Well... its like...

I went to this...

ffresh

Took some of these...

my photos

Smoked some of this...








Not really.

Bought one of these...



Ended up like this....



Later!!!

Me.... staring into space....

Sorry for the long time without any entries. I've been quite a busy bunny since my birthday.

I'm currently on the delayed 1430 train from Swansea heading towards Bristol Parkway to get my ass home. Delayed by quite a long time i might add.
It has been a long day but I will catch up with whats going on in the next few paragraphs.

Anyway, since my birthday....

i've been sorting out my stuff with the institute, enrolment is all sorted out, and i've got a queer looking student ID card. :P
Also, our house at Rhyddings is looking good with 5 people in it, Ben, Bracchi, Tom, Rach and I are living quite happily together.

Ben was already in the house over the past few months, Bracchi moved in right at the beginning of september, then me, then Tom, and finally Rach.

During the first days at the institute, i've seen some incredible visuals in the lecture theatres. 3D animation, really impressive, but nowhere near pixar quality :P

I've been out on a social with the multimedia group that i've been mingling with. Some real cool people about. Went to Oakwood. Got soaked. Won tickets to see Man On fire. Superb film as expected of (Tony?) Scott - the director.

I finally completed my first weeks timetable on the 2nd year of the BSc Multimedia course. What a timetable!
Lectures everyday except Wednesday and Friday. I've got a hectic Tuesday full of lectures from 9am till 6pm. Wonderful.

I've got about 23 minutes before the battery runs out on this laptop, so i'll just press on as far as i can go...
Just left Bridend after a 48 minute delay.

There is currently a f*cking annoying Jamaican woman that talks loudly on her phone.... adding to that i'm on the quiet coach. so no phones.

Just ate lunch..... a costly cheeseburger and fanta orange.... typical train food.

Anyway, i should continue with how my first week went.
Got my first group assignment on tuesday. To produce a 40 second TV commercial which advertises a fictional product or service. My group consists of 2 Multimedia, 2 Music Tech and 2 animation groups. Many ideas were flowing between us, I suggested many action type scenes, but the women just weren't interested. But we finally decided on an idea for a doorstep clothes washing challenge.... 70's style....... i have a bad feeling that we're not going to get along with each other... :S
We'll see how it goes.

been doing a bit of AV Acquisition with Tim and Dave and Karen... Karen is an interesting teacher.... she teaches theory of the multimedia world. I hate theory... it sucks. She gave out another coursework :( Using photos and sounds, represent the Swansea Institute in our own way.... "oh boy..." comes to mind.
OMG went to the sound studio and I must say: "I've never seen so many knobs"

Also did WWW tech. with Tim and Arthur.... i was shocked to find that the 1st year students didn't learn HTML and went straight into Dreamweaver... First lesson by Arther was boring. I knew most of the html tags that he taught. so....boring.
Timmy came into lecture underprepared.... taught us about image storage formats like BMP and JPEG and GIF.... stuff i learned in Computer Graphics last year... handy. but Tim didn't know anything without preparation.

Nothing much to say about the course really. It hasn't kicked off at full speed. Should do by next week.

At the house, I have been mostly sleeping, watching anime, and playing on the xbox. Exciting.

--------Interuption before arrival at Bridgend caused me to change trains from the ones i was supposed to go on.-----

Blog continued on from Sunday... the journey back.

I'm wondering why I bothered coming back home.... Didn't do much on Saturday, just watched TV and helped out a bit in the takeaway. It's all worthwhile when mum puts a few wads of the queens face in my wallet :)

I'm currently continuing my blog whilst in the waiting lounge on platform 5. My usual 1327 train got cancelled.... and I have to wait an hour before my next train arrives.. the 1415. about 3/4 of an hour to go...



god damnit, the lounge is starting to fill up.... i thought i could have an hour to myself... but nooooo!!!!

Anyway, before rushing to the train station, the family had lunch at the usual place.... the Embers Inn (aka 7 Stars)

It poured with rain on the drive there, so i drove at super granny speed.... a bit faster than 50 but below 70.

I'm going to end this blog with my thoughts on the BSc Multimedia course.
It's gonna be hard.... but hey! if it ain't hard, why is it a BSc? Need to put in a lot more this time compared to last year.... I'm sure i'm gonna succeed. :)

Right, there is a baby screaming in my ear in the lounge.... i'm outta here.....L8r!

Resuming blog whilst on the bus from Cardiff Central to home via Bus.

At Bristol Temple Meads station, I spotted a really fat/fluffy one legged pigeon. I was in a nice mood, so i got out a pack of boaster cookies and fed it. It was eating its crumbs literally next to my foot, I had its trust. I guess it was a tamed pigeon. didn't see those leg rings things on it though....