Ever wonder why people like music that isn’t even good on any musical, rhythmic or intellectual ground? Must be conditioning for social acceptance; much like how Pavlov programmed his dogs to salivate for food with tones; social acceptance through meaningless sounds is almost an identical example.

(I wasn’t in the bath when I thought of this)

Update:
For those of you who don’t know who Ivan Pavlov was. He scientist who researched the concept of “conditioning” in which, he conditioned dogs into salivate for food with sounds. He did this by playing a sound at the time when the dog was fed and did this repeatedly, so when he played the sound the dog assumed it was going to be fed and began to salivate.

Just given wordpress a face lift; that green was killing me.

…not planning on giving much more of a face lift, as I intend to stop using this crap asap.

I’ve lately come to a conclusion that writing can only be “so” good for certain things. Communicating with someone who has little time for you is not one of these things that it is good for. Recently, I came to this conclusion after realizing that an ex of mine whom I write to once in a while does not take too well to me writing to her.

Ironically I ended up writing to her asking whether she would mind speaking to me on the telephone; she agreed and eventually we did. I have been some time wanting to speak to her about things that have been on my mind and the like.

What one doesn’t realize after picking up the phone, is that having let 3 years pass without a single word spoken, there is no possible way you can ever get out what you want to say, how you want it to be said; furthermore, there is no way that should you say what you want to say, that it would be accepted/appreciated or taken without any hostility. So, speaking to her about what I wanted to was about as sterile as my emails, I settled for a vague and uninteresting (for her) conversation about the present keeping the temperament light and serene.

The element I am missing is that of common ground; in the three years that have passed we’ve done and experienced so many different things that relating isn’t something that can just happen, worst part of all, is that you’re still stuck with the illusion of that person when you last spoke to them. You know that person to a certain point and then it has a huge void. I realize now that there is no way I could ever really start talking to her as a friend sharing those things I wanted to say unless she wanted to be friendly with me. It is so obvious now stating this, but you somewhat loose track of the two-sided nature of relating to someone when you fail to notice that the other person has to take an interest before they listen. I thought before this, that the person would be interested if they heard what you wanted to say and not the other way round.

I’m so naïve!

To disable this atrocious attribute that is set to default on the following application suites you do the following:

In Word/Excel/Outlook/Access: (you choose)
Tools > Customize : on the Options tab click on the Always show full menus

Sorry this is short and vague but I was killing myself to find where this option was.

Absolutely lovely film. Plays on the themes of morality and innocence; has a somewhat unpredictable ending but I foresaw it from about 10 minutes in, not sure why, but I felt it coming.

The film is set in really beautiful surroundings and I’d love to know where it was done because it’s the sort of place you’d like to move to. Acting was good although Joaquin Phoenix played a somewhat funny role of a quiet guy hardly any emotion and not even a single smile, although that doesn’t mean that I thought his acting was bad, on the contrary it was very good. On the other hand the main actress (Bryce Dallas Howard) plays a wondefull role and really does bring the film to life; the film is really more about her than anyone else.

I’d recommend this to anyone, it has all those qualities that make a film good without too much thinking involved yet not so shallow that you can walk away and forget about it.

I recieved Delly today; he is better than I thought he could be… he even comes with a neon light in the cradle. What else could a blogger like me need?

Well I finally went to get that blessed tooth out… and it slipped out like if it were never a part of me. The feeling was mutual and we went out seperate ways together, toothy in a paper envelope and me with a smile.

Here this is toothy for you:

Another reason why blogs are good… you can share the most usless information ever and know that nobody intelligent is likely to ever read it.

Couldn’t think of anything witty enough for the title so a good ol’ quote from Star Trek will have to do. No, I’m not a trekky I just know that thats what the captain generally says whilst narrating stuff.

Anyhow. This morning, the police rang told me what was going on and that I could go and pick up my bag when I liked, and so I did. My contents were there as expected and I signed a new statement declaring everything was in tip-top shape and off I went with my bag; only to be mugged outside the station… only kidding.

Quite happy about the whole todo, although my neck really hurts and my kidney area hurts a little, the buggers must of hit me there, which didn’t register until later on.

All good and I’m happy still.

Apparently the muggers were aged; 16 and 17 and will only go to juvenile court where they will get a warning or told not to do it again. Which will probably give them the liberty to come round to where I live, find me and kill me. Go me!

Today coming home from uni, my train stops stupidly, my carriage was actually not on the platform at all and consequently i was unable to alight. This had the effect of having to travel to the next station and catching a bus back; because of this, I walked home a slightly different direction which lead me to be mugged outside my door. The takings were that of my uni bag, containing my pencil case, note paper, and a tie which i had because i had an interview today. I rushed in, rang the emergency services got the police involved, made a statement and had them both caught… hurray!

…but still, I don’t have my notes and I feel rather stupid, although I found the whole experience funny to the extent that I figured I’d share it with the people of the interweb.

…….DAMN!!!!… only writing this now i’ve realized that my camera was in my bag! GODDAMIT!

*edit*
I think I make it mugging number 5 not 6

Just been out with Rob and his lovely girlfriend Jayne, for his birthday.

Had a fun time being a gay turd:

…and then went to Yo Sushi where Rob couldn’t get enough sushi


(click to view the clip).

In all honestly it was a real giggle, a must do again thing. Now, if you were to invite me to a Saturday night out in London during December to me; I’d more than likely turn you down, but I didn’t and I’m glad about that. Believe it or not, Mister T-total himself (me) had a bottle of sake, and a glass of some other alcoholic venom not to mention trying other drinks and wasnt totally disgusted or put in a state of misery… or even get drunk.

I just think that I’m growing up a little and becoming a little more placid to all those harsh beliefs I once had. No doubt by the time I’m 25 I’ll be shooting heroine… hehe.