The Zoos Shave All the Animals

The BBC website does a cool one of these.

Well that one's not as funny as the previous ones...

Anyway, I found this pic on the CBD blog and T gave me the idea of doing a caption comp on it.

Oh yes. There are rules;

1) You are only allowed 2 entries.

2) The winner will recieve a prize or just a lot of respect.

3) The winner will be chosen by Timmeh!

4) The closing date is the 5pm on March the 1st.

So far we have:

Trist - "Tim believed Tristan when he said it was a beer dispenser..."

Tom - "Tim had to use the age old 'squeeze' technique in order to reach that high note..."

Not sure if this is the best idea... now be honest...

If you know what to do, click here.

But if you don't know what a Johari Window is, click here.

I'm on a roll.

Serious question though.

Me and T and Andy and Tim had a discussion about where to take the whole band thing tonight.

Just wondering what the general opinion is among you guys as to where we should take it.
ie:
Keep it Christian based, or move it secular?
Go for a record deal and tour or stay in Bristol doing local gigs?
Give up cos we're pants.

Good night.

Complete, up to date (as of time of print) list for THAT quiz:

Jen

Paul aka Aiken’s aka Train Spotter

Nes

Trist

Lis aka Mrs T

Andy B aka TMWTFSWIS

Lozza

Fab Anon aka Mario

Jill Norm

Andy Norm

Gem

Daza aka Solid

Jenny Stone

Scatty Sarah

Timmeh

Katie

Sam aka RV

Nami aka Bread

Rita aka Legend

Sez

Me


You want on this list, you gotta do the quiz. :)

Whatever will be, will be.

You're not going to Wembley.

Ke sara. Haha.

I was listening to my music earlier and heard these lyrics - thought they were really cool.


"You can run from love.

But if it's really love.

It will find you."


Nice.

This may well be a regular slot on my blog. Mainly because he says weird/silly things all the time.

He's someone on my course who is, shall we say, socially challenged.


Exhibit 1:
Lecturer: If you miss any of the next two tutorial sessions you are going to be adrift.
Arrison: What's a drift?


Exhibit 2:
Tom: What size shoe are you?
Arrison: Err. 11 or 12. I cycle a lot and also play a lot of football and jog.
Tom: I don't think any of those effect the size of you feet though.


Exhibit 3:
Arrison walks up to me, stares for a few seconds and then says:
You haven't shaved today have you?


I was a bit concerned at that last one.

= 4.

Four Jobs I have ever had in my life:

1. Paperboy
2. Shelf stacker at Big W (complete crap)
3. Papershop assistant
4. Customer Service Assistant @ AXA.

Four Movies I can watch over and over:

1. The Matrix
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Forrest Gump
4. Team America World Police (to all you who know what I'm on about - if you haven't put this on, I'll be surprised)

Four Places I have lived:
1. Bristol - Stapleton
2. Bristol - Stoke Gifford
3. Earth
4. The Milky Way

Four TV Shows I love to watch:
1. 24
2. Friends
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Lost

Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Florida
2. Paris
3. Loch Ness
4. Hayle

Four websites I visit daily:
1. bbc.co.uk/news
2. blogs - all of em!
3. www.ign.com - cool website for all your movie/games/cars/entertainment needs.
4. Bristol UWE intranet homepage.

Four of my favourite foods:
1. Chicken balti
2. Sweet & Sour Chicken
3. Chicken Mexican Fajitas.
4. KFC fried chicken.

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Heaven
2. Watching the next episode of 24
3. Playing a gig
4. At my graduation cos then all the c/w and learning and exams I do at Uni will be over.

And yes, watching 24 in Heaven while playing a gig, and while being at my graduation would also be ok.

Four people I am tagging:
1. Daza (solid)
2. Sam (solid)
3. Paul Edwards (solid)
4. Jill Norman (solid)

The following takes place between 8pm and 9pm.

Events do not occur in real time.

Ryan: Yeah. Hong Kong went on too long.
Tom: Hong Kong?
Ryan: Yeah.
Tom: Hong Kong??
Ryan: Yeah.
Tom: Hong Kong???
Ryan: Oh.... yeah... duh! King Kong!

T (on phone to Andy): Are you still in the building?!
Andy B: Yeah.
T: Oh crap.


We had just finished band prac for the eve, and replaced the stuff on the stage again.
So as usual, we turned all the lights off, locked all the doors and made sure the alarm was set.

But as we reached the back of the building, we saw the Bananamobile!

Yup! We'd locked the church leaders in the church, turned all the lights off, and set the alarms cos we didn't know they were in the office.

And this was done by the same two people who were previously involved in 'Snowman-gate' incident.

Tut.

adrenalize ( P )
tr.v. adrenalized, adrenalizing, adrenalizes

To stir up and spur to action.


You're right. It is a word. :)

"Late December back in '63.
What a very special time for me.
I remember, what a night."

Now that's a cool song. Tonight was great. It was a worship team social round Jen's (choir masters) and Paul's house and I think we managed to cram about 20-25 people into their front room at one point.

The Journey
Firstly we had to drive there which is always entertaining. There's roadworks on the motorway at the moment though, meaning that you can't go over 50mph (lest thee be speed camera'd) most of the trip, but at some points, because we were in a convoy, we had to slow down to 20mph, on a clear motorway!!

