NYE 2006

Ok, so I know this is a bit late, but it took me a year to get my china photo’s in order and I didn’t even have an excuse like losing my camera cable for that one. So I have managed to get some photos off my camera and discovered that I really didn’t do much.

Falls was ok, I had some semi-cold thingo and generally wasn’t feeling all that good for the whole time but managed to have some pockets of fun in there. Nye was a bit of an episode, apparently ppl were dropping like flies, but as I was the first to go (after self medicating my semi-cold, rolling my ankle during The Shins, slamming my finger in the toilet door, and then over medicating some more to make it all go away…) I really have no idea what happened. I spent the night in the tent listening to other ppl talk shit back at camp.

Award for keeping tildaa most entertained during her nye would have to go to Ryno, heard this gem from him in the early hours:

“hoh, I’ve noticed that there are all these geek guys with hot girlfriends, what’s the deal with that… hmmm… I think I might become a geek, I reckon I’ll start using my middle name, Edward, instead of Ryno… but I’ll say it like, ‘Helloo, I’m Ed-waard’”

Speaking of geeks with hot girlfriends, check out Jms being super geeky in the beer tent at falls..



This is Smn taking his tent down from inside out..



Awww.. here is Jn and Bf sharing a moment..



and finally we have btr laying an eggy..

Free-wheelin’ on my pathfinder

So, I finally got my bike up and running again, well the cycle shop did anyway... Apparently it was ‘pathetic’ to take it to JT cycles and pay $70 for a bit of oil here and there and a new tube in my front wheel. I guess it kind of is considering the bike only cost a couple of hundred to start with. But really what would be pathetic would be NOT taking it to get fixed, kind of like when you finish up with a broken unused pinball machine, wonderboy arcade game, coffee machine, amplifier and a half dozen boxes of cd’s sitting in your hallway cause ‘all they need is a 20c fuse’ for the last year or so… and then what’s even more pathetic is when you suggest that maybe they should go to a new home where they might get that 20c fuse you get the most pathetic baby tantrum I’ve ever seen, but anyway…

How good is it to have my bike back in action, I forgot the about the feeling of freedom! I think it’s something to do with the fact that you’re moving at a speed in between the two main speeds of the rest of the world. You’re zooming past pedestrians and the cars are speeding past you without even looking at you, and you can weave in and out of each world as you please. It’s basically just you and the open road… until bunch of those serious cyclists (who wear lycra and travel in packs) zoom past invading your middle speed world (which is kind of embarrassing when you think you’re on your own and so are singing the wrong words to dear prudence just a bit too loud).

There is one other world (apart from pedestrian, car and mine)… the world of the busses. Apparently this world is so interesting that there is an English sitcom all about it (my friend nugget says it’s really good and has the complete dvd box set, apparently it’s called ‘on the busses’). Anyway, this morning when I was riding past all the bus drivers who were stopped for their break on the east side of Victoria Square, I caught a glimpse of the hilarity that is the busses. There was one bus driver trying to reverse parallel park his bus into a gap between the other busses and instead of moving their busses to make room for him, all the other bus drivers were standing around clutching their jiggling beer bellies and heckling him “your never gonna make it” and “your entry angle’s all wrong” “stop showing-off in front of the lady”…

Hmm.. I guess it's probably funnier in an English accent.

8 episodes of Prison Break in one day..

On Wednesday Nai made me watch 8 episodes (no more, no less) of Prison Break in a row to catch up and also has the whole series of ‘Weed’ ready to go when we’ve finished Prison Break. Last night we watched the 9th and 10th episodes and noticed a drop in quality. It's some kind of weird compulsion now that can't be stopped, they suck you in with the whole "He's a genius with the prison blueprints tattoed on his torso" and then it's just downhill from there. The fact that a second series exists makes me think im in for a pretty dissappointing end to the first series.

The last time this happened was with Deadwood and I couldn’t stop calling everyone cocksucker for like a month. But I stopped watching when Al Swearengen got gallstones cause it was just too disgusting.

Pros
I only have to waste 1 day instead of 8 weeks of my life thinking about why Abruzzi doesn’t just kill Tea Bag but he still wants to kill Fibonacci so badly.

Cons
I can’t sleep, it’s killing me, the 9th episode wasn’t even good but I can’t stop.

Christmas 2005

Family christmas was pretty much as usual with its ups and downs, plate throwing tantrums and family love in equal measures and lots of beer to wash it down with. But the best bit was the annual family $10 Christmas present swap thingo landing my sister with the best game ever. It’s called something like ‘Shocking Fun’ and the rules are something like this…

• Put your fingers on the button nearest to you
• when the light in front of you flashes, press your button
• If you miss pressing your button too many times,
• You are a loser and the game gives you an electric shock and then plays some canned laughter just to rub it in.

In a family situation, this game provides hours of fun. It even comes with ‘shock boosters’ which are metal finger covers to enhance the shocking fun if family members have pacemakers or seem to have already developed a tolerance for electric shocks.

It's a whole new world..

So I have to post here now cause there is someone squatting in my tilda blogspot and writing shit that i can't even understand but sounds quite rude when you say it out loud.

Blogger seem to have lost what was tilda from 2002 til now which I know must be very upsetting for everyone so I thought I’d do a quick run down of what happened over the last four years.. actually, can’t remember any of it either so I guess it’s time to move on... here's a song to get you through the grieving stage and help you look toward a brighter future..

A whole new world

A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming

A whole new world
A dazzling place I never knew
But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
That now I'm in a whole new world with you
Now I'm in a whole new world with you

Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feeling
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky

A whole new world
Don't you dare close your eyes
A hundred thousand things to see
Hold your breath - it gets better
I'm like a shooting star
I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be

A whole new world
Every turn a surprise
With new horizons to pursue
Every moment red-letter
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you

A whole new world
That's where we'll be
A thrilling chase
A wondrous place
For you and me