Comes in 3s

First it was Z. One moment he was here, the next, gone.
Then it was my favourite blogger.
And now O is no longer my Corridor Land partner. This morning is my first post-O and it's bleedin' soulless round here...

Three big constants in my life for the last 3 or 4 years (Z for over 6 years), now no longer there. If I wasn't so feckin' busy (I shall reveal all soon) I'm sure this would have hit me a lot harder...

Homo Sapiette - June '06

...and the sapiette that wraps up my collection is the gorgeous Romi Abulafia.

Ahh, Romi, remember the day a couple of summers back when you sat one meter in front of me on Jerusalem Beach in Tel Aviv? Did you really have to bend over so many times in that skimpy bikini? Disgusting behaviour. Luscious bum though, quite possibly the best I've ever seen.

Unfortunately, there is hardly a pic of Romi out there on the big wide Web. Believe me I looked (though did manage to dig out a clip - spot her Virgin Mary role in this little clip). From what I remember reading, she kind of "dropped out" of the celeb lifestyle a year or so ago after a long stint on the cult Shabbatot VerHagim series, countless ads etc (though wasn't that her I spotted in a recent TV show on Channel 10? The show with another Homo Sapiette, Miri?). All trace of her previous modelling days at Castro et al seems to have vanished with her.

Now 23, she seems to have been around for ever. To me, she looks like the sort of woman who'll only get more beautiful as she ages.

OK, you know what, one last Homo Sapiette to come. A shocker.

Roon-Who?

This week, I met an Englishman who had never heard of Wayne Rooney. What's my prize?

What the hell am I? #10

Red is the colour

North Tel Aviv...

Goyzone

I'm sorry, but I won't be able to fly to Rosh Pina anymore. I'm one of them non-Jew sorts. Security measure, my ass.*

And an interesting article about the beach I pictured here a few days ago...

* I originally left this without the comma, so it read "Security measure my ass.".
"Mmm, Anglosaxy, just let me get that tape measure round you..."

Shopping - Israeli stylee

After being treated like the dog I am a couple of days ago, it's kind of appropriate that the name of the shop in the first pic is "Respect". I would explain each pic, but, well, time being money...

A distinct lack of World Cup balls

I'm disappointed. After years of international boycotts targeted their way, you'd have thought that Israelis would know the value of keeping to a true, worthy boycott...I'm a very big footie fan but I WILL NOT be buying the cable World Cup package. I thought my footie fan brethren would be joining me, but what a bunch of sellout sheep. Oh well, I enjoyed myself in the pub on Saturday and will be going there again. The score so far: Kilkenny 4 Sellout Sheep 0.

Shippy sunset

Taken last weekend. Herzliya beach.

Ing-er-lund!

Come on ING-ER-LUND!
Who's down the pub for this one? Yep, I didn't buy the cable World Cup package (and won't be buying - it's a principles thing now). So it's off for some "jechnun" at M's place (his Ma makes the real stuff, the jechnun, not the jachnun) to be washed down with Ouzo, then off to the pub.
Prediction time: England will win 2-1.
Another prediction: I will be slightly wobbly by the end of the day.

Phil O'Sophical

I'm having some in-depth philosophical chats with O as her Corridor Land days draw to a close (4 more to go). She's an intelligent lass our O, much more so than me, innit. A free spirit who deserves a bit of a holiday after the shit she's had here the last year or 2. I'm trying to push her to Thailand / Vietnam but she's keen on Oz and Kiwi land, probably a good move on her part.

Of course, the Corridor Land shit has intensified over pitzuim (layoff compensation), because they won't tell her if she's getting the pitzuim until her last day. In the meantime, of course, they have overloaded her with assignments to squeeze out every last drop. And, of course, she will only get the pitzuim if she has been "good". Whatever "good" means. Do they really think that this type of executive bollocks motivates the staff that are staying? Come on. Another 5 or 6 inmates have given notice lately, including 2 this week that were told to clear their desks immediately since they had the balls to start their own company. Good luck boys.

Concentrating on the school appears to be my saviour, as I'm thinking about little else while stuck in front of a screen perusing our amazingly thrilling user guides...Why don't I just "up and go" and fuck the pitzuim? Good bloody question, but for now I do pretty much what I like, have a car, fairly decent pay - which, what with my school's soon-to-be expansion, will be needed in the coming weeks.

So, though O's departure may yet still trigger an escape route, the chicken-shit side of anglosaxy is rearing its head. For now. Though I'm really not sure how I'm going to handle life in C Land without her...and her free spirit has got me thinking again...

Jazzy nights

Last Friday it was down to a local moshav for some evening jazz. Not a big fan of jazz but this was great. Junior was a dude!

Sunflowers

One of the nice things about living in smallsville is the field of sunflowers down the road...

Root those evil landlords out

Pub patrols to root out any evil pubs showing World Cup games? Really, what the FUCK is going on here?

A black and white day in Yafo

Busy

Way too busy these days, loads going on. Will update here when I get a chance, coz there's some big stuff going down, innit. In the meantime, enjoy the pics, quite a few on the way...

Another sunny day in Yafo

A sunny day in Yafo

What the hell am I? #9

To free or not to free

The big story currently on the minds of most sports fans in Israel is the cable companies decision to charge for the upcoming World Cup games. Originally demanding 492 shekels (approx. $110), the deal was reduced a couple of days ago to 309 shekels. Counting on 150,000 subscribers signing up, they only managed 1,700. I don't see that number rising dramatically. Yes, I've signed the various online petitions and am generally disgusted, but is the public's refusal to sign up going to bring this price down any further? Us footie fans hold our collective breath.

Apparently, if you bank with a certain bank, you can get the package for 100-odd shekels. Feckin' bankers. As for the cable companies suing pubs and restaurants that broadcast the games, what the fuck is that all about? Bloody cheeky if you ask me, but I was wondering...what countries are charging? In England, for example, are all the games free on the Beeb/ITV?

The first England game coming on a Saturday afternoon is kinda handy. Might have to be down the pub for that one and splash out on 492 309 shekels worth of beer...just for the hell of it...in fact, watching the best of the World Cup down the pub sounds like my kind of subscription...