Stuck in Bluewater

Monday 28th
Nothing really happened , spent most of the day playing DJhero or some other shit i think , made some amazing characters to show anony sometime.

Tuesday 29th
We decided to go to bluewater for the sales , of course about 10,000 other people were thinking the same thing , the result was pretty much no parking spaces and then once you're in , you're in for the long haul.
After shopping we tried to leave at 3pm or so , we got in the car and realised there was a giant queue to leave the car park... the queue wasnt moving...
We decided to go back in to shop for a bit, took a mental note of a silver jeep just outside of the door caught in the traffic...
An hour later we decide to try and leave again , the silver jeep is still in the same spot , it hasnt moved at all. The driver of the silver jeep loses his shit and starts wailing on his horn for a constant few minutes , we decide to leave and come back later again.
We discover a winter wonderland funfair style thing outside bluewater , its all lit up and looking rather pretty.



We go back to check the car park.
Silver jeep..... IS STILL THERE!?
Back inside , fell asleep on a bench for a while whilst mum looked around john lewis.
At 6pm we went back to the car park and the silver jeep had finally gone , the traffic was slowly moving now and a small army of traffic wavers had appeared , We managed to go home at last.

Our hearts go out to the silver jeep who was there for at least 2 hours and couldnt leave his car because he was in the middle of a narrow road

Dimsum in London

Sunday 27th
Went to chinatown for dimsum and then we ended up shopping around covent garden for a while afterwards , I ended up buying a new coat from Breed - which is apparently a designer make sorta thing owned by superdry , never really heard of it though. Convinced my mum to go to trocedero afterwards so i could play some more DJmax Technika , it has such a beasty cabinet , you cant see it in the picture below but you can feel the bass pumping through the floor platform bit whilst you play , also supports IC card for saving your profile/data and stuff.


While im putting pictures up , piccadily circus was nicely lit up too.

Blood Test

So i went to the doctors a few days ago to get a blood test , today my mum went to the hospital , confidence'd the guards and waltz into the staff area of the hospital she used to work at , she then went to her old ward and just went behind the main desk and started using the computer to check the pathology section of the intraweb.

According to the blood test results , everything of mine seems to be fine but im low on white blood cells (neutrophils in particular) and platelets (the things which let your blood clot)
I thought id try and check google to see if theres anything in particular I can try and eat to boost my WBC's or platelets , unfortunately there doesnt seem to be any simple dietary fix.
The best advice i managed to find was 'Try to avoid injurying yourself'
Fucking fantastic. thanks google
Ill have to make some major lifestyle changes there , im pretty much just throwng myself into rough looking walls and piles of glass currently.

Oh. in other news , i just ordered some £70 5.1 surround speakers since im fed up of having a sound card worth £65 and speakers worth approximately £8
Went with the Creative Inspire T6200 , gotta be reppin' dat Creative , ive got 3 creative mp3 players a headset and a soundcard so i figure i may as well get speakers to match.

Christmas Day

Christmas day for us is generally the same every year without fail , waking up at 8 or 9 , opening presents together in front of the tree , playing with said presents and then going off to grandparents for food , gambling and possibly board games. This year though the family all went to my uncles house , he had a 360 , so we ended up playing that as well - Got my ass handed to me at Soul Calibur , but I guess its to be expected since he taught me how to play.

Presents recieved this year included around £80 cash and the items in the photo below



May be hard to see, but theres some socks in there , an electric toothbrush , comfy slippers , duvet cover , stylized ice cube tray , and an electric heated mattress covery thing,  I also got a shirt , a coat but may return it and a wallet.

Christmas Eve 09 - Winter wonderland

So met up with Frances and we went to London , ended up going to camden to look for a coat for her , they recently have redone the place actually , looks really nice now , and lots of food! it was like being back in Malaysia or something



On the way to the station to leave we saw a random llama , which was... odd...
Didnt get a very good picture of it..



From here went to piccadily circus to look for a HMV or a game or something so i could buy a game , mum wanted to buy NFS:Shift for the uncle but the cheapest we could find it was £40 which is ridiculous.
They have a DJmax Technika machine at the trocedero! :O
The game is harsh in its life bar , few note misses and its game over with no continues. I lost £1 in about 5 seconds from being cocky and practically putting it on hard mode on my first go, played again and got to experience it properly , its a really fun game although the touchscreen can be a little insensitive at times (heres a demo vid of someone actually good at the game playing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mi4-FU-B8U )

We then went to check out the winter wonderland display thing in London hyde park , it was free to enter and look around but all of the food and drink and rides and such were really extortionately priced (£2.50 for a fanta/coke? wut?) Big german market and lots of nice things to look at with christmas music playing , would be awesome if you're feeling like you have abit too much money.



