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does anyone have a copy of that picture that was taken from the roof on muck up day? do you know which i mean?? i'd really like to have it please :)
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[Monday
January 29th, 2007 at 3:04pm] |
i want to fast forward and be at the end of uni. i have found 2 jobs that i really really realy want. they're traineeships offered by the government every year for graduates and i really want them! except i don't finish uni for another 4 or 5 years!!! what's the chance of those jobs still being there? gah!
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AusAID Graduate Programme The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), seeks people who are interested in improving the world we live in. AusAID’s Graduate Programme aims to promote the personal and professional development of graduates by providing challenging and practical work experience and a variety of training and development opportunities. Through work placements our graduates gain an overview of the overseas aid management process and are introduced to a range of policy principles, quality considerations and operational procedures essential for effective aid management.
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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Graduate Recruitment The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is Australia's premier employer of graduates interested in a career in international affairs. The department runs two separate graduate programmes. The Graduate Trainee Programme is for applicants from all academic backgrounds and will prepare you for a career as a generalist policy officer. Applicants must have, as a minimum, a three-year Bachelor degree. The Corporate and Financial Management Trainee Programme will prepare you for a career managing the department's assets, resources and programmes.
with the second one after you finish your training they send you overseas to work!!!
i want it!
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January 27th, 2007 at 11:11am] |
Aussie Brits take Pom whinge to UN
Saturday Jan 27 06:04 AEDT
A group of Australian Brits who won an advertising ban on the use of the word Pom now want the United Nations to rule the use of term as racial discrimination.
A beer advertisement was taken off Australian radio this week for its use of the word Pom, slang for a Brit, often teamed with the adjective whingeing.
The Advertising Standards Board ruled that Pom was used in a derogatory, almost hostile way, in the ad in which British men sing Land of Hope and Glory using various synonyms of the word whinge including whine, moan, slag and complain.
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The advertisement ended with a voice-over saying "Introducing Tooheys New Super Cold, served so cold it's a Pom's worst nightmare".
British beer is often derided in Australia as being warm.
Now the emboldened group - British People Against Racial Discrimination - are petitioning the UN to take action on the word.
Its 14 West Australian and 12 Victorian members, who have spent four years campaigning against the word, say they don't want Pom totally banned.
Group spokesman Dave Thomason told News Ltd: "We just object to the fact that the media won't use nicknames for other nationalities - the Italians, the French, the New Zealanders, the Americans - but they use Pom all the time."
Mr Thomason arrived in Australia 37 years ago and was naturalised on Australia Day 27 years ago.
He said Pom was used at least five times a week in Australian media reports, whereas the word "wog" was used just once in 12 months.
"How would most Australians feel if they were called prisoners in the paper all the time," Mr Thomason told News Ltd.
He said all racial nicknames should be used or none at all.
"We are in the process of submitting a petition to the UN calling for an investigation of Australia's racial discrimination laws because they are deficient."
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January 16th, 2007 at 5:56pm] |
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wahey!!! i got in! i got in! i got in! i got in! i got in! i got in! i got in! i got in!
and the offers arent supposed to come out til 6! (it was about 10 to six when i checked)
development studies at adelaide uni here i come!!
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[Monday
January 1st, 2007 at 8:32pm] |
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I don’t want people to go off to Adelaide. I REALLY REALLY don’t want people to move to Adelaide. Everyone’s all excited about going to uni in a month and a half and if I was them I’d be heaps excited too but I’m just going to miss everyone so much. It’s alright for you guys going to Adelaide, you’ll have each other but then there’s us people stuck here. I’ll have Megan. I love Megan, she’s wonderful. But I also love Courtney, Wally, Xuan and Cally and everyone else and they’re all wonderful and I am going to miss them all sooooooooooooo much. I don’t want them to leave. I don’t want you to leave. You’ll all be having fun wonderful lives going to uni and being in Adelaide and we’ll be here, working, working, working. When we go up to visit you or when you come back for the holidays we’ll catch up about what’s been happening and then there’ll be nothing, no common ground to talk about. All we talk about now is school, teachers at school or other inside things that come from being to together 5 of the 7 days of the week. That’s all going to be gone. And even if it’s just for a year, it’s still gone and I’m really going to miss. It may all come back so easily when we move up there next year like it was when I came back, like I’d never left. But what if we change so much, or even just that little bit which may be all it needs. I spent 2006 getting to know so many wonderful people but that could all end, just as easily as it began.
