December 2000 Archives
New year, new layout. You like? They say the eyes are the windows of the soul, what can you tell about me from that picture above? Anyway, I'm off to party. Everyone have a great New Year's Eve and I hope the coming year brings peace and love.
I feel so unwell. Nothing to do with the fact that I was out half an hour ago massacring Claude, honest.
It snowed!!!! We made a snowman and stuff, his name is Claude since we gave him a beret. Digi pics will follow shortly.
Eid kisses for everyone! I'm having a fab time, ciao!
Merry Christmas everyone :)
I've had my haircut, my clothes are all made and I'm ready for Eid!!
Yay, I have tomorrow off! Thank goodness. I feel drained from working in this place. Spent this morning in faults again. When you're in faults you just get faults calls, isn't that strange?
Backstreet Boys, More Than That
"I can see that you've been crying
You can't hide it with a lie
What's the use in you denying
The words you had is wrong
I heard him promise you forever
But forevers come and go
Baby he would say whatever
It takes to keep you alive
Tell the truth between the lines
Chorus:
Oh I will love you more than that
I won't say those words, then take them back
Don't give lonliness a chance
Baby listen to me when I say
I will love you more than that
Baby you deserve much better
What's the use in holding on
Don't you see it's now or never
Just why you can't be friends
Baby knowing in the end
Chorus:
And I will love you more than that
I won't say those words, then take them back
Don't give lonliness a chance
Baby listen to me when I say
Bridge:
There's not a day that passes by
I don't wonder why we haven't tried
It's not too late to change your mind
And take my hand, don't say goodbye
Chorus:
I will love you more than that
I won't say those words, then take them back
Oh I will love you more than that
I won't say those words, then take them back
Don't give lonliness a chance
Baby listen to me when I say
I will love you more than that
Oh I will love you more than that
I won't say those words, then take them back
Don't give lonliness a chance
Baby listen to me when I say
I will love you more than that"
Just in one those moods today :)
Someone sent me a Christmas card today addressed to 'The Divine Miss A'. I think that about sums me up (just kidding).
Arnie's well known wooden acting aside, The 6th Day wasn't all bad. All the futuristic gizmos were interesting and the concept behind the movie was thought provoking. Imagine two mes........eeeech.
I gotta get me one of those Talia hairstyles, its a bit Saffron-ish don't you think?
Get well soon Faisal!
This was my last day off for a while and I spent most of it doing what? Sleeping. Now I'm totally refreshed and ready to face the world......pity it's nearly 10pm.
A guy goes to a boss's house for dinner.
The boss's wife asks, "Would you like some more potatoes?"
"I don't want any thanks," replies the guy.
"It's alright. You don't have to be polite," she says.
"Alright....I don't want any you stupid cow."
(Thanks to my lil' sister for that little gem.)
"This is your captain speaking. On behalf of my crew I'd like to welcome you aboard British Airways flight 602 from New York to London. We are currently flying at a height of 35,000 feet midway across the Atlantic.
"If you look out of the windows on the starboard side of the aircraft, you will observe that both the starboard engines are on fire.
"If you look out of the windows on the port side, you will observe that the port wing has fallen off.
"If you look down towards the Atlantic ocean, you will see a little yellow life raft with three people in it waving at you.
"That's me, the copilot, and one of our flight attendants. This is a recording."
I'm at work and none of the phones are working. So we are just sitting here.....just sitting......and sitting.
I wasn't too keen but I did it finally. Finally watched 'Gladiator'. And I was truly impressed. I'm not usually into these epic movies but this one was magnificent from the cast, story, cinematography, costumes etc. It was worth staying up for and staggering into work half-dead this morning.
Running around, robbing banks, all whacked on Scooby Snacks......yes it's early, yes I'm watching MTV this early, yes that song rocks.
Only at this time of year can grown people hold their head up high and walk through a packed office of their juniors with a Santa Claus hat on...along with a tinkly bell.
A language instructor was explaining to her class that French nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designed as masculine or feminine. Things like "chalk" or "pencil" have a gender association, although in English these words are neutral. Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked, "What gender is a computer?" The teacher wasn't certain which it was and divided the class into two groups; one group all male, the other all female. They were to decide which gender should be applied to "computer" and give four reasons for their decision.
The results -
The group of women concluded computers should be referred to in the masculine gender because:1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on 2. They have a lot of data but are still clueless. 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem. 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better model.
The group of men decided computers should definitely be referred to in the feminine gender because: 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic 2. The native language they use to communicate is incomprehensible to everyone else 3. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory banks for later retrireview. 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
My browser is scaring me. I went to jish.nu as I do but when I tried to leave 3 other windows opened with jish.nu in them. This kept happening till I restarted! I mean I like Jish, but that's just taking the biscuit.
I'm bored. So entertain me. Ask me a question, the first 5 received will be posted up here. Along with their honest answers of course.Ready, steady...go!!
Wednesday 13th 2000 @ 1.45am in my nan's living room, watching a movie.
Younger sister: (out of the blue) Why don't people ever call their son Tin.
Saima: Ya what?
Younger sister: Why don't they ever call their sons Tin.
Saima: Because it's not a name maybe?
Younger sister: Well, we have Tim, why not Tin?
Saima: Tim is short for Timothy, what would Tin be short for?
Younger sister: Names don't have to be short for anything.
Saima: Tin is a silly name. It's an object anyway.
Younger sister: So are other names.....
Saima: But it sounds stupid.
Younger sister: All names are stupid. It's just because we've heard them so much we accept them.
Saima: Yeah, let's just make up names left, right and centre. We could have Ton instead of Tom.
Younger sister: Exactly.
(silence)
A character comes into the film called Myron.
Younger sister: What kind of name is that?
Saima: I guess his parents had the same idea as you. Byron just wasn't good enough.
Oooooh, it's snowing. Now it really feels like Christmas time.
I just dropped tomato ketchup on my keyboard and can't remove it without spelling out jyih....aaaah the complexities of life. And now its everyhwere eech. Talking of ketchup visit this totally unrelated to ketchup site.
Haiku the blog..ingenious.
That isn't a put on accent Hasan thank you very much!! I'll prove you wrong by calling you one day, then you'll see. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm choking on rice.
Life is full of bitter ironies. Like that time I missed my favourite programme, 'The 11 o'clock Show' because it was on at 10.20pm.
Wooo, they named a park after me, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
If there's one thing I can't stand its gossipers. And unfortunately they're proficient in this neighbourhood. They'll 'prove' to you that so-and-so is going out with so-and-so...how? Well because their friend's cousins dog's wife's nephew saw them together of course. What more evidence do we need? They'll gather around at someone's house, ready, steady, go! And they're off, talking relentlessly about things that shouldn't concern them. Making other people's business their business is their speciality. Sorry, rant over. But before I go, did your hear about so-and-so.....
I was speaking to a customer today at work (a total of 77 of the critters) and when I asked for her postcode she quoted 'GU23 1DG, and by the way, that's D for Freddy'. I guess she must have been a taught a different alphabet from the rest of us, bless her. It's those sort of things that get you through the day, because you laugh until your cheeks hurt. That's always a good thing.
Like the new layout? It's temporary till I get the resources to make the layout I really wanted to make. Intrigued? You should be. Anyway the picture featured in the layout isn't me! My brain is actually magenta.....
DAMN YOU FTP!!
