Nothing you'd be interested in

Hmm, you're still reading? I'm pretty sure though, that whatever I'll say in this post won't interest you, I may of course be wrong, but I don't think so (not allowed to use to many brackets... [but I want to use brackets!! {No you don't, brackets are bad and give people headaches} But {No buts!}]). Anyways, all I'll talk about in this post is how it feels to be back with the two armed people, how amazingly hot it's been the last couple of days, how boring it is to do nothing, how I'm hoping my arm will survive working tomorrow, oh, and I'll whinge a bit about not being able to play soccer (or any other "contact" sport for that matter) for 6 weeks, and anything else I may think of while writing (I do that, sometimes, think, not that it's very often, but it happens..)

So, to do this really reallly boring and structured (can also help if you are interested in one of my topics, not that I think you are, but I could be wrong [as I'm such an interesting person {Grrrrr, think of the brackets, gotta think about the brackets}]), I'll make it into (numbered) bullet points, in the order mentioned above, smart hey?

1. Being back among the two armed (although my lefty arm still is somewhat sluggish and tells me it's not to happy every now and again) feels pretty good. I can eat stuff and change the channel on the TV at the same time, I can do the dishes (which, I must say, is an oft undervalued way of passing time), I can (haven't tried yet though) brush my teeth with my right (left that is) arm, I can dress easily, I don't have to wear a stupid sling that gets sweaty and hot...
2. Talking about hot.. Weee it's been hot the last couple of days! All I wanted to do was going to the beach.. Sitting in my room in front of a fan all the time... Gosh (can't even write anything uninteresting about how hot it is...)
3. Doing nothing is very overestimated in my humble opinion, it's sooooo boring. Well technically I haven't been doing nothing as that is somewhat impossible... Like, how do you do nothing? If you lay in your bed staring at the roof all day, well then you're still doing something (laying in your bed staring at the roof).. So what is doing nothing? Being dead? Tricky question me thinks, but anyways, doing preciously little isn't to crash hot either, just so much TV watching, Internet surfing and Reading you can do before you get bored (with you I mean me, but I'm a bit of a coward, so don't want to put myself out there like that..)..
   
4. So, I'm going to work tomorrow... I'm a pretty optimistic guy deep down inside, so I'll think it will go ok.. not that my arm want to do a whole lot, but he'll learn!! But hopefully he'll survive and come out laughing (I'm calling my arm "he" as I'm a "he", so I'd assume my arm's a "he" as well, could be wrong though)..
5. Specialist told me to stay "don't play any contact sports for the next six weeks", now soccer (football) isn't supposed to be much of a contact sport, but it is.. So that means: No lightning league and no futsal, may even miss the start of the outdoor season, but not sure about that as I don't know when it starts... hopefully I'll be back then! And this rest will have done me a ##### of good!
6. Can't really think about anything else to write here, I could write about the smurf and the bananagnome that went fishing for sharks, but no, it's to messy and there may be children reading this post..

Well if you got through all of this... phew, then you got way to much time on your hand and should go out and help some person that needs your help (dunno who or what they want help with, or why just you should help them, but.. Just do it, eh?)

Oh, remembered, were more or less created for that stuff, helping people that is, so that's what we should all be doing it, makes people feel good and stuff!

A One Armed Matt

Hey Dear blog reader!

Writing this post really really slow... Not, I assume (on fairly good grounds [although I'm humble enough to acknowledge I could be wrong]) that you will notice that this post is written slowly, but anyways... Now, if you the inquisitive type you may wonder why this post is written so slowly (and you may even have an idea [due to your above average deductive reasoning skills] from the title). The correct answer should be that I currently only got one arm (ok, not entirely true, still have 2 arms but one 's fairly useless [unless you think hanging in a sling, hurting and being in the way is a useful occupation for an arm]), so restating (to avoid confusion [although I doubt your above average mind would get confused by such a trivial thing as this]): I'm currently only having one, in my opinion, useful hand!(!!!! [to really convey my message]). Hence I can only write with that arm.. Which for me, using the much adored and sought after (by those less gifted than you and me) touch method, this is very frustrating. It's a bit like talking but you can only use like a 3d of your teeth (somewhat lacking analogy... but hey, I'm suffering here)


Now that you know this you may (I wouldn't, but you may be the caring type [if you are I'm envious of you great heart]) wonder what made me one armed (or one-useful-in-my-opinion-armed if you want to be pedantic) and I'm quite happy to tell you that it's due to my sacrificial team spirit on the football (...soccer) field! I saw the ball rolling along by itself, saw this massively huge (in my mind) bloke from the other team run for the poor lonely ball, and just had to beat him to it, which, incidentally I did. Only problem was that of timing, I only beat him to the ball by .5 seconds or something... Which wasn't enough time to kick the ball and get out of the way... So we chrunshed together and I went tumbling to the ground with a not to happy shoulder (I did get to go in an ambulance and inhale on a green happy tube.. which was cool)

Figuring your getting bored now (with your above average wittiness and all) so wont bore you any more with how amazingly annoying it is to only be using one arm.. Just opening jars and bottles (not to speak about brushing your teeth and signing documents with your off hand..)

