I hear them. In the night.

They call to me, with their purring.. letting me know it could all be mine... if only I'd take it...just reach out... just a few feet away... they laugh with high pitched whines when they take off...

...knowing I so desperately want to take off too.

Promising everything.

The speed, the wild abandon... the pack that runs together.

The freedom... the joy... the need to go faster... to be better... to push it just a little more.


Following me everywhere. Haunting... they never give up. They know I'll join one day.



Resistance is futile.


For now... I stay inside. Warm... sheltered



... for now.

Not always.

Someday... I'll get my 900 SS and then...


I'll run the pack.


.........forget the pain.......forget the sorrows.....


Damn.... I need to get a bike.
.... though I really should learn to drive first.

THERE WILL BE NO MOCKING. I HAVE COMMENT MODERATION AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!

OH MY GOD!!!........the sequel

lol. i posted the last one twice by mistake and tpf and pan both commented on a different post which had me a bit puzzled for a while when i kept losing one of the comments.
anyway, thanks pan for the very sound advice but it was too late anyway. i posted it late at night regardless of what the time shown is.
and tpf ( you care!!) it went very well. extremely well. unbelievably well.
i was really really lucky.
got amplitude modulation which i knew pretty well and also a CRO that seemed to like me.
so, full marks.
yay!!!!!
very high right now, did anyone guess?

OH MY GOD!!!!

tomorrow morning at 8.00 a.m i have an electronic practical exam for which i am reaaaaaaaaally not prepared having spent the entire day reading the works of A.J Hall, my favourite author ever.

I'M GOING TO FAIL!!!!!!!!!


ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

OH MY GOD!!!!

tomorrow morning at 8.00 a.m i have an electronic practical exam for which i am reaaaaaaaaally not prepared having spent the entire day reading the works of A.J Hall, my favourite author ever.

I'M GOING TO FAIL!!!!!!!!!


ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Who needs crack, I got coffee.

When I say crack, I mean crack not a crack, coz well everyone needs a crack. I meant… never mind.
Today, someone told me they liked my blog. Yay. Except, well, it was a friend of mine who was probably just trying to be nice.
By the way, how can a person walk rudely?
Today, this girl I’d met after donkey’s years told me she’d seen me the other day and that she spotted me coz of my rude walk.
Now I know that I tend to walk like I own the whole damn world but how the hell does a person walk rudely?
Oh don’t get me wrong, the idea that I manage to offend people just by walking makes me happier than you’ll ever know. I live to annoy, just ask my mum.

Anyway, today was good.

It was Kal’s bday a little while ago and she decided that she’d celebrate by taking us out for coffee. I know, most people do parties but this is pretty usual for us. When you go to two col’s at a time and classes and whatnot, you tend to form pretty different groups of friends who don’t know each other and fact of the matter is, these are just people who see you everyday and its perfectly acceptable to take them out for coffee or lunch or a movie. Believe me, you behave differently with different people in different surroundings and friends from one place meeting friends form another place is really not a good idea.

So anyway, we went to barista and proceeded to rob poor kal blind.

COFFEE HOUSE ROCK
STARRING
- devil in the moonlight who shall from this moment on be known as guano.
- Meg
- Kal ( obviously)
- Teacher ( no not some weird nickname- actually my teacher. We’re all from the same animation class, see? And it’s not that odd that we hang out with our teacher, it’s a small set of students and our teacher’s pretty young. We go out for coffee or ice-cream or to Fat Kong all the time.)
- Horse’s ass- nah, I don’t call her that coz I hate her. She’s pretty great. And she has the loveliest hair that she ties in a high pony tail that looks like a horse’s tail.
- Aaaand Me!!

So we’re at barista and driving the poor guy at the counter mad. ( hey, don’t blame me, they had an item on the menu called Mr. Fudgee the brownie. For real. Naturally I had a few questions… like which arse-wipe came up with that one and what the heck was he smoking at the time? the poor guy at the counter said he’d find out and let me know Ma’am. Lol. Poor chap. When I wasn’t looking, he was replaced by some other guy. Gee, I wonder why?)