Was feeling thirsty afterwards and wasnt going to pay £2.50 for a drink so we decided to walk around knightsbridge a little , and accidently stumbled into harrods so we went in to take a look at the ridiculously priced cheeses and shit. Ended up buying some crazy french orangeade from there for £1.25 for 330ml , which wasnt too bad. The drink was actually really nice as well - i suspect they laced it with some form of cocaine.

Series of unsavoury events

Monday
Forced to go to the dental hygenist by mum , its essentially a voluntary pressure washing/buffer-wheeling of your teeth by an angry old woman.
After getting home to look at my bleeding gums and shit i notice what looks like a cavity on one of my teeth...

Tuesday
Dentist again , this time for a filling , 2 needles to the gums and a lot of drilling later and its fixed

Wednesday
Doctors appointment to check a lump on my head and to ask for tests because of that nightclub episode i had.
Results in having to go to get a blood test , yet another needle , he takes 3 vials of my blood :<
Come back home and try to play some MW2 , get thrown in to a spawn killing 18 player rust TDM and a match where their team constantly had an AC130 spawn killing us all , as a result ye old KDR has dropped , brilliant.

Ive also done next to none of my stupidass essay , nor do I see myself being able to do much of it anytime soon because its so much bullshit.
If tomorrow isnt a better day then so help me.

Batshit insane dream , black people stealing my windowframe and I accidently grab an ass

So from what i remember , im going to a party at the girls house but some of my housemates decide to come later, so me and i assume some other people went first. When i reached this party though it was all people from warren . aaron brown tries to do some sort of weird thing trying to stroke my chest on the inside just by putting his hand flat on my chest, then natalie comes along and... started nibbling my fingertips or something? This freaked me the fuck out so i went to hide behind and talk to jodie , rosemary and charlotte (charlotte whom i dont think ive ever really even talked to before) , daniel godfrey and someone else whom i assumed was josh fowler was next to me. Talked to the girls a little and daniel says 'here to grab some ass eh?' , "oooh yeah, you know me , love that ass." i reply, as i go to grab josh's ass , what i feel however is a very firm smooth ass and the drapes of a skirt , oh fuck - I turn to see whose ass i just grabbed and its lynsey cartwright's , she's wearing a very very short skirt (note: dont think ive ever really talked to lynsey either , how inappropriate.).
<memory missing>
So i return back home (to my Essex home) and am reminded that i live with idiots ,someone had left the TV on and the 360 on (displaying what appears to be the prototype loading screen) , I turn them off and notice that someone has also left the large front window open , and there is a 6ft black guy standing just outside examining the open window. I walk over and slowly shut the window, black guy does not look happy... I go tell my dad what just happened. Looking through the frosty glass at my door , the black guy has gone back to his truck of black guys and has started setting up this giant  looking thing called the 'Flymo unlocker' , looks alot like those things they use to clean the ice at ice rinks, but bright orange. I go grab the rounders bat from my room just incase. Few minutes later i go back to the lounge and the black guy is looking into the house through the OPEN window again , what the fuck. He tells me to chill out and points at the windows , upon closer inspection the windowframe and panels are all new - I start to wonder if i was wrong about these guys , maybe they're like pimp my ride but for windows? I wave at the 8 black guys in the giant lorry outside my house and they drive off. I soon start to get suspicious however , i go outside and try moving the windowframe - it comes straight off! its not even secured on!

I panic and go tell my dad, it is at this point while we are talking that a red pimped out humvee appears outside our window , we black out the house and watch what they're saying , looks like old guys inside...
One of them takes out a gun and shoots through the window...
<memory missing>
NINJAs are all over the fucking place in my house , using curved swords and shit , armed police burst in and war occurs.
After the battle everyone calms down... I examine one of the ninja swords... its blunt.. I ask the old looking emperor looking guy sitting in my lounge what is going on and he tells me he there will now be a vote on whether or not i can join their 'evil but sweet' group (actual words , no joke.)