I love you all!
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[Wednesday
December 20th, 2006 at 2:10pm] |
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When I first opened my envelope and saw my results I was unbelievably happy and excited but as the day's gone and I've heard everyone else's results, not feeling quite so good about them seeing as EVERYONE else i've spoken to got into the 90s. I realise it's stupid to compare myself to everyone else but hey!! anyway, my results....
(A score out of 20 without moderation)
English Comm - 19 - A
Psychology - 17 - A
Studies of Societies - 17 - A
History - 16 - B
Geography - 15 - B
and my TER (teritary education rank for the english reading this, it's a score out of 99.95)
89.45
It's a really good score, a really good score, especially for me but it's the lowest mark out of everyone i've heard so far, how depressing. but if i think about it in another way, i'm in like the top 11% of the state! woo! and I said all i want was to get in the 80s with my goal being 85 and i did soooo much better but hey!
*also posted to myspace and deviantart coz I'm too lazy to write 3 different posts*
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[Tuesday
December 19th, 2006 at 1:54pm] |
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results are out tomorrow. oh god. am so scared!
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[Saturday
December 9th, 2006 at 8:22am] |
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hey, just wondering if anyone knows who went (and like me, failed to get) the tenison traineeship??
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[Sunday
November 5th, 2006 at 6:16pm] |
Good Luck to Everyone for their exams!!!!!!
Especially the English Studies people who start tomorrow!!
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[Saturday
October 21st, 2006 at 4:45pm] |
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I love the irish, they have to be the most amazing people in the entire world!! Really, they are awesomly awesome! I have such a love affair with him! I think I shall have to move there one day, not for too long though, it's a bit cold over there!! They are got to have the most amazing accents in the entire world (the scottish is a close second.) And they're just so amazingly nice! When we were in Ireland we got pretty lost, I think we were in Dublin and it was a bit of a traffic jam and so dad got out of the car and was knocking on people's windows and asked for directions and they were all so nice and helpful. One guy, on his way to work, took a complete detour just so we could follow him and find our way!! It's awesome!! There's no way that would happen in England where everyone is all stuck up and English! (Except my wonderful friends of course!!) And they have cool irish music in ireland too!! And they're funny and just plain amazing!! I'm going to being my kids up in ireland, just so that they get irish accents!! I'll hope I marry an Irishman, i'll just sit there and listen to him talk with his wonderful accent!
I love the Irish!!
(Xuan, Rohit and my friend Celia's birthdays on monday!!! and my dad's tomorrow!! He's turning 52! the old fart!)
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[Sunday
October 15th, 2006 at 5:16pm] |
Hehe, found this the other day! How we've all changed!!!
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[Tuesday
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:22pm] |
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i love the holidays!!
tomorrow is going to be 29!! that's crazy! 29! in mount gambier in spring!! cant wait, v. nice temp!!
yes, this is me being very bored and im sure that you who is reading this is also very bored
borgs has another daughter btw, claudia grace borgo - 2/10/06!
yay! he's was meant to be a father to daughters!
she's apparently v. chubby with heaps of dark hair
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[Thursday
September 28th, 2006 at 4:05pm] |
i hate our year 12 teachers. they go on about how tomorrow is meant to be fun and special for us and yet they don't let us do ANYTHING! like before, i was in the staff room after school and saw yr12 teachers like gouldnig, shep and rhodes all talking and so tried hard not to eavesdrop but on my way out i could help but hear rhodes say "cancel the graduation then!" what dicks! im guessing that they found out that people decided to have fun on their last day of school and dress up a little bit but have clothes to change into and so are saying theyre going to cancel graduation! fuck tard!! of course this may not be it be why else would rhodes suggest cancelling grad?!!!??? what an over reaction!
gah!!!
