ON IT

the things you work on till you can't work no more are the things you need to work on till you can't work anymore

Does that make sense in a logical way.

I just want to add that i got in from Thai Boxing at about 9 and went straight to the mac-

Left the mac at 1 and went straight to the kanji -never left the Kanji, i fell asleep with it.

I loved that, I like visual art, hopefully I get a tablet for christmas and then move on from there.

I swearrrrrr by the power of grey skulll

Ariyo makes no sense, and he speaks in a weird way.

loner boy and the bellydancers

The title sounds like the name of a band , but this was no band my friend this was the title of my yesterday evening.

I wonder how I came across yesterday smartly dressed black man posted against the wall BIIRU in hand, uttering a word to no1. Did my shyness come across or did i look stuck up like so many of my peers told me I came across in the first year of UNI.
I'm bloody shy sometimes, among my friends and with their backing i can be loud and boisterous but ge me on my own and I will shrink like your bank account balance would if you gave your details in reply to Baba Tunde's sob story of an email.

Last night I went solo to a japanese language exchange event www.midievents.com, ended up being a really cool night though japanese belly dancers and all.

speaking to a stranger is daunting enough for me, I mean i can ask for the time or directions BUT to strike up a convo for no reason (ahhh Kowai desuyo) Scary, for real. Multiply that feeling by the fact that you speak completely different languages and then time this by the power of shy and then you get me standing against the wall with a BIRRU.

Nice guy called danny had no problem initiating convo but as more me, the wall was my friend. With Dannys help I got talking to some guys and the conversation started to flow. Increased my japanese network by 3 which was cool, spoke a lot of nihongo as well. Bare in mind I've been doing this for a few months i have to pat myself on the back just a little.

Anyway MATA

La Tube

I wanted to write this yesterday but for the same reason "complacency" that has prevented me from writing regular postings I did not.

Anyway I left Leeds last week moved back to London,
I am on the bench (in between projects) - which means I'm being paid but I'm not working, but you can't stay on the bench too long or you get fired.In
Anyway I have to travel to our head office in Aldershot meaning I have to take the Jubilee line.

I forgot what the tube was like- Bloody sardines- I used to work in the city and had become desensitised to the crowding and pushing and smells and getting hot and the lack of respect and discipline. I can liken my reacquainting with the tube to a guy who has been stuck in a dark hole for a year and then suddenly open his eyes to a brilliant bright light. The tube however is not brilliant it is a man made interconnected series of hell holes with multiple deaths carriages assigned to each hell hole that ride through these hell holes transporting rats.

Get it it's hell. (during rush hour)

at all other time's it is fine and pleasant THE END

I am still alive

I feel bad it's been over a month and A lot has changed.
Kon shu no nichiyoobi kara London ni sunde imasu. I left Leeds with a tear in my eye and have come back to my tiny London room. Benefits being that I'm with the family.

I think I'm going to go to my first london Salsa lesson ever today lol, I'm going tomorow as well but I am slightly addicted to Salsa.com and all the other forms. I'm not obsessed but I am. I have the week off and i'm trying to sort out my room BUT i have too much stuff for my room, so what can a man do.

There is no wit in this entry lol, just an update - if you want some humour maybe next time.
I have established that I am shy though in Salsa and talking Japanese with the people at the japan centre.

I wo't leave it too lon before i post a real post and not this diary entry style excuse.

Oh yeah I'm going to the land of the rising sun- Just getting that sorted was drama.net

Le weekend of le busy

That is my attempt at French lol, British people make me laugh, they think speaking loud, slowly and by inputting le and la after every utterance constitutes to speaking Le french.

Anyway that was a tangent, I had a crazy week. I danced Salsa from Tuesday- Friday

On Thursday Mo and Brendan who are Salsa dons invited me out with them to Wetherby- felt flattered I have climbed up the ranks of salsa hood. SO

I found myself in wetherby - being asked to dance by people who if they saw me on the street would normally cross the road climb a fence and take a taxi-- SALSA is a whole new world.

Saturday found me in Birmingham with the graduate force-- was an okay encounter-- etap hotel allows you no privacy- the shower has a blooming peep hole wide enough for you to fit your fist through and is at waist height- why oh why!!

