Stereotype

I was on the phone the other day to somebody who was able to sort out a topup to my Pay as you Go phone. The thing is, I've heard all those complaints about how customer service people, especially in the telephone department, are terrible at dealing with their customers, and how it's very rare for you to get through to somebody who can help you quickly and efficiently. As I was saying though, I was on the phone, and was sorted completely within five minutes of ringing them up. There was a lot of information being given on my end, and a lot of numbers and names being heard on their end. So why am I telling you this? Because I was extremely satisfied with my service, and apparently that's rare.

I saw Hot Fuzz, the best comedy I have seen in such a long time, I am struggling to think of the last time I sat in a cinema and laughed so much. It was so great, I might have to go and see it again, a new milestone in cinema watching for me. I'm also playing a lot of Poker, which is extremely fun, and as of this moment have made a good profit from so far! However, the moment things start to look sour, I'm pulling out. And no Chris, I'm not an addict!

My birthday is on Monday, but until then I have a lot to do. Frist, there's a party tomorrow evening in a friends house, for it's her birthday. Then, another of my friends birthdays and yet another party, on the same night! One's turning 20 [Sam!] and one's turning 21 [Jo!] and of course, because I forgot his birthday when i was on the radio once, it's also another 20th birthday for Stuart, my house mate and classmate. Then, on Saturday, it's my party joint with Stuart and Jo, because we're all maths geeks who deserve a good serving of alcohol. Then Sunday is a day of rest. Monday, my actual birthday, and I'm planning a meal with some of my closest friends, somewhere cheap and cheerful. And of course, a good few drinks in the bar! Wednesday is a big day for The Towers, a self created soap for the University, as we're filming the first episode then. Editing should follow the next day. Then, the following weekend on Friday, it's time to go home and meet up with my family and Welsh friends! A big meetup in Wind Street followed by Jumpin Jaks sounds good, and then Sunday may be a family meal to celebrate my belated birthday. Finally, on the Monday I head back, where it is another day of lectures, and then the next day is Derby Day where my photographic/journalistic skills will be put to good use. Boy, I cannot wait!

Singing

Hahahah, you aren't going to believe what I've just done! That's a lie, it's not unbelievable, just unbelievably stupid. Ok, here's the story:

[It's worth pointing out, ironically in brackets, that this paragraph has a lot of brackets which might be confusing to read. You have been warned]

I am a member of a very popular forums on the internet. There's no real communal theme to it. It's not like a Furry fandom or Paedophile forums where everybody joins up with a common interest so they can discuss and talk absolute crap [Most certainly in the examples I mentioned]. No, the only thing that combines us all is our very vested to extremely obsessive love of a certain sense of humour [Think quite dark and possibly horrible] and the fact we spent $10 to join in. However, the community is now reaching 100,000 members and for the last couple of years when it has been so strong, there have been a lot of group based activities, such as 'meets' where a bunch of them who live in the same city/part of a country/continent meet up and get drunk [Dangerous, possibly, but no reported incidents ever so hooray!][Double bracket bonus, I have never done this] or compete in certain 'forum members only' competitions like 'Battle of the Bands' [You upload your bands songs on a site and compare etc] and 'Iron Chef' [Where you are given a certain theme/budget/ingredient for the contestants to create a meal with, most votes goes through to next round etc].

I don't enter these usually, because of lack of time and lack of skills. However, something caught my eye, and I'm afraid to say it was the forum equivalent of 'Pop Idol'. Oh dear! Oh dear.

I've never considered myself any good at signing, even though I can't help but sing along to certain songs when they pop onto my iTunes [Anyone who says they never sing is a lying s.o.b and if they aren't lying, they aren't enjoying music enough! :p]. A few weeks ago though, I went to a concert with a friend of mine, Catriona Reid, and after we came out and into Shepherds Bush, I enjoyed myself so much that I just burst out singing! That's when Cat did a terrible thing; she told me I 'wasn't bad' at singing. Gulp. I should have ignored her then, but it got stuck in my head, finally a compliment, and about something I've never considered to be one of my skills. If she'd said 'You're quite good at sums' I might not have let it into my brain. Same for 'You're quite good at walking' but oh no, she said the singing compliment and I will remember that moment in time from now on.

It was a few weeks ago, but when I saw this competition for singing, I figured I had nothing better to do today, so I grabbed my microphone [I should point out that I've had this microphone for ages, yet I've never used it, which was part of the selection of reasons I decided to do this :(] and sung a little song into it, recorded it, and turned the volume to the lowest point still audible so my house mates didn't hear. I didn't like it at all, but why I decided to send it anyway was beyond me. I didn't even practice, and quite possibly my life may be over now.

I thought you should now. I expect ridicule on the forums, and ridicule for telling people about this, because technically I am a bit of a geek and now I've just proved it to everybody. please don't think any less of me for it! I'll make it up in Discord tomorrow! :D