But, I guess I was due some misfortune as I've been fortunate lately. Got a Job!!! Starting on the 19th of Feb as an Technical Officer Track Reporting Trackside Interfaces within the Program Maintenance Services Division, Infrastructure Services Group for Queensland Rail here in Brisbane. Which is something I'm looking forward to, and have waited for for ages. What is pain anyway?

Anyways, should take my broken body and rampant spirit down to Immigration and get a label in my passport.

Until next time, keep your wits close and your mind open to sudden suffering....

Had a good post..

Hm, yesterday at work I had heaps and heaps of ideas for a brilliant blog post, but now? When I'm at my trusted little lappy.... where have all the ideas gone? I'm figuring they would be here somewhere, like hidden in my huge maze of a brain (looking forward to when you can implant some index thing in it)............................... !

Remembered one idea, well, it's not an idea as such just a thing I was brooding about at work (I'm brooding about things a lot at work, it's amazing how easy it is to brood.. requires absolutely no effort what so ever. I tried to think while I was working [hence, not brooding] but that was to hard, stuffed up all the time and got confused and lost among the tapes.. weird I think), why do you write blogs? I could have written a post about this before, can't remember.. lost in the maze again. Anyways, it may not even be exactly "why" do you write blogs I'm trying to write, but more how cool it is that you can write things that probably not anyone will read, but that anyone actually could read. (sorry about the long sentence, take a few deep breaths and feel the oxygen get back into your lungs). Like, I could write anything here, bare my soul (which, if you happen to stumble across, you could tell he's somewhat missed and I hope he's back before July), write about all my problems, whinge (didn't like that word my spell check) about all sorts of things, and it would be there, for anyone to read.. Think about the harm I could inflict on others (most likely on myself and my wandering soul [hope I still have my spirit])!

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, wonder if you can apply it directly to our lives and say that the keyboard is mightier than the tank? Or do you have to apply it through the industrial revolution or something?

Did you know that Biblical Theology is seeing the Bible as a whole? Like, you don't read stuff in the old testament and think that that is directly applicable to you today. The reason for that is that were living after the death of Jesus. And the old testament is unfolding God's plan (which is getting Jesus to die for our sins), so for us today to look at the Old testament and think we can apply things directly to us is a bit silly. Lets for example take the story of David and Goliath, now if you read it, who do you identify with? Unless your pretty big and looking forward to get killed by a small bloke, you'll probably identify with David. And were always told that David was the tiny dude that beat the big dude.. Now this is not exactly true, David wasn't your ordinary little wet nosed boy. For starters he was out killing bears and lions when they were stupid enough to attack his sheep, ok, not such a big feat if you have a rifle you think, but he had no such thing, he used his hands (and maybe a dagger or something).. Add to that that he was God's anointed king (basically that means Christ) and was pretty good with the sling.. So, the idea with the story about David and Goliath is not that we should be small Davids running around, we should identify with the Israelites that didn't dare to attack Goliath, and be thankful for the fact that someone else did (Jesus in our case).

Long post this, so now it's end post time.. See you around dear reader (whoever you are and what you may think)

Permanent Resident

So, after 6 months of waiting, praying, being nervous, planning up to 27 days in advance, worrying, chasing banana gnomes, checking status, waiting for emails, sending papers, getting papers, sending papers again as I sent the wrong papers, feeling like a criminal.. it finally arrived last week!

The email saying

I am pleased to advise that on 08 January 2007 a decision was taken to grant this visa.

Which, if you didn't know, pretty good.. This means that I can stay in this lovely country called Australia "indefinitely" (depends if I'm nice or not, but as I'm pretty nice it shouldn't be a problem!)

So, now when that is out of the way (apart from causing me much less stress [this new blogger have automatic spell checking... how convenient is that?]) I can seriously start looking for jobs (engineering ones that is), which hopefully will be easier now!


But, now I'm way to tired to write anymore, well, that may not be entirely true, but I'm way to tired to write anything useful.. Not that I ever write anything useful.. but still!

Oh, before I go, if you know anything about banana gnomes, let me know.. Their being of not being have been troubling me lately

Christmas

So, first blog in a while this, so figure nobody will read my blog (although young Nathan said he checked it every now and again, so Hi to you Smiley!)

