The trouble with the rat race is, even if you win, you're still a rat.

I am in two minds. Both of them are quite empty and hollow at the moment, but still, two minds nonetheless. I am at work and bored, and of course this provides the opportune setting for some blogging. Unfortunately, I have done nothing interesting since my recent post – oh, Marie came over and cleaned my house on Sunday and finally that HUGE pile of clothes that had been washed has now also been folded, but still sits on the spare bed. I don’t know why I have a closet, I never use the thing.. it goes from washing basket, to washing machine, to bed.. wait a while.. then on my back, only to be discarded into a washing basket again. But back to where I started, two minds. Should I blog, or should I wait til sometime after the weekend when I plan to go to Bundala National Park and take some well wicked photos with my new big ass camera of the migrating birds through the wetland on the South/Southeast coast of Sri Lanka? As you can probably tell, I decided to do the former and blog.

I personally don’t have any interesting photos to throw up on the blog. BUT, a good friend in Melbourne has been working herself busy, diving into the depths of the Tasmanian, Victorian and other oceans to voyeur on some of the finest fish, corals, grasses, seahorses, underwater mammals, and what not. Agnes really does have some cool photos.. check them out here and here. Unfortunately, as with many other budding amateurs with an expensive camera (like me), Agnes likes to post all her photos – which to a marine biologist could be interesting, but to a layperson like me that goes “ooer, orange” it’s a bit much. Sorry Ag!

Another interesting website to fill your boredom and procrastination with is Sam’s. Check it out here. Sam is an Aussie living in Colombo who usually I bump into at The Commons, Odel’s, Deli France, The Cricket Club, or any other delicatessen / pub / restaurant in Colombo. Tonight he will also be frequenting Inn On The Green, where a team of us plan to lose once again in the weekly trivia. Anyway. He has just come back from a cool trek in Nepal with some funky photos.. unfortunately, he too suffers from the “amateur photoitis” something like 60 photos of Nepal alone. Not to mention 120 of Thailand, then Sri Lanka, UK, blah blah blah..

If anyone else has some interesting blogs / websites to keep me entertained, feel free to send them to me – may just write about it. And of course with Emma being away, feel free to send me porn Chris, but Joel let’s keep the farm animals to a minimum shall we?

Oh by the way, a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Joel for getting Married, and then deciding to hire a car in Vietnam while on a honeymoon only to crash into a motorcyclist. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a blog and refuses to send me the photos of the guy writhing in pain whilst floored.. but if you would like to laugh at him as all his friends have, feel free to email him at: jozza_the_hippy_backpacker@yahoo.com.au [He’s not really a hippy backpacker.. at best he’s a flashpacker – yes, he has a backpack, but he also has a hairdryer and stays in 4.5star hotels]

Finally, if you care what music I am listening to at the moment: Currently it is Anti-Flag which I am led to believe are touring Australia and thus are all over JJJ. My radio as of tomorrow will be tuned into the Ashes where the third test will be starting, and with any luck The Ashes will be finished by the time I get to the UK. If you have any interesting music that you are listening to, drop me a line always looking for something new and “developed”.

Peace, Procrastination, and stupid roadside checkpoints!

B.

The title of this blog: "The trouble with the rate race is, even if you win, you're still a rat" - Quoted in C. Hamilton, Affluenza; originally by Lily Tomlin (American actress whom played amongst many things President Bartlets second assistant in West Wing [Deborah]).