ZDM (The Kylie!)

I have a car. My Daihatsu. I love my Daihatsu. I take good care of it and it works like a charm.

I live in an area with a bus around the corner and two train lines. In addition, I am going to Japan in March. I don't really need a car, so I have been thinking about going carless.

However, my Dad has been wanting to give me his spare car as a gift. It looks like I may get it in two weeks. This means I will have two cars. He wants me to sell my Daihatsu and drive his car. When I go to Japan he wants me to keep the car at his place while I am away. Selling the gift would be a pretty poor thing to do.

But I think I prefer my car? And I'm not even sure if I want to maintain one car, let alone two. What do I do?

I don't know what the point of this post is really. No hidden message or deeper meaning except to share my experiences of the people who want money on Brunswick St.

There's a guy who sells the Big Issue in front of the train station. I bought the Big Issue once and didn't really like it, so I prefer just to give them money. That way they can still sell that magazine to someone else. At least they're trying to work for it.

The guy in front of the train station has hugged me on both occasions that I have given him money. Coupled with a kiss on the cheek too. Now I don't know about you, but that makes me a little uncomfortable. And I can't always give him money, nor do I want him to think that I always will. However there he was today, smiling, blocking my path to food up the street. What do I do? I avoid him, walking the long way around the block.

In a hilarious twist of timing, by the time I walk around the entire block to avoid confrontation, he is no longer there, having just walked away from his post. I could have walked freely through.

Almost reaching my destination, I hear a busker. He is taking a lot of liberty with his versions of the songs, but he is playing Desperado - The Eagles. My Dad loves that song, it is his favourite, and being close to my Dad, the song is close to me as well. I stop and listen. After the song I go up to the busker and start very small conversation with him. I ask him if he would like me to buy him a burger. He says yes. I buy a burger meal from McDonalds and give him the burger, keeping the chips and Coke for myself.

I ask if I can sit down next to him, and we begin eating. I start chatting with him. He isn't very coherent. He is currently unemployed. We watch the people walk past as I tell him I'll soon be leaving the country. And I'll miss this place. Suddenly he stands up and starts vomiting into his hand. I ask him if he is okay, and he manages to reply that he swallowed the wrong way. He staggers away from me as he vomits on the floor next to his set-up. I run over to McDonalds, grab some napkins and come back. He cleans himself up and moves his set-up away from the vomit. No need to worry, the pigeons immediately descend and get straight to work cleaning up the mess. My busker friend starts playing again while I continue to eat my chips. After his next song I say I must be on my way and we part. "Bye Kylie", he says.

On my way back to work, I look to see if the path is clear. It is. For about a second. I see the Big Issue guy walking back to his post, and suddenly he is there, blocking the path. I divert again and walk the long way around the block to avoid his smile.

I get to the front of my work, and am about to walk in when a lady on the chair calls something out to me. I think she is asking for money, but I can't quite here her. Not wanting to be rude, I ask her to repeat herself. She is so incoherent that I have to ask several times and get rather close to realise she is saying "you have a familiar face". I say I have been around the area for a while. It is difficult to understand her, but she tells me that she knows a lot of people at my work, that she used to do that kind of work (as a barperson) but an injury to her leg stopped her. She shows me her foot is wrapped in bandages. She tells me she can't pay the landlord, that she needs $50. Silence.

She tells me the other guys would give her the money like that. She shows me the injury and says she'll be kicked out and that the other people at my work wouldn't say no and force her to live on the street. Can I give her $30? The other people who ask for money are wankers, she says. But she isn't. How about $20? I said I didn't have that kind of cash on me. She says I can get some out. I said I don't give money to people I don't know. She says "look at my injury no one else would force me to live on the street and if I don't have the money I'll gete kicked out tomorrow". Meanwhile the Big Issue guy only 20 meters away that I've been trying to avoid has seen us and is watching with his smile.

