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Posted: 3/09/2008 | NOT many people know it, but I'm a reformed television addict. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 28/08/2008 | There is a young guy, Jordan, whom I see every Thursday around 10pm, when he leaves McDonald's at Narellan Town Centre, weighed down with folders and books and a backpack. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 21/08/2008 | We really have to draw the line on how ``old school'' we want to remain. We cannot cloister ourselves from the developments of the rest of the world around us. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 13/08/2008 | I am not a huge fan of the Olympics this time around. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 5/08/2008 | I was always asked: ``What are you?'' - as if there was some other reason my hair was dark and my eyes were brown than the fact that I was a person. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 30/07/2008 | You can't live like a rock star - drinking like a fish, eating kebabs at 3am and sleeping for a couple of hours without expecting to look like Keith Richards. | CommentsComments (5)
Posted: 23/07/2008 | Since I have finished high school I have really noticed the hurt that comes with severed relationships. It sucks to be hurt. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 16/07/2008 | I've never been a great planner. I'm more of a ``let's ride this all out'' kind of person. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 9/07/2008 | I am dying to work-work-work, get money and go and live my life properly. Travel, fun, cars, phone bills: real life. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 2/07/2008 | If you were to look closely at the twentysomethings who live around here (yes, even the ones waiting for the taxis that never show at 3am on Argyle Street), you will see people who really care about the state of affairs in this town. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 25/06/2008 | WORKING, getting cash, making money: all things that young people think about, worry about, laugh about, cry about. | CommentsComments (6)
Posted: 18/06/2008 | My chest is all choked up, my throat is throbbing and I can't taste a thing. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 11/06/2008 | AS I was on my way home the other day my great friend, Laura, called me. She was ecstatic: ``Jaz, oh my God, I just bought a house!'' | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 4/06/2008 | FROM recent articles of mine, one may have noticed by new-found efficacy for online communities. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 27/05/2008 | IT'S funny that we have to be reminded to be on our best behaviour at council meetings. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 21/05/2008 | LAST week I had a car accident. It was my fault. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 14/05/2008 | I WAS sitting on the bus the other day and I couldn't help but overhear an interesting (as interesting as it can get on a bus!) conversation between two young guys. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 7/05/2008 | Why is it that we are such an accomplished little town yet few places of business and no lovely little coffee shops seem to be open past 5pm? | CommentsComments (4)
Posted: 1/05/2008 | ANZAC Day is a day that I feel in a personal, isolated way, whether I am at home alone watching the thousands march in memory of our fallen soldiers. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 24/04/2008 | Here it is, I will tell you all the secrets to our generation Y existence. You may not like or think it too damn conventional and moralistic to consider applicable to yourself, but here it goes. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 16/04/2008 | DINNER one night last week ended up being a front row seat to an unsightly spectacle. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 9/04/2008 | The first thing I thought was not along the lines of ``what a racist pig,'' but more, ``man, some people just are too naive to understand true evil.'' | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 3/04/2008 | BEING young is something that not many people understand. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 28/03/2008 | According to some of my more enlightened classmates, 'westie boys' were racists who smoked and drank endlessly with no sense of style. 'City boys' were more socially aware, they drank Corona and had a killer sense of style. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 21/03/2008 | I WAS watching Four Corners the other night and I became acutely aware of a topic I was reluctant to talk about because of the major can of worms it would open. | CommentsComments (7)
Posted: 13/03/2008 | We have grown up thinking that wars could be fought on ``difference'', that a school cannot be built because of difference, that kids cannot do certain things because of difference. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 5/03/2008 | ‘'Girls can be mean,’’ one young woman told me. ‘’Sometimes, when we are out to lunch or at a bar, we get girls coming up to us and saying comments about our 'fat legs' or 'ugly shoes'." | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 27/02/2008 | An older guy, aged about 22, pushed him hard and spoke with a slurred assurance: ``Get out of my face you idiot. You're falling all over me. You almost spilled my beer!'' | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 20/02/2008 | A friend of mine went to witness the apology on the big wide screen in Martin Place. She texted me something really poignant as it was all happening. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 13/02/2008 | This position of deso, DD or designated driver does have some perks, including not spending my pay packet on excessively overpriced drinks and being able to wake up the next morning for work not feeling like the dance floor is still raging in my head. But there is a very real downside. | CommentsComments (0)
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Jasmin Kelaita, 20, a proud ex-Elizabeth Macarthur High girl, is unafraid of expressing her opinion on what matters most to the youth of Camden.

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