I apologise for the lack of posts in recent weeks.
Do not worry, it's not because I have fallen out with you, it is just I have been very ill for 1-2 weeks, I have so much going on, and so typing up a post takes too much time for me.
Weekly Changy Will Return.
Want to know why? Because I have so much to tell you...
Greetings everyone, the very very first thing to report to you is how bad I feel for not updating recent events, that have happened to me.
This is mainly because, when it comes to deciding to blog, you have to be in the mood to type out the events of yourself. For me, I have to be 'Feelin' it' to be able to report to you.
As you have probably guessed I have not been 'Feelin' it' for a while... there have been reasons, reasons you may not think qualify for not having your dosage of Weekly Changy but they are my reasons.
Whats really been taking my full attention away from the outside world is a game... Sounds pathetic right, but you know, this can happen to some people. I have been fully addicted to playing Tekkit. So much so, that I had (until recently) fallen behind on the basics of stuff that needed to be done. If you are reading this and you have ever been addicted to a game, you will know how it feels, at least this is a type of addiction that is not as harsh to my health as drugs or alcohol.
This is not the Tekkit mod, but this is/was also what was taking away my full attention. What your looking at right there an aerial picture of the town that is known as 'Arivia' on our multiplayer server on Minecraft. This was partially one of the main reasons for the lack of posts.
Tekkit is Minecraft, but with several Mods pre-installed. Often known as 'Minecraft 2', Tekkit takes Minecaft to the next level. With lots of more interesting items and machines and 'things' to do. One highlight is the introduction of the Nuke. Upon hearing that there is nukes on the game, Dave Collins had the need to do some research on this item, and this is his findings:
So to conclude his research, they make big holes... and there fun to use.
Now Ladies and Gents,
this next bit is in relation to the title of this post.
This is the first of three events to report to you. This event happened about 1 & 1/2 weeks ago, and to best tell you, I am not only going to tell you what I did, but also what I was thinking at the time, because this event was so crazy, I still remember it now.
I am in my house, playing on Fifa 12. The End...
Jokes, anyway there I was, I was all alone in the house as Abigail had returned home to Wednesbury for a couple of days. It was about 9:05pm.
I head upstairs to begin another session of Tekkit to ease my addiction, and to chat to Kenneth Barnett on Skype. I receive a text from Abigail, stating that she is going on a night out in Wednesbury/Walsall at 10pm and so on, Im about to start gaming until I remember that I wanted play some music files that were on my USB to Kenneth through Skype, I turn around and look in my bag but theres no sign of it. I think to myself of where I put it last or when I last saw it. If you have memory like me, you won't be able to find it by yourself, you'll have to have someone else look for you, because I am simply terrible at remembering where I put things and always need someone else to look for me.
Anyway all I can remember is that when I last got into my car to drive, the USB was around my neck on a lanyard. So I decide to go and have a look in the car.
Without gearing up for going outside, I simply just head to the door, because the car is right outside on the street. Since my house on a main road, I was cautious of leaving the door open whilst I am getting something out of my car, and so I open the door to see no one around, and I step out to my car.
Just so no one randomly looks in, I swing the door so the door won't look like it's open, as I pull it I turn around and go to unlock the car door. I hear a slam.... I look back around, and the door is fully closed.
I then murmur "Oh Shit."
So... In an instant, I begin thinking of different options of getting into the house.
House Keys?
Nope, didn't have them on me when I went out.
Any Windows open?
Yes only one, and that is the bathroom window, but it is on a lock. Also the window would be suitable to climb through if you were 20cm in height, but not any bigger.
Back door open?
Nope, locked.
Ring landlord... at 9:00pm at night?
Nope, didn't have them on me when I went out.
In total I did not have the following:
House keys
Phone
Wallet
Shoes
In total I did have the following:
Sufficient clothing
Car keys
What now?
I then thought of the options...
I could sleep in the car?
Nope, can't do that as I need to get back in the house the next day to get my packed belongings for Creamfields, and Abigail won't be
back in Derby until after Creamfields.
Stay at a Hotel for the night, then sort it in the morning?
Nope, can't do that as I have no money with me.
Ring Abigail and see if she has a good idea?
Nope, can't do that as I have no phone on me.
Drive to Wednesbury to get Abigail's keys?
Nope, can't do that as I didn't know the way there.