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[Sunday
September 24th, 2006 at 11:57am] |
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HAMMOND LIVES!!!
*dances around*
yay
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[Friday
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:40pm] |
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i'm so sick of school! i've made it so far but in these last few days ive just gone crazy! i can't focus on anything and i just cannot be bothered when now is probably the most important time to be doing shit and yet i cant be bothered coz when ever i try i go shit, ive been trying all year and sure im doing ok but not as well as i want to. liek in psych, ive put so much into doing my individual and yet it's shit and i can't get her help anymore, well not for my proposal coz ive used up my informal and formal and scunge isnt going to be here monday, tuesday or wednesday so i cant get another draft in or anything and i just cannot be fucked caring anymore!
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September 4th, 2006 at 5:32pm] |
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Bye Steve!!! I can't believe you're gone!!!!!
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[Tuesday
August 15th, 2006 at 4:22pm] |
The girl with the purple hair... yeah that's tonks!! not liking it!
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[Saturday
August 5th, 2006 at 8:37pm] |
Everyone come to the expo tomorrow and buy a sausage so that we geographers can go to melbourne!! yay!!
Level 1
( ) smoked a cigarette
( ) smoked a cigar
( ) done weed
( ) kissed a member of the same sex
(x) drank alcohol
SO FAR: 1
Level 2
( ) been in love
( ) been dumped
( ) shoplifted
( ) been fired
( ) been in a fist fight
SO FAR: 1
Level 3
( ) snuck out of a parent's house
(x) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) been arrested
( ) made out with a stranger
( ) gone out on a blind date
SO FAR: 2
Level 4
(x) had a crush on an older person
(x) skipped school/period of class
( ) slept with a co-worker
( ) seen someone die
SO FAR: 4
Level 5
( ) had/have a crush on one of ur MYSPACE friends
(x) been to Paris
(x) been to Spain
(x) been on a plane
( ) thrown up from drinking
SO FAR: 7
Level 6
( ) eaten Sushi
( ) been snowboarding
( ) met someone BECAUSE of myspace
( ) been mosh pitting
SO FAR: 7
Level 7
( ) been in an abusive relationship
(x) taken pain killers
( ) love someone right now
(x) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) made a snow angel
SO FAR: 10
Level 8
(x)had a tea party
(x) flown a kite
(x) built a sand castle
(x) gone puddle jumping
(x) played dress up
SO FAR: 15
Level 9
(x) jumped into a pile of leaves
(x) gone sledding
(x) cheated while playing a game
(x) been lonely
(x) fallen asleep at work/school
SO FAR: 20
Level 10
( ) used a fake/someone else's ID
(x)watched the sun set
( ) felt an earthquake
( ) killed a snake
SO FAR: 21
Level 11
(x) been tickled
( ) been robbed
( ) robbed someone
(x) been misunderstood
( ) pet a reindeer
SO FAR: 23
Level 12
( ) won a contest
( ) been suspended from school
( ) had detention
(x) been in a car/motorcycle accident
SO FAR: 24
Level 13
(x) had/have braces
( ) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) had De Ja Vu
(x) danced in the moonlight
SO FAR: 27
Level 14
(x) hated the way you look
( ) witnessed a crime
( ) pole danced
(x) questioned your heart
(x) been obsessed with post-it notes
SO FAR: 30
Level 15
(x) squished barefoot through the mud
(x) been lost
(x) been to the opposite side of the world
(x) swam in the ocean
(x) felt like you were dying
SO FAR: 35
Level 16
(x) cried yourself to sleep
(x) played cops and robbers
(x) recently colored with crayons/colored pencils/markers
( ) sang karaoke
( ) paid for meal with only coins
SO FAR: 38
Level 17
(x) done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) made prank phone calls
( ) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
( ) kissed in the rain
SO FAR: 40
Level 18
(x) written a letter to Santa Claus
( ) been kissed under a mistletoe
(x) watched the sun set with someone you care/cared about
(x) blown bubbles
( ) made a bonfire on the beach
SO FAR: 43
Level 19
( ) crashed a party
(x) have traveled in a car for 2 days in a car full of people - - well it was a bus really
(x) gone rollerskating/blading
(x) had a wish come true
( ) humped a monkey
SO FAR: 46
Level 20
(x) worn pearls
( ) jumped off a bridge
( ) screamed "penis" in class
( ) swam with dolphins
SO FAR: 47
Level 22
( ) got your tongue stuck to a pole/freezer/ice cube
( )kissed a fish
(x)worn the opposite sexes clothes
(x) Sat on a roof top
SO FAR: 49
Level 23
(x) screamed at the top of your lungs
(x)done/attempted a one-handed cartwheel
( ) talked on the phone for more than 6 hours
(x) stayed up all night
SO FAR: 52
Level 24
(x) picked and ate an apple right off the tree
(x) climbed a tree
(x) had/been in a tree house
( ) watch scary movies alone
SO FAR: 55
Level 25
(x) believe in ghosts
