Music in the 21st century

I made quite an expensive purchase the other day with my 500+ tax money. That's right I bough an i pod mini with a 6 G hard drive that holds up to 1500 songs. It is such a luxury to have all my music with me where ever I go and be able to put any of it on when ever I want.

Another purchase was a few DVD's including Jackass the movie (because it is fucking funny the shit they do and face it human beings like to see people get hurt). I also got a High Octane DVD which just shows a whole heap of suped up sports cars and drift races. Finally I bought the movie Trainspotting with Ewan McGregor. Bloody good movie that gives an insight into being hooked on heroin and trying to give it up. It also has some bloody funny situations in it. Best line in movie is when Ewan McGregor pays out the Scotish, "I don't hate the english, they are a bunch of wankers, but at least they weren't colonised by wankers."

Catchya round

The Duke of Yorke

This was an eventful weekend so here is the basic lay down of what occured.

I worked on saturday for 10 hours thats right a 6am to 4.30pm shift which was a killer. However I did have the sunday off (whats that two in a row, I know never happens and I have next Sunday off also). Anyway I managed to keep myself awake long enough to go out and get pissed with the boys nick, daw, howie, wizza and dutchy. Me and Sean drank ourselves silly at my house watching Little Nicky starring Adam Sandler, fucking hilarioue movie (best bit is the giant horny bird going around humping this guy, classic)

Anyway we caught a train into town and met up with the other boys at the Duke of Yorke. There was a Mercedes Old Scholars Soccer thing going on which we joined in on even though we didn't play in any of the teams, we are old scholars though. Cheap drinks were enjoyed by all and the boat races were extremely entertaining, shout out to Howie's efforts mate you are a legend knocking back those beers so quickly, too bad you couldn't keep the last one down.

We then went to Modjo's and grooved it up for a while enjoying a few more drinks. Good times overall.

Today I got up and played some tennis with the boys, haven't played for a while but I wasn't too bad. I also got my birthday present from the boys, ministry of sound CD and the collectors edition of Pulp Fiction (fucking great movie). Anyway that was my weekend, much fun had and good to catch up with the boys once again.

Port Adelaide made it through to the finals, onya boys, good effort with a 40+ win over Fremantle. Let's see what you can do in the finals.

Catchya round ppl.

Missed opportunities and lost loves

This has been something which has been bugging me for some time and I felt the need to get it out there and off of my mind for more than 30 seconds.

You know when you meet a new person whether you like them instantly or you hate there guts. Thats right girls have this effect of either driving you crazy in a good way or driving you crazy in a bad way.

The girl in question I have known for sometime (met about 2 and a half years ago) and at first I thought 'yeah she is really nice', it was later on that I found out that she liked me and we sort of started to get to know each other better. In my stupidity and in liking someone else I rejected her before anything serious happened. Well story of my life the other girl didn't like me in the slightest and once again I was left with a broken heart.

It is now around two and a half years on and the feelings I had for this other girl are beginning to come back, feelings which I thought I had gotten rid of but no they are still here battering away inside.

The problem is that now I can't act on these feelings due to two reasons, it has been to long, and I am convinced she would be over me by now. I also do not wish to make a complete arse of myself.

So here I am stuck in this slump feeling sorry for myself as everday goes by. Now anyone who has been in a situation when they like someone that much would understand what I am feeling. The feeling of regret and hate for oneself. But then there is the image of that girl, what would it be like, just build up the guts to say something, tell her how you feel and hope to god she doesn't squash you like an ant.

The thoughts that go through your head are enough to make any man want to go and kill himself.

But what makes it worse is when you see her and you put on a smile and a complete act so that she thinks everything is fine and you are still good friends. In reality all you want to do is be around her, enjoy her company and the personality which drives you crazy for her.

So here I am a broken man with nothing but the company of himself (and his good friends from time to time). But then there is still that heart ache inside, so you drag yourself around day to day trying to make the most of the good things in life. But she is still there, around every corner, in every window.

So now it is time to get over it, well and truley, because I know nothing will ever happen again.

But to come to that realisation is the hardest step of all.

Grooving it up in good company

Okay saturday night was a blast. We started off at the good old ed where we drank beer and were merry. After that we headed to the elephant in the city and drank some more, listened to some great live music and some DJ's. We then headed to Mojo's and carved it up on the dance floor to some pumping beats.

