May a three legged rabbit find your lucky charm!!!

How do you like them noodles!!!

Cod Cream Spaghetti Sauce to you and your car!!!

Death to your Naruto Anbu mask!!!

May you confuse your jock strap for a magatama strap!

Get a life Cup Noodle Boy!

*****

Okay, now that we’ve got those confusing insults out the way, let’s get on with business.

A weird thing happened on Tuesday morning which confounded me.  Bear with me as I include as many details as possible to set the seen.  A black African school girl was walking along a walkway towards me.  The walkway passes over a construction site near the Esplanade Bus terminal.  She was not watching were she was going, but was walking with her head down keeping to the right hand side [her left].

Two middle aged men were talking in front of me.  They were Caucasian of middle eastern / Mediterranian appearance.  They were speaking in a language I didn’t understand, so they weren’t Spanish, Italian etc.  One of the guys suddenly started walking straight towards the girl coming from the opposite direction.  Now there is NO WAY he could not have seen her.  In fact, he seemed to be looking straight at her when he walked into her.  Yes, he WALKED INTO the girl.  The poor girl almost had a heart attack and practically jumped out of her skin.  She then had to walk around the guy in order to continue her journey.  Neither of them excused themselves or anything [usually you’d hear at least one person say, ‘Sorry’ or something].

The guy then looked at the construction work going on down below.  I thought maybe they had something to do with it, but they later passed me on St Georges Terrace and went in two difference directions off to what I assume was their places of work.

Now, what had me confounded was this; Why did the guy walk into the girl????

It made little or no sense to me.  Did he come from a culture which gave him right of way for some reason?  If so, was it because of any of these factors:

• He was male and she was not
• He was white and she was not
• He was older and youth should make way
• He is just an @rs3#013 who wanted to upset someone
• He is just an arrogant pr!ck who thinks he always has right of way
• He thinks people of his country are superior to other nationalities
• He is just blind, stupid and too arrogant to apologise when he walks into people

To me, nothing made much sense.  Even if somehow it was an accident and he had managed to MISS the girl he’d walked into, why not at least give her an apology for his carelessness?  But, like I said, he was looking straight at her when he did it, so I’m pretty sure in my mind he’d done it deliberately.  Too many heartlessly weird people in this world.

Inspiring Song Meme:-

“Think of THE song that most inspires you to write, whether it gives you an idea for a story, script or just puts you into a better frame of mind AND/OR peek into the lyrics and find a verse that sums up the theme of whatever project it is you’re working on.

If possible, post a video of the song to convey to readers the full context of the song and the mood it puts you into. Finally, send the assignment to five other writers to do as well.”

Okay, lah.  I’m going to name a song and stuff, but as I’m in the throes of  the Annual Dabido Awards [and getting the after party fired up] I won’t name five suckers other writers to do the meme.  You can grab it if you’re a sucker writer.

Actually, when I write there is normally complete silence.  lol  So, no song that inspires me to write anything at all.  [How can I hear the voices in my head if there is noise?]
Instead, I’ll give you this, The Wiggles Big Red Car!

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I CAN HAZ INFORMATIONZ meme:-
i am: Therefore I thunk.
i think: therefore I eat.
i know: what you’re thinking!
i want: you to want me.  I need you to need me.  I’d love you to love me.  Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?
i have: clean underwear
i wish: I had a robot to do the housework.
i hate: Pizza I can’t fit in cause I ate too much other pizza.
i miss: when I don’t aim well enough.
i fear: fear.  It’s a phobiapobia!
i feel: due to nerves  in my body.  People always tell me I have some nerve.
i hear: voices, but they don’t wanna speak to you at all.
i smell: awful.
i crave: therefore I dance.
i search: for strange new life and new planets.  These are the voyages of the Star Trekker Dabido-prize!
i wonder: if they’ll let me out of the asylum?
i regret: everything.
i love: you to love me.  Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?
i ache: where you can’t heal.
i care: about bears.
i always: wash my hands after going to the toilet and so should you.
i am not: your mother, so clean up behind yourself.
i believe: in God, but does God believe in me?
i dance: So you dance you can think?
i sing: on and off … key.
i cry: because you all aren’t here.  But, I’d cry doubly if you all were as there isn’t enough space in this room and we’d all get squished!!!  [Don’t you love me even more after that?]
i don’t always: get the joke … hey, why you laugh at me?
i fight: and win.
i write: the songs that make the whole world scream ‘turn that racket off!’
i win: you lose, next game.
i lose: on purpose so you’ll come back and I can smash you next time.  hee hee.
i never: thought i’d see you wearing leopard skin undies.
i confuse: dogs when they realise I can only speak their language with an accent.
i listen: to silence!  It’s very noisy.
i can usually be found: because of the gravitational pull.
i am scared: that I may wet my pants in public.
i need: you to need me!  I’d love you to love me.  Didn’t I, Didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?
i am happy: No, I’m not. Oh wait, yes I am!

