Just when I thought I had conquered the trials and tribulations of summer, I get the bloody flu. Sniffing, leaking, coughing, sneezing and incredibly miserable. That folks makes me a bona-fide male.
The world is coming to an end. I am already planning my funeral and how to ensure that all the people who screwed me in life will feel really, really shitty as my coffin slowly descends into the earth. I really hope that they feel remorse of immense proportions.
That is, of course, until tomorrow when I will most likely feel a little better (high on Vitamin C), and tone down my impending death to a DEFCON 4 status. Regardless though, I still want all those who screwed me to feel that pang of guilt and perhaps feel enough remorse to think about righting their wrongs in my life, and others while they are at it. It would be nice for them to think "Bloody hell, that was close, Markus nearly died from the common cold. Whew, perhaps we should do something to alleviate this guilt."
Then something comes on the TV and they forget it until the next time I feel like death warmed up.
Come to think of this I already feel better. Perhaps the survival instinct to stay alive to remind all those out there who really don't give a shit to perhaps start. And if you forget I will be there to remind you, possibly the next time I get sick and think about my immortality.
Monday, 25 February 2013
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Happy Valentine's Day
Don't be put off by the hype of Valentine's Day. Although it shoves the idea of love down your throat, it's all about the commercial value. Buy our cards, buy a bunch of red roses for the extra special price of 25% more! Buy these chocolates, etc, etc, ad infinitum.
Ignore the barrage of messages telling you that you either don't have anyone to love or that you don't love anyone enough during the rest of the year, so now's your chance to catch up and be schmaltzy for a while.
Know this!
You are loved!
There is someone in this world that loves you, and not in the Valentine's sense. In the real sense.
Ignore the barrage of messages telling you that you either don't have anyone to love or that you don't love anyone enough during the rest of the year, so now's your chance to catch up and be schmaltzy for a while.
Know this!
You are loved!
There is someone in this world that loves you, and not in the Valentine's sense. In the real sense.
Monday, 11 February 2013
There goes the Pope
I happened to turn on the TV just in time to see the news splashed with the Pope's resignation. At first I thought that a pope had to die in office (a lot like what all the world's dictators believe in.). But apparently this is about the 5th time in history this has happened and the last time was around 600 years ago.
I did not know what to feel when I first saw the news, but then I got a thinking.
Good for him. He feels old and weak and I guess he just wants to settle down somewhere and live out the rest of his life in peace, out of the reach of the world's media etc.
I am no Catholic and cannot fathom what the community is feeling like, but if it is anything like feeling like you have all been let down, I would say don't. There are plenty of other worthy people waiting in the wings. Give old Benedict his peace. Perhaps he will start a trend among other leaders of large corporations and countries.
As I mentioned before, perhaps some, or even all, the world's dictators take a time to reflect this move and consider their own futures. How about taking time off to go fishing? Leave all the money grabbing, torture, human rights violations, natural mineral wealth decimation etc, to all your fat cats and henchmen. Or... even better, take them with you and all go retire to some island in the middle of the ocean, where you can be as despotic as you like. Just think, you will have the adoration of all those around you, and this time it will be real adoration and not made up figures that your spin doctors manage to bullshit you with.
Now back to the pope.
Well done. Go in peace, enjoy your remaining years on this world.
Auf Wiedersehen Herr Ratzinger.
Addio il Papa
I did not know what to feel when I first saw the news, but then I got a thinking.
Good for him. He feels old and weak and I guess he just wants to settle down somewhere and live out the rest of his life in peace, out of the reach of the world's media etc.
I am no Catholic and cannot fathom what the community is feeling like, but if it is anything like feeling like you have all been let down, I would say don't. There are plenty of other worthy people waiting in the wings. Give old Benedict his peace. Perhaps he will start a trend among other leaders of large corporations and countries.
As I mentioned before, perhaps some, or even all, the world's dictators take a time to reflect this move and consider their own futures. How about taking time off to go fishing? Leave all the money grabbing, torture, human rights violations, natural mineral wealth decimation etc, to all your fat cats and henchmen. Or... even better, take them with you and all go retire to some island in the middle of the ocean, where you can be as despotic as you like. Just think, you will have the adoration of all those around you, and this time it will be real adoration and not made up figures that your spin doctors manage to bullshit you with.
Now back to the pope.
Well done. Go in peace, enjoy your remaining years on this world.
Auf Wiedersehen Herr Ratzinger.
Addio il Papa
Friday, 8 February 2013
Where's the money?
How far can you believe the media, or even worse the government, the Zimbabwe government to be more precise? Just last week they claimed to only have $217 left in their bank account, after paying salaries and all.
