Adventures in the House of Dan - Now with more badgery goodness!

Bloody Hell! Whats with all the blue?

2006-05-26T13:11:00.000+01:00

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Cuts, Cars, and Shaves

2006-05-20T16:29:00.000+01:00

Howdy,

Not a major update, but an update none the less. Last night (or earlier this morning, depends on your perspective) at 4am we found out we were out of milk. We all piled into Dingle's car to this massive Tesco's thats open 24 hours. After picking up the milk, Dingle and I decided that Jimmy should get his first lesson in the car park. Thing is with Dingle's car is that he's ragged it so much that the clutch has worn and so theres no "biting point" - this made starting without stalling a bit of a mission. I reckon I got whiplash Jimmy stalled it so much! But eventually he got away and did pretty well. Dingle reckons that when Jim gets his provisional that I can take him out on the roads...yeah right!

Next item of news came from Dingle yelling in the shower. We asked him what happened and apparently he managed to cut a ray mears style groove into his dick. If that wasn't bad enough, he had to drive to work with the wound still open and get some plasters from the manager! He remains optimistic about the whole thing though..

"Chicks dig scars, so a scar on my cock will drive them wild!" - Dingle
"You're a tard" - Jimmy

Only other news is I let Dingle shave my head this morning - nothing American Histroy X or anything, but just to get it short and manageable. He did an ok job and here's some pics. I think you'll find I look alright, or middle aged. Depends how you look at it ^_^

Thats about it now - should be home by june 10th.

-Later

The new look....

2006-05-15T02:27:00.000+01:00

.....will come later when I can be bothered to fiddle with the template. Until then this will do fine.

I hear you all saying "An update Dan? Surely not! What happened? Find another woodland creature in your kitchen?" and the answer is no (although I found some BLACK pasta between the freezer and fridge)

Thats right it's an update - I've been busy with coursework and all that other uni bollocks. The project is finished and the web site for the Wakeboard Club is live. If you're lucky, the pics of Paul and his one wheeled antics will still be up there.

Click here to fill your eyes with joy!

The presentation went fine - we were all suited and booted (to a degree) and we spoke clearly and with confidence (until Lucy Pinder in all her nudey glory came on Siva's laptop screen - then it was just a load of burbling)

Like the Fonz says..........I'd hit it! >_> (. )( .)

Other coursework has been done and dusted - if anyone told me for my uni course I would be looking up Palestinian chicken recipes at 3am, I would have probably berrated them in an amusing manor, however that was largely what I had to do for multimedia - who's idea was it to make a cookbook anyway! >_<

I'm being very studenty and haven't attended one lecture since getting back from Easter. Fuck em, if they wanted me to come in they wouldn't have given me such a retarded timetable so it's not worth my while showing up - besides why go in for a lecture you can get off the network? to listen to Paul G rambling on in his slow hypnotic way? I get the work done and handed in on time, end of.

After this course I am going to do a top up degree in Digital Forensics - hacking and cyberterrorism (how to fight it, not how to perform it) so who knows - next year I may be able to steal your megahurtz!!! First things first, I gotta get the application in - for some reason I need to write another personal statement and also get Arthur to say I'm a good worker. Can't they just look at the marks and tutor comments from the last 2 years? Ah well, jumping through hoops is the name of the game.

Aside from work, things have been reasonable. I've noticed that I've been cooking and cleaning alot - I know I'm worried too. Becky and Dingle are slowly getting better, at least now they know that leaving the front door WIDE OPEN and on the latch in Somers Town is probably a bad idea. Thats right folks - they needed to be told to close doors. I'm also still annoyed at having to pull knotted hair out of the plug holes of the sink and shower. Also a facinating new trend of putting supermarket receipts in the kitchen sink has occured. Ah well, not long now.

Jimmy's been pissing about with this MixMeister program - he's no Hixxy or Dougal, but he made an amusing Mr Scruff mix and he's making progress. Unfortunately thats at the cost of his progress in his UNIX coursework but hey, it's only UNIX.

Last sunday I witnessed the full horror of Becky's fella off his face. End result was a 25 year old lad wrapped in a purple bed sheet trying to ass rape people with a toy dagger and yelling Muthafucka in a really shitty Aussie accent. Becky was quite shocked and I had to carry him home in the end. Other than that, not much has been happening with me - my printer imploded a while ago (Not the printer Dan! Fraid so) and thats it. Oh yes people, my uni life is NOTHING like I expected it to be.

I will TRY to update more often, but for now I will retire and listen to Jimmy crank out some banging tunes.

Cya!

hey

2006-03-26T15:56:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

Another sporadic update today. I probably should update more but to be honest there isn’t much going on in my life at the moment. I’ve got 2 weeks left in Pompey and then I go back home for the Easter hols. It seems like it won’t be the most relaxing due to the amount of work I’ve got.

I need to sort a portfolio out by May on Professional Development, I’ve got to write up this project work and prepare for a presentation, and I need to get this Mult work sorted.

Lectures have been sparse this past couple of weeks and to be honest it’s no great loss. The only one I was interested in was cancelled as the tutor was ill. Computer Networking is boring as hell, Paul G (that’s right Heavy P) could send insomniacs to sleep. That’s how boring his voice is. And what makes it worse is that now as well as the 9am lecture on Tuesday, thanks to Marnie complaining for now reason we now have another lecture on Thursday morning. Marnie needs to stop sticking her nose in. She complains that she’s not being taught enough, without mentioning the fact that she hasn’t turned up to hardly any CONET lectures this semester. The Uni really need to check the facts with other students before making timetable changes.

The house is bootleg as usual. This infernal washing machine has backed up again and the landlady’s answer to everything is some old guy who pokes it and swears. The thing is, no matter who Jane sends round, its still going to be fucked because it’s the plumbing of the house as a whole that’s at fault. The washing machine is in the kitchen, and for those of you that haven’t visited me, our kitchen is in the basement. This means that any water needs to be pumped up to ground level. The thing is the washing machine takes in a lot of water and then ejects it all at once, the pipes and the pump cannot cope with that amount of water at once and as a result it starts to back up. When it does back up, the pipe at the back of the cupboards leaks and we get a nice water feature that soaks all our pots and pans and drowns Jims cereals. OPM have a choice really. They can either get a bigger pump in and bigger pipes to cope with the load, or move the washing machine into the spare room, however OPM won’t do the latter as they want as many bedrooms in this hole as possible so they can make the most money.

Moving on from the house to the housemates. The bathroom is appauling, nobody cleans anything so our sink is encrusted with peoples facial hair. The bath itself is worse as the plug hole has been blocked by long hair, grime is all over it, and there’s the result of Becky shaving her legs thrown in as well. People don’t clean up after they use it which pisses me off because it means I have to pull out a shit load of Beckys, Stephs, and Dingles hair out of the plug and scoop up all this general filth before I get to have a shower. It seems that Becky and Dingles mum is a bit of a clean freak. I reckon that they are messy and lazy because the mum is always cleaning up after them. They just leave things where they drop and it’s disgusting. I just can’t be bothered with this place anymore (although I’ve just signed up for another year so more fool me)

One piece of amusement came when Luke came round. We were up in Jims room when Luke looked out the window. There was a massive rumble across the road between various tribes of Chavs. It was funniest when some fat heffer fell over. Everyone went from yelling out obscenities to each other to all going “oooooooooo” in unison. This place feels more like a zoo every day.

Aside from that, it’s been boring. Hope everyone is enjoying themselves and I look forward to seeing you over Easter.

Cya!

update? surely not!

2006-02-22T22:39:00.000Z

Wow an update, who would have thought it?

Anyway I'm in the second semester and so far it seems steady enough - I still hate Portsmouth with a passion and would gladly move if I wasn't too lazy to commute. Chav situation seems to be getting worse. In fact watch any zombie film and replace the zombies with chavs - thats how many chavs are in portsmouth. It seems that half the population of this city are complete tards in baseball caps walking like they got piles, slinging insults at anyone who passes by. The other half of the population is comprised of students, foreign people, and tourists who have become trapped in the city and have to fend for themselves until help arrives. The chav situation has got so bad I have resorted to buying a knife for protection. I won't be starting trouble, but if it comes my way I will fucking end it.

As far as the house is concerned, the rent is going to go up over the summer. When I think about it, it's boggling the mind that I keep paying through the nose to live in this place, but I suppose it's all for my education and hopes for the future. The walls in this house are paper thin (not as bad as halls, but getting there) I hear the girl next door faking an orgasm every night, and hear this guy on the top floor play the same five songs all the fucking time. Jim ends up in a volume war with the guy half the time. In fact a couple of nights ago he turned up on our front door having the fucking audacity to complain about the noise! Doesn't he get how thin the walls are? doesn't he realise that he starts it all the time?

Also we caught a mouse in the spare room a while ago. We called it Vin Diesel and put it in a box with some chocolate to eat - i don't know whether it was Jim shaking the box or Becky breathing weed down it's lungs but it didn't go well. Dingle "released him to the wild" which meant tipping the box up outside our front door at 3am. For the next couple of days we had a dead mouse on our doorstep.

Coursemates are alright. Femi is such a lost cause though. He leaves for mult tutorial when it finishes - thats how late Femi gets to class. Even if he shows up, he eats whatever picnic he brings then cracks some jokes and then knocks out for the rest of the lecture. I swear he's been here since the uni was first built. Apparently the tutors know he's hopeless so they leave him to it, instead using "working with Femi" as a threat to other students.

It's kind of a sorry state really when the uni holds on to the waste of spaces as long as they get the money from them.

Well thats it for a while - hope to see everyone over Easter hols! (unless Femi does some work, in which case I invite you all to a snowball fight in hell)

-Later!

1 week to go!

2005-12-08T23:59:00.000Z

hey all,

Like the title says I got one more week in this hole, then I go back to celebrate Xmas with the family!

ADCAR result came in: 57% (not what I was hoping for but I passed so I'm happy)

But guess who got the highest mark in the exam? Weighing in with over 80% is.........Tiargo! Tiargo? Fucker can't even speak English and he did the best?!

Luke managed to pass despite being hungover, stoned, and jet lagged. IT was kinda funny looking over at him staring wide eyed at the screen saying "What am I doing?" to himself ^_^

Got alot of work to do. I want to try and get as much out the way now so I don't have as much to do over Xmas. We are having another group meeting with Arthur on wednesday, however Jim, being the Gung Ho project lead he is, declared to Arthur that we would have the next revision of our report (complete with design) in his inbox by monday morning! FUCK!

You see, while Damo and Luke have to get some DFDs sorted, I have to design the database(s), state the primary keys, foriegn keys, linked lists, etc. At first I thought "Thats ok, I just need to do the member database and the account database. WRONG! As the whole web system is a large database, I have to design databases for the pages of the web site and also the forum! Jims pretty much dumped me in it, especially considering I ain't the hottest with SQL stuff.

SEPR is going well, we blitzed a draft RSD that Shelly seemed impressed with. I've just finished some DFDs and sent them to the others. Hopefully they will get back to me soon with feedback.

Aside from work things are ok. I'm doing alright on the cash front and will have enough to get drunk over the hols :P

Luke's arranged another New Years Party (fancy dress) the theme is Superheros, made up or existing. Well I'm going as Albert Wesker; not really a hero (more of a villan, but what the hell) so that should be cool.

Our house stinks of mould! Its Ian and Becky's damn damp wetsuits and wakeboarding gear just hanging up (or in most cases scattered around the hall). It's annoying as hell and they don't seem to care. Becky and her fella left a plate of chips rotting on the kitchen table a while ago, so we got that smell to deal with as well! It's not very pleasant right now.

Ah well, thats it for me - Cya around!

Oh balls!..........

2005-11-28T21:28:00.000Z

......was pretty much the reaction I had when I looked at some of the questions in todays ADCAR exam. I mean I reckon I did alright, but all the questions were trick questions trying to catch people out. Kind of harsh, especially since every answer we get wrong, we have marks deducted!

Luke came back from Amersterdam late Sunday night, spent 3 hours sleeping on his mates floor in Winchester, then travelled down to Pompey and went straight to the exam! Fuck knows how he got on!

Bumped into Dan T on the way back (oh hooray ¬_¬) He's still a complete tool, still got his stupid piercing, and shock fucking horror STILL has the same stories! It's like he spent the summer in a cave or something! Anyway, we had a brief chat. Apparently Rachael has broken up with her "new" fella, and went home for the weekend to straighten things out (either that or it was Dan's company).

So I'm back home. Jim is waiting for this new Erricson mobile phone to come flying through the letterbox, meaning that he's skipping his programming lecture. Later on Damo, Shiva, and Femi came round. Damo, Femi and myself made our way to the lecture (more on that later) while Jim and Shiva stayed home to work on data structures.

One thing I have to remember next time I walk to a lecture with Femi is to leave like 45 minutes in advance. He dragged me and Damo all over the place first to get some cash, then to get a veritable picnic from Greggs! We get to the lecture about half way through. Fortunately it's just Robert Topp droning on in his spaced out way. I left my headphones in and just read from the notes. Femi spent 10 minutes eating his stockpile of food, and promptly fell asleep. He woke up at the end of the lecture and actually put his hand up and said "I don't get it!"

Don't get me wrong, Femi is a top bloke - he's hilarious. However he doesn't have any motivation to do work. Apparently his attitude is starting to piss Jim and Shiva off as I think they're all working together for a subject. Ah well, just one of those things.

We hit tescos (thanks to Shiva for the lift, red neons all the way ^_^) to pick up some essentials, namely chicken, bread, and various sauces. Since then I've just been relaxing. Jims got The Excorsism of Emily Rose on the comp so we'll probably watch that later. Jenny is meant to be coming round to make us pancakes, but we'll have to wait and see.

As far as Becky (our fourth housemate) goes, I haven't seen her for like 2 weeks. She just stays in her room with her fella Steph smoking stupid amounts of weed. If someone wants to fuck themselves up, fair enough. The problem is that the whole house stinks of weed; it lingers in your clothes, in your room, everything. Those two have turned into full blown potheads, and I fucking hate potheads.

I don't know what it is about Uni, but everyone seems to have the attitude of "We can smoke weed, coz Daddy's not here" and so just about everyone I meet is a damn pothead. Its their smugness that grinds my gears; like they are somehow better than normal people because they do it. All it does is make you slow and retarded, and you aren't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer if you feel you can talk down to people because you do drugs.

Ah well thats it for me. Lay in tomorrow ^_^

-Cya!

