It's High Five a Muslim Day and David is proudly wearing his 'I Slam for Islam' shirt. Here's round one of photos of high fives around the office.

On a different note: Super Amart rang this morning, MY LOUNGE SUITE HAS ARRIVED! they are delivering it on Friday, and I'm madly trying to sell my couches. I've found a buyer for the blue one already this morning. So the next couple of evenings, I'll be rearranging the furniture and moving stuff in prepation for the lounges arrival. zomg i'm so excited!!!

I still cannot believe all that has happened. It sounds like the script from trashy daytime soap opera. I am still reeling from the actions of someone I once thought fondly of. Although I only knew him through her, from they way she spoke about him and the way I saw him treat her, I thought he was decent human being. But I was wrong. He has trampled all over her heart without so much as a 'sorry, excuse me, whoops didnt mean to hurt you'.

I cannot believe how disgusting someone can behave, how they can suddenly change 100% because of so called 'parental instincts'. The urge to have a child seems to incapacitate people- and leaves them complete void of rational thought.

Despite not having anywhere near the financial support to raise a child, they do not seem to care. Despite not even having a solid relationship from which to bring a child into the world, they dont care. People just spread their legs and pop one out. WHY? Do you really think a child is going to bring you happiness? Will it make you whole? The idea that you NEED a child is ridiculous.

Its not a game, a toy or a fucking collectible! its a fucking child and you dont' have the money to support a child. You have a manipulative bitch, a broken heart, a quarterlife crisis, a fresh new relationship that started from lies and cheating and now a baby on the way.

I pity the child.

Some people should not have children. You do not deserve to have one, you do not deserve to be happy. You are truly scum. If I see you in the street, I don't think I will be able to resist verbally abusing you or spitting at you. And I can't promise I won't kick your pregnant whore right in her dirty snatch. she deserves so much worse than that.

I am going to buy my first piece of art. Its nothing huge- its just a small piece by a local artist. I saw her collection on show at the Alibi, a funky bar down the road from me. It was on the wall in the little end booth at the back of the bar where we were sitting and it just really caught my eye.

There was another painting on the other wall, which may have also been from her collection which I really hated. It looked like a horrible kids drawing and I was appalled that someone was trying to sell that piece of crap.

But this other piece, I just fell in love with straight away. Of course, art is subjective and although I didn't like that one piece, others really did. And I guess I don't know what she was thinking/feeling when she created that piece.

That's the painting I'm buying. I dont know why, I just love it. The colours are alot more vibrant and more red.. it seems pinkish in that pic. My phone doesn't have a great camera, and it was dark so it failed to capture the true colours. But trust me, it looks heaps better in person.

I'm not sure where i'm going to put it though. Every one of the hooks in this place are being used - John Lennon framed picture, Beatles framed picture, a couple of cool arty drawings Avid from LittleRocket.net drew of me years ago in my room (check out my favourite). A kitsch little Jesus SuperHero wind up figurine is hanging outside my room... I could probably pull it down and finally put it to rest and use that hook... or I could risk putting another hook in the wall. Damn rental places, I've been here for so long... I'm sure I'm going to lose a bunch of my bond because of dents and scratches in the walls from careless ex-flatmates. So what is one more hook?

February 28th is High Five a Muslim Day!



View the video explaining all about the day here!

It's a video from an aussie sketch show called the Ronnie Johns Half Hour. This episode actually was banned and pulled off the air.... However, the producers stood by their view that the sketch wasn't offensive to Muslims and the result was the Mufti of Australia issued a Fatwa (religious ruling) about the sketch. It agreed that they idea behind the sketch was constructive and helped promote understanding between Muslim and non-Muslim australians. View the Fatwa here.

So the tv station gave in and showed the episode on sunday night.

On monday we all chuckled over the video and saw the website was advertising shirts to promote High Five a Muslim day. It even said by just expressing your interest, you could be in the draw to win a shirt. David and I both entered for the hell of it.

Didn't hear anything back from them on Tuesday or today (wednesday) so after much deliberation David finally decided to buy a shirt- everyone agrees its just too funny a shirt NOT to get. As soon as he placed his order, the email saying he won the free shirt came through, so instead they are sending him one of each!

So this coming tuesday, my favourite Muslim and High Five champion of the office will be proudly wearing his "I Slam for Islam" shirt.
The Ronnie Johns people asked if he would send in pics of everyone in the office high five'ing him while wearing the shirt , and they will post it on their website!

