Well im 25, quarter of a century. Jeeze. What have I achived? Seen a fair part of the world, got my own car, enough money to keep me happy for a while and i survived the reccesion spending happily like it didnt even happen. In a way im glad i joined up when i did, good money for what i do and a few perks. But there is a bad side, Keeps you away from your family and loved ones alot, puts alot of strain on relationships and this posting is by far the hardest yet for that.
Well last few weeks has sailed by with out much really happening. Last week i did guard, a whole week of watching films and drinking brews (a whole week out of the kitchen though) Had a laugh and slept a fair bit. Next week im in pastry for a week. A whole week high on sugar, maybe there will be moshing also.
Only got 4 weeks left, 30 days. Maybe even less if my replacment get here on the 16th. Wooooooo the end is nigh.
Other news, few blogs ago i talked about a certain annoying person here. Well he's leaving a few months earlyer than he should be. Cant really say much at the moment but turns out he's poked too many people the wrong way, things snowballed, complaints were made and the fuzz were asked to get involved. Mary fookin LOLins only think i dont like is he's getting out of here before me, but still maybe i'll have a more peacfull and happy last month. So'long
The weather has been nice on and off, its like ooooooooooooo the suns out [goes outside. Ahhhhhhhhhhhr so is the wind!] This place would be a hell of alot better with out the wind, indeed.
Song - Katy Perry-Peacock [seriously you need to listen to this, i am quite confused but strangly aroused by the song, got a feeling there wont be a video on MTV any time soon though]
Mood - i really dont know, im happy its nearly done, but i know that im still here for the now.
6.8
Stab me with your lasers....
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Monday, 23 August 2010
18-8-10
Well it official, ive hit to wall, lost my drive, its like groundhog day, every day seems like the one before only the weather changes.
Its happened on most excersises before bar one, which was jordan. I thank Davie for that (and Charles Dellon) I really cant type the hatered for this place that im feeling, it doesnt help when ''he who shall not be named'' is being a complete tool and doing everything in his power to either divide the kitchen in 2 (RAF/ARMY) or generly not doing anything on shift, bar watch tv and sulk. He managed to get the tv confiscated because all he did was sit and watch football.
So onto another thing, the flight. This is the single most boring thing i have ever experianced, 18 or so hours stuck in a room,with only the things you bring. Sure music is good, will it last for 18 hours? do you grow tired of the music that youve probably heard many times before? Books are good but will you grow tired of looking at the letters, forming them into words and sentences picturing what they are telling you in your minds eye. Who knows, two months time i'll find out again for the 4th time, at least i'll be in the knoledge that i will never return to this hole and if i have too, it will not be for a very long long time indeed.
So the week was well.... the same as any other week with the added difference of well nothing worth mentioning.
I changed my room round that was the high point of it all,
not even the lows of bone shattering bass bring much enjoyment any more.
The only good thing about this place is that you can think, alot, but thinking about that now is it such a good thing?[see, this is what im talking about, im begining to babble about nothing in particular to fill the void]
So with the thinking, i dont want this job any more there are other things i feel i would bo better.
Im good with computers, always learning new things but have no formal qualifications to show what i can do, so as much as it pains to say there out of the window till i can prove my work.
Diving, yes i know that diving jobs are few and far between in the army but i though i'de trow it in the mix because i really do enjoy it.
Dog handler, strange i know, this on bit me in the ass when i was here, dont need any qualifications for this one, i like dogs and i think i would really enjoy the job.
The final option literaly will be the last straw, where i have no other choice and have to do something. I cant just come out of the army as i am now and get a job in civvy street, yeah im a good chef but i want to stear away from it for a while, i enjoy it but i need a break. So i come out, and have a couple of options, computing/diving. I really do suck info up about computers and grasp what im doing fast, there averywhere aswell so it wouldnt be too hard to get re-employed when ive done the propper training.
