Happenings from 8 months ago

When I said I hope to blog more regularly, that was obviously a lie. So the last 8 months trying to recall here anything significant that has happened...... not much. Few days away here and there, few nights out followed by a few hangovers. Ibiza in August though has been booked, should be sound.

Just returned from Manchester after watching united play chelsea in teh champions league quarter final. Won 2-1 so well pleased. Four of us did the trip, Phil S, Magee, Pea Head and myself.

Highlights, not including the game itself, which was the main highlight...

Ronaldo Jeremy

Gerry Armstrong's awful jokes

How do you turn a gay man straight?

Card games, Jack change it, chase the lady, jimmy run and bullshit...... and clock

Mauling henman on virtua tennis

Chicharito score me a gooaaall....

Well done Patrice, in a gay voice

3D Zoo magazines

That is all, dunno when il be back here, but i will be back lol

Back

Decided to start this blogging game up again, been slacking, and I suppose its better than strolling through pointless internet sites, even if is only me and maybe a stalker of mine who will read it.

Events that have happened since last blog:

Me turning 22

World Cup

!2th July celebrations

So not much to talk about really.... off the tablets now, so drinking again, therefore nights out will probably become less memorable.

Turned on tv the other night and decided to watch Die Hard for the umpteenth time. Got me thinkin about the classic Playstation game Die Hard Trilogy, and classic John McLean and other character phrases used in the game. Here are the ones I remember....

Yippie Ki Yay

Wanna stay alive, stay with me

Ho ho ho , i got a machine gun

Wheres the turkey, its Christmas

Happy trails (while wingin a grenade to about 7 people)

Ahhhh thats better (wonder medi pack with only a slice of life left)

Get the hell outta here! (Hostages, awful distraction)

NYPD, hey, this aint even my jurisdiction

BYE BYE BAD GUY!

Told you we’d make it (just as the 30 seconds timer appears to find the lift and dispose the bomb, off which on many occasions the lift was never found, the bomb explodes, the building is up in flames and nobody made it at all)

One more like that and i’m a goner

There is firing in the terminal!

You’re supposed to stay in your seat until the plane reaches the terminal

Get him

Take this Yankee

Arrrrgggghhhh (while flailing in a pool of blood)

Don’t let him get away

Don’t shoot

Help me!! (then shoot them for a laugh)

Pleeeeeease Help meeee! (even more desperate)

Gonna try and blog some more and not let this post be the only one in about 3 months. Lottery numbers are about to be drawn............................................. 1 number

g'night

Easter Break Friday - Tuesday - tecnically easter

Over the Easter long weekend, as I only get Monday off work, I have been up to some different things which I will try to explain now, as i listen to some Eric Prydz on youtube which I have been linked to by Alan McClean, as the plan is to see him on Monday night in Stiff Kitten (I'm writing this bit on Sunday night).

Green Zone

Friday night I went to the cinema to see 'Green Zone', a film starring Matt Damon about search for Weapons of Mass destruction in Iraq. Damon plays a chief soldier, fed up of finding no weapons, and takes it into his own hands to find out why. Unlike a lot of these war type films etc, I actually understood what was going on and gave a good perspective of the type of shenanigans that goes on in these wars. So overall a good choice of film to see.

We also went bowling that night and I was pretty awful as usual, using a technique that scored me 65.

United v Chelsea

Here was the worst part of the weekend. As it was Michael's (Pea Head's) birthday, me and others journeyed up to his drum to watch the game. United were beat 2-1, here are my views....

Park is not a striker, in fact he's barely a player. Playing alongside Berbatov, brutal. First half we were terrible, couldn't pass a ball like Tuesday night, and created nothin. Second half was better, the only problem was half our players were completely wrecked, for example Scholes was struggling to breathe.

Linesman pissed me off for their second. The most blatent, easiest to call offside you're likely to see all season and he misses it. Clown.

Changes are needed for next season, most importantly a front man. Buying Owen in the summer was always a risk, not a bad free buy but not the answer. As some may have predicted, he's missing the crunch time of the season. As good a talent as Macheda is, we cannot expect him to produce another Aston Villa everytime he comes off the bench. And Diouf, to put it quite simply, is shit.

Chelsea are in the driving seat for the league now. You cannot expect to win a league title losing seven games, simple.

Second part of Birthday plans was golf at Ice Bowl. This time it was for money, and as I'm quite a regular down at that golf, I thought I could be in with a shot. I scored my best ever round of 40 and won. That was scant consolation for the football. I was also unbeaten at FIFA which wasn't bad goin.

We went to the Mclub that night. It closed pretty early for easter but was a good night, loada laughs. Some highlights were the dancing lol, Benny as always, and throwing chips at drive thru cars in McDonalds.

On Sunday, as i’m not a regular at church, or even a part timer at church, i was struggling for something to do. So, as it was about the only thing opened, me and some friends took ourselves to junction one, antrim to experience their new pirates adventure mini golf. There were high expectations for this event, hoping it was as good, if not better than the ice bowl. It’s safe to say we were majorly disappointed.

