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Thursday, December 4, 2003
Muhuhu...
On the 11th of December, I'm going out to the Oakey Army Base on a behind the scenes tour, courtesy of one of Mum's friend's husbands.
Ehehehe..^_^
Woo! Fear the Liam and the seeing of Blackhawk 2's and the talking to pilots and etc.
Muhuhu, I'm even meeting one of the pilots who's incredibly keen about helicopters, [Callsign 'Keeny']and he's going to take off and show off to us and stuff.
ehehe ^________________^
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Wednesday, December 3, 2003
Total OwNaGe
I'm obsessed, but that's a good thing because what I'm obsessed with, I kick ass at.
^____^
Muhuhu..
Fear the almightly Liam and his total Halo muchgoodness-ness...
Team Score:
Red
Liam: 41
Chris: 9
Blue
Cameron 38
Craig 11
That repeated itself in Team King of the Hill, and then went on to free for all [muhuhu..15 to me, 14 to him] An all out war.
To risk quoting that Macca's ad 'I'm lovin' it.'
^_^
Muhuhu..
Seeing as Cameron was a god at Halo [he's finished it on Legendary] and I don't even own the game, I reduced him to saying 'I'm not even trying...'
lol
Ah well, I'm enjoying it. It won't be long before he starts practising again.
But hey, on his birthday he's planning on hooking up two X-boxes and having 8 people come over so we can have some serious battles.
Mmm..four people a side...the ultimate Red vs Blue conflict..
Shotguns sniper!
^___^;;
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Much wanty..O__O
Whoa, I went round to Red Vs Blue and I saw..I saw..
x.X;;
Aww hell, I'm just going to have to show you.
This is a Warthog, the Halo vehicle
and this is the Peugeot Concept vehicle, Le Hogger [I'm serious, that's its name]
Muhuhu..I've wanted a Warthog since I first saw its pixels in Halo..and now I can...as long as Peugeot make it..now...and give one to me..x.X;;
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Monday, December 1, 2003
lol
That's just hilarious to me. When I nicked it from Q_A, I also had another, which is even more hilarious;
and the Original;
lol
'Real American Heroes'? Sounds like a rocking band name, I'll just write that down...*snort*
Ok ok, I got a little carried away, but hey, it's just so much fun ^_^
*cough*
Last one there, I promise.
So yeah, what was I going to say?
Oh yeah!
I've added about 3000 words to Loaded and I'm really enjoying the storyline, it's a pity Eden is getting ignored..ah well. I've set a thing that I want to do 10 000 words a week, minimum.
I know, I know, it's high and I'll probably slip a little, but from the 3000 words I did yesterday, it's looking good.
Muhuhu..I'm enjoying this writing thing too much...
I'll get back to you at the end of the week and inform you of any developments..
Ah yes, I might be going out to the Oakey Army Air base to check out the equipment and stuff over there, so start expecting more detail when it comes to me explaining things.
^_^
[I'm such a nerd]
One more [but from a different person,lol]
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Saturday, November 29, 2003
Listen carefully James, blah blah blah bomb, blah blah nuclear warhead, blah blah bikinis, blah blah jetpack
Muhuhu..much liking of Tripod.
Go the new James Bond Theme song!
'Die almost never, nearly forever'
^_^
Heh, I'll change the Russel Crowe Lullaby to it.
Meh, too lazy now.
Anyhow, I got back from Stake Conference and it was good ^_^
What else?
Ah yes, I have the forms to apply for a Learners permit!
Muhaha!
x.X;
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I feel slightly guilty
Two days of holidays and I haven't done any work on Loaded or Eden.
So make it that I feel intensely guilty x.X;
However, I have done the official SYF banner and I have downloaded 20 Tripod songs from the Triple J grab bag.
And I burnt them all to a flash CD so I can play them now through any CD player and our Ps2.
^_^
I even did a flashy CD cover
I'm so incredibly sad, lol.
Anyhow, give me a critique on the new official SYF banner:
Feel free to comment below or at the official
thread
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Thursday, November 27, 2003
*hangs school tie up on bed head*
Welp, looks like I won't be wearing that for another two months.
^________^
Summer+Chrissie holidays!
Waaaah! Muhuhuhuuu..x.X;;;
Why do I still feel like I have some study to do and that I'm yet to hand something in?
X.x;;
Ah well, much endorsement of one of my favourite bands and my favourite track [until I remember the others, lol].
Starky: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
You must listen to it! Listen to it now!
lol
[much needing to finding a midi link]
Ah well, here's their website, a pity it's playing Girl Talk instead of my track[yes, my track]
Starky Homepage and Girl Talk track
*hums to self*
Ack, much needing to by CD's. I only have 'Music from the Panel,' which is sweet, but I kind of stole it and claimed it as my own from Mum.
lol
Ah well, it has the Warren Brothers on it and one of my other all time favourite tracks 'Better man'
heh..if it weren't for Triple J, I'd be restricted to...*shudder at the thought* mainstream music...
ugh
x.X;;
[Shameless endorsement of the
site and live radio webstream]
AHHHH!
