| November 2003 - The month of the final exams - Every year exams come around and for some reason I never get as stressed out as I should, and I always look back on these times and wonder "Man how on Earth did I get through that!" |
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| Date - 13/11/2003 Time - 5:48p.m. Description - Well I think I'm on a bit of a winning streak, I beat this guy in 5 moves!!! Can't complain about that! Also I was playing my friend DC from uni before, and I beat him really quickly too! I have been bludgin quite a bit today considering I have a law exam tomorrow, but I worked hard all semester so the exam should be pretty okay. Later tonight I'm going bowling with Becca and Brett which should be lotsa fun! |
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| Date - 4/11/2003 Time - 12:18a.m. Description - I had the day off uni today to try and catch up on simulation for acst243. Things aren't looking too good for this subject, I am staring down the barrel of my very first fail ever, but hey, what can ya do? Hannah finished her HSC today which is fantastic! Congratulations Hannah! I went to the Intersection with her and Bec to watch the Melbourne Cup which was stupid and boring lol. Later I went out with Han for a celebratory dinner at the Novotel. Despite all these distractions, I have been working hard to get this simulation topic summarised - It's a hard topic. I had a nice game of chess as a break and I pulled out a classy win so I guess today hasn't been such a waste of time after all lol. Rank - 198 239 |
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| Date - 5/11/2003 Time - 1:00p.m. Description - Today Hannah called me up at 8a.m. to make sure that I woke up so that I could get lots of work done. Waking up early makes the day so much more productive. I have nearly finished my simulation notes, and it's only 12:30p.m!!! Thus I figured I had plenty of time for a game of chess. In this game we had 20 minute timers, so there was no hurry. After making a few early mistkes, I managed to put together some well thought out moves, and eventually I was able to wear his time down which is quite an achievement considering this guy had 20 minutes! Anyway my statistics on MSN are still very poor, but slowly I am managing to work my way up. Now it's time for Judge Judy. YAY! Rank - 168 508 |
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| Date - 5/11/2003 Time - 3:25p.m. Description - I'm fully stoked, I was playing this guy with a much higher rating than me, and I tried a totally new opener that I had never tried before, and within about 5 moves I lost my queen!?!?! Usually this would mean that I was doomed, but I played a supoib game, and I just basically whooped him, and I eventually won my queen back and he gave up because he just couldn't hack my genius lol. Rank - 227 091 |
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| Date - 6/11/2003 Time - 10:19p.m. Description - Last day of uni for this semester! YAY!!! If I manage to pass stat271 this semester, I will never have to do stats ever again!!! HOORAY! I hope I pass acst243 as well. I will not rule out the possibility that I may pass, but chances are I wont - But oh well it's all good. I have until Wednesday before my acst exam, so what better way to study than to play chess. I played very well in this game ... Basically I slaughtered the guy, which felt good seeing as though I came off a big streak of losses. Amen. Rank - 90 096 (Wow this is my first ever decent rank) |
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| Date - 8/11/2003 Time - 1:47a.m. Description - Just got home from the Student Life Matrix Revolution thingo. The movie was okay, but I think nothing really beats the first one. The plan was to go to Gabbo's b'day party afterwards, but that never happens which is a shame - Sorry Gabbo I would have liked to have been there. The study for my exams isnt going too well. I think I will be okay for stat and law, but acst is a lost cause. I have badly failed all the past papers I have done which is not a good sign. However, I think it's better that I fail so that do it again and learn it all much better. Also I think I need to learn a bit of humbility lol. I have been thinking about why I am so worried about failing, and I have come to the conclusion that it is all about my own pride, so I figured it might be a good lesson for me to fail something for once. ANYWAY, to make up for all my crap studying, I have been playing quite a bit of chess lately, trying to work up my rating so I can at least have more wins than losses. This game was sweet! I check mated this guy in less than a minute! I can't complain lol ... |
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| Date - 12/11/2003 Time - 12:26a.m. Description - I had my acst243 exam today!!! What was to be the hardest exam of my life didn't turn out too bad ... It is possible that I may have passed which is more than I can ask for ... My prayers have been answered. When I got home I fell asleep and eventually got woken up by a phone call from Hannah. After that I wasn't tired so I came online to do some Chess Master Nayph training. I had a record win today - 9 moves! It was a good game - I'm stoked! |
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| Date - 17/11/2003 Time - 4:43p.m. Description - Exams are very close to being over - 3 days until stat and then the hardest semester of my degree will come to a close!!! It's quite an exciting thought. I probably should be studying a lot more for stat than I have been, but there's just no motivation to - The unit isn't that hard and I only need a pass in it. I have been playing a lot of chess lately, but there haven't really been any breakthrough games ... Just the usual stuff. I realised that this Chess Master Nayph section is taking up heaps of room on my site because of all the pictures, and once I find a decent GIF animator I plan on actually putting up the animations of my good games, which will take up even more room! Thus I have created a new user name and I have been spending heaps of time transferring everything over to the new site, and then I'll just link it all up - Talk about putting in an effort just to avoid paying Geocities any money lol. Anyway, after a huge mass of defeats (as usual), I finally got a win. The game wasn't that good, although I did manage to work out a good solution in relation to what to do when my opener is ruined ... |
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| Date - 20/11/2003 Time - 2:00a.m. Description - WOOHOO!!! Exams are finished!!! Last one today was stat271 - It went fairly okay so I can't complain. Afterwards Claymore gave me a lift home and we went and got Oportos for lunch. Then I went and got Hannah and we hung out for the night and dealt with some issues ... It's lunch time and burritoes are no longer being served at the canteen for an unknown temporary amount of time lol. Anywayz I figured since I don't have to wake up early to study tomorrow, I can basically stay up and play chess all night! YAY! Man I had to play soooo many games before I managed a win - Perhaps the exams had drained my brain or something I dunno, but I really suck. I think maybe I should get some sleep ... |
