Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Edge of Madness

A sober reminder to those of us in the comfort zone, what life is like for others.

"Only a handful of men - no more than 15 - survived ... one of them was Mevludin Oric, wan and thin, whom I met in a scrappy flat in Sarajevo. First, his truckload was taken to a gym, where "it was so hot, people were fainting. They gave us water, but we fought over it so that it spilled, and men were licking it off the floor". Then, "they took us to a field", he recalls, "and when they stopped the trucks and said 'Line up!' I knew what was coming. I could see bodies in the field. They were cocking their guns. I took my nephew Haris by the hand. He asked, 'Are they going to kill us?' I said no, then they started shooting. Haris took the bullet and we both fell. Nothing hit me. I just threw myself on the ground. My nephew shook, and died on top of me."

Mevludin remained lying, face-down. "I could hear crying and pleading, but they kept on shooting. It went on all day, until the killers became tired and drunk, still shooting by the light of the bulldozers. Finally, they turned off the lights. I started to move a little. I got my nephew off me. I arose and saw a field full of bodies, everywhere, as far as I could see. And I cried, I could not stop myself."

Sounds like holocaust accounts I've read of WWII. Unfortunately, 1995. A harrowing final paragraph.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Quote of the day

"Dr Tom is soooo cool, man - he can, like, jump over a fence and everything. I'm serious. He ran up to the fence, right, and he ran up to it ... and he flew over it like a parrot"

Nice one, F.

: - )

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Fat Chance

"Whether it applies to a man or a woman, if someone doesn't want to be a bloody hedge fund manager they should be allowed to do that and be honoured within our society."

As an NHS slave, it's hard not to empathise with Rosie Boycott's misgivings about the modern imperative of making money above any other social/ human virtue. I must be worked three times harder than I was 6 years ago, when I used to earn more than double what I earn now.

Writing this post at work, halfway through my latest working weekend and not feeling particulary honoured to have the opportunity to work another 12 days straight. OK, I get paid time and a half and double time for these two days, but when you're only paid £10/ hr for your professional input (some receptionists get paid more in London) it's hard to even pretend that you believe you're skills are valued. Nay Matter. As long as I don't have another 6hr on-call call out tonight, like last Thursday; that's all I can ask for.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Apologies ..

If you've checked this site and been met by music blaring out from some undetermined source. Am experimenting with a service called Playlist.com which allows you to find, list and play songs you really like, directly from a website. It also allows you to embed the play list within a site of your choice - hence it appearing on the blog. How much of the song is played is I think dependent on the copyright holder. However, I would never have been intentionally so intrusive .. I thought it would allow you to choose whether or not you wanted to listen rather than just turn itself on automatically when the relevant page loaded. Annoying +++.

So anyway, I've pulled it off b[l]og off and put it here instead (under 'music'); which is an embryonic collection of web pages from which to start my empire! Enjoy the tool, enjoy the muzak! x

Friday, July 11, 2008

Stop the clock

"Norwich City have revealed that takeover talks with billionaire fan Peter Cullum have ended."

That was less than 48hrs of optimism, by my count! not bad for a norwich fan ... although, could it be a Huckerby-signing-esque smoke screen to be revealed once the season starts to deter The Yellas attracting inflated bids in their summer dealings. Now that IS optimism. That there will even be any dealings at all that is ...

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

'Deliayeva'

Billionaire Norwich fan Peter Cullum has revealed the club have agreed to talks about his takeover plan.

This is one headline I felt compelled to copy and preserve for posterity.

'Fat' and 'Chance' spring to mind at the prospect of any sweeping Chelski like ringing changes at 'the rud', but a mouthwatering feeling comes with the sound bite anyway.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

The clock is ticking ..

It's 0740 and two of my colleagues have just walked into an office which is completely empty other than me; walked straight past me without so much as a good morning. Is it too much to ask to work in a place with civility at the least, but ideally a little friendliness? Time to move on ...

Friday, July 04, 2008

20 ...


... past midnight .. what have i done ...

that's what working 4 weekends in 9 does to a person. doesn't sound like much does it? try it. not being able to get away from the workplace. 12 days in a row. 6 days in a row. God bless Bevan. God bless his NHS. Some people are making hay out of the whole scam. I am not one of them. So, back to 'that' view. Just paid thru 't snout for it. Got no hair but fuck L'oreal .. figured I'm worth it! Doubtless piccies forthcoming ... watch this space x