Diving, there are tons of places that do dive training round the world, ranging from 5 weeks to 6 months train time. There are also a number of avenues that i can go down, Instructor, Marine Biology, Marine conservation. Under water wood welder[UWWW], dolfin trainer.
So, even though i've thought of all these wonderfull things i'd like to do i'm still undecided. I still think that the econamic climate is unsettled and employers are still being carefull, too carefull if you ask me.
I know what ever i put my mind too i will achive it, i told someone once that i really wanted to go diving and they said it was just a pipe dream that i would never achive, well i fucking showed you didnt i. Went and dived the Zenobia init blad.
So i think i best draw to an end as im sure youve had enough. I feel better for writing this, the wall feels one less step away now. But it has been hit i will not deny that, i sometimes wonder what i'll think when i read this in a years time, problably be like ''jeeze i moaned like a bitch, why did people read this''
3.2
Song - Massive Attack vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Teardrops Under The Bridge
Mood - Fuck this, i want to be a pirate. ahhhhhhrrrrrrrr!
Its happened on most excersises before bar one, which was jordan. I thank Davie for that (and Charles Dellon) I really cant type the hatered for this place that im feeling, it doesnt help when ''he who shall not be named'' is being a complete tool and doing everything in his power to either divide the kitchen in 2 (RAF/ARMY) or generly not doing anything on shift, bar watch tv and sulk. He managed to get the tv confiscated because all he did was sit and watch football.
So onto another thing, the flight. This is the single most boring thing i have ever experianced, 18 or so hours stuck in a room,with only the things you bring. Sure music is good, will it last for 18 hours? do you grow tired of the music that youve probably heard many times before? Books are good but will you grow tired of looking at the letters, forming them into words and sentences picturing what they are telling you in your minds eye. Who knows, two months time i'll find out again for the 4th time, at least i'll be in the knoledge that i will never return to this hole and if i have too, it will not be for a very long long time indeed.
So the week was well.... the same as any other week with the added difference of well nothing worth mentioning.
I changed my room round that was the high point of it all,
not even the lows of bone shattering bass bring much enjoyment any more.
The only good thing about this place is that you can think, alot, but thinking about that now is it such a good thing?[see, this is what im talking about, im begining to babble about nothing in particular to fill the void
So with the thinking, i dont want this job any more there are other things i feel i would bo better.
Im good with computers, always learning new things but have no formal qualifications to show what i can do, so as much as it pains to say there out of the window till i can prove my work.
Diving, yes i know that diving jobs are few and far between in the army but i though i'de trow it in the mix because i really do enjoy it.
Dog handler, strange i know, this on bit me in the ass when i was here, dont need any qualifications for this one, i like dogs and i think i would really enjoy the job.
The final option literaly will be the last straw, where i have no other choice and have to do something. I cant just come out of the army as i am now and get a job in civvy street, yeah im a good chef but i want to stear away from it for a while, i enjoy it but i need a break. So i come out, and have a couple of options, computing/diving. I really do suck info up about computers and grasp what im doing fast, there averywhere aswell so it wouldnt be too hard to get re-employed when ive done the propper training.
Diving, there are tons of places that do dive training round the world, ranging from 5 weeks to 6 months train time. There are also a number of avenues that i can go down, Instructor, Marine Biology, Marine conservation. Under water wood welder[UWWW], dolfin trainer.
So, even though i've thought of all these wonderfull things i'd like to do i'm still undecided. I still think that the econamic climate is unsettled and employers are still being carefull, too carefull if you ask me.
I know what ever i put my mind too i will achive it, i told someone once that i really wanted to go diving and they said it was just a pipe dream that i would never achive, well i fucking showed you didnt i. Went and dived the Zenobia init blad.
So i think i best draw to an end as im sure youve had enough. I feel better for writing this, the wall feels one less step away now. But it has been hit i will not deny that, i sometimes wonder what i'll think when i read this in a years time, problably be like ''jeeze i moaned like a bitch, why did people read this''
3.2
Song - Massive Attack vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Teardrops Under The Bridge
Mood - Fuck this, i want to be a pirate. ahhhhhhrrrrrrrr!
