Goin' ome

Well, in a lil over 24hrs I'll be heading back to the UK for my A320 course. 2 months back in the UK. Gonna be alotta stress. All cos of 1 person. Man I'll be happy once I'm away and at Sleepy's. Shame petrol has hit new insane highs. Preventing us from doing our usual drives together... Prob just me driving and him in shotgun...

Still packing away at home at the mo. Really pisses me off, the whole Emirates thing. My suitcase is 20KG and my dive gear is 14KG. Now had they not been complete CUNTS I would be able to kart everything back. But because they are complete CUNTS, I have to leave my dive gear here instead.

Just hope at the end of my course the CAA will actually issue my license to me b4 I fly off.

Emirates R'cunts

Yes, CUNTS. That magical "C" word reserved for only the crème-de-la-crème of complete BASTARDS. Official. I hate Emirates. And if it wasn't for their cheap flights I ain't never gonna choose em. Hell anyone who has the usual conversation with me about what airlines are good, Emirates will always have a verbal bitch slap from me as being a bunch of untrustworthy bastards and thus no travel should ever be made on their stupid lying douche bag bastard planes!!!!

And what has me SOOOOOO fired up? Well when I flew out to this place in the sand I had illusions of good SCUBA diving. An illusion quickly shattered once i got beneath the waves. Promptly greeted by lots of dead coral, crappy visibility, heaps of rubbish and teeny tiddly fish... With that being the case I decided to lug my gear back to Blighty. And as anyone with SCUBA gear knows, it weighs a fair bit. But as advertised by quite a few international carriers. If you declare your SCUBA gear you will get a 10KG extra baggage allowance. And Emirates was one of these airlines who allowed this I found out at my friendly Gatwick Airport Emirates check in desk.

So all was good till a couple days ago when I contacted my Emirates check in desk out here. And told no such service existed!!! It seemed to be a UK/Gatwick only thing. So out here I would have to pay on excess baggage or go thru freight charges... WTF MAN WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!! So they entice you to bring along ya SCUBA gear then when you are heading home they lay it on you you gotta pay some insane excess baggage charge on ya stuff... Scheming BASTARDS. Yes, lots of acid spitting hate and anger spewing out here. FUCKERSSSSSSS.

And they even had the cheek to tell me to call the UK from here to sort it out myself as they didn't want to call the other "branch" So i have to sort out all this shit off my own back and pocket and still have fuck all be done by these lazy arseholes out here. Therefore nothing will have changed.

There ya go. Sum it up, don't fly with em cos they have an inconsistent, double standard of service, with lazy, incompetent staff. But maybe that is just here. But then again I expected alot more from such a trumped up international carrier.

Mish-mash

Finished Mass effect. Hell of an ending. Well done Bioware. So now I'm left with no games to complete. Well strictly there are but I've played them to death and as such can't be bothered with that final tiny step to finish. So just going back over fun pick up n play games like COD4.

Got a solid job offer back in blighty. Shame... was hoping for a solid offer from other places. As with the UK the pay is never brilliant and once you factor tax into it, never seems worth it anymore. Plus SHE who shall not be named dwells in that forsaken land. Urrrgh.

Which reminds me, I'll be heading back there in a weeks time. Man all cos of 1 person I ain't really looking forward 2 it. Plus wifey is off home 2moro night. Man that 1 really crept up on us both. I should be snoozing now getting rested for 2moro's inevitable craziness that will precede her flight. But for some reason I just don't feel like sleeping.

Maybe its cos of 2 things that have made my night a lil more interesting than usual. 1st was the fact that the material planner dude on my shift actually went to Kingston uni. More precisely he was in my class! He was there on the exact course and class and duration I was. And we never knew till today after a casual chit chat. He even remembers Sleepy and a few others. He claimed he would have placed my face quicker if I had more hair... Yes i know, I'm gonna be bald soon. Just a matter of time till I break out the BIC. Anyhows, LOL really a small world.

