George said I should have a blog so I've resurrected this one. Shame on whoever reads this!.... except for George.... but including me.
Well.... not much has happened since my last blog even though it was a few years ago. I got sacked from that job for "doing not much work" and I haven't had a job since then, that was December 2008. I've sort of been looking for a job but I've mostly been spending time with my thoughts (oh yeah?! which hand do you do that with?!).
Japlan with Dan never happened and he's at Uni in London now. He won't be finished there for at least another two years so now Japlan with him until then. My friend from Brighton invited me on his Japan trip but he ended up not being able to afford it. Then he went and got a girlfriend who's from Hong Kong so if he goes anywhere far away it's going to be there. Also Two hot women invited me on their Japan trip but then they decided they weren't going. Mark's Japlan has been on hold for almost three years! I'm not going on my own.
It's been a year of small ups and small downs. For example, today I couldn't find a little red plectrum. A few years ago I bought a pack of ten and over time they've all gradually vanished, so now I find myself strumming my guitar with the side of my thumb like I used to do when I was 16. Bring on the blisters!
Currently in life I'm playing Fallout 3, GTA San Andreas, FIFA 09, listening to Van Morrison (he's amazing!), realising how socially awkward I've become and trying to make a DVD of post-apocalyptic world films but failing because making a DVD is much harder than I'd anticipated. 800mb x 3 seems to equal 10gb+ in the mind of most DVD authoring programs. Normally I would accept defeat because it's all illegal and I should be buying these films but most of them were only released on VHS in North America and I'm not spending £20+ for a video tape of a crap film that'll take over a month to arrive.
I'm now going to watch some MST3K because I'm cool.
Peace and love and mild curry flavour Batchelor's Super Noodles............ (one of only two vegetarian Batchelor's Super Noodles flavours!)
Friday, 14 August 2009
Monday, 29 October 2007
I still have a job
It's a bit crap but it'll do. I think they'll offer me a permanent position eventually so I should be able to stay here until I've finished saving up for Japan.
End of my quick update!
End of my quick update!
Friday, 28 September 2007
Temping is fun!
I sort of have a job! I'm not sure how long it will last but it should be long enough. I did two days of boring photocopying this week but at least I got some money and then next week I start at Ikea or DHL..... or both. It's sorting out deliveries to customers anyway. I can do that. I will do that!
JaPlan draws nearer with the more money I get!!
JaPlan draws nearer with the more money I get!!
Friday, 3 August 2007
So this will be my personal Japan trip blog
I'll start from the beginning so I have more to write about.
Once upon a time in 2007 I went to Dan's house. We were just sitting around watching badly dubbed Naruto and looking up bad cosplay on Google Images.... a normal day in the life of us. He got a call from his sister and left the room to take it. Upon his return he announced he was going to be moving into his sister's house. Within a few hours we'd packed up all his essentials (DVDs, games consoles, graphic novels) and were on the way to his sister's house, which was just around the corner from where I live. He'd left behind the house he was sharing with his girlfriend, they'd only just split up so I think he just wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. Due to the sudden turn of events that day I could really feel the life-changing vibes..... or maybe it was just gas. I was quite ecstatic that the only person to share my love of all things Japan was now living just down the road from me.
For the past few days Dan had been talking about, "a proposition that would need a year of your life and a couple of thousand pounds" that he had for me. On the day he moved house he decided to tell me what the hell he was talking about. He'd found a company that helps arrange working holidays in Japan. I'm in!
Now skip forward to the present day and we have travel insurance sorted, we have our visa application forms ready to fill out, we have a few contacts in Japan to give us help and advice and we have about half the cash we need already saved up. We'd originally planned to leave in November. That sort of got put back to December but now I think we're basically saying we'll go just soon as we can afford it. This is mainly due to me not actually having a job at the moment. I'm feeling slightly pessimistic about it all at the moment (you'd never guess from the way I started this paragraph!) but I think as soon as I get a job I'll be able to pay my Dad back what I owe him, resume adding funds to my Japan savings account and that'll make it all seem realistic again.
I'll be updating this blog whenever there's significant progress in the pre-Japan arrangements.
Today I learnt, "itsumoyori"
meaning that the proceeding adjective is more...... I know what it means I just can't describe things in technical terms! Don't have a cow man!
Once upon a time in 2007 I went to Dan's house. We were just sitting around watching badly dubbed Naruto and looking up bad cosplay on Google Images.... a normal day in the life of us. He got a call from his sister and left the room to take it. Upon his return he announced he was going to be moving into his sister's house. Within a few hours we'd packed up all his essentials (DVDs, games consoles, graphic novels) and were on the way to his sister's house, which was just around the corner from where I live. He'd left behind the house he was sharing with his girlfriend, they'd only just split up so I think he just wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. Due to the sudden turn of events that day I could really feel the life-changing vibes..... or maybe it was just gas. I was quite ecstatic that the only person to share my love of all things Japan was now living just down the road from me.
For the past few days Dan had been talking about, "a proposition that would need a year of your life and a couple of thousand pounds" that he had for me. On the day he moved house he decided to tell me what the hell he was talking about. He'd found a company that helps arrange working holidays in Japan. I'm in!
Now skip forward to the present day and we have travel insurance sorted, we have our visa application forms ready to fill out, we have a few contacts in Japan to give us help and advice and we have about half the cash we need already saved up. We'd originally planned to leave in November. That sort of got put back to December but now I think we're basically saying we'll go just soon as we can afford it. This is mainly due to me not actually having a job at the moment. I'm feeling slightly pessimistic about it all at the moment (you'd never guess from the way I started this paragraph!) but I think as soon as I get a job I'll be able to pay my Dad back what I owe him, resume adding funds to my Japan savings account and that'll make it all seem realistic again.
I'll be updating this blog whenever there's significant progress in the pre-Japan arrangements.
Today I learnt, "itsumoyori"
meaning that the proceeding adjective is more...... I know what it means I just can't describe things in technical terms! Don't have a cow man!
Thursday, 26 July 2007
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