NaBloPoMo Post #13: Liverpool and why I miss it
[NaBloPoMo Post #13: 16th November 2008]
Hi folks, I’m back from Liverpool! I had such a fantastic weekend and I am more than a little sad to have to leave to come back up to lonely Scotland :( I met up with loads of friends and had a lot of fun, and the Liverpool Anime Society J-Pop Disco all went okay too. The Guild of Students screwed us over like I had predicted and hadn’t given us any cables with which to plug the laptop into the sound system, but that was okay because I came prepared with CD-Rs! So it was just a case of whopping the music onto those and then ta-da, we had musics to dance away to until the tech guy turned up with the cable an hour later. So it was all good! I didn’t do as much dancing as I would have liked - when I dance and have things to drink I come down with the worst indigestion every time - but I still had a blast nonetheless, because I was putting on stuff like the Katamari Damacy theme and the Numa Numa dance. Much lol-age watching people going crazy dancing to them XD
Things I miss about Liverpool #1: Being able to hum the Leekspin song or Caramelldansen and have the people I’m usually with either go “NUUUUU” or do the dance :P
The weekend went by so quickly -I don’t think I ever really stopped! The next day we went to the new LiverpoolOne shopping centre, which was still being built and was only half-open when I had left back in the summer. They have loads of great food places there, they’ve got a wagamama and a Yo!sushi, and a burrito place and lots of other awesome food-stuffs. Had a mooch around, tried to get the nosepieces on my glasses replaced and frickin’ opticians tried to charge me £8! EIGHT QUID! For two bits of bloody silicone! Bloody opticians, always out to rip you off, all of them, much hatred =_= It was a pretty late lunch we had, as I was staying at Fi’s and needless to say I was up late chatting to people, being shown wonderful craziness on Youtube or spamming people on MSN. And abusing ninja15 on the phone, yay :D Which meant late starts most mornings - so by the time we finished lunch it was time to go back to get ready for the LAS screening.
Things I miss about Liverpool #2: LAS. I know most of our crowd have gone, but I was sooo happy to see Barry and Nat, and to glomp Rik and Neen and people. I have missed the general craziness that goes with LAS. I can’t wait till the allnighter this year :D
They showed Trigun! I’d forgotten how awesome Trigun is :D Then I left because I was trundling down to Mei Mei’s to meet Kev, Viv, Jackie, Chloe and Dan. I was still full from Wagamama’s but I had crabmeat and sweetcorn soup at Mei Mei’s and it was tasty. Viv’s going back to China today for two months - I shall miss her! *glomp*
Things I miss about Liverpool #3: Mass bitchfests with all of you guys! Heehee, me, Chloe, Jackie and Dan were putting the world to rights, that we were :D
The next day I went into town and did some shopping. I was supposed to go to the fabric shop to get calico and scope out the fabric range for this year’s cosplay projects but I never actually made it there at all for various reasons. I went into Lewis’ first and got me a gorgeous red top for £3, reduced from £18! Then I met up with Chloe and Jackie in the Egg Café for lunch. The Egg Café is a little vegetarian café tucked away behind Rapid Hardware and even if you’re not a vegetarian it’s a really good place to go to - I’ve always wanted to go there since Jackie and Chloe mentioned it and I’m so glad we did because it was the best cheese on toast I’ve ever had, and I also ate an interesting combination of lentil and apricot soup which was actually delicious!
After that we went for a mooch around the shops and I bought some fantastic ladybird socks from Primark, and some wooden tree decorations from Paperchase. I had to get the little painted wooden stars. Because, FUKO-CHAN ;_; (Only people who have seen Clannad will understand why Fuko-chan = ;____;)
Things I miss about Liverpool #4: Cheap shops and little cafes! I love going for a mooch around the shops in Liverpool. You never know what you’re going to find. I think I’ll need to go back for a week next time so I can visit all the shops I wanna go to XD
And I never made it to the fabric shop because by the time we’d eaten and been around the other shops it was too late to go, really.