My last option was to drive to Kenneth's house and explain my situation. At this moment I do wonder if anyone saw me. I must have been just standing there for about 3 minutes just thinking/panicking. So I get in the car and drive, with no shoes, to Kenneth's house.
When getting there I explain the situation, and state that:
"Im an idiot, for this."
I manage to ring Abigail via Seon's phone, and ask if it would be possible to come and get her keys. With a yes, I also had to get there before 10:00pm for she was going out. Since I did not know how to get there, I was kindly able to print out directions, and acquire shoes, and a passenger, Kenneth Barnett.
We set off at 9:20pm from Derby to Wednesbury. What made this drive interesting is that we were going in the dark, and we were both going somewhere where we had no idea how to get to, and because of all the chatter, we missed 1 or 2 directions. This proved costly as (even to this day) we do not really know where we went. At some point we were driving through Walsall, noticing a lot of children out on the streets for reasons unknown. After 10pm we were still in progress of getting Abigail's house, we managed to see a sign that said Wednesbury, and so this eventually got us close enough to Abigail. After a phone call from her we managed to find her house.
When it came to finally arriving and greeting Abigail and her friends we then realised that there were no directions for getting back. So we took directions off Abigail once again to get onto the M6, which would be enough to get us home as I knew my way once on the M6, the only consolation was that it was a longer route. The rest is all history... as in the end, I got home eventually, at 11:50pm.
Morale of this?
Just don't get locked out of your house.
If your going outside for anything, always take your house keys.
For this past week and a half, I can tell you that the majority of talk, thoughts, feelings and planning have gone into the coming weeks and months(and I guess other things on my mind).
What Im going through is what everyone goes through. The waiting stage. You plan something in advance, and once it is planned, all you do is wait for it, and throughout this stage, you find yourself doing the exact same things every week (or day) until the time comes for the event. Which generally is work, eat, sleep. Then occasionally you get play, eat, sleep. Now I don't know whether your pattern is similar to mine, but I do know that these similar patterns in motion can make your week(s) slow down so much it is at the pace of a slug. Only the strong, inspired, last minute, and creative ideas pull through to make the week more entertaining and quicker.
Celebrating the birth of James Chew was an inspired but not really last minute event in which made the week more entertaining.
Directed by James Chew, and Produced by Hannah Foley.
Photographed by Abigail Armstrong and featuring some A-listers such as :
James Chew
Harvey Brown
Kenneth Barnett
'Muzz Buzz'
Matt Damon
Hannah Foley
James Dye
Seon Kwak
Stephen Hawkins
Palmino Mercuri
Abigail Armstrong
And those two other guys who I mistakably cannot remember their names to save my life, if you were their and I missed your name leave a comment!
A night that saw interactions with Sourz, Jack Daniels, Desperados, Malibu, Budweiser Budvoir, and cake.
This event made the week go quicker, but now the week has now slowed down to pace where I look at the next events for me to enjoy and endure and I find that everything's around the corner.
And now, a message, to all of the past and future customers of Costco.
When you see the 'Extended Opening Hours on Sundays' notice,
Take note that its states '10:00am to 18:00pm.'
and that '18:00' does not mean 8pm, it means 6pm.
Relaxing trading hours on Sundays?
This relaxation on Sundays, relaxed in attempts for businesses to make more profit during the Olympics, now may be relaxed all together. This swift news that the Government are considering this has left multiple unions angry about it. I personally don't mind, and nor does Dave Collins as he has expressed his opinion in the past about this matter, however it seems it is only Dave Collins that I know, that agrees with relaxing Sunday trading hours. By the way Dave if your opinion has suddenly changed about this subject do tell me.
People that I know, completely refuse to work Sundays and they feel that they have the right to have every Sunday off all year round. But none of these people are in no way religious, so what makes Sundays such a ritual driven day for people not to go to work? Commitments? to see the kids? to do those 'chores'? can you not do that on any other day?
I leave you with that, if you like not working on Sundays then thats fair enough I do not mean to offend you, I just find it puzzling.
By this I mean with the Internet back into my vains, and back into my new household, the usual time spent surfing the web is back to the way it was, is it a good thing? who knows, and with Internet usage back, this means my services on the web are now up to date.