Anyway got back to Leeds on Sunday courtesy of Russel brands driving and I went Salsa on Monday- and I am proud to say I did a spot of beginners teaching :D

Can't wait for Salsa on Thursday--MWAH


Ciao-- Ja matta ato de-- Tschus- au revoir - Odabo Seeya

Advancement

All I can say is I've learnt a lot, that commute I mentioned I made it worthwhile
Japanese Audio Lessons,

I get about 3 hours of Japanese in every day. ichshukan mei kara. watashia wa Nihongo yoku wakarimasu soshte skoshi wakarimasu. I can count from Ichi to KyujuKyuHyakusen Kyuhakyu kyujukyu ( 1 - 999,999). I'm not learning Romaji ( how you write japanese in english) because I am going to learn Hiragana and katakana. (i.e dont watch the spelling)

I feel good now i need a nisan nim japanese tomodachi (few japanese friends) and I can get some practice in.

Dreamt in Japanese , so that's the one.

Not only that I went Salsa last night till the early hour literally Kesa Ichiji ni (this morning at one o clock), I was still dancing. I'm a lot better at that too, need to move up I didn't go to intermediates but I will next week.

Re picture- Samurai Champloo- is the best anime I've seen so far--

mada jozu ja arimasen

Long time,

well not that much has changed, well if you ask my left leg it will tell you a completely different story, or if you asked my memory banks as they are storing a lot of Nihongo (japanese).

As for my left leg, well let's say it's been adorned with a Yakuza style tattoo it's not really yakuza style but you catch my drift.

besides that had a 2 day development training with work which was inspiring if anything-- go team Ariyo

Salsa this week has been ill definitely ill picking up new moves went to a salsa club night last week- had some good times



I'm sad - I will Miss Leeds when I move back home

yeah how about this is just a catch up

Ja Matta

I subaru, I subaru

My blog is modern ronin, my name is Rio Tetsuo my picture is me dressed as a Ninja, if you haven't guessed it by now you never will. I literally just noticed how obvious it was.

Out of all the things I want to achieve i think Japanese fluency is one of them, but I suck at the commitment part. I hope I started learning Japanese for the last time. I know quite a lot of basic stuff, but need to step to the next level... I need to do like 10 minutes a day-- Just ten --sometimes more never less,

I am doing several things at once but boy if it all comes together I'll be a powerhouse.. I'm a basic japanese speaking, graphic designing website building -photo taking ,thai boxing, running machine.. keep them all up and I will be an expert and I will take over the WORLLLLLLLLLLLLD MWUHHAHAHAHA ,

please pray that I keep it up and ask me regularly how I'm doing oh,,
and I need japanese friends--

I have none

now that is weird

I it bad if i make friends on the basis that they are japanese

walk like an egyptian..

Lol, to think that a whole dance craze songs and all derived from the way Egyptians were depicted in early hieroglyphics.

Anyway End of August, i went to Egypt with my better half, and it was 99% great,
weather, resort , food were all top notch.

Snorkeling in the red sea and quad biking through the desert made for good times

I spent hours in the sea, just looking at the beautiful coral and the plethora of tropical fish and the odd evil looking death fish or jellyfish that appeared out of nowhere.

It is a different world in the deep blue, forget going to space for now-- we need to check out the bottom of the ocean.

The pyramids of Giza were amazing and definitely need to be seen. 4,000 years old and still standing, understand that Cairo has the odd earthquake reaching quite high in the Richter scale.
These things were around before Christ.

There are 111 pyramids in Egypt and these 3 are the creme, although these are glorified tombs and sign of mans vanity they are still .WOW. the only remaining wonder of the Ancient world.

The museum was also a hot spot literally, the highlight being the Tutankhamen room dedicated to the findings of the boy king who reigned from the age of 9 for 9 years. One of the most famous ancient Egyptians, you can only marvel at the craftsmanship, especially of the tomb in a tomb in a tomb in a tomb.

next stop JAPAN bang bang

Meh!!!

