Received a phone call from an anonymous person yesterday afternoon. I was in the shower so I could not pick up straight away. As soon as I was done, I called the person back. Upon pressing the little green “send” button on my phone, I was greeted with some Bollywood-style-music caller ringtone. Definitely not anyone I know. After a few seconds of “ringing” I was about ready to hang-up when the person finally answered.

Anonymous Guy: (In a thick Indian accent) Hello?

Me: Hello. Did you call this number?

AG: No, I’m not call this number.

Me: (Annoyed, but not wanting to drag the conversation on any longer, I said “OK” and hung up)

I continued gathering my things before heading out when just then, the guy called back,

AG: Hello. Are you Asian?

Me: (Confused). What?

AG: Are you Asian? Chinese?

Me: No, I’m not Chinese.

AG: Are you agent? Are you doing agent work?

Me: No, I’m not an agent.

AG: OK, sorry sorry. Thank you. (He hung up)

Weird.

Very the blur today. The juices in my brain are not flowing as freely as they usually do. Must be the alcohol from the previous night impeding my ability to think, me thinks. Haven’t felt like this in ages. And by “this”, I mean “sloth”…

Something that happened this morning.

Went ahead to get lunch as well a packet of tea.

Auntie: Eh Xiao Di, ai lim si mi?
Me: Eh, Jit eh Teh Bing, bao eh.
Auntie: Ai bing bo?
Me (in my heart): KNNWTF
Me: Teh BING leh.
Auntie: ORHHHH OKOK.

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The best way to let others know you have something for sale is to simply email your unique 2good2tip stall address to all your friends and family. So many times I have heard people say ‘ if I’d known you wanted to get rid of that, I would have made you an offer for it’ – its true ! There is always someone close by who will want what you no longer need and are happy to come get it and … pay you money for it! – so whizz them your stall on email so they can take a peek what you have on offer !

So, I didn’t get the Tuesday Blues. Instead, I had a pretty good day. Started rather funky, but progressed to a pretty alright day. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Students at Sheffield Springs Academy interview BBC Sport TV presenter Jake Humphrey…. From BBC News. Full story

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Anyone who’s walked past Holt Refrew on Bloor knows Toronto has the some of the best window-dressing in North America. But I really feel Ray has totally raised the bar here.

Why do I waste my life away?

I’ve been complaining recently that I’m fed up with work, on this factor I decide to apply to go to university. I’m half way through my UCAS application. I still need to sort out a reference and do my personal statement. Plus I’m applying for film courses and might need a portfolio to show off. Because I don’t have much film work done I’m going to have to rely on the many half written scripts I’ve got.

So instead of doing a personal statement or working on scripts, what am I doing? I’m kicking off another season on Championship Manager 01/02…

I DON’T EVEN REALLY LIKE FOOTBALL!!!

All the manly “haha your team’s shit mate” comradery, spending hours in the pub or a freezing cold stadium watching people getting paid more in a week than you do a year kicking a ball around, having your face painted like a tiger or getting drunk, smashing up a special needs school bus and pissing into the potting plants at the local residents home’s garden because England have been knocked out of Copa America or whatever tournament they’ve been prancing around in. I just don’t get it. I used to like football, but I just stopped liking it for some reason. I don’t even have an interesting reason for my dislike of football for example getting raped by The Crazy Gang. I just don’t like it.

Another thing to add to my list of manly things I’ve never partaken in / seen / like of course. More reason to act shy, nervous and awkward in front of proper men, whilst I day dream about Morrissey.

The main problems with my addiction to Championship Manager are 1) I know nothing about football or footballers (hence why I bought I £5 copy of an old version rather than £30 on the latest) and 2) it’s not even a real game! It’s not like Fifa or Pro Evo where you’re actually playing a game of football; it’s a fucking database! I’m guessing what names would do well where and then watching them flash up on the screen at fast speeds, hoping to see my team colours flash in the triumph of a goal to which I’ll pump my fist in the air and smile with glee as I get Farnborough Town into Division Three football.