Here it is, the night before the close of nominations for the Dabido Awards.  This means i have to go back through all the nominations and post them up here in order to help the judges in the Academy decide who to read and vote for.  It also gives everyone a last minute ditch attempt to fit into a category that holds no competition.

Here are the award categories, the descriptions and the nominations:

[Pre-requisites for being nominated in brackets].
1. Desperation Award.  Female Blogger Most Desperate Enough to Marry Dabido [Must be a blogger and female]

Nominations are:

• All female bloggers in my side bar unless they specifically ask NOT to be considered - asking NOT to be considered has to occur by 12 midnight tomorrow.  [Academy can check out the links in the side bar].

2. Sexy Award.  Sexiest Blogger under 35 years of age [Must be alive, a blogger and under 35 years of age on the 31st of May 2008]

Nominations are:

• Fireangel [complete with link to post with picture].

3. Fun Guy Award.  Blogger most likely to be mistaken for a form of fungi [must be a blogger.  Is not allowed to actually BE a fungi]

Nominations are:

• Ish

4. Political Autoassassination Award.  Blogger who made the stupidest remark regarding an election. [Open]

I can’t believe no nominations yet!  Aussie had an election, Malaysia had an election and  US is doing all sorts of crazy stuff with Obama and Oprah … I mean Hilary.  Come on guys, find me a nomination or two. 
5. My is Popular Award.  Most popular Blogger on Facebook according to my readers. [Must be a blogger and on facebook … and maybe popular]

Can’t believe this also didn’t get a nomination from one of my readers considering the amount of Facebook people who are bloggers.  I’m going to nominate these [seems as Rachel etc said she didn’t have a category].

• Suanie
• KY
• Lainie
• Rachel

Add more from Facebook.  Lots to chose from.
6. Eat This Gaijin Award.  Best foreign travel post involving FRUIT [must be travel to a country OTHER than that the blogger resides in, must include FRUIT]

Nominations are:

• Anthony Bourdain He mentions a Fruit Cup … in a February post.
  
• Andrew Zimmern He mentions fruit quite a bit actually.  I like the sound of the Passion fruit bombs with Mangosteen.
• KY for his Bangkok post.
• Suanie for her Singapore post.
• ST for his Krabi Thailand post.
• Kimberly Cun for her Perhentain Island post.

Honestly didn’t think people would nominate femes ppl for these awards.  lol 

7. IntraCycle Award.  Best National travel post involving motorbikes [must be travel WITHIN the bloggers country of residence, must include a motorcycle somewhere]

Nominations are:

• KY
• Suanie

8. Leave Brittney a Brain award.  Best posting regarding Brittney Spears this year.  [Post must mention Brittney Spears]

Nominations are:

• ST for his mention of Brittney in his Machinist review post.

9. First Life Award.  Best post regarding an on-line game.  [Post must be about an on-line game of some sort]

10. Left Handed Nunchuck Award.  Best post regarding some form of ’save’ involving an awkward position or difficulty [Post must involve a ’save’ of some sort].

11. Deviewlusion Award.  Best Post reviewing a movie / band / book etc which is negative, but thoroughly correct.  [Post must involve a review of something]

• Simon with his Forbidden Kingdom review.
• Fire Angel with her Speed Racer Review.