Anyways, apologises for being lazy and not having updated this in ages.. Haven't really had anything to say and no time (spending my lunch break writing this), but today I had an interesting discussion with one of the guys at work. We were discussing (not for very long mind you) why some people celebrate Christmas on the 25th while others on the 24th. So, me then thinking we celebrated Christmas becasue the birth of Jesus thought that maybe there was some confusion with the date or something.

So, did some research (google search..) to find out which of the two days the big man was born.. Turns out he was born sometime between 6.30 and 7.30 pm, on the 13th of September 3BC (atleast acording to this dude [although he's not alone, if your not convinced, do some more research]). What about that? Somewhat mind blowing for me.. And he then goes on and says why we do celebrate christmas the 25th.

In the late 4th century, in early 380 AD, Pope Damasus I was
endeavoring to force allChristians in the Roman Empire to yield to his
authority. He got the Emperor to issue anedict requiring them to practice
the religion of Rome. We know that it is about this timethe
Christmas midnight Mass was first celebrated and December 25th first identified
as aCatholic holy day. It is said Damasus was seeking to lure the people
away from paganrites honoring the birth of the sun god at midnight by compelling
Catholic attendance at amemorial in honor of Christ's death, ie the Mass. The
people confused this Mass with thepagan solar birth rituals conducted at that
same time. Gradually, the Christ-Mass becameassociated with the
Nativity.

So, basically were celebrating the birth of some sun god.. And here I'v always been told at church that so few people now adays know why we really celebrate christmas.. We'll guess they where correct in that, but somehow I don't think they ment that we had forgot about the sun god...

Anyways, next year, Jesus, I'll be celebrating your birhtday on your actual birthday! Time to reclaim Christmas people! Give the 25th (or 24th) to Coke and Santa, and let's celebrate 13th of September (which should be a bit easier as there doesn't seem to be much on around then)

Anyways, hope you'll have a fun Sunmas and get muchos presents and really get into the spirit of things (spending the day in the sun at the beach!)

Punished..

So, more or less working full time nowadays... Not anything I have studied for or so, but it's ok and it pays me bills (and more) so that's pretty cool, never think I have actually worked this much in my life.. The nice people at challenge realised I was to soft to do any hard labour work, so they sent me to where I am no, Recall. I'm running around picking up and storing backup tapes that people send to us to store for a while.

But.. yeasterday I felt like doing something a bit different.. I wanted to buy two CD's! And, this may come as a surprise for some, I wanted to get the latest Muse cd and the latest Eskimoe Joe (dunno how to spell that), but then, they are both kinda main stream nowadays, heard the Muse single, whatever it's called, on the way to and on the way from growth group.. On 96.5 at that!

Anyways, what I was trying to say is, I went down to the city to buy CD's (after deciding against going and getting a haircut as I wanted those CD's), but decide to head in to Big W to buy some stuff first, so, in I go, buy my stuff I do, paying and leaving.. BEEEEEEEEP!!! So the cashier girl just hands my stuff through the beeping thing and it doesn't beep.. (which was pretty weird). Anyway, I go out from Big W, and decide to put my newly bought stuff in my bag and taking my jacket out, which I do, using some table in the food court. After that, heading down to Woolies, where it beeps when I go in... Happily walking around and getting my stuff, line up in the que, decide to take out my wallet.... which isn't there... Running up to Big W again (Beeps when I go out....) But they are closed, but manged to get the attention of some dude, but didn't do me any good as my wallet wasn't there. Down to Woolies again, maybe I put my wallet in my basket.. Didn't. But, I meet Rachel that lends me money so I can buy food, again I must say that friends are good to have... Oh, forgot to say that the alarm beeps when I enter woolies again.. And it beeps when I leave.. So, off to the police and reporting my lost wallet, and then home to check through my bag. Didn't find my wallet, but did find that the cashier chick at Big W forgot to take of one of those beeping things from my stuff.... (which also means I can't use it.. being two boxers tied together with this metal thing, nor can I go back to Big W and say "Hey, I have this pair of boxes here.. they have this beeping thing on them, I can't use them as they have that.. Recepit? No, I lost my wallet...")

But, such is life.. Going to Straddie on the weekend!!! And to bed now...

Until the end

Find the point (dot)

Hi, blog reader(s),

Sorry about the absence of blog posts lately, been to tired... This working man's life is draining.. Especially when you need to get up so early in the morning, and then work hard.. Last week I started at 3am!!! and finished at 3pm (well, only on wen and thur, fri I finished at 1 and mon and tue I didn't start at 3..). Dunno how many tonnes of stuff I have been moving from conveyors to pallets, pallets I have pushed away and replaced with new pallets, I dream about pallets and cardboard boxes..

I intened to tell you what happened to Ronnie, but Mr Marzoq contacted me (dunno how he managed to do such a thing, haven't seen him for ages and ages, and what's the chances of him reading my blog??) and said something about intellectual property, compensation and stuff. So have to sort things out with him first I'm afraid. But, have no fear, we should be able to figure something out, right Ashi?

