Long days

So today I woke up earlier than usual, Jade wanted to go to the beach today because the weather has been very nice recently. I must of got around 6 hours sleep that night. So I got out at around 8am had a shower and stuff got ready.
I left the house and proceeded to her friends Steph's house, because she had stayed there the previous night. I got there for exactly 9am, I thought that was pretty good myself, I thought I was going to be late. When I got there the girls were ready, Jade says to me "A change of plan we decided to go Bristol Zoo instead." I wasn't expect that one! Nevermind, I have my TomTom so its ok. So we all set off to Bristol Zoo.
When we got there, I took my camera, which I had in the boot of my car luckily, figured it would be a good opportunity to get some pictures.
We had a wonder around the place for awhile, I can't remember exactly everything we went to see because we forgot to get a map, so we just wondered around the place looking at everything. I took a pictures while we were walking around, I don't know how many of them came out well because most of the animals were behind glass and its hard not to get reflections in the shot. Jade also took my camera most of the time so I had to use my compact camera most of the time. It was good enough though.
We must have only been there for around an hour an half then we saw everything that we wanted to see. So we decided it was time for food, so we went to KFC. The amount of times I've been to KFC lately is unbelievable...well the amount I've ate there is, anyway. Everytime I shared a bucket between two. I felt like a right pig! I'm surprised I have gained 8 stones or anything. So today we shared a bucket between 3, so I didn't feel as fat. Although I was still stuffed by the end of it.
Then we got back to Jade's house I was knackered after all that driving plus getting up early, to top it all off I still had to get to work that evening.
Currently I'm at work and time is moving really slowly, I just want to go home and sleep... I'm hoping by writing this whole thing it would occupy my mind then it'll be time to go home.
No such luck...still got awhile to go :(

Lost in coffee rings

So today I was in Starbucks, I've never been the type to go in any type of coffee shops let alone Starbucks. I've always considered it to be a place for two people; the business type, who go in to get their "Caffe-Latte Mocha what-you-call-it" who sit there and read the New York Times or whatever. And the type who feel cool because they like their caffeinated drinks and sit down with a laptop pretending to do work, while in actual fact are probably on Facebook or something.
So it was around 9am and I was still kind of sleepy so I figured "why not", I need a bit of caffeine inside me, it wasn't very busy so I decided to go in.
I decided to go for a tea, since I don't really like drinking coffee too much. It felt very pleasant being there. It was fairly quiet and there was also music playing, it was a very nice environment to be in. It gave me time to think about things in my life at the moment.
Before I knew it, I was through two grande cups of tea. I was probably there for about 1 hour and a half. It started to get a little busy so I decided to leave at that point.
I thoroughly enjoyed it in there, I should bring my laptop next time, maybe do a blog while I'm there? I may have to start going more often...maybe?

I'm Happy!

For once in my life I feel really happy!!
Just thought I would share that with everyone.

That's all...

The world is moving forward, but I'm stood still

Its been awhile since I've written one of these, for good reason as well. I haven't really done anything worth mentioning lately. I feel like for the past couple of years I've done absolutely nothing with myself. I'm still in the same job, doing the same old things. Its pretty sad really, I am trying to change but nothing ever turns out the way you plan.
I met up with some old friends yesterday from Uni, we had a nice pub lunch, it was really nice seeing them again, reminiscing about the good times. The funny thing is that we're all still in the same jobs as we were before, which kinda sucks because we all have some sort of formal qualification but we're still working in a crap place. It seems from college, the people that were least likely to succeed in our course, have a better job than the people who were more successful at the course. If that isn't irony I don't know what is.
Most other people I know have moved on and are doing other things with themselves, I feel like the world is moving forward but I'm stood still.
I also recently met a new friend through a friend, she is pretty cool. I rarely go out much so meeting new people is always a good thing for me. We seem to meet up a fair bit, considering I've only known her a few weeks, although I'm sure she'll get bored of me soon enough, everyone always does.
I've also been trying to meet up with an old friend from school, who I haven't seen in awhile although I've not heard much from him, might give him a poke. (on facebook I mean, not....never mind!)
On the plus side, I have two tickets to see Death Cab For Cutie at Bristol on the 16th November, although I'm still not sure if I can get the day off. I hope I don't miss them again. Anyone want to join me?

Magic in Bath

So today I decided that I would go to out today, because I didn't really want to stay at home so I went to Bath to see if I could find any jobs around Bath or Bristol if I had time.
So as I was walking through town I saw a lady, with a table and some cards. I was intrigued so I had a look. She didn't look like she was doing much so I decided to look around the town more.
After a little while I came back and she was performing magic! How cool was that! After my previous rant about my plan, I see someone else doing some magic as a performance.

