Future plans.

I'm excited, so excited that I want to get up and charge about the place and do a thousand things today, although I don't have a thousand things to do. Which has left me feeling like a Ferrari locked up in a garage. RRmmmm...(the spell checker reckons that should be remember)

Why am I excited, because finally, after going loop the loop for the last ten years or so, I think I can finally follow out a dream plan of action. I don't know if I can make it work, but I want to find out.

After this year ends, I want to buy myself some English teaching materials and start getting myself some one to one students and teach English. So hopefully, I'll be able to build up a large client base, through word of mouth and given a little time, I'll be able to move away from working for others and work for myself.
Ideal. Perfect, wonderful that would be.

Then, or rather as that's happening I can pursue my dream of doing some more performing, whether it's stand up comedy again (I've dipped my toes in that pool before), improvised performing (and that pool), which I'm currently doing now, but work constraints wont allow. That's me working for someone else and not teaching, just retail.

So hopefully that'll end sometime next year. I'll need to be able to work part time, to give me the time to do my own thing. Then I'll be able to stop normal work as my own work picks up pace and then follow up my dream of performing once more.

If I can make it work, I can really make that happen, it'll be the best. The very best time of my life.

An old African proverb would be best to finish this off I think.

"When you pray, move your feet".


I think I will.

Easy day.

As I haven't for a while, I've been much indulging in one of my favourite past-times. Which I was able to do due to a nice discovery I made the other day near tottenham court road.
There's a new and old computer game / DVD shop down there. I saw it a while ago and decided on Saturday to have a look. It wasn't that busy, there were a few other guys there pouring over the games. I joined the throng by the window and started at the top working my way down. Where I found one of my old favourites. I loved this game when I had it on the x-box.

Fable.



This is a screen shot I took just after I'd one the chicken kicking competition. Yeah, my character's a little evil. Can you guess what I won by looking at the picture?

I much enjoy wearing it and fighting hordes of evil monsters.



Wonderful. Now that I have a job, hopefully, given a little time, I'll have saved up a bit and Will be able to buy an x-box 360. To which the next instalment is coming out on soon.

Aside from having my focus squarely in the realm of cyber space, my mind ponders long and slow over my future. where oh where do I want to go with my life. There are a few possibilities I'd like to pursue. These being the ones where I get to have a lot of fun.
I also met an old friend walking down the road today. I remember when I first met her 8 years ago, she couldn't speak a word of English. She's much better now, but not perfect.

I want to take my English teacher skills and start giving her lessons sometime next year. Being able to teach is a valuable skill, one I intend to keep. It'll also enable me to make a little extra cash on the side.

Something else that's just occured to me, I might even be able to fit in a part time job someplace and teach English as well.

Hmm, the future is full of fun and possibilities. I just need to make these work by working hard piece by piece, step by step.

Wonderful, it's nice that my life is going in a good direction now.

Rainy day.

What can I do with my Thursday today, having looked outside and seen the weather of today, it is chucking it down, cats and dogs.

Hmm, if it literally were raining cats and dogs, the pavement would be extremely furry and bloody. And how could anyone get the expression raining cats and dogs too? It makes no real sense. Raining barrels of water I could stretch too, but not our furry four legged companions tumbling from the sky, tail over head in a mass of barking and hissing, biting and scratching.

Do you think it would rain one particular breed of dog or cat? What if it were a shower of Pomeranian's falling from the sky. Small cute fluffy doggies, what kind of umbrella would you need? The Pomeranian pro?
Another day you're out walking along the street and the heavens open up and you catch sight of a downpour of bull mastiffs. That would be a very painful experience I'd imagine, getting clobbered by large slobbering dogs from on high.

Hmm. Anyway.

What to do with today? The day before my important job interview, a day like any other really. I wish I had a mate who was as unemployed as me at the moment, I'd go have a knees up with them down at the pub. Perfect weather for it. If it were sunny I'd feel a bit guilty spending it in doors.

Perhaps I'll do some much needed bits and bobs shopping, there are some toiletries I need to get. I might grab a good book and go and sit in the cafe up the road for a while and have a read. I could carry on studying my Chinese. 我今天要了学习中文。

Al in all, it's my rainy day and who knows, I might be working from now on. Which'll mean giving up my long care free days. Ahh, back to the daily grind, I've not done that for a while. My last job was pretty darned easy.

