All 13 entries tagged Diaryhea

Tiny annoyances

Things that annoy me, but not enough for me to notice much, except now:

CRT monitors: They hurt my eyes :(

Pro evo soccer: I play it way too much and also I'm not improving anymore. I reached a plateau and now i'm deproving instead.

Bog roll holders that encase the bog roll. So you spend an inordinate amount of time feeling the underside of the loo roll in a come hitherto fashion until you find the tissue end. 1) why encase the bog roll so you can't see it 2) why can't they reinvent the stuff (like a square bog roll) so the end always dangles off? I can't wait for the future where they've got those three sea shells...¹

While i'm here, other public lavoratories related annoyances are push button taps and towel roll depensers thingys that you have to tug. Its not that I don't like pushing or tugging, what self respecting individual doesn't? No, its that they're crap, and we can't do anything about it (if we tried a mass boycott we'd be beset with major hygiene problems before we got anywhere).

Not to be a total sourpuss I like the fact that public toilets are well public (no need to explain that), those hot air thingys you dry your hands with, and disabled toilets which are first class (with their extra leg room, cushions and personal sinks and mirrors).

Back to my gripes:

University computer keyboards: On the underside of most keyboards there are two flaps. I like to flick mine out, as I prefer a raised keyboard. Can't explain why, its just the way I was made. Some son of gun has found this out and proceeded to remove one of these two flaps from every keyboard the uni owns. Don't believe me- check it out yourself. In some instances both flaps are removed. The bastard.

Me: I'm revising for exams at the end of this term and for my own good i've isolated myself in a cubbyhole in the library. Consequently I've been spending way too much time with me.

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1. That picture is just begging for a clever caption!

: 26 Feb 2006 14:33 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Mike Kitson

I was reading Michael Moore's "Idiot Nation" when to my surprise (as I'm a fan of his), I just gave up.

Though the subject matter isn't great¹, (it's a depressing read) and the contents is nothing new or that I couldn't figure out, the overiding desire to stop reading came about because Mike doesn't know how to write. He's rubbish at it, and thats a shame.
And that last sentence is an understatement.

Meanwhile in other news the comedian Daniel Kitson was articulate and quite entertaining (always helpful for one in his profession).

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1. Though the MM has a disclaimer (near the beginning of the essay) stating his love for his country et cetera, I still feel its has an anti-american vibe. I could understand the MM's desire to highlight the problems in his homeland in hope for betterment. However his decision to entitle it Idiot Nation and rib Americans panders to his global (non-US) audience and the general decadence of a country's education system is not solely applicable to the US. I feel he seems fixated with an easy target.

: 15 Jan 2006 02:58 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

my flat is better than yours.

read the title losers.

lov the shiekh

: 31 Oct 2005 00:42 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Bulletpointing thoughts.

Follow-up to a book from Some Silly Sentences Of Sense

• Grrr the novel takes up my spare time and i'm not getting anywhere with it. Writing one novel is proving more difficult then anticipated, and i've yet to suffer writer's block.

• I remember telling a friend at uni that I was going to write a book, she was distinctingly unimpressed. "Everyone" she said "in the English department is in the process of writing or peddling a book."

• I've flirted with the idea of writing a novel but never really thought that I might. I only began to give it serious thought after a chance encounter with my favorite primary school teacher. She said she remembered that I had a knack for writing stories as a kid and was surprised that I hadn't pursued it. That was sweet of her though the cynic in me thinks either shes got the worng kid or she probably says it to all of us!

: 24 Aug 2005 12:46 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

a book

Every year I think of a list of things that I will do the following summer: like learning a language, doing some DIY etc. Most summers I never get round to them, as better lazier things of greater importance take priority. However, I've noticed in writing each new list that while some of these targets are dropped and some new ones are added, one common mainstay on my numerous lists is that I will write a novel.

So I will.¹

In fact I'll write two.

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1. you can hold me to it.

