Ahoy!

Now that it’s finally June, an awesome night is now in sight. What could it be you ask? Just ask yourselves, what are the most awesome beings in existance? PIRATES, of course. On June 20 I’ll be going to Brisbane to see Alestorm with some friends, it’ll be awesome. Pirates and power metal are two awesome things combined! Now if I introduce some of my Awesome Fives into the equation… :O

Anyway, I’m anticipating an awesome night filled with pirate metal and Awesome Fives. I’ve been wanting to see Alestorm for a while, and they just happened to come to Australia a few months after Sonata Arctica. Brisbane is actually the last Australian show, unfortunately. There’s chance it could be lowest grade performance, or the best one if they decide to put more effort into it. I’m hoping for the latter. In case you’ve never heard them, here’s one of the few high quality videos I could find.

In case you were wondering about what an “Awesome Five” is, it’s the name I’ve given to my high fiving technique which produces frequent hand injuries for the receiver. The theory behind them is, that I am a pirate. As such, I am filled with awesome, a property that exists within certain entities just because it can. Being filled with this awesome energy means that my everyday activities become awesome, as I transfer my energy towards doing things, high fives included. Seeing as there is additional awesome energy included in my high fives, it has to come out somewhere, as the law of conservation of energy in physics states that energy cannot be lost, created or destroyed. It can only be transferred to another medium in the same form, or converted into another form of energy. In the Awesome Five, the mass of awesome energy  is converted into immense pain, sound and heat upon impact.

Before I leave I have one question. Should I wear my Alestorm shirt, or another power metal shirt? I’m a little bit iffy about wearing the shirts of the band you’re going to see, only to find that most other people are also wearing similar shirts. That’s the reason why I wore my Alestorm shirt to Sonata Arctica. At that time, nobody knew that Alestorm even had shirts, so I was unique. But what about now? What are the chances of others still being completely oblivious, leaving my Alestorm shirt individual and awesome? I suppose it all comes down to whether it’s better to be seen as unique and not just another nameless supporter, or wear their clothing and show your support. What do you guys think? I think I’d most like to wear either my Alestorm shirt, Ensiferum Australian Tour shirt, or a new Sonata Arctica “Flag in the Ground” shirt (with a ship on it! ) if I can order and receive it in time.

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In other news though, not too much has been happening lately, hence my inability to write interesting entries. It mainly depends on how I’m feeling, which has been pretty crap the last few months, though I won’t go into detail. I’m not much of a writing person, or completely confident at the moment, so unless I have something interesting to say, I won’t say anything. Lately I’ve just been trying to keep going with tafe, which has been getting a little more stressful now that the 80 page report is nearing its deadline of the June 18. Lately I’ve just been procrastinating playing GTAIV instead of working on it at home. It’s just hard to find the motivation to work on it. Occupational Health & Safety is boring… *sigh* Disaster Recovery Plans are boring… *sigh sigh* Well, at least I have one thing to look forward to two days after it’s due. I really do hope that positive things start to pick up again  after this. Perhaps I”ll name a few… Alestorm (June 20), followed by more than four friend’s birthday between then and July 1st, including mine. Hopefully something good will happen around then, some sort of combined birthday celebration perhaps.

Well, I believe that’s all for now. I’ve been hashing data for DC++ tonight to prepare for a LAN tomorrow. Even though I’m only taking half of my anime, and some other data I have on my main PC, I’m still sharing 680GB. :O

Well I’m off, night all.

-Lachy

Finally getting around to writing this entry, three months later. Prepare yourselves to hear about my awesome trip up to Brisbane.

For the  month leading up to New Year’s, I’d been planning to go up to Brisbane with Dalton and Enya to see my favourite band, Sonata Arctica. They were playing on January 3, 2010 at the Hi-Fi Bar in West End, along with Ensiferum, a viking metal band from Finland also, and Vanishing Point, a power metal band from Melbourne, Australia.

