Jade - Goody or Baddy ?

Jade strikes me as unconventionally clever. She obviously wasn't the top of her class in Geography, or English for that matter- she clearly hasn't had much of an education altogether. However, who has their own mini empire selling a wide range of products, who can demand huge sums to appear in photo's and who has a bank balance to make most of our eyes water?! Exactly. She's definitely clever.

Is she a role model, to be aspired to? Or a role model to be held up as an example of what not to become. I can't make my mind up.

Shes an honest, loveable character. She cares deeply for her now husband, and two boys. She has been brought up in a chaotic world, but conquered this mess to become one of the most recognisable faces in the UK today.

She has faced this tragic situation in life with bravery and determination, and used it to provide the future for her children that she never had herself. This is a selfless and brutally honest explanation, and one which has quite frankly worked if we can believe the reports of the £1,000,000 she has already earned. And why not? She was brought into our lives and has led her hectic life in the glare of the public. She has every entitlement to go out of it in the same fashion. Yes she is famous for doing very little, but if the nation has taken her to its heart, then this cannot be a bad thing. And her fight has probably saved thousands of lives, bringing the plight of cancer to millions of people, spurring them to get checked out.

Sadly, her boys don't have a choice, they will have to live their lives without their mother. They won't be the first children, but regardless it is going to be tough. Very tough. But if they take after their mother, and with a little help from what Jade is doing right now, then I wouldn't bet against them.

Jade. In my eyes she's definitely a Goody.

Bored.com

The use of technology to entertain us fascinates me. Is it all an unnecessary waste of money? Or a a very necessary escape from the rush of modern life?

I love new technology, but I guess I'm a traditionalist at heart. A traditionalist - but a recent convert.

I would wake up in the morning and turn on the telly before parading into work. I'd spend my lunch hour in the welfare room in front of a television set. I'd come home and switch on the box to enjoy my favourite soap, follow it up with a Stir fry and a hefty dash of the national news. I'd dab in a documentary for a while, and turn to Question Time for the latest political mishaps. I'd relax and slip into my dream world with a film blaring away in the background. Notice a theme? Telly, Television, the Box- in all its form's its one invention that seems to govern the very existence of so many of us. Who said slavery was abolished? Just one item can control so much of what we do..

I use to always have the games consoles, and the desktop PC, and the Gameboy, and then the smaller, lighter version of the Gameboy which cost twice as much because it was 'colour.' I've had a mobile since I was 11, my parents were getting rid of theirs- Green screen, good for calls and almost nothing else- and since then I've been hooked. All this technology is there to prevent us from being 'bored'. But do you know what, the more the market is swarmed by this electricity-fed entertainment, the more and more bored we all become.

We can't fathom a world without our new 'gold' powering this endless entertainment. In the past it was a simpler world; a more imaginative place. Kids played and talked to one another, and told stories and jokes to amuse each other. They made dens to play in, and created worlds that existed only inside their very own PC; their brain. Now I don't want to rainbow the past- It was as crappy-a-place as modern place can be, I'm sure- but like I said I'm a technological convert.

I'm still addicted to my phone of course. But its calls now, not texts. I watch the news and documentaries- but the 400 pointless shows devotedly followed like the Bible by millions, do nothing for me. I shalln't name and shame. People can try to suck me in, but I can tell you the plot of every single one of these shows by a quick peep in the Sunday listings without actually having to force myself through endless hours of the crap.

I'm still addicted to facebook too, but not surfing the Internet. Facebook is about real people and real lives, arranging things with my friends and my expression of myself to all those around me. Photo's and comments and chats and events- real people, real things.

But other than that, consoles and games and pointless programmes have gone out of my life. What I enjoy in my life is gathering with my family and friends. Talking and eating together. Discussing life and the people we know.

I also like books. Why don't people read anymore?! People tend to forget what our very own brains are capable of and the worlds that they can create. We don't need a PC to create it for us. And the best bit is, a book costs £7.99 from a store ( or 25p down your local car boot). Not £179.99. Much kinder on the bank balance.

Don't throw out the telly, but watch the useful and interesting shows that give you information about the world you live in. And then use this information to visit this wonderful world of ours. I watched a programme about Iceland, and I went there. Wow. One of the best trip's of my life.

Don't throw out the computer, but use it as a tool to learn about this amazing place and the people in it that mean something to you.

Pick up a book and discover a thousand new worlds for you to explore.

Invite your mum round for tea, or your Aunt Edna, or your best friend Joe- turn off the telly, and talk. Bake a cake. Cook them a meal. Catch up on what you have missed and learn about their day, and their life..a thousand times more interesting (and relevant) than Patsy the transexual on the telly.

Why? Because you won't be bored. An instant cure to the scourge of modern humanity.

A friend recently spoke to me about getting a PSP for 150 quid ('with two games') for her husband to enjoy during their 2 week Caribbean holiday. You're in the Caribbean, with you're hubby, the only entertainment you should need is each other, the sunny beaches, the glorious sun and the odd cocktail (or 3)!! 'But it's an 8 hour flight' she says, but a book can be read on the plane, saving yourself a handsome £142.99, better spent, arguably, on some extra alcohol or a fancy dinner.

Maybe I'm being too simple. Some people might not enjoy reading. But humanity needs to re-discover entertainment in itself, in spending time with one other. Like the cavemen who sat around a fire for light & food- whose entertainment was to be surrounded by his or her loved ones whilst enjoying a good meal. Maybe us 'modern' men and women could learn a trick or two...

Me.

Me?

David.

Different. Different is good and should be encouraged. I may wear what you do, but I think like ME- nobody else does.

Aware. Being Aware of the world around us is vital to enjoy and love life. I'm uncannily observant.

Vivid imagination. This helps me to see what others may not, which leads to an interesting outlook on things.

Individuality. Adding interest to what is otherwise a very ordinary thing.

Dark. There's a moody, argumentative and difficult side to me, in direct contrast to everything else. I'm human.

• I'm a 20 year old male living in Ipswich. A small town, about an hour from London. In the beautiful, rolling landscape in Suffolk. You'll know it as the place the 5 prostitutes got murdered

• OK let me get this over and done with - I'm gay, but I don't like to mention it. I want you and those in my life to know David, me, myself. I want people to look at me and see a human being, not a gay male. That's all about that, no longer to be mentioned.
  

• I like to socialise with my partner and friends; a trip to the cinema, a night out in a bar pub or club, a meal in a restaurant or round a mates I have a vague interest in all of life. I follow politics, sport, business, history but all on an amateur level. I love to learn new things, and this takes me in all sorts of directions. I like to think of myself as effortlessly funny, I am told I am at my funniest when not trying. I love all aspects of modern life. I appreciate this world for everything it is. It is not appreciated enough.
  

• I am me, I am not perfect, and I don't try to be. So why should the world be? I love life and everything it is, and wish that my view on it all was shared by more.
  
  
  
  
• The reason for this blog. I want to document my view of our wonderful world. It interests me, and I sincerely hope it can interest you too.