Milestones
Looking at statistics on both Weekly Changy & the James Chang YouTube channel, turns out that I will be reaching 3000 views on the Weekly Changy soon, and I have now gone over 1000 views on the new-ish YouTube Channel, so it's all good online. Going through more digging on viewers, I found that the YouTube Channel is a lot more global. Viewers from Egypt, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Singapore, Morocco, India, Hong Kong and many more. These regions haven't never viewed the Weekly Changy. Why Im stating all of this to you? I don't really know myself, Im just amazed at how small the world is.
At this moment in time, apart from right now as I am sitting on my computer chair typing one sentence at a time, pausing, staring, reading back at what's been typed, and continuing to type, this has been a partly relaxed and partly worked 1-2 weeks. The worked bit surprisingly, is the good bit. Not at my part time place that is, for you see, I have recently and finally got myself some work experience. Trying to get work experience (in my experiences) is almost as hard as trying to explain what Dr Thornthwaite works on everyday at his University (which is difficult). Finally getting this, I dream of the manager grabbing his assistant, pointing at me and state the following:
"Hey! That guy, that guy right there, find him, and hire him!"
A man can dream though, a man can dream.
This work experience excites me, and the upcoming festival Creamfields, also excites me. A festival that was (apart from the acts) terrible, because of the performance of the weather, and the extreme bad luck that myself, Dave Collins and Dr Thornthwaite received, made the festival smelly, muddy, wet and ...bad, a time where when it ended, I swore NEVER to do it again, or at least never camp again. Guess what Im doing for Creamfields?
This:
I will camp in a Tauntaun. It will be easier,
I can ride it, with all of my stuff on it,
and then kill it, and camp in it,
just like Luke Skywalker. By doing this,
I will have a better time than last year.
On a truthful note I will be camping again but in a bigger tent, from the last one. I didn't want to do it, but unfortunately I had no choice. This time it shall only be myself and Dave Collins. Dr Thornthwaite will not be joining us for this year, I sincerely hope for good weather, but I very much doubt it, if it at least doesn't rain as much, I will be satisfied. All year I have not really been looking forward to it, because of last year, but now the time is near, I am actually looking forward to it, regardless the events of last year. If you are going to Creamfields this year, I shall hope to see you there, most probably in deep mud.
P.S Whilst at Global Gathering, I noticed 2-3 camera operators in the Lucozade Yes Arena, so I wanted to get into the background, unfortunately I am not in the background much, only one side of my arm and torso. Dave Collins' face and arm is seen in the background, but it is Dr Thornthwaite, who takes the gold for background shot, with his entire upper body, right in the middle of the background, which is a perfect shot of him.
Hibernation time is over for me and for the Weekly Changy. I must confess, hibernation time has actually been over for approximately a week and a half, but I have been busy working on a few things and so the Weekly Changy was left untouched, until now.
My full time without Internet was approximately 3 weeks. Yep, 3 weeks, if any of you have lasted longer, I salute you. These past 3 weeks, were not too bad, but doing everyday things that you would do on the Internet, you had to do the 'old fashioned' way, if you can call it that.
3 weeks without Internet? What did I miss the most?
Everyday I would wake up and turn my computer on, and this is what I would see in the top right corner of my screen. It's not the greatest thing to look at to be fair, but it just meant what to do on my computer was limited.
If you think about what you do personally in your life, how much of it revolves around the Internet? For me it would be banking, emailing, social networking, chatting on skype (not often some may argue), downloading, uploading, blogging, listening, watching, keeping informed, gaming, updating and finally staring at Kenneth Barnett's photos for 3 hours. All of that Internet activity, disappears for 3 weeks.
If you were to ask me, "what did you miss the most?" you may think, out of all of those activities it would be staring at Kenneth Barnett's photos for hours on end, but it wasn't.
On a serious note what I missed the most was the social networking, when having the Internet, you can keep close contact with loads of people over social networks, and because of this easy instant access, there was sometimes not a need to even socialise (as sad as it sounds) because you can always find out what people are up to. Without this access, you have to resort to other ways of communication, like text messaging and phone calls, but I find that people communicate like that when the recipients are very close to them. So being without this access wanted me to catch up with people, that I haven't spoken to in a while.
I must admit, seeing this again in the top right corner feels very good, and the feeling can be summed up in one sentence: "Hello World."
"But, But you said you were doing things whilst you had no Internet?"
