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Peace,

V

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/16856867/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/16856867/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:19:31 PST
Some people might not know what this is about, others don't agree, but here on this journal i want to just make my apology known. it wont do much but its the least i can do today.

I say sorry for the taking of indigenous land, the assumption of terra nullius and the taking of indigenous children from communities which were carried out against the wishes of the indigenous people by fellow Australians.

In the last 220 or so year, indigenous people have suffered the most inhumane treatment by white Australians and for this i have deep regret and am sorry for.

I hope that the future holds a new growth of understanding and compassion between indigenous and non indigenous Australians so we may finally move forward tot eh benefit of all.


************

Nanna Nungala Fejo - "Families, keeping them together is very important, it's a good thing that you are surrounded by love and that love is passed down the generations - that's what gives you happiness.''

This quote, sums up what today is about for me.

Remember it, apply it to your life and in compassion to the lives of others.

pursue happiness

peace

Vastiel

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/14523344/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/14523344/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:10:35 PDT
This is a bit of a placeholder till i get more stuff happening. (and cuase my old journal was massive and annoying ) have a look at my new shots, see what you think, hopefully more will be on the way.

Peace

Vastiel

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/12972767/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/12972767/ Wed, 16 May 2007 02:22:08 PDT
He's part of a scandal about a pay package and promotion for his "companion" Shaha Riza, a middle east expert for the World Bank.

Wolfowitz has pleaded for his job before the World Bank council who are strongly considering sacking him, while the US administration meddles in the entire affair backing up Wolfowitz saying that he should KEEP his job after making a massive conflict of interest.

Article (The Age.com)

Thats one of many sites you can go to to read about this article.

Now to ME, it seems like he should know better and that he doesn't deserve a second chance. He's the president of the massive World Bank and he shouldn't have done this and he deserves to be fired!

However, i digress, that is my opinion, i am here to inform you of this issue and, if you feel as strongly about the injustice as i do, give you an avenue to make a difference here. If you don't care strongly enough about it, thats ok thanks for reading!

So if you'd like to sign the petition to sack Paul Wolfowitz head over to

The Petition

and have your say!

You might also like to look at the World Bank website at

World Bank

And contact them directly or contact your local member of parliament and see what they can do about this.

YOU HAVE A VOICE! USE IT!

*N.B - The opinions expressed here are mine alone and in no way are endorsed by DA*

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/12548421/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/12548421/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:26:36 PDT
So as the first installment I present:
On Discarded Post it Notes 1: Mussing on life, choices and the human spirit by James Donaldson 2007

There comes a point in every persons life,
where they must either take a deep breath and dive in,
or run away from it all forever.

That time is now....

Breathe Deep.



Not very good perhaps but I like the sentiment myself. Constructive criticism is always welcome as are any other comments you may have. I like a good philosophical chat now and again .

Keep smiling all, fight the good fight,

~Vastiel

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/11913430/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/11913430/ Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:30:01 PST this article on penny arcade. scroll down to the second news article for the one i'm talking about. the original post is at the bottom of the previous news page if people are interested. while gabe does a bit of a turn around i think he means well by his original post for the majority of cases of this kind of video games made me do it crime, even if not this particular one. the letter however is an amazing insight into the actaul story behind the crime and i think its worth everyone reading it so they can have a bit more of an insight into the fact that gamers as a group aren't violent people, infact your average nerd stereotype couldnt hurt a fly even if they wanted. so take a look, tell us what you think and remeber the media manipulates you to get agood story, not always to tell the truth , or the whole truth at least.

Vastiel

Thought for the day

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

* Noam Chomsky in 9/11 (2001)

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/11901798/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/11901798/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:03:32 PST
so this means i will finally be back to add more deviations, look at all your wonderful devaitions and place comments on them

look forward to some normal pics as well as some stencil and street art and long rambling journals

keep safe all and remeber open a window and turn off the aircon, i've done that today and found it quite pleasant.

Quote for the day:

We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time. […] I believe putting resources into improving the lives of poor people is a better strategy than spending it on guns.

* Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus; quoted in Karl Ritter and Doug Mellgren, , "Nobel laureate: Poverty fight essential", Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), 10 December 2006. URL accessed on 2006-12-10.

