saturday sarahs 21st

Matty lemon calls me at 1:30am friday night drunk as and asks me to come out. hmm not gunna happen so i tell to come to a party with me @ surry hills. So after me and luke move some of my shit to my new house in chatswood i meet up with matt and we hit surry hills and sarah neeves 21st bday.

Now i really only know sarah because at christmas i went to wagga with adam and i had to share a ride with sarah and a cat. went out and got pissed over the hols and been friends ever since, not that were close but shes a cool kid. So we rock up decked out in our very bestest of course, for the lady's 21st and ready for a big night.

There were some free drinks and cocktails on the bar but me and matt just got our own. We did however indulge in some fine tasties that were being served including fresh giant prawns and muscles. nice. Ran into thommy hui again and found out for the first time that mossy from my year had an accident while running, fell over and was hit by a car. in a coma for three days and died. i only saw him playing cricket last boxing day. first real person i can think of from my year i have heard of passing on.

Met up with bec some pub in surry hills and then went with her to a party around the corner. It was wrapping up and before you knew it we were heading to the cross. Bec went home and me and matty ended up with her friends. after piking candies $20 door fee at 2:30 am in the morning we headed to empire and arrived to a 1hr wait to get in. Hmm no thanks cya later and so we got some dodgy cross indian and went home to ashy to crash.

I got up early ie 11am and headed off to work to start on a new intro for fishbowl. went with westy and did some of it. At the moment its trying to figure out the motion and flow of the piece and how its all going to work. so we only really got the storyboards and animatic done for the first 6 seconds.

By 5 matty lemon had called me up and had news we were heading for DJ Shadow. Ahh more on that later :D

Allan

catch up post, post RPS week

so monday i had dinner with phil at burgerlicious in newtown. we both got nachos. now usually i avoid the full nachos hit and only have nachos and meat and sauce and avoid all the vegies, cream and guacamole. but this time i mashed it all into a big mix and hit it all up. It was great. all the flavours actually completement each other and i was really surprised. Anyone reading will probably think im a twit but it was really good. nachos good stuff.

Then we went and had gelato. god that stuff is good. im seriously becoming addicted. Then went and saw 10 canoes. Compared to hollywood films it was slow and boring. but before you think that i am baging out the film i literally am not. Yes it was slow paced and not hollywood at all but thats how i liked it. The story was funny and interesting and took time to unfold, which backs up a key moral of the story. That a good story should be told, told well and not rushed because you are impatient to see how things turn out. And it looked fantastic.

tuesday i spent another day with kamahl. hes so cool. but in the end it was work and i did my job properly wihtout any hiccups. so i am glad with that result.

I went and visited joe and watched spawn for the first time, and considering how much of a spawn fan i was i am surprised it has taken me this long to see the damn film. it was ok but all the 3d elements are jaded and look seriously bad, but htat was before all that matrix stuff came along and revamped the effects industry with crazy computers.

had banjarra or whatever its called indian from crowsnest. theh butter chicken was good, not as good as the tandoori in wagga but it was ok, however a little too expensive with one butter chicken and rice coming to 19 bucks. i didn't finish it but thats a little too dear, especiall when ive had better.

wednesday i annoyed phil again but only got opporto, wasnt that interesting a night.

thursday i spent the day with kamahl again. together we finished off the last of the compile tapes needed. had sushis. i got a sashimi variety pack which was ok but htere was little scraped oh wasabi in some so there were random hits of hotness that was a bit off putting. im tring to work my way to hot but sometimes it makes me sick.

Then after i went to becs house and met up with her then went out in glebe for dinner. Went to a little thai place on glebe point rd. I got a green thai curry, once again to work up the hotness while bec got a some vegetarian tofu dish. they were pretty good and the service was nice. Wasn't too expensive. had a good night. Then went back to becs and had good chat befor ei realised it was late and had little important things like work on the next day to worry about and that yes in fact i do actuallly need sleep sometime otherwise i could die.

fridays work was crazy because shaun was away sick and i had to man the dubsast stuff but it was good because it made me better at tapes.

After work i headed to the city to meet up with pinns. We went to a steakhouse in the city and we both got a chicken schnitzel meal with salad. personally the place looked a bit dodgy and i think we both got the schnitzel because it was the only thing that wasnt over 25 bucks and i wasn't that hungry to warrent such a wastedful amount on a steak at a place that looked dodge.

The schnitzel was well a schnitzl, its pretty hard to fuck up a schnitzel but they sure as hell didn't pu on enough gravy sauce whichis annoying. The potatoes were good but once the sauce ran out they became very dry and tasteless.

