It was the week when Britain came to a standstill due to a little snow flurry. I suppose on the international stage we lived up to our obbessive nature towards the weather. For me there was no escape, I had to go to work, as I live a short ten minute walk away and apart from avoiding the odd icy step, I was fine. Even when most of my colleagues had abandoned ship early into the afternoon, I remained in the office until 4pm, when I finished. I decided to pass on the gym, somewhat relunctantly on Monday evening. I knew I could have driven there but I was worried about being hit buy another car. I got a text message around 6pm to confirm that the gym would be closing at 9pm sharp due to lack of staff. Maybe it was a good reason to enjoy the evening in at the flat.
On 27th January I received an e-mail from YouTube. I had received this e-mail twice before but this time, it was too late. My original account (andyteg) had been permanently disabled after the third case of copyright violation. Although I do wonder why it took so long. The offending video had been online since October 2006, so well over two years. In any case, after I realised that I could not get my old account back, I have created a new account and am in the process of uploading all my videos again (those I own the full copyright too, I might add). You can look me up over on andyt3g but it will take a while for me to get back to speed.
I saw Slumdog Millionaire last weekend, it was very good. I would highly recommend you go and catch it at the cinema before it gets shelved. Although success in tonight’s BAFTAs may extend that theaterical run. I liked the style, it was shot in retrospect with clever cut backs to his time on the quiz show. I was disappointed with Anil Kapoor’s character for his arrogrance and downright disgust for his winning contestant. The way he said Millionare also got quite annoying over the course of the movie. Why not just use the Hindi ‘chorepatti’? I was annoyed with the song and dance number at the end. However, I appreciate that this was the only way the film could be re-sold back to the Indian market. To end of a happy Bollywood number. You can tell this is an Indian story retold by a Western (English) director. I know many people find the subject matter uneasy but it is something that has to be considered. I view it differently, I have been there, seen the slums, seen the children begging on the streets. Seen the harsh realities for myself and it is not something you can just ignore and block out.
Watched The Love Guru last night which was a complete waste of nearly two hours of my life. Mike Myers has run out of ideas and apart from perhaps two laugh out loud moments which I have already forgotten, it was completely missable. I am not sure why I wanted to watch it apart from the inclusion of Jessica Alba but even that was not enough. Avoid people at all costs.
Did make it to the gym this morning, although it took me about fifteen minutes to clear the snow off my car. My gym visits have been poor this week, owing to the weather but 2009 has not started well. I only made nine, yes nine visits to the gym in January. For February, eight days in I have only made three visits. An extremely poor state of affairs. However, I am keen to raise the bar and push myself this year. My new programme is hard work but I have found a new motivation factor. My Coby MP3 player, which I now use for all my weight training sessions. I have mainly loaded on dance music as I find that quite good to work out to but had to add the classic, Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor. Some people do say it is now quite cheesy but I still find it very motivating and love it when the intro kicks in. However, I am still keen to hear what other people suggest are ideal songs to listen to. So leave a comment if you have anything worth listening to.
What have I been up to this weekend? Not much really, after my busy weekend back in Wycombe last week. I wanted a quiet one. Saturday I went to see a friend and setup his new computer but did not get very far, so will have to go back next weekend. Went shopping at Tesco Extra on Saturday night to get some food shopping done, just in case the weather situation deteriotes and I do not get to Sainsburys. Apart from getting the epic ski holiday post finished (a little rushed at the end but I may revisit it in the near future). Today I got some chores done but decided to just chill out, listen to the football on the radio and just veg out. Nice to have a weekend with not much on the agenda. I have a busy week at work ahead but hopefully things will calm down from half term week onwards.