Finished at last

I have officially past me diploma in children's services. This is fantastic and I am now going to be a bum. I had to come into tafe this morning to get my results and I passed with flying colours. I am now wasting time here until I meet up for lunch with the rest of the group.

It is quite a scary thought to think that I am a qualified childcare worker now, and for the next few months I plan on getting some work in OHSC and just enjoying life before I start my studies again at Uni.

My celebration for today will be to go buy a 360 game so that I have something to do with all my spare time.

Over the next few weeks I have got lots of planning to do for my 21st and a heap of work to get the backyard ready. This involves me and my dad extending our paved area out further. I also have to do invites for everyone and start putting things like the playlist together. I also need to find out how I can set up the music outdoors and where I can hire some good speakers (if anyone knows a place). I am also going to put a slide show together of a heap of photos which will take some time especially with the ones I have to scan at seans. I hope you boys are getting that speech ready even if you haven't got anything on me (yeah thats right lets see what you got).

I have got lots of free time now and I don't know what to do with myself besides from working, but I don't know how much of that I will get from OHSC. So if anyone ever wants to hang out, kick a soccer ball, go to a movie, or just generally hang out then I'm your man.

One thing that is definate however is that I will be getting my drivers liscenes. Yeah I know you don't believe me but I am even sick of not having it and it will make my life so much easier. This and the fact that I now have a car is good insentive to get it. Yeah thats right Ben has a car, the good old 1989 Holden Apollo otherwise known as a Toyota Camry. This is Ben's new machine and I'm getting it at a really good price due to the fact that it was my Nan and Pop's car. This also means that I know that it is in really good condition and has been looked after well.

Well thats all for now people, look forward to seeing you all around.

Tafe can suck my balls

Thats right

You heard it straight

I have just presented the huge project that I have been working on all term and have finished my last assignment for Tafe, EVER.

All that's left is for the lecturers to mark our work and I'll be a free man. All I can say is if I do not pass this for whatever reason,

SOMEONE WILL DIE

I have had it, I am over Tafe, and I never want to go back there ever again.

So what lies ahead for Ben. Well, complete fuck all just about raps it up.

My plans were to go into hibernation for 6 months until I can start Uni however I soon realised that I am not a bear and no matter how hard I tried I probably couldn't sleep for 6 months straight, I'd get hungry.

I will however hopefully get a job at Mitcham OHSC and work there close to full time. This will mean I can quit Woolworths which has really given me the shits over the past few months and finally have my weekends to myself.

This also means that Ceppy the party machine will be out and about again. With all these 21st coming up its going to be great.

In relation to my 21st keep your eyes posted to this blog cos the details will be up soon. I will also send invites out.

Tomorrow is my last official day of Tafe if all goes to plan.

If things don't go to plan don't be surprised if you here about a 20 year old male on a killing spree on the news.

I mean it.

478 boorish, insentives and socially obnoxious pointers for leading a simple, self-centered life.

Well not quite 478, but here are a few of them anyway. It's what the book told me to write. Some good ways to just plain old fuck people off.

1. Signal left, turn right.
2. Hire a devious accountant; it's like giving yourself a raise.
3. Give little kids clothes for their birthdays.
4. Borrow a book and dog ear the pages.
5. Remind people that their freckles could be cancerous.
6. Tailgate the elderly.
7. Blow out other people's birthday candles.
8. Dress 15 years younger.
9. Crack your knuckles.
10. Block the entrances of elevators, buses and subways.
11. Gamble with rent money.
12. Dream up special requests for waiters or waitresses.
13. Every umbrella is yours.
14. Improve your posture by walking with your nose in the air.
15. Answer a question with a question.
16. See what it takes to get the life guard to blow their whistle.
17. Serve corn on the cob to people with dentures or people in rest homes.
18. Stopping for red lights after midnight is always a waste of time.
19. See if you can be the first one off the plane even if you are sitting by the window.
20. Before exiting elevators push all the buttons.
21. Don't do anything until you've been asked twice.
22. Say like at the end of sentences, like.
23. Read over people's shoulders on the bus.
24. Revenge is sweet, get some.
25. When it says resevered parking , that means you.
26. Curse the umpire at a little league game.
27. Bribe kids, they are easy.
28. Get a back seat driver lesson.
29. Support the death penalty for parking violations.
30. Repeat yourself.
31. Repeat yourself.
32. Repeat yourself.
33. Tell teenagers how things were in your day.
34. Hand out business cards at funerals.
35. Pee in the swimming pool.
36. Wear golf shoes on newly polished wooden floors.
37. Take the biggest piece.
38. Forget the punch line, but don't let that stop you from telling jokes.
39. Race the old woman for the last bus seat.
40. Take forever to find your word in scrabble.
41. Walk tall, carry a big stick, and use it.
42. Install a siren in your car.
43. Take money from your kids piggy bank.
44. Walk very slowly and make sure nobody can get past you.
45. Tell little children the truth about Santa Claus.
46. Don't stand during hymes or anthems.
47. Live in a glass house and throw stones.
48. Play with fire.
49. Put pennies in the collection plate.
50. Make scary faces at babies.

