Why are the Friday Q topics always so hard?? :) I have to *think* which is something my brain always protests over :)

FQ1: Where did you live out your childhood years?
I lived my entire life in the one house in Como in Sydney until I moved out of home four years ago. My parents still live there. They actually built the house (well a builder did, but my grandfather designed and drew it). I'd be very sad if they ever sold it.

FQ2: As a child, what was your favorite toy, book, television show, and cartoon character?
Toy: probably "Cutie". She was essentially a lop-sided pom-pom, but she went to America with me in 1983 and round Australia in 1984 and 1985. She is still at my parents' place.
Book: I was never a big book reader. I like Tin Tin and Asterix comics though.
Television show: I have a lot of favourites from my teenage years, MacGyver and Airwolf would have been top of that list. Astroboy and Starblazers I remember liking a lot from my primary school years.
Cartoon character: Maybe Astroboy or the Looney Tunes characters - Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner

FQ3: Charm us with a favorite childhood memory...
We went on some very cool holidays. America for five weeks in 1983 including all the big amusement parks in LA; Western Australia in 1984; Central Australia in 1985; Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands in 1987.

FQ PHOTO-OP: Show us a photo of just how adorable you were as a child.
See right..

Computers are my life. Sad I know. But they feed me and they entertain me. Ironically I don't like to use the shift key. I make the effort in this blog and if I have to send an email to someone I don't know very well. But aside from that, I use lowercase wherever possible :)

100 things about Kazza the Blank One. Bren has had one of these for ages, and I've been thinking I should probably put one together. Just recently Dave and Dennis put theirs up, so I thought I would too. Some of my ideas were stolen shamelessly from them :)

Choosing not to do the Friday Q this week. Actually it hasn't been updated (Dave I know you're in Ireland, but *you* did yours :) ). It's all about criminal activities which I have no interest in. It's bad enough dealing with companies like ebay that support criminal low lifes.

*yawn*

I just saw I, Robot. Thoroughly enjoyed it, even if it was a little predictable.

Went with Sami, he rearranged his social life and could make it. It was a 6:00 "arrival" so that's when we got there, and wandered in with the rest of the crowd down the red carpet - very exciting, never done that before! :) Media and fans everywhere, not to mention rain! hehe Of course all the fans were waiting for Will Smith, and there was a stage setup where Will was going to perform a few songs. But us, we wandered down the red carpet and before we knew it we were in the cinema already. They had the screen setup to show the action outside though, so we got to watch the whole proceedings from inside, out of the rain! We actually saw Paul Mercurio arriving on the screen. Then Will arrived and took him about half an hour to make it down the red carpet, before he got changed out of his fancy suit into rapper gear and did his songs. When that was finished the people that had braved the rain outside joined the rest of us.

We were a group of mostly competition winners by the sounds of it. The people next to us won it from their newspaper in South Australia. The press and celebrities must have been in another cinema.

Someone that had just come in said that Will was waiting outside and was going to come in. First I think it was the producer came in and introduced the film and Will Smith, which was very cool. He just said how much fun the movie was to make and a few other things that I didn't really pay much attention to because I was trying to get a photo. I took my old camera cause it was easier to hide than my big beast, but in the end I needn't have worried, and I should definitely have used my flash, as other people were taking photos of him and didn't get stopped. So alas, none of my photos turned out, but you get that.

The movie itself was highly entertaining. If you liked Minority Report you'd probably like this too.

Thanks TripleM for the freebies, good to know being a Freq was finally worth it :)

Channel 7 ran a show tonight called Living Longer - the National Life Expectancy Test. They asked 45 multiple choice questions about health and diet and family history etc etc and at the end you get a score which you match up against your age and it'll spit out your life expectancy. Of course the website with the calculator was getting totally hammered so I only just managed to get my score. According to that very superficial test, I'm going to live to be 82. Yay. Not. I don't want to ever get that old. Unless my brain still works properly and and I can still get around without pain. My Nana turned 76 this week and while her brain still works, her body doesn't - arthritis mainly and a lack of full recovery from broken bones after falls. It took her ten minutes just to get into the car after lunch (a decent chunk of the family took her out for lunch to celebrate her birthday). I don't think I could live like that. Still I'm most likely to die of cancer before I get old.

