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From the sergeant's mouth

No, it's not me but from 3SG (NS) NYH. Just read his blog and all I can say is it's truly awesome and I seriously recommend it to students living overseas and on a budget (or who just want to be savvy with their spending). While his blog might be fresh and new and as such a little light on content his first two posts are rather brilliant. They cover his experimentations with his weekly food expenditure and I must say his research is rather thorough covering their weight, cost and nutritional value. Frankly speaking it's the most interesting thing (I mean it makes much more sense and is infinitely more useful than any of my ranting down here) I've read for a long time and I plan on implementing some of his lessons during the Easter break. You can get it here at http://yh89.wordpress.com. Good job NYH, I'm looking forward to more money saving tips from you!

Team HGF

Just a little something to wile my time away before I go to bed. Now team HGF hasn't been active for awhile now, but during our little jaunt on CoD 4 online today we still managed to wreck merry havoc and predictably top the charts. Now what is team HGF you might ask? Well it's a bunch of crazy asses with nothing better to do with their free time than to sit around LAN shops and busting peoples asses open no matter the game (except DotA, which frankly speaking is meant for people with the social life of a frog, about to be flung into a boiling vat of porridge, yum). From the prehistoric period of Counter-Strike to Battlefield 2, Dawn of War, Age of Empires 3, Command & Conquer Zero Hour and finally to the game which set our legend in stone, Call of Duty 4. We weren't fantastic when we started, but we learnt from every loss, every mistake (although sibu angkau's lack of improvement is still one of the wonders of the world) and finally managed to destroy the competition outright. I remember the days of the pitched battles where we fought tooth and nail (or keyboard and mouse) just to stay a kill ahead, the glorious and adrenaline packed victories by a scant kill or two, or the frustrating defeats by one foolish mistake at the last second. We learned, we adapted and we kicked ass, lots of it. But that's all in the past, eventually the thrill of the kill disappeared, the opposition drifted away as they felt their struggle futile and HGF was left unopposed. Hardly anyone plays CoD 4 at the cyber cafes now, for fear that a HGF personnel or two might be around to turn their hour or two of enjoyment into sheer misery. So finally we took our fight online expecting something of a challenge, we even busted ourselves back to level one, only to realise that we sorely overestimated the opposition. We topped the tables in out first online debut, our measly levels putting the rest of the level 55 players to shame. Our kills did not just overshadow them, it humiliated them, usually doubling the closest rival. And our deaths were much lower. HGF isn't made up of a bunch of solo operators, each member plays an important part (even angkau has one, he's the bait) and the failure of one could spell failure for all. Praise goes not to one, but to all. We have reached the peak, where no challenger could oppose us. And it's very lonely at the top.

Health Matters

OK here's the deal, for this module of mine, Workbased Industry Learning, my team member and I have got to go out and inflict ourselves on a group of very unfortunate brats (I think they're year 10 kids but brats all the same). But that's not the worse part, we've got to supervise them on their project of adolescent health, now that, is the worse part. I mean you know you're in trouble when you've got a business student giving you health tips (like ole' Sibu Angkau rousing me from an afternoon nap and asking me if Teflon is a plastic, which it is if anyone is interested). I mean I'm most certainly no paragon of virtue, I drink (a lot), I smoke (on occasion, and when I do I usually go through a pack) and I don't go to sleep early (not much of a choice in that matter, sleep tends to become very elusive once you enter uni). I do however try to eat as many fruits and vegetables as possible and to keep myself well hydrated. I mean the extent of my knowledge in adolescent health is to eat right, exercise right, don't drink, don't smoke and don't do drugs. So we've got a long overdue meet with the very elusive liaison from Boronia Heights High tomorrow (what a splendid way to spend my free day, like having your toilet back up while you're still sitting on it) where my team mate and I will grill the damn teacher for as much information as she can provide so that there won't be any spots in our report which we have to frakkin' hand up next Thursday. We will then meet those pesky kids on subsequent Friday's after the Easter holidays to supervise them on their work (and like that my free Friday just went up in smoke). All I can do now is hope to God that they that won't be an ill-disciplined and imbecilic rabble as their screw ups might be seen as my screw ups which would of course not do very much for my grades.