Just got me nets back. Note to anyone getting net, there are providers aside from Telstra and Optus that provide better net services with better bandwidth and download limits at cheaper rates, figured that only only AFTER i signed up for BigPong, ask around at your local PC shop or PC repair guy, he should know.

Anyways i'm studying in the backward Town of Toowoomba in the local University of Southern Queensland, the only thing this town is known for is it's parks, flowers and the fact there's probably a church on every street, great for those trying to get in touch with Jesus lol. Our Dean of Engineering was from QUT, nice and funny fellow and most of our lecturers are great people and the staff are seriously nice and efficient folk. Question? Why is everyone here smiling? It creeps me out.

So far so good if you ask me. Term hasn't started yet, i actually arrived 2 weeks early so i could deal with investments and term deposits as they're sponsoring my stay here rather than regular handouts from my folks . I'm not sure about the other faculties, but engineering for one is filled up with very motivated lecturers and individuals, and as per usual, very little women and tons of people with short attention spans. The other faculties seem more lively and motivated though, but who gives a flipping bother about them anyways lol?

Everything here is done with the online system and it's extremely comprehensive, and the e-learning system is seriously good. The facilities are nice, and nearly everything can be bought with your student card as long as it has money preloaded in it. The student guild runs alot of activities and provides alot of services although the co-co activities are mostly sport centric. Food is pretty good here, although if you're like me, you tend to be a little picky regarding Halal or not, but the Uni does cater for muslims and there are foods designated halal in the cafeteria. Admin staff are really helpful and seem to put up with the dumbest questions i can throw at them (seems my IQ has dropped due to salt content in food here), the facilities are well maintained although i'll be frank and say the PC labs are utter crap as the PCs are as slow as my ass on saturday morning.

The town is about 3km away and a serious b**** to walk to, it doesn't have much, but it has all you'll probably need, like food, electrical, games, DVDs, shopping, clothes, electronics and of course, porn. Busses operate from monday to friday with limited service on saturday. Flash your student ID on the bus and you get 50 percent off, just like everywhere else in queensland. If there's one time you will be tempted to get a cheap arse car, it'll be here since the Bus service is pretty small and busses are few and far in between, so do yourself a favour and pool some money with a buddy to buy some junky old Holden. My pockets keep getting raped by taxi fares, so i consider it good advice.

You're lucky then, my course costs me 20k aud a year. Only masters students and locals here get concessions.

I'm applying for a Power Consortium bursary since i'm majoring in power and analog electronics. If you're taking a course which has industry wide shortages, i suggest you look around since the benefits are good, it also adds to the chance of getting a PR once you're done or by the very least, an employer vouched Visa. Queensland is suffering from a shortage of engineers, so i guess anyone willing to give scholarships a fling for relevant courses probably could get them.

This post has been edited by empire23: Feb 26 2008, 11:57 AM

Don't know about the other guys, but to me it doesn't mean bus fares lol, but concessions for other things, like books, fees, course discounts, admin paperwork and applications to specific governmental discounts. I'm the kind of person that likes to maximize my buck.

Hay guys, if i wanna rempit in australia, and i don't have an existing motorbike license (i have a Malaysian driver's license and an IDL/International Driver's License). Thus how does i import malaysian phenomenon to Australia?

Car is out of the question, i can't even afford a lousy one so rempiting seems good.

I know i know, harder to handle among other things, but still it's pretty much cheaper than getting a decent car and heck i'm itching to learn something new. I'm planning to get good training to something above 300cc due to fact my housemate has an IDL for a heavy bike, so there's an advantage to it. Might be going to the driving and riding school along Ruthven street tomorrow for a consult.

Was planning the same thing too lol.

But my plan is to rent a 4x4 and go around the out back with me and 3 others and stuff everything we need in the trunk.

It's pretty nice here in Toowoomba, hottest it'll get is in the 20s and at night it drops to a nice 16.

Dagnabbit, Easter means all the stores are closed and now i can't find a place to get fags or bottles of lemonade.

Imma going to sunshine coast to get pics lol. Hope the autumn sun is as awesome as people say it is.

I gawt job at poultry farm lol. 20 an hour. I shall practice my chickinz shanking skills now.

Somewhere between Gatton and Toowoomba.

First you can chop the chicken, then when you're expert, they offer you 25 an hour to slaughter the birds.

But agent called and said nextweek start.

First dead one, then if you got promotion after a few months of work then can chop live one and get better pay.

If scared then who gonna supply the meat for your Mc Chicken leh?

Yarggghhh, didn't get any labwork, or assignment work done today, i give up and therefor start a game of COH and maybe DoD (My name is SuperUnamed) to unwind. Screw AutoCAD, i mean, beams and cement wall drawings? WTF? Better gimme a PLCAD or ORCAD class for heaven sake.

Wait, my exams are in 2 weeks and i'm still going nuts over assignments...... My skills in just in time production will see me through!

Going to sit for my QLD Driving lesen so i can legally ferry drunk people around for money.

Haha, wish me luck. New sem, new job lol.

Yeap. But i'll need to go for a course cum lecture of sorts, and get medical certification by a doctor (hope the uni doctor gets well soon, i'm too cheap to go to one outside), well that's what the lady at counter told me.

Yesh. University of Southern Queensland, the ******* unknown brother of UQ.

But still i like it here, and it's a primarily community orientated research based but standards are nut twistingly tight especially in the Eng and Surveying faculty. Lecturers here make the art faculty the butt of their jokes though

If you can, go RMIT, that was my first choice, but my sister is flying off to UOL/UCL can't fracking remember, so mother asked me to take the cheaper option. No worries about RMIT's CGPA 3.0 entry requirement lol, just get generally 2.0 and you'll get in with all exemptions intact, although passing their exams once you get though the front door is another story

This post has been edited by empire23: Aug 1 2008, 01:43 PM

I just used 100mb yesterday, still ok. Altogether use 300mb this month.

If you need more quota, just ask a postgrad buddy to help punch you into the unlimited quota zone citing research help. Simple lol.

I got 1A in my SPM. The rest are just shatload of Cs, Ds and a few Fs around lol.

Something along those lines.