Day out in Edinburgh

Waking on later than I intended on Sunday, 11.30, I was aiming for 10.30 but my alarm failed me. I take a shower, throw on some jeans and notice a text message, it was bear telling me he couldnt make the 12:30 bus, prefering the 13:30 instead. I phone mags, keeping her up to date.

I throw up Halo 3 and try my on finding a skull achievement on the fourth level, I then switch to playing on online, but from the two games I end up with half a dozen kills. Now breaching on 13:00 I turn off the box and get changed. I leave and walk up to Bears gran (he was looking after their house, whilst they were on holiday), Me, Bear and Heather go to the roundabout and awaited the bus.

Mags was on the bus, we chilled listened to some Smodcast, we got to Kirkcaldy and the train was due for 15:05, but we missed it, it was going the wrong way anyway, so we catch a train at 15:20, it's a long a train ride we all get worn down.

Fast forward 30-40 minutes we arrive at the Omni Centre, hungry we look into where to eat, we're stuck with the decision of Chinese or Italian? We submit and go to Frankie & Benny's. Digging the scene I finally get a chance to order the BBQ Chicken Lasangae (finally!!), Mags & Bear order calazonies and Heather orders some sorta pasta dish, can't remember. The BBQ Chicken Laz is heavenly, it was surrounded with moat of BBQ Sauce!

Dessert we ordered a Ice Cream Cookie sandwich which we fought over!

We go over to the S&L for two jug's of cocktails; Dune Bug and Woo Woo's. I end up sooking all the juice from the limes provided, much to the amusement to my friends. Going to the counter to pay up, the woman asks where were we at, I pointed to our table and I tell her "we ordered a jug of Woo Woo (Bear breaks down in giggles in the background) and Dune Bug", funnily enough the woman only charges me for one jug and one cocktail - saving £10! What a result!

It's rolling on 19:00 so we go up to the Vue Cinema for the Ross Noble Larger than LIVE show in Liverpool, which is broadcasted to all Vue Cinema's in the UK. We spend half an hour waiting at the front of the que giggling over the short ass guy who thought he was in charge, me and bear just kept giggling at shit like "hey, frodo!" etc.

We get in, get seated and wait a further half hour, the screened showed the crowd filling the Liverpool Empire Theatre, occasionally getting a giggle at the people who are unaware that their being filmed, picking away at the noses.

The show starts, Ross is on top form and the crowd have provided him with more than enough ammo to fire back at them, the surfer from Leeds, the Duck Marine, The STD Mother, The Lassy who pissed in a Bin, Barry the Protector of Women, the LOST Hurly reference, The Cum in Men Joke, which was spiced up with a Blue Peter/Blew Peter joke which cracked me!

Unfortuntly with it being a sunday, the last train was at 22:25, so we opted to leave during the interval at 21:05. We head over to the train station, thinking we could just catch a eariler train home, but no. The only train was the 22:25. So we went to the Copper bar in the train station, ordered one round, left a cheaky comment card on the table and found our train, we sat waiting, we had 20 minutes til take off, I was thirsty again so I nipped out to the vending machine, whilst there the trains engine started, it was one of those "Oh Shit" moments, I quickly flung the money in the vending machine, churns out for Irn Bru's and pace quickly back to the train.

Getting back in time I sit down besides mags, facing bear. He opts to listen to Smodcast for the first time, the episode was the 33rd with Bryan Johnson, so we share out the earphones and crack up at the conversation, which made the train journey go a little easier. Once back in Kirkcaldy we catch a taxi and motor on home to Methil.

My thoughts on Jericho* + The Date

*Chris Jericho, not the crappy US TV Series "Jericho"

After WWE Raw this week a mystery video showed which was just a white screen with loads of different codes like "SAVE_US.222" all ran about the screen in a Matrix type effect. Briefly you can hear something along the lines "I'm Back". So the internet wrestling community is going wild! Obviously it's the perfect time since with the recent drug scandals after the Beniot Tragedy.

I can easily see Jericho fueding Cena and most likely give Cena a heel turn and losing the title to Jericho. Heck I think him coming back would even over shadow Triple H at the moment. With enough momentum we could even see Jericho facing off against Triple H. He could easily be put over Jeff Hardy, MVP and CM Punk. They'd cause a struggle with Umaga, but Jericho would win the in the end. The only match I can't see is Jericho v The Great Khali, why? Because it would be balls! Horrible wrinkly balls!

Now to the good stuff, everyone would be wanting to know, okay probably just a handful of people. Me and Maggie are giving it ago again. Yes, I think everyone expected it, we were always close and I think our night out in Edinburgh relit the candle. We met up on Sunday afternoon and a caught a bus to Kirkcaldy, after wondering around for a hour (when walking down the street Maggie linked arms with me, awwww) we caught another bus to Dunfermline, on the bus we chatted about films, telling her whats happening with the Wrestling, we listened to some music, chilling. Getting to the cinema we had planned already to see Halloween, getting to the door to our horror the que is right too the door! Never seen it this busy. I give mags £10 and point her towards the snacks bar whilst i wait it out in the que.

We get the tickets, get seated and the trailers start to roll, giving you a teaser of Hatchet (looks crap) and trailer of Resident Evil 3. I can't remember if there was more or not. Me and mags whisper to each other constantly through the film, like me mentioning the horror movie law "after you see her boobies you kin she's gonna get killed", we playfully feed each other single pieces of pop corn, giggling the whole, especially when i missed her mouth. The frights of the film caused mags to continually grab onto my hand, usually after the fright was gone she'd begin to stroke my hand as if she was apologising for squeezing it too hard. I give her compliments like, her hair looks night, I like the top your wearing, you look great. Her smile was warm and comfortable, a sense that we're glad we're here.

After the film finishes we head on out thinking of where to eat. We pass by the fast food joints and look into Frankie & Benny's, my hearts in my throat at the thought of BBQ Chicken Lasagna, we go in side and are told that we gotta wait 30 minutes for a table, we pass and head over to the "Eastern Buffet", I was secptical at first but after looking in at the buffet I was like "I'll have this, this, this, this and this, ooooh and this!", I filled my ass up on starters!

We had a mixed decision on whether we should see another movie or not, my mind kept pointing towards Bourne Ultimatium, but I held my own letting it be the womans choice, she seemed interested in seeing Mr. Woodcock. After our meal we decide to skip the cinema and go bowling, pottering around attempting to convince mags to bowl, when she agree's a party of 30 woman come pilling in, so we thought just go to the arcade. We go against each other on the Dance Machines, I can respectfully say I got my butt whooped!

After that we just got the bus home, snuggled up listening to Kevin and Jen bitch it out on SModcast.

Drunken Honesty and TV Blurb

I spent at least a 1hr and half standing outside my mates house talking about our lifes in utter drunken honesty. If you think back to Superbad where Jonah Hill and Michael Cera roll up in their sleeping bags and start talking about how much they love each other, it was like that, but we weren't confessing out love for another he he.

Things might take a big change in the next few days.

I remember @ Bear's mums party I sat down in the pub downstairs and started a drunken ramble with ... you guessed it - a drunk. I was trying to be a smart arse and this dude was plastered to so he couldn't do anything anyway. The conversation was like this;

*he's rolling a fag burbling about smoking*

Me: You canny smoke her mind
Him: *grumbles* smoke where a want
Me: No ye canny
Him: *grumbles*
Me: I can't understand you, I need subtitles
Him: I laminate barins
Me: What, you laminate children? that's wrong
Him: Ma barins got subtitles
Me: How can they use them? you laminated them.

I remember it being quite amusing, Bear was dying at the side of me, a few toffee shot's later we went to get more money, by the time I reached a cash machine, there was no cash in it, hanus crime!

I remember quote Monday (aka yesterday aka 24/09/07) as "Good Monday", not that fact that I was going back to work, but that fact that Volume 2 of Heroes started, Knocked Up came on HD-DVD (pre-ordered!) and I also thought that Season 4 of The Office was beginning, but it's the 27th, this thursday. Two more days for the Office count down then.

I spent most of my Monday evening watching; Family Guy: Star Wars, Season 2 of Arrested Development and a little more of Lucky Number Slevin. Played a little bejewelled 2 and done some site work.

Updates

Friday

As usual I spent my day working on the Friday, up to my neck in Peters (the company that delivers the children books to us), I spent most of the day working on Peters, passing invoices, reciepting books - clearing room for me, unpacking and shelving Peters making some room for Tuesdays delivers. I was in a stellar mood that day, knowing that I had the entire week of after today.

On my lunch hour I decided that I was going to buy Stranglehold, I told myself that I wouldn't pay over £40 for it. Luckily the first shop I walked into (Gamestation) sold it for £39.99, noticing I had £2 Credit to spend in GS so it burns the price down to £37.99, not too shabby.

