Well a fire at work meant that I spent most of the day stuck in a room with no windows and not being able to ask my supervisor if I could take the time off.
Monthly Archives: October 2007
I should get away
Having come up to London today for my chartership interview I couldn’t help but notice the Flight Centre over the road from the Jacob’s office where I had my chartership interview. After having a coffee with Ian Deakin I headed into the Flight Centre and enrquired about the price of a flight to New Zealand for next week. Around £850 or so via Hong Kong I headed up the road to my original destination Travel Mood looking for a similar quote.
Afterwards I took a cruise on the Thames and talked to my sister about my idea who thought it was a good idea. Popped into Foyles on the Southbank to buy myself the Lonely Planet guide for New Zealand. All that remains is to ask my supervisor at work tomorrow for the time off so I can book my flight. I’m also going to ask my sister’s boyfriend Patrick about his experience of travelling round New Zealand.
Being noticed
Sometimes it feels that I’m in this no man’s land where there are two opposing pools. One of those I would love to go out with and share the world with and on the other hand the obtainable. Finding someone who’s in both camps is depressingly. Should I lower my aspirations and go for the obtainable rather than for what I aspire?
When someone doesn’t notice you it can be hard especially, when you hear that they’re out looking for someone. Why don’t they notice me? Do I need to wear a t-shirt saying Choose Me! or take to camping outside their house with a sandwich board boasting I’m the man you’re looking for, let me rescue you just to be even considered? Just because I am already considered a friend does this put me out of the running to begin with? Then there is the fate where the go out with someone who you think why them not me? Why go out with that total jerk just like the previous jerk that you went out with and then she disappears out of your life and leaves you with.
I hope you understand but I want to spend more time with xxxx
Next step is that she marries him and the good times that you had are a fading memory. The reason given for going for me was that she didn’t feel that she was good enough. If that’s the case I’m pretty stuck if someone who I spent many hours doing stuff with feels that way does that cut out everyone else.
With my uni friend Andy he knew his girlfriend Helen for year before they both asked each other out so I know it doesn’t have to be the case. Why can’t something similar happen to me?
Is it the distance because I’m jumping around the country from one week to the next? I’m only doing this because it seems that no one actually asks me to be anywhere. If I just languish in Kent I’ll only end up spending the weekend sitting around. Better in my view to get out there and see and do stuff rather than to disappear. What are all the right moves?
Sometimes this quote from Hamlet springs to mind
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
It has always been the case been for me that despite the pain and the anguish, I have always believed that there will be a better tomorrow.
Random thought for the day
Random thought for the day
The Japanese word “chokuegambo” describes the wish that there were more designer-brand shops on a given street
As if I shop in designer shops in the first place. (H)
Rhys Ifans
Listening to Power FM, on the way up from Southampton yesterday morning, the topic of Notting Hill and Rhys Ifan opening the door in his underwear. For me the image that sticks in my mind is the in Love, Honour and Obey when as Matthew he’s in fancy dress as a giant teddy bear carrying a pistol just before he gets his revenge on Jonny Lee Miller’s character Jonny for all the trouble he’s caused before being knocked off himself.
Halo 3
Just completed Halo 3 playing co-op with my friend John having been forced to play the Arbiter rather than Master Chief. We had fun playing it but felt it was very much more of the same compared to Halo 1 & 2 and like many others felt we had to play it to complete the Halo Triology and finish the story. In comparision Resistance: Fall of Man felt like a breath of fresh air with the wide variety of terrains such as Manchester, London, the Cheddar Gorge and the military bases and the many different styles of weapons such as the Bullseye and Augar. Epics such as chase the scarab from Halo 2 were sadly missing.
They’ve obviously left the end of Halo 3 open to allow them to have a Halo 4. Will Master Chief fall to earth somewhere and be treated like a god. What will he do about spare parts? Will The Arbiter decide to go and find Master Chief and rescue him.
Halo 3 was good but not that good. A good analogy is that Halo 3 is to Halo 2 as Killzone was to Halo 2. Killzone as a good game but the co-op mode made Halo and Halo 2 really fun to play. I’m hoping that Killzone 2 when it comes out will give the Halo franchise a run for its money.
First OU exam
Had my exam today for DD202 Economics and Economic Change. Bit strange to be sitting down to do an exam after a break of six years. Things appeared to go well apart from the last question I choose when I hit a mental blank on how to do it despite looking at the material for it yesterday.
Now going to have lots more free time and no deadlines until I find a course for next year with the OU. Ought to go and start looking for a holiday now as I’ve still got 17 days holiday to use up this year.