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2,373,875 | male | 25 | Biotech | Taurus | 23,Maio,2004 | Goodday, I am Roland Anderson, staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSONPrivateBanking.I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer andan investmenthe placed under our banks management three years ago.Iwould respectfullyrequest that you keep the contents of this mailconfidential and respect the integrity of theinformation you come by as a result of this mail. I contacted you independently of our investigation andno one is informedof this communication. I would like to intimate youwith certain facts that I believe would be of interestto you.In 2000, the subject matter; came to our bankto engage in business discussions with our privatebanking division. He informed us that he had afinancial portfolio of Thirty million united statesdollars,which hewished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf.Iwas the officer assigned to his case, I madenumerous suggestions in line with my duties as thede-facto chief operations officer of the private banking sector, especially given the volume offunds he wished to put into our bank. We met onnumerous occasions prior to any investments beingplaced. I encouraged him to consider various growthfunds with prime ratings. The favored route in my advise to customers is tostart by assessing data on 6000 traditional stocks and bond managers and2000 managers of alternative investments. Based on my advice, We spunthe money around various opportunities and made attractive margins forour first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood atthis point at over ten million United States Dollars, this margin was not thefull potential of the fund but he desired low riskguaranteed returns on investments. In mid 2001, he asked that the money be liquidatedbecause he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments inhere in the united kingdom. He directed that I liquidate the funds anddeposit it with a security firm. I informed him that SMITH & WILLIAMSONwould have to make special arrangements to have this done and in ordernot to circumvent due process, the bank would have to make a 9.5 % deductionfrom the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges. He complainedabout the charges but later came around when I explained to him thecomplexities of the task he was asking of us. Cash movement across boarders hasbecome especially strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted myaffiliate and made the fundsavailable to the security firm. I undertook all theprocesses and made sure I followed his preciseinstructions to the letter and had the funds depositedwith the security firm. The Security Firmis a specialist private firm that accepts depositsfrom high net worth individuals and blue chipcorporations that handle valuable products orundertake transactions that need immediate access tocash. This small and highly private organization isfamiliar especially to the highly placed andwell-connected organizations. In line withinstructions, the money was deposited with thesecurity firm.The deceased told me he wanted themoney there in anticipation of his arrival from Norwaylater that week. This was the last communication wehad, this transpired around 25th February 2003.In Junelast year, we got a call from the security firminforming us that the inactivity of that particularportfolio. This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed the privatebanking sector I was the only one who knew about thedeposit at the security firm, and I could notunderstand why the deceased had not come forward toclaim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate thedeceased. I immediately passed the task of locatinghim to the internal investigations department of SMITH& WILLIAMSON.Four days later, information started to trickle in,apparently our client was dead. A person who suitedhis description was declared dead of a heart attack inCanne, South of France. We were soon enough able to identify the body andcause of death was confirmed. The bank immediately launched aninvestigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert about the situation andalso to come forward to claim his estate. If you arefamiliar with private banking affairs, those whopatronize our services usually prefer anonymity, butalso some levels of detachment from conventionalprocesses. In his bio-data form, he listed no next ofkin. In the field of private banking, opening anaccount with us means no one will know of itsexistence, accounts are rarely held under a name;depositors use numbers and codes to make the accountsanonymous. This bank also gives the choice to depositors ofhaving their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that thereare no traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they nominate next ofkin. Private banking clients apart from not nominatingnext of kin also usually in most cases leave wills inour care, in this case; the deceased died without atestate. In line with our internal processes foraccount holders who have passed away, we institutedour own investigations in good faith to determine whoshould have right to claim the estate. Thisinvestigation has for the past months been unfruitful.We have scanned every continent and used our privateinvestigation affiliate companies to get to the rootof the problem. It is this investigation that resultedin my being furnished with your details as a possiblerelative of the deceased. My official capacitydictates that I am the only party to supervise theinvestigation and the only party to receive theresults of the investigation. What thismeans, you being the last batch of names we haveconsidered, is that our dear late fellow died with noknown or identifiable family member. This leaves me asthe only person with the full picture of what theprevailing situation is in relation to the deposit andthe late beneficiary of the deposit. According to practice, The Security Firm will bythe end of this financial year broadcast a request for statements ofclaim to SMITH & WILLIAMSON,failing to receive viableclaims theywill most probably revert the deposit back to SMITH &WILLIAMSON.This will result in the money entering the SMITH &WILLIAMSONaccounting system and the portfolio will be out of myhands and out of the private banking division. Thiswill not happen if I have my way.What I wish to relateto you will smack of unethical practice but I want youto understand something. It is only an outsider to thebanking world who finds the internal politics of thebanking world aberrational. The world of privatebanking especially is fraught with huge rewards forthose who occupy certain offices and oversee certainportfolios. You should have begun by now to puttogether the general direction of what I propose.There is Thirty million dollars deposited in a security firm, I alone havethe deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct themto do so. I alone know of the existence of thisdeposit for as far as SMITH & WILLIAMSON is concerned,thetransaction with our late customer concluded when Isent the funds to the security firm, alloutstanding interactions in relation to the file arejust customer services and due process. The securityFirmhas no single idea of what's the historyor nature of the deposit. They are simply awaitinginstructions to release the deposit to any party thatcomes forward. This is the situation. This bank hasspent great amounts of money trying to track thisman's family; they have investigated for months andhave found no family. The investigation has come to an end. My proposal; you share the same surname With our lateclient; I am prepared to place you in a position toinstruct The security Firm to release thedeposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit,I am prepared to share themoney with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the nextof kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds50/50.I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but thatwould have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming thedeposit. But on the other hand, you with the same very name as theoriginal depositor would easily pass as the beneficiary with right to claim. Iassure you that I could have the deposit released toyou within a few days. I will simply inform the bankof the final closing of the file relating to thedeceased I will then officially communicate withThe Security Firm and instruct them to releasethe deposit to you. With these two things: all isdone. The alternative would be for us to have The SecurityFirmdirect the funds to another bank withyou as account holder. This way there will be no needfor you to think of receiving the money from The Security Company. We can fine-tune this basedon our interactions. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I askthat if you find no interest in this project that you shoulddiscard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictiveand destructive. If my offer is of no appeal toyou,delete this message and forget I ever contactedyou. Do not destroy my career because you do notapprove of my proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sumsout of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I amnot a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, thismay be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industrydictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones' way once in alifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself intotal control of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by. I ask that youdo not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know andlet me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man andthis is an opportunity to provide them with newopportunities. There is a reward for this project andit is a task well worth undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I havehere is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I amthe only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed youwith a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life.Lets share the blessing.If you find yourself able towork with me, contact me through this emailaccount urlLink [email protected] If you givemepositive signals, I willinitiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish toinform you that should you contact me via official channels; I will deny knowingyou and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting methrough my official phone lines nor do I want youcontacting me through my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will provide foryou and also through this email address. I do not want any directlink between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as they areperiodically monitored to assess our level of customercare in line with our Total Quality Management Policy.Please observe this instruction religiously. Please,again, note I am a family man, I have a wife andchildren. I send you this mail not without a measureof fear as to what the consequences, but I know withinme that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter ofgold. This is the one truth I have learned from my privatebanking clients. Do not betray my confidence. Kindly send your response to my private email address I await your response. Roland Anderson. |
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2,373,875 | male | 25 | Biotech | Taurus | 23,Maio,2004 | Dear Sir/Ma It is my pleasure to acquaint you with this proposal. I am Thomas Richbornage 35 the son of Late Sir Brian Richborna renowned Agriculturist, a Major Farm Land Owner and A Family Man In Zimbabwe, who will like to ask you for your assistance since the President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has orderd that all White Land Owners should Leave the Country for them. The Black citizens accompanied with Military official came to raid most of us White Land owners But Lucky for My Family and I we were out to a safe place. So those iniquitous beings laidtheir evil hands on our Workers and Destroyed properties. This political issue suprising between White Farm Land Owners and The Government of Zimbabwe is making room for this so called envious bloodsucking people to take full advantage of the Situtation at Hand to cause a trouble and to terrorise most White Families Like my Family and I, for all my growth and achievement we worked in Zimbabwe as gone down the drain My Family and I are willing to move to atemporary resident in Ghana and scared not to go back to Zimbabwe, I got your contact from the internet and the help of God, and have the impression that you will be capable of handling and helping us with your position. My request is just your help, In helping me out of this situtation and to help me handle my money, which I wish to transfer to your country, All I want is for you to open an account for me in your name over there. All documents backing this money is with me, And allarrangement for the transfer will be in a hitch free process, Why I need this help is because the government are seizing all my Hard earned money in which we have worked for over the years because I will not want my family suffer for what they are not aware. Kindly see this as a help and if you do help me, whichafter you send me an invitation to your country for My Family and I If you willing to help then i will give you 15 percent of the total money which is 35. Million Dollars which I have made over the years in Zimbabwe and is lodged in a reliable finance house. The foolproof arranegement of moving the funds to you in your country is to ship the boxes containing the cash to you through a reliable diplomatic courier company. You canfind thier modality below: The cash $35 Million USD is in 2 boxes, the boxes will be shipped to yourbase and delivered to your doorstep through diplomatic courier service (DCS) of the External Affairs Ministry. I hope you know that Diplomatic luggage's cannot be check at any port of entry all over the world. Although diplomatic courier service is exclusively created for diplomats but I have a contact at the DCS office that will ensure that the box is shipped along with other diplomatic luggage's to you in your country. The contents of the box will be declared and Insured as classified documents and insurance bond instead of cash. This is a very serious arrangement that i have really thought about it before contacting you so do not panic because we know what to do to get a successfull result. After receiving the box, you can then put the money in the bank for the proposed investment or keep it in a safe deposit box till I'm able to join you. DCS system of moving big volume of cash is safe and tested. In the light of this DCS modality, your thoughts, opinion and responseare welcome. I want you to note that I will remove $60,000 USD out of the box and this will take care of the shipment expenses and other miscellenous arrangement. Please Reply me via email to know your will of assistance. Awaiting your reply Thanks Regards Thomas Richborn |