Her name is Billy Kidd you should go check it out. She did a few great performances including a classic cups and balls trick. She was great and funny, even got me laughing a few times. After watching her and seeing the crowds reaction, it got me thinking. Maybe it could be something that I would be able to do? I got a chance to speak to her afterwards, I asked her how she got started in street performing, maybe give me a few tips.
I gave her some money as donations or whatever and that was the first and only time I've ever given a street performer some money at all. Not sure if that's a good thing or not...?

Its funny I've never really seen many Magicians performing in my life, maybe I should more often, maybe it will help give me the encouragement to do it as a profession.

(oh... and I never got around to finding any jobs or anything)

Contemplating Procrastinating

I feel I need to blog, but again with alot of this thing they kinda suck and I have no clue what it's about most of the time. I guess my main topic that I've been thinking about is life. yep thats right the thing that everyone has and chooses to do with it how they please.

Recently I been realising that I've actually got to hurry up at decided about moving out and getting a proper job, instead of just thinking about do it. As the inevitable is getting closer and closer. I don't really want to to the same thing as I've been doing, but at the same time i don't know what I really want to do.

I had started thinking about 'Plan Z' (my last hope) which was me being Magician idea, the only thing about that is I don't really have the confidence to do that kinda thing, though it could prove as something I could learn to deal with. There is also the fact of needing to be unique. I mean, yes I can do magic, but most of the stuff I can do most magicians can do. I don't have anything new to bring to the table.
Also the general media of maigc seems to have died now that the internet has become more and more popularised since you can probably find out how a trick is done just by googling it.

Life right now to me seems very complicated, this is my turning point of my life right? Move out, get a job that's what growing up is all about. I really hate growing up, why can I be a kid again and not having anything to worry about. This is why I hate the future so much, it never feeling like you're in control. I've never been good at any sort of decision making.
I'm sure I'm not the only person at this state, maybe I need a role model, someone/something I can hope to become? The only problem with role models is the tend to let you down, just like everyone else.

Home Alone

So in a couple of days my Mum and my sister are going away on holiday to Hong Kong for a few weeks, so I'm pretty much going to be home alone. Only my brother will be at home doing f**k all, while I'm going to be working all the time. I wish I had a few days off myself, to get my head together, maybe try and better myself through life. Just seems kinda unfair that I'm still having to work. But I guess I won't have to put up with it for much longer...

Are wii fit?

I keep forgetting that I have to write stuff for this thing. So anyway I brought myself another Wii the other week. Yes, another one. Two reasons why; 1. My sister currently has my first one I brought it's now in her possession and she's already brought other games for it so it might as well have it anyways, she is only 7. And 2. Lots of games are either out or coming out that I want to get for the Wii.
So yeah...I brought another one for my room, I brought it from Game.co.uk in a package with Mario Kart, but since the limited availability of the game, I got the console but not the game :(
I even managed to get a hold of Wii Fit, before I got Mario Kart and Wii Fit is out of stock everywhere.
Now I'm not exactly the most out of shape guy in the world, but its kinda interesting to see how you average, and its saves me buying some scales I guess.
I also got Super Smash Bros Brawl too, that is a very fun game, I used to play on the previous version on the old skool Nintendo GameCube. It was a lot of back in the day.
Well thats pretty much it for today, see ya.

Photography

So the other week I brought myself a nice digital SLR camera. I have wanted one for a while now but I didn't really want to spend lots of money. It started when I was looking at a lot of pictures everywhere like flickr etc and they all look amazing, I wanted to be able to take pictures like that. At that time I didn't want to spend thousands on a SLR so I decided to get a standard compact camera.
My idea was that I thought that if I get a fairly expensive compact camera maybe I would be able to to take some pictures like an SLR, but that didn't quite work out as planned. The pictures I took still looked "normal" I didn't really know what the difference between a SLR and a compact camera image was, but I could SEE it.
I also wanted to take "interesting" photos, what I mean by this is images that you can usually see with the naked eye. For instance images that have been taken with a longer exposure time or with a fast shutter speed etc.

The more it stuck in my mind the more I thought about it, every picture I looked at from then on I noticed you could tell what type of camera it was taken with.
Then recently I decided I would get a DSLR camera, I looked around on the internet and found quite a lot of bargins so in the end I decided to get a Nikon D80, I found lots of positive reviews on it and it also came with a decent package with a len.