Day of rest.................Yeah right!

2005-11-27T12:26:00.000Z

hey all,

Well saturday was productive. Damo came round so all three of us spent the whole day figuring out this Java coursework. While I'm starting to get it, its still gonna be tough. Fortunately it's just a case of editing code instead of writing your own classes.

Aside from that we ordered Domino's for lunch and had one of Jim's bowel-busting curries for dinner, always good! ^_^
We also watched Serenity. It's a pretty cool film, which seems to mix sci-fi, western, and martial arts into one package. While I wouldn't consider buying it, it's definately worth a look.

Today is sunday, and is basically revision day for me as the ADCAR exam is looming. I'm quietly confident, just need to read up a little more on cache and RISC.

iPod is still cool. I put an episode of Red Dwarf on there a while ago - amazing quality but it chews up the battery @_@

Ah well, thats it for now. The exam is computer based which means the horrid perception system. Depending on how it goes you may see a rant up here in the next day or so! >_<

-Cya!

hey

2005-11-22T19:22:00.000Z

Hi all,

This arrived in my inbox a while ago. While I'm not sure about some aspects of this article (I thought "In God We Trust" was just something Yanks put on their cash), I feel the author hit the nail on the head. Have a read and see what you think:

IMMIGRANTS, NOT BRITON'S, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on London, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Brits. However, the dust from the attacks has barely settled and the politically correct" crowd begin complaining about the possibility that our patriotism is offending others. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Britain. However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand. This idea of London being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Britons, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle. This culture has been developed over centuries of wars, struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom. We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language! "In God We Trust" is our National Motto. This is not some Christian, right wing, political slogan. We adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture. If St. George's cross offends you, or you don't like "A Fair Go", then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet. We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our National Motto, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great British freedom, "THE RIGHT TO LEAVE". If you aren't happy here then fuck off! We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted. Pretty easy really, when you think about it.

work work

2005-11-21T17:29:00.000Z

hi guys,

been a while since I last updated but it's been hectic.

Work is getting more intense as the days go by. I've managed to finish a piece of VB coursework which has to be handed in by friday. I also need to start revising for an ADCAR exam next monday. Seems easy enough but it all depends on if the uni comps keep giving me shit.

Our project is making progress. Aside from our research, Arthur wants to look at our individual reports so far and our group report. After many sleepless nights Jim has finished the group one and mailed it to Arthur. Luke still hasn't started his own report yet, as he was ill over the weekend (knowing him it was weed related)

I'm getting there with MULT - Just need to concentrate on the documentation more, before I get ahead of myself with actually building the CD.

JAVA sucks major - I don't get any of it, and we've been issued coursework to boot. No matter how many times I go over it, it just doesn't sink in. Our lecturer Robert Topp doesn't help. If you imagine Ozzy Ozbourne on medication you get Robert Topp. The guy sounds spaced out all the time and he keeps getting side tracked and asking stupid questions. Just today he asked if anyone was keen on gardening! Whats that got to do with this cursed programming language. I look at Robert Topp and see what my life could end up like if I fuck up.

Even Arthur isn't much help in the tutorials, I dunno, maybe it's just me :-(

In ADCAR we've moved on from Pipelining which was stupidly easy, onto RISC machines. This is simple enough, however our lecturer Anne confuses everyone by using stupid analogies like "The little devils in your camera" or "The orangutan Librarian" etc. I think she's trying to make it more interesting but you just feel like you are back in playschool. Its a bad way of teaching university students in my opinion.

Our "new" washing machine has fucked up again. It's like a water feature at the back of my cupboard. Whenever it's turned on it floods the kitchen! We keep phoning up the maintenence guy who keeps throwing lines like "It's my top priority" and the like. We haven't seen him once and it's getting dire as everyone is running out of clean clothes AGAIN. I'm gonna have to buy emergency socks from Tescos or something at this rate. Apparently all thats required to remedy the situation is a rubber seal. How fucking taxing is it to come over, shove a seal on the pipe, and fuck off. Hell we could do that ourselves, but it seems like we are required to have "the proper maintenence" personnel do the work. Phil best shift his ass.

Trying to sleep at night is starting to remind me of James Watson. This weekend I had little to no sleep as one group of people piled into Jims room, making noise, while at the same time Becky and her fella come home and blast music. I knocked on both doors and asked them both to quiten down, but I was pretty much ignored. So basically I spent 3 hours lying in bed trying to sleep while people jump up and down on my ceiling and MachineHead blasts through my floor. Normally in a situation like this I would unwind. If I was back home I would just hit the local with the lads however I can't go to the pub over here because:

a) Dingle doesn't drink, and is too hyper anyway
b) Jim don't drink much, so he's tired out after like 2 bottles
c) I don't want to sit in a pub on my own like a sad alcoholic
d) The local pub is dingy as hell

So I'm pretty much stuck. If I'm desperate for a drink I end up going to Tescos, buying a couple of bottles, going back home and drinking them in my room. Not the amazing uni life I had in mind.

The plus side of this is I have hardly spent any money. I decided to get an ipod a couple of days ago and I must say it's a snazzy piece of kit. Mine's a 30g black one with video playback. Put a hilarious music video in the style of the A-Team on there. One for Luke to watch.

The folks are online now so we're firing off emails to each other. It's mainly them asking how to do stuff on the net, but hey at least it's not costing anything.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Xmas (also looking forward to decent food, TV, a break from work, opportunities for drunkeness, etc) Hope people are ok

Cya!

Word from Somers Town

2005-10-29T22:30:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Long time without an update I know, but that’s Uni for ya!

The last couple of weeks have been rather hectic as everyone is starting to give out coursework. The way my course is going I only have one or two exams; the rest is all assignments and coursework. Good in the sense that I’d rather take my time over a piece of work than get rushed like in an exam, however it’s bad as it’s taking up all my time. In year 2, we all have a main project to do in groups. My group is going to design and implement a website powered by a database with forum support for the wakeboarding club. Admit it. You’re jealous :-P

It’s going alright. We’ve had a meeting with the supervisor and he said it’s a good idea, we just need to get the documentation for him to sign off on then we can begin for real. Aside from that I have to build an interactive CD ROM for my multimedia project. Truth be told, I’m unsure on what to do it on. Knowing me it will probably be about a game. That’s the main coursework so far. We’re being handed more assignments this week coming. It’s piling up something chronic.

For anyone who’s interested my reborn comp is running well. Jim and I cleaned out a lot of crap so everything is smoother. The new network card and DVD-RW are as good as gold. I’ve ordered a replacement graphics card which should be here any day. Ah well, this is what happens when I don’t spend my loan on drink (the house is just too far away from most places)

With regards to the house, it’s getting a lot better. We’ve got a new washing machine so the place smells like a Chinese laundry most of the time. We got a letter from OPM saying that Jane will be coming round for a house inspection on Tuesday. A spring clean is definitely required, especially the bathroom which is in a state. Ideally we’d get the ladies from How Clean is Your House, but being students….

I finally saw Little Britain Live with Adam, Raymond and Paul (who managed to get lost in Pompey train station) The show was amazing. It was so funny and it was so well done. We had a perfect view of the stage and as we were in the top area, we avoided the audience participation (although even if one of us did get picked, I doubt we would have been able to make it down to the stage. The seats in the guildhall are cramped as hell, I swear I was one step away from DVT)

That’s pretty much it. Not very exciting I know. If the locals have a rumble at the playground I’ll do an after-action report, but if not I’ll blog whenever I get the chance.

Cya!

Back again

2005-10-24T08:54:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

No updates because I've been upto my arse in uni work. I got a few ideas for my Multimedia coursework and our team meetings for the main project are set up. Our forth team member Luke is still a ghost and hasn't responded. I'm kinda surprised Arthur dumped him in our group in the first place.

My weekend was a strange mix of tedium and relaxation. Jim and I wiped my computer and started again. Took the whole weekend to install all the programs and backups on (including going to bed at 7:30am) As a result there wasn't a lot for us to do except hang out in the kitchen with Becky and Ian and watch films. No work done, but oh well at least my comp is running smoothly.

I'm off to see Little Britain Live tomorrow! Meeting Adam and Raymond at the Guildhall. Should be hilarious ^_^

Thats it for me, got to go and get ready for my ADCAR lecture. Hope everyones ok.

-Cya

howdy

2005-10-15T02:50:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

Well lectures have been going on for a week now. They're mostly induction style and recapping from last year. My tutors seem ok (however Alex Bennet can put people in comas if you let her waffle) Most of the subjects are interesting so I should enjoy this year.

Jim and I have a productive weekend ahead of us. We need to buy some tools and various items to put the bathroom door back together. It's pretty much completely splintered so the plan is to simply nail it back together again. May not work, but it's just gonna get worse if we leave it any longer.

Thursday night we all attempted to make Sweet and Sour chicken with rice. Dingle managed to set the sauce on fire, reducing it to a black, carsonagenic mess. This set off the fire alarm which Becky had to turn off by using a chair as a springboard so she could reach it. After replacing the sauce, Dingle suggested we have egg fried rice with it so he scrambles some eggs, but I don't think he cooked them properly. All in all it wasn't the best meal I've had here, but being a hungry student beggars can't be choosers.

Tonight Jim and I cooked a nice Thai Green Curry. We had planned on chicken kiev and chips as Dingle was out wakeboarding and Becky was out somewhere doing what Freshers do. However we just realised we don't have a baking tray - something else to add to the list.

That greasemonkey Phil still hasn't come round to look at the washing machine. Everyone in the house is up to their arses in dirty clothes. We may need to go to a laundrette, but finding one in Somers Town that hasn't been vandalised in some way is quite a task.

Speaking of Somers Town, Becky and a load of other Freshers got a quick talk about where and where not to go:

TUTOR: "Ok, just a word of warning. Everyone must stay away from Somers Town, it's a rough area and is very anti-student."
BECKY: "But I live there"
* Collective gasps *
TUTOR: "Ok, everyone except Becky stay away from Somers Town."

In all fairness I haven't been involved in any incidents with the locals, however I've witnessed a few:

Witnessed a fight break out in the queue for a visiting Ice Cream Van
Witnessed a child wandering in the road, while the parents are sat on the pavement drinking
Witnessed a drug dealer selling his wares on my corner

Those are the main ones. Apart from that it's just a lot of random shouting and teen mothers. It seems that every chav in Pompey call each other Moosh i.e. "Oi Moosh!" What on earth does that mean? Answers on a postcard please.

Anyway I'm out of tea so I'm running out of motivation. Hope everyones ok.

Cya later!

So it begins

2005-10-10T22:33:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

Well the wakeboarding pub crawl turned out to be pretty cool - the "shot and a pint" rule was harsh at first, but I soon found my groove ^_^
Dingle's mates were funny. They enjoyed catching the freshers out on various drinking rules. The only problem came at the end. Jim and I came back home (subway in hand) to find that Dingle and a few other people were milling about the house and generally turning the place into a tip. However the most annoying thing came when some random guy locked himself in our bathroom, threw up IN THE FUCKING BATH and poured hot chocolate all over the sink! What the fuck! In the end Jim and I had to kick the door in and hook him out.

The next day we surveyed the damage, cleaned the chunks out of the bath, cleaned the sink, and Becky and I attempted repairs on the door handle - the wood around the screws got fucked and so it's pretty dodgy. I think we sorted it now, but its still loose.
Also I went to wash my clothes in our washing machine. After jimmying the door open and closed with a fork I was all set to go. I pressed the button and nothing. So now the washing machine don't work either!

There wasn't much to the weekend to be honest. Just hanging out and playing burnout and watching many bootleg films and episodes of Lost.

Today was my first day of lessons and it's amazing what you forget over the summer, namely EVERYTHING. Fortunately the tutor was pretty patient with us and our absent minded binary ways.

Anyway I better be off, we're fixing up Dingle's machine so it should stop fucking up the network.

Later!

Life After Halls

2005-10-06T14:41:00.000+01:00

Hey Guys,

First off thanks to Adam, Luke, and Raymond for the trip to the local on Friday night, it’s crazy what they’ve done to the place ain’t it!

Well I’ve been at university for about a week now and it’s pretty much what I expected. The weekend was mainly just settling in, unpacking, and getting to know Dingle and Becky better. The House is pretty cool. Only one bathroom can be inconvenient at times (and freaky if Dingles got his wetsuit hung up in the middle of the room, gave me quite a scare at 1am) My room is ok, there’s more space than my room at home, but the door doesn’t fully close and I got a street lamp opposite my window so it’s never pitch black at night. Looking at the area we live in, it seems pretty rough – there are so many teen mothers and dodgy characters round here. My favourite so far is a family that just have RnB music blaring out from their flat constantly, leaving their 5 year old daughter wondering around. I tell you, some people shouldn’t be allowed to breed. Also I overlook a street called “Pan Road” how much of a bad omen do you need! (Referring to a certain estate on the Island)

Anyway on Monday Dingle, Jim, and myself were invited to a party in James Watson by Becky and her fellow freshers. They still haven’t finished construction of that study area so it’s nice to know that the new students are suffering like I did last year. The party couldn’t really be called a party. There was no alcohol (I think Sam, Becky’s friend drunk it all as she seemed to be unusually happy while everyone else was dead pan), the music was from tinny laptop speakers which seemed to be playing Avril Lavigne all the time, and it was full of people just talking really loud. Feeling our age, the three of us went down to the White Swan, shortly followed by Becky. We had a round of drinks on which I found the only pint of 3% Stella. Jim also suffered as he ordered a pint of watered down Carling! How could you water down Carling? It’s basically water as it is! So our grand return to the humming social life of Pompey was a spectacular failure. We were out for around an hour before we all decided to just go back home.

Tuesday wasn’t bad, Damo came round and we hung out for a while playing Burnout on the PS2. We then went to enrol, which took about an hour less than the first time. The every friendly people in purple T-Shirts threw a form at us and told us to give it to some girl, who in turn gave out our shiny new campus cards. Later on Jim decided to make it his mission to clear out the clutter from my comp and make it run a little better. The PC runs better I can’t deny that, but it took ages! I even had to leave it defragging over night so I had the street lamp AND the constant whirring of my hard drive to contend with.

