The spice of life!

Wow, a whole four nights at work have passed by so very slowly,, two nights of boredom and two nights of semi boredom! It;s not been the busiest of weeks at work, which is good in one way in that we can relax a little, but in another way, it seems like each passing hour is 120 minutes long!

While I've either been working, or sleeping the world has carried on revolving, and democracy in Burma has been defeated yet again. The military crackdown in Burma is a reminder that street demonstrations and protests do not necessarily lead to success for the people. The military leaders in Burma have seen that the popular uprisings for a more democratic way of life have been squashed, well at least for the time being. Some say China was partly responsible, the crackdown was like something from a Chinese handbook on how to halt protests. About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests, lead mainly by these compassionate people. The monks are being held at a disused race course and a technical college. Sources from a government-sponsored militia said they would soon be moved away from Rangoon. The monks have been disrobed and shackled, it's believed they will be moved away from the public spotlight, where they will either be forced into hard labour or executed. These demonstrations and protests have been the most serious challenge to the military leadership for more than two decades. And what have we done? Well the rest of the world has stood back and watched, occasionally our leaders, have uttered words akin to 'Oh that's bad, you shouldn't do that' but that was about as far as it went. Oh how easy is it to be complacent, how easy is it to do nothing?

Today has been a relaxing day for me, however not the same for other of my work colleagues, David had a bit of a 'Spice' Meltdown! Now, our David, is a bit of a 'Spice Girls' fan to say the least. I mean he once had to be dragged away by security one time when he refused to let go of Mel C! Anyhow, he got an email saying he was one of the lucky ones and was able to get tickets for the upcoming tour. He had internet problems and this and that transpired against him, but he's got some, he thinks. But, the world of the Spice doesn't stop turning there, oh no, after talking to David, I turned on my PC, checked my messages, I too got the Spice email and now, I'm the proud owner of 4 Spice Girls tickets for one of their shows at the O2 arena in London in January! They are £80 a pop and I don't even like the Spice Girls! Mind you, I'm kinda looking forward to going to the O2 arena, it's what was the Millennium Dome and I haven't been back there since the millennium, so it will be cool to see how much it's changed! So Spice Up Ya World! It was rater strange, in the media it was reported the reunion concerts sold out in 38 seconds, but they went on sale at 9am and I purchased mine just after 6pm! But hey, even if I don't go, I can always flog the tickets, apparently there are currently on sale on eBay for near on £900 each! Now that's one hell of a profit!

Have you every seen that TV prog called Made on MTV and other channels? It's all about these normal American kids who want to do something else, or become something else. There was this young lad, who was a little nerdy and wanted to become a B-boy and brakedance, the main reason was so he could get confidence and pull girls. Another in the series featured a girl who wanted to become a bike racer, so they worked hard on her cycling, the reason, she wanted to get a guy. So far all the Made's I've seen feature young high school students, who want to do something different in order to become more popular, turning their back on their true friends during the process, it's so shallow. Is this what are young people, our decision makers for the future become, completely selfish and shallow? Is there hope for a world, does every generation hate the one before and fear for the future of the next one? Ya never know, maybe they will make a Made, where someone wants to do something positive, for the benefit of others rather than themselves! Maybe, it could happen, but I doubt it!

So that so called singer Britney Spears has been ordered by the courts to hand over her two young children to her former husband Kevin Federline of K-Fed! He's been given custody of Sean Preston whose just two and one-year-old Jayden James, until further notice. Thank goodness for that, at least now Britney can completely self destruct without the children being harmed or put in mortal danger. I mean, if they were still living with her, she might start singing to them which is dangerous enough and that's surely reason to take the poor little buggers away!

52 two years ago, the Hollywood film star James Dean was killed in a road accident in California, USA. The 24-year-old actor was behind the wheel of his German-made Porsche Spider sports car when it was involved in a head-on collision with another car 30 miles east of Paso Robles on 30 September 1955. Dean, who was dead on arrival at hospital had suffered a broken neck along with other injuries had only recently filmed a safety film in which he urged drivers to slow down and not drive too fast and he'd only finished working on his third and last film Giant, the day before the accident. James, only made three films, East Of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant, the latter two not having been released at the time, yet within a year of his death nearly four million people had joined his fan club and his studio was receiving around 4,000 letters every day. Even now, his posters, photos and the very image of rebellious youth continues to make £100 million every year. Of course, like any cult hero, there have been conspiracy theories and rumours, one of which began shortly after his death that he was not actually killed in the car crash but was hideously deformed and is still alive in a Californian hospital. If that is the case, it has to be the best kept secret this world has ever known!

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That's it for now!