Unfortunately at this point , my alarm goes off.
An entire world gone in an instant. What a weird fucking dream.

Wikipedia

One can easily forget sometimes that wikipedia isnt actually written by top scientists or anything of the sort , almost all articles are up for editing meaning the 200 words you just stole for your coursework could very easily have been written by a 14 year old crackhead with down syndrome. Case in point.

Tribute to the best christmas film ever.

A christmas comedy featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger? The fuck are you waiting for?

Ive lost count of how many times ive seen this film , theres something very special about seeing arnie uppercut a reindeer or get into a fight with a small army of santas.

2nd and 3rd place go to 'Muppet christmas carol' and 'Nightmare before christmas' , both awesome but a lack of arnie is their downfall

Global Agenda

Not sure if its the epic sounding music or the guy commentating it sounds like a movie trailer voice guy or whether the game actually just looks good , but this looks intresting.
Heres to hoping it'll be affordable (but i wont hold my breath)

Hide and seek

Not your everyday burger

So went to gourmet burger kitchen last night whilst going shopping with the parents , Its basically a place that does really big fancy burger and chips , after glancing down the menu I noticed 'others'...
Buffalo (yes , buffalo!) £9.99
Wild Boar £9.25

The (yes, buffalo!) was actually on the menu by the way , Figured its not every day you get to try buffalo or wild boar so ordered it , or well my brother got one and i got the other then we just cut them in half. The place is pretty expensive though , £3 for a portion of chips , which comes in a coffee mug style thing - pretty damn nice though i have to say.



So there it is , Wild boar burger on the left , Buffalo on the right
Unfortunately , they both taste like beef , although buffalo is meat is very very soft which was nice.

Thats 2 more animals I can cross off my 'To Eat' list

Back to the ghetto

Am now back in Essex , got back yesterday after a 2 and a half hour drive down from leamington , thought id hook up my PC to the downstairs 42" TV to watch 'Up' , which ive wanted to see for ages but missed it in cinema and such so had that nize blu-ray rip playing on the massive screen with surround sound amplified by my X-Fi sound card , the bit with the thunder was ridiculous , actually proper thundered with the bass.
Film was actually pretty sad , didn't quite cry but i can see why some people would , overall though the film was absoloutely amazing , beautiful graphics and great storytelling with a decent amount of humour , not hard to see why it got so many awards and such , 10/10 fo sho.

The rest of the day i spent on the 360 , playing some MW2 , brother also borrowed orange box off one of his friends so i thought id try and speedrun that too , also borrowed prototype from duncan so have been playing that some as well. Theres apparently an infinite ammo glitch on 360 MW2 which basically makes you not have to reload or anything , resulting in machinegunfired grenades from grenade launchers D: , Havent seen it myself yet but it sounds ridiculous.

Don't wobble my heart // Movies // GTS250

First off , made the jelly heart using raspberry jelly...


pretty nize.

In other news , Frances came over for the weekend , she was around from thursday and i just got back from taking her to the busstop to go back home - Which i guess is why there hasnt been any twitter updates recently.
To pass time we ended up watching '500 days of summer' and 'zombieland' , I also downloaded 'Ninja Blade' and 'Left 4 Dead 2' for PC to try out.

500 Days of summer
Its essentially a super artsy kinda tragic romance story , essentially guy falls in love with girl who is a little bit weird and then she just one day decides she doesnt like him anymore and he turns really miserable.
The film overall is pretty so-so , its a girly film so I wouldnt really be expecting any guy to be watching it unless their GF talks them into it. Its not horrible though and sort of watchable , definately not as bad as the notebook or some other shitpile film like that.

Zombieland
Another film suggested by Frances , its pretty much the story about 4 survivors in a 28 days later sort of world. 1 of them is a pussy , 2 con-artist girls that think they're hard , and pretty much stone cold steve austin with guns who just goes around Frank westin' zombies up. The film doesnt really have any major plot , they just travel from place to place and exist but its sort of entertaining I guess , almost a comedy?

Oh, also, Ive mentioned it in my twitter but...
Got my new graphics card in the mail on Friday morning

Its a new looking BFG GTS250 1gb OC , the card above is the £20 card i got as a replacement.
The card seems to have a few issues with heat , the fan on it doesnt seem to autoramp with temperature which is sort of weird. I think i perhaps need more casefans since I currently only have 1 exaust 120mm fan , Maybe ill get another 2 120mm fans... Shame they're like £8 each.
The card seems to run COD:MW2 fine @ 1920x1200 with everything max and 2x AA , also runs L4D2 fine at everything max.
I get the feeling the extra video memory is useful for me with my 24" monitor , my old card was only 512mb.