So after that I met up with LAS peeps for dinner at Pizza Hut, and we went to see the new Bond movie, Quantum Solace.
Who else has seen it, and who else thinks that the opening song is absolutely terrible and the opening animations are like a Windows Media Player visualisation gone wrong? And dude, how many forms of transport can you incorporate as a chase into a single film? The only thing missing was one on a train - we had cars, planes and boats already! The rest of the film wasn’t too bad, though WHERE WAS Q?!?!!?! A whole film with no Q! I was sad D:
And for the record, Daniel Craig’s head is still too small for the rest of his body. Ever since Wai San pointed it out to me when we watched Casino Royale I have been unable to shake this fact from my head! I suspect the whole film is in fact filmed using a body builder and they photoshopped Daniel Craig’s head onto it in every frame. Srsly.
Things I miss about Liverpool #5: Having people to go to the cinema with. And just generally being able to phone people up and say "Hey, what are you doing tonight, wanna do such and such?"
The next day it was the day I was going home! I actually spent most of the morning in the house as Fi’s Dad was coming and we were going out for lunch. I helped Fi load up the car and then we trundled into town and had lunch at Café 53 which was very nice indeed, though for once I did not have one of their delicious milkshakes. You know that feeling, when it’s blue skies and you just really fancy a lemonade? So I had a lemonade. The service took a while because they kept forgetting about us! So by the time we finished lunch it was nearly half three and my train left at four, so I went to Worlds Apart (and bought nothing, because Dear God, they have put the prices up by such crazy amounts! They were wanting £7 for a teeny weeny Mokona keyring which I would have totally bought if it’d been £3. Ridiculous!) and that was about it. I’ll have to order calico off the internet, which is probably cheaper anyways XD
The train home was pretty boring. And I had a really embarrassing moment - the loos on Virgin trains have two buttons, one to shut the door and another to lock it. I thought I’d pressed them both but it turned out I hadn’t pressed the lock button because this old chav guy opened up the door and there I was sitting on the loo! And the fucking git, instead of closing the door he just stood there and laughed at me so I had to get up and press the shut door button myself. It was so embarrassing - I’m just glad it was on a train and I’ll never see that asshat again. But the otherwise boring shitty journey was brightened up by a completely geeky moment on my part, which I shall share so you can laugh and say how sad I am.
There was a Chinese guy in the aisle seat across from me who was watching Gundam00 on his laptop!! I was all excited and texted Fi who was like “Talk to him!” but I suddenly felt really embarrassed as he was pretty engrossed in the episode and I didn’t want to interrupt him, so I texted Fi some more and between us we figured out that he was watching season two and it was the episode that had come out today XD Then the conductor guy came for our tickets and I finally took the chance to say to Chinese guy “Hey, that’s a good series!” He just said “Oh yeah” and went back to watching it. So much for that! But he got off at my stop too, hurrah! So yes, that is my geektastic moment for the day, discovering that there is another anime fan in this town even though he wouldn’t actually talk to me :P
So now I am back up here and I am feeling a little morose because it is all quiet and I have nobody to talk to again D: Going back to Liverpool has just reminded me that I hide such a large part of myself up here and that I really don’t have any close friends. Most of the time it’s bearable but I guess coming back to visit reminds me of what I’m missing out on by not being a student anymore. I know you can’t be a student forever and that nearly all my friends who are in Liverpool will eventually graduate and go on to get jobs just like I have. I suppose it’s more the things I did as a student that I miss, and the time I had to spend with people. Going back to Smithdown and waiting at the bus stop by ASDA reminded me of first year, going there with bags of shopping to take back to Halls or to the Guild for some LAS event, or over to Sefton Park for a picnic
