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| Alphabetic meme!! |
| 06.29.04 (8:43 pm) [edit] |
[i]Y'all haven’t seen a meme recently on my blog.... so seeing as I'm still getting back into the grove and cant be bothered to think or blog anymore, here's one for your delight:
[b]Act [/b]your age? Or younger?. I don’t have the experience to act older, so it's younger all the way for me.
[b]Born[/b] on what day of the week? Friday I think...
[b]Chore[/b] you hate? Putting away clean laundry.
(Easily avoided by not doing laundry.) :roll:
[b]Dad’s[/b] name? Adebayo (Dont ask what it means!)
[b]Essential[/b] makeup item? I’m a makeup-less guy. But I looooove lipstick. :P
[b]Favorite[/b] actor? Male? I can’t think of one. Female? Audrey Hepburn
[b]Gold[/b] or silver? Depends. I’d rather be encased in gold when I die. Chemistry is more fun with silver....
[b]Hometown?[/b] Although I was born in London and spent my wee years there, I’d have to say Jo'burg, South Africa.
[b]Instruments[/b] you play? None. But someday I’m going to learn the Guitar properly.
[b]Job title?[/b] Officially? Engineering Consultant. Generally? Lackey.
[b]Kids?[/b] Okay as long as they belong to someone else.
[b]Living arrangements?[/b] 2 bedroom apartment with excellent riverside views.
[b]Mum’s name?[/b] Jane
[b]Need?[/b] Lots and lots of money. Or a new job in US.
[b]Overnight[/b] hospital stays? Possibly birth. And that week I spent having my tonsils ripped out....many many more!
[b]Phobias?[/b] Again, I prefer them to be someone else’s.
[b]Quote you like?[/b] The ones on the right. They let you know when someone is done speaking.(Geddit?!) :P
[b]Religious[/b] affiliation? Agnostic with deep desires to not explore it.... not really, SUPPOSED to be Christian.
[b]Siblings?[/b] Two and a half. I prefer to ignore the half.
[b]Time[/b] you wake up? Difficult. Anytime between 4:40am and noon depending on the night before.
[b]Unique talent?[/b] Firmly believing that dating is easy but finding the date is impossible....a s well as not believing in love.
[b]Vegetable[/b] you refuse to eat? All of them if I could.
[b]Worst habit?[/b] Interrupting people.
[b]X-rays [/b]you’ve had? Of my teeth, my ankle. And from space.
[b]Yummy[/b] food you make? Everything in my dreams... in real life beans on toast.
[b]Zodiac Sign?[/b] Capricorn.
Go on... answer them for me peeps, really intrigued to know what's what with y'all! Ciao, gotta dash now... :wink: [/i]
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| Things that make you go WTF? |
| 06.29.04 (7:53 pm) [edit] |
[i]Just reading thru the assorted and much appreciated comments left on my previous posts, when I came across this one from some idiot called or with the sign-on name [b]Grece[/b]. Now, I'm all for comments on my blog, but the simple rule is this[b]...."If you dont like what you read, then get the fuck off my blog and never come back!"[/b] Here's the silly comment she/she left me.[/i]
[u][b]The comment:[/b][/u]
[i]"I have never dated a man who uses the F word. Sorry to be prude but if you can't think of a better word to say you should not speak."[/i]
[u][b]The response:[/b][/u]
[i]Okay, first thing’s first. You probably haven't dated a man period, let alone one who's never used the F word!! I was raised as a cultured and very genteel boy, not a sap or puritan. But I was also raised to speak my mind no matter what!!
And now that we got [b]THAT[/b] out of the way…
Not speak?? Who the fuck are you to tell me not to speak... on my blog?! I’d have to go out on a limb and say yours is the reaction of one ultimately unhappy person. Honestly, if you read here you’ll see that I debase myself more often than praise myself. Some days, I feel like hiding in my apartment with all the blinds pulled shut. And some days, I want to prance around like a fool being all silly and stuff. I do believe that is what one would call normal.
The fact that my self-confidence, borders on the arrogant is neither here nor there, but for you to come and tell me when and when not to speak or what to write on [b]MY[/b] blog..... well that is just taking the fucking piss! :evil:
The fact that I’m out spoken, brash an sometimes tactless is just part of who I am. At least I am bold enough to write what I think, feel and disagree with.... and if that bothers you, Tough fucking luck!!
I don’t always have something deep and meaningful to write about here. But it’s my journal/blog and if I want to write about sitting around cursing the air blue, then that’s what I’m gonna do. If I want to post about loving my own ass three days in a row, I will. I guarantee there will be just as many posts about hating it. And if it’s boring, don’t read it! You won’t be missed.
Look at me. Look at me..... well imbecile... we're all looking at you now... you Fool! And a side note to anyone else that thinks what I write is unacceptable... please dont come back!! :evil:[/i]
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| Trying my Patience! |
| 06.29.04 (7:19 pm) [edit] |
[i]Completely cured of my bizarre bout of illness, I arrived at work today on a mission. My mission was to sort out all my outstanding paperwork and re-organise any pending jobs so that I could get them done this week. So hence my absence from the blogging world for most part of today. Thx to y'all who dropped by to say hello... I'm much better, and fitting fit now! :wink:
I have the patience of a Saint [b](NOT!!)[/b]. :roll:
Not as a personality trait mind you, but just as a current state of affairs. And it’s mostly related to a nasty little thing I like to call, [b]"Stop asking me if I am feeling better now?" Argh!! :evil: [/b] When people ask, [b]“How you feeling?”[/b] I have to say, [b]“It’s so much better, thank you.”[/b] Because, well ...it is -- vastly improved in the last few days. And because, if the conversation goes any further, it will require my [b]patience[/b], which has vastly deteriorated in the same time span. If I wasn't feeling better people! I wouldn't be back yet... quite simple really, when you think abt it!! :roll:
Now, normally, this is where I wrap it all up with something clever that shows my gratitude for all their concern. Ha! in your dreams people!! :P Yep!! Cyberpal a.k.a Matthers is back and is ready to kick ass as usual.... watch this space peeps! (Arrogant so and so I hear y'all mumble.... what can I say?!) **shrugs shoulders* :P
Btw, how y'all doing today? :wink:[/i]
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| The (ABW) |
| 06.28.04 (7:16 pm) [edit] |
[i]I am so pissed off. I just finished reading a small book published in America called [u][b]"The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life"[/b][/u] :http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/...%3D1088443107/202-3804006 -4836666 .
The authors think they have invented some 'liberation theory' where the black woman can be 'free' and 'angry', but it's just another excuse to indulge in the dangerous sport of kicking the black man!! :evil:
The authors of this nasty piece of work called a book, open up their evil propaganda by saying[/i] [b]"When most people think about angry black women (ABW), they think of it in a negative, stereotypical neck swizzling, eye-rolling and worst of all, dismissive kind of way — as if whenever we have an opinion or stand up for ourselves, that we have an attitude problem."[/b]
[i]They go on:[/i] [b]"We dont have attitude problems. We're not miserable. We're angry for a reason." [/b].... [i]This chapter is called,[/i] [b]"I'm an ABW and proud of it"[/b] :roll:
[i]Now if I was a parent I wouldn't want my daughter growing up with that kinda stereotype hanging over her head. For a start, have that kinda attitude and I can bet my bottom dollar you wont find a decent man, and secondly it is psychologically unhealthy to have your [b]'vex-alert'[/b] on continuous mode all the freaking time!
It doesn't take a rocket scientist.. you can always tell who these vex women are..They are always on the defensive, ready to tell you that the black man is a waste of space, that all the problems in the "black" community originate from the men. Yeah right!! :roll:
In my opinion, the book confuses assertiveness with just plain bad manners. It has the bloody cheek to say on the cover: [b]"Rosa Parks, Clare Huxtable, Serena Williams. What do these women have in common? They are all angry black women, whether they know it or not."[/b] Where the fuck did that come from? :? Cant they just be assertive black women who know what they want and hence go for it? Why the fuck do they have to be stereotyped as angry?? Some explain that to me pls!!
What black women dont understand is that, what makes a woman attractive to many men is that sense of vulnerability.... why the hell do so many black men date white women?.... easy, cos the black women are always putting them down!! That's why!! :evil:
There are so many stunningly attractive black women/gurls out there, yet when they open their mouths .....out pours this torrent of negativity, abuse and harsh vibes. It's a skill being able to balance assertiveness with just being nasty and rude. Who do I blame for this? Their mothers and books like this.... The black man to them is a drifter, baby father, a sugar daddy who turns up occasionally, someone who cant be relied on and who makes women angry. Someone who is only after one thing.... hell, tell me something new!!
So, in as much as black women need to be taught assertiveness, they also have to have empathy. [b]The message of this stupid, condescending book is simple — Snobbery!! Black women are NOT and NEVER will be better than black men.[/b] No wonder, ask any black man and he'll tell you he prefers a [b]"Tracey"[/b] to a raving lunatic called [b]"Teneisha"[/b] anyday!! Too many books, manuals, films and magazine articles have indulged in knocking black men, we sure as hell dont need another one written in the name of "Black women" who happen to be fucking angry!!
They should all beware of the [b]"Angry Black Man"[/b] cos his anger doesn't quell so easy!! :evil:
So it goes without saying that I found the book offensive, condescending, racially stereotypical, and above all written in bad taste, but hey.... make up your own minds and read the blasted book!! :evil: [/i]
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| Still poorly! |
| 06.28.04 (6:32 pm) [edit] |
[i]Hi peeps, still feeling a bit under the weather today so I decided to stay home to recuperate properly. I lay in bed this morning, half buried under the folds of comforters and pillows, watching morning slowly become afternoon. I read every word of the new book Kirsty was reading and forgot here last week, called [b]"The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life"[/b] (Will post a blog on that later today if I get a chance) and bargained with myself that in another fifteen minutes or so, I'd get up in earnest..... but here I am at 6.15pm, abt 6hrs later just getting up.
What finally got me out of bed was the gang calling and badgering me out of bed. That's friends for ya! :roll:
"We're going for food in 45 minutes. We'll be at your door and are immune to your whining. So get dressed and ready to go" they said
They, however, were not immune to my powers of negotiation. A trip for food became a trip to the grocery store for red meat, cookies and cream ice cream and curly fries oven fries...... Kirsty's gonna cook instead!
That's what's called going for food, Cyber style!! :P :lol:
So I'm sitting here, waiting for them to turn up, give me grief and cheer me up in the same vein....I hate being sick, but I sure can milk it when I am sick! :wink: .... This is where y'all send me get well greetings and kisses and hugs...... dont skimp on the hugs people..... now I'm gonna write that post abt that book. Read it from cover to cover and I must say if people read that and believe that crap... stereotyping isn't the worst of the problems that black women face. :)[/i]
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| In commemoration. |
| 06.27.04 (2:03 pm) [edit] |
[i]In celebration of another wonderous blogging milestone (Cyberpal's World turned over 20,000 on the blog-o-meter today) have decided to make a brief [u][b]I've Never list[/b][/u]. See below:
[b]1. As far as I'm aware, have never dated a woman capable of writing correct version of the homophone: you're/your.... always fucks it up! :roll:
2. Have never been sent flowers. Really, there is no justice, seeing as I send them all the fucking time. :(
3. Have never resorted to baking, simply cos I would end up burning whatever it was I was trying to bake.
4. Have never been mistaken for member of Jackson Five. More's the pity!! :shock:
5. Have never mastered use of chopsticks. :P
6. Have never had more than a sip of pernod. Yuk!!
7. Have never had relationship that did not break up for at least a week. Is it me or what? :?
8. Have never been struck by lightning. :lol:
9. Outside of work, have never been referred to as "pumpkin" :evil:
10. Have never been able to successfully use a gun or actually see one for real close-up. Now that's a travesty isn't it?! :P[/b]
Anything y'all have never.....?? :? [/i]
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| All's well... |
| 06.27.04 (1:21 pm) [edit] |
Update from Yesterday.
Snoozed a bit in the afternoon, went to sleep irritated. Woke up irritated. You would think that somehow, in 3 hours of sleep, I would have some miraculous recovery of attitude. Nope, Didn't happen, was still a bit grumpy. What did happen upon waking, was more rain and growing aggravation of having to get out of warm bed and get something to eat. At least my appetite was back!
Spent most of evening at home in front of the TV, drinking hot chocolate and talking to myself. Something quite wrong with that, must say. Got my meds from the Chemist, but what is the point of making the lid so fucking difficult to pry off when the express purpose of medication in bottle with said fucking lid is to put self out of pain-induced, frenzied misery that renders one unable to perform certain mundane tasks such as leaving fetal position on sofa, behaving civilly, and refraining from writing horrendously long, run-on sentences??? WTF?! :evil:
Was very glad when Kirsty, Dave, Josie and Femi came round with bunch of sweeties and movies. Frozen yogurt was chocolate-laden and the chinese grub hit the spot. The movies of choice were crap, but hey I wasn't complaining seeing as I was going nuts stuck at home alone anyway! Quite nearly perfect evening, minus the discovering of myself talking to 'myself'.... so not cool, Matt!! :roll:
Feeling much more... stable and well today. Thx to all you great peeps here on tblog for your well wishes and kind words. Much love! :D[/i]
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| Try this!! |
| 06.26.04 (4:43 pm) [edit] |
Very silly, and not as simple as it seems — how long can you keep this drunk man upright:http://www.wagenschenke.ch?
I just got to 67 meters on my third try. :lol:
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| Under the weather... |
| 06.26.04 (2:35 pm) [edit] |
[i]It's been a long, hard week. Did I make this week harder on myself? Possibly. But a guy's gotta lose his cool every now and again to remind the universe to be grateful for his more plentiful moments of cool and calm composure, right?.
.....Soon it was Saturday and there was once again joy in the land..... and All the peasants cheered. Yay!! :lol:
Well I was supposed to hit the [b]'big smoke'[/b] today (London) but since last night, been feeling a bit under the weather and talking of weather the forecast for today was rubbish anyway... so I decided to stay home and just chill out at home this w/end.... catch up with my DVD collection, the sports and probably invite a few friends over for some chow and drinks later.
I’m showered, dressed, and in a half hour or so, I’ll actually be leaving my apartment. Finally. Okay, so I did take two mini-trips out to the street today. Even made it all the way to the corner shop for my papers, and wanted to go to the chemists to get some meds but it all became too cumbersome and I decided to come back.
So, nothing interesting to report, last night it was at home... a couple of glasses of wine, the TV and then bed. Watched a really soppy movie on TV last night too... kinda confirmed why I dont particularly like romantic-type films... [b]"Message in a bottle"[/b] folks, yep! I watched it... I know, what was I thinking?? :? ... why did it have to end like that? I hate it when films pull a fast one on you like that... I thought I had it all figured out. Oh well...[b]This blogger needs a neurofen or two.... [/b]laterz peeps, have a great w/end one and all! :wink:[/i]
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| I'm in Need!! |
| 06.25.04 (5:00 pm) [edit] |
[i]Days like today aren’t as rare as they should be! It started out just fine.... Up late.. after 7:30, made it in fine (if you call getting to work late, fine?). A tangerine for breakfast on the way to the taxi. Comfortable walking shoes. But by the time I hit the lobby doors, everything went..... [b]off[/b].
Over the course of the last few hours, I've tipped over the water cooler in the office kitchen, ticked off an executive assistant, and because of a forgetful mind and procrastination, missed out on tickets to a lecture I’d absolutely wanted to go to. I know: they seem like little things. But some times the little things can be a really big deal. If you know what I mean?! :roll:
And no it wasn’t my biorhythms or anything funky like that; So I did a quick diagnostic check. It wasn’t the who, the what, or the where of my day. It wasn’t anything I could pinpoint. Something was just off. So I decided I was going to do whatever it took to put it back [b]on[/b].
When I left work to go pick up my car during lunch, I walked, mostly through the City centre. I smiled at babies. I returned errant Footballs. I sat perfectly still on a bench for ten minutes and just breathed. And you know what happened? Not a goddamn bloody thing!! :evil: If mother-fucking nature couldn’t fix my funky day, what could? hmm?? :?
But then it hit me....So [b]what[/b] if right now everything’s wrong? Just put it down to one of those [b]off[/b] days and get over yourself and your bad day.... so I have!!
