Sunday, September 25, 2005

A long time ago, in a galaxy not-so far away...
...a 16-year old Englishman named Alex stopped writing in his MyOtaku. Today, he has returned...

OK, when I said 'a lot has happened since January', the majority of that 'lot' was over about 6 weeks in the Summer. Before then, however, I became 17. A rather dull birthday compared to the 16th that precedes it and the 18th that follows. Oh well.

When the time for my AS exams came, all was going reasonably well until i accidentally went in a day late for my Chemistry exams. So I inevitably got a U in that, though my teacher has allowed me to continue on to A2 this year so long as I resit the AS in January. What fun, eh?

Anyway, onto the big 6/7 weeks mentioned earlier. I probably haven't mentioned that I'm a Christian before, so - hello, I'm a Christian. Wanna hug?... Anyway, I digress. Here's a 'lil breakdown;
Week 1: I helped out at a youth event at my Church, 'Wicked Week'. OK, so I've done it for the last 3 years now, nothing special in the grand scheme of things. But still, it was good to just... umm... do stuff. Yeah, rock on.
Week 2: Left (with my family) for another Christian thing, a big conference called 'New Wine'. Again, it's a 4-year thing, so nothing out of the ordinary for my summer. But still, it was great just to spend time with some friends I hadn't seen in quite a while, before the next big thing...
Week 3-5: Possibly.. no, definitely, the best part of my Summer, this. Another Christian thing (big surprise), where I went on a 3-week mission to Burkina Faso, 4th poorest country in the world, with 14 others from my youth group. I've gone into it in relative detail on too many occassions to do it again here, but needless to say - it was awesome!
Week 6: Back to the UK, stayed at home for 1 day, then went off to another Christian conference, in the same place as Week 2. Difference is that this is just for young people, not families. 7 of us who'd been to Africa went, along with some of the youth group who hadn't, so it was a good chance to chill out and catch up. All good fun.

Well, there's your brief summary. There'll be some things in the latter 4 weeks that I'll go into more detail about, relating to particular things and... umm... people, later. 'Til then.
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   Bah humbug...
I'm in quite a rotten mood today, and I'm not entirely sure why.

...OK, I might have a vague idea, but there's no point mentioning it until I do the summer summary thing.

And I only just realised that I should've said a lot's happened since FEBRUARY, not January. Doh.
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Friday, September 23, 2005

   "Neglected like a mouldy Christmas turkey..."
Oops... I only just realised how long it's been since I did anything on here.

Oh well, a lot of stuff's happened since January, so - if I get time - I'll see if I can get a (hopefully) brief summary up tommorow.

'Til then.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005

"Grr......"
Nuts!

I went out to buy Star Wars: KOTOR2 today. After pondering over it for about half an hour, as I wasn't sure if it'd work on my computer, and then waiting at the till for five minutes - I find out they don't have it in stock! Damn it!

So now I have to go back tomorrow, maybe Thursday. Damnit!
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"Third time lucky....."
Ugh.... this is the third time in the last three months that I've caught a cold from my parents. Do they ever loose that damn cold of theirs?

It's like every time one of them gets rid of the cold, they pass it on to the other, then back again. And then on to me.

THREE times!

Grr...... *cough-cough*......Grr..
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Monday, February 21, 2005

"The Legend Of Blue Muffin"
Heh.... wow. I managed to create a background in five minutes, and with not too bad a result.

Ta-da! Welcome to the land of the Blue Muffin...

All I had to do once I got the idea was look for a picture of a muffin on google. It came up with a chocolate muffin, which I randomly placed and resized several times over a couple of rectangles. Then I added a few effects, inverted the image and - Pwoosh! - Blue Muffin was born.

Completely pointless in its entirity, but who honestly cares?

One ickle wonderin' though. How can I make the inner background transparent? Anyone?
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Sunday, February 20, 2005

   "Reasons why it's not a good idea to watch NGE at 3 o'clock in the morning....."
Urgh.... OK, forget the 'reasons' part, but it's still a bad idea. Especially when you've being playing simple FFX-2 minigames all night. Heh, it surprising how a mind-numbingly simple mini-game can be so..... well..... mind-numbing!

I suppose I should just be glad it was only the first three episodes that I watched,and not some of the later ones. That really wouldn't have been good for my head. No sir. Too much confusing stuff for 3 in the morning, that certainly would have been.

I suppose, in retrospect, it probably wasn't a good idea to watch anything that required me to read subtitles at that time of night/morning. Oh well. What's done is done, and I am ve-e-ery tired.....

.....nutbunnies.
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