Monday, June 29, 2009

White Heat Holidays

Everything is perfectly under controlHumongous deficits, sterling crises, emergency budgets, tax rises, strikes, and a weak divided government headed by a delusional Prime Minister with neither plan nor credibility.It could well describe the coming winter. But it was actually the sick man of Europe swingin’ his way through sixties.Poolside, Tyler has been reading Dominic Sandbrook’s White Heat, a lengthy but highly readable account of Britain under...

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Omokage- Reminiscence

Main Entry: rem·i·nis·cence Pronunciation: \-ˈni-sən(t)s\Function: nounDate: 15891: apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence 2 a: recall to mind of a long-forgotten experience or fact b: the process or practice of thinking or telling about past experiences 3 a: a remembered experience b: an account of a memorable experience —often used in plural4: something so like another as to be regarded as an...

Friday, June 26, 2009

I. Me. Myself.

Honestly, I’m at a state of emotional downtime right now. Problems have arrived, both internally and externally. I’m not writing this for angst’s sake or because I want to have a tell-all for those who will pass by my blog, but I’m writing this out of removing the guilt/hurt/sadness and all the negative things coming into my mind today. Sure, I might have all the bitterness here, but I must say that I did things that somewhat blew off my constant system. What was I thinking anyway? Here I am wondering why I had done everything. Ooh. Talking about...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

VISA APPLIED FROM INDIA

If you applied your visa from India for various countries you can click on the below link to check the visa status 1) Applied for Australia Visa  2) Applied for Austria Visa 3) Applied for Belgium Visa 4) Applied for Canada Visa 5) Applied for Denmark Visa 6) Applied for  France Visa7) Applied for Germany Visa 8)Applied for Greece Visa9) Applied for Iceland Visa 10) Applied for Ireland Visa 11) Applied for Italy Visa 12) Applied for Malaysia Visa13) Applied for Malta Visa 14) Applied for   Netherlands Visa  from...

Monday, June 22, 2009

Holiday Ideas

You will need one of theseHaving only just been castigated by one BOM reader for "laziness born of financial comfort" (see this post), I hesitate to mention the following: Mrs T and I are off on holiday for a week.But while we're away, here are a couple of things that you might want to try.First, do - please do - take a look at an excellent new website, Debt Bombshell. Not only does it tell you everything you never wanted to know about our ballooning...

Sunday, June 21, 2009

And Another Thing...

No - you listen to me for a changeAs we said right at the outset, Tyler started BOM because Mrs T got fed up with him shouting at the telly. Her view was - and is - that all blokes of a certain age get grey hair and glasses (plus maybe trousers that are an inch or two short), and then start pontificating loudly and uncontrollably to the extreme annoyance of those around them.The traditional remedy was to shoot them. But post the Human Rights Act,...

Walking Away

Gordons do not walk awayMany apologies for two days without posts. You're not interested in excuses - Tyler simply walked away from his duty. Or as this email puts it:"Dear sir, If you do not post at least once a day, please do try to convince me that your heart and soul are in this blog. You miss many opportunities to score points against our enemies and seem to display a laziness born of financial comfort which most of your followers cannot afford....

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Love Contract

Nonfiction, true. Yeah, this all occurred to me. I don’t care if you believe this or not, but I’m totally honest in all the contents this post. And I believe I need to let this out of my system one last time. Taiwanese drama of the same title, I sorta had the same experience but not quite the enemies-turned-lovers thingy in romance dramas type. It is more of a willing entrapment (how ironic) between two people in order to stay good together. Is there such a thing like making this paperwork just for the sake of staying together? Actually, I may...

Thursday, June 18, 2009

OMG

Soaring into the stratosphereOMG 1Today's public borrowing stats are way beyond dire: they are OMG terminal.In the first two months of this financial year the government borrowed £30.5bn, comfortably over twice what they borrowed in the same two months last year.At this rate we will certainly blow Darling's budget forecast of £175bn borrowing over the entire year. Even a straight pro rating suggests we'll hit £190bn, but with unemployment surging,...