I could really use a good, strong drink right about now. Or a tub of butter scotch ice-cream. A hug.... a new car.... a new job would be just grand too...
But I'd totally settle for the [b]hug[/b] though!!. Anyone?????? :lol:
Time to sneak off home methinks.... have a good weekend y'all. I'm off to London this weekend, for some much needed R&R and much more.... Ciao peeps![/i]
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| Stupid nicknames! |
| 06.25.04 (3:49 pm) [edit] |
[i]Cant remember whose blog I read earlier, that reminded me of this incident that happened a few days ago. I was standing at the kitchen sink at work, rinsing my coffee mug when [b]"Cute Work Colleague"[/b] emerges from her meeting to microwave her lunch.
[b]"Hey, Punk." [/b]she says in greeting. The microwave stopped microwaving and for a second or two, the kitchen was dead silent. I was looking at her with the strangest expression on my face.
"What did you call me?" I asked :shock:
[b]"Punk. I said, hey, punk. Why? What did you think I said?"[/b]
I just laughed. Hard. I put my hand out to the counter to steady myself. "I thought you said, 'Hey, Pumpkin."
[b]"Ha! Okay, no. No, I didn't. But from now on, you can bet your sweet ass that's what I'm calling you."[/b]
"You'd better not!" (I countered, but knew it was too late)
'Cute Work Colleague' got her grub and disappeared into her office. Half an hour later, I was getting some photocopying done in the mail room when she passed by on her way out the door.
[b]"Okay, I'm going for a fag .. Pumpkin."[/b]
"Fuck off" is what came out next.
Y'all reckon I've blown my chances, now that she calls me 'pumpkin'? What a gawd awful nick name...... reminds me of when I was 4yrs old.... argh!! The worse thing is, now the whole bloody office is calling me pumpkin..... what the hell am I gonna do?! huh?! :evil: [/i]
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| Intermittent bursts of Scruffiness! |
| 06.25.04 (11:49 am) [edit] |
[i]Morning all..... well afternoon maybe... Woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, Literally!. Was very confused when the alarm sounded and had to pull self free of comforters and sheets and grope to the other side of the bed to switch it off. Could not, for anything figure out why had slept on the wrong side of the bed. Until I saw Kirsty. Stretched out to full length, sprawled with one arm flung in each direction. Her Royal Highness had taken my side of the bed. Now, ordinarily should someone be taking up residence there (be it friend, girlfriend or sibling), yours truly would get severely agitated. But K is just so damn cute (in a friendly way... mind you, before y'all start getting ideas). So, instead of jabbing her with an elbow to the ribs and rolling her out of my bed (as I would do to other invaders), I rolled over and went back to sleep..... let's just say I got into work a tad late today as a result... :oops:
Yes [b]England[/b] lost the quarter-final match last night on penalties to Portugal. We were robbed of course!! The referee bottled it and waved away a legitimate goal in the last minute of full time! [b]Daylight fucking robbery!![/b] :cry: So, like most people the length and breadth of the country I drowned my sorrows by getting absolutely hammered!! Hence my not remembering Kirsty staying over last night or how we got home for that matter! :P My car is still parked at the pub...
Apparently, also woke up on the [b]'scruffy'[/b] side of the bed too. Cos I woke late, I had a minimal amount of time to get ready and make it into work, without my car. Have spent the morning avoiding bathroom mirrors and anywhere in the office, I might happen to run into [b]"Cute work colleague[/b]" (I'll blog abt "Cute Office Colleague" one of these days..). As it is, even on days when I have not woken to find that have been beaten by the "Scruffy stick" (other than the 'ugly' one), find strange inability to keep eye contact with her and even find that am unable to speak. What gives? Suddenly shy?? Rendered speechless? This guy? :shock: Some would find that impossible to believe. Am one such person. Ah, the unexplainable things in life. :roll:
Like intermittent bursts of Scruffiness that I suffer from!
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| Thursday's Five! |
| 06.24.04 (5:49 pm) [edit] |
[b]One[/b] [i]Message from the Ex saying she is indeed coming to town next month and that we must plan a Big Night Out. Mmm hmmm. I'll be planning alright. {insert seductive tiger growl here} but that will hopefully be in Austin! :P[/i]
[b]Two[/b] [i]Large scoops of ice-cream at lunch. Yeah, yeah. I'll go to the gym to burn it off...... maybe.. Never!![/i]
[b]Three[/b] [i]Emails from my buddy Philipa, taking time out of doing her scientisty things to tell me abt her plans and tell me I'd look hot in her lab coat. I ::heart:: my Philipa.. she's awesome if not a bit cooky!!(eccentric!).[/i]
[b]Four[/b] [i]Hours spent on tblog.com looking at and reading blogs as well as posting. Also been checking out Amazon.com to check out things I would buy if I were not so dilligently paying off my credit cards and trying to save money. Good thing I left my credit cards at home in the freezer. And yes, they're actually [b]IN[/b] the freezer. :P[/i]
[b]Five[/b] [i]Attempts so far, (all thwarted by actual assignments) to sneak out of the office for the rest of the day on an [b]"off-site meeting"[/b]. Will someone please add [b]"Watching football"[/b] to the rota as an official meeting? I'm tired of fighting this battle..... not giving up yet though! :wink:[/i]
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| Anyone....If... then |
| 06.24.04 (4:31 pm) [edit] |
[b]If.....[/b]
[i]...you live in a climate that is currently sunny and at LEAST 80 degrees, and somewhat in proximity of a beach...[/i]
[b]Then.....[/b]
[i]...could you please invite me to come visit for a few days? And could you please call it a [b]"family emergency"[/b] or something of the like? That way I'd get the time off work.[/i]
[b]Thank you in advance.[/b]
[i]A miserable Cyberpal, in a miserable Newcastle, with all this horrible rain showers and gale force bloody winds!! :( [/i]
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| My Morning Routines. |
| 06.24.04 (1:56 pm) [edit] |
[i]Hey Peeps, it Thursday and England play Portugal later this evening for the right to progress to the Semi-finals of Euro 2004. [b]Come on E-N-G-L-A-N-D!![/b] :D Woke up this morning and got to thinking abt [b]"what I get up to in the mornings"[/b] my routine so to speak.... dont ask me why I had that train of thought, I just did...so here's a snapshot of my mornings:
[u][b]I sing in the shower.[/b][/u]
Okay, I sing fairly loudly in the shower, and yet it took me months to realize that "next door neighbour" was audience to my early morning routines. Once, after belting out a relatively decent rendition of Blue's hit single "Guilty" (completely oblivious to the fact that I was being heard), I threw on my clothes and headed toward the door where my "country-lovin' neighbour" was exiting her flat too.
"Damn, man! tone it down a notch or two..." she said.
"Ha! Okay, but don't go recording that and trying to exploit my raw, untapped talent, ya hear?" I said bashfully trying all, the time not to show my somewhat embarassment at being over heard singing!.
But this morning, inspired by my early morning sighting of my stuffed Simba toy, the song of choice was [b]"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"[/b]. You know, [b]"...In the jungle, the mighty jungle..." and when I emerged all drippy haired from the bathroom, with suds still round my head.. forming a sort of mane... and I was still singing my wee-e-e-e we-ah mum-a-ways.... [/b]
"Now, if there were ever a time to send a tape to Britain's Funniest Home Video, I'd be a very rich man." I looked a right sight..... :P
[u][b]I have to watch at least 15-20mins of am TV.[/b][/u]
This one is a bit weird, seeing as I hardly ever actually watch the TV itself... I just listen while I potter around getting ready for another days work.... just one of those oddities that I have to do.... dont know why! :?
[u][b]I have to have my caffeine fix.[/b][/u]
A cup of fresh percolated coffee to kick-start the day is another must. [b]No coffee, no work[/b]..... quite simple really!
[u][b]Not making my bed, or tidying up after myself.[/b]
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Equally as important as the first three.... I guess it's just a rebellion thing.. after all those years of being made to do it as a teenager and stuff.... I have made it a principle to leave my bed in the same state as when I woke up!! Then again, that could also be attributed to being just plain ol lazy! Also, almost always forget to put a towel down on the floor.. so the bathroom is always wet.... but hey I'm a guy after all! :P
Those are mine.... what are yours? [b]Anybody got some really weird morning routines that make you cringe or laugh when you think abt them?[/b] Holla at me.... :wink: [/i]
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| Reached the benchmark! |
| 06.23.04 (4:53 pm) [edit] |
[i]Hey there peeps! Friday is my two-year anniversary of joining AG up here in Newcastle. I know I promised not to whine abt work... but it's my blog, so there! :P
Some of you know what this means. For the rest, I’ll enlighten. Two years was the benchmark I set for myself – the minimum sentence in my corporate cell[b]*[/b]. I’ve put in my two years and now, I give myself full permission to leave. Do I want to? Of course I do.
God (and anyone else who’s been listening) knows that I’ve had my sights set on the new country for ages now. I am, at heart, an [b]"Americana"[/b] – just a resident with a rather long commute ([b]Americana[/b] - equals US-loving British man!). Femi used to say that he was afraid I’d go over for a fortnight and never come back. Don’t think I wasn’t tempted.... :P
Will I actually do it? That’s a horse of a different colour...
A co-worker of mine had this to say about my plan: “Why would you want to do that? So you can be one of the millions of lonely, unhappy men in the biggest, loneliest country in the world? You’re doing well here. You wanna go there and get lost just like everyone else?” I called him a 'twat' and walked back to my office and thought, “He’s so right though!”
Ah! but he’s not! I’ve done it before, picked up everything and moved to a new city. Why can’t I do it again? Loneliness is hardly a matter of location. And as for doing well here? Sure. In two years at AG, I have been part of bringing in several million pounds in revenue and some serious construction projects of note. But, who’s to say I can’t do that elsewhere? huh?! :? I'm just good like that! :wink:
In two years I have also been responsible for kick-ass, morale-boosting efforts like, [b]The Thursday Evening Drinking Club[/b], [b]Surprise Lollipop Hour[/b], and the infamous [b]Halloween Extravaganza of 2003[/b]. I've been caught by the Director of Ops skate-boarding through the corridors, hiding in the coat closet having a crafty fag, surfing the net umpteen times and doing a killer Marvin Gaye impression in the lobby one night after too much alcohol consumption.
I know I can do that anywhere. My quirkiness and silliness is totally portable. So, it's doable. But does America really need any more Nuts like me? Possibly not. But does this NUT need the US? I think so!!. But, he also needs a shot in the arm. He's probably NOT as brave as he used to be. But brave I will be.... if I dont hear anything by Friday, I'mma take the bull by the horns and ask them what the hell is going on.... depending on what they say will determine my next move. Either way I'm leaving!! :evil: [/i]
[b](*I say this tongue in cheek, as my “cell” is a windowed, corner office with a spectacular view that looks into an industrial park, but we’re going for hyperbole here.)[/b]
[i]PS: That's me done for the day... gonna spend the remaining hour or so prtending to do some work.... ciao![/i]
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| Cyberpal's evolution. |
| 06.23.04 (12:53 pm) [edit] |
[i]I read a post by [b]Ally[/b]:http://aliciarose.tblog.com where she wanted to know how people got started with blogging and the like. Well it got me thinking abt how far I had come since when I started out with this blogging phenomenon. I could wait until the first anniversary of [b]Cyberpal's World[/b] (January next year sometime) to make a big to-do, but I think that this is more about the unbelievable number of you that stop by, take something with you and leave something behind for me. Nineteen thousand since January is pretty spectacular to me. Thanks, guys. :wink:
When [b]"Cyberpal's World of mundane ramblings and rants!"[/b] was conceived, anonymity was key. I created the original blog site as nothing more than an audience-free journal. But to my surprise, it didn’t last too long without an audience. One by one, strangers and familiars became reader's and friend, and eventually, the Cyberpal brand was born. Ah, isn’t life grand? (I know, my arrogance creeping thru again!) :oops:
From the beginning, I was paranoid that people who knew me would read my melodramatic rantings and ramblings and the result would be catastrophic. Then the worry became, what if my mother found this site? Over the course of time, not only did friends, acquaintances, and my brother stumble onto [b]"Cyberpal's World"[/b], but eventually so will my mother. So, that worry is out of the way, no point fighting the inevitable, right?. Was also a bit worried abt my boss or some colleagues from work reading it too... but my boss who, as it turns out is tragically illiterate anyway, hasn't and hopefully will never stumble across it.
I do believe that a lot of the appeal of this site has been the mystery, the honesty, or the quest to keep it real at all times or at least the every-man angle that it has going. My colourful or somewhat racy social agenda might have summin to do with that too. Not only do I imagine a lot of you already have an idea of what I should look like, but I also, in my infinite insecurity (that is a joke btw!!), fear some of you may be disappointed with the actual product....But it's not like I really care anyway?! :P
The feeling that it may change your perception has been something to contend with. But, contending done, I’ll simply make it your option. (Yeah, I know it’s fuzzy. But it’s the closest thing I have to a head-shot and is one of the few pictures of me being the lazy-cat that I am.) [b]So, Click, or don’t. Here I am[/b] :http://img64.photobucket.com/...
Hahahaha! gotcha!! you didn't really think I was gonna post a picture did ya? :P Suckers!!. :lol:
Thank you, and… come again soon.... your support, by way of comments, banter and general chit chat is most definitely appreciated one and all! Y'all great!! :wink: [/i]
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| Shamelessly pimpin' |
| 06.22.04 (6:00 pm) [edit] |
[i]It's that time again -- where I tell you what to do and you do it, because you know it will be good for you. Ready? :?
Buy this [b]CD[/b]:http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob... Go ahead. You will like it, I promise. I know I'm pimpin' it as we speak, but it Rocks!! Really it does!.
[u][b]Buy it[/b][/u]. Go on. Have I ever lead you astray? Haven't all my reviews been on the money?...Like I said it was and more?
If you need further convincing, go [u][b]here[/b][/u]:http://www.maroon5.com/main_s... and have a taste of the rough cuts. I like this one, peeps it's off the hook!!
Okay. So you're ordering your CD right now aren't you? Yes, thank you. You'll be glad you did. Oh! btw, the CD is [b]"Songs about Jane" by Maroon5! [/b]:wink:
Think of it as an investment in the future of music, good taste and milk crates!! :P
Off to watch the football now... adios amigos!! :D [/i]
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| Nothing Much!! |
| 06.22.04 (4:08 pm) [edit] |
[i]I'm tired of hearing myself complain about work. So no more work talk. (Well at least until tomorrow!) I have done absolutely nothing today. Okay, well, not nothing. I did move the files on my desk around, but apart from that, blogging and having lunch... I've done bugger all!! No wonder I thought I was gonna get fired earlier. :roll:
There's nothing to do really, nothing that I have to get done. I should be enjoying a day of peace, but instead I feel decadent and lazy and guilty. Oh my gawd... let me run to the bathroom mirror to verify that I have indeed, turned into a neurotic employee!!
Last night Kirsty read my fortune in Tarot cards and I got to ask questions of the pendulum's sway. It's all about me, they both said. But not in a selfish way. It's about what I'm supposed to be learning from life right now.[/i] [b]Thank you, Mystic Powers of the Universe...... [/b][i] didn't then and still dont have a clue what it was all about...
She's a believer in many things; most of all, in people. Her heart will break right along with yours if you tell her your troubles. And she celebrates your successes and talks to the Universe on your behalf. She speaks of people with a sort of holiness usually reserved for prayer. Never has a bad word to say.. And she thanks you for your company, which you can't believe because all you've done is selfishly absorb some of her goodness. No, I shd say [b]"thank you K!".... You are a STAR!![/b]
In other news, the short-story I'm writing is progressing. (See you didn't know that did you? :P) I'm open to sharing bits now to get some feedback, though I sort of wonder if I'm becoming like one of those mothers... You know, the kind who flaunts her child and hasn't quite realized... that, that is one ugly baby! :shock:
Have big plans for the weekend, finally. The Boys(that's my crew in London), who I have been slighting lately, have put their collective DKNY-soled feet down and insisted I stop being so lame and come down for a long weekend. And I'm totally willing to oblige. I've got money in the bank, some pent-up frustration, and some killer Dirty Dancing moves..... so I'm off down this weekend for some serious partying!! Yay!! :wink:[/i]
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| I'm Rich!! |
| 06.22.04 (2:44 pm) [edit] |
[i]Got called into Stone-Faced Director of Ops' office a few minutes ago. Had seen my boss in there previously — door closed, in serious discussion. And when, ten minutes later, I was asked to step into her office, I felt slightly panicked. Why, oh why does the woman who never speaks to me want to speak to me now? I thought... (Can't be good!) :(
[b]"Come in, come in. Go ahead and close the door."[/b]
Close the door? If the door is closed, bad things can happen. And there will be no witnesses!
