Auckland Uni Students....

[Disco Dan]

Help needed!



Those of you that go to Auckland University....

Im enrolled at the epsom campas and i've been avoiding the city campas, because its too confusing and i always get lost whenever i try to get there, and when i do get there i get lost inside!

Just found out my summer school paper is at the city campas and not the epsom campus!! arrrggghhh!!! that really sucks...

Anyway I need to find my Class: ARTS 206

Where the smeg am I going????????

[Disco Dan]

oh and just found this....

But not sure how to get there, where it is... etc etc...

[Drunken Monkey]

There's only 1 room you need to remember:

Top floor, student union building (South block).

[Disco Dan]

There's only 1 room you need to remember:

Top floor, student union building (South block).

oh ok? where/what is that?

[crashe]

For all those replying here to Disco Dan.......

He is famous for getting LOST.

[Gremlin]

first of all, Drunken Monkey is living up to his name... thats the student bar :yes:

Arts 206 would be in the Arts building, on your map... Level 2, room 6... What do you know on the map, from there, I can guide you...

[ArcherWC]

There's only 1 room you need to remember:

Top floor, student union building (South block).
It would haved to be the bar if i know DM, haha

[Chisanga]

Hi Dan,

THe ARTS building is on Symonds Street and is behind the 3 old style Politics buildings that are on the street front, there are pathways to get behind them, If walking down from Alfred St. and you hit the HSB building you have gone too far.

Room 206 I think is one level BELOW ground level so go down one flight of stairs. You should be able to find the ARTS building on the map you can download from the uni website. Follow this link http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/about/uoa/campuses/home.cfm#City

Good luck :)

[Disco Dan]

Thank you crashe.... :innocent:


This is a serious post though, I actually have great dificulty getting to the city campus. Lucky for me I have only needed to go to the clock tower place 2-3 times and once I had to find the SJS office... that took me 3 hours to find!

I can find anyplace in the Epsom campas though!! Nice and small and easy to find there!

Hate the city campus! Its too big!!

I need to find the ARTs block? is there only one? Where is ARTS 206????

[Disco Dan]

OK, im looking at the attached map....


I can get to the clock tower (top left of map). I know there is motorbike parking outside it.

Should i go down wynyard street and park down there somewhere?

[Gremlin]

yeee gads man.

1. Park on Alfred Street.
2. Walk down Alfred Street, and cross Symonds Street (according to your map, to Commerce C)
3. Once across, there will be a little paved section, walk to that, and go to the left, and you will find stairs going down.
4. Take them, and at the bottom, go left.
5. You will walk under a walkway. Stop.
6. Turn to your right, and notice a door near you (not the one leading into the building)
7. Take the small door, it only has a set of stairs behind it.
8. This will put you on level 2, from there, you need to locate room 6. All rooms have numbers on them, and funnily enough, numbered consecutively.

Hows that?

edit...there is hidden bike parking off wynard street, which can be only accessed from the north end, via Alten Rd
edit2 there is no official bike parking right outside clocktower, unless that has changed

[Chisanga]

Thank you crashe.... :innocent:


This is a serious post though, I actually have great dificulty getting to the city campus. Lucky for me I have only needed to go to the clock tower place 2-3 times and once I had to find the SJS office... that took me 3 hours to find!

I can find anyplace in the Epsom campas though!! Nice and small and easy to find there!

Hate the city campus! Its too big!!

I need to find the ARTs block? is there only one? Where is ARTS 206????

First - don't panic :)

Also at the start of the year their are usually a load of helpers wandering around with "Ask me" shirts on that you can stop and ask for directions.

You will be fine just arive at Uni in plenty of time to have a look. Honestly it's not too hard.

[Chisanga]

yeee gads man.

1. Park on Alfred Street.
2. Walk down Alfred Street, and cross Symonds Street (according to your map, to Commerce C)
3. Once across, there will be a little paved section, walk to that, and go to the left, and you will find stairs going down.
4. Take them, and at the bottom, go left.
5. You will walk under a walkway. Stop.
6. Turn to your right, and notice a door near you (not the one leading into the building)
7. Take the small door, it only has a set of stairs behind it.
8. This will put you on level 2, from there, you need to locate room 6. All rooms have numbers on them, and funnily enough, numbered consecutively.

Hows that?

What he said... he types fast too :)

[Disco Dan]

yeee gads man.

1. Park on Alfred Street.
2. Walk down Alfred Street, and cross Symonds Street (according to your map, to Commerce C)
3. Once across, there will be a little paved section, walk to that, and go to the left, and you will find stairs going down.
4. Take them, and at the bottom, go left.
5. You will walk under a walkway. Stop.
6. Turn to your right, and notice a door near you (not the one leading into the building)
7. Take the small door, it only has a set of stairs behind it.
8. This will put you on level 2, from there, you need to locate room 6. All rooms have numbers on them, and funnily enough, numbered consecutively.

Hows that?

edit...there is hidden bike parking off wynard street, which can be only accessed from the north end, via Alten Rd

Fantastic dude! cheers!

Well im gunna do a 'dummy run' tonight, because i will be panicing tomorrow morning.. and i def wont be able to sleep at all tonight if i dont!

Thank you so much!!!!!

I will be printing off the map and sticking it to my petrol tank.....

[nodrog]

take a bag of bread crumbs.

[Gremlin]

I'm bored... when are you doing the dummy run? I can meet you outside the clocktower if you wish... and watch your progress :lol:

[crashe]

Disco Dan - Good luck.

