A Kominar Chronicle: In the beginning… 

Congratulations are in order for my long-time friends Lyle & Mhairi who were married in late September.  What’s amazing is that they found some time where they were both in the same physical location to pull off such an event.  I’ve never met such a couple who can endure such distance yet keep such a close connection.  All the best to them in their new life together.

• Lyle and Mhairi Wedding Site

During my studies at Bond University I was a legal research assistant at the Department of Law. I had the pleasure of working with the other research assistants and contributing to a law textbook. I assisted with the Privacy and Spam Law chapters along with some draft review.

Internet and E-commerce Law is published by the Oxford University press and is available for order online. I was surprised last week when a copy from Australia arrived for me!

Congratulations to both Jay Forder and Dan Svantesson on their recent publication, and to all of the others who worked behind the scenes to make it happen.

Sharing our Light (1500 Pieces)

The Art of James Christensen

Finishing a puzzle in a small apartment with an over-active kitten is no easy task. I am proud to announce that Nadine and I managed to piece this together after 3 weeks of casual puzzling and only a few Chatty related re-constructions.

Chatty likes to play, we like to play, sometimes people and cat play don’t work well together. We devised a number of strategies to protect our work from her late-night mischief. The best seemed to be placing a rug over the puzzle with a folding chair on top, out of sight out of mind.

Two Days Later: Chatty sends the puzzle off in style to your right.

All rise! The honourable Doctor Zachary Kominar, JD now resides over this domain. (Please note: graduands of the Juris Doctor program are not entitled to use the honorary title Dr. before their name; However, you are more than welcome to humour me.)

Pictured to your right was my potent potable of choice for the celebratory evening. A JD for a JD seemed fitting to me. My time through Bond has been memorable for too many reasons to list in a list right now. Thankfully, I was forward thinking enough to write some thoughts a week or two before Graduation. Indulge me in my prose and excuse my disjointed poetic meter.

For Nadine to facing a new challenge in me; to Yees Makims and the riff-raff of unit sixty-one; to Thai draft dodgers and the greatest of friends to Malaysian/Asian (Is there a difference anymore!?) neighbours and their train of visitors who never end; to the visitors who tolerated ‘the white people’; to South African princesses and Canadians coast-to-coast; to the Sinha(sic) in us all; to the ‘Prince’ of Jersey and premiere polo players, twins, two, not one! to obnoxious Melbournian Cocaine-Mule neighbours that keep everyone up at night; to a loose association of Canadian Law Students; to reknowned legal scholars and Deans of Law and IT/Law research and international men of business who support all of my work; to dodgy body corporate management who stiff students on cleaning fees; to fellow unicyclers who I already met in Canada; to abrasive Americans, to tolerable Americans, and to pure bogans; to those people who always pipe up in tutorial and also those people who never, ever speak during a tutorial; to those who pass you the notes before tutorial and to those you can help by passing notes to; to Hot-air balloon operators; to 1st semester newbies; to 6th semester graduates; to those desperate for a job; to anime-lovers who never invite me over; to fellow mediators; to staff; to students; to hospitable parents; to Aussies from all over the land; thanks for a great time and showing me kindness.

To the days behind me, thank you for being full of adventure, challenge, discovery, and great friendship. I’ve had the privilege to travel the world and meet many amazing people. Although, this has not come without cost to my friends and family on the other side of the world. I owe this life to the people who care about me the most back in Canada, they made these days possible and I know they enabled me to live and learn this way.
P.S (You may now be seated)

• Graduation Day Pictures
• Graduation Night Pictures! (More fun!)