That afternoon I ordered several amounts books from local publishers via telephone. Yep I got to use my "phone voice" (the only excuse my friends have when it comes to ordering take out), I was basically phoning normal people, each seem startled when I asked for "such and such a company etc.", then the realize I'm calling about the books. One order that I had to actually write a letter out and send. It was pretty strange, with me being on my own at the office I had no guidence from anyone else so I just thought what would work and printed the sucker out, slapped in a copy invoice and post it. With me being off for a week those books should be on my desk by the time I get back, yay! :-|

Work finished and I went home slapped in Stranglehold spent 2 hours on Single Player, I try out Multiplayer and it doesn't work. So I'll give it a month, hopefully some of the kinks will be fixed. I cut back and forth between games of Stranglehold Gears of War and a few hands of Poker at the end of the night.

Saturday

Saturday morning I head down to Leven with Bear, I had to stop into the bank provide some needed details for my savings account, once that was over and done with we browsed a few shops and headed back up the road. I return to my humble abode and put on "The Festival", British comedy based around the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, not as good as I thought it would be, but still amusing.

I spend most of my afternoon fighting through games of Texas Hold'em, Gears of War, Stranglehold and Lord of the Rings Battle of Middle Earth. I also manage to watch the first two episodes of Arrested Development, I have to admit I think I'll enjoy this show, but it won't replace my love for The Office.

In the evening I watch Ross Noble's "Unreal Time" DVD, that keeps me busy for a good hour, rather than putting the 360 back on I decide it's the right time to watch "28 Weeks Later", nothing amazing, it's a good film, works well with the original and Michael from LOST was in it! I give Mag's a wee buzz of the telephone, chat away with 28 Weeks running in the background.

Sunday

Waking around 10-11AM I meet up with Maggie, Bear and Heather and we head to Kirkcaldy, we reach the Dunfermline Odeon by 2:40PM, we catch a showing of Superbad, which is a good laugh, could do with a little trimming but alot of rip roaring laughs and a fair amount of Pop Corn and Pepsi.

We get back around 7PM, pretty bushed. I do my usual checks online (Booking tickets for Ross Noble @ MyVue Cinema) and watch another episode of Arrested Development. Begin watching Enter the Fat Dragon, half way through I hop onto my 360 to play a couple rounds of Gears with Bear. Unfortunatly Bear's 360 turns out to be fucked, annoying yes, so I play few embarressing games of Gears and retreat back to Texas Hold'em.

Monday

Waking a little later that I should, I spend my working on Strangehold and manage to complete it, yes only really took three days, but I replay it collecting a few achievements along the way. I watch the rest of Enter the Fat Dragon, soon after it finished I began reviewing;

When watching Hong Kong Cinema, nothing could be better than watching in awe as Sammo Hung throwing around high spinning kicks and giggling at the goofy high jinks that Sammo seems to find himself in constantly. Click here for Full Review

I spend a large part of the day occupining myself, WWE Unforgiven was on the Sunday and I'm ignoring the WWE site until my download if finished. When I finished downloading it I was about to watch CM Punk v Elijha Burke dook it out for the ECW Gold, too obvious that Punk was going over on that one. Suddenly Bear pops in to collect the cardboard coffin for his 360, we muse over The Condemned, he leaves, I sit back with a tin of Barr's Coke and let the wrestling roll.

Most of the week

I spent on my arse! Playing my X-Box either playing Gears of War, Texas Hold'em, Stranglehold and Lord of the Rings: Battle of Middle Earth II.

I watched Sleepers and working through Arrested Development.

Yeah a pretty lazy week off. I popped in and out of Leven most of the days, but nothing amazingly exciting.

Which do I get??? (Smackdown vs. COD4 vs. A.Creed)

Browsing HMV today, I looked over at the "Coming Soon" for 360. Ignoring Halo, I noticed Smackdown vs. RAW 2008, Assassins Creed, Kane & Lynch and Call of Duty 4 - ALL COME OUT ON THE SAME DAY! Whole crap which do I buy? i'm not fussy for Kane and Lynch, I'll rent it. But now it's a triple threat over which game do I buy? I want to buy all 3, I buy Smackdown vs. RAW each year, because I love GM Mode and I follow the wrestling (obviously), I loved the look of Assassin's Creed, it was as if Prince of Persia and Hitman made a baby and what a baby it is.

Call of Duty 4 looks great, I played/completed Call of Duty 2 and I recent got Call of Duty 3 in August, not completed yet more important things have happened; Gears of War online (achievement whoring), Sonic, Texas Hold'em and LOTR: BM 2. So I'm thinking do I splash out £120 and buy all three? Part of me says yes, I have plenty of money lol wait, i shouldn't say that. No wait I should *gush* Smackdown takes top priority for me. I could just hint COD4 and AC as x-mas presents along with a Xbox Live Gold Card. Although I still do have two free months given to me from X-Box after my poor wee console died.