Friday came and I did no Salsa,

one of my Salsa friends boyfriends plays basketball and I networked my way in there so he invited me down to play in Bradford

Bare in mind I havent played properly in like 6 years and when I was young i wished to be a bball player. I had no kit what so ever so my trendy hightops came into play- needless to say the blisters on my feet are my unwanted trophies- they are black like midnight.

Im so looking forward to going away next week to Egypt never been before and I've heard good things, plus quality time with my sunflower is needed. I've had a long couple of weeks and I need some hugs XYZ.

I've had limited time to work on the Ariyo projects, but I have an exciting venture almost missed Salsa yesterday woking on it , I'm getting so neeky these days.

You know it's time to change your shop when for a split second you feel like edging your car off the M60 to give you a valid excuse for not going in.-Not that i thought about doing that.

Next weeks plan is to drift off and get darker-- read another book, as twilight is very nearly done

time for a new moon..

Week of Productivity

Absence makes the heart grow fonder for a while and then you just forget--you know it's true

Anyway-- since last week, what has happened, i had one of those chilled weekends spending most of my time with my brother, who is my favourite person in the world.. I hat to see him sad and he's always sad when I leave which makes me sad--

My mum and brother are coming to see me tonight and i will surprise them by taking them to safari-

I've been salsa twice this week and one more time tonight before mum gets up-

is someone obsessed, NO- i just enjoy it , the lessons are cool but its the freestyling afterward, it's reminiscent of being in school disco asking girls to dance, now I'm not scared to dance, I'm just not that great-- and i know it will come as I can see that I am getting better but not yet--

Jokes - i wish I had my camera there was this Chinese dude, well he looked chinese, who looks like the geekiest Chinese guy who was in your school the smart one who got straight A's in everything English even though it was his 2nd language.

Anyway this guy was the Dogs at Salsa, the bees knees the pepper stew, the aki and salt fish lol. He was sick and one time he was dancing with this black woman twice his height, twice his width and ten time his yardie. They danced so well but looked so odd-- classic moment

Like to add in ending that this week was a good week apart from the part where I'm at work- OOOPs that's like most of it

fcukadoodle actually last 2 days at work,, not been too bad

Forgot to add -that dude in the pic is not me- as I would not salsa without socks-

Ari the Kidd

Way back in the 80's i was a young boy, I bet it was the 90's actually but I was still a young boy

anyway i remember when my dad brough home a master system 2 from Argos it must have cost about £29.99 and these were the day where it had the price per week of items in the catalogue.

so first game I ever played on my own console was Alex the Kidd in Miracle world, got far, did good ,whizzed through loads of levels memorised the paper scissor stone matches but never did I complete the game

New challenge for me

Buy a master system 2-- and complete Alex the Kidd--

that's it it has been added to the list

wish me luck--

I salute you all

I run this

I run

I put my trainers on and I run

The treadmill can't hold me down so i do this in the park, i do it on the roads- i do it across brides , around lakes, and across rivers. I usuallly run alone.

But I am not the only one running, my brothers and my sisters run with me.

There's a way you feel when you run, you don't really think about what you're doing- one foot, other foot-- repeat until elapsed distance is satisfactory. You need to be a certain type of person to run, it is not for everybody. i don't mean run once a month or once a week but you know a few times a week.

I usually run a route which leads me to my car. SOmetimes a few miles sometimes several miles.

Anyway if i run during the daylight hours I will usually pass several runners, all going through the same struggle. I don;t know hwat they're thinking i don't know why they run, for fitness for sport, for enjoyment for their life. But I know there is a connection between me and the guy or girl running towards me with wild robotic movements. And then they pass me with not so much as a glance or a nod or a smile.

I feel like my friend just blanked me

We are meant to be Brothers, we share a secret that only runners know at least give me the nod.

Anyway I've taken it in my stride :) to smile, wave wink or nod at all runners passing me--

I feel to bellow -words of support, but I'll save that for later.

I want to build a real solidarity amongs my kind

For when the world dies of a heart attack the runners will run on by - white headphones swaying with the motion of they that dare to run.

