(EDIT none of the pictures are showing, DAMN IT. I'll fix it in during Saturay.)
Hey Everyone
, it’s been a while since I did something, I've been lazy, busy and sick. So let me update you all on everything, that happened over the past 3 weeks.
I got sick
, either cuz of I stayed up late at night, so my immune system got low and vulnerable ( according to my dad ) or my friend gave me food poisoning. I normally get sick for one day every 5 years, my immune system is pretty strong, I'm like Wolverine (not the sh*t film thank you very much), I got some sort of healing factor that repels all forms of sickness. The last time, I threw up was a decade ago, but the most painful illness was chicken pox 8 years ago *shudders*. This time I was weak for a week, started Thursday morning. I threw up once, my God, it was so strong, I got a headache from it. But my stomach felt much better aft wards, I spent the next couple of days coughing and sleeping a lot. I didn’t eat for like 3 days, because I never felt hungry, and also my taste buds were gone. I had 2 choices when I started to eat, either brush my teeth and let everything taste like toothpaste, or not brush my teeth and let everything taste bland. Let's just say my breath STANK for a long time since toothpaste flavoured food...is disgusting. I also ignored showers, I never really left my bed. I had 2 summon all my strength just to stand up, it felt like hard work...so i refrained from it. My sister and bro helped me.....but as soon as I showed signs of improvement, they gave up on me lol. Still they and my dad were nice, and made fun of me a few times when I wasn’t sleeping. Also, while I was sick, my eyes hurt, and it was at this point I became like Daredevil, but for one night only. My family was watching The Knutty Professor, and I couldn’t watch it, so I listened to it. And I was able to watch it, from memory...I know
EPIC. Righteo because I was sick, I missed out on some work aka monay. And I missed out on the snow that fell, I slept through the entire thing. By the time I got better, what was left was just ice outside, and everywhere else looked like snow never fell in the UK. I was slightly upset with that, because I love snow, one day I will frolic with someone *sigh*. Its so beautiful and nice, and makes feel all warm and fuzzy. I also had to abandon my training regime...just when I started seeing visible results in my arms and chest. I missed two Sundays of church, plus the youth celebration service, where they looked back at the first youth service, a decade ago. Also it had some footage of Thrissi and Donya performing a street dance ( good thing its still saved on the studio computer).Speaking of that, church got a mac, I missed the unveiling of it. They bought it and got it the week I was sick. I missed everything.
I read two of the original novels from the Jumper series by Steven Gould, Jumper, and Reflex. Whether you saw the film or not, read those books.
Its frigging good. I liked the film, but I think they could of used some of the original material in the film. Even though they made a lot of changes, its more faithful than the Wolverine movie. Boy named David aka Davy, is able to teleport. It also deals with a lot of extreme issues, and it doesn’t sugar-coat anything. One part dealt with gang rape....on a guy *shudders* ,yep, that part wasn’t in the film lol. It also deals with terrorism, before it became widespread in real life. Reflex is even better, my goodness, it raised a lot of questions. What would you do if captured, and conditioned so painfully/extremely for weeks/months? Would you do what you were told or kill yourself? There's even a point where solo sexual relief took place near a torture room. Not to mention those who captured Davy, made a lot of sexual advances...to the point of using drugs and Viagra. Reflex is told from 2 viewpoints, Davy and Millie. Millie was interesting at first, but bored me when Davy's conditioning got violent. Millie got interesting again in the end, but Davy always left me wanting more. It was a gd read, and I kept seeing the actors/actresses from the film as I read, which was cool. Just finished reading the movie tie in Jumper: Griffin's Story.
Much more interesting character than the David from the films. My goodness, when you realize the pain he’s been through, you understand why he was willing to sacrifice Millie just to kill the paladins. I actually don’t blame him, so please read it. The paladins killed his parents when he was very young, and then they killed the people who helped him, which causes him to send someone close away, never to see them again just in case they kill her. He did get hope, and got a girlfriend, but then the Paladins found out, and killed her father, held her family hostage and used her to hurt him. All these events lead up to the Griffin we see in the movie. Which makes David life look perfect in comparison. You have to wonder, in the movie David’s life isn’t so bad, so he had no reason to leave, talking crap about “ This thing....it could set me free”.