So now that I had my camera I took me a little while to understand all the features it has. (I still don't understand some of them now) I've taken a few pictures now and I understand what that difference that I was trying to get at before, it was 'depth of field' its strange how this small feature can make a huge difference to a picture. If you don't know what I mean by dof, its when the subject of a image is in focus and the background is out of focus.

I've been playing around with my camera now and I'm still just experimenting with the different settings, but I'm really interested in night photography, so I'm going to try and see what happens I guess.
I'll be uploading most of my pictures on my website, which can be found at www.kevin1ee.com


Thats all for today.

London Adventure

So yesterday (Tuesday) I decided last minute I would attend a Terra Naomi gig at the Troubadour. It was to be her last gig for a while since she had to go back to LA. The gig started around 9pm so I had plenty of time to get there. So I set of at somewhere around 2-2:30pm I figured if I take my time I wouldn't have to pay for the (stupid) congestion charge in London since they don't operate after 6pm.
I stopped off at a service station, to fuel up the car and me (food that is not gasoline, that would just be silly).

I'd found a nice car park using my Sat Nav which is only a few meters away from the venue that Terra was playing. By the time I'd got to the car park it was some time just after 6pm so I was doing well for time, but as I got in the car park I realized that it closes at 9pm! So I had to find another car park which operates 24hrs. This was not an easy task. So I searched my Sat Nav for another car park that was open 24hr, turns out that most around that area close. I did think about parking road side, but I'm kinda afraid that it might get either broken in to or other. Also I wasn't sure if I was allowed to. So I decided I would park at a familiar location, a car park I knew was 24hr, so I drove to Hammersmith. For those of you who don't know London geography Hammersmith is around 2 miles away from the venue. I didn't mind too much a little walk would do me good and I'd get in some sight seeing. Although by this time is was around 8pm already.

As I was walking in the general direction of the venue, I went past Hammersmith station, I starting thinking hmmmmm....?! (Thats me thinking). I decided I would take the tube to get there it would be much quicker. So I went in the station and I purchased myself an Oyster card. (Can't be bothered to explain this now, go google it). I have never used the Oyster service before but when I was in Hong Kong around 4 years ago?! They have a similar system (which they had way before London introduced their version I might add) so I knew what I was doing. I put £10 on it I figured that would do me. So I got to the tube and checked to station that was closes to the venue, it was either, West Brompton or Earl's Court. I decided to go to Earl's Court (it would mean less changing) so as I got to the platform I noticed quite a few people standing around. Then I heard this over the tannoy "Sorry but the district line has been delayed" (that was my line) Great! Typical, the one time I decide to use the tube its delayed. i managed to get on at it was ok.
I eventually got to the Troubadour and it was around 9pm. When I got in I realized it didn't start at 9 as I had previously thought. Oh well Terra didn't start her set yet anyway so I was fairly good. I didn't notice that it was only a small venue there were tables and chairs, but they were clearly all taken. So I got to stand at the back of the room, which was ok I guess.

The lady (sorry I forgot her name) who was performing as I entered was pretty good... I think?! I couldn't hear her too well, either the speakers weren't turned up enough, or everyone was talking so loud, how very rude.
After she finished there was a small intermission before Terra came on, I quickly noticed the room started filling up, I guess everyone came to see Terra. As she came on stage, as she started singing the whole room was quiet, it was very strange, you couldn't defiantly feel everyone in the room had a lot of respect for Terra. She performed a number of acoustic songs, which were amazing as per usual. As her set came to a close she mentioned she would have a few cds etc for sale, clearing out some old junk. After she finished she came out with some of the stuff she had for sale. I noticed she had a number of the 'Virtually' cd, I have been wanting one of them for a while now, I thought this would be my chance! As the crowds started piling at her I decided I would be a gentleman and let others speak with her, as I was in no hurry. I figured it would be easier to wait it out. By the time everyone had finished hovering around I found myself by Terra, I spoke to her briefly and complimented her on her performance. I notice that there were no more of the album on the table. I asked if she had anymore, she said no. I guess it is true what they say; "Nice guys finish last." She gave me a Terra Naomi bag though, that was cool now I have something to put all my Terra Merch in. I did also get a lovely picture of taken with her.



