Every now and then even I do something REALLY STUPID!

Today, I got off the bus and left my BIG WARM COAT on the BUS!!!!!!  BOdoh Dabido!  Baka Dabido!!!!

I got home and smiling at my stupidity told my mother and brother [who were already seated at the table and eating dinner] what had happened.  My mother then started yelling that I had to go catch the bus and get my coat back else I’d never see it again.  My brother lept up and ran for his car keys.  I was trying to explain it wasn’t that big a deal.  I could always phone the depot, or if I was lucky my friend Michael Jackson might have picked it up for me.  [I love using his full name!] 

Meanwhile, Jeff had grabbed the keys, beaten me out the door.  I followed him and we drove off.  He was sort of panicking and driving fast and I told him to slow down and take it easy.  I had strange visions of us both getting killed over a stupid coat.  Fortunately he listened and slowed down.  I explained to him the coat did not matter that much.  I can always buy a new one.
We got to the Train Station (where the bus was heading for after dropping me off), but found it had already left.  *sigh*

So, back home I went and started to look up the depot phone number on the internet.  I could hear my mother yelling in the back ground.  Something about me having lost that coat for good etc.  The transperth website said to contact the contractor who provides the buses, so I was looking them up.  My brother came in and wanted to know why I wasn’t on the Transperth site.  I explained I was looking up the contractor who ran the buses.  I had to backtrack to prove to him what te site said about contacting the contractor.  He then left and I started to navigate away from the page again … in came my mother and wanted to know why I wasn’t on the transperth site!  *SIGH*  So, I had to back track to explain to her what I was doing.

I got the phone number fo the depot and phoned, but it was too late, they had gone home for the day.

My mother and brother were still going on about the coat.  My brother suddenly turned around and said, ‘You know what?  I’m the only one who didn’t panic over this.’   By this stage I was getting irritated over the whole thing.  So I pointed out that I was the one who had to ask him to slow down in the car.!  *sigh*

Anywat, I’ll check to see if my friend Michael Jackson has the coattomorrow on the bus, and if he didn’t pick it up for me, I’ll phone the depot once I get to work.  *sigh*  All this over a stupid coat I can easily buy a replacement for.  Plus, it doesn’t fit me stomach anymore anyway!  lol  I can’t even button the thing up! 

Some of my regular readers might remember me writing about my mother having a slight car accident.  You might also remember me saying that from my mothers description it seemed the other car was at fault.  Anywat, she heard back from the Insurance today, as she contacted both the police and the insurance company about the car.  Apparently the license plate the other car had on it doesn’t exist.  They can’t find any trace of the guys in the car nor the car or anything.

My mother suspects that this [as well as them causing the accident], is why they were in such a hurry and pretending they couldn’t speak English (even after one of them accidentally said they could).  So, probably a person driving without a license in an unregistered car who caused an accident and left my poor mother on the side of the road with no one to help.

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Oh … sometime today my hit counter went over 200,000!!!!

Hits since October 2nd 2006
Total Hits: 200123
Hits today: 348

So, thanks to all my readers!    I’ve managed more than 100,000 hits on average per year since I started counting. 

Now, here is a little twist on the trip to KL in December (December 30 to January 12th … or 13th … ).  I’ll be flying in on Air Asia in the morning of the 30th (I hope.  Still trying to find my passport to book the flights!!!)  Yes, I do want to go to a NYE party like last year.  Thanks for asking! 
BUT, I’m wondering if during my stay there if anyone wants to do a day trip to Penang or a trip to Kuching?

Is a day trip plausible?  One hour to get on the flight, 45 minutes to Penang, hang out all day, then hour at the airport to get on the return flight and  back to KL to sleep????  Of course, people in Penang or Kuching, I expect you to remain where you are.    No running away just because I am heading there.  [You can hide in the jungle like the rest of the people!] 
Of course, with almost two weeks in Malaysia,  if enough people in Kuching and Penang want to meet up, then maybe I should book a hotel and stay over night or something.

