Well, we've all come to the end of another year. I'm not a great believer in celebrating everything (and believe me, it won't be a celebration in a literal sense for me - just a great, big milestone in that I'm glad I'm alive at the end of). 

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I didn't mean to post two entries today, but seeing as I was originally intending to post it at 2:30am this morning, I guess it wouldn't have made much of a difference. Thanks to Vista's incredibly intelligent idea of restarting my computer as soon as I tried to uninstall a simple program, without giving me any sort of forewarning whatsoever, it obviously did not happen.

Labels: angryface, bad, hair, metaphor, rebellious, sucks, vista, wtf

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Dear Everyone,

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lol. I got a new stove top. No - my family got a new stove top. I'm not abled enough. I've got to say though, they are spiffffffy little things. The old one got pretty handicapped; of the four hot plate thingies, we could only change the temperature of one while all the others were stuck on the hottest setting, and with one of them, one of the heat elements had broken so it would only do half the job.

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Hidyho. 

Labels: etc., hate, idiots, msn, names, seriously, skanks, slut, yucky

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Hoai Go-uies.

I've decided that I will (she said, with strength and resolve, knowing full well that her commitment levels are so low, she could probably not commit to not committing) go on an internet hiatus in a short while. No, I do not wish to be participating in an internet "hiatus fad", but really, I'm feeling pretty FREAKING APATHETIC, and I deem that I will be for the rest of the holidays. As I mentioned before, I probably will not go on this said hiatus because I've promised myself that I will. I don't know. We shall see.

On other news though, I got a new dbass today! Some people are probably thinking, my god! spoilt (demon) child! I have reason! Hear me out. Okay, after some extensive research on the cost of "renting" a double bass (I don't like that word), my mother an I have discovered that it costs, approximately, on average $100 dollars (give or take maybe about $99) a MONTH. On the other hand, on a spiffy (risk taking, life threatening, heart wrenching, advantage taking) internet website like ebay, it costed me around $550 to buy it. Hmm... rent for 6 months, or buy it and smite the stores the moment I find out that the instrument isn't that shit, get my money's worth + much more? Anyway, I'll try post pictures (yeah, I know I never do) soon/most probably never.

Oh well. I've got lots of things to complain about so you can await my future posts. (see what this planned hiatus is doing to me??)

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Hey Guys,

I'm moving to LJ soon [when I can be bothered].

Hopefully by the time that I do, they'll have been able to develop a function where you can syncronise blogs and stuff. But if I move before they do, I'll just copy and paste it to both blogs. 

Other news though, on the 17th of December, 2008, I'll have had this blog site for exactly a month. To date, I've been visited by over 13 countries (at least) over 5 continents. If someone from Africa and Antartica would very kindly like to come land on my blog in the next 2 days or so, I'll be more justly able to say that I have been visited by people from all over the world. As of the last time I checked about two days ago, I have had 98 profile views. Again, if any African/Antartican/Afro-Antartican would like to jump onto my profile, hopefully your existance will double of importance to me. - just kidding. So yeah, I'm hoping to reach 100 by the 17th, so my life will be a little bit more complete than it is at the moment. 

I'm feeling really awful at the moment, so please don't expect me to be making any decent posts any time soon. I know it's a horrible trade off for me to hope that people to be looking at my stuff while I'm moping about but gahhh. I feel like crap. 

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Hey Guys. 

Sorry I haven't been blogging lately. It's the holidays (yeah, the 2 month ones), so nothing much ever really happens to me during this time of year. 

It's almost 2 o'clock in the morning, and I'm just sitting here on my own downstairs, surfing the internet with the tv on and my dog dreaming away. She gets quite active in her dreams. It's the funniest thing. 

Anyway, if any of you use youtube regularly (or infrequently, either way), you might have noticed the little "Youtube Symphony Orchestra" icon in the lower right corner of most pages. Now, I've seen this icon for about a month now, and I've always wanted to explore it, but up until now, there's always been something that's been stopping me. Tonight though, I finally plucked up the resolve to click on it, and it's probably one of the most exciting ideas/projects I've ever had the fortune of coming across! Basically, it's setting out to have a bunch of about 100 people from all across the world to come together to create one epic symphony orchestra. I'm reaaally hoping to participate in this, even if it's just to audition and get some feedback from them, it's really got me jumping in my seat. 

So, I really want to audition on my double bass. However, there's a smal hiccup in all this, in that I'M NOT CURRENTLY IN THE POSSESSION OF A BASS AT THE MOMENT. Gah. Entries for the audition due in by the 28th of January, 2009. The music isn't too hard (well, I'd have to practise it, for sure), but yeah... boo for Vivien. I don't think that the orchestra would be of like, ultimate professional standard, but they're saying that they're considering people of all ages, professional or amateur. I'm hoping that there won't be much competition amongst the double basses, and I'm really thinking that there wouldn't be anyway, because this opportunity is only open to everyone aware of it who can play an instrument, which kind of narrows it down a little bit, and then of all those youtubers, I'm not sure that an entirely large percentage of them would play the bass. And then, of all the people who can play the bass, I'm not sure if they would all be able to play it like, awesomely 'cause you know, it is youtube (kidding), and I'm not sure how many professional musicians would go wasting their time searching on youtube for an opportunity to be part of the world's first international symphony orchestra.

Haha. 

Anyways, If you're reading this, and you're a musician, HAVE A GO! You have nothing to lose, and imagine the prospect of being chosen to be a part of it. It's a world first, and you'd be part of music history forever. 

Here's the link: www.youtube.com/user/symphony.    <-- GO.

Peace, dudes. I love you.

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Ok so on the news today, (oh this made the headlines by the way), AUSTRALIAN KIDS ARE DUMB, PARTICULARLY QUEENSLAND ONES. So this has called for all the political awe to seize this opportunity to improve their poor public image and conduct an "education review". Ok whatever, so here in Australia we're fat and lazy. That's not new. Having been overseas and all, everything in seems too easy for us. Good wage, standard of living, workplace unions - we've got it pretty good here. Australia always seemed to lack motivation anyway.

Then I hear that countries like England, US, Russia and Kazakhstan all did better than Queensland. Ok, still fine with me, but then as I watch on, there is an interview with a professor of some sort, and the news reader asks something along the lines of, "So, why has a country like Australia been out-performed by Kazakhstan?" That's just nasty. Then I periodically flick to other channels and each one, within 5 minutes of me watching it, flashes up with a news headline saying almost exactly the same thing: "Australia, beaten by Kazakhstan." It's like they're saying, "Oh shit, I can't believe some dirt like Kazahkstan beat us."

WHAT MAKES AUSTRALIA ANY BETTER THAN KAZAKHSTAN? EVIDENTLY, THEY'RE SMARTER THAN US, AND THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT DICKHEADS LIKE US. :@:@.

Fucking sore losers. It makes me so angry.

I don't even understand why they expect us to be any way else. With government advertisements selling the message to kids that you can earn more as a tradesman than taking a university pathway (I'm pretty sure the term for it is "fostering everybody's talents" - we're not all good at academics. [Clearly]), I don't see why we wouldn't all want to labour away. Seriously, they have nothing to complain about. Shove it back into your frack trap Australia.

Labels: Australia, dickheads, education, intelligience, Kazakhstan, maths, results, school, science

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Just 'Things' this time:

- I have a terrible habit of throwing non-disposable, eating utencils into the bin! I've done it twice in three days now... It makes me sad. 

- I actively use Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer for web browsers, and I really, really need help to choose one which I can get into the habit of exclusively using. Personally, I find Internet Explorer boring and slow, I prefer the appearance of Google Chrome (i.e. the colour scheme of the whole brower, the links bar, and the 'most visited' home page, quite similar to the Opera speed dial function, except Chrome has the links and the speed dial-like function, so Chrome wins in that department), but Chrome doesn't use the standard Java etc., so you have to install all the required plug-ins and other stuff like that, so that's really annoying. Oh and another thing with Chrome is that when you save pictures and things using Chrome, it changes the file type, which means that most other programs have difficulty viewing them. It's at these moments when I turn to Opera. They have a similar interface (but I still like the colour scheme of Chrome better), so I guess I use it with reluctance. Opera is definitely more reliable. Yeah. Then I guess I just use Internet Explorer to get things that the other ones can't access because of browser security allowance issues and the like. Anyway, I've been told many times that Firefox is really, really good, and I also want to use that too, so I'm just torn... Gah. Please help?

