Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Having fun with my sisters :) which really is not what this blog is about.
Tonight from 5:30 to 9 i babysat my sisters all we did was play sims 3 (one of the best games ever). Then asking them to go brush there teeth. In the back of my mind though there was that nagging feeling of disappointment for not going to the last bible study for the term. All well i will see all of them at kyck which will be fun. I wonder what they did hmm do i want to know? If i did i would probably feel sad for not going. I also feel guilty for not going and i missed the group haha i miss one day and all ready im moaning about it. ahhhh Kyck can't come soon enough. for the good news im on holidays yay. Looks like this blog turn out differently then i had planned .
Saturday, March 27, 2010
two movie references in a doctor who novel? Maybe??
Im reading through a doctor who novel at the moment and there are some lines in the first few pages that sound as though they were copied/or taken from two movies. Try and guess what two movies that came to my mind. I will put in part of chapter.
The road back into Lychburg wound through a series of wooded hills, branching several times, and in the night it was easy to get lost. Norman swore under his breath and glanced between the two unmarked roads available at the junctions. If other traffic had been around, he could have just gone with the general flow,but due to some freak of timing there was no other vehicle in sight. Norman was sufficiently adolescent to place a premium on looking cool in front of his girl - or at least, not looking the precise opposite - and to wander aimlessly through the back roads for an hour would look, he thought, uncool in the extreme.
'I think we should go left;'Myra said. It wasn't so much what she said as the way she said it, but he felt an almost physical paroxysm of relief. It was as if she had read his mind, and seen his secret dread of girl-contempt, and had made damn sure that what she said contained not a single trace of it. Mr Hecht had talked in his class about teenage hormones, Norman recalled, how they made you sorta crazy and confused, how they made you blow the tiniest of things out of all proportion - but knowing that it happened and why it happened were not much when it was you who were going through it.
'Yeah, OK,' Norman said. 'We'll go left.;
the road led upwards, but in the dark the twists and turns contrived to mask how steep the incline in fact was - until they came to a bluff beyond which were sprawled the lychburg city lights. You could make out the neon signs of Main Street, the lit-up clock face of city hall which had stopped several years ago when it had been damaged by a lighting strike. You could see right across the city, even to the darkness of the hills and the tiny lights of the Drive-o-Rama beyond...
The towering embarrassment of adolescence hit Norman again as he realised he had parked in one of Lychburg's seriously notorious make-out spots without really meaning to.
He started to apologies, but Myra was resting herself warm and casual against him.
'It's beautiful, isn't it?' she said in a voice that told Norman she had known precisely where the left turn she'd suggested led. 'I love it up here. I always love it when i come up here.
What do you think? When you look at the City. What do you feel?'
'Well, yeah uh...' Norman tried to sort out his feelings the question prompted. There had been something vaguely disquieting about the way that Myra had said City, as though the word were capitalised, as though this was in some sense the only name Lychburg could ever had or need. 'Yeah, well, its home, isn't it? it's our home town. it's where we grew up. Everything we know. Its just that sometimes..'
'Yes?' said Myra. Her voice was completely neutral: a simple prompt that triggered no fight-or-flight animal danger signals
whatsoever.
it's just sometimes it seems so small,' said Norman. it's like we live our little lives here, go to school and go to work and the movies, and none of it really means anything. I mean, there's a big wide world out there and...
'There is no other world,' said Myra, voice still perfectly neural. No human content to it at all. 'There is no World but the City.'
'What are you talking about? Just down the road from the drive-in there's...'
Norman's voice trailed off as his thoughts slipped over the edge of some mental cliff. A chaos of partially formed images struck him - images of a road similar to those which ran from Lychburg to the drive-in, only somehow wider and with any number of roads running parallel, all of them packed with pod-like cars; images of places that were like the town of Lychberg but entirely different in some way that he could not pin down; images of huge and unimaginably complicated places with strange buildings and people who looked and moved in different...
Norman had been conscious of the outside, larger world in the same way he was conscious of having a right hand. It was something that you simply did not actively think about. The thought just never occurred. Now that it had, he realised, it was like falling into some mental void . There were places outside, and those places had names - but now that he tied to think of them, now that he tried to imagine some world other than, and outside from, the Lychburg city limits, he could not think of a single one.
