A quick and boring film
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So while I find more exciting things to film, I thought I’d give it a bash in my flat
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20 cool things I’ve done in 2009
1. Saw in the new year dressed as Flava Flav
2. Decided that I didn’t like Twitter
3. Changed my mind about Twitter
4. Beat all the national newspapers to reporting about Match of the Day pundit Alan Pardew describing a tackle as a ‘raping’
5. Set up the @GuardianVoices Twitter feed
6. Started a new blog about Reading FC, my local team
7. Went to a party without electricity
8. Won free VIP tickets to Glastonbury and took my best friend Ross
9. Had my first piece published on guardian.co.uk, a game review of Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
10. Got an iPhone (yes, that is cool!)
11. Went on a circle line pub crawl and learnt how to play tube surfing
Get those feet off the floor
12. Had my first piece published on Guardian Careers, a piece about working from home and started contributing regularly
13. Had a chat with Kriss Akabusi on Twitter
14. Went to see England’s final qualifying game for the World Cup at Wembley
15. Was named as the #FollowJourn for the day on journalism.co.uk
16. Watched The Exorcist on a giant screen in a graveyard
17. Cooked my first ever roast dinner
18. Won a Flip HD video camera
19. Saw Har Mar Superstar playing an intimate gig at The Macbeth
20. Went out dressed as the tinman
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More Guardian Careers blogging
Over the past couple of months, I’ve continued with the careers blogging and have contributed another couple of posts.
Interview advice for dummies
I don’t need to be told to smile during a job interview; why do some career sites assume that we’re all idiots?
Relocation
Many graduates find it necessary to relocate after university, but it’s not always that easy
Once I think of some more things work-related to write about, I’ll be contributing some more.
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#FollowJourn – Todd Nash
I was quite chuffed to find that journalism.co.uk had named me as their #FollowJourn for the day, a recommendation of journalists to follow online, with a link to this site in the post. It made my Monday morning in fact.
All in all, the perfect time to have ‘Fo’ shizzle, ma nizzle, it’s Krizzle Akabizzle’ as the headline to my latest blog post then…
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This morning I had the unusual experience of conversing with none other than Kriss Akabusi of Olympic and Record Breakers fame on Twitter. This was particularly pertinent for me, having been the founder of Team Awooga, something that my drinking buddies and I did as a joke on pub crawls, with Akabusi as our hero. I once went out wearing an mask of his face, covering my own. So when I saw he was on Twitter, I just had to share it with him:
http://twitpic.com/k2iqq – Rather excited that @krissakabusi is on Twitter. Once went on a night out in an Akabusi mask…
This was retweeted by a few of my followers, posted again on their own Twitter accounts for you non-converts, and sparked disbelief in one or two before the great man picked it up and RT’d it himself, responding:
RE http://bit.ly/11GsYG @toddnash NOW THAT WHAT I CALL CLASS LOL- YOUR WIT MATCHES YOUR BRAINS CONGRATS ON THE 1ST CLASS HONOURS DEGREE BRO
The conversation continued as follows:
Me:
@krissakabusi Cheers man, the ladies loved that mask – you’re clearly a crowd pleaser!
Kriss:
@toddnash But I bet you scared the children 
did you perfect that belly rippin laugh too-smell the grease paint..
Me:
@krissakabusi Nahh, just shouted ‘AWOOGA’ at the top of my voice every few minutes. That scared children and adults alike!
Kriss:
@toddnash Yeah that Fash war cry does it every time but those who know the busiman goes awwwllrighhtt know better
@toddnash If you are a record breaker you say awwwlllright but if you are a gladiator it was awwoogga! I know it hard for some people though
Me:
@krissakabusi Haha, damn wrong catchphrase! What an ass. I’m gonna shout ‘awwlllright’ at the top of my voice by way of apology!
Kriss:
@toddnash m8I’m loving your sense of humour bro-you be da man!!!! Awwllllrightt!
So yeah, I’m an idiot. In my defence, the idea first came to mind as a football forum that I used to frequent obsessed slightly over our hero and would constantly use ‘his’ catchphrase ‘Awooga’ as a joke. I just took it at face value, not really remembering that it was actually the Fash that it actually belonged to.
That aside though, Krizzle Akabizzle thinks I’m ‘da man’ (assuming it is actually him, of course – Update: his official website’s Twitter section would suggest that it is)
“I’m loving your sense of humour bro, YOUR WIT MATCHES YOUR BRAINS”
I’m tempted to put that as a testimonial on this here blog!
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I’ve recently started contributing to the relatively new Guardian Careers blog, where I write mostly about the idiotic things that I’ve done in my blissfully short working life thus far and mildly poke fun at those with a more blogworthy career than my own.
The first piece, ‘The art of working from home’, looked at the difficulties of not working in an office environment. It focused largely on my housemate, a freelance filmmaker, who spends many a long day editing video footage from the comfort of our own living room.
Secondly is a piece that went up only yesterday, entitled ‘When job interviews go bad’ is a more self-mocking blogpost in which I share my own interview horror stories and encourage readers to post their own. They havn’t thus far.
I’m hoping that, one day soon, they’re going to let me take part in one of their podcasts. I think I’d be brilliant at it. I wouldn’t say anything useful or actually help anyone in their career, but what I’d lack in knowledge I could make up for with sarcastic remarks! Take a look, leave me a comment and, hopefully, have a little laugh!
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A lazy Sunday…
So in my boredom on this sunny Sunday afternoon I decided to take a walk around Bethnal Green. I ended up doing some primitive Parkour around Victoria Park and taking photos of everything I saw with my iPhone.
On climbing by Mile End station, I found some cool graffiti, set near that most beautiful of things; a kebab shop:
I then wandered into the woods and found two mirrored walls, prompting this photo which I can’t quite get my head around considering that I definitely didn’t do it MySpace style:
My favourite photo of the set up next. I love the way the beauty of the sun shining through with the graffiti tucked behind it:
Finally, a nice boat that I wandered past:
This little exercise has really made me crave a digital SLR camera now, so that I can go out and do this kind of thing more often. If you’d like to view the full set from today, here it is on Flickr.
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How to play…tube surfing
So you’ve had a few drinks, need to take the tube to your next watering hole, but find London underground journeys a little, well, boring. What you need in your life is tube surfing. The aim: make it from one stop to the next without using anything to lean on. No holding on to help you balance. Surfing stance preferable.
Sounds easy? Well it is actually, until you’ve had a few drinks. And when the punishments for failure result in more drinks, keeping your balance is more difficult than it sounds.
So you throw in some extra rules. When someone shouts “SHARK ATTACK” the idea is to get your feet off the floor as quickly as possible. For ten seconds or so. See below:
Get those feet off the floor
Hopefully you’ll be doing this at an antisocial time of night anyway, so there won’t be too many fellow passengers to piss off, but you’d better bring along some entertainment just in case. If one of you could start serenading the masses while the most drunk of your group takes his shirts off and stumbles around in what could vaguely be called ‘dancing’ that could take the heat off. See below:
A nice tube surfing session
So that’s how you tube surf. Don’t tell them I told you…
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Posting from the iPhone
So I have recently got myself an iPhone and I’m quite excited about the possibilities of using it As a blogging tool. I downloaded the wordpress application and am using it for this test post. It works quite well actually and the auto change function is a godsend as it saves so much typing time. Anyway I don’t want to write too much, but I want to see how this comes out. Not bad.
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An unashamedly blatant plug for my first piece of published work on guardian.co.uk, a game review for Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. I’m hoping that it will be the first of many.
In the mean time, you can find my Guardian contibutor page here.
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