Im still a kid at heart. I had almost forgotten it was birthday while up on the slopes, the good old DB crew from Sydney made sure i didnt forget it. Before we even departed they presented me with my birthday gift, a pair of Oakley Iridium ski goggles, i had been ogling them for months now, yet i was being too much of a tight ass to buy it for myself.
On the slopes they bought me a cake with candles and all, and also played bday drinking games, which i was so sure it was rigged. The "Learn to play bridge' card in French =/ a Joker Chinh , i dont care what you say. Just a word of thanks guys, ty for going to all the effort it was much appreciated!
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Mount Du Pain!
With my nonexistant skills in French i have dubbed Val Torrens the highest resort in the Alps of France, Mount Du Pain. Its amazing how little i thought about what a week long snow trip would entail.
1) Im unfit as a bitch
2) I had to live with 2 couples ( Chinh+Linda and Binh + Jen ) the agony. Dr Phil Save me!
3) French TV is shit ( CNN being the only english channel and DBZ being the only cartoon dubbed in French we could sort of understand)
4) Me snowboarding for 6 days
5) Snowboard intructor that was a hard ass.
6) Binhs dragonboat team.
As much as a torture that is sounded like i enjoyed myself thoroughly and it was the best snow trip that i have ever been on. The alps have a scenery that has to be witnessed, no photograph or video can really translate the sensation. The biggest lesson to be learnt in snowboarding is to buy PROTECTION/Body Armour, something which i didnt do and i am still regretting it a week and a bit later. Learning to snowboard was rough especially for me as i could ski to a semi competent level, but the bruises, bumps and pain were well worth it.
All in all i can hazard to say i would do i again.
Pics to be posted soon on the phat links ================>
1) Im unfit as a bitch
2) I had to live with 2 couples ( Chinh+Linda and Binh + Jen ) the agony. Dr Phil Save me!
3) French TV is shit ( CNN being the only english channel and DBZ being the only cartoon dubbed in French we could sort of understand)
4) Me snowboarding for 6 days
5) Snowboard intructor that was a hard ass.
6) Binhs dragonboat team.
As much as a torture that is sounded like i enjoyed myself thoroughly and it was the best snow trip that i have ever been on. The alps have a scenery that has to be witnessed, no photograph or video can really translate the sensation. The biggest lesson to be learnt in snowboarding is to buy PROTECTION/Body Armour, something which i didnt do and i am still regretting it a week and a bit later. Learning to snowboard was rough especially for me as i could ski to a semi competent level, but the bruises, bumps and pain were well worth it.
All in all i can hazard to say i would do i again.
Pics to be posted soon on the phat links ================>
Thursday, January 4, 2007
NYE 2006: Turnmills revisited
Gotta say that this was another great night out at Turnmills, not the best of venues, they have had some pretty good acts play there. Being NYE with the Chemical Brothers playing, it was quite crowded but man the music was good. There were about 10 of us in there but due to crowd i didnt get to see everyone. Binh, Jen, Michelle and myself were joined by Jean + Thomas + Khoa & Co freshly back from their ski trip. Turnmills is a bit of a maze inside and i still havent been able to figure it out but we werent all able to fit in the main room which did suck.
Im not sure if i would want to do NYE in a club again, there was no countdown and it was abit of lackluster NYE confetti, the only real downer of the night. Binh and I once again successfully arrived at Farringdon tube hanging hard for a piss, this time we were civil and managed to find a pub but only after we were rejected by some terrified Indian guy at a KFC that locked the door in our face. We have found our new vodka 42 Below, product of NZ funilly enough, that + Red Bulls yes yes FTW
NYE Pics are now posted over there ======>
The theme was rock stars, we made an effort! cant you tell?
Im not sure if i would want to do NYE in a club again, there was no countdown and it was abit of lackluster NYE confetti, the only real downer of the night. Binh and I once again successfully arrived at Farringdon tube hanging hard for a piss, this time we were civil and managed to find a pub but only after we were rejected by some terrified Indian guy at a KFC that locked the door in our face. We have found our new vodka 42 Below, product of NZ funilly enough, that + Red Bulls yes yes FTW
NYE Pics are now posted over there ======>
The theme was rock stars, we made an effort! cant you tell?Wednesday, December 27, 2006
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.
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.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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 .
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 .
Friday, December 8, 2006
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'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.
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!
Saturday, December 2, 2006
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
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
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