I also had someone (lets call her Bright Beam) who was driving behind me and was practically blinding me with her head lamps. I swear she was on full beam!

Buzz and Chips
Jen and Paul had agreed to pop to the chippy to get chips which was nice. So we had chips. But we also played this cool music quiz game called Buzz. It's just a quiz show where it plays you a clip of music and you have to answer questions based on what you heard. Very cool. However, if you keep on pressing your button, the presenter will get a bit mad with you and say random stuff like:

'Ok. Ok player 4. You just need to chill. Chhiiiilllll.'
'Player 1. If you break the buzzer you're just going to have to buy a new one.'
'Come on Player 2. Just calm down. CALM DOWN.'

You had to be there. But we started playing 'who could aggitate the presenter the most by continually pressing their button' which kept us entertained for some reason.

Now. On to more serious matters.

Texas Hold 'Em
Yes yes. Us dirty Christians played poker. Now. I don't usually get annoyed with people because they believe something is wrong, but I do get annoyed with people when they believe it's wrong simply because it can be used to gamble real money on. Unfortunately, Poker has been classed as a Grade A sin by some people simply because it could lead into a genuine loss of money. I'm not saying it wrong to not play if you feel convicted, cos obviously at least you've experienced it.

But don't pass it off because you think it's gambling. Cos you can play without money.

Monopoly would be a bit hard without those multi-coloured pieces of paper after all. Basically, what I'm saying is you can gamble on anything. And you shouldn't play Monopoly...

Without me...

*rant over*

Anyway. Me, Nami, Gem, Andy, Jen and Paul all played some Poker. Probably for about 2 hours at least.
If you know Andy in any sort of way, you're going to understand when I say that watching him during the game was hilarious. The thing that made us laugh the most was when he dealt the cards. He just didn't have a clue how to slide them or shuffle. He's brilliant.

Again. You had to be there.

So the comment (don't tell the Christian's!) in the title relates a little to the reception we got when announcing that we'd be playing poker because after that we were all just in the micky taking mood, so everytime we did or saw someone else doing something that others might think was wrong, we'd use that catchphrase.

• "Oh. He like's his Shandy." (don't tell the Christians!)
• "Check out the Bond girl on this playing card." (don't tell the Christians!)
• "I can't believe you thieved my chips while I was out the room." (don't tell the Christians!)

I hope this blog doesn't offend anyone! But there's a comment field if it does. I'm just interested to see it from the other point of view really.

A few things elevated this week above the norm.

Lastly, I went to the cinema tonight (Friday) for the first time since last year. Me, T and Lis watched Jarhead which I thought was brilliant. I've read poems and watched programmes about how gloryfied war is, but this film hit the nail right on the head multiple times. But I found it subtle enough to not be forcing the whole point down your throat most of the time.

Plus "Mr President" (David Palmer) is in it. And he's cool.

Anyway, you should see it.


Before that I'd watched Ep 7 of 24, which after the first 6 episodes, I thought was a bit of a letdown. Even though some of you are thinking 'No way', the only reason I say it is because the first 6 were the best episodes of 24 I've ever seen.


And now to the firstly point. I got to play football this week. Yay! Monday nights are usually worship prac but because it was cancelled for the singers, I could go football training.

More football please. :)

I didn't score, although 3 teams had rotated for an hour, and only 3 goals has been scored. That's a bit crap for the strikers but excellent for the goalkeepers!


Wednesday was my interview day for placements. I don't actually mind interviews and I couldn't decide whether it's because I'm confident, or just being arrogant. I'd like to think it's the first one - but maybe that's because I'm being arrogant! :)

For some reason I had 2 interviews. One for Southmead/Frenchay and one for BRI. Because I had a 25 minute interview for the Sou/Fren one because I was trying to impress them the most, I really, really couldn't be bothered with the BRI one which was right after. Plus I didn't want the BRI one anyway so I thought I'd try my best to throw it away. It went a bit like this:

• Sit down but don't attempt to shake either of the interviewers hands and don't attempt to make any sort of small introductory chatter.
• Try to look interested, but peer over the shoulder of the person chatting to you every so often.
• Accidently burp (this really was an accident and I hope they didn't notice!).
• Have absolute no questions for them at the end of the interview.
• When the job that you have being interview for involves microbiology, tell them that microbiology isn't exactly your favourite subject in the world just to see how they will react.

By that point I was pretty certain I'd get the Southmead/Frenchay placement - because I was the only person who put their name down for the Biochemistry lab!

Anyway, I got the placement so no more worrying about that! I also get paid which is soooo good.

I wonder what it will be like working full time?

Who's got my Season 1 box set of 24?

This is the best blog ever.

Even if you hate Star Wars and have no idea what the heck is going on.

Enjoy :D

Why do we find it so easy to spread word about a TV show because we think it rocks, but when it comes to talking about Christianity, we glide over the subject and don't get excited about it?

Why have we lost our excitement about Christianity?

Surely if we were excited about it, that would flow over into our conversation and would make people more interested.

After all, around 80% of conversation has nothing to do with what you are saying - it's how you say it.

Maybe we shouldn't be trying to bring people to God - maybe we should be focusing on getting excited about where we are with God.

*speechless*

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