After dinner we headed to the movies along george but not before i stopped in to the gelato place across the road and got a bannana gelato. Im not sure whether it was the fact that they froze the gelato too much or that the bannana tasted more like the dry inner skin that made it bad or maybe that the one in newtown is soo good and im used to it that other gelato places seem like crap. i didn't enjoy it but the notion of covering it with chocolate like a mr whippy van does was fantastic.

we ended up seeing ooh had to think about it for a sec - pirates of the carribean 2 - dead mans chest. Personally i wasn't expecting much from the first film and loved it, now the second i was expecting the first film and was satisfied that that was what i got. didn't love it but loved bits, didn't hate it but crinjed at bits.

for instance. Loved the jack sparrow character and the effects most of the time. hated orlando bloom which is a given, and for some reason got it into my head that kiera knightly was a different chick, umm dont even ask, but i did spend most of the time questioning myself "is that really another chick, fuck they got one that looked exactly like her". I also did think that it went on for a bit too lon gand was waiting for the pace to move into a finishing move so to speak and then i realised if not remembered it was a trilogy and then a minute later it ended.

I really liked some of the scenes where they were fighting on the wheel and looked great but i thought the director had some fantasy with rolling objects and that the wheel/ball scene were exactly the same. thats just me though. the other part i hated was the beasty scene right at the end. don tread if you dont want it spoilt. but jack sparrow sitting in front of the beasty and he looks great and the beaty 3d looks great but it looks slapped down and reminiscent of sinbad the sailor and stop motion. im being hard but a little depth woullda mad a hell of a difference. thats just me being picky.

Then me and pins went to gloria jeans and i hit up a coffee. quiet weekend i though, HA!, yeah right

Sunday

So after an annoying and confusing night out i was up for doing nothing but that never happens. After luke got back we headed out for lunch and i needed to get some shit from ikea. Went out there and got things like a mirror which ive been wihtout for ages and silly little things like lights for my room. After being convined i got a dimmer for my two lights which is heaps cool. Better than i thought it would be but it makes a buzzy sound which is annoying.



Then after ikea me and luke headed to RPS. Rock paper scissors tournament. It was a heaps mad night and i had to shoot a pilot for the event with matty and the fishbowl crew. Matty went down as hey zeus, but was knocked out after the second round. Joetek deVked out in full traditional adidas white with red stripe jump suit fell in the same roundalong with rohan. Luke and myself both lost in the first round. More training i think. But mikey made it all the way to the last four. So it was up to mikey and he lost.



I did however manage to scam myself a sweat band with RPS logos on it. soo cool

chesh

Saturday and world bar

Saturday.
The priority of saturday was to go shopping and get lunch. luke had to meet up with salami which we did and then we went out and had sushi near newtown station. Made our way out to DFO to get some new threads. I only managed to get a plain as white long tee while luke picked up andother sneaky collared shirt. Made our way back to newtown and had dinner at new town thai. Salami had never gone out in syd and luke had never had new town thai, something i had to change.



We got green curry, duck curry and padh thai. Great as usual coming from that place. Salami had to make her way into YHA where she was staying and get ready to go see a friends band. while me and luke were ready to hit up the cross again. Donnas friend piked it so she decided to come along and i had to meet up with bec and nandita who recently has made the move to the big city.

D ended up piking and going to wagga for the weekend, probably to see jay. Then salami piked it because she went to sleep and slept through the night and missed out on a big night in the city. Was meant to meet up with bec and heidi who she was out with @ world bar next to candies because we were on heidi's guest list. We were late beause we were too busy making musk flavoured absolute vanilla vodka. (soo good another post maybe)

We stayed back drinking and made it out to the cross at 11. Got in and met up with bec and heidi and luke and donna went crazy drinking off somewhere in world bar. Bec was talking up some guy and i started talkingt heidi who seemed like a cool little cute chick. I asked bec for some inside help and she said go ahead and hook up with her, and she told me that she told heidi to hook up with me. And so following my instinct which always fails me i hook up with her. Good it seems. yes. well no



Then out of nowhere bec chucks a shit and has a bad time and leaves. then i get a msg about leading her on and how she doesn't want me hooking up with heidi. Then heidi picks up on the tension between me and bec and thinks that me hooking up with her will do damage to her friendship with bec and so she decided to not hook up with me and to postpone it for a week.

Ok so now im really confused and annoyed and still confused. Im not pissed off but there are things in the world that i cant explain and this for sure is one of them. Bloody x girlfriends. sooo annoying sometimes. Somewhere in there i called be a nuisance, which i didn't mean but at that very moment i called her that she was the most unreasonable person in the world and nothing i said was seen as positive and sounded bad.

