A new site, a shiny-new Wordpress platform, a new web domain and new content to come (none of those cruddy ‘I hate life’ blog posts). Above all, this site will be much more informative, interesting and coolsome to browse through.

Indeed, this was a crazy hiatus - many things happened while I was hibernating: two sets of exams, my birthday, public holidays; including: labour day and Christmas, and soon enough, we’re going to hit the new year. Being away for such a long time is some-what justified - I’ve been developing this site of course! However, the viewer-base has dwindled since I didn’t post anything so basically I have to regain my audience (which I plan to do by spamming these linky site things).

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Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in east China - and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a four-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking dog, state media reported.

The bizarre sequence events began when the boy arrived at a village home in the eastern province of Jiangsu in the summer with his father who was delivering bottles of gas, the Nanjing Morning Post reported.

A villager was quoted as saying the little boy bent over the henhouse window, screaming for a long time, after being scared by the dog.

“One neighbour told police that he had heard the boy’s crying that afternoon and another villager confirmed the boy screaming by the henhouse window,” the newspaper said.

A court ruled the boy’s screaming was “the only unexpected abnormal sound” and that 443 chickens trampled each other to death in fear.

The boy’s father was ordered to pay 1800 yuan ($NZ332) in compensation to the owner of the chickens.

Reuters

Every so often we dream, not always comprehensive, not always fun. In fact dreams are considered bad for a good nights rest, as they do not allow you to fall into a deep sleep. Your brain is active and metabolism rate can increase, so the body does not fully recharge as fast and efficiently as a dream-less sleep.

Here’s my story; I cannot clearly remember the beginning (as you do), but mid-way through the dream I was in a great scooter race to a finishing line located on the lake side. I was coming first, until near the end my friend overtook me. I for some reason thought the finish line was due west instead of due east and therefore went in the wrong direction. When I realised that I was heading in the wrong direction, I followed the main pack. Unfortunately, because of this mental mistake, I finished 3rd. A man, Phil Cogan (from The Amazing Race) was at the end to read out your placing. After everyone arrived, we all sat down around this man as he handed out the prizes. The guy came first won an awesome laptop. I jealously nudged him and said: “Hey, it’s a Core 2 Duo, like you always wanted!”. Then this Phil Cogan guy felt sorry for the second place guy and gave him too a laptop. I was, I WAS quite SO mad. We then went to the first-place-guy’s house to power up the laptop. It was running Mac OS X, I think. Then I woke up about 1 hour later.

To avoid dreams, we can:

• Avoid mental thinking before sleeping
• Maintain regular sleeping times
• Create a sleep-conducive environment that is dark, quiet, comfortable and cool
• Sleep on a comfortable mattress and pillows. Make sure your mattress is comfortable and supportive
• Exercise regularly
• Avoid caffeine, nicotine and alcohol

And lastly, this is one of the best ice-creams in the world. It’s called ‘Cookies and Cream’, manufactured by Tip Top. I’m going to get myself a helping soon, as it’s dessert time anyway.

This is a true story which happened to an office worker in the City of Auckland. The man, which we will name KJBihfouahgfja, went to McDonalds to buy a burger (actually the place of purchase was not confirmed). He then went to sit outside an old church to consume his burger. The church was situated relatively close to the Auckland City Mission HQ. The Auckland City Mission helps the poor and unfortunate. One person who was from the Auckland City Mission sat next to KJBihfouahgfja and stated:

When you finish your burger, I’m going to beat you up.

Of course you don’t come across this statement often and you therefore treat it as a teaser statement. This was not to be the case on this occasion. KJBihfouahgfja was beaten after he consumed his burger. He sustained bruises and a cry. He also filed a police report later that day. I guess we could learn from this that life is no joke, the truth is always out there. Don’t take chances folks.

This is a decal I found on a Toyota 7-seater car. Most of the Japanese imports have ‘funny english’ mottos on the sides of the car, this one is particularly peculiar. A larger car, which was also manufactured by the same company, Toyota, was also spotted with a different motto, however this was on a separate occasion and I fail to recall the ridiculousness of it anyway.

I love to have fun, I love my family and friends. I love this beautiful planet Earth. The reason why I choose this car is because it will totally satisfy my requirements for outdoor living. Well - tomorrow, where shall we go?

Merry Christmas children. I hope you get some nice presents. Take care in unwrapping your presents, so you can re-use the wrapping paper next year. Don’t throw away unwanted gifts! Reserve them, re-wrap them, and re-distribute them to people who you want to give something to, but at no cost. Oh and remember those Boxing day sales - so many good bargains! Stock up your presents for next year. Oh look, it’s a new layout for bthreen! Oh how brilliant. Thank you Santa, thank you Jesus. For Jesus is the reason for the season.

Oh and if you get cold for Christmas, don’t use it in a fire as it will add to the carbon emissions in the air, the greenhouse effect *wooo*. That reminds me - it’s awefully cold here. *Goodnight, it’s Christmas now. Nearly… 2 more minutes.*

Today for the price of zhilch, you can hlep a person in deed, a person in need. A deed so gratefully received, brings a smile upon a child’s face, a sign there are people who care. Who care about small things in life, things that are ever so insignificant, yet so precious.

I need your help. I have just put up the links page again — but the links page is looking abit empty. So therefore I need the one or two of you who look at this site to help contribute — creditation will be given to you at the footer of the page. If you have any links worthy of submission, click here to submit the link, along with a short description. Thanks - if you managed to submit anything.

The new poll its now setup - ‘The Worst Slogan’ Click here to vote. In our previous poll not many people voted… but here are the results anyway:

Do you like cheese?

• Yes: 13
• No: 4

We concluded that because 76.47058824% of the people voted that they liked cheese it meant that the majority of the world who visits my site likes cheese - Who doesn’t?