A Kominar Chronicle: In the beginning… 

We meet again!

I’ve been busy these past three weeks with all sort of miscellany. You’d probably be interested in about 50% of it. Here’s a list of things for you to pick and choose your enjoyment from.

Mrs. Zack

Props to my brother for the title. I’ve found an Aussie who appreciates my quirky sense of humour. She’s a genuinely nice gal. Her name is Nadine and we’re ‘an item’. Inquire within.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Fellow Canadians, remiss at missing our traditional dinner, decided to celebrate American thanksgiving. It was well attended and all attendees attempted to attend to our appetites by bringing ample food. Alas, I did not take any photographs. I was responsible for bringing salad.

Theatre in the Park

Some student society put on an event on a giant hill that lay behind the library. A stage was setup along with a very sketchy sound system. There were a number of very talented singers/musicians, and conversely there were some with considerably less talent. I decided to join in the festivities early in the evening and did a little rendition of Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag. Despite a few messy spots it was well received. Maybe one of these days I’ll actually polish a song off to perfection?

Mr & Mrs. Bond

I befriended a study-abroad student and she was participating in a beauty pageant. I told her I would attend, and I did. Preparation included crafting a sign reading “Cheryl”. I later found out that her name is spelt “Sheryl”, already on my way out the door and away from my raw materials it was time for craftiness. Nadine suggested that we cut the “C” in half and turn it into an “S”. Simply genius. The party was held at The Drink nightclub and was an enjoyable event.

School

Yes, I am still attending school. Haven’t had all that much formal feedback on my work yet. This coming week is the last week of classes and is largely full of review. Following that there’s a week off for study purposes and then exams to be written. I’m here till the very end!

Schoolies

Hmm… how to describe Schoolies. There’s certainly nothing like it in Canada that I could relate to. Essentially, Schoolies is a time where all Australian students leaving high school congregate in one geographic vicinity. That vicinity happens to be the Gold Coast. I guess there are other spots that they go to, but this one is the ‘big wave’. (I made that up)

With that out of the way I can tell you about my personal anecdote. As I was heading into a nightclub I saw one of these schoolies kids being carted away in a paddy wagon. I learned of his fate the next day on the news. Apparently he was busted for holding a number of ecstacy tablets. I saw him try and violently force his way out of confinement. It was amusing and sad.

Official Schoolies Homepage

Relevant News Articles:
Teen arrested after 36hr rampage (Courier-Mail)
Pushers work schoolies (Courier-Mail)

Avast! En Garde! And so forth!

Anyone who knows me knows that I like some pretty strange things. Well, this is not one of them. Pirates are not strange and you should not have been surprised in the slightest that I am amused by this story.

I was pleasantly pleased to see that pirates have hit the mainstream media again with their most recent assault. Doubly so because the recent events have hit very close to Bond. I’ve always had my suspicions but yesterday they were slightly less suspicious and certainly more definite.

“What’s that on the horizon!?” I asked myself..

I paused for a minute and reeled in the reality of what was really happening around me.

“Oh.. My… God….”

“PIRATES!”

As it turns out, they were hired guns, paid to retrieve errant golf balls from the lake that people were hitting in. It was all part of some golf society event. There was a floating green platform in the middle of the lake and prizes for landing on said green.

A fellow friend of mine fancied a round and inquired about the procedure. ”$5 for 3 balls” we were told. We asked how we could win the prizes and the organizers were vexingly vague about the whole affair. “What if we just hit the green?”, “Uhhh… we’ll take your name and you may win a prize.”

To be fair, there was only a limited amount of prizes and they were protecting their best interests. I think I was just disappointed to see pirates associating with a group of this nature.

That’s all for now mateys.

P.S

Check out this pirate map filter someone put on Yahoo Maps. It may only work in I.E but it’s possibly worthwhile to check out for anyone who yearns for the yonder days of ole’.

“Another ‘ween is upon us!” as my brother so eloquently put it. Canadian Law Students Association put on a wonderful party at Delano’s down in Surfer’s Paradise. It was well attended by costume wearers.

Unfortunately, my batteries died halfway through the night and I was abruptly forced to stop taking pictures. Thankfully, I snapped a few gems while the night was young.

Drinks flowed freely through the night! Literally! President of the CLSA had a drink card which he could buy drinks on. The total amount on the card was unknown but he was very generous in purchasing party-goers beverages!

Mhairi, I hope you’re pleased with the particular craftiness I showed when making my costume. Materials were purchased for under $1, barring the expensive suit I already owned of course.

Happy Halloween!