Overly-coincidental Coincidences.

Don't Panic.

Okay, so 2 nights ago, my dearest sister tells me how she has kindly given me another opportunity to procrastinate from exam study!
She's downloaded a movie but leaves me to watch it in my own time.

Anywho, the next day at uni, I run into the Sage of Wisdom in the computer lab, and he's locked his Macbook somehow. We're all amazingly intrigued by it, especially with its alarm system and camera taking thingos. Well, once he unlocks it, i see his desktop background saying 'DON'T PANIC' in large impressive capital letters. and i'm like.. well thats... unusual. but nothing extraordinary.

So i get home that nite hella late and decide to chillax and watch the movie! It turns out to be the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and as soon as I saw the guide on the screen i was like "ZOMGOSH" cos on the back of the book in big capital letters is 'DON'T PANIC.'. So i'm like wow. freaky-deaky much?

So i see the sage today and i'm all like 'omgosh you won't believe what happened' and i tell him the story and he gives me his *ur so weird sumtimes* look, which um. i get alot of.

ANYWHO so i'm studying away and i suddenly get a craving to listen to Coldplay, and in particular, one of my favouritest songs from them, which i think is called 'Beautiful World' (at least thats what it was called on my old comp.)

SO i look thru my playlist and can't find it. So i go to the Sage's playlist, and no luck :(

So i say, meh, i'll just listen to whatever coldplay he has. So off i go and listen and study away...

THEN SUDDENLY! i'm all studystudystudy when i realise that the song i was looking for is playing!!! so i'm like woo! yay he does hav it! :)

so i open up the comp to see what its called, and sure enough, its titled 'Don't Panic'. WEIRD.

so i write it down in funny letters on my book cos i'm weird like that.

Anywho, the song finishes and i go back to study.

BUT THATS NOT ALL!!!

after like...4 minutes of study, THE SONG COMES BACK ON AGAIN. and so i'm like weird. he has it twice on his playlist.

so i'm thinking 'don'tpanicdon'tpanicdon'tpanicdon'tpanic....' so i write on my page 'OK'

and PRECISELY as i take my pen off the paper after writing that kapital K, the song STOPS. and the playlist disappears.

i turn to the Sage and he says 'oh, my mac just ran out of batteries.'

WEIRRRRRRRD.

Coincidence? Or something more profound?

Yeah, ur right. Probs just coincidence.

My One Minute Party

Today at 11 minutes past noon, I had a little party in my mind. Everyone in the entire world... or at least everyone in my time zone was invited just for this one minute party, but I think Troy and I were the only ones to turn up...

12:11pm, 10/09/08.

Oh well. maybe you can come next year to the 01:02;03;04;05;06am party on 07/08/09... but that one kinda only lasts for a millionth of a second... but trust me, it'll be a helluva microsecond :D

There might not be enough time to dance, not enough time to sing, hug, talk, or even blink.

But that's one more moment we can spend together.

And in one moment, we could live more than some people live in their whole lives.

News-Flash!

A series of brain-freeze incidents involving children under the age of 15 has resulted in the unanimous decision by the Western Australian Principal's Association (WAPA) to ban the selling and purchasing of sub-zero temperature goods from canteens in all Perth schools.

In related news, the number of icy-poles sold at local delis, has hit an all time high, as rebellious children finally find a lunch food, officially deemed and recognised as being 'Too cool, for school'.

Furthermore, rumours have spread, speculating whether or not this ban will be extended so that people as unbelievably cool as Jack Dawkins will be prohibited from school grounds. However, research has proven this unnecessary due to a phenomena, referred to by scientists as being made of 'Pure Awesome'. This new discovery has found that the ridiculous amount of cool emanating from Mr. Dawkins is in complete equilibrium with his brilliance and heat, radiating off his very body. The net effect equals out, leaving those around him with nothing but a warm fuzzy feeling, a sense of physical, psychological and social satisfaction, two steps closer to enlightenment, a get out of jail free monopoly card, the number 5, and lastly, a utopia bubble tea frequent customer card, with all but the last stamp filled out.

You Learn Something New Everyday...

Dear Diary,

Today I learnt how to skip.

It made me feel rather effeminate.

This feeling was strangely enjoyable.

-J.D.

Coming out of the Closet

No, I am not gay (sorry to all my male more-than-just-fans out there) :P

I meant it in a more metaphorical way. You see, so far, the only person who knows about this blog, is none other than yours truly :D Having a blog has just been a way to amuse myself, write down random thoughts, and also discover more about myself.

But a blog with only one viewer seems a tad trite and more than a little pointless.

So my question now is, when should I, if at all, tell my friends about my blog, or should I continue keeping it under wraps?

Under usual circumstances, I would go to one of my friends who I consider to be a Sage of Wisdom (you know who you are) and beg for guidance... However, in this case, its is kind of impossible to do so without giving away the whole plot :S

I have attempted to weigh out the pros and cons of making this blog explicit;
Positives about telling friends;

• Allows some form of feedback from friends, i.e. people who's opinions I place quite highly,
  
• I no longer feel that I am hiding something from them,
• Feedback is possibly more intuitive than that given by the voices in my head,
• I no longer have to keep my fingers hovering over the Alt-Tab buttons when someone enters the room mid-blog.

