7/11/2009 – Life Update
Well...
These are always hard to start.
Its really damn hot right now, I think it was like 30 something today. Its still really hot now. We had a BBQ dinner this evening with Sinead, Stu, My cousin James and his family for my birthday. We had some good food but I think there wasnt enough to go around.
Stuff that has happened since last entry!
- 3 IBL Interviews
- 2 Written reports
- Web Battle Card System
- God knows how many assignments, maybe like 8
- A Birthday
- Oaks Day
- Tekken 6
So lets start with the IBL Stuff.
I've been to 3 IBL position interviews (Its pretty much an internship).
One with Agilent Technologies doing regression testing, another with Seimens eBusiness divison doing something with HTML and Javascript and the last with Pegboard software which is doing ASP stuff and working on the content management system.
Really looking forward to hearing from any of them to be honest. Would like to take a year away from Uni so that I can earn some money and get some industry experience.
Uni work is a drag, writing reports about Database programming and everything to do with ADO.NET and JDBC. Theory on the Three modeled layer and everything in between which includes Hibernate, concurrency, security blah blah 
I also did a nice Web version of the Battle Card System (check previous entry for details about the BCS) which I cant really upload and host anywhere but I guess I might be able to put something up on youtube or something showing people how it works.
On the 5th of November I turned 20 years old.
This could be seen as a good or a bad thing because I'm getting older and older but also its a celebration. Makes you think how fast time files. I had a nice meal cooked by Sinead which also included a very very nice cake.
Got some really nice presents, mainly money from everyone which is really good. Money is good. 
Oaks day!
So we all went to Oaks day on the 5th of November. We obtained Champions marquee tickets from Sineads grandfather (Thanks!) so we got up really early (okay...8:45 is considered really early for me) and suited up. We jumped on the train and headed towards the race track. There was heaps of people there. We got free food and free drink with our own waiters and stuff. The food there was really really good. I really enjoyed the chicken sandwiches and just about everything else. Salad, Rogan Josh, Mini tiny sushi, pizza, Icecream, beer, pepsi, sausage rolls, chicken pieces, tiny tiny kebabs, salt and pepper squid.
Im not one to bet on the horses but everyone else did some betting and did pretty well, having a fair share of wins and losses. We took a lot of photos which are up on Facebook I think. We watched 2 races and watched all the sunburned "common folk" move around on the grass. So lucky we had those tickets...
Coming up on Exams now so not much time for anything else.
Trying to learn how to play Tekken 6 but its sorta tough with not much learning material and no one to learn off. Currently watching Terminator Salvation which is pretty cool so far, this massive report is destroying a 7/11 I think.
Hmm... Hopefully after Exams I can fix up the website with something nice and good and do some more stuff with this blog...that'll do for now...