Monday, 24 September 2007

Rab....

Me and My Dad (Rab) go to every Glasgow Rangers home game as we are Season Ticket holders.

Well, what does Rab do but FORGET THE TICKETS to the Rangers vs Aberdeen game!!!

How stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We ended up having to go to the ticket office to get replacement tickets which cost £5 each, so we had to pay £10 altogether.

I don't think I'll ever let him live it down, LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Was a good game, glad we didn't miss it!

Rachael xxxx

The Tech Guys : Update 5#

WELL!

My laptop is getting taken away AGAIN to get fixed. There are three things wrong with it.

1. It says "Advent" when I turn it on even though it's a Philips Freevents.
2. My Norton Anti-Virus is telling me its out of date after 3 months into my one year contract
and
3. There are scratches along the side of it.

So, I have to give it back to get repaired AGAIN!

DO NOT USE THE TECH GUYS IF POSSIBLE!!!!

Rachael xxxx

Friday, 21 September 2007

The Tech Guys : Update 4#

I just want to say that THE TECH GUYS are possibly the dumbest people EVER!!!

In The Tech Guys : Update 3# I said how I called the today asking what was wrong with Luigi (LouLou) and they said that if I called back on Monday then they would prolly have a report saying what was wrong with it etc. HOWEVER, about 30 minutes later who turns up at my door but parceline with my LUIGI THE LAPTOP fixed and ready to be used!!!

What a but of idiots the tech guys are!!!! HAHA!

The only good thing that may come out of this is they may not realise that i have this laptop and they might send me a free new one!!!! Haha!!

Rachael xxxx

The Tech Guys : Update 3#

I bet everyone can guess what I am about to say.... The Tech Guys STILL DON'T KNOW what is wrong with my laptop. It has been over 3 weeks since they have had it and they still can't tell me what's up with it!

I called about 5 minutes ago to ask if they knew what was up and they told me that they had sent an email to the engineer(s) and they are looking at it at the moment and that if I phone back on TUESDAY they MIGHT be able to tell me what's up with it.

Is it just me or is this really unacceptable?!?! I mean 3 weeks to fix a laptop! Well, actually it doesn't count as 3 weeks to them because they don't work weekends. But still it's really annoying that they can't tell me whats wrong with it. I would, perhaps, understand it taking so long if they were waiting for parts or something like that but they, as far as I can tell, haven't even looked at it or can tell me whats wrong with it.

I'm told if they can't fix it within 28days then they'll give me a new laptop. I wish they'd just get it over and done with and give me the new one!!!!

Rachael xxxx

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

The Tech Guys : Update 2#

Yeah, well, phoned AGAIN todya to ask what is going on and they STILL CANNOT tell me whats up with my laptop.

I doubt anyone has even looked at it, even tho they say they have.

I am getting really frustrated it has been two weeks since they have had it and they cant tell me what is wrong with it....IM SO ANGRY!!

They said that if they cannot fix it within 28 days they'll give me a new one of the same or a better one which is orite but I would rather have my laptop!!!

Rachael xxxx

Monday, 17 September 2007

The Tech Guys : Update...

Well having had no luck myself Rab (my paw) called The Tech Guys to see what was going on with my laptop.

He was supposed to get a call back from one of the engineers and, guess what..., they never called him back. Now there's a surprise!!!

Tech Guys are RUBBISH!!!!

That's my poor Luigi been away for two weeks and still they haven't told me whats wrong with it...barin in mind they only looked at it after 10 days of having it!!!


I AM NOT AMUSED!!!

Rachael xxxx

Saturday, 15 September 2007

Dirty Dancing



Yesterday I saw Dirty Dancing for the first time! It was AMAZING!!! Now I know why everyone goes on about it. It was real good!





Unfortunaetly, I have a tiny crush on a young Patrick Swayze, lol!



What I'd do to be Jennifer Grey.... ah well!

Rachael xxxx

Friday, 14 September 2007

France 0 Scotland 1

I know this post is a bit late but I just saw the Scotland game last night.

I was at a meeting so I missed the game but I got my Dad to record it so I watched it last night.

What a goal!!!!

It was a good game!!!!

Rachael xxxx

Making Progress....

I called The Tech Guys (the people who are fixing Luigi) and I had a nice wee chat with Margaret. She said that they were looking at Luigi at the moment and that they were working ont he problem.

However, I think they just said that to keep me happy because ont he phone I said "it's been ten days and I still haven't heard anything" so they musta said this so as? I dont make a complaint or whatever....

Well I will be calling tomorrow to see whats happening!!!

