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Posts archive for: August, 2009
  • The last week

    As I sit here, soon after finishing my farewell party invite on Facebook, I wonder to myself how much have I achieved, what have I learned and how will it help/hinder me later on in life.

    Overall I have been a bit of a party animal and bum here. I have worked and provided for myself as I have needed. I have also made many great friends that I will cherish for years to come. I have had the odd girlfriend and fling that have sometimes been heartbreaking, frustrating, badly timed and sometimes just downright funny. (Also ending up as the punchline to many a joke might I add... Don't use the sauna :P )

    I have no doubt that I will be telling stories of Berlin down the line to friends that will begin with the words "When I was living in Berlin...."

    I just wish that I could have achieved a little more perhaps. I don't know what in particular but I suppose that is only natural to say when doing this kind of thing as we all would have liked to do just a little more.

    Overall its been a trip that was well worth making. This time next week I will be living in Northern Ireland. I am dreading learning yet another language (Belfastish) but I am welcoming the new opportunity to expand my horizons.

    I would like to live back here in Berlin someday. As to when that day will be, I can not say.

    Peace out y'all

  • Random rundown of the weekends sport

    Rugby:
    I followed the Australia vs New Zealand in the vain hope that Australia would be able to revive some credibility. 79 min penalty to New Zealand. Bastards. I lost my shit over that.

    Football:
    Hertha played today and lost. I'm glad that I wasn't expecting anything out of this season because it looks like they are well and truly f$%ked. I have been tipping quite well in the past few weeks. I predicted the results for this pass weekend of football, even the Hoffenheim vs Schalke score. Everyone had schalke by 3.. ha . There was one MAJOR upset this week though... Mainz vs Bayern Munich. 2-1... Hilarious.. looks like they will need another new manager in leiderhosen by the middle of the season.

    Westham hd a good old fashion slug with Spurs but lost to what looks like is going to be the team to beat this year. If you can believe that... I must say that no matter how much I hate them, Everton is going to have to do something soon otherwise the loosing streak is going to be hard to break. Their next game is against Wigan and after that lesson from Manchester Utd this week, I am hoping that Wigan will be on their game. But I suppose if Everton go from the Premier League it means Liverpool will have more room for a new stadium :)

    Speaking of Liverpool, I can't believe that Voronin (Returned this season after loan to Hertha BSC) got on the pitch for them last week and I believe that he is in the team for tomorrow as well. But tomorrows game against Villa will be a cracker, I hope.

    I know its only very early in the season but things are already starting to look interesting on the table

    Cricket:
    Well I don't particularly want to talk about this. I'm sure that the English players were brought off for the previous test just so Australia could save some face. But credit where credit is due and congrats to the English team for taking the ashes despite fair-weather support from your countrymen.

    F1
    The European Grand Prix held in Valencia resulted in a good battle today. Barrichello took the win from Hamilton after a mix up during Hamiltons last pit stop when his tires were not ready for him when he arrived in the pits. Although revised timing says that Barrichello would have taken the race without the pit mix-up, I tend to think that if Hamilton could have put pressure on Rubens in the final laps the result could have been quite different. But thats the way it goes sometimes. Webber finished 9th but maintains 2nd position on the points after Jensen Button. The next race is in only a week in Belgium at Spa and with the drivers championship pretty close it will be interesting to see if Barrichello can back up and get some more points to put pressure on the leaders. This was Barrichellos first win in 5 years. He naturally seemed like a pretty happy guy after winning and dedicated his victory to Filipe Masa, his fellow country man. On the same subject, Masa's replacement Luca Badoer did actually manage to finish the race. He came in 2nd last and was lapped but at least Ferrari can use the car again so I guess its a win for all concerned.

    Anyway This was a random rant from my life of sport. I hope that you all had a great weekend and didn't get into too much trouble, because no matter how cool it may seem, paying bail is never cool. :)

  • Technology

    I am beginning to hate technology.

    First of all chat programs. You can't see or hear the person and therefore don't get a good feel for what is said. Seeing as most of what is "said" is through visual communication, conversations can easily go south...

    Second. Facebook. I was venting last night about a phone call I got from Australia. I called someone an unstable bitch. A bit harsh? Definitely. However this person does not posses a Facebook account nor the ability to do so. It was done so that no-one could know who I was talking about and lets face it, we all think this about somepeople sometimes. It was wrong but I was venting and changed my status quickly afterward. Anyway to the crux of the matter. A certain female in Berlin though that this was about her. She used a chat program (see above)to contact me and ask me why she is an unstable bitch.

    I was quite bewildered as to how she could think it was her. Anyway she let go some of the feelings that she must have been holding in about me for some time and didn't she let me know... We had had a chat conversation (see above) a short time before I got the phone call and it was a bit weird and it has been for the past week due to her not answering her phone and always making plans with me then canceling them to go out with other friends. Something that does piss me off as I schedule it in then get stuck with my finger up my ass on any given day while she is out with her friends. But I have come to accept this as a standard part of who she is.

    Anyway back to the conversation, she didn't accept that it was not about her and proceeded to give me a written tirade about how I react and that this is not the first time this has happened but she felt that she must say something. It takes a lot for me to tell someone that they are pissing me off and even more to shout at them. She said that this is the reason she is not answering my "lines" which I take to be "messages." What about last week when I was away and needed something off the internet or help with something. Phone calls throughout the week went unanswered... So she must have been pissed before this. She did answer an email giving me some info that I requested and explained that she hasn't been near the phone, which is a load of crap but I didn't say anything because I assumed that she might have been in a bad mood or trouble at home or something. I let alot slide but now I must vent this.

    Originally I was just confused at the whole thing but now as I write this it is starting to make me angry. As someone that I have helped out with numerous assignments and questions when needed, even when it meant that I lost a significant amount of sleep, I feel cheated. She has got what she needed out of me and now I can be tossed away with the rest of the rubbish.

    Now that I have vented I feel better. She is someone that I would do alot for without question but fear that she is lost now. And has made up her mind about whatever she wants to think.

    My advice to young players... don't write anything on Facebook that is negative because this sort of confusion will happen.

    This is just the latest in a string of shit happenings. Spent a long time in hospital and rehab for a kaput back, lost my job, house got robbed and so on... I am just thinking that I must be saving some serious Karma points here. I must be going to win the lotto soon... I am trying to put a happy face on it all but I think that this is the straw. It is supposed to be winter that is shit in Berlin, not summer.

    Anyway I hope all is going well in your worlds. Just remember, if its not on, its not on. :)

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