Anywho , i think i may go and kill some demomen to make sure the soldier gets the new unlock

Paintball Pictures- 5th Dec

We went as the santa crew , Before picture


After pictures



Neccesary 'we're so fuckin gangsta' pic


Got shot quite a few times this paintball outing (compared to not getting shot at all last time) , I dont think the weather conditions helped , it had been raining the past... week... or something silly so the ground was muddy as hell , you pretty much couldnt even run without sliding and falling over. Compare with the before and 1st after shot , duncans trousers or general front (3rd from left in before shot , 2nd from left in after shot) , thats what happens when you go prone on a very muddy field - i also think he crawled through a small pond at some point. Good stuff though , and i managed to only use 200 paintballs in total (so £20 overall including travel and a free lunch) which isnt too bad

Jelly brain

So a few days ago i told ye about how i got some jelly moulds for secret santa?
Made it yesterday , a lovely 2 tone green on the inside , red on the outside as well :)



It was gone within 2 hours , approx 2 pints worth.
Devoured inbetween rounds of mario kart :P

Secret Santa

So today was our university christmas essentially , Ian cooked us roast dinner and the girls came over with desserts and stuff , we had our big dinner , opened secret santa presents and then watched 'Bad Santa' which was a bit shit if im honest , would have much rather watched Jingle All the Way or Muppet christmas Carol but ah well.
Secret santa presents were lol , sonal got biscuit dicks , adam got a pokeball and a MW2 shirt , ed got a MW2 official guide thing with mad strats , luke got a shirt , annie got a watch and some other stuff , elaine got a hot water bottle and a mug , aggie got a necklace , ian got some southern comfort , duncan got an inflatable cock and a toad keyring thingy , christina got a hat and gloves...
Emma - who i had to buy for - got a scarf , a squidgie face stressball thingy and a 40p ninja double DVD (note however that the DVD i got had 2 films on 1 disk)

Annie got me for secret santa... the price range was £5-15 , she got me....




The jelly moulds are actually pretty cool and unique , ive never seen anything like them before , Im still not really sure how to go about actually getting the jelly to set in them , they dont really balance in the fridge , Ian says apparently the suction should keep it on a plate or something but if im honest i dont trust that at all.
The toe socks are.... different... big long and in rather bright gay colours,  and as you can see they show off my long toes rather well which is kinda creepy...

other pictures....

^This is what £17 gets you turkey wise

^Ian and luke cooking xmas dinner , stuffing , parsnips, carrots, sprouts , potatoes..... Y'know.. the usual. The turkey gravy was soooooo good.
The girls brought over a TON of desserts too but i forgot to take a picture of that.

Oh, i dont think ive posted a picture of our tree yet...



Oh, we also had a fire going in our lounge for a little bit , then the trial version jewed us over and demanded we paid 240 MS points for it.

Blackout.

So friday night after a normal day , everyone decides to go to crash , little bit of pre-drinking , took the bus to campus , needed to desperately piss etc etc etc.
The place was pretty damn empty for a club , so we went downstairs and got some drinks and just sat around talking for a while.
Eventually went back upstairs to the dance floor but it was still pretty empty so we were still just standing around , I started to feel a little weird... Kinda like there was lag between thinking 'move your arm' and there being any actual action , or like i was out of sync with my body or something , i assumed it was just alcohol or something though.
2 minutes later , leaning against a pillar typing out a text message and i start to feel really dizzy , my vision started turning to black and white and all film grainy.....

I slowly open my eyes , there is a first aider in my face shouting at me , its like one of those scenes in call of duty where all the sound suddenly starts to become clearer...
He helped me up and we went into the stairwell , apparently.. I passed out. Duncan handed me back my phone which... i have no idea how he got , i guess i just dropped it on the floor or something.

Spent the next 15 mins trying to work out whats going on , the first aider took down some details and got me some water , i tried leaning against the sloped wall in the stairwell.

I slowly open my eyes , there is a first aider in my face shouting at me.... again. What the fuck?
Apparently i just passed out.. again. Im so confused at this point.
he tells me to lay down and calls an ambulance without my consent.
We end up talking about crap for ages before the paramedics show up , one angry oldish lady and a girl about my age , they take me back to the ambulance for examination.