Now take a few deep breathes and breathe out....
Do that a few times.........

Ok feeling a tad better now..... good.....

Ok the guys are helping you out.... print out their instructions and take that with you.

You will be fine....... soon you will be a pro at finding rooms etc at the uni....
and will be helping others to find the places as well.

Do NOT panic.........

[Disco Dan]

take a bag of bread crumbs.

Those of you going into Uni tomorrow... look out for a long line of string.. one end attached to my bike.. the other end.. me.

[crashe]

take a bag of bread crumbs.


The pidgeons will eat them...... so then he will get LOST trying to find his way back to his bike.....

[Chisanga]

Those of you going into Uni tomorrow... look out for a long line of string.. one end attached to my bike.. the other end.. me.

My bike is being serviced tommorrow (And I have to work in the morning)otherwise I would come in and help you.

[Ixion]

yeee gads man.

1. Park on Alfred Street.
2. Walk down Alfred Street, and cross Symonds Street (according to your map, to Commerce C)
3. Once across, there will be a little paved section, walk to that, and go to the left, and you will find stairs going down.
4. Take them, and at the bottom, go left.
5. You will walk under a walkway. Stop.
6. Turn to your right, and notice a door near you (not the one leading into the building)
7. Take the small door, it only has a set of stairs behind it.
8. This will put you on level 2, from there, you need to locate room 6. All rooms have numbers on them, and funnily enough, numbered consecutively.

Hows that?

edit...there is hidden bike parking off wynard street, which can be only accessed from the north end, via Alten Rd
edit2 there is no official bike parking right outside clocktower, unless that has changed

Whatever you do , do NOT accidentally turn left. If you are so ill omened as to do so, you will find another door, similar to the one you would have found had you turned right. DO NOT GO THROUGH THAT DOOR. AND DO NOT ASK WHY. JUST DON'T DO IT. (But, if you do, can I have your bike, since you won't be using it any more?)

So is that clear? Don't turn right, and make sure you go through the right door.

(EDIT: There may be no bike parking nowdays outside the clock tower. But the challenge still stands, to start outside the clock tower in Princes St, ride UP the steps, DOWN the internal stairs, out the lower back doors, into the cloisters, down the stairs and across to Alfred St, and back up to Princes St. It has been done. )

[Disco Dan]

6. Turn to your right, and notice a door near you (not the one leading into the building)


Whatever you do , do NOT accidentally turn left. So is that clear? Don't turn right, and make sure you go through the right door.


umm ok folks i think i got it...

Well off to leather up and go try out the directions :yes:

First stop, clocktower...

then left? or right? or something......

[Gremlin]

don't listen to the ol coot... :lol: There isn't a door the same to the left...

To the left, it be the looong tunnel to the light... (read underpass)

hmmmm pity I don't think I could ride through the clocktower on the 7... someone got something a bit lighter, with more steering? :devil2:

[Ixion]

You are quite right, I should not have spoken of THAT. Let us all take note, there IS NO door to the left, none at all. Nope, none. Just as said, a tunnel to the light, no door to the darkness.

Just remember not to turn right.

By the way, you must bear in mind that all the left, right etc instructions are on the assumption that you are approaching FROM THE NORTH. If that be not so, obviously you must reverse left and right.

[crashe]

Ok at 7.21pm Disco Dan was about to head out the door......

It is now just gone 9pm and Disco Dan hasn't returned.




OMG he is LOST again.......




Someone send out a search party to find the lad......

Did he take his compass and the written instructions with him?

[Gremlin]

OMG he is LOST again.......
and to think I even offered to meet him at the clocktower, and he said he would be fine...

Ixion... with directions like yours... even I would get lost... and the directions assumed an approach from the south... :killingme

[Ixion]

Oh, shit. I guess maybe he went through that door. The one we don't speak of. D'y' know if he made any arrangements regarding dispositon of his bike, in the event of his not returning?

I suppose it is POSSIBLE he is merely lost. But really, how likely is that?

[Ixion]

and to think I even offered to meet him at the clocktower, and he said he would be fine...

Ixion... with directions like yours... even I would get lost... and the directions assumed an approach from the south... :killingme

You cannot


Walk down Alfred Street, and cross Symonds Street


approaching from the south. This might explain things, though I suspect "that of which none speak" myself.

[crashe]

Oh, shit. I guess maybe he went through that door. The one we don't speak of. D'y' know if he made any arrangements regarding dispositon of his bike, in the event of his not returning?

I suppose it is POSSIBLE he is merely lost. But really, how likely is that?

Tis very possible for Disco Dan....... to get LOST.

[Disco Dan]

I HAVE RETURNED!

...well after taking a wrong turn off the motorway I turned back, turned right after I passed the police operations carpark (on my left) and ended up in broadway (saw a gpx250 on the side of the road, and some yellow thing in broadway too). Turned back, went all the way back to where i got off the mway, saw a sign saying University (despite pointing opposite direction to what my map was telling me). Somehow (sheer luck) ended up on Princes street, turned left onto Alfred street then right onto symonds. Stopped again to check map. Lost still. Some passer-by approached me and offered to help... turned my map around the other way and sent me back down the road. Turn right onto Alten Road, and ended up at mway again. Turned back and found Wynyard Street, and despite being a construction zone and very very pot hole ridden gravely stuff I braved it to the end. Found the building, although no doors, just a small sign saying "arts". Hmmpf. found a small walkway down the side of the building, went up it. Ended up on Symonds street again. This time I parked up and continued on foot to find the entrance. Found a stair well with a "arts" sign affixed. Triumphant, I returned to my bike. Trying to think of the fastest way back to the mway, I decided to turn right onto Wellesley Street, then right again onto Princes, down to Bowen on my left and over the ridge to queen street. Followed that too the end and turn right onto K-Road, and then left at the gas station to see the mway on my right.