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/11499316/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/11499316/ Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:18:14 PST **DISCLAIMER**
This rambling has not been fully researched, nor am i purporting to be an expert in this field, it is merely the ramblings of a 20 year old guy who thinks there's something wrong with the world and wants to vent and bit and maybe find people who agree with him.



So maybe I'm just in weird moods lately but one news article i saw on sky news at work the other day really caught my attention and riled me up. some of you will probably know the US government recently passed laws relating to the conduction of military tribunals in which it is now acceptable to pass a judgment, possible a death sentence based on hearsay and information garnered under coercion(ie torture). the men and i assume women, to be sentenced under these laws are categorized as illegal forgein combatants (see the US defense department website for more info i believe).

now fair enough these people are terrorist subjects and i by no means agree with them killing people to bring about change, however i do believe they should be at least allowed to have a fair trial in which they cannot be sentenced to death by any random person saying they heard someone say that the suspect was a terrorist. further more, this is a single step on a short road to the destruction of our own civil liberties and right to a fair trial in our own legal system. if my knowledge of the so called cold war communism witch hunt trials is anything to go by, the events which could follow these laws being passed cannot be good. first they prosecute illegal enemy combatants, then suspects of terrorism within our own society, and before we know it any one of us could be accused to being a terrorist(rather than a communist) by any person on the street is we made some passing comment agasint the American government. this seems to me to be a dangerous direction for the American governemtn to be heading in and may lead to our own right to freedom of speech being overruled for "our protection"

so theres some rambling, maybe I'll actually look into this and see what i can come up with but for now, that'll do, lemme know what you think i'm open to discussion to see what others think about this, please be polite i will debate you but i wont flame nor tolerate flaming.

quotes for the day:

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts, to enforce a law not supported by the people.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

- Henry David Thoreau

the Earth is not dying, it is being murdered and the people murdering it have names and addresses'

- British Ef!, Seen In Diy Culture: Party And Protest In Nineties Britain (Verso)

and for each of you to think about, in the immortal words of "fight club"

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

*theblueprintmachine

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/11331080/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/11331080/ Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:48:27 PST . I'm back at work and settled into my new spacious house at toowong in Brisbane.

Working on some photos but haven't had much chance to develop any and the ones from the holiday are pretty crap. also working slowly on a new project to do with street art, stickers, stencils, quotes in chalk etc looking at introducing some philosophy and revolutionary feelings i spose you'd say, into the environment of Brisbane. I've become increasingly aware of the screwed up nature of our world today and decided that i cant sit around and do nothing if i feel strongly about this, I've talked to some interesting people about the state of the world and its occurred to me that many people think something is wrong but not many are doing anything. so maybe in the future you'll start seeing my usual shots with some street art mixed in.. we'll see i spose.

Anyway, more shots coming once i get around to scanning some old ones I've been meaning to put up, and get spare money to get my latest roll developed.

thanks for looking, and hopefully thinking too

Thought for the day:
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

* Abraham Lincoln

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/10908302/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/10908302/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:13:33 PST

Hopefully have some more photos when I'm back and settled into my new place in ~2 weeks.

For now, two great shots I've found this last week.

Calm by ~QwikDrah

and

Mary by ~adstantes

Check them out

Prints account coming soon *theblueprintmachine

~Vastiel

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/10653433/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/10653433/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:38:40 PST [link] by *dibbi. to me it sums up what graffiti is all about, its not going out and tagging some random public or private property with your 'tag' just cause you can, graffiti to me is the art of revolution, speaking out on the streets to the masses, trying to bring about change. so for this journal I'm featuring some people who I've found with some great graffiti shots in there galleries, stuff to make you think not just blankly stare at on the train...

The art of revolution

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hope you all enjoy and dont think i'm not too weird





~theblueprintmachine is coming soon..............