So yeah, I know nothing about football and won’t get around to applying for university for the third time I’ve tired so will end up putting out fish fingers for at least another two years. But I got promoted to the football league; the CM 01/02 world is my fucking oyster!

Today was kinda slow, albeit a nice kind of slow. I was pretty energised in the morning, like I could take on the world and come out a champion. Strange feeling to have on a Monday morning, or at least that’s what Garfield thinks, along with the rest of the world, apparently. According to Garfield, I should be moody, easily aggravated, clinically depressed, homicidal, etc. As the day dragged on, my enthusiasm seemed to dwindle. Work piled in fast and things where sort of a whirlwind for a while. It did, however, get better when there was some progress and my mood picked up again after work, when I played futsal with the guys from work, doing our bit to prepare for Sunday’s futsal competition.

Wonder if I’ll feel the same tomorrow. Maybe I might have the “Tuesday Blues”…

Save your Rubbish

How many times have you crumbled that piece of paper and aimed it to the waste basket?  How about deleting that file?  Hopefully, not that many times.  Think twice before deleting or throwing away content that is not passing your approval at a particular moment.  Save it.  Yes, save that Rubbish!  It may not be useful now, but it may become inspirational material for future writings.

We are not in the same emotional wave all the time.  Our emotions shift from day-to-day, or moment to moment.  What may not appeal to you today, may become useful material later – inspiration for an idea for a story, for a character, an article, or even a poem.  Right now, it may seem horrible to you, but it may contain the roots for a good piece.

So before you throw away your rubbish, give it a second chance – in the future.

It’s amazing how quickly we upgrade our gadgets these days. It wasn’t so long ago that no one had even heard of an iPhone – now every man and his dog seems to have one in his back pocket.

So what’s happening to everyone’s old phones? And where do our microwaves and other electronic appliances go when we’ve decided they’ve done their dash?

Chances are you threw the old phone, electronic toothbrush, curling wand and countless other electronic goods in the bin. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released last week suggest that nearly a quarter of electronic equipment and more than half of household appliances thrown out in the 12 months prior to March ended up in our general rubbish bins.

The problem is, while we are fascinated by the latest model of everything, our landfills are clogging up with electronic waste and even worse, much of it also gets illegally dumped in our environment.

On average, we upgrade our computer every 2-5 years, our microwave every 5-8 years, our mobile phone as soon as our plan runs out. We go through countless batteries to keep all our household appliances running – an estimated 8,000 tonnes of alkaline batteries go to the tip every year.

It’s no wonder then that electronic waste, or e-waste, is our fastest growing rubbish type. In fact, it’s being sent to the tip at three times the rate of general waste.

The environmental effects of e-waste are also potentially much more frightening than those of general waste because of what it contains – toxins. Lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, cobalt – your innocent looking household appliances are full of these toxins, and when they’re dumped in landfill or in the environment, those toxins can seep into our groundwater, contaminate the soil and potentially even enter the food chain.

We recently had a breakthrough on e-waste in Australia, with the Federal Government announcing a new recycling scheme for TVs and computers as part of a National Waste Policy. See the details here.

This scheme was developed at the urging of manufacturers – so it’s great to finally see industry and our political leaders working together to come up with a solution for e-waste. But that’s by no means the end of the problem – we all still need to take action at work and at home to help curb our growing e-waste.

What you can do:

AVOID: Buy products that will last and are repairable. You might even consider leasing?

REDUCE: Repair your old appliances and gadgets wherever possible instead of buying new ones.

REUSE: Check if local schools or charities can use your old appliances, and always buy rechargeable batteries and refillable ink cartridges.

RECYCLE: Take your old appliances to be recycled – most councils provide e-waste recycling services.  You can even donate your old mobile phone. Clean Up offers a free service – simply go to our website www.cleanup.org.au for a satchel.

We can’t help the fact that electronic items will go out of date and we’ll need to replace them, but we can try to minimise the impact our e-waste has on the environment.