Of course, having travelling blog buddies would also be nice as well.  So, maybe if we fill the plane up and all head to Penang and then Kuching! 

I don’t know how much the tax is to travel interstate in Malaysia, but it basically doubles the airfare from Perth … butI suspect the taxis more than the airfare, as it’s only RM15 to Penang.  (Only RM90 *cough* to Kuching). 
PLUS!!!!  Here is another thing I saw.  Apparently if you book a flight from August 26th to August 31st,  Air Asia are giving 1,000,000 free airfares away (but you have to pay the tax and everything else).   The flights are from 1st April to 31st July.  Just wondering if any of you are going to head to Perth [Looking at Ninja Kitten to see if she’s coming to annoy Mags again!  Hee hee!] 

I did consider booking myself, but then decided I was too busy organising this trip to make a judgement within the time frame.  [Don’t know what work holds for me by then].   But, anyone who is coming from Malaysia into Peth during that time, be sure to drop by and hassle me!    Let me know if you’re coming.

Oh … and I had my boss approve my leave this morning!  hee hee!    So I definitely have the time off. 

Another Stolen meme.  This time from the Queen of … um … Hedonism maybe!  lol
1. Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?

I learned to read.  Come to think of it, as an introvert reading is one of those past times that is wonderful.    I used to really love Dr Suess and Asterix comics when I was young.    Plus, I loved teenager detective things (even before I was a teenager).

2. What are some books you read as a child?

Every Dr Suess, Readers Digest, Asterix, Encyclopedia Brown, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Secret Seven (Enid Blyton books) I could find.

3. What is your favourite genre?

Hmm, maybe SF (Science Fiction).  I discovered Dune and Lord of the Rings in Pre-Teenage years and never looked back.

4. Do you have a favourite novel?

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima.

5. Where do you usually read?

Anywhere and everywhere except in unsanitary conditions. (Never could understand how people can read on the toilet!!!)

On the bus, in bed, in libraries, in parks, at cafes, even at school and University … I just READ! 

6. Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?

Yes.  In fact, I have a habit of puttign books down every now and then and not picking them up for years, but can still remember where I am up to when I return to reading the book.  lol

7. Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?

In a different way.  Not in a different place.  Can\’t see how the subject matter of what you are reading coul dbe affected by the place (unless the place is unusually noisey).  Non-Fiction I often read different as I\’m looking for specific things for University assignments etc.  Fiction you can just read along and enjoy the ride.  Non-Fiction can also be enjoyable in the same sense.  Just, the PURPOSE of reading will affect how someone reads anything.

8. Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?

Buy books.  I have five book cases all full.  I have got rid of most of my books (given away or sold at CHEAP CHEAP PRICES) more than once in the past, but I doubt I\’d ever do that again.

9. Do you keep most of the books you buy? If not, what do you do with them?

Now I do.  Once I sold them all as my church at the time didn\’t think SF and Fantasy was \’good reading\’ for a Christian, and once I got rid of them as a flatmate insisted I have LESS STUFF else she was going to evict me (even though I was going to pay to have them stored in private storage), but it was either I give them away or else!!!  (Stoopid flatmate!)  Not to mention the times other people were nice enough to sell my books behind my back!!!!

10. If you have children, what are some of the favorite books you have shared with them? Were they some of the same ones you read as a child?

When (IF) I have children they can read as much as they possible can without them exceeding any legal things (like they can\’t read R rated stuff, or 15+ stuff till they are legally allowed to) … 

11. What are you reading now?

Hmmm, LOTS of stuff for my Arts Degree (I mean LOTS of books, articles, readers etc), Wheel of Time Book 1(Michael Jordan), Killing Floor (Lee Childs), manuals, programming stuff, blogs, web stuff, Deep Six (Clive Cussler) … more stuff than I can name … of, still going with Musashi as well.

12. Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?