Much happiness!
Triple J has a whole page of mp3 transcripts of the show, including Tripod songs!
*runs around like an ecstatic crazy man*
AHAHAHA!
[one of their songs is meant to be playing while you're listening..]
Grab bag!
lol
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Wow, and double Wow
I'm sitting on a C10 for english, so obviously my last assignment didn't go down well. From being on a B10 at the first semester, a C10 for second isn't good.
But hey, that isn't the wow part.
^_____^
Jess came down to the front lawns after tottering off to see Mr Waters about our Chem exam marks.
It turns out she'd asked for mine as well. To put it bluntly, she says, 'oh yeah Liam, I asked for your marks as well, guess what?'
I groaned inwardly thinking of the consequences of that statement, but I said, 'what?'
'You got straight A's on the exam!'
I kinda fell sideways, quite a feat for sitting down with my head over my shoulder and talking to her.
'You're not serious!'
'You're like one of seven people in the grade that did.'
'...you are serious.'
So yeah my mood equates to:
Chem marks - English marks= ^_____________^
Oh yeah, before I forget, my precious, precious Loaded is just under 15000 words.
^_^
I forced Mum to read it last night about 7ish and she said 'do I have to?' so I told her to read it as long as it took me to do the dishes.
I did the dishes, she was still reading, I asked if I could get on and do some more on it and she basically told me to buzz off because it was getting interesting.
lol
I was about to grumble, and then I realised that my mother, avid fan of all literature who first forced me to read Matthew Reilly (Ice Station) and other awesome books, she was actually insisting to reading mine.
So I went off and watched TV with Dad in the other room, and I could still hear her reactions to what she was reading. You know, little sharp intakes of breath etc.
She finished reading it and wandered off to bed about 8:30/9sih
I called over my shoulder as she passed, 'so, what's you thoughts?'
'Very good. Cool idea. Sleep now..'
lol.
I've decided that if and when I get it published I'm going to have this on my acknowledgements page;
'To my mother, who if it had not been for, I could not have bragged about my book and said in a defensive tone; "But my mum thinks it's cool".'
^_^
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Monday, November 24, 2003
^_^
One exam left!
^________^
And it's an easy one, and I've got the day off today!
I was hoping to get a voice conversation with Jenna going but she had to leave and Dad's booting me off with the whole 'half hour rule'
Bah -.-;
On a lighter note, I've decided to work on turning Loaded into a proper novel. It's obvious it won't work as an RPG, but it's such a strong story.
Hence it and Eden will be in a sort of series.
How can I do that? You ask in surprise.
After all, they're completely different storylines, but they're the same genre, and they both have my strongest character, Jonathan Richton.
Heh, here comes to link.
I might do a trilogy centred around Jonathan, but each book will have him in a completely different role, a different dimension as it were.
heh
^_^
Mwah, also I can start getting my Learners soon...^_^
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Sunday, November 23, 2003
News Article
I was incredibly bored and I got it done.
Enjoy.
We’ve all heard about the Counter-Terrorist agencies employed by governments all over the world, and how they frequently work together to bring down the bad guys. How old are the members? Late twenties at the youngest, mid forties at the oldest?
What if I told you that there was an existence of another Counter-Terrorist group, completely secret to the public that was a combined force from America, Australia Britain and Russia? That this group, originating as a simple exploration of an idea from Australia’s top ASIO and ASIS agents, is now one of the most respected shock groups in the world?
An amazing development, no? How old must be the members, to be regarded as the forefront? Late forties maybe?
Try twelve.
We’ve seen movies such as Spy Kids and Agent Cody Banks, which place children as key espionage agents doing the work of adults, and accepted them as a good form of entertainment, nothing more. After a pivotal meeting of four nations, the existence of the Special Youth Force, or SYF, has been released to the public.
The ages of the SYF members range from twelve to nineteen. The younger members are planted in schools or situations that are dubbed ‘at risk.’ Once there they can quickly act and bring down an act of terrorism if it should arise.
Such was the secrecy of the SYF’s actions that all of their missions have not been released to the public. Informed readers should remember the incident at Gryphon College six years ago.
Six million dollars in damages were done, but not one hostage’s life was lost out of the two hundred students that were held captive. Previous to the disclosure of the reports of the event, the public did not know the full story of the events. Two ex-army Apache’s were flown onto the Campus by the terrorist group, and were skilfully taken down by the SYF agents planted in the school, only the age of thirteen.
The video footage of a youth trying to shoot down one of these Apaches with a pistol became instantly famous when leaked videos were sent to the leading news publishers of Australia.