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/10210638/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/10210638/ Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:42:29 PDT I recently (2 days ago)ventured into the world of urban photo shoots so i thought i'd sahre my experiences here before i post up piccies of it. So myslef and ~adstantes have ventured to brisbane city once before but never have we jsut walked wherever the wind takes us so to speak(be it private schools or unmakred police stations )

anyway on tuesday we decideed we'd go out again, started with the ususal walk through the city but ended up venturing into the suburbs on the outskirts of brisbane, finding schools, awesomely deserted adn strangely mediteraninan feeling suburban hills and as mentioned above an unsigned poilice stastion ( at least from the direction we got to it by) where a cop got pissed at us for standing on teh driveway with cameras. woot

all in all seemingly not very interesting unless you wher there, however for myslef it opened my eyes to teh good times you can have walking aroudn places you've never been fore jstu taking photos and really looking at things rather than jsut flying by ina car. or else in the palces you'd never get to cause you stick to main roads and such. it's jsut brought to mind fragmetns of lord of the rings:

"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say."

and

"Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun."

i think it sums up what i've kinda gotten into phtoogrpahy for, and why i've gotten into arahcoelogy, walking the less trodden path, finding little bits and peices of information adn memories half forgotten that make you look at hte world wiht a new wonder adn the way taht light, colours, heat and cold and a good firend by your side can enrich an everyday experiecne like taking a photogrpah and give a life meaning beyond the everyday adn mundane things, work, uni and love.

anyway from blog to philospohy woot
enjoy

~Vastiel

and yeah i have spelling mistakes

]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9947450/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9947450/ Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:46:35 PDT Listening to: Nothing
Watching: Nothing

So i'm bored and meant ot be doing assingments but cant really be bothered so i thought i'd write up another journal cause my last one was big-ish. i've recently put up a new devation of my friend gavin, its pretty crpapy cause its jstu a snap shot on a bad camera but it looks awesome . plus i have new ID so for those of you who care and havent seen me IRL then you now can! yeah not very interesting ahh well. must get off too assingments, i really am goign to post more pictures soon... really! anyways i'm in a weird mood so i better submit this before i ramble even more. arevederci

Vastiel

Check out ~adstantes a talented brisbane photogpraher of all things interesting
and
*Zarafa a canberiian nature photographer of unsurped talent
and
~samurai-charger a new vector artists of austrlain youth art awards finalist fame ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9914593/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9914593/ Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:22:05 PDT Reading: The celts in europe
mood: depressed/hopeful/confused/calm

I HAVE BEEN TAGGED! stupdi reading journals instead of doing uni work
check out ~adstantes hes an awesome guy with some great photos
and check out *Zarafa a great canberrian nature photographer

anyway onto the quiz of doom


1)Full Name: James Windsor Donaldson
2) Name Backwards: nosdlanod semaj (my names better than yours hug-bert)
3) Were you named after anyone? windsor after my great great grand ma james after my grandfather, donaldson cause we live in a partiacal society in which the wife and children take the fathers name
4) Does your name mean anything? hebrew for supplanter! go me!
5) Nick Name(s): jamesy, jimmy, both by girls /me rolls eyes
6) Screen Name(s): vastiel
7) Date Of Birth: 15/1/87
8) Place of Birth: Brisbane
9) Nationality: Aussie
10) Current Location: home
11) Sign: capricorn
12) Religion: non cornforming "christian"
13) Height: 6' something
14) Weight: pffft noo idea
15) Shoe Size: 12
16) Hair colour: light brown!
17) Eye colour: hazel
18) What do you look like? my relfection
19) Innie or Outie? innie
20) Righty, Lefty, or Ambidextrous? Right
21) Gay, Straight, Bi, or Other? as quoted in someones sig on the forums i'm a trainsexual ... striaght
22) Best friend(s): urz, hugh, lil one, scotticus, sano, tom, gavdog
23) Best friend you trust the most: urz, hugh, lil one and strangley david
24) Best friends {your sex}: urz hugh tom scott sano brendan bruno gavdog david and anyone i forgot
25) Best friends of the opposite sex: lil one amy emma nikki ellie laura and anyone i forgot.... tom
26) Best Bud(s): urz and hughbert and lil one
27) Boyfriend / Girlfriend: nelle.... ?
28) Crush: None
29) Parent(s): ian and daphne
30) Worst Enemy: Joe
31) Favorite on-line Guy(s):urz or hugh
32) Favorite on-line Girl(s): lil one
33) Funniest friend: amy!
34) Craziest friend:AMY!
35) Advice Friend: urz or lil one or hugh or david
36) Loudest Friend: we're all frigin loud
37) Person you cry with: i only ever cry with myslef