I figured there was no point trying to defend with the "I have no money" because there was every chance I had more money than this lady, so that wasn't a defense. I just hated feeling like I was the sole person responsible for her plight. Eventually another strange looking fellow came up and recognised this lady and started chatting. He realised she was trying to get money from me, I looked at him and said "You never know unless you try, right?" and with their conversation beginning I excused myself. I was now way behind the work schedule I had set myself.

I sat at my work desk and thought about the situation that happened just outside. I had felt so good about being kind to someone else only to feel like crap for not giving more money away at someones request. That horrible feeling turned to frustration when I came to the conclusion that trying to be nice and stopping to listen made me feel worse than what I would have felt if I had simply walked throuogh with a quick "sorry".

What's the deal? I don't want to change the kind of person I am in this regard, but how can I give my time and consideration to people without feeling hell guilty when I refuse to give them my money as well?

My university marks for this semester got released today. Basically, GPA of 6.

In a strange twist of events, this consisted of two Credits and two High Distinctions.

Doing the math... this means that not only did I get less than 73% on my Law exam, but somehow I also managed to get over 95% in my latest Business assignment. How that happened, I don't think I will ever know. I thought I would get a Distinction in both subjects by doing okay in the last assessment for both of them... wasn't expecting to do both incredibly well and incredibly bad. How bipolar.

A GPA of 6 is okay. Average. Really. I was sitting on an overall GPA of 6.04, now it is 6.03. So pretty standard. At least it didn't go down lower.

Next stop, Japan. The flight has been booked for the 30th of March. I have 5 months to organise my affairs, (and also sort out my stuff :P).

The following will become available at minimum for 6 months from the end of March to the end of September, although since I could be returning to Australia even later, extensions can be easily accommodated for.

* 1 x Room. At Windsor, it's the same room I first moved into and had my tiny room warming in. I am not in there anymore but still use it, however while in Japan that room will be free.
Bus stop 8 houses away going directly into Brisbane/Valley
Windsor train station and Albion train station a nice 10/15 minute walk away
Awesome housemates that I have never had an issue with
Two separate power points, large window
$95/week plus bond
Six months from end of March/beginning of April until September/extension possible.

* 1 x Car. 1992 Daihatsu Charade
My car, got it checked by two separate mechanics before I bought it, got it serviced by mechanics after purchase, and get it regularly serviced every six months. Even bought the major service (100,000km service) recently just to look after it. I know nothing about cars and don't pretend to, so regular servicing keeps it running great. Had been sitting for a while before I bought it so it had a few minor service issues, now it is fine. It has done less than 115,000kms, which is amazing for a car this age. I don't drive it often.
RACQ club care
CTP insurance
fire and theft insurance
Don't know what to do with it, but there will be a period of six months where I will not need it. Either sell or lease. Lease would require bond in case of damage, refundable upon return of the car. Not sure what to do about it, will think about it, but register your interest if you could use a good cheap vehicle from a reliable source.

So if you think you could use a room or a car from March onwards, write a comment and I will keep you in mind. Details will be progressively sorted over the next period of time as we get closer and closer to Japan.

So I finished my second last exam and came home to get an email from the Tax Office:

An official letter of employment.

And the pay has increased to over $51,000.

This is really hard to say no to.


But tomorrow I will be taking my last exam in Australia, then having a small break before I fly to Japan on a scholarship to complete my degree.

Of course there is always the option of declining the scholarship and taking the job...

Sometimes when I'm studying accounting, business or law, I think "Man I am so over it".

Now I just have to remind myself "46 more hours and I never have to do this again".

This is a secret that I'm posting in public realm of the internet for the delight of my enemies and the inquisitiveness of my friends.

NOTE: This only applies to posts I make where there is a reasonable possibility of one of the replies being a verbal attack.

I always leave my journal open for everyone to access and everyone to comment (yes even anonymous people), yet I fear it when they use that privilege to verbally attack me personally.

Whenever I complain about someone I feel like I am playing with fire.

