Alan can go do one.

FUCKING READING TOMORROW! ... cough, i have the beer (being 2 crates, one fosters and one strongbow), food and supplys, just the packing to go... yeeaahh i'll get on that later

In the mean time, love example, i'll post about the HUGE adventure that was V next week plus the adventures of reading as i'll be bored as hell then

Blink 182, Biffy Clyro, Lostprophets, Billy talent, Young guns, You me at six, Pendulum, Enter shikari, Sub focus, Hadouken! Hailey Williams ... ;)
Then knee deep mud, rain, cold and general festival smell. However there is, and always will be a a cure... Alcohol :)

S-C-A-N-D- to the A, to the L-O-U-S.

Haha, i was cycling back from work one of the evenings and i usually have my headphones in and sing to whatever as it's gone 12pm and no-ones around, its proper cycling music, i.e pendulum etc but i didnt realise a car had slowed up behind me and had rolled down the window to basically be pricks and do "bus wanker" or something. I was listening to hadouken and they came along side, at that moment it droped into BOMBSHOCK and naturally not seeing them shouted it, he shit himself, swerved and so nearly went up the curve. Jokes :') Be epic to see Hadouken at reading again too

Anyways, Loads has been going on, Mostly drunken adventures but hey, thats what the summers for

After adams birthday on the friday (last post, on like the 6th?) had work on the saturday and cycled the 7 miles in a thunderstorm, imagin i've fallen into a river and you've just about got the look i had going as i walked through browns ha, would of been fine but the rain had got to the white shirt and ruined it, the only spare was my bar managers "xs", i got into it for a laugh but they basically said, we'll be cool tonight you can go home, so headed back to the bystander as they where throwing a big do there and had a stage etc in the garden, mine and sams family where there (this being the ususals from oniells including members or breeze) + ash and all my old work friends so was an awesome night

Sunday, hit up tennis with ash at the leisure centre as usual, only mention this as it was such an epic game, 6-2 to him first set, 6-3 to me in the second, that and i ran, triped and went straight into the side netting, so funny to see.

The monday talia got back from her travels so red lion as standard with everyone, although i did get found out for destroying the vodka, really thought they would be none the wiser... lol, then headed to bridge which was a little tense for a second with me, being banned and all but it was different bouncers who didnt even take a second look so win, theres photo's of the banterous good times but after was bad, talia had gotten her drink spiked so had to carry her out, nice role reversal tbh ha but still, branos trip with harry, then la roux stole my superdry jumper, don't you just hate it when that happens? really bad times ;) ahaa

The wednesday was next, headed to pt after work to find out about events after i'd left harry at branos, i'd forgoten the golden rule of never leave drunken harry on his own, in the space of 5 minutes between seeing me and going to see talia at the bus station he had got surrounded by 6 guys who wanted his phone, he said no and got beaten up, broken nose and black eye style, bad times, besides this it was mutiny times as usual :D i haven't put the pictures up for this yet, i'll get round to it in a bit but also saw felicity too and had epic storys with a random guy outside and then the slaps game was invented, oh joy haha.

Friday, had a day shift so headed out to go and replace alice's ross's vodka from the "monday bridge tail" gave her a text and they where all having a chillout session with chinese at alice foremans summerhouse before going out, but i got a text from greg and felcity as they where heading to town, greg = priority always, so headed to the three goats for sticky toffee pudding and alpine. win
11 missed calls later i got to alice's with the plan of stick around till they left and not really drink as i needed to save funds for the festival season... however, persuation and banterous times plus 7 bottles of wine, one bottle of apple vodka, one bottle of absolute, another game of fuck you and attempting bar flare later, we all headed out to oxford. god sake, my friends are bad influences but i now have an hour gap around here where i disapeared off but re surfaced at kukui with everyone later on, theres again pictures of kukui, i like having a camera, after headed back to alices, there was lots of fighting for the sofa, red wine and eating of jelly beans but woke up in the morning and was looking for my phone (i've now lost it) and found a penalty notice in my bag for:

Urintaing in public, causing alarm and distress.
where: Mr shoe, george street
when:11:25
Details: two female members of public pointed male out to officers, male intoxicated.
Locality excluded from: Oxford and cowley
Route to leave: george street to park end... "thus rejoining and ending up in kukui" haha

£80 fine.

Wasn't smileing to much then but i do still intend to frame this under the title of "Lad", it seems to be the story of my life.

