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Lately...

Monday, 3. November 2008, 11:48:05

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Some things that have happened lately:


  • I got sick at work on Saturday night. I wasn't feeling well so I drank a lot of water. I still didn't feel well. Then everything started getting darker...and I got dizzy...my skin felt like it had ants crawling over it... Sat down for a while and still felt horrible, so I went home. I feel better now though :smile:

  • On Friday, I was at a masked ball (although I didn't wear a mask). I learnt that it's really hard to walk in high shoes if you have tights on, because they make the shoes slippery.

  • This Friday, there is a BIG party at a mansion in Adelaide (100+ people). The theme is 'dress as something beginning with F'. I was going to go as a fax machine...but I changed my mind and will now be a fairy.

  • I'm still doing exercise WOAH!! :D I can now run without getting puffed out after 1 minute :up:

  • I have been accepted to a German university as an exchange student *jump jump*

  • In 1 month, I'll be in Germany :D

  • I have exams in 2 weeks...I've started learning but it's going to be hard because all my subjects are FINAL YEAR subjects and I'm not in my final year :frown:



That's all for today. Take care of yourselves and make sure to read 'use by' labels :smile:

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The Birthday

Tuesday, 21. October 2008, 12:12:40

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On Sunday I lost my teenager-hood. I also lost my voice. I don't know if it was from smoke or talking to loud...but my voice decided to go on holiday. It arrived back yesterday :smile: But now I'm a bit sick :frown:

Anyway, the birthday....I didn't have a party. I couldn't be bothered organising a party. So, as usual we went for lunch at my grandma's house.

After lunch, I asked my dad if he wanted to go for a walk up a hill. He said no, because it makes him too tired. So, I went by myself. It took me only 12 minutes to get to the top; no pauses! It used to take me mroe than 30 minutes!

Then, my sister and her 'friend' went for another walk with me in the evening. They must have felt sorry for me. I think my hobby is walking up hills. My dad thinks I should go in a walking competition :left:


View from half way up the hill


We took walkie talkies with us. We discovered that you can hear other people and talk to other people. We talked to a guy named Troy.

Then we went to McDonalds because I wanted to have an icecream. And because I can afford to eat icecream at McDonalds; $0.50/icecream :wink:


No, we didn't buy one for the Hoff. Yes, we were too lazy to get out of the car, so we got drive-through


Eating the icecream in the car, in the car park. Is that bogan? :left:

Then we went home and I did my assignment....and my auntie and uncle visited me.


But today was better than my birthday! Because, I got some mail from Germany, from my favourite German :D No one else got me such a nice present.... This parcel was a very special for Intersheep....because....


Intersheep's SISTER was inside!


Now I have three sheep in my flock :smile: I must have shown signs of being a good shepherd, and so that's why I have another sheep :wink:


This little sheep was very hungry and the first thing she did was run to the fridge...


Then she grabbed a spoon and ate lots of icecream. Next time, I'll just buy chocolate...


Today's German Lesson:
In today's lesson, we will learn some ingredients commonly used in 'Du bist ein Engel' German chocolate bars:


Vollmilch-Schokolade = full milk chocolate = milk chocolate
Zutaten = ingredients
Zucker = sugar
Kakaobutter = cocoa butter
Vollmilchpulver= full milk powder
Kakaomasse = cocoa mass
Suessmolkenpulver= I have no idea about what the English is. Sweet whey powder?
Milchzucker= lactose...milk sugar
Emulgator = emulsifying agent
Aroma: natuerliche Vanille= flavour: natural vanilla

Kann Spuren von Nuessen und Erdnuesen enthalten = May contain traces of nuts and peanuts.
(German people, please explain Erdnuessen and Nuessen :smile: )

Now you should be able to understand some German chocolate bar wrappers :wink:

And now it's time for me to go to sleep.

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Week 10 in photos

Friday, 17. October 2008, 03:57:01

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After 4 hours,I think I've finished my law assignment *jump* :D So now I can blog :smile: I'm doing a subject where we look at aspects of law affecting companies, under the wonderful Corporations Act 2001. For the exam, I have to print out the required sections of the act. One guy from my tutorial printed it out and it cost him $10 in print money!!


On Saturday night I commented on one girl's head band 'Hey, that's a nice headband!' and then she gave it to me :smile:


I'm still walking up the hill (you can see it in the distance here). I like the gates they have at this 'park': one for the human and a litle one for the dog :wink:


Some of the orchids are still flowering too. They get hardly any water here, the soil doesn't have any nutrients but they seem to grow somehow. If you tried to grow them in your garden at home, you'd fail miserably.


This is what the Adelaide traffic control centre looks like. Lots of screens


Fritz, the crazy German guy who you've never heard of before is ALREADY exporting Christmas Stollen to Australia! Actually, the Adelaide City council seems a bit crazy too; they've already put up Christmas decorations in the city centre (American/Canadian translation: downtown)!


Last night I cooked a recipe from 'Jamies Ministry of Food'; chicken with prosciutto. It tasted really good, except for the fact that the ham was really salty! Next time: unsalty ham.

