Random Shoes - A Global Phenomenon

I was just on a call with someone from Denmark and he had something very scary to report - random shoes are a global phenomenon. Para was just innocently cycling to uni when he almost fell off his bike. There on the road was a shoe. Not a pair of shoes. One shoe. One Danish kid's shoe. Which proves that shoes can be from owners of all different sizes and all over the world.

A lot of theories have been proposed for the reasoning behind so many random single shoes on roads but no one has come with a solid, elucidatory answer. Is it because they are tied to power lines and then fall when possums run across the line? Is it because they are placed strategically for artistic purposes? Or is it because there are shoe bandits across the globe who try to mess the minds of innocent people? This is very frightening.

PS. HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY PARA for tomorrow! (I did it purple to match your painting colour)

The tight ass stalker

There is this guy who is suuuccchhhh a tightass and has asked me out on a date twice this year but only when he had FREE tickets to somewhere or free vouchers for dinner.

I met him when I was selling my Nokia Ngage phone that I won in a competition. He answered my ad and we negotiated for half an hour and in the end I just couldn't be bothered cuz i got the phone for free and was sick of his tightass reasons - "I am going on a camping trip this weekend and need to buy a sleeping bag so I really can't afford to buy the phone at a higher price". I sold the phone to him for a cheap price and he was so happy that he said he would buy me lunch. He actually used an Oral Blitz lunch voucher to buy my lunch (that he got for FREE).

Five months later I got a call from him and basically he said, "I feel really bad for ripping you off so I want to make up for it by taking you to the theatre. I have these FREE tickets and I thought I can make it up to you by taking you to NIDA". He was very polite about it and I thought that was his real intention so I politely said I was busy and don't like the theatre and will be spending that night with my boyfriend.

A few months later I saw him again - at the Roundhouse to get FREE BBQ. I write the 'Whats On' section in the Blitz and the 'Free BBQ' was advertised in very small writing. It was just a sentence. I bet he goes through the Blitz just looking for the word 'free'. He was starting to freak me out.

Last night I got 3 missed calls from a number so I rang back thinking it was an emergency. It was HIM. He said, "You know how I said I felt bad for ripping you off? Well, I got these vouchers for a FREE dinner at Darling Harbour and was wondering whether you wanted to go have dinner on Saturday night". By then I was really fed up! And I had already told him I had a boyfriend heaps of times. How much more of a tightass can u get??

Steven getting touchy touchy with the Lynx models

Promo Chicks

Last Thursday I was working at Oktoberfest and somehow ended up on a Lynx party bus ducking power lines and branches with a bunch of bimbos!

This big double decker bus pulled up in front of uni at Anzac Pde and I was told to tell the driver where to drive to, look after the models and get people on the party bus. Okayyyy.... They were all dancing around in their half naked suits and chatting about hair, tan sprays, ways to work out etc. It wasn't hard trying to get people on the bus. All I had to do was say, "Free party bus filled with Lynx models" and it would get full in 2 minutes. It was quite a lot of fun on the bus - its a roofless double decker so we just danced around to the loud music and flashing disco lights as we drove around maroubra. The girls were pretty funny - they had a loud speaker so would shout random comments to people on the street and turned on the siren when we had to duck for branches. It's quite random so it's really funny watching the expressions on people who see the bus go past!

What I find funny is how guys get drawn to promo chicks who all wear the same outfits. Although I saw better looking girls dressed normally at Oktoberfest, once the Jim Beam girls came out with their white suits and cowboy hats, all the guys got horny and started swarming over them with their not so clever pick up lines. But if they were dressed in normal clothes, they wouldn't have had that much attention. I was once helping someone promote for something and was wearing the same T-shirt as the other promo girls with the logo on the tee. Let's say I got a lot more attention that night than I usually do at a club! But when I changed my top later, the attention died down straight away. How funny.

Although its cheap to get sales through skankily dressed promo chicks, promo chicks are an effective way for marketing. On Oktoberfest, if you wanted to get in a photo with the Lynx models, you had to get sprayed with Lynx. Most guys I've talked to really hate Lynx. Although Andy hates Lynx to death, he got sprayed from head to toe, however, he got to get touchy touchy with the promo girls. Afterwards he was in pain cuz he smelt so bad. They give you a card (sort of like "I'm giving you my number" business card) but its just a card to go on the net and enter all your details (for them to bombard you with promo material and get market research for free) before you can see you photo online. Same thing with the Jim Beam girls - "Why don't you buy 5 Jim Beams and come back and show me and I'll give you a sticker?" while flashing their tits.

However, being a Commerce student, I guess in the end it all works out. The Roundhouse made $90,000 in drink sales that night plus lots of people got free Jim Beam key chains.

Me in a fluro pink Oktoberfest Staff shirt and some Lynx models on the PARTY BUS!

Mysterious Random Shoes

I feel like someone is out to get me. It's really driving me mad!!! They are playing with my mind and leaving me really perplexed and confused!!!

Ever since I first started driving, I would often see a random shoe (no, not a pair of shoes - just one shoe) left on the road or near the road. At first I was ok with it and even thought it was funny. Someone probably tried to run across the road when they were drunk and their shoe fell off but forgot to put it back on their feet. But I've been seeing more and more random shoes left almost strategically at various locations lately and I'm getting very confused. It's been averaging about one random shoe sighting per week.

It's not just with driving. I was catching the train home from a Real Estate Finance excursion today and as I looked out the window to look at Sydney Harbour, I saw a shoe placed on the edge of the Bridge railing. I swear, I could hear it laughing evilly at me. Last week, I was driving towards the e toll gate to the tunnel and saw one placed on the freeway. Why would there be a shoe in the middle of the freeway?!? There are seriously like 10 lanes!! It's not somewhere where you take a walk unless u want to get killed.

Why is it only ONE shoe?? Why are there shoes on the roads?? I don't get it!!! I just started this blog but I'll be sending my address out to people soon. So please tell me if you have been seeing random shoes around Sydney as well.

My friend, Anneke Geersen, did some amazing paintings of me and her other friends in colours that expressed our personalities. She painted me yellow because I'm a happy, bright person. When it was displayed in the Art Gallery of NSW, the caption said, "But is this who they really are or am I blind to other aspects of their personalities?"

Following the blog trend? Or an alternate reason?

I've always been against creating a blog.
1) What kind of loser would want to read about my life on the Internet?
2) My life is embarassing enough. Why put it on the world wide web?
3) In my diaries, I write about people. Having a blog means the person you write about will read what you think about them.

However,
1) Blogs look pretty
2) I'm too lazy to keep a diary anymore (typing is so great! <-- NERD!)
3) Things happen in my everyday life which I sometimes ponder about. Usually useless, strange thoughts but why not write them out? It will force my brain to think more (I haven't been doing that too much lately) and maybe I'll learn more about myself.
4) I don't have to write about people
5) I'm planning to travel more. Blogs are great for writing about travel and the little things you find unique about different places.

So I'll give this a go ...