[b]"Have a seat."[/b]
Yes. I'll sit. On my shaking hands. Please don't fire me.... or whatever they say I did, I didn't do it...
[b]"I wanted to discuss something with you. A money issue."[/b]
Oh gawd!! here we go.. Okay, fine!. You wanna tell me we've fallen on hard times again. You're cutting my salary. Getting fired is worse, right?!
[b]"... your current salary.... adjustments... increase.... does not preclude your annual living increase or bonus which comes in December... "[/b]
What?! :shock:
[b]"Thank you for all your hard work."[/b]
Back up just a sec here!....You're giving me a raise? A real one? Where's my calculator...?
An unexpected (completely unexpected) 10 1/2% raise later and I am feeling quite sated, dizzy even. Could not have come at a better time. Have never been very good with money woes. Good with money, yes. Good with money problems? No!!. Not that I have any major ones anyway, just been thinking abt how I was gonn akeep the mortgage going here as well as pay for an aprtment out in the States... but this helps! :wink:
And along the vein: Have paid storage bill and will be able to make £100 donation to the NCH as I planned last week. My sincerest gratitude to the company!!. Yay!! :D
The only thing though... is this some form of compensation or a means of softening the blow of my not getting that move? I'm all paranoid now.... I cant really relax and enjoy my new found wealth until I know either way! So one minute I'm flying.... the next I'm wondering "What's the catch?" hmmm?! :?
Oh, and flattery will get you everywhere Ms Ops Director!! **wink wink** :wink: [/i]
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| Trouble looming... |
| 06.21.04 (6:54 pm) [edit] |
[i]Just off the grapevine!! Hot off the press!! All hell has broken loose... Sanjeet one of the girls here at work, has caused a furore at home by getting engaged to a man who is not muslim. To make things worse he's from the Carribean and does not have legal residency here in the UK. Everyone, colleagues here at work included - thinks he's marrying her so that he can stay here legally.
How did I find out? Well, lets just say I heard it on the off chance (which translates, from the office gossip!) I called Sanjeet at home(she's off for a week) to offer my congratulations and actually get the whole story from the horse's mouth so to speak... Her mother answered and we got talking and discussed her daughter's engagement. (Know her Mum, from going round there a few times)
She poured out her reservations. "I know it's not easy for Sanjeet being on her own ansd wanting children, buy why does she jump out of the frying pan into the fire? the man means her no good My daughter has a good job, savings, a reputation, is decent and would make someone a good wife - but not that man."
I asked her why (being devil's advocate) :P "Him not muslim. Him dont have job, no money, no manner and he's ugly to boot." I wanted to laugh, but just couldn't. She then asked me to have a word with her, cos apparently, she holds me in high regard (I dont know why?) But, in as much as I could see where they were all coming from, still thought it was Sanjeet's decision no matter what.
After the call, went to chat with Brad and Sue and they said I'd be wasting my time trying to talk to Sanjeet. They said "desperate women cant hear when you tell them the man they are with is no good for them. Their advice was for all of us to get prepared to pick up the pieces when it all goes pear-shaped" Now, I thought I was cynical! :roll:
What do you guys think? Sanjeet btw is a 27yr old Indian girl, who according to their lifestyle is past the marrying age already, but didn't want an arranged marriage. I think she should marry whoever she likes, but this dude does sound like he's taking her for a ride... what to do peeps? Holla at me, what y'all think :?
[b]PS:[/b] Off home early today to watch the England V Croatia match, which kicks off at 7:45pm. England need to win or at least draw to qualify for the quarter-finals. Come on [b]E-N-G-L-A-N-D!![/b] :wink: [/i]
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| Another Flipping Monday!! |
| 06.21.04 (4:58 pm) [edit] |
[i]Have just come from Monday afternoon team meeting, where I very nearly threw a rather large temper tantrum. After pursuing a very large project/contract (sixty-something man-hours per week for nearly a month), found that my idiot-firm has lost the job based on ridiculously high quotes. Would shrug and say, "Oh well, Next time!" However, this was the next time. Actually, the third time that I have worked my proverbial arse off on a project, for them to blow it like this. This just takes the fucking piss! :evil:
Blah blah blah work talk blah blah blah. My apologies... but am so very frustrated. What's a man to do to get some competent back-up when you work your arse off trying to get the job done? It's hopeless!! :roll:
Only relief I had from the horrid, never-ending meeting was a bit of "primary-school" note passing that occurred between yours truly and an [b]Equally Bored Co-Worker[/b].
[b]EBCW[/b]: I have to say, you look very mysterious and dapper today.
[b]Me[/b]: Mysterious??
[b]EBCW[/b]: Kinda James Bond-ish -- the white shirt, the black tie and shades.
[b]Me[/b]: Awesome! I just hope no one is out to kill me. That's usually how those things work out in the bond films isn't it?. :P
[b]EBCW[/b]: Watch out bogey at 2 o'clock!!
[b]Me[/b]: Later then.... hehe! (then drew a weird looking head-thingy)
Now where is that theme music? :?
A guy could really use theme music during the day... to take cues from. A big dum-dum-dum before "Highest of Higher Ups" (My Boss' boss) comes round the corner... would be a great warning sign. Or, some violins when a tender, lovin' moment is coming up. Would certainly be more interesting at work if we had some theme music. And some Swedish fish to munch on!!.
Just being silly now, but hey what's new?! :P Now to read some blogs to improve my peeved mood!! :wink: [/i]
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| Thoughts on a Monday afternoon. |
| 06.21.04 (3:00 pm) [edit] |
[i]On Sunday night, a friend came in from Edinburgh to buy me a drink. We sat in a dim, pub-like establishment talking about old times and current events (After the footy of course!). I had news. Like harbouring a secret lover or concealing a hidden body piercing or interesting scar, a piece of good news only gets better when you share it with the right person. Right? :)
I was glad that my mate wasn’t surprised at my news, or how happy I seemed about life in general at present. It was just the affirmation I needed. I’d been feeling selfish about taking so much time to myself, focusing so much on me, but also feeling really great with having my shit together in other areas of my life. But, he has a nack of saying the right thing whenever we meet up... it's great to have a friend who gets you! :wink:
“We have to do this again soon,” I said. “But I’m not coming to Edinburgh, way too far North for me... I'll get a nose-bleed up there.” “No. Don’t" he said..."This place looks good on you, you really have changed a whole lot.”
We embraced, said our goodbyes and then I went home to compose an email to my Dad I’d been avoiding, and hoped it would be received with the intent in which it was written. I wasn't sure that if, in setting some greatly-needed boundaries, I was opening up a new can of worms, or closing up old wounds. My Dad has always allowed me to do my own thing, but I have a feeling I haven't heard the last on this one though...
Being a grown-up is bittersweet....[/i]
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| Sunday... |
| 06.20.04 (2:56 pm) [edit] |
[i]Yesterday evening was spent watching the Euro 2004 matches and this evening will probably be the same.... why change a habit of a LIFETIME I ask?! :P Have a buddy coming in from Edinbrugh (In Scotland) on his way down to London, so we'll have a quick pint or two to catch up. Haven't seen the dude for well over a year now, so it'll be good to catch up.
Hope y'all having a great weekend? Weather's a bit of a pain here, cant seem to make up it's dayam mind whether to rain or not... one minute we have showers the next the sun breaks out again!! Make up ya damn mind, I want to know what to frigging wear!!! :evil:
About to give Pops a call to wish him a Happy Father's Day... bet ya I'm the last to call... well "always save the best till last..." is all I'll say :P My Dad is my 'Hero', I think I did a blog abt him at some point... you'll have to serch the archives for that.... dont know when I wrote it myself. But I salute all dad's out there... y'all doan outstanding job!!
So it's more beer tonight.... I have been thinking lately though that I need to cut down on my intake, but then this thought comes to mind and I just put it to the back of my mind...
[b]"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than to be selfish and worry about my liver.' "[/b]
Am I a wonderful, thoughtful person or what? :P[/i]
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| The Movie Saved!! |
| 06.20.04 (1:48 pm) [edit] |
[i]I was gonna post this last week but somehow I forgot. But reading Lynne's:http://lynne.tblog.com take on it and decided to post mine too. Paula, Kirsty, Dave, Josie and I saw [b]Saved![/b] :http://www.savedmovie.com last Saturday afternoon, and we all really enjoyed it. Also, now would be a good time to say that it was a copied DVD, as it wasn't out in the UK as of last week.... or this week for that matter! :P (Was a very good copy... if anyone needs to know the name of my supplier!) hehe! :D
Aside from a few moments towards the end where I felt it got a little overtly obvious with its message (falling into the "spell it out for the idiots" trap, essentially the film did a good job of (fondly, believe it or not) satirizing the teen fundamentalist Christian scene to point out that tolerance and acceptance is really the bottom line. :)
Of course, my favorite character was easily Cassandra — the sole Jewish student at a Christian school, there because she's been expelled from every other school she's been to, and constantly out to wreak havoc. Oh, and she's really cute too, which didn't hurt in the least. :wink:
Lots of cute lines throughout the film. While many people have been picking up at the obvious irony of Mandy Moore screeching out, [b]"I am filled with Christ's love!" [/b] while hurling a bible at Jenna Malone's back, I'm actually a lot more partial to the next line. Jenna turns around, picks up the bible, and gives it back to Mandy while pointing out that, [b]"This is not a weapon, you idiot!"[/b] :lol:
Many people aren't going to enjoy the film as much as I did, unfortunately, especially if they lean more towards the closed-minded forms of [b]"Christianity"[/b] that the film satirizes. However, [b]the film is "…arguing not against fundamentalism but against intolerance; it argues that Jesus would have embraced the cast-outs and the misfits, and might have leaned toward situational ethics instead of rigid morality."[/b]
This definitely one to watch, but you do need to have an open mind too. :D[/i]
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| They're finally Legal!! |
| 06.19.04 (3:56 pm) [edit] |
[i]I'm off now to take my place infront of the huge screen in the 'pub' in readiness for this evening's football fest with two matches from Euro 2004 showing. Hope you all have a fantastic w/end peeps, and whatever you get up to, make sure you have loadsa fun!! :D [/i]
On a lighter, more funnier note!! .....[b]Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen[/b]:http://images.google.com/imag...+ashley+olsen&ie=UTF-8&hl =en&btnG=Google+Search [b]turned eighteen on the 13th of this month.[/b]:http://www.mercurynews.com/ml...
[i][b]How did I miss that little milestone? huh??[/b][/i] :? :lol: :P
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| New Blog Style. |
| 06.19.04 (3:15 pm) [edit] |
[i]Saw this on Thursday, but forgot to post abt it y/day. A potentially interesting and useful new regional groupblog project: [b]Metroblogging[/b] :http://www.metroblogging.com
[b]Event listings to general rants, photos to reviews - metblogs are a hyper-local look at what's going on in the city.[/b] A group of regional bloggers give each site a new perspective on daily life..... less calendar listing, more friendly advice and stuff of that ilk.
[b]Chicago[/b]:http://chicago.metblogs.com, [b]Los Angeles[/b]:http://www.blogging.la, [b]New York[/b]:http://nyc.metblogs.com and [b]San Francisco[/b]:http://sf.metblogs.com are live; [b]Atlanta, Boston, DC, Miami, Orange County, Seattle, Dublin, London, Tokyo and Toronto[/b] are currently on the 'coming soon' list; and they're looking for local writers.
This could be good, could be little more than a regional LiveJournal community:http://www.livejournal.com/co... with a set list of contributors (though I hope it grows beyond that). We'll just have to see as they grow and evolve.
Back when I lived in Lagos (While atb Uni) and was webmaster for the [u]YouthScene's[/u] site, I toyed for a while with creating a similar site for Lagos, keeping track of events, venues, bands, hangouts, and the like. Unfortunately, at the time my technical skills weren't up to what I had in mind, and the project ended up falling by the wayside. Metroblogging looks to be fairly similar to what I had in mind at the time, so I'm definitely interested in keeping an eye out on this one.
I was years ahead of everybody else, and nobody will ever know. That's me a flipping genius!! :wink: :P [/i]
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| Quote of the day. |
| 06.19.04 (2:26 pm) [edit] |
[i]Read SASHASMOMMA's blog:http://sashasmomma.tblog.com and a post she wrote reminded me of this quote....[/i] :)
[b]Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.."[/b] ----James Allen, 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of [b]"As a Man Thinketh"[/b]
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| Questions questions.. |
| 06.19.04 (1:11 pm) [edit] |
[i]Dont you just hate it when you go out for a good time, to let your hair down and unwind after a long week at work and someone just manages to piss you off even more?! I for one just hate when that happens!! :evil: Especially, when the reason you're pissed off in the first place is cos of work and all the crap you've had to deal with.
Went to Cuba Cuba with the guys last night and also met up with Lisa who happens to be a new addition to the group, she's recently been dating Femi who is my boy from way back!! When I first met Lisa, she already knew an extraordinary amount about me.
It shouldn't have been a surprise; her boyfriend and I are very close and have been buddies for over a decade. But right off, I knew she was not the kind of girl I'd be telling my secrets to. She operates without a filter between brain and mouth, often making social situations unnecessarily uncomfortable. After only having met her a handful of times, she brazenly brought up the personal issues I'd been wrestling with.
On my night off from real life. I was four vodka cocktails under at the time, and eyeing a tequila shot with a "should-I-should-I-not flirtation". I took her invasion of my privacy with a lot of nodding, giving no real response, hoping to turn conversation to more appropriate subjects. Like tequila. But Lisa was relentless.... and refused to take a hint.
Lisa: "I don't know how you do it."
[b]ME: "Do what?"[/b]
Lisa: "Femi tells me you're being messed around at work with a move to the US?"
[b]ME: "Mmm hmm."[/b]
Lisa: "That's really too bad, your company sucks."
[b]ME: "Mmm hmm."[/b]
Lisa: "I'm just glad you're handling it all so well."
[b]Me: (In my mind) "Mmm hmm." Shut up, shut up, shut up! [/b]:evil:
By then, I was getting fairly annoyed. Can't a guy get a night off? I mean really.... wtf? :shock:
Lisa: "You'd just never tell by meeting you that you had so much to deal with. You're so happy-go-lucky."
[b]At which point, am pretty sure that I snorted. That grumpy old man kinda snort. The one that says, in no uncertain terms, you have no idea what you're talking about.[/b]
Lisa: "How do you keep so happy?"
[b]I looked at her, too intoxicated to disguise my annoyance, and raised my eyebrows. I took one last seductive glance at the shot in front of me, and downed it without wincing.
"Tequila," I said and headed to the dance floor. [/b]
She eventually got the hint and left me the fuck alone for the remainder of the night..... Femi rang me this morning to say, she had told him that she might have offended me last night and for him to apologise for her if that was the case.... Well, obviously I told him no... that I was just in a foul mood anyway.... but I hope she knows not to ask too many flipping questions from now on!! All I wanted was a drink!! :roll: [/i]
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| Link up! |
| 06.18.04 (5:42 pm) [edit] |
[i]Just thought I'd post this before I pissed off for the day. Not sure I'll be back here today, so If I haven't been to your blog today YET... I'll try to later. Hope y'all have a good w/end peeps. Need to get home today and do some serious cleaning.. my apartment looks like a bomb hit it... and I'm still wafting thru the debris.:P
In tribute to spring(or is it summer) cleaning, I've decided to clean up my links here on my blog. And instead of wading through referrer logs or checking to see who reads my shit, I'm gonna do it this way:[/i]
[b]* If you're linked to me, and would like to see that reciprocated[/b] (which I'm ever so happy to do) drop me an email or leave a comment here with your URL and preferred name.
