do it all again. And this time I don’t really have a mountail in front of me, like I have in the past. Its just about getting back into the life sytle I adopted a couple of years back.

While I did add a couple extra kgs in the last year, it wasn’t so bad anyway. I am still within a healthy bmi and I think I needed to take a break from that other life style. I had become a fitness freak, which isn’t exactly a healthy life style either, as you can have too much of a good thing.

I mean - I was healthy which was good, but I wasn’t enjoying it enough. This is because as soon as I ate anything ‘bad’ I would do 12 kgs on the treadmill, which is obsessive. I couldn’t just have a nice treat without feeling guilty. Ya know?

Now, I just need to find the middle ground. The more I exercise and better I eat, the better I will feel. That is what I want for this year.

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope that you make 2009 the best year yet.

Posted: December 31st, 2008 under general.
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I just had a quik glance at my May 5 post about an up coming trip I was planning. Well the trip happened last month and was nothing like what I had suggested.

We did go to Las Vegas for a few days (which I must say was awesome), but we ended up spending some time in Vancouver BC, Seattle WA & Portland OR.

I still have to go through my Grand Canyon photos (I want to put together a photo book, but can’t quiet afford to do it yet) and may post some here. I wont promise it though as I am a hopeless blogger. But I will say that it was a beautiful place and I totally loved it. I am so glad we went there.

The seond half of the trip was the New Kids On The Block portion. We went and saw the reformed boy band in Canada and the North West of America and I had such a fantastic time. They were amazing shows and I can’t believe that a whole month has now passed.

 Some of the photos can be seen at http://www.nkotbaustralia.com/concerts and below are some photos of me with the band:

Anyway thats all for now. I just wanted to post those photos as I am still pretty excited about it. It doesn’t happen very often that you get to meet some childhood idols, and meeting 5 in one night was awesome. Donnie gave me the hugest hug and Jon was the sweetest guy in the world. It was seriously one of the best nights ever.

Posted: December 21st, 2008 under general.
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I was watching The View this morning and they mentioned that Drew Peterson was engaged again. Only last year his 25 year old wife disappeared with him being the main person of interest. Previously to that marriage he was married to another woman who also died in mysterious circumstances.

While he is yet to have his day in caught (or even been arrested), I still find it hard to understand how a 23 year old woman can fall in love with this man knowing that he is the main suspect in two possible homicides. I wonder what her family think of her new relationship, are they accepting or are they scared for her? You would think they would have to have some doubts as to whether he is capable or not.

I have seen many stories on the crime channel about woman that also become pen pals with in mates and fall in love with them while they are behind bars. Scott Peterson had many woman proposing to him, not long after he was arrested for his pregnant wife’s murder.

There have been many different inmate dating websites set up over the years so that inmates can meet people. Women will go there and actually seek out these relationships. But why?

How can someone honestly find these people attractive. Its actually a scary though to me, and is a little sad really. I guess if someone is capable of getting off by committing these crimes, then its also true that there are people that will find it a ’sexy’ characteristic. It also show how lonely some people are in this world, as there are many people that don’t realise they can do better.

I think there are a lot of people like that. I have seen that first hand. I think all have known people that have stayed in bad relationships (not necessarily talking about replationships involving murder suspects now) just because they think they need that person.

The thing is, people usually don’t give themselves enough credit. We are so much stronger than we realise. When faced with a challenging situation that we could never possibly dream of, we actually come out of it ok. We don’t ‘need’ anyone to

Posted: December 21st, 2008 under Topical, general.
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http://nkotbaustralia.com//index.php

Sometimes if people can’t do it right, you have to just do it yourself.

Posted: August 13th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I probably should try and start to actually populate this thing again. I went to an effort to remove the old blog and start from scratch with this one, only to have never actually post anything.

What is new in my life?

Going overseas again three months. This time its Las Vegas, Vancouver, Tacoma & Portland. Most of that time will be in Vegas, where I plan on meeting a hot rich guy, and then marry in Viva Las Vegas wedding chapel. The marriage won’t last long enough to last my trip, but it will be enough to give me one hell of a story to tell on my return. Plus without a prenup, I will do alright. haha

People will and always do laugh when I tell them why I am going to the other three cities. We are going to go see New Kids On The Block, as part of their reunion tour. It will be awesome and weird all in one. It still kind of seems strange when I think about the fact that they are touring again and unlike other bands or groups, after over 20 years since the start of their success, is all five original members.

One of the shows includes a VIP package which has a meet and great attached. I am realistic about it and realise that with probably 150 other people with the same package, its not like I am going to meet them all, one on one.  But even so, it will be a fun experience and its something I will remember for a long time.

 Work is work!

Still working the same job as I was last time. Its been just over 9 months now that I have been there. I seem to be doing alright. I am not perfect and have made mistakes but people seem to really appreciate me and do acknowledge my intelligence. Its amazing how a little appreciation in the work place can effect you. For too long I have felt as though I was invisible or even taken for granted.

Actually I was pretty much appreciated in my last job I think. Well they acknowledge and valued my opinions so I did feel so respect from my co workers. However it was a sales environment and sometimes (well always) money was put first. We were struggling so sometimes even when my ideas where acknowledged, they weren’t followed through with. But that’s still better than not being listened to at all. It was just a tough environment and I knew that people were under a lot of pressure - far more than me. They did what they could and I accepted that to a degree, but it probably did help persuade me to leave.

With this current job, they seem willing to do what ever they can, to make me happy. They even gave me a decent pay rise this month. I wouldn’t have expected it really as I still feel knew and have a lot more to learn, but they do appreciate me and they know that I have come a long way.

