Rum Barrels - aka Baby Elephant killers

Last night I cruised along to a 33rd birthday party at a Thai themed place called “Mai Kai”. It used to be one of the biggest and best places to go to in Ft Lauderdale back in the 50s and 60s and today it still rocks. Apparently there was a deal going on that if you bought one rum barrel you’d get another one free. Awesome. So I bought two, giving me 2 free drinks later on. A couple of points must be made: ...

Jan 15, 2005 · 2 min · Kristian Golding

Quote of the day

My friend said this to me whilst I was talking to him on the telephone. I didn’t actually realise this myself… It’s not easy making lots of money Damn. Damn. Damn. Oh well, I better save up some money for those lottery tickets.

Jan 12, 2005 · 1 min · Kristian Golding

North Korean hairstyle guidelines

Found this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4157121.stm whilst trawling the net, where North Korea has launched an ad campaign against long hair. My favourite part of the article, because it’s just so stupid: It stressed the “negative effects” of long hair on “human intelligence development”, noting that long hair “consumes a great deal of nutrition” and could thus rob the brain of energy. How the hell does long hair consume any more nutrition when hair comes out of the scalp dead? I’m looking for some “gotcha” phrase. I can’t find one. The mind boggles.

Jan 11, 2005 · 1 min · Kristian Golding

A supercharged weekend

NOT! This has been the biggest weekend of nothing I’ve ever had. I was feeling like crap all of last week at work. I think it *may* have had something to do with my trip over to California. Hmmmm… So I spent the whole weekend recovering in bed. I also discovered cable TV this weekend. Normally, I’d only turn the TV on to watch “The Daily Show” on the Comedy channel (oh, and Reno 911 and Drawn Together). But this weekend I watched the History channel as well and I watched a 3-hour special on stealth technology in the armed forces. Fascinating stuff. ...

Jan 10, 2005 · 1 min · Kristian Golding

It's by the friggin' Monkees!

There have been a few songs bugging me my whole life coz I like them a lot but I don’t know who the hell they’re by (and I don’t know enough of the lyrics to google them). One I don’t think I’m ever going to figure out until I actually hear it on some CD coz it’s some Spanish song from the mid 80’s or something like that. I’ve just solved the identity of one of the others however. I used to listen to this one when I was in Year 1. Yeah, a long time ago. There was a tape player out in the shed and I used to play this song over and over and then sing it at school. The name of the song is “Listen to the band” by the Monkees. I got it wrong at the time, I used to say “Listen to the fan.” It didn’t make much sense back at the time, and last week I thought about it again and determined that it must have been “band” instead of “fan”. A quick google and a download of the song and voila! Mystery solved. ...

Jan 8, 2005 · 1 min · Kristian Golding

Holiday nearing an end

I’ve been heaps out of touch with everyone lately, but my Christmas 2004 vacation is nearing an end. Most of the time I’ve been away from Internet access to update this website. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year! I’ll be updating this website with what I got up to over the break in the next few days and believe me that’s going to take quite a few posts. ...

Jan 3, 2005 · 1 min · Kristian Golding

Merry Christmas to all!

To all who are reading this blog, I wish you a merry Christmas! I don’t know where you’ll be spending yours but I’m seeing what San Francisco has to offer in the way of Christmas festivities. Alright, it’s been a hell of a ride so far and I have to go now for some sightseeing before I get called a nerd again. Checkya later.

Dec 24, 2004 · 1 min · Kristian Golding

Christmas gifts

I’m going to a Christmas party tonight and I’m trying to decide what to buy for a secret Santa gift for a woman who has a good sense of humour and a couple of kids. Three options are currently buzzing around in my head: America: The Book Heidi Klum’s Body of Knowledge: 8 rules of model behaviour “Has Been”, by William Shatner The Heidi Klum book is just up there for a laugh. I could just imagine a mother wanting to take life advice from a model. ...

Dec 18, 2004 · 1 min · Kristian Golding

Lincoln Mall

This mall is one of the most awesome malls I’ve ever been to. It’s the premier mall in South Beach and it’s as pretentious as hell. Everyone there looks and walks like a model. I’d probably be looking like a kid in a candy store or something like it coz there are just so many good things to look at. The girls are absolutely stunning! Hehe. Everyone is always talking to someone on their mobile phones because they like to appear just so damn busy and important. When I went last week for my birthday I saw one girl walking around for about 1/2 hour with her mobile phone to her ear constantly. She didn’t say a damn thing the whole time. It seems either a way of her avoiding being spoken to or a way of feeling important. Maybe I should set up a phone line that people can call and have some automated service dribble $hit to them (and not your typical phone sex service, that’d be just too plain expensive and, I’m assuming, not required for the ladies?) just so they feel important. Maybe I’ve already been beaten to that actually. Hmmm… ...

Dec 13, 2004 · 3 min · Kristian Golding

Slow motion day

It seems that today is one of those days that just seems to drag on forever. I’ve been trying to get motivated to do my work but so far that’s taken nearly 7 hours to do. My body just feels like it’s a ragdoll. I went to see Santos Renuentes play last night at a place called Broadway in Aventura. They were awesome again. They have a new lead guitarist who’s only 24 but he added a whole new dimension to their sound. It was a really, really good performance. I was talking to the band members commenting on how good they sounded afterwards and everyone seemed pretty pumped from the performance. They’re hoping to get a record contract in the near future. Good luck guys! ...

Dec 13, 2004 · 2 min · Kristian Golding