This is true, I cannot fully remember what I mentioned in the previous post, but I mainly remember it being something about music making. I can tell you that I am still at it, its been fun making music to be fair, using Ableton Live. Throughout this random music messing, I have concluded, that when it comes to making tracks, I can only either make synths for a track, or the beats. For some reason, I cannot put the two together to save my life, I have tried, but the two I want to put together, just never go together. Ive gone through a few lessons, but not enough to say I can work Ableton. My recordings are no way near completion to a point where I can post them on here, sorry.
Global Gathering 2012.
So as you may or may not know, Global Gathering 2012 was on Friday and Saturday (27th & 28th of July). If you went then you will know how good the weather was and how lucky we all were to have such good weather.
My report starts with the wake up call of my alarm (which reluctantly was Abigail coming in from work) at 5am. Dr Thornthwaite, sleeping in the spare bedroom, was eventually woken up 30 mins later. When we hit the road it was approximately 6:20am. Not bad timing, we drive all the way down the Stratford Upon Avon, and didn't manage to see many people heading in the same direction. When getting there, at about 8:34am there was only a handful of people here before us, like in this picture above. I would go off by saying there was about 150+ there when we arrived, when it came to letting people in at 10:15am, yep that's right, this was the queue behind us:
Inspecting this image now, it doesn't look like there's as much people, but there was. When getting in, we head to the very nice, big, open, non muddy, campsite. Myself and Dr Thornthwaite engaged in construction of my tent, and after approximately 30 minutes:
Of course when it came to having camp set up, the best thing to do is to socialise with the people that are around you. The people you can see in the picture were a group of nice people from Barnsley. The tent to the right of this picture were 3 guys who were also nice guys, and the 2 guys in front of us were not English, I think they were either Polish or Russian. When taking this picture, I was standing on a pile of hay. This pile of hay was great for jumping on, diving on, lying on, sitting on, and drinking on, and eventually socialising on. Because we had a mound of hay to sit on right outside our tent, we had a few people come and talk to us. So morale of that? bring hay to boost socialising.
The next bit that happened, I do not have any pictures of or videos to show you.... Because from 11:05am to approximately 16:30pm I got very drunk, Dr Thornthwaite and I got very hungry, we went and got food, and by food, I mean the meatiest sandwich known to man, which was like meaty cocaine for someone that was very drunk:
After this god-like sandwich, we went back to the tent (I think) and I passed out. Now when it comes to going on night's out, and festivals, usually I mention Dave Collins in my posts, and If you were wondering, He did go to this festival, but had to work in the morning and so he arrived around 17:30pm, after I woke up (kind of sobered up) and me and Dr Thornthwaite were in the main festival area.
With the geek team assembled, what followed was long lovely rave.
*Catch all of the Video Highlights on my YouTube Channel*:
You know when you go somewhere and you find it amazing, and when you go back you find it wasn't as good as the first time you went? This was not the case for this years Global Gathering. 2011 Global Gathering was amazing, and Global Gathering 2012 was equally amazing.
The top 3 highlights that made the festival were:
3. All the booze I got in.
2. The Meaty Cocaine Sandwich.
1. The Weather.
The top 5 live acts that I saw (In my opinion) were:
5. Armin Van Buuren.
4. Funkagenda.
3. Mat Zo.
2. Above & Beyond.
1. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.
I didn't know what to expect from T.E.E.D, but I found each track trippy, different, creative, inspiring, and beautiful. I will definitely be going to see him again.
*To Reiterate, look up the video highlights of these acts on my channel, because its better quality than these little 'peep holes' on my blog:*
Right now I want to tell you a million things to report to you right this instant, but the thing is I cant.
This will probably be the shortest post ever, but that's because I do not have much time.
Very briefly, I report to you not in my new house, but in the University Library, and if you are reading this whilst in the Kedleston library I bid thee hello!
My main announcement for this post that the Weekly Changy will be going into hibernation for a while. Not because I have nothing to say, but merely because of the new property that I have moved into. The new property is very nice! but like I was concerned in the previous post, I would be without Internet for a couple of days. This is not the case unfortunately. I have set up a new broadband with a company that will not be named, but they tell me that the earliest time to install my landline and set up my broadband will be the Monday 3rd September. Yep, you guessed, a long time. As chilling as that may sound, I am pleased to tell you that I have not gone insane yet. The next few weeks/months will be incredibly testing for me.
Having no internet does things to you. Your less informed about events around the world, and the people in your life. I mean just ask Dave Collins, when he had no internet for a couple of days he ended up watching every single Harry Potter film in one day, and that was just in one day.