Got nothing else to say really, except that, if you want to go to straddie next weekend, let me know before wednesday 11th.

Until next time

Straddie Camping Trip!

What are you doing the 13 to 15th of October? Wan't to go on a camping trip to Stradbroke Island? It's pretty cool, we'll be staying at campground where there will be bbq's, toilets and showers. During the days it's swimming time, maybe doing some canoening in the ocean, going one of the lakes, or maybe sand boarding for the adventurous?

There was a bunch of us who went the last summer, and it was pretty nice. We just have to make sure we fill up the cars and it shouldnt be that expensive. And if we know how many will come we can organise food, which will make it a bit cheaper still..

Anyways, would be great if we could be a little gang going (and if Greg and/or Mel comes.. we can celebrate their birthdays!) as it will be something a little bit different and it's pretty relaxed..

And to let you know how nice it is... some photos for your viewing pleasure!

In other news: Started my labouring career today, putting boxes on pallets.. Pretty ok to do actually. Made me pretty tired though.. And tommorow it's something different, I will unpack containers.. Oh how fit I'll be when we go to Straddie!

Ronnie The Dog

It was a day, a very very cold day if my old memory isn't deserting me, when our neighbours dog, Ronnie, decided to run away. It is worth mentioning that our neighbours are Kalang, and hence need to have a dog in their house at all time as they are considered somewhat of a deity. So for our neighbours little red dog (being an Irish setter, hence the red hair.. Irish? nevermind) Ronnie, life was great most of the time, except when he had to perform miracles or face being thrown in the blue rubbish bin with orange ribbons.

Anywahs, I'm loosing track of the main event, namely, that fateful (and ver very cold) day Ronnie got fed up with being thrown in the blue rubbish bin with orange ribbons yet again...

It started out as any other day, the local Mosque woke us up at 5.37 for the morning prayer, apparently this prayer can be performed anytime between the breaking of the dawn and sunrise, but ours always started at 5.37 by some reason. But, again, this has very little or nothing, to do with our story. As usual Ronnie and the other dogs decided to join in in the prayer at around 5.38 (if you ever want a fool proof alarm clock.. try this combination!). Then, well, nothing much ever happens until people start driving of to work at around 7 (I have, many a time, tried to organise combined morning activities to no avail. I fondly rememeber my "who can collect the most honey in 10 minutes" activity... Unfortunately mr Arnesen [who ownes the bees] didn't appreciate the idea and Mrs Johansson haven't talked to me since..)

At 7.35 the school bus came to pick me and my fellow classmates up to go in to town, or at least it was supposed to get there at 7.35, it usually ended up getting there at about 7.46 (on average, the year we meassured), which was pretty ordinary when it was cold, as it was that this fateful day.

Anyways, when the bus finaly came to pick us up (at around 7.46+- 4.56 min), I could se my neighbour approaching Ronnie with that today-I-would-really-apreciate-a-miracle-and-if-you-want-your-light-and-chrispy-dog-biscuits-you-will-give-me-one look in his eye. I didn't think much about it at the time, but Ronnie this morning had a, what I can best describe as you-can-stuff-your-biscuits-somewhere-where-the-cat-won't-go-I've-had-enough kinda look. But, as I said, I wasn't thinking much about it at the time and the school bus took me away for another, ooh so exciting, day at school...

Nothing much I can say about the school day, except that I found out that aunt Lisa (our headmistress) had won on some lottery and was going of to the capital to meet som famous soap opera star.

Anyways, it was when I got home that the terrible news was revealed to me! Ronnie was missing! He had, to everyone's surprise, not performed a miracle, but instead of allowing himself to be thrown in the blue rubbish bin with the orange ribbons, he had barked (quite forecefuly att Mr Marzoq, eh, our neighbour I mean) and then jumped the white wooden fence with the funny mosquitos painted on it. And nobody had seen him since..

[To be continued]

A Day in the Sun

So, nothing much to write about today I, again.. Well, maybe I have things to write about, but would you find it interesting? Probably not. Doesn't stop me from writing things though!

Went to the Arundel Mosque yesterday, for a little tour, never been to a Mosque before so was kinda interesting. The guy running it seemed like a nice guy and changed my view of Muslims to the better. Although going to the Mosque made me quite happy I'm a Christian, to much things to remember, like walking in to the toilet with your left (I could get these ones mixed up) foot first and saying something in Arabic, and then when you leave the toilet you have to leave with your right (unless I got these mixed up) foot first and say something else in Arabic. Same things goes for a whole lot of things.

