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[Jul. 3rd, 2004|11:40 pm] |
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Haven't written here for a while...things are going ok at the moment, have to get up fairly early on Monday morning to drop some family members off at the airport. It's just going to be my dad and I at home for 2 weeks...between us I think we'll gain about 4 stone in weight! Think I'd better hide the fast food flyers....
Going to Brighton next weekend with the other half to stay with her sister and her boyfriend, which should be fun. Haven't seen them in a while so it'll be nice to catch up with them.
Still looking for a digital SLR camera for a decent price...actually make that a cheap price! There are plenty of bargains out there but I'm just very reluctant to fork out lots of money for it...maybe I should stop being such a cheap-arse?!?
Best news so far has been Tray's result for her CIPD course at Southend College. She got a distinction (yay!) and we went out for a nice meal, all paid for by yours truly. Had a really nice time, even if we did eat loads of food and had trouble walking out of the joint! That's what celebrating's all about though really...
Tum te tum te tum.... |
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| London Expo |
[May. 16th, 2004|11:58 pm] |
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| | Sound of wrestling from the telly | ] |
There was an Expo down London town on Saturday. Well, it was on Saturday and Sunday, but we attended the Saturday session, the "We" in question being myself, my sister, Tej (friend of the family) and my girlfriend. This was the first time that Tej would met Tray and the impression left by her was a very good one, I'm happy to say! :)
The expo itself was pretty cool and was a bit different to what I thought it would be. Given the experiences of the last few conventions I've been to (especially the Angel one down in Brighton last year, christ that was atrocious!) this one came as a bit of a departure, and came off all the better for it.
For a start, the ticket price was a very reasonable £10, which is a damn sight cheaper than the Angel Con (emphasis on "Con"!) by a whole £70!! Also, there were a lot of guests present and to get their autograph cost only £15 a throw. The guests themselves were very nice and friendly, which is always good as that always makes for a better convention experience. They happily posed for photos and personalised a lot of the autographs they gave out. Also some of them went onto the little stage area and told a few stories and fielded questions from the assembled throng.
My sister and Tray got Harmony's autograph and I took pics of them posing with her, hopefully they'll come out well. My sister also got Connor Trineer's autograph and Dominic Keating, the former barber "Tony" from "Desmond's" fame! ;) At one point I took pics of some of the stars while waiting in line and I took a few shots of Marina Sirtis, Counsellor Troi from Star Trek, and I think I may have made her edgy as just when she came into shot she looked around, noticed me with my camera pointed in her direction and she moved to one side! It really did look like she was trying to avoid my camera, which made me laugh and also made me feel a little ashamed. My sister & my girlfriend stopped her a little later that day for a photo and she seemed happy enough to pose with them, which was nice of her.
Surprise of the day was seeing Larry Hagman there signing autographs...surprised to see that he's still upright and fully functioning!! Arf! ;) There were also lots of merchandise stalls selling everything from trading cards to action figures to pictures to, well, anything you could think of really. Spent a fair bit of money there but it was worth it.
Overall it was a great experience and fun was had by all. There's another one coming in October focusing mainly on the Stargate SG1 television series, but there should be a few others there from other shows. Tray is already looking forward to it, as is my sister. Remains to be seen if Tej can be convinced to come along to that one as well! ;) |
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| Yay!! |
[Apr. 22nd, 2004|09:40 am] |
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| | My Dying Bride - "The Scarlet Garden" | ] |
My girlfriend and I are back together, oh happy day!! |
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| Countdown is on... |
[Apr. 15th, 2004|09:42 am] |
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| |  anxious | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger | ] |
Only 3 days left til I meet up with my girlfriend and discuss our future together...feeling anxious and excited at the same time! I'm very sure that we'll work something out, there's no way that we'll let this all go, not when she and I have such great chemistry together. It'll be stupid to let trivial matters spoil what we have together, and I'll be damned if I let that happen to be quite honest! |
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| Sweet mother of God!! |
[Apr. 11th, 2004|11:49 pm] |
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Just saw the most eye-watering clip ever!! Being the caring sharing type I'll share it with you all too...just make sure you're on your own and that you're not eating anything and also ensure that you're not at work when you view this...unless you really want to get fired!!
