The haps with the craps.

I turned 26 a few days ago. 26, pick up sticks.

On Sunday, which was my birthday, I was in some little shop in Newtown listening to the music overhead, and some boppy little number from some bygone era was playing. As the track was ending (I have no idea who the track was by) I started singing "She's not a girl who misses much. doo doo doo doo doo doo oh yeah" which was odd as it had nothing to do with the song and I haven't been listening to the Beatles or anything lately. 10 seconds later the next track starts, and there it is:

"She's not a girl who misses much, doo doo doo doo doo doo oh yeah"

How freaky is that? I somehow anticipated the next random song. Kat was less than impressed.

The next night Kat and I had dinner at La Guillotine. For our entrees we had a few different breads, mussels cooked in some creamy sauce and escargot cooked in garlic butter. Then as a main Kat had some lamb cutlets while I had a beef steak cooked with tarragon and shallots. Yum yum bubble gum.

On the next day (Tuesday the 30th) Kat and I were at the Japanese Gardens in Auburn practising taking pictures with my digital SLR (I bought it a few weeks ago) when we received a phone call from my sister Liz saying that Emma had given birth! I am now an uncle to baby Zakaria, and he has flared nostrils like a true Ajaj. Even though he's not actually an Ajaj.

The next day was our Eid and I was severely sleep deprived and got all light headed and fatigued and weakened. I've become a bit of a wuss these days.

Anyway, babies are cool.

Exorcisms the Ali way.

My sister is having a baby. It's due in around a fortnight. It may be a girl or a boy. Or both.

Kat was asking my Mum if she was going to be present in the delivery room with Emma's husband. Mum said she thought she would be. They then discussed not wanting too many people present and other female matters. At this time i was washing my hands in the bathroom, and after finishing walked into the kitchen and put forth this offer:

"Mum, want to earn five dollars?"
"What?"
"I'll give you five dollars if you stand at the foot of the bed in the delivery room and chant over and over 'The power of Christ compels you'"

Mum refused.

Intravenous Musings

Unfortunately i am going to be away from work in November when my work wanted me to undertake a cannulation course so that i can start stick needles in my patients at work. I'll be in Japan, woot!

I was reading up on cannulations and trying to learn the technique, when Kat saw me tapping my veins and pumping my fist to get them to swell with blood. She asked what i was doing and when i told her she asked if i wanted to practise on her. I said yes. She asked if it would hurt, and i replied that only a little, as i didn't have a cannula and was only practising the motions. She asked how much it would hurt and i said it would only hurt as much as me tapping her veins to make them visible. She seemed ok with that.

"Oh that's ok, I don't mind you tapping me."

World Youth Day Musings

So i was showering, and i thought to myself "I'm a Catholic"

Well not really, but at least I'm a Cat-holic. Hahaha, i'm so witty.

But then i thought on it some more, and realised that if alcoholics are addicted to alcohol, Catholics must be addicted to Cathol. Not Cat.

I love Cathol.

I is sick

I left work early today and went home with some throat infection going on... But anyway!!! Yesterday I went to the chemist in Liverpool to buy some cold and flu tablets and I saw condoms selling at 50 cents for a dozen. I should totally hand them out to the citizens of Liverpool. Well, at least the ones who hang out there.

Homecomings

I just got back home from being out in the city havIng ice cream at French Riviera with Kat, Mai and Bren- as they are down from Brissy for the weekend. It's been a nice coupLe Of rainy days (read: really really wet) and this night was no different. After dropping eVeryonE home i got home myself and parked my Car in the gArage. I opened the booT so i could access tHe rEar headRests and lay them down low as they obstruct my rearward vIew wheN nobody is sitting in thEm. I then closed the boot and the garage door. I then head inside and went straight to the bathroom where i stripped oFf all my wEt clothes down to my boxers. I theN picked up my shoes, phone, keys and wallet and headed off towards my room. On the way i bumped into my mother in the kitchen.

"Hello Ali, how are you?"

"Wet, but Good"

"Oh, where have you been?"

"The city"

"Oh"

There was a bit of a pause before she added:

"Where are your clothes?"

Kaiju Big Battel

It's a bit WTF, but then it does pass the time when you're at work and not particularly busy. Basically a bunch of guys dress up in weird Japanese Anime costumes (think bugs and bananas and crayfish) and hop in a steel cage and wrestle to weird Japanese hip hop/pop music. It is seriously dumb, and yet you can't look away.

Youtube has changed my world.

Lyrically Gifted

As Kat and I munched upon a platter of pickled things while it rained outside i remarked:

The rain outside does pitter patter
as i pick upon my pickled platter.

Yeah, i'm awesome and stuff.

Fish magnet

I've been doing a lot of evening shifts lately, so i haven't been seeing Kat in a while. She asked me if i could feed her fish- she plays this game:


It's called Insaniquarium. Anyway, she has a virtual tank and you've got to feed the fishes everyday. Otherwise they get grumpy pumpy. Like tamagotchis.

Trouble is, i forgot to feed them for many days. They were "quite hungry". I thought Kat was gonna kill me.

But then i had an idea! (insert light bulb here)

What if i skip the computer's clock forward a day and feed them. Then i could skip back and feed them again. The forward and feed, back and feed. I could feed them 5 days worth of food (pellets, little fish, fried chicken, pizzas and ice cream) in a few minutes!

And guess what!!! It works!!!

Now, don't tell Kat...

Bats and Breaks, err, Beats and Breaks?

I haven't blogged in an age- there is a reason for that. I haven't felt like it.

In no particular order, significant happenings:

* My dad drove into the garage wall. It was odd, woke me up. He was returning home from getting a pink slip for said vehicle (which was my mum's relatively new camry), opened the garage door, then got back in the car and slammed into the wall. The wall backs onto my parent's bedroom wall, so for the past month or so they have been living in the living room. The guys have begun building on the wall today, and currently there is no wall separating the parent's room from the garage. It looks like a stage, and my parent's room seems smaller than i recall.

* I saw John Mayer and was very impressed. He puts on a great show.

* Bats seem to die across the road from my house on the telegraph wire. One died, and then the next day another died right next to it. Today i walked over to inspect and found a third dead bat on the ground below them. There was also what appeared to be a bit of bat fur not too far away from the third bat. Bat cemetery.

* Kat and i celebrated our two year anniversary. We ate Ryan's magic mushrooms. This was ate the Libertine restaurant in Kings Cross, not some psylocibe mushrooms.

* I bought a new bike. Kona Dew FS, for those interested in such affairs.

* I have a hammock. Haven't used it in a while now, but it rocks.

*Kat and i watched "300" at the Imax cinema. It was big.

* I now watch a cartoon called "The Venture Bros". Watch it if you can!