Showing posts with label Skool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skool. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Finaly Done

Well the year is almost over, and school is now finished, forever in my case.

Last post i mentioned that i had exams, then have been obliterated and the results (and my TER - now been changed to ATAR) are out. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I will now reveal the results.....

dun dun DUUN!

My final result, and university entrance score is......

*(This is the bit where you wait with bated breath)*

88.40

I'm in the top 12%!!

You may now bow to my epic awesomeness.

Thats all for now,
Skywalker out!

Monday, 15 February 2010

Well at lest I'm not as bad as MissE

Hey,
I'm back, after a (I will admit) ridiculously long wait between posts. I have seemed to have a lot to do, Just started year 12 (final year of high school (secondary school) for all those strange foreigners who may be reading =P), just started basketball (both able-bodies and disabled), created and website and am now administrating it and I went on a school retreat to Lake Bennett last week (And yes, I do realise that that will mean almost nothing to most people.).

So anyway.. yeah, that's about my life at the moment, school, bball and blogging. Nice lol.

Oh, and CoD: Modern Warfare 2. I won't start on this, because if I do, there is a good chance I will rave for hours, not only on my own awesomeness but also on how much I am addicted to that game.

So that's me,
Skywalker out!

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Holidays!

At last.. the holidays have come! It's time for sleep, food, games, sleep, more food, late nights, games... and yeah, more sleep! But, alas, it was not to be...

On mon and tues I worked, today I did assignments (and wrote my book, thanks to my awesome editor, the one with the English Lit Degree, yeah, you... dont get a swelled head.) I still have assignments to do for English, Physics, Specialist and Chem.. yeah, my hols aren't gonna be a huge amount of fun ='(.

On the upside.. my foot is pretty much better (see the post below) and I can play bball again! Woo! Got wheelchair tomorrow, should win.. but you never can tell =).

Anyway.. gtg now, try to post again soon!

Monday, 31 August 2009

What to talk about?

Well, I don't really have a specific topic here, I though that I might just give my loyal fans (ie. you) an update..

My book is coming well, got just over 50 pages, got the plot going well. If you want a preview go here: http://www.the-shadow-wraiths.webs.com/

BBall: we are still losing, shouldn't be in div. 1. Ah well.. we might don't have a chance tonight..
Wheelchair is still going strong, haven't lost a game when I have played

Games and stuff: well, I am addicted to a few new ones:
http://www.funorb.com/ Steel sentinels and
Armies of Gielinor

Skool: Meh. Pretty much sums it up =P

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

I'm Special..

Or at least, a Specialist. Well we are into semester two now and we got the chance to change around out subjects. They decide to offer Specialist maths for those who wanted it (For year 11s its a semester, not a year long, course.). Specialist maths is an extension on ordinary maths for those who want to become engineers. It is, I imagine, very difficult. To take it I had to drop IT, but that's okay as I wasn't learning anything anyway.

On other news: We had our first Basketball game last Monday and we brushed Ansett aside 36 - 20. And they were the good Ansett. Ah well, lets just hope we can keep it up. we also have a new player.... whose name I can't remember.. oops, ah well, I will correct that when I remember it.
Edit: Daniel

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Aren't we lucky?

Well as it turns out our English teachers at school have decided that they want us to write a short thing about Odyssey. What it was like etc.. Now it occured to me that I have already done this, (if you look 2 posts down) so I don't really need to do anything except shorten it and add pictures. YAY!

And in other news:

Basketball is going back this Monday, first game is 8:30, this means I can't do U. Frisbee =`(, ah well.

Im doing Maths Specialist at school this semester. It's for those people who are really smart and want to become engineers.

I bought the Age of Empires gold edition. It comes with AoE 1, 2 and their expantion packs.
*LOVE THEM*

Not much else to tell,
Skywalker Out!

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Odyssey!!

OK, for all those who don't know what the odyssey is (other than the ancient Greek one): The Odyssey is a 2 week trip down the east coast of Australia. All the year 11 students at O'loughlin Collage can go but it costs 2 grand (that comes with all meals, accommodation and flights).

Our first stop was the Gold Coast Sports Super Center (where we stayed). It was a nice place, had a heated pool, served good food and had a basketball court. We stayed in Brisbane for 2 or three days, while we were there we visited Dreamworld (!!) and Dracula's, a theater restaurant (!!!) both of which were awesome.

We also visited Mt Tambourine. For those who haven't been there it is full of shops, quite a few of the selling chocolate or fudge... or chocolate fudge. We spent a few hours there and I bought a ridiculously expensive sausage roll, which turned out to the worth it. A few people bought fudge and I stole some off of them, the we go on the bus and drove to Harbour Town (a massive Direct Factory Outlet place with heaps of shops). That was cool and we moved on to Dracula's.