( under a cut because I've spammed too much today )
The downside of leaving my journal open to criticism is that sometimes I get it in very heavy doses. It hurts a fair bit but I allow it out of principle, blocking them would not allow me to be truly accountable for my point of view.

It's hard to lead a life that avoids controversy.

One of my friends who I have known for many years recently added me to her new journal. I added her back. She's my age, and I felt an affinity toward her. She would be a beautiful wonderful lady if she didn't have such low self confidence. Her sensitivity makes her defensive towards many people and in the years past she has lost friends because she's taken comments the wrong way and reacted by attacking the friend who said it. Ultimately she cut ties with nearly everyone, but it never had to be that way. It almost happened to me too a few years ago, except when she contacted me about my comment I said everything I could to make her feel better.

Over the years I've helped her through fallouts with past lovers, I sewed a body suit for her, she made me a glomp card (redeemable for 25 glomps), and I dealt with the good parts as well as the immaturity because in my eyes I saw girl who just didn't have much belief in herself. Because of the way she was, she didn't have many friends. So even though we didn't speak much, I stayed by.

In her posts she shares usual livejournal things... life, love, fears. She often talks about how insecure she is feeling and how unconfident she feels about herself and relationships.
In her latest entry, http://littlebubblegum.livejournal.com/ she wrote a particularly strong entry on her low self confidence and how she feels like crap and feels she can't do anything right. No one had posted a comment, in fact most of her journal entries had gone ignored. I wanted to help.

I can't remember it word for word since it's been deleted, but it was the typical "live for yourself, don't be afraid to show people who you are, so they can accept the real you, don't feel like you have to hide yourself to please others..." it was a very long post and I put a lot of effort into it. In fact my comment was longer than her entry!

I returned to find my comment deleted and not only have I been removed from the friends list, but I've also been banned from commenting in the journal. Okay. She has had spats like this before, sometimes she recovers, sometimes she loses friends. I sent her an email to see if I could find out more.

"I thought we were friends.
I put so much effort into that comment because I care about you.
I don't understand why you deleted my comment then banned me from the journal.
I mean, ouch.
~ Kylie"

I got a reply.

"1. YOU havent spoken to me for over lets see since 2005,
2. You do not know ANYTHING about me or anything about my life since you havent spoke to me since 2005
3. I NEVER asked for your opinion or comment or advice, my journal is an journal and brett and my close friends read it
4. Your comment meant nothing, because considering point 1, 2 and 3

Your comment was way too much to read as well and basically i dont care for peopel telling me i need to LIVE MY LIFE..HAHAHAHA...you think you know me and what i have gone through. HAHAHAHA!!! know you dont all you probably know i was a cosplayer...I dont ask for your help nor accept your help. I do live my life. To me living life is not letting chances pass you By. AND I DONT...that was your biggest mistake in your first couple of setences and once i read those sentences it wans't worth my time and people who read your comment from my facebook... and SAID she doesn't have a clue about you and pay no notice to you. So i did

BASICALLY get over it, i am over it. I am not letting someone push me around saying i need to live my life WHEN you dont know me, or understand or accept me. I dont care if you judge me or think crap. JUST makes me laugh even more harder when people who dont even know me, give me adivce and PRETEND they understand.

PLEASE, do not contact me ever again, i am very happy living my life, my lfie is perfect and I am very happy even if i do not have love in my life. My journal is to rant and complain and normally i get over ti soon as i type it. WHICH was written in the very very first post i EVER MADE!! and fi you KNEW me then you would of known i am like that

PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME HERE OR LJ OR ANYWHERE ever again.

HAVE a lovely day
~J e s s i e "

1. Yes we're not as close as we used to be but we still kept in touch via livejournal, which is why you added me, I assume.
2. I know you through what you write in livejournal, it's all I have to go by. That's why in my comment I said "it sounds like". I'm totally okay with the possibility of getting things wrong sometimes.
3. You didn't ask for my opinion but in livejournal it's normal to be able to write a comment. In your journal there is an option to not allow comments if it is something you feel strongly about.
4. If you believe my comment means nothing to you, then you are right.

