| January 2004 - The month of hope and possibility, with all the unknowns of the coming year which lay ahead, and the plans for another move in the works ... |
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| Click on the thumbnail to see how each game went down ... |
| Date - 13/1/2004 Time - 6:29p.m. Description - Today Harsojo called me up and helped try to fix my computer. We managed to get my speakers working, but my USB has lost all hope, so I have to buy a new one. But YAY I got my speakers working so now I can hear things! It has been so, so hot today - Way too hot to do anything outdoors, so I figured I'd play some chess with Michael Jackson pumping in the background. I am well pleased with this game because there is this set of moves that always bugs me when done against my opener, but in this game I seemed to have discovered a nice counter, so one day when I am old and grey and reading back over all this crap, I will see this and take the time to look over the game history, and I will be an old wise man ... |
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| Date - 12/1/2004 Time - 1:13a.m. Description - Man I just haven't been doing as much Chess Master Nayphing as I'd like to be doing. Today I literally spent all day on this stupid website ... I really need to get some friends lol. I was thinking of going for a skate but then I got stuck at the Student Life forums. I saw that the LOTR funnies forum was on fire with 448 posts, so I figured I'd check it out - Big mistake! lol. I basically read it from beginning to end, and there was a whole lot of stuff in there about rocks, Rockstar Belle, ROCKS101, and other things that I just didn't understand. 2-3 hours later I was too exhausted for a skate, and instead opted for a light game of chess. This game licked. The guy I was playing sucked and in the end he ran out of time, so I didn't even get the satisfaction of beating him properly. Talk about ruining an already crappy night. |
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| Date - 9/1/2004 Time - 5:01p.m. Description - Well it has been a very busy beginning of the year, so busy that I haven't been able to get hardly any Chess Master Nayph training in at all! New years eve was really fun (I got some very nice pics of the fireworks). It finished off with a bunch of us going to this house in Epping that Hannah Wright was looking after. It was a super classy place, and it had a ps2 with Tony Hawk 4 on it, so there's no prize for guessing where I spent most of my time lol. Since then I have been doing a lot of skating and taking footage with my new camera, so keep your eyes peeled around the skateboarding sections of the site. Also I've been looking for a place to move into that is closer to uni, so that has been taking up some of my time too. Last night Todd slept over and we played Tony Hawks Underground on his ps2 that he brought over, and then we went for a late night skate - We started at med choice where I skated it for the first time and managed to ollie it, then we skated the PCYC rail, and finally we finished up at Rockdale station car park. All in all a good night. Today I have just been uploading the skating pics on my site, and I managed to find some time for a quick chess game too. I was pushin it this game, beating the guy with only 2 seconds left on my clock. |
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| Date - 21/1/2004 Time - 11:17p.m. Description - Well what an eventful few days I have just had ... It looks as though my skateboarding career, and thus this website, have come to an end (Not much point in having a skateboarding website if you don't even skate). Last Sunday morning I was out with Claymore at Maroubra skate park after we had been out to the city with Brett and Sasha. The aim was to teach Claymore the basics of skating to see if he wanted to get himself a board and start getting into it. Apparantly this lesson included how to waste yourself, because I absolutely demolished my arm on one of the stupid ramps (I hate ramps!) - I'm still not sure what the injury exactly was, but it involved my left humerus, elbow, and wrist ... I needed surgery which involved cutting my left arm open, fuzing my humerus back together, pinning it to my elbow with all this metal stuff, and then banging my dislocated wrist back into place. Since the operation I have been in a lot of pain, and my arm hasn't stopped bleeding, so whenever I sit down and then get up, I leave a big blood stain. I am worried about having to get the stitches out ... I have never had them before, so I don't know how painful the process is. My uncle says it doesn't hurt at all, but he's a bloody paramedic so he's desensitized by all that stuff. The physio starts next week as well and I'm sure that will be another painful process. At the present moment my hand is really swollen (It looks like a glove when you fill it up with water), so this also worries me. The doctors aren't sure whether my arm will ever fully recover, but luckily its only my left arm so I didn't really use it for much anyway. Soon I have to start work so I'm hoping it will be good enough to do that because I really need the money for uni fees and text books. Anywayz, I really don't see me getting back into skating again ... It just really isn't worth all the pain I go through for it. It would be different if I was actually good at it, but I'm not, so why bother. I am contemplating making a teeny come back to finish my video, but that is still up in the air. But yeah I'm also not really motivated to keep this website going either - I just don't see the point of having it if I'm not gonna skate. So for all you sorry saps who actually read this crap, I bid you farewell. |
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