Last week I snapped, and crushed my charger. I missed alot of calls and texts. Apparently whenever my internet or phone isn’t working...that’s when everyone needs me. When it is working, no one calls or texts lol. Dad got me a charger yesterday, so I saw all my missed messages............at 3:30am.
But my phone,
Samsung G600 is sooo coooool, I read all my ebooks on it, though I just have to save it in a TXT format. The battery life has improved alot since I got the new charger, I can go two days before I lose 1 of the 3 bars, which is just 1/3 of its power: p. My visual theme is still Twilight New Moon. Tech wise its a great phone, slide design, radio ( which i listen to alot), music player, Bluetooth, 1GB memory card , 50mb internal memory, 5 million mega pixel camera (though I don’t have the urge to take snaps) video player ( which I use to watch converted HD clips BOO YAH).
Speaking of church, we have a brand new spanking Macbook Pro.
The specs are incredible 2.66GHZ, Intel Core 2 Duo, 15 glorious inches (wink), 320GB hard drive, 4GB memory, 2 Nvidia graphics card (that’s right TWO), latest edition of Leopard, built in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Much better than the studio PC, which has no dual graphics card, only has 70GB HD, and 500mb RAM. I don’t know how much it costs, but when I compare the specs to the website..........it comes up to at least £1,500...SO NO ONE GOOFS AROUND WITH IT . We also got new software,
PRO PRESENTER 3
www.renewedvision.com/pp3.php. That stuff is slick, editing songs live and switching between background videos and media is very quick and slick. The scripture references are not so easy to put up on the fly, you got to edit it alot. Hopefully it will be easier when they release the newer version later this year. Other than that it’s very impressive piece of programming, though we won’t be using it for a while. As we need adjust to it, as we currently use
Which is great as well, it’s not as fluid as PP3, but its way easier and quicker to display scriptures on the fly unlike PP3. And before anyone gets on this MAC is better than PC high horse, it crashed. Well the software crashed 5 times, so shut the hell up. I love MACs and PCs. Also it took some time getting used to the keyboard, it wasn’t built for people with long fingers/huge hands. How the hell could it be small and spaced out at the same time
. I actually dreamt about a Mac, the night b4 they told me we have one. But it was a 20 something inch iMac, and it belonged to me lol. So Media Team finally has a Mac
. When I was on it, I found myself playing with garage band........Steve Job I salute you. I didn’t save the music, because I don't do music anymore. Oh.....no one knows that about me. I used to sing (back in primary school) and play steel pan. So yeah, I spent last week, copying songs from our Easy Worship into word, then pasting it into Pro Presenter with Donya ( which is when it crashed). 400+ songs, are now in the system. Only 20 of them are arranged properly lol. So if you got a PC, EW is for you, if you got a MAC, PP3 is for you. SIGH...why can’t Billy and Steve work together lol. All we need now are a few more MACs and ADOBE Master Collection CS4 or CS5, and Studio Max ( I think thats the name of it, but Donya uses it alot
). Media Team is moving...moving on up...moving on up, to the east side, with a deluxe studio in the sky
.
Well, my church is moving into a new building as well. This is inside my church ,
We have two buildings now. The new one will open up hopefully by Easter......and its not that bad lol.
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The Gaumont State Cinema will be our next place of worship
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaumont_…. We had a New Years eve service there aswell, to bring in the new year. T'was awesome, the set up was only temporary, but I don’t got pics of it. Looking forward to the finished work. And won’t be seeing that, till it officially opens, and believe you me, it will be HEAVY.
