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By Mosey
Girls Bite Back
Have you ever wondered why you stayed in a relationship that you knew was not the right on for you? Have you ever wondered why you put up with the crap you do? Many women put up with a lot, thinking the guy they decided to date is going to change for them even though the tell-tale signs say something else. Mosey had the chance to check out the diary of a young woman, who is just 22 years old. Cindy has a great job and a big smile, loves to hang out with her girlfriends but unfortunately doesn’t know how to pick the right guy for her. Let’s hear about the true diary story of what happens when a relationship is just not happening. OCT 12TH Other than getting the new job (yay!), I’ve been pretty busy, unpacking all my stuff. My room now looks like a bombsite which is irritating my mum haha. I got my car on Thurs, so happy! Have major boy issues, haha as usual. My bestie's workmate has been chasing me for a while but his ex-girfriend says they are back together, which he denies and unfortunately I am more inclined to believe him because his ex is PSYCHO!!! My bestie's brother works with the ex (yes it’s a small town!) and he says that yes the ex tends to make stuff up, but at the same time sometimes she surprises you and is telling the truth! Turns out she is like a jealous vampire after my blood haha because she thinks we are seeing each other and it’s like woah no way we are just friends. The reason for that is the psycho ex! It’s just so messy, the whole relationship thing doesn’t sound very attractive at the moment. We are going out for dinner Sat night, I don’t know if I can deal with this shit right now! OCT 20TH It’s doing my head in, just spent some time with him today and argh it’s so complicated. I told him to talk to his psycho ex and tell her to calm down!! She can be psycho, just not psycho with me!!!! NOV 10TH Jack and I are going good, we fight a lot haha but it’s over silly things, like recently he made me wait for him so I got mad and hid his house key and refused to tell him where it was when he got home late at night hahaha. His psycho ex still gets on my nerves, mainly because he still keeps in touch with her unfortunately and I don’t want to tell him to stop being friends with her because I have no right to do that, but I still don’t trust him 100%. But we are happy though.
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Is your best friend really on your side? Is your best friend a toofaithful friend or a frenemy in disguise? Mosey wanted to know your devastating stories about so called best friends ... People always forgive and forget but are they worth it? At the end of the day, everyone needs a best friend to lean on. Or do they?
So, last week we asked you to share your juiciest “bad best friends� stories with us. We received tales about all sorts! Some of you even admitted to being bad friends yourselves at times. Here is a round-up of the top ten we think everyone should hear...
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Backstabbing Bud
My best friend has always had a reputation for being a flirt. I never thought much of it until one day she came over to mine and my boyfriend’s house. When she left, my boyfriend told me that she had tried to come onto him a few times. He didn’t think much of it, but one night, when I was working she apparently tried to get him to meet her at a hotel for some “fun”! I confronted her about it and she kept denying it, we didn’t speak for months until she decided to grow up!
Competitive Candice
I do some part time modelling and starting winning competitions. One of my model friends started telling me to pull out of competitions, telling me they were for taller models, models that were more toned so I shouldn’t bother, even though she would still enter them. She would also lie to me about rehearsal times and days. One day I lead the models out on stage, she walked out in front of me and she freaked out when one of the mothers at rehearsals said “you can’t see Emma because Candice’s bigger!” Now she goes around telling everyone I am anorexic!
Control Freak
My friend and I had always been close till one day she turned on me and was forever trying to change me. She didn’t respect me at all and kept telling me how I should act. I felt my mind was being controlled and that she didn’t respect my values. She thinks I am controlled by my parents but I started to feel as though I was being controlled by her because she keeps telling me how I should act. I decided to confront her and she backed off, now we aren’t even mates! Her loss, not mine!
Agony Aunt
My best friend would always come to me about her boy troubles. I was her agony aunt. My friend and her boyfriend had been off and on for ages so one day when she came to me again I told her straight out...”he’s not good for you, dump him”. My friend didn’t like being told what to do so she yelled at me and said, “Do not give me your opinion, it’s not like you have had any experience with boys anyway! BI*CH!
Navy Disaster
My boyfriend was in the navy and had to go away for 6 months working. I thought he was the love of my life, I was adamant I was going to marry him so I put my life on hold for him to see how a long distance relationship would work out. Not so well as it happened! He ended up cheating on me with numerous women from the navy. He came back and told me had no feelings for me anymore, he had a new girlfriend and to make matters worse he stupidly introduced her to my whole friendship group! My best mate thought it was rude I didn’t even acknowledge her or introduce myself! Like I would do such a thing! I could have killed her!
FRIENDSHIP You stole my guy!
