SNAP!!!!!

Random title but it's cause I've been doing two of things of late so it seems appropritate ^_^ Neeways

Shopping - yes, you read that right Ryu-chan has been shopping, twice. Well once and then the second time was that I needed to get to the doctors. On Monday I walk up with the dog, go into Boots to order a repeat subscription and then head into Clair's to get some presents for those of you who are going to Rocky Horror this coming Friday. Nope you don't get to find out what they are until you arrive at mine (or meet us in the case of Dash and Mat and you two will be wearing yours or else). Then go home and chill out before work. Then on Wednesday head back up, taking the dog for another long walk, to go to the doc's to collect the perscription and find out that I have to have an appointment for it so go to the docs and book one. The next day go and find out I've got the wrong thing so I'm going this coming Tuesday to get that sorted out.

Work - been fairly okay actually, which was all good. Ahmed was reading .Hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet on Sat cause he was determind to get through it but I don't know if he finished it or not. Also today Wilf, another mate of mine on the team, came up with two rather interesting facts that he heard on BBC Radio 4. They run as thus 'Out of all the Crisps consumed in the E.U over 50% are consumed in Britian' and 'Newcastle is the Sickest City in the E.U as we have had the highest work sickeness rate over the last twelve months'. Rather ironically funny no? lol

Date with Wayne - hehe went out on a date with Wayne on Sunday night to Gosforth Race Course for the Marvellous 06 music fest and it was a whole lot of fun. We had The UK Beachboys who were rather odd and interesting and the keyboard went which was quite funny as they were trying to play Beachboy songs with a piano which did work in it's own way, The Illegal Eagels who were really good and got over half the audience going which was fantastic and then One Night Of Queen! OMG they were so much fun and I may keep and eye out for mam cause she's a major fan of them. Seriously go and see them cause they are brilliant (the guy whose Freddy won Stars in Their Eyes I believe and you an tell why) and it was great cause at one point they were singing on stage by then switched to a CD backing track (I think during Bohemined Rapsody or one of the others which I can't think of now) and there was like no difference it was that freaky. Wayne was really loving every minuet as well, not just cause he was with me as he always enjoys that but because he liked all the bands and was singing along with them all which was great as well. ^_^

Movies - Snap. Been to the cinema twice this week. The first was on Friday night and with Bill, Dennis, Jane and Barry from kendo as it was Bill's last night and I wouldn't get to see him ever again really so I went along for a laugh. The 11:20 showing which was a bit stupid but it was worth it. Went and saw X-Men 3 and even though a lot of people are dissing it to hell I think that it's the best out of the three and does it's job exceptionally well. It's a very finely crafted film that just flows along and unlike the other two doesn't spend flipping ages on the characterisation. Don't get me wrong I really like the other two cause they're cool - and it's X-Men - but boy did they spend ages developing characters who they really didn't use as well as they could. Aka Rouge had quite a strong role in the first one and then was faded out in the last two whilst Beast wasn't in the first two and yet they get him pratically sorted out within a movie. Strange but true, and thanks Nashi (if you still read my blog) and Mamo for ranting on about X-men and the different sagas otherwise I may have gotten a bit lost. Not an awful lot as it's easy watching but there were a couple of bits where I was thankful I knew the story background.

Then on Saturday I went and saw The Da Vinchi Code with my parents. Hmmm let's say that it was a film that could have been done so much better. It started off pretty strong with the right sort of atmosphere and styling that made things go along very well and set up the situation perfectly. Then it got half-way through and suddenly the screen became the most easiest thing to read in the world, the mystery and suspence flew out of the window and the plot twists became so apparent that by the end I was kinda going what the hell? I mean yes you can never get as good as a book - for the simple undeniable reason that a book can take up a load of pages to explain things and let you get really involved whereas a film has on average 90minutes to tell you a whole story in visuals which is blinking hard to do - but it got laugable. Forgive the media student escaping here but even my mum and dad could read the screen easily and weren't too pleased about it. It should have been really fantastic and full but ended up feeling very cheep and nasty and done at the last minute. I give credit to Tom Hanks who was acting his little socks off to try and pull it around as he did a good job of everything and the Angel Serilos or whatever he was called - the white haired monk dude who looks like the guy from Blade Runner but isn't - was really good and creepy as this bad guy type person as were most of the small parts but overall it fell completely to pieces. There was no craft invovled - even at the beginning - which really annoyed me. Now if someone like Ridley Scott or James Cameron had gotten hold of it you can imagine that it would have been fantastic with proper suspence and stlying and a deep mystery with the screen layered into many different story aspects (another media student thing I do where I read the layers of the film for signifiers and stuff) but it just didn't happen which I was annoyed about.

Anyway media rant over now.

