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1. Shana Tova! (That's Happy New Year to all you non-Hebrew-knowing folks)

2. What have I been up to all this time you ask? Well.. working mostly. That and assignments and Revue Front of House. I wish I had some coworkers who weren't the Indian equivalent of fobs though. On Thursday I had to train up 2 new guys from Bangladesh, which puts the ratio of Indian males to white females 3:1. And none of the new guys say more than 3 words at a time to me, not that that matters since its so hard to understand what they're saying anyway. My original coworker and I have reached a friendship of sorts, where we can understand eachother 80% of the time and actually talk to eachother every now and then. Here's to hoping I get to the same level with the new guys eventually, or maybe even become friendly with them *gasp*

3.But in between that, I went to Mia's 23rd birthday two weeks ago, where I ate copious amounts of food, failed at Guitar Hero, sang along (badly) to Singstar.. in short, great fun was had. I only knew a few of the people there, the rest were Mia's friends relatives and friends of relatives, but they were a pretty friendly bunch altogether. I also got to marvel at David's GPS on the way home, which is an incredibly cool gadget and reminds me of how much of a nerd I am, drooling over a piece of electronics that speaks to tell you to take the next right turn.

4. I saw CSE Revue on Wednesday, and it was so awesome that I decided it deserves a numbered paragraph all to itself. Things that were awesome about it included the band number, the set, the nerd humour, the glowsticks, and the band number. Did I mention the band number was awesome?

5. Today I decided to finally put my money where my mouth is. In the past I have been heard to express sentiments such as "If I had the money I would buy it instead of downloading or getting it off friends", and so now that I'm Officially Rich* I went to JB Hi Fi today and picked up 3 CDs to start my collection of legitimate music. Yay!

6a. Today I and some others formed a group for Software Project Management. We needed a group name and no one could think of anything clever off the top of their head. So I suggested the name of the piece of music that was playing on loop inside my skull at the time. Our group is now named Stream of Consciousness** :D And as I type this I can still hear it playing right now inside my head.

6b. I think CSE Revue has finally gotten to me, judging by my joke tonight at the dinner table which I like to think was worthy of Alex Mednis***
*TV playing in background*
Mum: Didn't we see the news already? Oh, its just.. Lateline? No, Stateline.
Me: Bah its all so confusing, Lateline, Stateline, Dateline. And when Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was on they had the option of Mateline.

Needless to say, no one laughed.

*Officially Rich: Earning a decent amount of money on a permanent basis, and having a large-ish amount sitting in the bank account... well, a large-ish amount minus $50 after my CD purchases.

** For those not in the know, Stream of Consciousness is the name of the CSE Revue band number. You should get that song. Seriously.

*** CSE Revue member and incorrigible punster. Most of the time I don't know whether to laugh, kill him, or kill myself when I hear one of his puns.

But damn we had a fucking good afterparty

Highlights include ( but not wholly covered by):

* band/VOs winning the boat race by a clean margin. Tech was plain embarrassing so its a good thing i'd already tipped band to win :p
* ardo max and hein getting absolutely smashed
* people like anu and dave vallance getting smashed but slightly less so
* lesbians!
* having other sane (read sober) people around like dave greenaway to talk to until he got shocked by the lesbians and left. damn christians :p
* a smallish group of drinkers staying awake right till then end - and still drinking. I think the group who were going after we had just finished cleaning up were marc, tim, owen, beren, matt e, nick gibson. Then marc piked, and tim and matt E passed out, and nick went somewhere else for a while, leaving owen and beren who after a solid 6 hours or so of drinking were finally starting to show the effects.
* a few surprising couples, and a few spadings which aren't couples.. yet.. but may end up so in the future
* breaking leigh's goatse virginity. Also his tubgirl virginity and his lemonparty virginity :p
* breaking a couple of people's yum cha virginity afterwards: piyush and.. someone else

i feel bad though that we didn't make it to cecile's party. Its a pity she didn't hold it somewhere closer to uni or we might have turned up.

And going home to stay awake till one afterwards doing seng was fun too. I started thinking about how if i could just stay up a bit longer i would have been awake for 48 hours

hmm what else happened to me in hte last 48 hours or so? hmm...

*matt lee got pwned in woot camp. At the part where he goes "what would you do if i had an overlord yada yada yada?" the guy goes "i'd totally pwn you" *stunned silence* "this man is leet! everyone repeat after me!"
*i found out i don't like fear factory very much, everytime one of their songs came on i found myself skipping it halfway through