Wow... last night at the BSA Ice Cream night... GREAT atmosphere lol. I wanted to do up this blog last night but after I came home I was far too tired and the length of it is pretty unnecessary. The night started out relatively casually, saw a few friends, said hi to a few and scared a few lol. Pretty much all of the people there were notorious for going to the holt room. All we needed was for DSs to be there so we could have a massive Mario Kart battle!
The main reason for going apart from socialising and wanting to see people, was for the ice cream eating contest. After all the pleasantries of saying hello to everyone came the massive barrage of trash talk from my mouth and encouragement for people to join the eat-off. Sign up went relatively smoothly but I had to encourage my partner several times to join with me, but he gave in lol.
Hahah, what can I say about the first round? Seeing the cup, I thought it was gonna be pretty easy but I looked like a fool when I flicked a massive ball of ice cream onto the table, shrugged it off, picked it up with my hand and shoved it in my mouth. Jemmms and I ended up winning in the first round, getting good reactions from plenty of people, though I can be sure that sometimes it's not entirely a good thing lol. The next few rounds was when we got big scares, seeing two people about three times our size entering an eating contest... Jemmms and I got lucky when they didn't win, but that meant we had to face two people that could eat more than two big guys! Needless to say, Jemmms and I were thinking "OH SHIIIIIIIITTTT" (well, I was anyway).
Entering the final round, there were two other groups and since there were only 3 prizes, meant that all three teams got at least something. 3rd place got 4 VIP tickets to BSA's Bounce Dance party, 2nd place got a $50 voucher to Beard Papa's for cream puffs and 1st place got a hamper full of random soft drinks and several bottles of alcohol. Going into the final rounds were... Josh and his partner Allan, Kain and his partner and Jemmms and I. The finals started off CRAZY when we all saw the size of our ice cream cups, pretty much everyone had their jaws dropping and I had my eyes ready to fall from their sockets. What on earth did I get myself into?
What followed was the CRAZIEST 2 minutes of my life when Jemmms and I competed in the final round with everyone cheering for us. The clips were hilarious, especially when seeing people getting brain freeze and what happened during the fight for 2nd place lol. Basically, I can only describe the crowd as this... AWESOME! Loved it! You guys were the best support ever! Thanks to BSA for organising the event, Barboo for supplying the ice cream, Jemmms for being my teammate and everyone that cheered for us!
Biggest downfall though, was that after the event Josh, his partner, Jemms and I all started to experience toothaches lol. Cold water and cold food in general CAINED!
PS: If people would like to see the nasty ass clips, hit me up on msn and I'll forward an email to you lol.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Let em know
Reading the mX yesterday, the cover story was rather interesting as I'm a regular bus user to commute from place to place. The main gist of the article was that the transport minister John Mickel had made comments regarding bus drivers; accusing them of overcharging passengers. Needless to say, when you make a claim you need evidence to support it and Mickel's was wrongly founded. Firstly he said that drivers were changing times on the clocks used by the go card readers, then he said that the problem came from dodge machines as opposed to cheating bus drivers (though, I don't blame him on the latter) and admitted that his message was muddled.
Turns out that bus drivers can't even change the clocks on the go card machines anyway, so whose fault is it? As a result of this, several bus drivers have decided to go on strike by not accepting fares and are wanting Mickel to resign from his post. Funny thing is, the article also mentioned that go card readers are faulty currently. Thanks for supporting one of my previous blogs lol.
So what can we learn from his mistakes? Firstly, accusations can cause relationships (whether they be friendships, professional, romantic etc.) to go sour and when the two parties involved are reliant on one another on such a large scale, all hell breaks loose eventually affecting other parties as well. Secondly, making accusations without first thinking about what you're trying to say and without proof or evidence makes EVERYTHING worse. DON'T DO IT!
Turns out that bus drivers can't even change the clocks on the go card machines anyway, so whose fault is it? As a result of this, several bus drivers have decided to go on strike by not accepting fares and are wanting Mickel to resign from his post. Funny thing is, the article also mentioned that go card readers are faulty currently. Thanks for supporting one of my previous blogs lol.
