The Word B

well there is only about 7 and 3/4 hours left in 2005 for sydney australia. everyone else may have to wait a little longer for their fireworks to go off and to spread the love around. looking back and reflecting in my year a few major things have occured in my life (if you have been keeping up with the blog you would know most, and if you haven't then read away) all of which i would have to say have been pretty huge moments for me- becoming a home owner and going back to university being the biggest two. when i look back and consider world events of the past year, the story is a bit different. war is still going on in the middle east, and natural disasters are occuring everywhere. in the world leader department the outlook is continually grim, america is still stuck with bush jr., australia is jinxed with john howard, israel is cursed with sharon, russia is kaput with putin, and california still has that meat head arnold as the governator. if it wasn't real life, you would have to laugh at the joke.
but hey, this is not a time to lament or get upset about it all. instead the plan is to ply myself with drugs and alcohol and pretend everything is just great. we are off to a picnic on a headland overlooking sydney harbour and will watch the fire works. happy new year and bring on 2006.

i am not going out of my way to ram my beliefs down anybody's throats. i am polite in saying "no thank you" and people still do not get it. no thank you. leave me out of it, and leave me alone. i am perfectly happy on december 25 without the whole hypocritical christian cheer. it is just another day, like any other day on planet earth. if only we could treat each day as if it were so special. perhaps, if people, who are so big on christmas, got present to the rest of their life on the other 364 days of the year and lived with such enthusiasm, then just perhaps things could be accomplished in this world.
why am i getting irratable about this? as we approach the "silly season" for another year in our lives, i am continually blown away by the numbers of people who are so openly rude and disrespectful to me in regards to my views of christmas. i am not a christian. i do not celebrate christmas. stop pushing it on me. i am not jewish and do not celebrate chanuka. i am not muslim. i am not buddist. i am not hindu. for the same simple reason i am not of these religions means i do not celebrate or even want to partake in any of these religious holidays. but despite my point of view, my opinions, my beliefs, and my practices, i am labeled a scrooge at christmas time. this makes me laugh, because the lable is almost an indefensable position in the society in which i live so long as there is such a strong predominant christian christmas cheer.
i am tired of getting christmas shoved in my face and forced upon me without any respect of my choice. i choose to be happy without partaking in the festivities. for those of you who do want to celebrate the fantastical virgin pregnancy and barnyard birthing rituals, go for your life. don't let me spoil your fun. i truly want you to have a good time, but please count me out of it. it is alright to let me go, i do not need my soul to be saved. i am perfectly good. have a happy new year.

i am going to make a big statement, and you can debate me if you think i am wrong. australia is the most racist country on the planet. this shit of lebanese vs. white trash is nasty.
i can't get away from the ignorant, derogatory, racist comments that seem to come out of every second person's mouth. you people need to check yourselves. not everyone is guilty, but the large percentage is.

if you haven't heard, maybe you've had your head buried in the sand, australia is blowing up. over the weekend was the beginning to major race riots in australia. the parties involved- ignorant white anglos vs. stupid lebanese (and pretty much all invovled were born in australia). i am not sure the cause of the issue, but from what i can gather, there has been a long on-going feud over territory at the beaches in cronulla, and most likely a lot of hurt feelings and misunderstanding. the typical precursors to fights and war.
the whole situation is ugly. the entire riot over the weekend was a booze induced frenzy. to make matters worse is the valiant prime minister still denies that australia is a racist country. despite the fact that it has been his policy of; going to war against iraq, keeping troops in iraq, incarcerating refugee people from islamic countries for years, deporting the bakhtiari family, stealing away civil liberties of all australians, and generally stirring up bullshit commentary about the threat of a so called islamic jihad in australia. really little johnny, it is you who have your head buried, but it is not so much buried in the sand, as it is buried up your own ass!
so is it a surprise to anyone, that a country who's leader continually spews forth racist rhetoric and emplements racist policies, hosts a population with similar ignorant feelings actions? now sydney, like france a few weeks ago, or isreal and palastine on a daily basis, this ugly behavior is perpetuated by morons. the fire is continually fanned by slanted media, more interested in creating news buzz, rather than promoting civility. the result being a whole bunch of people getting hurt, and the rest of the world having to contend with more inbred and indoctrinated hatered. these wounds take a long time to overcome and a long time to heal, but with love, and through communication in a peaceful fashion, humanity can still overcome the barbaric ideologies of the few mental midgets who are continually trying to keep the masses stirred up and disjointed. truly, this is what the policy makers are most afraid of- the people united!