I'm glad to hear that she is happy, that's great. But so much for trying to be understanding. I'll think twice before putting so much effort into a long comment that was actually meant to show support to someone who had pushed many friends away in the past through her actions. I'll respect her wish not to contact her again, just... damn.

My last post was a huge rant. Let's see if I can summarise for the time-savvy.

Recently I applied for both a job and a scholarship. I got both, the government graduate job at the Australian Taxation Office, and the Endeavour Scholarship to finish my degree in Japan.

I chose Japan.

The ATO won't defer for six months, so I've found another job to apply for, and another scholarship... which... if I get both AGAIN, I'll have to choose again! Argh! Same dilemma as what I JUST HAD!

But I don't think that will happen this time. The job in question pays more, is harder and much more difficult to get into than the ATO. And so is the scholarship, so I doubt I'll get both, I may not even get one!

The scholarship the Prime Minister's Asia Australia Endeavour Award. It's worth over $40,000 and I'll be competing against students from all around Australia! It's a big deal, and if I get it, it means I'll be completing Honours in Hong Kong (or another Asian country that I choose)!

It's impossible to apply directly to the government, you can only apply through your university, and the university selects their winners and sends them through to the government. My university arranged a teleconferencing interview with me and I thought I blew it! But I got a call half an hour later, saying that I did really well, and if I was still interested, they would like to nominate me to represent their university.

So now I go through to the government final round, and face off against all the other crazily wonderful students from the universities around Australia. Scary! They announce the winners on the 6th of November, and on the 24th it's down to Canberra for a dinner and presentation.

So... I'm going to Japan.
Afterwards, if I get the Prime Minister's Asia Australia Endeavour Award, I go to Hong Kong.
If I get this next job, I go to Canberra!
If I get both the job AND the scholarship, I'll have to choose again!

Either way... it means I won't be in Brisbane for at least a year and a half... unless I get neither (which is also entirely possible)

Just, these options are spinning me out. Back when the ATO was the best option I was happily looking forward to working in Brisbane over the next several years, and suddenly I'm looking at living in Japan/Canberra, Japan/Hong Kong.

Brisbane, I *like* you!

Thanks for all the congratulations. It's pretty exciting.

Sorry about the following rant. I really want to get my current life situation off my chest. Lots of excitement regarding scholarships and jobs and getting both but having to choose one! Argh!
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I'M GOING TO JAPAN!

After much deliberation, it's finally official and I can spread the word.

I got the Endeavour Award scholarship!

Free tuition, free accommodation (depending on the university), and $5,000 - $10,000 in cash to finish my degree in Japan! I'm looking at finishing my degree in Sendai, a nice place to live, two hours away from Tokyo, highly recommended by those who have been there.

I have also been offered the government graduate position with the Australian Taxation Office. Unfortunately it starts the same time I would be finishing my degree in Japan... so I can only choose one...

All I have to do is give them my final answers to make it all official. It's all they're waiting on now.

Yesterday I got a call from the Australian Taxation Office.

They asked me if I was still interested in the job. I said yes, of course.

They stressed that the phone call wasn't an offer of employment, that they would now proceed with security checks etc, and if they passed, I would get an email in a few weeks.

That email will be an offer of employment.

Excitement!


Unfortunate then that I may have to turn it down even if I do get it...

Okay so they're not going to make their decisions until the END of August... didn't stop me from hoping against hope that I'd hear from them today.

Haven't heard from the ATO about whether I got the graduate job.
Haven't heard from the Japanese scholarship people yet.
Haven't heard from the Immigration department yet.

I know I have to wait until the end of August, but it's so hard! I can't focus on anything except for checking my email!

I'm really shitty at a certain CEO of a certain exhibition for making me feel really used and screwed around.
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EXCITING FUTURE NEWS!

