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Summer
Posted Jul 22, 2002
Author's note:
Conforming to usual practise, and because I feel like it, this entry will be written in the style of a pretentious, pompous b*****d; mainly as practise for English writing. Anyone who feels that I AM a pretentious, pompous b*****d will not be missed.
So, my friends, it appears that, once more, we have reached the summer months, and more importantly, the summer holidays. A time of fun, new experiences and reflection, I've come to think.
I've never been in any doubt that the greatest purpose of august is, until around the age of twenty-two, to have fun. Whether it be loitering with friends, amigos and hombres, going to the beach, visiting the cinema, going hot-air ballooning in Chile, or attending a cheese-tasting contest; go out of your way to enjoy yourself, particularly during this summer; The last which anybody in the same school year as myself will have beginning and ending with school. After this, it all gets very disjointed, and we should therefore do our utmost to capitalise upon these precious next six weeks.
I believe that one of the greatest ways to have fun is to try new things. This year, my personal new experiences will be crowned by a week's holiday; not with family, but friends. It's nothing glamourous, but I'm looking forward more than I've looked forward to anything since Christmas before I was told that Santa doesn't exist (they were wrong, by the way). There's time to be killed - use it wisely, get out there, and do something new and exciting.
Summer is also a great time for reflection. A time for, a review of the last year, for self-reformation and contemplation, and for self-repair from the challenges and trials of the last year in preparation for those of the next. However, reflection can extend enormously beyond the individual. Instead, "reflection" broadly encompasses thinking about anything and everything. Theoretically, the themes of reformation, contemplation and repair extend to anything you like in life, although not necessarily in a philosophical manner. Ultimately though, all three boil down to improvement and preparation for the future, which is something which I hope to do in a serious fashion over the next month-and-a-bit.
Yours (and mine),
Alberto.
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The Big Black Book
Posted Jul 4, 2002
I'd like to complile a list of things that people hate. Please, get as many people as possible to contribute to this exercise in futility, and contribute. Eventually, I may publish the results. Somewhere or other. Entries must be serious and preferably funny, but not offensive to anybody who will read this journal entry, or whom contributors personally know. Celebrities, however, are fair game. I'll try and get the ball rolling, although I should warn you that I'm not feeling particularly witty, so this won't be the best start:
1) Stupid people, particularly those who end up requiring you to think on their behalf
2) Foreigners who cannot/refuse to speak english
3) Computers
4) Noel Edmonds
6) Dale Winton
7) Carol Smilie
8) Alan Titchmarsh
9) Charlie Dimmock
10) Anyone else who happens to be remotely associated with the production of Ground Force and/or the forcing of water features upon the unsuspecting public
11) Arguements ("Discussions" however, are great: the difference is that a degree of personal aggression is added in an arguement)
12) Those who put their personal principles before the welfare of others
13) Selfishness
14) Laziness
15) The endless ream of second-rate, boring programmes which the modern televisual world is plagued by
16) Censored internet forums
17) Spending too much money
18) Having no money
19) Debt
20) Debt-induced suicide
21) Guilt
22) Thinking that you've finished something, only to be told that you've got a significant amount of work left to do
23) Frustration
24) Milton Keynes
25) Ellesmere Port
26) Service stations
27) Cellophane wrapping
28) Closed-mindedness
29) Bullies
30) Bad music
31) Big Brother, Survivor, and of course the classic Touch the Truck (For those who aren't familiar with this, the greatest of all reality tv shows, the concept is that 10 people start off touching a truck. All contestants must stay on their feet. The last one to stay touching the truck won the truck)
32) Bigotry
33) Malice
34) US language entering the British vocabulary. I hate it when people bloody say "You soooooooooooooo do". Grr.
Please note that these are in no particular order, other than that in which they I wrote them.
Hope you've got some ideas of your own...
Alberto.
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Special Branch
Posted Jun 29, 2002
There's something weird going on with my underwear. Strangely, all the comedy stuff is by far the most comfortable. I don't make a concious effort to have comedy underwear by any means, it's just that me ma occasionally buys it for me. It's not even as if i ask for it: She'll just sometimes go out and buy me comedy pants, for no apparent reason.
Anyway, I find it weird that a pair of boxers with Shaun the Sheep on them should be better to wear than what is supposedly the most comfortable male underwear in the world. It's quite a pronounced difference, to the point where I find myself saving them for special occasions when it's important that I'm comfortable; or at least when I'm feeling a bit fruity. I've therefore decided that the comedy constituent of my underwear drawer should be called Special Branch: "Ready for anything, always willing to serve"
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