Do You Have...
38) Any sisters: 0
39) Any brothers: 2
40) Any pets: two birds fudge and oscar
41) A Disease: schuermanns disease
42) A Pager: Nope
43) A Personal phone line: nope
44) A Cell phone: yup old and increasingly crappy
45) A Lava lamp: nope
46) A Pool or hot tub: nope
47) A Car:my awesomeful peugeot

Describe Your...
48) Personality: reserved unless provoked or aroudn friends, thoughtfull and too grown up for my own good
49) Driving:fairly good i think i'm one of the better dirvers on our roads
50) Car or one you want: one with a working speedo, a door skin and a working power window
51) Room: old queenslander style, blue with yellow high ceailings , large double bed and dresser + wardrobe, desk with labtop adn papers, caots and lots and lots and lots of books on shelves
52) What’s missing? someone
53) School:uq st lucia a bigger hive of scum and villany you wont find this side of the milky way
55) Relationship with your parent(s): fairly good

Do You...
56) Believe in yourself: yeah i try to
57) Do you believe in love at first sight? Yeah
58) Consider yourself a good listener: yup
60) Get Along with your parents:yeah
61) Save your e-mail conversations: lol ususally
62) Pray: yup
63) Believe in reincarnation: not until the endings of the earth when the world is remade
64) Like to make fun of people: not really
65) Like to talk on the phone: its alright
66) Like to eat: always
67) Like to drive: yeah tis r... ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9681074/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9681074/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:16:40 PDT Reading: Honoured Enemy by Raymond E. Feist and William Forstchen
Watching: Time Team from Tuesday night
Listening to: Placebo - Meds

Well I've been back from the holiday of doom for a while now, just been slack tho so no journal until now . Back at uni adn loving it, learning to age and sex bones, looking at sediments and studying the conecpts behind rosary beads, as well as findout out about how historical archeacology is, and i quote my lecturer here:

"I like to think of historical archeaology as a SLUT: It'll take whatever it can from whereever it can to acheive its ends."

So funny but so true Anways i've got this environmental aracheology text that is te most boring peice of literature to do with archeaology.. mainly becuase as yet it's had about 2 pages of text on arahceology andi've read 5 chapters. grrrrrrr not happy. i've also been seriously drunk since my last journal, something I hope never to reapeat on such a scale again. Also, some advice, dont play drunk drinking games with people who cheat, its BAD when your reckless for whatever reason. I shoudl probably go have a shwoer adn do some work now and eventaully i'll go throguh my photo's from canberra and post up some of the better shots from teh 9 rolls of film and then hopefully get some more developed and continue posting. ohh well, keep checking back there will be some good stuff soon i promise

~vastiel ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9256276/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9256276/ Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:38:51 PDT
Just thought i'd journalise the fact that i'm leaving for canberra(capital of australia)in two days for a 2 week holiday so i wont be checking comments, devations etc for a bit. I'll give you all comments galore and finally post more pictures when i return but for now...

Areverderci

~Vastiel ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9053580/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/9053580/ Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:05:32 PDT Listening to: The Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Stadium Arcadium - Jupiter.
A pretty good album from what I've heard so far, different to my usual tastes but quite good.

Reading:Walking the Bible - A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses.
A very interesting book written by a jewish journalist that takes you through his journeys in the Holy Land as he tries to get in touch with the Bible(Torah etc). Travelling ot many aracheological sites and interspersed with many biblical passages i'm finding it very enlightening both professionally (i'm studying to be an aracheologist) and spiritually (I'm anglican now jewish but its all the same stories in teh old testament) Recommended if your interested in the middle east, archaeology or spiritaulity, particularly Christainity, Judaism and Islam.

Watching: Phantom of the Opera.
Since i was a kid i've loved Phantom - my parents are fans and i grew up with the music blaring from LP's - and this movie is pretty awesome. Not the best ever but they've pulled of the musical parts wonderfully and its a great story. Some great momments, like the chandelier rising back to the cealing, pulling back the dust of ages to the rousing phantom of the opera theme.... words cannot describe. I highly recommend this movie if your a fan of Phantom.

