On runny noses

One of the many lessons I've learned over the years is that the weather NEVER accommodate me. Take this week for example, Sunday it rained so on Monday I brought an umbrella and almost broke my back doing so (as I also had to returned 3 big ass hard back books to the uni library) and it didn't rain. Tuesday it was hot as hell and I was stuck with my winter jacket. Wednesday it was cold and I was wearing light clothing. With this crazy weather, no wonder I'm sick.

I don't mind being sick once in a while really but I do mind runny noses very much. They make me feel so insecure. Every time I'm sick my nose's gonna run like the bloody Niagra fall. I have to blow your nose every 5 minutes or so and that does so much damage to my nicely moisturised nostrils. And that's not all, I spend so much time worrying when the snot's gonna get out of my control and just run down. That's not a pretty picture is it?

It seems that I'm not the only one that's sick at this time of the year. Everyone's sick or everyone in the *cough* quiet *cough* study area is. What's more annoying that people talking in quiet study area is people blowing their nose noisily in quiet study area. Some people take only one second to blow their nose and I fall into that category. I hate to disrupt other people so I'm usually quick about it. Others, well, everytime they blow their nose, it's like trying to start a very old car, in other words, it takes at least a minute of the very annoying sound of slimy liquids being push out of the nose cavity with the sheer force of air from the lungs.

Every time I'm sick it usually like this, runny nose then blocked nose then finished. So after 2 bloody days of blowing my nose dry I got to the stage of complete blockage. I'm not sure which I hate more, blocked nose is very inconvenient especially after I have to 20 metres at my top speed (which isn't much I can tell you) to catch a train. I think I can sympathise with asthma sufferer about not being able to breathe. I'm so glad I don't have asthma.

If I'm lucky, I get well after a week without any medications except for a Panadol or two for the headaches. And I usually do so, however, my mum seems to think that you need anibiotics for every known illness. Her cure-all, miracle med at the moment is Biaxig. She loves them and every time I'm sick she'll shove a few my way. Of course, being the educated, health-concious freak that I am I can't resist telling her that she's killing my immunity. However, being my mother she doesn't listen to me. What can I do?

new ipods

I think I should start saving up immediately. Apple's announced the iPod G5.1. From the looks of it, this new generation rocks. Now you can search for songs. I don't know about other people but sometimes I can only remember part of the name of the song and nothing else so I'll love that feature. Besides the new iPods are gonna be cheaper!

revenge of the fans

I suppose some people just can't stop grieving Steve Irwin, not that I think grieving him is bad or anything. I must say I was quite shocked when I heard that he's dead because of a stingray. Come on, the guy played with crocodile and then died because of a fish that looks like a door mat, that's too ironic for real life.

Enough about me, I've gotten over the death of Steve Irwin. However, some fans, or maybe some opportunistic hooligans, haven't. There's been report of mutilated stingrays on Queensland beach. These people should really get a life. Hasn't Steve's death taught these people anything? Be afraid even of a doormat-resembling fish.

Shopping trip

I'm not a believer of retail therapy. Everytime I go shopping I end up hating myself for my spending impulses. Really, shopping just make me more stressed and more cranky. But last Saturday I had to go shopping. There's an approaching wedding that I have to attend. Note the "have to" part, I can't wiggle out of that particular obligation even if I want to, and believe me I really don't want to go to this particular wedding.
So some last minute shopping for an outfit, no biggie I'll be in and out with an outfit in 10 minutes or so I thought. The whole thing took 4 hours. 4 HOURS. 4 hours with which I could have sat at home playing video games and relaxing. Why you may ask, well, I went shopping with my 2 sisters and my mum.
I think I really haven't mentioned my two siblings much in this blog, ok, try never so now I'm gonnna mention them. I have 2 sisters, one older, one younger and life's just peachy being the one in the middle, I'll get to that in another post.
I'm a quick shopper, I see what I like I grab it and regret later, the rest of my family, well, let's just say that they have to debate for at least 10 minutes before trying anything on, after that, debating for another 10 minutes before finally get in the queue to check out and then while waiting to be checked out they continue the internal debate on whether or not they should purchase that particular item. As it usually happens, they end up not buying anything. That's why it took so bloody long.
The lesson learned from this particular trying day? Never, never going shopping with anyone in my family. Or maybe never, never going shopping with anyone, full stop. I've been shopping with friends who seem to try on every single item in the shop before buying or not buying anything. Gee, that was even more trying.

ok, so Steve Irwin is dead

It took a while for that to sink in but now that SI is dead, news programs are just so full of SI related news. Seriously, if I'm Steve Irwin, I would just want people to stop talking about me when I'm dead.
What I hate most about all this is that current affairs show like ACA or Today tonight just blow everything out of proportion, like they usually do. Yesterday, the piece on Steve Irwin from ACA or today tonight had this "exclusive source", a man who they claimed to be a long-time friend of Steve Irwin. Here's how the interview went (more or less).

ACA: So mr (I can't remember his name), you've been a long time friend of Steve Irwin, can you tell us about that?
Interviewee: Yes, I've known Steve Irwin for 4 days and that was the best 4 days of my life.

I swear I didn't make that up. The guy was introduced to be a long time friend and he admitted that he knew Steve Irwin for the last 4 days of his life. What the heck does long time mean? Certainly not 4 days. This is not exaggeration, this is just full of bullshit.

Televangelists

Yessss, it's time for another of my atheistic rants. This time it's about televangelists. You know, those late night shows that nobody who has a job would watch?
Anyway, I think I should give full credits to the guys on Chaser's war on everything because they're the people who made this clip.

There, televangelists and faith healers are sent from god. And god, even with his infinite power and wisdom, just needs YOUR money to give you a miracle.

what's wrong with the internet today?

I went online to download the last episode of Chasers' war on everything and abc.com.au is down. So I thought, nevermind that I'll jump on youtube and watch it there. And guess what? Youtube is also down for maintenance. Went back to abc.com.au, still down but this time I saw this headline "Steve Irwin dead" or something to that effect.

You might wonder who the heck is Steve Irwin, like I did for about 2 seconds before I realized that he's that crocodile guy who dangled his son in front of a crocodile a few years back. That just made Micheal Jackson looked good coz MJ only dangled his son a few metres above ground level.

So he's dead. I'm still coming to terms with this, no more Steve Irwin jumping around a crocodile. Life is so sad. No one is going to replace Steve Irwin. However, I'm thinking that this is just a hoax, how can Steve Irwind die? Maybe that's why abc.com.au is down at the moment. Maybe some hacker hacked in, left the hoax and now they have to pull abc.com.au down to fix it.

Anyhow, Yahoo news is reporting that abc.com.au reported that "Steve Irwind died from a stingray barb to the heart". That sounds like material for some day soap opera.

Let's make fun of all those emo kids

Yeah, you heard me right, let's make fun of them. What's the deal with them anyway? You're allowed to be depressed once in a while but depressing all the time? Go get yourselves some antidepressants kids.
Now, this next video was found on Youtube and it makes fun of emo kids, what's more does this post need? Enjoy.

PS. Hat tip to greenxcore for the video.