Yo

Hmmm I don’t think there’s much news (which probably means
I’ll end up writing loads)…Just finished work and am now home in bed
eating cheese strings (thanks Marlini) and a brie sandwich (thanks
Géant) and drinking tea (thanks Tetley). Not drinking FUCKS YOU UP…it
turns you into a boring, lifeless, no-partying Lose Weight Exercise/”>Lose Weight Exerciser (i’m only half
joking). Not really, but still it’s annoying when your friends are all
going out and seem to genuinely want you to come and you respond ‘Yeah,
of course!’ when you know you have no intention of actually going. It’s
really fake. At the moment my idea of relaxing is in bed rather than at
a club or bar…it’s a different culture…Do I prefer it? I don’t
know…I don’t think so…

Going rock climbing tomorrow…that’ll be interesting (because I’ve
seen worms with more upper-body strength than me). Oh well…We’re
going with the Swedish climbing group which should be interesting to
say the least…

Snowboard baby!

Yo I bought the snowboard, it’s 160cm long
and has a nice bag to cover it. I feel like such a newbie talking about
it because I really don’t know about them but hey….It says Rossignol
on it, I think that’s the brand (ok i’m not *that* thick, it is the
brand)…
…And I’m testing it out tomorrow!!! I can’t wait!!! This
week hopefully I’ll be pretty good by Monday (please rearrange this
sentence to form a well-known phrase or saying) because I’m going to go
3 times (Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday). I can’t wait to be good at
boarding!

Friend Update
Ok for those following the developing situation
of my friend who came to stay who had the nightmare transport
weekend…Well when she got home…She was mugged in the street (I’m
not kidding) and had her brand new Nokia 8310 was stolen. There’s no
justice in the world…That phone was a beautiful thing…

Sweeet

Yo today I went snowboarding again (it was my second
day) and it was so COOL! Just like big Yaan (sp?) said, it takes a
couple of days to ‘get it’, but after that (eg. tomorrow) it’s all
(almost) plain sailing. Cool. Unfortunately I’m djing tomorrow night as
well so i’m going to be an absolute zombie by the time 1am comes around
but i don’t care – sleep all of Friday and Saturday then go
snowboarding again Sunday!!!
Seriously, I’m off to bed…Email me if you haven’t for a while…

Battle Royale

Wow…I went to see Battle Royalewith Joss and it KICKS ASS!!! It really is unique in the way it takes
violence to almost manga proportions and yet manages to retain
brilliant comic humour, both slapstick (sp?) and subtle. Plus nearly
all the girls in it are fit, and all the guys are cool (and in
traditional Japanese film style they’re all really honourable until
their (inevitable) deaths.
If your squeamish, don’t watch it (or
watch the 4 minute long edited version with no violence in it).
Otherwise, it’s the best film I’ve seen this year (except maybe Crying
Freeman but that’s another story…)

Spooky

Here’s some spooky searches which have brought people to this site…I know of only one person who would search for this:

30 Nov, Fri, 17:03:21 Google: “Matias Ristimaki”

But finding the culprit who searched for this little beauty might be a bit harder to find:

01 Dec, Sat, 10:56:21 Google: tescos nude

Classics.

Missing Persons Update

So the story didn’t quite end there.
My friend (who shall remain nameless although everyone knows who she
is) did catch the coach back to my place…got as far as the
station…met some Frenchies who didn’t speak English…got a lift to
my district but couldn’t find my house…called me but got cut off
before I could tell them where I lived…tried to call back and failed
before finally I left my place and walked into town to find them
huddled in a phone booth.

Surreal.

Club Macumba

Oh shit I nearly forgot to tell the story of
Thursday night…man it was so cool. First of all the dream team worked
in Notre Dame (Joss, George the moaning Irish + Me), and the night was
a real banger…We’ve really started to have some great regulars in the
place (when I say ‘Great’, I mean ‘Fit’). So the music was going down
like a ho at a house party (trans:Smoothly) and everyone was getting
high on the ambiance and atmosphere (and potent cocktails that J+G were
serving up…)…I was running on some potent drugs that I bought from
the pharmacy which are loosely (around 200%) based on caffeine…wowzer
they worked well!

