Slumdog Millionaire
First post in 2 months will be less than 2 sentences long.
Go see this film I cannot tell you how good it is!!!
Patrick Rothfuss and the legion of Baby Ducks.
Patrick Rothfuss and the legion of Baby Ducks. Some of you may be familiar with the author Patrick Rothfuss (see my posts about him previously to see what my feelings on the man are ) however I have some interesting and quite frankly damning information against him. This information shall be revealed in a second first I want to share with you just how I came upon this information. Earlier this month he finished his first charity campaign for Heifer international and his efforts were applauded by many. He raised over $100,000 for them with half of it being donate by himself (matching $ for $) however it was his one mistake in posting an image of the cheque that he sent to them. Upon the line reserved for what the cheque is for he wrote baby ducks. This is where the information came from, at first I thought nothing of it, but then I remembered something, ducks are the most loyal of all the animal kingdom and they stay bought once you have bribed/bought them. I did the simple math and was astounded to know that 5849.314 ducks (assuming the $20 per duck price) were provided by him 2924.657 by his own donation. I trembled with fear as I realised that he is amassing a duck army. We should all be aware of this fact and hope that he does not succeed in his global domination goals (for what else could he want such an army of ducks for?)
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Well done Pat, the world is a better place for having your actions in it.
24 is halfway to 30
I was in training today and during our lunch break I overheard this snippit of conversation.
“… you’re 24? I thought you were my age. Man 24 is almost halway to 30.”
Now at this point I was trying ever so hard not to laugh, the girl who couldn’t have been over 19 reacting like this, and it being so wrong.
I thought about it, and got a little sad at the thought I’m getting into my mid twenties, and I have done more in my life than many people twice if not three times my age.
But I don’t feel like I’m the age I am, I don’t look or act it most of the time either.
I had a friend who for the first 6 months of our friendship thought I was in my early thirties, I don’t act like your normal twenty-something.
I laugh about this but it leaves and underlying sadness, why do I have so much more life experience compared to others? I wouldn’t change it for the world I’m more sad for the people who don’t, they have missed out on so much, both good and bad, beautiful and terrible.
But it is these experiences that make life, life.
The movie Wall-E has a line in it.
“I don’t want to survive, I want to live.” and I think that that is so relevant today, so many people are just surviving getting from one week to another, never living life. And we are enabling this.
I just started a new job working with adults with learning dificulties and one of the things that we try and do is to enable them to be as independant as possible, and to live their life, not just to survive. I chose the job because I want to help people live, but I don’t just want to limit it to people with disabilities I want to help as many people live as possible, in all senses of the word.
The Bible tells us that Christ came to give us life and life in abundance. I would see as many people having that life in abundance as possible, I am a life hog, and want to share the wonder that is life to as many people as possible.
Again if anyone wants to talk with me just drop me an email, or post a comment and I’ll chat with you about anything that I raise in these posts.
Peace and love
Ben
Where have you been!!! and why did you not blog about it!
Ok so my bad, it’s been 20 days since my last blog, not that I havn’t thought abotu what I would write if I were blogging, but I shall give you a brief overview of those days.
10 of them spent sick, very very sick, and so tired that I actually slept for about 20 blocks of 30 mins over the day! then that passed and I had to catch up on the things I’d not done because I was sick, and chase up my doctor to write a medical report so that I could start work.
He finally did and I started work yesterday 
In training for most of this week and if yesterday is anything to go by my brain will be tired after each day.
Last week my friend Iain was up for the entire week for his graduation ceremony, and another friend was up for one night/day So I spent most of last week out, it is very tiring! but very fun.
We had a leaders meeting with the VCI Asia heads on saturday, with lots of lovely food. It was great I really admire the heads of that area I went to school with their son for a year and learnt a lot about what they were doing over there, though this weekend was the first time I’d ever met them.
I felt the tug to go to thailand again, not only to start work on my docu but also to help out with the work that they are doing for a while. Of course that will have to wait for now, but it’s nice to know I have a plan regarding that eventually.
Also I made my list of things I want to do in my life version 1.0 and I can hapily tell you that I am over 15% of the way to my top goal of traveling 1,000,000 miles 
anyway gotta get ready for work
Peace and love
Ben
Ill
I’ve been sick for 3 days now, strugling to do anything, went shopping yesterday for 45mins (got a lift in) and that took all of my energy. Had to go to a meeting this morning and as fighting not beeing sick the whole time and then not falling down as I was walking home.
Come to think of it I don’t actually remember 90% of the walk home 
I hate being sick, I’m a big baby when I am, and I hate the thought of having to starve myself to get rid of the bug
Just thought you guys might want to know.
Also in the last 3 months i’ve made 78p from ads go me!
LOL
I love facebook and here is why
Your rankings have changed
#12 most confident (lost 5 places)
#14 most artistic (gained 3 places)
#17 most kiss-able (gained 7 places)
#18 best catch (gained 7 places)
#21 best dinner companion (lost 5 places)
where else can I find out these kind of things
Why do women choose guys when they could have a man?
