Posts Tagged ‘news’

Barack Obama—the 44th President of the USA

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Super Obama

What a momentous occasion. I am very pleased. Evidently, much of the world is pleased with this decision; it’s been an incredible journey for the Senator, and this is only the first step towards the change perpetually emphasised throughout his campaign, but for now let’s just shout out with glee: HELL YES, HE MADE IT! (It makes me sad though to think that Australians have yet to witness such an historic occasion on our own turf; like, when will we vote in an Aboriginal Prime Minister?) To be fair on the Republicans, McCain’s speech of defeat was gracious. I think he ended up sounding pretty sincere, and definitely downtrodden. Anyhow, I think they’re all doing him a favour by not electing him as President; it’s obviously a great deal of stress and anxiety to be in those shoes.

On a side note, let me reiterate: Alex Ross’ works are truly fantastic! While Cam and I were lining up to see Jim Lee at Armageddon we some some bloke wearing the Super Obama shirts, and the prick in front of us asked him to stay back so they could compare their “Obamas”. Yeesh. Anyway, my next book purchase is definitely going to be this one: Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross. I saw it in Readings the other day on one of my bookshop rounds and I fell in love with it.

I didn’t do an awful lot today. I went to the bank to withdraw one of my term deposits, on behalf of my dad. He’s a shrewd one. He gets me to open term deposits because I don’t pay tax (although that’ll be changing very soon). A n00bie teller was organising the closure of my account; I was actually a little bit worried she’d wiped out the interest or something. But it was all good. Now I’m going to have to re-invest elsewhere.

Afterwards I had lunch with my uni mates in a Japanese restaurant in the city. I don’t even remember what I had. It was some sort of curry don. And the drink I ordered (iced latte chocolate) was rubbish. And then like the fobs that we are, we went to get sticker photos taken in the nook and cranny of Chinatown! They’re actually the nicest ones I’ve taken. I remember seeing some awful results before. My favourites:

The rest on my Flickr

P.S. If it looks like I haven’t been blogging everyday “YOU’RE WRONG!” to quote (Harry-cum-Goyle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), I’m posting on both LJ and Eveninghour. Yay.
P.S.S. I am really happy with the new blog layout. I used Live Trace (my favourite Illustrator filter) to strip Catwoman and Batman down to the “basics” (take that comment as you will). It’s smouldering!

A day of lows and highs

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Australia has lost one of its finest actors: Perth-born Heath Ledger was found dead by his housekeeper in his Manhattan apartment. He was 28 years old. I am absolutely shattered. He wasn’t my favourite actor, but he was nonetheless a great and versatile talent. It just reiterates the fact that life is not all riches and glamour for famous people; there is a lonely and isolated aspect that is unconditionally shackled to you. I can’t imagine what he was going through. I only have the deepest respect for him, and my condolences for his family, friends and those who were lucky enough to know him.

Dark Knight
The epitaph of all roles: Heath as Batman’s arch nemesis, Joker.

AFI Awards 2006

Always an Aussie: Heath celebrates with Sharon (nursing a pash rash) from Kath and Kim and Dannii Minogue at the 2006 AFI Awards in Melbourne.

Rest in peace, Heath Ledger. You’ll be remembered not for the way you died but for the way you lived.

Meanwhile, onto some pleasantries, I ordered my black Macbook from Apple today! I get a student discount. I was going to upgrade the RAM to 2GB but then I thought better of it. If I really need it I can just add another 1GB RAM inside the spare RAM slot. It should be delivered by Friday or Tuesday (as Monday is a public holiday). Now I won’t be a plebeian!


Black Macbook: It was a hard decision but eventually Fate would have me with black. And the parents and friends are more pleased too.