Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg

At uni, it's week 9, so here's what happend....


In my house, we get a new point and shoot camera nearly every week.

Up until a month or so ago, I was using a Samsung Digimax A40 (I think). It's 3 years old and has 3 or 4 MP. The view finder screen thing was VERY clear. I liked it. Only problem, you couldn't change any settings (well, I couldn't find a way to)

Then I used 4 other cameras and they all annoyed me for various reasons.

• The screens were pixely and noisy
  
• One didn't have an 'on button'...instead there was an 'on wheel'
  
• Too big and if it could talk this particular camera would say 'Hi, I'm Cameron the camera. I'm a point and shoot but in my dreams, I'm a DSLR'
  
• One kept grizzling that it was flat
  
• One had a 'shield' thing over the lens, that you had to slide across when you wanted to take a photo.
  

For the past few days I have been using a Kodak M1033 HD(but mine is black) for a while. It looks better than all the others...but it's kind of weird. However, I am able to change the settings such as exposure times and other stuff that only people who know lots about cameras can explain. So, lets see if this one annoys me too.

Some photos (these are not here to show you how good/bad the camera is...because I only worked out how to make it take GOOD pictures 5 minutes ago)


The Hoff lives in a car in my driveway


Water is precious in Australia. You're only allowed a shower once every two weeks


It's everyone's favourite friend/sheep/crime fighter/celebrity chef...INTERSHEEP!


Please put your gum into the bin!!

Smelly guy:
Yesterday a guy with an extreme case of BODY ODOUR sat next to me in the computer pool. It was HORRIBLE! I was going to move, but there were no other free computers Come on, get yourself some anti perspirant!

Echidna
I went walking yesterday and saw an echidna. I didn't have a camera This echidna has a camera though...and a better one than mine!

FREE icecream
Miss D and I went to McDonalds yesterday afternoon for icecream. The staff made an icecream for someone in the drive though, but the customer didn't want it. The girl asked me if I wanted it. YESSSS! So, I got a free icecream

That's all for today my friends.

The Royal Adelaide Show is a big fair. It goes for about a week every September and thousands of people go to it. There are rides, games, cake decorating, art competitions, cooking competitions, animal competitions (chickens, sheep, cows, dogs) etc. You have to pay to get in, pay for food, pay for the rides, pay for showbags etc. Some idiots spend $500 for just one day at the show!!

What is a showbag? Showbags are promotional material by large companies. For example, $10 will buy you a Cadbury Chocolate showbag, which will contain a range of Cadbury chocolates. They were once free, but the companies worked out that people would actually pay for them.

Carcase competition: This competition involves high school children looking after a cow (one of those big ones for meat...I don't know what you call them) for however long it takes a cow to grow up. The judges judge all the cows when they are alive. The next day, all the cows go on a drive up the freeway to the slaughter house, are killed and then they are judged hanging on a hook All the children cry and miss their cow! After the cows have been judged, they are sold to the market and bought by you and me.



Cake decorating


Bogans and cars....I don't understand how people can be interested in these cars. If you're going to be interested in cars, why not be interested in foreign, expensive cars?


This is the 'Grand Parade' where all the animals walk around the oval. Why? I don't know...so my dad can take photos of them?


A guy with a cool hat on the side of a horse


A horse jumping over a fence


These guys chop wood...why? I don't know...Because it's fun to chop stuff? I enjoy chopping/cutting up big pieces of paper into tiny pieces of paper.


One of thse things that I've never been on.


I got a box from Canon today. It's for a photo competition. In the box there are some objects and you have to take photos of them. There are 10 winners, which receive up to $5000 worth of Canon EOS products. I won't win.

There are two categories: Professional and ameteur, which is unfair! Professional= You earn more than $20,000 from photography/year. So, someone with a very cool camera who earns $18,000/year from photography is in the same category as me; the poor uni student with a dodgy point and shoot.

My model will be INTERSHEEP!!!!! He/she has long legs...

The objects are:

• A red ribbon
  
• Tea lights (those littlecandles)
  
• A pink crayon
  
• A blue cocktail umbrella
  
• Bubble mix (I'm assuming they don't want photos of the container, but of the bubbles)
  

Now I'm on my way to bed. I'm lucky enough to visit the doctor tomorrow! The best part is waiting in the waiting room and watching people. It amuses me. So does watching people on the bus. There's a guy who looks like Dave Grohl in the video for 'Learn to Fly' and a girl who looks like she's from the Famous Five. Yep, I'm a simple person living in an over complicated world full of share options, insurance, exothermic plastics and syringe disposal units.

Goodnight