: 02 Jul 2005 15:03 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem

Dimensions are forever

Coming towards the end of the year and I note that i've blogged so little recently. In many ways like myself, my handsome blog have become exceedingly unhealthy even though it/I look anything but. For under the skin my poor blog has over time become clogged up with a mass of drafts, of ideas, half finished stories and recipes that I've wanted to share but never got round to writing up. In an attempt to turn these flabby drafts into well toned muscular articles i'm putting my blog (like myself) through a harsh exercise regime. By the end of term I shall hopefully of blogged some more, and my body returned to the world of 3D from 2D (somewhere during exam period, I lost a dimension¹).

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1. During my exams I also lost that other dimension- time, just when I needed it.

: 12 Jun 2005 02:00 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Curbs

Charlton 0- 4 Man Utd. What to do? Another miserable slump at the tail end of the season. There are those who'll jump on the bandwagon calling for Curbishley's head, but as far as I'm concerned that man is a Charlton legend and deserves to call it a day when he decides he wants to. In just little over a decade Curbs turned us from a team with no stadium and a penchant for relegation to an established premiership outfit, and all on a meagre budget. People should bare in mind when reflecting on the season that any team that loses the quality of Parker, Jensen, Di Canio and Rufus is going to suffer. I guess the next step up for us is to do a Bolton or Everton and become a top 6 team.

I'd like to see what Curbs could do with the financial power of say liverpool.

This brings me to another point, why is it we tend to give foreign managers more time then their english counterparts to get results? Fans and management throw excuses around, like "they need time to adjust to the culture and the type of football played here." I've been a fan of Benitez for a while but if he fails to win the champions league this season, this will be the worst liverpool performance since Man Utd won the triple. If that was Sam Allarydice or any other English manager in his place, he'd be sacked at the end of the season.

: 01 May 2005 21:26 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

So what happened to my immune system.

Am so ill, but can't sleep. I spent an age queuing today, so that i could get the final fling tickets. Only to find, i could of done without the torture as the union have kept back some tickets, to be sold online- grrr.

Back to the illness- I wish i had an immune system. i say this as i've been struck down with a cold for the past week. Whats worse is that i know a momma of a cold is coming as i get a sore throat in the days leading up to it- which happened on this occasion. Its the common cold's way of taunting me. I'm its bitch when its in town.

So my immune system. Whats happened to it? Thats a fascinatingly tear jerkingly epic story with oscar awarding winning performances all round and a great twist at the ending (turns out the protagonist never really had an immune system to begin with). Growing up on daily diet of antibiotics with warm glasses of milk, (a near death experience turned my parents into hypochondriacs¹ and proponents of the white stuff) my immune system didn't really develop- unlike my addiction to paracetamol, decongestants and milk.

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1. I've still got the photo of me next to Death somewhere. Me, posing for the camera near Death as he tried in vain to resusitate a small gerbil. It was a very moving near death experience:

Death was like: "U aint gonna die on my watch" and the gerbil was like "tell-marjory-i'm-going-to-the-big-wheel-in-the-sky-urg". And Death fell on his knee as was like "Nooooo." Epic stuff.

: 01 May 2005 02:48 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

wohoo title returns

i changed my blog's appearance and lo and behold my blog's name returned.

On to more pressing matters:

• I would like to announce that I hate dissertations.

And what sucks even more is that I had an option: dissertation or team project. What the hell was i thinking! I swear if i could get my hands around the neck of my former self for choosing the former option …...

• the life aquatic with steve zissou

Wes Anderson- damn him, with all his very good films, that for all intent and purposes i shouldn't like, but i do.

• I hope The scanner darkly lives up to the stunning animation.

: 03 Apr 2005 04:44 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Where is my title?

Shock, horror :0
After months away doing very important stuff I return to find that my excellently entitled blog Some Silly Sentences of Sense has been detitled!

the horror, the horror.

I'll pay whatever you want. Just return my blog title unharmed please.

: 02 Apr 2005 10:36 |  Tags: Diaryhea |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem