Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9:44:39 PM
Ireland, Irish, Empire, Scottish
...
The tiny speck of land, in the drink, off the coast of Europe,
Once was a Great old place, crammed full of little tourists,
Those tea and saucer tippers once owned half the world!
But a few patches around the globe is all that remain.
Britain stood a mightly land, one of Kings and Queens,
Knights were gallant and courageous, also armour pristine!
I am proud of this Britishness and my fellow countrymen,
but hang my head in shame to think how it is and how it was back then.
Immigration and unemployment in epidemic, also military canned,
How can we protect the Falklands, let alone the motherland?
EUSSR want to enslave us and carve their own empire,
but stay away, keep our pay and we will fuel our own fire.
The British will prosper again, strong and merry and proud,
See the union flag and hear our national anthem out loud!
Black, Brown, White or Other you are my beloved sisters and brothers,
We will not be divided and conquered but stand defiant with one another.
Britain's doors will swing open for trade and closed to the leeches,
Our leader will be strong and dependable with true verse in speeches.
This is a country that is not nationalistic but futuristic with love and trade,
We will spread both these things to the global stage,
A welcome sight, the British are here with love that will never fade.
A little passion in our hearts is all that's required,
and a little passion in your mind will bring you all your hearts desires.
Saturday, November 19, 2011 5:54:28 PM
I look at my photo with a great sadness. I was athletic, fun, happy and well liked. I was in university doing my PhD and lived like every day was my last, laughed like every day was my first and never looked back. Today is the 19th of October 2011, I am out of university writing up my PhD and sometimes find it difficult to amass some motivation.
Its not just that, millions are out of work and I am just one of many. I have had about four interviews now and the last one I was refused the job as I was too inspirational. What kind of a worker do they want I ask myself? One that hates their job? I live with my mother who is kind and does all she can to help me but I am a free spirit, one who treasures his own freedom and is free to concentrate his passions into anything I desire.
I am trapped, a caged animal, not by the four walls that surround me but even my own mind keeps me at bay. My thoughts of work, getting my PhD done and the problems that commonly plague a long distance relationship; and the problems that plague the relationship that are not so common. I have no money to cast such thoughts aside and place them with megre value so I pontificate.
Are my thoughts the very disease that renders me ineffective in all aspects of my problems? Am I the very root cause of blame? I am too arrogant and not humbled enough to take work? Am I to blame for such relationship issues? I am looking out of the window upon the world with such greener grass and brighter flowers, with all such qualifications I have not one that is able to answer even but one of my queries.
Recently I was asked, if I were to perish this weekend, what would it be that I want to do? I answered, I want to see the world. Upon my answer he said "So what is stopping you?" I quickly replied money, of which he was expecting and said I should work aboard a cruise ship. I get paid, travel and get to see more of the world, there is a position of a photographer so I could improve my photography skills as well. Sounds great, lets sign up.. but then rainclouds appear upon what was a precipitation free idea.
I would be away from friends, family and my girlfriend for 6-8 months, what world would I come back to? Who would still be there? Would it negatively affect my chances of finding work in the chemical / materials sector? What would be of my relationship? As I am reading all this back to myself I can assure you, I am thinking to myself I need someone to burst through my door take me by my collar and say "GET A GRIP!".
The man in that picture would have half packed his bags by now... but then again the man in the picture never wanted to live a lonely existence either. I need to make a list, benefits vs negative points... either way this small town is eroding my mind. I need change, change to initiate change and engage in the freedom I need.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 6:22:09 PM
Payday is a week away and the bank account is running on fumes, the hell with the Atkins diet - this one beats them all!! I went to work today as per usual except an hour or so later than usual as there is a electromagnetic force between myself and the bed. I have a really hard time breaking through it, how ever as my alarm clock sounds like a banshee and wont turn off by itself - that usually helps.
I was just reading through my spectroscopy book noting the rediculously fine details of spectra and trying to make a list. Also exchanging riddles at work with collegues and betting each other a pound for solving them or loosing a pound if we cant haha. Subway for lunch mmm, bit of a rip off that it is 20p to have it toasted! I think so. Other than that not a very eventful day, I need to take some spectra on thursday, change a lamp in a machine and look busy I guess.
I went to the gym as I really needed to go, its 7.12pm and Im wondering wether to go to martial arts at 8pm as I have the CBT tomorrow and also have just been to the gym. I usually would as I like to do mad things. Anyway this is going to look really rediculous like I am showing off but for my own reference for the next time Im writing down my routine today:
Running @13km/hr for 1.5km
Chest Press 3 x 8 reps - 95kg
Bench press 3 x 8 reps - 70kg + 20kg bar
Chest Press 3 x 10 reps - 70kg
Chest Pull 3 x 10 reps - 70kg
Seated Row 3 x 10 reps - 70kg
100 sit ups
Stretch off
Hmm Im hungry, cant eat incase I choose to do martial arts, even if I could havent got much anyway hhahah.