My boyfriend and I went on a break for six months when we were younger and during that time one of my friends slept with my boyfriend and that same night told me that she had always been in love with him! I went crazy at her and told her to never speak to me again! However, I am now happily married to this guy with a baby! How times have changed!
Very Weird
Due to my religion I was not experienced in the boy department and had never had a boyfriend. So, my friend tried to set me up with a guy who was of a different religion, I wasn’t overly keen but gave it a shot. We got to know each other and things were going well until I found out the only reason she set us up was because she liked him, couldn’t have him but could still see him through me and keep an eye on him!
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Whoops! Secret Slip!
At University, my friend and I were dating best friends. She confided in me and one day she told me her boyfriend had a really small, well you know what! I shared that info with my boyfriend and he told his best friend! She was madly in love with him and after a year or so he dumped her. I hope it wasn’t because of me!
Retail Rivalry
My best friend and I both worked in the same retail store and it was great fun until the area manager had to talk to me about apparently spreading rumours. It was all crap! My friend was telling other staff that I had said bad things about her and that I was stealing boys from her! I hadn’t done any of this as I considered her a good friend and it turned out she was a compulsive liar and they cut my hours!
I had two best friends in high school and one of the started sleeping with the other ones boyfriend behind her back. I happened to be a neighbour and found out by one day noticing that one of my best friends cars was in his drive way. I was confused and didn’t know what to do. I was really mad at both of them; we had a huge fight and stopped hanging out with each other. I couldn’t tell my other friend and she wondered why I wasn’t hanging out with her. Five months later it all came out and she went mad at me for not telling her so I lost two friends and I didn’t even do anything!
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For most, shopping involves the leisurely perusal of racks of neatly ordered clothes with a team of polite assistants on hand to make your experience one that is mutually satisfying. For me, the allure lies in the chase. It’s an exercise that involves hunting for the elusive, one-off and possibly mothballed garment, assisted by a team of cranky biddies. My love of opshopping arose more from a need than a want. When I was growing up, my family lived in Vancouver, Canada, while my dad completed his Masters in Theology. We were poor. My sister has a distinct memory of being given a two dollar coin by a well-meaning classmate who wanted to make a donation to the poorest family she knew. We weren’t – despite the conviction of this generous benefactor – living below the poverty line, but my parents certainly didn’t have enough money to splash out on new clothes for four. So it was
off to Value Village, our local purveyor of quality second-hand threads. We went armed sense ofour anticipation and very I’mmoney. not as gifted or gutsy though, so half the off to with Valuea Village, local purveyor of little quality second-hand threads. We went
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Tuesdays were bargain days. Red tickets had been cut to half-a wide chestitems I keepthat in the spare room. I have armed with a sense of anticipation and verymarked collection – fromfrom hatsobscurity and accesprice winter gear that had previously beenranging bypassed was plucked little and money. to hunters. a shoe collection that would put and eagerly taken home by our small troupe ofsories bargain
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op-shopping appeal. It’s about the whole experience. Last week, after negotiating a onemetre curtain over a two-metre cubicle, a bespectacled fashionista named Dorothy By Mosey warned me that my gluteus was too maximus for the pair of jeans I’d picked up. You don’t get that kind of service in Myer.
Excuse Me Please? OR Shut the *$%! Up?
I was out one night at the movies and a quarter of the way into the film, a group of young teens came in a little sparked up, and soon enough they were giving the audience an unwelcome, rude and inappropriate commentary of the movie. For the next twenty minutes as I was trying to focus on this movie, my heart started racing, my face started heating up, my palms started getting sweaty and all that was running through my head was, Shut the hell up! But of course I couldn’t just turn around and yell that at them, so I just sat there thinking should I say something? I was afraid of what their reaction was going to be, so I thought, No, it should be right, I’m sure my friend might say something or someone else in the cinema will say something. But no-one did. Then I was thinking, Maybe I should go and let one of the ushers know what’s going on. But then I thought, Well, I’m sure I can just ask them myself as long as it’s kind. So I just bit the bullet, turned around and asked them politely,“Excuse me please, would you please keep it down as we are trying to watch this movie?” Their reaction surprised me. I was a bit worried they would surely tell me where to go, but with some faces giving me “dirties”, for the rest of the movie we didn’t hear any more commentary. Great, it worked! It seemed so simple yet it took me so long to get up the courage to say something.Then a week later, I was out at the movies again and this time our group were the recipients of the request to be quiet as we were rustling our chip and chocolate packets. To our shock, this older man who was easily in his late sixties turned around and yelled at the top of his lungs for us to, “Shut the #$%! up!” Luckily for him we weren’t a bunch of drunk teenagers. I was taken aback at the way he handled the situation and just said to him that his outburst was unnecessary and that he could have just asked us kindly, minus the swearing too. He wasn’t happy Jan!I think there are ways to approach matters and I find by this example that it really does pay to just be kind and polite to others… and I guess their reaction is their responsibility.
