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Wednesday, February 09, 2005

In my endless summer of nothing to do, I decided its time to do something constructive.  Resultantly I bid xanga adieu and bonjour to blogspot.

New URL: http://boshek.blogspot.com

so update ur bookmarks and if u never read this anyway, now this move is an even better excuse.

over and out!


Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Currently Watching
Team America: World Police
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one of the funniest movies i've seen in a while.  incredibly crude, rude and often disgustingly distasteful but it made me laugh, a lot.

also, the Westies are Tuesday Night Division 2 Canterbury Oztag Competition Grand Finalists (geez, thats a mouthful).  and in all honesty that really doesn't reflect anything as we made the GF on the virtue of a forfeit against a team the would have slapped our sorry arses back to the Belfield Hotel.  so its been two weeks of training runs in a row with another next week as we have the week off due to a bye.  rather concerning as we're terribly underdone match practice wise and training runs haven't achieved anything substantial.

ok, i've increased my St George customer satisfaction rating to 75%.  but let me say this about HSBC.  they don't charge any account keeping fees, whether u be a student or not, there's 5 free ATM withdrawals from any ATM, u can link it to a share trading account and they provide ur deposits with generous interest.  granted, they have few branches but who goes into branches these days anyhow?  i'll ramble on about Suncorp's account as i feel an allegiance to them, but that can wait.

finally...ouch!


Monday, February 07, 2005

Currently Watching
Closer
By Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen
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didn't like the movie, did like Natalie Portman....

Fantasy Aussie sports - NRL, AFL and Rugby
something that will certainly kill time in future months...particularly if work dries up.


Thursday, February 03, 2005

Currently Watching
Enemy of the State
By Will Smith, Gene Hackman
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decent movie, finally watched it after getting the dvd with my dvd-player.

anyway...so i was watching "A Day in the OC" or something along those lines the other night, basically its one of your typical "behind-the-scenes" shows.  nothing to write home about but i raise this question or rhetorical question.  why don't they tell us about bitch-fights between cast members, melt-downs, drunken filming parties and the like?

behind-the-scenes always portray the set as a happy area with laughter, joy and family-like love.  they rave about the mutual respect they have for one another... its all a little dull.  a show about the former would be a lot more entertaining & controversial.  obviously, its not good PR, but whats better than a juicey trashy show?  the juice and trash behind it 

and as a postscript to yesterday's post:
my card's been cancelled and re-activated and then cancelled again after a call at the very early time of 9am.... brilliant.

ps:  i've given st george a 67% customer satisfaction rating according to my limited sample size. (don't sue me happy dragon, i'm just stating facts from my site)


Wednesday, February 02, 2005

which bank are fucking retards?
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia


now, the completely incompetent people of Group Security at Commonwealth Bank of Australia have blocked my credit card because they believe security has been compromised.  ok, that doesn't seem like such a bad thing, right?  u think its coz they're doing their job in this day and age of internet shopping, global fraud and hacking.  however.... NOOO.... these incompetent people have blocked becuase of a transaction that occurred whilst i was away on Dec 10.

now think about it.... if something that happened on Dec 10 and it only got onto their radars now...  they're doing a bloody shit job of it.  not only that... i had advised the bank that i'll be conducting transactions in foreign currency, only further demonstrating their total lack of competence.

now, my card has been cancelled and i have to wait 5 business days for a new card to delivered.  i asked about express delivery, but thats going to cost ME $20 despite the CBA's wrong-doing.

as soon as i'm starting work, i'm going to a real bank, one that doesn't rest on the laurels of account holders who have never changed banks since their Dollarmite accounts, one that provides good service and low fees.  a bank like HSBC, Suncorp or St George.  Even banks like ANZ, Westpac and NAB will do.  Anything but CBA.... morons.



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