Not much happened on Wednesday. The switch came so Jim and I hooked up Dingle and Becky to the network so we all have the internet now! Becky had to enrol for the first time, which took her a stupid amount of time as her payment info hadn’t gotten through so she had to work some magic with direct debit forms. Jim tried his hand at cooking a curry for Becky and I (Dingle seemed content with Shreddies). It was cack-handed at best, but the end result was pretty good. It tasted nice, but had a mean kick to it. We were all feeling the effects for a while after eating. Becky then left to meet Sam and her mates and it was pretty quite for the rest of the evening. At about 1am there was a series of crashes, followed by people talking and then someone running up the stairs and into the bathroom.

Becky’s back…

Jim and I went out to investigate. Turns out Becky got completely trashed and had to be carried out of Wetherspoons, where she promptly threw up on the steps. Sam then phoned Dingle, waking him up informing him of his sisters state and telling him to get down here and escort her back home. Dingle reached Wetherspoons as everyone was getting in a taxi. Turns out all they really wanted was our address. Dingle was pissed to say the least and returned home. So now we had Becky upstairs puking her guts out in the bathroom, we had Dingle in a mood, and we had Sam and her retarded boyfriend Lukus negotiating fare with the taxi driver. We kicked Sam and Lukus out and soon everyone was in their beds.

Today is Thursday and Jim and I had an induction lecture at 10am. I had a brief chat with Becky who didn’t remember anything of last night (probably for the best) and got ready.

The lecture wasn’t as boring as we thought it would be. Thankfully Arthur didn’t rabbit on about plagiarism too much. We also got into our project groups. Our fourth member is a guy named Luke. Seems a cool guy so the project should go to plan. We’re thinking of doing a website with membership database and the usual bells and whistles for Dingle and his Wakeboarding Society. Should be easy enough :P

Well that’s about it. I tried to get an NUS card but couldn’t fight through the sheer waves of freshers asking for directions so I met up with Jim in town and got some food for tonight’s meal.

Hope everyone’s having fun wherever they are.

Later!

hey hey

2005-09-29T01:43:00.000+01:00

First off, sorry for the lack of updates, I've just been caught up in a few things.

Secondly, this will be my last post at home. I got 2 days to go, then I go back to pompey to start my second year of uni. Fortunately it will be a lot better than last year for a number of reasons (better housemates, clean water, no nightclub drum beat keeping me up half the night, no Dan T talking about Bon Jovi, etc).

I've had a great time over the summer. It's good catching up with all my friends and seeing how their uni life has fared.

It's also nice seeing what the folks have been upto. They have bought a camper van as part of their grand retirement scheme. Admittedly it's not bad, and I'm even a little jealous as I've been sending pics to whoever can be bothered to look at them. Expect a few shots to be on this site sooner of later.

Which reminds me, it's gonna be a while getting the net at my new home. We're going with NTL but I have no idea when they are gonna activate it. I've been promised by the end of October but you never know with ISPs.

On friday I'm going to the local with Adam and Luke as a send off. I haven't been to the local in a while so I'm looking forward to it. Depending how the night goes I may be travelling to pompey hungover ^_^

Thats it for now, next time I update will be from pompey. I can't guarantee but if something major happens I'll probably update using the "ever so trusty" uni computers.

Until then. Take care everyone, hope you all enjoy your time away and keep in touch.

Later!

Update, woo!

2005-09-01T13:55:00.000+01:00

hey guys,

It's been a while since my last update, so I'm making this one to save face ;-)

First off, Happy Birthday to Luke, Adam, Jack and Sarah! Look forward to celebrating on friday!

It's been a mostly lazy week apart from a few moments of drama. First moment was when my car lost a fight with an iron bollard in Ryde High Street. It's in the shop now so it should be back on the road soon.
Second moment was when the kitchen flooded. Apparently the dishwasher shorted out and pumped water onto the kitchen floor. After much wading and shouting the folks and I manage to sort the worst of the damage out. Dad tried turning the dishwasher back on and it cut the power to my room! Comet required!

Thats about it. Best wishes go out to Chany who starts her basic training today. Have fun out there ^_^

Cya!

The House call

2005-08-20T21:51:00.000+01:00

hey all,

Going down Kings for drinks last night was cool, although only three people made it into bogeys and two of them were drivers! I dunno, I can't go to Bogeys unless I'm hammered. It's that kind of place.

Anyway this morning me and the folks went over to pompey to get the keys and a general snoop around. We booked the hovercraft because of the recent drama with the fast cats. (however I think everythings back to normal with them now) Unfortunately this made for a very annoying journey as we were sharing the craft with a whole platoon of foreign students and they were actually singing in their native tongue all the way over!

But we get to pompey and take a cab to the house. We have a 20 minute wait so we walk around the area, reading the chinese takeaways window menu, sitting on the walls and making social commentry. Mum is still convinced prostitutes work in the area and I don't blame her for thinking that. I've seen enough old women walk up and down the street wearing little to nothing to last me a lifetime.

Anyway soon the landlady Jane arrives and lets us in. She gives us a quick tour, gives me the keys and takes off, leaving us to snoop around. The hall, stairs and kitchen were all spick and span and the rooms were all spotless (except for Dingles which seems just like he left it - Even had the half empty bottle of tomato sauce on the desk). We checked out Jasons room, which is the room we will be trying to fill. While it's a large room it absolutely stinks of smoke! It was so bad it almost made my eyes water! Oddly enough the room had a bike in it which may or may not come with the room (but hey worth mentioning as another selling point :P)

Overall the folks thought the house was cool, however Dads bringing some bits and bobs to bring some things up to scratch (like the handle on my door, some bulbs, and some more screws for the railing on the kitchen stairs)
We then left the house and had another wait while the taxi we phoned for arrived. We got to the hovercraft terminal and the queue was so large it was spilling into the streets. We managed to get on the returning craft with little to no waiting and by 1pm we were all back home.

Aside from that my day hasn't been great - I got some horrific stomach ache that I am currently trying to kill with painkillers and tea. I can't even lay down as it causes me to wince in agony :(

On the plus side it gave me a chance to watch a cool film called Stander - It's about a South African cop who starts robbing banks in his lunch break and then returning to actually investigate the robbery. Good film I highly recommend it.

Thats about it for me, hope everyones ok and enjoying their hols.

Later!

Yo

2005-08-16T01:28:00.000+01:00

hey guys,

I'm still bored and unemployed. We got 2 families of visitors staying in the flat above and they are noisy, obnoxious, patronising, u know - the typical mainlander :P

I've already had an altercation with the two teen girls staying upstairs. Im in my room and all of a sudden this cloud of smoke comes through the window. I look outside and they are in the back yard smoking under my window! I ask them to move and I get a middle finger for my trouble. So we ended up yelling at each other until their Dad came and removed them. Fucking slags, I don't understand why every tourist that comes down here is a stain on humanity. Speaking of mainlanders, theres this guy that works with Dad and he's from Manchester (first sign of trouble) and he has the audacity to say that islanders have accents like pirates! Like fucking pirates?! And thats coming from Manchester the biggest shithole in the country!

Anyway, aside from that not much has been up. Im going to pompey this weekend to pick up the front door key to the house. Apparently its in a state coz Browning and his mate Chaps (is that seriously his real name?!) decided to have a little holiday there and generally caused a mess and didn't bother cleaning it up. This landlady Jane keeps warning me it's messy but does nothing to clean it up. Is she just gonna leave it until I move in at the start of October? does she expect the others to come all the way down to pompey just to clean the fucking house? Ah well, I just want to get the key and have a snoop around to survey the damage.

Also i'll be making more trips to pompey for these find a home weekends where students that didn't get a place in halls search for a home. We still have 2 rooms free and we need at least 1 more housemate. Jims coming down to assist in the recruitment drive so it should be ok. The only annoying thing is that the weekends are held in Langstone campus which is on the other side of the city. Gonna be lots of bus trips needed i guess.

thats about it for now, i'll blog sometime later - maybe to bitch about the state of the house :P

Later!

wow an update!

2005-08-06T21:05:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

sorry for the lack of updates, but i've been pretty occupied this summer. Job hunting sucks so I have damn near given up. I fill out application after application and get rejected all the time. Getting rejected from Somerfield was the last straw. Fuck it I'm just gonna sit back for the rest of the holiday.

A while ago I watched Fantastic 4 with the lads and to be fair it was an ok film, but it wasn't anything special. Unfortunately we seemed to be the only members of the audience over 8 years old... We HAVE to stop going to early showings. The film itself...... well I thought Dr Doom was the coolest character as Im not really a fan of the good guys =/

Yesterday was Cowes Week. For those of you that don't know Cowes week is a big sailing event where people with boats get together in the town of Cowes and party. For those without boats its an excuse to get drunk in the street :P
I went to pauls house at about 1pm and started off drinking the second batch of his and Adam's home brew. I have to say it was quite foul - as black as coke and malty as hell. Then he came back to mine and we headed for Cowes. We were to meet everyone in the Waterside pub at around 4pm. We get there at 4:30 and to our surprise we're still the first people there. It's like we can't be fashionably late no matter what we do!
We managed to get one drink in before being kicked out and told to come back in a couple of hours so that the staff can prepare themselves for the onslaught of drunks that will descend. Paul phones around and we arrange to meet on the sea front. Fortunately we found a beer tent and kept the drink going. Soon Luke showed up and we got a couple more pints. Later on Adam Roh and Sarah arrive and we mill around the seafront.
After having half a pizza I notice that it's 6pm - the Union Inn is open again! So we run to beat the rush and manage to get another couple of pints in. After a while in there we move on to the Waterside - we have a few cocktail pitchers and Roh snapped some pics (you can see them on his space^_^) Then we made our way down near the beach to watch the fireworks. They were pretty cool, but I spent most of the time in a queue for a hot dog.
After the fireworks it's time to go and I catch a lift with Adam in the beamer and we finish the night off with a trip to KFC :P

Overall it was a good night and I had alot of fun. Today I feel surprisingly good considering I had been drinking for 11 hours. Roh came to visit and brought me some Chinese beer. Admittedly they aren't that special (only 4.3%) but the fact that I cant read anything on the cans is novelty enough n_n

I've been keeping up with my uni friends which is good. I'm always interested in what they've been upto and the good thing about doing a computing course is that they're gonna be online at some point ;-)

Thats it for me, hope those i was with last night aren't feeling too rough and I hope everyone enjoys the summer.

Bye!

Recovery

2005-07-25T01:03:00.000+01:00

hi all,

Well my backs all better now. Unfortunately it was all too late as I missed Ferns birthday party :-(
Apparently they had a good time, Paul tells me he got completely wrecked (what else is new) and Ferns uni mates were cool.

Roh's passed his driving which is great news. Another designated driver to join the ranks ;-) He's gone to China with his family now. He says he'll bring me back some Chinese beer so I'm happy.

Aside from that not much has happened. I watched Constantine the other day. Cool film and I recommend it to anyone that hasn't seen it yet.

Bit of a boring post I know, but hey theres not much to do when you've been laid on ur back staring at the ceiling for a week!

Later!

Aches and Pains

2005-07-21T01:21:00.000+01:00

hey all,

For those of you who don't know, I pulled some muscles in my back a couple of days ago and have spent most of the last two days laying on my back and finding ways of controlling the pain. However today I felt a little better (at least I could stand up) and so I decided to go for a walk. I figure if I can't get employed this summer I might as well try and get fit.

So I walked the length of the revetment to Shanklin Sea Front and back. I can honestly say it was one of the most painful things ever! I suppose at least the pain has spread evenly to the whole of my body rather than linger at my back. I reckon tomorrow's walk will go better (or at least drier - damn high tide ¬_¬)

Aside from that nothing noteworthy has occured. I think it's Ferns birthday party this weekend so thats something to look forward to. Hope I shake this back problem by then.

Apparently some kid won a court case against the police due to some antisocial behaviour thing. Thats all we need, now we're gonna have chavs screaming "sue" whenever the police try to break up their little street corner gangs.

Anyway im off - sitting in my comp chair is killing me. Cya later!

hey

2005-07-17T00:33:00.000+01:00

hi guys,

just a couple of things. The Steamer was cool - big thanks go to Fern for buying me a couple of drinks and big thanks to Adam for giving me a ride home and saving me walking all the way back home.

Also my good friend Chany has decided to start a MSN MySpace. I advise you all to keep track of this one as she's full of great insight. Links on the right! ^_^

Thats it for me. Next time you hear from me I will be in a better state of mind ;-)

Later all!

well well

2005-07-14T16:57:00.000+01:00

hey all,

Been a pretty easy going week really. I got a letter from my tutor congratulating me on my results so I'm happy.

I went to see War of the Worlds with Paul, Adam, Ben, and Roh. At first I didn't think much of it, but it turned out to be pretty good. It was faithful to the book despite being set in modern USA. I can understand the change though, I doubt people would be interested in tripods stomping around Victorian England. I'm just glad they stuck to the original ending and not the "USA develops superweapon and whoops aliens" ending that seem to crop up everywhere ^_^

This makes 3 good cinema trips in a row. I'm pleasently surprised at the quality of films currently being released. I'm still waiting for Land of the Dead to hit Newport so I can see how Romero ends his saga.

Roh has now made a MSN MySpace account and it's looking good so far. He's put up a load of pics with it so you never know, if you're lucky you may see some pics of yours truly up there :-P Theres a link to his space on the right with the others.

Job hunting has gone way downhill. This agency business is bollocks. It seems that if I refuse to pick tomatoes for most of the day then I am unemployable. Ah well, just a case of tightening the belt (so to speak) and going out less :-(

Adding to my problems are OPM, the people behind my future house after the summer, have informed me that I have to pay another months rent. This means I have paid £880 this summer for the house. I haven't even stayed in there one night. Contract starts in August so I may take a trip up there, get used to the place.

August also holds the Find a Home day for students that didn't apply in time for uni accomadation. We're hoping to pick a housemate up there, even if we have to snatch someone out of a crowd. I don't know if we need to put any more posters up, but if we do I'm gonna get the lads to change the wording on them. The phrase "3 Comely Males" make us sound like homo's.

Well thats about it for me. I'll update when something exciting or fun happens :P

Later!

...

2005-07-07T13:54:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

We all knew something like this would happen sooner or later, but that didn't make it any less shocking and terrifying. The bombings in London were carried out by sick cowards, using religion as an excuse to slaughter innocent people. People that are suffering right now just for living in this country and going about their daily business. This kind of terrorism cannot be reasoned with, cannot be negotiated with. They do not deserve any human rights as they are not human, they are monsters and must be exterminated without mercy. It is clear now we are in this war until the end, but I know in my heart that we will defeat these savages.