P-Party and others

anyway last update on my life was like last week, sometime- did I mention Salsa on thursday- and thai boxing same day-

i think I'll go thai boxing again tomorrow- and salsa as well- going on le vacation, so want to look good so I'm going to watch what I eat . just to note i did watch the bacon mushroom and egg sandwich today was very tasty-- needed to eat to take drugs that i got from the dentist and now I feel very drowsy-- but that may just be work

--OK so with the Melodic Mrs saw pelham 1,2,3 which is a good film , did the Ikea tour before that- only bad thing about that was that it wasn't for our house---

They had some bamboo in there which i was tempted to buy- will do when I move back to Londre

--Costume shopping for the P party was a joke lets say Idowu and Ojo shop like girls- couldn't make a decision for anything-- we were in there so long that my 7 yr old brother got bored and we left them there.


Went to Mrs's sisters birthday shindig and then donned my Pirate outfit and hit the P party, you need to see the pictures ill upload one when I get em-- Michael is a Dirty Bastard--
was real fun times--

dirty dirty man

why so silent?

Okay- first off all - I'm Sorry Mutsa , I'm Sorry Sheryl- I'm sorry Mo

I'm sorry al the readers I don't have.

That's a good apology

Anyway, I just got flowing on the creative front I had a project to do for my friend with an imminent deadline and then the whole adobe suite went to pot-

reinstall -forum after forum -every damn thing- but nothoing could stop the little icons on my mac dock from bouncing willy nilly and not opening infuriating frustrating and damn right rubbish timing-- Sods law and all that-

I did not want to do anything but get back on it, because most of my dreams were based on that suite working-- and I realised i was reliant on technology like so much--

I was also made aware that I had a few designs that I should take to print and I should get my pipeline moving---may have been Gods way to get me to move on and step forward

They do say mysterious ways, so why not through technology malfunction

From now on i make my own t-shirts, when i go to japan i want to be rocking my own tees-

maybe I will have a strong case to get hired by Nigo and work in the BAPE workshop--

i would quit my job here 30 seconds ago if that offer was ever made-

i wanna be in a position where that could happen.

I'll make them for myself and i'll wear them make a few copies for anyone who may want some and bob is indeed your mincing alcoholic uncle--

look out for me

crawling

Sunday, which means work starts tomorrow.. isn't that great.

No it bloody isn't. Everytime someone asks me how work is I say.. It's fine but in reality it is not fine It is torture. I've spent hours working on my own project today and I wouldn't say it was work it was bloody fun.

Spoke to one of my friends the other night a really big inspiration and so I am inspired -lol what a sentence.

Went to Manchester for a comedy night, saw my cousins was all good went to a rave was all young, but was good to hear some old school garage. 

I'm watching old boy right now which is why I'm distracted and all of that. anyway just wanted to say- I'm crawling now- running soon and eventually flying.

Choose-DAy

Today is a Tuesday, - I should end the post there with a solid fact.

Okay so I've finished Season 3 of the wire onto season 4 now, i don't want it to end.
I'm sure I repeat myself on this blog thing, but what the heck.
When I'm old I want to read back on these and smile or have the will to jump off a bridge for not reaching my goals or even trying.

I've messed around on illustrator some more and managed to get around the trial period count down which would have resulted in me losing the most desired vector creation tool known to general mankind. -

will you buy a t-shirt

Thai boxing today 6ish- im leaving work at 4-30 having a conference call at 5-30 whilst driving down the motorway--

I just read Eva's latest post and it was really well put together and mine is just a mind dump

like I've eaten 2 bananas and 3 manadarins a cereal bar, and a snickers and a kit kat- is that a balanced diet--

Falling Down

I missed my turning on the motorway as my Garmin does not have the new roads installed and I ended up in Wales as I crossed the welcome to wales sign everything slowed down. Weird that I was in a different country I got scared by the unpronounceable road signs. next junction 4th exit on the roundabout and got back to England.

Working on the client site a Nuclear facility, I've said too much already

Anyway I wanted to go Thai boxing and then salsa, but - I got stuck in traffic on 4 motorways on the way home , and I felt like I was going to go Postal and unleash Carmageddon,(like the game...remember??) I was going to fall down like Michael Douglas.

Needless to say I missed Thai boxing and went for a serious run in the rain- oh well .

