24 February 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Currency Arrived

Currency Arrived

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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20 February 2010 ~ 10 Comments

Dude, it could be a guy

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 :D 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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