12. Video Killed the Blog Award.  Best original video on a blog [Video must come from that blog, ie must be original and not something they got from someone else.]

Heaps of videos out there guys.  Come on, have a look around.

13. I’m Too Sexy for my Blog Award.  Best post mentioning something to do with Sex.  [Post must mention sex]

• Suanie
• ST

14. Sid Fictitious Award.  Best post involving a fictional story.  [Post or postings must be bloggers original fictional writings].

15. No Comment Award.  Best comment of the year.  [Must be a comment left on a blog by someone who is a blogger, but NOT the blog owner.]

I’ll leave this for people to remember comments on their own blogs which cracked them up! 
16. Photoshop Me Award.  Best photo.  [Photo must be original work by blogger being nominated].

ST and Kyels are two great photographers.  Nominate more if you know them.

17. Unlucky Award.  Best post mentioning the number thirteen.  [Post must mention the number thirteen]

Nominations are:

• ST - Oceans 13 review.

18. Flame On! Award.  Best Flame War [posts must be a flame war between two blogs].

19. Art my Canvas Lainie Award.  Best post concerning art. [Must be a post concerning art].

20. Rookie Nookie Award.  Best new blogger. [Blogger can only have started blogging after May 16th 2007.  Cannot be someone returning to blogging].

Who knows a Rookie blogger?

21. I Know I Can’t Sing, but I can Drink Till I don’t Care Award.  Best blog with a blogger singing on it.  [Does not need to be the bloggers own blog].

Did everyone stop singing this year?

22. Rants in my Pants Award.  Best blog post involving a rant. [Must be a post involving a rant.  Must be a FUNNY RANT].

No funny rants?  There is every year!  Where are the nominations?

23. We Ate Till We Chucked Award.  Best Food Post (does not need to be a review).  [Post involving FOOD].

Academy get over to KY’s blog and find a post you like … and then look around other peoples blogs.

24. I Love Japan Award.  Best post mentioning something Japanese.  [Post mentioning something Japanese.  Does not need to be by someone in Japan.]

25. We Love Dabido Award.  Best Post which mentioned ME!!! [Post must mention myself aka Dabido!]

Nominations are:

• ST - Midzone Countdown.
• KY - Vege Food
• KY - Midzone
• Suanie - Dabido’s last night
• Kimberlycun - Midzone
• Suanie - Midzone
• Suanie - Perth
• Suanie - Another Perth post

Add soeem more for me.  I just went through the top 4 on my blog roll & others I could remember..    Have to go to bed soon, so will have to post it up. 

Remember, you can always join the Academy if you want. 

Today I went to a conference, but due to work moving around the people going on each day, I took Kevin from works place as he’s now going tomorrow.  So, my name tag read Kevin [ & Kevin’s Surname which shall not be revealed].

We [people from work] had a bit of fun calling me Kevin and saying how Kevin was known to the participants / organisers of the convention [true] so some who might not remember his face might start talking to me as though they knew me.  lol Some guys were calling me boss [for those who work with Kevin] and other things.
General Peter Cosgrove spoke as a Keynote speaker.  Very interesting and he has a great sense of humour.  For those unfamiliar with him, he was in charge of the Aussie Forces in East Timor and the first Iraq conflict [not sure if he was in the second].  Someone asked him about Iraq at the moment.  Most Aussies feel we should withdraw.  He basically said [this is a paraphrase as I don’t remember his exact words] it was an ill conceived project to begin with.  He likened it to trying to push someone off the top of the Empire State building and we ended up falling ourselves.  All we can do now is to look for a soft spot to fall, like the awning as opposed to the pavement.

He probably knows a lot more about the politics behind the scene than me, so he still thinks we should remain till Iraq has stabilised.  Like most Aussies who think we should never have been there in the first place, I think we should withdraw our troops, but not without some sort of plan to help stabilise the country.  I’m one of those who think Western Troop deployments are part of the cause of instability.  Getting as many of their own people up to scratch as security personal I thin is the best way to go, then get the Western Troops etc out of their.  Maybe even deploying Saudi Troops or other Arab Nation troops I think will be a big help.  In that way it would be like the Arabs sorting out the issue without meddling from the West and in particular the US.

Anyway, General Cosgrove and I can agree to disagree on that, but I liked his analogy of the situation.  Darn, where is that awning?  Wonder if we’ll bounce?    I did take a photo of the General with my mobile phone, but due to poor light it’s all blurred and I couldn’t be bothered trying a second time.
I met a guy named Dominic who is a Life Coach.  He talked me into going to his talk and I’m glad I did.  Some of it I recognised as being from Anthony Robins.  I mean, they’re both Life Coaches [or whatever you call them].  The talk was about Emotional Intelligence & EQ etc and tuned to team building, communications etc.  I had a good talk to him before his presentation and we spoke a little about NLP [Neuro-Linguistic Programming], which is what he does, as well as other psychological things.  [Like my favourite - Milton Erikkson who said, ‘The subconscious is always listening’ amongst other things … actually, he might be called the father of NLP].

The main problem I have with Anthony Robins is he tends to try to turn people Choleric.  [Natural Enemy of us phlegmatics].    Cholerics are basically ‘Doing People’ or ‘Action People’ [for want of different words].  They see a problem, they do something.  Not always the best thing either, … and they have difficulty understanding why other people can’t ‘JUST DO’ most of the time.  Anyway, Choleric is the piece of my personality I need to get moving.  I just have a fear if I wander too much into the Choleric zone I’ll lose my phleg/melancholic/sanguine natures [which are almost 1/3 of me each but going from larger percentage to lesser in the order I wrote them in].  They say perfect Managers are equal [or just about equal] in all four areas.

Anyway, Dominic was an interesting person to speak to.  He reminded me of when I used to like going to work as I was always ready to try anything [even things deemed impossible by others] and I’d get them done.  Life and in particular the company CUSCAL really beat me up emotionally sapping my self confidence and placing so many doubts in my mind it isn’t funny.  At least I’ve got good bosses in this company [Transfield Worley] and slowly a lot of my earlier self confidence is returning.  [Can’t wait to start working some magic like I used to do in my earlier career].  So, Dominic was doing some Life Coaching on me whilst I was there. 
The head of Austral ships was also a keynote speaker.  He had a good sense of humour too and was very interesting to listen to.  As he said, he had sexy pictures of ships to help his presentation.  I also met a girl there [name with held in case she doesn’t want me advertising it] who had worked for Austral and in particular had worked on Greg Normans luxury Yacht. WOW!  And she gave me her business card as she wants to come here and read my blog.  [Oh no!  My secret identity is out!!!] 

One of the presentations on using the new Web based version of Primavera [aka P6] was interesting.  Funny, most people were probably listening to the guy and thinking about the functionality.  I wasn’t.  I was making notes as ideas for adding value from the software kept popping into my head.  Basically, things I can perhaps do [if I get time] to make things easier for people at work.  I can’t help myself.  His words were the same for all, but I was hearing very different things to everyone else in the room.    [Actually, this sort of behaviour is very typically me].

*****

I’m going to have to do a big round up of all the Nominations so far for the Dabido Awards this year.  Thought I’d chuck in this one as well from Fireangel.   Think it fits into the Deviewlusion Award [yes Simon, some competition]    I also will be doing a quick round of looking through peoples blogs over the last year to get the nominations up [to give the Academy something to do] 

Any other nominations or academy people are welcome.  Keep them coming. 

I know, it’s been days with no update, and to be honest I’m still rushed off my little feet with working back and stuff.

I did have a slight respite on the weekend.  Saturday I had to go do shopping for my mother and whilst out and about picked up my WiiFit.  For those who don’t know what a WiiFit is, here is an entire website devoted to it.

One of the things a WiiFit does is weigh the person and do a BMI and work out their fit age.  My mother kept telling me I was going to be shocked and told me to prepare myself saying I was SOOOOO unfit that my fitness age would give me a heart attack etc etc … I was pleasantly surprised.  My fitness age was 40 … that’s 2 years 11 months and 2 weeks younger than I really l am!  Yeah!  Ha ha to my mother.  Then, she got on and her fitness age was 72!  OMGoodness!!!  That’s 9 years older than she is!

It’s funny how ironic my family can be.

My brother Jeff refused to EVAR use the thing when I got it.  After my mother and I used it for a while he came out of his room [and after us badgering him a little] he got on it …  then, we couldn’t get him off it.  lol  So much for refusing to ever use it. 

I did quite a few of the Yoga exercises and the jogging and stuff.  It’s rather cute as it says ‘Step on me’ and then when you step in it it says ‘Ow!’  hee hee!  As you use it more it keeps track of your daily use as well as opening up new exercises as you use it more.  I’m the only one with the ‘Island’ jog opened up so far.  There is a short jog [3 minutes], a long jog [6 minutes] and then the island jog [12 minutes].  It’s a nice jog around what we’ve called wither Nintendo Island, or Wii Island.    I’ve already started to lose weight, and I’ve set a target of 2 kg per week to lose.

Mothers Day I put the WiiFit away for fear that my nephews would JUMP up and down on it.  Instead we let everyone play WiiSports and WiiPlay.  My Niece is excellent at bowling, scoring FIVE STRIKES in a row in her game.  *faints*

My sister and I played Tennis against my brother Paul and my mother.  We won the first game, and as I was using a Mii [little avatar thing] which was my sister in-law to begin with, I was playing a girl.  I kept telling Paul he was being beaten by girls and kept screaming ‘Girl Power’ whenever we scored a point.  My sister and I didn’t drop a game in the first set, but my brother Paul soon worked out how to play and he kept the second set even till the end … when suddenly my mother who had been missing the ball all game hit the thing winning it for her team!  *faints*

I’m off to a conference tomorrow.  One which I also have to make up time at work for.  I did 1.5 hours tonight to make up for some of it … only 6.5 hours to go! 
Keep those Dabido Award Nominations coming in.  I’m going to nominate all the girls on my sidebar for the first award.  If you’re on my sidebar and don’t want to be included, then contact me.  hee hee!  There, that make s a nice full category. 

Yes, my eye is still sore.  It wasn’t as swollen this morning when I got up, but still hurts a lot.  I tried reading on the bus and my eye was really struggling.  On the way home I got to 2 pages from the end of the novel.  lol

Was given an impossible task to do today.  Boss wants me to document a whole stack of stuff, but I’m not allowed to speak to the people who create the reports as they’re busy doing other things.  Doesn’t matter, I’ll get it done. [Have secret weapon in war against impossible odds!] 

Getting my tax ready for tomorrow, so … that’s it for update.  Might have to see a Doc if the eye just keeps staying the same.

I must be getting old.  I can’t even spell Worn Out right without my dyslexia getting in the way!

Why do I feel so tired?

Why is my right eye still sore?  I woke up with it swollen again, but not as much as yesterday, and at the moment it looks almost normal.  BUT, still, it hurts, especially if it gets touched near it.

Anyway, I’ll be going to bed soon.  I have tax receipts etc to collect together for Thursday and so many other things to do I can’t keep up!  And yawning all the way!  *sigh*  Why can’t I be young again?

I worked back last night, will work back again tomorrow night to … so if I seem to not be here, then you know where I am.

Argh!  My head hurts around the eye!  I hope it’s not from peeking at Simon and Hedo.  Just kidding.  That’ll teach you to leave such comments. 

Anywat, I’m off to bed … hopefully tomorrow will be a better day with no eye pain!

Hope you are all well.  Sorry my updates aren’t more exciting at the moment.  Robot is on hold … am almost finished reading another book … need sleep and pizza.

I awoke this morning to find my right eye was swollen.  Well, not the eye itself, but all the area around the eye.

When I showed my mother she pretended there was nothing wrong and that I was being a big baby.  I got to work and the first thing I was asked was, ‘What’s wrong with your eye?’  I then went into the mens room to check how swollen it was, and it was about half the size of when I was at home.  So in other words when it was HUGE and SWOLLEN my mother couldn’t see it and when it was reduced everyone could see it.