Problems included:

- Only one course to choose from

- The surface was just like thick carpet, which led to every missed chance being greeted with “ice bowl that was in” and “sam’s yer man ya b**tard”.

- Being directed to the first hole, by some guy whose job was actually to direct people to the first hole. I can see the first hole, it says hole 1 right beside it.....

- Being filled with kids ages 2-4.

- The lack of craziness, taking the non crazy route because you knew if you went up the hill and through the pipe, you’d finish nowhere near the hole

- No tee off zones, a basic thing for mini golf.

- Their 18th hole, pretty impossible, and just assuming that if you miss the hole, you get a 3, just because we’ve played at the ice bowl....

- Not even being allowed on the stones, with Pirates adventure mini golf ‘bouncers’ acting like life guards at a swimmers.

- Me Losing

The good parts?

- The milf playing behind us (nothing to do with the golf itself off course lol)

- walking out of the place.

Because of this debacle of a round, the Sunday night mini golf had to be redeemed, and so we went to the home of mini golf (ice bowl) to play a proper round.

18 quid on mini golf in two days may be classed as some sort of addiction lol. There are apparently mini golf clubs which i’d be interested in hearing about. Forget MMA, in 10 years time mini golf will over take proper golf and be the number 2 sport in the world behind football, obviously.

On Monday, my only day actually off work, i woke up about 1pm. I went into town, bought a t-shirt, ate a kfc and came home again. I also bought a ticket to see Swedish disk jockey eric prydz for 15 quid.

The night was at Belfast club ‘stiff kitten’ and so the 4 of us who were attending prepared for the night. Around 9pm we discovered that Prydz would not be making an appearance because his car broke down and he missed the boat. This led to an absolute barrel of abuse getting directed at Prydz and his car. Thankfully we got a refund, paid a fiver into the club and listened to some music. I got home at 2.30 am and didn’t sleep till 4am.

Tuesday morning, I have been sitting in work here for the last two hours, after getting up at 8am. I don’t even think the tiredness has hit me yet, I’m still functioning.

Also as I sit here I have come to the conclusion that I have Dermatophagia. I have not been to the doctors, even though I probably should, but i have just diagnosed myself. I could take a picture of my thumb and show some cuts but it would not be pretty.

Annoying: Stupid red cards (i'm finishing this off on wednesday night), sore eyes because of no sleep

Not Annoying: Buying a coke zero and wispa with a debit card, Sean Lock

That's that... ain't wrote in a while so thought I'd do somethin until next time :D

late night boredom

Ain't done this blogging in a while. It's currently 2.24am Sunday morning as the clocks have went forward and i have set myself the target of finishing this by 2.30am so i can go to bed.

Football today (saying 'today' really means Saturday) we won 5-3, which was our first league win of the season, and United mauled Bolton 4-0, so footballing wise it was an excellent day.

This Saturday evening i just sat in the house. I watched 'Almost Famous'. Which was surprisingly quite good. It's about a kid who follows a rock band about, writing for Rolling Stone magazine, but theres some good songs and stuff in it and it took two hours out of a Saturday night i'd have otherwise wasted by flicking tv, excessively tweeting or going on facebook every two minutes. You know it's bad when you go back on facebook and there havent been any updates since the last time you checked (60 seconds ago :|).

I did buy a Burger King tonight. I know it's all 'foreigners' that work in the joint, but when you emphasise the word 'plain', you sorta hope that your burger will be plain. It wasn't. Dinner ruined.

Yesterday, I purchased a t-shirt online, a Guetta style.... well not really but ive seen him wearin it so it'll do, and its a nice t-shirt so i was willing to pay the money for it.

Tomorrow (technically today) is Sunday already, which will probably involve the usual, lie in, dinner, internet, golf. Since work began, weekends seem shorter than an actual day in work.

I forgot to do the lottery tonight, which is poor, coz i won 10 quid on Wednesday, so it could have been even luckier tonight. I've said before that the lottery is clearly the best thing goin, even though it's highly highly unlikely that i will ever win and be a millionaire, it's still the best chance that i ever will be a millionaire, so I do it. Some guy not so long ago won two and a half million and claimed he'd be back driving buses the next day. Would yee?

There's currently no-one online on facebook which is the first time i've ever witnessed that, and it's 2.41am, so i failed by 11 minutes.

Adios

Kelly and delight

Sitting here typing before Inter v Chelsea begins, which was the exact same scenario 2 weeks ago. Inter won 2-1 so we're lookin for a repeat of that. Eto'o starts so that's good news.

This week was mainly all about the trip to Manchester to watch united v Milan, which I blogged about previously. Since coming back from Manchester though, I've been strugglin with a cold and cough, which was the main reason i struggled to last a half on Saturday. We were beat 4-1 anyway so best forgot about.

Been eatin quite a lot of delighted meals recently aka McDonalds, Subway, Wispas. Recent trips to McDonalds at Conswater has increased our sightings of their black employee Kelly. Not sure what his actual job entails, as we've only seen him readin a paper in the place and takin food out to the cars parked in bay 1 and 2. His attire for a McDonalds employee is quite ace. Unfortunately i haven't got a photo of him and he doesn't appear to have a facebook, but il get a photo some time surely.

