Post- Melbourne-University Experience

Damn...

2005-04-11T00:49:00.000-12:00

Why did I have the feeling that could never keep this blog updated?? Probably because I knew I never could!

Well, must post more soon!

Being Rich makes up for lack of intelligence?

2005-02-15T23:27:00.000-12:00

Well, below, you'll find the 2004 intake at my former uni, The University of Melbourne, for a Bachelor of Law degree.

What you'll be disgusted to know is that there were 125 offers for FULL FEE STUDENTS, while only 25 offers were made for HECS-based places.

What that means is, for who those that couldn't afford to pay the full hefty $21,000 fee had to duke it out for the meagre 25 places (and have to get a perfect score of 99.9), while the rich kids can get in at a minimum of 95.00 (or even lower), ...throw some money at it and make it better, eh?

How does having money make up for poor grades? What happened to merit?

How is it fair that poor students have to battle it out for the leftover places, while the rich kids slack off, and have a greater chance at at getting in anyway because they're wealthy?

That's so fucked up. Fuck John Howard ... he's such fucking a little bitch.

Visit this blog for a similar injustice.

Homophobia is a protected right ?

2005-02-15T21:36:00.000-12:00

Homophobic Prick

An American student is challenging his school, claiming the faculty have violated his right to free speech.

He claims that he should be able to wear this shirt proclaiming, "Homosexuality is shameful. Romans 1:27," "Be ashamed," and "Our school embraced what God has condemned." in the same regard
that gay students can march for gay rights.

The difference?

Gay students aren't preaching hatred. They aren't condemning a way of life, or promoting some religious based bigotry. But this ignorant student is. Gay students march for equality, they march for civil rights, and for tolerance. They don't spread hatred or condemn people for being different. They don't encourage others to hurt or mame, or to foster prejudice.

That's the difference.

Religious students are hindering behaviour; they aren't forcing everyone into a gay marriage, but these right-wing bigots are forcing people to abandon their lifestyle.

If you don't like gay people, fine: Then don't be gay. But don't meddle in the affairs of gay people and tell them what to do, and dictate how they can behave, when their behaviour has no impact on your life whatsoever. All anyone is aksing for is a little tolerance and equal rights...

We have a clear separation of church and state. The school, operating in a public school district, cannot discriminate based on religiously based hatred, when religion cannot in any way impact constitutional law.

When will people learn?

The poisoned apple? Applepics.com new Nazi-esque policy

2005-02-15T17:39:00.000-12:00

One bad apple?

The people over at applepics.com, the image hosting site, have developed some questionable and Nazi like policies.

I noticed something was odd last week when all of my images hosted over at applepics refused to load. I just thought it may have been a temporary server crash, or just some downtime, but no, it's actually much worse. They have actually suspended registrations for new accounts at the momment, and existing accounts are now put through the ringer... The days of easy use image hosting at applepics is gone. No more "multiple accounting." either. Many people, like myself, use to just register for more than one account - multiple accounting? - in an effort in increase upload size. That's now a thing of the past, with anonymous mail services can't be used to try and thwart we "multiple acocunters."

These are the new guidelines for hosting images at Applepics:

* Free accounts are only available when existing ones expire or are deleted
* Keeping your free account requires action on your part
* Duplicate accounts will be removed without notice and images will be deleted
* Free accounts expire after 30 days of inactivity
* Free accounts also become available when existing users upgrade to premium
* All free accounts come with the initial 2 meg with a total maximum of 10 meg free
* The number of free accounts offered is capped somewhere between 5000 and 10000
* Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo email accounts will NOT be accepted for free account verification

These "premium" accounts are a user pays service, so don't expect anything without coughing up some cash.

I just couldn't be bothered logging into my account once a month, that's why I can't stand hotmail anymore.

Well, I'll stick with 2and2 from now on.

Jimmy Fallon Shirtless ?

2005-02-11T19:49:00.000-12:00

I couldn't seem to find ANY pics whatsoever of a shirtless jimmy fallon. Not one! Regardless, I managed to find some hot pics of Jimmy, and he looks damn fine in some of them too....mmmmm mmmm mmmm! Doesn't he look hot there?!

Anyway, of someone manages to find any, drop me a line (see my profile) or post a link in the comment section. Who would have thought it was that hard to find pictures of Jimmy Fallon Shirtless? The pics below are linked to save load time!

http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/-006.jpg

http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/10910331.jpg
http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/40524_175.jpg

http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/yabblogo.gif

http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/004.jpg

http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/n-003.jpg
http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/mmy.JPG

Wow!

2005-02-11T16:20:00.000-12:00

HOT!?

Well, anyone who doesn't know, there's a great site, sexylads.net, that has some excellent pics of mostly college guys (lads). Letme just say that there is some hot stuff, keep in mind that it's not a porn site, simply shirtless, ...and makes me thankful on a daily basis that I'm still at university. Hehe.

There's also the Famous Males Forum if you're up for famous actors/"musicians" (I use the term loosely). Though the site seems to be down at the momment, it's probably just temporary. Enjoy.

No Cydoor in eXeem

2005-02-10T14:52:00.000-12:00

It Still Sux

The, makers of eXeem have taken the hint, and have removed any form of spy/adware from its p2p app. Well, this comes a little too late, because most users were disgusted with the nerve these programmers had to include adware. This isn't to say that the new version is "ad-free", they are planning on having html ads run through the program (much like suprnova.org)because they need $ someway I guess. Ugh. Anyway, most people were turned off of eXeem not because of the malware (that was just the icing on the cake) but because the program just plain sucks.

I guess they realised that no one was going to download the cydoor-infested version (especially when a lite version was released before the official beta). So instead of competing a spy version against a safe version, they caved in. Smart move, but it should have happnened in the first place.

Anyway, unless they find a better way of verifying files in eXeem, then people aren't going to bother. As I mentioned yesterday, the network is already FULL of fake files (thank the MPAA/RIAA for that), so how can people trust the content? There are already "trusty" sites popping up, but that's just like ed2k links, kdat files, and verified torents! Aarrgghh.

What still shocks me is tha IRC is still one of the biggest suppliers of warez and pirated media and they've been untouched. Too bad I don't have cable, huh? That's be my new home.

Please, someone, come out with a better program than the ones on offer, because how else can we get our pre-release music fix?

Loki sells out to the MPAA: Bastards.

2005-02-10T14:33:00.000-12:00

Sons of Bitches

The evil, heartless MPAA corporation has succeeded again. Loki Torrent has succumb to the evil forces of the MPAA and shut itself down...permanently. Well, this was ofcourse, after they gave a heartfelt plea for users to "donate" to a "legal fund," which would help them fight the MPAA in court after being sued by said devils. Well, it seems now that they've made an agreement with the MPAA (ie, they paid a fine) and have agreed to hand over the server logs that list IP addresses of people who've downloaded torrents from Loki. This means they can idenitfy users who've downloaded torrents, and ...sue them. Thanks Loki.

This is the most disgusting form of selling out I've ever seen. Not only did he keep the funds for himself(appprox $40,000), but now he gets off scott free, and screws everyone who bailed him out! What a prick!

So that's it. The MPAA have won.

Sons of bitches, ... most of the crap hollowood dishes out is usually 2 stars or less, so why are they so protective of trash they call film? It's like a white trash whore protective of her trailer.

Well, I'm not phased. I'm sure somewhere there are coders ready to adapt Bit Torrent to make downloading even more anonymous and safe.

Then there'll be no stopping us.

The Da Vinci Code: Leans to the Left

2005-02-09T21:34:00.000-12:00

Hermaphroditic smile?

Well, the book I'm reading at the moment is Dan Brown's Da The Vinci Code and it's quite a ride. Yes, I'm a little late getting around to it, but I hadn't finished reading the Lord of the Rings Complete Volume yet (oh, and it's not a trilogy people, read the prologue, it clearly states that it's not a trilogy buta one volume, 3 parts and 6 book novel). LOTR was an excellent, albeit long, read.

