Second Last Day

Well, its almost to a close sadly. Tomorrow is going to be a bit of a hectic day, trying to get tickets, go to the michael buble concert, work meet up with jess after she has got the tickets, work out what to do with my stuff....Hope it all goes ok...then work on sunday then next week is study/relax week, heading down to the country for some study and a chance to get away!

One more night to go tomorrow night....i better make it a good one....

God Bless

A nice pic.

I have written consent from the creator and president of the blog a day for the month of may competition to have this blog going to publish later than the time requested.....i can't believe it is almost over, i didn't realise that i would be out till after the time...should have done it earlier....so here is a nice pic......

MW

Not much to report today

Bit sad that blog a day is coming to an end...it is such a great competition, thanks jess.

Had a big sleep when i got home from going to uni and the gym...bit tired. Only two more lectures to go this semester then a study week then exams. heading down the highlands for the study week which should be good. Jess went to a careers fair thing today, had a good time, told the observatory hotel that i'm a bit strange and have a subscription to their mag, really interested in their company..etc..i think they think i'm crazy!

Not much else happened today...last assignment got put in...no more to do...

Appart from that...not much else....

Until tomorrow, goodnight.

Reminiscing

Just reminiscing about the old times...when Andrew and Cecily helped jess and i get to know each other....dragging us to meet each other :p they did very well and i think we are both appreciative : )

Just thinking about driving in the cold whethered highlands in the car with the car seats that were very comfy, just chatting and getting to know each other : ) good times : )

Thank you Andrew and Cecily.
Thank you Jess.

150 posts

Just noticed that i am up to my 150th post...how exciting. Jess is currently trying, with me to put up a video of the idol playing...i watched myself and rich today and i think that we rocked. It sounds much better than my original recordings of my song... So it went well. Got a rather big assignment that i have to finsh tomorrow so i will leave it there...worked all weekend and now back to my last week of uni!!! but then there are exams...oh well


God Bless

Idol!!

Tonight richard and i competed in the school idol competition. We played one song- I don't need no doctor by john mayer (covered of ray charles). it went really well, started off great and just had fun....it just went well...then rich had to play with his other band (our band was just him and me...) and he sang for his band as well which he did really well. Then we found out, after all the bands, that we had got through to the final....we played one of my songs, it went well too. I can't really describe it...i played well, rich played well and it all went great...it was fun to be singing and playing up on stage...and the sound guy they had come in was great and really helped us with setting all the levels. I want to watch the replay to see exactly what we looked like...i know what it looked like on the stage...looking through the blue lights to all the people staring...i think i moved around the stage well too...didn't just stand in one spot like rich was told last year...Anyway, it was a fun night and rich was very happy that we got through to the second round, we didn't win...but we had fun and rich was stoked to have got to the second round with one of his bands....we had fun and grew closer and had lots of fun! So overall a fun night!!!

Not much tonight

I just finished a prac for tomorrow after getting home very late from work. Finshed at 9pm., got out by 9:30 stopped by hilton to pick up my keys by 10, waited for a bus till 10:30, caught a cab at 10:35 and got home late, had a practice at 10:40 finished at 11:25, and jess just got home....its been a long day!!! and an even longer one tomorrow...

Goodnight all

Ode to the park bench

What a great idea. To put a comfortable seat in the middle of a park, you don't have to wonder where to sit, on which piece of grass choosing from so much, a spot made all ready for you to just sit and enjoy the nature around you. As i think of it after reading proverbs around chapter 8, one of the things that was suggested in my bible study was to appreciate the presence of God in nature. What better vantage point.

Thursday

today was an interesting day so keep reading....

yeh, i was just kidding. went to uni and then came home. however jess and i found a lovely spot in the park to just sit and enjoy. It was nice cause we didn't feel like we were in the city and we could just relax and chat...it was fun..

God Bless
Goodnight

mistake

In post- Chateau d'Yquem:

Just to let you know that a bottle of d'Yquem can cost about 45 thousand pounds, not the previously stated 45 pounds. This is for and early bottle, such as from the 1800's.

Sake (sa'ki)

Just reading up on sake this morning (its in my magazine). Rather interesting. Sake is made from rice, the higher the starch content the better. Similar to other alcoholic beverages, sake is made through fermentation of converting grain starch into sugar and then sugar into alcohol, however in Sake, this is all done at the same time giving sake a higher alcohol content. It is brewed from water rice and yeast, and is as specialised and diversified as wine and spirits. Sake can sometimes be served hot but in the article is says that this is just a way to hide the bitterness of bad sake, it should apparently be served cold. One of the premium sakes listed is a 720ml bottle of Datsay YN 23 at 635 pounds a bottle (apparently the Japanese equivalent of a premium chardonnay). I have never tasted Sake though....have to wait and see what the fuss is about.