So what can we learn from his mistakes? Firstly, accusations can cause relationships (whether they be friendships, professional, romantic etc.) to go sour and when the two parties involved are reliant on one another on such a large scale, all hell breaks loose eventually affecting other parties as well. Secondly, making accusations without first thinking about what you're trying to say and without proof or evidence makes EVERYTHING worse. DON'T DO IT!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
You must learn
Wow... I haven't blogged in over 2 weeks. My poor blog =( I'll never neglect you like that again!
This has been wanting to slip through my finger tips, but I haven't had time nor did I think it was worth talking about until now. This shit's gotten outta hand. So lately there's been a few arguments happening around my house, with all of them regarding my step-sister (Amanda if you're reading this, PLEASE try to take this advice). There are so many things that my step sister and mum argue about, I won't list all of them because there's just too many and because it's quite private. Either way, onto one of the big ones a few nights ago.
Scenario: My step sister is 16, turning 17, she found a job (hooray for her), but at Chermside. To those oblivious of where I live, we're pretty much located on the opposite side of town of Chermy and she found a job there? I mean it's fine if she drives, but she takes 2 buses there. The problem with this mainly is that she's only 16 and when she comes home it's roughly between the hours of 8 - 10 o'clock (despite Chermside closing at 4/5 o'clock on some days). She's not old enough for our parents to accept her out late at this time and taking public transport home; I'm 19 and my mum still gets annoyed at me for being out past 9. I don't know why she's doing the job at Chermside, but if she's doing the job just because her friends are, she needs to grow the fuck up and accept work isn't meant to be fun and games.
Scenario 2: Before the end of school holidays she was starting to bludge hella and never did her assignments. Ok, if there's 1 assignment you haven't done... that's pretty bad already. She had 3 assignments left untouched and was skipping/wagging school because they were incomplete.
She even went so far as to hide from my mum so that she'd be able to stay home and not go to school. Wow, talk about desperation. Anyone that knows my Mum knows she can be annoying and gets on my nerves a lot, imagine that but around 10x worse in laying smackdown on my step sister. Ouch. It seems my step sister just doesn't understand the idea of authority and keeps thinking about what she wants most, if not all of the time.
From those two scenarios you can see a bit of another scenario opening up. She doesn't want to go to school and wants to work (despite really just being with friends). Anyone knows that people who work with friends are fine, but how about if your friends are always at school? How about if it's because you're working there only because you want to be with your friends? How about if you take that away you have nothing else to do? My mum asked if she wanted to stay in school or drop out and work. Being the absolute GENIUS she is always my mum always expects an answer on the spot and done in a respectful manner to her. My step sister also gives the silent treatment and if she gets annoyed enough, will raise her voice at whoever. Bad combination. I can imagine that making the decision to drop out of school is extremely difficult and accepting that upon making it you have to be prepared for what comes flying at you.
The silent treatment she gives also extends to her being told what to do. It extends to her younger sister and even her dad. Wow, I understand that people would rather not talk about certain things, but you could at LEAST say "I don't wanna talk about it" instead of being rude and not saying anything fullstop. Never listening to advice is probably the worst of them all, she just doesn't accept criticism.
Edit: Check this out guys!
This has been wanting to slip through my finger tips, but I haven't had time nor did I think it was worth talking about until now. This shit's gotten outta hand. So lately there's been a few arguments happening around my house, with all of them regarding my step-sister (Amanda if you're reading this, PLEASE try to take this advice). There are so many things that my step sister and mum argue about, I won't list all of them because there's just too many and because it's quite private. Either way, onto one of the big ones a few nights ago.
Scenario: My step sister is 16, turning 17, she found a job (hooray for her), but at Chermside. To those oblivious of where I live, we're pretty much located on the opposite side of town of Chermy and she found a job there? I mean it's fine if she drives, but she takes 2 buses there. The problem with this mainly is that she's only 16 and when she comes home it's roughly between the hours of 8 - 10 o'clock (despite Chermside closing at 4/5 o'clock on some days). She's not old enough for our parents to accept her out late at this time and taking public transport home; I'm 19 and my mum still gets annoyed at me for being out past 9. I don't know why she's doing the job at Chermside, but if she's doing the job just because her friends are, she needs to grow the fuck up and accept work isn't meant to be fun and games.