And that concludes today's blog post. Now I've got to finish my accounting theory assignment.....


Ahh I nearly forgot! It's time for a German lesson :D
  • Ich esse gern Stollen=I like to eat stollen
  • ...wenn es Ihnen gerade passt=When it suits you. So you can say....'Sie koennen essen wenn es Ihnen gerade passt'??? (German people, please correct me if I am wrong :smile: ) And the impolite is 'Du kannst essen wenn es DIR gerade passt.????
  • Schutzengel= guardian angel So, 'Fahre nie schneller als dein Schutzengel fliegen kann'...which means 'Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly'

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Snake, happy and two songs

Sunday, 5. October 2008, 09:54:14

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After deciding I had done absolutely no exercise in who-knows-how-long, I told myself that I had to do some exercise or I'd end up looking like a lump of lard. Each day for the past four days, I've been walking up a hill. It makes me tired and my legs get sore, but it's good exercise :smile:

Saturday’s walk was particularly exciting. I learnt that you should never walk on little tracks by yourself. Why? You might get bitten by a snake! My dad stopped to tie up his shoe on a rock...and there was an Eastern Brown Snake (second most deadly snake in the world :eyes:) behind the rock.

My dad had his camera with him but the shot he took isn’t the best.. I guess when a deadly snake is in front of you, you don’t really have time to work out the ‘rule of 3rds’, calculate where any shadows will be, set up a tripod etc etc.

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I finished work at 1am this morning. I started at 6pm and it wasn't very busy so they let me go home. I would have stayed there for extra money though! I got home and my dad and I were talking in the kitchen:

*Kimbers is happy and laughing*
The dad of Kimbers: Were you drinking at work?
Kimbers: No.
The dad of Kimbers: Oh...you just seem really happy!

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Two songs:

Somersault from Zero 7


If I ever feel better from Pheonix

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Working in a bar

Sunday, 21. September 2008, 09:22:43

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Apart from serving idiots and putting up with annoying people, working in a bar isn't THAT bad. You get paid well (better than a check out chick) and you sometimes get free stuff.

Free stuff:
Sometimes we have promotions at work and when there are things left at the end of the night, we can take them home.


A Jack Daniels shirt. It doesn't fit well and I'm never going to wear it, but I don't care because it was free. I can wash the cat/car with it :up:


A Jack Daniel's hat. These hats are great Father's Day gifts.

Sometimes people leave stuff behind. If it's worth something (a jacket, proper hat, handbag) we put it behind the bar and hope they come back to collect it. If it's not worth anything (something worth $2) we know they're not going to come back to get it, so we put it into the bin or take it home (but most of the things go in the bin)


These flowers were part of a $2 headband. I took the flowers off and took them home :smile:


The security guard put this black hat on my head...so, I took it home.


Last night
I was in a quieter bar last night so I was able to talk to people. Everyone tells me their name eventhough I never remember their name.

Some girl: "You look too sweet to work here....Are you Christian?"
Me: :left:



Some old guy orders a beer
Me: $5 please.
Old man: Oh..I'm in the band... (people in the band get free drinks)
Me: Ok...I'll just check on that *I go to the other guy behind the bar to confirm this guy is in the band*
Old man: *runs away with the beer*
*15 minutes later the old man is BACK!*
Me: Hey, you didn't pay for your beer! It's $5.
Old man: But I'm in the band...a one man band...*gets out a little flute/recorder*
Me: Noooo! Don't play that! $5!!!
He eventually got kicked out :smile:



Then there was a guy who came inside to ask where the toilets were. He was smoking insice though! (against the LAW!) I yelled at him "Hey, you can't smoke in here! Get out!" Then he put it out on the floor! Then he got kicked out :smile:

Some guy: *to me* You should really get earrings. They'd brighten up your face
Me: Err...I had earrings...but I took them out...the hole grew over...and now I'm too scared to get my ears pierced again
Some guy: You should get them pierced again. They'd brighten up your face
Me: Wont a necklace do?
Some guy: No. You need earrings
Me: Yeah so then I can look like some little kid who broke into their mum's jewelery box!
Some guy: I'd never say that!



Guy in red T-shirt: I'll have a Kahlúa and milk thanks.
Me: *pours milk into glass*
Guy in red T-shirt: Ohh Pura Skimmer! (that's what the milk is called for those who don't know)
Me: *looks at bottle* Yes, it is. 99% fat free too *reads more* ...Ideal choice to help you maintain a healthy, balanced diet...
Guy in red T-shirt: That's what it's all about. Balance. *takes a sip of drink* That tastes GREAT! Great taste!
Me: Nutella and orange is tasty too.
Guy in red T-shirt: You can afford Nutella? Well, you know, there are so many different flavours. I suppose orange and Nutella might be good.
Me: There are many tastes in this tasty world. You should write a book about it.



Aboriginal woman: Hi....I'll have a beer...
Me: We're closed. No more drinks.
Aboriginal woman: *Yeah...I know why...it's because I'm black!!
Me: No, it's because we're closed. We're not serving anyone!
Aboriginal woman: No, it's because I'm black!!!!!!!!!