Secretly

I'm working on something secretly for Jess, can't say what i want to talk about but i will soon when i have finshed...i'm getting interested in old things, not just old but with a sense of esteme.. also focusing on learning things from discovery channels....my room is looking tidyer. This is a boring post.....got a big assignment to do tomorrow, day off from uni to do it. Its with a partner but we don't really need a partner, they could split the assignment into two parts and we could do it by ourselves...its just too big as it is to do by yourself..

How boring a post...
Hopefully i'll come up with something more interesting tomorrow night.
Goodnight

Chateau d'Yquem

Well, back from the highlands...too short a trip but there is more instore soon thankfully. Had lots of fun down there though, saw lots of people and caught up and just enjoyed the slower pace and cold whether.

Just reading up on Chateau d'Yquem, a very expensive Botrytis Semilion which dating back to its first great vintage of 1811, it can fetch a pretty penny...45 thousand pounds for a bottle of the stuff. Botytis is a bacteria which infects the grapes which is then turned into a sweeter wine, in d'Yquem, only the infected grapes are picked down to the grape in 133 hectares of vines at the chateau. The chateau owners have very high standards of the production and have been know to throw back harvests if they do not come up to their standards. I would love to have a bottle just to know that what i had in my hand that i had bought had such a rich history and i could read all about it and appreciate it. I would hope to like it once i opened it! But seeing it ages very well, for at least a decade or too untill it starts to do well...I might have to make sure before i bought it :p

The best vintages being apparently:

1811
1834
1847
1859
1929
1967
2001

Coming to you live....

Coming to you live from mittagong tonight, thats right, posting remotely here. Its lovely down here, if only there was more time. Am looking forward to the holidays so that we can spend a substantial amount of time down here and possibly on the coast surfing and stuff. Had a good day...got up this morning(kinda) at 6-7am (after going to sleep at 1am) and we drove down to the southern highlands. Got here about 9 and went around a bit which was fun in the chilled whether...i love this cold! its lovely. This is why when people in sydney put their little jumpers on in sydney and they saw..it's cold...i don't really understand why...although obviously i do get cold! and can feel it but love the cold whether. I love the highlands, can't wait till those holidays!!! Got to go to church down here as well...was great, got to see Andrew and Cecily and their really cool kids and have a bit of a chat. Jess read the bible splendidly tonight as well at the last minute, filling in for someone. It was good then went to a fish shop to get a takeaway burger and head home to eat sourounded with friends. So it has been a good day. The highlands are great.

Till tomorrow
goodnight.

Saturday

Another long day at the westin today! Not much of a surprise, i went from one car to another for about an hour! The silver linning being that most of them were really quite nice, a nice jaguar, lots of nice mercedes, the new porche cayenne turbo (it was ok but a bit too bulky...the dials inside where nice : p ), some nice handeling subaru's, the newest Land Rover which i kind of like...its huge, a mini-van, yes, a mini van! i was a bit shocked!! a nice gold BMW that drove very nicely.... So that was a bit of fun, got to try out some nice cars, it helps me decide what i might like to get later on....like seeing the Land Rover in nice black and looking great sitting next to ( i parked them together...) the black mercedes benz (CL55 i think maybe...not sure, not too much idea about mercs but it was nice) thinking that could be my garage, one for travelling to work and the other for travelling to the highlands on weekend 'get-away' trips : ) but then i walked passed the nice gold convertable 4 seater BMW which drove lovely..ly...and had a great engine thinking...oh maybe i should swap the beamer for the merc...(its ok, i was only dreaming!! : p) see i get to test drive lots of very nice cars! i made the guy in the car park jelouse by driving past each time with a really nice flashy car while he did his job, wave his batton so noone slammed into the gas pipe they were fixing fro the last time someone did....but it eavened out with the not as flashy cars...it was fun...but still exausting and hard work....don't laugh...it is!

i found today my job went quicker i think when i thought about all the people off for the weekend who were walking in the street and thought of my job a little more from their point of view as they are relaxed and having fun i tried to kind of be relaxed and have fun on the Saturday but still working at my job. i think i also wowed at least two sets of people who were very very thankful after my help and were very friendly..i felt happy after helping them....i think that might be why i like this job....at times...need to find some where different to do it i think....

Heading down the highlands i hope if jess is still up to it when she gets home from work...we will see...hope so but of course if she's not...i won't mind...she has been working all day too!!!!

Anyway...goodnight and god bless

By the way, with the picture of the aston martin above,i didn't drive on of those in my list today, but i am so lucky to have driven one during my time at westin...it was a DB9 and it was awesome!!! : ) i enjoyed that morning!!!