Author: champsak

Saturday, I planned to complete my Christmas shopping down Oxford street as they has closed off traffic to that road and regents street for the whole day.

So arrive at Oxford Circus at about 1pm. I was so amazed No cars anywhere… Now I think some of the tourist didn’t get the idea of a traffic free shopping day and were still walking on the pavement.

So i decided to do some shopping, Good offers everywhere, 30% off everything at Levi’s, 20% off everything at body shop and 10% off everything at Debenhams are some of the offers i can remember.

First store i went to was the Apple store. Ipod Nano’s were selling like hot cakes i couldn’t believe the amount they were shifting.

Went to a few other store but i won’t bore you with the details, I think the event was a victim of its own success cos there was just shit loads of people…. too many… all the food places were packed… so i couldn’t even get a drink and Selfridges was totally packed… you could hardly move in some departments (Check out the pic)

What was good that there was alot of onstreet entertainment like live bands etc and they also had large PA systems all the way down regent street just playing music…

I found it very hard to buy anything today and actually gave up in the end.

Street Entertainment

Selfridges Packed!

Tired

Wondered how they reopened the road to traffic? They sent in loads of police officers… it was like a curfew was announced or something…

Technorati Profile

They say Hotel Restaurants should be one of the best places to eat… I totally agree on that… I’ve had some of my best meals in Hotels.

Best place I have eaten was prob the Suites Hotel Liverpool, where i stayed for a few days when working up there. Until this time I’ve never had a bad experience with Hotel Restaurants until last night.

Last night I went to have dinner at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Junction Restaurant. Now you’d expect a 4* Hotel to have some good service and good food. That didn’t really happened.

We ordered our food and thought nothing of it. Talking as normal but then a couple got up and complained to the manager right in front of us saying they had waited 1.5 hours for there main course! I was like flip look like this is gonna be a long dinner. I thought perhaps it was just them but then another set of customers left as well telling the manager the same thing.

The manager explained there was only one chef today to be honest it didn’t wash down cos there were only about 7 table with customers and 1.5 hours is extreme.

The manager was very shabby. It felt like he had never worked in a restaurant before the way he presented the wine was so poor. I felt like i was being shown a bottle of Fanta or something.

Anyway on to the the Meal.

Starter – Mussels in Chorizo Sauce : Mussels overcooked
Main – Roast Salmon with Vegetables : Salmon overcooked
Desert – Cheese Cake : Nasty!

The food was very bad and very inconsistent. While my salmon was overcooked my friends was perfectly done. I know how to make the Starter and Main dish and to be honest these are very simple dishes to make. Actually i was cooking salmon the other week and made a better effort than what i had last night.

I’ve had better food eating in a pub then here and don’t get me started on how much i paid!

Don’t get me wrong I’ve been to the Junction Restaurant in Bristol and it was very nice. This is the last time I trust The Junction at Regents Park.

Recently Ive been trying to catch up on my Jdramas, I’ve got a backlog of like 5 dramas to watch but i’m getting through them now.

My sis is back walking now after her operation… she’s been at home for like 2 weeks now….

Wednesday night i went to watch De Ja vu… i actually thought this would be a shitty movie…

Anyway De Ja Vu is a quite a good movie…. the movie is very clever it’s like “Minority Report” and CSI put together. The camera work is very original and the story line is really good one.

Shy Girl

Firstly i gotta say a big thanks to Thach who has given me 2 Tickets to the Pre Screening off Deja Vu on Wed, the movie isn’t even out till the 15th Dec.

No doubt i will write a nice review about it!

Tonight’s i’ve been reading Anna ‘s Blog… Her latest entry is really deep….. check it out… I really sometimes worry about her…. I feel detached from her these days.

Tonights Youtube my fav tune! CLAZZIQUAI PROJECT – Love mode feat. PE’Z & VERBAL (m-flo)

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recently i’ve been a bit low… this week i’ve been finishing 7pm and by the time i get home its 8pm just in time to get ready for bed. I feel like i don’t even have time for myself….

Tonight, met up with Chi for some desert… I had a really good time.

Went to have some ice cream at Haagen Daz.

On the way home we walked to Picadilly Circus station and gues who was at the station entrance? The don’t be a sinner guy… he tried to give me a leaflet but i refused then he put his arms around me and mumbled something about sinning… I actually felt honoured!!!

On the way back home there were problems on the tube lines. apparently a double fatality at Earls court. Must have been really serious cos it stayed closed for the rest of the night.

Tomorrow is the last day of this travelling on public transport crap…. can’t wait to drive again.