Mood: Quite Relaxed and a little tired with a hint of aches and pains from the cold.


~-~-~-~-~

Exams are finally apon me, in a few days I'll have my first one, on the Rise and Fall of the Mayans, and within six days they'll be over... Wow. The semester is over and i'm half way through my degree. Awesomeness!

My issues from my last journal seem to be resolved as much as they will be for the momment so i'm happy about that. But of course each week throws more challenges my way and i'll have to keep on ploughing through everything goign on until I can finally have a few weeks off in canberra to spend some time with my beautiful girlfreind, relax, checkout ANU for my Post graduate work and take some nice photos for you all to show up ~adstantes .

Australia is goign quite well in the world cup it seems, they owned Japan the other night 3-1, all 3 goals they scored in the last 8 minutes! Hopefully they'll keep form and wont get thrashed too badly by Brazil. Working at an Itlaian coffee shop certainly gets your interest in soccer sparked i can tell you. The atmosphere in our little shopping center about the world cup is simply amazing considering soccer has never been too popular in Australia. Hopefully this heralds a nice change in soccers fortunes here, and why wouldn't you like a sport that doesnt end in fist fights and who's players aren't near constantly embroiled in some scandal or another. Well thats my opinion anyway.

Lastly, as a shameless plug to ~adstantes and a very useful space filler for me I'll complete the following little quizzy thing recently posted by my good friend, life counsellor and drinking buddy ~adstantes:

1. My ex is:
Non-existant

2. I am listening to:
Slow Cheetah - Red Hot Chilli Pepers

3. Maybe I should:
Study for my exam

4. I love:
My Nelle

5. My best friend:
Urzumph - Programmer extraordinare

6. I don't understand:
Why my kidney hurts

7. I lose:
At the ' The huns' campaign in Age of Empires: Gold Edition

8. People say:
I'm Evil

9. The meaning of my screen name is:
Nothing, just made it up one night when playing Diablo 2

10. Love is:
Hard, Confusing, Annoying, Beautiful, Happy, Easy, Warm, Fuzzy, Cold, Passionate, For ever, A pain in the neck, The Best, The worst, Nothing, Like Rain, Like good coffee, Everything...

11. Somewhere, someone is:
Sitting here like me

12. I will always:
Be a sucker for history

13. Forever seems:
Daunting and exhilerating

14. I never want to:
Feel like my life has been wasted

15. My cell phone is:
Battered and Bruised

16. When I wake in the morning:
I want to go back to sleep!

17. I get annoyed at:
People... yeah mostly at people

18. Parties are:
Undecided

19. My dog is:
Adopted from my girlfriend

20. Kisses are the worst when:
Noo idea, kisses are... ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8995970/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8995970/ Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:30:56 PDT
*sigh*

*sigh*

*head hits table*

/me thinks.. Oww! Time for bed.


VAFFANCULO TESTA DI CAZZO

*sigh*

*head hits table*

*sigh*

/me walks off dejectedly

tip of the day: dont stick your neck out for someone and apologise... ever... they jsut whack you in the face with a baseball bat and keep on doing what they alwasy have

/me shakes head















*sigh* ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8907872/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8907872/ Mon, 29 May 2006 04:33:24 PDT Listening to: silence
Watching: recently watched "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" which was a very moving film, I recommend it.
Reading: Magician by Raymond E. Fiest, lent to me by my great friend Urz, programmer of doom.




So! Another journal I hear you ask? Yep another one!! After an interesting discussion with my talented friend ~adstantes last night it's now time for the first Quasi-annual Drunken* Vomiting Awards Journal!

*denoting vomiting as a result of consuming alcohol rather than just vomiting at the same time as being drunk.

The Award winners will be drawn from my varied and wonderful group of friends, known affectionately as the Nerd Herd, for an unknown reason, probably having something to do with a large percentage of us being nerds and I believe a certain person’s younger brother had a hand in the name as well. But enough on the origins of the name, onto the Awards!