By this time it was getting late and I have a long journey ahead of me, so I decided to head off. As I left I went back to the tube station and got the tube back to Hammersmith to get my car for the long drive home again. Before I forget, I wasn't planning to go by myself, I was going to invite my friend along too, but he had to work.
So now by the end of the night I am a now an owner of an Oyster card with around £7 on it, which I probably won't ever use and a Terra Naomi bag. All in all it was a good night.

SFX updates

Just an update to let you know that I made a youtube channel just for my special effects projects. I will post them here:

http://www.youtube.com/kevin2ee

Not sure how often this will be updated but never the less, it is there.

I bid you ado.

Hero

So last night I finally go around to finishing the book started a while ago, Heroes: Saving Charlie. I had only read a few chapters the first time round, then I put it down. Then last night I decided to read a few more chapters. Turns out I finished the whole book. I was so immersed in the story I wanted to find out what happened next.
I don't very often read books, but I decided I wanted to get this one for two reasons: 1. I don't read very often and this would be a good idea to start. (obviously) And 2. Heroes is sooooo cool!
Hiro is probably my favourite character from Heroes, I guess it's because he kinda reminds me of me in some ways, except without the whole time travelling ability of course.
I really like this book, it really does give a lot of interesting story to both of the characters and gives you more story about them both. Although some of it is still confusing to me, maybe someone who has read it can help me out, either that or I'll just read it again.

Movie making and some rockin'

Its been awhile since I've done one of these, but not much has happened as per usual. Boring life = boring story. I have being trying to make things happen, but nothing ever turn out as you want them to. I had planned to attend a 3 Doors Down gig in Bristol, but they had to cancel/postpone the event for some unknown reason, which kinda sucks. I would have liked to have seen them, the chances are, when they reschedule the date, I probably won't be able to go, because of work.

Anyway, recently I've been helping my friend, Liam out making his movie. (more info here) I've been helping firstly by printing out DVDs, cases and burning the movie.
I also did a bit of acting! (yeah I know right) That was a fun day.
So my friend Liam got me started on maybe doing some post production bits.
I remember when I was younger I used to want do make movies.

I used to draw simple pictures on MS Paint, on the old 486, back in the day and adjust them slightly to animate them. They were just simple things like a stick man walking along etc.
Its not much, it was kind movie making isn't it? Or would it be animation?
But now I've started using Adobe After Effects which is a little more sophisticated than paint. It's like Photoshop for video, it is a very good. I have already made a small project which I may or may not put on youtube or something, depends how I feel.
So I've been occupying myself with that.

Other than that I got Rock Band, I've been playing on that mostly, I didn't want to blog about before otherwise it would just end up being a review or something.
But its great fun, I was round by friends' house playing it. It's so much more fun playing with everyone else, feels like you're in a real band. If only that were true.

Website and movie deals!

Not much interesting has happened really, although I got a book the other day, its the 'Heroes: Saving Charlie' one, I read through a few pages, its pretty good so far, recently I've been making myself a website, so I've not had much time for reading.
Yes that's right I made a website, its nothing spectacular but it took me a while to make and I'm pretty happy about it, although the gallery page I think is a bit crap so I may change it. Well here is the link www.kevin1ee.com its not much, but I'm sure I'll put lots of stuff on it once I figure out what. You can read the whole of this blog from there.

And I've also been helping a friend with a movie/production he is making, I help build his website and its looking good, I've also been helping producing the dvd's. More info here LiamBauckham.com If you're interested join the Facebook Page too.

Thats about it from me, hope everyone is well.

No show

So yesterday I didn't go to the Death Cab For Cutie gig as I planned. I feel a little annoyed that I didn't go, because it would have been the first time I'd seen them live. I really didn't feel like driving all that way by myself, I still have the ticket in hand that I paid for, I guess I should just throw it away or something, oh well maybe next time.
Instead I just meet up with an friend who I hadn't seen in awhile, so that was cool.

Decisions... decisions?

So I have a ticket to see Death Cab For Cutie this Tuesday in Camden, but I don't know if I want to go or not.
The problem is, I only have 1 ticket and its all the way in London, which is about a 3hr drive. I like dcfc, but I don't know if I want to drive all that way by myself, I thought about selling my ticket but I think its a little late now, as its Saturday.
I guess it depends on how I feel that day...

Brighton

Yesterday I went to Brighton with some friends. We couldn't have picked a better day. In the morning we figure we should leave early so we would have plenty of time to look around and check out the Brighton attractions. On the way there the weather was your normal British weather. It was sunny one minute, then raining the next. It was about a 3 hour drive up there, this was the first time I had driven my new car some place far.
By the time we got there it was around 2pm, it was raining. We decided that since we would wonder around the town see what it had to offer.
We eventually found somewhere to eat. When we finished eating it was still raining, so we wondered round a little more and we found a mall, so we decided to stay inside for a while since it was drier inside. Afterwards we then processed to check out the beach despite the weather, and it was vacant.








