Meet the natives.

It's a new show on Channel 4. It had the first airing today.

A far flung and remote place called "Tanna" in the South Pacific is where we begin. We watch and are given a brief introduction to the people who will be travelling around England for a few weeks. We learn that they believe that Prince Philip is a god and that they use pigs as a form of currency.

There are 5 men who will be travelling with a camcorder through the British Isles to learn about us, a spin on the normal concept of going far and wide to meet others. They come to see us and with fascinating insights.

I've been reading some of the comments and peoples thoughts about this show and I feel slightly saddened. There's a lot of harsh backlash about this, but then I come to expect this from my people. There was mention of it being like another big brother, other people said it was exploitation and some said it would merely encourage more of the same and threaten those remote cultures all the more.

But it was with great pleasure that I witnessed what others thought about us, the English. Most refreshing, holding some of the concerns aside.

Their views and ideas are theirs and theirs alone. They are fixed much like our own. But it was a very touching and warming to listen to what they had to say, for the experience of hearing another voice. I hear so much of what we think, that it was nice to see what they thought.
They found many similarities in this episode to their own lives. Pig farming for one. They couldn't believe how big the pigs were. They were giants to their eyes. They were also saddened by the fact that the female pigs would get no satisfaction from being artificially impregnated. Nor, that the male being caged up and separate from the females to get them ready would be freed to do so personally.
Pigs lived with them, as equals, they were respected in much the same way as people. They could come and go as they wanted. Unlike here. The chief didn't like it at all.

They wondered where and if we met up to discuss things and to have fun. Which is where we, or should I say they, discover the pub at the end of their first week.
"I wondered where the went to talk and get together" one of the men said "Now I know.". It was also there that they discovered beer. They loved it, who wouldn't?

Some of the things they found strange was that men and women have equal share in what happens in the home and social life. We socialise together, we also share responsibilities of cooking, cleaning and working. For them, it was the women who cooked and cleaned and the men who hunted and made the decisions.

It was interesting, for them and for the English who they stayed with.

I quite enjoyed their dance toward the end of their stay in Norfolk. Catchy, but there impression was that we weren't all that interested. But, the English are at heart reserved on the outside. So, understandable thoughts.

Anyway, it's interesting for the insights they have into our world and the things it throws up for us. Highlighting our concerns and fears.

It's on on Thursdays 9pm on Channel four. I just hope that I can stay awake or have it recorded. As I will be going back to my normal working hours soon.

Ciao a tutti.

Sleepy and tired.

No sooner do I decide on coming back to the land of blog than my life decides to get busy again. Which is a good thing in some ways.

Tomorrow, I will turn thirty years old. I will have been round the sun 30 times on space ship planet earth. Cool.

For the next fortnight however, I am dog and house sitting. I didn't want to do either. Not in a million years. It's a long story, involving inheritance money, friends of friends, untimely coincidence and general mwurgh.

The lady who lives above a friend of mine, inherited a whopping load of cash. Her birthday, incidentally, is tomorrow as well.
So a while back, she told my friend, who lives below her, that she would book them a holiday, my friend didn't believe she would.
She did, my friend went, "oh", as she really didn't want to go on holiday and leave her dog. But, she said yes and as I'm the only person she trusts with the dog and the house, I got lumbered.

I do have trouble saying "no" to people though, which is something I'm working on. It'll get easier with time though.

Nobodies perfect.

So it was last night, that I was round her place, with the lady who has told me she knows where everything is in her house, couldn't find her digital camera she bought specifically for her holiday because she hid it somewhere. "Ohhh, where did I put it?!?!?"

As I stood there, watching her go through the motions of trying to find her camera. On her time and mine. I always feel that she sucks up anything of me. So I do try to limit my contact with her, I only pop round for a visit every couple of weeks or so. If that.
So I stood there, well into the small hours, knowing full well that I'd be getting her up at five, she sleeps through her alarm clock, feeling very bored and trapped. I've slept about 4 hours, I thought that I would be getting a well deserved lie in, but it's enough to work through today. I hate my alarm clock now, it's nice to wake without one.
Thankfully, I did book off Wednesday, so I only have a three day week. Of which I'm working 10am till 6pm.

My friend is a nice person and is very giving, she just has her flaws, which the longer I know her, the harder they are to tolerate. What do you do?

So I couldn't really go away for my thirtieth, as I'd have liked to. My wings will be a Little bit clipped. I don't mind house and dog sitting, but I'm out of my comfort zone and I wanted to be comfortable, especially round my Thirtieth.

I'm saying good bye to my twenty's, doing things I really didn't want to be doing. But, such is life.