Personally I find this very difficult to believe, since they are probably just waving the begging stick again hoping for some rich nation to feel sorry for them and throw them a couple of bucks their way, so they can still pay for groceries or spend it getting pissed in their local pub.
If anyone is that bad at managing their finances, then they are certainly in no state to run a company, let alone a country. (Well it goes a long way to understand why this country, as much as I love it, is in such a messy state.)
But I still digress. I think that they do have the money and if not try looking in the secret (and not so secret) bank accounts of all the ministers and fat cat leeches that parade themselves around town in fancy, overpriced vehicles. They are draped in bling and carry such a massive amount of arrogance, it makes prima-donnas seem comparatively Mother Thersaesque.
Get the money from them! They earn (steal) millions of dollars a month that feed their insatiable greed. Let them pay their electricity bills, rates and taxes and water bills.
There are millions being earned from the large diamond and mineral deposits around the country. If that money could only bypass their back pockets and actually reach the intended destination, perhaps there might be money to... say.. fix the roads, maintain power plants, etc, etc. You know, all the stuff other governments do with the money they get.
I am not saying that they are all corrupt... oh wait, sorry, I am!
For too long they have been able to run this country like it was their own personal ATM. But that time is coming to an end and the future looks very rosy this side. They will most likely squirrel their money away and run at the first sign of collapse. I just hope that they all manage to get caught and their money taken away from them. Then they will have to live their lives like ordinary citizens. Methinks that would be a fate worse than Hell.
Personally I find this very difficult to believe, since they are probably just waving the begging stick again hoping for some rich nation to feel sorry for them and throw them a couple of bucks their way, so they can still pay for groceries or spend it getting pissed in their local pub.
If anyone is that bad at managing their finances, then they are certainly in no state to run a company, let alone a country. (Well it goes a long way to understand why this country, as much as I love it, is in such a messy state.)
But I still digress. I think that they do have the money and if not try looking in the secret (and not so secret) bank accounts of all the ministers and fat cat leeches that parade themselves around town in fancy, overpriced vehicles. They are draped in bling and carry such a massive amount of arrogance, it makes prima-donnas seem comparatively Mother Thersaesque.
Get the money from them! They earn (steal) millions of dollars a month that feed their insatiable greed. Let them pay their electricity bills, rates and taxes and water bills.
There are millions being earned from the large diamond and mineral deposits around the country. If that money could only bypass their back pockets and actually reach the intended destination, perhaps there might be money to... say.. fix the roads, maintain power plants, etc, etc. You know, all the stuff other governments do with the money they get.
I am not saying that they are all corrupt... oh wait, sorry, I am!
For too long they have been able to run this country like it was their own personal ATM. But that time is coming to an end and the future looks very rosy this side. They will most likely squirrel their money away and run at the first sign of collapse. I just hope that they all manage to get caught and their money taken away from them. Then they will have to live their lives like ordinary citizens. Methinks that would be a fate worse than Hell.
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Technology... pffft!
I like to think of myself as a progressive, open minded individual, able to leap over a PC tower in a single leap, whiz over a keyboard with consummate ease and navigate my way through enchanted bits and bytes of the technology jungle. Sadly, this is by no means true.
Take this blog for instance. I set it up with the idea of writing down my most inner thoughts, well inner enough to share with the world, not all should be shared. The idea was simple, visit the site as often as possible and share.
That is until I completely forgot how the hell I got here in the first place and then forgot about this place altogether. It is only now, after some playing around because I am bored and there is utter rubbish on the TV, that I managed to find my blog again.
I am extremely happy mind you. I like the fact that I can write down things that may be read by people other than myself (and my alter-ego - Misguided Technology Man).
So let's see if my brain has absorbed enough memory cells on how to navigate my way back here. If not... look out for the misguided idiot pecking away at a keyboard, talking to a computer screen and huffing and puffing uncontrollably. That could well be me... or about 86% of the world computer using population.
Later.
Take this blog for instance. I set it up with the idea of writing down my most inner thoughts, well inner enough to share with the world, not all should be shared. The idea was simple, visit the site as often as possible and share.
That is until I completely forgot how the hell I got here in the first place and then forgot about this place altogether. It is only now, after some playing around because I am bored and there is utter rubbish on the TV, that I managed to find my blog again.
I am extremely happy mind you. I like the fact that I can write down things that may be read by people other than myself (and my alter-ego - Misguided Technology Man).
So let's see if my brain has absorbed enough memory cells on how to navigate my way back here. If not... look out for the misguided idiot pecking away at a keyboard, talking to a computer screen and huffing and puffing uncontrollably. That could well be me... or about 86% of the world computer using population.
Later.
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