I keep checking my emails, hoping that certain people will have gotten back to me with THEIR ANSWERS... This is the final week!!!!

I have been doing my double degree; Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Accounting, majoring in Commercial and Taxation Law, since the beginning of 2007. I am in the second-last semester now, and my last semester is just three electives. Soon my life as a student will be over, but I'm waiting for the answers to what will happen from there!

I have applied for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, I got all the way to the final stage, and they will start making offers on the 27th of August.

I have also applied for the Australian Taxation Office 2010 Graduate Program (which has a higher rate of pay and specialised training program), and they will be making their final decision by the end of August.

The Australian Jugger League is holding their Annual General Meeting on the 29th of August. As far as I am aware I have been nominated to be Treasurer, but I won't know until that date...

And finally, I have applied for a Scholarship to finish my degree in Japan. It's free tuition, free accommodation in some cases, AND $5,000 - $10,000 in cash for my last semester. And they'll have their decision made... within the week.

And so I have been holding my breath, ladies and gentlemen. Checking my email accounts hoping that they will make their decisions a week early. However it is after 5pm on a Friday, and come Monday I will be waiting my final week. I will know all of these things by the end of August!!!!

I wonder who will say yes, and who will say no?

I get my Commonwealth Scholarship money on the last day of August... so come the 1st of September I'll either be celebrating or drowning my sorrows...

...counting down the days...

Two weekends ago I went to SMASH!

SMASH is an anime/manga convention in Sydney. Quite small but really up-and-coming. Has a lot of things going for it, I think.

I stayed in a hotel with Zerabin and floatyman. I enjoyed the trip, I did.

I went there because I had been requested to bring down Cosplay Snap, the photography thing that I do. For those who don't know, it's effectively a portable photography studio, set up as a booth at conventions where people (mostly cosplayers) can have really good photos taken. It started when I was 18 and dis-enchanted with the photos I got of my first cosplay at Supanova in 2004 (Lenne from FFX2 for the curious).

When I first started Cosplay Snap I actually lost a lot of money, but I didn't mind because I enjoyed it so much. I was making many people happy; they loved the great photographs they got, which I printed on the spot. Over the years I've introduced DVD's and digital copies, and it's grown into a four-year endeavor that not only works in Brisbane but Sydney as well, with requests for further conventions.

At SMASH this year, cosplays and Cosplay Snap reached a new personal best. The cosplays I saw were more numerous and at a much higher standard than I've personally experienced, our photographer had the most experience and also took the best photos I have ever seen, Cosplay Snap had better displays, our mailouts have been the quickest ever and the cosplayers have never been happier.

But for some strange reason... I didn't enjoy it the same way that I used to. In fact... I'm not sure if I gained much from it at all.

I used to be able to identify with the crowd... on a personal level, being the crazy manic anime fan that I was, I was always smiling and bouncing around and that energy was returned by other people. It was great fun in the same way that your family might be really poor but what the heck you'll still have fun rolling around in the mud.

I did enjoy making people happy and I was very glad our standard had reached another personal best, but my energy... the part that mattered most, was lacking.

Over the years I have always asked if I would run Cosplay Snap again. It is a lot of hard work, it is not financially rewarding, and I'm not a good photographer, I just give budding photographers the chance to gain experience with equipment I provide for them, and I give cosplayers photographs that they love. Ultimately, the reason I kept coming back was for the love. My photographers were happy, the cosplayers were happy, and that made me happy. All I wanted to do was give them good photos and fix the problems I had faced in 2004. I felt so strongly about that, I could personally relate to those people I really wanted to do this for. But at SMASH, I could hardly recognise more than three costumes that weekend. The group of cosplayers opposite me that were chatting happily away... a few years ago I would have joined them. Things have changed.

