Friday, October 27, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
199BONGO
I heard on the radio this morning
about this messaging service available called 199BONGO
were you can sms the name of a person and it will tell you information about them
i haven't tried it myself
and I'm not sure of the accuracy of it
but i think its pretty freaky that some messaging service could have information about you
about this messaging service available called 199BONGO
were you can sms the name of a person and it will tell you information about them
i haven't tried it myself
and I'm not sure of the accuracy of it
but i think its pretty freaky that some messaging service could have information about you
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
RED PAPER CLIP
I was browsing the net during my lunch break, and i came across this interesting article in
www.oneredpaperclip.com
www.oneredpaperclip.com
it is really awsome how this one guy goes from trading a red paper clip and one year later lands a house
is it really possible????? with the net anything's possible now huh
Im so going to give it a go, first though i have to figure out how to use the barter program..i
if anyone has had any success with this let us know
Monday, October 23, 2006
Pedro
This still cracks me up
the movie was a complete let down
but this dance will go down in history
Thursday, October 19, 2006
ABS
i received a job offer from the ABS which i am really excited about, the only thing i have to do now is pass my exams........ i just wanna pass now, dont care so much about a distinction or even a credit, im just so tired of uni, it feels like i have been here for ever. its really exhausting after a while, but now there is light at the end of the tunnel.
the only down side is that the ABS is in Canberra, which really sucks, having lived 10 minutes from the beach practically my whole life, to then move to a place where it is 2.5 hours to the coast is such a huge change. i feel so closed in. But as someone reminded me, there is an awesome Baha'i community there in Canberra which im really looking forward to, for the first time in my husband's and my life we will be in a community were there are other youth which is so exciting. we dont have to travel an hour to go to Baha'i functions and have to turn down invites to go out with friends in the city because of the distance, we can finally have a normal social life YAY
but its Canberra, i mean what do they have??? a national gallery? parliament house? and wait the highlight of the year must be the floral festival !!!!!! YIHOOOOOOOOOO- how many times can you see those attractions - ONCE IS ENOUGH I think.
you know whats really funny, when the ABS sends its info pack they have a huge booklet which they have obviously gone through so much trouble to produce, in order to influence you into thinking that Canberra is an awesome fun filled place to live. didn't really work for me.
so if anyone out there thinks otherwise, please tell me id really like to know, what is so great about Canberra
the only down side is that the ABS is in Canberra, which really sucks, having lived 10 minutes from the beach practically my whole life, to then move to a place where it is 2.5 hours to the coast is such a huge change. i feel so closed in. But as someone reminded me, there is an awesome Baha'i community there in Canberra which im really looking forward to, for the first time in my husband's and my life we will be in a community were there are other youth which is so exciting. we dont have to travel an hour to go to Baha'i functions and have to turn down invites to go out with friends in the city because of the distance, we can finally have a normal social life YAY
but its Canberra, i mean what do they have??? a national gallery? parliament house? and wait the highlight of the year must be the floral festival !!!!!! YIHOOOOOOOOOO- how many times can you see those attractions - ONCE IS ENOUGH I think.
you know whats really funny, when the ABS sends its info pack they have a huge booklet which they have obviously gone through so much trouble to produce, in order to influence you into thinking that Canberra is an awesome fun filled place to live. didn't really work for me.
so if anyone out there thinks otherwise, please tell me id really like to know, what is so great about Canberra
JESUS CAMP
check this trailer for an upcoming movie called Jesus camp
its really stirring
it shows how any religion no matter if its in a "western" or eastern country, it can be completely fanatical
its not a plug for the movie- although i think it would be very interesting to watch
it shows how any religion no matter if its in a "western" or eastern country, it can be completely fanatical
its not a plug for the movie- although i think it would be very interesting to watch
The pastor who is running the camps and indoctrinating the
children- poor little ones
children- poor little ones
This is a link which explains what the movies all about
Monday, October 16, 2006
THE OFFICE
you would think that as a manager, your staff would be a little careful about how they act around you, little cautious, and generally be afraid of their manager and not the other way around... that's cause you haven't met M (i wont use her real name- ill just call her M). She's not mean in the sense that she's rude, makes you feel really small, and is just bitter, but she would scare even the bouncers in the clubs with her bluntness and voice. and what's worse is that I'm her manager and I'm afraid of her (its really not that funny....OK maybe just a little).
she's the data entry lady in the office, and is very organised and meticulous, she works 8 hours a day no more no less, has her lunch at exactly 12.30 every day and comes back to her desk at 1pm without fail, she does the filling every second Friday, and even if there is an earth quake she will not leave until its done. as her manager sometimes if we have a deadline which needs to be undertaken asap i will ask her to put her filling away because it is not very important and help out with the deadline, usually that causes such a fuss, because now i have messed up her precise schedule. (now I'm not sure if its just me, but when my manager says to me we have a deadline usually i rearrange my priorities so that it gets done, i don't yell at my manager, i value my job too much. but hey that might just be me)
her desk is so organised that if you take a pen from her desk she knows which one you have taken and God help you when she unleashes her furry on you because you have messed up her organised desk.
