Comebacks

After last night's comeback by Man. Utd. (5-2 agaist Spurs after being 0-2 down) I reviewed the comments made by Glenda (Glen Hoddle) under similar circumstances back in 2001 ( Man Utd winning 5-3 after being 3-0 down). It is interesting to note that he believed that they would have won had they only been 2-0 instead of 3-0 up. (huh????)

Well yesterday's result has finally scuppered that ridiculous notion!!!

Blake's Seven

Recently I've managed to download the first 2 seasons of the British Sci-Fi TV series Blake's Seven.
Like every British Sci-Fi TV series of the late seventies and early eighties, the effects are so bad that they are wonderful.

Below is a little ditty as tribute to Britian's answer to Star Trek.



Blake's Seven
Where in heaven
Did you find that, you freak
Once again you've proved that you're a geek!!!

Why I want a Mini!

Sometimes, there is no need for words.

Giant Schnauzers

Been in the forums trying to find a Schnauzer
A giant one I tell the web-browser
Your budget you better rouser
For a big hole, it'll burn in your trousers!!!

Roundly Pilloried

This Friday at the pub, I was roundly pilloried by the chaps for my drama-queen act.

Some one then asked me what pilloried means; so being the geek that I am, I did some research and the following is what it means.

A pillory (noun from Middle English) is a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision. (See picture below.)

Therefore to be pilloried (verb) means to be subjected to derision.


I certainly would not mind being pilloried by her.

Castaway Dog - This is so good

I wonder if any of you caught this story this week about how a dog lost at sea was discovered on a remote island and reunited with his owners.

Check it out, the ultimate feel good story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7987863.stm

Cables bloody cables!!! Or... where did I pack that.

The first most obvious downside of living like a nomad is that I can't remember where I packed my things. e.g. I couldn't print a confidential letter the other day, as I could not find my printer cables. My printer is sitting bold and proud on my dining table, but is absolutely useless without it's missing cables.
I also could not find my SLR cables and took a chance that my camera would have sufficient battery capacity for my trip to Singapore, but it turns out that the batteries had only 6% capacity left.
Oh, I can't wait to find a final resting place!!!

He's Leaving Home

So... as of last Wednesday the 25th of March, I've moved out of my flat in Mahkota Hotel and moved into an apartment suite in Straits Meridian Hotel. This should be on a temporary basis as stuffing 3 bedrooms worth of stuff into 1 bedroom is rather... stuffy.

Straits Meridian Hotel

I've also handed over the Mahkota flat to the tenant Fredricks yesterday.

The strange thing is; since then; I've had the Beatles's song "She's Leaving Home" playing in my brain.

..."bye bye"

Passport Woes

Today I got a new passport. My old passport would be expiring in 6 months time and the Jabatan Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri, (Home Office) sent me a reminder, which I thought was extremely customer friendly.

So today I went to the Malacca branch to renew my passport believing that this should take no more then the 2 hours as trumpeted by the Ministry and many people who had applied their passports recently. Judging from their new customer friendly approach, I foolishly accepted the 2 hour time-frame. Silly me!!!

The much trumpeted 2 hour time-frame starts ticking only after you have submitted all the necessary documents and monies. It does not include the time you have to wait to que for your que number, the time you have to wait for your photograph to be taken, the time you spend waiting for your IC to be photocopied, or the time you waste waiting for your number to be called to the counter.

Having spent one and a half hours doing all of the above, I then received my passport 2 hours later!!!

WHAT A BUNCH OF CHEATS!!!!

Talk about lies, damn lies and Civil Servants!!! Grrrr....

Linguistic Dyslexia

I received the following AV file from Drax today.





Coincidentally, I received the definition of Spoonerism; which is the linguistic form highlighted by the Italian man; from dictionary.com yesterday.

spoon⋅er⋅ism

–noun

the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow.

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