So I got a Mr.fudgee and a choco fudge freeze. Yum. And Guano’s staring at him making this thing with chocolate syrup and whipped cream and some sort of fizz and ice cream going please let that be mine and damn it all to hell it was his. Here’s a guy who was born on coffee and he had to sit down after that one coz he was giddy. Hey, it’s his own fault for asking for the Kenyan AA coffee ( strongest in the world, I think)
And Meg got the Dark Temptation, which meant that we were all extremely nice to her. The Dark Temptation's the yummiest thing ever. A hot, gooey, extremely rich piece of cake covered with chocolate sauce and ice cream and whipped cream with different chocolate on top of that. Put a piece in your mouth and it’s like GoodLordtakemehome!!!!
So we’re sitting there with our drinks and guano and me (yes, I realize it should be I but this is how I talk. Problem?) are fighting with the others while trying to hide the bloody big tree sapling I got him to steal from the college for me.
We hate Horse’s ass, Kal and Meg. Why?
Let me explain.

Horse’s ass comes to col everyday in her chauffer- driven car. And her father is buying her a second hand car for her to practice her driving on. Kinda like here honey, I got you a car to trash while you’re learning, try to make it last for a month or so.

Kal’s dad told her that if she wanted to go out of town to study he’d arrange for a house for her and send her mum to live with her. Imagine his Kal living in a hostel. Never!

And Meg’s the worst. Her company had this client who wanted her to work on this campaign for them and she told them their idea sucked so they OFFERED HER A JOB!!!! Then, her bosses tell her she’s not good at what she does so they promote her to copywriter.

Lol. Talk about lucky brats. Oh, we don’t hate them, we just like to take their cases. They’re actually really sweet and really down to earth girls. Specially Horse’s ass who’s just the nicest person ever! I love her- she just gave me 30 episodes of You’re Under Arrest that she downloaded just coz I said I liked it. And meg, who’s just the funnest person ever. She inadvisably told us some time ago that coffee got her ahem…… *excited*. Lol. We drove her mad at the coffee house. What with guano licking the really long spoons they gave us and us twisting every single thing she said. Come to think of it, she’s the one who said she liked my blog. Well, there’s one reason I can think of for her to be nice to me. Lol. You should have seen her face when I remembered the effect she’d said coffee had on her.

Halfway through, they lost the electricity and we were sitting there in the dark, chatting and making sad jokes about Meg and mood lighting. It was really fun. Kal kept telling me that I stank ( why the hell does guano carry around lavender perfume?).

Anyway, after that teacher ( she was getting late for something) and Horse’s ass ( she was giving her a lift) left and the rest of use decided that after having coffee and ice-cream and waaaaay too much chocolate, the sensible thing to do would be to have Chinese food so we hopped on over to Fat Kong ( they have the best roast lamb in tomato mushroom sauce ever) and can you imagine poor Kal’s plight, she’s bhramin, therefore vegetarian and meg and me love meat while guano, the disturbing character, could be a cannibal if it wasn’t for the fact that the sight of his own blood probably makes him hungry and I don’t know what you’d call someone who’d eat themselves. Yes, that’s right people, he is a bloody creep.

Btw bubblegum, I was talking about you and Meg said she’d been dying to meet you and so I stood outside your house screaming like a nut but I guess you were out with the minor. ( everyone saying “like a nut?” can just bugger off right now. This means you, VC)

Really sleepy right now. Coffee has that effect on me. Hey, I’m not weird, it happens and I’m certainly not the only one. I remember that Virtual Chameleon once had to take some medication that for some odd reason had caffeine in it and had to jump out of the running train coz he fell asleep and nearly missed his stop.


For those of your wondering, we’re not shameless and we did get Kal a gift. Guano and I went to The Reader’s Shop which is a really cute store and bought her a brilliant mystery that I’m dying to read. Damn you guano if you think you’re borrowing it before I do.

So that was my day. Hope yours was fun too. Comment or I’ll hurt you. This means you meg.

Happy Easter!

