I can't believe I'm saying this but "I can't wait for work to go back".

I'm feeling an emptiness right now and I don't know where it's come from. Maybe it's the lack of breakfast or the disappointment that our dog destroyed my gf's bikini and now she's rightfully pissed off; I dunno.

All I know is that since the last time I posted on this blog everything has changed "for the better"; though at times it doesn't feel that way... In fact as the days go on I am beginning to get this sinking feeling that I'm only falling further away from a achieving a whole lot of my goals; especially the one where I get to see the world...

But hopefully that will change.

I think I need a holiday; and not just the kind where I get time off from work, but rather the kind where I get time off from life and commitments and get to go see new things, experience life outside of this repetitive cultureless little country I live in.

Either that or I need someone new to come into my life (and no, not at the expense of someone old)- to bring something refreshing into my life.

I can't smoke weed anymore you see; it's been so long since I could and yet I still long for it; though even if I was able to I probably couldn't afford it. It's amazing the hold on me that drug actually had and I still don't think it was a bad thing. I've been battling with ill-contentness my entire life and weed gave me some perspective on what I have. It gave me the motivation to look at other peoples lives instead of at my own and made me more selfless.

Yes some would say that i shouldn't need weed to feel that way; and their right. I don't.

But god it makes it easier to do.

In 30 seconds I could switch from unhappy or annoyed to relaxed, calm and open to ideas from outside the square.

So whats going to happen?

How long can I last in this current state of existence?

How long till I can earn some decent money and feel the rewards of the last 6 months of sacrifice?

And how long till I can go back to shaping my dream career and the future a really want?

I love Gee soo much, but god I don't think she see's how hard this is on me. It's not that I expect her to feel any guilt or remorse for it; infact it's the opposite- we are doing this together and I know it's hard on her too.

But she doesn't know what she wants to do; though she sure as hell knows its time for a change. It's time for gee to get outa retail and find something that will make her a little more happy- because i need her to be happy. I need her to be feeding me positivity at this point in time to help me through; but at the moment she's struggling just as much as me coz she hates her job too; not that I hate mine, just that I know where i'd prefer to be.

Anyway, if you read the rant all the way to here; thanks.

If not.... It's out now so who really gives a fuck?

not me thats for sure.

<3

Luke(y)

Police Wasting Resources!!!

An article found earlier today on the ABC's news webpage announces that police have seized more than 1000 marijuana plants in WA's south western region after over-flights using infrared technology to discover the crops.

This is a huge blow to the already dying weed market here in Perth, the situation for those wishing to find marijuana for personal use is dire already with prices increasing significantly and supply dropping right off over the last few months.

I really wish the police would stop spending so much money on chasing down those who smoke marijuana, a natural plant grown in the dirt; and start spending more on it chasing down the dealers of Methamphetamine, or "Crack" the number 1 cause of drug-induced psychosis globally, particularly here in Western Australia.

I for one have seen many persons lives, including the lives of many persons very close to me, absolutely ruined by addictions to methamphetamine. On the contrary I know hundreds of persons who have been smoking marijuana for a long and sustained period of time with few negative effects on their life.

If the Government really was serious about combatting the drug problems we have here in Australia they would legalize marijuana and increase the penalties for those caught dealing in A and B class drugs (particularly manufactured halucinogens and carcinogens; but most importantly amphetamines). I charge that most drug-related home and car burglaries are due to addictions or trafficking of methamphetamine, and that very few persons who just smoke marijuana would be involved in such serious crimes.

I know many extremely respectable persons who have been smoking marijuana since their youth, without having intentionally broken the law in other ways (well, maybe they had driven a few kilometres over the speed limit, but I even know police officers and politicians who are accustomed to doing that aswell).

It's beginning to get to the point of pissing me off, the stupidity of allowing heavy-drinkers in the public, of producing legal drugs for un-natural purposes (ie, Viagra), the sale of ciggarettes etc, when marijuana is considered such a big no-no.

If your going to battle drugs, don't battle the ones which have little or no effect on society- indeed I think if a referendum was called in Western Australia on the legalization of marijuana, I believe it would pass- instead they should battle harder against the drugs which are proven to have a significantly negative effect on 9/10 people who use them, and the persons surrounding those 9/10...

This was a very brief outburst of annoyance, but I just want to say something to the State Government (and possibly the federal opposition): FOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PURPOSES YOU REALLY SHOULD CONSIDER A REFERENDUM ON THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA.

Unless you don't think it's right for the people to use their rights to make democratic decisions more than once every 4 years.

Wow, it's a long way into the year already and still I have not posted on this blog; nor on the poetry blog. I guess blogging (well, writing a blog) just comes in spurs, sometimes you have the time and drive for it, sometimes your too busy, sometimes your life is just cruising along at a pace which leaves no need nor time to blog. Sometimes you write like theres no tommorow. Sometimes you hear something, some news, and all you can do is blog for the next month or so. I can feel this is coming soon, this time of writing my share.

I am back to studying Print News at university this semester, which begins but 10 days away. You'd be amazed at what I can get done in a day. Here is my study plan for this coming semester:

Monday:

wake 5:30am.
breakfast & cup of tea
email//messenger check.
check ob network for changes//hits
wake Gee up with a cuppa at 6am
get changed into work clothes
grab all my work stuff
online news check

leave for work at 6:30-35
work until 11:45am.
straight to uni.
Lecture 12:00 -> 1pm.

Eat Lunch & fill time until 2pm.
Tutorial 2:00-> 4pm.
Lecture 4:00-> 5pm

Leave 5:10-30

Arrive home 5:40->6pm.
Check e-mail, messengers & OBnetwork.
Chat to Iraqi and other online friends.
Read blogs//books//news for a while
Cook//Eat Dinner for // with Gee.
Clean up.
Couple of hrs with Gee until-
Sleep.

Thats monday. Fortunately thats the bussiest day of the week for me, though Tuesday and Thursday are very similar. (Any blanks in my Tuesday & Thursday afternoons will most definately be filled with reading // homework for uni.) I work each day of the week except sunday and wednesday. No uni on wednesday or sunday either so they are my two days off.

Friday only work no uni, but plenty of uni reading//homework and housekeeping to be done, plus I work saturday mornings at 3am or earlier....

Anyway, to finish my post here is another George W Bush quote; possibly the most intelligent thing he has ever said. It is in relation to the new Democratic Congress's decision to oppose the troop increase, even after unanimously agreeing to appoint the father of the idea to the command of US forces in Iraq.

"This may become the first time in the history of the United States Congress that it has voted to send a new commander into battle and then voted to oppose his plan that is necessary to succeed in that battle," - George W Bush Feb 16, 2007.

MmmMM The Holiday

So I guess I kinda got lazy on holiday. I had been writing a great journal everyday for the first couple of days. But then we hit the Gold Coast and things got hectic. We became way too busy for me to bother writing.

So for the first few days I have a detailed description of events for you- after that I will give you some images and a rough run-through of what I can remember from a very very busy and very enjoyable holiday in one of Australia's beautiful tourist centres. For anyone thinking of going to the Gold Coast- this will be a good reason why!

Another Bush Bashing

George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are flying on Air Force One.

The President looks at the Vice President, chuckles, and says, "You know, I could throw a $1,000 bill out the window right now and make somebody very happy."

The Vice President shrugs and says, "Well, I could throw 10 $100 bills out the window and make 10 people very happy."

Not to be outdone, the Secretary of Defense says, "Of course, then, I could throw 100 $10 bills out the window and make a hundred people very happy."

The pilot rolls his eyes and says to his co-pilot, "Such arrogant asses back there. Hell, I could throw the three of them out the window and make 56 million people unbelievably happy."

Many thanks to Chikitita !!!!

Is this the 21st century or what ?

So I hear there was this big occurance sometime between when I fell asleep in the 20th century, and woke up in the dark ages; it was supposed to be the turn of the millenium; the dawn of the 21st century and with it was supposed to come a new world. What happened to all our dreams and aspirations of a better world and our plans to reach it? Now all I hear about is death, war, devesatation, starvation, poverty and some environmental crisis people keep calling "global warming".

Whats with that anyway? Things don't seem to have changed much physically. There are still dirty old cars spilling black smoke into the atmosphere that makes me cough everytime I drive behind one; there are still coal-fires fuelling the majority of this countries electricity requirements. Yet they say we are all going to die from it? So about this whole 21st century thing, when do we get flying cars, peace and prosperity??? When can I get my food made for me by a robot or live in a house on the moon? All these things still seem decades or centuries away, and from what I understand , well what I've learnt since I woke up anyway; we're all going to drown or freeze or burn or something along those lines in the next 1-200 years anyway!

So what are we going to do to save ourselves?

We should probably start with getting all those filthy, dirty smokey cars off the road and ban cigarette smoking in non-carbon-filtered area's all together!!!! Next after that has to be all these coal-powered electricity plants- they've gotta go too. I'm sure all these people watching TV all day doesn't help either, they should be out planting trees or something constructive you know; growing crops in their back yards or whatever- not just burning up more and more and more and more and more and more energy every day while sucking down tonnes of junk-food prepared at places that spew out hundreds of tonne's of grease into the air everyday. Just walking past one of those places makes new pimples appear on my face!!!!!!!!!!!

And why does everything come pre-prepared these days, don't people know how to make their own sandwhiches? why do they need to go to SUBWAY to feed their lazy faces? There so lazy they don't even smile when they mumble thanks in the least-energy consuming way they know! Then they go home, eat the subway with only "9 grams of fat", along with a huge bottle of coke and a whole lot of chocolate just to make themselves feel better- all while playing some mind-numbing, emotion softening shoot-em-up on their wiz-bang "XBOX 360".

It's all a little too much for me! I wake up in the mornings, walk outside for a nice fresh breathe of air- and hey, guess what, it's still sort of fresh! But by the time I get less than a kilometre from my house im choking on pollution as I go down the highway behind some giant mass-energy-consuming excessively-polluting truck full of tortured sheep!

What a random post this has been, it's not even factual and it's all just ramblings!!!!! ahahahahahahahaha. Well I guess its true in one aspect; if we don't clean up our selfish-mentality this world is going to kill our god-forsaken race off in order to save itself from absolute destruction!

The world is a sentient being and were the only thing stopping it from thriving. Watch out or we'll all die soon enough~!!!

Uni is back

Uni is back already for 1 1/2 weeks; didn't realise how long its been since I last posted on this. Lots has changed. Life is better. Am moving on with things now; as long as me and gee can remain sane through the next few months of hard-work and no-breaks until november; we should be fine...........

More soon :) hope you like the picture below hehehehe :D

Israeli Checklist

HAhahahahahaahhaahah. I love it. You will tooooo.

Welcome back to my life as the hiatus in my personal blogging ends.

University is all but over with only one assignment left to go; a 1500 word essay on a topic of my choice. The hypothesis I chose for my essay:

Religious extremism has become prominent in Iraq as a result of the 2003 US-lead invasion.

easy enough topic (for me at least). I am actually really looking forward to it :)
anyway time to get back to the original aim of this blog and post something far-out and way-cool you know what I mean.

Something zany loooooooooooooooooney craaaaaaaaaaazy!
hmmm what fits this description?



(gee-oh a few years ago !!!!)

Moving right along

And so life goes on- and I move right along. You can tell that my life has been hectic and I have been under pressure when my blogs are neglected.

But now I have caught up with my university work and got ontop of it. I have begun to save money and buy the things I need to move on with life- to fix my car, to pay up and tie up the loose ends. In two weeks I go on holiday from uni- I only have 4 assignments left (3 of which will be finished by this friday).

The last remaining one is on the subject of Religious extremism in Iraq- and so it will be just like writing for my blog; in fact it will be writing for both my blog and the Olivebranch Network . Speaking of which I guess the people here may like to know a little about where OB network has come from and has come to.

The OB network started upon my winning a competition run by Antony Loewenstein - author of "Australia's 2nd best blog for 2005", a journalist from Sydney. This was in the january just past. I decided I must make the most of the opportunity given to me; for many reasons.

For one I wanted to make sure that whoever else was vying for the prize (a free domain & hosting package for 1 year) wouldn't put it to better use. I also wanted to make Antony proud of his choice and use the chance to impress an Australia journalist//author.

I also wanted to do something in the area that is both most important and most well known to me; Iraq since the invasion in 2003. The scope expanded and eventually the OB network was created. Now only 4 months later there is nearly 20 unique visitors per day, and 23 contributors. Only 4 of these contributors are not Iraqi's either living in Iraq or living outside. The network is very popular amongst those who know it and I feel very proud of my achievements; although the network nearly caused me to overload ontop of my uni work.

Good to be back and posting; very very good indeed. It's also a sign that I am getting better emotionally and mentally. I now feel like I have coped with the worst of this situation and am finding my way out rather than being stuck in the middle.

hope to be back to regular posting within 2 weeks :)
stay tuned!