Hi
At last I get round to writing a blog on this page. My plan to do nothing over Christmas failed and I found my self busier than ever. Also I have been posting blogs on the next level blog page recently and run out of things to say after one blog normally! But anyway before one of my friends gets the chance to go all ninja on me (so he claimed) I will give a quick, personal look at 2007.
Its been a long, but in the whole pretty good year. I've been to Europe twice and racked up quite a few land miles in the process. Improved my presenting ability and confidence. Recently joined a new band. Convinced myself through one massive session on singstar at a party i've got what it takes...ish....Improved at karate and achieved quite a lot in other things as well. Got a PS3 (oh shut up fanboys please, I'd say the same if I got an 360). SEEING SERJ TANKIAN LIVE was a massive highlight. And probably top of my list, made quite a few new friends.
Its also had some low points, mostly to do with people to be honest. I have less to do with certain members of my family than I would like, and have managed to get myself involved in a difficult situation fairly late on in the year (friends will know what I mean lol). But I would, without sounding daft and soppy, to thank the good friends that have stuck by me through all the shit I kept causing for myself. Cheers for that, and I will do the same should I have too.
So now I'm looking forward to 2008. It should be a good year. If I've cursed it by saying that I'll apologise in advance! Throughout this year, I feel I've become more relaxed and content, much more than I ever have been and hope that even though I will end up with a s**t load of exams to do, I will not turned into a complete stress head...So to finish my final blog for this year, I'd like to wish every reader a happy new year! But I've got a party to go to tonight, so may write a drunken slur of a blog tomorrow at around 1am...
Cya
Josh
Monday, 31 December 2007
Sunday, 23 December 2007
Crap, that feeling again
Hello people
It's this time of year when i get the same feeling that I only really have one time a year....(stop sniggering at the back). That feeling that tells you that you should be incredibly excited and that the world will turn into one big turkey if you don't look at the positive side of things. Now, I aint miserable or unhappy, far from it, it's just that I'm probably too cynical when it comes to Christmas, but its just an excuse be given stuff and be lazy.
Hey, this is 'pre-Xmas' Josh talking, so its more than likely that tomorrow I will be jumping for joy. I will probably tidy the house for the first time this year in preparation for making it a complete tip the next day and double check that I've got everybody who deserves it,presents (time for the emergency selection box). I will willingly go on a ridiculously long walk, so that I have at least done some movement before Christmas.
This year I aint a clue what we are doing. Christmas eve is a funny night, as everybody either gets more pissed than a school urinal or sinks into depression after a predictable family row. The majority of people simply are waiting for the next day.
This year I also to be honest I am more looking forward to break and spending time with family than tearing down stairs on christmas morning like a demented hamster, ripping all forms of paper, including wallpaper, from where it was placed.
I also am using the time to plan various projects for next year. I am hoping to help continue the music revolution I am involved in and then continue with a little thing called 'The Next Level' (yes I know I said at the top it has nothing to do with it, BUT CLICK ON THE LINK!!). Plus I will buy some stuff! I have a video to shoot and edit for media studies (fun fun fun) so all in all am quite busy....but I wouldnt have it any other way...
Oh and by the way. Apologies to anybody who is reading this blogs and is morally shocked at the fact I have said Merry Christmas and not Happy Holidays...I have 3 words for you PC obsessed folk....'Get'....'Over'....'It'..
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Josh
It's this time of year when i get the same feeling that I only really have one time a year....(stop sniggering at the back). That feeling that tells you that you should be incredibly excited and that the world will turn into one big turkey if you don't look at the positive side of things. Now, I aint miserable or unhappy, far from it, it's just that I'm probably too cynical when it comes to Christmas, but its just an excuse be given stuff and be lazy.
Hey, this is 'pre-Xmas' Josh talking, so its more than likely that tomorrow I will be jumping for joy. I will probably tidy the house for the first time this year in preparation for making it a complete tip the next day and double check that I've got everybody who deserves it,presents (time for the emergency selection box). I will willingly go on a ridiculously long walk, so that I have at least done some movement before Christmas.
This year I aint a clue what we are doing. Christmas eve is a funny night, as everybody either gets more pissed than a school urinal or sinks into depression after a predictable family row. The majority of people simply are waiting for the next day.