Ive never been in an ambulance before , they has lots of gadgets and shit in there... They start asking questions , the young girl stabs my finger and steals my blood for examination while some other dude checks my pulse, they start asking more questions , "are you allergic to anything?" - "uhhh... i dunno... cats i guess?" - They wrote it down.
I am informed my blood sugar level is low , the normal level is around 5.0 , I was at 3.8 , nice.
We talked for a while whilst they were filling out this huge scale form , poor paramedics were working from 6pm to 6am and the young girl is apparently the same age as me.
Eventually they finished typing and attached the laptop to the wall and it started printing , I am now the proud owner of a 4page long single sheet scroll which basically says im allergic to cats and a detailed analysis of my vitals.
Went outside and my housemates had a snickers for me and we went home , given a lift from one of the girls from girlhouse. Im glad i have such good friends here.

OMAI WA

So today I had to get up at 7am or so for a SUPER SPECIAL 2 HOUR LECTURE STARTING AT 9AM BY A SPECIAL GUEST LECTURER!
It turned out to be some indian guy with an extreme english accent , he spent the next 2 hours essentially saying CHOLESTEROL IS BAD , YOU HAVE CHOLESTEROL , YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK , ONE IN THREE PEOPLE WILL HAVE A HEART ATTACK IN THIS ROOM , ESSENTIALLY ONE THIRD OF YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD.
nice. definately how i wanted to spend my monday morning.

Scared by his talkings , i went to leamington afterwards and had a little walk around , ended up buying the rest of my secret santa gift (its nothing too great but ill take a picture and put it on here sometime after next weekend just in case that person checks this blog or something.

Uhm. Other news...
- ASDA Ginger beer isnt half bad
- 15/23 spec ops missions finished on veteran
- Level 30 in MW2 Online MP (somehow cross has gone from 1-35 in the time its taken me to go from 25-30, boy clearly plays the game too much)
- Shoulder ache from the other day.... I havent told this story yet....
Basically i went to asda without much cash thinking id pay for my shit by card , shopped , went to pay , 'card blocked' , tried my emergency credit card which my mum gave me , called her for the pin , put it in - 'incorrect pin'. Fail.
So i had to walk all the way back home , get cash , walk all the way back , pay the bitch and then lug my shopping home
As for the shoulder ache , i stupidly went crazy on the deals and bought 4kg of chips , 2x2L bottles of fizzy drink and other misc shit (kg of chicken , cans , 1.3kg of ketchup...)

Best comic ive seen in a while

A brief guide on how to not live your life.

Dont be this guy :

Get down~ // beat this

^Brought to my attention by one Boyce.

Also , i challenge you to top this.


WE GATSA HAT CRASTACEAN BAAND *BUHM BUH TISH*

Also , 2000/3000 words of my helicopter bacterium essay

Bored Games

So over the past few days we thought we'd try some drinking board games. First night we played 'Risk' which ive personally never played before. Its pretty much some sort of global domination game which is sort of 30% tictacs 70% lucky dice rolls for attack/defense. 4 of us played , luke died first because we basically all raped him and he kept rolling 1's , duncan on the other hand was doing very well after starting the game in somalia - his black counters filled the board almost achieving world domination , he took over africa , south america and all of europe. At this point me and ian decided we'd have to make an alliance to stop the evil black counters , i posessed all of asia and russia (whites) , this gave a huge reinforcement boost , ian (blue) was being invaded at north america and he had australia. But we eventually pulled through using trump cards and so on to reinforce massively and taking out his stronghold in somalia.
Just as it was in southpark , race war? whites win!



We also played rude word scrabble last night , double points for rude/offensive/awesome words.

Unfortunately the picture came out a bit shit :<
noteworthy words...
Penis , Queef (Urbandictionary it if you need to) , fag , rape , jew , tosser and the game winning word....
'nig bender in catz' which went over a triple word square , double points for being awesome and alot of points for being fucking humongous.

Grim days we live in.

Whoops. Neglected.

Sorry i havent updated in a while , just havent really had much to report.

Summary of things which has happened in the past week....