Sunday - Mother's Day, which meant going out for some food. Didn't work out well as i only seen the first half of the United game, certainly not the best 45 minutes of the game, as all 3 goals were scored in the second half. A good win all the same though and it's tight at the top. Unfortunately things didn't get much better as the traditional Sunday night mini golf was missed because of a certain someones brutal decision to go to Coleraine (lol). So instead we took a later trip to do some bowlin, and re-affirm my position as an awful bowler.

Because of that, we decided to hit the golf last night (Monday). An added golfer in Phil Leckey brought the squad to 4 people. That was over then some football was played, so was a good Monday night after working late.

On Saturday night I went to bed about 4 am because I was watchin stupid tv. I did come across this film though called 'Man About Dog'. A local production, full of West Belfast cretins and terrible behaviour, but you could relate and it made me laugh so boom.

Annoying: Petrol pumps that don't work, St Patrick day decorations, coughing

Not Annoying: World football magazine's in depth look at global soccer, Magnum lollys.

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United 4-0 AC Milan

Yesterday I attended the last 16 Champions League game between United and AC Milan, a game in which United mauled the Italians 4-0. In attendance for the trip was me, Ryan aka Magee, Michael aka Pea Head, and Glen aka G. Left the house at 11.30am on Wednesday and was back at 1.20am Thursday morning.

This was our view from the stand, as the players lined up for the Champions League theme.

Highlights in no particular order:

- Learning from the pub quiz machine that Kronenbourg beer actually originated in France

- Short plane journeys

- Gerald Magee lol

- Pea Head not gettin a badge with a date on it lol

- Standing in the beer garden on a dry day surrounded by United fans

- Two hours straight chanting in the bar with random United supporters

- Match day burgers

- The result obviously

- A sea of green and yellow anti glazer chants

- Beckham's reception

- Some guy from Radio1 asking us for a match prediction and favourite Beckham haircut

- Burnley drawing 1-1 with Stoke

Not highlights:

- HP's being dented

-That 'Welcome to Belfast' sign at Aldergrove... one of the most depressing things ever.

Week Happenings - Golf Win

Ain't got much to blog about (on this site 'blog' actually comes up as a spelling error :S, weird) but the last two Mondays I've blogged, and since it's a break in Hollyoaks, I might as well start.

The weather this week has been a major plus. Sun shining and no wind or rain, even if sunsets driving home from work are blinding me. Makes me look forward to summer more. A summer of which I have no plans, but hopefully a holiday. I do however, have good intentions of someday going fishing on a good day. There are some alternate lyrics to that song which me and some friends might sing but we'll leave that.

After watching 'Extreme Fishing with Robson Greene', and seeing how he was catching loads of stuff in South Africa, by standing on an island of rocks, in awful weather conditions and the head gettin blew off him... I'm now convinced I want my fishing experience to be the complete opposite. That is, a warm day, hat and shorts on, sitting on a bank with some music, a carryout and a fishing rod. So we'll see.

One thing that was achieved this weekend was a victory in mini golf. After Alan McClean's awful boasts of '1 defeat in 10' he was quickly floored with an average, but winning round of 47.

The 6's were unlucky on my part.

We go to that golf so often that the guys that work there actually recognize us and acknowledge us. The girl's words on Sunday when handing over the card "you know the routine by now".

Something I wouldn't advise is walking into Currys 10 minutes before closing time, as I did on Friday night with my chum. No one else in the shop, I was interested to see what scanners were available, and what price they were these days. Looking at one for £50, which I was never gonna buy, the most desperate salesperson ever, was trying to convince me to go for a '3 in 1' for £100. Using certain scenarios such as 'have you ever been walking out your door and thought, oh no i need to do a quick scan of this", he desperately riddled off all the 'qualities' it had. In my head I was thinking ... No, I have never needed to do that, little do you know I only want the scanner to put a couple of photos on Facebook, and probably won't be used again... but i just nodded my head and said ok. In another desperate plea, he made his way to one for £150, and that was the moment to make an exit. We walked out of the shop coming to the conclusion he needed to make that sale to keep his job. I really hope that was the case, and he is now looking up the number to the closest job centre for tomorrow morning.

Also this week I had a trip to the hospital. Been told its medication for another month, which means another 4 weeks off the sauce. That's exactly 3 months this week and I must say I have felt some benefits. Mainly money in my wallet, not shouting things loudly and singing on a Saturday night, and not feeling like crap the next day, but apart from that, that's it.

Wednesday is all about me hittin Old Trafford, Manchester to watch United v AC Milan. Last time I was there was earlier in the season, watching them beat Arsenal 2-1 , so a repeat scoreline would do nicely.

Song: The original's pretty good too but been listening to this remix quite a lot.

Noticing that only half the video is showing, but you only need to listen, and i couldn't be arsed fixin it :)

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