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Oh There You Are!!!
One of these days I WILL try and visit your beautifull country!!
Can you see your house from here??
Take care OPERA friends........and a big HELLO to all you red dots I can see before me!!!
Waka
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:51:47 AM
Anyone reading this who has a kid, or kids, will know that the kid(s) more often than not, connect with Mum and Dad in slightly different ways.
In my case it would be fair to say that my 9 year old bundle of female fun is in so many ways a "Mums girl". To say that my two favorite girls are close..... would be understatement of the year.
To name just a few things they have in common......a deep love of all things animal, their kindness, their compassion, their constant consideration of those around them....all wonderful traits to have ...I could go on and on about the qualities that they share.
However, as we know......for every upside there is a down 
Mother nature gives you little choice sometimes when you find out that while you take certain 'things' from Mums side, you will no doubt take after Dad a little bit too.
I can only imagine how shit that must be for a kid who has realized their parents are assholes....but lets back up here.......I am SO getting off the beaten track.
Back to the point of this post!!
One area where my 9 yr old bundle of joy and I have ALWAYS connected has been through music........so when she came RUNNING through the door the other day, just in from school, and was shouting Dad!!...Dad!!.....You have GOT TO HEAR THIS!!!........I knew I had to sit up and take notice!!
Turn it up folks, sit back, relax, and ENJOY!!
When a 9 year old is telling you it rocks.......then you KNOW its serious!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bNal4-amdE
Till the next time friends
Waka
Friday, October 7, 2011 2:39:03 AM
I feel just as good after a good laugh as I do after a good cry. But normally, the things that make me laugh and the things that make me cry are WORLDS apart!! Whats all that about??
To any dog owners out there. Have you noticed......you never see dogs stand in dog shit!! I have walked dogs every day for the last 13 years......and not once have I seen them stand in dog shit!! In 13 years, I have stood in it hundreds of times!! Whats all that about??
Women fall for guys the way they are.....and often spend a relationship trying to turn the guy into the person THEY want the guy to become!! Whats all that about??
On a topical note.......Steve Jobs sadly past away yesterday. Love him or hate him, he was a guy with a vision stretching further than the eye can see. Like my hero Frank Zappa, Mr Jobs was a trail blazer in his field. Like my hero Frank Zappa, he didnt even live to see his 60th birthday. Whats all that about??
If a person is sentenced to death in the USA, tax paying citizens of the US will keep that person alive for an average of 16 years before their day of reckoning arrives. What the fuck is all that about??
A friend of mine owns a popular Irish bar here in my town. This saturday, Ireland play a super important do or die game in the Rugby World Cup. Nothing unusual in that, I hear you say. The twist is, the competition is being held in New Zealand. Ireland will play their crucial game at 7am our time. A LARGE crowd of people will gather at my friends bar and BEGIN drinking at 7am!! 7am on the beer?? What the fuck is that about??
Amanda Knox, the pretty young girl from the US (Seatle, I do beleive) was finally released from an Italian prison after having 4 years of her life taken away from her by a fucked up Italian legal system and a Keystone Cop Italian Police force. 4 years of her life that she will never get back...........Whats all that about??
During my younger experimental days, dabbling with magic mushrooms was pretty much par for the course. Where I lived, in the Highlands of Scotland, for one month of the year, these things would grow freely and in huge amounts. Open fields containing lots of sheep were the place to find these mushrooms. Sheep would eat these things just as freely as they would eat the grass, but not one person has ever reported seeing a sheep under the influence of strong halucinagenic substances!! Sheep can eat thousands of these things and not end up seeing God in the clouds!! Whats all that about??
So many questions and never enough time to ponder the answers!!
Till the next time friends
Waka
Saturday, October 1, 2011 1:26:14 AM
So Im working on this Shell project for the next few weeks.
Place of work is the only one of 5 Shell offices in my area that I have not worked in before.
This place is MASSIVE.
3600 people.......and glass and shiny metal as far as the eye can see!
So the other day Im getting ready to go out for a smoke......Im rolling my smoke just beside the revolving door that leads to the garden outside smoking area thing.
Just to my left a very friendly looking cleaner is polishing on one of the squillions of panes of glass he has to choose from.
As he is polishing, and I am rolling, these two Shell guys approach him and very politely say to him.....
'Excuse me........but we were just talking to your supervisor and he told us that you have a PhD!!......No offence.....but if you have a PhD, then WHY are you a cleaner??
Without dropping a stroke with his glass polishing, the PhD looked at them with a smile and said.....'Because I LIKE cleaning'!!!
Till the next time friends
Waka
Friday, September 23, 2011 11:39:47 PM
I am currently involved with a one month survey/data gathering project thing for a very well known oil company that has main offices here in the Hague. together with Houston and a few other places.
From my side......the info gathered as part of this study/survey thing will come from the 3200 people working here right now.
To folks who dont work in places that have 3200 staff in one building complex, this will sound like a lot of people, a lot of data, and a lot of fucking around for nothing.
Part of me would have to agree....Much ado about nothing...........
This brings me to the point of this post.