( ) have/had more than 30 pairs of shoes
( ) gone streaking
( ) been in/visited jail
SO FAR: 56
Level 26
( ) played chicken
( ) been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
( ) been told you're hot by a complete stranger
( ) broken a bone
(x) been easily amused
SO FAR: 57
Level 27
( ) caught a fish then ate it
( ) made a porn video
( ) caught a butterfly
(x) laughed so hard you cried
(x) cried so hard you laughed
SO FAR: 59
Level 28
( ) mooned/flashed someone
( ) had someone moon/flash you
(x) cheated on a test
(x) forgotten someone's name
( ) slept naked
(x) French braided someones hair
( )gone skinny dippin in a pool
( ) been kicked out of your house
SO FAR: 62
Level 30
(x) Rode a roller coaster
(x) went scuba-diving/snorkeling
(x) had a cavity
SO FAR: 65
Level 31
( ) Been used
(x) fell going up the stairs
( ) licked a cat
(x) bitten someone
(x) licked someone
SO FAR: 68
what a boring life i have lead. ah well
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July 25th, 2006 at 4:31pm] |
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97. Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you one tip for the future, sunscreen
would be it. The
long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the
rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my
own meandering
experience... I will dispense this advice now
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh,
nevermind, you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until
they've faded. But trust
me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself
and recall in a way
you can't grasp now, how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous
you really looked. You are NOT as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that
worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by
chewing bubblegum. The
real toubles in life are apt to be things that never
crossed your worried
mind; the kind the blindside you at 4pm on some idle
Tuesday
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. Don't
put up with people who
are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're
ahead, sometimes you're
behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with
yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the
insults. If you suceed in doing
this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank
statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do
with your life.
the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22
what they wanted to do
with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still
don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're
gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll
have children, maybe you
won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40. Maybe you'll dance
the funky chicken on
your 75th wedding anniversary.... Whatever you do,
don't congratulate
yourself too much or berate yourself either - your
choices are half chance,
so are everybody else's
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can... don't be
afraid of it, or what
other people think of it... it's the greatest instrument
you'll ever own.
Dance... even if you have nowhere else to do it but in
your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines they will only make
you feel UGLY.
CHORUS
Brother and sister together we'll make it through.
Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there.
I know you've been hurting, but I've been waiting to be there for you.
And I'll be there just helping you out whenever I can.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they
might be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings; They're your best link to your
past, and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future
Understand that friends come and go, except for the
precious few you should
hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography
and lifestyle because the
older you get, the more you need the people you knew
when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes
you hard. Live in
Northern California once, but, leave before it makes
you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths. Prices will rise,
Politicians will
philander, you too will get old. And when you do, you'll
fantasize that when
you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians
were noble, and children
respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe
you'll have a trust fund,
maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never
know when either one might
run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're
40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with
those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia; dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past
from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly
parts, and
recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
Everybody's free. Everybody's free
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