Summer Wars (2009)

Summer wars is a 2 hour film from the same guy that directed 'The girl who leapt through time'.
Without spoiling too much, imagine... the matrix,but fun and without the human enslaving bit, and then unleash a virus in the matrix, and then make the matrix have mirror effects on the real world.

Its a really, really good film, probably the best animated film ive ever watched - including ghibli's stuff. But then, thats just my opinion i suppose.

Definately worth a watch though.

How do you kill that which has no life?

*sigh*

so one week into my holiday and I havent been out anywhere really, went to the carvery the other day for lunch and I went to tesco once with mum.

Life is so much more fun in Leamington with the housemates, which sort of makes me wonder - what is life going to be like after University finishes? Will i be doomed to loneliness in a boring job? They all live pretty far away from each other so I wont really be able to see them much.

So part of the reason I havent been out (aside from the fact ive few friends here) is that as usual, im swamped with work.
The vent lot will know this certainly isnt the first time ive been swamped with work - which reminds me , i should at least make more of an effort to get on vent while im on the 360.
Ive got exams for 12 modules coming up, each consisting of 15 lectures worth of material , ive been going through the lecture slides and notes and making condensed notes , the pharmacology module was around 18 pages at normal font size, molecular endocrinology is at 13 pages and im on lecture 10/15...

Ive got to make and learn 20 x 12 pages of information in about 2 months?
2nd year is supposed to be the hardest year thankfully, and its worth 30% of my entire degree and considering I got a shitty 2.2 in my first year I kinda wanna do well this year to make up for it. How fucking depressing.

Kotaku Census results

just thought id drop this here,

Huge survey thing on kotaku readers about games.  Pretty intresting finds , for example 79% of PC users have pirated a game at some point.

http://kotaku.com/5500495/kotaku-census-2010-the-results-in-full

Formspring

Found out about it from bemanisows, its basically a questionbox style thing.

Basically...

Ask anonymous question ---> (possibly) Get Answer!

http://www.formspring.me/mengplex

See how we go I guess - might put a perma link on the side panel

Back home for easter

Back home now, Not really sure what im going to do for 5 weeks or so, im totally dreading having to actually start studying  ~.~

My brother bought Dynasty warriors 6 so we've been playing that some, and im playing through bayonetta again just because its amazing - i actually missed a TON of stuff on my first playthrough, apparently you can get ice skates, a whip, a rocket launcher....

£800 worth of software = Good quality film! (apparently)

So... anyone remember...  '£800 worth of software =/= good quality film.'
Well apparently thats a load of bullshit because our video won 'Best Video' award at the bioscience 'WAFTAs'
Sooooo.. im pretty much made of win.

"he said all videos were 2.1 to high 1st and that crazy lady who also talked to us loved ours the best"
So surely that means our video is worth a High 1st right? Since its the best? RIGHT?!

Im pretty sure anony helped me at some point, so nigguh gets a mention fo being a beast.

In other news, My birthday present arrived yesterday, at last - Bayonetta!~
She's so ridiculously over the top its brilliant.

Also, My term 2 workload is coming to an end, The 4 Lab reports (1500 words each) , 3 Lab Abstracts (250 words each) and Essay (3000 words) are almost done, I still need to polish up one of the lab reports and do one more lab abstract but other than that im almost in the clear!... Just in time for term 3 and final exam revision. Fucksake. T_T

The 15 Egg Challenge (Eggisode 2 - Eggpire strikes back)

Task : Make unique dishes using 15 eggs , dishes cannot be made twice , no more than 2 eggs can be used in 1 dish.

READ EGGISODE 1 HERE
On the last eggisode of the 15 Egg Challenge....
Eggs Used so far : 6/15




Now we continue with what happened to the other 9 eggs...

'Scrambled Egg on Toast'



It was actually the first time i had properly made scrambled egg, Made it in the pan with a good helping of salt and pepper...
Yumminess : 7/10
Ease to Make : 8 (mix eggs, pour in pan, smack it around abit , make toast, put egg on toast...)
Eggs Used : 2/15

<and now shit gets hard because ive used all the easy recipes...>

'Deviled Eggs'

Idea page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_eggs

So deviled eggs, are supposed to be a hard boiled egg, cut in half and then you take the hard yolk out and mash it with stuff and put it back in the egg - unfortunately I apparently cant cook a hard boiled egg , they both came out semi-soft with abit of a runny yolk. Nevermind, I decided to improvise and make a 'filling' out of fried onion, bacon bits, sweetcorn and mixed it with BBQ sauce. It came out surprisingly well and was pretty damn tasty.
Yumminess : 8/10
Ease to Make : 3/10 (Takes a while as i had to fry the stuff up, boil the egg, peel the skin, cut it, clear up the yolk, mix the bacon and stuff... )
Eggs Used : 2/15