This youth is, in fact, one of the many SYF members employed by the government, but he’s also the first. His parents were the ASIS agents that started the experiment when he was twelve, along with his sister, deceased.
Oddly enough I met this gentleman, now almost twenty, on one of my trips to Singapore. I found him combing the rubble with other youths his age and interviewed him about the disastrous explosion. He and another SYF agent brilliantly peddled off a story that they were University students and had been driving past when the explosion happened. I bought the story.
This agent, his name now known, Liam, was informed that the existence of the SYF was to be released to the press and requested me to be his interviewer.
We met again in a secluded section of the Sydney library. I had been waiting for only a few minutes when he appeared beside me on one of the reading couches, dressed casually like the other teenagers browsing the shelves. (I later found out that they, too, were agents from his team).
I beckoned for him to begin from the start, when he was first recruited into the SYF.
“When I was twelve,” he started. He spoke with a crisp accent with a slight hint of Spanish, an after effect from his last mission he told me. “My parents fully informed me about their vocations. My twin sister and I were surprised; seeing as they were always home, like other parents, and they were completely unrestricted in attending important things in our lives. After the initial shock had passed, they informed us that we were to be integrated into a new ASIS organisation. We were, in effect, to be the guinea pigs of the fledgling SYF.” He paused there, a small smile playing across his lips as though he found the recounting of his life clichéd. “Heavy, full on training followed after our full consent. We trained like the SAS, day in day out, and kept to our school schedule. Don’t ask me how, but we managed to juggle intense training missions in PNG and scrape passing grades. Our first real mission came just a couple months before we turned thirteen. We were with a certain Major Pine when a Sprigot mortar, a booby trap, compromised our situation. Major Pine took the damage, Jess was ahead of us and safe, but Major Pine couldn’t protect me from the light.”
Liam paused there for effect, and lowered his pale-blue tinted sunglasses, pointing to his eyes. I could just make out the irregularity around the pupil, evidence of laser surgery.
“I went into intensive care and they managed to save most of my sight, but I was stuck with glasses until just a year ago when laser surgery advanced enough to cope with my situation. After that event I began a spiral downward of sorts, I became more reclusive, intense, you could say. Jess blossomed and became the social butterfly. When knowledge of my parents passing reached me, I sunk further.”
“How did you rise out of it?” I asked, as the agent sitting beside me was cheerful, much like the one I met in Singapore.
Liam grinned, “I met a certain agent.” He said knowingly. He caught my look and added, “no, not in that way. But she was teamed with me along with other agents for another mission. I was sixteen there and, to quote her, ‘a trigger happy son of a bitch’.” He gave a small laugh. “During the mission, don’t ask me why, I warmed up a little and began to take the road back to normality. Maybe it was because…” He stopped abruptly there and mused for a while. “Actually, I don’t think I’m allowed to mention mission details to you.”
I raised an eyebrow as he looked up and called to a nearby pretty girl, whom had her nose buried into a novel. I instantly recognised her from Singapore, though I didn't recall her being seated there before.
“Rae, am I?" He asked and then apologised to me, "I usually forget the intricacies of these things.”
The girl known as Rae, flicked her hair out of her face and said, “go for it. If you’re not allowed, it will be edited out of the article anyway.” She smiled apologetically at me and shrugged, saying, “It’s the truth.”
“Well, Rae here was mistaken for a certain weapons dealer’s daughter, and had to play the part in the effort of finding out more information. She, I might add, played the part beautifully.” He winked at Rae, who blushed slightly and looked back to her book. “A situation arose where I was captured by this dealer, and, to keep playing the part, had to torture me on several occasions to keep the dealer believing that she was his daughter.”
Liam raised his palm, showing me a symbol that had been carved into it. He must have noted my involuntary flinch, because he smirked and put his back to me. He lifted the back of his shirt and revealed a mess of scar tissue, evidence of the infamous cat-o-nine tails.
“I have to tell you,” he said when he’d turned back to face me, “it really wasn’t pleasant. But I’m over it now, and in an odd way, I’m better for it.”
Liam wouldn’t reveal the details of his current mission, or if the SYF had any involvement in the Singapore incident, but he did inform me that it was in the interests of public safety. “As always,” he said dryly.
“Would you call yourself a hero?” I asked, I had to ask it.
Liam’s eyes knew as a wry smile crept over his face again. “Don’t call me that.” He said. “The term hero is reserved for fictitious people like James Bond that never get shot, have perfect teeth and sleep around so much that they have invented their own venereal diseases. What I do is a job. There are so many loose ends that you have to be prepared for anything. We’re the anti-heroes, we get the job done, save bits of the world, and have scars, not medals, to show for it.”
He shook my hand and rose from the seat. I looked back down to my notes, and when I looked up, the library was deserted.
Comments would be greatly appreciated, as well as anything on the song I mentioned below.
[EDIT: AAAGH! Indents don't register..]
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