Yesterday i finally did the reading/v fest shop (although im heading to v just to sell the ticket, but taking festival stuff just incase i can't and will just have to go anyway) and managed to get everything besides a grill to go over an open fire or the chairs as they had sold out in tescos... so instead i bought a hammock. Now have you ever seen a guy try and cycle home with 2 bags full of stuff, not talking about the plastic bags, i'm talking about the big ones the super markets encourage you to buy to be greener plus a hammock. i got lots of funny looks and nearly an audience outside tescos ha

didnt do bridge monday, to which everyone was out for a friends birthday, didnt do wahoo bar with breeze and to save funds and wont be doing results night either.

however did do the pt yesterday, most was spent with ella, antonia and mike plus loads of others for bits of the night so it was just really good times.

Right, i'm heading to southampton tomorrow at 8:15 armed with the camera and festival supplys to begin my coach adventure to v, ...

Cool beans

Also two classics,
I'd put vlad the impailer but if noel fielding shows up and i sell the ticket when kasabian are headlining V, i'll hate life.

I remember when I used to feel something, But now i'm just cold inside.

Friday night was so good there aren't words to describe it, besides maybe banterous haha
There where about 3 or 4 different groups of friends out which is always a going to be a good start

Firstly, Four candles for adams birthday, although walking in there the doorman was the same guy from the "bridge monday tale" so complete fail there, but yeah, everyone from mathew arnold was there basically including some very old faces and an ex partner in crime too, there plan was to head to thirst later on so me + the other o'neills usuals headed there for a bit in the mean time as "hustler", a band pretty similar to breeze where playing, so stoped there for a drink, i then left them to watch the rest of the set and catch up later whilst i headed to thirst to go and see a friend who's just got back from down under after 10 months, i thought it would be weird to see someone after such a long time but it just wasn't, shes exactly the same as before just plus tons of storys and a slight auzzie accent. good times, i didn't drink here as i had work the next day but after yet more dancing headed to branos for not one, but two rounds of chicken ... i ask myself why but i really don't know, it tasted good at the time, Then droped hannah, harry and sarah off home, then headed to pt til the early hours with katy and chris, and seriously danced the night away, pictures are up and picture time with the benton is really quite something to behold. So have a gander on fb if your bored but this is the best out of all and sums up how much you missed out ... This is chris hamblin

Anyways, more music as usual, i should just not bother posting anything else but music, its what seems to take up this blog now, that and i think i'm the only one left here ha, not that i really care, i like having something to look back on

Video to this is dam good, This is the edited one, in the actual one she puts the cat in the oven and turns it on instead of the lyrics, What. a. Bitch



I think my music taste has taken a turn for the worse recently, i'm going to load up the ipod with classics this week but still theres something strangly addictive about this

(-A-)

Its been like May since i've updated this i think, never the less i've now completed my army tests

Barb test is very easy, you are timed and there are 5 stages on a touch screen computer, the practise one is up online to find out the details but i sliped up on about 4 or 5 occasions from just being tired but came out with 64, you need above 26 for the infantry and above 50 for any other job in the army essentially, however for medical jobs or some other specific area's you would need experience to back this up

Then theres the literacy and numeracy tests, again very easy its basically to check your not mentally retarded in some way, .. some how i passed both ... ha

Currently on the armys grading system i'm on an A, this means i'll be in the top 3-4 people when applying for jobs that are available, (if i pass medical and physical tests and keep it at an A)
hes given me a list of 97 jobs that are going to have places coming up in the coming months along with tons of information, dvd's,booklets etc to go away and read and learn

Next stage is to get my medical forms out of the way, where they check in depth into my family history, they are looking for hereditary problems, things like heart disease that would effect you joining so i should be ok, next:

• Interview with my recruiter, to which i need to know everything about my chosen jobs, the three i went for, top being armourer, (the next two will be changed but it was just to fill the space) is infantry and third the para's
• Pre practise selection in bicester with the rifles, lasting just a day but covers everything i'll go through on selection like the physical tests, ice breaker and some other tests too
• Head to the dentist and opticians, just to check theres nothing up before going on selection
• Go to selection in pirbright in surry, for my medical, then all the physical and mental tests over the 2 days, to which i'll have my final interview to find out if i've passed and if i'll get an offer of service

I mentioned about the job list and it includes armourer, the entry date for training is the 16th of january, this is why my recruiter is adiment on rushing me through to make this place, so thats the date i'm now aiming to leave on, but its a long way to get there yet and more a rough idea at this point

If i make this date, this is whats instore for me:

• Theres 3 and a half months of phase one training in either catterick or pirbright, covering all basic infantryman skills with a weeks leave in the middle as a break
• pass out parade on completion and a few weeks break
• Then 8 months in hampshire for technical training, Plus i want to do specialist courses on the 50cal machine gun, 300mm cannon fitted to mechanized tanks, challenger 2 tank cannon and the apache 120mm chain gun plus lynx 50 cal machine gun
• After this, well i could be posted to any unit, anywhere in the world, but intend to do the all arms commando course and P-coy over this period, and 4 years on intend to apply for the helicopter pilot course

So thats the plan

xo

So make your siren's call, And sing all you want, I will not hear what you have to say

Well this one's going to be fun haha, There was always going to be at least one night this summer where i got disgustingly drunk and completely over shoot my limits but still, i'll get to that, also i'll throw in some songs i haven't been able to get out of my head this week

Not to much has been going on since the warrior dance festival, Working mainly, seen chris for N64 times, played tennis with ash, football up the field as standard and i've done my army exams (i'll leave this for another post because not everyone wants to hear it)



Saturday was such a good night though, sam returned from Majorca so met him after work at 12 and headed to wahoo bar as it was free entry, it was someone's birthday so loads of others where about but we laowed and caught up outside till around 3am? ish, was jokes but after headed to sarahs and watched superbad over banter with alice, harry and rich (he went to sleep first, consequently had a cock drawn on his face and walked home through oxford with no idea, jokes)

Me and harry walked alice home down the river to iffley which is a nice walk down memory lane tbh and would of been pretty picturesque at 6am in the morning, if we weren't all shit tired ha, but she cooked us a win breakfast (including nesquick) and we then ventured home, got back at half 9, left at 11 and had work at 12. Loved my life that day haha, it was the staff party as well that sunday, but just thought nooo so not happening and crashed out when i got back at 7



Anyways, brings me on to monday, started off by heading out to kennington in the afternoon for playfield times, although i ended up playing in socks as topman shoes as it turns out aren't meant to be used for sport and tore straight down the middle, they only have to last till friday aka payday so it isn't so bad.

home, change and quick pit stop and drink at browns to drop off my work stuff for the following day and cycled to alices in summertown for pre drinks. It was banterous times as usual, but i'm going to skip to the day after when i heard about things that went on ha

Harry thinks i didnt drink to much, i let him believe this as a) it wasn't my vodka b) he believe ester drank it all ... cough ... yeah haha, i don't usually touch the stuff as reading festival a long time ago got real messy and my body generally goes "what, are you joking? get that stuff away from me" when it catchs the smell, but absolute vodka you just can't taste, so empty stomach, half and half mixers + beer not realising how much i'd actually got through and playing the lovely drinking game of Fuck you... well got there at 9, banterous times till half past, delay of 15-20 minutes, i was gone when we left at 10. i draw a blank from here on in, how i cycled to town i don't know. Bad times

Sam Ella and Harry have filled me in on events inbetween, basically i'm banned from bridge now for a few weeks, sam as much as he tryed on our merry walk, couldn't sober me up enough to get me in and i kept trying, bad times but other stuff included playing man vs bus and giveing sam a mild heart attack and giving a lady friend from MA a head massage whilst her rugby boyfriend was stood literally next to me watching, oh bad times haha

Scary part of this night was from 12:22 onwards, i remember looking at a text at that point, it was like waking up from a dream and being given a minute or two to figure out what the hell is going on before i slip back to being completely car parked, ha then wake up again as if time had just skiped, that was a mind fuck especially at one point where i woke up mid way through being really upset for no apparent reason, i have been teased for the man tears, again harry believed it was because i didnt get into bridge, i let him believe this, but what came next was i woke up mid way through eating chicken with curry, trying to explain to harry where my bike would be, but i genuinly had no idea or memory of it, then from the taxi ride home onwards was fine



Just the phrase "drink a can of..." needs to be inserted here,

haha i love my life



spent the night at alice's after we drunkenly cooked pasta and watched porn with some mild facebook rape. Woke up the next day from the cat licking my face with no real hangover at all, watched robinhood, men in tights on video, such a win and had pizza, nesquick and lemonade for breakfast after a trip to tescos (to which i bought a cornetto as well, had to be done) whilst cleaning up the bomb sight that was alices garden and kitchen... however alice did the garden, jack her dog hates men, especially me and harry, every time she left the back door open we shit ourselfs basically as he does just leap and bite aparently



Tuesday at work was fun to say the least too haha but i did hear about all the antics at the sunday staff party, to which a friend also got banned from a pub, for the second time ha, so its not just me

anyways, won't be here now for a good few weeks, next week i have loads of paperwork to do + a friend comes back from traveling, week after im in southampton before v fest, then week after im in shropshire before reading festival, then busy from there on doing army related stuff so yeah, thats the plan for the rest of the summer

Laters
xo