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4,199,216 | female | 17 | Student | Cancer | 12,August,2004 | ****WARNING- I do not mean to hurt anyone's feelings, this is just my spot to let it all out!**** Well, from my title, I guess you can see that today was a series of emotions for me. I started off the pretty cool. I woke up all nice and stuff, and then today I had another officer work day. Well, that's where the frustrated part came in. Knowing that I am not the most outspoken person, I pretty much just let people walk all over me. I am supposed to be in charge of the call boards (one of the duties that I seem to only get control of), I wanted them to be PERFECT, and just great. Well, that plan didn't work out the way that I wanted to. I walk into the theatre department, and everyone's like okay, we are here to help you. Right....help me.....uh-huh. Well, I was like mmk, I can get all of my work done quickly. So, for the most part, it started out pretty well, that is until my job began getting taken away from me. I liked all of the call boards except the two in the front, which also happen to be the two most important ones. So, I was excited because I wanted those two to be the best ones. The fabic gets up there, but the borders were the borders that I didn't want. I was pissed. Let me back track though. Before we got to do the two front call boards, we had this meeting to make a big list. I was angry at the fact that I had to be on a committee that I don't want to be on. I know that I probably sound like a brat, but no one knows where I am coming from. I've been in that department for 4 years, and I always get stuck with something that I don't want to do. I think that I deserve more credit that I get. Well, I said that I will not contribute to Welcome Workshop if I have to be on that committee, and of course, no one listened to me. I am being completely serious. I don't give a damn if they get pissed at me, because I deserve to get what I want at times. I NEVER get what I want. All of my officer duties were taken away from me. Everything that I get assigned get taken over by some power greedy theatre person (no offense, but that's who most of them are). It REALLY ticks me off, but like I said, I am not outspoken at all, and even if I were outspoken, I wouldn't get heard. At times, THEATRE MAKES ME REALLY MAD. It's not the director's fault, it's the students. They have no trust, no admiration, no loyalty, no respect, and no manners to ANYONE, and I HATE THAT WITH A PASSION. Well, anyways, I didn't get to pick the borders, people were stealing my stuff, and I was just PISSED. So, I was like, well, I guess I'll have to re-do it later....which I am very sure I will end up doing....by myself. If I don't do things by myself, then I don't get things done correctly. No one wants to look at an ugly call board all year long. Well, after everyone left, I finally got some work done, but my mom came for me eariler then expected, so I didn't get ALL that I wanted done. So, when school begins, one late afternoon, when all of my homework is done I will redo all that I want to re-do. I appreciate everyone's help, but it was the wrong kind....no one had respect for me at all. So, after my mom picked me up, I got some McDonalds, and we picked up my sister from her friend's house, and then we ordered pizza, and then we got out hair done. So, the ending of my day was pretty good. I am glad that I am working tomorrow because then I won't have to be around those theatre people. [If you are wondering why I am in the theatre if I hate the people so much, it is because I have a love for the performance....not the people in it]. Wow, I typed a lot....I'm gonna stop now! |
4,199,216 | female | 17 | Student | Cancer | 11,August,2004 | So, for those of you who actually know me and care about what classes I am taking.....here they are! 1) College Algebra 2) French 4 (1st semester) 3) Business law (1st Semester) 2 &3) TIP (2nd Semester) 4) Top Class Theatre- Acting 5) Independent Studies Theatre (1st Semester) 5) AP Government (2nd Semester) 6) AP English 4 7) Debate There's my lovely schedule for my senior year! Note: My Schedule's is subject to change at any time. |
4,199,216 | female | 17 | Student | Cancer | 11,August,2004 | So, today was a crazy day....at least to me it was! I woke up at around 11ish, and I had an officer workday from 1-4 today! Well, my lazy behind sat down and watched TV until noon, and then I realized that I needed to get ready! So, I got ready, and when I got to the theatre, I was given my assignment and I was ready to get to work! Well, I needed some help so I asked Stephanie to help me decorate the call board, and then eventually Christan joined me! Well, my intention was to get some work done, but by the time the three hours were up, I had only accomplished decorating 2 out of 10 call boards. I got a list of what will go on the call board, and I also began working on the idea of Big Sis/Bro and Lil' Sis/Bro. I was disappointed because I knew that something would just have had to come up in. And guess what?!?!?! It did! I now have to work on Friday, which only leaves me tomorrow to decorate the other 8 call boards (cutting fabric, finding borders to match, finding letters that match), fininish the Big Sis stuff, set up my desk at school, and much MUCH more! I am now in a panic frenzy, because I just completed the very first newsletter for the school year, and somehow I have to bring it to school tomorrow, but I don't have any ink! Well, we shall see how that'll work out! I don't know what I am going to do beacuse the scheduled time to work tomorrow is from 1-4, and I need to stay longer, but not too much longer because I am going to the hair dresser tomorrow, and I need to get my college transcript! GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZ! School hasn't begun yet and I am already getting stressed! |
4,199,216 | female | 17 | Student | Cancer | 10,August,2004 | Hey, well, this is my first time using THE BLOG. I kinda like it. I acutally got this idea from Patrick, and he got his from someone else, so, maybe someone will copy off of me! Yeah well, today, was a pretty good day. I cleaned up my room throughly and I think that I finally got most of the dust out! So, I shouldn't die from an asthma attack from being in my room! Well, other than that I got some other work done also. I worked on my newsletter for theatre, and I enjoyed doing it! I think that it looks rather savvy! There really isn't much to say except that I am a pretty cool fille and I get along with mostly everyone! God Bless! Today's Feeling: :) |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 29,May,2004 | Another poker tournament, another fucking loss, the same way as all the other ones. I think I may have explained this before, but you're gonna listen to it again. The way I lose at poker, goes like this. At the start, I win a couple of good sized pots, so I'm usually in chip lead for quite a while, until some lucky bastard gets the luckiest crap ever to fuck me out of $5 or so, and this happens a couple of times. Sure, I win a couple hands between those big hands, but it never equals the amount when I lose with my three of a kind, to the person who has the only 2 cards that could of possibly beat me. Its shit like that that makes me hate poker. And after the horrible defeat today, I realized that there hasn't been a time in my life where I have actually been, really happy, theres always been something to ruin my life. Wether it be my brother fighting with my Mom like 8 years ago, or last October where I was depressed for a reason some of you probably know, or wether I've just been lonely, and have been alone for 16 years.... And school's almost out, hooray for that, but it also sucks, because I'm probably gonna get screwed out of an internship with HP because of my age, so I'll be sitting at home, staring at the wall all summer, with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and nothing to learn. and beacuse I spend most of the day in the lab, I'm failing 2 of my other 3 classes...so, yeah.... That's all I have to say about that. |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 27,May,2004 | As the title indicates, I'm very boring, not much happened today, I just went to school, fixed some shit, dealt with some shit, did some other shit, wrestled with Mar during lunch, ate pizza, and got pissed at my Mom for something, its a long story, not that important. There was supposed to be a poker tournament today at Mitchells as I stated yesterday I believe, but that was cancelled due to, something, I dunno....so I just played poker online (WHICH SUCKS!) and lost miserably. For example, I had an Ace high flush, which only a couple hands can beat as you probably know...well there was only one combination of 2 cards that could of beat me, And some guy just happen to have it after I bet like, half my stack. It was a depressing moment in my life. And let me introduce Robin (the girl who made the only comment on my last post, to those of you who don't know her. Robin is a girl that I met on www.gamefaqs.com, on one of the social boards there (LUE). She posted a picture of herself, I thought she was cute, so I added her to MSN Messenger and started talking to her, more and more, along with liking her more and more. I then found out that she had a webcam, and so we started camming back and forth, until my cam started to hate my computer at some random time. So now, I usually just watch her as we talk...Creepy? Yes, very....Anyhow, I'm rather obsessed with her, and would give my left arm to meet her, but she lives in Newfoundland, so that makes it extremely hard. :( I know that most of you (out of the 4 of you who read this blog) don't really care too much about my 'love life' as the kids say, but this is a very rare occurance for me, so whoever doesn't like it, can kindly go fuck yourselves ^_^ |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 26,May,2004 | I'm starting to hate poker....especially online poker, just because you can't see the people you're playing against to read them at all, its all based on best hand only. I can't wait till tomorrow though, an actual poker tourny at Mitchell's house. should be quite the turn-out methinks. Really, the only other thing going on is certian issues within the HP SIC....but thats strictly on a need-to-know basis only....and yes, I'm serious :D I'm saddened due to the fact that my first post on my new blog got absolutly NO comments at all. I even sent out an e-mail to a lot of people telling them about it ;_; Well, I've got to do some homework. Thats all I have to say about that. |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 24,May,2004 | Welcome everybody, to my new blog! As you know, I have a blog at Xanga.com, which I will be abandoning for this one, since Google will soon take over the world, I might as well start now. Well, here I am, my new blog! Oh Yeah! I've had many good memories at my old blog, but it seems that it turned into work to keep it updated. And yes, I do realize that this is the same exact thing....but its not, this one looks better, and the look of the bookmark isn't all crappified as was with Xanga. Ok, to be completely honest, I made this blog out of sheer boredom while sitting here after school with Meaghan, waiting for her mom to get here to give me a ride home. But it really is better. Enough with that...on Saturday, we had our standard poker night, only better because it was at my house instead of Popham's. It was also improved because of the fact that I was up to $24 at one point...I started with $5. I knew I should have cashed out right then, but I really like poker and wanted to keep playing, along with my nemisis, Mitchell. It was rather even, up until 'el mano de diablo' as its come to be known. In this hand, Mitchell was dealing, and he dealt me pocket 2's, a crappy starting hand, but it was better than the ones I'd been getting for the past 45 minutes, so, I played. We both call, the flop comes, 4, 2, ace. I have trip 2's. I bet $5, he quickly calls. The Turn comes, 8, no help, I check, then Mitchell bets $5, thinking he has 2 pair, I call. The River, a 10 or something. I check, he checks. I flip over my cards with excitment, only to be crushed when he reveals his damn pocket aces. I lost. I nearly died/killed him at the exact same moment. That was the biggest pot I'd ever been involved in, over $20. After anoter run of crappy cards, I eventually have a semi-good hand, and go all-in, I have him beat up until the river, in which his damn flush, beats my straight. I was angry. On Sunday, I did nothing, I did nothing and it was everything that I thought it could be. I just layed on my bed, watched TV and/or listened to music, and talked to people on MSN messenger, and played online poker, in which I played in a Tournament on Pacific Poker, and got 20th place out of nearly a thousand people. Not quite my highest finish ever (which was third out of over 800) but I think I did quite well. And now today, Monday the 24th, I sit at school, waiting for a ride home as you know. And am bored out of my skull, but I am listening to Eddie Izzard, so thats a plus. But anyhow, I must be off, for the ride is due in a while. - Lee |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 25,June,2004 | I'm done with poker. It's just too much bullshit. EDIT: For now... |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 22,June,2004 | Today was actually kind of exciting. I flew in a match for Battlefield 1942 against a crappy clan. And when I came into the server with the wrong tag on (the tag for my other clan) they got all pissed off and complained about how our team was so stacked, and wondering if I was on the roster or not, it was a great feeling know that just because of my 1337-ness, I can piss off an entire opposing team! And after they told us to suck their dicks, and how they were gonna kick our asses....we proceeded to wipe the filthy, blood