There is light at the end of the tunnel
Yes I may be in a situation where a lot of you reading this would not like to be in, and would be terrified in thinking what else you could do, however I have been blessed with being virtuous.
As previously stated, I was going to be working on a track, but I also mentioned being heavily distracted by many other things that involved using the Internet. Now that I have no Internet, all I have at the moment is music, and music making. So ladies and gents, it gives me great pleasure to announce that I am back on track with making music, so much so that I am on course to make more than one track. It is unknown when I will be finished, but hopefully round about the time I receive Internet. So in my final last words I bid thee goodbye for now, and I shall speak to you all in September.
After gazing into space, biting my fingers and wondering what to say I've finally thought of something.
So for the past week and a half or so, I have been ferociously busy with my time. Once again I am on another deadline, but this is not a deadline for handing university paperwork, this is a deadline to get all of my things out of the house before I become homeless for approximately 24 hours, and then I will be moving into my new temporary home for the final year of University.
As you may have guessed, I have yet to pack away the exact device that I am using to type this post away into it's box. Im going to do this on the last day to be honest. 1 or 2 days ago, 'me bird' Abigail asked me:
"Are you nervous about moving in?"
At the time I said no, which is true, I've done this twice before so I am not nervous. As spectacularly pathetic as this sounds I am more concerned at the fact that I may be without the Internet and the Web for more than 24 hours. Seriously, turn around right now. Now look left, then right, then up and down and where ever else you have not looked... Do you see it? Of course you don't, its Wifi (and 3G if you like). It's just there, and almost everyone is dependent on it nowadays, this is what I can relate of it:
"The Force (or Wifi in my case) is what gives a Jedi (you) his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."
- Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Now can you tell me what this quote tells us? ... Yep you guessed it, Obi-Wan Kenobi, invented the Internet.
For approximately 1.3 seconds I got excited, reason being is that the next post will be in the new house, new room, new desk, new ideas? who knows. What is exciting me a lot lot lot lot more at the moment is that it's 5 weeks to go until Global Gathering 2012 kicks off. The festival that I have been looking forward to all of last and this year, ever since it ended last year. With my YouTube channel up and running, expect lots of coverage at the festival. Which reminds me, the rest of this post will be dedicated to my very late report of the night 'Digital Society Presents Full on Ferry'.
Full on Ferry - Leeds
The actual day of this event was a specific day where there was no way of me getting out of work, and so the usual Sunday 6:30am wake up for work was the beginning of the day. Boring work came and went. My next task was rush home, grab my gear that I had prepared the night before, and rush to the train station to catch a 1h 48m train ride straight to Leeds. I am pleased to report that I did actually manage to get that train and was in Leeds at 19:07pm. A city where I had never been before.
If I can give any advice to someone that has never been to Leeds, and are getting a train there, the advice is this: Do not create any litter, because there is no bin to be seen, not anywhere in the train station, nor outside. I don't know whether it was just me but I could not find one anywhere.
I arrive at the hotel with precision timing. So nothing to do but wait for Dave Collins and Dr Thornthwaite to arrive at the hotel, becuase Dave had the room res'. After 30-35 minutes of waiting they arrive, and in style. I do not have a picture of what Dave looked like but picture this: Adam Jensen with a wooly jumper and a back pack. Dave looked so good, that Dr Thornthwaite had to rapidly create a black hole in the lobby to suck in the girls that were trying to grab Dave's face to suck it and to engage in intercourse with him.
Moving along now. Got ready. Went out:
These were the scenes at Full on Ferry. Not bad considering I got my ticket for free.
I am not always a believer of VIP, when it comes to nightclubs and night outs, however I was the competition winner for the event, and so very luckily I got 2 free VIP tickets. What I was really impressed with when it came to VIP at this event, was the exclusive bar, with very little queue's, and the toilets. For once no one was in the toilets to do drugs, which I was surprised with. To top it all off was the incredible view we had when it came to having a time out from all the raving.
...I have just looked at the content I got from the event. Turns out I have more video content than pictures, which means these videos will eventually wind up on YouTube on my channel so keep a look out.
It's that time of the year again. Like lots of University students, your all preparing for the same mother nature occurrence that shifts us all from one hibernating ground to another. The random adjective jibberish I speak of is moving out time is upon us. To pack all of your things and get out of your hole, your ground, your hiding place, your sanctuary, your hell pit, or quite possibly your temporary home.