Speaking of small world, the 2nd item. My ummm, how shall I put it...ummm, biggest fan?!? Blogged about me. Saying he saw me down the high street. And basically stalked me to see if it indeed was me. And from the vague look of it it was me but wat confirmed it for him was the way I walked, and carried my bag and shifted my weight. And the nail in the coffin was the choice of girlfriend I had draped over my arm. As quoted from his blog "those sweet, young, Asian things". Yup. must be me. OH NO WAIT. I just remembered I'm on the opposite side of the planet. DUH... Man talk about manifestations of the mind. But tis just creepy the way he spoke about those lil things like how I walked and shifted my weight n carried a bag. I mean jeez, just how much of me has he been paying attention to? I mean guys might remember wat beer ya like or maybe your fave sports team. And if they r very excpetional or very close friends, your birthday. But any guy that remembers those lil tiny things, just ain't right man, just ain't right. Urrrrgh just creeps me out thinking bout it.

Masses of effect

As any avid RPG'er knows. Never stop a RPG mid way just to start a new RPG. Because as "we" all know if ya do that you will totally forget what the hell you were doing when you get back to the RPG you abandoned. Spending days sometimes going thru your inventory, trying to work out what items you were gonna sell. Not to mention trying to work out where you are on the map and what the hell you are doing there. Then lets not even get started on the quest list, what have you started and how far along are you in those partially complete quests? Months could ebb away before you figure out who you have spoken to and given what to... Anyway its a mess.

But I broke that rule as I have finally had my dungeon's fill of Oblivion. And having hammered through Rainbow6 Vegas, Half Life 2 and Ghost Recon 2 in a couple of weeks I am now left with just 1 game which I have not touched in my collection. MASS EFFECT. I know some people have been put off by the game due to the saturation style advertisement tactics Bioware employed. But out in the dessert there is none of that.

A lil fiddly trying to place a traditional RPG world of swords & spells into a sci-fi context. Plus they have thrown in FPS for the fighting bits. But once ya get to grips with it. It is awesome. Sure the graphics are very pretty even on a poo TV but the more important thing to me is the story. It's sooooo good. A great story that puts many a film to shame.Plus for all those Capt Kirk fans, you even get to get jiggy wit alien females, LOL! Been on this for a week now. Exploring every corner of the galaxy my starship will allow. Mmmmm more days of addiction lay ahead. Just don't remind me of the headache awaiting me once I pick up Oblivion again...

In my court

It's getting to that point I have the urge to get out. To run to escape from this HOLE of a place. But as with all moves I've grown somewhat inert. Resistant to change or doing anything. Basically comfortable, indifferent and lazy all at the same time. Part of me wants to go because of all the reasons I keep bitchin about in this blog. Plus once back to contracting I get to earn a good deal more cash than I currently do. But on the flip side it will be more unstable. Every 6mths or (usually)less I will have to face the reality of losing my job, hell in some cases they can be as short a job as 2 weeks. Plus staying here is comfortable. I'm not pushed too hard. I'm viewed as butt lazy and useless so I have no expectations to live up to. So its an easy job if u discount the arseholes in HR and some of the people I work with.

But still its not the way forward. I can't live my whole life like this, I've gotta make a move. But when? When is the right time to make that move out of the comfort zone? Waiting for the right time could mean waiting a lifetime. Guess no time like the present. So my plan of action goes like this. Winding down my life here by moving back as much as I can when I head back to the UK for my A320 course. Then once that is complete. Start sending out CV's and applying for contracts.

Fingers crossed I will be able to get out of here before March 09. And that is a deadline. Move earlier would be much better. Granted stress is gonna be thru the roof for me. But in the end that bank balance should make it worth it... I hope.

Either way it will surely be a steep learning curve.

Minted

Looooaaadsssaaa mmmoney!!! MMMMMMmmmm, fat stack of 20s. The smell is so addictive. No matter what currency it is, cold hard cash always smells great. And not just cos of all the coke and other drugs stuck to it. I've always wondered what it would be like to get my hands on 1 of those fat wads of cash u keep seeing in movies and shows. You know the ones, be it stuffed in a gym bag or neatly arranged in a black briefcase. Now I have had just a small taste of what it feels like.

But as is the universal truth with money. It always goes alot faster than it comes. And once I get back to the UK, pay up for my A320 course,my living expenses, the insane cost of driving my car, etc. I will be left with the more common sum of fuck all. Yup my big fat wedge of cash will be gone. Boo! Well just hope the A320 course is indeed the investment many claim it to be and will net me even more beautiful stacks of notes.