There were heaps more but I couldn't be fucked, here's another one

Leave things un - finis...............

I took the Jung Test on Nick's blog and found that the results were quite accurate.

I am

ESFP - "Entertainer". Radiates attractive warmth and optimism. Smooth, witty, charming, clever. Fun to be with. Very generous. 8.5% of the total population.

Extroverted (E) 72.22% Introverted (I) 27.78%
Sensing (S) 54.05% Intuitive (N) 45.95%
Feeling (F) 55.56% Thinking (T) 44.44%
Perceiving (P) 52.78% Judging (J) 47.22%

I think this is an accurate description of me

I always wanted to be an entertainer

Death

It is not an easy thing to lose two of the most important people in your life in less than 6 months. However this is now a reality which I have to face in my life.

Most of you know that earlier in the year I lost my Pop to cancer, this was hard enough. Last week I lost my Nanna after she suffered a heart attack from which she never recovered.

Yesterday I attended her funeral, far too soon after seeing my Pop off.

I feel at ease in the fact however that they are once again together again, and that God didn't let them be apart for too long. In the Euology it was read that my Nan died from complications after a heart attack, but it could be said that she really died of a broken heart.

For some reason I thought that I would always find my Nanna's death harder to bear than my Pop's. However because it was so sudden and I didn't really get a chance to say goodbye I find myself in disbelief rather than mourning.

The reality has hit however.

I know that I will not see them again, and all I have now is precious memories of the love they showed for me.

My Nan was like a mother to me. After my mother died when I was aged 2 she stepped in and raised me and my brother. Although I don't really remember it very well I still created a closer than normal attatchment to my Nan which has lasted all my life. This I am very thankful for.

My Nanna was a good christian and loving person. You would not find a more caring person in the world. She gave me many of the values that I hold dear today and I am the better person for having known her let alone having her as my Nanna.

The reality of life is that we all need to die sometime. Nanna knew this and I beileve she was never afriad of it.

Still, I always thought that she was invincible and that she would never die. I was nieve to think that. But can you blame me?

Nan was the type of person who was interested in everything I ever did. If I went to a mates house for a sleep over I would get a call the next day asking how it was. Although it did become annoying at times, I think this is something that I will miss most.

I also fear that I may now starve. Nan was one of those people who force fed us everytime time we visited. It was only 3 weeks ago that I was at her house and she was constantly feeding me food. I loved that about her.

My one regret would be that she won't be around to see me turn 21. It was so close and it will not be the same without her here.

I do feel comfort in the fact that Nan is now in a good place. Her faith in life after death has been rewarded.

I am not a religious person, however I do believe that there is something after life.

And when it is my time there will be a house where I will go where my Nan and Pop and Mum are waiting for me. The smell of home and a good meal.

Rest in Peace Nanna, I love you.

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Go you fucking socceroos.

Egyptian referee can suck the fat one.

It's finally here, World Cup 2006.

The world cup germany 2006 begins tonight when the host germany takes on costa rica. Regretably I will be unable to watch this game due to the fact that I have to start work at 8 tomorrow. I have been anticipating this event for the past 6 months and now that it is finally here I am looking forward to watching some world class soccer over the next month.

It is good to see that wizza has gone out and got himself a socceroos gersey and I think that I will have to follow suit at some stage and go buy one myself. I do feel however that I might have to get another players name on my back so that we aren't the Harry Kewell fan club.