Recently been so tired…. having very little sleep over the weekend i had to drive to Gatwick to say good bye to a friend who was going to live in HK… accompanied by a Chinese and Jap girl it felt like the united colours of Asia. At one point everyone was asleep which made me feel sleepy as well so started talking to myself.. madness i know!

The person who was flying “C” only just left home while we was already on the M25. She only made with min to spare as check in was closing very soon.

The airline they was flying was OasisHK a brand new airline best known for the great publicity the Metro gave a while back (£75 to HK). With Airport Tax etc its more like £100+ but still cheap compared to rivals.

Anyway even though i was a friend of a friend it was still sad to see people crying…

Today i took public transport into work…. I’ve got mixed reactions to doing this…. one i hate waiting for the train…. (peeps who use the hammersmith and City line will understand) and they are also slow…

So walked to my local station Latimer Road Station and guess what??? the ticket hall had classical music playing????? since when do they do that??? and is this the only station that does this?

Anyway i finish my tube journey at Sloane Square when i continue my journey via bus across the river…

I find that traveling on tube helps in my sanity as i get to see other people…. normally when driving you don’t see anything…

8pm i get to my final stop (Latimer Road Station), Leaving the platform i still hear classical music playing… what a nice way to end the day.

I now plan to travel more on public transport.

Got an email on my youtube tonight… spoof perhaps? or did someone actually enjoy viewing my Vblogs?

My name is Michael from the Channel 4 team at Princess Productions. We make programmes such as BBC 2’s Something for the Weekend, Five’s The Wright Stuff and Channel 4’s Friday Night Project.

We’re making a new programme called Homemade, to be broadcast in January ’07 in a T4 sunday morning slot. Channel 4 will at last be giving YouTube contributors and the ipod generation a platform on TV.

We have just started filming the first strand of Homemade – confessions. Speaking to the camera you honestly announce a terrible sin to a friend or family member. It’s a good way to get things off your chest, but more importantly… it’s a great way to get spotted by your mates during prime time telly.

I’m contacting you as we’ve enjoyed your YouTube blog and think you’d be good for the programme – plus you’ve shown you can make content yourself.

Drop me an email to [email protected] or call 020 7985 9482 and we’ll talk more about it. Also check out the website www.channel4.com/homemade.

Cheers,

Michael.

Researcher, Homemade
Princess Productions, First Floor
18-24 Westbourne Grove, London W2 5RH
020 7985 9482
07763 671 956
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Tonights YouTube… a guy buys a PS3 then goes and smashes it!

Now these go on ebay for $9000… so imagine this its like buying a car then smashing it! Madness!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CTy7Nx0oPI] [quote]’Champsak’

Sat went to Mercedes Benz World in Surrey. This place reminded me of the Toyota Show in Odiba Tokyo, Japan. The place is massive… quite a nice place to go for a day trip….

Anyway Video Blog time.

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My sister went into hospital today for some minor toe sugery… normally most patient get sent home by the evening… but for some reason my sister still felt really drowsy so after spending many hours on the recovery ward they moved her to a proper ward and she is staying over night….

Felt sorry for her she cant even eat cos she throws it up after…. poor girl….

Hospitals have improved since i stayed in one…. each bed has there own tv now £3.50 a day and a personal phone…. and St Mary’s seems to be hygiene mad! so they should…. You will hear announcements and see signs to spray your hands with the disinfectant. Each time you go into a ward.

Later on in the evening went for the midnight showing of 007 Casino Royale… Firstly i have to moan about Vue Cinemas! I waited 45 min for the movie to actually start…. i nearly fell asleep!

Casino Royale! (spoiler alert)

This is a very different movie…. gone are the high tech gadgets and invisible cars… in is a more down to earth 007 movie.

I really enjoyed the movie it was a more modern day version of what you could expect 007 to be in real life.

Daniel Craig has given Bond a new lease of life…. the part suited him very well and he actually looks the part as well.

One of the things that works very well is how they tried to bring in realism into the movie i.e one of the scene is filmed at Gunther von Hagens BodyWorld. Bonds Aston Martin DBS had little to no gadgets at all… no ejector seat etc. I kinda like these Changes.

Sebastien Foucan King of parkour (free running) is in it as well….. The Stunt sequence for this was amazing it was very original and gave goodie vs badie chase scenes a whole new meaning… Also the Jackie Chan type humor was present where the bad guy throws his gun at Bond (cos he’s run out of bullets) and Bond catches it and throws it back… WICKED!

The Intro sequence was really good as well…. Cameo by Richard Brandson classic!

Product placement was everywhere in the film…. Seems like Bond was ddriving Fords more than The Aston Martin and I’m lead to believe that everyone in the whole wide world uses Sony Mobile phones.