After the little tour we went to the Arundel Pressy church and moved all their benches (called something I can't remember) so that we could place tables and chairs in their main hall. Then we went and got heaps of chinese food and got back and served a bunch of people food. And listened to Garnet talk about the 4 main Religions of the world (although part 2 of Gramy spent most of the talk sleeping...)

Then it was of to the beach for a shorty and then going home time, which was interesting as me, Trav and Mell talked about lifes hardships and stuff, speaking of Mel, I promised her I'd put up her list of characteristics for a guy, so you'll know if your the one!

#1 Ledsen, men det vore inte rätt att tala om hennes kriterier för dig, vill du veta vad hon tycker så får du ta och jobba lite!

#2 Nej, lite mer jobb än så måste du lägga ned.

#3 Du verkar riktigt nyfiken, om du inte inte översatt alla punkterna på en gång förstås.

#4 Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter

#5 Vad ska jag skriva nu, om du är svensk och läser detta så är det ju inte direkt jätte intressant, men inte skrivet för dig!

#6 Fakiren är på promenad med sin son. Plötsligt råkar pojken trampa på en spik.
Pappan blir arg och fräser: Det är konstigt med dig att du alltid ska tänka på nöjen.

#7 Så du läser fortfarande, jag är rätt säker på att du inte kommer att få ut så där jätte mycket av dessa punkter

#8 Fast å andra sidan, om du har kanske lärt dig lite svenska, om du nu kunde det innan, då kanske den har försämrats

#9 Undrans om du gjorde det första punkterna och sedan tänkte du att du var smart och hoppade till sista punkten, otur i så fall.

Not a real post

An Italian, a German and an Australian football fan were arrested in
a small Arabian state when they were caught urinating on a religious
building after an all night drinking binge.
The trio have to face up to the local sultan and are dished out the
typical punishment for religious desecration - 20 lashes of the whip
to the back. But the Sultan was a big football fan so he kindly granted
them two wishes each - but they were not allowed to change the number
of lashes or the type of punishment.

The Italian says " Well we are the World Champions so I go first. I want the pleasure of a beer and a pillow.".
The Sultan grants his wishes.
With a wide grin the Italian drinks his beer and binds the pillow to his naked back.
But after 10 lashes the pillow falls apart and he has to painfully endure the remaining 10 lashes which leave deep welt marks on his back.

The German saw all this and spends a few minutes thinking before smiling. "I would like to have two pillows for my back". The Sultan thinks about the uniqueness of the wishes but decides to grant it given he has used up his two wishes in one go. However after 15 lashes of the whip both pillows have fallen apart and the German has to painfully endure the remaining 5 lashes which leave deep welt
marks on his back.
The Australian is grinning from ear to ear and mutters something under his breath about a wrong penalty.
"Ok my first wish is to double the number of lashes to 40." There is stunned silence in the hall.

The Italian, German and Sultan are a little surprised at the first wish but then remember the strong fighting performance the Aussies put up during the World Cup in Germany 2006.
The Italian and German look at each other and nod in admiration - obviously this Aussie wants to show how tough he is.

The Sultan asked the Aussie for his second wish.

(Look at the comment)

Why so many stupid ppl?

Why are there so many stupid people in this world?!! Watching the news make's me want to cry (almost, I'm not the crying or caring type.. [but starting to get somewhat caring me thinks, guess I spent to much time with Steve..], but if I was I'd cry) there are people running around blowing themselves up (and taking as many others with them as possible, would be somewhat fine if they just could blow themselves up, and not forcing their opinions on others!), then we have people being dictrators or some crap, they decide to test new weapons on their population, why not kill 100 000ppl? We have millions more.. Then we have others, that think money is the most important thing in the world and will do anything to make more money; "Hey, Africa! man, what a market.. all the eat is rice and roots and crap, let's give em some real food! (Coke and Hamburgers...), Oh, and then we have to run our cars, make our roads, make useless stuff, etc, etc with oil! And, oh, how good, oil is in some dodgey countries where they are fighting each other.. lets give em some more weapons! Then let's go there after a couple of years and try out our new weapons as well! Yeeeh!!!

MUUUUHHHH!!! That's what I think about X people in this world! Grow up!!!! Start understanding that other PEOPLE are important, not MONEY and POWER! (and your ^^&%&) It's easy if you try....

Anyways, enough whingeing about the state of the world, and to something completely different, Car washing without water! (or atleast very little water) Had to do that today, think the car haven't been wached for ages, so it kinda needed it.. But, just washing the car with a spounge and a bucket of water... well, it gathers the dirt in strings... looks very nice.. NOT! But figured out a smart way to do it, wash is with the spounge and then dry it of with a towel before it dries! Ingenious! Or you could pray for rain, tried that one.. were some clouds there for a while, and even a light light drip.. but not enough. Works with the towel though... Oh, and I vaccumed it as well, with my amazing Cyclonic Vaccum cleaner (see video..) so it's very clean inside..... eh

Anyways, another day tomorrow, which I hopefully will spend on the beach and a phone call from Skilled telling me that they want me to work for them would be pretty good as well. Oh, if your a HR manager for some engineering firm and want a graduate engineer (electronics, but can learn others..), well, I'm your man! Amazingly awesome I am, can do anything, me and McGywer are like a spounge and a soap!