My BFG 8800GTS 512 exploded on me , I have since had to deal with tech support emails and paid almost £7 to send it off to their tech support warehouse thing in wales , im yet to recieve a replacement card or any emails on the matter further but they at least acknowledge they recieved it. (I also replaced it with a 6800 Ultra)

After much messing around I made a start on my essay , this only happened yesterday though so at the moment its looking really shit and is just under 500 words , only 2500 more to go.

Ive been primarily playing Modern Warfare 2 on the 360 since my PC died on me , Im almost at Act III on Veteran on the campaign and am level 15 in the multiplayer , currently im really really shit at it however i blame the fact that our TV isnt dat HD and i cant ever see people.

I went home last weekend to visit family , along with going shopping , going to dimsum and setting up some cupboards to store shoes in , we ended up watching '2012' which was pretty much 'day after tomorrow' but with better graphics and a black guy for a president. My dad had an operation on his parathyroid glands (in his neck) on the monday , the operation was a success from what i gather and he is now stable in a hospital bed but cannot talk properly yet.

This is all i can think to mention at current , will try to blog more but I feel like i have so little time recently juggling work and games that I cant really seem to find anything to rant about or anything intresting enough to properly blog.

Oh. Also , some pictures from my phone....


^Depressing picture of desk whilst trying to research helicopter bacteria


^Picture of the sleeping pod in the library


^Human buckaroo


^we also built a fort

And finally theres this guy.

Half minute hero Review (PSP)

So half minute hero consists of 4 main storylines/gametypes which interweave into a bigger story , these heroes are 'Hero' , 'Princess' , 'Evil Lord' and 'Knight'...

Story (Hero 30) : So theres always some asshat who is trying to destroy the world and in this game they have worked out a spell which dooms the world in 30 seconds , Hero saves the world with the help of the time goddess
Story (Evil Lord 30) : He thinks he's pretty or some shit so he wants botux to make him more pretty? In 30 seconds? or something? [didnt really pay much attention to this story]
Story (Princess 30) : trying to save her cursed father by finding a cure , however guards wont let her leave the castle for more than 30 seconds so she has to go out and find stuff and be back in 30 secs.
Story (Knight 30) : Ressurrected from the dead by a sage , he protects the sage as she casts her end the darkness spell in 30 seconds - they journey to ressurect the hero for the final battle....

Gameplay (hero) : Essentially plays out like a miniture final fantasy 3 , You have to go to villages , talk to people , complete a miniquest , grind to level up on random encounters (which are played out automatically) and you can buy equipment and herbs and shit and then you go to fight the boss and hopefully kill him before time runs out.
Gameplay (Evil lord) : Small scale RTS , he summons 3 types of monsters and they each trump a certain type of enemy , you then have to complete the objective by summoning monsters and stuff.
Gameplay (Princess) : Shooting game , the princess sprays out arrows and shit and has to find.. shit.
gameplay (Knight) : Evasion? i ... guess? Have to protect the sage as she casts and shit kinda just tries to kill you.


The graphics are pretty amazing across all the gametypes , and by amazing i mean everything is just giant pixels and stuff which i think looks really cool but to each their own i suppose.

Overall : Really fun game with a fair amount of replayability , each of the gametypes have 30 levels or so - although the only one you'd really replay is Hero30. After you complete all 4 gametypes you unlock more - Hero 300 where you have to save the world in 5 minutes but on a much larger scale . and Hero 3 - which i havent unlocked yet but sounds mental.

5/5 if you're getting it for free (i assume everyone has their PSP's hacked?)
3/5 if you're actually paying for it as its a little short

PS. It has the BEST title screen music ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIRQ1j169fU

The chicken fiasco

So i went to tesco after coming back from hertfordshire university (before i got the bus back home) , the chicken section all of my beloved '2 chicken breasts for £2' were sold out , the alternatives were '3 giant chicken breasts for £6' , 'shitty little bits of chicken we chopped up because we think you're too stupid to do so and we're going to charge you extra for it!' and a whole chicken for £3.50 which weighed as much as the 3 giant chicken breasts for £6 pack.

I did what any self respecting stupid person would do and i bought the whole chicken.
Oh my.

Got it back home and thought i'll just cut it up into bits and we'll be fine , spend 10 mins cutting it and save yourself £2.50 , easy peasy.
Unwrapped it , took the rope off it...
It smells :/
Ran it under the tap for a while , filled its ass with water etc etc.
Mkay , time to cut it...

