A note of warning for you all - wear protection when preparing and eating chilli's! The sort of goggles you get in high-school chemistry class will do the trick nicely because you dont want any chilli juices in your eye now- or so i found out last night.
And once it started (to quote a Ducea comment) "it was like a car crash" - once it starts, it isnt going to get any better! The first 5 minutes after, i didn't notice anything but once i sat down to eat dinner the stinging pain was unbelieveable. So i went to the bathroom and dabbed it with a damp cloth. Bad idea! Just like drinking water after a hot curry, the pain got worse and my eye became seriously bloodshot. I couldnt win! Everytime i blinked, it rubbed my eye a little bit more making the pain a little worse. The meal was delicious to eat but possibly the most painful ive ever experienced! So be-warned! Don't do it!
I might just stick to fish and chips tonight - much safer!
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Monday, 22 October 2007
Not a great weekend of sport
First England lost the Rugby World Cup and the Hamilton narrowly missed out on the F1 Championship. The latter could, however, be in doubt as controvosey over illegal fuel in 3 cars ahead of Hamilton (he finished 7th but needed 5th to take the title). If those cars get disqualified, Hamilton wins the championship so its going to court! Kind of a shameful way to end what has been the best season of Formula 1 in years but if it means Hamilton wins..... im not going to object!
As to the Rugby - im content with second place. We shouldn't really have reached the quater-finals yet alone beat Australia and France to get to the final. It was still a close match and England were severely disadvantaged by a disallowed try which, replays show, clearly should have been allowed. Did the match turn on that? Perhaps but it doesnt really matter - we beat the French on their turf again - thats all that counts!
The only good thing to come out of sport last weekend was Liverpool's 2:1 victory over dirty Everton who had 2 men sent off. They now sit 4th in the table with a game in hand over Man United and Man City who sit above them although even at this early stage we'll do well to catch Arsenal at the top. Although there not playing the smooth football that left them unbeaton in the 2002/2003 season, its effective! Now for Champions league this week - Liverpool play Besiktas away from home. A game we really need to win!
And finally, the news! (Sounds abit like the 2 Ronnies!) In Canberra, a cemetery is training its gravediggers in emergency first aid and how to use defibrillators in order to ressucitate grief striken mourners at a funeral. It's a good idea but from a business point of view, seems somewhat counter-productive!
Another criminal from Berlin got arrested last week after slightly misunderstanding the term "getaway". A construction worker stole a packet of cheese from a local store before making his getaway in his cement truck. Police caught up with him when he stopped at traffic lights 200yrds down the road.
And finally from Washington DC. The pentagon made something of a recording error regarding its contract with Boeing to maintain some of its airforce fleet. The draft contract named the pricely sum of $24billion, the single largest contract the DoD (department of defence) has issued. After pointing out the error, officials confirmed it should infact be $24million - 3 orders of magnitude lower! Boeing are probably disappointed!
As to the Rugby - im content with second place. We shouldn't really have reached the quater-finals yet alone beat Australia and France to get to the final. It was still a close match and England were severely disadvantaged by a disallowed try which, replays show, clearly should have been allowed. Did the match turn on that? Perhaps but it doesnt really matter - we beat the French on their turf again - thats all that counts!
The only good thing to come out of sport last weekend was Liverpool's 2:1 victory over dirty Everton who had 2 men sent off. They now sit 4th in the table with a game in hand over Man United and Man City who sit above them although even at this early stage we'll do well to catch Arsenal at the top. Although there not playing the smooth football that left them unbeaton in the 2002/2003 season, its effective! Now for Champions league this week - Liverpool play Besiktas away from home. A game we really need to win!
And finally, the news! (Sounds abit like the 2 Ronnies!) In Canberra, a cemetery is training its gravediggers in emergency first aid and how to use defibrillators in order to ressucitate grief striken mourners at a funeral. It's a good idea but from a business point of view, seems somewhat counter-productive!
Another criminal from Berlin got arrested last week after slightly misunderstanding the term "getaway". A construction worker stole a packet of cheese from a local store before making his getaway in his cement truck. Police caught up with him when he stopped at traffic lights 200yrds down the road.
And finally from Washington DC. The pentagon made something of a recording error regarding its contract with Boeing to maintain some of its airforce fleet. The draft contract named the pricely sum of $24billion, the single largest contract the DoD (department of defence) has issued. After pointing out the error, officials confirmed it should infact be $24million - 3 orders of magnitude lower! Boeing are probably disappointed!
Saturday, 20 October 2007
The longest hours of my life...
As everyone knows, England played in the Rugby World Cup Final today and everyone probably knows the result. Except me! I'm waiting til the match becomes available on the net to download (about 6 hrs in itself!) and watch.
And its a long wait!
