Ay Tariray

Shhh…. do you hear that? Seriously, listen closely… You know what that sound is? That is the sound of me not having any more post-graduate assignments for this year.  I am now officially diploma-fied for the year and frankly, my masters can effing wait because I am freeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeee eeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! I may have done this too... with or without a Varren... Yeah – that’s right bitch.  I don’t care about the use of home-made incendiary devices, or the destabilising effects of drug trafficking on a state’s security regime.  Please don’t ask me about the involvement of non-state actors in sponsoring an insurgency and please please please do not mention the word ‘paramilitary’ at me for the rest of this whole year. Considering I finish off my masters next year, I deserve to have the rest of this year wading blissfully in video games, art and nothing more brain-straining than deciding what Iron Fist Shoes to buy to add to my ...

Let us pretend, just for time being that this is technically not a blog entry. It's an... uh... interlude. I have at least three proper entries drafted up that for some reason I haven't pressed 'publish' on. One being a review of Epic makeupperers for the pretty and geeky inclined and second, a review of SWTOR, which is a dead and beaten horse but damnit, I want my turn. But as you can see, SWTOR happened - which wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. (more on that later) Also - my nephew happened... Why yes, that is my baby nephew and our dog being brain meltingly adorable together, I thank you for having fits of squee alongside me. Also - a wedding happened... Also - real life. Oh and studying and full time work... . Yes, my job and studies involve studying the diplomatic ramifications of cat munching and the economic ramifications of Dubya having eaten all of them Also - please don't kill me - Maple Story. I don't know how it happened, I woke up one m...

Hark - an event review... sort of... Dear Diary, I was intending on drowning my sorrows in a pub with like minded sorrowful people, and talk about, er, our sorrows, instead I was somehow pulled into my local GAMEAus shop for the Mass Effect3 preview night. There was pizza involved... that's all I can say It was a pretty interesting event, I was more than impressed by the fact that proper BioWare peeps had been flown in to attend. Robyn Theberge, project manager at Bioware Edmonton came to grace us with her beautiful accent and kickass N7 t-shirt wearing self. Jetlagged Kickassery... Well, actually, that is a lie. According to my Epically epic buddy Rob Jedi ( who contributes on TechRomp and reviews all the events here ), who attended almost all, if not all, Mass Effect 3 product launches in Sydney, Robyn has actually done the rounds at all these events. Predictably, flying in from fair Canadia and into the distant and sweaty bosom of time warped Australia, you’d be a little tired...

Happy New Year! – erm… even if its almost March… It has been such a chaotic last few months for me. Study has completely dominated my life with weekly assignment submissions. This has taxed my ability to write coherent sentences without putting the word; ‘incongruent’, ‘intelligence estimate’ and ‘development of civil society’ somewhere in there. full time work has distracted me with Historic LOLs. (I’m so lame) I have also lost my sense of humor and my hand-eye coordination has deteriorated. I blame my studies – but really, I blame this guy: I am so derpy but so badass and sexy… how did this happen? and this: > Lets just say the force isn’t entirely with this… but its trying. Ok, so I cant exactly say that full time work and post-grad studies of the very intellectual kind have been to blame for my lack of blogging commitment, but I have written the words ‘corporate liability’ quite a lot these past few weeks and, to be honest – that’s a really heavy word to type and think of… Als...

So um, clearly, I am not very good at this blogging thing, what with posting supposedly every week to once a month to once a blue moon, or something. I realised that I ought to, at the very least introduce myself. I don’t think it will pull in new readers or anything, but it does give me an excuse to post pictures and attempt to be some sort of Allie Brosch (but clearly, not as cool, funny or popular, but I can pretend right?). So yeah – My name is T, I am generally human, and mostly, I am a person. In my spare time I like being someone, be it online or offline. I also like books, travelling, deer, history, doritos, politics (for the lulz), drawing, painting, beading, crafting, doritos, sci fi, makeup, Vivienne Westwood, Nilaga (a filo food dish), video games, bubble tea and doritos… I have also lived out of a suitcase for a lot of years of my life. Home to me was were I could put my suitcase – Madrid, Sydney, Milan, Madrid again, The Hague, Leiden, Brussels, London, Sydney again…...

I’m on fire! I’m on fire!! – no, I am joking, its just indigestion. But bear with me guys because I am sort of on fire with inspiration (*kaching!*) because I just recently attended Animania with my little stall, T’EMPorium! For a small history of my crafty ventures – you may go here – it’s all very historically accurate and very pompous too. For the report on my shenanigans (or lack thereof), take a seat, brew a cup and read on, this may take a while. Oh and there are pictures – YEY! I set up on the Friday before the event because of one particular silly reason; acrylic nails. Yes, my fancy nails would have hampered my set up progress had I decided to set up in the morning ‘cause I’m awful at handling fiddly bits and hat pins when I have long nails... In fact, I stabbed myself several times with clips that Friday evening. Mum also volunteered to help me set up, so I snuck her through Louis (not so sneakily I suppose) and we got cracking. All in all ...

Uuuuhhhh - ok, so this is a SECOND game review post that no one really cares about to be honest. But in my fantasy world, my over inflated ego likes to think that someone out there actually cares about my really boring decision making in Peter Molyneux's latest and probably not so greatest. There's a pic of my avi, and yes, it's a she. Scars and Magic Leylines are the hip thing when combined with Steampunk/Victorianesque Corn Rows baby I was mildly interested in Fable because the trailers made it look steampunky and very, very cockney. That and the pretty impressive cast of voice actors (God's own Stephen Fry is Reaver! I mean... of course he is! how lascivious). An interesting note is that Ben Kingsley plays the voice of Sabine, who is, thankfully, a guy... but he sounds Welsh... hmm. Anyway. Installing Fable 3 was like running a techy gauntlet of Doom. My computer is fairly new, one of those new-fangled touch screen all-in-one PCs with a Pentium i5 ...