You might conclude my mother is going blind, but this is not the case.  All my life anything I have I nothing important. I could get shot in the head and my parents would have told me off for exaggerating the extent of the pain!  lol

Of course, the first thing asked after, ‘What’s wrong with your eye?’ was generally, ‘How did you do that?’  As it happened in my sleep I only have two theories.  First, I might have been Wii Boxing in my sleep and got hit by myself or the opponent.  Second, I had something which got into my eye and irritated it.  Patricia at work had a different theory. She through I might have been bitten by a mossie on my eyelid.  I prefer the Wii Boxing theory the most. 

I had to keep shutting my eyes during the day to keep them from feeling like they were burning.   Someone made a comment to me later that I’d been asleep … darn it!  No I hadn’t, but nice of them to notice!  Now people will think I was asleep at work!  lol
In other news I finally booked myself in to get my tax done.  I asked for the morning of the 19th, but I was told by the tax agent that the 15th is the cut off period!  OUCH!  So I’m doing it on Thursday.  In order to make up time I worked back 1.5 hours last night and will do about the same on Wednesday, and a little on Thursday evening depending on how late I am for work.

*****

Just a quick reminder about the Dabido Awards.  Remember:

1. Nominate People, Post etc  Most categories still have no nominations in them.
2. If you want to be on the academy, then let me know.
3. If we don’t get many more nominations the people in the categories will win by default as almost everyone is in a category by themselves so far.

Okay, the Dabido Award Nominations and Academy have to be in by the 15th of May, which is only a week an a bit away.

If you’re not familiar with the categories by now, then off to this post you must go.  [Do not pass go, or collect $200 dollars].

Been playing Wii all day.  The jokes about my mother and brother playing with my Wii have been coming thick and fast.

I think I mentioned the Boxing being a good workout.  We played Tennis with me and my brother on one side, and me and my mother on the other.  lol

I won and lost at the same time.  We’ve discovered Jeff is good at Golf and I am good at Bowling.  [And I made Bowelling Jokes along with Wii jokes with that one … and we had peas for dinner … ]

I can’t wait for the Fitness control to arrive so I can get stuck into getting fit and stuff. 

That’s right, if I end up with six pack abs, I’m doing subway …  Nintendo Wii ads on TV!!!  [And eating Subway as well]. 

I went to the store today.  Walked in and waited in line for about ten minutes.  Then, when I got to the counter I said to the guy, ‘Hi, I’d like a Wii.’

He pointed out the store and said, ‘The toilets are that way.’

I didn’t laugh.  I think I smirked a little.  lol

I bought the Wii, along with 3 extra Wii controllers so that we’d have FOUR controllers when we wanted ot have four people playing it.  PLUS, I also pre-ordered the Wii Fitness, which is a controller that looks a bit like two weight scales side by side [basically, two touchpads the size of small laptops].  The game hopefully will help me keep fit.

We got home and played through a few of the games … actually, all of the games.  The boxing was a bit of a workout on it’s own and I think I might take up Wii Boxing just for fitness.  It’s also a lot less painful than real boxing, plus I win.  [When would that happen in real life?] 

My mother is quite enjoying the Wii too [though she refused to do the boxing].  She laughed herself silly when Jeff and I had a race in one game where we were riding cows and had to collect scarecrows.  I took off really fast with my cow and my mother said it looked like someone had put a rocket up the cows behind.

The game also allows the cows to jump.  It’s in a collection of games called ‘WiiPlay’.  It came with one of the controllers for an extra ten bucks.  The games are actually to help you learn the controllers better, so isn’t a normal game you can buy over the counter.

I did the worst in Golf. I was 23 over par, though I did win some holes, but I was very inconsistent, even missing some gimmes  by using too much force!  OWWW!  Stupid me.  My mother really collapsed on the last hole and hit 10+ over par to finish the nine holes as 20 over par. lol  Jeff did the best.  Jeff seems very good at Wii games.

Anywat, I think I’ll be playing Wii with the family most of tomorrow.  I can’t wait for the nephews and niece to come over and try it out.