Only in my head!  lol  Well, sometimes I write books I\’d like to read on paper and then forget where I leave the paper.  lol

13. What books would you like to reread?

Good ones.  lol  Maybe some bad ones.

14. Who are your favourite authors?

Terry Pratchet, Larry Niven, Yukio Mishima … Um … bloggers.  lol

Another Meme stolen from the Emperor of Memes.
A is for Age
Neolithic!
B is for Burger of Choice
Vegie Burger.  Best ones were from a shop near Miranda Fair (Sydney) opposite the community Centre (Provided it is still there)
C is for Car You Drive
I don’t drive, I get chauffeur driven in a Mercedes every work day.  (Admittedly that Mercedes is a bus).
D is for Dog’s Name
Toby and Elly.  Though, if I was to name a dog, it would be Cerebus the DESTROYER!  THE MUNCHER OF MAN KIND!!!!
E is for an Essential Item Used Each Day
Brain.  Don’t leave home without it!
F is for Favorite Television Show
Futurama.
G is for Favorite Game
Total War: Medieval II
H is for Hometown
Define Hometown?  Born, Ipswich Qld, Live, Perth, WA, spent 22 years in Sydney, NSW.
I is for Instruments Played
Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, clarinet, Oboe, saxaphone, pipa, cello.  Will one day play flute and violin … maybe!  lol
J is for Favorite Juice
Banana, mango, peach … anything but citrus stuff which makes me bleed.
K is for What You’d Like to Kick
My own arse to get me writing more!!!
L is for Last Restaurant You Ate At
Utopia Northbridge.
M Is for Your Favorite Muppet
Fozzy Bear.  I’ve based my life on him! 
N is for Number of Piercings
ZEROOOOOOO!

O is for Number of Overnight Hospital Stays
Four .. I think.
P is for People You Were With Today
Work People … Family … Bus people … that’;s it.
Q is for What You Do in Quiet Times
Pray that I get mroe sleep! 
R is for Regrets
Getting Married to a SHE WHORE!!!!
S is for Status
Permanently Single.
T is for Time(s) You Woke Up Today
5:30 AM.

U is for What You Consider Unique
Those guys with no testicles.  Oh wait, that’s a Eunic!
V is for Favorite Vegetable
Potato

W is for Worst Habit
Eating things I’m allergic too … like Chocolate!!!!
X is for X Rays You Have Had
About ten … I think. 5x Foot … ribs x4 … spine x 1 … do CT scans count?  Cause I can add a few more.
Y is for Yummy Food Eaten Today
Blue berry Jelly.
Z is for Zodiac Sign

Caution, You are going the wrong way!  (Or Gemini … I always forget)  Or Snake in Chinese Zodiac … though somedays I’m a Moose or Yak! 

Weekend was a bit of a blur.

Got home Friday and my mother didn’t want to cook, so we had pizza.  This was about a day after explaining to her that my recent width loss was due to not eating cheese.  lol  Guess I’ve put it all on again now! 

As we were looking after the neice and nephew, my mother asked me to go buy ‘Mario and Sonic at the Olympics’.  Game was AUD$100 cause it’s still new, and they are apparently only having it for a short time to cash in on the Olympics.  So, I had to spend the cash!    I did spend a bit of cash on myself though, buying three PS2 titles and two PC games.

First PC game off the rank was Total War: Medieval II.  A game I didn’t stop playing all weekend as I was having so much fun.  Played England in a short campaign and won {destroying France and Scotland along the way}.  Then, started playing England in a LONG campaign.  I now own France, part of Belgium and the Netherlands, Northern & middle Italy.  I think I’m doing good.  Just have to capture some more provences and Jerusalem and I win the game. 

One of the things I liked was winning the battles.  I won some even though I was outnumbered two to one, and I even came out of some with very little losses.  The graphics are awesome.  I do have a slight problem of not protecting my generals too well, and have got a few of them killed!  Wooops!