- I want to play Purge! It sounds like such a brilliant game :(. All the descriptions say it's the "devine war. science-fiction versus fantasy; technology versus magic; science versus religion." Come on. Is that not the most ultimate, everything-you-could-ever-wish-for video game?? But guess what? Oh no. I can't, ["because The Man ruined that with a little thing called MTV!"] 'cause it's a multiplayer game, and there isn't anyone to play online with me. :@:@ (Harry Harry, please for some odd reason, be reading this.)

- I have horrible ligaments :(. I'm sure my kneecap is moving around, and they hurt like mad. 

- Do you ever get the feeling that there're two of you? Whenever I look in the mirror, I always feel like the person looking back at me is another person, except this person is my "perfect friend" She understands me, you know? She can justify everything I do and everything I want to do. It's like, I can tell her anything that happens to me, but she already knows, and she still listens anyway. Sometimes, I like to think she looks back at me, and when I smile, she smiles back, and it's the most reassuring smile on the planet. They seem to say, "Haha. You'll be fine." ... Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I have a brain aneurysm. Hope not. 

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Okay, so ever since the concert, I've had a little bit of a Joel-craze-ish phase. You know, listening to all his songs, googling him and his personal life etc. etc. Well anyway, being a proud user of imbd.com (the internet movie database [but of course, I've just proved that it goes beyond movies]), I looked around for the name of his current wife. Entering the 'Trivia' section of the site, I scanned the page, discovered a couple of pretty cool things about him, chuckled at some of the funny, yet wise and true things that he's said and kindled a want to see the musical: 'Movin' Out'. 

Sooner or later, I reached the bottom of the page, and there was a little subsection titled "People Viewing This Page May Also Be Interested In These Other Sponsered Links". Here's what it listed below, and what I thought as I read each one (in italics):

- Free Billy Joel Music (Oh, isn't that nice?)

- Kylie Minogue's IQ = 113 (Wait, isn't that the same as George Bush, Kevin Rudd and that slightly confused little girl in the high chair with spaghetti all over her face?)

- 1 Rule of a Flat Stomach/"How to Lose Stomach Fat" (WHAT?! SO YOU THINK THAT BILLY JOEL ENTHUSIASTS ARE LARGER/FATTER/MORE OBESE THAN FANS OF OTHER INTERESTS?!) [I loaded it twice, and evidently, they provided similar results]

In any case, I was self conscious and outraged! So I dealt with it by writing a blog :). 

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LAST NIGHT, I WENT AND SAW THE BEST, FREAKING MAN ON THE PLANET.

I've been arguing with myself to blog about this for the past twenty-four hours, but I've been feeling rather shoddy. Anyway, ON WITH THE AWE.

The concert was spectacular! The lights were amazing, somewhat blinding at times but relevant, at that, and gosh, his piano and stool was on a moving platform so that everyone could see him/not see him ("share the shit around", as he says), he was funny and nice, and the MUSIC... the freaking music. He sounded just as good as he did on all his recordings, and I respect him so much more than anyone else for being a "real" musician - ie. he actually understands music, writes music and makes the music. Not some silly technology or composer to performer rubbish. Save that for my arse. Anyway, as I was saying, the music. The artist is only as good as the band behind it. I think I spent way to much time checking out the band than appreciating Mr. Joel though :(. They were cool dudes/chick. It seemed like every one of them could play at least a 3rd instrument, and it seemed like every one of them could play the saxaphone! They were just brilliant too.

God.

