Sunday, April 15, 2007
IT Crowd!
*Yawns* For those who don't read the "time posted" (or of course if it's an hour out as it might well be now we've switched to BST) it's 9:55... Faaar too early to be awake on a Sunday! The reason I'm awake is because John just grabbed his stuff and headed back to Birmingham, which is because the reason he was staying happened last night, which is in turn the title of this blog entry... :)
Last night J.P., Florencia, John and I drove up to Uxbridge/Slough to Pinewood Studios and saw two episodes of The IT Crowd season II! It was so great, the warm up act was muuch better than last time (J.P., Ant, Pedro, Dustin and I went a couple of weeks ago), the crowd seemed to be made up of fans rather than people who showed up for the hell of it, and I won a signed copy of Pussey by Daniel Clowes!! Sooo coool!
Beyond that not much to say... I'll be getting back to solid constant revision now :( Next time I blog will probably be next weekend after the Future Sight prerelease which I'm still going to despite my exams :P
Here: Have an adorable picture :)
Byebyes everyone! <3
Thursday, April 12, 2007
There And Back Again
(*gasp* Another blog entry, blah blah... Maybe if nobody makes a big deal out of it I won't get back into bad habits... Or of course blogging when I have exams coming up is a bad habit... You decide :P)
Soo~ Last Friday John (my brother) drove down from where he's living in Birmingham, dropped Carmen (his girlfriend who's at uni in Brum) off at her house and then came here, then on Saturday the two of us drove off via Carmen's house and then the three of us went off down to sunny Devon: home. :)
It's difficult to explain how I feel about my trip home... On the surface it was really lovely, the sun was always shining, I got to see Sean and Dave and hang out with John and Carmen and see my parents and eat waay too much food every day. Ok it kicked ass, the food was delicious, the barbecue with friends was loads of fun (Sean's new girlfriend is really cool :)), seeing Hot Fuzz again was seeing Hot Fuzz again, and I didn't feel out of touch with London like I usually do (A certain someone had free txts all weekend~ :P) so it was all great! However the whole time I was there there was this nasty "I'm not doing any revision, why aren't I doing any revision, I should be revising!!" thought at the back of my head that kinda stopped me from having the great time I should have been having... This especially sucks since the next time I'm going home is mid-June and only for 2 weeks or maybe less :/ Meh :P
Anyway we (John, Carmen and I) came back to London on Tuesday, we (John and I) literally dumped our bags and got the train into central London to meet Anime Soc people for "The Ling Dinner", a dinner to celebrate Ling visiting from Australia which was really nice :) Great to see her again of course and a good time was had by all, although I think it was the fastest meal Anime Soc have ever had :P Might just have been because I was tired from being in a car for 4+ hours but the whole meal just sped passed for me which was weird :/
Not much to say since then... Yesterday John and I hung out watching Scrubs, Family Guy and a few movies, and today I'm back to revision and John's gone to visit Carmen again :)
Love to everyone who actually reads this crap~ <3 :P Byee!
Monday, April 02, 2007
Busy! :(
Hey everyone!
Sorry for the lack of posts lately (ie since January), I suck I know XD The way things are this year I've either been so busy that I've had no time to write or so bored that I've had nothing to write about! But after the repeated pokings of Izumi-chan and Ke-kun I've decided to post something :D And just so you know those weren't metaphorical pokings, they literally spent a good few hours poking me yesterday... While I was full of Dim Sum... Poor me~ :( :P
So~ Hmm what's happened since my last post waaaay back in January? A fair bit I imagine... Izumi-chan turned 21, a big load more crap happened in my house which resulted in Nathalie and Sibley (two of my best friends) moving out and having to find emergency accommodation for the rest of the year, I've been working fairly constantly on my final year individual project, I completed Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and a big bunch of Virtual Console games, some crazy Germans came to visit... All important things I should have blogged about, but I didn't, and I'm not gonna - If you wanna hear about them ask me on MSN :P
Things I am gonna blog about are things which are still going on :) I'm fed up with my usual "last few weeks/months recap" blogs and I think they've given me bad blogging habits so they're gone! Bwahaha :P So then... Things... :P
Exams!
My exams are coming up in a few weeks! My final exams! I should be revising more :)
Magic: The Gathering
This wonderful mix of spending all my money and shuffling 60 card decks has re-entered my life :) Dustin and I were bored of playing DS during the How To Draw Manga lessons so we started playing Magic... Then his friend Andrei, and Ant, and Kenny, and J.P., and Nick, and Joe, and Kai joined us... Then I started going to the SciFi Society MTG nights on Thursdays too... And we had our own booster draft with Time Spiral and Planar Chaos boosters. It's really good to be playing again but it is frightfully addictive :P
Reading
I read The Runes of the Earth, I read the translation of the Battle Royale novel, I read the Earthsea Quartet, and I'm now I'm re-reading Cryptonomicon. I highly recommend every last one of them.
DS
Ouendan Ouendan Ouendan~ <3 If you don't know it it's the Japanese version of Elite Beat Agents... And if you don't know Elite Beat Agents then you need to stop buying your DS games in England where they come out about 6 months late :P Ouendan/EBA are rhythm games where music plays and you have to tap the DS touch screen in time with the music... Think DDR but for DS :P Ouendan has such great music too, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, B'z, Orange Range, nobodyknows+, L'Arc~en~Ciel :D I'm now very very stuck on the last level of Insane mode though (there are 4 difficulties: easy, normal, hard and insane) which is annoying :P
I also got Wario: Master of Disguise which is pretty fun although the levels tend to take me about an hour to get through o.o; Not your usual 2D platformer lol.
Pokemon: Pearl should be coming through the post in April! *excited*
Phone
I got a new phone! :O It's a Nokia n73, and it's on contract... It's fun :)
IT Crowd
I'm in the audience for IT Crowd season 2! :D Been to one filming already last Friday, it was really great :) If you're at all geeky or just like good comedy shows no matter what the setting go buy The IT Crowd season 1 on DVD :P
Conclusions
The weather has such a huge effect on my emotions, the onset of spring makes me very happy :) Lately whenever I go to the supermarket or anywhere I can smell the spring whenever I go out of the front door, it's awesome! <3
Shout Outs
K-li, Kenny, Ant, J.P., Florencia, Greta, Nathalie, Sibley, Anyone else with exams: Good luck for your exams in April/May!!!
Izumi: Whee a blog entry! XD Hope to see you soon *ハッグ* <3
Everyone: Who are you~? XD Leave a comment! :)