Simply copy & paste the link into an existing browser window....
http://www.stilemedia.com/?v=busta1.wmv |
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| Silver lining in a sky full of grey clouds |
[Apr. 4th, 2004|07:38 pm] |
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| |  thoughtful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | David Hasselhoff butchering "New York, New York", ugh! | ] |
Spoke to my ex girlfriend last Friday and it looks like we may be able to work things out. Not saying anything is certain, there are still a few issues that need to be worked out, but there is a chance that we can have something, even if it isn't a full relationship as before.
Right now my head is a complete mass of different thoughts and emotions, as well as scenarios that could possibly come about from all this. The ideal scenario of course would be that we work out our issues and my parents finally get the idea that I'm a grown man and stop treating me like a baby, but we all know that ideal scenarios never happen...but if I can get something close to that then I'm a happy man. |
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| Looks like this IS it!! |
[Mar. 28th, 2004|05:57 pm] |
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| |  sad | ] |
Just been speaking to my girlfriend over the fone and it's all confirmed now that we are officially over. Don't really know what else to say, other than I feel like shit and it feels like a part of me is now missing for good.
In the 2+ years we've been together, I never thought that this would happen. Sure, like most couples, we had our downs as well as our ups and there were times when I wondered what she ever saw in me, but we still managed to stay together. Even though a lot of people were against us being together, we stuck by each other. Now, though, after having a deep conversation in McDonalds of all places (though to be fair, it was the only place open at that time in the morning), we're heading our separate ways.
I really honestly hope that she is able to find someone who is capable of giving her the love and affection she needs, and is also able to give her the things that I would have had trouble giving. I want nothing but the best for her, always. |
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| Is this it?! |
[Mar. 28th, 2004|02:24 pm] |
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Not exactly a happy entry but I feel like I need to write my feelings down at this moment in time....
It looks like my girlfriend and I are no longer together...I actually hesitated writing that down, as I refuse to believe this has happened or is happening, especially given how I feel about her. Yet the fact remains that after she and I met earlier today to have a chat about things, it didn't end well and all signs seem to point to the end.
Right now I'm feeling quite a range of emotions, sadness being the most prevalent one naturally. Rage is possibly a close second, given that the large part of the "issues" we had stem from the behaviour of people around us (particularly my family) and it seems like this helped contribute to what has now happened.
I guess I'm quite naieve as well, which is shocking for a man my age (28), I still can't understand why things like culture, skin colour and religion are so important to some people to the point where they would prize that above everything else, including the happiness of those they claim to "love". If they "love" someone so much and want them to be happy, then why must they go out of their way to be completely crappy towards them?! Why is it so hard for them to accept that their offspring has found happiness with someone who isn't from the same cultural background? Why should that matter if the two people involved are deeply in love and committed to each other?? Why must they, be it intentional or otherwise, behave in such a way that it drives these two people apart?!?
Reading back that last paragraph, it makes it seem like all the problems of the relationship can be placed solely on the shoulders of narrow-minded persons, which isn't necessarily the case as other contributing factors have also come into play. I guess I needed to write down all that stuff up there as it's something that's been inside me for some time now. However, it still stands.
I don't know what else to say right now other than Tray, if you're reading this at all, I love you more than anything and I always will. There has never been any other person on this planet that I wanted to spend the rest of my days with other than you and you alone, I don't want things to end this way. I know this may come across as being cheesy/cliche/melodramatic but fuck it, this is exactly how I feel and I'm not ashamed to say it. |
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| AAAARRRGGHHHH!!!! |
[Mar. 27th, 2004|04:29 pm] |
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| |  annoyed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The sounds of silence | ] |
Moving house is so bleedin' annoying! I need to get all my stuff packed into boxes, have it shipped over to the new house, then unpack and arrange in my new room, which is smaller than my current room which is amazing, considering my current room isn't even big enough to swing a cat in...why do I get stiffed with the small room when I'm the biggest member of my family in terms of size?! It just don't make sense!