'Easy Oven Frittata'

Recipe can be found at - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3160/easy-oven-frittata



Running out of stuff to make at this point, A scan of the internet and i came across this 'Frittata', essentially a pasta bake but using egg and milk, I added bacon and sweetcorn as well because I bought lots of bacon after realising you can only really cook eggs with pork. It came out pretty well, and had a unique taste which i genuinely can't describe. After spooning it out it looked like pasta mixed with bits of scambled egg though.
Yumminess : 6/10 (unique.)
Ease to Make : 4/10 (boil pasta, chop bacon up and put in whisked egg and milk mixture, shove in oven for 40 mins)
Eggs Used : 2/15

'All Day breakfast Spaghetti' (not the actual name, but thats what I have named it.)

Recipe / Idea...

Sure, why not. I was practically out of ideas for meals so i figured id go with this idea, thinking it would make some sort of omlette with pasta inside... I do however need meat in my diet so I thought id cut some sausages lengthways and put them in as well.


I'll admit.. the result wasn't quite what I had in mind, It pretty much turned into a big plate of spaghetti which tasted like English Breakfast, a kind of sausagey eggy taste... Not pictured in the picture is the dollop of ketchup I put on. The dish quite grew on me as I was eating it though, dipping the fork into the ketchup before picking up some egg coated spaghetti and piece of sausage was pretty nice. Its definately a taste you won't get anywere else.
Yumminess : 4/10 at the start.. 7/10 by the end.
Ease to Cook : 4/10 (boil spaghetti, cutting the sausages was a bitch, the actual frying bit is pretty easy as you just throw it all in.)
Eggs Used: 2/15

'Tamago Kake Gohan'

Idea can be found here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamago_kake_gohan

Another find from the list of egg dishes on wikipedia , I have to admit I was pretty scared by this one but figured I had to try it.


So incae you didnt click the wikipeda link, or suss it out from the picture, this dish is basically getting a raw egg, mixing it with some soy sauce and then pouring it into rice. it was... actually not that bad, the raw egg added a slippery layer over the rice making it easier to eat than plain boiled rice, and the soy sauce gave majority of the flavour. I imagine the raw egg also has enough nutrients to compensate for the lack of any other ingredient in the dish.
Yumminess : 5/10 (nothing special, but definately edible.)
Ease to make : 8/10 (boiling up rice is sort of an effort, aside from that its eggstremely easy, hell you dont even have to cook the damn egg.)
Eggs Used : 1/15

And thats all 15 eggs gone!
probably one of the more intresting ventures ive taken into food, And tbh i think i'll probably end up doing something similar with something else at some point, having to keep coming up with unique food ideas is a great way to discover or create new dishes.

Eggs Used : 15/15
Slices of bread used : 10
Rashers of bacon used : 5
Egg puns used : Not enough.
Best Dish : Bacon and Egg Sandwich, followed shortly by Deviled Eggs
Most intresting Dish : All Day Breakfast Spaghetti (Can't say ive ever eaten anything where you dip your fork in ketchup before eating)
Worst Dish : Easy Oven Frittata (it wasnt even that bad, but something had to get 'Worst dish')

Because its always good to have a stock of food in your room when working

Also, 'obey the game' is awesome and has amazing music. my highscore is level 105 (11.4x speed)

MBA presents... The 15 Egg Challenge! (Eggisode 1)

Long story short , 15 eggs for £1.50.

Task : Make unique dishes using 15 eggs , dishes cannot be made twice , no more than 2 eggs can be used in 1 dish.