This year I also to be honest I am more looking forward to break and spending time with family than tearing down stairs on christmas morning like a demented hamster, ripping all forms of paper, including wallpaper, from where it was placed.
I also am using the time to plan various projects for next year. I am hoping to help continue the music revolution I am involved in and then continue with a little thing called 'The Next Level' (yes I know I said at the top it has nothing to do with it, BUT CLICK ON THE LINK!!). Plus I will buy some stuff! I have a video to shoot and edit for media studies (fun fun fun) so all in all am quite busy....but I wouldnt have it any other way...
Oh and by the way. Apologies to anybody who is reading this blogs and is morally shocked at the fact I have said Merry Christmas and not Happy Holidays...I have 3 words for you PC obsessed folk....'Get'....'Over'....'It'..
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Josh
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Save the Planet, Lose some friends....
Yello
It seems to of been a while since I lasted posted a blog...This is simply down to me being incredibly busy and quite frankly knackered. I also have had very little to write about...except how tired and ill I was, so decided that would be boring.
I also have noticed how some people are making video blogs. Now I make this clear, they are really cool and I would make one. But there are a couple of reasons I won't be (at the moment!). The first reason is that my webcam makes it look like I am having a disco, where the DJ who set up the lights was blind and two, whereas I can talk and present stuff for hours (possibly) when I know what I'm saying...but far too often video blogs turn people on them into either hyperactive, sweet filled 5 year olds, or a depressive, with as bright an out look on life as Derby do of being crowned premiership champions.
But anyway...It's the week leading up to Christmas and the postmen and women are all getting fed up with the amount of cards being sent through peoples doors, and schools are filled with people who's pockets are brimming with cards who will forget about until January....we've all been there....
But this year, I've had a novel idea, which thousands of millions of other people probably have...E-cards. Now for the last few years, my excuses for not giving people cards have been either 1. I see you all the time 2. I'm saving the environment and the most honest of them all 3. Couldn't be arsed.
So after being hit by that familiar sense of guilt of been given a card yet and been given one, so I thought of how I could send my Christmas message to people. Youtube are offering a video e-card and this seemed the best option for me as I could either use to wind people up with daft vids or send em a music video of a song they like etc. Now it aint the most customisable thing in the world but does do the job.
Now before I get shouted at by people for being lazy and impersonal, listen. I understand it's far nicer to receive a piece of cardboard, possibly with your name spelt wrong in it, and stick it in your window.But I am so busy (yeah I've mentioned it again) people were either going to get this or nothing.
Now with the appointment of the new England manager, Fabio Capello, who apart from having some problem language wise (he's been in the country less than a day for christs sake) seems the right bloke for the job, I may try and send him a e-card with england's match against Croatia on the front and leave a little message...'Have fun with that Mr Capello'.
Anyway, Merry Christmas and all that, but should be posting again before that!
Josh
It seems to of been a while since I lasted posted a blog...This is simply down to me being incredibly busy and quite frankly knackered. I also have had very little to write about...except how tired and ill I was, so decided that would be boring.
I also have noticed how some people are making video blogs. Now I make this clear, they are really cool and I would make one. But there are a couple of reasons I won't be (at the moment!). The first reason is that my webcam makes it look like I am having a disco, where the DJ who set up the lights was blind and two, whereas I can talk and present stuff for hours (possibly) when I know what I'm saying...but far too often video blogs turn people on them into either hyperactive, sweet filled 5 year olds, or a depressive, with as bright an out look on life as Derby do of being crowned premiership champions.
But anyway...It's the week leading up to Christmas and the postmen and women are all getting fed up with the amount of cards being sent through peoples doors, and schools are filled with people who's pockets are brimming with cards who will forget about until January....we've all been there....
But this year, I've had a novel idea, which thousands of millions of other people probably have...E-cards. Now for the last few years, my excuses for not giving people cards have been either 1. I see you all the time 2. I'm saving the environment and the most honest of them all 3. Couldn't be arsed.
So after being hit by that familiar sense of guilt of been given a card yet and been given one, so I thought of how I could send my Christmas message to people. Youtube are offering a video e-card and this seemed the best option for me as I could either use to wind people up with daft vids or send em a music video of a song they like etc. Now it aint the most customisable thing in the world but does do the job.
