Good Times

Recently celebrated a friend's birthday in the city. I didn't know that the Sydney Festival thingo was on and there was this movie screening thingo at Darling Harbour. Unfortunately, we went to Hyde Park where there was nothing on. All that walk for nothing.

Vaguely looking forward to uni, when it starts in March. It's my last year, and that in itself is something special. More groupwork though, something I'm not looking forward to. Well, you can't everything. Also looking forward to going to Adelaide for clinicals. My friends are also planning to have a quick stopover in Melbourne after clinicals as well. Might to find something to do to replenish the my depleted financial stocks at the moment.

Nothing that much to do at this moment. I'm holding off on downloading and watching Youtube in a [vain] attempt to prevent being capped early. The thing about holidays is that you look forward to doing all the things you haven't had time to do during uni and then you do all you wanted to do and still have 2 months of free time. I'm reading through some random manga to pass the time, as I think of what to do next.

I remember somewhere on the internet, there was a short story site, where anyone can post any short story as long as it was exactly 666 words. Or something close to that, I'm not sure it has to be exactly 666 words. I might try to find it, do some reading and maybe post something. With the holidays, it gives plenty of time to let your mind wander, and something I wonder whether I should commit some of it to paper. I'm pretty meh about writing stuff though, since most of my attempts at writing tend to lack decent characterisation and emotion. And I tend to ripoff from other people. But Stravinsky did say that good composers don't borrow, they steal. Probably applies in a way to writers as well.

Actually, one of the more interesting stories I've read is called "Armageddon??" written by someone called 'Stuart' [his internet alias]. Basically, demons from Hell invaded Earth, only it seems modern weaponary is quite effective against them, culminating with a human invasion into Hell taking on Satan himself. The style is rather like Tom Clancy, focusing on the interaction of human military forces and Hell's invasion force. You can read it here. It's fairly long, but after reading the first couple of chapters, you can probably tell whether if it's your cup of tea or not.

I would buy books to supplement my reading, but since I tend to read quite quickly, it usually ends up with me buying the book, then finish reading it later in the day. Some time ago I bought The Last Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko, the final book in the tetralogy in the Watches series [I heartily recommend this series] and finished in around 3 hours later. It was $40 well-spent, but it didn't last that long. If I kept buying books and reading them quickly, I'll end up bankrupt.

Well I'm running low already, maybe I should do some odd jobs to build up my balance again.