By about 7pm we got to the venue for the gig, at Concorde 2. We were first in line, which was cool. We are sooo hardcore. The doors opened to the venue at 7:30 and when we go in it was partially seated area at the front with tables. We managed to get one at the front, lucky us! We were sat down for about an hour before they finally started to play. I was quite surprised at the amount of people at the venue, there was probably around 50? I have only been to gigs in London and they were packed, so this was pretty cool, since there wasn't so many crowds of people in the way.
I had planned to go to this event only to see Cary Brothers, because I'd heard some of his songs previously and I loved it. So when heard he was coming to the UK to do some gigs I had to go. I have previous heard about the Hotel Cafe tour, but I never knew they ventured out of the US. I figured this would be one opportunity I couldn't miss. I had planned on checking out the other artists on Myspace or something but I figured I would leave it as a surprise, since I kinda knew what to expect.
This gig was the most unique and defiantly the most interesting one I've been to so far. The fact that there are lots of different artists performing was great. If you've never seen it, it's defiantly somthing I would recommend checking out.
The artist that performed that night were; Tom McRae, Cary Brothers, Greg Laswell, Jim Bianco, Brian Wright and Catherine Feeny. All of which were amazing.

Here is the link to see some pictures of the event.

Hotel Cafe Tour 2008

The show finish by about 11:30, we stayed around and I brought a few cds that they were selling. I also managed to meet with a few of the artists after the show, I spoke with Catherine Feeny, she was very nice, I also got her to sign me a cd.


It reads: "Cheers Kevin - Enjoy"

I also had a quick chat with Cary too, which was awesome! I also got a signed cd from him too.


It reads: "To Kevin - You rule!"

I wished we had more time to stick around but we were kinda rushing a little because I had a long drive back home again.
By the time I dropped my friends home and I got home myself, it was around 4:30am, I immediately went:
head + pillow = sleep.

Facebook friend?

So recently I've been spending a bit of time on Facebook and I've been getting a lot of new friend invites from people from ages ago. It's quite strange finding out that someone you once knew from Year 1 remembers you from school. That's nearly 20 years ago!
Also I've noticed a lot of people who I knew from my high school, have also added me as well. (Facebook has probably implemented a new friend finding system).
Anyway, I wasn't really the most popular person in school, but it's strange how the people you never speak to adds you as a friend, it's crazy to see how people turn out too, I mean I don't think I've changed my since I was in school, but it seems like everyone is a different person now. People are starting new lives and even making new ones! Maybe I need to make a start at actually doing something with my life?

When I was younger I thought that my best friends from school and I would keep in touch for years to come, but now we hardly talk. Its strange how things never turn out as you'd expect them too.
I wonder how long before the "friends" I know now will forget about me? 10 years? 5 years? Tomorrow?

Birthday

Today is my birthday, yeah, it really is, but I'm really not that bothered anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old but I really don't like it when people make a huge fuss about my birthday. I mean when I was younger it was all about "Yay! Presents!!!"
But now, it just seems insignificant. I mean what does a birthday mean, really. It the anniversary of the day your mum tried her hardest to push your fat ass out her womb!
As a kid I can understand, because each year you are growing older and maturing (hopefully). But once you've matured surely you are just counting the years you've survived life. "Congratulations, you've made it another year and not died."
(Reading that back I realised how morbid that sounds.)

My parents aren't the usual type, what I mean by that is they stopped buying me presents on my birthday ages ago. I kinds stopped wanting things, so I didn't know what I wanted and neither did they, so they just stopped.
And by the way, people who ask for present, is stupid in my opinion, the whole point of a present is to be a surprise, same goes for Christmas.

So, in case you didn't realise, I haven't got any plans for my birthday. I'm just gonna do what I would normally do, that includes going to work.
I'm suppose to be having lunch with some friends tomorrow which will be cool, because I haven't seen them in a while. And that's about it really, exciting times on my birthday.

EDIT: The lunch thing didn't take.

Here is my one and only birthday card, its from my sister ^_^

New car day

So today is the day I got my new car, yay! I'm so happy.

Here is a lovely picture..



um... I don't really know what to say much, other than I've a very happy bunny.

Oh and in case you didn't know it's a Mitsubishi Lancer.

