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World Where You Live - June 2007

The Beatles

I am not going to go into one of those "when I was a child" rants but yesterday I found something that I didn't realize I still had, you see my parents bought me these two albums The Beatles Red Album and The Beatles 1962 -1966 and the Beatles Blue Album 1967 -1970 as a young girl of about eight or nine years old who knew the words to songs like "Eight Days A Week", "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "Hello Goodbye" off by heart (thanks largely to a tape called "Beatles Hits for Kids"). I would walk around the streets of Broadbeach on the Gold Coast while on holiday singing "Eight days a week, I loooovveee you!" and annoy the hell out of my sister and parents because I wouldn't shut up (they managed to though with ice cream) and stop singing high pitched (my singing voice is high pitched and not that good).

Anyway I cleaned the dust off both CD sets and decided to write down my favourite Beatles tunes from these two albums, I thought I might share them with you (You might find there are a few classic songs missing from my list of favourites):

My Favourite Beatles Songs
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
"Hard Days Night"
"Eight Days A Week"
"Ticket To Ride"
"Help"
"We Can Work It Out"
"Day Tripper"
"In My Life"
"Girl"
"Twist and Shout"
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
"Hello Goodbye"
"Revolution"
"Come Together"
"Something"

Yes, I know all you Beatles fans out there are gasping in horror that I have left songs like "Hey Jude" and "Let It Be" off the list but the songs I have listed are probably the Beatles I have fun singing along to when I put a Beatles CD on and ones I remember.

Anyway that's all for now so tata cyaz

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June 27th 2007 @ 01:18

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: Entertainment

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Hypocritical Australia Should Wake Up

The Australian producers of Big Brother Australia have been forced to apologise to the people of Mexico after authorities became angry about the use of the Mexican flag during an episode of 'Friday Night Live' where contestants were made to dress in giant Mexican sombreros and droopy moustaches played musical chairs and ate chilli con carne to win points in the June 19 'FNL' show which was labelled as 'Mexican night'
Later, they played a game in which one team protected the Mexican flag against slime-filled balloons thrown by a rival team which obviously upset the Mexican Department of Foreign Relations, who said the event was 'offensive'. "The Mexican national flag has a long and proud history and it stands as a powerful symbol that identifies and unites Mexican citizens wherever they live," it said. "Both the [Mexican] embassy and the Mexican community in Australia are dismayed to know the insensitive and inappropriate manner in which it was presented."

The programme's producers said they had apologised in a letter to the Mexican embassy for any offence caused. "Friday Night Live is themed each week and 19 June's Mexican Night was designed as a tribute to Mexico and its vibrant cultural heritage," it said. "In addition to offering their apologies, Big Brother's producers have assured the Mexican government that something like this would never happen again."

I have to say that I cannot blame the Mexican officials for getting upset about it because in reality the Big Brother 'FNL' program was disrespectful to another country's flag on June 19 and I am just wondering why they (the producers of Big Brother) didn't do some helpful research before allowing contestants to desecrate the Mexican flag on that particular night. If your planning on defending the producers of this stupid program, remember this before you write: We would all be furious if the same thing happened to the Australian flag. Just remember how upset we all got when that kid desecrated the Australian flag during the Cronulla Riot..it's as simple as that.

If there was one good thing about that Friday Night Live, it would be that it has shown how hypocritical we all are when we squeal and carry on "It's an absolute outrage!" when someone desecrates our country's flag but when it's another country's flag being, we all sit around and say "Ahh it's only a game" as in the case of this offensive FNL which has only strengthened my case for Big Brother to be ripped off air and never brought back...time for a bit of decency on TV of a Friday night.

Tata Cyaz

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June 23rd 2007 @ 01:41

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: News

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The Weekend Carnage Wrap Up

Well as you all know by now that there was major carnage around the NSW Coast especially around Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Hunter Valley and around the Central Coast during the June Long Weekend due to all the storm carnage.
I got to say that I was lucky, apart from my shoes, socks and the legs of my trousers getting wet in water that was covering the main road at Mayfield (an inner suburb of Newcastle) on Friday) I was extremely lucky, I didn't lose electricity, my house wasn't flooded or anything else like that because my house is located on the side of a hill so no floodwater can get in and compared to the stories I have heard from some of my friends and others in worse affected areas, one friend I spoke to, the bottom level of her two level house had water go through it while another friend had gone shopping at Jesmond, caught the bus, the bus couldn't go along it's original route because of flash flooding, got off the bus, hitched a ride with a couple in order to get home but couldn't so she spent the night at this couple's house...it has been quite an extraodinary weekend for so many reasons but i have to say compared with my friends and hearing other stories on the radio over the long weekend, my story is quite boring, Basically what happened to me is that I was at work and that my boss sent me home early from work but I had to walk through a car park of ankle deep water (which is nothing compared to swimming through neck deep water), I had to walk over and get something at Woolworths which is across the other side of the road meaning that I had to walk through another lot of ankle deep water just to get across the road.
Anyway I got home safely but as you can see my story is pretty tame.

If you are in the areas affected, have electricity and wish to share how you spent the Long Weekend from Nightmareville then drop a comment.
Anyway that's all for now so tata cyaz

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June 11th 2007 @ 07:04

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