6th and 15th
15-8-10
Well as time slowley grinds to a halt in the land of falk...i write yet another post. slightly tired, been working for a number of days of which i dont care to remember. And my roommate insists on keeping me up with his vulgar snoring to the point of me shouting his name a few times till he stops, Its really starting to piss me off now. I hope i dont have to resort to throwing the boot, size 12's tend to hurt.
Well ive got around 8 weeks left. I've missed the english summer and had a 12 month winter was it fun? NO. Was it worth it? NO. Would i come here again? NO. Will I enjoy the cash? Indeed i will.
This whole tour is a big learning curve really, I just dont know what i'm ment to be learning.
I've narrowed my future jobs down to 3, diving instructor(ive wanted to do this for a while, every since cyprus), Computing- few areas in this one, Systems analyst, ethical hacker, networking), and if i need more qualls for them then i would go for dog handler.
Michelle asked me last night where i would be in 5 years jobwise. I really didnt have the fogiest to be honest, i mean would you? literally anything could change and happen in that time. I live day to day not year to year. I go with the flow. as i find it a hell of a lot easier than being dispointed and frustrated.
Well ive been on earlies and im starting to nod off (already ''Ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp'ed on the blog once) so gonna try wake up. Maybe watch a film.
Musicings - 3oh!3 - beaumont / Pendulum - watercolour
M00d - Tired, increasingly bored, slighly stabby
6.2
6-8-10
Well i feel compelled to write another blog. Since i came off nights i've not really slept well, ontop of that i picked a big box of grated cheese up and have done something to my back not sure what but it doesnt feel good. I eventually get to sleep but not as much as i would like. Any how i had a really wierd dream last night cant really remember much of it but i know it was wiered.
Work has been well the same really, no change, same shit. Had an easy day today, was a ''function'' 50 people for curry, 40 people for chilli. 8 hours.... Was told to make the chilli super hot, so i did. It was so hot that it burnt through 2 metal spoons. (really? No not really) But it was damn hot anyhow.
Passed my fitness test finally, In the process ive gained a cold 6 pack(of Dr Pepper). Gonna keep up with it but not go over board and become a meat head.
We've had snow here, 4 days it fell for, side ways, round ways, down ways. And when it eventually stopped the sun came out, which was nice, apart from the snow stayed, even with the blazing sun, got up to about 16 degrees aswell but still it stayed. Its gone now, Im getting slightly tired of snow.
blah
Well as time slowley grinds to a halt in the land of falk...i write yet another post. slightly tired, been working for a number of days of which i dont care to remember. And my roommate insists on keeping me up with his vulgar snoring to the point of me shouting his name a few times till he stops, Its really starting to piss me off now. I hope i dont have to resort to throwing the boot, size 12's tend to hurt.
Well ive got around 8 weeks left. I've missed the english summer and had a 12 month winter was it fun? NO. Was it worth it? NO. Would i come here again? NO. Will I enjoy the cash? Indeed i will.
This whole tour is a big learning curve really, I just dont know what i'm ment to be learning.
I've narrowed my future jobs down to 3, diving instructor(ive wanted to do this for a while, every since cyprus), Computing- few areas in this one, Systems analyst, ethical hacker, networking), and if i need more qualls for them then i would go for dog handler.
Michelle asked me last night where i would be in 5 years jobwise. I really didnt have the fogiest to be honest, i mean would you? literally anything could change and happen in that time. I live day to day not year to year. I go with the flow. as i find it a hell of a lot easier than being dispointed and frustrated.
Well ive been on earlies and im starting to nod off (already ''Ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp'ed on the blog once) so gonna try wake up. Maybe watch a film.
