Saturday, May 2, 2009

uhm...hi
i know i know i know i KNOW...


i havent updated since Easter, and there really is no excuse...just a sheer lack of motivation. ^^;; gomen.


so what's been happening in the last few weeks? well, i have both my flights and my visa sorted for my trip to america (and beyond) this summer. i just gotta sort out insurance and my innoculation jabs for the second half of my trip.

i also bought myself a new DVD player, which is good cuz my old one was on its very last legs. which, considering it was a cheap one bought in 2003 (i think) is pretty darn good. my new player also comes with a hard-disc and dvd burner for recording stuff, AND comes with a digital TV tuner so i can get Freeview Digital TV in my room now. so when they turn regular TV off, i have nothing to worry about! ^^

of course, the big con to this wonderful piece of machinery is that i spend all my time watching Digital TV and going through my old DVD collection...i havent had much sleep of late. ^^;;



my lil comic project is coming along slowly..i've published the first three parts on DeviantArt and i've penciled the next two pages but thats about it. ^^; im doing pretty crappy.

the weather here has been pretty nice, i've been heading outside and doing stuff. i took this last week off of work cuz i needed some time to myself. my parents went away to New York for about a week, so it was just me and my little brother in the house. we got along ok, and most of the chores got done, so no big.

this week i had to go the airport TWICE to pick up some people...i travelled up on Monday to pick up Megan and Megan (dont worry about it), who are two of my friends from Camp. they're visiting England for the week, and i've hung out with them a couple of times.

The other person i had to pick up was my older brother, who i picked up on wednesday. he's home from L.A for a few weeks, and its nice to see him again.

i went to see Origins: Wolverine this week...a pretty good movie, but it was hyped up WAY too much...i was vaguely disappointed with it. it was pretty neat and all, a good prologue to the X-men trilogy, but lacked a certain je ne sais quoi. i blame the hype mostly, and i also blame the fact i had read the original "Origins" comic before...there's a few ties between the comic and the movie, but mostly the film does its own thing...canonical to the movie trilogy, not to the comics i guess. ^^;


yesterday was a real nice day, so i travelled up to London's Docklands and walked from there into the City centre. The docklands starts in Greenwich, i began in the heart of the docklands which is the Isle of Dogs. Its mostly a big financial centre, and just off the Isle is Canary Wharf, home to London's tallest building; 1 Canada Square. from there into the city, if you stick close to the river, its mostly regenerated land, full of houses and apartments. a few areas are a little bit rough, but a whole lot of it are luxury apartment buildings right on the river. and the biggest thing you notice is how quiet it is... its hard to believe you are in the capital city of england. since it was a nice day there were a lot of people relaxing on their balconies or in the parks, soaking up sun. i haveta admit, i was a wee bit envious of those rich bourgeious bastards living in their expensive apartments by the river... *Achem*

eventually i got to Tower Bridge, and from there i made my way to the Monumet, which, as the name suggests, is a Monument. more specifically its a coloumn which you can climb up the inside of and get some pretty neat views of the city from the top (although its a heckuva lot of steps!!!). its a monument to the Great Fire Of London, which began on a small street near the monument, but went on to obliterate a large section of London in 1666.

after that i made my way to a Docklands Light Railway station and headed home.

so yeah. a good afternoon out.


today im going to a party at my friend and colleague Dave's house. its going to be a Barbeque hopefully. of course, if i dont manage to find his address, i guess i wont be going. ^^;

the other big thing i have planned for tonight is in Picadilly Circus. As part of London's SCI-FI weekend, they're doing a whole bunch of films and talks and stuff. tonight they're doing an ALL NIGHT ANIME FILM FEST. it starts at midnight and finishes in the wee hours of the morning. one of the films they are showing is a remastered version of the original Ghost In The Shell. good stuff. ^^ i managed to get one of the last tickets...unfortunatly its right at the front of the movie theatre, so im going to be all @_@ tonight...y'know, on top of trying to stay awake. :q

but it should be fun! *fingers crossed*


anyways, thats all from me today. hopefully it wont be forever before i update again, so it wont be as insanely long post. ^^;;

take care!
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