Then luke got kicked out for being too drunk. Nice. ;P And donna was over the cross. jasmine got pissed as at a party she worked at and had to hang around a girl she didn't like because she omplained all the time. and had a shitty night. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!
crazy ex's and clubs and lists and shit. too muh crap. but other than that it was a really good night.

chesh

Kamahl ex girlfreinds and RPS

2nd half of july.


So if i said that the second half of july was boring then id be lying. Dont really know where to start so i will start with the weekend as usual.

Friday i had the best day at work ever. I got the chance at my first edit session with a client. this being fantastic. it was great. and my very first client was the cool cat him self. Kamahl. I spent the who day hanging out, yes working but hanging out with him chatting and watching pretty much every one of his love songs. We had sushi for lunch which was great. he got the sashimi and i got chiken teriaki, i know how boring.



After lunch i asked "hey, i was wondering if you could do me a favour" yeah for sure kamahl replies. "If i called my mum... would you say gday to her." yeah ok, why not.

and so i call my mum, we have a little chat about work and how everythings been going then out of no where..."oh, hey hang on a sec mum, theyres a friend of mine that wants to say hi"

i put kamahl on the phone.

"hello nila, how are you today, do you know an artist of the name, Jose Marie-Chan".

of course my mums a huge fan and knows jose marie chan and they go on talking about her having some albulms and the like.

then he says "do you know who you are talking to, its kamahl"

a screaming school girl i sheard through the phone as she relays that shes talking to kamahl on the phone to her friends who are giving her a lift home from work."

they chat for a bit more and then i have to get bak to work. My mums present for the year. Tick :D

Then after wards i have a beer while he drinks some cab sav, and we dine on camonbert and jarlsberg with rackers. Then it raining and he gives me a lift to the station in his rolls royce. such a nice car. such a cool old cat, such a nice friday at work.



Friday night
So we being me and luke head out to dragonfly in the cross to meet up with jasmine and help her promo night for the club. So we are on this guest list which you would think means you get in without waiting get in for free and be all round cool. not this place. it means you get to wait in line everyone else but you actually get in. people not on the list got turned away straight away.
Unless your a hot hick and you have your rack out which means you can do anything.



So we get in, even though i had been culled off of jasmines list but i only had to pay 10 bucks which 1 drink and means not much at the end of the night. So we get in and jasmines saying how theyre heaps of chicks on the list and its only me and luke and then like 20 chicks in our little group, sweet we say, and get all pumped up listening to "all this love" rainbow stylin on the way. god i love that song at the moment.

Then we get in and the 20 girls turn out to be 5. The first two are generic long blonde hair girls who seemed ok. And to my surprise the three remaining girls, last people i would have thought in the world to be on jasmines list are kylie kate and belinda. My god, what a surprise that was for me. It was a bit weird and i didn't know how to react, seeing as i was on such a high from my day with kamahl. I don think theyve seen me like that before. It wasn't long before one blonde girl had to go meet up with friends in the city and kylie and her friends had to leave. and then jasmine and the last blondie left. they all had to work the next day. and so me and luke lost motivation and just went home. Oh yeah, mickey was there too and he wanted to leave early too. so he gave us a lift back. god hes a good kid.

chesh

Enter July

My first weekend of july was pretty uneventful just having dinner with luke simon and donna.

I did however see a colombian family having dinner at the viet resturant we were eating at and i saw the youngest son smash the father over the head so hard his glasses fell forwards and smashed his wine glass into pieces. Then when we left we saw them fighting in the street the son vs the father and the other son.



Monday i recieved a late call and went out to see Jimmy and thre orange gunn playing at the hopetoun. Its always good to see the boys play a gig. and the night was very enjoyable as always.

Wednesday Greg came down and we had to catch up. So after work i headed out to the city to meet greg and pat and to have a few drinks before staying up to watch the portugal france game. I was going for portugal. Stayed in the city for a few hours and moved from one pub to the next and eventually ended up at the empire in the cross. We stayed there and watched the game down stairs. I was so tired i nearly fell asleep in the pub, but i managed and ended up seeing yet another team i followed this world cup get knocked out.



We stayed there till the end and then met dua and his mate who took us to the courthouse on tailor square because the place they wanted to go to was shut. At around 7am the pub had shut its doors not letting anyone out. A few minutes later a fight started between a few aboriginals and a small group of two or three drunken white guys. It was wet and the floor was slippery. I saw one poor guy who was a bit drunk get pushed over first and tehn smashed i the head my one aboriginal and tehn whie trying to stand up he was king hit from teh side by the otheer guys mate. All this time there were around 50 people watching them in broad daylight.



Then while he was passed out they mugged him and no one did anything. Its a shame that this sort of shit still happens in this society and that everyone is gutless to do anything.


