THIS IS SPARTA

A day spent learning about the Olympics... it was actually quite interesting. I mean.. did you know that every single country's flag has at least one of the colours on the Olympic flag? That the first Olympics was in 776 BC and that its called a marathon because the Greeks won a war against the Persians in a place called Marathon, and ran the 26 miles to Athens to spread the word of victory.

The best part though... when the speaker said, "It is alleged that the messenger then ran from Athens to Sparta... does anyone know anything about Sparta?"

A moment of silence passes as the kids look around...daring each other to say it...

I wondered what was going on, and realised a second too late as a kid stands up and shouts....

I can't believe it. I've waited months for an opportunity to shout this.. and I was beaten by a 12 year old.

No.

Good Gordon...I don't care what anyone says, it is not OK to put 'I snuck into a park and made love to a male friend of mine' as your facebook status. -.- NOT ok.

Mum actually kinda looked like this...

no, YOU'RE annoying

Anyone that has spent time applying for jobs knows the inner rage it brings out. Stupid questions like; why do you want to work for this company? ... and you don't even remember which company you're applying for, but you have to make up some utter BS about how much you adore it.

Well I had been doing this all morning, and all yesterday anddd the day before anddd the day beforeee (there were definite drinking binges in between these) so I was in a bad mood.

Mum comes home and starts eating... and while i'm sure to a person in control of their emotions it would have been almost silent, but to me it was like a hippo inhaling some sort of dead animal. I look at her.... she looks back... I look at her again... she says "what's the matter with you"... I reply like a moody teenager; "nothing -.- .. except you being annoying"....

Here is probably where she should have slapped me for being a whiney little bitch... instead she says,

"no YOU'RE annoying".....

so I say..."no YOU'RE annoying" ...

"NO YOU'RE ANNOYING"

"noooo you're annoying -.-"

 and this goes on for a good three minutes with only slight variations like,
"no, listen to yourself, YOU'RE annoying".

To be honest, she helped...I got out some of the childish rage I was feeling.
But still... she was the annoying one. Not me....

Idiot in daily life

Stupid things happen to me... daily. I figured it was time to write some of them down so people can feel better about their own lives.

For example... today I went to climb Bukit Shabandar... 5 minutes in, I realised I needed the toilet and couldn't wait. Soooo I forced mum to go back to the toilet at the start with me so I could prevent having to wee in the jungle.  I wandered in, casually slipping on the inch of water that seems to be present in EVERY Bruneian toilet, and saw what was essentially a hole in the ground and a door with no lock. People walking in on you in a normal toilet is bad enough, but the thought of someone witnessing the awkward crouching over a hole situation was horrendous... so I had to go and get my mummy to hold the door closed for me... I then couldn't find the flush, and mum had to come in and do it for me. I feel like the whole experience highlighted the fact that I am, in general, shit at life.