So Tired

Last night or should i say this morning i didnt get to go to bed till 6am

What started as a normal night of playing World of Warcraft and raiding in Black Temple, my nephew came home and asked if it was cool for him to have some friends come in, so i said yeah sure no problems. One of the people i knew and have known his since he was 9 (now 18) another guy didnt know who he was.

The guy who i didnt know fell asleep on the couch, then my nephew was making food for them and asking me what i had so he didnt need to look to much.

About an hour later i went to have a smoke and noticed that my nephew is now asleep and the other 2 are sitting there playing Playstation (now 3am).

As im having my smoke the guy who i dont know asks me for a smoke which i give him, he then wont stop talking telling me all this stuff (i had to quickly get back to playing World of Warcraft).
He then follows me in and sits to watch what im doing, asking me questions and trying to get my attention.

Finally around 5am and seeing they are not moving, i say to the guy who i know that i want to go to bed so they have to go. The guy who i dont know goes to my couch to fall asleep again.
After 40 mins of them stuffing around and the guy i know telling the other guy he has to go, they finally leave.

I woke around 3.30pm and i feel wrecked, would be different if i felt this way cause of something i did, but when its someone else grrrrr

Jetsetters & Globetrotters Blog

Through Social Spark, V asked "Does My Blog Suck"? Jetsetters and Globetrotters

If you are thinking of travelling its a pretty good site to go to, you get an idea of what things you can buy at different price ranges, you can plan things on a budget to spending whatever you want on your trip.

I found some a few of the notes V wrote interesting.

My two favourite ones are:
Travel Buyables: Travel Toothbrushes - i like this one as i remember when
travelling to pack your toothbrush, this way you can leave your normal one
at home and take this one.
Tech Travel: Polaroid PoGo - when i was younger i wanted a Polaroid Camera
and not getting one, and now having a digital i never seem to print them out,
and with this you can have both.

About the only thing i would add to the Blog would be a link to places you can book trips through, eg Plane companies, or things can do in the area you live in something like that

Go have a look for yourself and see if there is information on this blog that can help you Jetsetters and Globetrotters
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Sydney Australia

I live in Sydney Australia which was formed after convicts where put ashore here in 1788, they put tents to live in around the harbour, which is now called The Rocks, it is a historical turned shopping area,

On the opposite side Captain Arthur Philip put his tent up which is close to where The Sydney Opera House is now,

Sydney is an area filled with great history:

• The Cadmans Cottage which was built in 1816 as barracks for the crew of the governor's boats.
• Fort Denison built around 1855, built to protect Sydney during the Crimean War.
• The Queen Victoria Building (known as the Q.V.B) which was built in 1898 as an area to buy food supplies, in the building is a Wishing Well with a statue of Queen Victoria that was given to Sydney from The people of Ireland when the Queen Victoria Building was re-furbished in 1985. Q.V.B is now a shopping area with office's on the top floors
• Hyde Park Barracks built in 1819 which in the early days held convict workers.
• Sydney Observatory built in 1858
• The Sydney Harbour Bridge completed in 1932
• Sydney Opera House, based on the competition winning entry by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, The project was built in three stages. Stage I (1959–1963). Stage II (1963–1967) Stage III (1967–73).

Also in Sydney you can find Star City Casino, Chinatown, Darling Harbour with The Chinese Garden of Friendship, a Shopping and International Food Court also The IMAX Theatre which shows films on a giant screen more than eight stories high.

We also have two areas one famed for the street life and thriving cafe culture called Kings Cross also Darlinghurst, which holds The Gay and Lesbian Mardi-Gras Parade held every year along Oxford Street during February or March.

Follow the Link to know more about Sydney

Been Busy

Been busy this week, had to get a Newsletter together,

I get given submissions and have to slot them together into no more than 10 pages, which can be quite fun when things i am given are over 2 pages, have to resize and re-design what it looks like.
Everything is basic so i need to make it look all nice and pretty, add pictures and change the headings.
Others who do them probably dont think much of this, but i had no training of this, and i like the newsletter to look very nice when i finish with it.

Yes another of my poems

My fingers feeling

tapping along my skull

looking for some bumps

to read and tell this tale

one bump for my memory

which disappears like hell

another for the time

i danced along the sill

this one over here

its growing as i write

the one above the first one

its holds a fun filled night

i have some many bumps you see

each tells a different story

like that time i jumped the highest building

and fell upon my tail

i have one bump though

that hasn't grown just right

it still has time to go

and maybe it will feel its might

Federation of Australia

To make Australia a Federation, instead of 6 different colonies, the Australian Constitution was written up and first seen when a proposal was presented in 1891 to a Convention.

A Convention was then held between 1897 - 1898 in three sessions (Adelaide 22 March - 23 April 1897; Sydney 2 - 24 September 1897; Melbourne 20 January - 17 March 1898).

The draft Constitution Bill was revised by Griffith, Kingston, Barton and Inglis Clark, afloat on the Queensland Government yacht Lucinda, during the Easter break of the 1891 Convention in Sydney.

This draft was revived and debated at the 1897 - 1898 Convention, and final changes where made at the Secret Premiers Conference early in 1899 in order to gain the agreement of all the colonies.

The Constitution set out the basis for the establishment of the institutions of the government of the new nation.

The chief institutions are firstly the Parliament, consisting of 'the Queen, a senate, and a House of Representatives' (section 1) provided for in the first 60 sections of the Constitution.

Secondly, (section 2) provides for the appointment of a Govenor-General as the representative of the Crown, and the ten sections of (chapter 2) set out the powers of the Govenor-General and the Executive Council and the functions of the public service departments.

The ten sections of (chapter 3) provide for the judicial institutions with the High Court as the superior court of the Commonwealth.

The Governor-General, the 'First Officer' in the Commonwealth, formally appoints the Ministers of the Crown.

Queen Victoria issued (Letters Patient) establishing the office of the Govenor-General, Lord Hopetoun, a former Governor of Victoria. The Governor-General appointed Edmund Barton as the first Prime Minister, and formally appointed the Ministers selected by Barton so that the first cabinet would represent all the States. Four Premiers became Commonwealth Ministers - Sir George Turner (Vic), Sir William Lyne (NSW), Sir John Forrest (WA) and Sir Neil Lewis (Tas)

It was not really certain that all six Australian colonies would join the Federation even when this Act passed both Houses of the British Parliament. As each was 'Sovereign' colony with a Governor appointed by the crown on the advice of the British Government, each colonial Parliament had to pass legislation agreeing to become part of the Commonwealth, and the hold referendums where all the electors could have direct vote on the issue.

In the referendums on the Constitution, women were able to vote in only two of the colonies, South Australia and Western Australia, and few Indigenous people seem to have had the opportunity to be counted.

Among the strongest arguments advanced for Federation were the need for a united approach to defence and for a common policy to restrict the numbers of Chinese people entering the colonies. As the labour movement gathered strength in the 1890's, so did the opposition to the Chinese Immigrants, seen as a threat to achieving a fair standard of wages and conditions.

Queen Victoria signed her assent to the document creating the Commonwealth of Australia on 9 July 1900.

On 1 January 1901 in Centennial Park that the first Governor-General took his oath of office.

To know more about the Federation of Australia go to Doumenting Democracy

The desk and pavilion where the documents where signed