Does anyone have any e-waste tips?

Ian Kiernan AO

Clean Up Australia Chairman

If there’s anything that today thought me, it’s that you can’t plan for anything. Anything. You can anticipate, but you can’t plan. Having said that though, plans do not usually work out.

I slept at 6am in the morning today, after waiting for my friends and one of their friend to find their way to my home. Woke up at 9am, because I was told that their friend had to go down to work at 9:30am. So, being the gracious host that I am, I woke up early so that we’d all have breakfast together and send that friend to her workplace. Through indecision and downright lack of consideration (on the part of their friend), that friend ended up not going to work (she decided to skip) and the four of us ended up walking aimlessly around Sunway Pyramid for a couple of hours. Not something that I like doing.

Prior to this, me and my other friend, SR (the friend who I had initially invited to stay over, along with his wife), was supposed to meet our friend, CT, who had been in Melbourne for the past 2 years. CT told me in a chat we had that he’d be in KL on the 22nd. So I arranged with SR that he would stay over at my place so that he wouldn’t have to travel up and down from the State Nine, as he was going to spend a day window shopping at Bukit Bintang with his wife. As it turned out, a friend of theirs, MG, tagged along and decided to invite herself to sleep over at my place. How could I say no at such short notice? And another thing, she was already with them. Strike one.

So, going back to the story, MG was supposed to go down to work today. Firstly, she failed to tell us (either on purpose or otherwise), that she had in fact decided not to go to work. Whenever we asked her, she wouldn’t give a clear answer. Strike two. Over breakfast, she managed to dodge our question of whether or not she was going to work. After an hour and a bit, I got fed-up, got up and said “let’s go to Pyramid”, because SR said that he wanted to go, as his wife had never been. If I hadn’t gotten up, we would’ve been sitting there looking at our leftovers for another hour, talking about crap.

Throughout this whole time, MG never once said that she wasn’t going to work, and that went on until 3pm, when her supposed shift finished. I was really annoyed as I had planned to catch up on doing some work at home. My plan was that we would send her to the KTM station after breakfast, come back home and do some work while waiting for CT to give me a ring. Sadly, that would not be the case. CT never rang; I never did my work. Strike three.

Ugh. I could go on ranting, but that wouldn’t change anything. There’s much, much more to the story, but I’m mentally drained to put everything down. Basically, you get my drift. I’ll wrap this up here and call it a day.

From Monday I am gonna start my Club Penguin world trip! I will be taking some snapshots and I will put them in my scrapbook. I will be waddling round any random server and take a pic of anything that seems intresting. I will also take a photo of some penguin friends and just explore the wonderful place!

I will not forget to share some of the amazing photos I’ll take and you might catch me! You are all welcome to take a picture with me!!! Here are all the info you need to catch me.

Name: Esmeralda718

Wig: The Blonde Sidetied

Status: Member

Good Luck finding me!!

Anyway, I just uploaded my first vid in Youtube! My singing voice is just horrible, squeaky…. I don’t think I am ever gonna make it as a singer. Here it is:

Is the microphone rubbish or is it just me who spoiled the song. Say it is rubbish. Say it. Say it!!!!! I can’t think of a bad enough word to describe it. You can sing along if you want. Here are the lyrics.

                                            ~ Alison ~

The cover of Left 4 Dead depicts an unhealthy-looking hand which has just agonisingly clawed its way into our view. As the thumb seems to have fallen off (making needlework difficult), it’s showing us four fingers.

There are FOUR people who have been left FOR dead, so a photographer was charged with the task of finding a cover image for the documentary. He went to the epicentre of the zombie outbreak and took a picture of said hand, cleverly illustrating FOR and FOUR and SOME KIND OF UNDESIRABLE SITUATION WHICH AFFECTS HANDS MAYBE A DISEASE OR SOMETHING YOU’LL HAVE TO LOOK AT THE BACK TO FIND OUT.