Not one.
From down below, at the bottom of the bluff, he heard a sharply detonative sound like a rifle shot or a thunderclap close up - as though the air itself had split apart as something burst through it. There was the sound of some strange mechanism whirring to a stop.
'Your thought process as become erratic.; Myra said in flat inhuman tones, in the way some science guy might discuss a bug under a glass slide. 'Complexity of the host- sensorium is resurfacing. Starting to remember. the signifiers of the world are collapsing, deconstructing under an atypical and excessive sense of psychic introspection. Clearly, it has been infected by the forces of Discontinuity.;
For the first time since they had parked here on the cliff-edge, Norman looked at her - turned to really look at her.
physically she looked unchanged, but there was a hideous sense of wrongness about her, the positioning of her limbs, the muscles that moved them, set in postures that had no humanity about them; relaxed or tensed in manners that no human being could ever achieve.
her eyes were clear and steady and direct, with nothing, absolutely nothing, living inside them.
'The Continuity must be protected; she said, and with an entirely relaxed and casual manner she reached up her hand to plunge its splayed-open fingers deep within Norman Manley's eyes.
This is an extract from the Doctor Who novel: HEART OF TARDIS.
now can you think of two movies in which you might find something like this. The bold bits are the main things i wanted to point out. If you leave a comment about your guess i will tell you mine.
The road back into Lychburg wound through a series of wooded hills, branching several times, and in the night it was easy to get lost. Norman swore under his breath and glanced between the two unmarked roads available at the junctions. If other traffic had been around, he could have just gone with the general flow,but due to some freak of timing there was no other vehicle in sight. Norman was sufficiently adolescent to place a premium on looking cool in front of his girl - or at least, not looking the precise opposite - and to wander aimlessly through the back roads for an hour would look, he thought, uncool in the extreme.
'I think we should go left;'Myra said. It wasn't so much what she said as the way she said it, but he felt an almost physical paroxysm of relief. It was as if she had read his mind, and seen his secret dread of girl-contempt, and had made damn sure that what she said contained not a single trace of it. Mr Hecht had talked in his class about teenage hormones, Norman recalled, how they made you sorta crazy and confused, how they made you blow the tiniest of things out of all proportion - but knowing that it happened and why it happened were not much when it was you who were going through it.
'Yeah, OK,' Norman said. 'We'll go left.;
the road led upwards, but in the dark the twists and turns contrived to mask how steep the incline in fact was - until they came to a bluff beyond which were sprawled the lychburg city lights. You could make out the neon signs of Main Street, the lit-up clock face of city hall which had stopped several years ago when it had been damaged by a lighting strike. You could see right across the city, even to the darkness of the hills and the tiny lights of the Drive-o-Rama beyond...
The towering embarrassment of adolescence hit Norman again as he realised he had parked in one of Lychburg's seriously notorious make-out spots without really meaning to.
He started to apologies, but Myra was resting herself warm and casual against him.
'It's beautiful, isn't it?' she said in a voice that told Norman she had known precisely where the left turn she'd suggested led. 'I love it up here. I always love it when i come up here.
What do you think? When you look at the City. What do you feel?'
'Well, yeah uh...' Norman tried to sort out his feelings the question prompted. There had been something vaguely disquieting about the way that Myra had said City, as though the word were capitalised, as though this was in some sense the only name Lychburg could ever had or need. 'Yeah, well, its home, isn't it? it's our home town. it's where we grew up. Everything we know. Its just that sometimes..'
'Yes?' said Myra. Her voice was completely neutral: a simple prompt that triggered no fight-or-flight animal danger signals
whatsoever.
it's just sometimes it seems so small,' said Norman. it's like we live our little lives here, go to school and go to work and the movies, and none of it really means anything. I mean, there's a big wide world out there and...
'There is no other world,' said Myra, voice still perfectly neural. No human content to it at all. 'There is no World but the City.'
'What are you talking about? Just down the road from the drive-in there's...'
