My 22nd Birthday
so the original plan was to let my birthday go under the radar and not celebrate it, however the night before i find out that my mum had invited some aunties and uncles over, so my mum had other plans lol, any excuse for a get together lol,
Monday morning was like any other morning woke up early ate up some pancakes, oh yea birthday pancakes woohoo, then made my way to regents street to the apple store to purchase my macbook and apple router, came home unboxed them with excitement, which turned into anger and stress as i couldnt configure the router properly,
played arround with my macbook till my friends started comming over, well that sounds like they came over instantly they didnt lol, we running late as i wanted to get out of the house to go play pool by at least 8:30 but we got out the house about 9:30-ish after playing rockband where we had two people playing guitars and one person singing. yea we didnt have the drum set lol we started playing this as everyone started to arrive then we left to go play pool for a bit and then left at closing time which was about 12am or so and started to make our way home but instead we ended up at monster kebab, lol im not sure ive explained this place but in brief this guy makes a mountain of kebab on your plate lol, so we went there despite him closing as one of us called the place and told them if they could stay open as we have large order of 9 people, and they did, which leads me to disgusting part of the story, as it was late and there was many of us, it was almost like the kebab man decided to rush to cook the meat, leaving me at the end of the night with a upset stomach and you know either that means throwing up or the other thing lol its gotta come out somewhere, thats as far as im going with that story lol however this ones for you Meg, Mud Butt LOL and if you dont what that is lol look it up on the urban dictionary lol
i didnt sleep till about 6am so i decided to mess about on my macbook and considering i didnt set up my wireless internet i decided to use my macbook to seek out a connection which turns out my mate who i learnt the following day that being tuesday as i count this story still as monday as i hadnt slept yet lol. i find out that it was my friend from upstairs connection, this is the same connection either this month or last month cant actually remember now i wrote a post stealing a wireless connection and typing the post up on my ipod touch was done on his connection, and i updated my macbook with his connection during the long sleepless night was 500mb+ the update file lol, he said he didnt mind, as he said everyone in the block has been using it and he cant be bothered to password protect it so its technically its his fault for leaving his wireless unprotected lol.
so once again thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday,
Upgrades - July 2008
i have replaced the tv which wants to turn off when it feels like with a brand new samsung 32 inch HD Ready LCD tv, i got this the Thursday before my birthday so 24th July, got the tv home in a black cab, carried the big box up the stairs and got ready to unbox the beast, this meant obviously removing the old tv which wasnt light at least for the mean time to the floor in my room which was obstructing the doorway into my room, so evan when it wasnt plugged in it were causing me annoyance lol, and before placing the new tv onto my stand it meant removing a load of dust that had formed since i had last moved the old tv, which was when i had that tv repaired for the exact same reason, it got fixed and worked perfectly for 4-5 months then it went back to its old ways, psshhhh, so i got the new tv in place and didnt bother removing the old tv till the following day, which was quite the task as i was in the house alone with no one to help me carry it down stairs, so first to get it out of my room i used the roll technique where i rolled it out of my room by flipping it, and then eventually lifting it through the kitchen and out the front door this was no easy task as the thing was a heavy mofo which did mean i "accidently" decided to drop it a number of times before it reaching its final destination, i may have dropped down a staircase aswell before throwing it against a wall at its final resting place, however all this dropping did nothing to the glass screen, maybe a scratch or 2 but not shattered however the plastic shell was battered.
