Owen's Blog

Here I am in a club in Cardiff (or Caerdydd if you want it in Welsh). Thought id share the experience, which can be summed up in one word, slappers.
Sometimes I think there should be compulsory master classes on how not to dress for all! I mean tonight I have seen more blubber than an Icelandic whaling expedition.
[Finish in club]
[Resumed at home]
But all in all a good night (good to force Emerson out for a night) and I felt I had to have something to drink after my aptitude test.

All in all I think it went fab, really couldn’t have asked for a better hour. It was all based in pseudo code and I found it really quite fun. Unfortunately I think I have either aced it or done something horrendously wrong. Don’t know which, but will find out soon.

A lot of people have commented over the past one and a quarter years, since this blog started, that I seem to have a tendency to post when I’m down or morose. Well that might be a truth but I must make sure that people don’t think it’s true of me, that I’m down all the time. I think those who write journals on themselves generally feel the need to analyse themselves when they are in the lower places. To discover how they really feel, to analyse what makes them feel that way and generally discover as much about themselves as possible. As Andy says in his weblog “I don’t think that I write enough when things are going well.”. Think this is probably true of us all Andy.

Anyway I personally have had a really great weekend, with the sun shining. But have done bugger all with it. Spent most of the weekend indoors, preparing. “Preparing for what” I here you say. Well whisper, or think or well anyway…. I’m preparing because next week (actually that’s this week now) my job hunt steps up a gear. I have an Interview for a company called Cresta and also tomorrow, well actually today but there will be some sleep between now an then I have an Aptitude Test for Atos Origin. The aptitude test is an hour long test of my abilities to do maths and stuff so not sure how well I’ll do. But I’ll be sure to post here when I get a feeling.

Apart from that my life has been a bit full of nothingness. I have been indoors way to much and don’t seem to have done enough exercise, so will have to do some running or something. Also I watched some films, S.W.A.T. and Equilibrium, on DVD which aren’t really worth reviewing but still were a nice way to spend the evening.

And that’s about it from the world of me at the moment, another post tomorrow when I get back from this test thingee.

Whoo twice to the cinema and it hasn’t even been a month.

Heres the review:
Shattered Glass,
The first thing you do when you watch this film is cringe, absolutly nothing works, the characters seem false and unabsorbing and Hayden Christiensen (Anakin Skywalker) is at best apathetic. The trouble i had with this film was feeling any emotion towards any of the characters. They all seem underexposed and undeveloped. There are hints at relaitonships that go unexplored, the dynamics of every character seem to be under thought. There is no explaination of anyones role or feelings within the group, instead you are point blank supposed to belive in the characters because they are real. I suppose this is really the only fall back for the film, everything is real. All the characters and the story are based on real events. But all in all this felt a bit under done. However, despite all it’s bad points the film isn’t actually bad, i came out actually smiling. It is one film where the story actually carries it. Not a prise winner but one to watch on DVD.

Still unemployed too!

Ok here we go. With a bit of tweeking i have the possibility to post entries here, from my mobile phone. Whoooo!
In other news, got a little drunk last night. whoops!. That’s about it. Boring life here.

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Seems i’m on a roll with changing things on the site, maybee a complete overhaul is next. Just got some more advanced features in my admin set, such as this: editing posts.
Andy in answer to your many comments, my phone is a p800 and it works by emailing posts to a secret email address and then processing the posts to add to the log database. (wow longer edit than the original post.)

Ok first things first, today I went to the cinema for the first time in about 4 months, hurahhhh and in the words of the bible “yay it was good”.

Saw the film this post is titled and loved it, the best thing was I loved it from about ten minutes in. Written by Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) was enough to make me want to see this film, but a little warning this his not his usual fair. Kaufman has seemingly toned down his outlandish story telling (only a little though) to produce what is possibly one of the few wholly plot driven scripts. Ok so there are absurd moments, but usually everyone is immediately understandable (unlike the strange moments that litter Being John Malkovich).
I don’t want to spoil the plot for anyone, but there are some fantastic moments. For me the best has to be Joel Barish (Jim Carry) standing in a house while it is being washed away and crumbling at the seams. Also the snow on the beach is one thing I really want to experience, all in all a beautiful, bittersweet ride.

GO AND WATCH THIS FILM!

Also got a new phone and am gonna work on a way to make it possible to update this log from it.

Neil has put up this fab project reciting stories from uni, here. I seem to be drunk in a few of them and those that I remember make me laugh.

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I have disabled the link due to the fact that it seems to be perminantly down, Neil do you want to move it to IOUK?

Ok, so I’m slowly recovering from a very big party. My parents decided that due to my many months spent away, and the fact that I was in Greece for my 21st, I would be a perfect excuse to throw a 21st party. WHOOOO!
Have to say it was absolutely fab, the beer and wine and champagne flowed and I got more than a little drunk. The best thing though had to be seeing friends from uni who I haven’t seen for a year, such as Dave and Olly, cheers for coming down everyone and hope you all enjoyed it. To those who missed it you can see a couple of photos here. also on there are some photos my dad put together of me growing up… not to be missed for those who want a laugh!

Also can’t get this damn blue face paint off my eyebrow.

Cheers again to everyone for making it a great night.