one day she was away and her computer is the only one which links up directly to the colour printer, so normally she save the document you need in colour in the shared drive, send her an e-mail and she prints it for you no problem. But when shes away you either wait till she comes back, or take the risk that she will scream at you for sitting at her desk.
so where was i..... OK so she was away and i had a report to print out, so i log into her computer using my account and do my thing print my report. the next day first thing i feel her eyes on my back and I'm trying to pretend that i don't notice her looking at me, so she puts her arms up and starts waving at me. and then it comes. WHY WERE YOU AT MY DESK ... i look at her and think, why should i be scared I'm her manager, trying to gather all the strength that i have being little and everything, and then i decided I'm going to stand up to her, so in a very assertive voice i told her exactly why i was there, adding for her not to worry cause i didn't eat anything on her desk.
i felt quite proud of myself
she's the data entry lady in the office, and is very organised and meticulous, she works 8 hours a day no more no less, has her lunch at exactly 12.30 every day and comes back to her desk at 1pm without fail, she does the filling every second Friday, and even if there is an earth quake she will not leave until its done. as her manager sometimes if we have a deadline which needs to be undertaken asap i will ask her to put her filling away because it is not very important and help out with the deadline, usually that causes such a fuss, because now i have messed up her precise schedule. (now I'm not sure if its just me, but when my manager says to me we have a deadline usually i rearrange my priorities so that it gets done, i don't yell at my manager, i value my job too much. but hey that might just be me)
her desk is so organised that if you take a pen from her desk she knows which one you have taken and God help you when she unleashes her furry on you because you have messed up her organised desk.
one day she was away and her computer is the only one which links up directly to the colour printer, so normally she save the document you need in colour in the shared drive, send her an e-mail and she prints it for you no problem. But when shes away you either wait till she comes back, or take the risk that she will scream at you for sitting at her desk.
so where was i..... OK so she was away and i had a report to print out, so i log into her computer using my account and do my thing print my report. the next day first thing i feel her eyes on my back and I'm trying to pretend that i don't notice her looking at me, so she puts her arms up and starts waving at me. and then it comes. WHY WERE YOU AT MY DESK ... i look at her and think, why should i be scared I'm her manager, trying to gather all the strength that i have being little and everything, and then i decided I'm going to stand up to her, so in a very assertive voice i told her exactly why i was there, adding for her not to worry cause i didn't eat anything on her desk.
i felt quite proud of myself
Friday, October 13, 2006
Technology
I have finally surrendered to the idea that im falling behind with technology
for the life of me i cannot figure out how to add links onto the blog
its really scary, im the grandma who cant figure out how to use a mobile phone.
and i cant figure out how to put video clips onto it either
i feel like crying :(
its weird i never thought that i would be lost with technology
and you know what im going to ask my husband to show me, cause im not going to be left behind
im going to figure it out,
and post the clips i have been wanting to post since ages
peace out
for the life of me i cannot figure out how to add links onto the blog
its really scary, im the grandma who cant figure out how to use a mobile phone.
and i cant figure out how to put video clips onto it either
i feel like crying :(
its weird i never thought that i would be lost with technology
and you know what im going to ask my husband to show me, cause im not going to be left behind
im going to figure it out,
and post the clips i have been wanting to post since ages
peace out
Monday, October 09, 2006
NRMA
Have you ever been stuck on a deserted (or almost deserted) freeway or a motor way at night all by yourself???? that's exactly what happened to me, i was driving back from uni at around 8.30 with my sister, just cruising along, happy to be going home after a long day, singing along to the music pretending we too had decent voices, minding our own business, trying to stay under a suitable illegal speed limit...