Firstly, some background: My friends and I attend and host a few parties now and again, particularly last year when many people where turning 18. Of course it is inevitable that at any one party someone would end up drinking too much and stick their head in a toilet. You’d be surprised at just how many places the members of the Nerd Herd have managed to vomit!

Categories and their winners are as follows and nicknames have been used when possible - back-story will be provided merely for its humorous value.


Projectile Vomiting

Winner: My Dearest friend Spider who, while vomiting into a toilet proceeded to projectile vomit onto the walls, ceiling, floor and several other very hard to reach places within said toilet - such as a magazine holder which is at very least a metre above. The hands down winner of this category.


Vomiting in Most Interesting Place

Winner: Raging Eyeball takes the cake for vomiting in the most interesting place, and getting to clean it up in the morning. The freezer! Raging Eyeball wins the interesting vomiting category by vomiting in a freezer! Nice one Harrison.



Action Vomiting

Winner: Private 'Chipmunker' Taylor of the Royal Australian Reserve takes the prize for Action Vomiting. In this complicated entry Chipmunker managed to break a light bulb before running running half-way up a driveway, falling into a garden and rolling over a retaining wall before vomiting at the base of said wall.


Dainty Vomiting

Winner: Unfortunately I’ve reconsidered this prize as the person who won would kill me if she found out I posted it on the internet.


Gutter Vomiting

Winner: ~adstantes takes the cake for this one. After a heavy night of drinking Kilkenny beer and red wine, he produced a truly disgusting display of gutter vomiting while walking between a friends house and my own.


Destructive Vomiting

Winner: My sometime nemesis 'Puddle Duck' takes the prize for this one with her display of 'food poisoning' where she vomited all over the floor of a rented house while on holidays.


Most Normal Vomiting

Winner: My great friend Urzumph I believe takes the prize for this one with a completely normal display of vomiting into a toilet, harmless and disappointing.


And Finally!
Most Well Deserved Vomiting

Winner: After sculling a plastic cup of full of rum, when already drunk, 'Fat Tony' Smith wins this final award with his well deserved vomiting after a truly stupid display of drunkeness for the measly sum of 5 dollars!



Well that’s it for now, my apologies to anyone offended or disturbed by this, it seemed a good idea at the time but something tells me its actually quite weird. Ohh well have fun and vaffanculo!

Vastiel

*edit* - formatting reworked by ~adstantes check out his gallery the guy is a genius on 2 wheels (ie he rides a bike alot)

an apology to watchers for spamming your inboxes it wont happen again now that i've read the fine print ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8745804/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8745804/ Fri, 12 May 2006 01:49:34 PDT Listening To: Gorillaz - O Green World
Reading: Assasins Gate and Interesting Times
Watching: Kingdom of Heaven


Soooooo, ever had one of 'those' days? Today I got to work a nice long shift while dog tired on a near empty stomach wich put me in a very bad mood when i saw for the first time in a year a good friend is used to work with meaning i now feel rather bad about being in a pissy mood when she came into work and didnt get a chance to catch up at all. And now i get to try adn do another assignment for uni *fun*.. anyway end of random pointless rant which noone cares about .

on the plus side i got to work with 9000 year old seeds from an archaeolgical site in turkey on wednsday and i only have one more day of work left this week woot!

end of random pointless venting journal of doom

alakum al salom

vastiel ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8506915/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8506915/ Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:15:10 PDT
First
- Best friend: Jono Yates tall basketball player guy from primary school havent seen him in years
- Imaginary friend: my parents and late grandma said i had an imaginary friend called leila
- pet dog nameont have a pet dog but my girlfirends doggy is called patch
- piercing: not a one
- crush: pfffffffffff long time ago Kate someone
- CD: something really crappy, some popular boyband from primary school, five maybe
- car: my awesome specail pergeuot gti 1986 with no drivers door skin a non working sun roof no working central locking a crappy speedo and a weird drivers side window that doesnt go up properly
- kiss: my nellebelle

