The History of the World

NO FACEBOOK OR TWITTER FOR ME.

NICE ONE, CHINESE GOVERNMENT

 http://mashable.com/2009/07/07/china-blocks-twitter-facebook/

 Livejournal, you still exist?
Cool. Party on, dude.
I'll catch you later.

There was a time a few months ago where I could run 5km and barely raise a sweat.
I just ran 3km and it almost killed me.  Having a car makes you unfit.

I'm seriously considering giving up booze for the month of March, just to see how things go.  I also start back at uni then so It's a good time to try.

Anyway, I'm sitting here soaked in sweat from the exercise so I better jump in the shower.  Going to buy homebrew supplies this arvo booyah.

Stolen from Ange.

I should be studying but procrastination has taken hold...

Bold 'em if you've done 'em.
1. Heard a kookaburra in person
2. Slept under the stars
3. Seen a koala
4. Visited Melbourne
5. Watched a summer thunderstorm
6. Worn a pair of thongs
7. Been to Uluru (Ayer's Rock)
8. Visited Cape York
9. Held a snake
10. Sang along with Khe Sanh
11. Drank VB
12. Visited Sydney
13. Have seen a shark
14. Have used Aussie slang naturally in a conversation
15. Had a conversation with an indigenous Australian
16. Eaten hot chips from the bag at the beach
17. Walked/climbed over the Sydney Harbour Bridge
18. Used an outside dunny, and checked under the seat before sitting down
19. Seen Chloe in Young & Jackson's
20. Slept on an overnight train or bus
21. Been to Sydney's Mardi Gras
22. Have gone bush-bashing
23. Taken a sickie
24. Been to see a game of Aussie Rules football
25. Have seen wild camels
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Had a Tim Tam Slam
28. Rode on a tram in Melbourne
29. Been at an ANZAC day Dawn Service.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Held a wombat
32. Been on a roadtrip of 800km or more
33. Seen the Great Australian Bight in person
34. Had a really bad sunburn
35. Visited an aboriginal community
36. Seen a redback spider
37. Have watched Paul Hogan
38. Seen Blue Poles in person
39. Wandered barefoot in the bush
40. Eaten Vegemite
41. Thrown a boomerang
42. Seen the Kimberlies
43. Given a hitch-hiker a lift
44. Been to Perth
45. Tried Lemon, Lime and Bitters
46. Tried playing a didgeridoo
47. Seen dinosaur footprints
48. Eaten Tim Tams
49. Been to Darwin
50. Touched a kangaroo
51. Visited the Great Barrier Reef
52. Listened to Kevin Bloody Wilson
53. Killed a Cane Toad
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre
55. Have read and own books by Australian authors
56. Visited Adelaide
57. Know the story behind "Eternity"
58. Been camping
59. Visited Brisbane
60. Been to an outback pub
61. Know what the term "Waltzing Matilda" actually means
62. Gone whale watching
63. Listened to Slim Dusty
64. Own five or more Australian movies or TV series
65. Sang along to Down Under
66. Have stopped specifically to look at an historic marker by the side of the road.
67. Eaten a Four & Twenty pie
68. Surfed at Bondi
69. Watched the cricket on Boxing Day
70. Visited Hobart
71. Eaten kangaroo
72. Seen a quokka
73. Visited Canberra
74. Visited rainforests
75. Used a Victa lawnmower
76. Travelled on a tram in Adelaide
78. Used a Hills hoist
79. Visited the Olgas
80. Used native Australian plants in cooking
81. Visited the snow
82. Chosen a side in Holden VS Ford
83. Visited the desert
84. Been water skiing
85. Read The Phantom
86. Visited Parliament House
87. Gone spotlighting or pig-shooting
88. Crossed the Nullarbor
89. Avoided swimming in areas because of crocodiles
90. Listened to AC/DC
91. Called someone a dag
92. Voted in a Federal Election
93. Have been swimming and stayed between the flags
94. Had a possum in your roof
95. Visited the outback
96. Travelled over corrugated roads
97. Hit a kangaroo while driving
98. Been well outside any mobile phone coverage
99. Seen an emu
100. Have woken to the smell of bushfires

WOOHOO! I love the Christmas specials. No Kylie this year though.

Also, I'm not a fan of being woken up on a Saturday morning by a hailstorm.

LOL!

I hope that Springtime comes around quickly so that this damn ice-cream can melt already.

And it's not even proper winter yet. BOOO :(

On Saturdays, The Age weighs a staggering 1.4 kilograms. Many people around Melbourne (myself included, hangovers aside) rouse from their extended slumber, walk to the door, give their muscles their weekly workout by hauling the mass of paper inside (please spare a thought for the poor kids who have to deliver these things), and get stuck in, engaging themselves in not only in the news of the day, but all the other intricacies of the weekend paper, because as we all know, there is much more to the weekend papers than simply keeping up to date in a crazy world of news.

As you may have already guessed, the size of the paper is substantially large, too large perhaps. You may have even shared the thought yourself at one stage as you threw away the ‘Drive’ section. While The Age must be congratulated for shedding over half its body weight by the time Sunday comes around, a total of 2 kilograms every weekend is a lot to ingest by anybody’s standards.
Too large even for me, who loves all the Essays in the A2 section, who loves all the columns in Good Weekend magazine, who loves fantasizing about the Travel section, who in short loves sitting around reading the paper, because it inspires me to write good, and stuff. :P

I have a problem. I like reading the newspaper, and I like reading as much of it as possible, especially on the weekends. I get frustrated when I can’t finish an article because there are numerous other articles screaming out at me “READ ME!” Even more frustrating is the fact that somehow there never seems to be enough time to read as much as you would like. It often gets to the stage where a mound of newspapers accumulates because I simply cannot bear to throw them away without having read as much of them as possible, a weekly dilemma that always seems to reach its summit every weekend.

While I would very much like to join a group where I can turn up every so often and give the introduction “Hi I’m Andy and I’m a newspaperaholic”, no such groups exist that I’m aware of. Perhaps I should just cancel my subscription.

In other news the AXA ad is now screening on a TV near you! All that effort and the inside of the house only gets about 3 seconds haha