Norman's voice trailed off as his thoughts slipped over the edge of some mental cliff. A chaos of partially formed images struck him - images of a road similar to those which ran from Lychburg to the drive-in, only somehow wider and with any number of roads running parallel, all of them packed with pod-like cars; images of places that were like the town of Lychberg but entirely different in some way that he could not pin down; images of huge and unimaginably complicated places with strange buildings and people who looked and moved in different...
Norman had been conscious of the outside, larger world in the same way he was conscious of having a right hand. It was something that you simply did not actively think about. The thought just never occurred. Now that it had, he realised, it was like falling into some mental void . There were places outside, and those places had names - but now that he tied to think of them, now that he tried to imagine some world other than, and outside from, the Lychburg city limits, he could not think of a single one.
Not one.
From down below, at the bottom of the bluff, he heard a sharply detonative sound like a rifle shot or a thunderclap close up - as though the air itself had split apart as something burst through it. There was the sound of some strange mechanism whirring to a stop.
'Your thought process as become erratic.; Myra said in flat inhuman tones, in the way some science guy might discuss a bug under a glass slide. 'Complexity of the host- sensorium is resurfacing. Starting to remember. the signifiers of the world are collapsing, deconstructing under an atypical and excessive sense of psychic introspection. Clearly, it has been infected by the forces of Discontinuity.;
For the first time since they had parked here on the cliff-edge, Norman looked at her - turned to really look at her.
physically she looked unchanged, but there was a hideous sense of wrongness about her, the positioning of her limbs, the muscles that moved them, set in postures that had no humanity about them; relaxed or tensed in manners that no human being could ever achieve.
her eyes were clear and steady and direct, with nothing, absolutely nothing, living inside them.
'The Continuity must be protected; she said, and with an entirely relaxed and casual manner she reached up her hand to plunge its splayed-open fingers deep within Norman Manley's eyes.
This is an extract from the Doctor Who novel: HEART OF TARDIS.
now can you think of two movies in which you might find something like this. The bold bits are the main things i wanted to point out. If you leave a comment about your guess i will tell you mine.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Hurlstone park Children's centre.
Today i went to Hurlstone park Childcare Centre and i thought it was just going to be a look around the centre ask a few questions and hand in a resume. Boy was i wrong but in a good way. :) When i got there at 10:02 am i meet with the centre's manager who showed me around the centre and introduced me to some of the staff and of course the children who found me fascinating and started asking "who is that man" it was very sweet. I got to some of the kids from the 3 to 5 year olds. Lets see if i can remember some of there names.
- Lucas
- Evie (or a name that sounds like Evie)
- Ben
I helped some of the Children make puzzles and find the pieces. There was Three puzzles. There was a caterpillar that turned into a butterfly puzzle and a platypus puzzle and the third i can't remember that this stage. Damn my Memory. :(
Im jumping around a bit. The Children were then read another story or two to calm them down a bit before they danced to a surfer song? thats whats the centre staff called it. They also danced to a bit of eye of the tiger and the whole of Thriller which like i said earlier was very cute. They then did some stretching which i joined in with. I think the Kids were watching me then the instructor. :)
The Children then proceeded to go to lunch it was pasta and salad yummy. This is the time i said goodbye and left. On my way out i spoke to the centre manger and she suggested i do some work experience at the centre. I think its a great idea so i said i was nearly at the end of term one at tafe and almost on holidays i also said i had tafe Monday Tuesday and Friday. She suggested Wednesday. So all i have to do is call them next term to arrange a few hours on Wednesday to come to the centre.
A job well done i think. I think God helped me abit by letting me get an interview and very nice staff at a lovely centre.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Least We Forget.
Im board so i decided to list the people who have passed away so far this year.
R.I.P.
JANUARY
4th Johan Ferrier, First President of Suriname (Born 1910)
4th Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (Born 1916)
9th Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (Born 1925)
11th Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (Born 1909)
11th Eric Rohmer, French film director (Born 1920)
13th Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B and soul singer (Born 1950)
15th Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1927)
17th Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (Born 1937)
17th Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (Born 1914)
18th Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer (Born 1946)
19th Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (Born 1939)
22nd Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (Born 1929)
22nd Jean Simmons, British actress (Born 1929)
25th Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (Born 1941)
27th Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (Born 1933)
27th J.D. Salinger, American author (Born 1919)
27th Howard Zinn, American historian (Born 1922)
FEBRUARY
1st Steingrimur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (Born 1928)
6th John Dankworth, British jazz musician and composer (Born 1927)
7th Andre Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (Born 1936)
8th John Murtha, American politician (Born 1932)
10th Charles Wilson, American politician (Born 1933)
11th Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (Born 1969)
14th Dick Francis, British author and jockey (Born 1920)
17th Kathryn Grayson, American Singer (Born 1920)
18th Ariel Ramirez, Argentine composer (Born 1921)
20th Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (Born 1924)
Gone but Not forgotten.