soaked, spider infested desert floor of Operation Battleax, with their scrotums. After the match they complained about how we were a team of ringers, (damn fine ringers too) and how their starters weren't there. I believe that I was accused of hacking somewhere in the match too, thats always a good feeling, knowing that you're that much better than somebody.... After that, I did my usual routine of sitting on my ass, playing poker, and talking to people online. At around 10 or so, I was talking to one of my friends, Shannon, and she invited one of her friends to the conversation, then another one who I'm friends with also, I was completely overrun by estrogen. Although it wasn't that bad, since we discussed urlLink eBaums World for a good hour or so, and it turns out, that when a group of girls talk to each other, they talk a lot like guys do, cussing and yelling and threatening, it was great. And then, the massive pool of estrogen overflowed, and there was a half hour conversation about Neopets (which I, of course, wasn't in). After that, it was back to the normal, rowdy conversation from before, but was cut short because by then, it was past midnight. After they left, I just sat back, watched some TV, and then listened to some music, that is, until this enormous, gargantuan devil of a moth flew in my window, and touched me...needless to say, he is now rotting in the 7th circle of Hell thanks to a well placed stomping/grinding motion with one of my shoes. Oh my God, my Mom brought Baked Lays!! Do you people have any idea how much those kick ass?! I know you do Tyler.... |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 20,June,2004 | ^^ My favorite |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 17,June,2004 | In a comment made by my one and only reader, he said that if I kept posting in this blog with a picture, that he'd keep reading. So what do all of my faithful listeners think? Should I just put a random porn picture on here for all of you to enjoy? I'm still undecided. |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 17,June,2004 | Oh my god, she is hot. I just heard today that Morgan Webb, the beloved host of G4TechTV's X-play posed for urlLink Maxim Magazine Appearantly this has been known for quite a while, but its news to me. Geek's all across America have begged and pleaded for something of this nature. Just imagine how much one of those 50 year old guys that pretends to be a teenage girl on the internet finally getting a hold of a Playboy with the Olsen Twins in it. Thats what this is like to Geeks. On a completely unrelated note, Trent, aka God, got a new blog a couple days ago, and he mentioned my blog in there, even had a strange little picture, which looks nothing like me....so, to both of you that read this blog, go visit his. urlLink http://thenewtrent.blogspot.com/ |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 17,June,2004 | During the rousing events of today, which involved sitting on my futon on my laptop, mowing the lawn, playing poker, and sitting on my futon some more, I decided to go look at a couple of other random people's blogs, and it made me remember just how much I hate people, or at least how much they bug the bloody 'ell out of me, eh? Especially those damn 13 year old girls that have their own blog....Heres an entry from that exact demographic, from a girl that goes by 'Sweet Princess', typical, isn't it? wee going out later for father's day dinner..yipee...had a baddy stomachache..damn it..dunno wat i ate..(-_-)' hmm..tml i swear i am going to poa classes..skipped 3 lesson liao..cannot b like tis animore..hmm better not oversleep again.. haiz i decided to forgive phyllis..i must be like my heavenly father..learn to forgive n forget..love my enemies..hmm mayb tis is e best solution..tink positively..b a better gaL!! hmm..tis few days got chat wif phyllis..hmm happy..n glad..> haiz gotta clear my table one of tis days..got so many junk CHINESE paper..c until headache!! k gtg now bb :P Now please, tell me with a straight face, that the italicized text that you just read, didn't hurt your eyes/head, and that it wasn't the biggest peice of crap that you have ever laid eyes on. As far as I can gather, in that chicks fucked up mind, 'tml' means 'tomorrow' and 'wif' does indeed mean 'with'. I have no idea what the holy hell 'poa' means, or 'liao', although I think it may be Hawaiian. And it took me well over 3 minutes to decifer that 'haiz' equals 'hey's' which still isn't even a word. How sad is it when some dumb chick fucks up a word, THAT ISN'T EVEN A REAL WORD!! It's devestating to my remaining hope for humans. This next part, is what this damn 'Sweet Princess' wrote about herself in the About section of her blog: My name is kelLY..everyone call mi kel..haha i like to play piano..surf net..daydreamz..act bitchy...eat lolipop (yummy)!! blahz blah as e list goes on..Eh..currently studying in marsiling sec (berri wu lu sch) haiz.. Results arrg!! HoRRIBLE Juz wanna Say Life suX..tt aLl Simply amazing. And if anybody out there can figure out what exactly currently studying in marsiling sec (berri wu lu sch) haiz.. means, I will pay you. I think I got the first three words, but after that the damn bitch kinda trails off into a language that looks like German. And with that, I concluded that this girl, as with most girls that spell 'with' like a fucking 3 year old, is a NAZI!! Yes, you heard me right, the same goes for Hilary Duff, that god damn goose-stepping whore. I actually have proof that Hilary Duff is a Nazi, and that proof is in the following link. urlLink http://subliminal.ytmnd.com/ hAvE i SaId ThAt AlTeRnAtInG cApS pIsS mE oFf?/!1 Kudos to Kevin Rose, and Sarah Lane, Hosts for the show The Screen Savers, as their blogs, kick ass and follow every rule in the book for making a blog the proper way. I could keep this up, and go on a 'Maddox-esque' rant about how people suck, but I'll leave that for later. Something I may do in the future, is make a collection of the crappiest blogs and/or websites, and post all the links on here for y'all to enjoy, and laugh at. Expect that to come in my next entry. I have a small homework assignment for anyone out there who read this blog entry. If you've only read this sentance, please, take 10 seconds and e-mail me at urlLink [email protected] . I just wanna get a feel for who my audience is for these. Update: I've discovered why young girls type the way they do! If you would notice, the word 'wif' is said by 3 year olds who can't talk right, or by kids who don't have front teeth. And 'tink' (supposed to be 'think') is also said by either 3 year olds, or kids with no front teeth. And since you can't type wrong because you have no front teeth, I've come down to the conclusion that the majority of girls who type like 'Sweet Princess' up there, are mentally 3 years old. Another Update: I can't possibly put into words the shittyness of this girls blog. You have to see this abomination for yourself. urlLink http://gnettelovesgreentea.blogspot.com/ |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 16,June,2004 | - Fran Lebowitz From now on, I think I might do a little quote of the day thing, since I just plain suck at coming up with witty titles. Its official, www.grouphug.us is THE BEST WEBSITE EVER! Everybody who reads this must go there RIGHT NOW! Its the funnies/saddest site you will ever see. Here's a sample: 'In 1990 or 1991, someone left a large salmon head hidden inside the piano in the Diamond residence hall at Southern Oregon State College. After several weeks, the smell was unbearable, but it would be several more weeks before the source of the stench was found. The paino was seen that summer outside, covered in plastic, presumably because it was ruined by the rotting fish head... That I put there. I still laugh about it to this day. That fish head was the best 75 cents I've ever spent (I bought it at Safeway. Why they were selling fish heads is beyond me, but when life gives you fish heads, make stinky pianos I always say).' And theres a lot more like that, but its mainly about angsty teens and cutting themselves and how they weigh 100 pounds and are too fat, or how they're boyfriend is a dumbass and they're only going out with them because they feel sorry for him. Its hilarious, yet sad because these confessions come from actual people. Only 3 people besides myself will understand this next part, maybe more if I feel like explaining it, but its like midnight, so probably not. A 4 FUCKING 7!! Every rule in the poker book just gave me the finger!! Jason (Not Stubbs) I hope you burn in hell for that act of bullshit! And on that note, it looks like I'm gonna be getting somewhere around $75 this week, and Saving Private Ryan on DVD! :D Not much else to say.... |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 13,June,2004 | I must agree with my good friend Alice Cooper, and say that school is indeed out, for the summer. And so, for the next 3 or so months, you can find me located on my futon in my bedroom, most likely laying on my side, whilst on my laptop. Thats right, I said whilst, I'm trying to incorporate in some old english into my life. Will it work? no, but what have I got to lose....The respect of most of my friends? Possibly..... Today's been a relatively good day, as opposed to days that aren't quite as good as this one. The main event of today, happened at around 5:29-ish this afternoon. It was at that time, when I got a GMail account. For those of you that don't know what GMail is, Its Google's new E-mail service which is currently in Beta testing, and isn't avaliable to the general public. The only way to get a GMail account to call your own is by knowing people who already have a GMail account that can invite you to get it. So if you ever need to e-mail me, please, don't use my Hotmail account, as it sucks ass. E-mail me at [email protected] from now on. And yesterday, I played poker over at Neil's, which was a mistake...turns out Neil used to play poker quite often a few years back, and after a slow start, he proceeded to kick our asses. So the only business that I'll be doing over there, is ordering pizza. I've noticed why I like poker so much! Its because I can't stand to be worse at something than somebody. Same thing happened with Battlefield 1942. Sure, it was fun and all, but people were still better than me at it, and that bugged the hell out of me, so I played more and more, until I caught the eye of a clan, who took me in, and made me even better, and it was in that clan that I became a pilot, and when I started that, I sucked ass, but with some help from 2 brothers, named Golden Eye, and Knives, I became better than them. When I played in a scrim against my old clan, I could actually say to them 'When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master' and mean it! And I then proceeded to shoot them down in about 3.8 seconds. and it was then that I knew that I was amungst the top 5 in the world at being a pilot for that game. And my quest for perfect-ness, was accomplished. And so now, after BF 1942 is dead, I took up a new hobby, Poker, and I'm on that same quest. So in about 5 years or so, watch out.... Appearantly theres something wrong with the comments on here, and how you have to be a member to post one. Well, from what I see, you don't have to, so I don't know what you're complaining about. So whoever reads this post, please, try and leave a comment, and if it doesn't work, e-mail me to let me know that it wouldn't work. Update: I found my USB thumbdrive! It was in the pocket of a pair of jeans I barely wear, but I guess wore once, and forgot about the thunbdrive. so, yay! And as I said, if you're going to e-mail me about anything, wether it be if I think the Red Sox are going to make it to the World Series, or if you can't make a comment, please, e-mail me at [email protected] . |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 11,June,2004 | Ever since this god damn poker thing started, I've been fucked out of so much money by a bunch of bullshit. It turns out that I am the unluckiest person alive, I actually won the first tournament in my young career, then lost it because I'm a fucking pussy that can't say no....they made me play fucking 5-Card-Draw, the all-time worst game ever, I FUCKING HATE THAT GAME! And of course, do to more bullshit and crap, and human feces, I lost. And then, in another poker tournament after all that shit, I lost again due to bullshit, (ie. me losing to the only hand that can beat me, it seems as that happens ALL THE FUCKING TIME!!!) I don't even know why I play poker anymore, it just causes me to be pissed off at stupid shit like this. For those of you who don't know, the 2nd worst feeling in the world for me, is losing, losing anything at all, wether it be a simple poker hand, or a baseball game or something. I FUCKING HATE IT. and nobody seems to get it. When I lose, I get annoyed/mad/pissed/whatever. NO SHIT! I'm not gonna sit there a loser saying something like 'oh well hes a much better player than me, and deserves the money more than I do.' Bullshit. Does anybody ever watch Phil Helmuth play, err, lose rather? He's a much worse sore loser, than me. I did find out however, that I can read people really well. I can usually tell people what they have by the way they act and how they bet and all that. 4/5 times when somebody bets, I can tell what they have, and be right about it. But, I don't trust what I think and I end up calling anyway, because I have the top two pair, and theres a small chance that they could be bluffing. Like today, I was playing against my Mom and Popham. Nearly everytime I had the 2nd best hand (which seemed like every damn time) I said out loud what they had that kicked my ass, and was right. And a couple of months ago when we were playing, I called Glen's pocket pairs nearly every time, and when Schiffman played the one time, I said out loud that hes bluffing, but I didn't trust myself, and folded...I would've fucking won. And a couple weeks after that, Jason bet like $4 on some crap, and he was kind of nervously tapping his foot on the ground, and I said out loud that hes bluffing to everyone, 3 people besides hime were still in...nobody called...and I was right, again. I just don't know what the fucks wrong with me, and why the fuck I even play poker anymore. It just is starting to seem like a big ass waste of time and money. Even though I consider myself better than a lot of the people out there, and even though I'm only 