July 12, 2007
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This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know!)
I was hoping the robes would be cooler… I was hoping for real hoods and not silly loops of red and silver that keep falling off your shoulders… I was even hoping the mortar boards wouldn’t look as silly as they do… To be honest I felt like a douche-bag… but here we are. Graduated!
Laugh it up, fuzzball! Anyway, we did the thing… sat in a large hall for a good couple of hours waiting for our moment to drift across the stage in our dorky-looking outfits with our fake diplomas in hand (real ones are in the post!) to shake the hand of the Supreme Chancellor (or something like that) and listen to a bit of music and a lot of talking! It wasn’t really as boring as I’d been expecting and the day did give us the chance to get together and say our farewells to Amano Sensei! A weird mixture of relief and sadness…
Our class, a class no more. (Yann still had his robes on cos he was half an hour late turning up to the post-grad shin-dig and we’d all ditched them by then!) Incidentally I’ve nicked these photos from Kate’s Facebook as I had no digi-cam of my own! She has more where these came from… I’ll put more pics up on my photoblog as soon as I can get hold of them. And Amano Sensei was right about my UCLan Fencing Club-awarded tie. It doesn’t work with my suit. Whatever! Like I’m some fashion-stuff-know-about guy…!?
I know I’ve been late in updating here but life is just kinda boring right now. Except, well, the Interac job! Most of you will know already but I’ve got the Interac job. I’ve signed the paperwork and am just waiting to hear about my placement and when I’ll head out. It’s still not guaranteed but I am being put forward for a spot in Nagoya and I reeeeeeaaally hope I get it! It’ll just make travel and seeing people way easier being in/near a city with a Shinkansen and airport and… it’s Nagoya! I don’t know anymore than this at present which is why I’ve held off updating about it but most of ya’ll seem to know now anyway. I just don’t like getting too excited until it’s all signed, sealed and delivered, ya know?
So other than that I’ve been cinema-ing this week. Missed out on the Spiderman + Pirates of the Caribbean double whammy due to that whole annoying Final-Year-At-Uni business but just caught Die Hard 4 (point oh) and Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix! Verdicts? Die Hard: good, old school, smash-mouth action movie! Nice banter, good fun… and a pretty cool French Parkeur-mercenary character! Harry Potter 5: Very good. Extremely good, I’d say. For me, the best one so far. OK, let’s get the old reviewers cliche out the way first; “it was darker than the previous one!” Yeah. Everything’s always “darker than the previous one…!” But, ermm… it was. Inevitably it loses a lot by having to condense a 700-and-something page book into a film of around 2 and a half hours but it pulled off the core plot really well. As well as could be expected, considering the amount of cutting that had to be done. And the Death Eaters looked really cool! But ultimately it really pulled off the book’s themes of paranoia, government and media spin-doctoring and battling oppression… And, of course, the stuff that really moves my INFP soul; all that loyalty, integrity, love and friendship stuff! Looking forward to Transformers now…!
Graduation, job-related news and brief and unnecessary film reviews aside, that’s all for now. I’m planning a photo-laden mega update some day soon… just as soon as Nathan and I can get out with a digi-cam! Later people! Oh and… Kate drew this for my Graffiti Wall on Facebook. It literally made me “lol!” (Feels nice being the drawee instead of the drawer…) Peace Out!
Comments (22)
i take it you guys didn’t have your light sabers with you, either, did you? oh well, at least you’re all graduated and official and stuff. and at least you had a graduation ceremony! i missed mine >_<
yes, yellowcard DOES have a new album! i’ll upload some to my audio thingy later on.
in reply to your comment about my bullets…. dave, you’re a retard. summer break ends in late august. i probably won’t get to see calex before then, and i won’t be seeing you until september, right? so shut yer face!
told you the hoods were purely ornamental and not functional.
no, the tie doesn’t work.
nice picture from kate.
Tiff says transformers was cool.
looking forward to seeing you soon.
Congrats all’round!!
Grats, you have joined the ranks of the Bacheliers(?)
I must say my robes were cooler…
However I havent got my pictures yet.
I’m sure I still look like a douche with the mortar (WTF is up with that? Who in their right head would think up something like that? “Hey, let’s invent a hat with some sort of platform on top and an annoying little frill that gets in your eyes!”. At least if it had some use.. I dont know.. Dwarf waiters. They could carry platters on their heads. or stuff., Anyways.)