End of part 1
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Move Couch/Get New Couch
well today Dad told me he would pick me up at 8am so i set my alarm for 7am but i should have remembered that dad usually runs late. All well at least i was up and ready to go get the new couch from the women dad bought it from. So after dad was at least half an hour he picked me up it took us half an hour to get there. The rest of the family was already waiting for us when we arrived and we went to meet the women with the couch who i think was happy to get rid of it as apparently she had just divorced her partner and was really stressed. Dad Fran and i had to use a trolley and several carpets to get the new couch to the car which was very painful but we managed. We then went home when we arrived home we had guests waiting who were going to a wedding and was dropping of Ma (my grandmother i guess i could say) after a quick lunch dad and i with the help of my sister removed the old couch from the living room while Ma,Fran and Maddy (my other sister) went to a party.
This also took some time as we had to stand the old couch up and slowly moved it to the door to put on the back of the truck which we did when Fran and the others got back from the party. The next step was to bring in the new couch and set it up which was much quicker the removing the old one. Dad and i then proceeded to go to the Leichhardt authorized tip were we dumped the old couch this was the highlight of the day . when we got back we booked a place at a Vietnamese restaurant and we all went out for dinner the food was delicious.
I wonder what Sunday will bring. :)
This also took some time as we had to stand the old couch up and slowly moved it to the door to put on the back of the truck which we did when Fran and the others got back from the party. The next step was to bring in the new couch and set it up which was much quicker the removing the old one. Dad and i then proceeded to go to the Leichhardt authorized tip were we dumped the old couch this was the highlight of the day . when we got back we booked a place at a Vietnamese restaurant and we all went out for dinner the food was delicious.
I wonder what Sunday will bring. :)
Thursday, March 18, 2010
All OK :)
went to the dentist had my check up and i am fine :) Thank you god. I also got a late birthday present from my aunt Cathrine a well i guess i can call it a home made shirt you know when you get to pick the image you want on it so i chose a picture with all 11 doctors to put on the shirt who did not see that coming haha. The only thing i hate about the dentist is when he/she cleans your teeth your gums bleed (gross) and you have to wash your mouth out with water. i also found out my other ant Jo broke her arm last night ouch but shes at home now and Cathrine is there with her apparently. I hope her arm heals well and quickly.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Friends = Awesome + bible study
Tonight was bible study with a twist we had a Wii. I watched as my friends made fools out of them selfs playing a dance game sadly i did not have a go i now wish i had :( all well maybe next time :) if there is a next time i hope so it looked fun. We also talked about if the devil still influences todays society and how Jesus defeated him by dieing but raising from the grave three days latter there by defeating the greatest challenge death itself. Which is simply amazing. I defiantly enjoyed myself tonight.
I only wish i could hang out more with everyone there and the others who were not as they are awesome people and i think i don't see them as much as i would like to which is a shame. :( maybe thats something i can prey to god about either next Tuesday or maybe sooner.
I only wish i could hang out more with everyone there and the others who were not as they are awesome people and i think i don't see them as much as i would like to which is a shame. :( maybe thats something i can prey to god about either next Tuesday or maybe sooner.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Blue mountains and the rest of the weekend.
Hey so for the rest of my trip in the blue mountains :) on Sunday we left Mums friends house (Fiona's) around 11 o clock and we headed a bit further up the mountain and arrived at pops for lunch and my aunt was there as well it was good to see them again. We had chicken/Turkey for lunch/Dinner and Chocolate fondue for desert yum yum. :) it was delicious mum and i took some pictures which will be up on facebook shortly after lunch mum Dave and Marion my aunt had tea we then came back down the mountain. My friend Lewis called and asked me to come over for a while when i got back i helped unpack some things and took out the garbage for them haha. I also played a bit of GTA 4 on there 360.
