The magic of 13

Is the combination of Friday and 13 aka 13th of friday really a dreadful day.
For me it was a bliss, but some of colleagues didn't think so and i think they are rite .

Let's look at the logic behind their reasoning .

• A colleague who was suppose to pick me up never turned up and when i called him up he was already at the site !!!!!!!!!! he taught someone else was picking me up.
• Came to my company where strangely all majority of the phone lines where down and i missed my meeting the so called non important mgmt meeting.
• Emails where bouncing couldn't call some of my clients.

All these made my day but for some sorry old sods it was not interesting.But hey its a friday ,u don't need to work and u get paid for it what more can u ask for

Go on get a life

A new city a new life

All rite let me continue my story . Started working at this point of time i didnt have a place to stay,(some of the joys of moving and being single) so my kind friend let me stay in his which was nice because now i had time to do some house hunting.

Finding a house is not so easy as it seems actually .I posted that i needed a house in XXXXXXXXXXXXX in several sites.The replies that i got where amazing but in most houses that i visited.I noticed how different it looked from the original pics posted in the internet, Infact some where not even the same place.

Well finally after 10days i looked at this house with a nice but a talktive land lady which was really pretty and affordable.Yeh took it but i should have know,This lady was fussy clean to the core but stingy .Ok now lets not go into details but just to give u an idea these were the rules

I cant switch on the heating even when its cold at night becs she cant sleep with the heating on(yeh u get it its to reduce the bills).I was paying an all inclusive bill so all this was done to maxmise profits

Next i cant use the microwave for cooking !!!!!!!! yeh thats , but its supposed to be used to only to reheat stuff

She used to always inspect the kitchen after i cook so that it stay clean
Needless to say i left this place after a couple of months
So next blog about my new house

A Strange incident

This weekend i went down south . Down South here in Europe generally means just about a 2 hour train ride:).Strange ehh but what to do the whole of western Europe is not even the size of US

Well i had to scan my ticket in the barrier and I got to the platform just in time .Yes, i follow JIT(just in time production policy).When i was in the train it said this is the direct service to XXXXXXXX so some rail cards may not be valid blah blah ...... So i got out of the train to confirm if my card was valid and got back in .This time just as i was boarding my carriage my ticket dropped and fell down the track ,I realised the ticket had slipped out and turned back just then the doors slammed shut.I desperately try to open the door but no vain the door was shut and the train started to move .TO the people looking at me at the platform i must have looked like me guy struggling and dying in a Gas chamber unable to open the glass doors hehehehehe.



Came back to my seat dejected and depressed thinking about the cost of an open ticket it is damn expensive and my discounted railway card had dropped off tooo !!!

It was not looking good, a girl seeing me struggling suggested that i go speak to the train manager which i did.Voila, she said that she did hear about it over the wireless but was unable to open the door as it was already time .But said that if my tickets were to be found in the platform i wouldn't be charged and Bonus my tickets would arrive to my station in the next train,Within an hour they confirmed that my tickets were found can be collected if i wait at my destination station for 45 Min's ahhhhhhh
What a relief .

Strange what a simple piece of news can make a big difference to ur mood . Until they found my tickets i was sad and cursing myself as to how foolish i was but after that i was happy to spend my money on drinks , food what ever and had a rocking weekend!!

Random toughts

Just saw this as an advert in the notice circulated


NEW***Tomato Plants
Large number of Sun Gold plants, lovely golden tomatoes, somewhere between a cherry and a normal sized fruit
Small number of Banana Cream, presumably yellow haven not grown them before
said it was a heritage variety on the packet
Small number of Vintage Wine, presumably red - have not grown them before said it was a heritage variety on the packet
Small number of Beef Tomatoes

50p per plant (planting pot not included) For further details contact xxxxxxxxxxon xxxx
I am selling my surplus plants because there are so many of them this year
The money raised will go to a World Vision project in Uganda


NEW***Jalapeno Pepper plants
All should be OK for the end of May, if this weather keeps up then earlier
All have been grown in an unheated greenhouse, but can be grown outdoors if hardened off


50p per plant (planting pot not included) For further details contact xxxxxxxxx on xxxx
I am selling my surplus plants because there are so many of them this year
The money raised will go to a World Vision project in Uganda



Nice to know that people concerned about Uganda .But i look at it as a way of marketing , People in devloped countries are too gulity concious these days . They would buy these just to make themselves happy and tell the world they did their bit.when only about 10% of this money would actually go in devlopment.

But i tend to think that not purchasing Blood Diamond for example ,Thus stopping the child labour is more important or starting a School , Education is more of a direct line of action

The sweet goodbyesss and back to work

Ok now a lot of things happened between now and the time I left my home country.It been more than a year I have just realised.

Time flies!!!!!!!!!


During this time I did a lot of exciting things and yes that included going to far off places.

First trip was in dec 2006 to Egypt with a friend of mine .We spent about a fortnight in this wonderful country seeing and the magnificent things from the pyramids to Luxor temple.We went from north of Egypt right down to the south.

All this time I was just taking in the rich cultural experience of this country and its wonderful people but my friend was a guide book kinda guy where as I preferred to go with the flow .This sure did cause some problem (I should have known) but any way I did get to see some sides of him which even his close friends didn’t know about

For example he would just stop talking or being funny once he is hungry J.I don’t know if this was taught to him as a law of conversation of energy or may be it just had to do with him being a geek.

Some things that I was proud of doing in this trip was to successfully haggle for a taxi right in the middle of a busy street when everybody was honking at us,This was an experience as there were vehicles zooming past us and I didn’t care about it.My friend was virtually pissing in his pants watching me from the sidewalk !!!!!!! and no he would not haggle and was more than happy to pay the price the driver would specify .But me never If there are a few good things that I have learned from my middle class upbringing is spend your money where its worth .

A good trip overall and but I think it was just the beginning.

May 2007

A Start of my new job and what a day I chose to start, Half of the office floor was empty so not such a good start .But on the second day I did meet one of my collegues. Finally after about 3 days of being the only ghost seeing just checking hotmail and the latest news on bbc(my PC was not sorted out yet so 2 days of bliss)
I met most of my collegues who where and still are good people to work with.Apparently they were all out to attend some important fair far away for 2