My heart goes out to the victims of this attack and their relatives, while my admiration goes to the emergency services that are working so dilligently to help those still in danger.

Bye.

summer so far

2005-07-02T20:34:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Well so far the hols have been cool. I've been catching up with friends and generally being a lazy sod ^_^

As far as employment goes I've had 2 offers for jobs so far. I've rejected both. The first one was Wight Salads - picking and packing tomatoes all day don't sound too great to me. The other one was attending the lift at Shanklin Sea front which featured stupid hours (10 hours a day, going up and down the lift, looking out for people that may freak out halfway up is not a great job)

Met up with some friends last night in Ryde. Joe Daflos was full so we had to go to Wetherspoons instead - not that I'm complaining, gave me a chance to catch up with some ales :P
They ran out of Spitfire so they gave me an ale called Dragon Slayer. While it tasted nice, it seemed a little embarrasing asking for it, like going up and asking for a pint of Batman Beer or something. Anyway everyone had a good time and it was nice to see everyone together again.

Lukes having a little trouble with the band - seems that the keyboard player's wife has left him for the guitarist, who has decided to put her in the band as a singer! seems kind of "Jerry Springer" to me, but I guess thats the life of a rock and roller, even an OAP rock and roller ;-)

Today was a first for me. I cooked dinner for the folks. Before everyone yells "Microwave!" it was a proper dinner with meat, veg, gravy, etc. It turned out nice and it was good practice for next year. I'm not gonna have the money to go to subway every time my stomach rumbles ^_^

Tried getting a haircut today, but the place was packed - people were almost queued outside the door. They told me not to bother coming back today so I'll probably have to go back there monday. It's getting kinda desperate now, soon the hair will control me!! *Scary noises*

Aside from that Hannah's created a MySpace account, which is like a blog and other things rolled into one - check it out when you have the time. She's just starting but there will be some good ramblings in there in the future :P

Well thats it for me. I'll blog later when there's stuff to talk about.

Bye!

RESULTS!

2005-06-21T23:10:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

I got all my preliminary results from the uni. Good news all round ^_^

WAIIF - 82% (once again Fuck You Nipan)
OOSAD - 65% (Phew, scraping through on that is fine for me!)
VBPRO - 86% (holy shit, I thought I'd fuck this up!)
PROFUB - 87% (hell yeah - java's simple enough \m/)
SYAR2 - 82% (props to Paul G once again ^_^)

well there you have it! I'm very happy with the results and after all the shit i've been through this year I think you can agree that I deserve these marks n_n

Summer is still cool - Pauls back so I have a drinking buddy again! Watched Team America at Adams house a while ago -very funny film which reinforces the fact that nobody really likes Alec Baldwin :-P

Gotta take my uncle to St Mary's Hospital again 2morro. I dont know whats wrong with him and the parents are keeping me in the dark. I'm worried for him, and I will be eternally pissed off if he survived alcoholism and god knows what else only to be screwed after he gets a clean bill of health from his GP.

As far as I'm concerned I'm fine. Pauls bootleg xbox is still cool - maybe we'll finish Timesplitters Future Perfect next time I visit. Lukes doing well and his girlfriend Lisa is very nice, although I wouldn't want to take her to any horror films at the cinema ;-) Adams worried about his results but he shouldn't be - hell the guys doing pharmacy! If that ain't smart I don't know what is! Bens the enigma as always - I get the typical "alright" from him, but it's cool to have him around none the less.

Congrats to Hannah on finding a course for dressmaking - I'm sure Chany would buy from you if you made punk clothing :-P

Well thats it for me. I'll blog again when I have stuff to talk about.

Cya later!

PS Roh: That was an awesome playlist! I'm still amazed you got to see them!

first week back

2005-06-10T15:59:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

Well I've been back a week now and I'm enjoying the freedom from responsibilities ^_^

It's been a little slow though. Luke's working and nobody else is back yet. Hope to do something this weekend. Sin City looks pretty cool.

Parents are doing well, still fishing as always. I've been hit with occasions this summer as it's Fathers Day soon, then my parents wedding anniversary, and then it's Dads birthday! Better start saving!

Well thats it about now. Just thought I'd keep up with posts. I'm sorting out the payments for the house at the mo. Hope to get them sent off in the next couple of weeks.

Oh yeah and Roh - I'm incredibly jealous. Tell me how the Weezer gig went :-P

Bye!

And our survey says............

2005-06-05T02:19:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

pinched this from Chany. Figured it was a good idea to shove any surveys I got here instead of emailing them to everyone - the last one i had about 10 copies. So here we go:

A. Three things about myself that you might not know:

1. According to the folks, I've cracked my skull 3 times
2. When I was a kid, my eyes swelled shut at the mere smell of cut grass - kind of explains the bags under my eyes
3. I am actually allergic to alcohol (believe it or not)

B. Three physical things I like about myself:

1. my shoulders
2. my arms
3. my head of hair ^_^

C. Three physical things I hate [or don't like very much] about myself:

1. Beer belly (own fault but hey)
2. Rapidly growing sideburns
3. Eyesight (although it's not so bad now i have the stylish frames)

D. Three parts of my heritage:
1. English
2. English
3. English - according to the family tree

E. Three things that scare me:

1. Exams of any kind
2. having driving licence revoked
3. Arnie's acting in Collateral Damage

F. Three of my everyday essentials:

1. Comp
2. Cash
3. Specs

G. Three things I am wearing right now:

1. Grey track suit bottoms
2. Black boxers
3. Specs

H. Three musical artists, bands, or types:

1. Weezer
2. Fear Factory
3. Beastie Boys

I. Three things I want in a relationship:

1. Fun
2. Nights out
3. Nights in ;-)

J. Two Truths and One Lie (guess which is the lie):

1. I get patriotic around D-Day
2. i love the French with all my heart
3. Most of my cousins are marrying asian women

K. Three physical things about the opposite sex that appeal to me:

1. Hair + Figure
2. Eyes + Smile
3. Voice

L. Three favorite hobbies:

1. comp
2. friends
3. films

M. Three things I want badly right now:

1. Money
2. a 4th housemate
3. another beer

N. Three careers I am considering:

1. Computer tech
2. Programmer
3. Writer

O. Three places I want to go on vacation [and that I've never been before]:

1. USA
2. Japan
3. China

P. Three kids names I really like:

Claire
John
Lisa

Q. Three things I would like to do before I die:

1. Get married
2. Have kids
3. Teach kids about warcraft (it's bound to happen)

R. Three people I would send this survey to, if I thought they would do it. [So if you want to or feel like it, please do. Just copy and paste it]:

1. Roh
2. Luke
3. Ads

Well thats that. Still great to be back home - probably hit the local on monday!

Later!

I'm Back!!!

2005-06-04T09:47:00.000+01:00

Yeahhhhh!

I'm back on the Isle of Wight! No more drunks, no more dickheads, no more uni, and no more 80's rock!

I've just set up broadband over here and it works a treat. Last night Adam, Ben, and myself went to see the new Star Wars film. While I was impressed by the film (alot darker and more adult orientated) I was even more impressed by Adams new wheels. That Beamer is simply amazing and I hope to get some pics of it up here soon to make you all jealous n_n

As far as my last exam went. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. the questions on the first section were straight forward and short answers. The second section made me think a bit more but I'm sure I did enough to pass. The only thing that annoyed me was I finished just after 3pm meaning I had to stay in the exam hall watching the clock for about 30 minutes.

Packing all my stuff into the car proved to be a challenge. I had to throw out my clothes horse (£8 Mum, get over it) and I had to ride with the TV on my lap. But the pain of a Matsui 14" TV jutting into my groin whenever Dad went over a bump in the road was worth it in the end. When we got home I unpacked and the parents ordered a Chinese meal for me!

Now I can enjoy myself with no worries whatsoever. I'll blog again later on.

Bye! ^_^

One more to go (the last 'Ugh' Post I promise)

2005-06-02T16:17:00.000+01:00

Well we had SYAR2 exam this morning at 10am. What a fucking travesty!

Everyone sits down and logs into the system (all the usual shit) we click to start the exam and this screen comes up saying:

"Congratulations you have answered all the questions!"

o_0

Uhhh, No infact nobody has even started it! This happens to numerous people lots of times, only to be given the answer to restart the computer "that should get it going"

Now I don't have any particular problem with the Chinese as a race, but seriously people. If you are going to put OTHER STUDENTS in charge of monitoring exams, at least pick fucking English people! We got two Chinese girls that COULD NOT SPEAK THE LANGUAGE AT ALL!!!

They were like Tan's stepdaughters or something. One word answers or at most one sentence answers. They had to options for speech:

1) "Please look at own screen!"

2) "Restaaaat computaah!"

I must have restarted my fucking machine 10 times and no difference what so ever. Chinese girl comes over:

ME: "Look I've restarted it 10 times and nothing, what is going on?"

CHINESE GIRL: "................................................... Restaaaat Computaah! ^_^"

ME: "10 times! 10 times and it doesn't make any difference!"

Eventually some tutor comes in. I don't know her name so I'm calling her Pat Butcher as she looks exactly the the character. Pat skulks around the place, ignoring the Chinese girls. She takes a quick look around and then states that a technician is coming to fix all the problems.

Soon the technician comes and after lots of talking bollocks I finally get access to the exam 30 MINUTES LATE!

However Fate, bored after seeing me suffer so much, decided to cut me some slack.

Paul, in what can either be described as an act of insanity, or a bid to get fired, sent us some example questions the night before the exam. When the exam loaded up I noticed that the questions were EXACTLY the same as the ones on the revision sheet. So let me break it down for you:

ALLOTED EXAM TIME: 45 minutes
TIME TO LOG IN: 30 minutes
TIME TO COMPLETE EXAM: 5 minutes

So hey that was today. Tomorrow morning I'm signing the contract for our house and then doing my final exam. Visual Basic (which ain't basic ). This will be the last post I make from University as I'm packing up my comp tonight. For this reason I have decided to get my "Fuck You's" out the way:

FUCK YOU to Dan T, you no nothing moron. You have created a deep hate within me for Bryan Adams, Guns and Roses, Bon Jovi, and any other poxy rock band from that era. May your summer be filled with tragedy.
FUCK YOU to Remy, you stoner French dickhead. You have turned me completely against the French. I will never live with a French person, eat any more French food, or brake when I see a French person crossing the street. Go back to where you came from and take that French music with you. I never want to hear it again. I hope your ferry sinks in the channel.
FUCK YOU to James Watson Halls. This place is constructed out of cardboard and spittle. It has caused me untold misery due to the fact that I can hear everything that goes on in the fucking building and outside the fucking building. Here's a tip: when the outer wall is thinner than the walls between rooms, YOU FUCKED UP!
FUCK YOU to Nipan. You taught me nothing, you didn't follow to the lesson plan, you talk bollocks, and whats worse you talk bollocks too fast. You care more about late students than teaching the ones that actually showed up. Your jokes aren't funny and they have no place in your random lectures. You even extended the deadline when a few people could not be bothered to look up the fucking coursework deadline, and you walked out during our presentation to take a phone call. Fuck you and your streaming media.
FUCK YOU to the locals of Portsmouth. You are all a bunch of alcoholic fuckwits. If thats not bad enough you are noisy fuckwits. I hear you yell complete bollocks to each other all fucking night and I hate it.

Thats about it. Lesser FUCK YOU's go out to Kate, Joe, Rachael, Arthur, and just about anyone else that's bumped into me in the streets or has asked me for change.

Oh yeah and props to Paul for sending us the answers to the exam :-P

Next time you'll hear from me I will be on the rocking Isle of Wight, which is inhabited by normal people.

Bye!

hey hey

2005-05-28T18:20:00.000+01:00

Yesterday was cool. Played pool with Jim (beat him 3-2 n_n) and became a member. It was a quid for five years so it's all good. Also drank alot of John Smiths which was very refreshing during the day when the Sun is blazing down.

After that me and the flatmates went to Louise's place for a few drinks and then onto the Union to meet up with Phil and Andy - queues were ridiculous both for entry and for drinks, but I had a good time.

Today was basically recovery day and for the most part it's been pretty boring. That is until just now where I witnessed a brawl outside Yates. A group of white guys and a group of black guys beating the shit out of each other with chairs! Police soon came and sorted it out, but it definately entertained me for a while :P

Ichi the Killer is pretty extreme. Lots of torture and other forms of unpleasantness. I'll have to show u guys when I get home. Speaking of home the parents are coming to pick me up at 3:30 after my final exam this friday coming. So I'll be back by the evening and may be able to hit the local with Luke and Ads ^_^

Thats it for me, I'll see you all soon!

Halfway there

2005-05-26T21:10:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

I was in my room late this morning when Dan knocks on the door. The police are in our flat and they want everyone in the kitchen.

I enter the kitchen and theres 2 burly bald guys standing there. Apparently someone has been using a small radio to jam the communications gear the bouncers up and down the guildhall walk use. While it sounds trivial, with the amount of violence along the Walk, I can understand if they're pissed off.

So we get a little speach, then the cops take down all our names and details and give us a caution. They said they traced it to our flat. When I ask how I get this in reply:

"One of the bouncers pointed up at our window"

o_0

What the hell? Great police work!

Thing is nobody in the flat has a damn radio! Not even Remy! I reckon it's got to be the people above us or the people below us.

So anyway the cops leave and we get 5 minutes of quiet. All of a sudden theres a knock at the door. We open it and theres a woman from the Halls Authority. She goes into our kitchen and gives us a warning about chucking waterbombs out the window. She says that if anyone gets caught then we will be kicked off our course! What the fuck?? Check next door you stupid bitch, they almost got Matt with one of their bombs yesterday!

Aside from that I had my OOSAD exam today. Went better than expected considering it was written. I knocked out the questions in 20 minutes and then had some food at the nearby cafe. I also bought a DVD today - a japanese film called Ichi the Killer - it's meant to be pretty horrific so I'll have to check it out :-P

AOL package arrived at my house today - Dads gone into full panic mode, despite it being exactly the same setup as the BT one I had a while ago. We just need to install the modem, then the software and we are away. Dad thinks they're gonna be digging the road up or something!

Well thats it for this week. Going to play pool 2morro as I don't have another exam until next thursday. Give me a chance to catch up with Mr. John Smiths n_n

Later all!

Vids

2005-05-25T17:41:00.000+01:00

Thought I'd throw up some links to some amusing vids:

eSure: The Hardcore Remix!

Cillit Bang: The Hardcore Cleaning product!