[b]*[/b] If you'd like to be un-linked (meaning you don't like me anymore but somehow I've still got it in my head that you're linked to me), you can also drop an email or leave a comment. But so you know before hand .... [b]"Screw you just the same if that's the case!"[/b] :evil:
[b]*[/b] And finally, to those of you who I've linked but haven't linked me.... your time is up! You are out with the spring clean! I've a few people bookmarked who I dont read so often but make a point of checking out... some of those may get promoted to links..... Now I'm just being silly, right? Or is it just plain arrogance? :P
Anyways.....
Thanks,
[b]The Management[/b] (Cyber's World) :D
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| Mum-isms... |
| 06.18.04 (2:01 pm) [edit] |
[i]Earlier I made reference to trying to call my Mum to say hi and just catch up with her. Now let me state before hand, that I am in no way a Mummy's boy! but now and again I just like touching base with her and seeing what's up. My Mum is a gem, she is the epitome of Motherhood, always putting the needs of the family first before her own. She has always been a tower of strength for us all, and sometimes I wonder how she does it? What makes Mum's tick? Cos, I tell ya.. she is one in a million!!
Yeah, I know y'all probably thinking.. well he'd say that anyway, cos she's his mum. True, but I dont mean we dont get on each others nerves at times, or have misunderstandings, but the one constant I know I have in my life is my Mother's love. No matter what! She can be a bit over-bearing, a bit of a worrier (Even now, that I'm 30), she always wants to know where I am, and if I'm eating well.... and so on and so on..
She's one of those Mum's who can get a hundred questions into a 5min conversation, and always seems to know if or when I'm down. She's a bit of a fuss-pot too... but I love her for it, I'd prefer a Mother who cares too much than a Mum who doesn't care at all. Just writing this has made me think.... and I wanna list a few of my[/i] [u][b]Mum's Famous Mum-isms in my house:[/b][/u]
"Grapejuice, like all juice stains you know?."
"Are you drinking enough juice?."
"I just hope you didn't SLEEP with her?."
"So, start from the beginning: You woke up..."
"DON'T do that to your eyes! They might stay that way."
*That is because I have a tendency to turn up my eyelids when my eyes itch*
"To those who give birth, one's child is always "my baby," no matter how many years pass. One day you'll will be a middle-aged man standing in a living room, picking imaginary bits of something from your grown daughter's hair and asking such important questions as, "Honey, are you getting enough rest?" [b][i].... I hope not!! :roll:[/i][/b]
"Mum always knows best, so listen to me"
“How dare you have something going on I don’t know about?!”
“Oooh, honey, I think you are not eating enough!”
[i]And I could go on and on and on..... does you Mum have those Mum-isms that only she has and you just know are coming whenever you see her? Share with us peeps! :wink: [/i]
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| I'm a Techno-freak!! |
| 06.18.04 (1:20 pm) [edit] |
[i]Being the [b]"techno-freak"[/b] that I am, I was salivating at the mouth when I read this article in the Wall Street journal the other day. Altho, I dont fancy all of them, and I actually own one or two... I just wanted to share my delight with all of you fellow techno-freaks out there, who might wanna a piece of the action. There is a new phenomenon on the horizon called [b]"Techo-Lust"[/b], and these are a few reasons why....
This the [b]The Wall Street Journal's top seven items of "Techno-lust"[/b]:http://online.wsj.com/article...,,SB108689021271633907-IZ jeoNplaN3nZysaHqHb6mCm4,0 0.html With commentary by mua:
7: [u][b]Fancy new "does-everything" cellphone.[/b][/u]
Ugh!. Gawd no — at least, not for me. It's a personal thing, but one I've yet to see any need to change my stance on. I like the basic/normal mobile thx you very much! [b]Damp Squid as far as I'm concerned![/b]
6: [u][b]DVR (Digital Video Recorder — a hard-drive based VCR).[/b][/u]
I don't watch enough TV to bother. Sure, sure, I've heard the arguments that DVRs make watching TV worthwhile (easier than ever to weed out the chaff and only see the good stuff), but I just don't have enough interest in the television world to actually go out and get one. A cheap VCR or DVD player does me just fine! [b]Damp Squid![/b]
5: [u][b]iPod Mini.[/b][/u]
Yup. If I had to replace my iPod, I'd replace it with a Mini (if one were available). Most of the time, I'm only using between 2Gb and 4Gb of my 10Gb (2nd Gen) iPod, so the 4Gb of the Mini would work out quite well for me, and be smaller and lighter. Can't complain about that, definitely a lust item!. [b]Lust away![/b]
4: [u][b]USB flash drives.[/b][/u]
If I didn't have my iPod, sure. As it is, though, I can just drop any files I need to schlupp around on the iPod and call it good. So this I give a miss. [b]Maybe![/b]
3: [u][b]A really big, really flat TV.[/b][/u]
Oh, definitely. Not for just for TV, of course, I'm a movie geek. Size does matter, when it comes to TV's..... and that's the truth! [b]Lust definitely![/b]
2: [u][b]Apple's new Airport Express.[/b][/u]
Yup. Even in my average sized apartment, I can easily see myself using at least two of these little gadgets (one for the main room stereo as it's too far from my 'puter to get an optical digital audio cable between the two, and one for the bathroom for shower tunes), and possibly three (unwire the webserver). But this is definitely a hit! [b]In love!![/b]
1: [u][b]A Gmail address.[/b][/u]
Hm. Apparently I'm the only geek on the 'net who doesn't care about Gmail. I've got enough e-mail addresses as it is, the last thing I need is one more to have to keep track of. Count me out of this one. Cant see the need! [b]Hell No!![/b]
What do you guys think of all these new gadgets, would any of you guys be interested in purchasing any of them? Non techno-freaks need not reply!! :P [/i]
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| "Mr Muscle"...needed! |
| 06.18.04 (12:40 pm) [edit] |
[i]Is there such a thing as [b]blogger's block[/b]? We're all familiar with writer's block, suffered by some of the best like - [b]Kafka, Flaubert, Hemingway, Pound [/b]- and, come to think of it, neurotic writers of our time. I'm certainly neurotic enough. Maybe writer's block and blogger's block are the same thing? Whad'ya think? :?
As blockages go, I guess it's not all that bad. I mean, it's definitely better than a blocked artery or even (to someone as vain as me) a blocked pore or a blocked sink requiring the expensive and icky services of a plumber, who'll fleece me for all I'm worth.
All I know is that I seem to have lost the inspiration and ability to write like I used to, though I don't know why? I still blog, but not as freely and as eloquently as I used to. Do they make [b]"Mr Muscle Sink & Plughole Unblocker"[/b] for bloggers (That would be 'Drano' for you yanks! :P)? " Something to unblock that pesky muse within, once and for all?!" :)
I don't know if it's part of the whole blogger's block thang, but I seem to be incapable of accomplishing much, if anything at all, during my waking hours these days. Yet the time blurs by magically and rapidly. Where the hell did the week go? I think.... as I realize that today is in fact Friday again. :roll:
[b]Here's the sum total of my accomplishments du jour:[/b]
- Sent a birthday card.
- Actually put in my contacts today, for a change.
- Replenished my gum supply.
- Tried to call my Mum (no answer, so I get no credit for that, since she doesn't have an answering machine or voicemail).
- Got money out of the bank.
That's pretty much it, and it's almost Lunch time. Am I in a time warp something? Cos work wise, I have done fuck all!! Absolutely nothing!! Hmpf!! :roll: [/i]
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| This is true!! |
| 06.17.04 (1:57 pm) [edit] |
[b]REDIRECTED: Security officers at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, Que., Canada, planted explosives in luggage for a weekly training session for bomb-sniffing dogs -- but lost track of it.[/b]
[i]The problem: they mistakenly planted it in a real passenger's bag, rather than a special suitcase set aside for the purpose. The traveler discovered the package, labeled "TNT", in his bag when he arrived home.
(Canadian Press) ...Now you know why they need so much training..... in Canada! :P
(To all you Canadians out there, no offence..was just too good a story to pass up!) :P [/i]
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| My Charity Shindig!! |
| 06.17.04 (1:10 pm) [edit] |
[i]Hey peeps, it's arond 12.30pm and this is the second time I'm writing this blasted post, cos tblog is fucking up and I've lost the previous post! :evil: Got into work late today, just couldn't get up on time this morning. Surprisingly my boss was ok abt it... now that is a surprise, thought he would tear me a new ass hole!! Also got in and was told in the morning meeting that all employees would allowed to wacth the England V Switzerland match at 5pm today!! Could the day get any better?! [b]Come on E-N-G-L-A-N-D!! [/b]:lol:
The [b]NCH[/b]:http://www.nch.org.uk/page.as... Charity Event was just that "Eventful".... I was very well-behaved as far as last night’s open bar was concerned and spent a good part of the evening improving my Black Jack game. (Got there to be pleasantly surprised by a "Casino" set up to raise even more money for the Charity!) Everybody purchased a £200 voucher to start off with. Good idea in principle, but boy did some people get carried away last night!! I'm talking thousands... but most consoled themselves with saying "It was for Charity after all" Yeah right!! :roll:
I had my "I’ll Be Nice Because This Is for Charity" face on last night, and boy did I need it..... the people there have got to be the most boring people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. One woman, who incidentally had the foulest breath ever, yuk!! just kept on and on abt how much charity work she does! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole point of charity work is to do it without basking in any reflected glory?? I eventually got away from her, after she had extracated my biz card mind you!
Between my "I’ll Be Nice Because This Is for Charity" mentality and my boss's boss, I was rollin’ in the black chips in no time on the black jack table. I had turned my £200 voucher into over 1,500 pounds. And the Dept Mgr? Well let’s just say it’s no secret that the man hit the Black Jack table and walked away with eight THOUSAND pounds. But the bastard didn't help me much though ... I was abt to cash in and take my money and run, but oh no he says to me “I’m a numbers man, let me help you”. And then seeing my cards, shook his head. “Don’t chase the dealer. Let him be the one to go bust.”
Interesting, I thought and then watched the dealer’s cards add up to a pretty little 21. “Hey! What about not chasing the dealer?” I said... “Well… it’s a good rule to follow. Most of the time.” He grinned, bought more chips and ordered another drink and walked off!. I laughed grudgingly and slid all of my remaining chips onto the table. The Dealer had heard me complain about my loss and didn't enforce the £500 limit. The cards were dealt, and I had lost £1,000 on one solitary hand of black jack. Arrgh!! :evil:
From that point onwards all I wanted to do was go home, had to wait for the raffle.... didn't win anything there either!! But hey, I never have before, so why change a habit of a life time? ....as a friend of mine would say.
I said goodnight to my table, collected my jacket at the coat desk and tottered to the taxi rank outside. Turns out, I am not a numbers guy after all, and gambling really hurts my head!! :evil: Got home and proceeded to watch 4hrs of recorded footy from the evening, hence the reason I found it so hard to get into work on time this morning. Wasn't a bad night... BUT if I ever say I'm going to one of those events again, someone please shoot me!! Enuff said!
I wish I could have told you it was a fantastic night, but the only thing fantastic abt it all was when I left!! But I'm happy NCH was able to raise a lot of money, even if some of that money was mine lost at the black jack table! :wink: I'm off to get myself another coffee, brb! :) [/i]
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| Doesn't love me no more... |
| 06.16.04 (5:06 pm) [edit] |
[i]I don't think my [b]laptop computer[/b] loves me anymore. It happens I know... but always thought it'd love me forever! :(
Maybe it's tired of being hauled all over the place, where it not only has to cope with the hard work and horror of dial-ups, but being fondled by airport security and endless changes of weather and time zones.
It won't tell me what's wrong, even though I have begged and pleaded. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and I never know why. There is no discernible pattern.
Finally, I decided to wine it and dine it with expensive new software, which it seemed to like at first, but now it's being diva-like again. It may be even more temperamental than I am and that's saying a lot!. :roll:
It will be even more annoyed when I blame my lack of posting and inability to respond to emails on its bad behaviour, despite the fact that it's completely true, and will probably punish me by acting even worse. That, or it will act all perfect just to spite me and show me up.
Part of the lengthy process of attempting to make my laptop stop its hissy fit was to bribe it with shiny new software. It turned out to be as ineffective as using this approach with a small child, but in my defense, I'm equally ignorant of both subjects, and in both cases, I think they can tell and (mis)behave accordingly.
The new software is thrillingly named [b]Panther[/b] (though I don't know why)...which I nabbed from the I.T dept at work, and includes all this fascinating stuff which I will almost certainly never be clever enough to use: iPhoto, iTunes, iChat, iThis, iThat. Despite all these i's, they are missing the most important one: iCyber's-world
[b]iCyber[/b] would include things like iMovies; iReal Estate; iWine; iTravel (really should be:iBeingSomewhereElseNot TheHorrorOfGettingThere
... but that's too long and not catchy enough); iArtGalleries; iPubs and iSports (really, iFootball or to be totally accurate, iNewcastle United)....
What would iYou have in it if you were to upload software? Any tips on how to handle my tempramental laptop? Help!! :( [/i]
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| Happy Birthday JennsAbsent!! |
| 06.16.04 (4:06 pm) [edit] |
![]() =http://img32.photobucket.com/...Yes it's [b]Jenn's[/b]:http://jennsabsent.tblog.com big day.. so join me in wishing her a grand ol' day. Happy Birthday Jenn, hope you have a fantastic day sweetie. :lol: :lol:
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| I'm Fucked!! |
| 06.16.04 (2:39 pm) [edit] |
[i]Funny how losing one [b]'post-it' note[/b] makes your whole career flash before your eyes. :shock:
I am officially fucked peeps!! :(
Got to go look for it, or commit [b]harikari[/b] [n] (Japan) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment ..... [/i]
[b]**** updated ****
Post-it found. Panic over!! Nothing like a good bit of over-reactin' to get the afternoon going on a good note. Right? Thx peeps! Dopey me, I found it on the sole of my shoes :oops: [/b]
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| Public Relatin' tonight!! |
| 06.16.04 (1:06 pm) [edit] |
[i]I got dressed for work this morning, like I was getting ready for a cracking date! Yep, it's true!
I shaved, spent more than 2mins on my hair, wore my best suit (screw the, 76% humidity), even busted out the couture shirt – which I rarely even do for girls. But tonight, I’m flirting with purpose, so it’s time to bring out the big guns. Got out the business cards and the "So What if You’re Old Enough to Be My Mother attitude", because tonight, I’m headed out, to do a little 'public relatin’. Schmoozing if you like! :)
Normally, the *ahem* … pleasure of attending schmoozy work-related events is something on par with the idea of tweezing my own nasal hair. (Painful!!)
Pluck! Ouch!! :(
But tonight, it’s for children’s charity NCH:http://www.nch.org.uk/page.as..., which I dig. Admittedly, the open bar never hurts either – I could use a good drink or two at these shingdigs anyway. And a few wins in the end of night raffle draw wouldn't go amiss either, seeing as I've bought 20 tickets. Luck be a man tonighty!! :P
So, tonight, I’ll wear aftershave, don a dapper shirt. I’ll cross my fingers for the raffle and flirt with 40 year old women. I mean, it’s for the sake of the children, after all isn't it?. My only regret is that I'll be missing the two football matches on this evening, I'll just have to make do with the taped version when I get home :wink: [/i]
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| A woman's thoughts.... |
| 06.15.04 (7:22 pm) [edit] |
[i]Was thinking of summin funny to post and I remembered a ditty I posted a while back on another site I used to go to back in the day. Let me just say, that I think it's funny and that's that! :D
[b][u]A BORED WOMAN'S RANDOM THOUGHTS[/u]
1.) If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realize that you had set it free....... You either married it or gave birth to it.
2.) Reason to smile: Every 7 minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.
3.) My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.
4.) The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
5.) The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does.
6.) Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
7.) Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
8.) Amazing! You hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes!
9.) They keep telling us to get in touch with our bodies. Mine isn't all that communicative but heard from it the other day after I said, "Body, how'd you like to go to the six o'clock class in vigorous toning?" Clear as a bell my body said, "Listen fatty .... do it and die."
