Clowns and Bears......

The Circus is in town. As usual the clowns are the star attraction! But this time the Clowns have something really special for us. Because this time the Clowns perform with the famous Huggy Bears! Actually the Clowns and the Huggy Bears go back a long way and have been performing together for a while now. But it’s only now that the HB’s have decided to market themselves as a product/act. If you’ve been following things, they prototyped this act several months back in South Africa quite successfully. Now after a good long break they are back and in full flow. A few days ago the Clowns & Huggy bears act performed at an arena in Dambulla; although they were not able to show off their full potential, it was still a good act. I had a good laugh.

In case you’re wondering what this drivel is all about, well, it’s about the Sri Lankan Cricket team. The Huggy Bears are Mahela, Russel and Dilshan; and the rest of the creatures are the clowns. The term Huggy Bear was actually coined by Tingles and Angelic Devil sometime back. Why Huggy bears? Well have you noticed that the sole purpose of those 3 guys in the team is to rush over and jump and hug whichever bowler takes a wicket? They don’t do jack shit otherwise. They are a collective batting disaster but have very good acting skills, in the sense that they can make the catches they take seem more spectacular than they actually are (intense training from the Indian Cricket team) and of course they pretend to be batsmen as well. To date I don’t see why they should be included in the team. They make a 50 every 30 matches they play, and based on those merits they stay in the team. Mark my words; Mahela has bought himself a 1 year cricket squad pass by taking that catch the other day. Now he is compared to people like Jonty, but of course his famous drops and fumbles are obviously forgotten, because 1 brilliant…..sorry fluke catch is worth 234 bad ones. If it was up to me I wouldn’t even have them as water boys. Maybe they should have their own cartoon. I can picture it now………it starts with the theme song

Huggy Bears,
Bouncing here and there and everywhere,
They can’t play Cricket
And they don’t care,
They are the Huggy Bears!

(sung to the tune of Gummy Bears)

The cartoon will be about these three guys who fight evil villains and save the world by hugging them! Their special Huggy powers allow them to….to….to…er…to…. look like their doing something important!

Ok ok, not much of a cartoon, but then I didn’t have much to work with either. Anyways, if you can, do the world a favour and shoot these HB’s on sight……..

Finally...............

Finding Nemo! Finding Nemo! Finding Nemo! Finding Nemo! Go, watch, now! Errrr……ok, I suppose everyone has already watched it and I am one of the last to do so, considering the movie’s been out for a while. Anyways, I loved the movie. Never been much of an animated movie fan, in the sense, I never rushed out to borrow those movies. But this was something else. Besides a brilliant script, not too soppy/sentimental storyline, very few cliché gags, and very good characterization, I guess I enjoyed it a lot because there were no bloody feel good songs in it. Sometimes, well most times, Disney goes overboard with the song-thing. Also most times the songs are no different from the bubble-gum pop culture where they are manufactured-to-formula crap. So this movie was refreshing.
My favourite character? Well it’s a tossup between Dory and the Seagulls (Mine mine mine mine mine….). But I guess it goes to Dory. Mostly because it’s a very accurate depiction of Loki. The way Dory forgets the person next her and gets to know them again every 5 minutes and the way Loki pours over the Hotshot coffee menu everytime she goes there (even though she’s been there a million times already), brings a tear to the eye.
Anyways, go see it, it’s a great movie.

Zebra…..

Famous people are hitting the news as usual these days.
Beyonce wants her butt left alone. Apparently she wants people to stop taking photos of her butt and more of her face. So why she keeps displaying it prominently by wearing hot pants and revealing skirts is beyond me. I think she should display as much as she can, it brings great happiness to people. I think this world could do with more happiness, especially this sort of happiness.
Good old Prince Charles is under scrutiny as well. The issue is that he maybe “batting for the other team” sometimes. According to a former palace employee, he was a victim of a sexual assault by the prince. Of course the Palace spin doctors and in-house press boys are doing all they can to refute it. “Jughead” Charlie was even considering going on TV to state that he was definitely NOT Bisexual. Personally I think that he is Asexual. I don’t think that William and Harry are his kids either. William looks like the kid of the so called “first” lover Diana had (Lord Hewitt was it?) and Harry looks like Paul Burrell’s kid. The fact that Charlie can’t even have a decent affair confirms the asexual theory further. Seriously, look at what he passes off as his mistress. Camilla “sexy as a Mop with Wood rot AND Fungus” Parker Bowles. Admit it; you’d have to be a Necrophiliac, blind, incapable of smelling, and gay to do anything with her!
Wacko Jacko has finally reached the end of the road. Police raided his Neverland ranch on Tuesday and the man has been hiding out ever since. Yet another child molesting case. This time it’s a 12 year old boy and the DA is out for blood. Personally I fell sorry for the bloke. Don’t know why. Maybe because he was THE phenomenon throughout the 80’s and much of the 90’s. Was so into his songs when I was a kid. Come to think of I still am, a kid and a fan.

In case you’re wondering about the heading for this post……here’s the inspiration……….
What is a Zebra?....................................................... 26 sizes larger than an “A” bra!

Perspectives.................