Anyway, complaining aside, I can't fucking wait to move out of this shithole and into the nice new bunghole-ow that we've bought, it's in a real nice area and we have the luxury of off-street parking! No more having to drive around for ages looking for a parking spot, woohoo!! Still, I will miss Southall... |
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| AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!! |
[Feb. 26th, 2004|07:31 pm] |
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Here's a tip: Don't try CD Trading with 4 people at the same time, unless you're incredibly talented at multi-tasking!! It's a wonder my head hasn't exploded yet!! This isn't to say that I don't enjoy it, far from it. It's just that given my rather limited, er, what's the word?? Ah yes, memory. Given that I don't have a great memory, it can be a hassle trying to figure out what I've done and what I haven't done, and even with the aid of a list (which I made to remind me what needs doing) it can get a bit hectic. Still, it's all in good fun! ;-)
The new house is coming along nicely, a lot of the decorating and refurbishment has been done, just got my room and my sister's room to finish, then get the kitchen sorted and Vee-Oh-La as they say! We're looking at a moving in date of end of March, though in all honesty I'm hoping to move in a little earlier as I'm getting a bit hacked off with Southall. Fair enough, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't miss this place at all, but what with all the shit going on around here and the lack of parking and arsehole drivers/pedestrians, it'll be a huge relief when we say goodbye to this place for good!!
It's my girly's birthday next week, she'll be seeing Placebo on her birthday but the weekend is going to be just her and I together. I've got something nice planned (at least I think that it's nice, remains to be seen what she makes of it!) for her which I'm sure she'll enjoy even if she does find it a bit hokey...just need to find her a decent present now! |
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| hurdy gurdy flurdy |
[Feb. 12th, 2004|09:45 pm] |
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| |  apathetic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Disgorge - Divine Suffering | ] |
Suppose I'd better update this bugger....can't even remember the last time I wrote anything in this!!
So, we're finally moving house. Nice little bungalow on the doorstep (near enough) of Heathrow Airport. So far the locals have been nice and friendly (one even gave us a welcome card, how lovely) and the area seems pretty decent...then again Beirut would make a better change to Southall! As long as I don't have to deal with "Rude Boys" driving up and down the road blaring shite music at ridiculous volumes I'll be happy.
Hopefully I won't be staying there long though, I got other plans for my future... |
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[Jan. 18th, 2004|08:45 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  blah | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Disgorge - She Lay Gutted | ] |
Well it looks like I'm able to login again.
So I'm now officially 28 years old....pretty scary stuff, seeing as I'm just a mere 24 months away from 30, the next age milestone! Eek!! Funny but I really don't feel old...at least not until I wake up, then I feel the aches and pains! In a weird way I'm actually looking forward to it...and as soon as I can work out the exact reason why I'll let you know!! =)
It's been a funny few weeks since xmas, things have been moving on but at times I find myself feeling detached from all that's going on around me, like the outside world isn't real or whatever. *shrugs* Meh...but anyway, things are going well at work, though my laptop has now decided not to boot up and let me get on with things, so it looks like a replacement for me. This would be a good thing, but I had a lot of stuff on my old laptop and if I can't get to it, then I will lose a fair bit of data, both personal and business, and that really sucks a big one!! Bleh...
Right, better get on with...er, there ain't much else to be getting on with really! Maybe I'll go find a nice website to look at.... |
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[Dec. 12th, 2003|08:30 pm] |
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I honestly don't know why I made that last entry...guess I just needed to get it down in words. Still hasn't sunk in that this has happened.... |
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| What a wonderful world.... |
[Dec. 12th, 2003|08:24 pm] |
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| | sad | ] |
So I get some bad news today. My sister tells me that my uncle, who earlier in the week had suffered a blood clot on the brain, had surgery to get it removed and get all better...unfortunately, things haven't got better, in fact quite the opposite.
Since the surgery, there has been no response from him at all, and the doctor says that the blood clot has caused brain damage which has affected motor functions. This means that he can't move his limbs, he can't speak, he basically can't communicate with any of us, though he is still alive...in other words, he's now a vegetable.
No other words come to mind right now...I mean, something like this just takes the wind right out of you, what can you say? What can you do?! This is naturally quite upsetting for my family, heaven knows how his wife and kids (my aunt and cousins) are feeling right now!! :( He was, no IS, a good man and totally didn't deserve this fate, nor did his family.
What a wonderful world huh? |
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| Eddie Hitler stole my pint! |
[Dec. 1st, 2003|05:04 pm] |
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Alright chaps and chapessessessess....
