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NEW MONITOR
For my new computer, I recently got a new monitor, an LG W2252TQ.  It's absolutely amazing (the computer magazine I read gave it 96% after their rigorous testing), and looks great au.lge.com/products/model/deta… amazing that I got it for $270 online and it's better than $500 models from less reputable brands in stores.

NEW STUFF
I'm finally going to be submitting more stuff again.  I'm kind of excited because there's a photo or two of mine that I actually like, so here's hoping everyone else does as well!

A RUSH LIKE THIS
Every year I buy the latest Need for Speed game.  It's a century old tradition.  However, after reading the 5/10 reviews for Undercover, I decided against.  However, one rainy Saturday morning I hired it during a moment of weakness.

Wow!  It's the craziest game... scenery hasn't flown past this quickly since Wipeout.  And that's saying a LOT.  The last and fastest car I unlocked in the game was just scary fast.  I haven't had a rush like this from a game in a long time.

ALSO, I just got an email from Sportscraft.  They're having a four-day only 30% off sale on all their new season stock.  Considering the fact I just spent a lot of money on an Italian wool suit from there not too long ago on a trip to Sydney, I probably shouldn't get involved.  However, I was going to head to the shops on one of those days anyway and stop into a few stores.  Plus they have this macintosh that I looove (yes Luke, I just said MACINTOSH).  Should I go?



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New computer
Myself and my brother went halves in new parts for our computer recently (only just got it yesterday).  A friend of mine gets parts from a wholesaler, and he put it together for us.  Specs are as follows:

Intel E8500 (333x9.5)
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4P
Gigabyte GV-R485OC-1GH (1GB memory and 12% overclock!!)
Kingston RAM - 2GB, 1066MHz, 5-5-5-15
320GB
200GB
160GB (external)

It's pretty sweet!

Lack of creativity
Recently (okay, for a while now), I've found that I've had a real creative drain.  I haven't really felt like taking many photos, and when I do they suck.  I'll manipulate photos and feel like I'm happy with them -- but I really don't think anyone would be liking them.

Recently I had went away for our annual family reunion -- which was great -- but I really wanted to get a few good photos of people.  A lot of the time, I wasn't even the one using my camera.  When I looked at the photos, it's just a whole lot of messy snaps.  I'm really annoyed with being like this!!  I want to be taking photos, and good ones at that.

Has anyone else ever felt like this?  How'd you get over it?  Help!

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New account
Does anyone remember the new account I was thinking of making, just for my Holga-imitation photos?  Well I've made one- BlueSkyAzure  Go watch now.  

The dilemma
Okay, I'm facing this dilemma at the moment between buying two pairs of aviators -- I can't decide between the Gucci 1813: www.bettervisionbetterprices.c… or the Giorgio Armani 402: www.framesdirect.com/framesfp/…

I can't make up my mind.. I think I like the Gucci ones better; but I've always loved Giorgio Armani (the designs, not the man lol)

Please don't vote on either neither or some other ones.    

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The Turning of 18
I turned 18 on Tuesday.  I'm not really that fussed about it.. in fact, I consider it a bit depressing -- that 18 years just flew past, and tomorrow I'll wake up 36, with a wife and two kids and think "Wow.  That went fast.  I hope I'm rich."  or something..

You know, it's amazing how many people have wanted to take me out for my 'first drink'.  It's great, because it means they're paying for my Peroni Imported beer aside, however, I really couldn't care less.. I'm just happy to be able to drive 100km/h now, instead of boring 90

The Holga
I've always had a sort of fiery passion for the Holga and it's miraculous transformation of what is real into something else, and so because I don't own one I was very excited when zeyus introduced me to a Photoshop Action (the next best thing).

So zealous has the love I have for my newfound action been that I'm thinking of starting up a new account, just for the Holgas.  Maybe one day I'll buy myself a 120CFN and then can include real pictures in there as well hehe

Does anyone have any suggestions as to names?

The Chanel Plague
Okay, this is something that's kind of irritating me.

In the town I live (I shouldn't include myself; I live out of town ), it's rubbish.  Nobody has any taste, and there's only one good coffee shop (aside from the gay chain store one).

So, I was quite excited when one of my friends from school, who now works at a hair salon, purchased herself a Chanel bag.  It was the first display of designer life I'd ever seen in that place.

After this another girl from Big W just near my work got herself a fabulous Marc Jacobs piece.

That's great.  Since then, I've seen *two* other Chanel bags from women in Big W of recent times.  What's going on?  Why so many!?  Two Chanel's would have still been exclusive; but now that there's three in town, it's just too much to bear.