second upgrade i actually got on my birthday July 28th and it is my brand new black apple macbook which was bought in the apple store in regents street, the macbook was bought with the intention to replaces my noisy desktop pc however im not going to throw the desktop pc away for the meantime, as im still gonna use it evan now im using it to type up this very blog post and i have my reasons for keeping it them being, i still have my printer installed to it lol and i cant be arsed to reinstall it or plug it into my other apple upgrade being the Apple Airport Extreme which is a big fancy name for apples branded router, which really did turn out to be a big pain in the arse, i watched a majority of videos on youtube stating how quick it would be to install this router, many said it takes about 5 mins to get it up and running, which wasnt the case at least for me, i would say im quite computer smart but networking is seriously my downfall as i have no idea how to do it, so im getting quite annoyed and frustrated that its not working, and i figure theres no point getting stressed out about this on my birthday, ill pick this up tomorrow morning and try and do it again, however i woke up at 10:30am after going to sleep at like 6am that day, thought about doing the router and thought no, and ran to the yellow pages, well yell.com in order to find a guy to fix this for me, cost me £40, he was late although not much to complain about as i did call in the morning and booked a appointment for that day so that was good, but the fact that i paid £40 and he managed to do it in 5mins and i didnt see what he did so should it fuck up i gotta call him again pay another £40 for him to fix it lol, well least the bloody thing works now,
i was gonna put a picture here of my macbook but as ive been playing with imovie with some of the pictures i decided to upload it onto youtube, so sit back and enjoy
if you were looking for my birthday post blog. that is comming soon after this post probably the next 24 hours after this post,
Todays lecture is zzzzz
the last post was about stuff that i didnt blog that i should have if i had a blog at the time which had occurred during laboratory sessions at university, this next set is going to be stuff that occurred during the lectures,
This is one of the times when i should have not gone into university and sat in a lecture cause i was ill, on the way to university i got off the dreadful train and stopped into the chemist to pick up some medication to get me through the day, i picked up a non drowsy dry cough mixture, and some tablets that suppose to clear my sinuses these tablets were called day-med. it will become apparent why these words have been made to stand out as there pretty key to the story.
i walk into university like zombie breathing like i just finished a marathon and sat down in the lecture room, telling people wanna see my drugs lol, and took a swig of my cough syrup and two tablets and waited for the lecturer to turn up, now i was sitting directly in the middle of the lecture hall, and i was surrounded by people i dunno if it was due to them that helped me accomplish what i did but im pretty sure it had something to do with it, im sitting there and im getting uncomfortably hot, and getting incredibly drowsy first i want to note the keywords i highlighted in the previous paragraph, daymed and non drowsy why the hell am i feeling drowsy, the lecture hadnt even started and I wasn’t yet bored to death and I was already on the verge of falling asleep, i sit up trying to fight the urge to fall asleep as the lecturer starts to talk, and its Mr Stutter lol i aient gonna give out his real name but you'd think being a senior lecturer he be pretty good at what he does but he will continue to um and err all the time making these lectures long winded. he starts going on about amino acids etc etc and thats it im gone out cold, im pretty sure he must have noticed that i was out cold as i was sitting in the middle of the room head tilted to the side, however i did try to make it look like i was kind of awake holding a pen in my hand in the motion like i was going to write something but when your sitting there with your head tilted to the side and eyes closed a fool could tell that I wasnt paying attention and was clearly asleep. i was knocked out i had been asleep for the first hour of the lecture,
during the break i wake up having that feeling some is staring at me, and i get these looks of what i want to describe as jealousy, that i managed to fall asleep for an hour and not get told off or woken up and told to leave, and they told me, "look at you the nerve to fall asleep in a lecture, the sad thing is your probably going to pass the module" (on a side note i did pass that module yay lol) i did try and say its the drugs lol the medication (and Triple S no Nurofen was used during that story or during typing this story) and the heat generated by the mass of people around me which helped into such a sleepy state but they wernt having non of it, and then the second hour of the lecture the same thing happened i fell asleep again lol, so basically i paid £3 that day to go to University and sleep, how awesome lol,
this is probably the story im most proud about at university next to some of the eviler and funnier things i did at university, and actually texted people about this achievement after i had done it on the way home. ive fallen asleep during lectures numerous times before once evan pushed down the seats next to me and lay across them, the lecturer couldnt see me if you must know lol, but this time was special as i didnt exactly want to fall asleep i bought frigging medication that i thought would help me stay awake and get through the day.
also what ive learned from this experience lol, i learned that non drowsy cough syrup and in effect a non drowsy tablets (which had bloody caffeine in them as well) will equal a drowsy and knocked out state. i got home and slept some more i was still that tired as well lol.
