Guerrilla Welfare (and other student pastimes)

MORE FOTOS

So we just got this all singing all dancing printer for the house. it prints fotos, scans, faxes etc etc. anyway, i realised that i have a butt load of fotos that i havent been able to share with you from the past few years, as the have been hard copies, and we've never had a scanner before. but no longer will you have to live this injustice. i have put up my new year eve fotos in hk in the foto album. i didnt really tinker with them that much..so if any are on the side or whatever, i apoliges. the rest of my fotos are at grannys, and andrew and i may be heading over the next weekend as it is the bank holiday, so ill pick them up then.

Anyway. in abit of a sour mood today. not that is just moday...just i found out that life will change and you have no way to stop it. i think ive been listening to too much angry dissilusioned teenage angst music.....dam you fightstar

wont you take me to funky town

its alittle odd that i have had almost my largest number of comments on a post thats about nothing...boredem at best.

anyway...im into my 6th day at virgin. i have officialy made enough to pay my parents back the money i borrowed to go to melbourne. so the rest is mine, all mine. but this not the point of my post.

we have a radio in the office, and for some unknown reason, its tunned to mercury fm, a local radio station that plays "music from the 80s 90s and today". and yeah, there is some great music in that time period thats was mainstream enough to make it on to the radio....but no!!! in an hr you WILL hear:
Is this the way to amarilo (third exit after san antonio, but who cares anyway)
McFly (im worried that im the one whos going to kill these guys)
Busted (even after death the are still releasing stuff. i thought you had to be a good band to be able to that)
Aha- take on me (i sing the reel big fish verison, but no-one can tell until i start air guitaring)

and then add traffic reports ever 10mins for the crawley area, that makes up their play list. i try to explain to my fellow number crunchers that there were other songs made in this 25 year time period and that they can be found if you fiddle around with that little dial on the side of the radio. also that there doesnt seem to be much point in listening to a station that has so many traffic reports when we are INSIDE. but im not getting that positive of a fed back. i think im going to try and over throw the radio censorship of the office...so off to guteamala to raise an army of milita.....we will take the radio by force!

all im asking for is..i dont know...maybe VIRGIN radio. im i crazy to think that?

over and out general jaun phillipea cruz vascoues

A New Start (sorta)

So my old header wasnt making much sense, since i havent been in australia for over a month now. i know, it really sucks. im no longer having any antipodean adventures...im not even having that many adventures.

so im now unvieling the new and improved 'will's blog'..the colonial cogitations. why called you may ask. well it sounded good..thats about it. and i guess it somehow ties in with me living in various colonies around the world, and the fact that i think alot lol.

sit back and enjoy the digitially enhanced entertainment

IM AT WORK

i cant talk, im at work....wait a second, im getting paid to update my blog. im getting paid to write. all my dreams! the fact that virgin has no clue thats what the are paying me for is irrelevent.

on a serious not. its my first day as a ticketing agent, and its going pretty good. there is alot of stuff to get to grips with, but most of it is common sense.

ill give a more detailed account and goss (there are two guys and like 20 girls. sweet!!) when i get home.

peace out playa

First You Get The Job Then You Get The Money, Then You Get The Women

This is week has been 'interview' week. i sent out my CV to select few companies, letting them know that i was available to streamline and increase productivity for their company. yeah right.

i had interviews with Cmed, a relatively new pharmaceutical company that deals with data analysis for all the big drug companies. i was bummed to find out that there isnt a single pill in the entire place...well that they know about. anyway this interview went really well. steve, the guy interviewing me was in his mid 20s and was a keen sportsman. so all i had to was talking about sports, and how my time leading teams has moulded ideally to be a team player as well as your go to man in this pressure situation. i'd be entering lines and line of data, im not sure what kinda pressure situations id be facing, but it seemed to go across pretty well. and i have to say i looked pimping..i think its the first time that ive worn a suit since ive left school. and the first time id done my top button up since i was about 14. Anyway, my second interview was today at virgin for a position in the ticketing dept. well dad took me in and i signed in and waited in the lobby. so, about 10mins before my interview, one of the receptionist looked at me and said, "can i help you", so i explained that i was here for an interview, and then she gave me the most perplexed look every. turns out that today they were having a huge flight attendant recruitment day...and i dont think she thought i was camp enough to make it as a virgin trolley dolly. can safely say i was the manliest guy in that lobby. anyway, after sorting out that i wasnt looking to expanding my horizons by serving drinks to abusive northerners i was taken upstairs to, what i thought was going to be a quite relaxed one on one interview. boy was i wrong. i walk into the room and there are 3 middle aged, very stern looking women seated. i was then cross-examined for the next 45mins, but the didnt break me. i could have bullshited for england. i sounded impressive.

anyway, here the problem, i dont want to except the Cmed job (if i get it) until i know what the virgin offer is. so i have been avoiding the phone and letting it go to answer phone. i think virgin will pay more, and ill always have a lift with dad, and im just going to have to hope that dad is right in saying that ive got the job there no matter what. so unless Cmed offer me a large sum and benefits, im going to have to call them tomorrow and say thank but no thanks. it will be a new experience for me, usual im the on being rejected lol.

in other news. i had the bright spark to go to paris to see a someone (i dont think im aloud to say the name as it might get them into trouble). anyway, mum and dad thought this a good a reason as any to head across the channel and do what ever people of that age do in northern france. thing is tho, my contact for a bed in paris has gone totally AWOL, so unless dom gets back to me within the next 24hrs, im going to be letting down alot of people, which is going to suck.

so i was reading zach braff's blog yesterday, and i noticed that he does alittle "zach recommends" at the end of his blogs, which i thought was a cool idea. so in that vein.

Will Recommends - Pete murray-feeler...hes an melbourne native that does acoustic easy listening very well, with very good use of organ and piano.
- Joshua radin-first between 3rd and 4th...i actually found out about this guy from zach braffs blog. more moody, very stirring, best cover of a smiths song ever in "girlfriend in a coma"

single of the week - Simple man by shinedown

movie of the week - September Sessions (its a surf movie, but not like any other you've seen...great music and pretty pictures lol)

Sorry for the convience

I just want to take a few you lines to pay tribute to a great man and comedian. Sadly Mitch Hedberg died on Wednesday of, what they think, was a heart attack in a hotel room in New Jersey.

Mitch was a different kind of stand up. he never spoke clearly, mumbled constantly and often was extremely spaced on stage. but this unorthodox style was uniquely his, and uniquely funny. many of you will know how much i respected Mitch Hedberg, as i truly believe that comedians are the only people that have there heads on straight in this world. Mitch joins an elite group of comedians who died before their time such as Bill Hicks, Chris Farley and John Belushi. Hopefully he will follow in the same trend, and be greatly remembered and touch people long after he is gone.

i urge anyone who is not familiar with his work to go out and get it. it will put a smile on your face.

heres to a legend who will be sorely missed