Trans Am racing a Nitros Goped!

Enjoy! n_n

Slightly new look n_n

2005-05-24T21:36:00.000+01:00

hey guys,

got bored while revising so I fiddled with the colours a bit. What do you think?

Anyway not much happened today - In an act of cruelty the microwave crapped out on me this morning. Some fat guy called 'Les' took it away and said he'd fix it. Haven't heard from him since. If it's gone for much longer I might have to cook something! @_@

Aside from that nothing has happened. I can hear House of Pain's "Jump Around" blaring out the kitchen along with that drivel the French call a language. Can't wait to get out of here. Back home to the Island, where people are so much more 'normal'.

Tomorrow will most likely involve:

Get Milk (haven't had tea for ages)
Wash up (yay)
Revise more OOSAD

Exciting ain't it? Admit it, you're jealous ^-^

Cya later! Good luck to everyone who has exams!

1 Down, 3 to Go

2005-05-24T01:40:00.000+01:00

hey all,

Well i had my first exam today; WAIIF. Seemed pretty easy as all the questions were either one word answers or multiple choice. I did it in 15 minutes despite wrestling with a dodgy computer. We all met up in the cafe after the exam and I decided to try a different brew; I found 2 that I'd never seen before:

Crop Circle - 4.2% - described as a "golden bitter". It's quite nice if you're looking for something different.

Summer Lightning - 5% - from the same brewer as above. Tastes about the same, but slightly stronger flavour.

Hehe, I could start a seperate blog about ales, but that may be going overboard :P

Aside from that not much has happened. Adams got his car and he sent me a pic. Very sweet indeed. Luke's got another girlfriend. She called him because she dialed the wrong number and now they're going out. I don't know how he does it! She dialed the wrong number and he still picks her up! Paul's bootleg Xbox is chugging away. By the sounds of it, Paul has filled up the other hard drive he had installed so he's gonna have to get another.

New Foamy episode is out, everyone should get Ill Will Press on their browsers and check out the toons. Funny stuff.

Construction workers are still here, drilling away at all hours. And get this, they're making a quiet study area! The irony of them disturbing our studying so that they can build a study area is not lost on me!

Remys still a dickhead, Dan T is still a moron, life in halls is still miserable, and constant threats from "the establishment" about the state of our kitchen isn't helping. The inspectors are getting extra picky so they can get as much money out of us as possible before we leave.

Thats it for me. Got nothing till Thursday (OOSAD). Cya later!

ugh

2005-05-20T17:00:00.000+01:00

Woke up at 8am due to those cunts doing construction work - drills every 10 seconds is not good in the morning.

Killed time until 12 when i went in and gave my demonstration of my unix program. Was meant to last 15 minutes, but he zipped through both Damo's and mine in 2 minutes. We hit Balfours and then the canteen at lion gate. I downed a Red Devil and had a bacon and cheese baguette while we waited for Jim and Chris to show up.

We went to the WAIIF workshop and sat through other peoples presentations. All lasting about 10 minutes. I think we did ok on the presentation. At least Chris didn't say his Dad set a limit on his net activities due to him looking up spermshack.com!
Thing is, Nipan our lecturer just fucked off at the start of our talk and didn't return at all, leaving Africa's equivilent to MC Hammer to grade us. We ended up standing in front of the class for half an hour answering this guys stupid questions. Special mention goes to Chris who memorised his blurb about PHP, but come crunch time, leaned over the desk to look at the bullet points. Jim almost pushed him over the table in a rage.

But never the less, it was done and dusted and I think we did pretty well. We hit the Registry and I downed a few pints. Jim and I wasted money playing stupid games like monopoly and mouse trap, desperate to win back what we spent on drink.

I come back to the flat and ask rachael about the room inspections. I reckon they must have done them while everyone was out coz they ended yesterday. Ah well, lets me turn the palce back into a tip : throws socks around the room :

I have made a promise not to be productive tonight. I'm just going to mess around and play games tonight. I really cant be bothered to do any revision or work after our presentation.

Later all!

hey

2005-05-19T22:06:00.000+01:00

OK first off I reactivated my warcraft account - I made it, what? 3 days? :-P

Today wasn't bad. Went round Jims with Damo to do some revision and go over this presentation for WAIIF. Chris was a no show (surprise, surprise), but we managed to get some work out the way so it wasn't a wasted trip. For his sake, Chris better show up 2morro.

For some insane reason pnuematic drills were pounding away on the floor above for what seemed like hours. Why the hell would the uni decide to do construction work during revision week for upcoming exams? I also heard from the grapevine that just about half the floors in Trafalgar Hall got flooded the other night! Everyone over here is still speculating as to what happened, I doubt someone leaving their taps running would have that big an impact.

I borrowed Freddy vs Jason from Mike today as I was bored out my skull. Exactly the same as I remember it, but it was nice seeing it in colour and not a dodgy pirate version.

Ah well, I got my demo 2morro, which I'm not bothered about. Just showing Paul the program. Waiif presentation should go ok, we all know what we have to talk about and it's not gonna last for ages. Just hope the others can control their rage at mondays events. Either way I'll be sure to tell you what happens.

Later!

Yay!

2005-05-17T00:50:00.000+01:00

Pussy-whipped tutors

2005-05-16T14:13:00.000+01:00

Hey,

Well today we handed in all our coursework. It felt very good knowing we had done everything and handed it in with plenty of time to spare. It was also very satisfying to see everyone else in a panic, particularly Marney. I don't know why but my group was the only group to actually bother to look up the deadline for the coursework (obviously today). Everyone else just convieniently forgot when Nipan told them, or just were too lazy to look it up for themselves. Damo was grinning from ear to ear all the way to the hand in office.

Of course now I look on the WAIIF site and they've extended the deadline. That is complete bullshit! The tutors have extended the deadline to the end of the week just because Marney threw a menapausal tantrum like the 40 year old bloated bitch that she is! Tutors are such pussies, you know if I tried that shit I'd get shot down and laughed out the fucking office! I fucking hate it when people get breaks that they don't deserve. It means that they can now relax and perform further work on their site. We worked our asses off just to get the fucking thing up, we even had to sacrafice certain features to keep to the deadline. And now it's been extended?! After we handed it in, and can't get it back to improve it?! This is fucking toss! This uni is toss! the CAM office is toss, and run by stupid bitches that don't know anything! The tutors are fucking pussies and only care about the cash! This city is a piece of shit and I can't wait to get the fuck outta here!

11th Hour

2005-05-15T23:11:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

First off apologies to Luke for not turning my phone on. Shame you didn't tell me you were coming over the night before. Ah well...

So this weekend has been an odd mix, at times it has been relatively calm, and at other times it has been quite a panic. Unfortunately as I type this it is time for panic.

As I type this it's 11:10pm, and Chris in his typical lazy bones self has left all the work to the last minute. Normally I wouldn't care, but in this project if he fucks up then we all suffer. We've had to scrap the forum as Chris was taking too long, and we've had to trim down alot of the sites features =/

I really hope he gets it done and sent to Jim as soon as possible. It's already gonna be tough to get any sleep tonight as it is. Bar ME and Route are having a Dance Music volume war and as usual the people of James Watson are the ones that suffer.

Apart from work, the weekends been so-so. I went into town today and paid a visit to HMV. I bought Tokyo Revelation (Anime about satan and demons and such) and also Dark Water, the new chiller from the guy who made the Ring (the original one). Both are very good. Dark Water is cool, but it's just suspense on film! I was aching due to the sheer tension! Also this director (can't spell the name so I won't try) has a thing for making evil spirits little girls. A trend that has started to spread to Hollywood (Ammityville Horror anyone?). One complaint about the film is the main actress, or more specifically her character. She just bows to everything, she even bows when talking to someone on the phone! ah well, different culture I guess.

I also ordered broadband from AOL for use over the summer. Should be a simple job as we've still got the ADSL adapters and even the modem from BT. I've cancelled my World of Warcraft account simply because it will distract me too much during the exams and I don't want to pay anything until I'm connected back home.

Well thats it for me. I'm gonna get back to hassling Chris.

Cya later!

The end draws near

2005-05-13T20:20:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

I actually got a decent nights sleep last night. Probably because I was alot more relaxed after finishing my work and the fact that there were no noisy drunks outside (and inside).

Anyway, today was alright - I met Jim outside the steps to post some flyers advertising the 2 rooms we have free in the house. We put em in St Michaels and The Student Housing area. Hopefully as Adam says the pharmacists will be keen to move in because we're about 5 minutes away from their lecture building.

After that we went to a WAIIF lecture. Fortunately Jenny was there instead of Nipan - Never-the-less the Red Bull wore off faster than expected and I didn't pay much attention. After the lecture we went to the workshop and found out Nipan wanted us to do a dummy run of the presentation. We managed to get out of it because Chris was absent. It's probably the only time I was glad he didn't show up.

So anyway that was my day at uni over. I went back and finally cleaned the microwave - I couldn't rely on anyone else to do it and as much as I would have liked to have it cleaned professionally, I didn't want to have to pay for it.

I also printed out my syar report, and my giant profu report. Profu was a bitch - 47 page report on my program, pages all over my room, ink drying - I could barely move! It's all bundled into a folder now so all I have to do is hand it in on monday. Good. An excuse not to go to OOSAD :-P

Of course this weekend is still gonna b hectic. We gotta do a report on WAIIF and Chris has to finish the web site. Ugh - I can't believe the fate of the project rests on that guys shoulders.

Ah well thats it for me, have a good weekend all

Cya!

Thursday

2005-05-12T19:31:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

Last night I was messing about on the PC when all of a sudden I hear this buzzing. I'm like "What the hell?" so I poke my head out into the corridor; Nothing. I go back in my room and the buzzing is still there. Thinking it to be my PC, I get down on all fours and listen to my comp. Normal volume (although some serious cleaning wouldn't go amiss). Finally the wheels click into place and I stand next to the window. Yeah it's definately outside, only now it sounds way loud, like someone is using an angle grinder at midnight. I close the window and the sound goes away......until I hit the sack around 1am, then it starts up again, and thanks to my cardboard wall I could hear it plain as day - I had to shove the earplugs in to nod off in the end.

I come to at about 9am. I don't have anything to do today so I figure I might as well have a nice long lay-in. I'm then hit by the sound of a taxi honking his damn horn for about 5 minutes. Fucking moron. So I look at my clock and it's 10:40am.

"Ah, I'll probably get up at 11" I said to myself, yawning. Of course then I start having flashbacks of last night...

DAMO: "I reckon we should go in and do the last visual basic practical 2morro morning rather than wait for the afternoon."

ME: "Hang on, I thought we did all the VB pracs last week?"

DAMO: "I dunno, Arthur didn't give me a straight answer."

ME: "Whatever man, I'll meet u there at 11"

....

Shit.

I get up and stumble around sorting myself out. I head in to the kitchen for a glass of water and see a letter on the surface. Apparently the state of our microwave and our cooker is unacceptable and if we don't clean it, the hall staff is gonna take the microwave away! Great, more good news, as if ANOTHER room inspection ain't bad enough.

So I'm out the flat by 10:55 and I get to the labs in time. I sit down next to Damo and log in. I ask him what the last practical is and he goes "Arthur says just do last weeks one."

Shit again. I lost another lay-in.

I hang around, checking the news while Damo does some PROFU reporting. Jim comes in, falling for the same line Damo told me and was equally pissed off. We leave the lab and go to the cafe. I was tempted by this large bottle of Spitfire Ale, but coming to the conclusion that drinking before breakfast is going too far I decide to just have a bottle of coke. After a quick chat about exams and normal uni stuff, we leave - Jim heads into town, while I go get subway (yeah I know, but hey I got £450+ and it's either spend it on food or DVDs and other junk).

I go back to the flat and eat my sandwich. Then I go into the kitchen and Kate and Rachael are there. We talked about that buzzing noise, each pitching their theory. Kates theory of Dan T playing with a vibrator almost brought my sandwich back up. We talk for a bit more about nothing in particular and we hear this commotion outside. I look out the window and it's a dog dragging a mountain bike around the street, barking his head off. Hot on his heels is some dirty chav with white bomber jacket covered in brown stains.

Now Chavs are stupid, no doubt about that, but who has an idea like "I'll tie my dog to my bike while I go and collect my dole money. I'll just leave the bike in the middle of the pavement. Nobody will nick it coz I'm such a hard bastard and they can see that coz I've got a dog"

I really feel sorry for those people that are local to Portsmouth I really do (well actually I don't coz 9/10 of them are fucking chavs).

Anyway, after laughing for a while we go back to the conversation. Rachael is talking about Joe and how he's hanging out with some guy called Kyle. Apparently they just walk around town drinking cans of lager and nick stuff. Now Joe ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but seriously, when you are running home to get your bolt cutters so you and your scuzzy mate can steal a poxy bike (and while you have a history with the local police there, who know everything about you), you're a fucking idiot. Joe's like what 23 years old or something and he's running around with 16 year olds, becoming nothing more than a criminal. Of course Rachael wouldn't leave him. Hell Joe, could set an old lady on fire and Rachael will still defend him. Lame huh?

Aside from that not much has happened. I've had a look at some past exam papers and generally mucked about. Chris and I did some work on the site last night so there's not much left for me to get on with other than revision and occasionally lending a hand to the others.

Ah well, if anything happens I'll blog later.

Cya!

finally...

2005-05-11T23:36:00.000+01:00

I've finished my programming documentation - 22 pages of reporting, testing, screenshots and tables! I've been slogging away at this since I came back from Easter and it feels great to know that it's out of the way!

Of course now all I have to worry about is WAIIF - Damo and Chris are making good progress on the site and when Jim's finished his programming we'll knock up the presentation. Aside from that it's all revision now. I got 4 exams starting May 26th (Visual Basic, Syar2, OOSAD, WAIIF) - I'm worried about OOSAD coz I just scraped through BASAN. Kathy says all the questions require short one sentence answers which makes me feel better. No Section A, section B bullshit. Actually it's safe to say I'm worried about them all, but I haven't had time to think about them what with all the coursework that has been thrown at us.

As predicted, I got little to no sleep last night - finally managing to visit the land of nod at 5 in the morning. The suprising thing is it wasn't Remy's fault! he was quiet as a mouse. It seemed that someone (possibly Matt, he's such a cock sometimes) kept opening the front door and then slamming it shut. I don't know, it may not have even been this flat as apparently Matt never made it home last night, but never-the-less whatever was making that noise was stupidly loud - it even woke Kate up from her drunken stupor.

