Posts tagged “australia”
Shopping
Did some hardcore shopping today – ended up buying shoes, jeans and a sweater – all for a 100 euros, more or less. Not too bad a deal I’d say. I’m trying to get mentally ready for the weekends classes again – 8h friday and 8h saturday plus a 2h group meeting after 5pm – [...]
Why working in the library is cool
It just is :-)
Mondays and the weekend roundup
So, wappu has passed over here in Sydney as well (although I didn’t celebrate it really). Saturday wore me out pretty well – not the evening but the 8 hours of uni We managed to end our course in a pretty interesting way – champagne and strawberries :-) Sometimes flex courses do payoff! Saturday evening [...]
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Intensives pt.2
I’m beginning the second “half” of my intensives today. I have 8 hours of class today and 8 tomorrow – on a friggin’ saturday! That doesn’t sound too good, but getting the whole subject done in 5 days of hardcore studying is pretty good news to me, so I guess I’ll manage. I realised tomorrow [...]
Weird copyright statement
I was supposed to write about this earlier on, but this seems a bit ridiculous (yet in a country where plagiarism is taken extremely seriously, read my earlier post, I probably should abide by it) It is written on my subject handout: PLEASE do not copy, reproduce, modify, change, store, share or distribute this material [...]
Remembering the Anzacs
Ended up going out last night to celebrate the Anzac day. We watched the parade on television, which was actually held in Sydney (shame on us) and drew crowds of 250 000 along George St. Anzac day is celebrated to remember those who have died in wars over the years, but especially those who died [...]
HC studying…
Man, some hardcore studying going one these few days… I’m doing the other of my flex subjects, change management, which is pretty cool actually and could imagine it coming in handy in the future. But the drag is that we have lectures for 3 days, 8 hours a day. On top of that the reading [...]
On WiFi
I wrote about the WiFi in Estonia, when I was there in November 2004. The Mobiili- and PDA-blogi (in Finnish, sorry) has a good story on how the WiFi network has been built there. In short; a man began investigating the possibility of a Wifi-network in Estonia after setting up one at home. He now [...]
Timezones
I wouldn’t be lying too much if I said our uni housing is more or less in the same time zone as the GMT. This is because people say with 100% honesty that c’mon – 3am is not too late to have some dinner! But I guess this is the joined effect of partying and [...]
Not used to this…
I’m not really used to coming home from school, watching a movie with flatmates and realisin it is 11pm. Damn these evening classes mess up my internal clock – I could keep on going for another 4 hours easily (only to realise that can’t get up tomorrow morning). And since I really have to get [...]
Registrar’s cup 2005
We had a sports day yesterday with all the different university housings competing against each other. Geegal was second, which was a bit of a shame as we had won the cup 4 years in a row. I will upload some photos of that later tonight probably, but the day was fun – basketball, volleyball, [...]
Tomorrow: Fiji
So I’m heading to Fiji tomorrow morning. Should be interesting, although the weather forecast looks pretty crappy – thunderstorms from monday to thursday. I just hope it will be a bit better on the Yasawa islands where I will be staying from sunday to wednesday/thursday. After that I will come back to Nadi and see [...]
We need more bandwidth!
The internet definitely needs more bandwidth! Secondly, I miss my 10Mbit connection at my old uni – I’m on the wifi here at UTS and uploading some stuff to this server (yes the one you are reading my blog from) and it has taken me now about 2 hours to upload 9 megabytes of data. [...]
Today’s forecast: rain
It has been raining the whole day – seems like winter is setting in with the autumn rain. The temperature doesn’t look too good either – 16 degrees at the moment of the post. Damn! I was already making alternative plans for the winter months – travel as far up north as possible! I also [...]
Social Networks and B2B
I’m writing this from one of my classes, B2B e-marketing – which is exactly not only about b2b but also about social networks and their effect on the whole business. We’ve gone through the “usual” examples of LinkedIn, Plaxo, Friendster and something that I never got round to learning – the Foaf-project. This whole field [...]
Nazca Lines
We ended up talking last night about the Nazca Lines along with a bunch of other stuff about Peru and South America. I never knew about these lines, which have been drawn into the desert by unknown means and methods. The lines create drawings, of which some represent animals and others general shapes and then [...]
US visitors in Australia
On a lighter side, since I have been complaining way too much this week about everything, here are some answers (not all, go read the whole document!!!) by the Australian Tourism Office to US visitors who have been sending questions through their website. Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of [...]
Buying software that does not work
Being in a “private” university (at least the way I see it) is beginning to be so much different than being in a university in Finland – it’s not the workload or anything, but the attitudes and such tell the differences. In my global strategic management course we have to participate in this management game, [...]
Something different…
How occasionally do you decide to hit the casino at 4 am? Not very, if you ask me. We had a party at Surry Hills at a Norwegian friend’s place – kicked ass and was nice. (Also – have to mention here, it’s amazing how you can get beer at 11pm from a bar and [...]
Taronga Zoo
I went to the Taronga Zoo on wednesday. The zoo is a very nice and suggested visit for those who come down to Sydney. The location is excellent – it is 15 min by a ferry from the Opera house. I’m writing this from a lecture so I will keep it short and tell you [...]
Sony Tropfest 2005 photos
I finally managed to post the Sony Tropfest 2005 photos. This is the world’s largest short film festival and is held annually in Sydney. I managed to upload 27 photos in which some might be a bit repetitive, but they will give you a pretty good coverage of the festival. Oh, and here’s a photo [...]
Pay 49AUD and get 230AUD?!
This is something that I just have to write about. I know the mobile phone and operator markets are fairly different in many countries, but so far I have to say (and be a bit patriotic) that the best one, and the easiest to understand, that I’ve seen, is in Finland. You pay a certain [...]
Redfern cricket
Eh? I was listening to music through my headphones and was wondering which other application began playing music. To my suprise it was these guys on the street who were playing cricket. They have a car parked there and music playing and generally just enjoying the sunday with some beers. Nice :-)
Confirmed it is
That’s it – it is now confirmed and paid for. I will be able to fulfill a dream that has been on my mind for some time – I’m going to Fiji at the end of this month! The ticket’s weren’t as cheap as I had expected, but that’s 100% my fault as I booked [...]