My kitchen cleaver refused to cut the chicken.
I got out the knife sharpener and ran it through a few times...
Kitchen cleaver still refuses to penetrate the chicken's skin , im starting to think I accidently bought some sort of impenetrable super chicken.
I tried the other knife in the kitchen , success! a small rip!
Crammed my fingers in there and ripped it open (not what i normally do , honest)

Mkay , so the skins off....
What the fuck do i do now.

I start hacking away at it , legs and wings first...

[heres a chicken! incase you guys have never seen one before , also pictured are knife sharpener and dual knives.)



Man... this is... not easy.

Meanwhile , in another part of the kitchen...

Coming back at 10pm , i was kinda hungry.
I thought id make myself some cous cous.



Unfortunately for some reason , i read the packet , saw 'add 160ml boiling water' and thought 'ill add 320ml boiling water!'
>_>
Had to throw it away.

Back to the chicken , I eventually got it down to just the bulk of it , figured id slice it open...



It was only at this point i realised....
I dont even know what the fuck is edible here.
I cut what i could and then ended up boiling up all the remains so that i could eat the annoying clingy bits of meat which i couldnt remove from the bones.

Moral of the story? Buy the chicken fillets.

Trip to hertfordshire university

So on the friday i left the comforts of my electronic filled house to go visit frances in hertfordshire.
The trip took around 5 or 6 hours (bus , coach , coach) and left me stuck outside a guardhouse which i wasnt allowed past because i had no ID. Bummer.

So after a phonecall and lovely reuinion and whatnot we headed into their bizarre campus. Multiple campuses with their stuff strewn everywhere.
The place she was living in was odd too , small segregated groups of 10 or so people to a kitchen with no common room , no TV's , no mario kart...
Its also worth noting that there were a fair amount of black people living here , about infinityfold more than there were living in cryfield during my freshers year anyway.
Another thing was that there were no wardens around to bitch at people for being stupid/annoying/inconsiderate , inconsiderate nigger next door was playing  ridiculously loud music til like 3am every morning.
Final note is that their doors are all automatic locking with keycard entry system which isnt neccesarily a bad thing as such but it certainly makes it alot less fun in terms of pranking.

Saturday
We took the bus to Watford , a fairly large town with a huge shopping complex , market and a shakeaway (we had a munchies milkshake , yum). We had to wait a fucking hour for the damned bus home to come - it was the last bus too so we spent the whole time wondering whether we had already missed it or not.
At night we went to 'the forum' which is their SU club thing , the event was propaganda which was advertised as an indie night , however either they (or I) dont understand what indie means, they were playing Deadmau5 , pendulum , blink182 , tenacious D.... In my head indie = kaiser chiefs , kings of leon , the killers..... so on. *shrugs* It was a good night though , the venue was massive! Also frances got tipsy on vodka and fanta which was quite entertaining.



Sunday
I think we went to ASDA to go food shopping and then we went to hatfield town center , which is a complete joke - it was like 20 shops or so.
Cant remember what we did for the rest of the day but i do remember watching some South Park.

Monday
Nothing specific , just hanging out , talked to people in the kitchen for a bit..

Tuesday (today)
Again , nothing particuarly specific , I left midday for my epic journey home , ended up being 2 hours early for my megabus so walked around Victoria train station , had subway for lunch and then ended up playing some PSP (GTA chinatown wars for a bit and then lots of Half Minute Hero [review later] )
Got back to coventry at last and went shopping where i made a massive error of judgement and bought a whole chicken [more on this later]

Sky news has a good grip on online gaming

If you guys arent online gaming in the dark in front of a giant green neon tube whilst holding N64 controllers... you're probably doing it wrong.

Champions Online (weekend trial)

So obviously i started by trying to make a seriousish character... Ended up with this badass guy , dual sword / fist spec.



I then thought id go see some of the other hero possibilities....





I guess its safe to say champions online caters fully for anyone wanting to have a half shark/dinosaur/butterfly hybrid character.

Heres another guy i made , trying to go as gundam/Iron man as possible...



Thought id try a chick next..



And then best for last...



Heres a shot of me ingame..incase you was wondering what the HUD and stuff looks like...



And then some random action shots of me going from level 1-5



Overall... Mediocre MMO , didnt grip me as much as WoW did. I do like the character customization available though , selecting what skills you learn and stuff is pretty cool. And getting a travel power at level 5 is awesome , none of this waiting until level 40 to get a mount shit.