Australia is playing Japan on Monday night and it should be a match that we can win. If we don't win then I'm afraid it will be goodbye to the socceroos.

I am also very jealous of Daw who as I am writing this post is probably in Germany enjoying the atmosphere that is world cup soccer. I am very, very jealous Daw, but know that you will be having one hell of a time over there. Good on ya mate.

On a completely different note I went and bought Empire Earth 2 from EB games for like 30 bucks yesterday. It is a fucking awesome game and if you enjoyed the first one then you'll love the second. I particularly enjoy building spies and getting them to sabotage enemy buildings and poisoning their town centres. It is great fun.

Well thats it for now so I'll see you later

To a life that touched us all

I am not going to get into anything hugely serious hear, mainly because I saw Raph as a mate you catch up with in pasing. However I did feel the need to express my sadness for the loss of a man who touched everyone who he had contact with. It is a tragic time, however the facts of life say that it was always going to happen, at least to one of us. Thats just the way the world works and I'm afraid it doesn't get any easier.

All I can say is rest in peace Raph, knowing that you had a great influence on this world in the short time you were here.

To some good news then.

The socceroos have done us proud and stuck it out to the dutch in a 1 - 1 draw last night. I stayed up and watched the game and was quite impressed by the way we played. I think I may have underestimated our boys and they may have more of a chance than what you would think.

It is less than a week to go until the world cup and man am I looking forward to sitting at home watching hours of soccer take place.

I hope Raph has booked a good seat up there to watch it too.

I'm seeing music

I have just finished watching the new episode of House, it was well worth the wait. Three things I liked about this weeks episode.

1. House on a vandetta to get back at an old college peer.

2. House fucked up on Acid/LSD, he saw colours and music.

3. House with a prostitue.

Is it just me or is House turning into a pill popping sex craved cripple. Oh, wait, he has always been a pill popping cripple. Looks like he just wants the sex now.

I love you House.

You make me feel happy.

We don't make bread here anymore

On saturday I found out some interesting news at work. They have decided to shut down our bakery department and make it into a cold spot (when before it was a warm spot). For those of you who don't understand the whole woolworths terminology here it is.

Hot spot - this is a bakery department that does all their baking on site. This includes rolls, bread, cakes, cookies, pretty much anything that looks like it hasn't been mass produced in a factory and is in crappy packaging.

Warm spot - this is a bakery department which does some on site baking, usually cookies and cakes, but no bread or rolls. This is what my woolies currently does.

Cold spot - no baking, just bring it in frozen on a truck and we'll chuck it on the shelves. We may still do doughnuts, don't know yet.

Now there is both an upside and a down side to this new system. The upside is that I will no longer have to do any baking and packing of stock which will save me lot's of time and because I am lazy generally makes my job a lot easier.

The downside is that due to the fact I will not be baking any stock, I will not have anything to eat while I am working. This means no cookies, no cakes, and (my favourite), no scoffins.

All in all though I think the upside beats the downside because I can always say that stock is damaged and eat it anyway, and I get out of a lot of work which I previously did.

This is not so good for the twp fulltimers whom I work with because they are now going to be put in another store and a part timer will come in to do 30 hours a week where all they do is order stock and put frozen stock out.

For the many woolworths mitcham customers however this means that there will no longer be a range of freshly baked bakery goods, and therefore our store will be known as the store with the bakery that has the not so fresh food people, with the frozen fresh bakery goods.

Yum.

Sports injuries fucking you round, fuck fuck.

I am very annoyed.

Not only did we lose last night in soccer, but I also managed to fuck my ankle up again just when it was starting to get better from a couple of weeks ago. I was so pissed.

Anyway good news on the socceroos beating greece 1 zip in their friendly match last night. I must say that I wasn't expecting that.

In other news X men 3 the last stand is now out and it is a must see for me. I am hopefully planning to go see it tonight (you still up for it Lucas, bring that date of yours). Should be a good movie I think due to the amount of x men characters in it along with the big war between good and evil and all that jazz.

Now for my complaints. I am not happy with the response to my new segment entiltled,

Give ben 21st birthday ideas

By the looks of things I will be going with nicks idea to have a come as your favourite nude pilgrim party, although the fact that my birthday is in the middle of winter may not make it a popular choice. Although if it then turns into a massive orgy then we may be able to create our own warmth. Oh well keep coming with those ideas.