I would just like to give a shout out to all the boys and fellow work collegues who helped me celebrate my 20th birthday hope everyone had a good time and I love you all.

When I get the photos off Timmy I will post them, hope they aren't too bad,

Once again thanks everyone it was a wicked night.

The best birthday Present of all

Today in the mail, the day after my birthday I recieved the best present of the year. A check for 523 dollars and 46 cents from the Australian Government. That's right I got my tax back but they still took about 1300 dollars from me. Well at least I am doing my part for the Australian Economy.

In other news me and my mate snowman are planning on starting a band, he plays guitar and I play trumpet, we are also going to get some other mates tim and daw to play guitars. We just need a drummer which I would do if I wasn't playing trumpet and had a drum kit. I'll let you know when it takes off any way.

Worked tonight a boring 4 hour shift, so sick of woolies.

Reminder to everyone to come to the ed on Saturday to celebrate my 20th and go out and have a good night, cheers boys.

Indonesian Independence day

On this day in I think 1947 indonesia declared it's independence, good on em but more importantly a smart, good looking young man was born. With the incredible talent of being short his name was Ben Hillier that's right ppl I was born 20 years ago today, scary ain't it. So I have walked this earth for two decades and I thought I would make a lsit of important events in my life.

17th August 1985: I was born at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Skip forward a 5 years to me going to Mitcham Primary School for the first time, highlights of primary school years include:

• Getting told off for pushing another kid in year two and spending a whole lunch time crying in the principles office.
• Starting trumpet in year three only to be told to come back the next year because my hands were too small.
• In year 4 I began learning the trumpet and my love of music began.
• Playing soccer in years 3,4,5,6 and 7, years 3,4 and 5 we were the best team in the league and won everything, years 6,7 we sucked and lost every game due to a crap goal keeper by the name of ryan post.
• Doing cross country running in year 6 and 7
• Did karate for 3 years and got to brown belt with black tips
• Performing in musical nights every year
• In year 4 I got the main role in a play we did called 'taking risks'.
• Getting plates in year 3 and then brases in year 6
• Got brases taken out at the end of year 7 got retainers
• Being on the assembly committee in year 7 and running the assembly's each week
• Year seven formal and my first crush in year seven on a girl called emma best (still don't know to this day whether she was the best though)
• Graduated from Mitcham Primary School in 1998 and went on to Mercedes College

High School days at Mercedes College:

• First day in year eight walking into the girls bathroom by mistake and being laughed at (now that I think about it I don't think it was by mistake)]
• Gave up trumpet for this year however by doing music in Roachies class he convinced me to continue to play, started again in year 9.
• Met all the boys in year 8 including, Sean 'donkey slong' Howie, Nick 'snowman/asian' Lucas, Luke 'big head' Betros, Sam 'Sammy' Randel, Alex 'Daddy' Daw, Dale 'Bezza' Mazzachi Matt 'wizza' Wisdom, Andy 'country boy' Mason and Tim 'timmy' Mcevoy.
• Playing soccer in year 8 and 9 were about middle range
• Played tennis for school for two seasons.
• Year 9 Mimilee Trek and step classes.
• Started music as a full subject again, began getting trumpet lessons from Warren Heading one of SA's best trumpeters, he opened me up to jazz (man could he play)
• Mr Was as year 9 home room teacher
• Made friends with the girls and ditched them at the end of the year (wanted to understand women better I think, didn't work)
• Year 10 music was wicked, played lot's of music in variety of bands, highlight was when we put the year 10 blues band together for one gig at assembly, good fun.
• Sat year 10 exams (easy)
• During christmas I under went a transformation and came back in year 11 taller and skinier.
• Went on to year 11 as a SACE student did music, maths, english, biology, tourism, business studies.
• Began working at Mitcham Woolworths as a checkout chick/ trolley boy
• Met a new friend from the isle of dutch, Marten 'dutchy' Roex.
• Went on year 11 retreat and had some good times
• Began drinking regularly, usually at hannah's house with became like a second home to all us drunken year 11's, remember those good times boy's.
• Learnt a lot of good stuff about music, composition which drove me on to do music in year 12.
• Year twelve was great best year of my life
• Did Business Maths, Music, PES english (the hard one), Tourism and Legal Studies.
• Lot's of parties and 18ths
• Was year 8 SRC representative and did nothing and got praise for it.
• Year 12 retreat was the best and really got to know my whole year level better.
• Greatest accomplishments for year twelve were getting my english journal done, composing three pieces of music and passing overall.
• Graduated in 2003 had a blast on Muck up day, Graduation and Grad ball, also all the after parties in between thanks basso and barber u guys are champs.
• Went to schoolies and got drunk for a week (if you want to know more go to the snowman's blog and read the schoolies diary in archieves November 2003).
• Decided I wanted to be a teacher, missed out on uni placement (graduated in a fucked up year where TER's went up, fucking hate that)

Out of school years:

• Worked at woolies for 6 months, began working in the Bakery, and hung out with friends getting drunk frequently, good times.
• Applied for Child studies course and started it in July 2004.
• Had a party for my 19th due to the lack of my 18th party, good times had
• Continued to work at woolies and go to TAFE
• Had many placements for my course including, Kindergarten, Baby Placement and Out Of Hours School Care.
• Finished my certificate three and am currently doing my diploma.

So that brings us up to date on this Wednesday the 17th of August my plans for the future are to get completely fucked this weekend and enjoy myself, so with that Happy Independence Day Indonesia,

You should be privalidged to share the same date as my birthday.

What a day

Okay Boring day at tafe today as per usual however the fact that i have to resubmit a major assignment by the end of this week is really on my mind. It is also my birthday on wednesday and i am just waiting for the weekend so i can go out and party hard without having to worry about anything but having a good time. So in the words of Dave Matthews and a great song called too much i will leave you with the words that will rule my weekend, party hard guys you know i will be.

Straight in, suck up and go,
Cool it, swallow, swallow
Breathe deep, take it all
It comes cheap
Push it through the doors
Because in between the lines
I'm gonna pack more lines
So I can get in

Ooh traffic jam got more cars
Than a beach got sand
Suck it up, suck it up, suck it up,
Fill it up until no more
I'm no crazy creep,
I've got it coming to me
Because I'm not satisfied
The hunger keeps on growing
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much

I've got to get it somewhere
I mean, you never know, maybe you're dreaming
Who do you think you're watching
Who do you think you need
Play for me, play more,
ten times in the same day
I need more, I'm going
Over my borders
I'm going to take more,
More from you, letter by letter

I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
I told, God, I'm coming
To your country
I'm going to eat up your cities,
Your homes, you know
I've got a stomach full
it's not a chip on my shoulder
I've got this growl in my tummy
And I'm gonna stop it today

I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much

It's Saturday night why aren't I getting PARO

Alright people its a saturday night what should most people be doing well they wouldn't be sitting at home by themselves, with the a pretty bad cold just waiting for the hours to clock over so they can go to sleep and then wake up at seven to go to some bullshit i like to call work would they. NO i didn't think so, so in the ways of the snowman i am going to do a top ten of what Ben would prefer to be doing on his saturday night.

10. Catching up with the boys and getting completely paro
9. Going out on the town and getting completely paro
8. Going to someones party and getting paro
7. Going to someone else house and watching movies, eating pizza and getting paro
6. Sitting in a random park somwhere and getting paro
5. Going away, interstate perhaps and getting paro
4. Going to any sporting events and getting paro
3. Going to a festival or to see live music and getting paro
2. Playing x box with the boys and getting paro

and last but not least,

1. Getting paro in general.

Notice how everything i would like to be doing envolves me getting completely off my nuts. However when you have to work at 8 o clock on a sunday it makes this task quite impossible so i've said it once and i will say it again, fuck you woolworths. Ah that made me fell a little bit better but i still have to get up and work tomorrow morning. I hope u are all having a better saturday night than i am.

Only 7 days til my birthday yay!!!

Condom advertisments

Okay people as you all know I am a guy and like any other guy my mind thinks about sex about every 20 seconds. It is always good to know about different types of condoms and new technology to increase "yours and hers pleasure".

I recieved the new x box magazine today from my father who owns a newsagency so we get them all for free, and i was looking through it checking up on the new x box three sixty and new games. I flipped over the page and what i saw was quite nice to tell the truth. In this magazine was an advertisement for durex featherlite ultra thin condoms. This wasn't what attracted my attention what did was the various pictures of naked women covered by see through sheets and a large breasted women riding some guy like a bucking bronco. Nice guys, nice, another form of entertainment from our friends at x box.