I'll be off then. Have a good one.

Thinking...

I've been looking at the BBC website, science and nature section. It's says that scientists have sequenced the DNA of extinct cave bears. That they should also be able to sequence the DNA of ancient humans.

I feel fairly certain, within myself, that the time will come that we'll be able to sequence and grow artificially any biological organism that has ever lived on this planet. Technology is moving on in such leaps and bounds that soon I'm sure most of the amazing will seem perfectly do-able.

100 years ago, we'd only just achieved flight. Another hundred years, we'll doing some amazing stuff. I'm pretty sure we'll all be living older but remaining as young and as healthy as were when we were in our late teens and early twenty's. All disease will have been cured.

So personally, I wish we'd all relax a little more. There will be nothing we wont be able to make better in the future, the control over our environment will be phenomenal. Then we can have a good old think about what it's truly all about. As robots will have all the jobs covered and all we really need to do is have a laugh and take it easy.

What do you think?

I like my new home (In cyberspace).

I've been living elsewhere for a looong time and it's good to set myself away from it. New decor, new layout and a fresh face.
If I could manage to do the same with the rest of my life, I'd be sitting pretty. New decor (move flat), new layout(erm... rearrange brain?) and a fresh face(Have a wash).

My battle plan for the day, which isn't much for a 29 year old unemployed London geeza.

1. shave.
2. shower.
3. shopping.

The 3 sh's. Making for the basis of my day. The shaving will be electric without cream. The shower will be with soap and shampoo, no, no, scrap the shampoo, I'm bald. Shopping, done at poundland down the road, there are some bargain things in there at the moment. Bargain being the actual item for the price and not exclusivly he price itself. Because at that shop you never know what they're going to get in. It's diferent every week. Not just cheap mank stuff either, no, they have top brands too!

The more extraneous things like filling in application forms and stuff will be done after the above, when I'm fully woken and refreshed.

Lastly I hould stick myself back onto my bum and focuso writing some today. Accumulate that body of work so I can pluck at it and prod it at a much later date.

Right, I'm off.

Rainy London day.

I woke up from a heavy sleep this morning, feeling like a sack of bricks. I'd dreamt I had argued with a good mate of mine. It was something I thought he shouldn't have done, which led to quite a bad argument, exacerbated by the fact I was visiting him in Ireland and had another 5 days staying with him.

Pleased it was just a dream when I woke up to the cosy warmth of my bed.

I got up and finished my internet application for a job in town today, I will have the interview on Friday fist thing in the morning.
It's been a while since I've had to commute to work, thinking about the train journey this morning, the last place I had to commute was China.
So I packed my Elementary Chinese Reader in my bag, strolled out into the drizzle toward the train station, swipped my Oyster card across the reader, and went to check out the place to aid in preparation for Friday.
It's a shop I've often frequented in my past, so it shouldn't take too much effort for me at the interview.

However, no excuse to slack off. I don't intend to be caught with my pants down.
I can imagine a deathly scenario...

Interviewer all prim and proper dazzles me with an amzing in depth question.

Me. "Erm, uhh... gee... well, I dunno, I didn't think about that one... Do you have an easier question?"

No, no, no! It will not do. Only the best most concise and appropriate answers will they receive!

So, Friday at 10am, hopefully all will go as well as possible.

A new Start.

Well, I begin a new, fresh faced and sparkling.

Well, at least that is in the world of blog. As the last one was far too well known amongst my circle of friends and I need a little anonymity. A little about me before I lunge into my new written world.
I've travelled the last couple of years, I've lived and worked in 中国 and Italia as an English teacher. I have had some amazing experiences during my last couple of years. Travelling really does make you change and grow.

中国

Italia

Which has been on my mind recently, I forged new roads for myself when I moved away from home, now I'd like to transplant those into the life I live here. Which would be smashing if I could pull it off.

Writing is another large passion of my life now, especially after 3 years or more of writing. Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to make it pay. We shall see, says Little Red Robin, quite like that, it's small and unassuming, much how I like to be.