Quick update over a sunny sunday

So its a nice cool and sunny Sunday afternoon here in Melbourne...

Apologies to the dear readers of my blog if you have recently wondered about the 2 week lapse since the last entry. Quite a few things have happened since then and this coupled with the fact that my Internet was down last week thanks to Tel$tra screwing up something as simple as a name change on a phone bill from Lisa to mine.
When the name change on the bill was entered into their system and went through, my ADSL2+ connection blew up and decided to un-sync itself from the modem.

I have to run off to the airport in a while to catch a flight to Bris-Vegas tonight, as early Monday morning, our project is kicking off the second trial conversion to time how long it takes to migrate 800,000 customer details from Queensland. An exciting week lies ahead for me, comprised primary of of late nights and living out of a suitcase which I'm not too thrilled about. On the plus side, this time round I've got myself in a comfy looking 1 bedroom serviced apartment which should contain more creature comforts of home than a tiny hotel room.

In the last 3 weeks, Pat and myself have chosen a new flatemate to replace Lisa, and recently decided to get rid of her as it wasn't working out! More juicy details to follow, I have to start packing my bags now and will try writing while I'm up there.

Andy

What you won't see on TV

I had a random though this morning while walking to work (I get random thoughts all the time but they're sometimes too absurd or naughty to mention in this blog)

Anyway, I was thinking: Why is it that every movie or TV show we see, 99% of the time, it always sends a positive message of hope, right over wrong, karma coming back to bite you, good triumphing over evil and all things pink, fluffy, sugary and nice.

The audience gets handed a cute puppy to cuddle with the take home message.

Now, if I were to write a script about a gloomy story which might very well happen in real life (and I bet my last dollar that it does), I highly doubt any film studio or TV network would endorse it.
We all know that we sit down in front of the telly to get ourselves in a happy state. That happy state is what keeps us wanting to come back for more and keeps the advertising dollars rolling in. Its one of the ultimate drug-free delivery systems of temporary happiness because our brains associate the good feelings from the screen to themselves.

What if we delivered gloom instead of happiness?

For example:

--Start --

Mr nice guy has a hot girlfriend who's absolutely to die for.
She's intelligent, pretty, makes him laugh and adores him.
He plays the part of the perfect gentleman, the perfect sensitive new age guy.
He's kind and sensitive, in touch with his emotions and pays 100percent attention to her every needs.
He eats organic, cooks beautiful meals for them both, recycles their garbage, drives a smart car, sips on skinny soy lattes during coffee breaks and takes up yoga and pilates to find peace with his inner self.

One day while our good chump was busy in his pilates class , his girlfriend runs into a bad boy who charms and seduces her with words and touch.
He was different, he was exciting and had a dark streak.
He walked through this world without apology and took what he wanted whenever he felt like it.
He's essentially a modern day caveman brimming with too much testosterone.
Hot girl falls for the bad guy over the good chump.

Good chump tries to face off with the competition but gets gets beaten up.
His pet puppy and kitten gets stuffed into a bag by bad guy and thrown into the river while bad guy plus new girl point and laugh at good chump while he bawls his eyes out.

Movie cuts to the sex scene right about now where bad guy does all sorts of nasty, kinky things to the girl while she enjoys every moment of it without feeling guilty or sinful.
Frustrated chump sits at home crying for his loss of girl, puppy and kitten and wonder why bad things happen to him.

-- The End --

Was there a point to all this?
Well, not exactly. I did say it was a random thought.

However, this is REAL life and that could happen though. (A little less exaggerated perhaps)