Forget it

It's all totally gone to the dogs, and there's no where else to turn.

Election Day - what a drag

Oh well, at least it's a chance to be part of a democracy - even it's only ONE day every three-four years. Now what I'm hanging for is to see how many Greens get into the Senate - woopee!!!

At the moment I'm reading through Ms Fits blog to check out what she's thinking about the last week of the campaign. Her taxi driver survey seems pretty good - let's see though. It's past six so, you buggers who forgot/too busy/lazy have lost the power completely. Damn Damn Damn. The Herald Sun says "Too Close to Call" and The Age says "Howard for another few years". Damn Damn Damn.

Exciting stuff.

V-man is asleep downstairs and M&D are hanging and cooking. I'm getting hungry and should sit down to watch how Tasmania is voting so far - their polls closed an hour ago. Darling V-man drove down to see me today, worked his arse off at work earlier today. I'm hungover and tried very hard to tell Daniel NOT to vote Nationals when we headed in today to vote - what a funny mix we were - Daniel, Ned and Meals (me of course) - If only one in three people voted coalition things might turn out ok. Damn Damn Damn!!!

Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Babies

According to both major political parties their leaders won the big debate last night.

The best quote I heard on the radio this morning (apart from the 'boring' line in today's australian) was our 18 year old political commentator saying he almost fell asleep. And this guy LOVES his politics, especially public speaking.

I love ms fits

Once again dreaming I'm somewhere overseas, writing how Ms Fits (i put a link up on the right hand nav!) does (hilarious, especially now that we have an election on) and being warm warm warm warm. I thought that springtime was pleasant here. Somehow I forgot.

Anyways, I've been busy this week getting back into work from being away. I really had a great time overseas, catching all my besties who have fled this awful country. Everyone was great and I wish I could have stayed longer. I could have stayed much longer because I after I arrived I correctly checked my bank account balance and it looked hardly touched. What was I thinking? Vincent said he wouldn't have come back with a cent. And it's the truth!

So. We have such a horrid country here at the moment that in Jakarta just today there was a bomb outside the Australian Embassy. The news reports are still counting the victims and injured. I can't even imagine how John Howard will use this to his advantage in the polls. But all I do know is that Mark Latham has been in Bundaberg with a room full of whingers all with 'cries for help''cries for help'. At least they liked him there. I'd watch out for that free gift (a bottle of wine) if I were him.

p.s. i've been using the html editor the entire time here and have now tried the compse tab. Pretty neat maybe?

If we were to work overseas I'm studying the kinds of visa and working permits we could get.

Seeing as V-man and I are different ages, I'll have to juggle around what countries we can actually go to.

UK Visas - Information about applying for a working permit in UK.

Working Holiday - this is the one to apply for in UK. Not for V-man though it seems.

Green Card - America - the Green Card Lottery (Sam D is using in New York) & work permits. I think this one - H-1B Work Visa for college educated professionals - is the one for me.

If you want to change internet browsers here's an option - Browse Happy ? Online. Worry-free.

There's some jobs here at world expo - in Japan!

EXPO 2005

Not sure what's going on here with these surfie dudes at the The Wave Pillow.

It's for surfers to check the weather.

A downloadable book explaining media oreilly.com -- Online Catalog::

The intro reads:

"We freeze some moments in time. Every culture has its frozen
moments, events so important and personal that they transcend
the normal flow of news.
Americans of a certain age, for example, know precisely
where they were and what they were doing when they learned
that President Franklin D. Roosevelt died. Another generation
has absolute clarity of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. And no
one who was older than a baby on September 11, 2001, will
ever forget hearing about, or seeing, airplanes exploding into
skyscrapers."

A game about parking cars - Park

I'm clearing out my work email (after being away - of course) and there's a whole bunch of links and fun to be had - but just not at work.

Here's a collection today:

VirtualStapler.com : Revolutionary Online Stapler Simulation

In Islington at the moment, writing this from an internet cafe right near claire and trent's house.

http://www.whateverhappenedtocoreyhaim.com/

is a very interesting eye catching poster around here on the underground at the moment and i could write numerous posts about my love for corey haim in my teenage years.

will have more time later - seeing as i'm paying for the hour and i've only got 9 minutes left!!!

and the other new thing i've learnt recently is this online paper: http://www.theonion.com/

it has some great articles - just found out that kirsten dunst has dumped america for a european hunk and george w has got a new look to his oval office:

"Took long enough," Bush said, lounging on one of the two overstuffed green leather couches he'd ordered from Jennifer Convertibles. "Just getting these couches was a chore—they almost didn't fit through the door. Then, arranging them so I could see the plasma TV while I stretched out was a real pain. Every time I thought I'd got them in a good place, I'd look and see I'd blocked out the Presidential Seal on the carpet. I didn't want to do that unless I had to." see the rest here:

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4033

A copy of an email i just wrote to v-man.