Some of you may be feeling relieved to be moving out, others may be annoyed, others may be horny. Whatever emotion you feel, you must all think one similar thing, and that is:
Do you not think it's gone fast?
I actually remember the first day I moved into the house that I am currently inside right now typing this post up. A very hectic day as lots of different things were happening all at different times in the day, for instance, being at the agency office at 9am to pick up the keys and pay the top up rent, going to collect the van with all of our belongings on the drive of the old house. Transport the van to the new house which was probably the most difficult driving job I have ever had to do to date. Then to literally throw everything into the new house, race the van back before 12 or 11, then get a cab back to the new house, unpack a little, get ready for work, then get to work for 12:30.
I find that you do not just take your belongings with you, but you take the memories as well. The top five things I remember are:
Being sick in the toilet and to have Kenneth Barnett Laugh at me as he is lying in the bath tub laughing, unaware that later on he could not get out, because of his alcohol levels.
Waking up in the morning to have learned that I had vomited on the wall of my room, partially the landing floor, and parts of the toilet due to a heavy drinking session.
Testing out walking up the stairs whilst looking through a floppy laptop glass thing.
Wanting to go to bed around 5am after drinking in the living room with Kenneth Barnett, with him being unable to function his limbs and flopping around on my bed like turtle on its back, saying statements that he had previously stated 20mins ago.
Attempting to kill a wasp that entered my room, and hitting over 10 times with a Dj-mag. I assure you this was in self defence.
P.T.O
New subject now, for I must ask an open minded question. When I was recently in work, one of the morning staff, was asking me about my University work and what I do. Upon telling him we got into a discussion over Ethics. He believes that your own Ethics is precious and easily manipulated, which I agreed. What made the discussion more interesting is that he also believes, to this day, that pursuing any professional career will harm his Ethics and the way he views the world, which is something that he does not want, and so that is his explanation for not pursuing professional careers.
I quote:
"You know, in that sort of industry (media), people will tell you what to do, how to think, Im not the person dya know what I mean? I will still be the same through out, no one can change me, if it's wrong in my eyes it's wrong, I won't do it."
My question (or argument against this if you like) is that surely where ever you work your Ethics will be altered in a way you will think differently of the world and of people?
Everybody has a different build up of Ethics as a child, but from birth your Ethics have been constantly altering in the way you think, so why stop? Is it bad?
I did ask him this, but our discussion was disrupted so I never got a answer to it.
Ladies & Gentlemen.
May I have your attention please.
In the previous post I was detailing my personal work that I am still currently going through. It has been a long winded task, not exactly difficult but none the less, long. This is not finished, but it has come to the stage where I can reveal what it is. I introduce to you all, My new YouTube Channel, known as what would have been the 'Iwas There' Channel, but Google does not like this so it has to be known as the 'James Chang YouTube Channel'...Oh well.
What's on it?
Well this new YouTube Channel holds an archive of clubbing event highlights, from the past 2 years. This is what I like to call it, you on the other hand, may interpret it as me yelling a lot on lots of different content on the channel. Interpret it as you like but that is what the channel is for.
Ever wanted to go to a clubbing event but never attended?
Want to see what happened?
Check it out!
P.S I would rather you go on YouTube and look at this introduction video as the screen width is better than this little peep hole.
Time is fascinating. I am not going to talk about how time is relevant though, because that would need a Nuclear Physicist, a Dave Collins and a Kenneth Barnett.
What I mean is how when you have your full devotion and attention on getting your work done for the semester, a lot of other events outside of University work, get by that you may not be aware of or you only hear snippets of, but you do not have the time to find out all of the news or gossip if you can call it that.
Im sure you may feel the same if you have ever been through a university semester. I can best relate it to going into hibernation.
If you actually know me through college, high school, or even university, I can bet some big news has happened to you or someone close to you, that I may not even know about because I have not seen or spoken to you for a while, and it has taken me till now to realise how many different events have happened around the people I know. Time particularly fascinates me when I see people now from when I last saw them.
Some great highlights of what Im talking about is events such as:
My brother, whom obtained another Job, at Armani. When I last saw him he wasn't very far into his job at Next, which I hear he was doing well, but not giving him enough hours that he wanted.
My 2nd elder sister, getting another job at Ralph Lauren. I last saw her work for a clothing line in John Lewis, which she had not been there long either.