Tomorrow is going to be bloody entertaining....

[Gremlin]

approaching from the south. This might explain things, though I suspect "that of which none speak" myself.
You're bloody confusing ME now :crybaby:... you were talking about the door... which you get at from the south. Well, you can get at it from south north east west, but MY directions were from the south :D

I think you have no idea what you are talking about :lol: ... whereas I spent 4.5 years wandering about that hell hole :mellow:

I say we blame ixion for leading our poor lost soul to... lostdom...

[Gremlin]

Dan... I thought I was bad (I managed to get lost on the motorway twice) but you sure as hell beat me :yes:

Just make sure you found arts, and not human sciences building...

[crashe]

Yee Gawds......... I was right......

He did get LOST yet again........



Oh I want to be with him when he gets LOST tomorrow. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

What time are you going to be on the motorway heading to the city?

[Ixion]

You're bloody confusing ME now :crybaby:... you were talking about the door... which you get at from the south. Well, you can get at it from south north east west, but MY directions were from the south :D

I think you have no idea what you are talking about :lol: ... whereas I spent 4.5 years wandering about that hell hole :mellow:

I say we blame ixion for leading our poor lost soul to... lostdom...

Well, disco dan may have gotten lost, but at least it didn't take him 4.5 years to find his way out !

[Disco Dan]

That place is a dam labyrinth!!!!

[Disco Dan]

What time are you going to be on the motorway heading to the city?

Um well my class is 9am - 11 am so I guess i will be on the mway no later than 8am, prob even 7.30am.

It will prob take me even longer in all the traffic to find the dam place again.. and i normally have to got the same route to get to a place again... so may take me even longer...

[Gremlin]

Well, disco dan may have gotten lost, but at least it didn't take him 4.5 years to find his way out !
Tell me about it!!! I had to go to all these different rooms (which were open at very specific times on certain days), sit "exams" and get a "degree". Once I had the "degree" I had to set off on another quest, to find the "real world".

They should turn it into a game... same sort of quest format really, with obstacles called "lecturers" along the way :shit:

[notme]

This is the most entertaining thread I've read all night!

Some points:


1. Ixion, you are a bad man. A bad BAD man. Well done.
2. Grem....ah there's nothing I can say.
3. Disco - look, I had a similar problem to you when I was doing (concurrent) degrees at uni and Manukau tech, so i just a) chose papers all in the same geographical location, and b) manufactured fake parking tickets for myself so i could park on Symonds street all the time.
4. Auckland uni is the frickin WEIRDEST campus in the world.

[Disco Dan]

48km on my trip meter. Bloody hell, this could get expensive :(

[crashe]

Um well my class is 9am - 11 am so I guess i will be on the mway no later than 8am, prob even 7.30am.

It will prob take me even longer in all the traffic to find the dam place again.. and i normally have to got the same route to get to a place again... so may take me even longer...

Ok tonight get your map book out..... look at the easiest route there.... then highlight the roads in a coloured marker.....

Use that route to get you there....
It shouldnt take that long to get to Symonds street......

You go off at Newton Rd Gully off ramp...... (set of lights) turn right.......go over bridge (which is over the motorway) another set of lights, go up the hill..... at the top (set of lights) Turn left into Symonds Street....follow that...... you will get to the uni from that direction.

[Disco Dan]

Ive been thinking about investing in one of those GPS thingies... but I think I would keep crashing when I spend more time trying to work out where I am on the screen...

[Ixion]

Um well my class is 9am - 11 am so I guess i will be on the mway no later than 8am, prob even 7.30am.

It will prob take me even longer in all the traffic to find the dam place again.. and i normally have to got the same route to get to a place again... so may take me even longer...

I've seen that NW motorway of yours in rush hour, you'll have to lane split like mad. But y' can't go wrong, Newton Rd off ramp is y'r best bet I reckon, then just wiggle around a bit, and you should end up in Symonds St, just below where Partington's Windmill used to be before they tore it down. Or in Wakefield st, opposite the pub (not sure if that's still there, but it jolly well ought to be), Then hang a left (or two, if necessary), Down toward Anzac Ave (I never did quite figure out where Anzac Ave becomes Symonds St, but anyway, one or other), and Bob's y'r Mummy's special friend. If you get to the Supreme Court ('tisn't that any more, mind, which is no loss, it was a shithole of a place. Is no better now, and infested by raving idiots), you've gone too far.

Now, I defy anyone to come up with clearer, simpler, more explicit directions than that.

[Disco Dan]

Ok tonight get your map book out..... look at the easiest route there.... then highlight the roads in a coloured marker.....

Use that route to get you there....
It shouldnt take that long to get to Symonds street......

You go off at Newtown Gully off ramp...... (set of lights) turn right.......go over bridge (which is over the motorway) another set of lights, go up the hill..... at the top (set of lights) Turn left into Symonds Street....follow that...... you will get to the uni from that direction.