Oh yeah, Donz and Thrissi..........HATE IT WHEN IM RIGHT, they double team me so much, I'm now paranoid ( it showed at the Watch Night Service). Basically, @ church I was working on a collage in PS, as the new visual background for main service, anyone who saw it loved it. Sadly this was lost when my mp3 player crashed, so 30th December I started a new one, working from memory alone. Donz didn’t like it, and so did Thristana "let the album go" (private joke). I wasn't crushed, but I kept on pushing it into the wee hours of 2am. When I woke up at 1pm, Donya made a video with a 3d logo she made using the reference of the church logo, as the background. I saw potential, and made a quick composite/merger of both ideas. Still...she didn’t like it, but she worked on it, as I had to leave. When we met up, took us a while to render.........seeing as I like to not carry my laptop with me lol. But we put hers up, while I explained in detail, how both ideas will work. Even when it finished rendering both of them, she still didn’t want to like it. But it was 2 late, our collaboration came out HEAVY. I mean......WOOOOOOOOOOW. Did everyone like it..............YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS. Did Donya and Thristana apologize, and admit I was right, and say how great it turned out with enthusiasm? No...They managed an "It looks good/ok". They hate to admit when I'm right. Aren’t all women like that....SIGH. Donz is fun to work with, I like trying to make her laugh. I say trying, because believe you me, I end up looking crazy b4 she even cracks a smile
.I make her tilt her head alot. Also, we're on the same wavelength when it comes to media/tech/creativity, so its great bouncing ideas with her.
I’m forgetting what else happened over the past 3 weeks, hmmmmmmmmm........AH. When I got better, I did get work, but not a lot, just a video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JSIYv…. Made it in an evening, took a couple of hours. But it was kind of annoying, if you saw what I had to work with. I still have no idea why it looks good ^_^. And the Mixtape has been launched, so BOO YAH
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid…Snow, glorious snow. It snowed in the UK...a little looooooool. At last the geographical location of England makes since this winter. Before I came to England in 2002, I always thought it had long snowy winters since it was closer to The Artic than USA. So I was disappointed when it rarely happened, and when it did, it only lasted for 1 or 2 days. But as of last year that’s changed. The world laughed in us back in February when London came to a standstill, which happened again before Christmas. But this week the whole of the UK came to a standstill. As it snowed heavy everywhere except LONDON ...this is where I live *sigh*. All the outer counties/country towns, got hit with the deep stuff , some getting 4 feet, but London just got like around 10 cm. I wants the deep stuff
. They say Sunday/Monday is when snow will fall. Though since it’s started snowing, I haven’t left my house, its to nice and cosy. And when I say its cold, you know its cold, because I love the cold as I don’t really feel it. Seriously, sometimes I just wear a t-shirt to go outside ( Wolf Pack material lol). And I keep the air con, on the lowest setting when I’m in the studio no matter the weather outside. Which causes all the normal people to freeze, until they make me change it to warm. To the point now where whenever there’s a hint of coldness in the studio, everyone thinks its me, even when I’m not there or haven’t left my seat
. But recently, the UK has been hitting average -10 at night, maximum its been was -20 i think. All those from colder countries can laugh again now, I don’t blame you all. Airports were closed, flights got cancelled, trains were delayed, highways/motorways came a crawl, all throughout the week. To me, this week, has just reminded me of The Day After Tomorrow. I just want lots of heavy snow to hit London. Here’s the view of the UK, thanks to NASA.
Which I photoshopped and uploaded unto my fb page. I kept thinking of that movie this week, and laughing. Why are you laughing? Because if the flash freezing really happens, I still have a home back in the Caribbean looooooooool
Last night I finished Fade the sequel to Wake by Lisa McMann.
I talked about it in my previous journal. The ending made me care about the entire series. Janie’s ability to enter others dream, will eventually destroy her. It isn’t really addictive, but the fact that this book had a “catch a highschool perve” storyline it kept my attention
. LOL, its not the sexual themes that kept me interested, but its the ending, SERIOUSLY, its a happy ending, but its a painful ending. I wasn’t looking forward to the next book, Gone, which comes out later this year,but I am now, thanks to the ending. Cabe + Janie d’aaaaawwwww. Which means I don’t have any books to read tonight, sigh, haven’t heard from my personal library this week.
Speaking of Naidene, i saved the best bit of the journal for last.
New Moon. We saw it, the day before I got sick, which was a Wednesday @ my fav cinema
I was late thanks to my dad, apparently if I had come 5 minutes later, she wouldn’t have spoken to me for at least 6 months. We weren’t late for the movie though. I stayed up over night, not sleeping, just so that I wouldn’t stand her up lol. Including us, our screen only had like 6 people, SO MUCH SPACE. Sat in the back, and enjoyed every moment of it, including the trailers. Now unto the movie
. It is very faithful to the book, and the parts that aren’t was very good. I listened to the albums so much, that I sang the lyrics whenever a song came on. Naidene noticed. I also knew which songs were not on the album when it launched, these songs stood out, especially the cinema scene and when Bella visits Jacob with the bikes. Also I noticed alot of stuff, that Naidene didn’t notice. Like when the gracefull dance like Alice, jumps over a railing in school looking like a idiot. I was impressed with the tone/music they used to emphasize Jaspers power when they were at school. And Bella using a Macbook, guess Eddy upgraded her old Windows XP laptop from the first movie. Sigh, I better go in order of scenes, its to good to comment randomly, lets do it in order.