We arrived in Brisbane on the 2nd at about 9:30pm AEST and made our way from the transit centre, got on a train to South Brisbane, and got a taxi to our apartment in West End, which turned out to be only a short distance to the gig, much closer than we expected. There was loads of different kinds of food around, Mexican… Thai… Vietnamese… Chinese… Indian… To name a few… We only ended up going to one of them though, a Vietnamese restaurant before we went to the show.

The whole night was awesome, about an hour before the show we found a fair few people already in the streets wearing power metal shirts, so we knew exactly where they were going. Some of them even admired my Alestorm shirt, as they’d only just been made recently in Europe. I was unique, I was that guy, that guy with the Alestorm shirt who is awesome. : Anyway, the show started off with Vanishing Point, followed by Ensiferum, then Sonata Arctica had a 1.25 hour set.

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Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica

It was the most awesome 4 hours of my life. And it was going to get better, as we waited around after the show until they came out for a smoke and met them. I got my shoes signed! Dalton also got someone else’s rightful his ticket signed.

Signed by Sonata Arctica

Signed by Sonata Arctica and Ensiferum

So, the night really ended around 2am, instead of 11:45pm. Waiting around was definitely worth it. I wish I took an actually decent camera, all I had was my phone…

The rest of the trip was mainly just going to central, and looking at things. Nothing that requires great detail. Dalton left early (6am ) on the 4th, and Enya and I left on the 6th.

Tha’ts all for now, I shall return soon.

-Lachy

The HSC is almost over, finally. 13 years of school, almost gone. Wooooo! I just have one more exam on Friday, IT. Should be easy.

So, after the exam I’ll be going up to Lennox with friends to stay in a rented house for the weekend. Should be good. I plan on commandeering Sam’s PS3 to finally watch Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within on Blu-ray, as I don’t have a BD player myself… ^_^;

So anyway, I’ll be back soon, with no more school and hopefully I will not have developed Motorphobia (fear of cars) in the event that Sam’s car turns out to be… The Yukari Mobile…

Wish me luck…

I have been inactive for a little while, partly because I have been organising and executing schemes for Enya’s 18th birthday. I have just returned from travelling for a short time, with Enya. I got back on Monday afternoon, after staying in a rented house in Byron Bay for four nights. I thought you may like to know how it was.

Party #1 – The Movie Night

I’ve been planning Enya’s birthday for a while, I wanted to make her feel special, as I do. So, I planned an evil plot, to arrange a movie night (For her, although she didn’t know at the time. ). I planned a Dragon Ball movie night for April 11 (6 days before her birthday), at which we would watch the five Dragon Ball movies with friends. They included the new live-action Dragon Ball Evolution, (which was atrocious ), and the four animated Dragon Ball movies, Curse of the Blood Rubies, Sleeping Princes in Devil’s Castle, Mystical Adventure and Path to Power (Although we never got to start the last one).

It was great fun, while people arrived, we watched some Cardcaptor Sakura, followed by X, until everyone was there, 11 in total. At that point, Enya was unaware of the plan, though  the scheme was almost revealed due to some comments from parents about a “birthday girl”, but luckily they were covered up hastily. After we watched the live action movie, we decided it was time to get some snacks, as the surprise cake was nearing completion. After we gathered Enya into the kitchen, the cake was revealed, and Enya, almost in tears received the shock of her life as we sang the usual Happy Birthday song to her. Or rather, they sang, and I held her there in case she escaped. The hilarious part that I pointed out came soon after the eating of the cake, as Enya happily stood in front of the cupboard in the corner. A few people then came out bearing gifts, without realising that they had in fact backed Enya into the corner. She was literally speechless, she couldn’t even manage to say just that, as people normally just use that as a figure of speech. This was true lack of speech.