Now I am not saying that this is a bad thing because it isn't, it is good to see that the gaming industry are making sure they promote safe sex so that us males aged between 14 and 28 having been satisfied will roll over turn on their x box and play a game of halo 2 with some buddies on x box live. Then wonder why our girlfriend is pissed.

However there are a small number of young children who would also read this magazine and turn to this page and see this advertisment and might get the wrong idea, it is okay for mature males to see this sort of thing however if a 8 or 9 year old saw this crazy shit would go down.

For instance we would see young boys running around the place wanting to bone all the little girls because they have a durex featherlite condom. This is not a good thing,

but hey, at least they are promoting safe sex.

Snowmans tests from 2003

I was just looking back on the archives of snowmans 2003 blog and i came across a variety of different tests so i thought i would give them a try here, we go:


your asshole.

Thats right people i am an ASSHOLE and damn proud of it.

What a week end

This weekend was once again unexciting and uninteresting. Work was the highlight and lets face it people work is never a highlight unless you love your job which only 1% of the population does. My parents went away as well so i also had to run the business while they were at the footy in Melbourne. They will be back tomorrow and hopefully they will bring me back something nice. Had Tafe today which was also quite boring don't really know where the 5 hours went. My brithday is coming up however, oh yeah, can't wait to my weekend off where i will be fucked off my head. I know everyone else is looking forward to a big night out am i right boys.

What's new

Hey ppl just thought i would quickly tell u about my day today, if you read yesterday's blog then it was pretty much the same except that today i had something to look forward to. That's right something to look forward to, a night out getting pissed.

My philosophy is that when life sucks and you want to kill yourself there is nothing better than going out and drowning your sorrows with a few beers around friends. Tonights event's will include the good old chicken parmy at the ed followed by a night at PJ's in the city.

Hopefully it will be a laugh and who knows i might even pick up, (yeah sure ben) anyway i'll let you know how things progress and if i manage to make a complete arse of myself. Until tomorrow a bid you good night and hope you all get as fucked as i am going to.

Okay people do you ever wonder what drives us to do the things we do, why we get up every morning to do the same thing that we do every other day of our lives, and by the end of it it was all a waste of time. Well today was one of those day's. The highlight for me was the fact that i didn't have to get my lasy arse up at 7.00am to go to a morning lecture, instead i got to sleep in and go to an afternoon lecture instead. Even though i already new it was going to be a complete waste of my time and probably would have learnt more watching grass grow. Any way i arrive at my lecture room and me and my fellow colleuges are waiting for the lecturer to come, we waited, waited and the waited. About half an hour passed so i decided to check out what the fuck was going on. This was a bad idea because i was beginning to look forward to the thought of going home and sitting on my arse. So i proceded across to the office to discover our room had changed and nobody had told us (stupid fucking teachers changing thing to annoy us that little bit more and make us want to kill ourselves). We went over to the new room and the next three hours passed by with me counting each second until it was time to leave. Finally this day is getting good until god decided to have an impact and it started pissing down with rain. So therfore i got drenched on the way to the bus stop, again on the way to the train station, and then walking home. Fuck this. I have decided that life sucks and there is nothing that any of us can do about it. Even if you do have some good days there are always those few that really fuck with you. My advice to all of you is if you can aviod it never get out of bed in the morning because there is a 99% chance of 1. You regretting the day u were born
2. Feeling sorry for yourself and how worthless you are and
3. You wanting to find a cliff to jump off

Useless facts you need to know

I was browsing on the web and found this list of useless facts. Although most are quite useless there are some very interesting ones, I especially like this one "The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes." Go Zanzibar!!!!

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
  
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
  
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
  
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
  
• The average human swollows 8 spiders in their lifetime at night while they sleep.
  
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
  
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
  
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
  
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
  
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
  
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
  
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  
• China has more people who speak English than the United States.
  
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
  
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

AND HERE ARE SOME MORE POINTLESS FACTS:

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
  
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
  
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
  
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
  
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
  
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
  
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
  
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  
• If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
  
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  
• Polar bears are left-handed.
  
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
  
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
  
• The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
  
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
  
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Snowmans battle cries

Hello people i just got off the snowmans blog who happens to be a mate of mine and he has a What is your battle cry link so of course i thought i would check it out and here is Ceppy's Battle cry:

Yea, verily: Who is that, sprinting along the fields! It is Ceppy, hands clutching a bladed baseball bat! And with a gutteral scream, his voice cometh:
"I'm going to punch you into your own personal hell!"

Howard Gardners MI theory

Alright for those of you who don't know me i am ceppy. I am 19 years old soon to be 20 on August 17 if the boys are reading this you are all invited to help me celebrate. Anyway a little about myself I am a big music fan and like a variety from hardcore dance to the DMB thanks to u lucas. I am a TAFE student that's right TAFE nothing wrong with it so long as you aren't in any state of consciousness when you attend. I am currently studying child studies which is quite crap but in order to get into teaching at uni i have to do it. Today however was quite interesting, this subject is known as children's cognitive development that means thinking and problem solvinh for the not so linguistic of you not naming any names. It was quite interesting looking at the different thoerists and their philosophies about how children develop. So i am going to enlighten you on one such theorist known as Howard Gardner who came up with the theory of MI meaning multiple intellgences. No we are not talking about extra terestrials, you see he has eight categories and he believes that children learn cognitive thinking in a variety of these categories so instead of boring you and typing it all up again here is some research which i found early to day, who knows you might learn something and i tend to agree with his theories.


Howard Gardner viewed intelligence as ‘the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings,’ (Gardner and Hatch, 1989)

· Gardner’s work attempts to define the role of intelligence in learning.
· Goes against the idea of IQ levels.
· Instead of IQ Gardner develops 8 multiple intelligences: Linguistic, Musical, Logical and
Mathematical, Spatial, Bodily Kinesthetic, Intra-personal, Interpersonal, Naturalists, and possibility of adding Existential Intelligence.
· Gardner’s theory is important in building self-esteem
· In children it endorses being well rounded rather than just intelligent.
· Most schools and standardised tests assess on linguistic and mathematical intelligences.
· Howard Gardner stresses that the intelligences are all equal in importance.
· Each of us to some degree or another fall into all of these intelligences.


Descriptions of the 8 Intelligences

Linguistic Intelligence – involves sensitivity to spoken and written language, the ability to learn languages, and the capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals. This intelligence includes the ability to effectively use language to express oneself rhetorically or poetically; and language as a means to remember information. Writers, poets, lawyers and speakers are among those that Howard Gardner sees as having high linguistic intelligence.

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence – consists of the capacity to analyse problems logically, carry out mathematical operations, and investigate issues scientifically. In Howard Gardner’s words, it entails the ability to detect patterns, reason deductively and think logically. This intelligence is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking.

Auditorial-Musical Intelligence – involves skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns. It encompasses the capacity to recognise and compose musical pitch, tones and rhythms. According to Howard Gardner musical intelligence runs in an almost structural parallel to linguistic intelligence. This intelligence can be associated with musicians, singers, composers, conductors and other careers in music.

Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence – entails the potential of using one’s whole body or parts of the body to solve problems. It is the ability to use mental abilities to co-ordinate bodily movements. Howard Gardner sees mental and physical activity as related. This intelligence can be associated with gymnasts, athletes and dancers.

Visual-Spatial Intelligence – involves the potential to recognise and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas. This intelligence can be associated with artists, engineers, architects and designers.

Interpersonal Intelligence – is concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people. It allows people to work effectively with others. Educators, salespeople, religious and political leaders and counsellors all need a well-developed interpersonal intelligence.

Intrapersonal Intelligence – entails the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one’s feelings, fears and motivations. In Howard Gardner’s view it involves having an effective working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information to regulate our lives. They also like to be alone. This intelligence can be associated with philosophers.

Naturalist Intelligence – enables human beings to recognise, catergorise and draw upon certain features of the environment. It combines a description of the core ability with a characterisation of the role that many cultures value. This intelligence can be associated with biologists and environmentalists.

Oh my god I am back

Well hello people ceppy is back now if u are wondering yes this is the same person who created a blog two years ago call shortman is the man and due to me forgetting my password and username i was forced to create a whole new blog. Now a few ground rules this blog is dedicated to what ever the fuck i feel like putting on it and nothing else so hopefully there will be some crazy shit on here in a few weeks. So as the official first blog of this new founded blog i am talking absolute crap but things will get interesting i hope???????