I seem to be on a steady diet of micro chips at the moment, but hopefully that will change now that I'm not glued to the PC 24 hours a day programming. Who knows, may even go wild and make something from scratch!

Our search for a fourth ( and even a fifth ) housemate is starting to bear fruit. Jims already received a call from a couple of girls, and we've still got Adams mates to make contact tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow, Damo reckons on going to the labs in the morning to get the Visual Basic practical out the way. Originally I hadn't planned on coming in at all tomorrow, but now I'm not sure. I don't have Visual Studio at home, so the labs are basically my only chance to revise the work we've done so far.

Paul's modded Xbox is clinging to life as always - it managed to take down his house's net connection a while ago, and now he wants to try and get Xbox live working on it!

Adam has put down a deposit on a silver BMW 3 series (sweet) he's having it shipped over from the mainland...ooo00ooo.

Luke's suspension came and he says he's gonna fit it this weekend. Should be good (despite them being yellow) - You never know, may be able to sit in the back again.

Thats about it for me, hope everyones alright across the country and I hope to see you all over summer.

Later!

hey

2005-05-10T21:25:00.000+01:00

It's been a good day today - I've done the coding for part 2 of java and sorted some testing out for part 1. I've decided to give it a rest for today so I'll probably try and wrap things up 2morro.

For those that don't know (and for those that know) I now have a webcam from Logitech. Works perfectly, although I expect nothing less for £55! The only problem is that the university networks firewall makes it a tad jerky in places, but hey thats life.
What I didn't expect to find while running spybot was BackWeb on my machine - a spyware program that lets companies dump ads on your PC. When I took a look at the location of the offending program I was shocked to find it in the logitech folder. After getting rid of it, I went online and did a search. Apparently Logitech have started bundling it with their software! They claim it's so we can download updated drivers easier, but c'mon why would a company use a spyware program for getting updates to us?

Aside from that nothings happened, which is good in my opinion, means I can catch up on sleep I dearly missed last weekend.

Later all

Ugh

2005-05-09T06:38:00.000+01:00

Woke up at 4:30........can't get back to bed...............done some profu........I don't want to go in today but I have to............ugh.

This weekend

2005-05-08T23:32:00.000+01:00

Hey all,

Well so far this weekend wasn't the relaxing 2 days I had in mind. Mainly because Remy decided to let half the fucking Foreign Legion crash in his room. I swear one of them used my plate as an ashtray but I can't prove it. If I find out they messed with any more of my stuff I'll carve the union jack into their fucking chests!

Anyway - mainly been working on finishing coursework. Unix is damn near finished. Just added some comments to my code. Profu is lingering - shame coz I desperately want to get it out the way. Testing is such a drag :-(

I had 4 hours sleep today due to African Drums and french people talking their garbage language till 4:30am - I ran in their room and told them to shut the fuck up, but the only one that knew english had passed out. I dunno - why do we let foreign people study in this country - surely we should invest in british students!

Played pool today to calm myself down. Whooped Jim a couple of times and terrorised the bar :-) They now know me as "John Smiths" and have even offered to give me a 5 year membership for a pound next time I show up! Not bad!

Heard Lukes ordered another M9 and even an M3 Shotty! - guess he got tired of aiming ;-)

The Fishing Wagon thing the parents wanted fell through - Dad decided he couldn't live with an engine that couldn't climb Brading Downs and they decided it wasn't suitable for sleeping in more than one night. Guess they're just gonna have to keep looking.

Tomorrow I got OOSAD and VB - it's gonna be painful, but I literally have tuesday and wednesday off so I get 2 weekends this week :-)
Anyway - I'm off for now, I'll blog later if anything interesting happens.

Cya!

R & R

2005-05-07T01:34:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Another weekend is upon us and I'm sure we all agree it couldn't have come quick enough.

I have high hopes for this weekend as Kate, Dan, and Rachael have gone to Devon to attend Dan's Mums wedding. Now all I have to worry about is Matt setting fire to the kitchen and Remy playing African drums in the morning.

Speaking of which, Remy's older brother has come round - although I think he's been and gone, Remy seems to have alot of other people staying in his room. It's like he's opened a youth hostel in there or something.

But anyway, today was ok. Went into the SYAR tutorial to book my timeslot for the demonstration later on in the month. It's basically showing Paul our Unix program and talking him through the stages of it. Only lasts 15 minutes max so it should be ok :-)

After that we had web authoring lecture with Nipan - the small Indian guy on speed. He was on typical form as he called half the people in the hall Chris, and did some very dodgy poses on the front table o_0.

Then we just worked on the website - it's looking pretty cool now and we should have it finished in the next couple of weeks.

Well - at this time, I've just come back from another fire alarm. Maybe this weekend ain't gonna be the 2 days of rest and relaxation I hoped for :-(

Cya.

hey

2005-05-05T01:29:00.000+01:00

hi all,

weeks been ok so far - played some more pool with the lads and went to the cinema to watch xXx2 - was fun, but it all went a bit odd with the uncrashable car o_0

works going ok as well. Just need to do documentation on syar and make a start on the second half of profu. We're leaving the website work in Chris' hands so thats some weight off my shoulders.

For some reason Kates been having panic attacks. She had 3 in the last 2 nites (they sound pretty horrible). Doc said its left over from a bad cough or something.

Found out the parents are buying an old people carrier this weekend. I guess Dad gave up on spraying the honda :P - apparently they plan on turning this old toyota townace into a fishing wagon. Should be interesting as all the handbooks and manuals are all in japanese.

Lukes car is coming along, and he's ordered some more parts. He's also gonna get a few more M9's to tinker with.

Ah well, im heading into the labs 2morro to get cracking on the profu. I'll blog later.

Cya!

LAND OF THE DEAD! ... LAND OF THE MO'FO'ing DEAD!

2005-04-29T10:21:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

Have to direct you to the Land of the Dead trailer. Fourth film in Romero's zombie saga - looks the biz!

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/georgearomeroslandofthedead.html

anyway, im off home this weekend so no updates for a couple of days.

Cya!

Mid-Week .... ooo0000ooo

2005-04-27T13:01:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Bit of a slow week to be honest. Each day seems to drag on more than the last. Monday was rubbish - our lecture lasted 15 minutes and then nothing happened for the rest of the day. Tuesday I had nothing all day coz Arthur took a few days off. Instead I went with Jim to a snooker club for a few games of pool. I had a pretty good time and I even found out that the bar there does John Smiths Extra Smooth on tap! £2.15 - still better than Island prices!
Tdoay the fire alarm went off twice at 9am. I did some shopping to last me the rest of the week and I'm about to do the gigantic stack of washing up left on the kitchen surface. Fairy Liqiud time I guess.

I'm taking advantage of the MayDay bank holiday and going home to see the folks for a long weekend. I'll also try and meet up with Luke and Ads for a posible pub trip. I also have to see just how much Dad has messed up his car's bonnet :-P

anyway, i better b off, cya later!

Red means stop.....Honestly!

2005-04-24T12:51:00.000+01:00

Over the past few days I've seen so many traffic accidents in Pompey, it's not even funny!

I've seen people being rear-ended, sideswiped, t-boned and all other manor of collisions. In fact just now as I was walking home from the shops, a car slammed into another one that was stopped at a red light! How could the driver not see a bright yellow Focus under a red light? The greatest tradgety is that the ruined the wings of a nice pug.

Of course the best one was last nite, where a taxi just careened into another taxi that was just moving off. Damn near destroyed the driver side rear door! I was surprised at the amount of police that decended on the crash though - they had wagons, bikes, and even a plain clothes officer in a snazzy black beamer showed up. Bit extreme, but I guess they don't have much else to do.

With the amount of speed demons and red light runners in this city, I'm amazed the student population hasn't been cut down. Although Damo's had a few close calls ;-)

Well, aside from that little nugget of info, not much has been happening. Work mainly - we pretty much got OOSAD finished and are making progress on the website work. I'm sure we'll all get it done soon enough.
Kate has gone home for the weekend, leaving me to put up with Dan T. Fortunately I found a use for him and am constantly sending him to tescos on alcohol errands. Apparently him and rachael are going back to Devon in 2 weeks and are taking Kate with them - this means that I'll get a nice peaceful flat (unless Remy is a moron).

Ah well, thats it for me - cya later!

Hello there

2005-04-21T23:04:00.000+01:00

Well another week is coming up. Haven't updated for a while (too much Warcraft :-P).
The past few days have mainly been involving coursework. Monday and Tuesday we were all trying to make more progress on OOSAD and get some WAIIF sorted. Wednesday we went to see the Ammityville Horror - In a word SHIT! I mean it wasn't scary, they used the old "jump" scenes so many times, one after the other - 3 jumps in a row and ur brain is trying to figure out what the first one was! To be honest it seemed like spooky noises and strobe lights for an hour and a half :-/

Went to HMV to cheer ourselves up. I bought the Lethal Weapon saga on DVD for £13!! Bargain!! - Jim snapped up the last copy of Death Race 2000 (git) and a few other films.

Today I finally got the DVD from Jim and Chany containing lots of rock and punk - thanks for that guys! \m/ More coursework woes in the form of unix work and more profu - it's all starting to pile up.

On another note - theres a bit of trouble with the house. We talked to Jane Sooby the landlady and she said that the only way the 3 of us could keep the house would be to pay the 4th housemates rent - an extra £80 a month!
So we've been searching our courses for a 4th housemate but no luck. We're gonna have to put an ad in the union or something. It's a shame coz it's a cool house and it's only a short walk to uni and back. I don't know what I'll do if it all falls through, probably have to move back to the island and commute.

Ah well, it's all happening ain't it! :P

I also got a call from the folks giving me the usual report of no news what-so-ever - the only amusing thing is Dad fucked up respraying his bonnet so he's had to sand it down. He's gonna have one more stab at it then he's gonna send it to the garage. Luke if ur reading this and have some spare time, give Dad a call ;-)

Anyway thats about it for me - I'm sure other stuff happened but i can't remember so I'll cya around.

Later!

Ah......Friday!

2005-04-15T19:38:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Today was ok, went to syar practical for an hour with Damo. Jim turned up 10 mins before the end of the lesson, crashed the PC and then swore at it for a good 5 minutes :-P

After that we rushed into GAME and I finally got World of Warcraft. We then went back to my flat and swapped the game for a digital camera and went out on our pub crawl / research excursion. First stop was Wetherspoons, where I got to sample a couple of pints of Spitfire Ale before moving on. As far as pics go there are the normal "us at the bar" pics. Damo tried to get a pic of the pub itself, but he ended up taking a pic of these two single mums walking along with prams. Is Damo an amateur MILF hunter? I think so!
After Wetherspoons, we went on to Walkabout which is completely desserted during the day. We got served by Nicko the Ozzie so that was cool. We also managed to get a series of pics featuring Damo doing a strange flipbook animation of poses :-)
Next stop was the front room, which I found out was a lot bigger than first impressions gave away. However the drinks were very expensive so we only had a pint each. Good sofas though.
We then get a call from Chris and arrange to meet him outside Nationwide coz Jimmy needs to get more money out (thats what happens when u don't come prepared) After meeting up with Chris and Jim gets some money out, we head out to Alis to get some food. I have a portion of Onion rings while Chris gets some chips - the others just mess around with the camera.
After that it was down to Yates for more drink and photos - we got some good pics and then we hit the White Swan to finish off the day. I ended up signing up for some club card of sorts - all i knew was that I got 2 for the price of 1 on boddingtons so I was happy enough :-)

Now I'm back at the flat and I'm bullying Remy with my PC's sound system. I've been invited to go bowling, but I'm not really up for it and I don't want to be paired up with Dan T. Instead I'm gonna carry on playing World of Warcraft until my eyes bleed :-P

Later all!

My Day Off

2005-04-13T22:59:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

Well it was my day off today. I played the Punisher until about 1pm, got ready and then met up with Jim to see the Ring 2 - coz we're such pussies we go and see it during the day. I have to say I'm a little dissapointed by it. Jim even said I fell asleep during the film.

I was a fan of the japanese films, and while this was a good attempt, it just didn't have the same impact of the first one. I also noticed that the corpse effects in the Ring 2 are kinda tame compared to the first remake - not as mouldy or green as the first ones :-P

After the film I went to Jims place and had dinner with him, Jason and Tommy. Tortilla wraps are GOOD :-) Also checked out his new computer - that thing is powerful! it spanked Half Life 2 with ease
Speaking of which Jim had a nasty scare involving a rogue head crab. He almost fell off his chair he got scared so bad - for the rest of the day i was just having fits of laughter!

Aside from that not much has been happening. The flat stinks of smoke and microwave popcorn...burnt microwave popcorn. I also had a taste of Remy freestyling in his room - of course I had to shut him up with some hard rock! \m/

Well thats about it. I got room inspections starting 2morro so I better have a clean-up before I go to bed.

Cya!

Walkabout Woes

2005-04-13T00:34:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Today wasn't bad - I got the Die Hard Trilogy today so I relived some classic action flicks, before heading off to Jims. While he had a laugh and chilled out, we didn't really get much work done. To get any further for our website work I decided we have to go on a pub crawl - eventually it was decided that we'd go round the pubs on wednesday night. Hopefully one of us will be sober enough to operate the camera!

Well I got my copy of the Punisher game, along with Ghost in the Shell, and Ninja Scroll - some slice and dice anime films :-) Should keep me entertained for a while.

After the java lecture, i had about half an hour to get ready to go to walkabout. I met up with Andy and Phil and we figured it would be best not to wait for Dan T.
At Walkabout we have a good chat and a few drinks. Everythings cool until the girls show up, with Dan T carrying all their bags and stuff. Now I don't have anything against Kate, Louise, etc, but they're very inconsiderate when it comes to smoking. Despite repeated requests, everyone seemed to be blowing smoke in my face. Andy and Phil left for Time and Envy, leaving me stuck with Dan T wearing some purple and yellow shirt. The fool looked like a cross between John Travolta and a crack addict!
After passive smoking 3 ciggarettes, I get up and leave. I really can't be bothered to stay there just to keep up appearances.

So here I am. 2morro me and Jim are going to the cinema to see Ring 2 (heard some mixed feelings about it, but I might aswell see it) followed by some food and a pub crawl with the guys. Anything's better than staying in the flat and listening to Dan blast bon jovi all day.

Later all!