Came home watched some more of the wire- I am an addict tearing through like 3 episodes a day and- I have no spare time so how do I do it.

Went Salsa and moved up a class and lo and behold I was alright best lesson I've had ,picked up new moves- later danced with some experienced dancers and got some tips--

watch me now!!!

Progress

Think!!

What are your dreams, what are your goals, aspirations?

What have you done today, to take a step closer to these dream, what are you doing to do?

Even if it's a little step forward it's a step forward.

I'm trying to motivate myself, i want to do a tutorial on illustrator or photoshop, i will set myself a target to do 3 at least 3 tutorials a week. a a month that will be 21 new things I've learnt in a week'

In a year that's about 252 new things i lie.

I try not to buy t-shirts, thinking I should be making my own- aye

-- it's taking shape slowly-

PS I hate Mondays @ work

Fish Friday

Who is this guy?, do you remember him , yes we all remember Captain Birds Eye. Monopolising the fish finger market posing as a fisherman who only selects the finest cuts of cod and uses the crispiest bread crumbs known to man sprinkled with gold to give it that glow as seen on the adverts. They look so succulent on TV but on your plate they are as plain as the Plainest Jane to have ever lived.

This is my ode to fish, I've had fish for lunch 5 days in a row 2 days of mackerel 2 days of cheap kipper and thanks to Fish Friday Cod and chips ,which as I type is digesting ever so slowly in my belly.

I used to hate fish, and the reason is because of the bones, millions and millions of bones, just like seeded fruit the joy of food is removed by the taboo which is the removal of the hard stuff inside.

Have a flashback to the time a bone scratched the inside of your throat, it's hardly worth the trouble if you ask me. Why can't fish be like chicken with only a few major bones to go through.

Salsa was great last night, need to get in some practice, I'm moving up a level as suggested by one of the event organisers. so catch me soon spinning around a Latin dance floor near you.

Anyway let me end by saluting the late original Captain Birds Eye, although I wonder how we let the pied piper of the sea , an old bearded man who lured kids onto his sea worthy vessel with the promise of golden fish fingers, into our homes and fridge freezers.

Adieu

So far!

SO far I didn't manage to update a blog everyday about my day to day life, but I have managed to progress on my design work.

My friend has a website http://www.mostlylegit.net/

and I am now editing pictures to make them relate to the stories. I've done one so far but this will enchance my skill, so is therefore a step in the right direction.

On another note I'm not allowed to manage a specific project because once upon a time i had dual nationality and due to security reasons. I who have lived in this country for the 24 years 2 months and 7 days am being treated like some sort of foreign threat.

What the funk!

ANyway my legs -thighs -still kill from my thai boxing sessions on Monday whcih is my own fault, this teaches me to stretch after a workout.

Hopefully i can salsa tonight but I mean it's just not cool to be literally crippled- i can't alk down stairs without serious muscle acheage which is subsiding but is still in occurance which means it's not fun times. Especially descending from an attic room, which you have no real want to leave

Anyway Rio Tetsuo is alive I just be concealing him

Wolves

I'm not a hunter but i am told,that, uh, in places like in the arctic,where indiginous people sometimes might, might, hunt a wolf,they'll take a double edged blade,and they'll put blood on the blade,

and they'll melt the ice and stick the handle in the ice,so that only the blade is protruding,and that a wolf will smell the blood and wants to eat, and it will come and lick the blade trying to eat, and what happens is when the wolf licks the blade,of course, he cuts his tongue,

and he bleeds, and he thinks he's really having a good thing,and he drinks and he licks and he licks,and of course he is drinking his own blood and he kills himself,

thats what the Imperialists did with us with crack cocaine,you have these young brothers out there who think they are getting something they gonna make a living with, they is getting something they can buy a car,like the white people have cars, why can't i have a car?they getting something they can get a piece of gold,white people have gold, why can't i have gold?they getting something to get a house,white people have a house, why can't i have a house?

and they actually think that theres something thats bringing resources to them,but they're killing themsleves just like the wolf was licking the blade, and they're slowly dying without knowing it.

thats exactly, precisely what happens to the community,and instead of blaming the hunter who put the damn handle and blade in the ice for the wolf, that what happens is the wolf gets the blame, gets the blame for trying to live,thats what happens in our community,

you don't blame the person, the victim, you blame the oppressor, Imperialism, white power is the enemy,was the enemy when it first came to Africa,and snatched up the first African brothers here against our will,isss the enemy today, and thats the thing that we have to understand.