Do your part and give a Muslim friend some skin...."Or even someone who just looks like a muslim, 'cause they've been copping it too" :P

High Five a Muslim day.....Where will you be?

Here's an iTunes Meme - idea taken from Daniel at Boudist.com

(This is my work iTunes, not my home one. I probably have way more music on my work computer anyway)

How many total songs in your library?
3282 songs

Sort by Song Title
First song: "En Gallop" by Joanna Newsom
Last song: Zoot Suit Riot by Cherry Poppin' Daddies

Sort by Time
Shortest song: Bye! from Tegan and Sara's Under Feet Like Ours 0:05 seconds
Longest song: Well I have a couple of Krafy Kuts Essential Mixes that go for almost 2 hours, but the long actual song is D) Pt IV from The Mars Volta's Scabdates 20:00 minutes

Sort by Album
First album: 100,000 Hz Legend by Air
Last album: Zoolander Soundtrack (I just liked the Wallflowers cover of I Started A Joke)

Top 10 Most Played Songs
Helicopter - Bloc Party 34 plays
Pretender - Eisly 31 plays
She's Hearing Voices - Bloc Party 27 plays
Like Eating Glass - Bloc Party 26 plays
I Wasn't Prepared - Eisley 25 plays
Pressed In A Book - The Shins 25 plays
Tree Tops - Eisley 23 plays
Mother Mother - The Veronicas 23 plays
Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) The Arcade Fire 21 plays
Marvelous Things - Eisley 20 plays

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
These Wooden Ideas - Modest Mouse
This Is How It Goes - Missy Higgins
Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
What Makes You Happy - Liz Phair
Father's Day - Weddings, Parties, Anything

HOLY CRAP!

Read the full article

Tartakovsky directing Dark Crystal sequel
Filming expected to begin this summer with a scheduled 2007 theatrical release

Award-winning animation director Genndy Tartakovsky, who created the hit series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Samurai Jack and Dexter’s Laboratory, will direct Power of the Dark Crystal, the much anticipated sequel to The Jim Henson Company’s 1982 classic fantasy film....

Set hundreds of years after the events of the first movie when the world has once again fallen into darkness, Power of the Dark Crystal follows the adventures of a mysterious girl made of fire who, together with a Gelfling outcast, steals a shard of the legendary Crystal in an attempt to reignite the dying sun that exists at the center of the planet.


MY GOD, this will be awesome! I can't wait!

was going through my old emails and found this forward:

PAPER SCISSORS ROCK
I understand that scissors can beat paper, and I get how rock can beat scissors, but there's no f -ing way paper can beat rock. Paper is supposed to magically "wrap around" rock, rendering it immobile? Why the hell can't paper do this to scissors? Screw scissors, why can't paper do this to people? Why aren't sheets of notebook paper constantly suffocating students as they attempt to take notes in class? I'll tell you why-- BECAUSE PAPER CAN'T BEAT ANYBODY! A rock would tear that sh*t up in 2 seconds. When I play rock/paper/scissors, I always choose rock. Then when somebody claims to have beaten me with their paper, I punch them in the face with my already clenched fist and say, "Oh sh * t, I'm sorry. I thought paper would protect you".


The brisbane Tegan & Sara gig is this thursday - I'm so excited! I got a hair cut yesterday (because I won't be seeing mum for another couple of months, plus I wanted to look as funky as possible for the gig, in case I get the chance for another pic with Tegan & Sara, hahhha lame I know) and its quite short. I told the stylist, I liked when my fringe(bangs) were cut on an angle, and quite short. But I didnt realize she would cut it quite this short. On the right side it goes all the way up to my hairline- its barely a centimetre long in parts.
I feel like so much weight was removed from my hair- I don't know how it grew as much as it did in 2 months. But there was so much hair all over the floor when she was done. It feels great now- It's so short at the back and on the top and easy to spike.

As much as I miss long hair, I don't think I could grow it out - I love the feeling of short hair so much more.

I hope everyone's 'unimaginative consumerist-oriented and entirely arbitrary, manipulative and shallow interpretation of a romance day' day has been filled with overpriced flowers and tooth rotting sweets! We're going for mexican dinner tonight! YUM!

Memories are fascinating. Here I am researching and reading up about perms for a hair website I'm working on, and as I'm reading over information about perming solution and rollers. Suddenly years of memories of my mum's hair salon come flooding back and I swear I can smell perming solution. Of course I can't, I'm in the office... but my mind is playing tricks on me and I can fully imagine the smell of perming solution in the air.

