Have you ever played that silly game where you choose three things to take with you on a desert island? I played it on the weekend while drinking with my friends. At first I thought the suggestion to play the game was a lame idea but when we got into it I was laughing my …
Since my parents moved to Melbourne, their old property in the suburbs has just been sitting there unoccupied. Every now and then one of them will drive past to see if there’s any stray mail and they might do a bit of gardening. Recently, I went back myself to see if the place had any …
I chose an IT course because I thought it was the right thing to do. IT is big business, computers are popular, my parents don’t have a clue what I’m doing but it sort of sounds good, blah blah all of that. And yet, my heart aches for gaming. They just brought out the latest MMORPG …
Just my luck. I scored a decent house in a good area and there had to be something wrong with it! Everyone thinks I’m a curmudgeon but if they could take a stroll in my shoes for a day they’d see just how cursed I am. Thanks to my pathetic luck, I recently had to …
Some people might be a little put off by the story of how I came to pursue game design courses. Melbourne has a few of the best gaming related courses in the country. But actually this is a tale of redemption. Here’s how it all went down. My parents used to watch my unhealthy lifestyle …
I guess every group of friends has that eccentric individual. They may be the affectionate butt of all jokes or they may be that free-spirit of the group. In my case, my friend Dan is just like a character from that American sitcom called Seinfeld. No joke, he is exactly like Kramer, consistently bursting into …
I bought my first car at sixteen. I didn’t even have my full licence yet but I was already so obsessed with cars. I’d been working part time at a local supermarket and had saved a few hundred bucks to buy myself a run down Saab. Then I worked on it and fixed it up, …
Sometimes it’s really hard living with your parents when they just love their jobs. Okay so reading that back it sounds incredibly selfish, but hear me out. My dad is involved in property conveyancing in Melbourne. Just hearing the name of what he does is boring enough to put me to sleep, but he is …
It was that time of year again. Christmas was just around the corner and I was stuck for a gift idea for my mother. I had always managed to get Mum a great present for Christmas, but this year I had no inspiration for a fantastic gift was worried it was not going to be …
Sitting in the podiatrist office in Cheltenham, I realised my palms were very sweaty and my heart rate had become irregular. I was super nervous for some reason, or more so anxious to hear what the foot specialist had to say. I had just spent the last while following the directions of the podiatrist as …