Welcome 2009

So, it's been like half a year since I wrote a post, Why the sudden motivation to tend to a long starved blog you ask? Combination of factors really, having the shittest run of bad luck on facebook poker, lost 17K today, not happy, I also seen that an old friend and my Jedi/Ninja master Brendan Donoghue had returned to his blog, we were both kings when Blogs were big at Bond and that rekindled the old flame I guess, for how long whom knows.

Went to the old uni today, I was so saddened to see such a degree of decay since the 05 generation left you were and by that I refer to the student body. Back in my day getting into Bond was something special It was an elite university and you only got in cause you could prove you were something, now days, old Prof Rob Stable wants to triple the student ratio to 9000 students and every tom dick and harry can get in and from what ive seen alot of it is the filth of the Fee Help system. Robert Stable and Co are still hard at work to dismantle the great institution that Bond once was and is on his way to publicizing and thus bastardizing Bond. If going as far as establishing a Degree in "video gaming" wasn't enough the Board have gone further to now buy in to ridiculous public university nonsense that is a degree in "hotel management". The day you can prove to me that there is a shred of credibility in a degree that attempts to teach "Social Skills" (Skills learnt by doing and the continued application thereafter) though a process of study (being a nerd) Is the day I will barrack for NSW in the state of origin.

With stable at the helm all that matters in the not for profit university is the amount of money the Board can bring in, so we throw away the high and elite standards Bond once had, we throw away our low student to teacher ration, we admit 9000 (6000 to many) students, we let anyone apply on the fee help system, for any degree of their choosing, we suck $60K of government money out of them before they flunk and get tossed to the gutter.

I have no doubt that Stable leadership is bringing in stacks of cash and thus he will be able to defend his leadership from a fiscal view, I am merely advocating that the short term fiscal gain is extensively offset by the long term damage that will be done to the institution and the image thereof by the process of the cash cow scheme. I only hope that I will be the last of an era and still be able to say years from now that my Bond University Degree is worth something. For if things keep going the way they are going we may as well call it Bond Tate because we will be identical to Griffith in every demeanor.

Other then that got into an ego showdown with a Bondie at subway today, he gave me the whole Im better then you cause I go to Bond thing, now if he was doing it to a grif taffer I would have been proud, but I found myself having to educate the dumb fuck that I had already graduated from Bond, Obviously the 053 Pub crawl shirt and Graduation ring that sits on my finger wasn't enough, So after telling my intellectually challenged friend that I was already a recipient of a degree, and reminding him that he was an international over here cause he wasnt smart enough to get into a uni in his homeland, I ordered what is undoubtedly the Best Sub out, BMT on Italian Herb and Cheese