After we’d finished watching Curse of the Blood Rubies, we decided it was time to make dinner, pizza. Due to some confusion with the can opener, and the eventual breaking of the can opener, we had to employ some alternative methods to open the can of pineapple. These methods were:

1. Still using the can opener, but using pliers to turn the wheel instead of the broken handle. I’m sure it would have worked fine, if the so-called “Food Tech students” hadn’t complicated the matter by using the device at the top of the can, and managed to cut not the lid, but the side of the can. After attempting to correct it, and yet another Food Tech student making the original mistake again, we became sick of it, and Dalton introduced method number 2.
2. Method number 2 takes place after the side of the can, just below the rim had been cut a certain amount. Dalton then grabbed the pliers, sick of the confusion, and ripped the rim of the can upwards. It worked pretty well actually. We just had to pour the pineapple out the top of the opening. Luckily, they were pineapple pieces, and not slices, which would have made it much more difficult.

Alternatively opened pineapple pieces

So, in order to cut the rest of the long story short, we watched the remaining movies, except the Path to Power, exchanged snacks and some Easter gifts and went home. (I summed that up pretty well. )

Party #2 – Four days at Byron Bay

Well, time for another description of fun. I’ll keep this one short, especially after the last one.

So anyway, we departed on Friday for Byron Bay, where nine of us would be staying for four days in a rented house on the river, about 100m from the beach. It was good fun, we went canoeing, watched Black Books, Season 7 of Friends, went to the beach, went to the Lighthouse (The most eastern part of Australia. We were further forward in the future than any other Australian at that time. ), and ate out at breakfast places and such.

Rather than continuing to speak about these sorts of things, I might just leave it there. The point is, it was great fun, and we really enjoyed ourselves. It’d be nice to do it again.

Well, that concludes my description of Enya’s birthday, and the various schemes involved. Those schemes were great fun… Time for yet another entry! Though, this one hasn’t been delayed.

Ciao!

Original Date: July 11th, 2006 by HIM357

Yes, it’s been ages since I last wrote one of these things. I guess now would be a good time, seeing as I just got back from Sydney yesterday!

I’ve never been to Sydney before, so it was a new experience for me. It’s weird, I’d been to Brisbane a few times, the capital of another state, but never the capital of my own.

Anyway, we left on Friday at 6:00 in the morning. Just like my friends warned me, the first three hours are slow, then the next three are really fast. We got into Manly (the suburb where we stayed) at about 11 or 12.

I kinda like cities, for the walking around part. You don’t actually need to drive around to get places like you do here in Coffs. While we were there, we didn’t use the car once. …Except for entering the city, and exiting of course.

We caught the ferries a heap while we were there. They take about half an hour to cross the harbour. I love the sea… I’m a pirate! No motion-sickness for me. Never. As well as ferrires, we had to catch a million trains to get around the city, from Circular Quay to Central, Newtown, Bondi… On the sunday, I realised something very special about the trains… The seats move! :O Claire always gets really annoyed when she has to travel backwards. I found out that you can change the seats around, and not travel backwards. I don’t think she knows that yet, and I’m not going to tell her until she gets back. Her annoyance shall be fun to watch… I still have all ferry and train tickets, except the ones that the machines ‘captured’… everywhere. I really didn’t like Central Station’s pigeon killing policy. There were spikes on all of the arches and roofs of the buildings, and on top of the signs (They wouldn’t actually have killed the pigeons, but hey). I could tell they were dangerous. There were feathers on them! :O

The shopping there was terrible. There were shops there, but not much in there. It was all fairly expensive. It was really frustrating, traveling all that way everyday to return with nothing at all. Only on Sunday afternoon when I was with Ash did I actually find something. A pirate book!
It was great seeing Ash again, but I don’t think that one hour was enough time to spend with someone who I hadn’t seen for over a year.

We went to see Mac’s house on Sunday morning before going to Bondi. It was great. There were teabags hanging off the door to the garden, and paperclip chains hanging off the stairs. It was wonderful… Mac and Rachel each use 15 milk crates under their beds, which they grabbed from outside the shops around the place. They’ll return them later… *shifty eyes*

Well, I had a pretty good time down. Now I can say I’ve been there and saw the pigieons! I’ll post photos up soon.

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