I'll let this debate rest for now, but I do want to mention the game of Texas Hold'em on XBLA tonight, some guy talked through the whole match "Thanks for the chips", "Worest High Stacker ever", "Can't believe you played pocket 9's", out of the 8 players we ended up in the final three. I was chip leader, he kept raising $1,000 each hand. It got to a point where i was pissed off with this bloke and slapped the mute button on him. Luckily a pair of pocket Kings, the river played out as; 5 hearts, King of Spades (do we need to know more), yes I put his pocket Jacks to shame and it felt great :-D This game had been playing for over a hour now, i told the bloke my time is up, we played all in and the better man won, but i got $9,500 for my troubles. Good Night.

In depth weekend and current thoughts

Saturday, briefly in my last blog i gave you a rough idea of what I done in Edinburgh. I'm just deciding to expand it...

When arriving at the Onmi Centre we noticed that Run Fatboy Run was playing in 45 minutes, noticing we had left the Ross Noble tickets back at the hotel Mags ran back whilst I went and bought our film tickets. Rather dealing with people, there is a touch screen monitor which lets you choose the day, film, time and pay, then it prints your tickets out. Which is nifty, but also making humans unnecessary once again lol

Mag's appears back 10 minutes later, with 35 minutes to play with we pottered about the Omni Centre, never been fully in the play before we were surprised to see so many different restaurants; Tapas (Spanish), Frank and Benny's (Italian/American), Chinese Buffet, Japanese Restaurant, Pizza Hut and two bars (Lloyd's Bar & The Slug & Lettuce). After arguing with the people in Chinese Buffet, we opt out to got to the Slug & Lettuce, a trend little cocktail bar. Looking at their drinks menu, I get the brief thought of whether they'd ID me or not and whether they'd accept the Citizen Card as my proof, but with me not shaving for over a month now I had a enough fuzz to show my true age. After discussing what drinks to get; I got for a "Rocktail" (shot of vodka, ice, mix fruit juice) and Mag's goes for a Berry Blast (or was it Bliss?) Smoothie. The stereotypical handsome barman comes over and starts spinning the glasses, shaking the ice, mixing the cocktails in the Preforming Monkey type fashion, Mag's was eating it, I should have placed a small saucer underneath her chin to catch the drool! Women! or should I say Jealousy?

After finding a seat we talk about how much of a culture shock this is compared to little old'Fife, no Neds, sure there has to be a few bad apples but it's just such a trendy public scene, but of course you need the £££ if you want to keep in this trend. I enjoy my Rocktail, the fruit takes out the sting of the vodka, reminding me of the fruit juice children usually get "Ombongo"? (I always want to say Umaga, damn WWE!!). Mag's likes her drink but it requires time to finish with the crushed ice not melting.

We bail out from the Slug and catch the escalator up to the MyVue Cinema, we Que up for a large Pop Corn and Coke Cola. Then we try out the Ben & Jerry's counter picking up two scoops; Carmel Chew Chew and the Chocolate something or other. Then decorating the sugar filled treat with mini malt balls. Lust.

The movie was great, it was filled with the expected Romantic Comedy Cliches, but Simon Pegg is untouchable at the moment, the movie was even a stepping stone for Dylan Moran who stole almost every scene he was in. Other notable faces included Stephen Merchant and David Walliams, I expect Schwimmer to cameo, but no avail. Hank Azaria was fun and freakishly fit, jealousy again. Although looking at Mr. Gnarash's daughter made me feel alot better! I know, I know, sue me!

The opening trailers for the movie included; Shoot'em Up, The Heartbreak Kid, Chuck & Larry (why has it took so long to release this? i've seen this trailer 20 times already and I'm still only going to rent it) and Superbad. Hopefully this weekend I got wonder off to see Superbad, Jonah Hill looks set to steal the movie. I've got Knocked Up pre-ordered on HD-DVD, you should be great, I've seen the movie ahead of this purchase, but I just think it will be a good HD to own. Fuck You Blu-Ray!

