Am I the only NZer who doesn’t hate the US?

I’m hoping this isn’t a rhetorical question, but I have this strange feeling that I am the only NZer in NZ who doesn’t the US. Yeah sure, I agree that they have some serious leadership problems, but some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met ere Americans, and I’m willing to make the assumption that they’re not all half bad. I’m an optimist, maybe meeting so many strange Canadians in Korea (not the ones I was friends with, just the rest of them) gave me the flipside view from the traditional US vs. Canada stereotype we have flowing.
Wow, did not mean for this to be a serious post.
In other news, I think I have discovered something about myself today.. I don’t think I’m really attracted to NZ girls, I’m not coming out with Yellow fever, because it’s not just them. On other thoughts, maybe it’s just Auckland, or maybe I’m just making excuses.
In further other news, I had a really good day at work today, down in the supermarket on teh waterfront, talked Korean cookies with some Koreanfolk, got a mini-Spanish lesson from a group of people who it turns out were from Santiago (sorry Lachlan, I cou;dn’t for the life of me remember the name of your city when I was talking to them).
Mi amo Blatano. Is that right? I don’t actually love bananas but that’s about the only sentence structure I know in Spanish.
Well that’s me for now.

Update: One last thing, Sam, or anyone else reading this who can help me, how do you say “I spent last year teaching in Korea” in korean, I’d really like an opening line.
Cheers

Another Update: For those of you who know what I’m talking about, I didn’t get into the Telecom thingy.
Churrr

Update

It’s been awhile, so let’s go through what I’ve been up to, I’m doing some promotional work to pay the bills, whilst still trying to get my head around what I actually want to be doing.

My weekends consist of 8-13 hours Fri/Sat/Sun standing in a mall, harrassing every male passerby to have a look at my fancy new Schick Quattro Titanium Freestyle. Thing is people don’t want to talk to you if they think you’re trying to sell them, it’s amazing what the words “I’m not selling, just trying to get the word out” do. The annoying part is that if you get someone to stop they’re usually keen to go get one because they’re ridiculously cheap for what they are. Ahh, all you rude SoB’s are losing out.

Bought myself a fancy phone for the first time in my life, well it only cost 200 bucks but it slides and play the Final Fantasy theme song as my ringtone, that’s really all I need. I guess the new iPhone didn’t quite whet my interest enough to even come close to being worth the dough (Hear that, Apple, you can do better.)

I’m doing the Tough Guy & Gal Challenge this weekend, it’s a 12km run through swamps and mud and farmland. I haven’t actually been training, so it should be very painful, it’s actually in two 6km laps, so it’s gonna take all my willpower to go round the second time, but I have Tyler’s word that he’d kick my ass if I give up.

In more news, I’m growing my filthy ginger beard again, not that I really like it, but just for shit and giggles, that and there is nothing in my life that needs me to do otherwise, even my job is encouraging me to grow filthy facial hair… we’ll see.

Well that’s all I can think of for now, I’m currently trying to do the rounds and recontacting everyone, if you don’t get one either I’ve talked to you recently or you’re not on Facebook

Hola

Que?

Hola me amigos, me amo sol y senoritas.
Me espanola good, ¿Si?

Housekeeping

Just a little note, it’s nice to get comments from my fans. But can you please write your name in the name box, how am I supposed to make sardonic replies and hold grudges against ‘Anonymous’.

That is, of course unless your given name is in fact Anonymous, in that case I apologize, and why the hell are you reading my blog.

Brad

Fight Back

Okay guys, I know from the outside I might look like an absolute bum and I’m beginning to feel more an dmore people ae thinking I am.I know you mean no offense.

I still have to clear things up. I do not enjoy not doing anything, it’s really not as fun as the brochures say.

I am simply in a time and place in my life where I can afford to take some time to find myself and try and work out what’s happening. I have not given up or anything, I am still going to do great things, I can just afford to try and work out what, rather than jumping into something straight away.

That said, I’m not too sure how much help this process is at the moment, I do realize that it is about time to jump back into life, and physically try some things.

I was hoping to narrow down a general area, or at least rule out the professions that require further education first, but at this point I’m even reconsidering medicine, along with aforementioned things such as engineering and law (probably not).

Yours confusedly,

Brad

The Lion King

I was watching midday C4 today and they had on the top 40 movie songs.

Number 9 or something was “Can you feel the love tonight” by Elton John, and I spent the whole song going, wait a sec, these aren’t the right lyrics.

As I am not one for not knowing things, I then spent 10 min working out what the fuck was going on.

Turns out, news to me, possibly not you, that Elton made two versions of the song, as well as “Circle of Life” and “I just can’t wait to be King”. His versions had more complex lyrics. Case closed

On a side note, did you know that The Lion King is actually based on Hamlet. I didn’t.

Sorry Everybody

Well I know it has been a helluva long time since I last wrote in my blog, to tell the truth I didn’t want to write something until I had sorted out at least one tiny part of my life, that and I can be lazy. However, here it is a post, but without the revelations.

When we last saw our hero he was living in Auckland under the pseudonym Bradley Priest: Student Doctor.

A lot has happened since his last adventure, none of it subsequential, none of it promising. He is currently in hiding deep in the back country of rural Tauranga, living in a warm house and eating for free. Some say he is on the run from the secret organisation AUMSA, others just think he’s being lazy. Neither are correct.

He is on the hunt for answers, answers to the eternal question, “What the hell do you do with a degree in Psychology?”

For those of you who are completely in the dark, I give you my last month in flow-chart form.

Anyways, so I am out of Medicine, running out of money and I have no idea whatsoever what I want to do with my life. I have been spending most of my time trying to work out what I want and I have come to no decisions yet. Goddamn I didn’t want to write this post, it’s kinda depressing.

Anyway there you go, you’re all caught up YAY!

“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away” - Thomas Fuller

I think this quote sums up where my life is at the moment.

Sadly it doesn’t answer any questions.

And now a random picture:

Medicine for Dummies

It may have taken 4 months but finally a lecturer explained the basis of medicine in a way that I can understand.

PACMAN EATS ALL THE BAD STUFF!!

Coincidentally this was actually the most complicated ununderstandable lecture I’ve had in a long time.

This picture has been taken without permission from a 2007 lecture by Simon Swift of the University of Auckland

Brad no longer student but not anything else either

I went to see a careers counsellor yesterday, an hour and a quarter later I came out feeling that I may have convinced the trainee who was watching that maybe careers counselling wasn’t the best career choice. I warned them as I came in that I wasn’t gonna be easy, but I guess they have to get used to it.

I wish I could say I am now sorted with my life, but no-one who actually knows me would believe that. Still it helped a bit and I’ve got a lot more things to look into.

Now is the time for all of you who thought I shouldn’t have been a doctor but didn’t want to be mean to sound off.

Well it’s taken me 3 hours to write this much so I’m going to give up nd take a nap.