Oslo – October 2009

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09/10/09 Friday – Early morning gym session. Fitness First instructor forcing the guys to add more weight and hinting not to come to his class if they can’t do it. Freeze my gym account. Busses to Old Street. Taz shows me her work place… it’s like a college for adults man… got gym, soft water, cafeteria… wicked man! have a fish cake there with extra tartar sauce. Change money at M&S. There were these NSPCC or something guys on the street… you know the guys that want you to pay just a couple of quid to save something or another. Some dude was passing them smoking so this cheeky bugger goes up to him saying ah yes please smoke my way I can’t get enough of passive smoke. Lol after that he sees us passing him and just looks at us and says ‘shall we?’ in such a sarcastic way. Loving it.

Walk to Liverpool Street. We try hunt for our bus stop. Get the coach to Standsted. Link with Davina, check in, Trish joins us, buy booze and food in the duty free. Before boarding I felt something in my inside pocket and realized it was fire crackers I’d found at the Small World festival… shit!!! I went through check in with that in my pocket!? Freaked out so dumped them in the bin before boarding. Note: I seem to attract people that love bloody fiddling behind me… be it standing in the queue they come up too close, cinema seats, etc! Then we get a bus to Oslo and I’m left sitting next to this huge guy. Hell he even let out a sigh of disturbance coz he had to put his bag on his lap! WTF I’m sitting there trying to fit in and still hanging out in the ilse at the same time.

Get to Oslo… walk around to our hotel. Try out their complimentary double salt licorice sweets… at first I was like WTF is this!? Then it’s like… hmmm not too bad. Our rooms is huge man! Loved that and we had like 3 bunks coz Kai and Adele will join us tomorrow. Watch some movie called Election which was random and funny.

10/10/09 Saturday – Kai and Adele join us. Davina’s like ‘care to have a shower and smell like a flower?’ Kai is like ‘wakey wakey hands off snakey’. Have a shower and realized how much I love soft water… I’m gonna move to a country with soft water for sure. McDonald’s brekkie. Sightseeing. Come to The Vigeland Park. LOOOOOTS of naked statues doing all sorts. There was one bit on the fountains walls where it looks like the persons kicking a dog… when most of the other ones are about sex, threesomes, orgies, etc. Weird. Then there was the big phallus thing and the wheel of life. Walk around more. Seaside. Chill. Walk. Trish gets shrimps or prawns. Late lunch… I try their local cheese which is sooooo sweet. Walk again.

Oh and all this time mostly it was Davina and Kai or myself and Kai ahead of the rest. Lol Davina was like if only they used that energy on their legs instead of their mouths. Lol. Kai and Davina had jokes though. Get to the Opera house/building/structure thing and Kai had mentioned it looked like a ski slope… I was like dayum… if it snowed I’d def get on some skis and do it… but then Kai pointed out that it slopes down to the water so… maybe not! Walk back to our area codes… chill and drinks in this rock pub… one group of people in there actually looked like rockers from the …. 60s? Anyway, the post of Slash was the best. Rock music playing in the background and rock videos on tv. Seems like rockers were expressing their transgender side too.

Back to the hotel for some drinks, jokes and chats. End up with some deep debates. Religion and philosophy. By this time I was ready with the whiskey Taz and I got and wanted some music that was not from my cell phone. Now I thought Taz and I were gonna go check out what’s going on but suddenly she’s taking food orders so I went alone. All pumped to party… get out of the hotel and its freeeeeezing! So I’m like better find a kicking joint soon. Didn’t find anything and went back to the hotel… Trish is like where’s Taz? I’m like she didn’t come with me… Trish is like she’s at the 7/11 getting food. I’m like ok I’ll go get her. Get to the 7/11 and I start comparing the guy making hotdogs to Taz’s ex. And I kept insisting to him that he looked like Feys. Like hotdog guy is meant to know Taz’s history or something lol. Next day Taz reminded me and she’s something like … don’t make him the ex guy, make him the next guy kinda thing. Twatswat (thats Dane Cooks term for C-blocking a girl).

Back in our room my sell by date has approached and soon to be in my ‘need a beat’ recovery position. Finish up giving Trish a massage… if thats what you call it… lol this time my mouth doing all the talking… imagine serious discussions and a massage… how relaxing is that! So try to move our bunk in a way I could face the TV… suddenly Trish and Taz and moving it too and the beds just making circles now. Finally get in bed and sulk for a bit. TV. Sleep.