Now before I get shouted at by people for being lazy and impersonal, listen. I understand it's far nicer to receive a piece of cardboard, possibly with your name spelt wrong in it, and stick it in your window.But I am so busy (yeah I've mentioned it again) people were either going to get this or nothing.
Now with the appointment of the new England manager, Fabio Capello, who apart from having some problem language wise (he's been in the country less than a day for christs sake) seems the right bloke for the job, I may try and send him a e-card with england's match against Croatia on the front and leave a little message...'Have fun with that Mr Capello'.
Anyway, Merry Christmas and all that, but should be posting again before that!
Josh
Monday, 10 December 2007
At last....
Hello
I aint posted a blog for a bit, mainly because I have had nothing to write about, so would of bored you even more than usually! But I finally do have something to write about.
Im quite a big fan of boxing. I will often stay and watch a fight or too, so long as it ain't a pair of big girls hugging each other for a couple of rounds. I like a fight with a lot of pace, good, fast strong hits.And I suppose an evenly matched one. Like going and watching a good football team trounce a crap one, its good, but its not edge of your seat stuff like a relegation scrap.
For example there were 2 fights which really mattered. Amir Kahn won his very easily , knocking his opponent out in about 72 seconds....shame i'd got a drink and was ready for the long haul...And Ricky 'Hitman' Hatton, as everybody says, fighting a jumped up yank Floyd Mayweather....
I couldn't predict which way the fight would go. Mayweather has a good hit and is very quick, bouncing all over the place like a rabbit with a red hot poker up its arse, and Hatton just keeps hitting and hitting and hitting. In the end, after a rather comical 'showdown' at the weigh in, Mayweather knocked Hatton down in the 10th round and that was it. Had Hatton won, he may of been in the running for Sports personality of the year...but instead in went to a boxer who really deserved it.
Joe Calzaghe (I had to copy the name, doubted i would spell it right), has been a world champion boxer for 10 years. He was in extremely impressive form in Cardiff last month and if a boxer was gonna win it, he deserved it more than Hatton. Make no mistake, both are incredible fighters, and to be honest need to fight more than they do in a year, but does this mean that the sport will be better recognised.
The main problem with boxing is the concept. Smacking folks in the head attempting knock em out for however long may be seen as a little barbaric. But at the end of the day, its becoming more and more controlled and seems less likely that people will get hurt boxing than driving a F1 car.
But so long as people still pay a lot of money go see it, the popularity won't fade.
Josh
I aint posted a blog for a bit, mainly because I have had nothing to write about, so would of bored you even more than usually! But I finally do have something to write about.
Im quite a big fan of boxing. I will often stay and watch a fight or too, so long as it ain't a pair of big girls hugging each other for a couple of rounds. I like a fight with a lot of pace, good, fast strong hits.And I suppose an evenly matched one. Like going and watching a good football team trounce a crap one, its good, but its not edge of your seat stuff like a relegation scrap.
For example there were 2 fights which really mattered. Amir Kahn won his very easily , knocking his opponent out in about 72 seconds....shame i'd got a drink and was ready for the long haul...And Ricky 'Hitman' Hatton, as everybody says, fighting a jumped up yank Floyd Mayweather....
I couldn't predict which way the fight would go. Mayweather has a good hit and is very quick, bouncing all over the place like a rabbit with a red hot poker up its arse, and Hatton just keeps hitting and hitting and hitting. In the end, after a rather comical 'showdown' at the weigh in, Mayweather knocked Hatton down in the 10th round and that was it. Had Hatton won, he may of been in the running for Sports personality of the year...but instead in went to a boxer who really deserved it.
Joe Calzaghe (I had to copy the name, doubted i would spell it right), has been a world champion boxer for 10 years. He was in extremely impressive form in Cardiff last month and if a boxer was gonna win it, he deserved it more than Hatton. Make no mistake, both are incredible fighters, and to be honest need to fight more than they do in a year, but does this mean that the sport will be better recognised.
The main problem with boxing is the concept. Smacking folks in the head attempting knock em out for however long may be seen as a little barbaric. But at the end of the day, its becoming more and more controlled and seems less likely that people will get hurt boxing than driving a F1 car.
But so long as people still pay a lot of money go see it, the popularity won't fade.
Josh
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Huh! How many days!