Car News

So I think I should update and say that I put in a deposit for my car on Tuesday, which basically means I'm halfway to owning my car!! eeee! I so excited! The reason why I didn't post this before was because as soon as I got home on that day, I came home to sort out my insurance, which wasn't fun, spending lots of money again :(
Then afterwards I just plain forgot about this.
Today is just two days away till I get my car!! It cost me a lot of money, so I'm not going to try and crash this one. (Not trying to say that I meant to crash the other one of course! ^_^)

So I've now transfered sufficient amount of money from my savings account, to pay for the car and the insurance. Now I'm gonna be broke for the next couple of years, probably won't have enough money for petrol! I'll just keep the car on the drive at admire at the fact I just spent all my savings on it.

Hopefully come Tuesday I will be able to drive home in my new car, yay! Then.....FREEEEDOM! I can go anywhere I want. (well almost)

I'll update more once I actually get the thing, then I'll post pictures and everything. See ya later.

Random Stuff

I felt like writing a blog today, but I haven't really been up to much recently, so don't expect this to be the most exciting thing in the world.
I've been spending a lot of time at home recently, because I can't really go anywhere at the moment. So I've been re watching a lot of TV shows like Buffy and Angel. I've also recently found a new show that I like, Supernatural. It reminds me of the old Buffy episodes when they thought: "Hey, maybe we should have something else in the show instead of JUST vampires." For those of you who haven't heard of Supernatural, it's about two brothers who go around hunting Demons. If you like Buffy, I'm sure you'll like this.
I've also picked up my guitar...then put it straight back down again, seriously, I don't have any musical talent in me at all. I think I'll just stick to silly plastic ones, like Guitar Hero.

I've also started getting back into magic again, looking at all my old tricks practicing them, improving on old techniques I've also be thinking about getting some new stuff. Obviously I can't talk too much about this, or I'll have to kill you, haha. It used to be really easy to improve my tricks when I was in college, because there were lots of people I can practice my tricks on. But now I have no friends.

Still not got a car yet, should have one soon I hope, I'm sure I'll blog about it when I do, I have a car in mind, I won't say what I'll leave it as a surprise, as I probably won't get it anyway.
I think thats about it really, I did do a little painting awhile ago, I'll link to that here I guess, I don't think it's really that good, but you can tell me what you think if you like.
Okay thats all, stay safe kids. Bye!

Crazy Weather

So I was on my way to work today and the strangest thing happened. It was snowing and it was sunny at the same time. The snow didn't settle of course because it wasn't cold enough it kinda just melted as soon as it hit the ground.
I'm sure it's suppose to be Spring now, I guess that whole Global Warming fiasco is working out as planned.
It was the first time I've ever experienced this. I figured I had to document this so I took a few pictures.





Anyway, that's pretty much the most exciting thing that has happened all week, I'll update when anything remotely interesting happens, which probably won't be anytime soon...

I went Shopping!

No, I didn't go and buy all the latest "fashion" designs, nor did I but any random gadgets that I don't actually need (which is a first). I went car shopping, well to be honest I didn't really buy anything so technically that doesn't really count as shopping. I guess it was more car window shopping? But doesn't that imply I went shopping for car windows...?

So yesterday I went car shopping with my parents, we had look at a few cars, there was a few that I liked, one for around £8000, its not cheap I know, but its pretty cool, but today I came back with a quote from the insurance people and apparently its going to be £2600!! I think since I did have an accident it'll certainly put a dent in things! On the plus side I did learn lots of stuff about buying cars etc, which I'd never had a clue about before, so I think I'm all clued up at the moment.

I'm trying to think of a realistic car that I can afford to get, but I have no idea what kind of car I want. I know a fair bit about cars, but I don't really want a small car, I would prefer a 4 door type, because its more convenient. The small cars always seem so cramped inside. I mean, I'm not exactly a big person, in fact I'm quite the opposite, but if I want to move my seat back a little the person behind me is going to get squashed, sacrificing his space for mine. Also the whole 3 door thing, if someone in the back has to get out of the car, someone in the front has to get out and pull the seat down, it just seems tedious to me. Maybe I'm being too picky, I mean it is going to be my first car (technically) I guess.

Here are a few that I've considered:


This one is perfect, it's brightly coloured, and it can also fly, perfect fot those traffic jams.




Or how about this one, it'll be good for the whole carbon whats-it-doodle. It runs on trash, if I remember correctly. Would also save me money on petrol, this one also flies too.


What do you reckon?