I was impressed with the beginning. The meadow looked so romantic, and much better than the one from the first movie. I was surprised by Bella’s dream, it was done really well, from there I knew they won’t f up the movie. But also from that point, I noticed something about Edward. He never looks happy, like he’s already planned breaking up with her from the beginning and is just waiting for an excuse. The Jacob visiting her school, wasn’t expected at all, I thought that only happened in Eclipse. If it happened in New Moon, I’m sorry, I normally remember everything. Jacob and Edward react to each others presence, as if Edward knows Jake knows about Edward knowing he can read minds. Which made it look like a scene from Eclipse the movie lol. The Shakespeare scene was good, all the girls crying at the beginning, and sighing at the end of Edwards recital. Also, when he told her about suicide and the Volturi, I was just shocked in a good way. Cuz the way Aro killed the vampire, got me excited. I was thinking is this film really 12a (pg13) lol, cuz I like what I’m seeing. Enjoyed seeing Bella, fit in, and liked the lead up to birthday scenes with Charlie. I was expecting some more innuendos from Emmett, and his booming laugh. Not to mention hearing him rip apart her radio and install the new one lol. But the birthday scene made up for that, JASPAH ATTACK LOL. Carlisle fixing her up and talking about Edwards POV. Edward kissing her, without passion, then just walking in the dark...you could feel the pain coming already. Not seeing him at school anymore. Then the break up scene, and her chasing after him. It’s when she collapses and the place is dark, and seeing Sam watching her made me crazy with glee. Sam wasn’t in that scene you say. Ah, yes he was. While she cradles herself on the floor, you see the wolf eyes in the forest, moving slighty before you hear the “phasing” sound effect.
One thing I must point out, though, Naidene and I clocked this together at the same time and we talked about it. Was when, half naked Sam brought back a space out Bella, who had been missing for hours. We asked each other, if that was your daughter, what would you think ? We kinda laughed at the idea that Sam could have , had his way with her and no one would know, since no one asks him any questions lol. The sequence showing how hurt Bella was, OMG, I felt the pain, and the way they filmed the progression of months, was just GENIUS, as soon as I saw the window and rotation, I LOVED IT. Hearing Bella scream, I cried on the inside( not on the outside). We would all be depressed as her, if we fell in love with someone, who didn’t exist and left yah , after you thought you would be together forever. People cry in real life for simple stuff, so I know theres a few of you out there who screamed as well at some point in your life over someone. I believed she was a zombie. Then when she started seeing him in her head......my good, I cracked up. I sang the word “Craaaaazzzzzzzy” to Naidene, whenever she had a hallucination of Edward, which made the both of us laugh. Jessica scene was funny as well, constantly chatting away oblivious to depressed Bella. Then I liked the flash back of the “creeps” when she wanted to see more of Edward, by hoping riding with the biker, from the trailers I always thought it was Jacob. But before I get into Jacob, I like how they built up “the bears” rumour around town, and Harry, especially when he hints stuff that only Bella would get. The meadow scene with Laurant was just pure action when the wolves entered the scene. The wolves sounded and looked violent, BOO YAH! “I don’t believe it”, it was that good, when he smacked Sam, I thought we would see the pack kill him, but we break away to Bella. When Jake enters the scene again after giving her a dream catcher, and they spend time fixing the bikes. Plus, seeing Bella trying her best not to stare or ogle him and fail, makes me want to live in a gym lol. “I’m just filling out Bella”. Quil and Embry in Jake’s place was embarrassingly funny. The movie night was funny, Mike vs Jacob, when he asked Jake if he was old enough to see the film, even though Jake looks older than him. Loved when she ignored their hands at the the movie, much better than the over the shoulder stretch move. Then when Jake and Bell were alone waiting on Mike, they looked so cute together. Shame she kept “burning” his advances. Naidene came up with that one, whenever Jake made a move or said something to indicate what he wanted from her, only for Bella to reject him easily. She said “BURN” as much times as I said “CRAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZY”. When the wolf genes started to manifest for Jake, I loved his anger towards Mike, kill him Jake , you have my permission lol. Then for him to end their friendship in the rain, she was willing to gave him what he wanted, but he felt broken because of the wolf thing. This was one of the most emotional scenes for me. Jake coming into her room, where she felt him up. Come on, whenever he’s topless, her hands are roaming. Also Naidene, kept making this strange sound when ever he was topless, I thought she moaned, she said she gasped.......this happened alot. Part of me loved what I heard though..........incentive to get ripped lol. Bella dream afterwards, was kinda cool. Then when she pushed passed Billy to see Jake again, that was so cute. I liked the bitch slap Paul got. Phasing never looked so good.