Everything was just so surreal! It never really sunk in that I was watching the guy whom I'd been idolising since I was about 6. He was right there in front of me! Flesh, bones and all. Yeah. I didn't even believe it until I nearly cried when he came back out with Piano Man. HE WAS RIGHT THERE. and then he left. :(

Overall, it was pretty much the best freaking concert I'd ever want to go to. Out of 10 stars, I give it 0. Minus 1/2 a star for not playing some of his most beautiful songs, and minus another 9 and 1/2 for ending it. I may not ever go see another one (unless of course Billy Joel does one with more of my favourite songs - a problem easily rectified by one simple, never-ending concert), but I don't particularly mind, because I SAW BILLY JOEL.

Labels: 6 Dec, amazing, billy, billy joel, Boondall, Brisbane, concert, joel, love, spectacular

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So what, if I begin this post the same way I finished my last one, and the same way that Liam did in his video?

I'm edksdlakdghdf. Yeah. You heard me.

My Nearly-Relatives are versing each other in Cooking Mama on the Wii at the moment, and the game is rather funny for onlisteners (as opposed to onlookers) because "Mama" is seems to have a speech impediment. She only has a small range of different phrases up her sleeve, which is fine by me, but she unexplainably mispronounces simple words and says things like:

(written as pronounced by "Mama")
a) O[rl]*ay! (Orlay) - Horray! * the 'rl' has a more emphasis on the 'l' and is like, slurred-ish and not pronounced with the 'o' like in "ore".
b) Dat guhd. - That's good.
c) Exallum! - Excellent!
d) Dair nod mein. - They're not mine! *pronounce the second vowel, but with a little bit of an 'e' sound behind it.

Haha. Cracks me up every time.

On more serious note though, I was helping my friends with their new house today, and it really got me thinking about how much things are changing. Like I just mentioned, them moving homes, me leaving a school that I've been to all my life, starting at QYO etc.... and I've just got a feeling that 2009 will be a generally good year - it better be. Actually, I don't care if the universe it set on making it horrible, I'll do whatever it takes so that I won't go through a '2008' again.

Das ist alles fur jetzt... auf-dauf!

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Dear Montgomery Montgomery,

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Today was a good day.

I went out with a friend and although it was exhausting and uneventful, I felt pretty content when we parted. We saw Big Stan, which was relatively satisfying, however "horrendously unfunny" Margret and David (at the movies) think it is; missed two (yes, two) buses, one of which I justly take the blame for, while the other, was definitely Campbell's fault 'cause he needed to get a bottle of water - "". Although I can't prove that the bus came while he selfishly purchased a refreshment, there was another boy waiting for a bus who was *Asian*, and therefore very, very likely to be going to the same destination as us (affectionately known as Asian Capital), left while we were away. Ok, I'm sure there will be some of you who'll hate me because I made a judgement on someone based on their race, but it wasn't a discriminatorily (in the derogatory sense of the word) racist judgement.

Alright, in affairs of the wonderful world of the internet, I have finally stumbled across a reasonably decent female Youtuber! I am actually really proud of myself, because 'Mememolly' is considerably out of my comfort zone in so many ways - she is female!, and she is not from the UK! Ok, admittedly, a) she's English, and just lives in Canada, and b) when I said "so many ways", I meant one and a half ways. Still, I hate it when I pull this "7 Habits" crap on me.

Anyway, what I really wanted to say about her was: one of her videos really made me think about something. The video was centred around pondering upon the question of whether or not you thought you were anyone's favourite person. I've asked several people from all walks of life, with different interests and from different social groups... and every, single one of them have said no. Of course, everybody "theoretically" should have another favourite person, so "theoretically", most of the world would be a favourite of somebody else's, right? Still, no one believes that they are, so either they really aren't anyone's favourite person, or they're just trying to be modest arseholes.

So basically, as an extension of Molly's question, I just wanted to ask the people out there, three things:

a) Do you believe that you are anyone's favourite person?
b) Do you have a favourite person? and,
c) Would you believe that your favourite person thinks that they are anyone's favourite person?

But yeah, I think it would make sense to answer them in order, and then, I guess, ask your favourite person these same questions...

Food for thought?

I'd appreciate it if you left the answers in a comment... it would answer many questions of mine. And just in case you're in thinking it, no, I am not some sick, horrible human obsessed with the demise of people's hopes for love or friendship etc. - I am merely fascinated by human behaviour, and would actually consider studying it for a career.

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Dear People,

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