Exams are over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Officially half way through a Civil Engineering degree........alright!

Howard vs Rudd Rap Battle

Yes, he is a contender. K-Rudd and J-Gil all the way.

Feist....1, 2, 3, 4

Awesome song, cool clip...too bad ipod have ruined some of its appeal. Still very cool though

How my parents came to be my parents!

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Union Ball 07

Annual college ball was held last weekend at the Sofitel. Awesome night! Champagne...Food...Champagne...Dancing....Turned out to be a fantastic night and all in all a pretty good weekend.

Escher FTW

Lego + Escher = Cool :P

Go Miss South Carolina!!!

REPRESENT!!!

The Sartorialist: A VERY cool blog!!!

This is a hugely popular blog. It's basically just a fashion photographer that takes pictures of supposedly "real people" around the world with STYLE. Just so happens they all look like models, so don't know about the "real people" thing but meh, it's all about the clothes!!!

http://www.thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

Smart Chicks

Got to go to the "Smart Women, Smart State Awards" for 2007 last night. The awards recognise women in Science, Engineering and Information and Communication Technology. Heaps of awards were given out to students and business people. Nominees were from all over the state. There were a fair few from FNQ and some of the projects that women received awards for are stuff we are doing in uni at the moment...Ross River Dam in Townsville, etc.

It was held at the State Library which is an amazing venue. So overall it was a pretty interesting night!

The perfect excuse for a sickie

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My Podcast #1

Gabcast! My Podcast #1

Miniball 07

One of the funnest nights of the year on the Union College social calendar. It's pretty much just a "dress up as anything" night. Check out my "Queen of Hearts" costume. That was some serious hours of poking needles into my fingers...but happy with it in the end. Other people went as Men in Tights, Male Netballers (compliments of our college netball dresses), soccer hooligans (just an excuse to be rowdy) and heaps of other stuff I won't mention here.
We had the whole top floor of The Fox to ourselves. Pretty cool venue, with the sides opened up so we could all get rowdy...as that is what collegians do best!

Origin 3 and Broncos-Titans

Went to my first Origin match this year. Origin 1 with college friends then my family flew down for Game 3. Game 1 was awesome. First time I've ever been to Suncorp Stadium aswell...as a civil engineering kid at heart I was pretty amazed by it. Went to a Broncos-Titans match aswell, golden point win. Pretty exciting!

Sunday, Bloody Sunday: Mr Bush does a great job of this classic ("Let's roll", 1:22min, funniest line of the clip, just cracks me up)

Willy Mason: We can be strong (a beautiful song, fantastic chorus and no, it is not the footballer Willie Mason)

This song gets anyone in the best mood! Awesome clip too (piece of advice: don't learn the words, way funner to yell incohesive noises to the music)

Had to put this one in (now Engineers don't make mistakes like this one)

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Explosm.net: These guys are twisted, alot of funny and not so funny comics. Some are in really bad taste, some are morbid, but most are pretty good

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Hay Point Coal Terminal

One of the most interesting parts of the road trip was visiting the Hay Point Coal Terminal, 38km south of Mackay. It was constructed around 1970 and had undergone many expansions over the years. What goes on there?? Well coal is transported from mines to the terminal, where it is stacked in stockpiles before being loaded onto ships...the coal then goes all over the world. It is one of Australia's largest and most efficient coal receival and export facilities.

The average cargo of each ship is 93,000t!!! Ships are loaded at 2 different loading berths; one with a capacity to load 6,000 tonnes per hour!! Shows just how big the coal industry really is in Australia.

Check out these sites for some more simple info if you're interested:
http://www.bmacoal.com/opencms/export/sites/bccom/operations/HayPoint/

http://www.bhpbilliton.com/bbContentRepository/Presentations/HPTPortPresentation+Analystpres12June02.pdf

Coast trip!

Ok. I've posted some pics of home. What alot of people don't realise is just how far away far North QLD is (and i mean FAR) from Brisbane. So at the end of the summer holidays I agreed to test it. A friend and I packed up his good old 1990 Corolla (it's a BEAST!) and tested the theory of just how far it really is. Drove all the way down the coast from just north of Cairns right into the heart of Brisbane...yes all 1700kms of it.

Stopped to check out heaps of places like Cardwell, Airlie Beach (schoolies haunt for north QLD kids), Mackay, Bundaberg, Gin Gin (and had the best steak ever), Tin Can Bay, Rainbow Beach and finally.........BRISBANE!

Was actually a pretty cool road trip coz I've never done the whole coast before. Saw some interesting parts of Australia...and some not so interesting (trees, trees, dirt, trees, dirt...). All in all, a great road trip. Think I'll make a kind donation to Jetstar next time I want to head back up north though :)

HOORAY! It worked

Ok. 2nd try

Oops

Ok. That is not what i wanted to post. haha. I'm gonna give it another go.

Snapper Island, just off Newell Beach

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More About Me

I’ve grown up in far North Queensland and now live in Brisbane while I’m completing my degree. When not doing uni stuff I enjoy shopping (yes, even engineering chicks like shopping), going out dancing with college friends and heading up to FNQ to see family. At college I’m involved in organising social events like formal dinners and O-week; a very cool role.

Career/uni degree description: At university I go to classes that all relate to areas within the field of Civil Engineering. It’s a fairly heavy degree at times, but worth the challenge!