I then went straight from the cross to work and did a full day before passing out at home later that night.

Friday i headed out in the town after doing OT at work of the new ACCENT at high speed. Pretty cool rushes. Was meant to meet dave and matt out, as well as greg, pat and phil, as well as luke and Pinns. In the end i ended up smashing it out on the dance floor of Shelbourne with Luke and pinns and was introduced to jo, a editor at POMO whos heaps mad. Kudos Jo (congrats to italy too). Luke was there picking up this filo chick from bagio. Entertainment for the family. Dispite the music being crap it was a good night.



Saturday we were awoken early to help simon move into luke house since his former house mate amanda was kicked out. ;( so the morning was spent lifting beds and fridges around what could possibly be the smaller fricken hallway known to man. I still dont know how we got that bed through. Me and luke then spent the rest of the day checking out clothes in newtown's small little sneaky shops hidden away, filled with gems at nice prices. Very cool.



I was meant to head out on the town with alisa but she had to cancel to spend time with family, which left e available to hit up dragon fly with luke and jazz and micky. We went to ashfield to grab my stuff to get ready and since simon didn't have a key luke lent him his. We got back and simon wasn't there. We waited for 45 mins and we needed to be at dragonfly by 10 to get in otherwise they get too picky and too full and jazz could get us in but in the end we missed out and had to wait for simon. He got back and someone had parked him in at IGA which is fair enough.



We got ready and hit the cross. Found Jazz who left dragonfly with micky and hit up kink @ Art house. We got in on mickys guest list which was heaps cool sinec we didn't have to line up, but we were all dressed for dragonfly (except micky who's a kink regular) so we were overdressed but that was all good.



I find Kink is just a little bit too overcrowded for my liking. Its packed to the brim with three stories high roof. I found the people a little rude and less friendly and tight nit than the musicaa crowds. We however got into the small VIP section of the main room where the DJ's, drug dealers and groupie chicks all hung out. It was kinda cool to smash it out in there away from the main crown and a little exclusive, but at the same time some of the chicks were a little up themselves simply because they were part of that inner loop.

We did manage to get a mad photo on in the mix of the four of us which does describe the night perfectly. It was a mad time but im not sure that going to kink againwould produce that same result. But im sure i would end up there again. Its the place to go at the moment and the people there go there in favour for that reason rather than to hear kick ass tunes and meet crazy people.



Sunday was spent recovering from the previous nights outing and half watching half sleeping through movies. I did manage to watch all of Top Gun however. Ahh the nostalgia. Was meant to catch up with alisa for coffee but that fell through too. Maybe next time...

Allan

Soccer week and Dan the Man!

Its late now because it all over but week was one of soccer craze. Australia lost to a bullshit dive form the italian striker in the last minute of the game to give them a penalty which they converted. They had one player sent off at the start of the second half and australia had the time and opportunity to beat italy but inthe end they couldn't score which is why they lost.

The conditions in which we went out was unfair for sure, the penalty was harsh as was the one which the italian player was sent off for, but italy held in and australia let its grip loose after dominating them for 40 odd minutes to give them an opportunity to get that penalty in the first place.

I truly believe that if they had gone into extra time australia would have won. oh well. maybe in another 32 years

Watched the brazil ghana game and saw ghana lose. but they played well.

Had dinner with westy at happies on tuesday and hit up sushi with luke on thursday.



On friday danny came down and me and luke hit up burgerliscious while we waited for him. Then we had a few drinks at zanzibar before heading back to lukes to chill out to a few tunes while downing some beers. We were meant to watch cars but i passed out half way through a sentence i was saying to luke about two minutes into the film.

New Avatar

Ive been working on a new avatar for the last few days and have just finished it. i have it on mypace and a few of my other sites. Its pretty cool. i like it. And its my portrait for this year that i usually do around this time. So check it out!!!



Allan

myyyyyy Spacceeeeeee

Ok so ive slumped to the ultimate low. I have My Space. What have i done.

Firstly the most annoying thing is that there are soo many people ont hat frickin thing that none of my aliases seemed to be free, very dissapointed chesh was, gone, as well as chesher, as well as achesher as well as datuputi as well as dimmy, which in itself was far fetched and inteh end i had to settle for cheshmonkey. so here it is.

http://www.myspace.com/cheshmonkey

ad right now ima N00B! ans looks like those generic new shit sites, which it is. But maybe when i get a cahnce i will "bling" it up as they say.

So there, i am one of them now. Kill me Kill me now, i am one of them.!

;(

not that bad really, will see how it goes.

Ooh and also forgot. Just found out flickr can only hold 200 pics viewable on a freebie account. gunna have to upgrade now.

Allan