So here I am, sitting in front of my computer screen, with my hair so full of hair spray you could break bricks with it, listening to Corrine Bailey Rae singing about letting my hair down ( sorry hun, even without the hairspray it has this tendency to defy gravity), also listening to my brother and cousin Monty plotting to get rid of my grand aunt ( don’t worry bubble, I told them you’d be upset) and for some strange reason I just so happen to be wearing sunglasses.
Holy week was actually kinda fun this time and was spent reading Memoirs of a Geisha, Pyramids ( yet again) and Carpe Jugulum ( God bless you Devil in the moonlight). I realize it’s not supposed to be fun and it usually isn’t what with the family being so serious and going for the services in the church with my aunt where we always end up fighting.
That’s changed in the past few years. For one thing, I refuse to go for mass with my aunt anymore and am a much nicer person as a result. lol.
Bubblegum and I went for the services together and it was really fun.

On Maundy Thursday , as you heard, bubble broke her heels and that was interesting to say the least. I don’t know what she expected, wearing 3 and a half inch pencil heels to walk in the mud.

On Good Friday, I got stuck bringing Grand Aunt Ella home and Bubble thought that was hilarious. I’m gonna kill Monty for disappearing so conveniently. But the service was nice and the best or the worst (can’t decide) part was when they were singing the reproaches. The old man singing
My people, what have I done to you?
How have I offended you? Answer me.
sounded just like my grandfather and it just made me so very sad. The way he sang the how have I offended you bit was heart breaking, like he was really desperate to know why we hurt him so after everything he did for us. Like he was asking if it wasn’t enough and that’s why we were punishing him and pleading for us to tell him what he could do to make us happy. It made me really miss my grandfather but I still love listening to someone singing with a deep voice like that. It’s just beautiful.

On Holy Saturday, bubble, crusty and I nearly got thrown out of the church coz they just wouldn’t stop laughing. I swear, bubble gets high on saliva.
So we’re sitting there for the Easter Vigil and playing with our candles while bubble keeps one eye on the minor she’s currently going out with, ( Not that that’s so difficult to do, I swear the back of his head looks like Darth Vader’s helmet. *snigger*.) laughing about the fact that he’s a chair wiper. Seriously, I know the mass is out on the grounds and I know there’s dew and stuff but people look so ridiculous wiping down their chairs.
So mass ended with the priests cracking a few sad jokes about Easter eggs and the bird flu and the after a solid round of wishes and whatnot, Monty and I brought A.Ella home. Poor Monty was in such a hurry because he had a party to get to and he wanted to actually get there before the food got over. Lol. It was so funny watching him with his shirtsleeves rolled up, trying to catch a rick while I tried to keep A.Ella alive. She seems to laboring under the delusion that speeding traffic is something other people have to worry about. ( on a side note, now I’m listening to Walkaway by Thomas Newman. Has anyone heard his music? Just brilliant. I highly recommend it. That and Yoko Kanno.)

* laughter in the background*

Monty and I are eating watermelon and that piggy’s squirting himself with juice all over! The poor guy can’t eat anything else. Apparently he enjoyed himself a little too much at that party last night.
Anyway, it’s Easter Sunday and I’ve been getting Easter eggs, which is always good. The one Fuzz gave me is a really cute one, or at least it was a really cute one, with a bunny and a carrot and flowers all over it. I ate the carrot, the flowers and the bunny’s ears and tail for breakfast. Ha! Fun!
Lol. Now I’m listening to mattafix going to and fro and my father’s in the kitchen dancing while he cooks the chicken and my mother and my brother are arguing about when to go out while I keep interrupting to dance with mum and Aunty Audrey’s sitting there pretending that we don’t exist and this is the kind of Sunday I love best.

So, of course I had to come online and wish every one of you a very Happy Easter. A time for hope and new beginnings. Make good use of your lives people, you’ll never get it back. And I don’t mean be productive or something equally insipid, I mean live your lives feeling so thoroughly grateful to be alive because no matter how bad things get, this is a game and it is your game and you’re here to play. So even if you’re losing, do it with flair and maybe you’ll be invited back for the next round.
………okay I don’t know where that came from, but I think I’ll keep it if you don’t mind.