10.) I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That's my idea of a perfect day.
11.) If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?[/b]
True right? :P[/i]
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| What is PATRIOTISM? |
| 06.15.04 (4:59 pm) [edit] |
[i]Just got back from Lunch, was gonna have a juicy, sizzling burger with all the trimmings, monster fries and a large "diet" coke, but opted for the healthier option of a Bacon and Mushroom Omlette with chips and a salad garnish, washed down with a large O/J. So now I'm stuffed, very uncomfortable and feel like dozing....
But I wont doze, cos I have a blog I want to post here and it's to do with some posts and comments I've read over the last two days! So I ask this question: [u][b]"What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times?"[/b][/u] [b]I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility ... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. A sense of pride in what makes a country great
Reading a few blogs y/day and the day before, all I read is people letting their emotions get the better of them. If you are to discuss an issue, be at least willing to listen to, and acknowledge another persons right to disagree! I'm sorry but it is foolish, silly and down right ignorant to equate patriotism with things like national emblems and flags..... who says a flag represents a nation? It's the people in that nation that represent the flag not the other way round!
[b]The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. So when I see or read abt things like flag burning I'm not as quick to join the "Stone him.. kill him... fuck him up" bandwagon, cos in some cases he/she might have a legitmate greiviance that he/she is trying to get attention too.[/b]
I consider myself a Patriot, and I love Britain more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually if need be. I dont condone flag burning or such ilk, but I respect the right of individuals to exercise that form of protest if they so wish. Unlike Americans we Europeans are a bit more tolerant, but I do believe without a doubt a quote from Margaret Chase Smith that says [b]"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." [/b]
To flag burners and the like... I would say if you want a symbolic gesture, [b]don't burn the flag; wash it.[/b] But also to those of you die-hard patriotic types... I'd quote [b]Mark Twain[/b] in saying [b]"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country......"[/b]
So I hope some of those die hards who posted on Scarlett's blog and others like her read this. I noticed also that she replied to everybody who agreed with her point of view but ignored others who didn't, of course I was one of them.I wont be making the mistake of commenting on her blog ever again!! Just goes to show that altho people blog for comments, it's only welcome if the comments actually compliment or mesh with their POV.
I'll end this post with this final quote: [b]"A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth." ~ Henry Ward Beecher. [/b]
How many people out there are thoughtful enough to distinguish between 'Patriotism' and ignorant 'Belligerence' against people who genuinely want to protest against what they feel might be an injustice or what not? Nuff said!! :D[/i]
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| Africa... |
| 06.15.04 (12:36 pm) [edit] |
[i]Hey folks, work is pretty slow today... surprise surprise!! :roll: Last night I went to check out some pictures by [b]Salvatori Dali[/b] one of my fave artist's of all time. They always seem to have a calming effect on me and give me a sense of perspective. Dont ask me 'how' or 'why', cos even I dont know the answer to those questions.... I just find that Dali just does it for me, period!! :)
Last night this one caught my eye and I wanted to share with y'all.... This is Dali's [b]"Impressions of Africa"[/b] not his best piece from my POV, but good all the same. Tell me what y'all think of it! what do you think of when you think of Africa?.... Africa, half discovered, half wild, naturally beautiful but economically backward??
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This made me quite nostalgic about Africa myself. Now for those of you who have never been to the [b]"Dark Continent"[/b] I say.. what a shame, cos [b]"the darkest thing about Africa has always been people's ignorance of it".[/b] Africa is the most beautiful place on Earth and when I say this I'm refering to natural beauty.. not man-made beauty. I might just start a series of blogs about the different places I've visited in Africa to give you a sense of what I'm babbling on abt... Africa is much more than the odd Safari.. Africa for all intents and purposes is the birth place of Civilization as we know it today!! :)
What comes to mind when you think of Africa? Or are there peeps out there who have been to the beautiful Continent? Holla at me :) [/i]
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| Boring Inventory.. |
| 06.14.04 (7:46 pm) [edit] |
[i]As you might have been able to tell I am so insanely bored at work that I'm vegitating as we speak!! Yikes!! I've done all the paperwork possible and anything else that's truly productive is really unappealing, especially inventory. Actually, this is a case of non-motivation. I really, really, really wanna go home and climb into my cozy bed and sleep. I like my bed, but over the past w/end due to my own fault and no one else's I've only seen very little of it.
I have a few entry to write, but I'm not in the mood to be thoughtful. I'm tired of surfing the net. One has to surf so actively to find the good stuff. I'm not hungry. Altho I'm feeling peckish... and I'm missing the football cos my boss wont go home so we can switch on the TV! Any suggestions peeps? What do I do to keep myself from cracking up, right here, right now? :?
Part of the not-moodiness is this pain in my neck. (And it's not what you think....) Several days ago, I awoke with a pain in my neck on the left and bit to the back. I tried stretching it but that was no help. It's gotten better over the last few days but today it seems to have spread. It feels like tension. It's covering the whole back of my neck. I feel like it's the pain/tension in the neck holding my head up instead of the bones inside. I'm pretty much a pain wuss, when I'm in pain it's safe to say I can't think about anything else. :(
Somedays, I have a yen to write. I want my fingers to be tapping on the keyboard, producing sentences, defining thoughts and literary masterpieces. (This is distinctly different from the real reason I'm in front of the computer which is to enter data for inventory.) However, I don't have much to say. I do have a couple of topics rattling around in my head that have been on the to-do list for a while but I'm not in the mood. And when you're not in the mood, then you're not in the mood. Right? :?
I'm off to get myself a coke, anybody want one? [/i]
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| Problem Solving! |
| 06.14.04 (7:35 pm) [edit] |
[i]Brad, one of my colleagues here at work just got a written reprimand for messing up a computer programme we were test running for a client. Dont know how or what he did, but he fucked it up quite royally!! I'm actually quite surprised he's still here, cos his cock-up is gonna cost the company a fair bit of money and some.
So in honour of Brad's fuck-up I have emailed this diagram (Flow-cahrt) round the whole office, excluding mgmt of course.... on how to deal with this kinda problem in future.... feel free to copy and paste too, might come in handy in future... you never know! :P And for all you bleeding hearts out there... I know I shouldn't revel in a colleagues misfortune, but it was too good an opportunity to let slide!! I just couldn't help myself.. alright?! hmpf!! :P :roll: I wont do it again![/i]
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| Fancy a cuddle? |
| 06.14.04 (5:31 pm) [edit] |
[i][b]Just blogged abt what I miss and dont miss in being in a relationship.... having a cuddle was one of them, but I refered to my steadworthy 'pillow' as a good substitute. Here's the proof!! :P :P :lol:[/b]
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[b]So does anyone fancy a cuddle? :lol: :lol:[/b][/i]
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| Singledom v. Couples. |
| 06.14.04 (4:59 pm) [edit] |
[i]I know this is summer and all that.... and this is the period according to the relationship "boffins" when romance is at it's peak, but give me a freaking break....do peeps have to be so lovey-dovey?? I mean, come on, wtf is all that abt? :? My pal Dave has finally asked Josie out and they have been a couple now for exactly a week but you know what? I wish they never had got together!! Arrgh! I blame myself... shd have done more to persuade him not to and shown hime the pitfalls involved!! :evil:
Now the pair of them are acting like fweaking love-sick teenagers and are all holdy-handy, have secret jokes, laugh at the oddest of things and to crown it all.... this w/end they shunned our pub marathon half-way thru to go spend some [b]"Quality time"[/b] together!! What's that when it's at home then?... quality time?? I thought that's what we were doing at the pub?... spending quality time with each other??! :roll:
For those of you who are single (like me!!), what do you miss about a relationship and what do you absolutely NOT miss?..... I'mma post this just to emphasize to the 'Dave's' of the world that being a couple aint all it's cut out to be...and before all you 'coupled-up' peeps out there lynch me and begin to roast me alive, it is IMHO... so there :P
1. I miss morning sex, [b]but I looooove having the whole bed to myself.[/b]
2. I miss buying & recieving random gifts for that special someone, [b]but I like having that extra dosh(money) around.[/b]
3. I miss having the automatic date for all my needs, [b]but I'm closer to my friends and have a blast!.[/b]
4. I miss having someone else cook for me [b]and there's no good flip side to that one![/b]
5. I miss having sex on tap, [b]but then I relish the challenge of variety as well as experimenting with new people![/b]
6. I miss the companionship, [b]but I dont miss the constant chatter in my ear while watching football![/b]
7. I miss watching the fashion show and subsequent striptease after a shopping spree, [b]but I sure as hell dont miss lugging all her freaking shopping bags around the shops![/b]
8. I miss having my laundry done for me, [b]but I dont miss having to pick up after myself every minute of the day... I like my clutter![/b]
9. I miss having a cuddle and a ....., [b]but then again my 'pillow' sorta, kinda does the same trick![/b]
10. I miss I guess above all having someone to discuss my day, problems and needs with, .....[b]but hey, now I've got all you good peeps on tblog... wtf else do I need?[/b]
I chose [b]'Singledom'[/b] over '[b]Coupledom'[/b] anyday..... well at least until I meet another poor mug who's ready to take me on as a charity case until she realises what a hopeless case I am and scarpers away.... :P Dave are you reading this?? :? Did any of that come across as really chauvinistic?.... [b]Not my intention![/b]
[b]What abt a relationship do you miss, but could well do without just as well?[/b] :lol: [/i]
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| So close..... |
| 06.14.04 (4:28 pm) [edit] |
[i].... to glory, then two minutes of agony!! [b]We lost!![/b] :cry: We had them, for all of 90 mins and then bam! kapaow!! zap!!! it's 2-1 in France's favour, what cruelty and lack of luck! I dont know what hurt the most... the loss or the fact that my w/end had been totally ruined in less than 2mins flat?! :? I'm still nursing a shattered ego, and I ask that you go easy on me with the wise-cracks and jokes!! I just hope the boys can pick themselves up and go out there and win the remaining 2 grp matches! "Come on ENGLAND!!" I demand a re-match in the final... and lightening sure as hell wont strike twice!! :evil:
So, now you know how my w/end ended... let me fill you in on how it started. Saturday, I broke my personal best record and spent all but 5hrs of the day in the pub! :wink: Lets just say we were a bit gingerly y/day morning, but still ready to cheer on England. Y/day was the usual Sunday papers, followed by a good ol' english fry-up at the local "greasy spoon" (cafe for all you novices) and then we hit the pub again in full force to cheer on the great British hope!
I've been licking my wounds since last night, and I must admit I haven't really been in the mood to blog today. Work is just that... Work!! I'm bored, frustrated and quite frankly fed-up with it all. But hey, what's new, right? (shrugs shoulders)...... I'm holla back in a bit.... lemme go read some blogs... hope y'all have a great week peeps! :D [/i]
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| Getting ready to rumble... |
| 06.12.04 (1:04 pm) [edit] |
[i]Lovely day up here in sunny Newcastle and I’m buzzed a bit, this is due to the fact that I've had a couple of cans of beer already. It’s kinda nice. And seeing as Dave, Femi and Kirsty were at my place early this morning with them (the cans) who am I to refuse such an offer? :P We are all just chillin, before we head down to the pub to watch the start of [b]Euro 2004[/b]. The European Football Extravaganza that rivals the World Cup in interest here in the UK and across Europe.
For you novices out there... the [b]Euro[/b] is the 3rd largest tournament outside of the World cup and the Olympics in my book! So let the games, drinking, arguing, rivalry and good natured banter begin!! This afternoon Portugal the host kick off against Greece at 4.30pm...... I cant wait!! :lol: (he says gleefully while rubbing his hands together!) :P
So, my point is that this w/end there is likely to be less post's from mua... as I will be otherwise engaged in the famous and somewhat British past time of drinking, being merry, shouting, and watching football in no particular order! Hope you guys have a great w/end too... whatever y'all get up to. So from Sunny Newcastle, it peace out my friends, and be good one and all! :D :wink: [/i]
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| Girl's remote.. |
| 06.12.04 (1:04 pm) [edit] |
[b]Disclaimer: This is meant purely as a joke!! So anyone who takes offence, should please make a point of NOT informing me! :P[/b]
[i]Seeing as I'll be spending an awful lot of time in front of the TV over the next four weeks cos of the European Championships I think another remote control might come in handy for all those guys with girlfriends, significant others or just partners. I give you the [b]g/friend remote[/b]!! (Loud fanfare, blowing of trumpets and whooping!!) :D :lol: [/i]
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| Feeling old! |
| 06.12.04 (12:37 pm) [edit] |
[i]You know you're a grown-up when... your lil' brother has just called up for advice. As is often true, it was a financially related problem. But it was also a "What is the proper grown-up action to take?" kinda problem. Ah, I'll stop beating around the bush. It went like: [b]"I feel I should get a mortgage, but I'm not sure whether I am responsible enough to keep on top of it; should I go for it, or should I just stay with renting for a couple more years?"[/b] Now, you've got to understand, this is my kid brother who abhors the word [b]"responsibility"[/b] and actively tries to avoid it with a vengence.... Now I know miracles do happen y'all!! :lol:
We proceeded to discuss the pros and the cons. Luckily, they were financial problems I feel qualified to give advice in (-normally, I only have a very narrow range when it comes to finances).
But it has really struck me just now, how touching it is to be the person my brother turns to for advice. I know that I'm his father figure now, but usually, I'm just his older brother who he calls when he needs a quid or two or needs to be bailed out of a jam. I try not to give him unsolicited advice cos I believe he'll reject it in the "I dont need big-brother's-advice" kinda way. But sometimes, he comes to me and it's for more than regular big bro advice. (At least, I think it is. I never had a big brother, so I cant really tell.....) It makes me feel so old tho....
Not complaining mind you... it does feel good to be needed for summin other than to bail you out of a jam every now and then.... let's just say I did my big brother deed for the month. I hope he does go thru with it... that will be another step up the ladder for him to own his own place. I persoanlly know that was one of my best decisions I ever made, when I bought my place.... if I was to sell today I'd make over £50,000 in profit... not bad for a guy who 3yrs ago, didnt think owning property was a good idea at all, heh? :D [/i]
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| Jail-bait!! |
| 06.11.04 (2:51 pm) [edit] |
[i]Last night I went out with Dave, Femi and Brad after our session at the pub. Although I started off in a foul, foul mood (much improved by the minute, due to the generous jugs of lager we were drinking), it turned out to be a good evening.
The highlight was a young lady (or girl even) who might be described as [b]"jailbait"[/b] (...[b]JB[/b] for short). I spotted her with a friend at the edge of the dance floor and pointed her out to Femi. Later, she makes her way over and is dancing near us with this friend of hers. She looks shy and dances terribly, so being a gentleman I take pity on her. Besides, she's very pretty, even for a young'un. :wink: We dance. Later, she has a riveting conversation with Dave. We dance some more. We have an even sillier conversation (sillier because it's longer): Here's bits I can recollect... taking into account the fact that I was a tad slozzled with lager....
[b]JB - "jail-bait"[/b]
[b]JB[/b]: Do you go to school?
Me: No.
[b]JB[/b]: Yeah, school's overrated. Do you work?
Me: Yes.
[b]JB[/b]: What do you do?
Me: I hate it.
[b]JB[/b]: No, I mean what kind of work do you do?
Me: Yeah I know what you meant, but I don't talk about it because I hate it.
[b]JB[/b]: Oh, work's overrated.
Me: So, what do you do?
[b]JB[/b]: I'm a hairdresser, I style hair.
Me: (look of playing along)
*pause for lack of intelligent small talk in a loud bar*
[b]JB[/b]: You're lucky tonight because I don't usually dance.
Me: Oh? Then what are doing here? :roll:
[b]JB[/b]: I'm kickin' it! (accompanied by devil hand motion)
Me: I mean, what are you doing dancing?
[b]JB[/b]: I'm dancing with you.
Me: I guessed as much. (I really keep a smile this whole time because she's amusing in that drunk way, except I'm not actually sure she's drunk. And I'm struggling to converse with her further seeing as the conversation is so ...riveting!) :roll:
[b]JB[/b]: How old are you?
Me: Old enough.
[b]JB[/b]: Blah blah blah blah blah.........