11/10/09 Sunday – Find out Taz and Trish did go out… man I gotta stop being so spoilt! Then again I wanted to get in the place before it went from major buzz to mash up. Pack. Davina, Kai and Adele do their thing. Taz, Trish and I do bed sheets and stuff lol. Check out… leave the dude with our bottles. He’s like everyone just gives me booze but I’m not complaining. I try to find internet coz I’d printed both my boarding passes on one paper trying to save paper and find out they rip part of the paper. Find internet but no printers. Relink with Davina, Kai and Adele, walk around and window shop. Coffee. Find a place to print my boarding pass. Coach (this time 2 noisy guys behind me). Airport (get the seat at the end and a free seat next to me… double whammy!). Man the announcements on the flights are getting too much… the hostess marketing shit, pilot and his sleepy talk makes you feel very safe, then theres recorded announcements about menus, duty free, some flight lottery… just STFU! Land. Goodbyes. Coach to London. Busses home.

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BRATISLAVA STAG WEEKEND 29th June 2007

BRATISLAVA STAG WEEKEND 29th June 2007
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Friday – Back to Bob’s. Neel Malde picks us for Stansted. Bratislava!!! We’re here!!! We’d fallen asleep right… the landing was so bad the plane bounced. Woke me the hell up. Freaked out so bad I jumped forward and hugged the seat in front. Few minutes later couldn’t stop laughing coz if I got freaked by the bouncy landing imagine the guy in front of me. He not only felt the bounce but a jerk from behind and hints of my hug from the side. Eva’s our guide. We get rules like not to piss in the fountain, only use the toilet to take a crap, don’t try to enter other rooms through windows or throw furniture out of the hotel window. Apparently it’s happened a lot and the Brits are to blame for it. Glad we went a day early to check out things. Like I said once the animals come its gonna be party non-stop. Attention guys… the place is filled… I mean crammed with hot women. The one time you will wish you were cockeyed lol. Roam around and realize it’s got a Kenya feel to it too. Most of the places are walking distance. Eva takes us to try some Slovak food… like soup served in scooped out bread. Wicked! Buy shades. Eva takes us to some spa for massages but its closed so drink and chill at Aupark. Oh man I’ve never seen a tree like that before. And these other piney ones with acorns… look cuddly but poke bad. Fish finds his rock climbing area at Aupark, Bob’s got his booze, Akshay’s mac-ing with Eva, Neel Malde is trill. Oh and I’ve got views of all these cute-kickable-looking-kids. Fish and Bob stay back, rest head for hotel to catch some sleep. Then Bob and Fish come to my room and keep me awake. Fish knocked out but Bob’s snoring and tossing around!!!! Yo but the sleep was amazing coz during the day it was hot and sunny, when we get to the hotel it poured down. HEAVY STYLES!!! Just like Madrid forgot my belt so use telephone cord. Dinner at this outside place which has furry tiger print shawls and the sweetest girl there. She wont as fly as the rest but so damn cute. Even the way she got frustrated trying to speak English. Bob ordered shark steak. Lil pub-crawl before Moulin Rouge (strip club). 3rd time round I don’t feel dodgy any more… but still not paying for no dance. We’ll chat and then they’re like I wanna dance for you. I’ll be like no point if you gonna bring out the animal in me and my animal cant jump on you so why don’t I dance for you! Go to a club with a stage. Bushy and Fish join us. Once I got on that stage I didn’t leave till we left. My night was fulfilled by the stage… Bobs was fulfilled by chasing girl around the table… so I’m told hehehe. Observation: Bob acts difficult under the influence… we still love you… you knob!

Saturday – The animals have arrived. Buy more shades. Paintball. Segi (The Stag) has to do a chicken run where we all shoot at him. Ouch. Amazing BBQ food after that. Hmmmm. Segi/Stegi gets wedgies! MEAN STYLES!!! I hit a strike 3 with my loose mouth so get a much deserved punishment. Roam with soda soaked pants and sticky buns. After that we went somewhere else… wow times 3 + 4. I’d get married just for that bit in my stag. Back to the hotel. Drinks. Strike 4 which depresses the hell out of me. To make me feel better get a rose for that extra cute waitress. Her names Yena/Yana. Note: Meeting lots of Yanas. I lead all the boys that way just for to give the flower claiming that’s the way coz Fish and Shuli decided to play chase and Fish had my map. Hehehe finally get a map right. We’re all scratching our heads and I ask this girl could you please tell us where this place is point on the map. She points at a sign next to me… she’s like you’re right here. Lol the door was right behind us. (Censored things). Gaaaad dayum!!! Eva and V join us. Head to another club with helium balloons and heart cookies and free Kit Kat Chunkys all over the place. Eva gets me a heart cookie… how sweet. Some of the boys go elsewhere. Doc was on fire with the rhymes man. Yo then we took some really funny videos of Doc and I doing Patel Rap and the Kenyan National Anthem on helium. Difficult again. Join the boys. Beata has issues, I feel the issues, Fish dunt let me feel the issues lol. Split. Jadu is already funny… on booze he’s too funny. Dude had the funniest hiccups. Get brekkie. Rest of the boys wait for brekkie at the hotel. Champagne breakfast for them. Oh yeah we were staying at the Radisson Carlton ****. Didn’t get to use the gym here either.