Last
- Time you smoked: never smoked
- Food you ate: easter cake from my aunty
- Car ride: driving hoem from teh shops with a boot full of booze!
- Movie you watched: hmm i havent seen a movie in ages, saw bits of harry potter on dvd and the notebook on dvd, last one i watched all teh way throguh was schindlers list
- Phone call: A girl from my mums work to let her know she'd finished a sample
- CD You listened to: dont relaly lsitne to cds i have all my music on my computer and lsitne to it through that
- Bubble bath you took:a long long time ago
- Song you listened to: bon jovi blaze of glory
- Fight:with my little brother over a computer game

Have You Ever
- Dated a best friend: Still am
- Been arrested: Nope
- Skinny dipped: yeah
- Been on TV: dont think so
- Kissed someone and regretted it: never
- Cheated on your girlfriend : nope
- Been on a blind ate: nope
- Been out of the country: norfolk islnad as a baby but i think it coutns as part of austrlaia :S


7 Things I am Wearing:
watch, shirt, shorts, socks, boxers, belt, ring


6 Things I've Done Today:
bought alcohol
started an assignmetn
done warhammer terrain
had aconversation with an old italian man in halting enlgish and italian
reasearched the church of the spaghetti mosnter
driven with no hands along a fairly busy road for a few seconds frightneing ~adstantes D


5 Favourite Things:
aracheology and ancient history
art
computer games
fantasy literature
my girlfriend


4 People I Trust Most
nelle
christian
lil one
~adstantes
*parents are a given *


3 Choices:
Book: the earth sea trilogy
Alcoholic drink: striaght whiskey on the rocks (scotch or irish not bourbon)
Film:shcindlers list or garden state.


2 Things I Want to do Before I Die:
travel around the world
discover somethign noone ever has before


1 Person I Want to See
nelle ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8291262/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8291262/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:24:09 PST anyway i'm in a weird mood i'm not rushign to get an assignemtn done for once which is weird and i want to get my tablet out and scan/draw some of my weird doodlings from my uni books maybe you'll all have some weird little crusader men running aorudn on my page, unfortunately the one time i tried to draw a witch it didnt turnout too well btu i have a cool dwarfie dude and even a mayan priest who's name is visigoth, a complete conradiction of his origins but yeah . hehe i'm rambling i havent done this for ages and it feels so great just write whant comes into yoru head.

went out with some freinds the other night spent 7 hours at teh pub drinking eating talkign and playing pool with other peopel who were tipsy or drunk(and *cough* couldnt hit the ball) no names tho hey ~adsantes /me whistles and fails cause i have a sore tongue, stupid wire retainer hurting my tongue bleh. wow its like 10:15 i shodul probably go to bed soon but ohh well i made a breakthrouugh today in working out the map of middlearth! the lands of teh silmarillion are completly destoryed i'm so sad i'll never be able to run aroudn in them in LOTR online when it comes out /me cries. ohh well maybe they'll be nice and go agsitn teh lore and make it for me

hmm looks liek i'm out of things to say for teh moment i cant be bothered keeping on writing adn ~adstantes shodul have finished his next journal by now so i'll go read it

music: none its cometely quiet but for the whir off my laptop fan
book: jsut finished the silmarillion and goign ot start teh earthsea trilogy leant to me by my wonderful girlfriends father.
mood: apatheic ahh the emo song is funny... hmmm i feel sligthly hypo and tired actaully weird meh
movie: schinlders list, one of the best movies of all time!!!
food: nothign but food is good
drink: nothing but kilkenny is good
cant eb tboehered lsiting anything else and my spelling is getting worse, shoot me bleh

arevederci barstardos!
la capra della morte e su voi !!! ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8076682/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/8076682/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:10:15 PST ) about my life since my last entry.

i'm back at my old job which i'm loving, greatest place to work on earth and i'm learning more italian now which is awesome plus i'm now back at uni studying archaeology whihc is also excellent as i love it more than i love my job . doign some interesting reading on reconstructing past environments from pollen at sites, letting archaeologists find out about chancges in the ecology of areas over time and how humans change this ecology.

also i've got myself a 2 gig ipod nano, yeah i'm a yuppy and one of the sheep who follow apple aroudn but noone really has anythign as good as the nano and while its expensive i've decided its only money and i've been usign it alot which is great. also i've foudn some new artists particularly colin hay (lifeline overkill beautiful world and my brilliant feat are very good), josh radin (closer is the only song i have as yet but its good), cary brothers(ride is a good song) and the shins, whom i've known of for a while but got an albumn recently. these are all from garden state/scrubs which are excellent, GS being a movie by zach braff the main character in scrubs.