There was something more about how she'd just returned from Lancashire recently and she spends time on the town partying. But really, at this point my beer goggles were no longer working so I politely extricated myself from her grasping arms and my eyes from her wonderful cleavage and said good night! That's the second time in less than a week I've met a hairdresser. Is there some professional profile making the rounds with the girls in Newcastle? :? [b]{Tuts!}[/b]
Later, I caught a lot of flak from Femi and Brad, but you know how it is amongst guys, right?...... but seriously though, someone has to be the [b]"Mr. Robinson"[/b] (... you know the jailbait snatcher from "The graduate"...) of Newcastle, why not me? :P
That was last night and you'll be pleased to know that I haven't needed to take coffee today to keep me awake... I feel just grand! :wink: [/i]
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| I need to prioritize.... |
| 06.11.04 (2:12 pm) [edit] |
[b]Trying to be more coherent, but failing woefully, so this post may just come across as gibberish... but please read on:[/b] :P
[i]I was thinking last night that maybe I need to re-prioritize my goals. Should I determine what is most important to me and make my actions follow a plan? I wonder if I have been going about my life a little more willier-nillier than I should be? Or could be? :?
I think that most important to me, equally, in the short term, are getting this whole new job malarchy sorted out and getting fitter and eating better. And these last two are not contradictive ideas. So, I'm trying to decide if I should throw everything else to the winds and focus on these goals. Well, not _everything_ but generally everything... you know what I mean....
Then as a minor goal, I'd like to enjoy work more, be more productive. So, in my work time, I can work, but in my spare time, I know I should stop watching so much TV or partying, and I should work towards doing summin academically too. Financially I'm ok.. altho a couple of millions wouldn't go amiss either :wink:
But the thing is, I don't think I can be quite so focused. And I don't like working hard on these things anyway, i.e. exercising, eating well, academics ect. Is this one of those times in my life when I must choose between the rock and the hard place? If I want these things, then I have to work for them, right?. I can't have them by any other way. If I continue the way I have been, then I can only really expect more discontent because I haven't been moving forward as far as I'm concerned.
With all due respect to AG, I've decided that moving to the US is so important to me that it's more important than staying! (I want to say it doesn't really matter but I'm clinging to my dream of going to Texas, no matter what. This was a big sticking point at the pub last night.) Most of my colleagues would prefer it if I stayed... but who cares what they want, right?
I need to prioritze my goals... but first I need to find out what they are, cos reading this back.... I realise that I have scant goals anyway! what other goals are out there? :? [/i]
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| My Recent reads |
| 06.10.04 (5:29 pm) [edit] |
[i]As much as I love to read I haven't quite got round to it lately as much as I used to. Hence I have a pile of brand new books that I still haven't read months after forking out for them.... when will I ever learn to exercise restraint when it comes to Books and DVD's? Here are the two I recently finished reading.[/i] :D
[b]The Secret History[/b] by Donna Tartt
[b]The First Counsel[/b] by Brad Meltzer
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[u][b]The Secret History[/b]
[/u]:http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...
[i]Debut novel of Tartt, was basically Dead Poets Society gone wrong. A group of students get caught up in the leadership of one and when there is an accidental death, the cover-up starts to tear each person apart. It's a grim look on humanity and a harsh view of college life (-I swear, everyone was a complete junkie!). It was a pretty riveting book but I'd stab myself before I ever read it again. :evil:[/i]
[u][b]The First Counsel[/b][/u] :http://search.barnesandnoble....
[i]Was pretty riveting too but in that mainstream thriller way. There's some blackmailing and the president's daughter is mixed up in it. The title character is one of the White House lawyer lackeys and he's way in the thick of it. This book maybe kinda ordinary to a West Wing fan but I loved the "inside" look into the White House and some of its workings. And the main character is pretty likeable: self-effacing, scared, human, funny, blah blah blah.
Anybody read either? Or any new books you wanna recommend? Come on you book worms out there dont be shy!! :wink: [/i]
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| Debate Memories. |
| 06.10.04 (4:45 pm) [edit] |
[i]Watched the Mayoral Debate last weekend in London and it brought back a memory long buried that I had promised myself I'd blog abt. I only just remembered now, hence the delay since the w/end. Also seeing as today we go to the polls for our Local and European elections.. I just thought I'd share it with y'all. :wink:
In primary school, I participated in a classroom debate. I’ve long since forgotten the topic of the debate or whether my team was 'for' or 'against' it, but I remember that the debate took place before the rest of the class, including Caroline Whiteley, who I was madly in love with then and whose photo I still have, twenty-plus years later. Also, I saw it as my 'big' chance to impress her and hence get picked during the next game of kiss-and-chase :oops:
But the most pertinent thing I remember is that I didn’t say a thing the entire time. Not a word. Nada!! I’d spent an entire week studying the subject of the debate, so I knew quite a bit about it, but when the time came to debate, I couldn’t think of anything to say, I froze. I remember telling myself that I had to say something, that I couldn’t just sit there in silence, but that’s exactly what I did. It's safe to say I never got to go out with Caroline ever....
After class, my teacher Mrs. Shabbah, who wore an extraordinary amount of make-up I remember, touched me on the shoulder and said, “Next time.”.... All I could think of was Caroline Whiteley and how I had missed my chance ...... and this was aged 8yrs old, guess what I'm like now? :P [/i]
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| I am not alone |
| 06.10.04 (3:38 pm) [edit] |
[i]Today has been a pretty slow day, apart from the fact that it's the elections today.. nothing much is on the work agenda. I should go and vote later tonight, seeing as the polls close at 10pm. And just so everybody knows... I give up my privilege of a secret ballot and declare my vote for the Conservatives (Tories) to those in the know! So today has been yet another uneventful day here in Newcastle and there isn't much to report on at all.
One thing though, I've been learning as I surf the net and read lots and lots more blogs and as I chat with people is that there is probably no aspect of me that is truly unique. I have been a frequent declaimer that the net is the place where you learn of fetishes that you couldn't even imagine existed. But beyond fetishes, I find that there is company in everything. Not just blogging but almost every aspect of ones life. And this realisation does not grate against my belief in every person being a wonderful unique individual because no one said this is a comparison of total being.
All it has done is brought home the realisation that in as much as we live in different countries and different continents... exist in different lives, inherently we are all alike... the same if you like. We all hurt, have problems, have our ups and downs, times of euphoria and times of sadness... even times of conflict, but we all have the same thing that makes us one... we can pick ourselves up and get on with things. So I say "I am not alone"... I've got you guys! :wink: [/i]
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| Have a laugh!! |
| 06.09.04 (5:39 pm) [edit] |
[b][u]School Field Trip[/u]
Who signed the permission slip for this one?[/b] :? :roll:
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[u][b]My kinda Junction[/b][/u]
[b]I'm sure if I lived in that city... my apartment would be smack bang in the middle of these two streets!! [/b]
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[u][b]Scarred for life![/b][/u]
[b]Peekaboo..... I bet that scared the life out of him? No more peeking for him!! :P[/b]
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| Hungry anyone?? |
| 06.09.04 (2:57 pm) [edit] |
[b]Well I am, so I'm off to lunch..... I fancy a hotdog today!! :D :lol:[/b]
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| Random nothingness.. |
| 06.09.04 (2:08 pm) [edit] |
[b]Shoelaces[/b]
[i]A frequent problem of mine that no one ever takes seriously is how I tie my shoelaces. The problem is that no matter how careful I am, one shoe is inevitably tighter than the other. And it feels weird! :shock:
So I retie the tighter one (because usually it’s too tight). And I’m still unbalanced. Sometimes I’ve retied it too tight still, other times I tie it too loosely. I can go back and forth four or five times and still be dissatisfied with the end result.
That’s usually how I end: they feel kinda close and I hope that my feet will shrink and expand as necessary. I’m realizing for the first time that perhaps this is linked to my possession of quite a number of laced shoes. Maybe I shd look into buying a few loafers, what d'ya think?[/i]
[b]I am not a good nerd...[/b]
[i]..Or is it geek? It doesn't matter. I'm not good either way. I have spent some of the most painstaking hours and minutes trying to get a handle on how to modify this blog recently. My problems might stem from the fact that I know little or nothing abt html and every time I try to learn, I forget it because I have nowhere to apply it. Or it might stem from sheer laziness.... seeing as I didn't care to learn until now. I mean, really! You try jumping in at the deep end and end up drowning in abbreviations and lingo like [b]PHP[/b] and [b]RSS[/b] and [b]CSS[/b] and and and.... so on..
Let me tell ya, it doesn't help either to learn that [b]php[/b] means [b]Hypertext Preprocessor[/b]. How is that supposed to work anyway!? :? :? Why isn't it called HPP then?! And so I'm slowly reading the MT manual and I learn that the $ are optional. What's that supposed to mean? You don't have to put them in? Are they convention? And when would you not put them in? Given the choice, wouldn't you always leave them out? Somebody help, cos I just rubbish at this???? :( [/i]
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| What day is it? |
| 06.09.04 (1:27 pm) [edit] |
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[b]Dont you just feel like this some days? when you're not sure what day it is, let alone what week, month, or year it is.... or is it just Ziggy and I who wake up and have trouble remembering what day it is? :? :( [/b]
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| Halfway through the week |
| 06.09.04 (1:08 pm) [edit] |
[i]Data entry is numbing my mind. I am moving as if in jelly (or jello as they say in the States!) . I think as if jelly has replaced my brain. I think that if I go hide in Mark's office, then I won't have to look busy. Perhaps I'll crawl under my desk and strategically place my chair to hide me. I think this is all a result of cleaning my desk. That is, cleaning my desk effectively cleaned my brain and now there is nothing in my head to rattle around and bump into one another, so the breeze just blows me this way and that. The scary thing is... we're only halfway thru the week :(
The caffeine addiction and the sweet bubbly addiction are creeping out from the shadows softly whispering that now is an opportune moment to partake of a soft drink and even though I don't like the idea of giving so much of my money to Coke(even if I'm not paying for it myself), it sounds like a good idea and I'm a person easily swayed. So I just wait for the next idea to tell me what to do and hope that if it's the idea to close my eyes for a long time, I will resist until I get home.
[b]BookCrossing[/b]
BTW, I've found the most amazing site. It's cooler than Friendster. It's cooler than Tribe.net. It's cooler than whatever is cool at the moment and it's not even new. I don't even know how I got there because I found the site last week and only just investigated it now. You definitely should check out [u][b]BookCrossing.com[/b][/u].:http://www.bookcrossing.com/h... And then you should email me so we can be friends. Now I have to go to the vending machine for that coke and make a note to scour my physical bookshelves when I get home tonight, Jenny wants to lend a book I haven't seen in ages.
Toodles peeps! :D [/i]
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| Mornings are a pain! |
| 06.09.04 (11:43 am) [edit] |
[i]This morning the alarm went off, I hit snooze, and fell back asleep. Suddenly, I awoke with the thought, Friday! Coffees! It's my turn! And then I thought, Hey, what happened to all the other days? Wasn't I supposed to go to the gym this week? I don't remember going to the gym. What was yesterday? Tueday. What's today? Wednesday. Oh. No Coffees. Oh, it's not Friday. And this made me stay in bed. So you can guess, I barely made it into work on time this morning! Bad Cyberpal!! :P
Here's something I love about living in my apartment. My next door neighbour and I have almost synchronized alarm clocks. I think they are even set for the same alarm time. We both usually sleep late and in the mornings, my alarm goes off at 6:15 and two seconds later (I kid you not), [b]Pearl's[/b](that's my neighbour btw) clock makes the same noise across the hall (you can tell the walls must be rather thin, eh?!). Nine minutes later, repeat. Nine minutes later, repeat. It keeps on repeating until someone gets up, usually around 7:00 lately. This is now so ingrained in me that last Monday, I forgot to reset my alarm from the weekend when I usually set it for a later time and I never noticed until Wednesday, when the alarm went off while I was sleeping in..... much later than normal! Goes without saying I was late for work that day! :oops: [/i]
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| Be grateful even..... |
| 06.08.04 (8:00 pm) [edit] |
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[i][b]Kinda sends home the point doesn't it?! :P hehehe ROTFLMAO!! :lol: :lol:
PS: Just bear with me today.... I'm in one of those weird moods I've often blogged abt. Forgive me if I've offended anybody's sensibilities with this..... but tough!! :P[/b][/i]
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| 7-11 Attack!! |
| 06.08.04 (7:42 pm) [edit] |
[b]After 9-11 in New York and 3-11 in Madrid, Get Ready for 7-11[/b]
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[b]WASHINGTON, DC[/b] — [i]First there was 9-11 in New York, then 3-11 in Madrid. The world is now braced for a 7-11 attack. Skyscrapers will not be hit. Trains will not be bombed. However, according to Homeland Security Director, Tom Ridge, [b]"convenience stores all over the US will be terrorized by the very same Pakistani workers already employed in such facilities".[/b]
"It may be utter chaos," predicts Ridge. "Don't expect to walk out of a 7-11 on July 11 without a Slurpie intoxication." Ridge notes that convenience store workers will have medium size Slurpies hidden in their head towels. At exactly eleven minutes after seven in the morning when millions of American workers en route to their jobs enter 7-11's for their morning coffee, these convenience store terrorists will remove cups of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry Slurpies and, in many cases, the secret flavor – banana - and douse customers with said Slurpies causing lip and eye closure such that instead of reaching for a Hazelnut coffee, these commuters will remain decaffeinated to the point that they actually fall asleep in the convenience store..... [/i]
[b]For full story[/b]:http://www.bongonews.com/layo...
[b]Gotcha!! :P[/b] LMAO!! :lol:
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| Words Galore: Part Deux!! |
| 06.08.04 (4:53 pm) [edit] |
[b]Another word session:[/b]
I looked up [b]"ANGST"[/b] in the [b]OED[/b] and here's what I got:
[b]Anxiety, anguish, neurotic fear; guilt, remorse[/b]. And by golly, I feel that! Angst is the feeling of the DAY so far!!. :evil:
I'm sitting at work, completely avoiding my two easy tasks of the day. This leads to guilt and remorse. And I'm avoiding polishing off this stupid, stupid, stupid site health and safety audit and that's making me feel all kinds of anxiety, anguish, neurotic fear, guilt, and remorse! Grrrrrrrrrr! :evil: Why cant I just [b]NOT[/b] care? :?
But I can go to the OED and mess around with it for a while. I also learned the word [b]"ANGUINE"[/b] since it was nearby. It has to do with snakes. One would use it similarly to [b]"BOVINE"[/b]. As in: The long apple peel lay on the floor in an [b]"anguine"[/b] position.
It's too bad that job interviewers wouldn't accept me based on my huge vocabulary. I don't use too many big words, especially around people who wouldn't know them. But I think I might pull a few out of my sleeve while conversing with someone preparing to grill me if I knew it'd have any effect!.
For example, I love the word [b]"EPONYM"[/b]. Well, actually, I love that there is a word for the idea of EPONYM (a word that is derived from a name). As far as just cool sounding words go, I like [b]"QUISLING"[/b]. And I like the sound of [b]"BOWDLERIZE"[/b]. But I don't like [b]"bowdlerizing"[/b]. It's just silly. :P
Maybe I could just pick a random large word and work sentences around it. But then, it would be best if I picked a word that was vaguely related to my topic. Too bad I can't think of any. You know what's weird? I think that [b]"PULCHRITUDE"[/b] is an ugly word, which is an irony since it means [b]"beautiful"[/b], but that just makes it easier to remember.
[i]Now, if you think this is babbling, you should hear what actually goes on in my head when it's empty or unoccupied. Even I'm scared of ME! :P [/i]
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| Lunch and Misc |
| 06.08.04 (3:43 pm) [edit] |
[I]I had lunch with Jason today (He's Dad's old Uni buddy!). I had to go to campus (University of Newcastle... he's a prof. or summin there) for it. I've been there before and his office was impossible for me to find, so I budgeted some extra time to get lost (esp. since I got lost last time I was looking for something in the Health Sciences Building). But after I parked, I saw this little stairwell just a few feet from my parking spot. I thought, hey, isn't he in this wing? and I tried it out. Holy crap, it was just around the corner! I was early! Woo hoo to me! :D
We went to Capriccio Pizzeria , which I have heard for years is good but never got around to going to, and it was yummy..... It also helped that he was paying! :wink: The conversation was fluid, which wasn't a sure thing on my end because I often have nothing to say with people who are not my age. But I told him abt my new job hunt and not only did he agree to re-reference me, but he also let me know of an opportunity he knew of. I'm excited about it, might just happen too.
