My Blue Heaven

Miscellaney

Watched Kill Bill 2 last night. Interesting. T’was not bad… I’m neither here nor there on it. A few things were a bit “huh?” though.

I’m sick. Actually have been sick since the weekend.. I think Buble + Radiohead + public-holiday-staying-up-late-ness did me in. Too many late nights in a row. Plus its gotten so cold now… brrr… and the winter is coming on fast!

Shout out to Sam for being the only one to comment on my previous post. You muh homie too. Worrd. 😛

Haven’t done any exercise or gone to the gym for over a week now! I’m getting a tummy. 🙁 Esp after a weekend full of too much pigging out.

I’m going to see a Rugby match (Waratahs) this Saturday afternoon! Like.. woah… this is so… not me. Never happened before. Never thought it would happen. Never say never huh.

Hm.. can’t think of anymore miscellaney stuff to post about. Gonna go home now, and get some rest. Or maybe I’ll hit the sauna first to sweat out my cold.

Current listening :: “Gone” – Jack Johnson

To Whom It May Concern

It has been brought to my attention that certain people who have a real life relationship with me (ie. see me on a regular basis), who have been reading my blog, have formed some sort of opinion or judgement based upon what I write. And this seems to have affected the way they view me and relate to me. So I would like to highlight the following excerpt (taken from the bloggers disclaimer).

Do not assume that you know everything there is to know about a writer simply because you read their weblog on a regular basis. Any judgements you make will be based on the information they have provided you about themselves, which is probably vague, incomplete or embellished. Whatever opinion you form on them as people, or their life as a whole, is probably best kept to yourself.

And another appropriate excerpt:

If you have a real life relationship with the writer, remember that communication is very important. View weblogs as online journals, no less sacred than a diary hidden between the mattresses. First of all let them know that you read their site, especially if they did not tell you personally.

Basically it comes to this. If you know me in real life, then I would firstly like to call on your respect for our friendship to stop lurking in the shadows, and announce yourself – either by commenting, or by emailing me. You know my email address. If you are not willing to do this, I politely ask you to stop visiting this website altogether. If you want to know what I’ve been up to, then simply ask me.

Secondly, understand that what I write in this blog is not my whole life. It is not the “revealed Word of Kazzart”. It is merely an excerpt, a glimpse, into certain aspects of my life. And recently (due to certain events in my life) it has become more and more about the outer layer of this onion (think Shrek) – and not much about what’s really going on inside the “mind of Kazzart”.

Thirdly, to put it bluntly, this website was originally not created for my real life friends to read (with a few exceptions). It was created for a select few close trusted friends, and for the blogging community in general (yes, even especially aimed at strangers, from all over the world). Now, I don’t mind if some of you read it, if you are able to withhold judgement and take what I write with a grain of salt. If you cannot help yourself, or find this site unhelpful, then I suggest you stop reading.

Lastly, I realise that this is the internet, and that this site is a publically available page, and therefore I cannot have control over who reads it. But what I am addressing is the issue of friendship, and the respect that one friend should have for another. Particularly if the people claim to be christian.

To everyone else – apologies for the unpleasantness of this post. It had to be done.

Kind regards,
Kazzart

Current listening :: “Come Clean” – Hilary Duff

Radiohead

Last night’s Radiohead gig was AWESOME!! 🙂 They are fantastic to see live! 🙂 I had a great view in the GA floor area… we were prob about 4-5 metres from the stage! The vibe down on the floor area was great.. everyone was really into it.. and we were so close to the action on stage, so yeh… awesome stuff!

I also took about a million and a half photos (well, more like 60-ish). The only thing I’m kicking myself about now is that I didn’t take any video!! 🙁 Argh! I sooo should’ve taken a few small snippets of video.. esp when they played older stuff like “My Iron Lung”, “Paranoid Android” and “Karma Police”. I had a friend sitting in front row seats though, who took a few video snippets. Will be getting em off him sometime when we do a photo swap. Anyways, I’ll upload my photos sometime, probably next week when I get back to work.

Following with my usual tradition of buying a t-shirt at every major gig, I bought myself my first Radiohead tshirt. 🙂 They only had one which I liked the colour of – the beige one with “We suck young blood” lyrics on it. Unfortunately they didn’t have x-small.. so I had to do with small, and hope I can shrink it a little in the wash. Good shirt to wear to church sometime… 😛

Current listening :: “Electioneering” – Radiohead

Bubl

The Michael Bublé concert at the Opera House last night was fantastic! He is a consummate performer – really getting into it, joking around with the audience. He’s quite the comedian too. Makes for a very enjoyable and feel-good concert! 🙂 Took some photos (no flash though – had to use the long-exposure/ night mode). Check em out!