140 Miles for nothing

I commute to work 4 times a week, but today on arrival @ my destination 70 miles away from my residence, I was told to go back home as the water mains was kaputt, so I didn't get back home till midday, the whole will to work which let's face it was never there had now left the planet-

did some more thai boxing today the fitness session was a little bit serious- but i liked it-

salsa tomorrow though doing twice a week now- well sometimes

this is just a shopping list of what i've done-

oh i did go London on tjhe weekend and went bike riding in burgess with my 7yr old then took  him and the Mrs to cinema,  Ice age 3 was jokes, GBK for dinner which was yum yums lol.

Oh yeah had a long ting club night out spent ages waiting in the queue for a club which eventually demanded 500 from our group-- FCUK NO

went to embassy, which is like ego on steroids, sun tan on crack and WAGS on heat, had to play the diplomat for some awkward situation, with Mr " Do you know who I am"--  I ma the official BFG up in this mother lol.

anyway im watching the wire- so leave me be yo- lol

Scared of Mum and Dad!!

I'm 24 years old and 2 months, I am officially a grown ass man, i've been adult size since I was 16 had a box beard before my GCSE's

but I am still scared about what my parents will think, woe to the day my father finds out I have tattoos. woe indeed.

I want to get more quite a few more, On my arms on my back on my legs. i do not want to be a covered man but I like them.

Will i not like them when I'm 80- who knows but when I'm 80 I'll have bigger problems than the symmetrical swallows flying over my chest. I mean face it I may not even live that long. Carpe Diem.

Is it wrong to be concerned with what your parents will think about things that aren't really life changing although they are lifelong?

If you have parents with traditional values then you may understand where I'm coming from, i got my ears pierced and managed to hide that for a few weeks--to be honest looking back i did rebel for a first generation African boy i got plaits as well but all of that was reversible.

This is just a random burst, has nothing to do with me keeping tabs on my day to day life enjoy

would love ot hear a view or 2-- neeks-- eva??

Slacked already

A week since my last post, so much for everyday-me so sorry

Not sure if i've mentioned that i gots myself Adobe CS4 like everything you'll ever need to make a go of it it the creative arts, in terms of software. so go team

I'm seriously considering retraining - and making a go of it me and my camera and my mac, making some money, getting some clients photographing events-designing some graphics- but not raves-- yeeeuck no offence- but that's long.

Have a lil project to start working on so my skills will grow- anyone got advice let me know

Had a good weekend lil bit of raving- crazy cousins at gatecrasher -I SKANK hard , bit of cinema - and a bit of chilling.

Ps if you like blood the manga -don't bother watching the film bar a few chocie seconds, the film is increibly wack- has some matrix music, below standard 300 action scenes and a story that doesn't quite fit together, it could have been great but it was -not

work is long as usual, imagining being asked to do stuff by someone who doesn't really know what they want you to give them- very gay indeed very gay.

Thai boxong was ill yesterday , I have now purchased gum shield and another ankle support and ill be back there today--

YEAHHH-

thursday tomorrow

Good day?

Morning, Tuesday evening I had a pleasant run, my book has actually given me some motivation to get running, the beautiful weather also helped. I ran around Wellington lake which was apparently built by soldiers employed after the battle of the same name. It os really nice and if you ever come to Leeds I will show it to you.

I retired to my room and finished the book, granted it is quite short being just shy of 200 pages. i messed around on the mac and I am already impressed just by the face recognition feature on iPhoto or whatever it's called.

I enjoyed my evening as I had some me time. I will aim to try and get this every day a time to watch TV or draw or read or do something I want to do. I've picked up a book call Audition and after this I think I'll read the Great Gatsby and then maybe another Haruki Murakami novel. ( I want to meet this man)

On the drive into work i rediscovered the Kings of Leon album "Only by the night" it is definitely a classic, cruising down the M62 and 60 through the pennines shades on - sun shining on me, makes for a start of a good Wednesday.

