Thursday, June 23, 2005

Bootay anyone?


So, the other night, I got pretty damn drunk. I found this picture on
my camera today. I was told that I took it. I'm not entirely sure why
people posed for it, but I aint complaining.

Just how sexy do I get when I'm drunk? I don't know. All I know is
that I woke up the next morning with my first hangover. I can have a
hole shitload of alcohol and not get drunk, but I had 8 shots in 20
minutes (4 in 20 seconds) and hence, was not feeling pretty (oh so
pretty).

It's late, so I'm heading to bed soon. Will talk to you all soon.

Cheers

Friday, June 10, 2005

Things I have to do while in Europe

Before leaving for London, I had no clue how much money I would need
to survive here. I was planning on making £5 an hour working at a pub
and living in £55/week accommodation. Little did I realise that the
accommodation would be several tube stops away and transportation
would cost around £6/day. Additionally, there are several additional
bills for housing that I thought were included, totalling around
£20/month. If anyone comes here, make sure to add these costs, or your
budget will be screwed up.

I also didn't realise that it would cost about $1000 CDN in just
accommodation for the first month. This really screwed me over, since
I didn't get paid until the end of the month.

Food costs were also high. It can be gotten at decent prices here
considering the wage, but when buying from my Canadian savings, food
takes a heavy toll.

Now that I have a well paying job, I can start to think about taking a
few trips. Before coming, I planned on going to Prague and Northern
Italy, but now I'm thinking of Budapest (considered the next Prague)
because it's cheaper and still very beautiful.

Apparently, you can get a return air ticket and 2 nights accommodation
for £106, but I doubt it would be that cost on the weekends when I'm
free. In any case, I make that much in surplus a week.

Anyways, I'm getting called back to work. Will talk to you all soon.

Paul

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Went to Cheers, Nobody knew my name

On Saturday, Callie, Noel, Brett, Justin, Jocelyn and I went to Cheers
in Piccadilly Circus. After going the wrong way to find it and walking
for about 10 minutes, losing Justin, we found Cheers. We were of
course, all heavily drunk from a small barbecue we had that included a
lot of alcohol.

Upon entering Cheers, I soon realized that the bar was nothing like
the TV show. No Cliff! The music they played was absolutely horrible.
There was no way one could dance to it. I tried, but failed. It was
somewhat weird, because there was a dance floor but no one was dancing
on it. Instead, people danced in the aisle.

Now for the juicy part. Callie (23) took a fond liking to my roommate,
Justin (18) over the course of the day. We all knew it. Justin took a
liking to the fact that he could lose his virginity (or I would
assume). Lets just say that they left early.

When Callie found out that Justin is 18, she absolutely flipped. It
was the best possible expresion one could hope for. I've got a couple
pictures of her dealing with the news. I'll make sure to post them
later.

I ended up escorting Noel home (No, not like that) because she was
feeling quite drunk. Personally, I was doing fine by then. The
industrial quantities of alcohol I had earlier had been processed by
my liver and I was starting to sober up. We made it home and I went to
bed (alone).

All in all, Cheers was a bit of a let down. Apparently, they started
playing good music the moment that I left, but it wouldn't have been
worth the £5 cover anyways. I'll go somewhere else next time.