That's all for me, today, and I'm looking forward to your amazing imput, that is what makes the world of blogging go around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and now I can't write anymore as I get confused...

Quinn The Eskimo (They Mighty Quinn)

Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats, Some are building monuments, Others, jotting down notes, Ev'rybody's in despair,Ev'ry girl and boy But when Travinia the Eskimo gets here, Ev'rybody's gonna jump for joy. Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Travinia.

This song has nothing to do with this post, other then inspiring me to write this post (as I had a way to start it.. oh, and... well, you probably figured it out already! (although it's a pretty crap image... last one.. unless I get some very good pictures)

I did think about something yesterday though, I had one of those (rare) thoughtful and deep insights... But of course I cannot remember it now.. probably will remember it in an hour or so, when I have finished this post..

Again, I'd like to make some advertisement fro Launchcast it is pretty good, and if your getting bored of the music your currently listening to and want to get, lots and lots, of obscure bands you have never heard about before in your favourite genre.. well it's a pretty good place to start.

Oh, if you like the idea of hitting people in the head with sticks... I'm planning to start with Kendo in a couple of weeks, if you want to come check it out with me, let me know! I'm planning to try the beginners classes out for a month, and see how it is.

And, I do have a little idea, to make things a bit interesting, if you have some cool liks, pictures or something like that.. don't hesitate to send them to me and I'll put it/them up in a magnificent post!

Until we meet in the dark, MKC

P.S Be careful when your trying to drive into government buildings so the don't have one of these...

Ekka day!

So, today is the Ekka day... Or not exactly, today is they day people working in the central area of Brisbane have their day off.. Which should be quite a few people.. And the reason for this is that they should go to the Ekka(?). When I write this two of my regular readers have spent around 3 hours or something there already, running around and doing whatever you do on a market, and they still have like 8-9 hours to go.. Anyways, me and Steve are of to check it out in a bit (although we went there for 30min or so on Monday, which I kinda thought was enough). I don't really enjoy being at a place where there's stacks of animals (and animal pooh), lots and lots of kids, lots of stalls there try their best to make you test (and usually, in my case, make a fool of yourself), people bumping in to you from everywhere and stuff. But, I may be wrong and this may be a totally wonderful experience!!!! And I sit in a corner and cry when they close.. Update will follow, watch this space!

Other news.. The BEACH is Awesome! What better way to spend a Monday then going up the coast and haning on the beach, throwing a Zocker Combo football around, and then go for lunch at one of the restaurants near by? Not many that I can think of.

Anyways, have to go and make some pancakes and then it's off to the Ekka...

Oh, btw, Mel, what about the Ronali? You forgot them in your race!

Monday.....

Hey dear Blogreader

What do you think about the fact that today, it is Monday! Do you like it? Looking forward to a new week? Did you, wake up, with a big grin on your face and the though "Wheeee hooo! Another great and exciting week in my great and exciting life! Thank you God for creating me, thank you for putting me here, thank you for my friends and thank you for today!". If you did, my taking-of-the-imaginary-blue-hat-gratulations to you! If you didn't, well, though luck, and just remember, there are people worse of than you!

Like me, I have to go to the beach today....

Beach! Finally, haven't been there for ages (well, were there last Saturday, but didn't really count as it was at night and there were no getting into the water involved) and will be cool I think.

So, weekend was pretty good, Jo become and old lady, eh, no, wait, maybe not old, and, btw, she's actually having a birthday today (I believe), so Happy Real Birthday to you Jo!

Smiley finally lived up to his name... Having a picnic in the park (about 200m from Mel's house..) can be pretty fun, you never know what strange topics people bring up.. And, never call Steve a bird, unless you have a good explanation to why you call him that particular bird!

Oh, got some photos from my dear friend Kalle to! How his house/appartment and daughter looks like (and, how my dear friend Lars looks like when he's getting married), really interesting to see how a house looks like when it is finished, last time I saw it was when we were thrashing walls with sledgehammers!

Anyways people, it is now time, to get ready, and to go to do it on, eh, didn't work, tried to get as many 2 letter words in a row as I could... What I was trying to say, is, time to go and get ready for tha beach!



We are little airy creatures,
All of different voice and features.
One of us in glass is set,
One of us you’ll find in a jet;
The other you may see in tin,
And the fourth a box within.
If the fifth you should pursue,
It can never fly from you.