16.... |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 04,June,2004 | Shit Shit Shit. As some of you know, I have a little USB Thumbdrive, that I dont know how I lived without. Well today, at roughly 10:58 PM, I discovered that it wasn't in my pocket like it always has been. And its nowhere in my room, or the living room where I was just sitting. My only guess is that is in the Dentist Office's chair I was in on Thursday. That little thing was like my life, I don't know how me, or James lived without it. I am so sad. that thing was like my pet. I would occasionally pet it for no reason....I've said too much. Oh my! Moving on Swiftly, there are somewhere around 4 days of school left. Yay. The down side? I have like 354562 tests to make up from classes I've missed. But hopefully, during the summmer I'll get an internship with HP, that would be the highlight of my life if that happened. That's all I have to say about that. |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 29,July,2004 | Finally, the title for Episode three was released, and this time the fans got it right. I am so excited, words can't describe it. More news is that the Original Trilogy will be out on DVD for the first time ever, in September, appearantly with some MORE edits, and added scenes and all that Lucas-y stuff. My god, I can't wait. Just a warning, if you see some Star Wars references in my blog for the next year and a half, its not my fault.... Anyhow, to all of my faithful readers that I'm unaware of, I haven't died, I've just been too lazy to update my blog, and have taken quite a bit of flak from Tyler, and a couple others because of it. Tyler, the bastard, just wouldn't leave me alone, calling me disgusting names because of my lack of work on this blog, I don't quite understand why he was so mean about it :( Well, at 2:46 AM, I have nothing better to do, so I decided that I might as well....that, and the fact that Tyler had made several threats on my life if I didn't update it. but luckily, hes in Washington at a basketball camp, so I didn't have to worry about this until he gets back, which is soon. The past week or two has been rather uneventful, although mine and Tyler's Mom has formed an evil allience to completely wipe out our poker extravaganzas. Appearantly, they think that me and Tyler are addicted to poker and think we should only play 2 times a month. And my Mom has incorperated the rule that I can't ride in anybody's car who hasn't had their license more than 6 months, and since I don't have my license, and usually my Mom is at work, my Dad is god knows where, and my brother has a girlfriend, somebody else is usually my only mode of transportation, unless I walk, but poker night is across town, so thats a negative on that. I must say that it is very stupid, and they just don't realize that playing poker is fun, and its something that I like to do, and it gets me out of the house, and away from this here computer, which happpens to be something that my Mom always complains about.... Well, thats all for now, I might have more to come later, most likely tomorrow, so keep and eye out....as much as that will hurt. |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 05,July,2004 | Probably as you know, if you haven't been living under a rock for the past 228 years, today, was our Independence Day, or as we know it, the 4th of July. And because we're Americans, we like to watch stuff that blows up, or thats shiny. So every year, on July 4th, we go down to the bay/lake/whatever type of body of water there's avaliable to pollute, and we go and shoot a bunch of stuff into the sky that just happen to blow up, and are shiny all at the same time. And because I had nothing better to do, I did the same thing as most of the American's today, and went and watched the fireworks (which is crap, because fireworks were invented in China!). Every year (except last year) me and my family go down to the same spot on Highway 101 to watch the fireworks, its a damn fine spot if I must say. This year was no different, me and two friends, Tyler and Jason, walked down from Tyler's house to our famous spot, which was quite the adventurous hike since we encountered Braxton and Kelton along the journey, I hoped to play poker since Tyler brought his brand new chips down there in hopes to find time to play a few games of poker while we waited. But that didn't happen, as we walked (fell, really) down to the beach. And then because we were bored down there, we threw rocks into a little creek down there. And when it got to be a little later, we ventured out into the bay, which, since the tide was out, was filled with sand, and we found a big ass log out there which we were planning on sitting on and watching the fireworks. Until these 3 girls and one guy came walking from somewhere and also came to sit on OUR log! So, they sat down, and made small talk, (this is were it gets exciting!) offered us a couple of beers, and since they were cold, cuddled up close to us, and started kissing our necks and whispering to us....or man, it was like a dream come true...they left their drunk, nearly passed out friend on the other side of the log. It was almost perfect how there were three girls, all good looking who wanted to talk to us, and make out with us, and three of us there (Me, Jason, and Tyler). After a short while, they got a little bit closer to us and starting trying to make out with us, and grope us, and with us being guys, we didn't object to this. After another short while, Jason, with his damn red hair won over ALL THREE girls, and we think that they're all pregnant now.... Ok, so I lied..... Most of what I just said didn't really happen, but it sure does make it more interesting than the real story! The REAL Story We really were sitting out on a log in the middle of a bay, and 3 girls and a drunk guy really did come sit on our log, and they did make small talk and offer us beers, but after a short while, they were REALLY annoying, so we left to go out to a big ass rock....about halfway to the rock, Tyler discovered that we just left 3, very drunk college girls, and we made a horrifying strategical error. Because all of what I said before, very possibly could have happened....although highly doubtful.... And Tomorrow, Tyler is organizing a special 4th of July poker tournament! Complete with brand new poker chips bought and cared for by Tyler himself! I had the pleasure of seeing these chips, and oh man, they are nice! So if any of my faithful readers out there know somebody that plays poker, or is interested in learning, please, send me an e-mail. If you forget, thats urlLink [email protected] . |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 04,July,2004 | Yesterday I played poker against my Mom and my brother, it wasn't even my idea, they kind of forced me to play, and for that, I had to win. I won $20, my brother bought back in and lost it even faster than the first time. The only time I was below what I started with was just after the first hand I lost my $0.20 it took to call....then I won the 2nd, and 3rd hands, and didn't really lose again. And today, I was in an online tournament, it started at 10 PM, I got knocked out around 12:30 or so. At the beginning, I lost 3 hands, and then kicked the ass of some poor schmuck when he went all in against my full house, aces over 9s. I was up to just over 2K. After that, I kept getting awesome hands and knocking people out left and right. I was doing pretty good until I got up to about 5K. Then I had pocket aces, and one person went all in in front of me, and of course, I called, I had about 2K left, the flop came A-K-10, 3 more people went all-in, of course I called, and I won $15K or so. Then 3 hands later, I got pocket kings! The flop came 2-9-K! some guy raised a couple hundred, I rereaised all-in, and 3 people called! So ummm, on that hand, I believe I was up to $30K or so. And so a little later on, I, again, had pocket aces, I raised a couple hundred on the flop. the majority of the people called. the flop, an amazing A-J-J. I flopped a full house. somebody bets a couple thousand, I call. the next card, a king. the chip leader at the time, he had like, 50K or so, went all-in, me, and 3 (!!!) other people called, guess who won over $70,000? That's right. Me. And I became the chip leader, with more than double of what the guy in 2nd had! And I remained the chip leader until the hand before I got knocked out! Here's the scenario for my last hand. I had 40K, I hold K-J off suit. the flop comes K-2-8, with 2 hearts, a guy raises 5K, I reraise all-in, he calls, and so does somebody else who had like, 5K total. So if I win this hand, I would win over $110K! the turn is a jack of hearts, which means that I have two pair, but there are three hearts on the board, and I didn't think that somebody would call 50K with a flush draw....the river is a 5 of diamonds or something. The otehr two guys lose miserably, and the guy who beat me, had q-8 of hearts...when I raised almost 40 thousand dollars, he had nothing but a queen high flush draw....and with the card that gave me two pair, he got his flush....and he won $111K. And I just stared in disbelief for about 2 minutes. And slowly walked into my room, hanging my head in shame. I won $1338, and took 36th place. (Note: I used K's, instead of 'thousand' or '...,000' because its shorter to type.) And from what I understand, Tyler is holding a poker tournament on Monday the 5th, and I will proceed to kick some ass. |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 02,July,2004 | The past week or so, nothing really has been happening, I've just been sitting here doing my usual routine, which is just me, sitting on my futon on my laptop with either my TV on or music playing in the background. I have talked to Shannon pretty much all the time, so thats a nice plus. And I just had my braces tightened yesterday, so my mouth hurts like a bitch.... |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 09,August,2004 | I have yet to recieve my iRiver, and according to the shipment tracking that FedEx has, it was just sitting in a warehouse 2 hours away for over a day, and when it left said warehouse, it was 2:39 AM, which is exactly 18 hours ago from now. I haven't heard anything since that time. So, its been 18 hours, for an under 2 hour journey, and according to their tracking, it hasn't made any stops yet. I am befuddled. I do however, have some good news! First off, Cait said that she was gonna come over and bring me pizza and hang out for a while, this is such great news because I haven't seen her it what seems like forever and I really miss her. And also in October, the 11th-18th to be exact, My Mom, my Dad and I are going to Las Vegas. We're gonna be staying at the Stratosphere tower hotel since its really cheap, but I think its just so my Mom can always find out hotel...It should be fun there, with all the hookers, and celebrities etc. I have only one thing that would be nice, a fake ID so I could sneak into Bellagio's poker room, or at least watch a poker tournament or something! |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 05,August,2004 | My Mom got her money today, and it was ordered at 2:55 PM today off of Newegg.com. With standard FedEx Express shipping, it will be here on Sunday the 8th. If you ever talk to me, odds are I'll be downloading music so I can fill up this behemoth. |
3,443,444 | male | 16 | Technology | Aries | 04,August,2004 | ...even if it is only temporary...Because you see, my Mom is getting a loan for $12,000 or so to pay off her credit cards/bills/etc. Well, she'll have a couple thousand left after all that, and our vacation. So, she's buying front row wrestling tickets for my brother, so she decided to get me an object of my choice. I chose a nice ass MP3 player, after some quick research, I chose the iRiver iHP-120 20GB MP3 player: It has a 20 GB hard drive, which is about 10 times the amount of music I actually have, but luckily, since iRiver doesn't suck, it can be used as an external hard drive, a voice recorder, and it has the ability to record from any outside source. So I found it to be quite a useful device. Since I only have under 2 gigs of songs, I decided to go prowl some message boards asking for reccomendations to fill my new, expensive toy. Well, on one board, known as LUE which is notorious for its bad behavior all over the GameFAQ's message boards, I had 29 people in 5 minutes telling me how iPods are better than my iRiver in every way possible, which sadly, it is not. I even had one person tell me that all iRivers suck and iPods are so much better, and threw in the fact that hes not a fanboy, because he owns a Dell DJ! Now, I must say that Dell DJ's suck a rather significant amount of ass, and no, this isn't coming from a potential future HP employee, its coming from somebody who knows a little something about technology. If one of my faithful readers wouldn't mind too much, please, either make a comment, or e-mail me sending me a nice big list of some good songs that you know of. It'd be greatly appreciated. |
3,534,250 | female | 14 | Student | Pisces | 03,June,2004 | hihiz...i made this just for fun |
