Woops again

Once again i've fallen behind with my blogging, as you can tell by my complete lack of commitment, this is not something that comes naturally to me! I'm not much of a sharer so keeping a public is a littttle out of my comfort zone. To make up for my lack of effort i am going to be working my ahh fingers off this week to catch up and create a blog worth reading (i am fully aware of the terrible spelling and sentence structure thus far, bare with me). So thank you for being patient, my probabaly non existent audience, and stay tuned for more blogs ASAP!

Mobile Production - Week 10 workbook

Mobile Production - Week 10 workbook

In class today we were asked to produce content for our blogs usiong our mobile phones. Nikki and i set off with the intent to take pictures of signs and create a collage of some sort, however, our plans were ruined by the absolutly terrible camera quialty. After having wasted ten minutes of our precious time and ruining our well thought out (ha) plan, we were forced to completely change what we were doing.

The failed project led us to question how useful the cameras on phones actually are these days. My phone has an everchanging multicoloured keypad, can hold two sims, connects to the internet and is an MP4 but when it comes to the simple task of taking a picture it fails miserably.

As David mentioned before cameras have become a standard feature to phones with it now being hard to find one without it. An important issue though is that the quality of the cameras seems to have been pushed to the side. Cameras are added for the mere reason of saying that a phone has one, quality has been forgotten.

plastic bags

I work in a store where we buy plastic bags by the million. It’s assumed that nearly every customer will take one and I HATE THEM!

The majority of people don’t even need them. They have a leather bag that you could probably fit a young boy in and yet they ask for a plastic bag for two batteries! It seems everybody in the shire is more worried about their manicure getting ruined or the 4 second journey back to the car then they are about the environment.

If a customer asks for a bag and they already have 8 half empty ones, I’ve taken to throwing there stuff in the bag whilst quite obviously death staring their other bags.
It’s a little sad how I get offended if somebody asks for a plastic bag now, I feel like they are betraying the environment. What probably sadder though is that I seriously have to hold back from jumping over the counter and hugging someone when they buy an environmental one.

lack of food at uni

Last year I went to a different uni, UNSW at Kensington. Now while I don’t miss the 2.5 hour journey there or the fact that its built on a massive hill, so getting between classes consists of a 2 kilometre trek up 8000 stairs, I do miss their food facilities, typical really. This uni has extremely limited food options for a place that has hundreds of hungry growing students in it everyday. At UNSW there is a sushi bar, Thai, Chinese, a kebab shop, Indian, Vietnamese (BEST), burger places, salad bars, loads of deli type places and heaps more. The hardest part of the day was choosing what you wanted and now I’ve resorted back to my school days, bringing my own lunch. I think we need more then chicken schnitzels!

But don’t worry I love everything else about this uni :)

Set cinema seats at Miranda:

At Miranda movies they have the newer system of set seating. Which in theory is a good idea, cause it means no more stampedes in the door as people rush for the best seats but in practicality it well quite basically sucks.

They have hundred of seats to choose from yet the attendants clump everybody together in the same rows! You are literally packed in like sardines, wrestling over an armrest with a complete stranger. It’s ok if your watching an action movie or a comedy but the minute a sex scene pops up your stuck awkwardly pulling your arm away and attempting to not make eye contact with the person leaning next to you. What’s worse is when you get seated with some idiot right behind you who feels the need to talk constantly through out the movie and throw popcorn at his friends two seats in front of you! (yes I went to the movies the other day)
They say to buy your tickets online but the majority of the time I go to the movies it’s a spur of the moment decision and I, nor any of my friends have a credit candy at the ready to order them.