Laboratory Madness
I Dont Believe you, really but who the hell are you,
so im in the lab, and im not really making a fuss and just getting down to work, uncharacteristic of me, and i have carefully read the protocol we were meant to be following, and im usually asked a bunch of questions by people in the lab about what we are doing alot of the time i dont have the answer but can blag some smart arse answer. So i usually expect these questions coming from the same set of people, (hope i dont come across as smart arse hear as i do often wander around the lab to find out answer or some sort of explanation when im unsure, just i dont go to people that are similar to me, i go to the guys and gals that sit in the front row of lectures as they are the intellectual power house people or nerds whatever you wanna call them i usually refer to them as the power circle, or the circle of knowledge lol) so you can tell where im going with this, yes someone completely random came up to me firstly out of nowhere, if i was in a car i would say she came out of my blind spot, firstly she asked why im doing a certain thing, i cant remember word for word what she said all i remember is what she said after i had finished my response, she said i dont believe you and then proceeded to go back to her work area and do apparently the opposite of what i said, at that moment she said i dont believe you, i thought to myself not why? or evan to ask why?, but i thought who the fuck are you? however not who the fuck are you to say im wrong but as to say who the hell are you in general lol, the end of this story finds me being right and getting my data from the practical fairly correct did have to take a trip down bullshit avenue with some of the results but on the whole they were fairly good according to the lecturer lol, whereas she spent longer than anyone mixing solutions with each other, and for all i know one of the last people out, whether im right or wrong with experiments i just wanna get in and then get the hell out, cause i hate being in the labs,
Karma aient it a bitch.
ok me and my lab partner have been working though the protocol we were given, and were generally doing all the stuff and then having time to mess about with the group on the table behind us, as with these practicals there is usually alot of waiting around for stuff to incubate but i wont bore you with all that science talk, so we sit around talking for that stuff to happen, or generally just get on each others nerves, my lab partner usually takes the brunt of the attacks as i again just wanna get the work done and get out, making more time to just mess about in the S.U Bar ( say bar but the place dont serve bloody alcohol, but least theres a pool table) anyway i dunno what i did to the group behind us, so im gonna assume what happened was down to what my lab partner did to them, anyway were near the end of the practical and the group snatches well i say group more one person snatches the empty test tubes (they wernt test tubes, 1. its less confusing to say that they were test tubes, and 2, its late and i dont remember what they were that we were using.) from our workbench and uses them for themselves, as i cant be bothered to take them back and fight among them, i decide to go next door and get some more, when i return my lab partner is like. "dude you should have seen what they did, " i look and there all like "oh no" lol and im like "oh yes" lol they spilled there solution they required for the next weeks practical all over the desk, proving Karma is a bitch for stealing from me lol, and this proceeded minutes of ahh your practical, dont forget to incubate your solutions oh wait its all over the desk awww what a shame, with variations of this over and over.
Yea dude your wrong!
this last story is generally me being a dickhead, and its rather short as i can tell this post is way to lengthy as it is, this guy working opposite me, who generally irritates me for generally thinking he is always right when he is 99% always wrong, i remember one time he was right and i think i stood up and applauded many others joined it aswell (although i still havnt done one of those movie cliche slow claps that everyone joins in) so he was working opposite me in the lab, and as i like observe other people first before i make my moves in the lab to see if im at least on the right track, so basically we were mixing solutions, and the end solution was a purple type colour. and just to let you know yes mine did turn purple. however i notice the dude opposite he has mixed his solutions wrong before he added the final solution, i knew he did it wrong when he asked for the wrong solution but part of me wanted to see how he would bullshit his way out of this situation as his end solution had turned yellow, then he proceeded to say stuff and i like a true dickhead in front of the people surrounding us, however not everyone said your wrong, he tried to plea he wasn't evan though everyone around him had purple solution and he was the only one with the test tube rack with solutions that resemble piss, and then told him i saw you mix that when you wasn't suppose to and then told him what he was suppose to do, and then he did it all again, but funny enough as i moved to the other room to finish the remainder of the work i return to find that he proceeded to do produce the same results despite having the protocol in front of him and being told what to do. So either way he was gonna do it wrong regardless of me being a dickhead waiting for a opportunity to show him up,
The Lost Sock,
just a random thought after this has happened numerous times, but the other day i had a rash on my ankle so i applied a boat load of Calamine and Witch Hazel lotion (yea i have no idea what witch hazel is and i aient gonna bother to google it either, but i just found that laying arround the house and i couldnt find anything else that would prevent me from itching) to that area over the course of that day. it was so friggen itchy. anyway at night i thought ill wear socks to sleep so it stops me from itching my ankle whilst sleeping, which leads me to this morning, some of you may have experienced this others maybe be like why is this evan a issue, anyway i wake up that morning and im wearing one sock, i managed to keep the sock covering the rash up, but this is regular occurance for me when i fall asleep with my socks on, i always wake up with only one on and its always the right sock that isnt on, i cant explain why this happens lol. so ive come up with a few scenarios
- During the night i get a extremly hot right foot
- I have a freaky right foot sock stealing stalker
- A lazy sock thief that can only be bothered to steal my right sock,
- The tooth fairy on crack and decides to start stealing from me, (he/she sells it for money to put under kids pillows, believe me i have thought this through lol)
The Return of the Internet.
just to let you know from the previous post titled "Grrr no internet connection" that i did get my internet connection back the day after, and im not resorting to stealing someones wifi connection and using touch typing on my ipod touch, to type up blog posts.
