Every day at least 3-4 times a day I get these stupid Big Brother Alerts. I signed up to the BB pack the year before last and I’m still getting these stupid SMS alerts. I really don’t care that Person A and Person B are talking about energy levels. Seriously…who would?

While I’m sick at home I decided to give 3 a call and ask them nicely to stop these alerts. If you’re not aware, 3 outsource their call centre to India. So you end up with someone saying their name is “Paul” or “Sue” when you know it’s not.

I asked this “Paul” to stop the alerts, I never requested them, I don’t want them, they annoy me. “Paul” checks a few things on his system (which I’m certain is all written in Hindi) and tells me that he will need to check with someone else regarding this. Fine, I tell “Paul”, confer away. He comes back to me after I’ve been on hold for oh 5 minutes and tells me “There is nothing we can do about stopping these alerts”. What is that kind of garbage?

At this point I’m starting to lose it slowly. Well if I don’t want them, why am I getting them? “Paul” doesn’t know the answer to this. So the slowly losing it has turned into lost it. Now everytime I call 3 it’s because I have a problem and everytime the calls end the same. Me losing it at the stupid “Paul” or “Sue” at the other end. No they can’t tell me why the direct debit hasn’t changed when it should have. No they can’t tell me why I was charged for something that I didn’t use (this one went on for about 6 months. Every month there it was…a $15 charge for On3 Content I didn’t apply for). They can’t tell me anything!

3 in general isn’t a bad phone company. Hell I love my call cap! And the free minutes..doesn’t get any better than 3! But the call centre lack of knowledge is starting to make me insane. At times I feel as though it’s their way to poke a stick in me saying “We took jobs from Australia! hahaha”. (But that’s another issue) I just want these morons to actually read what is on the screen or learn how to get answers to the questions people are asking.

There also has been on a number of occasions where we have been frowned upon from bypassers just walking on the street simply because we were enjoying a cigerette.

But, even with our attempts in cutting down the intake of cigerettes, maybe we can try a recently announced electronic cigerette as reported on Sydney Morning Herald.

It feels like a cigarette and looks like a cigarette, but it isn’t bad for your health.

Now with a marketing slogan much like the one above would definately be appropriate. According to the sources, a Chinese company is marketing the worlds first electronic cigerette. Obviously it’s a product aimed at the smokers who intentionally do want to quit, yet still want to smoke for two reasons to have the nicotine sensation and also inhaling which most quit-smoking related products on the market don’t include which will set this newly release product high amongst its competitors.

“It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette, it even emits vapour. In many ways, it is like an actual smoking experience, and that’s what makes us different,”

But with the current set price at $252 ($208US) a piece, that might be a limiting factor in terms of generating high sale figures, but if this becomes a piece that can be used time and time again, it may well worth the money. My Fiance and I will be looking at this definately when it will be hitting our Australian shores.

Information Source:Sydney Morning Herald

Although usually it is just a one man team thanks to the brilliant work by Hugh Laurie who plays the character quite well with the unshaven, seemingly unorganised and all round illmannered attributes; which are just a touch of the surface on his personality.

Deep down when you watch a few more shows you see just what kind of doctor he really is, (don’t let the walking cane thing fool you) Dr. Gregory House is a mastermind physician whose unconventional thinking and instincts really set him apart from most other doctors and has landed himself a great deal of respect in the clinic (even though some of his patients may not thinkso)

On first impression, it may seem the producers of this show wanted to follow a similar theme to that of Ted Danson’s Becker, a comedy focused on probably the most illmannered Doctor and followed with a few interesting characters, which made this show some what watchable, but seemed repetitive at times.

House and Becker have one thing in common, the most illmannered doctor is their best bet in treating a patients’ health. But House seems to carry on this further, creating more of a medical drama where the random mishaps are just an added bonus to the show (best of both worlds really).

Now the show is up to its’ third season, you would think by this stage the idea of an illmannered doctor with a high reputation in terms of medical knowledge would get tiring, but this isn’t the case with House.

Of course there are dead periods in the show just like any other popular tv shows like for example; towards the end of season one, when we see Dr. House’s past companion arise on the set along with past relationship issues, sure this was an interesting side of Dr. House we as the viewers never thought we’d see but even at times it just did not fit House’s character well.

The idea of one of the individuals in House’s team to manage contract to a virus (yes I was thinking that, sometimes I have quite nasty thoughts running through my mind) nevertheless it did happen and in season two and Dr. Eric Foreman played by Omar Epps was the victim with an illness from a police officer who had quite a sense of humour spanning this delimma across two remarkable episodes and I must say very brilliant acting from Omar Epps.

And season three had only recently just began on Australian TV, although as most of us there is a substantial amount of internet inspirations to aquiring some episodes (we did purchase season one and season two on dvd) its’ just well season three is obviously not on the shelves yet.

