My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

Today my holidays start.

They could not have come at a sooner time.

I sit here exhausted.

It has been a long week - they all have - and yet at the same time this year has gone by in a flash.

At work I am having to deal with Carlo - a person who we have a set agreement with but I have never been able to actually contact in person more than the two initial meetings. He rings constantly and leaves a message to tell me that he is "concerned" that I am not working on his "project". I am "concerned" that he is meant to be doing half the work for me, but refuses to tell me who he has spoken to, what they have told him, and what he is doing. I am like a chicken running around with it's head off not knowing what direction I am going in because he refuses to tell me what he has/hasn't done and what I am meant to be doing for him!

The quality assurance stuff is getting worse and worse, however, the Bourke bridge repainting contract is looking up and up. Sure I'll still get posted in Bourke for 6 months on and off - but it looks like it's going to turn out Ok in the end.

Today is the day they have captured Sadaam Hussein. call me crazy - but this is a man they have already killed 4 times (last time I cared to listen) - so I am doubtful. Even if they have captured him, I don't really see what they can do with him. Milosovich (excuse the spelling), Hitler, Bush; to name but a few are all ruthless war mongering leaders - but none of them have ever been made accountable for their actions.

My new mobile phone is going to send me into bankruptcy if I continue to use it at the current rate. Everyone seems to message me and use it like icq/msn/y!/aol messenger - the only difference is the abovementioned programs are all free to message people (at this stage at least), but sms'ing isn't.

Ah well - I guess I knew this would happen.

Bed time for me - I swear I have aged a million years this week.

As I walked out the store their parting words were: "get a mobile phone cover ASAP. Do not think you will not get your phone wet: rain, sweat, condensation when going from hot-cold will all affect it."

Silly me was thinking that a $180 phone might have at least some kind of water resistance. My $10 watch is water resistant to 200 metres of depth in the ocean. But my $180 phone will get wet if I have it in my pocket on a hot day?

You stupid consumers. I blame you for this. If you refuse to pay for shit. They don't make shit. When will you learn?

Three midnight working days, two 2 am phone calls since I got my new mobile phone (0401364395) - it took me 5 mins of singing along to "Stairway to Heaven" to realise that it was actually my phone...and the conversations I had while a sleep...I am buggered if I remember them.

R.I.P my independence. R.I.P my sleep.

What shits me off with the phone is they assured me it came as navy blue as standard like the sample in the shop. Every other store had it as queer eye pastell blue and said that was the only colour it came in. So it was no surprise when it came as queer eye pastell blue. However, I don't understand why the shop had to lie to me - had they not lied to me about the colour I'd have probably spent another $20 trying t oget a decent cover for the damn $180 costing $2 worth piece of queer eye blue pastell crap!

We Want Your Soul

Your cell phone, your wallet, your time, your ideas
No barcode, no party, no iodine, no beers
Your bankcard, your license, your thoughts, your fears
No simcard, no disco, no photo, not here
Your blood, your sweat, your passions, your regrets
Your office, your time off, your fashions, your sex
Your pills, your pass, your tits, your ass.
Your ass, your bones.

We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life

Show us your habits, your facts, our fears
Give us your address, your shoe size, your years
Your digits, your plans, your number, your eyes
Your schedule, your desktop, your details, your life.
Show us your children, your photos, your home.
Here, take credit, take insurance, take a loan.
Get a job, get a pension, get a haircut, get a suit.
Play the lottery, play football, play the field, sports on toot

We’ll show you females, show you sex.
We’ll sell you crap, charge you max.

We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life

Your feelings, your emotions, your love, your dreams
Your cheque book, your residence, your sweat, your screams
Your security, your sobriety, your innocence, your society
Your self, your place, your distance, your speed

Go back to bed America, your government is in control again

Here, watch this, shut up
You are free to do as we tell you
You are free to do as we tell you

We want your soul

Here's programmes, here's matters, here's Britney, here's Cola
Here's pizza, here's TV, here's some rock and some Rolla
Watch commercials, more commercials, watch Jerry, not Oprah
Buy a better life from the comfort of your sofa
Here's popcorn, here's magazines, here's milkshake, here's blue jeans
here's padded bras, here's long cars, here's football shirts, here's baseball caps
here's live talk shows, here's video games, here's cola lite, here's Timberlake
here's fingertips, here's collagen, here's all night bars, here's plastic

We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
Go back to bed America, your government is in control again
Here, here’s American Gladiators
Watch this, shut up

Go back to bed America,
Here’s American Gladiators, here’s 56 channels of it
Watch these pictuary retards bang their fucking scrolls together
And congratulate you on living in the land of freedom
Here you are America
You are free to do as we tell you
You are free to do as we tell you

We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life
We want your Soul
Your Cash, Your House, Your Phone, Your Life, Your Cash, Your House, Your Life

http://story.news.yahoo.com/:

A fossil crustacean whose scientific name is "swimmer with a large penis" is the earliest clear example of a male animal, British researchers reported.

--> I don't know why they just didn't call it Adam :S

It has been a long day. I sit here at midnight typing away aimlessly. I have been at work since 8am and I have just arrived home, with the exception of a 3 hr dinner break. I will not be paid for much of my overtime. I am an Engineer - hear me bitch (in a totally non-gay way - not that there's anything wrong with being gay or anything).

Today is the day I have learnt a lot about some of my friends. An 'interest' rang for relationship advice; I am not sure if it was as a friend, or just as a person whom they could use as a scape goat to blame if the decision they had basically already made turns out for the worst. I gave the most impartial and honest advice I could give - I would expect the same from her, and the same from everyone. Another friend confessed her feelings for me.

Asking me for relationship advice is crazy. I know nothing about how to have a successful relationship, but somehow, and I don't know how, people seem to be drawn to me for advice. I guess it must be my good listening skills - the amount of relationship advice I have given out that works seems to be astounding. If only I had the confidence to practice what I preach.

Someone said to me tonight that they were selfish as if that was a bad character trait to have. I do not think they realised that we are all selfish. Let's face it - we are on this earth for one reason, and one reason only - to reproduce. We are living for the sake of living to ensure survival of the species. All of the menial things we do each day are aimed at survival of the species. We are all selfish.

Those amongst us who claim they are not selfish are deluding themselves. Thinking about others, while a great character trait, a trait I feel that most people lack, but a trait I feel that most people would be much better off having is still a selfish act. We think about how things affect others as a means of bettering our understanding of a situation to better ourselves. We think about how things affect others as a means of bettering our understanding of a situation so as to help them to make ourselves feel like we have achieved some good in the world.

Being selfish is not a character flaw. However, not admitting you are selfish is.