Never smoothly

That's the thing around here you know, things Never go smoothly.



Current example:

- I order something by mail, parcel package. 24-hour delivery, with tracking number.
- Mail man comes down to station court, doesn't have the key for the outer gate. Rings my flat via the communication system. I'm out, my flatmate answers.
- Mail man says he has a parcel for me, asks if my flatmate could come and open the door (remote key is broken).
- Flatmate says she'll come down to let him in. By the time she's at the gate the mail man will have left without a trace.
- I check my delivery online, see it should have been delivered, but I wasn't home so they left a 'you where out' card so I can come and pick it up at the local recollection office.
- Now, I've never had any 'you where out' card. Why not? Because the mail man leaves them at the outer gate, not the inner gate, not my block door, not my post box. The outer gate. Hundreds of people pass there every hour, wind, weather. Any card left there will be gone in a matter of hours.
- I ring costumer services, explain, they tell me to go and collect it using my tracking number, ID and proof of adress.
- I walk down the office, just to be told I really need a 'you where out' card. I get a new phone number to ring.
- Go back home, call another sorting center and explain everything. Again.
- After some convincing the guy at the center gets my situation. He will send me a 'you where out' card by mail..

- Now I just have to wait for my mail to come in, take the card, ID and what not. Go to the collection center again and hopefully collect my parcel. If everything goes to plan that is..

This kind of thing happens about every time I get a parcel in the mail. It could be so easy. But instead of receiving it I have to go out and actually hunt down every parcel I should get (that is, if I know I should get one. If I don't I will probably never find out) which takes days.



Same thing with credit cards, direct debits, oyster student cards, flat payments, buying a cell phone, setting up an account, getting an NIN, you name it.
This English bureaucracy, tiring

Powerfull beyond measure

Around the interwebs

• This is as sexy and exciting as it gets in the (geeky) world of electronics.

• Some wisdom spoken by Rocky and others. Seems a bit over the top, but there's truth in it.

Multi-track RnR

I'm not completely happy with it myself, a bit rough on the edges, but well..
Singing and some keyboards done by the alchemea crew and GuilioDJ from Austria. One of the most 'disco' people I know.

Another of my alchemea assignments:


RocknRoll part alchemea by JudasProost
My take on 'Rock n Roll part 2 by garry glitter'

Plans

Ever made one of these?
Scary, I can tell you.

Sinister weekend

Strange weekend, not in any tangible way really, but still.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8671805.stm
(that's where I go jogging)

Yesterday a person in front of the trains at Angel station (a hundred people saw it)
(that's the closest tube station from my college)


Metropolis for you.

Lessons learned in London part XXIV...

-Don't go jogging without checking your oyster card-

Went and got stuck at the gates at seven sisters station. This is quite unlikely, first, my monthly travelcard must have ran out, secondly the leftover top-up on my oyster also must have ran out. All this in between the 1 stop from my flat to the park. Anyway, I had to take the tube back and jog my way home from Finsbury park.. quite a long jog all together.

Part 4

Recently I've entered part 4 of my course, as in 4 being the last part. It's not that I'll be leaving soon because I still have a second three month course waiting for me in September. But still, it's a strange thing to witness time passing by. This course ends end June, not really sure what's exactly gonna happen the months after..

On a minor note: I've managed to lose my jacket. I never-ever part from it because it contains the stuff that I really need, all contained in a little pocket robbers wouldn't find. It all seemed to be a sound plan I had going on until I forgot my jacket on the fence outside of college for a couple of minutes.. gone. Also gone: £15, ID card, credit card, keys to my flat.. you can imagine the things I wished upon myself the following hours.
It took me 2 hours to get into the flat, next I went through the hassle of blocking everything etc.
All done now, too bad I lost the jacket though, it was my favorite.


The fellows have come and are gone again. We had a nice recording session on Friday (until 5am), a good gig on Saturday (though they where pretty tired) an a lesser gig on Sunday. All in all, it's been a satisfying weekend. Photos should follow shortly.

In the meantime, I only have photos of me and W making Jamy Oliver's tomato pasta with meatballs (just like in the movies I'd say). Very nice.

Fellows

Next weekend the months I spend mailing/planning/calling every venue in town will finally result in a coherent event (at least I hope so). So without further ado, Proost Productions and The Fellows present:Will be completed with a recording session on Friday night, nice to catch 2 birds at once.

Full House

I finally battled of the ants and regained control over most of the territory including my laptop..
Actually, I've just been a bit busy, that's all.

I finally got to see some familiar Belgian faces! (After last's week family visits)

(first impressions)
(fitting four people in the common room)

(in the UK, breakfast is something to be taken serious)

That's about it on photos, we had more, but a camera got lost.. actually I'm going to search for it in china town London as we speak. It was great fun, there was a lot of English-speaking going on, something which my flatmates greatly appreciated. As always, over in a flash.
We had a 5 (!) hour pizza 'session' on Sunday, very nice, but a bit on the long side.
Pictures from a previous pizza evening:

(first)

(second)

(dessert, you have not really lived before you've tried this I'd say.. Brazilian dessert-pizza. Needless to say, Italians would kill me)

(excess dough -> bread)

Followed by a day almost without any food, for obvious reasons.


Also, got access to the post production room with the Icon desk and pro tools HD.

(anything you'd want more, really?)

Update: no camera to be found