Hi
I had an interesting experience today. Lately I've been completely tied up and really really busy, so have not had time to do anything, let alone think, wow its only ** days till Christmas. But I looked at the date on my watch and realised 'Hell its only 20 days till Chrimbo'. As I wrote in a previous blog, Christmas shopping is not my forte, so I am moving my new years resolution forward...only buy stuff off the net. But if this resolution joins the long list of previous ones, it wont last.
I'm currently sitting at the computer, watching from the corner of my eye, my Mum and sister attempting to decorate a tree. It's surprising that the cat hasn't got its claw in a live wire yet and all the baubles aren't in a broken pile at the bottom of the box.
I however don't get involved with this task, maybe because me and anything regarded as 'aww thats a nice decoration' always results in it spontaneously breaking...I just don't know how it happens. Almost like the speed at which the Xmas appears.
I also like at Christmas the constant pestering you get from relatives for a Christmas list. Due to my sole obsession with digitalised documents, I always write it on the PC... or that may be because my handwriting looks like I am constantly hooked up to the mains...
I didn't really know what write about today. Its being dead busy lately, with karate (and it's Christmas party), helping create a band, doing various stuff after school as well as all my coursework/Homework. I can not believe how fast the next to weeks are going to go...ironically in fact, as about 2 months ago, it would of been fairly empty.
So I believe its time to go simply on auto pilot for about 3 weeks, which i believe will coincide with school closing for the winter. However then in the holidays after the main Christmas period, I have to act and help shoot a trailer for my media studies piece, then edit it.
So if I don't get time write a blog for a bit, I've either got nothing inspiring me or am too busy.
See you around
Josh
I had an interesting experience today. Lately I've been completely tied up and really really busy, so have not had time to do anything, let alone think, wow its only ** days till Christmas. But I looked at the date on my watch and realised 'Hell its only 20 days till Chrimbo'. As I wrote in a previous blog, Christmas shopping is not my forte, so I am moving my new years resolution forward...only buy stuff off the net. But if this resolution joins the long list of previous ones, it wont last.
I'm currently sitting at the computer, watching from the corner of my eye, my Mum and sister attempting to decorate a tree. It's surprising that the cat hasn't got its claw in a live wire yet and all the baubles aren't in a broken pile at the bottom of the box.
I however don't get involved with this task, maybe because me and anything regarded as 'aww thats a nice decoration' always results in it spontaneously breaking...I just don't know how it happens. Almost like the speed at which the Xmas appears.
I also like at Christmas the constant pestering you get from relatives for a Christmas list. Due to my sole obsession with digitalised documents, I always write it on the PC... or that may be because my handwriting looks like I am constantly hooked up to the mains...
I didn't really know what write about today. Its being dead busy lately, with karate (and it's Christmas party), helping create a band, doing various stuff after school as well as all my coursework/Homework. I can not believe how fast the next to weeks are going to go...ironically in fact, as about 2 months ago, it would of been fairly empty.
So I believe its time to go simply on auto pilot for about 3 weeks, which i believe will coincide with school closing for the winter. However then in the holidays after the main Christmas period, I have to act and help shoot a trailer for my media studies piece, then edit it.
So if I don't get time write a blog for a bit, I've either got nothing inspiring me or am too busy.
See you around
Josh
Sunday, 2 December 2007
What is it with Sundays?
Hiya
Well, after my slightly ranty post earlier, which was almost long to qualify as a article rather than a blog (shame it doesn't on pure quality terms), I thought I should talk about the weekend.
Weekends, for most folks, is about either getting recovered from a friday night, doing a weekend job or simply 'chilling out' from a hard week. I this weekend had to do the dreaded....maths.... I find it difficult to reason with people who say 'oh your in a higher set, you must love maths'... because I share the same amount of love for maths as I do for the bloody bird that wakes me up every morning. Both of which include my longing to blow them off the face of the earth with a shotgun.
Numbers, of all shapes and kinds irritate me, no thats wrong, infuriate me. I don't know why, but I would much rather do a English GCSE again (DUN DUN DUUUNNNN) than maths...I'm that wound up by it. So when told to do 22 questions on quadratic equations for homework, I felt the familiar feeling of 'oh no, not again' as I knew that if the teacher said it would take around an hour, it would take me about 5...
So as I write this, at Sunday night, I have wrote all the questions down, and even managed to answer some, but the majority are more messy and scribbled than a 3 year olds drawing book. But I achieved something much greater today...built the carcass of a flat pack wardrobe.
