What's on

Res at Curtin is unique. I say that becuase unlike most other uni residence's that I know of they actually supply each flat with a television. Because of that you end up spending a lot of time bonding with roommates around the TV. In fact our lounge area coffee table has been used more to eat from than our kitchen table.

You would think that the fact that there is a TV and it means you don't have to talk that we wouldn't but that's not the case. There are three of us: Lorenz, Michael and myself who can manage to end up talking through more of the TV show than actually watching it. In our flat we even have designated times for different people to watch different things. Oh and the from about 500-630 there is news on pretty much constantly.

One show that the three of will even take a break from homework to watch is Rove Live. It's kind of like a talk show but it's only on on Sunday's and there are lots of regular bits. There is nothing like this on North American Television (the host Rove MacManus was on Leno a couple of weeks ago). He has different bits and on of the things is called "Hughesy Loses It" I couldn't find a clip of him from the show but I did find a clip of him from the Melbourne Comedy festival which is funny to.



Another bit that he has on the show is Petespace. I think after watching the clip it's pretty self explanatory. That being said some of the stuff might be topical to Australia but enough of it is funny.




There was also another comedian that was at the Melbourne Comedy festival who was flippin hilarious.....the end is the best. Anyway his name is Russel Howard and here's his bit.





One thing that I will miss about Australia is their ads. There is an Aussie beer company called Toohey's that has AWESOME commercials. The first one is just cool to look at and the second one is just weird but fantastic at the same time.








The last video is a truely amazing ad that I saw on television here. I am not going to say what it's for but when you watch it you don't even know what it's for until the end. I can say that I have never seen anything like it before on TV anywhere.

How can you not love Eurovision?

When I lived in England for 2 years I had the opportunity to watch a truely unique television program...what program is that? Well it's Eurovision. If you don't know what it is it's basically a song contest between European countries. Now most of the music is usually cheesy and the voting is political but this year there was a little bit of a difference in the fact that some of the music actually wasn't that bad.

In fact 2 of the artists I would actually listen too. Those two are the entries from Georgia and Turkey. In fact I have already downloaded some other songs by the turkish guy. I also liked Belarus but I don't know if I could listen to a lot of it. Since you can't actually see Eurovision on TV in North America I thought I would post some clips of the three performances that I liked. I am going to post the music video as well as the performance.


TURKEY - Shake it Up Shekerim by Kenan Dogulu

MUSIC VIDEO


EUROVISION PERFORMANCE



GEORGIA - Visionary Dream by Sopho

MUSIC VIDEO



EUROVISION PERFORMANCE (the sword fighting at the end is nifty)



BELARUS - Work Your Magic by Koldun

MUSIC VIDEO



EUROVISION PERFORMANCE



I have to admit that I watched both the semi's and the finals. I know that it's sad but it's something I haven't been able to do in a while. And I can also add it to the list of things that I have done here that just shouldn't be. Just as a side note Serbia won (it's an interesting song with an interesting looking singer) and it's definetely a different type of song to have won.

It's Sunday I am allowed to do next to nothing

In the last couple of days I have had a unique experience that I wasn't expecting. Now it wasn't something to do with Australia or Uni or anything like that...in fact it had to do with Facebook.

Now I will admit I am a fan of facebook to keep in touch but in the last couple of days 3 people that I went to elementary school with in Shilo, Man have gotten in touch with me. One of them I was messaging back and forth for a while before I realized that I remembered who she was...it was cool but it also kind of made me feel old but cool none the less.

Anyway, today was Sunday so of course everything was closed and there is nothing to do. So what did I do....I finished an essay and a half. But something happened while I was doing that...Michael scared the bejesus out of me not by doing something scary but by knocking on my door when I had my headphones on...he now joins the club with Meera.

So how did I top off a pretty dull day...well with a uniquely unproductive evening. Michael had been at a thing for his aussie rules football yesterday so today he was a combination of tired and hungover...so basically no energy. Our evening consisted of watchin Aussie Big Brother, Ugly Betty and Collateral. As boring as it sounds it was actually fun.

On that note I thought I would post some pics of my roommates so that when I talk about them you would actually know who they are.

So this first one is from Left to Right: Lorenz, Michael, Priyaa and Me.

And for the second pic from Left to Right: Me, David (not a roomate but is here enough that he could be), Priyaa, Meera, Hannah and Lorenz.

I discovered that 210 meant 210 minutes not 2hrs 10 minutes

So...I am at the point where I am counting down the months until I have to leave Australia. Now I know that sounds like I want to leave Oz but I don't really. I just came to the realization on the 1st of May that I had 2 months and a day until I left Perth which was sad.

Now that being said...I won't miss my classes and the university...which I have issues with. And to some extent I won't miss Perth. It is a nice place that I would probably enjoy more if I didn't live out in the burbs and had to rely on public transportation.

That being said I wouldn't trade it for Melbourne or Sydney cause everyone goes there and Perth is unique. Also if I didn't come here I wouldn't have had the opportunity to go up north to Exmouth and Coral Bay and have the opportunity to snorkel and swim with whale sharks. I have had experiences here that I would not have had if I was in Sydney or Melbourne.

Being in Australia and living on campus with the roommates I have and the friends that I have made has allowed to me sort of figure out what I might want to do. Now knowing me it's not a good idea for me to say that it's what I definetely, no other option want to do but at the moment and I forsee for a long time that I have discovered a new area within the entertainment industry that I would really like the opportunity to work in on the production side of things.

What is you might ask? Well if you have talked to me recently you know, but if not...well let's put it this way: I am probably the only person that goes on exchange to Australia and decideds that they would really like to work in India. That decision came from two (although technically three) places. The first one (or two) were my roommates Priyaa and Meera. SBS, which is a multicultural station here was playing Bollywod films on Sunday evenings in March...well they made me watch one and I was hooked.

The other factor was my independent research class where I am doing a massive research and production assignment of my own choosing. Well I decided to focus on the popularity of Bollywood films outside of India...and that they say is history. For me it was interesting reading all the journal, magazine and newspaper articles and reading the books and trying to understand an industry that I new very little about. Anyway through all of that I have come to appreciate them and can watch Bollywood films without comparing them to Hollywood fims. I also realized that I would really like to work for a couple of the production companies that are really successful and see how they run things. Now I know that's kind of weird but then again...that's me.

I even have a list of films in the back of my day planner that I have to see. And Priyaa and Meera have also helped me appreciate Shahrukh Khan...who honestly in the first film I saw I thought he was kind of shit and wasn't that attractive. Well I have since altered my opinion...he's definitely goodlooking...however with the acting...he's good as long as he's not crying...he looks like he's taking a shit and it hurts. That being said for those who don't know who he is I thought I would include a clip that I quite like. Mom prepare yourself...it's from the film that I am gonna make you watch. It's from Kal Ho Naa Ho...and mom you better damn well like it!!! See if you recognize the songs...it's something quite familiar.






See it's not that bad. Anywhoo...I will be posting more often cause I have more stuff to talk about.