I don’t feel I deserve it really. I feel as though I am not as busy as I would like. I have a lot of tasks on my task list, but everything is either a task that I only do once a period or I am waiting on other people to complete the next step. I don’t have enough of my own projects (except the periodical ones). I will try and adopt new things though. I would rather be busy and have the days go fast, as well as constantly being challenged then just sitting on my butt all day doing nothing.

Anyone that has known me for a long time or has probably read my older blogs would know that I spend many years in meaningless jobs that allowed me to pretty much spend the whole day on the Internet. Hell anyone that is likely reading this now, I probably met through my online work days. haha!

I don’t want to be in jobs where I can be lazy, been there and done that. Its not satisfying to me. I like being challenged. I am too much of a thinker. I may as well be thinking about something that is stimulating then just surfing the Internet to read the latest Britney update. The Internet gets boring very quickly.

Pictures

I bought a new camera last week. Its a Canon 450D DSLR. I had an earlier version of the same camera (300D) and thought it was time for an upgrade. The 450D is a low price point for a DSLR, so its not the worlds greatest camera or anything, but I don’t need the worlds best. I could have gone for a better model for a few hundred dollars extra, but at the end of the day, I have really cheap & slow lenses. No point going for a camera that is a lot faster if the rest of my equipment isn’t good enough to handle it. May as well go for 2mp more so I have a little more room for error with my crappy lenses.

I would like to buy a couple of new lenses though. I am looking at a 28-75mm lens now for my trip to the Grand Canyon. That place will be amazing I think and I want to capture it as well as I possibly can. I would hate to come home disappointed as I didn’t have the right gear with me to get the best photo.

Maybe next year I will also look at getting a better zoom. One of my favourite thing to photograph is my sports and I currently don’t have a great lens for this. It gets the distance, but not great for action shots.

I wont complain though. My zoom was only $200 and its actually taken some beautiful shots, so I have definitely made the most of it. My 2007 Hawaii shows are proof of this.

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Posted: August 11th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I still need to finish setting up this new website. For starters I need a splash page at the front and I need to fix some links for this blog away from the default, but I have been busy.

Last week I was in Sydney for three days for work. I think the trip was great in many respects. For starters, I got to catch up with my friend Noura that lives in Sydney and I also think I was able to learn a few things that will help me do a far better job. The downside to the trip was food poisoning.

I am not sure where I went that made me sick that day. I had had room service breakfast in the  morning (cereal, OJ & toast) and subway for lunch, followed my a Mcflurry at the airport.

At the time I felt fine after eating which is why I can’t pin point it. It wasn’t until my plane had landed in Melbourne that my stomach started to cramp up.

Thursday, the cramping got worse, although I was still able to go to work that day. It wasn’t till that night/next morning that it was clear that I had eaten something badly.

So the whole weekend I was sick and had to take Friday off and also today, Monday.

I am doing much better though. Today I was pretty fine, first day where my stomach didn’t trouble me, although I don’t have my energy fully back yet. I think that’s just because I have been dehydrated from the illness (and I know I haven’t drunk enough water) and I also didn’t eat as well for a couple of days as I couldn’t tolerate it.

So that is pretty much my late 8 days.

Now for some exciting news. I am going overseas again in November. Sure I only went to Hawaii in March, but that was 7 or 8 weeks ago so I need something new. Actually Jetstar had flights from Sydney to Hawaii on sale. For the two of us (my sister and me) our flights cost only $1042. As far as flying to Sydney goes, probably can get a free ticket with frequent flyers so there isn’t a cost there hopefully.

My sister wants to do Vegas so we should be able to go there and stay in a really nice hotel plus a couple days in LA and Hawaii for around $2000 all up (each). Not bad considering that’s what it almost costs these days to just fly to LA without accommodation.

If we stay in the Hilton Hawaiian Village, it will probably be a couple hundred more than that. I have always wanted to stay there and it would be a good place for a two or three night stay. Its on Waikiki beach but its a decent walk from the actual tourist areas, which is why we didn’t stay there this last time. I wanted to be in the heart of Waikiki. However, having stayed there the last two years, its not as important for me to stay in the same area this time. It would be nice to just live it up and enjoy a really nice hotel, as you don’t always get the opportunities to stay in such nice places. Plus if you are going to stay in a hotel like that, you can realistically only afford a couple of nights lol

Anyway we wont be booking any of that other stuff for a while yet. I still need to pay off the last trip haha Plus there isn’t a hurry. We can look around for now and just keep an eye on the prices and pounce when we think they are right for us.

One problem for me is my job. I still don’t know the fate of my department and if we will last. I know the job market is supposed to be good right now, but I am making good money currently and I still have a lot to learn. I might be able to find something else pretty fast, but I like the style of job I am in now and have no idea how to get a similar one. I would HATE to go backwards.

So I am a little worried right now with things, but at the same time I can’t put my life on hold for things that may or may not happen. I just have to get on with life and if certain things happen, I will deal with them as they are thrown at me. I am a survivor and have managed to get this far in life. I know that I am capable of handling any challenge thrown this way.

Posted: May 5th, 2008 under general.
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Hello everyone, I have made a transition to a new server and decided to go with a new look. While I am still sorting things out it may be a little messy. Am half way through my Hawaii edits, so I should have some photos up this weekend hopefully.

I am in Sydney next week with no internet access, so I would really like to get it all sorted then.

Till next time, ciao.

Posted: April 23rd, 2008 under general.
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