Whenever I go to the city I always get off next to that big giant porcupine thing. Go down the hill, turn a right (not sure of road names) and end up passing sky tower on my right, then I reach Queen Street. Then from that point i can either get to:

Mission Bay, K-Road, Real Groovy, Cinema, and now princes street via some weird combination of one-way roads and path through the park.

Ive tried other ways and I get lost... broadway is a common place for me to end up, so is ponsonby. Whenever I get lost I will be at one of those places.

[Disco Dan]

I've seen that NW motorway of yours in rush hour, you'll have to lane split like mad. But y' can't go wrong, Newton Rd off ramp is y'r best bet I reckon, then just wiggle around a bit, and you should end up in Symonds St, just below where Partington's Windmill used to be before they tore it down. Or in Wakefield st, opposite the pub (not sure if that's still there, but it jolly well ought to be), Then hang a left (or two, if necessary), Down toward Anzac Ave (I never did quite figure out where Anzac Ave becomes Symonds St, but anyway, one or other), and Bob's y'r Mummy's special friend. If you get to the Supreme Court ('tisn't that any more, mind, which is no loss, it was a shithole of a place. Is no better now, and infested by raving idiots), you've gone too far.

Now, I defy anyone to come up with clearer, simpler, more explicit directions than that.

What? That makes as much sense as "tits on a bull" !

turn right at the place thats not there anymore, then left at the othe place thats prob not there either.. then look for the place thats now something else...

flipping eck!

[Gremlin]

...then just wiggle around a bit, and you should end up in Symonds St, ... before they tore it down. Or in Wakefield st, opposite the pub (not sure if that's still there, but it jolly well ought to be), ...Is no better now, and infested by raving idiots)

Now, I defy anyone to come up with clearer, simpler, more explicit directions than that.
crashe already has...

Anzac becomes err.. anzac, at intersection of symonds and alten... and the other road (sheesh, I'm almost as bad). Would "wiggle" be a special kind of direction, and when would I use it?

Follow crashe's directions, they would work... provided you stop in the right area roughly... Use the big shiny flash building as a pointer (Information Commons building)

[crashe]

Disco Dan.... what area do you live in......
like what area in west auckland.

I am gonna get my bike gear back on and take you into the city to show you where symonds street is......

We are going to do a wee tiki tour right now....

So I will meet you at the Te Atatu On ramp...... wait for me under that bridge.... I will wait to see if you reply back to this....

any one else want to join us and show him some easy routes around the city...

oh and bring ya map book and a highlighter.

[Disco Dan]

Disco Dan.... what area do you live in......
like what area in west auckland.

I am gonna get my bike gear back on and take you into the city to show you where symonds street is......

We are going to do a wee tiki tour right now....

So I will meet you at the Te Atatu On ramp...... wait for me under that bridge.... I will wait to see if you reply back to this....

any one else want to join us and show him some easy routes around the city...

oh and bring ya map book and a highlighter.

um under the bridge? you mean on the side of the mway?

[crashe]

um under the bridge? you mean on the side of the mway?

Disco Dan....... pm me your address...... I will come and collect you........

[Gremlin]

mebe I might, me is flippin bored...

coming from east tho...got a handy meeting place?

[Disco Dan]

Shell West gate....

[Gremlin]

Shell West gate....
I wouldn't mind if crashe could answer than question... you're a little locationally challenged...

[crashe]

Shell West gate....

Ok heading there now to meet Disco Dan at shell westgate........ I am putting in extra kms to do this.. just for you....... see you there in 10 to 15 minutes....

Gremlin....... we will wait at the top of Newton Rd/symonds street for you....

get DD cell ph number....


on my way........ now

[Disco Dan]

Done...

Leaving now Crashe! :yes:

[Gremlin]

got mobile number, c ya at top of newton

[BuFfY]

I could help you round Epsom campus.... maybe... I am rather directionally challenged myself!!

[Ixion]

I could give you directions if you wish, I'm very good at it.

[gijoe1313]

:lol: What a killer thread this is, I wished I saw it sooner so I could have used it as an excuse to pootle out as well! :woohoo:

I get deliberately lost all over the North Island intentionally - Disco Dan does it without even trying :gob:

The funny thing is, if you told him to go into a circle and sit in the corner, he'd probably do it no prob! :scratch: I love your work Disco Dan! You're as random and eclectic as they come :msn-wink: :niceone:

Next trick ... sitting in the right lecture theatres at the right time? And as for stalling in Uni for years, I think I managed to attend it for 5 years before they awarded me my degrees and kicked me out! Hows that for being lost at Uni! :woohoo: :sunny:

[MacD]

If you're coming to the City Campus via the North-western motorway just follow the Port exit signs which will take you through the city to Stanley Street. At the first set of traffic lights turn left up Alten Road, then left onto Symonds Street. Park bike. Go to lecture. Return to bike. Go up Symonds Street, turn left at traffic lights down Grafton Road. Follow signs to Northwestern motorway. Note that the right-hand lane on the North-western connecting link now goes across the harbour bridge! But don't worry, you can turn around and head back into the city at the Onewa Road (c/- Ixion) interchange! :devil2:

[Ixion]

I spent quite a few years wobbling round there, a good bit of it subterranean. But they have a whole heap of buildings now that weren't there then, and the ones that were there aren't now.

But its all good cos I know where they used to be, and I just ignore the new shit. and its gotten all boring now, I was up there a while back at the Student Union for nearly a whole afternoon and noone got arrested at all.

