No More Drama

No I'm not doing a karaoke version of Mary J. Blige but I'm slightly worried about the future of the blogosphere and it's inhabitants. People are disappearing at an alarming rate and it seems as though no one has anything remotely interesting to talk about (not that I'm one that to talk!).

Where are the poems dedicated to heartache and anguish?

Where are the lame as well as commendable attempts of being funny?

Where are undying declarations of love?

And where are the mind numbing posts that just make people smile or laugh?

Bandwagon

I really need to jump on the Twitter one!

But it seems so complicated! All this tweeting and following and other stuff. Why does anyone care? Can't you just change your FB status to what you want to tweet?

God - I'm showing my age!

No Warmth....

You'd have to live under a rock to know what's not happening on the SL blogosphere right now!

Where has all the warmth gone?!

Clearly rules of blogging etiquette have been broken.

A sad day when this situation is what it has come to.

*Disclaimer* - I don't really want to be "outted" so apologies in advance if I offend anyone or haven't mentioned anyone specifically! :S

A Published Writer!

Today is a proud day in my life! Because I wrote an article for a newspaper here. Well, not so much an article but more of a column. I didn't expect them to publish it but they did! Imagine my excitement when they replied saying they were considering it for publication followed by emails of showing it to their editor followed by confirmation that it would be in today's paper?!

I'm well excited! But it's a really lame piece of writing now that I've re-read it for the 1679th time!

If any of you remember this, guess who got a call last week with an offer of all the photos (all 60 odd of them) for a mere £100?!

Yep - they called and said that they were "clearing their database so would like to offer Miss Scrumpy an opportunity to purchase them (before they disappear into the world forever!)".

Now this sounded too good to be true so I asked them to call back and discussed with B and a colleague - M. Apparently it was too good a chance to miss but M said to make sure I haggle and try and get the price down. I'm not very good at all this bargaining stuff. If you charge me something that sounds reasonable; I won't question it and will buy it there and then (yeah, I'm easy - we've already had this conversation!). When the "sales consultant" called back I told him that I can only afford £70 and thus I didn't want the CD. Cue him putting me on hold for a few seconds to "discuss with his manager" and leave me thinking "WTF is going on?!". He came back 30 seconds later saying he'd "do that for me today". "Oh, why thank you. I'm so grateful" I gushed back - NOT! So in the end between me and B - we only had to pay £35 - result. And they are now on FB in all their pride and glory!

I'm only gutted I didn't go in at least a tenner lower if I'd known it'd be that easy!!!

Spare A Thought....

Dear SL Blogosphere,

Compared to many of you - I am a newbie (in my humble opinion) and not a very goodie. Due to time constraints, I don't read as many blogs as I used to or even my regular visited blogs as often as I'd like to. Hell - I barely get time to comment!

But can you please spare a thought to the non Sinhala speaking readers and offer an English translation to the funny/pivotal points in your posts?

If I ask for too much, I apologise in advance.

Kind regards,

Scrumpy.

Confirmation

It's confirmed. I don't have the jaw strength or stamina to do things that involve jaw action!*

Why?! Because I got tired trying to eat my (albeit very crunchy) cereal this morning!

Seriously - it was soooo tiring!




*Great other half I'd make!

Update

It's been a fair busy week or so and as someone told me (Yes, that was you Tylor!), it's not a proper blog unless you do it everyday. Well, my life just isn't that interesting enough I'm afraid!

Following on from this, the funeral took place last Wednesday. Words can not begin to describe how horrible it was. Open casket ceremony at the house before the crematorium. And he looked so peaceful. The speeches from his infinite number of cousins were heartbreaking to listen to. Especially as they had all once been so close and it seems he shut them out without reason. And to listen to my friend be brutally honest about how he hadn't spoken to his brother - nothing will ever lessen his guilt. :(

Other than that - I've been busy with parties, protests and various other shit mostly emotional! More drama for another post.

I will be back properly soon.

On a brighter note though: my colleague today was asked out by an 81 year old man (who has prostate cancer)! All of a sudden - this doesn't seem so bad!

Oh - and how much did I miss with RD n NB?! It was like a Tamil drama serial that I had too much to catch up on!

Not The April Fool

Shitty start to the month.

What do you do when one of your best mate's lil' brother commits suicide?

There are no words. No amount of consoling. An infinite amount of grief.

19 years old and all he wanted was some love.