Rachael xxxx

Wednesday, 12 September 2007

Run, Fat Boy, Run

I recommend going to go see RUN, FAT BOY, RUN it is comic gold! So funny! Hank Azaria IS MINE!!!!! Why didn't he look like that in F.R.I.E.N.D.S??? That's what I wana know!!!

Here's a tralier for it:



Rachael xxxx

p.s. go read my post below this one about my poor Luigi!!

Not Happy At ALL!!!

As I said before I sent away my laptop to get repaired by the TechGuys may i say how completely crap they actually are! Utter b.....well i won't finish that but they are bbbaaaaaaaaaaad!

I sent away Luigi 8 days ago yet when i phoned up for an update on how he was doing, want to hear what they said? Do ya??? They said "we are still waiting for an engineer to look at it". I was like "are you kidding me?....no they were not!

ALSO, they told me when I first phoned up about Luigi being ill they said that it would take 10-14 days to get back and even at that i thought it was long but i accpeted - what else could I do?? So when i phoned i was like "its been away a week blah, blah, blah and you told me it would be away for a max of 14 days". ANOTHER shock to me came when they chnaged their story and said "well thats what we try and do....it could take up to 28 days".

Let it be safe to say I AM NOT HAPPY I AM ACTUALLY PEEEEEED AFFFF!!!!

Somebody *cough*gillba*cough* said go a bit bush and they'll do it faster. But I don't think i should go mad a poor call centre man. Fair enoguh if it was the actual engineer I was talkin to but the call centre guy just reads whats on the screen.

Rant over...

Rachael xxxx

Monday, 10 September 2007

Yummy....

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Just For A Larf...

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Disastrous Performance @ VMA's

Here's Britney's performance at the VMA's yesteday:



I think this was awful. I feel sorry for her. She needs to get help or stay out of the limelight for a while and just get her life back together. I know you can take what the papers say with a pinch of salt but she seems to be going out every night and not caring about her children. Go out once in a while but don't dump the kids you had on someone else, right? She sure won't get custody of her kids if she continues like this.

Rachael xx

Friday, 7 September 2007

Rip Off

I was in Waterstones today and as i was looking at the books there was the audio version of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.....for £75!!! I realise that having Stephen Fry as the narrator might cost alot but im sure they could find somebody just as good to do the narrating (or it it narration....i duno).

Anywayz...thats all i really have to say atm...lol


Rachael xxxx

Thursday, 6 September 2007

Help

how do you search all blogs on blogspot.com for certain keywords.....i know there is a search bar at the top when you are on somebody's blog but that only searches for the word you've typed in on the blog you are on....thats a bit gobildy-gook but i duno how to explain it better....HELP!!

Rachael xx

R.I.P Pavarotti

Opera great Pavarotti dead at 71

ROME (AFP) —
Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti, whose glorious tenor voice, showmanship and crossover celebrity turned him into a global superstar, died Thursday at his home in Italy at the age of 71.

Hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, Pavarotti passed away during the night at his villa near the northern city of Modena after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

"His condition progressively worsened up to this morning," said Antonio Frassoldati, one of the star's team of doctors. "He was always totally conscious of the situation, he always sought to fight the disease ... and he was very calm."

The funeral will be held at Modena Cathedral on Saturday, said the city's mayor Giorgio Pighi.
Pavarotti -- known in his prime for the clarity of his voice and ability to hit high Cs with ease -- broke into the opera world when he won a competition in 1961.

He went on to perform across Europe before crossing the Atlantic in 1965 for a production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" in Miami, co-starring famed Australian soprano Joan Sutherland as Lucia.

It was with Sutherland in February 1972 that Pavarotti took London's Covent Garden and the New York Metropolitan Opera by storm with a sparkling production of a Donizetti favourite, "La Fille du Regiment".

"Luciano Pavarotti was one of the finest singers of our time," the Royal Opera House in London said in a statement.

"He had a unique ability to touch people with the emotional and brilliant quality of his voice. He was a man with the common touch and the most extraordinary gift. He will be truly missed by millions," the statement said.

To the shock of some classical music purists, the larger than life singer extended his appeal far beyond the operatic world, collaborating with pop musicians like Sting and U2's Bono.

In 1991, a crowd of 150,000, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, braved the rain and cold in London's Hyde Park to hear him sing.

The previous year Pavarotti hit an even wider audience when his performance of the aria "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot" was chosen as the theme music for football's 1990 World Cup finals, held in his native Italy.

He sung Nessun Dorma during his last major performance, at the opening of the Winter Olympics in Turin in February 2006.

Among his best-known initiatives in recent years were his appearances with two other leading singers, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, known as the "Three Tenors", and the annual "Pavarotti and Friends" concerts in Modena.