( I realise I’m still chatting about this lol and I’m nearly done.) Bella was good with weird after all, and I liked the mention of some of the wolf abilities. Emily looked good, not as bad as described in the books. Then Victoria chase scene, my god, that was EPIC. How they worked Harry’s heat attack into it, and the music went well with that scene. The cliff dive, was gr8, how they showed Victoria swimming to Bella, which caused her to bump her head, then immediately play that song when they fade in Edward. DAMN, these scenes just gave me a huge BUZZ when I sat in that cinema. Then when Alice returns, and her interaction with Jacob. Also, Jacob and Bella were so close to kissing, siiiiiiiiiigh, dumbass Edward, leave the girl alone. To Italy was trimmed nicely, and when you saw Edward topless.......he looked like he was taking drugs, not the kind Bella accused Jacob of using lol. Volturi was frightening, especially when Jane made Eddy squirm, and that fight scene with Felix, seeing Edward crack, I actually cared for him then. Right when Aro was about to kill him, I actually was glad Bella stopped him. The graphics in that sequence was worth every frame rendered. The look on Jane’s face when she couldn’t hurt Bella was priceless. I for one will not be visiting the Volturi, especially since they killed the humans so quickly, talking crap about “save me some”. She gets Edward back, of course her father will be slow to forgive jackass. Then when they nearly run over Jacob, “He wants to talk”. Even then when she choose Edward, she was still acting like she wanted Jake. I feel your pain Jake, i feel your pain. And when he snaps and gets ready to attack Edward. I was like move biiiiiiitch, I always wanted to see Jacob and Edward fight. Then seeing the wolf cry, and “marry me”.......so gd. We stayed till the credit’s were done, and the screen closed off. All in all it was a great movie, visually better than Twilight, and Alexandre Desplat actually did a good job on the score, I loved Carter Burwell’s score from the first one more though. They were more faithful to the book, but they left out minor stuff I would have liked to see, like Jacob and Bella, sharing secrets like what can the wolves and vamps do in detail or is that from Eclipse. ( I’ve been typing for the past 4 hours and I refuse to eat until this journal is done) I thought they should have spent more time with Jacob and Bella. Even though Edward is absent, he doesn’t feel absent. Geeze, I swear he has almost the same screen time as Jake lol. Like how they done it, you know theres no hope for Jacob at all. But still I loved it. I know I babbled alot about scenes in this film, but I really liked it. The only downside to it, was that part of me shielded myself from this emotions/story. What do you mean? Well I think, cuz I long to be in a meaningful relationship, my heart shielded itself, so that I wouldn’t connect with this film. Like making sure, I don’t get overloaded with extra emotions. Because after a couple of days I realized, films like that are great if you have someone you can hold. Big up to the director and all the actors, esp Kristen Stewart. I read all the books already, and I look forward to the next movie. I’m upset that Rachelle Lefevre the actress who plays Victoria will be replace by Bryce Dallas Howard ( Spider-Man 3, Terminator Salvation). Because I thought her Victoria was BAD ASS, and I hate when important main characters are changed, especially since she was in the first and second movie. Victoria chase sequence is my friggin fav part of new moon, i was like YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH
I’m proud of this saga and I love it. I FEEL NO SHAME. Breaking Dawn is going to be interesting, Nessie is the make or break of that film. But we’ll cross that hurdle when we get there. It was fun jamming with Naidene the entire day. Also it was my first time...............going cinema...........................alone with a girl. I LIE NOT TO YOU! Trust me, I was paranoid, any action I did, I over thought everything. I was shivering at one point..........let me stop.
