The Last Week/Weekend & An Interesting Frst Impression

I don't really update this very often anymore - I guess the novelty is wearing thin... and I'm getting my usual summer heat laziness.

However there are a few things that need to be written down as there were a few incidents that still make me laugh thinking about them.

The end of last week was taken up by not much work, our year end work do, and a birthday night out.

Work seems like a breeze at the moment as I don't have much to do compared to my 60 hour weeks so I get to relax, take breaks and even get away from my desk for extended periods of time.

So lets move on to Thursday night's work do. This was a very interesting and entertaining night - although I wasn't drinking at all this was the one night I've had so far that I've really wanted to drink.

It started fairly innocuously - we had invited the new intern to come out with us even though he wasn't starting officially until this Monday. So myself and the current intern were chatting to him and getting to know him. Other colleagues were really getting into the party mood and drinking heavily and quickly - this provided much entertainment for everyone as he was hilarious.

The new intern and the current intern were having a chat in the front window when I went out for a smoke - when I returned they had company, although this didn't last long as the young lady was soon escorted out... Curious we all tried to figure out what had happened and as it transpires this young lady had walked straight up to those boys and grabbed on by the arse, and the other by the balls and propositioned the two of them... One of them made all sorts of excuses why they couldn't even pulling out the last resort of claiming to be gay and involved with the other... Soon enough however the young lady was escorted out by the management.

Now that was a great first impression! Being molested by a random in front of everyone they work with... including the UK manager... These two were absolutely loving it though and proceeded to tell the story over and over again all night long...

The three of us soon ditched the work do and instead headed to meet the other interns in another bar. Still not drinking and surrounded by interns 6/7 years younger than me I really felt old! I met quite a few of them and they all seem pretty sound so all was good with the world.

Friday night was my mate Tommy's birthday, so I enjoyed my first pints in a month. Luckily for me we were in Zero Degrees so I could have some of my favourite drinks - Black Lager. There were some appearances of people I hadn't seen in a while which was really good - and I found out that a friend of mine had just recovered from swine flu, and that its not quite as bad as people think...

The rest of the weekend was spent sorting out my speech for the upcoming wedding - which could well be tricky as I won't be drinking - but I may have a word with my sister so that I can at least drink the toasts.

Writing speeches is hard, I sometimes stutter a bit too so I'm going to have to sort this out in a way that I'm not talking for too long...

I will be saving the missing kidney story for the Wedding itself - so this should be pretty good.

The stag do is this weekend and we have everything organised so hopefully it'll run without any hitches and everyone will enjoy it. Not drinking will be a bitch though. Hopefully I can make it through - although it may be handy having someone not pissed to help with the organisation and itinerary...

Fingers crossed...

The past few weeks

These past weeks have been busy. The weekends too.

I'm trying to arrange a stag do with two other best men, which is tough and we're having to sort this out and the best men's speeches...

Had ma's bbq on sat - in the roasting heat standing next to a bbq is not the most fun in the world - I must admit I was sweating like a rapist...

Anyways work has calmed down now - its a lot easier and I am now even slightly bored from time to time as i'm not constantly working.

That's about all really - been trying to organise a night out since May which looks like it may come to fruition this weekend - hopefully but these days you never can tell.

That is all for now.

What's been happening.

Basically nothing.

I work too damn hard.

Doing 2 people's jobs at work at the mo.

Sucks ass.

No time to do anything else but sleep - which isn't too terrible.

That is all.

Last Weekend.

Well, Last weekend was spent mostly sleeping as for some reason I am just so tired at the moment.

Friday night was the perfect example - I came straight home from work so I could take a power nap before going out for my sister's boyfriend's birthday - and proceeded to sleep through until the morning...

This was really annoying as I'd been looking forwards to this night out for a while - and from all accounts it was a good one.

I saw this for myself on Saturday as I arranged to meet my sister and a few guys for lunch - and they were ridiculously hungover. One of the guys couldn't even eat - and we had some really good tapas.

The day started to drag on after a while - everyone was recovering and so the rest of the day was spent just messing around.

Sunday I did some gardening - that is all...

This week I've been doing 2 people's jobs and it sucks ass.

But I'm not one to complain so I guess thats it for now.

On A Side Note...

Well on a side note I've just found out that Japan are the first team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup Finals - 2 hours before Australia...

So to celebrate this event I've been reliving my favourite World Cup goal of all time - and the best goal of the last World Cup - Its the first goal here

(Apologies for the music - its youtube so you can't always get what you want...)

Last Weekend.

Well, this weekend was basically wasted... But it was relaxing and in parts very funny.