Carreras mourned the loss of a "great artist," friend, cook and formidable card player.
"The best memories are the ones in intimacy," the Spanish tenor said. "He was a very good friend for his friends and a great poker player."

As news of his death spread, the Opera House in Vienna raised a black flag of mourning and other stars from the world of opera and beyond were quick to pay tribute.
Sutherland told BBC radio that there was "no question" that Pavarotti's unique voice ranked him among opera's greats.

"It was incredible to stand next to it and sing along with it," the 80-year-old Australian star, nicknamed "La Stupenda", said.

"The quality of the sound was quite different -- you knew immediately it was Luciano singing."
She added that she had seen Pavarotti recently and he was "not the same person at all".
Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli said: "There were tenors and then there was Pavarotti," adding: "It is thanks to Luciano Pavarotti that the culture of opera spread to new generations."
Pavarotti's success also attracted the attention of the society columns.

He left his wife Adua in 1996 after 35 years of marriage and three grown-up daughters for his secretary Nicoletta Mantovani, whom he married in 2003, and with whom he had one child.
Since undergoing surgery for cancer in 2006, Pavarotti had at least five rounds of chemotherapy. He was hospitalised again on August 8 with a fever, and was discharged more than two weeks later after a battery of tests.

This summer, during a ceremony in honour of the singer on the island of Ischia near Naples, Mantovani said Pavarotti had been feeling well and was preparing a new album.
Early Wednesday, Pavarotti had expressed his pride at being the first to receive a new "cultural excellence" prize in Italy.

He said he was "full of emotion and gratitude ... because it gives me the opportunity to continue to celebrate the magic of a life spent in the service of art."

The death of Pavarotti is the second to rock the opera world in recent months. Acclaimed American soprano Beverly Sills died of cancer at her New York home in July. She was 78.
Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa, music director of the Vienna State Opera, said he was "shocked and very sad" at the loss of a great friend and singer.

"His tenor was so distinguished that I could immediately recognise it whenever I heard his songs at places like restaurants," Ozawa said.

Tributes also poured in from the political world, with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi mourning the loss of "a very great voice of the musical world and of Italy."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Pavarotti had "seduced the entire world" and defended the singer's decision to sometimes stray far from the traditional operatic repertoire.

"Via the marriage of styles, this great tenor brought ever greater audiences over to classical music," Sarkozy said.



Rachael xxxx

Tuesday, 4 September 2007

Style and Beauty Magazine Can.....

......get tae!

They said I'm overweight! What do they know!

I know im no Kate Moss or whatever but they need to get a grip!

Rachael xxxx

Paris Hilton....

I was thinking. Did anyone see that interview with Paris Hilton on Larry King? Well in it she was saying how she read the Bible everyday and in my opinion i think it's a load of rubbish. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh but she couldn't even quote a passage. I dont mean like word for word, I mean say Mark 1:1-12 or whatever. But i dont read my Bible every day and I can tell you my fave passage, she was in there 23 days or something! (Paris Interview see about 7 mins 10 seconds into the interview)
I know this is a bit late coming but better late than never!
Here's my fave passage:

Mark 5:21-44
(New International Version) New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by
International Bible Society
A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman

21When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came there. Seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet 23and pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live." 24So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." 29Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" 31"You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?' " 32But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." 35While Jesus was still speaking, some men came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler. "Your daughter is dead," they said. "Why bother the teacher any more?" 36Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue ruler, "Don't be afraid; just believe." 37He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. 38When they came to the home of the synagogue ruler, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39He went in and said to them, "Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep." 40But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum!" (which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!" ). 42Immediately the girl stood up and walked around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. 43He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.

Also, to Liz - if you're wanting sister act go here: Sister Act ..........it's dead cheap!

Rachael xxxx

Laptop Update...

First of all me and Gillba have decided that my Laptop should be called Luigi. Well, I got the name from a random generator ( Name Generator ) and we thoguht it sounded good. It's whole name is Luigi Dragomir but we can just call him Luigi...a nice we friend for Donny, eh?!?!

Now that thats over I'll go on to write about what this blog was actually supposed to be about.
Luigi got picked up today by a very nice wee man. he settled him into his nice pink box and carted him off. I dunno how a pink box will go down with a boy laptop but oh well he's just guna have to deal with it. Haha. It wasn't just a cardboard box it was a big plastic thing with stuff and the rest inside it. I was well impressed.
So hopefully he'll be back soon...not the two weeks like they said it might take.

Rachael xxxx

Saturday, 1 September 2007

So Sad...

I think this is the most saddest video ever of all time.

I dont really know why i've decided to put this up as a blog but it touches your heart i think....

Let Me Know What You Think!



Rachael xxxx