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Monkey Wrench Thursday, April 29 2004 by: Dave |
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Ok, this is the last entry from Cambridge, heading off to Paris tomorrow, the weather here has reverted to depressing rain and fog, fantastic, but hopefully Paris might have a moment or two of sun, I'll love it anyway tho! As of tomorrow I'll use my phone as an alarm clock and think it won't work in Europe as a phone so if I don't reply it'll be because of that :) Hope to update this from Europe but might not be putting up any pictures if I don't make a cd in a photo shop place or something. Anyways, off to do some salsa dancing in a bit, I have little idea of how to do this, it'll be most amusing I think :) Cya!
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Everlong Tuesday, April 27 2004 by: Dave |
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Just getting over some virus thing, had a sore throat Saturday then felt like complete crap on Sunday, fever and everything, and had to take the day off yesterday, mainly for the patients' benefit but still not 100% today. Just been on the net trying to organise hostels in Paris and Montpellier, getting quite excited about heading over to France, gonna be great. [ADDED] Just found out what that building is in London, it's just been finished and some big insurance company from ol' Swiss land (I can't spell it ok) has just moved in, it's nickname is (at least the one they said on the news) the Gherkin. Designed by Lord Foster, wahay. Here's some photos:
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Shogun Assassin!!! Saturday, April 24 2004 by: Dave |
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Been an interesting week here in little ol' Cambridge. Only 1 week to go before I head off to Paris on the Eurostar! Woohoo! Picked up my tickets yesterday along with my ISIC card. On Wednesday I went for dinner and drinks with some of the Docs at the A&E. We went to a place called Caf� Naz (used to be called the Cambridge Curry Centre but they spruced it up a bit and changed the name). It had some really nice curries, and the company was great too. Interesting to see everyone out of their scrubs! On Thursday night I, along with Marko, went to see Kill Bill Volume 2 but to our great disappointment the #$!*ing stupid multiplex had sold out, I reckon they only used one of their 8 screens for it! Only one big screen place in Cambridge until May/June. So we went to see The Girl Next Door instead, which had a rather garbled moral message along the lines of: Do anything you like for True Love... oh great. Managed to see Vol 2 last night, was good, but if you've seen Vol 1 and liked it you'll go see Vol 2 anyway so no need to say anything in regards to it really :) Also yesterday I played some golf with Paul, one of the consultants in the A&E department, small course in the middle of Cambridge (well, not ages away); was fun actually and the weather was fantastic, forecast said 19 but it felt like a summer day in Christchurch, made me a little homesick, but knowing that when I return it will be winter makes it better. It'll be good to see everyone again, I get back May 23rd, hopefully less jet-lagged this time, but I can imagine my first few days back will be pretty much unproductive :) Peter is away in Paris at the mo, so can't get any pics on the net at the moment, well I probably could but can't be bothered to find another way right now. Oh yeah, remembered something from a while back, was talking with other elective students and mentioned that I could only live somewhere with a beach. To this the other students did not react the way I thought they would; they asked me to say it again, and following this they informed me that my e's sound a lot like i's... Gotta love that New Zealand accent!
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Nightswimming Sunday, April 18 2004 by: Dave |
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Went swimming last night at the pool at the Frank Lee Centre. Every Sat night they turn off the lights outside the pool and switch on a couple of underwater ones, was quite cool, at times I thought it was a bit like a horror movie... But they also played some cool music too, nice and relaxing. After swimming, went to the bar and watched Real Madrid play Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid won, our shouts of support for 'Madrid' made little sense.
Alright, so Mark's website was wrong about the Butterfly Effect being out in May, what a surprise, turns out it's already out in NZ. SBWFM. Kill Bill Volume 2 is coming out here this Thursday so I'm gonna go see that, unless I win the competition on Empire Online to go to the premiere, that would rock, but knowing my luck...