Only new bit thats good is the grad bar, thats a nice place.

[Ixion]

If you're coming to the City Campus via the North-western motorway just follow the Port exit signs which will take you through the city to Stanley Street. At the first set of traffic lights turn left up Alten Road, then left onto Symonds Street. Park bike. Go to lecture. Return to bike. Go up Symonds Street, turn left at traffic lights down Grafton Road. Follow signs to Northwestern motorway. Note that the right-hand lane on the North-western connecting link now goes across the harbour bridge! But don't worry, you can turn around and head back into the city at the Northcote interchange! :devil2:

No you can't if you mean the Akorana drive interchange , or whatever its called - the one where the enormous blackberry patch used to be before they built the motorway.

You can loop back at Onewa Rd, though I think it's a bit illegal but I regulalrly see cops doing it.

Or you could get off by the old Harbour Bridge Authority Building, (its something else now), and ride through the secret underpass to the other side, then jiggle higgle round a bit of fence and you're back on the motorway going south. Assuming the secret underpass is still there, I must check that, there'll be trouble if it's not, that was one of the conditions for allowing the bridge to be built, if they've blocked the underpass they'll have to pull the bridge down.

[notme]

I spent quite a few years wobbling round there, a good bit of it subterranean. ..........

What, you did the tunnels under Albert park on yer bike? :scooter:

[Disco Dan]

What, you did the tunnels under Albert park on yer bike? :scooter:

Theres tunnels? cool! will have a look!



WE ARE BACK!!!!!!!

[Ixion]

Thats good, You realise that roads always look totally different by daylight to what they look at night.

Yes, there are tunnels. A whole town in fact, chambers and rooms and so on. But the miserable buggers have blocked off the entrances now. Never saw anything interesting in them, the ones in North head were better.

[crashe]

Well I meet Disco Dan at Westgate......
He managed to find that ok......

I lead him all the way up to Symonds Street and we waited there for Gremlin to arrive on Symonds St/ Newton Rd.

So there we are waiting and we spot this biker on a green bike shoot throu the lights... I thought it couldnt be....... so we waited and waited....... I went for a wander and there was Gremlin waiting down in Newton Rd...

Yikes we have two that dont follow instructions that good.....

So we decided that Gremlin should lead the way as he knows the uni better than us two.....

So off we go and down Symonds St we tootle...
Gremlin showed DD where to park once we got over that gravel patch....
Then shows him the other place to park outside the Maidenment Theatre...
Off we wander........DD showing us the way.....via the written instructions..
Yes he almost got us LOST..... Read it properly young fella.

After all that we decided that DD should lead us out of the city back to the motorway.... he tells us which way..... and then at a set of lights as I say about continue up over K'Rd to upper Queen Street to Newton Rd... he changes his mind we are going another way.... Up Hobson Rd.....

So I assume he has made it home as I left him on his travels as I got off at Te Atatu.



So DD, on the 6th off ramp (Newton Rd) get off the nor western motorway..... up Newton Rd to Symonds set of lights. .... turn left in Symonds St....... to.................. next bit your on your own.... hehehehe.

[Disco Dan]

Thanks you crashe and gremlin for showing me around!!! I especially liked the 'secret' bike parking!!

I will sleep soundly tonight, safe in the knowledge I wont get lost going to that horrid city campus!! Im looking forward to getting back to the security of the little epsom campus already!

[Disco Dan]

I could help you round Epsom campus.... maybe... I am rather directionally challenged myself!!

um yeah thanks Buffy, but I know my way around Epsom! been there a year now, and even then its arranged in a logical fashion!

The city campas is way to big !

Why didnt they just build one giant building... would be so much easier.

Dam summer school...

Well see you on the 26th Feb Buffy...

[Gremlin]

So there we are waiting and we spot this biker on a green bike shoot throu the lights... I thought it couldnt be....... so we waited and waited....... I went for a wander and there was Gremlin waiting down in Newton Rd...

Yikes we have two that dont follow instructions that good.....
wot cha talking aboot kb mum? I was just off the intersection, figuring I would see you when you came up... but you had already got there...

musta been my cone fighting down the motorway that slowed me down :whistle:

anyhoo... DD... please, if you get lost in the middle of uni... read the instructions word for word, rather than skipping some, and taking the wrong left and rights :shutup:

Hope your day goes fine...

[Disco Dan]

wot cha talking aboot kb mum? I was just off the intersection, figuring I would see you when you came up... but you had already got there...

musta been my cone fighting down the motorway that slowed me down :whistle:

anyhoo... DD... please, if you get lost in the middle of uni... read the instructions word for word, rather than skipping some, and taking the wrong left and rights :shutup:

Hope your day goes fine...

Cheers dude, going to leave at 8am this morning... just in case :innocent:

[Ixion]

Well, he should be well under way by now. I wonder where he'll end up. If he does get into that maze of tunnels under the park, we wil certainly never see him again.

[crashe]

Let us all cross our fingers and toes that he makes it there all in one go....

[notme]

What a be-a-you-tifull day to be inside, filling yer brain!:sunny:

EDIT: for those interested in the tunnels: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/other/albert/journey.html

[Disco Dan]

Made it !!! Now that was easy!!! hehehe!!!

some smart arse put an advert for a GPS thingy on my bike while it was parked.... cheeky!

The madness that is the city campas seems to be never ending, as we had a 2 hour lecture then we all had to walk and follow the lecturer 15 min up the road to sit and discuss it... in an identical fricking room! flob knows why we couldnt have just stayed put... idiots that run tha place im sure...