My fellow bar tender tried to put my arms into some 'lock' thing which the security guards use to throw people out with. But, it didn't work on me p: :D The only way to throw me out is to physically pick me up and throw me out the window.

On my way to the bus stop I walked a pub and the security guards were sitting at a table outside, playing chess. It was really funny!

My foot has gone to sleep. Time to swap activities....eat or do homework?


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My night at work in Freak-Central

Monday, 11. August 2008, 10:11:12

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ID?
*I walk into the door and greet the bouncer*
Me: Hi!
Bouncer: Hi...oh can I see your ID please?
Me: *turns back* I work here...
Bouncer: Oh


I'm weird?
Mr B (the guy I was working with): *picks me up*
Me: Ahhh put me down!
Mr B: You're so light, did you know that?! Do you eat anything?!
Me: Am I? No..I don't pick myself up...I don't go around picking other people up to compare weights either. Yeah...I eat toast and I graze on fruit. I like porridge too!
Mr B: You don't drink do you? I've never seen you drink
Me: No. I drink water, usually hot water. Infact, I'm going to get some right now. We get free hot water, right?
Mr B: :left: Do you smoke?
Me: No
Mr B: Have you EVER smoked?
Me: No and I don't want to
Mr B: Do you want some chocolate? *puts chocolate infront of my face*
Me: No...I'm fine...
Mr B: You're so weird!


Freaky drunk guy

When? 4.43am Sunday morning.
Where? On my way to the bus stop

I was walking to the bus stop and was about to walk past some guy in a white hoodie, on the side of the street.

I was 2 steps past him when he said: 'Do you work in a club?'
Me: What? (I couldn't understand him)
Weird drunk guy: Do you work in a club?
Me: Do I work in a club?
Weird drunk guy: Yeah...
Me: Err not really. I work in a bar
*I try to walk away*
Weird drunk guy: dkjhfkjshfkjhfs (I had NO idea what he said)
Me: What? *tries to walk away*
Weird drunk guy: Do you kjsfhkjh (no idea what he said here) taxi?
Me: No, I'm getting a bus! It's cheap
Weird drunk guy: Do you kjsfhkjh (no idea what he said here) taxi?
Me: *takes one step away* I'm...
Weird drunk guy: Do you not talk to me (Ohhh so that's what he was saying...there was NO taxi involved in the conversation)
Me: Err...*gets scared*...I'm waking to the bus stop...it's warmer there (infact it's freezing cold, but I didn't want to talk to this FREAK)
*I walk away*
Weird drunk guy: jsdfkdjfhgkdjhgdkjhgkdfjhg (no idea what he was saying, something about how I didn't want to talk to him)

I got scared :frown: and kept looking in the windows of the shops to try and see if he was following me. Luckily the idiot didn't follow me. I think I could have bashed him up...he was around the same height as me (haha shorty! (well, for a guy I guess) )

Next week, I'm taking my big umbrella with a pointy bit on the end :D It's good for stabbing/hitting and keeping my hair dry :wink:


Sleepy guy
Last week, there was a guy sleeping on the ground at the bus stop. Another guy came along to wait for the bus and kept looking at the sleeping guy and was laughing at him for about 10 minutes.


Please dont' sit next to me

When I got on the bus 3 drunk deaf guys (yes, they were deaf and don't go on about how I'm discriminating them, because I'm not!) got on the bus. They waved to me, so I waved back. The last one sat next to me :left: and all his friends started laughing. So I moved over, right up close to the cold window. Then his friend came and got him and took him to the back of the bus.

Normally on my way to and from uni, no one sits next to me. I must be scary looking. However to drunk people, I must look really friendly.

Sometimes there are funny drunk people on the bus and I talk to them :lol: Once there were English tourists on the bus and they were soooo funny! The guy was laying down on the 'old people' chairs and wondered if any 90yr olds would be getting on the bus at 5am....


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Big fat foreign people exchange student party

Wednesday, 30. July 2008, 10:13:45

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There's a MASSIVE party happening this Saturday from 9!!

There's going to be lots and lots of people!! At the moment, nearly 100!

It's going to be REALLY FUN! :D :hat: :drunk:


The party on Saturday will be huge...Guess you shouldn't miss it. At least that's what everybody told me :-)


(German guy)


:cry: I start work at 11pm, so I can't go (ok, I could go for an hour, but it'd take me 1 hour to get there!) I finish work at 4.30am so it will probably be finished... awww

I feel left out awww


The moral of the story: Get a job before you turn 18. Then you wont have to work in a bar every Saturday night, getting spit in your eye, while your friends and everyone you know go to the ueber cool party where all the funny foreign people are and has fun and doesn't even think of you working in the bar with some loser's spit in your eye, getting your hands cut on broken glasses etc etc

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I think I want to have a birthday party this year. But WHERE?! I live 40 minutes with a bus from the city...no one would want to travel all that way...actually, I wouldn't want anyone to come here anyway....then they'd realise that we have the same painting in our lounge room TWICE (one is just faded more than the other) Any ideas? :confused:

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