My pissy little survey involving 3000 something people means nothing compared to a TWO YEAR study I read about the other day that covered ALL OF WESTERN EUROPE.......and get this....the ENTIRE USA!!
Thats right!!
You would have to agree......that is one MAJOR FUCKING STUDY!!!
What were they testing??.....I will tell you!!
Bank notes!!.....Paper money....Dollars....Euros....Whatever!!
Let me just say again...this was done over 2 YEARS covering ALL of Western Europe....and the ENTIRE USA!!!
Want to know the results of this study??....Ok then......I will tell you.....
Results revealed that 96%.......I will say that again......96 FUCKING PERCENT.....of ALL paper money in circulation in the US and Western Europe.......TESTED POSITIVE FOR TRACES OF COCAINE!
If you sit back and think about that for a minute.......can you IMAGINE the amount of snorting that has taken place to contaminate 96% of ALL paper money in circulation????
At the time of typing this I have 90 Euro in cash money in my wallet. Three bills. Two 20s and one 50
I dont know whether to lick them clean or to run them under the tap!!
Till the next time friends
Waka
Saturday, September 3, 2011 11:11:10 PM
3 days ago, a national newspaper here in Holland called De Telegraff (The Telegraph) ran a story that said 20% of all shit that was scooped up from the streets of Amsterdam in the last 12 months was HUMAN shit!!
To be honest, I dont know where to start with this one.....
Mrs J read me the story as I was making a morning cup of tea, but before I would believe her I had to read it myself!!
SO many thoughts and questions come to mind on the back of a headline like that.
But for now......if you ARE in the process of booking one of those Amsterdam Sex Club-dope smoking-Van Gogh admiring-Anne Frank visiting weekends...............just be careful where you are walking
Till the next time friends
Waka
Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:19:16 AM
Despite the Vegas sized number at the top of this page of mine that proudly boasts.... (wait for it, wait for it)....that 102284 people have visited my collection of online ramblings and audio clips........I got the idea while cycling home today that this page must pretty much have zero audience at all these days .
No great shock at all seeing as I barely post anything regular......and lets be honest,... the quality of posts I make are never going to find themselves walking the red carpet with Cameron Diaz pouting just to the left!!
"Is there anybody (still) out there"?.......I thought to myself!
"How will I find out"?....I pondered........... (Be careful with this one at home folks.....asking yourself questions is one thing.......Its when you start to get answers back that you need to worry about it)
So I thinks to myself.....Why dont I post 10 simple questions?.....Then just sit back, scratch my chin thoughtfully, and wait for my invisible army of followers to respond......in their own time....and in their own special way.
P.S. When providing your answers, please try not to use the words FUCK, SHIT, BUGGER, BASTARD, PRICK WANKER, ARSEHOLE etc etc.......or the C word.....such a bad word that I cant even bring myself to type it out.......My daughter will probably read this and I dont want her picking up any bad habits..So watch it with the fucking swearing...The girl is only 8 fuckin years old for goodness sake!!
10 RANDOM QUESTIONS
Q1: What time of day is it as you answer this question??, and where in the world are you???? +++ Example: As I type this, it is 2:43AM, Netherlands time (Central Europe Time).
Q2: What drink (if any) do you have in your glass or cup (mug) as you type this? (I have a small glass with a cold beer)
Q3: Do you like your hair the way it is at the moment?.......or have you been having a little think about a change (cut) ? (I only ask this one cause Im gonna crop mine before we go camping in France next week
Q4: Which of these two everyday things happened to you most recently.....
Did you.......A Tell somebody in your life that you LOVE THEM?
Or............B Did somebody in your life tell you that THEY love YOU?
Q5: What was the first thing you had to eat today??
Q6: If your partner, love of your life etc etc, made it very clear they didnt like your life long best friend...........Would you tell your best friend?
Q7: Do you own a gun?? .......(that you can LEGALLY use to defend your property) (RAVO........You dont have to answer this one, Sir )
This question came up over a chat with me beer friends.... here in the Netherlands, owning a gun for personal, or any other kind of protection, is against the law.
Now....I am in no way a violent person, or in any way gun crazy..........but I have always wanted to try out a 357 Magnum.......JUST BECAUSE........Can I blame Clint Eastwood?? ... Who knows?....But I shudder at the thought of the dangerous trigger happy lunatic I could turn into with a Dirty Harry sized cannon in my little Scottish hands
So the other day me best friend and I are talking about home security here in The Hague, political capital of The Netherlands....very famous city etc etc, and Im telling him that I keep a claw hammer under my bed for ....yup...."home security"........He laughs at me and asks me "Why the fuck do you keep a claw hammer under the bed"? ..."Well..says me .."because we live in The Netherlands and they wont let me have a 357 Magnum"!!
Q8: When was the last time you cried?
Q9: On a scale of 1-10..1 being the lowest...How much do you care about what other people think about you?
Q10: And finally....... if you are still reading this.........Send me a link to the very last thing you read online before taking part in my silly quiz??
This is what I read.....http://freewestmemphis3.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259:july-10th-2011&catid=38:letters-from-damien&Itemid=89
If there is ANYBODY OUT THERE.......thank you so much for your time!!