Late blooming. Ever since I hit twenty ( but you’re 22), I’v noticed some changes. I finally have hair that is worth shaving. Just got a mustache, and a chin thing. And I’ve put on more mass than ever before, people ask if I go gym...which I don’t. And I can communicate with the opposite sex, much better. And, I’m able to separate a girl’s face, like a bunch of photshop layers and reveal.......she is just a human. Sigh, the improvements from puberty are finally manifesting..........@ 22. I told Thrissi that one, can’t remember if she laughed.
I just remembered something that I had to write about. One thing that pissed me off was the Copenhagen Summit. I hated the bullshit that came out of leaders mouths. Forget mouth, they talked out of their backside, squat, squeeze. They were trying to condemn China, telling them to cap their green house gas. I’m sorry, lets remove the layer of bullshit. First of countries like China will always have high emissions. Why do i say that ? Because where does nearly everything come from?....China. Which means cheap labour and factories. So the only way for China to cut their emissions, is if the so called “first world countries” get off their money making asses, and make stuff themselves. Have you noticed how most factories are being closed across America, UK and other prominent countries.....JACKASSES .Also they say China is having a monopoly on Rare Earth materials. For those who don’t know, “rare earth” is what is used to make all those green forms of technology. China has 50% of the stuff, that is in the world. But the thing is, the entire process of mining and refining it is extremely dangerous to the local environment and causes more emissions. Don’t get me started on the 1st world, telling developing countries, not to develop....because it will damage the environment. BULLSHIT HYPOCRASY. Basically any more 1st world countries, unless the current says so. After all, nobody told stopped them from developing.
Also, another form of bullshit that pissed me OFF. Is the AMERICA and England...on migrants/immigrants. The people and the politicians piss me off. First of , this is only aimed at the bullshiters. For all those in the USA who hate immigrants. Your countries foundation, is based on immigration. You came from England, and fought to break away from it. This is why USA and UK secretly hate each other. Also you robbed the real true Americans...which are the Native American off their land. So the influx of immigration, legal or illegal is the consequence for starting a nation, that started by kicking people out of their land by robbery/force/ tricks. Its just come back to bite you on the ass, thats all.
Now for the UK, where people who hate immigrants are full of them selves. OI mate, the one who hates foreigners, this country colonized a lot of other countries and ruled them for some time. And used people and their natural habitat as they saw fit. So just like America, what goes around comes around. I still like America and the UK. But my rant was aimed at those who inspire hatred and bullshit, so if you don’t do that, then you shouldn’t be offended. If you’re, I apologize. But if you’re an offended BULLSHITER.............SUCK SALT.
I saw the new episode of Heroes, but I watched Let It Bleed and didnt know about Upon this Rock. I’m getting it now as I write this, thanks to Donya’s reminder I look forward to Sylaire, as it will explain a boy named Noah and why he and Sylar live in Claire’s house with Mr. Muggles. That wasn’t a spoiler, unless you are still in Season 3.
I will be doing some new things soon, just got some person projects to work on before I do. That drawing of my lil sister, is happening, I found a pic of her, that matches the sketch I’ve been seeing in my head for months. Got to do it secretly, want to surprise her. Then I got to finish something linked to
4578Designs, which has been overdue for months. And I need to make up for it, trust. Deserves it...someone does
. Then I can make the comic prize for
Denii as it links with 2 things I just mentioned.
Thank you
4578Designs for the giving me a sub
Longest journal ever, I had to do it in microsft word, 8 pages long ( Donya you were right, the twilight part was an extra 4 pages lol), over 6 hours of typing nonsense. Hopes the pictures show. If not I will fix it, when I wake up. I’m going to eat something now, dinner at 3:00 am. If you actually read the entire journal, I salute you. Also, I’m sure my little rant, balanced tbe Twilight side of the journal out lol, and you get a better understanding of me. Good night everyone.
I have the technology! Just be patient people, on the 29/30th March.....everything I've been working on will be uploaded, (some just need permission).
