It is a sad day indeed....

It is with a heavy heart that I bring you this news today. For you loyal faithful readers of iMike you will know that my battle with Facebook has been a long and arduous one. Over the past 6 months, Facebook has sucked my readers away from me like a hurricane does to a duck farm. Leaving in its wake, only the feathers of dignity and self belief. Principles some may say, but principles worth fighting for none the less.

Some may call me a hero, a martyr even for the greater good. Most know I went down fighting the good fight! No....i'm none of those things....I'm not a hero, I'm just a simple boy from the town of Narooma, who, when my number was up and i was called to duty, responded to the call. No...i prefer to think of myself more like King Leonidas who held off 1 Million Persians with his brave 300 at the Gates of Thermopylae!!

And like King Leonidas, although my battle ends in defeat as I sign up to a facebook account today, my story has become a symbol of courage against overwhelming odds. The monster that is Facebook!!!!

So in saying goodbye, i shall close with some quotes that capture the moment precisely...as of today, I will become a Persian.

Stelios: It is an honor to die at your side.
King Leonidas: It is an honor to have lived at yours.

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King Leonidas: [points to Arkadian soldier behind Daxos] Hm... You there! Arkadian what is your profession?
Free Greek-Potter: A potter, sir.
King Leonidas: [points to another soldier] And you, what is your profession?
Free Greek-Sculptor: Sculptor, sir.
King Leonidas: Sculptor
[turns to a thirdrd soldier]
King Leonidas: And you?
Free Greek-Blacksmith: Blacksmith.
King Leonidas: [turns around to Spartan soldiers] SPARTANS! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?
Spartans: HA-OOH! HA-OOH! HA-OOH!
King Leonidas: [turning to Daxos] You see, old friend? I brought more soldiers than you did.


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Spartan King Leonidas: Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... For tonight, we dine in hell!


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Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!
King Leonidas: Madness? THIS... IS... SPARTA!


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Please add me as your friend on Facebook..... =)

I have to go so this is going to be quick.

This transformers video is MADDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!! I want one of these suits!!!

I LOLLED so hard when i watched this.

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Ok, i'm not exactly unpatriotic, but when it comes to talent...i don't really know how to say this in a nice way...so i'll just say it....Australia sucks!

When the series "Australias got talent" was on Channel 7 i used to watch it thinking, here we go, finally some quality television to give me a break from the relentless onslaught of Big Brother-esque reality television or super confusing dramas. I was hoping to be entertained and even amazed by what i would see. I gotta say i wasn't either. I mean half of the "acts" were freakshows and it felt like i was watching a circus rather than a talent search...

So imagine my surprise when i came across this on the British version of the show called "Britains got talent", thinking it'd be much the same, and found myself totally blown away, and for the first time in my life...appreciating opera.

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Then i thought, yeah i'll search youtube the source of all goodness to see if this was a once off freakshow or whether they actually do have talent. To my amazement, Britains really got talent.

Acts like l'il Conn'ie were amaz'in....





Dominic blew me away with his smooth tones..





And the animated choir made me laugh...






The man with the monkey was far better than anything i saw on the aussie version..







So finally, not to diss Herb too much..cos i think it actually takes a bit of talent to do what he does...i know i wouldn't be able to blow a tune on a gu leaf.....but if this is the MOST talented person in Australia...then Australia.... we have a problem....

I can have just as much fun on iMike!!!!!!

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Bit of a random one, but has anybody else noticed this "MOOPS" sign on the train doors or is just me? Mainly it's the old silver rattlers that have it. I seem to always find myself staring at it. I'd stand at the door and it's just at eye level where the 2 doors meet in the middle. It's been carved in with some sortta razor or something...

Is it because i'm always catching the same train or has it been etched into a lot of trains as a statement like that guy who chalked "eternity" all over sydney's sidewalks...

So randomm.

Labels: Random

Crime is rampant nowadays. It's everywhere! I seriously can't believe how common it is. My dad owns a small business and he's told me there's been at least 3 or 4 incidents where people has walked right into the shop and taken money straight out of the counter without him even knowing. There's nothing normal shop owners can do about it.
Then there's other stories of people he knew, who had either tried to be heroic by stopping the thieves and ended up with a face full of blood or had been physically attacked even without putting up a fight.

Anyway the point is, these incidents are becoming more and more normal and it's very sad to see the state of Sydney the way it is.
This morning i came across this article about people ram raiding the Royal North Shore Hospital and making off with the money from the ATM that sat inside the lobby.
Can you get any lower??? It's a hospital for goodness sakes. That's where people go who are sick and DYING!! By causing the damage they did they've probably put people lives at risk not to mention they could've killed someone in a wheel chair or something with the initial impact.
It's sick!! And my goodness, how many other ATM's are there in Sydney, why would you choose to hit a hospital? What's next, the local church offering bag? The Orphanage? Those guys who sell the Big Issue?

Instinctively i'd say "where are people's consciences" or "don't people have any sense of what's right" but all i can say it that it's a terrible reminder of the sinful world we live in where people are without God and without care for others. Thank God for Easter coming up and the reminder that God has dealt with our sins once and for all. It is the only hope we have of eternity as we are bombarded every moment of every day with news like this....

Labels: Sydney News

It's the start of the season again and so i must do my annual plug for the raiders and how they will win the premiership this year. This is it! This is the year!

After being tagged favorites for the wooden spoon after having lost their first two matches and South's on a rampage winning their last 3 matches, i was very happy to hear on the radio this morning that they had won their first match of the season against the Knights!

Quite awesome indeed! Go the young guns! Most of them are first time premier league players so if they were to win this year, it's what dreams would be made of.

Go Raiders!!! Go the green machine!!!

Raiders destroy the knights

Labels: Sport