Leave it to the imagination.........?

Has anyone noticed i seem to be doing this "........." alot? I have noticed....! What is this, leave it up to the imagination.....?

Plug 'n' Play!

I have just (at one'oclock!) discovered the secret to pluging my fender directly into my computer without the need to buy a new specialised cable (macs are the best!). This is sooooo good because now i can record my songs and balance the levels without the annoying buzzing sound on my guitar because i was using the built-in microphone!!! They sound soooo much better and i can put effects on them too (i don't want to much cause it means its not all me) It is soo cool but now i must get to bed (most of my great ideas come at night, i work better, probably an evening person!) cause i have to get up tomorrow to get to the gym with my mum cause i havn't been for ages to a gym (i have been playing soccer at least 2 times a week so its not like i havn't been excercising - they are energetic games!)

*note to jubileeman - i recently "got into a fight with a lawnmower" and now have very short (not gone) hair too, but i was sitting there in the barber chair watching it happen and didn't really realise, now i have to wait for it to grow back! Although it was nice to feel the breeze through my...head today at the Royal Easter Show watching other people with long hair thinking "they must be warm in the heat!" (if i could link to jubileeman here like he can i would... see link to the left or above..)

Music.....

I have had an idea... if i can get it running, i might start adding my music to my posts so as to..... well i have no idea why, just thought it might be a cool idea to get it at least playing somewhere that people might be able to hear it.....not entirely sure how to add widgets though and all that sort of stuff to get the mp3 player on the screen...

Memorabilia

Some memorabilia from the concert....

1. The Tickets
The Shirt
2. Front
3. Back
4. Front Logo
5. Back Logo

Am i any good mw....?

From seeing a concert of a professional artist whose songs are well known by heaps of people and .... you get the point i think, i can't help to wonder if mine (songs and music) are any good. i feel that i have this perfectionist streak (not trying to boast about it), almost a different person, snuk in through the force field into my mind, sitting there looking at the bad side of things that tells me, "you're not finished that one, it doesn't sound that good yet..." always looking for more (note, that i do push myself to come up with stuff that would be worth singing back to me at a concert), most of the times i feel that my songs aren't very good at all; because i wrote them... (sometimes i like them, like when i first write them and other times, sometimes i think they are really really clever and am not sure whether other people would appreciate how clever they are, even some of the titles on these posts are sheer ... ok enough of my own trumpet..) its like that feeling of eating a dinner that you cooked vs going out to a restaurant where you have your dinner cooked for you presented to you (without having to think about it) and it doesn't come out of the comercial containers that most goods do. When i hear other people's songs, i havn't gone through the process of writing, playing, rewriting, putting chords to, rewriting, revising, thinking of a better way to express things and things like that. The same thing happens with playing guitar, when i see john mayer do his amazing solos at his concert, i don't have to be pushing -my- fingers to the fret board, or thinking about whether it sounds good enough - don't get me wrong, i love soloing, just playing along - but i wonder if it is any good, if i cranked my amp up and filled a room, with everyone wanting to listen to me and my tunes would they care....

Words Won't Work

Well, back from the concert and it was awsome. To hear him live (i have only been to 2 concerts in my life if i remember rightly) was so great, the songs that i know all the words to and love and great guitar solos playing loud and filling every inch of the room down to the seat that you are siting in (the kind of stuff you can't do at home with neighbours). The support act was probably alittle too loud and just a mush of sounds from his guitar and drums with the vocals trying to find some room to express themselves infront of black sheets over equiptment behind them taking up the stage for the main attraction but when john came out and took up the whole stage, he played those familiar melodys and it was fantastic! I can't really put it into words. It was great!!!!!

Concert!!!! (all clever title making skills are falling out the window - for tonight)

Well, taking time off from the big assesments i am currently working on - thinking about communication and how to improve mine (i think it might be in my word choice sometimes cause i can't get accross what i want to communicate in a smallish amount of words - txt messages don't make it any eaisier!)....i'm off to the John Mayer concert tonight at the Sydney Entertainment Centre!!!!!! I am really looking forward to it!! It should be great! i might even write about it afterwards....