3,534,250 | female | 14 | Student | Pisces | 24,May,2004 | The definition of pain is disagreeable experiences. There are 2 types of pain..People pain and Situation pain. In People pain, it start from broken relationship. It is categorize into 3 parts, which is rejection,discipline and loss. -->Rejection You will feel pain when you have marital breakdown, because you will feel regret in some ways, and you need sometimes to recover from it,so you will feel pain. And u have a child, it will lead to parent and child problem,also will cause pain. it means the parent reject each other,the child will feel rejected. When the child grows up,the child will reject the parents, so there is pain. Another pain cause by rejection is general rejection for example non-communication. If there is a new person in your class, and he or she is left out as everyone in the class has their own good friends and group etc. So the person has no one to talk to and he or she will feel reject. So the person will feel pain. -->Discipline Discipline is taught at home and in the country. If a child is from a family is violent, and the child is always being cane or whatever for nothing, the child will feel there is no love in this world.So the person will feel pain. -->Loss You will feel pain in ways of separation and etc. When one of your love ones die or leave, you will feel pain because you are so close to that person that you don't want them to leave. If the person which die is not a Christian, you will feel more sad as they are not save, you cannot see them in heaven. About Situation pain, it is categorize into 4 parts, displacement,improvishment,injury and old age. -->Displacement If you lost something which you 'treasures' very much, you will be very sad and you will surely feel pain for cannot be able to find your things. -->Improvishment($) Improvishment means those who don't have enough or no money.And without money,they not be able to buy food etc. -->Injury You will definitely feel pain if you fall down or etc. -->Old age If you grow old, and when you are all alone, you will feel pain inside as you think no one cares for you. Or in the world, they will not care for the old people as they think old people is useless etc. Ways to win over pain is to admit that you have pain, you can do nothing if you hide the pain. Remember the 'formula' which is 'I WILL WIN OVER PAIN WITH PRAYER,PURPOSE AND PERSEVERANCE.' -->Prayer Prayer is the first thing in the formula. So next time if you are in pain, called to God. Removing the pain is God's first answer,so you will not feel pain. But if God did not answer the first time, maybe He wait you to wait, or He do not want to take away the pain first. So the second and third thing is purpose and perseverance. -->Purpose and Perseverance Purpose and Perseverance is the second answer from God. As it is written in II Corinthians 12:9,'My grace is sufficent for thee'. Therefore, we must remember that what God has given us is enough. We also must sometimes let go the things which we think is the 'best' as God will give us something better than what we think is 'best' if we let go. So don't get angry with God if you experience pain and don give up hope, every pain has it own purpose. God's answer maybe ask you to wait, or he take it away or let it be there for a while. So now or next time you is having pain, examine the pain and pray(prayer), discover the purpose of the pain(purpose)and keep on praying until the pain is gone.(perseverance) |
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3,534,250 | female | 14 | Student | Pisces | 09,June,2004 | Pls noTE tHAt tHErE wIlL BE No Yf ThiS cOmINg SaTuRdAy... |
3,534,250 | female | 14 | Student | Pisces | 04,June,2004 | Dearest Gospel Light Yfers, Please be reminded that there will be a Yf meeting at Precher Ho Chee Lai's place tomorrow, 5 June, at 4pm. The following meeting will be on 12 June, 4pm, at Dn Eric Koh's house. For those who do not know how to get to his place, wait at Novena MRT Station at 3.40pm and i'll lead you there. But please call me first, if you dunno how to get there...i dun wanna be waiting there like a dumbo for no one. Do invite your friends to come along too! |
3,534,250 | female | 14 | Student | Pisces | 03,June,2004 | THE HUMAN BODY IS FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE By Rev Peter Chua Scripture text: Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. In his computer age, the most astonishing ‘computer’ in the world is still the human body. No wonder, the psalmist said, “ I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Even today with modern science and technology, the secrets of the human body are still imperfectly understood. Fresh discoveries are constantly being made and new wonders revealed. For thousands of years, people have tried to understand the brain. The ancient Greeks thought it was like a radiator to cool the blood. In this century, it has been compared to a switchboard, a computer, and a hologram – and no doubt, it will be likened to any number of machines yet to be invented. But none of these analogues is adequate, for the brain is unique in the universe and unlike anything men have ever made. The human brain weighs about 1.5kg is the most complex physical structure in the universe. It is the central controlling organ of our nervous system. It controls, watches over, and coordinates nearly all the processes occurring in the body. It collects, evaluates and stores sensory impressions, and effects meaningful responses. Our brain consists of around 100 billion nerve cells. These are as many as the number of stars in our milky way galaxy. The total length of the nerve fibres in the greater brain(cerebrum) is about 500, 000 km, with some scientists even estimate it to be as much as one million km. Our ‘command centre’, the brain, would be useless if there were no links to the body. Outside of the brain, the total length of nerve fibres continually carry information and commands to and fro between the brain and all other parts of the body. In some places, the thickness of the fibres is only one thousandth of a milimetre, but messages travel along them at a speed of about 40metres per second or 144 km/h. This is equal to the speed of a hurricane-force wind. (force12) The optic nerve, the ‘information connection’ from the eye to the brain, is only 2mm thick, but contains more than one million optic nerves, all insulated from one another. Even in our modern age of optic glass fibre connections. Communications engineers can only dream of having a ‘cable’ with such high0tech capabilities. We can normally distinguish between around 10, 000 varios smells, but even this remarkable ability can be greatly enhanced with practice, as in the case of professional wine and coffee tasters. Your heart beats 10,000 times in a day, and pumps enough blood in your lifetime to fill a huge skyscraper. In every drop of blood, here are 250 million red blood cells; the number of these calls in all the blood in your body is an unimaginable 250,000,000,000,000! This entire marvelous body is kept in operation by a small fist-sized pump, the heart which beats 100,000 times a day and transport nourishment throughout the entire body by means of 5 litres of blood. The volume of air passing through our lungs during the course of the day is 20000 litres. This provides the necessary oxygen, and the unwanted gases are exhaled at the same time. Eyes in different creatures are designed to meet their differing needs. Humans need good resolution and detail, whereas a fly needs speed. We see a fluorescent lamp as flickering at 10 Hz (*cycles per second) but it looks stable to us at 20 Hz, so a normal movie would look like a slide show! This simple act of walking into a room and immediately recognizing all the objects in it requires more computing power than a dozen of the world’s top supercomputers put together. We echo the words of Psalm 139:14, which David expressed his conviction that his entire being was fashioned by God. To clone a human being is to move from procreation to manufacture of human life. If human beings are special and truly sacred, then we must not do evil to bring about good. Human cloning will probably upset God’s creative work and we will be the ultimate losers for it. |
3,534,250 | female | 14 | Student | Pisces | 03,June,2004 | FACING DISCOURAGEMENT IN LIFE (By Preacher Ho Chee Lai) “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows” [Matthew 10:29-31] Have you face discouragement lately? For those of you who are studying, maybe you have studied hard but did not get the results you expected. Instead, you may have failed some papers along the way. Or, for those who are working, you may feel dejected that there seems to be reward in your career although you have worked very hard in your job. Or you realized that your name is the next on the retrenchment list. Or, for perhaps you have faced discouragement in your relationship with others. Or it could be of any reasons, that this week, you faced discouragement that no one seems to understand. The burden on your shoulders is too heavy for you to bear. You felt like giving everything up, and wondered why life is such a discouragement. Do not despair, my friends. Our Lord Jesus Christ must have felt totally discouraged too. Imagine spending three to four years training up the twelve, and one of them betrayed Him. Not only day, when Christ was put into the hands of the religious leaders, all the rest of the disciples fled from Him. Can you understand the disappointment faced by our Lord? Yet, our Lord knows how to face up to such severe situation. He knew how to draw strength from the Lord. In the garden of Gethsemane, He prayed for the strength to go through the most severe trials in His human body. The Bible says, “And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him” (Luke 22:43). Even as our Lord needs strengthening from an angel, more so for us that we may learn to find encouragement in the Lord for our discouragement. David knew this divine principle very well. After all, who is more persecuted than him, under the hands of King Saul? A major part of his life was fleeing from the hands of King Saul, who desired his death. Because of that, David fled even into the parts of the territories of the enemies, the Philistine. He and his men also had to humble themselves as subjects to Achish, one of the Philistine princes. When called to fight against his own people, David and his men raided the Amalekites instead in the pretext of fighting against the Israelites. When David and his men left Ziklag, their place of abode in the Philistine territories, to join the Philistine’s armies, the Amalekites took revenge and sacked the city and captured away all the women and children and burned the city with fire. David and his men wept and mourned, until, as the Bible says, “until they had no more power to weep” (1Sam 30:4). The Bible further stresses, “And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters” (1Sam 30:6). What should David, the leader of the people do in such a discouraging situation? He had not only lost his family to the enemies, but his loyal men wanted to stone him for their own losses too. Only in such a dim and grave situation, the faith of the one who was called “a man after mine [God’s] own heart” shone brightest. The Bible describes for us what David did, “but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God” (1Sam 30:6). How should you encourage yourself in the Lord in times of discouragement? Firstly, understand that discouragement is part and parcel of our walk with God. Nothing happens by chance but by the providence of God. It is God’s loving care and grace that will be able to sustain us in our discouragement. Does not the Lord promise, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows” (Matt 10:29-31)? If the Lord even bothers about the “cheap” sparrows, will He not be more concern for us in our situation? Let us learn to uphold the promise that God cares for us as our encouragement. Secondly, learn to see the higher hand of God in your life. The Bible say, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Rom 8:28). We must know that God always has a higher purpose for us. However, this in itself is not good enough. We also need to learn to submit ourselves to the higher purpose of God. Many Christians understand that God has a purpose for all things in accordance to Romans 8:28. But what they lacked is a submission to this purpose of God. They find no encouragement because they fail in surrendering their will in submission to the Almighty. The patriarch Joseph understood this divine principle. When he was betrayed and sold by his own brethren as a slave unto the Egyptians, he could see the higher purpose of God and learnt to submit to it. He did not put the blame on his brethren. Instead he testified, “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive” (Gen 50:20)? Finally, learn to strengthen yourself with the presence of God. Know that we are not alone as we walk the long and dusty road. Although our friends are not with us, and nobody seems to understand or care, but be sure of this, God’s presence is constantly abiding with us. He has promised to all those who loved Him, “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness” (Isa 41:10). God’s presence is the best present. With Him, all things are possible. My friends, be encouraged! God is with us. May the lyrics of this song uplift the hearts of those who are weary and who are discouraged: Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come? Why should my heart be lonely? And long for heav’n and home? When Jesus is my portion, My constant Friend is He: His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me. His eye is on the sparrow, And I know He watches me. I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. CHaRmAiNe |
4,248,759 | male | 17 | indUnk | Gemini | 17,August,2004 | I was leafing through a copy of Oxfam News floating around my opticians yesterday. Not the sort of thing I usually read, but the cover article – “How do we measure our impact on poverty?” – seemed interesting enough to warrant picking up over Woman’s Own . The image of flour being poured into a scale pan (although the back page insisted it was rice), hardly the most glamorous method of illustrating your work, seemed to promise a balanced analysis of what Oxfam did, and how well it did it. As you might expect the magazine detailed what was going on in crisis areas: Israel and Darfur, but also the areas that don’t make the news such as the poor Russians in the almost entirely rural region of Tajikistan who were given lessons on how to grow food properly, after years of hunger. There are also small reports on fundraising events, mostly in England. In fact I never got round to absorbing the cover article: because what struck me as I began to read critically is how negative the articles often were. “Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, responded [to the lobbyists] by announcing £12 million to help get children into school,” states one article concerning young children from England talking to their MPs about the lack of 3rd world education. £12 million is a noteworthy amount to spend on something that, for all the morality behind it, only indirectly affects the spender for whom countless other causes are crying out for funds. But “it’s not enough” intones the article immediately afterwards. No ‘thank you’, no gratitude, just a good old-fashioned whine. I’m not disputing whether it is enough or not, I would be surprised if it weren’t, but the rude nature of the article instantly put my back up. Twelve million and not a word of thanks in this official publication. There were others: regarding donating to Oxfam in your Will, “extending your generous support to your chosen good cause” – it’s a Will, don’t make it sound like you’re paying protection money to a 1920’s gangster. And on campaigning against the workhouses that produce sports gear: “The IOC failed to recognise its responsibilities”. It’s this sort of negative spin that reduces the credibility of a organisation. While all the statements I’ve quoted are entirely true, they are presented in a manner designed to reflect badly on those the author believes are in the wrong, or suck up to people who might be donating money when they die. Within the pages of its magazine Oxfam changes from a humanitarian organisation to a humanitarian organisation filled with open hate towards anyone who is in their way and which wants your money so badly it has trouble keeping a lid on its desires. Perhaps towards Nestle, who tried to charge Ethiopia $6m in debts through a loophole in international law, the offensive nature is justified. But giving everybody grief at every opportunity is slipping into the realms of viciousness. |