'Eggs in the basket'


Have never made this before and only found out about it from wikipedia on a list of egg dishes.
Basically you cut a hole out of a piece of bread and crack the egg in the middle whilst frying the bread. Ate mine with ketchup.
Yumminess : 8/10
Ease to make : 6/10 (butter bread , wash glass that i used to cut hole of bread , cooking stage is easy though)
Eggs Used : 2/15

'Ham and Egg Toastie'



Used the toastie machine after frying the egg and putting it in, its totally not a sandwich. Eaten with BBQ sauce as seen in picture.
Yumminess : 7/10
Ease to make : 9/10 (fry egg , make sandwich , toastie machine it)
Eggs used : 1/15

'French Bread / Eggy Bread'



Ah, good ol' french bread. Have never made it before so i had to google how to do it. I didnt put enough sugar in the egg mix so i had to top it myself.
Yumminess : 4/10 (I most definately made it wrong or something, little flavour even with a dusting of sugar and not soaked in enough egg, an eggstra egg and a ton more sugar would have probably made this a 7 or 8)
Ease to make : 3/10 (No idea how much sugar to add , have to beat the eggs first , bread falls apart if you try to pick it up with a fork to lift it into the pan, fair amount of washing up)
Eggs Used : 2/15

'Bacon and egg sammich'


Ah. Bacon.
Its hard to top a bacon and egg sandwich with ketchup. Im dribbling a little bit just looking at this picture - and im typing this up after i just finished eating the thing.
Yumminess : 10/10 (god tier - you could say its pretty eggcelent)
Ease to make : 8/10 (Step 1 : Fry eggs and bacon , Step 2: ??? , Step 3: Profit!)
Eggs used : 1/15

Not sure were im going to go from here really , i could make an omlette or something eggtravagant I suppose. I did consider trying to make meringues but they'll almost definately end badly and i'd need to go buy caster sugar or whatever goes in them. Might make pancakes or something i suppose... Kinda screwed since ive used all the easy recipes so early on and im going to need to make at least another 5 dishes to finish these eggs.
I also need to think up more egg puns.

Eggs left in the fridge : 9
Eggs Used so far : 6
Slices of bread used : 8
Egg Puns so far : 4

READ EGGISODE 2 HERE!

Noise Complaint

'To the residents of X brunswick street
Reference numerous conversations we have had regarding your behavior and noise pollution, to ourselves.
Once again on Saturday 27th Febuary you chose to ignore all requests, to keep within a reasonable noise level.
We feel we can no longer keep this problem within the boundaries of the two houses and are taking advise from our local councillors and warwick university, and will eb asking them for an explanation how a group of students feel they have no obligation what so ever to the community in which they reside.
Mr Mrs D.P (double penetration) Harris'

Ahahahahaha , what a load of bullshit.
They have formally come to complain 3 times since we've been living here , thats like.. once per two months?
I am so very fucking tempted to put my £70 speakers against their wall and unleash some fucking dubstep on them
THEN they'll know what noise pollution actually is.

My 21st Party

Week overdue update , didnt think it would matter since im pretty sure nobody reads this blog anymore anyway. Might just stop updating.

So my birthday party thing went pretty well , started off as a casual thing , bit of musics and stuff - we spent about £40 on booze and chips and dip and all that stuff which isnt too bad.
We started playing the Internet drinking game using alot of cards from 4chan and a few that duncan created , i wish i had a few to show - maybe ill get them later. Was pretty good stuff , rule34 got played twice D:
During this game i also had to run around the house making chicken noises and had to bend over and get spanked by everyone in the room whilst downing a drink.

Drinking games soon devolved into strobe light rave

Strobe light rave soon turned into the landlord at the door telling us to turn it down because apparently our neighbors had called the police on us and they had contacted him about it.

We went off to the jet , our localish pub - full of 30-40 year old drunks, I ended up talking with some random guy who bought me a pint because of my big 21st badge, his other friend decided to start trying to talk to me in japanese - and then practically pulled his ass out to show me his japanese tattoo - and then kissed me :|

We went back to the house shortly after this , where the alcohol was starting to get the better of me , i thought id rest my eyes.
Fortunately managed to open them fast enough to avoid an antiquing which my housemates were planning (for those not in the know , basically.. flour.)

I went upstairs and fell asleep shortly after this but the party went on without me, apparently at 4am there was a paintball fight in the garden or something and the girl next door (not the complaining side) decided to go get her violin and play that for a while.

I woke up... aftermath...






There is still a thin layer of flour around in the kitchen and spots of the carpet :/

Gamertype?

http://survey.ihobo.com/BrainHex/

Thought this was quite an intresting survey/quiz thing which will probably appeal to most people that read this blog.

For me...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Socialiser-Conqueror.

You like hanging around with people you trust and helping people as well as defeating impossibly difficult foes, struggling until you eventually achieve victory, and beating other players.

Favourite games of Socialisers surveyed so far include Final Fantasy, Left 4 Dead, Pokémon, Team Fortress 2, and World of Warcraft .

~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Id say that sounds about right , I do love all of those games and like being part of a team/squad. What about you guys? (leave dem comments)

This place sure is different...