Anyways, check out my gallery for some more piccies! I’ll upload some more stuff later (I took two small videos with my digital camera during the performance.. *cough*). Also, for the girly girls, clicky here for my first wear of that new pink coat! 😀

I really have to dash now.. got the Radiohead concert tonight! Wooohooo! Can’t believe its finally here!

Current listening :: “Airbag” – Radiohead

Updates

Check this out. Scroll to the bottom of the page. 🙂

In other news, I almost made myself sick this morning. I was trying to be healthy, buying myself a fresh Viva Juice called “Ruby Red” (advertised as “A juice to cleanse and energise”). It contains Beetroot, Carrot, Celery and Apple and tasted pretty disgusting. I had to scull the thing down.. and man o man, my guts weren’t happy after that. Felt like throwing up for a while.. but things calmed down after a few minutes.

Then a few hours later…. well, lets just say they weren’t wrong when they said “A juice to cleanse..” 😛

Anyways, tonight I’m gonna be seeing Michael Buble live at the Opera House! Woohoo! I’ve heard that last nights performance was awesome.. so yeh.. can’t wait! 🙂 And then tomorrow night I’m gonna be seeing Radiohead at the Entertainment Centre! Argh!! :))

Then its the long weekend.. and hopefully this time, it’ll be a weekend of much needed rest and fun. I’ll hopefully be going clubbing on Sunday night! Perhaps Superjamm at Cockle Bay.. anyone know of any other good/better R&B events on that night? Just really need to get out, let my hair down and have some fun. 🙂

Current listening :: “Baby Boy” – Beyonce

Celebrity sighting!

Omg Omg!! I just saw Usher at Pitt St mall…! Shopping in Industrie at first, and then out in the mall. He attracted quite a few people.. esp the girls.. haha. But his bodyguard (black guy in a black suit) seemed unwilling to let anyone near, not even for autographs. He was just there with a friend or 2, and the bodyguard. I’m so kicking myself for not having my camera on me at the time, but a friend took a photo with his phone, so I’ll prob get it off him to post up here.



He’s actually kinda short. And he just looked casual.. jeans, white tshirt, black cap. I probably wouldn’t have recognised him if a friend hadn’t pointed him out to me, coz I’m not that familiar with what he looks like.

Anyways, so yeh, that was my excitement for the afternoon! 😛

Current listening :: “Yeah” – Usher (Ft. Lil’ Jon and Ludacris)

Imitation.. the highest form of flattery?

Oh. My. Gosh. I got the shock of my life this morning. I was doing my usual checks through my sitemeter, when I noticed a strange url coming up. So I click on it, and what do I find but an almost EXACT duplicate of my website! Not only did this guy rip off my code and design, he also ripped off my content. The main welcome page content is exactly the same as mine (at the time of ripoff), with him substituting my names/links for his ones.

Here is the site: http://home.comcast.net/~sdrls/main.htm. Check it out for yourself and do the comparison.

I’m just….. speechless.. Really. Not only did he blatantly copy my site, he was really really stupid about it as well! For example, some of the links on the nav drop-down box still go back to my site!! And my webcam thumbnail image is still up on some of his pages. Also, on some pages, he is still using my sitemeter code (which is why it showed up on my site). He is also stealing my bandwidth a little, by using some images which reside on my webserver. (Although he has at least created his own header image.)

This is the second time someone has ripped off my website/design. And I guess it is a compliment that people think my design so good, they want to copy it. But really… can’t they at least change it a little, so it’s not so blatant? At least try and come up with something of their own? I don’t even mind if they use ideas from my site – coz hey, thats what I do too. If I come across something that I think looks nice, or is a really cool new functionality, and I think it would work with my site, then I’ll come up with a way of implementing it into my site.. like something as small as how my navigation dropdown list works, or the greyscale fade on my webcam image… they are both ideas I got from some website I’d come across. Nothing is truly original. But yeh, blatant ripoff…. I mean, surely he could at least come up with his own welcome message!?!? *shakes head in disgust*

/rant

Going through that site, I felt like I’d entered the twilight zone..

Current listening :: “Fired” – Ben Folds

Denied!!

MT-Blacklist comment denial on my blue heaven:
(levitra|lolita|phentermine|viagra|vig-?rx|zyban|valtex|xenical|adipex|meridia\b)[\w\-_.]*\.[a-z]{2,}

Bwahahahahahah. DENIED!!! Muahahaha… that feeeels gooood!

For many months I have been struggling against the dark forces of spam and p0rn commenting. Finally, I decided to investigate the matter, and discovered this helpful Movable Type plugin that blocks a large (constantly updated) blacklist of known spammers & spam content. The above was the first spammer to be denied! So I guess it works. Woooohooooo! 🙂 No more fruitless attempts at IP banning for me!

