Yet another breaking point

Tis that time again, which seems like a recurring constant throughout the year. Time to find a new place to move into, which entails negotiating the ethereal realm between the old place and the new place. Meaning, getting the deposite from ye olde place and funneling it into the new place. Now getting blood from stone or alchemy are less draining on the body or soul when compared to these tenuous of tasks. Precision, financial dexterity and manoeuvring reminiscent of a world class jewel thief are called for.

Added to that mix is the fact of trying to find a decent accomodation in a big city.

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Dublin would be no different from any other city on the planet, except the prices here are stark ravingly high in comparison to the dearth of modern living accomodations. The country side boasts much fancier abodes at a fraction of the cost. I DON'T LIVE THERE unfortunately.

Some of the living arrangements entered into would not be altogether out of place in a third world country but somehow, it was quite suprising and vexing to find it in an european city. Two or sometimes three people sharing a bedroom, although not quite near 5-6 or more people sharing a room found in certain countries, is still off putting. Shared lodging ah what a concept. I cannot wait to be done with that. Atleast this year i'll get to live with people I know, hopefully. Here's to a happy future turning it the way you want it with the people you want in it.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

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I'd been a very reluctant Harry Potter spectator when I first happened to be taken to the first movie or the second one or whichever. I found it a tad unfulfilling and juvenile, pre-prepubescent if you will. However, I'm more than glad that I went and saw the latest offering. It was thoroughly gripping, entertaining and offered a relief from the recent spate of poorly executed cine. Unusually long as well, nearly three hours. And not in a dragging, "can't wait to get out of this" way, on the contrary I kept hoping it hadn't quite reached the end. I haven't seen the previous releases of this name so not really sure what to contrast it with. What I do know, however, is that the cast have matured, and the storyline and atmosphere darker in tone. There were some stark similarities that I oddly perceptive mind happened to notice whilst the movie. *******SPOILER ALERT********* for those who have not read the book or seen the move yet skip to after the stars please :) The scene where Ian McKellen's character Dumbledore falls to his demise seems reminiscent of Gandalf's fall in the Lord of the Rings. And when Dumbledore visits the young Voldemort, aka Tom Riddle, in his "quarters" seems very Xmen-like visitation before being accepted into the academy. ************************ Maybe that's where the appeal in it lies for me, it's grown closer to the kind of movies I'm keen. This is however a franchise onto itself and adds a somewhat distinct and subtler form. It is a wholesome movie, very engaging, or disengaging, however you like to see entertainment, wholly entertaining, providing the right amount of action, mysticism, romance, budding young pubscent attraction and well worth the money paid to watch it.

Finally got an Ipod

After several bouts with logic, practicality and reasonability, I finally bit the bullet and bought an Ipod. It's an used one so all the more justifiable in these times when it's so hard to feed and water my seed, plus see dishonor. The body is a bit dinged and chipped and the scroll wheel seems to be a bit unresponsive. Oh well.

Now certain inhibitions that I've had with Ipods and Apple's proprietary software weren't completely alleviated after having gone through over 5 days or so of trying to tag and organize music. Any changes made in Winamp and in Windows Explorer were disregarded. I have gone through several revisions of tagging and dropping in album covers, most have taken, some are still frustratingly ignored. That's about all I can stand; the final run through of most songs in iTunes happened last night, as soon as I've backed up my music I will start to go back to Winamp, my music player since yore. This neat little video should see me along swimmingly.

In the meanwhile, I've ordered the music as much as I can and created play lists, now all that remains is a long bus ride or trek and to vibe to the grooves.

Game ON!

Another thing that I'd acquired off of my to do list for the summer of '09 is this PS2. Now the graphics on this aren't exactly as I recalled it. I assumed that the PS2 would outclass the Nintendo Wii. But in some cases the graphics are atrocius and pale in comparison. Played a few games such as Soul Calibur II, Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 4. I just couldn't bare playing those. The graphics or gameplay or both just put me off that I couldn't keep playing.
Luckily a few other titles are ok, mostly the newer releases. It's not a totally woops. For the moment A few good games such as Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi keep me going, and recently acquired Fifa Street 2, Star Wars revenge of the Sith seem to be okish in terms of graphics and gameplay. Grand Theft Auto III is another one I seem to be getting into. Ah muses.

Frankie!

As part of my summer agenda, I acquired 'Frankie', with utmost gratitude to DLS for lending it to me. I know you said it's for keeps, but can anyone really own Frankie? He lives with me for the moment. Apparently Frankie has issues, so that's one thing both of us have in common.
Learning to play guitar has been slow and I realised there is more than one way of writing guitar chords and frets which is scary as the system I've was introduced is relatively simple.
There's plenty of practicing for yours truly but atleast i'm not a complete beginner. At the moment I have a few intro riffs but nothing solid or complete. Ideally i'd like to learn Incubus - Pardon Me and be able to sing along to it as my first guitar song. Whoo! let the good times roll.

ps anything apart from what I know right now about playing is a complete bitch; I'm learning with a mix of internet vids and chords downloaded in text form...

Back to Basics

Well the last entry has come to pass...pretty fitting. Anyway, I'm almost all over that now. What did it take? A month or two or six of self-loathing and agony. Who amongst us wouldn't love being cut down by a member of the opposite sex, except this one would have lead you to believe there's way more. I'll just chalk it down to my naivete and hopeless romanticism. Just when you think someone is different from all the rest...oh well. Lessons learned or have they? Now is the summer of my discontent. I have set out certain goals. Will they too come to pass or fall short on the wayside? More to come.

You're Beautiful

My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.

I don't know why this is the song I've had on my mind for the last couple days. I sing it when I'm alone, when I'm walking on the streets. Well yeah I do know why, but the rest of the song is just painful and doesn't reply apply and tend to filter most of it out, well try to anyway. Well I pray it doesn't apply. And I don't know what to do, because I'm always thinking of you. Sorry James just don't want to ruin a good thing with your song :P

Ok have to talk about anything else before my heart just overflows with this dichotomy of uber happiness/longing/giddiness and I don't know what else. Something I can't describe...

Well, to change topics, went out lastnight even though I shouldn't have. I had a few laughs and drinks, finally got on the dance floor but my friends left just as soon as all the good beats were being played DOH. I hung around for a while though. for. It was good night, however, it did leave something to be desired.

Now I feel i shouldn't have gone out because of the fact that I might have committed a minor faux pas and my motivation's been almost entirely dilapidated.

ARR, what's that you say capn' Long John D'silva?
assignments looming on the horizon, that does not bode too well.
don't like the looks of it, an eerie feelin in me bones capn'

hmmm need a break, starting to talk crap.
It's quite appropriate that I'm wearing my "work free zone" T-shirt today...

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.