Scenario 2: Before the end of school holidays she was starting to bludge hella and never did her assignments. Ok, if there's 1 assignment you haven't done... that's pretty bad already. She had 3 assignments left untouched and was skipping/wagging school because they were incomplete.
She even went so far as to hide from my mum so that she'd be able to stay home and not go to school. Wow, talk about desperation. Anyone that knows my Mum knows she can be annoying and gets on my nerves a lot, imagine that but around 10x worse in laying smackdown on my step sister. Ouch. It seems my step sister just doesn't understand the idea of authority and keeps thinking about what she wants most, if not all of the time.
From those two scenarios you can see a bit of another scenario opening up. She doesn't want to go to school and wants to work (despite really just being with friends). Anyone knows that people who work with friends are fine, but how about if your friends are always at school? How about if it's because you're working there only because you want to be with your friends? How about if you take that away you have nothing else to do? My mum asked if she wanted to stay in school or drop out and work. Being the absolute GENIUS she is always my mum always expects an answer on the spot and done in a respectful manner to her. My step sister also gives the silent treatment and if she gets annoyed enough, will raise her voice at whoever. Bad combination. I can imagine that making the decision to drop out of school is extremely difficult and accepting that upon making it you have to be prepared for what comes flying at you.
The silent treatment she gives also extends to her being told what to do. It extends to her younger sister and even her dad. Wow, I understand that people would rather not talk about certain things, but you could at LEAST say "I don't wanna talk about it" instead of being rude and not saying anything fullstop. Never listening to advice is probably the worst of them all, she just doesn't accept criticism.
Edit: Check this out guys!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Redefinition
As I sit here procrastinating instead of studying I'm looking through imdb.com for the next movies to look out for. Well well, it reminds me of the other night when BSA (Borneo students association - A students society that's great for social events) had organised a movie gathering to see Step up 2 the streets. Now I'm usually a fan of seeing anything with dance in it, but people that know me know that my movies have to have decent if not a good storyline and/or script. Upon seeing that the opening scene had bboying footage from "the freshest kids" (a documentary about breaking), I thought that it wouldn't be as bad as I thought it would. Important moral: NEVER, EVER judge a book from the first few pages, fuck the cover.
The acting itself wasn't that bad, but fucking shit, the script was probably the CHEESIEST thing I ever had to sit through. I was considering impaling myself after hearing the word "the streets" used like it was some holy beacon of all that is cool. I thought the dancing itself was pretty good, I saw some bboying and popping, which were all decent in terms of creativity and execution, but I didn't see much done to the music. The storyline itself I actually didn't mind too much, rather the script made me feel like covering my ears but it did have its moments such as "awwww he got da key!!!" and "I like you teeth! Thanks, I like your accent! What accent? I hevv no accent!".
Now, to those that tell me to watch these kind of movies (You got served, step up 1 + 2, stomp the yard etc.) just for its dancing, allow me to extrapolate the concept further for you. As Matt Damon once said on an interview for rove, he didn't want to be known as an "action star" but rather a star that could do action. His reasoning was because an "action star" will come on do a few takes of dialogue and proceed to do "action"... sounds very much like porn doesn't it? That's right people, he likened action to porn. As well as I can remember, this is how he worded it "you go up there, you talk for a few lines and then you do your "action" parts". So there you have it, action, dance and porn movies have a big thing in common: they're all designed to be aesthetically pleasing to their viewers, just their target viewers differ greatly.
Another thing I've noticed: 50 of the imdb bottom 100 (50%) were made in 2000 or after whereas 50 of the top 250 (20%) were made after 2000. So it's not just me, plenty of other people think that movies that have been made in the last few years are rather poor. Though, going to the cinemas isn't really just for the movie itself, but rather a social situation. Much like BSA movie night, the movie itself was average - mediocre at best and nothing extraordinary was shown but it was getting out and talking to people that was great.
The acting itself wasn't that bad, but fucking shit, the script was probably the CHEESIEST thing I ever had to sit through. I was considering impaling myself after hearing the word "the streets" used like it was some holy beacon of all that is cool. I thought the dancing itself was pretty good, I saw some bboying and popping, which were all decent in terms of creativity and execution, but I didn't see much done to the music. The storyline itself I actually didn't mind too much, rather the script made me feel like covering my ears but it did have its moments such as "awwww he got da key!!!" and "I like you teeth! Thanks, I like your accent! What accent? I hevv no accent!".