*sigh* I must stop now, or I really will start getting miserable. Gotta think about the future! At least I do still have all these fantastic people to go back and visit - it makes life up here just that little bit easier :)
Hi folks, I’m back from Liverpool! I had such a fantastic weekend and I am more than a little sad to have to leave to come back up to lonely Scotland :( I met up with loads of friends and had a lot of fun, and the Liverpool Anime Society J-Pop Disco all went okay too. The Guild of Students screwed us over like I had predicted and hadn’t given us any cables with which to plug the laptop into the sound system, but that was okay because I came prepared with CD-Rs! So it was just a case of whopping the music onto those and then ta-da, we had musics to dance away to until the tech guy turned up with the cable an hour later. So it was all good! I didn’t do as much dancing as I would have liked - when I dance and have things to drink I come down with the worst indigestion every time - but I still had a blast nonetheless, because I was putting on stuff like the Katamari Damacy theme and the Numa Numa dance. Much lol-age watching people going crazy dancing to them XD
Things I miss about Liverpool #1: Being able to hum the Leekspin song or Caramelldansen and have the people I’m usually with either go “NUUUUU” or do the dance :P
The weekend went by so quickly -I don’t think I ever really stopped! The next day we went to the new LiverpoolOne shopping centre, which was still being built and was only half-open when I had left back in the summer. They have loads of great food places there, they’ve got a wagamama and a Yo!sushi, and a burrito place and lots of other awesome food-stuffs. Had a mooch around, tried to get the nosepieces on my glasses replaced and frickin’ opticians tried to charge me £8! EIGHT QUID! For two bits of bloody silicone! Bloody opticians, always out to rip you off, all of them, much hatred =_= It was a pretty late lunch we had, as I was staying at Fi’s and needless to say I was up late chatting to people, being shown wonderful craziness on Youtube or spamming people on MSN. And abusing ninja15 on the phone, yay :D Which meant late starts most mornings - so by the time we finished lunch it was time to go back to get ready for the LAS screening.
Things I miss about Liverpool #2: LAS. I know most of our crowd have gone, but I was sooo happy to see Barry and Nat, and to glomp Rik and Neen and people. I have missed the general craziness that goes with LAS. I can’t wait till the allnighter this year :D
They showed Trigun! I’d forgotten how awesome Trigun is :D Then I left because I was trundling down to Mei Mei’s to meet Kev, Viv, Jackie, Chloe and Dan. I was still full from Wagamama’s but I had crabmeat and sweetcorn soup at Mei Mei’s and it was tasty. Viv’s going back to China today for two months - I shall miss her! *glomp*
Things I miss about Liverpool #3: Mass bitchfests with all of you guys! Heehee, me, Chloe, Jackie and Dan were putting the world to rights, that we were :D
The next day I went into town and did some shopping. I was supposed to go to the fabric shop to get calico and scope out the fabric range for this year’s cosplay projects but I never actually made it there at all for various reasons. I went into Lewis’ first and got me a gorgeous red top for £3, reduced from £18! Then I met up with Chloe and Jackie in the Egg Café for lunch. The Egg Café is a little vegetarian café tucked away behind Rapid Hardware and even if you’re not a vegetarian it’s a really good place to go to - I’ve always wanted to go there since Jackie and Chloe mentioned it and I’m so glad we did because it was the best cheese on toast I’ve ever had, and I also ate an interesting combination of lentil and apricot soup which was actually delicious!
After that we went for a mooch around the shops and I bought some fantastic ladybird socks from Primark, and some wooden tree decorations from Paperchase. I had to get the little painted wooden stars. Because, FUKO-CHAN ;_; (Only people who have seen Clannad will understand why Fuko-chan = ;____;)
Things I miss about Liverpool #4: Cheap shops and little cafes! I love going for a mooch around the shops in Liverpool. You never know what you’re going to find. I think I’ll need to go back for a week next time so I can visit all the shops I wanna go to XD
And I never made it to the fabric shop because by the time we’d eaten and been around the other shops it was too late to go, really.