Colosoul’ Travel Series
By Sheryl Goh
Thailand
“Everybody loves a summer holiday, doing all the things we want to do...” goes the song from Cliff Richard. We all know that song. After a few months of the cold, we are ready to embrace the warmth. Running from December to February, it’s the perfect opportunity for a tropical break. With many of us having school holidays, why not take advantage of the low fare prices that airlines are offering now and book your seat to one of the many destinations available to us? South East Asia is a wonderful seat to one of place the many destinations us! For to begin. Thai-land,available Malaysiatoand Indonesia are just some of the choices we land, Malaysia and are just some of theas choices are Indonesia spoilt with!Thailand is known the we are spoilt with! land of a thousand smiles. It literally is just that. The people there are well known for their as hospitality andoffriendliness. was Thailand is known the land a thousandIt smiles. It formerly known as Siam until and for to their literally is just that. The people there are well1949 known this day, some people use the former name when referring to Thailand. It is ranked as the world’s 50th largest country with a name when referring to Thailand. is ranked as the world’s population of about 65Itmillion. Yellow is the 50th largest country with a population of about 65 million. colour identified with the King, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Many wear this colour as a symbol of their respect for the royal family. Bangkok is the capital of Thailand and the currency used there is the Thai Baht. 1 AUD is approximately 28 THB. You can get a delicious chicken skewer hawked by many food vendors on the street for around 10 THB. That’s like 30 cents here!
Temperature: As for the climate, April to May are the hottest months of
the calendar year, while November to February bring in the South West Monsoon. The best time to visit this country is from November to February where the cool North East breeze brings some relief from the rain, clearing the clouds and allowing the sun to come out to play again. Sunscreen is a must as UV rays can be quite treacherous, especially in the hotter months.
Culture:
Buddhism is the main religion practised and accounts for 90% of the population, although other religions such as Christianity and Islam are recognised as well. The Wai is the standard form of greeting used. You place your palms together and slightly bow your head to greet one another. Hierarchy is important so someone of a lesser or more junior standing is supposed to do the Wai first. It can be done standing, sitting or walking. The national language spoken here is Thai. Some useful words are Sawadeeka which means hello, usually said together when doing the Wai. Khorb Koon is another useful word to know. It means thank you. For other useful phrases, go to: http://www.learningthai.com/useful phrases.
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A clear, spicy and sour soup with prawns and vegetables. Don’t be misled by this innocent looking dish. It may look tame but it is bursting with flavour! The flavour doesn’t hit you until a few seconds later: the powerful combination of sourness coupled with the strength of spiciness tinged with a hint of lemongrass that just automatically clears your nose whether you like it or not. Refreshing is the word. You just have to try it.
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This national dish definitely gets our thumbs up! Fried egg noodles with the meat of your choice, although pork and chicken are the preferred selections. Other ingredi-ents include eggs, tofu, bean sprouts and fish sauce. Chilli and peanuts are used as garnishes. Squeeze a wedge of lime over it before you dig in; the sourness does wonders to the taste.
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If you love curries, then this is a must try for you. To get that creamy green colour, green chillies are usually mashed up with other ingredients like lime, garlic and fresh turmeric and then fried with coconut milk or cream with the meat added later. Even for someone like me who doesn’t really like spicy food, I really like green curry as it has a bit of sweetness compared to normal red curry.
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Hands up those of you with a sweet tooth! If you are the type of person who has to end their meal on a sweet note then this is the one for you. Red ruby dessert is made of diced water chestnuts with colouring added and the syrup is a sweet medley of jasmine essence, coconut milk, tapioca flour, sugar and crushed se ice. Best taken with rice, it rt is well loved throughout the country by locals and Arguably one of the most foreigners alike. It is perfect famous desserts inhot Thailand, on a sweltering day. So alongside with the Red Ruby. try it while you are there; you won’t regret it.
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Arguably one of the most famous desserts in Thailand, alongside the Red Ruby Dessert. This dessert is best shared as it can be quite filling after a heavy meal. It consists of juicy ripe mangoes and coconut-infused glutinous rice with granulated sugar.The taste is a match made in heaven; the slightly sour and sweet mango gives a nice tang and texture when paired with rice.
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