Monday, July 7, 2008 6:48:58 PM
petal, stem, poem, flower
The petals are so beautiful,
The Flower smells so good,
One touch of the lips,
Only if I could.
The twisting long stem,
Winding round my mind,
Looking at that flower,
Imagine such a find.
Other flowers dance as well,
Nothing much to tell,
Greeted by all who saw,
how and why? beside my door.
One day I shall be sure,
I'll never stop coming back for more.
DC.
Monday, July 7, 2008 9:26:05 AM
Its Monday and back at work, last night was good. As I became evermore domestically claustraphobic I decided to pop out and go to a nearby bar with a friend. The place called Big Hands and is an international kind of bar; popular with the students from foreign shores. Over a Gertzwerner (a german beer) and a small bottle and then a large bottle of Cruzcampo (a spanish pilsner) we decided to talk about future plans of action and adventure. We talked about getting all the martial arts group together and going out in various places away from Manchesters city cenre, stalybridge for example, Chorlton and even more exotic locations such as Sheffiled, Leeds and Nottingham. I tried to polute the conversation with a mention of Blackpool but the notion was shot down before I even could finish the sentence. Ah well, I liked the Superclub Syndicate when I was there - you think someone had spiked your drink before realising that you are standing on a revolving dancefloor. After an enjoyable chat we had a bite to eat and then headed back to our bunkers to retire for the night.
Monday morning lets me know its here by the shreaking monotony on my alarm clock, 7am. Thanking the Greeks for inventing time and hense the morning; I arise from my bed and saunter over to turn the air raid siren off. I mess about on my laptop for a bit, just to give me some pleasure from reading articles before the whole routine is started. I decided to eat some refreshing pineapple before stepping in the shower, mmm so nice! Only cost me a £1 from Tescos, each week they have a different fruit on offer I think - suits me, I love fruit!
After donning my urban armour Im pretty much ready for the outside world, over a quick bowl of special K I read some more facinating facts about the Fibonacci sequence then equipt myself with the ipod loaded with David Gray and off I go...
Im just doing computer based work at the moment so dull lights, staunch looking filing cabinets and a little clock in the right hand corner of this screen all glare at me. Lets hope it is a productive day...
Sunday, July 6, 2008 7:42:33 PM
My apologies for being a little lazy on the blog front, as this is the first week of Defcon 5 going online I think you should give me a break! haha. This is what happens when the weekend swings around, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday merge into one big uberday! So maybe you are wondering what happened on those missing days?
Well...
Thursday - I cant remember hmm probably not a lot.. ooh wait I went to the Hein Gerricke shop and bought a fibreglass crash helmet and some kangaroo leather gloves so I was quite happy with those as they didnt cost me too much. £90 for the helmet and £45 for the gloves, so I am all set to finish off the CBT on wednesday!
Friday - Nothing to report fancied a night in really, I had a headache for most of the day anyway.
Saturday - After walking around town just to waste time, I recieved a text off my friend Alex from martial arts to go round to our teacher Mikes house...
When Alex finally turned up at the station he was kind enough to tell me the mystery destination, after missing 3 trains we were finally on our way out to Stalyvegas! To go get some smouldering treats from the barbeque. When we arrived we didnt realise Mike lived over 200 houses up a big hill, so we had burnt off the belly when we got there. We were then introduced to a great myriad of people, some were a bit crazy but thats what made the barbeque even better!
The charcoal boul was smouldering over to the left of where we came in was also stacked high with charcoal and was lit with methylated spirit and some sort of adhesive?? The food cooked on the grill was incinerated on the outside and raw on the middle, but the quick thinkers came up with a A-team style plan...
Prop the grill up with something, ahh wood! Not to worry they hosed down all the pieces with the garden hose before using them as props. Ooh wait they kept on catching fire - never mind we had more interlectual solutions at hand...
Every time one caught fire, the other members of the 'cult or barbeque' snapped them out and stuck them in a bucket of water and replaced that prop with the prievious victim of fire. So that was funny, the sausages were nice, I enjoyed the chicken kebab, the steak was nice except it was the rawest steak Ive ever had. Incinerated on the outside and dripping with blood on the inside mmm lovely - erm a good time to plead vegetarian!
Later on it was time for dessert, all of us were pretty much stuffed and more and more beer and wine didnt really help wash it down and make us less full. Ahh look a refreshing watermelon, that just happens to be spiked to the eyeballs with some kind of vodka. First few bites... ahh rubbish its all in the mind, sweet fresh watermelon just as it should be... bit further down it hits me like a sherman tank has just driven over my head. Wow how much vodka did these guys put in??
