Happiness; Coming and Going

March 10, 2008

Originally Written on 8th March 2008

The title is a line from Lucky Man – The Verve a truly inspiring song. Of late this line has moved me considerably.

I want to talk about something that has contained a considerable amount of happiness; this past week. As you may have noticed from my previous post this week has been the first week back at University. What can I say it has been an incredible week, I am so surprisingly delighted with how the week has unfolded.

People

I used the word surprisingly intentionally. This past week has not been enjoyable because I am back at Uni, moving around and seeing people again because frankly I did plenty of that over the holidays. It has been the surprises that are hooking me.

Firstly I should mention that I do a fair bit of traveling, this semester I have to go to 3 university campuses spread over 2 Unis. Usually this results in me catching 6 ‘pieces’ of public transport a day just to get to my most distant campus and back home again. Anyways, I have been simply amazed by the number of friends that I have met on my travels, this week about 5/6 times that I have required to use public transport I have seen and chatted with someone I know. Its not that which surprises me though, its that everyone I have met are different people whom I bump into around the place occasionally. It is like everwhere I go there is somewhere ready to talk to, it has almost reached ridiculous levels.

It isn’t just on the move though. Around Uni, in classes where I wouldn’t suspect to know anyone I am meeting more people and engaging in great conversation. I also heard from one of my Chinese buddies whom has returned to Australia. I met up with him Friday and we are both so stoked about it. He is one of my best buddies and it is great to have him back in Australia. ^_^

Classes

Something else which surprised me was how much so I am enjoying my classes. There are two, new classes in particular that I have been pleased with. One is a marketing course which a friend told me was simply God awful and the other is a course which deals with language and technology. I can already see how the marketing course is going to benefit me and I find it to be an interesting class. The other class is even more so right up my alley, we learn about language and technology, namely computer technology. Some of the topics we are covering are language learning thru technology, blogging, Google, Second Life as communicative tool, the methods and limitations between certain communication methods etc. I am so excited to be a part of only a class of 5 people studying this subject. It is all focused on learning through exploration and flexibility. The course allows us to gain education in something relevant to us. This means that my tutor has encouraged me to study more about blogging. Infact just being in these classes has encouraged me to want to go out and do more research and to an extent write papers on this kinda stuff. Its so complelling.

DP’s Gamer Blog

Thats right, my gamer blog. Theres been a lot of developments here as well. There has been an increase in posting frequency which I admit is unintentional but I just have had to share it. I have reached a state where I simply love writing in my blog and I really wanted to share some more articles.

The most significant surprise is with my traffic which is looking to 2.5x that of the traffic 2 months ago. My RSS readership has peaked as well. Also just yesterday I think I got a plug on the Brainy Gamer podcast. Micheal whom runs the site offered free plugs so I took him up on that offer and nearing the end of the podcast there is an advertisement by Matty Jay. Micheal also added his own kind words afterwards which I am very thankful for and I really wasn’t expecting.

Conclusion

Yeah so this week has been awesome. I am meeting up with even more people at and around Uni. I am throughly enjoying my classes and my blog is picking up steam. I am just so wrapped with how life is progressing.

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