Roberto Live!

The Rocks Aroma Festival in, the Rocks of course, of the Sunday 22nd of July was an awesome event. Despite my indifference to coffee and tea, the chocolate was enough to pay a visit in a rainy day. Turkish food, as always, surprises me with nice flavours, it reminds me in some ways Mexican dishes.

And the happiest street in the world: the chocolates boulevard, I wish it’d be as long as the Pacific Highway

One of the reasons of not going to study to Canada was the weather. I came to Australia with the promise of sunny beaches, surfers, girls in bikini and BBQ under the sun. What I got instead? 3C in the morning while I was waiting for my bus to the city.

OK this is not normal, apparently it has been the lowest temperatures in 20 years, I never thought I’d miss for a moment the humid hot tropical weather of my home city.

Today my results of Uni and I got:

Computer Networks - High Distinction

System and Network Technologies - High Distinction
(aka Vulnerabilities of Commercial OS)

Security Technologies - High Distinction

Woot!

So my current GPA should be 3.71. But wait a sec, I just realised that HDs and Ds count as the same value against the GPA calculation. How come? In what kind of parallel bizarre twisted reality can this be true? So what’s the exact purpose of having HD, ego? Well, it can be because I’m pretty happy with my results now

A picture of the Wallenius Wilhelmsen arriving to Darling Harbour (and a small water taxi) and a picture of Che Guevara made of bean soup in the Museum of Contemporary Art.

There is an excellent exhibition of modern Latinamerican art at the MCA. The video room is hilarious, but I guess you’ll have to know something about the Latin American culture to find some stuff funny. Pretty bad that I have never seen such a great exposition like that in Mexico.

I just came from the Hayden Orpheum from seeing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. For a reason there was no mid-night screening here in Australia, anyway I saw the movie before a good part of the world. This unknown (at least for me) director did a good job, and the story is getting darker, but specially I liked the lot of spells and seeing professional wizards in action.

The USS Kitty Hawk was in Sydney last weekend and I caught the special ferry to take nice pictures. It was damn freezing on the ferry but I got nice shots of the air carrier and of the kangaroo fleet.

The Live Earth concerts are taking place now, starting here in Sydney, and following in another cities around the world the next 24 hours. Unfortunately the concerts are only broadcasted through Foxtel (cable, for those who don’t know it), so I’m not seeing it. Fair enough, saving a planet is not a cheap task, but fear not, one can go to www.liveearth.org and watch it live on MSN. Nice, lot of marketing and probably those guys are using enough electricity to power my flat for two months but is OK, is for the planet.

The only problem is that MSN told me that I’m not using Internet Explorer, so I can’t save the planet. Nice try, I prefer a gian greenhouse before using IE again (also I’m using Linux so I don’t want to restart now).

Last Sunday there was a short but interesting military parade along Macqurie Street (nothing close to Uni despite the name). I could even see the governor of New South Wales, Marie Bashir. Certainly the governor has no real political power and is not even British any more, but still is an important figure in NSW.