Hi the keyboard changes without notice to hiragana and katakana so i:m sorry baby, i can:t seem to write how i feel,
i:m too busy watching the words.
anyways, i love you heaps and wish you were here with me to give me cuddles. even though it:s 37 degrees today.

i:ll give you a quick run down on what we did - and hope that the keyboard keeps writing english.

friday - in flight entertainment was shrek 2, walking tall or standing tall (totally shit), hell boy and the day after tomorrow.

i:m not sure about hellboy baby - but ron perlman was great and totally cute with a red face.

we had good food - vegie is a great option and i read a book i bought.

saturday - we went to tokyo, busy city. it was pretty good all round. we went to shibuya, then daikinyama for shopping and lunch and we all bought awesome things.
then we went to shinjuku and drank at a bar that was so stylish - five bucks cover to sit and we could only sit for two hours max. we then had to pay for drinks on top of that. but the service was excellent and the toilets were to die for . you didn:t need to touch anything. handsfree flush and running water. and there was ear cleaners in the bathrooms too.

we met cinderella from tokyo disney there too and she was hilarious.

angus came and met us (us is phil sal and amelia ^ when you order stuff you say mitza meaning three) as well as a funny english gay boy friends of sal:s who is meaning three) as well as a funny english gay boy friends of sal:s who is also an english teacher. we went to this pub type restuarant were you can smoke and drink and eat fatty jap food. it:s called an issakaiya we got drunk and went home eat fatty jap food. it:s called an issakaiya we got drunk and went home.

sunday - we woke up (late ten - or eleven everyday here) and went to tokyo harbour:s suburb called Odaiba - and shopped and ate great food and shopped some more and went on the biggest ferris wheel in the world. i bought a cheap nintendo game boy from one of the electric town suburbs in tokyo too. WOW!

monday - woke up went to tobu super pool all afternoon. it was lovely and cold and i got my feet wet. my feet got really big on the plane - like i:m preggers or something and have been horrid every day. sore as hell as sally would say. it:s terrible - but oh well. i should have trained to be a tourist really. i think it:s just the heat. atsui desu ne. hot isn:t it.... we saw the cutest little boy in the world say that to his mum at the pool - he was gorgeous. i want to take all the kids home for you to see - so cute. OH, after pool we went shopping and went to pub restarant here in omiya - sal and phil:s town -and then sang karaoke. i sang roy orbison:s crying really well and robbie for you

tuesday - woke up and went to yokohama (harbour city south of tokyo) becase that:s were angus lives. i went by my self tooooooo! yippee! we had a great time shopping and thank you for my 20, 000 yen because i bought a great jacket - one that actually fits and some JEANZU - some gorgeous jeans!!!! yippee, you are such a gorgeous boy. how sneaky of you to get that money.

we looked around the harbour and drank some beer and shopped some more.

then i met my japanese friend akiko yesterday in tokyo and we shopped... i called chisato too - no reply but i let a message on her phone....
i better go now because my hour is getting thin and i:ll totally write properly in london, because i:ts taken me ages to figure out the keyboard.

When I caught up with the O.S. crew the other night Sally and Phil suggested a few things to bring over that would help them out big time. Phil really likes this kind of hair product, American Crew, and I haven't been able to find it anywhere - Lucky for Victoria Gardens near Vincent's house. There is a big long list of retailers there in case we need it next time.

There are just so many fun places to go in Tokyo - I've just found the Metropolis Visitors Guide to Tokyo and what about this:

"Shibuya Crossing (exit Hachiko)—Every three minutes complete anarchy ensues at the world's busiest intersection. Observe it from the second floor of Starbucks or join the troops."

Sounds crazy.

There's going to be a bunch of memory lanes to go down once I get to England.

I'm already feeling gooshy about it all, and I've just found the OXFORD TUBE and that's made me really happy too.

Have a look at the updated design on the side:



Gorgeous. The many times I caught the Oxford Tube I would have my notebook and write and write and write. I think I'd even made a promise to myself never to travel without a pen and paper (of some sort - as I've learnt that there is a reason to keep those receipts from the ATM) I wrote a bunch of peoms on that bus (peoms was what I called them!), one about bus drivers who look you in the eye, one about Fredrick (was that his name?) who gave me hickies! He was a young Swedish boy, very cute.

I'm getting REALLY excited about going, and I spoke with Sally and Claire tonight about it too!!! Yippee. I so can't wait for both trips, but mostly Tokyo - because I've never been and I just can't wait for cuteness galore.

After Japan, of course, I'm going to London to visit my friends there. I'm so happy about my little trip, although it's not that adventureous really. I've been to all these places (minus tokyo) before. Anways, here is a site for all things London and Islington looks great so far. Vintage shops are along the main street - I like it!

I wonder where the pub is for C and T? They must have a local by now, right? Well, I'm sure I would.

Not long to my trip! Yippee! I opened my travel info et al today and checked my itinerary, and noticed my name was spelt incorrectly - Ameila instead of Amelia - so I then checked the japanese airline tickets and they were wrong too!!! I'll have to talk with the travel woman again because the name now doesn't match my passport - and hopefully I can get the tix changed over before Friday!!! Eep!

So I have to:

• Call Sally and check about the bus from Narita Airport to Saitama
• Call Claire and have a little conversation - I'm not sure why I'm going to call her, maybe to goss
• Buy Amy a 8x10 frame for her photo of Spike and send that to her before Friday
• Pick my skirts up from the girls at school
• Take a photocopy of my passport
• Take out travel insurance with the bank
• Shift my money over to the better account

All this before Friday. Doesn't look to hard actually. I've spent the past week thinking about what clothes to pack, what handbag to use, what wallet to take, and this week I'll have to actually start doing it!

I've been talking with Vanessa at work (again) and sorting things out for my leave from work.
I'm totally getting excited because today is Friday and now I only have a week left to go. Vanessa says her friend has just arrive back and has a blog of his travels. >>>Gidz guide to: >>> There it is!