4,248,759 | male | 17 | indUnk | Gemini | 16,August,2004 | I'm not completely happy with this: I'll probably rewrite it at some point. The article's point is quite simple: that the human mind will always better graphics technology. As we vault up the technological mountain of computer realism (and shimmy up the greased pole of gameplay) our experiences in virtual worlds become more vivid, more believable and increasingly more detailed. We can now look out over rolling plains, admire grandiose cities and walk, fly or drive over huge areas. It wasn’t always that way, of course. The earliest games were simple blocks of colour or text before they moved on to the odd sprite or other 2D display before, with a few dead-ends, entering the world of 3D polygons. Since then things have only improved, but there’s one tiny detail the industry has forgotten about: that the human imagination is far superior to any video card. Take, for example, Age of Empires II . AOE2 was a 2D game, based on sprites taken from high-poly models walking round maps with the illusion of height. There were many single-player campaigns made for the game, and if someone walked in and watched you playing one it was a few men walking around a field. But to you, the player, it was something more. There was summer rain in this field, and the mud was slowing your men down. Behind you lay a range of mountains, to the right a coppice of trees and ahead the farmstead where you may or may not find the food you needed to continue and not die of hunger. The unrealistic graphics and fixed perspective forced you to use your mind to place yourself in the shoes of your character – something that the standard random map games never achieved. That game could look like crap but be absolutely beautiful. Fast forwards three years and Age of Mythology hits the shelves. It has a dully-realised 3D engine where you can implement weather, have smooth hillsides and zoom down to your character to give him a face, a personality. Instead of moving your unit down a market street having to imagine what the situation looks like from the ground, you can be at ground level yourself . Sounds good? It wasn’t. It was all true in theory of course, but when it came to actually implementing any of these ideas there was nothing left for the imagination to do: you were substituting a human mind for a piece of silicon with no emotion, no idea of what appeals to the player, and nowhere near the ability to populate a world with detail. There is no fog in your imagination, no blurry textures or clipping. But surely having a more realistic world can only aid the imagination? That isn’t so when the world is as sparse as a 3D one must be. Detail levels rarely go up – perhaps they do in terms of image quality but rarely in environment design. A three-dimensional area can only hold a fraction of the detail that that same two-dimensional area could, and once you have seen that 2D area you cannot fail to notice the shortcomings of the 3D one. Whereas AOE2 maps were teeming with wildlife and forests and had an artist’s palette of pleasant terrain mixtures, all of that was out of the question for the new 3D world where memory usage and poly counts soon went sky-high. Give players a world like their own and it had better be as detailed as their own. This is the reason why, despite trying their hardest, Bioware will never top pen and paper D&D with their games, why Doom 3 is just so damn scary until you install a flashlight mod, why Civilization 2 is the most breathtaking game I have ever played. It’s the human mind: and it is the best graphics card out there. |
4,248,759 | male | 17 | indUnk | Gemini | 16,August,2004 | I wrote this piece several months ago, so it's a little shakey in places (I still can't get the introduction right), but stick with it. This is where I started - let's see where I can go. The year is 1201. Headstrong King John I of England has come to power and has immediately ordered an attack on French soil. Taking personal command of the mounted sergeants, longbowmen and hobilars along with his own personal entourage of knights present in Brittany, the King of England lead his army deep into French territory. The French reaction was predictable: soldiers from across the nearby provinces marched to defend their homeland. The two opposing forces met near the town of Orbec, on the very edge of hilly central region of Normandy. These are the events of that day. As the rain cleared from the hill, the king wished the never-ending sheets would return. One of the young arrow boys returned from the coppice and described what he saw. The boy was drenched with mud, and ran like a leper. But after an age he breathlessly reached King John. Seventy archers, milord, fifty men without no horses and sixty with. He stammered, bowing down to the filthy earth in front of the Kings polished but mud-splattered metal boot. The king thanked the boy and smiled, but pushed him away none too roughly: if the whelp hadnt miscounted, they were outnumbered nearly two to one. They had a height advantage, and a range advantage with their deadly longbows, but, dammit, no hand-to hand foot troops. Either the cavalry would be wasted defending the archery or they would risk a bloodbath and the loss of fifty-five of Englands finest. But then against the odds they were facing now, it would take risks like that to pull off a victory. Heaving himself onto his stallion the monarch rode forwards, faithfully followed by two of his knights. His forces were loosely deployed on a small, elongated hill covered by further hills to all directions except East from which the French were advancing. The small coppice the boy had run from covered the middle third of the Northern slope of the English hill possibly a good place to lead a surprise charge through, although with just cavalry the effect would be weakened. It also blocked both sides from seeing past it, although with the slope that was more of an advantage to the French than English. No, the main battle line would have to be forward of that scanty cover. Riding forward, the enemy came into the Kings view. Archers at the front, cavalry behind, and foot troops at the rear probably including their general. Sitting on a shallow North-Westerly slope facing the English, they werent moving. Ahead of them and a little to their right lay a small collection of peasant huts on the path of the track going through the area, passing along the Southern side of the English hill, snaking around the French lines and joining another track to head East. It was the road they had been following, and the arrival of the French from that direction was a good indicator that it was the right one. To the North of the French, nearly but not quite in line with them, lay a small hill covered almost entirely with trees, not too far from the enemy lines. French soldiers could be hidden in that forest, and flushing them out would be difficult. Directly ahead of the English lay the slope down, with a small flat area covered by shrubs and bushes a perfect place to position the longbowmen but alas, hopelessly out of range. The remainder of the land between the opposing armies was flat and largely featureless. There was a strategy just waiting, screaming to be uncovered in this terrain. The only question was whether he had seen it or not. If the French werent going to make a move, the King decided, he was damned if he wasnt going to either. Futile as it was, Lord Audleys longbowmen were ordered to the small plateau in the hillside, then when the hobilars were in position to advance on to the huts which should provide cover from French arrows; and more importantly any cavalry charges. Now it was time to take a calculated risk. The light horse, under the command of another lord he had long forgotten the name of, were sent down the Southern slope and deployed on the track heading through the hamlet to French lines. The king, his bodyguard and the mounted sergeants took the Northern road to the other side of the small, wooded hill. The French did not move. It was not until he got closer to the enemy lines that the King discovered one fact the boy did not pick up there were not seventy archers, but fifty archers and forty crossbowmen. He spat from his open visor. Could those bastard ditch-born children of whores not even fight with real weapons? Not to worry he grinned inwardly: so long as his heavily armoured knights stayed away from them they lose any and every advantage over conventional bow and arrows. Looking to his right, the longbows were moving now, marching quickly down the centre of the field towards the huts, when finally the French made a move. Their archers and crossbowmen, supported by the foot soldiers nothing more than militia by the looks of it began moving methodically towards the loose collection of huts, with the clear intention of letting the longbowmen get there first. The hobilars were now in a position to charge, but to do so would be suicide for such a lightly armed and armoured group. They held their ground to the South, while the rest of the horses continued round the North flank of the French. The kings group became entirely hidden by the forested hillock just as the arrows began to fly. The others would be on their own now, out of sight but most certainly not out of mind. He could hear distant cheering, and prayed that the longbowmen were not being charged, and that the other horse riders were not counter-attacking, and the noises continued as they rounded the wood after what seemed like an eternity but was in reality a matter or seconds. Immediately ahead of the riders were the French horse light horses similar to the English hobilars still waiting on the other flank to chase any routing enemy, and mounted sergeants equally similar to those riding alongside the kings royal guards. Arrows and crossbow bolts were still flying into the and from the huts a stalemate that would soon be broken. With a few deft hand motions, the king signaled to the leader of the sergeants to execute a pincer movement against the mounted French. And with cries of Saint George! they charged. The attack was unexpected, the enemy unready. But almost instantly the king realised his mistake: he was on the left, and should the other group of cavalry regroup and charge which they were bound to do his valuable knights would be exposing their vulnerable flank. But it was too late. The horses were charging, the men shouting and the best the king could do was manoeuvre into the front centre of the group. As the first horses hit home the men new the fight had really begun. Two fell before the King, one slashed down the back with a broken spine, the other grasping what was left of his face with agony. But in such a short time he had entirely forgotten about the light French horse who had not been engaged, and now they were galloping at full speed towards his personal guard. FLANK LEFT! FLANK LEFT! He cried but it was too late. Sir Hugh le Pycard fell, as did Roger le Wis, Sir Thomas Mayle and Sir Richard Oswald and one other from these peasants on horseback. There was no honour dying to a serf! No ransom to be paid to a group of rats who did not know the meaning of the word. They had taken five knights in one fell blow they were not going to take a single man more. Pushing through his knights, he found a young French rider with wide eyes trying to run. He died. The other knights, following his lead, left the already decimated French sergeants and began hacking at the unprotected scouts. However the French had the protection of the slope, and the fighting presented a challenge to the already tiring English horses and men. Over half of the French horse were slaughtered before anyone realised why they were not breaking: the militia, with the enemy general, were charging them from the rear. Sprinting over the terrain they could be heard with ease, even over the din of battle. But the archers and crossbows had not moved. The King didnt need to look to know that the hobilars had chosen that moment to strike. His notion was confirmed moments after din from the ineffectual militia impact against his mounted sergeants died down to the horns of archer groups as they turned and ran. There were only a handful of French light horse left he snarled French curses and they too routed whether they heard him or not. The other riders tried to run too but they were surrounded and in a matter of seconds cut down to the last man. Then the generals unit, the only fighting force left in Normandy, broke and the battle turned into a bloody, one-sided slaughter. After them! the King shouted, I want that general taken alive!. What better way to end this victory than with the humiliation of capturing a general alive? The battle had been won in under a minute from the moment the cavalry charged into the unaware French reserve, and now all that was left was a strung out line of archers, running fruitlessly from the spears of the hobilars, and the generals unit, doing much the same from his swords. However the victory had cost him many dear friends. Eleven of the finest knights in England had died because he chose the wrong side of his medium cavalry to charge from, sergeants of whom nearly twenty had died. Four longbowmen had been pierced by crossbow bolts, though none from arrows, but there had fortunately been no hobilar casualties. Tonight they would rest and tend to their wounds. But tomorrow they would have to press on towards Flanders. For there, five hundred Frenchmen were waiting: the King would need to arrive at the same time as the reinforcements from Wessex crossed the channel four days from now. Otherwise, this victory would have been hard-won indeed. |
