Graduation Speech
My farewell/graduation speech for my Spanish Course at the Don Quijote Language School in Guanajuato, Mexico (apologies for the very bad Spanish) ante todo, quiero decir [more...]
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Preliminaries
Preliminaries The Plan This is the plan. We probably won’t stick to it, but this is the general route which we will by trying to take. I should probably include that [more...]
Thesis of Doom
Remember remember the third of November My Thompson’s Group thesis was due I look through the pieces of my Thompson’s Group thesis And still haven’t got a [more...]
AIA NAGM and YS
We register for Day 1, wich for me was the Youth Summitt, which occurred on Thursday 29th June. I drove 8 hours from Melbourne to Adelaide because I don’t like flying. [more...]
Adventures in Cake
There were actually three distinct adventures in cake. First there was Peter’s cake, which we constructed for his birthday. Then there was Peter’s second cake, [more...]
God’s Eye View
Perspectives on The Weird Plays from newbie, actor and deity – Daniel Yeow What man can claim to understand the manifestations of God? Who the hell knows, but I had to try [more...]
The Coolest Birthday Presents Ever
(Not that the other presents which I received weren’t cool, they were very cool. These ones just stood out…) Firstly, the 5x5x5 Rubik’s cube. Presented [more...]
Stand Up For Your Rights
Melbourne This entry shold be titled “Murphy’s Law Case Study: Stand Up For Your Rights”. As I said many times to the crew during the course of the day, the [more...]
Letters From… Malta
This was one of many letters published in the Melbourne University Student Magazine – Farrago. It was part of a series on the various things people did during their [more...]
Joke Resolution
Resolution 24601: On resolutions. Preamble I once had the experience that that large number of resolutions were not necessarily necessary, especially considering the [more...]
Drenched for Democracy
Hong Kong I step out of the car. I am instantly shrink-wrapped in the oppressive heat and humidity of the hot summer day. As I close the door I catch the announcement on the [more...]
Joke Flyer
Melbourne It’s election time once again here at Melbourne University and I’ve become increasingly disillusioned by the whole process. Student politics is a mucky [more...]
My First Asian Championships
Arriving at the specially built, newly surfaced, 200m banked track instantly smothered all my visions of glory and grandeur. A speedskater is a finely tuned athlete with the [more...]