It’s important that we all try to understand each others perspectives on any given subject. Actually it’s imperative we do that. Unfortunately it never happens. We believe what we believe, and thereby what we believe is ultimately right. Therefore everyone else is wrong, right? Wrong.
Viewpoints, paradigms, beliefs are all subject to change, or should be subject to change. That is the first step towards building better relationships with people. If we are willing to be subjected to a grilling on what we believe, then we either strengthen what we believe in by being proved right, or we find flaws in our beliefs and we can correct ourselves.
Religious overtones? Somewhat. But this argument is not limited to religion per se, but to everything in life. Why do I put my right shoe on first and then my left shoe? Why do I prefer to walk on this side of the road? Why don’t I walk under ladders? Why do I have a lucky coin?
Should we all be comfortable with our viewpoints just because at this very moment it works for us? Are we prepared to face the fact that we could be wrong? That our values in right and wrong could be completely flawed, because they are influenced by the society we were born into and the society we live in. In that case who is “right”? Who are we to go and tell someone that what they are doing is wrong? To THAT person, according to THEIR system of values, what they are doing IS correct. According to yours, it maybe utter bullshit. Do we, even for a moment, think of the consequences of what we are doing when we advise someone? Do we even understand the magnitude of the event that is happening there? Advising and changing the way a person does something, is taking a belief and throwing it out of the window and putting a completely different one in place. You have made a critical change in that person, and YOU are responsible for it. Therefore if the replacement belief is flawed YOU are responsible for the consequences. Have we ever thought of it that way? It’s scary. If really scares you, then doesn’t it seem like a good idea to verify all those things you believe in? To actually sit down and think about them, to think about them from a different point of view and decide if they are actually right or wrong. If we come around to this way of thinking then, we will understand everyone around us better than we used to. Having a viewpoint which is flexible and prepared to be modified is the key to living a better life.
However this is my viewpoint. Accept it at your own risk.

This whole post was just a muse brought on by last night’s events. Nothing kinky at all, so don’t get your imagination running wild.
It was a monumental theological and philosophical (of sorts) discussion between Katz, Khal and me. It lasted, well over 2 hours and if you know us well, then you can imagine what it was like. I liken it to the tectonic movements. Where great land masses collide and mountains form and oceans boil and etc, etc, etc. It was good thing to do, learnt lots of things about each other that we didn’t really know. Thought about some things, figured out some things, was lost on some. But it was all good. We rounded things of with a monumental set of scrabble games, in which Malfurion a.k.a The Biscuit (or Bakki) partook. All in all a good day or night, whatever.

Errr.....this is about.....errrrr.......zzzzzzzzzzzz

This is a post purely for the sake of posting.
Completely uninspired.

Haven’t been doing much. Changed phones; so I am happy about that. Changed my phone number as well, I think I’m happy about that. Machine is still busted, the PC that is, not the laptop I’m spewing this drivel from. Utterly bored at office and of office. Yes these are the rumblings of dissent. Prepare for an exit worthy of Dharma’s “Whoosh”.

My hairless head is drawing many comments. I have shaved it in case anybody is wondering what that means. For the record, it is the hair on the head which is situated above and attached to my shoulders. Nobody seems to be saying anything really positive about it, the hair that is and not the head, so I guess I will let it grow again.

I am so bored.

Found a nice Warez site with lotsa Apps AND quite a few old classic games. Like The Lost Vikings, Cannon Fodder and Dune. Remember those games? Amazing classics and quite funny too (especially the first 2). Ah the good old days of DOS when games were seen and not heard. Not like these young upstarts these days, with their 2GB disk space requirements, surround sound and movie sequences etc. Actually the DOS games did have sound, albeit very tinny and “Ross-like”, but they were so tiny and just awesome to play. Very enjoyable. Most fit on a 3.5” diskette or 2. Can’t remember the last time I used a floppy for anything other than as a start up disk. Anyways let me not get started on that.

I am bored and yawning my head off.

Since I was sick yesterday and ended up staying at home, I caught a bit of day time TV (cable of course). Of all the people in this world it had to be Oprah (as opposed to Carmen Electra or Alyssa Milano). Oprah. Yes good old Oprah “men are pigs” Winfrey. Good old “I am holier than thou”, Mz. Empowered Woman, Lady “Man basher” extraordinaire, Madam “I can be so bitchy, I make rabid female dogs look docile”. In short Big Mama Bitch. Wait, isn’t that a title shared by our dear wise benevolent President. Hmmm. Ok let me not start on that cos I told Loki I wouldn’t. Where was I now?......ah yes Opy. It was the Dynamic Duo of Opy and Dr. Phil Telling men, yet again, how to mend their ways and stop being pigs. I can’t believe that this woman has one of the most highly rated shows in America. But then you can’t blame her. The only men she sees are American, and considering everyone in America is more a pig than the pig that ends up on your plate, you have to admit she is right. Who else but a race of pigs would shove their snout up everybody else’s garbage, deal with issues with pig like deliberation where they charge in first and then oink later, and then wallow in shit and still find a way of enjoying it? Where is Obelix when you need him the most?

Anyways, I am still bored, yawning, etc. So I’m stopping this disjointed post.

It gets better

........parliament is being dissolved...........lovely........I wonder what else could go wrong........maybe the Black Hole of Sri Lanka will want me to wash her arse.....wouldn't put it past that she-cyclops...........

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse..........

Great news. Big Fat Bitch has sacked 3 key Ministers. Just when you thought the country might have chance of making it, the shit hits you right in the mouth. Doesn’t taste good at all. But seriously, The Wide Ass Bitch has fired the Defence, Interior and Information Ministers. While we can all have our own opinions on whether the LTTE is right or wrong, it helps to have one set of people negotiating with them. Not all of us. And especially not anyone appointed by the Wide Load Lady. To say that this is an unmitigated disaster is putting it mildly. The sooner we lose this Pumpkin Ass Bumpkin Bitch the better….

Start rationing your food and wear a kevlar suit, the shit is about to hit the ceiling………..