I feel like I'm on the road signposted better life, I don't know when I'll get there BUT I will get there.

AMEN

Week recap - boring for you

So much for keeping an everyday Journal, or whatever, now let me try and back track real quick

Wednesday- The hangover- great film - NO EXERCISE

Thursday- Jogged around Lake Wellington, then went Salsa - which was good again.

Friday - Transformers at the movies in London, yeah it was good BUT they tried to rush a storyline, they should have just left it at transforming a couple of shots and some brief flashbacks- that's what we paid to see.

Saturday - Went for a run Met up with long time friends rediscovered how property prices down the road for me are extortionate, went to Moose bar- too random on this occasion.

Sunday - In between drips and drabs of sleep I managed to do one two errands. Had Morleys Went for chinese, which kicks healthy eating right in the teeth. Too tired to drive to Leeds, so I'm still in London- working from home and also STILL waiting for my MAC which is estimated to arrive today or tomorrow, please say TODAY, please say it's TODAY!!

I'm reading a book called what I talk about when I talk about RUNNING

Vex -penses

First off, I just realised my expenses have not been paid, now i'm not an MP but I expect my petrol allowance to be paid to me ontime, I'm always owed a weeks money due to the way it works, but if they don't pay me I'm not driving into work.1 because i dont't have the spare cash to flash. I had plans this week, so the money owed me was meant to cover that, so now my weekend is ruined except for the MAC arrival

Anyway Monday, i did kickboxing at the gym , the class was free as my membership still runs, and that was Monday nothing special-

Tuesday i worked in Leeds, felt claustrophobic as anything, they consolidated the offices and got rid of a whole floor-- save money-- increase stress and noise--
After work I went to Capoeira for the first time in like 5 years, it was fun it was a good workout. Seeing me attempting a cartwheel and a handstand would have been worth the entry fee alone. It was fun singing along to the songs and playing Capoeira at the end. yeah I want to go back, i want to be able to do minor acrobatics- it will take time because I am crap at acrobatics -crap with a capital RUBBISH.


oh yeah I went to this shop called white label clothing, basically they do what i would love to do, print and design t-shirts and some menswear, had a conversation-i got their business card and will be liasing with them soon, pick some brains. make a few screen prints what not-- happy days

take time, communicate well and never assume always ask

Drag me to the woods!

This is my blog, so I'm going to mainly keep it about me (selfish i know) but I have to mention the Mrs today- We went for a walk around a nice lake in my local park on Saturday.

And I'm unwillingly dragged on an alternative apparently tame woodland route, after 45 minutes of seeing nothing but shrubbery and being sceptical about every rustle in the bushes, we decided we were lost "it looks like fun" was a falsity . We spent the best part of the next hour putting our orienteering skills to use - please note I am not Bear grylls -,

fuelled by the wise words of a chav that there was an exit to this woodland adventure we reappeared on the outskirts of a golf course.

Getting back to the car was a relief, we had to make a quick change out of our muddy footwear and saw Drag me to Hell, I'm not sure if I liked it, it was like a cross between Scary Movie and a Scary Movie, never before have I cringed and then laughed in such quick succesion.

( i want to put a joke about sex or something but my brain doesn't seem so sharp right now)
oh yeah so much apple product placement, it's a joke

Hmmm We went for run directly around the lake on the sunday no deviations from the beaten path and later on had a picnic in the shadows of an old castle ruins andcrash session in the Park. It's always good to get downtime

took my sketch pad and attempted to pencil some ideas. Had notification that the Mac should arrive @ my london address next week which is Sterling news, yes sterling.

Said goodbye to madam and had a session at the gym. i must note there was a guy there the size of my 7 year old brother lifting my OLD bodyweight on the Smith bench press- Im thinking steroids or something.

Finished the wire season 1, quite good, need to call up to get the next one for £10--> this is advertising

Mambo no.1

Wow, Who would have thought it, Salsa was serious as in very good, I actually enjoyed it and will be back next week.