Musicings - 3oh!3 - beaumont / Pendulum - watercolour
M00d - Tired, increasingly bored, slighly stabby
6.2
6-8-10
Well i feel compelled to write another blog. Since i came off nights i've not really slept well, ontop of that i picked a big box of grated cheese up and have done something to my back not sure what but it doesnt feel good. I eventually get to sleep but not as much as i would like. Any how i had a really wierd dream last night cant really remember much of it but i know it was wiered.
Work has been well the same really, no change, same shit. Had an easy day today, was a ''function'' 50 people for curry, 40 people for chilli. 8 hours.... Was told to make the chilli super hot, so i did. It was so hot that it burnt through 2 metal spoons. (really? No not really) But it was damn hot anyhow.
Passed my fitness test finally, In the process ive gained a cold 6 pack(of Dr Pepper). Gonna keep up with it but not go over board and become a meat head.
We've had snow here, 4 days it fell for, side ways, round ways, down ways. And when it eventually stopped the sun came out, which was nice, apart from the snow stayed, even with the blazing sun, got up to about 16 degrees aswell but still it stayed. Its gone now, Im getting slightly tired of snow.
blah
Thursday, 22 July 2010
21st
Well i thought that i best do an update just so you wouldnt think im dead. So there you are i might not be dead in the literal sence but i am dead bored. This place is gonna be the end of my cheffing days in the army, its more like a food factory here than an cook house. The one reason i joined up was to get away from the factory and fast food sector. But i seemed to have just stepped into another one.
I was hoping being out here i might have been able to get some education done, mainly on the computer side of things, but the ECDL suite has been down and out of action since last october, you would think that it would be fixed in a matter of monthes rather than nearly a year. So with that out of the window im just gonna have to wait till i get back to uk and get my shizzle on there.
RnR was great, got to see my family again, bar Matt who is sunning it up in cornwall before he becomes a GI (General issue, you can blame paul for that one) Yep thats right he's joing up in october and with the job thats he's managed to get him self he should have many years of great service. Any how on with the rnr, first i managed to get myself a hire car 8 hours before i should have, 1.8 magané and it flew, really nice car to drive. Got home nice to finally see some friendly yorkshire faces, went to staithes with michelle for a few days, really nice there. Got a pokey little cottage that i had to keep bending down in to get through doors. Apart from the shower that boiled your skin off it was really nice, got to hunt for some fossels too which was fun, im sure michelle enjoyed smashing rocks up too,(even though she will not admit it even though she started it...)
Really didnt want to come back to the MP of mother fucking A but i had too. Only 3 months more i guessed, Not soo bad once i got a good look at the shiney pennies building up in my bank accounts. Not much to report here really, i brought my guitar back with me which im glad i did, i can finally get my freak on with some GuitaRage. My finger tips are really hating me right now but i feel better for the rocking out. On the line of music i bought a Bose sound dock for my iPod, my las one was getting abit tinny and beat up, jeeze am i glad i spent a few hundred on this thing, its the beastyest dock ive ever heard, its not much to look at, no screen or built in buttons but the sound quality it puts out is mind blowing and it packs a hard punching bass line, 4 times i got told to turn it down in the kitchen, oops.
So ive got 2 and i bit months left here, I need a time machine, or a blunt rusty spoon to claw my eyeballs out. Some days seem fast and some really slow and some just bullshitty and cack. Luckly i brought some more films out with me, i likes the A Team. Made me laugh.
Im on nights for a week as of monday, that should be fun seeing as i cant usually sleep during day. By day 3 im gonna be like a chipmonk on speed.
Well as you can tell i've run out of things to say.
Goodnight...
Dan The Veg Man
SOAD - Sugar (the first system song i ever heard. Thanks andy)
Mood - Tired, witty, shitty, bill bo baggins stylé.
8.2
Hi to my family, michelle and the canadian chapter of the blood line, booooo to you, rasta style, lolwhut??
