Marian’s Happenings

So it seems that Apple doesn’t require email verification or even a secret question to be paired with the creation of an iTunes account. This is nasty.
I never realised how nasty it could be until an unsuspecting Irishman decided that his email address was in fact, a mirror image of mine.
The lesson of the day: […]

Today I was made aware that my Facebook user data is being used beyond the bounds of Facebook for target advertising.
This is highly disturbing.
The ad was served from DeviantArt.com, as I was doing my daily browsing. I wasn’t even logged in to Facebook at the time, so I am also concerned about how the ad […]

I’ve had enough of Facebook. Here’s why:
It was cold night here in Adelaide, so, naturally, I went to go and put my ugg boots (slippers) on. As I did so, I told my boyfriend I was going AFK to get warmer.
2 minutes later, I opened up facebook, and what did I see an ad for? […]

I realise that my sporadic blogging behaviour sometimes leaves big gaps in information- like people not knowing where I am.
I’m back in Adelaide
Now before you jump to conclusions, yes things with David and I are going very well. I made the decision to temporarily leave Sweden, and my awesome job at Opera after […]

My new lean green fighting machine arrived a while ago. I took photos in anticipation of actually blogging about it, but in true Marian style got distracted by something shiny and totally forgot. So here’s my recount!
I couldn’t wait for my ugly/cute green weird little laptop to arrive.

Unfortuantely I missed out on the OLPC “green theme” party in Norway:
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http://www.idg.no/video/article97675.ece
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So, we had our own party in the office when they arrived.
Here […]

Last Satruday there was a basketball tournament at the local gym. A few friends and I decided to enter a team with the sole purpose of not coming last. We were up against some stiff competition, but nothing I couldn’t handle with my superior height advantage over the Swedes:

It was an epic battle. We played […]

Hi-ho!
That’s right! I no longer sit on the couch all day playing Nintendo and surfing the Internet, and occasionally teaching! I now work at Opera Software as a test monkey. Not sure how much I can tell you about the job without first reading their blogging policy, but I can tell you that it’s a […]

Hi Kids!
Well, I’ve been here a while now. Aside from wondering why it hasn’t snowed yet, I’ve been keeping myself busy with lots and lots of stuff.
Somehow I scored a job as a teacher at the International English School here, substituting their PE teacher who went on parternity leave. Having only worked with year 1’s […]

Hot Chocolate #1, 11:30am
Well here I am sitting in McDonalds in some random ski slope in Sweden. My aim for today is to not get kicked out of McDonalds, without buying any food. I don’t like McDonalds, but there isn’t anywhere else here that’s warm and nice enough to sit down in. Every time an […]

Oh my god! David has finished his exams, so let’s have some cake!
  
Let’s also celebrate with some home made sushi!

… and no Christmas would be complete without a gingerbread igloo- complete with penguins (to scale of course) 

Hello loyal readers.
Well today is the 25th of December. Merry Christmas, you say? No. In Sweden we celebrate on the 24th, so really, I’m feeling a little ripped off. Santa did not come on the 25th, as he has done every other year. I’m beginning to think that he might have forgotten that I celebrate […]

The last week has been insanely hectic, hence this page has been a little neglected. So sit down and prepare yourself for a very long recount of the past week.
Last time I wrote we were just about to head to Malaysia. It took a few hours to get to Melaka, and on the way I […]

Yesterday Hasif and I went for a drive around singapore with some of his friends. We covered a lot of ground, and went out for lunch at an old railway station. The trains there go all the way up through Malaysia to Thailand. Here’s a photo of me after having just enjoyed some Mee […]

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Alice and I on the way

About to take a dip in the Singapore River

Enjoying an ice cold Tiger Beer on the Singapore River

Alice digging in to some yummy misc veggies (the seafood noodles were to die for)

Man stuck in the rain

I decided to […]

… selling my blood on the black market. Itchyyyyy!
So, where were we? Ah that’s right. My epic journey continues at Little India on Saturday, where Alice and I wandered around aimlessly for a while before meandering off to the Zoo. Oh, at little India we had some really crazy vegetarian food from “vegetarian corner”, which, […]

Hello loyal readers!
I am in Singapore, as you can probably tell by the title, and it’s bloody hot. Well, not so much hot, but rather humid indeed. So, we got here last night after a fairly uneventful flight, and then found our hostel, “Sleepy Sam’s”, which is right next to a Mosque, which sounds cool […]

Well someone quite rightly pointed out that this page has been untouched for a year, and there’s good reason for that! I only blog when I am going overseas, so now is a good opportunity to do so again!
I’m off to Sweden again next Friday, this time for 8 months. I’m taking a 6 month […]

Yes, I know I never update this. No time like the present!
Anywho, I’ve been in Sweden for… a while now. I am way out of my league in the Networking course I’m taking at the moment, but am studying databases externally with UniSA which I am enjoying. Hopefully my lovely program director back home can […]

It’s my birthday next week, which is rather exciting. I’m turning Twenteen! Mum’s going to Queensland so I’ll probably be celebrating at the BBC with friends.
 
Oh, and I got a scholarship to go and study in linkoping, Sweden next year for 6 months. I leave in January and will be living close to the university. […]