An old friend from high school, Kim Bushell, getting married. I last saw her when I was 16, when I didn't even know what Blogger was, when I was working for my father. Now she is married and going on a honeymoon.
My brothers old friend George Thompson, whom I last saw when I was in high school, when I was approximately 14. Thinking back hard enough, I remember last seeing him on the school field playing football. Now he's in the army.
His brother, Jack Thompson, another old old friend whom I also last saw in high school, back when I was roughly 15. He now is a Father.
My eldest sister, who recently did the Race for Life. I last saw her when taking part in a charitable cause was just not for her, but from when I last saw on her donation page, she had received 106% over her target, and did well in the race.
My high school drama class group member, Daniel Moss. I last saw him back in high school when I was around 15 years old. I would notice on various occasions of him rapping to music. Now he is a rapper, professionally known as Mossy.
A friend from college, Colm Melarkey. I last saw him in Chester fairly drunk a year ago. He is now the world's strongest millionaire.
Thats all that I can think of at the moment, but I am sure there is more that I am unaware of. Oh yes, and one of the events there is fake, but I bet you cannot guess which one. Im sure this may be a similar case to yourself, ask yourself, what has happened to the people around you?
The discovery of a New Sanctuary.
There comes a time where you get so angry and so stressed out, you just want to get away from it all, or just possible get away from a city. Well for me, I would personally leave the country for a bit, if I had the money and the time, but I cannot. Instead I find that going to peaceful relaxing places where I can relax and deeply thinking about general stuff and plan for the future works well to calm myself down. For other people you may have different tactics, or different places to go, or different things to do, but for me, this is it.
That up there is Elvaston Castle. and these are pics of the massive park/gardens/forests that are apart of the castle grounds.
I would say that this is not the only place I enjoy going to get away from everything. Back home my ideal location for me to get away would be Eccleston Forest, which is not very far from Chester city centre, but is quite remote and a relaxing place.
Previously on Weekly Changy
Yes previously I remember using the last bit of my post to tell you how inspired I felt, and that I felt like producing a song. Well I am pleased to tell you that I am still on course for doing so, has been a bit of a struggle, but I am still on it. There are other projects that I am working on at the moment though, which has made the song creating be pushed into a queue of different things I have to do.
My current project that I am doing is a long winded task, but that is running smoothly at the moment, but is not finished yet. I can imagine it will be finished in possibly a month, so I will let you all know soon what it is and where I am up to with it from now to then. Further more the song creating will be taking longer as I am also attempting to learn the software to make it, because I want to do it right, instead of messing around with it in general.
In the meantime I will leave you with this track that I am loving at the moment:
Here you see what I see when handing in my work. This glorious yellow slip of paper, is the signifier of completion of your module. However this is not the end of University work. No, there is still more to do believe it or not. As for the majority of other students, they have finished for the year, in which you may notice that they will be contacting you, asking how you have been, because they have not had the chance to socialise to you because of the semester.
If you wonder why your friend in University is not talking to you, it may not be the fact that they do not like you, it is because they are nearing the end of a semester. So socialising gets thrown out of the window. Socialising, is the one to go first from the student. Socialising is the crew member wearing the red shirt in Star Trek.
What you see there, is the completion of the following modules: Television Production, Media Ethics, Media Research Project and New Media Production. I am not going to lie, but this semester has been one of the toughest semester's of my entire University life. Emotionally straining, Stressfully straining and time straining.
What about Radio Production?
To really test university work stamina, is to go through all of that, and to go and complete one more module... Just, one, more. James Chew, Marcus Bonnick and myself, have to march back into Markeaton Campus, and get back to it. As I sit here and wonder, I wonder why after working on harder modules, is it harder to even think about doing this module. It is to re-produce a 30-minute radio programme. Why so hard? Here's why:
Not because of work of course, because that is where this was taken. But because of the beginning of summer. Throughout the spring semester, when doing work, I look to the right of my desk and there is a window, and 97.999999999% of the time, there is bad weather happening outside, which makes me think: "huh, well there's clearly nothing for me to do outside, better carry on with work, derp." but now, seeing beautiful weather outside, its very tempting to put everything down, stop everything, and go do something entertaining that you want to do, I mean after all, lots of work has been completed now right? but there is still one more to do....
Common Sense?