Anyone you must go and see this movie!!! it’s brill!

ah i’ve had a really stupid week….. i’ve started to stutter and the other day i opened a door at work and it hit my face i was actually dazed for a while…. this only happensed to me when i have alot on my mind….. but i don’t know whats on my mind???

This week i was thinking to go back to uni to do a MSc or a PGdip… been looking at evening courses

few sound intersting;
MSc Data Mining
MSc Internet Security

gonna see how the next few months go first i guess…..

Also it’s such a small world you know…. My work mate Pindi is leaving the company to work for CityNetworks which is where Minh work…. small world indeed.

Anyway i’ve got fri off so i have a 3 day weekend i’m hoping to just relax and chill…. recently ive become a hermit and just wanna stay at home and talk to no one… yes i’m weird like that… But tomorrow i think will be an exception where i take a beautiful lady to watch Casino Royale… can’t wait!

My sister brought some ice cream home… look a tthe packaging it’s so cool…

My Mum’s friend brought me a Molton Brown care pack. That cheered me up today when i saw it outside my room….

Sorry for the lack of updates recently… to be honest i had a very boring week…. i haven’t done anything at all that i fine remotely interesting that i think is worthy to put up here.

I promised to write a really cool blog entry for the weekend…. This weekend i’m going to Mercedes-Benz World hopefully that will be cool… Also can’t wait to watch 007 it’s meant to be very good!

I had a near miss Monday morning… was driving into work at 6.30 am went down the one way system along holland park towards Earl’s Court and guess what came down the wrong way…. a Cyclist!

He appeared from a blind corner buy luckily i saw him in time and i stopped and all he did was give me an apologetic wave. Now doing that is just playing with your life…. and really stupid…

People like this give cyclist a bad name… there should be some regulation with cyclist in london…. on my drive to work i often see them jump red lights (Red lights are there for a reason).

The cheek of it… this doesn’t even happen in Thailand where you often see motorcycles using the hard shoulder to drive in the oppersite direction and elephants on the road…

Me and my sister are addicted to playing the minigames on Super Mario(on the nintendo DS…. we’re been battling each other on it and i can’t believe my sis is beating me!!!! i must be getting old!

Frestonia 2006

In 1977 the Area along Freston Road West London attempted to declare independence from the UK, giving itself the name Frestonia. The street was primarily squats. It appealed to the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to prevent evictions by the Greater London Council.

My jokes are so shit, tried to cheer up Yen tonight…. :

– Champalenus™ says:
evening Yen how are you
~British Bitch~*~Stressed~IMU says:
hello smelly.. i’m ok hows u?
– Champalenus™ says:
i’m cool…. why are you stressed ….. should i tell you a joke to cheer you up
~British Bitch~*~Stressed ~IMU says:
yes pls
– Champalenus™ says:
er…. igloos they’re cool aren;t they ?
~British Bitch~*~Stressed~IMU says:
OMG
~British Bitch~*~Stressed~IMU says:
frikin rubbish!!
~British Bitch~*~Stressed ~IMU says:
that alone could make a depressed person commit suicide

Anyway i was looking in my archives today and i saw this vid ….

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Today was Loy Krathong Loy Krathong

Loy Krathong (or Loi Kratong, Thai: ????????) is a festival celebrated in Thailand. It is held on the third lunar moon in November.

“Loi” means “to float”. “Krathong” is a lotus-shaped boat usually decorated with banana leaves, flowers, candles, coins, incense sticks etc.

The festival originated in Thailand to ask for the Mother of Water’s forgiveness for polluting the water.

To celebrate it I went with my family to Wimbledon Temple… It’s so nice to see how muticultured the event has become. People of all nationalities were there floating there boats and sampling the food….

So many stalls selling yummy food…. i remember when i was small my parents had a stall here… i remember helping them out…. shame we don’t have one now… i keep bugging my mum to do a stall again but she keeps making excuses…

Met Jane’s Friends… they were actually normal compared to her…. All i did was just eat, walked around… it was ok…

lol This is so funny my mum saw 2 police officer and said to me she had always wanted to have her picture taken with 2 policemen so i went up to them and ask… they were happy to … apparenltly the slang for police nowadays is “Po Po”

in the UK it’s Bonfire night or Guy_Fawkes_Night… so over the weekend there are many firework displays all over the country. Not to mention peeps who do it in there own home… most people prefer to go to a displays as its much safer.

I went to the Wimbledon Park one… It was a very mellowed out display kinda not one that i’m really used to but nice ….

The men who mess with Coke and Mentos are back… check this out… it’s just mad!
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-274981837129821058&hl=en