Last night my friends and I also watched the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala which was absolutely hilarious, and I've been trying to find some kind of website or at least a review of the show but can't find anything. What I'm looking for is to find out the names of two comedians, one was Welsh and wore a yellow shirt and spoke very fast and sounded like he was on crack but boy was he funny!
The other is an Aussie bloke I think or maybe British he had a red top on and one gag was about his mum embarrassing him in a spa bath that himself, his mum, dad, and dogs were all swimming in and his mum made a joke about everyone in the Spa having sucked on her nipples! The way he said it was side splitting!
Anywho if anyone finds a review or article or anything or know who either of these two comedians are I would very much appreciate knowing!
One other thing to ask the help of everyone is...I have a display picture up, but I put it up by going through Customize and adding picture that way, but this doesn't count as a profile image does it? How do I host an image in my profile, I clicked on the link beside the box thingy and downloaded those Hello and Picasa programs but cant seem to work out from there how to host an image! Again help much appreciated!
If you didn't see the Gala and some kind person taped it and lets you borrow it, DO IT! It's rate funny!
Peace Out
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Melbourne Adventures...if you could call them that
Hello guys and girls or anyone who reads this (which probably isn't anyone except Matt, Erin and Hannah!). I have just returned today from 4 nights in Victoria's capital to wonderful ye ol' Shepparton...
Last Thursday night I was hanging out with Katie, Ikkin, Duston and Ricky Hoare (lol his name still cracks me up after knowing him for like 10 years!), and Katie told me she was heading back to Melbourne on the Friday to go back to Deakin Uni (sucks to be a Vic uni student! go CSU!) and to go see Dave Hugh's (sucks to be a poor uni student =( ) in the Melbourne comedy festival with her brother. So on the spot decided I still needed to catch up with mates living down there so asked if I could hitch a ride and thats what I did. After a bit of bother with Centrelink and going to pick up my car, we eventually left Shepp at like half 2.
I got dropped of in the suburb Moonee Ponds which for those of you playing at home is next suburb over from Essedon, where 4 of my very best mates (Hanora, Lucas, Undies and Justin) all live together.
In between me getting back from abroad and Uni starting which was only like 5 weeks, I spent most of that time down in Moonee Ponds just hanging with this lot, couple of parties, many adventures, lots random shinanigans and a lot of WII and Guitar Hero and net nerding! So I always have fun whenever I go there as anything could happen. This time however wasn't as eventful as everyone was working or going to TAFE and Undies had her mum and sister down to stay and Justin was being a prick and some new girl moved in who I didn't know and that left me feeling weirded out.
But anywho we spent the weekend bumming around, on Saturday I got my sushi finally! (Wagga sucks for sushi not being readily available) and we went out to a Japanese resturant that night as well, which the food wasn't as enjoyable as I had hope =( that day Lucas and I had also gone and hung with Baz over in Kennsington as he is getting evicted and they were having a open house and we were supposed to go a keep Baz company but got a little lost on the way...plus we stopped for sushi!
That night (Saturday) we had all planned on going out clubbing in the city, but everyone is silly and wouldn't come with me and Hanora so we went on our own. We were heading for this club called Bang! which Hanora often goes to and said would be fun, and the new girl in the house (Bridget) goes there so often she has a list at the door which gets her friends in cheaper and she arranged for us to be on a list that night which was cool!
Anywho this club Bang! is an alternative club with an area for Punk/Emo stuff, then a room for retro and dancier type stuff and upstairs is the metal room. At first it was lame, but a few red bulls later and actually running into people I knew it was great fun, me and Hanora danced for a solid 4 hours straight! It was intense! We only went to the one club as everywhere has cover charges and we are poor! But we left Bang! sometime after 4 which I feel is a good effort!
Sunday brought about some tiredness and very sore legs and feet from all the dancing (poor Hanora had to work) and my sudden guilt that it had been like 2 days without homework! YIKES! Though on Saturday i rose early and took a roll of film to make sure I was using the camera correctly. So decided Sunday was the day to take some more photos for our Photography Assignment. I don't know how well these photos will turn out, I kind of have the ideas behind them but keep thinking negative thoughts about them. Anywho everyone was again working, being with family, or being a prick, so Lucas and I headed off on the adventure of Maccas first followed by photo taking.
I had messaged dad the night before and asked him where abouts in Melbz were these specific things I wanted to take photos off and he had said Hoddle street near kew and Johnston street near Collingwood. Undies mum had also said there were some right by Highpoint shopping centre in Moonee Ponds. So rather then drive all the way across the city we thought we would go to Highpoint then for some bizarre reason Lucas asked me if the streets dad gave me were near the suburb Fitzroy and I said yes Johnston street runs through it. He then had a mad spaz attack and was like "last year when I lived in the city I found this mad arse house that i want to live in, we'll go to these streets and I'll show you the house!".