I even have a favourite battle that I won.  Was the taking of Dublin in the Long Campaign.  I set most of my forces out the front of Dublin and sent two cavalry to the left of the city and two cavalry to the right [Classic pincer?]  I then got my army to march into Dublin, then sent the right cavalry in to catch the Irish from behind, and sent the left cavalry in to also do the same … one problem did come up, that of the timing.

One of my cavalry units from the right got into Dublin before anyone else and was almost annihilated by the Irish.  My second cavalry unit from the right arrived a while after, and eventually the first unit was saved when the rest of the army arrived to battle the Irish from the front.  By the time my cavalry from the left arrived I had almost already wiped out the Irish army.  But, we learn from the mistakes.  It was still a great victory as the armies were evenly matched before the battle.

[So that explains where I was all weekend!] 

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Now, due to the excitement of playing the game I did forget to do my ironing, almost missed Jimmy Page perform at the Olympics [playing Whole Lotta Love.  He wasn’t competing!]    So, today I am wearing a shirt which is slightly too small and keeps having one of the buttons pop open to reveal my lilly white tummy.    Now, if only girls could wear shirts like that! 

I did cook dinner Sunday too, so wasn’t too lazy.

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Oh, I got a reply from the weight loss tablet people who had supposedly removed me from their merchandise list.  The ones who charged me for more pills after I asked NOT to receive any more.  Their reason for charging me after saying I was removed and wouldn’t get any more of their product … I hadn’t sent their merchandise back!  WTFrigg!!!

I’m going to write them a nasty e-mail back.  I mean, if I cancel a subscription to anything else they don’t demand their merchandise back!  Imaging if magazines did that … ‘Please send back all magazines we’ve sent to you so we can cancel your subscription’ or any other ‘edible’ merchandise did that, ‘please send back all donuts you have paid for and eaten that we sent you!’.  Considering that their FIRST lot of weight loss tablets didn’t arrive as it was confiscated by customs and destroyed, I’ve got buckley’s chance of retrieving their product anyway!  But to then charge me for MORE of their product after the subscription has been cancelled is REDICULUS!!!! Grrrr!  I guess some people will invent any excuse to keep another persons money.

I’m going to contact the bank and see what can be done at their end.  I might not be able to retrieve my money, but I can sure as hell stop them getting any more.

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On another more happy note, the tap locks we bought to stop our neighbours stealing our water seems to have worked [at least for now!]

At about 3AM on Sunday morning my mother was awoken by some strange sounds near our front tap.  In the morning she & my brother Jeff checked and it looked like someone had tried to get the tap locks off.  What they’d done instead was bent the tap pipe in their effort to get the lock off.  They’d also left more of their rubbish for us to clean up!

I mean, this is the OPPOSITE of lazy.  What sort of person is sitting in their living room and rather than throw their empty chip packet into the bin saves it in order to throw it onto their neighbours property at three in the morning?  It is so much eaier just to get off the friggin’ lounge and throw it in the bin!!!!  Less walking … less hassle … and no annoying the neighbours.

I think it takes a special sort of idiot to decide to do such stupid things!!!!

I have a strange feeling they might come back with a pair of bolt cutters or something next in order to continue their dumb 3AM annoyances!!!

Had some funny thoughts today.  Hoping one day I can stick them together in a little video.

Which reminded me, I have half a dozen video’s on my camera I haven’t downloaded onto my computer yet!

Tap Locks arrived today.  Apparently the guy who invented them  had gone on holiday when he received a phone call from one neighbour dobbing on his other neighbour for stealing his water.  So, he set up a camera out the back of his house, and sure enough his neighbour was sneaking into his yard and night and passing his hose over their fence and stealing his water.  lol

Hope it will deter whoever has been stealing our water.

My brother Jeff had them on before I even got home.