Now, to those that tell me to watch these kind of movies (You got served, step up 1 + 2, stomp the yard etc.) just for its dancing, allow me to extrapolate the concept further for you. As Matt Damon once said on an interview for rove, he didn't want to be known as an "action star" but rather a star that could do action. His reasoning was because an "action star" will come on do a few takes of dialogue and proceed to do "action"... sounds very much like porn doesn't it? That's right people, he likened action to porn. As well as I can remember, this is how he worded it "you go up there, you talk for a few lines and then you do your "action" parts". So there you have it, action, dance and porn movies have a big thing in common: they're all designed to be aesthetically pleasing to their viewers, just their target viewers differ greatly.
Another thing I've noticed: 50 of the imdb bottom 100 (50%) were made in 2000 or after whereas 50 of the top 250 (20%) were made after 2000. So it's not just me, plenty of other people think that movies that have been made in the last few years are rather poor. Though, going to the cinemas isn't really just for the movie itself, but rather a social situation. Much like BSA movie night, the movie itself was average - mediocre at best and nothing extraordinary was shown but it was getting out and talking to people that was great.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Hip hop is dead
Sorry for quoting Nas's song, but he's fucking right. Even though it's been over a year since he released the song the message is showing more and more. As of late I've noticed that my home (replay) has more and more gangsters hanging out there. Now these aren't your typical gangsters, these people are so bad ass that the only time they're likely to show their face is when there's a public holiday, school holiday, last day of school OR a friday roughly around 3:30; scary stuff. These gang bangers are so hard they look EXACTLY like rap artists such as lil jon, 50 cent and Ja rule! They gotta be hard if they look/dress the same right? Right...???
Nah seriously people, any of you that know me will know that my hip hop has to be the right way and not be about rims, drug use, bitches, hoes and pimping. I respect that those artists have found fame and are doing what they love. Though, I HATE that kids these days (I don't want to be racist but there's really no other way I can put it) particularly those of dark skinned origin are always dressing like them for their image. Image ≠ personality, in fact I'm willing to bet that if you're just copying what you see on your favourite music videos that you probably have little if any personal substance at all.
Before people accuse me of bitching too much (I know I do anyway), think about the following points...
- How much money do you think the kids asked their parents for to pay for their clothes just so they could look like a wankster?
- How much stupid shit such as vandalism and fighting do you think kids get into because of the image they want to portray?
- How much of that stupid shit do you think leads to a whole load of taxpayers money getting wasted? Yes, this WILL apply to you.
I'm also aware that people get their fashion ideas and sense from external sources such as celebrities, other individuals and mediums like music videos, movies, TV etc. My main gripe is that kids spend FAR too much time trying to look like something they don't know about (hip hop). Other forms of fashion don't follow a culture and ideology as much as hip hop does.
Commercialisation is what has caused kids to get sucked into this stupid facade. Thank you Urban Incorporated.
Nah seriously people, any of you that know me will know that my hip hop has to be the right way and not be about rims, drug use, bitches, hoes and pimping. I respect that those artists have found fame and are doing what they love. Though, I HATE that kids these days (I don't want to be racist but there's really no other way I can put it) particularly those of dark skinned origin are always dressing like them for their image. Image ≠ personality, in fact I'm willing to bet that if you're just copying what you see on your favourite music videos that you probably have little if any personal substance at all.
Before people accuse me of bitching too much (I know I do anyway), think about the following points...
- How much money do you think the kids asked their parents for to pay for their clothes just so they could look like a wankster?
- How much stupid shit such as vandalism and fighting do you think kids get into because of the image they want to portray?
- How much of that stupid shit do you think leads to a whole load of taxpayers money getting wasted? Yes, this WILL apply to you.
I'm also aware that people get their fashion ideas and sense from external sources such as celebrities, other individuals and mediums like music videos, movies, TV etc. My main gripe is that kids spend FAR too much time trying to look like something they don't know about (hip hop). Other forms of fashion don't follow a culture and ideology as much as hip hop does.
Commercialisation is what has caused kids to get sucked into this stupid facade. Thank you Urban Incorporated.
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