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  1. Originally posted by drewhiggins:Yes and they did explain some interesting things. Difference between head voice and falsetto for one...it's only the head voice I can do.


    Head voice is fun to play with. I just hit soprano C with it

    Did you see this?

  2. one big thought flies toward paradise, recalling an awful artist poet man of peace who left the earth 30 years ago

    Bob Marley



  4. I am.

    Thanks for getting me out of studying btw! I was just about to study then I saw this post and thought "fuck it, can't be bothered".
  5. No probs. What do you study?


  6. English, at the moment. Got that exam on Friday. But I'm currently in high school, so I'll have 4 other subjects to do throughout the month.

    Do you study anything?
  7. You're still in school - I just saw your age in your profile there. You always from the way you talk and write makes you seem much older.

    English along with computing, photography and media design was about the only four subjects I ended up doing in school as they were all that interested me and I didn't think maths or home economics was going to get me a serious job or at least any kind of knowledge that I didn't already have (failed maths big-time). Still looking to get in a media course of some type - maybe sound engineering.

    I'm working at the moment in research which is fun but can sometimes be a little tiring and frustrating but it pays and gets me some qualifications at least.
  8. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
    You're still in school - I just saw your age in your profile there. English along with computing, photography and media design was about the only four subjects I ended up doing in school as they were all that interested me. Still looking to get in a media course of some type - maybe sound engineering.

    I'm working at the moment in research which is fun but can sometimes be a little tiring and frustrating but it pays and gets me some qualifications at least.


    Yeah, after these exams, I'll go into my final year of school. I do English, Maths, Modern Studies, Computing and Information Systems. Hoping to go to university afterwards.

    Sounds alright. If it pays and gets you qualifications, then it's a double bonus.
  9. How long does it take in senior school to complete? I know we've year eight to twelve here and an option for a year thirteen if you want to do that if you've got nothing else to go for? I left year 13 six months early because I got a job offer that I got in 30 seconds (the quickest job application ever) and lasted 12 months. For computer helpdesk work. It was good, pity the place went under.

    Ah yes I liked modern studies but not as much as ancient studies. What's information systems?

    I just figured I hate studying so a job's probably the best way to go and to go with the pay and qualifications, it's also helped me to become a more social and outgoing person rather than not hardly communicating - I was a real loner in school and never really interacted. I had friends but very few. The rest were real hangers-on and you finally once school ends realise how very much so that is.

    BTW if it takes me a little while to reply back it's because I'm cleaning too.
  10. Originally posted by drewhiggins:How long does it take in senior school to complete? I know we've year eight to twelve here and an option for a year thirteen if you want to do that if you've got nothing else to go for? I left year 13 six months early because I got a job offer that I got in 30 seconds (the quickest job application ever) and lasted 12 months. For computer helpdesk work. It was good, pity the place went under.

    Ah yes I liked modern studies but not as much as ancient studies. What's information systems?

    I just figured I hate studying so a job's probably the best way to go and to go with the pay and qualifications, it's also helped me to become a more social and outgoing person rather than not hardly communicating - I was a real loner in school and never really interacted. I had friends but very few. The rest were real hangers-on and you finally once school ends realise how very much so that is.


    About 11-18, but I'm actually quite young so I'm one of the youngest in my year. So I'll finish school at 17. Here, we call it 1st Year, 2nd Year... and so on. I'm 5th year, going into 6th year (which is the final year). 6th year (according the people who are in it now, and just left yesterday), is amazing. You get a common room which is when you have a free period, you get free periods, staff respect you more and you start earning more friends. You also get a 'muck-up day' one the day you are leaving school (which the 6th years had yesterday) where you get to do anything that day. There is bouncy castles, barbeques and all sorts! What is the highest year in school in Australia?
    Yeah, there has been people in my year who have left half way through to get a job. If you are offered a good job, you should take it and just leave school. Because at least you are actually out there doing something with your life. It's a good option imo.

    Modern Studies is great. One subject in school I properly succeed in.
    Information Systems is a bit like Computing, except it's much more common sense. It also has things to do with businesses, multimedia, organisations, how to organise data & information etc. It's easier than Computing, but there is a 17 mark question in the exam about a thing called 'normalisation'. Which I know how to do, but it took me half the year to work out. I can get 15 marks maximum, but I always make a tiny mistake in each one which loses me a couple of marks. It's much more intersting than Computing too. That's maybe because I hate Computing school, but that was because of the programming and the teacher I had who couldn't teach and basically said I was going to fail. We'll see about that, because when she comes back from maternity leave next year, I will rub it in her face if I pass.

    Well that's good if it's made you more social and outgoing. I love socialising, it's great. There is some idiots at school that you will despise, but they all leave school early. Most of them have left or the ones that have stayed have became nice.
    Staying on at school has helped me gain more friends too. There was people I never spoke to until this year, so I've gained more friends, which is good. Staying on for 6th year will gain me even more friends as according to them this year - "everyone becomes friends".
  11. Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]

    About 11-18, but I'm actually quite young so I'm one of the youngest in my year. So I'll finish school at 17. Here, we call it 1st Year, 2nd Year... and so on. I'm 5th year, going into 6th year (which is the final year). 6th year (according the people who are in it now, and just left yesterday), is amazing. You get a common room which is when you have a free period, you get free periods, staff respect you more and you start earning more friends. You also get a 'muck-up day' one the day you are leaving school (which the 6th years had yesterday) where you get to do anything that day. There is bouncy castles, barbeques and all sorts! What is the highest year in school in Australia?
    Yeah, there has been people in my year who have left half way through to get a job. If you are offered a good job, you should take it and just leave school. Because at least you are actually out there doing something with your life. It's a good option imo.

    Oh right. We used to get the free periods...I remember year 12, I had so many I had much time off I hardly went to school. At this time I pretty much thought I'm not getting anywhere with it anyway and just started messing around and being bored and falling asleep and not bothering going when I had to. In the end I thought it was fucked, turn up for classes 20 minutes late and all that crap and the teachers teaching trivial crap nobody's ever going to use. Well, half wouldn't use it and the other half wouldn't use anything of use, so...yeah.

    The highest year is year 12, though as I said (I think I did) you can do an optional year 13. That was my muck-up year all year around. Ah we had so much fun in school. Ended up using 600GB of the school's computer server (because we found out the password) for storing pictures, 20 000 MP3s and funny videos, until some idiot blabbed about it. Better in a job than being bored going nowhere anyway and being someone rather than someone who is no-one).

    I didn't even go to my graduation or prom here because I didn't like the people so I went the next day and collected all my stuff seperately.


    Modern Studies is great. One subject in school I properly succeed in.
    Information Systems is a bit like Computing, except it's much more common sense. It also has things to do with businesses, multimedia, organisations, how to organise data & information etc. It's easier than Computing, but there is a 17 mark question in the exam about a thing called 'normalisation'. Which I know how to do, but it took me half the year to work out. I can get 15 marks maximum, but I always make a tiny mistake in each one which loses me a couple of marks. It's much more intersting than Computing too. That's maybe because I hate Computing school, but that was because of the programming and the teacher I had who couldn't teach and basically said I was going to fail. We'll see about that, because when she comes back from maternity leave next year, I will rub it in her face if I pass.

    Ah yeah, databases, data stores etc. I learnt a lot about that. Programming I ended up teaching the class about that and the teacher just sat back in shock that I knew more than he did. Lol. How would a teacher know you're gonna fail...they always use the defensive like ''you're gonna fail''. Motivation much.

    What is normalisation? Is that the question what is normal?


    Well that's good if it's made you more social and outgoing. I love socialising, it's great. There is some idiots at school that you will despise, but they all leave school early. Most of them have left or the ones that have stayed have became nice.
    Staying on at school has helped me gain more friends too. There was people I never spoke to until this year, so I've gained more friends, which is good. Staying on for 6th year will gain me even more friends as according to them this year - "everyone becomes friends".

    I laugh now because I realise how juvenile they really were. I did better (well, I think I did, others don't for some reason). Yeah it's funny how you get these tools by themselves and they suddenly turn really nice. Because their cocksucker cronies have left and they've got nobody left to pretend to be a big man with. Lol to them.

    I didn't become friends with hardly anyone because they all turned nasty and showed their true colours. I have maybe 5-6 close friends, two from working and one from school (who despite all the crap he got and being accused of crap no person should have to go through - he had to leave to get away from being bashed and taunted, still is one of the greatest people I've ever met) and the rest moved interstate. I still keep in touch with them but not as much as I could. It's hard when you live like 500km from someone else...you can't really visit them as much as you can with someone down the road.
  12. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
    Oh right. We used to get the free periods...I remember year 12, I had so many I had much time off I hardly went to school. At this time I pretty much thought I'm not getting anywhere with it anyway and just started messing around and being bored and falling asleep and not bothering going when I had to. In the end I thought it was fucked, turn up for classes 20 minutes late and all that crap and the teachers teaching trivial crap nobody's ever going to use. Well, half wouldn't use it and the other half wouldn't use anything of use, so...yeah.

    The highest year is year 12, though as I said (I think I did) you can do an optional year 13. That was my muck-up year all year around. Ah we had so much fun in school. Ended up using 600GB of the school's computer server (because we found out the password) for storing pictures, 20 000 MP3s and funny videos, until some idiot blabbed about it. Better in a job than being bored going nowhere anyway and being someone rather than someone who is no-one).

    I didn't even go to my graduation or prom here because I didn't like the people so I went the next day and collected all my stuff seperately.


    I'll maybe get 7 free periods next year out of 28.
    Wow. That sounds bad.

    HA, that sounds amazing! That would be so much fun. Apparently our school server is really shit and has a small capacity. A reliable Computing teacher told us that he had to start clearing stuff of the server because there wasn't much space left. Our school isn't really that good overall. A lot of crappy teachers too.

    Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
    Ah yeah, databases, data stores etc. I learnt a lot about that. Programming I ended up teaching the class about that and the teacher just sat back in shock that I knew more than he did. Lol. How would a teacher know you're gonna fail...they always use the defensive like ''you're gonna fail''. Motivation much.

    What is normalisation? Is that the question what is normal?


    Yeah, it's got quite a lot of databases bits to it. Like, it mentions alot about keys (primary, foreign, atomic...). Data dictionaries, anomalies and all that too.
    Wish you were my teacher then. She was absoultely useless at teaching Computing. I don't even know why she's teaching it. She's about 4 ft 2 as well, and really bossy. When she was 'teaching', she was just copying notes from a book and putting them on a slideshow for us to copy down. And we asked her a question, she would barely know the answer to it. Absoutely useless.

    Normalisation is sorting data into forms. There is 4 forms - UNF (Un-organised form), 1NF (1st normal form - spliting it in to 2 entities of one being of the attributes which only appear once in a table, and the other being of multi-valued attributes), 2NF (2nd normal form - removing partial dependencies and splitting it into 3 entities), 3NF (3rd normal form - splitting it into 4 entities). It's actually quite hard to explain. But I'll send you a link of a past paper.

    Question - http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/papers/papers/2010/H_Information-Systems_all_2010.pdf (go to Question 13)

    Answer - http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/papers/instructions/2010/mi_H_Information-Systems_all_2010.pdf (Question 13 again)

    Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
    I laugh now because I realise how juvenile they really were. I did better (well, I think I did, others don't for some reason). Yeah it's funny how you get these tools by themselves and they suddenly turn really nice. Because their cocksucker cronies have left and they've got nobody left to pretend to be a big man with. Lol to them.

    I didn't become friends with hardly anyone because they all turned nasty and showed their true colours. I have maybe 5-6 close friends, two from working and one from school (who despite all the crap he got and being accused of crap no person should have to go through - he had to leave to get away from being bashed and taunted, still is one of the greatest people I've ever met) and the rest moved interstate. I still keep in touch with them but not as much as I could. It's hard when you live like 500km from someone else...you can't really visit them as much as you can with someone down the road.


    Yeah, they are pretty juvenile. There is loads of them who were so unbelievably nasty back in 2nd year and now really friendly. And it's exactly how you said - they get influenced by their friends to act nasty to you.

    I've had a couple of friends who have turned nasty before, but not a huge amount. It's mainly been girls.
    Yeah, it's good if you keep in touch with them, because no matter how far away they are, you are still friends with them. And it's also interesting to hear how they are doing and what they are up to. But it is hard, because you can't exactly visit them on a regular basis.

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