We chatted abt some departmental gossip and some family matters. It was actually good after I had relaxed. And even though I told the Boss that I'd be out a while for lunch and would fill out a leave sheet to cover my time taken, I forgot and he forgot and now I'm not going to claim it. :) So I'm fed at least... but still in no mood to do any work!
And I just wanted to say that for the last several days, I think I've been sleeping on my arm a lot. This seems a little weird because in 30 years of sleeping and doing more than my fair share, you'd think I would have learned to move them out of the way. But I've been waking up with the feeling like my arms are squashed. And that was uncomfortable. This morning I woke up and one my arms was completely asleep/dead/gone..... Weird or what? :P [/I]
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| Job dissatisfaction |
| 06.08.04 (2:46 pm) [edit] |
[i]Seems to be a rash of Job dissatisfaction going around. Me, co-workers, friends, friends of co-workers, friends of friends, relatives of friends. Nothing like JD stories to help peeps bond!!.
[b]My story of the day (SOTD):[/b]
I get in this morning, turn on my computer, DO NOT log-in, walk away to the vending machine. I come back, and there's a note on my monitor in RED marker: "come fix this problem pls". I go fix the problem.
Here's my bad: I didn't double check the fix - it wasn't actually fixed. She comes to find me later: "it's still not working". I go back, press harder. Hmm, she thinks it's not a valid solution and begins to tell me I've just made it worse!....the cheek of her! :roll: What am I to do? I don't care. I walk away.
Actually, that sucks as a SOTD. But it just got me off on the wrong foot, (I mean I was doing the silly gurl a favour by fixing it in the first place!!). Actually, waking up and having to come here to work does that anyway.... I mean getting me off on the wrong foot. Grrr. :evil:
Hope y'all having a better day than I am? :? [/i]
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| New diction. |
| 06.07.04 (9:57 pm) [edit] |
[b]Here’s the big thought for the day before I go home bearing in mind the definition of the word 'Diction':[/b]
dic·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dkshn)
n.
1. Choice and use of words in speech or writing.
2. Degree of clarity and distinctness of pronunciation in speech or singing; enunciation.
We should stop calling the letter [b]“w”[/b] “double u”. For one thing, it’s too long of a name for a letter. Letters should be one syllable. And a letter’s name should be representative of its sound. So, we should call it [b]“wee”[/b] or summin like that...... I mean come on, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure tha one out does it?! :roll:
Now, I’m not being silly. I think it’s very logical. And if people actually followed thru with it, it would stop sounding laughable, but plausible. Altho I know it will never happen, I just had to put it out there..... so there, I've done it! :P
I spent most of the commute to work today behind a car with a license plate including the letters "PPW" and I didn’t have much else to do but ponder it..... so I want it changed!! Alright??! :evil:
I'm off home now, to my shame I've hardly done any work today except blog and catch up on people's blog's. But y'all are too bloody fast, cos I go back and there are new freaking blogs to comment on all over again. Not tonight though... this 'hard-worker' is going the hell home!! Cya :wink:
[b]PS: Dont forget, if you are a XML guru, holla at me![/b] [/i]
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| Calling all Smarties: Help me learn XML |
| 06.07.04 (9:42 pm) [edit] |
[i]Does anyone have any [b]*really*[/b] good suggestions for learning XML? Tutorials, books, whatever. It would be very helpful if it were addressed [b]*at first*[/b] in a sequential fashion [b]- first you blah, then you blah because... then blah, because... finally you blah and blah, and you're done. Sort of thing.[/b] I learn things a lot faster in this fashion - sequential with reasons. (Or you might have guessed I'm just crap with this kinda thing!) :P
I have a little bit of a grasp of things, but if someone out there is pretty slick with XML, maybe they can point me in a good direction. I'm having issues understanding how I can define objects - especially adult objects, do they have to contain the same fields? - and how XML is brought into HTML documents or Flash files. I know how I'd do the same task in Director with global variables and such, but when it comes to XML (whether HTML or Flash-based) I'm a little lost. :( [/i]
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| Decisions decisions.... |
| 06.07.04 (7:22 pm) [edit] |
[i]I have spent all day alternating between work and not-working, with the latter being the predominant leaning. I’m sure every time my Boss or Section manager has walked by, I was doing nothing. But I guess I was super-lazy cos I didn’t get any lunch, even tho I attempted to. And now I’m fucking STARVING... all my fault really just drank too much freaking coffee this morning!. :evil:
I‘m trying to stay late so that the Boss thinks I’m staying to make up for my inadequate days performance (which is probably not fooling him in any way at all). And I know it will take forever to get home because the traffic usualkly is choca-block at this time of the day.
Do you ever say no to someone and then feel bad afterward? Brad asked me to do one of the monthly surveys today and it was really hard for me to tell him that I wouldn’t. I have to say that I’m not actually part of the surveying group, cos I handed it over to him. And I’m still feeling icky about it.
I’m annoyed because it’s his job. Yes, I could fit it in but I’ve handed responsibility of it over to him and Manny. I’m annoyed because I asked if he shouldn’t plan for this last week and he said yes, and he did fuck all!!. And then he didn’t even give me the courtesy of giving me forewarning. Hey, if someone’s going to do you a favor, shouldn’t you make it easier for them? Maybe tell them the day before? Maybe they’re busy too? So I don’t know why I feel bad. but there’s just summin abt turning someone down ... especially as I have done fuck all the whole day!!. :oops:
Well he'll get over it I guess, but you guys shoulda seen the look on his face when I said no.... I get the feeling he thought I'd do it for sure! Hopefully, he'll plan better next time.. the only thing is the silly muppet has to get it in by midday tomorrow. So, should I help him out? :? [/i]
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| Caffeine Overdose!! |
| 06.07.04 (2:33 pm) [edit] |
[i]So tired, so sleepy. Must be stimulated. Caffeine shd do the trick. Or so I thought!! :roll: Six cups of the evil stuff later and I'm all light-headed and feeling high! Ooops!! :oops:
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Found this caffeinated sweatshirt @ :http://www.thinkgeek.com/caff... in my search for a picture to depict my recent caffeine addiction. I think it’s surprisingly cool(especially as it's associated with the word “geek”). Too bad I won’t spend $37 on it though!! :P
Some caffeine, some quality blogging, a few excellent jokes, a bit of banter and I feel a little better prepared to get going. A tad jittery, perhaps, but hey, I’ll pretend it’s an illegal high..... :P
Len told us this joke today:
[b]What’s the difference between a golf ball and a g-spot?
Men will spend twenty minutes looking for a golf ball.[/b] :D
I need some fresh air and some food.. I'm off!![/i]
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| At Work, not working... |
| 06.07.04 (12:09 pm) [edit] |
[i]Got back from London in the early hours this morning and ended up only having abt 3 hrs sleep, so I'm seriously on the caffeine drive this morning. I'm on my 5th cup of the stuff! It seems like the mini-vacation AND the weekend haven't quite worn off. I dont feel like doing any work today and THUS, I have done no work so far. Okay, okay, I checked my email and sent one response to my boss. Otherwise, I've been working on a new site design and trying to outsmart Photoshop. Guess who's winning? (Not me I can tell ya! ) :roll:
But here's the nice thing about today: I dont actually mind being here at work. I just didn't feel like going out on site at all. The weather is gorgeous and if I went out, I might never come back..... I guess tomorrow I'll have to crack the whip, to catch up on any backlog . Hmm, that kinda sounds naughty. :twisted: :D
So I back in charming ol Newcastle, the w/end is over and I'm back at work but doing no work. That abt sums it up so far... ahh! and the copious amounts of coffee I have consumed so far today. Howz your day going? I'm off to catch up on some blogs... didnt get much of a chance this w/end. :wink: [/i]
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| This week's Unconscious Musings..... |
| 06.06.04 (6:21 pm) [edit] |
[i]Just wanted to leave you with some of my wacky musings for the day. Picked all the words from the Newspapers today(you can see I was stimulated by them!) :P ... and the right-hand side is what sprang to mind when I thought of them!![/i]
[b]*Finale :: Wimbledon
*Martial arts :: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
*Flirt :: Yes, I am.
*Energy :: Red Bull
*Flavour :: Of the month
*Guess? :: Who ... Clap for the Matthers :lol:
*Accomplishment :: Piano recitals
*Prom :: Dinner, date, dance
*Diploma :: My wallpaper
*Bloody :: Hell!
*Lover :: Don Juan *blush* :oops:
*Ridiculous :: Grin on my face
*Oscar :: Performance
*Tennis :: You're joking, right?...
*Account Balance :: Solid
*Hickey :: Teenager
*License :: To kill
*Breathmints :: Curiously strong
*TexMex :: Yummy...
*Stepmother :: Evil [/b]
[i]Any you'd change or any witty/funny ones you can come up with? Knock yourself out and leave ya comments! :P Need to go pack for my drive back to Newcastle... wish I could stay an extra day :( My lil bro's just showed up.... so I'mma have to go anyways. Later peeps :)[/i]
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| Debonair Dude!! |
| 06.06.04 (5:19 pm) [edit] |
[i]Wow!! I now know I'm in the Ultra special clique of bloggers here on tblog. I've had my portrait done by none other than [b]Artist 'extraordinaire'[/b](drum roll please!)... [b]Island Artist[/b]:http://islandartist.tblog.com... who's blog [b]"Thoughts from a Creative Mind"[/b] I recently stumbled across and began to read. So, if you haven't yet joined this very select but elite club.. you'd better put in your request's asap!... And while you're there, have a gander at her wonderful blog which combines witty posts with fantastic art-work. :wink: (Sorry Jen, I just realised I've drummed up more work for you already over-worked fingers!) :lol:
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What a [b]HANDSOME[/b] and [b]ROGUISH[/b] looking devil I am, even if I say so myself! :P Now y'all know what I look like for real... no bullshit!! It's so spooky, such that it's a dang close representation of the real me, altho some artistic licences have been taken. This will take pride of place on my desk once I can blow it up and have it framed. Cheers Jen, you are a star and I really love it!! LMAO! :D
Great job Jen, just great!! ..... [b]Island Artist[/b]ROCKS!! Yay!![/i]
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| Ministry of Sound.... |
| 06.06.04 (3:01 pm) [edit] |
[i]So after watching England thrash Iceland 6-1 in the pub y/day we headed back to relax and chill out for a bit. We weren't decided on what exactly we were gonna be doing in the evening, so Alex checked out a few web sites to see what was happening on the club scene. We eventually plumped for the [b]Ministry of Sound[/b] :http://www.ministryofsound.co... or [b]MoS[/b] as it's better known in London.
Last night was awesome! We kicked off by heading to a quaint little pub in Gloucester Road SW london called the "Black Widow" for cocktails..... I tried out all of the "7 deadly sins" cocktails..... was really cheap too. For London and that area... at £8.95/jug, it was a bargain! :wink:
MoS, has a fairly relaxed dress code.. so I was there in a pair of jeans and a shirt. Did I tell y'all I was an ace dancer? Well, I am.. and I was strutting my stuff last night like a peacock! :P The "House" music was ace, and atmosphere was superb! We all had a great time. Bumped into a group of nurses who were on a night out.
Let's just say, a few bottles of champagne later and whispered words, a few of them were doing a bit more than checking pulses if you know what I mean? :wink: Altho a gentleman never tells... I'll say this much, I learnt a few medical terms in between smooches.... but seeing as I've kinda out-grown one-night stands.. that was all that occurred. (Honest!!) :P
Woke up this morning... rather late and am abt to go get some lunch before my trip back later on. [i]
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| "They died that we might live.." |
| 06.06.04 (1:11 pm) [edit] |
[i]Sixty years to the day, allied soldiers began the biggest ever military operation the world had ever and has ever since seen. This was for the liberation of Europe, and it was called operation [b]"OVERLORD"[/b]. Thousands of men from different nations around the world died in WW II, BUT none will be more rememebered for their bravery, patriotism, and will to succeed than the brigades of men that attacked the German defences on the beaches of Normandy on June 6th 1944.
In my small way I pay tribute and homage, to all those men dead and alive who fought that we might live in a free and united world. My grandfather fought in the war too, in the deserts of North Africa.... I salute you too Gramps! :D
In a far and distant field in Normandy, France... a young soldiers gravestone has etched into it, the words [b]"He died that we might live"[/b]
[b]Thx you all for the sacrifice![/b] [/i]
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| London calling!! |
| 06.05.04 (3:18 pm) [edit] |
[i]I love immediate gratification. Lunch at [b]Matsuri[/b]:http://www.london-eating.co.u... with Phil and some friends. Yum-yum!! The food was fantastic, if a little expensive... but who cares right?! :D I've missed London. :wink:
Drove down this morning, got here around 11am and headed to my lil bro's to shower and change. Meet up with my mate Phil and we decided to go visit our old Sushi/Japanese haunt Matsuri down by Green Park. Met up with Mand (short for Amanda), Collette, Matthew (yes I know, another one!) and Alex. The food was just like I remembered it.... delicious!! (still licking my lips, even as I type) :P
So I'm watered and fed, now we are off to the pub to watch the England Vs Iceland match which kicks off in 15mins or so (3.30pm) So I've gotta dash, just wanted to touch base with y'all, hope you are all having a fun filled w/end, cos I am ..... :wink: I'll be back a bit later to blog some more. Peace out peeps :D [/i]
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| Tidbits before I go... |
| 06.04.04 (7:50 pm) [edit] |
[i] I'm off home now peeps, the bastards still haven't sorted out my leaving date yet. If I were paranoid, I'd think this is intentioanlly being done by my boss as pay-back for all the crap I given him over the past few months. The thing is, I'm at the end of my tether(sp?) and am likely to lash out at someone.... (my boss being the likely candidate) very soon!! :evil:
So here's some tidbits for you to peruse....[/i]
[b]How to clean anything[/b]
As someone who was incredibly daunted by the soaking baking tray by the sink this morning, I’m going to make a note of How to Clean Anything:http://howtocleananythin g.com... I made french toast this morning. I’m patting myself on the back..... while I try to blank out the mess I left in my wake :(
[b]Farty information[/b]
I learned a lot of really cool stuff from this page of Facts on Farts:http://www.heptune.com/farts.... (I’m a teeny bit farty right now. Maybe it’s from last night’s dessert, or this afternoon's chicken and mushroom pie.) :P
[b]Evil google.[/b]
I’ve always basically believed that Google were genuine about their “don’t be evil” credo, despite occasional growing pains and stuff-ups. Now, however, I’m wondering if it’s really a smokescreen for something far more sinister… 666 *shivers*
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[i]So that's me done for today, I'mma have to luv y'all and leave ya to it. Have a great w/end one and all... and make sure you blog abt it when we resume normal service on Monday. Might be off to London tomorrow, so not sure if I'll be back till Sunday night at the earliest, but if I am away till then I'll be thinking of y'all :wink: [/i]
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| Words Galore! |
| 06.04.04 (7:08 pm) [edit] |
[i]I have entry/post topics in my head but my fingers are not in the mood to let them out. I’m avoiding work by looking up randomly interesting words in the [b]OED[/b]..... (Oxford English Dictionary for all you plebs who didn't know what that stood for!) :P I‘d link to them but I’m pretty sure you need a subscription.[/i]
[b]“Neatify”[/b] is an actual word but apparently obscure. It means pretty much what it sounds like.
Another odd but useful word is [b]“naze”[/b] which is a promontory, headland, or cape.
[b]“Neato”[/b] is in the OED. (Yes, I’m in the N’s.)
Now, [b]“nef”[/b] could really only be useful in Scrabble, cos when in conversation will you find a need for a word describing [b]“a table ornament in the shape of a ship, usually made of intricately worked silver and originally used to hold condiments, table napkins, etc"[/b].?
I have to admire the term [b]“neo-Lamarckism”[/ b] for it’s current redundancy. Although the OED uses a quote from 1997, from this point in time, couldn’t you just heap all Lamarckian theory into one time?