Kendo - SNAP!!! Been to kendo twice this week which has been really fun. Friday night was a pretty cool night as we did the usual routines and stuff but when we did our Kirry Kihash and Keigehio the Sensai's kept moving around whilst we stayed put which meant that I faced Darren, Dennis, Barry, Jane, Bill and Bo which was really good pratice. Then we did a pratice Sheigao which is pratice for a compotition and I ended up against Bo scoring a point on him which I think was a men which is quite good for me and then he got told to fight me properly and got two kote's on me. *shrugs* then the second time round I ended up against Cheral and she got a kote on me (we were doing Ipon or one point win) just a second before I got a men but she's getting good so I didn't really care anyway. Then poor Bill got to play target pratice as it's a final goodbye ritual of the guy stands and gets constantly attacked by all the other members of the Dojo for about five minuets with no break. He was wreaked after it bless him but it was fun all the same. And at the end when we were bowing to him he smiled when I came forward and said 'My Lady' which I thought was really nice and sweet of him ^_^ Then went to the pub on a implus decision and the film as mentioned earlier.

Then on sunday from ten till two, I went to kendo once again but this time for a seminar with Honda-san. Now I'll let you all know who Honda-san is. He is one of the highest ranked Kendo pratictioners in Britian and is the British Kendo Squad Sensei. He is the best for a damn good reason and getting trained by him would be the equilvent of getting a really famous person giving you a lecture in univercity. So this guy is someone fantastic to learn off and so great as well. I had a seminar previously with him when I went for my grading if you all remember. Anyway getting on with things, out of the Dojo there was me, Cheral, Mark, Dash, Dennis, Barry, Jane, Bo, Jo, Darren, John and then the sensei from Edingbrough but no Ruth-san which was a shame but never mind. So we go through the training and stuff which is really good and have a lot of fun. As we're doing a pratice of men cuts in different ways, Honda-san stops everyone and turns to me asking me to repeat my men cuts. I'm a little bit on the panicky side for obvious reasons but I two two and muck up the third and quickly appologise but he smiles and says that it's okay. He then turns to the rest of the dojo and tells them that they should be all doing what I'm doing which is extending my kai out. Basically Darren taught us that when your praticing you keep your spirit going all the way until you've finished the cut fully and are back at tu-dan which is normal fighting stance. I had done this and got complimented for it! I got complimented off Honda-san for my kai and I'm still bouncing around because of it. It's a great feeling! After that we did a little more praticing and then a half-hour keigao session where we swapped around in the opposite direction and everyone got to face Honda-san. OMG! I can say that he was fantastic to fence against because he brings his kendo level down to your own and teaches you. I think I got a men cut on him cause at one point he blocked me and I noticed that his men was open so I took it and got a little 'oh' and a blink of the eyes but it wouldn't have won anyway but I don't care. It was just a fantastic day and I'm still in pain from it because the skin on the bottom of my feet totally hardened up which made walking interesting, the lower parts of my legs have seezed up, I've got a massive bruise on my right wrist and arm and one on my leg curitosy of Barry. But it was still a totally fantastic session and I'm totally going to remember it for a long time ^_^

Well if you've got through all that then I'm impresssed ^_^

hmmm comsee comsa

Well this week has certainly been interesting to say the least, could have been worse on reflection but not a lot I could have done about it.

I handed in my coursework all fine and dandy and now I'm finished for the second year, which has been kinda freaking me out something rottern recently but don't ask me as to why.

The car's Head Gasket went so that's in the process of hopefully being fixed and I should have it back sometime on Monday/Tuesday so things should be okay that way.

Went out to town with Kelly in search of Rocky Horror stuff which was actually a hell of a lot of fun and really worth the time out, even though it was only a small amount of time but I don't care. It made me happy which was a good thing.

Work has been blah. Nuff said about that.

Spent Friday night at home cause I wanted a night off and went to Cosco's with Mam and Dad which I haven't done in a long time. Got a new swimming costume for going to cornwall which was cool. Then I think I watched Alien's 3, even though in comparison to the other two it's no where near as good. Watchable but there's no craftmanship involved at all, probably due to the number of re-writes that had to be done.

Watched all of Eurovision on Saturday night, I'm not too sure why we did but we did and actually it was a very fun show. Bar our entry was totally laughable and such an embarresment. Really glad that Finland won and I'm going to try and have a hunt for their CDs cause they sound really cool.

And that's it. ^_^

Well that's all folks

To quote loony toons seems a bit strange but nevermind, I've finished uni for the summer now and the last piece of coursework's in. Let's see if the situation at Northumbria will get sorted out.

Being naughty

Well I'm not actually being naughty, I'm just updating my blog from Uni because I finally got my password sorted out so hopefully I shouldn't forget it anytime soon. I've just handed in my two scripts along with their treatments/proposal and I'm currently waiting till 2pm to go and hand in my private study work so I decided to come and use my time a little creatively in the library as I have nothing else to do. Well actually I did, I went to WHSmiths and got a CD case holder cause we need one now and then headed to Virgin to see if they had the soundtrack to Forbidden Planet in but they don't cause there's only six or so in the country and they're waiting on authorisation to send them out. *shrugs* I don't quite understand why but that's the way things have been.

Well, this was supposed to be my sunday update so I better get on with it.

Coursework - has gone pretty well with my finishing off the last bits and then realising that my treatment for my feature didn't actually follow the plot of movie after a certain point as it had been change. I was slightly panicked, as I discovered this on Friday, but quickly got to work and had it finished on Saturday night which was a good thing. Also made sure that the rest were done to the best standards that I could do and they are which is a good thing and now the scripts are in and the private study later so all's good.

