What goes around comes around...

Tickets for the upcoming Justin Timberlake tickets sold out in 15 minutes today, I know because the secretary who sits next to me got tickets just before the ticketek system crashed.

The subject on this post is about junk food, it comes back to haunt you!

I've lost weight according to the scales, I now weigh a healthy 69kg (can be improved). But a friend confirmed what I suspected these few weeks, my face cheeks have been getting flabbier!

I've been drinking "sodas" every lunch time this week (I convinced myself that Coke Zero was healthy), I ate way too much at Japanese tonight and I've been filling my jelly belly with too much Pearl tea :(

My addiction to Easyway has led to this crisis... back to eating home made sandwiches and the odd toasted foccacia from the cafes near Botanical Gardens (yummy eggplant and sun dried tomato). Water shall be only drink.

I have a week left of being 24. And as Pastor Andy Stanley pointed out in the DVD sermon I watched this evening, you only get to be 24 once! Our time is indeed precious, limited and cannot be stored.

In a way i'm not as anxious about the quarter century mark which beckons me next week. Although I will miss being in the 18-24 category I should be thankful of life and it's not all doom and gloom ahead (unlike the stockmarket).

The Honourable former Justice Michael McHugh

Tonight after work I boarded a bus from Elisabeth Street and made my way to... UNSW!

It's been a while since uni, oh wait, yes I did accompany my cousin to uni earlier in February this year, but I didn't see the new law faculty so that doesn't really count ;)

I was pleasantly surprised. The new faculty is brand spanking new, swank, modern and looks like a giant spaceship!

The reason for my sojourn tonight is the subject of this little post. Justice McHugh, who left school at 15 and worked in a variety of odd jobs before he became a lawyer, gave what I consider to be an interesting talk. The topic was: how High Court decisions (specifically how doctrines and interpretation of the Constitution with respect to Federal and State powers) have impacted on the governance of Australia.

Hal Wooten, the founder of the UNSW law school, was present and gave a short talk after McHugh finished. I was inspired by his passion and his intellect.

Professor George Williams (I remember having him for Public Law class!) was also present a shared a few "counterpoints" of his. He was Associate to Justice McHugh in the early 1990s (1992).

The Commonwealth Solicitor General was somewhere in the audience and McHugh made a few tongue in cheek remarks haha

Oh btw fy (a word Hal Wooten used in his address)i:

ep·on·y·mous /əˈpɒnəməs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-pon-uh-muhs] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective giving one's name to a tribe, place, etc.: Romulus, the eponymous founder of Rome.

My story was not complete

In my last post I was going to add something on boxer Anthony Mundine and how he's suffering from a bad eye infection, which may potentially blind him in one eye, due to him cleaning his contact lens with his own spit (it happens, I know!)

In this week's news: STOCKMARKET CRASH!

ASX is feeling the pinch of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage disaster in the US, a disaster waiting to happen if you ask me. Despite the treasurer's reassuring comments I fear that the market may dip even lower or remain subdued for some time. It's terrible, I hope that investors have the sense not to start flogging their shares off wily nily.

Summary of last week's news

This is my summary of what hit me in the news last week:

Extinction of Yangtse River dolphins

A sad preventable tragedy. The death of these precious creatures is attributable to wanton industrial development and careless disregard of the environment.

August comes!

It's Saturday night and it's been a fulfilling day spent at home. I'm the housekeeper at the moment in the absence of the primary housekeeper so I was busy the whole morning cleaning, cleaning and you guessed it, more cleaning!

It hasn't been all chores though, took some time out to relax and watch "White Chicks" again for like the billionth time.

So it's the month of the August and my last chance to live life as an "twenty XX year old".