My theory is that if i find out the result, i wont want to watch the game (kind of like reading a book having read the last chapter first!). It also means i can't log onto MSN messenger, facebook, any news website and now, after this, my blog incase some smartarse reader posts the score and ruins it all!
Here's to a long night waiting. Waiting and more waiting. I might play my guitar actually - i could do with the practice!
See ya!
And its a long wait!
My theory is that if i find out the result, i wont want to watch the game (kind of like reading a book having read the last chapter first!). It also means i can't log onto MSN messenger, facebook, any news website and now, after this, my blog incase some smartarse reader posts the score and ruins it all!
Here's to a long night waiting. Waiting and more waiting. I might play my guitar actually - i could do with the practice!
See ya!
Friday, 19 October 2007
Peruvian mountains and salty myres
What a week!
Nothing too special happened in the end. I didn't win the lottery, i didn't go on holiday and i certainly didn't find a lucky quarter on the side-walk (sorry footpath) this morning. But, and this is a big but; England are in the World Cup Final, France aren't, Arizona is going fantastic, i beat my best mate on that stupid "Petrolhead" application and facebook and, oh yeah, im going to Peru for 2 weeks just after christmas!
Add to that - days of confusion, courtesy of pen pushers at Leicester Uni, over whether this year in arizona would actually count towards my degree and im sure you'll agree its been somewhat out of the norm.
So the big question at the moment is: Can Jonny Wilkinson win the world cup for England again? I'm not saying anything against the other players in the side, there all very good (especially Josh Lewsey who i thinks just been awesome) but Jonny is the best player in the world without a doubt. No-one else has such an effect on a game, no-one else can produce under such pressure, no-one else can win us the world cup again. Will we? Won't we? The count down begins! The challenge remains for me to survive without seeing the score until after the match when i can watch a re-run online! God help me!
I can't wait til the christmas vacation (sorry, holiday!) - doing abit of travelling and generally planning to have a really good time. Hence the flight i booked to Peru yesterday - 2 weeks of mountains, hiking, stunning scenery and all the usual backpackers perks.
And the salty myres bit - off to a place called Wilcox (between Tucson and Lordsburg in New Mexico) tomorrow. Its reportedly a wild-west sort of place in Cochise county, built on a massive salt plain in the middle of no-where. Should be interesting!
Nothing too special happened in the end. I didn't win the lottery, i didn't go on holiday and i certainly didn't find a lucky quarter on the side-walk (sorry footpath) this morning. But, and this is a big but; England are in the World Cup Final, France aren't, Arizona is going fantastic, i beat my best mate on that stupid "Petrolhead" application and facebook and, oh yeah, im going to Peru for 2 weeks just after christmas!
Add to that - days of confusion, courtesy of pen pushers at Leicester Uni, over whether this year in arizona would actually count towards my degree and im sure you'll agree its been somewhat out of the norm.
So the big question at the moment is: Can Jonny Wilkinson win the world cup for England again? I'm not saying anything against the other players in the side, there all very good (especially Josh Lewsey who i thinks just been awesome) but Jonny is the best player in the world without a doubt. No-one else has such an effect on a game, no-one else can produce under such pressure, no-one else can win us the world cup again. Will we? Won't we? The count down begins! The challenge remains for me to survive without seeing the score until after the match when i can watch a re-run online! God help me!
I can't wait til the christmas vacation (sorry, holiday!) - doing abit of travelling and generally planning to have a really good time. Hence the flight i booked to Peru yesterday - 2 weeks of mountains, hiking, stunning scenery and all the usual backpackers perks.
And the salty myres bit - off to a place called Wilcox (between Tucson and Lordsburg in New Mexico) tomorrow. Its reportedly a wild-west sort of place in Cochise county, built on a massive salt plain in the middle of no-where. Should be interesting!
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
We have a pet...
a friendly little bug appeared in one of our bathrooms on monday and has since explored the apartment, last seem crawling under the hallway carpet. Infact no, its a big sod off beetle like thing, 2-3 inches long and a fast runner. It escaped my attempts to catch it monday morning with a lunchbox and went into hiding underground (well, under-carpet). If anyone see's it, report it to me on this blog and we'll have a rematch.
We also found a massive bug in the pool last week. It was pushing 3-4 inches long and swam remarkably well. It survived all my attempts to drown it but i eventually managed to catch it and put it in the bushes. Russ reckons it was a dung beetle, working on the theory that they can survive nuke blasts so they can probably survive abit of water. I'm not so sure.
New poll up (see right).
Laters
We also found a massive bug in the pool last week. It was pushing 3-4 inches long and swam remarkably well. It survived all my attempts to drown it but i eventually managed to catch it and put it in the bushes. Russ reckons it was a dung beetle, working on the theory that they can survive nuke blasts so they can probably survive abit of water. I'm not so sure.
New poll up (see right).
Laters
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