Dracula's is a theatre restaurant, they serve you food and entertain you at the same time. I had 'Furnace of Fish' which was 'Mouth watering seasonal fresh fish fillet baked and served with lemon saffron Beurre' Blanc.' It was fish covered in a lemon butter sauce. Very nice. The performance was half play half stand up comedy show, great but I can't tell you anything else, I have been sworn to secrecy. The Dracula's performance was on of the three highlights of the trip, the others were the snow and Origin. More about them later.

The next day we drove over to Dreamworld!

While I was at Dreamworld I went of the Tower of Terror (one of the three main attractions (the other two are the Claw, which was broken, and the Giant Drop, which I didn't get time to do).
Dreamworld also has a new attraction - AVPX or Alien vs Predator vs You. It is basically a huge laser tag arena (Like Zone 3 for those who know it) but there are a few different game types. There is the normal game, just two teams which fight it out, Infection where you can convert the other team and multi team, where there is 4 teams instead of two.

Oh and did I mention the arena fights back... Yep that's right, the arena has movement sensing lasers that can target and 'kill' you. You can disable these 'enemies' by hitting small targets near the lasers.

After we moved on from Gold Coast we went down to Surfers Paradise for a few hours, yes it was nice, but no, none of us went into the water. I mean come on, give us a break, it would have been like 3 degrees (Celsius that is, 37.4 F or 276 K). anyway, we looked around and most of the group ended up at a shopping center, it had an arcade, 10-pin bowling etc.

And then me and a couple of friends found the firing range..

One of the group I was hanging around with does cadets (air force, so he can also fly planes.) so he's like 'Oh yeah!' and we went to see what their prices were. It turns out that one of the guns they had was the same as ones he uses in practise. So we spent half an hour watching him shoot at targets, he did pretty well actually, every shot inside the 7 ring.

Then we went back to the SSC and slept.***

OK.. next stop Taree. At Taree we stayed the night and ate a a Chinese restaurant, for those who don't know me I'm not a big fan of Asian food but they did some really nice lemon chicken and fish of some kind.

From there we made the voyage down to Sydney. One of the first things we did at Syd was to go and see an NRL game; Panthers vs Bulldogs. Bulldogs won. The next day we caught the ferry across the harbour to the city centre. On our way past we say the Oprah house and the Harbour Bridge. when we reached the city we spend about 2 hours wandering around by ourselves* After that we walked over to St. Mary's Cathedral, went for a closer look at the Oprah house and rush back to the ferry as it started raining (it was stupid prissy southern rain, but it was cold).

On the next day (we are up to day 7 here - Sunday 21st) we went to mass at Dee Why (a suburb in Syd); then on to the Taronga Zoo. The zoo was pretty big, with lots of stuff to do and shows every hour or so. We got there about 9 or 10 and one of the first things we did was go to the bird show. they had a bunch of really cool birds; a few falcons, a condor** and, to finish off, a galah. Now it may seem a bit... Meh. after a bunch of falcons but the zoo bird person explained that they were actually quite intelligent. She got a person in the crowd to stand up and hold a gold coin in their hand. the bird flew to them, took the coin, flew back and put the coin into its keepers pocket. She like "as you can see they are quite smart, I think she has something to give you back." and then it flew her a ring. The guy next to her got a mic and popped the question.

Cute...
That was pretty much the highlight of the visit but we saw Lions, Tigers, Bears..

And on to Canberra!

Our first stop while in Canberra was Parliament House. It was big.^ We went and saw some of question time then got lead to a room and acted out our own political debate. *boring*. Anyway, the member for Solomon (that's where we come from) came and said Hi, we said Hi and he chatted for a while and left.

From there we went to our accommodation (a Carotel, don't ask). 8 person rooms, 2 heaters a bathroom per room (good deal so far). An then.. we found out.. that a student had been murdered just a few rooms down a while back. OK.. that was supposed to be scary but it didn't quite work... anyone know why?

Next we have THE SNOW!
Sorry if this seems like I'm making a big deal of it.... BUT IT IS!

For most of us on the trip it was the first time we'd seen *real* snow. I've been on a fake slope before but this was even better. We had snowball fights, made snowmen, the usual stuff. Went inside the complex and had pizza, went back out again. Had another snowball fight.

Eventually, tired and wet, we struggled back to the train that would take us back down the mountain, well through the mountain really. !! I almost forgot the mini donuts !! There was a shop that sold mini donuts, $5 for a dozen, they were the best donuts I have ever tasted, even on par with Krispy Kremes. Add to that the guy who owned the place. He was obviously a good businessman because we all went and got some. Probably because he would give you a few extra with each order. Thank You Donut Man!!

The next day we went to Old Parliament House and Questacon.

OPH was Meh, but we didn't stay that long and then QUESTACON! Questacon is an awesome science uuhh... not quite sure what the word is.. it's a science thing. It has hands-on stuff, mechanical dinosaurs and a tame lightning striker; everything you need to keep a bunch of school children entertained. The highlights included an enclosed roller coaster pod on a hydraulic system with a big screen at the front, so it didn't go anywhere but it felt like it was; A sort of giant centrifuge; a person sits at each on of a bar and it rotates around a central point, the people have to try to throw balls to each other^^ and, as I have already mentioned a lightning generator witch would strike for about 10 seconds every half hour or so.

After that we moved on to State of Origin. State of Origin is a rugby series between Qld and NSW, there are 3 games, one in Melbourne, one in Brisbane and one in Sydney (<- the one we saw). I don't particularly like rugby but Origin was soo much fun. The atmosphere was great and, well, you kinda had to be there. At one point we had a mexican wave going and it managed to get around the stadium 3 times before it died, pretty good if I do say so myself. The game ended at about 10pm and we had a 3 and a half hour drive back to Canberra so we all fell asleep on the bus.

The next day we went to the National museum (where they keep Phar Lap's heart) and cruised past the AIS and all the embassies, stopped for lunch and went the ANZAC parade. The Parade is a memorial to all the locations and times in which Australia has gone to war. The we moved on to the War memorial, pretty much the same thing but larger and with exhibits. It also contains the wall. The wall lists every Australian soldier killed in war. There is too many people on that wall. Lest we forget.

One the 12th day of the trip we had a full day of the bus, from Canberra to Melbourne. Not much to say about that really. We got to our (very budget) accommodation and slept. The last three days we could do pretty much whatever we wanted, there was The Queen Victoria market about 15 mins up the road and a DFO about the same distance in the other direction. Not much happened on those three days other than Wicked (The Broadway musical).

Wicked tells the story of the Witches of OZ, both good and bad.# It was pretty good, better than I expected. Almost everyone got reasonably dressed up to see it and when it finished we went over the the Crown Plaza Complex.## The CPC has heaps of shops, a cinema and some fire shows out the front (pretty cool) as well as a water feature inside which shoots streams of water into the air in time with the music playing (again, pretty cool).

Finally, it was time to end the trip we went to the airport and the group discovered that, since they had got there too early they couldn't check their bags in for another 1 1/2 hours. I, on the other hand, could. Unlike them, I was going to Adelaide instead of back to Darwin and my flight was considerably earlier. So about two hours before them I boarded a plane and was whisked off to MissE and my Grandma.

But that my friends, is another post.

I may do another post with photos / highlights in more detail, but then again I might not.

* In groups of 3 or more. Invariably everyone ignored this at one point or another and wandered off by themselves.
** For those who don't know a condor can have a wingspan of up to 5 meters.
*** Just to show we did sleep and it wasn't all running around.
^ I just like stating the obvious.
^^ In all modesty me and my partner were the best, we were on there for like 5 mins and the guy controlling it is like 'yeah, sorry guys, this is as fast as it goes.'
# Well, not so much bad, just seriously misunderstood.
## Which, yes, houses the Crown Casino, but as we were all minors, no one could go in.

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

OK! Photos!

I have now updated the post below, it now has more photos!

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Saturday, 7 February 2009

Well I'm Back...... Again

Well I'm back.. I know I haven't posted in a while but I haven't had much to post about.. My life is pretty boring. But I will try to get a decent post of what has happened on the holidays. Item no. 1: The Formal OK, it wasn't actually on the holidays buuut... It deserves at least part of a post. The formal is (for those people who don't know) an end of year event for Year 10s (at O'Loughlin) where all the chicks get dressed up in their best dresses and make up and the guys wear a suit (of equally boring clothes), this at least is unfair. Why cant guys wear different colours?? Any way.. I went with Simone. It was pretty good, the food wasn't bad and we had free drinks all night. ( I will post some pics later)


Here is me in my formal clothes.

Simone and Me


At the back: Surya, Luke, Sam
Front: Tegan, Pryanka (probably got that one wrong), KC, Simone, My head.


Pryanka, KC, and Simone


Amy, Tegan, Simone and KC

Item no. 2: The Great Ocean Road
I will just post heaps of pics now, I will comment whenever it seems necessary.


Our camper Van


Dinner at 'The Barn'


A boat.... no.. Ship




It was as you can see, very windy.. and cold


Yep.. Still Cold.

OK... My internet is going so slowly, I might do more later..

Sunday, 3 February 2008

Well...