Got to watch a movie for once.   Blogosphere is so slow lately.  I saw Hancock.  Thought it was very nice movie, but didn’t like the end that much.  Liked the fact that Charlize Theron was also like Will Smith.  My mother was funny, I kept insisting that Hancock and Mary knew each other, and my mother kept insisting that they didn’t.  THEN, when Ray was asking Hancock where he was from [Another world, Government experiments etc], my mother suddenly goes, ‘I bet they’re both aliens and they know each other!’  lol  Then she talked about how she’s really good at working these things out.  lol

She did get one thing right.   She said that ‘Ray’ (Jason Bateman) was the brother of ‘that girl who was in that show with Michael J Fox’.  lol  I disagreed, but it was in fact Jason Bateman.  Bodoh Dabido!  I had to actually tell my mother WHO Justine Bateman was, and the name of the show she was in with Michael J Fox … though my insistence on it not being him just made me look stupid in the end!  lol  Guess that’s what I get for not watching a lot of movies. 

My mother and brother have seen Kung Fu Panda, Meet Dave, Don’t Mess with the Zohan … I haven’t seen any of them yet.  I better catch up.

Also, they’ve been painting the roof.

I still haven’t heard any news back regarding last nights blog subject.
Any Perth Bloggers coming to this site - should we organise a meet up at Utopia at North Bridge Soon???????  Would be nice to have a BIG MEET UP! 

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ADDENDUM:

I have also lost some width lately.  My belt (which I bought in KL)  had previously needed a new notch made in it since coming back … now I need to make another new notch.  I must have lost about five centimetres from around my waist!

Why is it the deepest doo doo you get stuck in is stuff you didn\’t choose to get stuck in?

Remember how I order weight loss pills and it ended up I got a nice letter from Australian Customs?

Well, I cancelled all orders from the company that sent me the stuff, and they sent me a confirmation that I was no longer going to receive any of their product.  Sounds good … right?

Looking at my bank account today I noticed that a few days ago they debited my account and it says it was for those friggin\’ weight loss pills again!  FRAK!!!!!!

So, not only am I over a hundred dollars out of pocket from those mongrels, I\’m probably going to have to explain it all to the Customs department why I\’m receiving weight loss pills that come with a controlled substance in them AGAIN!!  FRAK!!!!

What to do to get the money back?   Who to contact to explain to customs so I don\’t get into trouble as I didn\’t order the friggin\’ pills this time?  And WHO THE FRIG in the USA didn\’t take me off the friggin\’ LIST OF PEOPLE WHO GET THIS CRAP!!!!!!???

Well, first I\’ll ask my bank to do a reversal of the transaction, as the company in question did not have my permission to withdraw my funds!  [And we\’ll see if I get my money back].
Then, I\’ll send another NASTY letter to the company asking for an explanation [If the bank won\’t retrieve my money, I\’ll ask for a refund].

THen, I\’m going ot have to contact customs and explain that I never ordered the pills to begin with and I\’m friggin\’ P*SS*D *FF beyond belief at the friggin\’ stoopid company that has done this to me!!!!!!!

NOT HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ONEONEONEONEONE!!!!!1111111!!!!!!!11111!!!!!

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I got home and explained to my mother what had happened.  She them gave me a lecture on what I should do.  I was like, \’I know!\’  \’I know!\’  \’I know what to do.\’  Meanwhile her advice was nice and vague like, \’You need to contact someone so that customs doesn\’t kick the door in and try to arrest you.  Toby [our dog] might attack them and then we\’ll get into more trouble.\’  \’I know mum!\’  \’And you need to contact someone from the bank now!  Don\’t leave it till tomorrow.\’

My brother Jeff, in a valiant attempt to shut my mother up interupted with, \’David knows what he has to do, mum!\’

Which got a quick retort from my mother regarding the fact that she\’s talking and everyone else needs to chut up and listen else they won\’t know what to do!  *sigh*

Yes, mother, I need to contact \’Someone\’  who will do  \’something\’  thanks for the advice!

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I have a strange feeling if I actually went looking for trouble  it would run away from me and some other trouble would sneak up behind me!!!!