Till the next time friends
Waka
Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:58:49 PM
F
or best results......please use good headphones & MAX volume where possible.
The song is called BLIND FAITH......the band......CHASE & STATUS!!
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTkZARu0pE&feature=related
Till the next time friends
Waka
Saturday, January 1, 2011 5:06:55 AM
Tonight was the night when we said goodbye to 2010 and in the next breath said hello to 2011.
Mrs J, Waka Jr and myself held a little party for the event. We crammed 15 or so people into our very small house and had a lovely evening.
As I type this at 4.20am I have just said goodbye to the last people (still awake)to leave the house. I almost stood on a sleeping child while walking my friends to the door. Not really sure whose child it is, but Im sure some parent will drop by and pick them up tomorrow. After all, if you arrive home at the end of a late night, surely at some point you WILL notice that one of your children is missing...right?
So anyway.......to the point here........inspired by my Opera friend Ravo.......I thought that before turning in for the night, this might be the time to take a couple of minutes out to outline a few of my hopes/fears/predictions for 2011.
So here goes.....
1: The many many thousands of US and UK military folks (SO many of them just kids) serving in Afghanistan will wake up one morning and realise that the main thing that they are ;protecting; and ;defending: is 95% of the worlds heroin supply. This will result in them downing tools, going on strike, and demanding to go home, at the risk of court marshall etc etc. Our troops walking tomorrow would quickly be followed by the Taliban flexing muscle again, and setting fire to every fucking poppy field they could find. No poppies. No heroin. Thats a lot of pissed off junkies to deal with. In order to justify handing out contracts for synthetic heroin, Obama would be forced to legalise all drugs, leaving people like Ravo and myself ticked off that we had to spend more than a few of our formative years breaking the law here and there just for a bit of weekend entertainment!!
2: Oprah will be invited to the next Bilderberg meeting. And her camera crew will have to wait outside!!
3: The Wikileaks guy WILL realise that if he doesnt pull his neck in he will be jailed as a sex case, commited as a mental case, or find himself on the sharp end of a nasty car accident (I hope Im wrong on that one. But he should be careful)
4: On April 29 2011, when the UK hosts the "wedding of the year", the future King, Prince William and his lovely wife to be, Kate whatshername, will be doing very well if even 20 of their dearest friends make it onto the guest list of the expected 1500 people who will be crammed into the church for the big event!
5: A cure for cancer will not be found.
6: George W Bush will be caught on camera at a party saying "So what if I was holding the book upside down......it was a room full of 5 yr olds......none of them would have noticed"!!
7: Charlie Sheen will donate 10 million dollars of his own money to the next Obama campaign, in appreciation of the fact that the President just passed a law legalising all drugs!
8: Hugh Hefner will die. And he will leave not a red cent of his vast fortune to any of the many plastic bimbos who have spent the last few decades pretending to enjoy having sex with a guy who is older than their grandfather, and who spends all day in his night shirt and slippers!
9: North Korea will crank up the heat on their fellow Koreans in the South. This will of course force a whole can of worms open as "allied nations" will be duty bound to step up to the plate. The potential for any kind of shit hitting many kind of fans here is HUGE!! We can but hope that this one gets nipped in the bud with time to spare!!
10: McDonalds will put out a world wide press statement saying they will refuse to serve any customer who will not accept a salad or fruit with every purchase!
11: A random stranger will send me some pure opium in the mail. Just so that I can try it.......once!
If it was good enough for Sherlock Holmes?..................
12: The hairs that have started to grow out of my nose will realise that if they want to be a friend to me, then they will relocate and start growing out of my head, like fucking normal hairs are supposed to do!
13: I will probably not stop smoking. But god, I wish I could!!
14: My dearest friend (no names, etc) will meet and fall in love with a lovely lady who has the skills and the strength to deal with the "loveable mass of contradictions" that my dearest friend is!
15: Talk show legend Larry King will give an interview stating that when he passes away, he will become the first person to be buried in a coffin shaped like a chair.
16: On seeing the media response, talk show legend Oprah will release a statement saying that when her time comes she will be the first person buried in a coffin shaped like a black female TV billionaire who is scared to tell the world that she is gay! Public interest in this story will be huge, resulting in Harpo Productions (owned and controlled by Oprah) demanding that Oprah appears on the Oprah show to explain herself. Oprah will be interviewed by Oprah. A prime time TV version of somebody talking to themself in the bathroom mirror. Viewing figures will be huge. And when the lights go out and everybody goes home, she will still be as rich and as gay as she was when she woke up that morning.
17. Fuel prices will rise.
18: Despite our best efforts to drive them nuts, at the end of the day, our loved ones will still love us just the same!
19: At the end of the day (again), a year older should in theory also mean a year wiser. If not, then we were not paying attention.
20: I will try not to go through the entire year hoping that somebody sends me some pure opium in the mail!!
Disclaimer: If you have been in any way upset or offended by any of the content of this post then please complain directly to the good people of Opera. After all, they are the people good enough to allow me this little bit of cyberspace that I have just used to offend or upset you! Many thanks!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
Till the next time friends
Waka
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