OK so firstly I want to stress that this is not about age. This is about attitude.
I’ve met 40 year old guys and 19 year old men age has nothing to do with it.
That said I pose the following question, Why would you choose a guy over a man? Well in order for you to answer that question we need to define the terms.
Ok I’ll break it down in hypothetical situations and we’ll do a Man Vs Guy response
You really need help during a sporting event, or other event that he’s watching.
A man will go help you, not complain about it because he accepts that he needs to do it.
Now the guy will either tell you to wait till the event is over (even if it can’t wait) or will come and do it but complain so much about missing the event that you’ll wish that you’d just suffered instead of asking.
It’s your birthday
A man will think about you, and what you like and get something, or make it, based upon that.
A guy will not think about what you like, he will not put a whole lot of thought into it.
And one final one, you do something to upset him and make him a bit angry
A Man will either, walk away, talk about why what you did has made him upset, or or just let it go. (I understand that sometimes we loose it, but this should be a rarity in a man as he will have controll)
A guy will lose it, he will say nasty things, and hurt you back more than you hurt him .
Get the picture?
Well if I boil it down, it works out like this, A man is mature and caring enough to put your needs above his own, in essance to actually act in a loving way.
A guy is self centred, he is the most important thing in the relationship it’s all about what you do for him. He will put in the least amount of effort to get what he wants and then either repeat it expecting to get the same results or just stop bothering.
Please any women who are reading this, think about it. Which one do you want?
You see I could talk for hours about what a man should be, and I may write a list sometime. I understand that not everyone is everything that they should be, and that we all have guy moments, we’re not perfect. But choose someone who has far more man in him than guy.
One closing note.
If you are being treated badly, deal with it, you are not the weaker sex. Women have far more strength then most guys will ever understand. Use it.
Peace and love
Ben
I feel like there is a part of me missing
I was born to act, it is pretty much the only thing you will ever hear me say I am great at.
I love to act, my whole life I have done it, I have stared in shows, and every one I have been in I have heard the same comments about how good I was. I have had several directors out and out tell me that I was the best actor in the troupe.
the reason I am sharing this is because it’s been 4 years since I have done any serious acting and I feel like a part of me is missing, I yearn to act, not in front of a camera (though I would settle for that) but on stage where every performance is different.
I left the US disillusioned. I had been aiming for Hollywood for so long that when I realised that it stood for everything I hated about the arts it was so disappointing. I had my first taste of fame over there, I had people recognize me on the streets and come up to me to tell me how much they had enjoyed my show months after the show had finished.
I remember the rush of adrenaline as people came up to me to talk after the show, to share with me how I had moved them, or made them laugh.
One of my favorite times was when a woman in her 60’s came up to me looked at me and said in a disspointed voice. “Oh I thought you were 40 years older then you are” I had of course been trying to portray that, and to have someone show me that they had bought it made my day.
But I have not acted, I abandoned my first love to pursue media, to pursue writing, to pursue all these other things, and yet I till long after it.
I’ve been fighting this bug for some time and will have to give into it
I just wish that Carlisle had more acting wise.
Romance
*sigh* I’m in a romantic mood tonight, I don’t know why (OK watching a Romance movie may have something to do with that, but I did also watch waterworld so that’s ok, right? :p)
I have been thinking about the times I have been in love. even now some of the scars on my heart still ache with the memory of the pain. But that is what it is, a memory of pain now gone.
I have grown because of it, my heart as big as it was, is now bigger, and hopefully more wise.
Over the last few weeks and months I’ve been thinking about myself, and what I have to offer women, it’s not something I think about that often, as quite frankly I embaress myself
But I’ve realised that I’m quite a catch and as such should act like one so from now on, all woman shall call me Sir or my Liege (ok I’m joking about that) but I’m not going to take any rubbish from people. I’m a good man, older and more experienced then my age would suggest. I’ve lived in 2 countries, visited a dozen or so.
I’m tall, not dark, and handsome 
Lol I’ve made myself feel all “I can’t post this” now so I’m going to post it, because
a) this is my blog
b) this is my website
c) I want to :p
and d) only a few people are going to read this and if the site gets popular I can just delete this post
Peace and love be with you all the days of your lives
Ben
a little i like to play
It’s called let’s pretend I’m suave.
The premise is simple, you try to have a single conversation where you don’t say something a) stupid b) embarrassing or c) crazy.
So far i’m naught for a million
Seriously though I’m great with words, apart from when I want to use them for a purpose that is not writing… then suddenly I become Neanderthal man! Grunt grunt good, food, women grunt grunt
Every now and then I get a few sentences where I say the right word at the right time, but then i usually follow it up with something extremely goofy, geeky and often just plain weird.
It’s pretty fun.
You should try playing the game, and if you manage to score a point don’t tell me, I don’t want to know that you’ve already beaten me at my own game
Peace and love brothers and sisters