I don't know what to do. I came back from Sydney satisfied that I had worked hard, but I had a deep realisation that disappointed me... the most important thing to me... the love... had been fading. Despite emails from cosplayers telling me they loved the photos, and multiple requests to appear at other cons... normally this was all I needed to do it again. It was the driving force.

Now it might be time to hand it over to someone who could gain a lot of experience from running a booth. I've gained a lot from it, and will likely be moving on soon, but this is a beast that has a lot to offer. I'm thinking about selling it, and the intellectual property attached, to see what someone else would do with the same opportunity.

Just got an email from one of my course lecturers casually talking about the upcoming exams as the semester is now half-way through.

Holy crap. The semester is now half-way through and my study guides are still bound by the elastic bands they were sent through the post in!

I have three assignments due in the next 7 days, one worth 20%, one worth 30%, and one worth a massive 50%. Of course I haven't started on these or opened my books.

Again, I have no one to blame but myself. And I was foolishly thinking I'd be on top of things this semester and maybe get straight 7's!

Ahhh... time to roll up the sleeves, spit on my hands and get to work...

EDIT: I do have posts planned for the future... I specifically want to post about SMASH which was on last weekend, and then I want to post about EXCITING FUTURE NEWS! But that will have to wait for the moment...

After talking to many people over the years, it seems it's pretty cool to be different from the norm, to scorn "normal" people and to hate people and society. It comes up a lot in conversations.

Well, stuff it. I'm going to be optimistic, normal and nice.

Is that stance becoming an increasingly rare view? It's very easy to find people who are readily willing to complain about society, people, 'normal people', and how people are bastards, and well, they just act like bastards too to keep the real bastards at bay, and if you're a real friend you'll dig deeper, right?

Sure. But I'm finding very few people will stick up for the view that is often denounced as the 'normal' view...
The view that "Well heck, I'm not going to be a bastard. Our society is pretty cool. I'm fine with people being normal just as much as I'm fine with people not being normal, and you know what? I'm just going to be NICE."

Interesting point: I've had a lot of people be nasty to me at various points in the past... but generally we've recovered and become good friends afterwards... and I attribute that to forgiveness, giving people a chance, not being too phased by people making mistakes or getting angry, and not insisting on being a bastard back. What do you know, being nice, it actually works.

I just woke up, so to expect me to be coherent would be to expect too much :)

I'm going to Sydney in just a few hours. Will be staying with Bryan and Luke, yay affordable accommodation in Sydney. Although since I get in earlier I'm going to have to get a room for myself for Thursday. Blah.

The ATO called saying that they need more proof that I'm an Australian citizen. Yes I was born in Australia, no I've never left the country, but because I was born after 1986 (I'm 1987, curses!) I also had to prove that at least one of my parents was either a citizen or permanent resident at the time of my birth. Neither were citizens, and only Mum has documentation, but it's her fathers documentation and it's 40 years old so no one really recognises it except for the Immigration Department.

I went in to the Immigration Department and asked them to communicate with the ATO to tell them that this document proves my mother was a permanent resident, but even though they knew it, they wanted me to pay $100 for them to tell the ATO. Jesus. I didn't pay it. Instead I'm applying for proof of Australian citizenship, which needs someone to verify my identity who is an Australian citizen and has known me for 12 months. I know HEAPS of people, but there's also a list of occupations that they have to be... and NO ONE fits under them! I managed to think of someone in the end, but it was hard.

Also had an assignment due on the 4th... so of course... on the 3rd my laptop decides to die. No matter... a new part only costs over $100 :( There goes the Immigration Department's money anyway. Managed to get my assignment in but I had already asked for an extension because we lost our internet a few weeks ago and that had really put me behind schedule (I'm an external student with a reliance on internet) and so my laptop dying with my assignment on it, the day before it was due, really sucked. Urgh.

Have also had people wanting meetings with me... had to cancel one with a CEO (but he canceled on me first, I didn't promise anything on the re-schedule, only that it might be possible, as I was flying to Sydney the next day) and I also had one at the Globe. More happenings, but they'll come up at the next General Meeting.