[Ixion]

What a be-a-you-tifull day to be inside, filling yer brain!:sunny:

EDIT: for those interested in the tunnels: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/other/albert/journey.html (http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/%7Epbourke/other/albert/journey.html)

That map (and account) just covers the little end bit.

This map http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/other/albert/overall.html (http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/%7Epbourke/other/albert/overall.html)

shows the complete 1941 tunnel layout. But what is not always realised is that the 1941 tunnels are not the whole story, because the 1941 work incorporated a lot of excavation that they found, which dated to the days when the park was a barracks. There were 19th century underground bunkers, bombproof shelters , ammo stores , armouries etc. A lot of the underground stuff was incorporated in the 1941 work

Years ago, if you knew where the entrance was (before a lot of bloody Grundys had it sealed up) you could wander round quite happily in there , albeit with a little care .Of course, then it was not so very old, the old (19C) work was in quite good nick though.

Those may have been my beer bottles, it was a good place for a drinking session.

The ones at North head were better though.

[crashe]

Made it !!! Now that was easy!!! hehehe!!!

some smart arse put an advert for a GPS thingy on my bike while it was parked.... cheeky!

The madness that is the city campas seems to be never ending, as we had a 2 hour lecture then we all had to walk and follow the lecturer 15 min up the road to sit and discuss it... in an identical fricking room! flob knows why we couldnt have just stayed put... idiots that run tha place im sure...

Most likely another lecturer and his students needed that room for 15 minutes....

All part of campus life.....

See I told you it was easy.......


where is the next place that you need to find.... so that we can organise the next midnight run.......

[Disco Dan]

where is the next place that you need to find.... so that we can organise the next midnight run.......

I quite like the look of those tunnels.... who fancies following me into some dark tunnels then?

:dodge: :dodge: :dodge:

[BuFfY]

um yeah thanks Buffy, but I know my way around Epsom! been there a year now, and even then its arranged in a logical fashion!

The city campas is way to big !

Why didnt they just build one giant building... would be so much easier.

Dam summer school...

Well see you on the 26th Feb Buffy...

You can help me then!! I have been there two years and it was all good... then they moved it all!! I did a tour of it to prospective students.... I had no idea where a lot of it was... I was like Language used to be here... hahaha

[Disco Dan]

You can help me then!! I have been there two years and it was all good... then they moved it all!! I did a tour of it to prospective students.... I had no idea where a lot of it was... I was like Language used to be here... hahaha

err you want me to show you around?? hahaha yeah alright, should be a laugh!!! hahaha!!

[Disco Dan]

Latest Development folks:

Had to borrow my sisters little girly suzuki car and head back to the city campas this arvo... forgot to pick up my readings... :angry:

Well I make it to the clock tower using my new learnt directions. Need to find the "fischer building". Thoughts of "Carrie Fischer" and "star wars" fill my head. Find the big map on the side of the road, after 20 minutes im satisfied i know exactly where to go.

Hour and a half later and 3 visits to the same map, I realise ive been going up and down the wrong streets. Off I go again, this time I see the building and just about get rear ended by a bus when i slam on the brakes and swerve onto the median strip. go down this very very steep and twisty driveway with bits of gravel and other 'slippy' stuff. Start thinking how thankful I am not to be on my bike for this part! Walk all the way up the driveway to the road and find the front gate, up the lift. 10th floor. so far so good.

"that will be $10 please"
"Are you fucken serious? Ive just spent the last 3 hours looking for this dam place!"
"three hours?"
"Ive only got eftpos, your going to tell me cash only arnt you?"
"err yeah fraid so.."
(arrrgggggghhhhh!!!!!)
"right, well its five to four. I'll run off and find an atm, not like your closing in 5 mins ay? hehe"
"well actually... we do.."
"look mate, im trying to be calm here... ive paid thousands of dollars worth of fee's to study here, whats $10 ay?"
"just take it, come pay another time" (hint hint)
"cheers dude"

Make a quick exit, down the lift to the ground floor. Lift opens right next to my car. FAAAARRRRKK..... why did I not see that when I got here!!!

....Just got home.



Stress level: 9.5
Want a smoke 'o' meter: "off the scale"

[Disco Dan]

But im fine now... honest.... :innocent:

[crashe]

*memo to Disco Dan*

Carrie Fisher is how it is spelt.....no "C" in the surname.

[Scorpygirl]

*memo to Disco Dan*

Carrie Fisher is how it is spelt.....no "C" in the surname.

Well at least he can do Word Association!!! LOL!!! :shutup: :dodge:

[crashe]

Well at least he can Word Association!!! LOL!!! :shutup: :dodge:

And saved himself $10......

Now I wonder if he put that $10 into gas in his sister's car.... since he borrowed it...
:dodge:

[Disco Dan]

Im ratty. Be nice!

Yes I did put $10 in my sisters car!

[Ixion]

They have lifts there now? MYygoodness, students are getting soft nowdays.

[crashe]

What is it that you are studying????

I know its to do with Arts........ but what ?

I hope in the end of all this you arent going to be working at Wise's Maps in the art work dept..... cos then we should all be worried.



:dodge: :dodge: :dodge: :dodge: :dodge:






PS: Why am I getting a ruddy pop up stating at the top of this thread and not on others. Its to do with Mac apple stuff.... I have a PC comp.
"Additional plugins are required to display all media on this page."
Install Missing Plugins.