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Government By Porkie Pie

Brown's performance at yesterday's Prime Ministers Questions was breath-taking. Does he really think we'll believe his lies about future public spending growth (see previous posts eg here)? Does he really think we're that dumb?The Major and I have been trying to remember if Gordo has ever told us the truth about anything. Consider his record:10p tax rate fiasco - liedAbolished boom and bust - liedGovernment debt - liedEU constitution referendum -...

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Fantasy Grown-Ups

There must be something else we can listen toOn Monday, Mrs T and I were driving along a real road in a real car in the real world listening to a play about a parallel universe. Well, to be honest, it wasn't clear if it was really a parallel universe, or whether the central character was just fantasising it was real. Or maybe he knew it wasn't real, but thought he could make it real by telling enough lies about it.It was called the World At One,...

Monday, June 15, 2009

News From BOM Correspondents - 20

This week's news and links:Sinking GordoExcellent cartoon above is by Dutch illustrator Siegfried Woldhek. So much for G's supposedly massive international standing.Well worth taking a look through Siegfried's gallery (copied with permission).(HTP Michael P)Honours for failure"Dr Barbara Hakin, East Midlands health authority chief executive and key player in GP negotiation over pay and contracts, has become a dame." (BBC News)So would that be those...

Sunday, June 14, 2009

I NEED to go to SCHOOL!!

Sabi nga ni B sa Plurk nya kanina, bukas may pasok na. Nag-react ako kasi akala ko Linggo pa rin. Tapos nang mapatingin ako sa YM at sa message ni JM, ayun. Alas dose pasado na nga. At bukas nga, papasok na rin kami. Hinding-hindi na ko makapaghintay. Ano nga bang meron sa sem na to at sobra ang excitement level ko? Biruin mo katatapos lang halos ng Summer classes. Sabagay, maaari ngang inubos ko na ang “sense and feeling” ng summer break dun sa 4-day getaway ko sa labas ng Pinas. Kaya pagkatapos ng paguran doon e heto ako’t nagdedemmand na mag-enrollment...

Friday, June 12, 2009

Fancy stats, but the picture remains the sameFor many years now, the Office for National Statistics has been beavering away trying to develop measures of output and productivity in our public services. It hasn't been at all straightforward, as we can see by glancing at the dense array of statistical formulae they have been forced to deploy.So why is it important?Because we've shovelled vast amounts of dosh into these services over the last decade,...

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Green Shoots

Green shoots, eh? Seen any round your way?Yesterday's report from the National Institute (NIESR) said:"Our monthly estimates of GDP... point to March as having been the trough of the depression, with output rising in April and May."According to them, GDP rose by 0.3% between March and May.Which has been seized on by some Labour commentators as confirming the economic genius of Gordo. His boldness in reflating, bailing out the banks, and slashing...

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

One immortal soul heading downstairs"This is the day when the Conservatives have revealed their true manifesto for this country. There can be no doubt that the choice, whenever it comes, is between a Government prepared to invest in the future and a Conservative Party that is going to cut."So said our OMG-is-he-still-there "leader" at PMQs today.What on earth is he talking about? In the most recent Budget, his own Chancellor - second-choice Chancellor...

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Yes, this letter has been invading my mind for the past 7 years now. What’s with this letter that almost everything related to the things that make me go in hanyaan mode involves it? Hmn. Let me enumerate some of it, but please, do not react violently.   First off is the set of “Johns” in our 2nd year OL Rosary classroom. :) Next is the J’s in my closest guy friends’ names (June, JM, John Gerard, JJJ…). Then third would be initial J of the hated person I had in 3rd year Rose of Lima (no name dropping :D) Followed by my first boyfriend’s...

The Message From Bruvver Crow

Two previous messages...And now we have his new message: a full-blown 48 hour strike on the London Underground, starting now.So what's it over, exactly?To start with, it seems Bob and the bruvvers don't like the pay deal they've been offered. They reckon that a five year deal giving them inflation plus 1% for the first year, and inflation plus 0.5% pa thereafter, is just plain mean.What! you exclaim.What the FFFF!!????Isn't it a fact that tube workers...