Te hehe The Alchemist has been sitting on my shelf for the last year waiting to be read, after someone, dad I think, said I should read it. I think I will now.

Nepal would be good. or Cambodia or Vietnam or somewhere. Where/what else is on your "list"?

I'm gonna live there:


or maybe here:


or at least have the view from my hammock like this:

you have to visit me someday........

oh...and visit this site too.....it's just amazing....

I'd like to go to Nepal as well as those.

I dont really know why i said Cuba there, I mean it would be cool to go and see communism in action....but it was a spur of the moment comment.......I hadn't even thought of going there till then. The other places I WILL go to though. The pic of the beach in Cuba were cool (last pic)

[ BBC : The Age of Empire]

Some pictures from cuba.
[ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/in_pictures/3513139.stm ]

Your TV has already been hijacked by the right wing capitalists who own the tv stations. Well except maybe SBS and ABC. When we get an aerial Im not programming in anything but ABC and SBS (noone else can work out how to do it *rolls eyes*) I'm making my society and culture teacher get me 4 corners from monday night.

I need a holiday to think.

God* Mungo was funny this week. hehe

I watched a movie this arvo, called Frida, it was okay its won heaps of awards (not the tacky kind) except I was in the mood for some shoot-em-up hollywood crap. It's the first movie I have watched in like ages (have to sacrifice movies for internet and work how sad is that) it was set in Mexico...I so wanna live there for a while, there and Turkey and Ireland and Cuba and India.

Argh, My TV has been Hi-Jacked. THEY ARE WATCHING POPSTARS.

Lol, you should of just seen the reopening of Luna Park (some presentation thingy and only one ride (some big metallic slide (the ones they used potato sacks with)). Anyway they had all these 60 year olds who used to go there and they were going down the slides, pretty funny.

I'm not attacking you, and the question answer structure was just mentally easier for me to write with. I do agree with you that the rich private schools don't deserve extra funding, I just get really pissed off when I walk into a newsagency which has a newspaper out the front completely writing off all schools that are not public.

"PM gives money to Catholics : Catholics give money to your newsagency"

I have to go to work so no more arguing discussion for the moment.

Cleaning up chicken poop in Japan

Cleaning up the Locusts plague in Australia

I don't know why that pissed me off, but it did. Go on ...be a typical guy and blame it on PMT or something.

oh, and you wonder why we always end up in arguments? well maybe if you didn't refute everything i said and pick it to bits.....
By the way I don't think Latham is god, you really think im THAT shallow? Better than Howard though, at least your improving things slightly rather than taking an apathetic attitude and going "I don't care, they're all the same, dont vote.....". Working with something rather than against it. Pfttt I keep telling you it's my superficial blog, so I will stop posting on it if you are going to use it against me to imply me being shallow again.

Oh and of course all schools deserve funding/resources DO YOU EVER THINK I WOULD SAY THEY DIDN'T? But Howard is just taking all the PUBLIC resources away etc etc etc and yes I am making a generalisation based on the fact I believe public infrastructure should be upheld at the core of any government.

No i did not watch 4 corners, i don't have a TV (thanks Ihath, you make me feel so much better about it) but I'm going to borrow it off my society and culture teacher.

Yes, just imagine living under oppression caused by Western Capatalism.............

Benita: What kind of world are we living in people?
James: One which would rather attack than help each other.

Benita: Thanks Howard, next time I'm in Sydney I might get blown up from catching a bus etc.
James: Don't worry next time you're traveling on public transport or sipping on your lattè in an Australian city you need not worry. The police chiefs from around the nation have committed to protecting our way of life, no starving, oppressed, terrorised (terror in its "acceptable" form that is (wars with "smart" bombs, collateral beings and "friendly" fire) ) need enter your thoughts, leaving room for more important things like your cousins exchange "pet" (student*), or those hot *German* guys from MUNA.

Benita: That's what you get for living in a country who allied itself with the bigger "axis of evil".
James: Biggest* axis of evil? I think most of us of the "First" world fit that description, at the moment anyway, and even if only by association.

Benita: Once you would have been proud to say "I'm Australian" now its shameful.
James: I am still proud to say that I am Australian (or "私はオストラーリア人です。"), I'm saddened at the willingness of many to denounce our country, sure there are some things we have collectively done that are shameful, but we can not just give up and walk away.

Why not be more like New Zealand? Well the accent is way to hard to learn, and besides all our sheep have died of in the drought, and you couldn't be a New Zealander without sheep (harmless joking, sorry if any offence taken guys).

It's probably blocked because it says both "cr*p and sh*t". I'll try censoring out bits, see what that does. If it doesn't work you may have to write a letter to your principal, local members of Parliament, and the education office, outlining the ineffectiveness of their censorship, and that little thing they call the concept of free speach.

