Fickle Friends

How do you tell an old friend that they are behaving like a bastard? One of my friends is driving me mad. I've known him since I was in high school. We've been through a fair bit together and he's always been a bit unreliable but now it's starting to feel like an insult.

I haven't actually seen him at all for the last 2 years. He only gets in touch once in a blue moon. The last time I received a text announcing the birth of his son - great, considering I didn't even know he was in a relationship, let alone pregnant! And the time before that he called me at 2 in the morning wanting to know if I was out on the town - I was, up until he called, asleep because I was not well!!

I think the last time we actually spoke when he was supposed to be my 'date' for my friend's wedding a while ago, but cancelled literally 5 minutes before he was supposed to have been at my house to go!

I've added him as a friend on Facebook and not entirely sure if I should keep him there.

Would you say that's the behaviour of a good friend?

Mini High School Reunion

A mini reunion was organised for last night at The Paddo (Paddington Alehouse in Mount Lawley).

I recieved the invite via Facebook which said "Reunion at The Paddo from 8 onwards".

I arrived at 9 went inside and proceeded to look for the private function signs (as you would assume they would have up for people to gather) but couldn't find any. So I wandered around the several bar areas they have there, looking for a familiar (if somewhat older) face but couldn't find anyone after half an hour.

I went back to my car, but didn't give up at this point.

I rang another high school friend who was going to drop in to the reunion on her way home from another function but only got her voicemail. I left her a message to call me so we could go in together - she never answered.

After about an hour, I tried again, this time I even resorted to planting myself outside the toilets and still no joy.

I got chatting with a group of people who were backpacking around Australia, but ended up leaving by about 11.30.

I checked out the photos on Facebook the next day. A guy I'd had a secret crush on was there and he looks exactly the same and still does it for me.

Hopefully for the next one it will be a bit more organised.

Movie Review: Mamma Mia

I quite enjoyed this, although there were many *cringe* worthy moments from the very beginning. I loved it when Colin Firth's character 'came out' at the wedding. Hillarious!!!

Plot: An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited daughter she’s raised alone. For Sophie’s wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends but Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna’s past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. New love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities.

Bingo!

A couple of the girls and I went to Bingo tonight after work. I haven't played bingo in 15+ years (Mum used to take us out every now and then to the big one in Bayswater which has since closed).

We each contributed some food, although I did forget a knife to cut the Camembert which made things interesting - crackers do not make a good knife!

I ended up winning $10 and was waiting for 1 number for ages on the jackpot which was $700! Spewing!

It was great fun and it looks like it will be a regular thing.

Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda

I wanted to hold off on seeing this until all the kiddies went back to school because I knew it would be packed at most sessions and that all the young kids would be running around the cinemas or talking throughout the whole thing.

I can't wait to see Wall-E. (They showed the preview for it!) He looks so cute, but funnily he looks very much like No.5 from the movie Short Circuit (No.5 is alive)

Plot: Po the Panda is a lowly waiter in a noodle restaurant, who is a kung fu fanatic but whose shape doesn't exactly lend itself to kung fu fighting. In fact, Po's defining characteristic appears to be that he is the laziest of all the animals in ancient China. That's a problem because powerful enemies are at the gates, and all hopes have been pinned on a prophesy naming Po as the "Chosen One" to save the day. A group of martial arts masters are going to need a black belt in patience if they are going to turn this slacker panda into a kung fu fighter before it's too late.

Movie Review: You Don't Mess With The Zohan

I am really starting to like Adam Sandler's movies - mostly the recent ones and found him especially good in the last one I saw him in - Reign Over Me.

In this movie I thought he looked better before his makeover with the curly hair. Mariah Carey proves she can act by playing herself (yeah right!)

Plot: Zohan Dvir, Israel's hero and their greatest counter-terrorism army commando who, after growing tired of his Israeli post-draft's standing service, fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream: becoming a hairstylist in New York.

Movie Review: Hancock

I was treated to lunch at a nice cafe and this movie for my birthday by a friend. Another friend was supposed to come but she was too hung over from the night before. ;)

I really like Will Smith as an actor, I liked him in Independance Day (my kind of humour) and also in I Am Legend (a great movie!!)

It was humorous and quite enjoyable, though predictable.

A good movie for the teenage boys.

Plot: There are heroes…there are superheroes…and then there’s Hancock. With great power comes great responsibility – everyone knows that – everyone, that is, except Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic and misunderstood, Hancock’s well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough – as grateful as they are to have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn’t the kind of man who cares what other people think – until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Facing that will be Hancock’s greatest challenge yet – and a task that may prove impossible as Ray’s wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), insists that he’s a lost cause.

Random Facts 22

1. Babies have the strongest sense of smell. They can recognise their mothers by scent.
2. Orchids release a chemical that intoxicates bees.
3. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than at any other time of the day.
4. Chicken soup was believed to be an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.
5. Kilogram for kilogram, humans produce more heat than the sun.
6. The Peanuts comic strip was first called Li’l Folks.
7. Four Weddings and a Funeral was the first British film to break 20million pounds at the box office.
8. The sound a camel makes is called nuzzling.
9. Hard-boiled eggs will spin. Uncooked or soft boiled eggs will not.
10. 24 carat gold is not pure gold. Pure gold is so soft that in can be moulded by hand.

A Nice Catchup

I caught up with an old high school friend for a coffee and a chat out at Midland today.

She has 3 kids - her oldest, the only boy, is 13! And her other 3 girls are all under 6! And she looks fantastic considering!

We've been chatting on Facebook and IM over the last few weeks. I must admit I was a little reluctant to catch up, only because I've stacked on heaps of weight over the years, but I thought what the hell!

We reminisced about all the guys we had crushes on and all the scandals that happened when we were at school. Sometimes I miss those days....

Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian

Now that I am finally on holidays, I can treat myself to all the movies I've been dying to see.

I've only just watched The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe so could follow the story (having never read the books I had no idea what it was about)

I think it was a great movie - the first one better than this (as is nearly always the case).

Plot: The Pevensie siblings are magically transported back from England to the world of Narnia, where a thrilling, perilous new adventure and an even greater test of their faith and courage awaits them.