I registered a few books with book crossing and let them loose. If you find any of them please do leave a message!
Details of the three books can be found here:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/222-7362132
http://www.bookcrossing.com/001-7362146
http://www.bookcrossing.com/327-7362142
Update: The books were caught and a reply to my message left at bookcrossing.com. Check it here.
Update: Just released on more book: http://www.bookcrossing.com/155-7729828
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Sunday 19 April 2009
Thing #26: Recycled
In the past it was a bit of pain (well more than a bit) to recycle as there was not an easy way of disposing the recycle materials. This has finally been resolved as our City Council brought to each household in our neighbourhood a proper full size recycle bin. Since then, I have recycled about 50% of all my waste (at least as far as the volume is concerned). Even better, it took some time to actually fill both bins, which a) is good news for the environment as I do not consume much, hence I waste less b) I do not need to take the bins every week to the designed area for emptying them. Saving the environment saves me time, so it's a pretty good deal if you ask me. Now that this blog is even more environment-friendly I can claim Thing #26: Help save the environment competed for the second time!
Tuesday 14 April 2009
Statistics
In the last two years this blog had about 3700 visits which is not bad considering I have not told many people. Before anyone claims that he or she has visited the site 3700 times they should pay attention to the fact that these visits correspond to 2940 different visitors. In anyway... many thanks for spending 1 minute and 14 seconds of your life reading my posts every time you visit this blog.
- 3,697 Visits
- 2,940 Absolute Unique Visitors
- 7,081 Page Views
- 1.92 Average Page Views
- 00:01:14 Time on Site
Thing #56: Know who your friends are
I was checking the evaluation form that is suggested by the book in order to figure out who my friends are. This included items such as:
- Lied to you: how would I know?
- Humiliated you in front of others: I can do that by myself, but any help is always welcome
- Told other people your secrets: perhaps I am telling them 'my secrets' so that they can actually tell other people
- Refused to apologise for something they did or said to you that was wrong: not really, after all they don't want me moaning to them for the rest of their lives... oh and I will most certainly do so
- Borrowed money from you and not paid it back: nah, good bills make good friends
- Blamed you for something they did: that would not work, as I am beyond any suspicion
- etc etc
Well, I could not fault anyone I know which either means I have many good friends or that the evaluation list requires a reevaluation. Either way Thing #56 is a thing of the past.
Sunday 22 February 2009
Thing #18: Win Something & Thing #68: Take Part in a Tv show & Thing #100: Meet someone famous
I was thinking of what to post for Thing #18: Win something and two stories came to mind, one which involved winning prizes in radio shows. That reminded me of Thing #68: Take part in a TV show. Interestingly, television is the only media I have not featured actively in one form or another. Well I have been mentioned I suppose and even appeared randomly! So, as I always had a passion for radio, I thought to put forward those prizes I won back in... 1994 (yes that's correct, 15 years ago) in a local radio show. I even remember, a couple of the questions, .e.g. one asked where is the Atomium. Piece of cake!
To win my other prizes though I had to put far more effort than just use my trivia knowledge. So I prepared my submission for this competition and went to the night of the awards full of confidence. I even prepared a speech.. just in case! Anyway, I arrived at the gala, sat down and had a look at the programme which listed all the competition entries... only to find that I was not listed! I was disappointed to say the least trying to come up with why that would be the case. Anything from my submission did not reach them to I was THAT bad! After a minute I thought I should at least enjoy myself. So, to cut the story short, I enjoyed my dinner, while they started announcing the prizes one by one (similarly to the Oscars). I was very surprised to listen to the presenter announcing that I was nominated for one of the categories. I thought to myself that's better than nothing. Even better than that, was that I won the second prize in that category! By that stage I was thinking this is not as bad after all and how can it be when your hopes are crashed as mine were originally. Anyway, they continued with the prizes and got to the last one, which was the overall award. I was surprised (but not as surprised as the first time) to find out that I was nominated again. Second time lucky and I got to win tho overall prize! Not bad considering I was not even mentioned in the programme.
Replaying the evening in my head while writing these few words also reminded me that the overall prize was presented by Diego Luna, an actor who had recently played in the 'Terminal' with Tom Hanks. So, I suppose I can even put that forward for Thing #100: Meet someone famous (an update on this can be found here)
To win my other prizes though I had to put far more effort than just use my trivia knowledge. So I prepared my submission for this competition and went to the night of the awards full of confidence. I even prepared a speech.. just in case! Anyway, I arrived at the gala, sat down and had a look at the programme which listed all the competition entries... only to find that I was not listed! I was disappointed to say the least trying to come up with why that would be the case. Anything from my submission did not reach them to I was THAT bad! After a minute I thought I should at least enjoy myself. So, to cut the story short, I enjoyed my dinner, while they started announcing the prizes one by one (similarly to the Oscars). I was very surprised to listen to the presenter announcing that I was nominated for one of the categories. I thought to myself that's better than nothing. Even better than that, was that I won the second prize in that category! By that stage I was thinking this is not as bad after all and how can it be when your hopes are crashed as mine were originally. Anyway, they continued with the prizes and got to the last one, which was the overall award. I was surprised (but not as surprised as the first time) to find out that I was nominated again. Second time lucky and I got to win tho overall prize! Not bad considering I was not even mentioned in the programme.
Replaying the evening in my head while writing these few words also reminded me that the overall prize was presented by Diego Luna, an actor who had recently played in the 'Terminal' with Tom Hanks. So, I suppose I can even put that forward for Thing #100: Meet someone famous (an update on this can be found here)
Thing #23: Learn to do a card trick
This was straight forward and worked first time, although I could have had a bit more practise to make it look more convincing. You may remember my previous awesome magic trick too. Check it out here.
Saturday 14 February 2009
Thing #91: Send a Valentine Card
This is a relatively easy Thing to complete provided you remember to do this! I forgot to do it last year, and I had to wait for a whole year for Valentine's day, before I could send out my card. So, without further delays, I can claim this Thing done!
PS: Happy Valentine's day if you are celebrating today (if you are a florist you are are most likely celebrating anyway!). If not, no worries, those in love have a day to celebrate their love. Those single ones, have 359 days to enjoy!
PS: Happy Valentine's day if you are celebrating today (if you are a florist you are are most likely celebrating anyway!). If not, no worries, those in love have a day to celebrate their love. Those single ones, have 359 days to enjoy!
Thursday 12 February 2009
Thing #44: Teach your grand parents something new
Well, I did get to teach my grand mother something but video conferencing with her is probably as close as I will ever get to completing this Thing! Perhaps I should teach her how to blog and socially network too!
PS: This is the first time I manage to complete all Things in a row in my To Do table in the panel on the right!
Update: Another take on this Thing
PS: This is the first time I manage to complete all Things in a row in my To Do table in the panel on the right!
Update: Another take on this Thing
Thing #66: Have a snowball fight... and have fun in the snow
I threw a few snowballs here and there, but I could not say I had a proper fight. At least, there was enough snow to have some fun and make a snow man! That was enough fun for a day!
Saturday 24 January 2009
Happy new year!
Well it's almost February, but better late than never so... Happy New Year! Oh, and happy birthday to this blog too which still goes on after two years! It's not just that holidays and work have taken priority the last few weeks and I did not get to post something. You may recall that I had put a few things on Ebay for sale so I had to wait for the listings to expire and see if there was any interest. And there was not.. so now I have to go with plan B or even try something else. I will literally keep you posted!
In anyway, I hope you all enjoyed your holidays and look forward to a great 2009!
In anyway, I hope you all enjoyed your holidays and look forward to a great 2009!
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