I’ve been contacted by my JET predecessor, so maybe I’ll post info on that later. If I can get off my lazy ass for a minute.
“Bachelier” as in a erson having obtained a bachelor’s degree…
What “Vibe”?
Transformers is effing-A awesome, if you ignore the neurotic main squishie.
omedetou gozaimasu =D
Looking sharp!
Fingers crossed for your Nagoya placement!
i do think they’re cool. i’ve always been envious of people who can draw…i have an artists soul (infj, here), but i can barely draw stick people so i just stick to words. well done, though.
it’s rare finding another guy who appreciates harry potter, so forgive my excitement. order of the phoenix was definitely my favorite of the films so far and i was glad to hear that the same director is doing half-blood prince. as for the book, i’ve always been excited about it, but it didn’t really hit me until yesterday that i would have the book in my hands by this weekend! haha. and your description was perfect…a mixture of excitement and sadness…exactly. so my support to you as well.
i haven’t seen transformers yet, but heard it was amazing.
very nice to meet you, too, dave. i’m chris, 24 next month, and a wannabe brit. haha. i don’t know…all my favorite authors and actors and musicians are british. otherwise i’m from the heartland of america, where all the hicks and cowboys come from. i, too, like a lot of geeky things and people tend to get a little confused when they try to describe me. the consensus is generally “mental,” but there’s also some “emo” and “neurotic” thrown in on occasion for good measure.
i did see your mention of being an infp in your post. we infj’s are kinda rare, so it was kinda cool that matt and i stumbled across each other on xanga. please forgive my pseudo-stalkerishness, but i’ve also added you on facebook.
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave
I’m glad things are going so great for you–and that’s a pretty sweet drawing too:)!
tom petty?
and yes, it is the hardest part. what’s worse is that i have to work until five on saturday so it’s probably going to be sitting on my doorstep all lonely before i can come home to it.
not quite fantasy–there’s quite a bit of tedium, but i’m still extremely happy about it. and everyone keeps asking for chocolate. haha. fantasy would include swooning girls, i think. still none of those yet.
so what do you do, mr. dave?
meh?
*pokes head tentatively around corner*
you’re absolutely right… kris (my coworker) has never read a potter and you hit the nail on the head there. people should just find out for themselves what they like and don’t like instead of making rash judgments. that’s a really big pet peeve of mine, and not just with harry potter.
i agree with your first theory entirely. gut instinct.
you’re probably right about the second, but i’m hesitant to agree. assuming that he is a horcrux, this means that harry would probably have to die in the end. while this would be very noble and good, it’s another gut instinct that i don’t think he’s going to die. it’s a weaker instinct, perhaps, and probably biased, but i don’t know. because the lightning bolt and love are both symbols of the fifth element (aether) in classical chemistry, i tend to think that the scar has a somewhat higher significance. we’ll find out, i guess.
do you get yours tonight? mine’s coming via amazon tomorrow and i’ll jump in when i get off work. eh. just because we’re sheep it doesn’t mean we’re nerds. no, we’re the cool kids, see? the in-crowd. or at least we can tell ourselves that.
happy reading.
It’s great that you found a way to go to Japan anyway! Interac seems good! But it also sound like the way we pay with our bank card isnt it? Maybe its only here hihi. COngrats on the graduation!!! banzai!
reactionary cynicism–i didn’t know what the name was! haha. learn something new…
so have you finished it? i finished last night and i’m eager to hear what you think, but i’m not going to say anything in case you or your visitors haven’t. not a fan of spoilers, even in the smallest degree.
oh, and which favorite book were you referring to?
EY!
i hope everything works out!
19 comments not good enough for you, ya greedy pig?! you need more comments before you decide it’s time to post again? you’re such a jerk!
Hey… my xanga totally neglected to send me this update… Now I have to settle for a very, very late comment… Um.. at least the graduation gear was in your colors?
Oh, and I am extremely weirded out by long-haired Kate. How dare her appearance change slightly in the year+ since I’ve seen her last!
aww, ya’ll look so cute! wow, kate’s hair is long, it’s pretty ^_^