So I saw Bottom Live on Saturday night down Hammersmith Apollo with the other half. Have to say it was definitely the funniest one they've done in a while, which is most certainly good news! The last one I saw was "Hooligan's Island" and during the first half I hardly laughed once...that's pretty bad stuff! This one, however, had me laughing from the off, so that was definitely a good thing.
Highlights of the play include the fake Brooklyn accents they adopted during one scene and the giant white (but stained) pants coming out of the "time machine" and hanging like some perverse Nativity star!
Definitely worth watching IMO.
And that's it for this update, ta-ra!! |
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| Blackest of the Black |
[Nov. 25th, 2003|04:23 pm] |
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Here's my review of the gig I attended on Saturday night, December 22nd:
Total of 4 bands played that night, though it should have been 5. Marduk unfortunately had to pull out cos they parted ways with their vocalist and so had to postpone live dates until they get their shit together. Fair enough. What annoyed me was that I had heard somewhere that Grimfist were gonna be playing as well, so at least that gives me something else to look forward to...only I find out at the gig that they were never scheduled to play in the first place!! Bunch of arse!!
Anyway, first band Meldrum put on a fairly good performance, though much can't be said about the music. Maybe they sound better on record than they do live...anyway, the lead singer is a rather foxy looking strumpet who really goes for it on the stage, which is pretty cool. Other than that, nothing to get excited over.
Second up is Orange Goblin who put on a good performance and won me over (this is the first time I've ever seen or heard their music) enough for me to go and shell out money for their Cd at the gig. Nice one chaps!
Zyklon take the stage next (just below the headliners) and play a standard set....think they were better at the Underworld a while ago, but that's probably cos the venue is a little more intimate than the forum so you get a feeling of being closer to the band. Shame they didn't do any Zyklon-B songs, but I guess they had to stick to their own material...
Headliners Danzig take to the stage about 10 and play for about 70-odd minutes. Again this is another band that I'm not familiar with, so I have no clue what their biggest songs are until the audience react to them!! Not a bad performance and I could actually see Evil Elvis from my vantage point running about the stage, so he's not as small as people make him out to be! ;-) The performance ended with the only Danzig song I've heard before, "Mother" and then, just like that, they buggered off.
All in all, it was a good gig, some good bands played, the drink flowed and the women milled around, which was very good indeed!! Can't wait for Arch Enemy on the 21st, rock on!!! |
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[Nov. 13th, 2003|10:43 am] |
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| |  tired | ] |
Ugh, I really need to stop going to sleep so late, it's getting harder and harder to wake up early enough to go to work!! Speaking of which, I'm the only member of my team in the office today, one guy is on holiday for 3 weeks, another is working from home and I have no clue where the 3rd man is!! It's been like this for some time, I seem to be the only one who makes an effort to be in the office...maybe I should "work from home" every other Friday or summat?!?
Oh, saw the new Matrix film on Tuesday night....got mixed feelings about it to be honest. Sure it's fairly entertaining in its own right but the second one was better, and this one seemed a little heavy on the religious theme side of it, giving me the impression that the underlying message is that having faith will save you. Maybe I'm reading too much into this action flick, or maybe I'm on the right track...anyway, it's worth watching, if only for the fact that it wraps up the trilogy, albeit in a fairly non-complete way... |
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[Nov. 10th, 2003|04:28 pm] |
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Went down the pub at lunchtime with a few of my workmates and had a right old laugh....totally not in the mood to work now, doh!!
Oh, go and check out my buddy Tone's blog at http://blog.2atoms.com and tell 'im I sent ya! ;) |
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| woohoo!! |
[Nov. 7th, 2003|10:06 am] |
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| | happy | ] |
Last night I managed to finish off the album reviews for Metal Hammer magazine. I'm hoping that they are good enough to be accepted...never really written a review of anything before so this should be interesting! Heh, look at me, I'm all happy and excited about possibly getting my name in print, what a muppet!!! |
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[Nov. 6th, 2003|04:29 pm] |
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Had an annoying journey into work today, there was a hell of a traffic jam down the Hayes By-Pass and it damn near doubled my journey time!! Good job I had some decent music to keep me company otherwise I would have gone NUTS!! |
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