I thought this issue was due to the incredible down pour of rain, which on that day i happen to be out in shorts when the rain dropped and dropped for the whole day except the morning, anyway the following day i called up my internet service provider and it appeared the problem was to do with one of the latest microsoft updates. Oh well
this another one of those force blog posts, which i wasnt going to do however thought id leave a quick update
Grrrr no Internet connection
And in closing what is up with all this rain today actually had to carry a umbrella ella ella eh eh today cause its been non stop grrrr which probably added to my anger/annoyance today cause I hate carrying things!
I'm gonna end it here hate typing on this
Vomit Bus
yesterday riding the bus into central london, and im standing up in place where most parents place there buggys with the child in, i was standing there as there was no pram in sight, and ive got my in ear headphones blasting music from my ipod blocking out all sounds arround me, yet i hear a huge retching sound over my music, and i turn my attention to where the sound was comming from, eugh theres a kid sitting down near the front of the bus leaning over and vomiting in the aisle, so frigging disgusting, youd think once this happened his mother would take him off the bus so he could get some water or something, no they stayed on the bus, where he continued to vomit and its not like she gave him a plastic bag or container thingy for him to upchuck into, the vomit in the aisle got covered by the London Lite newspaper, looks like that free afternoon newspaper got put to use after someone read it, however it didnt particulary help as this kid vomited on the newspaper after it was put down, what made it worse was this bus goes past "London Zoo" a popular family attraction, and this bus got loaded with people, some probably didnt know what they were about to endure, i think more newspaper got put down before hand but i cant say for deffient and i think you know where im going here, i was sitting now at the back of the bus and i could see people standing in that very spot as the bus got loaded with people, i felt a little bit sorry for those people but with a hint of slient laughter maybe a nelson from the simpsons haha.
Evil Thoughts and Exceeding Expectations
im sure you will agree that when i or you havnt slept or havnt slept enough you become rather grumpy and probably not exactly a fun person to be arround as you tend to be more bitter and have slightly more evil intentions well the last 2 well ok that could just be me anyway last week im on a bus forcing myself to stay awake having been awake for 2 days, and im forcing myself to stay awake on the bus, thats one thing you dont wanna do is fall asleep on a London Bus youll possibly wake up with stuff missing, like your phone, wallet, bag, your socks lol ive run off onto a tangent (not evan sure thats the right word but it sounds right lol) back to the story, so im sitting on the bus forcing myself to stay awake when this kid wearing a Portsmouth Football shirt (firstly why) i let that go as its only a shirt, but then i notice this kid is wearing football boots with the studs on the bus, ok if you dont know its fairly stupid to wear these unless ur on grass as your simply gonna slide, slip and fall on your arse or face, anyway im sitting there noticing this when i think in my head, i hope the bus stops suddenly and he goes slidding face first into the glass window that should be fun, only for it to happen a few minutes later, i couldnt help myself but laugh however wasnt one of those laugh out loud laughs, it was more, a smirk slash i want to laugh my head off but i have to be quiet lol,
last may i mentioned i had a exam that was the day after the champions league final which Manchester United won if you forgot lol i havnt ( as he watches the season review dvd as he types this post up LOL) anyway if you read that post (you can read it again if you want here, http://www.mannydas.com/2008/05/champions-of-europe-and-stares.html) youll know i frankly didnt care about that exam to begin with, i got the results for these along with others (wasnt exactly great results lol retakes will need to be done), and i got 10% on this exam, and i know your thinking thats sucks and your stupid lol i feel rather stupid about the other 2 i took in may however this i was pretty prepared to retake in august lol. but considering the fact that i was still slightly hung over from the night before and had done no revision the night or hours before the exam id say that was quite the achievement, this achievement based on my saying from January 2008 i think or it could have been May 2007 lol "as i stand no chance in this exam im gonna set the bar at 0% and anything higher would be exeeding expectations" so evan tho i didnt get the required 30-40% that i didnt have to retake it, i still exeeded my expectations lol, oh wells theres always retakes i better get started revising now, although you know and i know that, isnt going to happen lol,