nothing. today i got nothing. i had sat down with the intention of writing something profound, but instead i got a massive case of mental blockage. so in the moments before i trot off to work, for another day on the beach in the sweltering heat, i present you with nothing. absolutely fucking not one solid work of inspiration, thought, laughter, or anything. if you are reading this and thinking, "what the fuck is he on about?" well you have every right. it is just my attempt to getting over this writers block thing. who knows when it will happen. i am blaming it on too much sun.

it has been called to my attetion that under new anti-terror laws in australia, i may be in big trouble for blogging. apparently under these "sedition" laws my opinions, insights, ideas, and everything on my blog could be held accountable in a court of law. yeah? well so what! even if it is true, it does not change the fact that the prime minister of australia, john howard, is a liar, a midget, and has absolutely no common sense. his entire cabinet is stacked full of fellow conspirators; phil ruddock, alexander downer, amanda vanstone, tony abbot, bronwyn bishop, and peter costello, just to name a few of the idiots. plus being the whipping boy for the moron president of america, bush jr., john howard simply makes himself look bad. his actions speak louder than my words, and the words of millions of other bloggers in australia alone.
am i afraid of getting in trouble for speaking my mind? NO. i have been doing just that for about 31 years now and i have to admit, at times it has gotten me in trouble. but i say fuck the rules. fuck this anti-expression law. there are some very small minded people in this world who try to rule through fear. well i for one am not afraid. this whole issue sort of reminds me of the childrens rhyme- sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. no one ever got killed by talking.

since becoming a home owner, i have taken particular interest in the garden. we have a huge yard to contend with. it is not massive in relation to huge mansion size yards, but for a suburban lifestyle it is big enough (front and back). as the months have passed and we are now 10 months into being the occupants of this place, i have made some drastic changes in the gardens. when we bought this place the gardens were an over run jungle. there were all kinds of plants growing everywhere and in all directions. there were some rare and fantastic things, norfolk pine tree, flowers, orchids, and ferns. there was also alot of crap and other weeds scattered throughout. thus it has been mostly my job to sort it all out, with the assistance from my lovely wife at times, whose domain is more the inside of the house. together we have saved what was worth keeping, mostly through transplanting, and a few months ago i hired a chainsaw for a day. on that day i cleared away all the junk, i cut down trees (the weedy ones) removed bushes and other things, and created a massive pile of cut branches and logs at the side of the house waiting to be wisked away.
since then we have had two fences installed, dividing ourselves from the neighboring properties, who on either side of us, are building up up up their houses respectively. one has turned itself into one of those massive mc-mansions, and is an ugly eye sore towering over the entire neighborhood. because we could never compete with the house next door, and because we would prefer a little privacy from the potential nosey neighbors, no one has moved in just yet, we decided to plant bamboo. now let me just dispell any potential dissent on this point, it is a clumping bamboo, and not the invasive kind. this bamboo, is my pet project for the moment. one, because it was so fucking expensive. two, because it is young and fragile at the moment. three, becuase it is what will give us privacy and a solid barrier from the people next door and behind us. so on any given day you will find me outside tending the bamboo. i water it on a regular basis, i fertilize it on a regular basis with this liquid seaweed compound that does wonders, i have mulched it, given it a special garden bed%2

i was just yesterday informed of this google phenomenon. perhaps i am a little slow and behind on the times, but i thought it was actually pretty funny and something worth sharing. plus i have myself confirmed the information to be true. when you are at google, and type in the word failure it will take you to the following website, which i too have linked. i will not give away the punch line. however, you should give it a go yourself just to be sure. google themselves have even provided the world of internet users a valid reason for this to happen. i just love the fact that people are still fighting and resisting against the facist hegemonies that have taken over "democratic nations" in the past 10 years.

we now have a piano in the house. i am destined to learn, to play, and to be worthy on the piano. this is stepping into the realm of a totally new experience for me. so i am off to pound some other keys.