This isn't quite an upbeat post. I wish I could blog as and when my interesting thoughts come to mind, but I'm always away from my computer and any Internet connection.

I need an ultra mobile PC.

Apple, hurry up and make the multi touch screen laptop and make it affordable for me. I know there making one, they must be, especially after the release of the ipod touch. I also wish I'd have held out a little bit longer as they are releasing the iphone over here. With my current mobile phone operator.

God I'm tired, my eyes are heavy and I've been invited out by my mates next door neighbour, where I will currently be staying, for a pub quiz. Which I am looking forward to on the eve of my thrity year mark on planet earth.

But I've got to go to work, I don't finish till 6pm today. I wouldn't have minded if I could have slept longer. Gosh darn my friend. Pain in the neck. 15 ish days to go. Because I'm not entirely sure when she gets back. Add's fun to the mix.

Till later.

Holding back.

Good or bad, that's what I've been doing. I've felt like being very quiet, very in me. Not really sharing much. Both in blog and life.
I am definitely at that point where I want something different. I'm getting to the end of a tether and I really want to break free.

Home, home in many ways is comfortable. But then, in many other ways, it's quite stifling.
Work, work's ok, just about. It's still making me money, even though I didn't save anything at all last month. Not a penny.
Several things cropped up that required the use of cash, so I said "why not?" They involved going out and having fun. so, worth it by far.
Relationships, vacant and just not there.

Although I really want to save as much as possible. So I'm spending a heck of a lot of time, not getting up to much right now and not spending money.

Saying that, I'm due for a round of friend visiting soon. I'll be off to Ireland to see my large Irish mate. I'll be off to the coast of England to see another and to the "garden of England" as well. I've got to call another mate too.

Anyway, to decide to change my life, I have to let go of a few things. Namely preconceptions and old bad habits. It's harder than it seems. It's helping to be sick of a few things, see second paragraph.

I want to get away again, one of the things that's stopping that, is what I feel I owe to my past. The people I was with and things I said I'd do. Or thought I would do but now, current climate and requirements don't suit.

It's not doing me any favours hanging on to the past. It really isn't.

So, letting go begins now. It also means letting go of my preconceptions.

I think I can start to get going again.

My horoscope, from Jonathan Cainer.

Your September Forecast: You can't be everywhere at once. Nor can you be all things to all men... or women. Better to recognise as much and draw a few clear lines in the sand, than to kid yourself that things are any different and thus wind up living in a world full of vague half-promises and quarter-compromises. Saturn is moving into Virgo. It has been nearly three decades since we last saw an astrological arrival quite like this. For the next two years, you're going to be facing facts and accepting realities. But you're also going to be making magnificent progress as you direct all your energy and effort into a decision that's long overdue. The change starts right now.

That sounds about right. I'll also be turning thrity soon. Days to go...

'Face facts and accept realities' that usually crops up every now and then. But such is life.

Anyway, I've gotta get ready for work today, this is my weekend on. Which means an easy weekend to come. Yay!

Thinking of blog.

Which doesn't put many words up here to be honest, I'm still stuck in my vacuum.

Time passes very quickly in London and I dream of being far far away doing something else other than what I am.

To answer your question MikeP.

Transformers was good, it wasn't what I felt it could have been. Far too simple for my tastes. I think it might have even been more simple than the original cartoon series. I didn't like the way the baddies popped up for two seconds and had a fight then died either. Aside from the main characters.

My loves were the amazing designs for the robots and transformations. WOW.

My favourite part of the movie is where Bumblebee has defeated barricade and slowly walks up the hill then tells sam and the attractive lady what its all about.

I enjoyed it immensely all in all and can't wait for the next one.

One more.

I've really lacked the motivation to write, or should that be the reason.

I have no reason that I can. No reason for me to be. None what so ever.

I would like one.

Just one, somewthing nice, to make me smile. To give me a skip in my step. I'd like that. I'll have to keep on looking.

The humdrum of life really isn't for me. I'm bored. Bored out of me heed. (I spelt thaht the way I wanted it said)


meh.

Staring out my window.

I'm looking at the tree getting blown about and I'm wandering. Just getting lost in the rippling to and fro movement.

I wander if my life is like one of those leaves you know. Connected to the tree, the larger part of existence, the here and now. If I were to fall off, much like any of those leaves, the hundreds of similar green things, would anyone really notice. No/ Maybe those closest to me. But I really doubt I'd be missed for long you know.

Two weeks and it'd be over. Life would resume as normal.

Not that I am going anywhere. Not that I'm due a popping off at any point in the near future.

I can't wait for some fun.