Revisited

Am feeling better today about stuff. Appologies for the rant yesterday. I had a number of concerned people’s contact me, asking if I was ok. Thankyou for that, but I am doing fine. I think it had more to do with timing of events than anything else… as in too many “bad” things happening at once. And also the fact that my body had decided to start “surfing the crimson wave” at the same time, can make one feel unable to cope.

Anyways, the problems haven’t gone away… but I’m just feeling more.. “meh”.. about it all. Like water off a ducks back.

Been listening to some George. Nice. I quite like this one, a B side off the “Breathe In Now” single, called “Quiet Day”. I like their older stuff better. Esp the quieter acoustic piano/guitar songs.

That is why I hope its okay
for me to just be now
I just need to have a quiet day
And watch things fade away
I think I’ll just sit here
and watch you all go by

That is why I hope its okay
for me to just be now
I just need to have a quiet day
And watch things fade away
I think I’ll just sit here
and watch you all go by

Retail Therapy

I went shopping on Sunday, and bought myself a new pair of shoes (finally!) from Colorado. They’re apparently the latest in the range. I also bought a new white zip-up top/jacket, on sale for $20 from Cuté. Yay! 🙂
Check em out!

Current listening :: “Quiet Day” – George

Crabby

Argh. I feel like crap. Slept at 2am last night, and missed the bus this morning. Got a headache at the moment too. I think I need to go to the gym… have a good workout and stretch, relax in the sauna for a bit, then take a nice, refreshing shower. I’ll let you know the result when I get back. Ciao for now. 🙂

[Update]

Hm…. feeling much better now. 🙂 No headache, relaxed, refreshed. Bit tired though.. in a “I’ve just had a tough workout” kinda way. Hm.. methinks it is time for lunch! Yumm..

Current listening :: “Fourth of July” – Mariah Carey

Back in the grind..

The worst thing about a holiday, is that it has to end…. that inevitably you’re gonna have to go back to work. And even worse, you’ll probably have a number of tasks that were lining up for you whilst you were away.. *sigh* How depressing. Hence, I am trying my utmost to procrastinate for as long as possible. 😛 Even though, I probably should start tackling those tasks… blah.

Though, my easter long weekend wasn’t really a holiday. More like…. volunteer work. 🙂 I went as a bible study leader to my church’s youth houseparty down at Fitzroy Falls Conference Centre. It went pretty well! The talks were great, my bible studies went smoothly (albeit a bit quietly), the entertainment nights were fun, the skit night hilarious (esp all the cross dressing – what was WITH that?? – and William Hung impersonations… hehe such crack up).. and much fellowship and fun was to be had by all! There were only a few hitches here and there… I think I got sick from the moment I arrived down there. I forgot it would be quite a bit colder… so I didn’t bring enough warm clothes. 🙁 Also there were a few.. run ins.. between particular person(s) and some leaders (& kids).. which I’m sure will be brought up at some point. Anyway.. I have my own personal opinions (read: gripes) on the matter, which won’t be elaborated here lest I be shot down for being whingy. Though, I will give a shout out to the person who mooned the “enforcers”. Hahaha. That was pure class!!

Aaaaanyways… I took lots of pics with my (parents) digital camera, which will go up soon… ish (emphasizing the “ish”).. after I knock over a few of the aforementioned work tasks.

Argh…. I just remembered…. I can’t upload any today…. I forgot to bring the usb cable. Grrr.

Oh, just HAVE to mention this….. one highlight of the weekend for me…. hehe… wait for it….. there was this absolutely adoooorably gorgeous friendly kitten at the camp site (owned by one of the cooks)!!!! He was soooooooo sooooooo friendly!!! Like during the trivia night activity, I took him in to keep our team company, and he just spent the WHOLE night sleeping on people’s laps, even through the shouting and screaming and cheering… he was almost comatose. He’s just happily purr away and sleep in someone’s lap. And the funniest thing… he would start cleaning himself sometimes, then during mid-lick, he’d just fall asleep… hahahah… so funny!! Argh…. he was just sooo cute and friendly and docile and…. argh!!!! He would let ANYONE hold him. And as soon as you put him on ur lap, he’d just circle round and curl up happily. Also his meow was sooo cute. At night, he would meow outside our cabin door!! One night, he even woke me up in the middle of the night with his loud meow! I want a kitty like that!! Why can’t Coltrane be more friendly like that?!?

/rant. Phew… ok… I’m alright now… really… I’m not crazy…. I just like cats. You got a problem with that?!?!? 😛

Oh, and I watched “Win A Date With Tad Hamilton” yesterday. Heheh.. girly flick.. yay! Kate Bosworth is sooooo pretty in that movie!! The movie itself, wasn’t bad. I mean I’ve seen better girly flicks, but its still pretty sweet. The ending is nice.. I even shed a few tears. :_)

Current listening :: “Some Kind Of Miracle” – Kelly Clarkson