Well I am back at school (had a whole 2 days so far) And yet I live, a miracle I'm sure. none of my teachers are new except my homeroom teacher (Ms Chapman, MissE you know her). I am also back at basketball. My coach tried to kill me today, my left arm protests when I have to press a button right of the R. Very annoying.

Our first game is on friday, but my coach also want me to play 18's and, occasionally, League reserve if not League itself. But I will survive I'm sure.

MechQuest and Runescape are updating lots perhaps you should go there and see for yourself.

Skywalker out!

Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Im Doomeedd!

I have to go back to skool tomorrow. Does anyone else thing that is unfair??? Oh well.. I guess I can't change it... Unless a cyclone forms just off the coast later today... but I have to admit, that would be pretty unlikely.... Very unlikely..... OK... The chances of that happening are about... 1 to 99999999999 oh well...

In other news Mechquest has just released dozens of updates You should go there now.
Or even Runescape they have been doing a fair bit too

But if you don't want to I guess you might want to stay here and read my brilliant Blog posts

Skywalker out!

PS. MissE I am still having a little trouble with Dreamweaver... Got any advice?

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Negelct and Camp!

AGAIN I'm soooo sorry I have been neglecting you, this will (hopefully) be a reasonably long post to make up for it.

Firstly: Camp, We went to Lake Bennett for school camp, about 60 of us were there, 20 guys and 40 girls (yes, we made the most of this) and 3 teachers. There was a number of thing to do on camp. (OK not that much really).

There was Archery (which i excelled at), Rock climbing (at which I didn't excel but did OK at), canoing (at which, with a good partner or a kayak paddle, am am also pretty good). And last of all there was some stupid 'Olympic' thing (OK, not that bad, it included a ginger beer sculling contest)

There were some minor dramas: Steven, Jarred and some other guy got kicked off camp after the first night. They had brought a 3/4 full Listerine bottle of Schnapps and got, well... best not to describe it in full detail.

Idiots.

They got them selves caught and they should have done it on the last day when it doesn't matter if they get kicked out because they are leaving anyway.

Overall I would rate this camp 6 out of 10. Not bad, but Yr 7 camp still is way out in front!

OK, on news slightly closer to home. Bball we have won every game and are getting 2 new players from some other team (now we have 10 players) ) -`: We have also won all of our games for more info go to the DBA website (U 16's div 2: Warriors)

In wheel chair we are doing well, but not perfectly, we have lost a few games, last game we won by 2 points, close game that was, and I got a blister.

OK : this is a list of thing i want:
1: Broadband Unlimited
2: Guild Wars
3: A new graphics card to play Guild Wars (as well as the broadband)
4: Halo 3 and an Xbox 360 to play it on.
5: A million dollars while I'm at it.....
Well thats all folks!

Skywalker out!

Thursday, 3 May 2007

Be aware of the crazy psycho teacher!!

Mr O'Donahue is a psycho killer, I swear..

OK we are in class and we behaving normally (like little ****s for the most part) but perhaps better that normal.

So he set us some work and most of us finished pretty quickly, and said ok, what do we do now?..... he said just wait for the others.

ok Holtham put up his hand and asks for help with question 4 and Mr OD just goes nuts

"SHUT UP AND DO YOUR WORK, I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO SAY"
"okaayyyyy...."

But that's not all....

We all finish and say so but he just ignores us so we just star talking quietly (by quietly i mean we could be heard from across the school, but quieter than we normally are), he looks up and Mickie had been talking to Fletcher or someone and was going back to his seat Mr OD got up and when Mickie sits down he goes and yells at him

"How dare you get out of you seat without my permission! 1 more thing are you're going straight to the office"

Then he, WAIT FOR IT!, throws Mickie's book halfway across the room (making all the loose pieces of paper fall put. Then when Mickie went to get them Mr OD shoves him back down and full-on slams the desk into Mickie's chest.

All this time Mickie had been protesting and saying "I'm not allowed to come up to your desk and start throwing your stuff around, you can do that either"

Eventually the bell went (that is after about a dozen people got sent to the office) and we escaped.

Skywalker Out.

PS. he has an eyebrow problem... they keep twitching when he talks and when he gets annoyed

Saturday, 21 April 2007

Fun in Skool

ok, we are in skool in humanities (for those not familiar with the new "better" schooling system, humanities is a combination of english and SOSE) and the teacher comes in and says
"ok guys you are having a spelling test today" (all groan)

ok these 3 tables (including mine) are doing one test the rest are doing another

well our words were........ wait for it...
cat, dog, ten, bat, ect......

Their words:
apoplexy
au revoir
chardonnay
(some expensive liqure)
and so on....

and guess what.. everyone that got 100% got a lollypop... (thats me by the way)

yeah... seem a bit unfair? its supposed to be, we're doing a thing on prejudice and discrimination....
yay for me