[Scorpygirl]

They have lifts there now? MYygoodness, students are getting soft nowdays.

They have to now cause of building codes and equal opportunity for disabled people in wheelchairs. :yes:

[Disco Dan]

What is it that you are studying????

I know its to do with Arts........ but what ?


Your still going to laugh.... Im training to be a Primary School Teacher!

Now if you have seen my nasty spelling on here, you will understand a little what these poor kids are going to end up like!!! hehe...






PS: Why am I getting a ruddy pop up stating at the top of this thread and not on others. Its to do with Mac apple stuff.... I have a PC comp.
"Additional plugins are required to display all media on this page."
Install Missing Plugins.




Prob saying you may need to have 'quicktime' installed?

Go HERE (http://homepages.woosh.co.nz/dsoutham/black_hole_page.html) if you cant hear anything then go HERE (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html).

[Ixion]

They have to now cause of building codes and equal opportunity for disabled people in wheelchairs. :yes:

Psahw. There was a dude in a wheel chair when I was there. He got down the stairs just fine (bloody fast too, though the stop at the botom was sometimes a bit abrupt). And to get up he just commandeered a few of us to carry the chair, with him in it , up the stairs. Worked fine. Soft, nowdays.

[crashe]

Prob saying you may need to have 'quicktime' installed?

Go HERE (http://homepages.woosh.co.nz/dsoutham/black_hole_page.html) if you cant hear anything then go HERE (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html).

But why should I need that when I havent needed it up til now....
This has only just started to happen (pop ups) in the past few days.... but only in some KB threads and not in all of them. this one and the ak new years eve thread.
I have started a thread in "Site stuff" for SpankMe to check it out.

[Disco Dan]

But why should I need that when I havent needed it up til now....
This has only just started to happen (pop ups) in the past few days.... but only in some KB threads and not in all of them. this one and the ak new years eve thread.
I have started a thread in "Site stuff" for SpankMe to check it out.

Its me! I embedded audio in my posts.... I did it in the busa's thread too...

Look:

http://homepages.woosh.co.nz/dsoutham/black_hole_page.html


Will edit them and make it stop...

[crashe]

Its me! I embedded audio in my posts.... I did it in the busa's thread too...

Look:

http://homepages.woosh.co.nz/dsoutham/black_hole_page.html


Will edit them and make it stop...

You are a naughty boy......... go to the corner and sit there...
You should know better.....
what on earth will you be teaching those poor wee innocent children..!!!


Awwwwwwwwwwwww wait til SpankMe gets his hands on you....... :rofl:

[Scorpygirl]

[QUOTE=crashe;883532]You are a naughty boy......... go to the corner and sit there...
QUOTE]

Yes ...but can he find his way to the corner!!! :laugh: :killingme

[Disco Dan]

You are a naughty boy......... go to the corner and sit there...
You should know better.....
what on earth will you be teaching those poor wee innocent children..!!!


Awwwwwwwwwwwww wait til SpankMe gets his hands on you....... :rofl:


"yeah I know" :shutup:


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[notme]

Ye gods DD, you're not an Apple user too are you?

And you are to be let loose upon my (future) children???

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!??!?!

It's hard to stay on the path of enlightenment when you are being led off into the bushes by DD.....

[Disco Dan]

Ye gods DD, you're not an Apple user too are you?

And you are to be let loose upon my (future) children???

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!??!?!

It's hard to stay on the path of enlightenment when you are being led off into the bushes by DD.....

Maybe... :innocent:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=50046&d=1167887158




And you are to be let loose upon my (future) children???

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!??!?!

It's hard to stay on the path of enlightenment when you are being led off into the bushes by DD.....

Yeah init scary! :shutup: I once took my class around the school grounds for 'fitness' ....went over time would you believe.... too me ages to get tha hang off the layout of that school!

[Drunken Monkey]

What is it that you are studying????


Geography?

I don't know what he IS studying, but it looks like he SHOULD be studying "How to read maps and get places without going in circles".

Bags NOT having him on the harriers/orienteering team...

[Disco Dan]

Geography?

I don't know what he IS studying, but it looks like he SHOULD be studying "How to read maps and get places without going in circles".

Bags NOT having him on the harriers/orienteering team...

Primary Teaching dammit!!!

....maybe I could be a geography teacher?? :innocent:

[BuFfY]

Primary Teaching dammit!!!

....maybe I could be a geography teacher?? :innocent:

I wanted to be one too... hahahahahha

[gijoe1313]

I like the cut of your gib mister! No wonder - salutations and greetings to a fellow Mac user :msn-wink:

A primary school teacher huh? I wanted to do that too, but after that case (you know the one!) put me off - I figured I should at least get a few years teaching before being accused of molesting impressionable young...minds!

On ya!

[Disco Dan]

Well after my new found confidence with Auckland CBD, a slight 'woops I stood in some crap' moment with audio embedding...

I was thinking about seeing who would be keen to actually follow me on a ride one day?

Im no geography teacher... heck I didnt even get my orienteering badge in scouts! hehe

So I thought it would be a laugh? see where we end up!

As Crashe put it so elegently... "the blind leading the blind"

So whos keen to get lost one day then? :Punk:

[crashe]

I am happy to do this with you.....

We meet up and give you a place to find.......
We follow you with a full tank of gas. (well will need it with you leading us)

Then at the end......... if you find the place.