I might have that drink..

I know I did this last journal, but I've decided to do it again for any different people who may comment:

You leave a comment and I do this for you:

a) tell you why I friended you
b) associate you with something
c) tell you something I like about you
d) tell you a memory I have of you
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you
f) give you one piece of advice that might be useful to you
g) in return, you must post this in your journal


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Well, this isn't such a journal as it is a mixture of a number of journalistic things.  

The Tag
<dever1n> tagged me, dammit.  Apparentely I have to write 10 'unknown' facts about myself.

1.  I always read magazines back to front.  Don't know why -- I guess because all the good stuff seems to be in the back.

2.  I am quite a sensitive person.  That, coupled with the fact I don't have a girlfriend, leads many to the mistaken conclusion that I must be gay.

3.  Have you ever seen Stranger Than Fiction?  I'm a lot like Harold Crick--with his counting habits, that is.  I count everything, when I can.  But I don't tell anyone

Dustin Hoffman: "Did you have enough time to count the stairs as we walked down?"

Will Ferrel: "I wasn't counting the stairs."

Dustin Hoffman: "Course not."

haha lol

4.  I have very expensive taste, so I get really excited when I see something that's cheap that I like.  When I was in Queensland, I left with $1100 and by the second last day asked (begged) my brother to send me $50 via EFT.  It's a good thing I bought that wool/angora jacket when I got off the plane, because otherwise I *WOULD* have walked out of Hugo Boss the next day with a bag or two of designer goodness. I also really love fashion (looking at mens and very much also womens) in general, interior design, and all sorts of things I'm not supposed to haha

5.  Someone I work with with bought this hair magazine of all different styles and what not.. and yes, I enjoyed looking at it..

6.  I hate weddings.  Even though I've photographed 3 and whatever, I really don't like the things.  After the last one I went to I mentioned it to someone at work (the one spoken of below), and she's like "That's because you're jealous!".  I thought about that, and was like, "oh, yeah!".  Wow, I'm jealous.

7.  In real-life conversation, (depending on who I'm talking to) I often will say some ultra-controversial questions--just sarcastically, even though they're quite often true--and I do of course welcome them in return.  I just hate blurting something out to the wrong person. lol

8.  I never get sick.  In the 3 years I've been working, I've only been sick twice.  One of those times was 2 years ago, when someone at work had the flu, and had an icee sitting out the back.  I walked out and went "ooo, icee!" and consequently got sick.

9.  Because of the coffee-related stereotypes that abound in today's society, such as 'cappacino' or 'latte', I can never bring myself to ask for such things.  Hearing the words just irritates me so much that I always ask for either a flat white (with caramel mmm) or a black tea.  Take that.

10.  I hearby promise never to ever say anything bad about Red Hot Chilli Peppers again (that's what got me tagged in the first place).  Even if I'm having a conversation with someone and they say one of their songs sucks, I'll just say, "well, Californication is definitely better".  READING THIS, ERIN!?

I was also going to put an extra point down the bottom here about that strange pain that I had going on in my pants last week all of a sudden when I was walking, but considered it slightly.. well, some things are best left unknown

I tag <iconzeyus> !!!  Welcome back, Luke

The leaving
One of the girls I work with has left for another job in PR

That's really sad because she's been there since I started, and we've become really good friends.  I went over to her house last week and spent some time there so that was cool.

The good news is that she's being replaced by her boyfriend.. and unlike every other boyfriend in the world, this guy is really great.  He's actually 27, and she's 21.  Bit of a difference, but you would think she's 25 anyway..

The jazz
I've discovered Melody Gardot.  Oh my.. I love my jazz, and haven't been this excited about a jazz artist since I saw Diana Krall's Live in Paris DVD

She is absolutely wonderful.  Very proper jazz, which just reeks of cool--proper, 1930's Manhattan cool.  Yeah...

The instruments are not unlike Elixir (on the opening tracks), while she is as original as Josephine Baker and as musically precise as Ella.. well, almost.  No one matches up to her.

The best part about the whole venture is that none of the songs have that mainstream "Don't know Why" appeal, which is great, because that means she'll never be overplayed, and if she goes down the same crappy path that Norah Jones has, no one will be disappointed because they never would have heard of her in the first place.

The other thing
er1n, again:

You leave a comment and I do this for you:

a) tell you why I friended you
b) associate you with something
c) tell you something I like about you
d) tell you a memory I have of you
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you
f) give you one piece of advice that might be useful to you
g) in return, you must post this in your journal

And there we are, my longest journal ever!

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