Caught out with another trick I suppose, maybe it's the age I'm at, the big smoke isn't as a welcoming place like it was in the history books, people get seduced by the bright lights and all the rails and roads which lead them into the heart of the mess. I lost that shine in my eyes a long time ago, the bright lights of Hong Kong made me jaded a long time ago, London's lights are really different, it doesn't shimmer like Hong Kong in the rain. I cough because of a mild cold and I'm not entirely comfortable with it all. Maybe its all these tourists
Having been in Munich for nearly half a year now, time slips past like water through my fingers. I keep saying about the change in life and how I'm finally content. The truth is I moved to Germany at the right moment in life, spared all the blushes of being a junior, afforded all the leeway of someone still starting out on that big adventure. You wonder how many people actually get to live the dream they had when they were a child, at junior school, at college, at university. I stare around the train carriage make a judgment and keep it to myself, lest I feel the wrath of the pretty girl sitting next to me.
Its nice to unwind for a minute there, for all the talk about needing a break, I come to the UK in bright sunshine on my back, only for that to turn into a lovely singular grey, the sun petered out on the UK a long time ago. the rain dries off me in the warm train, snobbier person than me would hate on the mix of society riding with me, but I suppose I find it quite comforting, we are all in a rush like a bunch of mad cows. Hearing ourselves into a mass of bodies in a sardine tin. For all the money that isn't in my pocket and in the business mans nice saville row suit we all stuck together. I don't want to exchange words, thats not the point,
I just hope most of these people will get off at Guildford, I'm assuming the men in suits and maybe the old lady sitting in front of me will. The gray weather doesn't get any better the further south we travel.
Much love my beautiful eggs.
musik
- Pioneer to Falls- Interpol
buch
kino
vershieden
- everyone getting serious on me and my situations,
- missing the girl,
- the new bag, took ages to find, but stumbling on it is always the best way for shum,
- still waiting to get my Chicken on,
- English being spoken on the TV, but without a Germs accent,
- Phil asking me to spend a lot of money on stuff I don't want or need,
- the woman in the shop trying to sell me Italian made leather holdall for £250, my budget was a bit stretched,
- my mum being curious about stuff,
- finally finding the stand I wanted for my desk,
- my netbook being shit hot at what I want it to do, 9.04 Remix is coming to sort the rest of my woes out,
- sushi-ing it up with Gobu-San, the waitress is so your wife,
- that epic Scouse Red vs Chel game, what a game I tell thee,
- the training course in general, many new ideas, many geek things running through my head,
- extra tea with love notes written to the cleaning ladies in the hotel, nice,
Underneath the sky was an Oasis song which I tied to one of the games of my life. It wasn't by design.
I had a grey television, I forget the make but it was a hand me down from my eldest brother, he always handed me down the worst things, or rather things he couldn't sell or give away for free. Regardless it was grey and to tune it you needed to pull down the front panel so you could reach the tuner bits, pull out a piece of plastic which was the right shape to fit in the tuner bits. Then slowly twist it until there was a wondrous but entirely analogue picture being less than sharp on the screen.
This was the television I played Zelda- Link To The Past, we talk about the age of HD and connected. But with the game, a joypad, the SNES and a grey analogue television. It needed nothing else other than for me to play one of the best games of my life.
I talked before about studying particular games of the past so we could create the future, but in reality, for me this game is ageless. You could make it now with the same graphics and it would still have the impact it did then,
If I wanted to make a particular point about something, this wasn't it, I just wanted to tell everyone about my grey television, listening to Oasis and playing Zelda.
Love you all my beautiful eggs.
Something a bit more serious.
A short weekend break with Baker we tripped it through Germany, Belgium, France and then the UK. It wasn't hard from my point of view but then I didn't have to do any driving, Baker rubs his eyes and necks some of his Red Bull. I just stare out of the window and watch the Bavarian Countryside turn into the Rhineland then into the flatness of Belgium.
The weather doesn't welcome us into Belgium, its grey and stark, no streaks of beautiful white on azure blue. I cut out the weather man in the middle and say its going to be bad weather in the UK thats coming towards us.
But it isn't a day later the sky is wonderful, I'm back on my way to London for the 20th time during the last 2 years or so.
musik
- Chasing Cars- Snow Patrol
- Your Heart Is An Empty- Death Cab For Cutie
- Soul Meets Body- Death Cab For Cutie
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- the new watch, good choice,
- a good Belgium beer,
- getting my kebab and burrito on,
- maybe exhausting all the fights you could put together in the history of life and times,
- the brightly blue brothel in Frankfurt,
- realizing I wasn't in Germany for a few moments,
- not getting caught out by the bank holiday trainage,
Luke and Laura stayed this weekend gone and it was really good to see them. I got the feeling they were tired from all the walking, I got the feeling they enjoyed it, I also get the feeling it wasn’t what they expected. Rather they walked in with no expectations.
And I suppose that’s what I feel most about Munich, it’s a wonderful city without particular things which pull me towards it. People play the game, yet I’m craving the shittiness of a Hong Kong. Everything works, yet I’m missing the handset less, phone booths you find everywhere in the UK. I’m happy to start my new life out here, yet I miss the life I had before. I suppose the last one is me getting older and wanting to begin my new life.
I have a headache now, the sides of my mind spitting out the bad tasting liquorice all sorts.
Missed my girl panda, missing all the eggs I know across the world. Don’t worry I’m never gone too long.
Do you know the difference between drinking wine and drinking water? The more wine you drink, the warmer you'll get. Water will only make you feel cold.
musik
- Shoreline- Broken Social Scene
- No Sunlight- Death Cab For Cutie
- Grapevine Fires- Death Cab For Cutie
- Feugo- Murder By Death
Kino
Fernsehen
- Flight of the Conchords- Season 2
- 24- Day 7
- The Apprentice
- Battlestar Gallatica- Season 3
- Arrested Development
vershieden
- Luke and Laura, some amazing eggs those two,
- Drinking more beer than I crave to imagine,
- peaches with the rubbish music and the good cocktails.
- Having a weird Sunday afternoon staring at all the meat on sale,
- Realising that all the best secrets are the ones I’m best at keeping,
- My panda bringing me new tops to wear,
- Walking around Munich for miles and miles,
- Jude and Hareld, which a lovely bunch of eggs,
- Burning myself in the oven,
- Arguing with Susu, I made a mistake, I'm really sorry,
- The vanilla tobacco,
- The massage chairs in the Deutsches Museum, worth the admission alone,
- Getting asked by the customer to the server room and not get a bollocking,
- Starting up the running again,
- Having a tired week without doing the extra hours,