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Chaos Theory, I don't understand it Saturday, April 17 2004 by: Dave |
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2 more weeks at the A&E department to go, almost done everything here that I wanted to, wouldn't mind working here in the future actually, and Cambridge is actually starting to look quite beautiful, sunny most of the time (not especially warm tho) and blossom out everywhere. I'll post a picture of this soon, I've been experimenting with my camera's photo-stitch ability, makes some cool panoramic shots, I've got one of the interior of the Globe Theatre, one of Buckingham Palace and a few outside the hospital from the other day. Anyway, I went into town today, bought some clothes and food, once my primary needs were satisfied (clothed and not starved), I headed back and came across a large demonstration with a parade surrounded by police, a helicopter was also hovering above the town centre too... weirdness, took some photos of the scary protesters, it was about something called the HLS, I spose I might read the leaflet that was forced into my hands sometime... Talking of which, reminds me that in London, myself and Adam were stopped by some girl wanting to get us to turn out to a rally thing against BP, I would have actually gone along; something to do with her not looking like she'd been hit by a bus, plus my great concern for the planet :) but it was on Thursday, oh and Adam said to her that he liked BP, idiot. Went and saw 'The Butterfly Effect' with that tosser Ashton Kutcher in it, wasn't that bad actually, but I'm mainly saying this to annoy Mark back home, out in May some time right? :)
Some un-named person wanted me to put some pics up of 'the crazy janitor that always gets on your nerves, and the female doctor that has a huge inferiority complex', now, I have to reiterate that I am in fact not JD off the popular TV show Scrubs, and even if my circumstances are similar in some regards, I don't think they would appreciate me taking photos of them to put on the net :) |
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Mmmm, chocolate Sunday, April 11 2004, Easter Sunday by: Dave |
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Went to London yesterday, met Adam, he is just the same as always, and despite it being quite overcast and raining at times, he wore sunglasses. Upon getting over the pleasantries; Adam (Northern Monkey) shouting vague obscenities at Dave (Southern Dandy) re: football, we wandered over to Baker Street. There we had our photos taken outside Sherlock Holmes' residence with hat and pipe, which I thought was most generous of the lady inside the shop/museum; she just saw us there and handed the kit to us, I mean we could have just run off with a neat hat. Anyway, I digress, then we caught the underground, very reasonably priced for a day-pass, to the Tower of London, and took a few more photos of Tower Bridge. On the Thames they've got ferries and stuff all over the place, no swimmers tho, and I can see why; very very murky water (I think it's water...). Oh, they also have a crappy warship docked on the river, and even Adam agreed that taking a picture of it would be both a waste of memory-card space and time. Then we went to the Globe Theatre, I paid my �6.50, Adam his �8 (not a student... hahaha), and we looked around the exhibition and then got a very good tour of the the 6-7 year old re-creation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The guy who showed us and about 50 others around was really quite good at talking to a crowd, unlike the scary old woman who was taking another group who had greeted us as we entered with "The lie of the land; This way to... blah blah blah", poncy english people... Some fun facts we learnt were: Buckets were passed around during plays to relieve yourself mid-play, if you were in the yard (infront of the stage) you didn't need a bucket, the original theatre was burnt down 13-14 years after it was made because they shot a cannon upstairs (as a sound effect) and the thatched roof caught fire... and so on. Quite entertaining and I'd say I got my money's worth. Not sure about Adam tho :) Saw some more skating at the London level. Adam made me go back to Buckingham Palace, think he thought the Queen would wave at him or something. On the way we saw some squirrels which Adam proceeded to harass, and I had to tell him not to retrieve a �2 coin (not his) from the fountain at Buckingham Palace... can't take him anywhere... Oh yes, I remember now, the stupid rail service cancelled the express train I was gonna take back to Cambridge so I had to get on a slow one, took double the time to get back (1 1/2 hours as opposed to 45 mins), then I had to wait for 40 minutes outside, freezing my ass off for the bus which for some reason decided to only turn up every hour instead of every 1/2 hour. I'm gonna go demand a huge Kill Bill 2 poster in exchange for their poor performance and my freezing status last night. Might say I got hypothermia :) I'll chuck some photos up of the day as soon as Peter gets back from Oxford, need to use his laptop, should really buy one sometime... but ah well, might go see a movie... [ADDED] Photos I've finally gotten onto the internet, goood times...
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