Anyone who wants to see X men tonight let me know.

Who said KFC is a good hangover cure?

Last night I went to Naomi's 21st at the Hyde Park Tavern. It was a really good night full of much drinking, and catching up with all the work crew both old and new. All I can say is that Craig you are one sick and twisted man, and I love it. The amount of fucked up funny shit that man said had us in tears for most of the night. It was also good to catch up with smyth whom I haven't seen in awhile. I went home to bed at about 12.30 (not a very late night due to the fact I had to work all day today). I awoke this morning in pretty much the same state that I went to bed in, Drunk. Well I wasn't drunk but everything still seemed to be spinning. Having worked for 4 hours I then had the craving for Junk in the form of food from our favourite Kentucky man. This probably wasn't a good idea even if it did taste so good on the way down.

I must also say that the upstairs function room at the Hyde Park Tav is really good, just letting you know if you are looking for somewhere to have a 21st (theres a few coming hey boys).

Going to a 21st got me thinking about what I should do for mine. Obviously we already know it is at my house on the 19th of August, however as fair as themes etc goes, I am undecided. I was thinking I might do something easy like semi formal but I can't decide. Thats why I've decided to put it out to the voting public in a brand new segment of this blog I like to call;

Give Ben 21st birthday party ideas (a very original name I know)

If you have any good ideas just leave them on the tag board. I my say fuck off to your ideas and just stick with my own so don't feel bad if you get rejected.

One thing is for sure though, there will be lot's of people, lots of booze and lots of partying. It's going to be huge.

Bone Timber back in winning form

Last night Bone Timber came out to some good form winning against Mark's team 12 - 2. This is mainly due to the fact that Marks team is in the B grade and therefore suck complete balls. However it was a win and a good match so we are not complaining. Nordy was of course the star scoring 5 goals however he is always the focus so I am going to give credit to Dutchy's two amazing goals, along with Timmy' hat trick and Sammy's two goals. I again however did not score. I had a few chances however they didn't come off for me. It has been awhile since we had a win so it was good to give a B grade team a good thrashing.

Not much else has happened this week. Tafe is still annoying however we are starting to get resources for our outdoor environment and putting plans together for what we want to put in it. This is sort of fun however I am still annoyed that I have to be here 5 days a week. One thing I have noticed is that some people/companies are incredibly tight arsed. Considering the fact that we have no money in order to make this garden we have been trying to get some free bees and donations from companies like paint supplies, bunnings and nurserys. We have not got much luck because all these compaines are fuck heads and won't give us anything. We have however got some free used tyres frojm bridgestones and some treated pine from a guy out of the trading post.

Well I better get back to begging for shit, seeya round.

FA Cup blockbuster!!

I recently bought fifa world cup soccer 2006 for the old 360 and since that day my life has been considerably better. It is an awesome game.

Last night I went round to Ryan's to play some x box and man does he have the set up. Ryan (like myself) bought an x box 360 pretty much straight after it came out. He has also gone and bought himself a huge plasma screen for about 3000 grand. Now let me say comparing the 360 on my T.V to the plasma is unbelieveable. The graphics look good on my T.V don't get me wrong, but on a huge plasma screen with HD tech it looks so much better. We were playing fight night and it looks so fucking good.

In other words I need to get myself a big arse plasma screen, although it won't happen for a while me thinks.

In other news Liverpool beat West Ham in the FA cup final in spectacular form. After being 2 goals down Liverpool came back to 2 all. Then West Ham score an absolutely sensational goal to make it 3 - 2. Then around the 90 minute mark Steven Gerrard scored a thirty yard strike to put it even again and into extra time (you are a legend Gerrard). Eventually Liverpool won in the penalty shoot out. Fuck it was an awsome game from what I watched. Unfortunatley Kewell was injuredin this match and will miss the Socceroos match against Greece. Hopefully he should be right for the world cup.













Go the reds.

ARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!