Oh gosh, my mum just said she liked the music… time to listen to some limp bizkit.

Grim Fairy Tales

I never really liked being read to as a child. As a matter of fact, I much preferred to do it myself. It's all my dad's fault. He could never tell a fairy tale straight... he always insisted on adding a few... um... interesting variations. And it didn't help that he kept going off on tangents. Here are some of my favourites:

CINDERELLA: After telling me about how turning a pumpkin into a carriage is impossible, dad tried to explain the concepts behind 'horsepower'. Needless to say, I never really liked the story much.

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES: The evil queen wasn't really evil... just very jealous. And no apple is naturally blood red. It must have been painted. And Snow White uses too much powder.

PINNOCHIO: There's a fairy queen keeping an eye on each one of us. She has large ears, which she presses against window panes to eavesdrop and see if little girls tell lies. If they do, she makes their noses grow.

THE THREE LITTLE PIGS: The third little pig was obviously an engineer.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD: Don't talk to strange wolves on the road. Must also keep attack alarm on person.

RAPUNZEL: Rapunzel actually had her hair cut because she could never get her long hair washed properly. Hence, little girls must always have short hair till they are old enough to wash it themselves.

RUMPELSTILSKIN: The king was gullible for believing that straw can be turned into gold. Also, Rumpelstilskin clearly didn't have sensitive teeth. And the farmer's daughter/queen-to-be welched on the deal.

SLEEPING BEAUTY: My dad (being an anesthetist) insisted that Sleeping Beauty had been anesthetised... by way of being hit over the head with a mallet.

THE FROG PRINCE: The fairy tale is apparently inaccurate. In actuality, the princess kissed the prince, turned him into a frog and they lived happily ever after.

That's all that springs to mind, really. Hopefully Eris' appetite for random blog-posts has been whetted. Do comment soon.

poor bucky's gone

well, lei's vanished off the face of the earth and here i was looking foward to reading something new from her.
anyway, till she decides to grace us with more of her writing, go read her top ten post. it's got very helpful homework tips in.
i'm off to sleep.

im back!!!

hiya folks,
now i have so very many things to apologise for... not least for not posting for so long.
im sorry that this post isnt typed properly but i just don't have the time and i really could not be arsed.
im sorry i havent posted for ages but i've been sick and i had exams and then i went out of town ( more on that later).
and most of all, im sorry because i havent introduced the other members of my blog!
first to join was leilani whom i first met in school when she had to play a tree in one of the school plays.lol. she was definitely the best person in that entire crowd. you know what i mean, you always have that one person who's just calmer and more intelligent and no matter what messes everyone else gets into, you know that this person will be there with a clear head and just never has to worry.i've always loved her wit ( you know the kind of dry wit that you just cant help laughing at?) and she's the first person i thought of asking... not just because she folded my bedsheets at camp.

next was virtual chameleon. now there's a nutter you never want to meet. i met him in col a coupla years a ago and we got along like a house on fire ( you know, people screaming, flames, things exploding....). he's fun ---- oh my gosh! i've no idea what movie this is but im watching arnold shwasenwhatever talking to a head sticking out of a guy's stomach. yuck--- anyway, like i was saying, vc is fun to talk to especially if you've had to much coffee and can't get to sleep. seriously, listening to him whine about being woken up is the funnest thing ever and i love the way he scratches his beard ( the one he thinks is so cool) and says iiiiiiiiiiiiiifyousayso.

and last but not least..... bubblegum!!!!! she's hilarious! she's anglo-indian, very pretty, highly disturbed, named after a city and she's dating a minor. she's my very best friend in the indian sub-continent ( heck, in all of asia even) and it's just the creepiest thing that nut, bubble and i all three have the curliest hair ever.the other day i picked up the phone and bubble's on the other end of the line saying sniff. (huh?) just sniff! so i decide to see where this goes and i sniff and she says yay! your cold's gone!. i have no idea why, but i just thought that was the sweetest thing.

anyway, that's the gang. i hope you lot will get to know them and love them just as i do. if not, well............ you wouldn't be the first.