I had no idea that such a thing as a [b]“nephoscope”[/b]ex isted to [b]“determine the direction of motion of clouds and their angular velocity relative to a given point on the ground”.[/b]
If [b]“neatify”[/b] didn’t do it for you, maybe [b]“nicefy”[/b] will suit?
Oooh!, here’s a good Scrabble word: [b]niqab[/b]. It’s a [b]“veil worn by some Muslim women, covering all of the face and having two holes for the eyes”[/b].
[b]“Nork”[/b] is a word to be used more often. After all, it rhymes with [b]“fork”[/b] and [b]refers to a woman’s breast. Hmm, I wonder if I’ve heard Rolf Harris use it before (since it’s Australian)[/b]. :P
And to polish off, if you find yourself in need of a word to describe [b]“the study of public elections and statistical analysis of trends in voting”[/b], then I give you [b]“psephology”[/b].
[i]Sad I know... but what's one to do if they are bored? eh? :P [/i]
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| The Friday Five... |
| 06.04.04 (4:42 pm) [edit] |
[i]If you…
[b]1. …owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?[/b]
I can only imagine a variety of comfort food including Annie’s Shells & Cheese with petite peas tucked inside, (Sounds great dont it?!) bread pudding, seafood barbeque, Tillamook ice cream, apple pie made with Granny smith's apples, really thick white clam chowder, lasagne, and fresh baked bread. Things would be served on plain, heavy white platters (unless a bowl is required) on thick, rough cotton tablecloths. There would be music VERY SOFTLY playing on speakers so that people could have conversations without raising their voices. And you could pay by credit card, cheque or cash. Or wash dishes if you so wish. :P
[b]2. …owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?[/b]
Books. And movies. Probably DVDs. Hmm, maybe I would make it into a paperbacks-only store. I’d have special sales in which you pay by weight instead of by individual book. And there would be at least one large TV screen (for sports of course!). And comfy places to sit and read an entire book that you’re too cheap to buy. :lol:
[b]3. …wrote a book, what genre would it be?[/b]
Good. High quality. Entertaining yet thoughtful. Hmm, romance/erotica maybe? Or book that tells you how to grow some balls. (They say that those who can’t, teach....) :P
[b]4. …ran a school, what would you teach?[/b]
Teach? I thought people who ran schools were too busy to teach? I don’t think I could teach anything. Unless it was something like [b]'cynicism'[/b] or [b]'how to get away with doing as little as possible'[/b]. Does that count? I know Scubadiva could join me in the former....
[b]5. …recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?[/b]
Oooow, this is great! I’m currently in the process of writing my first hit single, [b]"F&*k You, Mr........" [/b](Tribute to my boss!) It will be of the rap/hip-hop genre. This is to be followed up by a hard rock tribute to [b]'road rage'[/b] and then a soppy ballad in the grand tradition of soul bands abt [b]"blogging"[/b]. I haven’t written those yet. I’m working on "Fuck You, Mr......" And if I don’t get enough songs from these efforts, my new band, [b]"Mather's Crew"[/b], will be performing covers of songs from [b]D12[/b] and [b]Wu tang clan[/b].
Go on, let's see what your answers would be... dont be shy peeps!! :D [/i]
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| Random Car thoughts... |
| 06.04.04 (3:54 pm) [edit] |
[i]I do great thinking in my car. This doesn’t happen too often because I’m usually listening to my music at full blast. And the actual percentage of "genius thoughts" among my many "un-Mensa-worthy thoughts" are pretty few and far between.
[b]* But today, I came up with the perfect vanity licence plate: MAT 2 GR8. :P
* Lately, I’ve been wondering about dogs in cars. It’s pretty well known that dogs like to ride in cars and stick their heads out the windows. I’ve never been a dog owner so this may seem like a non-question, but don’t their eyes dry out? Don’t they keep their eyes open? And doesn’t that dry the eyes out? Or do they actually close their eyes and only open them at stops? And do cats ever do this? (Dog lovers like Lynne, and Cat owners like Scubs, SunnyC, & Kraze... answers expected)
* A life lived in fear is a life half lived. Why are we so afraid to live life to the fullest and damn the consequences?
* When I'm with a gurl I like, it's hard for me to say anything cool, or witty — or at all. I can usually make a few vowel sounds, and then I have to go away. But on the phone, internet, in a letter.... I'm Don Juan..... what's all that abt? :?
* I didn’t get enough sleep last night because after my exercise and a shower, I told myself that I would pay my bills and go to bed. Unfortunately, my "dumbass" side took over and decided to play spider solitaire, pay bills and then go to bed...... but thenI went to work a little on the two weekend-old crossword puzzle. Suffice to say I slept late.... why do I do that? :shock: [/b]
Those are the few I could remember from my drive into work this morning..... I'm a bit of a weirdo atimes aren't I? :roll: :lol: [/i]
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| It's Friday again! |
| 06.04.04 (11:29 am) [edit] |
[i]I’ve been remiss in the dull cataloging of my life. It’s not simply that it’s dull. It’s that it seems to have gotten mysteriously busier. Occasionally I find myself shouting that there aren’t enough hours in one day or that sleep should be rendered unnecessary. But I don’t see my to-do list getting any shorter, even though I seem to be doing more!.
I think the main problem here is that I’ve been WORKING. A lot. Perhaps even more than my job description accounts for. I’ve been working OVERTIME which I am not eligible to be paid for. I have not been slacking off as much as my body demands. Every three days or so, I have a crashy day at work in which I have to fit in the mandatory five hours of slack time and the not-so-mandatory-but-more -important five hours of work time.
I keep trying to get back on the "metaphorical" exercise wagon too. You know how articles and advice are always going on about how you can find one hour in your day to go exercise? Well, it’s a bunch of cogswallop!! (Crap!! for those who didn't get that)! :P Last night, I did 32 minutes of cycling (notice how I know exactly how many minutes I spent?.... that's cos it nearly killed me!). Easy for some right? Well not for muah!! :evil:
Well, what about the 30 minutes of driving to go to and from my favorite cycling spot? There aren't any safe spots near my apartment. What about the ten minutes of stretching to recover from the cycling and the THREE flights of stairs to my apartment? What about the five minutes spent guzzling water into my fluid-deprived body? And I haven’t even taken the freaking shower into account! :roll: Exercise is just so over-rated!! It takes hours to get thru it!! :roll:
Last night was my club meeting..... you know.. "The Thursday Evening Drinking Club" (read archives for details!), but didn't go cos I suddenly got the exercise bug.... well, I'll be there next week without fail! I cant believe I gave up a 'session' for my bicycle!! What was I thinking? :? And dammit, now I have to do some work again. I don’t even have enough time to consume my caffeine with proper reserve. I have to guzzle it like any old soft drink. There must be some mysterious force at work, stealing seconds from my minutes......
Anybody else feel like there aren't enough seconds, minutes or hours in the day? :? [/i]
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| Anti-Atkins!! |
| 06.03.04 (4:32 pm) [edit] |
[i]I’m anti-Atkins. In fact, I’m pretty damn pro-carb. But this has nothing to do with how I feel about a man suing for arterial clogging due to the Atkins diet:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com...%20Atkins%20Suit No, this is about how I am [b]ANTI-STUPID[/b].
And I’m sad that I missed National Carb Awareness Day. For god’s sake, man, why didn’t you stop eating that shit after the first two months? What the hell were you thinking? And although I am not terribly informed on the Atkins diet, I’m sure that there is nothing about eating a lot of bacon-wrapped cheeseburgers! Stupid people, ARGH! Get a freaking life!! :evil:
What a f*&king joke!! :evil: [/i]
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| An earthquake or summin.... |
| 06.03.04 (2:38 pm) [edit] |
[b]Is anybody bored today? I am. And it’s that little kid kind of bored in which you whine but don’t want to take anyone’s suggestions for things to do.
I’m sure that if I opened up the “work” part of my brain that some task or activity would become apparent but I don’t have to, so I’m not gonna. :P
I’m contemplating answering email. From January.... cos it’s only fair that people get answered in the order their emails were received.
Apparently, I have also lost my ability to construct actual paragraphs with one topic per paragraph. BUT! I have not lost my ability to talk about myself. Can’t seem to stop.
I'm so bored......today would be a good day for an earthquake or summin. Cos at least, it would fit into my schedule nicely. (I know I am a sick puppy right?!) :P[/b]
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| From Friends To Lovers... |
| 06.03.04 (11:38 am) [edit] |
[i]Hey peeps, it's a funny ol' day up here in Newcastle... the weather is just being funny, one minute showers the next the sun breaks out from behind the clouds... I just wish it'd make it's mind up... if it wants to rain go ahead, and if it wants to remain dry then please just stay dry gawd dammit!! :roll: Got to work this morning, (in my car btw! :P... no more buses!) and have been told I have a meeting for 4.30pm, hopefully I finally get to know what's going on as per my move! Yay!! :D
As a side issue, Dave came by last night to catch up. (he was the guy that was interested in Josie ...a friend). He's finally decided he wants to ask her out, but just doesn't know how to go abt it. I said just go ahead and be straight with her... tell her how you feel and wait for her reply. Good advice, right?.....em.. No!! Apparently other friend's think he shd do it in a more subtle way!! Crickey!! they are friends after all, what's there to be subtle abt?? :?
I just think that when it comes time to search for the right way to express your innermost feelings to someone you respect, admire and have now come to love don't let doubt and insecurity get in your way. For most people it shouldn't be too hard to just be honest and tell her how you feel. Like I told him last night, "confronting Josie may result in possibly losing the value of your friendship. On the other hand, the result could be something dreams are made of. The only real fact is that there's only one sure way to find out. When you're ready to take the plunge, find the right angle that's perfect for you...."
Any of you guys got any tips and advice from your own experiences that I can sling his way? I'm sure he'd appreciate it! :wink: [/i]
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| Cameron Diaz's G-String!! |
| 06.02.04 (8:44 pm) [edit] |
[u][b]While filming the new Harry Potter film[/b][/u]:http://harrypotter.warnerbros...
[i]…during filming, when [director Alfonzo] Cuaron needed [Daniel] Radcliffe to convey the proper look of astonishment, he took his young charge aside and coached: [b]"Pretend you're seeing Cameron Diaz in a G-string."[/b] ([b]Cuaron[/b]: "It worked. I'll let audiences guess what shot it is. I don't want everyone thinking about Cameron Diaz in a G-string.").....
I know I would look astonished..... I'll be watching out for that particular clip, never you worry!! :P
PS! You didn't actually think I had Cameron's G-string on my blog did you? Perverts!! :P[/i]
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| "Day after tomorrow and trailers....." |
| 06.02.04 (6:15 pm) [edit] |
[i]I got back home last night from seeing Roland Emmerich's latest death, doom, and destruction lovefest: The Day After Tomorrow. The verdict? Surprisingly, not nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be, as long as you keep in mind that it's your typical summer disaster movie, big on special effects, and short on plausible plot.
Three trailers caught my eye while I was waiting for The Day After Tomorrow: http://thedayaftertomorro w.co... to start. [/i]
[b]Collateral[/b][i]:http://apple.com/trailers/dre... Tom Cruise finally loses the floppy in-the-face haircut, gains a more hard-edged look, and becomes a bad guy. Not sure one way or the other right now, but it didn't get dismissed immediately.[/i]
[b]Alexander[/b][i]:http://apple.com/trailers/wb/... Oliver Stone biopic of Alexander the Great. I love to waffle back and forth on Oliver Stone's films, but I'm betting that at the very least, he'll be able to churn something out that's both more entertaining and more accurate than Troy ended up being. Besides, the cast list (Colin Farrell, Jared Leto, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer) looks pretty decent, and I'm just happy about seeing Val Kilmer showing up in something again.[/i]
[b]The Stepford Wives[/b][i]:http://apple.com/trailers/par... Sure, this one's been on my radar for a while now, but this is the first time I'd actually seen a full trailer. Having done so, I have to admit, I'm a lot less trepidatious about the film than I was before. Not only does presenting it as a comedy rather than as a thriller look more likely, but I noticed quite a few shots in the trailer that look to be practically lifted directly from the original movie, so they're apparently making an attempt to respect the original film version, rather than just reworking the original novel entirely from scratch. Definitely encouraging. :wink:
Anybody seen [b]The Day After Tomorrow[/b] yet? :? [/i]
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| Insanity on the bus. |
| 06.02.04 (5:06 pm) [edit] |
[i]Hey peeps, Wednesday afternoon and this is my first chance to log on today. I swear they're trying to over-work me nowadays just cos they know I'm leaving soon (If it ever happens...) Anyway, I wont let the bastards get me down!! :P So I wanted to gist y'all abt a really bizzare experience I had on the bus today (I had to take my car in for a MOT — vehicle inspection for all you that dont get that..)
I didn't take much notice of her when she sat down next to me on the bus. It was a busy morning, there were only so many open seats available, so a sudden seatmate wasn't really that much of a surprise, and anyway I was listening to my iPod.
I was a bit taken aback when she poked my arm to get my attention, though. I put my iPod on pause and popped out the headphones to see what she wanted. Unfortuantely, I couldn't make head or tail of what she was saying. I did rather quickly manage to pick up one very pertinent piece of information, though.
[b]"This girl was stoned out of her mind. Absolutely blitzed!!."[/b] And whatever she was on, I'm pretty sure it was a lot stronger than anything I ever seen used in my more adventurous days. (Not that I did anything.... just what I observed!) :P
For the rest of the trip, she sat next to me, talking to herself (and occasionally to me, though very rarely did I actually catch any intelligible words), inflection bouncing up and down the scale as she asked and then answered her own questions, and occasionally bursting into a sudden fit of giggles. At one stage I did consider changing seats, cos you hear abt weirdo's like this all the time....
At one point, after examining the cigarette she was holding in one hand, she dug into her pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes. Opening the pack, she slid the one she'd been waving around into the pack, and pulled out a fresh one. Replacing the pack, she then opened a side pocket on her purse, and pulled out a small brown glass bottle.
She unscrewed the cap, extracted a small applicator stick, and proceeded to smear some rather foul-smelling substance along the length of the cigarette she'd just taken out. Once the cigarette was quite covered and soaked in whatever was in the bottle, she capped it, put it back in her purse, and resumed her private little monologue.
I haven't really got a clue what was in the bottle, but I'm guessing that I've just had my first close encounter with "smokin' stix"(as it is refered to in the US, cos it was stunk beyond belief). Hopefully my last, too — that stuff smelled foul. :evil: I eventually got off the bus and left her to it, but y'all know I'm getting a freaking taxi home tonight... no more public transport for me!! :shock: :evil: [/i]
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| 100 Most naturally beautiful women... |
| 06.01.04 (7:28 pm) [edit] |
[i]A "panel of experts" (beauty and fashion editors, make-up artists, model agencies and photographers) has just released a list of the [b]"Top 100 most naturally beautiful women"[/b]:http://theage.com.au/articles...
Here's the top 10, in reverse order (just pretend the numbers count from 10 to 1 instead of from 1 to 10) :
[b]10. Elle MacPherson
9. Helena Christensen
8. Halle Berry
7. Juliette Binoche
6. Natalie Imbruglia
5. Grace Kelly
4. Angelina Jolie
3. Cate Blanchett
2. Liv Tyler
1. Audrey Hepburn[/b]
I don't agree with all of the list (Liv Tyler at #2?) :shock: was pleasantly surprised at some of it (hooray for putting Cate Blanchett in the top ten — while I've often thought that she's gorgeous, she has a somewhat odd [angular?] look that some people I've talked to don't appreciate as much).halle Berry was also an outstanding choice in the top 10, but putting Audrey Hepburn in the number one spot? Well.......
That is so, so, so absolutely perfect.
(Swoons… for a minute!) :P
Personally, though, I'd knock Liv entirely off the top ten and put Katie Holmes in her place..... and there is my sweetheart ....... who should be in it too!! (Didn't think I was actually gonna tell y'all who my sweetheart was did you? Yeah right!!) :P What happened to Nicole Kidman too... think she is a beauty too.... and they call themselves experts?! :roll:
What say yea abt the top 100 most naturally beautiful women in the world? Hmmm?! :? [/i]
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