A little while later we were in Fitzroy and I remembered my dads cousin lived here and that their last name was Mohr and Lucas was telling me the street the house was on was Moor street and I was like that sounds familiar but might just be becuase of there last name. Turned into the street and I was like "this looks familiar, my cousins own that building there on the corner, and thats there house next door" Lucas was gobsmacked and was like (you're bullshitting me, that's the house I wanted to show you". Lol so it turned out Lucas had stumbled onto my cousins house last year and fallen in love with it...how freaky is that!
So we went on to take my photo's which was cool, cos we kept taking random streets around Hoddle, Johnston and Brunswick and finding cool things to photograph because of all the culture around that area. Hopefully these images will work and it wasn't too dark for them!
Monday we slept and bummed some more, Lucas and I hung out again cos everyone was again doing stuff. We went down Puckle street and got more sushi, then went back to the house and became net nerds. People around them are rich and stupid and before uni started we worked out we could use their neighbours wireless internet. So I hooked my laptop up for that to happen. Does this count as stealing? We are still in our house using our computers and they have not set an area limit on their wireless...is this illegal or just morally wrong? Your comments on this would be appreciated.
Monday nigth everyone pitched in some money and we went to the supermarket and bought food too cook up a storm...which I did! YAY me! I made stirfry with noodles for 8 people, I'm pretty darn proud of that effort!
So Tuesday brought about an early rise to shower/ pack/ play guitar hero all before heading off for the station to catch my train home!
Until my next blog, Peace out!
*hearts*
Viv
P.S. has anyone else finished their photography assignment or know exactly what they are doing for it? I feel lost!
Last Thursday night I was hanging out with Katie, Ikkin, Duston and Ricky Hoare (lol his name still cracks me up after knowing him for like 10 years!), and Katie told me she was heading back to Melbourne on the Friday to go back to Deakin Uni (sucks to be a Vic uni student! go CSU!) and to go see Dave Hugh's (sucks to be a poor uni student =( ) in the Melbourne comedy festival with her brother. So on the spot decided I still needed to catch up with mates living down there so asked if I could hitch a ride and thats what I did. After a bit of bother with Centrelink and going to pick up my car, we eventually left Shepp at like half 2.
I got dropped of in the suburb Moonee Ponds which for those of you playing at home is next suburb over from Essedon, where 4 of my very best mates (Hanora, Lucas, Undies and Justin) all live together.
In between me getting back from abroad and Uni starting which was only like 5 weeks, I spent most of that time down in Moonee Ponds just hanging with this lot, couple of parties, many adventures, lots random shinanigans and a lot of WII and Guitar Hero and net nerding! So I always have fun whenever I go there as anything could happen. This time however wasn't as eventful as everyone was working or going to TAFE and Undies had her mum and sister down to stay and Justin was being a prick and some new girl moved in who I didn't know and that left me feeling weirded out.
But anywho we spent the weekend bumming around, on Saturday I got my sushi finally! (Wagga sucks for sushi not being readily available) and we went out to a Japanese resturant that night as well, which the food wasn't as enjoyable as I had hope =( that day Lucas and I had also gone and hung with Baz over in Kennsington as he is getting evicted and they were having a open house and we were supposed to go a keep Baz company but got a little lost on the way...plus we stopped for sushi!
That night (Saturday) we had all planned on going out clubbing in the city, but everyone is silly and wouldn't come with me and Hanora so we went on our own. We were heading for this club called Bang! which Hanora often goes to and said would be fun, and the new girl in the house (Bridget) goes there so often she has a list at the door which gets her friends in cheaper and she arranged for us to be on a list that night which was cool!
Anywho this club Bang! is an alternative club with an area for Punk/Emo stuff, then a room for retro and dancier type stuff and upstairs is the metal room. At first it was lame, but a few red bulls later and actually running into people I knew it was great fun, me and Hanora danced for a solid 4 hours straight! It was intense! We only went to the one club as everywhere has cover charges and we are poor! But we left Bang! sometime after 4 which I feel is a good effort!
Sunday brought about some tiredness and very sore legs and feet from all the dancing (poor Hanora had to work) and my sudden guilt that it had been like 2 days without homework! YIKES! Though on Saturday i rose early and took a roll of film to make sure I was using the camera correctly. So decided Sunday was the day to take some more photos for our Photography Assignment. I don't know how well these photos will turn out, I kind of have the ideas behind them but keep thinking negative thoughts about them. Anywho everyone was again working, being with family, or being a prick, so Lucas and I headed off on the adventure of Maccas first followed by photo taking.