4,248,759 | male | 17 | indUnk | Gemini | 16,August,2004 | When I made this blog, I didn't want to use it as just another outlet for my personal life: I made it to give me an incentive to write, as it's something I don't do often enough. I'm trying to enter a career of journalism, a world of not much money and a lot of hard work, but it's what I want to do and I strongly believe that is more important than anything else. So there won't be any laments about my love life (I could only ever write one blog on it, anyway) or whines about parking spaces. This will be opinion, news, what I'm working on and why. Straight to it then. I want to be a journalist because I like writing, and if I do say so myself am pretty good at it. I've a long way to go, as I'm sure anyone experienced will tell me immediately but I still consider myself above average on the writing stakes. Given that you are reading this, chances are you will be too. So I guess I could try to get work experience? Unfortunately the publishing group I worked with for a few days, Firecrest Books, went into receivership a few weeks back after a pair of artists who had already ruined two companies set against it. A complete waste of incredible talent, sending the manager out on the street without a home to go to. Another problem is that I don't have English Language A-Level, purely due to my school not offering it. I could have done English Literature but I hate that, and as I said before I'm all about making sure I'm doing what I want. I took essay subjects like History to make up for it, but it's not enough to get me a job. I'm going to have to prove myself without a mark on some paper kept on a shelf. It's the University of Life for me, at least so far as entering journalism is concerned. Birmingham Uni is looking very good (incidentally, I found out that my online nickname is slang for University in the UK, and disturbingly cheerleading groups in the US) but I won't be doing anything directly related to the English language there. So my only option is freelance. And now, the introduction to my first attempt at real journalism. 'Any player of Half-Life based games must, by now, have heard of Steam. The old World Opponent Network or ‘WON’ servers were shut down last month and the only way to play games such as Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat is now through Valve Software’s program. Pay a visit to the website (www.steampowered.com) and you can read the list of features, but they only give a brief insight. Even when you install it and create an account, there is still little clue as to what is really going on behind those beguiling green frames. You would be justified in wondering exactly what it was that you were downloading to your computer. You might even be justified in some suspicion in a world filled with spyware: but more likely you would just want to understand how things work. Don’t worry, it’s only natural.' It’s a simple 1500 word article on Steam, and I’m looking around for a publisher. PC Gamer UK were encouraging their readers to send in articles for a cash incentive (seems like a good hybrid of deep end and a sensible start) but that seems to have been dropped, so my next target is online game news sites. Failing that I’ll just post it here and at forums and spread links around. These bastards will notice whether they like it or not. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 31,May,2004 | Dear All Just to let you know that I now have a new email for home use which is [email protected]. Just off 100cm now round my girth....boobs also rapidly expanding.Hugh and I did a 24 hour babysit last weekend which went suprising well. Luckily Miggy (the mother) had left a detailed programme of events from feeding, sleeping and approx nappy changing times to times when he was likely to be grumpy. Charlie (the baby) stuck to his schedule and Hugh was most impressed by his grumpy times which seem to consist of a only few minutes whinging before a feed. 'No problem at all!!!' I think were Hugh's words. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 29,May,2004 | urlLink In his words; 'The food comes down into the stomach part, then into the yucky part, then the stinky part, then the pee part' |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 26,May,2004 | Technology is begining to overtake. I have just had a webcam conversation with Rupert and Dylan even 'though it is wobbly it is wonderful to see them. We enjoyed the play at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, it was Candida by Bernard Shaw. The wife of an upright moral apparently strong clergyman, whose wife was loved by a young poet and how she dealt with it. In the end she 'chose the weaker person' 'though he appeared strong, she thought her husband was the weaker. We met Andrew Havill ( real name Jones the brother of the guy who took Helen's wedding photos) who played the clergyman in the play. There was a question & answer session afterwards. We stayed the night wth Triff & Mary Lambert in their lovely house in Topsham. He has bought a larger boat full of more technology. He did not seem all that well having been suffering from some long term viral infection. We look forward to Rupert coming for the weekend after next and perhaps Peter sometime. Simon is swotting away for the rest of his German GCSE exams I don't dare breathe! Weather has been good in spite of warnings to the contrary. Aches & pains getting slowly better. I have to see theorthopaedic consultant next week. I hope I can soon drive again. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 26,May,2004 | Peter has just explained to me how to do it. It is so nice to have children who keep you up to date. We are just off to the theatre will write a review when we retutn XX Mum |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 24,May,2004 | Easyjet, Amsterdam to Edinburgh. We pick up the Thrify rent-a-Ford-Transit-van at the Quality Inn just outside Edinburgh airport. The plan is firstly, to visit IKEA to buy furniture for Ratsmagic, Linda's holiday cottage in Aviemore. Secondly, to clear out her Edinburgh flat to prepare it for renting. Thirdly, to put the IKEA furniture into Ratsmagic and take the old furniture, together with the stuff from Edinburgh, to a still-to-be-determined car boot sale. We arrived on Friday at midday and had to leave on Tuesday morning. It was a scramble and it would have run like clockwork if we hadn't arrived at Aviemore to find water leaking through the house. So add to that: Fourthly, find a local plumber to fix leaking pipe. I was determined to break the white-van-man stereotype by being courteous to pedestrians and other road users, but we soon found ourselves eating fish and chips out of newspaper while parked, so bang went that theory. Although Linda couldn't believe how much stuff she had accumulated in Edinburgh, the first phase of the operation went smoothly. After putting up curtains, buying blinds, painting here and there, and generally tidying up we left on Saturday evening. As the sun set we had a beautiful drive up to Aviemore through the Highlands, arriving at nine. We spent a couple of hours unloading and reloading and at about midnight we had a van full of stuff ready for the Inverness car boot sale starting at seven the following morning. We got to the sale car-park in Inverness at about seven-thirty and are directed to a parking space. As soon as we open the back door of the van we have people peering inside asking us 'how much for this?' 'how much for that?'. We're not really ready for full-on selling. We thought we might not even sell anything. Our aim was to try and make it to a hundred pounds. A man is interested in the desk. I tell him it's 45 pounds, he offers 40 and I accept. Another man, looking at the table, shakes his head in disbelief, 'dear me' he mutters. Maybe I should have asked more? Anyway, we're in full swing now. The money is rolling in: ten pounds for the oil lamp, a fiver for the brass cake stand. I cut the price for the knackered old chairs: a fiver for three chairs. The man in the burger van next door is quick to react. He sends one of his serving staff over with the money. Later in the day I will hear over and over again 'what beautiful chairs', 'so cheap', 'oh they're lovely'. Damn, another mistake. The sewing machine was Linda's grandmother's, missing a few bits but still looking impressive. An amateur collector comes by and asks how much. 15 pounds I say, he offers 10. I hold firm, and he relents. The books sell well which is a surprise to us both. They are the main draw for people to stop and browse, and at 50p each there are bargains to be had (particularly if you are a vegetarian or a feminist). The old electrical stuff goes: two fruit juicers, two telephones, an extension lead. Sometimes just writing what something is on a label makes a difference, although the garlic roaster doesn't end up with any takers at 50 pence. At about midday the punters slacken off. The sun is still shining, and our stall is looking decidedly empty. There are a few books left, some lamps, a pair of shoes, cutlery, but nothing much. We pack it all into a box, put it in the back of the van and drive to a pub on the shores of Loch Ness for lunch. There we add up our total. One hundred and seventy two pounds! Within ten minutes the money is spent five times over. After lunch we drop off the table that we sold to someone's house in the middle of nowhere on the road to Fort Augustus. We make it home at three thirty and fall asleep within minutes. A few times in the next couple of days we meet people who say: 'you sold the desk, oh that was lovely, I would have had that', or 'five pounds for three chairs, do you know how much people pay for chairs?', or 'that desk! I would have loved that desk', or 'oh I'd have given that juicer to my daughter'. We have the impression that we've got rid of the stuff too cheaply. But that, after all, is the point of car boot sales. There be bargains there. If I'd had a penny for everyone who'd said 'oh that's really cheap' but then walked on and not bought aforesaid cheap item I'd probably have about 10 pence. On Monday morning Linda arranges for a plumber to come and fix the water leak. A broken ball-cock leads to a split copper pipe which needs replacing. The plumber is there for four hours. The bill comes to one hundred a seventy pounds. Ah well, we've got enough for Monday's Gaurdian and a packet of Pork Scratchings. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 24,May,2004 | We arrived back from Westport at 2am last night with a trailer full of toys & furniture. Holly, Kevin and the boys are leaving the east coast in a few weeks and moving to urlLink Carefree, Arizona - is this asking for trouble? |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 19,May,2004 | Only me....just testing how this works before I creat a blog |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 19,May,2004 | Quarter past four on Wednesday afternoon. A perfect May day in Delft, and the beginning of the Lloyd's Blogg. What will happen? Where will we go? These are questions that only Lloyds can answer. Tomorrow is ascension day, which is a public holiday in Holland, and Linda and I are off to Antwerp to see Steven Oke and his fine family. On Friday we fly to Scotland for a few days while Linda sorts out her various properties (the flat in Edinburgh, the cottage in Aviemore) for renting. That means hiring a van, trips to IKEA, etc. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 30,June,2004 | This post comes from a youth hostel in Salerno. We're now five days into our cycling tour of the Amalfi coastline, south of Naples. After cycling 50km to Schiphol airport we flew into Naples and cycled another 15km from the airport to the port. Naples is chaotic: scooters and heated conversations everywhere. Linda got a slap on the bottom from a passer by. At the port we caught the ferry to the island of Ischia, about an hour and a half away. Another 10km or so completed the days cycling to a kind of resort sort of a place. When we arrived the man rolled his eyes. There were lots of people standing around, so we assumed that the management had gone wrong somewhere. No-one was being served for food! It turned out that everyone gets served at the same time (3 courses). The man said 'do you want to heat'. We said yes of course we want to heat. And what heating it was. Pasta followed by sea-bass and then fruit. Lovely. In the night the mosquitos attacked however, so that didn't go quite so well. Day 2 We cycled around the island - heavily tourist oriented with every inch of beach space taken - to an exclusive place that Linda had found via the internet. La Scanella was only reachable on foot as it was down a sheer cliff face, nestling down by the clear blue water. There were a couple of swimming pools and of course the sea to swim into (if you could avoid the motor-launches). Heating was again exceptional, out on the terrace overlooking the sunset and (now empty) sea. Everything would have been perfect were it not for those damn mosquitos. More bites for Linda and me. Day 3 Our plan depended on the ferrys. Our basic idea was to get to Sorrento, either via Naples or via the island of Capri. Only Naples turned out to be possible. We cycled the 20km to Ischia port climbing steeply around the island, and arrived just in time for the ferry to Naples. On arriving in the port of Naples it wasn't to clear whether we could catch a ferry to Sorrento with our bikes, so we decided to cycle. It was 1530 and Sorrento was 45km away. The going was flat, but tough. Over endless, over-crowded, cobbled streets. Buildings once grand but now faded. People and traffic everywhere. Then my bicycle chain snapped. Luckily I had brought the chain extractor tool with me, so I managed to fix it, but for a while there we were worried. Herculanium and then Pompeii slipped by unnoticed amongst the frenzied development and industrial wasteland. Eventually the urban sprawl began to diminish and we moved into the more cliffy landscape towards Sorrento, the views becoming ever more dramatic. We had booked a log cabin in a campsite for the night, which proved surprisingly good. Sorrento seemed like a cuise-liner stop off point - Italy for upwardly-mobile teenage Americans it seemed like at the restaurant - but was a nice relaxed place to spend an evening. We fell asleep to the sound of chattering Germans. Day 4. The beginning of the Amalfi coast. Up early we headed out west from Sorrento, the roads becoming increasingly steeper. We stopped for a quick expresso before we his the Amalfi proper, and nothing can really prepare you for the text-book beauty of the place. Sheer cliffs descending to aqua-blue water, and tiny beaches only accessible by boat. And that's it for about 100 kilometres. The cliffs get more sheer (sheerer?) and the sea goes on getting bluer. By bike is the perfect way to view it; you can just glance over the small concrete barrier to the sea far below. After a long days cycling we stopped at Amalfi, and pretty place, but again a bit too Westward Ho! for my liking. We found a lovely wine bar in the evening and enjoyed personal service and fine wine, as we were the only two there the whole evening! Day 5 (today). We headed inland, first up a steep hill to Ravello (the place where Wagner set some of Parsifal, so Linda was pleased) and then on into the back hills, rising to 1000m. In the heat of the day, we sweated and sweated, but to be able to drift back down to the coast again made it all worthwhile. We stopped at a few more places as the Amalfi coast trails off towards Salerno. The odd expresso here, the odd slice of pizza there. And then Salerno, a town\city of faded glory. Beautiful dishevelled buildings, and grand promenade out front. We book in to the Hotel Jolly - our first hotel with a mini-bar - shower off the sweat of the day and settle down to the Euro 2004 semi-final. Holland v Portugal. My bet is Holland. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 14,June,2004 | Sausages have two ends! |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 12,June,2004 | I have signed in as grandpasimon but this is actually from Margaret. I cannot seem to find my password and the blog site is not helping. We have just had a super weekend with Peter Helen and Rupert. I do not know whether it will ever happen again. It was really great along with the weather. I hope to be able to publish a photo. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 12,June,2004 | urlLink |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 08,June,2004 | Last Saturday was a one-day squash tournament at the local club. After a few months of lessons from the world-ranked player / coach at our club I thought I'd chance my arm. He's brought me back to the basics. Keep still, follow through, accuracy. The stuff you get taught at lesson 2. It's given me more confidence if nothing else. On Saturday morning I felt fit and ready to play. 10:15 was my first match. There were about 30 people in the draw: a 'B' level event according the official Dutch classification of squash players. I didn't really know what to expect about the standards, but it was clear after a minute of knocking up that the first opponent wasn't going to provide any problems. I beat him 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 even though, as I found out later, the first rounds were best of three. Match two was at 11:15. A more stylish opponent, but with no real tactics. This time it was 9-2, 9-4. That meant I was through to the quarter-final and would have to play against my team-mate, Arjan, who plays on the number one spot (I play at two). 12:45 was our scheduled game. I decided to play low and fast to try and avoid Arjan's volleys into the nick from high balls. And it worked! I won 9-5, 9-7. I was in the semi-final. The day before (Friday) I had watched Tim Henman lose in 4 sets to Coria in the French open semi-final. He'd played superbly to take the first set, then run out of steam for two and half sets, and then put in a late surge to almost claim the fourth set. Although it was an exciting match, he lost. My semi-final followed a similar pattern. My opponent, who looked a bit like a cross between a whippet and a chicken, was the number 1 seed from Utrecht. The first game went fine, I hit a high tempo and he couldn't keep up. I came off court thinking this might be easy. Then I began to get tired, and Utrecht-man kept running, and running, and running. The second game he one 10-8, the third, after some poor refereeing decisions (I must have been tired because I started arguing with the referee in Dutch) he won 9-7, and the forth again 9-7. I lost the match 3-1. I came off court exhausted, feeling like I'd given everything. In a way it was a nice feeling to be completely tired out after having performed quite well. I certainly think the lessons are having an effect. The number one seed went on to lose the final, I like to think I tired him out, but I'm not sure if that's true. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 03,June,2004 | All good things come to an end except Sausages. This is a conundrum. If you can't work it out don't worry, I'll post the solution in a couple of day's time! Sausage solution - ugh! |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 01,June,2004 | I have already written a blog today but it seemed to disappear --- perhaps because I didn't sign in. Anyway I simply cannot find it so cannot even cut & paste to put it in the right place. I suspect 'anno domini' is to blame. I went to the orthopaedic consultant today who says all is well with my knee and to see him in a year. I am longing to regain my independence and start driving. He says I can if I feel able but the insurance companies don't like it if you have an accident before 8 weeks, so softly softly for another 2 weeks.I was re-arranging my 'my favorites' site and came across Peter's web site 'shornbare.com.' It is on 'my favorites' as home.jpg which is probably why I don't look at it very often. I found it very amusing rather like a poetic blog. It is well worth a look even if it is rather egocentric! The weather is still fine, Simon has his music group coming for the day tomorrow so must start cooking. When going through the old slides with the scanner Peter sent me, an awful lot of them seem to be me washing up! I have tried to download 'Hello ' to show you a picture of me with rubber gloves and apron an a camping expedition; I can't believe I packed them! Anyway I signed in to hello and when came to name and password it kept saying 'only alphanumeric names accepted. Well now I am completely lost. I await advice on the subject!!!!! |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 01,June,2004 | [email protected] (Emma's e-mail address) [email protected] (Beth's e-mail address!) [email protected] (Sarah's e-mail address) [email protected] (Alistair's e-mail address) Practice website: www.abracad.org Tel. 01344 481047 So much for the technical stuff - we've just returned from Devon and I'm now looking forward to my annual 'Tour de France', only with the help of an engine (Vive la difference!), from 18th-25th June. In July we're entertaining some Frenchies and at Xmas we're off to Barbados - that's about it, if all goes according to plan... |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 01,June,2004 | Just testing |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 01,June,2004 | Monday was 'Pinksterdag' in Holland - pentecost I think - and another excuse for a national holiday. Ian and Oliver came up to Delft for the day. They are doing a weeks tandem bike-riding, based at a campsite in a place called Veere in the south of Holland. They could just about fit the tandem in the Renault Espace, so they brought it up to Delft. After getting lost on the way they arrived at midday. Oliver headed straight for our pond to study the activity - tadpoles just about developing legs now, newts larking about - while Ian brought us up to date with his latest technology, developments with the latest house, etc.. We headed into Delft for lunch on a boat and, after a few photo opportunities, hit the road for the 'countryside'. The nice Dutch people have created a new cycle path through some fields and lakes near to Delft which is proving hugely popular with the natives. Although half of Holland must have been out on their bikes the fact that you are away from the traffic makes it seem very peaceful and relaxed. It was a beautiful sunny day too, which always helps. We all had a go on the tandem, with Oliver on the back, which really does shift when you are both pedalling! After a cup of tea by a main canal we headed home. I had a squash lesson so had to say brief goodbyes. When I got back home, all was quiet again. Time for a nice glass of wine and a few peices of cheese on the deck. Lovely. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 12,July,2004 | urlLink Hugh and Lil with Bronze medals Some of our holiday snaps from Lake Garda 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 11,July,2004 | urlLink Hugh sailing Some of our holiday snaps from Lake Garda 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 11,July,2004 | urlLink Photos from Lake Garda Some of our holiday snaps from Lake Garda 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 11,July,2004 | urlLink Being pregnant I don't drink unlike husband! Some of our holiday snaps from Lake Garda 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 11,July,2004 | urlLink Hotel restaurant & swimming pool july 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,July,2004 | urlLink Aix en Provence july 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,July,2004 | urlLink provencal pictures july 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,July,2004 | urlLink another one of the family June 2004 family weekend june 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,July,2004 | urlLink Mungo on the beach at Lee Bay july 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,July,2004 | urlLink family weekend june 2004 family weekend june 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,July,2004 | Holiday snaps from Lake Garda 2004 Some of our holiday snaps from Lake Garda 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 08,July,2004 | I've had a good time in Provence. The sun, the food and the scenery were quite another world. It was a sort of holiday/ course with Alliance Francais which is an national organisation to promote france & french. The south west branch is based in Exeter. We had to have read a book ( Jean de Florette by Pagnol) and the discussions were centered around the book which is set exactly in the area we were staying in. We also had other discussions and a bit of written work, nothing too demanding. We travelled by Eurostar and T.G.V. The hotel was small 20 rooms only, so we got to know all the other guests. Although not a great football fan, it was great fun watching the European cup with other different Europeans. There was only the one T.V. so we all watched together whatever country. We only watched after our meal so there was a great deal of camaraderie. There was a lovely swimming pool to alleviate the heat, and the food was delicious. We were a rather disparate group. We were meant to be 6 but 2 did not come. A 74 year old 'little bird' from Exeter, who spoke in a whisper and had a very bad spinal curvature. She was very academic and was fluent in 2 or 3 languages; a VERY loud lady from Bath but originally from Newcastle. She also was fluent as she had worked with her husband in the travel industry; she was nearly, or about 80 and had a form of bad arthritis. Gordon from Paddington was the only man who was really not all that bright and certainly not too good a French 'though he thought he was. We were all handled very well by our French leader Albert, and surprisingly we soon gelled and became a sort of family, forming a nucleus in the hotel. We had some to trips to surrounding picturesque hill villages, to Aix, an evening of Italian Baroque music on period instruments in a village church ( unusually a protestant church) and by chance sat in on a concert in another little church given by a local music school. I came back to England to see the end of Wimbledon which always brings back memories for me. This month I am going to London to attend two workshops on how to start interviewing ex St. Georges nurses for an oral history project. Yesterday we spent with Diana( nee Mabbutt who lived nextdoor when I was young in Raynes Park) her daughter Ruth and dog Murphy (a slightly older edition of Mungo). They were staying at Lee Bay near Ilfracombe in 'Shell Cottage' overlooking the beach. We had a really good day the sun shone, the dogs had a wonderful time together and Mungo learned to swim. Ruth has been working on the editorial side of a magazine and is about to launch her own with 3 friends on Illustration. I will try and post some pictures but have not been too successful so far so.... watch this space! |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 07,July,2004 | Just to let you all know we have now exchanged contracts and will be moving to our grown up house on Tuesday 20th July. 599 Southleigh Rd Emsworth Hampshire PO10 7TE 01243 371283 Trying not to get too excited just in case, but I do find myself planning where all the furniture is going to go when I can't get to sleep! Usually fall asleep when it comes to the piano....conservatory or lounge??? Should have bought somewhere with a music room. Bump is getting slowly bigger and I can feel it moving a bit more now, although I'm convinced it is a bit lazy as another Mum to be I met said hers was moving all the time. Ours will probably come out followed by sofa and TV. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 10,August,2004 | urlLink Guess who?? family weekend june 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,August,2004 | urlLink Peter's redone flat is really good, much attention has been given to little details. This is looking from the study area towards the kitchen and at the far end, the bedroom. The bathroom and lavatory are behind the grey area, family weekend june 2004 |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,August,2004 | This is the 6th time I have tried to publish this it always seems to disappear! We have just returned from a weekend with Peter & Linda in Holland. We went to a concert at the Delft chamber music festival, visited some other Dutch towns and had some memorable meals. Peter makes his own pasta with his new toy - a pasta machine it was delicious. We love wandering along the canals sampling dutch life, boats, bikes and bridges etc. The weather was really really hot. |
3,389,862 | female | 36 | indUnk | Pisces | 09,August,2004 | urlLink Leiden Holland August 2004 family weekend june 2004 |
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