God Bless

Couple more photos of luscious lobbys

Defining Luxury

Just some picks of the Waldorf Astoria, we watched a video in Rooms Division about it, the day in the life of a couple of people who work in this hotel. It was really cool. It takes up a whole city block in New York and is one of the most luxurious hotels.....

The bright lights and the big city

One show i am enjoying watching at the moment is "Las Vegas". It is great to watch the goings on of a true fake hotel. The head porter is great and i try and get any posible tips that i can.... one really interesting ep. was on recently where he was teaching this guy how to find "tells" (body language that gives away bluffs etc in poker) i found this interesting cause i am doing communications (comms) and in comms we study non-verbal communication or body language and he was showing all these "tells" like people "staring down" when they were lying and other subcontious things. Now i know it is only a show but it is really cool and i wonder if it is true and they are minute and i want to now go searching for them (not for gambling purposes but to further my communication realted industry)...

Luxury everywhere....

We all love pics of hotels don't we...? Well, i do so i will try and put as many asthetically pleasing pics on posts for yourenjoyment....

Rooms* of Communications*

The course that i am doing is very enjoyable. i see it as intersting information that is useful not only for working at Hayman/a hotel (i am using Hayman as encouragement for learning) but also for everyday life. We learn how people communicate and how to improve it (hopefully). I would love to be a porter (or really any position on hayman except food and beverage - nothing personal just not as exciting for me - not as much human interaction and i will drop all the plates!) on Hayman, porters would help guests and have great communication skills (i know i have to work on these, they don't come with the job) but you greet guests, help them, organise stuff for them and such. i think that i enjoy helping other people and interacting with them. Rooms Division (front desk operations and such -checking people in and the like) is also really great cause i will really be able to use it and i loved sitting there and finding out all the secrets of how to be a good porter/concierge. Personal Development for the workplace is also sooo useful, helping us get together all of our things to apply for a job -Resume help, Application letters, interview help etc. They are all great!!!! I love it!!

*(technical jargon for two courses at uni- "Personal Communications in Organisations" and "Rooms Division Operations")(you can see why the abbreviations (why is abbreviation such a long word -hahaha)

Future on the horizon, see it sitting on the beach...

Well, the biggest news is that, the hotel school has a 7 month intership period and my plans are to apply and hopefully go and work on Hayman Island Resort. It would be awsome, living on the island in the staff quarters, working whenever they want me to, i have been told there is a chapel on the island with a minister (hopefully services), staff are allowed to use almost everything on the island (with small exceptions) i can keep in touch with my family and friends through video camera and skype/email (although not as 'real' as before obviously) and you would work amoungst this hotel!!! Cool!!

Of course i commit these plans to God and i know that he will be with me, helping me stay strong and live to his praise and glory. The truth is that when i started thinking about internship, i wanted to stay close to family and friends in sydney cause i didn't want to leave them again but then i got this idea in church while i was sitting there i started to think about hayman island and working there and then it became a stronger and stronger feeling....the work of God in my life........?

I am still alive

Just a quick one to say.. i am still here, i have just been off doing stuff, it was really interesting, here i was walking up this hill and there was the lion and i....... well i won't provide excuses! So Hi once again and i will tell you some stuff thats been circulating.....

I hate the world, sorry.

This is probably the first time that i have gone into something negative, but i feel compelled. Today i completed the Child Protection course for people working with children. After todays course i feel really down. we had to go through all the types of abuse and statistics and such. i hate that we must have these rules. Throughout the course she kept saying that we live in a broken world (that being the reason for the need for rules) and it was only afterwards that i realised the meaning of this. Admittidly i was tired after evening church where, with one away, i was organising, and i hadn't had any lunch and i had been going all day. However, now, sitting at home i now realise why i felt so down. from doing the course, it makes me so very, hugely worried about my close friends at church. i now feel the need to desperately search for some good in this world, and i know the only possible place i can truly find it is with God. I hope that God will reveal this goodness to me soon cause i see no positive in the world at the moment, none at all, where is it? All of these rules make me not want to do any type of teaching. Well, as the rain pours down, and the sound of thunder fills the dark, grey land, i hope that things look up and i can see the sun again.