Anyway, The Da vinci Code is great so far, except some questionable Italian and French lines. It doesn't seem so fluent. But I'm a little rusty!

Regardless, I'm sure some conservatives wouldn't be too happy about the allegations in the book (which make me want to read it all the more!). Let's just say the book favours the left, and comes down hard on the religious right for it's mistreatment of gays, pagans, and anyone just plain non-religious. Ahhh. Satisfying.

Anyway, give it a go, it's a great read.

eXeem a waste and a sellout....

2005-02-09T17:50:00.000-12:00

Not Happy, eXeem!

Well, the people over at Loki Torrent have the guts to speak out against the new p2p app eXeem, originally from the owners of suprnova.org (that was a great site), have since sold out to much....wealthier interests, and now their dream has ultimately turned to shit. For those that that don't know, eXeem contains adware and spyware (though they claim that cydoor isn't spyware... it actually is.)

There's already a "lite," version 0.21, stripped of all adware, but the makers of eXeem have begun to block these "lite," users, and a registry patch (for XP only) has to be applied. Aaarrgghh.

Doesn't this remind poeple of Kazaa? It's basically the same program. Furthermore, the new p2p app functions just like Kazaa because each user can submit content, and now it's already becoming flooded with fake files!

Fake files, when it's only been open to the public for a few weeks now. Well, I for one am still sticking with Bit Torrent until eXeem is either fixed or some other great new, indie app comes along.

There has been tons and tons ... and tons of talk about eXeem being the new way to use peer to peer.

We at LokiTorrent completely agree. The premise of eXeem sounds quite nice. The unfortunate fact remains that the once great people at suprnova are not in control of this application. Many of suprnova's higher-ups have left the once-great site as a result of this fact.

Touted as the savior of peer-to-peer, eXeem ended up becoming nothing more than a new version of KaZaa, cydoor spyware included.

Early warning of this began when news came out of eXeem being closed-source, a world-known indicator that someone has become too greedy and any chance of it being 'for the community' are forfeit.

We sincerely wish the people at suprnova the best in future endeavors, but it is apparent that signing up with an 'unnammed corporation' was the undoing of what could have been the 'next best thing' in peer-to-peer community sharing.

We hope that, and will continue to work towards, peer-to-peer becoming a viable alternative for those not wishing to pay 90% of the profits made from their hard work and talent to the likes of the MPAA and RIAA to distribute their works. This is, after all, why peer-to-peer exists; the spead of information and creative works by those who wish to share them with the world, actually be able to share them without having to ask permission to do so from the money-hungry distributers hell-bent on making a mockery of the great concept of the internet.

In light of these facts, the new application eXeem has been banned from our site. This does not mean that we at LokiTorrent are not supportive of new forms of peer-to-peer, but simply that we don't wish our members to submit to spyware privacy invasion in order to simply share files.

Best wishes,

The LokiTorrent Staff

Who would have thought the best site would ever sell out like this? Shame.

Chris Carrabba Shirtless

2005-02-09T14:07:00.001-12:00

I keep seeing searches for "Chris Carraba shirtless" and his famous umbrella pic, so I thought I'd do a little digging and managed to find this picture here. Mmmm, this guy is smooth and buff! If you don't know, Chris is the lead singer of Dashboard Confessional, and former frontman of Further Seems Forever. Just click on the image for the larger version.
I thought I'd come up with some puns to go with it like... "He can dash by board anytime!." Or "A Mark A Mission, an ooh, an ahhh!" or "I wouldn't mind screaming his fidelity." or "I'd love to swallow his bitter pill". I think I'll stop there.

Bush sucks Ass

2005-02-08T22:24:00.000-12:00

...It's good
to know
Bush Bashers like myself
still exist in the world today....