Superheros and Sunburn

2005-04-11T21:34:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Well I had OOSAD in the morning and almost roasted alive in the lecture theatre. The plus side is that the sun made walking around the campus almost enjoyable. Damo and Chris went on to Visual Basic, while I went home (I just couldn't be bothered).

When I get home everyones in the kitchen. Dan T, Kate, and Rachael are chatting about their hols (well Kate and Rachael are, while Dan T sits listening and occasionally saying "Oh yeh") Dan T is suffering really bad sunburn on his ears - I mean he looks like a battlefield casualty, like the guys put his ear next to a grenade to see if it ticks!

Anyway, we all need to go to Tescos to get some food, however on the way the girls persuade me to go with them to the small park to visit the animals. The animals are basically in this partitioned cage/avary in the middle of the park. It is nice, but I've seen it all before ( flashback to being dragged around by my relatives when I was 8 in the burning sun).
So after our little brush with nature, we head to Tesco's and manage to fill the trolley to the top - I ended up spending £30 on food that will be gone by Wednesday! Either I need to buy cheaper stuff or i need to put the fork down!

However, due to the nationwide shortage of World of Warcraft, I bought the Incredibles to cheer me up and it worked a treat! I'm kinda surprised about this superhero phase in films I'm going through, any budding shrinks please throw your 2 cents in before I start going to lectures dressed as Wolverine.

Well aside from that it's been a quiet day - Desperately making cups of tea to use my milk up which expires 2morro and just chatting.

On a seperate note I heard Luke has been called by the people behind "Looking for Love" an ITV show like Blind Date based on the Isle of Wight. Luke's plan is to hog the camera and plug his band and walk off if he doesn't like the girl. Of course knowing Luke, it'll probably be an ex girlfriend or something behind the screen.
Also his Huey kit's painted up for his RC helicopter. I'm expecting him to demonstrate a medevac by summer hols!

2morro we're all meeting up at Jims house to get some coursework done before heading out to our java lecture. Should be interesting, only for the fact that my copy of the punisher game will be waiting for me, and I get to see his new comp.

Thats all for now, I'll cya later!

End of the first week

2005-04-10T19:55:00.000+01:00

Hey guys,

Well I had to take the day off on friday coz I had a massive headache. Didn't get to bed until 3am coz of the Sailors from some US Navy ship decided to have a punch up with the police.

Saturday morning was equally bad. Woken up at 6am by Remy banging on his African Drums. Hammered on his door and hurled abuse at him. Looked like he was going to cry (although that may just be the side effects of drug addiction).
I went into town to get some stuff, then just generally lazed around. Matts back so now the only people left to come back are Kate and Dan T (sigh).

Tomorrow I got OOSAD and VB - more coursework woes ahead.

Cya later!

Thursday

2005-04-07T20:07:00.000+01:00

Hi guys,

ANOTHER fire alarm last night! This is just stupid, either someone's doing it on purpose or D block is full of the most cack-handed fools in the country!

Anyway, today was nothing special, just more coursework - programming and systems analysis. Fun as always :-/

Got a new game though; Cold Fear - it's basically 28 Days Later condenced onto a ship caught in a storm. Quite some novel features like the deck sway meaning you have to fight the ship as well as the undead hordes.

Finally found out the source of the horrible smell in the fridge. For a few days I thought it was just Remy's french cheese, but on closer inspection I found a small carton of milk that had been out of date since the start of February! - I binned the carton, but I had to clean out the shelf as the milk had leaked out and congealed into a horrible, sour milk/cheesy butter substance. Very unpleasant indeed. I could understand leaving milk in the fridge for a few days, but 2 months?!

Remy himself is still smoking lots of weed. It seems that he smokes it all the time now, even when he leaves the flat to do laundry. I even saw him light up a joint during the fire alarm. Ah well, as long as he's not blowing it in my face then I don't care.

I'm feeling incredibly ill today. Got a massive headache that is crippling me. Taken a load of painkillers and gonna try and sleep it off - we'll have to see what I'm like 2morro.

thats about it for now, cya later.

Back once again

2005-04-06T20:05:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I'm just settling back into the uni routine after the easter hols (which were a blast). I caught up with alot of mates and had a laugh.

I've been back at uni for 3 days and nothing much has changed. A bar has been changed into a chinese restaurant so that needs to be investigated.

At the moment it's just me and Remy in the flat - Good thing is I don't ever see him coz he's always out and about.

First night back was horrible - fire alarm at 2am is never good, let alone before the first day back to work :-(
Work itself is coming along fine. We're just sorting out some coursework and prepping for the last of our exams. Not much going on to be honest, will probably pick up after this week when everyone gets back. Until then I'll enjoy the peace and quiet while it lasts ;-)

Later!

Well I'm Back

2005-04-03T15:41:00.000+01:00

After 2 weeks holiday, I'm back at Uni - had a blast seeing all my friends again, nobodys changed :-)

I've finished unpacking and waiting till things get back to normal. Dan T may not come back this week (Nice), so I'll have time to mentally prepare for his fishing stories :P

Update later!

Top of the Morning to ya!

2005-03-17T18:33:00.000Z

Happy St Paddy's Day everyone.

The day started off with me in a bad mood after being woken up at 2:30am, and then 4:30am by Remy and his french mates (along with a couple of English people who just got caught up in the excitement). I decide to kill time by doing the afternoons application for Visual Basic - nothing major, but it brought me to 10:30.

I get a nice breakfast sub to prepare me for the day ahead and then go to my practical. I finish the Java exercise early and me and Jim head to the White Swan to start our quests for the Guinness top hats!
We meet up with Andy and Phil and eventually Jamie joined us. We had a laugh and a few pints and we came away with our hats (plus a few badges to boot). From there we head to Ali's still wearing the hats and pick up some funny looks from passers-by. I get some nice greasy food and then we hang out at mine for a while.

On another note, Dan T is just ....... i dunno. I went into the kitchen and found him reading Sex Tips for girls. I slapped it out of his hands and asked where he got it, to which he replied...

"it was in Kates gossip mag" o_0

I give up, I really do.

Anyway, tomorrow is the last day! I would be home earlier but I've got to do a presentation with my web authoring group about the page layouts. I just want to get it over with and get home, where a chinese takeaway waits for me n_n

Later guys!

Well, Well, Well

2005-03-16T02:41:00.000Z

Hi all,

Today wasn't too great - got more coursework in the form of Java. Looks like it's gonna b a bitch, but i got all the tools so to hell with it.

Dan T was gonna go to this salsa place with his mates. Fine a night without the fucker! :-)
Oh no, when me Andy and Phil get to Walkabout, Dan T decides to come along. I wonder why - it couldn't be because Kate wants to chill with us for a while? NO!

So anyway, Dan T bores the hell outta Kate until 9:15pm where he finally leaves. Kate, Andy, Phil and Me end up having a nice chat and quite a few pints of snakebite (I had a pitcher to myslef)
Soon, however Dan T returns, getting a taxi home by himself just so he can be around Kate. We didn't pay much attention to him and as soon as he started talking about how much drink he had, we decided to go to Alis.

I had a great sausage, egg, and bacon burger along with cheesy chips and another discussion about Nazis o_0 - I head back to Andys coz it will be a laugh and I'm not disappointed.
Apparently Jamie (about 5 foot if that!) got kicked out of the union after putting one of the bouncers in a headlock! I also met Andy's other flatmate Alice (yum! is all I'm saying!) so we had a chat about Jamie and his stoned antics.
Eventually everyone left and I decided to head home. A bunch of retards stood between me and the door to D block, but they weren't standing long :-P

I'm now back at the flat and I see Remy making a dish involving putting mayonaise in tomatoes.

I'll talk to ya later if anything interesting happens.

Bye!

HAHA Dan T is such a prick!

2005-03-14T21:11:00.000Z

Well he finally came home at about 7pm - comes into my room and is all over the place, spouting off about how he's so annoyed with Kate and loads of other bollocks that I don't understand. Dan says he's had 9 pints (which when u think about it, ain't much considering he's been drinking for 8 hours) and a shot of red aftershock. He says Kate is pissing him off bla bla bla. I ignore him and he goes away.

Of course Kate sees how bad Dan T is and decides to try and make him throw up. How you ask? By making him drink a cocktail of bacardi, vodka, ouzo, blackcurrant and to top it off salt water. While it didn't make him puke it got him even more leathered and after lots of shouting it's finally time for him to meet his mate and head for the white swan.
In the end Kate kicks him in the balls, drags his drunk arse into the elevator and sends him to the 7th floor. We then go to the kitchen to see if we can see him - sure enough he stumbles out with his course mate. He spys us and starts hurling abuse and Kate, then yelling at her to get her tits out. Kate insults him back and so Dan T makes a complete dickhead out of himself in the middle of the road. His mates looking round like "What the fuck is going on?!" n_n

Aside from that I helped Rachael after she managed to trip out power to her room and then I helped Remy with some homework. I gave him advice that maybe he shouldn't try and do work after smoking alot of weed.

Well thats about it. I reckon on cutting most of thursdays lectures and hitting the pub with Andy and Phil for St Paddy's day. Who knows, I may come away with a jazzy hat!

Bye!

Final monday

2005-03-14T16:12:00.000Z

Hi all,

Well monday lived up to its expectations. I almost fell asleep twice during the OOSAD lecture, and almost slid out my chair during the VB lecture. It was a pretty sparse turnout all round today. Chris didn't turn up for the whole day (no big loss) and Jim was still travelling.

I head back to the flat and was pleased to see Bill Baily's Bewildered had finished n_n. Such a funny man!
While I was watching it I heard Dan T enter the flat he screamed "Helllooo00oo!" and went into his room. A few seconds later he headed out the door, this time yelling "GoodbyeeeEEee!" - sigh, drunk at 1pm, thats just sad.

After Bill Bailey finishes I open my door and head to the kitchen. I find Remy, Kate, and Rachael having a chat. Kate tells me that Dan T has skipped all his lectures today and has been in the union with his coursemates since 11am. And if that ain't enough, he's going out again tonight with them. It's amazing how Dan T drinks away money he doesn't have! He's extended his overdraft 4 times this term alone!

Other than that my £10 is now £8 - pastie and a bottle of Tango and thats my food for the day. Heading round Jims 2morro to get some more coursework done and then we get handed out Java coursework so it should all be interesting.

Later!

zzzZZZzzz

2005-03-13T18:23:00.000Z

Sundays are always boring round here. It's just a case of hanging around the flat and gawking at the townies queuing to get in the doll office. Dan T and Kate managed to fix the door back to his wadrobe, but they don't think it will stay on. I can just see it now when the new student touches the door and it falls down, leaving the brackets on the wall. I told Dan T not to be surprised if he gets a fine from the University in the near future.

Managed to have a chat with Jim, who's having a blast up in Scotland for his busty friends birthday - he's taken lots of pics, which I'm grateful for ;-)
Also talked to Damo about more coursework. Chris has taken the website down, which Im not too bothered about coz we don't have anything new to put on it.

Spent alot of the day listening to Bill Hicks while going about my business. The late Bill Hicks was a comedian who's style was to "Tell a funny joke, insult the audience for a long time, then tell another funny joke." - He tells some funny jokes, but he was too caught up in politics and tended to preach during his shows.

I now have no food left in the fridge and £10 to last me this final week. I could eat Greggs every day, but it would have horrendus consequences on my health (you can tell it's a slow day when I'm writing about food :-P)

Ah well thats it for me. Cya later!

Just testing

2005-03-13T12:55:00.000Z

Just a quick test to see if I can remember much HTML.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

2005-03-12T20:19:00.000Z

Hey all,

Well apparently after I left Louise's place, things took a turn for the worse. Billy and Mike were hopped up on tart fuel and taking the piss outta Joe. To be honest, Joe's a headcase - all he talks about is his lame fiesta (which he doesn't have anymore anyway) and fighting. He makes stupid comments like "I could have him on the floor in 2 minutes" and "I love getting into scraps" o_0

Anyway he got really angry, but Louise managed to calm him down a bit. They all head to the union and things were going ok until Joe and Louise started play fighting. They had a pinching fight (yeah i know) and Joe went too far and ended up grabbing both her arms. Louise (in a feat similar to Kate breaking down Dans wadrobe door) broke free and punched Joe in the face and slapped him.
Mike gets involved and it ends with Joe being escorted out of the union by the bouncers. Apparently Joe had a go at Rachael blaming the whole thing on her and that was the end of the night.

Thing is, whenever Joe gets frustrated or embarrased he just shouts at Rachael coz he doesn't have the stones to do anything else. Everyone thinks Rachael could do so much better, but we can't be bothered to say anything coz we can't change her mind about it. We just have to wait for her to realise what a prick Joe is.

Aside from that my day was pretty uneventful, I'm still drying my damn laundry! Goes to show that you don't realise how many clothes you have until u have to wash them.

Thats all from me, Later!

Morning All

2005-03-12T10:52:00.000Z

Well the weekend has landed and it's good to have a break. Last night we went round Louise's place for a few drinks. The original plan was to go on to the union, but I was too tired so I just finished my crate and hit the sack.

Dan T has left for the day so I'm happy! However I would have thought he would stay the night at home. As it is, he's only going to spend 4 hours at home!

Luke's damn near finished his beretta which looks very sweet. All metal so it must weigh a fair bit. Can't wait to squeeze off a few rounds when I come home for Easter!

Ah well, thats about it at the mo. If anything exciting (or stupid) happens I'll be sure to tell you about it.

Bye!

Ah it's Friday...

2005-03-11T14:36:00.000Z

Thought it would never come.

Today things weren't too bad. I woke up at 8, had another ice cold shower and went into the kitchen.

I'm just gonna stop here and talk about the kitchen. In our halls the kitchen doubles as a living room area. Unfortunately, because of this arrangement people tend to mess up the kitchen when they've had too much to drink (or smoke if you count Remy). It seems that whenever I walk into the kitchen something stupid is happening or has happened. Is anyone else's like that? Does the kitchen attract stupidity in other universities?

Anyway. I walk into the kitchen, and was welcomed by the smell of an open bin bag left in the corner of the room. Ugh. I also notice Rachaels belt on the surface along with an almost empty bottle of what seems to be a WKD alternative called TWK - Great, imitation tart fuel. I forgo breakfast and head to class.