We go back to the start and show you the quickest route to it.
Cos I can guarantee there will be a quicker route.


Oh this could be so much fun.......

[crashe]

Gremlin, Disco Dan and I have been caught on film..........

Yikes someone stole some art stuff from Auckland University.......

And we three were walking around the uni at night time.

Oh yeah the security guards were all together standing around talking to each other.... not out there patroling the grounds......

Shall we three go and fess up.........

well the other two went off by themselves for a while...... and I was left alone near the security guards....... hmmmmmmmmmm I wonder what those two go up to.....?????????

[Disco Dan]

Gremlin, Disco Dan and I have been caught on film..........

Yikes someone stole some art stuff from Auckland University.......

And we three were walking around the uni at night time.

Oh yeah the security guards were all together standing around talking to each other.... not out there patroling the grounds......

Shall we three go and fess up.........

well the other two went off by themselves for a while...... and I was left alone near the security guards....... hmmmmmmmmmm I wonder what those two go up to.....?????????

Yeah i saw that too!!

I wonder if they will want to talk to us!!!

3 bikes gallavanting around the campus at night!!! hehe

[Disco Dan]

We were parked right outside the flipping library!!!

All the security guards were down in their little office drinking coffee!!!


I bet the police will see us on the cameras!! Should we be expecting a visit? hehehe :innocent:

[Ixion]

,,

I was thinking about seeing who would be keen to actually follow me on a ride one day?

Im no geography teacher... heck I didnt even get my orienteering badge in scouts! hehe

So I thought it would be a laugh? see where we end up!

As Crashe put it so elegently... "the blind leading the blind"

So whos keen to get lost one day then? :Punk:

That is how almost all of my rides are done. Just tottle out in a vague general direction, and take the first (or second, or third) interesting looking road, keep just randomly turning onto new roads, or generally head toward some distant mountain.With a vague impression that one might like to end up in Xville, though one very seldom does.

'tis amazing where one ends up.

Fortunately, as I have noted in this thread, I have an excellent sense of direction, so I never actually get lost.

[Disco Dan]

That is how almost all of my rides are done.
'tis amazing where one ends up.
.

so you want to borrow my compass? :innocent:

[Ixion]

No thank you. I think your compass is probably defective.

I should have added, that an essential adjunct to a mystery cruise is BEING ABLE TO FIND THE WAY HOME AGAIN.

[crashe]

We were parked right outside the flipping library!!!

All the security guards were down in their little office drinking coffee!!!


I bet the police will see us on the cameras!! Should we be expecting a visit? hehehe :innocent:

Ummmmm maybe..........

We need to keep an eye on the Herald for future news stories....in case they put up our mugshots...... I naturally am the very good looking one out of the three of us.

Mind you, in saying that, you know the police are reading Kiwibiker.......
so they come a knocking...... via PM's to us. :whistle:

Oh this is soooooooooooo exciting.........

[Disco Dan]

No thank you. I think your compass is probably defective.

I should have added, that an essential adjunct to a mystery cruise is BEING ABLE TO FIND THE WAY HOME AGAIN.

naa dont think so... when i turn the little bezel thing the needle follows it. so i point it to north then turn the bezel around to point in the right direction! :shutup:

[crashe]

so you want to borrow my compass? :innocent:


Oh did you find your LOST compass??????????

[Disco Dan]

Ummmmm maybe..........

We need to keep an eye on the Herald for future news stories....in case they put up our mugshots...... I naturally am the very good looking one out of the three of us.

Mind you, in saying that, you know the police are reading Kiwibiker.......
so they come a knocking...... via PM's to us. :whistle:

Oh this is soooooooooooo exciting.........

yay! bet they come looking for me first! :Police: :whistle:

[Disco Dan]

Oh did you find your LOST compass??????????

yeah I did :yes:


it was in my backpack the entire time..... humpf... :innocent:

[crashe]

yay! bet they come looking for me first! :Police: :whistle:

Well YOU are a ART student......... aren't you?

[Disco Dan]

Well YOU are a ART student......... aren't you?

Art??? no!!!! Teaching!!!!! closest thing I will get to art is kids, finger painting...

Look: http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/education/for/prospective/graduate/programmes/bedtchg_teachers.cfm

[crashe]

Art??? no!!!! Teaching!!!!! closest thing I will get to art is kids, finger painting...

Look: http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/education/for/prospective/graduate/programmes/bedtchg_teachers.cfm

But you were wanting to go to the art's section.... Room 206 Art.





(just helping the police out to find you)
(pt)

[Gremlin]

hmmmmmmmmmm I wonder what those two go up to.....?????????
we walked around places we weren't supposed to be... :yes: Then got stuck, and Disco Dan didn't feel like walking on a railing one floor up... so we went round :D

on the art thingie... I draw stick figures... don't ever ask me how much some piece of art is worth, coz I wouldn't have a clue.

Who woulda thought my caught on camera thingie would be non-bike related :whistle:

[Disco Dan]

we walked around places we weren't supposed to be... :yes: Then got stuck, and Disco Dan didn't feel like walking on a railing one floor up... so we went round :D

on the art thingie... I draw stick figures... don't ever ask me how much some piece of art is worth, coz I wouldn't have a clue.

Who woulda thought my caught on camera thingie would be non-bike related :whistle:

oh yeah!! I forgot we went 'exploring' around through the construction site!!! hehe, good one gremlin!!!

:Police: :buggerd: