Internship!!!

With my internship only 1 week away am i worried? Typical Andrei answer no, I am not.

Albeit excitement is rife, with the realisation i have reached the culmination of three years work.

Over the three years i have been blessed with patient tutors, a well providing job and generous marks, despite my ill efforts.

Now with the internship a week away i am geared to pay back to society what it has given me, and put my il gifted brain and ripped muscles to use in the cut throat underground corporate giant that is Environment Southland.

Well not so true, but this internship will be my stepladder into the corporate communications world, and by George i will make the most of it.

Peace out!!

Who is your favourite tough guy?

Ive always loved movies with one central tough guy, who bulges with muscles and kicks everybodys ass.

But when it comes to picking a favourit who would it be.

There are so many options, karate chopping Jet Li or Jacky Chan, hulking figures such as Big Arny or The Rock.

For me my personall favourite would be Slvester Stallone.

Sure his acting is a little lacklustre and he looks like hes smoked pot and has downs, but he just kiks ass and kicks it with pizzaz.

Convergence Media Rules.

Why? because it replaces every aspect of traditional media and manages to squeeze them altogether for ease of use.

But is it actually easier? will it ever replace traditional media?

There are apparrently several forms of convergence media, the mixing of several functions into one.

This includes such things as cellphones, pda's, wireless laptops and the like. They offer many different functions and capabilities that the modern day chumpete finds nescessary.

However this blog is going to examine the use of convergenece media wehen it comes to websites. Massive multi national organisations such as APN and REUTERS utilise every form of technological coolness on their website.

This includes podcasts, videos, audio cuts, pictures and good old fashioned text.

Even most local newspaper websites are now starting to tap into the online market by providing different ways for readers to experience the news.

With the worlds changing technological demands, most large businesses are required by common sense to utilise the internet, because it holds such large market.

With the loss of revenue generated by the loss of newspapers, perhaps these organisations can utilise the internet to regain that revenue, as the market held by their uber websites holds a market that their declining hardcopy sales indicates otherwise.

Despite this large amount of convergance media shizzizzleness nothing will replace the crackling of the A3 size broadsheet on the Sunday morning with your coffee.

Ive finally found it!!!

My dream car, an integra type r with 157 ks on the clock.

Now there are many honda haters out there, however you cant deny the type r is a well put together package offering the best performance from a N.A. 1.8l. I dare any wrx or evo fan to take the turbo off their car and give it a go.

As it is the type r will accellerate from 0-100 in 6.7 secs as oppossed to the 7 of a two l turbo wrx.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Anyway im off too start saving for my beast.

Yeah thats right this is a replica of my baby.

This 1500cc carburettor machine burns tarmac like the best of them, many a 2l corona and avanir have fallen pray to the close ratio gearbox, 50:50 weight distribution and front engine mount stuck to a standard piece of crap flywheel pushing the full 100hp to the ground through the front wheels.

As amazing as this machine is, heading up to the 100km mark in around 11 seconds isn't so exciting.

Thats where the search for a new car comes in.

Throughout the weeks i have noticed the negative attitudes of people concerning this ancient and sacred task.

'don't you already have a car', 'whats wrong the car you have' are frequent statements that scream ignorance, and my personall favourite 'a car is just a car' just begs to be whacked upside the head.

There is so much to consider going for a new car from initial cost, speed, looks and reliability etc.

Do you sacrifice jaw propping ball-tearing speed for a rigid drive with speed bumps feeling like craters or keep it slow and cruisy?

Do you go for revvy or torquey? A vtec, a turbocharged vehicle or perhaps a fine tuned v6?

So many options requires a lot of though and alot of research, but anybody who deduces there are no differences in a car, as they all get you from A to B deserves to walk.

After all,it still gets you from A to B, just without the gut-wrenching, ass-gripping, butt-hole-clenching, spine-tingling, eye-popping style of a decent car.

My face, Friendbook, and TwatterBleeping.

Yes we all love the fantastic NZ iconic comedian Rhys Darby, especially in his new Two Degree adds, co-starring Jeff, the racist robot.

However if you manage to look past the flash advertising, or Rhys's fantastic humor, his suave and confident demeanour, or his big brown eyes... there lies the question of how reliant are people becoming on social networking sites to run their lives, and as a gauge of social acceptance.

Many of these websites began their lives as nothing more than a pointless plaything for pre-pubescent adolescents trying to make a name for themselves in the big wide world. Msn is an example of this, however it lacked the qualities to keep up with modern day demands and the ever-changing market of social networking needs.

Bebo is a massive online market that companies are now trying to tap into, such as telecom, which offers free Bebo messaging for two months with its new range of XT mobile phones.

Why is there such a reliance now days on these networking sites? is it a practical necessity? For politicians or charitable organisations it makes sense to tap into this market, offering the chance to gain more support from a different and unique target crowd.

This of course makes sense, but what about the average Joe or Joanne Bloggs who twats, bleeps or friendfaces to tell the world they are happy right now, or perhaps hungover from the big weekend, or is feeling a tad nostalgic this morning.

WHO GIVES A FLYING F@#*&.

Anyway, what do we gain from our constant updates? the chance for others to show their interest, or perhaps register support during a tough time, and vise versa.

It does raise the question of what people stand to loose. For younger users, its provides another opportunity to get picked on, as details are available for most people to see, and information is shared with the touch of a button. The term 'Cyber bullying' is cheesy and weak, but the amount of pain and abuse that can be inflicted on an individual is very real and very destructive.

Care needs to be taken for individuals to protect themselves from the ravages of those few cyber-bleeping-twats who think they rule the roost.

The growth of social networking sites is growing rapidly and their popularity is certainly not diminishing. As the Internet is playing a larger role in our lives so does it affect the way we interact with each other. It is providing new markets for companies and new ways for people to connect without that close contact.

But is it necessary?

Woman hides as naked man takes over her bed-anything wrong with this picture?

According to the southland times a drunk Australian man left his companians room, who had brought him back to the hotel, to wander out onto the corridor naked then enter another couples suite.

One could ask what would make a drunk man leave the comfort of the bedroom in the first place, maybe she wasn't what he expected, a little rough perhaps, or maybe the paper bag kept falling off.

Regardless, said Australian manages to wander into their bedroom, and curl up in a ball on their bed.

It raises the question how much do you need to drink to become that intoxicated, luckily making that much of an ass out of yourself means you get away with out being charged.

Not so lucky is another bright spark, a Christchurchian who decided it was a wise idea to steal his God-fathers rental car, crash it, then drive it back to his hotel and leave it parked in the central access way, then throw away the keys.

What he thought he was achieving by this is highly questionable, perhaps little leprechauns had told him to do it for a pot of gold, or maybe he was getting one up on the facist hotel staff, fight the system!

No one seemed to be smiling in this instance however, least of all him, facing charges of disqualified driving, driving under the influence, and careless driving.

As pointed out in the newspaper how much is too much? and how drunk will patrons let punters get before they deny them the keys to their vehicles.

This behaviour is nothing unusual in the history of mankind, and it seems nothing will ever change.

I hope however, for the sake of my sanity and m life i dont wake up with a naked man curled up on my bed or a drunk driver crashing through my house to say gidday.