Yes, common sense, the ultimate thing some people lack of, and to be fair, I have limited supplies of this common sense. Your probably wondering what common sense has to with this post? I'll tell you right after you finish reading this sentence, you finished yet? oh come on! hurry up! you done? not yet? okay well let me know when your done. Okay anyway this blog has got more common sense. This is because I have readers from other countries, and they visit my blog, bringing along their language, and where is the use of reading someone's blog if it is not in your dialect? Now blogger has implemented Google Translate! I have not tried it yet, however now, all of you people that have read my blog numerously from various places such as Russia, Germany, and France, you may now read what I have to say in your language now, Yay.
What now?
With most of university work done now, with just one more to do, what are you going to do with the rest of the summer Changy?
When riding along the university semester, there comes various times where I think of personal stuff for me to do. Stuff that I want to do to make me a better individual in the specified industry, or just long personal projects that I want to begin planning or working on for the future, or just work on stuff that I think will be fun or just because I feel like it. I am sure that I am not the only one reading this that feels the same way, and I say the summer is a great time to do it, and that I support you in doing so. It takes inspiration for everyone to do something. For me at the moment, I feel inspired to make a song. As sad as it sounds it is because of Deadmau5's new song, 'The Veldt'. As sad as it sounds but some songs inspire me to work on something.
Yes, indeed there is more. The reason for the lack of posts is due to the fact that the deadlines came around. After all the planning that was produced, it was a time to get my head down and really rally to the finish line of my work.
These past few weeks (from the previous post to now) have been so far, the most stressful and the most time consuming. With the usual collaboration of University work and Costco work, the time for relaxation were very short. Of course you must take note, that It was not just me that was going through this torrid time, it was many of my consorts.
We have snapped, we have shouted, we have typed, we have printed, we have written, we have drawn, we have copied, we have pasted, we have referenced, we have discussed, we have met, we have filled in, we have fallen out, we have angered, we have annoyed, we have pleased, we have come, we have gone.
We have handed in.
What was done first?
From seeing the work load, the first to be conquered, was the Media Ethics Major Assignment. This 2,000 word bad boy, was an interesting ethical debate in to the procedures to take in the radio industry, if your station isn't making enough money, basically.
Next that was finished was my Media Research Project of 4,000 words. The most I have ever written when I think hard about it.... which my subject was about media convergence. Talking about the flow of old media content and new media technologies. This assignment was the most difficult and long winded assignment. As it may have been for rest of you that had to do this assignment.
Next to come and go was not necessarily a essay, but an assessment. Pictured above is the studio design for the my Television Production teleshopping program. That day was as stressful and tiring as being told to walk on your hands to University, whilst naked, whilst having exactly 12 people around you laughing at you and your penis.
Celebrations Continue!
This silhouetted city is the city of Birmingham. On this day, which was recent, the 6th May was the night for SIXFIVETWELVE at Godskitchen. The very last event at the Air nightclub which is very unfortunate. Once again the team that went to witness the mini festival night in Birmingham was of course Dave Collins and Dr Thornthwaite, and first and last time attendant Abigail.
This blurry image is of the outdoor arena which, if you saw for yourself for those lucky enough to go, was a lot better and clearer to see for real. Another great feature about the night was the food:
The food was so convenient and great, we decided to get a picture of it, and because we loved it that much, we got a hand model to hold the hot dog whilst we took a picture of it. Tis a rather beautiful hand don't you think?
The time spent through this night out and the next day had its interesting features:
The Pre drinking of lots of cider for me and Abigail, and the consuming of Whiskey from Dave and Dr Thornthwaite.
The raving to Armin Van Buuren, and the drunk Paul Van Dyk.
The queuing for drinks.
The queuing for getting into Air.
The queuing for eating.
The queuing for queuing.
The queuing for queuing for queuing.
The dry mouth from lack of water in the morning.
The knocking on doors from janitors trying to clean the room and to batter you with sticks to get out.
The full Irish breakfast in O'Neills.
The discussion of the broken door eventually closing via quantum physics cyber herpa harpoon probability studies.
The walking everywhere in Birmingham city centre.
The return to my home and sleeping in my bed.
But Wait, There's More
Getting back to University work now, and yes that's right, there is more to be done.
My website and mobile app design for New Media Production is still at large, and the re-production of Radio Production.
Hopefully by the next time I post, the New Media Production work, will no longer require my attention.
