Sunday, September 12, 2004

Are You A Northern Bastard?

I'm disappointed - according to this test entitled Are You A Northern Bastard?, I am in fact a Southern Fairy. I've been trying well hard to be a Northern Bastard as well, and Garry told me I was an honourary Northerner once, but I guess birthplace and current location are too much to overcome...

Reasons to be cheerful... 1,2,3

I just like that as a subject so I thought I'd use it - it's the name of a good Ian Dury song, which was almost like a rap in that it was a long list of reasons why you should be cheerful - maybe just if you're Ian Dury, it is all subjective after all.

Anyway, reasons for going travelling:

1. Shockabuku. To quote Minnie Driver's character Debi in Grosse Point Blank (all time top ten film), it is the swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever. I think I need that, and seeing as how India is likely to be my first destination, I think I'm sure to experience it. I've heard India enthrals, delights and infuriates all at once. Shockabuku is needed to clear a severe creative, mental and emotional blockage. I can't keep my mind on one thing for more than fifteen seconds, and when I do, I find that an effort. I can't express myself as well as I'd like with people, and I simply find myself not feeling much of anything about anything. I'm bored out of my tiny little mind!

Reasons for going travelling

Why am I going away? This is a good question. Do I need to have a good reason to leave behind responsibility, family and friends for anything up to a year?

I've been thinking about exactly why it is that I'm going away. I have a load of reasons, I think. I was concerned about the idea of travelling for a while as everyone I knew was doing it in my early twenties, so I wanted to do it. If they could, why couldn't I? This was of course the worst possible reason to want to go away. Reading the Rough Guides book 'first time around the world' confirmed this, saying that you should go travelling when you felt ready, not when someone told you it was a good time to.

So now I'm 29, and my reasons are... let me get back to that...

My leeetle friend


This is a squirrel that has become my newest friend - I don't know it's name, I respect its privacy. It appears out of nowhere and looks expectantly at me on a regular basis after I started giving it nuts. It looooves the nuts. Posted by Hello

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

It's all change...

This is my second go at a blog - I gave up on the last one as it was mind-numbingly dull. Not that mind-numbing dullness stops many from blogging, but day-to-day existence and complaining about work just isn't good enough! A friend of mine keeps a blog that acts as a postcard from Canada, and I'm resurrecting mine (sans previous dull-as-shite posts) so I can keep people up-to-date on my upcoming trip round the world - yes, woooo, I'm going round the world!

Destinations so far:
  • UK (duh!)
  • India
  • China
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Fiji
  • US
  • Canada...
  • ... and back.

I'm due to set off from the UK in January 2005, so planning the trip starts here!