My phone broke again Thursday night which sucked - this time the screen just suddenly stopped working... so I'm currently using the worst phone in the world that has a set call volume which means I can barely hear who it is I'm talking to.

However, it only took 1 email to get this sorted - to the O2 complaints department and I've got an N95 on its way to me as a replacement. Not the phone of choice but a ready alternative - lets just hope that works...

Friday I didn't go out for once, it was one of those days at work where there was nothing to do and I almost fell asleep a few times. I wasn't allowed to leave early to go to my opticians however as I couldn't find cover which was an arse and the day took forever but it wasn't too bad.

Friday night I had to tidy things up and create space for my Sister who's moving back home - I must admit I was having a very lazy day so I didn't end up doing much...

Saturday was an all action and all comedy day. It started at 12 when I really should have been up and heading into town to meet some friends - this didn't happen as I was being lazy... I ended up going in at 4 to watch the football - England vs Kazakhstan which kicked off at 4 so I only watched the second half, which was good as the game was pretty poor - it had 4 goals but minimal entertainment...

After this I went to meet some friends, one of whom was up from the West Country for the weekend. These boys are deviants, complete and utter reprobates - and as their drinks were flowing it was absolute comedy gold, we went from talking about fishing, the cost of motorcycle repairs, and investing money to some comedy bar billiards, screaming, shouting and swearing very loudly in the space of two pints... And the funniest and most effective case of peer pressure I have ever seen.

At times I was almost wetting myself with laughter at these boys, all of whom were getting very raucous and loud drunks... As I didn't have a single drink all i could do is laugh at these guys. It was very entertaining but as the afternoon turned into the evening the novelty was wearing thin... so I left around 8.30 still laughing at them for more tidying and rearranging.

Sunday was a good day, my sister came back home to sort more of her room out - and we had a roast - for the first time in ages which was tremendous. After an afternoon of digesting in front of the tv we rocked out the Wii Fit for ma and my sister and its got to be said that watching people try the hula hooping is hilarious.

The evening was spent getting my geek on and sorting out my laptop again... I must say that its an absolute pleasure to have a laptop so small you can carry it everywhere. Although there are some limits as to where I will take it...

All in all a relaxing and hilarious weekend with a gran total of 0 drinks again.

3 months down, 11 drinks in total had since the 2nd of March. 9 months to go - 36 drinks available - with a stag do, wedding, holidays and my own birthday still coming... its going to be a very interesting time...

The Weekend.

Well, this has been a rather interesting weekend. I found myself in London and I had a tremendous time...

Lets start on Thursday actually, I went out for a leaving dinner with my team from work. One of our student interns was leaving so we all went out for dinner and drinks which was nice. It was a really nice evening out, very civilised and lots of banter. Over the course of the evening we realised that one of the guys we work with is all mouth and no trousers; and that he could well either be a smuggler or an arms dealer as he often receives "packages" in the mornings and so works from home; he also spends a ridiculous amount of money on his girlfriend... so therefore our logic decided that he's pretty much an arms dealer - probably a good person to know in this day and age...

Friday I had a long long day at work, and ended up going for just a couple of drinks afterwards. It was a fairly low key night as I had to be up early on Saturday morning to help my sister move all her stuff back home.

So Saturday was not great fun, I woke up early, lugged boxes, suitcases and furniture around - and then spent the rest of the day organising, and moving boxes and other stuff around and didn't even get time to really put this stuff away in the attic - which I'll have to do this week instead. This meant that I was too late to meet some old uni friends, which was really annoying as I got bogged down with all this instead. Especially when one of the guys was down from Scotland only for this weekend, and it was my mate's birthday too...

So Sunday, well this was the best and most interesting day, I met up with my sister and her boyfriend and we went for some lunch. The reason we were meeting up was because I had found a website through facebook that was about being half-Japanese. Its called Hafu and the ladies running it were having a photo shoot for an exhibition - this has been running for a while, but it was really good to find out about this and get involved this time around.

We turned up at someone's house and after some brief introductions to some lovely people we had our photos taken professionally. Although I was told that my posture is bad, that I slouch, and that my head is slightly tilted to the right it was great fun. We met some great people and hopefully there will be more events coming up this summer that we can get involved with. What I am really looking forward to is seeing my portrait in a gallery...

The cherry on the top of this weekend was the greatest cupcake in the world. The pic at the top shows a version of the cake that almost made me cry when it was all gone... It was from Candy Cakes and I am unashamedly able to say it was the greatest the world has known. I know now where I will be going next time I'm in London...

Oh and I only had one drink this weekend on Sunday with my sister - so that was allowed... every other day - it was water all the way.
Not drinking is easy...