Eh, the CAO finishline

Back in September we were told to apply to the Central Applications Office, or the CAO as it is affectionately known as! This is the only way to get into an HEI in Ireland going through the Leaving Cert system. But as time went on some people left it be and applied just before the deadline for applying in February. No harm done there.

Now the time has come to finally put emotions aside and seal what you want your future to be in the form of college in September/October. We were advised to put down what we want rather than being restricted by what the points you think you will get. If you wanna go for Architecture, put it down, even if you don't get the points you don't get the point. You never know. The points may drop and you may get enough points to get an offer and then you are SORTED. But if you don't put it down now you aren't going to get any chance of starting Architecture in College. You ain't in you don't win.

All in all, do you think it'd be better to be doing something you love doing than doing some course you hate and are only doing it because the money at the end of the line is good? I think the majority of people would answer doing something they love, with a few people choosing money over happiness. Each to their own. I know what my answer is and have the balls to follow through with it too.

You hear of people who did something like medicine because they could. They may not even be a people person, or have an interest in healing. They just have the brains to do the burning. And after a few years, they find out they hate it. Either from the daily stress of the job, or it is just not for them. But don't fret. There's always back doors into what you want to do. Always ways of getting into what you love doing. All hope's not lost. But let us face facts; wouldn't you rather get it right first time around?

Eh, a short story by Steph Deane

Steph says (21:59):
the individual conversation
as she typed on the keyboard she thought to herself is anybody reading or have they set their computer to automatically do


Cian 'Bua an Leighis' Ó Laoghaire says (21:59):
Let us publish this!!!


Steph says (22:00):
she felt alone isolated as typed her little heart out wishing for one decent reply the s Flashed across her eyes blinding her inner soul


Steph says (22:02):
one guy believing it is beyond her to snatch a guy/woman (since he also thinks she is a lesbian since shes not a lothario like him) for the debs


Steph says (22:03):
he reads the convo unsure of whether she is serious or not or whether this outporing is a joke or secret seedy confession (its the 1st) just in case!


Steph says (22:04):
lisa and laura look on sipping their cups of coffee and tea respectively thinking what drugs are stephanie on this time
what will we type they ponder


Steph says (22:06):
cian is confused by this witty commentary unsure how to jump in and feeling his way into the convo (like usual he is a very hands on guy is he not laura.......)
and now she waits wondering if murray will win his match


Steph says (22:08):
however she can not type forever especially with repetitive strain injury on the rise and she die alone in this lost world of silence.............................................

Eh, the Death of the VCR

Seeing as it's the time to start anew. Some stuff is heading to the Civic Amenety Centre. I saw amongst these things, something which we as children pretty much lived by. The VCR. The silver machine which saved us many a time with shows we were missing and hours upon hours of Lion King and other Disney and Pixar films, Thomas the Tank Engine and even Teletubbies.

It kinda struck a chord with me. I thought, "Damn, I'm getting old". Even though I'm young enough, seeing that the VCR is going out the gap made me see that technology is moving on pretty fast. 15 years ago the VCR was the be all and end all of entertainment. Despite the video's size they were plentiful in any household across the world. Just grab a video and enjoy, pretty much like a DVD or Blu-Ray these days. Up to the local video store to rent a video for the night.

Rewinding the video is something I will always remember, sitting down on the floor pressing the rewind and fast forward buttons frantically trying to get to the beginning because the last eejit who rented the movie out never rewound it to the start, or to get back to the place where I was watching previously. It was a pain in the arse, especially when the remote control has gone on the missing list. Sitting on my arse on the cold floor straining my neck up to the TV screen to see what scene I'm going through at the time. Nowadays on DVD's, we can just go to the scene selection menu and go from there, but it nearly made the effort worthwhile shifting through all the movie to get to your desired scene. That little pleasure is now gone!

But let us move onto what's next. I would say the DVD player is the latest thing, but can't. DVD was the next link in the chain after Videos. But even the DVD is being out-done by HDTV and Blu-Ray. So in the past 15 years or so alot of progress seems to have been made, but will the seemingly innocent VCR resurface in the future? I am afriad the way technology goes the VCR has had the final nail in the coffin well and truly wholloped in.

Eh, the post where I pop my blog cherry

Well, this is where I pop my Blog cherry. During my long tedious time working at the books, a thought came across my mind. This thought was to start a blog entitled Life after the Leaving. A few weeks after the end of the last chapter of my childhood I finally got around to doing it. That's the background story to this blog...

As to what I'll be blogging about, that will depend on the day, my mood, recent experiences which made me go Hmmm or what language I feel like expressing myself in. It'll either be English or as gaeilge. You'll just have to wait and see...