I had messaged dad the night before and asked him where abouts in Melbz were these specific things I wanted to take photos off and he had said Hoddle street near kew and Johnston street near Collingwood. Undies mum had also said there were some right by Highpoint shopping centre in Moonee Ponds. So rather then drive all the way across the city we thought we would go to Highpoint then for some bizarre reason Lucas asked me if the streets dad gave me were near the suburb Fitzroy and I said yes Johnston street runs through it. He then had a mad spaz attack and was like "last year when I lived in the city I found this mad arse house that i want to live in, we'll go to these streets and I'll show you the house!".
A little while later we were in Fitzroy and I remembered my dads cousin lived here and that their last name was Mohr and Lucas was telling me the street the house was on was Moor street and I was like that sounds familiar but might just be becuase of there last name. Turned into the street and I was like "this looks familiar, my cousins own that building there on the corner, and thats there house next door" Lucas was gobsmacked and was like (you're bullshitting me, that's the house I wanted to show you". Lol so it turned out Lucas had stumbled onto my cousins house last year and fallen in love with it...how freaky is that!
So we went on to take my photo's which was cool, cos we kept taking random streets around Hoddle, Johnston and Brunswick and finding cool things to photograph because of all the culture around that area. Hopefully these images will work and it wasn't too dark for them!
Monday we slept and bummed some more, Lucas and I hung out again cos everyone was again doing stuff. We went down Puckle street and got more sushi, then went back to the house and became net nerds. People around them are rich and stupid and before uni started we worked out we could use their neighbours wireless internet. So I hooked my laptop up for that to happen. Does this count as stealing? We are still in our house using our computers and they have not set an area limit on their wireless...is this illegal or just morally wrong? Your comments on this would be appreciated.
Monday nigth everyone pitched in some money and we went to the supermarket and bought food too cook up a storm...which I did! YAY me! I made stirfry with noodles for 8 people, I'm pretty darn proud of that effort!
So Tuesday brought about an early rise to shower/ pack/ play guitar hero all before heading off for the station to catch my train home!
Until my next blog, Peace out!
*hearts*
Viv
P.S. has anyone else finished their photography assignment or know exactly what they are doing for it? I feel lost!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Some stuff about me...
Hey Guys, I said I would try and blog as often as possible so here we go for the second day in a row! I have been on the net for like 4 hours doing all the stuff Joh wants us to do, though this is prolly longer then is should take as I am using crappy dial but thank God am in the process for getting broadband YAY! So lets continue...
So I finished year 12 in 2005 and decided rather then go straight to uni I would take a Gap year (had planned on doing this since forever!). Beginning of April 2006 off I went flying straight into Glasgow Airport on the west coast of Scotland, I flew with my grandma who had been out staying with us for about 4 months and we were met by my aunty. We then drove over to the other side of the country (it's not really that big of a country!) to the capital city Edinburgh, which would be my home for the next 10 months.
The plan was to have fun and travel, but also to work so I could get that independant living allowance thing from Centrelink. Did take some time to get a job with me beginning to stress about running out of money and being quite home sick but after about a month I evetually found a job through the website Gumtree.com I highly recommend this site for all you budding travellers out there, has sections for most major cities and is aimed at Aussies, Kiwi's and Safa's; and under these sections you can look for jobs or put your CV up so potential employers can find it, you can find places to live through buying/letting or renting, you can buy and sell belongings and there are also groups on there so you can make friends with similar interests if you don't know anyone where you are! Brilliant site.
Anywho the job I applied for was a hotel maid (not the most stylish job, but I needed money) so after emailing through my CV my future boss replied asking me if I would consider taking up there office job as there receptionist was heading off very shortly. Now do you really think I would turn down that offer...clean toilets or answer phones! The next week I went off for an interview and they met me at the station as the place is about half an hour out of Edinburgh. It was a little daunting the interview but I just tried to be bubbly and happy and it worked lol! They asked me if I would like to have a trial two days later when they had a conference, which I ended up waiting at the dinner for the Famous Grouse conference (Famous Grouse is like the biggest whiskey producers in Scotland!).
Anywho I started out just working on the estate to see how this side of the business ran, then two weeks later started in the office, the job was only ment to be until the end of July maybe a bit into August. I answered phones, and emailed people and sent out lots of wedding brochures and did some other strange tasks, one day I had to collect a wedding cake from Edinburgh and bring it out with me on the train...that was scary!