Then the bosses decided to make another documentary about people joyfully killing their friends and family just because they got swine flu maybe and Left 4 Dead 2 was announced. So the photographer was instructed to go and take an equally clever picture. He tried to convince his superiors that the title was rubbish. The conversation went like this:

PHOTOGRAPHER: The title is rubbish.

BOSS: No.

PHOTOTGRAPHER: Yes because the 4 for FOR and FOUR doesn’t work very well when you put 2 after it because 4 is polysemic and 2 isn’t.

BOSS: …

PHOTOTOGRAPHER: …

BOSS: 2 means TWO and TOO. Because these FOUR people have been left FOR dead TOO.

PHOTOTOGRAPPHER: You only just thought of that.

BOSS: No.

PHOTOTOGRRAPPHER: Well then what about a third documentary?

BOSS: It’ll be Left 4 Dead 3, like FREE. The THIRD documentary featuring FOUR people who are left FOR dead and fighting to be FREE.

PHITOGRRAGOGRAPHER: What?

BOSS: It’ll be filmed in London so you have to read the title with a Cockney accent. Now that’s polysemia, innit muppet?

PHITOGRGAGRORPHSERRAAR:You’re clearly making this up. What will you do with the Left 4 Dead 4? You already have a cover with four fingers.

BOSS: The hand will be the other way around. Left 4 Dead 8 will feature an octopus.

PHARFOITHIRXUHGIOEZQGFW: What the damn?

BOSS: Bananas.

Over the years, I have been said to resemble countless of cartoon characters (mostly) and actors. After the incident with the client, I took a trip down memory lane to remember what they are. And they are mostly not flattering as they mostly made fun of my size and small eyes. so enjoy!

Period: Secondary School

By: Tricia

Reason: Small eyes.

Period: Secondary School

By: I think its my sister Jamie

Reason: Small eyes again.

Period: SMU

By: Glenn

Reason: Because we were watching Naruto and he got nothing else better to say. Mostly the small eyes and size

Period: EY

By: Ching Yun

Reason: Cause I gelled my hair to stand all the way up when we went to helipad.

Period: EY

By: Shikin

Reason: Small eyes and cause she is a korean drama addict.

The one by the client was this channel 8 tv drama about the doctor and I apparently looked like the doctor’s brother whom I understand is not bad looking. Must harp on that again.

At least I have progressed to look more human like over the past few years. Hooray!

right, today, have been a hard and emotional day for me on several occasions. which im not going to go in to on here, as it is private to myself, and i moan endlessly about others posting about there lives on the internet, some things, you have to keep private i guess.

anyway, apart from my rubbish day, that consisted of lessons of photography, which i usually enjoy. the fact that im listening to snow patrol is probably not helping my emotion. so il put something abit heavier on i guess.

first of all, i have set up a new twitter, which is: www.twitter.com/MasonMcEnery or @MasonMcEnery

which ever way you prefer it, please follow me on there.

i started reading in to orwells, 1984. which i was also watching ‘im a celeb’, whilst reading it. and honestly, they seemed to highly contrast there selves to each other, and i was drawn in to watching TV in the end. distraction is a down point of me.

i have no plans for the weekend, which doesn’t involve coursework or homework, as i said in an earlier post. so my weekend will be full of joy and excitement.

thats me off the internet for the night,guitar or xbox? its a tough choice, but as everyone else in my house is asleep, i am afraid i am drawn upon the latter. thanks for reading this, laters xxx

When most people think of trash bags lying on the side of the street, they don’t usually think of creative minds at work. Yet street artist Joshua Allen Harris defies our common preconceptions about the nature of art by using only garbage bags and tape to create works of inflatable art, powered by nothing more than the exhaust air from New York City’s subway system. If you’ve never seen this before, check it out [links to YouTube]. New York Magazine interviews this innovative artist and has him talk about his art and its relation to others.

at insulting me

First I been called a man in a girl’s body.

Now I been called a voyeur.

Voyeur: An obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects.

nice