''can you say brain washing? b b b b brain washingggga''
Is it strange that i want a mini samuri sword as a letter opener? No? Didnt think so.
Oh before i forget i had a really wierd dream, can only remember a few seconds or so but i was convinced i was living in Australia....Whats that all about, eh? All day i was thinking about it. Why? Beats me.
I was hoping being out here i might have been able to get some education done, mainly on the computer side of things, but the ECDL suite has been down and out of action since last october, you would think that it would be fixed in a matter of monthes rather than nearly a year. So with that out of the window im just gonna have to wait till i get back to uk and get my shizzle on there.
RnR was great, got to see my family again, bar Matt who is sunning it up in cornwall before he becomes a GI (General issue, you can blame paul for that one) Yep thats right he's joing up in october and with the job thats he's managed to get him self he should have many years of great service. Any how on with the rnr, first i managed to get myself a hire car 8 hours before i should have, 1.8 magané and it flew, really nice car to drive. Got home nice to finally see some friendly yorkshire faces, went to staithes with michelle for a few days, really nice there. Got a pokey little cottage that i had to keep bending down in to get through doors. Apart from the shower that boiled your skin off it was really nice, got to hunt for some fossels too which was fun, im sure michelle enjoyed smashing rocks up too,(even though she will not admit it even though she started it...)
Really didnt want to come back to the MP of mother fucking A but i had too. Only 3 months more i guessed, Not soo bad once i got a good look at the shiney pennies building up in my bank accounts. Not much to report here really, i brought my guitar back with me which im glad i did, i can finally get my freak on with some GuitaRage. My finger tips are really hating me right now but i feel better for the rocking out. On the line of music i bought a Bose sound dock for my iPod, my las one was getting abit tinny and beat up, jeeze am i glad i spent a few hundred on this thing, its the beastyest dock ive ever heard, its not much to look at, no screen or built in buttons but the sound quality it puts out is mind blowing and it packs a hard punching bass line, 4 times i got told to turn it down in the kitchen, oops.
So ive got 2 and i bit months left here, I need a time machine, or a blunt rusty spoon to claw my eyeballs out. Some days seem fast and some really slow and some just bullshitty and cack. Luckly i brought some more films out with me, i likes the A Team. Made me laugh.
Im on nights for a week as of monday, that should be fun seeing as i cant usually sleep during day. By day 3 im gonna be like a chipmonk on speed.
Well as you can tell i've run out of things to say.
Goodnight...
Dan The Veg Man
SOAD - Sugar (the first system song i ever heard. Thanks andy)
Mood - Tired, witty, shitty, bill bo baggins stylé.
8.2
Hi to my family, michelle and the canadian chapter of the blood line, booooo to you, rasta style, lolwhut??
''can you say brain washing? b b b b brain washingggga''
Is it strange that i want a mini samuri sword as a letter opener? No? Didnt think so.
Oh before i forget i had a really wierd dream, can only remember a few seconds or so but i was convinced i was living in Australia....Whats that all about, eh? All day i was thinking about it. Why? Beats me.
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Sunday, 23 May 2010
23rd
Slow week, Training day wasnt really training as i was told. It was actually an excersice which slightly annoys me as i didnt take all the kit i should have, but it didnt matter anyway, i got lucky all i did was pick some rifles up and sit around in a hanger all day while the other people sat around and walked, stood guard, drove, patroled.....lucky eh?
Work is going ok, like i say alot better than MPA making decent food that tastes reasonable.