Now I was surprised at the sheer size of the thing. The blokes that bought the 4 boxes into the house sounded as though they were giving birth, and when me and my uncle were trying to get them up the stairs, it felt like we would have to call a midwife. But anyway, it took quite a few hours, but eventually we got the main thing done (building it that is, we were up the stairs by then!)...not without a series of mishaps I may add.
First of all, the hammer got used probably more than it should of done...OK i launched my self at any piece of wood like a deranged Timmy Mallet when it didn't quite fit and managed to get myself in a position where it was impossible to move without lots of pain...We also managed to rip the bottom of the supporting wood off, leaving splinters all over the floor...but after a brief period of me creating ideas of how we could blame it on the delivery men and get a new one, we fixed it!
We are no where near finished, but it becomes a one person job at this point, and seeing as though it isn't even mine, I can't be bothered to attached some screws to a door, especially when people in China get PAID for doing this kind of thing...
So for once I have had a Sunday that involved me doing something, not going into 'American mode' and sitting around eating crisps. I have a rejuvenated hatred of Maths, and have pieces of wood all over the bedroom floor, but at least I've not been sacked from a job after 10 years....
[UPDATE: after my last rant of a post, I believed i better give a update to the latest happenings....The GS boards are on fire with hatred, many of the editorial team have posted cryptic blogs or simply not said very much and people from '1up' a rival site to GS have gone campaigning outside the offices. It's all American claptrap, but surely watching the yanks get angry is an interesting experience!]
Thanks for reading...better go and do some maths!
Josh
Well, after my slightly ranty post earlier, which was almost long to qualify as a article rather than a blog (shame it doesn't on pure quality terms), I thought I should talk about the weekend.
Weekends, for most folks, is about either getting recovered from a friday night, doing a weekend job or simply 'chilling out' from a hard week. I this weekend had to do the dreaded....maths.... I find it difficult to reason with people who say 'oh your in a higher set, you must love maths'... because I share the same amount of love for maths as I do for the bloody bird that wakes me up every morning. Both of which include my longing to blow them off the face of the earth with a shotgun.
Numbers, of all shapes and kinds irritate me, no thats wrong, infuriate me. I don't know why, but I would much rather do a English GCSE again (DUN DUN DUUUNNNN) than maths...I'm that wound up by it. So when told to do 22 questions on quadratic equations for homework, I felt the familiar feeling of 'oh no, not again' as I knew that if the teacher said it would take around an hour, it would take me about 5...
So as I write this, at Sunday night, I have wrote all the questions down, and even managed to answer some, but the majority are more messy and scribbled than a 3 year olds drawing book. But I achieved something much greater today...built the carcass of a flat pack wardrobe.
Now I was surprised at the sheer size of the thing. The blokes that bought the 4 boxes into the house sounded as though they were giving birth, and when me and my uncle were trying to get them up the stairs, it felt like we would have to call a midwife. But anyway, it took quite a few hours, but eventually we got the main thing done (building it that is, we were up the stairs by then!)...not without a series of mishaps I may add.
First of all, the hammer got used probably more than it should of done...OK i launched my self at any piece of wood like a deranged Timmy Mallet when it didn't quite fit and managed to get myself in a position where it was impossible to move without lots of pain...We also managed to rip the bottom of the supporting wood off, leaving splinters all over the floor...but after a brief period of me creating ideas of how we could blame it on the delivery men and get a new one, we fixed it!
We are no where near finished, but it becomes a one person job at this point, and seeing as though it isn't even mine, I can't be bothered to attached some screws to a door, especially when people in China get PAID for doing this kind of thing...
So for once I have had a Sunday that involved me doing something, not going into 'American mode' and sitting around eating crisps. I have a rejuvenated hatred of Maths, and have pieces of wood all over the bedroom floor, but at least I've not been sacked from a job after 10 years....
[UPDATE: after my last rant of a post, I believed i better give a update to the latest happenings....The GS boards are on fire with hatred, many of the editorial team have posted cryptic blogs or simply not said very much and people from '1up' a rival site to GS have gone campaigning outside the offices. It's all American claptrap, but surely watching the yanks get angry is an interesting experience!]
Thanks for reading...better go and do some maths!
Josh
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