So Franck picked me up in his new VW Golf (namedrop) at 1.15am and we
set off towards Switzerland…there were two other guys in the car who
I hadn’t met (Julian and Henry, I think) and Charlie, Franck’s
sidekick…ANYWAY…the atmosphere in the car was great…my cocktail
of orangejuice and tablets was going down a treat (it’s strictly legal,
ok kids?) and we were listening to Jay-Z’s 3rd album (I think) but
whichever it was it was hothothot and got us i nthe mood for some Big
Pimpin…

Upon arrival at Macumba(dotnet) I was shocked at just how big the place
was…It really does have 13 rooms and it really is the absolute
daddy…We went onto the main dancefloor just as the shite music was
finishing and the real, real good stuff was going down…The DJ was
from the group called 45 Scientific, these french badboy rappers who
promptly came out onto the stage and ripped it up for an hour or more
with some great stuff…even though it was after 3am everyone went
crazy for them! When they left the party started to wind down in the
main room so we went to another, more relaxed area where they were
playing some chilling R+B…comfy chairs…good music….nice…

At 6am it was time to go (6.15 i’ll be kicking her out) and Franck
managed to drive home (it took 3.5 hours because we didnt take the
motorway on the way back) without falling asleep (although he did stop
half way and start doing starjumps at the side of the road, much to the
amusement of the passers by). It’s a strange world / but you’ll never
see / what the world is like / through the eyes of an IP…

No News

…Is good news. Well I had a bit of news today from
my parents who opened one of my mobile phone bills to see that it was
roughly £130. For a month. A month in which I would say, if quizzed by
police, that I hadn’t really used it.

*
Tip For Life
*
DON’T
CALL YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND FOR 25 MINUTES FROM AN ENGLISH PORTABLE FROM
FRANCE WHEN SHE’S GOT A MALAYSIAN MOBILE AND SHE’S IN MALAYSIA.
*
End Of Tip
*

In other news I saw a snowboard today that I think I might just buy.
It’s only �45 and the fixations on it are the type which I like (‘step
in’). The guy said he’d hold onto it until tomorrow so hopefully,
unless President Bush has frozen my accounts due to my
telecommunications activities, I’ll get it after translation class
tomorrow.

Tonight I watched Scary Movie
in French (not in a class, with a really sweet French girl at her
place). She’s got a great TV so it was a real pleasure…and it wasn’t
so bad even though it was dubbed. I think when I go home at Christmas
I’ll be watching a lot of movies…(‘Dude, Where’s My Car’ anyone?!?!)

Nightmare

Well I’d like to be able to tell
you guys about the nightclub, the new phone line or the two films, but
unfortunately there’s a nightmare journey of Epic proportions taking
place.

So my friend was coming to visit last Friday night from London…she
bought her ticket a couple of weeks ago and up until, well Friday,
everything was going fine. Then…the journey disaster from hell on
wheels…

Friday
- The busride which usually takes 10 mins in London takes 40
- The train is late to the airport
- The plane leaves without its full compliment of passengers

Saturday
- An attempt to get Eurostar fails on the basis that the stupid assistant has never heard of Grenoble
- No airplane tickets in the morning
- Flight arrives Lyon at 8.30pm
- Bus to Lyon arrives (ON TIME!) at 9.30pm

It seems that the problems have finished, right? WRONG!!!

Sunday
- I put her on a train to Lyon
- Train arrives 15 minutes late
- No free Ryanair buses to St Etienne airport
- No coaches to airport
- No trains to airport
- Taxi driver agrees to drive to airport for �30
-
Taxi driver promptly takes the poor girl (who speaks very little
french) somewhere TOTALLY different, takes her money and leaves her
there.
- The plane leaves without its full compliment of passengers (again)
- She goes back to Lyon airport
- And she’s now on the way back here (to my appartment in Grenoble).

Oh my god. What a nightmare.

But apart from that it was a nice weekend.