Save Ferris

I like most movies, but the ones I like best just make me feel happy inside. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of those films.

It's the story of a kid who takes the day off school and hangs out with his best girl and his best friend.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Flat tire

Woke up this morning with my tire as flat as a pancake!

Being the manly man that I am, I got out all my gear and set to work changing the thing. Half an hour later, now late for work and still at my house, I had still not got the stupid wheel off. One of the security bolts was pretty much destroyed and after all manner of crazy schemes to unscrew it, I gave up. I failed as a man and called a taxi.

This was not a total downer though, as my taxi-man was an absolute legend! He looked like "Johnny Boy," the old guy from that episode of Flight Of The Concords.

Anyway, he started off pretty quiet and then just exploded with chat and told me his life story. He was pretty old himself, but he told me all about his 89 year old dad. How he used to be a grave-digger but then broke his hip on both sides and had to learn to walk again. How he never smoke nor drank and was strong as a horse. Then his wife died and he started travelling the world, Great Wall of China, Russia, America, Safari in Africa. He had a big trip to Alaska planned recently, but then got a chest infection and had to give it up.

Then he started telling me about his dad's brothers and all the rest of the family, it was brilliant! I love a good yarn!

[Update] The wheel would just not come off. I ended up just blowing up the punctured tire again and driving to the garage the next day. Then the tire men had a good bash at it with their tools and it eventually came off. Hallelujah!

Mid-January

Another busy week at work. Last couple of days have been crazy. I bought a big bag of Japanese rice crackers from the shop to keep me sane. I just munch on them all day long. Tomorrow is the company Christmas dinner (I know), so it will be good to party with the office peeps.

In other news, my new years resolutions have been pretty successful so far. I found a new dentist pretty easy and have set up a savings account called "2012 World Tour", so now I just have to put money in it! I thought I better stop wasting all this placement cash and put some away so I can visit some places. When Uni is finished, I will be chillin' at spots like this!

Mobile Blog Fail

Hello blog fans,

I was planning for this post to be sent magically from my new phone, but blogger seems to dislike this idea and I cannot get it to work. Call myself an IT professional ehh?

Hopefully I will work it out soon and be able to post lovely words and pictures when I'm on the move! Pretty cool having a camera on your phone, I have now caught up with the trend.

Another Christmas present I received, this time from my granny, was a rope. Yes that's right, 20 metres of the stuff! I'm not totally sure what it's for, but I'm sure I will find something.

Avatar

Last week myself and a few chums from work went to see Avatar in 3D. It was mind-blowing.

Honestly, the film is incredible. If you are a human being, you should go and see it. The whole thing is like some crazy dream. It's why we all love films, you can turn your wildest imagination into reality.

The movie is set on a lush, tropical world called Pandora and it is just incredible. The scenery will take your breath away, and in 3D, its even better!!

My favourite thing about the whole 'Avatar' world has got to be the crazy electronic ponytails each person has. You can plug these into an animal or tree and literally connect brains! This sounds mental, but it's awesome, you can hop on a horse, plug in your ponytail and off you go! Or jump on some crazy bird and fly it with your brain! I want one!

GO SEE IT RIGHT NOW!!

Haircut

Oh dear.

Yes, it's that time again. The time that every man dreads. Haircut time.

At lunchtime I went on a stroll to Gary's, my barber shop of choice in Holywood. Luckily, Gary was busy with another customer (Gary will bend your ear for a solid half hour about taxes, Majorca, his auntie Mavis, Liverpool, fuel prices or whatever else is on his mind). The man is a Holywood celebrity, he literally knows everyone and could talk for Ireland.

Anyway he was busy, so I sat down with one of the two Asian sisters who also work there. These girls really are wizards with scissors, they are very precise and normally do a great job.

So I just asked for a good trim, to leave it messy on top and get the back and sides tidied up. Tidy it up she did. My goodness. She just kept cutting.

20 minutes later and I had a baseball cap-esque 'flick' straight out of the year 1999.

It was crazy, I haven't seen the like of it since P7. (This picture really doesn't it justice, google doesn't seem to have heard of a flick.) Tons of gel, combed right down, with a massive vertical flick, I looked like a total idiot. I walked out the door, looked at my reflection in the next window and immediately smoothed it right down to hide my shame.

The last haircut I had was from an American girl in the kitchen of an old people's home and it was perfect! Gary, my faith in your establishment has been firmly shaken.

Here's Johnny!

Folks, it's official. I am back with a bang!

I write to you on this fine morning of the 29th December and I feel good. The blog bug has once again captured my imagination and I am ready to rock!

Technically Christmas has just about passed. I am sitting in work freezing my ass off, but the Christmas spirit lives on! Anyway here's what went on the last couple of days.

The run up to Christmas is always great. I had a few gigs to attend and then an awesome frisbee tournament on the Saturday. Me and Chris entered a team with some friends and we didn't even come last! Then there was a totally whopper dinner dance when the frisbee was over. There was lots of grub and we all dressed up nice and danced like crazy people. Great times had by all.

Too much partying and not enough sleeping took its toll and I had to fight off the cold with about 40 lemsips to keep me in shape for the festivities! I had to work on Christmas Eve, but came home for some great family bant and the first exchange of presents! I got my brother a voice changer and he kept us all in tears of laughter with his crazy robot singing. We also watched The Dukes of Hazzard, Jessica Simpson is a fox!

The fantastic presents and family banter continued on Christmas and Boxing Day, with both sides of the family coming round for dinner. Lots of food and fun and the best thing about Christmas, sleeping by the fire.

On Sunday night, my friends John and Emma had their engagement party, congratulations guys! It was a very fun night, talking rubbish to lots of new people, eating loads of food, doing trivia with the dads, watching top gear and playing singstar. Me and Marco did a killer Ice Ice Baby but the the performance of the night went to the Hammond brothers!

Yesterday was my last day off, so i capitalized and did absolutely NOTHING!! It was fantastic!! I got up at about 11 and ate some bacon and eggs and then watched an episode of Planet Earth in High-Def, which is INCREDIBLE! I then got dressed, checked my fantasy football team, had a look at all the photos I had taken and then ate more food. Played Monopoly that night and then went to bed! WHAT A DAY!

I'm back on track baby.

Christmas Eve

Hi Guys.

Things have been majorly lacking in the blog department recently. I'm not really sure why, but the posts just haven't happened.

It's Christmas Eve and I am sitting in work, bored on the Internet. There is some really terrible festive music playing, none of the classics. I am also pretty sick and sleep deprived but it's Christmas so I can't complain.

I still have to wrap all my presents and finish off the mixtape for my Dad, so a couple more things to do tonight before the big sleep!