And that smells invokes so many more memories. Still to this day, I love hanging out in my mum's shop- the smells of shampoo, hair spray, freshly cut hair. Usually I'm sitting up the back wearing a cape that makes me feel like a cloaked superhero, sections of my hair all wrapped up in foil, flipping through hair magazines, listening to bundy's Hitz FM radio station. Or as mum is packing up for the day I'm sweeping up hair, rinsing out bowls with left over hair dye and bleach in them. Newly dyed hair, freshly cut- I love it. Mirrors everywhere, I can see my new hair from every direction. A mountain of hair products all laid out in front of me. I go to town styling my hair.

AHHHHHH I need a haircut already! Mum's coming down to visit me in April for Easter, so I'll be getting a cut then. But its not the same, playing hairdressers in my bathroom. I love her salon. I think I'll have to go and get a cut before then though. *gulp* This will be 4th haircut I've ever paid for.... IN MY WHOLE LIFE!

My hormonal insanity has hit an all time high. I don't suffer from PMS very bad, or very often. Maybe every third month or something, I'll have a mini crisis. Sometimes its the week before *ahem*, the visit of my monthly friend, sometimes its the week of. How can the shedding of uterus lining and hormones affect my sanity and rational thought so much?
I'm not a moody person and I think I'm usually pretty rational.
I KNOW its my hormones, I tell myself its just hormones making me feel this way.... but I can't stop the neurosis.

Today I was in a weird mood which turned into stress after lunch, over nothing of course. There was nothing making me stressed, only everything.. every little thing. The boy asked what was the matter and his caring made me get upset. I knew I was being stupid and there was nothing making me upset but the fact that he cared enough and was concerned, made me upset (at myself, not him). Being upset made me start babbling like a crazy person. I realised and tried to shut myself up.
The boy was still concerned, which was so sweet and flattering. But those nice feelings quickly turned to worry - worry that my crazy behaviour would scare him off and push him away.

ARGH, its an endless cycle of crazy!

After work I went over to say goodbye before heading to the gym. I put on a brave face to reassure him AND myself that everything was fine. I was still 100% aware that its all hormones, nothing more.

For no reason I fell apart in the lift and tears started welling up. I sent an sms saying maybe I'm not ok but the tiny bit of rational brain I have left knows its just hormones and I'll be fine tomorrow... but maybe we could go for a coffee for chats and stuff. The boy calls straight away really worried. He misread my psycho, moody behaviour for wanting to break up, or worse...

There I was standing in the middle of the sidewalk during peak hour after work traffic, catching each tear as it springs from my eyes. I don't know why I'm crying, I just am. I try to settle his concerns. Exasperated, he checks again that I'm ok and I say yes, and goodbye and hang up before the tears start up again.

I'm getting dressed in the gym locker rooms, and I realize I brought the wrong pair of tights for gym, and the waterworks start up again. (WTF?) I hide in the toilet and have a little cry, and then out to the bike and elliptical trainer to sweat my neurosis away.

I felt so good and normal afterwards and the walk home cleared my head. Now I'm completely baffled at why I was getting so upset over NOTHING. Hell, I was baffled at the time, while knowing that its just insane hormones wreaking havoc on my mind. But I couldn't stop feeling the way I did.

I'm so glad I don't feel like this very often. I'll take the mellow, stable mood over crazy highs and lows anyday.

And that's my insight into the crazy female mind for the day.

Spam is getting more and more ridiculous.

I got one of those "I'm a lawyer to a recently dead billionaire. Help me transfer the money and you will make lots of money" emails and the subject was
"AS URGENT AS YOU SEE IT! PLEASE READ NOW. NOW. NOW"

seriously, who falls for this shit? yea you are a Barrister and your email address is barristervincent_1990@hotmail.com...... are there really still stupid people out there who fall for this.....


i guess they are the same people who forward stupid email chain letters about some charity donating $1 for every email sent, to some sick little girl. and i know plenty of people who still forward those.

WWW.SNOPES.COM - everyone should visit this site. if you ever get any kind of email forward about deadly camel spiders in Iraq, or 21 foot long crocodiles roaming the streets of New Orleans, or an email about the horrible website instructing you how to make Bonsai kittens - for the love of god, SNOPES it before you forward it along.
If I've learnt anything from the internet, its be cynical, don't believe everything you read..... oh and how to have sex with dolphins.