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| Date - 22/11/2003 Time - 9:47p.m. Description - I'm on the computer while watching the rugby world cup final! Aussies are losing at the moment 14-11!!! C'mon Aussie what's goin on?!? Anyway I'm playing a chess game at the same time and I played a fairly okay game, managing a win quite easily against an easy opponent. YAY Australia got a penalty! HOOYA! I spent all day shopping today with Hannah. I bought some luggage for my trip to Melbourne, and also a shirt and tie to wear at the formal - Black shirt and a pink tie to match Hannah's dress ... It should look pretty classy. Well now I'm gonna do some work on the website ... |
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| Date - 23/11/2003 Time - 2:05p.m. Description - Just got home from church - It was a nice and moving service, and it was fun to hang out with Ellen and little Nayph after - Afterwards I played chess because these days there is nothing better to do. I got hammered by this really crap player which was quite embarrasing, yet on the plus side nice and humbling. Regardless, I played him again and hammered him back just for revenge lol. |
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| Date - 25/11/2003 Time - 6:12p.m. Description - I woke up at 2:45p.m. today which is the record sleep in so far for this holidays ... My aim is to get up to 6p.m. - Waking up to the Simpsons, now thats the good life lol. Anywayz, I went down to visit Hannah at work for a while as she waited for some other girl to come and work with her. This bloody girl was like an hour late, so I was there for quite a while. When I got home I headed straight for the chessin. I have been feeling a bit down the past few days so the chessin takes my mind off things. Lies make baby Jesus cry, and they make Nayph want to play chess lol. I had a nice quick and clean win today. Very nice indeed. |
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| Date - 23/11/2003 Time - 4:55a.m. Description - Man I just had an awesome game! I played this guy with a MASSIVE rating, and I made some terrible mistakes at the beginning, and I was down a horse very quickly. I can't even explain how, but through a series of extremely good moves, I managed to force a check mate (With a horse of all peices!). Man this is one game that I'm definitely gonna have to look over. And this was all done while having Limp Bizkit pumpin in the background, and being awake at bloody nearly 5a.m!!! I think I must be on a roll again, because right after this game I played another guy with a MASSIVE rating, and I whooped him as well, like this guy had absolutely no chance of winning. Go Nayph! |
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| Date - 23/11/2003 Time - 2:32a.m. Description - This afternoon was quite interesting ... Hannah gave me a haircut which looks pretty swish (Nice and short). When Todd got home from skating we headed off to Bible study, but none of us were really in the mood for one of Ian's study's ... Andy and Andrea weren't going to lead because they had just had their little baby boy Owen. Hannahs dad Rex had asked us to get a bottle of wine when we were there so we had to go, but when we turned up, Ian's car was the only one there, so we REALLY didn't want to just have to spend the night awkwardly alone with him. The only logical solution to this was obviously for Todd to sneak in, get the wine, and then we all make a dash for it, which is exactly what we did lol. Then we went to Maroubra Maccas for a celebratory dinner. After that we headed back to my place to watch Snatch, but I fell asleep because I was kinda tired. Hannah and Todd left and went home, and I didn't wake up until about midnight, and I just wasn't tired anymore ... Grrr this always happens. I began watching another of the videos that we hired but it sucked, so I figured it's Chess Master Nayph training time! I have played a few games so far. I played this high rated player in an untimed game and I played well and won - Usually when I have no time limit I am always able to put up a good challenge ... |
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| Date - 26/11/2003 Time - 3:15p.m. Description - Well I'm at home packing my bags for Melbourne for which I leave in 2 DAYS!!! How exciting! I have been playing a teeny bit of chess along the way, but there aren't really any games worth noting ... I just thought I'd write a little something up here to say goodbye to all my fans for 3 weeks lol. The past few days have been relatively boring because of the rain, however I was up at around 1a.m. last night when I noticed that for the first time since my exams had finished, it wasn't raining!!! HOOYA! So I messaged Han to let her know that I was on my way over to pick up my skateboard, and then after having a little chat to her, I headed down to Cooks River for a late night skate. It was pretty good. I didn't go to the usual Cooks River spot because I didn't want to wake up the people who live in houses near there, so I went to the boat jetty where there are fewer houses. The problem with the boat jetty is that it is the hangout spot for the homies and their cars, so after around an hour or so I was forced to leave by some mean lookin homies in a mean lookin car lol. I figured I'd just head over to the usual Cooks River spot and chill for a while, which is what I did. The light near there was freakin me out because it kept flickering out and then quickly coming back on, and every time it came back on it kept freaking me out because I thought someone was there lol. One time there was someone there ... Some dude running with his dog. Who on earth goes running with his dog at around 2a.m?!??!?! Well I spose he was saying the same thing about me. Also there was this weird banging drum beat coming from the other side of the river under the bridge. I couldn't work out whether I was just making it up in my head or if it was really there, so I began to make my way over to check it out, but when I got to General Holmes drive, there were heaps of cops there doing RBT's, so I didn't really want to go past them because it might look dodgy some weird kid with a skateboard walking around at such late hours. As I headed back it started to rain, so I sat under the table at Cooks River until the rain stopped, and then I skated back home. And thus concludes another late night skate adventure. Amen. |
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