It hasn’t been easy, I have a very busy schedule and updating this blog has definitely been a job and a half, but I have prevailed (so far) and have reached my 100th post. Not sure how I should celebrate this remarkable accomplishment, maybe I should light a cigar, maybe I should shout from the rooftops, maybe I should get myself a medal made, maybe I should have accomplishment sex, maybe I should have a city named after me, maybe I should buy a crater on the moon or maybe I should just post about it
And here are 100 of the best movie lines ever, random I know, but I have always liked lists -
Well being single, I sometimes do feel that the grass is greener on the other side, but then I listen to the original version of 99 Problems by Ice-T and it always brings a smile to my face. Single life ain’t too bad at all. It might not be PC, but hey it’s rap.
I love old yearbook pictures, bad hairstyle, horrible dress sense, braces e.tc. e.t.c. So thought I had try to recreate a 70s style yearbook image, I look pretty geeky and cool at the same time!
As you grow older, you get fewer and fewer Easter eggs which is a tad bit depressing. This year I only received one, but I like to think of it as quality over quantity. My Easter Egg had my name and a football on it also being Thornton’s chocolate it was delicious.
Don’t you just hate it when people abandon their pets. I saw the poor creature below abandoned on the tube. Shame on those who left him there! Remember Dragons are not just for Christmas!
I love April Fool’s Day, a day of total mischief. With us living in the information age, even pranks can be pulled without actually getting up from your chair. All you need is a computer and a connection to the internet
Billed as “Britain’s answer to the Eiffel Tower”, London’s Mayor Boris Johnson today unveiled plans for a steel tower to be located in East London as part of the London 2012 Olympic Park. The tower has been designed by the much acclaimed sculptor Anish Kapoor and will be named after the steel company ArcelorMittal owned by UK’s richest man Lakshmi Mittal who will be donating appoximately 1,400 tonnes of steel for the constuction.
My first impression looking at it was quite literally “WTF!!”, it looks like a horrendously messed up slinky. I understand the fact that Anish has gone for a modernist abstract style but it is seriously sore on the eyes. This is something that you would expect on the forecourt of council estates and not something that you would want to be a lasting legacy of the London Olympics.
Before you ask what a Captcha is, it is a distorted image of letters and numbers used to prevent automated use of websites. You have probably come across it while filling out forms. CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Human Apart.
I absolutely abhor them. I find that most of them are so distorted it brinks on the edge of being squiggly lines. One of the worst offenders is Google, it literally drove me mad today. Below are the CAPTCHAs I had to type in the box to get an analytics report. Everytime I refereshed it, I got an even more meaningless CAPTCHA, it took me 4 attempts to finally crack it. Damn you CAPTCHAs!!
I love Fried chicken, but eating it everyday does get a bit boring. So thought I had slum it, be a bit chavvy, and brought in Pot Noodles (yes, the slag of all snacks) to work today and as soon as I took it out of the bag, I had a barrage of insults and put downs thrown my way from the usual suspects at the office. I was called unhealthy and lazy for not making my own food. The Pot noodles was branded as something that was full of salt and contained way too many “E” numbers.
Usually I would accept it on the chin and succumb to defeat, but today I knew I had victory in my hands as the new flavoured Pot Noodles that I had contained no preservatives and significant reduction in salt content. Proudly I pointed this out to them and this shut them up. So I dug into my pot noodles enjoying the sweet taste of victory but funnily enough that is all I could taste. The pot noodles was bland and tasteless, in fact it felt like soggy cardboard, i guess in the process of removing the salt and preservatives they also removed the taste.
I can’t handle these risks….best play it safe, back to fried chicken tomorrow
Even though I consider London my home and love it to bits, there are times when I do miss the country where I grew up and spent most of my life – Bahrain. I do visit the country every year and always thoroughly enjoy my time there.
The pace of life there is much slower and it always feels weird taking it easy in Bahrain after living life in Londin at full throttle. Bahrain means “Two Seas” and is an archipelago of 33 islands located in the heart of the Gulf. Unlike most of the Middle East, Bahrain is much more liberal and has a wonderful cosmopolitan feel about it. People from all around the world live and work in the country alongside the local Arabs.
The country itself would be hard to find on a world map due to it’s size but every year the eyes of the world are focussed firmly on it when the Bahrain F1 takes centre stage. Arabs are known for their love of speed, and the number of supercars and hypercars you see on the normal roads in Bahrain are just mind boggling.
Bahrain definitely has plenty of sun and sand, and some of the smaller islands in the archipelago have some truly beautiful beaches. Watersports galore. If shopping is more your idea of a good time, there is a huge shopping complex/mall on almost every street. But for a true shopping experience a visit to the traditional Manama Souk (market in Arabic) is a must.
Here is a little video that I found, probably not the best intro video to the country as it definitely is a lot more stunning but it provides a taster anyway…
With the beginning of 2012, it is time for me to create a new list and this year I plan to keep a blog of how well I am progressing through the list. This blog is not for vanity or pride but to motivate myself and others, if this has motivated you in any way, I am happy to have helped and would love to hear and share your story.
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