It's good to know Bush Bashers like myself still exist in the world today. I was starting to

This
is
your
leader?

wonder where they all went when that disgrace happened back in November. Well, I was just surfing some sites, and came across some great definitions of George W. Bush. So I thought I'd share:

Bush
see warmonger

1. one who uses patriotism and immense propaghanda to gain support for illegal unjustified brutal acts upon oppressed people for own gains. whether it be oil or money.
2. one who puts self gains in front of human life
3. immense dumbass
4. pubic hair.

see dumbass

1. Someone who chokes on a pretzel.
2. Redneck who cannot control his two alcoholic daughters, but is given control of a nation
3. Someone who cannot pronounce most words in the English language properly (ie. Nuc-u-lar, and sad-am hussein)
4. Person who uses pauses in speeches like there's no tomorrow
Da only reason dat Prez Bush got voted in is because of all the white trash in America

Un elected president of the United States. Backed by ex president father, massive Oil and Armaments corporations; The harbinger of sorrow; Evil Incarnate; One to reap the benefits of genocide; One to disgrace an entire nation in the world's eye; Murderer.

"There is an opposite to everything: Fire has water, Sorrow has joy, God has Bush."

1. The dumbest person ever in America
2. One who wins an election unfairly
3. A monkey
4. The worst world leader ever
5. One who has trouble with pronouncing simple words (such as nuclear)
6. Pubic hair
7. A great band
George W. Bush is the biggest moron ever... we're doomed for another 4 years...DOOMED

This is the man you voted for? If a draft does happen, or Bush loses what's left of his mind and invades Iran, the rest of the world will be forever turned against the United States, and may ultimately never recover.

You have Bush to thank for that.

Wikipedia: The Propaganda Machine for Right Wing Australians

2005-02-08T16:29:00.000-12:00

...any
decent Australian would know that
the Liberal party are FAR from Liberal or neo liberal...
...and
care little for human or civil rights

The people over at Wikipedia seem to like to spread propaganda. I was just sent an email from a University student who claims that Wikipedia is spreading right-wing propaganda on its pages.

Now it's official, they are a propaganda machine!

The people at Wikipedia have a page on the Liberal Party (the conservative political party). Although their name is "liberal," they are actually not liberals in any sense, but actually conservatives. The Labor Party is actually "liberal," in essence.

Now, the problem seems to be that the page, which is run by a Liberal Member (hardly a beacon of neutrality, wouldn’t you say?), claims that the Liberal party are actually neoliberal. Defined, a neoliberal is:

"A political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth"

I've never seen the Liberals stand up for Social justice; that's because they're the usually the ones hindering justice in the first place.

Now, any decent Australian would know that the Liberal party are FAR from "liberal," or "neoliberal." and care little for human or civil rights. All of their policies are strictly conservative, which, as the mailer pointed out, are EXACTLY the same as the conservative policies of the US. Coincidence?

He told me now that he faces a ban for speaking out against this inherent bias. A ban!!? For speaking out against false information and standing up against right-wing propaganda? The Liberals are conservatives! Scum, err...I mean, Prime Minister Howard, openly proclaimed last Christmas "Be proud of your Christianity!" What the fuck?! Does anyone think it's inappropriate to encourage any religious perspective from the government in charge? Separation of Church and state anyone?!

Not to mention their policies hinder gay rights (making a man-woman clause in marriage laws isn't "liberal" thinking), they are anti-abortion, and pro-war and will do anything - anything - to please the US - bend over and take one for the Americans is our new motto. Does this look remotely like anything a "liberal," government would say?! No. Absolutely not. And I object to the fact that the man running the page is actually working for the liberals themselves! How is that fair?! Just as Fox News is run by republicans, can it ever possibly be neutral? NO! They are BIASED to report favourable news of their precious leader. Just like the Wikipedia admins change the info page to make themselves look decent. To hide the fact that they are anything but.

Well face it! The Liberals are evil, and how dare they call themselves liberal. I don't think true "libarals" like the ALP support homophobia or like imposing religious beliefs onto the Australian public, do they?!.

I'm in some Trouble...

2005-02-07T21:08:00.000-12:00

...it just shows that they
are more than happy to listen to
whorish, washed-up, white-trash artists
than anything resembling
real musical ability...

Well, one of the best cds I've heard in a long time is Ray LaMontagne's Trouble. This is an example of pure song writing and real indie talent in today's ignorant "radio-friendly" world. And I don't mean "indie," music like, "Hey, I saw those guys on The O.C., man they're so indie." No, this isn't music like the sell-outs The Killers with their faux-"indie," street-cred, far from it. This is real music; one of the best albums I've heard in a while which I'm sure will never reach the mainstream as usual... and I'm so thankful!

It just shows that the mainstream are more than happy to listen to whorish, washed-up, white-trash artists than anything resembling real musical ability.

I don't even try to understand why people are happy to listen to whatever pop trash crap that comes along radio or MTV. They think mainstream is only "music," and absorb any one hit wonder that gets radio-play like it has merit. Instead of searching for good, talented artists, they wait to see what everyone else likes and are willing to accept mainstream music as the only possible alternative.

Ugh.

Fox News once again pushes propaganda.....

2005-02-06T19:13:00.000-12:00

Well, now and then I like to flip over to Fox "NEWS" and see how the right-wing like to spin everything to favour the Bush admin, and preach their usual pro-Christian rhetoric. As I turned over, what did I find? A segment - on a news channel, mind you - entitled "The Birth of Jesus." What exactly does the birth of Jesus have to do with news? America is at war with Iraq, soldiers are still dying, and yet we have more pro-Bush bias, catering to their mostly republican/Christian fan-base.

Then they did a "quick" (and shallow) exposé on Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, (which was just shameless propaganda attacking Brown's book) claiming it was inaccurate, and factually misleading. Oh, please! Brown’s book is misleading and inaccurate?! Have they ever taken a look at themselves before? Fox News attacking others about truth?! What a joke! Ugh. People in glass houses.

This was nothing but republican propaganda used to disparage Brown, and paint him as a nut, because his book is critical of Christianity. And not agreeing with every principle in the bible is enough for Fox "News" to consider you their enemy.

All this from a news channel!! Sometimes I don't know whether history has indeed repeated itself, and small mindedness has come back to bite us on the ass. Whatever happened to free thought and free speech?! Is it 1984?

The only thing that irritated me in Brown’s book was the slightly poor French, and even worse Italian! But that’s just a pet peeve!

Honestly, I can't see a difference these days from the FOX NEWS channel and Nazi propaganda. How can a "news" channel be so OVERT in their bias and propaganda?! These days they don’t even try to be the least bit subversive! They love to ridicule people that don't support their pro-republican, pro-Christian message. If you don't COMPLETELY agree with every tenet of Christianity or the republican platform then you are the enemy of Fox "NEWS,". The proof is in the coverage. Ugh. Disgusting.

Remember, we're in Bush's world now, and you're either with us or against us, right? Funny, Hitler said the exact same thing.

Now I understand anti-Americanism just that little bit more.

The RIAA are up to their old tricks....again

2005-02-05T14:23:00.000-12:00

The evil RIAA are at it once again, this time suing a dead woman for downloading some songs.

The RIAA thought an 83 year old woman was downloading and sharing songs online and filed a lawsuit against her despite the fact that she had already died. According to her daughter she was computer illiterate, and didn't even allow computers in the house at all. Not to mention, the daughter provided the RIAA a copy of the woman's death certificate before the lawsuit was filed, but naturally the evil RIAA went ahead anyway.

Typical.

Anyway, this once again proves how evil and ignorant the RIAA are. I mean, they'll stop at nothing to convict people over downloaded material, even if it means suing dead people. Maybe they could contact psychic John Edward and could see who they can sue from beyond the grave.

Then again, John Edward is as fake and evil as the RIAA. They'd make a good match!

Typical.

Evil Cookies, Run Away! Run Away!

2005-02-05T14:12:00.000-12:00

Ugh, it's official America has seriously lost its mind.

A group of school girls were sued for damages because they gave some cookies to their neighbour.

The woman felt "scared" because the cookies were placed on her doorstep at night, with a note saying "hope you enjoy the night," and the girls did this to several other neighbours as well. All the other neighbours were grateful, and sent thankyou notes, except their next door neighbour who thought she suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital were it was found she'd had an anxiety attack.

The girls had to pay for medical costs and court fees.

WTF!!?!?!?!?! I swear, these days Americans will sue over anything! This was a simple gesture, and now the girls have to pay a about $1000 in costs! Just for leaving some cookies for their neighbour! What!? I swear, why do Americans always try to act like the victim?

Now we have to think again before we leave anything for our neighbours, because they might sue us!

Run away! The evil cookies are approaching! Run Away! Aaarrrgghh!

Ugh, Americans.

Media and real life violence

2005-02-02T14:39:00.000-12:00

I was watching Bowling for Columbine on TV last night, and something struck me about the media and real-life violence.

One man on the religious-right was condemning Marilyn Manson for his "offensive" material. He was using the argument that the media is responsible for acts of real life violence, that although not everyone who watches his videos, or listens to his music goes off and kills people, some people do.

Of course, blame Manson. He's easy to ridicule, and naturally "Christian," parents want him banned from their radio.. But blaming peoples' behaviour on music is completely ignorant.

The religious-right shouldn't throw stones.

Many people have gone off and murdered in the name of God.

But do we ban the bible? No! So why don't these fundamentalists come out and boycott the bible? We know it can sometimes do more harm than good, so why not stop people from reading that? Why is okay to ban Manson when some people go crazy, but the bible gets off scott-free when it's just as responsible for triggering people to go on killing sprees.

It's the usual double-standard of the ignorant religious-right. They like to demonize one group of people for offensive behaviour, when they are just as guilty themselves of the same thing.

FOX News...Faux News...Fuck FOX News

2005-02-02T14:25:00.000-12:00

I just caught OUTFOXED on TV the other night. Now, no one even really needs to watch this movie to get an idea of the right-wing bias and propaganda of their so-called "News" channel. All you have to do is watch it for 5 minutes, and you'd see how skewed and EVIL these people really are, to deify President Bush as some kind of American hero, hiding the fact that he is an ignorant, hateful, psychotic, racist, bigoted religious fundamentalist on a spree to hinder civil rights at every turn.

But don't look to FOX "NEWS," for anythig resembling reality, they are propaganda puppets to the Bush admin. The fact that they FALSIFY news reporting to muddy everything the Democrats do, and to glorify the right-wing "triumphs," while ignoring their bloody track record, is disgusting beyond belief.

This is nothing like News, but more like political propaganda akin to Hitler's state controlled news service.

They don't even try to be the least bit subversive about their right-wing allegiance.... what happened to journalistic integrity? I guess they lost it once they became Bush's spokespeople.

Heil Bush. Now fuck off.

Fuck Howard..and Fuck Bush

2005-02-01T12:48:00.000-12:00

Well, we have our first Australian casuality in Iraq. Thank ol' Johhny and Dubya for that. The blood is on your hands now.

Ugh. I makes me sick now that even our own people are being killed in this useless and senseless war.

You can also thank the Australian Liberals (conservatives) who voted for Howard, because that just gave him leverage now to use against European nations: "oh, even my people support the war." WTF? We don't. Why anyone would vote Liberal is beyond me.

Thankyou to the ones that do, for slugging me with another raise in HECS debt, and for keeping our troops in danger. How could you not love that?? In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic.

I swear, the sooner we get rid of these ignorant, war-hungry, conservatives, the happier the world will be.

Rat-Boy gets Hitched

2005-01-30T19:23:00.000-12:00

Well, well, well.....

Rat-Boy (aka Leyton Hewitt) proposed to whorish, no talent future has-been Bec "I'm a singer, yeah, I really am," Cartwright after losing to Marat Safin last night. I was so glad he lost. The little Rat-Boy is one of the most cocky, arrogant little rat-faced whingers I've ever seen. What is with his ignorant cheers like "Come on!" I'm sure he'll be saying that when he's cueing for his Dole Cheque in a few years time. "Come on! One more week! Come on!"

Wasn't he just engaged to Kim Clijsters? Bounce from one to the other, eh?

