The dance floor was large, but got rather crowded with 600 people on it at once. hehe 

Barbara & I in the limo on the way to the formal. 

The trip to the MLC formal was made in a stretch limo. I think there were 10 in our limo. 

Now that my trumpet is out of the way, I have started working on a toaster project. It's a group project, and we have to reverse engineer a toaster, then re-design it so that a blind person can use it safely 

My trumpet, finished modeling and started to paint it.  

Look at that sexy trumpet. hehe. It only took me like 2 hours to do the dimple thing in the side.. and i still dont know if i am happy with it 

Who's that sexy beast? LOL This resperator is soo comfy. LOL 

One of my renderings for my rendering folio. 

One of my renderings for my rendering folio. 

One of my renderings for my rendering folio. 

The X Factor set, in Vodafone Arena, Melbourne. 

I went to visit Helen, one of our past ministers from church. She now is retired and paints flowers to raise money for dirrerent causes. 

The X Factor

Well, I finally finished my big stint of work! I worked on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I am certainly feeling the effects of burning the candle at both ends! Last night I went with some friends to be in the studio audience of the X factor. It was live on chanel ten.
It was really interesting to see all the sets and how they put a show like that together. I had never seen the X factor before, but its alot like idol, so I caught on pretty quickly.
After the filming, we went back to Cheyne's place and watched the show. (we recorded it) The way the show was edited, it was hard for me to see us in the audience! Lucky I knew where we had sat.
-Andrew

Fw: Phil's Birthday

Today is my little brother's birthday, and to celebrate, I am having one of
the busiest days i have had all this year! This morning I have Uni, with my
normal lectures and tutorials. I also have a lab today, which I dont
normally have. Gavin did the lab yesterday and said he found it easy, so
there probably isnt anything to worry about. I'm leaving Uni early today so
that I can goto work, I picked up all of Kate's shifts while she is on work
placement, so I end up working a couple hours on Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. After work tonight, I have my first church
council meeting. I am looking forward to it, but I dont know exactly the
kind of things we are going to talk about. I'm guessing alot of it will be
upkeep matters and money matters. It could be different though, I dont know.

Happy Birthday Phil 

Other Sites

Hey guys,  Just wanted to tell you about my website that I made for my dads company. Go and have a look at it: http://wheatlands.alphalink.com.au/
Last night I went to comedy festival with rovers, we saw DaveO'Neil. (thats the one from Nova 100).. He was very funny. Afterwards we went to a couple of bars in the city, and saw some other comedians. The night was fun, but turned out to be very late!
-Andrew

Ball

Babs sent me this, and I thought it might be fun to attend. Anyone who's interested, e-mail me or Babs, or just leave a response to this post with some contact details.
-Andrew

"Barbara" wrote:
__________
>Hey Everyone,
>
>I am writing to inform you about the annual Vision Generation (youth movement of world vision australia) inter-uni charity ball. Basically, the night is a formal/black tie event open to anyone over the age of 18 (not just uni students) that raises funds for our project, which this year is the Rural Palestinian Women's Vocational Training Project in Gaza (Palestine).
>
>So when is it?
>Friday 6th May
>
>Venue: Red Scooter, 3 William Place, East St Kilda
>
>Time: 7:30pm-12:30am
>
>Cost: Tickets are $69 each and include canapes upon arrival, 2-course meal, unlimited beer, wine, soft drink, juice, coffeee all evening, DJ, silent auction, door prizes, dance-off, special guest speaker and much more! All profits go to supporting the project in Palestine!
>
>So come along, it promises to be a great night out, and you can support this worthy cause at the same time! If you'd like to purchase a ticket let me know and I can get one for you!
>
>Thanks guys,
>
>Barbara

I went to my first ever football match today! I saw the Western Bulldogs play against the Richmond Tigers. It was a really close game, and although it was rainy outside, you would never have guessed with the roof closed! Anyways it was alot of fun, and I can now call myself Aussie, cause I have been to the footy hehe.  

Look what I found when I was re-arranging my room! Its one of them little plasma balls! hehe I remember buying it, but I lost it... turns out that it had fallen down behind one of my speakers... its all good now, I just have to find a home for it now! :) 

Hmm... the one on the left is an iPod in disguise??? LOL 

Just a quick post to let you know what I did over the weekend... One major event is that my good friend Babs turned 18! She had a very nice party at her place on saturday night and I managed to sneak in one photo, hopefully she has a better one she can e-mail me (hint hint) Anyways, a fun time was had by all... Sunday I went with Mum's pen-friend's daughter to healseville sanctuary and got attacked by an emu hehe... it was pretty funny. The Emu started doing its mating dance around Peter (my brother), and then I started laughing and so it moved over to me and kinda pushed me out of the way, he was being quite defensive.. lol.. it was lots of fun.  

While the family were in Warrnumbul (I think thats how you spell it), we went to Flagstaff Hill, which is a small historic village. They had a museum there documenting the history of the shipwreck coast. This is a ceramic peacock that stands taller than me... It would have been about 2m tall! It was recovered from one of the shipwrecks, and hauled up a cliff by a farmer! The only part of it that was damaged while the ship was being beaten on the rocky coastline was a tiny fracture in the beak.  

Concept A 

Concept B 

Please vote for your favourite "vibes" digital trumpet concept. Vote by leaving a comment with either A, B, or C in the text.  

Comcept C 

Mum, Phil, Me & Peter 

Swimming in Tidal River. 

Tidal River. The tide is currently out, but the beach was still lovely... I was surprised at how little sea-weed was on the beach. 

Squeeky Beach. This particular area is set aside for conservation. 

OMG has it really been over a month since I last posted?! It seems like only yesterday we were pushing cars around the bush! Since my last post, we had our 'family holiday' at Venus Bay. I had work and other commitments, so I could only come down for a few days at a time. That didnt stop me from making the most of my time... I decided that we should really visit Wilson's Prom while we were down there, so we all piled into the car and drove to Wilsons Prom for a picnic. After eating, we went swimming at Tidal River, and on the way home stopped for a look at Squeeky Beach. The sand at Squeeky Beach is soo fine that it actually squeeks when you walk on it. Quite amazing really... hehe
The second time I went down to Venus Bay, we just went to the beach that was there... It has such a fancy name too, "Venus Bay Beach 1". Maybe they were feeling very un-inspired when they discovered Venus Bay. I had a swim in the water and rode the waves on my body board. It was all very tireing though, so I went back to the shore and lay down in the sun.... **FATAL MISTAKE** I fell asleep in the sun and managed to burn my legs and all up my back. I was in bed for the next couple weeks, and Mum bought all the creams and sprays on the market for sunburns.
I also got a sore throught at the same time, so I visited the doctor. She seemed to think that I could have Glandular Fever, and she sentanced me to bed rest... at least until my blood test came back. When the test came back, it seems that I dont have Glandular Fever, but I am slightly low on iron. Interesting, because our family eats more red meat than anyone else I know! So now I am all better, taking some iron suppliments and trying to eat more iron. Maybe thats why I was tired???
Anyways, I'm sure that everyone dosent want to hear about my health problems... something more exciting is that I finally took the plunge and bought all the stuff I need to wirelessly network the house! (how exciting!!) After about a week of setting up, it finally works... and along the way I learned how to make cat5 data cable... (I should say, I learned how to "crimp" the ends) and I learned a thing or two about how to configure IP addresses to work together... even if that was with the help of the lady from netgear.
I hope everyone has a fantastic Valentines Day, and that your special someone knows you care.