Why Mum is awesome

Quote Mother:

"...with the Liberals we're going to have the gap between the rich and poor get bigger. But then with Labor, they're like communists."

Nobel PEACE?!? Prize

What if the timestamp says that I'm up past 2am? A 1pm start tomorrow allows me this unproductive luxury. :) Not much to report except for an unpredictable open day over the weekend. Why we held an open day four months after our new practice opened, I'll never know. Regardless, more people came than I expected and all I really did was help out with Pilates classes. I must say though, doing it in front of the watchful eyes of other physios and exercise physiologists, considering I've never really done it in front of other professionals, was a little nerve-wracking. Ok, so I wasn't exactly as nervous as an Asian on an episode of Border Security, but it was still a little out of the cosy comfort zone.

I might be a little late in finding this out, but did you know Al Gore won this year's Nobel Peace Prize? Did you also know that Al Gore has now sullied the good credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize? Don't get me wrong. Allow me to disclaim once again that global warming is a real and true issue in the world, whatever the cause whether it be due to human fault or the cyclical nature of our big brown Earth. And yes, just to be on the safe side we should all take the necessary steps to "go green". But once again, the unstoppable juggernaut that is the "oh my God we're all gonna die unless you hold all your farts in!" train of climate change scaremongering, has infected another part of society - this time, a significant legacy of the world.

The last time I checked, the Nobel Peace Prize was justly called because it's for PEACE!!! As far as I'm aware, past winners were righteous recipients because of their efforts to further peace and unite the world, or promote human rights, whether it be directly or indirectly. How Al Gore's endless, obsessive, and fanatical (but arguably necessary) push to cram man-made climate change down our choking plural forms of the oesophagus won him this award is beyond me.

Past winners of the Nobel Peace Prize:
Martin Luther King
Kofi Annan
Nelson Mandela
Mother Teresa
... Al Gore

*shakes his head*

(Mind you, if you read Jeremy Clarkson, he puts up an interesting argument as to why Mandela doesn't deserve it.)

Having said all that, don't forget to switch off your lights everyone.

Good War, Bad War

God damn some people are ignorant, uneducated idiots and they piss me off. Just reading about the death of the Aussie soldiers in the online newspapers, and the subsequent comments made by people. It's pretty shameful that people are using the incident as a forum and a means to promote the need to "bring our troops home!" and to have a go at the PM saying "I hope you can sleep well at night John Howard". We're not there to invade the country or supposedly steal their resources. We're there as part of a NATO alliance to rebuild the country from the desolate shambles that a certain Taliban left it in. Specifically, the Aussies are there primarily to rebuild their infrastructure. Unlike Iraq, there is a general consensus among the Afghan people of a welcoming attitude to help them "rebuild".

Afghanistan is not Iraq. F*#kin extreme lefties piss me off. Be a lefty, but don't an idiotic one. I think it's left...left is the hippy side yeah? :P

*steps off high-horse*

Don't taze me!

So almost three months, about six goes at getting a new computer fixed, and eventually a second new computer later, this blog finally gets some loving attention. Not that I forgot about it, I just couldn't be arsed. Instead my spare time on a computer (when I had a damn computer) was best spent on more important things - perving at other people's photos on Facebook. Productive? No. Borderline disturbing? Yes. Now that Facebook has turned into another haven for emos and identity thieves (MySpace) it was time I set aside the voyeuristic tendencies to finally jot down something mildly notable in this thing.

My English teacher always said that when you have a giant mess of ideas to put to paper but don't know where to start, point forming was the best strategy to undertake the task. Mind you, that English teacher was a bit of a tool and, I suspect, a closet paedophile. Even so, I will take heed of his recommendations to summarise the last few months. Come to think of it, I think I did the same thing the last time I had a long lay-off between entries. Oh well, interesting things lately have been:
- Played for the old school's musical in the pit - had a piece of the set (wind chime thingy) fly off down into the pit and into my testicles
- A near run-in with a director at work
- A birthday that was...err...
- Got tickets to Muse and The Killers for November :D
- Also seeing Phantom of the Opera in a few weeks
- The Bourne Ultimatum has to be the best action-thriller ever made

Hooray, this thing is now on par.