I take back all the insults I flung at my friends ,mainly calling them GAY for learning to Salsa. I mean I thai box, that's testosterone central and salsa seems quite camp. BUT there were some dudes getting kicks out of turning women Mr La Vida Loca and Pablo Molesto so I guess although, the general salsan has a gay dress code I'm sure most salsans are dance lovers or a bunch of seedy pervs

NB. i had to wear my v-neck t-shirt and look remotely pruned as it was asalsa night out and i wanted to look european by exposing some of my chest hairs.

The beginners class started at 9.30 my housemate was in Intermediate- fancy footwork confusion class- and then there was dancing ALL NIGHT LONG (your brain wants you to sing some Lionel, so do it!!) I had to stop at 12 it was bedtime for me- 70 mile commute remember- i'll talk about it one day

I like the fact that I was asked to dance after the class by a few Salsans ( that's what I'll be calling Salasa dancers) but I didn't like the fact that i could only do like 2 moves. Some guys there were impressive I can't wait till I'm at that level and as for the clammy hands- boy I'm going to get this thing from Boots which "should" sort that out.

Frosties for Dinner and sausage sandwich- student times for a working man

Fridays here- got my expenses so i can afford to take the Mrs to the Cinema lol, Saturday night at the movies -Good times!! Have her for the whole weekend.
Long Distance Relationships can suck but I'd rather long distance relationship than no relationship.

the routine

Hmm I went to the gym briefly ( what a boring place) and cancelled it out by going to Dutch Pot a caribbean place by having chicken and dumpling- hmm delicious, I'm African so caribbean food is foreign to me and always a treat.

I cancelled the gym membership so that ends end of the month watched some of the wire

I've only just started this hit, police/drug dealing criminal series, quite good check it out if ou haven't

I'm just finishing season 1. I am like halfway through 24, heroes , prison break and the wire, I'll try and finish all of those in the near future.

I don't have much to say, so I thought i'd write down my routine, may help me see how I can change it u a little bit.

Get up- obviously, getting ready etc
drive to knowsley (70 miles from home--except one day where i'll just go to the Leeds office,)
Act the robot for 8 odd hours-i.e work
drive back
Go Gym (which will soon change) or Muay thai
get home, eat shower, watch (currently) the wire and have phone calls

i do this every weekday but friday may end with me driving to london or anticipating the arrival of my Mrs or visiting friends from London, rarely do i spend the weekend alone in Leeds.

I am now going to change this routine - slowly at first and drammatically eventually.
I'm going Salsa tonight for the first time so that's a change right there, alot of my friends in London already do it. My housemate is an ex professional dancer ( not a stripper) so i'll roll with him.

I'm not scared of dancing, but I got them clammy hands , it won't be nice for whoever I'm holding, doodle.

quitting gym

So I did go Thai Boxing and I did go to the GYM afterwards and I decided my GYM membership is getting cancelled.

It's boring and static it's so medical I'd much rather go to Muay Thai or take another martial art. i was thinking Capoeira as I've done it before and I can't do a cartwheel handstand or anything and I'd love to be able to so there is a Raize in leeds I will check out next week. So I can do this for the next /6 months till I leave Leeds and maybe learn to do a cartwheel. @ work at mo pretending to work. I repeat this is so unfulfilling.

If i wasn't at work now, i'd be waiting for my mac to arrive or trying to draw or watching a film- world cinema

In future i want my day to consist of- Drawing -watching films, martial arts- working on the mac on creative stuff, and not just my evenings- all this stuff can be done all over the world.

Be cool to play capoeira in Brasil ,which is the real spelling son

numero uno

This is my first entry!

I'm taking time out from a Job I care nothing for in a City I don't know.
I don't write in consecutive sentences most times so I apologise ,to who? je ne sais pas.
I'm going Thai boxing and to the city gym as I can't resist the chocolate I need to make sure I have no money as i know I can't resist temptation with money in hand and a vending machine in spitting range.

Today I spent 8 hours working for someone, wasting my life, I will use this blog as a means to propel my self to a state of happiness by reminding myself how unhappy I am here, and eventually geting out. AMEN