So after that I met up with LAS peeps for dinner at Pizza Hut, and we went to see the new Bond movie, Quantum Solace.
Who else has seen it, and who else thinks that the opening song is absolutely terrible and the opening animations are like a Windows Media Player visualisation gone wrong? And dude, how many forms of transport can you incorporate as a chase into a single film? The only thing missing was one on a train - we had cars, planes and boats already! The rest of the film wasn’t too bad, though WHERE WAS Q?!?!!?! A whole film with no Q! I was sad D:
And for the record, Daniel Craig’s head is still too small for the rest of his body. Ever since Wai San pointed it out to me when we watched Casino Royale I have been unable to shake this fact from my head! I suspect the whole film is in fact filmed using a body builder and they photoshopped Daniel Craig’s head onto it in every frame. Srsly.
Things I miss about Liverpool #5: Having people to go to the cinema with. And just generally being able to phone people up and say "Hey, what are you doing tonight, wanna do such and such?"
The next day it was the day I was going home! I actually spent most of the morning in the house as Fi’s Dad was coming and we were going out for lunch. I helped Fi load up the car and then we trundled into town and had lunch at Café 53 which was very nice indeed, though for once I did not have one of their delicious milkshakes. You know that feeling, when it’s blue skies and you just really fancy a lemonade? So I had a lemonade. The service took a while because they kept forgetting about us! So by the time we finished lunch it was nearly half three and my train left at four, so I went to Worlds Apart (and bought nothing, because Dear God, they have put the prices up by such crazy amounts! They were wanting £7 for a teeny weeny Mokona keyring which I would have totally bought if it’d been £3. Ridiculous!) and that was about it. I’ll have to order calico off the internet, which is probably cheaper anyways XD
The train home was pretty boring. And I had a really embarrassing moment - the loos on Virgin trains have two buttons, one to shut the door and another to lock it. I thought I’d pressed them both but it turned out I hadn’t pressed the lock button because this old chav guy opened up the door and there I was sitting on the loo! And the fucking git, instead of closing the door he just stood there and laughed at me so I had to get up and press the shut door button myself. It was so embarrassing - I’m just glad it was on a train and I’ll never see that asshat again. But the otherwise boring shitty journey was brightened up by a completely geeky moment on my part, which I shall share so you can laugh and say how sad I am.
There was a Chinese guy in the aisle seat across from me who was watching Gundam00 on his laptop!! I was all excited and texted Fi who was like “Talk to him!” but I suddenly felt really embarrassed as he was pretty engrossed in the episode and I didn’t want to interrupt him, so I texted Fi some more and between us we figured out that he was watching season two and it was the episode that had come out today XD Then the conductor guy came for our tickets and I finally took the chance to say to Chinese guy “Hey, that’s a good series!” He just said “Oh yeah” and went back to watching it. So much for that! But he got off at my stop too, hurrah! So yes, that is my geektastic moment for the day, discovering that there is another anime fan in this town even though he wouldn’t actually talk to me :P
So now I am back up here and I am feeling a little morose because it is all quiet and I have nobody to talk to again D: Going back to Liverpool has just reminded me that I hide such a large part of myself up here and that I really don’t have any close friends. Most of the time it’s bearable but I guess coming back to visit reminds me of what I’m missing out on by not being a student anymore. I know you can’t be a student forever and that nearly all my friends who are in Liverpool will eventually graduate and go on to get jobs just like I have. I suppose it’s more the things I did as a student that I miss, and the time I had to spend with people. Going back to Smithdown and waiting at the bus stop by ASDA reminded me of first year, going there with bags of shopping to take back to Halls or to the Guild for some LAS event, or over to Sefton Park for a picnic
*sigh* I must stop now, or I really will start getting miserable. Gotta think about the future! At least I do still have all these fantastic people to go back and visit - it makes life up here just that little bit easier :)