Have been running around like a headless chicken trying to do a million things in between... e.g. I met the person who verified my identity for the proof of citizenship, then sorted out Sydney photography equipment on the way to the Immigration Department (to hand in my documentation), and as I waited in line, I realised I'd forgotten to post my assignment and it was due TODAY. Instead of going straight to my meeting as planned, I raced home to print it out. Of course as I go to print my assignment 15 minutes before my meeting starts, the ink runs out and my assignment won't print. Que trip to Officeworks, back again, print out and take it WITH ME to the meeting, where I spend the first 30 minutes writing details, eating and drinking as I also hadn't eaten anything all day. Then the meeting starts and after a few issues it finishes a few hours later. I'm leaving for Sydney tomorrow and I still haven't packed! Race home, GAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...

Oh and I'm applying for a Japanese scholarship! If I get it, it means free tuition, free accommodation (depending on where I want to go), and $5,000 in scholarship money, possibly $10,000. It means that instead of finishing my degree this summer semester, I'll finish it in Term One of 2010, but I'll be finishing my degree in Japan if I get it, so I think that's a fair trade off. Might finally be able to properly learn the dastardly language...
Apparently I've got one of the highest GPA's of anyone who's applied so far so here's hoping I'm in with a chance. The application was actually due on the 31st, but forgive me I only found out on the 31st and they're allowing me a few extra days :)

I wonder which path I'll take when I reach the crossroads in the last semester of my degree and beyond. Will I get the ATO or the Immigration Department's graduate job and start full-time work on a decent wage? Will I get this scholarship and finish my degree in Japan? I just found another scholarship worth $40,000 that I'll be applying for. I don't even know if I'll be successful yet... maybe I will be successful in all these applications and I will have to choose. Maybe I will get none of them, and life will go on. Other options include continuing with honours (which is likely if I get the $40,000), or even Masters. Or education of some kind, even if it's CA/CPA. Or even applying for jobs that aren't graduate positions... my experience now is at the level where I stand a chance in the real market place.

However, these crossroads are only a few months away, and fast approaching. I wonder what they'll bring :) The wait is actually rather exciting :)


~ Kylie out :)

Anyone who has ever been to university or is going at the moment, particularly full-time and particularly on campus. I has a question.

Say you take a full-time course load, typically four subjects. How often do you have to attend classes at an actual campus? (I'm an external student so I don't know)

And how long do these classes typically go for? 90 minutes?

So say you're studying Class A, Class B, Class C, and Class D... what's the typical number of times you're required to go to university to study for one class? How long is the typical lesson?

Expected answer is something along the lines of "Class A happens three times a week, 90 minutes a piece". Same for the other classes. Just trying to gauge it.

...trying to figure out what the full-time equivalent for studying in Japan, each course over there is only worth 2 credit points... trying to gauge a reasonable study load...

Turns out people might actually check out your livejournal if you leave enough interesting comments on a popular comments page like livejournals 'news'.

Apparently I suck and didn't see that coming. No, really.

So. Erm. *shuffles feet* Hello! I'm Kylie. I'm strange, and also a 22 year old accountant-to-be.

I giggle at performing mathematical standard deviations, celebrate half birthdays, and know pi to 50 digits. I also take pride in being horrendously lame. It's easy!

I suck at posting on livejournal although I've been here for several years... basic posts nowadays are just sub-interesting facts and a bit of local spam for things I like. (Do you like Dr. Horrible? I like Dr. Horrible).

I also am a fan of anime who has gone back into the closet. I sometimes brag about achievements. I apologise (not apologize, I am Australian).

I like wasting time in horrible ways that are at odds with what my priorities should be. This results in me reading 5 pages of comments and adding a few myself. Oh god I still don't understand why you came here.

Anyway that is as much of an introduction I can think of right now, and well, it will probably also serve to help remind my friends who the heck I am. I should probably post more often. :)