Impulse buying, it's a curse

I really need to stop buying shit I don't actually need! So the other day I was surfing around on ebay, and within a matter of minutes I was bidding on an iPhone. Why? I have no idea. Don't get me wrong, I like the iPhone, but my current phone is good enough. The phone I had previously was a Nokia E90. It does pretty much everything the iPhone does plus more. Also not to mention I also have two iPod Touches, a 16GB and a 32GB version. (I'm sooo going to run out of money soon.) I really should be spending my money on more useful things in life, like a car, or a house!



For those of you who don't know the iPod Touch is the same as an iPhone, only without the phone feature.
So i received my iPhone yesterday, I would have blogged about it yesterday, but I spent most of my time playing around with it. OK lets start from the start.

The first time I even heard about the iPhone, I was like "meh..." I mean its has cool features like the touch screen, but the way that Apple were selling the product like it was a new revelation. From the tv ads you will see they were like "ooo you can surf the internet, and then look up cinema times, then phone your mates on the same device." Whoop dee doo! I can do that I my previous phone, it had full internet capabilities, even have a wide screen to view everything. And most phones these days can play mp3's. The reason I brought an iPod Touch in the first place I was surfing around the internet (as you do) and I came across a video on the ipod touch/iPhones feature the acclerometer, and combined with the ability to view your albums using cover flow, was amazing. I mean to be honest, it is a little pointless, but it looks cool! I like the way that it is just a big touch pad, with none of those awkward buttons that gets crap inside them.

I've never been much of a Mac fan, but then again, I've always grown up with Windows PC's, because its more widely used. Even in my IT courses I did, we never even touched a Mac. But ever since I've got my iPod Touch, I've been looking into MacBooks, and they seem pretty decent. I think I might have to get a MacBook at some point, but I don't really NEED one, since I have a small cheap laptop that I have at the moment. (Thats more of my impulse buying coming in to play)
...wait, does it count as impulse buying if you have thought about it for awhile?

I also brought some new headphones too, since my old ones were getting a little... well old. I got the Shure SE210. For those of who haven't heard of Shure, they make amazing headphones, I had a pair before and these are even better, they're like earplugs that you can listen to. They cancel all the outside noise and allows you to hear your music loud and clear. They are a little expensive for headphones, but well worth it if you really like your music.

Back to work

Today I go back to work, from my long holiday, it feels really crappy having to go back to work again. I realised now that I REALLY should have done more in my holiday.
I tried to get back in touch again with old friends who I don't get to see as often as I'd like because of my annoying working hours, but everyone just happened to be "busy". I'd say something along the lines of "Hey any time you're not busy, we'll do something." They'd usually say "Yeah sure, will do", then nothing! Now I had pretty much a whole month off....I don't know maybe I'm just being too melodramatic or something, I'm sure everyone has more pressing issues to attend to than to see little old me. I'm sure crashing my car didn't really help. (see other post)
Which also by the way sucks! Because of the fact that I live in the middle of nowhere and my closes friend lives about 6 miles away. I could probably cycle there I guess, but its really not worth cycling 2hrs there and back again. Plus the transport service in this area is really crap, the buses go nowhere and the taxi's are way too expensive. If I was in London it would probably be ok, I know a lot of people complain about the London underground service, but I really think that its good, because you can get pretty much anywhere in London on the tube.
Anyway back on topic again.
I guess everyone hates going back to work after a long holiday and now I know how it feels. I don't think it would be so bad if it was a job that I would actually kinda enjoy, which was one of the things that I should have been doing more of, finding a new job.
Now before you say anything, I have been looking, I just haven't found anything that I want to do. And all the ones that I applied to I generally either hear nothing, or get a blanketed email saying "Sorry [random dude] but you didn't get the job this time... blah blah blah."
What I really want to do is move away and get a place somewhere near where I work. But I want to get the job first then move out, so I know that I can afford the place I'm living in. But most places (I'm assuming) don't want to hire me because I live too far away.
Where as, if I was to move away and get a place, the chances of me finding a job in the field that I want is highly unlikely, so I'd probably have to find something to fill the gap in the meantime like Tesco's or something which would be annoying as hell. So I'm kinda in a stalemate at the moment.
What else have I been doing...I have been trying to get back to rekindle some of my old creative talents, like drawing and stuff, but lately I haven't had the inspiration. I think I was trying to find something that I could possibly pursue as a career, because all I seem to do is play on my Xbox or randomly surf the internet and that isn't really going to get me anywhere in life. I just feel I need to do something that I could maybe apply to the outside world that could help. Oh well! I'm sure stuff will work itself out. I hope!