Work - been okay, a bit on the strange side, seriously you think that people would be happy because of the sun but no it only made them a little more grumpy than usual and then the rain made them strange. ??? Hence why I ended up calling Saturday Strange Saturday because it was well strange. but that's work for you.

Other stuff - got my documentary back, as per the previous update which was really spiffy. I've found out that my worse critic is my Dad but I knew the points he was pointing out where true and if I had gotten a full five days editing I probably have gotten them sorted out into a nice fashion. I will have to show you it when I get the chance and see how badly I get killed for a reason that you will have to find out about.

Didn't go to kendo on Friday as I was knackard and had the treatment to do, I could have gone but I didn't really feel like it and had begun to reach one of my ill-fated pressure points, see I get stressed but I get warning markers that tell me to do something else before they become too much. Luckily this time I recognised it and decided to skip instead. On the plus side we went to Shields for Fish and Chips, which I paid for, and that was a nice change. ^_^

Spent yesterday, Sunday, having an anime fest with Ahmed which was supposed to be an excuse for those of you going to rocky to meet him but nevermind. We had fun and watched .hack//Legend of the Twilight disc one (I need to get the rest of that), a couple of AMVs from youtube.com and then marathoned Weiss Kruts (or is it Kruzts? heh I can't spell it) becuase Ahmed wanted to learn who Mr. Whitesuit was. lol he came up with some interesting things throughout watching it. Mr. Whitesuit was Crawford, Alien's became Schwarts (bet I got that wrong as well) and Schient became something else I think along the lines of 'them lasses' but I could be wrong.

so yes a very fun day and I was in bed by 11:45 amazingly.

Today I had a little fun starting the car, so I ened up getting a lift in with mam. Turns out the electrics got a bit damp from all this friggin rain so Dad's got it running again and I'll need to take it down to Graham's (garage) oin Friday probably to get it fixed properly. And get the whipers sorted out.

Well, I've got two hours or so to go and kill now so that's what I'm going to go and do.

I got my Documentary back! Whoot!

Hehe, my doc's back from Superkrush and tis very pretty with proper intros and all sorts. I'm mega chuffed with it *bounces* though I really wish I got more time to play around with it cause there is a hell of a lot that I could have changed to make it better. Still it's around 80% done in my opinion and for my first go of trying to do a doc by myself and doing everything I'm over the moon with it big time.

Those of you who come over will get it thrust upon you...and I may just send peeps a copy if they want

Fences and Date

Well, just got in from a date with Wayne and watched the end of the fifty greatest 1 hit wonders and 'Everyone Was Kung-foo Fighting' was number one which had me and mam in hysterics cause we were doing the 'huh' bit with the poses - come on everyone must have done it in the past, surely?

Anyway, this week I've been mainly working on the fence as some random guy kicked it in and now tis all fixed. Amzingly me and Dad only had a very mild and rather minor dispute about me accidentally snapping the drill bit off which is exceptionally good going for us.

Also been doing coursework with my Theory essay now pratically down to it's correct word count but it's going to get attacked one more time and tidied up which should be okay. And the Work Experience folder is in, which includes the essay which is well over the word count, my diary, my camera logs, all the contacting companies I did prior to doing the work experience, my CV, covering letter, the information I got about the project I worked on and my contract for the company. Yeah it's got pratically everything in it. Didn't want to give them the tapes or CDs cause that would be pointless - even though tape six is now none-existent because I lost it at the school. Got a tutorial for Scripts on tomorrow (as it's 00:19 right now) so I'll be getting both of them properly sorted after that point in time.

Kendo on Friday was a lot of fun, met up with Kallers prior and we had a good old fashioned girly chat about live the universe and everything and then popped in to see the boys for a little while and then she went home and I went to Kendo. All I can say in ernest is 'oww', cause it was a good session with a lot of stuff to do and work on but I ended up in a lot of pain mainly as I was correcting my bad footwork and having to get used to a slightly new style. Plus Darren made us do Kei-gary-geigo (pratice fighting) for half the session which really didn't help. But still it was mucho fun.

Work's been fairly okay of late, nothing major to report there.

As stated at the start of this post, went out on a second date with Wayne tonight and I had so much fun! We went to the Silverlink for dinner and a movie and chatted on for ages, then played on the game machines at the silverlink. I have lost faith in the dance machines saying that everything is easy. Both of us could barely keep up with the thing, let alone manage the single game. It was still a laugh though, and definately a funny memory to look back on. Prior to playing on the machines we had gone to Pizza Hut and totally mis-judged the time as we were out but 7:30 and the film didn't start till 8:50.

We opted to see 'Silent Hill' and I totally recommend it. Unlike the Resi evil movies, it actually keeps to the idea and the settings. Great acting and it's not trying to be scary, it's just trying to be creepy and it does it suprisingly well. One I will be buying when it's nice and inexpensive. But otherwise I had a really good night out and was spoilt rotten by Wayne *squees and bounces a little*

Anyway, that's it.