Sunday – The ride was hot, no windows and soooooo slow. Bobsled. And we’re free to do what we want till 7. Thought we’d hook Segi up with one last treat but it wont happening. See Yena, just talking to her I went all shy. Eat and exchange stories with Gabby and this American dude about drunken incidents where guys end up in hospital and still wanna party or fall off so many floors and still be ok. Yena one last time. Walking around we see so many cute kids right… got some vids and pics of a baby girl just walking up to a boy and chatting away for so long. Everyone stopped around just to ooohh and aaahh. It really was heart tickling. Anyway so hang. What’s this Doc’s going somewhere… to watch the huge chess on the floor thing. Hmmmm sounds like my kinda thing. Watch the chess match, help kids put pieces back. Watch the music thing. The parade is the place to be lol. And end up in UFO. It was so romantic I was joking with Doc to hold hands hahahaha… dude looked at me like ‘KHASKI GAI!!!!’ A tower with a restaurant on top and the view is amazing. So good that when Doc went to the loo there’s just glass around so someone squeezed out some chocolate cable while having the best view lol. Return to the parade for some more culture. The music thing was folk and now they have dancers in their outfits and all. Yay. Join the animals hahaha. Eva comes to bid us adieu. Airport. Flight. Fish takes vids of Akshay going on non-stop and Shamik just nodding away lol. Home! Big up Shuli for the bombest time in the bombest place. Note: Enough partying for Mathe’s month!

Monday – Miss work. Police warn me… seems like there have been LOTS of complaints about biking on the path. Cancel gym membership.

Tuesday – Still not recovered. New Korean landlady is kinda crazy. I wanted the small room, she gave it away. At some point we were discussing payment and I miscalculated… she’s like ‘noooo, I’ll kill you’. Then starts laughing. Worried hmmm. Make 2 bus trips (that’s 8 busses total so caught up on enough reading) with backpacks to move the small bits. Second trip she gives me Satsuma. Elated hmmm.

Wednesday – Missing Bratislava! One more backpack load. Meet Akshay. KFC fries suck! Kaajal. Watch Earthlings on Google video. Made my heart bleed.

Bratislava Milieu Yem Jah (Spelling) Means I love you.

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Poison on the Platter from Varsha

“Poison on the Platter”, is an eye-opening film, made by Mahesh Bhatt and Ajay Kanchan, illustrating how all of our lives are gonna be (adversely) affected by genetically modified foods. It is no more a farmer’s issue alone, it’s a matter of the consumers’ right to food safety. You and I wouldn’t even be able to separate/choose a normal Brinjal from/over a GM one, if Bt Brinjal – a GM crop produced by the mighty agri-MNC Monsanto – is let through by our corrupt regulatory body. Let’s put up strong resistance, demanding a ban on GM food/crops for 5 years, until they are proven safe for human consumption by independent, long-term studies. More info: http://www.amnolabrat.com, www.indiagminfo.com, gmfreekarnataka.wordpress.com

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How to Play the Didgeridoo by… can’t remember

How to Play the Didgeridoo by… can’t remember: Ok you know in mostly Australian videos there’s that long low hum… which to me sounds like a spring constantly going BOING! That’s the didgeridoo. Now the didgeridoo is contribution from the aboriginals of Aussie. It basically looks like an extra large flute without key holes. You blow into it and while blowing make different sounds. That’s what they did to make it sound like different animals in their habitat. What I was surprised to learn was circular breathing… now that’s wicked… this is what makes the players seem like they’re not breathing in and constantly playing. Moving on… learnt how to play quite a few animals sounds. Lip work. Then dude moved on to dance. The clip shows him playing the instrument and an aboriginal/e dancing. The dance was more mimicking animals so the player would blow the respective sounds. Then went on to choosing one, making one and artwork.

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NTV on Youtube from Fish


NTV on Youtube from Fish:
Please forward to all Kenyans. They upload clips everyday.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=NTVKenya&p=r


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