Back to the topic AFTER the Ross Noble gig me and mags thought it would be worth making the most of the night, since the Edinburgh Playhouse is next to the Omni Centre. Looking at the bouncers outside Lloyd's Bar give me the flash back to August 18th in Kirkcaldy...again

With Lloyd's bar looking quite busy we decide to look through at the other places to find a quiet spot, I was tempted to go back to the Slug, but it was still pretty busy and I'd probably fall asleep on one of those leather couches. We decide to wing it and go to this Tapas Restaurant. Obviously I had no Idea what I was in for, I thought it was a Mexican restaurant to be honest. When the waitress came over and explained that Tapas is a wide variety of appetizers in Spanish Cuisine. There's me thinking that it was a cheap place lol The menu was in Spanish but the description was in English, right away we scored out the Seafood and Spanish meat. We chose the potato's in a spicy dip, chicken crottes (sp?), chicken wings, chicken in breadcrumbs and spareribs. As you can expect the spare ribs were for me, very messy, very good. To drink, when in Rome, we ordered a random White Wine described as Refreshing, Dry and Zippy! I knew right away when they said zippy, every time i took a sip it screwed my face up.

Mag's thought the place was very romantic and why did I never take her to those places, we both got a laugh out of it.

Holy Crap!

Browsing my email at lunch today I discover that Raging Bull is being shown on the big screen once again!

It's playing at the Edinburgh Filmhouse next week from Tuesday to Thursday @ 2.30PM & 8.30PM. I so could easily take a afternoon off work and scoot on up to Edinburgh and catch that 2.30PM screening on Thursday. Hopefully I'll persuade myself to go and see it. (Update) But I can't after travelling back and forth from Edinburgh at the weekend, i really can't be arsed. I'll just watch the DVD.

Straying away from this subject now, I'm getting a little pissed off with X-Box 360 Achievements. On Gears of War I managed to curb stomp over 100 people in Ranking mode, but no achievement. I got to the Gears forum and ask about the problem, all they do is "Search Button Noob!!!!", f*cking retards, I used the search but and all I found was my f*cking topic. I now have 120 curb stomps and now achievement, people say just keep doing it, it'll pop up one day (Update: That day was Friday, 130 Curb Stomps later). Last night the same goes for Smackdown vs. RAW 2007, the Achievement of playing/winning as every Superstar on the roster on any difficultly, so last night i spent an hour playing as the last 15 people, once finishing, no achievement, no I wreck my mind thinking which did i not play as? I had a list, so no I've narrowed it down to 5 people that might have not fought as, more bullshit as usual.

I feel a little better after that rant, people who bitch online through gaming annoy the hell out me. You just picture the obvious geeky stereotype, thick glasses, star trek t-shirt etc. What can I say? I'm a library assistant who runs a Asian film site on the site. But I'm still social, I drink, go out, get flung out clubs, I've been in relationships (about 6 in total, but only one of them really worked lol). I think I'm just trying to say is "I'm not the Geek, you are!".

Well my fate has been decided at work, with the Kirkcaldy branch closing I'll be working in Dunfermline HQ Monday-Wednesday 9-5PM, Leven Library Thursday-Friday 9-5PM. Then the second week Dunfermline same again, but Leven Library will be 9-5PM on Friday & Saturday. It'll be the same like that every fortnight for the next year.

This weekend I had a very busy one, Saturday I travelled to Edinburgh to see Ross Noble at the Edinburgh Playhouse, after checking into a creepy hotel we decide to potter about, we go see "Run Fat boy Run!" which was really good, Dylan Moran stole each and every scene he was in. After the film ended we headed to the playhouse, it was MOBBED! The show was amazing, I just felt a little bad that Bear and Heather never got to see it. Ross Noble was great he made me laugh, cry and laugh again. Here's a summary of the jokes he done;

• Adding "Jackie Chan Style" to the end of every sentence makes it instantly more interesting (Sex Jackie Chan Style - it's like doggy style but you fight 5 ninjas at the same time).
• People left these on stage; A Tiny easel, touchable bubbles, pizza, Muffins, dozens of shoes, letters and toffee popcorn.
• People he included from the crowd; Mark the trainee vet, Holly the cure for penile dysfunction, the student who studies antrapolothy (witchcraft!!!) and the bloke who was caught filming the show.
• Trying to humour a New Zealand Check in Girl "Tell me a joke!".
• Constantly being stripped searched
• Continually forgetting to tell us about; Why he's off his tits (kinder eggs), his shirt (bet you've cum in a few men) and glass eyes (laughing so hard the pop out).
• This isn't my Usual Job.....
• Moroccan child ripping his wife (A Dingo ate my baby!!)
• Piss boiling
• Milkshake sausage dogs for Muslims

that's all for now, you know why? the longer I leave these blogs the more I have to edit them when times change lol