I'm a 20 year old male from Newcastle in Australia - and I love living right here. You can see my plug for Australia here. I love bushwalking, listening to music and doing various other things that I won't bore you with.
Newcastle University is the place you'll find me most days of the week I'm doing electrical engineering there. The course is good but the mathematics that you have to do is absolutely horrendous. (That's mainly because I'm hopeless at integration - still I manage to get through somehow).
As you might have guessed I have an interest in both electronics and computers. I've written a few computer programmes in my time, but most are simply stuffing around to see if something works. I also happen to be a amateur radio operator - callsign VK2APA if anyone would like to know. I'll have a page dedicated to this soon.
It seems to me that every one that has a web page always gives their opinion on life, the universe and everything. And who am I to stop this tradition? :)
My philosophy is that there is fate, destiny and the candle theory. WTF does that mean I hear you ask. Well I think sometimes opportunities present themselves when by rights they shouldn't and I think this is fate.
What you make of these opportunities is your destiny. While I was reading Macbeth for english in my last year of high school the concept of a tragedy was introduced to me. The idea is that a character in a play makes their own destiny, but it is not always their conscious decision that forms our destiny. The faults and virtues of the character can lead them to a different outcome than would happen if their conscious minds alone decided their destiny. I think life is a tragedy of this sense - that we are lead by fate, our conscious minds and our faults and virtues.
The final one is the candle theory - so called because it comes from a poem that I want to find which involves some metaphors with a burning candle I'll see if I can find it. Basically it says that we are all going to die one day so we had best make the best of it now. I don't mean go around and be a bastard to everyone you see - in fact you should do the exact opposite. Try to be nice, honest and straightforward with everyone you meet. Because you don't know when it'll be too late to fix it up. At the same time I know this is not always possible. It is not always easy to see your own faults or how you are mistreating others, but in any case you should feel happy that you've done the best you can.
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to mention this. There is really only
one thing in the world that gets my goat and that is people who lie, are
dishonest or aren't straightforward with me. Ok. Ok. I'm getting too cynical so I think I'd better leave it here.
Thanks for reading my load of...