Natalie turned to me and said "how beautiful is the night sky with all those stars" and i thought to myself how nice would it be to drive with your headlights off, (if it was safe enough to of course) like driving in the sky..... and then it happened, the music stopped playing, great now we have no music to sing along to, i look at my dashboard and the lights are out, i look up and my headlights look really dim, so i turn them off and turn them back on thinking i must have accidentally somehow turned them off. THEY WON"T TURN ON, and i was freaking out, i see a section of the freeway where they have those blue phones and i try to suddenly reduce me speed but i miss the safe area, but luckily I'm off the road, only just. and then my lights go out completely. i try to reverse so I'm not so close to the road, but my car wont move. and I'm so freaking out..... there's bairly anyone on the road, which is good and bad, (good cause hopefully there isn't any psycho's on the road, but bad cause its so dark without the cars headlights.)so anyways luckily the car has road side assistance
but i didn't know the number
so first i call my husband to let him know that I'm going to be late and I'm stuck in the middle of no where cause the car ran out of battery.. and then i call my dad to find out the number' once Ive got i then remember hang on where only a few meters from the blue phone box and that hooks up straight to NRMA-
so i get out of the car and tell nat to stay there, shes like yeah sure, loving the fact that its so dark and everything - meanwhile I'm freaking out, cause Ive heard one to many stories.. so i walk to the phone box and talk to the lady from NRMA and she informs me that since I'm a women all by myself i would be a priority one, and that the next available person will come out to me. so I'm thinking GREAT it will be 0.30 minutes at the max. so i call my husband and my parents to let them know by now its like 8.45 and they are like OK were coming, so my house to the uni is a 1 hour drive up the freeway so they wouldn't get here before NRMA well that's at least what I'm thinking. but anyways they want to come,
then Natalie turns to me, seeing that I'm so freaked out and says hey wouldnt it be so cool if like someone jumps onto the front windscreen of the car, i just look at her and think she's completely lost it.
so half an hour passes, and still no NRMA at around 9.30 NRMA rocks up, and i think to myself, that;s a priority one, i would hate to think what it would be if i wasn't a woman all by myself.
but I'm happy to the guy yay i love nrma,
he'll fix the problem and we will be back on the road. just then my husband and dad arrive on the scene, now I'm loving the dark and the stars, finally i begin to relax.
but its so not over. apparently the oil from the power steering was leaking onto the alternator and so it couldn't do its thing. so we had to wait for some other guy to bring an alternator so the car would be drivable.
so my dad tells us to go home in his car, and he will wait with my car until its fixed and then drive it home for us.
so we finally set off, again singing along to the music, getting home a little later than we thought, 10.30 to be exact...... but now i can laugh about being stuck on a freeway
NRMA is fantastic apart from their time frames-
Natalie turned to me and said "how beautiful is the night sky with all those stars" and i thought to myself how nice would it be to drive with your headlights off, (if it was safe enough to of course) like driving in the sky..... and then it happened, the music stopped playing, great now we have no music to sing along to, i look at my dashboard and the lights are out, i look up and my headlights look really dim, so i turn them off and turn them back on thinking i must have accidentally somehow turned them off. THEY WON"T TURN ON, and i was freaking out, i see a section of the freeway where they have those blue phones and i try to suddenly reduce me speed but i miss the safe area, but luckily I'm off the road, only just. and then my lights go out completely. i try to reverse so I'm not so close to the road, but my car wont move. and I'm so freaking out..... there's bairly anyone on the road, which is good and bad, (good cause hopefully there isn't any psycho's on the road, but bad cause its so dark without the cars headlights.)so anyways luckily the car has road side assistance
but i didn't know the number
so first i call my husband to let him know that I'm going to be late and I'm stuck in the middle of no where cause the car ran out of battery.. and then i call my dad to find out the number' once Ive got i then remember hang on where only a few meters from the blue phone box and that hooks up straight to NRMA-
so i get out of the car and tell nat to stay there, shes like yeah sure, loving the fact that its so dark and everything - meanwhile I'm freaking out, cause Ive heard one to many stories.. so i walk to the phone box and talk to the lady from NRMA and she informs me that since I'm a women all by myself i would be a priority one, and that the next available person will come out to me. so I'm thinking GREAT it will be 0.30 minutes at the max. so i call my husband and my parents to let them know by now its like 8.45 and they are like OK were coming, so my house to the uni is a 1 hour drive up the freeway so they wouldn't get here before NRMA well that's at least what I'm thinking. but anyways they want to come,
then Natalie turns to me, seeing that I'm so freaked out and says hey wouldnt it be so cool if like someone jumps onto the front windscreen of the car, i just look at her and think she's completely lost it.
so half an hour passes, and still no NRMA at around 9.30 NRMA rocks up, and i think to myself, that;s a priority one, i would hate to think what it would be if i wasn't a woman all by myself.
but I'm happy to the guy yay i love nrma,
he'll fix the problem and we will be back on the road. just then my husband and dad arrive on the scene, now I'm loving the dark and the stars, finally i begin to relax.
but its so not over. apparently the oil from the power steering was leaking onto the alternator and so it couldn't do its thing. so we had to wait for some other guy to bring an alternator so the car would be drivable.
so my dad tells us to go home in his car, and he will wait with my car until its fixed and then drive it home for us.
so we finally set off, again singing along to the music, getting home a little later than we thought, 10.30 to be exact...... but now i can laugh about being stuck on a freeway
NRMA is fantastic apart from their time frames-
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