SYAR2 started the day off - working on assembler code in DOS (yawn). Really Mike, Jim, and myself took the time to grumble out our experience in halls so far.
Web Authoring wasnt bad, got bombarded by election people on our way though. It's just too annoying to describe when someone in a T-shirt which can only be described as illuminous, runs up to you and asks you loads of stupid questions. Anyway after the lecture, Jenny the tutor had a chat with our team regarding the recent turmoil it's in. Apparently now that we've had a bust up we're in a better position come the final presentation o_0 We managed to sort things out with Chris and he's agreed not to jump the gun and listen once in a while.

So now it's time for the workshop with Nipan, the fasted talking asian man I've ever met. Jim calls him over to have a look at the storyboards I made last night. Nipan jumps up and tells us to present them to the class immediately. NO was the collective response, but now he wants us to present them next week. Can't be too bad, as long as Chris doesn't mumble, and Damo doesn't stare into space like last time :-P

So now I head back home, feeling that we made some progress. I come back to the flat and talk to Kate and Dan T about last night. While I was going to sleep, I heard alot of screaming and horrified voices. Apparently Joe and Dan T decided to look at rotten.com and make the girls look at the pics. I gotta say, if I was Joe I probably wouldn't show my girlfriend granny porn and mutilated corpses - but hey it may just be a Devon thing o_0

Anyway I'm off to have my first meal of the day; dinner n_n

Later!

PS - Jack has started a blog - links on the right! (think he was having issues last post, as he posted it about 4 times n_n)

2 in 1 day??

2005-03-10T22:45:00.000Z

Yeah I know, but I need a place to vent and this seems like a good place to document the progress of our group coursework :-P

Major argument between the group as far as the website forum goes. Chris pushed his luck too much so now we're gonna speak to the tutors and try and get him kicked off our team. I'm fed up with this total retard. He slags people off, then does a smug grin as if everythings ok. He already brought Damo's mark for BASAN down so Damo is ademant that he is ejected from the group. I'm all for it really. I'm just gonna do my part for the coursework and not worry about anyone elses. At least I'll get my marks.

Aside from coursework there was an incident which was either a prank, or a kidnapping attempt. Dan T was in Kates room when Kate got a dinner invite from Louise. Kate accepted and Dan T didn't like it. I'm in my room where all of a sudden I hear this huge crash. I go out to investigate and Dan T has barricaded Kate in his wadrobe!

o_0

I told Dan T he should probably let her go because this ain't helping his claim that he's not crazy about her. I get some odd grunt in reply (at this time I notice empty cans of Stella on the floor) - Eventually, due to the noise of Kate banging on the door, Rachael and Joe come down to Dan T's room. The 3 of us get Dan T to take down the barricade, but it's too late for Kate - she summons superhuman strength and manages to break the wadrobe door down! Funny thing is Dan T has to pay for repairs and I'm sure it's gonna cost alot. It's not exactly something you can hide n_n

Pretty Lazy day all round

2005-03-10T17:57:00.000Z

Hey guys,

Well I woke up this morning to find the kitchen in a state (as usual). Worst thing is I found rotting chicken subway on the surface.

old meat + heater on overnight = level 3 biohazard >.<

After opening all the windows and downing some apple and mango I was out of there. No chance am I cooking anything in that place!
I also discovered an interesting feature of our halls. It seems that if you have a shower before 9am, all u get is artic cold - apparently Frank the handyman turns the boiler off every night. If anything it woke me up.

So I finally get out of the flat and head for my Java tutorial. Setting up a search class to function within a program (means loads to you guys don't it n_n) After that Jim and I decide to head into town and get a few things. Of course neither of us had eaten so we ended up in Ali's - Ali was surprised to see me in a sober state, and was even more surprised when I didn't order a kebab! We then head to Jims house to chill. Damo turns up and we have a discussion about Chris (lazy arse programmer) Also managed to get Office 2003 pro off of him!

After that Damo and I head over to our VB tutorial for about 5 mins and then leave. Nothing special so we knocked the app out in a short time.

Im back at the flat now and after a chat with Kate I learn that the reason for the rotting chicken was Matt. Apparently he came back fucked out of his mind with subway, threw most of it around and then put loads of it in Kates bed. I see Matt in the kitchen and he has no recolection of what happened (surprise, surprise). Also went on MSN and straightened things out with Chris.

And that was my day. Weekend is approaching fast so I better put some cash aside ;-)

Bye!

Wednesday

2005-03-09T19:03:00.000Z

Hi all,

Got a nice wakeup call thanks to the Halls staff testing the fire alarm >.<

Dan T came into my room later on for a private talk about Andy - he then tells me how everyone doesn't like him as he's shit stirring between him and Kate. Of course Louise tells me she received a text from Dan T saying everyone hates Andy - If you ask me both him and Andy are shit stirring, the only difference is Andy does it because Kate tells him to. Sigh, it's all complicated, and I really can't be bothered to deal with it anymore.

Not much happened today - I went into town and picked up a few things from Tesco's, bought a shirt from Burton, and ended up buying Daredevil and Spiderman 2 on DVD (I've realised I never leave HMV empty handed).

Rachael's boyfriend Joe is coming down late tonight to stay with her for a few days. Joe is alright, but all he talks about is his poxy fiesta, his extensive experience in the army (3 weeks in basic o_0) and getting into fights. Guess we'll have to see what happens.

Laundry's going ok, despite me almost putting my keys in the washing machine and spilling my detergent on the floor n_n
Other than that it's been a very quiet day. Tomorrow is quite a full day but its all in the one building so no travel time. I'll tell you all about Java and Visual Basic and how nothing ever works on the uni network.

Later all - and remember only a week and a bit till easter hols! n_n

OK so I went to walkabout...

2005-03-09T02:51:00.000Z

...big deal ;-)

I went down there and met Andy at the lobby of my halls. We went to walkabout and watched the footy - nothing special, so we start on pitchers of snakebite (yum). Dan T arrives and makes a complete dick out of himself after 3 pints. I swear the guy is the lightest lightweight I've ever met.

So Andy and I are drinking and chatting, while Dan T is drinking pints of XXXX and managing to get hammered (o_0) - Dan T spends this time sending texts to Kate along the lines of "Where r u?", "R u here yet?", etc etc. Thing is if he admitted that he is lusting after her, nobody would give a shit. Yet he's denying it like he's back in year 9. the problem with his infatuation is that when he gets drunk (normally after the 2nd pint) he just harrases Kate until she is forced to leave. As a result it ruins everyone elses night out, while we all have to deal with Dan T.

So tonight was no different, only we made sure Kate didn't sit near Dan T. Kate and Andy wound him up quite nicely - even Louise said to me "Dan's trying to laugh, but he's so jealous." RESULT n_n

Of course Time and Envy is still on peoples minds. Kate, Louise, Lisa and Eve decide to go there. Dan T jumps up but is shot down after Kate says "Girls night out!" At this point Andy and I finish our pints and leave Dan T in the company of Billy, Mike, and Adam - Billy is some dickhead that manages to spill everyones drink (he even spilled Corona on my trousers!), Mike is Louise's boyfriend, and to be fair, isn't a bad bloke. Adam seems to be after Kate aswell so theres some healthy competition between him and Dan T.

So Andy and I hit Ali's - after I order my chips and curry sauce, Andy gets a call from Jamie (stoned flatmate) asking for burgers and stuff. Andy (who is a bit tipsy by this time) asks for a cheese burger and chips, then a double burger and cheesy chips, then a messy burger and nothing else. Ali looks at him, and says "Just give me a fiver, I don't want you to hurt yourself doing maths!" n_n

I end up going back to Andy's flat to hang out with Jamie and Charles (hey even potheads are better company than Dan T) - Jamie turned out to be an OK bloke and we talked about computing while watching the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. At this time Andy's long lost flatmate Tara (not a bad brunnette) comes in with her friends Becky and Becky's boyfriend who I don't care to remember his name.

Everyone got chatting except Becky and her bf, who put on a show for us in the kitchen. In the end Andy chased Becky and the bf out with his baseball bat, while Jamie and I laughed and blasted Cypress Hill
:-P

So here I am, back at the flat and feeling quite merry - good thing about my course is I have wednesdays off! I'll probably go shopping and do some laundry (edge of your seat stuff I know)

Later all!

Dead Weight and Dipshits

2005-03-08T16:52:00.000Z

Hi all,

Woke up at about 9 today (not much of a lie-in, but people emptying bottle banks outside your window does that to you). Went into the kitchen and Kate and Dan T were in there being retarded. Dan T decides to eat a tub of ice cream for breakfast washed down with orange juice...

...What the fuck? o_0

Managed to have a semi-normal chat with Kate about yesterday...

Basically yesterday afternoon I went into the kitchen and theres this huge banner which the flat above have hung down, covering up our windows. Uni is caught up in this bullshit presidency election, where students that are full of themselves win an election which lets them make recommendations to the Union. Of course the Union never listens to them so the whole thing is a waste of time.

This banner was about some girl going to make the Union more like a nightclub...HOW??? the place has 3 clubs in it already!!

Anyway long story short we ripped it down, leaving us with a clear view again, and leaving the flat above with a small piece of fabric hanging from their window. So far nobody has said anything to us about it. To be honest I wouldn't care if they did.

So back to today. I leave the flat just as Remy comes in stoned, with some other French people. Stoned at 10am?! Different culture I guess.
I head down to Jims at about 10:30 and meet up with Damo. We originally planned to continue work on the website, but because Chris never showed up, we just got some OOSAD done and just dossed around.

Chris infuriates me sometimes. He's a really good programmer, but he's just lazy as fuck! He never does anything you tell him to, he doesn't listen to your suggestions, he just goes off and does his own thing for 5 minutes then fucks off back to his place to chat to his MAC buddies online! He's failed every unit so far so he's gonna be outta here anyway. Just annoying that he's dragging us down as well.

Our lecture on Java was toss. Fortunately I got the window seat so it wasn't that bad. Dived out about halfway through - all Arthur does is go over the last 3 weeks worth of practicals for those that can't be arsed to show up. As a result, we hear the same shit for about 3 weeks and we don't learn anything new which is bollocks if you ask me.

So now I'm back at the flat. Dan T wants me to go to Time and Envy in Southsea, but I declined for the following reasons:

I don't have the money to spend on expensive nightclubs
I don't like anywhere that doesn't serve pints
I really can't be fucked to see Dan T get hammered on tart fuel and try to moleste Kate AGAIN

So that's my day so far. I'll probably blog tomorrow if I've got nothing else to do.

Bye!

OOSAD, VB, and Fire...and it's only monday

2005-03-07T13:49:00.000Z

Well last night was pretty interesting. Matt left the grill on full power with the door closed. The fat and grease at the bottom of the grill somehow caught fire and engulfed the kitchen in thick smoke. Good thing it didn't drift into the corridor otherwise the fire alarm would have gone off and I really can't be doing with ANOTHER fire alarm at the early hours of the morning.

I don't know what it is with Matt. Everytime he goes into the kitchen, something catches fire - of course i'm not surprised seeing as I found him in the kitchen frying an egg while doing vodka shots next to the cooker. Another time Kate found him unconscience while his burgers were reduced to ash and almost set the whole room on fire.

Well today I had a 2 hour OOSAD lecture. OOSAD stands for Object Orientated Systems Analysis and Design (yawn) - the tutor, Kathie, somehow manages to make it as uninteresting as possible. So uninteresting in fact that I have decided not to go to the tutorial later this afternoon. However it gave us a chance to talk the coursework over. Damo wants us all to conference on MSN and sort out both OOSAD and our web project.

After OOSAD we had a 2 hour lecture, which turned out to be a talk on our options next year. Things are definately getting interesting now (I'm probably gonna head towards more multimedia aspects of the course) The Visual Basic lecture was pretty amusing, just to watch our tutor blast Bill Gates and "the evil corporation". I swear Bill Gates must have stolen something from Arthur (tutor) in the past. I just don't see how he could be so mad at Microsoft.

I'm back at the flat now and our French flatmate Remy is still trying to get me into French hip hop. I don't know why he's singled me out, probably because he asked for some American and English hip hop - I burned him some Mos Def and various others and he seemed pretty happy with them. He gave me a CD of his fave artist over in France (Rocca or something like that) - Thing is, it's probably the Jay-Z of their hip hop industry, but I don't think much of it simply because I can't understand a word he says.

Aside from his music, Remy is a funny guy. Remy's antics peak when he's been on various illegal substances and cooks at rediculous times. I found him in the kitchen force feeding Dan T an ommlete at about 4am the other day n_n

Well thats about it for now. I'll blog again later on.

Bye!

2005-03-06T17:30:00.000Z

Hi,

My day of rest was pretty uneventful. I had a chat with Jim and Damo about some coursework and hung out with the flatmates in the kitchen, listening to Dan T's go nowhere stories.

Thing is, Dan T is telling me stuff that he told me when I first got here. How hard can it be to have something new happen to you in this city?? - the boy ain't right.

Kate came back after a weekend with her folks. She had a good time, but got bored towards the end. I personally would have stayed longer and had a roast :-P

However I'm glad Kate came back when she did. It means that Dan T will stop talking to me and shadow her for the rest of the day. In essence, Dan T is like Kate's pet dog - he gets overexcited whenever she walks through the door. Kinda sad in a way.

Ah well, thats about it for today - I'll probably crank out a few more banners for coursework and have a few John Smiths. Tomorrow I'll regale you with tales of OOSAD and VB (and I know you can't wait for that o_0)

Later!

Finally decided to start one up

2005-03-06T11:14:00.000Z

Hi all,

Been meaning to start a blog for a while now, but I've only just got round to setting one up. Lets get a few things out the way first shall we?

I'm Dan and Im a student in Portsmouth University studying computing. At this time I live in Halls of Residence with another Dan (I'll call him Dan T) from Devon, Kate from Hitchen (somewhere near London I guess), Rachael who is also from Devon, Matt from Essex, and recently Remy from France.

I'm sure you'll hear me curse their names in the future n_n

Well anyway. Today is mothers day for all of those that don't know (and those of you that will be reminded by your mum phoning up at 8am yelling "Where's my card!?") -It's in the post mum, don't worry about it - I've designated today as a recovery day after last night. I went round Phil and Andy's place with the intention of having a few beers and staying up to watch the F1. Unfortunately it ended up with lots of beers and no F1. I blame Andy for getting me to come round at 9pm when the racing starts at 3am.
I also decided to try the House Special at Ali's - the local favourite for drunk people looking for greasy food. I must say that the house special ain't that special. My stomach is screaming at me for eating it and im sure im gonna regret it later on in the day...

Anyway Im off to make a cuppa - later!