You get this. Thanks Dennis, that was hilarious. Scary thing is, I've been to that dude's site before (check out the real-life lego badger badger badger badger ) :)

I was very excited to see the coast line of New South Wales this morning. To see Sydney in a beautiful pink sunrise glow was awesome. Driving on the right (left) side of the road came back naturally. My keyboard and mouse feel big and strange after using a laptop for so long. The internet is moving at a reasonable pace again! My watch says 10pm and time for bed, but the sun is still out after possibly the longest night of my life. Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed, but must resist that urge for at least another few hours.

As seen on Blogograhy and Lost Pilgrim:

1. Do you try to look hot when you go to the grocery store just in case someone recognizes you from your blog?
I wear the same thing to work as I wear out and on the weekends. It takes a very special occasion for me to get out of jeans and a tshirt.
2. Are the photos you post Photoshopped or otherwise altered?
They're just cropped/resized.
3. Do you like it when creeps or dorks email you?
Happens rarely. Usually they're just lusers looking for stuff on kazaa
4. Do you lie in your blog?
No.. I don't think so anyway..
5. Are you passive-aggressive in your blog?
Probably :)
6. Do you ever threaten to quit writing so people will tell you not to stop?
Why on earth would I do that? I started writing it thinking that noone would ever read it, it would just be something for me. When people actually started reading it it was a bonus!
7. Are you in therapy? If not, should you be? If so, is it helping?
No. Probably. n/a :)
8. Do you delete mean comments?
Only the particularly vulgar ones, but they're pretty rare
9. Have you ever rubbed one out while reading a blog? How about after?
What on earth does that mean?
10. If your readers knew you in person, would they like you more or like you less?
Probably less. Only a select few people like me in real life.
11. Do you have a job?
Yep
12. If someone offered you a decent salary to blog full-time without restrictions, would you do it?
If I blogged full time, I'd have nothing to write about now, would I, because I'd be typing about nothing the whole time?
13. Which blogger do you want to meet in real life?
It'd be cool to meet all of them eventually. Although there is a small possibility I may get to meet Dave from Blogography soon, which would be *very* cool
14. Which bloggers have you made out with?
No comment :)
15. Do you usually act like you have more money or less money than you really have?
I don't tend to talk about money much do I? I don't think so anyway.
16. Does your family read your blog?
Me little brother does. Noone else does (I hope). The parents don't know about it, no thanks to the little brother who keeps mentioning it in front of them >:( and it'd better if they never do, since I probably bitch about them more than anyone else.. :)
17. How old is your blog?
Almost a year and half
18. Do you get more than 1000 page views per day?
No. I used to get a lot when people were looking for kazaa and typing kazza, but then google took the links down thanks to http://kazza.id.au oh well
19. Do you have another secret blog in which you write about being depressed, slutty, or a liar?
No
20. Have you ever given another blogger money for his/her writing?
No
21. Do you report the money you earn from your blog on your taxes?
pfft what money??
22. Is blogging narcissistic?
shrug
23. Do you feel guilty when you don’t post for a long time?
A little :) although I rarely go more than a few days without posting
24. Do you like John Mayer?
Who?
25. Do you have enemies?
Noone cares about me enough to be enemies. They just don't care about me.
26. Are you lonely?
All too often
27. Why bother?
Because Vic said I should and I've been doing it ever since :)

Dave from Blogography has launched a new version of the Friday Five, although it's only the Friday Three plus bonus... :) Here is the FridayQ

FQ TOPIC: Escape.

FQ1: What is your favorite way to escape from everyday life?
Movies, especially fantasy movies, eg Harry Potter

FQ2: When was the last time you made an escape? Where did you go?
Tonight, to the movies to see Harry Potter :)

FQ3: If you could escape to anywhere on earth right now, where would that be?
er.. um.. I dunno. To bed! ha! To dream about magical worlds, or at least Jason Isaacs :)

FQ DARE: Post your passport photo (or your driver's license photo if you don't have a passport).
hrm that might be difficult, I don't have a scanner with me, I'll get back to you on that one.