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Today I had a nice sunday roast with pork, crackling, vegetables and gravy. This will be my last sunday in the uk, so I had requested a sunday roast. Here are a few pics of it.

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As another week begins, I realize that it is my final week in the uk.

In just 7 days, I will be on a British Airways flight between Heathrow and Hong Kong, en route to Manila.

I have spent the previous week saying goodbye to most of my friends. The remaining friends are yet to contact me or reply. Funny how some things show who your real friends are.

Well, I guess this is it. The countdown is upon me and I am rushing to get everything completed before I have to leave for the airport.

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As the time draws closer to my departure, I am ticking off one item at a time. I now have my passport in hand, most of my clothes are ready to be packed, I have bought a new camera tripod, had most of my injections for my trip, had the maximum acupuncture to try and stabilize the collapsed disks in my lower spine and finally, I have collected the currency I ordered.

I will naturally be ordering more currency in different forms, but for the time being this is the cold hard cash I will be carrying with me, sixteen thousands pesos in all.

As my departure grows nearer (currently just 10 days away), I grow nervous and excited at the prospects facing me.

I am not alone in my hatred and growing sickness towards the uk. I know many people who live in the uk and almost every single one of them is sick and wants out. Good luck to you all. We all need our dreams.

What I have been though and my friends are going through reminds me of a song called “Night Train” by the Bouncing Souls. Here are the lyrics:

Goodbye to me and you.
Goodbye to the life we knew.
One last long embrace.
Let go and walk on through.

I’m leaving everything behind for a peace that I can’t find.
The ghosts that roam this house
like winter air right through our souls.
And it feels like dying.
It just feels like time to go.

Going down south to dream another dream.
Maybe check out Memphis, Tennessee.
Take the night train and an extra pair of jeans.
Can’t think of anything else I really need.
And all my experiences ride with me.

This town is dead to me.
And I can’t stop chasing my dreams.
I love you more than anything,
but what you want I could never be.
I love you more than anything,
but only alone can we both be free.

Goodbye to me and you.
Goodbye to the life we knew.
Wipe the tears from your eyes.
Let go and walk on through.

It also reminds me of another song by the Bouncing Souls called “Better Things”, the two lines that really stick to mind are:

Here is hoping all the days ahead
Won’t be as bitter as the ones behind you

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It snowed again today, but as the sun came up, it quickly melted away. I took a few pics and 2 videos while outside this morning.

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Let me get a few things clear here. For anyone that isn’t close enough to have heard it straight from me, I had planned to concentrate on my work and move to spain. But then I met an absolutely amazing woman in the philippines. One of the concerns she raised was “would my friends and family be ok with me dating someone of another race”. My immediate reply was “wtf? if anyone has a problem, fuck them, its their problem and not mine”.

However, I find it interesting that I am faced with different problems than I envisioned. When I tell people about my girlfriend, they will normally say “be careful she may be a man”. Is that a fact? Show me just one story of someone you know where that happened. You dumb bastard you’re thinking of Thailand! Not a single person who has said this has ever been able to give an actual documented example. It was always “i read somewhere…” or “it was a friend of a friend of a friend who I’ve never met…”

Everyone who says this to me is below me in the scale of IQs. I have to say “do you seriously think I haven’t thought of this”. For gods sake, if you know me, I was likely your boss for at least a few years. You should know how cunning I am and how much I think of possibilities. I was responsible for over £1’000’000 per year on average. Do you honestly think I would not think about every eventuality so that my back was covered in every conceivable outcome.

Granted, my girlfriend is called “Ian”. But I wonder why people warn be about her being a man and then fail to provide any evidence at all except some story someone they know once heard.

If you are seriously going to shed doubt on this, how do I know I can trust you? How do I know you do not have an ulterior motive?

Here’s a deal, every time you warn me of this without anything less than heresay, I will punch you in the stomach I think that’s only fair.

If you called my Fender Strat Californian Series guitar a Les Paul, I would beat 7 shades of shit out of you, so do not think I would do any less for what you may say about my girlfriend! ok? ok!

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Today I sold my PC as a whole unit, plus a few extras. It was depressing to say the least. She is and always was my baby. Now I’ve sold her to someone else.

While I got what I wanted, it was still not a lot.

Here us what I got:

19 Inch Monitor: £20
Graphics Card: £20
6 GHZ Processor, M2+ Motherboard, 2 x Maxtor 250 GB HDDs with 32 MB cache, 1 x Maxtor 250 GB with 16 MB Cache HDD, 1 x Samsung 300 GB with 16 MB Cache HDD, 2 x 2 GB DDR 3 Ram: £90

So, a beautiful system that cost £1000 to build, I sold for just £130. But at least it got a good home. Still it is depressing. However it is more money I can spend on my baby

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With everything packed, I am finally ready to move out. I have sold most of my stuff that I can not carry on the plane and all I really have left is what you see in the photo.

Tomorrow, well actually in 9 hours, I will be moving out of the house and in with my parents for 3 weeks when I will be flying to Manila, the Philippines.

Whoop Whoop!

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As I am selling everything I have, my plan has been to use a USB external hard drive to hold my data as I start to dismantle my PC. I have now finished copying everything onto my 1TB external hard drive and removing the partitions from my old hard drives.

The next step will be to strip down my pc into its base components and sell them on eBay. lol @ my life on eBay!

These parts will include a motherboard with a 6000 mhz processor, DDR2 Ram, 3 x 250 GB Hard Drives, 1 x 300 GB Hard Drive, 1GB Graphics card, TV card and much more.

Within a week, I should be left with one large bag of my clothes and other small items, plus a couple of boxes of items I will store at my parents.

I will be moving out of this house and into my parents house on Sunday. Exactly 3 weeks before I leave for the Philippines and then maybe onto spain depending on what Visa I am granted. Presently I have a 21 day visa, but I am trying to get a 59 day visa so that I can have the flexibility to stay longer if I need to. I can also apply for an extension on the 59 day visa, but I do not think I can get an extension on my current 21 day visa.

I guess this is it. Make or break.

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I have started listing all my items on eBay. I have a hell of a lot of stuff and it should take a few weeks in all to get everything listed.

Check out all my listed items by clicking here.

If anyone wants a specific item, please let me know as I will do a special deal for you.

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I have spent most of the weekend sorting through the seemingly endless piles of boxed. Most contained paperwork, notes etc, but some contained many items I really did not want to have to throw away.

I estimate that I have thrown away 90% of everything I own. The primary problem I have is that I do not really have enough stuff to justify paying £1000 to hire a van to deliver my stuff to my new place in spain. Faced with this I decided to sell everything that I could, throw the rest away, store one box of stuff from my childhood I can not throw away and finally I should be left with one suitcase full of my clothes and a bag with my laptop, camera etc in it. This will be what I will be taking with me when I move to spain in April.

For now, I will be moving in with my parents in mid February while I arrange properties to view in spain. In March I will be going to the Philippines for two weeks. Likely to be 8th – 22nd March. As soon as I get back home, I will have less than one month to finalise my plans to move to spain. In the last week of April, I will fly to spain and stay in a hotel for a few days while I find the right property to rent and complete the paperwork so that I can get the keys.

Phew, it makes me tired just writing that. At the moment I am filled with a mix of extreme excitement, anticipation and fear!

I will post the latest information on this website as I travel around the world, finally settling in spain.

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