I should probably explain what the company was cos it is very confusing as it isn't actually a hotel its a private house. Basically the Spurways who were my bosses had 4 companies run from this sporting estate. The estate had a Georgian Masion on it and 3 lodges and these were all let out for weddings and conferences and things like that, this side of the business was just known as Harburn House as that was the name of the masion/estate ( images on the side are of the House and the drive up to the House cos I think they are pretty!). Then there were two shotting companies which is how we were a sporting estate these were Harburn Shooting and Dykefoot Shooting.
Then the fourth company was actually more Mr Spurways side which was a Christmas Tree Farm, infact the largest in Britain. and I worked in the office which was like the hub for all of these companies as they all at peak season of the year. I ended up making the job last til Christmas lol considering it was only meant to be 2 months!
I worked with some really great people there and I had an awesome time, my bosses were brilliant and knew that I was on my gap year and if I wanted time off to go travelling they were fine with it.
During the year I went to Scotland (obviously), Ireland, England, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Germany, Brussels, Monaco and Sweden. Most of the countries I visited when I did a month long tour with Topdeck Tours which are exactly the same as Contiki, but better! I did the Grand European Tour was brilliant! If you go to my Flickr account and go to the set Europe 2006 you can see my photos from this tour, though I still have lots to put up, I'm just running out of my allowance for the month!
Soo...that was a little bit more info about me and what I got up to last year and what my job was about, maybe I will go more in depth on some of the other places I went to in another post!
Until next time, stay safe and have fun!
So I finished year 12 in 2005 and decided rather then go straight to uni I would take a Gap year (had planned on doing this since forever!). Beginning of April 2006 off I went flying straight into Glasgow Airport on the west coast of Scotland, I flew with my grandma who had been out staying with us for about 4 months and we were met by my aunty. We then drove over to the other side of the country (it's not really that big of a country!) to the capital city Edinburgh, which would be my home for the next 10 months.
The plan was to have fun and travel, but also to work so I could get that independant living allowance thing from Centrelink. Did take some time to get a job with me beginning to stress about running out of money and being quite home sick but after about a month I evetually found a job through the website Gumtree.com I highly recommend this site for all you budding travellers out there, has sections for most major cities and is aimed at Aussies, Kiwi's and Safa's; and under these sections you can look for jobs or put your CV up so potential employers can find it, you can find places to live through buying/letting or renting, you can buy and sell belongings and there are also groups on there so you can make friends with similar interests if you don't know anyone where you are! Brilliant site.
Anywho the job I applied for was a hotel maid (not the most stylish job, but I needed money) so after emailing through my CV my future boss replied asking me if I would consider taking up there office job as there receptionist was heading off very shortly. Now do you really think I would turn down that offer...clean toilets or answer phones! The next week I went off for an interview and they met me at the station as the place is about half an hour out of Edinburgh. It was a little daunting the interview but I just tried to be bubbly and happy and it worked lol! They asked me if I would like to have a trial two days later when they had a conference, which I ended up waiting at the dinner for the Famous Grouse conference (Famous Grouse is like the biggest whiskey producers in Scotland!).
Anywho I started out just working on the estate to see how this side of the business ran, then two weeks later started in the office, the job was only ment to be until the end of July maybe a bit into August. I answered phones, and emailed people and sent out lots of wedding brochures and did some other strange tasks, one day I had to collect a wedding cake from Edinburgh and bring it out with me on the train...that was scary!
I should probably explain what the company was cos it is very confusing as it isn't actually a hotel its a private house. Basically the Spurways who were my bosses had 4 companies run from this sporting estate. The estate had a Georgian Masion on it and 3 lodges and these were all let out for weddings and conferences and things like that, this side of the business was just known as Harburn House as that was the name of the masion/estate ( images on the side are of the House and the drive up to the House cos I think they are pretty!). Then there were two shotting companies which is how we were a sporting estate these were Harburn Shooting and Dykefoot Shooting.
Then the fourth company was actually more Mr Spurways side which was a Christmas Tree Farm, infact the largest in Britain. and I worked in the office which was like the hub for all of these companies as they all at peak season of the year. I ended up making the job last til Christmas lol considering it was only meant to be 2 months!
I worked with some really great people there and I had an awesome time, my bosses were brilliant and knew that I was on my gap year and if I wanted time off to go travelling they were fine with it.
During the year I went to Scotland (obviously), Ireland, England, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Germany, Brussels, Monaco and Sweden. Most of the countries I visited when I did a month long tour with Topdeck Tours which are exactly the same as Contiki, but better! I did the Grand European Tour was brilliant! If you go to my Flickr account and go to the set Europe 2006 you can see my photos from this tour, though I still have lots to put up, I'm just running out of my allowance for the month!
