"From christmas to the Chinese new year.... well, not quite" - Part four: Confessions pt 3
Note: No real confessions here, just seemed as random a collection of things as the "Weird Al" song of the same name.
WRESTLING: I used to be wrestling crazy. Most who read this will already know this. Most of you are probably still wrestling fans or I know you via wrestling. In mid-2002, I totally lost interest in wrestling of any kind until the Real in Memphis messageboard was recommended to me in December 2003 and, even then, it could not reignite the fire for wrestling entirely so I quickly lost interest again.
However, recently, my friend MOJ wanted to go to see the Great Muta wrestle in the York Hall at Bethnal Green. He stayed over, my mum insisted on making him a bacon and egg sandwich the next morning and he went off to London and then home, while I went and bought a Wii instead of a suit. We went to the show where we were meeting up with a few RIMmers. Stew had been staying Steve and Gary turned up out of the blue. Had I known Gary would be there and known that he makes his own bacon, I'd have put in a request. Mo Chatra even turned up. We all sat around, as I felt like a fish out of water and asked lots of silly questions. I don't really do wrestling now. However, everybody was good company. Saw lots of other wrestling people I knew too.
Unfortunately, I missed Donna. Donna is the only wrestling person I didn't meet through wrestling but got chatting to on the internet via one of the old monster Edler/Bagga MSN chats. She was unhappy that I went to a show that she worked and I didn't say hello but I didn't realise she was behind the rugby scrum of people trying to get to the Japanese guys and their gimmick tables.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Speaking of Donna, she and I had a discussion on this one. Did people get intimidated into acting surprised? The vision of Cilla, surrounded by heavies telling Patricia from Cleethorpes "you better be surprised or you'll be swimming in the North Sea with concrete water wings, chuck" is too powerful to ignore. That's forgetting how fixed Blind Date was.
WII: Yes, I bought a Wii. I need to sit down and play it more but Zelda is very hard and I get stuck on what to do next because I don't want to spoil the game by reading an FAQ. I'm also pretty good at Wii Sports and my friend Sean and I have swapped Miis. He now hits number 2 on my baseball roster. His Mii wears a nice bright green jumper.
CAGE RAGE PT 2: Iain and I went to the show in the end. It was good and overall a brilliant experience but was such a long day. I left home at something like 1.15pm so I could make it into London to see some of the rugby. Saw the rugby and then got onto Wembley Park for 3.30. We were told to be there early and a trip to the Wembley Arena box office saw us told to come back at 5. We hit the Torch, a pub about 10 minutes away and watched some of the rugby and chatted about the usual things; MMA, football, going out. Back to Wembley Arena to stand in the rain but finally got awesome tickets and passes to go backstage. Backstage was relatively dull but the show was a decent one. Finally managed to get home at 12.40am, after waiting just shy of half an hour for the last train to Elmers End. Met a guy on the way home. He went to my secondary school but was younger than me and played in a band called Cambian Dawn. If you like prog metal, do a search for them. And no, that's not Dream Theater or Queensryche anymore.
ELITE XC: In the MMA vein, EliteXC is worth checking out. The women's fight is something everybody should watch, especially those with a chauvanistic attitude towards women in sport. They brought it in a big way.
WEST HAM PT 2: Yes, we're surely down. I tried to read my favourite West Ham forum and it was just depressing reading.
Yes, I should be in bed.
WRESTLING: I used to be wrestling crazy. Most who read this will already know this. Most of you are probably still wrestling fans or I know you via wrestling. In mid-2002, I totally lost interest in wrestling of any kind until the Real in Memphis messageboard was recommended to me in December 2003 and, even then, it could not reignite the fire for wrestling entirely so I quickly lost interest again.
However, recently, my friend MOJ wanted to go to see the Great Muta wrestle in the York Hall at Bethnal Green. He stayed over, my mum insisted on making him a bacon and egg sandwich the next morning and he went off to London and then home, while I went and bought a Wii instead of a suit. We went to the show where we were meeting up with a few RIMmers. Stew had been staying Steve and Gary turned up out of the blue. Had I known Gary would be there and known that he makes his own bacon, I'd have put in a request. Mo Chatra even turned up. We all sat around, as I felt like a fish out of water and asked lots of silly questions. I don't really do wrestling now. However, everybody was good company. Saw lots of other wrestling people I knew too.
Unfortunately, I missed Donna. Donna is the only wrestling person I didn't meet through wrestling but got chatting to on the internet via one of the old monster Edler/Bagga MSN chats. She was unhappy that I went to a show that she worked and I didn't say hello but I didn't realise she was behind the rugby scrum of people trying to get to the Japanese guys and their gimmick tables.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Speaking of Donna, she and I had a discussion on this one. Did people get intimidated into acting surprised? The vision of Cilla, surrounded by heavies telling Patricia from Cleethorpes "you better be surprised or you'll be swimming in the North Sea with concrete water wings, chuck" is too powerful to ignore. That's forgetting how fixed Blind Date was.
WII: Yes, I bought a Wii. I need to sit down and play it more but Zelda is very hard and I get stuck on what to do next because I don't want to spoil the game by reading an FAQ. I'm also pretty good at Wii Sports and my friend Sean and I have swapped Miis. He now hits number 2 on my baseball roster. His Mii wears a nice bright green jumper.
CAGE RAGE PT 2: Iain and I went to the show in the end. It was good and overall a brilliant experience but was such a long day. I left home at something like 1.15pm so I could make it into London to see some of the rugby. Saw the rugby and then got onto Wembley Park for 3.30. We were told to be there early and a trip to the Wembley Arena box office saw us told to come back at 5. We hit the Torch, a pub about 10 minutes away and watched some of the rugby and chatted about the usual things; MMA, football, going out. Back to Wembley Arena to stand in the rain but finally got awesome tickets and passes to go backstage. Backstage was relatively dull but the show was a decent one. Finally managed to get home at 12.40am, after waiting just shy of half an hour for the last train to Elmers End. Met a guy on the way home. He went to my secondary school but was younger than me and played in a band called Cambian Dawn. If you like prog metal, do a search for them. And no, that's not Dream Theater or Queensryche anymore.
ELITE XC: In the MMA vein, EliteXC is worth checking out. The women's fight is something everybody should watch, especially those with a chauvanistic attitude towards women in sport. They brought it in a big way.
WEST HAM PT 2: Yes, we're surely down. I tried to read my favourite West Ham forum and it was just depressing reading.
Yes, I should be in bed.