So we are about half way through watching season three and has been great so far, but will save that for another entry later. If you haven’t seen atleast an episode of House, I really recommend you do watch it because I can honestly say it is a great show to come on TV in a long time. Once you get pass all the medical jargon involved in Diagnostic Medicine, it is very entertaining to watch.

We have a “Fully Sick” personal trainer. Not joking. Shaved head and all. Most personal trainers aren’t too bad. They kinda motivate you. This guy has about as much motivation as a limp lettuce leaf.

Our diets have changed and so has our lifestyle. We are now picking up the habit of most creatures in the office workplace. The dreaded workout! You complain about it, you don’t want to do it, but you do it. Why? Because it’s socially acceptable. Packed in like little mice in a lab, running to get somewhere but not going anywhere. Whatever your running towards you will never reach.

But good god is it ever boring up on the treadmill. There I was running my little mousey heart out, when boredom struck. And quiet badly. Mr Ijunky retorted that I looked like I was brain dead. This is the problem with being at the gym, it’s deadset boring. You can’t surf the net, read a book, study or do work. I don’t know how people do it!

Well we will be seeing our “Fully Sick”, lettuce motivating personal trainer tonight again. I hope he can’t smell the Coca Cola on me. I’ve been banned =0(

It was an easy choice to make really. I was unhappy being there. When your unhappy, you gotta pack your stuff and run as fast as possible. Being a contractor I didn’t have much to worry about. I informed them 2 weeks before my contract finished and that was it.

On the other hand I had to leave behind some of the best people I have ever met. Gotta admit that when it came for my farewell I nearly cried. Until Titties hugged me..then the horrid feeling of being sick kicked in. *shudder*

A new adventure awaits Mrs Ijunky now. Who knows where it will lead………..

First item off the rank…fish tank. yeap we got 5 little fantailed kids now. they have a pretty little home (designer tank, designer accessories, designer everything!). They are totally the most well behaved kids i've ever had. Not that i've had kids or anything. but what i would imagine well behaved kids to act like. they are cute though. Pics will be posted soon.

Second item is….A NEW PHONE..!! yeap. Mrsijunky got sick and tired of her pink LG (U880) and decided to get a new Nokia 6280. A friend of ours has it, and after much consideration, I decided that a change for a month would be nice. Mr ijunky is cheering cause this phone he can borrow off me. unlike the rest of the pink collection i have. =0)

yeah and that's it for major purchases in the ijunky corporation. stay tuned for next month when we plan to purchase more entertaining gadgets and dohickeys.

As you may or may not be aware, we have been having some recent deaths in the office fish tank. First the 3 snails, then "captain", and now "Isabel" has also departed from this tanky world. The weirdest looking, but one of the funniest has left.

I had a very special attachment to "Isabel". She was overfed, swam funny, acted what i would think the equivalent to a Blonde fish would act, but she was the greatest little fish in the tank.

When BIG "Kevin" tried to annoy her she just ignored him. (or didn't notice, can't figure out which)

"Isabel" will be sadly missed.

On a closer look, it’s almost like he’s trying to grab that bag of Doritoes or some sort of bag of chips anyway… No, no Dragon Balls here, unless he ate those before hand. Go son, go for gold! I know you can do it, with some sort of hair electrifying magical wave you can have those Doritoes in no time.

…A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golfballs. He then asked the students if the jar was full.They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous,"Yes."

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. "Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life." "The golf balls are the important things – your God, your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full."

"The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car." "The sand is everything else — the small stuff." "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you." "Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal." "Take care of the golf balls first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

"One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend." 

myself and 2 of my work collegues went out and purchased a fish tank, filter and fish. It started with 3, then progressed to 6. Also with the addition of a snail.

Sadly on Monday we discovered "Snail" the Suicidal Snail in a corner of the office. He made a break for it. He didn't make it.

Today however, the fish count grew. We now have 10 fish!

There is "Captain" (who is awaiting a new name), "Isabel", "Kevins", "Sarahs" and "Starsky" & "Hutch" (the last 2 are more Suicidal Snails).

I'm almost certain our boss thinks we are nuts. In some way we all lose a piece of ourselves to the company, but i don't think he expected to gain 10 fish in such a short time.

Oh and have I mentioned that the fish are all reading about how to troubleshoot Exchange Server? You never know. It may come in handy one day.

I unfortunatly would like to announce the demise of both "Starsky" and "Hutch". The poor little fellows were found floating in the water. Hope to get more sucidal snails soon, but at the moment running out of names.

Another sad update. "Captain" was found floating around in the tank. Flushhhh went the toilet for the poor bugger. One of the "Kevins" has been placed in a spindle cover as he is lame. And the rest of the fish are now swimming around in bright blue water as they are all on medication. This fish idea doesn't seem like such a good one.