New computer today!

I got my new computer today, it's very cool, it took awhile taking the thing apart again, because I wanted to put my other hard drives in it. It's all working fine now, I'm just spending the hours installing all my software again....it's taking freakin' ages!

Well here are the specs of the computer anyway:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core 6400+ 3.20GHz
4GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3870 XT 512MB
500GB SATA HDD
Samsung 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter



Oooh very tidy inside :p

New car?

Today wasn't too interesting, I had to go to the insurance place to tell them about the accident and fill in a few forms etc. They said they'll send some people to check out the damage of the car to see how badly it is, but like I said before it's probably gonna be a write-off.
How very annoying, now I have no car, looks like I'll be stuck at home for a while. So I guess I'm looking for a new car at the moment...anyone got any suggestions?

Two crashes in one day!

So today I woke up and got out of bed and turned on my computer. (as you do) And to my horror it didn't work! What a uneventful day this is going to be. Now I'm quite a tech savvy guy I know what I'm doing around computers, I have lots of previous education in computers. Since I built my computer myself I also know what's going on inside. So I decided to open it up see if there was anything I could do, to make it magically work, but alas, I couldn't. So I figured I would buy a whole new system anyway, since my computer is around 2 years old anyway! I did think about just buying the components and building it again, but I've had so many bad experiences with building my own computers, I thought I would just save myself the hassle. So I brought myself a nice new one from Overclockers I'll let you know how I get on I hope. luckily I have my laptop with me, I'm not completely without my beloved internet. As if my day couldn't get any worse.

So what turned out to be an uneventful day, today turned out to be an interesting day, although not for the better. I crashed my car, it was not pretty. I was coming home from picking up my sister from school and I was coming round a corner and I lost control and the car ended up in among some small trees and hedges. lucky there was no other cars involved. The road was kinda wet due to the amount of rain which wasn't any help.
I've never been in a car accident in my life, so I had no clue on what to do! The first thing I did was to check on my sister, she was ok, just a little shook up. I rang my mum on my phone to tell her what had happened. I few people who lived in a houses nearby came to check to see if I was ok. I didn't catch their names but if they happen to have stumbled across my blog "Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!" Apparently it happens a lot on the road that I was on, they say they get one crash at least every week. I'm quite surprised that I did crash really, I've been around that road loads.
The people who came to check on me called the ambulance to get them to check if we were ok. After that we just waited for my mum to come, I had no idea what to do. Before my mum came a police car came along as well, which was kinda scary. I wasn't too shook up about the accident, but when the police arrived I was probably more nervous. I don't know if its just me, but I get a bit scared around police when they want to talk to me about stuff. I've never really done anything really bad before but I guess its just me being paranoid...
The police men just wanted to ask me a few questions, so I stepped in to the police car to answer a few questions like what happened, name, address and that. Then they wanted a breath test too, which I was kinda surprised about but I guess its only natural, because of the amount of drinking and driving that goes on. If any of you know me, I have never drunk any alcohol in my life, yet I was still slightly hesitant when he asked "When was the last time you consumed alcohol?" Which I'm sure didn't help. I was all clear of any alcohol you'll be glad to hear.
Once all the commotion was over I rang up the break-down services to arrange to pick up the car. The guy took around 30-40mins to get there which wasn't too bad I guess, the guy managed to take the car out of the shrubs and trees and on to his big towing machine. He then said it would probably be written off! Most of the damage was around the front of the car and the top, he said that it would be pointless to repair it, because the body was too badly damaged. Bummer!
The car has now been taken to a depot and I'll have to check with the insurance guys tomorrow, who no doubt will give me crap all. Ahh well, lesson learnt here.
At least I get a new car I suppose! :)

Hello, welcome and all that...

So I decided to start writing on this blog thingy, I've had this account for awhile, but I never have the balls to write anything. I got kinda a bit scared that if after awhile I'll meet someone and they'll know my life's story and I wouldn't know a thing about the other person. (Unless of course I'm reading their blog)
I wanted to start this because of two reasons really:
1. I occasionally read blogs online and although they are talking about how boring their life is, it can be interesting to other people.
2. My memory is shit! This at least gives me somewhere I can look back and see what happened to me and when.

So that's what to expect from me I guess, I'm gonna try and do one of these at lest once every 2 days if not everyday. But I wouldn't hold your breath.


Oh and don't bitch and whine about my grammar and shit, I know! Its terriable.