We lost again last night to the team that beat us 6 -4 a couple of weeks ago. This time they did even better beating us 12 - 2, us having scored the first 2 goals in the first few minutes. The fact that we didn't have a sub (dutchy, you've got some explaining to do) didn't help matters that much, and we ended up getting drilled due to the fact that we were all buggered and couldn't keep up with our opposition. I also managed to roll my ankle in the process, lucky it was in the last 30 seconds so it didn't really effect the game.

I am now forced to walk around with a limp and a fat ankle. I don't think I did too much damage because I can still walk on it.

In other news after much consideration I have changed my blog name to "Ceppy - Breaking it down". This is mainly due to the fact that I don't believe I have any fans out there. Let me know if you think otherwise. I am hoping that there is a country out there possible in south America who reads my blog as a bible of sorts (well I can only dream). I also changed my description to something less friendly and more to the point.

Well better get back to work, power point making is sooooo much fun.

News update, we are within minutes of freeing the trapped miners, Oh wait sorry they haven't started yet.

It's about fucking time.

Having read Nick's blog I too decided to bitch about the miners in Tasmania finally being released from the earths grasps. Every fucking five mintues on all of the Australian television networks there was a flash to "Breaking News" which is more like "We already know from the first 300 times you told us news." I am glad that they are finally free, however I am more glad that I will not be subjected to watching news flashes every two seconds on the matter.

But wait.......

Now that they are free we get to watch interview after interview, and report after report on the issue. This is not over, believe me. This will get dragged on for months on end until the two men who were stuck in the mine get sick of hearing about it. We will hear about the court cases to sue the company for sending miners in there when it wasn't safe. This will go on until even Richard Carlton rolls over in his grave (was that appropriate).

Then they will release the mini series on the event, there will be merchandising, lunch boxes, T shirts, action figures, stickers. Play the x box game. People will make a killing out of this crap.

What has this world come to, will it never end.

I will say this, fuck going on big brother to gain your 15 minutes of fame. Go and jump down a fucking well and wait to be rescued. Thats how you become famous (Although you could be stuck in the well for longer than 3 months at the rate they are able to rescue people). These two guys are true aussie battlers all because they sat in a confined space for two weeks, good on em. If that isn't the true aussie spirit of sitting on your arse all day nothing is.

Well there I have said it. The miners are out (yay), and we can all get on with our lives.

The end of the first with much more to come

Well I have finished my first week of tafe once more. This term really involves me sitting around doing nothing because we have to be there full time when we really don't. I have got a lot of work done though and this does mean that I am actually ahead of task which could be a first for me.

Last night was a bitter disappointment at indoor soccer. After going neck and neck with the other team up until half time we thought that we were doing quite well. We were playing the opposite of their game which was to pass the ball round in circles. Our strategy as always was to stick to the man and this worked up until the second half. They then pumped on about 7 goals to our zip and won quite convincingly. It was mainly due to the fact that we were getting tired by the end however I still believe that we played better than the previous week when we only lost by 2 goals. I think our main problem now is that we need to put up a good offence and create opportunities. Oh well shit happens.

I have to work all weekend once again. By this I mean 2.30 - 5.30 tomorrow and 8 - 4.30 on Sunday which really isn't all weekend however it still doesn't leave much time for anything else.

Tonight is my only real relaxation night and at least I get to sleep in tomorrow.

Oh well better make the most of it and start playing some x box, see yall

Ceppy, Telling us how it is. Volume 2

I would first like to start off by saying, Lucas that was a great rant and bitch session about celebraties. Lot's of respect man.

And now what you have all been waiting for, Ceppy getting really mad. Things that have been pissing me off over the past few months.

1. Channel 10. What the fuck is going on there. Lets do an Australian biggest loser so that we can all watch fat people running on tread mills. NO this is not a fucking good idea, if I wanted to watch flubber bouncing up and down while i ate my dinner every night I would go to a fat peoples freak show. Fucken people who feel sorry for overweight people are stupid, yes they have a problem/addiction, but they are still fucking fat because they decided to eat the equivilent of an elephants diet instead of a human beings. Fuck.

2. Again channel 10. What the fuck was with you not showing new episodes of House for about a month. Every week I would sit down to watch my favourite show only to find that they were ones I'd already seen. Fucken play new ones and stop fucking wasting my fucking time. Fuck, fuck.

3. Fucking angry motorists. I was walking with my group of people from tafe into the botanical gardens and some fucking stupid bitch comes roaring up behind us, fucking tooting her horn and fucking yelling at us. You can go fuck yourself you fucking slut, learn to use your manners instead of fucking yelling at people. Oh and fucking stick to the speed limit before you fucking kill someone. I hope you fucking plow into a tree and get crushed, it would serve you right you fucking bitch.

4. Fucking tafe keeping me there when I have nothing to do. Fuck off you fucking bunch of fuckers, you shit me, I can't wait till I finish this term so I can fucking piss on your campus.

5. All the fucking teen girl/star/singers. I hope you all burn in hell for making me listen to your crappy music whenever I get in a car and listen to the radio. Like nick said, Ashlee Simpson is a fucking whore living in the image of her big sister who is also a fucking dumb blonde bitch whore. If you actually had a song that didn't repeat the same word over and over again for it's chorus you might gain a microscopic bit of my respect, but you would still be a fucking annoyance. Fucking fuck fucks.

6. Dancing with the stars. Who gives a fuck if stars can fucking dance or not, fucking stupid people who watch that show. What is worse than this is fucking stars dancing on fucking ice. What the FUCK. I hope they all fucking slip and break their fucking necks, then they wouldn't be able to move let alone fucking dance.

7. Fucking public toilets being "shut for maintenance" when I need to go to the fucking toilet. Fucking I don't care if it is shut I need to fucking piss, next time I'll piss on the fucking door to see if they like that.

8. FINALLY, fucking people who write on tag boards abusing the person who wrote the blog. Fuck off Paul, you are a fucking wanker, stop fucking writing on my fucking blog and Wizza's blog. You have no fucking clue about anything maybe if you went to uni like some of us you wouldn't be such a pathetic excuse for a human being. Oh and yes we do know that passion pop is passion fruit flavoured and not strawberry, you fucking idiot, you don't even fucking realise when we are taking the piss out of you. Fucking fuckhead bogan.

Well I feel better now, so fuck off.

Lifes unexpected twists and turns really fuck me off sometimes

I am sitting at tafe bored out of my brains waiting until the clock ticks over to 4 o'clock. This is when I will be able to officially leave this terrible place and go home to my normal computer. This is the first time I have ever blogged on a computer other than my own. Not that it really matters. I have a feeling though that their will be many the angry blog from the computers at tafe.

I forgot to mention my saturday night out. This is probably because there was not much to mention. It was a good night out starting off at my house listening to old records such as Micheal Jacksons Thriller and the original 1979 War of the Worlds album (Timmy seemed to enjoy these).

When we finally got to town it was a bit of a let down due to the fact that there was no one around (even Modjo's wasn't its normal self).

So here I am still waiting to leave, I could be doing some research but I have already spent, most of the afternoon looking up info on both outdoor environments for children and domestic violence (two of the things I have to look up for certain projects).

I also have to keep a gay journal in which I write all the stuff I do and all the desicions making proccesses for our large group assignment. Basically I have to convert a dirt infested area into an interesting outdoor environment for children. I thought we might do a natural garden however this will definatley be too much work and cost too much money to do, so there goes that idea. Things will really fuck up for me if it rains on the day I have to present it and all there is is one massive mud bath.

I feel another Ben tells it like it is segment coming up due to the amount of things that are pissing me off at the moment so get ready for a lot of swearing and abuse (all the things we love to hear).

Well I think I might go sleep for half an hour and then go home.

These times, they are a changing

I went back to Tafe today thinking that it would be a cruisy term due to the fact that my timetable only took up 2 and a half days of the week. Thinking that the other 2 and a hlaf days would be consumed with me doing what ever the hell I wanted I was feeling pretty good. However this fantasy was shortly destroyed when I found out that we were being made to go to tafe 5 days a week from 9.30am to 4pm, even if we don't have any lessons we have to be there. What the fuck.

We also have to sign in and out each day to make sure, what the fuckety fuck fuck fuck.

So now I am annoyed, We do have a huge assignment to do as a group and it will take up sometime but I don't think that we need to be at tafe all day everyday to get it done.

My solution is to make tafe bearable by taking in as many things as I can to keep myself occupied. My i Pod and my current book will make a good start.

I don't know what this world is coming to when you are being held hostage at a adult learning centre. Fuck.