Not a whole lot

So, another post, and this one will have not deapth what so ever, so maybe I'll get a few comments this time? Can't say I have a lot to tell, except, that my dear friend Nathan (aka Smelly aka Smiley aka Smiz aka some other names) have joined the exclusive clubs of the non singles! Congrats to him, and, I suppose, her (don't have the copywrights to her name yet, so cant put it up)! So, that makes one less in the singles club then, not that "the singles club" exists, it doesn't, just a figure of speach, but if it did exists, well, then he would have left it, provided he'd be in it to start with, which he, of course, isn't, as it doesn't exist, nor have it ever..

Anyways, other news sees my most trusted commenter (although she claims she'll written her last post, due to some unfortunate misunderstanding, I must add) and miss Biggs are going to the little country south east of us... Seeing snow and sights I believe they are going to do, we (royal we... see, I think I'm royal! Or maybe I just have a multiple personality but am afraid to admit it, hence I revert into the "I'm royal" state...) wich them all the best and promise to miss them the last two days they are away!

I think that was all the things I could write about, withouth stretching things to much, I'll try to find a picture of sorts to put up for your enjoyment! And maybe even a riddle or a poem?

Couldn't fit this image up there...

A tribute to Smelly, no longer Smelly!

Downs and Ups

So, it's been a weekend of dissapointment and some trepiditation... Was supposed to get my english test results (big thing for my PR) on Friday, but didn't. So had to wait for it over the entire weekend.. fun fun.

Anyways, friday night starts with us celebrating Burnzys bucks party, starting with a BBQ here and then move on to play some pool... Where me and Knobby play against Steve and Justin.. And get pantsed! So there is disappointment 1 for the weekend: I'm being a wuzz and refuse to take my pants of and run around the table, instead I go home as I "need to sleep, because I have to work in the morning".

So, Saturday, we play Football against the bottom team, we win 6-1, but I don't think I have a specifcally great game... to be mild. Get a few comments from one of my team mates, disappointment 2 of the weekend: I sulk.

Saturday night, we meet outside of Amy and Debbie's (withouth them knowing we'll be there or being home), although Amy and Greg show up while were still trying to decide what to do.. Anyways, after a lot of time (oh, btw, we spent 2h or something in msn converstion before we got to a decision where to meet..) we managed come to the conclusion that we'll go to Bribie Island, via Nathan and Naomi's place (to pick up Greg) and Cabolture BP. No disappointments so far.

Then, we end up at the beach on Bribie, were all having fun, playing around with a ball and tackling each other. Then, Steve and Greg decide to prank me and Greg hides behind me and Steve pushes me back... Me falling on my back, and trying to get revenge on Steve, and try to wrestle him down.. Not the smartest move ever, so disappointment 3: Me getting really really angry and trying to wrestle Steve down (no more success, only difference I look like a complete jerk). So, instead of saying sorry to Steve for loosing it, I sulk, again! Always easier to be angry with someone else than bite the sour apple (?) and admit your the one that's an idiot... Got around to it in the end, and man it's emarrasing.. Must say sorry to everyone that was there.

Good night apart from that though!

Sunday night, making pancakes (Swedish style) after church (not using the best of frying pans) and people are trying to offer me suggestions, what to do, what equipment to use etc. And.. disappointment 4: I snap and get annoyed and tell people not to... Oh, the patience....!!!! (pancakes seamed to work out nicely in the end, in spit of my short patience)


Monday, waiting for the mail.. Will it be another disappointment? I'm somewhat worried about the writing component of my English test, pretty confident about the listening and reading parts though, and fairly confident about the speaking test.. Mail arrives and me, taken by a sense of dread, opens it and...

Fulfillment (synonym to disappointment apparently)! I get 8.5 on listening, 7 on reading, 9 on Writing and 9 on Speaking (8.5 in avg).. So, the thing I was most confident about went the worst, the thing I was most nervous about went the best... Weird, but WHO CARES!!!??? I ONLY NEEDED SIXES!!!

Anyways, with that worry out of the way, maybe I can start behaving again.

Hope your having lots of ups and not so many downs!

vida, el universo y burbujas del jabón

So, had a job interview today, always a good thing to have, of course I didn't shine like a little star as always.. Did ok me thinks, but that is generally not good enough. Prepared a bit for this one to, tried learning Visual Basic for Applications (in one day), didn't become an expert, but atleast I had some clue of what I were doing.. But, the most important part was writing some pseudo code, and writing pseudo code is fairly easy... except that I never tend to know what I should actuall write, to focused on one language... Thing was that all I had to do was to read from two files, connect them together (person to winnings), figure out how much each person had won, if they had won more than 20k, and if all their winnings was the same (e.g. lotto, horses) and then write two files with the name, how much they won and what they won in... Now the easy, and smart way, to do this when you can pick from all and any language, is to use something like .Net's DataSet to read your files into (two tables), then make a view with some funky sql qurey that gives you what you want, and then just print it to a file, either by looping, creating a string, where you "manually" put your delimiter in the string, or using some funky function.. me, I was to focused on C.. and though using a DataSet (or database) may be cheating.. so I did loops.. probably works, but not to pretty... Anyways, such is life and you never know until you know..