finally i've found alot of little thigns are makign me smile lately, probly cause its a great time of year when its windy and raining , both excellent weather types but also alot of other little things have become fairly exciting i spose you could call it. probably cuase i'm extremely close to loosing my grandmother whos in and out of a coma after having a stroke several months ago shes taken a turn for the worse and i think this has brought my life a little mroe into focus as well as solidifying my faith a little, i've learnt in the last week the hail mary adn glory be and find myslef praying more than i usualy would, i dont go to church much but and still a chrsitian. anyway enough of pouring out my soul to anyoen who wants to read it but it feels good to get it off my chest a little.

now a blatant rip off from ~adstantes's journal
Book:
The silmarillion by tolken, an excellent creaion myth and hisotyr of the elves adn orgins of the men of middle earth, recommended to all tolken fans
Music:
Currently dark tranquility: cathode ray sunshine but BT: never gonna come back down (from teh gone in 60 seconds soundtrack) is an awesome song i've been listening to alot lately.
Mood:
tired yet happy
Quote:
AQUA DELLA MORTE! (water of death - made it up at work the other day ) - italian ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/7879387/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/7879387/ Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:50:37 PST .

working at the brisbane domestic airport as a barista several days a week. the pay is awesome, 19.48 per hour wiht time and a half on weekends but good god the shifts are crappy. Today i woke up at 3am to start work at 4am serving coffee to all the daily commuters at the airport. this week i've got nothing later than a6:30 start and i'm back at uni in 2 weeks so i dont think i'll be there much longer. ohh the errors of less than 20 dollars an hour, but if it means my uni marks will pickup its worth it. i shalt endevour to keep thine watchers posted as things develop worst comes or worst and i can just go back to my old job at a coffee shop up the raod from my house, probaly abad idea to leave in teh first place oh well i'm stupid

mood: tired as all hell
music: we used to be friends - the dandy warhols
book: LOTR if i can ever get a free momment to finish readnig it again

forgive spelling mistakes, i dont care so neither shoudl you ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/6744767/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/6744767/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:31:42 PDT
The game is beautifully crafted, some people would say that all the loading is annoying but i find that the regions used in the game to break it up for an xbox are very effective, you still have the massive world of somethign like diablo or and mmorpg like asherons call or WoW but the breaking up of the areas lets the developers create detailed and rich environments in which you can immerse yourself. Some people are still going to say that it sucks and that it shodulnt have to load yadda yadda but once you play it you hardly notce, it takes long enough beetween loads that they arent a issue, plus loading times for PC are excellent. Everything is customisable: hair, beard, tatoos (you can even create your own tattoos). You can get titles that the villagers will call you by, you can use a variety of expressions which people will respond to and the range of armour is excellent also, from a light colour simple robe with or without hood to a complex blue and cream wizards robe which makes you more attreactive to people or a dark leather suit of armour which scares the villagers into submission. You can woo female villagers also and eventaully marry, buy a house and even rent it out. Quests are plentiful through both the story line, the guilds general quests and ones you pickup on your travels that you can loose yourself in for days. Demon doors scatter the landscape making you perform and action or fullinng critera for them to open and let you into the treasures inside. The overall storyline is complelling and you relay choose your own path through the world be it evil or good, or somepalce in between. You also have a range of skills to use, hand to hand, magic (will) and ranged combat and any combination of the three. For example you can start off with some basic lightning, use the battle charge "magic" to charge into battle knocking over your foes and then finish off with some swift blows and a finishing move.

As i go through and find mroe stuff i'll post it up hopefully. Overall an awsome game perfect for anyone wanting a good RPG where you can craft the entire world and perfect way to loose yourself immersed in a rich fantasy world 10/10 highly recomended purchase ]]> ~Vastiel http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/6517307/ http://Vastiel.deviantart.com/journal/6517307/ Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:25:05 PDT vastiel out.... ]]> ~Vastiel