So this week we have more labs to do :/

Today we did a virtual nerve simulation, which was pretty boring stuff. Yesterday however (Monday) we did a frog disection... Essentially we were given a freshly killed frog which had been decapitated , I then had to cut off the skin on its chest and cut upwards through its chest , move stuff out of the way and find the heart in a little sac , i then had to cut open the sac and basically pull out the heart slightly and clip it onto a thing which measures weight - this then could measure heartbeats... Oh yeah , i forgot to mention , the heart is still beating.
Yeeeaaahh... the heart muscle basically beats on its own to prevent problems in the brain from killing off the animal, so as long as we put this nutrient solution it would keep beating , and it did - for like 2 or 3 hours while we did various tests on it (such as changing the temperature , putting depressant on it , putting adrenaline on it , using string to cut off the atria from the ventricles (seperating the top and bottom) , and a bunch of other shit ).



Poor Frawgy.



Also , on the bus home today I ended up sitting at the top at the back (where all the gangsta's sit and shi fo rizzle) , I spotted some 'graffiti' which made me laugh. Warwick sure is different to Essex..


It may be a little heart to work out because of my fuzzy camera , but basically its an ionic arrangement of Sodium Chloride (salt) compound , complete with scale measured in angstroms.

Finally , a picture of the ridiculous amount of wires around and under my desk right now.



In other news...

- Sales at asda , ended up with 3 packs of M&M's :D
- Still failing at doing essay work
- Global KDR has risen in MW2 , tried using ACOG Barrat50cal with sleight of hand pro today, was pretty hilarious being able to quickscope and kill people in 1 chest shot.
- 9am lecture tomorrow ~.~
- Party stuff is getting prepared, we still dont have the booze yet.
- Ridiculous headache almost all day today, complete BS
- We started watching 'Drawn Together' which is prettyhilarious.
- Episode 15 of Kaiji so far , poor guy keeps going from frying pan to fire and now has a giant eardrum remover strapped onto him.
- Ive completely fallen in love with 'The Listening' (Album) By 'Lights' , kinda like Genki Rockets meets Owl City. Listen to one of her better songs here

As usual, sorry for lack of updates.

The last week in pictures... and abit of text i suppose.

Apolagies for no updates in a while.
I went back home for a very extended weekend on saturday and stayed there until last night.



^ 'Green eyed monster', my new favorite drink , chilli sambuca , blue curacao and monster ripper (which is essentially a can of sugar + water , men in black style.)
Had this to perk me up on friday night before we went clubbing for christina's birthday. Apolagies to fiona in the background who looks alot hotter irl.



^ Kasbah in coventry , pretty packed out. Was alright for the first hour or so but then everyone wasnt really in the mood anymore and christina (birthday girl) didnt want to leave which apparently means we all had to stay >_>



^ Chinese new year in Chinatown London , went there for a big meal with family on sunday. Got lots of moneyz too.

^ Ridiculous oversized new arcade game they have at trocedero, pretty much full sized minigun and giant screen and you shoot down planes and shit.



^ My new netbook came on monday , shit is mad tiny. The screen is around 1/4 of my main monitor size. Ive also found out my oversized mousemat works well for 2 mice if i ever want to use my netbook and my main pc at the same time. I get the feeling it'll mainly be used for work on the go or vent while im downstairs on the 360.



^ Started snowing pretty fuckin' heavy earlier , it seems to have calmed down now but outside is now painted a thin layer of white.

Other things that have happened over the past week...
- Played and finished Assassins creed 2 over 3 days
- Got the result of my first essay that i submitted , Low 2:1 , kind of disappointed as I put my heart and soul into that thing but at least its not a 2:2 which may have made me kill myself.
- Found some leftover washing up which i forgot to do before i went home , green mold. nice.
- Im drinking root beer.
- I found out that the £10 wireless mouse i ordered for my netbook needs to have a piece of tinfoil wedged into the battery compartment otherwise the battery doesnt make contact with the pins.
- Got my windows 7 to stop nagging me about genuine
- Started watching Kaiji , intresting anime , Try watching the first episode and tell me you dont want to keep watching to find out what happens.

The company of myself

I rarely find myself playing online flash games unless im at uni or somewhere and trying desperately to kill time , 'The company of myself' however is an amazing game in every way, similar to braid in aspects , the game tells a simple story accompanied by some beautiful music.
Takes about 10 minutes to complete, give it a try

http://www.kongregate.com/games/2DArray/the-company-of-myself