After the round of poisoned fruit was time for more barbeque stunts and pyromania ettiquette. We had the old marshmellows on sticks, with maltesers, also tried minstrels ooh wait why stop there! Donuts followed and soon after with a barbequed poison melon - as mentioned earlier. Ahh thats what we like! As the night started to draw in and rain started to fall we brought everthing inside as one of the guys put out the barbeque with the garden hose. While he was standing in an enclosed space we though he may collapse of smoke inhalation as he was fully engulfed with smoke for about three minutes but nope, he survived.
Once inside we were told fascinating stories of one of the party goers trips abroad around Russia, Siberia and around the world. To be honest I cant write down what I heard as some were a bit weird and as they were flicking though the pictures only a handful were interesting really. They were snapping shots of just about everything imaginable, flowers, sand, rocks, trains, clouds etc. etc. a lot were good but I drifted off a bit and forgot about those haha.
Sunday ahh yess today!
I aquired a printer and a mini hifi in my halls due to people throwing things out, they arent worth much as they are only a cheap make, the printer is an all in one Epson though! So Im just installing everything trying to get that online, the hifi works okay though - no bass and the treble is slightly warm but hey Ive got radio, CD and tape player at least.
I went into town and took back my hazard perception CD and got a refund for that, which was nice! Bought some more decongestants for my cold and knowing that my friend from the labs works on Sundays, I popped in and saw her - she was surprised but happy to see me. I remember in the past you had to take on any job you could get, boring shifts on the weekend shop floor. You would be rushed off your feet sometimes and then your supervisor / manager would come over and ask you to do something extra when they are doing nothing themselves. Mind you the managers I had thought IQ was a DIY store, I could have screamed sometimes. Not to mention that it seemed like if you work in a place for more than a year then your also a qualified to boss everyone else around?? So your the only worker bee surrounded by 20 odd militia managers!
Ahh well I fancy a drink tonight, lets see what happens and see what Monday brings, roll on this week!
Thursday, July 3, 2008 10:16:34 AM
Midweek this is great, its as far away from Monday as you can get! Today was quite action packed with my theory test in the morning and then my friend coming over in the eveining. I just like to say I passed with flying colours! From here on, its all practical riding now.
My friend came round in the evening and we watched a film called The Ruins which was crap but it was good to have some company. Righteo very short this one, roll on thursday!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 9:37:20 AM
Wowee we have made it to july, summer still feels like a bit of a joke as none of has tanned much in the british weather. Still the weather is nice today so Im going to go out side and make the most of it! That is - before I get to work!
I am starving, I just fell asleep last night and had cereal for my dinner but dont worry Im on no silly diet I had a bit of a headache so didnt want to do too much. Hit the scales today at 99.2kg woo! Sub 100 and its martial arts again tonight to trim us all down as well - better eat something then!
On top of the massive mountain of things to do today is pick up my suit at the dry cleaners before 6om, think about ordering and trying on a suit (yes, another one) for my big sisters wedding, look at houses, revise for the theory test tomorrow and do some work... at work! She can wait, practice is important and so is picking up my lovely suit. Right time to get something to eat and back to work...
Monday, June 30, 2008 4:55:41 PM
Okay the internet at my halls has cut me off, I am over my download limit of 16GB, its okay it should renew itself tomorrow - I hope! I have to pay monthly and if you go over the limit its £5 extra for 5GB, problem is it just cuts you off like that. Arghh I cant wait to go into a house from August with proper internet, but thats another problem - I have to find one first!
Today was the classical back to work blues day with productivity waivering on the line between doing nothing and very little. I have to finish off filling a table in with Infrared data, its not the most exciting thing in the world! Also found out that I cant log into internal email and IT services are off till spetember, YEEHAR!! Have to get that fixed pronto! Ill go to the office tomorrow as its the end of the day and now we have to travel down 7 floors and back up again to sign in if its after 6pm - so Ill be off! haha.
Tomorrow is a new day but I have good friends in the lab and I will try my best to make it really productive and maybe even get started on the report Im supposed to do. But at the moment moving house, buying a motorbike and the theory test on wednesday is weighing heavy on my mind. We will see :-).
Hopefully I can squeeze in a drink tonight too! as tuesday night would be out of the question, especially after Martial Arts class.
Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:59:08 PM
Well the party was really good last night. Spanish sausages with cheese inside were lovely, spanish omlette with potato in is delicious and everyone elses dishes were great too. My Cantonese chicken in black bean sauce seemed to have a good reception and I learnt of a new drink called Kalimocho! Its 50% red wine with 50% coke. Its quite nice haha.
Today went well with the CBT, I didnt do as well as I would have liked and need to come back on wednesday for an extra £50. Eughh.. but I guess its extra practice which cant be bad. Maybe Ill add more to this later, or maybe not. Tonight Im round at Lucias watching some match and eating food and drinking which cant be a bad night.
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