Ok, Ok, Ok. You've got to stop posting multiple copies of entries ... we get the point.
Going to a school which is often branded as being one of "them bloody private skools" I have a bit of a different perspective on it. You've been there yourself Benita, have you really been sucked into the political propaganda whirlpool?,

(Read: Latham IS NOT a deity. )

do we not deserve funding because we've gone with a different schooling system? We do pay the same taxes as the rest of you, on top of these things called school fees (Skool* Fees sorry).
Sure the government shouldn't be funding the elite private schools (Kings, etc (anyone with enough money for Tennis Courts / Swimming Pools / Super Computers ) but branding anyone who's not with public schooling as undeserving of funding is wrong.

You're afraid / sick / distraught from reading a paper, imaging living under oppression caused by thoughtless western capitalism.

Did you watch Four Corners last night? I was in tears.

Hmm have you been following Howard's latest poor attempt to fix the state of schools? Now Catholic funding is like too high and everyone WILL be going to private schools because of the lack of public school funding. And schools have to reach certain literacy marks to get funding and jump through numerous other hoops. Gee where is the priority? I think thats been made fairly clear. The ongoing Private sector vs. Public debate. Cutting down on public resources again I might add *cough* medicare *cough*........ I am sooooo sick of Howard. Hurry up and call the election and let Latham kick your miserable ass before I give up on humanity all together.

Something weird happened to me today, completely unconscious, I was reading the paper in my frees in the library when I read about Australia being so prone to terrorist attacks and I started thinking about the whole terrorism thing, not very in depth, but then I walked to my locker and had this really weird feeling in my stomach, like I'd had the "wind" knocked out of me (but not like winded, just all light and stuff) and I realised it must have been a feeling of fear/sickness/spite and stuff about the current state of Australia. Interesting.........

James, our blog is blocked by my school server. My blog isn't though, but blogspot.com is......... how annoying...I need some tricks...

Great, so now they say terrorist attacks in Australia are inevitable. What kind of world are we living in people? Thanks Howard, next time I'm in Sydney I might get blown up from catching a bus etc. That's what you get for living in a country who allied itself with the bigger "axis of evil". Once you would have been proud to say "Im Australian" now its shameful....... better get that New Zealand passport everyone.
God why couldn't we be more like New Zealand?

The biggest insult came when the ubiquitous unsolicated e-mail advertisements that clog the Internet were labelled "spam" -- without the consent of Hormel.

Yet Spam is highly valued in some countries. The Philippines is one of three nations outside the United States that produce Spam, and cans of the product are a staple in any Filipino cupboard.

Ernie Tan, a Filipino migrant to Canada, says that even there, the ethnic Filipino community keeps itself well stocked with Spam.

"Most Filipinos love Spam. It tastes good, even when cold," he says, giving Spamjam high marks for its imaginative use of the product.

A life-long Spam eater, manager Abadilla says he came up with the idea of a Spam restaurant on his own, only to find that Hormel had been considering the same project.

I can't believe how HILARIOUSLY good these things are, James you have to read the maccas one.

Oh this is good......in a kind of "what in the hell has this world come to?" way. http://www.smh.com.au/specials/strange/index.html

I especially like the one about the poisoner lecturing in ethics.......oh they're all so good....lol

"I can’t understand why a religion would choose a torture and execution device as its universal symbol. (jesus on cross)

Despite my childhood crucifixion trauma, I enjoy watching movies made about the life of Jesus. I find it fascinating how the same story can be told and retold in a bazillion of different ways by different people". -Ihath

My fave Jesus movie would have to be the Life of Brian. Have you seen that James?

Looks like you have a big week-good luck!! I have heaps of work to catch up on from stuff i've neglected to do in prioritising the UN MUNA thing (i wrote a huge post on my other blog about it).
I'm reading Ihath. It's like one of my favourite blogs to read, along with Salam Pax of course (when he decides to post). Damn I have to stop relaxing and start doing work *sighs*.

By the way, I've got an interview for the Year 11 Student Rep. positiion on Tuesday, after a Caritas Australia Just Leadership day in North Sydney on Monday. I have to reply to an invitation to the Japanese embassy by Tuesday as well. Basically I've got a very busy start to the week.

Just saw a World Vision sponsorship advertisement on TV, it's sad that they have to put suffering children up for display like puppies in a pet store window. Not their fault it's the only way they can get funding though I suppose.

You can't lead the free world. :p

I was gonna publish that one.
Kofi for Prez. The UN thing was cool and now I am even more interested in the UN. Uni's came to our school yesterday and i got some info on courses. I want to do like International studies or international human rights law or political science or sociology or something. Working for Human Rights Watch or a UN division.

p.s that vatican thing wasn't to be taken literally (obviously). Like u would give a s*** about offending god when human lives have been lost.