That was the end of my long weekend well it felt long which was good.
end of part 2.
P.S There are also a few things happening this week some of which i will ask at Bible study for people to pray for.
1. I have a job interview at Earlwood childcare centre on Wednesday which i hope goes well.
2. I have a dentist appointment on Thursday as i may have a hole in one of my teeth.
sigh it amazing how many things happen to me i wonder if god hates me. :( Erin if you read this please answer that question for me thanks. :)
That was the end of my long weekend well it felt long which was good.
end of part 2.
P.S There are also a few things happening this week some of which i will ask at Bible study for people to pray for.
1. I have a job interview at Earlwood childcare centre on Wednesday which i hope goes well.
2. I have a dentist appointment on Thursday as i may have a hole in one of my teeth.
sigh it amazing how many things happen to me i wonder if god hates me. :( Erin if you read this please answer that question for me thanks. :)
Saturday, March 13, 2010
house party's and blue mountains
Yesterday i went to a Friends birthday/house warming party which was fun :) as they moved house today. I sleep in so i woke up at the time i was meant to be there whoops :( so i made record time to get up there ha ha by the time i got up there all the heavy stuff was already packed and in the cars. So all i did was help do some cleaning in the old house and guarded some stuff while i waited for the cars to get back. After packing the final things we head over to the new house. All the heavy stuff was already in the new flat so a double bonus for me. I feel guilty for not lifting the heavy stuff. :( All well so we unpacked some things for example the TV and xbox 360 :) ha ha Kim who had the birthday gave me her tafe stuff as she did the same course im doing so i hope it comes in useful. Mum called me around two to come home so we could go to the blue mountains at 3:30. Tomorrow im seeing my last living grandparent and i guess i could say girlfriend for lunch. Which will be good as i rarely see them. :(
This is the end of part one part two will be up tomorrow evening.
Oliver.
This is the end of part one part two will be up tomorrow evening.
Oliver.
Friday, March 12, 2010
first Assessment task done :)
Yay i have finished my first Assessment task for tafe and i handed it in today. Whats more its the weekend double bonus :) Going to a house warming party tonight which will be awesome i hope.
The first assessment task was a who am i poster. Now i only have one left to do. The only problem is that my teacher is away in hospital i pray she gets better soon otherwise we will get an extension on the it. I also need to start the assessment task. Next week on Wednesday i have an Interview at Earlwood childcare centre so next week i should ask at bible study to pray it goes well. I also have another Interview the week after that at Hurlstone park Childcare centre. This is for getting casual or work experience in childcare.
So i hope everything goes well. :)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Ghostbusters 3
Hey Oliver here. It looks like Ghostbusters 3 has finally been given the green light for the go ahead. After 20 or so years. With the original actors so Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murry, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson.
Rick Moranis and Sigourney Weaver may or may not return as the the movie is in its early stages of development.
Ivan Reitman says he will direct. There are rumors that it may be done in animation but like all rumors don't treat it as fact.
apparently we may see a new generation of ghostbusters because the movie is set a few years after the second one and the ghostbusters have been shutdown for awhile.
Ghostbusters 3 may either be released in 2011 or 2012.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Facebook,Twitter,Myspace?
Hello. I know i don't have any followers yet :) but im making this anyway. The social networking sites facebook myspace and to a lesser degree twitter. The usual sites people use to send and/or update there day to day activities.
Facebook: The now most famous one out off the three. Users can update there status upload a photo or photos comment on other peoples photos become fans of anything and everything usually useless stuff for example "the moments with the Indian guy in the 7 11 :)". plus more. Facebook also has the ability for you to chat to other friends which is like a smaller version of msn.
Myspace: With myspace like facebook but you can get and play music on your profile find friends who you have on facebook already or vise versa. Also like facebook upload photos and comment on other peoples photos and/or profiles. Myspace also has chat see above.
Twitter: Finally theres twitter which unlike facebook and myspace only allows you to post a status and you can't upload pictures or talk to people as twitter does not support it. So in other words Twitter is behind the other social networking sites. Twitter you need to catch up or your going to be left in the digital dust of your rivals.
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