Other thing, tommorrow I, most probably, will get my IELTS test... Also very very funny... Should be ok, but me and written exams doesnt go well together, I always seem to under achieve on them, may have something to do with me having no short term memory... hm, oh well, I'll guess I'll figure out how that went when I do...

So, what is happening in your life this moment in time? (from about 10 mins ago to 10 mins in the future) Anything interesting? Anything funky? Anything with very little chocolate and very much cofee?

Trying to keep this post somewhat short.. Not that it is very short, I can't write short posts, it's not in me... Oh, well, now I'll stop anyways, should go help Steve and Greg, or at least, superwise (is that spelled with a v or a w?), Steven and Greg, cook.

Oh, btw, you can now get mattiac.blogspot.com translated into 9 different languages! Cool heh?

Another day of survival

So another day I have survived!

And it haven't been any day either, me, joining Medibank Private on my visitors insurance (almost practicaly and stuff makes me an Australian), my (technically Mikes, but he's not here atm) car got a new CV Shaft and Boots (not sure what a car need boots for, but they mechanics now best) it also got some oil, some workshop supplies and some care! Oh, and I got two CD's, thank you Aaaalissssoooon! For your edification I'll tell you later (further down in this post) what CD's I bought, hm, I may even put a picture or two in! Then you'll already know what CD's I bought when you read this but I won't know that you know yet, as I haven't put them in yet, and I can still choose not to put them in and then you'd be all confused!

Appart from that, well, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! ok, it was the B division and the b final (fifth place) but we still won it and got medals! And me getting football medals don't happen very often (planning to get another on this year, just so you know, watch out Beenleigh!)

And, apparently, there are another team that call themselves "The Champions" (or something) that can't really do that anymore now can they? You need to reach a final to win something, right? I guess Mel played awesom as always though, so no blame on her (ps. this has nothing do do with me having a be nice to Mel week)

So, deciding that I should put the images of my newly acquired CD's at random places in this post, you will, off course, already know that as you have seen them, but they are not there now, kinda weird actually. I mean, I'm doing this post and I don't know that the images are there, yet, but you, who reads this post and have nothing to do with it, you know they are there and you sort of see them before I do, hmm, strange world we live in!


Упование вы будете иметь большой день!

PS: There are two new links you could check out.. pretty good ones, just have to remember what the second link is supposed to be so I can put it up there, so, if there are two new links, I did remember it, if there is only one new, I didn't

PS2: Want to draw your attention to the newly reopened mpcsocial.blogspot.com that is one of my lame tries to get people to try a new way of organise things..

PS3: Oh, and check out the new SECTION (located where the old "interesting fact" section was)

mio ventisettesimo compleanno!

So, another year in my life.. Has it been good? Well, for the most part it actually has, nothing really bad has happened (always good) lots of good things has happened. I have had many many issues with many different things as always. I have finished another Master degree (hopefully my last!).. I have been in the sun, I have played Football, I have spent time with friends, I have made new friends, I have been in "love", I have stuffed up, I have done things I had never done before, I have been angry, I have been sad, I have spent my forth consecutive birthday in Australia (which, is somewhat weird as I have only been here for 31 months and 12 days [give or take a day], and last I checked that would be about 2.6 years), I have lost a loved one, I have missed a few weddings, I have made a fool of myself, I have been impressive, I have been mean, I have been nice, I have sinned, I have been forgiven, I have prayed, I have argued, I have listened, I have talked, I have written a blog, I have been responsible, I have ben irresponsible, I have been working, I have been looking for work, I have done what I should, I have not done what I should, I have written a really really long paragraph with lots and lots of commas that nobody will read as it is way to long! I have ended this very long paragraph.

Yesterday Steve organised a birthday gathering for me, that noboday said they could come to as they all had other things to do.. So, me going there thinking it would be a crowd of about 5 of us.. But it turned out Steve had told everyone to say they couldnt come, even if they could.. So.. when I got there there where, like a crowd of people there! Made me feel very special indeed!

So, All I want to say isto all of you for showing up, and a special thanks to Steve for organising it!

To wrap this little post up... here's a "Trivia for the Toilet" just for you:

In Somalia, Africa, it's been declared illegal to carry old chewing gum stuck on the tip of your nose

Hope your having a sorprendente day and all that all of you will battersi per una causa legittima!