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There are some people who never learn.  They find themselves being annoyed by others, so they pray for patience.  Unfortunately, GOd then sends more annoying people their way.  Why does God do this?  Well obvious isn’t it?

If you want to develop strong biceps, you train hard weight lifting and doing exercises that help develop those biceps.  If you want to be a great swimmer, you train hard in the swimming pool till you can swim well.  You want to be a marathon runner, you have to run long distances till your body can handle running a marathon.  You want to have great patience, you must train hard by being patient with annoying idiots all day.

So, if you want a nice cushy life, don’t pray for things such as:

Patience, love, tolerance, good judgement, intelligence, beauty, compassion.

Instead,  pray that you become the annoying inconsiderate idiot that you hate, that way everyone around you will seem oh so nice! 

I keep forgetting to ask.

I’m looking at flights to KL in December.  Most likely December 30th to January 12th (return).  Just wondering if these are Okay with my KL readers?

Not sure if I’ll run off to Penang during that time.  Might if anyone wants to travel up that way.

Anywat, if people have time off near then, or another NYE party is happening, then invite me along.

The other week I noticed a spider on the roof of my bedroom.  It was unusual in the fact it only had six legs.  I was going to grab my camera with the wonderful macro lens and take a photo of it before moving it outside where spiders belong.  Alas, due to a combination of laziness and always being busy, I never quiet got around to making the photograph.  It moved from the corner of the room to right over the top of my bed.

Then, last night when I was going to bed, I noticed it lying dead on top of my quilt.  Alas, poor dead … um , don’t know it’s name.  Poor dead six legged spider.   When I’d seen it on the roof it looked like it had lost a leg from each side, but upon clser inspection when it had died it had in fact lost two from one side.  I wonder what actually killed it?  Anyway, I put it on a piece of cardboard and had a brief sad but memorable funeral for it at the garbage bin.

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Sometimes I wish I could record my thoughts.  I come up with so many funny things when walking along and always forget to write them down when I’ve reached a place where I can write them down!  Bodoh Dabido!  [Yes, they are funny.  I’m not just saying this to make you wish you’d seen my thoughts].

Anyway, I thought of a funny skit using that Manfred Man song, ‘Do wah diddy, diddy dum diddy doo’ [or whatever it’s called].  Basically I rewrote the lyrics and thought of some people to act it out.  One day I should just sit down and try to remember all these funny things and try to write a sketch comedy show.  I’m sure I could write an entire series on my own with what I’ve thought up in the past.

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I’m running Firefox 3 Beta 5 … and the thing keeps having kittens.  Well, more like just disappearing or not sending stuff right.  Grrrrr!  TOnights post better publish okay.  The stupid browser has fallen over four times already on me tonight!!! Grrrrr!

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It was good to see the Australian walker introduce the rest of the world to Aussie culture by chundering [chucking up] near the finish line.  He just needed a kabab in his hand and be singing to really complete the scene!  [Congrates to him getting the Silver medal too!]

Australia are up to third on the medal count after China and the USA.   Considering our small population, and our lack of investment in sports, I think we’re doing very well.  Of course, we have a lot more money than places like Jamaica who had three runners do the trifecta in the sprinting!  w00t!  Go Jamaica.  I liked the fact that the one who got the gold medal had braces on.  She was running with METAL in her mouth.  That’s got to have slowed her down a tiny bit!  lol

Oh wait, I’m not really watching the Olympics, I just saw the news whilst I was eating dinner.  The real action is still on the Internet. 

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Spent a lot of this afternoon on the busride home thinking about Samuel Spud story.  Yeah, I know I still have to squeeze in the rewrite between studying for my Degree.  Though, I was also thinking of the sequel, which I’ve changed some ideas in.  Now I’m unsure as to which book to make number two, and which book to make number three … oh, I haven’t told you, I have a second sequel running around in my head as well.  lol  Go Samuel Spud!!! 

Now, back to Cosplaying that I’m an Olympic Athlete!  :_)