After ''training'' i went rock climbing with some of the instructers from hillside, was good to get back onto a wall. Not climbed in a long time so took a while to get loose. But i got there and pushed the boundries. Its crazy how youve got to be on your toes all the time, i let my mind slip for one second while i was belaying one of the guys and he fell off, in a split second he was coming down the wall, luckly instincts kicked and i locked the rope off in time, but the sudden stop caused me to fly quarter way up the wall, the other guy was almost touching the ground. Luckly nothing broken, no one hurt. I appologised and he said ''no worries, it happens. Sometimes it takes things like this to remind you of things, things that you already know but have forgotten'' Its true, people become lazy in there ways or rely on othere. I thought because this guy was an instructer he knew his limits and woundn't fall. Which make you think alot. or it does me anyway. Boundries are ment to be broken and pushed, bent and reshaped. Or else we would just live in a boring one track world. Rock climbing is one thing i would love to get back into, profectionally. Maybe one day..... I remember how much fun i used to have back before i joined the forces rock climbing, nothing serious all for the laughs. Pushing when you wanted too.
So i recently found out that if i did my bike licence here i can transfer it to my uk licence later on and hold a full uk bike licence, Which is great considering you do it all on a 125 bike around stanley the sleepy little port... Bargin £150 in total including bike, training and test. Why the hell not i suppose, i'll use it one day, still got my old bike locked up in a garage at home should run with some clean petrol, sell that and buy something bigger.
Well that about it really, ploughing through battlestar at a fast pace, was on guard friday night and watched a whole season. With it being a friday night i knew i wouldnt get much sleep anyway so i though what the hell. Stay up and burn away the hours. I was day off saturday so it wasnt like i needed the sleep to do anything. I am totally suprised that i didnt end up about being attacted by cylons in my sleep...strange your thinking i know.
Sometimes i wonder what it would be like to live in a different time. In the past, just to experience what life was like back then, the music, the ways of life, the smells of the city. When money was actually worth something and you had to work hard for it.
Off to stick a film on now in the mess. laters x
Mood- Relaxed, happy
Song- Little Boot - Remedy (shes on the telle box and there is something about her)
9.3
Work is going ok, like i say alot better than MPA making decent food that tastes reasonable.
After ''training'' i went rock climbing with some of the instructers from hillside, was good to get back onto a wall. Not climbed in a long time so took a while to get loose. But i got there and pushed the boundries. Its crazy how youve got to be on your toes all the time, i let my mind slip for one second while i was belaying one of the guys and he fell off, in a split second he was coming down the wall, luckly instincts kicked and i locked the rope off in time, but the sudden stop caused me to fly quarter way up the wall, the other guy was almost touching the ground. Luckly nothing broken, no one hurt. I appologised and he said ''no worries, it happens. Sometimes it takes things like this to remind you of things, things that you already know but have forgotten'' Its true, people become lazy in there ways or rely on othere. I thought because this guy was an instructer he knew his limits and woundn't fall. Which make you think alot. or it does me anyway. Boundries are ment to be broken and pushed, bent and reshaped. Or else we would just live in a boring one track world. Rock climbing is one thing i would love to get back into, profectionally. Maybe one day..... I remember how much fun i used to have back before i joined the forces rock climbing, nothing serious all for the laughs. Pushing when you wanted too.
So i recently found out that if i did my bike licence here i can transfer it to my uk licence later on and hold a full uk bike licence, Which is great considering you do it all on a 125 bike around stanley the sleepy little port... Bargin £150 in total including bike, training and test. Why the hell not i suppose, i'll use it one day, still got my old bike locked up in a garage at home should run with some clean petrol, sell that and buy something bigger.
Well that about it really, ploughing through battlestar at a fast pace, was on guard friday night and watched a whole season. With it being a friday night i knew i wouldnt get much sleep anyway so i though what the hell. Stay up and burn away the hours. I was day off saturday so it wasnt like i needed the sleep to do anything. I am totally suprised that i didnt end up about being attacted by cylons in my sleep...strange your thinking i know.
Sometimes i wonder what it would be like to live in a different time. In the past, just to experience what life was like back then, the music, the ways of life, the smells of the city. When money was actually worth something and you had to work hard for it.
Off to stick a film on now in the mess. laters x
Mood- Relaxed, happy
Song- Little Boot - Remedy (shes on the telle box and there is something about her)
9.3
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