Soo...that was a little bit more info about me and what I got up to last year and what my job was about, maybe I will go more in depth on some of the other places I went to in another post!
Until next time, stay safe and have fun!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Many random things to talk about
So this is my first post since the "non-contact" period started, AKA Holidays! As my title suggests I have many things on my mind at the minute and could make them all into seperate blogs but they could be quite brief and un-interesting, which is not what we are after considering we want to pass! Then again I do have that ability to ramble, so we will see how we go!
I do very much want to pass this subject so have set myself the task of not only getting everything on that checklist that Jo posted but to also blog as often as I used to last year! So...
Lets begin with the fact it is now Wednesday believe it or not, and I got back from Sydney last night after spending a wonderful Easter weekend there visiting family and some friends from uni which was really cool!
I stayed on campus Thursday night, even though the majority of people left that day, so it was a little eerie with no one being around, it was like a ghost town! But I had a few friends still there and Austar and my mum stayed with me that night as we were both going up to Sydney together on Friday.
Spent Friday night with Erin (she is in one of the other MPI104 classes!) and she lives in a massive house and it is very impressive! We went to a girl she went to school with party, they had a list and everything you needed to be on to get in which I found realy strange, but anywho my name was on it which was cool, but the party was lame and it was an 18th so I felt bad for the girl. We left the party early and went and hung in the car park at some local park with some of Erins friends, this made me feel underage all over again, but it was still interesting to see how city kids/Erin live and how different it is from the country.
Saturday we bummed and jus did normal lazy Easter Weekend things. Sunday was pretty much the same, everyone went to church except me cos I am a REBEL! and sleep is so much better then church! Easter eggs were good, though I felt sick by that night, and it was jus a very relaxing day as lame as that sounds.
On Monday I went over to Elise's (another friend from uni) house in the Northern Beaches, when she said she lived ages away from the city I didn't think it was that far but it was! She's another person with a massively impressive house where you can see the sea, I'm so jealous of these Sydney folk! So Monday was another bumming day, we watched her favourite movie, Frequency (this link takes you to a bit of a review on the movie) which I really enjoyed and would recommend others to watch.
So that was my Easter weekend, doesn't sound like much but if I went on and on you would stop reading so there was no point!
I'm now not sure whether to keep going with all the random thoughts running through my head because this is already pretty long and I don't know how much people will bother with reading it, so maybe it would be wise of me to break all these thoughts up into seperate blogs. At least I will be able to achieve my goal of constant blogging!
Until next time... be good!
I do very much want to pass this subject so have set myself the task of not only getting everything on that checklist that Jo posted but to also blog as often as I used to last year! So...
Lets begin with the fact it is now Wednesday believe it or not, and I got back from Sydney last night after spending a wonderful Easter weekend there visiting family and some friends from uni which was really cool!
I stayed on campus Thursday night, even though the majority of people left that day, so it was a little eerie with no one being around, it was like a ghost town! But I had a few friends still there and Austar and my mum stayed with me that night as we were both going up to Sydney together on Friday.
Spent Friday night with Erin (she is in one of the other MPI104 classes!) and she lives in a massive house and it is very impressive! We went to a girl she went to school with party, they had a list and everything you needed to be on to get in which I found realy strange, but anywho my name was on it which was cool, but the party was lame and it was an 18th so I felt bad for the girl. We left the party early and went and hung in the car park at some local park with some of Erins friends, this made me feel underage all over again, but it was still interesting to see how city kids/Erin live and how different it is from the country.
Saturday we bummed and jus did normal lazy Easter Weekend things. Sunday was pretty much the same, everyone went to church except me cos I am a REBEL! and sleep is so much better then church! Easter eggs were good, though I felt sick by that night, and it was jus a very relaxing day as lame as that sounds.
On Monday I went over to Elise's (another friend from uni) house in the Northern Beaches, when she said she lived ages away from the city I didn't think it was that far but it was! She's another person with a massively impressive house where you can see the sea, I'm so jealous of these Sydney folk! So Monday was another bumming day, we watched her favourite movie, Frequency (this link takes you to a bit of a review on the movie) which I really enjoyed and would recommend others to watch.
So that was my Easter weekend, doesn't sound like much but if I went on and on you would stop reading so there was no point!
I'm now not sure whether to keep going with all the random thoughts running through my head because this is already pretty long and I don't know how much people will bother with reading it, so maybe it would be wise of me to break all these thoughts up into seperate blogs. At least I will be able to achieve my goal of constant blogging!
Until next time... be good!
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