Results of the vote

I am currently maintaining two blogs - one that I started first (www.bravefish.spaces.live.com) and this one. I had started that one first and then this one on msn spaces. In my opinion the blogspot one can be more flexible - but this one is much easier to use (especially as I don't have much time - as can be seen from my posting history of 1 blog per decade!!!!)

A while back I e-mailed everyone in my address book and asked them to let me know which one they preferred - the intention being that I would continue with the victor and abandon the other like a old flame - never to revisit again.

And now its time for the results......................

Which were pretty damned inconclusive - the indecisive collective that I call friends have proved absolutely useless as always. The vote was split pretty much down the middle with no clear winner.

So I have decide to keep both blogs - after all its just a case of cutting and pasting from one to the other (or in the event that I rip of some other poor souls blog - cutting and pasting twice :)

ps for all of those who were offended that their personal opinion didn't sway me - tough, deal with it - this is my blog, this is a dictatorship and not a democracy!

pps don't be lazy and leave a comment - unless no one is actually reading this thing!

The great tomb robbery

A while back I went to go see the i Tutankhamun exhibition at the O2 arena in London with a friend. This is my view on it.

The show was quite impressive but by the time it had finished I was greatly dissappointed!!!!!!!!!!! While the exhibition itself was impressive - there was one major flaw in the exhibition of "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" was the fact that.................................

The main man, the dude, the Pharoah, King Tut wasn't there himself, in person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now it may have been my fault for not reading up on it before I went... but for a show titled "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" I was expecting him to be there in person! Not even the casing for him was present. The nearest we came to the was a couple of inches tall statue that may have held some of his vital organs and drawing on he floor representing the size of the sarcophagus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To add insult to injury - the some of the treasures mentioned were from other pharoahs tombs WHO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN RELATED TO HIM.

So in summary the main man wasn't there and a lot of the stuff that was there may have nothing to do with him at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apart from these glaringly obvious issues the show was okay - there were some decent artefacts on display, with an interesting history element and the audio tour was well done (oh yeah - from the pics and that staues Queen Nefertiti looked like quite a hottie).

Generally, I would recommend it IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, but be aware the dude is not in the building (or even the country).

Here is a link to the show:

http://www.kingtut.org/home

and one to the O2 arena

http://www.theo2.co.uk/

(on a side note I must admit that the O2 arena is quite an impressive venue).

Sinbad

I've added pics of the newest addition to the Suleman clan - Zhainab (or as she says it Sinbad).

Return of a classic

This is a classic that I've posted on my other blog but had to repost just cos Mr Nurul Islam complained of the lack of pics!!!!!!!!!!!

Facebook etc etc

First it was Hi5, then Myspace....and now it's Facebook............




(and in the middle their were things like Bebo, Birthday Calendar and a few others..............)




In general I would join then lose interest in a few days.... not all your current friends would be in there - so its not like you could truly use it as a tool to manage your social life, and anything you add (e.g. photo's) can only be seen by those who have joined - creating two different classes of friends.




In reality, if I wanted to stay in touch with people I'd be calling, texting or e-mailing (and if I don't well get the hint dudes...............).




Actually that's not fair I have got in touch with some friends who I haven't spoken to since school (e.g. Scouser). The only thing that kept me hooked with facebook was the games like Scrabulous and Vampires - they're quite cool. It's also quite nice to look at other people's pics n stuff. But generally I wouldn't use these sites to "manage my social life".




But this is my opinion for me, it might be better for other people - if every single person you know is on there?




I'm having fun on Facebook, haven't used Hi5 in ages and only used MySpace once.




On the blog I can be more personal, but the problem here is that I rarely update it and their is much less functionality here.




But lets see which one pulls me into the abyss - but all those who know me will probably know that laziness will win through and I'll leave all of them alone.




(actually friends - just cos I haven't spoken to you in ages doesn't mean I'm not thinking about you - its just that I'm too busy/lazy/tight).




Anyway, that's all for now folks.

Hhhhhhhheeeeelllllppppppp

Come on guys and girls...

I'm bored.... I need some of you, happy, shiny people to entertain me...

If can't be that hard, there are about 6 billion people out there, so someone must be able to think of something!!!!

(and oh yeah I have rediscovered the art of laziness by using my mobile to blog from my bed!!!

My flat

I haven't blogged in a while... as usual..............

But I thought I'd give a quick update of what's happening to lil' ol' me...

I've bought a flat. Actually to be accurate I've bought half a flat under shared ownership scheme (where I buy a portion and pay rent on the portion I do not own)

Of the half I do own, 90% of that is mortgaged with the bank....... So in reality I actually own only 10% of the flat (and if include the money I've borrowed of my mum and sis.... well I own about -10% of my flat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Oh well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I moved in on the 22 June and so far I have bought no furniture - and the furniture I have I have scrounged of friends - hey I own less than 0% of a flat... I can't go out and splash money on luxuries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(This was meant to be a positive update but in reflection............. ah well... c'est la vie)

I've been a little busy!!!!!!!!!!!

Hiya fan club.......

I haven't blogged for a while (I won't apologise as clearly I was doing important stuff).........in summary



I've bought (and moved into) a flat under a shared ownership/equity scheme.......


I've been to Bratislava and Dusseldorf.........


I've read three books (Freakonomics, As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela and Tescopoly) which I want to write about


I've bought a new phone....


I've worked my butt off at work...





It probably doesn't sound like much... but believe me its been enough...........

The invisible blogger

God, I haven't blogged in ages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've just been too lazy/busy, recently and its been toooooooooo much of an effort to turn on my pc!

That coupled with the fact that there isn't anything exciting to report in my life and the fact that I'm toooooo slow to write about current affairs makes this kinda boooorrrriiingggg!!!!!!!!!!!

I won't bore you with what's been happening since the last time I blogged (mainly cos my brain is toooo mushy to remember what's been going on).

However, the latest in my life is that I'm going to Germany on Sunday for work jolly (officially called teambuilding - but we know very little work will get done!).

I'm going to Bratislava next weekend!

I'm in the middle of buying a flat (nor about this in a later post).

Well I hope you have been suitably bored! More next time!

Mothers day....

Its mothers day today, and I'm ashamed to say that I feel like I've been a bad son!!!



This is not a post about me forgetting its mothers day and not getting my mum a gift.



Its more about me taking my mum for granted and not paying her any attention. I do constantlt tell me mum I love her, but I don't feel like I follow this up in actions. I don't keep her company when she's alone. I'm always late when I know she's relying on me.... and worst of all I think I put others before her.



I always say to myself I'm going to be better... let see if I change...



I LOVE MY MUM!!!