James Flores Bach and the pipe organ are my best friends

My 21st is still a while off (take a look at the countdown timer) but I was wondering what I could do to celebrate the occasion. Any ideas would be great, just leave a comment and I'll consider it. However, I'm thinking that a small backyard party with food and nice drinks would suffice - then headed off to town to finish the night off. What do you guys think?

First on the agenda is the short little trip Meg and Liz made to show Meg around Albury. It was good to see them since our family had Christmas lunch with them not too long ago. We ended up having lunch at the Zed Bar (old Globe Hotel). The meals were huge and relatively cheap. As usual, I have a happy snap of the occasion.

Also during this time, Krystee's brothers came down from Benalla to take a "holiday" from the place. I would be doing that as well since there's nothing much to see in Benalla - apart from the slogan "If you can't get to Paris, come to Benalla!" LOL. Anyway, they were down, we had some fun, went swimming, BBQ and the most important game of all - KINGS CUP! I was lucky enough not to get the cup but Alex and Sam did. We all came to the conclusion that he lost (haha).

Alex and Sam probably laughing at Zac

Krystee trying to squeeze in some homework ahahaha

January 26 is the biggest day of celebration in Australia. We celebrate the good stuff about Australia and being an Aussie of course! The holiday is observed in all states and territories in Australia. As it fell on a Saturday this year, Monday becomes the actual Australia Day public holiday instead. The best things about our country is the people, the land, our diversity, indigenous cultures, freedom and democracy and giving a "fair go" to all!

Even the Kangaroos get into the spirit!

Now that I've been on, let's say, an extended vacation...I've been sleeping a lot more - as expected. The funny thing is that I sleep before midnight more often now since I don't have any homework or assignments to do, which is a good thing I guess. You would expect the old saying "Early to bed, early to rise...". That doesn't generally happen with me though. I usually wake up so much later than I was meant to at uni. Now, last night, I went to bed at about 2:30am and I woke up at 9am! This had been my usual sleeping pattern back at uni so I guess it just kicked in. I don't feel tired at all as well! I think it's good to get up early, I hate waking up and realising that you've wasted half the day.

My neighbour is completing her uni course by distance so it got me thinking whether I should do further studies, part-time by distance ed. I was looking around and it seemed that only the University of New England had IT courses by distance. That's fine with me but a lot of postgrad courses are fee paying, not CSP supported (HECS stuff). With the few courses that are CSP supported, maybe I should look into it anyway?

If you haven't watched Summer Heights High, you are missing out my friends. Here are some of my favourite quotes:

Ja'mie - like Ashley, no offence but are u like from special ed or something?

(Ja'mie) There are so many ugly annoying asians at my school!
(Bec) But i'm asian
(Ja'mie) Yeah but you're hot asian

Mr G talking up his arena seating for the school musical.
"Normally you play to the front of the stage. With an arena, it's around. It's around everywhere.
(jumping about on stage)
I'm performing there, there, there, there".

Mr. G - we used to have bushes here, but a girl got raped behind them so we took them away, yep no more bushes...

Jonah and his mates on red heads...
"people are racist to us sir... so we can be racist to wrangers"
"but red heads aren't a race Jonah..."
"but sir there's heaps of em'... they're everywhere!"

Ja'mie - "Look at me Sebastian I'm f*cking hot! You could have had all of this!"

Polynesian Pathways Speaker: " You fuck up in school, you fuck up in life"

"Leon you dance with Ofa, she's a girl"
"Oh please sir she's fat! Please!"

Doug Peterson: Was it fun for Ben?
Jonah: Yes. He just didn’t get it that it was fun.

Ja’mie: I think what happens is, like, out in the outer suburbs, like, ugly people breed with other ugly people, right. So you end with really fugly kids. So that’s why you look around a public school and on average, like no offence, but people are more fugly. Whereas in a private school area, in a rich school area… (shut up, let me explain), in a rich area, like, hotter people breed with hot people and have hotter kids.

Ja’mie: It’s way less, like, povo than I thought it would be.

Ja’mie: I don’t want to brag, but, I think they would someone decent looking.

Ja’mie: Wife beaters and rapists are nearly all public-school educated. Sorry, no offence, but it’s true.

Mr G: I’m Director of Performing Arts – spread it.

I still get baffled every time I think about the northern and southern hemisphere of the world. Having never left the southern hemisphere, you get accustomed to the seasons and their corresponding months of the year. I have always seen Christmas time as a hot time of the year but you get a long summer break. Now since I was in the US, I was absolutely stunned to find out that their summer break was at the opposite time of year to Australia. I think it would be quite annoying to have such a short Christmas break for people in the northern hemisphere, but I guess that's just the way the world turns doesn't it?