What surprised me more than Layton were the ignorant Australian masses out to support our "Hero?" What the fuck? Hero? The man's an arrogant little prick. Does anyone remember when he made a racist remark a few years ago? Hello!? We would never tolerate an American as Arrogant as Hewitt, so why do we still put up with him? Just last night he abused a linesperson over a ball! A ball!

And since when are sports people "heroes"? Explain this to me. All he does is hit a ball over a net, and now he's an Australian hero? WTF? How about calling the students who earn their PhD’s heroes ? Or the people that work 40hr weeks? Why aren't they called heroes? They certainly work harder than any of these ignorant sport stars will ever work. Ugh. It makes me sick.

The only thing worse than arrogant sport stars are the people that support them.

Enough's enough.

Howard bends over for Bush.....again

2005-01-30T12:59:00.000-12:00

Well, if you haven't heard, our "leader" Ol' Johnny, is up to his old tricks, bending over and taking one for the United States..again. Amid criticism from mainly European delegates over the illegal Iraq war, Howard leapt to Bush's defense like some kind of deranged pussy. The time has come to lay back and admit defeat: Iraq is now our Vietnam.

To still maintain this facade that the invasion is working is nothing short of ignorant, and how dare Howard pretend that everything is going fine, or even defend the death instigated by US forces? Do you see any signs of peace in Iraq? No. The elections? Could only occur because of the heavy US military presence. How is it a democracy if the only way you can have an election is under armed guard from the people that screwed up the country in the first place (that would be the Americans).

But Howard leaps to Buh's defence like a prick, when the turmoil in Iraq speaks for itself. I mean, almost 2 uears after Bush proclaimed "Mission Accomplished," he's still cleaning up the mess in Iraq. Over 2,000 US & British soldiers have lost their lives, Australians have been wounded, and countless Iraqis are living in sub-standard conditions. For someone who wanted to stop terrorism, he sure as hell brought more to the area.

To stand up for this useless, illegal war is just more proof of Howard's ignorance, and his evil partnership with the US.

Howard has his head so far up Bush's ass, Sometimes I can't tell where Bush ends and he begins.

We don't want this US alliance. Wake up.

University in 2005? Please?!?!!

2005-01-29T22:34:00.000-12:00

Okay, so it's come down to this: The only hope I have left for a psych Masters degree is at ACU at St. Patrick's. The offers, according to the lady I emailed on Monday, will be sent in 1-2 weeks, (and that was almost a week ago!) So, chances are they'll come in the mail tomorrow, or at least by the end of this week (...or next Monday). Sigh, so much is decided with just this one envelope!!

And that's how I'll know: Envelope size: Big envelope means acceptance, and a small little envelope usually means sorry, apply again next year. Sigh. I got this tip from the Gilmore Girls, and for that matter, my own experience with rejection!

Anyway, the only other option is to do my LLB (Bachelor of Laws) for graduate students at La Trobe . But I don't know how I'd feel having to do another undergraduate degree (for 3 years), although it can be slightly fasttracked during summer and winter breaks at good old Melbourne Uni (the place that still doesn't want me back after my BA psych degree!).

I've actually already enrolled at La Trobe, but that's more of a safety thing (by the time I get the ACU letter (acceptance/rejection) I would have lost my place at La Trobe, so I enrolled in everything - just in case - and now I can change my mind if hopefully good news arrives).

I'm waiting for Gandalf to ride in and proclaim: "I bring great tidings!" But that's probably just my deluded fantasy-filled mind talking nonsense again!

Now all I can do is wait.

2004-12-11T11:31:00.000-12:00

Well....

Okay, I got my results, and they were "good," but not great, and already my rejection from my former uni came in the mail. So, although my grades were good, they weren't great: ie, not good enough to get any masters offers.

So, I've applied through vtac already, (here's hoping) for some undergraduate courses... yet I'dm uch rather get into a Masters course... that way I haven't wasted 4 years of my life.

Arrrrggghh. Please, come one, people, just a little masters course!

2004-09-04T17:54:00.000-12:00

I guess the black design looks halfway decent, eh?

2004-03-02T21:27:00.000-12:00

By first blog! Well, this s about my life, at university, and all the trash that happens in my life. Here we go...