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The whole turning 21 thing… you know how it is, its very hard to come up with how to party for it.

I spent AGES planning mine, I’m serious, I spent a whole minute considering a single idea. My brain hurt after all the thinking.
So yeh, I had a LAN for my 21st.
Seriously, what else could I do?

So there we are, 4 computers, all setup on either card-tables or on a coffee table, and tones of Call of Duty 4, FlatOut2, and Quake3 fun. I’m so glad I did this, beats the hell out of the whole “drink untill you are passed out” thing, ’cause you see, I get to remember this.

Quake3 was fairly non-event, my 1v1 with my old practice buddy Luke was a white-wash… kinda understandable since hes been out of action for over 12 months now. It was a score that would make Ycros happy, 31-1, and the Team Dethmatch was also a tone of fun.

Good fun hehe.

After those games was where we lost the bulk of our time. Call of Duty 4, game-type: sabotage.

Best Fucking Gametype Ever.

For those who don’t know what sabotage is, its basically a more advance version of how Counter Strike plays.
You have TWO teams, and each team has a weapons stockpile, your objective is to blow-up this stockpile (lets call it a “bomb site”), now, to do this, there is a bomb that spawns in the middle of the map at the start of the game. One bomb for two teams.
Now each time a team plants the bomb (hard to do since its to be planted where the enemy respawns), it takes 30 seconds for it to blow, and 5 seconds to defuse.
Needless to say, its a fast and extremely fun game-type.

As it came to lunch, we decided, whichever team lost, was buying. So this is me and Nick, taking on Team JC; Luke and Gavin, heres some high-lights from the game:

• Game starting, me rushing towards to bomb, Nick throwing a grenade at the bomb at the same time as Gavin does. End result, my body flying across the map.
• Luke snipping successfully with a scorpion machine pistol, then when running out of ammo, snipping with a freakin silenced pistol! It was only a miss-fired RPG that got him.
• Me defusing the bomb with EXACTLY 0:00:01 on the bomb timer (its first to 4 wins, when you defuse, you get the bomb and plant it at their base), this happened a few times for both sides but at a more respectable 0:00:75 and above
• Firing a RPG from across the map, Luke stepping out from cover and recieving it between the eyes (confirmed by him yelling out what he saw)
• Game being lost by me and Nick as Nick tried to defuse the bomb with 0:05:01 on the clock.

So yeh, as you can see, we have fairly much fallen in love with this game-type.

After that was cake.

The cake was epic, on a scale more epic than any Lord of the Rings movie could ever be. Rachel really outdid herself, and Mike, who doesn’t like cake even loved it.
We got a sneak peek of it earlier in the day with shavings from it liberally distributed amongst us, as they were not needed for the final cake, and we could hear almost a full block of chocolate going into the iceing.

After cake, was FlatOut2. What LAN isn’t complete without a driver bowling competition?
For those who havn’t played a FlatOut game yet, basically, to bowl, you drive your car REALLY fast down a strait, and deliberately crash, sending your driver flying through the windshield, over a great distance, and into some giant pins trying to knock them over (i sware to God, this is an official game-mode).

Oh, and there are normal race-modes, where Nick decided to take his School bus for a trip over the mountians, then through a petrol station, and Luke took me out with a mob-car.

So why include this photo? Well, it shows the types of reactions you get from deliberatly crashing your car, and throwing the driver through the windshield, only to knock over 2 pins.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         .

Was going to do the update on Friday, but… well a big weekend happened.

’twas Leesa’s 21st on Saturday, so, after a long day at work, it was onto the party bus, first to The White Room in St Kilda, then to Icon in Melbourne, followed by K-Bar (or Kokolate Bar).

I want to know where the Party Bus company got its OLD Volvo bus, that seemed to be stuck in 3rd the entire time (both at low and high speeds). Also, they need to get their suspension checked.

It was quite a fun experience driving from Dandenong back to Carrum at 3pm, I don’t think I got the little Kia over 70mp/h down the Frankston/dandi freeway. So lucky there wasn’t anyone around (read I wasn’t drunk, I had only drunk water all night, I was just REALLY tired).

So after an extensive sleep-in on mine and Rachel’s part it was to eGames.

Man, what an awesome place.

The first thing that I will talk about is the little RC Helicopter I bought.
Yeh, its only a mini 2 channel one, but I wanted to see if this type of thing would be enjoyable by me first, before I went laying any money out on it.

Needless to say, its probably the best money I spent at eGames, I haven’t been able to put it down since I got it, I guess time will tell if this is something I’ll stay “into” other than and quick play.

This has since led into some interesting discussions on IRC about what to look for in a “big” RC helicopter. Man, I had no idea that I had to look for swash-plates, and the number of channels, or how the different rotor combinations worked.
Learning alot and enjoying it!

Oh! I also got a Star Wars lightsaber tourch!

Something special is comming Friday.

If you jump on the right IRC Server, and get into the right IRC Channel, you can know, TODAY!

I’ve come to relise that after tomorow… I will have no-one at Uni.

Everyone I know from 1st year, and that I’ve met at Caulfield will be moving on from Uni as of the 14th, I’m stuck there another 6 months.

I will have no-one to relate to at Uni, no-one who comes from the same time line as me, and no-one who seems to have the same, or more, passion for pure IT as we did.

Its scary, and there’s a huge empty hole in my gut now. Its sad, and I know that I am going to miss everyone so much. Its sad, I hope that I can keep in contact with everyone.

The personalities is one huge thing I’m going to miss. Everyone in this year seems to have an attitude about them of “This is who I am” where is all the other year levels seem to be some variation of “Look at me, I club!”

I know many of the people who have had such a huge impact on me, and are leaving Uni this year probably don’t read this. But thank you. Thank you all.
You have been amazing, and made Uni what it is today, without you guys, I know the next 6 months at Monash Caulfield are going to be darker each time I step onto the campus grounds.

The spelling is bad for a reason

Not my vide, but so much fun bouncing boats this way.

Basicly, really high level, followed by a boat falling into water from that level results in this.

Lol at this awesome grenade kill on Ycros on DM6!