James & Georgie

Hahahahahah

Yep, once again something amusing has bumbled into my world.
My sister is very arrogant. She voices her opinion on everything, and never misses out on the opportunity or however slim a chance of creating said opportunity, to put us down.
Even today, when we walked past something called ‘Progress Chinese Herbs Store’ she mumbled something along the lines of “Hahah, progress. Ahh, too bad you don’t know anything about politics.’ I just paid it no attention (you get used to it, I guess. It never even made me feel down all the time it’s happened), and turned up my iPod as the Saw theme kicked in. I love it.

But why did she mumble?
Well, she had a driving test today. Yeah, she can’t drive. She’s 20 years old, and we both started learning to drive at the same time. And after lessons and shit she’d brag to my mum with crap like ‘He says I can steer real well’ while I would have nothing to say. She booked a test for today, at 10 am.
She went to the centre at 11 with my mum.
Fail.
Seriously.
For someone of her age and self-assumed intelligence, she couldn’t even remember the damn time. I was eating a bowl of muesli and flicking through an old episode of Futurama when my mum storms through the door. I stand up with my mouth half full of mush and choke out “Hey, you’re home early.”
My mum snaps ‘Yeah. The test. 10 am.’

I had a grin wider than my face. It must have been like running into a waist-high pole.
No matter how hard you flounder about, no matter what you say to try and justify what you just did and what happened to you, in the end the world kicked you in the balls.

Bang. :D

James. Where the hell are you?

What the hell. My phone just rang, was that you?

+61427767714
From NCM Dear Mrs Chamwong, your vehicle YBL36G is now ready for pickup. Invoice total $1166.05 Thankyou, Belconnen Service Department.

What the fuck is that? What kind of message is that, dear lord, help?

I looked up the number on Google and it’s regarded as suspicious by some website.

5 minutes later

ASRGHHH my laptop just died and I had to plug it in! Well, what the crap. I found my phone number on some Chinese website. My mobile number! Mine!

Here is the translated version of that page.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?!

Anyway, I had noodles. That’s really all I was going to say but what luck.

Okay, today I had to go to a steel mill for a tour as part of an industrial manufacturing subject.
So, I woke up at quarter to six in the morning, where a duststorm had left everything looking red and garish in the early sun. Upon waking, I honestly thought ‘Orrighty, I’ve woken up in hell..’. As I was walking to the bus stop around forty-five minutes later I saw a man jogging across the street,panting and inhaling all the dust. The poor zealous fool, how I pity him.

The train ride down, was roughly three hours all up. I met up with several friends at the station and we got a whole train carriage to ourselves. We slept, played a bit too much I-Spy, and ran up and down the carriage. Finally, around 10am we got there. We watched a brief video about the history of steel and the mill, which was the first 20 minutes of boredom. We were given these really uncomfortable safety goggles, rather nice helmets, gloves and safety overalls. Then the tour began, and oh, it was terrible.

Did I mention the headsets? The earpieces were a good 12 mm across. They didn’t even fit in my ears, so I just sort of draped them there and turned the volume to zero the whole time. Boring as shit. Our guide spent so much time on..something we ran out of time for the more interesting stuff. And on the way back at noon after we had returned the gear we had borrowed, we all saw a big tray of sandwiches. As we prepared to plunder it, we were told it was not for us, and we were sent off the way we came. Horrible. The heat was intense, through the sweaty gloves and coveralls. My goggles fogged up so badly I could barely see a thing, so I just kept my eyes looking out through a thin rim on the bottom so I could see where I was stepping. When we were standing still, I just shut my eyes; it was really that bad.
The worst part of it all was the fact that we had each paid $20 to go, and I didn’t really learn anything. I could hear the guide even without my headset, and he was talking so many facts and figures there wasn’t any time to let it sink in before we were off again. On the way back we played more I-Spy, and we all ate whatever we had brought. Good thing I had noodles. Phew, hehe. I thought it was all over.

It wasn’t.

When I got to the station, it was 2:59 pm. I thought I had a bus that would take me home at 3 pm sharp, but it turned out to depart at 2:55. The next bus was at 3:30 and so I just sat there, sipping a bottle of water and talking to a friend about how crap the whole thing was. The bus came at 3:40. 40 minutes, we just sat there. Argh. It was a quarter past 4 when I got home; a total of seven and a half hours of public transport.

Ahh, I’ll eat stuff now. Hoohoo

Hi. So.

This is James’s and my random blog. A joint blog. Or as Lee happened to call it, a “couple blog” (what the heck).

We decided to make this blog because James was bored. Or, at least, that’s what I say. You might notice that James doesn’t update his blog over at Mok. And he said it would be more fun if we had a blog together.

I hope so. Because if I’m going to be the only one posting here… well, that’s embarrassing.

James had some excursion today though, so he’ll have some interesting things to write. Or, I sincerely hope he does.

I hope you will find our ramblings entertaining. :) (And the smilies, forever ugly.)