Negatives about telling friends;

• I would have to conceal secrets in my blog,
• Some people would find out things about me that I don't feel ready to tell them yet (the existence of Troy, for example),
• There's still a large possibility of me getting bored and discarding this blog forever and ever and ever, and a dead blog would be a great pity.

Ok so it's 4-3 and Positives have won. But only Just. Not enough for me to go pasting Guild-approved posters of myself around uni. There's already enough pictures of my circulating around thanks to the Chinese Newspaper.

Maybe I'll consider telling one friend about it, and seeing his/her opinion on what to do next... Possibly the Sage...?

Ah wells. I guess the blog of the handsomest man you'll ever meet couldn't be kept a secret forever....

Blogged Invention Number 1

(I say Number 1 in optimistic future-sight of possible sequels..)
I have single-handedly invented possibly the 2nd greatest Wikipedia-powered game of procrastination. ever. (1st = Wikipedia word maze but THAT'S a whole different tin of worms....whatever that means...)

ANYWHO, it basically goes like this;
1. Go to Wikipedia
2. hit alt-shift-x (Random Page)
3. Record the word
4. Repeat steps 2. and 3. continuously, adding words all necessary words to form sentences until you have a award-winning story
5. Give money from awards to Jack Dawkins
6. Comment this blog. Especially if you know where Troy is/are holding Troy ransom/need a hug.
7. IF YOU AREN'T FOREVER SATISFIED WITH YOUR LIFE AFTER THIS, THEN YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

:)

Let me demonstrate steps 1-4 (you can figure out the rest on your own)
Frère Jacques ran into Gonzalo Fernandes one day, when falling through the Universe. Upon being asked to make a List of characters in the Fire Emblem series, he simply drank some Wine, ate some Beatle Boots, then spontaneously combusted into what can only be described as Wang Ying. From the ashes rose the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand, The Book of Thoth, a List of Canadian television series and of course, the Golden Bull of 1356. It was truly epic, and all Fernandes had to say was "Montemayor Oddvar Stenstrøm Imad Abbas Atascosa, Texas Land Transportation Office". It is widely agreed upon that he must have been on several Mushrooms at the time.

There. International Book Awards here I come :D

Nostalgia. Good times 2 the MAXXX.

I was on the bus going to my friend's house the other day, when a Korean couple happened to sit down, opposite to me. This would be all normal and fine except one thing. The Korean guy just would not stop STARING at me.

Freaky.

Freaky to the MAXX.

Freaky-deaky^(get-me-out-of-here).

Anywho, after celebrating in the traditional activities of what happened to be "LET'S STARE AT JACK DAWKINS FOR A WHOLE BUS RIDE JUST FOR LAUGHS" day, the couple decided that they had had enough, and after their merry-making and revelry was over, they departed from the bus, right outside my Uni.

Half a minute of what I can only describe as 'post-traumatic shuddering' later, I turned to where they had been sitting and realised that they had left their water bottle behind.

This was no ordinary water bottle. It was the MOTHER of all water bottles and as such, was RIDICULOUSLY over sized and typical of your generic FREAKY Korean couple (i hope this isn't racial stereotyping :S). I sat there for a minute contemplating whether or not I should do something about it. Images flooded through my head of the numerous booby traps that such a couple would leave in their wake, were I to attempt to take the bottle from its current place. Surely, I thought, nothing good could come of this.

However, I soon became bored and my curiosity and (possibly) inner kindness pulled through, and I found myself hopping off the bus, hippo-sized bottle in hand, and sprinting back to the last stop to find this couple.

I reached the entrance to my university, out of breath, eyes ablaze, searching for the starer and associated friend, and alas, there they stood, walking right before me. I returned the bottle to them with as much grace as a gasping dehydrated man could, only to receive looks of confusion and words of what i assume were appreciation...?

(Or maybe I was being hopeful...) :P

Anyways, it turned out that they couldn't speak any/much English, and I can't speak any Korean so we left on our separate ways and that was the end of that.

Or so I THOUGHT!!!!!

*dum dum duuuuuuuuuum* (dramatic sound effects)

not but rly... that was the last I saw of them.

But I suddenly found myself at my uni, in an environment that was bizarrely familiar - a scene from my childhood...

There was a book sale going on with a sausage sizzle sale on the side. THE SAME SAUSAGE SIZZLE STAND I HAD WORKED IN PREXACTLY 10YRS AGO!!!!

weird. (but still not quite as weird as 'the starer'!)

I have this one memory of me as a cub scout *insert awwws of cuteness here*, selling hot-dogs and associated edibles and beverages as a kid right by a book sale which I never thought I would seen again... not until that day.

and all the feelings of being a child rushed back, I was filled with the delight and unparalleled happiness one can only receive as a carefree child :)

It was... surreal... to say the least.

*sigh* :)

Nostalgia. Good times indeed.