Turkey Curry mmmm........

Well another Xmas has past. I had it in my head that this was the first Xmas i had spent away from home or away from family, but im sure its not, rather i think it was the first Xmas i has spent with just friends and not any family mmmmz.....

What ever it was this will be the Xmas forever marked as the one with a distinct lack of pressies. We did have a household Kris Kringle tho and THANK YOU John Foong for inventing that crazy present stealing game, i am now a proud owner of an Akira DVD box set.

We had a gathering over at my place for Xmas eve and *sigh* i cant say it was the same. Sure sure its minus the family, but the John Foong Xmas Party's have come to define Xmas the last few years.

Get back to Sydney John! maybe ill join you there next year :p but back to London. We had 11 of us total at my place so naturally you look for a turkey to feed 11, apparently a 7 Kilo turkey was the right one for the job. Terrified that i was going to run out of food I decided to do a pork roast to go along with the goose fat potatoes, butternut squash, sausages and bacon. Now for dessert, there were i think 3 chocalate cakes, ice cream, fruit and custard, stewed pears, yeah alot of food.

So these few days it has all been about creative cooking. Judging by this morning last night's BBC recommended turkey curry was abit mmm yer. Turkey stock miso ramen was alot better and tasted normal. The question is what am i going to do with the rest of the turkey, yes there is still more.

Changing Jobs

Next week i start a role, yes im getting underpaid again, in a support company that will hopefully teach me something new. My current role allows me to stay at home, do nothing basically, unless something actually happens. When something does happen, its restart the computer, plug in the printer blah blah blah. I hope i dont get bitten in the ass for wishing my next job could be something more complicated. It is a pleasure and a bit of a worry at the same time that im getting paid to do officially nothing atm , but i guess thats why the pay officially sucks! I hope i get a desk job plz plz plz, travelling on the tube is for the lack of a better word "bollocks!".

Over the course of the last few weeks there have been many cases where i have been on the clock and been experimenting with cooking, there was the day i baked pizza and pecan pie on the clock, miso ramen day, more recently there was paid banana cake day, i do wonder sometimes if i should send my boss a slice. Besides last weeks visit to the Science museum i havent been able to duck out TPG style as im on call, doh!i I want a desk job but I'm so gonna miss this way of life .

Grots says ~byes! for good

~Sigh~
It's post patch day, too bad im missing the joys of it, it's done.... Grots has been passed onto a lucky new owner on Ebay, its hard not to feel some sort of attachment, even the money in my pocket does little for this. I have worked it out, Wow is quite possibly the first and the last video game i made a profit out of. Here's the working out

21 months of WoW + Retail value of the game = 7*USD$41.27 + AUD$70? = ~USD$340

With Sale value - auction fees - all subcription + retail fees. Its a clear profit. I wonder if i have to pay tax on it somewhere.

So i have clear profit from this one, lets not think of the time investment that was put into it, it does make me shudder, you could have called it a 2nd job with the number of hours invested but it was all in the name of entertainment, I think, so im going to write that one off.

So with that and my pressing need for more HD space for my next addiction:

It was quite uncanny and quite fitting for all this to happen today, Binh and Kerrie joined me for a visit down memory lane at the Science Museum's latest exhibit "GAME ON FKERS!". Being a Friday where regular people are working and stuff, I took a page out of Juz's book and got paid to go out. It was an impressive exhibition covering Arcade/Console games back from its humble beginnings with Pong in the 70's to the PS3 and Wii.

There were many favourites from Xevious, DigDug, Gravius, some bomberman knock off, Street Fighter 2 and some classic games i can now say i have played on the actual arcades, D(M)onkey Kong, Pong, Asteroids, Centipede,Tron, Star Wars 1983 just to name a few. Disappointingly the only PC game i saw or rather the only port of a PC game was the classic Monkey Island!!!! mmm it would have been good to see but ah well.

Part of the exhibition inc a turn on the Wii OR PS3 so with 3 of us it was a game of tennis on the Wii. I have to say its pretty cool but im not sure how long the gimmick factor will keep me going, side by side the PS3 had stunning graphics but questionable gameplay, the Wii has less pretty pictures but seemed more fun to mess around with so meh, i have other housemates intent on a Wii so well see what happens.

Full concentration required!

Paul Oakenwho?

Last nite we had possibly the best experience out a club, well i had , i cant speak for everyone else. Chinh and Linda came down from Liverpool and rocked up at about 10pm, just in time to start the drinking. Binh, Jenn, Chinh, Linda, Michelle and I then headed out to whats to be our NYE venue ,Turnmills. For NYE we had been deciding to go for Groove Armada at the Cross or Chemical Bros out at Turnmills, after last nite i think we have made the right choice.

As we headed up to the bar to grab a few drinks i saw something that i never thought i would come across again Cream Bulbs!! or N20 or Nitrous Oxide or Happy Gas! There were a table of girls in ridiculous cowgirl outfits filling balloons up straight from the whipped cream bottle. At 2 pounds a pop it wasnt cheap but lols it doesnt hurt when u slap urself in the face :P

You could say that it was wasted on me the fact it was Paul Oakenfold, for a relative noob like myself i wouldnt be able to tell who from who but the talent was unmistakeable. With some of the best music that ive heard to date he kept us going till wee hours of the morning. Can't wait for NYE.

Vodka Redbulls + Cream Bulbs + Good Music + Good Company = WIN

Chinh, Linda + Michelle @ Turnmills